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Jesse Winnick | I’m Related to a Killer

December 05, 2024 / 43:18

This episode covers the tragic murder of Hadas Winnick by her son Jesse Winnick, the impact on family members, and Jesse's violent history.

Matthew Allen, a deputy district attorney, discusses Jesse's violent behavior, including an attempted stabbing of a correctional officer while incarcerated. He describes Jesse as a dangerous individual with a history of violence and lack of remorse.

Amy Winnick recounts the horrifying moment she learned of her mother's murder, detailing her brother's abusive behavior throughout their childhood. She reflects on the trauma of discovering her mother's body and the lasting effects of Jesse's actions on her life.

The episode highlights Jesse's continued violence even in prison, including threats against Amy and assaults on prison staff. Amy shares her struggles with fear and the legal battles surrounding Jesse's parole hearings.

Ultimately, the episode emphasizes the ongoing impact of Jesse's actions on Amy's life and her journey toward healing while advocating for victims of domestic violence.

TLDR

Jesse Winnick murdered his mother, revealing a history of abuse and ongoing violence that traumatized his sister Amy.

Episode

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did you say how he did it i'm hoing to God he was life any murder is a horrible
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tragedy but to murder your own mother I think reflects a particularly callous and de Brave individual he took pleasure
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in seeing pain in other people even his own mom and his sister Jesse winning is a bad man he's deeply Disturbed there is
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nothing that the state of California can do whether in prison or on the street his actions have
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never-endingly affected my life the pearo process the threat the fear I think that Jesse is an evil evil person
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to see my mom lying in a pool of blood in her favorite room in the house killed by my brother shook me to
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my core I realized he was not my brother he was a monster [Music] [Music] my name is Matthew Allen I'm a deputy da
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at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office I first heard about Jesse Winnick when I received a police
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report that described some of the conduct that he did over at the prison Jesse winck was a prisoner at California
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State Prison Los Angeles County when he was walking on the roadway with two inmate manufactured weapons he took
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those weapons onto the prison yard and attempted to stab a correctional officer I was a journalist for several
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years and worked for many newspapers and I covered crime as one of my beats with
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someone as vola and unpredictable and coldblooded as he seems to be I would rather just not have
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that connection like with my name or with my face in 2007 Jesse Winnick was incarcerated for the murder of his
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mother it affects me constantly when I'm on the freeway driving that path that I
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did that night I'm immediately transferred back to where I was when I lost [Music]
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her 22-year-old Amy Winnick had just finished a shift at her work when her brother Jesse aged 25 called
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her he told me not to go home I remember there was a pit in my stomach That Grew
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immediately and I asked him why and he told me just don't go home when I called
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home mom didn't pick up and I had no idea still why I called Jesse back again that's when Jesse told me he had
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killed mom he just said again and very clearly don't come home I killed mom and hung
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up I know that wasn't sure if he was telling the truth I couldn't believe it but I still
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had an ankling to call 911 I explained to them as I was driving home on the freeway much like right now it was dark
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it was late at night I didn't know I was about to walk into but I knew I had to call
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911 I'm going to be there in one minute I I I would suggest not going in if he's
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uh if he's done that I'm hoping to God he was lying I'm sorry if he if he
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was Jesse winck is the most dangerous kind of criminal because he's not restrained by love for his family the
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murder that he perpetrated against his own mother was violent sadistic and extremely personal his rap sheet and his
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Prison history reflects someone who has not recognized the error of his ways whatsoever and will continue to be
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violent in whatever context he put on keep walking Jesse and Amy's parents were
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Hadas and Sherman Winnick they had been childhood sweethearts my mom was born in
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Israel she was born in 1952 January 26th and she is every bit I guess of Aquarius she um was a creative kid she
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was full of life and she remembers kind of just running free as a kiddo collecting frogs in her pockets and
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having a sweet childhood Jesse was the couple's eldest child my you know my parents got married
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on January 26th 1981 and my brother was born January 21st 1982 so they conceived
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him pretty quickly and they had him within a year this is from Jesse's birthday his actual birthday the day he
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was born mom would have been extremely hopeful to think back on this day being the happiest day of her life one of
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them in contrast to the fact that that young baby ended up murdering her it's shocking and it's heartbreaking
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to look at this photo by the time I was conceived they were separated so I never lived with my
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father I never saw their marriage in person Amy was born on December 24th 1984 making her almost 3 years younger
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than her [Music] brother when you are born into a family you follow the family Rules the itself
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has its own almost subculture I know my dad was an alcoholic he had been an alcoholic since
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the age of 16 he cheated on my mom throughout most of the marriage I think my mom from what I read
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in her diary was in an abusive relationship um with him both physically emotionally and mentally so um that is a
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cycle that I would see eventually carry over into my brother and my mom's [Music]
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relationship she's the youngest sibling but seems to be in the position of supporting her older brother these are
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all her her Norms it's hard for me to find a photo of the two of us where I look like I'm
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happy and he looks like he's not controlling me even in this baby photo it seems like he's manhandling me in
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some way in 1989 now a single mom Hadas took the kids and set up on her own Calabasas is a very wealthy area
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that although it is in Los Angeles County it's nothing like La really there is certainly very very little
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violent crime it's a lot of open space and big houses the Kardashians live there a lot of celebrities live there
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retire there it's a quiet really beautiful area Hadas was a high school teacher in
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the valley she was a beloved teacher the house move as well as the absence of their father meant that the
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kids lives had been turned upside down tensions began to grow between the siblings eight or nine was already
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relatively verbally abusive to me he would call me names he would make fun of my appearance he was a
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bully what you want as the younger sibling is to feel secure and safe and protected by that older sibling and that
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is something that Amy I think wanted from her brother but did not get the only times I ever can remember
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my brother being kind or loving or warm or caring were times when he wanted something from me I don't think he was
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ever nurturing or protective in nature without there being an ulterior motive so there's an element of
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transaction going on there I'll be nice to you if I can get this from you and
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some of this seems to fit with what was also going on at school with his behavior he was being aggressive and
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violent with teachers he would eventually be kicked out of school Jesse's Behavior at home was also
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out of control Jesse was maybe around 12 years old when he became really explosively
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angry and verbally abusive it began by calling my mom names um stupid he called me ugly he called me
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chubby he loved to make fun of my looks this is another really beautiful but ironic photo you can see
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me hugging and loving on Mom and Mom adoring and staring at Jesse and Jesse having the smuggest look
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on his face ever with no regard for anybody else in the photo and I just think it it completely
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captures what it was like to be in our family or what our relationships were like it's very hard to really think that
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your son is bad that your son can't be helped that your son would ever really
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do something terrible to to yourself or to his sister and I think that even though she saw these issues develop and
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get worse that I don't think she ever really truly believed he became very abusive towards
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the walls that's how it began he was also destructive to our environment in the sense that I can
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clearly remember him lighting a fire in the bathtub of our home trying to see if the fire alarm would go
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[Music] off and once it did and the firemen showed up my mom wasn't home he would
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then coer me into lying and saying that I lit a fire that accidentally set off the
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alarm when Jesse he was 12 Hadas had an accident at school where she fell on a step injuring her ankle following a
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string of unsuccessful operations she used a wheelchair for several years the abuse at Jesse's hands did not
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lessen in fact it worsened Jesse sensed a weakness and that is when he became physically abusive to my mom he would
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have no job and no license and he was at home with her during that time and I was
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in school for many of those days I can remember her standing up out of her wheelchair and he pushed her
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down Amy was almost the other surrogate parent psychologically this is not a good place for a child to find
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themselves in where they as a kid are supporting an adult to look after the other sibling
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what it does is Rob her of her own [Music] childhood he does have a knack at knowing people's weaknesses or
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recognizing them and when he does that he's able to figure out what would hurt
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people most and he does not shy away from hurting people I had always seen my mom as a
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really strong woman so to see her not only become disabled but also to for her to to
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be physically harmed in such a way it was really detrimental it was heartbreaking for me to
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see Amy Winnick was 11 years old the first time her brother Jesse then aged 14 abused
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her I don't remember any happy memories I don't remember any points where he was
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a healthy sibling I think Jesse just saw as somebody to utilize whenever he wanted
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to and how Amy has described her childhood with him and her her mom was that they were there for his use she's a
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victim of his domestic terrorism he blackmailed me into inserting objects inside of myself in
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front of him to go through my first sexual experiences in front of my brother and to be
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objectified in that sense um had lasting effect on [Music] me there's a great deal of
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coercion of your younger sibling to get them to behave that way she was effectively at his Mercy that's my older
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brother I'm going to do as I'm told and there's an element of think almost
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survival Instinct this photo must have been around when Jesse was I want to say in 10th grade
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this would also be around the time right after the sexual abuse at his hands happened I can see in his face he is
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extremely troubled I know he was really angry this was one of the worst times with
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him as Jesse Winnick became more and more violent to his family it became clear to those around him that he had
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problems of his own when he was 15 I think around that age he experienced his first physical Mental
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Health crisis in the sense that he attempted suicide we went to dinner when we came back he was in his bed and he
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was hallucinating he was sweating and crying and yelling and we I believe she found an empty
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bottle very large size bottle of Tylenol he had taken um he was taken to the hospital immediately they pumped his
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stomach um and he would right after begin his very first mental health stay at an
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institution he was diagnosed very young with bipolar disorder OCD Tourette syndrome and most recently he was given
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a diagnosis of ADHD he would often manipulate doctors or therapists or just be absolutely
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unmanageable refused to cooperate my mom tried to obtain therapist help and he would verbally
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abuse those therapists and they stopped seeing him it was kind of a dead end for
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her there he didn't go to college he didn't get a job he remained in the home up
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until the crime basically just terrorizing his mother and sister when I was about 16 17 years old
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I was standing in the kitchen making myself a meal and from behind me I felt a very swift kick in between my legs
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which caused me an immense amount of pain and made me double over I asked him why he did it and he
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said he just wanted to see if it hurt a woman to be kicked there it was the most pain I had ever
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felt in my entire life I remember feeling like I was just assaulted and I didn't have those words to describe that
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as Amy grew up Jesse's abuse of his family continued to escalate with his main focus becoming their mother
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hadash one time at dinner we were sitting there talking about something and she said something that angered him
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he turned towards her and had a fork in his hand and he poked her skin while he was she was talking um it was
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just incessant Terror that he tried to execute on us but it was also inconsistent in the sense that we never
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knew when it would happen he wasn't able to restrain himself from lashing out
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physically outbursts were really common and it seemed like Hadas and Amy were kind of walking on eggshell all the
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time before one of the last attacks that Jesse executed against mom he turned to
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me and said let me just kill her I'll run to Mexico just let me get away with
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it during his teenage years Jesse Winnick wasn't just causing serious trouble at home it also had many run-ins
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with law enforcement my mom called the police many times their understanding of what
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to do with Jesse was very limited they would arrest him they would detain him for a few hours maybe a night and then
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and then they would return him back home that would happen for years unable to follow rules Jesse
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struggled to hold down a job so when he turned 20 he joined the army when he got into the military mom
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and I had a bit of a reprieve from the [Music] abuse he was only gone several weeks
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and then mom got a phone call from Jesse saying that he was being abused and she got him a flight
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home I always wondered if he was lying he would come home from the military at 20 even angrier than he went in he felt
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like the one resolution or solution he found or could have found didn't help
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him at all in F in fact in his mind it hurt him he's been thrown out of school
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he's been rejected by the military the outside world are kind of saying to him
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we can't deal with you he goes back home and now he's in this confined space with
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his mother and his sister he has no other outlets for his incessant attacks so it's a completely
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self-centered selfish U pathology at this point his behavior escal did infinitely in April of 2007 is one of
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the worst experiences I can remember I remember I was at a fraternity party and I saw probably 10 to 15 Miss calls from
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Mom I called her back she told me she needed me because Jesse had attacked her Jessie became angry at mom for some
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reason and decided to recreate one of his favorite movie scenes it's a scene in which somebody
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creates a homemade flamethrower out of an aerosol can and a lighter and he attacked her
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physically he attempted to catch her on fire she somehow escaped from him or missed
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and told him to leave he would jump out of our two-story balcony onto my mom's
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foot of my car dented it slashed her tires before running off following the attack on his mother
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hadass Jesse Winnick was quickly apprehended and jailed for assault Jesse was in jail for at least
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several months he would call her probably about once a day when he was in jail he would tell her he was
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sorry he would tell her he would never do it again we hear those Cycles in abusive
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relationships between intimate Partners but to be a mother and to be hearing those promises from your
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child she had to have unending hope for him feels like a trauma Bond where you're intermittently
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rewarded with kindness and intermittently there's punishment so you never quite know where you
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stand mom would eventually get an accidental death life insurance policy I don't think I ever face that reality
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like she did perhaps cuz I wasn't there that night that he attacked her so she knew
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in her heart that he could kill [Music] her September 25th 2007 will forever be etched in my brain
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as one of the worst days ever in my life I was at work I got backtack phone calls from Jesse and Mom and I could
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tell that there was tension building but neither of them really said it outrightly I got another phone call from
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my mom um she was saying what time are you going to be home I said I already told you probably around 10: why what's
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up and that was that she said okay fine bye again and that was the last time I talked to
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her on my way home I called Jesse I said hey I'm on my way home I told him I
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would call him I said what's going on and he said I killed mom and I said what you're kiding you've
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got to be kidding me he said no I killed mom he hung up I called 911 I think I was about 5 minutes away
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from home by the time someone picked up the police just Patcher told me to leave the
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house immediately because the killer might be still inside and that was the moment that dawned on me what Jesse had
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done as I was passing through the entry way and saw the kitchen and that is where her body was um she was laying on
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the floor in a very very large pool of blood with um what I initially saw at first was her hand
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outstretched and the phone just outside of her reach and then I saw that the knife that
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Jesse had used to kill her was still in her neck he had stabbed her all the way down to the
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[Music] hilt I ran out of the door and I was met by the police right then [Music]
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I can't describe the emotions I felt finding her I don't even think I can
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describe the emotions surrounding that night it was just my brain was on fire out of nowhere I was left with no
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family I was left without my best friend following the murder 25-year-old Jesse showered and changed his clothes
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before stealing his mom's car he then drove a few miles south and got into a friend's car he had told the
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friend that he' done something bad and he needed to get out of [Music] [Music]
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town it would be I would say probably 3 or 4 hours before they caught him I think he was caught about 2 or 3 miles
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from our home um and it was those were the longest few hours of my life he had a shower he got changed he
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left the house he jumped into a car and fled the scene step by step by step not he did
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this and he fled the house in a state of panic I'm struggling to find the panic in his
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behavior Jesse was arrested the night of the crime and was charged for the murder of
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Hadas his mom with Jesse under arrest police started to piece together what had happened between him and his
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mother one thing I've learned as a prosecutor is that it's actually very
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difficult to murder someone with a knife it's very personal you have to get very
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close and it's extremely bloody and gory and to imagine that Jesse win would do
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that to his own mother was really shocking he had been making a sandwich with the knife that he had killed my mom
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with he had I guess sat down to eat it perhaps or something and had left the counter full of stuff my mom wanted to
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make food and had turned to him and said put everything away I'd like to use the
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counter and he said no um she continued and said if you're going to eat you're going to clean up too and
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he responded by killing her I felt heartbroken I felt shocked um I felt lost murdering someone over May making a
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sandwich suggests to me that this is an incredibly egocentric focused individual it's all
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about him he does not care about anybody [Music] else after mom's murder my whole life
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flips upside down I couldn't be alone I didn't stay at home alone I couldn't
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sleep at night I worried about Jesse getting out of jail I worried about what would happen in my future it was an
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absolute life-altering situation and I had no idea what was going to [Music] come this is the last photo that my mom
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and I took together I had no idea it would be the last picture it illustrates our
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relationship I love that the last photo I have of us is not a smiling but her kissing
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me I love [Music] it despite the overwhelming evidence that Jesse Winnick was guilty of the
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murder of his mother hadass it would take over four years until Jesse was sentenced there were a lot of things he
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attempted to do in order to stall I believe what he was doing was he was trying to exhaust me in his mind I was
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what stood between him and a lesser sentence he would start taking medication for one of his mental
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illnesses and then abruptly go off the medication right before the trial was supposed to start then he could be
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deemed mentally unfit to stand trial and the whole thing would be delayed again he would fire his lawyers abruptly so
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that a new team had to start from square one it was incredibly frustrating and it lasted for
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years I don't think I felt like I was living at that time it felt like I [Music]
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was on pause as if as in I couldn't plan I couldn't grieve I couldn't sometimes I
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couldn't even [Music] breathe I can can only imagine how frustrating it was for Amy and the
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family that seeming like it would be pretty straightforward there were just constant
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delays I went to jail to visit him and to ask him if he would please plead guilty he was attempting to coers me
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into like forgiving him into dropping the charges he told me that Mom visits him
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in his dreams and that she forgives him I think I said something like okay but I
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don't you know um because I didn't forgive [Music] him Jesse pleaded no contest to the
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charge of second deegree murder of Hadas winck I was sitting in the gallery and I
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remember him looking back at me and like nodding Gravely and then looking back and then saying yes I plead guilty I
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accept the sentence um as if he was doing that for me symbolically he was escorted out of the
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room and he began his sentence Jesse was sentenc to 15 years to life but Amy's nightmare was far from
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over instead of engaging in rehabilitative programming and bettering himself he continued his Rampage of Violence by
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assaulting officers threatening staff fighting other inmates and generally continuing Life Of
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Crime JY winck was assigned to facility C at California State Prison Los Angeles
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County that's the yard that we use for people that have severe mental health
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problems he walked out onto the yard with two inmate manufactured weapons which we sometimes call shanks they were
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hidden on his body and he approached a correctional officer named kamacho this body camera footage is
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going to show us from officer kamacho perspective just how it went down you can watch carefully he's got something
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in his hand looks like a piece of string from the handle of the weapon here we go here comes the pepper
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spray there's The Knife Down goes the body camera what we're seeing here is the
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body camera for the first off to respond to the sne there's winck there's kamacho
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the pepper spray just happened here comes the attack bam hits winck right off of
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kamacho that's that's excellent police work guess it's safe to assume that he
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would have done to officer kamano the same thing that he did to his own mother which is kill him with a
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knife walking walking keep walking even locked up Jess Winnick still posed a threat to his sister
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Amy I received a letter in the mail saying that my brother was scheduled for his first Pearl hearing that was only 9
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and 1/2 years after his sentencing the rug was just pulled right out from under me I started mentally preparing I was
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shocked Amy attended an online call where she would face her brother and the parole
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board he said I I entered prison as a bad man and I've only gotten worse I've
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stabbed over 90 people since getting here I said you have already done the worst thing possible you've killed our
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mom at which point he then recited a recent address of mine and said he could have friends visit me and take care of
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me and my children obviously the parole board is thrown for a loop and asks me to mute myself and turn off my camera
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and I do um he remains on the camera the whole time he is slicing his thumb across his throat at me to simulate what
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he did to my mother he was keeping track of me and I think all of my biggest fears
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just kind of collapsed on me in that moment [Music] um ah Amy attempted to file a complaint to
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have Jesse charged for the death [Music] threat the prison wrote a letter that angered me to no end it said this threat
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was not a big enough threat sorry in essence um and I was shocked and I was left wondering what I could do in the
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next two years to make sure that he did not get out it soon transpired though that Jesse
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threats were very real I received a phone call from the detective saying we need to come over
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and talk to you and the detective knocks on the door he sits down and he says did you have anything to do with
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your mom's murder I was confused and I said absolutely not my mom was my best friend
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I would never have harmed her ever he said Jesse wrote to an inmate saying that I had planned the murder
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that I had promised him all this non-existent money um for doing it and I deserve to be taught a lesson
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because I am not fulfilling my portion of whatever sick agreement he is purporting the other inmate was supposed
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to tell Amy chestler to do certain things for Jesse like hire him a lawyer and give him money and we believe that
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if she had not complied with his demands that he would do the worst luckily the inmate did not go
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through with that and actually uh turned over evidence of Jesse's actions to
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us I got a call from an unknown number I picked up and it was Amy she told me that at a parole hearing he had
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threatened her on the record and even made the motion of slitting his own throat in reference to her and that was
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something that I found particularly disturbing I got a transcript from the parole hearing and I discovered that
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everything she told me was completely true I was shocked deeply shocked that that could happen at a p hearing and
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that there would be no consequences as of yet within a week or so he had confirmed
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to me he would charge my brother with the death threat from PE [Music] hearing I charged him with several
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different crimes including attempted murder attempted murder of a public official and two counsil possessing a
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weapon in prison we went into the courtroom stared at the back of his head um I listened to him make some sort
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of a statement to a certain degree and then it was my turn to talk I listened to Amy's statement which
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was very moving as she recounted what it was like to live with someone like Jesse
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year after year day after day all the the horrible things that he did that did not result in criminal
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charges I was laying out a lot of the abuse that we faced and while I did that he basically just called me a
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dumb yeah that's he just attempted to talk virtually over my entire statement it just seems like he doesn't
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have like a conscience at all I think that's the scariest thing about it like
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there doesn't seem to be any registering of like what he did at the end of the hearing Jesse was
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sentenced to an additional 36 years for attempting to kill officer kamacho and for threatening
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Amy that sentence will start him all the way back over again as if he had just walked back in through the prison gates
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at that time it's likely that he will be either extremely old or dead in addition to the sentencing Amy
00:39:52
was offered the option of placing a restraining order on Jesse and I said to them what does a restraining order do I
00:39:59
mean if he wants to kill me he's going to hire a hitman and have me killed anyway and they said no it immediately
00:40:07
criminalizes anytime he reaches out to you it immediately criminalizes anytime someone someone else reaches out to you
00:40:13
from him and so I said oh absolutely give it to [Music] me Jesse Winnick is the worst to the
00:40:22
worst and I can't imagine him ever changing [Music] I'm just so glad that it looks like he
00:40:32
is going to be in prison now for the rest of his life I hope that Amy and her family can get some peace
00:40:39
now despite being locked away for the rest of his life Jesse Winnick still brings Terror to those whose lives he
00:40:48
affected until he's paroled for my mom's murder I still have to see him every 2
00:40:53
years I now know I am the target of that hatred that he had for Mom at one [Music]
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point so my sense of danger is much greater right now 17 years later than it was 4 years
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in Amy now has two children of her own and has tried her best to move on with her
00:41:18
life I never will forgive him for what he's done I also don't Harbor hatred
00:41:25
towards him I'm just angry I'm disappointed and I want to change the way systems receive victims she has
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flourished into a really amazing person she's dedicated her life to educating
00:41:41
people talking to people about their trauma I don't ever want my children to
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be victimized I want to protect them I see two very independent strong children developing from that and I love it
00:41:55
they're like the best human ever and my mom would just devour them with love I love my mother I loved getting to
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know her and I almost miss the things I didn't have that I miss seeing mom as a
00:42:13
grandma I miss hearing her voice I haven't heard it for 17 years what a joyous person she
00:42:25
was and I miss my mom so much but I especially miss this smile like you can see in this
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picture in this picture I I can I can almost hear her I can almost hear her happiness
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[Music] [Music]

Badges

This episode stands out for the following:

  • 95
    Most shocking
  • 90
    Most dramatic
  • 90
    Most heartbreaking
  • 90
    Most surprising

Episode Highlights

  • A Brother's Betrayal
    Jesse's actions reflect a deep-seated evil, culminating in the murder of his mother.
    “Jesse is an evil, evil person.”
    @ 00m 37s
    December 05, 2024
  • The Shocking Revelation
    Jesse calls his sister to reveal he has killed their mother, leaving her in disbelief.
    “Don't come home, I killed mom.”
    @ 03m 22s
    December 05, 2024
  • A Disturbing Childhood
    Amy describes her brother's abusive behavior and the impact on their family dynamics.
    “He was a bully.”
    @ 08m 48s
    December 05, 2024
  • The Final Confrontation
    Jesse's violent outburst leads to a tragic end, shocking everyone involved.
    “Let me just kill her.”
    @ 18m 59s
    December 05, 2024
  • The Aftermath of Horror
    The discovery of their mother's body leaves a lasting emotional scar on the family.
    “I can't describe the emotions I felt finding her.”
    @ 26m 02s
    December 05, 2024
  • Life-Altering Situation
    After her mother's murder, everything flipped upside down for Amy.
    “I couldn't be alone... it was an absolute life-altering situation.”
    @ 29m 13s
    December 05, 2024
  • Jesse's Guilty Plea
    Jesse pleaded no contest to the murder of his mother, but the nightmare continued.
    “He was escorted out of the room and began his sentence.”
    @ 32m 53s
    December 05, 2024
  • Threats from Prison
    Jesse's threats from prison raised serious concerns for Amy's safety.
    “He was keeping track of me and I think all of my biggest fears just collapsed on me.”
    @ 35m 44s
    December 05, 2024
  • A Mother's Love
    Amy reflects on her mother's love and the void left by her absence.
    “I miss my mom so much but I especially miss this smile.”
    @ 42m 28s
    December 05, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • I realized he was not my brother, he was a monster.
    Jesse Winnick | I’m Related to a Killer
  • He just said again and very clearly, don't come home, I killed mom.
    Jesse Winnick | I’m Related to a Killer
  • It’s very personal, you have to get very close and it’s extremely bloody and gory.
    Jesse Winnick | I’m Related to a Killer
  • I entered prison as a bad man and I've only gotten worse.
    Jesse Winnick | I’m Related to a Killer
  • Jesse Winnick is the worst of the worst and I can't imagine him ever changing.
    Jesse Winnick | I’m Related to a Killer

Key Moments

  • Brother's Evil00:37
  • Shocking Call03:22
  • Childhood Trauma08:48
  • Final Threat18:59
  • Heartbreaking Discovery26:02
  • Last Photo29:51
  • Guilty Plea32:21
  • Mother's Absence42:28

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