groel and nice. fellow sales associate ellen pratt. i was as shocked as anybody could be at the final outcome of his story. we believe around the end of 2008, beginning of 2001, they started having some marital strife. he was saying shelves not acting as she had before, there was some allegations that she had been going through money very quickly. at some point they decide to take a trip to new orleans. i think that was sort of an attempt to see if they can make the marriage work. from what i understand, the trip to new orleans was actually fairly successful. patrick chronicles the journey on facebook, chronicleing this photo with the caption, good thing starla didn t see this. despite the innocent facade, they are exploring the transgression, of the big easy,
my stomach dropped. as the man prosecutors call witness no. 1 records him with a hidden camera, patrick reacts with calculated detachment, proof authorities say the air force veteran truly wanted his wife killed. i don t know why he doesn t consider divorce instead of murder. maybe there was some sort of warrior fantasy involved. maybe there is something deeper inside of him that preferred the violent option. maybe there was an antipathy. maintains he s nonchalant because he s afraid of a man who fabricated a story about murdering starla and throwing her body in the lake. i still talk to him. starla s mother believes her former son-in-law. i even talked to his mother. we was pretty much his parents and me was both in the dark with all this stuff that went on.
in his version, his family falls apart, starla becomes violent, erratic and a danger to herself and others. she s disgraced. she s disgraced everything, herself, family, me, you. she didn t disgrace me. everything she touched, man, she wrecks people. even after starla leaves and relocates to new orleans, patrick maintains it s the witness who orchestrates the plot. in a letter to msnbc, patrick writes, he spoke of killer women who came to murder their exs. he had through his manipulations made starla into a clear and present danger and then projected himself as the solution i eventually submitted to his way of thinking and agreed to the crime. it s hard to know exactly what happened, who put that idea out there, but from what the tapes show, mr. schmore was dead
surveillance camera is a far different one than the one on his facebook page snuggleing with his wife along virginia s blue ridge parkway. obviously, he was struggling with demons of his own. the assistant u.s. attorney nancy healey. something made him snap. patrick, a former boyscout from washington state meets starla both serving from virginia s langley av. i loved him. he was a sweetheart. starla s mother, regina knight has fond memories of the outdoor wedding. it was a beautiful day. i thought he really loved my daughter. he was a very caring son-in-law. after the air force, patrick and starla move into this condo complex. she takes a job as a lab technician on the historic ground of the university of virginia. he begins working at keller williams realty. patrick was querky, funny and
set on seeing this accomplished. starla did not respond to msnbc s interview request, but regina knight says her daughter forgives patrick. some have said, why are you defending him? you know, he was trying to kill your daughter? i just felt like this lord was in control, so why should i be angry? he didn t kill my daughter. that s the blessing of it. patrick accepts his fate, taking up painting as well as teachingio sga and meditation to other inmates in prison. he doesn t argue that he s innocent. he is chagrinned, embarrassed, so sorry and wanting to, you know, live the life that he should have been living all along. it s a lesson, there are probably a lot of lesssons, don t plan to kill your wife. better know your friends. with all the technology, all