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This time on Killers Caught on camera in Alabama, a desperate call from a distraught husband. My wife, she pulled
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a gun on me and said, "I remember walking into the bedroom and it looked like chaos."
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And in Texas, the alarm is raised when the boss fails to arrive for work. Why would you buy a shovel, buy an axe,
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buy gasoline? This is not normal behavior for somebody who's worried about their missing wife.
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It just sounds like something bad is happening to her. We know what happened because the video tells us what
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happened. I heard some gunshots. Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it. That does not prove that I killed my wife. The
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camera doesn't lie. In the heart of Alabama is the city of Prattville. Proud is located in Atoga County, which
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is a kind of a residential county right outside of the state capital, Montgomery.
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It's I would say small town. It's a very tight-knit community. Prattville was also home to Summer
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Tatum. Summer was good-hearted from day one. She was bubbly, strong willed. She loved to make people laugh and she just
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had a big heart. We were three years apart, so we felt like cats and dogs. But as we grew
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older, she's my rock. I mean, I talked to her every day. Any issue I had, you
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know, she she just had the answer for it. She was wonderful. But Summer faced many challenges in her
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life. She had this cerebopal paly and we found that out when she was about 7 months old
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but she never let it slow her down. She always made good grades, always straight
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A's. She knew from the beginning what she wanted to do. I mean she never mentioned anything other than getting
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into radiology school. While Summer was in college, she met the love of her life, Hunter Tatum.
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She actually met Hunter on Tinder. He was a miss. He was at um USA, the University of South Alabama.
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He was felon. And Summer took him in and she kind of got his life together for him. They connected and they never spent
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another day away from each other. He He was a real sweet guy. I mean, constantly writing her love notes,
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bringing flowers to her. Hunter was wonderful. He treated my sister like there was no one else on
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this earth. In July 2019, the couple tied the knot. She was really happy to be marrying her
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best friend. I could just see the the love that she had in her heart for Hunter.
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Then in May 2021, Summer received lifechanging news. She was so happy. She was so happy to be
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having a healthy baby boy growing in her. And we couldn't wait for his arrival.
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[Music] Talking 911. Say your location. Oh my god. Okay. What's going on there, sir?
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My god, sir. Oh my god. Sir, my my wife. It's my fault. She did what? My wife. She found
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a She pulled a gun on me and then Okay. She pulled a gun on you and then what? And then I got it from her. She
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was wrestling before I just shot her. [Music] Patrol officers responded. They knew
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there had been a shooting. A gentleman named Hunter Tatum told dispatchers that he had just shot
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his wife. When officers arrived, he was still on the phone with 911 dispatchers.
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Hunter. Oh my god. Hunter, stay with me. There's officers there. I need you to
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walk to the door. Okay, walk to the door for me, Hunter. Unit on scene. Be advised still has the phone in his hand.
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Get on the ground. Get on the ground. Get on the ground right now. Put your hands on your head. They
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took him into custody and then they go try to find the victim. Right there. Go up there. Stay here.
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They found Summer in the bedroom. Ma'am, where you shot? Ma'am, Officer Campbell with the Proud
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Bill Police Department. She was laying on the bedroom floor on her back. She was still alive. She still had vital
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signs, but they knew that it was very serious. Okay, she's a lady alert for the blood. She You hear? She's still
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alive. She's been in here. He said, "Looks like you see the head." There was
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a lot of blood. She had a traumatic injury to her head. The prognosis of something like that usually is not good.
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Shot in the head. Medics did all they could for Summer. She's pregnant, bro.
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[Music] Yes. any medical assistance and everything that was done for Summer was solely for
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the baby. There was nothing that could be done for Summer at that [Music] time. She was taken to the nearest
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hospital in critical condition. In a desperate attempt to save the baby, doctors performed an emergency cesarian
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section. I got a call. It was the police. And he said, "Ma'am, are you sitting down?" on.
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And I said, I said, "No." And he said, "Well, you need to sit down." He said,
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"Your daughter's been shot." Just my soul left my body. I'm like, "This is a dream. Is
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this a nightmare? What is going on?" Back at the crime scene, Detective Wesley Clark began to painstakingly
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search the property. I remember walking into the bedroom and it looked like chaos. There was evidence everywhere
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from the firearm that was used. There was clothing. There was a bag that was sitting on the bed.
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CJ Robinson was the chief deputy district attorney for Ataga County. Right now, we don't know. Was this
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accidental? Was this intentional? Has there been evidence that has been tried to be disposed of? All these things we
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don't know. One of the weird things that I saw was an Xbox in the sink. Obviously, in my mind, that's odd.
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Go ahead and get him off and talk. Stay up there. What's up? I remember thinking I I really need to
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talk to him because I've got to figure out more than just the 911 call and the
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scene that I'm looking at. All right, go ahead and step on me. What did you do?
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Hunter was driven to Prattville Police Department where he was interviewed. Got the seat right here.
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I'm going to uh shoes. I remember walking into the room and seeing him obviously sitting across from
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[Music] me and he was very wideeyed, pale. I think it was probably kind of starting to set in for him what had just
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happened. How long y'all been buried? Two years. When you get the first six, I've always
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joked and said that there's always three sides to a story. Hers, his, and the
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truth. Uh, but in this case, I knew I was only going to get one side of the story. What happened this evening? She's
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been praying for 6 months. And there was just some disconnect or something. And probably about 5 months ago, I
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started talking to just talking to this to this other woman. and she's from overseas, you know, never
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met her, seen her, done anything with her, but that all came out yesterday. Essentially, he went to sleep
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one night. Summer went through his phone sensing something was off. She found explicit messages back and forth, very
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sexual in nature, uh, which started leading to to marital strife. Clearly, she was just saying, you know, like
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there's just there's nothing left kind of deal and it's my fault. One of the things that's so interesting
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about deception is that it is often so caught up in reality. It's potentially
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easier for him to just go with what's true than to craft an entirely different
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emotional response to the situation. So I think the saying it's my fault is just
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him working as close as possible to the truth which frankly is a good strategy if you're going to lie is you want to
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keep close to the facts right and distort as little as possible. I'm in her sleep on the couch and I hear
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her throwing up people she's freaking pregnant and I go there and check on her
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and she just starts talking out of her head and you know she's going to get back at me and you know I'm like that's
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okay. Like I get it. It's like, well, I'm trying to process what he's telling
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me, but I'm still trying to paint that picture of what actually happened. And and then she just
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started going for her thing and said she was going to kill me and cuz we both have pistols in our nightstand. She got
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hers up and started, you know, pointed at me and whatever and kind of pushing all over the place.
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and I got it from her and then she starts screaming trying to not kill her or shoot her and I'm telling her I'm
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not. Essentially his version was that she was out of her mind that she was crazy. She was irrational. She was
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scaring him she was dangerous and that she went and got a gun. They both kept guns in their bedside
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table which is not uncommon especially in the Southeast. He said that she basically grabbed a gun and a struggle
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for the gun ensued. You know, I'm like holding the gun back from her and then
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she keeps reaching for it and pulling on my shirt and stuff. This is where his version of what happened
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really doesn't make sense. I just knew that if it wasn't that she was going to go get down with her. I
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mean, I've got to go save her. Just don't want to die. Hunter claims that he took the gun away
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from Summer. Like she's reaching for it and she falls down and then she's getting back up. But
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I just knew that if I didn't do something that it was going to be something else that she would go get.
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And and that's where I just I know I shot her. I just don't know where where he'll be.
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It's hard for us this early in the investigation to know is it true or not. But then the decision to shoot her once
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you've taken a gun away when she doesn't have a gun, something's something's not
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right. It does feel like he is talking about himself a lot and how he's feeling and
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whether or not he is thinking about her. Obviously, we don't know, but certainly
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he's not expressing anything that suggests he is really concerned about their
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[Music] well-being. At the hospital, staff were still doing everything they could for
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Summer. The doctor came in and she said, "I'm not going to paint you a pretty
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picture." She said, um, Summer has been shot twice in the back of the head. The first shot I thought, you
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know, yeah, it's possibility, but the second shot I figured, no, she's not
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going to make it. I held her hand and I kissed her. And I let her know how much I love
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her. But I told her it's okay to go. It's okay. Not too long after that, she
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passed away. I remember calling the charge nurse at the hospital that day, and that's when I was first informed that
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they had delivered the baby and the baby was in the NICU. And it was a short time later that I
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called back and was informed unfortunately that not only the baby passed but so had
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[Music] summer. That's a complete game changer in the mind of a detective or an
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investigator at that point in time. This is no longer just a domestic incident. This is a double murder.
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Hunter was now interviewed for a second time. Sorry to wake you up, man. Go ahead.
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I felt that fire of I wanted to be the one to tell him that. Not only his child, but his wife
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were gone. I wanted to get I want his reaction. I wanted to gauge it, not just for me personally, but as an
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investigator. I wanted to see what that's like. That to me, that's evidence. I want to be able to speak on
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that. Well, you just let you know. Uh, I'll give you an update. Okay. I'm just
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tell you like it is. Okay. Um the baby passed this morning at 9:30. Okay. Um so your wife and the baby unfortunately did
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pass. Okay. Um they had the baby in the NICU and were doing their their best to um to do
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what they can. I remember kind of looking at him differently and I think my probably my
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demeanor and I'm sure he could tell that too in that room. It was one of those
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I'm no longer your friend. I'm not here to help you through this process. Like
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now I'm an advocate for Summer and the Baby. Um that being said, the warrant
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that I had issued for you yesterday for the domestic violence assault first has now been upgraded. Okay? You do have two
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charges of murder. Okay? So I'm just letting you know you've been informed
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that you got one count of murder for your wife and one count of murder for the baby. Okay?
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This is the moment where he is confronted with presumably his worst fear, which is not only are his unborn
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child and wife dead, but also that the police are actually charging him for their murder. It's a lot to process,
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man. What do I do from here? I'd be having to spend the rest of my days in jail.
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I I don't know if I had the best answer for that, man. I I mean, this is a kind
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of a unique This question of what's going to happen to me, I think is a a normal one. It's
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feels a bit callous because he's immediately moving on from the fact that they are dead, but it's also presumably
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something a moment he has played in his head over and over and over again for the last 24 hours.
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Then, Detective Clark received a crucial piece of video evidence. We had a neighbor come forward. He
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basically told me that he had security footage from his home. From a visuals perspective, you
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don't see much. It was bugs flying in the backyard in the nighttime, but the
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audio on that footage really is what got the ball rolling with this. You can hear the screaming from
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the bedroom and then you hear two gunshots. Oh wow. I mean, I just it was just unreal. At this point, if this video is
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all you look at, you still don't know what she was saying, what he was saying.
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It sounded like you could faintly hear him yell as well. But it it was helpful, but it was not the the answers we were
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looking for in having surveillance [Laughter] [Music] video. We actually got the autopsy
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result back for Summer herself and that's when we got the information that it didn't match exactly what he had
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said. She was shot in the head twice. How does she not die immediately? Well, the first
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shot is what we would commonly call like rat shot and so it's a lot of little
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small tiny pellets. There's not a lot of penetrating power. That's one reason why I think
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there were two gunshot wounds is because the first one did not cause a massive amount of damage, which is what led to
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the second shot, which ultimately would end her life. The autopsy revealed another disturbing
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aspect to the shooting. It appeared that Summer to get a bullet in that particular direction would have
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had to been on her knees and not facing him. There was more video evidence to come.
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We knew that the Tatums had a home security system and it turned out there was a camera uh on the back
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porch. Even though the blinds were open but partially open, doesn't mean you can
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see everything, but it's going to give us a much better picture into what happened that night.
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The recording began earlier in the evening. This is the back patio. And so in this
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area, you have the master bedroom. So you're 6 to 10 ft away from the camera
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lens from the window of where she was actually shot. So it's it's pretty good
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in terms of hearing what actually happened. And you can hear her crying. You can hear her sobbing right now. Uh
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at this point in time, you don't hear Hunter, but you hear her in the bedroom.
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Over an hour and a half after Summer went to bed, she could be heard vomiting. The bathroom light, then
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switched on, and Summer left the room. Shortly after, Hunter could be heard entering the bedroom from the
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living room where he'd been sleeping. You can't exactly hear what the conversation is, but they're very low
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tone, which tells me they're conversing back and forth. And then it goes from
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zero to 100 really quick. [Music] You hear her multiple times. Stop. Don't hurt me.
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He said, "Nope." Probably five or six times in response to her, "I'll stay.
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I'll do whatever you want." Nope. Nope. And then you had the two gunshots. That is essentially her being
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executed by the person that she trusted the most. It's It's very chilling and
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it's very disturbing. The home security video clearly contradicted Hunter Tatum's version of
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events. He said that she basically grabbed a gun and a struggle for the gun ensued, but
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his version of what happened doesn't pan out. You can hear her screaming, "Don't kill me."
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It's distressing to hear her begging for her life and trying to plead with him to
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not kill her. On top of that, we know that she's 6 months pregnant. We know that she has cerebral pausy and so she
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has weakness on one side of her body. And him saying that he's acting in self-defense when he shoots her, even if
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there is a fight and she did lunge for him, for example, is totally implausible that he couldn't have just overpowered
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her. Like the idea that she would have overpowered him and he had to shoot her to save his own life is at this point
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completely implausible. [Music] For Detective Clark, the video footage combined with the forensic evidence from
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the autopsy pointed to only one conclusion. [Music] In my mind, there was zero doubt. She's
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not shot. Point blank, she's shot in the back of the head. And I realized this
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this is an execution. This is an absolute murder. When looking for a motive, prosecutors
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returned to the first moments after police arrived at the Tatum home. Ma'am,
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so here we're in the master bedroom, and as the video is kind of showing the
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condition of the bedroom, one thing that's very prevalent is the bag here. And that bag uh had clothes in it. It
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was being packed in addition to like a suitcase on the floor to where it appeared that Summer was packing her
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things to leave. Clearly from her standpoint, the marriage appears to be over. Now, if he
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had just let her go, she would still be alive. The baby would still be alive. The case went to trial in June
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2023. Tatum initially plead not guilty. I was there every day. I was there every
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day through it. Most of my time was out in the hallway cuz I couldn't listen to
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the the videos. How How could you have done something so horrible? The video evidence in this case, it was
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a game changer. It filled in all those blanks that we suspected but wasn't sure of. And we
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didn't just find out the answers. It put an exclamation point on the case. Hunter Tatum was found guilty of
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capital murder and sentenced to 99 years for the death of both Summer and their baby son, a total of 198 years.
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Hunter Tatum 100% deserved to be executed. He had every chance in the world to not pull that trigger, but he
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chose to. When you hear somebody in real time beg for their life, I mean there who can do
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that to somebody else, especially someone that they love. I I don't I I to this day I don't understand
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[Music] that. It was horrible. It's just uh even to this day, it still doesn't
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seem real. I mean, 3 years later, it just uh sometimes it's hard to comprehend how
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something like that could have happened to her. [Music] Every single day of my life, every single day of my life, I
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think about my sister and she would have been a great mother. That baby would have been so
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blessed to have her as a mother and she was denied that. But I do always want to remember
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her. It's just a bright light. She's just a joy to everyone around her. Hunter Tatum attempted to spin a lie
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that was close to the truth. I don't want to die. with a lie of distortion where you're
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tweaking little bits of reality. In some ways, that's much easier to try and get
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away with and much easier to keep to because most of what you're saying is the truth than a lie where you're
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saying, "I had absolutely nothing to do with this." Because then you're
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searching for an alibi. You're searching for other things that you did to fill
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that time and you are trying to erase the fact that you have all this guilty knowledge. You know exactly what
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happened. So, both lives are very different in terms of how they feel to the person who's lying. And they're
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basically just very different strategies. But in Texas, a murderer took their lies to another
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level. In the south of Texas, San Antonio. San Antonio is a vibrant, bustling, joyful place.
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It's just alive with activity. There's also a large Air Force base there. It was home to 29-year-old Andrin
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Macdonald. Andre was raised in Portland, Jamaica. She was fivacious. She has a huge smile, very smart from a very young
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age. She showed this high IQ and ambition. Andreine was 19 when she first met 30-year-old Andre
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Macdonald. Andre was an officer in the Air Force. He began as an engineer officer in the active duty service, but
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began to switch from um engineering into more cyber warfare and in 2016 he was promoted from captain to major.
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They married and by 2019 the couple were settled in San Antonio with one child. Can mommy get a kiss?
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Love you. Andreine ran a highly successful chain of assisted living communities which the
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couple co-owned. They had everything going for them at that point. The business was valued at a
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million dollars. Her and her family lived in a pretty nice home. She looked great. She was very into
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fitness and health. She was always posting videos of herself lifting weights, working out, and encouraging
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others. I did come in before he did. Right. And did defeat me, and she is so excited.
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But on Friday, March 1st, 2019, Andre failed to turn up for work. She came to work every single day at
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8:00. And on that day, she didn't she didn't come at 8. And that was so striking. She was absolutely a woman of
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habit that she went to the gym at 5:30 a.m. every day and then to work at 8. Her employees called the gym and the gym
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said she hadn't shown up and they couldn't reach her on her phone. They started trying to reach her family
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because something had to be wrong. Sergeant Anthony Rodriguez is a criminal investigator with the Bayer County
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District Attorney's Office. When she did not show up to work, friends and family went to Andre's
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house. They did a very, very simple search of the home. They found Andrin's purse and keys on
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the counter and her car was still in the garage. It wasn't until they entered the master
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bedroom that they saw signs of violence. They saw blood on the light switch. They saw blood on a door. They
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saw blood on the floor. Sheriff's deputies were soon on the scene. They immediately took over the
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search of the house. Upon initial entry to the home, everything seemed in place. Everything
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seemed very orderly and clean, but they did find some signs of blood. And then in the backyard of the
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residents, they found evidence that something had been burned. This is a very affluent
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neighborhood, very clean neighborhood, certainly regular trash collection. There's really no reason to be burning
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rubbish in the backyard. We started to get the feeling that something bad had happened.
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Something was a miss. At this point, Andre McDonald arrived home. Andre told the deputies, "She's in the
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hospital. I know. I just checked." He said that the night before they got into an argument and Andre left
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the house. Andre said he didn't know where she went. That he went checked on
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his daughter and he went to bed. The following morning, he assumed she was in the house and he went to work.
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Suspicious, investigators decided to check out the story. Yes, there is a McDonald in the hospital, but it's not
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our dream. Then they pulled the CCTV footage. We see him entering the hospital. We see
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him approaching the reception desk. He asked the receptionist whether a woman named Andre McDonald was admitted
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into that hospital. And it just so happens that there happens to be a person that was admitted with the last
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name McDonald. He looks down to find out exactly where this patient is at. And when he looks back up, Andre just turns
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around and walks away. And so we watch this video. We can actually see this odd behavior play out. This is a man who's
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allegedly worried about his wife being missing and he's at a hospital where there happens to be a person with her
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name and he doesn't even care. He walks out. Andre's behavior combined with the
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presence of blood in the house was enough to now make him a person of interest. We didn't have enough probable
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cause to put handcuffs on Andre and take him away, but we made the decision first
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thing in the morning, we're going to put some covert assets on him. In other
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words, undercover officers to watch his movements and see what happens. The following day, undercover units
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tailed Andre as he left home. They don't know where he's going, and so they
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follow him. To their surprise, Andre goes to a gun [Music] store. This put law enforcement on edge
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because is she alive somewhere? and he's going to buy a gun to kill her. Andre filled out the paperwork
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required to purchase a firearm. He paid for it. The sale was done, but he just runs out of the store, leaving the gun
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there, leaving his driver's license there. It could be that he realized that
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there was an undercover officer in the store, and he left for that reason. There's such a thing as what we consider
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to be suspicious behavior. There's something that we would consider to be guilty behavior. Uh and then there's
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something that we would consider to be dangerous behavior. He was doing all three. So at that point, the decision
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was made to take him down there at the store. Once Andre was in custody, police noticed cuts to his hands that weren't
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there when they spoke to him the day before. What we can see is that he has linear uh lacerations to his fingers
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there. There are solid uh cuts that go straight across the two fingers. And you know, we asked ourselves, where did
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these injuries come from? Police carried out further searches of the McDonald home.
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The garage door was knocked off the tracks. They see what appears to be a shovel in the backseat of that car. They
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found a hammer. They found a flashlight. And they found clothing hidden in a trash
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can. They found two 5gallon containers of of gasoline and a large log splitting axe, a small hatchet, and large trash
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bags. What's important about that is those items weren't there the first day in the
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first search. [Music] Forensic analysis of the items revealed disturbing details. The hammer and the flashlight
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had what appeared to be blood on it. Inside the house, detectives found other suspicious items.
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We were able to find in the trash can in the kitchen the remnants of a receipt and it had been torn to little pieces.
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It was a receipt for many of the items that were in the garage. The receipt led investigators to
00:36:16
the hardware store where they were able to recover surveillance footage from the
00:36:20
previous night. These are not items that a husband would be buying when his wife is missing.
00:36:29
Like, why would you go to a home improvement store and buy a shovel, buy an axe, buy gasoline? This is not normal
00:36:37
behavior for somebody who's worried about their missing wife. Police discovered that the day before
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Andre went missing, her and Andre had argued after they'd visited their tax adviser. Andre discovered that Andre had
00:36:54
opened up a new business without his knowledge. [Music] Ideally, you want your partner to be
00:37:03
supportive of your ambitions and your goals and your investment in your growth. Um, unfortunately, that's not
00:37:10
always the case. Um, sometimes that can be seen as intimidating rather than inspiring. And then as a result of that,
00:37:21
that could then fracture the relationship because one partner might feel jealous of another partner's
00:37:27
success and ambitions. We know an argument continued to take place after they left the tax
00:37:37
office. And we know this because when we looked at his cell phone records, we saw
00:37:42
an argument via text by both Andre and Andre. Investigators also recovered footage
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from a local gas station recorded at exactly the same time this text argument was taking place.
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We see Andre at the gas station. We see him park at a pump, but he stays in the car for a prolonged period of
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time. Andre is telling her, "How dare you open another business without me."
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And Andre is basically telling Andre to calm down. And Andre clearly is not calming down.
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[Music] In the wake of the argument, Andre returned home, arriving at 11:47 p.m. To
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shed light on what happened next, police pulled Andre's phone records. Andre McDonald's phone was turned off 1
00:38:44
minute after midnight. An hour later, he sends her a text message and he says, "Hey, where are you?" And then he sends
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one more text. He writes, "You should not have opened that LLC without me."
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Phone records showed that by then Andre's phone had ceased all communication. Financial searches also
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showed no further activity on her credit card. And flight data checks proved that
00:39:15
she did not board a plane. But a search of Andre's cell phone proved more fruitful.
00:39:22
He was searching things like, "Can you get fingerprints off of wood? Is Texas
00:39:28
soil acidic or alkaline? How long does it take for a body to decompose?" What's
00:39:33
intriguing about this is it gives us, the investigators, an opportunity to see what he was thinking.
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Police could only draw one conclusion. The search now began for Andre's body.
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But it wasn't until 4 and a half months later when a farm worker made a chilling
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discovery. Under the sunbleleached skeleton of a cow were human remains. Got the call that we found some
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human remains on on a ranch not too far from where Andreine disappeared. The remains are extremely
00:40:18
dismembered and scattered. possibly burned. DNA analysis confirmed the decomposed
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remains belonged to Andrin McDonald. Steven Spear was the prosecutor on the case.
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She had been out in essentially ranchland field for several months in South Texas. Those are harsh conditions.
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She was largely skeletal. There was blunt force trauma on her skeleton on several different
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places. She had a kind of a triangle-shaped area had been knocked out right around the
00:40:58
chin. There have been some impacts on the spine, also a broken rib. Now, when this was looked at by the medical
00:41:06
examiner and also by a forensic anthropologist, all of them indicated that this would be uh from hits from a
00:41:13
tool such as a hammer. DNA testing confirmed that the blood found on the hammer at the house
00:41:22
belonged to Andrin. And despite the advanced level of decomposition, the autopsy also confirmed another of the
00:41:31
police's suspicions. Andre attempted to burn her body. We know this because we were able
00:41:39
to see charred marks on her fingers. We now know that he purchased that gasoline to burn her body. We look at
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the shovel. We look at the log splitting axe and the small hatchet and the trash
00:41:54
bags. Those items are clearly clearly purchased for the sole purpose of dismembering and disposing of her body.
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Now, investigators also had an explanation for the cuts to Andre's hands. There's a wire fence that is around the
00:42:13
perimeter of that field and it is possible that he received those lacerations on his fingers lifting or
00:42:22
lowering that wire fence and trying to throw her body over it. On Saturday, July 13th, 2019, Andre
00:42:34
McDonald was charged with the murder of his wife Andre. No one wants to think they know someone capable of of such a
00:42:41
horrific crime. People thought really highly of Andreine. They thought she was a great person. She did so much for the
00:42:48
community. It's hard to think that her husband would want to hurt her. But when investigators dug deeper into
00:42:58
the marriage, a very different picture began to emerge. This is far from a happy
00:43:04
marriage. Andreine and Andre have been fighting. Andre on several occasions had been physically abusive to Andre and
00:43:11
that he had assaulted her. Tensions over the business increased over the course of the
00:43:16
marriage and police had already been called out to the house for a number of domestic
00:43:22
disputes. Andre and Andreine likely stayed together in their relationship far longer than it was healthy to do
00:43:30
because they had built so much together and they likely both came from traditional families. I think a lot of
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the reason they didn't get divorced was because they were in this business together and they didn't want to split
00:43:42
it up. Further investigations found other conflicts within the marriage, not least
00:43:51
that in recent months, Andrin had rekindled her relationship with a former lover back in Jamaica.
00:43:59
Andreine might have come to a conclusion that actually maybe this was not a relationship she wanted to be in for the
00:44:06
longer term. Especially if it was one that was violent. If something isn't working, you typically pivot and you try
00:44:16
and make something else work. That can look like trying to repair the relationship with your partner so that
00:44:22
it can be a safe and loving one again. It can also look like maybe I will search for another relationship
00:44:28
elsewhere or I'll look for growth in other areas of my life. Um perhaps I'll
00:44:33
go into business, grow my business. So how can I grow when I feel stuck? Did he kill her because of the
00:44:46
affair or because of the money? He became aware of the affair more than 6 months before he killed her.
00:44:54
It was the day he was at the tax office that he killed her. Clearly, the motive here was monetary. He wanted the money.
00:45:03
He wanted the business. He could deal with the affair. He didn't care about this marriage any more than she did. It
00:45:10
was the business that he wanted. At his trial, the jury acquitted Andre of murder, instead finding him guilty of
00:45:20
manslaughter. He was sentenced to 20 years plus five more for tampering with the evidence. I'm sad at at the tragedy,
00:45:29
at the loss of a beautiful person like Andre McDonald. But I'm happy that I was
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able to be part of giving her her family and her daughter justice. The murder of Andre McDonald cost more
00:45:44
than just one life. It cost all the years and all the good that she could have given to the world. All the hard
00:45:52
work she was doing, the business she was building, the lives she impacted, that all went with her. And it is a huge
00:45:59
loss. [Music]