judge jeanine: when calyx and beau schenecker woke up on the 27th, it was just another day. they had no idea what their mom had in store for them. the afternoon of june 27th. julie schenecker did what thousands of moms do every day. she picked her son up from soccer practice. this day would be like no other. hidden in julie s purse, a smith and wes son .38 that she picked up from the gun store that morning. over the course of several days, julie has written a series of notes to herself. planning in great detail what is about to happen. schenecker has been expressing her feelings of failure and frustration as a parent for months. she is upset about the way her teenagers talk to her and treat her and she will no longer
bullets into her head. [gunshots] judge jeanine: schenecker plans to kill herself, but the next morning tampa police find her laying on the patio next to the pool, covered in blood. she appears to be drugged or drunk. upstairs, in the computer room, a pool of blood. following a trail across the hall to calyx s room police find her dead in bed, covered by a blanket. in the garage, they find beau. still in the passenger seat of the van where he was shot. julie is arrested and charged with murder. detectives canvas the home and make a number of discoveries. there are post-it notes methodically placed throughout the home listing reasons why julie killed her kids. entering the master bedroom, they find the 38 smith and wes son sitting on the dresser next to the box it came in.
judge jeanine: of course, when the police get to the home, what do they find? well, we went to the front door, there was no answer. we went around to the back of the house and we found julie schenecker lying out on the pool deck. when they called out her name, she immediately sat up. she was dressed in a robe and slippers. and the officers immediately noticed that there was blood on her clothing. she became somewhat combative at that point and was demanding to know what the officers were doing there at her house. one of the officers restrained her and the second officer began searching the house. first they found calyx upstairs. she had been shot twice. and a short time later he found beau out in the garage, still in the family car where he had been shot and killed. judge jeanine: of course, when officers went to the front door, before they went around the back, laura, and found julie schenecker, was there something on the front door that they were able to read? yes. there was
tolerate it when her 13-year-old son beau gets into the car that day, he has no idea what his mother has in mind. as they begin the drive home, beau starts talking back to his mom. julie takes out the gun and fires one shot through the windshield of their minivan. startled, beau asks her to put the gun away. but she turns it on him instead, shooting him twice in the head. julie then drives home, parks the car in the garage with her dead son still in the passenger seat and goes inside. she finds her 16-year-old daughter calyx upstairs working on the computer. julie shoots calyx once in the back of the head and once in the face. it appeared that the children never saw it coming. she then uses the computer chair to roll her daughter into the other room. placing calyx s body on the bed.
beautiful stay-at-home mom. but they this secrets. for months, julie schenecker has been frustrated with how her teenage children treat her. she thinks calyx, 16, and beau 13, are mouthy and disrespectful. tensions in the house are escalating. in november, julie slapped calyx during an argument and the police are called. the family is in counseling. but, by january, calyx tells her parents she doesn t want to live at home anymore. colonel parker schenecker is shipped out of the country on assignment and julie is deteriorating in a haze of pills and alcohol. she starts writing notes to herself retelling a plan for the children. she buys a gun on january 26th, on the way home from soccer practice, julie shoots beau. then julie finds calyx at home on her computer and fires two