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[man speaking on phone]

[Gary Thatcher]
Linda was a single mom

trying to do her best
with her daughter.

[Adrian Van Nice] Tess was
fairly out of control.

Bryan wanted people
to believe he was capable

of awful and dark things.

Once they met,
fireworks were going to fly.

I think they were obsessed
with each other.

[Andrew Red] He was so blindly
dedicated to her,

no matter what.

[Adrian] It was like that
Romeo and Juliet

"I'll do anything for you"
devotion.

At this point,
things were escalating.

He's like, "I can
fix that problem for you."

Tess was very manipulative.

[Gary] I believe
that she's the catalyst

that started the whole thing.

She knew that Bryan
would do anything for her.

[Bryan speaking]

Lafayette was pretty small
when I was growing up there.

There wasn't a lot to do.

We'd go and
wander the streets.

Two kids growing up
in Lafayette,

who felt like outsiders

and were looking for
a sense of power,

started down a road
of manipulation,

conflict and violence.

[Scott Robinson] Bryan Grove
was a 17-year-old.

He met Tess at Project YES,

which is kind of
a community program

for youth after school.

Initially,
Tess didn't like Bryan.

But I think Bryan grew
on Tess a bit

and then they began to date.

[Kimberly Diego]
These are two young people

going through a very similar
time in their life,

experiencing similar issues.

Once they met,
fireworks were going to fly

and it was going to be
a very strong connection.

Bryan was very into
Insane Clown Posse.

He considered himself
a juggalo.

Great music.

But some folks utilized
their message in the wrong way

in order to
justify certain behaviors.

And that was something that
was very attractive to Bryan,

that sort
of antisocial aspect.

[Scott] When he started
dating Tess,

she got involved
in that scene as well.

They weren't
the mainstream kids.

They were
a little bit rebellious.

We were the kids that
cut class and smoked weed

and didn't
care what people said

and did dumb [bleep]
just because it was fun.

Bryan Grove had been adopted
by a family in Lafayette

from India.

[Andrew] Bryan appreciated
and loved his adopted family.

But he felt outcast

from at least what he told--

you know...
he didn't fit in anywhere.

And when he was younger,
he got picked on a lot.

Bryan really struggled
in Lafayette.

He had a hard time in school.

And he had fascinations about

doing violent things
at school.

[Scott] Bryan's Myspace
had things like

Insane Clown Posse
lyrics on it.

At one point, he talked about
going into a school

and shooting people.

He talked about a fascination
with knives and stabbing

and things like that.

[Stacy] This is a kid
who feels like an outsider.

And he's found a group
devoted to outsiders

just like him,

followers of
Insane Clown Posse,

the juggalos.

Their violent imagery,
the so-called Dark Carnival,

has clearly influenced
his thinking.

[Adrian]
Bryan had, in the past,

made threats
to kill individuals.

He wanted people
to believe that he was capable

of awful and dark things.

Tess Damm was
a 15-year-old girl

who's not going to school,

fairly out of control.

She had an estranged
relationship with her father,

who really didn't have
anything to do with her.

She had a difficult
relationship with her mom,

who by all accounts had
some struggles with alcohol.

[Gary] Linda was a single mom

trying to do her best
with her daughter.

[Scott]
She was working two jobs.

She tried to be a good mother.

Linda did provide a nice home
in a suburban neighborhood.

[Gary] Linda had lost her job.

This, of course, made things
more difficult at home

and she started drinking more.

[Scott] Tess used to journal

and she talked about how well
she got along with her mom

and how much she loved her.

But when she would drink,

they wouldn't get along.

It sounds like maybe just
when things got rough,

Linda turned to the drinking

and I think she disengaged
a little bit.

[Steve Waddig] There were
lots of rumors about Tess

when she was in high school.

A coworker of mine,
her husband

was one of Tess' teachers

and said she would try
to be seductive

and entice teenage boys
at her school.

[Stacy] It's not unusual,
of course,

for a teenage girl to test
the power of her sexuality,

especially when she feels
powerless at home.

[Scott] Bryan and Tess met
around Halloween 2006.

Bryan's feelings for Tess
were pretty intense.

He was obsessed with her,
I would say.

I think they were obsessed
with each other.

And I think they were
a bit codependent.

They did not like
to be apart at all.

It very much felt like that
Romeo and Juliet

"I'll do anything for you,

we're meant to be
together forever,"

star-crossed lovers' devotion

from Bryan towards Tess.

She had Bryan wrapped
around her little finger.

[Andrew] He was so smitten.

I mean, head over heels
doesn't even do it justice.

He was so blindly
dedicated to her,

no matter what.

Just, from the get-go.

[Scott] Tess' mother, Linda,

was not happy
with that relationship.

After Bryan completed
high school early,

he moved out
of his parents' home

and he lived in a condominium
with a friend.

And at one point,
Tess ran away

and was basically
living with Bryan.

[Adrian]
There's tons of tension between Tess and Linda

because Linda is expecting
Tess to do things like

go to school,
do her homework,

do things around the house,
all of those things

that parents expect
their kids to do.

Linda really wanted to
raise her right

and really tried to
do the right thing with her.

Tess and Bryan wanted
to be very independent,

but they were still juveniles.

Linda wanted to be a mother

and she didn't want them to
leave and be out on their own.

So Linda had
to basically compromise

to get her daughter
back in the home.

[Adrian] It became clear
that the only way

that Linda was going to get
Tess to return home,

where Linda could make sure
that she's taken care of,

was to allow her to bring
her 17-year-old boyfriend

back with her.

[Kimberly]
What she was trying to do

was control
an uncontrollable situation.

She knew they're going to be
together no matter what.

It might as well be
under my roof,

where I can have some
line of sight

on what is happening.

[Gary] She thinks that she can
keep a closer eye on him

and just kind of watch
what's going on with them.

But she realizes
they were being intimate with each other.

Tess actually has, uh, a scare

with maybe being pregnant
at one point.

That made the relationship
with Bryan and Linda

become contentious.

She saw Bryan
as now the problem

and Tess was spiraling
out of control.

Linda now has two wild
teenagers living with her.

And she's got
her own problems.

She's clearly not capable
of handling this situation.

But she doesn't know
how to fix it.

Linda's not happy about
Bryan living in the house.

And, at this point,
things are escalating.

[Andrew] I do remember
Tess and Bryan

got to one of those
big, big, like,

"My parents are never
gonna love me again.

And I hate my parents.

And I hope they go to Dante's
seventh level of Hell."

And all that
overdramatic stuff.

Tess and Bryan would say,
"Well, wouldn't it be easier

if we just lived
by ourselves?"

Or "Wouldn't it be easier
if she wasn't here?"

[Scott] One night,
Tess and Bryan went to their favorite spot.

[phone ringing]

Linda called Tess 16 times.

[phone ringing]

They're out
trying to have a good time

and Mom is calling
and sort of harassing Tess,

at least in her point of view.

Linda wants to know
where they are.

She says,
"If you don't come home,

if you don't tell me
where you are,

Bryan's out of the house."

You just saw how angry
Tess was with her mom.

And you would see how upset
it would make Bryan

to see Tess that hurt.

But what idiot kid
doesn't say,

"God, I wish my parents
were dead"?

[phone ringing]

A little bit after ten o'clock
on February 27th, 2007,

a call comes into 911
with an anonymous tipster.

[Gary] There's times
when we get anonymous tips

in the middle of the night.

And they usually have
very vague,

very little information
that we can't do much with.

In this particular case,

it was something that
made us pay close attention.

[tipster on phone]

Lafayette Police Department
received an anonymous call.

The caller told dispatch

that they had been up
to this house.

They kind of describe
the house

and the neighborhood
where it was at.

[tipster on phone]

[Gary] Dispatch sends out
patrol officers

to the neighborhood where
they believe this call

was, uh, referencing.

One of the sergeants knew
that there was a Tess Damm

up in that neighborhood.

[Scott]
The patrol division was familiar with Linda and Tess

because they had been
called out there

several times in the past.

Nothing real serious,
just normal family issues.

Tess had run away before.

And they would have
some pretty heated arguments.

[Adrian] As they began
to walk up to the house,

a juvenile that individuals
refer to as "Pilgrim"

was coming out.

Pilgrim was friends with both
Tess and Bryan through school.

[officer speaking]

[Gary] Patrol officers start
asking him some questions

about where is Linda

and who's the parent
here at this house.

Pilgrim tells patrol officers

that she just wasn't there
at the time.

She's on vacation.

Officers, of course,
are not telling him

exactly what the call
is about,

just sort of trying to see

what information
he'll provide on his own.

He says,
"My friends are inside.

They're arguing."

"What are they arguing about?"

"Oh, you know,
relationship stuff."

At which point in time,
they knock on the door.

Tess answers the door.

Bryan is standing
a little bit back

inside the house,
behind her.

And they bring those two
out as well

and start talking to them
about Linda.

[Adrian] When officers first
talked to Tess,

she says that her mom
had been gone

for a number of weeks,

that she didn't know
where her mom had gone,

that she was taking a trip,

that, before she left,

Linda had told Tess
she would be back

before Tess' truancy court
appearance in April

that Linda and Tess
needed to appear at.

Bryan initially tells officers
that Linda had gone for a walk

earlier that evening,

wearing just a gray hoodie in
the freezing Colorado winter

and just hadn't returned
as of yet.

Anytime officers receive
different versions of a story,

alarm bells are going to
be going off.

[Scott] They didn't have
a search warrant,

but patrol officers knew

that they had
something going on here.

There was a hole
in the garage door

and they could actually
look inside

and see that
there was a Subaru

just like the anonymous caller
was calling about.

So, at that point,
they ended up taking all three

back to the police department.

[Kimberly] While the teenagers
are taken to provide

more detailed statements,

police are at the residence

waiting for the search warrant
to come in

so they can search
the residence

and verify the claims
made by the caller.

[Gary]
Tess, Bryan and Pilgrim

were transported to the
Lafayette Police Department

on their own will.
They were not arrested.

They weren't handcuffed.

And they were informed
that they were free to go

anytime they wanted to.

They were brought there

so that we could start
contacting their parents

or responsible party.

With juveniles, we have
to have a parent's permission

in order to do
that Miranda with them.

[Scott] I was assigned
to speak with Bryan Grove.

I actually spoke
with his father first

'cause he's a juvenile.

Bryan seemed a bit nervous.

He's 17 years old.

He's been in trouble before.

But he was also
a bit calm as well.

You know, it was
a combination of both.

What he basically said was,
"Hey, I lied to the police

by saying I saw her
earlier in the evening."

He's like, "She's been missing
for three weeks."

Which was Tess'
original story as well.

And in his mind, you know,
he had a story

and he was
gonna stick with it.

But as we got to talking,

I developed a rapport
with him

and kind of let him know
that, "Hey,

we're on top of this.

And we're gonna solve this.

We're gonna do a
search warrant at the house."

At that point, his demeanor
started to change.

I think he realized that

"Okay, this is serious.
They have me.

They've got us."

And I could tell he was
kind of right at that point

where he was gonna
start telling me the truth.

[Scott speaking]

I was a crisis negotiator
for years on the SWAT Team.

And you don't normally

let someone talk to
a third person.

But, in this situation,
it made sense.

We knew they were together
in a relationship.

We were right there.

So if anything
strange happened,

we could certainly
break it up.

[Kimberly] I think it's very
interesting and also telling

that, in the moment,
his primary thought is

"Where's Tess?
I need to see her."

I think that's a little bit
of an unusual reaction

to being in this position.

But it also shows
how obsessed he was with her.

[Adrian] They did allow
the two of them to hug...

and sort of have a moment

before Tess was then
taken out of the room.

[Scott] I think it was
a way for us to establish

a little bit of trust
with Bryan.

And it kind of puts it back
on him that, "Hey,

we allowed you to see her.

Tell me what really happened."

[Stacy] Tess is almost like
a security blanket for Bryan

at this point.

He needs
that physical check-in

to give him courage.

But she's also a reminder of

everything
he has to lose here.

[Scott] The story that
he gave me the second time

was that he was trying
to get some sleep

and that he ended up
having an argument with Linda,

that she came in
and yanked him out of bed.

[Bryan speaking]

It was just sort of was
a self-defense story.

It just didn't make
any sense to me at all.

He said, at this point,

he grabbed her by the throat

and he was strangling her
up against the wall

right next to the bed.

He said that she fought back

and was able
to hit him in the head.

He ended up
getting behind her,

that he had one arm
wrapped around her

and he got her
into a choke hold.

And he choked her to
unconsciousness.

He thought that he was done,

but Linda wasn't yet deceased.

She began to make noise.

So he reached into his pocket,

he grabbed a pocket knife

and he began
to stab her in the neck.

[Scott] Once we got that
search warrant,

a team of investigators
and crime scene technicians

went into the house.

It was pretty obvious that
there was a lot of partying going on.

The house was just filthy.

Food wrappers everywhere.

Some food was just
sitting out.

If you took
a group of teenagers

and you let 'em play house
for about three weeks

just having fun,
that's what it looked like.

[Gary] Initially,
when we go into the house

the first thing we wanna do
is establish

if we have
a body inside the house.

The anonymous tip said
that the body was in a car

inside the garage.

[Kimberly] When officers
entered the garage,

they detected a smell that,
to them,

they already knew what it was,

which was the smell
of decomposition.

[Gary] There was light green
colored Subaru

and they were able to see
that there was something

wrapped in blankets
in the back.

We were able to ID her
as being Tess' mom,

Linda Damm.

The primary scene
where we found the blood

was up in the bedroom area
and on the mattress.

It was apparent that they
had moved the body

and used the sheets

in order to move
her body to the garage.

Linda was in her pajamas

at the time
that her body was recovered

from the back of
her own Subaru.

It was obvious
that she had been deceased

for a significant
period of time.

When Bryan talks
to law enforcement,

he told them
that he stabbed Linda

four times in the neck
and the one time in the mouth.

But, at autopsy,

Linda was discovered to have
18 stab wounds to her neck.

[Stacy] 18 stab wounds
is not self-defense.

That's serious rage.

This is a kid
who's angry at the world

and who's had violent
fantasies for a long time.

And, in that moment,

the person he's
the most angry with

was Linda Damm.

[Adrian] He was angry with her

because he didn't believe
that she treated Tess well.

He was angry with her because

she was now
going to kick him out,

which would then
separate the two of them.

[Gary] I met Tess
at the police department

after she had been brought
over from her house.

She was just sitting in
a chair there

in the booking room,
waiting.

[Adrian] Police reach out
to Tess' estranged father.

They don't know
at that point in time

the relationship between them.

They just know
this is her father.

He gives permission for them
to interview Tess.

I was the initial detective
to sit down with Tess

and do an interview with her.

Tess came across as maybe
younger than her actual age.

She had no affect whatsoever.

I think the best way
to describe it

is it was almost like
she was an empty shell of a child.

Very non-emotional.

You know, it just kind of
struck me as

where's she coming from
in this whole thing?

When I started asking her
some basic questions,

at one point,

she looks at me and tells me,
she's like,

"It's kind of a big deal

'cause my mom's dead,
you know."

[Gary] In talking with Tess,

she explained
that February 3rd,

they had gone to
the IHOP diner

and Tess would talk about,
you know,

wanting Mom
out of the picture

and just her frustrations
about Mom

and how she didn't like Mom
'cause Mom's an alcoholic.

Tess told us that
she was voicing this stuff

and Bryan tells her,

"Well, I can
take care of that."

And she says
that she didn't know

that Bryan was
taking her serious.

Maybe Tess was
just blowing off steam,

complaining about her mom
like any teenage girl would.

But Bryan obviously had
a much more violent solution

to the problem in mind.

[Gary]
I interviewed Tess first

and then
I interviewed Pilgrim.

Pilgrim acted like how
you would expect a juvenile

in that situation
to be acting.

He was concerned about
what was going to happen.

Pilgrim's questioning
was very key because

now we had somebody
who was a little bit separated

from what happened.

He's not emotionally tied to
either Bryan or Tess.

And so he's able to give us

a little bit more of
a straight story

of how it went down

and give us some
true perspective on it.

He definitely
shed a lot more light

on Tess' involvement in this.

[Gary] Pilgrim said that
they had been at the IHOP

and he overhears
Tess and Bryan

talking back and forth
about Linda

and how she's an alcoholic

and overhears
Tess telling Bryan

that she would like
him to take care of that.

And he's like, "I can fix
that problem for you."

At first, he didn't think
that they were being serious.

They just were
blowing off steam

and just kind of
talking about the situation.

But then he talked about
how it escalated

and it was becoming
more serious.

And Bryan's like,

"I'm gonna take care
of this for you."

[Adrian] At one point in time,

Tess turns to Pilgrim
and asks,

"Do you think
we can get away with it?"

Pilgrim says, "Yeah, I think
you can get away with it,

but I don't want
anything to do with it."

[Scott] Throughout the night,

they discussed it some more.

And things got
a little bit more heated

because she was getting
calls from her mother

all night long.

[phone ringing]

And I remember Pilgrim
describing that

is was ten or more calls.

[phone ringing]

They were out extremely late,

past 4:00 a.m.

and Linda is calling.

"You need to get home.

You don't need
to be out this late.

You need to start
going back to school."

Those things that are
the ongoing themes

in their relationship,

the ongoing struggles
that they're having.

Tess isn't coming home.

She's not listening
to her mom.

She's hanging up
on her mom.

Mom is calling back.

[phone ringing]

[Scott] At this point,
things are escalating.

She keeps calling her back.

She says, "If you don't
bring the car back,

I'm gonna call the police.

If you don't come home,

if you don't tell me
where you are,

Bryan's out of the house."

Tess tells police she dropped
Bryan off at the house

because Bryan wanted to go in
and go to sleep.

She and Pilgrim wanted
to drive around some more.

She said that they did that,

that Bryan then called them

and asked them
to come back to the house

and that Pilgrim
had gone in the home.

And, at that point in time,

she thought something might
have happened to her mom,

but she didn't know for sure.

And it went through sort of
an evolution over time of

how much did she know?

And when did she find out?

[Scott] And then Pilgrim said
Bryan calls Tess and says

he needs help from Pilgrim.

And, at that point,
Linda Damm is already dead.

But Bryan wants help
moving the body.

Pilgrim is reluctant to help.

He doesn't wanna get
that involved.

But Bryan kind of
guilts him into it

and he's like, "Hey, we're
all involved at this point.

I need help. If you don't,
I'm gonna end up in prison.

You're gonna be in trouble."

So he reluctantly helps,

and they end up
moving Linda's body

into the back of the Subaru.

Bryan and Tess tried
a lot of different things

to dispose of Linda's body.

At one point, Bryan removed
her body from the Subaru,

laid her down
on the garage floor

and began to dismember her

in order
to make disposal easier.

And he discovered
that it was hard

and stopped.

And then Bryan reached out
to Jared Guy,

his best friend growing up,

and asked him for assistance.

Pilgrim essentially had said,

"I don't wanna be involved
in any of that.

I'm not gonna help you
get rid of the body."

And so Jared Guy comes
into the story

a couple of days after
the murder.

[Gary] Multiple times,

they tried to figure out
what they were gonna do

to get rid of her body.

[Adrian] There's a cemetery
in Boulder

very close to the high school

that they were attending
at the time.

They get to the cemetery
about eleven o'clock at night.

They get out of the car.

They get out shovels.

It's of course winter
in Colorado,

so the ground is very hard.

Jared Guy says he shoveled
one shovelful

and then stopped.

He said it was too hard.

Bryan continues to dig
and digs out a small area

that's not big enough
to bury Linda in

or really to cover her well.

While they were putting
Linda's body inside this hole,

they think
that they see somebody.

[Adrian] It's about
1:30 in the morning

and they see a car

moving at the entrance
of the cemetery.

They get scared
that it's law enforcement.

They put her
in the hole there,

they cover her with dirt,

they get in the car,

they leave.

[Scott] And on the way home,

Bryan changed his mind
and said,

"No. We gotta go back
and get her.

We didn't bury her
deep enough."

And so they returned to
the cemetery

and they picked her up
and put her back in the Subaru

and took it back home.

[Adrian]
Jared relates that while driving back to the house,

Tess is kind of dozing
in the back seat.

He's playing a CD.

And after this event
where they've just tried

to bury her dead mother,

she sits up and asks him,

"Would you burn me
a copy of that CD?"

This could be
what we call disassociation.

Tess can't handle the fact
that her mother's body

is in the trunk of the car,

so her brain is disconnecting

from what's happening
around her.

[Kimberly] Police ask Tess,

"How are you living
in that house for 25 days

with your mother's body
in the garage?"

And she indicated

that she didn't really
think much of it.

It was basically as though
her body wasn't even there.

Tess was only 15 years old.

And there is
established science

in regards to the development
of a juvenile brain

and how that relates
to responsibility

in terms of a criminal case.

It is possible that
this could be a sign

of a very young offender.

But it could also be
that she has sociopathic

or psychopathic tendencies,

which means Tess may truly
have no conscience

about what happened.

[Bryan speaking]

[Scott] The thing about Bryan,

he didn't wanna blame
anybody else but himself.

But without Tess,

I don't think
this murder happens.

[Scott] Our investigation
showed that the night of the murder...

- [phone ringing]
- ...they're heading home

and they're
still getting calls.

Tess got a last call
at 5:13 a.m.

and Linda was done.

Finally, I think
Linda just sort of snapped.

"Fine. If you don't
wanna come home,

if you don't wanna do
these things,

Bryan can't live here
anymore.

I'm gonna pack up
a bag of his stuff

and he needs to go
somewhere else."

[Scott] After Tess
gets off the phone,

they pull up
in the driveway

and they see the duffle bag
is on the porch.

And the Pilgrim said that
Tess turns to Bryan and says,

"Do it."

Bryan kisses her,

they both tell each other
"I love you,"

and he gets out of the car...

and goes inside.

[Stacy] You have to remember

Bryan is very young as well,

just 17 years old.

He's clearly not understanding

the consequences
of his confession.

Also, for the first time
in his life,

he feels loved and accepted.

And he may be afraid
of losing that.

[Scott] Bryan was charged
with first degree murder.

Tess was charged with

conspiracy to commit
first degree murder.

I think the reality of it
is she knew

that Bryan
would do anything for her.

I think that she truly did

want her mom
out of the picture.

I believe
that she's the catalyst

that started the whole thing.

[Adrian]
Tess never would tell us

that she gave
the ultimate go-ahead

for Bryan to kill Linda.

But Bryan Grove would never
have killed Linda Damm

without Tess' permission,

without Tess' direction.

If you kill the mother
of the woman that you love

without that person saying

that that's
and okay thing to do,

that's pretty much
a deal-breaker.

The relationship is over
at that point in time.

Through our investigation,
it was pretty obvious

that Tess was pretty cold
and calculating

with her involvement
in this murder.

The reality is
both of these kids

are responsible
for Linda Damm's murder.

Bryan wielded the knife,

but it seems that Tess
was pulling the strings.

[Adrian] Bryan Grove
was charged as an adult.

He pled guilty
to second degree murder

and was sentenced
to 40 years.

His estimated
parole eligibility date

is December 22nd, 2031.

He did what he did.
He killed somebody.

He ended somebody's life.

That's not okay
on any level.

[Adrian] Tess was also charged
as an adult in this case.

As we moved
through the process,

she began to kind of play
the card of abused child,

indicating that her mother
had been abusive towards her.

But we were never able
to verify

or substantiate
those particular claims.

And then as we were moving
through sentencing,

she would raise allegations

with respect
to her relationship with Bryan itself,

alleging that he was
abusive towards her.

But there was never
any indication

that Bryan had ever
in any way, shape or form

been violent towards Tess.

She was trying to start
telling us that, you know,

she was brainwashed
in the whole thing by Bryan.

That was never mentioned to me

when we were
at the police department

when we did
the interview with her.

In some ways, this is the most
telling part of the story.

In her attempt
to save herself,

Tess is willing
to sell out the person

who sacrificed
his freedom for her.

[Andrew] I do think
that Tess loved Bryan.

But maybe not in the way
that you or I would think

love really is.

I know she cared about him.

But not enough
that she would put him

before her own needs.

And she thought she needed
Linda dead.

Tess manipulated him

into horrifically
stabbing her to death.

[Adrian] So Tess pled guilty
to second degree murder

and solicitation to commit
murder in the first degree.

Tess Damm was released
on parole in 2019.

[Scott] I'm not sure
how I feel about that.

Her role in this was horrible.

She's gonna have to
live with it.

But, again,
she was 15 at the time.

I think you have to take
that into consideration.

[Kimberly]
The sentence she received

is reflective
of the age she was

when it was committed.

If someone who was
20 years older than her

did the same thing,

they would receive
significantly more time.

[Adrian] We're looking
at a child being involved

in the death of their parent.

Some might say even ordering
the death of their parent.

Linda Damm loved her daughter.

Tess repaid that love
with murder.

[Steve] I do feel like
Tess had a terrible childhood

with her mom being an
alcoholic the way she was.

But to think that
it was her own daughter

who had murdered Linda,

that's just beyond
comprehension, really.

[Andrew] Nobody's life
is perfect.

Your life's not perfect.

Your life's not perfect.

Get over it.

Yeah, no, your mom
wasn't perfect, by all means.

But she didn't deserve
to die

because she was...

not nice to you.

[man #1] She was bright.
She was sexual.

She was a seductress.

[man #2] In the middle
of one investigation,

another murder comes up?

[man #1] That's when
all hell breaks loose.