The attorneys for the plaintiff and the defense have now rested their cases in the civil trial regarding the murder of Shirley Carter.

Father Bill Carter sued his son Jason for shooting and killing Shirley in June 2015. The defense offered witnesses to bolster their argument regarding Jason’s activities the morning of the murder, attempting to illustrate that he could not have been at the farm during the time of the murder. They used a photograph of Shirley’s folded clothes on a bed in a guest room to suggest that her Bill killed Shirley because she was leaving him. Bill testified that he and Shirley were very much in love, and that she was not planning to leave.

The jury will receive their instructions today.