[Female narrator] A horrific discovery sends shockwaves
through a small Kansas town.
[Timothy] This was probably the most advanced level
of decomposition of a body that I had dealt with.
[Narrator] Immediately, the rumors are flying.
[Larry] They were pointing fingers towards a possible
suspect right away. She said those are the people
you need to be looking at, not me.
[Narrator] Soon, new suspects surface,
throwing the investigation into turmoil.
It wouldn't be anything to really set this guy off
if you knew which button to push.
She'd done this for so many years and got away with it.
[Narrator] And uncovered audio tapes shed light
on a complicated relationship coming apart at the seams.
[music]
[Narrator] March 24, 2000. Atchison, Kansas.
Just after 10:00 AM, local resident Sophia Boldridge
calls the Atchison County Sheriff's Department
to report that she's worried about her son,
38-year-old Kurt Boldridge.
[Brandi] He had had a fishing trip scheduled.
On Sunday, Grandma had said, okay, you know,
nobody's heard from him.
We can't figure out if he is fishing,
who he's fishing with. And so, my grandmother called
and asked for them to do a welfare check.
[Edward] She explained that it'd been close to a week
since she had heard from Kurt.
[Narrator] At 10:47 AM, Atchison County deputies
arrive at Kurt's residence. Sophia meets them there.
The house appeared to be locked.
Couldn't get access or anything to it.
We knocked, called out his name
Family members wanted us to go ahead and try to gain entrance.
[Narrator] With the doors all locked,
a deputy makes use of a broken window.
[Jason] I got to be the one to remove that piece of glass
and, uh, crawl in through that part of the window.
I remember pointing out abnormal, a large amount
of flies on the windowsills and the windows.
[Ed] Once Deputy Wohlgemuth opened the front door,
the smell was stronger down this little hallway
where Kurt's bedroom is.
And I just pointed to Deputy Wohlgemuth,
we need to go this way.
[Jason] We entered the bedroom.
There's a relative large bed and a big, fluffy comforter
that's kind of pulled up over the bed.
We could see the shape of a person underneath.
Once Deputy Wohlgemuth pulled the comforter back enough,
I could see partial head and arm of a body.
It seemed consistent with a body that had been in that location
for anywhere between a week and 10 days.
They found blood splatter on the headboard of the bed
where the body was located.
I told Jason to stop. We've done the welfare check,
and we found out that there is someone here.
We've got a body, but we don't know, you know,
what has happened with the body.
We needed to secure the area and get other people down there.
[Narrator] It's not long before the
Kansas Bureau Of Investigation arrives,
including Detective Larry Myer.
At that time, I'd known Kurt for many years.
And I was very familiar with him,
and I could recognize his face.
[Narrator] Authorities notify Kurt's mother of his death.
[Larry] Ms. Boldridge was, of course, upset.
She was helpful to law enforcement,
answering all the questions that law enforcement had of her.
[Brandi] It had to have been a workday.
I just remember I was outside on my 1:30 break.
And I saw my aunt and my cousin pull up.
So I walked over to the car and my aunt said,
I just don't know how to tell you this,
but they found your dad.
And that's all she had to say. And I passed out.
It was devastating to say the least.
[Narrator] Born on October 3, 1961,
Kurt Boldridge grew up in Atchison County part of a large
close-knit farming family.
[Clinton] There was eight boys and three girls.
We lived on a farm in Effingham, went to school,
done what farm kids done.
Kurt's main responsibility was taking care of the cattle.
Farm work's hard. Everybody had their job.
Basically, their own specific chores that they would do.
You've gotta get your job done and there's no time for no BS.
My brother was probably the smartest man I've ever known.
He graduated from school early.
[Narrator] After high school, Kurt married.
The relationship didn't last, but it did make Kurt a father.
When Brandi was born, it was like you could see
the change in him. I've gotta start making sure
that things are right for her.
My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, two.
So they separated when I was pretty young.
But as far as with me, my mom and dad always
had a good relationship.
He loved to dance. He loved to sing.
He liked to be the life of the party.
We would go fishin'.
Fishing was usually 90% of what we did.
[Narrator] When it came to work,
Kurt didn't shy away from physical labor.
He took a job at Atchison Foundry.
[Jeff] It's a steel foundry. It's dirty, hot work.
It's one of those places where if you're wanting to make some
money in the town, you're gonna work there.
[Narrator] In his early 20s, Kurt found love again
when he met Lisa Turpin.
She was from a little town that's called Winthrop.
And it's right on the Missouri River.
[Larry] Lisa's father was a farmer.
Lisa did grow up on a farm all of her childhood life.
Lisa, one of four children, she was the outlier.
She was the one who always kept things interesting
with her rebellious streak.
[Jeff] She had some odds and end jobs. She worked at a couple
of restaurants, you know, as a waitress.
The couple times I met her, she was a little bit
of a wild-type person, pretty rambunctious, too.
Outgoing, or had a lot of energy.
[Casey] Kurt Boldrige is that really dependable, staid,
predictable, nice guy. Lisa, of course, is fiery, unpredictable.
And it's like a moth to the flame.
It gives excitement to his life.
[Narrator] In light of his first marriage ending in divorce,
Kurt preferred to keep this relationship private.
[Jeff] He kept her kind of secret from us.
You know, he would-- if he was with her,
he wouldn't tell us he was with her.
[Narrator] However, Kurt wasn't shy about sharing
the next big development in his life.
In 1985, Lisa gave birth to a son.
It was exciting for him, and he couldn't wait to
teach him how to fish, and how to hunt, and stuff like that.
[Narrator] And four months later, Kurt and Lisa married.
[Clinton] I never heard any announcement.
I never heard Kurt was getting married to Lisa.
It was just, hey, Kurt got married.
[Narrator] But he soon discovered that their
passionate courtship made for a troubled marriage.
[Jeff] I don't know why they separated.
But I know that she could be nice when she wanted to be
and not nice when she wanted to be.
They had an off-and-on relationship for years.
I think it just got to a point where he just, he-he was done.
He was done fighting the battle.
They actually got divorced in 1991.
[Narrator] The divorce did little
to keep Kurt and Lisa apart.
[Jeff] Even though they were divorced,
she was always making sure that he stayed in her life.
I guess everybody's got that one person
that you just can't shake,
and I believe that was his.
[Narrator] Years later, in the late 90s,
Kurt and Lisa's on-again, off-again relationship
seemed to have truly ended
when Kurt began dating a new woman, Sandy Wilson.
[Brandi] It seemed like, you know, they loved each other.
They were happy. Dad was moving on.
[Narrator] Kurt and Sandy married in October 1998,
but the union lasted barely a year.
[Brandi] Sandy was always nice. It seemed like, you know,
they loved each other. I didn't really know, know her,
but I never had any issues with Sandy whatsoever.
[Narrator] Following his third divorce,
Kurt settled in a modest home that he built himself.
He built his home. He made his own, you know,
he drew up his own blueprints. He did all of that stuff.
[Narrator] It wasn't too long before a familiar face
started coming back around.
Like so many ex-spouses, Kurt and Lisa, after the divorce
had never really split up entirely.
[Jeff] It just started right back up like-like,
it had never stopped. He would always go back to try,
you know, to get back together, so that they would be together.
As I said, she had some kind of whatever it is,
the thing that he just could not leave.
[Narrator] But on March 24, 2000,
Atchison County deputies find 38-year-old Kurt
dead inside his country home.
[Timothy] I had a high-intensity light
and did a close inspection of the body.
And very quickly found what I determined was a
near-contact shotgun wound to the side of the body's head.
And that's when I went out and told another KBI agent
and the sheriff that this matter was indeed a homicide.
[Narrator] Coming up.
Investigators learn of a lover with a thirst for vengeance.
[Jeff] The claws came out. The horns came out.
You wouldn't think that it was the same person.
[Narrator] And an unexpected phone call
heats up the investigation.
A lady thought she had some information that we probably
ought to know about.
She was making comments of what happened
and where he was shot before we even knew.
[Narrator] Investigators in Atchison, Kansas
have just used a high-intensity light
to determine that 38-year-old Kurt Boldridge
died from a gunshot wound to the head in his own bed.
That flipped a switch, you know, to, like,
okay, this isn't just an unattended death, and
this was declared a homicide. We got some work to do here.
The level of decomposition seemed consistent
with a body that had been in that location
for anywhere between a week and 10 days.
He had a shotgun wound to the head.
It was on the left side of his face.
And there was blood splatter on the walls and on the bedspread.
As I pulled the sheet back, I found a wadding
from what I believed to be a 20-guage shotgun shell.
There was some tapes that Kurt had, that was found
during the search. As part of the evidence collection, uh,
we sent it to KBI lab to have fingerprint analysis done.
[Narrator] Investigators continue to searc
the rest of the home.
The house was not in what you would consider
a pristine condition, but there was no sign of a struggle.
The house was secure.
[Larry] There was no signs of forced entry at all.
We thought someone had a key to the home.
[Narrator] With the hope of finding out who,
investigators reach out to the rest of Kurt's family.
And they don't hold back when asked
who they believe is responsible
I said, the bitch killed him. Is what I said.
That was the first thing out of my mouth.
When he came up dead and they said that he was murdered,
there was only one person to think about.
The Boldridges pointed towards Lisa as being a possible
suspect right away.
[Narrator] Kurt's relatives are eager to share stories
about Kurt's ex-wife and on-again, off-again lover.
[Jeff] They seemed happy, but as soon as they would split
the claws came out. The horns came out.
And she was a completely--you wouldn't think that it was the
same person that you'd seen before.
[Narrator] Kurt's brother, Jeff, tells investigators
about one of the first disturbing incidents with Lisa
that took place in 1992, eight years ago.
I'd come back to town for a weekend. He was gonna come up,
and we were gonna play cards.
I noticed that he kept looking out the window.
Pretty soon he gets up and he looks out the window
and he goes, well, I'll be damned.
He said, she's breaking my windows out on my truck.
And I go and look out the windo and you just see the glass just
shattering in his pickup truck. And it was her. I seen her.
She got out of the truck, and she had a hammer.
[Narrator] Kurt and Jeff called the police
to report the incident.
She was arrested for those crimes.
And she was convicted.
[Narrator] In spite of her arrest record, Lisa continued
to up her game from smashing ou car windows to arson.
[Brandi] She set two fires to his house.
I believe that was August 7th of 1995,
is when she set the first one. She just put newspapers
in the middle of the house and set 'em on fire.
And somebody, either Dad showed up.
Or I don't know the exact details that--
It didn't do as much damage the first time.
And it was September of '95 when she set the second one.
But the second time, it almost burnt the house down completely.
[Narrator] Lisa was convicted of two counts of arson.
And a judge sentenced her to 46 months behind bars.
She was released from prison in April 1999.
To the disbelief of his family,
Kurt and Lisa continued to see each other.
I spoke to him several times and asked him, you know,
what the hell's wrong with you?
And it was just like, man, it just is what it is.
[Narrator] Talking to Lisa Boldridge
quickly becomes investigators' top priority.
[Timothy] A detective from the Atchison Police Department
who knew where her parents lived, uh, suggested we try
there, and so we found her at her parents' house.
[Narrator] They line up an interview
for the following morning.
But as news of Kurt's death spreads quickly
through the small town, another tip comes in.
[Larry] A lady at the hospital made a phone call to the
sheriff's office saying that she thought she had some information
that we probably ought to know about.
[Narrator] She says that on Friday, March 24th,
while on duty, she answered a call at Atchinson Hospital
from Lisa.
Lisa made that phone call to the hospital because her
sister worked there, and she was asking to talk to her.
But her sister couldn't take a phone call, and she said,
can I help you? Lisa said, well, they just found my ex-husband
in bed laying in a pool of blood.
[Narrator] For investigators, the timing of the phone call
is a big, red flag.
[Larry] She was making comments of what happened
and where he was shot, where he was located in the home
before we even knew. It became very aware to us that
Lisa Boldridge knew something about this homicide.
[Narrator] On March 27, 2000, Lisa shows up at the station
for her scheduled interview.
[Timothy] It obviously makes it harder when you're dealing with
an open-ended, uh, timeline. She gave me a, uh, answer to
where she was and who she was with
for the previous seven to ten days.
[Narrator] When confronted about her phone call to the hospital,
Lisa claims the conversation wa only based on a rumor.
She denied any involvement, or said basically
she had been told by someone that he was deceased and, uh,
they thought that it was possibly a gunshot wound.
[Narrator] Investigators press for more information.
And Lisa eventually reveals the name of her source.
She had mentioned an individual by the name
of Kirk Wilson.
[Larry] Kirk was a city employee of the City of Atchison.
His title was city superintendent.
He was over the public works department, I believe,
until he became involved in drugs
and his life just went downhill
Kirk Wilson had been arrested more than once.
The sheriff's office has plenty of contact with him.
[Narrator] Detectives ask Lisa for more details about
her conversation with Kirk.
[Larry] She said she got a call from her friend, Kirk Wilson,
that morning and asked for her to go with him to dispose
of the shotgun that was used in the shooting.
Lisa said that they disposed of the shotgun
in the Missouri River.
[Narrator] Lisa says she knows nothing more
about the actual murder,
although she does offer up two more names.
She brought up Gary Skeen, Johnny Goodpasture
and Kirk Wilson.
[Jason] Goodpasture and Skeen, I knew their names,
their last names, from dealings at the sheriff's office already.
Those are some frequent flyers that we had.
She said those are the people you need to be
looking at, not me, and it was unusual that she would bring
that up with her claiming that she knew nothing
about the homicide.
[Narrator] Coming up.
A dangerous suspect comes into focus.
It wouldn't be anything to really set this guy off if
you knew which button to push.
[Narrator] And a threat caught on tape shapes a motive.
[Narrator] Authorities in Achison, Kansas
are in the first 72 hours
of investigating the murder of Kurt Boldridge.
When police question Kurt's ex-wife, Lisa,
she insists she's innocent,
but offers up three potential suspects,
Kirk Wilson,
John Goodpasture and Gary Skeen.
[Larry] We asked Lisa all kinds of questions,
any contact whatsoever she had with Kurt Boldridge.
She said they had been going out on some small dates
here and there before this occurred.
[Narrator] When the interview is over,
Lisa makes a bizarre comment to investigators.
She turned to me and said, oh by the way,
if you find out that I went to the Social Security office
to find out what the benefits would be for my son
if Kurt died, that was just coincidental.
I was shocked. And I thought it was one of the
greatest admissions that I have ever heard.
Quite frankly, I don't know if that lead would have ever
come up without her opening the door
and saying that she had spoken to the Social Security office.
[Narrator] The investigators keep Lisa's shocking comment
in their back pocket for now
and turn their focus to the first name she gave them,
Kirk Wilson.
Kirk had a prior from being involved in an incident
with his father, where he may have physically took him
to the bank and demanded he draw money out of the bank.
Kirk went to prison on those charges.
He was out of prison then.
It wouldn't be anything to really set this guy off if
you knew which button to push.
[Narrator] But it's not just Kirk's record
that leads investigators to believe he might be involved
in Kurt's death.
There is another potentially explosive connection
between Kurt and Kirk.
[Larry] When Kirk went to prison, Kurt Boldridge
hooked up with Sandy White, Kirk Wilson's ex-wife.
Sandy White and Kurt Boldridge got married.
It's very likely that it made him completely crazy to know
that she was dating another man while he was behind bars.
[Narrator] Kirk's stature also fits the investigators' theory.
[Larry] My opinion was it would take a taller person to actuall
be the shooter. Lisa was not that tall.
Kirk Wilson, he is a taller guy.
He'd be able to hold a shotgun up higher like that.
I don't think Lisa was capable of doing that.
[Narrator] On March 28th,
deputies locate 44-year-old Kirk Wilson
and bring him in for an interview.
When we went to talk to Kirk Wilson, he lawyered up on
us before we could ever get to even speak to him.
[Narrator] Investigators switch gears
and take another look at Lisa.
They found the clerk at the Social Security office
in St. Joseph, Missouri that she had spoken to.
Had her notes from their conversation, and what Lisa
was interested in, what benefits or what increase in benefits
would be available to their son because of his father's death.
And that this conversation occurred approximately a week
before Kurt's body was found.
[Larry] She wanted to find the death benefits for her son,
knowing that Lisa would actually physically get that money
as the custodial parent until he was 18 years old.
[Narrator] Al though their suspicions are growing
by the day, investigators don't have enough for an arrest.
[Larry] We wanted to get other evidence and do follow-up
interviews. We wanted to definitely build a good case.
[Narrator] Investigators need to determine if a connection
lies between Lisa, Kirk Wilson and the other two names
Lisa gave in her interview, John Goodpasture and Gary Skeen
[Larry] Kirk Wilson and Johnny Goodpasture and
Gary Skeen were all good friends.
All of 'em had prior criminal history,
so they could have been involved.
And when we talked to Johnny Goodpasture,
he told us off-the-wall stories at first.
Gary Skeen, um, he wouldn't tell us anything.
[Narrator] After diving further into the two friends'
criminal history, investigators believe it's possible
they could have acted alongside Kirk.
[Larry] Gary Skeen, one of the suspects, he had served some
time in jail and I think prison for prior burglaries
and things like that.
Johnny Goodpasture, he had served time in prison.
Skeen was a fighter, he didn't mind throwing punches at bars
and you had to watch yourself around him.
And Goodpasture, he was more into the drugs.
[Narrator] The investigation continues.
And Lisa goes about her business,
raising eyebrows around town,
especially with the Boldridge family.
I'd actually called the sheriff because she drove
by my house plenty of times and honked her horn,
and flipped me the bird. She was just goin' around town
bragging that, you know, she wasn't goin' to jail.
[Clinton] She was still walking around not arrested.
I was kind of thinking, man,
she's probably gonna get away with it.
[Narrator] Initial forensic results
come back from the crime scene, but there's not much to go on.
[Larry] The shotgun shell, I do not recall any fingerprint
being on it or any other item that was collected.
[Narrator] So investigators turn to several tape recordings
found earlier at the scene.
And they are shocked by what they hear.
[Larry] Kurt had recorded conversations with
Lisa Boldridge, accusing each other of cutting tires,
accusing each other of domestics, things like that.
[phone rings]
[Casey] It's clear that Lisa isn't just jealous
and possessive.
She's increasingly controlling to the point of being unstable.
And for Kurt, he's increasingly afraid of her.
[Narrator] Investigators discover that Kurt even
confronted Lisa about the harrassment he endured from her
over the years.
[Narrator] Hoping to eventually break her down,
over the next three months, investigators continue to bring
Lisa in for multiple interviews
They press her on the one admission she did make
that she helped Kirk dispose of the murder weapon.
She had said it'd been thrown in, like,
three or four different spots.
So we were never sure if she was telling the truth or not.
And a dive team from St. Joseph came down
and searched the river, and never found it.
[Narrator] Four months after Kurt was found dead,
they bring Lisa in for another interview.
This time, Lisa consents to a polygraph.
Do you know who was involved? Do you know what happened?
You knew who shot him, shot Kurt?
[Edward] Lisa was being so arrogant with the
polygraph man for KBI,
that she could just talk her way out of anything.
[Narrator] But the facade soon falters.
Just pretty much everything we asked her, she failed.
[Narrator] Considering Lisa's history of violence,
threats against Kurt and her interest in his finances,
the failed polygraph tips the scales.
That's when we presented her the warrant for first-degree murder
in the amount of a bond of one million dollars.
And she just pretty much fell to the floor.
She could not believe we had a warrant for her arrest.
When she was arrested, it was a huge relief.
I felt like I could sleep, and I could breathe again.
That had to give all the family a lot of relief,
but they knew that it wasn't done yet
until everything went through court.
[Narrator] Coming up.
Two likely accomplices turn on each other.
Kirk threatened John Goodpasture that he would kill him
just like he did Kurt.
[Narrator] Will it finally lead to the truth?
With Lisa's direction, they hatched a plan.
[Narrator] After four months, authorities in Kansas have
arrested Lisa Boldridge for the murder of her ex-husband,
Kurt Boldridge.
While they work to keep her behind bars,
investigators get a disturbing phone call from Kim Wilson,
Kirk Wilson's second wife.
[Timothy] There was a domestic disturbance between
Mr. Wilson, his wife, and Mr. Goodpasture.
She made a phone call and told
the Atchison County Sheriff's office
that Mr. Wilson had made an admission to her
about being involved in the murder of Kurt Boldridge.
Kirk Wilson accused John Goodpasture of having
a sexual, romantic relationship with his wife, Kim Wilson.
Kirk threatened John Goodpasture that he would kill him
just like he did Kurt Boldridge, that he was a dead man.
Kim was interviewed in regards to this, uh, information.
She confirmed the information.
[Narrator] In fact, Kim reports that Kirk had made
the same threat to her.
Kirk made a statement to her that he had killed
Kurt Boldridge, and he'd go to jail for killing her, too.
[Narrator] Then, on September 19, 2000,
John Goodpasture has another run-in with the law
and suddenly has a change of heart.
[Jason] Another big turning point in the case was when
Goodpasture got arrested for drugs.
He wanted to talk to Investigator Myer
about the case.
His explanation was that the four individuals,
Lisa Boldridge, Kirk Wilson, Goodpasture and Gary Skeen
were together one night, and were discussing their various
dislikes of Kurt Boldridge.
[Narrator] John says that around 1:00 AM on March 18th,
Kirk Wilson started retelling a shocking story
that Lisa had shared with him.
Because Kurt Boldridge was married to Kirk Wilson's
ex-wife at one point, there were times when the Wilsons' son
was in the same home with Kurt Boldridge.
Lisa told Kirk that her ex-husband, Kurt,
had sexually abused his son.
She would make up a lie to get anything she wanted.
[Narrator] John reports that even with zero proof,
the three men were infuriated b Lisa's outrageous allegations,
especially Kirk.
[Casey] Kirk was wound up, and his anger was contagious.
These emotions begin to feed each other
and exponentially rise and escalate until people
aren't just angry, they're ready to take action,
almost like mob mentality.
[Timothy] That night with Lisa's direction,
they hatched a plan to kill him.
[Narrator] Lisa promised the men that their good deed
would be rewarded.
Lisa informed them that there was drugs in the house.
And that Gary Skeen and John Goodpasture,
they were going down there for the drugs.
[Narrator] John Goodpasture confesses to police that Lisa
drove ahead to Kurt's house and the other three followed.
[Larry] She still had a key to the home,
and that's the way the suspects was let in.
Evidentially from past dealings, Lisa may have known
where Kurt kept his shotguns.
They got to the bedroom. Lisa grabbed a shotgun
that was leanin' against the wall,
threw it to Kirk Wilson,
said, just shoot him in the head.
[Narrator] Still enraged by the story Lisa told him,
Kirk did just that.
Kirk Wilson actually shot Kurt Boldridge
while he was sleeping.
[Narrator] John Goodpasture tells investigators that they
spent a few minutes searching for the promised drugs.
I don't believe there was ever any drugs
found in the house.
[Narrator] Kirk and Lisa headed off in a separate car
to dump the shotgun in the Missouri River.
[Larry] John Goodpasture then took a polygraph,
passed the polygraph and became a state witness.
[Narrator] John is placed under arrest
and charged with aggravated burglary.
Investigators don't have to hunt for Kirk and Gary.
Kirk Wilson was in jail and we physically just approached him
and gave him the arrest warrant.
He was under his lawyer's advice not to speak.
Gary was being held on a probation violation.
We presented him the warrant while he was in jail, also.
[Narrator] Closing the final loop,
investigators find no evidence
that Kurt Boldridge assaulted Kirk Wilson's son.
Sandy White was interviewed by officers
about the allegations made by Lisa Boldridge
against Kurt Boldridge.
It was found to be unfounded.
Sandy denied that anything like that ever happened.
In the end, it was confirmed that Kurt Boldridge
never abused that child.
Lisa fabricated this story
knowing what it would do to Kirk Wilson.
The plan was to piss Kurt Wilson off so bad
that he would kill him.
And she was gonna sail away scot free.
Lisa just wanted Kurt Boldridge dead, and she done everything
in her power to get him killed, and she succeeded.
Lisa was just evil.
[Narrator] Coming up.
Lisa's arrogance is on display.
[Clinton] She would sit and mock the family members
sitting in the courtroom.
She'd done this for so many years and got away with it.
[Narrator] And her defense centers on a critical detail.
[Timothy] She only played a minor role.
She didn't fire the fatal shot.
[Narrator] Kirk Wilson, Gary Skeen, and John Goodpastur
have joined Lisa Boldridge in being charged
with the shooting death of Kurt Boldridge.
Prosecutors are determined to prove
that Lisa was the mastermind behind the deadly plan.
[Timothy] Lisa had a financial motive.
She thought in some manner, Kurt's death
would place her in a better financial position,
with benefits coming to their son.
[Narrator] But many in Atchison, including the Boldridge family,
believe Lisa's motive was twofold.
If her and my dad were not gonna be together,
nobody was gonna be with him.
[Narrator] Lisa's trial begins on January 8, 2001.
Lisa's behavior in the courtroo reflects the same confidence
she showed throughout the investigation.
[Clinton] She would sit and mock the family members
sitting in the courtroom.
Little stupid smirk smiles and ha, ha, like, he, he, he,
and little grinning gestures and stuff like that
when she thought she was winning.
I think because mainly she'd done this for so many years
and got away with it.
[Narrator] Prosecutors allege that for a while Lisa was happy
simply irritating Kurt.
Dad suffered threats, the phone calls all night long,
the constant harassment.
[Narrator] But the harassment wasn't enough.
John Goodpasture takes the stand, and he affirms that
the entire idea was Lisa Boldridge's.
In fact, it was Lisa who put the idea for killing Kurt
into Kirk Wilson's head.
I definitely, I 100% believe it wouldn't
have happened if it wouldn't have been for her.
[Narrator] Lisa's defense hinges on one detail.
[Timothy] She made the argument that she only
played a minor role.
Going into the house to allow the other three individuals
to go in, she didn't fire the fatal shot.
[gunshot]
[Narrator] Following a three-day trial,
Lisa is found guilty of first-degree murder.
The judge shows little leniency at her sentencing.
The judge imposed what Kansas refers to as the
hard 50 sentence, which means she has to serve 50 years
in custody before she becomes eligible for parole.
[Narrator] Kirk Wilson goes to trial in June 2001.
The jury finds him guilty of first-degree murder.
Rather than risk trial,
Gary Skeen and John Goodpasture take plea deals.
Mr. Goodpasture was allowed to plead to a charge
of aggravated burglary in exchange for his testimony.
[Edward] Kirk got 25 years for shooting him.
And Kirk, he just couldn't believe that.
She got more time than he did because she orchestrated it.
[Narrator] Gary Skeen receives a 14-year sentence
for conspiracy to commit murder
And John Goodpasture is granted 24 months of probation.
While the Boldridge family still struggles with the loss,
they keep Kurt's memory alive.
[Clinton] They can strip everything away from us,
but do you know what? We're still family.
He's still my brother. He's still family.
He ain't went nowhere.
At the end of the day, that's all we got left.
[Brandi] So it was devastating, to say the least.
I miss him every day,
even 22 years later.
Some days it seems like it was yesterday
and sometimes it seems like it was a 100 years ago,
but I don't miss him any less.
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