- [narrator] a brutal early morning shooting
At a courthouse in delaware.
- He was firing back in our general direction.
I couldn't let him get outside.
- [narrator] a mother in a bitter custody dispute
With her unhinged ex.
- He saw the world from his perspective only,
And you could not change his mind.
- He has kidnapped the kids and she's not getting them back.
- [narrator] and in-laws who will do anything
To get what they want.
- This family feud started with an obsession.
- In their view, she just wasn't good enough.
- She was being followed
And she was concerned about her safety
And the safety of her children.
- They've taken the kids.
Are they going to take care of the kids?
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- That Monday morning, I had taken a position
Behind one of the x-ray machines
To prepare to get everyone into the building
For the court procedures,
And gunshots ring out, people screaming, yelling.
- The courthouse lobby is teaming with people,
All kinds of people.
They all panicked.
- I stepped around from where my position was at.
I could see there was a man chasing a woman.
He opened fired on her, took shots at her.
One of our officers was in close proximity
And gunman turns and shoots him and strikes him.
Then the shooter turns towards another woman and chased her
And shot her several times in her upper torso.
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- And what we see happen then is a gun battle
Between the court security officers and the shooter.
- He was firing back in our general direction
Back towards the screening area.
The shooter was then trying
To get towards the parking garage.
I couldn't let him get outside.
He knew that I was pursuing him.
He started shooting towards me.
He made his way towards the side entrance
And that's when I cut him off,
And we had our exchange in the revolving door.
I shot back through this glass revolving door
And I struck him in his chest and up in the shoulder.
The problem was the glass on this revolving door
Started to spiderweb.
So, now I can't see in there.
I was trying to give him commands to say,
"put the firearm down."
- This man, while he's standing there
Takes a gun and blows his head off.
- I found the suspect on the ground.
He was not moving.
There was no signs of life.
That's when someone noticed
The pocket on my shirt had been blown off.
I was struck.
So, I was wearing a bulletproof vest.
I had reached underneath the vest,
And I had no injuries.
I went back into the lobby area
To check the subjects who were down.
I could see the one subject, she was deceased.
The other one was taking her final breaths.
- [narrator] police are able to identify the victims
By looking through their belongings.
They identify christine belford, age 39,
And laura mulford, age 47.
- At that point, the call had gone out.
- So, every agency in the county
Responded to the courthouse.
- I arrived at the courthouse.
One of my captains came up to me.
He says, "one of the victims is christine belford."
That shocked me.
And my first thought was, where was david, the ex-husband?
I investigated that family for a couple years prior
And it was an ugly custody battle between the two,
And I thought he would know what's going on here.
- [narrator] for years, christine belford
And her ex-husband, david,
Had been in a heated and violent dispute over custody.
The battle escalated to such heights
That it caught the attention of the press.
- I was in the newsroom and we heard over the scanner
That there was a shooting.
One of the reporters came over and he goes,
"hey, I heard it had something to do
With that woman you wrote about for years."
So, I called christine belford,
And it rang and rang and it just dawned on me
Like it struck me like a thunderclap.
Like, oh my god, she's one of the ones who's dead.
And it just to think that she was lying there
In a pool of blood, it was just awful.
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- Christine belford grew up in wilmington.
She played tennis when she was younger.
She went to business college and got a secretarial degree.
- Christine was very catholic, very religious.
She ended up teaching at st. John the beloved,
A local catholic parish here in wilmington.
- She had been married in her early twenties, had a child.
She was a nice decent woman.
- [narrator] in 1998, after four years,
The marriage fizzles.
It's an amicable split,
And christine remains close friends with her ex-husband.
- She said they got along better after the divorce
Than they did when they were married.
She really had an easygoing persona.
I never remember her saying a bad word about anybody.
- [narrator] in the spring of 1999,
Christine starts dating david matusiewicz,
Who is six years her senior.
- David matusiewicz grew up in new jersey.
He went to optometry school
And bought an optometry business.
- Christine met david,
Because she went to work in his optometrist practise
And his first marriage had come to an end
And her first marriage came to an end,
So they began seeing each other.
David was very successful,
He was pretty articulate, well-educated man.
- She was enamoured of david, really in love with david.
- [narrator] after two years of dating,
The couple got married in a lavish ceremony
At a local estate, and spent a romantic honeymoon in maui.
- Three kids came out pretty fast
And they bought a house in nice country suburb.
They were just living a nice upper middle class life
Of a couple in their thirties.
She thought she was living a dream life.
- [narrator] despite all the joy
In the matusiewicz marriage,
David's parents are not supportive
Of his relationship with christine.
- Lenore matusiewicz, david's mother,
Had some background in education.
- Lenore, she was a very tough woman.
- David's father, thomas matusiewicz,
Is militaristic in a way that is unhealthy.
- He was a former police officer.
- The matusiewicz family would never be satisfied
With anyone who was in david's life
Unless that person looked, acted,
And thought exactly like they did about everything.
- [narrator] in 2003, when the couple's second daughter
Is just two months old,
David's parents move into the family home.
- His parents couldn't afford at that point
To live on their own.
They'd had some hard times.
- When thomas and lenore moved in,
They took control of the kids
And how the kids should be raised.
Christine felt like she had been kicked to the curb
As far as how to deal with her children.
It caused a big riff between christine and david.
Her biggest complaint was thomas and lenore.
- [narrator] after the in-laws move in
Christine's home life rapidly deteriorates
And the situation becomes dangerous.
Years later, she meets with a journalist to tell her story.
- I never knew someone who I wrote about for years
Who got murdered.
She talked to me about a lot of things
- Christine experienced depression
And david had trouble coping with that issue.
She had to go on medication, some antidepressants.
He didn't like that.
- One of the children had autism,
Or at least was suspected of it.
- How to treat autism.
That was a a point of contention between them.
The marriage was coming apart at that point,
Because of that.
- After five years married, new year's eve going into 2006,
David was sort of brooding, sitting there by himself,
And she walked up to him and sat down with him
And he poured two glasses of bourbon.
And she told me at one point that he was talking about
How, you know, he could take people out
And they would never find them.
- David told her that he could bury her
Where no one could find her, and that scared her.
- That was sort of the breaking point for her,
And it unravelled pretty quickly from there.
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- David has become unpredictable.
He's with his mother, who is a known antagonist.
- Christine's beside herself.
She doesn't know what to do.
- I'll never give up, and we will find these children.
- [narrator] in January,
And three daughters together under the age of six,
David and christine's marriage hits a breaking point.
So, christine decides to take a stand.
- She decided to leave him, and she filed for a divorce.
- Christine hired me to represent her for divorce.
She just wanted a fair share of the marital estate.
Her share of the equity in the home,
And a fair arrangement for the three young girls,
And that was it, she just did not want to tear him apart.
- She said she was trying to move on
From a strange marriage, crazy in laws.
- At that point, she decided the best thing to do
Was for her to move out of the house
Rather to try to force him out.
And not to take the children with her,
So she'd moved in with one of her grandmothers.
After christine moved out of the house,
David had his parents living with him again.
- David and christine had to come up
With some custody agreement for the kids.
- We got the word back that david didn't want her involved.
He then pursued a policy of trying
To marginalise christine as much as possible,
Limiting the contact she had with the children,
Not including her in any decision making about the children.
This was a way of saying that he didn't need her.
And things got worse.
When christine would visit the children,
And at one point she reported that david's father, thomas,
Had shoved her up against a wall and threatened her.
- [narrator] as the turmoil between christine
And her estranged in-laws continues to mount,
David decides to change his tactics
To gain control of the children.
- Through the custody battle, david made a claim
That christine was not fit to be a mother.
She had some psychological issues,
And at which point the court ordered
Psychological evaluations of christine and of david.
It actually, turned out that christine was doing very well
And david was the one losing touch with reality.
- The psychologist said that
David displayed a characteristic called perceivery.
In layman's terms, he saw the world
From his perspective only,
And you could not change his mind.
David likely viewed everybody who wouldn't agree with him
As a potential enemy.
- In February of 2007, they finally got divorced.
- The court decides that the parents
Should have shared custody of the children.
David's outlook seemed a bit odd,
But it wouldn't cause the court to deny him custody.
- In early summer of 2007, christine finally got
Where she could have the children living with her.
Then in August of that year,
David said that he was gonna take the children
On a vacation to disney world in florida
With his mother, lenore,
And that he would have them back in time
For the oldest girl to begin kindergarten,
Which would be at the beginning of September.
- [narrator] christine agrees to the trip
And drops them off with david and lenore
On the morning of August 26th, 2007.
- They left, and it was supposed to be like a two-week trip.
- [narrator] two days after they leave,
Christine gets a call.
- She received one phone call from the oldest daughter
Who at that time was five years old by cell phone
And they were in the vehicle driving at that time.
- The oldest girl told her,
"we're driving I don't know where we are,
But we just keep driving and I'm tired of driving."
The daughter seemed a little confused.
Christine, she told me she calls the next day,
Phone starts going straight to voicemail.
- So, she calls the vision centre,
And they said, "david hasn't come back to work yet."
So, now she's really freaking out.
- She is worried about the girls' safety
And about whether she's ever going to see them again.
David has become unpredictable.
He's with his mother, who is a known antagonist.
- [narrator] with no other options available,
Christine calls the police
And files a missing person's report.
- I was assigned as the missing person's
Investigator for the case.
One of the first things I did,
I tried calling david's cell phone
And it went straight to voicemail.
- [narrator] the day after he takes the case,
Christine follows up with detective shriner
About a discovery she's just made
Through david's business partner.
- Christine goes down to the the vision centre,
And while she's there, david's partner tells christine
That she recently had bought the business from him.
- I actually went there and spoke to the new owner
And she had told me she had purchased the optometry business
First at around $900,000.
So, he had a very, very large cache of money,
Cash to go on the run.
- [narrator] when detectives follow up at his house,
They find more evidence that david has no plans to return.
- The neighbours told me that they had trucks and trailers
Moving their furniture and everything outta there.
If he had planned on coming back to delaware,
Why would he be moving stuff out of the house?
So, with that information,
I was able to obtain a search warrant for the residence
And went in and found that, yes, the house was vacant.
And when I was conducting the search of the house,
I saw they were burning in the fireplace.
I looked in the fireplace, nothing but ashes.
The only thing that was not burned up in that fireplace
Was christine and david's divorce papers.
All that combined said to me,
He's really bitter about the situation
And he's not coming back.
I was able to collect enough probable cause and evidence
To swear out a felony warrant
For three counts of parental abduction against david.
- David and lenore, they've taken the kids.
Are they going to take care of the kids?
That's an open question.
- I told christine, "I'll never give up
And we will find these children."
We figured david and lenore went off the radar,
Didn't wanna be tracked.
They have a two-week headstart on me.
They got a lot of money, they got time.
Here we go.
- [officer] police are on the hunt
For christine belford's three young daughters
Who were abducted two weeks earlier by their father,
David matusiewicz and his mother, lenore.
- I was able to enlist the help
Of our us marshals to search countrywide
And if need be, go outside the border of the united states.
- The police are also looking for digital clues,
Financial transactions, toll records,
Anything that they could find to locate these individuals.
- I got david's cell phone records.
There was nothing after a certain date.
And so again, that just kept pointing me
Towards he's not coming back.
- [speaker] as detective shriner continues looking
For any traces of david, lenore, and the three girls,
Christine unravels at home.
- The not knowing, she was worried about their wellbeing.
It was just an awful time for her.
- Christine had her child from another marriage.
The other child was older and knew what was going on,
But she tried to keep everything
As normal as she could for the older girl.
I can't imagine what she went through.
Think of yourself, think of having your children
Taken away that's terrible.
- [narrator] while christine's concerns increase by the day,
Detective shriner looks for answers from david's family,
Starting with david's father
Who lives nearby in smyrna, delaware.
- I asked him the standard questions of,
"where did your son and wife and grandchildren go?"
He was very vague.
He was very unconcerned.
If my wife and grandchildren were missing
And the police were looking at it,
I would do everything I could to help.
He could care less.
My thoughts is he's gonna eventually
Join them wherever they wind up.
Also found out david has a sister, amy gonzalez.
I drove over to new jersey and spoke with amy.
Amy had the same demeanour as thomas, her dad.
She didn't show no concern.
Through looking at amy's demeanour,
Yeah, I thought this was a family plan
And they're not gonna cooperate.
- [narrator] while the matusiewicz family
Appears suspiciously unconcerned,
A panicked christine reaches out to authorities
With alarming information.
- Christine found out that the marital home
Was in default on the mortgage.
David had taken out $249,000 of equity of the house.
He managed to forge christine's signature.
This was essentially,
Fraud committed by david against the bank.
- Following some of that money,
It went to the parents' bank accounts.
So, at that point, we subpoenaed thomas
And lenore's bank accounts.
That's when we found the purchase of the rv.
- Now, law enforcement knows
That david, lenore and the girls,
They have the ability to travel
And they have mobile shelter.
- We had the delaware licence plate number.
We put that alert on that.
- They were pulling out all the stops
To try to find where the kids were.
But this had gone on for two months
And christine's beside herself, she doesn't know what to do.
She can't find them,
But there's nothing out in the public eye.
So, I sat down and talked to christine
To get the story out there.
- Wilmington news journal finally published our big story.
It had been five months since he had disappeared with them.
She went through this for months
Of wondering where her kids were and that was her life.
- [narrator] while the article makes national news,
Detective shriner receives surprising information
About david's father, thomas, and his sister, amy.
- Thomas and amy moved to texas.
If he was overly concerned
About his wife, and grandkids, and son,
Why would you move and not tell the lead investigator that,
"hey, if you come up with anything, here's where I'll be."
- So, at that point, we began what are called
Pen trap and trace orders to track the email communications
Of the matusiewicz family members.
- [narrator] another year would pass
Before the next lead on the case.
When the us marshals get a hit
On their high-tech tracing software.
- They were able to see email communications
Were resolving to internet connections in south america.
- Investigators discover david's sister, amy,
Made a call to a real estate agent in managua, nicaragua.
So, they went to the real estate agent
With pictures of david, and lenore, and the kids.
And they said, "yeah, do you know these people?"
And the real estate agent said,
"yeah, but heir name's not matusiewicz.
Their name's blanco, tomas blanco and and his children."
But the authorities knew that this was them.
- It was an evening where our detective
Assigned to the us marshals calls me and says,
"we found them.
We need to go notify christine
So she can get on a plane to nicaragua."
We went to her house and told her.
She was very excited.
She hugged me.
I told her she has to get a plane reservation in nicaragua.
Get it tonight,
'cause you're gonna be on the plane tomorrow.
- [narrator] on March 12th, 2009,
Christine and the authorities fly out to nicaragua
To find the matusiewicz family.
- So, they all go down, and the authorities find them.
They're living on some like barren lot.
- There was no fight.
And they took david and lenore into custody
Without any type of incident.
- Christine, she's overjoyed,
But she's a little horrified when she sees her children.
The oldest daughter has lost 30 pounds,
And she's only a seven-year-old kid.
The other daughter, her teeth are so abscessed
That she's gonna need surgery.
- When the eldest child is reunited with christine,
She says, "you're alive."
Christine says, "of course, I'm alive."
And it becomes clear through their conversations
That david had told her daughter when she was kidnapped,
That christine had committed suicide.
It's a very, very devious, evil thing to say to a child.
- Christine is happy.
A year and a half later, she's got her kids back.
- [narrator] back in delaware,
Christine's daughter struggled to adjust
After 19 months apart from their mother.
- Chris had told me that upstairs she had two bedrooms
And she put the oldest girl in one.
She put the younger two in the other,
And when she woke up in the morning,
The three that had been through this ordeal
Were all in together.
And after that, she had to set the bedroom up for three,
Because they wouldn't be separated.
- [narrator] nine months after being located abroad,
David pleads guilty to kidnapping and bank fraud.
- He faced up to 30 years in prison,
But because of he had never been in any trouble,
He got four years in federal prison.
Lenore also pleaded guilty.
She got 18 months for her crimes.
I thought they both got off pretty easy.
I mean, taking three kids
And leading them on an 18-month odyssey,
Making the mother suffer like that.
Is that all that's worth?
- Christine makes a decision.
She decides she's actually gonna fight back.
- Whenever I talked to her, she was strong,
She didn't break down.
- [narrator] on January 8th, 2010,
Christine files a motion in family court
And successfully terminates david's parental rights,
Eliminating any access he has to the children.
- That termination would likewise terminate
The grand parental rights of thomas and lenore matusiewicz.
The result of that court decision is a dramatic escalation
In the matusiewicz course of criminal conduct.
- [narrator] the matusiewicz family is enraged
After christine wins the court battle
To remove her three daughters from their lives.
- There was this multi-pronged effort after that
To defame her and to make her appear
To be someone who she was not.
- That's when they started putting together this dossier
That eventually became this website
Called "a grandmother's impossible choice".
- It's a story that lenore largely writes from a jail cell,
And that becomes the narrative
That the matusiewicz's actions
Were wholly justified out of concern
For the welfare of the children.
So, they would do things like print out
A copy of the website and mail it,
Or type letters that had the allegations from the website
And send them to christine's friends, to her family,
To her employers, to her church.
And what emerges is christine recoils,
It chills her, she stops engaging.
This is having the intended effect
Of disrupting her daily life.
- I never saw them going to church after that.
And before that, she had been quite active.
- They also had an investigator followed christine around.
And then david's sister, amy, posted youtube videos
Of surveillance outside of her house.
- One of the children wandered out towards the street
And she stopped them
And that was all they got on christine.
If that's the worst you can say about her,
She was pretty good.
- Christine's therapist had recorded
A number of therapy sessions with christine,
With her consent,
Where she talked at length about
The impact that the matusiewicz's conduct
Was having on her and the girls.
- She had no family.
Her mother had died not long ago.
Her father was very old.
There were no brothers and sisters.
There was nobody, it was just her.
But the whole neighbourhood knew about
What was going on and we keep an eye on 'em.
She told me she had to let the girls have
As much of a normal childhood as she could.
And when my granddaughter was over,
They would play together.
- [narrator] in September, 2010,
Lenore is released from prison
And moves to texas to be with thomas and amy.
Despite the distance, back in delaware,
Christine continues to worry
For her and her children's safety
And does what she can to protect them.
- Christine had put in cameras,
She had done things to make the house secure.
She was that concerned.
- Christine slept with a bat next to her bed.
She was extremely concerned.
They all were extremely concerned
That the matusiewiczs were coming for them.
- [narrator] a year and a half after his mother's release,
David's time in prison nears an end,
After which he'll be out on supervised release.
- Christine had called me multiple times,
Fearing that once he gets out,
He may try to abduct the kids again.
- [narrator] in September, 2012,
David matusiewicz is released from prison
And moves to texas to live with his parents.
- He's out, he's free,
But he remains essentially under the supervision
Of the federal probation department.
- A large amount of child support had accumulated,
While he was in prison,
And he wanted to not have to pay
Any of that back to christine.
So, he filed this petition to terminate
His obligation to pay that money back.
- The court hearing is scheduled.
Christine is notified that she has to appear
In court with david, who she has not seen in years.
She does not wanna go to the hearing,
And she's told she has to come to the hearing.
David goes to the united states probation office
And says, "I've been ordered to appear in court
For a hearing on my child support payments,
And I need permission
To travel to delaware for that purpose."
What he doesn't tell the probation office
Is that his mother and father
Are going to travel with him to delaware.
- [narrator] the morning of February 11th, 2013,
Christine drops her girls at school
And heads to the courthouse.
- Beth mulford, a neighbour and very good friend of hers,
Offered to come with her to support her.
- Christine walks in with beth
And they're getting ready to go through the line,
And then someone walks right up to 'em,
Fires shots right through their bodies.
They're killed pretty much instantly.
- [narrator] news of the courthouse murders
Quickly travels through the community.
- When I heard that she was dead, it was just,
I don't know, I was numb,
Because it was just, you can't believe that could happen.
And then to find out her friend
That went with her was killed.
I was hoping it was wrong.
- Beth mulford was this wonderful supporting friend
Who gave her life in service of christine that day.
- [narrator] the courthouse lobby is in chaos
After the cold-blooded killings.
- People who were in there were still lying on the ground,
Were hunkered against the wall.
You could smell the gunpowder
And the haze just hung in the air.
I had been struck and the other officer had been struck.
They had taken us by ambulance
To the hospital to be checked out.
Our officers, through identification that he had on him,
Were able to identify the gunman as thomas matusiewicz.
- They approached me and said,
"the shooter was thomas matusiewicz,"
Who I knew to be david's father.
- [narrator] with the revelation that thomas matusiewicz
Is the deceased shooter,
Detective shriner turns his attention
To christine's estranged husband,
Who he knows is on the scene.
- We had to find where david matusiewicz was.
That was my number one goal.
I walked down to the grand jury room
Where the civilians and employees were placed
And found that david was one of the ones
The group that was getting released to go outside to leave.
So, I ran over to the escalator.
He was at the bottom of the escalator,
Getting ready to head through
The back door of the courthouse.
At that point, I yelled down, "david,"
He looked up, turned around, and walked back to us.
- [narrator] david is quickly escorted
To a private room in the courthouse for questioning.
- [narrator] aware of their backstory,
Police have a hard time believing david
Was uninvolved in the shooting.
- David is arrested on a petition for violation
Of his federal probation,
Because he has travelled to delaware
With his parents without court approval.
He did not have approval for his parents to be there.
Law enforcement is able to locate their car.
They don't know whether it's booby trapped.
Robots have pulled out of the car, clothes, weapons.
We found three sets of handcuffs
In successively smaller sizes,
Putting one set of thumb cuffs
That would fit a very small child.
- [narrator] after seeing the contents of the car,
Authorities quickly realised christine's children
Need immediate protection from the remaining members
Of the matusiewicz family.
- I told the investigators, we have to find the kids
And get them into our custody so they'll be safe.
I know they're a tight-knit family
That does what they have to do for each family member.
I knew lenore was willing to go to prison for these kids.
- [narrator] authorities are rushing
To protect christine belford's unsuspecting children
Before the remaining members
Of her ex-husband's family find them.
- The delaware state police go to the kids' schools
And actually, pull them outta class
And take them into protective custody from school that day.
And the girls, they're taken away
From their older sister, their half-sister,
Who's become very important in their lives.
They've lost their mother.
They have no family really left,
And you know, they're out there on their own.
- [narrator] the day after the shooting,
Police head to the location
Where the matusiewicz family stayed the previous night
And locate david's mother, lenore.
- State police found lenore in maryland
And brought her to police headquarters.
- When lenore was interviewed by law enforcement agents,
Her immediate concern was not for tom or for david,
Her concern was for the kids.
She said, "we've gotta get to the kids right away."
- [narrator] lenore denies any involvement in the shootings
And claims that her husband, thomas, acted on his own.
So, police have no choice but to release her
Until contradictory evidence is uncovered.
- Now, during this period of time,
Lenore and amy were not in custody.
They were back in texas.
They were continuing to engage
In activity relating to this stalking campaign.
Lenore was recording youtube videos.
- One of the things they're saying is that
Tom planned all along to kill christine
And that david and I knew about it.
That is absolutely wrong.
- This was all part of a course of conduct
By the matusiewicz family
Designed to repossess these children.
They were viewed as possessions
And killing christine was not the ultimate goal.
Repossessing the children was the ultimate goal.
So, we concluded that the only way
To ensure that these kids could remain safe into the future
Was going to be to prosecute the entire matusiewicz family.
The state made a decision, in light of thomas's death
And he being the shooter,
That they were not gonna proceed on state murder charges
Against david, lenore, and amy,
Because they weren't the trigger people.
We then really focused on the cyber stalking,
Resulting in death theory.
- It was a new federal crime.
No one had ever been prosecuted on that before.
- We had to show that death resulted
From this group of people who had an agreement,
A common criminal objective,
To cyber stalk christine belford.
And to use all of these tools
Of the internet as weapons to do so.
- [narrator] days before david is scheduled
To be released from prison,
The district attorney obtains an indictment,
And david, lenore, and amy are arrested.
- David was charged with
Internet stalking resulting in death,
And his sister, amy, and his mother, lenore,
Were charged also as co-conspirators.
- [narrator] in June, 2015, the three remaining members
Of the matusiewicz family go on trial.
It's then and there that christine's 12-year-old daughter
Finally sets the record straight.
- The most sensitive and perhaps critical moment
In the trial was when christine's daughter testified
Being asked to do exactly what her mother was asked to do,
To go to a courthouse, to confront the matusiewiczs,
To testify against them.
That's the most that I think any of us
Have ever asked of any witness.
Her testimony was so powerful,
Was so clear, was so poignant.
- And she said she had never been abused by her mother.
She had never seen her sisters be abused.
She didn't know where that came from,
And I think her, her quote was,
"I would know I was there."
- [narrator] after a five-week trial,
Closing arguments are delivered,
And the jury heads off to deliberate.
- David, lenore, and amy were all three convicted
Of cyber stalking and sentenced to life in prison.
This family feud, in my opinion, started with an obsession.
David matusiewicz's obsession with these girls,
It was just a rollercoaster ride,
And I'm glad that I helped find the children.
It's just sad, I couldn't protect mom in the end.
- Christine was an innocent party,
But beth mulford was not only innocent, but uninvolved.
She was just there to support her friend.
- Christine was very strong and poised.
She had a lot of grace to her.
This diabolical family robbed her
Of all this life that she had.
- [narrator] after her murder, christine's three daughters
Remain in the care of the state.
Their whereabouts are still unknown by their older sister.
- The girls would do anything for christine.
It was a very happy, loving relationship
As it should be with the mother and daughters.
It's a shame that everything had to happen like that,
And he gets to live and she doesn't.
I'm doing this for the girls.
I hope that they get the idea
That we're all thinking of them
And we all remember, we haven't forgotten.
(sombre music)