meant there was some chance, at least, that some evidence would still exist in their. wouldn t be can split the incinerated by the flames. and sure enough, when monte got inside what was left of the house, he saw the body of vashti seacat lying on the mattress in the master bedroom on the second floor. she was lying on her left side, her knees were drawn up, it appeared that her elbows were bent. there is still a significant amount of blanket and covering on her, like she was under the covers, asleep. also there, a weapon. the firearm was actually under her left hip which would ve been against the mattress with the barrel facing downward. it became clear, the gun had been the source of a single gunshot wound to the side of her lower skull. there were other rooms to. oddly enough, you can hear gunshots going off during the
whatever revealed if he actually fired that gun that night. if you ve ever seen with that gun looks like, it s up to the side of that cylinder. so that stuff goes somewhere. and onto your skin, is where you re looking for it. yet, some. they didn t look? he they didn t look. but he s a cop? but seacat didn t have much faith in that maybe i. we call brett see cat. the star witness for the defense? would be the last witness. brett seacat himself. coming up! cold blooded killer? or grieving husband? i didn t think it was appropriate to be dragging my wife s name through the mud. did you love her? i loved her. did you kill her? no i did not. brett story from the stand, his life on the line.
something, and she would never talk to anybody about being depressed, she was always worried about how people viewed her. even as her boyfriend, as her husband who the only reason i ve been got exposed to that is because i spent night with her. things got so bad, brett said, her depression was affecting their marriage and they started seeing a therapist. he also told investigators that to help her lose weight, vashti took a hormonal supplement, h c g which has been linked to depression. and he remembered something, that now came back to haunt him, he told them. that one night he and vashti were watching a drama on tv during which. someone had committed suicide with a firearm and she had asked him if that gun would be a good going to do that with, and he said yeah, i ve got one of those but the dirty harry gun which he indicated was the 44 magnum that they had would be a better tool to do that with. so you look back on it than in the interview with you as oh my god, i told her out
door-to-door went falletti and his team of investigators. and three doors down from the seacat house was a woman who said she was having trouble sleeping that night. as seoul was a week in the wee hours, watching tv in her living room. at some point she believes she heard what was a gunshot. and she believed that was sometime before the fire trucks and the police officer showed up in front of the seacat residents. exactly when each of those things happened, she couldn t say for sure. but, reviewing the tv show she was watching, she could tell them which scene was playing when she heard that gunshot. and that s how the kbi was able to determine the gun went off long before brett called 9-1-1. we believe it was about 30, 35 minutes prior to mr. seacat calling 9-1-1. was when she heard that gunshot. to do something? right. the atf s who discover the fire was not simply on the matter of lighting the bed on fire. was that where the fire was started? in my opinion, there were
. coming up! a note. some of his actions were reckless because the clock was winding down. the gun. how did it end up completely underneath her body when she was sleeping on her side? the threats. she said do you think that brett would burn the house down with me in it? and i, i was taken aback. by that. and i said, not with the kids at home. the prosecutors come on strong. so when those threats did not work, he had to kill her to maintain control. when dateline continues! n dateline continues