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this is a murder case that began with a nightmare and a woman who had visions of
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violence to me it was a dream but I woke up and it just startled me I usually have very strange dreams
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when I wake up in the morning I remember bits and pieces and within half an hour
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it's completely gone I said I'm worried about Kelly I think Kelly's hurt Kelly Brennan was a nurse at one of
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the local hospitals well thought of at the hospital Kelly was beautiful when she
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came in the room it was like glamorous she was patient oriented wasn't afraid to take charge we called
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her thege but tell me what happened what did you dream about Kelly everything was
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black and she was arguing with somebody and I saw the sign for Mark's landing on
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February 15th 2010 Kelly BR went missing she didn't show up for work there was like A unsettling Panic that
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we didn't know what would happened to Kelly something was not right it was not adding up and that's why we called the
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police 911 what's the problem there I think there's been a murder we sent people down to start to look at Mark's
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landing and in that area to see if they could find Kelly and actually put a Aviation unit up in the
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helicopter had had spotted what they believed to be a a person laying in the wooded area shortly later we were able
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to uh identify that it was Kelly Brun if you follow me Peter right back in here toward the scrub wow back in the
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bush and this is where Kelly ended her life right here most of the injuries are are directed direct at her
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head so there's a frenzied attack with many blows being struck there's a lot of anger and rage that once the body's
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found and it's where she says it is Mark's Landing I said I can see Mark's Landing of course then she becomes your
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prime suspect in the dream it's just like I told them she was arguing with somebody my name is Todd darany I was a
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criminal defense lawyer and one day Sheila tro came into my office and told me that she was accused of murder Sheila
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was trying to convey to me that she didn't commit any murder and that she merely had a dream a vision about this
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that came to her like she was Clairvoyant if it hadn't been for me they wouldn't have gone to Mark's
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Landing looking for her I told the truth and I'm continuing to tell the truth I did not kill Kelly Brennan you don't
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believe that she has some Supernatural ability that all these facts came to her in a dream no I don't think she's
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Clairvoyant I think she's a killer I'm I'm Peter vanand tonight on 48 Hours a vision of
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] murder it's hard to imagine this picturesque Seashore marks landing on Florida's
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Space Coast as a Beachside [Music] grave is this the spot where Kelly Brennan was lying on the
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ground you noticed her legs sticking out from the bushes a little bit and kind of
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the lower part of our TSO it was on the morning of February 16th 2010 that Chopper pilot John Copa of the
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bravard County Sheriff's Department spotted a body we landed I got out of the helicopter ran over to her I saw a lot
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of trauma to her head it's it's a very sad moment to see somebody dead like that it was 46 year old Kelly Brennan
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who had vanished from her home in Indie Atlantic less than 24 hours earlier there was no saving Kelly Brennan no
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unfortunately no there was no saving her she was so alive she was always you know
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running around doing things and then to know that she was dead it was just a total
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shock Lou irves and Kelly were close friends and nurses at a local hospital they often kayaked together when you
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think about Kelly Brennan what do you miss the most her friendship working with her was good because she was a good
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nurse she knew her stuff and but but also just as a friend Kelly was committed to her patients even after she
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was diagnosed with an incurable disease multiple sclerosis it would flare up at times and she would just keep working
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and work right through it which was another thing I admired about her Sheila Trot the woman at the center of this
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murder says Kelly Brennan was her friend as well what is it about her that you liked we had the type of friendship
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where we wouldn't see each other for four or five years and then something would bring us together she hosted
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parties she liked to be the center of attention Kelly was a great girl there was nothing that she did to deserve that
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at all so how did it come to this Sheila Trot suspected of brutally murdering her
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friend and dumping her body right here among these bushes well it's a complicated tale of Secrets lies and
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Intrigue a story that begins with an eerie dream and ends like a Shakespearean tragedy does this case
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have an affair yes sex sure Jealousy on both sides major Todd goodier is the lead investigator and a nightmare and
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visions and who knows what Clairvoyance of course that's our our suspect saying that she's Clairvoyant for us that's
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somebody that's trying to live with what they've done I woke up and it just startled me and I said I'm worried about
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Kelly I think Kelly's hurt in this dream was Kelly Brennan dead mm- did you see her blooded no mm-m
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did you see her body at Mark's Landing uh-uh no you did not kill Kelly no no I would never have Hur
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Kelly no I never would have hurt Kelly but to truly understand just how strange this story is you have to go
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back in time 20 years Kelly Brennan a nursing student and Sheila Trot were friends Sheila was working three jobs to
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put her husband Daniel through flight school Dan was an upwardly mobile kind of guy liked Limelight a little bit some
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of the things we heard was he a little narcissistic one of those people that liked to believe he had a little more
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power and a little more status she was Head Over Heels Allison Bartlett remembers when her best friend Sheila
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fell for the tall handsome aspiring pilot I never heard or saw that spark in her that I did when she talked about Dan
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and sent photos of Dan and I could see that they were going to be getting married and what did she tell you about
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his personality fun like the same things that she did I think in a lot of ways she found a soulmate at least she
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thought she did at least she thought she did Sheila and Dan were married on August 26th
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1989 the couple had two sons kraton and Graham Sheila became a real estate agent
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and Daniel trot achieved his dream of becoming an airline pilot in 2002 his political career also took off when he
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was elected mayor of their small town in the Atlantic based on your investigation
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were Dan and Sheila Trot considered a power couple in India Atlantic I think within town because of his status of
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being U you know formly in the political circles there and her being a real estate agent and being fairly well too I
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think they were in that Social Circle to where they would be well known throughout the
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community from the outside Sheila and Dan seemed to have the perfect life but images can be
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deceiving what did you see in his behavior what happened he began having Affairs I would notice his ring was on
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the counter he wasn't wearing his ring and then when I would say look at we need to talk what's going on he would
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swear and cuss at me that's Sheila's story 48 Hours reached out to Dan trot about these allegations but he refused
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to comment by January 2009 Sheila had had enough so you asked for the divorce oh
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absolutely yes I said I'm done while her marriage was crumbling Sheila and Kelly met for a girl's night
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out and it wasn't long before Sheila realized that Kelly's six-year marriage to restaurant manager gin Rallo was on
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the Rocks too she had made a point of saying that she wouldn't care if Gino had an affair
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which I thought was a really strange thing to [Music] say Dan Trot moved out and joined a
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Cycling group where Kelly Brennan was a member and soon they were going out on more than long bike rides Dan and Kelly
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were both lying to everybody saying that they weren't having an affair and while
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this whole thing was going on I was having my problems with Dan he was just being very belligerent Sheila's mother
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repeated to investigators her daughter's claims of of other Affairs but major goodar says it was Dan's admitted
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relationship with Kelly that led to murder she's going to lose Dan I'm going to kill the thing that he now loves or
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I'm going to take that away and I'm going to hurt him as bad as he's hurt me and then you get the third thing if I
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can't have him nobody's going to have him you've been portrayed as being obsessed with Dan you laugh you that
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you're saying that's not true oh no he would I'm sure he wishes I was obsessed with him no absolutely not you couldn't
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be the thought of losing him you couldn't bear the thought of him with another woman oh no well the fact that I
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set him up with Kelly would you know that would be a little different but uh with Kelly Brennan yes absolutely you
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set them up yes absolutely wait a second yeah she was my ticket out of a bad marriage but police aren't buying one
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word of Sheila's story and they want to question her about Kelly Brennan's murder God's honest truth if I was going
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to kill kill anybody for any reason it would have been [Music] him that's the place that's the place
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that she loves that's where her heart is right there Sheila Trot had a lifelong love affair with the water you know I
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should have been born with gills I suppose long before she was accused of murder she spent Carefree Summers on
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this picturesque Canadian Island this is where she learned to swim and this was her favorite place in the whole
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world Margaret Byer says her daughter doesn't belong at the center of this murder investigation but back with her
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family in Canada Sheila used to just love to run through these rocks if she could see this right now she would would
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just be in tears this is where she belongs it was Sheila's love of the water that Drew her
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to live on the Florida coast where she was a diving instructor and went to college now she swims in a sea of
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Suspicion I did not kill Kelly Brennan she was the best thing that could have ever happened to me in fact Sheila says
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she orchestrated the relationship between Dan and Kelly one night over dinner to speed up her own divorce so I
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said to her I said you know something Kelly I said you and Dan would be great for each other and she just perked up
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and she said really and I said yeah and I said but Kelly you're going to have to
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lose weight but prosecutor Samantha Barrett says Sheila is making up the Matchmaker
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story Barrett says that Sheila was simmering with anger and jealousy over the relationship anger that finally
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boiled over when she savagely killed Kelly on this lawn right behind me it was horrific she was lying in wait
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for Kelly When Kelly came out of her house I believe once she started the attack and she knew Kelly wasn't going
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to be able to fight back that that's when the the rage came to the surface authorities begin building a
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timeline that prosecutor Jim McMaster says started on the night of February 15th 2010 when Kelly misses an
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appointment with her personal trainer and they couldn't find her or could contact her and couldn't find her
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Kelly's roommate files a missing person's report 2 hours later they checked every Police Department every
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hospital fire rescue Highway Patrol they went to her residence and were clueless
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as to where Kelly Brennan was meanwhile according to her sons Graham and kraton Sheila arrives home
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after a 4-Hour trip to Walmart she was dizzy shaking and acting strangely was address the emergency so her son's
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girlfriend calls 911 a paramedics arrived they couldn't find anything physically wrong with her so they left
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an hour later another call to 911 my boyfriend's mom just had a seizure about an hour ago and they said to call back
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if she's been acting weird or anything and she's acting very strange she was then transported to the hospital and
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they ran routine test and nothing of medical significance was identified she was released from the hospital and came
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home when they return from the hospital in the wee hours of the morning Sheila begins talking about the dream she
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called her younger son Graham into the bedroom she told him she had a bad dream she kept seeing Kelly's face in the dark
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and that she believed that she hurt Kelly worried Sheila's Sons telephone their grandmother Graham just said to me
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Margaret we need you we need need you she drives from her Florida condo to Sheila's house where she finds her
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daughter curled up in a fetal position on her bed she was shaking from head to toe and she said call the police I said
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what happened she said mom everything's black everything's black and all I can see is Kelly's
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face it was Graham that said to me Margaret I think Mom's killed Kelly fearing her daughter was having a
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nervous breakdown Margaret buers makes yet another 911 call um we just need a policeman please what's the problem
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there please this call would change Sheila's life forever I think there's been a murder my daughter I has had a
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nervous breakdown and she's saying she's killed somebody your daughter's telling
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you she killed somebody yes all right she she didn't tell you who she's saying she killed she's saying she I don't know
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Kelly Kelly do you did she tell you where this happened well she it's down Mark's Landing Mark's
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Landing it's sort of the defendant's own words through her mother and and through
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her sons I mean she's basically confessing to the crime in the 911 call after that explosive call officers rush
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to Sheila trt's home and she continues rambling about the dream she's making some statements I believe I hurt someone
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I keep seeing Kelly's face to the point that the IND Atlantic police believe we may have a homicide on our hands then
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detectives put two and two together wait a minute we had a missing person report
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last night of Kelly Brennan and when you make that connection what are you thinking you're talking to the
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killer that's when Kelly's Body is spotted from the air and cops on the ground rush to Mark's Landing detectives
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have been at this indiatlantic home for some time all after the body of 46-year-old Kelly Brennan was found 10
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mil away in this sand area Kelly's body was found exactly where Sheila dreamt it
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would be and so less than 2 days after Kelly Brennan disappeared Sheila Trot is arrested for
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murder I'm going to be in jail for a very long time okay Sheila Trot calls her son kraton right they're charging me
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with first-degree murder she says but it's not true I didn't do it Sheila hires defense attorney Todd
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deratany and even though that dream led to Kelly's Body darany insists the prosecution's case Isn't So Ironclad the
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police didn't have DNA they didn't have fingerprints Witnesses and they didn't have any blood that matched the Sheila
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Trot looks like you've got at a minimum a case of Reasonable Doubt absolutely reasonable doubt it was a dream case so
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little physical evidence prosecutor say because Sheila Trot planned it that way it's not like she all of a sudden found
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out that Kelly was having an affair with Dan Trot and then confronted her immediately and beat her to death she'd
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known this had been going on for months and months and months and she planned it
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down to the Last Detail she's a murderer my daughter I has had a nage breakdown and she's saying she's killed
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somebody did you kill Kelly Brennon no I didn't kill Kelly Brennan absolutely not
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Sheila Trot remains behind bars for 4 and A2 years awaiting trial for the brutal murder of her friend Kelly
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Brennan she said all I want to do is hug my boys and I understand that cuz all I
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want to do is hug my girl to day you absolutely believe in your daughter's innocence correct absolutely
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110% as the trial finally begins in September of 2014 remain seated come to order please
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for investigators believe they've built a strong but admittedly circumstantial case beginning with that bizarre dream
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the defendant began saying that she'd had a dream that she may have hurt Kelly and that it happened at Mark's Landing
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do you have an eyewitness to this murder no do you have a murder weapon no do you
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have Sheila trt's DNA on Kelly Brennan no no I don't believe so but major Todd goodar does have a theory of the murder
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based on blood stains and divots in the grass in front of Kelly's home Peter this is the house where we believe that
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Sheila Trot laid in wait waited for Kelly Brennan to come out to her vehicle snuck up behind her at at nightfall hit
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her in the back of the head and then continued to hit her in the head multiple multiple times with some type
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of object we believe a hammer good you believe Sheila then put Kelly's body inside Kelly's own SUV where csis found
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her blood on the passenger side floor he says Sheila then drove Kelly's SUV to Mark's Landing where she dumped the body
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then she abandoned the SUV at a nearby condo what kind of a murderer could I have been that I didn't leave
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fingerprints I didn't leave hair I had no bruises I had no broken Nails no cuts on me or anything like this nothing
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connects me to this crime whatsoever this was not a physical fight this was an ambush where she bashed in
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This Woman's brains with a hammer um she probably didn't have to break a nail to
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do that what the lack of physical evidence means to me is how premeditated the crime actually was defense attorney
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Todd der teni couldn't wait to bring this case to trial I was absolutely certain that this was 80% chance I could
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have won this case working at half speed it was that good of a case but as the trial begins derit teny won't be able to
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show how good a case he thought he had he's nowhere near the courtroom you looking for 4x4 or two whe Drive he's
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selling used cars across town at a dealership he now owns Big Boy Motors he has had his own legal troubles
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Florida state supreme court has permanently disbarred him for harming clients by taking their money and then
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failing to represent them so while daran's counting the cash from his car business Sheila is fighting for her
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Freedom the prosecution plays that damning 9911 call from Sheila's mother all right she she didn't tell you who
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she saying she killed I don't know K did she tell you where this happened Mark Landing the man at the center of this
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alleged love triangle takes the stand my name is Daniel Trot last name is spelled
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t TT it's Sheila's husband and Kelly's boyfriend at the time of the murder clearly annoyed Dan Trot wishes he could
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be anywhere but here do Rec call the date of February 15th of 2010 yeah you have specific memory about
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that date I've been spending nearly the last 5 years trying to forget it but yes I
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suppose I remember a few things prosecutors need to establish Dan's affair with Kelly as the motive which
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push Sheila to kill you're looking forward to seeing her that evening absolutely very much so Sheila's new
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attorneys public defenders CN opening they used Dan Trot to point the finger at a man they believe had the strongest
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motive to Kill Kelly her jealous husband Gino R Who reacted with violence when he
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learned of the affair he physically shows up at your house and confronts you he physically broke through the door and
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came up and essentially assaulted me yes did he have a weapon in his hand when he
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barged through the door yes he did describe that weapon uh it was some sort of Jack Dan suffered
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injuries to his face and neck he says moments later Kelly followed Gino home where Gino turned his rage on her he uh
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attacked her in the garage essentially was choking her it was rather rather violent encounter less than 2 months
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later Kelly was murdered State calls Gin Gin Rallo testifies Sheila Trot was the
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master manipulator who taunted him into attacking Dan she would call me from time to time and say hey this is going
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on and they were having an affair how many times was theant calling you about this a
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lot did you believe it at the time I did not prosecutors say Sheila used emails to light Gino's fuse as well but they
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also revealed her own deep-seated anger in one email she wrote he was sitting in
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front of you lying to your face were you hoping that Gina was going to go over and attack his wife or attack your
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husband putting an end to this affair so you could have Dan back oh no oh no I wasn't upset that Dan was having an
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affair with Kelly I was upset that he was spending the money that he was still trying to prove no one was more upset
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than Gino Sheila's attorneys want the jury to hear a voicemail that he left Dan 2 months before Kelly's murder you
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mother come on you want to this marriage suck I'm going to cat your mother ass but the judge refuses declaring it
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irrelevant Gino's the only person who knew where Kelly specifically was that evening it sounds like you think Gino's
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the killer I'm not going to say who I think it is Gino could absolutely do it Kelly wanted out of that marriage
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prosecutors say Gino has a strong alii they say this security video from a drugstore in another town proves gen
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couldn't have been at the murder scene and Kelly's nextdoor neighbor Scott Vickers testifies that he saw a blonde
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woman not a man on Kelly's lawn that night um it was a light colored a light colored outfit which you know that's or
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else I wouldn't have been able to to really see but it was uh some type of light outfit that light colored outfit
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detectives theorize could be a reason why none of Kelly's blood was found on Sheila what do you think think about
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their contention that you were wearing some sort of Hazmat like that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard we're
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next to Disney World why didn't they just put me in a Mickey Mouse suit are you serious things are about to
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get very serious at Sheila trt's trial her two sons are about to take the stand against her and what they have to say is
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another nightmare for their mother in a tragedy that seems to know no bounds Sheila trt's two sons are about
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to testify at her murder trial for the prosecution how are you related to her she's my mother and do you see her in
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the courtroom here today yes can you with his mother watching and listening just 15 ft away Graham Trot first
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describes helping her when she seemed to be having a seizure the night Kelly Brennan was killed I picked her up and
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put her on the couch cuz she was hitting her head against the wall and prosecutor
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Samantha Barrett quickly cuts to the chase asking him what happened after his mother came home from the hospital a few
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hours later she was telling me she was seeing things what did she say she saw she saw Kelly's face and she said she
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thinks she's hurt and a beach despite the prosecutor's efforts did you ever hear her say
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I think I hurt Kelly no Graham won't repeat what he initially told investigators in a recorded interview
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she said I think I hurt Kelly and I keep seeing her face and then I hurt her and
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I was like well that's not good but what he does reveal next is a bombshell and it's something he did not
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tell law enforcement until shortly before the trial I said do you want to drive down to this beach that you're
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seeing and we can see see there's nothing there and then we can call tonight and go to sleep Sheila agreed
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taking her son's Graham and kraton and Graham's girlfriend on a maob field trip to Mark's landing and there with Sheila
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leading the way the boys 16 and 18 years old at the time saw Kelly's bludgeon body you could see I mean just a
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lifeless body just lying there was your mother with you when you saw that yes um
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what did she say I don't nothing really was just in shock why would you take your two
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teenage Sons out to Mark's landing and show them where the body was the kids took me you let them to that place I
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didn't take them right to the body we walked around and we were just on our way out when we saw her feed why is is
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it when your mother came over to the house you didn't tell her we just got back from Mark's Landing where we saw a
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dead body uh you'd have to ask the kids that I don't know it just never really came
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up when my mother first came in there come up didn't come up Sheila didn't come up you just been to see a dead body
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a woman whose whose skull was crushed mhm well when my mom came in I was in bed and she woke me up I don't remember
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the conversation very well as inexplicable as that seems the of the night didn't end there for Sheila's Sons
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she told them she also had visions of a nearby vacant lot and that's where kraton Trot tells the court they made a
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second damning Discovery a bag mom opened it up went into the purse and saw opened up the wallet and we saw
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Kelly's driver's license what did you do next after you saw the bag with uh Kelly
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Brennan's driver's license in the wallet um told her that we didn't want to have
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anything to do with it that me and Graham were going to go to sleep and that she had to deal with it on her
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own how important are these boys to your case their testimony is absolutely critical it seemed that they were
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determined to do what was really the right thing and tell the truth sir you're free to go but after her son's
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scathing testimony Sheila's defense team faces a hug huge uphill battle they try
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to poke holes in the forensic evidence gathered at Mark's Landing well we know that Kelly's Body comes out of the car
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and comes down this way and we know that because there's blood transfer found on
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this Pole right here Kelly's blood was on this very post right the defense says not so fast the spots on the fence post
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and did you afford them for forensic testing they were not so as to whether those items are
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blood or a kid's red slurpie we're left to guess right if you would like to put it that way and the defense tries to
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tear apart the alleged motive that Sheila was jealous and murderously angry over her husband's affair with Kelly
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Elizabeth McHugh was Sheila's divorce attorney she says Sheila seemed fine with the affair she really didn't have a
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problem with Kelly because she knew her and so she knew she would be very good with the children and wouldn't really be
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a problem in the divorce okay motive aside Sheila's dream about Kelly line hurt here at Mark's landing and that
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field trip with her two sons here are among the strongest evidence against her but there is a new twist to this tale
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Sheila says that dream was actually a memory of witnessing Kelly being killed by a strange man she was arguing with
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him and I heard him say but kill and she said enough and then she went and bent into the car to do something and I saw
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him hit her while behind bars awaiting trial Sheila says that her memory has come back to her and she's written a
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detailed account of what happened then you write he dragged her into the grass and kept hitting her mm
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is that what you saw yes yeah yes and I didn't do anything you didn't call police why not
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I don't know Sheila shared this memory in a letter to a friend she claims that she had decided to stop at Kelly's house
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that night to ask Kelly to stop driving by her house looking for Dan and at the exact moment she arrived Sheila saw a
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strange Man attack Kelly how would you describe this man who was with Kelly it was too dark it
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was too dark this letter prosecutors say this is a confession no it's not a confession letter that's my account of
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what happened that evening but Sheila's new account becomes even more bizarre instead of running for
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her life or to the nearest police station she followed the stranger's car all the way to Mark's landing and
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watched him dispose of Kelly's Body and belongings do you understand as you sit across from
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me right now that your story is a fantastic story you follow the killer which doesn't make a lot of sense to
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anyone mhm and then you don't tell cops what happened what unfolded you don't even tell your own mother all these
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things are consciousness of guilt are they not well if they're consciousness of guilt why would we call the police if
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I committed this crime and I had killed her I would have taken off I'm not stupid enough to stick around come door
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please and Sheila believes this new memory could set her free but the question is will the jury get to hear
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Sheila tr's version of what happened the night Kelly Brennan was [Music] killed is Sheila Clara voyant has she
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had Visions throughout her life dreams that have come true I don't think so Peter with her daughter's dream now
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being described as an eyewitness account of Kelly's murder 48 Hours has brought Margaret a copy of that document Sheila
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wrote ask you do you recognize the handwriting on this letter yes who is it Sheila's she reads for the first time
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from its 22 Pages he dragged her into the grass and kept hitting her I felt the blood rush out of my arms and legs
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and I start to shake are these the writings of an eyewitness to a murder or the writings of a murderer describing
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what she has done I think she must have seen it she couldn't have done it Peter I did not murder Kelly I witnessed
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it now came the moment in court where Sheila Trot could take the stand and persuade the jury her new story is true
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but on the advice of her attorneys first of all have you made a decision about whether you wish to testify in your case
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or not yes sir what is your decision not to Sir that you've chosen not to testify
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yes sir Sheila's first lawyer thinks he knows why Sheila didn't testify and explain that letter obviously this was
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just her confessing to the crime she needed to get it off her chest Todd daratan Todd daratan is a liar so the
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case goes straight to closing arguments with prosecutors zeroing in on what Sheila did say after Kelly
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disappeared The Smoking Gun in this case are the defendant's own words telling the police where the dead
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body is they play Margaret's damning 911 call one last time and my daughter I has
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had a nervous breakdown and she saying she's killed somebody your daughter's telling you she killed somebody
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yes defense attorneys make no mention of Sheila's new claim she saw Kelly's killer instead they try to pick apart
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the state's case you're being asked to believe 115 lb person is going to be able to pick up 146b Town person
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probably deceased at this point and no pun intended but there's dead weight but she's going to pick her up from the
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floor lift her up and place her in the seat of not of AA Civic but of an SUV Place her in there with no neighbors
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hearing a thing no neighbors hearing blow after blow after blow does that make any logical
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sense they end by pointing the finger at Kelly's jealous husband she had no ill will no spite no evil intent no
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premeditation you saw the person you heard from the person that had all those things and how he acted on those
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feelings ladies and gentlemen decision that you need to speak is that Sheila grah Trot is not
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guilty thank you less than 3 hours after beginning their deliberations jurors reach a
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verdict Margaret can't wait to hear the good news I was dancing I was dancing in
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the elevator I was so excited cuz I knew I knew and I kept saying we're going to
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bring our girl home instead the defendant Sheila Graham Trot is guilty of first-degree premeditated
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murder guilty of first-degree murder Sheila Trot was immediately sentenced it's the sentence of the court
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that you serve um life in prison as a minimum mandatory sentence for Margaret buers who wishes
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she never made that 911 call The Embers of blame burned deep within her heart you are a loving mother and
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grandmother and you love Sheila dearly yes does it tear you up at night to think that I put my own daughter in jail
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yes it sure does it just tears me up you think I put my kid in jail for the rest
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of her life absolutely isn't it time for you to stop telling these stories and tell the truth
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mhm don't let your loved ones suffer thinking that you're innocent when you did this MH I told the truth and I'm
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continuing to tell the truth and I'm going to keep telling the truth she killed Kelly Brennan she's a murderer
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she's finished as well she should be for Kelly Brennan's mother the taste of justice is
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Bittersweet what tragedy for that family as well almost 5 years after her death Kelly's friend Lou says her kind Spirit
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lives on when she did come to work she was always happy and she had her little corner it was called Kelly's Corner a
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place in the hospital where Kelly gave Extra Care and attention to her patients and even after she died that was a an
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area of reverence if you went there um it was it was [Music] comforting why shouldn't this audience
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believe you're just a clever sociopath that you are a killer you know the difference between right and wrong but
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in the case of Kelly Brennan you don't care I do care I do care when would her body have been
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discovered you said yourself who led them to the body it was us saying that it was at Mark's Landing they would
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never have checked at Mark's Landing but despite leading her sons to Kelly's battered body and being found
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guilty by a jury of six Sheila Trot is unrepentant the real killer she insists still walks free I have to live with a
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lot of guilt for not stopping the attack now I'm paying the price Kelly's family has closure but
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they don't have Justice cuz I didn't kill Kelly 48 Hours don't miss an [Music] episode
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