[man] For five, five-and-a-half days,
we searched the residence, the barn, the buildings.
[newscaster] All week long, crews have searched
the 312 acres of this Oakfield home.
Looking for any sign of Oakley Carlson.
I think it was that moment that we realized
how serious of a situation this actually was.
[woman] And she looked at me, and she said,
"There is no Oakley."
Andrew Jordan didn't report her missing.
When asked, "Where is Oakley?" Her mother said,
She went out to the woods and was eaten by wolves.
There's just so many unanswered questions with this particular case,
[woman 2] We wanted to know what else he was lying about.
Investigators remain on scene in Grays Harbor County,
looking for a missing five-year-old girl.
But so far, all they have
they, are parents who are uncooperative
and they still don't have an exact timeframe
of when Oakley went missing.
This hit the area like a bombshell.
How do you not know where your child is?
I'm waiting to wake up from this, all the time.
There isn't a theory that someone hasn't brought up
that we haven't investigated.
[narrator reading]
Grays Harbor County, Washington.
Oakley Carlson is seven months old
when she's placed in foster care
with Erik and Jamie Jo Hiles.
Erik and Jamie Jo are high school sweethearts
who now teach at the same school where they fell in love.
One of my former students texts me, and she says that,
"Hey, I know that you and your husband
have struggles with infertility,
and you really want a baby.
And my hairdresser's granddaughter needs a home.
And she'll probably be up for adoption
if you're interested in fostering her."
I looked at Erik and I just said,
"I just feel really right about this."
And he said, "Okay, let's do it."
-[Erik growls] -[Jamie Jo laughs]
As she grew up, she just loved to make people smile.
Uh, she would just do funny things
and just be silly.
It always made us chuckle.
[laughing]
She could tell that I was having, like, a day
or that I was sad about something, you know,
She was the first one to be a little empath.
And rub her little hand on my shoulder
and say, "It's okay, Mama." Like, "Everything's okay."
She loved to dance. So we had her in a dance class.
[Jamie Jo] She would go to my dance team practices
and she would do the moves that the girls would do.
No, I'll read it to you.
[Jamie Jo] You are reading to me.
Oakley loved reading stories.
[babbling]
[Erik] She can memorize books very well.
It was not uncommon to read
three, four, or five books before bedtime.
[Jamie Jo] She was just all around-- Just a pleasant kid
And funny and jovial.
Go on. Smile.
[laughs]
[narrator reading]
Jamie Jo and Erik learnt that the State of Washington
now plans to return Oakley to her birth parents.
Andrew Carlson and Jordan Bowers.
The State also intends to re-unite
Oakley's two older siblings with Andrew and Jordan.
We tried to be open with Oakley
in letting her know that we were not her biological parents.
Like, we would always say that she didn't come from Jamie's tummy
she came from her heart.
[Paul] Andre and Jordan grew up in Grays Harbor County.
And have lived here for most of their entire lives.
Andrew was a police office
with the Aberdeen Police Department, for a couple of years
And he was later terminated for dishonesty.
[Erik] When she was first placed with us,
we know it was because,
uh, Oakley's older sister has a medical condition
and that the parents were not providing the care necessary for her.
And then we also heard there was drugs involved.
[narrator] In the fall of 2019,
Oakley visits more frequently with her biological parents.
In October, um, Oakley came home from a visit
that was unsupervised.
And she said that...
She saw Jordan hit Andrew.
And it was alarming to me because I knew there was domestic violence
in the past, from both of them.
I sent a message to the social worker and her supervisor.
And the message that I got back was,
"I'll talk to them, but it's not a concern of mine.
Oakley loves her parents."
[narrator] A few weeks later, Jamie Jo and Erik are told
that Oakley will be returned to Andrew and Jordan
in January of 2020.
The State then moves this date up to November 29th, 2019,
the day after Thanksgiving.
She literally spent the night three times, at her parents' house
before she went back, permanently.
I feel like everything was incredibly rushed,
Her last day with us was a Friday.
And the driver came, picked her up at 10:00 am.
We knew it was final.
And we knew that we wouldn't get to talk to her
after she returned to her biological parents.
We gave her a big hug.
We put her in the car.
I buckled her in, gave her another hug and kiss goodbye.
[voice breaking] This... This really great show
called Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood...
And there is a really great lesson
where they sing a song about grown-ups coming back.
She looked at me and she told me that,
"It's okay, grown-ups come back."
And she tried to console me.
Later that day, we were walking upstairs,
past her bedroom,
and I just closed the door.
Um, and that-- We--
We closed that door for six, eight months.
That's hard to even explain to somebody
because it really did feel like a death.
[narrator] Nearly two years later, on November 6th, 1991.
There's a fire at Andrew and Jordan's home
in Oakfield Washington.
The fire was in the second story.
And it was significant damage.
Andrew called to report the fire.
He said he was just calling to let them know
but did not need any fire response at the time
as the fires had already been put out, hours before.
He had said that his daughter has started the fire,
on the couch, with a lighter.
[narrator] Jamie Jo and Erik learn about the fire
when a friend shares the screenshot of a GoFundMe page.
that had been set up for Andrew and Jordan.
In the GoFundMe, it said-- started-- the fire was started
by their four-year-old daughter
That would have been the age that Oakley was at the time.
If they were unsupervised for long enough
to start a fire that got out of control,
Like, how long were they left unsupervised
on a regular basis?
A four-year-old just doesn't light up a lighter.
Like, I'm 35 and I can barely strike a lighter.
[narrator] Worried that the family of six is living in a fire-damaged house,
Jamie Jo and two of her friends
contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families
to share their concerns.
It wasn't just, "Oh, there was a fire."
It was, "Why are they still living in that?"
You're breathing in those fumes.
You're living in a place that you don't know the structural integrity.
Is it gonna collapse on them?
As far as we could tell,
there was nothing done with that.
We were never heard back.
[narrator] On November 10th,
Oakville Elementary School Principal Jessica Swift
drops off donated supplies to Andrew and Jordan's house.
Jordan answered the door,
and two of their children were inside the door, downstairs.
I looked around and I didn't see Oakley.
So, I was like... [in excited voice] "Where is Oakley?"
[in normal voice] Because I kinda expected her to run out.
Jordan told me that Oakley was in time-out in her room
'cause she was being naughty and I wouldn't wanna see her anyways.
[narrator] Ms. Swift returns to their house two weeks later.
And sees Oakley's three siblings.
But again, not Oakley.
I mentioned it to my co-worker,
and she was like, "Yeah, this is getting weird."
And she was actually going out to the house the next day
to drop off a meal that had been donated to them.
And i was like, "You got to get eyes on Oakley."
She goes out the next day,
and immediately calls me after,
and says, "I saw all the other kids,
and I didn't see Oakley."
[narrator] A few days later,
some other teachers at Oakville Elementary
share concerns about Oakley's household.
Ms. Swift comes up with a plan to get more information.
My daughter is around the same age,
as one of Oakley's siblings
and so I texted Jordan
to see if the next day
if Oakley's sibling wanted to come over
for a playdate with my daughter.
[narrator] The playdate between Oakley's sister and Ms. Swift's daughter
turns into a sleepover.
Oakley's sibling had told me
about their younger brother
and how he followed her around the house
and always wanted to hold her hand.
And I was like, "Oh, my gosh, that is so sweet.
Does he do that with Oakley, too?"
And she looked at me and she said,
There is no Oakley.
[narrator] The next morning
Oakley's sister tells Ms. Swift
that Oakley has actually gone back to live with her former foster parents
Jamie Jo and Erik Hiles.
A co-worker of mine got ahold of Gray Harbor Sheriff
that morning,
and see if they can confirm
if Oakley really was in foster care.
We received confirmation that Oakley was not living with Jamie Jo and Erik.
And...
So, I texted Jordan again.
And I said that,
"Is it okay, if she stays another night?
And I will take the girls to school, in the morning."
[narrator reading]
Ms. Swift contacts a detective from Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office
to request a welfare check on Oakley.
At the time, Oakley's birth parents,
Andrew Carlson and Jordan Bowers,
are staying in a motel in the nearby town of Tumwater.
Since the initial location that she wanted checked
was not in our county,
we coordinated with the Tumwater Police Department
and gave her instructions on how to report to them.
[narrator] Tumwater police conduct the welfare check
at the motel, the next day.
Which happens to be Oakley's fifth birthday.
There is no sign of Oakley.
[Paul] Andrew and Jordan
each advised that the other
had taken Oakley to Andrew's parents' house.
Tumwater Police Department tried to confirm that
but Andrew said he did not know the address
and phone number of his parents.
Turns out, they are neighbors. They live kind of right next to each other.
[narrator] Investigators determine
that the last time Andrew's parents saw Oakley
was December 25th, 2020.
Almost a year earlier.
Jordan and Andrew continue to say
they last saw Oakley on November 30th, 2021.
But investigators discover,
that the last verified sighting
was much earlier in the year.
We established at February 10th.
So now we are looking at between February 10th and November 30th
that we don't have anyone outside the mother and father
that has had any interaction with Oakley.
[narrator] A social worker
from the Department of Children, Youth and Families
contacts Oakley's former foster mom,
Jamie Jo, that day.
I was in a meeting with my Principal.
And I just burst into tears.
I explained, "I'm crying because I had a foster daughter
and, you know, today is her birthday.
and I just miss her so much."
I noticed that I'd gotten a couple of phone calls
I listened to the voicemails.
And one voicemail was from Washington City DCYF.
They were like, "Hey, um...
Can you take Oakley when we find her?
And can you take her little brother
as an emergency placement foster care.
And I ran to my husband, because his classroom was right next door to mine,
and I said, "You're never gonna believe this."
My students were all, like, in the room, cheering.
'Cause they all knew Oakley.
And it was just very exciting.
The feeling we got
was... that...
one of the parents, um,
Jordan or Andrew, or somebody else,
just had Oakley, and then...
The authorities just weren't able to locate her yet.
[narrator] Later that day, Andrew and Jordan are arrested.
Based on what we discovered at the scene, interviews, um...
along with the complete absence of life of Oakley,
on the property...
The timeframe that she'd been gone.
I made the decision to request charges of manslaughter
for both of them, and asked that they be held on those charges.
[narrator] The hold on these charges last 72 hours.
Jamie got a phone call from a friend.
Said, "Did you hear that Jordan and Andrew
are being held on manslaughter charges?"
It was that moment that we realized
how serious of a situation this actually was.
"Well, what do you mean manslaughter charges?"
And then , when I, like, did talk to the detective,
he's like, "It's a holding procedure,
um, but...
I do not believe that she is alive."
I had just felt the highest high.
24 hours before, I was like, "She's coming home to me.
And I need to get her a birthday present."
My family was so overjoyed
at the thought of Oakley coming home to us.
And so now I had to call them
And explain this to them.
[narrator] While Andrew and Jordan are being held in jail,
Grays Harbor Sheriff's County investigators,
Washington State Patrol,
the FBI,
and several other law enforcement agencies
search Andrew and Jordan's property.
[newscaster] All week long, crews have searched
the 312 acres of this Oakfield home.
Looking for any sign of Oakley Carlson.
For five, five-and-a-half days,
we maintained control of the property.
With evidence teams, we searched the residence,
the barn, the buildings.
Um, Search and Rescue searched the remainder of the property
using drones, multiple K9 teams, helicopters.
We had dive teams that we called in
to search the areas that were flooded.
[narrator] Oakley's two older siblings are interviewed.
And her sister shares some shocking information.
When asked, "Where is Oakley?"
Her mother said that she went out into the woods and was eaten by wolves.
When I heard the comment about being eaten by a wolf,
I was upset.
Because why did you brainwash her into thinking that this is what happened?
How scary for her to think that.
There aren't any wolves in Grays Harbor County.
As far as an active theory that we investigated,
I never thought that, that was the case.
[Keith] Is there potential that perhaps she took a stroll out the back door?
Perhaps she wandered into the woods?
Is there the potential that something bad could have happened
to Oakley, on her own,
and she just disappeared into the night.
[Jamie Jo] I've heard different stories.
"Oh, Oakley was gone from a grocery store."
Or, "Oakley wandered off into the woods."
Regardless, Andrew and Jordan didn't report
her missing.
[Paul] We searched the woods,
to see if we find any remains anywhere on the property,
and to this point, we haven't.
Unfortunately, in Grays Harbor County,
looking in the woods here is kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack.
And you can come up with a high degree of probability,
what you're looking for is not there,
but it's never a hundred per cent.
[narrator] On December 9th, with the 72-hour arrest hold about to expire,
the community gathers for a candlelight vigil for Oakley.
[newscaster] Group of over a hundred strong in Oakfield
marched for the little girl.
The Sheriff's office released new developments in the case.
The parents now face a charge of abandonment
for Oakley's sister, who is six.
We found out that when the children were returned
to Andrew and Jordan,
there was a court order advising that
one of their children needed a medication.
They hadn't renewed the prescription
that she needs for 15 months.
[narrator] The new charges keep Andrew and Jordan behind bars
after the expiration of the three-day hold
on the manslaughter charges.
The following day,
the Department of Children, Youth and Families take hair samples
from Oakley's siblings.
The results come back in January 2022.
[Paul] The hair follicle test came back
with incredibly high levels of methamphetamine,
in the one child's hair.
The other children were then tested.
And the two-year-old, his levels
was at user levels.
[narrator] News of Oakley's siblings' drug test results
send shockwaves throughout the community.
[Erik] It was...
...beyond infuriating.
Because that-- that means that they weren't just around it,
they were ingesting it
to get those levels.
And we don't know if that was accidental,
or if it was intentional.
I don't know how a parent could put their kid
in so much danger.
Your mind starts thinking, "Whoa!
They were close to, like, overdose ranges.
So, is that what happened to Oakley?"
[narrator reading]
Andrew Carlson and Jordan Bowers are charged
with two counts of endangerment with a controlled substance.
Andrew enters his plea on March 14th.
How do you plead
in this case, to count two
endangerment with a controlled substance?
Guilty.
[narrator] He is sentenced to 12 months in jail.
Three weeks later, Jordan enters her plea
on the same charges.
[newscaster] Bowers also pleaded guilty.
Since she has prior convictions,
she got the maximum of 20 months
-She chose not to speak to the court. -No, Your Honor.
[narrator reading]
Andrew is released from jail.
No new charges relating to Oakley's disappearance
have been filed against him or Jordan.
As the couple remains tight-lipped
about what they may know of Oakley's fate,
investigators continue to explore all possible scenarios.
The theory that Oakley was trafficked
came up very early in this case.
So, we've put a lot of resources into
tracking the movements of both, Jordan and Andrew
for up to a year prior.
If we found that she was sold or trafficked...
I think that would be the best case scenario,
because then she'd still be alive.
And hopefully, we would be able to bring her back into our care.
To this point, I've found zero evidence
that would point to the direction that Oakley was trafficked.
Is there potential that Oakley was somehow given to another couple?
Or kidnapped?
Could there have been an accident?
Could she have tripped and fallen and hit her head?
And died in that fashion?
Did she starve to death??
Did they just hit her too hard?
[Keith] We don't know what happened yet,
so you're innocent until proven guilty
But the fact that neither parent
has come up with any explanation,
as to where their little Oakley is,
is just baffling.
Why the heck are you not telling us?
[Jessica] I find my mind wandering to the what-ifs.
What if we hadn't spoken up?
How long would have this gone on for?
It's one of those things that keeps me up at night.
[Paul] I think there's two people that have the answers.
That's Oakley's biological parents.
Neither one of them have decided to be honest
about what happened to Oakley.
It's still my hope that one of them is gonna decide
that she deserves better than this
and they're gonna call me.
[narrator] Jamie Jo and Erik continue to hold out hope
that Oakley is alive.
And that one day,
they'll be able to make what was her temporary home,
a permanent one.
[Erik] I'm not naive
that the longer time goes on, the less likely that is.
But there's just enough stories
where you hear someone who was missing
for years, and then they come back.
So there is a sliver of hope.
I still get waves of sadness.
Like, the other day, we repainted our spare bathroom,
and behind the door was Oakley's, like, measurements.
And we always told her that when she had 41 inches we'd take her to Disneyland.
And, um...
She would stretch. She wanted to go to Disneyland so bad.
And we measured her,
three days before she returned to Jordan and Andrew,
and she was so close.
She was, like, an inch.
And I had a hard time painting over it.
Because I don't really have, um,
a lot of remnants of Oakley in my house, anymore, besides pictures.
We don't have a lot of proof that she was actually here.
[Jamie Jo] Oakley, can you show me your art?
Book.
Book. Uh-huh.
-I love it. -[Oakley] Thank you.
Is a Wheat Ridge man getting away with murder?
Or is his bizarre story of a young mother's suicide, the truth?
The phone fell on my hand, I just kept crying.
I told them it's not true.
Oh, there's no way in a million years
that Jen could have committed suicide.
There's just so many unanswered questions
with this particular case.
[narrator] Born in 1986,
Jennifer Myers grows up in Los Angeles county.
With her mom Nenette and older sister Jacquelyn.
The mother Nenette is originally from the Philippines.
And moved to the US in the late '70s.
[Jacquelyn] We're exactly four years and four days apart.
She was always in the mix of everything that I was doing.
Typical little sister.
She just wanted to be around me.
She is a very loving and happy person.
She'll do everything if she is your friend.
[Khit] Jen was bubbly. She was very friendly
and helpful, humble.
She would help anybody out.
[narrator] In 2007, Jen moves to Las Vegas and gets married
She and her husband have two kids.
A boy and a girl.
Jen was such an awesome mom.
She loves her kids more than anything.
[narrator] The familial bliss is short-lived
as she makes a heart-breaking discovery.
[Khit] We found out that her husband was cheating on her.
And got a girl pregnant.
So, that devastated her.
[narrator] Jen struggles in the aftermath
of this epic betrayal.
[Khit] Her world just, kinda, crumpled, you know?
And she couldn't believe it because she thought he loved her.
[narrator] The 2010 divorce levied such a damaging psychological toll on Jen,
that her husband is given custody of the children.
[Khit] She trusted her babies with their father
while she was getting better.
She was working on getting her kids back.
[narrator] After the divorce, Jen moves back to California.
Her ex husband and their kids remain in Nevada.
But Jen talks to her kids every day.
And visits as often as she can.
In 2014, Jen find love again.
After reconnecting with her high school sweetheart, Jimmy.
[Jacquelyn] They were together for a little bit.
But then went their separate ways, they lived their lives.
And then they reunited.
And then she fell in love with him all over again.
[narrator] In 2016, the couple moves to Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Near Denver.
And Jen finds work
as an overnight stalker at a wholesale club.
Then, in November 2017,
Jimmy pops the question.
[Khit] Besides having her babies,
being engaged was the happiest day of her life.
[narrator] Four months later, on March 31st, 2018,
this happiness grinds to a screeching halt.
We were in Vegas, celebrating my dad's birthday.
And my phone kept ringing.
-And I wasn't answering it. -[phone ringing]
But then, I get tired of it ringing, and so I did.
And it was Jennifer's friend
telling me that something happened.
And she thinks that Jennifer is gone.
The phone fell on my hand and I just kept crying.
I told them it's not true.
[narrator] nenette's brother-in-law speaks to a wheat ridge pd detective.
Who says that Jen has been shot.
And they need Nenette to identify her body.
The next day, in shock and disbelief
Nenette and his sister, Khit, fly to Colorado.
[Khit] We were in denial.
My sister was crying.
And I had to stay strong for both of us.
[narrator] Wheat Ridge detectives
have started piecing together a timeline of events
leading up to Jen's death on March 30th.
Jen arrives at the T-Bird Bar around 3:00 p.m.,
where one of her co-workers bartends part time.
The bar manager stopped serving Jen around 6:00 pm.
And asked her to leave.
[Jacquelyn] Some of the people at the bar was saying that
Jen was really drunk
and all over the place.
But one of the waitresses said that she only had two beers.
Which, I don't understand.
My sister was a drinker.
So, two beers wouldn't be anything for her.
[narrator] According to witnesses,
Jen insists on driving herself home.
But the bar manager intervenes.
Calling the police, and ordering her a cab.
But the manager cancels the police callout and the cab
when a man named Randy William volunteers to drive Jen home.
[Khit] He was friends with the owner of the bar.
And he was a regular there.
People from the bar said that it's not unusual
for Randy to take people home.
That he does it all the time.
I don't see how that's a thing.
Especially with girls he doesn't know.
[Nenette] Randy blocker her car with his truck.
Of course, she couldn't do anything with her car.
She just gave up and went with Randy.
'Cause he said that he's gonna take her home.
[Matt] Instead, he takes her to his house.
Randy tells investigators that the two were having a couple drinks,
had consensual sex,
and then she wanted cigarettes.
[Nanette] Randy offered to get her cigarettes.
And when he got back,
my daughter was laying there, bleeding.
[narrator] When paramedics arrive at Randy Williams' house,
they discover that Jen didn't fall and hit herself.
She was shot in the head.
Jen is nude and is pronounced dead at the scene.
First responders don't find a gun near her body.
But they do come across this shell casing.
[Matt] When Randy talk to the 911 operator,
he doesn't mention that she has been shot.
He just says that she's bleeding.
It's very strange.
[Khit] When the EMT guys arrived...
Without even entering, uh, into the bedroom,
they could see that half of her face was gone.
[narrator] March 31st, in the early morning hours
Randy is taken into police custody.
Meanwhile, detective review footage
from the adjoining home's security camera.
When Randy got back from the gas station, to buy cigarettes,
it shows him walking into the house.
And few seconds later,
-the gunshot goes off. -[gunshots]
[narrator] Randy tells detectives
that he didn't hear a gunshot.
[Jacquelyn] To be in the house,
when it happened,
how can you not hear a gunshot
in that close range?
[narrator] Randy double down on his story.
That he thought Jen suffered a head injury
as the result of a fall.
[narrator] Another aspect of the timeline sticks out to the investigators.
After Randy returns home,
he waits a full 12 minutes
before calling 911.
For that 12 minutes,
he is shown on video
going in and out of the house
with rifle cases.
And during that time,
he could have been helping her.
[narrator] This 12-minute delay compounds the family's grief,
when they learn that Randy is an experienced paramedic.
I was very, very upset about that.
And just in shock.
He could help Jen and he chose not to.
[narrator] Randy repeatedly denies removing rifles from his house.
Even when detectives show him footage of doing just that.
[narrator] During their initial interview with Randy,
detectives receive confirmation
that the rifle with which Jen was shot
has been found by a fence on Randy's property.
[Jacquelyn] With video evidence,
I don't see how he can deny it.
And yet he did.
He denied every single thing.
[narrator] Police later find the rile cases
that Randy was seen on camera
moving into a workshop shed on the property.
Near the end of their interview with Randy,
detective present him with a series of scenarios
that could have led to Jen being shot.
[narrator] On the morning of March 31st,
Randy is arrested on suspicion of first degree murder,
second degree murder, and tampering with evidence.
But the next day, Jen's family is shocked
to learn that detectives are starting to suspect
that Jennifer isn't the victim of a homicide, after all.
Family members were told that this was a suicide.
That she pulled the trigger of the rifle, with her toe.
[Khit] The lead detective
said that Jen sat on the bed,
and shot herself.
When he looked at all the photos and stuff that they took,
there's hardly any blood.
I don't understand how my daughter is gonna
shoot herself on the face,
with a rifle.
And the detective said she used her toes.
And she was wearing socks.
How can you do that?
[narrator] Jen's history of depression,
and a previous suicide attempt
are used by detectives as an indication
that she may have died by suicide.
Her depression was made known to them
by her ex-husband.
My sister hadn't been in that state of mind in a while.
He failed to tell the lead detective
that he was cheating on Jen
and got the girl pregnant
when they were married.
That's why she was depressed.
She was supposed to be promoted.
She did just get engaged.
She was gonna get her kids to Colorado, with her.
And then have her family that she'd always dreamed of.
Why would that person...
...shoot themselves?
[narrator] An autopsy in performed on April 2nd.
And Jen's manner of death is officially ruled suicide.
A police recreation of the scene, arrives at the same conclusion.
Based on the location of the body, according to investigators,
from the time the gunshot went off
and when Randy was entering the home,
there wasn't enough time for him to get to her to have done it.
[narrator] The Wheat Ridge Police Department says,
that forensic evidence from the scene
also shows that Jen likely died by suicide.
[Matt] According to forensic investigators,
the DNA profile on the gun, and the trigger,
matched Jen.
On the gun case, there were three DNA profiles on the latches.
One of them was Jen.
[narrator] Her family ponders
whether Jen's DNA could have gotten on the rifle,
and rifle case, another way.
I believe that whoever did this to her,
made sure that her DNA was everywhere
and put her fingerprints everywhere.
I believe that, in any situation,
my sister would have put up a fight.
And would have gotten her DNA all over everything.
[Khit] Usually, when someone shoots themselves,
the gun would be right by them,
and investigators can figure out, you know,
if they've done it,
but not in this case.
because Randy hid the gun.
If Jen shot herself,
why hide the gun?
[narrator] Randy William is released
from Jefferson County Jail, on April 6th.
And the district attorney declines to file murder charges.
This surprising 180 by law enforcement
deeply upsets Jen's family.
My heart dropped when I heard that the charges dropped.
[narrator] Randy later takes a pea deal
for charges of tampering with evidence
He's sentenced to one year in prison.
He's there not even three months.
And then he moved to another state,
when he was released.
[narrator] Jen's family has been exploring the possibility
that someone other than Randy may have been present when Jen was shot.
They speculate that the owner of the adjoining house
didn't share all the surveillance footage.
When the owner of the house showed the video,
the police said, "E-mail us what you have."
So they could have been in there, going through every single video
to make sure that they only sent the ones that didn't show anything.
[narrator] The family also questions why a rape kit wasn't administered.
And why Randy wasn't asked to take a polygraph.
If she was so drunk, how could she have consented to sex?
Regardless, she wouldn't have cheated on her fiance.
Especially with a 64-year-old man.
After being cheated on by her ex-husband,
she knows how it feels.
When I asked Detective Johnson if they were gonna do a rape kit,
she said, "It was irrelevant."
Because Jennifer wasn't here to claim rape.
And he said it was consensual.
I don't understand how anybody can say that.
[Khit] We asked for him to take a lie-detector.
But the lead detective said that it wasn't required.
He's lied so many times
that we wanted to know what else he was lying about.
[narrator] Wheat Ridge PD declined an interview.
And Randy William did not respond to our interview request.
For Jen's loved ones, the pain remains as raw as it was the day she died.
They hold out hope that her case will be re-opened.
[Nenette] I cry every night.
It-- It's very hard.
When all this happened,
we were in one of our arguments.
But this time...
I didn't get a chance to make up with her.
She was taken away,
thinking that I was still mad at her.
I hate that I was robbed of that.