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   [Narrator] In 2018,          
 Snapped: Killer Couples        

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told the story of Rebecca Keller
 and Keri Murphy,               

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  a young couple                
  consumed by obsession.        

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The obsession with being in love
with each other drove them to do

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    one of the darkest things   
 that I can ever imagine.       

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   [Juan] There was a total of  
    74 stab wounds inflicted.   

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 It was a vicious, brutal crime.

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  [Narrator] Currently serving  
    a 60-year sentence          

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    in the Texas Department of  
   Corrections,                 

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 Rebecca Keller opens up        
  about her relationship        

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 with Keri Murphy               

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  and the night                 
  that changed her life forever.

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   I may have made a mistake,   
   but I'm where I need to be.  

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  But this would                
   never have happened          

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 if she had never mentioned it. 

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   I was hoping she would have  
second thoughts about it,       

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 but she didn't.                

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   All I could just do          
    was hit my knees and cry.   

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  I let her control me          
   and manipulate me.           

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   [Nefretiri]                  
  She can't fully accept        

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 that she played                
 an equal part in this.         

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   That jail call was           
as good as a confession.        

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 I just wish that I was         
   strong enough to walk away.  

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 I wish I could take that back. 

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  She was trying to say         
   that it was my idea,         

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but as long as the truth is out,
that's all that matters.        

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[Rebecca]                       
    My name is Rebecca Keller,  

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 and I decided to do this       
   to get my story out,         

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to be able to help other women. 

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   In a split second,           
  your life can change.         
   And you can't take           
 anything back.                 

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  And it's a lot of the regret  
   that I have                  

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from that night,                
   from that mistake.           

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    I can't change it.          
 I can't make it better.        

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 I can't fix it.                

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  All I can do                  
 is keep moving forward         

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  and know that                 
 in the back of my mind,        

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   in the bottom of my heart,   
  I am sincerely sorry.         

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 [Juan] I think they were living
   in a fantasy world.          

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  and get away with itthey were 
goand live happily ever after.  
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[Narrator] July 16, 2012.       

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    At 1:07 a.m., 911 dispatch  
 receives a frantic call        

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  from 16-year-old Keri Murphy. 

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 [Craig]                        
    She told the 911 operator   

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 that someone had kicked        
in the back door,               

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 and that she then heard        
  her mother screaming,         

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 and that she ran               
    out of the house.           

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 She had fled the scene         
to the neighbor's house.        

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   So the dispatch and          
   first responders treated it  

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   as an active                 
  break-in at that time.        

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Whewho was identifiedne,        
 as Keri Murphy. with a female  
She told us that it was someone 
  in the home attacking her mom.

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 Upon getting to                
    the backside of the house,  

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  I noticed there were          
two windows of the house        

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that were broken,               
 and the door was open.         

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   I made entry into the home   
  and cleared all of the rooms, 

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  and at that time came         
  to the bedroom                

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   where Keri's                 
    mother was laying.          

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   I just saw                   
there was a lot of blood,       

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    and the victim was laying   
  crossways on the bed.         

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   I couldn't tell at that time 
 what the injuries were.        

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    I checked to see if maybe   
   she was still alive.         

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 I did not feel a pulse.        

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   [Narrator]                   
When paramedics arrive on scene,

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    they confirm their victim,  
   47-year-old Mary Ann Murphy, 

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  has succumbed to her injuries.

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   [Juan] There was a total of  
  74 stab wounds                

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 inflicted to her               
   whole body.                  

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   Uh, blood all over.          

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It was a vicious,               
  brutal crime.                 

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 [Narrator] Investigators arrive

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    and begin                   
   processing the crime scene.  

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  [Juan] Everything that I saw  
    suggested                   

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   that she was asleep          
  when she was attacked.        

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    I could right away          
   rule a robbery out,          

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    because there was nothing   
   that appeared to be missing. 

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  Also, an intruder is not gonna
  stay there long enough        

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 to inflict more                
  than 70 stab wounds.          

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So that in itself told me       
that she was the target of this.

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   The sole motive was          
 to go in there,                

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   kill her, and leave.         

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  It had to be somebody         
   that was mad at her          

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  and wanted her                
    out of their life.          

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This was someone                
  that knew the victim.         

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   [Narrator]                   
  Mary Ann Allen                

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   was born and raised          
    in Houston, Texas.          

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[Wesley]                        
   Me and Mary Ann were raised  

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  on the north side of Houston. 

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We both attended                
  MacArthur Senior High School. 

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  I graduated in 1981,          

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 and Mary Ann graduated in 1983.

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When she graduated high school, 

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   she went to work for         
the Department of Public Safety,

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   and that was her whole life. 

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   She loved her job.           

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 I guess because                
 people would call her,         

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  and they always needed help,  
 and she was there to help them.

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   She was just a good person.  

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  [Narrator] In the mid-1980s,  
    Mary Ann's brother          

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    introduced her to           
 his friend, Don Murphy.        

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 They started going out,        

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 and eventually ended up        
getting married.                

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   They decided that they were  
   gonna start having babies,   

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  and that's when she found out 
   she was pregnant with Scott. 

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   [Narrator] Six years later,  
 Mary Ann and Don               

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welcomed a baby girl named Keri.

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  [Trisha] Mary Ann was         
   a very good mother.          

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  She was a very loving mother. 

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She loved her kids dearly       
 and would do anything for them.

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   It was, in my eyes,          
 the--you know,                 

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   the typical                  
American dream childhood.       

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   They embarrassed me,         
  to be honest with you,        

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 'cause they were               
   the husband and wife         

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  that would hold hands         
  and, you know, hug each other.

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 [Denise] We always said        
  that it was the perfect four. 

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    It was the perfect family,  
    you know?                   

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 Scott was good with his sister.

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[Scott] Keri knew that she could
    talk to me about anything.  

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  She and I had                 
    a very open relationship.   

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   She was very driven          
 with extracurriculars.         

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   She wanted to play sports.   
 She wanted to be in the choir. 

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 [Amber]                        
    We were in choir together.  

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 She was shy when               
    you first met her,          

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Um, liked to play around,d up,  
  liked to joke around.         
  Um, have a good time.         
   That kind of thing.          

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   Rebecca Keller was,          
  at the time, in choir.        

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  And Keri just kind of         
  fell head over heels for her. 

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    The friend group accepted   

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   Rebecca and Keri's           
  relationship.                 

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   [Narrator] In 2012,          

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  with her two children         
   doing well,                  

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  Mary Ann was ready for        
  the next chapter in her life. 

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   [Scott] She was knocking on  
 her 30-year retirement.        

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    She was very, very          
    proud of her kids.          

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 We couldn't do                 
 any wrong in her eyes.         

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    She wanted to just          
  make sure that we were happy. 

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   I wish I could rewind time   
and this never happened.        

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  I worked the graveyard shift. 

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July 16, 2012, 1:04 a.m.,       

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   I get a phone call           
 from my sister's phone.        

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    She says, "Scott,           
  someone broke into the house. 

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 My mom's dead."                

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   I dropped everything         
    I had in my hands,          

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 and I started to panic.        

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    I called my father          
 to let him know                

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   that he needed to come home, 

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 so he started heading this way.

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   [Narrator]                   
   At the crime scene,          

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    investigators take          
    Mary Ann's daughter, Keri,  

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  aside for questioning.        

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[Craig] Keri told me that       

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   she had been up in           
  the dining room scrapbooking, 

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   got tired, and went to bed,  

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    and wasn't in her bedroom   
    very long                   

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    before she heard a crash.   

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  She said that someone         
  had kicked in the back door,  

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 and that she then heard        
  her mother screaming.         

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    She ran out and called 911  
 from across the street.        

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 She stayed with some witnesses 
  who let her use their phone.  

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   She stayed with them         
    until the police arrived,   

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  which was only                
    a couple of minutes later.  

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  The detectives had me         
   place Keri in the backseat   

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  of my patrol vehicle.         

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  She didn't ask                
   if her mom was okay.         

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 And that to me                 
   kind of sent up red flags.   

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 She didn't seem to have        
 the emotion of someone         

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 whose mom was attacked.        

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 She wasn't hysterical.         
   She wasn't crying.           

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  She didn't appear to          
really be upset.                

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She was more calm than anything.

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 I didn't know for sure         
  what had taken place,         

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but I had a feeling that,       
  in some way,                  

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  Keri was connected to         
what had happened at the scene. 

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you don't really                
  Wthink about things.ou just,  
  You just act on them,         
 but later on, you regret them. 

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   It's the last night          
  of her mother's life.         

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 I remember Keri telling        
 me that she was scared.        

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   We both were really scared   
 to carry on with this.         

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  [Narrator] Coming up,         
  the investigation takes a turn

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    with a shocking admission.  

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   To have someone confess to   
a murder that they didn't commit

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 is manipulation at its finest. 

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[Narrator] And horrifying       
    new details of the murder   

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  come to light.                

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[Keri] She was screaming,       
   telling me to stop.          

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 But I couldn't.                

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  [theme music]                 
   [Narrator] In July of 2012,  

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    the Harris County           
 Sheriff's Office               

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 is investigating               
    the stabbing death          

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    of Mary Ann Murphy          

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  after her 16-year-old         
 daughter, Keri,                

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   called 911 to report         
    a break-in at their home.   

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    While deputies escort Keri  
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authorities continue processing 
 the crime scene                

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   and discover several         
    concerning clues.           

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 [Fred] In the bedroom,         

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 we noticed that                
  tand starting to coagulate,ry 
  which would indicate          
   that she had been deceased   

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   for a longer period          
  than the time that was stated.

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   I noticed that there wasn't  
  any damage to the back door,  

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    and there were two windows  

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  just to the left side         
 of the back door               

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    that were broken.           

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 When you break                 
a window from the inside,       

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 the glass falls to the outside.

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   And when you break           
   a window from the outside,   

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 the glass falls inside.        

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  And I noticed that one window 
had been broken from the inside,

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and the second window had       
  been broken from the outside. 

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 So from my observation         
and looking at the scene,       

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it appeared that someone        
 had staged a break-in.         

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  From the call                 
  and what was stated from Keri 

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about a break-in,               

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    it would appear that Keri   
    wasn't telling the truth.   

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 [Narrator] Realizing he'd been 
    to the Murphy home before,  

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    Officer Fred Hooper offers  
  investigators                 

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    the name of Keri Murphy's   
   girlfriend, Rebecca Keller.  

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  [Fred] Months before,         
  I was dispatched to the home, 

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    and I spoke with Mary Ann,  

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 and Keri was on scene,         
   as well as Rebecca.          

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And Mary Ann told me that       
  she didn't want Keri          

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  involved with Rebecca.        

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 She was very upset that        

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   she's asked Rebecca          
  several times                 

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not to come to her home,        

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    and she insists on coming   
 anyway.                        

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So at that point in time,       
   I arrested Rebecca           

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   and transported her          

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 and charged her                
with trespassing.               

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  And being that                
  I had arrested Rebecca        

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  at that scene                 
 prior to the incident,         

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  I, um, gave her name          
to the detectives               

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   when they arrived on scene   

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   as possibly                  
  a person of interest.         

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   [Narrator]                   
 An investigator travels        

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    to Rebecca Keller's house   

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    to speak with her           
   later that morning.          

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   [Rebecca] The investigator   
    came to my house,           

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    and we had sat in his car,  
  and I did a statement.        

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GrSo, you know,as               
Mom and Dad, always busy. kids. 
   I was into a lot of          

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 extracurricular                
  activities growing up.        

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    You know, I was in choir.   

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 I had, you know,               
    a lot of friends.           

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 [Narrator] Rebecca says        
    she befriended Keri Murphy  

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 about two years earlier.       

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 [Keri]                         
 We were in high school.        

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 I was a senior.                
   She was a freshman.          

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 We met in choir.               

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   Keri, her heart, her spirit  

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    drew me to become           
    friends with her.           

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We may have been different ages,

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   but it was a lot more easier 
  to lean on somebody like her. 

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We were actually out at the mall

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   with my best friend          
  and her best friend.          

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  You know, we all had,         

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 like, a little                 
  friend date for my birthday.  

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  So I think that's when        
   the feelings for one another 

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  transpired to pursuing        
 a relationship.                

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She was the first one that I was
in a relationship with a woman. 

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 Me and Keri, we decided        

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 to come out and                
put it out there.               

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    One day in choir,           

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   being young, you were like,  

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  you think that                
 everything is important.       

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    Everything, like,           
   revolves around this person. 

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   We were very much in love.   

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   [Narrator]                   
    Mary Ann Murphy, however,   

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    was not so keen on          
   the budding romance          

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 between                        
    her daughter and Rebecca.   

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  [Scott] She didn't agree with 
    the age difference          

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    between Keri and Rebecca.   

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 She voiced that opinion        
  very often and very bluntly.  

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[Denise]                        
  It wasn't about the fact that 

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her daughter was                
  seeing another girl.          

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  It was the fact that          
  I think Mary Ann knew         

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  that Rebecca was not          
   the best influence.          

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  [Rebecca] Keri would sneak me 
   in her room at night         

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while her mom was asleep        
  and her dad would be at work. 

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 And I guess we had fell asleep.

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Her mom had heard a noise       
  or something                  

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   and caught me in the room.   

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 The second time                
    that she caught me          

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    was when both me and Keri   
    were in the shower, naked.  

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   That's when her mom          
 called the cops.               

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They arrested me,               
took me to jail.                

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   There was.                   

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  There was a lot of challenges.

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 She lied a lot.                

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  Just small, simple things like
who she got a text message from,

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  who she was on the phone with,

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   who she was meeting up with. 

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   After she had lied           
  to me so many times,          

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   I started pushing her away.  

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 [Narrator] After learning more 
    about the couple,           

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    investigators ask Rebecca   
   when she last spoke to Keri. 

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She's acting like               
   she's forthcoming.           

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 That, "Yeah, you know,         
  we liked each other.          

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   "We tried to have a          
  relationship,                 

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"but it didn't work out.        

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  "And that's been about        
 a month and a half ago.        

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 I haven't talked to her        
   since then."                 

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  [Narrator] When investigators 
 question Rebecca               

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about Mary Ann Murphy's murder, 

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    the 20-year-old is adamant  
  she had nothing to do with it.

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I said I was over               
   at a friend's house          

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  when all this was occurring.  

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  So he took down my statement. 

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He left.                        

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   [Narrator]                   
  While authorities work        

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    to verify Rebecca's alibi,  

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    investigators turn          
  to Keri Murphy                

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 and the inconsistencies        
    in her initial statement.   

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 [Craig]                        
   The timeline doesn't match.  

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  There was some                
   dried blood on her,          

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   which signaled time passage. 

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We know how long it took        
  for the deputies to get there 

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  and go inside                 
  and find your mother.         

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   That would have been         
  within minutes                

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  after you said                
  you heard your mother scream. 

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   [Narrator] With permission   
 from Keri's father, Don,       

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  investigators sit down        
   with the 16-year-old         

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 for a formal interview.        

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[Greg] When she's pressed       
  by detectives                 

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for details about               
  the timing of events,         

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  the fact that                 
   there was no forced entry,   

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 she then begins                
  to switch her story.          

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there is somebody               
 sby the name of Zein."         
   That was the very first time 
 we heard the name Zein.        

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    We wanted to talk to him.   

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  [theme music]                 

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  [theme music]                 
   [Narrator]                   
 16-year-old Keri Murphy        

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   has just implicated a person 
    named Zein                  

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  in the murder                 
 of her mother, Mary Ann.       

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   [Juan] Zein was a friend of  
    Keri from school.           

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One of the things               
  that Zein had a crush on her. 
  She wasn't interested in him. 

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 [Amber]                        
    He was kind of a shy guy.   

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 Wore, you know,                
big baggy pants, chains,        
  more of like                  
  the gothic emo type.          

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 But he was very quiet.         

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[Rebecca]                       
   I grew up with Zein.         

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  but, I mean,                  
  he was a good person.rd kid,  
  [Narrator] According to Keri, 

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   two days before the murder,  

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  she asked Zein                
   if he could help her         

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  after she was                 
   caught sneaking out.         

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  One night, Keri's mom         
  caught Keri outside.          

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[Greg] Keri Murphy's lie        
 at that time is,               

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"I heard a strange sound.       

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  "There was a strange          
suspect around the house.       

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"So I was really                
 just out of the house,         

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    looking for this suspect."  

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[Narrator] Mary Ann knew        
  her daughter was lying        

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    and grounded her.           

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    But Keri had come up with   
 an idea                        

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  to get out of                 
    being in trouble.           

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Keri says she wanted Zein       
  to come and knock on the wall 

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    of her bedroom and run off  
   so that the mom would think, 

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  hey, there is somebody        
   suspicious outside.          

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  So maybe Keri                 
was telling me the truth        

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 about why she went out         

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   and she won't be punished.   

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   [Narrator]                   
   But Keri tells investigators 

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  that when Zein                
  showed up that night,         

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00:19:43,782 --> 00:19:46,952
  he barged into                
 the house with a knife.        

366
00:19:47,052 --> 00:19:48,587
   She's admitting to, "Yeah,   

367
00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:51,123
  "I knew this guy was going to 
   come over my house,          

368
00:19:51,223 --> 00:19:53,592
   "but I didn't know           
   he was gonna murder my mom.  

369
00:19:53,692 --> 00:19:55,961
   And I lied about it because  
   I knew he was coming over."  

370
00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:03,669
   [Narrator]                   
  While Keri remains in custody,

371
00:20:03,769 --> 00:20:07,973
 investigators bring Zein       
to the station for questioning. 

372
00:20:08,073 --> 00:20:11,176
   He said that he didn't know  
  what Keri was talking about.  

373
00:20:11,276 --> 00:20:12,578
  Then he was asked if he would 

374
00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:15,447
    take a polygraph,           
   which he agreed to.          

375
00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,650
 [Narrator] A polygraph examiner
    takes Zein                  

376
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:21,787
   into another room to         
   administer the test,         

377
00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:25,824
  which elicits                 
    an unexpected revelation.   

378
00:20:25,924 --> 00:20:28,994
  Zein ended up                 
 admitting to stabbing,         

379
00:20:29,094 --> 00:20:31,129
   killing Ms. Murphy.          

380
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,731
 [Craig]                        
   He said it was an accident.  

381
00:20:32,831 --> 00:20:35,000
   He just got scared.          

382
00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:37,569
He said,                        
  "She woke up and startled me, 

383
00:20:37,669 --> 00:20:40,372
  and I just panicked,          
   and I stabbed her."          

384
00:20:40,472 --> 00:20:42,975
I'm like, "Wow, you know,       
this is a new one on me."       

385
00:20:43,075 --> 00:20:46,979
   You know, sometimes          
  you call them wrong.          

386
00:20:49,281 --> 00:20:52,017
   [Narrator] As investigators  
    continue talking to Zein,   

387
00:20:52,117 --> 00:20:55,721
  his confession                
  begins to fall apart.         

388
00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:58,824
 [Juan] Zein said he had went up
   to the second floor          

389
00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:01,326
 and that he had stabbed        
   Ms. Murphy                   

390
00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:03,395
like three or four times,       

391
00:21:03,495 --> 00:21:06,565
  which that in itself          
   didn't match the evidence.   

392
00:21:06,665 --> 00:21:09,001
 That, for one, the house       
 that Ms. Murphy lived in       

393
00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:11,503
   was a one-story residence.   

394
00:21:11,603 --> 00:21:12,938
   There was no second floor.   

395
00:21:13,038 --> 00:21:15,540
And two, she was                
 stabbed over 70 times.         

396
00:21:16,642 --> 00:21:19,278
 [Narrator] On top of the errors
 in Zein's story,               

397
00:21:19,378 --> 00:21:20,812
 his parents are adamant        

398
00:21:20,912 --> 00:21:23,849
   that he was at home          
   on the night of the murder.  

399
00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:26,551
   And they have proof.         

400
00:21:26,652 --> 00:21:29,921
   He was playing video games,  
 and there was actually pictures

401
00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:33,525
   of him playing with          
  time and date stamped on it.  

402
00:21:39,331 --> 00:21:41,700
   [Narrator]                   
When asked why he had confessed,

403
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,435
 Zein offers more insight       

404
00:21:43,535 --> 00:21:46,872
  into his relationship         
    with Keri Murphy.           

405
00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:53,979
   It appeared that Zein would  
  dHe was infatuated with her,  
and she used that               
to her advantage.               

406
00:21:54,079 --> 00:21:56,148
    So that begs the question,  

407
00:21:56,248 --> 00:21:59,017
 what exactly is                
 she trying to cover up?        

408
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:10,962
   To have someone confess to   
ais manipulation at its finest.t
   Zein was in                  
   his whole punk rock stage,   

409
00:22:11,063 --> 00:22:13,999
 black clothes,                 
black nails, heavy metal.       

410
00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:18,303
 So it was easy for Keri        
   to point the finger to him.  

411
00:22:18,403 --> 00:22:22,674
   He says he gave a statement  
   to Sergeant Clopton          

412
00:22:22,774 --> 00:22:26,111
 because he thought he would be 
 released and he could go home. 

413
00:22:26,211 --> 00:22:30,182
 This is a suspect who is       
not of an average intelligence. 

414
00:22:30,282 --> 00:22:32,617
So he was a little bit...       

415
00:22:32,718 --> 00:22:35,320
  intimidated by                
    the whole process.          

416
00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:36,655
  With all of that information, 

417
00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:38,824
  we decided to                 
   dismiss his charges.         

418
00:22:38,924 --> 00:22:40,926
  Then we began                 
our investigation further       

419
00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:43,862
into who actually               
  committed the murder.         

420
00:22:47,933 --> 00:22:49,368
   [Narrator]                   
    With suspicion escalating   

421
00:22:49,468 --> 00:22:51,870
  around                        
    Keri Murphy's involvement,  

422
00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:56,675
   investigators sit down with  
   her brother for questioning. 

423
00:22:56,775 --> 00:22:59,211
Keri had a close                
 relationship with her brother, 

424
00:22:59,311 --> 00:23:00,645
   and so the best route was to 

425
00:23:00,746 --> 00:23:03,348
    have conversations          
 with her family.               

426
00:23:03,448 --> 00:23:07,853
 This is where the investigation
 really started to shine a light

427
00:23:07,953 --> 00:23:11,390
 on how dark Keri's relationship
   with her mother had become   

428
00:23:11,490 --> 00:23:13,725
  after Keri and                
 Rebecca Keller developed       

429
00:23:13,825 --> 00:23:17,095
   a very intense bond.         

430
00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:18,797
  [Scott] Mom could see         
    the obsessions beginning,   

431
00:23:18,897 --> 00:23:21,900
   and she didn't feel          
   that it needed to continue.  

432
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,405
   She drew the line,           
  and it was, "No more.         

433
00:23:26,505 --> 00:23:29,074
   You are not allowed          
  to see her anymore."          

434
00:23:30,809 --> 00:23:34,679
Her mom was just                
 very controlling over her life,

435
00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:35,914
 over what she could do,        

436
00:23:36,014 --> 00:23:38,216
   what she could eat,          
   whatever, anything.          

437
00:23:38,316 --> 00:23:39,818
  She was controlling.          

438
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,423
 [Trisha] Keri would lie        
    to Mary Ann a lot.          

439
00:23:44,523 --> 00:23:47,726
Once Mary Ann would go to sleep,
she would go in and steal       

440
00:23:47,826 --> 00:23:50,629
 Mary Ann's keys                
   and take off with her car.   

441
00:23:53,365 --> 00:23:54,866
   [Craig] Mary Ann was gonna   
  to punish her,                

442
00:23:54,966 --> 00:23:56,735
 took her phone from her.       

443
00:23:56,835 --> 00:23:59,771
  Rebecca gave Keri a cell phone

444
00:23:59,871 --> 00:24:01,907
   so that they could           
   still communicate,           

445
00:24:02,007 --> 00:24:05,110
and the mom wouldn't know       
  that she was talking to her.  

446
00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:08,814
   And he said they called it   
the bunny phone.                

447
00:24:08,914 --> 00:24:10,916
  I asked Scott, "Okay,         
    do you know that number?"   

448
00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:12,250
   And he said, "Yeah."         

449
00:24:12,350 --> 00:24:14,453
 So he gives me                 
   that phone number.           

450
00:24:14,553 --> 00:24:16,555
    I'm going to order          
    the phone records.          

451
00:24:16,655 --> 00:24:17,923
[Narrator] On August 6th,       

452
00:24:18,023 --> 00:24:20,225
  investigators                 
    received the phone records  

453
00:24:20,325 --> 00:24:22,794
 for Keri's bunny phone.        

454
00:24:22,894 --> 00:24:24,763
 [Juan] The information         
  we were able to obtain        

455
00:24:24,863 --> 00:24:26,698
    was that Keri and Rebecca   

456
00:24:26,798 --> 00:24:28,366
   had been in                  
  constant communication        

457
00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:30,135
leading up to the murder.       

458
00:24:31,169 --> 00:24:32,404
[Rebecca]                       
 When Keri got arrested,        

459
00:24:32,504 --> 00:24:34,473
    it was very scary.          

460
00:24:34,573 --> 00:24:35,974
   Knowing in the back          
  of my mind was like,          

461
00:24:36,074 --> 00:24:37,075
"Okay, I'm next"                

462
00:24:37,175 --> 00:24:38,577
or "They're gonna               
   come get me next."           

463
00:24:38,677 --> 00:24:41,413
   I felt like                  
a little kid in a corner.       

464
00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:46,051
Felt like I was being surrounded
 by everything closing in on me.

465
00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:50,255
  [theme music]                 

466
00:24:58,063 --> 00:25:01,833
 [theme music]                  
  [Narrator] Investigators have 
arrested 16-year-old Keri Murphy

467
00:25:01,933 --> 00:25:05,003
  for the murder                
 of her mother, Mary Ann.       

468
00:25:05,103 --> 00:25:06,605
 Six weeks into the case,       

469
00:25:06,705 --> 00:25:10,075
  investigators set their sights
  on Keri's girlfriend,         

470
00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:11,943
 Rebecca Keller.                

471
00:25:17,249 --> 00:25:19,484
 The investigators came         
and gouh, took me downtown,     
put me in                       
 the interrogation room.        

472
00:25:20,418 --> 00:25:22,187
[Craig] So, then I start        
   telling her, "Okay.          

473
00:25:22,287 --> 00:25:24,456
 Well, I know that y'all        
   were talking to each other." 

474
00:25:24,556 --> 00:25:29,027
 She says, "Okay, okay.         
I went over there because       

475
00:25:29,127 --> 00:25:32,864
 Keri called me and said        
she had killed her mom."        

476
00:25:34,966 --> 00:25:37,035
  Rebecca said,                 
  "So I went over there         

477
00:25:37,135 --> 00:25:39,271
   "just to help her cover up.  

478
00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:43,808
When I get there, Keri's        
 got blood all on her clothes." 

479
00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:45,544
    She tells Keri, you know,   

480
00:25:45,644 --> 00:25:49,314
   "Hey, you ought to make it   
 look like a burglary."         

481
00:25:49,414 --> 00:25:52,918
And Keri comes up with the idea,
 "Hey, I can blame it on Zein." 

482
00:25:58,323 --> 00:26:00,559
[Narrator] Rebecca admits       
 that she convinced Keri        

483
00:26:00,659 --> 00:26:02,894
    to stage the scene instead  

484
00:26:02,994 --> 00:26:06,331
  before fleeing                
 so Keri could call 911.        

485
00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:09,834
 [Rebecca] The plan was         
to make it look like a break-in.

486
00:26:09,935 --> 00:26:14,639
I decided to hide               
   the bloody clothes,          

487
00:26:14,739 --> 00:26:16,141
the knives, and all that.       

488
00:26:17,309 --> 00:26:19,377
I hid them in a dumpster        

489
00:26:19,477 --> 00:26:21,846
that was down the street,       
   where a school was.          

490
00:26:21,947 --> 00:26:24,149
  The next day,                 
    I went over there           

491
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:26,051
   and got the clothes,         
   took them somewhere,         

492
00:26:26,151 --> 00:26:27,986
 and burned them.               

493
00:26:28,086 --> 00:26:31,189
   Basically I was owning up to 
   getting rid of the evidence. 

494
00:26:31,289 --> 00:26:34,192
 Not really owning up to        

495
00:26:34,292 --> 00:26:38,029
  carrying out the act          
of taking a life.               

496
00:26:39,364 --> 00:26:41,166
 I just told them               
  somewhat of the truth         

497
00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:42,867
  and somewhat of a lie.        

498
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,209
  [Narrator] While both         
  young women remain in custody,

499
00:26:51,309 --> 00:26:55,513
  investigators continue        
  sifting through the evidence. 

500
00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:58,116
  The search history on         
 Keri's cell phone seems        

501
00:26:58,216 --> 00:27:03,088
 to corroborate at least        
   part of Rebecca's statement. 

502
00:27:03,188 --> 00:27:04,623
   [Craig] Keri was Googling,   

503
00:27:04,723 --> 00:27:06,424
   "What's the quickest         
  way to kill somebody?"        

504
00:27:06,524 --> 00:27:10,395
 She used sleeping pills        
   and just different methods.  

505
00:27:10,495 --> 00:27:12,631
[Narrator] But the phone records
   also suggest                 

506
00:27:12,731 --> 00:27:15,900
   that Rebecca Keller          
    was more of a collaborator  

507
00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:18,403
   than an innocent bystander.  

508
00:27:18,503 --> 00:27:23,308
   Well, those Google searches  
  were at the same time         

509
00:27:23,408 --> 00:27:28,046
 that she's talking on the phone
  with Rebecca.                 

510
00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:31,082
 So I know that they are        
 scheming this together.        

511
00:27:31,182 --> 00:27:32,317
 [Anna]                         
   It was clear that they were  

512
00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:34,419
  both involved in the planning.

513
00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:36,421
   They wanted to be together.  

514
00:27:36,521 --> 00:27:38,056
 And Mary Ann stood in the way. 

515
00:27:40,959 --> 00:27:43,962
  I was older.                  
   I was 20 years old.          

516
00:27:44,062 --> 00:27:46,998
  Keri was 16.                  

517
00:27:47,098 --> 00:27:49,501
 They seen me as                
   the person manipulating her, 

518
00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:51,736
    and really it was           
  the other way around.         

519
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,471
 She was manipulating me.       

520
00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:54,606
 She was the one                
  that basically called         

521
00:27:54,706 --> 00:27:56,908
  all the shots on everything.  

522
00:28:01,713 --> 00:28:03,648
[Narrator] While the young women
   await trial,                 

523
00:28:03,748 --> 00:28:06,584
  Keri's family posts her bail. 

524
00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:10,155
 Rebecca Keller, however,       
 remains in jail.               

525
00:28:10,255 --> 00:28:12,857
   But as both                  
 their trial dates near,        

526
00:28:12,957 --> 00:28:16,494
investigators still aren't sure 
  who wielded the knife         

527
00:28:16,594 --> 00:28:19,664
   that took Mary Ann Murphy's  
 life...                        

528
00:28:19,764 --> 00:28:23,034
    until a series of           
  jailhouse phone calls         

529
00:28:23,134 --> 00:28:26,104
   exposes the gruesome truth.  

530
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,840
All of these phone calls        
that these two girls had        

531
00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:30,341
  were recorded.                

532
00:28:30,442 --> 00:28:31,743
 [Scott]                        
   Rebecca says, "I'm just glad 

533
00:28:31,843 --> 00:28:34,579
   that you didn't see          
what happened in there."        

534
00:28:34,679 --> 00:28:36,948
 And Keri said,                 
  "I did. I was in the hallway  

535
00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:39,184
  and I looked."                

536
00:28:39,284 --> 00:28:41,152
   Rebecca says, "You           
  weren't supposed to see that. 

537
00:28:41,252 --> 00:28:43,488
   I told you to stay           
 in your room."                 

538
00:28:43,588 --> 00:28:44,823
That let me know then, you know,

539
00:28:44,923 --> 00:28:47,759
  that Rebecca                  
 had done the stabbing.         

540
00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:57,469
Rebshe claimed she had nothing  
  to do with the actual murder. 
 But now we know                
   Rebecca was the one          

541
00:28:57,569 --> 00:28:59,537
 that stabbed Ms. Murphy.       

542
00:28:59,637 --> 00:29:03,308
    That jail call was          
 as good as a confession.       

543
00:29:11,182 --> 00:29:13,885
 It was very disturbing         
  someone attacking her mother. 
 [Narrator] The couple's        
  jailhouse phone calls         

544
00:29:13,985 --> 00:29:17,822
  also reveal the reason        
  they decided to kill Mary Ann 

545
00:29:17,922 --> 00:29:19,624
  on July 12th.                 

546
00:29:19,724 --> 00:29:21,659
   Her mom had took her phone   

547
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,864
and was basically gonna have it,
  like, scanned                 

548
00:29:25,964 --> 00:29:27,632
  or locked open, or whatever,  

549
00:29:27,732 --> 00:29:29,601
 'cause she always kept         
   the password on it.          

550
00:29:30,869 --> 00:29:32,070
 [Craig]                        
   Mom told her, "Well,         

551
00:29:32,170 --> 00:29:35,373
   what's the passcode to your  
 phone?"                        

552
00:29:35,473 --> 00:29:38,743
 Keri wouldn't give her         
  the passcode.                 

553
00:29:38,843 --> 00:29:41,112
And the mom said, "Well,        

554
00:29:41,212 --> 00:29:43,281
   "I'm gonna take this         
 to work with me                

555
00:29:43,381 --> 00:29:46,351
  "and I know guys there        
that's gonna get this unlocked, 

556
00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:48,720
    and I'm gonna see           
    what's going on."           

557
00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:51,756
  Keri had been texting         
 back and forth with her        

558
00:29:51,856 --> 00:29:55,894
   where they had been sending  
  nude photos as well.          

559
00:29:55,994 --> 00:29:57,629
The text messages               
   were not something           

560
00:29:57,729 --> 00:29:59,397
   a mother of                  
   a 16-year-old girl           

561
00:29:59,497 --> 00:30:02,233
  expected to find on a phone.  

562
00:30:02,333 --> 00:30:04,602
    They were quite intimate.   

563
00:30:04,702 --> 00:30:06,070
 [Craig] Keri was like,         
  "I can't let Mama get         

564
00:30:06,171 --> 00:30:07,705
 back to work with that phone." 

565
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:10,275
 And that's when                
   she started Googling about,  

566
00:30:10,375 --> 00:30:12,911
  you know, what's the quickest 
  way to kill somebody.         

567
00:30:13,011 --> 00:30:14,846
 And they made that plan.       

568
00:30:18,183 --> 00:30:20,785
[Narrator] Investigators        
  theorize that Keri and Rebecca

569
00:30:20,885 --> 00:30:24,889
    put their plan into action  
 that same night.               

570
00:30:24,989 --> 00:30:26,825
 [Craig] I believe Keri         
 lets Rebecca in,               

571
00:30:26,925 --> 00:30:29,961
  tells her, you know,          
 "Okay, Mom's sleeping."        

572
00:30:30,061 --> 00:30:33,298
    Rebecca tells her,          
    "Okay, wait in your room."  

573
00:30:33,398 --> 00:30:36,334
 [Anna]                         
  Then Rebecca got on that bed. 

574
00:30:36,434 --> 00:30:40,672
And she proceeded to stab       
Mary Ann over and over and over.

575
00:30:45,610 --> 00:30:48,346
   [Fred] The crime took place  
   roughly around 9:00,         

576
00:30:48,446 --> 00:30:51,349
   but the call didn't          
    come in until about 1:00.   

577
00:30:51,449 --> 00:30:56,254
So there were some hours        
   that were unaccounted for,   

578
00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:59,691
   which indicated that         
    Keri and Rebecca had took   

579
00:30:59,791 --> 00:31:02,393
   that amount of time          
  to clean up the scene.        

580
00:31:07,765 --> 00:31:11,936
My biggest fears was that       
 I'd be pushed out of my family,

581
00:31:12,036 --> 00:31:13,972
   be pushed away from          
   people that I love,          

582
00:31:14,072 --> 00:31:15,540
 people that I cared for.       

583
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,077
 Fear of being killed...        

584
00:31:19,177 --> 00:31:23,882
   uh, being locked up          
for the rest of my life.        

585
00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:28,753
   A lot of things were going   
   through my mind that night.  

586
00:31:32,257 --> 00:31:35,393
  [Narrator] Coming up,         
 Rebecca Keller opens up        

587
00:31:35,493 --> 00:31:39,063
 about the night                
   Mary Ann Murphy was killed.  

588
00:31:39,163 --> 00:31:41,699
I loved her so much that        
I wanted to prove to her        

589
00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:44,702
  that my love                  
for her was real.               

590
00:31:44,802 --> 00:31:46,304
   [Narrator]                   
    And the young women's bond  

591
00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:50,408
  is tested behind bars.        

592
00:31:50,508 --> 00:31:54,545
After we were sentenced,        
   we were together in county.  

593
00:31:54,646 --> 00:31:59,851
 I could depend on her,         
  but the relationship changed. 

594
00:31:59,951 --> 00:32:04,822
   I started learning           
   that she was turning on me,  

595
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:08,126
   that she was trying          
 to put all blame on me.        

596
00:32:09,794 --> 00:32:13,131
  [theme music]                 

597
00:32:19,804 --> 00:32:21,706
   [Narrator]                   
 16-year-old Keri Murphy        

598
00:32:21,806 --> 00:32:23,775
  and 20-year-old Rebecca Keller

599
00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:27,078
  have been charged with        
 the July 2012 murder of        

600
00:32:27,178 --> 00:32:30,315
 Keri's mother, Mary Ann.       

601
00:32:30,415 --> 00:32:33,351
 [Fred] I believe the motive was
   for Keri and Rebecca         

602
00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:35,954
   to be together at any cost.  

603
00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:40,625
I believe that Rebecca and Keri 
  both plotted to kill Mary Ann.

604
00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:55,039
 This would never have happened 
 if she had never mentioned it. 
   And I had given her          
    multiple occasions          

605
00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:57,108
to walk away from this--        

606
00:32:57,208 --> 00:32:58,910
not just from that night,       

607
00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:02,180
  but this relationship         
  that we were having.          

608
00:33:03,247 --> 00:33:05,049
   [Nefretiri] I think          
  there's still some resentment 

609
00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:06,351
    on Rebecca's part           

610
00:33:11,122 --> 00:33:13,191
 that she played                
 an equal part in this. accept  
  Both girls planned this out.  

611
00:33:13,291 --> 00:33:17,295
They fed off of each other, and 
it led to the ultimate tragedy. 

612
00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:23,901
   [Narrator]                   
   In December of 2012,         

613
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,871
 two weeks before               
  Keri's 17th birthday,         

614
00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:31,242
   a judge rules that she will  
 stand trial as an adult.       

615
00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:34,178
 But despite both               
  Rebecca Keller and Keri Murphy

616
00:33:34,278 --> 00:33:36,914
   facing first-degree          
 murder charges,                

617
00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:40,084
neither case ever goes to trial.

618
00:33:40,184 --> 00:33:43,121
 [Anna] Rebecca entered         
   into a guilty plea.          

619
00:33:43,221 --> 00:33:46,090
  Keri entered                  
   a plea on her own,           

620
00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:49,460
admitted guilt, and took        
 what the state offered.        

621
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,265
   Keri got 30 years,           
and Rebecca got 60 years.       

622
00:33:54,365 --> 00:33:55,433
[Wesley]                        
   To me, Keri should have got  

623
00:33:55,533 --> 00:33:57,702
   the same thing Rebecca did.  

624
00:33:57,802 --> 00:33:59,470
Keri's just as guilty as        
   Rebecca is                   

625
00:33:59,570 --> 00:34:01,039
'cause she stood                
 in the doorway                 

626
00:34:01,139 --> 00:34:03,274
  and watched it happen         
   and didn't stop it.          

627
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,310
[Fred] Her life was lost,       

628
00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:09,514
   and her mom will never get   
 30 more years,                 

629
00:34:09,614 --> 00:34:12,517
 so I think that                
the punishment was light.       

630
00:34:13,284 --> 00:34:14,352
  I feel the same about Rebecca.

631
00:34:14,452 --> 00:34:16,587
   I feel like                  
 her sentence was light.        

632
00:34:16,687 --> 00:34:21,826
I just feel like any loss       
 of life or you taking a life-- 

633
00:34:21,926 --> 00:34:25,163
  and 60 years is light         

634
00:34:25,263 --> 00:34:27,698
   compared to a life           
 that was lost.                 

635
00:34:32,336 --> 00:34:33,905
[Rebecca]                       
 After we were sentenced,       

636
00:34:34,005 --> 00:34:37,208
    we were together in county  
  for a very long time.         

637
00:34:37,308 --> 00:34:39,410
   We were not sexually active  
 with each other.               

638
00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:44,015
    We were just emotionally,   
   mentally in a relationship.  

639
00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:48,719
 Like, we weren't really        
   how we were before.          

640
00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:51,689
   Us being in county,          
  I could depend on her.        

641
00:34:51,789 --> 00:34:54,358
    I could lean on her, like,  
   just like she could for me.  

642
00:34:54,459 --> 00:34:56,928
  We really, like, just talked  
 about our relationship,        

643
00:34:57,028 --> 00:35:00,898
   where it was gonna lead to.  

644
00:35:00,998 --> 00:35:04,702
 And so we just would talk about
  how much we loved each other, 

645
00:35:04,802 --> 00:35:06,571
how much we cared               
about each other,               

646
00:35:06,671 --> 00:35:10,241
 how much we, you know,         
 we meant to each other.        

647
00:35:11,809 --> 00:35:14,846
  But the relationship changed. 

648
00:35:17,815 --> 00:35:21,319
   I started learning           
maybe a year or so after        

649
00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:24,922
   that she was turning on me.  

650
00:35:25,022 --> 00:35:29,460
  She was trying to put         
 all blame on me                

651
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,130
  and not taking                
   any accountability.          

652
00:35:32,230 --> 00:35:33,598
    Trying to say that          
 it was my idea,                

653
00:35:33,698 --> 00:35:35,299
that I'm the one                
  that came up with it,         

654
00:35:35,399 --> 00:35:40,671
   when really she was the one  
  that came up with everything. 

655
00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:50,748
 [Narrator] Now,                
   after 13 years behind bars,  

656
00:35:50,848 --> 00:35:52,150
 Rebecca Keller is ready        

657
00:35:52,250 --> 00:35:56,254
   to open up about her         
 true role in the murder.       

658
00:35:56,954 --> 00:35:58,222
[Rebecca]                       
  Keri was talking about        

659
00:35:58,322 --> 00:36:00,424
   killing her mom for a while, 

660
00:36:00,525 --> 00:36:04,762
  for a couple of months        
    before this even happened.  

661
00:36:04,862 --> 00:36:08,799
  I thought she was just saying 
  it out of hurt, out of anger. 

662
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:13,471
 I really didn't think that she 
  was gonna really play it out. 

663
00:36:13,571 --> 00:36:18,242
   I guess when                 
    she finally did decide...   

664
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:19,777
she involved me.                

665
00:36:21,946 --> 00:36:24,415
 She was just telling me        
    that it needed to be done,  

666
00:36:24,515 --> 00:36:27,451
   that she didn't want         
 her mom to live anymore.       

667
00:36:27,552 --> 00:36:32,423
Telling me we could live        
  happily without her.          

668
00:36:32,523 --> 00:36:35,660
 "You can go in there and       
  do this because you love me." 

669
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,897
   And I did.                   
 I did. I did love her.         

670
00:36:39,997 --> 00:36:44,335
 And I loved her so much        
  that I wanted to prove to her 

671
00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:46,938
   that my love                 
    for her was real.           

672
00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:50,808
 We both came up                
    with a plan--well,          

673
00:36:50,908 --> 00:36:55,413
more of her came up with        
  a plan to stab her, kill her. 

674
00:36:56,714 --> 00:36:58,516
When she let me into the house, 
    I was in disbelief          

675
00:36:58,616 --> 00:37:01,152
   that it was                  
   really gonna happen.         

676
00:37:01,252 --> 00:37:04,188
  I really thought I could just 
   talk Keri out of it.         

677
00:37:04,288 --> 00:37:06,891
   I was hoping she would have  
second thoughts about it,       

678
00:37:06,991 --> 00:37:08,793
 but she didn't.                

679
00:37:10,595 --> 00:37:13,864
  [theme music]                 

680
00:37:22,206 --> 00:37:24,809
  [theme music]                 
   [Narrator]                   
 In 2012, Rebecca Keller        

681
00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:26,811
 and Keri Murphy                
    were convicted of           

682
00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:30,481
  the murder of                 
 Keri's mother, Mary Ann.       

683
00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:32,883
   Now, Rebecca Keller opens up 

684
00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:35,953
 about the night                
  Mary Ann was murdered.        

685
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,825
[Rebecca] She gave me the knife.
 I walked into the room.        

686
00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:43,027
   I was really scared.         

687
00:37:43,127 --> 00:37:45,529
   I kind of, like, stood over  
  her mom a little bit.         

688
00:37:53,838 --> 00:37:56,707
 Undecisive if I wanted         
or just grab my stuff and leave.
  So I walked back out.         

689
00:37:57,008 --> 00:37:58,809
 Keri was in the kitchen.       

690
00:37:58,909 --> 00:38:00,544
  And...                        

691
00:38:00,645 --> 00:38:02,013
 She just looked                
  at me and she's like,         

692
00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:06,250
  "What are you doing?"         
I was like, "I'm scared."       

693
00:38:06,350 --> 00:38:09,020
 I was scared to carry this on. 

694
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,758
  And she manipulated me again. 

695
00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:15,893
    She talked me into          
    going to the room.          

696
00:38:15,993 --> 00:38:17,862
 I guess the best thing         
  that I knew to do was         

697
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:21,899
  to just close my eyes         
   and just carry on.           

698
00:38:23,868 --> 00:38:26,570
 Mary Ann was screaming,        

699
00:38:26,671 --> 00:38:28,239
   telling me to stop.          

700
00:38:30,041 --> 00:38:31,509
 And I couldn't.                

701
00:38:31,609 --> 00:38:35,079
 I just couldn't because        
 I had Keri's voice in my head, 

702
00:38:35,179 --> 00:38:37,415
telling me, "Keep going."       

703
00:38:37,515 --> 00:38:40,451
And I guess after               
the last one that I did,        

704
00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:44,121
  I didn't even realize         
  how many or where at.         

705
00:38:44,221 --> 00:38:46,557
   It was dark.                 

706
00:38:46,791 --> 00:38:48,125
  I walked out.                 

707
00:38:48,225 --> 00:38:52,263
 All I could just do was        
   just hit my knees and cry.   

708
00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:57,301
Cried to know that I took       
   somebody's life because of   

709
00:38:57,401 --> 00:38:59,770
   Keri's selfishness.          

710
00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:03,274
 Because of Keri's anger        
towards her mom.                

711
00:39:03,374 --> 00:39:07,144
  I let her control me          
   and manipulate me.           

712
00:39:10,514 --> 00:39:12,149
  I do.                         

713
00:39:12,249 --> 00:39:15,286
 I still think about it.        
  I still replay it in my head. 

714
00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:25,396
   It's been 13 years,          
  and I deal with it every day. 

715
00:39:27,131 --> 00:39:29,100
 I regret taking                
 somebody's life                

716
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,103
 because I have to live with it 
for the rest of my life.        

717
00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:34,672
  To know that                  
I took somebody's mother,       

718
00:39:34,772 --> 00:39:38,476
   somebody's sister,           

719
00:39:38,576 --> 00:39:42,646
   somebody's aunt...           

720
00:39:42,747 --> 00:39:44,715
 away from them.                

721
00:39:44,815 --> 00:39:46,517
   And I can't take that back.  

722
00:39:46,617 --> 00:39:51,322
 [somber music]                 

723
00:39:55,993 --> 00:39:57,194
 It's taken Rebecca a long time 
 to be able to speak about what 
   really happened that night   

724
00:39:57,294 --> 00:39:59,230
  and the fact                  
  that she was the one          

725
00:39:59,330 --> 00:40:02,533
  who wielded the knife         
   that took Mary Ann's life.   

726
00:40:02,633 --> 00:40:05,903
  And I think that goes to show 
 the stride she has made        

727
00:40:06,003 --> 00:40:09,006
   in prison to accept          
 responsibility and grow.       

728
00:40:11,909 --> 00:40:14,678
  [Rebecca] I do desire         
  to be punished what happened. 

729
00:40:14,779 --> 00:40:17,515
 I do feel that                 

730
00:40:17,615 --> 00:40:21,519
   the amount of time           
  that I was given was          

731
00:40:21,619 --> 00:40:26,257
    a good amount of time for   
   the act that I carried out.  

732
00:40:26,357 --> 00:40:28,692
  But I was very angry,         

733
00:40:28,793 --> 00:40:32,263
 because I feel that if         

734
00:40:32,363 --> 00:40:36,901
she's the one that helped       
   set everything up,           

735
00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:39,703
   why should she have          
   a lesser sentence than me?   

736
00:40:39,804 --> 00:40:42,373
  We should both                
 have the same sentence.        

737
00:40:42,473 --> 00:40:45,376
  But, I mean,                  
  as long as the truth is out,  

738
00:40:45,476 --> 00:40:46,911
that's all that matters.        

739
00:40:47,011 --> 00:40:49,180
   We are not in touch at all.  

740
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,082
    She steadily keeps trying   
   to reach out to me.          

741
00:40:52,183 --> 00:40:53,284
 I've let Keri know that        

742
00:40:53,384 --> 00:40:56,287
  I don't want nothing          
 to do with her.                

743
00:40:56,387 --> 00:40:59,056
   She's already taken          
so much from me.                

744
00:40:59,156 --> 00:41:02,426
 Why am I gonna allow you       
  to take more from me?         

745
00:41:02,526 --> 00:41:09,066
 [somber music]                 

746
00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:12,803
I talk to a lot of women        
here about the struggles        

747
00:41:12,903 --> 00:41:16,474
that I dealt with               
 and everything.                

748
00:41:16,574 --> 00:41:22,146
  To help them,                 
   if I can impact them         

749
00:41:22,246 --> 00:41:24,281
  and help them                 
   change their life.           

750
00:41:24,381 --> 00:41:29,887
  It makes me feel good to know 
 that I may have made a mistake,

751
00:41:29,987 --> 00:41:31,322
   but I'm where I need to be.  

752
00:41:31,422 --> 00:41:33,724
    I need to be here           
   to help these women          

753
00:41:33,824 --> 00:41:35,659
 because they're broken.        

754
00:41:35,759 --> 00:41:39,563
 And if I can reach out         
 and help them,                 

755
00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:41,765
 that's all that matters to me. 

756
00:41:49,406 --> 00:41:50,908
  [Scott] There's never         
    a day that goes by          

757
00:41:51,008 --> 00:41:52,810
  that I don't miss her.        
  I miss her more than anything,

758
00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:57,014
but I think she was doing       
   what she thought was right   

759
00:41:57,114 --> 00:41:59,650
 to make sure her child         
   succeeded.                   

760
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:01,285
  But the obsession with        

761
00:42:01,385 --> 00:42:04,321
  being in love with each other 

762
00:42:04,421 --> 00:42:08,325
drove them to do                

763
00:42:08,425 --> 00:42:09,460
one of the darkest things       

764
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,161
that I can ever imagine.        

765
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:27,144
 [somber music]