> Soros Needs To Die wrote:
> When "48 Hours" found Jaclyn Edison sitting on a bench
with a book
> in her hand, we might have mistaken her for a young professional on

> her lunch break. But Edison wasn't on the job. She was on
probation.
>
> She was sitting in front of an Austin, Texas, jail, where she'd
just
> finished serving time after pleading guilty in a 2018 murder plot
> that sent three others to prison for up to 35 years. So why did
> Edison get a sentence of 120 days behind bars?
>
> "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports on the crime
– and the
> punishments – in "Shootout at the Shaughnessys,'" an
all-new "48
> Hours" airing Saturday, Jan. 13 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming
on
> Paramount+.
>
> The March 2, 2018 shooting murder of affluent jeweler Ted
> Shaughnessy, and the near-murder of his wife Corey shocked people
in
> Austin, where many knew the couple and assumed they'd been targeted

> as part of some sort of botched robbery. With no relevant prints
> from any outsiders at the scene, authorities had to consider the
> victim's widow herself as a suspect.
>
> But in the following weeks, they cleared Corey Shaughnessey and
> concluded her son Nicolas Shaughnessy had planned the murder with
> his high school sweetheart Jaclyn Edison so they could live large
on
> the Shaughnessys' money, hiring two hit men to do the dirty work.
>
> It was just after 4 a.m., when police say two intruders entered the

> Shaughnessys' sprawling suburban home. Corey said she woke up when
> she heard one of their two pet Rottweilers bark.
>
> "Ted sits up in bed 
 and he grabbed his gun 
 to go see
what it
> was," she said. "I hadn't even gotten my head back on the
pillow 

> before I heard the first gunshot 
 And then there was a barrage
of
> gunfire."
>
> Corey said she was still in bed when the shooting suddenly turned
in
> her direction. She grabbed a .357 revolver from above her headboard

> and returned fire. "I ran out of ammo 
 I just bailed into
the
> closet."
>
> Trapped in the closet with bullets flying, she said she called 911.
>
> "Travis County 911 
 do you need police, fire, or
paramedic?" asked
> the dispatch operator. "I don't know," Corey responded.
"I'm in the
> closet!" "There were shots fired 
 Help me!"
"OK, we're helping you
> ma'am," the operator said. "Help me!" Corey sobbed
again.
>
> Even in her hiding place, Corey couldn't escape the horror
unfolding
> in the house. "I heard this horrible, horrible moaning,"
she said.
> "When I came out of the closet 
 I saw Ted's legs and I
could tell
> he was dead."
>
> When police arrived at the scene minutes later, it looked like a
> battlefield. Broken glass and bullet casings were scattered on the
> floor. Ted's lifeless body lay in a pool of blood near the kitchen
> table. One of the dogs had been shot dead in the master bedroom.
>
> Corey told authorities she hadn't seen the attackers' faces. But
she
> did have an idea why they'd come. Though she said she and Ted
rarely
> kept valuables from their business in the house, "being a
jeweler 

> you might someday be a target."
>
> Sitting in the back of a police cruiser before dawn that morning,
> Corey spoke by phone with Nicolas, then 19, who lived with Edison,
> then 18, in the city of College Station more than 100 miles away.
>
> The couple made the two-hour drive to the scene, arriving around 8
> a.m. They had met in high school when Edison moved to Austin from
> New Jersey after her parents divorced. Nicolas brought her home in
> 2016.
>
> "It was an awkward dinner," said Corey.
>
> She said Edison struck her as socially awkward, but before long,
she
> was spending so much time at their house, Corey and Ted actually
let
> her move in. Edison lived with the Shaughnessy family until she and

> Nicolas moved 116 miles away to College Station.
>
> About two hours after Corey notified Nicolas about the murder, he
> arrived with Edison at the scene. According to investigators they
> began acting strangely. When Edison learned they planned to test
her
> hands for gunshot residue, she broke down sobbing.
>
> "That was a major red flag for me," said Sgt. James
Moore, who was
> then a detective for the Travis County Sheriff's Office. "We
knew
> there was something more to this at that point."
>
> Investigators began to suspect even more strongly that they were
> involved in the murder when they searched the couple's College
> Station home.
>
> "Once we get into the apartment we're going through it, we're
> finding ammunition," Moore said.
>
> Though common among gun owners, the ammunition was the same brand
> and caliber found at the crime scene. And investigators were about
> to find proof that Nicolas and Edison weren't telling the whole
> truth about themselves.
>
> "We find a marriage certificate for Nick and Jaclyn,"
Moore said.
>
> "In all of the conversation you were having 
 they never
said that
> they were married?" asked Axelrod. "No," Moore said.
>
> Corey said they'd never told her or Ted either. In fact, they
didn't
> tell her the news of their marriage until after the murder.
>
> "I thought it was incredibly stupid," said Corey.
"You're too young.
> This was really dumb."
>
> Trying to be a supportive mother to Nicolas, Corey said she
accepted
> the marriage, but demanded the couple plan and host a proper
> wedding. She had ample opportunity to supervise that process,
> because just days after the murder, Nicolas and Edison moved back
in
> with her.
>
> As investigators continued looking into the couple, they discovered

> suspicious text exchanges on their phones, written just days before

> the murder. To authorities, it sounded like they were in cahoots
and
> arranging a hit.
>
> "Nick is saying he's 'working on it,'" said Axelrod,
paraphrasing
> one of the texts. "Yeah," said Moore. "And Jackie's
response to the
> text message was, 'do they want 50K or not?'" added lead
detective
> Paul Salo. "And she said, "'we can't afford to pay half
before.'"
>
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> Over the next three months, police would come to believe Nicolas
and
> Edison had masterminded the attack and on May 29, 2018, authorities

> arrested them for criminal solicitation in the murder of Ted
> Shaughnessy. When Corey read the arrest affidavits, she said her
> long-standing belief in her son's innocence started to crumble. And

> she remembered a particularly awkward conversation she'd had with
> Jaclyn back in 2017.
>
> "She even asked me 
 one evening when we were getting ready
to go
> out, what would happen to all my jewelry when I was dead,"
said
> Corey. "I just chalked it up to bad manners."
>
> Just two weeks after her arrest, Edison began cooperating with
> investigators – and pointing the finger at Nicolas. She
acknowledged
> he had hired someone to kill his parents, but claimed she didn't
> know who.
>
> After her cooperation, authorities released Edison on a reduced
> bond.
>
> Using video from Edison and Nicolas' home security cameras, they
> then tracked down one of the attackers, 21-year-old Johnny Leon,
who
> eventually acknowledged having been in the Shaughnessys' home the
> night of the murder. Leon's phone records around that time showed
> intensive communications with a man named Aerion Smith, age 20, who

> later confessed to firing the fatal shot. Both were arrested for
> capital murder.
>
>
> Corey thinks Edison's sentence is outrageous.
>
> "It is an outright dismissal of everything that I went through
as a
> victim, she said. "And it's a dismissal of Ted's life."
>
> "Do you understand Corey's frustration?" Axelrod asked
Salo.
> "Absolutely," he replied.
>
> "Is she innocent?" Moore asked rhetorically.
"Absolutely not."
>
> "She knew, Amy Meredith added. "She knew what he was
trying to do."
>
>
> In a prison interview during the summer of 2023, Nicolas told
"48
> Hours" that Edison was a full partner in crime.
>
> "Was this a fifty-fifty thing?" asked Axelrod. "Most
definitely,"
> Nicolas replied.
>
> And though Edison denies it, Nicolas told us killing his parents
was
> largely her idea.
>
> Edison declined our multiple interview requests, but when she
walked
> out of jail on Oct. 17, 2023, "48 Hours" producer Jenna
Jackson was
> waiting.
>
> "Nick got 35 years, the hit men got the same," Jackson
said to her.
> "You got 120 days 
 are you getting away with murder?
"No 
 I think
> that it's fair, Edison responded. "I think it accurately
reflects
> the level of involvement."
>
> Edison insisted the Shaughnessys are overstating her role.
>
> "Corey and Nick have both told us is that 
 you are a
partner in
> this murder plot," Jackson told her. "Yeah 
 I think
Nick is, is
> saying whatever he has to say to kind of clear his name,"
Edison
> responded. "Corey is very much in denial about what really
> happened."
>
> "48 Hours" asked the district attorney for an interview
to discuss
> why his office gave Edison 120 days behind bars, but Garza would
not
> agree to speak with us on camera. A district attorney's
spokesperson
> sent us a statement saying, "Our office takes acts of violence