October 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Evil Wife Kills Husband, Pretends To Be A Victim
On August 31, 2010, in Crystal Lake, Minnesota, 37-year-old James Nibbe was shot while he slept in his own bed. His wife, Jennifer Nibbe, called 911 in tears, claiming an intruder had broken in and attacked them.But this shocking Minnesota true crime case was no home invasion. Behind the frantic 911 call was a dark secret: Jennifer wasn’t the victim — she was the killer.Detectives quickly noticed the crime scene didn’t match her story. During Jennifer’s police interrogation, her lies began to unravel, and every answer raised more suspicion. From claims of addiction to suspicious financial motives, the woman who pretended to be a grieving wife slowly exposed the truth herself.What Jennifer finally confessed left investigators stunned — and changed the case forever.
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Lewis County 911 Oh my God, what's going on?
Somebody shot your husband. The person still there that.
Shot him. Is there anybody else in the
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house with you? My son is young.
Oh my God. My penis doesn't.
How old is your son? He's young.
I've done 1616 year old. Oh my God.
Where in the house are you rightnow?
I'm in the basement right now. Is your son in the basement with
you too? Yeah, my son is in my biggest
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too. Tragedy struck on August 31st,
2010 when a stranger shot James Nibby Lee in his sleep.
His wife, Jennifer Nibby Lee, witnessed the whole crime.
Jennifer lived to tell the terrible tale of her husband's
last moments. I.
Couldn't feel a pulse. But something was not adding up.
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Even Jennifer's son, Brady had another story to tell.
Can. You tell me what happened.
Over here, Judy. Well, I was downstairs sleeping
and my mom came in at about 6:00or maybe a little earlier and I
slept right through the gunshot.I guess.
I had a gun downstairs, I have a22 fur hunting and stuff and so
I grabbed that and put some shells in there because I didn't
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know where he was at or anythinglike that.
So I'd go upstairs and she told me to wait down there, but I
went upstairs and I just sat by the in the entryway.
And. We and then she was crying and
stuff and then. We waited.
Till the police got there. Suspicion grew and grew until
Jennifer revealed something theydid not expect.
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And I loaded 1 shell and I came back into the bedroom and I
pulled the trigger. On August 31st, 2010, the Nibby
family's life changed forever. An attacker broke into their
home in Crystal Lake, Minnesota.The whole community was shaken
when an intruder entered the master bedroom and shot James in
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the head with a shotgun. At this time in the morning,
Jennifer had been getting ready to go to work.
Jennifer heard loud bangs. She came out only to see the
most gut wrenching scene in front of her.
James was lying in a pool of hisown blood.
The moment the intruder saw Jennifer walk in, he violently
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attacked her too. He dragged her mercilessly into
the living room, stabbed her multiple times with a fork, and
tied her up with materials that he found in their own home.
Jennifer was saved because the intruder was interrupted by the
family dog's frantic barking. The intruders last words to her
were I would have killed you if it weren't for that dog.
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But things were not adding up and this alleged home invasion.
Nothing was stolen from the house, James was dead and
Jennifer was brutally assaulted.If not a home invasion, could it
have been a personal attack? Luckily for detectives, another
witness was present at the house, Brady Brown, Jennifer's
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son and James Stepson. He was brought in for
questioning, hoping to gather more details about the attacker
or see if the witness himself was a suspect.
After the interrogation, Brady was no longer a suspect, but new
information came to light that transformed this case
altogether. In the interrogation room,
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Jennifer named Paul Hallberger, her ex-boyfriend and James, old
friend, as the person she thought was the attacker.
According to her, she recognizedhis voice and physique as the
unseen intruder. Many years ago, Paul and
Jennifer had been in a relationship, but she had broken
up with him when she met James. She and James got married a year
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later. Detectives sensed a motive.
I'm guessing you know on. The phone, you kind.
Of had mentioned you kind of heard about things that had
happened. What do you know about what
happened? I guess what I have heard is
that, well, initially there is ahome invasion and there was a
murder. OK.
How did you? Find out about this time.
The news. OK.
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When were you involved? In a relationship.
With Jim. I think it was like a year
before they were married. Before she married Jim, yes.
How long was that relationship? To 2-3 years.
Did it end well and. Not very well, no.
How'd you know, Jim? He was just a friend of mine, I
guess. Jim was always a good guy and I
never had a problem with him. You know, it was, it was always
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just kind of between me and Jen,I guess.
Tuesday morning. Do you remember?
Where you were at? Not exactly.
I know I was. I believe I was at work.
Even Jim had mentioned, you know, in her statements.
Or you really should go and talk.
With with my ex. Because, you know, I, I.
Think he's somebody? That you should really look into
and what it, what I'm trying to do with you too, is if there's a
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a surefire way that we can verify where you were at that
morning, it it makes life a lot easier for everybody.
You know what I mean? Right.
Yeah. After interrogating Paul, it
appeared that his alibi was airtight and something far more
sinister surfaced. A ground breaking clue was found
on Jennifer's phone. While detectives searched for
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two weeks for an intruder, Jennifer was quietly hiding the
whole truth. Detectives take her into the
interrogation room only to find out the most twisted story
behind her loss. Jennifer starts by establishing
herself as the victim. She talks about her addiction
and the financial burden as a means to justify what she is
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about to share. I don't know what to say, I
just. Love this to go away I.
Don't. I know what they're going to.
I think sometimes it's what we're talking to you about
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without us knowing what exactly happened.
Like I said, I mean, we know about the drug stuff, John, OK?
If you're out of your mind on drugs, you're out of your mind
on drugs, That's OK. But we need to know that and
hear it from you, I guess is theonly thing you know.
I have an addiction to prescription.
OK, when did it start? I'm so ashamed.
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It's OK. I called.
Prescriptions in for myself, I'mjust.
It's OK. A lot of people have things
happen and a lot of people make mistakes.
You're not the. Only person that's ever.
Been addicted to prescription. Pain medication, was there an
event that kind of started that off that precipitated that?
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Did you get injured or somethingor?
Just I injured my ankle a while ago and it got worse after while
we were dating that first year it wasn't too bad.
And then it was slightly before I think we got married that I
ended up becoming addicted, you know, and needing to have them
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all the time. Otherwise I would go through
withdrawal. OK.
Is it kind of a secret you were keeping to or did other people
know about it much? Nobody know about it.
Nobody know about. It for a while you've been kind
of carrying all the bills and that kind of stuff.
You've been under, you know, a lot of pressure to work 2 jobs.
Three jobs. I'm.
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Sure, that doesn't help. I never wanted to hurt anybody,
but I am an honest person. I'm not a liar.
And I'm always talking to my son, but I've become that
person. I've become that liar that's
finding excuses why I'd be late for work and stuff.
And a lot of it was the meds, a lot, you know, a lot of it was
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the deusing. And I knew I worked in
healthcare. And knew you could use help but
I didn't do it. Jennifer worked 2 jobs to
support her son and James. She also confessed to being
addicted to prescription medication called Tramadol.
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Is addiction enough reason to kill a man?
Not everyone who got addicted toa substance has killed a man.
Nothing can justify her crimes, but this does give an insight
into her mental state leading upto the crime.
I can't face anybody. How do you freeze somebody when
you've done something like this?I know.
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It was like I was there, but what I but I wasn't.
Like you were not in your personwatching yourself do something
and. Don't get rid of the grandma,
get rid of it. Was there voices telling you
that? Did you feel like you were
hallucinating? I don't, I don't know, I.
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You hadn't slept all night, had you?
I could tell that morning you looked like you've been up for
hours and hours. You've been taking way too many
pills. Do you ever?
Do you ever crush them up? Are you ingesting them any other
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way than or? I have some hair or.
Something in my mouth. I usually just took them as
pills No, I didn't I never injected or anything like that.
I well, financially, why they suppose it was because I had to
pay for those and you know, it wasn't cheap, but I also had to
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pay for everything else. Yeah, it seemed like they said.
From what we're what we're hearing, Jim hadn't been working
much up until recently. Up until these last. 4 Right.
So you were carrying the mortgage and the bills and
didn't say working three jobs, it's a lot of pressure.
I don't. Understand how somebody owes on
this, to this, just like that. I don't get it.
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The household had been late on mortgage and utility bills for
months which were paid a loan byJennifer.
Another very compelling piece ofevidence against Jennifer was
regarding an insurance policy that James had taken out in June
2010. This life insurance policy would
pay out a sum of $200,000 upon James death.
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James had revealed this to his boss Darren Deluge.
He also revealed that it was Jennifer's idea and the fact
that Jennifer called the insurance company the very next
day after James death only solidified the belief that money
was a motive behind the crime. What may have seemed innocent at
the time turned out to be a morbid fact of the crime.
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If that were not shocking enough, it was also the same
month when she reunited with another ex-boyfriend, Greg
Nielsen. 1 by 1, her story was falling apart and many motives
were lining up against Jennifer.What what here's the thing.
You, you you said something, Jen, that we can lie to you.
And and you know, we, to a degree, police can, but I'm not
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going to. I, I, I, I'm just, I'm not going
to lie to you. I promise you.
You have my word. I'm not.
I hope you can look into me in the eyes and believe that I'm
not going to lie to you, OK? We don't, we don't want to do
that. We don't need to do that.
You said yourself you've always been an honest person, and
that's, again, all the people we've talked to, your friends,
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your family all say the same thing, OK.
You are of good character, OK? You have no criminal record.
You have worked hard to make something of yourself and you've
worked very hard to make something of Brady.
And he is a Brady kid. He's number one in his class.
He is a good kid. Well, no.
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He's Brady. Can Brady can survive this, OK.
He can survive this, OK? It's going to be hard, OK?
Nobody. 'S going to ever forgive me.
I guess I can't blame them, but.I so.
Sometimes they will. Though I yeah, I don't know that
I would say that. I don't say that that that would
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necessarily be the case. Brady is a sensitive topic for
Jennifer. Each time detectives feel
Jennifer is deviating, they bring him up to push her in the
direction of a confession that it works well because she
immediately reverts to her crimes when her son is brought
up. She clearly does not want Brady
to pay for her crimes. Are they going to make me re
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enact everything? No, I don't.
You know, for it to enter a guilty plea, you have to have to
give some statement of what happened for the court to, for
the judge to be satisfied that it's believable and he accepts
it and, and all those things, you know, because sometimes
crazy as it sounds, sometimes people who didn't do things
sometimes do claim to have done something.
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And so the judge has to make sure that he, he believes, you
know that. But, but as far as actually
reenacting things, no. And I too, a lot of you know,
what we do too is for courts andfor our job for that.
But a lot of what we do too is for people are left by you know,
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we we I personally would would you know, if I I empathize with
the family too, I'm sure the colleague will have all too
exactly right. You know what?
I. Mean and that's that's the
biggest question right now. Probably the the people we
talked to have is they, they want to know how and why, you
know, they, they just want answers.
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You know, they want something that makes they can kind of wrap
their mind around and, you know,say, well, OK, This is why this
all happened. And we kind of got a little bit
of a window into things through our investigation too, you know,
but I'm kind of. A little more there so.
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There's just so many pains goingthrough my head.
I don't know. And it's, it's everything we've.
Talked about. It's the.
Pressure of everything, the finances.
And the drugs and you live you're the one you you live your
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neighbor that nice effects. Jim didn't know anything about
this either. You were able to keep it from
him at least. For the most part, yeah, I would
say it was my headache medicine or stomach medicine now and.
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And, you know, your family and everybody has said, yeah,
Janice, we don't think she's well physically, you know,
that's people. People have told us that that's
they recognize that something's wrong.
They don't know what you know, but.
This is the moment the confession that detectives have
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been waiting for. Now Jennifer will slowly begin
to reveal how she planned the murder and what went down on the
wretched night of August 31st. Like I said.
It was me, but it wasn't me. I know, Jim, what's more
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important than than you know, ithappened.
If you can't back up and do it, obviously you're sorry, OK, You
said to yourself, if you could change it and give your life,
you would. Is that true?
You said that that's what you meant.
Because because there again, those are things that I think
that's important for people to hear that from you.
You know how you how you feel that you're not you're not some
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uncaring OK it. Was horrible.
It was horrible. What didn't?
Happen. They thought it moved on.
What could I feel? What?
And. That's why I made it look like
someone. Tried to hurt me and came in.
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OK, I, I, I want to make sure ona couple things though, that are
important. OK?
Brady had nothing to do with anyof this.
No swear. I swear to God, no.
I swear. To God, he doesn't know anything
about it. He didn't help you set the
scene. Up or anything you.
Truly. You truly didn't wake him up
until no afterwards. I swear to God, I swear.
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I swear on my life. I swear.
Well, I know I, I believe you ifyou swear that that's the truth,
but I do. But I have to ask you that.
I have to be clear on that. I do.
But he had absolutely nothing todo with it.
He was so startled when I went down there because I was on the
phone with 911. When I went down there to ask
him, he he was, he was asleep, you know, he was dead asleep.
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And I called his name twice. And then you finally hold up,
you know, with the big eyes, like, what the hell is going on,
right? You know, so his reactions,
which they seem like they're allvery normal and appropriate for
somebody in that situation, that's all legit.
Yep. OK.
Pretty knew nothing about nothing.
Nothing. Did anybody know?
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About. It no, no.
Caring nobody. Nobody.
OK, nobody. OK, I believe you.
How long had you been thinking about it though, that night?
I mean, like you say, you were up all night.
I went to sleep at one point. OK.
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Because we went to sleep and I think by the time I actually
fell asleep though, it was like probably 12/12/30.
And then I woke up at 4:30 to myalarm.
OK. And I shut that off and I had
fallen back asleep. OK.
And then when it was 5:30, that's when I all of a sudden
got into a panic. And then?
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'Cause I ain't taking some meds.And you hadn't had much sleep.
So. No, it just makes.
Me sick even thinking about it. I know what I did, now I'm.
Sure it's been. Just killing you the last few
days. It's been killing me since the
day had happened. I.
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Think we? We were talking to you too,
yeah. No, that that that it shows.
So I have to carry around. I don't know.
If I But the other thing is thatwhat I do in the gym is in
heaven and that braiding will something go to heaven?
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And then? If I try to take my own life, I
won't be with them because I didcross my mind too well.
I would just encourage you, please don't try to push those
thoughts out because you know what, you made a mistake that
you're still Brady's mother and you're going to beat his mother
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for the rest of his life and andyou need to continue to do that
kind of, you know. Jennifer's world has shattered
around her, her present, her future, all set in prison now.
But is that why she is remorseful?
Or is it truly out of regret forkilling James?
We do need to go through the details or we'd like to just one
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time, OK? And and you do it and we're not
going to push and you do it at your own pace, OK, but but I
know you want to have the truth out there.
Exactly the truth. OK from from start to finish one
time. Where to start?
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Let's start Monday night. Let's start Monday night.
You're with Carrie, right? She was not doing well, not
feeling well. Is that, is that true?
Yep. OK, I thought.
Yes, that was very true and there is something I'd like to
clear up. Supposedly she said that I
didn't go on an ambulance call. I did go on an ambulance call
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that night. On the ambulance call on
Saturday, Saturday night when she was not feeling well as
well. Exactly.
I did go on that ambulance call and she said, oh, I told you and
I said I told you, I went on that ambulance.
Call, so she's mistaken. Yes, yes.
So some things are not always exactly clear on her.
But I will make a for us to square that away and and you
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know what? We can go check the records,
Sure. And they'll show that you were.
There. So exactly, exactly.
I'll be on the run report. Right.
OK, so let's start with Monday night.
When you get you're with Kerry. So Monday night I was with
Kerry. We talked about, let's see, what
did we talk about now? She wasn't feeling good.
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We talked about all that, that work, you know, because they had
tried to I guess get her to workand didn't work.
And the bosses were mad because they had made her come in on
Sunday and I guess she had a work note saying she wasn't
being supposed to be there and stuff.
So so then we went out to Mon Paws because of the whole there
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have been people with flashlights and stuff in the
heart. So we went out there to check to
make sure everything was OK. So that's all true too.
That wasn't made-up or anything about.
That's OK. And Yukon freaking out the other
night, that was true too. That was true too.
OK. And so we checked that out and
tried to reiterate to Paw not to, you know, go outside of
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himself and stuff. And then as I was leaving,
Kerry's, Jim had called and I think I'd missed his call, so I
called him back and said he was just getting home from work.
And so I went back home. Oh, this is horrible.
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I know it's. Horrible though, you guys, I.
Know. And yes, I had to, Jim.
There was a gun Jim had bought for me.
That's true too. That's very true.
OK. Jim bought the gun for me,
wanted me to learn how to targetpractice.
Was he? When?
You got home Monday night. Was he already home or did you
get home first? He was home first night.
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He was outside thinking around. So I said you want to help or I
said do you want me to target shoot?
Because you didn't want me to target shoot.
He bought me that gun. So we target shoot or we we did
our target practice or whatever went inside, got a little to eat
she. Shot first.
Yeah, I think we shot first, then went.
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Inside and. Then went inside the East OK and
then we, me and Brady had our little meatball fight.
And so then I came back upstairsand had finished off the rest of
the meatballs and the mashed potatoes and Jim had been making
some other leftovers and stuff for him.
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And I put the dishes away and OK, brush my teeth.
And then Jim and I went and sat on the couch and watched TV.
And he had set the gun in the corner.
Where? At which room?
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In the what next to the sliding glass door?
OK. He set that in the corner and I
knew the ammo was up there too. OK.
So we had put that there. And he had shown you how to load
the gun and can. Yeah, because we went deer
hunting the year before. I mean, he was trying to teach
me how to do all that with any type of gun that he was getting
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me to use. So and then we watched the news
until 10:30 and went to bed. He was after me.
You were about sex a lot. And there was something that
bothered me. Caused some friction between you
2. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, wanted on a pretty regular basis and and I tried
the best I could, but sometimes they just sometimes they just
had problems with that. And if you continue to push and
push and push and just end up not being on the other person,
you know, right? So.
Just these tension. So there was resentment there
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because it was a constant thing.A constant.
You want to do it, you want to do it, you want it.
And there was no romance left when it came to that.
It was like, fine, just finish and get it over with so I can go
to sleep. I guess so.
To the outside world, Jennifer and James seemed happily
married, but if that were the case, she wouldn't be sitting in
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an interrogation room. Detectives found a solid clue at
the crime scene, Jennifer's personal diary.
The diary had her daily logs where she spoke about Greg and
how happy she was with him. Text messages exchanged between
them were also found. Their chats included intimate
messages between the two and though she had not met Greg
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allegedly, according to their chats, she had planned to be
intimate with him soon. They had planned to meet just
two days after James death. Jennifer was ready to move on.
Almost immediately, another motive became clearer and more
are yet to be revealed. So I laid there and laid there.
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I've taken some pills before I gone to bed.
Do you? Remember how many?
Oh really 6 or 8? Which sometimes when I do that
that I I have a hard time sleeping to begin with because
that is how it messes with me sometimes.
It's kind of like make you agitated it.
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Does it kind of keeps you up, makes you dream and stuff like
that? And so I woke up at alarm went
off at 4:30 and I had shut it off and I think I had a couple
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more pills playing on the night stand that I had taken.
I don't know if I had water there or just took them dry.
I don't even know. And I had fallen back asleep so
and I woke up at 5:30 in a panic.
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And that's when I went out and Igot the code and I loaded 1
shell and I came back into the bedroom and there was a throw
blanket fave in the end of the bed.
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So I took. That and kind of rest the gun.
But this shoulder and then and then just saying then I pulled
the trigger. Oh my God, I'm just so sick.
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This is not me. I am not.
I put the gun down. I hate it in I went to go.
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Find his phone. And I couldn't find it, so I had
to run out to the craft room to get mine.
Check out your. I couldn't feel pulse.
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Where did where did you check onhis neck or his wrist or?
I think I checked on his wrist and his neck.
I can't remember. To be honest with you, I can't.
But at but at that point, you know he was gone.
With everything Jennifer has said, everyone is left in an
utter state of confusion, especially since the 911 call
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sounded so compelling. But after a long wait,
detectives have a true picture of what happened that night.
You just have. To clarify the whole things, OK,
you said that there was a throw.Throw rug is what you describe
it as. Throw a blanket, throw a blanket
and you put that up there shoulder and rest of the gun on
it. Was that for any other reason
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other than to stabilize the gun?Were you trying to make it
quieter so that Brady wouldn't wake up or anything like that?
I mean, was it like around the barrel at all or was that your
thinking at that time to not wake up ready or not?
No, maybe not. I think because it was.
I was shaking so bad it was rattling.
OK, just like you were. Yeah.
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Trembling. Yeah.
OK, it was the same gun that he had tied and shoot.
Yes. And, and what kind of gun is
that? I mean, is it?
A 12 digit. Is it a shotgun, The shotgun,
the scope? OK, and it's the action.
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Do you know what kind of action is?
How you have to load a bullet init?
Like a semi automatic? Is that what you mean do?
You have to pump it. You have.
To pump it. OK.
Is that because there is anothergun up there that Brady brought
up? Yes.
I just want to verify where to sort that out and our scientists
want to do that. And you use the ammunition you
said was the same ammunition andit was, what kind of was it
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birdshot or slug? Slug, OK.
And do you know the difference? No, to be honest, I don't.
OK, no, but that's what you're shooting outside was slugs, I
believe. It was slugs which.
Is what you use for deer honey. Is what you use having to
practice with. I think so, yes.
And I knew what Mike said that we were going to push in.
And is it OK if I ask you? Because I was wondering too.
And, you know, because we talkedthat morning and stuff.
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And then I went in there and you're on the couch sitting
there with Brady. Things are kind of there was
stuff laying there in the room and the chair that was open
stuff. When did all that stuff get put
in the room or changed or because our assumption was that
it, you know, kind of set that, set that stuff up.
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That was. I can't remember if it was
before or after. Do you remember though, what was
put out there and the? And moved around and stuff.
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I know I had searched the chair.I just shoveled the the chair.
Yeah, that like rocking. Yeah, the rocking and the stand.
Next to it. OK.
And the rope of the knife. And where did the rope come from
it? Was on the counter OK.
And the knife is a kitchen knife.
And then beside that big weed cutter thing, where did that?
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How does that come into play in this?
Were you thinking that would help your story about an
intruder or it? Was out in the garage.
In the attached garage. And so you brought that in there
and slayed it down. That would have been before you
called 911. Though, yes.
From the very start, detectives had their suspicions about
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Jennifer. Nothing told the story of an
invasion. The Nibby household was in the
middle of a big farming land. There were no signs of forced
entry or forensic evidence like unknown tire tracks or
footprints, and all the materials needed to aid in the
killing and attack were found inside the home.
What robber comes empty handed, leaves no trace, and attacks
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people with their own household knives and guns?
The evidence was loud and enoughfor the story, but watch as she
explains how Jennifer staged thecrime scene, including hurting
herself. When I talked to you before,
remember I asked you about impact spatter on your clothing.
The clothing that we collected from you wasn't the clothing you
were wearing at the time. It was, but you were very
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confident that there would be noimpact spatter on there.
What is that? Or.
You just were playing it, OK, because that day you said, oh,
there won't be any blood spatteron my clothing.
Oh, I didn't. I don't even remember that, to
be honest with you. I don't.
OK. I just was wondering if if you
had changed clothes or somethingor why you were because you were
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very confident in that answer. And I just was curious because,
you know, usually when there's something, when there's a
gunshot, you know, as you know, there's blood splatter and it
gets on your clothes and the scientists can look at that and
see that it's a different type of stain, you know, versus than
just the last couple things. So the cuts on your legs you
inflicted, the marks on your neck you inflicted ready didn't
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help you inflict any of those things or do any of that.
I know you said he's not involved, but I'm just making
sure. The one mark on your neck looked
like a fork mark. Like a like a fork.
What did you use to make the marks on your neck?
I guess is what I'm asking. You used the knife to make the
marks on your neck. OK.
And same thing with your arms. Yeah.
And the knife that you put out there are a different knife.
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No the same. Knife.
The same knife, OK. There was no way that Jennifer
was getting away with this. From the physical evidence at
the crime scene, to her diary, her hats and other things, her
story was riddled with loopholes.
She escaped the reality of prison for 10 days, but soon she
will be behind bars is. There anything that you want us
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to make sure that goes in the report that the prosecutor knows
that? I mean, I know you're sorry,
right? That's obvious.
That's obvious. But have you talked to anybody
and told anybody about this yet,Jen?
No. Besides us?
No, not your. Called your dad or talk to
anybody? No, Ed Ericsson, you 2 never
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actually slept together. It was all just texting.
So it was just flirting. Absolutely.
There was never anything physical.
Absolutely not. Nothing physical, ever.
No, no. So he he knew nothing of any of
this. No, absolutely not.
Oh, no, no. Didn't say get rid of your
husband. No, no, no, no, no.
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Nothing like that. So he's not involved in this in.
Any way, no, he's not. No, he's not, No.
Jennifer's greed addiction landed her in jail in 2012.
During the trial, Jennifer's attorney, Rich Hillesheim said
there was more to the story behind Jane Nibby's death and
Jennifer's motives. The lawyer claimed that his
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client was the victim of physical and abuse.
He said James's behavior was whya woman with no criminal
background whatsoever ended up doing something so shocking in
the end. In June 2012, District Court
Judge Bradley Walker sentenced Jennifer Nibby to 25 years in
prison. With good time and credit for
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the 700 days she has already served in prison, she could be
placed on supervised release in 15 years.
She is scheduled to be released in 2027.
Lewis County 911 Oh my God, what's going on?
Somebody shot your husband. The person still there that.
Shot him. Is there anybody else in the
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house with you? My son is young.
Oh my God. My penis doesn't.
How old is your son? He's young.
I've done 1616 year old. Oh my God.
Where in the house are you rightnow?
I'm in the basement right now. Is your son in the basement with
you too? Yeah, my son is in my biggest
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too. Tragedy struck on August 31st,
2010 when a stranger shot James Nibby Lee in his sleep.
His wife, Jennifer Nibby Lee, witnessed the whole crime.
Jennifer lived to tell the terrible tale of her husband's
last moments. I.
Couldn't feel a pulse. But something was not adding up.
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Even Jennifer's son, Brady had another story to tell.
Can. You tell me what happened.
Over here, Judy. Well, I was downstairs sleeping
and my mom came in at about 6:00or maybe a little earlier and I
slept right through the gunshot.I guess.
I had a gun downstairs, I have a22 fur hunting and stuff and so
I grabbed that and put some shells in there because I didn't
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know where he was at or anythinglike that.
So I'd go upstairs and she told me to wait down there, but I
went upstairs and I just sat by the in the entryway.
And. We and then she was crying and
stuff and then. We waited.
Till the police got there. Suspicion grew and grew until
Jennifer revealed something theydid not expect.
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And I loaded 1 shell and I came back into the bedroom and I
pulled the trigger. On August 31st, 2010, the Nibby
family's life changed forever. An attacker broke into their
home in Crystal Lake, Minnesota.The whole community was shaken
when an intruder entered the master bedroom and shot James in
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the head with a shotgun. At this time in the morning,
Jennifer had been getting ready to go to work.
Jennifer heard loud bangs. She came out only to see the
most gut wrenching scene in front of her.
James was lying in a pool of hisown blood.
The moment the intruder saw Jennifer walk in, he violently
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attacked her too. He dragged her mercilessly into
the living room, stabbed her multiple times with a fork, and
tied her up with materials that he found in their own home.
Jennifer was saved because the intruder was interrupted by the
family dog's frantic barking. The intruders last words to her
were I would have killed you if it weren't for that dog.
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But things were not adding up and this alleged home invasion.
Nothing was stolen from the house, James was dead and
Jennifer was brutally assaulted.If not a home invasion, could it
have been a personal attack? Luckily for detectives, another
witness was present at the house, Brady Brown, Jennifer's
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son and James Stepson. He was brought in for
questioning, hoping to gather more details about the attacker
or see if the witness himself was a suspect.
After the interrogation, Brady was no longer a suspect, but new
information came to light that transformed this case
altogether. In the interrogation room,
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Jennifer named Paul Hallberger, her ex-boyfriend and James, old
friend, as the person she thought was the attacker.
According to her, she recognizedhis voice and physique as the
unseen intruder. Many years ago, Paul and
Jennifer had been in a relationship, but she had broken
up with him when she met James. She and James got married a year
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later. Detectives sensed a motive.
I'm guessing you know on. The phone, you kind.
Of had mentioned you kind of heard about things that had
happened. What do you know about what
happened? I guess what I have heard is
that, well, initially there is ahome invasion and there was a
murder. OK.
How did you? Find out about this time.
The news. OK.
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When were you involved? In a relationship.
With Jim. I think it was like a year
before they were married. Before she married Jim, yes.
How long was that relationship? To 2-3 years.
Did it end well and. Not very well, no.
How'd you know, Jim? He was just a friend of mine, I
guess. Jim was always a good guy and I
never had a problem with him. You know, it was, it was always
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just kind of between me and Jen,I guess.
Tuesday morning. Do you remember?
Where you were at? Not exactly.
I know I was. I believe I was at work.
Even Jim had mentioned, you know, in her statements.
Or you really should go and talk.
With with my ex. Because, you know, I, I.
Think he's somebody? That you should really look into
and what it, what I'm trying to do with you too, is if there's a
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a surefire way that we can verify where you were at that
morning, it it makes life a lot easier for everybody.
You know what I mean? Right.
Yeah. After interrogating Paul, it
appeared that his alibi was airtight and something far more
sinister surfaced. A ground breaking clue was found
on Jennifer's phone. While detectives searched for
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two weeks for an intruder, Jennifer was quietly hiding the
whole truth. Detectives take her into the
interrogation room only to find out the most twisted story
behind her loss. Jennifer starts by establishing
herself as the victim. She talks about her addiction
and the financial burden as a means to justify what she is
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about to share. I don't know what to say, I
just. Love this to go away I.
Don't. I know what they're going to.
I think sometimes it's what we're talking to you about
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without us knowing what exactly happened.
Like I said, I mean, we know about the drug stuff, John, OK?
If you're out of your mind on drugs, you're out of your mind
on drugs, That's OK. But we need to know that and
hear it from you, I guess is theonly thing you know.
I have an addiction to prescription.
OK, when did it start? I'm so ashamed.
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It's OK. I called.
Prescriptions in for myself, I'mjust.
It's OK. A lot of people have things
happen and a lot of people make mistakes.
You're not the. Only person that's ever.
Been addicted to prescription. Pain medication, was there an
event that kind of started that off that precipitated that?
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Did you get injured or somethingor?
Just I injured my ankle a while ago and it got worse after while
we were dating that first year it wasn't too bad.
And then it was slightly before I think we got married that I
ended up becoming addicted, you know, and needing to have them
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all the time. Otherwise I would go through
withdrawal. OK.
Is it kind of a secret you were keeping to or did other people
know about it much? Nobody know about it.
Nobody know about. It for a while you've been kind
of carrying all the bills and that kind of stuff.
You've been under, you know, a lot of pressure to work 2 jobs.
Three jobs. I'm.
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Sure, that doesn't help. I never wanted to hurt anybody,
but I am an honest person. I'm not a liar.
And I'm always talking to my son, but I've become that
person. I've become that liar that's
finding excuses why I'd be late for work and stuff.
And a lot of it was the meds, a lot, you know, a lot of it was
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the deusing. And I knew I worked in
healthcare. And knew you could use help but
I didn't do it. Jennifer worked 2 jobs to
support her son and James. She also confessed to being
addicted to prescription medication called Tramadol.
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Is addiction enough reason to kill a man?
Not everyone who got addicted toa substance has killed a man.
Nothing can justify her crimes, but this does give an insight
into her mental state leading upto the crime.
I can't face anybody. How do you freeze somebody when
you've done something like this?I know.
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It was like I was there, but what I but I wasn't.
Like you were not in your personwatching yourself do something
and. Don't get rid of the grandma,
get rid of it. Was there voices telling you
that? Did you feel like you were
hallucinating? I don't, I don't know, I.
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You hadn't slept all night, had you?
I could tell that morning you looked like you've been up for
hours and hours. You've been taking way too many
pills. Do you ever?
Do you ever crush them up? Are you ingesting them any other
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way than or? I have some hair or.
Something in my mouth. I usually just took them as
pills No, I didn't I never injected or anything like that.
I well, financially, why they suppose it was because I had to
pay for those and you know, it wasn't cheap, but I also had to
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pay for everything else. Yeah, it seemed like they said.
From what we're what we're hearing, Jim hadn't been working
much up until recently. Up until these last. 4 Right.
So you were carrying the mortgage and the bills and
didn't say working three jobs, it's a lot of pressure.
I don't. Understand how somebody owes on
this, to this, just like that. I don't get it.
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The household had been late on mortgage and utility bills for
months which were paid a loan byJennifer.
Another very compelling piece ofevidence against Jennifer was
regarding an insurance policy that James had taken out in June
2010. This life insurance policy would
pay out a sum of $200,000 upon James death.
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James had revealed this to his boss Darren Deluge.
He also revealed that it was Jennifer's idea and the fact
that Jennifer called the insurance company the very next
day after James death only solidified the belief that money
was a motive behind the crime. What may have seemed innocent at
the time turned out to be a morbid fact of the crime.
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If that were not shocking enough, it was also the same
month when she reunited with another ex-boyfriend, Greg
Nielsen. 1 by 1, her story was falling apart and many motives
were lining up against Jennifer.What what here's the thing.
You, you you said something, Jen, that we can lie to you.
And and you know, we, to a degree, police can, but I'm not
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going to. I, I, I, I'm just, I'm not going
to lie to you. I promise you.
You have my word. I'm not.
I hope you can look into me in the eyes and believe that I'm
not going to lie to you, OK? We don't, we don't want to do
that. We don't need to do that.
You said yourself you've always been an honest person, and
that's, again, all the people we've talked to, your friends,
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your family all say the same thing, OK.
You are of good character, OK? You have no criminal record.
You have worked hard to make something of yourself and you've
worked very hard to make something of Brady.
And he is a Brady kid. He's number one in his class.
He is a good kid. Well, no.
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He's Brady. Can Brady can survive this, OK.
He can survive this, OK? It's going to be hard, OK?
Nobody. 'S going to ever forgive me.
I guess I can't blame them, but.I so.
Sometimes they will. Though I yeah, I don't know that
I would say that. I don't say that that that would
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necessarily be the case. Brady is a sensitive topic for
Jennifer. Each time detectives feel
Jennifer is deviating, they bring him up to push her in the
direction of a confession that it works well because she
immediately reverts to her crimes when her son is brought
up. She clearly does not want Brady
to pay for her crimes. Are they going to make me re
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enact everything? No, I don't.
You know, for it to enter a guilty plea, you have to have to
give some statement of what happened for the court to, for
the judge to be satisfied that it's believable and he accepts
it and, and all those things, you know, because sometimes
crazy as it sounds, sometimes people who didn't do things
sometimes do claim to have done something.
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And so the judge has to make sure that he, he believes, you
know that. But, but as far as actually
reenacting things, no. And I too, a lot of you know,
what we do too is for courts andfor our job for that.
But a lot of what we do too is for people are left by you know,
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we we I personally would would you know, if I I empathize with
the family too, I'm sure the colleague will have all too
exactly right. You know what?
I. Mean and that's that's the
biggest question right now. Probably the the people we
talked to have is they, they want to know how and why, you
know, they, they just want answers.
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You know, they want something that makes they can kind of wrap
their mind around and, you know,say, well, OK, This is why this
all happened. And we kind of got a little bit
of a window into things through our investigation too, you know,
but I'm kind of. A little more there so.
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There's just so many pains goingthrough my head.
I don't know. And it's, it's everything we've.
Talked about. It's the.
Pressure of everything, the finances.
And the drugs and you live you're the one you you live your
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neighbor that nice effects. Jim didn't know anything about
this either. You were able to keep it from
him at least. For the most part, yeah, I would
say it was my headache medicine or stomach medicine now and.
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And, you know, your family and everybody has said, yeah,
Janice, we don't think she's well physically, you know,
that's people. People have told us that that's
they recognize that something's wrong.
They don't know what you know, but.
This is the moment the confession that detectives have
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been waiting for. Now Jennifer will slowly begin
to reveal how she planned the murder and what went down on the
wretched night of August 31st. Like I said.
It was me, but it wasn't me. I know, Jim, what's more
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important than than you know, ithappened.
If you can't back up and do it, obviously you're sorry, OK, You
said to yourself, if you could change it and give your life,
you would. Is that true?
You said that that's what you meant.
Because because there again, those are things that I think
that's important for people to hear that from you.
You know how you how you feel that you're not you're not some
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uncaring OK it. Was horrible.
It was horrible. What didn't?
Happen. They thought it moved on.
What could I feel? What?
And. That's why I made it look like
someone. Tried to hurt me and came in.
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OK, I, I, I want to make sure ona couple things though, that are
important. OK?
Brady had nothing to do with anyof this.
No swear. I swear to God, no.
I swear. To God, he doesn't know anything
about it. He didn't help you set the
scene. Up or anything you.
Truly. You truly didn't wake him up
until no afterwards. I swear to God, I swear.
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I swear on my life. I swear.
Well, I know I, I believe you ifyou swear that that's the truth,
but I do. But I have to ask you that.
I have to be clear on that. I do.
But he had absolutely nothing todo with it.
He was so startled when I went down there because I was on the
phone with 911. When I went down there to ask
him, he he was, he was asleep, you know, he was dead asleep.
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And I called his name twice. And then you finally hold up,
you know, with the big eyes, like, what the hell is going on,
right? You know, so his reactions,
which they seem like they're allvery normal and appropriate for
somebody in that situation, that's all legit.
Yep. OK.
Pretty knew nothing about nothing.
Nothing. Did anybody know?
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About. It no, no.
Caring nobody. Nobody.
OK, nobody. OK, I believe you.
How long had you been thinking about it though, that night?
I mean, like you say, you were up all night.
I went to sleep at one point. OK.
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Because we went to sleep and I think by the time I actually
fell asleep though, it was like probably 12/12/30.
And then I woke up at 4:30 to myalarm.
OK. And I shut that off and I had
fallen back asleep. OK.
And then when it was 5:30, that's when I all of a sudden
got into a panic. And then?
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'Cause I ain't taking some meds.And you hadn't had much sleep.
So. No, it just makes.
Me sick even thinking about it. I know what I did, now I'm.
Sure it's been. Just killing you the last few
days. It's been killing me since the
day had happened. I.
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Think we? We were talking to you too,
yeah. No, that that that it shows.
So I have to carry around. I don't know.
If I But the other thing is thatwhat I do in the gym is in
heaven and that braiding will something go to heaven?
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And then? If I try to take my own life, I
won't be with them because I didcross my mind too well.
I would just encourage you, please don't try to push those
thoughts out because you know what, you made a mistake that
you're still Brady's mother and you're going to beat his mother
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for the rest of his life and andyou need to continue to do that
kind of, you know. Jennifer's world has shattered
around her, her present, her future, all set in prison now.
But is that why she is remorseful?
Or is it truly out of regret forkilling James?
We do need to go through the details or we'd like to just one
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time, OK? And and you do it and we're not
going to push and you do it at your own pace, OK, but but I
know you want to have the truth out there.
Exactly the truth. OK from from start to finish one
time. Where to start?
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Let's start Monday night. Let's start Monday night.
You're with Carrie, right? She was not doing well, not
feeling well. Is that, is that true?
Yep. OK, I thought.
Yes, that was very true and there is something I'd like to
clear up. Supposedly she said that I
didn't go on an ambulance call. I did go on an ambulance call
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that night. On the ambulance call on
Saturday, Saturday night when she was not feeling well as
well. Exactly.
I did go on that ambulance call and she said, oh, I told you and
I said I told you, I went on that ambulance.
Call, so she's mistaken. Yes, yes.
So some things are not always exactly clear on her.
But I will make a for us to square that away and and you
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know what? We can go check the records,
Sure. And they'll show that you were.
There. So exactly, exactly.
I'll be on the run report. Right.
OK, so let's start with Monday night.
When you get you're with Kerry. So Monday night I was with
Kerry. We talked about, let's see, what
did we talk about now? She wasn't feeling good.
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We talked about all that, that work, you know, because they had
tried to I guess get her to workand didn't work.
And the bosses were mad because they had made her come in on
Sunday and I guess she had a work note saying she wasn't
being supposed to be there and stuff.
So so then we went out to Mon Paws because of the whole there
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have been people with flashlights and stuff in the
heart. So we went out there to check to
make sure everything was OK. So that's all true too.
That wasn't made-up or anything about.
That's OK. And Yukon freaking out the other
night, that was true too. That was true too.
OK. And so we checked that out and
tried to reiterate to Paw not to, you know, go outside of
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himself and stuff. And then as I was leaving,
Kerry's, Jim had called and I think I'd missed his call, so I
called him back and said he was just getting home from work.
And so I went back home. Oh, this is horrible.
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I know it's. Horrible though, you guys, I.
Know. And yes, I had to, Jim.
There was a gun Jim had bought for me.
That's true too. That's very true.
OK. Jim bought the gun for me,
wanted me to learn how to targetpractice.
Was he? When?
You got home Monday night. Was he already home or did you
get home first? He was home first night.
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He was outside thinking around. So I said you want to help or I
said do you want me to target shoot?
Because you didn't want me to target shoot.
He bought me that gun. So we target shoot or we we did
our target practice or whatever went inside, got a little to eat
she. Shot first.
Yeah, I think we shot first, then went.
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Inside and. Then went inside the East OK and
then we, me and Brady had our little meatball fight.
And so then I came back upstairsand had finished off the rest of
the meatballs and the mashed potatoes and Jim had been making
some other leftovers and stuff for him.
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And I put the dishes away and OK, brush my teeth.
And then Jim and I went and sat on the couch and watched TV.
And he had set the gun in the corner.
Where? At which room?
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In the what next to the sliding glass door?
OK. He set that in the corner and I
knew the ammo was up there too. OK.
So we had put that there. And he had shown you how to load
the gun and can. Yeah, because we went deer
hunting the year before. I mean, he was trying to teach
me how to do all that with any type of gun that he was getting
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me to use. So and then we watched the news
until 10:30 and went to bed. He was after me.
You were about sex a lot. And there was something that
bothered me. Caused some friction between you
2. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, wanted on a pretty regular basis and and I tried
the best I could, but sometimes they just sometimes they just
had problems with that. And if you continue to push and
push and push and just end up not being on the other person,
you know, right? So.
Just these tension. So there was resentment there
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because it was a constant thing.A constant.
You want to do it, you want to do it, you want it.
And there was no romance left when it came to that.
It was like, fine, just finish and get it over with so I can go
to sleep. I guess so.
To the outside world, Jennifer and James seemed happily
married, but if that were the case, she wouldn't be sitting in
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an interrogation room. Detectives found a solid clue at
the crime scene, Jennifer's personal diary.
The diary had her daily logs where she spoke about Greg and
how happy she was with him. Text messages exchanged between
them were also found. Their chats included intimate
messages between the two and though she had not met Greg
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allegedly, according to their chats, she had planned to be
intimate with him soon. They had planned to meet just
two days after James death. Jennifer was ready to move on.
Almost immediately, another motive became clearer and more
are yet to be revealed. So I laid there and laid there.
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I've taken some pills before I gone to bed.
Do you? Remember how many?
Oh really 6 or 8? Which sometimes when I do that
that I I have a hard time sleeping to begin with because
that is how it messes with me sometimes.
It's kind of like make you agitated it.
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Does it kind of keeps you up, makes you dream and stuff like
that? And so I woke up at alarm went
off at 4:30 and I had shut it off and I think I had a couple
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more pills playing on the night stand that I had taken.
I don't know if I had water there or just took them dry.
I don't even know. And I had fallen back asleep so
and I woke up at 5:30 in a panic.
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And that's when I went out and Igot the code and I loaded 1
shell and I came back into the bedroom and there was a throw
blanket fave in the end of the bed.
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So I took. That and kind of rest the gun.
But this shoulder and then and then just saying then I pulled
the trigger. Oh my God, I'm just so sick.
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This is not me. I am not.
I put the gun down. I hate it in I went to go.
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Find his phone. And I couldn't find it, so I had
to run out to the craft room to get mine.
Check out your. I couldn't feel pulse.
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Where did where did you check onhis neck or his wrist or?
I think I checked on his wrist and his neck.
I can't remember. To be honest with you, I can't.
But at but at that point, you know he was gone.
With everything Jennifer has said, everyone is left in an
utter state of confusion, especially since the 911 call
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sounded so compelling. But after a long wait,
detectives have a true picture of what happened that night.
You just have. To clarify the whole things, OK,
you said that there was a throw.Throw rug is what you describe
it as. Throw a blanket, throw a blanket
and you put that up there shoulder and rest of the gun on
it. Was that for any other reason
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other than to stabilize the gun?Were you trying to make it
quieter so that Brady wouldn't wake up or anything like that?
I mean, was it like around the barrel at all or was that your
thinking at that time to not wake up ready or not?
No, maybe not. I think because it was.
I was shaking so bad it was rattling.
OK, just like you were. Yeah.
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Trembling. Yeah.
OK, it was the same gun that he had tied and shoot.
Yes. And, and what kind of gun is
that? I mean, is it?
A 12 digit. Is it a shotgun, The shotgun,
the scope? OK, and it's the action.
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Do you know what kind of action is?
How you have to load a bullet init?
Like a semi automatic? Is that what you mean do?
You have to pump it. You have.
To pump it. OK.
Is that because there is anothergun up there that Brady brought
up? Yes.
I just want to verify where to sort that out and our scientists
want to do that. And you use the ammunition you
said was the same ammunition andit was, what kind of was it
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birdshot or slug? Slug, OK.
And do you know the difference? No, to be honest, I don't.
OK, no, but that's what you're shooting outside was slugs, I
believe. It was slugs which.
Is what you use for deer honey. Is what you use having to
practice with. I think so, yes.
And I knew what Mike said that we were going to push in.
And is it OK if I ask you? Because I was wondering too.
And, you know, because we talkedthat morning and stuff.
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And then I went in there and you're on the couch sitting
there with Brady. Things are kind of there was
stuff laying there in the room and the chair that was open
stuff. When did all that stuff get put
in the room or changed or because our assumption was that
it, you know, kind of set that, set that stuff up.
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That was. I can't remember if it was
before or after. Do you remember though, what was
put out there and the? And moved around and stuff.
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I know I had searched the chair.I just shoveled the the chair.
Yeah, that like rocking. Yeah, the rocking and the stand.
Next to it. OK.
And the rope of the knife. And where did the rope come from
it? Was on the counter OK.
And the knife is a kitchen knife.
And then beside that big weed cutter thing, where did that?
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How does that come into play in this?
Were you thinking that would help your story about an
intruder or it? Was out in the garage.
In the attached garage. And so you brought that in there
and slayed it down. That would have been before you
called 911. Though, yes.
From the very start, detectives had their suspicions about
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Jennifer. Nothing told the story of an
invasion. The Nibby household was in the
middle of a big farming land. There were no signs of forced
entry or forensic evidence like unknown tire tracks or
footprints, and all the materials needed to aid in the
killing and attack were found inside the home.
What robber comes empty handed, leaves no trace, and attacks
(33:16):
people with their own household knives and guns?
The evidence was loud and enoughfor the story, but watch as she
explains how Jennifer staged thecrime scene, including hurting
herself. When I talked to you before,
remember I asked you about impact spatter on your clothing.
The clothing that we collected from you wasn't the clothing you
were wearing at the time. It was, but you were very
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confident that there would be noimpact spatter on there.
What is that? Or.
You just were playing it, OK, because that day you said, oh,
there won't be any blood spatteron my clothing.
Oh, I didn't. I don't even remember that, to
be honest with you. I don't.
OK. I just was wondering if if you
had changed clothes or somethingor why you were because you were
(33:59):
very confident in that answer. And I just was curious because,
you know, usually when there's something, when there's a
gunshot, you know, as you know, there's blood splatter and it
gets on your clothes and the scientists can look at that and
see that it's a different type of stain, you know, versus than
just the last couple things. So the cuts on your legs you
inflicted, the marks on your neck you inflicted ready didn't
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help you inflict any of those things or do any of that.
I know you said he's not involved, but I'm just making
sure. The one mark on your neck looked
like a fork mark. Like a like a fork.
What did you use to make the marks on your neck?
I guess is what I'm asking. You used the knife to make the
marks on your neck. OK.
And same thing with your arms. Yeah.
And the knife that you put out there are a different knife.
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No the same. Knife.
The same knife, OK. There was no way that Jennifer
was getting away with this. From the physical evidence at
the crime scene, to her diary, her hats and other things, her
story was riddled with loopholes.
She escaped the reality of prison for 10 days, but soon she
will be behind bars is. There anything that you want us
(35:03):
to make sure that goes in the report that the prosecutor knows
that? I mean, I know you're sorry,
right? That's obvious.
That's obvious. But have you talked to anybody
and told anybody about this yet,Jen?
No. Besides us?
No, not your. Called your dad or talk to
anybody? No, Ed Ericsson, you 2 never
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actually slept together. It was all just texting.
So it was just flirting. Absolutely.
There was never anything physical.
Absolutely not. Nothing physical, ever.
No, no. So he he knew nothing of any of
this. No, absolutely not.
Oh, no, no. Didn't say get rid of your
husband. No, no, no, no, no.
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Nothing like that. So he's not involved in this in.
Any way, no, he's not. No, he's not, No.
Jennifer's greed addiction landed her in jail in 2012.
During the trial, Jennifer's attorney, Rich Hillesheim said
there was more to the story behind Jane Nibby's death and
Jennifer's motives. The lawyer claimed that his
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client was the victim of physical and abuse.
He said James's behavior was whya woman with no criminal
background whatsoever ended up doing something so shocking in
the end. In June 2012, District Court
Judge Bradley Walker sentenced Jennifer Nibby to 25 years in
prison. With good time and credit for
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the 700 days she has already served in prison, she could be
placed on supervised release in 15 years.
She is scheduled to be released in 2027.
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