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Mandy was not allowed to have
any boyfriend growing up.

You had to make sure
you lived byThe Bible.

If you didn't, it was a sin.

[Juanita] The reason Mandy
married Paul so quick

was because they were
trying to do things right.

She seemed happy.

And that made me happy.

[Denise] At first, Paul seemed
like a good man.

But the trouble was,

she knew nothing of him.

[Runyon] The folks
who are quiet,

those are the folks
that you may least expect,

but who could prove
to be the most dangerous.

[police officer speaking]

[Paul speaking]

This case is one
that involves an act of evil.

[Paul speaking]

[Denise] It was a tragedy.

It broke our whole family.

[Juanita] I would've liked
to have ripped his head off

and fed it to my pigs.

[Paul speaking]

Mandy was really outgoing.

She was an amazing person.

She taught me
how to ride bikes,

and we played dolls and went
on trips to Tennessee.

[Juanita] Mandy was
very quirky,

she was always being funny.

Being more silly than funny.

You know what I mean?

[laughing]

[screams]

[Juanita] She always
tried to make you laugh,

that was how she came across.

She had a real personality.

My grandfather was the pastor
of our local church.

We went to church,

it was like Wednesday night,
Biblestudy,

Saturday night, you know,
choir practice,

Sunday morning:
morning service, night service,

so that was a big part
of our weeks.

This is Mandy's
baptizing photo.

She was like 15 or 16 there.

I did feel like we were
sheltered a little much.

Dating and boys,

that was not something
that they did in the church.

[Denise] Mandy was not allowed
to have any boyfriend growing up.

Paw-paw was
very strict on that.

[Juanita] You didn't have
those relations until you were married.

That's something
in all churches around here,

that's in this
whole community.

It was a very strict way
of growing up.

Couldn't do much
of what you wanted.

You had to make sure
you lived by The Bible.

If you didn't, it was a sin.

[Runyon] Paul Lemay
met Mandy online,

they met on Facebook.

Paul Lemay came down
to eastern Kentucky

by way of Massachusetts.

I think Paul was
very smitten by Mandy.

I think he was very
attracted to the idea

that a woman so far away
wanted him.

That's what precipitated
his relocation to eastern Kentucky.

The trouble was,

she knew nothing of him.

[Juanita] Paul was older.

He was 47 or 48.

He'd already lived life,

so she, in her mind,
she thought he was smarter about things.

[Denise] Mandy liked
that he was different, not from around here.

Paul would come
every other weekend to Kentucky or to church.

[Juanita] Paul was
portrayed to me

as a religious person
and a good guy.

He was this big Christian guy
who was really nice.

I was happy for her.

She had said that they had
things in common,

that they could actually
talk to each other for a long time.

She seemed happy.

And that made me happy.

They dated about seven months,
at the most.

And then, they got married.

From what she had told me,

the reason she married
Paul so quick

was because they were
trying to do things right.

It was just a little,
small wedding,

just a few people from their
church that they went to.

It was a 15-minute ceremony.

It was nothing fancy.

My grandparents thought
it was a good thing, too,

getting married to Paul.

They liked that he had a job,

could provide for her,
and had two vehicles.

[Juanita] Paul didn't have
much family nearby.

None of his family was there,
I know that.

Looking back,
that was very weird to me.

I've personally never met
none of Paul's family.

Paul Lemay has this
mysterious past

where we don't know
a lot of his background,

and that may be by design.

It's possible that he
doesn't want Mandy

or her family or anybody
to know a lot about him.

It's interesting because we
have someone who,

on one hand, has estranged
or distant relationships from family members,

but, on the other hand,
hasn't identified loved one that they've idolized.

It sets itself up
for problems in the future.

Paul and Mandy
lived in Oil Springs, Salyersville, Kentucky.

Just a little town,
a back road.

Paul, he worked
at a nursing home,

and he brought home the money.

He paid for the home
that they lived in.

[Denise] She didn't have
to work at all, Mandy didn't.

He'd made sure she had
everything she needed.

Didn't matter what they are.

At first, Paul seemed
like a good man.

From what I seen anyway.

[Juanita] But, sometimes,

Paul would say
a lot of negative things on Facebook.

That may have been his way
to get his point across,

was through social media.

Say the things on there
that he couldn't say in person.

It's a Facebook post
from Paul.

[reading]

"All my life, I've been called
no good, that I'm worthless

then I will never amount
to anything.

I finally had enough
and I came here to Kentucky

where I've got myself a home
that I paid for.

I have a beautiful,
loving wife

and anyone says otherwise,
they are a liar."

He was very fragile,
I could see that.

He never opened up,
wouldn't talk.

Maybe there was
a reason behind it.

There was

a madness in his old life
that I didn't know about.

[Tussey] Paul Lemay's
Facebook posts say to me

that this is someone
who's vulnerable

and identifies
with this role of someone

who's been victimized
and has to take on the world.

[Juanita] At the time,
me and my husband had separated,

my children were tiny.

Mandy, she's like,

"If you want to,
you can come here,

you can stay
with me and Paul."

She's like, "We can spend
time together, get back to being sisters,"

and so, in my mind,
it was an awesome idea, because I loved Mandy.

[choking up]
She was my best friend.

[gasps softly]

[Denise] Mandy,
she loved her hair dye.

She started dying her hair
crazy colors.

It was blue, purple.

One time, she mixed it up,
it was half blonde and half blue.

[Juanita] One time,
we were going to dye,

you know, dye both of our hair
the same night.

And we was going to
go out get the hair dyed,

and Paul wouldn't
allow us to do it.

To Paul,
it was an unnecessary thing,

so she couldn't,
she wasn't allowed to do it.

I don't know why he wouldn't
allow her to do it.

I'm trying
to answer this for you

but I can't find a rhyme
to the reason of why he wouldn't let her.

I suppose he treated her
like a child.

The fact that Paul Lemay's
relationship with Mandy

appears to be more like
that of a father and daughter

is indicative
of his controlling nature.

It's also interesting
that in this day and age

where social media
and videos of one another are very common,

that there's actually
very little of that with Paul Lemay and Mandy.

If he can control
the little day-to-day tasks that she does,

he can ultimately
control her life.

[Juanita] Paul would work
and he would come home,

and I would say, "Hi, Paul,"

and he would say, "Hello,"
and then, you know, that was it.

He would always lock
hisself in his bedroom.

[Runyon] The folks who are
quiet and brooding

and, kind of,
seething underneath,

those are the folks
that you may least expect,

but who could prove
to be the most dangerous.

[Juanita] He would always
lock hisself in his bedroom.

I thought it was weird.

He wouldn't associate
with the rest of us.

Nobody really knew
what was going on in there.

[Juanita] Paul could be quiet,
Paul could be shy.

Behind closed doors,

Paul could be a creep.

He would lock hisself in there
like a hermit crab.

One time, she had
opened the door

and asked him
what he wanted for supper,

and he told her, "I don't care
what we have for supper,

I don't care
if we effing eat or not."

In my mind, she was trying
to take care of him

and do what a wife should be
doing for her husband.

And he was straight up
disrespectful to her.

This is Mandy at a rough time.

About 25, probably.

This was the time she'd get
into arguments with Paul.

[Juanita] A lot of the times,
they would argue,

they would argue
in the bedroom,

in their room.

And we tried
to stay away from that,

'cause I had kids and I didn't
want them to hear that.

So we always tried
to stay out of the arguments.

It was always behind
the bedroom door.

[door slamming]

Mandy would go in her room
and she would come back out, and she'd be like,

"Oh, it's happened again.

Paul, he's in
one of his moods."

I don't know why
she chose to stay

but I think a lot of it is
that she was actually

building a home
and building a life.

And it's just like, to her,
it was nothing much, she'd grown used to it.

[Tussey] There's indication
that the arguments

between Paul and Mandy
are escalating.

It begs the question of,
you know, what's happening there.

Is it that he feels
he's losing control,

and his own insecurity
is knocking at the door?

When someone like Paul
doesn't feel in control,

he may lash out impulsively.

[Juanita] One day we was
going up to see Mom,

and we had made it
from Salyersville to Prestonsburg.

And we had made it that far,
before he had called her on his break,

and there was
a heated argument

to the point
that she pulled over,

then we turned around
and went back.

Anytime Mandy
had to do anything,

she had to run it by Paul
and make sure Paul was okay with it.

He had came home from work
and he said he wasn't feeling good,

so he went in there
and he laid down and went to sleep.

And me and Mandy and the kids
had went out to Walmart.

And he was so mad
when we come back,

because she had left without
saying something to him

that she went into the room
and wasn't allowed back.

She didn't come
back out that night.

Here's the situation
where Paul is about 20 years older than Mandy,

yet, he has, effectively,
grounded her.

When individuals are that
controlling and domineering,

it makes you wonder,
"What else is happening behind closed doors?"

[Juanita] Felt like she was
trapped in a prison.

Mandy would say things like,
"I feel like I'm in jail sometimes," you know.

Paul was very controlling.

The last two or three months
that I stayed there,

we didn't really go anywhere,
or do anything.

Pretty much the only thing
he allowed Mandy to do

was to do
the grocery shopping.

[Denise] Um, he wouldn't
let her go anywhere

and do anything or see anyone.

When she stopped
coming around, I knew something was up.

Several times, I told Mandy
that she didn't have to put up with that,

she could leave.

But she just,
she never would listen.

It's like she,
it was her relationship, I needed to butt out of it,

it wasn't any of my business.

Me and the kids would stay
in that room

on the opposite side
from where her and Paul would stay.

We'd just kept on back there
unless we needed to come out and use the bathroom.

It was like, we were walking
on eggshells, so to speak.

Tiptoeing around the house.

I wish I would've stepped in
and done something

'cause I feel like
I could've helped her out.

And I wish that I'd just
let her know that I cared more, you know.

I wish I'd got her
out of there.

Paul is this quiet fella
who keeps to himself.

But as time goes on,

his Facebook posts
starts to get more aggressive.

[Juanita reading]

Now I'm, kind of,
beating myself up

for not putting him
on my Facebook.

I've never seen these.

It just hurts me.

I mean, I didn't,
I've not seen those.

[gasps softly]

[sobs]

From a religious perspective,
Paul maybe referring to the enemy as Satan.

It's also possible
that the enemy is his rage,

his insecurity.

This is an example
of an individual

who seems to be fighting
to control their behavior.

This Facebook post
is Paul is really trying to bury those demons

and keep himself
from crossing that line

from verbal aggression
to physical aggression.

Had I seen this at the time,
I'd have been angry.

I'd try to help her.

[Runyon] It begs the question,

what kind of threats could
Paul may have been making behind closed doors?

Regardless of which way we go,
we're heading into the abyss.

Things are about to get worse.

[Juanita] One day,
one of the kids had climbed up on the table,

and had knocked over
a couple plates and cups

that were sitting on the table
from when they were eating,

Paul, he didn't really
explode or anything,

he went into the room,
he had hollered for Mandy to come in there,

and I don't know what was
happening to Mandy.

Like I said,
she was in that room,

they were locked in there,
I don't know.

They were in there
for over an hour, and when they came out,

they had got
a change or two of clothes for each one of them,

and she told me
that they'd be back.

That's when Paul and Mandy
had left there.

I could tell
something was wrong.

It's not often my sister
calls me crying.

She told me she was scared
for him to be around the kids.

If I didn't get the kids
out of there before they got back,

that something
was going to happen.

He might hurt them
or something.

There's increasing evidence

that Paul Lemay
is becoming unraveled.

That's particularly worrisome,

because individuals who
threaten or hurt children

tend to lack remorse
and empathy for others.

[Juanita] It did, kind of,
scare me at that point.

So the best thing for me to do
for my kids was to leave.

[thunder rumbling]

[Juanita] When I left there,
with the kids,

things with Paul and Mandy
got a lot worse.

The trouble was Paul would
act normal sometimes.

Sometimes, he didn't seem
like a bad guy at all.

He was nice, he was polite.

To me, it was strange.

[Tussey] We're seeing this
Jekyll and Hyde personality.

We have someone who's,
on one hand, saying,

"Mandy, I love you,
my beautiful wife."

And on the other hand,
someone who is controlling her,

potentially,
threatening children,

not giving her money
to go to the store.

So we see these two
diametrically opposed personality behaviors.

And that's actually
quite common in individuals

who perpetrate
interpersonal violence.

There was a couple of months
after I moved out,

she was telling me that he was
getting a lot more aggressive.

She was telling me
that Paul was starting to be more physical with her.

Started out
with him shoving her.

And then, it got to where,
he would get in her face

and he would
get more violent with her.

She said that she was scared
that if she didn't get out of there,

that she wouldn't
get out of there.

She called me

and told me
she did leave Paul.

She said she was
at a friend's house,

that she was scared of him,

and that she didn't
want to go back home.

She told me they were
good people, she was safe.

I didn't really question it.

She was
out of the bad situation

so, in my mind, she was good.

And she told me she was
going to come over for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was really
important to our family,

'cause it's the only time
we actually sit down around the table

and gather around
and pray over the food.

[Juanita] I was excited.

I'm not going to lie,
been months since I'd got to see my sister,

so I was excited.

[line ringing]

The family are ready to eat
Thanksgiving dinner.

Dinner comes and goes
but there's no Mandy.

[Juanita] Nobody could
get a hold of her.

Nobody knew exactly
where she was.

I was the last one to know
where she was

and she was supposed to be
at that friend's house.

As the minutes
turned to hours, the hours turned to days,

I could imagine
a whole host of thoughts,

you know, running through
their head about where Mandy might be.

"Maybe she's in the hospital,"

uh, "Maybe she's just out
having a good time."

You know, "Maybe Mandy
has gone to see somebody else for Thanksgiving,

and maybe
she'll turn back up."

Couldn't believe
what happened next.

[Juanita] Mandy had told me
she was at a friend's house and she was safe.

But then, we was having
no luck getting a hold of her.

I tried contacting her phone,

her Facebook, her Messenger,
and she just would not answer.

I didn't even know
where to start to go to look.

I'd went out and I had
printed off some photos to give the State Police.

The uncertainty of it all

was a very terrifying moment
for that family,

just not knowing.

Despite the family's concern
over Mandy being gone for over two to three weeks,

on December 17th,
there's a post on her Facebook account.

[reading] "I needed
to get away from the drama

and dry myself out.

I will contact the ones

and my family
after the first of the year."

I knew reading that that day
that that wasn't Mandy.

"I love you,
please understand,

I'm going through
hard times right now

but I will contact you
after the first. Love you. Later."

That's words of an alcoholic.

Mandy wasn't an alcoholic

and didn't have to
dry herself out.

Everything in this
is spelled exactly as it should be

down to every last apostrophe
and everything,

and Mandy always
spelled things very weird.

Her spelling was never correct
and everything in this was right.

And so, reading this
when it came out,

everybody knew
something was wrong.

Everybody knew
that wasn't Mandy.

[Denise] Homer then
contacted Paul

asking where Mandy was,

what was going on.

Homer asked him
if he was the one that posted that letter.

Paul wouldn't speak back.

Then he said he was
trying to find his sister, after a while.

Paul says, "I ain't heard
from her in weeks either."

That's when they got mad
and called the cops.

[line ringing]

[dispatcher Thompson speaking]

[Homer speaking]

[dispatcher Thompson speaking]

[Homer speaking]

[dispatcher Thompson speaking]

[dispatcher Thompson speaking]

[Homer speaking]

[dispatcher Thompson speaking]

[Homer speaking]

Homer was really
annoyed at Paul.

He just wanted to know
where Mandy was.

But she ain't spoke to nobody
in over three weeks.

[Tussey] We know from
the evidence so far

that Mandy has been
controlled by Paul.

And the family's
probably thinking,

"Maybe it's just
their relationship."

It's very possible that Paul
has Mandy trapped inside the house.

[Runyon]
When the trooper arrives

to Mandy and Paul's residence.

He goes up onto the porch,

the blinds are drawn,
he can't see inside the residence.

He hears a series of what he
describes as thumps.

[thumping]

It sounded like someone
was moving around in the home,

but nobody ever
came to the door.

[inaudible]

[Runyon] So that trooper
immediately radios for backup.

Paul, is, in fact
inside the residence,

and is not coming
out of the residence.

The Kentucky State Police
show up very quickly,

it has escalated into
a, "Barricaded subject,

who's refusing to come out
and respond to law enforcement commands,"

and who's known to own
a .22 caliber handgun.

They were concerned
that Mandy was being held inside the residence.

As the Kentucky State Police

are trying to get Paul Lemay
to cooperate with their commands,

they're looking for folks,
neighbors, who might have any means to contact Paul.

One of the neighbors
happens to have Paul Lemay on Facebook Messenger.

[cellphone vibrating]

[Runyon] And Paul responds.

Paul's still refusing
to come out of the residence.

But as the time goes on,

Paul wants a cigarette.

The Kentucky State Police
tell Paul,

"You got to come to us."

Paul is very reluctant
to do this.

So the neighbor, Pat,

volunteers to take
the cigarette to Paul who's standing on the porch.

At this time, when Paul
comes out of the residence,

Paul Lemay is dressed
in nothing but sweatpants and no shirt.

December 17 in Kentucky,
it's very cold,

so the next door
neighbor, Pat,

also offers his sweatshirt.

As soon as Paul Lemay
gets that sweatshirt,

he is rushed by two troopers
who were lying in wait.

And that's how
the Kentucky State Police,

eventually, got Paul
into custody.

The State Police begin a sweep
of the Lemay residence

to look for Mandy.

At that point,
they had no idea

whether she was dead

or alive.

When the troopers walked
into the Lemay residence

they were met
by the smell of death.

They could smell
decomposition in the air.

When they get into this
back bedroom,

they can make out
a pile of blankets.

And sticking out from
the bottom of that blanket

is what is obviously
a human foot.

They pull the sheets back,

and there they find
the deceased body of Mandy Lemay.

She had a single gunshot wound
to the back of her head.

What's clear, at this point,

she had been there
for quite some time.

[Denise] I got a call
from Daddy.

He said, "She's gone.

She won't be coming back."

I fell to the floor.

My whole body was paralyzed
for three days after that.

I never knew
she went back there

to even think
that could've happened.

[inhales deeply]

I'm done.

That's as far as I want to go.

[news reporter] A family
in Johnson County

is wishing they would've
seen the signs

after police say,
their family member, Mandy Lemay,

was shot and killed
by her husband.

Paul Lemay's statement
to Kentucky State Police

during his recorded interview

tells us that Paul
was obviously in a very troubled place.

[Paul crying]

My guess is that Paul did it
so that nobody else could have her.

And she can't leave him.

[Paul speaking]

[Tussey] Paul, clearly,
identifies as the victim.

Individuals who

fail to take responsibility
for their actions

are some of
the same individuals

who are callous
and lack empathy and remorse.

She would've been alive now
if she hadn't went back.

But Mandy couldn't
make up her mind whether she loved him or not.

[Paul speaking]

[police officer speaking]

[Runyon] We learn
through the course of the investigation,

Mandy had left
the marital residence

and hadn't returned
for quite some time.

But, eventually,
Mandy Lemay returns home.

[Paul speaking]

[Runyon] She tells Paul
that she's lost her telephone,

she doesn't have one
and she needs a mean of communications.

She wants to be able
to reach out to her family

and set up this plan
to go spend Thanksgiving with her family,

to have dinner with them.

[Paul speaking]

We know that Paul Lemay
is in the house at that time,

and he's likely hearing these
conversations take place.

He understands that
in a few more days,

when Thanksgiving
rolls around,

Mandy is going to be
back out the door again spending time with her family.

And, eventually, an argument
between the two ensues.

[Tussey] At this point,
Paul knows that he's lost Mandy.

He's lost control
of the one person in his life, the source of his ego.

And now he can see
that the dark impulses are going to seep back in.

It's almost like
a volcano erupting, this is the last straw.

[Paul speaking]

[Runyon] The evidence,
in this case,

shows that Paul Lemay
went to his bedroom.

[police officer speaking]

[Paul speaking]

[Runyon] He took that revolver
into the living room.

He put that gun to the back
of Mandy Lemay's head,

and he pulled that trigger.

[gunshot]

Well, from what I was told,

he shot her
in the back bedroom and dragged her to their bed,

and he slept next to her
those several weeks that she was laying there.

[Tussey] In the very end,
after she died,

Paul still didn't
want to let her go.

This is indicative of
yet another final opportunity for him to control her.

[Denise] I reckon Paul was
trying to preserve the body

because he literally slept
in a freezing house.

Next to her.

We all had the funeral.

It was hard for me
to walk through the funeral doors.

And walked in and when I seen
the casket, it was closed.

I didn't get
to tell her goodbye.

[Juanita] I could've
got Mandy out.

Mandy could've been safe,
Mandy could've been here with us now.

[Denise] It would've been nice
if Mandy could've met my children more.

I could've explained
to them better how good a person she was,

how good of an aunt
she would've been,

how much
they would've been spoiled.

It hurts me every day
that she can't be here with us today.

Paul was evaluated
by two psychiatrists,

both of whom cleared him
as competent to stand trial.

[Paul speaking]

[judge speaking]

Paul Lemay didn't
actually go to trial.

He pleaded guilty
to one count of murder

and one count of abuse
of a corpse.

It's still very frustrating
that he didn't explain everything in court,

why he did do it.

And so he thought he didn't
have to give his explanation.

He didn't have to tell why.

That's what makes me
lose sleep at night

because I'll never know why.

I'll never know
why it happened.

I'll never know.

[sobs]

[Tussey] There's likely
several reasons why Paul ended up murdering Mandy.

Paul wanted control
from the very beginning

and he had it
until the very end.

She was an amazing person.

[Juanita] Mandy would
want to be remembered as the funny, goofy,

outgoing, people-friendly
person that she was.

I like to think I'm going
to see her again. [chuckles]

That's what keeps me
going every day.

We'll see our
loved ones again.