Kyle Ocker @Kyle_Ocker 39m39 minutes ago
Story from this morning's testimony from Bill Carter. Court reconvenes at 1:15 p.m. with Bill Carter still on the stand for direct examination:
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Bill Carter: Life ‘will never be the same’
Father testifies in murder trial against son
March 14, 2019
"COUNCIL BLUFFS — Prosecutors hadn't even finished their cross-examination of Jason Carter’s father before lunch Thursday.
Testimony from Bill Carter, at times emotional, about his late wife Shirley Carter will take more than three hours in the first-degree murder case against Jason Carter....
While over time after the death of his wife of 52 years, Bill Carter began to believe his son is who killed her.
That wasn’t always the case, however. Thursday, he recalled feeling angry after the media reported the public was not in any danger. Bill Carter believed that seemed to imply they felt family perpetrated the killing, specifically either himself or Jason Carter.
“That made me mad, angry. I was telling [county attorney Ed Bull], and the sheriff and Mike Motsinger, the head of DCI at that time, I said, ‘I have a good family.’ I said, ‘This didn’t happen within my family.’”
In the midst of his anger, he said, he repeated what Jason Carter had told him: That Shirley Carter was cold and stiff.
But Bill Carter said she wasn’t. At the scene, he touched her body three times. She was cold, but he was able to lift her head up to kiss her on the forehead
He was just angry and taking it out on the three leading the investigation, he said.
About three years prior to Shirley Carter’s death, a nearby methamphetamine lab was busted and the nearby public was told to lock their doors and keep a lookout, Bill Carter remembered.
“The boys that were running it took off into the timber. And we all got phone calls to look our doors and be on the lookout. And then my wife is laying there dead, and they say, ‘Don’t worry about it.’”...."
Bill Carter: Life ‘will never be the same’
