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[audio logo] narrator:<i> In the early hours</i>
<i> of September the 21st, 2016,</i>
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<i> in Dearborn, Michigan,</i>
<i> a rage-filled</i> <i> father unleashed a nightmare</i>
<i> on his unsuspecting family.</i>
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- He made his wife watch
while he shot and killed her two teenage children. [gunshot]
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I can't imagine
anything more cruel. - I'm yelling to him
like, "no," you know.
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"No, my baby." I was begging him
not to shoot her because once he shot her
in the back, you know,
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she was bleeding
from her mouth, and I knew she wasn't
going to make it. narrator:<i> The killer was</i>
<i> 49-year-old Gregory Green,</i>
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<i> and his reign of terror</i>
<i> was far from over.</i>
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[tense music] Trisha Gerard: He carried
the two other girls out to the garage, placed
them in the car,
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tucked them in, shut the door,
and turned the car on. And they ultimately succumbed
to carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Michael Petri: It
was probably the most horrific crime that
I've ever seen or
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dealt with during my career. narrator:
<i> But astonishingly, this</i>
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<i> wasn't the first time Gregory</i>
<i> Green had killed his family.</i>
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Geoffrey Wansell: Back in 1991,
he killed his first wife. And not only her,
but also the unborn child,
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his child, that
she was carrying. narrator:<i> The man who</i>
<i> killed his family twice</i>
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<i> would forever come to be</i>
<i> known as one of the world's</i>
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<i> most evil killers.</i> [theme music] ♪ ♪ [somber music] narrator:<i> In 2017, 50-year-old</i>
<i> Gregory Green was ordered</i>
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<i> to spend the rest of his</i>
<i> natural life in prison</i>
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<i> for the murders of his</i>
<i> two stepchildren,</i>
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<i> 19-year-old Chadney</i>
<i> and 17-year-old Kara,</i>
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<i> and his two</i>
<i> biological daughters,</i> <i> five-year-old Koi,</i>
<i> and Kaleigh, who was just four.</i>
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- His final act of power over
Faith Green, Gregory Green, allowed her to live
and forced her to witness
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the murder of her children. And that gave him the power in
his mind to manipulate her and
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make her live with
these horrific memories for the rest of her life. [distant police siren]
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Michael Petri: I don't
understand the mentality, but it seemed like
torture to me.
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narrator:<i> There was no trial.</i> <i> For the second</i>
<i> time in his life,</i>
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<i> Gregory Green pled guilty</i>
<i> to the murder of his family.</i>
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[grim music] Jane Monckton-Smith: This
case is a perfect example that shows how
incredibly dangerous
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coercively controlling
people can become. Those children were
totally dispensable,
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irrespective of whether
they were stepchildren or biological children. I have got to make
this woman pay.
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You lot can pay with your lives
so that I can restore my ego. How evil is that? ♪ ♪
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narrator:<i> This killer's</i>
<i> story begins in Michigan</i>
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<i> on October 12, 1966.</i> [unsettling music] ♪ ♪ Geoffrey Wansell: Gregory
Green was born in Dearborn
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and the outskirts of Detroit. And in fact, he spent his
entire life in Dearborn.
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We don't know a great deal
about Green's upbringing, but we do know that
it was a loving
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household, brought up with his
mother and father and siblings. And I think he described
it later in life
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as a comfortable upbringing. narrator:<i> Green's second</i>
<i> wife, Faith, remembers him</i>
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<i> talking about his childhood.</i> Faith Harris: He said
that like in high school,
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he always had nice things. There were times, like, if he
didn't want to go to school,
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he didn't have to. narrator:<i> By his early 20s,</i>
<i> Green had married his first</i>
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<i> wife, Tonya, and joined</i>
<i> a church community</i>
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<i> on the outskirts of Detroit,</i>
<i> led by Faith's father,</i>
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<i> Pastor Fred Harris.</i> [somber music] - As a little girl, I
loved going to church.
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My dad became a pastor
when I was about 11. narrator:<i> It was</i>
<i> at church where</i>
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<i> Faith first met</i>
<i> the man who would turn</i> <i> out to be her future husband.</i>
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Faith Harris: I
was 14 years old. At that time, he was
probably about 24 or 25. He had no clue that
I had a crush on him.
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I thought that he was
cute, things like that. I used to just say hi to him,
sometimes, after church,
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sitting next to him. [grim music] He was there for a while,
then he wasn't there anymore.
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narrator:<i> In 1991, unbeknownst</i>
<i> to 14-year-old Faith,</i>
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<i> Gregory Green had</i>
<i> been sent to prison</i> <i> for killing his wife, Tonya.</i>
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Geoffrey Wansell: On the 14th
of July, Green attacked Tonya. And at that point,
she was six months
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pregnant with Green's child. He attacked her
brutally, ferociously, stabbing her
in the face, chest,
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neck, back, killing
not only Tonya but also the unborn child. [unsettling music]
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Certainly, one of the factors
that triggered Green's behavior was the fact that she was
planning to divorce him.
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I don't think Green wanted
anybody else to have Tonya. If he couldn't have her, no
one else was going to have her.
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narrator:<i> Gregory</i>
<i> Green calmly dialed 911</i>
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<i> to report what he'd done,</i>
<i> and waited for the police</i>
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<i> to arrive and arrest him.</i> [distant police siren] - It's really interesting, when
looking at the emotional state
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of people who kill
somebody close to them, like a wife or a child. The first emotion they
feel afterwards is relief--
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not remorse, not shame, not
guilt, not terror, relief. So they can, in that moment,
behave quite rationally.
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But overlay that with
the fact that they have felt completely justified
in killing their wife
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for trying to leave them. Trisha Gerard: Gregory Green
pled no contest to the crime
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of second-degree murder. He was sentenced
to a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 25 years
in the Michigan Department
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of Corrections. Geoffrey Wansell: While Green
was serving his sentence for the murder
of Tonya, the woman
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who was to become
his second wife was going about
an ordinary life. In fact, she'd got married,
and she had two children.
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Faith Harris: I met
Kara and Chadney's dad in the 10th grade,
and immediately
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I just fell for-- for him. And then, once I graduated
from high school, that's when we really
started dating.
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And then I got pregnant
with my son when I was 19. He was-- I shouldn't say
like my little buddy.
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But he was like me. He was a night owl. Even when I carried
him, he was up at night.
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That's just how I was. So he was just a quiet child,
and we did a lot together.
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He was very smart
and artistic, too. He started drawing when
he was really little.
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narrator:<i> Another</i>
<i> child followed quickly.</i>
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<i> When her son Chadney was</i>
<i> almost two years old,</i>
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<i> Faith gave birth</i>
<i> to a daughter, Kara.</i> Faith Harris: Kara was
always the type of child
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where, whatever
her brother did, she wanted to be
able to do it too. When he was learning
to tie his shoes,
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she was, like, I can do it too. She always wanted to boss him,
so I always had to tell her,
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like, Kara, you know,
stop bossing, stop bossing your brother around. He just wanted to play his
games and things like that.
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But as they got older,
their relationship got better. [unsettling music] ♪ ♪ narrator:<i> Meanwhile,</i>
<i> Gregory Green</i>
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<i> had been serving time</i>
<i> in prison for the murder</i>
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<i> of his first wife.</i> <i> Most of his adult life had</i>
<i> been spent behind bars.</i>
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<i> But in 2005, a push</i>
<i> to give him a second chance</i>
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<i> gained momentum.</i> Geoffrey Wansell: Green,
as was typical of him,
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maintained an absolutely
calm presence in prison, but he was refused parole
four times because he showed
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no empathy and no remorse
whatsoever for killing Tonya and his unborn child. Jane Monckton-Smith:
After that first murder,
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Gregory Green was a walking
threat to any woman that he was going to get
into a relationship
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with, especially
if that woman challenges him or attempts to leave him. Geoffrey Wansell:
Green had been
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in prison for a considerable
period of time when Pastor Fred
Harris, who was a well-known figure
in Detroit, began a campaign
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to get him released. Harris told the parole
board that Green would be supported
by the local community
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and welcomed back
into the church. What he didn't do, and that's
so significant later,
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he didn't warn his
daughter, Faith, exactly what Green had done
and why he'd been in prison.
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narrator:<i> In 2008, after</i>
<i> 16 years behind bars,</i>
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<i> Gregory Green was granted</i>
<i> parole at the age of 41.</i>
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<i> He had a chance to start over.</i> <i> But his insatiable lust for</i>
<i> murder could not be controlled.</i>
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<i> And eventually, he</i>
<i> would kill again.</i> [suspenseful music]
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♪ ♪ narrator:<i> In 2008,</i>
<i> Gregory Green</i> <i> had just been</i>
<i> released from prison</i>
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<i> after spending 16</i>
<i> years behind bars</i> <i> for the murder of his first</i>
<i> wife and their unborn child.</i>
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<i> When Faith, who was single</i>
<i> again, ran into him at church,</i>
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<i> old feelings resurfaced.</i> Faith Harris: At first,
he didn't even know
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who I was until I told him. Then he was like, oh, OK. He didn't even have a clue
that I had this crush on him.
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And a few times, like, after
church, I would talk to him and then eventually
we exchanged numbers.
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One day, we went out
to dinner, just talked. The kids seemed
like they liked him,
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and we just eventually
started dating. Geoffrey Wansell:
Tragically, Faith wasn't aware of Green's
crime when he was released.
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Her father didn't tell her. And I'm absolutely
sure, in my own mind, that Green didn't
tell her either.
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As far as she was concerned,
with the help of her father, Green was being rehabilitated.
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Faith Harris: I probably should
have asked more questions. I did know that he
had went to prison.
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We were told there was
some type of altercation, but it was self-defense. Jane Monckton-Smith: Any
allegations made against him,
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he's going to deny,
he's going to minimize. He's going to make it look
like he was the victim.
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This is something
that is so common. They call it DARVO, Deny,
Attack, Reverse Victim
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and Offender. Now, that is straight from
the coercive control playbook. Faith Harris: He moved
in with me for a little bit,
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but I was just feeling like
something wasn't right. I don't know if it
was just too soon.
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I ended up breaking it
off with him for a while. I didn't talk to him
for a little bit,
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and then we started
talking back. And then that's how I
got pregnant with Koi.
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Like we weren't even
in a relationship or anything like that. A couple months after
I had Koi, that's when
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we ended up getting married. ♪ ♪ narrator:<i> In 2011,</i>
<i> Green and his new wife</i>
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<i> moved into their first</i>
<i> house together.</i> Michael Petri: The city
of Dearborn Heights
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is pretty much
a bedroom community, borders the city of Detroit
on the east side of the city.
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A nice place
to live, pretty safe. It's good community, very
eclectic, very diverse.
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Geoffrey Wansell: It
didn't take long for Faith to realize that Green perhaps
wasn't quite as angelic
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as she might have thought. And quite quickly,
she became unsettled. [unsettling music]
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- I didn't really
know what was going on with him on the inside. He just would shut down.
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That's when I started
to see the attitude and things like that. Jane Monckton-Smith:
Coercive control
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is a pattern of behavior
designed to trap someone in a relationship. And that will be the motivation
of the controlling person.
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So they will do
all sorts of things within that relationship,
what we call tactics,
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to make sure that person
stays where they are, stays compliant, never leaves. Faith Harris: Everything
was just Koi, Koi, Koi.
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He would tell me things
like, if I leave the house, I got to take her with me. He didn't really want
to give me a break.
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There was only one time
during that first year where I was able to go out
with one of my friends,
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and then he was calling me. I'm like, it only had
been literally probably like an hour, hour
and a half, and
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I was getting ready to be
back on my way home. Jane Monckton-Smith:
Green was incredibly
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controlling of Faith. He tried to isolate her from
forms of support and influence.
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He would have used
psychological tactics where he would demean
her and question her,
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so that she was constantly
trying to meet his expectations and his rules. He will be presenting
that as very normal.
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That's the way of things. You've got your role,
I've got mine. You get on with yours.
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And as long as you do it
properly, I'll leave you alone. narrator:<i> Like many</i>
<i> women in that situation,</i>
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<i> Faith stayed with Green</i>
<i> for the sake of her daughter.</i>
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Faith Harris: Koi was funny. She thought she knew it all. She loved wearing dresses.
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Love wearing dresses. That was her thing. narrator:<i> Almost two</i>
<i> years after Koi was born,</i>
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<i> Green and Faith had</i>
<i> a second daughter, Kaleigh.</i>
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- Somehow, Green didn't
take to the second daughter as much as he'd
taken to the first.
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Faith Harris: When
she came, he didn't want anything to do with her. I don't know if it was because
you didn't want another child.
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I can even take that if that's
what it was, you know. I mean, I don't have to like
it, but make it make sense.
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It got to the point where it
was really tense in the house. ♪ ♪ Michael Petri: The home was
a well-kept home, nice area.
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By all accounts, you
know, just a good family living in a quiet suburb,
raising their kids.
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So it kind of goes
to the heart of what we deal with in policing every day. You never know what's going
on behind closed doors.
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narrator:<i> Despite Green's</i>
<i> apparent indifference</i>
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<i> to his second daughter,</i>
<i> Kaleigh was adored by Faith.</i>
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- Kaleigh-- [laughs]
Kaleigh was-- she was a little rambunctious. She was glued to my hip.
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She was observant. She sat back and watched. When her dad was mean to her, I
used to say, look, let's pray.
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And then she would tell
me, mommy, let's pray. There was a couple
of times he flinched at her
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and she would stand up to him. No baby should have
to do that, you know. ♪ ♪ One night, I was
sitting on the couch,
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and he's yelling and hollering,
just saying demeaning things to me, calling me names.
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But he's holding Koi. So I'm like, can you
please just put her down? So finally, I got
him to put her down.
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And he starts yelling. He starts kicking the couch. Kaleigh's on this end. I'm like, please stop
kicking the couch.
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♪ ♪ That was my point there. I was just like, I-- I have to leave. narrator:<i> Faith attempted</i>
<i> to get a personal protection</i>
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<i> order against her husband.</i> Faith Harris: I tried to go
to the Dearborn Heights Police
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Department to file a PPO. I filled out the paperwork. They came back less
than five minutes
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and told me it's not
enough information. - People don't go and get
protective orders for nothing.
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They don't apply
for them for nothing. But for some reason,
probably a lack of evidence,
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I would have thought,
that protective order was not granted. Michael Petri:
Domestic violence
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is one of those crimes
that are unpoliceable. And that's one of the things
that the police hate.
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We want to protect the public. We want to do what's out there. But the law, everybody
thinks it's black and white.
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It's really not. Faith Harris: I decided
to go back to work, and I said I'm just
going to make a plan
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and leave on the last
day of school. And that's what I did. narrator:<i> After Faith</i>
<i> left her husband,</i>
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<i> they lived apart</i>
<i> for a couple of years.</i> Faith Harris: I did
file for divorce.
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And we were at one of our, I
guess, divorce proceedings. And then I felt like
we needed to talk.
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I didn't think
like we were going to talk to get back together. But that's what
ended up happening.
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So I said, well, this time
we really need to talk about things in detail. And I felt like that's
what we were really doing.
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I felt like he was
making an effort. - This is a controlling
and manipulative person.
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So they will use
any tactic they think of that is going to work
for them to get what they want.
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Faith would probably
have believed him, that he was genuine,
that he was going to change.
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They never do. narrator:<i> In 2014, Green</i>
<i> and Faith reunited.</i>
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<i> And eventually, she moved</i>
<i> back into the family home</i>
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<i> with her four children.</i> <i> It would prove to be</i>
<i> a fatal mistake.</i>
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Faith Harris: It was
OK for a few months. He wanted the girls
and everybody to have a good Christmas so we
got this huge Christmas tree
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that went up to the ceiling,
bring out the toys, and everything in the house. We were talking about
renewing our vows.
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But things were just
slowly dwindling. I was just like, oh, this
is not going to work.
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Jane Monckton-Smith:
Green would never have been able to sustain this
character that he was playing.
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Once he got what he
wanted-- gone, forget it. This is not who he is. Who he is, is a manipulative,
abusive controller.
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Faith Harris: As time went
on, he was getting worse. So this time I'm dead set.
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I'm like, I can't
change my mind. I can't continue to put
my children through this.
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narrator:<i> In August</i>
<i> 2016, Faith filed</i> <i> for divorce for a second time.</i>
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- Statistically,
the period of separation or the threat of separation
in a relationship where there's
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intimate partner
violence is the most dangerous time for a victim. And the reason for that
is because, it's
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not about violence. It's about power and control. So when the abuser
in the relationship
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feels that they're losing
that power and control, their behavior ramps up and can
become much, much more violent.
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Faith Harris: Next
thing I know he's mad. He was just really upset,
cursing, just real belligerent.
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And then eventually, he
left and went to work. And I thought I was
going to be all right
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because the most Greg
ever did was just yell, holler, maybe be in my face. I just continued to go
on about my day as usual.
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Trisha Gerard: It
was at that point Gregory Green
felt he ultimately lost control of the situation.
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And she was going
to take his home. She was going
to take his children. And he was not going
to permit that to happen.
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narrator:<i> It would</i>
<i> be less than a month</i> <i> after he was served his divorce</i>
<i> papers that Gregory Green</i>
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<i> finally snapped.</i> <i> What followed was a night</i>
<i> of absolute horror</i>
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<i> that would change</i>
<i> Faith's life forever.</i>
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[suspenseful music] narrator:<i> By September</i>
<i> 2016, Faith Green</i>
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<i> had served her</i>
<i> husband with divorce</i> <i> papers for the second time.</i>
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<i> Gregory Green knew</i>
<i> his marriage was over.</i>
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- On the 20th
of September, 2016, Green unleashed a nightmare
on his unsuspecting family.
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[suspenseful music] Trisha Gerard: It started
off as a normal day. It spiraled
into Faith Green and
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Gregory Green having
an argument over text messages about the state
of their marriage,
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and the fact that she
had filed for divorce. By the time Faith Green
returned to the house that day,
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Gregory Green had become
consumed by anger. ♪ ♪ Faith Harris: I
go to sleep, and
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I remember him coming
into the girls' room because I was sleeping
in their room.
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And he was like, "Come
in the living room." He seemed serious, so I got up.
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I go into the living room,
and I see my son in there. And I'm thinking in my head,
like, he woke my son up
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so I can tell he was asleep. Greg takes out
these big zip ties. ♪ ♪ I never seen zip ties
that big in my life, ever.
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I didn't even know they
made them that big. So he's like, "I want you to
tie your mother up with this."
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So Chad is like, "Greg, wait." Then he pulls a gun out. [tense music] So I was like, Chadney, just--
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just do what he says. So he made my son zip-tie me. And then that's when he
proceeded to zip-tie my son.
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I was froze. I couldn't do anything. ♪ ♪ Kara came to the living room
looking like he's tripping.
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Like, what is wrong with him? Like, he lost his mind. She has no clue
what just happened.
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But he ends up zip-tying her. And then he says he wants
us to go to the basement.
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We just look at each other. The thoughts were so loud,
like, "Go to the basement?"
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We just look at each
other, and then we go down to the basement. And then he made us
lay down on the floor,
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duct tape our mouths,
duct tape around our arms, behind our back, ankles. And then he like, extra
duct-taped me a lot.
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I was thinking that he was
just going to take the girls and leave. That's what I was thinking.
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I never thought he was going
to do anything more than that. I thought he was
really just trying to,
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like, really just scare me. Jane Monckton-Smith:
Gregory Green had a mindset where,
above everything else,
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he was entitled to things. He was superior. He was better. And if you didn't give him
what he was entitled to,
00:24:10
he would respond really,
really badly, almost like a petulant toddler. But a petulant toddler
is nowhere near
00:24:20
as dangerous as a fully
grown, violent man with access to weapons. Faith Harris: He sits down
on a counter in the basement.
00:24:30
And he says that
I'm going to suffer for what I did
to him and his girls, and he doesn't want his girls
raised by anybody in my family.
00:24:39
I just felt so bad
because I couldn't help us. What was I going to do? narrator:<i> Green spent</i>
<i> the next hour going</i>
00:24:47
<i> in and out of the basement.</i> <i> When he returned</i>
<i> for the final time, he turned</i>
00:24:52
<i> his gun on 17-year-old Kara.</i> [gunshot] Faith Harris: He shot
her in the back twice.
00:24:59
[gunshot] And she just looked at me. I'm yelling to him
like, "no," you know.
00:25:07
"No, my baby." I was begging him
not to shoot her because once he shot her
in the back, you know,
00:25:13
she was bleeding
from her mouth, and I knew she wasn't
going to make it. [ominous music]
00:25:20
Trisha Gerard: He next
turned the gun on Chadney. He shot Chadney twice in the
back and once in the head.
00:25:28
[gunshots] - And I remember
him saying, "ouch." And he rolled over,
and he never moved again.
00:25:38
Then he aimed a gun at me. And I remember just
trying to brace myself because I didn't know where
he was going to shoot me,
00:25:44
and I just remember
hearing gunshots. [gunshot] I remember that
burning feeling.
00:25:49
And then he grabbed my face. So I remember that. And then him, you know,
cutting me from this side.
00:25:57
[suspenseful music] I didn't feel it,
but I could just feel the warmth of the blood.
00:26:01
And I could see,
like, blood squirting. ♪ ♪ Geoffrey Wansell: He
spared Faith's life
00:26:08
because he wanted her
to suffer and live through it and live with it. It is an unimaginable
burden for anyone to bear.
00:26:18
Can you imagine
any mother watching the death of her
children in front of her by a man she's married
and thought she could trust?
00:26:27
♪ ♪ - It's fascinating
from a law enforcement psychological standpoint
to try to understand
00:26:37
what Mr. Green actually
was thinking that caused him to go to those lengths. What was it that you thought,
by sitting your wife down,
00:26:48
killing her children
in front of her, you were going to accomplish? That was the question
that reigned in my mind
00:26:55
for a long time after it. narrator:<i> In an eerie</i>
<i> echo of the night</i>
00:27:01
<i> 25 years earlier when he'd</i>
<i> murdered his first wife,</i>
00:27:05
<i> Green then called the police</i>
<i> and confessed to his crime.</i>
00:27:11
Faith Harris: I heard him
walk up the stairs and said, "Hi, my name is
Gregory Green," and
00:27:15
that's all that I could hear. Then I heard the door close. [TENSE MUSIC] ♪ ♪
00:27:23
Michael Petri: I
was called, woken up by the sergeant that was
working on the road patrol
00:27:29
and was apprised
of the situation at that time. You almost want to think
that this isn't real.
00:27:37
Am I dreaming? The officers responded
to the scene from the 911 call. Mr. Green was
sitting on the porch.
00:27:45
He was taken into custody
without incident by the first
responding officers. And that's when
the officers then
00:27:52
had the horrific task
of going into the home and finding the crime scene. Faith Harris: I remember
just laying there.
00:28:01
Then there was a knock at the
door and it was the police. [grim music] Michael Petri:
Faith's children were
00:28:07
shot to death in front of her. She had suffered
a cutting wound from, like, the top
of her forehead area
00:28:16
all the way down
to her cheek, and she was also shot in the foot. [gunshot] I don't understand
the mentality,
00:28:26
but it seemed like
torture to me. Obviously, our primary
concern, in that situation,
00:28:32
being there was no further
danger to the community, we still have
a victim that's alive,
00:28:38
making sure that Faith
was taken care of and sought medical
aid that was needed.
00:28:45
- On this side here, they
had to stitch on the inside first, and then
stitch the outside.
00:28:51
And if you would have
cut me an inch further, I would have actually
bled to death.
00:28:55
And they said that my foot
should have been shattered, like in a lot of pieces,
but luckily the bullet curved
00:29:01
and went out the bottom. narrator:<i> Faith had survived</i>
<i> her husband's attack,</i>
00:29:08
<i> but her nightmare wasn't over.</i> <i> Even more horrifying</i>
<i> news was still to come.</i>
00:29:17
[suspenseful music] narrator:<i> On September</i>
<i> the 21st, 2016,</i>
00:29:26
<i> Gregory Green had</i>
<i> forced his wife</i> <i> to watch as he shot and killed</i>
<i> her two teenage children.</i>
00:29:34
<i> But as Faith was</i>
<i> about to find out,</i> <i> they weren't the only murders</i>
<i> he'd committed that night.</i>
00:29:42
- What became apparent
was what Green was doing when he left his
wife and two elder children
00:29:48
tied up in the basement. [somber music] Trisha Gerard: He
had already prepared the car in the garage
of the home,
00:29:58
meaning he had fastened
a piece of PVC pipe on the tailpipe
of the vehicle, ran a hose
00:30:05
into the window of the car. He went into the house,
lifted the two girls, one by one, out of their beds.
00:30:12
They were asleep. One of the children
briefly woke up, but her daddy was holding
her, so she fell back asleep.
00:30:21
He carried the two
girls out to the car, placed them in the car,
tucked them in, shut the door,
00:30:27
and turned the car on. [car starting] - This was just
incomprehensible to me. [unsettling music]
00:30:41
Trisha Gerard: During
this whole process, Gregory Green would leave
Koi and Kaleigh in the car,
00:30:47
and then he would
go into the basement to check on Kara
and Chadney and Faith to make sure they
were still down there.
00:30:55
He didn't tell
them at that time what was happening upstairs. After a period
of time, Gregory Green
00:31:01
went back out to the garage. He checked on the two
youngest girls. They appeared to be lifeless.
00:31:07
He turned the car
off, and then he carried them one by one
back into the house and tucked them
in bed together.
00:31:15
narrator:<i> Soon after</i>
<i> being rushed to hospital,</i>
00:31:18
<i> Faith learned the true</i>
<i> extent of what her husband</i>
00:31:21
<i> had done to Koi and Kaleigh.</i> Faith Harris: One
of the doctors
00:31:26
told me that they had passed. But I remember the police
saying that the little one
00:31:31
is fighting. I didn't know
what was going on, but Kaleigh was the last to go.
00:31:37
So they wheeled me to one
room, and I saw Koi. She was gone. She was just so cold.
00:31:45
And then they wheeled
me to another room, and Kaleigh, she was,
you know, still warm.
00:31:50
♪ ♪ Michael Petri: There was
a lot of the officers on scene that were just not
believing this.
00:31:59
You know, you can't
believe that this happened. But you put
your feelings aside,
00:32:03
and you have a job
to do and a crime scene to process
and investigation to conduct,
00:32:08
and you move forward. ♪ ♪ narrator:<i> Now</i>
<i> in custody, Gregory Green</i>
00:32:15
<i> was questioned by police.</i> Trisha Gerard:
During the course of his several-hour
statement, he
00:32:21
spoke about the details
of the crime and his reasons for doing this. He repeatedly referenced
the fact that Faith Green
00:32:32
had filed for divorce. He repeatedly referenced
the fact that she was going to take his house.
00:32:37
And he was going to have
to pay child support. And he would have nothing,
and he would starve,
00:32:43
and he wouldn't have his girls. He repeatedly indicated during
the course of his statement
00:32:49
that he had no choice. He had to do this. ♪ ♪ The lack of emotion,
the lack of conscience,
00:32:58
the matter-of-factness
in which Gregory Green detailed to the detectives what
he had done to these children.
00:33:08
Michael Petri: What I
found most troublesome about Mr. Green was there
was a statement that
00:33:13
alluded to the fact
that he felt his children were better
off in heaven with God
00:33:20
than being raised by her. That was his logic
behind taking the lives of his children.
00:33:28
Trisha Gerard:
In this incident, Gregory Green had
every opportunity to also murder
Faith Green, and he
00:33:35
intentionally did not do that. The detectives asked him,
"Why didn't you kill her?"
00:33:42
And his words were "Death would
have been too good for her. I wanted her to live with
what she made me do."
00:33:51
It's the ultimate act
of power and control. Gregory Green knew, at the time
he did these things,
00:33:57
he was going to spend the rest
of his life in prison, and he was resigned
to that fact.
00:34:01
But he wanted Faith
Green to suffer forever. And allowing her to live
was his way of guaranteeing,
00:34:10
in his mind, that
he could control her and make her suffer forever. Jane Monckton-Smith: That's
the personification of evil
00:34:19
and shows us exactly what
his motivations were. His motivation was
to punish Faith for having
00:34:27
the audacity to leave him. [somber music] narrator:<i> In the days</i>
<i> following the murders,</i>
00:34:37
<i> the story hit the press.</i> <i> It was only then</i>
<i> that Faith learned</i>
00:34:41
<i> the awful truth about</i>
<i> her husband's first wife.</i>
00:34:45
Faith Harris: I was
on my dad's phone, and that was like the first
thing that popped up.
00:34:51
She was about six
or seven months pregnant, and he stabbed her to death. [suspenseful music]
00:34:58
And I was just thinking
like, oh my God. And I'm just crying, like,
because I never knew.
00:35:04
I'm just bawling my eyes out. I'm just sick to my stomach. narrator:<i> Faith</i>
<i> found it hard to come</i>
00:35:10
<i> to terms with the parole</i>
<i> board's previous decision</i>
00:35:13
<i> to release Green.</i> Faith Harris: He
actually shouldn't have ever been let out.
00:35:18
He was never rehabilitated. He just told them what
they wanted to hear. Because he has a demeanor
where people like him,
00:35:26
they gravitate toward him, and
he used that to his advantage. narrator:<i> Faith's</i>
<i> whole life had</i>
00:35:33
<i> been destroyed in one</i>
<i> night by the husband</i>
00:35:36
<i> who claimed to love her.</i> <i> But there was still</i>
<i> one piece of news</i>
00:35:40
<i> she was yet to hear</i>
<i> that would once</i> <i> again rock her to the core.</i>
00:35:47
Geoffrey Wansell: One of the
terrible ironies of this case is that Faith was
in hospital, recovering
00:35:52
from the torture
from Green when she heard it was
her own father who'd helped him get out of jail.
00:35:59
Imagine the shock that must
have been to the young woman. Faith Harris: I found out,
just like everyone else did,
00:36:06
that my father had wrote
letters for my ex-husband to help him get out of prison.
00:36:14
For a long time, I didn't want
anything to do with my father. I probably pushed my family
away at some point,
00:36:22
too, and vice versa, because
they weren't understanding what I was going through.
00:36:26
I mean, I didn't understand
what I was going through. How do you really put your head
around losing four children?
00:36:33
I was on a lot of medication. I was spiraling out
of control, you know. [somber music]
00:36:40
♪ ♪ narrator:<i> Gregory</i>
<i> Green was charged</i> <i> with a litany of felonies</i>
<i> for the Dearborn Heights</i>
00:36:47
<i> massacre, including four</i>
<i> counts of first-degree murder.</i>
00:36:52
[tense music] Michael Petri: It was a very
strong case because it almost came down to a point where
once we did our protocol and
00:37:03
procedures with Mr. Green
confessing to committing the homicides, having the
victims, having a live witness
00:37:10
that witnessed
everything, there's really not much to argue. Trisha Gerard: What
the investigation
00:37:20
showed was that, approximately
a week prior to the murders, he had gone to a local hardware
store here in Michigan.
00:37:27
He had purchased
the PVC pipe that he used on the car, the plastic
tubing he used on the car,
00:37:34
the zip ties, and duct tape. ♪ ♪ During his interrogation,
Gregory Green admitted that he knew he
was going to do something,
00:37:44
he just didn't know when
he was going to do it. Michael Petri: I think it
would be a difficult argument
00:37:52
for any defense attorney to
make, regardless of whether he had bought it days earlier.
00:37:57
The mere fact that his children
died from carbon monoxide poisoning shows premeditation.
00:38:02
[car starting] Trisha Gerard:
Ultimately, a plea offer was extended
by the prosecutor's office
00:38:09
to Gregory Green,
whereby he would plead guilty to four counts
of second-degree murder,
00:38:16
one count of torture, one
count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and
one count of felony firearm.
00:38:24
The plea offered, in this
case, took into account the objectives of Faith
Green, primarily
00:38:32
that Gregory Green
spend the rest of his natural life in prison. This plea offer also
took into account
00:38:41
the trauma that a trial
would cause to Faith Green in having to relive
and testify about witnessing
00:38:49
the murders of her children. narrator:<i> On March</i>
<i> the 1st, 2017,</i>
00:38:55
<i> approximately six months after</i>
<i> he'd murdered his two daughters</i>
00:39:00
<i> and his two stepchildren,</i>
<i> Gregory Green was back in court</i>
00:39:04
<i> for his sentencing hearing.</i> [somber music] Geoffrey Wansell:
To her immense credit,
00:39:12
Faith turned up
at Green's sentencing, and indeed called
him out in front of the jury and the judge.
00:39:22
She said, "You're a con man. You're a monster. And you're the devil
in disguise."
00:39:30
- She was very brave
and very strong. And she was there
speaking for her children.
00:39:38
Faith Harris: I wanted
to be face-to-face with him, if it were my choice. You know, that's why
I kept looking at him,
00:39:44
even though it was
the back of his head because, to let him know how I
felt so he could see my eyes,
00:39:50
feel my pain. Trisha Gerard: I
don't recall Mr. Green ever looking at Faith Green and
making eye contact with her.
00:39:59
I recall him sitting and just
looking straight forward as she delivered her remarks
with no emotion on his face.
00:40:08
Michael Petri: Mr. Green was
ready to go back to prison. Yeah, he was like, "I did it.
00:40:12
I turned myself in. Can we just go now?" He felt he was
mission accomplished.
00:40:18
It was like I killed my kids. I did what I did. Put me in jail. Just unfathomable.
00:40:25
Jane Monckton-Smith: There was
no remorse, no shame, no guilt, and he kept talking about
how God would look after him.
00:40:30
So he still got that massive
ego there that I'm special. And I will be forgiven.
00:40:37
And God is going
to look after me. I mean, the extent
of that man's ego is absolutely staggering.
00:40:45
Michael Petri:
For Faith, I don't know how she sat
through those court hearings looking at that person
that just took her children.
00:40:55
Trisha Gerard: I was
awed by her ability to stand up
and face her abuser, face the man who had done this
to her, and never once waiver.
00:41:07
From the moment
I met her, I knew she was a very strong woman. She was committed to finding
justice for her children
00:41:16
from day one. Faith Harris: I just
had to let him know, I wasn't scared of you.
00:41:23
And, you know, you
did these things to hurt me because I
wouldn't stay in your box,
00:41:30
because you wanted
to control me. And I wouldn't give in to him. And I'm still not
giving in to him,
00:41:37
even though my children
aren't here. But I still continue
to fight for them.
00:41:41
[suspenseful music] ♪ ♪ narrator: Gregory
Green was sentenced to serve 45 to 100
years in prison,
00:41:51
plus an additional two-year
term for the firearms charge. Geoffrey Wansell:
I think it was
00:41:58
a judge who said, "A father is
there to protect his children, and a husband is there
to protect his wife.
00:42:03
Green did neither." - He was 50 years
old at the time. So when we did the math,
I, as a prosecutor,
00:42:12
understood he would not
be eligible for parole until he was 97
years old and that
00:42:19
that would be
the first time parole could even be considered. So in effect, it was my belief
that he would die in prison.
00:42:30
Geoffrey Wansell: The wounds
that Faith suffered, she may have recovered
from the physical injuries,
00:42:37
but the emotional injuries
and the sheer effect on her will never go away. They cannot possibly.
00:42:43
It is an unimaginable
nightmare. Faith Harris: I can't
ever let him win. So I'm going to keep
honoring my children.
00:42:54
I talk about them all the time. I have so many
stories and pictures. I did so much with them.
00:43:03
I enjoyed my children. I enjoyed being a mom. My children would
be proud of how far I've come because they
wouldn't want me to be sulking.
00:43:13
They would want me to be happy. narrator: Gregory Green
murdered his family not once, but twice.
00:43:21
He stabbed his first wife
to death, killing not only her, but their unborn child, too.
00:43:28
Then, 25 years later, after
his release from prison, he shot and killed
his two stepchildren
00:43:35
in front of their mother
and gassed his own two daughters who were
just four and five years old.
00:43:44
His name is now synonymous with
unimaginable family betrayal and tragedy, leaving no
doubt that Gregory Green
00:43:52
is one of the world's
most evil killers. [theme music] ♪ ♪