1 00:00:01,917 --> 00:00:04,250 (tense music) 2 00:00:05,708 --> 00:00:07,208 (siren wails) 3 00:00:50,542 --> 00:00:53,333 (tense music) 4 00:00:53,417 --> 00:00:55,750 - [Narrator] Every suspect accused of a crime 5 00:00:55,875 --> 00:00:57,500 has the right to remain silent. 6 00:00:57,583 --> 00:01:00,333 Many agree to be interrogated anyway. 7 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:03,250 But they can stop the interview at any moment, 8 00:01:03,333 --> 00:01:05,667 making it a race against time. 9 00:01:08,292 --> 00:01:10,708 Justice hangs in the balance. 10 00:01:13,458 --> 00:01:15,750 (tense music) 11 00:01:19,833 --> 00:01:22,542 - On June 11th of 2013, 12 00:01:22,625 --> 00:01:25,458 the front desk received an anonymous tip 13 00:01:25,542 --> 00:01:28,333 from an individual saying they were suspicious 14 00:01:28,375 --> 00:01:31,667 of a couple death-related incidents 15 00:01:31,792 --> 00:01:36,583 and an incident where a young woman was hospitalized 16 00:01:36,708 --> 00:01:39,333 and was also feared that she was going to pass away. 17 00:01:46,208 --> 00:01:47,458 He was suspicious 18 00:01:47,542 --> 00:01:51,333 that the mother of the home, Diane Staudte, 19 00:01:51,417 --> 00:01:53,750 could have been involved in the deaths of her husband, 20 00:01:53,833 --> 00:01:57,917 her son, and now the grave illness of her daughter. 21 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,458 (siren wails) 22 00:02:09,125 --> 00:02:10,417 The doctor I spoke with said 23 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:13,208 they had performed numerous tests on Sarah 24 00:02:13,292 --> 00:02:15,833 and they all came back as negatives. 25 00:02:15,875 --> 00:02:17,292 Her condition was very dire 26 00:02:17,375 --> 00:02:20,583 that it was expected that Sarah was not gonna survive. 27 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:23,083 However, the subjects involved 28 00:02:23,167 --> 00:02:26,208 in her care all gave me the same story, 29 00:02:26,292 --> 00:02:28,625 that they were suspicious of Diane. 30 00:02:28,708 --> 00:02:31,667 They said Diane laughed and joked with people 31 00:02:31,750 --> 00:02:33,458 and was not acting 32 00:02:33,542 --> 00:02:37,208 how they thought a normal mother would act. 33 00:02:37,292 --> 00:02:38,625 And a doctor said, 34 00:02:38,750 --> 00:02:41,208 kinda based on the unknown nature of Sarah's illness, 35 00:02:41,333 --> 00:02:42,542 he was suspicious 36 00:02:42,625 --> 00:02:44,750 that it could possibly be a poisoning case. 37 00:02:44,833 --> 00:02:47,125 (tense music) 38 00:02:48,458 --> 00:02:52,167 I began to do some internet searches on the family, 39 00:02:52,292 --> 00:02:53,875 looking at social media accounts, 40 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,458 just whatever was out there. 41 00:02:55,542 --> 00:02:57,958 I found out the Staudte family consisted 42 00:02:58,042 --> 00:03:00,542 of Diane, the mother. 43 00:03:00,625 --> 00:03:02,333 She was very active in church 44 00:03:02,375 --> 00:03:05,542 and she also had been a nurse for a long time. 45 00:03:05,625 --> 00:03:08,792 Mark was a stay-at-home father 46 00:03:08,875 --> 00:03:10,583 and they had four children. 47 00:03:11,625 --> 00:03:16,458 They had Shaun, who was the oldest, Rachel, and then Sarah, 48 00:03:16,542 --> 00:03:19,417 and then they had a younger daughter as well. 49 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,708 I also learned that a year earlier, 50 00:03:22,792 --> 00:03:25,750 Mark Staudte passed away at the age of 61 51 00:03:25,833 --> 00:03:27,417 of an apparent heart attack. 52 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:32,333 And then it was not long after when his son, Shaun, 53 00:03:32,375 --> 00:03:35,917 who was only 26 years of age, passed away. 54 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,750 The medical examiner's office determined Shaun's cause 55 00:03:39,833 --> 00:03:43,375 of death was sudden death in epilepsy. 56 00:03:44,458 --> 00:03:46,292 The timing of the incidents was strange 57 00:03:46,375 --> 00:03:49,167 with all of them being so close together 58 00:03:49,250 --> 00:03:53,458 and then with Sarah and Shaun both being so young, 59 00:03:53,542 --> 00:03:56,042 I really wanted to find out what was going on 60 00:03:56,125 --> 00:03:57,208 in the Staudte home. 61 00:03:58,292 --> 00:04:00,583 (gentle music) 62 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:09,375 - When Mark and Diane got married, 63 00:04:10,417 --> 00:04:12,750 Mark invited me to be the best man at his wedding. 64 00:04:14,125 --> 00:04:17,375 Mark was 4 1/2 years older than I was, 65 00:04:17,458 --> 00:04:20,375 so Mark and I were fairly close. 66 00:04:20,458 --> 00:04:22,667 When he got into music, 67 00:04:22,750 --> 00:04:25,625 it really started taking over his mind 68 00:04:25,708 --> 00:04:29,167 and where his thought processes were going. 69 00:04:29,250 --> 00:04:32,167 (gentle music) 70 00:04:32,250 --> 00:04:38,833 The first time I heard him, I was blown away. 71 00:04:38,958 --> 00:04:41,083 ♪ Thinking of the lady 72 00:04:41,167 --> 00:04:43,875 ♪ Who one day will come a wife ♪ 73 00:04:43,958 --> 00:04:47,125 ♪ Is that you 74 00:04:47,208 --> 00:04:50,375 Then he was actually doing live gigs 75 00:04:50,458 --> 00:04:52,167 around the Springfield area 76 00:04:52,292 --> 00:04:54,167 and was actually making some money. 77 00:04:54,292 --> 00:04:56,542 And he seemed to be happy with that. 78 00:04:59,125 --> 00:05:03,042 When Mark died, I was very sad. 79 00:05:04,542 --> 00:05:08,000 I'd lost a friend, someone to talk to music about. 80 00:05:09,042 --> 00:05:13,417 And then his boy, Shaun, several months later died. 81 00:05:14,875 --> 00:05:17,208 It was a lot. 82 00:05:17,292 --> 00:05:18,833 (melancholy music) 83 00:05:18,917 --> 00:05:21,792 - Shaun, by all accounts, was a good kid. 84 00:05:21,875 --> 00:05:26,167 He just was an autistic child that may have not have acted 85 00:05:26,250 --> 00:05:28,583 like what many would consider normal. 86 00:05:28,667 --> 00:05:31,167 But according to Shaun's teachers, 87 00:05:31,292 --> 00:05:32,583 he was a very good student. 88 00:05:32,667 --> 00:05:35,375 Shaun would read a textbook front to back 89 00:05:35,375 --> 00:05:36,917 and his memory was so good 90 00:05:37,042 --> 00:05:40,042 that he could recite facts throughout the textbook. 91 00:05:41,208 --> 00:05:45,000 - Shaun's death, it did seem kind of strange 92 00:05:45,083 --> 00:05:48,167 being so close to Mark's passing. 93 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:51,708 I was given the impression it was just an accumulation 94 00:05:51,833 --> 00:05:56,792 of prior medical issues caught up with him and that was it. 95 00:05:58,375 --> 00:06:00,833 (tense music) 96 00:06:13,417 --> 00:06:14,833 - Diane told officers 97 00:06:14,958 --> 00:06:18,417 that her husband had been ill for several days. 98 00:06:19,417 --> 00:06:21,458 And that on the day of his passing, 99 00:06:21,542 --> 00:06:23,917 he had actually had several seizures. 100 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,083 The officers questioned why she didn't take him 101 00:06:27,208 --> 00:06:28,792 to the hospital or call an ambulance, 102 00:06:28,875 --> 00:06:32,208 and her response was that Mark just refused to go 103 00:06:32,292 --> 00:06:35,250 and so she allowed him to stay at the home. 104 00:06:35,333 --> 00:06:37,500 - When we examined Mark's body, 105 00:06:37,583 --> 00:06:40,208 there was some blood around his mouth. 106 00:06:40,292 --> 00:06:42,208 I asked the medics on scene 107 00:06:42,292 --> 00:06:43,833 what that may have been caused from 108 00:06:43,917 --> 00:06:47,583 and was told that Mark was intubated 109 00:06:47,667 --> 00:06:50,167 and could have been from that. 110 00:06:51,250 --> 00:06:55,333 I had a problem with the fact that she didn't call EMS. 111 00:06:55,458 --> 00:06:58,500 I was told that Diane was a registered nurse. 112 00:06:58,542 --> 00:07:02,208 So a medical professional should probably know better 113 00:07:02,333 --> 00:07:05,750 and insist on Mark going to the hospital 114 00:07:05,875 --> 00:07:09,167 after he had had three seizures that day. 115 00:07:09,167 --> 00:07:11,000 It was a complicated situation, 116 00:07:11,125 --> 00:07:13,167 but there was no evidence 117 00:07:13,208 --> 00:07:16,667 that anything nefarious had occurred at the residence 118 00:07:16,708 --> 00:07:19,208 to contribute to his death. 119 00:07:19,375 --> 00:07:21,625 (tense music) 120 00:07:27,208 --> 00:07:31,958 - Shaun's death was just a few months after Mark's. 121 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,708 Both had been described as having flu-like symptoms, 122 00:07:37,792 --> 00:07:41,083 being sick for a while leading up to the death, 123 00:07:41,208 --> 00:07:44,667 and then both were noted to have blood around their mouth 124 00:07:44,750 --> 00:07:46,958 at the time they were found. 125 00:07:47,042 --> 00:07:50,125 I had all these suspicions that were building and building. 126 00:07:50,208 --> 00:07:51,250 The problem, however, was 127 00:07:51,333 --> 00:07:52,917 is that in all of the incidents, 128 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,917 when you actually looked for the poisoning 129 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,917 or what could be causing this, there was just nothing there. 130 00:08:12,667 --> 00:08:15,667 I brought up the possibility of poisoning 131 00:08:15,667 --> 00:08:18,875 and the doctor told me that everything that had been tested 132 00:08:18,958 --> 00:08:20,083 was all negative. 133 00:08:22,125 --> 00:08:24,833 However, he said that it could be very difficult 134 00:08:24,958 --> 00:08:27,583 to determine if there was something in their system 135 00:08:27,667 --> 00:08:29,250 without exactly knowing what it was 136 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:30,750 that they needed to look for. 137 00:08:30,833 --> 00:08:34,125 And he also informed me that if something were to come up, 138 00:08:34,208 --> 00:08:37,833 that Shaun's tissue samples were still being held 139 00:08:37,958 --> 00:08:40,583 and that there could be further in-depth analysis 140 00:08:40,708 --> 00:08:43,167 to try to discover if this could be a poisoning. 141 00:08:44,708 --> 00:08:47,958 It was troubling, one, because of Sarah's condition, 142 00:08:48,042 --> 00:08:49,667 but also because of, 143 00:08:49,708 --> 00:08:52,375 there was still two other children in the home. 144 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:53,708 There was Rachel 145 00:08:53,792 --> 00:08:56,500 and then they had a younger daughter as well. 146 00:08:56,542 --> 00:08:58,042 I felt that I needed to act, 147 00:08:58,125 --> 00:09:02,042 and so at this point, Diane became a focus 148 00:09:02,125 --> 00:09:03,625 of my investigation. 149 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,250 (tense music) 150 00:09:21,708 --> 00:09:23,542 Prior to bringing her into the interview room, 151 00:09:23,667 --> 00:09:27,750 she was just very calm, very stoic, 152 00:09:27,750 --> 00:09:29,667 but after putting her in the interview room, 153 00:09:29,750 --> 00:09:33,250 I noticed she almost immediately clamped up. 154 00:09:33,333 --> 00:09:36,625 She raised her legs and she put her hands together 155 00:09:36,708 --> 00:09:40,000 and acted almost as if she was praying, 156 00:09:40,083 --> 00:09:41,875 which I thought was very strange. 157 00:10:09,875 --> 00:10:13,500 I decided to take a very gentle and soft tone 158 00:10:13,542 --> 00:10:16,667 and I had to walk a very fine line 159 00:10:16,708 --> 00:10:20,167 in terms of, is this individual a victim or a suspect? 160 00:10:20,292 --> 00:10:22,833 Because I truly did not know at that point. 161 00:11:04,208 --> 00:11:05,333 - At this time, 162 00:11:05,542 --> 00:11:08,167 it was full belief that Sarah was not gonna survive. 163 00:11:08,250 --> 00:11:10,500 The doctors could not figure out what was going on. 164 00:11:10,583 --> 00:11:12,833 Her organs were shutting down. 165 00:11:12,917 --> 00:11:15,500 And Diane was just so calm, 166 00:11:15,583 --> 00:11:17,583 did not appear to be concerned whatsoever. 167 00:11:17,667 --> 00:11:20,750 It really was just another alarm bell. 168 00:11:31,375 --> 00:11:33,417 (tense music) 169 00:11:38,042 --> 00:11:40,167 (tense music) 170 00:11:43,958 --> 00:11:49,250 - I was told by my nieces that Sarah was in the hospital, 171 00:11:49,375 --> 00:11:52,417 not doing very well, was in ICU. 172 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:56,792 And I thought, what's going on? 173 00:11:56,875 --> 00:11:58,583 I had never really heard 174 00:11:58,667 --> 00:12:03,833 of any specific medical issues regarding Sarah, 175 00:12:03,958 --> 00:12:07,125 so it was a mystery to me. 176 00:12:07,208 --> 00:12:09,750 (tense music) 177 00:12:40,667 --> 00:12:42,833 - Diane never asked anything at all 178 00:12:42,958 --> 00:12:44,125 about why I'd wanna speak 179 00:12:44,208 --> 00:12:46,000 with her about her sick daughter. 180 00:12:46,083 --> 00:12:48,458 I mean, the police department normally doesn't come 181 00:12:48,542 --> 00:12:49,917 and ask somebody to speak with them 182 00:12:49,917 --> 00:12:51,625 about an illness for a child. 183 00:12:51,708 --> 00:12:55,083 So for her to not have any questions from the very get go, 184 00:12:55,167 --> 00:12:57,833 it was a point that raised some flags. 185 00:13:39,208 --> 00:13:42,333 - Diane makes a real odd laugh at that point. 186 00:13:42,375 --> 00:13:43,750 And nervous laughter is, 187 00:13:43,750 --> 00:13:45,375 it could be the characteristic of somebody 188 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:47,000 that's trying to be deceitful 189 00:13:47,083 --> 00:13:51,208 or trying to mask some kind of emotion. 190 00:14:50,708 --> 00:14:53,292 - In terms of working suicide incidents, 191 00:14:53,375 --> 00:14:55,167 I don't know that I've ever come across one 192 00:14:55,250 --> 00:14:59,083 where somebody's taken a cleaner and definitely not soap. 193 00:14:59,167 --> 00:15:00,875 It seemed very disingenuous 194 00:15:00,958 --> 00:15:05,667 and it just essentially cemented my suspicions 195 00:15:05,792 --> 00:15:08,833 that this could be a very bad situation 196 00:15:08,917 --> 00:15:10,542 in terms of her being involved. 197 00:15:11,667 --> 00:15:13,333 (clock ticking) 198 00:16:54,333 --> 00:16:57,292 One technique that I used a lot with Diane 199 00:16:57,375 --> 00:17:00,125 were awkward silences and awkward pauses. 200 00:17:05,208 --> 00:17:06,958 It was just to try to 201 00:17:07,042 --> 00:17:10,500 elicit any type of information from her. 202 00:17:10,625 --> 00:17:14,375 And it was extremely difficult because Diane just sat there 203 00:17:14,458 --> 00:17:16,250 and we just stared at each other. 204 00:17:16,333 --> 00:17:18,542 (tense music) (clock ticking) 205 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:02,167 When I brought up to her the fact 206 00:18:02,250 --> 00:18:05,292 that Shaun's tissue samples had been saved, 207 00:18:05,375 --> 00:18:06,667 she didn't need to say anything at that point 208 00:18:06,792 --> 00:18:10,292 because I could read it on her face that she was worried. 209 00:18:17,625 --> 00:18:19,708 (tense music) 210 00:18:23,958 --> 00:18:26,208 (tense music) 211 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,625 - I didn't know what to expect in terms of the test results, 212 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:05,917 but I told her that because I wanted to see her response. 213 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,792 I wanted to see her reaction to it and it almost froze her. 214 00:19:11,708 --> 00:19:12,875 I was very worried. 215 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,708 Is that gonna be something where she goes, "Oh my gosh, 216 00:19:15,833 --> 00:19:17,833 I'm no longer speaking with this detective"? 217 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:19,333 Is she gonna lawyer up? 218 00:19:19,417 --> 00:19:21,833 So I had to try to come up with something 219 00:19:21,875 --> 00:19:25,375 that would get her to speak more openly with me. 220 00:20:30,375 --> 00:20:34,042 I was trying to almost portray her as the victim, 221 00:20:34,167 --> 00:20:35,833 that maybe Mark was doing things 222 00:20:35,958 --> 00:20:39,500 that he should not be doing and I could sympathize with her. 223 00:20:39,583 --> 00:20:42,667 And so I had to continue to try to build her up 224 00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:45,458 and to continue with the victim narrative. 225 00:21:48,167 --> 00:21:52,167 - I started down a theme of just her being pushed so far 226 00:21:52,167 --> 00:21:54,042 that she just couldn't take it anymore. 227 00:21:54,042 --> 00:21:55,750 I began to move closer to her just 228 00:21:55,833 --> 00:21:59,042 to give her the sense that I was there to try to help her 229 00:21:59,167 --> 00:22:02,417 and get her story out that she wanted everyone to know. 230 00:22:07,708 --> 00:22:09,833 (tense music) 231 00:22:58,375 --> 00:23:00,625 (tense music) 232 00:23:02,458 --> 00:23:03,875 - When Diane told me 233 00:23:03,958 --> 00:23:07,208 that she could have taken Sarah to the ER sooner, 234 00:23:07,292 --> 00:23:09,333 I thought that she was getting ready 235 00:23:09,458 --> 00:23:10,917 to put it all out there. 236 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,833 Diane knew how sick her daughter was and she waited 237 00:23:14,875 --> 00:23:17,875 and shes now admitting to me that she waited. 238 00:23:17,958 --> 00:23:18,958 It sounds cliche, 239 00:23:19,042 --> 00:23:21,042 but I was beginning to realize I was speaking 240 00:23:21,125 --> 00:23:22,708 with a truly evil person. 241 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,042 (tense music) 242 00:23:33,042 --> 00:23:34,917 (clock ticking) 243 00:24:12,833 --> 00:24:14,917 (ominous music) 244 00:25:23,958 --> 00:25:28,750 - It was a huge adrenaline rush to hear her mention antifreeze 245 00:25:28,833 --> 00:25:30,625 because up to that point in the interview, 246 00:25:30,708 --> 00:25:32,792 there was nothing that made any sense 247 00:25:32,792 --> 00:25:34,875 about what could have happened to Sarah. 248 00:25:35,875 --> 00:25:37,667 The excitement that is going through me, 249 00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:39,250 it's kind of indescribable. 250 00:25:39,333 --> 00:25:41,833 However, I have to do my best to not let that show. 251 00:25:41,958 --> 00:25:45,042 I don't want her to see any kind of change in me 252 00:25:45,125 --> 00:25:46,750 that would shut her down. 253 00:27:51,583 --> 00:27:53,000 - My heart was pounding. 254 00:27:53,042 --> 00:27:55,625 She calmly said, "I didn't know what else to do." 255 00:27:55,708 --> 00:27:58,833 And I wanted to get up and jump and scream 256 00:27:58,917 --> 00:28:00,083 and hug the other detectives 257 00:28:00,208 --> 00:28:01,958 that were involved with this, you know, 258 00:28:02,042 --> 00:28:04,750 knowing that we are gonna have some kind of resolution. 259 00:28:04,833 --> 00:28:06,833 But I cannot let her see that 260 00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:09,042 because even though now is the confession, 261 00:28:09,125 --> 00:28:10,875 there's still a lot more information 262 00:28:10,958 --> 00:28:12,417 that I've gotta get from Diane. 263 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,417 (ominous music) 264 00:30:00,958 --> 00:30:03,167 (tense music) 265 00:30:23,917 --> 00:30:25,667 - Even with Diane admitting 266 00:30:25,708 --> 00:30:28,167 that she had administered the antifreeze, 267 00:30:28,250 --> 00:30:29,958 there was still a lotta questions. 268 00:30:30,042 --> 00:30:35,042 I wanted to know how, when, how often, the dosages. 269 00:33:31,375 --> 00:33:33,375 (dramatic music) 270 00:33:44,125 --> 00:33:47,000 - Formality. - Yeah, it is. 271 00:33:50,042 --> 00:33:52,292 I did not arrest her for homicide at that point 272 00:33:52,375 --> 00:33:56,042 because we still have no physical evidence 273 00:33:56,125 --> 00:34:00,125 and there was more information I wanted to obtain 274 00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:03,333 from Diane going forward. 275 00:34:03,417 --> 00:34:05,500 (tense music) 276 00:34:08,042 --> 00:34:11,000 (insects chirring) 277 00:34:17,333 --> 00:34:22,042 It was noted to me that out in the garage on a workbench, 278 00:34:22,125 --> 00:34:24,708 that there was a bottle of antifreeze 279 00:34:26,083 --> 00:34:29,500 that was right next to a six pack of Coke. 280 00:34:29,542 --> 00:34:32,167 It's just set up right out in the garage almost 281 00:34:32,250 --> 00:34:35,167 as if it's getting prepared for the next go around. 282 00:34:36,833 --> 00:34:39,458 Then one of our crime scene investigators told me 283 00:34:39,542 --> 00:34:43,208 that I probably should respond to our evidence room. 284 00:34:43,292 --> 00:34:47,542 So I immediately went there and he showed me a diary 285 00:34:47,542 --> 00:34:51,500 that had been located in Diane's bedroom. 286 00:34:51,625 --> 00:34:54,167 But it appeared to be that of Rachel's. 287 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,583 It was just another twist in the case 288 00:34:58,708 --> 00:35:01,000 that you thought there's no way there can be more. 289 00:35:01,083 --> 00:35:03,458 (dramatic music) 290 00:35:07,958 --> 00:35:10,208 (suspenseful music) 291 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:15,667 - [Reporter] She did it with antifreeze, 292 00:35:15,750 --> 00:35:18,083 adding the chemical to Mark and Shaun's drinks, 293 00:35:18,167 --> 00:35:20,167 virtually undetectable in taste, 294 00:35:20,250 --> 00:35:23,125 making them sick until their organs failed. 295 00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:26,375 - I got a call saying Diane has just been arrested. 296 00:35:26,458 --> 00:35:30,458 After I hung up, I was furious. 297 00:35:30,542 --> 00:35:34,542 Knowing all of the steps she had to take 298 00:35:34,625 --> 00:35:39,667 to pull these murders off really made me consider 299 00:35:39,708 --> 00:35:43,750 what sort of devious mind she had to have had 300 00:35:44,958 --> 00:35:46,125 to make that happen. 301 00:35:46,208 --> 00:35:48,500 (tense music) 302 00:36:02,833 --> 00:36:06,333 Diane was adamant that Rachel had nothing to do with it, 303 00:36:06,375 --> 00:36:08,167 even made a statement to me that Rachel 304 00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:09,542 would not hurt a fly. 305 00:36:09,625 --> 00:36:12,375 But I had to find out from Rachel exactly 306 00:36:12,458 --> 00:36:15,250 what her involvement and knowledge in the case was. 307 00:37:29,708 --> 00:37:31,667 - Inside the diary, 308 00:37:31,667 --> 00:37:36,167 there was an entry that was written long before the passing 309 00:37:36,208 --> 00:37:39,458 of both Mark and Shaun where Rachel indicated 310 00:37:39,542 --> 00:37:42,333 that she knew that both her father and brother 311 00:37:42,417 --> 00:37:44,208 were going to be passing away. 312 00:37:56,208 --> 00:37:59,083 And when she looked at that, she turned white. 313 00:37:59,083 --> 00:38:01,250 It was almost if she had seen a ghost. 314 00:39:50,833 --> 00:39:52,958 - She was just very matter-of-fact. 315 00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:56,333 And the look on Rachel's face, it was extremely sinister, 316 00:39:56,458 --> 00:39:58,208 just void of emotion. 317 00:39:58,333 --> 00:40:00,000 And it was very eerie. 318 00:40:10,667 --> 00:40:12,375 After Rachel was arrested, 319 00:40:12,458 --> 00:40:15,500 my partner searched Rachel's purse 320 00:40:15,542 --> 00:40:17,792 and inside the purse was another journal. 321 00:40:19,833 --> 00:40:23,292 And inside it, I found a poem that stated 322 00:40:23,375 --> 00:40:25,500 that, "Once upon a time there were six. 323 00:40:25,583 --> 00:40:27,292 Now there are three. 324 00:40:27,375 --> 00:40:29,333 Only the quiet ones are left." 325 00:40:29,417 --> 00:40:31,667 (ominous music) 326 00:40:51,792 --> 00:40:53,875 During the court proceedings, 327 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,542 there was a deal that was struck with Rachel 328 00:40:56,625 --> 00:40:59,167 that she would testify against her mother. 329 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:04,542 The deal was essentially to give Rachel the possibility 330 00:41:04,667 --> 00:41:09,417 for parole after approximately 40 or so years in prison. 331 00:41:11,625 --> 00:41:14,083 Diane also ended up taking a plea deal. 332 00:41:14,167 --> 00:41:16,542 Diane's agreed sentence was that the death penalty 333 00:41:16,625 --> 00:41:18,208 would be taken off the table 334 00:41:18,333 --> 00:41:20,333 and that she would serve life in prison 335 00:41:20,417 --> 00:41:21,958 without the possibility of parole. 336 00:41:25,125 --> 00:41:27,458 (pensive music) 337 00:41:53,708 --> 00:41:56,958 - Sarah went through indescribable pain 338 00:41:57,042 --> 00:41:59,083 and trauma from this. 339 00:41:59,167 --> 00:42:00,833 And based upon all that, 340 00:42:00,875 --> 00:42:04,500 she's confined to an assisted-living-style facility. 341 00:42:06,042 --> 00:42:08,167 (melancholy music) 342 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:10,750 For someone like Shaun that really did not have a lot 343 00:42:10,833 --> 00:42:14,208 of connections in the outside world, 344 00:42:14,292 --> 00:42:15,833 his family was what he had. 345 00:42:15,875 --> 00:42:17,708 They were the nucleus around him. 346 00:42:17,792 --> 00:42:19,458 Shaun was a good kid. 347 00:42:19,542 --> 00:42:21,333 He was an intelligent young man 348 00:42:21,417 --> 00:42:23,750 and he did not deserve to die. 349 00:42:26,292 --> 00:42:28,875 (bright guitar music) 350 00:42:30,417 --> 00:42:33,875 - I still connect with Mark through music. 351 00:42:35,625 --> 00:42:38,792 ♪ How well I remember 352 00:42:40,625 --> 00:42:43,250 - I always enjoy listening to Mark's songs. 353 00:42:43,375 --> 00:42:44,708 I sing along with them 354 00:42:44,792 --> 00:42:50,167 and wish that I'd had an opportunity while he was alive 355 00:42:50,250 --> 00:42:53,917 to do something with those. 356 00:42:54,875 --> 00:42:57,500 Mark was a good man, a good musician, 357 00:42:57,542 --> 00:43:00,542 taken away far too young. 358 00:43:00,625 --> 00:43:02,833 If there was one last thing I would say to Mark, 359 00:43:02,875 --> 00:43:04,792 it's just, I miss you, bro.