-Hello, everyone. I'm diane king.
-A thriving career. -She was a superstar.
-A loving family.
-They were the perfect yuppie couple.
-Good morning, everyone.
-Popular tv anchor diane king seems unstoppable...
-Thanks for joining us tonight. I'm diane king.
Good night. [ gunshot ]
-...Until it all comes to a violent end.
-It was an ambush.
The second shot was an anger shot.
-Was a dangerous obsession ignored?
-There's a tv anchorwoman being pursued by an obsessed fan.
-The letter read, "you should have gone to lunch with me."
-And did diane's celebrity make her a target?
-The first comments was, "this mother[bleep] did this."
-The truth lies...
In a killer relationship.
-Diane king's murder was cold, calculated, and planned.
♪♪
-There are people who are born to shine.
People like diane king.
A popular local news anchor,
Diane uses her platform to champion
Her native american heritage.
But she's also an adoring wife and mother,
Devoted to caring for her family.
Diane is on top of the world...
Until it all comes crashing down in the most appalling way.
-My mom and my dad were supposed to have a long weekend together.
-She took the two kids to her mother's house
And then was planning on coming back so that brad
And her could spend some time together.
-As it turned out, the youngest child,
The daughter, got sick,
So she came home with both the children.
-Diane king makes the two-hour drive from detroit
To marshall, michigan.
And she arrives out at the farmstead.
She's got her 3-year-old, marler, in one car seat;
The 3-month-old, kateri, in the other car seat.
-She pulled into the driveway.
-That's kinda where a lot of my memories start.
I remember being in the car at that time.
You know, my sister is next to me, sleeping.
I do remember my mom getting out of the vehicle and then...
[ gunshot ]
-There's a gunshot.
And it pierces right through her heart.
-You know, one instant, she's there, and the next, she's not.
-Some moments later, there's another gunshot.
[ gunshot ]
-I think I was screaming, more than anything.
And then, it ultimately woke my sister up.
She started crying and I tried to, you know,
Calm her down as best I can. -In the meantime,
Diane's husband returns home after walking around
The couple's expansive property --
More than 500 acres with a creek running through it.
It's a walk he takes every day.
But this day is different.
When brad king sees diane's collapsed body,
He runs to the phone to get help.
-Her husband, brad king, called the police department
And advised that his wife was lying on the ground
Next to her vehicle.
-He was crying, almost yelling, for someone to come help him.
[ siren wailing ]
-When I first arrived, I went to the location of the victim.
The ambulance personnel were working on her,
And there appeared to be a small caliber wound
Just off the center of her chest.
I also saw a second wound in the abdominal area above her pelvis.
I had trained as an emt before,
So when I looked and seen the wounds, I knew that it was bad.
-I've had some very interesting cases in my career.
I've had several murders, I've had abductions and rapes,
But something like this --
It was a surprise that it was diane king.
She was a superstar in marshall.
Everyone knew that it was gonna kinda be a pretty big deal,
Just because of who she was.
♪♪
[ camera shutter clicks ]
-Long before diane king found fame, she made a big impression.
-Diane grew up in one of the suburbs of detroit
As part of a family of five kids.
-When I first met diane,
The first thing she told me was that she was of mohawk descent,
And how proud she was of her heritage.
-We grew up in white neighborhoods.
Everybody around us were white.
So, even though back then it wasn't talked about that much,
You know, being native or being different,
That was what her
And I had in common that brought us together in the first place.
-She was very ambitious.
She was the first one in her family
To go to college and got a communications degree.
And then diane got involved in est.
[ cheers and applause ]
-Est is a self-help movement made popular in the early '80s
That holds intense seminars focusing on personal growth.
-I could see how est would work favorably in diane's life.
She aspired to bigger, better things.
-It's through est that diane meets
Former police patrolman brad king.
-Brad king was very involved with est.
Diane was a volunteer at one of the events in colorado,
And brad went over and introduced himself.
And that's what began their relationship.
-Diane explained to me that when she and brad
Met, there was just an instant connection.
She was very impressed with the fact
That brad wanted to better himself.
-They were the perfect yuppie couple.
She was always very well spoken and well put together.
Brad was a former high school quarterback.
When he was in the fraternity back at western michigan,
Brad was known as a "face man,"
Which means the guy that had the perfect clothes.
He was very popular with the gals.
-Diane marries brad king in July of 1984.
But marriage doesn't dampen her ambition.
With her communications degree,
Diane decides to pursue a career in broadcasting.
-She wanted to get into tv.
And she was very, very persistent.
She called a reporter and they told her,
"you need to make a sample tape."
So diane did that
And she sent it to a station in grand junction, colorado,
And was hired on the spot as a reporter.
-Hello, everyone. I'm diane king.
And I want to thank all of you for joining us today.
-Despite the fact that the station was not very large,
She took her job very seriously.
-Hear the stories and see the faces of those
That once walked these grounds.
-Diane was an extremely intelligent
And highly professional reporter.
And she never shied away from covering stories
That were related to native americans.
-The story here is somewhat different.
-Anything that diane tackled, she tackled it big.
Diane then had their first child, marler, in 1988.
-Oh, there. You've got your eyes open now.
You've got your eyes open now!
-Brad seemed to have a really good relationship with marler.
He bragged about him a lot.
-Diane manages to balance her personal
And professional life with her usual gusto...
And with the support of her husband, brad.
-Brad would do things for her.
If the baby needed to be changed, he'd change the baby.
He was very happy in that role.
-Diane and brad made the decision
To move back to michigan
So that they could be closer to family.
And then she got this golden opportunity.
-In February of 1989,
The 32-year-old is hired to be the sole morning anchor
At wuhq, channel 41, in battle creek, michigan.
-Good morning, west michigan. Time now for channel 41 news.
-Good morning, everyone.
A kalamazoo man is waiting for word that his wife is safe...
-It provided diane with an incredible opportunity
To be very visible,
Because everybody watched that television station.
-If you haven't heard already,
War has broke out overnight in the middle east.
-Diane and brad are, like, this celebrity couple.
She's riding in parades,
And she'd be the emcee for big events.
He gets recognized as the husband of diane newton king.
And brad absolutely loved this.
-Diane and brad
Were definitely considered big fish in a small pond.
He was so proud of the fact
That he was married to a television celebrity.
-Diane is the breadwinner while brad teaches part time
At a local college.
Their family is thriving.
-They move into this historic farmhouse on 500 acres.
It's got this victorian barn with a loft.
She's got the job,
She's got notoriety, and they've got this spread.
I mean, this is the classic american dream.
-That american dream is now a nightmare
As diane clings to life in her driveway.
But was this a random shooting?
A targeted attack?
Or something else entirely? As e.M.T.S
Transport diane to the hospital, more backup arrives
To help secure the scene and search for the gunman.
-We wanted to make sure that brad
And the children were out of harm's way.
-They supervised him, grabbing both kids
And taking 'em back to the house.
-Once we were taken out of the car,
That's where my memory goes blank.
-This isn't the first time
Law enforcement has been called to brad and diane's home.
Two months earlier, there was a possible break-in,
But nothing came of it.
Is it possible the intruder returned?
-The deputy had actually lived on that property
About ten years prior,
So he was very familiar with the buildings.
He observed that the loft in the barn was open,
Which faced out towards where the car was parked.
So he immediately went in there
To make sure there wasn't somebody still there.
-There could've been anybody in there, so we took precautions.
And, at that time, we searched the barn
And then went to the loft.
-It kinda looked like somebody had been up there
And disturbed some things.
-And they shined their flashlight around,
And as it did, it glittered off something.
-We noted a small .22-caliber shell laying in the straw.
-Bingo!
As they looked out the loft door, it was pretty obvious
That it overlooked where diane king was at.
-I believe the shooting was targeted.
It was set up and the shooter was lying in wait for her.
-It was an ambush.
-People get obsessed with people on television.
-Lo and behold,
It looked like the butt of a gun
Was sticking up next to the side of the creek.
-Who cuts out letters and glues them on a piece of paper?
It was so creepy.
-We knew there was probably gonna be a media storm,
And it was.
♪♪
-The search is on for the gunman
Who shot 34-year-old local tv news anchor, diane king,
In front of her two young children.
As law enforcement scours the property looking for clues,
The investigators need to get a statement
From diane's husband, brad.
Meanwhile, diane is in a fight...
For her life.
-We were still waiting for any type of confirmation
On diane king's condition,
Which we got about 30 minutes after I got there,
When we were told
That she had been pronounced dead at the hospital.
-Shortly after that,
We advised mr. King that diane had passed away.
Mr. King broke down crying.
-Brad had retired from the pontiac police department.
He was a fellow police officer.
Why would someone want to attack this family,
You know, attack his wife? -Despite his grief,
Diane's husband, brad, agrees to speak with the detectives.
-Brad did sign the consent search for the property.
He was very forthcoming.
I asked him if there was any guns or anything that he had.
He stated the only gun was a shotgun in the laundry room
And it was broken down.
During the search, we'd found
The .22-caliber shell in the barn.
We didn't find a .22-caliber rifle.
But yet, we found .22-caliber shells and a wood case
Made for a .22 rifle with the cleaning rods in it.
Kind of odd that he would have those and not have the rifle.
Brad king advised
That he had went for a long walk back on the property,
And when he returned,
He found diane laying on the driveway next to the vehicle.
The detectives asked brad to have someone pick up the kids,
And after that, brad was taken to the sheriff's office
At marshall for general questioning.
-Back at the scene,
A special k-9 tracker is called in to assist in the search
For any trace of the shooter.
-I was the k-9 handler
That ran the track at the diane king murder scene.
Our dogs are trained to start
From the freshest scent leaving the scene.
That night, my dog was travis.
-Travis is not just a good police dog
And a good tracking dog --
He's one of the best dogs in the entire state.
And when the police direct him up into the loft of the barn,
Where they figured out the gunshots had come from,
Travis picks up a scent and off they go.
The dog pulls and creates a track on the back property.
-And all of a sudden,
The dog made a left-hand turn
And started following a deer trail, like,
That went down through this swampy area.
I saw a heel print of a boot there.
We got where a stream was.
Travis stopped by the stream. He was sniffing.
I thought it was a barrier for him.
-And then the dog followed a track back towards the house.
-And all of a sudden, he's turning around.
He can't figure it out.
"damn, I don't know what happened."
-Travis loses the scent right near the driveway.
-It's possible the cars that we'd left running --
The ambulance, the other responding vehicles --
Had distracted the dog.
-The search yields no major clues.
And down at the sheriff's station,
The investigators speak with brad king to get more details
About what he witnessed earlier that night.
-We talked to brad to find out where he was
And what was going on at the time that this occurred.
-Brad tells police that he was out taking his evening walk,
And that he had walked a half a mile back into the 500 acres.
-He drew a map that showed him walking from the house,
Over the creek, to the hay mounds, and then he sat there.
And finally, he knew his wife would be coming back,
So he started walking back. When I ran in that area,
I didn't see no tracks towards the hay mounds.
So it kind of puzzled me -- how far back did he really go?
-I asked him if he had heard any shots.
He said that he'd been hearing shots all day long.
-Hunting season's still open that time of the year.
There were gunshots that were heard by the neighbors
Throughout the day from various areas.
[ gunshot ]
-Since boot impressions were found near
The scene of the shooting,
Detectives ask brad for his boots and his fingerprints.
He willingly provides both.
The investigators also want to know
If there's been anything out of the ordinary recently.
That's when brad mentions the letter.
-Three months before the murder, on October 30th,
Diane goes to her mailbox at her farm
And there's a letter in there.
A very disturbing letter.
-It was pieces of letters
Cut out of different articles, pasted together.
-And it says, "you should have gone to lunch with me."
And what's even more frightening is, it was not mailed --
It was placed.
-Whoever placed that there knew where diane lived.
♪♪
-Just four months before the shooting death
Of news anchor diane king,
She received an ominous letter from an unknown individual.
At the time,
Diane was eight months pregnant with her second child.
Diane's husband, brad, and her close friends remember
How terrified she was that the letter came to her home,
And not the news station.
♪♪
-I'd never seen diane lose her cool, ever.
But diane comes to my door. Her hand was shaking.
And she gave me a legal-sized piece of paper that read,
"you should have gone to lunch with me."
Who cuts out letters and glues them on a piece of paper?
It was so creepy.
I was very concerned for her,
Especially because she was about to give birth to a baby girl.
-At the time, this was reported to the police
And one of the detectives in the sheriff's department came
And got the letter and processed it for fingerprinting.
-When the detective speaks to diane,
She tells him she has no idea
Who could have written the letter.
But she also mentions that this isn't the first time
She's received unwanted attention.
-Diane gets a call at the station
Early in the spring of 1990
From a guy who wants to know,
"how can I get into the television business?"
And she actually takes some time on the phone with him.
[ telephone rings ]
She thinks nothing of it until he calls again the next week,
And then he calls again the next week.
He asks her to go to lunch with him
And she very politely declines.
It gets to the point where he's calling three times a week.
[ telephones ringing ]
-The personnel at the television station
No longer put his phone calls through to her.
-Then diane gets a letter from a guy
Who identifies himself as james wickware jr.
It says, "you are the greatest journalist in america.
You're absolutely stunning."
-James was infatuated with her hair, with her eyes,
With the way she dressed,
Her figure,
With the way she composed herself.
He was madly in love with her, I think, in a way.
She never responded.
-People out there get obsessed with people on television
And they begin to imagine
That they're having a relationship with them.
She was very, very upset and very scared.
Brad was trying to be stoic, let her know,
"hey, we're in control of the situation.
Nothing's gonna happen."
-But that December, something alarming does happen.
-Diane had gone to detroit for the weekend to visit her family,
And brad called her and told her that he had been up all night
With a shotgun
Because someone had attempted to break into the house.
-Brad reported that there had been a break-in
At the residence.
-We've had our share of break-ins.
It's a pretty common occurrence out in the country,
Just because houses are so far apart from each other.
But with everything else that had gone on in diane's life
Earlier that year concerning the fan,
It raised a red flag, and we were concerned about it.
-The house break-in occurred on the entry door on the east side
Off the porch.
Some marks around the lock area,
Like it'd been pried at.
-And the glass by the door is also broken.
But nothing was taken during the break-in.
So, that alarms diane and brad because they think,
"oh, now he's coming into the house,"
Whoever this stalker is.
-Diane and brad immediately start taking extra precautions.
-Diane insisted on added security at her property.
They added more lighting.
She would call brad when she left work
And let him know when exactly she was going to be home,
And that he had to be there and be outside
Before she would get out of the vehicle.
-After the breaking and entering happened,
Her alert level was off the charts.
She was very, very shaken by this.
-Now, two months later, diane is dead.
The question is,
Were these disturbing incidents
A precursor to her murder?
One day after diane's death, an autopsy is performed
And the detectives are counting on the medical examiner
To provide some much-needed answers.
-The autopsy confirmed the fact that diane had been shot twice.
She had been shot once in the chest,
Near her heart,
And she had received a wound in her pelvic area.
-That first shot came from the loft,
Ended up being the fatal shot.
[ gunshot ]
It was a .22-caliber wound to the chest.
You could see the trajectory of the path of the bullet.
-Someone proceeded down the barn steps from the loft,
Walked up to her,
And within a matter of 3 or 4 feet,
Shot her a second time.
The state police came up and did measurements
And confirmed that the second shot was from the ground.
-The theory is that the second shot was trying
To hit in the crotch area as an anger shot.
-An anger shot targeting diane's
Pelvic area suggests the killer felt hostility toward diane,
That he knew her -- or thought he did --
And had some sort of ax to grind.
The "obsessed stalker" theory quickly gains traction,
Especially with the press.
-Diane king was one of their own.
-We knew there was probably gonna be a media storm,
And it was.
-They're really pushing the stalker angle.
They know about the letter --
"you should have gone to lunch with me."
There's a tv anchorwoman being pursued by an obsessed fan.
[ telephone rings ] like, who is that?
And so, it became a big media event.
So big, that it went way beyond battle creek.
"the new york times" did stories.
The "los angeles times" did stories.
It spread all over the country.
-The very next day, the news media had surrounded our office.
I mean, we had the large vans there
With people walking around
And trying to talk to anybody who they saw.
So, it really put a lot of pressure on us.
♪♪
-Four months before her murder,
When diane king was still pregnant with her second child,
The tv personality feared she was the target of a stalker.
At the time,
The police investigated a series of incidents,
Including an attempted break-in at her home
And a bizarre letter found in her mailbox,
But they didn't turn up anything significant
To help them identify the culprit.
Now the detectives take a second look
At the starstruck fan who seemed obsessed with diane --
A man named james wickware jr.
-We made contact with james wickware
And discovered that he was a 22-year-old.
-He seems infatuated with anchorwomen on tv.
-Good afternoon. Here's the latest on the...
-He had accumulated more than 200 signed
Autographed pictures of people on tv.
It was just his kind of thing.
-It appeared that he had some developmental issues
And was not really a threat to anyone.
He was pretty much homebound. He didn't have an automobile.
I don't think he even knew how to drive.
-His father provided an alibi for james wickware jr.,
Because on the night of the murder,
He said that his son was home at 7:00 and went to bed early,
As he did every night.
-So, we were able to clear him as a possible suspect.
-With james wickware cleared, the detectives shift gears.
They return to that disturbing letter, the one
That warned, "you should've gone to lunch with me."
In another blow to the investigation,
The letter reveals no usable prints.
Four days after the murder,
As the investigators strategize about their next move,
Diane is laid to rest...
In a catholic ceremony interspersed
With native american rituals.
-I remember the drummers out in the front drumming.
-My mom, she had her red dress on.
In our medicine wheel, there's black, yellow, white, and red,
So it was very -- it's very spiritual to us
And it's a color we use for a lot.
-In native culture, the red dress signifies
Missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
It's what she was buried in
And the red dress is what that stands for.
-In the days after the murder,
The detectives continue to pursue any and all leads.
K-9 tracker gary lisle and his dog, travis,
Also return to the crime scene.
-Gary brought his dog in to walk the same track just to see
If they could discover, in the daylight,
Some additional evidence.
-I started my track from the barn
And went down the stairs and out.
-They get to a spot in this creek that runs through there.
And the dog is showing a lot of attention to the creek.
-And they discovered some shiny things on the bottom
Of this creek bed.
The water was only maybe a foot deep.
-You have to realize
That it had warmed up quite a bit on that day.
When michigan weather gets warm, the water goes back down.
-Lo and behold, there appeared to be unspent shell casings.
They were bullets for .22-caliber weapon.
And searching a little further, it looked like the butt of a gun
Was sticking up about an inch next to the side of the creek.
-It was stuck well into the creek mud.
Somebody had stepped on that thing
To drive it down into that mud
And pushed it as far in as they could.
If travis had not located the spot where the gun was found,
It'd probably been missed completely.
-The alibi that brad gave
That he had been out walking the same area,
And the fact that the dog,
When they went back out, found no other track.
This was the only track in the area.
So, two and two sometimes do equal four.
"this mother[bleep] did this," referring to brad king.
-The gun was a 511 scoremaster .22-caliber rifle,
Bolt-action.
A very accurate weapon.
When they checked the rifle,
There was an empty casing in the chamber.
-That gun was recovered.
The ammunition was also recovered
And was submitted to the michigan state police crime lab
For analysis to determine
Whether or not there were fingerprints on the weapon
Or the ammunition.
We bring brad in for an interrogation.
We told brad that we believed
That he was the person responsible.
When we tried to confront him,
He just shut everything down and said he would not talk to us
Without an attorney.
-To the outside world,
Brad king portrayed himself as diane's loyal, loving husband.
But what was really going on behind the scenes?
The evidence they have against brad is purely circumstantial,
So the investigators need to find something
More conclusive in order to pursue him further.
-We just went back and re-interviewed more people,
The same people several times,
Just to see if they remember something different,
Or able to remember more information
That would've helped to enhance this case.
-Then, about two weeks into the investigation,
There's a major breakthrough.
-One of the things that came to light
Actually started with a tip.
-Brad was teaching criminal justice out at the college
In kalamazoo.
-There was a student who reported
That we may want to come over to the university.
We were able to discover
That brad king was having sexual relationships
With several of his students.
That's a pretty big deal.
♪♪
-There was a whole series of lies that he told these women.
-If she decided to divorce him, that would be tough.
He'd have nothing.
-I was screaming for him, asking, "what was going on?"
-We would try to find more information,
Try to verify what we had three, four layers deep.
But brad was gone.
[ siren wailing ]
♪♪
-Two weeks after the murder of diane king,
The detectives learn that brad king,
In addition to teaching at the local college,
Was deeply involved in extracurricular activities --
Not just sleeping with one of his students, but several.
-They weren't long-term affairs or anything like that.
They were what his frat brothers
Would probably call "booty calls."
-We contacted several of these young ladies.
They all confirmed the fact that brad told everyone
That he and his wife were separated.
That's another little indication that he is being very deceptive.
-Before the murder of his wife,
Brad was sleeping with two students.
One of them was a young criminal justice student,
And the other one was a single mom, had three kids.
There was a whole series of lies that he told these women.
It was very pathological kind of behavior.
-We were told that diane suspected brad
Was sleeping around with the students.
-She told me that she suspected brad was having an affair.
She did mention that they were seeing a counselor,
So I figured they were working on that.
-But the couple was dealing with other issues, as well.
-During the next half-hour...
-Diane was still very ambitious, but after a period of time,
I think that she got a little disenchanted,
'cause she wished she could do more.
She came up with the idea of doing a nonprofit
Called "two worlds foundation."
It was about native american affairs.
-She wanted to get out videos
And things that could be shared with all the schools,
Debunking stereotypes and myths,
Anything having to do with native stories.
-She realized she no longer wanted the kind of hours
That she was putting in at the station.
She wanted to do something she could control.
-That means anchoring the news
Would have to take a back seat...
And brad would have to start contributing more
To the family finances.
-Brad was going to have to start teaching full time
Before the company got launched
And she started generating income.
He was gonna have to become the breadwinner.
-He didn't want that --
Not only because he would have to go to work full time,
But he loses the woman
That brings all that attention to them.
He's not gonna be mr. Diane newton king.
He's just gonna be some schlub.
They were arguing a lot. There was a lot of tension.
-She had also thought about actually divorcing brad.
-If she decided to divorce him, that would be tough.
He'd have nothing. She'd get everything.
-I don't think he was in love with his wife
And he was looking for a way out.
And when she said, "I'm gonna quit my job,"
She forced his hand.
-Diane king's murder was cold, calculated, planned.
-But the only evidence the investigators have
Is a waterlogged gun and a shell casing...
And those haven't been linked to brad yet.
Everything else is purely hypothetical.
-We got together
And decided we needed to just talk about all the things
That we had discovered.
-They were able to match the shell casing in the barn
To those that were found in the creek.
But they never recovered any prints on the gun.
-The investigation into a possible break-in
At their residence, it never developed to anything.
-What they do have is a potential motive.
-She was going to quit her job, forcing
Brad back to a full-time job.
He was having affairs with his students.
So we felt that it was gonna cramp his style.
-The sheriff's department thought
That brad king authored the threatening letters,
A crazed-fan-type thing,
And staged the scene for breaking and entering.
And he did it to establish the credibility
That his wife, diane, was being stalked,
And the stalker was the one who shot her.
-They also have brad walking in the same area
Where the gun was found in the creek.
Now the investigators need to find a way to link brad
To that gun.
-That weapon did not have a serial number,
So it was hard to trace it back.
But we were able to take the weapon
That we found in the creek to his family,
Who said it was very similar to one
That their dad taught them how to shoot with.
-That gun had been given to both brad and his brother.
-And his mom, very reluctantly, said she believed
That brad is the one who ended up with it.
That was one of the pivotal moments.
It was circumstantial evidence, obviously,
But we had family members who would testify
That they believed that that was the gun left to brad.
We felt that brad was responsible
For the murder of his wife.
-Still, it takes nearly a year
To fully build a case against him.
-We would try to find more information,
Try to verify what we had three, four layers deep.
Maybe it was just because it was such a high-profile case
That our prosecutor wanted to make sure
That every "I" was dotted and every "t" was crossed.
In January of '92, our prosecutor has indicated
He was ready to issue an arrest warrant for brad king
For the homicide of his wife.
-But there's one thing standing in their way.
-But brad was gone.
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-It's been nearly one year
Since popular michigan news anchor diane king was gunned
Down in her driveway.
And the detectives are finally ready to arrest her husband,
Brad, for her murder.
But brad has other plans.
-While the investigation was going on,
Brad decided to leave michigan,
And he took the kids to colorado.
He had started a whole new life.
-At that time, I still didn't know where my mom was.
And, you know, being 3 years old,
I didn't know what was really going on.
He didn't wanna lead on that something was wrong.
-We get ahold of the local police department out there.
-I remember we were coming down a hill
And there was police cars there waiting.
I reacted like any child would, you know, scared and frightened.
I was screaming for him, asking, "what was going on?"
-They actually went and arrested brad king for us.
We transported brad back to marshall,
And I don't think brad said one word to anyone
On the trip back from colorado.
-Brad king is charged with one count of first-degree murder
And one count of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
His trial begins in November 1992,
But the case is largely circumstantial.
-Who knows better than a former police officer
And a man who teaches criminal justice
How to get away with murder?
Perhaps that is running through the minds of these jurors
As they consider the scant physical evidence
Against bradford king.
-Court tv covered the brad king murder trial
From gavel to gavel.
-It had a potential viewing audience
Of 7 million people.
-And what it ended up doing is producing new witnesses.
And two of those new witnesses were cleaning ladies
That had cleaned brad and diane king's
First place in battle creek.
-Can you describe the firearm
That you saw in the king residence for us?
-It was a .22 rifle.
-On how many occasions did you observe firearms there?
-I can recall seeing it every time we was there.
-It turned out to be very key
Because of the fact they could tie the rifle to brad king,
As being in the house,
He did own it.
-Even without concrete evidence,
More than 50 witnesses are called to testify.
Brad decides not to take the stand.
In the end, the trial lasts six weeks.
-The jury has been deliberating since last Thursday,
Which had diane's friends, family,
And even people here in town watching and waiting,
Worrying bradford king might go free.
-We, the jury, find bradford king, count one,
Guilty of first-degree premeditated murder.
-When the verdict came back as guilty, you could just see
It hit him hard.
He didn't expect it.
-Brad is sentenced to life in prison
Without the possibility of parole.
-I was asked whether or not michigan should bring back
The death penalty and I said, "absolutely not."
I want brad king to live to be 125 years old,
And suffer every day of his life in that prison.
-I do remember the last day of the trial,
And someone taking me to say goodbye to my dad,
Away from the cameras.
We met him in a hallway,
I gave him a hug, and then the officer said,
"it's time to go."
And that was the last I'd seen of him.
-I just hope marler knows how much she loved him.
And I hope kateri knows how very much she was wanted,
And how thrilled diane was to be having a little girl.
-I'm not this kind of person that believes in ghosts,
But diane did appear, and she was in a red dress,
Just grinning ear to ear.
It was almost like she was saying,
"stop with the mourning."
-Today, this case continues to have a profound effect
On the investigators who worked to get justice for diane.
-Marler...
We never met, but I'm glad you're doing very well.
You and your sister, both.
I wish there was more that I could have done.
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-[ breathes deeply ]
I think the type of work my mom was in,
Everyone got to know her as "diane king."
-Good night.
-And, you know, I knew her as "mom."
♪♪
-Diane king loved the spotlight,
But she loved being a mother more.
Her ultimate wish was to have more time --
More time to spend with her children, and more time to serve
Her native american community in a larger way.
But that wish never came true.
All because of greed.
All because of selfishness.
All because of a killer relationship.