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True Crime Documentary - Money, Love, and Murder： The Tragic Story of Stephen and Evelyn · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:31
  Speaker 1: On a hot night in two thousand and two, a
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: murder took place in this Philippines apartment. The victim was
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: a British businessman. His death would transform the life of
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: his mother.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Only a mother or no what it feels like to
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: lose a child.
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: This part of your soul that just goes out like that,
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: and it's just filled with pain and it eats away
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: at you all the time.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: But my life.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: This is the woman Margaret believes murdered her son. She's
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  Speaker 1: Stephen's widow, Evelyn.
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  Speaker 2: I loved you, I.
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: Loved you, your children loved you, and look what's happened.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Evelyn is on trial in Manila. She's always protested her innocence,
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: but her mother in law has spent two years fighting
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: to get her in the dock.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: A life sentence is enough for me.
• 1:35
  Speaker 5: I think.
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  Speaker 3: That's too good. I've had my arms around this girl.
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: I've cherished her. But she took my son and she
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: destroyed everything that was good in this world.
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  Speaker 6: So, Evelyn, did you kill Stephen?
• 1:58
  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 8: He was my wife, perfect, castpon with me, in my.
• 2:03
  Speaker 9: Two kids.
• 2:04
  Speaker 10: In he.
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  Speaker 6: Six years in Yurope.
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  Speaker 11: He was my.
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  Speaker 12: The best man ever.
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  Speaker 13: This is a mun he was just a funny guy,
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  Speaker 13: very different A funny meaning humorous. He would tell really
• 2:29
  Speaker 13: bad jokes, but then his grin or his smirk would.
• 2:34
  Speaker 14: Make it funny.
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  Speaker 10: Didn't want her to fly, would hurt anybody, and that's
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  Speaker 10: how he came over.
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  Speaker 2: He was so gentle.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Stephen grew up with two younger sisters in Nottingham. Things
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: changed when his dad died Stephen was just fourteen.
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  Speaker 11: He was quite a playful brother, and then when when
• 3:00
  Speaker 11: my dad had his accident and died, he became more
• 3:04
  Speaker 11: more of a bigger, more of a responsibler brother.
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: He just wanted to look after me and look after
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: the girls. It became easier actually when Alan and I
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: started seeing each other, and then Alan started to take
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: Stephen on the male role because I felt that Stephen
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: had missed out quite a lot with trying to be
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  Speaker 3: such a good boy for me.
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  Speaker 15: We just clicked real then, which was really nice because
• 3:33
  Speaker 15: previous to that life had been pretty tough for Stephen.
• 3:39
  Speaker 15: I can remember thinking I wish they'd got out a
• 3:41
  Speaker 15: little more and partied and stuff, which he didn't tend
• 3:44
  Speaker 15: to do, did they. He he was so taken with
• 3:49
  Speaker 15: his computer, and that's what he was going to do
• 3:50
  Speaker 15: with his life.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: While Stephen was getting his first job working in computers
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: in Nottingham, his future bride, Evelyn, was growing up on
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: the other side of the world. Boom Duramsema is a
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  Speaker 1: remote island in the Philippines. You can only reach it
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: by boat. There's no running water, electricity or sanitation.
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  Speaker 6: I no, but yeah.
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  Speaker 16: She was a very good girl. She was very well behaved.
• 4:41
  Speaker 16: When she was young, she spent most of her time
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  Speaker 16: in the house, took out miss and when her father
• 4:48
  Speaker 16: was ill, she did a washing and helped make mats
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  Speaker 16: to sell.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 16: She was very talkative even when she was small, and
• 5:00
  Speaker 16: when she was asked what job do you want when
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  Speaker 16: you grow up, she would say, oh, I want to
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  Speaker 16: be a bar girl so I can marry an American.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: When Stephen was twenty one, he was offered an exciting
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  Speaker 1: job abroad. A computer company promised to triple his salary
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: if he left Nottingham to work in Hong Kong.
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  Speaker 3: And encouraged him so much because I felt that Stephen
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: was very skilled, very intelligent, and could do an awful
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: lot with his life.
• 5:48
  Speaker 14: He was a bit innocent grew up. I think he
• 5:53
  Speaker 14: grew up very close to his mother.
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  Speaker 17: That might not have been the best thing. He had
• 5:58
  Speaker 17: been on his own a long time, and I don't
• 6:02
  Speaker 17: think Steve saw evil around him.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: Stephen took up a new hobby. He joined a flying
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  Speaker 1: club in Angelie's City in the Philippines, just two hours
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  Speaker 1: from Hong Kong. It's where many professionals come to party.
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  Speaker 1: He found himself surrounded by pretty women.
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  Speaker 14: We women liked him. He was very cute.
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  Speaker 17: He was a big guy with blonde hair, you know,
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  Speaker 17: very white face, smirk, good sense of humor. He made
• 6:38
  Speaker 17: them laugh and women were attracted to him.
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  Speaker 1: Like Stephen, Evelyn decided to leave home for new opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: But she was only thirteen.
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  Speaker 16: I cried when she started working because she was very young.
• 7:01
  Speaker 16: She said she had to work because we were very poor.
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  Speaker 1: It's a two day journey by boat and bus to
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  Speaker 1: Angelae's City. It's where many young girls like Evelyn come
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  Speaker 1: for work. Angela's is known as the sex capital of
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: the Philippines. The bars here are the best opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: girls from the villages to earn money to send back
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: to their families. They often lie about their age to
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: get a job in some of the bars. Not this one.
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  Speaker 1: Girls are as young as twelve. They earn a pound
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  Speaker 1: a night for dancing, up to five pounds if they
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  Speaker 1: have sex with a customer. There is a premium rate
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  Speaker 1: for virgins. They're known as cherry girls. The bar owner
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  Speaker 1: keeps a watchful live. He takes the lion's shit care
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  Speaker 1: of what clients paid.
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  Speaker 3: No and Raum Sabi.
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  Speaker 16: She was kind of embarrassed with what she was doing.
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  Speaker 16: She said she was forcing too it so she would
• 8:17
  Speaker 16: use drugs to help her cope with a situation.
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  Speaker 1: The only way out for these girls is to get
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy boyfriend. Evn was one of the lucky ones.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: Her dream of being rescued by a rich man was
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  Speaker 1: about to come true.
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  Speaker 3: He said that he'd met this girl and that she
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: was in one of the bars. I was naive at
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: the time. I didn't know what I mean about the boss.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: You just think the pope, and he was quite.
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  Speaker 5: Smitten with her.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: Stephen fell for Evelyn the moment he saw her. He
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: took her out for the night, then paid the bar
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  Speaker 1: owner five hundred pounds so she'd never have to return.
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: Steve Borgie.
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  Speaker 16: She said that Steve was kind and he was handsome,
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  Speaker 16: and he wasn't old, he was young like her. And
• 9:25
  Speaker 16: also she said that he had plenty of money.
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  Speaker 14: Good morning money.
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  Speaker 2: Were you shot when you discovered that he had bought
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  Speaker 2: a prostitute for the night.
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: I was disappointed, very disappointed. But you have to be
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: there to understand it. Some of these girls I could
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: have took home with me.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: They're really not sexually obvious, like as a mom.
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: They're so pretty, you're so attractive, and they don't deserve
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: to do what they're doing.
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  Speaker 15: He says, if you can rescue just one girl from
• 10:10
  Speaker 15: the bar life, it says, that's what I've done. I've
• 10:12
  Speaker 15: rescued her from that life.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: What are you doing it?
• 10:22
  Speaker 14: Ye?
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  Speaker 6: Enough, it's enough.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Evelyn Davis is on trial in the Philippines for murdering
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: her British husband, Stephen. She claims she is innocent.
• 10:43
  Speaker 7: If I'm thinking with him now, all I can know
• 10:46
  Speaker 7: is why he's He's so nice, He's so nice.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: It was on a visit to Hong Kong that Margaret
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: met her son's new girlfriend for the first time. Evelyn
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: was just seventeen, Stephen was ten years older.
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: From You could see why he fell for her. She
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: was quiet, she was polite, She was just totally acceptable.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Stephen arranged a special surprise for them.
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  Speaker 9: As.
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  Speaker 3: I'm convinced he only did it because he wanted to
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  Speaker 3: share part of his life with us, and he bought
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful suit. I think he paid something like five
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: hundred pounds, this little white suit.
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  Speaker 5: She not lovely.
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  Speaker 8: I don't forget that day.
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  Speaker 12: It was, of course, the word like a nervous, you
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  Speaker 12: know a little bit, and yeah, he was very.
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  Speaker 18: Happy.
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  Speaker 1: The ceremony was held up because Evelyn couldn't read the vows.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: She'd never been to school. And I just asked him
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: if he knew what he was doing. There's a lot
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: of stories about.
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  Speaker 17: Western men, Marian Bargos in the first place, and then
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  Speaker 17: Mary and somebody so young and from such a poor environment.
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  Speaker 14: I thought there was some questionable hard judgment on his part.
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  Speaker 3: I feel that he was feeling fairly safe in that
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: relationship with Evelyn because he was the provider.
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  Speaker 14: He held the person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he must have felt that.
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  Speaker 3: She wouldn't she wouldn't dump him, because without him everything
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have had anything.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Margaret and Allen were flattered to be invited on Stephen
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  Speaker 1: and Evelyn's honeymoon. They went to the tropical island of
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Puerto Gallera. Margaret was worried by what she saw.
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  Speaker 2: He loved her with everything he got.
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  Speaker 14: She didn't reciprocate that love.
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  Speaker 3: Her litera we'll be walking down the road. Alice still
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  Speaker 3: holds my hand when we go down the road, and
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  Speaker 3: Stephen would try to hold Evelyn's, but she'd put her
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: shoulder away. There's little things that mums notice sometimes.
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  Speaker 19: And Stephen tell me.
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  Speaker 10: She my mother in law.
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  Speaker 7: She doesn't want me to get married with him. Stephen
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  Speaker 7: said everything, I love her, and she's the one.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be murderer of my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen's hopes came true. First, Jessica was born, then two
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: years later Joshua. The family moved from Hong Kong to
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Angele's City. It's where Evelyn had worked as a bar girl,
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  Speaker 1: earning a pound a night. Now she was in a
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: different world. They rented a house in the most expensive neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen was earning sixty thousand pounds a year as a
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  Speaker 1: computer technician. He gave Evelyn a monthly allowance of one
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  Speaker 1: thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing was too good for her. In fact, I'd tell
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  Speaker 3: him that his wife was lazy. After shad the children,
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  Speaker 3: because she'd lie in bed all day and the maids
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: would take care of the children.
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  Speaker 15: Seven employed maids to do the.
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  Speaker 3: Housework, and she wouldn't physically do anything, and he'd just say,
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  Speaker 3: she doesn't have to do anything more.
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  Speaker 5: She's my princess.
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  Speaker 16: She wasn't the same. She seemed to have this air
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  Speaker 16: of being rich, and she would always speak of money
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  Speaker 16: and in a way would look down on her relatives.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just Evelyn's life that was transformed. Life on
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  Speaker 1: the island changed dramatically for her parents. To Stephen was
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: sending them large amounts of money, enough to buy a
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: fishing boat and to build the only brick house in
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the village. He paid their fares to visit him in
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Evelyn in their new home. Sometimes they stayed for several weeks.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: When they'd gone pillows would have gone missing, or like
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: or the rice maker. Anything they could come and carry away,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: water filter, and Evelyn would feel.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: It was okay.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: She'd just say to Stephen, we go buy some more.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Margaret and Allen also visited at least once a year.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: They always took their video camera, and they noticed their
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: daughter in law was acting suspiciously whenever.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: You saw it.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: She was text messaging, communicating with someone. When she thought
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: you was out of fear shot there was You could
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: hear a giggle and a laugh.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: You said it was a boyfriend, didn't you?
• 16:28
  Speaker 15: Just by her whole attitude towards us and towards Stephen.
• 16:31
  Speaker 15: She was very angry at Stephen all the time. By
• 16:34
  Speaker 15: this time, so.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Margaret and Allen weren't the only ones who suspected Evelyn
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was having an affair. Her sister Gina had moved into
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: work as a nanny to the children. She confronted Evelyn
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: about the rumors.
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  Speaker 16: She finally admitted that it was true that she did
• 17:04
  Speaker 16: have a lover, and she told me that Steve and
• 17:07
  Speaker 16: her were having problems.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: The man in question was a local security guard earning
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: only one thousand pounds a year that was the same
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: as Evelyn's monthly allowance. His name was Arnold A. Dora.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Were an affair with No, I'm.
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  Speaker 19: Not having affir with him.
• 17:30
  Speaker 12: That's that's I don't know why why did think made
• 17:33
  Speaker 12: that way?
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Stephen was becoming increasingly suspicious about his wife's behavior. Money
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: was going missing. He'd given Evelyn the fees for Jessica
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to go to a private nursery school. One day he
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: did decided to take his daughter there himself.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: It was really embarrassed because Jesse wasn't even enrolled. Mary
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: has taken this little skirl to score with a pat
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: lunch and they didn't even.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Know who she was.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: And the last thing he said to me was, she's
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: really messed up this time, mom, She's pawned a wedding ring.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: It's only in hindsight of the events what happened that
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: she was actually buying things for her boyfriend, who did
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: find out that the rent when he bought him a motorbike.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Stephen too started to spend time away from his family
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: with his single friends. They went out to the bars
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and clubs he used to go to before he was married.
• 18:48
  Speaker 14: I don't think Steve who had not fair.
• 18:50
  Speaker 17: I think he had one night chance now and then.
• 18:56
  Speaker 17: As I said, they didn't have a sexual relation whatsoever.
• 19:00
  Speaker 17: I think Steve would go loss for her to satisfy
• 19:02
  Speaker 17: that ned. Stephen told Evelyn he was away on business.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: In fact, he was staying at Mike's house where they
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: brought girls back to party. This was the last home
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: video Stephen recorded weeks before his murder.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: Brook it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Stephen still wanted his marriage to work. He gave Evelyn
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: an ultimatum. She had to give the missing money back
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and get a job or go to college, but nothing changed,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: so he threatened her with divorce.
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: She was faced with going back to me and a
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: prostitute in a bar.
• 19:57
  Speaker 17: She would be exactly back where she us five years before,
• 20:01
  Speaker 17: selling herself to strangers, or living in poverty in the
• 20:05
  Speaker 17: back in their province.
• 20:06
  Speaker 14: After having.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Been the Queen, Stephen decided to stop Evelyn's allowance. Now
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: she was no longer able to support the large network
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of family and friends that had come to depend on her.
• 20:25
  Speaker 13: I do remember telling him that he needs he needs
• 20:28
  Speaker 13: to be careful, you know, you know some of these
• 20:31
  Speaker 13: people are crazy. And he made a comment I'll never forget.
• 20:36
  Speaker 13: He made a comment about, you know that that they
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: wouldn't hurt him because he's the golden goose, you see.
• 20:45
  Speaker 13: And I remember telling him that, you forget, the moral
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: of the story is that they killed the golden goose.
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: And I think we just kind of laughed it off
• 20:55
  Speaker 13: and had another beer.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Margaret and Allen will always remember their last holiday with
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Stephen and his family.
• 21:14
  Speaker 15: My angle with Evelyn. She let me say goodbye to
• 21:18
  Speaker 15: Stephen that.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Day, knowing that we wouldn't see him again. It was
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: it was the way the goodbyes were. It wasn't like
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: it had been in the past. It was a final goodbye.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: She she was there, she knew, she knew, and she
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: let him smile at us and huggers and I say
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  Speaker 3: goodbye to us.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: She knew.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: On July the eighteenth, two thousand and two, Margaret got
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the news that every mother dreads.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: That particular morning, Alla and I were here on our
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: own and Alan was doing the garden, and then I
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: got a telephone.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Call from Mike.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: It was like.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I'd heard it and if I didn't say it, it
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: wasn't true.
• 22:38
  Speaker 15: And I just got said tomorrow.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: It can't be.
• 22:41
  Speaker 15: It can't be dead. Not Steven.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: That night, Stephen and Mike had been staying in Manila
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: at their business apartment. Mike woke up when three men
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: broke in. One held a gun to his head and said,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: is this him? When he was told no, he went
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: into the room where Steven was sleeping.
• 23:06
  Speaker 17: At that point I heard her yell and three or
• 23:08
  Speaker 17: four shots. They were simultaneous. There was Steve's yell. He
• 23:11
  Speaker 17: was yelling hey, or something along those lines, but at
• 23:14
  Speaker 17: the same time there was these shots. Then I heard
• 23:17
  Speaker 17: a running down the stairs. I went to Steve's room.
• 23:21
  Speaker 17: I saw him lying there. I felt for a pulse,
• 23:25
  Speaker 17: there was not, so I just went downstairs and went
• 23:28
  Speaker 17: to the neighbors and called the police. And then I
• 23:31
  Speaker 17: just said aloud to want of the neighbors. In fact,
• 23:34
  Speaker 17: I just turned and said that fucking bitch killed him,
• 23:37
  Speaker 17: and I meant to Evelyn.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: There was no evidence to link it to Evelyn. It
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: was just pure suspicion. When I said to Mike, it
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: was just a good reaction. Has it got anything to
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: do with Evelyn?
• 23:52
  Speaker 15: I couldn't see it. I know she was arrogance and
• 23:56
  Speaker 15: ignorance and all the other things we'd learn her to be,
• 24:01
  Speaker 15: but a murderer, I couldn't see it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: As soon as Margaret learned of her son Stephen's murder,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: she flew to the Philippines. At the funeral parlor, she
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: thought his widow, Evelyn, was acting suspiciously.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Evelyn was sat to the left as we walked in,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and she didn't get up, and we went toward to
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Stephen's coffin. Evelyn never came to us.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Did she seem upset?
• 24:42
  Speaker 15: No, not at all, not at all.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Never saw a tear from that girl's eyes. That's time
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I saw me has money. He was just asleep is here.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: It's just like you know.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: In this old leave here.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: It was very kind of.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: You know, nothing, he can do it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And I got to come over and we stood over
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Stephen and she said to me, have you seen Mike.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: This is before we addressed that Stephen was lying there
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: dead in front of us.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Have you seen Mike?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: So I said, no, I've not seen anybody, and said, well,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: if the guys were in the room for twenty minutes,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: surely he would recognize them. And she was just trying
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: to put me about Mike. And that's when my notebook
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: came out, and everything every interaction we had, I made notes.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: The police investigation was moving very slowly. Their first theory
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: was that someone connected with Stephen's company might have killed him.
• 25:57
  Speaker 19: Well, you started at the obvious, which is a few
• 25:59
  Speaker 19: blacks abrom the rented apartment. But all the employees said
• 26:04
  Speaker 19: are claiming that the victims a very good employer. They
• 26:10
  Speaker 19: don't think of anybody who would do that to him.
• 26:14
  Speaker 19: They're only facing a blank.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: All day, Margaret took things into her own hands. She
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to return to the UK until she had
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: got to the truth about Stephen's murder. She hired her
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: own private investigator, a former policeman who doesn't want to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: be identified.
• 26:36
  Speaker 19: She's crying and give me a hug, crying on my
• 26:39
  Speaker 19: shoulder and telling me, oh, please help my son's case
• 26:44
  Speaker 19: to be sold.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Margaret's investigator carried out twenty four hour surveillance on Evelyn.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: There were two men who paid regular visits to her home.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: One was Evelyn's lover, the other his friend, another security man.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Margaret passed this on to the police, who called both
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: men in. Mike was able to identify them as two
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: of the three men who broke into his flat on
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the night of the murder.
• 27:16
  Speaker 17: The one pointingly looked towards me and I saw his
• 27:19
  Speaker 17: eyes and thought of the same eyes there were going
• 27:23
  Speaker 17: to gull me down, Mars.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: They were both arrested, but Margaret's campaign to hunt down
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: stephens killers was putting her and Alan's lives at risk.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: She was warned that they were in danger. Friends of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the accused knew who they were. After two months, it
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: was time to go home, but Margaret wasn't going to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: leave the Philippines without something of Stephen's his children. She
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: wanted to take Jessica and Joshua home to live with
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: her and Alan.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Why did you decide that it was the right thing
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to take them away from their mother?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Because she was dangerous, She didn't care.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Jesse to coffee.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Margaret persuaded Evelyn to let Jessica stay with her for
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the weekend. A few days later, she left the Philippines
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: for England with her three year old granddaughter. She hadn't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: been able to find her grandson.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to leave Joshua.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: It was the hardest thing I did is to leave
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the baby there without taking him. So he left the
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: passport for Joshua. And we're actually on the plane with
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: jass And by this time I'd got halfway down my
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: list because I'd got Jessica, I got the passports, i
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: got Steven's ashes in my hand luggage. We've got two
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: guys in jail and was ex hosted.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Next on Margaret's list was her grandson. Joshua was staying
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: with Evelyn's parents. Margaret sent her investigator to the island
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: with an offer of two hundred pounds to hand him over.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I cried.
• 29:23
  Speaker 20: I cried over the child. He was going far away,
• 29:27
  Speaker 20: but I couldn't do anything because I don't have the
• 29:30
  Speaker 20: money for his schooling. Whatever he wants to study, it's
• 29:35
  Speaker 20: better if he is with the other grandmother, Margaret. She
• 29:39
  Speaker 20: has plenty of money there. He can study and choose
• 29:43
  Speaker 20: whatever course he wants and finish his education.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Two months after she fled the Philippines, Margaret was reunited
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: with her grandson at Heathrow Airport.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: He was dressed in a peermant socks, a paper grow
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: with the legs cut off because he didn't fit in
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: and a bridge show is nape. It was amazing just
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: have Stephen's son in my arms, after all what we're
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: been through.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Evelyn has not seen her children now for two years.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Get you, let's go.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: They're living with Margaret and Alan.
• 30:20
  Speaker 16: Okay, hungry princess, aren't you.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: I hug my daughter and give her love and they
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: we're gonna say again, and the we're gonna say it again.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: The laugh of my kids. I mean, she knows that
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: I love my kids. She knows and that my life.
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: He mistood my kids in my yes, but she knows.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: That even though Margaret was on the other side of
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the world, she was determined to prove her daughter in
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: law's guilt. For two years, she worked every single day
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and often throughout the night, getting evidence. It was a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: costly business. She even had to pay the police's petrol
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: money to interview witnesses. Altogether, she spent fifty five thousand pounds.
• 31:14
  Speaker 14: She wanted justice, and I think she was enraged and
• 31:18
  Speaker 14: Evelyn she could call bloodily kill her husband and then
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: just behave the way she continued to behave, all for money.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: It was Evelyn's relatives that gave Margaret the breakthrough she needed.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Whilst out there, she and Allan had made friends with them.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: They kept in touch by text message.
• 31:41
  Speaker 16: I promised her I would do anything I could to
• 31:44
  Speaker 16: help her. She said, thank you. I said, I understand,
• 31:47
  Speaker 16: because we are both mothers.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And the family held the key to what happened to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Stephen that night, and this man was to provide the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: crucial evidence. He's Robin Bootus, Evelyn's brother in law and
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Gina's husband. He'd been acting suspiciously since the killing. When
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the police tried to question him, he went into hiding.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Evelyn's aunts knew where he was, and Margaret persuaded them
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to turn him in. Finally, he admitted that he'd been
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the third man on the night of the murder. At last,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the truth was out.
• 32:29
  Speaker 15: It was around eleven o'clock when Evelyn came and asked
• 32:32
  Speaker 15: me to go with them.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't know where we were going. I got into
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the car and then we headed downtown. Robin told the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: police that Evelyn's lover, the friend and Evelyn then drove
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to the flat where Mike and Stephen were staying. The
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: three men got out of the car and went upstairs.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Evelyn's lover was the one who fired the gun, two shots,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: then two more. Evelyn sat in the car to actor's lookout.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Evelyn told everybody that Stephen was a millionaire and she
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: would get all Stephen's money where Stephen was dead.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Robin's confession meant that Evelyn's lover and his accomplice were
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: convicted of murder. They are both serving life sentences. Robin
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: was set free in return for providing evidence. In February
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, Evelyn was arrested and charged. Even
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: though she didn't fire the gun herself, she can still
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: be found guilty of murder house. The judge will decide
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: if she planned Stephen's.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Death with her lover, julye.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Evelyn denies everything, but there is strong evidence against her.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: The men had a key to get into the apartment
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: on the night of the murder. Evelyn claims she was
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: asleep at home, yet a neighbor saw her come back
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: in the early hours of the morning. There are fourteen
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: people giving evidence against Evelyn, but there is not a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: single witness to support her version of events. Macarty City
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Jail is where prisoners are held on remand Evelyn's been
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: here for seven months. The only visitor she's had is
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: her father. The rest of her families turned against her,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and they have given evidence that they heard her and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: her lover planning to murder Stephen for his money. In
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: six weeks time, the judge will announce his verdict. The
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: penalty for murdering the Philippines is a life sentence or
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: read an execution by hanging.
• 35:10
  Speaker 16: It's such a shame what has happened to her, that
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: she has wrecked her life and allowed herself to be
• 35:15
  Speaker 16: carried away by a door eye.
• 35:20
  Speaker 13: I guess I don't want to waste my energy hating her.
• 35:23
  Speaker 13: I mean, she did what she did. She deals with it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: I feel the loss of a friend.
• 35:53
  Speaker 17: I love you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I love you, Daddy. People right to the cloud and cloud.
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: The upsetting part for me is knowing that I won't
• 36:13
  Speaker 11: see him again, and also for his children that they
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: weren't at the opportunity. And I think that's the saddest thing,
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: because he loved his kids.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: He was so proud of him.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: What's magic words?
• 36:31
  Speaker 19: Please?
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: It's your favorite Squitty And Joshua.
• 36:34
  Speaker 15: Is going to grow up to me a big dinosaur.
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: I come out my house with Jessica and it's look
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: at that store up there into a beautiful star and
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: I say, yes, that's my daddy. That's my daddy. You
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: know it's really cut you.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Margaret's goal is in sight. The judge is about to
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: pronounce his verdict on Evelyn and Mark. It is determined
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to be there.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: It's been a very long, long journey.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: It's been two and a half years.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: It's been a hard journey, a day in, day out journey,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: and I just hope that I can get some results
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: and focus on the children and bring the children up
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and do all the things that Stephen would want us.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: To do.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Got butterflies have?
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: Today is going to be a huge day.
• 37:48
  Speaker 15: Okay, if we get all right verdict, there's going to
• 37:53
  Speaker 15: be a huge sigh of relief.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Evelyn is about to find out if she will be
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: set free or convicted of murdering her husband, Stephen's mother
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Margaret and her partner Alan have waited two and a
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: half years for this moment, and I'm sir comment With
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: no family or friends to support her, the only person
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: for Evelyn to talk to is her.
• 38:41
  Speaker 18: Lawyer, Guys series stranger.
• 39:14
  Speaker 16: You know, case numbers.
• 39:18
  Speaker 21: Versus this is this positive portion. Wherefore, this court hereby
• 39:28
  Speaker 21: finds evely In Boholan also known as Evelyn Bohol evely
• 39:33
  Speaker 21: In Bohol Davis and the Anita bol Davis guilty theudreasonable
• 39:38
  Speaker 21: doubt of murder qualified by a treachery without any mitigating
• 39:42
  Speaker 21: or aggravating circumstances, and sentences her to suffer the penalty
• 39:47
  Speaker 21: of reclusson perpetua.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: Together.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Evelyn has been spared the death penalty, but she's got
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the maximum life sentence that means forty years in prison
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: with no possibility of an early release.
• 40:00
  Speaker 22: Any question, Yeah.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Were you satisfied that she was just given an.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I don't get any pleasure in seeing my daughter in
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: law going to prison, and no matter what happens, it
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: would never bring my son back.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: But there's no pleasure in seeing everything go to prison.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Margaret has one last task before she leaves. She's going
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to confront Everylyn with her crimes and say goodbye.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: If she wants to.
• 41:00
  Speaker 23: Talk, stand up, Evelyn, stand up and talk to me.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Evelyn. Take off those glasses. Look at my.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Your daughter cries for you, Your son cries for you.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: They want their mommy.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: You don't want I want Jesse just what you want
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: them now.
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: You know that I want Jesse just like you know that.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: But how how can you how can you convince me
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: of that?
• 41:45
  Speaker 12: What they ever happened with this Steve? And I don't know?
• 41:47
  Speaker 12: You know that, mom, I was staring with the Steve
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: van everything.
• 41:51
  Speaker 20: What happened with the Steve?
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: And when he's dead, I was there and I go
• 41:54
  Speaker 12: to Lisabeth that when I know if someone called me
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: and I was crying.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Your boyfriend, it was your I.
• 42:00
  Speaker 12: Don't never get I don't never have a relationship with him,
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: even if I die.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Now I have a perfect love. I have Latyople.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Beautifople, just my life.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: But it's the best.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Man is my life.
• 42:23
  Speaker 10: Girl.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: I don't done anything wrong.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I loved you, I loved you, your children loved you.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: And look what's happened.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: My daddy knows. My office.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Evelyn continues to deny everything. Margaret had hoped she might confess,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: but she's disappointed.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: You could see my eyes, Mom, if I'm telling lie.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I wish, I wish, I wish it was a lie.
• 42:56
  Speaker 11: Ablin.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: It was different, Savelin. I wished it was different. I
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: wish it was just you and the children.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Hm, but it's not.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I bring you some pictures, mkay.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Is mommy crying from Jessica. It's Joshua. That's the house
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: with the bluegates, the house she lived with Stephen. This
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: one is Jessica, mommy and Nana. She's beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: He's beautiful. Do you know every n I don't even
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: feel angry at you. I just felt so sorry, so
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: sorry that we had some in there.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: You'll see some happy days.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: You have there being good for you.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you for being oh the family, cause he's this
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: was your family. I send you pictures of them growing up.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: They'll always know they have a very beautiful mummy, and
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: the laways be your children.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Think you're like h just think do you see?
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: Think you're just saying.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Those always.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Stop going now then don't want to stand up and
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: say goodbye to me? Evelyn? No, okay, I'm going, okay, okay.
• 45:09
  Speaker 15: Well you got your wish to have a face to
• 45:16
  Speaker 15: face with her, to talk to her. That's what you
• 45:20
  Speaker 15: are said, or are that's what you got?
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: I m.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Dear Evelyn, you are convicted in quote of the murder
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: of your husband, Stephen, with the help of Arnold Door,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: your boyfriend. Nothing you say will convince me that you're innocent.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I'm leaving you and the.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Philippines now, and justice has been done, and you will
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: spend the next forty years in jail. You'll be an
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: old woman with a wasted life. You had everything. Stephen
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: called you his princess and loved you very much.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: You are a very.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Evil woman, with no thought of the lives you have ruined.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: And I hope the sacrifice of your family was worth
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: the short term of the love of a door eye.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: You took my son.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Now I have yours and your daughter, who someday will
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: come and ask why Mommy, why was she so bad,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: and leave us and kill our daddy. Enjoy your children,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: and we shall have some happy times and not think
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: of you. I will never forgive you or see you
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: ever again. You are no longer a daughter of mine.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Margaret