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00:12I remember my mom saying that when she looked in his eyes, it was like looking in the eyes of
00:16the devil.
00:18When I think back on her, I really, really wish I would listen.
00:21I just want you to start from the beginning.
00:24She would ask me, how did I feel about her getting married?
00:28I told her, ma'am, I didn't like him.
00:31This is the man you're going to marry?
00:33That you're not going to tell him that your lover is going to blow his brain out?
00:38He was like, I told you if I couldn't have you, nobody could.
00:42I was scared, you know, and I was like, I don't want to go to jail.
00:46She told me she's not here.
00:48She said, you know, we're doing that right.
00:50And she was like, no, you could be a public eye.
00:52And he told me that if I told anybody that he'd come back and he'd kill my whole family.
00:57She was like, so when are we going to do this?
01:00She said, all I got to do is tell me I'll get some sex in the car.
01:04He was very, very good at manipulation.
01:06I think he just wanted the control.
01:08He assassinated your husband, okay?
01:13Let's call it what it is.
01:15And you knew it was going to happen and you did nothing to stop it.
01:21He was a good guy.
01:23He didn't deserve what happened to him.
01:26At all.
01:43New Year's Day, 1993.
01:46Dispatchers in Mansfield, Ohio receive a worried call about a missing 18-year-old.
01:52There was a missing persons report filed by Hope Lothary, the mother of Jason Lothary.
02:00Jason at the time was home on leave from the U.S. Army.
02:03He'd gone to basic training in Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
02:08And he was home on leave from basic training, waiting his next duty station at Fort Carson, Colorado.
02:15She said that Jason had gone out the night before New Year's Eve about 1130 in her car, which was
02:23a 1993 blue Chevy Cavalier, and was going out to visit some relatives and that he never returned.
02:31He was supposed to be home that night to celebrate with his mother because Jason Lothary had just gotten married
02:38on December 30th, and he was about to set off for Colorado with his new bride in just a few
02:43days.
02:44His mom got concerned, and she had called his new bride, Amanda.
02:50Amanda had said that her and Jason had been out the night before.
02:55Jason had driven her home, and he had left.
02:57Apparently, Amanda had agreed to spend the night with her mother, New Year's Eve, despite the fact they were newlyweds.
03:06He was all right with her husband because he wanted to spend time with his mother before he took off
03:14back in the Army.
03:16Amanda had no idea where he had gone and hadn't seen him since he had dropped her off.
03:22I'm not sure if Jason's mom came to my house or if she called.
03:28I can't really recall it.
03:31But I was freaking out, and I was just like, oh, my God.
03:36Like, I didn't know what to do, you know?
03:38So the cops came and stuff, and they started questioning me, and it was like I was just living in
03:45a nightmare, and I was like, this ain't real.
03:47Like, that's all I kept saying to myself.
03:49I was like, it's not real.
03:50Like, it's going to be okay.
03:52Like, you know what I'm saying?
03:54Jason's going to come home, and it's going to be fine.
03:59We obviously checked the hospital.
04:02Hope had called all family and friends looking for Jason.
04:05No one had a clue where he was at.
04:07But at 11.30, 11.35 in the morning, a private citizen called in who had found the vehicle, just
04:16inadvertently.
04:17The vehicle was over an embankment down by the railroad tracks in the north end of town in a secluded
04:24area.
04:25Which was about a mile and a half from the Lothry home.
04:30And Mansfield police responded, and it was Hope Lothry's missing vehicle that Jason was last seen in.
04:38But Jason's not seen, no one's at the scene.
04:43In the car, we found Jason's jacket, and it had a lot of blood on the jacket and in the
04:50car.
04:51There was a large amount of blood on the driver's side headrest.
04:56There was copious amounts of blood there, and with Jason being missing, this didn't look good for him.
05:07Born in 1974, Jason Lothry was the epitome of all American.
05:14We were in classes together.
05:16He was National Honor Society.
05:18He was a good kid.
05:20He was a very polite, friendly person.
05:25In high school, he had good grades.
05:27He was Honor Society.
05:28He was, you know, all the good things.
05:30He liked to play basketball.
05:32He'd be on the basketball court and mixing it up at lunch during the open gym.
05:39Sixteen-year-old Amanda Branham was a grade below Jason at the same high school.
05:45I knew Jason for years.
05:47He lived up the street from me.
05:48His cousin was my best friend.
05:50We went to school together.
05:52Amanda is very friendly.
05:53She doesn't know a stranger.
05:55She'll include anybody in her group.
05:58At first, it was just like we were all just, like, friends, you know?
06:01But then me and Jason, like, we just clicked one day.
06:04He was sweet and caring.
06:07People loved him.
06:08My parents loved him.
06:09Jason was a boy that everybody's parents wanted their daughters to date.
06:14Like, the perfect guy.
06:17We would just ride around and just talk and listen to music.
06:21And if I wasn't at his house, he was at my house.
06:23It was just, we were in our own world.
06:27Less than a year after they fell in love, in the spring of 1992, Jason graduated and enlisted in the
06:35Army.
06:35Before Jason went to boot camp, he asked me to marry him.
06:40Of course, I said yes, but I'm 17 years old at the time.
06:43So we didn't plan to get married until after I graduated school.
06:47So we had made our marriage date for June of 93.
06:53We thought that he was going to be able to stay in Ohio, but the military, they were saying that
06:57he was going to station him in Colorado.
06:59So he had asked me, he was like, I want you to go with me.
07:02I was ready to just get out of Mansfield and start my life.
07:06So we moved our wedding day up to December.
07:09And I dropped out of school.
07:11We had made a whole plan that when we got to Colorado, I was going to get my GED.
07:15I was going to go to cosmetology school because I wanted to do hair.
07:19So, like, we had a whole plan.
07:23On December 30th, 1992, Amanda and Jason were married in a small ceremony in Mansfield.
07:31His parents came, my parents came, my sister, a few of the friends.
07:36We were very happy.
07:37But that changed when this happened.
07:42Now, only two days after his wedding, the car Jason had been driving has been found covered in blood.
07:52The car was towed to the Mansfield Police Department so the crime lab could process it for evidence.
07:58Because of the amount of blood, we believed that we were dealing with a homicide at that point.
08:05So, since Amanda, his wife of one day, was the last person, allegedly, that had been with him or seen
08:12him,
08:13we thought she was the key to the investigation and we interviewed her right away.
08:18When Amanda goes down to the police station, she's very upset.
08:21She's worried about where Jason could be.
08:24They said that they had found the car.
08:26My mind was all over the place.
08:29That's when Amanda reveals that Jason had gotten involved with some local drug dealers named Capri Smith and Anthony Parents.
08:36She said that they were going to harm Jason and she didn't know the extent of the harm that they
08:42wanted to do to him.
08:44We were familiar with Capri Smith from other police dealings.
08:48She said Anthony Parents had some longstanding grudge against Jason and had threatened to kill him.
08:56She said that the night of the 26th, they were all at the Moto Mart and that Anthony wanted to
09:01fight Jason and that Jason wouldn't go out and fight.
09:06We had no reason to doubt Amanda, but we wanted to clear her first of any knowledge.
09:11So we asked her if she'd take a polygraph and she agreed.
09:15Her answers were that she had no knowledge, direct involvement in Jason's disappearance.
09:21She passed the polygraph with flying colors.
09:26After the polygraph, I went back on station and within an hour got a call from a citizen that said
09:33that Amanda Lothry and her sister had come to their house screaming and that they had found Jason's body in
09:41a ravine.
09:43I thought, well, she just passed this polygraph supposedly and drives there directly to where the body's at and yet
09:51claims no knowledge.
09:52So what's the chances of that?
09:56Coming up, as a homicide investigation ignites, another murder leads to more questions.
10:04That was strange that we would have these two homicides close together.
10:09We don't believe in coincidences.
10:12And the search for justice will lead to a shocking revelation.
10:17When we found this out, this was kind of a love triangle thing going on here.
10:22It gave us a motive.
10:38Less than an hour after questioning 17-year-old Amanda Lothry in connection with her husband Jason's disappearance,
10:47detectives have just received a call that Amanda has made a terrible discovery.
10:52She had indicated her and her sister had gone out looking for Jason and came upon his body in this
10:59particular wooded area.
11:03My sister got out of the car and she just started looking.
11:07And then she's seen him.
11:11I remember just getting this sinking feeling in my stomach and I just started crying.
11:17Her and the sister then went on foot to a random house nobody they knew and called the police from
11:25there.
11:26I went to the scene and we found that Jason was thrown over this bank into a ravine.
11:34He had obvious wounds to the back of his head, which appeared to me to be gunshot wounds.
11:41And we could see abrasions on Jason's body that would indicate that he had been dragged.
11:49But there were no bullet casings, anything of that nature found at the scene.
11:55The vehicle was located about two and a half miles due north of where the body was found.
12:02The large amount of blood in the vehicle suggested that he was murdered in the vehicle.
12:09But we didn't know whether that happened where the vehicle was located or at the scene where he was recovered.
12:16Where Jason's body is ultimately discovered, that area was an odd location for Amanda to be looking in
12:24because it isn't in close proximity to where they lived or where he would have gone.
12:30So we talked to Amanda at the scene where Jason was found.
12:35So Amanda said this spot is where drug dealers have been known to frequent.
12:41She said she went there because that's where, you know, Anthony and Capri did their dirty work.
12:48And that's how she happened to be there.
12:51So we didn't take another formal statement at that time.
12:55We just talked to her.
12:57Can't say that they was really, like, consoling, but I think that they were just doing their job.
13:01The coroner was called to the scene and the coroner dictated the body be transferred to the Mansfield General Hospital
13:11morgue for autopsy.
13:15I got word that Jason had passed the same night that they found him.
13:21I was quite shocked.
13:23Couldn't believe that someone as good as him had life cut short.
13:28I didn't eat.
13:29I couldn't sleep.
13:30It was almost like I was walking, like, in a dream.
13:34Like, everything was just surreal.
13:39At this point, we're definitely looking at the homicide.
13:42So we're checking alibis.
13:44We're checking leads.
13:45Amanda had stated that Anthony Perrins and Capri Smith frequently ran together.
13:52And that Anthony had threatened to kill Jason in the past.
13:59So, obviously, we contacted Anthony Perrins and Capri Smith about this.
14:05They both were known to law enforcement and had police records.
14:12Capri Smith and Anthony, when they were questioned, they had no knowledge of what we were talking about.
14:19And they gave alibis.
14:21We knew that the murder occurred sometime between 1130, you know, the night before and when he was found at
14:29about 355, you know, the next day on January 1st.
14:33We checked out both their alibis and they were solid.
14:38They were at parties with numerous people that could vouch for their presence there.
14:42They had no involvement in Jason Lothry's murder.
14:47At that point, we had nothing more to go on.
14:53Back at Square One, detectives review another homicide case that occurred just four days before Jason's murder to determine if
15:03there is any possible connection.
15:06Mansfield is not that high of a rate in terms of crime, but suddenly had two murders within days of
15:13one another.
15:13We'd average about four or five murders a year.
15:18So it was unusual to have that many murders in that time span.
15:24Before Jason's murder, I'd gotten called in in the early morning hours of December 27th for an apparent homicide.
15:32The man was shot in the left eye.
15:38His name was Scott Cox.
15:41Scotty Cox was in the bar with a friend and they were having a drink.
15:47We talked to the man that was with Scott Cox.
15:50He said that they were leaving the bar.
15:52These two individuals were coming eastbound on 4th Street.
15:56Scotty Cox had bumped into these two guys.
15:59He described them as one tall and one short.
16:03Other than that, he couldn't tell us white, black, anything else about them.
16:09Words were exchanged between them and that the taller male pulled out a gun, a pistol, and shot Scott Cox
16:21in the face.
16:24And they ran away from him.
16:27It was just, he'd just feel numb, I guess.
16:31Just shock.
16:32Why Scotty?
16:33Scotty didn't have any enemies.
16:35We all broke down as a family, couldn't believe it happened.
16:38He wasn't a troublemaker, so we didn't know why it happened.
16:44Both Jason and Scott were assassinated by bullets to the head.
16:49But detectives still aren't sure if they're connected.
16:52There's always this fear that if you find these sort of connected murders, that more violence or more murders may
17:00result.
17:01Later on, people start coming forward and providing information.
17:05And the connection then is developed.
17:21On January 1st, 1993, Mansfield detectives are investigating the murder of 18-year-old Jason Lothry
17:30and trying to determine if it's connected to another recent homicide.
17:35Scott Cox was murdered on December 27, 1992, in Mansfield, just days before Jason Lothry was murdered.
17:49At the time, we were kind of still in the dark.
17:52We just had heard that it was another tragedy yet in Mansfield, and they were still trying to put things
17:58together.
18:00Jason's body was taken to the Mansfield General morgue at the direction of the coroner for an autopsy,
18:06which he performed the next morning.
18:08He determined that manner of death was homicide, and cause of death was three gunshot wounds to the head.
18:18Some bullet fragments were recovered from Jason's head, were turned over for comparison.
18:24It was a homicide by gunshot, a small-caliber gun, and it turned out to be a .22 caliber.
18:32The weapon that was determined to kill Scott Cox was a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson.
18:39And so we had nothing at that point to connect the two deaths.
18:43Despite the different murder weapons, detectives continue to investigate the homicide side by side.
18:50We thought that was strange that we would have these two homicides close together.
18:56We don't believe in coincidences.
18:58We had six to eight detectives working on this at the time.
19:07After the word got out on Jason's murder, after it was in the papers and everything,
19:12we started getting phone calls from the different high schools
19:15that students thought they might have some knowledge about this murder.
19:20We found out from these students that all hung around together
19:24that this man, Raji Render, didn't like Jason.
19:28Raji Render wanted to fight, have it out with Jason, so they could settle their differences.
19:36Render was also known to hang around with a guy by the name of Aaron Bryant.
19:40And so his name was also offered up to police.
19:43So we had to check him out.
19:45Raji T.C. Render had been involved in the system before on that weapons charge.
19:50T.C.'s a nickname he gave himself, totally cool or too cool.
19:53Aaron Bryant was living down the street.
19:56From him, they were supposedly best friends.
19:58And if you use the geography of it, Render and Bryant both live.
20:03Close door, Scott Cox was murdered.
20:06Myself and Detective Jim Gad went out to pick them up to talk.
20:10The thing that stood out about Aaron was on the Scott Cox murder.
20:15Witnesses said one was a really short male, about 5'4", and Aaron Bryant was about 5'4".
20:25And T.C. was taller.
20:27So in the back of my mind, I'm saying these two guys fit the description we had from the Cox
20:32homicide.
20:34At the station, detectives asked T.C. and Aaron about the murders of Jason Lothry and Scott Cox.
20:42They denied any involvement in it.
20:46T.C. Render and Aaron Bryant had alibis.
20:49That on late night, December 26th, early morning, December 27th, there was a kind of a party going on in
20:55the basement.
20:56And again, on New Year's Eve, they were there all night for a party until 5 in the morning.
21:01There was a time Aaron Bryant was living with his girlfriend, Julie Crosby, and her father was Clarence Crosby.
21:10I contacted Clarence Crosby, the male head of household there, and confided into him what was going on, that there
21:18had been two murders.
21:20We thought Aaron might be involved.
21:25On January 4th, Clarence and his daughter Julie agree to come to the station, where they're separated for questioning.
21:34I asked him, had he heard anything, had he seen anything?
21:38He was surprised to hear that Aaron could be involved, and that he said, you know, he didn't know anything
21:44about it, hadn't heard anything, but, you know, he'd let us know.
21:50So, we next talked to Julie Crosby, Aaron's girlfriend.
21:55She was 18, had a young baby, and questioned her.
21:59Julie Crosby was given indications to police that she was nervous, so they had thought that she knew something.
22:06Julie, at first, denied any knowledge.
22:09Then, Detective Wenling came in and pretty much slammed his fist on the table and was like, you have got
22:15to tell us what is going on.
22:18It was explained to her what an accessory to murder could mean, what kind of charge that could mean, what
22:25kind of effect that could have on her life, you know, with her young child and everything.
22:30And she then broke down.
22:32She said Aaron confessed to her, but TC Render and Aaron Bryant, they had inadvertently killed Scott Cox.
22:40It was like the floodgates being opened.
23:00Four days into the investigation of the New Year's Eve murder of Jason Lothry, Mansfield detectives have received information that
23:09Raji TC Render and Aaron Bryant were involved in another recent murder, that of Scott Cox.
23:18Once we interviewed Julie Crosby, it kind of cracked the case open.
23:23While at the house one night, Julie had overheard a discussion between TC Render and Clarence Crosby, her father, about
23:36wanting to borrow a weapon.
23:39TC was looking for a gun.
23:42TC had been supplied that .38 caliber Smith & Wesson by Clarence Crosby, along with ammunition.
23:52The discussion then entered into the fact that TC intended to use this gun to ambush Jason Lothry.
24:02According to Julie, the day after TC borrowed the gun, he and Aaron returned to the house in a panic.
24:11December 27th, TC and Aaron ran back to her house and gave Clarence Crosby the weapon back.
24:19They were kind of on edge.
24:22They were riled up.
24:23They said Scotty Cox ran into Aaron on the street, bumped into him.
24:29Words were exchanged.
24:32They had an argument with Scott, and TC raised the gun in front of Scott.
24:37Scott supposedly batted it away.
24:39The gun was raised again, and he was shot.
24:44Scott Cox just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
24:49Julie says her father then supplied TC with a new gun, this time a .22.
24:55Clarence had prior knowledge.
24:57His plan was to kill Jason and still supply the ammunition as well as the weapons.
25:04We didn't know why he did that.
25:06I mean, the rest of these were 17, 18, 19-year-olds, and Clarence was an adult.
25:14December 31st, Julie told us that TC Render came back and gave Clarence Crosby the .22 revolver back.
25:22They said it was used to kill Jason Lothry.
25:24So the two murders were actually connected.
25:29When detectives asked Julie why TC wanted to kill Jason Lothry, she says the entire plot revolved around Jason's wife.
25:39Apparently, TC and Amanda had been an item.
25:44They found out Amanda and TC had been on and off for some time, but this information was withheld from
25:51police by Amanda.
25:52Julie advised that Amanda and TC had remained in that relationship, even though she had started a relationship with Jason
26:01and committed to marrying him.
26:03And the idea was that TC wanted him dead because he wanted to be with Amanda.
26:12Julie also indicated that Amanda was well aware of what was going to transpire.
26:19Now, Amanda did pass the polygraph.
26:21I will admit the polygraph's not a panacea.
26:25People can pass polygraphs and still be 100% guilty.
26:29When we found this out, this was kind of a love triangle thing going on here.
26:35It gave us a motive.
26:38Armed with his daughter's statement, detectives circled back to Clarence and confront him with the allegations.
26:45He basically confirmed what Julie had told us, that he had supplied both weapons, the .22 revolver that was used
26:54to kill Jason Lothry and the .38 revolver for Scott Cox.
27:01Following Clarence's interview, detectives head to his home to collect evidence.
27:06From there, we recovered the .38 caliber revolver.
27:12The bullet casings were buried in the backyard.
27:15Clarence showed us approximately where they were, and we dug them up.
27:19We later recovered the .22 H&R revolver that was using Jason Lothry's murder.
27:27We felt we had probable cause to make arrests on Amanda, TC, and Aaron.
27:34On January 4th, investigators arrest TC Render.
27:39We found TC first.
27:41We were searching a residence that we had information he was at.
27:45We put him on the ground, handcuffed him.
27:49Detectives arrest Aaron Bryant at a friend's house the same day, before setting their sights on Amanda Lothry.
27:58I was at Jason's wake, they came in and asked me to come outside, and then when they got me
28:06outside, they said that I was under arrest for the murder of Jason.
28:13It was almost like I had all these voices in my mind, like, screaming.
28:17And I'm like, you're arresting me?
28:19I didn't even do it.
28:22Amanda was taken to the detective bureau for a statement.
28:29Are you in love with TC?
28:31No.
28:31Have you ever been in love with him?
28:33No.
28:35It was so hard for me to remember, like, everything back then.
28:38I was scared, you know, and I was like, I don't want to go to jail.
28:43I just know that during their investigation, I misled him.
28:47And I lied.
29:00Four days into the investigation, Amanda Lothry has been taken into custody in connection to the murder of her young
29:08husband, Jason.
29:10According to an eyewitness, Amanda had prior knowledge that her alleged lover, Raji T.C. Render, wanted to murder Jason
29:19in order to be with her.
29:22Would you explain your relationship to me with TC, what it has been all along?
29:27We saw each other on and off, but when Jason left, it was just a friendship.
29:37I met TC when I'd say maybe I was, like, 14, I think.
29:44He was, like, 17.
29:46And I was like, oh, he's kind of cute.
29:48TC had been, you know, a popular guy.
29:51He had a reputation for being, like, a ladies' man.
29:55My parents didn't like him.
29:56I remember my mom saying that when she looked in his eyes, it was like looking in the eyes of
30:00the devil.
30:02He cheated on me a lot.
30:03So eventually, I got to a point to where I just started, like, seeing other guys and, you know, basically
30:10doing me.
30:11When Amanda and TC broke up, she started talking to Jason.
30:15Her parents were thrilled.
30:17You could tell.
30:18They really liked Jason a lot.
30:20We knew that after Jason went off to join the Army, TC moved right back in to his relationship with
30:29Amanda.
30:31She admitted that they were still seeing each other.
30:34Would you now tell me what you know about that incident?
30:37I just want you to start from the beginning.
30:41When TC found out that me and Jason had got engaged, he had made a comment to somebody.
30:46He was like, I'll shoot up that whole wedding if she thinks she's getting married.
30:50He was going to shoot him.
30:52Did you tell Jason that?
30:54I made hints towards Jason.
30:55Hints?
30:56This is the man you're going to marry the following Wednesday?
30:59You're wearing his wedding band right now, and you're not going to tell him that your lover is going to
31:04blow his brains out?
31:08When TC had made that comment and got back to me, I was like, I don't believe that.
31:12TC ain't going to, you know what I mean?
31:14So I took it with a grain of salt.
31:16Maybe that was my mistake.
31:19I didn't want to believe it.
31:23I mean, I'm 17 years old, you know?
31:27So the 31st, I worked at Wendy's.
31:30I was closed in that night.
31:32Jason come and pick me up.
31:35But when I came out of Wendy's, TC and Jason was out in the parking lot talking.
31:38And so I walked up, and I was like, what's going on?
31:41And Jason was like, TC wants us to go out, you know, for a while tonight or whatever.
31:46I was like, well, take me home so I could change first.
31:48So we dropped him off at home, and then went to my house, and I changed clothes, and then we
31:53left.
31:54And then we went and picked up TC.
31:57We went riding around, and we went to the Galaxy Goose to get some stuff to drink or whatever that
32:01TC bought.
32:03Jason was, like, lightweight.
32:05So, like, he started swerving on the road a little bit, and I was like, Jason, pull over the car.
32:11So Jason pulled back there, and he backed the car up, and turned off the lights.
32:16So I got out of the car, and I was like, because I went to the bathroom, like, back in
32:19the woods and stuff.
32:21And next thing I know, I started hearing these gunshots and stuff.
32:29So I run up there, and I see TC dragging Jason out of the car.
32:34And I'm asking TC, what's going on?
32:36And then, like, I seen Jason.
32:38I just realized, like, he was dead.
32:44TC just dumped him over to the side.
32:49I'm sorry.
32:53Amanda Lothry told police that she was fearful of Rinder and just went along with whatever he wanted.
33:03I just thought she really had kind of a flat affect for everything.
33:08It wasn't a show of emotion that, you know, she was sorry for all this.
33:15TC was like, I told you if I couldn't have you, nobody could.
33:20Eventually, I finally got him to let me go home.
33:22And he told me that if I told anybody that he'd come back and he'd kill my whole family.
33:28He was very, very good at, I guess you could say, manipulation.
33:32I don't even really think that he wanted to be back with me.
33:34I think he just wanted the control.
33:38He assassinated your husband, okay?
33:42Let's call it what it is.
33:44And you knew it was going to happen, and you did nothing to stop it.
33:51My mom said that I always give benefit of the doubt to people, you know?
33:55I guess you'd call it naive or whatever back then.
33:57When I think back on it, I really, really wish I would have listened.
34:00The fact that she sent her little sister, who was uninvolved in the whole thing, threw her over to find
34:06the body with her.
34:07I just thought that was awful.
34:12Detectives finish their interview with Amanda and detain her in jail.
34:17The same day, they interview T.C. Render.
34:22What we're going to discuss here are a few homicides.
34:26The first is the William S. Cox homicide.
34:30We find out December 26th, T.C. Render and Aaron Bryant had gone to the motomart and tried to get
34:38Jason to come out and fight.
34:40And Jason wouldn't come out.
34:42And so they were going home when Scott Cox walked out of the bar.
34:49But it wasn't for it.
34:52And it's longer.
34:54I think so.
34:58Joe, what you're saying is, you're the one that shot Mr. Cox.
35:02Yeah.
35:03You want to tell us anything about Jason's death?
35:08Well, I don't know.
35:10I don't see for him.
35:12You're saying that it isn't going to shot Jason.
35:19Did you and Amanda have some type of conversation about her fiancé?
35:24Yeah.
35:25She would ask me, how did I feel about her getting married when she went back?
35:31I didn't like it, especially if she told me she loved me and all this.
35:35She said, she asked me one time, did I know how much Jason was worth if she married him?
35:43And she said, if you die, I've got killed or something.
35:47I told her, no.
35:48She said, it was around $200,000 or something.
35:56She said, you know what we're doing with that money.
35:58She was like, well, you could get a happy car.
36:01So he said, part of the motive for the shooting of Jason Lothry was that once she had married him,
36:08that she would be in line for army insurance.
36:12She was like, so when are we going to do this?
36:16She said, I set him up many times.
36:18She said, all I got to do is tell me I'll give some sex and cover.
36:23TC admits to acquiring the gun, but he maintains he never pulled the trigger.
36:29Instead, he says that when Amanda and Jason picked him up on New Year's Eve, Amanda had put her plan
36:36into action.
36:39Amanda, she was like, she's turning up the music, so I'm turning up the music.
36:43She had hit him once, and at first it was just sitting there.
36:47What are you doing?
36:48She had shot him once.
36:51Where at?
36:53I don't know.
36:54It was someone in the head.
36:59She was just sitting up there like this, but it seemed like he was swaying back and forth.
37:04Then she shot him again.
37:06I don't know if she hatched out the plan or he did, but I thought that they were both totally
37:12involved in it.
37:29Ohio authorities have arrested Amanda Lothry and her alleged lover, Raji TC Render, for the murder of Amanda's husband, Jason
37:38Lothry.
37:39T.C. Alongside his friend, Aaron Bryant, also stand accused of shooting a second man, Scott Cox, a few days
37:49before Jason's death.
37:51TC Render was charged with conspiracy murder of Jason Lothry and conspiracy to commit murder for the murder of Scott
38:00Cox.
38:01Amanda was charged with conspiracy.
38:04Conspiracy in Ohio is a felony of the first degree.
38:08Aaron Bryant was originally charged with participating in the aggravated murder of Scott Cox.
38:14He was also charged with conspiracy to commit murder, which related to the murder of Mr. Lothry.
38:20Clarence Crosby, the man who provided the murder weapons, is also charged.
38:27Clarence was charged with aiding and abetting in the murder of Jason Lothry and four counts of tampering with evidence.
38:37Aaron Bryant ended up reaching a plea agreement, so he was able to testify and did testify in the trial
38:45against Crosby, Amanda, and TC.
38:48So since the allegations as this was a conspiracy, the court went forward with the idea that they would all
38:55three be tried together.
38:58In May of 1993, opening arguments get underway.
39:06Amanda was blaming TC and saying that he was manipulating her.
39:12She was fearful of him.
39:14She had no choice.
39:16On the other side, you had TC, who claimed that Amanda was being manipulative.
39:22Did I lie to the police?
39:23Yes, I did.
39:24I'll take that all day long.
39:25But to say that I sat down and maliciously plotted to kill somebody, no.
39:30Like, no.
39:31In response, the state calls multiple witnesses to prove the lovers conspired together.
39:39You had Julie Crosby saying that Amanda would be on the phone with TC, and TC would be telling her,
39:45you know, you've got to get Jason out of the house.
39:47And Julie heard some of these conversations.
39:51The general argument of the state was that Amanda had wanted to be with TC Render.
39:59They wanted the $200,000 insurance policy so that they could have a life together.
40:05And they were all fueled by greed and lust.
40:10But at trial, Amanda claimed that she didn't know anything about it.
40:15Literally, we had just got married.
40:17You know, we never talked about no money or anything like that or no insurance policy.
40:22That's what they was building my case around.
40:25But I was never his beneficiary.
40:31After nine hours of deliberation, the jury came back with guilty verdicts on all counts.
40:38Mr. Render had very little reaction, neither did Mr. Crosby.
40:44I felt like I was going to die.
40:46Like, I was like, there's no way.
40:49My life's gone because nobody wanted to listen to me.
40:54They were all sentenced.
40:58Later, they had filed appeals that they hadn't been allowed a separate trial.
41:05The decision to try them all together was grounds for appeal.
41:10After the convictions were reversed, TC Render decided to go to trial again.
41:17He was again convicted.
41:20His sentence ultimately becomes 36 years to life for the aggravated murder of Jason Lothry
41:28and for the murder of Scott Cox.
41:31And there were some plea deals among the others.
41:35I agreed to the plea deal because my attorney at the time was saying,
41:39if you go through trial, you're looking at life.
41:42Her sentence is 10 to 28 years in prison for her participation.
41:48Amanda served her entire 28 years.
41:53I got out in January of 2021.
41:56When I first got out, I was very overwhelmed.
41:59I still felt like I had this wall up a little bit.
42:02I tried to move forward with my life.
42:05This is something that, like, you know, haunts me at times.
42:11Jason was a good guy.
42:13He didn't deserve what happened to him.
42:16At all.
42:19He should have had the chance to, you know, be married for real and have children and experience life.
42:25And all that was cut short.
42:28Jason Lothry had a wonderful life ahead of him.
42:31He had a lot to look forward to.
42:33And his loss was huge.
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