2:10-year-olds. stretching, stressing. it s very disciplined. an athletic discipline of concentration and body control. learning poise under pressure. it took a lot. especially when we were young. to stick with it. but it was worth it. a ballet academy in upstate new york was where amina raj got to know her friend karrie neurauter. i met karrie when she was 8. she was very sweet, very bubbly personality. both of them were girly girls, but wanted to grow up to be like their dads. our dads were both engineers. so we were both going to become engineers. and be professional ballerinas on the side. and everyone could see that karrie was very close to her dad, lloyd neurauter. every saturday he d not only drive his daughter to class in corning, new york. he d stay to help out. he was the only father there that was bringing the kids in the morning at that time. mena s mom, cynthia, would see him on those saturdays but rarely his wife. instead of doing the
happened. lab results came back showing the ex-husband s dna was all over michele s bed clothes in that house he claimed never to have been inside. in october of 2018, lloyd neurauter pleaded guilty to murder one. i was stunned. he gave it up. he told us exactly what happened. lloyd gave a full statement. owning up to being the master manipulator that friends and family said they d witnessed all along. he described the process by which he would abuse michele in front of his girls. belittle her. convince them she was insane, that she was dangerous. he s a narcissist. the world revolves around him. his password to all of his accounts was all my girls love me. you re kidding. no. that s how he operated. ultimately, that power led karrie to say yes because you know, dad says it s so. if dad says it s so, it must be so. lloyd was sentenced to life without parole. any last words, lloyd? district attorney baker
revolves around him. his password to his to all of his accounts was all my girls love me. you re kidding. no. that s how he operated. ultimately, that power led karrie to say yes because you know, dad says it s so. if dad says it s so, it must be so. lloyd was sentenced to life without parole. any last words, lloyd? district attorney baker allowed karrie to plead to a lesser charge of manslaughter. she was sentenced to one to three years. the d. a. sees the daughter as a victim, too. you want to be sympathetic because she s a sympathetic character. she deserves sympathy for where she was. but she s still guilty of murder. and that s the and justice has to happen. and friend cynthia can t shake that emotional conversation she had with michele just before she died, the one where she promised to take care of her daughters. if anything happens to me yeah. that came back very strong for me. cynthia kept that promise, visiting karrie in jail and trying to help a bew
i met karrie when she was 8. she was very sweet, very bubbly personality. both of them were girly girls, but wanted to grow up to be like their dads. our dads were both engineers. so we were both going to become engineers. and be professional ballerinas on the side. and everyone could see that karrie was very close to her dad, lloyd neurauter. every saturday he d not only drive his daughter to class in corning, new york. he d stay to help out. he was the only father there that was bringing the kids in the morning at that time. mena s mom cynthia would see him on those saturdays but rarely his wife. instead of doing the children s hair at home, he would always sort of bring them there and brush their hair out and put these buns together. with some skill and art? yes. and he definitely enjoyed the admiration of the other mothers around him. as their daughters rehearse for the annual nut cracker, cynthia and another friend, rose coluccio, became friendly with lloyd.
in time michele and lloyd divorced. she was always positive and going to make the most of everything, and then one day out of the blue she called me and said we re divorced. like okay. it was very random. after the divorce michele sold the farm and the kids split up. the oldest went to live with her dad in new jersey while karrie and the youngest daughter stayed in corning with mom in a new house. but the divorce was hard on everyone. karrie and her mom sometimes butted heads. the arguments could get heated. the issue was living with her mother finishing high school, but it got more and more strained as the years as she approached her senior year. by late august 2017 karrie, the one-time ballerina, had left home and was a sophomore at r. i. t. in rochester. her younger sister still lived with her mom. it seemed like a typical monday afternoon when a family friend came by the house to pick up the youngest for swim practice. but something