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-A devoted family man makes an unsettling discovery.

-Normally, his wife would have been up when he got home,

but he couldn't get her to wake up.

-EMS tried to revive Diana Burrow,

but no success.

She is pronounced dead at the scene.

-That morning I got a call. It was my dad.

He said, "You need to come to the house.

Your mom is -- is dead."

-But in this small town,

rumors don't stay buried for long.

-The Burrows were well known in the community.

-Sometimes rumors are true.

It made me feel kind of uneasy

because we assumed that she had died of natural causes.

She's buried.

I wanted to get past this.

-Exhuming the body was not an easy task.

-I couldn't believe it.

They wanted to pull her body out of the ground

and find something?

I didn't think so.

-Was this a cruel twist of fate

or the perfect cover for murder?

-[ Crying ]

-I thought she had died peacefully,

but I don't think it was peaceful at all.

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-On a Friday in March of 2011,

a call came in to the St. Pauls Police Department,

where a man was reporting that his wife was unresponsive,

that he could not wake her.

-My main function was to investigate all crimes

inside of the town.

So I rushed on over to the residence.

-When Officer Seago arrives,

the scene immediately feels different.

After nearly a decade protecting this town,

these aren't strangers.

They're people he's known for years.

-When I walked up to the front door,

Ms. Diane Burrow was laying on the floor.

63 years of age.

And Steve Burrow, which was the husband,

was trying to do CPR.

Steve was 57 at the time.

It's a small town, so I knew both of the Burrows.

They had been living there for a long time.

At that time, the EMS from St. Pauls arrive on the scene.

I'm noticing Steve Burrow is very frantic.

He's very upset. He's very shaking.

He doesn't know exactly what happened to his wife.

He stated several times that she has some medical conditions.

I'm looking at her

as the medical team are trying to resuscitate her,

and as she's laying on the floor,

you can see that she has a small cut

to her left upper eye above her eyebrow.

That kind of raises my suspicion quite a bit.

-EMS tried to revive Diana Burrow,

but no success.

She is pronounced dead at the scene.

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-I'm thinking of what might have happened.

It could be foul play.

Did someone come into the house,

or did something happen where she had a fall?

Or was it her husband, Steve?

You have to look at everything.

I speak with Mr. Steve Burrow in depth.

He stated that he worked night shift.

-He had been working up in Fayetteville,

about 30-plus minutes up the road,

working the night shift as a clerk up there

at one of the motels.

-He had just got home from work,

came home around 7:00 a.m. in the morning.

That's when he noticed that his wife was sleeping on the couch.

-Normally, his wife would have been up when he got home,

but she was just laid in a very relaxful,

peaceful state with a blanket over her.

And that's when he noticed that she was cold.

Then he could not revive her.

He couldn't get her to wake up.

-Mr. Burrow then called 911,

and the 911 dispatcher advised Mr. Burrow

to do chest compressions on her.

That's when I arrived.

I asked Mr. Steve Burrow

who had done that scratch to the top of her head.

-He had responded by saying

that his wife had had some health conditions.

She had heart-related issues.

There was some pain issues she was having with joints.

She had been on a number of medications,

and she had been pretty unsteady at times.

She had fallen several times.

It could have been her falling, hitting something.

-I said, "Did she have it last night?"

And he says, "I don't remember."

-Police lean toward believing the cut on Diana's head

came from a fall brought on by her failing health,

but they continue searching the home,

looking for any other signs of foul play.

-We look around the house, look around the property.

-They found absolutely nothing.

The only thing that was noticed

was that abrasion above her left eye.

Usually when you have something such as domestic violence,

that one abrasion,

you're gonna also see maybe some other signs.

You're gonna see some disarray.

There was nothing else there.

And there's absolutely no prior reports

of domestic violence involving Mr. and Mrs. Burrow.

-You always have to consider the husband,

but looking at Steve Burrow, with him being so upset

and being very distraught at the time when he finds his wife,

you can pretty much tell people that are playing the part

instead of being what they really are.

-But suspicions linger.

If not foul play, then what?

-Steve advised me that she's on several medications.

He shows me a few of the medications

that she was taking at that time.

-They looked into the possibility she took an overdose

of the medication.

Maybe this was an attempt on her part to just go ahead

and end her life because of the multiple issues she had.

-Steve said that there was no way

that she would commit suicide.

-Everybody, not only within the family,

but other people in the community,

supported the fact that she was very happy.

-The Burrows, they were well known in the community.

-I had been over at the house several times,

just speaking in general.

Diana always helped other people, no matter what.

She was a good Christian lady.

-She had still been active, out helping people.

She did not seem to be any different in her behavior.

So there was no red flag there either.

-This beloved wife and mother of three is gone,

her death leaving behind a broken family,

including her 37-year-old son Ronald.

-That morning I got a call. It was my dad.

He said, "You need to come to the house.

Your mom is -- is dead."

So I go down there and the cops are there,

and, um, she was laying on the floor.

It was unreal. I mean, it was really unreal.

And probably five minutes after that,

my sisters, Tiffany and Crystal, come over.

They were really distraught,

but we thought she died peacefully.

Mom's name was Patricia.

Most people called her Diane or Diana.

Mom and Dad met when Dad was going to school.

They were married right before I was born in '73.

We moved to St. Pauls my kindergarten year

of elementary school, which was '79.

Then Tiffany was born four years later.

Crystal was born four years after that.

-By all accounts, it was a happy marriage

and raised three children, lived, you know --

mind-their-own-business people

that looked out for their neighbors

and people knew and liked.

-Dad was gone a lot. He worked full-time,

went to school full-time.

So, really, growing up,

you didn't see Dad a lot, other than Sundays.

So Mom -- she took care of everything on the home front.

Her father had passed away. He was fairly young.

He died of a heart attack

and was in fairly good health up until the day he died.

So based off her health,

we thought it was heart disease or a heart attack.

We just thought it was natural causes.

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-Preliminary investigation revealed

that Ms. Burrow had extensive medical problems and issues.

-Steve said no autopsy would be done.

So heart disease is what they ruled her death as.

If an autopsy was not completed,

it's not always looked at.

-When you have somebody with medical condition,

if you've got a long history,

it's real easy to just write it off as just a medical situation.

Oftentimes, the doctor will sign off on it.

-Law enforcement determined it to be natural causes.

So it was closed out at that point.

There was nothing else more done.

-And we just started preparing for her funeral.

-Two days later, the community gathers to say goodbye.

-The church was packed that day.

To see the outpouring of support from the community

at her -- at her funeral,

I didn't expect that many people to be there.

At the funeral, I really hadn't grieved any

until I heard my -- my nephew behind me.

He started crying, and that's when I lost it.

Yeah.

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And then life went on.

-Nearly two weeks pass

after Diana's apparent natural death

before a terrifying rumor is brought to police.

-On March 22nd, a local mail carrier

comes forward with some very interesting information

that really does turn the death of Ms. Burrow

in a completely different direction.

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-These items were stolen out of Ms. Diana Burrow's house.

-Sounds like a fantastic story.

It sounds almost too good to believe.

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-Two weeks after Diana Burrow dies,

the local mail carrier delivers a shocking rumor.

-The mail carrier delivers in the area

not only of where Mr. and Mrs. Burrow lived,

but also in the surrounding area as well.

-The mail carrier relays to the police department

that she's heard a rumor

that Ms. Diana was actually smothered.

She doesn't know many more details other than that,

but she said that is a rumor out there.

-As much as anyone knows, living in small communities,

rumors fly about everything.

-Rumors are always a part of an investigation.

It can come apart.

But sometimes rumors are true.

And so I made it a point that I was going to investigate

and figure out who would want to hurt Ms. Diana.

-A large hurdle stands in the way of a proper investigation.

-The difficulty that presents to law enforcement

is no autopsy was performed.

They didn't do any type of crime-scene work,

things such as photographs, swabs, samples.

So law enforcement decides they need to follow up

on every avenue and every possible path.

-Police start by looking at Diana's husband,

Steve Burrow.

-You always look at the family members,

and you always look at the closest person to Ms. Diana.

But Steve was squeaky clean.

He had nothing in his background,

no history of violent crime nor domestic violence.

-Police look closer at Steve's alibi for the evening.

-Steve was a clerk at a motel.

-He stated that he worked night shift.

So I went to his workplace, spoke with the supervisor,

where they advised that he was at work,

that he had been there.

So it ruled him out.

So you look at the grandchildren,

you look at the son, you look at the daughters.

All of them had been ruled out at that time.

-Everybody had an alibi.

Everybody was somewhere else that was verified.

-The investigators did look into her life-insurance policies,

and there was nobody gonna gain financially on her death.

Steve had no motive whatsoever.

-Police felt comfortable at that point

clearing Mr. Burrow as well as any other members of the family.

-At that time, my daughter said,

"Are they thinking you had something to do

with Mama's death?"

It kind of made me feel kind of uneasy

because, first, I knew I hadn't done anything,

and secondly, we assumed that she had died of natural causes.

She's buried.

I wanted to get past this.

She was well-liked.

She didn't make any enemies.

The farthest thing from my mind was that someone had killed her.

-After police complete a canvass of the neighborhood

around the home and questioned Diana's friends,

they find the rumors regarding the beloved neighbor

and mother go nowhere...

...until two and a half weeks after Diana's death,

when another 911 call comes in from the Burrow house.

-I was on the road, so I respond to

a breaking and entering at Mr. Burrow's house.

When I arrive on the scene, Steve was very upset.

He was going through a lot.

We start speaking, and Mr. Burrow explains to me

he had just come home from night shift.

-When I came in the house,

first thing I noticed was a cabinet was open,

and I knew that I never opened that cabinet.

And then I started looking around

and I seen her wedding ring was stolen,

her mother's ring was stole,

her cellphone was missing, and her medication.

-Macaroni and cheese, also, out of the 'frigerator.

I start looking at how

the person came into the residence,

walked around from the back of the house.

The grass hindered any kind of footprints.

All of his windows had screens on them except one.

The screen was taken off from it.

-The person gained entry into the home

through a rear window in the bedroom.

That screen was found after a neighbor commented

to one of the police officers at some point

that she had found a screen beside her house,

but they did not find any forensic information in the area

that is helpful for the case.

-Steve mentioned that the screen was possibly missing

the time that Ms. Diana had been found deceased.

-I knew the screen was missing because my daughter

and my daughter-in-law was talking to each other

through the window on that Monday,

and the screen was missing then.

But I still didn't put anything together.

-At this time, I'm thinking, what's going on here?

It could have been two separate items that had occurred,

but as a detective, you look at every aspect

from the break-in and her death

to see if it was correlated.

-Why is this happening, you know?

My wife died. My house gets broke into.

You know, what else is gonna happen?

-Just hours later,

a violent incident close to the Burrow home

forces detectives to rethink everything.

-Ironically, on the same day that Steve reports

the break-in at his house, another 911 call comes in

reporting two men fighting

in the neighborhood around the Burrow home.

-As I arrive, I see two men in the front of a house.

It's Daniel Johnson -- he's 27 years of age --

and his brother Jason Johnson, 28 years of age.

They live at the residence.

Daniel Johnson and Jason Johnson are very well known

to the St. Pauls Police Department.

-They were well known for stealing anything.

Honestly, if it wasn't nailed down,

the Johnson boys were gonna steal it.

-At that time, I see Daniel Johnson

punches Jason Johnson,

and he starts running into the house

as he sees me going after him.

I was able to get the suspect in custody.

Then at the patrol car, after patting Daniel down,

I reached into his pocket

and found a pill bottle

with Diana Burrow's name on it.

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-Police in North Carolina have just witnessed

Daniel Johnson assault his brother Jason.

After placing Daniel in cuffs, they discover items connected

to his deceased neighbor, Diana Burrow.

-In his front pants pocket is found a pill bottle

with the name Patricia Diana Burrow.

-He also dropped a ring,

and he had a cellphone in his hand.

These items were the exact same things recently reported stolen

out of Ms. Diana's Burrow house.

So the first thing I'm thinking of is that Daniel is the suspect

that broke into this residence.

-Daniel is also the one

who Officer Seago observes hit Jason.

And because of that, Daniel is taken into custody,

and his brother Jason is free to leave at that point.

-Daniel was charged with breaking and entering,

larceny after breaking and entering,

and possession of stolen property.

He is also charged with the assault on Jason Johnson.

My mindset is that he has just broken into this house,

but I'm looking at every avenue that came about in that case.

Maybe this was a connection with the rumors

that were going around about what happened to Ms. Diana.

-As a result of the arrest of Daniel Johnson,

law enforcement contacts Steve and tells him

that they want him to come down and to look at some things.

-We identify some of the items that were stolen.

At that time, we knew that Daniel and Jason

was known for breaking and entering.

They'd been in trouble so many times,

we figured it wasn't gonna be a whole lot done about it.

Daniel and Jason -- they lived next to us

since they were young boys,

and they had been in trouble from a very young age.

Diane was very kind.

She would do anything for anybody she could.

She would give 'em some money to buy food with.

She would help out even Daniel and Jason's mom.

Jason was always very polite to us.

Daniel kept much to his self.

-Mom -- she would refer to Daniel and Jason as "them boys."

"Them boys did this," or, "Them boys did that."

They didn't have a lot, but she tried to help out.

Give them her cellphone all the time.

I'd go down there and she'd be like,

"I gotta get my cellphone back from them boys."

I said, "Who's got your cellphone?"

She said, "Jason and Daniel.

I let him use it and they haven't brought it back."

I said, "Do you want me to go get it?"

She said, "No, I'll get it.

I'll get it later on. It's fine."

My mom -- she was always nice to 'em,

never said anything bad about Daniel and Jason.

To find out that one of these kids has my mom's jewelry

and a pill bottle of hers,

I-I couldn't believe it.

-We learned Daniel and Jason Johnson

would always come by the house, and Diana would give them money.

She would give them food.

-Any link between the boys next door

and the rumors about Diana's death seems far-fetched.

Still, police sit down with Daniel for a formal interview,

intent on learning why he would steal from a neighbor

who had shown him nothing but kindness.

-Daniel was asked the reason why the fight occurred,

and he stated that Jason had ripped a chain

off his girlfriend's neck,

and that's where the fight occurred.

I asked where he got these items,

but he would never tell me exactly

where all the items came from.

-With Daniel refusing to talk,

all police can point to are a series

of unsettling coincidences involving the Burrow family.

But just a day later,

an unlikely person steps forward with information

that could link the recent incidents.

-Another interesting twist comes into this investigation

hen Daniel and Jason's mother, Melinda Harding,

shows up at the police department.

-She comes in real cordial, polite.

I could tell that she had a lot on her mind.

She said that she was the mother of the two young men

who oftentimes got into trouble.

And she said she just had some stuff

that was heavy on her heart.

She wasn't sure if it was true or not,

but she has information on her son.

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-Melinda Harding has approached police

with troubling information about her sons and their connection

to their recently deceased neighbor, Diana Burrow.

-Melinda recounts that her youngest son, Daniel,

was really sensitive, and Daniel drinks all the time.

She described him as an alcoholic.

He was drinking one night,

and she said that when he drank excessively like that,

he would want to talk and just bare himself.

That's when Ms. Melinda knew what he was trying to get to.

-So Melinda proceeds to tell law enforcement

that Daniel told her that his brother Jason confessed to him

that he had murdered Diana Burrow.

-Melinda explains that Jason sold the jewelry

to Daniel's girlfriend,

and it was this transaction that triggered the fight

that ended in Daniel's arrest.

-To have someone's mother come in and to actually say,

"No, it's not Daniel. It was Jason.

Daniel told me he confessed,"

absolutely shocks law enforcement.

She would not have come in to do that

unless she believed, number one,

that Daniel was being truthful with her, and number two,

that her son was capable of doing that.

-After Agent Williams wraps up with Daniel's mother,

he turns his attention back to Daniel,

hoping the secrets she revealed will finally compel him to talk.

-After my interview with Melinda Harding,

her younger son, Daniel Johnson,

he comes in my office and I interview him.

He agreed to talk to me, but he really didn't want to.

And I kept going at him.

I said, "I know you know something

because you told your mother.

Tell me what you told your mother."

And finally he began to talk to me.

-Daniel finally broke down and confessed to them

what Jason had confessed to him.

-Daniel said he and Jason were drunk or high.

Jason, when he gets high, he starts to,

you know, run his mouth a lot.

And he mentioned what he had done to Ms. Diana.

-Daniel tells law enforcement

that Jason held his hand down over her

until she stopped breathing.

[ Daniel crying ]

-Sounds like a fantastic story.

It sounds almost too good to believe.

-Police hold off on interviewing Jason,

despite the fact that both his brother and mother

have accused him of murder.

-It's very calculated not to go to Jason Johnson at this time.

-You want to gather as much information as you can,

because when you do sit down and talk to him,

you want to have all your ducks in a row.

So even if it means not talking to that particular suspect

for a long time, you just take your time

and gather your information.

-One of the things we continuously considered

was that Daniel was not telling us the truth.

His credibility was very suspect.

And so most of everything that we heard,

we needed corroboration.

-For those who knew Jason, he was a petty thief.

He wasn't known to be violent or aggressive in that nature.

So we really still weren't sure

if he was capable of doing what we thought he may have.

-Still, the issue, though, looming out of all this

is the fact that we still don't know how Ms. Burrow died

and whether or not it's a result of natural causes

or it's a homicide.

-Detectives are now zeroing in on two suspects,

Daniel and Jason, but without proof

that Diana's death was anything more than heart failure,

they make a bold decision.

-We still have no way of knowing what happened to Diana.

So at that point in time,

the decision was made from us meeting

that we needed to exhume her body.

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-In the months following Diana Burrow's death,

law enforcement have decided to exhume her body for an autopsy.

They want to know if she died of natural causes,

or was it something more nefarious?

-We did know exhuming the body was not an easy task.

It can take a long time.

-If we were able to get the exhumation approved

and ordered by the court.

At that point then, we reached out to the Burrow family,

brought them up to speed on everything that had happened.

-And they told me that they had heard rumors

that Jason had killed my wife.

It was a shock to me,

and I was kind of, you know, taken back.

The police said, you know, they really had no evidence.

So the only way they could do it is exhume her body.

I wanted to find out the truth,

to find out if she died of natural causes

or if she was murdered.

So I want her body exhumed.

-When I first heard that they were exhuming her body

for a possible murder, I couldn't believe it.

At that point, I still believed she had died of natural causes.

Are they going to pull her body out of the ground

and find something?

I didn't think so, not from what I saw.

But I'm not a medical examiner either,

and we never questioned it at the time of her death.

So I said, "If that's what you want to happen,

I'll support you 100%.

But I don't see why they're exhuming her body."

-So on October 24th, 2012,

the body of Ms. Diana Burrow was exhumed

from Gardens of Faith Cemetery in Lumberton, North Carolina.

-My family was there.

Now, going to get her body exhumed --

that was harder than a funeral for me.

-When the body came up, we did open the vault

and actually opened the casket right there on scene.

We wanted to do it as quickly as possible,

make it as compassionate as you can.

But her body was in pristine condition.

You would not think it had been in the ground

for almost two years, going on.

-When they opened up the vault and took her body out,

put it in a body bag, it was very emotional.

That was [stammers] reliving everything over again,

or worse.

But it was, uh...

it was something that was necessary to do

to get justice for Diana.

-They transferred the body to a body bag,

and from there, it was taken

to the chief medical examiner's office for autopsy

in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

-The chief pathologist performed the autopsy,

and during the course of the autopsy,

she noticed a number of things that had not been noticed prior.

-After they removed the makeup from Ms. Diana,

they found scratches on her ears,

her nose, on the left side of her face.

-And it was unclear where the scratch marks came from.

-The pathologist found her to have soft-tissue injury

to her neck, and also found there to be

teeth impressions in her tongue, which indicated

that her teeth had been closed down on her tongue

at some point prior to her death.

-Somebody had pushed her mouth together.

-A series of x-rays showed that Ms. Diana had

one fractured rib on her upper-left side.

-She also had a fractured hyoid bone.

The hyoid is a small U-shaped bone

that's situated in the middle of the neck, just below the jaw.

And it was cracked.

It takes a significant amount of pressure to break that bone.

These are injuries that we would not have been able to see

had we not had the exhumation and the autopsy.

-To investigators, that's what we were looking for.

That would indicate a lot of pressure

around the neck, the throat area.

That's not a bone that just breaks naturally.

You have to exert pressure on that one.

That was basically all we needed to hear.

The examination also revealed

that she did have some heart disease,

but she did not die of a heart attack.

-The cause of her death was actually

asphyxiation by smothering, or suffocation.

So as a result of this,

the medical examiner revises the cause of death

for Ms. Burrow from natural causes to a homicide.

-This was now officially a murder investigation.

-The autopsy ends over a year and a half

of rumors and speculation,

forcing the Burrow family to question everything

they believed about Diana's death.

-I would never have believed in 100 years

that Diana had been murdered.

She was just kind to everybody.

-It was a punch in the gut.

I had a rage about it.

I thought she had died peacefully.

But then to have someone break a bone in your neck,

I don't think it was peaceful at all.

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-Now armed with clear evidence of murder,

detectives waste no time sitting down with the prime suspect,

her neighbor Jason Johnson.

-At that point, Jason is in a state prison,

having been sentenced for violating his probation

for some prior break-ins.

-We set up the interview in prison,

and Jason agrees to talk to us.

At first, Jason was like, you know, "What's going on?"

He's not really sure. But he was just playing coy.

-We tell him why they're there

and that the death of Ms. Burrow --

that it's been ruled a homicide.

-He was just adamant that he did not have anything

to do with her death.

-Jason also at the same time indicates

that he doesn't believe his brother had anything

to do with it either.

-In the end, we ended the interview.

We thought we had enough to go after him,

but he didn't break, so he was sent back to prison.

-At this point, it's a disappointment.

Until we had that confession,

we were basically pitting one person,

one witness with very little credibility,

against another person with very little credibility.

Without some direct statements that indicate

that he was involved in Ms. Burrow's death,

law enforcement will not be able to move forward.

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-Jason Johnson is the prime suspect

in the recently discovered murder of Diana Burrow.

But he's not admitting to anything.

-We still don't have any direct evidence

that he committed this murder.

We're gonna have to have some sort of confession

on the part of Jason.

So the decision is made to take another attempt at him.

-Approximately five days later,

the second interview was conducted.

It's kind of unconventional because a lot of times

you get one shot at somebody

and if they're not gonna break, they don't break.

But we wanted to give it a shot with Jason one more time.

New tactic this time was,

I'm gonna charge you family members.

-He takes a very hard line to get a confession from Jason.

Police say, "Since it's not you, it's your brother, Daniel,

because he had the property on him.

And that's who I'm gonna charge.

And you know what?

I'm gonna charge your mother because she knew about this."

-At that point, to our surprise, Jason broke.

Jason claimed that when he broke into the house,

he was just looking for something to steal

so he could go out and buy more drugs.

-And he just grabs her,

puts his hand on her face over her nose,

and proceeds to smother her.

-He said he looked away and basically just smothered her

until she didn't move anymore.

He said he didn't know what he was doing.

He had no intentions on harming

or certainly not killing anyone.

-Jason goes on to tell law enforcement

that Daniel knew nothing about this.

He was not present. He was not part of the break-in.

He was not there when he killed Ms. Burrow.

-Jason is already incarcerated

in North Carolina Department of Corrections,

but immediately after the interview,

he also formally charged with first-degree murder

and first-degree burglary.

-When initially we found out that Jason was the one

who had murdered my wife,

it was very surprising to the whole family

because she was always kind to these boys,

and Jason -- he act like he respected Diana enough

to be more of a protector to her than harm to her.

-Approximately seven months later, in June of 2013,

Jason is formally indicted for both of those charges.

We are now two years plus from the date she passed away.

At that time, the state then designates it as a capital case,

which means Jason could be sentenced to life

without possibility of parole or death.

-The first thing you want is death.

But given the track record

of the death penalty in North Carolina,

it was highly unlikely that was gonna happen

because it wasn't premeditated.

So I wanted as many years as he could get,

possibly without parole.

-This case continues over the course of several years

for different hearings

and trying to schedule a potential trial date.

-The wheels of justice turn pretty slowly

in Robinson County,

and the reason is they don't have resources.

There's a long line of people waiting trial.

-And eventually, the suggestion was made

to see if we could try to resolve the case.

-The D.A. talked to me about a plea bargain.

He suggested a minimum of 40 years,

a maximum of 50.

-Obviously, he's gonna be in jail for quite a long time.

-The Burrow family agrees to the plea deal,

and five years after Diana's murder,

Jason is sentenced to 50 years in prison.

-The first time we'd seen Jason

since the murder was in the courtroom at that time.

It was challenging for my whole family

to see him face-to-face.

I spoke to Jason.

He did say he was sorry, apologized.

And I told him that it was hard,

but I-I forgave him.

But I hoped that God would forgive him.

-Mom was a very caring lady,

and I know in my heart she's in a better place.

That's how I deal with it.

-Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of her.

I miss Diana's companionship, her honesty, her love.

I could never find anyone to even come close to replace her.

Lots of things my wife did, I probably took for granted.

So for anyone who's listening to this,

I hope that you take it to heart,

if nothing else, that you love the ones

that you love and let them know.