i covered him up. i told michael to get ready for school. i told him i shot mike. you need to just go to school. how is michael doing at this point? i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become the thing you are not talking about. right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. we didn t talk about it. later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in to the garage, but there was a
right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. we didn t talk about it. later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in to the garage, but there was a problem. trying to get him situated to where i could get him, a board under him to move him to the garage. you couldn t do it asgloen i couldn t do it alone. so you asked your son. yep. you asked michael to help you move the body? yes. he didn t want to. i asked him please. and he said, okay. 17-year-old michael reluctantly agreed. were you aware that you were asking him to essentially help you commit a crime? i wasn t in the frame of mind to believe that as such. yet, at the time, you were willing to do that instead of the other option which is call the cops and face the music.
he s denying it. he s screaming at me. i have never seen him so angry. ever. she says she ran to the bedroom and got the gun from the closet. ththater cleague frank had loaned her. i sd i have a gun. he s laughing at me. telling me i m a coward and i m never going to tell anyone. she is taunting you. he s taunting me. saying you don t have the courage to shoot me? calling me, you know, a [ bleep ] and telling me what a rotten person i am, screaming at me. in that moment of fear, ellen says, she pulled the trigger, not once, not twice, but repeatedly. i emptied the gun. i have never been so afraid in my life. he turned around and ran away from you. and you kept shooting. i did. i kept shooting. how far did he get? ten feet. then what happened? then the fell down. elizabeth, mike and ellen s 6-year-old daughter was fast asleep in the bedroom. she didn t wake up.
in his bedroom and he did. he was calling 911. i told him to hang it up, michael. and he hung up. and he hung up and i sat down on the step waiting for the police to come. but the police never did show. i covered him up. i told michael to get ready for school. i told him i shot mike. you need to just go to school. how is michael doing at this point? i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become the thing you are not talking about. right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. we didn t talk about it. later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen
the gun that her colleague frank had loaned her. i said i have a gun. he s laughing at me. telling me i m a coward and i m never going to tell anyone. she is taunting you. he s taunting me. saying you don t have the courage to shoot me? calling me, you know, a [ bleep ] and telling me what a rotten person i am, screaming at me. in that moment of fear, ellen says, she pulled the trigger, not once, not twice, but repeatedly. i emptied the gun. i have never been so afraid in my life. he turned around and ran away from you. and you kept shooting. i did. i kept shooting. how far did he get? ten feet. then what happened? then the fell down. elizabeth, mike and ellen s 6-year-old daughter was fast asleep in the bedroom. she didn t wake up. but ellen s son michael 17 was