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Evil Mom Murders Her Children and Stuffed Them in the Freezer · The Mind of a Man

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  Speaker 1: What did you do to Stoney Blair that makes you
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  Speaker 1: guilty of premeditated murder?
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  Speaker 2: I intentionally f * * * ed her. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I punched her. I have put a bag over her
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  Speaker 2: head till she lost consciousness. I threw hot water on her,
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  Speaker 2: scalding hot water from the faucet. I don't care what
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  Speaker 2: anybody thinks.
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  Speaker 3: She had to f * * * ing.
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  Speaker 2: Go, period.
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  Speaker 4: This is 35-year-old Michelle Blair. From the hatred and cruelty
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  Speaker 4: in her voice, you'd think she was talking about a monster.
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  Speaker 4: In reality, the person that she has absolutely no remorse
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  Speaker 4: about killing is her daughter, 13-year-old Stoney Blair. Not only
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  Speaker 4: did she murder an innocent child who trusted and relied
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  Speaker 4: on her, but she tortured her for years on end.
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  Speaker 4: And tragically, Stoney wasn't the only victim of this mother
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  Speaker 4: of four.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody want to know? Yes, I did kill her!
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  Speaker 1: After all is said and done, you imposed the death
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  Speaker 1: penalty on your own children. I did.
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  Speaker 3: Where in your house are they?
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  Speaker 5: Freezer.
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  Speaker 1: Who put them in there?
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  Speaker 5: I did.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you take the decision to pile the bodies
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  Speaker 4: on top of each other in a freezer? What do
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  Speaker 4: you mean? Why did you do that?
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  Speaker 2: I only had one deep freezer. We didn't take the
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  Speaker 2: decision to pile the bodies on top of each other.
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  Speaker 4: Teenager Gabby Blair had no idea that nice mothers existed.
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  Speaker 4: For most of her childhood, she believed that all parents
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  Speaker 4: put on a facade. In public, they'd be polite, charming, funny.
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  Speaker 4: In the comfort of their own home, they'd be angry, critical,
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  Speaker 4: and violent. She had never seen any other kind of parenting.
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  Speaker 4: Every time she saw her mother interact with friends, family,
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  Speaker 4: or the public, she was polite, accommodating, and kind. Her
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  Speaker 4: Facebook was peppered with photos and posts declaring how much
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  Speaker 4: she loved her kids. To the outside world, She was
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  Speaker 4: a loving, single mother of four young children. But behind
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  Speaker 4: closed doors, she was a ticking time bomb, ready to
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  Speaker 4: explode at any moment. Love wasn't something she seemed to
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  Speaker 4: know how to show. The only affection she ever showed
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  Speaker 4: her kids was an occasional kiss on the forehead before bed.
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  Speaker 4: There were no hugs, no congratulations, no praise, no comfort.
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  Speaker 4: The only time Gabby remembers her mom cheering for her
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  Speaker 4: kids was when she hit 13-year-old Stoney in the head
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  Speaker 4: with a 2x4 and exclaimed, woo, look at that, at
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  Speaker 4: the b * * * * gushing from the open
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  Speaker 4: wound the impact gave her. To the outside world, Michelle
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  Speaker 4: Blair was a mother. Inside her home, she was a warden.
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  Speaker 4: And to this day, she shows absolutely no regret for that.
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  Speaker 5: You meant to kill her.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely meant to kill her. And I do not
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  Speaker 2: feel any remorse for what I did to Stoney.
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  Speaker 4: What we know about Michelle Blair's childhood is minuscule. She
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  Speaker 4: grew up in the Detroit area, where it seems she
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  Speaker 4: didn't have it easy. In the 10th grade, she left
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  Speaker 4: school altogether and engaged in a life completely lacking in stability.
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  Speaker 4: She bounced from job to job, bartending, waitressing, and often
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  Speaker 4: just staying home. Her aunt, Angela Jordan, repeatedly urged her
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  Speaker 4: to get her GED, but her pleas fell on deaf ears.
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  Speaker 4: By the time Michelle was 19, she had her first daughter, Gabby,
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  Speaker 4: and her boyfriend, Alexander Dorsey. Two years later, their daughter, Stoney, followed.
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  Speaker 4: Gabby's early memories aren't particularly ones of violence or suffering,
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  Speaker 4: but fighting. According to her, her mother would get into
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  Speaker 4: fervent arguments with her father in front of her and
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  Speaker 4: seemed to constantly be trying to force him out of
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  Speaker 4: the house. When her father finally left, Michelle refused to
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  Speaker 4: let him see his daughters. Michelle, however, remembers things differently.
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  Speaker 2: I did and I did it, but that is not
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  Speaker 2: to get to the fact that they were never there
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  Speaker 2: for their children.
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  Speaker 5: I had to struggle with them all the time. They
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  Speaker 5: were never there.
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  Speaker 4: A few years after the separation in 2004, Michelle gave
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  Speaker 4: birth to Stephen Gage Berry. Three years later, she had
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  Speaker 4: another son, who I'll be referring to as Mikey, to
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  Speaker 4: protect his identity. Their father also wasn't around, spending years
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  Speaker 4: in and out of prison. Michelle struggled financing four children
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  Speaker 4: with no job. She allegedly leaned on her great aunt
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  Speaker 4: for support, requesting money from her when she ran out.
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  Speaker 4: When her aunt pushed her to get a job, she'd withdraw,
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  Speaker 4: oftentimes disappearing and breaking contact with the family for months
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  Speaker 4: on end. This disappearing act is part of what allowed
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  Speaker 4: the secrets and violence inside her house to fester. For years,
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  Speaker 4: her three eldest children attended school at Ralph Bunch Preparatory Academy.
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  Speaker 4: By all accounts, they were average kids. Gabby was shy
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  Speaker 4: and kind. Stoney was known to be outgoing, friendly, warm,
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  Speaker 4: and able to talk to anyone and make friends easily.
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  Speaker 4: Gabby was the oldest, but in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 4: she looked up to and admired Stoney. The kids had
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  Speaker 4: no visible signs of abuse at school. Often, Gabby and
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  Speaker 4: Stoney would ask to eat the leftovers of their classmates,
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  Speaker 4: but no one baddened an eye. If they had known
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  Speaker 4: why they wanted that food, well, things may have been
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  Speaker 4: very different. At home, Michelle was allegedly spending all of
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  Speaker 4: her money on drugs and alcohol. Many days, the kids
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  Speaker 4: would be served canned potatoes for breakfast and dinner. Lunch
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  Speaker 4: at school was oftentimes the only real meal they would get.
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  Speaker 4: And if they complained, asking for more, they were sealing
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  Speaker 4: their fate. If Michelle heard the kids complain or felt
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  Speaker 4: disrespected in any way, she would take the metal end
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  Speaker 4: of her belt to their backs. She was careful not
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  Speaker 4: to leave marks on their legs or arms, reserving the welts, bruises,
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  Speaker 4: and cuts for a place that would always be securely
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  Speaker 4: hidden beneath their shirts. Michelle was a lot of things,
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  Speaker 4: but she wasn't stupid. She was well aware that CPS could,
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  Speaker 4: and would, take her kids for the treatment they were getting.
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  Speaker 4: She didn't want to stop f * * * ing
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  Speaker 4: her kids. She just didn't want to get caught. Sometime
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  Speaker 4: around 2010, Michelle abruptly took her kids out of school.
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  Speaker 4: This type of sudden isolation is hauntingly typical in cases
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  Speaker 4: of child abuse. She told anyone who asked that she
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  Speaker 4: was homeschooling, and soon the public's memory of the children
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  Speaker 4: fell to the wayside. Inside, things were getting worse. Michelle's
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  Speaker 4: anger and violence steadily grew out of control. Her weapons
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  Speaker 4: of choice changed often, from scalding water to the belt
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  Speaker 4: to hot curling irons. At one point, Gabby recalls her
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  Speaker 4: mother hitting her in the face with said curling iron.
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  Speaker 4: Her mouth filled with blood, and she felt a sensation
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  Speaker 4: she can only remember as a crumble. When she looked
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  Speaker 4: in the mirror, she realized that her mother had chipped
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  Speaker 4: her front tooth. Immediately, her mom went into damage control mode.
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  Speaker 4: This wasn't a bruise on her back that was going
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  Speaker 4: to disappear before anyone saw it. This was permanent, and
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  Speaker 4: she needed a cover story. Within minutes of knocking out
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  Speaker 4: part of her daughter's tooth, Michelle taught Gabby what she
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  Speaker 4: was to recite if anyone asked. Her brother hit her
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  Speaker 4: in the face with a toy car. Of course, Gabby
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  Speaker 4: didn't say no to this. When a relative came over
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  Speaker 4: for a rare visit hours later, Gabby told the fake
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  Speaker 4: story of what happened to her tooth. Tragically, no one
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  Speaker 4: suspected a thing. By then, all the kids had been
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  Speaker 4: trained to do exactly as their mother said. Gabby recalls
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  Speaker 4: incidents where she and her siblings were forced to stand
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  Speaker 4: in scalding hot water in the shower for minor transgressions. Oftentimes,
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  Speaker 4: they were forced in just because their mother was in
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  Speaker 4: a mood. On one occasion, one of the boys was
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  Speaker 4: f * * * ed with an iron. Michelle then
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  Speaker 4: poured rubbing alcohol over the burn, only adding to the
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  Speaker 4: already excruciating pain. This was daily life for Michelle Blair's
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  Speaker 4: children for at least two years. Then, things took an
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  Speaker 4: even more sinister turn. In August of 2012, five-year-old Mikey
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  Speaker 4: was playing with two toy wrestling figures. He rubbed the
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  Speaker 4: dolls together in a fashion that his mother believed was sexual.
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  Speaker 4: In that instant, everything changed. The idea that Mikey had
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  Speaker 4: been inappropriately touched became an obsession of Michelle's. It's not
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  Speaker 4: uncommon for children who have been exploited to show signs
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  Speaker 4: through play. However, there is no corroborating evidence to support
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  Speaker 4: the theory that Mikey was sexually exploited. Immediately, Michelle demanded
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  Speaker 4: to know who had touched Mikey that way. According to Stoney,
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  Speaker 4: who was watching helplessly nearby, she demanded an answer for
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  Speaker 4: several minutes, becoming increasingly irate until Mikey finally cracked and said, Stephen.
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  Speaker 4: Stephen was just nine, and suddenly he was faced with
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  Speaker 4: the wrath of an adult woman convinced of her own delusion.
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  Speaker 4: For the next two weeks, Stephen was kept in his
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  Speaker 4: mother's room, completely isolated from his siblings. If any of
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  Speaker 4: them tried to go in to check on him, they
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  Speaker 4: were beaten and screamed at. Stephen was repeatedly beaten in
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  Speaker 4: unimaginable ways. He was hit with a 2x4 so many
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  Speaker 4: times that his head became severely misshapen. He was forced
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  Speaker 4: to drink window cleaner, deprived of food, and suffocated repeatedly
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  Speaker 4: by plastic bags being held over his head by his mother.
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  Speaker 4: At one point, when he managed to break through the
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  Speaker 4: bag to gasp for air, she immediately grabbed a stronger bat.
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  Speaker 4: and suffocated him until he fell unconscious. Then, not done
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  Speaker 4: with her torture, she slapped him awake. The violence unleashed
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  Speaker 4: on that little boy is beyond words. And tragically, it
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  Speaker 4: lasted until the very end. Gabby recalls being called into
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  Speaker 4: her mother's room sometime around August 30th, 2012. There, she
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  Speaker 4: discovered her mother holding Stephen in her arms.
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  Speaker 5: He was weak.
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  Speaker 4: Blood and vomit were on his lips. Michelle told all
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  Speaker 4: of the siblings to say goodbye to Stephen. Gabby kissed
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  Speaker 4: her brother on the forehead for the very last time.
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  Speaker 4: Michelle allegedly sobbed and told Stephen she loved him. Stephen's
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  Speaker 4: final words were, Then, after telling the woman who had
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  Speaker 4: killed him that he loved her, Stephen said, took a
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  Speaker 4: shaky breath and died in her arms. Moments later, Michelle
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  Speaker 4: ordered her daughter Gabby to stand up and help her
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  Speaker 4: with the body. Gabby was just 14. She had no
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  Speaker 4: choice but to help her mother carry the body downstairs
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  Speaker 4: where a chest freezer sat in the middle of their
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  Speaker 4: living room. Gabby knew that if she refused to She
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  Speaker 4: would be the next person to go in the freezer.
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  Speaker 4: With seemingly no remorse, Michelle dropped her son into the
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  Speaker 4: freezer and closed it shut. He would remain there for
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  Speaker 4: the next three years. Though he wasn't alone. Michelle's paranoia
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  Speaker 4: about her children suffering from sexual exploitation didn't disappear with
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  Speaker 4: the death of her son. It was simply transferred to
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  Speaker 4: her 13-year-old daughter, Stoney. Michelle became convinced that Stoney had
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  Speaker 4: harmed her 5-year-old brother. To get confirmation of her delusion,
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  Speaker 4: she threatened to hurt Mikey until he told her the
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  Speaker 4: truth about Stoney touching him. Of course, the five-year-old conceded,
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  Speaker 4: saying Stoney had harmed him. With Michelle's accusations of her
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  Speaker 4: children and her intricate stories of their actions, she did
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  Speaker 4: what she sought out to do. She took the blame
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  Speaker 4: away from herself and placed it on them. The story
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  Speaker 4: she spun grew more and more outlandish with every passing day.
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  Speaker 2: Would tell me different things because she was doing this
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  Speaker 2: to him for years and I did not know that
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  Speaker 2: you get what I'm saying and I didn't find out
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  Speaker 2: until nine months later she had started with Steven she
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  Speaker 2: ruined my son okay she started with Steven before he
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  Speaker 2: even started so yes I put a bag over her
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  Speaker 2: head but um it got worse that day yes I
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  Speaker 2: did it got worse that day because he would tell
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  Speaker 2: me how she would take her pad her menstrual pad
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  Speaker 2: and squeeze her blood out in his mouth okay and
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  Speaker 2: it was just it was over with after that it
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  Speaker 2: was over.
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  Speaker 4: With her daughter was just 13 again there is absolutely
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  Speaker 4: no evidence that her daughter did any of the horrible
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  Speaker 4: things her mother is accusing her of but if she
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  Speaker 4: had this kind of behavior wouldn't just come from nowhere
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  Speaker 4: it would have to have had been learned from someone Regardless,
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  Speaker 4: Michelle became completely enraptured with the delusion that her daughter
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  Speaker 4: was evil, corrupting, and torturing Mikey. And the violence that
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  Speaker 4: Stoney faced escalated beyond belief.
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  Speaker 5: Did you hit her in the head with a wooden stick?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I hit her in the head multiple times, over
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  Speaker 2: and over.
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  Speaker 5: Was that shortly before she died?
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  Speaker 2: That was actually days before she died and the day
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  Speaker 2: she died.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I hit on her back, like on her tailbone.
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  Speaker 4: I kicked her. For weeks and weeks, Stoney was imprisoned
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  Speaker 4: here by a life of nothing but sheer pain and
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  Speaker 4: torture at the hands of the very woman who was
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  Speaker 4: supposed to protect her. At one point, very shortly before
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  Speaker 4: Stoney's death, Michelle hit her in the head with a
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  Speaker 4: two by four and cheered as gushed from her head.
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  Speaker 4: This time, when Michelle demanded that Gabby help her hide
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  Speaker 4: the body, Stoney was still breathing. The terrified, wounded child
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  Speaker 4: was put inside the freezer on top of the body
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  Speaker 4: of her brother, completely aware of what was happening to her.
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  Speaker 4: For the next two years, Gabby was convinced that she
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  Speaker 4: was next. And in March of 2015, she was certain
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  Speaker 4: of it. After failing to pay rent for several months,
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  Speaker 4: Michelle received an eviction notice in the mail. She began
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  Speaker 4: to panic, not just about losing their home, but about
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  Speaker 4: the realization that she had nowhere to hide the horrific
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  Speaker 4: crimes she had committed. On multiple occasions, she had threatened Gabby,
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  Speaker 4: telling her that if she told anyone what had happened,
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  Speaker 4: she'd f * * * her brother, then Gabby, and
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  Speaker 4: finally herself. After so many months of these threats, Gabby
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  Speaker 4: was sure her mother was going to do it. But
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  Speaker 4: to her shock, her mother told her to gather her things. Hastily,
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  Speaker 4: she asked a neighbor to watch her two remaining children,
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  Speaker 4: and as the kids watched on, she told her neighbor everything.
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  Speaker 4: The court officers performing the eviction looked inside the freezer
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  Speaker 4: and What they discovered would horrify them for the rest
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  Speaker 4: of their lives. Initial reports stated that the officers believed
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  Speaker 4: the bodies were that of a young boy and an
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  Speaker 4: old woman. Stoney's b * * * * was so
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  Speaker 4: fragile and worn at the time of her death that
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't even thought possible that she was a young girl.
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  Speaker 4: Michelle was arrested next door without incident, seemingly accepting her fate.
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  Speaker 4: Gabby and Mikey were taken into the custody of their
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  Speaker 4: great aunt, who quickly put the two into therapy and
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  Speaker 4: got them the care they so desperately needed. After committing
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  Speaker 4: such horrific crimes for the whole world to see, you
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  Speaker 4: would think that Michelle would be apologetic. Tragically, she wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: At least. She used her extensive court appearances to further
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  Speaker 4: drag her children's names through the mud. Specifically, Stoney's.
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  Speaker 3: That there is no evidence in this case that any
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  Speaker 3: of the younger children or the younger child was sexually abused.
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  Speaker 3: Abundant evidence that the surviving children were physically abused by
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  Speaker 3: this defendant.
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  Speaker 5: That's a lie. My son, oh my.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, Ms. Blair. You notice the speaker that
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  Speaker 5: we had set up in the back.
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  Speaker 2: If you can't behave yourself, you're going to get an.
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  Speaker 5: Opportunity to speak. If you can't behave yourself, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to put you in the back. We'll finish our portion
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  Speaker 5: of the proceeding. I can bring you back out here
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  Speaker 5: to speak because you're going to get an opportunity. But
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  Speaker 5: if you interrupt people, I have to put you in
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  Speaker 5: the back. So it's just your son. Okay. Go ahead, Ms. Goldfarb.
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  Speaker 3: That's the evidence, Your Honor. No physical evidence that that
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  Speaker 3: younger child was physically abused. No eyewitness to physical abuse
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  Speaker 3: or sexual abuse in that child, but abundant evidence that
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  Speaker 3: he was physically abused, as was his surviving sister, by
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  Speaker 3: this defendant.
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  Speaker 1: Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Blair, if she ever.
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  Speaker 3: Actually saw or witnessed any of these acts with regard.
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  Speaker 1: To Did you ever actually see anything of any sexual
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  Speaker 1: abuse of any kind between either Stephen and Stoney?
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  Speaker 2: I reject her question, but I will answer it because
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  Speaker 2: no one will say that this did not happen because
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  Speaker 2: it actually did.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to have a clear record. Because so far,
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  Speaker 5: all you've told me was that you just heard it.
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  Speaker 5: And that they admitted it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I did not.
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  Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: But as I went back in my head and thought
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  Speaker 2: back to all the many things that was wrong with
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  Speaker 2: you over the years, and I'm like, that's what was
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: wrong with you? He'll use the bathroom and say, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: my butt hurts from my poop.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So I started giving him 100% juice to make his
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  Speaker 2: stool softer, maybe to help him use it. But that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the problem.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't his stool.
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  Speaker 2: It was that he was being raped, okay?
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  Speaker 4: When asked for the details of her crimes... She didn't
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  Speaker 4: spare a single one.
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  Speaker 2: I assaulted her every time he told me what she
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  Speaker 2: did to him. By assault, I mean I punched her.
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  Speaker 2: I put a bag over her head until she lost consciousness.
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  Speaker 2: I threw hot water on her, scalding hot water from
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  Speaker 2: the faucet.
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  Speaker 3: So, man, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Regret none of this. I don't regret any of it.
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  Speaker 5: is my son. That's my baby.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way that his brother and sister should know
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  Speaker 2: what he feels like inside.
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  Speaker 5: There's no way.
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  Speaker 2: Understood.
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  Speaker 5: I don't feel no remorse for the death of them demons. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunately, at her sentencing, the judge didn't hide her disdain.
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  Speaker 5: It's my turn to talk. It's my turn to talk.
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  Speaker 5: I gave you an opportunity to speak.
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  Speaker 1: As a mother, one of your primary responsibilities was to
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  Speaker 1: protect your kids. And.
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  Speaker 5: In that respect, you failed in the worst possible way.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing that can be done at this point to
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: change what happened.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: True.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: That's why I'm asking for life. I know.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Thankfully, that house of horrors that you created is no
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: longer in existence.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: I do pray that your remaining children.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: They will.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Will recover.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: They will.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: From what they saw and endured in that household. What
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: struck me as rather unnerving was that you stated... that
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: your kids got it better than what you had.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I fail to see how that's possible.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: When you're still here. You're talking about the deceased children? No.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Let me talk. This may well happen to you. When
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: you were a child, you had the opportunity to grow up.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: True.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: You had the opportunity to become an adult.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You had the opportunity to make your own decisions with
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: respect to running your own life.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: And you were blessed with four children. Stoney and Stephen
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: are never going to have that. They don't have those
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: same opportunities.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And when I think about all of the possible joys
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that they could be missing out on, one thing that
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: strikes me as the greatest tragedy here is that they
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: will never know what a life is like without experiencing.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Fearing their mother.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: They will never know the joy of what could have
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: been in their life without having you in it. They
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: lived in terrible fear of you. And I find that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: just so sad in this case. After all is said
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and done, you imposed the death penalty on your own children.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: For the murder and torture of her children, Michelle Blair
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Since landing behind bars, she has only escalated her charges.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: She's received over 30 counts of misconduct and in 2017
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: was charged with assaulting an officer for spitting on, throwing
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: urine at, and throwing food at a guard on multiple occasions.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Her daughter Gabby has gone on to graduate from high
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: school and has been outspoken about her mother's crimes. Fortunately,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: she seems to have a good head on her shoulders
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: and a bright future ahead of her.