This week's "48 Hours" offers a rare look at the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) judicial system as it handles a case of double murder. The case involves a decorated soldier at Fort Campbell, Ky., home of the famed 101st Airborne.
Correspondent Richard Schlesinger and the" 48 Hours" team revisit their investigation of the 2007 murders of Tracy Burke and Karen Comer and the subsequent attempted prosecution of their alleged killer, Army Sergeant Brent Burke. It's a story about a fractured military family that brings viewers inside an Army court martial where "48 Hours" was granted special access to both the prosecution and defense teams of the JAG Corps.
Tracy Burke and her ex-husband's mother, Karen Comer, were shot dead in Comer's Rineyville, Ky., home while Tracy's three young children were left unharmed. Fearing for his life, Tracy's 9-year-old son, Matthew Pete, waited until the next day to call 911.
"Somebody broke into our house last night...I don't know who it was, but they killed everybody here except my sister, my brother and me," Matthew says in the 911 call.
VIDEO: Listen to Matthew's call for help
Although the boy told police he didn't know who the gunman was, he was certain he was wearing a camouflage jacket like one he remembered was in his stepdad Sgt. Brent Burke's closet.
Local police soon turned to Burke, a military policeman at Fort Campbell. Brent and Tracy Burke had been going through a divorce at the time and were living apart.
However, there was no physical evidence tying Brent Burke to the crime scene. Burke also maintains he's "an innocent man." Though it seemed like an easy case, four civilian trials ended without a decision. Then the JAG team took on the case. But could the military get a conviction where civilian courts could not?
VIDEO: Watch a sneak peek
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