he kissed me, but it never led into anything else. he just used to tell me i love you. that s about it. it sounds like they were making out rather than having sex. yes. that s correct. he always used to tell me how pretty i was and how he d like to be with me. but i always made it clear that he is married and has a wife, and he s having a baby, and i don t wreck families. rachel told the investigators the seth she knew couldn t be a murderer. would it surprise you if he did this? honestly? yes, it would. but seth was a suspect, and if he did fire that shotgun blast, that would place rachel at the heart of a murderous love triangle. i think that s why i feel so guilty, because i don t want it to be because of me. the next day, deputies phillips and wonderlin were back at the neighbor brian tate s house. deputy wonderlin and myself deputy phillips are pulling up here at the tate residence to re-interview mr. tate. this time, they asked him point blank about the mu
bra and underwear. is that right? yes. and then he says, well, wish me luck. i love you at 10:51 p. m. on may 24th of 2012. what was he asking you to wish him well with? i believe that he was going to tell her that he wanted a divorce. two days later, lisa was dead. by now, her family had hardened opinions about rachel. i don t think too highly of her. i felt like she destroyed my sister s marriage and her life. todd, rachel, huh? actually, i m maybe not the most popular view. i blame her for what part she had to play with seth, but i think she s kinda been a victim as well. he s manic, he s up all the time. the defense offered the jury the same bogeyman as before. the defense went even harder at brian tate than they had the first time around. he could quickly become volatile and agitated. this time, the defense, over
they didn t have to. remember, seth was advised by agent thomas that he was free to leave time anytime. everything was legal. lead agent birmingham, watching seth on a monitor, simply ignored the commotion outside. i did get information that they were wanting to get in and wanting to come in and tell seth to stop. which would shut you guys right down. seth is an adult. and he has the sole obligation to invoke his right to remain silent or his right to an attorney. and no one stopped him from doing that. so thomas kept asking questions, and seth kept answering them. have you ever lied to lisa about rachel? no. she found out and that was that was that. meanwhile, both dci agents birmingham and thomas had now learned more complete details from the scene from seth s best
my body i guess. on may 20th, 2012, seth and rachel met at a nature preserve, where they took this selfie to remember their time together. i mean he kissed me, touched me. he said that we had everything in common and that he had tried working things out with lisa and things weren t working and i was exactly what he wanted. she said seth repeatedly told her he was going to divorce his wife. did he say he loved you? yes. but rachel was hedging her bets. she told seth she was also interested in a co-worker named brandon, who just happened to call her during her tryst with seth in the park. he just started getting really jealous. and so on the 20th when he learned that you were communicating with brandon, he said what? just give me two more weeks. did you ask him what he
brian tate in the first place, fixing the idea in his mind that his kids neighbor was a deranged, maybe dangerous crank. i m goin by what seth had told me about him. as for tate s complaint-calls with deputies, as captured on dashcam video, it became evidence for the prosecution. we feed the squirrels, birds and deer. we were hopeful that the jury would see brian tate as we saw him. and they saw him as an eccentric, but harmless man. certainly not a killer. then, at last, it was time for the state s star witness, rachel mcfarland the other woman to show up and tell her story. did you need the jury to like her? we needed the jury to believe her. rachel testified her relationship with seth started heating up in december, 2011, which was two months after seth got married. it became more sexual, asking me to send pictures. or, i don t know, just showing off