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00:00she was a glamorous divorcee looking for love if you ever were around her and saw her
00:09there's nobody else in the room but her she was a provocative dresser but not
00:14not something that would shock you just something that would intrigue you
00:18the right man seemed to have finally come along seven months after jill and jerry met
00:27she said she was pregnant i got a call on monday that he got married on saturday people would come
00:34up to him on the street and say well congratulations we're so happy you're married now and you're going
00:38to be a father and his future seemed to be very bright until his gruesome murder rocked their
00:47quiet community he had been shot three times in the chest with a 22 caliber weapon he had been
00:53beaten in the head with a shovel it sent shockwaves through the town investigators would uncover a
01:02history of lies manipulation and greed and at the center of it all is a woman who will stop at
01:09nothing to get what she wants and the more they found out about her background the more suspicious
01:15she became multiple aliases multiple birth certificates multiple schemes it's very rare
01:23to find a woman who's a total and complete psychopath
01:27on a beautiful fall day in the resort town of steamboat springs colorado doug boggs tends to
01:54his family's hardware store that he runs with his brother jerry on the morning of october 22nd 1993
02:03jerry boggs uncharacteristically did not show up at work at 7 30 in the morning at boggs hardware store
02:09his brother doug was very concerned because jerry boggs was a creature of habit he went to work at the
02:19same time every day he went to lunch at the same time every day he he was very rote in his existence
02:24and that was just the way he was he really became concerned so he went out to his house
02:32and the front door was locked and he went around to the back door
02:37he stepped inside the kitchen
02:41then there's the body of his brother laid out on the floor blood pooling around his head
02:50he quickly called 9-1-1 but it was a horrendous murder scene and it it just threw him into shock
02:59immediately police quickly arrive on the scene from jerry's wounds they determine that he was shot
03:07three times and beaten as well now investigators must determine how this could happen to such a beloved
03:16community member this is an open friendly community no murders so it sent shock waves through the town
03:25jerry boggs was born on may 27 1941 and lived in steamboat springs for most of his life jerry was light-hearted he was an easy-going person his character was as strong as anybody's and he would never hurt a fly
03:34he was a quiet shy guy who developed friendship slowly but when he was your friend he was your friend for the whole game
03:41after graduating high school in 1959 jerry attended the university of colorado
03:48in 1963 jerry enlisted in the army and served two tours in vietnam
03:55after he returned from vietnam he went back to work in steamboat springs at the family business
04:02he and doug basically ran the place jerry was big on the books and the ordering things like that doug was more involved with the people down at the cash register
04:17jerry was happy to follow in his father's footsteps but over the years he cultivated other interests as well
04:36i was on the ski patrol on the mountain and he was a national patrolman he worked some weekends with us but through me he got real involved in flying
04:51by 1990 52 year old jerry had settled into his life as a bachelor that changed when a charming 48 year old woman named jill coit walked into his store
05:03jill coit moved from culver indiana for the purpose of buying and or setting up a bed and breakfast
05:10if you're trying to fix up anything you're constantly going to be going to the hardware store
05:16she stood out she wasn't like the other women in town she dressed provocatively she was very gregarious
05:24she was a southern belle and she was very vivacious and outgoing
05:29she was very talkative she had this southern accent she would just fill up all the energy in the room when she came in
05:38a few days later jerry worked up the courage to make the first move
05:45she was parked at a grocery store and he walked up to her having recognized her from the store
05:51and he started discussing her car he asked her out and they began dating
05:58it was a relationship and an endeavor that jerry had never experienced in his life
06:06it was very exciting very stimulating and kind of altering of the way he usually did things which was very methodical
06:15jerry methodical very mechanical and and thought things through
06:27about seven months after they met jill and jerry got married
06:32it was an uncharacteristically spontaneous decision for jerry
06:36but he made it for a very good reason
06:39she told him that she was pregnant with this baby even though she was
06:43you know fairly old to be having a baby at almost 50 years old
06:47he had a successful business he had resources
06:50he had good friends good family all of that
06:53and she shows up he's got a lover
06:56a lover who will become his wife and he's only missing one thing and that's having a child
07:02he went out and bought a lot of books about child rearing
07:05he bought furniture for the baby
07:07he refurbished parts of his house
07:10he had a very nice house on the edge of town
07:13and he was very very happy
07:17but jerry's happiness is cut short just six months into his new marriage
07:21when he discovers secrets in his blushing bride's past
07:26jill didn't bother to mention to jerry that she was already married
07:30jerry said we got to get this and all this is illegal
07:34he was in tears and depressed and you know i just don't understand this
07:40and why would she why would she you know do what she's doing to me
07:46and on top of that jerry's family suspected that jill was lying about
07:50jill was lying about even more
07:54other people were not seeing any any physical change in her
07:59like they didn't see a physical change like somebody who's really pregnant
08:04she got out of town
08:06she went down to texas and in january of 92
08:10she started telling jerry that she had given birth to this baby named laura
08:15jerry was sitting up in steamboat getting these reports
08:19and people around him were saying jerry none of this is true
08:22this is all completely a fraud
08:24and you need to just get away from this woman and be done with this
08:28and get out of it
08:29but jerry wouldn't let jill get away with it
08:35he wanted her to stop using his name and he wanted her to admit that there was no baby
08:39so they prepare to go into these civil lawsuits for fraud throughout 1992 and into 1993
08:50for two years jerry returned to his familiar routine while waiting for the case to go to court
08:56but six days before the trial is set to begin he is found dead on his kitchen floor
09:04as the investigation begins one name immediately rises to the top of the list of suspects
09:11not only was he shocked as anybody would be but he immediately knew what had happened
09:16he kept saying to the police that bitch killed my brother that bitch killed my brother
09:23coming up investigators discover that jill's history of deception extends further than this small mountain town could ever imagine
09:33she had done this for decades all over the country to all kinds of people
09:37we have 11 marriages in total with 9 guys and 6 bigamies
09:5452 year old jerry boggs has been found murdered in his home in steamboat springs colorado
10:01homicide detectives are now searching it for clues
10:04there was no forced entry
10:07there were three gunshot wounds to jerry's torso
10:11he had been hit over the head violently with it looked like a shovel
10:17there were no fingerprints on the shovel
10:21so whoever did this really covered their tracks
10:24nothing was missing there was no evidence of a break-in
10:29it was just a malicious murder
10:31officers canvass the neighborhood for leads
10:35no one seems to have heard the gunshots
10:39but one neighbor says she saw some suspicious activity
10:44on the day of the murder
10:46a woman who lived across the street was out in her yard
10:50and she saw these two figures walking down the street
10:53and one was tall and was clearly a male
10:56she just felt something about it was off
10:59she thought they looked suspicious
11:02and she was bothered enough to actually go into her house
11:06and just sort of stay there
11:08and then she saw them later in the day
11:11which was early to mid-afternoon
11:12they were heavily dressed which was unusual because it was warm in steamboat
11:19meanwhile the medical examiner performs an autopsy
11:25time of death is determined to be late afternoon the day before
11:28they found that he had been beaten badly
11:32all over that he of course had the three gunshot wounds
11:35but he also had markings on I believe is the right side of his neck and ear and cheek
11:44and they couldn't identify what those markings were
11:47it wasn't the muzzle flash of a weapon
11:51they were stymie they didn't know what made these mysterious marks
11:55to Jerry's loved ones however his murder is no mystery
12:02Doug Boggs tells police he knows exactly who did it
12:07he kept pleading with the police to look into Jerry's ex-wife Jill Coit
12:12Doug's suspicions about Jill began two years earlier when she announced that she was pregnant
12:20they finally got so suspicious that Doug called me
12:25I think around September of that year
12:28and asked me if I would start to look into her background
12:31once she dug in the private investigator discovered someone very different from the Jill Coit
12:38Jerry thought he knew
12:39I began talking with ex-husbands
12:44I ordered stuff from several states
12:47tried to interview family members
12:50did interview
12:52pretty much all the husbands
12:54it just developed into such a story
12:57I was shocked
12:59I was really shocked
13:01she had three social security cards
13:04she had four birth certificates
13:05and she had at least 15 aliases going back 25 or 30 years
13:10by the time that Jill Coit married Jerry Boggs
13:14he was potentially husband number eight
13:17Jill Coit was born in Lafayette, Louisiana
13:19and she was born Jill Lonita Billiot
13:32she had a very bitter relationship with her one brother
13:38so that appeared to motivate her to leave home when she was 15 years old
13:41and she went to live with some relatives in Indiana
13:45Jill Coit was very attractive, she worked as a model
13:53she was very coy and flirtatious
13:56and she really didn't seem to have any friendships with women
13:58her main interest was in men
14:03what men could do for her
14:07in 1961 Jill married her first husband at age 18
14:12his name was Larry Inhen
14:14investigators learned he was a fellow classmate
14:17and an apprentice as a bricklayer
14:19when she decided to leave that relationship
14:21she did take the one and only thing that Larry had
14:23which was $280 in his bank account
14:27Jill's first marriage only lasted a few months
14:31after the divorce she moved back to Louisiana
14:34and began taking acting classes at Northwestern University
14:38it was there she met her second husband, Stephen Moore
14:42in 1965 she married another man, Stephen Moore
14:46who was a college student
14:48and she had a son by him named Seth
14:50I spoke to Stephen Moore by phone
14:54and he indicated their marriage didn't last very long
14:58and that Jill left him
15:00the PI learns that after separating from Stephen in 1965
15:07Jill moved to Texas with her son Seth
15:10the following year she met her third husband
15:15William Coit Jr.
15:16William didn't care that Jill had been married twice already
15:21and he adopted Seth as his own
15:24Jill claimed that William Coit II was the love of her life
15:30from 66 to 72 she was married to William
15:33and that was the most significant relationship she had
15:36but despite her happy marriage to William
15:40Jill was still technically married to her previous husband Stephen Moore
15:44even more she didn't officially file for divorce until 1967
15:49after she and William had their first child
15:52she's now officially committed bigamy
15:56but she goes on to then have their second child together and her third son
16:01William has more means than either of her two prior husbands
16:04he was an engineer at Tenneco company in Houston
16:10he had resources and she started spending those resources
16:15this is the first instance that we know of that she began overspending
16:19he was gone a lot and she began having affairs
16:23and when he found out about the affairs he wanted to divorce her
16:27there's a contentious custody battle going between the two of them
16:30six years into her third marriage Jill was going through yet another divorce
16:37she was only 27 years old
16:40but before it could be finalized tragedy strikes the Coit family
16:50three weeks before Jill and William Coit II were divorced
16:54he was found shot to death in his home
16:58a private investigator hired by Jerry Boggs family before his death
17:02has learned of the murder of Jill Coit's third husband William
17:05and his slaying bears eerie similarities to Jerry's
17:08William Coit died under suspicious circumstances
17:09three weeks before Jill and William Coit II were divorced
17:11he was found out of the murder of Jill Coit's third husband William
17:15and his slaying bears eerie similarities to Jerry's
17:17William Coit died under suspicious circumstances
17:22three weeks before Jill and William Coit II were divorced
17:24he was found shot to death in his home
17:27shot in the back three times
17:31with a 22 caliber gun
17:33detectives and investigators deduced that because he was shot in the back
17:37he was shot in the back
17:39with a .22 caliber gun
17:43detectives and investigators deduced that because he was shot in the back
17:44William likely knew the person who killed him
17:49instead of talking to police Jill went to New Orleans and hired attorney
17:53Louis DeRosa to fight her extradition to Texas
17:56she checked herself into a psychiatric hospital to keep the police away
17:59and she was shot in the back three times with a .22 caliber gun
18:03detectives and investigators deduced that because he was shot in the back
18:05William likely knew the person who killed him
18:07instead of talking to police
18:09Jill went to New Orleans and hired attorney Louis DeRosa
18:12the psychiatric hospital to keep the police away
18:15it was a ploy that worked
18:17William Coit Jr.'s death was never solved
18:20and it's an unsolved murder to this day
18:23and a lot of people think that Jill Coit was responsible
18:27detectives were never able to prove Jill's involvement in William's death
18:32Jill's sons were taken care of by family members while she was in the psychiatric hospital for a year
18:37when she got out in 1973 she moved to California with her three sons to make a fresh start
18:47in California she met an older man in his 90s named Bruce Johansson who she persuaded to legally adopt her
18:53after he died of supposedly natural causes she was left with some resources of his pieces of property and some funds
19:06the same year Jill married for the fourth time to Marine Corps Major Donald Brody
19:11he's from Oceanside California and she has the three boys with her
19:19they had kind of an on again off again relationship
19:23the relationship probably started to deteriorate a bit and she would move the kids to Louisiana
19:30after she left she contacted Brody with what normally would have been happy news
19:37she used the ruse on him of a false pregnancy providing a false birth certificate to collect child support
19:45but only months later Jill informed Brody of a tragedy
19:50she now tells him that the baby has passed away
19:53and Jill tells Major Brody her husband that she's buried the baby in a crypt
20:00later when they you know opened the crypt there was no baby
20:06after her fourth divorce Jill moved on to husband number five
20:11in 1976 Jill married the lawyer that had helped her get divorced from her third husband William Coyck II
20:20Louis DeRosa
20:23she subsequently would marry and remarry Louis DeRosa
20:27at least two or three times that we know of
20:30Jill's on again off again marriage to DeRosa continued for many years
20:35but during one of their separations in 1978
20:39she married husband number six
20:42Eldon Metzger
20:43she moved to Indiana
20:47she buys a farm
20:49and Metzger lives next door
20:51she couldn't find a way to manipulate him
20:54or get his money
20:56so she just dropped it
21:00Jill divorced Metzger
21:03but it turned out she remained legally married to DeRosa
21:07after attempting to file for divorce internationally
21:10they got a Haitian divorce
21:13so that was against the law
21:16that's a bigamy
21:18she was still officially married to DeRosa
21:21when she met her seventh husband
21:23in 1983 Jill was living in Culver Indiana
21:28working at State Farm Insurance
21:30and two of her sons Andrew and William
21:33were attending a prep school there
21:34one of the headmasters was a man by the name of Carl Steeley
21:39she charms the britches off at Carl
21:43and he's not a worldly guy
21:45nice as could be
21:47probably was the best to the boys of anybody
21:50and I think they had a more normal life during the time they lived
21:54that seven years with Carl Steeley than anybody
21:58Carl and Jill got married in 1983
22:02he was an avid skier who took the family on trips to Colorado
22:08it was during one of these ski vacations in 1990
22:12that Jill and Carl decided to invest in a business opportunity
22:16they made a skiing trip up to Steamboat Springs
22:20and Jill spotted the Rainbow Cottages
22:22which she wanted Carl Steeley to buy
22:24and rename the Oak Street Bed and Breakfast
22:26Jill told Carl Steeley that she would be better at managing their finances
22:32because he was a teacher and she knew a lot about money
22:36the plan was Jill was going to move to Steamboat Springs
22:41start running the bed and breakfast
22:43Carl would eventually join her when he retired
22:46Carl Steeley told me that when he came to Steamboat
22:51that she just would ignore him and finally just said
22:53why don't you just go away
22:56she's gotten Carl to part with his money
22:59she's gotten him to invest in this bed and breakfast
23:02and she really has no need for Carl anymore
23:04he had sort of allowed her to take over his financial situation
23:09and found himself without assets and in a lot of debt
23:12after less than a decade together Jill and Carl separated
23:24in 1985 her divorce from Louis DeRosa became official
23:29but six years later she was still married to Carl
23:33when she found a new target
23:35Gerald Boggs
23:36coming up the investigation of Jerry Boggs murder begins to heat up
23:45the more investigators learn about Jill Coit
23:48the more suspicious they become that she's involved somehow
23:51the more he found out about the horrible things that had happened
23:54his response to me was I can't let this happen to somebody else
23:57Colorado police have just begun investigating the murder of 52 year old Jerry Boggs found shot to death in his home in Steamboat Springs
24:18after reviewing the evidence previously uncovered by his family's private investigator
24:25Jerry's ex-wife Jill has emerged as a prime suspect
24:33Jill Coit's earlier husband William Coit had been killed in a similar fashion with the same caliber bullets
24:40in both cases there was no forced entry under the house
24:48in both cases there was a 22 pistol used as the murder weapon
24:53the similarities between the two murders don't stop there
24:58Jill also seemed to have a motive in both crimes as well
25:02financial gain
25:04Jill Coit was adept at charming men
25:06and with Gerald Boggs she persuaded him to sign a bogus deed of trust on the Oak Street bed and breakfast for $100,000
25:17she particularly wanted to keep this detail out of
25:21Carl Steely who she was in the process of divorcing
25:25she wanted Jerry to sign a bogus deed on the property
25:31so it would look like she owed him a lot of money
25:36so if she was in debt it would help her financially she wouldn't have to pay off money to Carl Steely
25:42or to other debtors or creditors
25:45in that process
25:50after their marriage was annulled and she moved out of the house of Jerry Boggs
25:56Jill Coit sued Jerry
25:57because she wanted his name off that deed of trust so she could sell it
26:02she was always looking for the next you know opportunity to make money
26:06according to Doug Boggs his brother was already angry about Jill's bigamy and fake pregnancy
26:13and the new lawsuit added insult to injury
26:16he was very angry about being made a fool of that just was terrible for him
26:26so he wasn't going to let this ride and he was just going to go ahead and go to court and put it all on the table
26:31Jerry Boggs countersued Jill
26:35he wanted her to stop aligning the name of Boggs family in town
26:39he wanted her to admit that there never was any pregnancy
26:43that this was a false pregnancy
26:45and he wanted her to pay restitution
26:48the more he found out about these previous husbands and the horrible things that had happened
26:53his response to me was I can't let this happen to somebody else
26:56but just like William Coit Jerry never got to face Jill in court
27:02in both cases there were legal proceedings that were underway
27:06the divorce proceeding for William Coit was just coming up prior to his murder
27:13and with Jerry Boggs he was killed six days before the trial with Jill was going to start in Steamboat Springs
27:22she knew the layout of the house
27:26she knew that the back door would be unlocked
27:29she knew if she waited long enough Jerry would come home
27:33she went to Coit's house at night when he was watching TV in his underwear
27:39I mean it doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to figure out
27:42that she likely is the same person who killed them both
27:46she just had a heart of stone
27:56and she'd marry these guys, get what she wanted, go right on
28:00she didn't love any of them
28:02but when investigators question Jill about Jerry's death
28:06she seems to have an ironclad alibi
28:08she claimed that her boyfriend Michael Backus and her had gone camping in Puder Canyon
28:15which was about 150 miles west of Greeley
28:18you had to fill out something and put your money in the thing to get your reservation for the night
28:27and they had done that
28:29if Jerry was killed the previous afternoon then Jill was too far away to have done it
28:34if Jerry was killed in the morning then she clearly had time to kill him
28:40if he was killed in the afternoon or later then investigators would have a more difficult time tying her to the murder itself
28:48because she was supposedly on a camping trip several hundred miles away
28:51and stomach contents for a decedent are often times how investigators are able to establish time of death
28:57plant cells tend to pass through the entire digestive system intact
29:03when we find unknown material in the stomach sample
29:09we can compare that to our pictures of what these cells look like
29:16and we can then identify what's in the stomach contents
29:19Jerry Boggs was a creature of habit
29:24so he had the same breakfast everyday just before he went to open his hardware store
29:32and he ate the same thing
29:35he ate potatoes and eggs and toast
29:40when we looked at the stomach contents there were onions present
29:44when they went to the diner where he normally had his meals
29:49they looked at the meal that was being made and the meal didn't come with onions in it
29:55that implied he had another meal which would have been later in the day
29:59this would have meant that Jerry Boggs was killed much later in the day
30:04at a time when Jill Coyd and Michael Bacchus were not in the area
30:12and consequently would not have been prime suspects
30:21based on the evidence Jill may have had the motive to kill Jerry
30:25but she didn't have the opportunity
30:28if she didn't do it who did?
30:31Jill Coyd liked tricking people into stuff and them not knowing what she was doing
30:37somebody who's probably been committing crimes for 25 or 30 years
30:42has a tendency to think that they're never going to be caught
30:45while investigators have plenty of evidence that Jill Coyd is a gold digger and a bigamist
31:02they haven't found anything yet to prove she's a murderer
31:07but that's about to change
31:09Jill and Michael's alibi was that on the 21st of October 1993 they had gone camping
31:19paid some money to go and signed a form
31:22and that would show that they had not been in Steamboat Springs on that particular day
31:28and therefore they couldn't have committed the crime
31:29The onions found in Jerry's stomach seemed to confirm that he ate his last meal while Jill was 150 miles away
31:39We know that he opened the hardware store in the morning
31:43We know that he ate his standard breakfast at the shack as he did every morning
31:50We learned that the shack did not put onions in their hash browns
31:58When investigators went back to the shack to see how the potatoes were made on the grill
32:04they noted that a spatula was used that had some onion bits on it
32:09The cook turned the onions on the grill with the same spatula that he turned the hash browns with
32:19So that could have accounted for why there were onions in Jerry Boggs' stomach
32:28The presence of the onions in the hash browns allowed us to say that Jerry ate his last meal at approximately 11 o'clock in the morning
32:38The volume of the stomach contents suggested that Jerry had been killed within 2-3 hours after he ate that meal
32:47He ate that meal at a time when Jill Coit and Michael Backus did not have an alibi
32:54Jill Coit and Michael Backus, they said that they had signed the registration form and they had paid the $4 fee
33:01But later when investigators went back, they could find no proof that they had been there at that time
33:10The evidence is circumstantial, but it's enough for detectives to obtain a search warrant for Jill's car
33:16Inside, they find maps of Mexico, a pair of wigs and a stun gun
33:24The discovery of the stun gun would eventually lead to asking to exhume the body of Jerry Boggs
33:30So they could do some tests to see if the stun gun marks matched the marks that they found by his ear
33:37They actually took pig skin, which is very much like human skin, and used the stun gun to make marks on the pig skin
33:54Which was then compared to the marks on Jerry Boggs' body
33:57It was one more thing that tied them into the murder
34:02Again, it shows the particularly malicious way that he died
34:07The wigs also matched the description of the two men spotted near Jerry's house around the time he was killed
34:16The strangers observed in the area were believed to be Jill Coit and Michael Backus in disguise
34:23Jill was dressed up like a man, which meant that she had to be wearing a wig, a beard, a mustache, men's clothing, overalls
34:34But when police try to arrest the couple, they find Jill and Michael have disappeared
34:40The investigation seems to have hit a dead end
34:44Until Jill's son Seth unexpectedly contacts them with new information
34:50When Jill knew that the trail was getting hotter, she and Michael Backus first went to California
34:58Soon after that, they took a boat from San Diego down to Tijuana
35:04From Tijuana, the pair went to Mexico City
35:07From there, they flew to Spain
35:10He also says that Jill asked him to help cover up the murder of Jerry Boggs
35:15So Jill tells Seth that she's murdered Jerry and she needs to get rid of the body and she wants him to do it
35:24But Seth had a hard time with that
35:26Seth really liked Jerry, the two were close
35:29So Seth isn't able to do it
35:31Seth is cleared of any involvement
35:34And after her international journeys, investigators work to track his mother down
35:40After only a week, Jill wanted to come back to the States
35:46Some people think that she was running out of money and resources
35:50She couldn't stay away
35:52And then was seen in Steamboat Springs driving around in a disguise
35:56In her own car
35:57On December 23rd, 1993
36:03Jill and Michael Backus are arrested in Greeley, Colorado, where Backus worked
36:11They are both charged with first-degree murder
36:15When Jill is taken into custody by the police
36:19She's almost flirtatious
36:21She starts talking about sexual things
36:23She indicates that, you know, all of this will be over soon
36:27And, you know, she didn't have anything to do with it
36:30And in her mind, no doubt, the reality was that she was not to blame
36:35She was not going to be held accountable
36:37She's almost 50
36:40And she has never had a run-in with the law
36:44I mean, she's been engaged in bigamy
36:46She's been engaged in all sorts of false identity issues
36:49She is a potential suspect in a murder in Houston in 1972
36:55She's run various insurance scams across the country
37:00Gathered quite a bit of money
37:02Nobody's ever blown the whistle on her
37:07The poetic justice, if you will
37:09The very person who ends up turning her in
37:12After years of her manipulating men
37:14It's her very own son, her firstborn
37:17Who ultimately turns her in
37:19This time, prosecutors are determined to keep her from getting away with it
37:25When the newspaper articles started and the truth started coming out
37:29The shock of him being gone was over
37:31And then there was, of course, the anger of
37:33You know, this lady's got to hang for this
37:36As Doug Boggs would later say
37:38She had done this for decades all over the country to all kinds of people
37:43And he said she finally picked the wrong man, the wrong family, and the wrong town
37:47The investigation into the murder of 52-year-old Jerry Boggs has ended in the arrest of his ex-wife, Jill Coit, and her boyfriend, Michael Backus
38:10Prosecutors argue that Jill intended to con Jerry for money, but when he caught her, she decided to kill him instead
38:19He wanted to expose her for what she was and what she had done so it wouldn't happen to someone else
38:25She was going to silence him no matter what
38:27He really made it his life purpose to put all of this information together and to hold her accountable in a way that she had never been accountable
38:38He kept pushing and pushing and pushing and it ended in his death
38:46Two years later, in 1995, the trial finally gets underway
38:51The prosecutors painted Jill as a conniving, conspiring type of woman
38:59The witnesses were paraded into the courtroom one after another
39:06And many of those people testified regarding Jill Coit or Michael Backus soliciting them to kill Jerry Boggs
39:13They meet a woman in Oktumwa, Iowa, and Jill starts soliciting her
39:20She tells this woman, as she will tell other people, that there is a man in Steamboat Springs who's molesting a small girl
39:28And he should be, you know, killed for doing what he's doing
39:33Michael Backus does the same thing with one of his co-workers
39:35It led the jury to understand that the motive here was to murder Jerry
39:42And when they couldn't find anybody to agree to murder him
39:46The general consensus was, we'll do it ourselves
39:52Michael Backus and Jill Coit planned and set up the time they were going to murder Jerry
39:58By setting up the fake camping trip and practicing with their disguises
40:05And the day of the murder, they were up there walking around looking like a couple of hunters scouting out their area to hunt
40:15Investigators thought that the murder occurred with Michael Backus and Jill Coit entering the back door of Jerry Boggs' house
40:25And laying in wait for him when he came to the house between 1 and 4 p.m.
40:32They must have hit Jerry with a stun gun to immobilize him
40:38And then they hit him with a shovel
40:42And then they shot him
40:46You see the level of rage and anger that no doubt came from Jill at that time because he dared to cross her
41:01The most damning testimony comes from Jill's own son, Seth
41:05October 22nd, around mid-afternoon, Jill makes a call to Seth and she says to him, it's over and it's messy
41:18And in his mind, there is no doubt that she's talking about the murder of Jerry Boggs
41:22During the trial, Jill appealed, you know, very upbeat, very alert, paying attention to everything in court
41:32She'd flip her hair and sit there and shake her head like, oh no, that's not true
41:38It was very contrast to her and Backus, who just sit there with this defeated look on his face
41:44The jury deliberated for five hours
41:51Both defendants were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy
41:56And they each received a life sentence
42:01They each received 48 years for the conspiracy count
42:04And each got a million-dollar fine
42:06The outcome brings a degree of comfort to the Boggs family and the people of Steamboat Springs
42:17Jerry Boggs was a great friend and I loved him
42:22Jerry died trying to stop a predator
42:26He paid the ultimate price to get that message out
42:29Of all the good people in the world that never did anything to deserve something like this
42:34It's Jerry
42:37I was just proud to call him my friend
42:39He's missed as much today as he was then
42:54Jill Coit was a charming conwoman who manipulated men for decades
42:59Until her final victim exposed her true motivations
43:02I would call Jill Coit a devious, sociopathic, black widow
43:09I believe that she's capable of just about anything
43:14She didn't care about anybody
43:18Never, ever
43:19Never, ever
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