they were contemplating divorce. he didn't have any friends to go stay with. he said he needed a few more days to get out. could she please come home and let him tell his boys goodbye and just talk. i begged her to not go and she said, "kathleen, my only way out is to try to reason with him." and she said, "i'm not a monster. i'm not a monster. he has nowhere else." >> rich talked to vashti that friday about dinnertime. >> the whole conversation was hey, sis, how are things going in light of the situation? and everything she said was, well, brett's having a really hard time with this. and brett's really struggling with this. >> it hurt her. it hurt her that he was so torn up. >> and less than 12 hours later vashti was dead. kathleen and rich told investigators that's the truth as they saw it. they were certain brett killed