e [Music] [Music] what could be more romantic than love at first sight Cheers Cheers but if only one person is instantly boted but hopeless chances are it won't end happily ever after [Music] I'll Never Be The Bride oh come on smart and beautiful Claire Walsh seems like a good catch Claire was a cheerleader a valedictorian and a physical therapist from Arizona seemed like she had her life made but none of her men stay around there seemed to be a pattern where she was more serious about the guy than the guy was about her then in
1995 it's nice to meet you she meets Jack meski at his sister's wedding so I can't believe I've known your sister all this time and I've never met you I know all it took was for her to get hitched the 38-year-old school teacher is the perfect tonic for Claire's wounded Pride he was the salt of the earth he was the kindest person you would ever meet can I see you again everybody liked him cuz he was just a nice guy and before you know it Jack and Claire had started a relationship [Music] it seems like
a perfect match where are you taking me you'll see they both love the outdoors you've got T be king me he was really an outstanding rock climber a mountain climber uh well known throughout Colorado in no time you're in good hands I promise Jack is the center of Claire's life she is certain he is the one this is more my thing they were going to live together and it was going to be happily ever after and everything was going to be [Music] wonderful in lahache Florida in 2004 indoor activities unite 19-year-old James Barry and 18-year-old
Melanie e Melanie and James bonded and fell in love over computer games should I move in now no let your minions take the damage it was a young love but I think it was like a pure love yes it was a committed relationship James was described by everyone that knew him as a super nice guy the young lovers are equally crazy about gaming it's kind of a role playing game he and Melanie would spend hours playing this game the only thing James likes more what is his BFF Jeff back to the Fountain Hellraiser who also
lives with James's family Jeff and James were best friends and Melanie was his first girlfriend Bang You're Dead every time James played in his bedroom with Jeff and if Melanie was playing all three play it together you always win J James is the perfect team player had to it's study time not just fast on the keyboard he also helps Melanie focus on her future study time right I get it what I'll see you [Music] tomorrow Melanie needed a job he helped her find a job Melanie needed to graduate high school he helped her get a
[Music] GED so here's a kid who just wanted to help people Melanie is welcomed into the family by James's mom and his stepfather hey I'm starving they're be on left hands off Melanie hi are you staying for dinner if that's not so much trouble of course not Melanie spent much for time uh at James's house can I help she was the kind of girl that you would want your son to have as a girlriend they loved to like his [Music] daughter how would you feel if Melanie stayed for breakfast that's fine thanks she spent time
at his house overnight stays it was part of their relationship it was approved by the parents but with everyone under the same roof did There's pressure on James to choose between his girlfriend and his best friend what are you doing I don't like being left alone Melanie couldn't stand James's best friend Jeff in fact seriously she couldn't stand really any friend that he [Music] had she wanted to be the only person in his life and when I say only I mean [Music] only like Melanie Claire Walsh is a possessive woman so these are my college
buddies Josh and Neil she has no intentions of sharing her new boyfriend Jack meski excuse me I just want to talk to something Jack compulsive obsessed uh wasn't going to let go of Jack no matter what no matter what the circumstances [Music] were hello Jessica CLA starts contacting all the women in Jack's life hi my name is Claire uh you know Jack heski and declares he's off limits I'm his girlfriend and I need to know so why don't you just tell me everything Claire started doing strange things like reading Jack's mail and going through his
phone book and calling women in his little black book so to speak uh how do you know Jack oh you know he's the date how long ago but Claire's Antics soon prove too much for Jack he calls it off I'm just not ready to settle down yet he couldn't just say go away woman leave me alone you don't love me like I love you he just sort of tried to gently push her away you'll be okay in time somehow I don't want anyone else I want have married you for months they live separate lives in
separate states until there's a knock on Jack's [Music] door Claire he thought he was all done with her what are you doing here and there's Claire and she's got luggage but Claire is carrying more than luggage I think I'm pregnant she said she didn't have any place to stay she doesn't have a job she has nothing please help me Jack so Jack lets her in Jack agrees to support Claire throughout her pregnancy so have you seen a doctor well you need to it's pregnant she's hoping they'll pick up where they left off well I'm going
to hit the sack good night then she would get in bed with him completely nude and one thing would lead to another and you know things would happen there she moves in and immediately sort starts taking over she changed the message on his voicemail so that instead of just saying you got Jack you've got you've got Jack and [Music] Claire in Florida Melanie IAM wants her boyfriend James all to herself by getting his best friend Jeff out of the way Jeff has this huge fish tank with some some very expensive fish in it what does
she do she pours bleach into the water of the fish tank murdering $33,000 worth of fish she sent in a message to James don't hang around with Jeff if you do there will be consequences and you know what $3,000 worth of dead fish that's nothing no uh oh no no how could this happen she did this and it works Jeff gets a message and he hightails it out of there but her plan backfires I just don't understand how you could do that I'm sorry James says you know what I'm done with you we're no more
this time she moves out of state breaking up is never easy the young lovers are miserable after they call it [Music] quits a couple months go by and James is feeling well he's feeling lonely so he calls her up and then he ultimately says hey why don't you come back I can't wait to see you let's see if we can work this out James was so nice and he seemed to look at her through rosec colored glasses Melanie is welcomed back into the Family Circle it's good to have you back I missed your food thank
you it's as if nothing has changed it was really nice okay yeah all right well good night have a good good [Music] night until Melanie's arch rival Jeff wants to come [Music] over who was that Jeff's coming [Music] over you don't have to see him so you want me to go please don't start Melanie could not tolerate being rejected the friends play computer games into the night I know I know I know what about the gym until they have a virtual visitor look who just joined us ah Hellraiser her choice of username was Hellraiser and
her Avatar was a female devil holding her own bleeding heart out of her chest that was the real Melanie I'm going to take that as my cue for powerap the virtual gate crashing is too much for James it was a mistake to invite Melanie back so he ends it once and for all James broke up very gently with Melanie via computer chat that's not so unusual especially for young people and it was very sweet it was very sincere he was just explaining we've tried and we can't do it in Colorado Springs as the months pass
you been a doctor yet no couldn't get that Jack malisi suspects he's been hoodwinked by his ex Claire I bought you [Music] this well I think it's faulty she isn't pregnant just felt Bary that's when he knew he'd been had I'm sick of your lies Claire I'm not lying fed up Jack demands Claire moves out I'm not lying that is final he put his foot down and said you have to leave and I want you out and it was probably very hard for him to do that a pretty face can easily mask evil intentions she
was a nut job I mean really she was just flat out crazy obsessed with this man Claire is planning away she can stay with Jack forever she went out and bought a gun on January 12th 1997 she's ready after Jack had gone to sleep she grabbed the gun and the ammunition Jack was sleeping on his [Music] stomach she put the muzzle of the gun flat against his [Music] skull and pulled the trigger Jack died instantly cuz if she couldn't have him no one else could have him Claire finally gets her man to stay put and
she's not letting him go after she shot Jack she remained with Jack in bed snuggled up nude next to him she was cuddling him afterwards for quite some time based on the condition his body was in uh once we got there Claire doesn't want to spend life in prison she wants to spend eternity with [Music] Jack then she shot herself but she sort of missed her head grazed the top of her skull and then she shot herself in the side none of it was [Music] fatal finally she makes a frantic call to her cousin who
races over to Jack's apartment Claire Claire was in a fetal position on the floor totally naked where can you hear me and Jack lies dead in his bed when they started to question CLA at the hospital she remembered her name but not a whole lot else ma'am can you tell me what happened she stared up at the roof or she just blankly stared ahead Claire finally confesses but says she didn't know what what she was doing what I recollect is her being in a days was like I was looking down that she was above her
body and looking down and saw this all take place and had no control of it well I I threw that out the window right away No One Believes Clare Walsh's plea of insanity in 1998 she is convicted of murder and sentence to life without parole it truly was a Fatal [Music] Attraction she was going to end this thing and was going to take Jack so no one else can have [Music] him and that's what Melanie IMS is thinking when on November 17th 2016 she returned returns to James's home so just after midnight Melanie comes to
the door what are you doing here you said we could talk now yeah James lets her in Mel please let's talk tomorrow they're in the kitchen and they're talking do you love me honestly no she becomes enraged opens the drawer pulls out a 13in kitchen knife Mel come on it's almost like she was inside that online game and she was one of those characters and she was destroying this man as James tries to protect himself Melanie slashes him six times Melanie had six times to say to herself no I'm not going to do this this
is wrong she didn't she was working up the courage to plunge the knife in his chest this man she claimed to love so much she stuck a knife into his heart you don't want me anymore James well you know what no one's going to get you bang Melanie takes off after this Savage attack James rushes down the hall as fast as he can J James he drops to the floor the knife falls out of his chest help help if he doesn't get help soon he's dead James call 911 get him on the bed my son
is St James's stepfather tries CPR it was just horrific he died on the scene he he's he's not breathing [Music] there's no mystery to this tragedy all thoughts turn to James's girlfriend the fish tank the separation and the chat room breakup we wanted to come down to the [Music] station no well will you talk to us here Melanie has some explaining to do did you stab him yes Melanie told the detective she was upset because James didn't love her I was really angry that he ended our relationship on social media her Fury came from not
being told personally as if that justified killing him in 2019 Melanie IIM is convicted of second deegree murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison on first glance you would never think that she would be capable of much more than a traffic ticket uh much less a heinous murder James never saw the danger he was in Melanie was pretty but she was pretty poison hey how are you being loyal to a loved one is a conscious commitment to honor and respect their feelings but unquestioning loyalty just back off and leave me alone to the wrong
person can end in tragedy Me Broken Arrow Oklahoma in late 2015 32-year-old single mom Sonia weidenfelder makes a tentative return to the dating World everyone described Sonia as very polite very quiet very Demmer she just looked like a your average All American Girl a dating app brings 42-year-old phone technician Rick Spalding son into her life hi babe looking good thank you Sonia's life was progressing in a normal fashion Dr yes please two please until she encountered Rick it's been a long time since I've had a shot no time like the present on their very first
date Cheers Cheers Sonia falls under Rick's spell oh wow Rick was very good at at speaking to people and kind of being very engaging very personable you and I are got to get along just fine it's going to be a good night BR come home they started seeing each other and then from there they became a little more serious eventually Rick moved in with Sonia hey in the bedroom Sonia soon learns that she's not the only woman in Rick's life hey how are you good you remember Amanda hi Sonia she just dropped in the bar
of some CDs yeah and one thing led to another anyway uh where are my clothes in the kitchen oh yeah right yeah yeah let's see what it well it was an open relationship babe come on we agreed to an open relationship each of them was free to date other people to see other people either romantically or in a sexual relationship don't worry thank you oh hey I hear you to are engaged congratulations thank you anyway uh I got to go he had an ability to pick the women that he wanted to manipulate and he would
find something in them that he felt that he could uh capitalize [Music] on in Oxnard California 1994 Diana H starts a new job at the local supermarket but the single 34 4-year-old is looking for more in life than a steady wage so here's a box just stop by stacking the shelves she always seemed somewhat desperate to have uh a close relationship with a male she uh wanted to Bel loved for store manager Michael D the new employee is a perfect opportunity for a new conquest hi oh Michael was always on the lookout for a quick
and easy Conquest and she met the criteria lack of self-confidence desperate for a relationship if you need anything I'm your man okay Michael seduces Diana with practiced [Music] ease could Diana Han please go to the warehouse thank you Diana lost herself and Michael she lost her sense of self if she ever had one and her work ethic plummeted it was a common knowledge at work that they were boyfriend girlfriend oh sorry Diana had sex with Mike in his van in the parking lot of the place where they worked she thought that was showing respect she
doesn't know what respect is but Diana is smitten she has no idea what she's getting into Michael has a [Music] family two sons and wife Sher they were high school sweethearts she really lived to take care of her boys and her husband Michael have you done your homework y I don't think Sher knew about Michael's spering for many years and when she did find out she didn't want to believe it she still wouldn't leave him for Sherry marriage was forever even after years of cheating Sherry hasn't given up on her husband you're late bad traffic
I'll heat you up some dinner i e but you could have called don't startop she wasn't willing to throw in the and she was trying to be that perfect wife but I've been waiting for hours well it wouldn't hurt for you to miss a meal you look like a barn animal getting fatter and uglier by the day Sher became submissive and dutiful trying to win Michael back to get him to fall in love with her again she was wasting her time I've lost two pounds get to lose to Stone she gained some weight he picked
on her about everything she was never good enough he went out of his way to brutalize her and he took pride in it hey Rick Spalding is another man who dominates the many women in his life Rick was a narcissist and he had to be in total control and he could never be wrong and but could also be Charming but Rick's special breed of charm no longer has power over one ex-lover 39-year-old Debbie Morgan the mother of his 11-year-old son she was kind and gentle a great mom she worked for Department of Human Services she
was a child welfare specialist hey tiger hi Dad I'll see you Tuesday love you she was dedicated towards trying to make her son have the best life that she could give him and that was with all the ongoing struggles with Rick hey Rick your payments haven't come through again Rick owes Debbie $10,000 in unpaid child support here we go again what do you mean here we go I need to why are you doing this to me he's your son too I know he's my son you you get your money just back off and leave me
alone we believe he just didn't want to pay pay the child's support he didn't want to do anything would help Debbie Rick is out of work and sponging off his latest lover Sonia Sonia was the one who was working Rick was staying with her and she appeared to be fronting a lot of the bills Sonia doesn't blame Rick for the situation let Hope Debb's out to destroy me instead they unite against a common enemy he saying that if Debbie was causing all their problems that they would be so much better off if Debbie weren't around
and she began to believe okay our life was doing great and then now it's spiraling down because of Deborah Morgan soon Sonia is a willing volunteer in Rick's increasingly bitter battle about this now you're talking we can post these all through her neighborhood and I've got another [Music] idea yes hello I'd like to report an unfit mother son you tried to get Debbie in trouble and and try to get her fired from her job yes neglect child neglect but yeah we were shocked when we heard that uh that Sonia was [Applause] involved Rick even targets
Debbie with constant phone calls at work please leave me alone the Relentless campaign begins to take a toll Deborah was scared of Rick are you [Music] okay she told one of her friends if something ever happens to me Ronda if I end up dead it was because of Rick look to [Music] Rick in Oxnard California after years of being humiliated and belittled by her husband Mike Sherry D has had enough will you be home for dinner tonight don't know she loved her husband but reached a point where he had damaged so much she knew she
couldn't stay with him I can't keep living like this she talked about leaving and he said I'll never let you have the children I think we should [Music] separate I will never let you take my children Michael wants everything his way children lovers and drugs Diana is happy to play along even signing herself over for his pleasure this is for you this is a declaration that you own my body she signed a contract that she would devotee her body and mind to him she merged with Michael Diana seems up for anything it's your birthday coming
up what do you want I want Sherry dead for the first time in her life Diana has a man who wants her it's an opportunity she can't resist she wanted to slip right into the life of being Michael's [Music] wife Diana would get the instant family love and endless adoration that she [Music] craved Diana vows Michael D will be hers or nobody's Diana told a coworker she was going to commit a human sacrifice for a friend for a birthday gift she picked up an axxe uh a knife trash bags matches she bought a a police
uniform picked up a badge a wig makeup on the morning of May 6th 1996 Sherry D's shopping trip in Ventura takes an unexp expected turn as she walked out of the store her life changed forever Dina pulls him behind her similar to what a police officer would do ma'am I'm a police officer and you're under arrest posing as a police officer Diana captures her prey too easily Sher went with her handcuffed she didn't question authority I think that she was taken aback did not recognize Diana and she submitted to what she believe the authority of
the state a police officer and she followed the directions but it doesn't take long for Sher to wise up let me out let me out it wasn't until she was completely immobilized unable to move in the back seat that she realized it was Diana ha what are you doing Diana is fulfilling her Lover's birthday wish she struck Sherry with a hatchet despite a severe head wound Sherry is not dead but Diana's not done yet [Music] the knife was actually Twisted once uh had penetrated through sher's rib cage the twisting of the knife clearly indicated a
great deal of hatred passion pure evil how can you do this to her you know such a sweet person for former detective Matt Harville the case is especially shocking Sherry was a friend of mine we went to high school together he recognizes the victim's name after her husband reports her missing what's your emergency my wife is missing several detectives myself included went to Michael's house and I spoke to Michael personally just general questions is there any reason why Sher would leave I asked him if there was anything that we should know about because we're going
to explore all avenues I have a girlfriend and he provided me with her phone number detective Harville has no reason to suspect Michael until the next morning when he visits Diana good morning ma'am she came to the door she is dressed in a very revealing nighty black van was in the driveway of Diana's house and that was the same black van that Michael Deli owned Michael come out Michael come out and at that point Mike came from a a room at the back of the house and he was dressed in boxer shorts I'm going to
need you both to come down to the station the police found Michael and Han together having sexual intercourse not exactly the thing that The Grieving husband does the day after his wife was kidnapped Michael and Diana's future together lasts less than 48 hours they've left a long trail of evidence we had bank records we knew where she had written checks recently Diana's checks lead straight to a wig shop another leads to the murder weapon and they trace a rental car in Diana's name the car was full of blood fiber and hairs and things of that
nature from Sherry's murder they left an incredible Trail and we were able to put this case together to a powerful Beyond any reasonable doubt case confronted with the evidence Michael tries to throw his lover under the bus he thought he had uh committed the perfect crime and that if anything went wrong Diana would take the fall and never ever point in his Direction know he just wasn't the sharpest pencil in the Box in 1998 Michael D is convicted of first-degree murder kidnapping and conspiracy he's sentence to life without parole all Diana Han ever wanted was
a life with a happy ending instead she receives a life sentence guilty of first-degree murder kidnapping and conspiracy she has no chance of parole they will spend the rest of their lives in prison suffering every day for some people falling in love with the right person brings out the best in them in Diana's case falling in love with Michael brought out the [Music] worst falling in love isn't going well for Sonia weidenfelder Rick Spalding's custody battle has sent him broke and he's taking Sonia down with him that's it there's nothing left she was draining her
savings now their house was in foreclosure because Sonia was trying to help Rick and I'm going to jail Rick is out of money and out of excuses his next court date is set for November 8th 2016 if he doesn't pay the Ed child support he's facing 6 months in jail he was telling people Debbie was trying to put him in jail and that was looming over Rick's head they viewed this as doomsday and there's only one person they blame if they got rid of Debbie that their life would be Blissful that that all their problems
would go away and everything would be great you know if only Debbie would disappear I believe that Rick put that idea to deor in Sonia's head this was something that you know Rick was trying to manipulate her into doing I have an idea she told Rick that I have an idea and it will be concrete and it will solve their problems well you you don't mean what I think you mean yeah you can't be serious what are our options in the early hours of November 7th the day before Rick is due in court Sonia uses
his son's key to gain entry to Debbie's house [Music] [Music] Sonia crept in at a point time when she was [Music] [Applause] [Music] asleep she stood on this side and the shotgun would have been put right up to her [Music] face it was one shot at Point Blank Range [Music] I I don't know why she was so enraged that she could do such a [Music] thing Sonia's cruelty doesn't stop there she knows full well that Debbie's 12-year-old son will be coming home to that house after school he was coming back to Deborah after spending the
weekend with Rick so he rode the bus home and got home sometime after 4:00 mom's car was there which was unusual called out to his mom she didn't answer so he walked in turned the light on it was a very very grizzly scene [Music] I can't understand why a person would let a child why she would let him find her like that is beyond my [Music] comprehension suspicion immediately falls on Rick they want to know if we knew of anybody that might want to harm Debbie and uh we told him uh we we knew in
person a jury finds Rick Spalding and Sonia weidenfelder equally culpable both are convicted of first deegree [Music] murder in 2018 they are senten to life in prison no chance of parole until 2056 when we heard the verdict we felt that uh a burden had been lifted they really were going to get what they deserved [Music]
