now, back to dateline. michelle and mark, just children, really, when they got married. now, mark was dead. gun down in the family kitchen. michelle had to plan his funeral. she was barely functioning, she said. i couldn t even tell you who was there. it s just a blur. it feels like a blur. but there was one thing she was clear about. mark s parents and sister were not welcome at his funeral. it was the same at the cemetery. she is literally trying to get him in the ground before we can evenly walk up. get him in the ground. yes. we just immediately jumped out of her car, rushed out to the grave site. she calls the police on us. she calls the police and my brother s funeral.
mark s parents were certain that he didn t come up with the idea on his own. the real mastermind, they believed, someone else very close to mark. his wife, marcia. as a mom, i could see carl taking my son s life with outmuscled being involved. michelle was far from a loving, doting wife, he said. the woman they knew was pure self interest, would do anything to get what she wanted. exhibit a? so, what was it that just turned marc against you? michele s manipulation. it was michele who pushed mark to break away from the family business, they said. michelle who tore the family apart by stoking her own daughter s allegations of abuse. drive a permanent wedge between mark and his dad and get mark and his money also herself.
michel was doing behind his back. mark s parents believed that the michel they knew would rather see her husband dead then risk her being on the losing end of a messy divorce. so it was gonna fall apart. yeah. from trailer trash to a rich woman, so she thought in her mind. she didn t want to go back to the trailer trash again. just couldn t stand the thought. if mark that? we found there were two insurance policies. huge for the amount of $500,000. that is a healthy chunk of change. yes, sir. a whole notch of stew. none with actual proof. months went by. michelle went on with her life. pushed back to get to see it going. they even posted a billboard asking the public for help. the idea that michelle might get away with murder was eating
her dad s response? he asks if she can get him away for lunch. yes. she says she can. she can. and he replies, okay. i will let you know the time. my review of some of the text messages say mark wasn t interested in going to lunch that day, but she begged him to take her to lunch. after the lunch, you remember, she asked mark to linger for an ice cream treat. all the while texting her dad, said the prosecutor. tipping him up to mark s whereabouts, as carl placed a killer in their home. it sent chills up my back. what kind of person have you got to be to let your husband walk away from you, knowing what he s going to walk into when you he gets home? with new evidence, police arrested michelle. she was charged capital murder, planning in orchestrating the crime. she denied it, said she could explain everything.
hallway, her husband, his blood. he was laying on the floor. is it a sight that lives in your mind a lot? a lot. oh yeah. outside, a crowd of police and friends and family curious neighbors gathered on the street below mark s house. among them, and an awful state, was mark s sister jackie. everything was wrapped in tape, police officers can cross, here you can do this, can t do that. i just wanted to or something. detective vic brooks was on the other side of the police tape. when i first walked, and i noticed there was appear to be knocked on the ground, there was some broken glass and stuff. investigators snapped photos of the chaos, drawers pulled out in the bedroom, close thrown in to a jewelry case toppled over. somebody was looking for