hi everyone my name is Jack and today we're going to take a look at another horrible case with you Kelly Clayton had everything going for her first of all she was quite smart and bright since high school she was a role model for other students active in school excelled in tests and passed exams just as well at the same time outwardly she never looked like a girl who spent days and nights sitting over textbooks cramming lessons and writing out something from additional literature no on the contrary her looks were considered modelik and if her grades
had left much to be desired she could have built a modeling career she could have but she didn't After High School she went to teacher training University to become a chemistry teacher the insanee pride of her parents but only for the first few years of University it is not known what Turning Point happened to her then but one day Kelly took her documents from the institution and calling her parents said that she no longer wanted to study that she was too young to spend the rest of her life checking notebooks and raising ungrateful children if
she wants to she will definitely return to her educational Endeavors in in the meantime she wants to travel and live life to her heart's content not the best idea according to her parents who were so upset that they didn't communicate with their daughter for 6 months but perhaps if it wasn't for this desperate act Kelly would never have met Tom Clayton they met at a party of mutual friends and the young man really liked the girl firstly he from the first minutes of acquaintance began to court Kelly and show signs of attention and secondly Tom
had a beautiful appearance and a a letic physique and all because the guy was a hockey star for four consecutive Seasons he played for the semi-professional team Jackal and in it he was considered a strong man a player who is able to break the opponent's ribs only if he did not approach the gate but only a sports career and especially built on strength and aggression will someday fail and Tom had to put the stick in the far corner and enjoy hockey only from the stands or from from the couch watching his favorite team on the
TV screen the couple had to move on with their lives and first they returned to New York where they got married then moved to North Carolina and then moved to the Tiny Town of Kato numbering only a few thousand people there Tom franchised a company to rebuild houses after fires or disasters and worked in a related profession for a friend's company as for Kelly after dropping out of University she worked as a waitress only changing places and now she had two children however Tom was earning well enough and Kelly could quit her job at any
time and take care of her beautiful daughters but she still believed that extra money would never be superlu besides she could use it to buo toys for her children and spoil them in every possible way on September 28th 2015 Tom as usual went to play poker with his friends the Millers he never took his wife to such events playing for money implied certain skills and experience in the game besides someone had to stay at home with the children and a family trip would have turned such Gatherings into a noisy buffoonery and would not have brought
any pleasure from gambling that evening Tom was not lucky in the game but he did not get up from the table but on the contrary tried to win back and offered anyone who wanted to stay to play until morning but no one supported him him and he went home at home however a terrible picture opened before him his beloved wife was lying in her own pool of blood badly beaten and at first glance was not breathing Tom panicked and ran through the rooms looking for his children and luckily they were fine but very frightened he
grabbed his daughters and headed to his neighbor Derek's house trying to make sure the children didn't see their mother's mutilated body and already from the neighbor's house he dialed the police number the officer who arrived on the scene found Tom sitting on his knees in front of his wife's body trying to give her artificial respiration only the EMTs were able to pull the man away who voiced the terrible and unpleasant information Kelly had been dead for a long time and neither they nor he could do anything to help her all two floors of the house
were drenched in blood a major mess was in the bedroom a apparently there had been a struggle between Kelly and the perpetrator who had committed his atrocity despite the fact that there were children in the house at the time Kelly was pushed down the stairs evidenced by the knockdown banister and beaten on the head with a blunt object until they were sure she was dead there were no hints of knife or gunshot wounds the policeman who filmed the crime scene noted to himself that Tom was shocked by what had happened and seem had lost his
in space he walked from one corner of the room to another entered the room for a split second and immediately left it and he could not tell the policeman where the children's room was or where the emergency exit from the house was but when asked where Tom himself was at the time of the murder he answered calmly that he had been at a friend's house all evening where they were playing poker then the policeman who did not get any clear information from Tom went to the neighbor to ask some questions of the children Tom's eldest
daughter Charlie referred to the perpetrator as a robber according to the words of the eldest daughter she and her sister were almost asleep but they heard their mother start screaming loudly from the Next Room Charlie run run away from here and then the whole place shook like an earthquake the girls after listening to their mother cautiously went out of their room but saw the criminal leaning over their mother and beating her with what appeared to them to be a hammer the girls ran back into the nursery closed the door with a small nightstand and hid
under the bed it was a good thing the criminal wasn't looking for them because that nightstand as the policeman pointed out was so small that it would hardly have apprehended a burglar say what did this burglar look like well he was a big one like a bear that big wow wow what was he wearing blue jeans and a black shirt he was also wearing a mask you know like the one daddy wears when he goes hunting with Mr Bourne to shoot ducks so your Daddy has a mask like that too will you show me I'd
have to ask him where it is I don't know what else did you notice when you saw the robber he had eyes like dad's and I don't remember anything else I saw him literally just a little bit got scared and we quickly ran back inside police officers checking the house were unable to confirm the girl's account that the perpetrator was a burglar there were no signs of forced entry at either the front or back door although on the other hand the gate to the garage was open and the perpetrator could have entered the house through
the garage another thing that the police noted is that nothing was stolen from the house jewelry was left untouched lying in a jewelry box and the safe where Tom kept the cash was not even touched the doors of the cabinets in the house were also all closed usually burglars check every little cabinet every shelf but here the whole mess was the aftermath of a fight experienced officers it would seem understood everything at once Tom pretends to be a heartbroken husband and it was he who killed his beloved wife and the mother of his children in
order to further receive insurance payments if Kelly's life was insured and husbands murderers developing a crime plan always ensure the life of their wives then in case of her death he could get up to a million dollar all that's needed is to gather evidence and the case will be solved especially since even her own daughter said that the mask on the robber was like her father's and eyes like her father however the police did not find the hunting mask in the house after finding out where Tom had spent his time that night the police questioned
the other poker players is Tom the killer do you really suspect him wondered one of his friends that poor guy had his wife murdered for crying out loud and instead of looking for the bastard you want to pin everything on him how could you think of such a thing no Tom certainly couldn't have done it I've known him a long time replied another less emotional friend he worked two jobs around the clock because he loved both Kelly and his kids there's just no way that could happen plus he was with with us all night we
played poker and even when everyone was tired he kept insisting on continuing to play Tom really was suspicious that evening said his acquaintance Laura during a break in the game he took me into the next room and asked me to give him my phone to call his wife he supposedly forgot his phone in the car and didn't want to go get it I was first surprised that the car was 10 m away from the house go to it and get the phone but still gave gave him a call he stepped back to make the call
outside I didn't hear who or what he was talking to but when I decided to check the outgoing calls there were no numbers in the call history so he just deleted the call wouldn't you agree that's odd I told my husband about it and he was as surprised as I was my husband was sitting at the playing table next to Tom and noticed that Tom was not watching the process of dealing cards or watching the people around him which is very important in poker but was sitting with his head bowed over the surface of the
table where the cards were hiding the screen of his phone he had his phone on him why had he tricked me then where was he calling who couldn't he call from his phone after Laura's testimony the police once again questioned Charlie Tom's daughter and the girl repeated what she had told the policeman the first time the robber looked a lot like her father the next testimony was given by the niece of the murdered already after Tom was behind bars I didn't tell Aunt Kelly I just didn't want to upset her she was very fond of
Tom she literally loved him and besides she has two children by him they are my sisters who needs my truth Tom was not the man he appeared to be at first glance yes he occasionally spoiled my aunt with attention and flowers he could easily babysit which other fathers rarely do but that was all at home and at work he was a completely different person Aunt Kelly decided to help me one day and arranged for Tom to take me to work for him she was too young to be on her own so she understood me as
well as anyone and wanted the best for me I worked for Tom all last summer doing correspondence registration and document management I didn't know him well before that so at first we had a strictly working relationship then he got drunk somewhere and came to the office in that state there was no one there but me and him and for some reason he started to tell me that his family was fictitious he loves his daughters very much but he doesn't care about his wife and he hasn't had any feelings for her for a long time he's
even had a few Affairs on the side during their marriage and even considered leaving Aunt Kelly but he didn't simply because he was afraid that a divorce might leave him without a house and without money looking ahead it is important to note that some of the interviewed female participants of that evening's poker game confirmed the words of Kelly's niece that Tom was not such a faithful husband and had a sexual relationship with two women who were also playing poker that night in addition to the information about Tom's promiscuous life Kelly's 16-year-old niece also told about
another employee of Tom's firm Michael beard Michael was doing repair work on houses after the fire and he was doing a good job but there was one moment in those houses where bird worked constantly missing things and if the first few times Tom did not believe his customers referring to the fact that during the fire the owners could lose something then when the accusations of theft began to be repeated for the third and fourth time there was no doubt Michael bird not only restores the floor and walls but also steals Plus in addition to stealing
there were complaints that Michael was allowing himself to come to work drunk I was in the office when Michael's stealing came to light Tom could yell at his employee and kick him out on the street he was upset with his subordinates behavior like that he kept asking him how could you or haven't you thought about your family where are you going to work now after the incident Tom fired bird but still called companies he knew and offered them to hire his former employee Tom recommended Michael and when all his options were exhausted Tom took bird
in to help with the household cutting the grass watering the plants doing minor repairs around the house the detective called Michael beard in for questioning he said he only stole because he and his family needed the money Tom was very good to me defended me to the end but I know it was my own fault he has a very good wife she fed me when I worked for them even though she really shouldn't have she also gave my children clothes that her daughters had grown out of I am very grateful for all they have done
for me I feel so bad for Kelly when I heard about her death I couldn't believe my ears I felt so bad I even went to church and prayed for her to go to the best of all Worlds the police did not find anything strange strange in Michael's story and let him go but the interrogation of his wife Mrs bird made the police doubt his words according to his wife Holly Tom offered Michael some work which he did not say and for this work he promised to pay him $10,000 now that was interesting Michael was
called back to the station and had a lie detector hooked up to him all questions were failed bird was lying and therefore failed the test realizing he couldn't get away with it he began to testify indeed Tom promised bird $10,000 if Michael on the day when Tom will play poker sneak into his house kill his wife and set a fire in his house the plan was to strangle Kelly and then make it look like she just burned to death in an accidental Fire Plus the family home was insured for a very large sum of money
as the police checked it was true Kelly's home and life were ensured at at the highest rate two cans of gasoline were waiting for Michael in the garage through which the house was to be entered everything was fine here bird entered the house when everyone was already asleep he quietly began to climb the stairs and reached the bedroom where Kelly was supposed to be sleeping but the young woman was either awake or awakened by the sound of the open door and when she saw a strange man in the doorway she began to scream in Fright
my kale was just as frightened and pounced on Kelly trying to close his huge hands around her neck but it wasn't that easy Kelly began to fight back I had no idea that a seemingly fragile Kelly had so much strength in her says Michael a heck of a fight ensued which spilled over from the second floor bedroom to the first floor kitchen Michael because of the shock and panic could not concentrate on the fight but only waved his arms in all directions or or just grabbed Kelly's clothes while Kelly defending her life aimed very accurately
at Michael's face and if the police had come to bird earlier they would have seen the marks from the beatings on him but everything turned out as it did after a long struggle Michael hit Kelly's head against the wall with all his might she fell and for a while couldn't find the strength to get up Michael took out a hammer and began hitting the young woman's head with it until stopped showing signs of Life Michael maddened by what had happened just ran out of the house even forgetting that Tom asked him not only to Kill
Kelly but also to set the house on fire to cover up the crime Michael had an accomplice Mark Blandford who in fact served only as a driver the day before it happened I got a call from Michael I had worked with him on a construction site for a long time and I had stayed with him for a couple weeks last year so I knew him well I knew Michael was into petty theft so when he called me and asked me to drive while he broke into someone's house I wasn't surprised I wanted to turn him
down but he offered me $500 I thought long and hard at first but he talked me into it he said he just wanted to rob a businessman and he needed help to get out of there before the cops got there he said he'd help with the car I gave in to his in treaties but on the condition that I park somewhere far away from the house he agreed that evening I waited for him in that car in a dark alley and he came back quickly enough Breathing heavily and telling me to move as fast as
possible he didn't have any bag or sack on him which didn't look much like a robbery I didn't ask him any questions along the way simply because I didn't want to know anything I just wanted my $500 which by the way I didn't end up getting on the way out he asked me to stop at a bridge over a creek a couple blocks south of here I stopped there he hastily stripped off his outer garments and threw them off the bridge if you need to be shown the place I'll show you indeed police officers who
arrived on the scene at Mark's behest found parts of Michael's outer clothing near the creek as well as the hammer used to kill Kelly Michael already in custody on suspicion of first-degree murder began to change his testimony according to him he was indeed hired by Tom indeed for $10,000 but only to commit arson at the house and nothing more there was no question of murder when he went into the house however Kelly was already dead and who killed her the detective asked I think it was Tom he offered me money for murder and arson from
the beginning but I refused the first offer I'm not willing to kill a man for any money he said I had nothing to fear but he never could talk me into it you may not believe me but I almost lost my mind when I saw Kelly's Body I knew right then and there that he was setting me up so I ran out of the house he's the killer Michael insisted Michael spent a very long time assuring the police of his innocence and all because he did not know that Mark had shown the place where bird
had thrown out his things and that his clothes as well as the murder weapon had already been submitted for examination and the experts found both on his clothes and on the hammer the blood of Kelly Clayton and that was the most direct proof that it was him who killed Kelly not someone else in turn Tom also did not admit that it was he who ordered the massacre of his wife from a former problem employee of his company according to him Michael knew that he had money knew that he was not poor and because bird lost
his job as well as because of resentment associated with the dismissal he decided to Rob his house but Kelly was at home that night for which he paid with his life it might have been difficult to prove Tom's guilt and his conspiracy with Michael if Laura the woman who had been playing poker that night had not told the police that Tom had called from her cell phone the detective requested a transcript of her calls and expectations were confirmed then on the night of September 28th 29 Tom Clayton called Michael beard Michael was the first to
go to trial he continued to insist that he had been hired to set fire to the house in order to collect the insurance payout he didn't kill Kelly and as for the blood on his clothes it was just because he was touching a dead and mutilated body that's why he got dirty he'd thrown his stuff away so no one would think he'd been at Clayton's house that night his speech sounded convincing the jury had been deliberating for 7 hours in the end they concluded that Michael be beard was guilty on all counts he was facing
life in prison as for Tom his lawyers were able to obtain records of conversations and correspondence between him and Michael and none of the conversations clearly discussed their devious plan the prosecution's requests for billing transcripts of his movements yielded no concrete results either all the evidence was circumstantial if it weren't for one Nuance the car in which Mark had given Michael a ride was registered to Tom's company and Tom coming to the office on his personal Toyota left it in the parking lot where for some reason moved to the company pickup truck which later drove
to Michael's house and left there and took back the day after the tragedy that is in fact he gave Michael the car on which he and Mark went to the crime it was this fact that was testified to at the trial by the jury the trial lasted 6 days and the jury concluded that that Tom had hired Michael to commit this horrible Crime After all Michael in turn filed an appeal in his defense he used the words of little Charlie who said that the eyes in the slit of the Mask belonged to her father however
the court rejected the appeal because the description of the clothes matched the one found under the bridge as a result Tom Clayton and Michael beard received life sentences as for Mark he was charged with manslaughter for which he received Leed 4 years in prison Tom and Kelly's children were given custody to Kelly's Sister Kim after some time Charlie has moved on from the tragedy she occasionally remembers her mom but absolutely won't talk about her father who she will never see again thanks for watching guys jack was with you subscribe to the channel there are a
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