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@illumiqexbt 2 years of "nobody can prove a thing" 4 woman , 4 counts

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@xlarckk Selena came for the records not a fight

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@athensxbt She told her parents she worked at Universal Studios but she hadn`t worked there for two years

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@xbtDraco Cindys first 991 call was about car not Caylee

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@xbtDoni twelve life sentences but only has one life to serve

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In 2004, Connie Culp's husband shot her in the face with a shotgun inside their bar in Hopedale, Ohio. The blast took her nose, her cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye.

She lived about five years without a nose. About 30 operations. In December 2008, surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic spent 22 hours replacing about 80% of her face. It was the first near-total face transplant in the US.

Thomas Culp got seven years.

At his hearing in 2005, she said she forgave him and might take him back.

In the video below, Connie talks to Diane Sawyer five months after the surgery. She starts by warning other women. Then Sawyer asks about him.

"If somebody points something at you and they say they're going to do it, eventually they're going to do it."

She says it's too painful to explain what led to the attack. She doesn't want to hurt the other side of the family, because "I love him. We had good times and bad times."

Sawyer asks if he ever tried to say he was sorry.

"Oh yeah."

Then: "I still love my husband."

Did he mean to do it? She won't say. "That's between me and him."

Sawyer asks if she forgives him.

"I forgave him the day he did it. I have to."

Sawyer asks how she could.

"I don't know."

The same woman who just warned other women says she saw it coming herself. "I knew something bad was going to happen. I just never dreamed it was that."

Is forgiving the man who shot your face off strength, or the only way Connie found to keep standing?

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Daniel Driver is chained to his chair during a break in his own hearing. A woman reaches into a purse and pulls out a .25-caliber pistol.

Five shots. All to the head.

April 2, 1993, Jamestown, California. The woman is Ellie Nesler. Driver is charged with molesting four boys, one of them her 6-year-old son. Deputies take her into custody on the spot.

To detectives she says: "He deserved to die."

Later, a camera is on her, and she says something else.

In the video below, Ellie Nesler talks about the shooting herself, and the woman who told detectives he deserved to die says it was wrong.

She hears that her support is dropping. She doesn't buy it.

Then: "The fact is I did kill a man."

And: "That was wrong what I did, but on the other hand, I think a lot of people understand the frustration that I went through."

The narrator adds what she was up against. In 1983 Driver pleaded guilty to lewd conduct with two San Jose boys, 8 and 10. He served 150 days in jail.

Back to Ellie: "I wish the judicial system would have taken care of it. I wish I wouldn't have had to."

Her support did fade, after she admitted taking methamphetamine that day. A jury convicted her of voluntary manslaughter. The judge called it "nothing more than an execution" and gave her 10 years.

The conviction was thrown out over jury misconduct, not because the shooting was ruled justified. She took a plea deal and served about three years.

The narrator says a relative once told her, "You saved a lot of boys."

She answered: "Yes, but I didn't save my own."

Her son William was later convicted of murder and got 25 to life. Ellie died of breast cancer on December 26, 2008. She was 56.

Was Ellie Nesler a mother the system failed, or did one day in that courtroom cost her own family everything?

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@Tolot0caw an 14 he said Manuel was the deliberate one

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Fifth-period algebra, and a 14-year-old shows up in a black cowboy duster. He paid over $200 of his own savings for it, then cut a pocket so a rifle could ride under the coat.

He reportedly tells the class, "This sure beats algebra."

Moses Lake, Washington. February 2, 1996. Manuel Vela Jr. and Arnold Fritz, both 14, and teacher Leona Caires, 49, are killed. Natalie Hintz, 13, is wounded.

Barry Loukaitis is tried as an adult. A juvenile conviction would have meant release at 21. The jury rejects his insanity defense, and he gets two life terms plus 205 years.

There was speculation that Manuel had bullied him.

Two hours after the shooting, he tells a police sergeant: "The only positive, deliberate one was Manuel."

In the video below, Loukaitis, 36 by then, turns around in an Ephrata courtroom to face the victims' families for the first time. And he answers that question about Manuel.

"I am sorry for what I did. What I did was weak and evil and senseless."

Then he talks about Manuel. He was good, he says. "He was better than I am."

As for why it happened, he points at his own weakness, his stupidity and his jealousy.

Manuel's father says it is what the family had known all along: his son was not a bully, and not the bad example he was first made out to be.

Loukaitis also asks the judge to waive all future appeals, so the families won't have to go through this again.

It ends with a 189-year sentence.

Does 189 years fit what he did, or was he a broken kid?

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@NoraMarssh 21 calls 13 visits and then the checks stopped

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@illumiqexbt Police were already in the yard with Lindsay and the basement only came out through a scream

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@Dorianxxbt recanted in life named by police after death

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A teenager rings the doorbell and tells a housewife that her husband is sleeping with the girl's little sister.

She holds up a T-shirt from his auto body shop. "I have proof."

The housewife answers with a joke.

Mary Jo Buttafuoco was 37 when she opened that door on May 19, 1992. The girl was 17, and she had a .25-caliber pistol. The bullet went into Mary Jo's head. Surgeons never got it out.

In the video below, Mary Jo walks ABC's 20/20 through that porch conversation line by line, and you can hear the moment she catches the girl in a lie.

The girl says she's 19. Her "little sister" is 16.

Then the shirt: "I found this in my sister's bed when I was making it."

Mary Jo, who calls herself "kind of a smartass," answers: "You make your little sister's bed?"

She asks the girl's name. "Anne Marie." She asks where she lives. The girl points down a street.

Mary Jo says that street is in the other direction. "Now I'm knowing she's lying. She's starting to get nervous."

"I was raised to be a good Catholic girl. Thanks for coming by."

She turns her head toward the door.

"That was the end of my life as I knew it."

The "little sister" was Amy Fisher herself, and the affair was real. In 1993 Joey Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to statutory rape.

But after the shooting, Mary Jo's line was: "I stand behind Joey 100%. Amy Fisher is a liar." She divorced him in 2003. In 2009 she called him "a very good sociopath and a liar."

Did Mary Jo spot a stranger's lie in seconds, only to miss the bigger one at home for eleven years, or did she choose not to look?

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@xbtDoni Jessie took the confession back almost right away, yet it was the one thing the case leaned on

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The night two murderers crawled out of a prison in upstate New York, the woman who was supposed to be waiting for them was at a hospital. She had panicked, and her husband drove her there.

Joyce Mitchell was a tailor-shop instructor at Clinton Correctional in Dannemora. Richard Matt and David Sweat, both serving life without parole, got out on June 6, 2015. The manhunt lasted 22 days. The Inspector General counted about 85 nights of tunneling and more than 400 bed checks that could have stopped it.

But her part of the plan had one more name in it. Her husband's.

In the video below, Mitchell sits across from Matt Lauer in Clinton County Jail and explains what the inmates called Lyle, and whose idea she says it was to get rid of him.

They called him "the glitch," Lauer says. The glitch in the plan? "Yes." And he had to be disposed of? "Yes."

Matt brought her pills to knock Lyle out. She says they sat in her drawer at work. She took them home and flushed them.

Then Lauer puts something to her. After his capture, David Sweat told authorities that killing Lyle was her idea.

"It was not my idea. It was Matt's idea."

She says she played along because she was so scared, and that Matt "has a lot of power." Could he have hurt Lyle and her family outside those walls? "Yes."

One day, she says, Matt walked in and said tonight's the night. She stayed away from him for the rest of the day.

A judge gave her 2⅓ to 7 years. The plea deal dropped the charges tied to an alleged plot to kill her husband. She walked out in February 2020.

In June 2015 she told investigators she was "caught up in the fantasy." In the jail, she told Lauer: "I was only trying to save my family."

Was she a frightened wife, or a woman who kept playing along until the night it became real?

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@Tolot0caw Voices to the detective. None to his psychologist

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The house is dark. Opera music plays at full volume. There are bullets on the floor.

Detective Spence Slater calls it "eerie."

Bill Kinkel lies on his back in the bathroom under a white sheet. In the basement, Faith Kinkel lies under another one. In the crawl space, the bomb squad finds partially assembled bombs.

The note says: "I have just killed my parents. I am a horrible son. I wish I had been aborted."

Their son, Kip, is 15. That morning he walked into the Thurston High cafeteria in Springfield, Oregon, and fired nearly 50 rounds in under a minute. Ben Walker and Mikael Nickolauson were killed. Twenty-five more were wounded.

In the video below, a detective stands with Kip in that cafeteria on camera, points out the marks on the floor, and asks what he remembers: where he was shooting, whether he went out into the commons, what was in his backpack.

Then the detective asks which clip was in the rifle.

The 50-round one. "So you started with 50 rounds?"

"Yes."

Near the end, you hear "no other choice." Then the detective asks whether any of the students made him upset.

He said those words in the interview room too. About his mother: he told her he loved her, shot her, and said, "I had no other choice."

About his father:

Det. Al Warthen: "You love him so that's why you had to kill him?"

Kip: "Yes."

His mother was still alive in the basement, he said. He shot her again "so she wouldn't know that I killed her."

He also told the detective about "these voices inside my head."

But the only psychologist who treated him before that day, Dr. Jeffrey Hicks, saw no psychosis. Kip never mentioned voices to him.

Three days before jury selection, Kip dropped his insanity defense and pleaded guilty. The sentence was about 111.67 years with no parole.

Was Kip Kinkel a sick boy nobody caught in time, or a killer who knew exactly what he was doing?

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Payton Leutner is told to lie on the ground and cover herself with sticks and leaves. "It was really just a trick to get me down there," she says later.

She is 12. Her friend Morgan Geyser, also 12, stabs her 19 times. Payton crawls to a road, where a cyclist calls for help. Her surgeon says if the knife had gone the width of a human hair further, she wouldn't have lived.

About five hours later, police find Morgan and Anissa Weier beside Interstate 94, the knife in their bag. They are headed for Slender Man's "mansion" in a forest 200 miles away.

In the video below, Morgan sits across from a detective that same day. He asks what she was trying to do to her friend, and she needs two words.

"Kill her."

Then she keeps going: "I might as well just say it. We were trying to kill her."

She doesn't know why it had to be Payton. Only that it "seemed very necessary."

Then: "This is going to get me arrested, isn't it? I won't take back any of it."

Her mother later said Morgan "appears to have no remorse" and "just talks about it in such a flat manner." Asked if she felt bad, Morgan said: "I thought about it, but decided that remorse would get me nowhere."

On that tape she looks like a child without a conscience.

But in October 2014 she was diagnosed with early-onset childhood schizophrenia. Her treatment was "erratic and inadequate for 20 months." After steady antipsychotics began in November 2015, sources say guilt and remorse appeared.

She got 40 years in a psychiatric institution, not prison. In 2025 she was released to a group home. Months later she cut off her GPS bracelet. Police found her asleep behind a gas station in Illinois, nearly 200 miles away.

On the bodycam she says: "I did something really wrong."

Was the calm on that tape the illness, or the only honest thing a 12-year-old in that room said?

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@monvyrn Told police "I murdered my grandson." Told the jury she doesn't know how many times she fired