#Dateline left for dead trial

Video of Hagan's interview with police is played during the episode, showing investigators realizing that cell phone triangulation and security cameras show his confession wasn't consistent with his story. Suspicion later began to fall on Hagan, as acquaintances of Hagan recounted stories they'd heard of Hagan stealing or borrowing money from friends and family. The family believed Halee may have given police information on Rice at some point as she was suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the child's death. They also discovered a missing gun and learned that Hagan paid his father $210 that he owed him the morning after Halee was killed.įamily and authorities in the episode talked about the suspicion initially cast on Thaddeus Rice, a friend of Halee's who was implicated in the death of his infant son, Jackson Wheeler. In the episode, investigators detail that after Hagan's arrest they recovered a towel from the Hagan home that was the same type and color as a towel from the Hagan home.

#Dateline left for dead trial

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