to dinner, i m going to be cook i m going to be the one cleaning up the kitchen. for your husband s mistress? yep. you get some sense that james enjoyed humiliating you like that? absolutely. i think it was a power thing. serena cooked dinner for her husband and his lover and listened to james and jessica talk about nick morelos. it was all demeaning and hateful stuff. james used to pick on her and poke at her about why don t you go back to your go back to nick? you guys were such a couple and a thing. go back to nick. so there was some jealousy there? definitely. now james lapan s only possible hope at trial was serena and her statement to police that her husband was asleep next to her when nick was killed. you wouldn t try to be covering up for him for anything? no. okay. but now a little bit of drama was about to spawn a lot more. in december 2017, as
petra was crying because i was laying on her. and it was allowed. it was very loud, very chaotic. what was happening around you? what are you hearing? everybody was scrambling. the shooting was coming from all directions. katherine new her boys have been headed towards the department store. amid all the noise and commotion, she managed to call them and yell out a quick warning. i said, don t come out of the store. they re shooting. go, run, hide. do not come out. katherine knew the situation was dangerous. extremely dangerous. but at least she had some cover. faith wambua and her kids were also trapped on the ground floor, but cowering out in the open. exposed to the gunman stalking their victims. i m telling the kids to lie down. but now there is this continuous loud sound. and that is when i knew there was shooting. and i thought, oh oh. wrong choice of hiding place. i remember my daughter at one
family friend, had been at home recovering from surgery when he got an urgent text from catherine. what time to the first must come in? it came in at 12:52. what does she say? she said pray, shooting in west gate, hiding. that s a message. it blew me away. erode her back, really? she said, yes, i don t know where the boys are. she said find blaise. paul texted the s oldest son blaise, but he didn t answer. i started looking on the internet. someone put out a statement of facebook saying don t call anybody because when the phone rings, people are getting shot on their phone rings. paul didn t call, but stayed in touch with katherine their text messages. her lifeline to the outside world. i sent a text, get me out of here. i really thought he could, but i was just desperate. when she sent that, my heart sunk. katherine didn t text her husband, phillip, because she knew he was too far away to do anything and knew she d only panic him.
how he helped solve nicks murder. you still have his, back don t you? absolutely. i guess that never ends. no. i am craig melvin, and i am natalie morales. in this is dateline. she answered the phone call lots of screaming, lots of gunfire. they had a demeanor like they own the. please panic bonds protects in their. kids i just kept telling them to be quiet, like a mouse. my goodness, it s going to cry. this this is. it is it. kids, forced to kids just want to protect one another. protect one another. he grabs your brother. yes he you grab your brother and just.
toward the exit with her children. i remember seeing a body lying there on the steps as we run out but i said, i m focusing on where we are going. there was this policeman, one carrying my daughter, was running too fast and was way ahead. the one with my son was lagging behind and i m thinking, don t separate us! i kept saying, my son! my son! after all those hours for us to keep our children quiet, they were finally out. i m crying now because i m free, you know? all these tears of joy. in his hotel room, 6000 miles away in charlotte, philip walton could only hope his story would have such a happy ending. he was combing through kenya. news reports, he saw on social media. one specifically where they said somebody had just seen them bring a child s body out and in a shopping cart. and they said it was a five or six year old little boy.