1 00:00:08,021 --> 00:00:10,021 - [call ringing] 2 00:00:26,021 --> 00:00:28,021 - EARL: It looked like she had been strangled, stabbed, 3 00:00:28,021 --> 00:00:31,021 and beat in the head. To me, that's definite overkill. 4 00:00:31,021 --> 00:00:33,021 - SUSANNE: I see my mother laying there, 5 00:00:33,021 --> 00:00:35,021 I assume she was hurt, there was a knife stickin' out, 6 00:00:35,021 --> 00:00:37,021 I mean, I figured she fell. 7 00:00:37,021 --> 00:00:39,021 - RICHARD: Whenever someone of considerable wealth 8 00:00:39,021 --> 00:00:42,021 is murdered, we look at who has a motive. 9 00:00:42,021 --> 00:00:45,021 - SUSANNE: They were already trying to focus in on me. 10 00:00:45,021 --> 00:00:46,021 "Where was I? What was I doing?" 11 00:00:46,021 --> 00:00:50,021 - DARCY: It was all about greed and money... 12 00:00:50,021 --> 00:00:53,021 who has access to the house. 13 00:00:53,021 --> 00:00:54,021 - MALE NARRATOR: Five unique perspectives. 14 00:00:54,021 --> 00:00:59,021 Five points of view. One murder. 15 00:00:59,021 --> 00:01:00,021 - SUSANNE: I'm Peggy Nadell's daughter. 16 00:01:00,021 --> 00:01:01,021 - EARL: I was the lead detective. 17 00:01:01,021 --> 00:01:03,021 - DARCY: I am a longtime friend of Susanne. 18 00:01:03,021 --> 00:01:05,021 - ANNE: I was a close friend of Peggy Nadell. 19 00:01:05,021 --> 00:01:07,021 - RICHARD: --and I was the prosecutor. 20 00:01:07,021 --> 00:01:09,021 - ♪♪ 21 00:01:12,021 --> 00:01:17,021 - ♪ 22 00:01:17,021 --> 00:01:20,021 - SUSANNE: My name is Susanne Nadell-Scaccio 23 00:01:20,021 --> 00:01:23,021 and I'm Peggy Nadell's daughter. 24 00:01:23,021 --> 00:01:27,021 My relationship with Peggy was very close, as I would say 25 00:01:27,021 --> 00:01:31,021 most daughters and mothers' relationships are. 26 00:01:33,021 --> 00:01:36,021 My mother and father made a very, very handsome couple. 27 00:01:36,021 --> 00:01:37,021 They were striking. 28 00:01:37,021 --> 00:01:41,021 My mother used to like to go to the city and to the museum 29 00:01:41,021 --> 00:01:44,021 and to theater and movies. 30 00:01:45,021 --> 00:01:47,021 They loved to travel. 31 00:01:47,021 --> 00:01:49,021 They traveled all over the world together. 32 00:01:51,021 --> 00:01:55,021 When I was three... 33 00:01:56,021 --> 00:01:57,021 my brother, Jimmy, came into the world. 34 00:01:57,021 --> 00:02:01,021 - ♪ 35 00:02:01,021 --> 00:02:06,021 - I think my brother developed-- 36 00:02:06,021 --> 00:02:08,021 it's--it's hard to put my finger on. 37 00:02:08,021 --> 00:02:11,021 I think he was a strange adolescent, and he developed 38 00:02:11,021 --> 00:02:15,021 into a strange adult. 39 00:02:15,021 --> 00:02:18,021 His differences... spoke volumes. 40 00:02:18,021 --> 00:02:21,021 Uh, he was not social. 41 00:02:21,021 --> 00:02:23,021 He was very cerebral. 42 00:02:23,021 --> 00:02:25,021 He went away to school. 43 00:02:27,021 --> 00:02:29,021 Moved to Florida. 44 00:02:29,021 --> 00:02:32,021 Never came home to see my family, 45 00:02:32,021 --> 00:02:34,021 never came home to see my parents. 46 00:02:40,021 --> 00:02:45,021 My father passed away in 2003 very unexpectedly. 47 00:02:45,021 --> 00:02:47,021 And it was devastating. 48 00:02:47,021 --> 00:02:51,021 I knew that my mother would want me to be strong. 49 00:02:51,021 --> 00:02:52,021 And I didn't wanna let her down, 50 00:02:52,021 --> 00:02:55,021 I wanted to be as strong as she was. 51 00:02:58,021 --> 00:03:01,021 My relationship with my mother was very close. 52 00:03:01,021 --> 00:03:05,021 I would speak to her probably two or three times a day. 53 00:03:05,021 --> 00:03:10,021 Not a day ever went by that I didn't either see-- 54 00:03:10,021 --> 00:03:11,021 physically see, visit-- 55 00:03:11,021 --> 00:03:14,021 or have phone conversation with my mother. 56 00:03:16,021 --> 00:03:22,021 - ♪ 57 00:03:23,021 --> 00:03:24,021 - SUSANNE: Saturday morning, I always call between, 58 00:03:24,021 --> 00:03:27,021 I don't know 7:30, 8 o'clock, 59 00:03:27,021 --> 00:03:30,021 8, 8:30 on the weekends. 60 00:03:30,021 --> 00:03:34,021 I tried the house phone, it was ringing, ringing, ringing... 61 00:03:34,021 --> 00:03:37,021 the answering machine never kicked on. 62 00:03:37,021 --> 00:03:41,021 I called the cell, ringing, ringing, ringing, ringing, 63 00:03:41,021 --> 00:03:43,021 I said, uh, "You know, maybe she went out 64 00:03:43,021 --> 00:03:44,021 "to the end of the driveway to get the newspaper 65 00:03:45,021 --> 00:03:48,021 or to put something in the mailbox." 66 00:03:48,021 --> 00:03:50,021 I musta called a dozen times to each number 67 00:03:50,021 --> 00:03:52,021 and she was not picking it up. 68 00:03:52,021 --> 00:03:55,021 So, I told my husband Bobby, "I'm going down there. 69 00:03:55,021 --> 00:03:56,021 "My mother's not answering the phone, 70 00:03:56,021 --> 00:03:58,021 I wanna make sure everything's okay." 71 00:04:03,021 --> 00:04:06,021 I open the door, and I realize the alarm wasn't on. 72 00:04:06,021 --> 00:04:09,021 I'm like, "Gee, why wasn't the alarm on?" 73 00:04:09,021 --> 00:04:12,021 I walked in and I found her. 74 00:04:12,021 --> 00:04:17,021 And I immediately ran over, and the first thing I noticed, 75 00:04:17,021 --> 00:04:20,021 she was...bashed in the head and she was bleeding. 76 00:04:21,021 --> 00:04:23,021 And I saw blood coming out around her eyes and her nose 77 00:04:23,021 --> 00:04:24,021 and the side of her mouth. 78 00:04:25,021 --> 00:04:27,021 I said, "Oh, my God, she fell down the stairs." 79 00:04:28,021 --> 00:04:32,021 Once I got in and got close... 80 00:04:32,021 --> 00:04:34,021 I saw it was more than a fall down the stairs. 81 00:04:36,021 --> 00:04:39,021 The knife was stuck in Peggy's chest, 82 00:04:39,021 --> 00:04:41,021 and I'm like, "Oh my God, she stabbed herself," 83 00:04:41,021 --> 00:04:44,021 and I pulled the knife out. 84 00:04:44,021 --> 00:04:46,021 And I was gonna do CPR, and I checked for a pulse. 85 00:04:46,021 --> 00:04:50,021 And she was cold, I'm like-- 86 00:04:50,021 --> 00:04:52,021 and then I realize I could-- I--you know, I mean-- 87 00:04:52,021 --> 00:04:54,021 everybody says, "What'd you do that for? 88 00:04:55,021 --> 00:04:56,021 What are you thinking?" It-- - [fingers snap] 89 00:04:57,021 --> 00:04:59,021 - --you just react, I mean, you don't-- 90 00:04:59,021 --> 00:05:01,021 you don't think about what you're doing. 91 00:05:05,021 --> 00:05:08,021 I ran outside. I call 911. 92 00:05:08,021 --> 00:05:08,021 - [call ringing] 93 00:05:26,021 --> 00:05:28,021 - [sirens blaring] 94 00:05:28,021 --> 00:05:30,021 - SUSANNE: When the police showed up, 95 00:05:30,021 --> 00:05:35,021 they kept me outside, and they were asking me questions. 96 00:05:35,021 --> 00:05:38,021 And at that point, they wanted to take both myself 97 00:05:38,021 --> 00:05:40,021 and my husband, Bobby, down to the police station, 98 00:05:41,021 --> 00:05:43,021 so I had no choice but to go. 99 00:05:44,021 --> 00:05:49,021 - ♪ 100 00:05:49,021 --> 00:05:50,021 - SUSANNE: When I was in the police station 101 00:05:50,021 --> 00:05:53,021 being interviewed that Saturday, they came in to me and said, 102 00:05:54,021 --> 00:05:56,021 "This was not an accident. 103 00:05:56,021 --> 00:05:59,021 "Your mother did not fall. 104 00:05:59,021 --> 00:06:01,021 Your mother was murdered." 105 00:06:03,021 --> 00:06:07,021 I was shocked, and I could not possibly conceive 106 00:06:07,021 --> 00:06:09,021 who would do this to my mother. 107 00:06:09,021 --> 00:06:12,021 And that's when they started asking questions. 108 00:06:14,021 --> 00:06:18,021 I told them that I pulled the knife. 109 00:06:18,021 --> 00:06:22,021 I said I was trying to do CPR on her and then I realized 110 00:06:22,021 --> 00:06:23,021 it was past that point. 111 00:06:23,021 --> 00:06:25,021 I also told them, "My fingerprints will 112 00:06:25,021 --> 00:06:26,021 "definitely be on the knife, 113 00:06:26,021 --> 00:06:28,021 "as my DNA will be all over this house, 114 00:06:28,021 --> 00:06:30,021 "I'm here two, three times a week. 115 00:06:31,021 --> 00:06:31,021 "My hair'll be here, 116 00:06:32,021 --> 00:06:34,021 my fingerprints'll be on every doorknob." 117 00:06:35,021 --> 00:06:38,021 I think at this point they were already trying to focus in on me 118 00:06:38,021 --> 00:06:41,021 being that they had me in the police station for several hours 119 00:06:41,021 --> 00:06:42,021 and were asking me questions. 120 00:06:42,021 --> 00:06:44,021 I'm like, "Why are you asking me that question?" 121 00:07:01,021 --> 00:07:05,021 - SUSANNE: The following day, which was Sunday, 122 00:07:05,021 --> 00:07:08,021 the detectives called me and asked me to come down 123 00:07:08,021 --> 00:07:11,021 to the police station to talk to them. 124 00:07:11,021 --> 00:07:16,021 And at that point, I felt it was being directed at me. 125 00:07:16,021 --> 00:07:20,021 And I'm like, "Well, wait a second. 126 00:07:21,021 --> 00:07:25,021 I don't wanna talk to you now," and I hired an attorney. 127 00:07:25,021 --> 00:07:27,021 They didn't like that. 128 00:07:32,021 --> 00:07:34,021 - ♪ 129 00:07:34,021 --> 00:07:36,021 - EARL: My name is Earl Lorence. 130 00:07:37,021 --> 00:07:38,021 I was the lead detective 131 00:07:38,021 --> 00:07:41,021 working the murder of Peggy Nadell. 132 00:07:45,021 --> 00:07:48,021 The morning of January 25, 2014, 133 00:07:48,021 --> 00:07:52,021 I was the assigned detective working that weekend. 134 00:07:52,021 --> 00:07:54,021 So, at around 8 o'clock that morning, 135 00:07:54,021 --> 00:07:56,021 I was at the local bagel store. 136 00:07:56,021 --> 00:07:59,021 That's where I received the phone call. 137 00:07:59,021 --> 00:08:01,021 The desk sergeant said that there was a death 138 00:08:01,021 --> 00:08:04,021 of an elderly woman inside her residence, 139 00:08:04,021 --> 00:08:07,021 and that she had slipped and fallen on a knife. 140 00:08:07,021 --> 00:08:10,021 - [sirens blaring] 141 00:08:10,021 --> 00:08:12,021 - EARL: The house, uh, is in an upper middle-class 142 00:08:12,021 --> 00:08:14,021 neighborhood in Valley Cottage, New York. 143 00:08:15,021 --> 00:08:17,021 Very tidy, very well-kept. 144 00:08:19,021 --> 00:08:23,021 The daughter of the victim, Susanne Nadell-Scaccio, 145 00:08:23,021 --> 00:08:26,021 she was, um, in a frantic state, 146 00:08:26,021 --> 00:08:30,021 um, panicked, yelling, screaming. 147 00:08:34,021 --> 00:08:40,021 Upon entering the home, uh, the victim was just inside 148 00:08:40,021 --> 00:08:42,021 the threshold of the doorway, 149 00:08:42,021 --> 00:08:43,021 uh, at the base of the stairwell. 150 00:08:43,021 --> 00:08:47,021 You try not to harden yourself too much to each situation, 151 00:08:47,021 --> 00:08:49,021 so, um, at this moment, it really did kind of hit-- 152 00:08:49,021 --> 00:08:52,021 hit home because this was an 80-year-old woman 153 00:08:52,021 --> 00:08:54,021 at home alone. 154 00:08:54,021 --> 00:08:57,021 My mother is 80 years old, she lives alone. 155 00:08:57,021 --> 00:08:59,021 That does have a personal connection there, 156 00:08:59,021 --> 00:09:02,021 so you wanna do all you can. 157 00:09:04,021 --> 00:09:07,021 My first instinct, uh, obviously was that 158 00:09:08,021 --> 00:09:10,021 it was a homicide. 159 00:09:10,021 --> 00:09:12,021 There was no way she accidentally fell 160 00:09:12,021 --> 00:09:14,021 down the stairs and stabbed herself in the chest 161 00:09:14,021 --> 00:09:15,021 three times. 162 00:09:18,021 --> 00:09:19,021 We saw the knife, which was very obvious, 163 00:09:19,021 --> 00:09:21,021 a few feet away from the victim. 164 00:09:21,021 --> 00:09:24,021 She had obvious trauma to her head. 165 00:09:24,021 --> 00:09:26,021 She also had what appeared to be a least 166 00:09:26,021 --> 00:09:31,021 one or two stab wounds to her chest. 167 00:09:31,021 --> 00:09:34,021 Her neck, uh, appeared to be quite bruised, 168 00:09:34,021 --> 00:09:36,021 black and blue. 169 00:09:36,021 --> 00:09:39,021 Now, it looked like she possibly was strangled, 170 00:09:39,021 --> 00:09:40,021 it looked like she was stabbed, 171 00:09:40,021 --> 00:09:42,021 and she looked like she was beat in the head. 172 00:09:42,021 --> 00:09:45,021 Now, uh, to me, that's definite overkill. 173 00:09:47,021 --> 00:09:50,021 The first thing I want to determine is: 174 00:09:50,021 --> 00:09:52,021 is there a break-in? 175 00:09:52,021 --> 00:09:56,021 I looked at the front door and there was no apparent, uh, 176 00:09:56,021 --> 00:09:59,021 force used to get into the house. 177 00:10:00,021 --> 00:10:04,021 I walked upstairs and went to the master bedroom. 178 00:10:04,021 --> 00:10:07,021 There was drawers pulled out and placed on the floor, 179 00:10:07,021 --> 00:10:10,021 totally out of place because you don't put them on the ground 180 00:10:10,021 --> 00:10:14,021 like that, so it looked like a staged burglary. 181 00:10:14,021 --> 00:10:18,021 - ♪ 182 00:10:18,021 --> 00:10:21,021 - At that time, uh, Susanne, understandably, 183 00:10:21,021 --> 00:10:24,021 was, um, stressed out. 184 00:10:24,021 --> 00:10:25,021 She wanted us out of there. 185 00:10:25,021 --> 00:10:27,021 She wanted us to be-- clean up the scene, 186 00:10:28,021 --> 00:10:30,021 get her mother in an ambulance and take her to the hospital. 187 00:10:34,021 --> 00:10:37,021 There were red flags immediately with this investigation. 188 00:10:37,021 --> 00:10:39,021 One of the very first things she says 189 00:10:39,021 --> 00:10:42,021 within the first couple minutes of us arriving is that 190 00:10:42,021 --> 00:10:44,021 her mother is worth high seven figures. 191 00:10:44,021 --> 00:10:46,021 "Oh, and my DNA and my fingerprints are gonna be 192 00:10:46,021 --> 00:10:49,021 all over that house and that knife." 193 00:10:49,021 --> 00:10:55,021 It just seemed like an odd, uh, thing to focus in on. 194 00:10:55,021 --> 00:10:58,021 Um, it struck me as odd. 195 00:11:00,021 --> 00:11:04,021 Because she was so, um, erratic, um, 196 00:11:04,021 --> 00:11:07,021 it took a long time to kind of settle her down 197 00:11:07,021 --> 00:11:11,021 and to get her to go back to the station and just talk 198 00:11:11,021 --> 00:11:14,021 about who may or may not have done this thing. 199 00:11:21,021 --> 00:11:26,021 Susanne, she said she came to the home--her mother's home-- 200 00:11:26,021 --> 00:11:28,021 and when she opened the door, obviously she saw that 201 00:11:28,021 --> 00:11:30,021 her mother had the knife in her chest, 202 00:11:30,021 --> 00:11:33,021 and she pulled the knife out. 203 00:11:45,021 --> 00:11:51,021 - EARL: That was, uh, a big concern for us. 204 00:11:51,021 --> 00:11:54,021 Why would you touch the murder weapon? 205 00:11:58,021 --> 00:12:00,021 - EARL: With Susanne, we basically just wanted 206 00:12:00,021 --> 00:12:01,021 to go back the last couple of days. 207 00:12:01,021 --> 00:12:04,021 Um, we wanted to know what she was doing, 208 00:12:04,021 --> 00:12:08,021 where she was going, um, where she had been. 209 00:12:08,021 --> 00:12:11,021 We spoke to her for a number of hours, 210 00:12:11,021 --> 00:12:13,021 but these investigations take time, 211 00:12:13,021 --> 00:12:15,021 we might have to revisit the same witness 212 00:12:15,021 --> 00:12:17,021 over and over again. 213 00:12:18,021 --> 00:12:21,021 So, we made an appointment for the following day. 214 00:12:26,021 --> 00:12:30,021 The next day, she hired an attorney 215 00:12:30,021 --> 00:12:33,021 and stopped talking to us. 216 00:12:33,021 --> 00:12:35,021 She refused to cooperate. 217 00:12:35,021 --> 00:12:38,021 To me, the biggest red flag of all 218 00:12:38,021 --> 00:12:40,021 is when you hire an attorney 219 00:12:40,021 --> 00:12:44,021 and refuse to help law enforcement 220 00:12:44,021 --> 00:12:47,021 when your own mother is the murder victim. 221 00:12:47,021 --> 00:12:50,021 So, if you don't wanna help the people who are trying 222 00:12:50,021 --> 00:12:52,021 to find the people who killed your mother, 223 00:12:52,021 --> 00:12:53,021 who are you going to help? 224 00:12:54,021 --> 00:12:57,021 After Susanne, um, told us that 225 00:12:57,021 --> 00:12:58,021 she wasn't going to cooperate any further, 226 00:12:58,021 --> 00:13:01,021 we had to re-focus our energies. 227 00:13:01,021 --> 00:13:05,021 As it turns out, there was no DNA evidence. 228 00:13:05,021 --> 00:13:07,021 There was no fingerprints, there was no hair, saliva. 229 00:13:08,021 --> 00:13:10,021 Nothing. 230 00:13:11,021 --> 00:13:13,021 We were beyond frustrated. 231 00:13:13,021 --> 00:13:15,021 But, obviously, we didn't stop, uh, 232 00:13:15,021 --> 00:13:17,021 we kept--we kept digging. 233 00:13:17,021 --> 00:13:21,021 We had to keep moving forward. We go back to basics. 234 00:13:21,021 --> 00:13:22,021 We take a look at the phone records for Peggy. 235 00:13:22,021 --> 00:13:25,021 At--at the same time, we're getting, uh, 236 00:13:25,021 --> 00:13:28,021 her son's phone records and, uh, 237 00:13:28,021 --> 00:13:30,021 her daughter-in-law's phone records, as well. 238 00:13:30,021 --> 00:13:34,021 I was parsing through each individual phone call. 239 00:13:34,021 --> 00:13:35,021 I got to, like, the sixth number, 240 00:13:35,021 --> 00:13:38,021 and we discover a phone call 241 00:13:38,021 --> 00:13:39,021 at approximately 1:30 in the morning 242 00:13:39,021 --> 00:13:43,021 the night of the homicide, coming from a throw phone. 243 00:13:43,021 --> 00:13:45,021 The burner phone-- I was ecstatic. 244 00:13:48,021 --> 00:13:53,021 We also get a notification from the alarm company 245 00:13:53,021 --> 00:13:55,021 that she had spoken to the alarm company, 246 00:13:55,021 --> 00:13:58,021 because the alarm went off around the same time. 247 00:13:58,021 --> 00:14:01,021 So, we actually have Peggy's voice speaking 248 00:14:01,021 --> 00:14:06,021 to the alarm company, telling the alarm, uh, dispatcher 249 00:14:06,021 --> 00:14:08,021 that everything is okay. 250 00:14:09,021 --> 00:14:10,021 - [call ringing] 251 00:14:26,021 --> 00:14:29,021 - EARL: It was about a, uh, 20-second phone call, 252 00:14:29,021 --> 00:14:35,021 and in conjunction with that, the alarm going off, 253 00:14:35,021 --> 00:14:38,021 and no forced entry at the front door, 254 00:14:38,021 --> 00:14:42,021 at that point, we were positive this was not a stranger 255 00:14:42,021 --> 00:14:44,021 lurking around the neighborhood killing old ladies. 256 00:14:44,021 --> 00:14:46,021 This was somebody that Peggy knew. 257 00:14:46,021 --> 00:14:48,021 - ♪♪ 258 00:14:49,021 --> 00:14:54,021 - ♪ 259 00:14:55,021 --> 00:14:58,021 - ANNE: I'm Anne Martin and I was a close friend 260 00:14:58,021 --> 00:15:00,021 of Peggy Nadell. 261 00:15:03,021 --> 00:15:07,021 When I found out that Peggy was murdered, 262 00:15:07,021 --> 00:15:11,021 I mean, I just...I-- I just couldn't believe it. 263 00:15:11,021 --> 00:15:13,021 It was Sunday morning. 264 00:15:14,021 --> 00:15:17,021 I remember picking up the phone and Susie's hysterical, 265 00:15:17,021 --> 00:15:20,021 and she's saying, "My mother's gone, 266 00:15:20,021 --> 00:15:21,021 my mother's gone." 267 00:15:34,021 --> 00:15:36,021 - ANNE: She just didn't even know what to do. 268 00:15:36,021 --> 00:15:38,021 The police were questioning her. 269 00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:40,021 I think she was just in a state of shock. 270 00:15:40,021 --> 00:15:43,021 It was unbelievable. 271 00:15:43,021 --> 00:15:46,021 People were saying, "Oh, well, she could've done it. 272 00:15:46,021 --> 00:15:48,021 Why did she pull the knife out?" 273 00:15:49,021 --> 00:15:51,021 Well, I'm sure if I saw my mother, 274 00:15:51,021 --> 00:15:52,021 her lying there, I would think, 275 00:15:53,021 --> 00:15:56,021 "My goodness, maybe this hurts," I don't know. 276 00:15:57,021 --> 00:16:00,021 You don't know what you would do if you're in that situation. 277 00:16:01,021 --> 00:16:03,021 - ♪ 278 00:16:03,021 --> 00:16:05,021 - ANNE: The detectives came to my home 279 00:16:06,021 --> 00:16:11,021 probably one or two days right after that. 280 00:16:11,021 --> 00:16:12,021 You know, asking me all kinds of questions, 281 00:16:12,021 --> 00:16:15,021 and of course, they--they did ask me 282 00:16:15,021 --> 00:16:18,021 what kind of a relationship she had with her children. 283 00:16:24,021 --> 00:16:27,021 Jimmy and Susie, they were both--I'd say different. 284 00:16:27,021 --> 00:16:32,021 Susie was, uh, strong minded, she knew what she wanted. 285 00:16:32,021 --> 00:16:33,021 She could take care of herself. 286 00:16:33,021 --> 00:16:37,021 Peggy was more protective of Jimmy. 287 00:16:37,021 --> 00:16:39,021 - ♪ 288 00:16:39,021 --> 00:16:41,021 - ANNE: I think Peggy probably worried about Jimmy 289 00:16:41,021 --> 00:16:45,021 a little more because he was far away, 290 00:16:45,021 --> 00:16:49,021 and he did march to a different drummer. 291 00:16:49,021 --> 00:16:53,021 After he graduated college, when he went to live in Florida. 292 00:16:55,021 --> 00:16:59,021 He started to work for a hospital as a psychologist 293 00:16:59,021 --> 00:17:03,021 and that's where he met Diana. 294 00:17:03,021 --> 00:17:08,021 They went together for several years before, uh, 295 00:17:08,021 --> 00:17:11,021 they had any intentions of getting married. 296 00:17:11,021 --> 00:17:14,021 When Peggy found out that Diana was pregnant, 297 00:17:14,021 --> 00:17:15,021 she was delighted. 298 00:17:15,021 --> 00:17:17,021 She was besides herself. 299 00:17:18,021 --> 00:17:22,021 Uh, Peggy would fly to Florida to help. 300 00:17:23,021 --> 00:17:24,021 When Peggy would talk about her grandchildren, 301 00:17:24,021 --> 00:17:28,021 her--her whole face would just light up. 302 00:17:28,021 --> 00:17:30,021 She just thought the world of them. 303 00:17:32,021 --> 00:17:37,021 Diana, she liked to have designer clothes, 304 00:17:37,021 --> 00:17:39,021 she liked nice jewelry, 305 00:17:39,021 --> 00:17:40,021 they couldn't really afford all these things, 306 00:17:40,021 --> 00:17:43,021 and then she would depend on Peggy. 307 00:17:46,021 --> 00:17:50,021 I think the issues started to come up between Peggy and Diana 308 00:17:50,021 --> 00:17:55,021 when Diana started to become a little too demanding. 309 00:17:55,021 --> 00:17:58,021 Peggy was always sending them money. 310 00:17:58,021 --> 00:18:01,021 Peggy said, "You know, Diana, this is just a little bit 311 00:18:01,021 --> 00:18:04,021 too much, uh, you know, I won't go along with this." 312 00:18:04,021 --> 00:18:08,021 Diana says, "Well, if you won't come across 313 00:18:08,021 --> 00:18:11,021 with the money," she says, "I just won't let you 314 00:18:11,021 --> 00:18:12,021 see the children." 315 00:18:12,021 --> 00:18:16,021 Well, that just absolutely devastated Peggy. 316 00:18:16,021 --> 00:18:20,021 I mean, not be able to see or talk to her grandchildren 317 00:18:21,021 --> 00:18:25,021 was horrible, it was a terrible thing to do. 318 00:18:25,021 --> 00:18:28,021 Peggy did mention to me that they were having problems-- 319 00:18:28,021 --> 00:18:33,021 Diana and Jimmy-- and that they might separate. 320 00:18:33,021 --> 00:18:35,021 And of course, Peggy was concerned. 321 00:18:35,021 --> 00:18:36,021 I mean, she was concerned about her son, 322 00:18:37,021 --> 00:18:41,021 his happiness, and how this was gonna affect him. 323 00:18:45,021 --> 00:18:48,021 Peggy was very astute when it came to finances. 324 00:18:48,021 --> 00:18:51,021 She had her will and her trust, everything was in order, 325 00:18:51,021 --> 00:18:55,021 and everything was divided equally 326 00:18:55,021 --> 00:18:57,021 between her son and her daughter. 327 00:18:58,021 --> 00:19:00,021 They were to get the bulk of her estate. 328 00:19:02,021 --> 00:19:05,021 She made it clear that if they ever separated 329 00:19:05,021 --> 00:19:10,021 or divorced that, you know, Jimmy was to get the money 330 00:19:10,021 --> 00:19:13,021 and that Diana was not to get any of Peggy's estate, 331 00:19:13,021 --> 00:19:16,021 none--none whatsoever. 332 00:19:16,021 --> 00:19:20,021 So, Diana, when she found out that this was so, 333 00:19:20,021 --> 00:19:24,021 of course, was not very happy. 334 00:19:25,021 --> 00:19:28,021 After Peggy died, she came in, she's putting her name 335 00:19:28,021 --> 00:19:31,021 on everything she wanted. 336 00:19:31,021 --> 00:19:35,021 She wanted Peggy's jewelry, she wanted Peggy's purses. 337 00:19:35,021 --> 00:19:38,021 Peggy had a lot of nice handbags. 338 00:19:38,021 --> 00:19:42,021 Uh, she wanted the furniture from the house. 339 00:19:43,021 --> 00:19:46,021 You start thinking and putting two and two together, 340 00:19:46,021 --> 00:19:50,021 and you're thinking, "Oh, she has a good motive. 341 00:19:51,021 --> 00:19:55,021 It's very possible that she would do something like this." 342 00:20:05,021 --> 00:20:08,021 - ♪ 343 00:20:08,021 --> 00:20:09,021 - DARCY: My name is Darcy Greenberg 344 00:20:09,021 --> 00:20:12,021 and I am a longtime friend of Susanne. 345 00:20:19,021 --> 00:20:22,021 After Susanne got out of the police station, 346 00:20:22,021 --> 00:20:24,021 I was waiting for her at her home, 347 00:20:24,021 --> 00:20:27,021 and we were treating it as an accident. 348 00:20:27,021 --> 00:20:30,021 We were, you know, comforting her, 349 00:20:30,021 --> 00:20:32,021 'cause her mother fell with a knife. 350 00:20:32,021 --> 00:20:38,021 It's--it's a different feeling when you're comforting someone 351 00:20:38,021 --> 00:20:41,021 for a--a tragic loss like that, 352 00:20:42,021 --> 00:20:46,021 and then you get accused of being the one that did it. 353 00:20:46,021 --> 00:20:48,021 That changes everything. 354 00:20:50,021 --> 00:20:52,021 Sometimes I think the authorities say, 355 00:20:52,021 --> 00:20:54,021 "Who has access to the house? 356 00:20:54,021 --> 00:20:58,021 And 95% of the time, its family. Oh, it must be her." 357 00:21:00,021 --> 00:21:02,021 Every day I was at her home, 358 00:21:02,021 --> 00:21:04,021 we would wave to the undercover cop 359 00:21:04,021 --> 00:21:06,021 sitting in front of her house. 360 00:21:06,021 --> 00:21:09,021 They watched every move she made. 361 00:21:09,021 --> 00:21:13,021 They had to become more intimate with the family, 362 00:21:13,021 --> 00:21:16,021 with Susanne, with Peggy, 363 00:21:16,021 --> 00:21:19,021 to really know who could have done this to her. 364 00:21:22,021 --> 00:21:23,021 I had been speaking with the investigator 365 00:21:23,021 --> 00:21:25,021 since the beginning. 366 00:21:26,021 --> 00:21:26,021 You take the information that... 367 00:21:26,021 --> 00:21:29,021 there's a lot of money involved, 368 00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:33,021 and you also take the information of... 369 00:21:33,021 --> 00:21:36,021 a knife being put through someone's heart, 370 00:21:36,021 --> 00:21:40,021 and they tell you that it's most likely a family person. 371 00:21:40,021 --> 00:21:42,021 Somebody that had something to gain. 372 00:21:42,021 --> 00:21:46,021 I looked at them and I'm like, "Everything you're saying 373 00:21:46,021 --> 00:21:50,021 "and the reasons why you think somebody would do this, 374 00:21:50,021 --> 00:21:52,021 "I agree with you, 375 00:21:52,021 --> 00:21:55,021 but you're looking at the wrong person." 376 00:21:55,021 --> 00:21:57,021 I told them Susanne didn't need the money, 377 00:21:57,021 --> 00:21:58,021 she had her own. 378 00:21:58,021 --> 00:22:03,021 Susanne was a laid-back jeans girl 379 00:22:03,021 --> 00:22:06,021 with the same kitchen from the 1960s, 380 00:22:06,021 --> 00:22:11,021 the same furniture her dad picked out when she moved in. 381 00:22:12,021 --> 00:22:17,021 Knowing that it wasn't Susanne...100%, 382 00:22:17,021 --> 00:22:20,021 knowing that they felt it was family, 383 00:22:20,021 --> 00:22:25,021 my instincts was for them to follow the greed, 384 00:22:25,021 --> 00:22:28,021 follow the money, follow Diana. 385 00:22:32,021 --> 00:22:38,021 Anyone who didn't really know Peggy would not know her wealth, 386 00:22:38,021 --> 00:22:41,021 because she was not a flaunter. 387 00:22:41,021 --> 00:22:44,021 She was very smart about how she spent her money, 388 00:22:44,021 --> 00:22:45,021 who she spent it on. 389 00:22:47,021 --> 00:22:51,021 Peggy was always financially providing 390 00:22:51,021 --> 00:22:54,021 whatever Diana needed because it was important to her 391 00:22:54,021 --> 00:22:57,021 to have a good relationship with Diana, 392 00:22:57,021 --> 00:22:57,021 to be able to have that good relationship 393 00:22:57,021 --> 00:23:00,021 with her grandchildren. 394 00:23:00,021 --> 00:23:03,021 Most of the money would just go directly to Diana. 395 00:23:03,021 --> 00:23:06,021 She was in charge of the household, the bills, 396 00:23:06,021 --> 00:23:09,021 the money, all of that. Jimmy trusted her. 397 00:23:09,021 --> 00:23:11,021 From what the police told me, when they spoke to her, 398 00:23:11,021 --> 00:23:15,021 she was at her cousin's wedding in Maryland 399 00:23:15,021 --> 00:23:19,021 and her phone pinged in Maryland. 400 00:23:19,021 --> 00:23:21,021 And as far as they were concerned, 401 00:23:21,021 --> 00:23:23,021 that's where she was. 402 00:23:23,021 --> 00:23:26,021 I don't know, maybe I watch too much TV. 403 00:23:26,021 --> 00:23:30,021 Something just didn't sit right with me. 404 00:23:34,021 --> 00:23:36,021 Just because a phone is somewhere 405 00:23:36,021 --> 00:23:39,021 doesn't mean a person is there, too. 406 00:23:40,021 --> 00:23:47,021 Eventually they notice that the phone was not used, 407 00:23:47,021 --> 00:23:50,021 it was just there. 408 00:23:50,021 --> 00:23:53,021 She wasn't anywhere near the area of Maryland 409 00:23:53,021 --> 00:23:55,021 where the wedding was. 410 00:23:55,021 --> 00:23:58,021 And that was just the beginning of... 411 00:23:58,021 --> 00:24:01,021 everything just exploding and unraveling 412 00:24:02,021 --> 00:24:04,021 and getting to the truth. 413 00:24:09,021 --> 00:24:11,021 Shortly after that, 414 00:24:11,021 --> 00:24:14,021 I started getting phone calls at my house, 415 00:24:14,021 --> 00:24:17,021 and, um, Diana started calling me. 416 00:24:17,021 --> 00:24:22,021 And she was, you know, very upset. 417 00:24:23,021 --> 00:24:25,021 She was calling me almost every morning, 418 00:24:25,021 --> 00:24:29,021 and it would be from different phone numbers, 419 00:24:29,021 --> 00:24:33,021 and she seemed very rattled and very off and very-- 420 00:24:33,021 --> 00:24:35,021 asking me a lot of questions 421 00:24:35,021 --> 00:24:39,021 where it seemed like she was getting nervous, 422 00:24:39,021 --> 00:24:41,021 like the police may be looking at her, 423 00:24:41,021 --> 00:24:44,021 which, I said, "They have to look at everybody. 424 00:24:44,021 --> 00:24:46,021 "They have to look at you. 425 00:24:46,021 --> 00:24:51,021 They have to follow their leads and don't worry about it." 426 00:24:51,021 --> 00:24:52,021 And as each day went on, 427 00:24:53,021 --> 00:24:54,021 it felt like it was getting worse 428 00:24:54,021 --> 00:24:57,021 and she was getting more nervous and more upset 429 00:24:57,021 --> 00:25:01,021 about her being questioned or her being thought of 430 00:25:01,021 --> 00:25:04,021 as a possible suspect. 431 00:25:04,021 --> 00:25:05,021 Then, one morning, she called me, 432 00:25:05,021 --> 00:25:08,021 and she thanked me for listening and said 433 00:25:08,021 --> 00:25:11,021 she's leaving and taking one of the kids 434 00:25:11,021 --> 00:25:13,021 and she's moving back to Jamaica. 435 00:25:16,021 --> 00:25:19,021 I got off the phone and I'm thinking to myself, 436 00:25:19,021 --> 00:25:22,021 "She's leaving the country. That's it." 437 00:25:23,021 --> 00:25:25,021 Whether she's guilty or innocent, that's it. 438 00:25:25,021 --> 00:25:28,021 Once she's gone, she's gone. They can't bring her back. 439 00:25:28,021 --> 00:25:30,021 So, I called the police and I said, "Listen, she's leaving. 440 00:25:30,021 --> 00:25:36,021 "She's got her tickets, she's getting on a plane. 441 00:25:36,021 --> 00:25:41,021 And if you think she did this, you need to go get her." 442 00:25:44,021 --> 00:25:48,021 - ♪ 443 00:25:48,021 --> 00:25:50,021 - RICHARD: My name is Richard Moran, 444 00:25:50,021 --> 00:25:51,021 and I was the prosecutor handling this matter. 445 00:25:51,021 --> 00:25:54,021 - ♪ 446 00:25:54,021 --> 00:25:56,021 - RICHARD: When Diana Nadell called her friend and said, 447 00:25:56,021 --> 00:26:00,021 "I'm leaving Jim, and we're going to Jamaica," 448 00:26:00,021 --> 00:26:02,021 it was at that point we decided, 449 00:26:02,021 --> 00:26:03,021 "You know what? We gotta go to Florida." 450 00:26:03,021 --> 00:26:07,021 - ♪ 451 00:26:07,021 --> 00:26:09,021 - RICHARD: You've got to be very careful 452 00:26:10,021 --> 00:26:12,021 when you investigate these cases because one wrong move 453 00:26:12,021 --> 00:26:16,021 and your target knows you're looking at them. 454 00:26:17,021 --> 00:26:19,021 When you first start investigating a case, 455 00:26:19,021 --> 00:26:21,021 it's her daughter-in-law, your thought really isn't 456 00:26:21,021 --> 00:26:26,021 that she's gonna be the one that did this. 457 00:26:26,021 --> 00:26:28,021 Diana, she had an alibi that she was at a wedding 458 00:26:28,021 --> 00:26:31,021 in Washington D.C. 459 00:26:31,021 --> 00:26:34,021 What it kept coming back to is, yes, her phone was in D.C., 460 00:26:34,021 --> 00:26:37,021 but other than those phone calls, 461 00:26:37,021 --> 00:26:40,021 there was really nothing to corroborate that she was there. 462 00:26:49,021 --> 00:26:54,021 A big key of this investigation was the fact that, 463 00:26:54,021 --> 00:26:57,021 just prior to Peggy Nadell being murdered, 464 00:26:57,021 --> 00:27:02,021 her phone received a call from an alarm company. 465 00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:05,021 And in looking at the caller ID, we saw that just before 466 00:27:05,021 --> 00:27:09,021 the alarm company called, it was what some people call 467 00:27:09,021 --> 00:27:12,021 a burner phone-- a phone that's prepaid, 468 00:27:12,021 --> 00:27:17,021 that's not really associated with any one specific person. 469 00:27:17,021 --> 00:27:19,021 When we learned that the Trac-phone 470 00:27:19,021 --> 00:27:24,021 was purchased in Florida, so close to Diana Nadell's home, 471 00:27:24,021 --> 00:27:25,021 that was a game changer for us. 472 00:27:25,021 --> 00:27:30,021 And, it really shifted the focus of our investigation. 473 00:27:30,021 --> 00:27:34,021 - ♪ 474 00:27:34,021 --> 00:27:36,021 - RICHARD: We did a thorough analysis 475 00:27:36,021 --> 00:27:37,021 of Diana Nadell's phone records. 476 00:27:37,021 --> 00:27:43,021 Just a day or two before Peggy Nadell was murdered, 477 00:27:43,021 --> 00:27:48,021 all of a sudden, Diana Nadell starts speaking 478 00:27:48,021 --> 00:27:51,021 on the phone with a person named Andrea Benson, 479 00:27:51,021 --> 00:27:54,021 who's in Washington, D.C. 480 00:27:54,021 --> 00:27:56,021 She also starts communicating with a person named 481 00:27:56,021 --> 00:27:58,021 Tanisha Joyner in the days following the murder. 482 00:27:58,021 --> 00:28:02,021 People she had never spoken with prior to this happening. 483 00:28:03,021 --> 00:28:08,021 At that point, we had enough to go up on a wiretap. 484 00:28:10,021 --> 00:28:14,021 What we decided would be the perfect trigger 485 00:28:14,021 --> 00:28:19,021 is, "Let's ask Diana Nadell about her alibi. 486 00:28:19,021 --> 00:28:22,021 Who was she with in Washington D.C.?" 487 00:28:22,021 --> 00:28:23,021 And we were asking her if they could just give us a call 488 00:28:23,021 --> 00:28:28,021 and confirm her alibi, and once we did that, 489 00:28:28,021 --> 00:28:30,021 her phone calls exploded. 490 00:28:32,021 --> 00:28:34,021 She reached out to Tanisha Joyner. 491 00:28:34,021 --> 00:28:38,021 And it was this very, uh, interesting call. 492 00:28:38,021 --> 00:28:40,021 Tanisha says, "Wait a minute, 493 00:28:40,021 --> 00:28:43,021 "was I with you from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. 494 00:28:43,021 --> 00:28:46,021 or from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.?" 495 00:28:46,021 --> 00:28:49,021 Because she doesn't know because she wasn't with her. 496 00:28:49,021 --> 00:28:50,021 There were several phone calls 497 00:28:50,021 --> 00:28:53,021 with Andrea Benson. 498 00:28:53,021 --> 00:28:55,021 They wouldn't talk about the case on the phone, 499 00:28:55,021 --> 00:28:58,021 but there was one time when Andrea Benson said, 500 00:28:58,021 --> 00:29:00,021 "Listen, I'm in this with you. 501 00:29:00,021 --> 00:29:02,021 I'm in this too." 502 00:29:02,021 --> 00:29:04,021 The adrenaline starts pumping, 503 00:29:04,021 --> 00:29:07,021 we feel like we're really getting to the point 504 00:29:07,021 --> 00:29:09,021 where our theories are now-- 505 00:29:09,021 --> 00:29:12,021 they're not theories, now it's evidence. 506 00:29:12,021 --> 00:29:18,021 It was after that phone call about her going to Jamaica, 507 00:29:18,021 --> 00:29:20,021 we decided to move. 508 00:29:20,021 --> 00:29:24,021 We sent people to interview Diana and all the people 509 00:29:24,021 --> 00:29:26,021 that she had involved in this plot. 510 00:29:28,021 --> 00:29:32,021 - ♪ 511 00:29:33,021 --> 00:29:35,021 - RICHARD: We had the teams actually with people 512 00:29:35,021 --> 00:29:36,021 under surveillance. 513 00:29:36,021 --> 00:29:41,021 At the word "Go," everybody went into action. 514 00:29:42,021 --> 00:29:43,021 Tanisha Joyner was taken into custody, 515 00:29:43,021 --> 00:29:46,021 Andrea Benson was taken in to custody. 516 00:29:46,021 --> 00:29:50,021 And that all happened simultaneously. 517 00:29:50,021 --> 00:29:52,021 Once these people are being spoken to 518 00:29:52,021 --> 00:29:55,021 and interviewed by detectives, 519 00:29:55,021 --> 00:29:58,021 Diana Nadell's entire story starts to break down. 520 00:30:01,021 --> 00:30:05,021 Tanisha Joyner was being interviewed in, uh, Baltimore, 521 00:30:05,021 --> 00:30:09,021 and was telling the detectives there that Diana Nadell 522 00:30:09,021 --> 00:30:12,021 had asked her to make phone calls that evening. 523 00:30:15,021 --> 00:30:17,021 - ♪ 524 00:30:17,021 --> 00:30:19,021 - RICHARD: When we interviewed Andrea Benson, 525 00:30:19,021 --> 00:30:22,021 we learned a lot of details about this case 526 00:30:22,021 --> 00:30:24,021 that we just didn't know, 527 00:30:24,021 --> 00:30:26,021 things that we thought were always going to remain 528 00:30:26,021 --> 00:30:27,021 a mystery. 529 00:30:27,021 --> 00:30:32,021 She met Diana Nadell through her aunt. 530 00:30:32,021 --> 00:30:34,021 Andrea's aunt was supposed to pick up Diana Nadell 531 00:30:34,021 --> 00:30:37,021 from the airport in Washington D.C., 532 00:30:38,021 --> 00:30:40,021 but she couldn't, and so she sent Andrea. 533 00:30:41,021 --> 00:30:43,021 Once she picked Diana Nadell up, 534 00:30:43,021 --> 00:30:47,021 Diana asked her if she wanted to make $10,000, 535 00:30:47,021 --> 00:30:50,021 and to do so, she would have to go up to New York 536 00:30:50,021 --> 00:30:54,021 and kill Diana's mother-in-law. 537 00:30:54,021 --> 00:30:56,021 While driving up to Valley Cottage, 538 00:30:56,021 --> 00:31:02,021 Diana had Andrea Benson activate the burner phone 539 00:31:02,021 --> 00:31:05,021 and that was along Route 95. 540 00:31:07,021 --> 00:31:08,021 On their way up, 541 00:31:08,021 --> 00:31:12,021 Diana--every time they were at a toll plaza, would hide 542 00:31:12,021 --> 00:31:17,021 her face so that her face couldn't be seen on camera. 543 00:31:17,021 --> 00:31:19,021 Once they got to Peggy Nadell's home 544 00:31:19,021 --> 00:31:22,021 in Valley Cottage, Diana Nadell called Peggy 545 00:31:22,021 --> 00:31:25,021 from the burner phone 546 00:31:25,021 --> 00:31:26,021 and told her she was in the area, 547 00:31:27,021 --> 00:31:28,021 could she come in. 548 00:31:28,021 --> 00:31:34,021 - ♪ 549 00:31:34,021 --> 00:31:39,021 - RICHARD: It had to have been such a surreal scenario for her, 550 00:31:39,021 --> 00:31:43,021 her daughter-in-law's at her door with a stranger, 551 00:31:43,021 --> 00:31:44,021 it's 1 o'clock in the morning. 552 00:31:44,021 --> 00:31:48,021 Nonetheless, it was her daughter-in-law 553 00:31:48,021 --> 00:31:51,021 and she let her in, gave her a glass of water, 554 00:31:51,021 --> 00:31:53,021 sat down and spoke with her. 555 00:31:56,021 --> 00:31:59,021 At that point Diana asked Peggy, "Can we go upstairs?" 556 00:32:03,021 --> 00:32:05,021 Peggy told Diana she was gonna go use the restroom. 557 00:32:05,021 --> 00:32:11,021 And so Diana and Andrea were in the room alone, 558 00:32:11,021 --> 00:32:15,021 and Diana begins like, "We're gonna do this now." 559 00:32:15,021 --> 00:32:18,021 And Andrea told us that she had taken off the strap 560 00:32:18,021 --> 00:32:22,021 from her pocketbook, it unhooked on either side, 561 00:32:22,021 --> 00:32:25,021 and she was gonna use that to strangle Peggy. 562 00:32:28,021 --> 00:32:31,021 Diana talks--starts talking to Peggy about the family jewelry, 563 00:32:31,021 --> 00:32:36,021 and they start going down the stairs and Peggy's in front, 564 00:32:36,021 --> 00:32:38,021 Andrea's right behind her. 565 00:32:40,021 --> 00:32:44,021 At that time, Andrea starts strangling Peggy from behind. 566 00:32:46,021 --> 00:32:50,021 And in interviewing Andrea, she kept repeating the phrase, 567 00:32:50,021 --> 00:32:56,021 "But she wouldn't...go, she wouldn't die." 568 00:32:56,021 --> 00:33:00,021 Diana ran to the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen knife, 569 00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:03,021 and brought it back and was telling Andrea, 570 00:33:03,021 --> 00:33:05,021 "Stab her, stab her." 571 00:33:05,021 --> 00:33:10,021 And Andrea said she refused to do it and so... 572 00:33:10,021 --> 00:33:15,021 while she was choking Peggy... 573 00:33:15,021 --> 00:33:20,021 Diana stabbed Peggy Nadell in the chest. 574 00:33:20,021 --> 00:33:27,021 - ♪ 575 00:33:27,021 --> 00:33:29,021 - RICHARD: Once Diana was picked up in Florida 576 00:33:29,021 --> 00:33:33,021 and brought in for an interview... 577 00:33:33,021 --> 00:33:35,021 at first, she didn't know why she was there. 578 00:33:35,021 --> 00:33:37,021 And then she saw Detective Lorence 579 00:33:37,021 --> 00:33:41,021 and Detective Cole-Hatchard walk in the room 580 00:33:41,021 --> 00:33:43,021 and her face dropped. 581 00:33:44,021 --> 00:33:48,021 The first words she said was, 582 00:33:48,021 --> 00:33:50,021 "You think I killed my mother-in-law?" 583 00:33:59,021 --> 00:34:01,021 - RICHARD: Under those circumstances, 584 00:34:02,021 --> 00:34:05,021 it was very telling. 585 00:34:05,021 --> 00:34:07,021 Diana Nadell and Andrea Benson were both 586 00:34:07,021 --> 00:34:09,021 arrested and charged with murder 587 00:34:09,021 --> 00:34:13,021 and had to wait to be extradited to the state of New York. 588 00:34:17,021 --> 00:34:21,021 Just when we thought this case couldn't get any crazier, 589 00:34:21,021 --> 00:34:23,021 it did. 590 00:34:26,021 --> 00:34:30,021 - ♪ 591 00:34:30,021 --> 00:34:31,021 - SUSANNE: I was fast asleep, it was like 11 o'clock 592 00:34:31,021 --> 00:34:36,021 at night, 10 o'clock at night. 593 00:34:36,021 --> 00:34:40,021 And Bobby came in and woke me up and said, 594 00:34:40,021 --> 00:34:42,021 "Your cousin is here." 595 00:34:42,021 --> 00:34:45,021 I came out, they said-- they told me they arrested Diana 596 00:34:45,021 --> 00:34:50,021 and I was--I was shocked, but I wasn't surprised. 597 00:34:51,021 --> 00:34:52,021 I think the first thing I said, 598 00:34:52,021 --> 00:34:54,021 "I knew she had something to do with it." 599 00:34:59,021 --> 00:35:01,021 - RICHARD: When Andrea Benson and Diana Nadell 600 00:35:01,021 --> 00:35:02,021 were first charged, they were charged with 601 00:35:02,021 --> 00:35:05,021 murder in the second degree. 602 00:35:05,021 --> 00:35:07,021 Once Andrea Benson flipped 603 00:35:07,021 --> 00:35:09,021 and became a witness for the prosecution, 604 00:35:09,021 --> 00:35:12,021 we were then able to upgrade the charges against Diana Nadell 605 00:35:12,021 --> 00:35:15,021 to murder in the first degree, murder for hire. 606 00:35:17,021 --> 00:35:20,021 Tanisha Joyner also became state's evidence 607 00:35:20,021 --> 00:35:23,021 and pleaded guilty to a lesser crime. 608 00:35:23,021 --> 00:35:25,021 - EARL: Andrea, she doesn't come from a lot, 609 00:35:25,021 --> 00:35:28,021 she's had a tough upbringing as it were, 610 00:35:28,021 --> 00:35:30,021 and she has quite a criminal history. 611 00:35:30,021 --> 00:35:33,021 She has a young child at home, doesn't have a husband. 612 00:35:33,021 --> 00:35:38,021 Works a menial job at, uh, one of the local supermarkets. 613 00:35:38,021 --> 00:35:44,021 Diana offers her $10,000 if she would help her kill Peggy. 614 00:35:44,021 --> 00:35:48,021 She agrees on the drive from the airport. 615 00:35:48,021 --> 00:35:53,021 - Andrea Benson only received $500 up front and was gonna get 616 00:35:53,021 --> 00:35:55,021 the rest of the money when Diana got her money, 617 00:35:55,021 --> 00:35:58,021 which never came, obviously. 618 00:36:03,021 --> 00:36:06,021 - RICHARD: I received a phone call from a detective 619 00:36:06,021 --> 00:36:10,021 in the jurisdiction of where Diana Nadell was being held 620 00:36:10,021 --> 00:36:13,021 in custody pending trial, 621 00:36:13,021 --> 00:36:18,021 and we were told that an inmate had reported that Diana Nadell 622 00:36:18,021 --> 00:36:20,021 tried to hire her 623 00:36:20,021 --> 00:36:25,021 to arrange for the murder of Tanisha Joyner. 624 00:36:29,021 --> 00:36:32,021 There are some people that can't help 625 00:36:32,021 --> 00:36:37,021 but to try to control every aspect of a situation, 626 00:36:37,021 --> 00:36:38,021 and Diana Nadell kept trying to do that 627 00:36:38,021 --> 00:36:42,021 even while she was in jail. 628 00:36:47,021 --> 00:36:49,021 We met with the inmate, um, 629 00:36:49,021 --> 00:36:52,021 she was fitted with a recorded device, 630 00:36:52,021 --> 00:36:55,021 and went back into the area where Diana Nadell was. 631 00:36:55,021 --> 00:36:58,021 And at that time, Diana Nadell 632 00:36:58,021 --> 00:37:01,021 did exactly what the inmate said she did. 633 00:37:01,021 --> 00:37:05,021 She gave her the information of Tanisha Joyner, 634 00:37:05,021 --> 00:37:09,021 said she needed to be dead. 635 00:37:09,021 --> 00:37:11,021 We went in to the grand jury and indicted Diana Nadell 636 00:37:11,021 --> 00:37:16,021 at that point for attempting to have this witness murdered, 637 00:37:16,021 --> 00:37:18,021 and at that point, ah, she had no choice 638 00:37:18,021 --> 00:37:21,021 but to plead guilty. 639 00:37:24,021 --> 00:37:28,021 Diana Nadell's attorney came to us and asked us 640 00:37:28,021 --> 00:37:32,021 if we would consider a plea of 23 to life. 641 00:37:32,021 --> 00:37:33,021 And after speaking with the family 642 00:37:33,021 --> 00:37:36,021 and weighing everything... 643 00:37:36,021 --> 00:37:39,021 for us, that was something we could live with. 644 00:37:39,021 --> 00:37:43,021 - I saw Diana... when she was being arraigned. 645 00:37:44,021 --> 00:37:46,021 That's the first time I saw her after my mother's murder. 646 00:37:47,021 --> 00:37:49,021 She wouldn't even turn around and look at me. 647 00:37:49,021 --> 00:37:53,021 - ♪ 648 00:37:56,021 --> 00:37:59,021 - RICHARD: This murder was about greed. 649 00:37:59,021 --> 00:38:04,021 Diana learned that if she left her husband 650 00:38:04,021 --> 00:38:08,021 prior to Peggy's death, she would get nothing, 651 00:38:08,021 --> 00:38:12,021 and that wasn't something she was willing to accept. 652 00:38:12,021 --> 00:38:15,021 - SUSANNE: Diana saw my mother as a cash machine. 653 00:38:15,021 --> 00:38:18,021 Diana thought she knew what my mother was worth, 654 00:38:19,021 --> 00:38:20,021 I didn't know what my mother was worth, 655 00:38:20,021 --> 00:38:24,021 I knew there was money, I didn't know how much money. 656 00:38:24,021 --> 00:38:25,021 It didn't matter. 657 00:38:28,021 --> 00:38:31,021 - It sounds cheesy, but you become a prosecutor because 658 00:38:32,021 --> 00:38:34,021 it's one of the only jobs in the world where your job 659 00:38:34,021 --> 00:38:37,021 is to just do justice and to do the right thing. 660 00:38:37,021 --> 00:38:43,021 This case began with walking into Peggy Nadell's home 661 00:38:43,021 --> 00:38:45,021 and seeing her... 662 00:38:45,021 --> 00:38:48,021 brutally murdered on her floor, 663 00:38:48,021 --> 00:38:53,021 and it ended with Diana Nadell serving what I believe 664 00:38:53,021 --> 00:38:55,021 will be the rest of her life in prison. 665 00:38:56,021 --> 00:38:59,021 - SUSANNE: I know that Diana is not enjoying jail. 666 00:38:59,021 --> 00:39:04,021 I've heard through the grapevine Diana refuses to tell anybody 667 00:39:04,021 --> 00:39:05,021 why she is there. 668 00:39:05,021 --> 00:39:07,021 I guess she's embarrassed, she doesn't want anybody 669 00:39:07,021 --> 00:39:09,021 to know she's a murderer. 670 00:39:09,021 --> 00:39:12,021 I think to this day she's still claiming she was framed. 671 00:39:15,021 --> 00:39:18,021 - ANNE: She just ruined so many lives. 672 00:39:18,021 --> 00:39:20,021 You know, friends, family. 673 00:39:20,021 --> 00:39:23,021 I mean, what Susie had to go through, 674 00:39:23,021 --> 00:39:26,021 and even, I'm sure, what Jimmy had to go through. 675 00:39:28,021 --> 00:39:30,021 - DARCY: Now Susanne and Jimmy 676 00:39:30,021 --> 00:39:31,021 have to live without their mother. 677 00:39:31,021 --> 00:39:34,021 And live with the nightmare of what happened. 678 00:39:34,021 --> 00:39:38,021 Not only did Susanne and Jimmy lose their mother, 679 00:39:38,021 --> 00:39:39,021 they lost each other. 680 00:39:54,021 --> 00:39:59,021 - 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