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[gunshots popping]

[woman screaming]

KELLY SIEGLER: A man is shot dead on a quiet Dallas street

while walking his dog with his wife.

At first, it looks like a random attack.

A masked gunman, a black pickup truck,

and a grieving widow looking for answers.

But this was anything but random.

[phone chimes]

ERIC BARNES: This was the biggest manipulator

that I've ever dealt with as a detective.

As a prosecutor, I know that some murders are planned

long before the trigger is ever pulled.

And in this case, the smallest details

rebuild a plot that had been planned for months.

I took an innocent life.

That's absurd.

So the question becomes,

what is your level of responsibility

when you are manipulated into the murder

and you pull the trigger?

[dog barking]

- [man yells] - [gunshots popping]

[woman screaming]

What happened? Go to the back.

Call the police.

CHRIS WALTON: That morning, on October 9th, 2020,

I was informed that an individual

in Oak Cliff had been shot.

When I arrived at the scene,

the atmosphere was pretty chaotic.

The body was lying right in the middle of the street

and there were a lot of individuals confused.

You can tell that this incident had shocked the neighborhood.

We learned the individual that was under the sheet

was James Faith Jr.

His wife, Mrs. Jennifer Faith, she's nearby,

she's very emotional, she's crying.

BARNES: Jennifer tells us that her and her husband

were going on a morning walk

when they're approached by a gunman

a few steps away from their front door.

- [man yells] - [gunshots popping]

The gunman shoots Jamie several times

and then begins assaulting Jennifer.

The suspect wrestled her to the ground,

duct-taped her hand, and attempted to take her property.

When neighbors ran out, the suspect fled the location.

We began canvass in the area, talking to neighbors.

There was a neighbor that took a photo of the suspect leaving

in a black Nissan Titan truck, and it had a T emblem.

There was a license plate on the vehicle,

but it was too grainy to make out

any of the numbers or letters on it.

If we can find the vehicle, we can find our suspect.

To see how he was executed, shot in the street,

in front of his wife, it was shocking.

WALTON: I take my cases personal.

This could be my home. This could be my family.

I had to make sure that

we got this individual who committed this crime.

JASON SNYDER: The morning of October 9th,

probably about 7:30 Arizona time,

I get a phone call from Jennifer.

And she's hysterical.

[Jennifer sobbing]

[stammering] That's how I woke up.

I met Jamie and Jennifer when they stopped by

the dance studio that I used to own back in 2006.

My friendship with Jamie developed very easily.

You know, we just started, you know, hanging out,

you know, even outside of the dance studio.

And then, you know, quickly became family friends.

We spent time together on vacations.

I was his best man for the wedding.

Jennifer and Jamie are completely in love.

The intellect, the dry sense of humor,

the love to travel, they are a great couple.

My heart definitely breaks for both of them.

Jamie was my best friend.

Jamie seemed by all accounts to be an all-around good guy.

He had a really good job working in IT at American Airlines.

He had a lot of friends that cared a lot about him.

And he seemed to have a very happy, steady marriage.

And life seemed to be going very, very well

for Jamie and for Jennifer.

WALTON: While checking the cameras on Jennifer's phone,

I was able to find a clip

of an individual walking on the side of her residence.

Possibility that this was our suspect.

I asked Jennifer if I could have consent to go through her phone,

you know, just trying to find any additional information.

Doing our due diligence to find and capture whoever did this.

The first few days,

I spent the majority of my time out there in the field.

We collected approximately three miles

worth of video, door-to-door,

checking for surveillance videos.

Every resident that had a possible Ring camera,

every business, apartment complex,

gas stations, you name it.

We were able to put the information out there,

the photo of the truck,

and ask for the public's assistance.

If you know what happened, I need that for closure.

I need to make some sense out of this.

WALTON: Seeing Jennifer, very emotional.

I went by to check on her, pray with her,

to make sure that she was comforted.

We were still investigating this offense.

Jamie Faith was shot seven times.

BARNES: Three shots fired to his torso.

Three to the head, and also one in the groin.

Shot to the groin really stuck out to us.

It is a humiliation-type shot, or it's sending a message,

and we just needed to figure out what that message was.

Well, James Faith was

an American Airlines IT director.

Learned that it just had a layoff,

and it was 18 to 20 individuals that were laid off by Jamie.

Maybe this was a disgruntled employee that was upset

and targeting Jamie for laying him off.

But the thing that stood out on the day of,

why would an individual want to execute Mr. Faith

and then strike Mrs. Faith with the palm of his hands

and then tie her up with a piece of duct tape?

BARNES: From an investigative standpoint,

something didn't add up.

WALTON: But then what was found on Jennifer's phone

changed this whole investigation.

[sinister music]

WALTON: Initially, we started looking

into the 18 to 20 individuals

that were laid off by Jamie or American Airlines.

You know, we know times are hard.

That was a possible motive.

But when Jennifer gave me consent to extract her phone,

it drove my attention away from those employees.

What was found on Jennifer's phone was a text thread

that she had with her friend Tina.

I believe she forgot to delete this thread.

It stated, "I'm having a full-blown emotional affair."

Emotional affair with this individual

who she used to date in high school and college,

and that they almost got married.

BARNES: It was her high school sweetheart.

It sounds like kind of unfinished in the past.

They recently reached back out to each other.

Based on what the text messages described,

it seemed that things moved pretty fast.

We were very shocked.

Nothing had signaled that there was any problems.

In fact, everybody described them

as being the textbook couple.

WALTON: Out of all those suspect names given to me by Jennifer,

she was holding back.

She never once gave me Darrin, Darrin Lopez.

I felt Jennifer was trying to play me.

SIEGLER: This discovery changes everything.

Up until now, the police department

has been looking at Jennifer solely

as a grieving widow, as a victim.

With this new development, their focus needs to shift

toward this relationship between Jennifer and Darrin.

Having an affair does not mean you're guilty of murder,

but when you haven't mentioned it to the police at all,

it does lead to more questions.

BARNES: We learned that Darrin

lives right outside Nashville, Tennessee,

in a small town called Cumberland Furnace.

The way we were able to learn where Darrin lived at,

his address was saved in Jennifer's phone.

She listed his full name,

his date of birth, and his address.

And the first thing we checked was to see

if there was any text messages between Jennifer and Darrin,

and there was nothing.

Not one text message.

It did raise the possibility that maybe they were deleted.

Once we had Darrin's date of birth,

we checked all law enforcement databases

to pull any information on him.

We learned that Darrin Lopez

is a retired military special forces sergeant.

He was a medic in the military.

He received several Purple Hearts

from being wounded in combat action.

Six deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan,

and he was medically discharged with traumatic brain injury

and post-traumatic stress disorder.

We also learned that Darrin Lopez was a family man.

He had custody of three daughters

that lived with him at the time.

The police now have somebody they can actually go look for.

But before they call him the trigger man,

there has to be some evidence connecting him to this crime.

We had a dilemma of reaching out.

Based on his history of post-traumatic stress disorder,

it was just too risky to approach his house.

We decided the best route was to conduct a flyover

just to see what the property looked like and to see

what kind of cars were parked in the driveway.

And we found a black Nissan Titan.

They zoomed in on the rear windshield,

and we were able to see the white T emblem

that matched our suspect before that crime.

It's perfect. It matches.

♪

Based on electronic devices,

we were able to link Darrin to Dallas.

On October 8th, he traveled

from Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee,

stopped at a gas station in West Memphis,

all the way to Dallas, and I believe

waited on the side of a vacant residence.

He waited for Jamie to walk outside,

shot him multiple times, got in his vehicle,

drive back in Tennessee, and we believe we had our guy.

The game plan was to arrest Darrin

and bring Jennifer in at the same time.

Our tactical team thought the best plan was

to take him unassumingly down

on what looked like a regular traffic stop.

Our tactical team is following him for several miles.

Darrin, he turns into a parking lot,

and our tactical team blocked the vehicle in

and give him orders for him to exit the vehicle.

I noticed that somebody did take the T off the windshield.

Darrin gave up peacefully, and we take him in custody.

In Dallas, Detective Walton is coordinating an interview

with Jennifer.

SIEGLER: The police need to move on them simultaneously

so that they don't run the risk of one calling the other one

and giving them the heads-up, and then you've lost

all hope or chance or opportunity

to find information out from that second suspect.

It's not just finding the trigger man.

It's looking at her as a suspect.

Have you ever heard of a name, Darrin?

Darrin Lopez, yeah. He's one of my best friends.

When I mentioned his name, you can tell

there was a change in her body language.

Jennifer, if I were to tell you I know

that there's more to you and Darrin's relationship...

you know, what would you say about that?

I don't know what more you--

I don't know what more you're talking about.

Jennifer lied to me, but I still couldn't...

prove it as of yet.

In my heart, I believe that you knew

what happened that day.

Because I have proof right now

that Darrin was actually out there

at your residence during that day.

We saw that guy on your camera

- at 2:38 that morning. - JENNIFER: Yeah. Yeah.

That was Darrin,

and I believe that you knew-- you knew that.

I don't know that. I don't-- It doesn't even look familiar.

Jennifer, I believe that that was Darrin.

You knew that that was Darrin, and at the same time,

Darrin has a black pick-up, Nissan pick-up

- Titan truck. - I didn't know that.

Everybody fitting the same description.

We sat in front of his parents, we told them...

- Because I wanted to find-- - ...that the same guy

that killed your husband, Jennifer,

is the same guy that you communicating with every day.

I don't work. He's retired. We talk throughout the day.

Jennifer, besides the point, this guy killed your husband.

And guess what, Darrin right now is currently

in jail, locked up for murder right now.

- Oh, my God. - So my main thing is right now,

what is he gon' tell me?

BARNES: One of the first things that we did after we got Darrin

in custody, we conducted a search on his residence.

One of the things that we located

while we were searching his vehicle was a backpack.

Inside the backpack was a blue mask

which matched their Ring video, and also matched the mask

that was described from witnesses at our crime scene.

And there was also several credit cards

that had Jennifer's name on it.

While we were searching the living room,

an agent found a firearm

that appeared to have a bloodstain on it.

The police department has proof tying Darrin to Jamie's murder,

but what they need to figure out is Jennifer's role in all this.

Let's don't kid ourselves, "Is she involved?"

The question is, how much did she have to do with it?

[tense music]

Our trip to Tennessee was a very productive trip.

Searching Darrin's residence, we recovered a firearm

that matched the caliber of the shell cases

that we recovered at Jamie's murder scene.

We also have his cell phone and his computer.

Jennifer deleted all of the conversations on her devices,

but when they got a warrant and got Darrin's devices,

all the conversations were there.

And for the first time in the cold light of day,

the level of their relationship

and all their conversations were exposed.

What they thought was just an emotional affair

was gonna get a whole lot darker.

We start talking to Detective Walton

when Darrin Lopez had been arrested

and his extradition was going through from Tennessee to Texas.

The detectives are getting Darrin's phone after his arrest

and they're figuring out she and he were in communication

and they see that their communication had stopped

at the time of the murder

as well as their commitment to being together

with one another and having Jamie out of the way.

The digital evidence in the case was overwhelming.

In the month before the murder,

Jennifer Faith and Darrin Lopez had texted over 14,000 times.

There was one day in particular

where they texted over 800 times in one day.

That amount of texting is astonishing.

When I first started reading these text messages,

it kind of left me speechless for a moment.

For months, we had been figuring out

that, you know, Darrin is our guy.

We get Darrin in custody.

Now we're figuring out that

Jennifer has had some role in it.

I've got a collection of texts and emails

between Darrin and Jennifer that were collected

after Darrin's arrest.

March 17th, 2020,

this appears to be the first email

from Darrin and Jennifer.

He's fixated on Jennifer.

He even taps back into a country western song

that has reminded him of her over the years.

And, you know, this is going to a married woman.

I believe initially the relationship

between Darrin and Jennifer started off

as an innocent reconnection.

It seemed that things moved pretty fast.

They made plans to be together.

Jennifer said that Jamie was aware

that she had reconnected and that he was afraid

and scared of what the potential was gonna be

through her communication.

And then I see emails from Jamie,

our victim, communicating with Darrin before the murder.

It made me question everything that I thought

I knew about this investigation.

Jamie is confronting, "Stop interfering with my family,"

like, "You need to back away from my wife."

And there's conversations about Jamie abusing Jennifer.

May 9th, sent from Jamie Faith to Darrin,

several photos of Jennifer with an injury,

looks like a cut to her neck,

and several bruises on her forearm.

It was a shock. Like, this-- this is all brand-new.

I never saw this coming in the investigation.

Nobody said anything about any abuse.

JENNIFER: He's my best friend.

Such a good, good relationship and marriage.

BARNES: Darrin's feeling frustration

when talking to Jennifer about what's going on.

And the only person in the world he can talk to about it is Rob.

They got this mutual care for Jennifer.

So now Darrin is receiving emails

also from a guy named Rob Schmitt,

who's one of Jennifer's friends.

It makes you wonder what Darrin's thinking.

How much more does he need to have this verified

before he believes something bad

is about to happen to Jennifer again?

BARNES: We worked very hard to try to figure out

what's going on with these emails.

And so we began subpoenaing Google,

trying to figure out what's the origin of these accounts

and if they still exist.

WALTON: When we ran the search warrant

on Jennifer's residence,

we were able to collect her laptop.

From this laptop, we were able to go through

all the emails, and we learned that it was all fake.

Jennifer created a fake email for Jamie,

a fake email for one of her close friends.

And Jennifer was communicating

with her personal email to Darrin,

but also had Darrin communicating

to these different emails, believing to be Jamie

and believing to be her close friend.

These email accounts were created

from the same IP address, only weeks apart.

And then were deleted later on two minutes apart.

It was shocking.

BARNES: Jennifer created a fake email account for Jamie

to paint a narrative to Darrin that she was getting abused.

Our investigation revealed that some of these injury photos

were photographs from a car accident

that she was in years prior.

Bloody lip picture, that one came from Shutterstock.

Jennifer doesn't simply tell Darrin that Jamie's abusing her.

She manufactures witnesses,

she manufactures injuries, she manufactures fake threats.

Based on his belief that Jennifer was gonna be harmed,

I think it pushed him into action.

He hops in his car and he basically

carries out a military mission.

Jennifer Faith is probably the biggest manipulator

that I've ever dealt with during my time as a detective.

REPORTER: Jennifer Faith's husband was murdered.

Now the 48-year-old is facing obstruction charges

tied to the investigation.

We got a big break in figuring out

Jennifer's culpability with the murder.

Darrin was believing that what he did

by killing Jamie was protecting Jennifer.

And so Darrin's attorney reached out

and wanted to schedule a sit-down.

And he wanted to talk specifically about the emails

and the background to the murder.

WALTON: Walk us through how in the world

you came to be here, okay?

Because I can tell you this, if you hadn't reconnected

with Jennifer Faith, you would not be here today.

DARRIN: We always just text messaged with each other.

And then it was one night Jamie took her phone

and started texting me.

He told me that he had her tied up

and basically had her gang-raped.

He was, like, mad that I was back with her.

And because of that, he started hurting us.

You know, I was like, if he's doing this

because of me, then we'll just stop.

She went to tears.

And she said, "No, no, no, you can't leave me,"

because, you know, I helped kind of

put her back together after that weekend.

DETECTIVE: There were a lot of discussions

between you and her where you talked about

the poor financial situation you were in, right?

DARRIN: Well, she knows I was going through a divorce.

DETECTIVE: And she offered to help every now and then, right?

DARRIN: Yes, I used her credit card.

WALTON: There was, however, a understanding

for y'all to be together after Jamie's death.

DARRIN: Yes.

He didn't hide anything.

And it was obvious from the moment

he starts talking about Jennifer,

the emotional part of it got out of control,

and it ultimately turned into a financial motivation.

Like, they needed the financial means

that they could gain from Jamie being killed

to start their new life together.

WALTON: The accusations of abuse

that she shared with you were not true,

and her husband had never physically

or sexually abused her in any way.

She admitted to that.

DARRIN: Uh, I had no idea that one day

she would lie to me like this much.

Jennifer, for whatever selfish reason,

didn't want to just get divorced.

She chose to do it this way, and she ran head-on into a man

that she was capable of talking into doing it for her.

It happens way more often than you would think.

WALTON: She went way out of her way

to pull the wool over your eyes.

That kind of helps, but...

[Darrin sobs]

[somber music]

MITCHELL: Jennifer Faith pleads guilty

to the charge of murder for hire

in federal court and receives a sentence of life in prison.

SIEGLER: This is not your typical murder for hire

where you have a stranger offering someone a bag of money.

Jennifer promises Darrin a new future

with financial incentives,

more money involved, a life with her,

and prosecutors see all that evidence and promises

as a price for murder.

SNYDER: The judge, when she sentenced her,

she called her pure evil.

The fact that you're willing to do that to somebody who--

who has been so good to you.

Jamie's the type of guy that he would shoo a fly

out of the house before he'd try to kill it.

Jamie didn't deserve all of these

false allegations and claims.

You know, the whole time Jamie is just living his life

and doing nothing but loving her.

It feels like it might have been a game to her.

Jennifer is diabolical.

I hope she's miserable every day.

Every day.

There is but one victim in this case,

and that is Jamie Faith.

If we fail, Darrin Lopez walks free

and we haven't gotten justice for Jamie Faith

and his family and his friends.

♪

7:30 in the morning, James Faith is ambushed

by Darrin Lopez.

He is shot seven times

and left dead on that street.

Darrin Lopez knew what he was doing.

He went to kill Jamie Faith.

He wanted to be with Jennifer

and that's why he killed Jamie Faith.

JUDGE: You may proceed whenever you're ready.

If it pleases the court...

The defense is going to try to put the focus

on Jennifer Faith and constantly make her out

to be the only bad guy.

Our strategy was to redirect the jury's focus

to Darrin Lopez, to his actions and his choices,

because he was equally culpable.

Mr. Lopez, a decorated war hero, has suffered from PTSD.

His broken mind perceives danger differently.

I believe Darrin, when he shot Jamie,

believed that he was saving Jennifer's life.

He absolutely believed that she was a battered victim

that he had saved.

MITCHELL: We knew that the defense

was likely going to present

he was doing it in defense of a third person,

in defense of Jennifer Faith.

Defense of a third person is reasonably rare.

Basically it means self-defense, but of someone else.

So, it has to be reasonable,

immediately necessary,

and you have to use the same force

that's being used against you.

So jumping all those hurdles is a pretty high bar.

DUKE: The thing that we wanted to get across to the jury

was Jennifer used Darrin's fragile position

in order to get what she wanted,

from the initial conversation on LinkedIn

when she reconnected to Darrin

to when she began to voice her desire

for a reconnection with him,

her dissatisfaction with her marriage.

Where you see the morph

is where Jennifer starts creating emails,

not from Jennifer, but from Jamie.

Saying, "Leave my wife alone.

"Don't get in the middle of my marriage.

"She's going to suffer if you keep this up."

We wanted the jury to see the absolute web of manipulation

that Jennifer led Darrin into

that created a monster out of Jamie,

which was a lie, and then pointed a loaded weapon at him

through her manipulation of Darrin Lopez.

Jennifer ratchets up the immediacy of the concern,

and Darrin believed that either accidentally

or intentionally, Jamie Faith is going to murder his wife.

This is where it gets insane.

The thing that shocked me was all of the evidence

the detectives in the case had gathered.

Darrin starts getting emails from other individuals,

communicating along with Jamie and Rob.

There's Jennifer's boss, Jennifer's friends,

their concern for Jennifer,

their worry about how Jamie is becoming unhinged

at this time.

Emails and text messages at one point from

at least five different individuals that create

this entire scenario that is 600 miles away,

where Jennifer is in a nightmarish hell

that is potentially going to end her life.

All of those emails coming from Jennifer.

Darrin never spoke with another individual

at all other than Jennifer.

I've dealt with a lot of manipulative, cunning women.

I have never seen a case where a woman

was this cunning and diabolical to this level.

MITCHELL: Yes, she created those emails,

but in the end, what we wanted to show

was the level of their collusion together in this.

PAVER: Jennifer and Darrin began sharing an interest

in some distinct sexual activities.

Their communications became increasingly sexually explicit.

Jennifer Faith to Darrin Lopez...

It's the juxtaposition of those types of messages

with her claiming to have been violently

sexually assaulted just a day earlier.

And then, they are immediately back into these graphic

sexual fantasies that involve some of the very things

that she had described in this supposed sexual assault.

DUKE: That didn't play well for Darrin at all with the jury

because the jury sees what you would consider

sexually deviant activity

between two individuals at this point.

But Jennifer is the one that initiates

the conversation about BDSM.

She is the one that initiates conversation

about sexual relationships.

And I think that the relationship

between Darrin and Jennifer

was one of princess and white knight.

She created the need for protection

as well as the reward for the relationship.

The same evidence, but two different stories.

The defense says Jennifer is using all this talk about sex

as just a way to lure Darrin in.

The state claims that these messages show

what was really going on between them.

Was Darrin being controlled

or was he choosing the life he wanted?

PAVER: We're making it clear to the jury that Darrin

and Jennifer were conspiring to cover their tracks.

Darrin puts a strip of duct tape on Jennifer's wrists

to take the suspicion off of her.

If you believe that you are truly justified

in murdering someone

because you were defending a third person,

why are you covering your tracks afterwards?

MITCHELL: Even though he admitted guilt

to shooting Jamie Faith,

we thought it was important to see their collusion together

and how they were working in tandem to get this done.

Some of the big red flags, her telling him

to take that sticker off his car

and then him saying, "I did it."

It was important for the jury

to understand the horrific circumstances

that Darrin had been through in his past.

Darrin had PTSD as well as traumatic brain injuries

from being involved in multiple explosions.

That perception of threat is impaired in this case.

Even just the training that he had been through

to be a protector and savior of others.

So the triggers that Jennifer created

threw Darrin directly back

into that 30 year past of traumatic incidences.

Of these thousands of people with PTSD,

not many go out and commit murder, correct?

DR. FABIAN: Most don't.

DUKE: For his own well-being,

Darrin absolutely had to look at the jury

and explain and tell them the truth.

It was important and absolutely necessary

for the defense to be able to establish

his mindset at that time of the imminent danger.

Darrin's testimony is the most anticipated moment

of that trial.

Everyone is very interested

to hear what he is going to say.

COURT CLERK: You swear the testimony you're about to give

- will be the truth. - I do.

[ominous music]

COURT CLERK: Raise your right hand.

You swear the testimony you're about to give

- will be the truth. - DARRIN: I do.

When Darrin takes the stand, I think the jury was very eager

to hear his explanation for what he had done.

There is a concern that a jury

could feel enough sympathy for Darrin Lopez

and believe that he really was duped into this.

They could walk him.

Darrin does have to take the stand

for this defense to work.

For the jury to understand

when you have such a perfectly innocent victim

murdered for nothing,

how can this happen at the hands of a veteran?

Darrin has to get up there and try his best

to convince a jury that there's way more to this story

than just him pulling the trigger.

If I didn't act, Jennifer was gonna die that day.

I did not want Jamie to suffer,

even though, in my eyes, he was a monster.

Darrin was consistent all the way through.

I took an innocent life. [sobbing]

You saw the real emotion of Darrin

and how much it destroyed him

that he had done this evil thing.

You did no intel.

DARRIN: I asked Jennifer all these questions.

Okay. You did nothing else?

MITCHELL: Darrin Lopez never goes to the police.

In fact, the only people that he reaches out to

are those fake email accounts.

PAVER: Jennifer Faith was absolutely

in no danger in that moment.

It is absolutely crazy to think

that someone would just take someone's word

about being abused

and use that as justification for murder.

But this man started gang raping his wife.

DARRIN: Yes.

- And you believed that? - DARRIN: Yes.

He's not trying to cut around any corners.

He's telling exactly what happened all the way through.

He felt an insane amount of remorse

for ending that man's life,

not understanding that he had been so thoroughly duped.

PAVER: You have been given the law

on defense of a third person.

What would an ordinary and prudent person have done?

Doing closing argument, I am reminding the jury

of what the actual law says about defense of a third person.

It has to be immediate. That means now.

Right this moment, action is needed.

Fear of future danger is never enough.

That's absurd.

Caitlin did a wonderful closing argument

on making sure the jury understood

defense of-- of a third party.

The most important thing was that

his actions had to be immediately necessary.

It's not that something bad might happen

this weekend on their anniversary.

It's that I have to act now

to save this person's life.

And so, I wanted the jury to really remember that.

For taking his life, his 49-year-old life...

and this man didn't have a chance to fight for it.

I want you to think about Jamie Faith.

DUKE: Jamie Faith did absolutely nothing

to provoke Darrin.

But this woman, his wife,

of over 15 years,

created a monster out of the person

that was Jamie Faith that absolutely provoked

and terrified Darrin Lopez to this point of action.

SIEGLER: The state has a strong case.

They made a very compelling argument,

and they did a wonderful cross-examination.

The risk for the prosecution is that still one juror

is gonna be so upset and focused on Jennifer

and what she did with her manipulation

that they're gonna cut Darrin slack.

MITCHELL: At the end of the day, it was a murder.

And to get in defense of a third party,

that's serious, that's literally a justification

for taking another human life, literally.

A not guilty, a walk free for murder?

It's all or nothing.

JUROR: Yes.

We, the jury, unanimously find the defendant,

Darrin Lopez...

We, the jury, unanimously find the defendant

guilty of murder as charged in the indictment.

MITCHELL: Once we got the guilty verdict,

we did feel relief, but our job's not done yet.

We have to move into punishment.

SIEGLER: If you want the jury to focus on Darrin,

you simply talk about all the decisions that Darrin made,

and you don't go into all the things

that Jennifer did as the puppeteer of this crime.

The punishment phase is when you really

get to focus on Jamie.

DUKE: For the punishment phase,

we were able to talk about the kind of man he was

before Jennifer started this nefarious process.

Additional details of Darrin's life

from the testimony of his fellow service members.

Silver clasp with the knot denotes Darrin's sixth award.

I owe that man my life.

He is credited with saving the life

of many of his squad mates when they were under fire.

MAN: Yeah, he served me back up, yes.

ATTORNEY: The state's saying, well, he's just doing his job.

No, it's far beyond that.

What I don't think anybody can doubt is that

Darrin Lopez was not a bad man.

He was manipulated into doing a horrible thing.

SNYDER: Doing the victim impact statement

was obviously something that I never anticipated

I would ever have to do.

The fact that it was in a murder case

for my best friend, it was even harder.

MITCHELL: So, American Airlines did a memorial

- for him out in Phoenix? - SNYDER: Yes.

I think they all loved him.

Funny, smart, very intelligent.

I was there to shine a light on who Jamie was

and who was actually taken from us.

I think Darrin's a coward. Just this lonely guy.

Whatever he was in the military doesn't matter to me.

It's not impressive.

MITCHELL: His range of punishment is anywhere

from five years to 99 years or life.

We didn't ask for a certain number.

We left it up to the jury.

The amount of time that the jury spent,

I believe that everybody really started to question him.

I believe the jury took the amount of time

that they did to really look at everything

that Darrin had been put through.

Anytime a jury's coming back with a verdict,

you're really, really hoping that they get it right.

We gave the case to our all, so we're hoping

that that was enough.

JUROR: If y'all would please stand

for the reading of the verdict.

We, the jury, unanimously assess the punishment

of the defendant for a term of 62 years.

DUKE: The number of years that the jury handed down

was disappointing, but understandable

when you look at the grave consequences

of the things that Darrin was looped into.

An individual that was so ready to manipulate

another human being to such a bad act.

At the end of this trial, justice felt achieved.

Jennifer Faith is in federal prison,

and Darrin Lopez has been held accountable for what he did.

SNYDER: I mean, I feel like justice was served

as best it could have been,

but Jamie's murder has affected me.

I had a best friend taken away.

There's definitely a void.

I'm sorry that this happened to him.

What do you say?

Defense of a third person is a really hard defense

to be successful with.

Jennifer is the mastermind

of this entire orchestrated scheme.

But Darrin is the one who pulled the trigger.

Together, they made this happen.

And the person who suffered from all of that is Jamie.

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