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Female voice: BNT.

Your Network.

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Rebecca: Today is day one of the highly anticipated

New Eden trial. accused cult leaders,

Katherine Wryfield and Grace Lee,

will face charges for an extensive list of crimes.

Including criminal negligence,

assault of a teenage girl,

indignity to human remains

and what has recently been upgraded

to a double homicide charge.

Ms. Mill given the turmoil of the past few months,

how are you feeling going into the courtroom today?

- Go back to hell!

- Well--

- You're murderers! - You sick freaks!

You've got lizard skin!

You are Satans blood whore!

You and your child will be punished!

- They tried to corrupt my innocent baby girl?

- They are sick.

- You are in a league with murderers

and people that worship evil. - They are perverts.

- You know they're guilty. You know they are.

- That's the fucken' eggman.

- Let's just say the courtroom is where I do my best work.

- He should go to trial. He should go to fucken' trial.

- I'm a human being unlike you!

- And are you still feeling confident about

the trial being televised? - Absolutely.

- Hey! - (Laughs)

- Oh my, that man, that man's taking a shit.

He's shitting right now.

- Ultimately, the trial itself was...

- Dramatic. - Disgusting.

- Life destroying. - Harrowing.

- Hit and miss.

♪♪♪

- All stand.

In the case of Lee and Wryfield

versus Her Majesty, the Queen, court is now in session,

the honorable justice Myler presiding.

- Okay.

Okay.

Oh, thank you.

(Taps, feedback squeals)

Oh... sorry.

Nancy: It's hard to impress on people

who weren't there at the time just how bad things look

for Katherine and Grace.

There's nothing more integral to a criminal case

than an impartial jury.

But before they even started,

the pendulum of public opinion had swung.

- Here's what I think of these women.

Hey! (Laughs)

Don't touch me, you prevert.

- Dramatically out of their favor.

(Kiss sounds)

(Clears throat)

- Is the Crown prepared to proceed with its case?

- We are, my Lord.

Grace: It didn't matter what we had been to people.

You know, Grace and Katherine,

Starmother and Truthmother,

Racy Gracy and Katherine Bathroom.

People only wanted to see us as one thing... killers.

- And Satanists.

- And drug dealers.

- And alien worshipers.

- And haters of the elderly.

- As well as children. - Yes.

But, you know, I think that the big one for people

was still-was still murderers.

- Do the accused understand the charges laid against them?

- We do, your Honor,

my Lord.

- (Chuckles)

Nancy: In terms of cameras, in terms of media attention,

in terms of how that affects the case,

Elizabeth had an edge over everyone in that courtroom

in theory.

But when it came to actually trying a case here in Canada.

Well, there she was at a disadvantage.

And all the while, Noseworthy was driving home his case.

You know, on their own, these women are unremarkable.

The one an heiress with limited life experience,

the other a drifter

who found herself in the right place at the right time.

But once they met,

the destruction that would follow

is as disturbing as it is impossible to ignore.

These women devastated the community of Halworth

by introducing drugs. - Right down the hatch.

Josiah: By separating families.

- I-I Never wanted to be a mother in the first place.

Josiah: By engaging in fraud.

- I got hit the road. Thank you so much. Bye.

Josiah: They also threatened the community

that they had themselves created.

They embezzled from their own so-called sisters.

Ladies and gentlemen,

they murdered Agnes Wryfield for their own gain.

- ...stay calm.

- And then they murdered Tabitha McNurtt

to enshrine that power.

There are hours of footage from inside their cult

that leave little doubt

as to the validity of these accusations.

But the Crown wishes this court

to be certain of their guilt.

And for these women

to face those they've harmed,

to hear their stories.

And to give their victims the opportunity to speak out.

And to seek justice.

Thank you.

♪♪♪

- The thing you don't think about before your own trial

is how many familiar faces are gonna turn up.

Kind of like a reunion

of people we did not want to see.

- Do you swear to the tell, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth?

- Look who I found. - Praise Jesus.

- What happened when Ms. Lee join your community.

- Well, when she first arrived, she was loving it -

like really loving it.

- I started to hear colors and smells sounds.

Do my lips taste funny to you?

Then I saw God in a price pumpkin.

- Yes, of course I thought Katherine was jealous of me.

- Oh, what do you know, Sharon?

You let the entire varsity curling team

finger you for beer money.

- But in the end, I believe it was Grace

who was even more jealous of me.

- I was walking home when that woman...

- She loves the honey.

- She approached me and she asked me if I wanted to party.

- And then she started hanging out with Katherine.

And something changed. It got--

- Violent. - Oh, you God damn right.

Grace: Look at his fucking dick.

(People laugh)

- It's funny.

- She was very protective of Katherine.

- Get the hell outta here!

Sharon: And I think that's the way Katherine wanted it.

- And that's when she kissed me.

(Shocker murmurs)

- Oh, come on.

Myler: Will the accused please control themselves. Thank you.

- It was like a sister kiss, you know.

the kind of kind of kiss that you'd give a sister.

- Yeah, a sister kiss.

- It's-it's like a kiss that you would give a sister.

- It's a thing. - I mean, she liked it.

It was her idea. - Of course she did.

Who wouldn't want a sister kiss you?

- Thank you. No. - It's a thing.

- In my opinion... it wasn't always healthy.

- I was really scared.

- Those two together are...

evil.

- Evil...

- Any more questions? - Uh... no.

- Oh.

Nancy: By that time, you could practically smell

how confident Noseworthy was

he was out lowering the defense.

He had hours of video evidence to support his case.

He'd gain the jury sympathy from character testimony.

All he needed to close this out

were two expert credible witnesses

to banish any remaining doubts

cast by one victim's missing murder weapon

and the other victims missing head.

- Please state your full name for the record.

- Hannah Glen Cafwell.

- And what name were you using when you lived at New Eden.

- Hannah Weir. - And why was that?

- I was there undercover as a journalist.

I wanted to learn the truth about what they were planning.

- Seeking the truth.

That's what a journalist does, isn't it?

Merely seeks the truth.

- Yes. That's exactly what a journalist does.

(Panicked screaming, crying)

Josiah: Can you describe to me what we're seeing?

- What do we do? We just can't leave her there.

- That's the night of Agnes Wryfields death.

- And who discovered the body?

- Well, we heard Amy scream

and we entered to find Grace already covering the body.

- By the time we found Agnes Wryfield,

it was impossible to determine the cause of death

due to the level of decay.

So we cross-referenced witness testimony

from the night of her death with her medical records.

Josiah: What was Ms. Wryfields relationship to the deceased?

- Agnes was Katherine's aunt on her father's side.

- So presumably Katherine would have had intimate knowledge

of Agnes Wryfields life, her history,

her medical conditions.

- Presumably.

- Can you please tell the court

what you discovered in her medical records.

- Ms. Wryfield had a severe allergy...

to bees. - (Shocked outcries)

(Low murmuring)

- Yeah that, that was a twist.

- I mean, I didn't know that she was allergic to bees.

Who's allergic to bees? Please.

- Please.

- That should have been it.

He established motive, opportunity and finally,

a murder weapon.

That would have been enough to put them away for life.

But he wasn't done.

- You discovered Agnes Wryfields body

buried on the property.

What else did you find buried with her?

- Certain religious paraphernalia.

Animal feathers. Dead bees. Urine.

- And when you uncovered human remains,

you believed to be Tabitha McNurtt

in the summer of 1982.

What else did you find buried with her?

- We found evidence of feathers, bee pollen

and traces of what later tested positive as urine.

- He's lying! You planted those .

Katherine: Grace stop!

- Your highness, your highness he's lyin'.

He's lyin', 'cause that is not true.

- Ms. Mill, f you don't mid control your clients, please!

- Stop! - My Lord,

if I may request a recess to deal with my clients.

- Okay. I think that's a great idea.

Court is adjourned and we will return tomorrow

to here the rest of Mr. Nestons testimony.

I think a recess is a good idea!

- No, no, no. - We willw

and we will resume tomorrow-- You got her?

Watch it, watch it. - I'm not goin'!

- After the explosive events of yesterday's testimony,

it's safe to say Ms. Mill has been fighting a losing battle.

The so-called sorceress of spin

will need to pull a proverbial rabbit out of the hat

if she wants to regain some of the ground she's lost.

(Reporters shout questions)

- Ms. Mill, Ms. Mill does the defense have any hope

of turning the case around.

Ms-- Bitch.

- First of all, let me say thank you for your service.

- Just doing my duty for my country, ma'am.

- Oh, don't sell yourself short.

And don't call ma'am.

- Well, I care very much about my community

and it is my sworn duty to se.

- Of course. Protecting is in your blood.

Which is why it must have been so painful

when you couldn't protect your own daughter,

when she wanted to live with those criminals

rather than spend another night under your roof.

- Well, I was suspicious of them

long before Amy is involvement.

- Oh, it is no wonder you snapped.

Any emotional person would have.

- There was no emotion involved in my--

- June 10th, 1980,

you arrive at the New Eden property.

- Where is Amy?!

- Intoxicated. And upon finding out that Amy is pregnant.

- You try and arrest Ms. Lee,

- You fuckin' bitch!

- without cause. And another officer has to restrain you.

- Shut your fuckin' mouth! - Was that true?

- It is not true. She attacked me. That is cause.

- I mean, I'll give her this. It was it was smart

to use Amy to get to him. It was really smart.

- Ah, kick him where it hurts. - Yeah.

- POW! Right in the penis.

- October 22nd, 1981,

a group of your officers went and raided

the New Eden property,

and they could not find the body of Tabitha McNurtt.

They failed to even see that she was missing.

- That's because we had--

that's because our hands were full.

We were there on suspicion of a kidnapping,

perhaps you didn't know that.

- Isn't it true that there was ?

When my clients were arrested for the murder

of Agnes Wryfield.

Didn't Mr. Noseworthy caution you

that you may not get a conviction

if the public is too sympathetic.

- My Lord. - Yeah ah--

- You wanted revenge on these women

because they took your daughter,

your property?

- I am an officer of the law, ma'am.

Amy...

A man in my position does not have the luxury of revenge.

(Panicked screaming)

- A man in your position has access to the local morgue.

You were worried that the death of Agnes Wryfield

would look like an accident without enough evidence.

So planted an unidentified body...

Josiah: My Lord. - at the New Eden property.

- My Lord.

- Which you could conveniently claim was a woman

you failed to track down

and whose head you simply couldn't locate.

Josiah: She's obviously--

- And that's why her remains were not discovered

until a year after the initial raid of the property.

- Are you going to do anything about this?

- And since you yet again couldn't make the connection

between this body and the body of Ms. Wryfield.

You planted feathers at the dig site to make it look like

my client had anything to do with this clumsy

fabrication of yours.

- I may have scattered a few feathers in the grave,

but I did not put that body there. They did.

They're fucken' killers.

(Shocked gasps, murmuring)

- No more questions, my Lord.

(Footsteps thud)

- I remember sitting in our little box

and-and turning to Grace and going like...

- And I-I looked back at her and I was like...

- Yeah. And then the man behind us said,

- You're not allowed. - stop doing that.

- Quiet. - Yeah.

Nothing really necessarily got better

for anyone else after that. - Well, that's true.

That is very true.

- Would you consider yourself a?

- I care deeply about my work. If that's what you mean.

- Say what you will about Hannah Cafwell.

I mean, God knows everyone else did.

But she was a good journalist.

She was credible and she knew the truth.

Unfortunately, it didn't fit

with Elizabeth Mills narrative.

- You admit to having a sexual relationship with Mr. Hudley,

who was your boss during the investigation at New Eden?

Is that correct?

- Yes. We had a relationship,

but it ended before I went undercover.

- Where you then started a sexual relationship

with Ms. Solomin. - Yes.

- So before you were allowed to go undercover

as a junior reporter with zero investigative experience,

you have a relationship with your boss.

- It wasn't like that.

- And then when he allowed you to go undercover,

you abandoned that relationship

so you can focus your energy

on gaining intimate access to the goings at New Eden.

- Our relationship had already ended.

It had nothing to do with my career.

- And this is before you went undercover?

- Yes. - Hmm.

- Things hadn't been good with me an Viv for some time,

and then and then she found out about Hannah

and I thought we had worked through it.

But I guess I didn't realize that she was still so upset.

- Do you know what this is, Ms. Cafwell?

- It's a tape.

- But do you know what's on this tape?

- How could I possibly know what's on that tape?

- Well, you should because you filmed it

on September 14th, 1977.

Wyatt: Apparently, Elizabeth had been talking

to my now ex-wife for a few weeks.

Should've never kept that damn tape.

- My Lord, the following footage

is from Mr. Wyatt Hudleys personal residence.

Ms. Cafwell claims that her relationship with Mr. Hudley

was over before she started her investigation at New Eden,

that she never use their relationship

to curry professional favor.

Who's that holding to the camera?

- It's me.

Hello.

- And tell the jury who is that kissing your neck?

- Oh. Oh.

- Wyatt Hudley.

- Oh, look at that dress. - You like my dress?

- (Shocked murmuring)

- Yeah, I think it looks really good too.

- You're gonna miss me... with all those women...

are you gonna this? - So badly.

- This right here? - Yes.

- This? - (Long exhale)

(Stomping footsteps) - Max?

- This tape was recorded the night before

you arrived at New Eden, is that correct?

- Yes.

- So to say that your relationship with Mr. Hudley

was over before the investigation at New Eden

would be, for lack of a better word,

a lie. - It wasn't--

We didn't--

- If Ms. Cafwell is willing to lie to the court

about her relationship with Mr. Hudley,

to lie to Max Solomin,

who she seduced to further her own career.

What's to say she's not lying about anything else?

- Counsel is testifying.

- That's fine.

I don't have any more questions for this witness.

- Ms. Cafwell you may step down.

Katherine: Yeah, that was bad.

But Hannah had lied to everyone.

So I guess there was some justice to it.

- Sure.

But then Elizabeth,

she just kept going

and going,

and going.

- This is a yearbook belonging to a friend of yours,

Natalie Gibbner.

Can you read what you wrote to her?

- I knew Katherine from university.

She had a terrible time, let me tell you.

At the time she'd only kissed her cousin,

first cousin.

- Now, isn't it true that after your little stint

running a sex commune and calling yourself Odin,

you funded in self produced several adult films

after which you were arrested

for your involvement with a puppy mill?

♪ Open our hearts and minds to a spirit of sisterhood ♪

♪ That welcomes all without judgment or shame ♪

♪ No shame ♪

- And do you are currently suing your own grandmother

for damages following a car accident that you caused?

Is that correct? - Yeah.

- I don't think they heard you. - Yes!

- I got one of the curling boys

to ask a foreign exchange student to take her out,

I just thought that the language barrier

was gonna help make her less um... undesirable.

It actually made it worse.

(Laughs) I know, I know.

I've made love to many international men

and it's always been a delight.

So I don't know what she did wrong.

- (Reads) "Can't wait to lay in the grass with Lucy,

wink, wink.

Jerry Garcia is my God.

I love drugs".

(Shocked murmuring)

Fuck

- Thank you.

- The way she went after everyone was very painful.

- Very painful.

- My Lord, if I could present to you the files

that would indicate our--

Buckley: For us, literally.

- But that was nothing compared .

(Chuckles) - Oh.

Oh.

- At that point, Elizabeth had as good as won.

There was no reason to stay on the attack,

which made her actual defense strategy feel... personal.

- The defense calls Katherine Wryfield to the stand.

- Grace Lee, my Lord. - Yes.

No.

(Taps)

Let's do this.

Interviewer: Did Elizabeth ever warn you

about the new strategy she was taking for your defense?

- She did not. - Nope.

- My friend, Mr. Noseworthy would have you believe

that my clients are criminal masterminds.

They've been described as

manipulative, cunning, evil.

But here's the thing, folks.

The more I've gotten to know my clients,

one thing has become powerfully clear.

State your full name.

- Grace Lee... Hardware.

- Do you recognize this? - Oh, no.

I mean, yes. Yes, that is mine.

- Perhaps you could read some out loud.

- Um. Yes, okay. Sure.

- Mr. Noseworthy would have you believe

that once my clients got together,

they had a greater capacity to commit crime?

I would argue that the opposite is true.

- I mean, her whole strategy w.

(Reads) "Sharon thinks she's skinny, but really,

I think she's getting quite fat."

"Yesterday she told a joke and everyone laughed.

But actually, it was stupid, stupid, fat Sharon."

Grace: I guess she figured the stupider we looked,

the less capable of murder we'd seem.

You got wrestle them-you gotta wrestle your arm around them.

And then you shh, shh, shh.

Okay. Now it's quiet and you are ready

to start pulling some teeth, okay?

Because like I said,

a toothless possum makes a lovely pet.

- When were my clients meant to be expertly butchering a body?

When they were harvesting menstrual moss?

- It's for your period.

- Or putting on a stage production

about a giant bee woman they follow.

- Fuck. Shit. - You all right?

- Okay, back to ones.

- One of my clients is a fourth grade education

and the other has literally

adopted the nickname bathroom.

- All those women and only one bathroom.

- Katherine. Katherine.

Katherine an me.

A dog.

Me and Katherine and a dog.

Katherine walkin' me like a dog.

Feels like a nailed that.

- There is nothing guiding these women.

- You know who that's-- - Not Satan.

Not Steinem.

Nothing at all.

- Grace. Grace, you can talk about that more.

- And what exactly did you expect would happen

after this joining ceremony?

- Um, well...

(Shatters)

it was symbolic.

- Of what?

- Uh... of--

- Our earthly spirit's uniting into a super being,

the likes of which this planet has never seen.

Oh shit.

- Symbolically?

- No, through good old fashioned electricity.

All: "Two are one Gaions will be done."

- Science.

- Mr. Noseworthy was right about one thing.

We have all been duped by these women.

We have all been duped into thinking that these women

are capable not of murder,

but of anything.

At all.

- After what can only be described as an unusual

and at times cruel defense of her clients,

Elizabeth Mill rested her case last Wednesday

and the jury has been sequestered ever since.

We are now getting word that.

More inside.

Okay, give me a smoke. I need a smoke.

Does anyone even care anymore?

God, I'm going back to the weather after this.

Guess what? It's raining...

Well, shit on my face.

(Beethoven's "Symphony 5" plays)

♪♪♪

- (Exhales)

Okay. (Clears throat)

Has the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, my Lord.

- Wonderful.

♪♪♪

Phew. What a trial. What a trial.

Thank you to the crown and to the defense

and to the camera crews.

You guys have done a hell of a job.

It's been a lot of fun.

Okay.

Would the accused, please stand.

Yep.

- On the charge of murder in the first degree...

we find the defendants...

not guilty.

(Relieved exhales)

(Laughter)

- Order. Order there's more.

She's not-she's not done. Just wait for it.

Juror: On the charge of elder abuse

and indignity to human remains.

We find the defendants... guilty.

(Shocked gasps)

On the charge of kidnapping

and the endangerment of a minor.

We find the defendants...

guilty.

- Okay.

- Ah, Derek will escort you to your holdings.

- I don't wanna go with Derek.

- Derek, will escort these ladies to the holding.

- I don't-I don't-we don't wanna go with Derek.

- Yeah, Derek is-Derek is a lovely gentleman. Derek.

- Oh my life! - No-no. No!

Derek you wanna get the soft restrains, please.

- She doesn't like Derek. - I can't breathe.

- We can't go with Derek. Where's our lawyer?

Interviewer: Well, you did mention wanting to improve

your reputation concerning women, so I have to ask,

how do you justify what you did?

- I'm gonna stop you right there.

I went into that courtroom as a female litigator

practicing law in a country I had never so much set foot in.

And I delivered.

I ran circles around the men

that came after me and my clients.

I beat their system.

I got Grace and Katherine

as much justice as they deserved.

All without breaking a nail.

If you want to be the kind of man to shame me

for being a powerful woman who beat the man

that I was up against, well,

I guess you decide how you wanna be perceived.

Interviewer: Uh...

- Looks like your time is up.

Sophie: I trust you gentleman can find your way out.

- Yeah. Thank you.

Sophie: Who was that? - I don't know...

♪♪♪

♪ I like the way you smiled at me ♪

♪ I felt the heat that enveloped me ♪

♪ And what I saw I like to see ♪

♪ I never knew ♪

♪ Where evil grew ♪