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you shot her in the head. impossible. you burnt the house down around her. i would never burn our house. and you did it while your two kids, 2 years and 4 years old were in the house. absolutely not. i would never suppose my kids to anything like that. the investigation was thorough in this case and the kbi agents looked for any sign that would lead us to a conclusion that brett seacat would kill his wife. and all the evidence uncovered and all the evidence presented by both sides led to that conclusion. vashti s family was upset about things brett said on the stand about vashti s character but they said they found his testimony revealing. i was almost embarrassed that he was still claiming he was innocent when there were just so many things that would have had to have lined up perfectly, that would have had to have been a fluke. but brett s brother, bobby, felt the trial only confirmed
of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. we get a lot more training. we get a lot more exposure to the scientific side of things. and that morning doug monty was the agent that showed up to the house to have a look around. if you looked at it from the front of the house all you really noticed was the fact that part of the roof had collapsed and as you made your way around back there was very, very heavy fire damage to include collapse of the second and third floor, which is significant. so really you had the front facade that was up and the rest of it was badly damaged. it wasn t down but anybody going down could tell there was a very significant fire that occurred inside. on the second and third floors. and you heard there was a body inside. did you hear anything else about it? normally when i arrive at a scene like that i ll meet with the on-scene investigators, the fire chief, local officers and they had informed me that as the first arriving officer got there he made contact
children, kind of bookmarked with the stream that you usually find in those types of books was what appeared to be a note to her two children and to brett. and in that note she s trying to explain, tell the children i love them and she d tell her children to keep take care of each other and made the comment and brett, i took care of the house for you. the note also said she d be watching over her sons from heaven. all those words on that page seemed pretty clear, it was a goodbye note. investigators also talked to vashti s friends and family, colleagues at cox communications, where she worked in human resources, and others who knew her well. they said vashti had been going to a therapist for several months, that she d been losing a lot of weight recently and taking the hormonal supplement hcg. could it have affected her mood? brett s half brother bobby was dumbstruck by what happened, couldn t comprehend it, so he
sitting by herself in the house while her young sons were hunting for easter eggs outside. she was not typical vashti who was usually bubbly and talkative and it was unusual that an easter egg hunt occurred and she didn t even get off the couch and come outside. bobby and his wife noticed. asked how she was doing. all she told us that day was she really didn t like work, and work was a struggle for her daily. she said i got into hr to give people a future and hope and i don t remember the last person i hired. according to bobby, vashti said when she had to lay off employees it was difficult for her. especially if she was close to them. she said, if they re not your friends, they take the news and they leave. if they re your friend, they stay in your office and cry on your shoulder for an hour. as brett filled his half brother in on everything, bobby came to understand that apparently the emotions of vashti s job, the strain of her divorce, her depression, and brett s threat