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i thought that if my mother wasn t there my life would be different, i could take care of my brothers. i just lost it. a lot of things build up. the anger build up. there was times that i wished my mother dead. but i hadn t planned on doing this. which brings us back to that fateful night in october. susan and her brothers went to bed after watching a scary movie. in the middle of the night susan grabbed the gun from her mother s dresser and shot her in the chest while she was sleeping. i called the police. i went in my brothers room, told them to get dressed. i wiped the prints off the gun. of course this was something that i ve seen on tv. or i wouldn t have known to do this. one of the movies. you know, i m laughing out of embarrassment. but when police arrived, she told them she saw someone run out the door and drive off. ....
just when susan felt like she had finally started to heal, her brother david came to her and said detectives wanted to reinvestigate the case. but susan s husband, john, had no idea about her deep, dark secret. now she had to tell john what really happened to her mother. she told me that she had killed her mother. and i wasn t ready to hear that. that just it blew me back. and it was such a shock. and i told him that this was something i tried to put behind me. i didn t think about this. and you know, he wouldn t like me if he knew this part about me. no one would. i reached out to her and hugged her and told her that no matter where this goes i m going to be here for you, we re going to get through this. john is a youth counselor who was used to hearing difficult stories. ....
you did in fact shoot the gun and shot that one time? yes. there was only one shot fired? yes. and after that you ran and hid behind the curtain? yes. the pain of testifying in an open court came to a stop when susan got some welcome news. the state cut a deal with her. as far as i understand, there s been a plea negotiation in this case? yes, your honor. the state at this time is willing to withdraw the charge of murder and place a charge of manslaughter. susan pleaded guilty to manslaughter and avoided a long and painful trial. she was now a confessed killer, but she was not sent to jail. that s because the court treated her as a juvenile and the judge believed she had already been rehabilitated. i just wish that it had been different. i as an adult today understand a lot that i didn t back then. ....
Brothers until my deathbed. i was going to write a letter and have it in the will and when i die, you know, explain to them. because they were all i had. but of course, they did find out. susan says david, the youngest, was supportive. but george was another story. there s times when i just wanted to go grab her and shake the living life out of her. susan s story made headlines. she had tried so hard to forget about the past, and now everyone knew she killed her mother. i just knew that people were going to hate me, no one was going like me. i was afraid to even come back to schenectady. coming up, susan s husband reacts to the news of the murder. it was such a shock, i didn t know what to feel. and what would drive a 14-year-old to shoot her mother in cold blood? it wasn t something that was intentional, something planned. ....
Just to be out of the way. you know, she just didn t want to have us around. susan had to grow up quickly and began to feel resentful toward her mother. i began to not like her. i began to hate her. i began to hate my life for that matter. my mother was a strict mother. so you think your sister was just fed up with the strictness around the house, that she wanted to be set free? right. but susan says it was more than that. she felt rejected. i never knew my mother. i didn t feel love. if anything, i felt like we were a burden on her. i firmly believe that susan was trapped. she had no place to turn. not only trapped, she told detectives, it wasn t only a strict and loveless home but one that was abusive. she says her mother beat her and her brothers often. ....