Teen Killer Has No Idea Victim Recorded Her Own Murder

[00:00:00]See, we know what happened. We know you walked all over the house.

[00:00:02]>> Did you know she took your picture?

[00:00:05]>> See what that is? That's you inside her house within a half hour of her being killed. This is why we're here.

[00:00:09]>> You are currently watching high school dropout and murderer, 17-year-old Christopher Shows. And at this very moment, Chris has realized that his own victim took a picture of him moments before she was killed.

[00:00:20]>> I just lost everything. I lost my whole life. And as this investigation proceeds, detectives will realize they are dealing with one of the worst homicides this small town neighborhood has ever seen.

[00:00:31]>> That girl took a picture of over the house and it was within 20 minutes per year of her dying.

[00:00:36]>> It's like everything's going through my mind right can't be him.

[00:00:39]>> I This is your chat moment. So >> on December 7th, 2016, dispatch in Okchobee, Florida received a panicked 911 call.

[00:00:50]>> 911. What's your emergency? Yes, I have an emergency.

[00:00:54]>> Yes, ma'am. What's going on?

[00:00:57]>> I'm at the store right now, but my sister's at the house and there's blood everywhere.

[00:01:04]>> There's blood everywhere?

[00:01:06]>> Yes.

[00:01:07]>> Is that your sister's house? What's your sister's address?

[00:01:11]>> I don't remember. It's in Avon Park.

[00:01:14]>> It's in Avon Park. Okay. Where are you at?

[00:01:17]>> I'm at the town star. The sister of 25-year-old Amanda Suarez went to her house expecting to spend some quality time together. Instead, she was faced with a horrific scene. Her sister, deceased on the kitchen floor, was surrounded by a pool of blood. As if that sight wasn't devastating enough, that wasn't the only thing that awaited her. Deep inside the crime scene, she could hear her nephew screaming and crying for help. She raced through the home following bloody footprints until finally she discovered him in a back room, unharmed but clearly distressed by what he had witnessed, the murder of his mother. Desperate to find out who was behind it, the police consulted a forensic interviewer and had her sit down with Amanda's son.

[00:01:58]>> Did mommy get a boo boo?

[00:02:01]>> Uhhuh. Did mommy get a boo boo?

[00:02:05]>> Mhm. Mommy.

[00:02:07]>> Mommy.

[00:02:09]>> Did you see mommy get a boo boo?

[00:02:11]>> Huh?

[00:02:12]>> Did you see mommy get a boo boo?

[00:02:18]>> Unfortunately, Amanda's son's age made it challenging for the police to ascertain if he had actually been a witness to the murder or just the aftermath. Thankfully, they had another source to help them figure out who had taken Amanda's life. Amanda herself.

[00:02:31]Police tracked down Amanda's cell phone, which had been thrown from a moving vehicle alongside a road several miles from her home. And when they looked inside, they found something shocking.

[00:02:41]Amanda had taken a picture of her killer in her apartment just 20 minutes before her death. Evidently, in the final few moments of her life, she knew that something was off and that she was the only person who could save herself. And it paid off because in the photo, the police could clearly make out her neighbor, Christopher Show, a high school dropout who had recently moved to town and was actually engaged to Amanda's cousin. Police also questioned one of Amanda's sons who lived with her to get more insight into Christopher as a person and when he had last set foot in the home. And what he has to tell is not only heartbreaking, but shocking.

[00:03:16]>> How old is >> um under 18? Like >> is he is he old enough to drive? No, he doesn't drive.

[00:03:24]>> No, but but he may not drive, but is he old enough to drive?

[00:03:27]>> Um, yes.

[00:03:29]>> Yes, >> he could drive if he wanted if he wanted to, but he needs to get his license.

[00:03:33]Like, he doesn't drive at all.

[00:03:34]>> So, he's at least 16 years old, but less than 18.

[00:03:38]>> Yeah. So, I'm He's 17. 16. I I know he's not 18, not 18.

[00:03:44]>> Okay.

[00:03:47]>> What are you talking about? And when's the last time you saw >> Monday? I think >> Monday he was at the house and he didn't mention about going out of town anymore.

[00:03:55]>> No, he he did just came back from but that was like in Thanksgiving. He came back from Thanksgiving break from somewhere, but I don't know where that was.

[00:04:03]>> Oh, he didn't tell you where it was.

[00:04:06]>> You know where his grandma is?

[00:04:08]>> Um, no. I know where his mom is. Where's that?

[00:04:11]>> Next to me. Well, you used to be next to me. Now I'm gone. She still lives there.

[00:04:17]But >> what's her name? Do you know?

[00:04:21]>> Um, no. Are we getting back our house?

[00:04:24]>> Yes.

[00:04:25]>> They said that we're never going back there again.

[00:04:28]>> Your your dad may not want to be there anymore.

[00:04:31]>> Police quickly brought him in for interrogation. Armed with not just the photo as evidence, but plenty more under their belt. But before we dive in, if you want to see people just like Christopher here dig themselves into a hole of no return, be sure to like and subscribe. It's literally all we do here.

[00:04:47]>> All right, let me introduce ourselves.

[00:04:49]Um, you know, we're here. We got working on a case and maybe you might be able to help us with some information that we need. When do you go?

[00:04:58]>> 11th grade.

[00:04:59]>> 11. I stopped and started going to work.

[00:05:02]I got it got a little rough. Okay. We moved down here and then we was dropped down here and I just kind of quit going to school.

[00:05:10]>> Where'd you go to school at?

[00:05:12]>> I don't where was the last >> I went to Okobi?

[00:05:15]>> Oh, you went to Oak High School. So you've been here how long?

[00:05:17]>> I've been here about 3 years relationship.

[00:05:21]>> Three years. So three years in Oak.

[00:05:25]>> Mhm.

[00:05:26]>> Okay.

[00:05:28]And uh the three years you been here, who have you been dating anybody or?

[00:05:32]>> I was dating my fiance.

[00:05:36]It's been 3 years.

[00:05:37]>> I wasn't here too long and I met her.

[00:05:40]>> What's her?

[00:05:41]>> What's her name?

[00:05:43]>> Someone that's in the hospital and that's who I was up there with.

[00:05:45]>> Okay. Is she okay?

[00:05:48]>> Hopefully. She might have to have heart surgery.

[00:05:50]>> Oh, seriously?

[00:05:51]>> She's probably going to go home today.

[00:05:53]Hopefully that's what happened up there and hopefully everything will be okay.

[00:05:58]>> Okay. She'll be together about 3 years.

[00:06:00]>> Y'all have any kids together?

[00:06:02]>> I've been thinking about it. Okay.

[00:06:06]>> So, last week, let's go back to last week. You worked all week.

[00:06:09]>> Mhm.

[00:06:09]>> Nice. You go home every day about 6:00.

[00:06:14]>> Yeah.

[00:06:14]>> You're asleep by somewhere about 7:30.

[00:06:16]>> Yeah.

[00:06:17]>> And you sleep at home.

[00:06:19]>> Mhm.

[00:06:19]>> That's every day.

[00:06:20]>> Yeah.

[00:06:21]>> Now, is there any days of those days that you didn't go home and go to bed immediately? Do you ever go to town? Do you ever go anywhere?

[00:06:26]>> No, I don't go nowhere.

[00:06:27]>> So, last week every day was your routine to go to bed at the same time? Yes.

[00:06:33]>> Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

[00:06:36]Sunday. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Same routine.

[00:06:39]>> Mhm.

[00:06:40]>> No, I stay at home.

[00:06:43]>> I'm um I stay home. I mowed my dad's grass one morning.

[00:06:47]>> But like I said, about 8:30, I quit that and went to bed because if I I have to have sleep, I'm a person that has to have a sleep or I'm not happy. And >> so Friday is the last time you drove to town.

[00:06:57]>> Yeah.

[00:06:57]>> What about last week at all? You drive to town? No. You said you were home sleeping every day. Yeah.

[00:07:02]>> I don't >> um they So you didn't visit anybody in town. You didn't go anywhere in town last last week.

[00:07:08]>> No.

[00:07:09]>> You worked all week and then on the weekends when you spend time with your family and you were with them when you go there except when you went to get gas.

[00:07:15]>> Yeah. That's the only time I know that.

[00:07:17]So basically kind of sit down with gas.

[00:07:20]>> Now I was with my wife. I ride with her.

[00:07:22]>> Yeah. And you were saying that um that you're fairly related to the the girl that was killed over here.

[00:07:28]>> Cousins.

[00:07:29]>> They're cousins. Are they good c close cousins?

[00:07:32]>> Family like sister.

[00:07:33]>> Okay. What about you? Are you close to her too and her husband?

[00:07:36]>> I consider myself in the family. I'm really I was close to her husband. I worked with her husband.

[00:07:41]>> He was a milker or >> No, I work with him at his job. He does now.

[00:07:45]>> Lay in line.

[00:07:46]>> Yeah. I didn't like it. I only last there two days.

[00:07:48]>> Hard work.

[00:07:49]>> I was kind of scared to get shot.

[00:07:50]>> Yeah.

[00:07:54]>> My car just caught me with my second day there and there. Would you rather milk cows or do the cable now with all the burns on your arms and everything?

[00:08:03]>> Lay the cable now.

[00:08:04]>> Little shocking my arms all beat up from getting kicked, man.

[00:08:08]>> Yeah, milking is hard work, man.

[00:08:11]>> I don't like it.

[00:08:12]>> Yeah, you probably take that cable job back now, huh?

[00:08:14]>> Yeah. He told me cuz I called him. I asked about I was like, "You think he's going to hire me back?" He said, "Yeah, come in." And my wife says that you don't need to take this job because you make them workers and this and that. So I didn't go. Well, you're never going to shop me no more. So >> So you're pretty close to to Matthew. Is Matthew is that his name? Matthew?

[00:08:36]>> I think we're close like family.

[00:08:38]>> Do you go to their house often?

[00:08:39]>> No.

[00:08:40]>> Never.

[00:08:40]>> I went there the two days I went to work.

[00:08:43]>> Two days. When was that?

[00:08:44]>> Yeah, I worked with him. That's all.

[00:08:45]>> So you only been there twice?

[00:08:47]>> A few times on occasions? I guess. It's not someone went all the time. They were more like came and seen us.

[00:08:52]>> Okay. When was >> before the time?

[00:08:54]>> Just when was the last time you went and visited them?

[00:08:57]>> It was when was it?

[00:09:03]>> I remember I didn't go there and visit nothing. I was there. I was taking my wife to get my mom. I can't remember when that was.

[00:09:08]>> Was it months ago, weeks ago?

[00:09:10]>> No, it was I think it was in November.

[00:09:12]>> November.

[00:09:12]>> It was the end of November.

[00:09:14]>> So, it's been a couple weeks at least.

[00:09:15]>> Yeah. I was there. I had to get my mom.

[00:09:18]>> Yeah. And then Matt came out and talked to me and things walking.

[00:09:22]>> I know Matt.

[00:09:23]>> Yes.

[00:09:24]>> You used to a long time ago. I've been clean. I ain't doing no good.

[00:09:29]>> So you don't even drink no more.

[00:09:32]>> No.

[00:09:33]>> Cigarettes is all I do.

[00:09:34]>> So you don't go to his house and hang out and smoke like a lot of friends. No, >> I want to keep my wife. If I smoke that [ __ ] So I don't even drink anymore. So even though we go to his house and >> hang out with him, do you ever sleep at his house? You sleep over, you never slept over his house or anything like that?

[00:09:52]>> You never stay there the night or nothing like that?

[00:09:56]>> No.

[00:09:57]>> Christopher has tried to distance himself from Amanda as much as possible in all of the answers he's given the police because at this point he still has no idea that Amanda's final act was taking a photo of him at the scene of the crime. Christopher was friendly with both Amanda and her husband as well as her kids due to dating her cousin who viewed Amanda as her sister. The family trusted him and he broke that trust in the most devastating way imaginable.

[00:10:22]>> Let's get back to uh do you remember when when she was killed?

[00:10:27]>> Yeah, I remember the day happening. What day was that?

[00:10:31]>> It was a Wednesday.

[00:10:32]>> Wednesday.

[00:10:33]>> Uh that you what do you hear about that?

[00:10:37]>> All do you hear? Over the time I've heard things, but the day it happened, she said that her wife she knew if she did anything and >> so she just >> Yeah, because she had heard handcuffed cuz you know rumor get started again.

[00:10:57]She heard handcuffed and there was a body but she didn't know. She just said she just hurt your sister.

[00:11:07]Then all that went out the window and she called back and said, "Going and this and that." And I was like, "I'm sorry. I had to go to work that night. I wanted to be there, but I just started a job, so I had to go to work."

[00:11:19]I went to work. I got home. I called her. She come out to me that next day she came out and she was all tore up.

[00:11:25]And I was holding her and telling her, "I'm sorry." Hey, even though it's not the real state, you don't feel something like this. And next few days I would just go to work and I'd be there with them when I could.

[00:11:37]>> Okay.

[00:11:37]>> Then she told me that um 15 days ago I guess the funeral guy told Matt that she was shot. So we found out she was shot. Um so what did you hear about what happened?

[00:11:51]just that she didn't got shot and maybe she who did all those details. Who told you all this?

[00:11:58]>> Just people my uh there my fiance tells me everything. I'm not just going to go up in the thing and be like, "Hey, what's going on?"

[00:12:06]>> Yeah.

[00:12:07]>> Terry told me everything, but I guess they found out from Matt. Linda found out from Matt.

[00:12:12]>> And they told they just got around.

[00:12:15]>> Okay.

[00:12:17]I guess on top of that because they were closed.

[00:12:21]>> Uh um as far as um again the day that that that she died, you said you worked till that morning.

[00:12:30]>> Okay.

[00:12:31]>> And then you went home and took a shower >> and talked to Sarah.

[00:12:34]>> Talk to Sarah.

[00:12:35]>> Tell her cuz she didn't know what she was wanting. I knew.

[00:12:40]>> And then she found out she was all crying cuz she was happy. So I told her, "Okay, that's fine." So they left that morning before you got home.

[00:12:46]>> No, they were gone. They left the night.

[00:12:49]>> The night before when you weren't working?

[00:12:51]>> Yeah, I had to go to work.

[00:12:52]>> The whole family left.

[00:12:54]>> Yeah, Sarah. The family left.

[00:12:57]Glenn and then left. Then me and Sarah was there. Sarah left.

[00:13:05]See, Wednesday. Is it Tuesday? Tuesday.

[00:13:08]Tuesday at lunchtime. Sarah left with Britney.

[00:13:12]heroin and left Monday. I'm saying Monday. So the the your parents her parents left Monday and then your girlfriend and her sister left >> Tuesday around last time when I was sleeping.

[00:13:22]>> So when there was no one home?

[00:13:24]>> No.

[00:13:25]>> No. That's why I'm saying I called her Wednesday.

[00:13:27]>> And then you went to sleep.

[00:13:28]>> Told her I called her. I called my mom.

[00:13:30]Call my dad.

[00:13:31]>> And then you went to sleep after you got home.

[00:13:33]>> Yeah. Half of Harold's yard.

[00:13:35]>> Oh no. That's when you move.

[00:13:37]>> Yeah. I mow him out half yard. It was about 8:30. all the sweets.

[00:13:42]>> Mhm.

[00:13:42]>> That's when I'm done. I still finish up.

[00:13:46]>> Is there is there anyone that can say you were there when that happened yard and you were home or you were just home alone?

[00:13:53]>> I was just there by myself. I was just talking to my wife and >> on the phone and then you and then you ended up going >> cuz I telling dad that I was going to mow his yard for him and I'll probably do it.

[00:14:05]>> So he told me don't do it. It was going to be too much for me trying to do that then go to sleep.

[00:14:08]>> Yeah. I said I could probably get it done cuz this is your attorney. Go that yard quick about 8:30 people in the mouth messed up and sounds like I go to sleep.

[00:14:21]>> Uh, all right.

[00:14:25]So, I always want to make sure, you know, we talk to a lot of people.

[00:14:28]>> We're going to make sure we cover every angle and talk to everyone because >> until we figure this out, everyone's a suspect.

[00:14:34]>> You understand that? and whether we should that obviously they're going to get around to me too because >> we got to everybody else.

[00:14:40]>> I mean movies and I know everything happened.

[00:14:42]>> We got to get to everybody. Um what what I want to ask you is okay. You said you were home on Tuesday. You have no one that can Wednesday. You have no one that can say you were home Wednesday. You moved along Wednesday, right?

[00:14:56]>> The only ones that were going to tell you that one yard is the people that work out in the field and stuff. saw you. Don't tell me who saw you or who didn't see you.

[00:15:04]>> No.

[00:15:05]>> So, you pretty much don't have anybody to say you were there on Wednesday.

[00:15:08]>> Um, you have a cell phone, right?

[00:15:11]>> Yes.

[00:15:11]>> Okay.

[00:15:13]>> Yes. Yes. We have to check phones also.

[00:15:17]And you know why we check phones, right?

[00:15:19]Because we can go back on those phones and we can tell where that phone was at all times going back in time. So we can go back from now till then and we can tell where you were then. You understand what I'm saying? We can follow that phone wherever it went.

[00:15:40]>> Yeah.

[00:15:42]>> So that's where we have your phone.

[00:15:45]>> Okay.

[00:15:45]>> You understand? And you're not the only one we're doing this to.

[00:15:48]>> But we want to make sure that everyone told me everything you told me was the truth.

[00:15:51]>> Yeah.

[00:15:52]>> So if there's anything you need to change, >> tell me now. Wow.

[00:15:57]>> So, when we go back to Wednesday morning, that phone is going to go from your barn to the house and it's going to stay there.

[00:16:05]>> Yeah.

[00:16:05]>> Correct.

[00:16:06]>> Yes, sir.

[00:16:07]>> Okay. So, if that phone moves from your house, we have a problem.

[00:16:14]>> Yeah.

[00:16:14]>> Do you understand what I'm saying?

[00:16:16]>> Yeah, sure.

[00:16:16]>> Okay. Um and that's a a huge problem.

[00:16:20]That's something that you're going to have to answer to.

[00:16:22]>> Yes, sir.

[00:16:23]>> Okay.

[00:16:24]And I'm going to get to the point now, okay?

[00:16:29]I can tell you haven't been really honest with me on a lot of things because as investigators, we follow every lead, we follow every turn, we talk to everyone. Okay? And uh we followed her phone also. Okay? You understand what I'm saying?

[00:16:48]>> Mhm. Um, and um, and your phone is being followed now to see how far it went, where it went, where it moved to.

[00:16:57]>> And I can tell you right now that I'm pretty sure your phone was at her house.

[00:17:03]You understand what I'm saying?

[00:17:04]>> Mhm.

[00:17:05]>> And there's a real reason why I know that.

[00:17:09]So, you and I need to have a good talk.

[00:17:12]You understand what I'm saying? Can you explain to me why you were there?

[00:17:17]>> I wasn't even there. How with the work in >> Hold on. Okay. See, we found Sarah's phone.

[00:17:25]>> Sarah, Sarah's gra.

[00:17:29]Okay.

[00:17:31]And your pictures in that phone.

[00:17:35]And your pictures in that phone within the time period that she was killed inside her house.

[00:17:43]You understand me? Same date, same time.

[00:17:50]You see who that is?

[00:17:53]That's even inside her house within a half hour of her being killed.

[00:17:58]You understand what I'm saying? This is why we're here. This is your chance to tell me you have what you have to say.

[00:18:12]>> This is your chance.

[00:18:14]You tell me if there's remorse in your heart.

[00:18:18]We need to talk.

[00:18:20]You understand me?

[00:18:21]>> The photo that police located on Amanda's phone showed Christopher sitting on the couch near her wearing Nike slides. The picture was clearly taken covertly, as if Amanda was trying to take it without Christopher realizing what she was doing. Many believe that Amanda did this because she sensed something was deeply, deeply wrong with Christopher, and that making a scene wasn't the safest option. Because keep in mind, one of Amanda's four children was inside the home, who were her entire world. She dedicated themselves fully to them and would have done anything to protect them. Getting Chris to go peacefully without him suspecting she was on to him likely felt the safest way for herself and her four young ones to escape with their lives. Unfortunately, that's not how things went.

[00:19:03]>> We're not here because, you know, we're just getting lucky.

[00:19:07]We're here because we know a lot of things.

[00:19:11]Did you see the one chance?

[00:19:16]Why were you there?

[00:19:19]I didn't see that.

[00:19:22]>> What happened?

[00:19:24]>> She was there. She opened I didn't kill her, >> but Tell me what happened.

[00:19:29]>> Show she open the window and say, "Hey, what's up?" But I said, >> like I said, that was the morning that the name being crazy and all and stuff.

[00:19:37]She open the window. said, "Could you talk tonight?"

[00:19:43]>> Of course, you just can't tell dad that I drunk his chocolate cuz I drank it. I had drank the beer right there.

[00:19:51]And I went in and we was talking and whatever. I fell asleep on the couch and I woke up and said, "All right, well, Matt's not here, so we just let it go."

[00:20:04]I was there for a little bit, not too long.

[00:20:07]I fell asleep on the couch and I woke up and said I'm going drinking. I need to get home.

[00:20:18]I went home and I went to sleep. All this happened. I was I was scared.

[00:20:24]I was just scared because I didn't want to take no I had done this [ __ ] I didn't want to open my mouth and tell anybody I went there with the truck. The problem is is that we never saw it.

[00:20:37]You understand?

[00:20:38]>> Yes.

[00:20:38]>> They saw what you were wearing.

[00:20:41]>> Okay. They're wearing slides that big.

[00:20:43]>> Yes.

[00:20:44]>> The slides are the footprints we found in the house in the wood.

[00:20:49]Understand what I'm saying?

[00:20:50]>> Mhm.

[00:20:51]>> That's why I know you're lying in them.

[00:20:56]What are those slides right now?

[00:20:57]>> My dad's house.

[00:20:58]>> They're in the house.

[00:20:59]>> My dad's my my Ronnie Ronnie Smith. Not >> so your dad's house. Ronnie Smith. He work he lives up there also.

[00:21:08]>> No, he works he lives in over there by >> that restaurant.

[00:21:14]>> I don't know his address. I know he lives in the apartment.

[00:21:18]>> Okay.

[00:21:18]>> Where that ice machine's at? He lives right there.

[00:21:21]>> See, we know what happened.

[00:21:24]We know you walked all over the house.

[00:21:30]Correct.

[00:21:31]You walked in her blood. You left footprints.

[00:21:35]We have your shoe size. We know what kind of size we're wearing.

[00:21:40]Never saw you.

[00:21:42]So, as of right now, I want to know exactly what happened.

[00:21:48]Tell me what happened.

[00:21:56]Why did it happen? Did she attack you?

[00:22:00]Did she threaten you? She put a knife on you. She scare you.

[00:22:06]What happened?

[00:22:13]This is your ch to show some remorse. I know in your heart you feel it. This is something you're carrying with you. And the only way you're going to feel better about this is to let it go.

[00:22:26]You believe in God, right?

[00:22:28]You believe in forgiveness, right?

[00:22:31]That's kind of >> Tell me what happened.

[00:22:36]>> I didn't.

[00:22:37]>> You did it.

[00:22:39]>> What happened?

[00:22:41]>> I'm sorry.

[00:22:44]>> I got scared.

[00:22:45]>> I understand. I was scared. Scared because I was there and I didn't want to take nothing.

[00:22:53]Just walked around.

[00:22:58]The rest is kind of foggy. I was kind of blacked out. I guess I remember being home in her tits.

[00:23:10]It's not the only time it's been a lot happen. I understand.

[00:23:15]>> Yeah. Sometimes we make mistakes.

[00:23:18]>> I respect mistakes, you know, and it makes you a man to face it.

[00:23:27]I wanted to groom myself then. I just didn't know how to do it without getting away from everybody. I wanted to come deny these things that they'll really put you away if you try to hide or whatever.

[00:23:38]>> Well, it's more helpful.

[00:23:40]>> I didn't want you to come forward and face my wife and see her heart after I was there and cared.

[00:23:50]>> I understand. I saw you. I just didn't want to I didn't want to see her heart rate like that. I know I hurt her because I never shut off her in any way like that. I just wanted to I just didn't know how to get here to turn myself in without letting anybody know what I was doing because now here is my safest place going to want to kill me.

[00:24:11]>> Well, I think you were burning your heart.

[00:24:13]>> They're not going to want to um they ain't let me know talking for now.

[00:24:18]This is the same place I am. No one wasn't hurt you, right? Understand?

[00:24:23]>> Footprints were found throughout the home, painting a frantic scene of a killer who didn't know what to do after he took Amanda's life. The footprints paced down the hall, retreating to the bedroom where Amanda's young son was found. And then back outside, the footprints left in blood were a perfect match for Christopher's shoe size and the shoes seen in the photo that Amanda took prior to her death. I had a 22 22s and I was drinking all drunk. Not I just had one drank about that much that day.

[00:24:52]>> Where's the 22 in with gun cabinet?

[00:24:55]>> Okay. So you got out of hand.

[00:24:58]>> Okay.

[00:24:59]>> And I was playing around outside shooting the gun and stuff.

[00:25:01]>> That's showcases with hands.

[00:25:04]>> Yes. It was a 22 rifle.

[00:25:06]>> It was mine that I bought.

[00:25:08]>> Where did you buy it at?

[00:25:10]>> Off of a buddy. I don't even know if it's a good gun or not. I just not bought it cuz I wanted it.

[00:25:14]>> I had it a long time before and since everything's out now, I just always had thoughts and killing and what it would be like. Would it make me feel any better because everything that happened to me? And >> would it make anything any better if I someone? Does it would it make my ear go away?

[00:25:34]Do nothing.

[00:25:36]>> Yeah.

[00:25:39]But it fell.

[00:25:41]I wanted to turn myself in. I can't sleep, man. I can't really eat. Mhm.

[00:25:45]>> Should be better than you were. So, this is thought to you had before. Do you want to see how it felt to kiss someone?

[00:25:52]>> Yeah. Like, is it like the movies in life? It's like there's so much that goes on in my head.

[00:25:58]I can't even think straight sometimes.

[00:26:00]>> And when that stuff happened, I can't remember. I remember going in there being scared and she got up and just was running to the back door and I shot her and I dug her in the kitchen and the rest is just foggy. Okay, cuz I guess the jacket hit me or something and I don't remember nothing and I remember being so scared and I couldn't find the truck keys. There's blood on Har's truck. Harold didn't have nothing to do with this. I promise. He was not there.

[00:26:27]He had nothing to do with but there was blood in his truck and I tried to clean the blood off because it was all over me.

[00:26:33]>> And I hope they just don't find in their truck. I don't want them to go through seeing that >> and then lost everything that you just get so used.

[00:26:45]>> I don't feel like I'm right sometimes.

[00:26:47]>> Mhm.

[00:26:49]>> Which I'm not kill.

[00:26:53]>> Well, you know, everybody's different.

[00:26:55]Everybody has things you got to deal with.

[00:26:57]>> And I'm not going to be I'm not a violent person. I don't know what happened.

[00:27:00]>> Nobody ever said that. I never thought you were a violent person.

[00:27:03]>> I knew it was over when they arrested me because they didn't do nobody else like that in the family.

[00:27:08]>> They didn't just go in and grab nobody and arrest them. I knew I'm done.

[00:27:14]>> So, can you if we go back to when you got off work, you have thoughts?

[00:27:19]>> Tell you everything.

[00:27:20]>> Okay.

[00:27:20]>> Everything I told you before was true.

[00:27:22]That was >> I I believe all that. Just Wednesday.

[00:27:25]>> Wednesday. So So you're telling me you have you had thoughts of this?

[00:27:29]>> No. I never had killing her.

[00:27:32]>> Not her. I just >> Yes.

[00:27:34]>> Sarah about this. Sarah told me I needed help.

[00:27:36]>> Yeah.

[00:27:37]>> Cuz I would just I'd be just talking like this right here.

[00:27:41]>> And it's like I would lock up and just thought the killer would come in my head or the strain of somebody and I'm just always feel angry. Not nobody in particular. Angry. It's just >> internal angry.

[00:27:56]>> Yeah. Family got split up. We moved here. I lived in Mississippi all my life. And there's so much stuff going on. And I don't feel like I I just feel horrible because I never been out a job, but I've had so many jobs. I feel like I'm not a good man to share. I can't provide or nothing. I had a house. I lost the house to drinking. I can't put drinking down. Drinking is a problem for me.

[00:28:18]Which that was the last time I drank was only that Wednesday. I got off work Wednesday morning. I went home and I showered, let the dogs out, watch them in the yard, and I took Carol's jack ball, Jack Daniels, and I just kind of chugged it and I couldn't have stopped myself this time.

[00:28:36]I had to go do something.

[00:28:42]The only one that came why, but I knew she was alone because Matt was at work. I work with him.

[00:28:49]>> However, I didn't go and kill him. I was just going to go over there. Hopefully Matt was there to talk to him. On my way there, I called my mom and told her I'd love to do it. And called Ronnie.

[00:29:03]No, a lot of time I tried. I just wanted to turn the truck around and go home. I couldn't. I just didn't know what the hell I was doing actually. I was getting I was in my mind, I guess. Yeah. And I just kept looking at myself in the mirror ever since.

[00:29:16]While Christopher wants to paint a picture of a poor young man in a downward spiral, the rest of his family seems to be in utter denial. Like his mother, who police brought in for questioning, and who was utterly stunned by what her son had done.

[00:29:29]>> Can can you tell about you know everything pretty much you know some details about what happened.

[00:29:37]>> Mhm. Um, what do have you heard about that >> from the news or from the newspaper? I heard that the not Chris. I don't you know I don't know.

[00:29:54]>> Did he has he ever told you anything at all about any of this? Did he talk to you about it?

[00:30:00]>> Not at all.

[00:30:01]>> He hasn't told you anything about at all?

[00:30:03]>> No.

[00:30:03]>> Uh, from the day the 7th he said, "Did you work?" Yes.

[00:30:07]>> Were you working on the 7th?

[00:30:09]>> Working on the seventh, I think. Yeah, I think I worked that morning.

[00:30:12]>> Yeah, that morning.

[00:30:13]>> Where are you working at?

[00:30:14]>> KFC.

[00:30:15]>> KFC.

[00:30:15]>> So, you were working that morning?

[00:30:17]>> Mhm.

[00:30:18]>> You didn't hear from him at work?

[00:30:20]>> No.

[00:30:20]>> You said you heard from him that evening?

[00:30:22]>> Yes. He just told me that he had some bad news. I'm like, well, what is it, son? Cuz Sarah's um cousin, they found her dead. I'm like, okay, they know who did it? No, they don't know who did. I said, "Okay."

[00:30:37]>> So, you didn't feel anything else?

[00:30:38]>> No. But every day after that, he called me. He came over.

[00:30:43]>> Was that normal for him?

[00:30:45]>> Were you guys close or were you kind of distant in a way?

[00:30:48]>> We were.

[00:30:50]>> From what I gather, >> you guys weren't really close like >> Yeah, we were close, but I work all the time. He was working. So, yeah.

[00:30:58]>> Was that a change in behavior though?

[00:31:00]>> Yes, it was for him. Yeah. you know, >> cuz he called me every day saying, "Mom, I love you." And I'm like, "Okay, Chris, I love you, too."

[00:31:09]>> And he came over like every every other night he came over to spend time with the kids that >> did that.

[00:31:18]>> Yeah. That was after that. So, there was a change in the behavior.

[00:31:22]>> Yes.

[00:31:23]>> Yes.

[00:31:25]>> Did he ever say anything that concerned you? anything at all to me that he may have said during that time period that >> was not normal.

[00:31:34]>> Well, he did say that that he will always love me no matter what happened.

[00:31:41]Sometimes you can be here and then some, you know, and then you're just gone, you know. I'm like I said, well, Chris, are you okay? He said, yes, mom.

[00:31:51]And that was like that was kind of odd.

[00:31:57]He never disclosed anything about this.

[00:31:58]>> No.

[00:32:00]>> Okay.

[00:32:01]>> Not at all.

[00:32:02]>> And and you have visited him at jail.

[00:32:04]>> Yeah.

[00:32:04]>> How many times are you visiting him already?

[00:32:06]>> This will be my second time.

[00:32:07]>> Second time. When was the last time?

[00:32:10]>> Tuesday.

[00:32:10]>> So last Tuesday.

[00:32:12]>> Yes. Last Tuesday.

[00:32:13]>> And then today being Wednesday.

[00:32:15]>> Yes.

[00:32:26]What have you have you So you really He hasn't told you anything during visitation.

[00:32:31]>> Well, I asked him the first time. I said, "What did you did you do it?" He goes, "I want to know." You know, that's >> it's not like him. Well, he goes, "Well, mom, no." Well, he didn't tell me. He goes, "Mom, I can't talk about it cuz I guess we're being recorded."

[00:32:43]>> Yeah.

[00:32:43]>> I said, "Okay." And then I asked him again. He goes, "Well, mom, you know me, right?" And I said, "Yes, Chris, I do know you." So, I don't know. Something something ain't right.

[00:32:55]>> He says something ain't right. Other than how?

[00:32:57]>> Because, you know, he wouldn't do this.

[00:32:59]I mean, he's over protected over me, over his sisters. I mean, >> when me and Johnny, my boyfriend, we get in a fight, he's like, "Don't you lay hands on her. Don't you do this." No, that's No, that's Chris.

[00:33:13]>> But this is not Chris. either he might have >> might have been having something with that girl and somebody walked in. I don't know. But it's like everything's going through my mind right and I was like it can't be him.

[00:33:26]>> Yeah. It's it's hard to believe. It is.

[00:33:28]>> It's hard for us to believe.

[00:33:31]>> But evidence doesn't lie.

[00:33:33]>> Oh.

[00:33:33]>> And and not only does evidence not lie, but he talked to us and he >> gives details that no one else should have ever known.

[00:33:41]>> Right.

[00:33:42]because it was details that we did not release to anyone.

[00:33:46]>> It was details that the deputies or anybody here didn't know, but me and another >> detective and and a couple of the evidence people and and the details he gave were exactly as as the scene details.

[00:34:00]>> Okay.

[00:34:00]>> I don't understand why we do it. I just >> we we don't either. Uh we tried to we try to figure that out ourselves, but we probably would never know.

[00:34:10]>> Yeah. Um, we'll probably never know.

[00:34:13]>> Uh, it's a tragedy.

[00:34:15]>> Yes.

[00:34:16]>> For everyone.

[00:34:17]>> Uh, your family's suffering. Her family is suffering.

[00:34:21]>> Everyone's suffering. So, it's just, it's a horrible thing.

[00:34:24]>> Could somebody could have helped him or something? I mean, you know, I'm like, >> help them. I didn't help.

[00:34:29]>> You know, do that.

[00:34:31]>> He's got he's a trans man.

[00:34:32]>> No, I'm talking about when the killed. I mean, could he have somebody there to help him do it? I mean, >> I mean, There is no signs of anyone else being there with one person.

[00:34:43]>> Okay.

[00:34:45]>> And that's why I'm just, >> you know, and I'm just going to be straight up with you. There was shoe prints in the house.

[00:34:52]>> Okay.

[00:34:52]>> Of one person only. Um >> Okay.

[00:34:55]>> And the shoe prints were in blood.

[00:34:58]>> And the only person that had those shoes on was him.

[00:35:02]And we had the shoes.

[00:35:04]>> Okay.

[00:35:04]>> So there's no one else that left their shoe prints in the house but him. and he admitted that they were his and he admitted that he was the only one in the house besides the child.

[00:35:14]>> I just couldn't cuz he's over protected over his the little one. I mean >> I don't know.

[00:35:23]>> Yeah. So no, we don't believe that was anyone in the house.

[00:35:26]>> Okay.

[00:35:28]All right.

[00:35:29]>> Okay.

[00:35:30]>> Okay.

[00:35:31]>> You have any questions? I'll answer the best I can if you >> I'm here to answer some questions if you want to ask me some questions.

[00:35:36]>> Okay. So, whatever you can think of, just ask him.

[00:35:39]>> Okay.

[00:35:40]>> Sure.

[00:35:41]>> Yeah. I'm sure I'm just I'm still he just he can't do this. I don't know something.

[00:35:49]>> Yes. It's difficult to especially being your son and and it's no parent wants to think of their son.

[00:35:54]>> I know >> being a criminal in this, >> you know, in this category.

[00:35:59]>> I know. But >> it's hard to believe.

[00:36:03]But you know, like I explained to you, there is details that he provided that >> details that we didn't even know that after we looked back, we're like, "Oh, yeah. Now we'll see."

[00:36:13]>> Okay.

[00:36:13]>> So, you know, when he provided those details, yes, we we knew we had the right person.

[00:36:18]>> Chris couldn't do this. I said, "I know." I said, "I don't know."

[00:36:20]>> Well, as you saw in the news, it's been released.

[00:36:24]The girl took a picture of him in the house.

[00:36:26]>> Yeah. And it was within a 20-minute period of her dying and he was the only one in the house with her.

[00:36:34]>> So, you know, there just those things kind of came together uh and that's what led us to him.

[00:36:41]>> Okay.

[00:36:42]>> So, you know, the picture she took was pictures are, you know, speak a thousand words, you know.

[00:36:48]>> He was in the house with her and it was not a place where he should have been.

[00:36:50]He had a business.

[00:36:52]>> Yeah. He shouldn't. and uh his picture to be on her phone inside her house at the approximate time period when the murder occurred kind of, you know, >> led us in his direction.

[00:37:07]>> Okay.

[00:37:07]>> But Chris did do that and his mother's denial that he had any violent tendencies and her pure disbelief that her son could do this don't exactly match his record. You see, many neighbors found Chris to be combative and odd. He got into physical altercations with others, including family members. There were signs that things weren't right, signs that no one seemed to acknowledge and that Chris himself didn't seek out any help for.

[00:37:31]>> I didn't hurt no one.

[00:37:37]Well, I talked and I fell asleep on the couch. She know like I was sitting. I was sleep because I was drunk.

[00:37:43]>> Yeah.

[00:37:45]And I woke up one day kind of grabbed her leg and she said, "Stop. Don't grab my leg."

[00:37:52]That's when I got scared. I didn't want to say it. I didn't want to lose nothing.

[00:37:57]But instead of a simple argument with my wife, I lost everything. Now when I got the gun and she ran and I shot her and I drove her in the kitchen.

[00:38:06]Um the rest I don't remember when you drove her in the kitchen. Um, what we see there was you moved her around in the hallway. Correct. Had to move her.

[00:38:16]>> She had to close the door.

[00:38:17]>> So the door was open. She got to run out the door.

[00:38:20]>> Yes. That's when the neighbors send me her scream because she screamed out door help. That's when I saw her.

[00:38:24]>> Okay. So she she fall out the door.

[00:38:27]>> Kind of.

[00:38:28]>> Kind of. And I grabbed her and her back in.

[00:38:30]>> You close the door. And then did you move her?

[00:38:33]>> Can't remember. After that I r her through the hallway and then I don't remember.

[00:38:37]>> How do you dag her?

[00:38:39]Like that shirt?

[00:38:41]>> Yeah. Like shirt.

[00:38:43]>> Okay. And then you place her in the gun.

[00:38:47]>> What do you put on that when you grab?

[00:38:49]>> Just in the the kitchen.

[00:38:51]>> Kitchen. Okay. And then the the gun you put where?

[00:38:55]>> I sent over there and and the blood ran all over on the bottom of the gun and the gun probably got blood on the bottom of it. I tried to clean it, but I don't think it got it.

[00:39:06]>> I just want you to know that this was just me. Nobody had nothing to do with it. I don't I knew I snapped out of my [ __ ] >> I snapped out of these stinks and stuff and I knew I when I got back home, but I started crying. I knew I messed up. I wanted to turn my but I was just scared to >> cuz I'm clean. So, I took my Jordans and I told my I took them to my dad the Jordans took them to my dad's and I told him to leave them there. I've been trying to avoid getting them back. So, everything kind of slowed down, but I knew it was they were going to calm down. They were going to get me next week. What about your clothes? Where's your clothes at?

[00:39:40]>> I burned her.

[00:39:41]>> Um, let's talk about her phone. Why?

[00:39:44]What happened with her phone?

[00:39:46]>> I took it.

[00:39:48]Okay. What's the reason? I remember the only one thing I remember after grabbing her phone because I grabbed the gun and I seen the the phone on the floor and it was covered in blood.

[00:40:00]No, I went around in the back to make sure there wasn't nothing around back. I was thinking your name was No, we're looking it up, but I think it was Henry.

[00:40:09]>> Then her phone was sitting on the back porch, the back step with blood all over. I picked it up and I got in the truck. I think that's where all the blood came from that got in the truck, I guess, >> cuz the I had blood on my hand.

[00:40:19]>> Christopher repeatedly claims that he was scared. And at this point, police know he's leaving details out because what exactly scared Christopher so much that he had to shoot an innocent mother of four? something that he's embarrassed to admit and will try to deny up until the very end.

[00:40:35]>> I don't know why the hell I did what I did. I just it didn't make no sense to me at all. When I did, I couldn't stop.

[00:40:42]>> Have you ever heard anyone else in the past?

[00:40:46]>> Just people like fighting or whatever.

[00:40:48]>> Your hands fine. But you never killed anyone else.

[00:40:51]>> And I get that's why I don't like to be I don't like to be messing cuz I'm real little but my temper stuff that I go a little >> Mhm.

[00:40:59]get crazy and I don't know when to stop.

[00:41:01]I went to jail for a battery. You probably seen that on my record. I went to jail for that battery. But this boy hit my little brother and he's only 16.

[00:41:08]I grabbed him up and basically on top of him I would have killed him and pulled me off.

[00:41:13]>> I just kept beating his face and >> Okay. Um >> Okay.

[00:41:21]>> Can I ask you a question? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Um, sure.

[00:41:25]>> I know. Um, telling once in a lifetime.

[00:41:28]>> Well, what am I? You know, it's >> what's the main I can get for this. What I was, if you look on the history on my phone, I was looking up first degree murder, what is second degree, what is the premeditated thing? And I guess premeditated, you thought about doing it. Maybe that is the case, but I didn't have the intention to do it. Was just thought it.

[00:41:49]>> Yeah.

[00:41:50]But they said death comes to your life and >> well and it's a crime obviously we all know that you know um I I really can't tell you it all depends on on your attorney and and what the jury decides and what the judge decides. So I really can't tell you how that's going to work out. Um you will be charged with murder obviously right you know that already.

[00:42:12]>> What kind is there? I I can't tell you yet because I have to to talk to everybody and talk to the attorney >> and I don't want nobody like I was I put the baby in danger because I wanted but I didn't intentionally >> and I have no doubt you don't want to hurt that baby I know you didn't because that's not who you are. You weren't going to hurt that baby.

[00:42:30]>> Um and you know what happened you know it happened. There's nothing you can do about it.

[00:42:36]>> I just had so much >> but it doesn't make you that person. You got to understand that. Okay. Everyone makes mistakes. We all do. Some make bigger ones than others, but it's a mistake. And that's where we're at. You see what I'm saying? And uh and I'm sure you talking to me, you already feel better.

[00:42:52]>> I feel better, but I just if it's possible, I request I don't want to see Harold or if my mom I would rather y'all tell my mom. Yes. Please >> tell her what I did. And >> did you tell anybody what happened?

[00:43:09]>> No, I called my mom. This is what I'm saying. I was in the haze and I called my mom on my way >> and I was really hoping that Matt was going to do that and it would have been >> Did you tell her you were >> No, I told her I just I called her and tell I love her because I thought I was going to >> I knew I was probably going to do something stupid.

[00:43:29]>> But is there anybody else you could fight it in and talk to about this?

[00:43:33]>> No.

[00:43:33]>> What happened?

[00:43:37]>> I don't see no family. I just if my mom wants to see me with what I told I just can't handle seeing the fair.

[00:43:46]>> Oh yeah, I know it's real crazy question. There's no way a smoke >> I don't have anyone >> with his question about sentencing the police have one of their own. Was this act premeditated? And if so, just how long had Christopher been planning to attack Amanda?

[00:44:02]>> Did you go inside initially with the rifle or what?

[00:44:06]So then I was trying to fight myself.

[00:44:09]>> I was trying not to do nothing. So I went in there and I kind of just sat on the couch like you see in that picture.

[00:44:14]I was sitting there watching TV and I fell asleep like that.

[00:44:17]>> What was she doing while you were >> She was s She's the one that took the picture. She was sitting right there.

[00:44:22]>> Did you know she took your picture?

[00:44:23]>> Dude, I was out. I woke up and I kind of ran away and you know she said stop. She didn't freak out or nothing. She just kind of said, "Stop. Call me." And >> I freaked out.

[00:44:39]>> So you got up and went outside >> and got the gun.

[00:44:42]>> What did she think you were doing when you got up and went outside?

[00:44:44]>> I don't know. I said, "All right, I'll see you later." She said, "Okay." And she was still sitting in my couch and I came back in with the gun >> and then >> she got the door on the couch. She got up and kind of ran and I ran behind her and I grabbed her when she was up. She went to open the door and I grabbed her.

[00:44:59]>> Was that the back door?

[00:45:01]>> Yeah. Then I let her go and she started screaming up.

[00:45:06]>> Where exactly was she positioned when you shot her?

[00:45:09]>> Where was she?

[00:45:10]>> She was kind of like crouched down because she had just fell trying to get out the back door. I shot her and I pulled her real quick.

[00:45:16]>> Yeah, but I mean before at the time you shot her. Uh, and did you grab her and pull her in first or you shot her and then pulled her back in?

[00:45:22]>> I shot her and then pulled her in.

[00:45:24]>> So where was she exactly? What where was she at when she >> She was trying to go out the door.

[00:45:29]>> So was the door open or closed?

[00:45:30]>> It was open. That's why they say when the neighbor said they heard the shot cuz it was kind of outside.

[00:45:36]>> Did she make it outside or was she >> halfway? That's when she dropped her phone and there was a little blood there maybe and they yanked her back in the house before anything got in the way.

[00:45:46]>> So >> the neighbors were all outside calling and stuff. That's why they said they see me because they were all calling her name or whatever trying to I guess check on her. I went around back the phone up and >> Well, where did she uh did she fall after you shot her?

[00:46:00]Yeah, she just kind of limped over and just did what I did and just had to I left her out there just the way she was. I kind of tripped over walking out.

[00:46:11]So, I don't know if that moved her or not cuz I went I went and told okay, I'm not going to hurt you or whatever and I was walking out. I slipped in the blood and I I kind of lost my foot. I slipped and I grabbed myself. I grabbed the gun and I looked around to make sure nothing but I knew I was finished because of the [ __ ] footprint. I seen the footprints on the rugs and I seen the footprints and I seen I just didn't know how I could I don't know like I just couldn't believe it. I was shaking real bad and everything and I wanted didn't have no more 22 bullets or I would have >> So the gun was out?

[00:46:47]>> Yeah.

[00:46:48]>> Only had one bullet.

[00:46:50]>> Yeah, cuz I shot all the 22 pesos at Harold. I used all his bullets.

[00:46:54]>> And then you were there until everything happened. You said everything went down at about what time? maybe 10, maybe 11 something because I wasn't at the when I shot her and stuff it I don't think it was too long but like I said it's hard to remember just know I got there and I fell on the couch told him I was there he wasn't there and I was watching the movie that she had going and I fell asleep like that I got up I kind of reached over and grabbed her leg I guess he said no and what are you doing I freaked out scared and I went and got the and shot him, drug her and did what I did to her and told him fine. I know going to hurt him and got in the truck.

[00:47:36]I couldn't find the keys. I think I I spent probably about 30 minutes looking for keys cuz I couldn't find them.

[00:47:41]>> Is that why there were so many tracks in the house?

[00:47:43]>> Yeah, I was looking for the [ __ ] keys. I couldn't find them. And I found them under the seat.

[00:47:47]>> Under the truck seat.

[00:47:48]>> Under the truck seat. So you left them in there before you went in the house?

[00:47:52]>> Yeah, I guess they fell between the seats. I grabbed them out of the seat, turned the trucks up and got the hell out of there. I booked it out there and why the trucks was low on gas like it was. It didn't make it to the gas station cuz I had basically the truck gas was going off and off and off on the way home. It just kept beeping gas if he was going to see me like this.

[00:48:10]And Chris has hit a snag in his own story here. He claims that his plan after taking Amanda's life was to essentially join her on the other side, but in his version of events, he was out of bullets. However, he says at some point in the interrogation that when he was fleeing the scene, he had three unused bullets that he threw over a fence, which completely erases his I had no choice but to live narrative, doesn't it, >> Chrisy? I think you're opening up to us and I I believe you're being honest. Um, but we just want to make sure if if there's been any previous incidents where we may need to >> look at. You said you had some films in the past.

[00:48:53]>> Yeah, but I never carried them out. Like I said, there was always I guess I can't be by myself.

[00:49:00]>> That always happens to my mom by myself.

[00:49:01]Sarah at work when I leave work, it's always someone's with me, whether it be Sarah, her dad, my mom.

[00:49:10]>> You ever heard anybody before?

[00:49:12]>> No.

[00:49:12]>> What about >> the only violence that as violent as I ever got was with Allan when I went got arrested at night. That's about the only time I got vine. Sarah was I guess you can kind of like my second mom because I really don't have a relationship with my mom and now I cheated on Sarah. But that was when we first got together. I didn't have a feeling that and I cheated on drinking but that >> Well, I mean if you were to kind of force yourself on somebody.

[00:49:38]>> No. No. I never did nothing like that.

[00:49:41]That's what I'm saying. I don't know what came over me though. that happened.

[00:49:47]I was just so angry. And >> at what point did it first come into your your mind as being the person that you were going to uh carry this out on?

[00:49:58]>> She never came into mind as doing it like this.

[00:50:01]>> Well, let me ask you this. Do you think that you should be punished for this?

[00:50:05]>> Definitely. I think I should do the time that I need to do.

[00:50:12]>> Mhm.

[00:50:13]But at the same time, my life also have the other side of this whole life thing.

[00:50:18]I don't want to spend my life in prison.

[00:50:20]I do think I deserve in prison.

[00:50:24]I think I deserve to be punished for what I did.

[00:50:30]But at the same time, I just swing shot at life and having a family.

[00:50:35]And I shot at my dreams. I want to drive trucks. I want to be a similar girl.

[00:50:43]What would like that be a job truck and come back and provide my family to everybody? This was a this was a person who's never had any drug use history. She's never been in any kind of trouble. Uh we haven't heard a bad thing about her.

[00:51:02]How do you how do you factor all of those people in? Amanda was a loving mother of four, a wife, a cousin, a sister, daughter, and friend. Her family was her entire life. And in an instant, she was taken away from everyone who loved her. All because Christopher shows felt that he was entitled to have her.

[00:51:23]Chris was charged with armed burglary, first-degree premeditated murder, and tampering with evidence. At trial, rather than owning up to his actions, he once again took the coward's way out, pleading no contest. He was sentenced to two life sentences and will remain behind bars in Florida until his last breath. Our thoughts are with the family of Amanda Suarez.

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