The Puzzling Death of Susann Sills | Full Episode
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
- The wife of a fertility doctor is found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Did her dogs play a role in her death or was the scene staged to cover a murder? "48 Hours" correspondent Tracy Smith reports. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.
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The moment he called his wife "a patient" on the 911 call, it was pretty evident he was lying.
Right. Like wtf was he thinking??? As if the call wasn’t being recorded & wouldn’t be listened to after a f’n dead body was found. The dead body of his wife, the “patient.” Stupid
Well, I’m a doctor. And obviously I’m no murderer but I must say when I’m looking after someone I’m automatically in a doctor mode. For instance, when I see a doctor with my parents I refer to them as patients. It’s just a switch in your head I guess.
@@III-ur2oo what? If you were speaking about your parents or spouse or kids…you would say “patient” ? You sound ridiculous.
@@jaysteve4442 I don’t really care what you think. You’re not a medic. Don’t judge if you’re clueless
Yes.
My thoughts exactly.
It's called, distancing.
“A devastated father desperate attempt to find a new mom for his children” how ridiculous
Exactly like you replace a mom like a pet !!!
you'll be surprised what people can do to move on fast. we are all not the same.
So devastated he needed hairplugs, so asinine
Human beings, even relatively good ones, are capable of horrible things given the "right" provocation. It is just sad all the way around,
Disgusting 🤢
Dating a patient you met while married doing IVF IS SO UNETHICAL!
That was a first red flag 🚩
Couldn't agree more!
True. Creepy and amoral.
And then called her a “patient” on the 911 call after marrying her and having kids with her. Guilty AF
the answers the lawyer gives with a straight face. almost seems like a comedy sketch.
People who get their children to find their murdered spouse are a whole new level of monster.
yep! and it happens often. despicable
The defense attorney blaming the dogs is a new low.
If the dogs had pull on the scarf there would be tears from the dogs' teeth
Obviously a cat person!
And weren't the dogs put in their crates?
Came here to say exact thing. I’ve heard it all. Defense attorneys are ridiculous 😵💫😂😂😂😂
I personally draw the line at farts and homework.
Dogs always eating homework & now they are doing murders…man’s best friend no more
Clifford is wildin’ 💀
Lmao 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Murdaugh's dogs also murdered his housekeeper by pushing her down stairs,before he took her insurance money
@@user-lp4wk8hb7u yep’r it starts with one & then they’ve killed us all of course
Your wife “accidentally” dies and you go to work the next day??? Wtf
Blaming those poor dogs was absolutely disgusting , have fun in jail sir .
I can’t stand when adults, especially parents, allow kids to come upon a dead body knowing full well they will because they put it there.
Yup...the daughter better rethink who she is 'rooting for'...
The nerve of people like that. Obviously they don’t care about their kids
@@Elegant_Sausage If a guy hadn't been walking his dog, OJ's young children would have found their mom and Ron
@@Elegant_Sausage the nerve of her to post topless pictures online as a wife and a mother... thats also pretty terrible
@@doodlebob2023 its 2024, it was her body and her right.
But in the us you cant see nipples on tv, thats dumb.
Calling his wife a patient is the apex of detachment from the situation and tell tale sign he’s guilt ridden. Other words GUILTY
The very first thing I picked up on.
Thank you! First thing I noticed calling his wife a patient!
ABSOLUTELY.
Thank you!! The first thing I noticed from the 911 call!
Yes, red flag right off the bat.
He strangled her, and then he broke her neck. He knew what he was doing. He’s a doctor. Prayers for his poor children that now are orphans because of him. 💔💔🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm sorry, i know the daughter was traumatized but to ask for mercy for the man who murdered your mother?? Cmon!
That makes me so angry. She's not a child anymore either.
She likely believes he's innocent but ok.
@@gaillessard2786it makes you angry because it’s difficult to understand what the psychology of a surviving child of intimate partner violence is like. As a twelve year old, to not only lose your mom but to find her deceased and then the process of an investigation and court proceedings against her other parent as the murderer, that entirely changes her world, her sense of security, and her sense of self. Children in those situations often don’t have stable homes even when family members try to step in and provide guardianship, because they’re also grieving the death and prosecution process. They grow up and become almost dependent upon mental health services because of the level of trauma received from that incident. It’s not unusual for many of them to cling desperately to the parent that’s guilty or suspected of killing the other parent. They don’t have anything else to cling/turn to.
Not that simple. A lot of psychology involved ......
I agree! It is like the mother is violated even in death only now by her daughter. Unbelievable.
Blaming dogs?? No,no. This was the work of the two-legged species.
There is no way a lawyer could be that stupid.
He knows his filthy client is guilty.
@@dianacryerbut that’s what defense lawyers are for, some of these people don’t deserve a defense lawyer
who'd wipe their mouth with a scarf when they're sick?
Yuck
Certainly not someone with class such as this beautiful woman had.
@@katiedunson5400 She posted a topless photo on the internet…not so classy. She didn’t deserve to die for it though. But definitely would have had a tissue to wipe her mouth. The defense was really grasping at straws with this case.
Especially with a migraine. No one wants that smell to stay with them but someone with a migraine couldn’t tolerate it.
Whatever's handy
“I’ve been left orphaned.” Yeah bc of the murderous actions of your father dear.
You sound angry at the child.
So very true. The daughter is in denial of her father's crime!
You are hardly an orphan if your parents are criminals and live in prison.
This defense attorney is so incredibly ridiculous. I don’t know how he kept a straight face during this interview.
he exercised with mirrors
Years of practice.
Dog excuse is pathetic.
I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard until he said that she wore the scarf so she could wipe her mouth when she's sick.
@@Wft-bu5zcI know! Keeping her neck warm is one thing but WIPING HER MOUTH?? Ludicrous. Was the scarf so long after being wrapped around Suzanne’s neck both dogs could grab an end and make sure they were pulling in opposite directions?? Especially hard to accomplish from their crates. 👺❤️🔥👺
Dad is a murdering lying liar who lies. 👺
I’m surprised he didn’t blame the son.
Some defense attorneys are hilarious 🐀
"I want my dad at my wedding". Oh yeh? The guy who literally beat your mama unmercifully and then tightened a scarf around her throat as her life was slowly extinguished, that guy? Hope those kids got trauma therapy.
She’s delusional, sad…
I think she's in denial that he killed her. It is her father and she cannot imagine it. Also, I think she was only 12 when her mom died and her father is her only parent.
She’s in denial…the don didn’t seem to be there.
@@jeffreygraber6652 Same with Chad Daybell, and his daughter, Emma! A great channel called Hidden True Crime focused on the murdering father/ delusional daughter today. Lauren Matthias is a longtime journalist who is in court every day and has been following the case closely for 4 1/2 years. Her husband “Dr. John” is a forensic psychologist.
The daughter probably takes after him - no conscience. Only what “I want” matters
The transition from good looking teen to, geeky looking adult is astonishing.😕
That’s what evil intentions and lies do to your body and well being
Reverse Neville Longbottom
I fell down 10 steps down my stairs in early 2023. I have always been fast paced. I was home alone. I know I was unconscious for at least 20 minutes. I woke up with ringing in my ears, a pool of blood on the first landing where my head was. My body on the second landing that went to next flight of stairs. I broke my nose, both wrists, concussion, cuts on my face from the same type staircase, bruising all over my body and face, two black eyes I looked like a raccoon. Injured my spine but not sure which vertebrae exactly - I’d have to look at my paperwork. My whole body got swollen and one big toe was literally black. I needed surgery for my wrists- rods were surgically transplanted. I survived at 68 years of age but needed a lot of hand and physical therapy. Doesn’t make sense she did not leave traces of blood on the staircase. Nothing mentioned about bruising.
Be careful
Did somebody push you?
That happened accidentally?
I'm so glad you seem to be doing better 😊
Oh my goodness. That sounds terrible. I'm glad you're doing better!
He doesn't say "my wife" has fallen and he doesn't immediate;y identify himself as a doctor and say "I'm a doctor, I know how to do CPR, I've already starting..." Nothing suspicious in that phone call.......
I thought the same thing!!! Why is he waiting for her to give him instructions?
Seems detached from the start of the 911 call.
I hate to be rude .but the doctor is so homely and the wife so pretty!
He was her fertility doc and they had an affair while she was married they both got what they had coming. Feel bad for the kids at least I think the boy realized his dad was a killer so maybe he can cope.
I'm a doctor, I know CPR, her color is, rigor mortis has or has not set in, my daughter is here helping until I become exhausted, etc.
No relationship that starts with INFIDELITY ever ends well. Ever
Women need to have more respect for themselves. Who wants a man who cannot see you evenings, weekends or on any holiday. Only a woman with no self respect would want a man who offered so little. Further, he will be half the man you started chasing if he divorces his wife. The courts will take 40 - 50 percent of his paychecks and at least 50% of his current wealth. Married men should be seen as "not worth it" to single women. To any woman cheating with a married man.....get some self respect. You are worth more than the relationship.
Fact!
Yep. My mom married a guy she cheated on my stepdad with and he cheated on her and they got a divorce!
@@LS-mp7coInteresting that you made no mention of men who cheat and how they have no respect for themselves. You only directed your little soapbox monologue to women. 🤔 Very interesting
@@bobnunyabiznz4917You sound bitter
And he let their daughter find her mom's body the ext day. As if she will not be traumatized enough for life, what a sicko.
I think the motive for killing his wife boiled down to money. She was going to leave him and he didn't want to give her half and he also didn't want a custody battle or have to pay child support.
Well you know money is the most important thing to types like him
All that time, she lived in that house, went up and down those stairs, WITH migraines, and you want me to believe that this incident coincidentally happens as the marriage is ending and the husband is cheating? It is so transparent that it might as well be a pane of glass.
I hate to break it to you, but she was also cheating. The topless photos. Confining in another man. Moreover, he had time to clean the blood/throw away the curtains. Why not? I can't think of another case where someone was so careless. So careless it makes me believe his story lol.
@SidewaysInTraffic
They were both cheating, no? I just found the timing convenient.
@@SidewaysInTrafficconfiding and confining are two totally different words with two totally different meanings. 😂😂
Well said@@SidewaysInTraffic
No one heard the huge steel bowl landing on the hardwood.Which makes me wonder,- where were the dogs ?
Whats "puzzling" about this? She got strangled in the night by her husband...
You forgot the part; because he was offended by her getting half "his" stuff, including the house and kids, when a divorce was granted. Also, that life insurance policy sure would help pay for the car, etc.
My thoughts too!!....just another life insurance thing...auuuugh
I wasn't talking about motive ; I was talking about WHAT happened , not why@@jeffwads
Intentionally subjecting your kids to that kind of trauma is next level evil.
Who calls their wife “a patient” on a 911call? That just says it all.
I’m just starting to watch this episode and immediately I’m taken aback by finding out that the 911 caller is the victim’s husband. I thought it was a stranger that had come upon the scene. He refers to his wife as the patient, and his voice is so nonchalant. I would have suspected him immediately.
Exactly! I also thought it was a stranger and wondered how the stranger came upon the body. He refused to say it was his wife!
I think he is guilty because of other evidence but I was willing to chalk up calling her a patient to his personality. It's like some people in the military who use the NATO alphabet in civilian life. They take some weird pride in using the special language of their field.
Same here. Had a double take and thought it might be an actors voice 😮
Exactly what I thought.
He’s got those crazy eyes
The eyes go with his scary face😲
I thought that! Pontoon eyes one going to the left and one going to the right
Manson lamps for sure!
Manson lamps! ( Mike / That chapter )
That's what I was about the say. Eyes like that are a sign of psychopathy. Something that narcissists and sociopaths also have. Majority of murderers in these stories have eyes like that. Especially serial killers.
"Looks like her shoe fell off or something". As soon as they start explaining on 911, alarm bells go off.
There is no way I'd want the man who murdered my mother to walk me down the aisle even if that man was my own father.
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Yeah what's wrong with her?
A patient. He did it. What a kook.
Yes complete kook. The way he tried to become Rico Suave after her death made my stomach turn.
Interesting how murderers give themselves away
@@twatts1523ha....Rico Suave....havent thought of in years
...the b ** s bet for Donald sounds great
@@twatts1523Rico Suave 😄 haven't heard that in a long time 👏
She would wear a scarf to wipe her mouth with when she was sick. WTF. I’m not buying that.
That's what I think, if he said cause she's wanted her neck feel warm, that's make sense.. who the hell wipe their mouth then put the cloth on their neck??
She was not 80 years old and feeble. They are ridiculous to blame dogs. 🙄
i said the same thing. how did that theory make any sense whatsoever??? why would a migraine cause her to need to wipe her mouth?! and then proceed to wrap it around her neck??? lmao
Right? Like, he could've made up a better lie. Wiping the sweat from her brow during an on coming migraine? I just thought of that just now. Vomiting and wearing the rag around your neck is absurd.
He did it he must go to prison finish n stop wasting our time
they said he lost his medical license before he was brought to trial , but never explained why...maybe there was something more to this story that was left out?
State medical licensing boards can revoke a doctor's license after arrest, prior to conviction.
I would never have gone on a date with him. He looks too creepy to me.
This dude killed her - NO DOUBT
its insane to me these rich doctors wont give up half but will give up their life for prison
She was the one who literally started the clinic and did everything except medical work.
That big ego of a guy who was always told he was a genius seems to be what got in the way of accurate reality testing for this and other docs.
Exactly they d rather risk it!!Getiing all or nothing doesn’t apply well in this situation!!
Seems both were tired of eachoter and cheating on eachoter. Why couldn't they just split everything 50% 50% and share custody of the kids?
That's what I think every time I see true crime of people killing their spouse.
It's just so stupid.
Don't they get that they will spend life in prison or even get the death penalty???
Arguing because she was working on her laptop made her migraines worse? Seriously, oh yes because he loved her so much, he was so concerned.
I am interested in the son’s reaction. He appears to know something and he wanted to make sure he’s not covering up for his dad.
“We have a patient…” um no sir that’s your wife. Like WOW
When you are a doctor who poisons or drugs your wife who wants a divorce, and you are a psychopath, you see her as (or call her) a patient. Of course she becomes a patient after the fact regardless (hence the psychopathy of the Good Doctor).
That's not very smart 😅
Not even 2 minutes in and the lack of emotion on the 911 call is seriously bothering me.
I understand the daughter wants her dad to walk her down the aisle but he’s the reason her mother will never see her walk down the aisle. He is a horrible person.
Gotta just say this: he is one of the goofiest looking guys ive ever seen😅!!
When they were talking about his new wardrobe and hair I just thought "he honestly looks worse though." Now instead of a dignified doctor he's a wanna playboy with thin hair who is NOT pulling the outfit or transplants off.
15 years and eligible for parole earlier with good behavior. Smh california
SMH RICH PERSON. Expensive lawyer.
@@AskAlex1999true that
it amazes me how ill informed people are on matters of sentencing. The judge doesn't sentence a person to 15 yrs to life, adding the "life" part, just for kicks, He'll do a straight 15, and then will have a review by a parole board, and if rejected could do an additional 15. Thats how the law works.
Correction: I’m the one Ill informed, 15 years to life, Good time credit still in effect, but parole still has to approve his release.
@@unite4peace88it used to be a straight 15. You weren’t that wrong. :)
He is a cold, heartless and calculating narcissist
💯💯💯💯
He's a Narcissist I can see it in his eyes and probably went into a fit and rage
He's a sociopath. Sociopaths gravitate towards careers in the police, the justice system and medicine.
Absolutely 💯
@@vaska1999I believe most are heads of corporations especially anything to do with Wall Street.
I will never understand why people cannot just walk away untill my last dying breath!!! JUST GET A FUXXING DIVORCE!! ugh!
Sesh... That daughter really doesn't care about her mom at all
What if he was innocent?
I dont think this was proven beyond reasonable doubt that he was guilty.
It was stated at the beginning that the dogs were put in their crates at night. Why would she play with the dogs in the middle of the night. The dogs are innocent.
Who let the dogs out?!.. lol
The dog theory is ludicrous. Was the scarf so long after being wrapped around Suzanne’s neck both dogs could grab an end and make sure they were pulling in opposite directions?? Especially hard to accomplish from their crates. 👺❤️🔥👺
Dad is a murdering lying liar who lies. 👺
AND with a migraine.
Why would dogs be put away at night, anyway?
Dogs are not stupid. They would understand something was wrong with her, if she wasn't moving. They would probably smell her and try to lock her face, then sit down and guard her. That's what dogs do when their owners are hurt.
If the dogs were close to her body they would not be playing with her scarf, they would try to help her, in a dog way of course. As I described.
He killed his wife. The end of the story. Ridiculously stupid defense.
Defense my genius.
The thought of a dog being able to strangle a person with a scarf is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while. When I saw the question "did her dogs play a role in her death" I thought they meant maybe she tripped over them and fell down the stairs.
I was frequenting that website around the time of her death. a week after she suddenly stopped posting, some guy who had been talking to her got a text or email reply from her husband saying she died of an accident. he became really upset and implied the husband had something to do with her death. I remember thinking, this guy needs to get a date. too emotionally invested in a married woman and it could just simply be a real accident. who would have thought!
We all live two lives?
Oh, this is where they blame the dogs. This is the first time that I have ever heard of them blaming pets interesting.
Right? I live exactly one life. I hate that the expression “we all have two lives” is becoming so common and believed
Michael Peterson tried to blame an owl
@@christalake7899that makes far more sense if you look at the autopsy diagrams. Watch the teal stuff not the made for tv crap- the owl theory actually makes more sense than the stupid blow-poker theory 🤦🏻♀️
i only have 1 life
@@differenttakethanmost Only if the owl later tried to wash the blood of the wall ;)
U wanting your dad that killed your mom to walk u down the aisle is nasty work.
crazy right????!!!
Exactly! I feel so bad for her mom.
Nasty work? Kids lost mom, dad, and guardian who stepped in to take care of them. Empathy is in order.
She's probably already struggling with the loss of her mother and now she's going to lose her father. He's probably been brainwashing her to think he's innocent. But once reality sets in she will probably get angry
she was 12 when her mother died. it’s not that crazy to see why she might cling desperately to a belief that her only parent left is innocent and wrongly convicted if he’s promised her he is and she wants that to be the truth. it’s been proven time and time again that it’s easy to manipulate children when you’re a trusted figure in their life… her continued belief in him/denial is likely an unconscious mental defense against what her brain sees as unacceptable trauma related to a truth based on her dad’s actions against her mom and her as well as a result being reality
It took 7 years to bust this guy? 🙄
That's really what I thought. The marks on her neck... bruises on him...blood in the bedroom. In Texas he would be on the Death penalty...in less than a year
Honestly I'm impressed it took a whole year for the autopsy. Was there a backlog or what? Wouldn't it take like... a week (month tops) to examine all the body evidence and say she was strangled?
The detectives didn’t do their due diligence. When he claimed he injured his head when he was working on his car the onus is then on the cops to corroborate that by checking the supposed area on the car for Scott’s blood DNA. He was convicted but he easily couldve gotten off especially with his kids changing their stories.
dogs aren’t stupid they aren’t gonna keep pulling on a scarf if they see their owner struggling 😂
I totally agree
Right! AND the dogs would have been frantically barking to alert others in the house that she was laying there in danger! Dogs are known for doing things like that.
I don’t know. My dogs are pretty slow.
@@mongeekmongeek4523 right! left! right!
I know! It’s a ridiculous notion!
Dude, no female wears a scarf to wipe their mouth! WTF?? Defense attorneys are the worst. I hope this monster is denied parole for years!!
What if it’s a cheap, ugly scarf that she hates?
If you're vomiting, you don't want to have something that smells vomit ON you, you would use paper right?
Ok maybe a scarf that you're going to throw away but that's not the first choice for anyone unless they have it on already and are incapacitated and really sick.
@@elishh8173 I don’t mind the smell. Try to be more open-minded.
Only 15 years?? Disgusting
15 to Life. After 15, he can try for parole.
I've never heard anything as far fetched as that dog theory. Ridiculous.
You should watch The Staircase because the owl theory is also utterly ridiculous.
Look up the Twinkie defense
No pun intended
Weren't owls blamed in the other famous staircase case? Poor animals being blamed for evil human behaviour.
Those pesky owls.
Yeah but that one was legit.
They literally removed owl feathers from her hand and head. At autopsy.
I remember that… oh how ridiculous!!!
@ladybliss101 was it proven? Even in the most recent documentary they never confirm that as the husband Michael had blood splatter but even the blood splatter expert was proven to be a fraud. It was such a messy case!
I know it must be painful to not have both your parents, but the level of support MK gives her dad is mind-boggling! Her dad KILLED her mother, yet she wants him out of prison so he can "walk her down the aisle" and "hold her baby"???
I hope she eventually sees him for the murderer that he is.
He's so creepy looking and I'm sure he took advantage of her when she was wanting to have a child so very much and then he murdered her and took her away from her babies ,he's a monster .
As soon as I heard him refer to his wife as a patient, I would have gone all in with my chips on him being guilty as sin!
And he sounded so calm.
Blaming dogs is so pathetic! Never heard of such BS!!!
The dog theory is ludicrous. Was the scarf so long after being wrapped around Suzanne’s neck both dogs could grab an end and make sure they were pulling in opposite directions?? Especially hard to accomplish from their crates. 👺❤️🔥👺
Dad is a murdering lying liar who lies. 👺
That's defense lawyers for you. Idk how they sleep at night.
The dogs would have ripped that scarf apart if they were pulling at it.
How do two dogs both grab a scarf by the edges just right to strangle someone??
Alec Murdah blamed dogs when his housekeeper died...
A big red flag for me was when he called 911 & he hadn’t even initiated any CPR. If you get up and see your wife, laying at the bottom of the stairs, unresponsive with no pulse, instinctually, especially as a physician, you would start CPR. He didn’t & never mentions to the 911 operator that he knew how to perform CPR or that he was a physician, & then proceeds to take step-by-step instructions as if CPR was completely foreign to him.
HUGE red flag right at the gate.
Another huge red flag was that this doctor got involved with his married patient & he’s trying to help her get pregnant w/ her then husband. A relationship that starts that way w/ a doctor engaged in unethical behavior that would likely have resulted in disciplinary action by the state board of medicine & a temporary suspension of his license, doesn’t bode well for a good outcome.
Why do we bother listening to defense attorneys, please???
2 minutes into the video and I am asking myself why the caller called his wife "a patient". More Red Flags than a Chinese Parade.
"More red flags than a Chinese parade"
😂😂😂😂
if he wasn't a big time Doctor they would have arrested him from day one
Yup.
I was thinking the same. If he was a painter or a plumber, he’d have been arrested. Moneytalks…
Oh, yes.
Not only arrested day,also they would have sentenced to death us quickly.
@@bevsartsandcrafts715 hwey i am a painter i would have got on the roof and taken the ladder away lol
Takes one year for the coroner report?! Are you kidding?!!
He was awfully calm on phone call to 911
I thought I knew my husband...we divorced because my teen son was argumentative and disruptive. We had split two properties and I was awarded the smaller house, the house I raised my children in. For some reason, we met at the little house for some business manner. I had already moved to Sacramento and was going to move back into the house. As we were walking to the back of the house, I noticed that the door to the basement was open. It never is open. The basement is small and the six steps deep. All of a sudden, he says to me, "I think it would be a good idea if you killed yourself." I don't even remember reacting to that or feeling threatened, and nothing happened but now, thinking back, I feel terror and fear. My husband had never wanted to part with that small house because he wanted it for our son, who was now over twenty, about 22. Oh, my God, that man was normally quiet, even cryptic, flat lining.
But any man can be psychotic and I cringe thinking he had considered pushing me down those stairs. OMG.
Glad you are ok. My husband tried to strangle me in front of 4 people. When I was able to break away he hade handed our son to his brother told him to leave and not bring him back till he called him. I left to say at my parents called my lawyer. Lawyar told me I would have to go back and pretend I was calling off divorce to get my child back home so I did. That night back my son wanted to swim in the pool and my husband came up behind us and suddenly I realized he could easily finish the job so at 5 30 that morning I grabbed my child and ran to a shelter.
@@angelamccrackin5243 I am so relieved you got away! Domestic violence, including women beating men & pouring boiling water on them etc. is horrible.
It sounds like you still might need PTSD treatment! You lived through horror! ❤
Love, romance and relationships are OVERRATED!!
@@gasmith7486 my aunt used to read harlequin romances all the time I told her those books should be against the law because they set women up by thinking these stories easily happen when its more like a one in a million chance this could be the outcome.
I’m sure he wanted her out of the way if he was cheating, but if she divorced him, she would get half the business. Two motives right there.
California is no fault. Doesn’t matter if she’s cheating.
ten motives! her nagging way, her influencing the children, custody laws, matriarchy etc lol
i think it was more that she shamed him and ruined the facade he had spent his whole life building up
A relationship that starts with an affair will probably not end well. Two people without any integrity.
Exactly! But when people die suddenly they become saints. She didn’t deserve to die but she was not a good person either!
Our dogs did it, and my kids can vouch for me. I would never harm my patient, I mean, my wife.
What is with this sickening loyalty to the father who killed your mother? EVERY CASE it seems the daughters latch onto their own mother's murderer. I am disgusted And he will only serve maybe a decade?? Great job Orange County!! Embarrassed to admit that was my hometown.
Exactly what I was thinking. I find their behavior very disturbing. I feel so sad for all these mothers. 😢
He has probably brainwashed her into thinking he is innocent. And she just lost her mother and is probably afraid to lose her father too. But once he is in jail for a while and she is out of his sphere of influence, she will probably change her mind. The anger will surface.
Isn't she like twelve, though?
15- life and he 15 yrs.. !?
Chad Daybell
He was a Doc .....but needed instructions for CPR ?? WTF kind of doctors do they have in the USA ?
The fact that he had not intiated CPR is a telltale sign of his willingness to let her die.
CPR is even taught to hospital staff I was a secretary and had to know cpr to work at the clinic
911 operators are notoriously stupid. They say that to everyone. He was just ignoring her.
Nurses always do that part. If I need someone to save my life I would rather a nurse than a Doctor for many reasons. 🤷🏽♀️
@@Kittymeow888 Kit, only you.
He should be in prison for life with no parole
Defense Attorneys are Shameless Liars 🤣😂 How do they sleep at night?
The daughter is so in denial. She doesn’t want justice, she just doesn’t want to be alone, it’s all about her. I hope some day she finds it in her heart to do her mother justice.
Oh hush she’s a kid I’m sure you wouldn’t understand growing up in a 2 parent household
This was my thought as well. She definitely has issues to deal with. How do you support a father who killed your mother?
The daughter is not in denial. It's her dad, she loves him.
Oh come on, she is so young, it's hard and immense piece of work to wrap your head around a loved one being so deceitful. On top of your mom just being murdered. By your dad
She is a child with a murderer as a father....most adults couldn't really deal with that
"we all live 2 lives" um no WE dont, ever wonder how 0.00001% of people end up on these shows while the rest of us just watch? Maybe the cops hiding a ferw things...
We all hide some things from ppl even if it’s pretty minor.
@@stevewhitener4903 that’s not living 2 different lives tho
@@stajia4694 No! It's we all do things for two reasons.
1) The reason we tell everybody why we did it.
2) The real reason we did it. We keep to ourselves or tell one trusted confidant.
Who said this? Tesla. Look it up.
Actually everyone does. No one except you really knows what goes on in your head. Also everyone has their "professional" face, their public one, and their "real" personality which usually only friends, family, or loved ones see. And sometimes not even then. Everyone puts on some sort of fakeness around work or new people, you only really see how someone is living with them.
Only ppl who lead two lives believe this. The police see this in their line of work. But it's not everyone.
The dogs?
Absurd!
This guy seems very guilty with all his odd actions. The only thing I can argue with is as a migraine sufferer myself, I can see falling down the stairs. It has to be dark, yes I carry something around to be sick in. It hurts to move, if she had a migraine it's doubtful she'd have the energy to argue. Also the scarf confuses me. I know they said she used it to wipe her mouth after being sick but first off who wants a vomit covered scarf on their neck and second of all me and anyone I know that suffers from migraines, gets extremely hot during an episode. No matter the weather or room temperature, you get very hot. I don't want any extra clothing or.material than necessary on my body.
I watched the Dateline episode on this case a few weeks ago. As soon as he called his wife "a patient," i had a bad feeling about him.
Wait, he calls 911 and calls his wife a patient? If she had the pot in her hands it would’ve been the first thing to roll down the stairs making lots of noises and certainly it wouldn’t have stopped in the middle of the room neatly placed as if it were on the stove. The body would not have been to the side of the stairs either and the scarf would be sitting near the body, not that far away. The whole scene looks staged to me.
well it was made clear that the daughter immediatelly told she took the scarf off the neck from her mother - in case it blocked her breathing. why it was THAT FAR away after that i do not know.
The fact he referred to her as a patient on the 911 call and doesn’t sound frantic whatsoever … he was clearly guilty
The children were very helpful giving pertinent information. I’m sorry for their loss.
the length some men go to to avoid divorce
Plus they hate their children, to put them through this, forever.
They don't want to give up a penny. I have seen men hide assets, transfer assets, etc. I have seen men stay married to a woman they cannot stand ( and cheat and live their own life).... all to keep all the money.. Yes, I worked in a " man's world" in the 1980's and 1990's. I had no idea that there were really good men out there in the world !
Same story, different characters. How these defence lawyers keep a straight face is beyond me. Lots of lessons here, ladies.
DEFENSE!!
Does anyone have any education??
@@gasmith7486 Yes, a proper British one.
Million $$$ lawyers always tell you their clients innocent.
I believe that if the dogs played tugged of war with the scarf, there would have been damage to the scarf
Like teeth marks and tearing! 😂 Ridiculous theory
Scott posted those pics of himself like he was A hot sexy guy 🤢🤮
He looks more fitting in that jumpsuit than in those shirts.
Mary Catherine asking the judge for leniency so she can be with her dad again was one of the saddest things to watch. But we need to remember that it’s not the judge nor jury that we should blame. The only person that is responsible for all of this is SCOTT STILLS.
SILLS
@@rachelsill79 SPILLS.
not in case of self defense. I as a lawyer would have built my defense on that.
That man is a cold blooded killer.
May her beautiful soul rest in perpetual peace.
The kids😢
SO WE HAVE A RICH PEOPLE JUSTICE SYSTEM. WE.ALL.KNOW.THAT.NOW.
The saddest part of this story and the most heart wrenching thing is that the young kids lost both their parents. I hope they have both found peace joy and fulfilment in their lives.
Seems the children didn't bother much about the fact that their dad killed the mother.
It’s disgusting that he can be out sooner than 15 years for good behavior but she didn’t have the chance. Sad
No, he won't be out sooner, it may not be a straight fifteen, and it's 15 to life, which means he will go in front of a parole board who can reject release and send him to do another 15.
Sad!...no justice at all....
@@unite4peace88 The same California parole boards that released Manson family members.
@@davidb2206 After 5 decades, yes, at his age he would only need to be denied once.
Well he looks like 75 when sentenced so that'd be like 90 years old
😂😂😂
Saying that the dogs strangled Susasann is the adult version of 'the dog ate my homework'.
The police didn't have sufficient evidence to arrest an affluent physician. 🤔