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 an encore of “Shootout at the Shaughnessys,'” now 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…