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This is the story of
one big happy family...
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...who love to film it all.
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My mom, she was capturing
moments all the time.
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But behind the smiles...
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...lie dark passions...
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I could tell that something was wrong.
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...that will destroy this family.
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Brutal.
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To the tenth power.
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I just started screaming.
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The smell of death was overwhelming.
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It's 1982 in Bryan county, Oklahoma.
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Back then, home movies were on film.
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This film shows the Pierce family
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joyfully playing with pets in the backyard.
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There's eight-year-old Brian
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and 10-year-old kimberley,
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helping one-year-old Vivian master
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the art of waving to the camera.
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Behind the lens, mom,
Rebecca, lovingly films as
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the kids fool around with the sled.
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In the background,
wearing his signature hat,
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dad, Ken, is busy cooking up a storm.
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Mom and dad were married young.
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My mom was 17 when she got pregnant with me.
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In 1983, Rebecca
gives birth to baby Amanda,
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who completes the family fold.
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There's one video where
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Amanda's in a Walker
on the -- on the lake,
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on the sand, on the shore of the beach,
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and then Vivian's running around her
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in her little swim diaper.
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And, you know, she's kissing on Amanda,
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and it's -- that's how they were.
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They were just...
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Best friends from the beginning.
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Mom, Rebecca, loves to capture
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their lives on camera.
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My mom had a camera with her all the time,
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and she was capturing moments all the time.
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From long, lazy days at the beach...
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...to easter egg hunts in the backyard.
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By the 1990s, the Pierce family
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are living in caddo, Oklahoma.
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Like many small towns, it's full of old
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southwestern charm.
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Caddo is classic americana.
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I mean, it's just little,
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and everybody knows everybody.
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You can see people riding
horses down the road,
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tractors going down the road.
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It's a very small town.
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Mom has switched from film to video,
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and the kids play with her new camera.
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Dad, Ken, loves nothing more than
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horsing around with family.
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He was a character -- weird character.
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Very funny, though.
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Everybody loved him.
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He was always joking,
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cracking jokes, aggravating people.
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But behind the laughter and joy,
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things are not always as they seem.
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Ken has another side.
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It was his alcoholism, you know,
he was the most kind man.
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But when he would drink,
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my dad, Kenneth, would just
turn into a monster.
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The situation is tough on all the family.
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Growing up in a domestic violence situation,
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you think that that's normal.
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When my sisters were born,
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it's like I took on this role
and responsibility.
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I just -- I became their little protector.
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I just did everything I could
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to keep them away from the fighting.
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When Ken's demons
take hold, it's mom, Rebecca,
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who bears the brunt.
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The nights with all the violence
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would turn into mornings of
apologies and hugs
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and kisses, and my mom
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would have a black eye,
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sometimes two black eyes,
and it would be like
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we would just move on,
and everything was fine.
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Here, Vivian tapes her brother, Brian,
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getting ready for the prom.
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Despite bouts of unrest, Rebecca puts on
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a brave face for the sake of her kids.
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She was a fighter.
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She -- she was a survivor.
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But she wasn't like a gentle, nurturing mom.
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You know, she had pain and anger
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that she carried around.
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Here, Rebecca lays down the law.
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She was very headstrong,
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like, if you were in the wrong,
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she would tell you you were in the wrong.
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After a spat, Ken will
always apologize to Rebecca.
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Do what?
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He had that struggle of,
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"I want to be a good man,
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"but I have pain,
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and I'm gonna drink with that pain,"
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but that escalated into anger and abuse.
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Although Ken is cruel to his wife,
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his daughters bring out a more tender side.
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In this video from 1992,
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Ken plays with 11-year-old Vivian.
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I'm gettin' ready to get off.
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Wait!
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My sister Vivian was my dad's favorite.
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My dad, Kenneth, just was drawn to her.
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Here, dad Kenneth carefully watches
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as she takes the reins.
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When my mom got pregnant with Vivian,
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I was 10 years old,
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and I was very excited
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to have a little sister,
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and with the birth of Vivian,
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it changed our family dynamics.
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I saw a softness in him when she was born.
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Whoa!
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The kids grow up quickly, and it's not long
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before Kim finds a new love -- Justin.
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I believe that meeting Justin in high school,
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it was a lifeline for me and for him.
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He brought this, like, breath
of fresh air into our family.
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He was -- bonded with my sisters.
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He was like a brother to them.
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My dad loved him.
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My mom loved him, and it was like he was
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part of the family immediately.
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In 1995, the young
couple embark on a family of
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their own when Kim
gives birth to a son, Kole,
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crowning Rebecca, a proud grandma.
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Looking back at all
the pictures and the videos,
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just -- she loved her grandchildren.
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The love spreads throughout the family.
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Kim's sisters adore their new nephew.
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Here is 14-year-old aunt Vivian,
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sharing in baby Kole's first Christmas.
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In 1999, Kim gives birth to her second child.
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Having grandchildren
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has worked wonders on Ken,
caught on camera here,
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cradling his new granddaughter, Madelyn.
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My dad loved being a grandfather.
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I mean, he loved his grandchildren.
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And it changed who he was, I mean,
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it was just this tenderness about him.
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Mom, Rebecca, has
also found a new lease of life.
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This video shows her giving Madelyn
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her first riding lesson, and for once,
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the smiles aren't just for show.
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Ken's new compassion
filters into the family home.
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His abuse towards Rebecca is less frequent,
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and things are on the up.
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My dad had a lot of
regrets for our childhood.
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We were sitting on the front porch
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of the house, at his --
my dad's house, and...
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I just -- I looked at him, and I was like,
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"dad, I forgive you for
everything we've been through,
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and I'm so thankful you're here today,"
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and my dad just started weeping, and --
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the healing has got to
start with forgiveness.
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Here! Here! Guys!
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It's may 2000 in Oklahoma,
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and the extended Pierce family look on as
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the grandkids enjoy
a mud bath in the backyard.
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Grandma Rebecca is enjoying
her new lease of life.
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And dad, Ken's, violent
outbursts have become
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a thing of the past...
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Kole, I'll give you a coke!
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...but he's still a drinker.
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My dad, Kenneth, was an alcoholic.
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He'd aged so much because of the alcohol
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and just the hard lifestyle.
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On December 15, 2001, Kim receives
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a panicked call from her youngest sister.
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Amanda calls me,
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and she's like,
"dad's fallen in the backyard.
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I need you."
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Get over there, and I just looked at him.
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He was just so peaceful,
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you know, he was kind of
blinking his eyes.
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Ken is taken to the hospital
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and put on life support.
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He'd had a hemorrhagic stroke.
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I was at his bedside the whole time,
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you know, knowin' he's gonna
come out of this and, you know,
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everything's gonna be fine.
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I step away, go to the restroom,
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and he dies.
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Ken's sudden passing
is tough for the Pierce family.
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After my dad died, my mom went
into a really bad depression.
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Vivian, you know,
she was very close to him.
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She was the one that really
grieved the most
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after he died.
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She was pretty depressed.
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She was a very big daddy's girl, um,
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I know she took it really hard.
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Determined to move forward, mom,
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Rebecca, films the family
focusing on the good things
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in life.
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In this footage, Vivian holds
her niece, Madelyn,
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and is thinking about starting
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a family herself with boyfriend, Kevin.
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They were, like,
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inseparable, you know, through high school.
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Vivian and Kevin got
pretty serious, pretty fast.
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In June 2003, Vivian gives birth
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to their son, Blaine.
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Vivian...
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Did everything she could to make it
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a perfect little family.
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I think Kevin was a
little nervous in the beginning,
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but they made it.
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Thanksgiving 2003
is caught on video by Kim.
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It shows how far the family has come...
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Until the camera runs out of power.
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A year later, Vivian and Kevin's family
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is set to grow.
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In 2004, Vivian had her second child.
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She had a daughter named kalyn.
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And she was -- she was
such a good mother.
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She was so nurturing.
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The ever-expanding Pierce brood
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seems to bring the family together.
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Here, they're celebrating
yet another birthday,
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and grandma Rebecca is in her element.
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She wasn't a cookie-baking
grandmother, but she --
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she would do whatever they needed,
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she'd do -- whatever the kids
needed, she would do it.
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In the living room,
the men idly wait for cake.
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But Vivian's partner, Kevin,
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has something else on his mind.
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The reality of supporting a family...
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Has come home to roost.
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Kevin works in construction,
but the irregular
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contracts leave the family
living paycheck to paycheck.
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I know Vivian had asked mom for money,
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so they were always
struggling financially.
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To bring in extra money,
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Vivian gets a job working
at a local steakhouse.
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She was a good waitress.
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She made really good tips, you know,
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just trying to make ends meet.
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She's a hit with the locals.
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Just about every Friday, my wife
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and I would attend the naifeh's steak house.
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She was there for US, and we
were there because of her.
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And it does wonders
for her self-confidence.
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I think Vivian felt a little
bit of a freedom, you know,
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because she was tied down
there for a little while.
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Kevin struggles with
Vivian's newfound independence.
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They kind of drifted apart, you know.
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She was more work and take care of the kids,
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and he would work,
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but, you know, whenever he got
off work, he would go and drink,
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so it was hard on her.
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It really was hard on her.
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Mom would call me at times and say,
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you know, Vivian and Kevin got into a fight.
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I have no doubt that Vivian
and Kevin loved each other.
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They just didn't know
how to love each other.
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In 2005, Vivian makes
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the difficult decision
to separate from Kevin.
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She takes the kids and moves back
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in with the rock of the family,
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her mom, Rebecca.
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Vivian, single again, seems reinvigorated.
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Me and Vivian had a lot of girl time,
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you know, we had a lot of
girls' nights out.
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In 2007, Vivian's
friend crystal plays matchmaker
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when she meets recent
divorcee, Damon Butler.
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He came into the bar, and we
struck up a conversation.
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He seemed like a really nice guy,
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so I got his number for her,
and she text him,
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and then they started dating.
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Damon adored her,
and it was -- it was like
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a breath of fresh air.
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Like, I was relieved that
somebody was gonna take care
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of her.
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Vivian seemed really happy.
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I thought that they made
a good couple.
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It's 2007 in calera, Oklahoma,
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and Vivian Pierce
has moved on with her life.
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After separating from her high
school sweetheart, Kevin,
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things are on the up.
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She's recently met a new man,
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Damon, affectionately known as "d,"
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and he's a hit with family and friends.
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D was a very fun-loving joker
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type of guy -- he looked
like a big old trucker,
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but he was more like --
kinda like a big ol' Teddy bear.
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Damon seemed to just fit in with everybody.
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He was nice to everybody,
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he joked around with everyone, you know.
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It just seemed like it was
natural for him to be there.
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Damon has two kids of his own,
so fits right into family life.
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Damon was a nice guy.
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He enjoyed hanging out with all of US,
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especially on weekends.
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That's kind of when we got
to get together, you know.
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He was really good with Blaine and kalyn,
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and he was great with my kids.
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He was somebody that you trusted.
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Within a month, the couple move
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in together and become a blended family.
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I thought it was really good.
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I mean, they seemed to really
good co-parent together.
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It was good for her
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to meet someone that was
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genuinely nice to her.
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In the fall of 2008,
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Vivian throws a baby shower
for her sister, Amanda,
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caught here on video.
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And Amanda's partner,
Dustin, gives it a twist.
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I wanted to be a little
unorthodox, so I decided
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to have a man's baby shower,
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invite all my buddies over
and obviously Amanda
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and her family were there.
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After a few drinks,
the men start a backyard game
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of horseshoes.
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Here's Vivian's Damon jockeying for a win.
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We have, horseshoe pits, and we're grilling
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some food and just hanging out.
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It was really fun.
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As 2008 draws to a close,
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everyone has high hopes for the year ahead.
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The first date on the diary
is belated celebrations
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on January 9th to Mark
Vivian's 28th birthday.
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Me and the girls, Brandy and Vivian,
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all decided we were gonna
go out for Vivian's birthday.
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Vivian drops the kids
off with Amanda and Dustin,
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who have agreed to babysit.
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She tells them she'll pick them up in
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the morning and heads home to get ready.
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We all met up at Vivian's
house that night, and, um,
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d was there, and he was saying,
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"y'all girls go out,
have a good time," you know,
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"drink one for me."
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The girl's head out and have fun.
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But the next morning, Vivian doesn't
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show up to pick up the kids.
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It was normal for her to pick
up the kids early the next day.
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That's when we realized
that something was...
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Off.
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We, called Rebecca
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and asked her to go check on Vivian
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since we still had the kids.
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Rebecca heads to Vivian's house,
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but Damon tells her she's not there.
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Both worried, they head out
to try and find her.
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Damon and Rebecca
showed up at my house.
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Damon had said Vivian took off
walking, and they was just
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wondering if she had showed up
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at my house, and which I told 'em no,
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that she -- I hadn't seen her
since I dropped her off.
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Later that afternoon, crystal receives
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a call from Brandy at the steak house.
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Brandy called me and said,
"have you seen Vivian?"
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And I told her no -- Brandy said,
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"well, she was supposed
to have been at work,
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and she hadn't showed up for work."
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Crystal and Brandy
rush to help with the search.
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Me and Brandy drove to Vivian's house.
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It was so simple to get in.
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It was just the bottom lock,
and we got right in.
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And as soon as me and Brandy walked in,
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I could tell that something was wrong.
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The house is in complete disarray.
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And so I walked into Vivian's bedroom,
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and, um, I noticed
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that the bathroom door was closed,
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but the doorknob was hanging off.
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And one thing that sticks out in my mind
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was the shower curtain --
the shower curtain was just
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pulled just perfectly straight.
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And for some unholy reason,
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I went over there
and yanked that curtain back.
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And that's when --
whenever I found her.
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I see my beautiful friend
laying in the bathtub,
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with her clothes half tore off of her.
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And I reached down and touched her,
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and soon as I touched her,
I knew.
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I knew.
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And I just started screaming
at the top of my lungs.
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Across town,
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calera police chief, Don Hyde,
is sound asleep
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when his phone rings.
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It was after 10 o'clock
at night -- I received a call
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from my officer that was on duty.
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"Chief, are you awake?"
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00:26:02,962 --> 00:26:05,732
And he says, "we have a homicide."
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And...
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I got up on the side of
the bed, began to get dressed,
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00:26:14,206 --> 00:26:15,466
and I started praying.
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When I arrived on scene, I was
met by officer whittington,
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00:26:30,656 --> 00:26:34,756
and he said, "chief,
it's worse than we thought."
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00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:36,890
He said, "there's not one body, there's two."
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00:26:40,399 --> 00:26:42,229
I went in to the home,
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00:26:45,371 --> 00:26:47,171
and I entered into a bathroom.
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00:26:49,809 --> 00:26:52,709
I took three steps, and I just
couldn't go any further.
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00:26:57,683 --> 00:26:59,253
It was...
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00:26:59,352 --> 00:27:01,752
One of the worst scenes
I'd seen in -- ever.
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00:27:04,657 --> 00:27:08,287
The first victim, 28-year-old Vivian Pierce,
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is lying in the bathtub with her throat cut.
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00:27:15,301 --> 00:27:17,571
It was just absolutely terrible.
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00:27:17,670 --> 00:27:20,340
I don't know any other words of
describing it any other way.
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00:27:25,578 --> 00:27:27,578
Across the hall,
chief Hyde is directed to
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a different bathroom to
inspect the second body.
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00:27:33,619 --> 00:27:38,789
The manner in which
the second victim was
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murdered -- brutal
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00:27:42,928 --> 00:27:44,088
to the tenth power.
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00:27:46,232 --> 00:27:49,032
Chief Hyde cannot identify the victim.
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00:27:49,135 --> 00:27:51,065
The wounds are too severe.
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00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:55,709
The smell of death was...
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00:27:58,344 --> 00:28:00,844
It was -- it was just overwhelming.
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00:28:03,949 --> 00:28:05,579
Kimberley and her husband, Justin,
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00:28:05,685 --> 00:28:08,745
are en route to the scene
when they receive a phone call
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00:28:08,854 --> 00:28:10,094
from the chief.
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00:28:11,557 --> 00:28:13,917
We were driving, and Don Hyde calls,
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00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:16,486
and he goes, "it's not good.
You all don't come."
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00:28:16,595 --> 00:28:19,295
I go -- I told Justin, like,
"we're going -- we are --
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00:28:19,398 --> 00:28:20,428
we're gonna go."
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00:28:20,533 --> 00:28:24,033
So we pull up to the --
their street in calera,
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00:28:24,136 --> 00:28:26,166
and there's fire trucks and police cars,
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00:28:26,272 --> 00:28:29,372
and it's, like, surreal.
428
00:28:29,475 --> 00:28:31,905
Justin is asked to
formally identify the bodies.
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00:28:34,113 --> 00:28:37,013
He confirms the first victim is Vivian.
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00:28:41,654 --> 00:28:45,255
The second victim is his mother-in-law,
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00:28:45,357 --> 00:28:48,087
56-year-old Rebecca Pierce.
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It took...
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00:28:54,867 --> 00:28:58,097
Quite a while to determine
and validate that that was
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even her
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due to the amount of injuries
that she sustained.
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00:29:07,012 --> 00:29:08,812
Outside, Justin breaks
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00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:10,654
the devastating news to his wife.
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00:29:13,152 --> 00:29:17,222
He just -- he grabs me,
and he goes, "it was your mom,"
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00:29:17,323 --> 00:29:19,623
and he said,
"Vivian and mom are both gone."
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00:29:28,734 --> 00:29:30,374
I don't know, it was just like...
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00:29:32,938 --> 00:29:35,468
It was draining, like I just...
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00:29:43,549 --> 00:29:45,619
It's not just Rebecca and Vivian's family
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00:29:45,718 --> 00:29:48,688
who feel the impact of
their horrific demise.
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00:29:50,756 --> 00:29:53,716
Inside, I'm just blowin' up.
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00:29:53,826 --> 00:29:55,286
My heart is hurting so bad.
446
00:29:57,863 --> 00:29:59,203
But I'm a strong cop.
447
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,300
I've got this under control.
448
00:30:02,401 --> 00:30:04,471
We've got a bad situation
here, but I'm gonna handle it.
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00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:09,909
Due to the severity
of the crime, chief Hyde
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00:30:10,009 --> 00:30:13,279
calls in the Oklahoma
state bureau of investigation.
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00:30:13,379 --> 00:30:16,179
Donny Hyde, the chief, was pretty upset.
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00:30:18,050 --> 00:30:19,550
There had been not just
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00:30:19,652 --> 00:30:22,852
a homicide but a double homicide
in his town,
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00:30:22,955 --> 00:30:25,755
and he was asking for help from the osbi.
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00:30:27,059 --> 00:30:29,859
Agent reanae childers races to the scene.
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00:30:33,666 --> 00:30:36,326
She enters the house to examine the bodies,
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00:30:36,435 --> 00:30:37,525
starting with Rebecca.
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00:30:39,672 --> 00:30:42,442
It was extremely bloody scene.
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00:30:42,541 --> 00:30:44,411
Couldn't even tell just from looking if
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00:30:44,510 --> 00:30:47,610
that was a male or female in the floor.
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00:30:47,713 --> 00:30:49,883
It's a lot of head wounds,
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00:30:49,982 --> 00:30:52,952
a lot of blood about the victim's head.
463
00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:56,589
I'm just looking
at the body, and I'm realizing
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00:30:56,689 --> 00:30:58,859
that it's probably gonna be a beating.
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00:31:00,192 --> 00:31:01,192
In the hallway,
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00:31:01,293 --> 00:31:03,263
a possible murder weapon is identified.
467
00:31:04,697 --> 00:31:07,897
There was a baseball
bat in the residence with blood.
468
00:31:09,768 --> 00:31:11,998
Investigators enter the second bathroom
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00:31:12,104 --> 00:31:13,404
to inspect Vivian's body.
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00:31:16,308 --> 00:31:18,208
I think the first thing that struck me about
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what I saw was how unnatural
472
00:31:20,646 --> 00:31:24,746
the position of her body looked,
just the way it was
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00:31:24,850 --> 00:31:26,080
in the tub.
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00:31:26,185 --> 00:31:28,685
Her neck was severely slashed.
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00:31:28,787 --> 00:31:32,857
It was almost to the point
of decapitation.
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00:31:32,958 --> 00:31:34,728
You could tell she had been
through a lot,
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00:31:34,827 --> 00:31:35,727
been through hell.
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00:31:38,063 --> 00:31:39,203
In the kitchen sink,
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00:31:39,298 --> 00:31:42,068
investigators find a knife covered in blood.
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00:31:43,702 --> 00:31:46,502
This was a very brutal attack,
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very personal.
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00:31:49,842 --> 00:31:53,742
I believed that it was gonna be
someone close to these women.
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00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:01,150
Police need to speak
to Vivian's boyfriend, Damon,
484
00:32:01,253 --> 00:32:04,223
but he is nowhere to be seen.
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00:32:04,323 --> 00:32:05,763
At that time,
486
00:32:05,858 --> 00:32:09,588
we didn't have a clue as to his condition
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00:32:09,695 --> 00:32:12,495
or had he been taken from the residence.
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00:32:14,967 --> 00:32:19,767
We begin the search
to try to locate Damon Butler.
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00:32:19,872 --> 00:32:24,472
We did not know if he was
a suspect or potential victim.
490
00:32:26,178 --> 00:32:28,078
Meanwhile, osbi agents
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00:32:28,213 --> 00:32:29,853
turn to the victim's friends at the scene.
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00:32:32,351 --> 00:32:35,351
Crystal tells investigators
that she saw Damon with
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00:32:35,454 --> 00:32:37,554
Rebecca earlier that day
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00:32:37,656 --> 00:32:41,186
when they knocked at her door
looking for Vivian.
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00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:44,193
They did ask me if I knew
who -- who did this,
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00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:47,526
and I told 'em no,
and I didn't have a clue
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00:32:47,633 --> 00:32:49,773
who would do that --
I didn't.
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00:32:51,770 --> 00:32:54,870
Investigators also learn
that Vivian and Damon
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00:32:54,974 --> 00:32:56,374
were struggling.
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00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:59,835
Things begin to come out about Vivian
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00:32:59,945 --> 00:33:02,405
and Damon's relationship.
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00:33:02,514 --> 00:33:04,584
It had been kind of rocky.
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00:33:04,683 --> 00:33:07,323
He had been using, I believe,
some methamphetamine.
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00:33:09,888 --> 00:33:13,058
Vivian told crystal and Brandy
that she was done with it,
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00:33:13,158 --> 00:33:15,588
she was done with the drugs, and
she wasn't gonna live like that.
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00:33:17,296 --> 00:33:21,596
It appears that Vivian
and Damon's perfect relationship
507
00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:25,700
was beginning to come apart
at the seams.
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00:33:25,804 --> 00:33:28,944
When we were out drinking
that night, um,
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00:33:29,041 --> 00:33:31,681
Vivian was telling me about what
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00:33:31,777 --> 00:33:34,907
was going on with her and d,
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00:33:35,014 --> 00:33:39,524
that he had been staying out
late at the casino, gambling,
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00:33:39,618 --> 00:33:43,448
not bringing home any money,
you know, to help pay the bills
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00:33:43,555 --> 00:33:45,115
or anything.
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00:33:45,224 --> 00:33:46,664
Text messages from Vivian
515
00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:48,329
confirm the couple's disputes.
516
00:33:50,029 --> 00:33:52,629
Vivian said that she had
been talking to Kevin
517
00:33:52,731 --> 00:33:56,001
and that they were talking
about getting back together.
518
00:33:56,101 --> 00:33:58,101
Which makes it possible
519
00:33:58,203 --> 00:34:01,343
that someone was jealous -- but who?
520
00:34:02,775 --> 00:34:05,475
It was extremely important
521
00:34:05,577 --> 00:34:09,707
that we find Mr. Butler, because he was
522
00:34:09,815 --> 00:34:12,615
one of the last persons
to have been seen with Rebecca.
523
00:34:23,162 --> 00:34:25,662
The next day, just after 1 P.M.,
524
00:34:25,764 --> 00:34:27,534
Oklahoma highway patrol spot
525
00:34:27,633 --> 00:34:30,703
a man matching Damon's
description shuffling along
526
00:34:30,803 --> 00:34:32,143
the roadside.
527
00:34:34,073 --> 00:34:36,573
They had received a report
of someone just walking,
528
00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:40,635
and, of course, anybody out
walking that cold of weather,
529
00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:44,706
they were -- they were gonna speak with 'em.
530
00:34:44,817 --> 00:34:47,777
An I.D. Check confirms
that it's Damon Butler.
531
00:34:50,355 --> 00:34:52,115
Chief Hyde is quick to respond
532
00:34:52,224 --> 00:34:54,024
and transports Damon back to the station.
533
00:34:56,662 --> 00:34:59,632
I buckled him in,
I treated him with respect,
534
00:34:59,731 --> 00:35:02,801
and if he was the person that did
535
00:35:02,901 --> 00:35:05,671
what I had witnessed
had been done in calera,
536
00:35:07,072 --> 00:35:09,572
I just didn't know how I felt right then,
537
00:35:09,641 --> 00:35:11,371
but I was -- I was scared.
538
00:35:13,045 --> 00:35:15,305
When Damon Butler was being transported,
539
00:35:15,414 --> 00:35:17,614
he made some statements,
540
00:35:17,749 --> 00:35:20,919
something along the lines of
walking in on
541
00:35:21,019 --> 00:35:24,419
a burglary, that they were from Dallas.
542
00:35:24,523 --> 00:35:30,193
He described a couple of
individuals that maybe watch
543
00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:32,925
the murder of Vivian.
544
00:35:35,134 --> 00:35:37,434
Butler explains how
the two men that invaded
545
00:35:37,536 --> 00:35:40,136
his home also made him watch
546
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,369
as they beat Rebecca to death.
547
00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:44,274
They had tied him up, but he managed
548
00:35:44,376 --> 00:35:46,706
to escape, running for his life.
549
00:35:48,981 --> 00:35:51,821
However, for detectives, his story
550
00:35:51,917 --> 00:35:53,117
doesn't seem to add up.
551
00:35:54,786 --> 00:35:57,346
There's no visible signs of forced entry.
552
00:35:57,456 --> 00:35:59,556
We should see some damage of some sort
553
00:35:59,658 --> 00:36:02,458
to a window, a door jamb, something.
554
00:36:02,561 --> 00:36:05,061
We didn't see any evidence of that.
555
00:36:06,465 --> 00:36:08,265
Investigators decide to focus on
556
00:36:08,367 --> 00:36:09,827
the evidence found at the scene.
557
00:36:12,538 --> 00:36:15,138
Alongside finding
potential murder weapons,
558
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,240
a camera recovered from Butler's car grabs
559
00:36:18,343 --> 00:36:19,983
their attention.
560
00:36:21,313 --> 00:36:26,123
On the camera, there was
pictures of Damon Butler,
561
00:36:26,218 --> 00:36:29,118
where he had shaved his beard.
562
00:36:30,923 --> 00:36:35,593
Some of the photographs
also showed Damon Butler
563
00:36:35,661 --> 00:36:39,001
in what appeared to be, drag.
564
00:36:39,097 --> 00:36:43,797
The bizarre evidence raises questions.
565
00:36:43,902 --> 00:36:46,402
We wanted to know when,
566
00:36:46,505 --> 00:36:48,865
perhaps that appearance
had been altered.
567
00:36:48,974 --> 00:36:52,014
Was it prior to the crime,
was it after the crime
568
00:36:52,077 --> 00:36:54,407
to kind of help US set up a timeline
569
00:36:54,513 --> 00:36:58,323
and see if perhaps
him shaving of his beard was
570
00:36:58,417 --> 00:37:00,647
something to kind of disguise
571
00:37:00,752 --> 00:37:03,422
his -- his look.
572
00:37:03,522 --> 00:37:06,222
Investigators turn to
the victim's family for help.
573
00:37:08,227 --> 00:37:10,657
Reanae called me in to her office
574
00:37:10,762 --> 00:37:12,832
and asked me to look at the pictures,
575
00:37:12,931 --> 00:37:16,571
and, I was blown away.
576
00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:18,935
He was dressed up as a woman.
577
00:37:20,372 --> 00:37:22,272
I told reanae, I said,
"well, the night before,
578
00:37:22,374 --> 00:37:24,444
he had a goatee and everything,"
579
00:37:24,543 --> 00:37:27,283
and I said, "in these pictures,
he's clean-shaven."
580
00:37:28,814 --> 00:37:31,284
That suggested to US
that he was trying to alter
581
00:37:31,383 --> 00:37:34,583
his appearance and perhaps
in anticipation of leaving
582
00:37:34,686 --> 00:37:37,216
the area or going undetected.
583
00:37:38,757 --> 00:37:42,257
Butler is arrested
but maintains his innocence.
584
00:37:43,695 --> 00:37:46,525
One week later, chief Hyde's phone rings.
585
00:37:49,201 --> 00:37:51,471
Went out and took a call from a deputy,
586
00:37:51,570 --> 00:37:56,810
and he said that Mr. Butler
wanted to talk to me.
587
00:37:58,477 --> 00:38:00,307
And I said, "what does he want
to talk to me about?"
588
00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:03,682
He said, "well, he --
he wants to confess."
589
00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:05,152
590
00:38:07,219 --> 00:38:09,819
Damon Butler finally reveals the truth.
591
00:38:11,089 --> 00:38:14,759
Vivian, after a night out on
the town, had returned home,
592
00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:17,430
and Mr. Butler was there.
593
00:38:19,031 --> 00:38:21,561
When Vivian tells Damon it's over
594
00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:23,967
and that she's leaving him for Kevin,
595
00:38:24,069 --> 00:38:25,439
Damon loses control.
596
00:38:28,907 --> 00:38:30,637
He beats her with a baseball bat,
597
00:38:33,712 --> 00:38:35,152
drags her to the bathroom,
598
00:38:38,817 --> 00:38:40,047
and then unleashes hell.
599
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,490
The following morning, mom, Rebecca,
600
00:38:50,595 --> 00:38:53,025
shows up at the house looking for Vivian.
601
00:38:54,433 --> 00:38:56,733
Damon tells her that
Vivian and him had a fight,
602
00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:58,195
she walked off,
603
00:38:58,303 --> 00:39:04,073
so together, Damon,
Rebecca, go and look for Vivian.
604
00:39:04,176 --> 00:39:06,806
They talk to friends.
They look around.
605
00:39:06,912 --> 00:39:08,682
But they end up back at the house.
606
00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:11,850
Pressure's mounting
on Damon at this point.
607
00:39:11,950 --> 00:39:14,680
Vivian is already dead,
and in the bathtub,
608
00:39:16,054 --> 00:39:18,894
and he doesn't really know what to do,
609
00:39:18,990 --> 00:39:20,420
so Rebecca's gotta die.
610
00:39:30,168 --> 00:39:33,338
Then he shaves his beard,
he changes his appearance.
611
00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:38,506
He takes his photographs, looking at himself
612
00:39:38,610 --> 00:39:41,540
in drag and everything, but he knows
613
00:39:41,646 --> 00:39:44,246
that the pressure is gonna
keep mounting.
614
00:39:44,349 --> 00:39:46,719
People's gonna keep asking questions,
615
00:39:46,818 --> 00:39:48,918
so he just disappears.
616
00:39:49,020 --> 00:39:52,820
Butler agrees to take
a plea deal, and in September
617
00:39:52,924 --> 00:39:57,094
2009 pleads guilty to two
counts of first-degree murder.
618
00:39:58,330 --> 00:40:01,230
He receives two consecutive life sentences
619
00:40:01,333 --> 00:40:03,273
without the chance of parole.
620
00:40:04,770 --> 00:40:06,640
Damon Butler's never leaving prison.
621
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,180
We were leaving the courtroom,
and I just turned to the d.A.,
622
00:40:12,277 --> 00:40:14,207
and I go, "I want to see him.
623
00:40:14,312 --> 00:40:16,582
I want to see him.
I want to talk to Damon now."
624
00:40:18,383 --> 00:40:22,493
Damon agreed to sit across
from me and nobody else.
625
00:40:22,587 --> 00:40:24,147
So I went into this little
room across from
626
00:40:24,256 --> 00:40:26,586
the table from each other,
and I said, "Damon,
627
00:40:26,691 --> 00:40:30,061
"I need to know,
did mom see Vivian,
628
00:40:30,162 --> 00:40:32,602
and why did you do this?"
629
00:40:32,697 --> 00:40:34,327
And he said,
630
00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:37,933
"your mom never saw Vivian,"
and that was like a relief.
631
00:40:38,036 --> 00:40:40,466
And that gave me a little peace.
632
00:40:40,572 --> 00:40:42,672
And I said, "why did you do this?"
633
00:40:42,774 --> 00:40:46,084
He goes, "Kim, I just
didn't want to lose her."
634
00:40:46,178 --> 00:40:47,308
And...
635
00:40:47,412 --> 00:40:49,252
I said, "I forgive you right here.
636
00:40:49,347 --> 00:40:51,147
I'm leaving this here,
and I forgive you."
637
00:40:53,685 --> 00:40:55,945
For family and friends,
638
00:40:56,054 --> 00:40:59,424
memories captured on
home video are bittersweet.
639
00:41:05,864 --> 00:41:09,404
It's unimaginable that a guy that
640
00:41:09,501 --> 00:41:13,571
you brought around your whole family,
641
00:41:13,672 --> 00:41:17,511
that you trusted him, and just
642
00:41:17,609 --> 00:41:19,279
the thought that
643
00:41:19,377 --> 00:41:21,077
he could do what he did.
644
00:41:27,219 --> 00:41:28,279
Yeah, it's pretty messed up.
645
00:41:34,059 --> 00:41:38,359
Because of Damon's selfish acts, I mean,
646
00:41:38,463 --> 00:41:41,973
he's taken my mother, he's taken
647
00:41:42,067 --> 00:41:44,527
kalyn and Blaine's mother.
648
00:41:46,872 --> 00:41:48,372
And he's just -- he's totally
649
00:41:48,473 --> 00:41:50,473
changed the trajectory of our family.
650
00:41:52,611 --> 00:41:55,281
Looking back at all
the pictures and the videos,
651
00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:58,250
I have sadness whenever
I look at all those things.
652
00:42:02,954 --> 00:42:04,294
I miss Vivian a whole lot.
653
00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:08,758
I know she's looking down on her kids
654
00:42:10,762 --> 00:42:13,262
and being very proud of 'em.
655
00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:16,165
Rebecca was a hell of a woman.
656
00:42:18,136 --> 00:42:19,496
She was a beautiful person.
657
00:42:22,307 --> 00:42:23,267
They were so happy.
658
00:42:25,443 --> 00:42:26,783
Such better times.
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