Snapped: Women Who Murder - Johnetta Hall

Episode Date: February 15, 2026

An Indiana collector of race car memorabilia is found shot in broad daylight with no eyewitnesses.Season 33 Episode 13Originally aired: Jan 28, 2024Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A hardworking Army veteran is shot dead with no witnesses. The man's laying on the ground in the middle of the driveway. I think he's dead. This was a complete who-done it. Your instant gut feeling is this is going to be a tough one. But the victim's sons are convinced they know exactly who's to blame. She was hoping he would die in the hospital. We go back over there and all his 100,000 pieces worth of NASCAR and Hot Wheels.

Everything was gone. And there's animal species everywhere through the whole house. The urine smell was so strong, she was going to make sure it was unlivable. When investigators finally uncover the truth, it reveals a plot even more bizarre. He told detectives that he was a trained assassin. And what were you supposed to get out of this? A lot of women. She wanted to make sure that she got what she felt like was owed to her.

In southern Indiana, residents of Scott County enjoy a peaceful lifestyle. It's a rural community that's made up of a lot of hardworking, blue-collar citizens. It's got a small town fuel all the way around. Everybody knows everybody. But on September 27, 2015, that sense of security is disrupted by an alarming 911 call. Please help me. What's the problem? The man's laying on the ground in the middle of the driveway. I think he's dead.

The caller, Leo Boutera, says he's a mechanic who came to the house to work on a car. I'm not going to touch him or nothing. I'm not going to even open the gate. I'll get an EMS and sheriff and rap. When first responders arrived to the scene, there was a gravel driveway that led kind of back off of the road behind another residence. I saw a man lying behind a gate. There was blood coming out of his nose and around his mouth. As I approached, I knew immediately that something was not right.

I waved my hand over the top of his eyes. I saw no movement in the pupils. And upon further investigation, I could see that there was a hole in the side of his temple. I checked for a pulse and didn't get a pulse. And I was able to ascertain at that moment that he was obviously deceased. And the caller, Leonard Butera, was standing there explaining to them what he seemed. He believed that subject to be Bill Reynolds because Leonard was a friend of his. And he was able to tell first responders who Mr. Reynolds was and who his family members were so that contact could be made with them.

On a call like this, you can never determine immediately if it's a self-inflicted gunshot wound or not. In this case, the location of the wound, it was a toss-up. Crime scene tech from the Indiana State Police was summoned. he moved the body to see if there was a gun underneath. There was no gun, no shell casing, nothing. The Indiana State Police immediately considered this a homicide and were at full speed with her investigation. We were going to figure out what happened to Bill Reynolds.

Bill Reynolds was born in Dayton, Ohio on July 28, 1946. He grew up in a broken home and learned to fend for himself from a young age. My dad didn't talk about his childhood a whole lot because I don't think it was the greatest. When he was younger, he lived with his mother. And as he got a little older and became a teenager, he moved from Ohio into Indiana. He was a family man.

You know, he took real good care of his family, his mom, his sisters. At 18, Bill married his high school sweetheart, intending to start a family of his own. Those plans were soon disrupted. It wasn't long after they got married that he was drafted into the Army. And of course at that point, you know, he had to go overseas to Vietnam. So I'm sure that that had somewhat of a strain, you know, with my mother and my dad's marriage. While Bill was overseas, his wife gave birth to their first son.

But Bill still had several more years left on his tour of duty. He was over about four years. He got all kinds of medals. My dad's seen a lot of things over there that he never talked to us about. It was, you know, the way hunter said it's pretty dramatic, pretty traumatizing. He was ready to get out of there. Dad came back from the service to Indiana, and then my mother got pregnant again with me. Dad bought a small little house there in Blotcher, Indiana,

and that's where him and my mother lived and began to raise their family. My dad got a job. He worked at the lumber mill. at that time for his brother, and they seemed to be doing really well. My mother and my father was married for about eight, nine years. You know, they had a great relation. And then, I guess they finally just fell out of love, and then they went their separate ways when I was about seven.

After his divorce, Bill started working as a long-haul truck driver. My dad was very adventurous. The whole truck driving thing gave him the opportunity to explore and do the things that he. really like to do and also get a paycheck for it. When he was home, Bill spent his free time refurbishing cars. He liked, you know, fast cars, corvettes, firebirds, whatever the new car was that had the biggest motor and the fastest engine. But as he got older, you know, car prices went from $5,000 to $40, $50, $60,000.

So I think at that point he kind of transferred that over to watching NASCAR on TV and collecting the NASCAR cars, the die-cast car. He started picking his favorite drivers. He felt like they're going to be worth money someday, so this is going to be an investment for me. By the time he was in his 50s, the kids were grown, and Bill was living a solitary life.

But he got another chance at love when he met a single mother named Dalyne Cates. He seemed that she had some koalas for sale, So he went over and got a Tuawa. Reed told me, hey, I met someone, Henry. She has red hair, and she reminds me of Reba McIntyre. My dad always had kind of like a TV crush on Reba. So when he met Dalyne, he thought this is the woman that I've looked for my whole life.

After only a few months together, Bill asked Dailene and her grandkids to move in with him, while Dailene's daughter, Janetta, worked on the road. Janetta lived out of state, and she was. was also a truck driver on the road a lot, was never home. Bill was an amazing, Papa. He was great. Dalyne mainly fell for Bill because of the way he was with my brother, Michael. It's very hard to find a man who is willing to take on the responsibility of a handicapped

child who requires 24-hour care. It seemed like my dad in Maris had a very good relationship. was one time. I was learning to drive, and I might have accidentally busted the headlight. Bill lied to my grandmother and said it was him who did it, so she wouldn't be mad at me. In 2013, Bill decided to give marriage another try. Dalyne accepted his proposal, but Bill soon faced a new setback. About two years after my dad and him got married, he ended up with cancer on his stroke. Dad, going through Vietnam, surviving, making it through all that.

He's a pretty tough guy. So he beat it, he made it. You know, the surgery was a success, and he made it out okay. So dad was excited, and he was ready to continue on with his life. Less than a year after his recovery, Bill is found dead in his driveway. Evidence at the scene indicates Bill was murdered. The question for investigators is, why? Anytime you pull up to a crime scene with no witness, no murder weapon,

no physical evidence at the scene, and a victim laying there in broad daylight with nothing to go off of, your instant gut feeling is this is going to be a tough one. We did search to residents. At that time, we did not find any evidence or anything that lead us to believe that anything had occurred inside it. As the coroner prepares to transport the body for an autopsy, Bill's sons arrive at the scene. And they have a strong feeling about who killed their father. Henry Reynolds and William Reynolds could see their dad laying in the driveway, and they were very upset.

The police officers. They're telling me to back up, and I melted down, and I was screaming. They killed him, they killed him, they killed. Coming up, the prime suspect turns out to be someone close to home. She was acting very awful. strange and he could just tell something's not right here. And the investigation gets stranger at every turn. We walk into my dad's house and there's animal species everywhere and everything was gone.

The Scott County Sheriff's Office is investigating the murder of 69-year-old Bill Reynolds, who was found shot in the driveway of his Indiana home. We had no weapon. We had no shell casings. This was a complete who-done it, and we had no witnesses available to us. While the crime scene offers little explanation, Bill's sons tell police they know someone who might have wanted him dead. After the arrival of the family on the scene, they were immediately interviewed by deputies.

Bill's sons explained that their father's battle with cancer had caused a strain on his marriage. And when Bill managed to recover, Dalyne was anything but relieved when he was ready to return home. Me and my brother went down to pick him up from the hospital to take him home over there. Dad goes back to the residence and he starts noticing there's some pretty peculiar things going on, which a bunch of his clothes were packed up. Dalyne was acting very odd and strange, and he could just tell something's not right here. He said I need some clean clothes. And she said, they're outside on the porch.

He said, what's my shit doing outside on the porch? She just said, I was cleaning. And he said, cleaning, he don't vacuum seal people's clothes and put them on the back porch. She was boxing them up to get rid of them. They soon discovered Dalyne made some other changes as well. He gave Dalyne the power of attorney. so if he don't make it out, she takes care of the belongings.

When they was in the hospital, she took all of his car titles and put them all in her name. Daly had put the piece of property in both of their names as well. He kind of put two and two together that she didn't think I was going to make it through surgery. She was hoping he would die in the hospital. The chilling realization led Bill to end the marriage. Once he filed for divorce, things got pretty heated. She filed a restraining order against my dad, so dad had to leave the residence, and then dad went and lived with my brother. Bill's son say, as soon as he moved out, Dalyne's daughter, Janetta Hall, moved in.

Jeanette Hall had come back to Indiana and was staying at the residence with Dalyne Cates. Dalyne did not have many friends, so she would talk about her and Bill's arguments. with Jonetta invent to her, which in turn would make Jonetta feel as if she had to defend Darlene. Jonetta was very emotional and very upset. And the problems only got worse. Anytime you file for divorce, you're technically not supposed to touch any of the property or get rid of any of the property. My dad felt like that Deline was hauling all the property off the premises. So my dad, talked to my brother and I

into taking a video camera and video on as much as we possibly could of what was there. He had probably had over 100,000 pieces worth of NASCAR's in Hot Wheels. And he had Dale Earnhardt Jr. in his

bathrooms from the floor, stacked all the way to the silver, and he had the gold series and the platinum series in the house. They worth quite a bit of money because they're 24-carat gold cars. The family had indicated us that the collection was worth

probably in excess of $100,000. As we went and videoed the cars, everything was there, he was just trying to protect himself. So at the end, it could be split evenly and fairly, and that he was going to be taken advantage of. As divorce proceedings moved forward, in August 2015, the court-aworted bill possession of the residents. The judge ordered Dalyne to vacate the property by September 20th, just a week before, before Bill was murdered. We go back over there and all his NASCAR, everything was gone.

His truck was gone. Everything was gone. She had twawas. We walk into the house and there's animal species everywhere through the whole house. The urine smell was so strong that you couldn't even stand to be in there more than five minutes. I mean, we had to open up all the windows and all the doors.

And she was that upset. that she had to vacate the premises, that she was going to make sure it was unlivable. Dalyne had also left behind a thinly veiled threat. When we went on in the living room, in his chair said a can of Remington gun off. Like, here you go. And he kept saying, they're going to kill me,

they're going to kill me, they're going to kill me. Dalyne was extremely mad about the fact that she was not awarded the house. She believed it was completely and utterly unfair to her. She cussed, ranted, and raved about it multiple times a day. But despite his concerns, Bill refused to be intimidated. They had spent several days cleaning the house to try to get it to the spot where it was livable. And the night of September 27, 2015 was actually going to be Bill Reynolds' first night back in his residence. There was nothing left, but, you know, the burst.

essentials. The vehicles, with some of them was still there, you couldn't start it or nothing. So that's when he had Leo Boutaire come over to his place so he could start it and driving around. But when they showed up there, that's when they found him dead. William and Henry Reynolds believe that Dalyne had murdered their father, Bill Reynolds, because they were going through a divorce and she wanted to make sure that she got what she felt like was owed to her. Given the information that had been provided by the sons of Bill Reynolds, detectives decided it was imperative to make contact with Dalyne Cates. Investigators called Dalyne and set up a meeting with her at her new residence later that night.

They sat down on the front porch. It was at that time that Dalyne was made aware the bill was deceased. Dalyne seemed visibly upset at that news. She indicates that they had their trouble, but she'd been with him a long time, and she did care about him. Despite Dalyne's emotional reaction, police noticed some red flags. She had been cleaning and had cleaning supplies out, given the fact that they had just left the scene of a murder. It immediately raises suspicions that somebody is trying to clean up evidence. Dalyne was asked directly if she has shot Bill Reynolds, and she said, no.

It would be more personal to her. She would use a knife or a bat. She would not use a gun. The reaction of hearing is, like, is she saying this right now? Was asked whether or not she owned any weapons. She told law enforcement that she owned a 4-10 shotgun and a 38 special that she had not seen for quite a. some time. She indicated it could either be in storage or in some box somewhere from the move.

She was also asked if she'd been with anybody to determine whether she was involved or not or if she has a solid alibi. Ms. Case indicated that she had been cleaning her new residence with her daughter, Jonanna Hall. She indicated that Ms. Hall left the residence around two o'clock to go get some groceries in Madison, Indiana. Daylene was asked if she would provide her cell phone, because in that cell phone, we can tell her GPS location, you know, where she was at the time of the crime. She expressed that she had nothing to hide in this investigation,

and she was willing to give her phone up. Dalyne remains a suspect, but there's still someone else police want to talk to. I needed to make contact what Janetta, to determine her whereabouts and any involvement, if any. Chief Deputy Don Campbell made me aware of some recent police involvement with Jonetta Hall.

The police had been called out there a couple times for harassment calls or things of that nature. He said, Johnetta was tough to deal with. We're still left with questions, a lot of questions. After their interview with Dalyne Cates, investigators follow up on her alibi involving her daughter, Janetta Hall. You have to work looking at every avenue,

every lead. You cannot leave anything on interned. It was decided that I was going to try to reach out to Johnetta Hall. I was, I actually obtained her phone number through our dispatch from recent calls of service. I placed a phone call to Jonetta and she didn't answer. I left a voicemail and explained that I was an investigator with the sheriff's office and that I needed to speak with her in an investigation. A few hours later, Johnnetta shows up in person. Around 8 p.m., the night of the murder,

Jonnetta arrived at the sheriff's office, and we conducted an interview with her. We just wanted you to have me in. We'll have a... I'll talk to you a little bit. I guess I want to talk to you about it. Okay, Bill's found dead today. Huh?

Yeah. Just a few hours ago. She did not ask, you know, oh my gosh, what happened? That was a red flag for us in this investigation. Are you curious at all how Bill died? You haven't asked? I don't know what to think about it. I really, I really don't.

I don't anybody who would have wanted to do harm to build. I don't really get all into Bill's business as far as, you know, who and what he knows. I mean, he's not exactly on a lot of people's nice list of way. I know that. When confronted with the fact that she was not concerned, her explanation was that it wouldn't surprise her if someone had killed him. because that's just the way he had been dealing with people. Some of the drugs that they had him on, they were crazy. Because he had that he was cancer in the while back, or?

I mean, it's stopping him to himself. She had explained that there used to be a great relationship between Dalyne and Bill. She blamed the change in things on cancer, and that after the treatments, that had changed his personality. He became a vindictive individual, that he was very rude and hard to deal with. I could tell that Janetta did not like Bill Reynolds. It was like almost personal based on just her demeanor.

Janetta's behavior shifts her from being an alibi witness to a potential suspect. She was asked the same questions as Dalyne was asked. Tell us a little bit about your day, how your days went, where you've been. We're trying to establish a baseline. So you have 10.30, what's you? I'm normal. I've got coffee, cigarette. I might see.

I started a load of laundry. Jonnetta Hall tells law enforcement that she had been helping her mother clean at the new residence, but that she had left the residents to take a rug to a storage unit. She also says that after leaving the storage unit, that she went to the Circle K in Austin, Indiana,

to buy bread. After leaving the Circle K, she headed north and headed through the Muscatatuck Wildlife Preserve. And I'm just driving around trying to get myself lost. I was doing a really good job over to you. It's a quiet country, you know. That's what I did. Just drove around.

That stuck out as odd to me, you know. It was an odd statement. Why are you trying to get lost? How much feeling you were by yourself a whole time? Oh, that's how I just kind of unwinded. Well, I haven't had alone time since. all in this. So I decided today, I'm just going to take off. There was nobody to corroborate or verify where she was at when she claimed she was at these places.

So with the not being witness, we ask her for any evidence. I know, you don't look good for me. I get all that. And she was eager to produce that receipt to law enforcement to show where she had been at the Circle K buying the bread. She provided us with her cellular device and her password to Google and gave us permission to explore that. And in doing so, we were able to extract GPS coordinates locations from a certain time frame before the murder, after the murder, and during the murder. To their surprise, investigators find out Janetta's telling the truth. With her statement that she was all up in the wildlife refuge, we were able to find those points

and show that she indeed was up there driving around. Officers were able to search Jeanette Hall's vehicle, and once again, they came up with no evidence. It was kind of like a kick in the teeth. It kind of set us back. At the end of the initial interview of Janetta Hall, detectives let her leave the sheriff's office. And although she was free to go, officers seemed to have some suspicions and didn't feel comfortable with the way that had gone.

So they wanted to make sure they did some additional follow-up to what they had learned. police talked to Dalyne's neighbors who support her alibi. It was confirmed that Dalyne had been at her residence, or on that property for all of the day, had helped the neighbors clean some cabinets, and according to the neighbors, she had not left. Detectives asked them if Dalyne or Johnetta had asked them to lie for them about their whereabouts on the day of the murder.

They stated that they did not. Investigators still feel like the women aren't telling them the whole story. Just didn't feel like she was answering our questions truthfully or wholly, I should say, because of the history, the family history, that raised the hair on the back of your neck, that you might be on the right path. There are some red flags that need to be followed up on this investigation. Coming up, a suspect's cover story comes under scrutiny. Why did she lie?

Why did she say she was there by herself? And a murder plot unfolds. He called him and said, can you pick me up my apartment? I got a job to do. And he knew then they were going to kill somebody. With Dalyne and her daughter, Janetta's whereabouts both accounted for,

it seems neither woman could have been Bill Reynolds shooter. But since they both have strong motives, investigators still believe they must. might have been involved. Sometimes people responsible for murder don't actually carry out the act. They're responsible for potentially planning it, potentially aiding and assisting in the murder by providing a murder weapon. There's a whole list of things that could include someone in a crime that can't be ruled out

just by a location alibi. The next morning, an autopsy was performed on Bill Reynolds, Sr. There was a partial projectile that was recovered in the 38 caliber range. Dailene indicated that she had a 38 revolver, but she did not know where that gun was located. Detectives wonder if Jonetta might have had a reason to move the weapon. We was able to obtain the surveillance footage from the Storage Express facility that Jonetta had said that she had placed a rug in,

and also from the Circle K gas station where she provided us with the receipt. Upon obtaining the surveillance videos, it was learned that Janetta Hall was in fact. at the Storage Express in Austin, Indiana, and at the Circle K, around the same time frame. But despite her previous claims of solitude, Janetta was not alone. The detectives noticed that Janetta Hall was with two male individuals at both places. And why did she say she was there by herself? With the Circle K surveillance footage, you could see individuals, which couldn't really see facial features.

But we were able to get a license plate, a picture. of the license plate on the vehicle from the storage express's camera. Officers were able to run that plate. It was a temporary plate that was traced back to a male individual by the name of Jacob Mathis. None of our local law enforcement knew who they were. It was important that investigators found out who Jacob Mathis is. We were provided with a possible apartment that he was staying at in Clarksville, Indiana.

On September 28th, the day after the murder, police were. locate Jacob and he agrees to come in for an interview. Mathis, when asked, you know why you're here, said, I have a feeling that something bad has happened. They knew then that they might have someone in front of them that has knowledge of this murder. They began explaining to Jacob that they were conducting a death investigation. And Jacob openly admitted that he had went to Scott County.

The day of the murder, September 27th. He indicates that he and one of his roommates met a lady named Janetta at a storage facility and a team of NASCAR memorabilia. He said that he and his roommate was going to start a business or that they would sell NASCAR memorabilia or other items on the internet. Although he freely admits his connection to Janetta, Jacob denies that he or his roommate had any further involvement. There are certain people he will give names to, but certain individuals he won't

won't say their name. But after hours of questioning, the pressure begins to take its toll. He accidentally lets the name of his roommate, Kerry Heald's slip, during conversation. They're also able to determine that Janetta Hall is the mother of his roommate's girlfriend, the Maris. They finally confront him and ask about him being in Scott County and if he was at the residence of Bill Reynolds. At that point, Jacob breaks down and confesses to everything.

He stated that he had called him and said, can you pick me up my apartment? I got a job to do. And Jacob stated that he knew then they were going to kill somebody. They drove about 30 to 45 minutes to a rural area, carried back the car up, kind of blocking. He reported the driveway in the fence. He reported seeing that.

And Jacob stated that Carrie shot Bill Reynolds in the driveway. And when they got back in the car, Carrie handed Jacob the gun and said, wipe that off. He says that he takes a shirt or some kind of cloth material from his vehicle and wipes off the revolver, sticking it, I believe, in the passenger side floorboard of his vehicle. At that point in time, Jacob just became involved in a murder. He further indicated to police that he had been involved with some meetings regarding the killing of the individual. between Janetta Hall, Ameris Bunyard, and Carrie Heald. He told detectives that Carrie Heald had been hired by Jenna

Hall because he was a trained assassin, and that Jacob Mathis was a master body disposal expert. Officers did reach out to the homicide division from Louisville, Kentucky, and nothing ever came of that, and there's no reason to believe that any of that was actually true. Based on his statement, Jacob is arrested. for murder. And investigators pick up the alleged shooter, Kerry Heald, for questioning.

Healed initially stated that he was not in Scott County on September 27, 2015 at all. We quickly confronted him. There are certain facts that I could prove. And it's like crazy. The only thing I can't prove is do that out of the Carnshaw bill. You understand that. I know that you and Jacob went up there with the plan to kill Bill. Yes or no?

He initially pointed to Mathis as the shooter. But the further the interview progressed, we started pointing out some inconsistencies with the story and used some information from Mathis' interview against him, and he initially turned around and confessed. He stated that he did kill Bill Reynolds, that him and Mathis were hired by Jonetta Hall to carry out this murder, and that Johnetta Hall provided them with the weapon to use.

And the agreement was that she was to be given the weapon back, and then she would dispose of it. What'd she do with the gun? Oh, no. And what were you supposed to get out of this? A lot of money. How much? $500,000. What was that money coming from?

All the NASCAR calls. He took NASCAR memorabilia as payment for this crime. Carrie Heald indicated that at first he did not want to commit this murder, but that Janetta Hall had continued to tell him things about Bill Reynolds to finally goad him into accepting this offer. The straw that broke the camel's back was she had indicated that Bill Reynolds had been sexually assaulting Amaris Bunyard. I'd be honest with you. I don't just want you know. I feel really bad for you. I'm sad that you did what you did. Investigators immediately placed Carrie under arrest. Carrie Ray healed as my son. It made no sense to me that Carrie Ray would ever do anything like that.

On the news site, Carrie Ray smugshot is right there on the TV and that he was arrested and a murder. That's how I definitely found out about it. I didn't believe for a second that he had done it. Now, detectives set their sense. The objectives set their sights on the remaining co-conspirators. The next step in this investigation is going to be to interview Amaris Bunyard and re-interview and potentially arrest Jonetta Hall for the murder of Bill Reynolds.

Armed with Jacob Mathis and Kerry Heald's confessions, Indiana police bring Jonetta Hall in for another round of questioning. At this point in the investigation, we had the statements of murder being that Janetta Hall had hired Carrie Heald to commit the murder. And the things that had been offered to him as payment, when confronted with these things, she decided that she didn't want to speak, that she wanted to exercise her right to an attorney,

and she was placed under arrest by the Scott County Sheriff's Office. Jeanette's daughter, Ameris, is more forthcoming. So on September 29th, 2015, a detective with the state police and myself interviewed Amaris Bunger. In my gut, the minute I saw them, I said, I knew. I knew I wouldn't be going home that night. I was still very freaked out over the whole situation.

She stated that she was present for several meetings and that they all were involved in conversations and planning on murdering Bill Reynolds. She further indicated that during the move of Dalyne Cates, Janetta Hall took a handgun, slid it into the purse of Amaris Byrard, and told her to conceal it, so that Daly and Cates did not see it being removed from the residents

and to go out and give it to Cary healed. John Nutter kept saying things like we don't want Dalyne to do something stupid. So we snuck all of these weapons out of the house. I never thought in a million years that Carrie would actually do anything. Who really accepts to kill somebody for NASCAR? In my mind, that's just not a thing. But a few weeks later, he proved Amaris wrong. Carrie told me while we were in the car, he said, I just came back from killing your grandfather.

He said, I walked right up to him, and I put the pistol between his eyes and pulled the trigger. They left him in the driveway. Just left him there. Amaris's statement implicates her in the murder, but also confirms that. Dalyne was not involved. After only two days of investigation, three of the four suspects in Bill Reynolds' murder are now in custody. In February of 2016, Amaris Bunyard joins her co-conspirators behind bars. It was important that we get, in my opinion, the two biggest players, which were Janetta Hall and Carrie Heald. Carrie Heald being the shooter and Janetta Hall being the mastermind,

To do that, we needed the cooperation of the other people involved. Rather than face a jury, Carrie pleads guilty in exchange for his cooperation with authorities. Amaris and Jacob take similar deals. In September 2020, Janetta's trial begins. In the prosecution of this case, we had a lot of evidence, but one key piece of evidence that we never ended up with was the murder weapon. Although the prosecution's case is largely circumstantial, they believe the motives speak for themselves. Jonetta Hall committed this crime because she thought that her mother was getting out of a relationship and not going to get anything. She was extremely upset that she did not get her way and that bill won and was able to relinquish the property back.

I think the motive for Ameris Butter to be involved in this was approval and love from her mother. I knew what type of person Johnetta was. I never honestly took the situation seriously until after the fact it had happened. And I didn't do anything. I'm a coward for that. Carrie Heald's motive to conduct this murder was financial gain for him from the things that had been promised him by Janetta Hall. I would label Jacob Mathis as a follower. Heald showed him the tension that I think that he needed.

And he would have followed Carrie Heald under the gates of hell if he'd let him. The defense argues there is nothing to connect Janetta to Bill Reynolds' murder other than the word of his confessed killers. But the jury doesn't agree. After a trial that lasted almost two weeks, Janetta Hall was found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, was given life without parole.

And I don't think it took too much for Janetta to snap because, in my opinion, Janetta is a monstrous, vile, and evil human being. She manipulated those kids. She used them to do something that she couldn't do herself. I kept pushing Carrie, wanting him to tell me everything. What would she ever say to you to make you want to do this? And he said, she painted such a picture of such a monster.

And that's what he, you know, fell for. Jonetta Hall had convinced him to go through with this by telling him stories about how Mr. Reynolds had been abusive to her and other family members. However, with follow-up investigation, law enforcement was able to determine that that was not accurate and that that had not been occurring. She took my son's life to you. She took him. She took him away. Janetta had been willing to say anything and sacrifice anyone to get what she wanted, including her own daughter. I didn't think that I would be arrested.

While in county jail after I was arrested, I did make contact with Jonetta in an attempt to find out why things had happened the way they had happened and why she was saying the things she was saying. It made no sense to me. And Ameris pays the price. I eventually signed a plea deal for 30 years, suspend 10 of them, due 20, with a 75% time. So when all said and done, once I am released, I will do 15 years. If I could turn everything around, if I could change what I did and didn't do, I would. I ate myself every day for not being there for the one person who did love me. Even though myself and my family were very satisfied with Janetta getting life without parole,

there's still that void there. It still ain't right behind me. I'm still dealing with it every day. like I go down and put a new flag on my dad's graveyard. He's a Vietnam hero, and he took care of me and my brother, and he just wanted to be remembered. Carrie Heald is serving 55 years in prison for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Jacob Mathis is serving 32 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder. Dalyne Cates was never charged with a crime.