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[Music] foreign I was called at approximately four o'clock in the morning on February 3rd 2018. there had been a
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home invasion robbery in the area of hail Plantation you said someone was in your house yes
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I've been advised that the wife has severe injuries and was currently being trauma alerted
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to our area Hospital you woke up just her screen and called Figure was he Masters uh fighting with you see I felt
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something Sharp [Music] Susan Rochelle almost died that night if Susan had died the truth of what
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happened that night would die with her when Susan Rochelle comes out of surgery she tells investigators that there is no
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intruder and that the person who inflicted all of the injuries that she is suffering from
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is Michael Rochelle this case is about the power of money it's about the power of desire for
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control when Susan asked for a divorce Michael Rochelle snapped when he was faced with the prospect that
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he would have to give her half of his fortune he made a calculated and premeditated decision to kill
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[Music] this is the knife that was used to stab Susan the bending in this knife you
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believe is a result of it hitting bone and it bent the blade that's correct all rise for the jury
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members of the jury we're just going to lay here until you die soon we're just going to lay here until you
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die those are the words of that defendant Michael Rochelle spoken to his wife of 10 years Susan
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Rochelle get close to her right here and her hand comes out and was there anything in her hand yeah a
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knife [Music] that my father would stab anyone was Mike's daughter Caroline a source of
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conflict in the marriage absolutely didn't you tell Michael Rochelle that you hated Caroline those words came out
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yeah and in fact you called her a is that right yes [Music] never in one million years would I think
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that my wedding would be the Catalyst of all of this who do you believe brought the knife
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into that incident Susan Russell who do you believe was the attacker in the February 2nd incident Susan Russell
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and who is the victim my father [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music]
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that your father on February 3rd 2018 had been arrested was in Chicago with my husband I
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come and call my cell phone this is a collect call from it was a recording that said an inmate from the Alachua
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County Jail has called you an inmate at the Alaska minutes later the phone rang again
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Caroline Rochelle quickly answered and heard the voice she'd known her entire life and he said Caroline you have to
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get me out of here you need to call my lawyer and I dropped to the sidewalk and I just sat on the sidewalk
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the events leading to the arrest of Mike Rochelle began to unwind very early that
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morning after he called police tell me exactly what happened I don't know Nick reported that he and his wife Sue
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had been stabbed by an intruder inside their home in an upscale section of Gainesville you're fine with the subject
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and he just ran off your minister to scare him off yeah I guess whose injuries were life-threatening and
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as Medics rushed to save her detective David Visconti was called to the scene there was no fourth Century initially
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observed by any of our deputies no broken window no knock down door nothing like that at all no sir
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still Visconti had no doubt that something terrible had happened inside that house there was most certainly a
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struggle there was a vast amount of blood around the bed that was located on the wall of the bedroom
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but overall this scene was missing something Visconti said and he did not believe a violent Intruder had been
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there typically we'll see many things knocked over Furniture items broken indentations in the walls in the drywall
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did you see any of that none of those things were present what's more the rochelles had security cameras covering
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the outside of the house the Intruder allegedly fleeing the house from that direction is something that would have
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been captured on video the veteran detective was becoming suspicious then hours later Sue awoke
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from surgery and broke this case wide open telling detectives that the story about an intruder attacking them was a
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lie she claimed that Mike concocted the whole thing and that he was her true assailant Mike was arrested and charged
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with attempted murder he could never have done anything like this Mike's ex-wife Dede Hoffman was
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incredulous I have known Michael James Rochelle since I was 19. and I wouldn't be here today if I thought Mike was
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possibly capable of harming another person Dede met Mike in college they married and had two daughters Caroline
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and Kate during your many years with Mike was he ever physically abusive to you he never touched me not ever
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never but like in many marriages there were problems Mike made millions in the technology business but his job required
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him to travel all over the world truthfully he wasn't around much so it was it was
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hard in 2005 after 25 years of marriage Dede asked for a divorce Didi said she moved out of the family
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home so their children away at College could always return to the house where they were raised but soon another woman
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unexpectedly joined the family I moved out in July but then all of a sudden Susan moves into our house Sue is then
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38 years old and a hospice nurse she and Mike 49 met on Match.com and Dede says Sue quickly became the lady of the manor
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Dede says everything she left behind including her dog became sues Mike and I were really opposites he was engaging
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and outgoing and I was really and I think I still am more reserved not quite so exuberant
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and I think he was looking for exuberance Caroline remembers the first time she met Sue at a dinner
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and my dad seemed to be laughing and having a good time but Caroline says she couldn't help but notice how much Sue
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was drinking we've never seen anyone take down five to six martinis and be able to stand
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and speak some two years after they met Mike married Sue in August 2007. Mike stopped traveling and bought a
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local business the couple's happier times are reflected in some of the thousands of text messages that surfaced
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during legal proceedings Mike refers to sue as his trophy bride and writes that their lives together are simply amazing
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but Caroline says Sue became jealous of the close relationship she had with her father and tried to keep them apart she
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had such walls around him he wouldn't call me unless he was in a car alone he was not to take my call in front of
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her but surprisingly when Caroline announced in 2016 that she was getting married Sue
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was happy to help but Caroline says Sue wanted to do it her way Sue was pretty adamant about throwing me a shower my
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mother was invited but none of my mother's friends were invited so the majority of the guests were Sue's
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friends and family Caroline admits the shower was a lot of fun and she was looking forward to the
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wedding Sue helped her pick out a dress I tried on a dress and I liked it and Sue kept telling me like this is
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your dress this is your dress it's so beautiful you have to have this Sue handed over her credit card and it was
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done do you mind me asking how much the dress was worth oh this is so gosh I think it was 11.
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eleven thousand dollars the wedding itself in November 2017 would be a royal like affair
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the setting was the Sumptuous oheka Castle on Long Island 160 people attended the wedding and
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Caroline says the day was magical my husband and I know how lucky we are to have had that weekend
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it was beyond beautiful Caroline says it was nearly perfect except for something that caught her eye
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an unusual mark on her father's face the last thing I saw before walking down the
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aisle at my wedding was this White Scar from here to here and in my mind I was like what is that
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weeks later she found out Mike revealed to Caroline what he said was a dark disturbing secret he claimed Sue had
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been physically abusing him for years [Music] [Music] I called him on his birthday
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and I said how are you doing and he just started crying it was late November 2017 just three
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weeks after her fairy tale wedding when Caroline says her father shared a disturbing secret about Sue that he had
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promised not to tell and he said sue was arrested and he said she started attacking me and
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I think he was so victimized that he was really scared to tell anyone Sue had been charged with domestic
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battery but the details of what happened that day would not become public until two years later at Mike's trial for
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attempted murder please when they both testified about the last tumultuous months of their
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marriage ma'am please be seated what was the state of their marriage I think it was in the lowest place that it
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could possibly be before a divorce I was upset Sue told prosecutor David Byron that shortly after Caroline's wedding
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Mike told her it had gone nearly a hundred and fifty thousand dollars over budget was it fair to say that you were
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partially upset with defendant but mostly at Carolyn yes Mike says Sue attacked him when the
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fight escalated she throws the phone I mean charges around the bed pushes and so start her
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meeting like this but Mike didn't call 9-1-1 that day Sue did I just felt there's a things were a
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little out of control when police arrived Sue admitted to pushing Mike and agreed to go to their
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beach condo to defuse the situation but she was arrested half an hour later when
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she hadn't yet left the house he said please place your hands behind your back you're under arrest
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told the jury that she was ordered to stay away from Mike she moved to their beach condo and got
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counseling for alcohol and anger management Weeks Later Mike declined to pursue the battery charge and it was
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dropped prosecutor Sean Brewer did she have a problem with alcohol Susan Rochelle has testified that at times
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when she would drink she would lose her time but Mike says Sue's actions went Way Beyond a bad temper he told the jury
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she had tormented him for years she lungs up again punched me in the face scratched my face punch him in the arms
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and bent my glasses actually she would throw things at him very heavy things like vases
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and very heavy coffee mugs Sue denies abusing Mike and Mike never reported any of the alleged incidents to
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police is it true that you have seen your father with a black eye multiple pictures of him with a black
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eye Mike did take photos of some injuries which he shared with Caroline and later the jury
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he is a picture that he showed me of his face gushing blood and there was one mark from here to here
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the prosecution admits this injury may have been caused by Sue but they say the evidence shows Sue was fighting for her
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life after Mike attacked her there are text messages where she accuses him of smothering her with a pillow which in
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fact is the same instance that she ended up scratching him in the face despite the alleged abuse and Sue's
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arrest Mike says he still loved his wife and wanted to stay married in February 2018 he asked Sue to come to
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Gainesville for the weekend Mike had asked me to come in he wanted us to work on the marriage
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they decided to go to their favorite Steakhouse that's Sue on home security video getting ready and enjoying a glass
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of wine Mike arrives home and the two share a kiss before heading out but over stakes and more wine Old Wounds
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reopen you just received a text message from Caroline Sue says that's when Mike admitted he had betrayed her trust by
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telling Caroline about Sue's arrest and I both agreed that we weren't going to discuss that
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Mike drove home alone Sue followed in an Uber her anger spilling into a series of
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text messages about Caroline good luck with your she will ruin any relationship you have
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[Music] once home they went to separate parts of the house Sue continued her angry texts
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I am filing for divorce I will leave in the morning the last text from Sue is sent at 10 13
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pm you have serious boundary issues with your daughter later Sue says she was alone in the
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guest room when Mike entered there are no cameras inside that room and he just hopped
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on top of me and I felt like this pressure right here and then all of a sudden I saw a knife
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come on I said oh my God why did you stab me and he said yes at some point does he say something to
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you he said uh Sue we're not getting a divorce Sue says Mike was on top of her pinning her arms
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with his legs in the struggle her left thumb was sliced then she says mike stabbed her again
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Sue says mike then started slashing her wrist are you deleting me my hand it was like just I couldn't feel
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anything and I could see into my arm losing blood her life in danger Sue says she vomited and lost control of her
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bodily functions she says she tried to wriggle out from under Mike and they ended up lying
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sideways across the bed he just said to me Sue says as she was lying there struggling to stay awake she saw Mike
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raise the Knife yet again desperate she offered him a way out I said Michael we don't have to divorce
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I won't divorce you just Put The Knife Down Sue says after Mike Put The Knife Down
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she begged him to call for help but he would only do that if she agreed to say an intruder had stabbed her
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when she agrees to go with his story of The Intruders she saved her life a toxic
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marriage text brimming with hate and a bloody room Mike Rochelle's future will now depend on whether he can
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convince jurors that he is the real victim [Music] [Applause] what is the strongest evidence that
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supports Sue's account see more of the trial evidence at 48hours.com [Music] when First Responders entered this
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bloody scene in the early morning hours of February 3rd 2018 they'd been told by
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Mike Rochelle that a stranger had broken into their home and assaulted his wife and then him with a knife
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court now with his defense attorneys Patrick McGinnis and Anne Fennell Mike admits that story was a lie and says
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he's finally ready to tell the truth he says despite Sue's drinking and violent outbursts he was hoping to reconcile
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that night I don't care if she's a melodrama the rest of her life just the anger's got to go
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once again they fought about Caroline and that fight continued back at the house
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after that Mike ensues stories diverge Mike says he came into the guest room a little after 10 and was startled to see
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Sue kneeling on the bed holding a knife I said sue give me the knife and then next thing I felt searing Heat
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that's all I remember and I'm just trying to get my hands on it I'm on the bed with her now we're on our knees Mike
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doesn't say how he got his hands on the knife but he says as they struggled and fell over on the bed he felt the blade
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go into Sue's stomach she's falling backwards and I'm falling in front on top I felt the knife penetrate here and
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I I rolled off as fast as I could because I was afraid if that went in there it would kill her Mike offers no
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explanation for how Sue was stabbed in the neck or thumb but he does say about one minute into the struggle he somehow
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calmed her down and put the knife Out Of Reach now you're both bleeding during this point in time yeah but no it's not
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squirting and there's no blood at all you could see on suit through the through here Mike says he wanted to call
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for help right away but Sue wouldn't let him because she was afraid she'd be arrested again nice said sue we need to
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go to the hospital and she said then make up a story so I don't get arrested Mike says they argued about a possible
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cover story but then as bizarre as it sounds they just lay together bleeding for several hours having what Mike says
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was one of the best conversations of their lives about future vacations to Europe
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we talked about going to Germany on the Rhine in Moselle river cruise maybe we'll do burgundy next if Mike is
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speaking the truth this happy conversation happened on a bed soaked with blood and human waste Greece
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because we've never been to Greece Mike never mentions that Tuscany in Florence and prosecutor David Byron suspects why
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is this believable I don't think it's believable at all he held her there and he can't admit that Michael Rochelle had
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months and months to go over the evidence and construct a story that fit with things that he couldn't admit
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according to Mike at about 3 A.M their dog Susie wandered into this bloody scene where violence was about to erupt
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again I get up out of bed to deal with a dog and and behind me was the knife and next thing I know she sliced her
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right wrist with her left hand did you talk to her about why she had cut herself
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yeah she said she doesn't want to go to jail I said sue I'm not going to send you to jail I'm not going to get you
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arrested calm down she goes you promise you promise I said yes as Mike tells it sue cooked up the whole
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idea to light a police and he reluctantly agreed in order to protect her I said that the only chance I have is to
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turn the cameras off to give a window of opportunity to say someone broke in and did this to us Mike
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says after Sue cut her own wrist he left the room to turn off security cameras and Stage a break-in 25 minutes passed
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before he called 9-1-1 and turned the cameras on again and he's doing that with the knowledge that With Every Beat
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of her heart more of her blood is pouring into that bed but the defense thinks the blood at the crime scene
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helps to prove their case people lie the forensics don't lie and that's why the blood spatter was so important in
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this case Michael birkeland is a former doctor and bloodstained pattern analyst who testified for the defense
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what do you consider the most important blood evidence inside that bedroom the arterial spur patterns birkeland
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says he reviewed records which stated a small artery in Sue's wrist was cut that
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night and he believes the blood here on the pillowcase and here on the nightstand came from that artery
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the important thing about arteries though is that you get blood coming out of that With
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Every Beat of the heart birkeland uses stage blood and a small syringe to demonstrate the way Sue's blood may have
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traveled making a line or fine spray of drops so the blood in your opinion gives
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us a timeline as to when Sue's wrist was actually cut correct because arteries don't close up on their own
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remember Sue says the attack including the cuts to her wrist started sometime after 10 13 pm
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but Mike says Sue cut her own wrist at around 3 A.M hours later Brooklyn says if Sue's wrist was cut
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before 11 she would have died long before help arrived how much time does she have to live in
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your opinion if the wounds happen no later than 11 o'clock she's dead before it ever hits midnight
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which leads you to believe what when it comes to this injury to the wrist Michael's story makes more sense the
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defense team says if we can't trust Sue's account about what time things happened then her entire story is
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suspect it is [Music] thank you [Music] inside this box this is the knife that was used to stab
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Susan encased in protective plastic this is a lot of blood this is a lot of blood
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are the remnants of the vicious confrontation inside that bedroom that prosecutor Sean Brewer is certain
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contain evidence of an attempted murder foreign this is Mike Rochelle's pajamas yes
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and they are soaked in blood and whose blood is that well Susan is the one that had the injuries that
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provided the mass amount of bleeding so if blood could talk this blood is telling you what this blood is telling
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me that Michael was on top of her while he was stabbing her and she was bleeding
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quite a bit without any Aid prosecutors say this evidence backs up Sue's testimony that Mike attacked her
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they also say the items on that bedside table help prove this was not a dynamic fight between two people
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David Byron says that only one person had control of the situation Mike Rochelle there's a full glass of wine
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there's some glasses there's a lamp and it's evidence of the fact that Michael Rochelle was so physically capable of
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constraining her that none of those things are Disturbed and the prosecution disputes defense
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expert Michael berkland's claim that these stains on the nightstand came from spurting blood from Sue's wrist instead
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their expert says the blood was most likely cast off flung from the knife and not from Sue cutting her own wrist the
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cast off shows that he was swinging that knife as he's plunging it into her stomach and into her neck we call Dr
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Burke prosecutor Brewer not only attacks Brooklyn's conclusions he also challenges his credibility letting
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jurors know that his medical license was suspended and he was later arrested for
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storing body parts from autopsies in Tupperware containers in an unusual place you were storing them at Uncle
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Bob's storage shed weren't you climate control room restoring that at Uncle Bob's storage shed yes
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and the actual organs that you were storing included brains and hearts I did have some hearts and brains yes
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Brooklyn says the organs were preserved for private cases he was working on while he was still a licensed doctor
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I used the storage locker because they were safe and secure either that or I put them in my house this was safer
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than my house the charges were later dropped prosecutors also want the jury to know
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that the severity of Sue's wrist wound suggests she did not do it herself the one that was truly life-threatening was
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the the cuts that the defendant made to her wrist she was cut all the way down to the bone
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Mike's injuries were a lot less serious as you can see he had some small cuts on
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his fingers and stomach and Sue says these larger cuts to his forearms were in fact
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self-inflicted he put the knife in my hand and he stabbed himself in the arm and what about that story Mike told
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investigators that an intruder did all this the prosecution says it was all his idea to cover up what he had done
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he turned off the cameras and did things to make the police believe that there had been a burglar
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and the motive for this alleged attack the prosecution believes it was all about money that Mike didn't want to
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give up half of his fortune millions of dollars in a divorce he didn't tell his jury and then after
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all you've been through it didn't seem fair for Susan to sake half your mind yeah that is true it doesn't seem fair
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prosecution refutes Mike's claims that he still wanted to reconcile the troubled marriage by pointing out that
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he had visited three dating sites Ukrainian single girl Arena she's 18 years old right
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I looked at pictures from women with clothes on yes sir sir question I'm asking is you were
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looking for your next girlfriend right no I'll tell you exactly what it's looking sure
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all I want out of a woman in my life is so to be kind and nice to me that's all I care about I looked at pictures and
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descriptions of how they would treat their male and soon I looked at these together many times and and our
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relationship in Saint Sue that's all I need from anybody please be nice to me please
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the defense counters that Mike's other internet searches prove that he was being abused by Sue
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did you visit numerous sites related to battered husbands yes I do he has all of the
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economic resources he's not cut off from any family members Michael Rochelle doesn't meet any of the criteria for
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what a battered spouse is the defense also tries to counter Sue's claim that Mike's attack came after she
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threatened divorce they produced dozens of text messages going back to 2015 that
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shows Sue had made that threat many many times you actually say for the 50th time I won
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a divorce it's just an expression like saying for the you know 100th time but it is
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about 50 times isn't it you don't know I didn't count and defense attorney and Fennell
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suggests those tax also reveal Sue's destructive intentions have you told him I hate you
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yes okay you said I will destroy you and on your anniversary in 2017. hate you happy 10th anniversary I'm
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divorcing you you you said that in her closing argument Fennell insists Mike would never try to kill for money
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she says Sue was the aggressor that night and Mike was just defending himself she hates everybody
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she hates his daughters she hates his former spouse that's how hateful this woman
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was and it is but the prosecution says there is no question Mike wanted Sue dead this
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is not a frenzy struggle between two adults this is a bloodbath committed by one person who has imprisoned the other
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on that bed in the war of the Rochelle's jurors will soon decide which one they believe
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whose story Rings true Mike or Sue Rochelle see more of their home security footage on Facebook at 48 hours
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[Music] as the jury goes out to deliberate what are those minutes and hours like
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for you myself for the worst and hoping for the best Caroline does not have long to wait
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after a nine-day trial it took little more than four hours for the jury to reach a verdict they say a quick verdict
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is often the prosecutor's verdict it's a thought that creeps into your head but you never really know what a jury's
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going to do I understand you got rich diverse defendant Michael James Rochelle in this
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case as the cow won the defendant is guilty of attempting first degree murder as strong as you count guilty Mike
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Rochelle is convicted of the most serious count against him we were all so shocked
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as to count to the defendant is guilty of false imprisonment in quick succession the jury also finds Rochelle
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guilty of four additional crimes including false imprisonment and tampering with evidence
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jurors utterly reject Mike's story of a knife fight with his wife prosecutor Sean Brewer says justice was
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served to a man who lied to investigators and to the jury Michael went through Great Lengths to try and
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kill Susan he just wasn't very good at it and what's more Brewer says Mike Rochelle tried to kill Sue not once but
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twice while he was in jail awaiting trial and informant came forward to claim Mike tried to hire a hitman to
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kill sue a charge Mike strongly denies do you believe that your father in jail plotted to hire someone to murder his
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wife no honestly I don't mean to laugh but it is Beyond laughable as we were interviewing
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Caroline she got a phone call that surprised us dad hi I'm good I'm with 48 hours right now
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literally with cameras Mike Rochelle allowed me to ask a few questions Mike I just want to hear you tell me did
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you take a knife into the room that night on February 2nd 2018 and attack your wife
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absolutely not and you're telling me the truth in December 2019 everyone returns to
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judge William Davis's courtroom for sentencing the victim in this crime suru shell does not appear in person
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right here please when it's Caroline's turn to speak the moment is charged with emotion no one is as positive caring and
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generous than this man laughs I will say I am and we'll always be around one of the most caring kind gentle
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people I've ever met several colleagues and Friends speak of Mike in glowing terms he's a good person the micro shell
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I know is a stand-up gentleman then judge William Davis took Center Stage Mr Michelle will you please stand Mike was
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about to learn his fate person I heard through the evidence and the witnesses was somebody who was cold
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they were brutal on count one the attempted first degree premeditated murder I'm
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going to send this year to 30 years imprisonment and Department all told the judge gives Rochelle 30 years not the 50
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years requested by prosecutors or Mike who is 64 years old it is in essence a life sentence
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[Music] here are two sophisticated people very wealthy living in Paradise one of
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the most beautiful parts of Florida and yet they couldn't work this out tragedy isn't it absolutely I mean when you hear
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who Michael and Susan Rochelle were before this all occurred they lived exemplary and mostly normal lives and to
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see it get to this point really is a tragedy shells is not over Mike and Sue are
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divorcing and continue to fight over the marital assets including the house where
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Sue was nearly stabbed to death the murder for higher charges against Mike Rochelle were dropped
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