accomplished. i am a professor, i am trying to seek a meaningful life. she had a prestigious career, a loving husband, a young daughter, but she also had a secret. i lived with this nightmare for 18 years. and it centered on murder. they followed him, they kidnapped him, and then they dumped his body. it was clearly planned. but did she? no i was in complete shock. they were dangerous and they were violent. why did she do it? i didn t realize she was involved as deep as she was. scholar, professor, mother. what is going to happen to my daughter? she certainly knew. she is a killer in your eyes? yes. everything was at stake. i could face life in prison, i am willing to do anything that needs to be done. now, i have the strength. she was the embodiment of the american dream, an immigrant who described a childhood of poverty and abuse. attended elite schools and rose to the top of her field. against all odds, norma patricia esparza became the well
it was a case tailor-made with the tabloids. we had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. he is out with other women. a failing marriage with millions at stake. he didn t have any money of his own. this is getting ugly. yes. she said she were broken, and she cried. was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace? we believed it was a staged accident. he was adamant about his innocence. the case bought me for a long time. he said to me you have to help me kill my parents. and i can t even think about the magnitude of it all. hello and welcome to dateline. shelley and roderick covlin met and married in a matter of months. soon they had two young children in manhattan. and an estate worth millions. then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. first responders thought it was an accident. but troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. here s andrea with en
Hows your client now . Hows his State Of Mind . Not good. Jimmy, where jim i was with him that morning he was shot. In his mind, he was ready to give up. I said, you know, alex, theres an end to this, and theres a life beyond this. And you need to be here for your family, and buster loves you, and, you know, we all support you 100 . And he told me that he had an Opioid Addiction and that he had been struggling with it for many, many years and it was very expensive. Alex murdaughs speaking for the first time in weeks, this time from a savannah hospital bed. The patriarch of the family making Big Decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. Ive made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. Im resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle thats been exacerbated by these murders. After alex was shot, first thing he did was admit that he had an Opioid Addiction and a problem and then wen
how s your client now? how s his state of mind? not good. jimmy, where jim! i was with him that morning he was shot. in his mind, he was ready to give up. i said, you know, alex, there s an end to this, and there s a life beyond this. and you need to be here for your family, and buster loves you, and, you know, we all support you 100%. and he told me that he had an opioid addiction and that he had been struggling with it for many, many years and it was very expensive. alex murdaugh s speaking for the first time in weeks, this time from a savannah hospital bed. the patriarch of the family making big decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. the murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. i ve made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. i m resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that s been exacerbated by these murders. after alex was shot, first thing he did was admit that he had an opioid addic
sean: first, got to get a lot of credit, you very quickly went right for the wrists. as a martial artist, i respect your quick response buried was she would have used the left hand, but the fact that you acted that quickly prevented him from sticking that knife he could have hit your carotid, he could have hit your heart. we may not be having this discussion today, you did a great job, i congratulate you. thank you, sean, and i also give a lot of credit to the seven, eight, nine, ten other people who instantly within a few moments came to the stage and tackled this attacker. law enforcement was there just a couple minutes later and they arrested the guy. a lot went right in the response. when i saw him lunge at me with that weapon in his hand, he was going towards my neck area, i just instinct if we went right up to grab that wrist, and i just needed to hold it for a few moments until that group came in. sean: i got to tell you something, we are looking at it from dif