They were high school sweethearts.

We both expected to spend the rest of our lives together.

But when she was murdered, sympathy turned to suspicion.

His palm print was on the murder weapon.

No question it was his.

But the mystery was just beginning because the DNA was some other male.

Now, as a town chooses up sides and families fight for justice,

start to leave your developments in a shocking murder.

When you've got something that is this bad, somebody's got to pay.

Somebody has to pay.

She was lovely, the young woman at the heart of our story.

A beauty queen, in fact.

So your first impression is probably locked in.

It's very unlikely to change.

And certainly that's how it was in Russellville, Arkansas,

a town where a first impression hardened

like a patch of cement about her.

And also for better or worse, about the young man accused of killing her.

The boyfriend who found the body.

The boyfriend who found the body.

First impressions die hard, including first impressions of murder.

And years later in this small southern town we had to ask, can the ever change?

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