This was it. Two and a half years after Alex Johnson's body was pulled from the bottom of the Kentucky River, Mark Taylor faced a jury at his murder trial.

For seven agonizing days, the panel of jurors and a packed courtroom, listened to all the twisted details of the case.

They even saw the muddy barrel that served as Alex's makeshift coffin, rolled into the courtroom.

Who would they believe? Prosecutors? Or Mark Taylor?