Nanette Litherland

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Speaker 6 She was a small town girl determined to build a better life for her family.

Speaker 8 She was a single mom.

Speaker 9 It's hard.

Speaker 8 She wanted the stability.

Speaker 6 She seemed to have found it in a hard-working man.

Speaker 11 They had everything they needed right there on that farm. Their little slice of paradise.

Speaker 6 Until their blissful farm life is shattered by a brutal act of violence.

Speaker 10 He dropped right there in the doorway.

Speaker 11 She was almost out of her mind, worked up.

Speaker 2 This was the second shooting at this location in the past few months.

Speaker 12 This family was being targeted.

Speaker 13 Your mind's just going wild going, who's trying to kill these people?

Speaker 6 The quest to find answers unearths some deadly secrets.

Speaker 10 She was being abused physically, emotionally, and maybe even sexually. Someone's lying and someone's telling the truth.

Speaker 14 He pops out of the truck and takes off just running.

Speaker 2 There might be some type of conspiracy.

Speaker 13 He was blowing his story right out of water, right off the bat.

Speaker 2 We all started to realize that there's more to this than just one person committing a murder.

Speaker 6 Sunday night, November 8th, 2009.

Speaker 6 Missouri State Investigator Scott Ashby is wrapping up a quiet weekend at his home in suburban St. Louis.

Speaker 13 They were getting ready to go to bed, you know, and all of a sudden the phone rings.

Speaker 13 When a house phone rings, it's bad news.

Speaker 13 So I answer it, and I'm getting called out for a homicide investigation in Washington County.

Speaker 13 I contacted Sergeant Smith to let him know, say, hey,

Speaker 13 we got a murder.

Speaker 5 We got to go.

Speaker 6 He was requesting assistance with the investigation so i responded down to the scene that night sergeant david bauer of the missouri state highway patrol is also en route to the scene their destination a farmhouse in the sparsely populated community of cadet missouri

Speaker 10 the residence sits quite a distance up off the roadway there's not many neighbors around Upon arrival at the scene that night, there were several family members that were standing around, and the Washington County Sheriff's Department was also on the scene.

Speaker 6 The officers learned from sheriff's deputies that their victim is 48-year-old Jerry Litherland, the owner of the farm and a local truck driver. The 911 call had come in at approximately 8 p.m.

Speaker 6 that evening.

Speaker 15 The sheriff's officer was dispatched.

Speaker 12 And upon the arrival of the deputy, the deputy had located a white male, deceased, lying just inside of a doorway at the residence.

Speaker 12 His body was preventing the door from opening any further than a foot.

Speaker 6 Careful not to disturb the crime scene, investigators look for another way in.

Speaker 13 Basically, walked up to the side door of this house. It looked like it had been broken into.

Speaker 13 So we're wondering, well, is this a burglary that went bad or something like that?

Speaker 6 Though it's much too early to zero in on a motive, one thing is certain. Jerry Litherland died an extremely violent death.

Speaker 2 When you first looked at him, it looked like he got stabbed because the bullet holes were elongated.

Speaker 13 And then you started seeing the shell casings.

Speaker 13 That's when we realized he was shot. The shell casings were from a high-powered rifle.

Speaker 2 A lot of thoughts go through your mind, but you want to start a process of elimination, determine what didn't happen, and work back from there.

Speaker 5 We just got to view the scene and get a perspective of what we were dealing with, what type of homicide we had.

Speaker 6 Jerry Litherland was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1961.

Speaker 16 My dad had 16, there were 16 siblings all together.

Speaker 16 Eight boys and eight girls. It was a huge family.

Speaker 6 Even in such a big family, Jerry's generous soul made him stand out.

Speaker 9 He was always helping people. As far back as I can remember, somebody strained alongside the highway.
Now we're stopping.

Speaker 2 He would be there to help anybody.

Speaker 17 He was very hardworking.

Speaker 8 Electricity, plumbing,

Speaker 17 just whatever he could do, he would learn how to do it.

Speaker 6 Jerry's work ethic helped him build a career as a cement truck driver. And in 1977, Jerry and his high school sweetheart, Cheryl, tied the knot.
Soon after, they started a family of their own.

Speaker 15 Jerry was pretty happy to be a dad.

Speaker 8 He'd take them fishing. You know, he'd change diapers and he'd feed the kids.

Speaker 16 My dad was fun to be around.

Speaker 16 He always made sure to let me know that I was his little girl.

Speaker 6 Life was good until Jerry and Cheryl's youngest daughter, Deanna, was diagnosed with cancer at age nine.

Speaker 6 The disease would ultimately claim young Deanna's life and in the process took an immense toll on Jerry and Cheryl's relationship. In 1991, after 14 years of marriage, Jerry and Cheryl divorced.

Speaker 8 After a while, you just

Speaker 8 say enough's enough.

Speaker 17 I never hated him.

Speaker 8 It was just, it was sad.

Speaker 9 Jerry became a little distant. He was still Jerry, but there was something missing.

Speaker 6 As fate would have it, a childhood friend of Cheryl's helped lift Jerry out of his fog.

Speaker 6 Her name was Nanette Palit.

Speaker 8 We grew up in the same small town. She just lived like a mile and a half from me.
So we rode the same school bus.

Speaker 11 She was the type of person that when she entered a room, everyone would turn and look at her. There was just some sort of a charisma that exuded from her.

Speaker 6 Despite her charm, Nanette was no stranger to heartbreak. By the time she met Jerry Litherland, she had already endured a broken marriage that left her supporting supporting two young sons.

Speaker 8 Being a struggling single mom, it's hard and you dream of something different. Nanette wanted the stability.

Speaker 6 It was with hardworking Jerry Litherland that Nanette finally found that stability.

Speaker 11 Nanette very much loved Jerry. They were soulmates.

Speaker 6 Jerry and Nanette married in 1998 and soon welcomed a daughter of their own named Mary.

Speaker 14 She doted on her daughter.

Speaker 11 Nanette lived for her kids.

Speaker 6 Jerry and Nanette settled near Cadet, Missouri. Over the years, their children from previous marriages moved out and had families of their own.

Speaker 6 Then, around the time their daughter Mary started high school, Nanette and Jerry decided to buy over 100 acres in the Missouri countryside.

Speaker 11 They loved it. They loved the wildlife.
They loved the seclusion. It was their little slice of paradise.

Speaker 6 When Jerry wasn't hauling cement or working on his land, he was building his and Nanette's dream home all by himself.

Speaker 9 Designed every bit of it.

Speaker 8 He poured the concrete, laid the bricks, designed the fireplace, all of it.

Speaker 9 It was beautiful.

Speaker 18 He had built the garage. It was a huge garage with a loft.

Speaker 16 It was kind of like an apartment for them while he was living on the property and building the house.

Speaker 6 But as as their home took shape, the Litherlands marriage started to show cracks.

Speaker 11 They were struggling financially. They were putting a lot of money into the house.

Speaker 15 They took on a big loan.

Speaker 14 And then in 2009, Jerry's unemployed and she's on disability.

Speaker 6 During that time, Jerry's elderly father, James, also moved in with them.

Speaker 6 As if caring for Jerry's father wasn't enough, Nanette and Jerry also argued frequently over how to deal with their now teenage daughter, Mary.

Speaker 11 There were times in which he had disciplined Mary in a way in which perhaps was unfair.

Speaker 3 And because of that, you know, Nanette took her daughter and left the residence.

Speaker 6 In September 2009, Nanette and Mary moved into a trailer in nearby Potosi, six miles from the family home.

Speaker 6 But even after their split, Nanette couldn't bring herself to cut off contact with Jerry completely.

Speaker 11 They saw each other every day. I think that she felt that they would be back together, that reconciliation was very possible.

Speaker 6 But sadly, that reconciliation would never happen. Just two months after Nanette moved out, their once happy farmhouse is now awash in the flashing glow of police lights.

Speaker 10 I'm trying to gather information, as much information I can, at that point of time to find out who may be responsible.

Speaker 6 Missouri state investigators learn from deputies that Jerry's body was first discovered by his 83-year-old father, James Litherland.

Speaker 14 He doesn't have a phone, but he does have a vehicle.

Speaker 14 So James goes straight to Nanette's house. And Nanette's there, her daughter's there, and he immediately tells them that Jerry's hurt and he needs them to call for him.

Speaker 6 Having found signs of a possible break-in, state investigators have to consider that Jerry may have died in a home invasion gone awry.

Speaker 13 Well, at first you're starting to think, was this a burglary?

Speaker 2 Didn't something go wrong at this burglary?

Speaker 3 Did he interrupt a burglary?

Speaker 6 Even if the perpetrator's motive was robbery, not murder, it's clear they didn't waste a single second pulling the trigger.

Speaker 13 It looks like as soon as he walked through the door and was shutting the door, he got shot.

Speaker 6 Coming up, a frightening twist surfaces.

Speaker 13 His father, he was targeted about two months earlier. Then you're going, okay, does somebody have something out on these people?

Speaker 6 And detectives are forced to re-examine their initial theory.

Speaker 11 Someone was lying in wait for this gentleman. And the question became, well, then who?

Speaker 6 Hours after 48-year-old Jerry Litherland was gunned down inside his own home, Missouri state investigators are scouring the crime scene for evidence.

Speaker 2 There were a couple shell casings that were found at the scene, but the weapon that would have fired those

Speaker 2 bullets was not.

Speaker 6 Given the position of his body, investigators can conclude that Jerry Litherland died moments after returning home. The question now is, where did those shots come from?

Speaker 2 When you entered the residence, there's a staircase that led up to bedrooms, and there's a large opening in the wall at the top of those stairs from a bedroom, which would give one a vantage point over that larger area.

Speaker 13 It appeared that the shooter was shooting from upstairs, shooting down towards where the victim was.

Speaker 6 Outside the home, Sergeant David Bauer speaks to local authorities. What deputies tell him adds a frightening new twist to this investigation.

Speaker 2 They inform me that there was another shooting at this address.

Speaker 2 And this was the second shooting at this location in the past few months.

Speaker 6 According to local deputies, the initial shooting took place on the night of September 22nd, 2009, and Jerry's 83-year-old father, James, had been injured in the incident.

Speaker 12 James was out on his front porch smoking his cigar, looking towards Highway E.

Speaker 12 He didn't hear anything prior to a loud pop.

Speaker 12 He remembers falling and he woke up a short time later in pain, in obvious pain, and that's when his son arrived back there.

Speaker 8 He had over 60 pellets lodged in him.

Speaker 9 He had one that went in behind his ear and was stuck in the side of his tongue.

Speaker 8 He had lead pellets all throughout his whole body.

Speaker 14 It was shotgun pellets, which may have been the difference in this, that had he been shot in the back of the head with a pistol or any other weapon besides what he was shot with, he may have not survived.

Speaker 14 James can't identify anybody. You've got no leads, no apparent motive.

Speaker 12 The sheriff's officer developed two persons of interest only because of previous arguments that James had had with them over money.

Speaker 12 But both of those suspects were cleared and they were located, questioned, and cleared of any wrongdoing.

Speaker 12 At that point, but it absolutely had turned cold. There was no leads at all.

Speaker 6 Sergeant Bauer also learns from the sheriff's deputy that the damage damage done to the side door wasn't the clue they initially suspected it to be.

Speaker 2 The door did have damage, but one of the family members had kicked the door open when they arrived.

Speaker 2 So, other than that damage that was explained, there was no other evidence of any type of forced entry.

Speaker 6 To investigators, this crime scene looks increasingly less like a botched robbery and more like a targeted attack.

Speaker 11 Someone was lying in wait for this gentleman.

Speaker 2 The question became, well, then who?

Speaker 14 You're looking for a connection. Why would somebody want to see both of them dead?

Speaker 13 His father was shot about two months earlier. And then you're going, okay,

Speaker 13 does somebody have something out on these people? Or is there a land dispute or drugs?

Speaker 6 Looking for answers to those questions, police turned to the people who knew Jerry best, his family.

Speaker 10 I knew the one that was present, we tried to interview, just to start a timeline and try to find if we had any suspects or possible suspects in mind.

Speaker 6 According to James Litherland, he found his son's body when he returned home that evening, shortly after 8 p.m.

Speaker 2 He was obviously emotional because of what he had just seen. I did ask if he knew of who would want to do this.
James was befuddled to who would want to kill him or his son.

Speaker 6 Detectives asked James if anyone unusual had been on the property in the past few days.

Speaker 2 We found out about this gentleman who was there to cut wood with Jerry.

Speaker 6 His name is William Fair.

Speaker 6 As James passes along Fair's contact information, Investigator Scott Ashby speaks with Jerry's stepson, Thomas Bueller, and his wife, Gwen.

Speaker 13 Thomas said that he'd been at their house all night until they got the phone call from Nanette that something had happened to Jerry.

Speaker 13 They had no information of who possibly could have done this or why they would have done it.

Speaker 6 Police then speak to Nanette Litherland, Jerry's wife of 11 years, who'd race to the scene the moment her father-in-law told her what had happened.

Speaker 10 Nanette, she was upset. You know, she just lost her husband.

Speaker 2 At the time this happened, they were estranged. She was living in Potosi, and Jerry was staying out at the farm.

Speaker 6 Nanette tells investigators that she had last seen Jerry around 7 p.m. that evening outside Tom and Gwen's home.

Speaker 10 She gave him a pit peck on his cheek. She told him she loved him.
And he asked if she was still his and she told him she was.

Speaker 6 According to Nanette, she spent the rest of the evening at home with her 17-year-old daughter, Mary. A story that Mary readily confirms.

Speaker 14 She had a pretty solid alibi as far as law enforcement was concerned.

Speaker 10 We tried to find out who she thought may have been responsible for this. She had mentioned some neighbors nearby having problems with them and fearing that they had stolen his welder.

Speaker 2 I've seen people shoot their neighbors because of an argument or just something as simple as a person feeling like they got ripped off.

Speaker 6 When day breaks the following morning, police begin running down the leads provided by Jerry's loved ones.

Speaker 6 They start with William Fair, who was at the Litherland home with Jerry the day of the murder.

Speaker 2 He told us that it's one of those things where he would go visit with Jerry. He would cut firewood.
It sounded like a friendship. So it wasn't like the guy came out, bought wood, and left.

Speaker 2 That was the first time that he had actually heard that Jerry was killed. He was very shocked and surprised.

Speaker 6 William Phair tells police he left the property late Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 2 It was a very short time period between when he left Jerry's house with the wood and when the murder happened.

Speaker 6 But William Fair claims to have a rock-solid alibi. He tells police at the time of the murder, he was hanging out with several friends, all of whom corroborate William's statement.

Speaker 6 Investigators ask William if he knows anyone else who's recently been to Jerry's farm.

Speaker 2 That's when he mentioned that Jerry had this young man living there named Jake.

Speaker 2 All I had was a first name. That kind of got my attention because, as far as I knew, none of the other family members said anything about that.

Speaker 15 I guess he was helping Mr.

Speaker 13 Literlin do some farm work and, and, you know, cut wood for him for room and board.

Speaker 5 William said Jake was residing with Mr.

Speaker 13 Little,

Speaker 5 apparently up to that weekend.

Speaker 14 He knows the layout, knows the house, and knows Jerry. And so that's something you got to look into.

Speaker 6 William Fair also tells police that a group of suspicious-looking men came by to visit Jake last week. Soon after that, Jake told Jerry he was moving out.

Speaker 6 The timing of Jake's sudden departure raises questions for investigators.

Speaker 2 Why is he not here? And why did he leave just the day before this homicide?

Speaker 2 We need to find him.

Speaker 6 Coming up, stories begin shifting.

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Speaker 6 And motives start piling up.

Speaker 2 We all started to realize that there's more to this than just one person committing a murder. There might be some type of conspiracy.

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Speaker 6 Less than a day after Jerry Litherland's murder, Missouri investigators are looking for a man known to police only as Jake.

Speaker 10 Jake was doing odds and ends around the house for Jerry and was living there, just helping out at the farm.

Speaker 14 They're looking for somebody who knew the layout of the property, somebody who might have had a reason to do this.

Speaker 2 We had to do some digging to find out who Jake was, but we were able to come up with a last name, Feldman.

Speaker 6 20-year-old Jake Feldman is a local resident who police learn attended high school with the victim's daughter, Mary Litherland.

Speaker 10 Jacob Feldman was reported to be dating, have a relationship with Mary at some point in time.

Speaker 6 For investigators, it's a startling piece of information.

Speaker 13 I I interviewed Mary. Mary Nerveen brought nothing up about Jake.

Speaker 6 State police bring Mary Litherland in for additional questioning. When they ask her about her relationship with Jake Feldman, Mary's response surprises them.

Speaker 2 Mary, she denied that they were boyfriend and girlfriend.

Speaker 13 She said he was just staying with her father and They had no relationship at all.

Speaker 6 Detectives ask Mary if she has has any idea where Jake Feldman could be now.

Speaker 13 She tells us the names of Jake's good friends, and we track all three of them individuals down.

Speaker 10 We found that Jacob was staying with a friend in Frederick Tom, Missouri.

Speaker 6 That friend's name is Tony Kay.

Speaker 5 We went to his house, and Jake was outside. I began talking to him about Mr.

Speaker 13 Litherland. I said, have you heard what happened to him?

Speaker 13 And he said, no. What's going on? I said, well, Jerry got killed, and he became all upset.
I kept talking to him and talking to him and going, hey, where were you over this last weekend?

Speaker 13 And he kept saying he was down here in Frederictown, staying with Tony.

Speaker 6 But when investigators speak with Tony Kay, he tells them a far different story.

Speaker 2 Tony said Monday night, the day after the homicide, Jake showed up around seven o'clock in the evening.

Speaker 13 He was blowing his story right out of water, right off the bat.

Speaker 6 Investigators asked Jake to sit down with them and answer more questions.

Speaker 2 He agreed to come back to Potosi with us so that we could speak with him.

Speaker 6 At the station, Jake confirms he's been staying at the Litherlands farm for a few months, helping Jerry take care of the property.

Speaker 15 I moved in in January.

Speaker 13 All throughout the summer was great.

Speaker 10 It was enjoyable.

Speaker 15 My log took care of the farm pretty much, worked with the horses, kept up on everything.

Speaker 2 It seemed Jake was also infatuated with Mary.

Speaker 2 So I think that kept him around for quite a while as well.

Speaker 6 Jake tells police that he and Mary briefly dated in high school and they stayed friends even after Jake started using drugs and his family cut him off.

Speaker 15 My family itself was pretty upset with me with some of the past decisions I made and getting into some of the drugs and stuff like that. So they kicked me out of the house.

Speaker 15 Well, Mary, she's got a big heart. So she ended up talking to her parents and me moving out there.

Speaker 16 My dad was always wanting to help people. That was his nature.
Like, I can give you food and a roof over your head. Anybody that needed help, he would help.

Speaker 6 Jake says the Litherlands became like a second family to him. But his interview strikes investigators as odd.

Speaker 13 Not one time you ever asked how

Speaker 13 Jerry got killed. He never asked that.

Speaker 6 And when police question Jake's alibi, he changes his story, now claiming that at the time of the murder, he was babysitting for Jerry's stepson, Thomas Bueller, and his wife, Gwen.

Speaker 6 Investigators reach out to the Buellers to try and verify Jake's story.

Speaker 13 Gwen Bueller did say that, yes, he was at

Speaker 13 their house, you know, at the time this incident took place, and that once they they got notified of the homicide, Jake was still there at the house, so she asked him to babysit her children.

Speaker 6 As Jake Feldman's interview continues, he insinuates that he has inside information about the murder.

Speaker 14 He's tossing them some tidbits, some names of people maybe they should talk to. He brought up Tony Kay.

Speaker 2 He was implying that he thought that he was involved with the murder.

Speaker 13 Oh, I asked him if Tony was ever at Mr. Litherin's house.
He said, Yeah, yeah, he worked on his vehicles and yeah, he knows where he lives.

Speaker 2 Jake said Tony was just out of the property a day or two before the homicide with his girlfriend and with Jake.

Speaker 6 Police aren't sure if they can trust Jake, but they have to follow every lead.

Speaker 6 They conduct a background check on Tony Kaye and learn that he was recently released from prison after serving more than 16 years.

Speaker 2 That got our attention, obviously. It led us to believe we definitely needed to speak with Tony at length.

Speaker 3 I said, well, how about after our interview's over with?

Speaker 13 If you can contact Tony to come pick you up, we'd like to talk to him and see what his involvement was.

Speaker 3 So he agreed.

Speaker 12 Jake said that he could lure Tony to the residence of Jerry Leatherland's daughter and son-in-law.

Speaker 6 As darkness falls, police head to Thomas and Gwen Bueller's house, where they lie in wait for Tony Kaye.

Speaker 12 Myself and two of my partners were instructed to conduct surveillance on that residence. And the signal that the suspect was coming to the residence was Mr.

Speaker 12 Feldman would walk out on the front porch and light a cigarette and smoke the cigarette. During that surveillance process, task force officer in the rear of the residence had observed Mr.

Speaker 12 Feldman and a female on the porch smoking cigarettes and conversing. A short time later, Mr.
Feldman was seen walking down the steps around the residence out of the view of the task force officer.

Speaker 13 And then all of a sudden, the vehicle leaves.

Speaker 6 Police follow the pickup as it leaves the Bueller home.

Speaker 12 We traveled east on Highway 8, approximately two and a half miles from the city limits. The vehicle abruptly pulls to the right shoulder and stops.

Speaker 14 Jake Feldman pops out of the truck. and takes off just running into the field.

Speaker 12 By the time I had seen my vehicle, he had returned to the vehicle. I asked him what he was doing.
This wasn't the plan. Why are you doing this?

Speaker 12 At this point, he went from being very cooperative to now being very argumentative and combative.

Speaker 6 While the sheriff attempts to calm Jake down, officers approach the truck. They're stunned to see who's in the driver's seat.

Speaker 14 She's got her hands on the steering wheel and she isn't saying a thing.

Speaker 6 Coming up, police identify the woman in the driver's seat and questions start flying.

Speaker 2 Why is she trying to keep a potential witness away from us?

Speaker 6 And a possible motive is revealed. He had an appointment with an attorney to change all the beneficiaries.

Speaker 6 It's roughly 48 hours since Jerry Litherland's murder, and Missouri police have just caught their prime witness, Jake Feldman, making a run for it with an unknown female.

Speaker 6 When investigators approach the vehicle, they're shocked by who they find in the driver's seat. The victim's wife, Nanette Litherland.

Speaker 14 Nanette is sitting there. She's got her hands on the steering wheel and she isn't saying a thing.

Speaker 2 She realized, apparently, that she was being followed by officers and just pulled over the side of the road.

Speaker 6 And then Jake jumped out of the truck and ran down down an embankment police confront jake feldman who is in a highly agitated state i asked him why he ran he said that he was stretching his legs they're both acting suspicious

Speaker 14 it just doesn't look good why is nanette trying to hustle him out of town when he's supposed to be working with law enforcement on hooking them up with tony kay

Speaker 6 Nanette claims she didn't know Jake Feldman was under surveillance and that she'd offered him a ride because because he was acting erratically.

Speaker 11 She said it was clear that he was under the influence of some sort of narcotic. Nanette

Speaker 11 did what most parents would do, which was try to get this dangerous person away from her family.

Speaker 14 And she did.

Speaker 6 But investigators suspect Nanette knows more than she's letting on.

Speaker 12 We believe there's something more to the situation.

Speaker 12 However, at this point, we did not have enough to arrest him or her. So the decision was made to let them both leave, and we would catch them at a later time.

Speaker 6 The next morning, investigators questioned Tony Kaye, who Jake Feldman had implied was involved in Jerry's murder.

Speaker 2 There was nothing to indicate that Tony would have a motive for killing Jerry financially or otherwise.

Speaker 6 Investigators also tracked down the neighbors who Nanette alleged had clashed with Jerry in the days leading up to her husband's murder.

Speaker 13 She was claiming that

Speaker 13 these individuals stole a welder and that they may have been involved in this murder too. But we found out that they met with Jake

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 13 they bought the welder from him and that was all they're involved in.

Speaker 6 With this new information contradicting Nanette's original statement, Investigators know they need to question her further.

Speaker 12 We were trying to get Nanette to come in for an interview, and Nanette had continued to drag her feet, make different excuses.

Speaker 6 With Nanette refusing to cooperate, investigators focus their attention on Jake Feldman.

Speaker 13 We start interviewing some other individuals that was friends of his.

Speaker 6 When they speak with Jake's friend, Justin Messix, investigators catch the break they've been waiting for.

Speaker 14 He said Jake had been talking about having shot James and was talking about Nanette paying him thousands of dollars to murder Jerry.

Speaker 14 For the first time, we have a direct connection with Jake Feldman to the homicide and enough to get a probable cause statement and get him arrested.

Speaker 6 On November 13th, 2009, police arrest Jake Feldman and confront him with the statement from his friend, Justin Messex.

Speaker 14 Jake Feldman confesses to murdering Jerry right away

Speaker 14 and Jake is also telling about shooting James.

Speaker 6 But Jake doesn't stop there. He directs investigators to a country road where they recover a semi-automatic rifle.
It's sent to ballistics.

Speaker 2 Then he took us back to the scene and reenacted the shooting with us.

Speaker 14 He describes going in the back door of the house and going to Jerry's bedroom to get Jerry's rifle.

Speaker 6 After explaining how the shooting went down, Jake lays out his motive.

Speaker 10 Feldman believed Mary was being abused by James and Jerry, both physically, emotionally, and maybe even sexually.

Speaker 15 Now it's kind of devoted to just ending the situation.

Speaker 14 He is trying to paint this as I acted solo. I did these shootings for no other reason than to protect Mary from being abused.

Speaker 6 After speaking with Jake Feldman, investigators bring Mary Litherland back to the station for another round of questioning. What she tells police directly contradicts Jake's allegations of abuse.

Speaker 2 I interviewed Mary at length. She

Speaker 2 adamantly denied ever being sexually abused in any way, shape, or form by Jerry or James.

Speaker 10 He lied to us before.

Speaker 13 What's going to stop him from lying now?

Speaker 6 With more questions than answers, investigators step up their inquiry into Nanette Litherland.

Speaker 10 We start subpoenaing bank documents. We found out that she had actually applied for benefits from his death four days after he was killed and had received over $200,000 in life insurance payouts.

Speaker 6 In total, Nanette stood to inherit more than $400,000 from insurance policies in Jerry's name.

Speaker 16 A week before he died, he told me that they were getting a divorce. And he told me that Monday morning on the 9th, he had an appointment with an attorney to change all the beneficiaries.

Speaker 6 As police continue their investigation into Nanette, Jake Feldman remains in the Washington County jail.

Speaker 13 He was charged with first-degree murder, and the prosecutor was going to go for the death penalty.

Speaker 14 He does cut a deal. They take death penalty off the table.

Speaker 6 Jake agrees to cooperate with investigators in order to avoid the death penalty. And on March 5th, 2010, nearly four months after Jerry Litherland's murder, Jake Feldman finally comes clean.

Speaker 13 Jake told him that Nanette was going to ask her her mama hide on this.

Speaker 19 How much did she offer? $100,000. The money would have been nice, but Mary was my concern.

Speaker 6 It's becoming clear to investigators how Nanette convinced Jake Feldman to shoot Jerry.

Speaker 14 Nanette said that perception that you're doing the world a favor. My husband is doing bad things to Mary.

Speaker 19 She says, Jake, it's got to be done. She's just that simple.
She says, it's getting too bad. I can't deal with it.

Speaker 2 Nanette told him that she needed him to kill Jerry before Monday.

Speaker 6 According to Jake, Nanette drove him to the farm on September 22nd, the night he shot Jerry's elderly father, James.

Speaker 19 Nanette went on both shot at the same time. So Nanette took you and dropped me off on cocaine lane.
I walked down and up through the woods. And when I got up there, James was the only one to care.

Speaker 19 Jerry just left.

Speaker 14 Jake Feldman shot James and fled. Annette, she was very upset that, one, her father-in-law wasn't dead, and two, her husband, he didn't even try.

Speaker 6 Jake says a month later, Nanette convinced him to try again.

Speaker 6 Only this time, she enlisted the help of her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Gwen Bueller.

Speaker 11 Gwen was supposed to provide the alibi and that Thomas dropped him off there.

Speaker 6 According to Jake, while he was preparing to ambush Jerry, Nanette waited at Thomas and Gwen's home.

Speaker 13 Jerry Living met her there and talked to her outside on the street. When Jerry left, Thomas received a phone call from Nanette that Jerry's on his way.

Speaker 19 Okay, and then what happened? He comes to the door and asks for next shot.

Speaker 2 He leaves the residence and then he meets up with Thomas, who then drives him to dispose of the murder weapon.

Speaker 6 On April 24th, 2010, Missouri police arrest Thomas Bueller, Gwen Bueller, and Nanette Litherland.

Speaker 2 Nanette was actually at the bank collecting some money.

Speaker 10 She had no emotion at all. It didn't seem like it was that big of a surprise for her.

Speaker 6 In January 2011, Jake Feldman pleads guilty to first-degree murder. But as prosecutors prepare for the trials of Nanette, Thomas, and Gwen, there's a shocking development.

Speaker 11 Jake said, wait a second. I've been this whole time making this story up.
In no way, shape, or form. Did Nanette, Gwen, Thomas have anything to do with this?

Speaker 11 It was just a huge moment.

Speaker 6 Coming up, Jake Feldman's About Face provides an opening for Nanette's defense team.

Speaker 11 We felt very positively that we had an innocent client on our hands.

Speaker 6 But will it be enough to convince the jury?

Speaker 11 Everyone was crying. I mean, there wasn't a dry eye.

Speaker 6 In January 2011, a year and a half after Missouri authorities arrested Nanette Litherland for the murder of her husband, Jerry, the state's star witness, Jake Feldman, does a stunning 180.

Speaker 11 He recanted that story and admitted that he was lying.

Speaker 11 He said that he was trying to shift the blame for this murder off of himself and onto Wednesday and Bueller, as well as Nanette, because he was trying to avoid the death penalty.

Speaker 6 Though the case against Nanette and the Buellers has suffered a serious setback, prosecutors decide to move forward without Jake's testimony. And on June 10th, 2013, Nanette Litherland's trial begins.

Speaker 14 The trial was for two crimes, the murder of Jerry and the attempted murder of James, Jerry's father.

Speaker 14 We had to prove that Nanette aided or encouraged Feldman to cause her husband and her father-in-law to die.

Speaker 6 Prosecutors tell jurors Nanette's motive boiled down to one thing, greed.

Speaker 16 Nanette knew that her relationship with my dad was going to end in divorce. I think she wanted it to end in a way where she has the money.

Speaker 2 She would have the farm, she would have all the life insurance policies, and she would be rid of her husband and his father. Nanette wanted no ties to the property except to her.

Speaker 6 Prosecutors say Nanette dangled allegations of abuse, along with the promise of a cash payout, to secure the help of her son Thomas, daughter-in-law Gwen, and Jake Feldman.

Speaker 14 This was a cold-blooded, premeditated premeditated homicide orchestrated by these individuals.

Speaker 8 I was shocked that somebody would go to that length to kill him.

Speaker 6 One crucial witness for the state is Nanette's daughter-in-law, Gwen Bueller.

Speaker 14 Gwen was willing to cooperate and took a deal as well. That was for hindering prosecution.
She got probation.

Speaker 6 The defense counters by pointing out that Gwen Bueller only confessed in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Speaker 11 I believe Gwen took advantage of the state of Missouri and that, you know, they really wanted to get Nanette and they used her for her testimony.

Speaker 6 As far as Nanette's defense team is concerned, there was no conspiracy. Jake Feldman murdered Jerry Litherland on his own.

Speaker 6 On June 11th, they called Jake Feldman to the stand.

Speaker 6 Jake tells the court that he and he alone was responsible for the murder of Jerry Litherland, as well as the attempted murder of Jerry's father, James.

Speaker 6 Jake claims he acted out of concern for the safety of Jerry's daughter, Mary.

Speaker 11 Jacob Feldman believed that they were inappropriately touching her in some manner, some form, some way.

Speaker 14 Jacob had a couple different stories. The one at trial, he told, was Jerry is violent and dangerous, and he has threatened Mary.

Speaker 14 And Jake has found out about this and so he goes over to the house to confront Jerry.

Speaker 15 My intentions wasn't to kill him. My intentions was to eliminate the threat.
He said, Jake, I made that girl and I'll do what I want with her. And that's when I made the decision.

Speaker 15 This is a mistake that I made.

Speaker 6 Jake's testimony is powerful, but on cross-examination, prosecutors waste no time poking holes in it.

Speaker 14 You have Jake Feldman saying that I acted alone and nobody else knew anything about it. It begs the question, well, if nobody knew anything about it, why would they be providing you with false alibis?

Speaker 14 The only evidence of abuse that ever existed was from the fantasy mind of Nanette. Mary did a deposition and she denied that there'd ever been any sexual abuse.

Speaker 14 Nanette was the one Jake Feldman said gave the final go.

Speaker 10 If it hadn't been for her, this would have never happened.

Speaker 6 After both sides rest their case, the jury doesn't take long to render their verdict.

Speaker 14 Jury was back in about 45 minutes with a guilty on all counts.

Speaker 11 Everyone was crying. I mean, there wasn't a dry eye.
Jerry's family was there. They were crying.
Nanette's family was there.

Speaker 5 They were crying.

Speaker 11 Nanette Lutherland received a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

Speaker 16 I was relieved when she was put in prison. Hopefully she just sits there and rots.

Speaker 16 She manipulated Jake. I don't hold a grudge against Jake at all because he was a kid.

Speaker 2 He was their puppet and the whole thing.

Speaker 9 She ruined this kid's life for the rest of his life. It was all over money and greed.
She couldn't have enough. There wasn't enough out there to give her to make her happy.

Speaker 20 Nanette Litherland is currently serving her life sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Speaker 20 Jake Feldman pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In 2013, Nanette's son Thomas pleaded guilty to his role in the murder.

Speaker 20 He was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to eight years in prison, but was released in May 2014 on parole.