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Tonight's film dramatizes events in the life of Laurie Kellogg and is based on

court transcripts, personal interviews, and published accounts.

They say a perfect love only comes once.

I believe that.

Bruce was everything to me, and I miss him.

I miss the way he used to say, Are you my little woman?

Even now, it's hard to realize the things that happened.

It all seems like a bad dream.

Then I hear the guards' footsteps.

My name is Lori Kellogg.

I'm waiting to be tried for the murder of the man I love most in the world.

I'm gonna make him mad.

Stop.

You know those girls at the bar?

Yeah, Marlene.

My girlfriend.

Which one? The brunette?

Yeah.

Nice piece.

Great.

Who's the other one?

Her name's Lauren.

Me too.

You live around here?

She's not going to tell you where she lives.

Listen to everything she says.

We don't talk to strangers.

Bruce,

hello.

I got a steady job. I own my own home.

Pay my bills on the first of the month. No arrests, no traffic tickets.

You've never been audited by the IRS.

I love kids.

Those are my kids, Kelly and Kelly.

And that's your mother, Deborah.

We're separated.

I'm Laurie.

She's Marlene.

Girls want to shoot some pool?

Girls against the guys, losers by the drinks?

They're doing a good job.

How old are you?

Fifty.

Well, that's time to be a big girl, isn't it?

Come on, Marlene, let's play pool.

Come on, Lori.

It's late. You've got to go home.

Let me take you home.

No.

I don't have your phone number.

Check your back pocket.

I put it there when you were making the last shot.

Well?

Come in and help me with Dan.

I got it!

Make yourself useful.

I'm gonna lock the door.

You got any money?

Your stepdad's broke.

I don't know how we're going to make the rent.

Where would I get money?

Hello.

Hi.

You know who this is?

Bruce.

What does he say?

I don't know. We just talk.

He was cute.

No way.

Oh, God. He must be in love.

What if I am?

He could get hurt.

No, he's not like that.

How do you know?

I just know.

He's wonderful.

What are you guys talking about?

Things we like to do.

Dream.

Love. Sex. Marriage.

Oh, you mean... Rick, you don't even know this guy. You're already talking

marriage. There's a guy like this man I always change about.

We're going to lose the car.

And if we don't come up with the rent, we're out.

So, pull up the stakes and go to Florida.

I don't want to go to Florida.

You sure you're 16?

What, are you worried about me being jailbaited? No.

In the state of Pennsylvania.

Fourteen. I didn't know that.

That's being a liar, an old woman.

Maybe you're not young enough for me.

I have to go.

What if I go back to the bar in one night with you?

No, I can't. It's a school night.

How about Friday night?

I can't wait till Friday. How about Thursday morning? I'll cut work, you cut

school. I don't know.

You can't. I can't. Do you know how many days it is now? Eleven.

Eleven days and eleven nights.

Okay. Thursday.

You're great.

What's the matter, didn't trust me?

I don't know.

I'm going to get in. I'll be right back.

My stepdad's moving up to Florida.

You want to go to Florida?

We can't pay the bill.

You want to go to Florida?

What do you want?

Orange juice.

That's it?

That's what I like, a low -maintenance woman.

You're beautiful.

You're perfect.

want a slut who sleeps around i don't sleep around who said i sleep around

you said no i said nobody didn't i that's why i said

nobody that's why i never felt like this before

yeah i'm good in it

in the whole world I wanted.

Ask me. Ask me what I want.

What?

I want to feel like this forever.

I guess maybe it didn't feel that good to you.

I own you now.

You know that don't you?

You like that don't you?

I'm going to take care of everything.

Yeah,

I got your dog in the car.

Is he your husband?

I got to talk to him.

I'm going to talk to him.

to florida because she has told me and i don't think she's lying that if you

take her to florida she's just going to beg borrow or steal the money to come

back here or she'll hitchhike if she has to but she will come back here to me or

else i'll go down there and i'll get her so

Not a big price to pay to save all that grief, huh?

Later on, he'd joke about how he bought me for $500.

You know, he'd laugh and say it was like buying a car.

And he'd say he got looked on the deal.

And I'd say, well, you didn't ask for the 50 ,000 -mile, five -year warranty.

He promised me the things that happened when I was a child with my own parents

weren't going to happen with us.

Fighting, hitting, the kids getting torn apart.

Amid the man I fell in love with 11 years ago.

I felt so lucky.

All the women out there in the world that were older and beautiful and better

built that had so much more to offer him.

But he wanted me.

Okay, five minutes.

Okay.

So this includes, you know what they like, milk,

cola, hot dogs, colored cereal.

I'm out of steak sauce.

I've got a PG video and some cartoons.

Make sure they've got clean sheets on their beds.

There's a mildew again on the shower toss. Try bleach.

Make up the cleaning. You'll be ready to get out of school this afternoon.

Are you listening to me?

I listen to every word you say.

You forgot my boots this morning.

It'll never happen again.

You're gonna go on a diet.

You get too fat, I'm gonna have to trade you in on your model.

I just lived, breathed, ate and slept Bruce.

I wanted to be there if he came home for lunch.

I missed 83 days of school.

So I just quit and I got my GED at home.

I used to go around all day with this flannel shirt on, just so I could smell

him.

I thought it would last forever.

I loved my life at first.

Taking care of him and those kids.

Babysitting neighborhood kids to make extra money.

I felt grown up and important and loved.

Think you'll like it? Oh, you'll love it. For sure.

Bruce is going to lose his mind.

What do you think?

Very great.

I want more purple eyeshadow.

More?

Sorry, sorry. I want some, too.

You do?

Okay. Oh, wee.

Very pretty.

It's impossible.

I think Bruce's kids would be enough for you without taking in neighbor's kids,

too.

I just wish I had some of my own.

Kevin, too many sodas.

How old do I look?

At least 25.

Really? Oh, boy. 25.

Go on the couch.

No.

I hate that on you.

Once upon a time, a king and a queen gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.

The first fairy gave her beauty.

The second gave her wit.

The third gave her virtue.

The fourth gave her grace.

The fifth said she would sing like a nightingale.

But this spiteful old fairy who had not been invited appeared, and she... Put a

curse on beauty.

That's right, Nicole.

But she didn't die, did she?

No, she didn't, Alicia.

Think I'm gorgeous now?

Definitely.

Dad and I are going to take our birthday cake home.

Well, yeah, maybe we should leave too.

This kitchen is a pigsty.

I never want to see dirty dishes in this sink again. It hurts my eyes. Do you

understand that? It's an insult to my eyes to look in the sink and see dirty

dishes. I'm sorry.

You want this dryer emptied out. As soon as it stops, you leave the clothes in

while they're warm. Just press it so it wrinkles in.

Look at this. Look.

Expect me to wear a T -shirt that looks like a dish rag, huh?

This place is filthy.

How many times do I have to tell you to run the vacuum cleaner underneath the

furniture? I did.

It's not my fault that I got finished raising you. Your mother didn't want the

job. The real father left you. Your stepdad sold you to me for 500 bucks.

You just better be grateful that I put up with you and I support you.

Slut dress off.

You're gonna come out of there with your face clean. I want your face shining

like a newborn baby's behind.

I'm sorry.

You look beautiful.

Now you look like my little woman.

I never meant to upset you.

I love you.

I didn't get you present, did you?

Okay, now lie down.

It's like you're waiting for me.

You know I wouldn't hurt you, do you?

You know nothing bad is going to happen to you.

I just... I just support you.

Oh, my God!

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

I got it, I got it, I got it.

Yeah, there.

Oh, beautiful.

Oh, I love you.

Yeah? Oh, you love me so much, why don't you go on up on the porch and close

your eyes?

Weekends at Bruce's fishing cabin were some of the happiest times of my life.

When it was just Bruce and his kids and me, away from everything and everybody

else.

It was like we were the only people in the entire world, and there was nothing

that could ever hurt us.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh.

I want kids of my own, pal.

Yeah.

I've known Nicole since she was five.

Of all the kids I used to take care of, Nicole was my favorite.

If I could just turn back the clock, if only Nicole could be five again.

Or ten.

Looking back, it seems like the kids grew up, and I didn't.

Because Bruce didn't want me to.

is a mess.

So are you.

Who's killing Kevin?

Your wife picked him up.

I thought you knew better.

I made venison stew.

the market after I dropped off my daycare kids.

Fresh peaches or canned peaches?

Fresh peaches.

What about the dry cleaning?

It wasn't ready yet.

Each pie better be good.

Girls, we've already eaten. Go upstairs, get a bath.

What about our dessert?

If we have time for when a cold mom picks you up, then we'll play hide and

We're too old to play hide and seek.

I need to talk to you.

Pepper? Dick sauce?

I don't know yet.

Do you like it?

Are you sure this is medicine?

I tried a new recipe.

Kind of, it might.

Sure. Doesn't taste like anything.

You sure it was a deer you took out of the freezer? Doesn't taste like some

animal I never had before.

I don't know if I like it or not.

You better just eat the whole bowl and then I'll let you know.

Hey,

you're getting fat, you know that?

Big in the butt.

Better go on a diet before somebody mistakes you for a whale.

You know I don't like blubber. No maybes about it.

We want our pizza!

Later.

Nicole.

Alicia.

You both ready to play some hide and seek?

Huh?

I'm gonna count to ten. Now I'm coming up.

One.

They're playing hide -and -seek upstairs, and I don't want to play.

You don't have to play if you don't want to.

Yes, I do.

Who says?

Bruce says.

Why don't you sit down right over here, okay?

I think you deserve it.

Alicia?

Hey, don't come in here. We're hiding.

Alicia, why don't you come downstairs and get your dessert?

You're not supposed to find us, right? Alicia and Nicole are supposed to find

us.

Well, now Nicole found you.

So the game's over.

Well, now Nicole found us, we can go get dessert.

I don't want dessert.

Me neither.

I sure as hell do.

Peace prayer is really fun.

It's my second piece.

What were you doing?

What?

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about Alicia, Nicole.

What?

Hey, you're crazy.

I'm having trouble finding money.

I'll tell you what, you don't talk to me again until you're ready to apologize.

Say something, please.

I didn't get any sleep last night.

You didn't get any sleep?

All night thinking about how in your demented mind you made me have to be a

pervert? I'm sorry.

I'm just not right lately.

I'm not thinking straight.

I'm pregnant.

I got kids.

I don't want any more kids.

Get an abortion.

I don't want an abortion.

Do you understand? I love you. I want your kids. You listen to me.

I'd send you back what I got you, except nobody wants you.

It's as fat and as ugly as you're going to be. You think anybody's going to want

you, huh?

I ask you a question, you answer, quick.

I'm not going to get an abortion.

Every time I get to tell you, you don't mouth off to me. I tell you to do

something, you do it. Or else I'll take a tooth hanger to you.

No.

You understand?

If you have a baby, you'll be ruined.

Everything will be ruined.

I love you.

You won't be the same.

You won't look the same.

that baby it took me two years to recover it was two years before i got

pregnant again

You call, you say, Marlene, Bruce is really going to get mad this time, so

stay by the phone in case I need you, and then you never call.

I don't hear from you.

So finally a little while ago, I call you. He says you're skating.

I'm okay. I'm fine. Hi, Lori.

Hey, sweetie.

So what happened?

Bruce said I planned this.

He said I got pregnant again to trap him into marrying me.

He said it was just a big old conspiracy between me and my mom. Then he said the

bastard is probably not even his.

He said that?

He says anything.

That's what he says. He doesn't really mean it.

So you just took it?

No. Not this time.

Wow.

Laurie?

Laurie?

Hi, Nicole.

Um, where's Laurie?

She took my kid skating.

What time is she coming back?

I don't know.

I can't. My stepdad and his friends are playing poker. They don't want me

around.

I bet.

Well, who went with Laura?

Kevin and Ken.

Did Alicia go too?

I don't know.

They'll be back soon.

I guess I'll wait.

Joe, I said okay.

I'll leave.

I've been with you for almost seven years, but I'll go. And I'll take all my

clothes, only what I own. I'll never ask you for anything. Never. You never have

to see the baby. You never have to see me again, if that's what you want.

I've got nerve.

So then I said, well, do you want me to go?

Me and Marty just waiting for me to call.

And he said, no.

I don't want you to go.

I want them to go. I don't want you to go.

I want this baby.

I want it more than anything.

What about your degree?

It'll just take me a little longer, that's all.

So when's the wedding?

He's still not legally divorced from Deborah.

He never signed the papers.

He'll buy him a ballpoint pen.

Who the hell are you?

I'm Lou.

Nicole's stepdad sent me over.

You see Nicole?

Nicole? No, Nicole's not here.

She told her mother she was coming over.

That's Nicole.

Lying again.

Women, you know. Born to lie.

Yeah, right.

It's like a hunting dog. You gotta beat him once a week just to keep him in

line. And you can't start too early.

See ya.

Lou's looking fine.

He's not a happy camper.

I don't want to go with him.

I didn't tell him you were here.

It was right after that Denver came home on probation.

Denver McDowell was a kid who lived across the street who was in and out of

juvenile detention and always making trouble.

I'd heard about him from Nicole and Chrissy, but I hadn't met him.

And I had no idea how much he would affect my life.

How'd that happen exactly?

I came home and the sliding door was open.

Curtains were all messed up.

Damn.

I locked everything.

Well, it wouldn't have happened if you'd have been home where you're supposed to

be.

It was that dopehead punk across the street. That's who ripped us off.

I'm going to make sure that Denver McDowell gets the message that nobody

off Bruce Della.

I'm going to be a little woman again.

Get to work.

It's time to learn how to skin a deer.

Barley thinks I'm going to deliver early.

All I know is when I was at the supermarket today, this baby nearly

the counter.

I'm tired of hearing about babies, you know?

I always get the fact that you want me to get married. I'm not getting married,

okay? I'm not going to be a two -time loser.

What's all this junk on the bed?

I have to study.

I'm bad. I gotta get some sleep.

Turn out the light.

I'll go study down there.

You won't.

Come on, I quit high school to be with you.

Screw the school stuff.

You're already barefoot and pregnant. Might as well be ignorant, too.

I want a degree.

You just want everything, don't you?

You want to get married? You want to have a baby? You want to go to college?

And I'm supposed to support you while you get what you want?

What about what I want?

And why do you want me here?

I go to bed, you go to bed.

What the hell is that?

You sent the cops to my... Get the hell off my property.

You sent the cops to my house and they ripped my room apart.

I don't like that. I don't like you.

Look, if they get me one more thing, they're going to send me away for a long

time.

It wasn't me who broke into your house. You get the hell out of my property. I

want to break both your legs.

It wasn't me. Move!

And you keep on moving. And don't ever let me catch you on my property again.

We can't face my family. I'm a kill log. We have standards.

Might as well get it done before the new year.

Maybe we can file our taxes cheaper this year. It'll save me some money.

Call around and see if you can find a justice of the peace that will go before

the new year.

We were married on December 31st.

I wore a big red maternity dress.

My ring was a 5mm gold band, bought on sale for $40.

And for him, Bruce used the wedding band from his first marriage.

As soon as we were married, Bruce stuck the ring in his pocket and he never wore

it again.

Denver. Hey, Denver, where you been?

TV. Yes.

Where's Nicole?

She's around here.

Yeah? Tell her I'm back. Okay.

Hey, troublemaker.

Hey, out of here. You know, you better watch yourself.

One day, you're going to turn on your car engine, boom.

You're going to be looking for your arms and your legs.

You never called me since you got back.

You could have called me.

I've been real depressed.

So, why'd you call me now?

Because I like you.

So?

So, take me for a ride.

All right, come on.

Why are you so depressed?

I can't tell. It makes me feel too dirty.

You won't tell if I tell you?

I don't tell if you don't tell me.

Bruce, can I?

What do you do?

He messed around with me. What did he do?

He was at his house and once in the car.

I tried to tell someone, but no one will listen.

They just say I'm real imaginative.

Do you know what they do to you in jail?

They pass you around and they rape you.

You know, if somebody does that to you, it makes you nothing. It makes you

nobody.

Just a piece of meat.

Makes you go crazy.

I have this dream where I kill this guy.

He's bigger and older.

He's doing it to me.

And then I kill him.

It's been a year since Bruce was killed.

Today, I finally go on trial for his murder.

Women's abuse groups have rallied to support me.

My children are surrounded by a sea of strangers.

Everybody thinks they have an opinion about me, especially people who don't

me.

Yesterday, my lawyer told me that Denver had made a deal to testify against me.

Mr. Orville, how damaging do you expect Denver McDowell's testimony to be?

It depends upon which one of his stories Denver decides to tell.

Laurie! Mrs.

Kellogg, could you give us one statement?

What support have you been getting for that statement, please?

I never wanted or expected my husband to be killed.

He was the only love and purity that I had known all of my life.

He was my world.

When he was gone, my whole world fell apart.

No more questions.

As

you

will shortly see, this matter is bizarre, to say the least.

Probably the most bizarre case on which you will ever sit in drama.

There are six main characters involved in this bizarre drama.

The first is Laurie Kellogg, the defendant who sits before you.

The second character is Bruce Kellogg. You won't hear from him because he's

dead. The other four are teenagers.

Nicole Pappas, Chrissy Mullins, Chuck Siebelis, and Denver McTowell.

Evidence will show that while Lori Kellogg pretended to be the neighborhood

nanny, her home was not a haven for troubled teenagers.

It was, in fact, a gathering place where teenagers engaged in drink, sex, and

drugs. It was, in fact, the place where the murder of her husband, Bruce

Kellogg, was conceived and planned.

And evidence will show that Laurie Kellogg is not the sweet, innocent thing

would like to portray, but is in fact a deceitful, deceptive woman who

manipulated innocent kids into helping her carry out this murder.

Look, I will be the first to tell you that what happened was a tragedy of

profound proportions.

This human calamity resulted from an untreated disease called abuse.

So prepare yourselves, because this trial will take you through some of the

darkest landscapes of humanity.

And for the next few days, prosecution is going to present witnesses

who will tell you in explicit detail the circumstances of the shooting of Bruce

Keller.

The prosecutor will ask you to believe that it was Laurie's idea, that it was

done at her urging.

The prosecutor will ask you to believe Denver McDowell.

Why did you plead guilty to second -degree murder?

Look, every night I wake up in a sweat from the same nightmare.

I try to change things while I'm sleeping.

I never go to the fish and pants while I'm sleeping, but when I wake up, I

realize that that can't happen.

I can't change things.

Here. So you made a deal with the DA's office, right? They dismissed all your

other charges, so you'd agree to testify against all the others.

Not all the others.

Just Lori.

How long did you know Lori Kellogg at this time?

A couple of weeks.

How did this meeting happen?

Nicole called and asked, why don't I come over to Lori's house?

I told her that I wouldn't do that because if Bruce got home and caught me

there, he'd just beat the hell out of me.

She told me it was at work, so I went.

Hey, why don't we go rig Bruce's truck while he's at work? That sounds cool.

sure, Jimmer. That's one of your better ideas.

Get out of the blankets with me, Nicole.

I've got to go home.

Christy, then you get out of the blanket. Hey, hey, hey.

Don't you have anything better to do, Denver? Sure. I could go out and get

myself arrested again.

That's real smart, Denver.

Let's get high, you guys. Huh?

What do you say? It'll be weed, speed, or acid. No acid.

Well, okay. How about this, then?

We could rig a bomb to Bruce's truck, and then when he starts it up, boom!

How did this game 101 Ways to Kill Bruce Kellogg start?

I don't remember.

And we all hated him.

Laurie, too?

Yes.

She said he was abusing her and she was tired of it, that he was beating up on

her and forcing her to do things she didn't want to do.

What sort of feeling did you have for the defendant?

Well, at first, it was just like a close friendship.

And then I started to fall in love with her.

Hey, Christy. Hey, what's up?

Where'd Bruce go?

To his cabin, fishing.

When's he coming back?

He's going to stay in my cabin.

Is Lori here?

Yeah, she's in there.

Hey there.

Hi.

Where are you going?

The cellar.

Did you ever discuss killing Bruce Kellogg with Laurie?

Lori asked if I knew anybody that could do it or could I do it myself.

I told her there's no way I could, but I'd look around and see if I knew

that could do it.

She said she'd pay $1 ,000 and a truck.

And did you find such a person?

I did.

He said he'd do it, but then he changed his mind.

Hi. Hi.

No,

he's gone.

Where's Denver?

He's in with Lori.

Hey.

Steve, where's Lori?

Upstairs, taking a shower.

Was she still crying?

What's going on?

Bruce has been at her again, and he's not just beating her. This is worse.

He's really hurting her. What's he doing to her?

Same thing they did to you in jail.

She's crying all the time now.

She should just get away from him.

Maybe if she knew what he's been doing to you, she would.

I can't stand it anymore.

I'm going to tell Laurie everything Bruce did to us since we were kids.

You should, too.

She might freak.

She's freaked already.

Did you have a physical relationship with Laurie Kellogg?

Yeah. We fooled around that day.

And I went to get in, and she told me to stop.

She said, let's wait.

She said, let's wait?

Yes.

What did you do then?

I said, okay.

Did you go anywhere with the defendant that afternoon?

Well, we bought a case of wine coolers and some chips.

Lori paid.

Then we went to the liquor store across the street, and Lori bought some liquor

for... Nicole.

Then we all went to the pizza shop in Lingleston. And what transpired? We came

back to the house and we all started to party.

Cut the grape lines on Ruth's car.

Oh, sure. Never like that. Just like it's so easy.

What's wrong with putting LSD in his coffee? Oh, if he died from LSD, Denver

wouldn't still be walking around.

So when are we going skating?

Are we going skating?

Laurie said we're going skating.

Hey, I know. We could shoot Bruce with a bow and arrow. No, no. We could loosen

the lug nuts on one of his wheels.

Yeah!

Is this like a game or what?

101 ways to kill Bruce Keller.

Let's go see him.

Like you said before.

So you told her about Bruce yet?

Scared to freak.

Just tell her. I told you, tell her.

Okay, okay.

But not in front of you.

Come on.

What did you

do with the LSD that you bought in the men's room?

I took it

And then you all left the roller skating rink? Yeah, we went back to the house.

And then what transpired at the house?

When we got there, the house was packed with kids and the party was in full

swing.

What, if anything, do you recall was said in the van about Bruce?

Um, Christy Mullins said, why don't we go tonight?

And I said, go where?

And she said, go to the cabin and kill Bruce.

And I said, that sounds like a good idea.

Was there anything addressed as to how you'd get there?

Well...

Lori was going to drive.

She knew the way.

That was it.

Orville Fichella.

The jury thinks I was using sex on Denver.

I never had sex with Denver. I made the point on purpose. They didn't believe

you. Didn't you watch their faces when he was testifying?

Lori, I told you from the beginning.

This is a very tough case.

If you had pulled the trigger yourself, it would have been a lot easier, but you

didn't.

Tomorrow, you'll make the jury understand the state that you were in.

When you take the stand, you're going to have to relive the abuse, and the

jury is going to experience what you went through.

Do you recall the first time that Bruce's verbal abuse

escalated into physical abuse?

It was at the fishing camp.

1983.

We'd been together for over a year.

Bruce's father was there.

We had a disagreement about sending Kelly to bed.

And I raised my voice.

Bruce... He took me outside and shoved me off the stairs.

That's great missions.

Then he pushed me across the roadway near the van.

He grabbed me by the throat and he slammed my head up against the truck.

He told me I was never to raise my voice to him again.

And I was never to embarrass him in front of his father again.

Or he would do things to me that I couldn't imagine.

How did you respond to that?

I cried.

I told him I wouldn't do it again.

But I was sorry.

Now, Laurie, was there a time when his physical abuse got worse?

Yes. After Kyle was born.

Is there an incident that you recall?

Once when I was giving Kyle his medicine, he was sick.

Bruce didn't like the way I was doing it.

He held the baby down on the pool table.

He forced it down his throat.

When I tried to stop him, he grabbed me.

No!

Did you suffer any injuries from Bruce's abuse?

Yes.

Swelling. Bruising to my face.

The ears.

Both ears.

On one, more than one occasion, have been completely discolored.

I had a ruptured eardrum.

It sprained ankles from being pushed down the stairs.

I had an injury to my jaw that causes it to snap, sometimes

lock.

Do you recall any other injuries?

He would kick me in the lower back, reach down with a

fist and pound me between the shoulder blades.

Grab me up by the hair.

Wrench me up off the floor.

Throw me across the room.

This has been marked Defendant's Exhibit B for identification.

Can you describe for us how this belt was used?

After any incident, no matter what caused it, I would apologize to Bruce.

He would tell me not to make him do things like that.

And I would promise to try not to do it.

But in a little while, he would get very cuddly.

He would hold me, tell me that he loved me.

Then we'd go to bed, and we'd make love.

They usually seem to make everything all right.

Now, Lori, can you please tell the jury if there were any other objects used by

Bruce?

Yes.

See this gun?

It's a .41 Magnum.

You can hunt big game with this. It's a very lethal weapon. I want you to

understand that.

You understand that?

You know how serious this is?

I'm going to explain it to you.

If I pull back this hammer, all I've got to do is just touch the trigger and

it's all over.

Now watch me. I'm going to pull the hammer back.

You watching?

You are real mouthy.

You know that?

Oh, yeah, you are real mouthy.

And I don't like it.

Because when you mouth off to me, that means that you don't understand that I

own you.

I own every part of you.

Another time, he got the gun out when we were in bed at night.

He got it.

And he told me he was going to put it...

He kept asking me how that felt and what was going through my mind.

Then he said that it was loaded and he could pull the trigger any time.

Then he said if I ever tried to leave him, he would beat

both my boys to death.

And if I was lucky...

When he was through, he would put the gun back in my mouth and blow my head

Recess until tomorrow morning.

So then the prince climbed the winding stair, and he opened the door at the

He entered the little dark room, there lying on the couch.

with her hair spread out like a stream of gold, was the princess.

Softly he gazed upon her, came closer.

Never in his life had he seen a maiden so lovely.

But she did not stir.

Her eyes were closed, and he bent down, and he kissed her on the lips.

She opened her eyes, and she stretched out her arms, and she smiled.

Is he my prince?

For how long you've kept me waiting.

On the day of June 8th, do you recall what time it was that you went to go

skating? Around 7 .15.

And at the roller rink, were there conversations with Nicole?

Yes.

We have to tell you.

What?

Bruce said these things to us.

What things?

What are you talking about?

I don't know.

No, I don't know.

She doesn't want to believe us.

He fooled around with her and he fooled around with me.

Then why did you keep coming to my house?

I felt like it would happen whether I went there or not.

Like there was no way to stop him.

We were scared.

We were scared of Ruth.

We're afraid you wouldn't love us anymore.

He always came up behind you.

Maddy, start sliding his hand under your shirt.

Sort of around.

Any nibble on your ear?

I was shocked.

I was afraid.

I felt betrayed.

I felt like a failure.

All I could think about was what the girls had told me.

I could see Bruce doing these things.

They were the exact same ways that he had touched.

Kid and bundled me The

house was full of kids,

but I hardly saw them

I

Called my mom

I checked with my sons

I told her what the girls had said.

She asked me if I believed them.

And I said yes.

But I have to talk to Bruce about it.

She said don't talk to anybody, just pack and get out.

I said I can't.

I have to tell Bruce that I'm leaving him.

Then I called Marlene and I told her.

And I said, I have to confront Bruce.

I can't stand it.

I told her I couldn't wait until Sunday night.

I'm going to the cabin. I'm going to confront Bruce and tell him that I'm

leaving him.

Marlene said, don't go.

I said, I have to go.

So she said, we'll take people with you.

Don't go alone.

It upsets you a great deal when you allegedly heard about these allegations

sexual abuse, right?

Yes. That was a real shock.

Yes.

It never crossed your mind that Bruce would have done something like that?

I didn't think he would have done something like that.

Despite all of the things he had done to you, you never thought in your mind

once he could have done something to Nicole or Alicia or somebody?

No.

What time did you leave the house to drive to the cabin?

It was about a quarter to twelve.

You left the house at midnight to drive four and a half hours simply to talk to

Bruce?

Yes.

All I could think about was how he had hurt those girls.

Maybe part of me hoped that he would tell me it wasn't true.

Maybe I hoped that I wouldn't have to leave him.

Hey, check it out.

Whoa!

Oh, whoa!

All right!

Oh, my God, is this real?

Yeah!

Just put the gun away.

You discovered the gun was in the car shortly after you left, correct?

Yes. You were at least four and a half hours away from the cottage at that

point, correct?

About four hours.

You testified that Denver pulled out the gun and he was playing with it,

correct?

He pulled it out, and yes, he was playing with it, showing it to Chuck.

You said, quote, put the gun away, unquote, right?

Yes. But didn't you tell the psychiatrist who examined you...

that Denver said he was going to kill Bruce. And then Nicole said, if he

kill that bastard, I will.

If I said that, I was confused.

Did you make any stops?

We stopped at Dolphin for gas.

Chuck got out to pump the gas.

The girls and I went in to get some snacks.

I can't remember if Simba was ill or what, but he asked me to drive for a

Laura, you're going to have to drive.

My

mind

wasn't at all in what I was doing or where I was going.

It was kind of like seeing a movie.

I could see Bruce doing these things to the girls.

I could see the things he had done to me in bed.

The things with the gun.

I kept reliving all of this, just seeing it in my mind.

I kept seeing the different ways that he had hurt so many of us.

Is this Mary Poppins?

Is that our nanny?

The seduction of McDowell, then 18, was part of the plot.

She plied her young friends with wine coolers, whiskey, pizza, and got them to

drive five hours with her from Lingleston to Seneca County. And not

ladies and gentlemen, she expects you to believe... that she spent five hours on

the road driving to her husband's fishing camp, and that when she arrived

she had no idea what would happen.

A half hour outside of Harrisburg, with four hours of night driving ahead,

225 grueling miles to Cayuga Lake, Lori saw the gun.

What did she think Denver was going to do with that gun?

Here was an opportunity to turn back.

Lori didn't turn back.

You heard Christy Mullins testify that Lori said, if Denver wouldn't do it,

somebody had to, because they didn't come all that way just to go back home.

I ask you to also recall, ladies and gentlemen, that Christy Mullins

and I quote,

Lori said for the first few days she would be a mourning widow, and after

she would throw the biggest party we had seen.

I'd like to suggest that Lori Kellogg's poor, mean, little girl act is exactly

what it is, an act.

Lori Kellogg planned this murder.

Laurie Kellogg is a manipulating, self -serving woman with a selective memory

who is capable of a very cool performance.

I ask you to remember that while the Kellogg home may have been troubled,

the issue at hand is murder, not abuse. Bruce Kellogg is not on trial here.

This trial is not about a woman who killed in self -defense.

Ladies and gentlemen, We're dealing with a woman who enticed four innocent

teenagers to kill her husband in cold blood.

Come on, let's do it.

I ask you to compare Laurie to an exotic bird that was caged so effectively that

it no longer attempted to leave its perch.

Laurie Kellogg.

was in a cage.

And Bruce Kellogg put her there.

Bruce Kellogg's molestation of the neighborhood girls pushed her off of

perch.

All through the night of June 8th and into the dawn of June 9th, 1991,

Lori Kellogg was in a state of shock, resulting from 10 years of

constant and consistent abuse.

And as a result of that torture, Laurie Kellogg suffered from, and is still

suffering from, post -traumatic stress disorder, battered women's syndrome, and

extreme depression.

You have heard testimony that Bruce Kellogg put a loaded revolver into

mouth and threatened to pull the trigger.

Bruce Kellogg used a loaded .41 Magnum.

To rape his wife.

If in response to that rape, Laurie Kellogg had shot and killed Bruce

you might well agree that this would have been self -defense.

You have heard Denver testify that he was on LSD.

You have heard Laurie testify that Denver said that he stood at the end of

bed, spread his legs apart, put his arms out together like Clint Eastwood,

and...

have heard Laurie testify that Denver said that he felt damn good, that it was

the biggest rush that he ever had, that he enjoyed shooting Bruce, that that was

one low life that deserved to die.

Ladies and gentlemen, if Laurie Kellogg had been held captive by a

kidnapper for ten years,

who did the vicious and sadistic things to her that Bruce Kellogg did, we would

call that treatment torture.

Ladies and gentlemen, to not set Laurie Kellogg free

is to sanction the violence perpetrated against women in general

and Laurie Kellogg in particular.

They're going to let you go. I just know it. They have to. You're going to get

out. You're going to find yourself a nice, normal guy.

It's going to be okay.

It's going to be okay.

At least it wasn't him.

He was like my grandfather.

I could play with him for a while and then, boom, look out.

Every man I've known was the same way.

There's a man out there that can be a husband and a father without hitting.

And I haven't met this person.

I dream about Bruce coming to the prison.

That he's going to come and get me.

He grabs me right by the hair and... And he walks me out of here, telling me

that it really irritates him because the dishes aren't done and the laundry is

getting backed up.

And I have things to be doing.

What am I doing, hanging around doing nothing?

And my heart is filled with love.

Then I wake up and I remember he's dead.

Marlene was wrong.

The jury found me guilty, and the judge sentenced me 25 years to life.