"Mr. & Mrs. Murder" Locked In

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Movie Name"Mr. & Mrs. Murder" Locked In
Release NameMr.and.Mrs.Murder.2025.S01E02.Locked.In.720p.DSNP.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-FLUX
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1 00:00:09,051 --> 00:00:10,802 Y'all, come on up here! 2 00:00:13,513 --> 00:00:16,599 <i>It's 2003.</i> 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,811 <i>And it's been three years since Mike's disappeared.</i> 4 00:00:20,812 --> 00:00:23,773 <i>Brian and I were separated.</i> 5 00:00:23,774 --> 00:00:25,816 <i>Brian calls me and he says,</i> 6 00:00:25,817 --> 00:00:29,070 Kathy, you're gonna be getting a letter, 7 00:00:29,071 --> 00:00:31,489 and I'm gonna ask you not to read it. 8 00:00:34,451 --> 00:00:37,453 <i>He says, well, it's gonna say some things in there.</i> 9 00:00:37,454 --> 00:00:39,330 And I don't know what it's gonna say. 10 00:00:39,331 --> 00:00:41,874 But I'm just gonna say, please don't read it. 11 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:45,002 He was very worried about this letter. 12 00:00:45,003 --> 00:00:46,837 <i>And I said to him,</i> 13 00:00:46,838 --> 00:00:50,758 Brian, I am absolutely reading that letter. 14 00:00:53,762 --> 00:00:56,430 <i>Within a few days, I did get a letter--</i> 15 00:00:58,016 --> 00:01:01,143 <i>from a man, Chuck Bunker,</i> 16 00:01:01,144 --> 00:01:02,561 who had had an incident 17 00:01:02,562 --> 00:01:05,648 with Brian and Denise in Atlanta. 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,074 19 00:01:19,329 --> 00:01:21,872 The letter says, "Ms. Kathy Winchester, 20 00:01:21,873 --> 00:01:25,334 <i>"I am sorry that I find myself writing this letter to you</i> 21 00:01:25,335 --> 00:01:28,504 <i>"about one of your best friends, Denise Williams,</i> 22 00:01:28,505 --> 00:01:31,424 <i>"and your ex, Brian Winchester.</i> 23 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:34,635 <i>"Denise and Brian have been leading a double life</i> 24 00:01:34,636 --> 00:01:37,013 <i>"that few people are aware of.</i> 25 00:01:37,014 --> 00:01:39,724 <i>"You need to be watchful of their behavior</i> 26 00:01:39,725 --> 00:01:41,726 <i>"because they have been dishonest with you</i> 27 00:01:41,727 --> 00:01:43,644 "for the past 2 and 1/2 years. 28 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:45,396 "And they both have demonstrated 29 00:01:45,397 --> 00:01:48,190 <i>"extremely strange behavior.</i> 30 00:01:48,191 --> 00:01:51,402 <i>"It was easy for her, after her husband's death,</i> 31 00:01:51,403 --> 00:01:55,656 <i>"to start a bizarre affair with your husband, Brian.</i> 32 00:01:55,657 --> 00:01:58,451 <i>"The affair was not a normal affair.</i> 33 00:01:58,452 --> 00:02:02,872 <i>"It involved decadent sexual behavior with various people,</i> 34 00:02:02,873 --> 00:02:05,791 <i>strippers, and other sordid acts."</i> 35 00:02:12,257 --> 00:02:14,925 <i> Me and Denise were dating.</i> 36 00:02:14,926 --> 00:02:17,678 <i>I think we were just getting ready to head out to dinner.</i> 37 00:02:17,679 --> 00:02:19,597 <i>But, uh, we went down to the lobby.</i> 38 00:02:19,598 --> 00:02:22,141 <i>And lo and behold,</i> 39 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:25,061 <i>Brian Winchester is in the lobby.</i> 40 00:02:25,062 --> 00:02:27,897 <i>He said, all right, Denise, me and you have got to talk.</i> 41 00:02:27,898 --> 00:02:30,358 <i>There's lots of things that we've got to discuss.</i> 42 00:02:30,359 --> 00:02:34,236 <i>Basically, uh, Denise told him to go home.</i> 43 00:02:39,284 --> 00:02:41,160 <i>He said, "Denise, if you make me go home,</i> 44 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:44,830 <i>I'm gonna go home and kill myself."</i> 45 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:47,083 <i>I didn't have a clue what the hell was going on.</i> 46 00:02:47,084 --> 00:02:49,752 <i>So I said, "Brian, you need to listen to Denise.</i> 47 00:02:49,753 --> 00:02:51,337 <i>"Denise wants you out of here. You need to leave.</i> 48 00:02:51,338 --> 00:02:53,089 <i>"If Denise wants you to go,</i> 49 00:02:53,090 --> 00:02:55,132 <i>we will have the police out here."</i> 50 00:02:55,133 --> 00:02:56,884 <i>You just don't know how far he's going to go.</i> 51 00:02:56,885 --> 00:02:59,012 <i>He's got this personality.</i> 52 00:03:01,765 --> 00:03:03,099 <i>That's when he started threatening</i> 53 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:04,392 <i>to kill both of us.</i> 54 00:03:04,393 --> 00:03:06,102 <i>I mean, he said he had a gun in the truck,</i> 55 00:03:06,103 --> 00:03:08,229 <i>and he was going to go get it and basically</i> 56 00:03:08,230 --> 00:03:12,358 <i>kill me and Denise on the spot if Denise didn't talk to him.</i> 57 00:03:12,359 --> 00:03:15,069 To add to the list of bizarre behavior, 58 00:03:15,070 --> 00:03:17,863 he also threatened her with blackmail. 59 00:03:17,864 --> 00:03:20,783 <i>Brian was telling Denise that, you know,</i> 60 00:03:20,784 --> 00:03:23,619 <i>if you don't get back with me, I've got pictures of you</i> 61 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:26,330 <i>doing weird stuff that I'm going to, you know,</i> 62 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:28,749 <i>broadcast to everybody,</i> 63 00:03:28,750 --> 00:03:32,629 <i>send them to her mom and dad or whatever.</i> 64 00:03:34,172 --> 00:03:35,423 <i> This Atlanta incident</i> 65 00:03:35,424 --> 00:03:37,591 <i>could have easily happened in Tallahassee</i> 66 00:03:37,592 --> 00:03:40,345 <i>with more dire consequences.</i> 67 00:03:42,347 --> 00:03:44,807 <i>I really thought that she was trying to make</i> 68 00:03:44,808 --> 00:03:48,144 <i>that last, best effort to get away from him</i> 69 00:03:48,145 --> 00:03:51,856 <i>and that she just couldn't do it,</i> 70 00:03:51,857 --> 00:03:55,693 <i>because basically, Brian controlled her life.</i> 71 00:03:55,694 --> 00:03:58,529 Happy birthday. 72 00:03:58,530 --> 00:04:00,948 <i> I mean, she was really afraid,</i> 73 00:04:00,949 --> 00:04:03,909 <i>uptight, because her and Brian have done something together.</i> 74 00:04:06,329 --> 00:04:08,873 <i>I don't know what it is.</i> 75 00:04:08,874 --> 00:04:11,750 <i>I mean, they are locked in with each other.</i> 76 00:04:14,671 --> 00:04:19,884 I was furious when I got this letter. 77 00:04:19,885 --> 00:04:22,595 I mean, obviously, it's... 78 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:27,767 Confirmation of everything I had suspected. 79 00:04:27,768 --> 00:04:29,727 <i>They're both horrible people.</i> 80 00:04:29,728 --> 00:04:33,606 <i>They deserve each other.</i> 81 00:04:33,607 --> 00:04:36,901 <i>Brian told Denise</i> 82 00:04:36,902 --> 00:04:40,738 <i>to end it with Chuck.</i> 83 00:04:40,739 --> 00:04:45,326 <i>I knew Brian was dating Denise</i> 84 00:04:45,327 --> 00:04:48,829 <i>in secret.</i> 85 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:52,666 It was never something he wanted to openly 86 00:04:52,667 --> 00:04:56,045 admit to because it would look so bad. 87 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:01,258 <i>At this point, I'm ready to be divorced.</i> 88 00:05:05,597 --> 00:05:09,809 <i>In those last couple of weeks before our court date,</i> 89 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:12,436 <i>he starts saying,</i> 90 00:05:12,437 --> 00:05:15,564 this is what the Bible says about divorced women. 91 00:05:19,528 --> 00:05:23,072 <i>Using manipulation of the scriptures</i> 92 00:05:23,073 --> 00:05:28,619 <i>to try to stop me from going through with it.</i> 93 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:32,206 <i>It was never, let's repair our relationship.</i> 94 00:05:32,207 --> 00:05:36,210 It was never about, let me make this right to you. 95 00:05:36,211 --> 00:05:38,963 Please forgive me. I've done you wrong. 96 00:05:38,964 --> 00:05:41,423 <i>It was never that.</i> 97 00:05:44,302 --> 00:05:48,931 <i>The day that we were in court to get the divorce,</i> 98 00:05:48,932 --> 00:05:51,851 Brian sat behind me, 99 00:05:51,852 --> 00:05:54,812 crying, openly crying, 100 00:05:54,813 --> 00:05:59,942 as if this was breaking his heart. 101 00:05:59,943 --> 00:06:03,737 It was just that last-minute push 102 00:06:03,738 --> 00:06:07,575 of manipulation to try to get me 103 00:06:07,576 --> 00:06:11,829 to walk out of there and not go through with it. 104 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:16,001 <i>But the divorce was final that day.</i> 105 00:06:17,460 --> 00:06:21,171 And I feel good about it. 106 00:06:21,172 --> 00:06:22,382 Yeah. 107 00:06:26,553 --> 00:06:28,220 <i> It's been almost three years</i> 108 00:06:28,221 --> 00:06:30,347 <i>since Mike disappeared.</i> 109 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:38,230 <i>No one can understand how a mother feels</i> 110 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:42,359 <i>when her heart is broken.</i> 111 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,488 <i>My son is never out of my mind.</i> 112 00:06:46,489 --> 00:06:49,408 <i>After Kathy left Brian and moved out,</i> 113 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:52,745 <i>Denise spent a lot of time with Brian.</i> 114 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:54,997 <i>She had herself declared a widow</i> 115 00:06:54,998 --> 00:06:57,625 <i>when she had Mike declared dead</i> 116 00:06:57,626 --> 00:07:02,713 <i>six months after he disappeared.</i> 117 00:07:02,714 --> 00:07:04,757 Brian and Kathy got divorced, 118 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:08,344 and I remember Denise telling me 119 00:07:08,345 --> 00:07:12,640 about she and Brian. 120 00:07:12,641 --> 00:07:14,850 <i>It made sense.</i> 121 00:07:14,851 --> 00:07:19,188 Denise lost Mike and loved Mike. 122 00:07:19,189 --> 00:07:21,357 <i>Brian was his best friend.</i> 123 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:23,901 <i>Brian's now divorced.</i> 124 00:07:23,902 --> 00:07:25,819 That would be a natural fit 125 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:28,989 that really would kind of heal her heart. 126 00:07:37,916 --> 00:07:41,251 <i> Brian loved Kathy.</i> 127 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:44,838 <i>Kathy's the one that left.</i> 128 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:50,428 So Brian and Denise had the green light to start dating. 129 00:07:52,389 --> 00:07:54,306 <i>He loved her.</i> 130 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:57,434 <i>He smiled around her a lot more.</i> 131 00:07:59,396 --> 00:08:05,192 I know that Brian wanted to ask her to marry him. 132 00:08:05,193 --> 00:08:10,322 <i>But Brian told me Denise wanted to marry a godly man.</i> 133 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:13,409 <i>Like, that was her big goal.</i> 134 00:08:13,410 --> 00:08:17,871 Go forth knowing you are God's ambassadors! 135 00:08:17,872 --> 00:08:19,081 <i> Growing up,</i> 136 00:08:19,082 --> 00:08:20,999 <i>we were always in the church.</i> 137 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,169 <i>It was very strict.</i> 138 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:25,671 Our games were Christian themed. 139 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:27,214 It was Christian Monopoly. 140 00:08:27,215 --> 00:08:29,550 It was Christian Life. 141 00:08:29,551 --> 00:08:31,051 <i>When we weren't at church,</i> 142 00:08:31,052 --> 00:08:34,805 <i>we were listening to sermons on tape at home.</i> 143 00:08:34,806 --> 00:08:37,933 <i>But around the time Brian was a senior in high school,</i> 144 00:08:37,934 --> 00:08:39,643 he didn't want to go to church anymore. 145 00:08:39,644 --> 00:08:43,564 And he put his dresser in front of the door, 146 00:08:43,565 --> 00:08:45,190 because my parents were banging on the door, 147 00:08:45,191 --> 00:08:46,525 trying to get him to come out to go to church. 148 00:08:46,526 --> 00:08:48,777 And he's like, I'm not going. 149 00:08:51,156 --> 00:08:53,240 <i>He would go on Christmas, and Easter, and Mother's Day,</i> 150 00:08:53,241 --> 00:08:55,284 <i>and maybe Father's Day, and that sort of thing.</i> 151 00:08:55,285 --> 00:08:57,494 <i>But he was like, I'm not in it.</i> 152 00:08:57,495 --> 00:09:01,749 In the name of Jesus, our Messiah, amen. 153 00:09:01,750 --> 00:09:02,958 <i> Denise's parents</i> 154 00:09:02,959 --> 00:09:04,835 <i>did not like that about my brother.</i> 155 00:09:04,836 --> 00:09:07,254 Brian was not godly enough for her. 156 00:09:07,255 --> 00:09:13,260 And so he did go through a big religious experience. 157 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,143 <i>Brian got in the pool.</i> 158 00:09:21,144 --> 00:09:23,687 <i>And they ask you to tell your story</i> 159 00:09:23,688 --> 00:09:26,982 <i>as to why you became a Christian.</i> 160 00:09:26,983 --> 00:09:29,651 He said, I ran my life to the ground. 161 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:32,488 <i>And I got into the bottom of the pit.</i> 162 00:09:32,489 --> 00:09:36,075 And I had nowhere to look but up. 163 00:09:36,076 --> 00:09:38,077 <i>And he said, and I cried out to God.</i> 164 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:42,247 And, you know, God forgave me of all of my sins, and... 165 00:09:44,167 --> 00:09:47,544 <i>I'm here to be baptized as a public display.</i> 166 00:09:53,218 --> 00:09:54,551 <i>And, like, I cried.</i> 167 00:09:54,552 --> 00:09:57,012 <i>I was super excited that Brian was</i> 168 00:09:57,013 --> 00:09:59,473 <i>gonna be back in the church.</i> 169 00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:08,607 <i>And that also really made Denise very happy,</i> 170 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:11,860 <i>that Brian was baptized again.</i> 171 00:10:37,345 --> 00:10:40,347 We got an invitation and we're like, wow, 172 00:10:40,348 --> 00:10:42,516 I can't believe we were invited to the wedding. 173 00:10:54,195 --> 00:10:58,533 The pastor gets up and starts the service. 174 00:11:00,577 --> 00:11:02,870 <i>And the first thing he says is,</i> 175 00:11:02,871 --> 00:11:04,955 <i>I want you all to know</i> 176 00:11:04,956 --> 00:11:07,040 <i>that I have counseled this couple.</i> 177 00:11:07,041 --> 00:11:09,293 <i>And I have been with them.</i> 178 00:11:09,294 --> 00:11:13,006 And there is literally nothing about them that I do not know. 179 00:11:14,924 --> 00:11:16,592 How many weddings do you go to where 180 00:11:16,593 --> 00:11:19,428 the minister says there's no secrets I don't know? 181 00:11:22,390 --> 00:11:26,268 <i> It was very fairy tale.</i> 182 00:11:29,606 --> 00:11:33,442 She wanted a chocolate fountain at her wedding. 183 00:11:33,443 --> 00:11:35,819 My kids were just shoving in marshmallows, 184 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:37,654 <i>and strawberries, and, you know, brownies.</i> 185 00:11:37,655 --> 00:11:40,490 <i>And chocolate got everywhere.</i> 186 00:11:40,491 --> 00:11:42,868 <i>I'd gotten to know Brian a lot better.</i> 187 00:11:42,869 --> 00:11:46,788 I thought he'd be a-- you know, great, great stepdad to Anslee, 188 00:11:46,789 --> 00:11:48,624 <i>take care of, you know,</i> 189 00:11:48,625 --> 00:11:52,669 <i>my best friend's daughter and his widow.</i> 190 00:11:52,670 --> 00:11:54,129 <i> They were incredibly</i> 191 00:11:54,130 --> 00:11:56,298 <i>happy to be together.</i> 192 00:12:02,096 --> 00:12:07,476 <i>Brian moved into the house that Mike had bought.</i> 193 00:12:10,104 --> 00:12:13,149 <i>It was weird.</i> 194 00:12:15,318 --> 00:12:19,613 Just, why would you move into a space 195 00:12:19,614 --> 00:12:22,616 that had had this-- 196 00:12:22,617 --> 00:12:25,160 you know, your closest friend. 197 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:27,412 <i>You loved him like a brother.</i> 198 00:12:27,413 --> 00:12:31,124 <i>But yet, you were able to marry his wife,</i> 199 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:35,337 <i>move into this home.</i> 200 00:12:35,338 --> 00:12:39,257 I was talking with Denise's sister at the time. 201 00:12:39,258 --> 00:12:43,345 And she told me the bedroom set 202 00:12:43,346 --> 00:12:47,975 was the same set that had been Mike's bedroom set. 203 00:12:55,024 --> 00:12:57,819 It's so creepy. 204 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:01,655 Hi, my name is Stafford. 205 00:13:01,656 --> 00:13:03,156 I love to talk to God. 206 00:13:03,157 --> 00:13:05,617 I pray three times a day. 207 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:07,869 <i>I was still kind of getting my bearings,</i> 208 00:13:07,870 --> 00:13:11,957 <i>being a single mom.</i> 209 00:13:11,958 --> 00:13:18,130 <i>I reconnected with an old friend, Rocky.</i> 210 00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:20,424 <i>We started spending time together.</i> 211 00:13:20,425 --> 00:13:22,384 It was very sweet. 212 00:13:22,385 --> 00:13:25,887 And it was very hopeful. 213 00:13:25,888 --> 00:13:28,473 <i>We did get married.</i> 214 00:13:28,474 --> 00:13:31,935 <i>He was so different that it made me realize</i> 215 00:13:31,936 --> 00:13:35,981 how toxic my relationship with Brian had been. 216 00:13:44,323 --> 00:13:48,952 I had spent a lot of time talking to Rocky about 217 00:13:48,953 --> 00:13:50,787 just the whole situation. 218 00:13:50,788 --> 00:13:54,666 Just, I would just pore over these things that had happened. 219 00:13:57,128 --> 00:13:59,546 <i>Everything that I had seen</i> 220 00:13:59,547 --> 00:14:02,507 <i>right after Mike was gone,</i> 221 00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:03,675 <i>everything I'd observed,</i> 222 00:14:03,676 --> 00:14:07,137 <i>everything I had questions about.</i> 223 00:14:07,138 --> 00:14:09,389 <i>I had all these puzzle pieces.</i> 224 00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:12,976 <i>And I just couldn't seem to make anything fit.</i> 225 00:14:12,977 --> 00:14:19,232 <i>He's just like, this is not adding up.</i> 226 00:14:19,233 --> 00:14:20,692 He had suggested, 227 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:24,362 <i>why don't we visit Mike's mother, Cheryl?</i> 228 00:14:24,363 --> 00:14:27,532 My first reaction was, 229 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:30,577 we can't go talk to Cheryl about this. 230 00:14:30,578 --> 00:14:33,205 <i>Cheryl's crazy.</i> 231 00:14:33,206 --> 00:14:35,999 <i>After Mike's dad had passed away,</i> 232 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,418 <i>Cheryl wasn't doing well.</i> 233 00:14:38,419 --> 00:14:42,214 And so, when Mike went missing, 234 00:14:42,215 --> 00:14:47,511 that sorrow just doubled. 235 00:14:53,184 --> 00:14:55,560 <i>I would see her on the street corner close to my office</i> 236 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:59,022 <i>on a regular basis, holding a sign of Mike,</i> 237 00:14:59,023 --> 00:15:01,399 asking if anybody had seen him. 238 00:15:05,571 --> 00:15:08,782 Mike's mom started coming to the church 239 00:15:08,783 --> 00:15:10,992 and standing in the front with a sign. 240 00:15:15,289 --> 00:15:20,961 It seemed really pointed to be at our church. 241 00:15:20,962 --> 00:15:22,796 <i>Why are you out here?</i> 242 00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:30,011 <i>There was missing posters on every telephone pole</i> 243 00:15:30,012 --> 00:15:33,932 from Brian's house with Denise to the office, 244 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,934 <i>so that as he drove to the office,</i> 245 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:38,395 <i>he saw every single one.</i> 246 00:15:41,858 --> 00:15:45,569 <i>My mom was very frustrated, driving around.</i> 247 00:15:45,570 --> 00:15:48,155 She would pull over when she saw a sign. 248 00:15:48,156 --> 00:15:50,031 And she would, you know, driving, 249 00:15:50,032 --> 00:15:53,451 <i>make me get out and pull the sign down.</i> 250 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:55,996 <i>Mike disappeared. Mike is dead.</i> 251 00:15:55,997 --> 00:16:00,376 <i>And we're trying to move on. You should too.</i> 252 00:16:03,963 --> 00:16:05,839 <i> Rocky said to me,</i> 253 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,425 what makes you say Cheryl's crazy? 254 00:16:08,426 --> 00:16:12,053 And I thought about it for a minute. 255 00:16:12,054 --> 00:16:16,766 I said, that's just what Denise and Brian tell me. 256 00:16:16,767 --> 00:16:20,228 And he said, we're going to see Cheryl. 257 00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:24,942 <i>He just drove me over there.</i> 258 00:16:27,403 --> 00:16:30,071 <i>We saw each other and we hugged, and she said,</i> 259 00:16:30,072 --> 00:16:33,241 <i>I've been praying that you would come see me.</i> 260 00:16:33,242 --> 00:16:36,536 <i>What I didn't know that Cheryl had been doing for those years</i> 261 00:16:36,537 --> 00:16:39,206 was she had been trying very hard 262 00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:41,333 to get an investigation ramped up, 263 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,084 get anybody just to look into 264 00:16:43,085 --> 00:16:45,170 what could have possibly happened. 265 00:16:45,171 --> 00:16:46,922 <i>I have been writing letters to the editor--</i> 266 00:16:46,923 --> 00:16:49,007 <i>None of the law enforcement officers my brother</i> 267 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:50,217 <i>has talked to think--</i> 268 00:16:50,218 --> 00:16:52,052 <i>They have printed none of them.</i> 269 00:16:52,053 --> 00:16:54,012 <i>I have decided to write to an insurance fraud investigator.</i> 270 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:58,892 <i>Why isn't law enforcement looking into this case?</i> 271 00:16:58,893 --> 00:17:02,187 <i>And she told me how she didn't know</i> 272 00:17:02,188 --> 00:17:05,607 for nearly a year and a half or two years 273 00:17:05,608 --> 00:17:09,778 <i>that I had even moved out and separated from Brian.</i> 274 00:17:09,779 --> 00:17:12,197 She had been seeing Denise during this time, 275 00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:15,116 and Denise had never told her. 276 00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:17,452 <i>We stayed there for maybe three hours,</i> 277 00:17:17,453 --> 00:17:19,371 just poring over just everything 278 00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:21,332 we could remember to each other. 279 00:17:25,503 --> 00:17:28,421 <i>The very next morning, I got a phone call</i> 280 00:17:28,422 --> 00:17:30,507 <i>from Derrick Wester</i> 281 00:17:30,508 --> 00:17:32,717 <i>from the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.</i> 282 00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:36,263 And he said, Miss Cheryl has given me 283 00:17:36,264 --> 00:17:37,847 your name and phone number. 284 00:17:37,848 --> 00:17:39,724 And I would like to talk to you. 285 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:41,643 Yeah, there was a lot of speculation at the time 286 00:17:41,644 --> 00:17:46,606 that he had run off, that he got eaten by an alligator. 287 00:17:46,607 --> 00:17:48,316 <i>So she comes over.</i> 288 00:17:48,317 --> 00:17:51,861 <i>And she gives us her version of what happened</i> 289 00:17:51,862 --> 00:17:54,823 <i>on the day of Mike's disappearance.</i> 290 00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:57,993 I told Derrick that when I woke up that morning, 291 00:17:57,994 --> 00:18:00,078 Brian was gone. 292 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,455 <i>As far as I knew, he was hunting,</i> 293 00:18:02,456 --> 00:18:04,499 <i>because it's duck season.</i> 294 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:05,917 <i>I didn't know where he was hunting.</i> 295 00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:08,837 <i>I didn't know who he was going with.</i> 296 00:18:08,838 --> 00:18:11,464 <i>Brian wasn't home by 2:00.</i> 297 00:18:11,465 --> 00:18:13,049 <i>So I just packed Stafford up.</i> 298 00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:16,469 <i>And we just went up to my granny's by ourselves.</i> 299 00:18:16,470 --> 00:18:21,308 <i>Brian got to my granny's between 4:00 and 5:00.</i> 300 00:18:21,309 --> 00:18:24,561 <i>Shortly into all that,</i> 301 00:18:24,562 --> 00:18:28,732 <i>Brian was asleep on the couch.</i> 302 00:18:28,733 --> 00:18:31,026 We contacted Brian. 303 00:18:31,027 --> 00:18:33,153 We wasn't necessarily interrogating him. 304 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:35,155 We were just talking to him. 305 00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:39,284 <i>He explained that he woke up</i> 306 00:18:39,285 --> 00:18:41,703 <i>at 10:00 in the morning,</i> 307 00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,331 <i>went out in the yard, played with his dogs.</i> 308 00:18:44,332 --> 00:18:47,208 <i>And then him and Kathy and their child</i> 309 00:18:47,209 --> 00:18:50,086 <i>got in his truck and drove to Kathy's family's</i> 310 00:18:50,087 --> 00:18:53,173 <i>Christmas gathering in Cairo, Georgia.</i> 311 00:18:53,174 --> 00:18:58,219 That's what he told us, which was very enlightening 312 00:18:58,220 --> 00:19:00,847 and made me raise questions, 313 00:19:00,848 --> 00:19:04,309 because Brian and Kathy gave us both 314 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:07,980 different versions of where they were at. 315 00:19:12,652 --> 00:19:15,403 So we asked him, you know, 316 00:19:15,404 --> 00:19:17,864 just to clear things up, would you agree to a polygraph? 317 00:19:17,865 --> 00:19:19,741 He said, absolutely. 318 00:19:19,742 --> 00:19:23,953 Maybe the next day, maybe the day after, I get a call. 319 00:19:23,954 --> 00:19:29,209 <i>And he said, sir, I'm representing Brian Winchester.</i> 320 00:19:29,210 --> 00:19:30,585 <i>He's not gonna participate.</i> 321 00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:32,504 And he's not gonna take no polygraph. 322 00:19:32,505 --> 00:19:35,048 He gave you a statement. 323 00:19:35,049 --> 00:19:36,424 <i>They miss him. They love him.</i> 324 00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:39,512 <i>And please respect our privacy.</i> 325 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:52,774 <i> I'm a big believer in,</i> 326 00:19:52,775 --> 00:19:55,276 <i>you know, read your own newspaper.</i> 327 00:20:00,074 --> 00:20:02,701 <i>I had just joined the "Tallahassee Democrat."</i> 328 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:05,370 <i>And I was reading the paper.</i> 329 00:20:05,371 --> 00:20:08,206 <i>And there was this ad that popped out.</i> 330 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:10,834 <i>And it said, please help me find my missing son.</i> 331 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:13,711 <i>And I was like, what is this? I'd never heard of this.</i> 332 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:16,589 This is the actual ad that was in the paper 333 00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:18,258 that day that I saw, that I cut out. 334 00:20:18,259 --> 00:20:19,509 And this is from Cheryl. 335 00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:21,845 And she says, my name is Cheryl Ann Williams. 336 00:20:21,846 --> 00:20:24,764 <i>And I haven't seen my son, Mike, in over five years.</i> 337 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:26,808 <i>Will you please take a moment to read this</i> 338 00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:29,144 <i>and help me find him?</i> 339 00:20:29,145 --> 00:20:31,146 It was like, yes, I will take a moment 340 00:20:31,147 --> 00:20:33,106 and please help you find him. 341 00:20:33,107 --> 00:20:36,943 And then she goes and lays out the circumstances of the case, 342 00:20:36,944 --> 00:20:39,821 <i>that on the morning on December 16, 2000,</i> 343 00:20:39,822 --> 00:20:42,323 <i>my son, Jerry Michael "Mike" Williams,</i> 344 00:20:42,324 --> 00:20:43,867 <i>supposedly went duck hunting</i> 345 00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:45,869 <i>at Lake Seminole in Sneads, Florida.</i> 346 00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:48,079 <i>He never returned.</i> 347 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,873 <i>The authorities assumed he drowned,</i> 348 00:20:49,874 --> 00:20:51,958 <i>and alligators ate his body.</i> 349 00:20:51,959 --> 00:20:55,462 <i>80 people have drowned in Lake Seminole since the late 1800s.</i> 350 00:20:55,463 --> 00:20:59,299 <i>Mike's body is the only one that has never been found.</i> 351 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:01,342 <i>Please help us solve the mystery</i> 352 00:21:01,343 --> 00:21:05,180 <i>of Mike's disappearance and bring closure to my family.</i> 353 00:21:05,181 --> 00:21:10,351 So that was my starting point on this story. 354 00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:20,945 As I am learning about this case, 355 00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:22,405 <i>Derrick Wester,</i> 356 00:21:22,406 --> 00:21:25,408 he is one of my primary sources who I connect with early on. 357 00:21:25,409 --> 00:21:29,245 As I start discovering more and more things, 358 00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,498 <i>it was just-- it was blowing my mind.</i> 359 00:21:31,499 --> 00:21:34,083 <i>Like, wow, this life insurance.</i> 360 00:21:34,084 --> 00:21:35,919 It just got more interesting 361 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,588 and more like, this is not right. 362 00:21:38,589 --> 00:21:42,300 <i>And I finally got someone to say on the record</i> 363 00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:43,968 <i>that they were looking at Mike's death</i> 364 00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:46,554 <i>as a suspicious missing person.</i> 365 00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:49,307 And I knew that I had really a hell of a story. 366 00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:04,364 Just gave this cold case a little bit of simmer under it. 367 00:22:04,365 --> 00:22:07,075 <i>I think that for lots of people who knew Mike,</i> 368 00:22:07,076 --> 00:22:08,993 <i>and in those communities,</i> 369 00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:11,037 it put a lot of people's suspicions 370 00:22:11,038 --> 00:22:13,623 and maybe wonderings, and hmm-- 371 00:22:13,624 --> 00:22:15,500 it kind of said, 372 00:22:15,501 --> 00:22:18,169 <i>yeah, no one's crazy if they think that</i> 373 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:20,547 <i>Mike wasn't eaten by alligators.</i> 374 00:22:20,548 --> 00:22:23,091 <i>This is a mystery.</i> 375 00:22:23,092 --> 00:22:25,803 <i>What did happen to Mike Williams?</i> 376 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:38,731 <i> I was following this case</i> 377 00:22:38,732 --> 00:22:39,941 <i>very closely.</i> 378 00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:42,360 And I start hearing about 379 00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:44,737 <i>these sort of like men in black agents around,</i> 380 00:22:44,738 --> 00:22:46,155 <i>digging into this.</i> 381 00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:47,615 And they're going to get something. 382 00:22:47,616 --> 00:22:49,742 There's going to be something tangible that we can, like, 383 00:22:49,743 --> 00:22:51,411 charge someone with something, 384 00:22:51,412 --> 00:22:53,539 or we will have some real evidence. 385 00:22:57,668 --> 00:23:00,670 <i>My first knowledge of the Mike Williams case</i> 386 00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:05,383 <i>was when my wife and I were looking for a daycare.</i> 387 00:23:05,384 --> 00:23:08,011 My wife got word about Miss Cheryl. 388 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:09,012 So we went and saw her. 389 00:23:09,013 --> 00:23:10,555 It was like the perfect setting. 390 00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:12,056 <i>She was like a grandma.</i> 391 00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,809 <i>She was old school.</i> 392 00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,478 That's when Miss Cheryl was like, you know, what do you do? 393 00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:21,441 And I said, well, I'm an ATF agent. 394 00:23:21,442 --> 00:23:24,193 <i>Then she just let it rip.</i> 395 00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:26,863 <i>She told me the details about Mike,</i> 396 00:23:26,864 --> 00:23:29,157 <i>about the case.</i> 397 00:23:29,158 --> 00:23:30,575 I mean, it's just-- just jacked up. 398 00:23:30,576 --> 00:23:32,577 And there's good jacked up, and there's bad jacked up, 399 00:23:32,578 --> 00:23:33,870 and that's bad jacked up. 400 00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:35,997 And I was like, well, it's a no-brainer. 401 00:23:35,998 --> 00:23:37,498 I was like, your son's not missing. 402 00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:39,626 I mean, hell, somebody killed him. 403 00:23:41,837 --> 00:23:45,798 <i>But in ATF's world, it has to be firearm related.</i> 404 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:47,258 I mean, I just basically told her 405 00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:51,471 I couldn't get involved because I had no skin in the game. 406 00:23:51,472 --> 00:23:55,058 <i>Miss Cheryl told me about a handgun--</i> 407 00:23:55,059 --> 00:23:56,809 <i>it belonged to her husband--</i> 408 00:23:56,810 --> 00:24:00,396 <i>that had not been returned by Denise and Brian.</i> 409 00:24:00,397 --> 00:24:02,231 So it was a crapshoot from the get-go. 410 00:24:02,232 --> 00:24:04,525 But I was willing to run with that 411 00:24:04,526 --> 00:24:06,778 because it was an unaccounted handgun. 412 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:13,534 <i> I had these two gentlemen</i> 413 00:24:13,535 --> 00:24:16,704 <i>come in to the coffee shop.</i> 414 00:24:16,705 --> 00:24:20,667 And they were dressed in suits and ties. 415 00:24:20,668 --> 00:24:22,752 <i>This is very serious.</i> 416 00:24:22,753 --> 00:24:26,047 <i>It's not a, "How do you do? Nice to meet you."</i> 417 00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:28,716 <i>It's not a friendly welcome.</i> 418 00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:30,677 I mean, the thing you got to think about is 419 00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:32,845 that you're going in to talk to this woman 420 00:24:32,846 --> 00:24:36,849 <i>that used to be married to one of your prime suspects.</i> 421 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:39,686 <i>And that's the father of her child.</i> 422 00:24:39,687 --> 00:24:41,312 Go on. Yeah. 423 00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:44,565 So you know, my experience typically would be, 424 00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:47,694 you know, I'm gonna be met with some pretty high resistance. 425 00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:52,198 He says to me, you are going to have to decide right now 426 00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:53,950 whose side you're gonna be on. 427 00:24:53,951 --> 00:24:55,743 <i>This train is leaving the station,</i> 428 00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:58,621 <i>and either you're gonna be on it or you're not.</i> 429 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:01,332 And I was like, OK, OK. 430 00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:03,751 I understand that. 431 00:25:03,752 --> 00:25:05,878 And I'm willing to help you. 432 00:25:05,879 --> 00:25:10,091 <i>He asked me if I knew if Mike had a handgun.</i> 433 00:25:10,092 --> 00:25:13,011 I said to him, yes, he did have a handgun. 434 00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:14,971 He kept it in his nightstand. 435 00:25:14,972 --> 00:25:17,682 <i> I was taken back by, you know,</i> 436 00:25:17,683 --> 00:25:19,475 her eagerness to help. 437 00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:21,185 I believe that Brian and Denise 438 00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:23,896 have done something to Mike. 439 00:25:23,897 --> 00:25:26,774 <i>And I'm watching them just live this life,</i> 440 00:25:26,775 --> 00:25:29,569 <i>happy, carefree--</i> 441 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:36,242 <i>going through life, raising these children.</i> 442 00:25:36,243 --> 00:25:37,785 They've got the golden goose, right? 443 00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:40,037 They've got the life insurance money. 444 00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:43,875 <i>And they've got the children.</i> 445 00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:51,632 <i>Josey being on the case, it was just the first time</i> 446 00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:54,218 that I felt like I could see the light 447 00:25:54,219 --> 00:25:56,763 at the end of the tunnel. 448 00:25:56,764 --> 00:25:58,931 <i> Once we got Kathy on board,</i> 449 00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:01,350 <i>you know, she's checking in with me every day at noon.</i> 450 00:26:01,351 --> 00:26:05,313 <i>Just-- that's the way I know where she's at.</i> 451 00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:07,899 <i> Now, Josey kind of has</i> 452 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:12,487 <i>a contact point to kind of get to Brian.</i> 453 00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:14,489 <i>The goal at that point was</i> 454 00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:17,241 <i>to kind of try to rattle him and see where he would go.</i> 455 00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:23,748 For the first time, I was pretty excited. 456 00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:26,834 <i>Josey seemed very determined</i> 457 00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:30,797 <i>to take this somewhere.</i> 458 00:26:30,798 --> 00:26:33,424 <i>We literally just went house to house</i> 459 00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:35,426 <i>in Brian and Denise's neighborhood.</i> 460 00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:38,721 And really, we were like, shooting the biggest flare 461 00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:41,390 up in the sky that we could that, hey, you know what? 462 00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:43,143 We're here. 463 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:48,022 <i>And the goal was to let Brian know,</i> 464 00:26:48,023 --> 00:26:52,443 <i>this might have been sleeping, but it ain't sleeping no more.</i> 465 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:54,070 And hell, I'll take you over here and you know, 466 00:26:54,071 --> 00:26:55,780 show you a freaking fire ant hill. 467 00:26:55,781 --> 00:26:57,240 You step on a damn fire ant hill, 468 00:26:57,241 --> 00:26:58,699 all the damn fire ants come out. 469 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,201 <i>You know what I'm saying?</i> 470 00:27:00,202 --> 00:27:02,203 <i>We wanted all the ants to come out.</i> 471 00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:09,168 <i> Josey was everywhere.</i> 472 00:27:09,169 --> 00:27:14,507 <i>Brian said that Josey would be sitting outside of their house</i> 473 00:27:14,508 --> 00:27:17,927 <i>all the time.</i> 474 00:27:17,928 --> 00:27:22,139 <i>Brian was, for the first time,</i> 475 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:27,228 <i>really pretty terrified of this guy.</i> 476 00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:30,356 Josey had riled 477 00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:33,568 <i>Brian up so much,</i> 478 00:27:33,569 --> 00:27:35,987 <i>Brian was coming to me more.</i> 479 00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:37,613 He wasn't trusting me, 480 00:27:37,614 --> 00:27:40,992 but I feel like I was the only person 481 00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:45,621 who could get anything back to him about what Josey wanted. 482 00:27:45,622 --> 00:27:48,958 <i>Brian would come to my work, telling me,</i> 483 00:27:48,959 --> 00:27:50,293 <i>you know, he's following me.</i> 484 00:27:50,294 --> 00:27:53,422 <i>What are you talking to him about?</i> 485 00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:57,383 <i>At the same time, Jennifer Portman</i> 486 00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,137 <i>is just hammering the news.</i> 487 00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:06,560 <i>And then we're keeping that anthill going.</i> 488 00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:12,023 Brian was very nervous 489 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:14,525 because Josey was a federal agent. 490 00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:17,486 And this was the first opportunity 491 00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:21,032 for someone at that level to look at everything. 492 00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:23,284 I kind of felt like this guy might do it. 493 00:28:23,285 --> 00:28:25,703 Like, he might be the one 494 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:30,708 that can really break Brian. 495 00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:33,002 <i>As we continue to increase the pressure,</i> 496 00:28:33,003 --> 00:28:35,338 <i>Kathy receives a phone call.</i> 497 00:28:35,339 --> 00:28:38,466 And it was Brian calling from a number she didn't know. 498 00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,301 She called me in a panic. 499 00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:43,596 She's like, Brian wants to meet with me. 500 00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:46,557 <i>So we knew at that point,</i> 501 00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:49,852 <i>the pressure that we were applying was actually working.</i> 502 00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:53,147 <i>He was literally at the breaking point.</i> 503 00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:56,192 <i>I mean, the anthill was stirred up.</i> 504 00:28:59,863 --> 00:29:04,158 The idea came up for me to have a meeting with Brian. 505 00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,410 And would I wear a wire? 506 00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:10,998 <i>I was terrified at the thought of that.</i> 507 00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:14,710 <i>It was very intimidating.</i> 508 00:29:14,711 --> 00:29:18,589 <i>It doesn't feel safe.</i> 509 00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,424 But at the same time, I'm like, we're so close. 510 00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,134 How can I not do this? 511 00:29:22,135 --> 00:29:25,721 What if this is the only chance I have? 512 00:29:25,722 --> 00:29:28,724 And what if Brian is close to cracking? 513 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,777 <i>Today's date, Friday, December 14, 2007.</i> 514 00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:42,113 <i>This will be a recorded conversation between</i> 515 00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,281 <i>Kathy Thomas and Brian Winchester.</i> 516 00:29:44,282 --> 00:29:47,410 <i>Kathy was going to meet with Brian.</i> 517 00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:49,996 <i>It would have to be in a secure location,</i> 518 00:29:49,997 --> 00:29:53,749 <i>a location that is public, daylight hours,</i> 519 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:56,961 <i>easily accessible by us--</i> 520 00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:59,046 you know, all the things that would lead 521 00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:01,049 to the safety of Kathy. 522 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,391 <i>I remember them wiring her up.</i> 523 00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:11,726 Do you have sight of her? 524 00:30:11,727 --> 00:30:13,811 No, I mean, you know, 525 00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:16,522 <i>we could hear her on the wire because I was her--</i> 526 00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:18,400 <i>like, her main point of contact.</i> 527 00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:25,364 <i> I'm terrified.</i> 528 00:30:25,365 --> 00:30:28,493 <i>My palms are sweaty. My heart is racing.</i> 529 00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:37,043 <i> I am terrified I'm going to</i> 530 00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:39,670 mess this up, you know? 531 00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:42,089 Because I don't know what I'm doing. 532 00:30:42,090 --> 00:30:43,799 She's a soccer mom. 533 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,303 We don't need to be wiring up soccer moms. 534 00:30:47,304 --> 00:30:49,848 That's not what law enforcement needs to be doing. 535 00:30:57,689 --> 00:31:00,983 But Kathy Thomas was willing to do it 536 00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:02,903 because she wanted answers. 537 00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:13,079 The key here is, is that Brian 538 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,247 never really knew what Kathy remembered. 539 00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:18,375 Kathy was never vocal with Brian 540 00:31:18,376 --> 00:31:22,296 about the morning that Mike disappeared. 541 00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,551 <i>Our goal as law enforcement</i> 542 00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:29,929 <i>was to have this meeting where Brian</i> 543 00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:33,849 would start quizzing her about what she remembers. 544 00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:37,520 Kathy was going to be very vague. 545 00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:41,232 And the goal was for Brian to implicate himself, 546 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:44,151 you know, to say, OK, well, you need to say, 547 00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:46,779 I was here till 6:00 or whatever. 548 00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:48,364 That's what we needed. 549 00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:38,206 <i> Ugh.</i> 550 00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:11,823 <i> 551 00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:32,259 OK, if we gotta go to the courthouse, 552 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:34,303 we're gonna call court security. 553 00:33:34,304 --> 00:33:35,512 And we're gonna tell them, 554 00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:37,097 let her go through with the wire on. 555 00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:39,099 That was my immediate thought. 556 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:40,601 We can make this happen. 557 00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:43,729 Leon County Sheriff's Office does the courthouse. 558 00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:45,273 Let them through. 559 00:35:45,018 --> 00:35:46,436 <i> No.</i> 560 00:36:43,326 --> 00:36:47,454 <i> He starts in on our son.</i> 561 00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:52,167 Just that manipulative way of using him, 562 00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:54,211 <i>saying, if I go to prison,</i> 563 00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:56,713 <i>it's going to ruin Stafford's life.</i> 564 00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:21,071 <i>As we continued the pressure with the case,</i> 565 00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:24,908 <i>I remember getting a phone call from Denise's attorney.</i> 566 00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:27,703 <i>And he was like, hey, you know,</i> 567 00:37:27,704 --> 00:37:29,997 <i>we'll turn that handgun over to you,</i> 568 00:37:29,998 --> 00:37:32,833 <i>so we'd freaking quit what we were doing.</i> 569 00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:34,501 <i>Without the handgun,</i> 570 00:37:34,502 --> 00:37:37,463 we didn't really have, you know, a dog in the fight. 571 00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:39,757 Skin in the game-- our nexus was gone. 572 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:43,761 Josey said, Kathy, I'm gonna be off the case. 573 00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:45,596 You know, it was disappointing. 574 00:37:45,597 --> 00:37:50,434 If Josey had been able to stay on him, who knows? 575 00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:53,312 I mean, it made no sense. Why did it fizzle? 576 00:37:53,313 --> 00:37:56,356 <i>The ant was out of the anthill, man, you know?</i> 577 00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,859 And it just-- it just, pfft, like that, you know? 578 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:00,611 <i>It just went away.</i> 579 00:38:03,364 --> 00:38:05,532 <i>I mean, we're not supposed to have any contact</i> 580 00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,618 <i>with reporters.</i> 581 00:38:07,619 --> 00:38:10,037 <i>You know, Jennifer Portman, God bless her, man.</i> 582 00:38:10,038 --> 00:38:13,582 I just told her to keep doing what she was doing. 583 00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:16,376 <i>There was a sadness and a frustration</i> 584 00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:19,671 on his part that he was not able to keep going. 585 00:38:19,672 --> 00:38:23,884 But he wanted me to make sure that I didn't give up 586 00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,470 and that I kept on it because, in all sincerity, 587 00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:29,056 <i>he really felt like it was really important</i> 588 00:38:29,057 --> 00:38:33,143 <i>that I kept reporting on this and kept asking questions.</i> 589 00:38:35,897 --> 00:38:39,817 <i>I did not have any faith left</i> 590 00:38:39,818 --> 00:38:43,196 <i>in law enforcement doing it.</i> 591 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:50,327 <i>We're in this pattern now of co-parenting.</i> 592 00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:53,080 <i>Brian and I are having to communicate a lot,</i> 593 00:38:53,081 --> 00:38:55,874 <i>getting Stafford back and forth to sports,</i> 594 00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:58,627 <i>and school, and that sort of thing.</i> 595 00:38:58,628 --> 00:39:01,046 <i>He was still very controlling.</i> 596 00:39:01,047 --> 00:39:04,800 <i>And so it was very difficult when he would try to control</i> 597 00:39:04,801 --> 00:39:08,595 our son's schedule in whatever way-- 598 00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:13,183 switching days, you're not getting him there on time. 599 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:14,726 <i>You need to pick him up early for this.</i> 600 00:39:14,727 --> 00:39:17,187 <i>You know, it was just constant, just--</i> 601 00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:19,690 <i>like, he was just always bombarding me</i> 602 00:39:19,691 --> 00:39:22,317 <i>with some sort of request.</i> 603 00:39:24,529 --> 00:39:27,030 <i>I was on pins and needles all the time,</i> 604 00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:30,075 <i>just constantly agitated--</i> 605 00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:31,660 <i>agitated because nothing's happening</i> 606 00:39:31,661 --> 00:39:33,871 <i>with the investigation.</i> 607 00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,583 <i>I didn't know what he had done.</i> 608 00:39:37,584 --> 00:39:39,209 <i>I didn't know what Denise had done.</i> 609 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,422 <i>I just knew that they were at peace.</i> 610 00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:48,885 No one else was at peace. But they were. 611 00:39:48,886 --> 00:39:54,308 And that meant they knew what happened to Mike. 612 00:39:54,309 --> 00:39:58,396 <i>If that means where he is, how he died...</i> 613 00:40:00,315 --> 00:40:03,984 They knew. They had peace with it. 614 00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:06,112 The rest of Tallahassee did not. 615 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:10,616 <i>I'm torn up about Mike.</i> 616 00:40:10,617 --> 00:40:12,826 I'm torn up that 617 00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:15,621 law enforcement can't figure it out. 618 00:40:15,622 --> 00:40:18,206 It's affecting my marriage. 619 00:40:18,207 --> 00:40:21,543 It's affecting my patience with my children. 620 00:40:21,544 --> 00:40:23,253 Like, this is tearing me up. 621 00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:26,548 <i>And he is over there, happy and settled,</i> 622 00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:28,634 <i>and he has no worries.</i> 623 00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:30,010 <i>He's good.</i> 624 00:40:30,011 --> 00:40:31,929 <i>He's good, and I'm torn up,</i> 625 00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:36,850 <i>and my life kind of feels like it's in this chaos.</i> 626 00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:38,310 I'm not the person I want to be, 627 00:40:38,311 --> 00:40:40,270 I'm not the wife I want to be, I'm not the mom I want to be, 628 00:40:40,271 --> 00:40:42,064 and it's because of him. 629 00:40:42,065 --> 00:40:45,609 <i>I'm just boiling.</i> 630 00:40:45,610 --> 00:40:49,738 I just sort of snapped. 631 00:40:49,739 --> 00:40:53,909 <i>I was going to go to his house and confront him.</i> 632 00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:57,120 <i>And I just kind of felt,</i> 633 00:40:57,121 --> 00:41:01,833 I'm the only one... 634 00:41:01,834 --> 00:41:03,543 Who can do this, I want to do this. 635 00:41:03,544 --> 00:41:05,212 I want him dead. 636 00:41:05,213 --> 00:41:07,297 And I said, I have to do it. 637 00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:08,924 I have to just go kill him. 638 00:41:08,925 --> 00:41:11,009 I cannot take this anymore. 639 00:41:20,812 --> 00:41:24,648 <i>And Rocky said to me, he said,</i> 640 00:41:24,649 --> 00:41:28,902 Kathy, if you do that, 641 00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:32,447 you will go to jail. 642 00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:37,619 And as I settled down and just started kind of 643 00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:39,788 talking through some of this, 644 00:41:39,789 --> 00:41:42,457 I would always go back to, 645 00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:45,335 <i>as long as they're together,</i> 646 00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,880 <i>nothing's going to happen.</i> 647 00:41:50,383 --> 00:41:53,343 This is where the good stuff starts. 647 00:41:54,305 --> 00:42:54,483 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm