1 00:00:14,914 --> 00:00:22,188 WERE LOCATED INSIDE OF THIS HOME AND THAT'S REALLY ALL WE KNEW. >> IS THERE A LITTLE ADRENALINE WHEN YOU'RE PULLING UP? 2 00:00:22,255 --> 00:00:28,695 >> ALWAYS. YOUR BLOOD STARTS TO GET PUMPING A LITTLE BIT AND YOU START TO THINK ABOUT HOW THIS IS GOING TO 3 00:00:28,762 --> 00:00:35,568 PLAY OUT. >> WHAT DID YOU SEE AS YOU ENTERED THIS HOME? >> WELL, IT'S A VERY NICE HOME 4 00:00:35,635 --> 00:00:44,043 IN A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD. >> FAIRFAX COUNTY IS LOCATED JUST OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, D.C. IT IS AN AFFLUENT AREA OF 5 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:52,552 NORTHERN VIRGINIA. IT WAS A MILLION-DOLLAR HOME. >> AS YOU WALK THROUGH THE KITCHEN, YOU ENCOUNTER A MUD 6 00:00:52,619 --> 00:00:59,592 ROOM THAT CONNECTS THE KITCHEN TO THE GARAGE. IN THAT MUD ROOM WE DISCOVER PAMELA HARGAN. 7 00:00:59,659 --> 00:01:07,066 >> HOW WAS SHE POSITIONED ON THE GROUND? >> SHE WAS LYING FACE DOWN AND SHE HAD A BLANKET LAID OVER HER. 8 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:14,874 >> LIKE A QUILT. HER CELL PHONE IS ACTUALLY LAYING ON TOP OF THE QUILT. >> AND THERE WAS A POOL OF BLOOD 9 00:01:14,941 --> 00:01:20,814 COMING FROM THE AREA OF HER HEAD ON TO THE FLOOR. >> WHAT ELSE DO YOU FIND? >> WE GO UPSTAIRS. 10 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:28,922 AND THEN WE ENCOUNTER HELEN HARGAN INSIDE OF THE BATHROOM THAT'S IN HER BEDROOM. >> SHE APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN 11 00:01:28,988 --> 00:01:35,361 SITTING ON THE TOILET WHEN SHE WAS SHOT. SHE WAS FULLY CLOTHED. >> SHE HAS SOME KIND OF TRAUMA 12 00:01:35,428 --> 00:01:40,366 TO HER HEAD. THERE IS A RIFLE IN BETWEEN HER LEGS. SHE HAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF 13 00:01:40,433 --> 00:01:50,176 BLOOD IN HER MOUTH. >> FINDING TWO DECEASED PERSONS, WITH ONE WITH A GUN ON THEIR BODY MIGHT HAVE BEEN A 14 00:01:50,243 --> 00:01:59,352 MURDER-SUICIDE. >> SUICIDE? POSSIBLY. >> WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT? 15 00:01:59,419 --> 00:02:05,992 >> THIS IS THE MAIN ROOM OF THE BASEMENT. THESE ARE PHOTO ALBUMS. I WANTED TO SEE WHAT MY VICTIMS 16 00:02:06,059 --> 00:02:14,534 LOOK LIKE IN LIFE. >> PAMELA HARGAN WAS A WOMAN IN HER 60s. SHE WAS GENEROUS WITH HER MONEY. 17 00:02:14,601 --> 00:02:23,476 SHE BUILT AN $8 MILLION ESTATE. SHE POURED HER LIFE INTO HER FAMILY. >> HELEN, THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, 18 00:02:23,543 --> 00:02:31,451 HAD RETURNED HOME FROM COLLEGE. >> HELEN WAS THE KIND OF DAUGHTER THAT I THINK EVERYBODY WOULD WANT. 19 00:02:31,518 --> 00:02:38,925 SHE WAS LOVELY. >> SHE HAD A NUMBER OF FRIENDS. SHE HAD A BOYFRIEND. >> HELEN NEVER STRUCK ME AS 20 00:02:38,992 --> 00:02:45,598 HAVING A DARK SIDE. >> MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS BUTT HEADS. I MEAN, DID HELEN AND HER MOTHER 21 00:02:45,665 --> 00:02:51,304 GET ALONG PERFECTLY? I DON'T THINK SO. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 22 00:02:51,371 --> 00:02:58,778 >> MAYBE HELEN HAD MURDERED HER MOTHER AND THEN SHOT HERSELF. >> SO WHAT'S YOUR GUT TELLING YOU AS YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THESE 23 00:02:58,845 --> 00:03:04,083 TWO BODIES? >> WAIT. YOU WILL MAKE MISTAKES IF YOU MAKE ASSUMPTIONS BEFORE YOU 24 00:03:04,150 --> 00:03:11,024 ACTUALLY DO THE WORK. >> AND SO SHE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE DONE WHAT TO SHOOT HERSELF IN THE HEAD THAT WAY? 25 00:03:11,090 --> 00:03:23,102 >> MAGIC. SHE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE DONE MAGIC. IT JUST ISN'T POSSIBLE. 26 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:29,142 CAPTIONING FUNDED BY CBS 27 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:16,089 >>> FRIDAY, JULY 14th, 2017. ABOUT 5:00 P.M. FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA POLICE VISIT THE NEXT OF KIN TO DELIVER 28 00:04:16,155 --> 00:04:22,462 AWFUL NEWS. 63-YEAR-OLD PAM HARGAN AND 24-YEAR-OLD HELEN HARGAN ARE DEAD. 29 00:04:22,528 --> 00:04:33,239 >> PAMELA WAS SHOT TWICE IN THE MUD ROOM. >> LEAD DETECTIVE BRIAN BYERSON SAYS POLICE ARE RECORDING, AND 30 00:04:33,306 --> 00:04:43,082 WHISPERING TO AVOID BEING OVERHEARD WHEN THEY GIVE PAM'S EX-HUSBAND STEVE MORE PAINFUL DETAILS ABOUT HELEN. 31 00:04:43,149 --> 00:04:52,659 >> SHE HAD A GUNSHOT WOUND THAT APPEARS TO BE SELF-INFLICTED. I'M REALLY SORRY. >> THERE WAS A THOUGHT THAT WENT 32 00:04:52,725 --> 00:05:00,566 AROUND THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MURDER-SUICIDE. >> HARGAN SOON SUMMONS HIS OTHER TWO DAUGHTERS. 33 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:15,181 32-YEAR-OLD ASHLEY AND 34-YEAR-OLD MEGAN. >> WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHAT IS -- WHAT HAPPENED? 34 00:05:15,248 --> 00:05:22,955 >> THEY REACT WITH EQUAL PARTS PAIN AND PANIC. >> OH, GOD, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? 35 00:05:23,022 --> 00:05:29,062 JESUS, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? >> I DON'T KNOW. >> OUR MOM TOOK CARE OF EVERYTHING. 36 00:05:29,128 --> 00:05:38,604 >> I JUST DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND. WE WERE AT THE FREAKING HOUSE. >> MEGAN HARGAN TELLS AUTHORITIES, SHE AND HER 37 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:44,677 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER MOLLY HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH PAM AND HELEN WHILE HER HUSBAND IS IN THE MILITARY. 38 00:05:44,744 --> 00:05:51,317 SHE SAYS SHE HAD LEFT THE HOME WITH MOLLY AT ABOUT 1:30 P.M. THAT DAY. ADDING THAT THERE HAD BEEN AN 39 00:05:51,384 --> 00:06:01,794 ARGUMENT BETWEEN HER MOTHER AND HELEN, WHO HAD BEEN UPSET. >> HELEN HAS BEEN SO ANGRY, LIKE, JUST SO ANGRY ALL THE 40 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:12,238 TIME. >> AND STRUGGLING EMOTIONALLY. >> I KNEW THAT HELEN WAS DEPRESSED, BUT LIKE, TO DO THIS. 41 00:06:12,305 --> 00:06:18,678 I CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS. >> IS IT TRUE THAT SHE ONCE THREATENED SUICIDE? 42 00:06:18,745 --> 00:06:24,617 >> I THINK THAT IS POSSIBLY TRUE, YES. >> IN FACT, ASHLEY WOULD LATER TELL AUTHORITIES, HELEN HAD 43 00:06:24,684 --> 00:06:30,656 THOUGHTS ABOUT SELF-HARM. >> I KNOW MY SISTER WAS DEPRESSED. >> HAS SHE EVER TALKED ABOUT 44 00:06:30,723 --> 00:06:36,529 HURTING HERSELF? >> YEAH. >> BUT MEGAN ALSO SUGGESTS HER MOTHER AND SISTER COULD HAVE 45 00:06:36,596 --> 00:06:43,136 BEEN ATTACKED BY OFFERING A POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT CLUE. SOMETHING SHE REPORTS SHE HAD SEEN THE DAY BEFORE. 46 00:06:43,202 --> 00:06:50,810 >> TWO SUSPICIOUS MALES CASING THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SHE LATER TELLS US, THOSE PARTICULAR GUYS ARE THE REASON 47 00:06:50,877 --> 00:06:58,151 WHY SHE ENDS UP BRINGING THIS RIFLE UP TO THE MAIN FLOOR OF THE HOUSE. >> IT'S THE .22 RUGER RIFLE 48 00:06:58,217 --> 00:07:05,424 FOUND THAT HELEN'S BODY AND IT BELONGS TO MEGAN'S HUSBAND. SHE SAYS HER MOTHER HAD ALLOWED HER TO STORE IT IN THE HOUSE 49 00:07:05,491 --> 00:07:11,497 UNTIL THE COUPLE MOVED INTO THEIR OWN PLACE IN WEST VIRGINIA. >> MAY HUSBAND AND I LITERALLY 50 00:07:11,564 --> 00:07:22,308 JUST CLOSED ON OUR NEW HOME YESTERDAY. MY MOM BOUGHT IT FOR US. >> STEVE AND PAM HARGAN DIVORCED 51 00:07:22,375 --> 00:07:30,216 WHEN THE CHILDREN WERE YOUNG. PAM TOOK THEM AND MOVED AROUND BEFORE ENDING UP IN POTOMAC, MARYLAND. 52 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:40,026 NEXT DOOR TO TAMI MALLIOS. >> MEGAN WAS VERY UPSET ABOUT THE DIVORCE. >> IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, TAMI 53 00:07:40,092 --> 00:07:47,700 GOT TO KNOW MEGAN AND HER LITTLE SISTER HELEN, AND OFTEN SAW THEM ACROSS THE BACKYARD FENCE. >> THE GIRLS WERE OUT IN THE 54 00:07:47,767 --> 00:07:54,473 YARD ALL THE TIME WITH THE DOGS, THAT SORT OF THING. >> TAMI SAID SHE ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS A SIBLING RIVALRY. 55 00:07:54,540 --> 00:08:00,213 >> MEGAN DID BRING IT UP A LOT, SAYING THAT HELEN WAS THE FAVORITE. >> BUT SHE REMEMBERS THAT FOR 56 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:06,285 THE MOST PART, THE HARGAN SISTERS SEEMED TO GET ALONG FINE. PAM WAS PROUD OF THEM. 57 00:08:06,352 --> 00:08:13,726 >> SHE TALKED HIGHLY OF HER GIRLS WHENEVER I DID SPEAK WITH HER. >> PAM HARGAN POURED HER LIFE 58 00:08:13,793 --> 00:08:20,299 INTO THOSE KIDS. >> MICHELLE SIGONA WORKS FOR CBS NEWS. SHE'S BEEN COVERING THIS STORY 59 00:08:20,366 --> 00:08:27,240 FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS AND SAID THE OTHER LOVE PAM HARGAN'S LIFE WAS HER JOB. PAM HAD SPENT DECADES CLIMBING 60 00:08:27,306 --> 00:08:40,286 THE CAREER LADDER TO BECOME A VICE PRESIDENT OF AEROSPACE GIANT LOCKHEED MARTIN. >> SHE HAD BUILT AN $8 MILLION 61 00:08:40,353 --> 00:08:45,024 ESTATE. BUT SHE DIDN'T KEEP IT FOR HERSELF. SHE WAS CONSTANTLY GIVING TO 62 00:08:45,091 --> 00:08:52,131 THOSE AROUND HER, ESPECIALLY HER CHILDREN. >> HELEN SEEMED TO HAVE HER MOTHER'S AMBITION, DOUBLE 63 00:08:52,198 --> 00:09:01,474 MAJORING IN MATH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY IN DALLAS. THAT'S WHERE ERIN ROUGHNEED MET 64 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:08,080 HER IN 2014. >> SHE'S LIKE AN ONION. YOU HAVE TO PEOPLE THE LAYERS OFF. 65 00:09:08,147 --> 00:09:16,289 AND YOU REALLY GET TO KNOW THE KIND AND GENUINE PERSON UNDERNEATH THERE. >> ROUGHNEED SAID THEY BECAME 66 00:09:16,355 --> 00:09:21,160 CLOSE FRIENDS. >> IT'S BEEN SAID THAT HELEN MAY HAVE SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION. DID YOU EVER SEE ANY OF THAT? 67 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:31,003 >> I DID NOT AT ALL. >> SHE SAID HER FRIEND SPENT A LOT OF TIME STUDYING, THOUGH HELEN DID HAVE A JOB AT A NEAR 68 00:09:31,070 --> 00:09:36,642 BY RESTAURANT. >> SHE WAS WORKING AS A WAITRESS. >> THERE WAS A 30 SOMETHING 69 00:09:36,709 --> 00:09:41,247 NAMED CARLOS GUTIERREZ WORKING IN THE RESTAURANT, TOO. THEY FELL FOR EACH OTHER IN SHORT ORDER. 70 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:48,187 >> AND THEY HAD PLANS TO MOVE IN TOGETHER. >> PAM HAD STARTED BUILDING A HOUSE FOR HELEN IN NORTHERN 71 00:09:48,254 --> 00:09:56,295 VIRGINIA. SO IN THE SPRING OF 2017, HELEN HAD MOVED BACK HOME FROM DALLAS. >> ACCORDING TO CARLOS, HE 72 00:09:56,362 --> 00:10:06,339 HADN'T ASKED HER TO BE HIS WIFE, BUT HE WAS WORKING TOWARD THAT. >> BUT MEGAN TELLS POLICE, PAM HADN'T APPROVED OF HELEN'S 73 00:10:06,405 --> 00:10:14,613 RELATIONSHIP. >> SHE BELIEVED THAT HELEN WOULD TRY TO HAVE CARLOS INTO THE HOUSE AND MY MOM DIDN'T WANT HIM 74 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:20,753 THERE. >> STILL, HELEN WAS MOVING AHEAD, PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. >> IT WAS A MATTER OF FIGURING 75 00:10:20,820 --> 00:10:26,292 OUT HER CAREER PATH. IT TAKES A WHILE BUT SHE IS GOING TO GET THERE. >> BUT HELEN HARGAN NEVER GOT 76 00:10:26,359 --> 00:10:32,031 THERE. >> FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE AND FIRE. HOW MAY I ASSIST YOU? 77 00:10:32,098 --> 00:10:38,371 >> YES. I HAVE AN EMERGENCY. >> ON THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING, IT WAS CARLOS GUTIERREZ WHO 78 00:10:38,437 --> 00:10:44,744 FIRST ALERTED AUTHORITIES THAT SOMETHING IN THE HARGAN HOUSE WAS DREADFULLY WRONG. >> I'M IN DALLAS, TEXAS AND MY 79 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:52,318 GIRLFRIEND IS IN McLEAN. >> HE SAID AND HE HENL HAD SPOKEN EARLIER THAT MORNING. NOW HE CAN'T GET IN TOUCH WITH 80 00:10:52,385 --> 00:10:59,759 HER AND HE'S WORRIED. >> MAY GIRLFRIEND WON'T ANSWER THE PHONE. AND I'M THINKING SHE'S IN 81 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:06,232 DANGER. >> SO WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO IS CONTACT YOUR LOCAL JURISDICTION, FILE A REPORT WITH THEM AND TELL 82 00:11:06,298 --> 00:11:14,407 THEM THAT FAIRFAX COUNTY REQUIRES A TELETYPE IN ORDER TO DO A WELFARE CHECK. >> I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR CARLOS 83 00:11:14,473 --> 00:11:21,547 BECAUSE HE'S BOUNCED AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE JUST TRYING TO GET SOMEONE TO LISTEN TO THE FACT THAT HE THINKS HIS 84 00:11:21,614 --> 00:11:28,054 GIRLFRIEND'S LAYIFE IS IN DANGE. >> I THINK THIS IS LIKE LIFE OR DEATH. I THINK SOMEONE MIGHT BE DEAD. 85 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:34,760 >> CARLOS GUTIERREZ WOULD LATER TESTIFY ABOUT WHY HE WAS SO CONCERNED. HE WOULD ALSO TELL THE A JURY HE 86 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:42,334 FELT THE AUTHORITIES WERE GIVING HIM A RUN-AROUND THAT DAY. EVEN WHEN HE CALLED BACK LATER WHEN HE HAD SOMETHING EXPLOSIVE 87 00:11:42,401 --> 00:11:51,844 TO ADD. SOMETHING HELEN HAD TOLD HIM. >> EXACTLY WHAT DID YOUR GIRLFRIEND SAY TO YOU? 88 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:14,166 >>> FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE AND FIRE. HOW MAY I ASSIST YOU? >> IT'S 1:44 P.M. ON JULY 14th, 89 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:21,474 2017. CARLOS GOT A YARKSS HELEN'S BOYFRIEND IN TEXAS IS HAVING A HARD TIME WITH 911 DISPATCHERS 90 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:25,678 IN VIRGINIA. >> LIKE, I THINK SOMEONE MIGHT BE DEAD. >> RIGHT, SIR. 91 00:12:25,744 --> 00:12:33,185 CONTACT YOUR LOCAL JURISDICTION, FILE THE REPORT -- >> THE CALL ENDS WITHOUT A PROMISE OF HELP. 92 00:12:33,252 --> 00:12:39,692 SO 15 MINUTES LATER, CARLOS CALLS AGAIN. AND THIS TIME HE MAKES A STARTLING REVELATION ABOUT 93 00:12:39,758 --> 00:12:51,103 SOMETHING HE SAYS HELEN HAD TOLD HIM ON THE PHONE THAT MORNING. >> MY GIRLFRIEND TOLD ME THAT HER SISTER KILLED HER MOM. 94 00:12:51,170 --> 00:12:58,544 NOW MY GIRLFRIEND WON'T ANSWER HER PHONE. >> MEGAN HARGAN HAD MURDERED HER MOTHER, OR AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT 95 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:04,884 CARLOS SAID HELEN HAD TOLD HIM. >> OKAY. WELL, WAS THIS OUT OF THE BLUE? YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS SITTING IN A 96 00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:14,160 HOUSE WITH A DEAD WOMAN? >> YES. >> WHY WAS CARLOS, WHO WAS MORE THAN 1,000 MILES AWAY, CALLING 97 00:13:14,226 --> 00:13:26,739 911? WHY DIDN'T HELEN CALL HERSELF? WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THAT HOUSE? >> I REPORTED A MURDER EARLIER 98 00:13:26,805 --> 00:13:31,677 AND I DIDN'T HAVE THE ADDRESS. NOW I HAVE THE ADDRESS. >> WHEN POLICE ARRIVE AROUND 3:00 P.M., THEY FIND PAM IS 99 00:13:31,744 --> 00:13:39,118 DEAD. BUT THEY DISCOVER HELEN'S BODY, TOO. CARLOS HAD OFFERED AUTHORITIES A 100 00:13:39,185 --> 00:13:46,225 POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR PAM. BUT HELEN WAS A MYSTERY. MEGAN HARGAN TOLD POLICE SOMETHING INTERESTING. 101 00:13:46,292 --> 00:13:56,735 HER MOTHER AND SISTER HAD BEEN ARGUING THAT DAY. >> THIS MORNING, MY MOM LET HELEN KNOW THAT SHE WAS 102 00:13:56,802 --> 00:14:02,942 CANCELING THE CONTRACT ON THE THE HOUSE SHE'S BUILDING HER BECAUSE SHE TRULY BELIEVED THAT HELEN WAS GOING TO TRY TO MOVE 103 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:09,582 CARLOS INTO THE HOUSE. >> AND WHEN MIDDLE SISTER ASHLEY HEARS THAT CARLOS IS ACCUSING MEGAN OF MURDER, SHE MAKES IT 104 00:14:09,648 --> 00:14:18,591 CLEAR SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE HIM. >> SHE WOULD NEVER DO THAT. NEVER, EVER. OKAY? 105 00:14:18,657 --> 00:14:26,865 >> MEGAN HARGAN'S FRIEND, REBECCA WOLFE, AGREES. >> I DO NOT BELIEVE MEGAN KILLED HER MOM PAM OR HER SISTER HELEN. 106 00:14:26,932 --> 00:14:35,574 NO PIECE OF ME BELIEVES THAT. >> REBECCA AND MEGAN MET IN 2015 WHEN THEY WERE BOTH VOLUNTEERING IN A PROGRAM TO FIND HOMES FOR 107 00:14:35,641 --> 00:14:44,817 DOGS RESCUED FROM WAR ZONES. REBECCA SAYS THAT MEGAN ALWAYS HAD A PASSION FOR ANIMALS. >> SHE IS VERY COMPASSIONATE, A 108 00:14:44,883 --> 00:14:50,356 GENEROUS HEART. SHE IS JUST A REALLY GOOD PERSON. >> AND REBECCA SAYS MEGAN OFTEN 109 00:14:50,422 --> 00:14:56,996 TALKED ABOUT HER FAMILY. HER GENEROUS MOTHER. >> MEGAN ADMIRED PAM'S WISDOM. HER CAREER. 110 00:14:57,062 --> 00:15:06,872 SHE ALWAYS SPOKE VERY LOVINGLY OF HER. >> AND HER SISTERS, ESPECIALLY THE BABY OF THE FAMILY, HELEN. 111 00:15:06,939 --> 00:15:13,479 >> MEGAN TALKED ABOUT HELEN STRUGGLING WITH THINGS AND FEELING DEPRESSED. BUT I NEVER GOT THE IMPRESSION 112 00:15:13,545 --> 00:15:22,054 THAT IT WAS INSURMOUNTABLE. >> REBECCA SAYS MEGAN CALLED HER ON THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING AND SOUNDED LIKE A WOMAN WHO HAD 113 00:15:22,121 --> 00:15:28,360 LOST EVERYTHING. >> VERY DISTRAUGHT. AND SHE DID NOT GIVE ME DETAILS OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED. 114 00:15:28,427 --> 00:15:36,435 SHE JUST SAID, WE'VE LOST MOM AND HELEN. >> BY 8:00 P.M., POLICE HAD TOLD THE MEDIA WHAT THEY HAD TOLD THE 115 00:15:36,502 --> 00:15:41,674 HARGAN FAMILY. THIS LOOKED LIKE A MURDER-SUICIDE. BUT DETECTIVE BYERSON SAID THE 116 00:15:41,740 --> 00:15:49,748 MORE HE SAW OF THE CRIME SCENE, THE LESS HE THOUGHT SO. AND THE MORE HE WANTED TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT MEGAN HARGAN. 117 00:15:49,815 --> 00:15:57,523 THAT NIGHT, HE HAD OFFICERS TEST HER HANDS FOR GUNSHOT RESIDUE AND PHOTOGRAPH HER. >> DOES SHE BECOME A PERSON OF 118 00:15:57,589 --> 00:16:02,261 INTEREST AT THAT MOMENT? >> SHE'S CERTAINLY A PERSON OF INTEREST BECAUSE WE KNOW SHE WAS IN THE HOUSE. 119 00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:10,402 >> POLICE KNEW THE HOUSE PROBABLY HELD ANSWERS. CRIME SCENE DETECTIVE JULIA ELLIOTT WHO HAD JOINED DETECTIVE 120 00:16:10,469 --> 00:16:19,712 BYERSON AT THE SCENE SPENT THE EVENING COMBING FOR EVIDENCE. >> I WAS SHOWN PAMELA'S BODY FIRST. 121 00:16:19,778 --> 00:16:24,817 >> ONE THING THAT CAUGHT HER ATTENTION WAS PAM HARGAN'S CELL PHONE. >> IT IS LAYING ON TOP OF THE 122 00:16:24,883 --> 00:16:30,089 POOL OF BLOOD AND THE BLANKET. >> WAS THIS UNUSUAL TO SEE A CELL PHONE IN THIS POSITION? >> YES. 123 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:36,195 IT CERTAINLY WOULDN'T FALL ON TOP OF THE BLANKET AND ON TOP OF THE BLANKET ONCE YOU ARE COVERED UP. 124 00:16:36,261 --> 00:16:44,937 >> AND WHAT DOES IT SUGGEST? >> IT SUGGESTS TO ME THAT IT WAS PLACED THERE BY SOMEONE. >> ELLIOTT SAYS THE HELEN HARGAN 125 00:16:45,003 --> 00:16:54,279 SHOOTING SCENE WAS NEXT. >> SHE HAD A LOT OF BLOOD ON HER FACE. >> SO MUCH BLOOD THAT IT WAS 126 00:16:54,346 --> 00:17:00,619 IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE AN ENTRY WOUND. AND THERE WAS MORE ON THE FLOOR. BUT THERE WAS A LACK OF BLOOD 127 00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:04,790 WHERE INVESTIGATORS EXPECTED TO SEE IT. >> THE RIFLE ITSELF HAD VERY LITTLE BLOOD ON IT. 128 00:17:04,857 --> 00:17:10,562 >> THE RIFLE WAS LEANING AGAINST HELEN'S BODY. THE BUTT WAS ON THE FLOOR BETWEEN HER LEGS. 129 00:17:10,629 --> 00:17:17,169 THE BARREL WAS POINTED UP TOWARD THE CEILING. >> YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT IF THE RIFLE HAD BEEN SITTING THERE AS 130 00:17:17,236 --> 00:17:24,343 SHE BLED SO HEAVILY, IT WOULD ALSO HAVE BLOOD ON IT. >> AND WAS THERE ANYTHING ON THIS GUN FROM MEGAN? 131 00:17:24,410 --> 00:17:30,983 >> NO. >> WHAT ABOUT FINGERPRINTS ON THIS RIFLE? >> NONE THAT WERE USABLE. 132 00:17:31,049 --> 00:17:37,222 >> THERE WAS DNA FOUND ON THE TRIGGER, BUT WASN'T MEGAN OR HELEN'S. >> IS TRY IT THAT HELEN'S DNA 133 00:17:37,289 --> 00:17:46,498 WAS FOUND ON THE RIFLE CASE? >> YES, THAT IS TRUE. >> BUT BYERSON SAYS ONLY ON THE TIP OF THE CASE. 134 00:17:46,565 --> 00:17:52,905 MEGAN'S DNA WAS ON THE CASE HANDLES. IT IS PART OF THE REASON POLICE BELIEVE HELEN HARGAN NEVER 135 00:17:52,971 --> 00:18:00,012 TOUCHED THE GUN THAT DAY. >> AS SHE DIED, SOMEONE ELSE WAS THERE TO PLACE IT ON HER. >> SHE SAID HELEN'S PHONE WAS 136 00:18:00,078 --> 00:18:08,620 TELLING AS WELL. THERE WAS ALMOST NO BLOOD ON IT. AND ALTHOUGH HELEN HAD USED IT THAT DAY TO TALK AND TEXT WITH 137 00:18:08,687 --> 00:18:14,226 CARLOS, THERE WERE NO FINGERPRINTS EITHER. >> WHAT WE FOUND WAS WHAT LOOKED LIKE SWIPE MARKS. 138 00:18:14,293 --> 00:18:20,065 AS IF SOMEONE HAD TAKEN THEIR HAND AND WIPED OFF THE FRONT OF THE SCREEN. >> THOUGH IT WOULD TAKE TIME TO 139 00:18:20,132 --> 00:18:28,407 LEARN EXACTLY HOW THE HARGAN WOMEN DIED, IN THE BASEMENT, DETECTIVE ELLIOTT SAW AN IMMEDIATE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN 140 00:18:28,474 --> 00:18:36,215 HOW THEY HAD LIVED. >> I GOT A LITTLE NOSEY. I WANTED TO SEE WHAT MY VICTIMS MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE IN LIFE. 141 00:18:36,281 --> 00:18:43,355 SO I PULLED OUT ONE OF THE CENTER PHOTO ALBUMS TO LOOK AT IT AND OPEN IT UP. >> TUCKED AWAY IN THAT ALBUM OF 142 00:18:43,422 --> 00:18:48,594 FAMILY PHOTOS WAS SOMETHING THAT SEEMED OUT OF PLACE. DOCUMENTS. MEGAN'S BANK STATEMENT. 143 00:18:48,660 --> 00:18:58,537 PAM'S, TOO, AND A SPREAD SHEET FULL OF PASSWORDS AND SECURITY VERIFICATION DETAILS. TO UNLOCK ALL OF PAM HARGAN'S 144 00:18:58,604 --> 00:19:02,541 ACCOUNTS. >> WELL, THAT'S INTERESTED. WERE YOU ABLE TO ANALYZE THE PAPER? 145 00:19:02,608 --> 00:19:11,283 >> SO AT THE TIME OF US LOCATING THAT, FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS WERE NOT ON OUR SEARCH WARRANT. >> SO DETECTIVE ELLIOTT 146 00:19:11,350 --> 00:19:17,089 PHOTOGRAPHED THE DOCUMENTS AND LEFT THEM IN THE HOUSE. WHEN SHE ENTERED WITH THE PROPER SEARCH WARRANT DAYS LATER -- 147 00:19:17,155 --> 00:19:22,828 >> THEY WERE NOT THERE. >> THEY WERE NOT THERE. >> THEY WERE NOT. >> THE HOUSE HAD BEEN RETURNED 148 00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:30,202 TO THE HARGAN FAMILY'S CUSTODY THE DAY AFTER THE SHOOTING. AND SOMETHING ELSE HAD HAPPENED THAT DAY. 149 00:19:30,269 --> 00:19:38,944 THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DELIVERED HER REPORT ON HELEN HARGAN'S AUTOPSY. CASTING DOUBT ON THE 150 00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:43,782 MURDER-SUICIDE THEORY. >> IT TELLS US THAT SOMEONE ELSE PULLED THE TRIGGER. 151 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:13,645 >>> A POLICE SPOKESMAN WAS CALLING THE HARGAN SHOOTINGS A MURDER-SUICIDE. BUT THE NEXT DAY WHEN DETECTIVE 152 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:23,655 BRIAN BYERSON SAW HELEN'S AUTOPSY REPORT, HE WAS CERTAIN IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE. >> THE GUNSHOT WOUND ON HELEN 153 00:20:23,722 --> 00:20:31,196 HARGAN WAS IN THE TOP OF HER HEAD. >> THE RIFLE BULLET HAD TRAVELED DOWNWARD INTO HER NECK. 154 00:20:31,263 --> 00:20:40,072 >> SHE WOULD HAVE TO HOLD IT STRAIGHT UP AND BE ABLE TO REACH THE TRIGGER TO ACCOMPLISH THIS. I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE AND 155 00:20:40,138 --> 00:20:47,579 I'VE WORKED A LOT OF MURDERS. >> WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU WHEN YOU LEARN THAT INFORMATION? >> IT TELLS US THAT SOMEONE ELSE 156 00:20:47,646 --> 00:20:54,920 PULLED THE TRIGGER. >> AS DETECTIVE BYERSON ARRIVED TO WORK TWO DAYS LATER ON MONDAY, JULY 17th -- 157 00:20:54,987 --> 00:21:00,192 >> GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU FOR CALLING CAPITAL ONE BANK. >> THERE WAS A CLUE WAITING FOR 158 00:21:00,258 --> 00:21:07,099 HIM. A CLUE THAT BYERSON WAS ABLE TO TAKE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK. >> THAT MONDAY MORNING I HAVE A 159 00:21:07,165 --> 00:21:12,938 MESSAGE ON MY DESK PHONE FROM CAPITAL ONE. >> THE BANK HAD SOME STARTLING NEWS. 160 00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:21,747 BANK EMPLOYEES HAD SEEN REPORTS OF PAM HARGAN'S DEATH, AND WANTED HIM TO KNOW ABOUT SOME STRANGE ACTIVITY ON HER ACCOUNT. 161 00:21:21,813 --> 00:21:28,587 >> COULD YOU TELL ME YOUR NAME, PLEASE? >> PAMELA HANSEN HARGAN. >> SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE PAM 162 00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:34,192 HARGAN HAD CALLED THE BANK THE DAY BEFORE THE SHOOTING WITH A REQUEST. >> WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU TODAY 163 00:21:34,259 --> 00:21:39,765 IN. >> I WAS TOLD THAT I COULD DO A WIRE TRANSFER. >> WHOEVER IT WAS WAS TRYING TO 164 00:21:39,831 --> 00:21:50,242 TRANSFER MONEY. MORE THAN $400,000 OUT OF PAM'S ACCOUNT TO A REAL ESTATE SETTLEMENT COMPANY IN WEST 165 00:21:50,308 --> 00:21:56,748 VIRGINIA. >> YOU'RE GOING TO BUY A HOUSE? >> FOR MY DAUGHTER, YES. >> THE CALLER WAS ABLE TO 166 00:21:56,815 --> 00:22:02,287 SUCCESSFULLY ANSWER PAM'S SECURITY QUESTIONS. >> ALL RIGHT. YOU ACED THE VERIFICATION. 167 00:22:02,354 --> 00:22:07,993 GREAT JOB. >> DETECTIVE BYERSON DISCOVERED THE TRANSACTION HADN'T GONE HROUGH. 168 00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:13,899 SO THE CALLER HAD TRIED AGAIN ON THE MORNING OF PAM'S MURDER. >> YES. WE ATTEMPTED TO YESTERDAY AND 169 00:22:13,965 --> 00:22:20,739 THERE WAS A BIT OF A MIX-UP SO WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN NOW. THEY NEED IT TODAY. 170 00:22:20,806 --> 00:22:27,112 >> SOMEBODY IS PERHAPS TRYING TO STEAL PAM'S MONEY. >> YES. >> AND BYERSON BELIEVED HE KNEW 171 00:22:27,179 --> 00:22:33,185 WHO THAT SOMEBODY WAS. >> THAT IS MEGAN HARGAN, PRETENDING TO BE HER MOTHER. >> PRETENDING. 172 00:22:33,251 --> 00:22:40,892 >> PRETENDING. >> HE DECIDED IT WAS TIME FOR HIM TO GET MEGAN ON THE PHONE. >> HOW ARE YOU HOLDING UP IN. 173 00:22:40,959 --> 00:22:48,800 >> I AM REALLY NOT OKAY. >> MEGAN CLAIMED THE ATTEMPTED WIRE TRANSFERS WERE JUST AN INNOCENT MIX-UP AT THE BANK. 174 00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:55,140 BUT BY NOW, BYERSON WAS SUSPICIOUS OF EVERYTHING SHE SAID. HE BEGAN TO THINK MEGAN HARGAN 175 00:22:55,207 --> 00:23:01,079 HAD BEEN TRYING TO CONFUSE POLICE ALL ALONG. >> I REALIZE THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION HERE. 176 00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:09,221 >> MEGAN HAD STRESSED HELEN'S DEPRESSION AND ANGER ISSUES WITH INVESTIGATORS. >> HELEN HAS BEEN SO ANGRY. 177 00:23:09,287 --> 00:23:24,336 JUST SO ANGRY ALL THE TIME OVER EVERYTHING. >> BUT MEGAN TOLD BYERSON HER SISTER NEVER WOULD HAVE KILLED 178 00:23:24,402 --> 00:23:30,575 HERSELF OR HER MOM. >> I CAN'T IMAGINE MY OWN BABY SISTER DOING THAT AT ALL. >> SHE REPEATED HER STORY ABOUT 179 00:23:30,642 --> 00:23:34,646 TWO STRANGE MEN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. >> I HAD TO CALL THE POLICE ABOUT THESE TWO GUYS. 180 00:23:34,713 --> 00:23:39,951 OTHER PEOPLE HAD CALLED THEM, APPARENTLY. >> BUT BYERSON THAT TIP WENT NOWHERE. 181 00:23:40,018 --> 00:23:46,491 >> THE ONLY CALL THAT'S MADE ABOUT THESE GUYS IS FROM MEGAN HARGAN. >> HE HAD RUN DOWN EVERY LEAD. 182 00:23:46,558 --> 00:23:56,134 EVERY ALTERNATIVE THEORY. THERE WERE NO OTHER SUSPECTS. BUT THERE WAS A MOTIVE. THE MONEY. 183 00:23:56,201 --> 00:24:02,707 AND THE PERSON WHO NEEDED IT COULDN'T STOP TALKING. >> SHE DEMANDED TO COME IN AND GET AN UPDATE ON THE CASE. 184 00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:12,918 >> SO ON JULY 19th, FIVE DAYS AFTER PAM AND HELEN'S DEATHS, DETECTIVE BYERSON BROUGHT MEGAN IN. 185 00:24:12,984 --> 00:24:19,991 HE SAID ONCE MEGAN STARTED -- >> UNIMAGINABLE -- >> SHE WOULDN'T STOP. >> I COULD ASK HER FOR ANYTHING. 186 00:24:20,058 --> 00:24:28,600 >> WE JUST CAN'T GET HER TO LEAVE. >> THIS IS YOU. >> SHE STAYED FOR MORE THAN FOUR 187 00:24:28,667 --> 00:24:35,273 HOURS. >> WE WOULD ASK HER QUESTIONS THAT SHE KNEW THE ANSWER TO AND SHE WOULD PIVOT TO SOMETHING 188 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:39,044 ELSE OR OUTRIGHT NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION. >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SAY. 189 00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:43,982 >> WE WANT YOU TO TELL THE TRUTHFUL JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION. >> AT FIRST, MEGAN INSISTED IT 190 00:24:44,049 --> 00:24:50,422 WAS HER MOM WHO HAD MADE THOSE CALL TO THE BANK. WHEN BYERSON PLAYED THE TAPES FOR HER -- 191 00:24:50,488 --> 00:24:59,564 >> POOFS THAT ON THE PHONE? THAT'S YOU, RIGHT? >> DETECTIVE BYERSON SAID SHE FINALLY ADMITTED TO LYING TO HIM 192 00:24:59,631 --> 00:25:07,305 ABOUT THE WIRE TRANSFER. >> WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU DO THAT? >> BECAUSE -- BECAUSE I KNEW HOW 193 00:25:07,372 --> 00:25:13,478 IT WOULD LOOK. >> NO, NO. IT'S NOT HOW IT WOULD LOOFBLGT YOU KNEW THAT IF WE KNEW ABOUT 194 00:25:13,545 --> 00:25:21,186 THIS, THAT WOULD SHINE A WHOLE NEW LIGHT ON YOU. >> STILL, SHE WAS ADAMANT THAT SHE HADN'T SHOT ANYONE. 195 00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:29,461 SO IT WAS TRULY BIZARRE WHEN HALFWAY INTO THE INTERVIEW -- >> JUST BLAME ME. JUST BLAME ME. 196 00:25:29,527 --> 00:25:34,799 JUST BLAME ME. MY FAMILIAR'S BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH. JUST BLAME ME SO WE CAN MOVE ON 197 00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:41,539 FROM THIS, OKAY? >> IT SEEMED LIKE SHE WAS ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE KNEW THAT SHE DID IT WITHOUT OPENLY GIVING 198 00:25:41,606 --> 00:25:50,749 US A DETAILED CONFESSION. >> THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. >> THOUGH INADMISSIBLE IN COURT, SHE READILY AGREED TO TAKE A 199 00:25:50,815 --> 00:25:57,789 POLYGRAPH. >> SHE FAILED THREE TIMES. >> BYERSON SAID IT WAS ALL ADDING UP. 200 00:25:57,856 --> 00:26:04,796 HE WAS SITTING ACROSS FROM A KILLER. >> IT BECOMES VERY OBVIOUS TO US. 201 00:26:04,863 --> 00:26:14,239 IT'S EXACTLY WHO WE THINK IT IS AND IT'S MEGAN HARGAN. >> BUT DESPITE EVERYTHING, POLICE LET MEGAN LEAVE THAT DAY. 202 00:26:14,306 --> 00:26:23,114 >> SO MURDER INVESTIGATIONS CAN BE EXTREMELY COMPLEX. YOU NOT ONLY HAVE TO BE SURE. YOU HAVE TO BE RIGHT. 203 00:26:23,181 --> 00:26:30,588 AND THAT DECISION IS NOT JUST, IT DOES NOT JUST REST ON ME. I HAVE TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE AS THE COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY'S 204 00:26:30,655 --> 00:26:37,162 OFFICE. SO IN CONSULTATION WITH THEM, WE DECIDED TO WAIT. >> LAW ENFORCEMENT MAY NOT HAVE 205 00:26:37,228 --> 00:26:47,372 MOVED, BUT MEGAN HARGAN DID. THOUGH SHE NEVER GOT PAM'S MONEY, SHE AND HER HUSBAND USED A V.A. LOAN TO BUY A DIFFERENT 206 00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:54,579 HOUSE IN VIRGINIA. >> WE KEPT AN EYE ON HER. WE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS. >> BYERSON METHODICALLY KEPT 207 00:26:54,646 --> 00:27:01,286 BUILDING HIS CASE. EVIDENCE KEPT TRICKLING IN, INCLUDING THE RESULTS OF MEG DLANG'S GUNSHOT RESIDUE TEST 208 00:27:01,353 --> 00:27:09,995 WHICH SHOWED SHE HAD IT ON BOTH HANDS. AND ON NOVEMBER 9th, 2018, ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER 209 00:27:10,061 --> 00:27:17,869 THE DEATHS OF PAM AND HELEN HARGAN -- >> THIS MORNING AT APPROXIMATELY 7:40 A.M., DETECTIVES FROM OUR 210 00:27:17,936 --> 00:27:30,982 MAJOR CRIMES BUREAU STOPPED AND ARRESTED MEGAN HARGAN NEAR HER HOME IN WEST VIRGINIA. >> AS DETECTIVE BYERSON TAKES 211 00:27:31,049 --> 00:27:38,556 MEGAN HARGAN IN, INVESTIGATORS SEARCH HER HOME AND FIND ANOTHER YET IMPORTANT CLUE. THAT MISSING PASSWORD SHEET TO 212 00:27:38,623 --> 00:27:44,462 PAM HARGAN'S ACCOUNTS. >> DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT MEGAN WAS THE PERSON WHO PULLED THAT TRIGGER? 213 00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:52,437 >> I HAVE NO DOUBT AT ALL. >> WHAT DID THE DEFENSE WOULD SAY IS THAT THERE IS DOUBT ALL OVER THIS CASE. 214 00:27:52,504 --> 00:28:02,414 >> MEGAN HARGAN'S DEFENSE WILL INCLUDE A SPECIFIC THEORY OF HOW HELEN COULD HAVE KILLED HERSELF. >> SHE PUTS HER HEAD DOWN AND 215 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:09,254 THEN SHE'S ABLE TO UTILIZE THE TRIGGER. PROBABLY WITH HER TOE, TO BE ABLE TO DISCHARGE THE WEAPON. 216 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:15,794 >> BUT WILL THE JURY AGREE? >> EVEN THE EXPERTS SAID, IT'S POSSIBLE. 217 00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:40,752 >>> WHAT DID YOU SEE IN HER EYES? >> NOTHING. I DON'T SEE MUCH BEHIND THOSE 218 00:28:40,819 --> 00:28:46,157 EYES. >> MORE THAN THREE YEARS AFTER THE ARREST OF HER MURDERS OF HER MOTHER AND SISTER, MEGAN HARGAN 219 00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:57,268 IS GOING ON TRIAL. >> I THINK SHE'S PURE EVIL. >> WHITNEY GREGORY AND TYLER BEZILLA ARE PROSECUTING THE 220 00:28:57,335 --> 00:29:05,977 CASE. >> SHE'S A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. >> THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA OPEN BY ARGUING MEGAN TRIED TO 221 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:13,418 STEAL MORE THAN $400,000 FROM PAM FOR THIS NEW HOUSE AND GOT SO DESPERATE FOR THE CASH THAT SHE KILLED HER. 222 00:29:13,485 --> 00:29:21,126 THEN SHE KILLED HELEN TO KEEP HER QUIET AND STAGED THE SCENE AS A MURDER-SUICIDE. >> SHE MURDERED TWO OF HER 223 00:29:21,192 --> 00:29:26,064 CLOSEST FAMILY MEMBERS FOR MONEY. >> THE DEFENSE ARGUES HELEN WAS THE KILLER. 224 00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:31,536 MENTALLY UNSTABLE AND FURIOUS AT HER MOTHER WHO HAD OFFERED HER A NEW HOUSE. BUT THE MORNING OF THE SHOOTING 225 00:29:31,603 --> 00:29:38,710 ANNOUNCED THERE WERE ONE DEVASTATING CONDITION. HELEN HAD TO BREAK UP WITH THE MAN SHE HAD HOPED TO MARRY. 226 00:29:38,776 --> 00:29:47,552 CARLOS GUTIERREZ. >> WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE WITH THIS JURY? >> APPROVING IT WASN'T A 227 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:54,325 SUICIDE. >> TO DO THAT THEY BEGIN BY CALLING CARLOS AND HELEN'S SISTER ASHLEY, WHO TESTIFY ON 228 00:29:54,392 --> 00:30:01,032 THE DAY SHE DIED HELEN SEEMED NORMAL AND FINE. DID HELEN HAVE A DAG NOTES IT IS OF DEPRESSION? 229 00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:06,171 >> NO. >> AND SHE DIDN'T TAKE HER OWN LIFE, SAYS DETECTIVE JULIA ELLIOTT. 230 00:30:06,237 --> 00:30:11,476 >> IT'S A HOMICIDE. >> WHO TELLS THE JURY ABOUT THE BLOOD STAINS AND POSITION OF THE RIFLE. 231 00:30:11,543 --> 00:30:18,583 >> SHE DID NOT HAVE AN ARM SPAN LONG ENOUGH TO PULL THE TRIGGER. >> HER FINGERS ARE NOT REACHING THE TRIGGER. 232 00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:31,596 >> CRIME SCENE RECONSTRUCTIONIST IRIS GRAFF AGREES. >> THIS IS A VIRTUAL MODEL. >> PROSECUTORS USED PHOTOS AND 233 00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:37,669 MEASUREMENTS TO CREATE THIS DIGITAL MODEL. >> SHE CAN'T REACH THAT TRIGGER. >> WE STILL NEED ANOTHER FIVE 234 00:30:37,735 --> 00:30:44,409 INCHES. >> SO BASED ON YOUR SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, WAS THE WOUND THAT KILLED HELEN SELF-INFLICTED? 235 00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:51,683 >> WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THIS SCENE, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE THAT THAT SHE CAN SELF-INFLICT THAT WOUND. 236 00:30:51,749 --> 00:30:57,522 >> GREGORY SAYS THAT'S JUST COMMON SENSE. >> DID THE TOOTH FAIRY PUT THE GUN HOLE HERE? 237 00:30:57,589 --> 00:31:07,532 >> HELEN'S WOUND ISN'T THE ONLY EVIDENCE POINTING AT MEGAN. MEGAN'S CONDUCT IN HER POLICE INTERVIEW IS DAMNING TOO. 238 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:14,572 AND SO ARE THE PHONE CALL TO THE BANK. >> TELL ME YOUR NAME, PLEASE. >> INDIANA YOU WANT TO COMPLETE 239 00:31:14,639 --> 00:31:22,013 A WIRE TRANSFER WITH US TODAY? >> YES. THEY NEED IT TODAY. >> MEGAN IS PANICKING. 240 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,752 SHE STILL OWES THAT MONEY ON THE HOUSE. >> PROSECUTORS REVEAL MEGAN LIED TO POLICE ABOUT PAM BUYING HER A 241 00:31:27,819 --> 00:31:34,892 HOUSE, SAYING THE REALITY IS THAT MEGAN WAS TRYING TO BUY THAT WEST VIRGINIA PROPERTY WITH HER MOTHER'S MONEY. 242 00:31:34,959 --> 00:31:44,068 TURNS OUT, MEGAN STILL OWED MORE THAN $400,000, DUE THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING. THE PROSECUTION CONTENDS SHE HAD 243 00:31:44,135 --> 00:31:52,043 SECRETLY SUBSTITUTED HER NAME ON TO PAM'S BANK STATEMENT AS PROOF OF FUNDS. PAM WAS APPARENTLY TOTALLY IN 244 00:31:52,110 --> 00:32:04,122 THE DARK UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE THE SHOOTING WHEN THE BANK CALLED THE REAL PAM. >> WHO AM I SPEAKING TO? 245 00:32:04,188 --> 00:32:09,560 MAY NAME IS JEFF WITH CAPITAL ONE. >> OKAY. THIS IS PAMELA HARGAN. 246 00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:17,335 >> A BANK OFFICER HAD CALLED HER TO AUTHENTICATE THE ATTEMPTED WIRE TRANSFER. >> SOMEONE TRIED TO DO A WIRE 247 00:32:17,402 --> 00:32:21,339 OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT FOR $400,000. >> WHAT? I DID NOT DO THAT. 248 00:32:21,406 --> 00:32:31,449 >> THE DEFENSE WOULD SAY THERE IS DOUBT ALL OVER THIS CASE. >> THE DEFENSE DECLINED TO BE INTERVIEWED, SO WE ASKED MATT 249 00:32:31,516 --> 00:32:36,621 TROIANO, AN ATTORNEY WITH DECADES IN COURT. HE DIDN'T TRY THIS CASE BUT WE HIRED HIM TO REVIEW THE FILE. 250 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:44,796 TO HELP PROVE REASONABLE DOUBT, HE SAYS THE DEFENSE CONTENDS HELEN WAS THE SUSPICIOUS ONE THAT DAY. 251 00:32:44,862 --> 00:32:53,971 >> HELEN DOESN'T CALL 911. SHE DOESN'T RUN OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR SAFETY. SHE TELLS HER BOYFRIEND, DORN 252 00:32:54,038 --> 00:33:00,611 CALL FOR HELP. >> WHY DIDN'T HELEN CALL 911? >> THAT'S A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE WE DON'T HAVE. 253 00:33:00,678 --> 00:33:07,185 WHY DIDN'T SHE CALL 911? WE DON'T KNOW. >> THERE IS A LOT AUTHORITIES MAY NEVER KNOW FOR SURE ABOUT 254 00:33:07,251 --> 00:33:14,826 THE ROUGHLY TWO HOURS THEY SAY LAPSED BETWEEN PAM'S AND HELEN'S DEATHS. IF MEGAN KILLED PAM, WHY DID SHE 255 00:33:14,892 --> 00:33:22,533 WAIT SO LONG TO KILL HELEN? AND WHY ON EARTH HADN'T HELEN MADE A RUN FOR IT? TESTIMONY SUGGESTS SHE WAS 256 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:30,174 WORRIED ABOUT 8-YEAR-OLD MOLLY, WHO WAS HOME AT THE TIME. GOOD A GOOD ENOUGH EXPLANATION SAYS TROIANO. 257 00:33:30,241 --> 00:33:42,520 >> FOR HOURS, PETER, SHE ALLOWED WHAT IS CLAIMED TO BE A MURDERER RUN LOOSE IN A HOME WITH A RIFLE WITHOUT SEEKING HELP, WITHOUT 258 00:33:42,587 --> 00:33:50,895 BARRICADING HER INTO A ROOM. >> HE SAYS HELEN'S BODY SHOWED NO DEFINITIVE SIGNS OF A LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE. 259 00:33:50,962 --> 00:33:57,935 >> WHY WOULDN'T SHE HAVE FOUGHT BACK? >> AND HOW INCREDIBLE ARE THE WITNESSES AGAINST MEGAN HARGAN? 260 00:33:58,002 --> 00:34:06,344 TROIANO SAYS THE DEFENSE WANTS THE JURY TO BELIEVE ONE MAY NOT BE CREDIBLE AT ALL. HER SISTER ASHLEY. 261 00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:14,485 >> HER STORY HAS CHANGED. >> WHEN SHE HAD SPOKEN TO INVESTIGATORS SOON AFTER THE SHOOTING, ASHLEY TOLD THEM HELEN 262 00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:21,626 HAD ONCE BEEN IN EMOTIONAL TURMOIL. >> I KNOW MY SISTER WAS DEPRESSED. 263 00:34:21,692 --> 00:34:28,099 HAD SHE EVER TALKED ABOUT HURTING HERSELF? >> YEAH. >> BUT ONCE ON THE STAND, ASHLEY 264 00:34:28,166 --> 00:34:36,641 TESTIFIED SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER EVER SAYING THAT. >> SHE SAYS 150 TIMES THEREABOUTS THAT SHE DOESN'T 265 00:34:36,707 --> 00:34:42,313 REMEMBER CERTAIN THINGS. TWO WAYS TO LOOK AT THAT. NUMBER ONE, SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER, RIGHT? 266 00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:52,757 NUMBER TWO IS THAT SHE DOESN'T WANT TO SAY THINGS THAT ARE NOT HELPFUL FOR THE PROSECUTION. >> ASHLEY TESTIFIED THAT SHE 267 00:34:52,824 --> 00:34:56,961 COULDN'T RECALL MORE THAN 150 TIMES. WHY WAS THAT? >> ANY TIME YOU'RE DEALING WITH 268 00:34:57,028 --> 00:35:05,536 A VICTIM OF TRAUMA, THERE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE ASPECTS THAT SHE CAN'T RECALL. >> WHATEVER THE JURY THINKS OF 269 00:35:05,603 --> 00:35:10,575 ASHLEY, THE DEFENSE WANTS TO EXPLAIN TO THEM HOW HELEN COULD HAVE PULLED THE TRIGGER ON THAT RIFLE. 270 00:35:10,641 --> 00:35:19,750 AND THEY HAVE A THEORY. WITH HER TOE. >> SHE PUTS HER HEAD DOWN AND THEN SHE'S ABLE TO UTILIZE THE 271 00:35:19,817 --> 00:35:25,656 TRIGGER, PROBABLY WITH HER TOE, TO DISCHARGE THE WEAPON. >> HER TOE? >> SHE HAS TO FIGURE OUT SOME 272 00:35:25,723 --> 00:35:32,897 WAY. THE CRITICAL QUESTION IS, COULD IT HAVE BEEN DONE? >> EVEN THE PROSECUTION'S EXPERT 273 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:39,270 WITNESS CONCEDES, WHILE VERY UNLIKELY, IT IS POSSIBLE. >> CAN HER TOE REACH THE TRIGGER? 274 00:35:39,337 --> 00:35:45,576 >> YES. HER LEGS ARE LONG ENOUGH THAT HER TOE COULD REACH THE TRIGGER. >> EITHER WAY, THE JUDGE THINKS 275 00:35:45,643 --> 00:35:51,983 IRIS GRAFF'S DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION ISN'T NECESSARY SO HE PREVENTS THE JURY FROM SEEING IT. 276 00:35:52,049 --> 00:36:00,224 THOUGH MEGAN HARGAN NEVER TESTIFIES -- >> EVERY SHRED OF EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT MEGAN HARGAN WAS THE ONE 277 00:36:00,291 --> 00:36:09,233 WHO COMMITTED THESE MURDERS. >> IN CLOSINGS, THE PROSECUTOR ARGUES THERE'S NO EVIDENCE THAT PAM HARGAN WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO 278 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:15,206 CANCEL THE CONTRACT ON HELEN'S NEW HOUSE. AND HE URGES THE JURY TO COMPARE HELEN'S BEHAVIOR AROUND THE TIME 279 00:36:15,273 --> 00:36:22,580 OF THE SHOOTING TO MEGAN'S. HE SAYS MEG DLANG'S ACTIONS THAT HE FOR THEMSELVES. >> SHE'S DOING ALL THE THINGS A 280 00:36:22,647 --> 00:36:31,789 MURDERER WOULD DO. >> THE DEFENSE INSISTS, THERE IS REASONABLE DOUBT IN THIS CASE. THEY ARGUE THE INCONCLUSIVE. 281 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:37,595 AND THE TOE ON THE TRIGGER THEORY CANNOT BE RULED OUT. >> IT'S POSSIBLE. IF IT'S POSSIBLE, THAT THEN 282 00:36:37,662 --> 00:36:46,571 LENDS ITSELF TO DOUBT. >> MEGAN HARGAN IS INNOCENT. >> MEG DLANG'S FRIEND REBECCA WOLFE SPENT ABOUT FIVE YEARS 283 00:36:46,637 --> 00:36:52,910 WORKING FOR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. SHE KNOWS HER WAY AROUND A CRIMINAL TRIAL AND HAS BEEN AT 284 00:36:52,977 --> 00:37:00,251 THIS ONE ALMOST EVERY DAY. >> I WOULD NOT BE COMFORTABLE SENDING SOMEONE TO PRISON FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE WITHOUT 285 00:37:00,318 --> 00:37:07,291 KNOWING BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THEY DID IT. >> ON MARCH 24th, 2022, ALMOST 286 00:37:07,358 --> 00:37:15,533 FIVE YEARS AFTER THE SHOOTINGS, THE JURY GETS THE CASE. >> BASED ON YOUR REVIEW OF THIS CASE, AS THE JURY IS HEADING 287 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,503 INTO DLB RAGS, COULD THIS GO EITHER WAY? >> SURE. 288 00:37:39,790 --> 00:37:45,129 >>> AS THE JURORS COME BACK IN THE ROOM. THEY HAVE A DECISION. ARE YOU LOOKING AT THEIR FACES? 289 00:37:45,196 --> 00:37:52,269 >> YES. >> AFTER A THREE-WEEK TRIAL, IT TAKES THE JURY LESS THAN TWO DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS TO REACH A 290 00:37:52,336 --> 00:37:59,610 VERDICT. >> I THOUGHT MY LEGS WOULD GO WEAK. WE WERE STANDING UP AND THIS WAS 291 00:37:59,677 --> 00:38:10,588 MONTHS OF OUR LIVES. >> MEGAN HARGAN IS GUILTY. TWO COUNTS OF MURDER FOR KILLING HER MOTHER AND SISTER PAM. 292 00:38:10,655 --> 00:38:16,661 >> HOW DID MEGAN REACT TO THE VERDICT? >> FOR ME, I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT THE TABLE. 293 00:38:16,727 --> 00:38:23,334 I'M JUST TRYING NOT TO PASS OUT. >> I THINK WEIGHT LIFTED OFF EVERYBODY. >> IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL 294 00:38:23,401 --> 00:38:29,573 MOMENT. >> THE INJURE RECOMMENDS THE SENTENCE TO THE JUDGE OF LIFE IN PRISON ON EACH MURDER COUNT. 295 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:39,116 HE WILL RULE ON THAT THIS FALL. > I THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT I WOULD BE GETTING A PHONE CALL AND COMING TO PICK HER UP. 296 00:38:39,183 --> 00:38:44,388 100%. >> MEGAN'S FRIEND REBECCA WOLFE THINKS THIS JURY WAS SHORT-SIGHTED. 297 00:38:44,455 --> 00:38:50,695 >> I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO SEE THROUGH ALL OF THIS. THEY WOULD LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE. 298 00:38:50,761 --> 00:39:00,204 THEY WERE GOING TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. THEY WERE GOING TAD THEIR JOB. >> THIS JOB IS DIFFICULT. 299 00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:06,677 >> DETECTIVE BYERSON THINKS THERE ARE PARTS OF THE AUTHORITIES' CONDUCT IN THIS CASE THAT HE WOULD HAVE CHANGED 300 00:39:06,744 --> 00:39:13,584 IF HE COULD. HOW 911 DISPATCHERS RESPONDED TO CARLOS GUTIERREZ AND HOW QUICKLY THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PD WENT 301 00:39:13,651 --> 00:39:20,591 PUBLIC WITH THE MURDER-SUICIDE THEIRY. >> I DON'T FIND IT HELPFUL TO MAKE A BLANKET STATEMENT ABOUT 302 00:39:20,658 --> 00:39:26,597 WHAT WE THINK IT IS. IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT IT TURNS OUT TO BE. >> WAS JUSTICE SERVED IN THIS 303 00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:30,568 CASE? >> IT DEPENDS ON WHAT JUSTICE IS, RIGHT? YOU'RE NEVER BRINGING BACK THE 304 00:39:30,634 --> 00:39:41,879 TWO LIVES THAT WERE LOST. >> THE DOMINO EFFECT OF TRAGEDY FROM WHAT HAPPENED IS IMMEASURABLE. 305 00:39:41,946 --> 00:39:50,554 >> THOUGH THE TRIAL IS FINALLY FINISHED, WAVES OF GRIEF STILL WASH OVER THE SURVIVING HARGAN FAMILY. 306 00:39:50,621 --> 00:39:58,195 >> IT'S JUST IMMEASURABLE GRIEF. >> AND RIPPLES STILL REVERBERATE IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE THEY TOUCHED. 307 00:39:58,262 --> 00:40:07,938 LIKE PAM'S FORMER NEIGHBOR, TAMI. >> I WAS JUST, JUST DEVASTATED. I MAY NOT, JUST -- I DIDN'T HAVE 308 00:40:08,005 --> 00:40:17,114 ANY WORDS. IT WAS JUST UNBELIEVABLE. >> AND HELEN'S FRIEND ERIN. >> I WAS IN SHOCK. 309 00:40:17,181 --> 00:40:28,125 >> WHO HAD MOVED ABROAD AFTER GRADUATION AND HAD TO HEAR ABOUT HER DEATH FROM US. >> I HAD NO IDEA THAT HAPPENED 310 00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:36,133 TO HER. >> YOU'RE CONVINCED IF HELEN WERE ALIVE TODAY, SHE'D BE ON THE ROAD TO SOME GREAT SUCCESS, 311 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:46,510 SOME GREAT CAREER? >> ABSOLUTELY. SHE'D BE A TRAIL BLAZER. >> HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR FRIEND 312 00:40:46,577 --> 00:40:56,220 HELEN TO BE REMEMBERED? >> FOR BEING KIND AND COMPASSIONATE, DRIVEN AND CARING. 313 00:40:56,287 --> 00:41:03,060 JUST A VERY CARING PERSON.