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Police came to check on a 28-year-old nurse who hadn't shown up for work. Her husband opened the door holding their baby. By then, prosecutors say, she had been dead for three days and her body had been cut apart and thrown out with the trash. Calmly, he told the officer:

"She destroyed that phone, and then she left." She was going to New York or Texas, according to him. He wanted to know if he'd have to file a complaint. And there was something else: she had "mental issues." Two years later, on the witness stand, he finally said it out loud:

"I had a saw, I used the saw." Naresh Bhatt says he found his wife Mamta dead in their bedroom, panicked and cut her apart. In his version she took her own life. He denies killing her.

July 2024, Manassas Park, Virginia. Mamta Kafle Bhatt was a nurse from Nepal and a new mother. Prosecutors say she was killed at home on or about July 30. The next afternoon, cameras at a Walmart filmed her husband buying carpet cleaner, cleaning supplies and body wash.

He didn't want to report her missing, and only did it three days after the police visit. On August 22 he was arrested for concealing a dead body while she was still, officially, a missing person. That December came the first-degree murder charge.

Her remains have never been found. Investigators say blood on a power saw likely matches her DNA. For two years he said he had no idea what happened to her. Now he admits to the saw and the trash bags, and insists the one thing he didn't do is kill her. The jury could get the case this week.

In the video below is the police bodycam from August 2. He holds the baby the whole time. She wouldn't see a psychiatrist, he says, because in her words, "I'm a registered nurse." When the officer asks him to call if she comes back, he answers: "Until Sunday, I don't think so." Then the clip cuts to the courtroom.

Three days, one saw, two years of "she left." A panicked husband, or a man who waited two years for a better story?

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@0xmilligan an insanity verdict is supposed to mean treatment instead of prison. here he got neither for the murder, and that gap is the real failure

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@Bizograph she hasn't been convicted. that's exactly why the ruling on the bodycam words matters so much

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A 19-year-old cheerleader walked into the ER with back pain from practice. Staff told police she gave birth alone in the bathroom, wrapped her newborn in a trash bag, walked back to bed and lay down next to her mom like nothing happened. Then the doctor came in:

"We discovered a dead baby in the bathroom."

Her mom gasps. Then, from the bed: "It came out of me and I didn't know what to do."

Her mom turns to her: "Lexi, I told you about this." That same night she told police she honestly didn't know her daughter was pregnant.

January 27, 2023, Artesia General Hospital, New Mexico. Alexee Trevizo came in around 11:30 at night. Close to 2 a.m. she went to the bathroom alone. Minutes later a housekeeper went in to empty the trash. The bag was heavy. A nurse's aide noticed bloody footprints leading back to her room.

The autopsy found air in the baby boy's lungs. He had taken a breath. He died trapped in a tied plastic bag, and the death was ruled a homicide.

Three months later police came to her house with a warrant. Her mom stood in the doorway asking "For what?" until a detective said it: homicide.

She was charged with first-degree murder and released on a $100,000 bond. She says the baby was stillborn and she never knew she was pregnant. Her lawyer then sued the hospital for the baby's wrongful death, blaming the staff for letting her go to the bathroom alone.

This summer the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that what she said in that hospital room can't be used at trial. Doctor-patient privilege, even with police and her mother standing there.

In the video below is that night on police bodycam: the doctor, her answer, her mom, the housekeeper, the nurse's aide, and the arrest three months later.

The jury may never hear the words on that tape. Was she a scared teenager who didn't know she was pregnant, or did she know exactly what was in that bag?

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@rickyrates the gloves and the spare bags answer it better than any diagnosis. planning before and a movie ticket after don't look like someone who didn't know what he was doing

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@elixlune Shawna facing her after 21 years and 100 surgeries takes so much courage

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@0xbtom she cried on tv for nine days and cried again at parole. David is the one whose tears were real

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@0xDianax Shanann's family choosing not to seek death after all that is a kind of grace most people couldn't find

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@0xmrledger the staff on that range that night. a beating that lasts an hour inside a monitored jail isn't something one man hides alone

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@0xmilligan thinking of professor Yan’s two girls. they lost their dad in his own office

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He stole $200,000 from his family for a webcam model in Bulgaria. When they cut him off, he shot his mother at her desk, his father on the kitchen floor and his brother still in his scrubs, then sent her more of their money. Two days later a detective sat down across from him:

"Some girl in Bulgaria got basically your college debt." Grant Amato, 29, didn't say a word.

January 2019, Chuluota, Florida. When his family found out where the money had gone, they didn't call police. They wrote him a contract by hand: a recovery plan, limits on his phone and internet, or he had to leave. In the margins he turned down seeing a psychologist. They put him out that evening. He came back that night.

Prosecutors said he killed all three, then left a gun near Cody to make it look like his brother had shot their parents and himself. He stayed in the house with them for hours. The murder weapon was never found.

The bodies were found the next day, after Cody didn't show up for work. Police picked Grant up at a hotel.

The jury convicted him of all three murders. They couldn't agree on death, so he got life without parole. His other brother, Jason, told the court he still loved him.

Then from prison, on a smuggled phone, he started messaging the wife of a "Ghost Adventures" star. Prosecutors said she wanted her husband dead and Amato was supposed to pass his location to a hitman. She pleaded guilty.

In the video below is that interview. At the end Jason tells him he still loves him, "just like Mom, Cody, and Dad loved you." Then he hugs him: "I'm gonna pray for you, brother, 'cause I can't pray for Mom, Dad, and Cody anymore."

His mother, his father and the brother he stole from, all dead in one night over a woman on a screen. Could anyone have stopped him?

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@rickyrates the planning is what makes "psychotic break" hard to accept

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@0xmrledger life without parole, and he still found a way to make the news again

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He stole $200,000 from his family for a webcam model in Bulgaria. When they cut him off, he shot his mother at her desk, his father on the kitchen floor and his brother still in his scrubs, then sent her more of their money. Two days later a detective sat down across from him:

"Some girl in Bulgaria got basically your college debt." Grant Amato, 29, didn't say a word.

January 2019, Chuluota, Florida. When his family found out where the money had gone, they didn't call police. They wrote him a contract by hand: a recovery plan, limits on his phone and internet, or he had to leave. In the margins he turned down seeing a psychologist. They put him out that evening. He came back that night.

Prosecutors said he killed all three, then left a gun near Cody to make it look like his brother had shot their parents and himself. He stayed in the house with them for hours. The murder weapon was never found.

The bodies were found the next day, after Cody didn't show up for work. Police picked Grant up at a hotel.

The jury convicted him of all three murders. They couldn't agree on death, so he got life without parole. His other brother, Jason, told the court he still loved him.

Then from prison, on a smuggled phone, he started messaging the wife of a "Ghost Adventures" star. Prosecutors said she wanted her husband dead and Amato was supposed to pass his location to a hitman. She pleaded guilty.

In the video below is that interview. At the end Jason tells him he still loves him, "just like Mom, Cody, and Dad loved you." Then he hugs him: "I'm gonna pray for you, brother, 'cause I can't pray for Mom, Dad, and Cody anymore."

His mother, his father and the brother he stole from, all dead in one night over a woman on a screen. Could anyone have stopped him?

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One more thing about that prison plot: it was Las Vegas police, not prosecutors, who laid it out. They said Amato and Victoria Goodwin were in love. She got up to seven and a half years. He was never charged.

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@0xmilligan i don't think i could either. that moment was the hardest part to watch

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@rickyrates they chose love over a police report. that's not a mistake, it's what most families would do

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@oldvyx the man who stopped it got death threats, the man who led it got house arrest. that says a lot about how the country handled it

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@aixeltf "easing their pain" while some of them were getting better. that line tells you everything about how he saw them

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@0xmilligan whatever the answer, a release that depends on treatment needs someone whose job is to notice when treatment stops. here nobody owned that, and everyone is pointing at each other