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[Music]
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hell have no fury
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like a woman's goal then i started
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getting pissed off at him so i
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emptied both guns into him they did
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really bad things
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to get drugs i killed a man
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i blew his face off if if that's vivid
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enough for you
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cannibalism is not my choice
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i was young i was beautiful i had the
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whole world in front of me
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the people here are miserable it's a
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struggle in here every day
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i'm sitting on death row
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how do you accept that i got my chance
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and i blew it
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[Music]
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on this episode three killers
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i thought it was just a game she
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wouldn't stop saying how much of a loser
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i was
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at one point i did say that i'm gonna
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kill you
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their intimate confessions exclusively
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from maximum security prisons
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i made up a whole story and
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brutal crimes colton went in the house
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and shot james in the face of love
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he never loved a girl as much as he
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loves this girl
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betrayal she said she had another
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girlfriend and
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murder it was absolutely a senseless
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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murder
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my name is shayna sapoto i'm convicted
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of capital murder and i'm doing a live
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[Music]
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sentence
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as saturday nights go it had been a
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relatively quiet one
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then at 8 a.m sunday morning emergency
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dispatch received a disturbing call
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and everything changed 9-1-1
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okay what's going on
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i think he's dead in the bed when
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investigators arrived
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they discovered the body of james kelly
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a truck driver
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husband and father of two he had been
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fatally shot in his bed
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to this day i can close my eyes and i
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can still see
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his face see him laying there in that
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bed
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authorities quickly discovered that all
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was not well in the house of kelly
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there was talk that the victim's wife
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marsha pronounced marseille
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wanted her husband dead and she was
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using shayna
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her 16 year old daughter as the
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go-between shayna
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offered people trucks she offered people
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jet skis
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money they're accusing her of being a
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liaison between
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her mother and the real killers it was
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common knowledge that shayna loathed her
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stepfather
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and desired her mother's approval no
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matter the cost
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she was my mom i loved her and i would
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have done anything to make her happy
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you got a mother and a daughter and they
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take three other people and they go and
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they kill their dad
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and they think they're going to get away
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with it and that's the most staggering
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part about this
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shayna sapolvido was born in the small
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town of nagadochis
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in east texas when shayna was in grade
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school
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her mother marseille began an on-again
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off-again relationship
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with james kelly james always loved
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being in the mud
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from the time he's a little boy if there
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was a mud puddle he's gonna be in it
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four-wheel drive pickups four-wheelers
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james loved his outdoor stuff
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after dating for several years marseille
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along with daughters shayna
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and jamie moved in with james and his
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two sons
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but this blended family was no brady
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bunch
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james tried to make shayna be a better
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person but
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marseille was just basically letting her
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do whatever she wanted to do
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around 12 or 13 i got into drugs and
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drinking
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i started meth methamphetamine it made
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me feel like i was bigger
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nothing matters it takes all your pain
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away i moved in with this guy
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named joe i was like 14-15 he was 18.
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i felt like i needed attention so
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i seeked it in boys i was more lenient
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on the kids
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and pretty much gave them what they
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wanted
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james used to try to discipline me and
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it didn't work
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we begin to hate each other
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despite the tension marseille tied the
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knot with james
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she wanted to go just in front of the
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justice pace and get married
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and james told her that if he got
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married he would get married in a church
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because he'd only be married that one
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time
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and it turned out to be true the
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honeymoon was over
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in the blink of an eye with marseille
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condoning shayna's disrespectful
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behavior towards james
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the nasty brawls developed threatening
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overtones
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james and i had a fight we were arguing
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and i told him i
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was going to kill it it was just like a
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little thing that we had between each
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other
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but people took it other ways one person
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who took the threat seriously was her
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daughter shayna
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every time they would get mad she would
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say she wanted him dead
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according to the prosecution shayna was
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relentless in her pursuit of a hitman
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asking anyone and everyone she knew to
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murder her stepfather
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starting with her friends i had asked
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jason
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and jesse i was like well i mean
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would you do it prosecutor stephanie
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stephens believes that shayna was merely
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a puppet in the deadly scenario
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and that marseille was the one pulling
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the strings
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there was a life insurance policy on
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james kelly
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for a hundred thousand dollars and
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marseille was the beneficiary
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and that was her primary motivation for
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wanting james dead
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marseille claims that it was all a
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mistake a terrible
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misunderstanding i didn't ask shayna to
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go out and find somebody
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to kill james she i guess thought i was
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really serious
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when i wasn't the court documents reveal
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a far
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more sinister plot after getting turned
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down
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shayna propositioned multiple people to
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assassinate her stepfather
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james kelly joe rogers jason barber
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jesse barber there's a long list here of
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people that shayna and marseille talk
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to about killing james in the fall of
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2005
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shayna began dating 23 year old felon
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dallas christian
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she was one step closer to soliciting
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kelly's murder
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dallas had a conviction for
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having sex with a minor in texas that
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sexual assault
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marseille was aware of that and was
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quite comfortable with shaina
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dating dallas i didn't know he was 23
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i didn't even try to stop it because i
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don't believe she would have listened to
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me
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dallas was best buddies with colton weir
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a hot-tempered 15-year-old that
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some folks thought a bit slow
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authorities believe
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shaina had finally found her hitman
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colton was
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a little bit more immature and less
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sophisticated than any of these other
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people
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if you've ever looked at anybody and
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there's nothing there
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it's just blank there's no emotion no
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soul there
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that's him
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on the night of the murder i was working
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at lefken memorial hospital
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james was working on his trucks the last
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time i talked to james was around 2 30
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sunday morning he said he was going to
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shower and go to bed and he wanted me to
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wake him up at 7.
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that same night shayna her boyfriend
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dallas
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and their friend colton partied at a
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local hangout
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that night we went to shawnee river
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bottom we stayed there for a few hours
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with two friends in tow dallas colton
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and shayna
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headed back to the kelly house from
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payphone
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just said that she was going to the
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house
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but according to the prosecution shayna
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was doing more than just
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checking in she was verifying james's
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whereabouts
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one witness testified that she would
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call her mom and say where is he
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where is he coming up
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shopping for murder ten thousand dollars
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a pickup truck and a pair of jet skis
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went in the house and shot james in the
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face
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and later a bizarre crime scene
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points to a deadly love triangle they're
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living together
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but heather still just has this
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relationship with joyce joyce is like
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still
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in heather's life
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shayna sapolvido grew up fast in rural
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east texas
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by age 14 she was living with an older
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boyfriend
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and using drugs but when her mother
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marseille married james kelly
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arguments over shayna's wild behavior
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reached fever pitch
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i just hated him because i feel like
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you're not my dad
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and i would do what i wanted to by the
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fall of 2005
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shayna claims that her mother and
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stepfather james kelly
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fought so hard and so often that she
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believed marseille
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wanted him murdered it was a start in my
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mind that this is what my mother wanted
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because she was so miserable
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according to the prosecution that's when
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both mother and daughter went shopping
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for hitman
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after months of being turned down by
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various prospects
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they found a potential assassin in 15
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year old
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colton weir before dawn on october 23
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2005 police say 16 year old shayna
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her boyfriend dallas and 15 year old
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colton
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went cruising for a murder we were on
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the car and we were going to get my
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stuff
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they parked in this dirt drive a little
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bit down the road from james's house
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shayna and colton got out of the car
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as shayna tells it that's when dallas
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handed her and colton each
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a pair of gloves they've watched too
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much tv they know when you go in and
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commit a crime like this
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you need to wear gloves so they did in
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my mind
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i thought it was just a game i was
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thinking that
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it was going to scare james i never
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would have thought that
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my friend was going to kill my stepdad
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when they get to the house
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shayna leads him into the bedroom where
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james was asleep
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and while he's laying there asleep
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colton
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takes a rifle and shoots him in the head
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and kills him
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shayna is adamant that she was already
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out of the house
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when colton pulled the trigger i never
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seen colton get the gun or nothing i
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took off running
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back towards the car and out of nowhere
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i hear a gunshot
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whether shayna was in fact in the room
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when the shooting occurred
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her stepfather james kelly was dead
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shayna stopped at a pay phone and called
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her mom still working the hospital night
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shift
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and gave her the news she said it's over
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there's nothing left i said shanna i
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gotta you know i'm in a room i'll call
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you back
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because i didn't know what she was
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talking about i think marseille knew
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what she was talking about i told her
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james was dead and she didn't believe me
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[Music]
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later that night the group pulled over
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at a river's edge
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20 miles away from where james kelly was
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murdered
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colton tossed the rifle in the water
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while shayna and dallas burned the
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gloves and colton's bloody sweater
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marseille called james the next morning
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supposedly to wake him up
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she claimed she called she got no answer
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so i called
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his stepdad and i asked if he would go
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way james up
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i think it was really important to
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marseille that someone else go
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in and find james rather than her that
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way she can prove she was somewhere else
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these aren't the smartest people in the
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entire world
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she thought it through enough to know
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she needed an alibi
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but they didn't think it through any
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further
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9-1-1 so i tried to wake him up i can't
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tell if he's being shot in the face
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or somebody hit him with something in
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the face but it's all bloody as hell
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i was told that they thought it was a
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suicide
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i responded and saw that he had a bullet
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hole in his
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face it didn't take me long to figure
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out it wasn't suicide
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james kelly's mother was devastated when
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she heard her son
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had been murdered in his sleep i felt
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like my whole world had come apart
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nothing would ever be the same in any of
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our lives
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his kid's life his brothers his sisters
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investigators interviewed the family
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starting with shayna's mother marseille
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almost immediately she pointed the
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finger at her own daughter
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sixteen-year-old shayna
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well when i gathered all these kids got
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together and decided to do a movie
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remember my daughter and i never got
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along
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we began interviewing shayna and dallas
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and colton
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i believe they just made up a general
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story once we began
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questioning and going outside of scope
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of what their story was
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the case started coming together i
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didn't know what's gonna happen
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you heard him talking about it gonna
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happen i don't know what's gonna happen
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that night
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colton i believe you're a smart enough
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kid to know what you're in here for
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so where was james at when he went in
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the house he was learning to sleep
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with the tv on after you shot what did
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you do
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around as fast as i could because i was
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scared where's the gun at now
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we received information from one of the
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suspects
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that they come out here the gunman
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bridge through the rifle in the angelina
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river
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and this area right here is where they
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burnt their sweater
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and the pair of gloves we had the dive
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team
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come out and they found the rifle about
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25 feet out in the middle of the river
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once the murder weapon was recovered
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police charged shaina
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colton and dallas with capital murder
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shayna's mother marseille received the
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same charge for devising the deadly plot
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shayna was eventually transferred to a
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juvenile facility
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john heath represented her at her trial
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she had no clue that if you're accused
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of murdering somebody
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for money that that's a really bad thing
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marseille's case was the first to go to
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trial in july of 2006.
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against the advice of her attorney
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shayna took the stand at her mother's
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defense
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she claimed she was too high on drugs to
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remember anything
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but she did recall that her mother had
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nothing to do with the murder
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i made up a whole story because i wanted
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my mom to walk
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i would have done anything to make her
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happy there is no question in my mind
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as to their guilt shayna's trial began
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nine months later
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the outlook was bleak shayna had already
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told
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her testimony by testifying for her mom
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and it didn't line up with anything
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it was unsupportable by any fact that i
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could possibly find
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a long line of witnesses testified that
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shayna and her mother marseille
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attempted to recruit them to assassinate
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james kelly
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there was very little scientific
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evidence in this particular case
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but shayna and marseille they ran their
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mouths until they convicted themselves
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shayna sepulveda will live out the rest
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of her life behind rows of razor wire
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in a texas maximum security prison
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i feel like i deserve prison time for my
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part
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but i don't feel like i deserve a life
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sentence the people here are miserable
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it's never a day of peace
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that's cold comfort to james's mother
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who has some good days
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but mostly bad ones because she still
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can't comprehend
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what caused three young people to kill
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her boy
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in such a spiteful manner i want to know
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why
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they took away a great man i don't see
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how anyone could be that cruel
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coming up a schoolyard bully
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i had to fight my way through high
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school grows up to be a killer
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heather stone shot her with a shotgun
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[Music]
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the victim was stripped naked underneath
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the blanket
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heather it was seeing two women there
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might have been some jealousy there
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i haven't had infatuation with guns old
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guns new guns
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heather stone shot her with a shotgun my
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name is heather stone
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i've been convicted of second-degree
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murder
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in jail for 30 years to life
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[Music]
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it was the kind of sticky summer night
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that makes everyone restless
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that was six years before heather stone
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would be the main suspect in the murder
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of her girlfriend
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at four in the morning on july 18 2006
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police responded to a 911
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what is your emergency when detectives
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arrived at the duplex heatherstone
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shared with girlfriend laura perkins
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stone was smoking a cigarette
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and perkins was dead on the floor she
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had a gunshot wound to her chest and
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there was
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shockingly little blood
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heather a 35 year old former bus driver
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and laura perkins
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a worker at the portsmouth naval yard
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had been drinking
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and fighting heather indicated that she
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and her girlfriend had been arguing
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for days her girlfriend had attacked her
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and struck her several times
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and heather shot her
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in a bizarre twist heather's secret
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lover 47 year old joyce zillenek
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appeared on the scene she was eager to
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confirm heather's story
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joyce claimed that when she called
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heather earlier that morning
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she could hear the couple arguing she
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wouldn't
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get away from me i thought she was gonna
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kill me it didn't take detectives long
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to poke holes in the story both women
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had rehearsed
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starting with heather's claim that she
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shot laura in self-defense
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she came at me with a knife
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i got scared she was obviously upset
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very emotional but a lot of things
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weren't adding up right from the start
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[Music]
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raised by their mother sheila in
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gloucester massachusetts in the early
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1970s
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heather and her younger brother jason
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were tight
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she was just like having a brother i
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would get in fights tyler would come and
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bail me out
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their father was an infrequent presence
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in their lives
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but according to heather and jason even
00:20:17
his rare visits wreaked havoc within the
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family
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he was very abusive not so much to the
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kids but but towards me
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because he drank a lot but heather
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harbored her own secret
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a secret that made her different than
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other little girls her age
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i had my first girlfriend when i was 13.
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when heather became a teenager
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she told her family that she was gay it
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took me a while
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to come around to that way of thinking
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that you know it's okay oh people love
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i still love her and everything as an
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outsider
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heather learned early on that to get
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respect she had to fight for it
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i had to fight my way through high
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school girls wouldn't let me in the
00:21:00
bathroom
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i took a barrel and put it over a girl's
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head whacked it
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fending off bullies taught heather that
00:21:06
violence was effective
00:21:09
it would later prove to be her undoing
00:21:12
hitting somebody
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i started thinking that was the way to
00:21:15
go
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soon aggression fueled by alcohol
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dictated heather's life
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right from a very early age she started
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drinking
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she's like dr jacob is to hide when she
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drinks
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totally different person almost like the
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devil came into her
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heather dropped out of school at 16 and
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was content with working a string of
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menial jobs
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but she longed to be a mom and at age 23
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convinced a male friend to father her
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child
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daughter destiny was born in 1994
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seven years later heather gave birth to
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a boy she named chance
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motherhood calmed her demons but alcohol
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ignited her rage
00:21:56
heather stone developed a pattern of
00:21:58
hurting the ones she loved the most
00:22:01
she's had extensive number of charges
00:22:04
related to domestic violence during the
00:22:07
time when she was drinking
00:22:08
she had a bad temper heather had one
00:22:11
incident where she allegedly attacked an
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ex-girlfriend with a can of spaghetti
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ultimately
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all of those charges were dropped
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when i drink i would grab my
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girlfriends punched them i felt bad
00:22:27
about it after
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i used to tell her all the time heather
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you shouldn't be doing stuff like that
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she would become very very physical
00:22:37
ignoring her mother's advice heather
00:22:39
began another
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volatile relationship with joyce
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zillenek i hardly ever hit her
00:22:45
i did grab her one night joked her she
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wouldn't stop saying how much of a loser
00:22:50
i was
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despite their battles the couple thrived
00:22:54
on the drama of their explosive
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courtship
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then in 2004 in an effort to create some
00:23:01
distance
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heather moved from massachusetts to
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dover new hampshire
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i wanted a new life within three months
00:23:10
heather was trolling internet dating
00:23:12
sites in search of a new girlfriend
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she found her in laura perkins a 35 year
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old single mother
00:23:18
and navy reservist the new liaison took
00:23:21
off fast
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heather uprooted her kids again to move
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in with laura
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but heather couldn't let go of her ex so
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they're living together but heather
00:23:31
still just has this relationship with
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joyce
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joyce is like still in heather's life
00:23:37
coming up a lover's quarrel
00:23:41
she was putting me down just like the
00:23:44
rest of them did
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and later a desperate housewife gives
00:23:48
her lover a deadly choice
00:23:50
she says if you don't kill randy i'll
00:23:53
just get with somebody who will
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by 2006 35 year old heather stone was
00:24:04
deep in the middle of a toxic love
00:24:06
triangle
00:24:07
with ex-girlfriend joyce zillenek and
00:24:09
new flame
00:24:10
laura perkins shortly after meeting
00:24:13
perkins online
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they moved in together but the alcohol
00:24:16
and the domestic strife
00:24:18
followed it appeared as if they were
00:24:21
a family however there was a lot of
00:24:23
fighting a lot of arguing a lot of
00:24:24
tension
00:24:25
they tried about stupid stuff sometimes
00:24:28
and
00:24:28
when they'd get drunk they'd fight about
00:24:30
even dumber stuff
00:24:32
the police department had three or four
00:24:33
separate contacts with the two of them
00:24:35
in all those cases alcohol was somewhat
00:24:38
involved
00:24:39
with the drinks flowing and joyce still
00:24:41
in the picture
00:24:42
heather's relationship with laura was
00:24:44
unraveling fast
00:24:46
i would tell laura we're just friends
00:24:49
joyce was my everything
00:24:51
joyce really thought heather's gonna
00:24:53
leave laura and come back to me and
00:24:54
we're gonna be happy together
00:24:56
while heather was sneaking around with
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joyce laura
00:25:00
was planning her exit strategy the day
00:25:02
she was murdered
00:25:04
laura's best friend and her colleagues
00:25:07
at the shipyard
00:25:08
planned to move laura out of her house
00:25:10
to sort of escape this bad relationship
00:25:13
she said she had another girlfriend and
00:25:15
she said in the morning she was gonna
00:25:17
move her out
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we got like a 30 pack of beer
00:25:29
the neighbors talk about how they hear
00:25:31
arguing and arguing for hours
00:25:33
it wasn't long before the combination of
00:25:35
booze insults and sexual jealousy
00:25:38
triggered heather's temper she was
00:25:41
putting me down
00:25:42
just like the rest of them did calling
00:25:44
me a loser
00:25:45
heather goes to her bedroom gets the
00:25:48
shotgun
00:25:49
the shotgun is loaded heather came back
00:25:52
into the living room where
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laura was standing i was just gonna
00:25:56
scare her i was not gonna shoot her
00:25:59
she just started yelling at me he says
00:26:01
oh you're gonna shoot me go ahead
00:26:03
and it went off
00:26:07
or hit in the chest falls down right
00:26:09
away
00:26:10
laura probably died very quickly
00:26:14
in a panic over what she had just done
00:26:16
heather called joyce
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she needed a plan and an alibi i said i
00:26:21
made a mistake you gotta help me
00:26:23
joyce then drove up from massachusetts
00:26:26
during that
00:26:27
time heather cleaned up the blood
00:26:30
she also cut off laura's clothes
00:26:37
once heather and joyce concocted a
00:26:39
self-defense scenario
00:26:40
heather took the extreme step of
00:26:42
stabbing herself in the leg
00:26:44
but not very convincingly
00:26:48
in order to paint laura as the aggressor
00:26:51
heather and joyce then
00:26:52
planted a knife between her fingers
00:26:56
it was almost as if there were children
00:26:58
or young teenagers
00:26:59
who were trying to make it look like
00:27:00
something it wasn't but it also shows
00:27:03
a guilty mind then joyce pulled out of
00:27:06
the driveway
00:27:07
as heather dialed 9-1-1
00:27:13
laura was found in this room her feet in
00:27:16
this general direction
00:27:18
with her upper torso more in the center
00:27:20
of the room lying on her back
00:27:21
covered with the blanket i remember
00:27:24
seeing an x-ray
00:27:25
her heart had been struck this woman
00:27:27
didn't deserve that
00:27:28
when joyce returned to the crime scene
00:27:31
she told police that she had been on the
00:27:33
phone with heather
00:27:34
when a nasty fight erupted between
00:27:36
heather and laura
00:27:37
joyce stood on the porch as her lover
00:27:39
was taken away in a squad car
00:27:42
but the evidence gathered that night
00:27:43
quickly disputed heather's story
00:27:46
you were dealing with experienced
00:27:47
investigators who as much follow the
00:27:49
evidence
00:27:50
as well as their gut and things weren't
00:27:52
adding up it had been an
00:27:53
hour and a half since the shooting
00:27:55
before heather called
00:27:56
9-1-1 when heather admitted that she
00:27:59
lied about shooting laura in
00:28:01
self-defense
00:28:02
she then insisted that the gun had
00:28:04
actually fired accidentally
00:28:08
shoot me i didn't do what she told me
00:28:13
didn't do that it just went off
00:28:16
as joyce tells it she came clean only
00:28:19
after being informed that heather blamed
00:28:21
her
00:28:21
for staging the crime scene did you
00:28:24
actually put the knife
00:28:25
in his hand so did you want to make it
00:28:28
look like it was self-defense
00:28:30
i want to continue
00:28:33
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00:28:42
faced with the possibility of dying in
00:28:44
prison heather pled guilty to
00:28:46
second-degree murder
00:28:48
if you take a life you should serve a
00:28:50
good chunk of time in jail
00:28:58
[Music]
00:29:01
heather stone is serving her time in the
00:29:03
new hampshire prison for women
00:29:05
she feels lucky to have the support of
00:29:07
her family
00:29:09
[Music]
00:29:10
i see her every couple of weeks and we
00:29:12
talk and
00:29:13
we're happy as for heather
00:29:17
she has nothing but time to reflect on
00:29:19
that hot summer night
00:29:22
lara was a good giving soul she didn't
00:29:24
deserve
00:29:25
what happened to her i pray to god every
00:29:27
day and i ask for his forgiveness i ask
00:29:30
for her forgiveness
00:29:33
coming up a fatal obsession
00:29:37
leads to a deadly proposal she was on
00:29:39
and off with her husband
00:29:41
but she couldn't keep away from playing
00:29:43
bethany
00:29:44
tammy asked me if i'd kill randy
00:29:50
it was absolutely a senseless murder at
00:29:53
one point i did say
00:29:54
that i'm going to kill you tammy wanted
00:29:57
her husband killed
00:29:59
two days later that man ended up dead my
00:30:02
name is tammy wiggins
00:30:03
i was convicted of capital murder and
00:30:05
they gave me a life sentence it's work
00:30:12
[Music]
00:30:15
the swamps and pine woods of east texas
00:30:18
look more like the deep south
00:30:20
than oil country on days when the wind
00:30:23
blows
00:30:23
oil reeks rancid from hundreds of
00:30:25
strippers that's what locals call the
00:30:27
rusty wells that gush
00:30:29
crude on march 17 2001
00:30:33
here among the fire ants and
00:30:34
rattlesnakes and oil man made a gruesome
00:30:37
discovery there were scuff marks
00:30:40
shoe prints a ball peen hammer a large
00:30:43
puddle of blood
00:30:45
75 miles away in fryerson louisiana
00:30:48
a truck was engulfed in flames fire
00:30:51
department was already on scene
00:30:53
and had pretty much extinguished the
00:30:55
flames at the time we had no reason to
00:30:57
suspect anything
00:30:58
foul but two days into the investigation
00:31:01
marion county detectives were called to
00:31:04
a third location
00:31:05
we found a white male located
00:31:08
approximately this location
00:31:10
we found a big hole in his head it
00:31:13
appeared
00:31:13
he had been slashed or his throat cut
00:31:15
several times also
00:31:17
the body was identified as randy wiggins
00:31:20
a few hours later his pregnant wife 24
00:31:23
year old tammy rose wiggins
00:31:25
reported him missing tammy claimed that
00:31:27
she had last seen randy
00:31:29
at a bar three days earlier he left
00:31:33
and that was the last time i seen my
00:31:34
husband police discovered that randy
00:31:37
wiggins had filed for divorce
00:31:39
and that his wife tammy was having an
00:31:41
affair with a 27 year old car thief
00:31:44
named glenn bethany bethany's friends
00:31:47
told authorities
00:31:48
that he had bragged about the murder
00:31:50
glenn bethany told me
00:31:51
he went over there hit him with a hammer
00:31:53
as he's laughing he's saying
00:31:55
the hammer's stuck in his head and he's
00:31:58
kept on coming towards me
00:31:59
so i stabbed him i let him believe that
00:32:02
i did
00:32:03
because i didn't want him telling him
00:32:05
tammy according to witnesses
00:32:07
tammy promised glenn bethany a car in
00:32:09
exchange for killing her husband
00:32:12
she says if you don't kill randy i'll
00:32:15
just get with somebody who will
00:32:19
tammy wiggins was born in shreveport
00:32:21
louisiana
00:32:22
at a young age she moved in with her
00:32:24
grandparents across the state line
00:32:26
in atlanta texas
00:32:31
atlanta was a small town you know
00:32:33
everybody knew everybody
00:32:36
if something happened you always had
00:32:38
somebody there at 14
00:32:40
tammy met 19 year old randy wiggins when
00:32:43
i first met randy
00:32:44
i thought he was pretty nice he was
00:32:46
outgoing
00:32:48
he just struck me as a good person in
00:32:51
1995
00:32:52
tammy graduated high school and
00:32:54
continued to date randy
00:32:56
at first it did seem like a good thing
00:32:57
but it started going downhill quickly
00:33:00
tammy she could be moody if tammy would
00:33:04
get mad the little redhead would
00:33:06
strike out we'd been drinking and was
00:33:09
out having a good time
00:33:10
and i guess i just pushed him too far
00:33:13
and
00:33:13
he punched me in the face i ended up
00:33:16
with a black eye
00:33:17
i didn't actually see anything because
00:33:20
randy was never around
00:33:22
when i was there but from what she and
00:33:24
her friends
00:33:25
told us it could get pretty bad
00:33:29
me and my husband were going through
00:33:30
some real rough times
00:33:32
and it just seemed to get worse and
00:33:33
wasn't getting any better
00:33:36
tammy's relationship with her husband
00:33:38
randy continued to be volatile
00:33:40
the only time the vicious arguments led
00:33:42
up was when their son was born
00:33:45
after we had josh randy was very loving
00:33:47
to him
00:33:48
but things just continued to separate
00:33:50
for us five years into her marriage to
00:33:52
randy wiggins
00:33:53
tammy began an affair with glenn bethany
00:33:56
a 27 year old car thief he was loving
00:34:00
and showing me the attention that i
00:34:01
wasn't getting from my husband anymore
00:34:04
she was on and off with her husband and
00:34:06
she loved bethany
00:34:07
she's worried about losing her child but
00:34:09
she couldn't keep away from
00:34:11
playing bethany and tammy's new romantic
00:34:14
interest
00:34:14
had at least one altercation with her
00:34:16
husband
00:34:18
i had made a thread that i'd beat him up
00:34:20
if he beat tammy up
00:34:21
but i never said that i would kill him
00:34:23
or shut him up
00:34:24
i figured he was just being a macho man
00:34:26
i never thought anything of it
00:34:29
the person first and foremost on tammy's
00:34:31
mind was her son
00:34:33
so when randy threatened to take him
00:34:34
away there was a war of words
00:34:37
followed by an angry showdown i had gone
00:34:40
to a funeral for my great-grandmother
00:34:42
when i came back he refused to give my
00:34:44
son back
00:34:45
and i was renting raven and at one point
00:34:48
i did say
00:34:50
that i'm gonna kill you tammy insists
00:34:53
that her threats were empty
00:34:54
made by a mother desperate to keep her
00:34:56
son
00:34:58
i was reacting out of anger i don't even
00:35:00
have a record
00:35:01
of violence or anything but glenn
00:35:04
bethany recalls a different story
00:35:08
tammy asked me if i'd kill randy
00:35:11
i look at her you know i don't really
00:35:12
think she's serious
00:35:14
a few minutes goes by she's really
00:35:16
getting mad about it
00:35:18
she says if you don't kill randy i'll
00:35:21
just get with somebody who will
00:35:23
coming up a custody battle becomes a
00:35:27
fight to the death
00:35:28
bethany was bragging about the manner
00:35:30
and means in which she committed the
00:35:32
murder
00:35:32
told me tammy wanted her husband killed
00:35:35
i never
00:35:36
even asked him to do anything he took it
00:35:39
upon himself
00:35:40
never loved a girl as much as he loves
00:35:42
this girl
00:35:43
they do anything for
00:35:58
by 2001 24 year old tammy wiggins was
00:36:01
juggling relationships with two men
00:36:04
glenn bethany and her husband of five
00:36:06
years randy wiggins
00:36:07
despite claims that her marriage was
00:36:09
volatile tammy says that she and randy
00:36:11
were committed
00:36:12
even when she gave him some devastating
00:36:14
news
00:36:15
i told randy that i was pregnant and
00:36:17
that it could be bethany's
00:36:19
and he told me that he didn't care he
00:36:21
would raise it just like it was his
00:36:27
on a crisp spring saturday at an oil
00:36:30
field near the wiggins home
00:36:31
a maintenance worker stumbled upon a
00:36:33
grisly scene
00:36:36
the oil whale side there were scuff
00:36:38
marks shoe prints a ball peen hammer
00:36:41
a large puddle of blood without a
00:36:44
missing person's report or a body
00:36:46
police were stumped
00:36:49
75 miles away in louisiana corporal adam
00:36:53
ewing responded to a call
00:36:55
about a burning truck we located a gold
00:36:58
ford pickup truck that was sitting here
00:37:00
in the middle of the road
00:37:01
fire department was already on scene and
00:37:04
had pretty much extinguished the flames
00:37:06
at the time we had no reason to suspect
00:37:08
anything foul
00:37:10
[Music]
00:37:12
back in texas investigators in marion
00:37:14
county
00:37:15
were called to a third crime scene where
00:37:17
they began to reconstruct a complicated
00:37:20
chain of events
00:37:21
upon arriving at the scene we found a
00:37:23
white male located
00:37:25
approximately this location face down
00:37:28
fetal position
00:37:30
his head had made an impact spot where
00:37:32
he was dropped from a distance
00:37:33
we found a big hole in his head it
00:37:36
appeared
00:37:37
he had been slashed or his throat cut
00:37:39
several times also
00:37:41
detectives believe the victim had been
00:37:43
killed in another location
00:37:45
later that night tammy wiggins reported
00:37:48
her husband missing
00:37:49
she provided police with a written
00:37:51
statement of the last time she saw her
00:37:53
husband
00:37:54
he left her a note that said that he was
00:37:56
going to meet her at the wooden indian
00:37:58
club
00:37:59
all it said was i'll see you when you
00:38:01
get there
00:38:03
it looks like we need to discuss a few
00:38:04
things but according to randy's letter
00:38:07
there was more to this meeting
00:38:09
[Music]
00:38:12
i met him up there at the wooden indian
00:38:14
he was sitting at the table and ed ernie
00:38:16
had a few drinks and then you started
00:38:18
talking about wanting to go to the
00:38:19
magnolia club
00:38:20
a place we hang out often tammy claimed
00:38:24
that they pulled over on an isolated
00:38:26
road
00:38:26
they needed to go use the restroom so we
00:38:30
pulled over there
00:38:31
used the restroom and then we went on
00:38:32
straight to the magnolia
00:38:35
just over the louisiana state line the
00:38:37
magnolia club
00:38:38
was a popular local hangout we went in
00:38:42
he went to the bar and ordered his drink
00:38:44
and because i was pregnant we got a
00:38:46
virgin margarita
00:38:48
tammy claimed that just as they were
00:38:50
leaving a car with four unknown men
00:38:52
pulled up the driver got out and was
00:38:55
talking to my husband and
00:38:56
he comes back over and tells me that
00:38:58
they want to go down to another bar
00:39:00
down the street he left
00:39:03
and that was the last time i seen my
00:39:05
husband but tammy's story did not sit
00:39:08
right with one man
00:39:10
texas ranger howard dunham i don't think
00:39:12
the four men in the car
00:39:14
the truth i don't think that happened
00:39:15
it's just a story that tammy
00:39:17
made up ranger dunham had a theory
00:39:20
he speculates that tammy and randy left
00:39:22
the magnolia club together
00:39:24
and that's when things turned deadly
00:39:27
tammy was driving
00:39:28
randy was in the passenger seat they
00:39:30
left louisiana and drove
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probably a mile into texas she turned
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into that
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tank battery site and that's where glenn
00:39:38
bethany was waiting on
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tammy to bring randy to commit the crime
00:39:44
the driver door was very difficult to
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open from the inside so
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we believe that she had randy get out
00:39:50
come around to the driver's side to open
00:39:52
the door and that's where the assault
00:39:55
glenn bethany get randy in the head with
00:39:57
the hammer
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he lost control of the hammer we believe
00:40:01
a screwdriver was used
00:40:03
to stab him after the assault
00:40:06
tammy went back to the magnolia club to
00:40:09
establish
00:40:10
an alibi bethany pulled off into a very
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remote area
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got rid of the body and then he drove
00:40:17
south of shreveport louisiana and
00:40:19
burned the vehicle
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police got a break in the case when
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witnesses reported that glenn bethany
00:40:26
bragged about killing randy
00:40:28
and had coached tammy on what to say to
00:40:30
police
00:40:31
glenn ended up telling me what he did he
00:40:34
went over there hit him with a hammer
00:40:35
on me like three times as he's laughing
00:40:38
he's saying
00:40:39
the hammer's stuck in his head and he's
00:40:41
kept on coming towards me
00:40:42
so i stepped i think in a way he wanted
00:40:46
to get caught
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a few days later tammy was arrested
00:40:51
according to prosecutors in exchange for
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randy's murder
00:40:54
tammy promised bethany the title to
00:40:56
randy's lincoln
00:40:58
when he was arrested the pink slip was
00:41:00
indeed discovered in his wallet
00:41:02
tammy wiggins and glenn bethany were
00:41:04
charged with capital murder
00:41:08
while out on bail tammy gave birth to
00:41:10
glenn bethany's daughter
00:41:12
whom she named harley she's being raised
00:41:14
by relatives
00:41:16
i just couldn't believe that it was all
00:41:17
happening bethany claimed
00:41:20
that he lied to his friend mark fish to
00:41:22
protect tammy
00:41:23
i just let him assume that i did because
00:41:26
i didn't want him telling him tammy
00:41:28
at that time i just couldn't see her
00:41:30
going to prison
00:41:32
especially pregnant with my child during
00:41:35
his trial
00:41:36
bethany admitted to burning the truck
00:41:38
used to transport randy's body
00:41:40
but denied killing him i knew exactly
00:41:43
what happened
00:41:44
i hid it i helped cover it up i did all
00:41:47
that
00:41:48
i am guilty guilty of physically killing
00:41:51
randy
00:41:52
no
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facing a life sentence tammy pled not
00:42:03
guilty
00:42:04
although there was no forensics to link
00:42:06
tammy to the crime
00:42:08
the prosecution used her own words
00:42:10
against her
00:42:11
the parts that hurt her were that she
00:42:13
had said that she wanted her husband
00:42:15
dead
00:42:16
that he was going to take their child if
00:42:18
bethany would do that she would marry
00:42:19
him that she would give bethany the
00:42:21
vehicle
00:42:23
bethany never said i was at the oil site
00:42:25
there was no physical
00:42:27
evidence against me only what bethany
00:42:30
supposedly said
00:42:32
three witnesses testifying that those
00:42:34
statements were made
00:42:35
pretty much did it for her after a
00:42:38
four-day trial
00:42:39
the jury deliberated 90 minutes later
00:42:43
the verdict was guilty
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00:42:49
as for tammy she will spend the rest of
00:42:51
her life in a maximum security prison
00:42:54
ten years after randy's murder she still
00:42:57
maintains
00:42:58
the jury got it wrong i'm in here and
00:43:00
i'm innocent
00:43:02
i spend my time the best i can a day at
00:43:04
a time i miss my children so much
00:43:08
i didn't even have contact with my
00:43:10
children for a long time
00:43:12
to me the murder of randy wiggins was
00:43:14
unnecessary
00:43:15
if tammy wanted to not be with him and
00:43:18
to be with
00:43:19
glenn bethany all she had to do was
00:43:21
leave
00:43:22
i pray every day that one day
00:43:23
something's going to be there to help me
00:43:26
and then i'll be home with my kids and
00:43:27
my family
