Chapter 1: What verdicts did the jury render on Judgment Day?
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It's a ridiculous notion, really. The idea that 12 adults, selected because a judge deemed them relatively honest and lawyers thought them sufficiently malleable, that they should decide someone's fate with a show of hands? Bias and prejudice don't disappear when deliberations start. Of course they don't. Logic and reason don't always reign supreme.
In truth, many verdicts are little more than good faith guesses based on the evidence jurors are allowed to see. But for the most part, it's a system that works. if not always consistently.
And that, of course, is the rub. I had butterflies in my stomach the first day I ever tried a case 35 years ago, and I had butterflies in my case on this date.
It took more than 10 hours for the jury to decide the fates of Chris Latham and Wendy Moore. We couldn't understand why some of them didn't feel the same way as the others felt. In this episode, you'll hear from some of the jurors who rendered those verdicts. Sounds like that might have been a debate.
Am I right about that? Yes.
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Chapter 2: How did the jurors feel during the deliberation process?
One of those contrived, made-for-television moments that one sees on reality TV shows. And yet, the substance of it, the emotion, could not have been more genuine. It was late March 2014. It was about a month after the trial of Chris Latham and Wendy Moore had concluded. Aaron Wilkinson sat in the county jail waiting to do a TV interview with Dateline producer Carol Gable.
Video from that day shows Aaron sitting with his back to the door and watching the TV crew set up their lights, tweak their cameras. He seems at ease in the company of these men, working men who posed no threat to him. and asked no questions. Then behind him, he hears the unmistakable sound of a female's footsteps.
In the video, Aaron turns to his left, expecting to see Carol, the Dateline producer. But instead, it's a face he has come to know well. Hi. I don't think we've met before. I'm Nancy. Surprise? That would be an understatement. Shocked, more like. Aaron, at first, offers a limp handshake. He seems unsure of prisoner protocol in a moment like this. Should he stand? Should he sit?
He stays in his chair, looking up at Nancy. He is speechless. Then, Nancy takes control. Stand up. And with that, Aaron Wilkinson rises to his full six-foot, two-inch height and embraces Nancy, the woman he'd been told to kill.
Thank you so much.
How are you? You okay? Have a seat. I cannot possibly thank you enough. Um... I think we all completely understand that the outcome would have been very different were it not for you. At first, the meeting is excruciatingly awkward. The TV cameras seem to demand some kind of performance or something.
But as Nancy places her hand on Aaron's knee and he fights back tears, something quite real emerges. Feelings of forgiveness, even affection, become palpable. And before we get sidetracked, I heard you testify. You are so smart. You have so much potential. I'm gonna expect great things from you. You okay? Aaron, quite overwhelmed, brushes a tear from his cheek and leans over for another hug.
Thank you so much. You are so welcome, and I am so grateful for you. I think of all the people that Sammy could have pulled into his car to do this with him, and it would have been so different. So, just like you had my back, tomorrow I'll have yours. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, yes, tomorrow. That'll be the day Aaron Wilkinson faces sentencing for his part in the plot.
And Nancy assures him she will ask the judge to go easy. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. I'm so happy I got to meet you. Me too. Like I said, you're so smart. And obviously very chatty. You obviously talk way too much, too. We need to stop that. And so, hopefully, we're going to get a reduced sentence. And with that, they hugged again. And then, as Nancy turned to leave, Aaron smiled.
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Chapter 3: What were the key pieces of evidence against Wendy Moore?
No, I'm not lying. I mean. What are you going to say? Yeah, I'm lying. Think this thing through. I mean, you've got to remove all emotion and look at it logically. Why would I do this? Why indeed? For money? For pride? For love? When I spoke to Wendy, her eyes lit up when she talked about Chris. You still soulmates?
I've never met anyone better than him, and I never will again. He is a good person. And I love him. And he is, he's an innocent man. There is no reason not to love him.
All of this was, what, trumped up? All of this is a huge mess that neither one of us would have ever wanted Nancy harmed. The jury, of course, saw things differently. On the day Chris Latham was sentenced, the judge gave him the maximum for the single count of aiding and abetting, 10 years, a $1,500 fine, plus three years of supervised release.
At Wendy's sentencing, the judge handed down sentences on her four guilty verdicts that could be served concurrently. That meant Wendy would be behind bars for 15 years. After that, three years of supervised release.
When the gavel came down for the last time in August 2014, it had been almost exactly three years since that night on the lake when Chris Latham told Nancy he didn't want to be married anymore to her. For Nancy, at least, that big and turbulent chapter of her life was over. Now the question was, what's next? It's sort of this liberating thing that has happened to me.
Liberating, of course, is not exactly a word Wendy and Chris would have used in that moment to describe their futures. It's like a horrible nightmare that you cannot wake up from. The love affair that entangled their lives was about to be put to the test in prison.
It's awful. It's not right.
And it's not fair.
It's not fair.
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