use me. did he? or was my shell the clever user? and our interview, michelle denied being a master manipulator. she denied she stopped those sex abuse allegations, or that she endured mark split with the parents. for that, she blamed jacking tanner. i never would have a lot with my kids in the first place. i never would have. in the end, they didn t walk away from their kid either. who was pushing from day one? to solve the murder? who kept pushing month after month after month? my opinion and that is their hatred toward me. it wasn t anything to do with mark. it didn t have anything to do with mark. he was all about jack s hatred towards me. you seriously believe? that idea.
start talking about a plea deal. the defense played a top, said that michele was only able to admit that she had learned about her father s plot after the murder. she is admitting to having knowledge of someone being in bold and not disclosing that to the police. she would agree to plead guilty to a charge of hindering apprehension, so the defense. after some prayer, mark s mother said she could live with that. i m not a gambling person. you know, even if we d went to one sympathetic juror to haveen set her free. it was more than three years after the death of her husband when michelle to spain walked into the courtroom to be re-sentenced. in handcuffs, mouthing i love you to her mom. her dad and the shooter got 35 years. but michelle? she got sentenced to 30
should do. that is how it began. the charm between father and son, the trouble that was going to get so much worse. mark split away from the family business, michel i have tim with bookkeeping. i was just amazed at what they were able to accomplish. they were a good team said michele s mother. they both just had the ability to work together, to make money. mark got into real estate investment, his first a trailer park no one else would touch. i couldn t believe he bought that. what are you thinking? have you lost your mind? he flipped the. made about 100,000 dollar profit. so we did it once he figured he could do it again and again? absolutely. and the money seemed to roll in. mark moved his family to an upscale neighborhood in the southern part of town. he spent more and more time with michelle, taking them on family chips, even hired
trying to think, oh my god, could this have possibly happened? but, after the police interviewed the girl, and jack, and the girl again, heard her story change and become more elaborate, the investigation was dropped. ten riven with guilt forever suspecting jack abused his granddaughter, went back, and begged for forgiveness. the man i have been married to for over 30 years, that i went to high school with, and then doubting him, and knowing i shouldn t have. but mark and michelle believing the girl never spoke to him again. cut them off from the grandkids, disowned when she took jack s side. i believe that 100%. i don t think he had anything to do with it. so that was the ugly backdrop to the murder investigation. the fact of brooks would have to figure out if this year s old unproven allegation had eaten away at mark stat that it pushed him over the edge.
marc, the father of my kids. but michele s mom, kathy, was not so surprised. she knew what carl was capable of. she divorced him years earlier, she said, to ex-scape his explosions of temper. he never would hit me because he didn t want to leave a mark. but would he do? he would hold it down to my head. hold a gun to your head? yes. threaten you? yes. still, what would make him mad enough to have mark killed? confronted, carl space turned to stone. but as investigators discovered, carl had been talking to other people. told them that marc had been physically abusing michelle. that he was tired of it. did you investigate whether any abuse actually occurred? there was not any abuse ever found happened. so, if the abuse story was not his lie, why did carl do it?