TWENTY-ONE
SEPTEMBER 3
At 2:00 p.m., Detective Marshall Jennings was shown into the conference room where Chris, Beth and Marty Jackson waited. They exchanged greetings and then Jennings sat down and folded his hands.
Marty Jackson said, “Okay, Detective Jennings, you have the floor. Tell us why we are here.”
Jennings looked first at Chris and then at Beth. He thought for a moment and then said, “I wanted to share my thinking with you and maybe you can tell me if I’m right.” No one spoke, so he continued. “Let me remind you that you both began by lying about the date of your interaction with Mr. Carson. You admitted that you actually went to his home on Friday, the date of his death, rather than Thursday, only when we had the cell phone data establishing that you were there. That fact
