1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,467 At that time in life, I never would have imagined that 2 00:00:09,467 --> 00:00:10,934 something like this would happen. 3 00:00:12,266 --> 00:00:15,834 It just wasn't a possibility in my world. 4 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:19,233 [Jeff speaking] 5 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:21,634 I've hunted all my life. 6 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:23,734 I know what it looks like when an animal's shot in the head. 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,867 It's a horrifying discovery. 8 00:00:25,867 --> 00:00:27,533 [Tina] They tried to frame it like 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,867 a robbery so you wouldn't notice it. 10 00:00:29,867 --> 00:00:32,834 [Jacob speaking] 11 00:00:35,467 --> 00:00:39,000 Layers of dark secrets leaves this soccer mom's murder a mystery. 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,433 [Buddy] There's no evidence. 13 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:43,367 -We have nothing. -Somebody has to know something. 14 00:00:43,367 --> 00:00:46,967 It's multiple stories, ever changing. 15 00:00:46,967 --> 00:00:50,033 I thought everything she said was a lie. 16 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:54,734 -Why are you testifying today? -Because it needs to be said. 17 00:00:57,066 --> 00:00:58,600 [theme music playing] 18 00:01:06,767 --> 00:01:09,400 [theme music continues] 19 00:01:18,667 --> 00:01:20,133 [theme music fades] 20 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,100 [creaking] 21 00:01:26,567 --> 00:01:29,533 When we learned about an arrest in a 20-year-old murder of 22 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,967 a soccer mom at People, we were curious 23 00:01:31,967 --> 00:01:34,233 to find out more. 24 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:36,667 And what we learned is that not only was a family left 25 00:01:36,667 --> 00:01:40,367 shattered, but perhaps more surprising was how divided 26 00:01:40,367 --> 00:01:43,133 they were over who was being held responsible. 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,333 [engine whizzing] 28 00:01:49,333 --> 00:01:53,033 [Corin] In 1992, Sherri Panzer was a Navy air traffic controller 29 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:56,333 living in Bermuda with her two-year-old son, Jacob. 30 00:01:57,567 --> 00:02:03,300 Bermuda is where I have a lot of my first memories. 31 00:02:05,667 --> 00:02:08,467 We lived on base, it was just my mom and I. 32 00:02:08,467 --> 00:02:10,867 She always had a smile on her face, she was always 33 00:02:10,867 --> 00:02:13,867 laughing and dancing, there was always music in our house. 34 00:02:13,867 --> 00:02:16,934 And I was definitely a mama's boy, I will say that, 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,467 a thousand percent. 36 00:02:19,667 --> 00:02:22,934 [Tina] My sister Sherri and I were about 18 months apart, 37 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,467 and best friends. 38 00:02:24,467 --> 00:02:27,166 The year I graduated, I joined the Navy. 39 00:02:27,166 --> 00:02:30,634 The following year, Sherri joined the Navy. 40 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:34,834 [Tina, archive] This is the good old Panzer family tradition. 41 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:36,834 [Tina] Sherri and I had each other's back. 42 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:37,867 [archive] Kick it up higher! 43 00:02:38,867 --> 00:02:42,934 We were kind of inseparable, the two of us. 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,567 Hit it, Tina! 45 00:02:44,567 --> 00:02:46,133 Syke! 46 00:02:47,166 --> 00:02:49,700 [Tina] She had a heart like people don't have. 47 00:02:54,667 --> 00:02:57,567 [Nick] While stationed in Bermuda, Sherri meets 29-year-old fellow 48 00:02:57,567 --> 00:02:59,634 Navy Petty Officer Greg Malarik. 49 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,400 They connect over both being single parents. 50 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:05,166 [Corin] Greg's son, Greg Jr., and Jacob 51 00:03:05,166 --> 00:03:07,367 are just a few months apart in age. 52 00:03:07,367 --> 00:03:09,567 And although Sherri and Greg are both in the military, 53 00:03:09,567 --> 00:03:13,367 he didn't seem like your typical military man. 54 00:03:13,367 --> 00:03:14,967 [Jacob] Greg played guitar. He was in a rock band. 55 00:03:14,967 --> 00:03:17,100 He had a motorcycle, and I remember him picking me 56 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:19,266 up from daycare and taking me fishing. 57 00:03:19,266 --> 00:03:22,533 I remember him teaching me to ride a bike for the first time. 58 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,100 So not only did my mom see, like, a guy that she could have 59 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:30,767 fun with, She also saw somebody that cared for her son. 60 00:03:30,767 --> 00:03:33,433 She said, "Greg's the most wonderful man." 61 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:34,867 Sherri loved Greg. 62 00:03:34,867 --> 00:03:38,066 And Sherri was very protective over little Greg. 63 00:03:38,066 --> 00:03:41,266 And he became her son. And that was his mama. 64 00:03:41,266 --> 00:03:43,767 [Jacob] Little Greg and I would go outside and play together. 65 00:03:43,767 --> 00:03:46,100 And there's like a built-in best friend who is 66 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:47,200 there with you. 67 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,100 We always had each other's back, just like brothers. 68 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,634 And then when it became a reality, 69 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:54,233 we were pretty excited about it. 70 00:03:56,867 --> 00:03:59,934 Two years after meeting in 1994, Greg and Sherri got 71 00:04:00,066 --> 00:04:03,133 married at Sherri's family home in Augusta, Kansas. 72 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,667 [Jacob] My dad bought into the dream with my mom of having a big 73 00:04:07,667 --> 00:04:09,266 family and, you know, the Brady Bunch. 74 00:04:09,266 --> 00:04:12,767 And not long after, we moved to Cantonment, Florida, which is 75 00:04:12,767 --> 00:04:16,333 on the outskirts of Pensacola, a pretty big military town. 76 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,533 And by 2000, it wasn't just little Greg and myself, 77 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,433 but there were five of us kids. 78 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,867 [Sherri, archive] Let me get a picture of the cake. 79 00:04:26,867 --> 00:04:30,667 [Jacob] At that time, Greg and myself are 10. 80 00:04:30,667 --> 00:04:32,266 [Sherri, archive] Blow out the candles. 81 00:04:32,266 --> 00:04:37,634 [Jacob] And then you have Jamie, who's six, Jay who's four, 82 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:39,634 and then Tera would be two or three. 83 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:42,867 [Tera] At that time, I was very young 84 00:04:42,867 --> 00:04:45,867 but I know that dad was always 85 00:04:45,867 --> 00:04:49,600 trying to find ways to connect with us, 86 00:04:50,367 --> 00:04:52,567 and with so many kids, the interests are very, very 87 00:04:52,567 --> 00:04:57,266 different, but he really tried. -[Sherri, archive] I love you. 88 00:04:57,266 --> 00:05:02,333 -And mom was super mom. -[Tina] Sherri was awesome. 89 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,166 She had meals prepared like a month in advance. 90 00:05:05,166 --> 00:05:06,667 She had the grocery shopping down. 91 00:05:06,667 --> 00:05:09,734 She had the schedule for who to take to soccer, at what time to 92 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,800 pick up soccer. She could juggle it all. 93 00:05:15,667 --> 00:05:17,467 [Nick] Sherri's sister and brother-in-law, 94 00:05:17,467 --> 00:05:20,467 Tina and Jeff, are also in the Navy, and on Friday, 95 00:05:20,467 --> 00:05:24,033 September 21, 2001, they have plans to attend 96 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:25,567 the Navy's khaki ball. 97 00:05:26,867 --> 00:05:29,000 [Jeff] Our two youngest were going to spend the night with 98 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,066 Sherri and Greg. 99 00:05:30,066 --> 00:05:35,000 Tina and I dropped the kids off roughly around 6:30. 100 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,100 Sherri was not home. 101 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:38,000 She was picking the kids up from a soccer practice. 102 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,867 As we pulled up in the very back of the yard, 103 00:05:41,867 --> 00:05:43,333 straight through the gate, 104 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:48,166 Greg was working on Sherri's van, because Sherri had taken 105 00:05:48,166 --> 00:05:50,266 the Ford Festiva to pick the kids up, 106 00:05:50,266 --> 00:05:53,734 so we just kind of waved, kissed the kids goodbye. 107 00:05:57,467 --> 00:05:59,567 We head to the Khaki Ball. 108 00:05:59,567 --> 00:06:03,867 We had a good time, and we get home about 10:30. 109 00:06:03,867 --> 00:06:05,266 Fall asleep kind of quick. 110 00:06:05,266 --> 00:06:07,367 [phone ringing] 111 00:06:07,367 --> 00:06:08,867 11:06, Greg calls. 112 00:06:08,867 --> 00:06:10,934 [phone ringing] 113 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,066 Asks if we've seen Sherri. Tina's like, "What do you mean?" 114 00:06:14,066 --> 00:06:17,667 And he said that earlier that night, she left, and she hadn't 115 00:06:17,667 --> 00:06:21,000 come home yet. Tina said, "Where'd she go?" 116 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,767 Greg said that she had to go shopping. 117 00:06:22,767 --> 00:06:24,834 She was going for milk. 118 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:27,600 She'd never just left the house and not come back. 119 00:06:28,567 --> 00:06:31,867 Tina said, "Hold on, I'll come over, and I'll stay 120 00:06:31,867 --> 00:06:33,333 with the kids, and you can go look." 121 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,000 He says, "Oh, no, I'm gonna make some phone calls." 122 00:06:37,567 --> 00:06:39,133 [phone ringing] 123 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,133 Jeff and Tina fall back asleep that night, 124 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,467 but then around 6:00 AM, Greg calls again, 125 00:06:43,467 --> 00:06:45,734 and he sounds frantic. 126 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,433 [Tina] Greg says she didn't come home. 127 00:06:48,867 --> 00:06:50,834 That is not a good sign. 128 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,567 [Jeff] I knew without a shadow of a doubt something's wrong. 129 00:06:53,567 --> 00:06:57,767 I get up, I start putting clothes on, and Tina's on 130 00:06:57,767 --> 00:07:00,367 the phone, and she's making phone calls. 131 00:07:00,367 --> 00:07:03,233 [Tina] I don't know what's going on. She wouldn't have disappeared. 132 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:07,166 This doesn't happen with, you know, a 4.0 sailor. 133 00:07:07,166 --> 00:07:09,066 This doesn't happen. 134 00:07:09,066 --> 00:07:11,000 [Jeff] I was in a hurry to leave the house. 135 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,767 I was going on the assumption that she went to 136 00:07:12,767 --> 00:07:14,233 the store to buy milk. 137 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:16,567 There's not too many grocery stores up in that area. 138 00:07:16,567 --> 00:07:19,734 I had this mindset that she's OK, I just got to find out 139 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:20,667 where her van is. 140 00:07:20,667 --> 00:07:22,700 If I find her van, I'm gonna find her. 141 00:07:24,667 --> 00:07:27,033 So it's like 6:30 in the morning. 142 00:07:29,166 --> 00:07:31,834 When I get in Cantonment, the first... 143 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:35,667 real store I come to is the Winn-Dixie, two miles 144 00:07:35,667 --> 00:07:36,900 from our house. 145 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,433 There's a van that matches her van. 146 00:07:42,767 --> 00:07:46,767 And so I pull in behind it. I walk up to the van. 147 00:07:46,767 --> 00:07:49,467 I see blood through the window. 148 00:07:49,467 --> 00:07:52,300 And I look over, and there's Sherri. 149 00:07:53,266 --> 00:07:55,667 And I'm beating on the window, screaming her name, 150 00:07:55,667 --> 00:07:56,700 "Sherri, Sherri!" 151 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:59,233 I'm trying to get the door open, and it's locked. 152 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:02,133 I ran around. The driver's door's unlocked. 153 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,233 And I reach in, and I'm shaking her. 154 00:08:05,367 --> 00:08:07,533 And I touched her arm, and she was cold. 155 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:15,533 [phone ringing] 156 00:08:24,667 --> 00:08:26,467 She's not moving. She's not breathing. 157 00:08:26,467 --> 00:08:28,266 I've hunted all my life. 158 00:08:28,266 --> 00:08:31,767 I saw the blood coming out of her mouth, no pulse. 159 00:08:31,767 --> 00:08:33,266 You know what it looks like 160 00:08:33,266 --> 00:08:34,734 when an animal's shot in the head. 161 00:08:43,066 --> 00:08:44,433 [phone ringing] 162 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,900 [Tina] I get a call from EMS 163 00:08:49,567 --> 00:08:52,734 and they say, "We are in the Winn-Dixie parking lot 164 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,266 with your husband." 165 00:08:54,266 --> 00:08:59,500 I get Michael, my oldest son, and we drive to the Winn-Dixie 166 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:02,266 and as I pull up, 167 00:09:02,266 --> 00:09:06,100 I see my husband just shaking his head crying, "No." 168 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:09,266 And he hugs me, and he apologizes, 169 00:09:09,266 --> 00:09:10,834 "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." 170 00:09:23,967 --> 00:09:27,567 My son, Michael, he's like, "Where's Aunt Sherri?" 171 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:31,867 I said, "She's in her car." He sees the ambulance. 172 00:09:31,867 --> 00:09:34,533 He says, "Why aren't they helping her?" 173 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,700 I'm like, "Oh, Mijo... 174 00:09:37,467 --> 00:09:38,400 Aunt Sherri's gone." 175 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,934 His body just rocked and rocked and rocked. 176 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,600 He cried so hard. That was his other mother. 177 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,400 How could this happen to her? 178 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:59,567 [Det. Nesmith] When I got to the crime scene, I saw a red van surrounded by 179 00:09:59,567 --> 00:10:00,800 crime scene tape. 180 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,934 I walked over and was able to see through the driver's door. 181 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,634 A small stature, long hair, female, identified as 182 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:15,533 Sherri Malarik, had been pushed unnaturally into the floorboard 183 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,700 with her head and legs in a very weird form. 184 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:24,734 I walked around to where the passenger door was open. 185 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,634 I did see at least one gunshot wound in her head. 186 00:10:29,867 --> 00:10:31,133 It was... 187 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,233 bad. 188 00:10:33,233 --> 00:10:38,934 And because of the dried blood trails on her face and inside 189 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,166 the van, I knew this was not a fresh body. 190 00:10:44,166 --> 00:10:47,000 I also noticed there was no blood on the pavement. 191 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,867 Now, because a head wound bleeds a lot, if Sherri was 192 00:10:50,867 --> 00:10:53,367 shot on sight at the Winn-Dixie, blood would 193 00:10:53,367 --> 00:10:56,133 have seeped out of the car onto the pavement. 194 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,734 So this is not the crime scene. 195 00:11:00,266 --> 00:11:03,467 While still at the scene, Detective Nesmith asks Jeff 196 00:11:03,467 --> 00:11:08,333 and Tina to walk him through what happened the night before. 197 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,934 [children laughing] 198 00:11:09,934 --> 00:11:14,667 [Det. Nesmith] They said that they planned for a while that Sherri would have 199 00:11:14,667 --> 00:11:18,100 a big sleepover for the kids, because they had this function 200 00:11:18,100 --> 00:11:20,000 on the base that they had to go to. 201 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,867 And when Tina and Jeff got back to their house, they went to 202 00:11:23,867 --> 00:11:26,734 bed and got a call. 203 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,934 And Greg had said that Sherri had went to the store, 204 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,166 and had not returned. 205 00:11:31,467 --> 00:11:36,800 Now, Sherri's purse was not on her person or in the van. 206 00:11:37,867 --> 00:11:40,333 Where's it at? Could have been a robbery. 207 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,567 But if you're robbing somebody, you don't know that person. 208 00:11:43,567 --> 00:11:47,767 So why would you want to shove them into a floorboard? 209 00:11:47,767 --> 00:11:51,667 So the suspect is probably somebody that knew the victim 210 00:11:51,667 --> 00:11:57,367 and was concealing the body from anybody seeing it. 211 00:11:57,367 --> 00:11:59,667 The investigators started asking me, "Does Sherri have 212 00:11:59,667 --> 00:12:01,467 any enemies?" No. 213 00:12:01,467 --> 00:12:04,166 Everybody loves her. Everybody loves Sherri. 214 00:12:04,166 --> 00:12:06,367 [Det. Nesmith] I said, "Give me your opinions. 215 00:12:06,367 --> 00:12:08,700 Do you think Greg could have done this?" 216 00:12:09,767 --> 00:12:10,800 [Jeff] I was like, "No, 217 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,133 "I mean, no, he wouldn't do something like that. 218 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,000 "I don't think he was capable 219 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:18,133 of killing her." 220 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:24,533 [Tina] When Buddy Nesmith asked if Greg was capable of killing my sister, 221 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,767 I started having this internal struggle, because 222 00:12:27,767 --> 00:12:31,767 Sherri confided in me something that she didn't want me to tell. 223 00:12:31,767 --> 00:12:34,333 She's not here, do I still have to keep that confidence? 224 00:12:35,367 --> 00:12:36,900 You know what, she's dead. 225 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,934 So I tell him everything Sherri told me. 226 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,767 Tina tells Detective Nesmith Sherri believed that 227 00:12:44,767 --> 00:12:48,133 her husband was having an affair with Jennifer Spohn, 228 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,867 who was also in the Navy. 229 00:12:50,867 --> 00:12:54,367 [Tina] She'd go to see Greg at work, and Jennifer was in there. 230 00:12:54,367 --> 00:12:57,166 And they were a little bit closer than maybe 231 00:12:57,166 --> 00:12:59,033 co-workers should be. 232 00:13:00,967 --> 00:13:04,767 Tina felt very strongly something's amiss, so now 233 00:13:04,767 --> 00:13:06,367 I want to talk to Greg. 234 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:11,266 [Nick] After speaking with Detective Nesmith, Tina is escorted to 235 00:13:11,266 --> 00:13:13,500 the Malarik home by sheriff's deputies. 236 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:18,767 [Corin] Greg is then taken in for questioning, and Tina has to do 237 00:13:18,767 --> 00:13:21,066 the unthinkable, and break the news to the children, 238 00:13:21,066 --> 00:13:24,066 who still do not know that their mother and aunt 239 00:13:24,066 --> 00:13:25,867 is not returning home. 240 00:13:25,867 --> 00:13:28,567 [Jacob] I remember my Aunt Tina 241 00:13:28,567 --> 00:13:33,834 saying, "If you could be anywhere, what would be 242 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:35,133 the best place to be?" 243 00:13:37,867 --> 00:13:43,133 She continued on and said, "You know, heaven 244 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,100 "is the best place you can be, and that mom is 245 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:46,700 in heaven with Jesus." 246 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,467 I didn't really know what to think, what to say. 247 00:13:58,467 --> 00:14:01,033 That was something I never would have imagined. 248 00:14:03,567 --> 00:14:06,700 Then the tears start flowing. Everybody's crying. 249 00:14:07,667 --> 00:14:10,233 Tera doesn't understand. She's three. 250 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,367 I wish I had more concrete memories. 251 00:14:13,367 --> 00:14:15,634 It bothers me a lot that I don't. 252 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:20,667 I just knew my mom's there, and then, all of a sudden, 253 00:14:20,667 --> 00:14:22,533 she's gone. -[Sherri, archive] Tera. 254 00:14:23,667 --> 00:14:25,266 Hi, baby doll. 255 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,467 [Nick] Meanwhile, at the sheriff's office, Detective Nesmith sits 256 00:14:31,467 --> 00:14:34,166 down with Greg to get his version of events from 257 00:14:34,166 --> 00:14:35,400 the day before. 258 00:14:36,967 --> 00:14:39,767 Greg tells me he was retired military, 259 00:14:39,767 --> 00:14:43,500 but he worked at the base as a private contractor. 260 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,100 Greg said he leaves work at two something in the afternoon. 261 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:52,200 He's driving the van. The van is overheating. 262 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,000 He comes home, drives the van to the backyard. 263 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 He does not have power out there, and he runs a generator. 264 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,600 [generator rumbling] 265 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:05,400 And he's working on the van. 266 00:15:07,867 --> 00:15:10,133 [Amy] Sherri picks up the boys from soccer. 267 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,634 He was in the back working on his car. 268 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:17,567 And Sherri came outside about 7:30, said she was going 269 00:15:17,567 --> 00:15:18,600 to the store. 270 00:15:21,767 --> 00:15:24,667 [Nick] But then Greg adds an interesting detail. 271 00:15:24,667 --> 00:15:28,066 He says an unexpected guest stopped by the Malarik house 272 00:15:28,066 --> 00:15:29,166 around 9:00 PM. 273 00:15:29,166 --> 00:15:31,300 -[doorbell rings] -[knocking] 274 00:15:32,567 --> 00:15:36,834 [Det. Nesmith] He brought it up that that night, his coworker, 275 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:39,233 Jennifer, brought his lawnmower back. 276 00:15:41,767 --> 00:15:45,066 Tina told me that Greg took up an affair with Jennifer. 277 00:15:45,066 --> 00:15:47,533 But I didn't bring it up. 278 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,433 Because in the interview, you keep a lot of stuff close 279 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:53,033 to the chest, play it out, see where it goes. 280 00:15:55,867 --> 00:15:58,567 Greg never said that he was having an affair. 281 00:15:58,567 --> 00:16:02,000 [Det. Nesmith] But in Greg's sheet that I wrote my notes on, 282 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,767 girlfriend shows up at house, circle, circle, because this 283 00:16:05,767 --> 00:16:08,467 now is a problem. Why is she there? 284 00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,300 And so that night, I sat down with Jennifer Spohn. 285 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:16,767 Jennifer was straightforward. 286 00:16:16,767 --> 00:16:20,467 She said, Sherri, Greg, and Jennifer all work in 287 00:16:20,467 --> 00:16:23,100 the same traffic control center. 288 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:25,667 [indistinct radio chatter] 289 00:16:25,667 --> 00:16:27,634 We asked, "Could he have been involved?" 290 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:30,033 And she said, "There's just no way. 291 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:32,166 "Greg's a loving man. He loves his family. 292 00:16:32,166 --> 00:16:33,600 He loves his kids." 293 00:16:34,967 --> 00:16:40,467 The red flag comes when Jennifer goes one step beyond, 294 00:16:40,467 --> 00:16:42,266 and says they have an affair, 295 00:16:42,266 --> 00:16:45,133 and starts talking all about it. 296 00:16:46,166 --> 00:16:48,266 Jennifer told me that they were both lonely. 297 00:16:48,266 --> 00:16:49,367 They hit it off. 298 00:16:49,367 --> 00:16:53,533 She admitted where and what hotel they would go to. 299 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:57,467 And she admitted, "You're going to find my fingerprints in 300 00:16:57,467 --> 00:17:00,734 the van, because we had sex in there." 301 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,133 [Nick] Though Jennifer seemed pretty straightforward about 302 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,767 the affair, there's still one part of her story 303 00:17:05,767 --> 00:17:07,100 that doesn't add up. 304 00:17:07,100 --> 00:17:08,533 -[doorbell rings] -[knocking] 305 00:17:08,533 --> 00:17:11,467 [Det. Nesmith] What are you doing over there that time of night just to 306 00:17:11,467 --> 00:17:13,266 bring a lawnmower when a lawnmower can be brought 307 00:17:13,266 --> 00:17:14,600 during the day? 308 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:20,333 At this point, there's no doubt she knows something. 309 00:17:26,567 --> 00:17:30,367 Sherri's autopsy reveals the 34-year-old mother of five 310 00:17:30,367 --> 00:17:34,567 has suffered from two fatal gunshot wounds to the head. 311 00:17:34,567 --> 00:17:39,033 [Amy] There's one shell casing found from a .25 caliber firearm 312 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:40,033 in her clothing. 313 00:17:40,033 --> 00:17:42,233 The second shell casing was never located. 314 00:17:44,467 --> 00:17:47,533 With each passing day, Tina and Jeff grow more 315 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,133 suspicious of Greg, and they speak 316 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,433 with investigators. 317 00:17:51,367 --> 00:17:54,634 [Tina] Sherri was confiding that Greg's cheating, 318 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:57,567 and he's talking about divorce. 319 00:17:57,567 --> 00:18:01,400 And she doesn't want to put her kids through a divorce. 320 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,467 [Amy] Tina felt like Greg didn't want to be in the marriage anymore 321 00:18:05,467 --> 00:18:09,467 and probably resented Sherri a little bit for being there. 322 00:18:09,467 --> 00:18:11,934 And that really got the investigators rolling. 323 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,200 My next thought was, OK, I want to go talk to the kids. 324 00:18:26,667 --> 00:18:31,266 I can still hear it in my little kid voice like 325 00:18:31,266 --> 00:18:35,700 how I was nervous to speak. I was scared to speak. 326 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,934 [Amy] All of these kids remember her going out the back door. 327 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,900 No one remembers her coming back. 328 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:33,333 But the children remembered Greg coming back through 329 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,834 the house, and this was about eight o'clock. 330 00:19:41,667 --> 00:19:43,867 [Jacob] So he walks in his bedroom, closes the door, 331 00:19:43,867 --> 00:19:47,734 and then we hear the shower turn on in the master bathroom. 332 00:19:51,467 --> 00:19:53,834 [Nick] For the next hour, the kids continue playing. 333 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:55,834 -[doorbell rings] -[knocking] 334 00:19:57,767 --> 00:20:00,400 At 9:00 PM, they hear a knock on the door. 335 00:20:04,266 --> 00:20:07,600 Greg Jr. answers it and sees Jennifer Spohn. 336 00:20:33,166 --> 00:20:37,567 Greg Jr. and Jacob also tell authorities something that 337 00:20:37,567 --> 00:20:39,367 piques their interest. 338 00:20:39,367 --> 00:20:43,567 They tell them that just a few months before, their dad showed 339 00:20:43,567 --> 00:20:46,600 them a small handgun that he kept in the shed. 340 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,266 [Nick] After interviewing the kids, investigators believe Sherri 341 00:20:56,266 --> 00:20:59,667 may have been shot in the van, right in her own backyard with 342 00:20:59,667 --> 00:21:01,600 a .25 caliber handgun. 343 00:21:02,467 --> 00:21:06,433 [Det. Nesmith] We decided to do a search warrant, and we go out to 344 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:10,634 the shed, searching for any evidence of a .25. 345 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:13,133 And there's nothing there. 346 00:21:14,166 --> 00:21:18,367 And then we go out to where the van could have been parked. 347 00:21:18,367 --> 00:21:22,767 I think some blood did seep out of that car, had to, that much. 348 00:21:22,767 --> 00:21:27,467 We noticed the dirt shuffle, but I couldn't say that what 349 00:21:27,467 --> 00:21:29,066 I saw was where the blood was. 350 00:21:29,066 --> 00:21:33,166 And we didn't have any forensic tests they have today 351 00:21:33,166 --> 00:21:35,100 back then either. 352 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,734 [Nick] However, inside the Malarik home, investigators discover 353 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,233 a key piece of evidence tucked inside a bedroom drawer. 354 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:46,033 [Det. Nesmith] Nobody's more surprised than we are when we find Sherri's 355 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:50,967 purse with her credit cards and her checkbook. 356 00:21:50,967 --> 00:21:53,634 I don't know a woman in the world that goes to a store 357 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,233 without a purse or a wallet. Now, that's just bottom line. 358 00:21:59,567 --> 00:22:03,033 About two weeks after Sherri's murder, Detective Nesmith 359 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:05,333 brings Greg back in for questioning. 360 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:08,867 [Det. Nesmith] We asked him, "Why did you harm your wife?" 361 00:22:08,867 --> 00:22:11,133 Wouldn't say anything. He just sat there. 362 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,000 And he lawyered up on us. 363 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,834 That's the last time I talked to him. 364 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:18,834 [Nick] Greg invokes his right to counsel, and Jennifer follows 365 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:20,066 suit soon after. 366 00:22:20,066 --> 00:22:23,133 And with no hard evidence connecting Greg or Jennifer to 367 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,367 Sherri's murder, investigators are 368 00:22:25,367 --> 00:22:26,834 at a standstill. 369 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:31,166 I fully believe that night, Sherri's got to be conned to 370 00:22:31,166 --> 00:22:32,767 come out there for something. 371 00:22:32,767 --> 00:22:35,266 It's all set up with the generator, 372 00:22:35,266 --> 00:22:37,467 the car in the back. 373 00:22:37,467 --> 00:22:41,166 She's shot twice with a gun we can't find, shoved down into 374 00:22:41,166 --> 00:22:45,033 a passenger floorboard, transported up the street. 375 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:46,266 You add it all up, the husband cannot 376 00:22:46,266 --> 00:22:49,767 be eliminated, but I can't make a case on it. 377 00:22:49,767 --> 00:22:52,333 And so we couldn't move forward. 378 00:22:56,767 --> 00:22:58,500 [somber music playing] 379 00:23:00,667 --> 00:23:03,867 [Jacob] Losing my mom was a trauma for myself and for little Greg. 380 00:23:03,867 --> 00:23:07,266 A little bit for Jamie, but for Jay and Tera, 381 00:23:07,266 --> 00:23:11,100 the younger two, they were so young, they didn't actually 382 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,166 hurt and have the pain from it. 383 00:23:15,166 --> 00:23:18,500 There would be investigators pop up kind of periodically 384 00:23:19,467 --> 00:23:20,467 over the years. 385 00:23:20,467 --> 00:23:24,567 And as time goes on, I started to believe that 386 00:23:24,567 --> 00:23:26,767 Greg killed my mom. 387 00:23:26,767 --> 00:23:28,266 I talked to my aunts and uncles. 388 00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:30,333 I talked to my grandma and grandpa on 389 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,367 my biological dad's side. 390 00:23:32,367 --> 00:23:36,133 And they wanted to adopt me for years 391 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,033 and tried to talk me into it. 392 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:42,000 But at the end of the day, I couldn't leave my siblings. 393 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,634 And I felt like it was my responsibility to protect 394 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:47,100 and care for them. 395 00:23:47,100 --> 00:23:50,734 [news broadcast] Malarik's family is now offering $4,000 of their own 396 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,033 money, and that's in addition to a Crime Stopper reward of up 397 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:56,100 to $1,000 for information leading to 398 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:57,433 an arrest and conviction. 399 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:03,266 [Det. Nesmith] I worked this case from '01 to '06, 400 00:24:03,266 --> 00:24:05,100 but we were a dead end. 401 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:06,166 There's no evidence. 402 00:24:06,166 --> 00:24:11,266 Unless Jennifer talks, we have nothing. 403 00:24:11,266 --> 00:24:14,000 But will she do it? Will she do it? 404 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,233 Somebody has to know something. 405 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:20,266 Somebody somewhere out there would not just help us, 406 00:24:20,266 --> 00:24:21,634 but her children. 407 00:24:23,266 --> 00:24:25,834 Somebody out there, and we're begging and pleading. 408 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:30,967 There was never, ever, ever, ever any doubt in my mind 409 00:24:30,967 --> 00:24:31,900 who did it. 410 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:36,000 I knew it was Greg, but Greg had the kids. 411 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,400 And you just kind of dealt with it to keep the kids close. 412 00:24:43,166 --> 00:24:46,166 But it didn't matter. 413 00:24:46,166 --> 00:24:48,700 He pulled the children from everyone. 414 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:58,467 [Jacob] I remember in high school, that was kind of the first time 415 00:24:58,467 --> 00:25:01,066 where I said nothing's gonna happen with this. 416 00:25:01,066 --> 00:25:03,233 Like, I kind of gave up. 417 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:06,300 I expected nothing to come in the future. 418 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:08,900 [school bell ringing] 419 00:25:10,166 --> 00:25:14,266 [Nick] By 2010, Jennifer and Greg's relationship had gone public. 420 00:25:14,266 --> 00:25:16,166 She and her two kids even moved in with him. 421 00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:20,033 But the living situation didn't last long. 422 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:24,867 My point of view was that Jennifer couldn't handle 423 00:25:24,867 --> 00:25:26,967 Jamie and Jay. 424 00:25:26,967 --> 00:25:29,066 She didn't like the way they talked. 425 00:25:29,066 --> 00:25:31,934 She didn't like the way they acted. 426 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,033 I did think a couple of times that Jennifer wanted to 427 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:37,634 replace my mom. 428 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:41,300 And when she moved out, I thought, "Good." 429 00:25:44,767 --> 00:25:46,667 Over the years, investigators would try to give 430 00:25:46,667 --> 00:25:48,834 me hope for something, but it would always 431 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,100 fall through, and it was crushing. 432 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:55,266 I just had to come to a realization that maybe 433 00:25:55,266 --> 00:25:57,300 he literally just got away with murder. 434 00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:03,667 In 2014, the Navy's Criminal Investigation Service, 435 00:26:03,667 --> 00:26:06,934 NCIS, takes over Sherri's case. 436 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,634 [Amy] The Navy is a big part of this community. 437 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,934 They did take an interest in this case because the victim 438 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,233 and Jennifer were Navy, and Greg was also employed by 439 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:19,567 Department of Defense, and worked on base. 440 00:26:19,567 --> 00:26:24,667 [Tina] The NCIS investigator went through mountains of work 441 00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:28,300 and handed it over to the State Attorney's Office. 442 00:26:31,166 --> 00:26:33,734 [Amy] Ultimately, when it came down to it, many people have 443 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,767 been re-interviewed. 444 00:26:34,767 --> 00:26:37,467 But we were in the exact same place, really, 445 00:26:37,467 --> 00:26:39,734 that the investigators had been in 2001, 446 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,533 which is, Jennifer knows something. 447 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,467 We have to get information from Jennifer. 448 00:26:44,467 --> 00:26:47,567 At that point, we did know that she was not local anymore. 449 00:26:47,567 --> 00:26:50,133 She lived in Illinois. 450 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:55,133 The strategy was to arrest Greg first, 451 00:26:55,967 --> 00:26:59,266 based on probable cause, so that she would know he'd been 452 00:26:59,266 --> 00:27:02,233 arrested, and charged with second-degree murder. 453 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:05,266 The hope was that if we had him arrested, she would be more 454 00:27:05,266 --> 00:27:09,667 inclined to talk out of the fear that Greg would tell 455 00:27:09,667 --> 00:27:12,700 the investigators Jennifer knew something about the case. 456 00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:18,467 Armed with circumstantial evidence, on March 6th, 2020, 457 00:27:18,467 --> 00:27:22,533 19 years after Sherri Malarik was shot to death, 458 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,233 authorities arrest her husband Greg on probable cause for 459 00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:27,467 her murder at his home in Cantonment, Florida. 460 00:27:27,467 --> 00:27:31,000 You're afraid to get your hopes up because nothing's ever 461 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,800 happened, but he's been arrested. 462 00:27:41,166 --> 00:27:43,667 The body of Sherri Malarik was found inside a van in 2001. 463 00:27:43,667 --> 00:27:47,867 Now nearly 19 years later, an arrest for her murder has 464 00:27:47,867 --> 00:27:49,133 finally been made. 465 00:27:49,133 --> 00:27:52,767 [Tera] When dad was arrested for my mom's murder, I just fell on 466 00:27:52,767 --> 00:27:57,233 the ground and was crying my eyeballs out. 467 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,667 I absolutely 100% didn't believe it. 468 00:27:59,667 --> 00:28:03,834 And it was one of the most devastating points in my life. 469 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:06,567 [Jacob] I suspected Greg killed my mom. 470 00:28:06,567 --> 00:28:08,033 But I didn't expect this to happen. 471 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:09,467 It caught me off guard. 472 00:28:09,467 --> 00:28:13,033 I didn't realize that there was a plan. 473 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,367 [Amy] The day after Greg's arrest, investigators went to Illinois. 474 00:28:17,367 --> 00:28:21,867 We were authorized to give Jennifer full immunity 475 00:28:21,867 --> 00:28:24,734 for her cooperation. 476 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,600 And Jennifer finally did open up. 477 00:29:39,166 --> 00:29:40,834 -[doorbell rings] -[knocking] 478 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:42,400 [creaking] 479 00:29:56,066 --> 00:29:59,066 [Amy] She said that she stood outside and talked with him for 480 00:29:59,066 --> 00:30:01,433 a few minutes. They shared a kiss. 481 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,033 She got back in her car and left. 482 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,533 When she first disclosed her story to investigators in 483 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,000 March of 2020, she didn't talk about the gun. 484 00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:42,567 But then during her deposition, I said, "Is there anything else 485 00:30:42,567 --> 00:30:45,233 "about this case that you haven't told me that 486 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:47,367 you think is really important?" 487 00:30:47,367 --> 00:30:50,834 And that's when she told me that she got rid of the gun. 488 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:54,567 She said she had a bag with some items in it that 489 00:30:54,567 --> 00:30:57,433 Greg had left in the car. 490 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:00,166 She was aware that the gun was in the bag. 491 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:05,033 He told her, "You need to get rid of this stuff." 492 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:09,734 And so she said she just dumped everything over 493 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,467 the side of a bridge. 494 00:31:11,467 --> 00:31:15,367 And I guess, tried to forget all of this for a very, very 495 00:31:15,367 --> 00:31:16,900 long time. 496 00:31:17,467 --> 00:31:20,433 [Nick] With Jennifer's statement, Greg's charges are upgraded 497 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,667 from second to first-degree murder, and he's released on 498 00:31:23,667 --> 00:31:26,100 bond set at $400,000. 499 00:31:27,867 --> 00:31:30,567 The family is divided. 500 00:31:30,567 --> 00:31:36,266 Jeff, Tina, Greg Jr., and Jacob are all happy to see that 501 00:31:36,266 --> 00:31:38,634 Greg Sr. has been arrested. 502 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:42,266 However, the three youngest Malarik children believe in 503 00:31:42,266 --> 00:31:43,600 their father's innocence. 504 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,667 [Tera] Knowing that Jennifer had full immunity made me very angry 505 00:31:48,667 --> 00:31:55,367 because if what you are saying is true, then 506 00:31:55,367 --> 00:31:58,934 you helped and you deserve to go away also. 507 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,333 But I thought everything she said was a lie. 508 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,734 I didn't believe for a minute my dad killed my mom. 509 00:32:08,567 --> 00:32:11,967 [Amy] It's the state's theory that Greg got Sherri 510 00:32:11,967 --> 00:32:14,900 to come outside with him. 511 00:32:16,367 --> 00:32:20,133 Once she was outside, Greg got her to get into the van. 512 00:32:21,867 --> 00:32:24,367 While she was in the passenger seat of the van 513 00:32:24,367 --> 00:32:25,700 in the backyard, 514 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:32,333 he shot her twice in the head and took the van up 515 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,233 to Winn-Dixie. 516 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:36,233 Winn-Dixie is very close to the house. 517 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:37,867 It's a few miles down the road. 518 00:32:37,867 --> 00:32:41,367 So he could take the van up and have Jennifer bring him 519 00:32:41,367 --> 00:32:44,900 back and really be gone from the house 10 or 12 minutes. 520 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,667 In June 2022, Greg's trial begins, and Jennifer Spohn is 521 00:32:52,667 --> 00:32:55,300 the prosecution's star witness. 522 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000 However, the defense sees a way to take her testimony 523 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,367 and exploit it in their favor. 524 00:33:10,367 --> 00:33:12,867 I didn't really believe Jennifer Spohn was telling 525 00:33:12,867 --> 00:33:15,166 the truth at all. 526 00:33:15,166 --> 00:33:20,533 She's there to say Greg Malarik killed his wife 527 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,467 when she supposedly is the innocent tagalong in 528 00:33:24,467 --> 00:33:27,133 a masterful murder by Greg Malarik. 529 00:33:29,266 --> 00:33:31,266 Jennifer is a mistress. 530 00:33:31,266 --> 00:33:35,233 We believe she wanted Sherri's life. 531 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:36,967 So Jennifer kills Sherri. 532 00:33:36,967 --> 00:33:39,834 And she brings over this lawnmower because she's 533 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:41,700 concerned someone may see her in the area. 534 00:33:42,967 --> 00:33:46,066 And because of that, I said, "There's no way you can find 535 00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:48,634 Greg guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." 536 00:33:51,867 --> 00:33:54,367 [Corin] The trial lasts for five days. 537 00:33:54,367 --> 00:33:58,934 And after four hours of jury deliberation, there were two 538 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,634 holdouts in the jury who believed that 539 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:03,233 Greg was innocent. 540 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:07,800 And to everyone's bewilderment, the judge declares a mistrial. 541 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,934 [Jeff] I couldn't believe it. I'm thinking, how or what? 542 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,233 I mean, are you guys even paying attention to 543 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:16,033 what we saw? 544 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:19,634 [Amy] The jury's hang up was Jennifer and her involvement 545 00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:21,266 and her immunity. 546 00:34:21,266 --> 00:34:25,033 It's a little disappointing, but it was better than 547 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:26,166 not guilty. 548 00:34:26,166 --> 00:34:29,367 So we'll take the deadlock, and we'll do it again. 549 00:34:29,367 --> 00:34:33,567 In October 2023, Greg's second trial begins. 550 00:34:33,567 --> 00:34:35,767 2001. 551 00:34:35,767 --> 00:34:38,233 When Amy did her opening statement, I can't answer for 552 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:39,567 the other jurors, 553 00:34:39,567 --> 00:34:44,000 but for me, it did hit because Sherri was a mother, and I have 554 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,133 children of my own. 555 00:34:45,133 --> 00:34:48,333 But again, you do have to have that open mind and take 556 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,900 everything that's presented to you into consideration. 557 00:34:53,066 --> 00:34:57,734 Both Greg Jr. and Jacob are called as prosecution 558 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,634 witnesses, while Tera is a defense witness. 559 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:05,567 [Jacob] During the second trial, I feel like instead of Greg being on 560 00:35:05,567 --> 00:35:08,400 trial, the rest of our family was on trial. 561 00:35:21,867 --> 00:35:24,867 They wanted to take advantage of mine and Greg's testimony, 562 00:35:24,867 --> 00:35:26,233 being children. 563 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:42,166 From a jury standpoint, after the testimony of 564 00:35:42,166 --> 00:35:45,567 the children, we had to ask, "What was the credibility of it?" 565 00:35:45,567 --> 00:35:48,634 Because over time, kids' memories change. 566 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:52,000 What actually happened, it's hard to say. 567 00:35:59,066 --> 00:36:03,133 [Tera] Sometimes I felt like my dad's defense team was a little 568 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,734 aggressive with my brothers. 569 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,734 But my dad told me that he did not murder mom. 570 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,533 And I believed him. 571 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,266 They can't just say, "Oh, everything just 572 00:36:17,266 --> 00:36:18,800 pointed at him." 573 00:36:22,967 --> 00:36:27,166 I told my part of the truth and how my dad told me 574 00:36:27,166 --> 00:36:28,433 he loved mom. 575 00:36:41,967 --> 00:36:44,367 [Tera] But there's a divide in the family. 576 00:36:44,367 --> 00:36:48,433 Nobody that was on the prosecution side would look 577 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,400 at me or speak to me. 578 00:36:55,867 --> 00:37:00,467 Just like Greg's first trial, Jennifer Spohn is considered 579 00:37:00,467 --> 00:37:02,767 the star witness. 580 00:37:02,767 --> 00:37:06,166 We were zeroed in on Jennifer as a jury because they told us, 581 00:37:06,166 --> 00:37:09,200 "You're gonna hear from her exactly what happened." 582 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,333 I sat there and I listened to everything she had to say. 583 00:37:21,266 --> 00:37:23,867 [Terri] She showed absolutely no emotion on the stand. 584 00:37:23,867 --> 00:37:25,567 She was robotic. 585 00:37:25,567 --> 00:37:27,367 She didn't elaborate on anything. 586 00:37:27,367 --> 00:37:29,133 She was very short with her answers. 587 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,500 And we felt she was scripted. 588 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,166 Ultimately, Jennifer, we just didn't find her as 589 00:37:43,166 --> 00:37:44,567 a credible witness. 590 00:37:45,567 --> 00:37:48,467 After five days of trial, it's again time for the jury 591 00:37:48,467 --> 00:37:49,834 to deliberate. 592 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:56,100 [Tera] I just prayed on it and basically said to God, 593 00:37:56,100 --> 00:38:00,567 "If he did this, then fine, help me through that. 594 00:38:00,567 --> 00:38:03,333 "But if he didn't do this, please do not take 595 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,000 my dad away from me." 596 00:38:07,066 --> 00:38:12,033 The jury got the case late afternoon, 597 00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:15,533 and they were out a long time, almost eight hours. 598 00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:34,233 [Madam Clerk] ...so say we all this 13th day of October 2023. 599 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,567 [Chris] I was shocked. 600 00:38:37,567 --> 00:38:42,667 I look over to Greg, and the look on his face was 601 00:38:42,667 --> 00:38:45,266 even more...shocked. 602 00:38:45,266 --> 00:38:48,266 But the evidence has to be Greg, beyond 603 00:38:48,266 --> 00:38:49,300 a reasonable doubt. 604 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:52,734 If you asked the jurors who found him not guilty, 605 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,634 they're gonna say there was just a lack of evidence. 606 00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:57,734 [Tera] I felt like I could breathe. 607 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,467 I felt relieved that I wasn't going to see dad be 608 00:39:01,467 --> 00:39:03,233 taken away like that. 609 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:05,767 But there's nothing to celebrate. 610 00:39:05,767 --> 00:39:09,667 Mom is still not here, and we still don't know 611 00:39:09,667 --> 00:39:11,133 what happened. 612 00:39:12,967 --> 00:39:15,734 I feel like you're not innocent. 613 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,567 You were found not guilty. There's a difference. 614 00:39:17,567 --> 00:39:20,467 I know what he did, and I believe that that's 615 00:39:20,467 --> 00:39:21,800 what he did. 616 00:39:23,667 --> 00:39:26,133 I think Jennifer could have done it. 617 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,667 Jennifer wanted mom's life 618 00:39:28,667 --> 00:39:31,400 and thought she could get away with it. 619 00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:38,467 I saw the evidence. 620 00:39:38,467 --> 00:39:42,433 Sherri was in the passenger seat, and she is comfortable 621 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:44,166 who's ever in the driver's side. 622 00:39:44,166 --> 00:39:46,400 And that is not Jennifer Spohn. 623 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,400 That's what the evidence says. 624 00:39:54,266 --> 00:39:57,266 [Nick] While some family members hope Greg will confess one day, 625 00:39:57,266 --> 00:40:00,066 Jacob is focused on healing and closing the rift 626 00:40:00,066 --> 00:40:01,300 with his siblings. 627 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,000 We're gonna have to have 628 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,767 real conversation and real understanding of the damage 629 00:40:07,767 --> 00:40:11,033 that was done for us to move forward. 630 00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:13,634 [Nick] In the meantime, all of the Malarik children 631 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:16,166 acknowledge that Sherri loved nothing more than 632 00:40:16,166 --> 00:40:18,433 being their mother. 633 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:22,567 [Sherri, archive] Tera, hi baby doll, I love you. 634 00:40:22,567 --> 00:40:26,600 [Tera] Jacob told me about how we always came first. 635 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,734 Because of Jacob, 636 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:34,667 I know my mom a little better and that I'm loved by her. 637 00:40:34,667 --> 00:40:37,467 [Jacob] There was love there. There was kindness there. 638 00:40:37,467 --> 00:40:41,834 There was a parent that we knew was looking out for us, 639 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:44,900 and loved us and wanted things for us. 640 00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:49,634 [Tina] Sherri was the most 641 00:40:50,667 --> 00:40:54,667 giving person I've ever seen. She was amazing. 642 00:40:54,667 --> 00:40:57,066 And I will see her again, and I can't wait. 643 00:40:57,066 --> 00:41:02,400 ♪♪ 644 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:12,533 ♪♪ 645 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,567 There was a large scale search for the student. 646 00:41:14,567 --> 00:41:16,934 When she went missing I felt horrible that 647 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,567 I didn't stay with her. 648 00:41:18,567 --> 00:41:20,667 On the one hand I hope that we don't find my daughter. 649 00:41:20,667 --> 00:41:23,100 That means, you know, maybe she's alive. 650 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:27,433 For 26 years there was this question tattooed on the town. 651 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:29,967 What the hell happened to Kristin Smart?