American Monster Season 13 Episode 4

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00:00T was very energetic. She would always have a smile and she just loved life. There was just

00:10something so special and beautiful about her. Baby, I'm listening to what you're saying. I

00:15know. I hear you. David could be extremely charming. He was going to be in a wheelchair

00:23for the rest of his life. She would literally just carry him throughout the house. I feel

00:29like he expected her to do certain things, but he didn't have the respect. She didn't

00:38want to feel like she was in prison anymore. This case is a true reminder that appearances

00:44can be deceiving. Dance department! He's very good at not showing that dark side.

00:59January 2016. T and David Swims are supporting their beloved Ole Miss University at a marching

01:20competition in Atlanta, Georgia. T is extremely bubbly, energetic. She just makes you want

01:28to just have fun. Look like she's just enjoying herself and singing, something she loved to

01:36do. And dancing, something she couldn't do. The same shimmy dance she did with her shoulders.

01:45There's David. He's trying to look mean and tough. And now she finally got David into it.

01:55T knew David almost our whole life, really. He could be extremely charming. They look like

02:07a very, very happy couple. She loved him. I could tell.

02:14Antietta Archie, lovingly known as T, is born on November 18, 1985, to Anatoly and Alyssa Archie

02:25in Carroll County, Mississippi. T was very energetic. She was smart. She would always have a smile.

02:39And she just loved life. When she was young, T was very helpful with her baby sister, Shalanda.

02:52They were six years apart. And T felt that she was more of big sister slash mom. T was, she

03:01was the glue. She was the natural nurturer for the entire family.

03:07T's fierce loyalty is strengthened by a traumatic family split.

03:12My divorce was hard on them, but I would always make sure they had what they needed.

03:20As a teacher, Miss Archie instills the importance of education in her daughters.

03:26T was a phenomenal student. She was very determined to have straight A's.

03:32T ended up graduating high school and going to the University of Mississippi. Well, Ole Miss.

03:40T thrives in the college town of Oxford, and her time there is filled with happiness.

03:45T graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2008. And she told me, she said,

03:51Mama, I'm going to catch the first train coming. So she took the first job that she was offered,

04:00and it was in Yazoo City as a teacher, third grade. I was very proud.

04:10Not long after moving to Yazoo City, 22-year-old T reconnects with an old acquaintance, 27-year-old David Swims.

04:20I taught David in sixth grade math. He was a good student, but he was a student that thought he knew it all, but he didn't.

04:33David had quite a reputation within our hometown. He was labeled as a bad boy.

04:42T and David start dating. She learns he has two children with two different partners and is in the midst of a divorce.

04:50As an adult, I heard David was a jealous person. I know that he and his first wife have major issues.

05:03Hearing things around town about what he was doing made me very uncomfortable.

05:11On the day that T brought David to my house, she came in and he was behind her.

05:18She said, Mama, David and I are dating now. I said, Oh, really?

05:23He walked in with pride, you know, like chest out. He knew what a gym he was getting.

05:32David was offering her a lifestyle that she was not used to. The streets, the clubs, the partying.

05:42This was all new to her. This was like a lifestyle that Mama tried to keep me away from.

05:51This is not a relationship that I want her to be in. But she was an adult now.

05:57I think the bad side is what she was attracted to the most. And in her mind, she would be able to love this person and allow them to find the good side within themselves.

06:09David claims he wants to marry T. But in March 2009, one year into the relationship, his life takes an unexpected turn.

06:22T called me and she said, Mama, David has been in an accident. He was hit by a truck.

06:35My mom, she said that David may not live. She told me to come on. We're going to get in the car. And then we got there. My sister was right by his bedside.

06:50He was going to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. I wanted him to go for care from his mom or other family members. But T told me David is going to go home with me. She said, Mama, I love him.

07:11I could tell instantly that she was determined to make that relationship work.

07:18But that was the kind of person T was. She just couldn't walk away from something that she started.

07:27T moves David into her Yazoo City home and they start on the long road to recovery.

07:33I think after David's accident, it was a blow to his ego because he had to ask for help. And that's really what he did not like asking for help.

07:51They were struggling. Sometimes he would be emotional. I definitely will say he took his frustrations out on her.

07:59I mean, she would literally just carry him throughout the house. She was going to be that loyal person for him because it's in her mind that was her soulmate.

08:13With T's unwavering care, David slowly regains his confidence.

08:18This is David when he wanted to try to regain strength and help him be able to walk again.

08:29He seemed to put aside his disability and began making it an ability.

08:40Once David's divorce is finalized, he and T set a wedding date for the winter of 2010.

08:46My heart dropped. I did not want her to stay in that relationship. Not because of the paralysis, but because he was who he was.

08:59He said that I'm going to love her and I refuse to ever leave.

09:06In the months before the wedding, T and David regularly visit Miss Archie.

09:10T had come to the house, she and David, with the little baby. And I'm like, T, whose baby is this?

09:22So she pointed at David. And I said, T, you all were together when this baby was conceived.

09:35We realized that he had had a daughter while they were dating. T was very hurt that he chose someone else over her.

09:45So I'm shocked. I'm thinking, what had she done to him that would make him do that to her?

09:57It was like he was saying, OK, it's my baby, so what?

10:03You know that he stepped out before and he just won't stop.

10:08My heart was telling me to tell her, you know, get out of this. Take it and run. You don't have any obligations to him yet.

10:18I feel that she thought she was getting a husband. In actuality, he was not what he appeared to be.

10:31T marries David Swims on November 20th, 2010.

10:51She wanted him to just be a better person. She said, honestly, I don't feel like it's a problem. It's still our decision. I said, OK.

10:59After T and David were married, T seemed happy. I felt like, OK, everything is going along.

11:08Maybe I just need to stop feeling how I was feeling and accept what had happened.

11:15The couple still faced challenges.

11:19David was not working, but T took care of pretty much everything.

11:24The stress behind keeping the bills was definitely major for T.

11:31But she felt like I have to go ahead and just be the person to stand up and do it.

11:38T's determination never wavers.

11:40T ended up going to university to get her master's. Everything was done online.

11:49Then she pushed David to go back to school.

11:54He started going to this IT tech building.

11:57He enjoyed, like, fixing computers or fixing phones and things like that.

12:05T pushed for him to be able to get that degree.

12:08That way he could actually apply in his skill set to any job.

12:13He graduated and did very well.

12:15I was so happy for them.

12:16But three years into their marriage, T hit Shalanda with another bombshell.

12:24He called me and she just said he was still being unfaithful.

12:29There was one incident where she said that there was someone at her house while she was at work.

12:36She was honestly very upset with that because he promised her that once they're married it will never happen and she's at work and she's still trying to make sure he's taken care of.

12:50I think she had gotten to a point to where she's like, well, if he's going to choose to entertain, then I'm going to do the same thing.

12:57And she said they discussed to have just an open relationship.

13:03I said, are you sure? Are you doing it to fix the situation of him not changing or are you doing this for you?

13:12And she said, honestly, I feel like both of them, but I'm going to make sure I stay to make sure I take care of them.

13:20T had dreams about going back to Ole Miss University to work on her PhD.

13:31So she told me, she said, Mama, I still want to move back to Oxford.

13:38In August 2014, T lands a position teaching third grade in Batesville, 25 miles from Oxford.

13:45And David finds a job in a phone and computer repair shop.

13:53Having two steady incomes helped a lot and it took a lot of the burden off of T.

13:58I could see a little bit of relief.

14:04The couple move into a home adapted for David's wheelchair on the outskirts of Oxford.

14:09Their lakeside street is known locally as the Cove.

14:14My husband and my family, we moved to the Cove in 2016.

14:20Some of the couples that had been living in the Cove for a while did block party.

14:26And that was the first time I got to meet T and David.

14:30They seemed like a very sweet couple.

14:33David was in the wheelchair.

14:34He seemed like it didn't slow him down.

14:37Even from a distance, you could tell T was just warm and there was just something so special and beautiful about her.

14:47It just seemed like it was going to be great to have a friend who's a neighbor instead of a neighbor who's a friend.

14:53As the months pass, more new families moved to the Cove.

15:01The ladies who were new in town, we started exchanging phone numbers and started a group text.

15:09T actually named the group the Cove Queens.

15:12We started going out for each other's birthdays, kind of became a monthly thing after that.

15:21This was one of our Cove Queen nights.

15:26T learned a TikTok dance and she was showing it all.

15:30She was so proud of herself for learning how to do that dance.

15:37T was the party.

15:39T was absolutely the party.

15:41If she was there, you already knew it was going to be a good night.

15:44But beneath the smiles, there are growing cracks in T's relationship.

15:51Basically, it is the 13 stars around.

15:54My dems.

15:55My dems.

15:57My dems.

15:58My dems.

15:59My dems.

16:00My dems.

16:01I'm listening to you.

16:02Baby, I'm listening to what you're saying.

16:03I know.

16:04I hear you.

16:06Baby, I hear you.

16:07Seems like T is working on a paper and she's probably trying to get some serious business taken care of and he's being silly.

16:16My dems put it out.

16:18My dems.

16:19Being a comedian.

16:21T looks genuinely upset.

16:23My dems.

16:25I feel like he expected her to do certain things, but he didn't have the respect that I would feel a man should have for his wife.

16:36My dems put it off, yo.

16:38And.

16:41T confides in her sister that David is not respecting their personal agreement either.

16:47Having the open relationship did not work.

16:51He was just extremely jealous.

16:54T said he could do pretty much anything, but he wanted to make sure he kept the control over whatever she did.

17:03She had no privacy.

17:06He would call from her phone people that he would assume would be a male.

17:12Even if it's a coworker.

17:13Saying things like, oh, that's my wife. I don't want you calling her.

17:16It was definitely a way that he could manipulate and maneuver to have his infidelities.

17:23And just take, really.

17:27He's very good at not showing that dark side that she would see.

17:33The cruelty with his words.

17:35We were talking every day.

17:38She just, like, burst out to cry.

17:41And I didn't know what to do.

17:45I think she realized that she wanted better.

17:50And she didn't want to be her words.

17:53She didn't want to feel like she was in prison anymore.

17:55Six years into their marriage, David and T's relationship problems persist.

18:10Unaware, Miss Archie continues to visit her daughter on weekends.

18:16I would go and stay with them.

18:19So that particular Friday, I made it up there.

18:22And I noticed all of David's clothes was in the back bedroom.

18:26That's the room I always stayed in.

18:29She didn't let on that they were having marital problems.

18:32But I started paying attention a little bit more.

18:35It definitely became more apparent that they were having issues.

18:42Whereas, normally, she was there for every Cove Queen's dinner.

18:46There was a few where she would miss.

18:49That was definitely something noticed because she was the party.

18:54I know there were things that she held back.

18:57She was just always part of the support system.

19:00But very rarely was she one that would come out and say,

19:06I have a problem with something that's going on in my life.

19:13Despite David's controlling behavior, T never stopped striving.

19:18And in April of 2021, she completes a lifetime goal.

19:23She did send us a group text to let us know that she was just waiting to hear

19:27if she got her PhD or not.

19:30We just started calling her Dr. T.

19:33Just to kind of boost her confidence because we knew she had it.

19:38I knew she had been undergoing a lot of stress with everything.

19:43And I said, hey, we're going out.

19:46We're going to relax and enjoy it.

19:49And so the next day, we went to go get our nails done.

19:54Happy and laughing and kind of calm and relaxed.

19:59And then she got a text from David.

20:03And she just immediately started tensing up.

20:07And from that point on, he was constantly texting her.

20:11Who are you with? What are you doing? Why are you there?

20:15That was the moment where I saw exactly how jealous and kind of possessive he could be.

20:21I would say it was almost like the higher she climbed, the actions got a lot more controlling.

20:33It was so much tension, you could cut it.

20:38T would come and spend more time at my house by herself,

20:42come on a Friday and go back home on a Sunday.

20:45She was always saying everything fine, everything fine, but it wasn't fine.

20:49With T spending more time away, David often takes sole charge of his children, spending time at a local gun range.

21:00But his mood deteriorates.

21:03Now, Claire, what did you do? What did you do? Huh? What did you play? What did you do?

21:12Get the team in the way!

21:14The fact that David's kids were there and T was not is very telling.

21:19She said that it had gotten to a point to where things were unbearable.

21:27And he would say things that you shouldn't just say to someone that you love.

21:32She had enough and she was tired of being watched 24 hours, like a day.

21:37So she made the decision to get a divorce.

21:46She decided he would have one half of the house and she would have the other portions.

21:54T returns to her mother's house on the weekend of June 4th, 2021.

21:58We sat in the kitchen and we talked. She said, Mom, it's over between David and I.

22:07She said, I'm tired of David's arrogance and I'm tired of him telling me what I can and cannot do it.

22:14T finally admitted that maybe she should have listened to Mom.

22:18I was very relieved. T deserved so much more.

22:23And then that Sunday, before we left the house, David drove up.

22:29And the look in her eyes was fear.

22:33It was pure fear.

22:36I went to the door, walked on out to his truck.

22:40I said, hey, David, what's going on?

22:42Is T here?

22:44I said, yeah.

22:46He was telling her, T, I just want to talk to you.

22:47She said, David, I'm done.

22:48I'm done.

22:49I am done with you and I am done with this situation.

22:53David drove on off.

22:55The first thing that came to my mind was maybe he ain't coming back.

22:59I'm like, wow, that was good to me.

23:04We went to fishing and Shalonda came on up there.

23:08She and T was sitting out on the bank.

23:10I said, hey, y'all, look at me.

23:12And I snapped their picture.

23:14T felt relieved.

23:16She dedicated pretty much everything.

23:18And she put everything on hold.

23:20It was almost like I could just see the light coming back into her eyes.

23:27And she felt safe.

23:33At the end of the weekend, T returns to Oxford with plans to put the house up for sale.

23:39She got in the truck and left that Sunday.

23:44The realtor was supposed to be there that Thursday at 2 o'clock.

23:56That Tuesday night, she called me back.

23:59She said, hey, mama, what you doing?

24:00I said, nothing.

24:02And so I said, you got a glass.

24:03Let me go get a glass.

24:04So I went and got a glass and I poured some wine in there.

24:08I said, where's David?

24:10And she said, he up in there somewhere.

24:12That was her exact word to me.

24:14He up in there somewhere.

24:19We were sitting there just talking.

24:21And then when we get ready to get off, we tapped the screen.

24:25She tapped hers and I tapped mine.

24:28Good night.

24:29I said, I love you.

24:30She said, I love you too.

24:32That Wednesday morning, she was supposed to call me.

24:39I didn't get that call.

24:41So that Wednesday afternoon, about 1.30, I called her phone.

24:48Went straight to voicemail.

24:49I said, mm, that's not like T.

24:51And then I didn't get a call back.

24:54Definitely not like her.

24:56So I waited and waited.

25:00Then I got a text message on my phone.

25:04Just said, hey mom, I'll talk to you later.

25:08All of the words was jammed up together.

25:11No punctuation.

25:13When T was sent a message, you better know it was going to be correct.

25:19It didn't make sense.

25:21I called her phone that Thursday before she left school.

25:25I got a message saying, hey mom, in a meeting, I'll call you later.

25:30No punctuation.

25:32Mom was lowercase.

25:34I just felt something was wrong.

25:37So that Friday morning, I left to go to Oxford.

25:41Vista to her telephone.

25:45Vista to her as well.

25:47There is now a police department.

25:49Yes, we need to make a report in regards to a very serious matter.

25:53One of our co-workers called and basically said that he is involved in a murder.

25:58murder.

26:09One of our co-workers

26:10called and basically said that

26:12he was involved in the murder

26:13a few days ago and it's like apparently

26:15everything's still like it was at the house.

26:17Like he hasn't come in to work.

26:24Dispatch had a male

26:26subject on the line.

26:28Saying that he had shot his wife.

26:30He was currently still inside the house.

26:33As I got closer

26:34to the neighborhood, dispatch did relay

26:36information that

26:37the suspect was possibly

26:40in a wheelchair.

26:45Most important thing

26:47when we arrive on a scene

26:48to a call of this nature is

26:50safety. Try to find out where the

26:52suspect's at and secure

26:54the residence as quickly and as safely

26:56as possible.

26:58I remember the garage door

27:03kind of opening

27:04and I could see

27:06a male coming outside in a wheelchair.

27:10My greatest worry or fear is that

27:11he was still armed with a weapon.

27:14Appearances can be deceiving.

27:15After we secured the suspect

27:27we started making our way

27:28through the residence room by room.

27:31Sheriff's Department!

27:33We're constantly on high alert.

27:35There could be a threat that

27:36popped out behind a corner.

27:37Sheriff's Department!

27:38As I was making my way through the kitchen

27:41I do remember seeing a couple firearms

27:43on the bar in the kitchen.

27:45At this point we just bypassed them

27:47because it says Mississippi.

27:49Nothing unusual to see a gun

27:51laying on a counter.

27:52Hi, sir.

27:53It's good.

27:54No, I remember it was

27:55where I had the lights.

27:56Hi.

27:57Careful.

27:59Once I got to the bedroom

28:00I could see a comforter

28:02laid on the floor.

28:04Here's what?

28:05Yeah, she's cold.

28:06It appeared that she had been there

28:09for a period of time.

28:11So at this point I've asked the deputies

28:12to exit the residence with me

28:14because this has now become

28:15an active crime scene.

28:18What's your wife's name?

28:20Anteada.

28:21A-N-T.

28:23E-U-A-T-T-A.

28:26You really never know

28:28what you're going to get

28:29when it comes to a murder suspect.

28:30You know her date of birth?

28:32November 18th.

28:36I would say that

28:38the suspect's demeanor

28:39was very calm.

28:41He didn't really say much.

28:43He was very nonchalant.

28:47The suspect was placed

28:49in a patrol vehicle.

28:51I followed that vehicle

28:52back to my office

28:54at the Lafayette County

28:55Criminal Investigations Building.

28:57Still on the road

28:59Miss Archie remains unaware

29:01of what has happened

29:02to her daughter.

29:04I called David's phone.

29:06He didn't answer.

29:07The number cannot be reached.

29:08So I called Dave's mom's phone.

29:11She didn't answer.

29:13I said,

29:13somebody need to call me.

29:15What is going on?

29:18She called my phone

29:20and said,

29:21Anteada is dead

29:22and hung up.

29:23And I just lost it.

29:28When I made it to the home,

29:31yellow tape

29:31all the way around the house.

29:34And that policeman

29:35walked up to the car

29:36and he said,

29:38I said,

29:38what's going on?

29:39He said,

29:40well ma'am,

29:41there was a deceased female

29:43in the house.

29:45All I could think about was,

29:49I know this ain't true.

29:50I know this is not true.

29:52But it was true.

29:58It's like a gut wrenching.

30:00It's just a hurt.

30:02It just won't stop.

30:03David Swims

30:12was placed in our interview room.

30:15The only thing I was aware of

30:17is the 911 call

30:18that he had made

30:19claiming that he had shot his wife.

30:21So I went into the interview

30:23trying to figure out

30:25exactly what happened.

30:27But once he was read

30:28as Miranda writes,

30:29he invoked his rights.

30:30So unfortunately,

30:31we had to end the interview

30:33at that point.

30:35Officers obtain a search warrant

30:37for the property.

30:41A knife was recovered

30:42on the scene

30:43towards the back of the bathroom

30:45where T was found.

30:48T had three entrants

30:49and exit wounds

30:50indicating that she had been

30:51shot three times.

30:53There were three bullet holes

30:55in the wall

30:56behind where she would have been.

30:58Those bullet holes

30:59weren't in a tight group.

31:01They actually moved

31:02the way that I perceived it

31:04from left to right.

31:06The bathroom where T was found

31:08clearly had been cleaned.

31:10It should have had

31:11more blood in it.

31:13Something that struck me

31:15very odd,

31:16written in the very center

31:17of the kitchen counter

31:18by the firearms.

31:20With a black sharpie

31:20were the words

31:21pain, lies, and deceit.

31:25We also noticed

31:27the picture frames

31:28on the bookshelf.

31:31They were turned face down.

31:34Then I started looking

31:35around the residence

31:36and I noticed

31:36that all the other photographs

31:38were turned over.

31:39I picked one up.

31:40I saw that it was

31:42David Swims

31:43and what appeared

31:44to be the deceased female.

31:46It was like

31:47the suspect

31:48couldn't look at

31:49the victim

31:50after what he had done.

31:51David Swims is charged

32:07with first-degree murder

32:08and a secondary count

32:09of felonious possession

32:11of a firearm.

32:12Bell was set

32:13at $100,000.

32:14David was able

32:19to hire a bail bondsman.

32:22Generally speaking,

32:24that bail bondsman

32:25only requires

32:2510% of that payment

32:28to sign on

32:29to that bond.

32:32The next day,

32:34David posts $10,000 bail

32:36and is free to leave.

32:39$10,000 for my daughter's life.

32:43I go out in the yard

32:44and dig up $10,000.

32:46I still don't understand it,

32:49but he was released

32:50extremely quickly.

32:52I really had to pray

32:54so that I wouldn't do anything

32:55that would take me

32:56away from my kids.

33:00Those were the hardest days

33:03because everybody,

33:05it's like everybody

33:06was frozen,

33:08like wondering if,

33:09like, are we really

33:10going to get justice?

33:11They were clearly

33:14very emotional.

33:16However,

33:16I needed them

33:17to be strong.

33:19My goal is

33:20to get a conviction

33:21first and foremost.

33:23Second of all,

33:25send Mr. Swimps

33:26to prison

33:26for as long

33:27as possible.

33:29David did come back

33:30to the cove.

33:31He moved right back

33:32into the house.

33:34That was a very,

33:35very hard time.

33:36There was all the anger

33:38I had towards him

33:39for what he did.

33:41There was a certain

33:43amount of fear.

33:46Somewhat, in a way,

33:47became a recluse

33:48because any time

33:51I stepped outside,

33:52that was the chance

33:53I was going to see him.

33:53He went back to work.

33:59He was an arrogant person.

34:01He was going on

34:02living his life.

34:05But he took

34:06my daughter's life.

34:11Somebody sent me

34:12the video of him

34:13out at a club

34:14two weeks

34:15after he murdered

34:16my daughter.

34:18It just

34:19turns my stomach.

34:20On Monday,

34:27September 19th,

34:282023,

34:30the trial

34:30finally begins.

34:32When David testifies,

34:34it's the first time

34:35he gives his

34:36full version

34:37of events.

34:38David Swimps' defense

34:39was that

34:41he came

34:43into the bedroom

34:43where T was,

34:45that they had

34:45a confrontation

34:46with one another,

34:49that T picked up

34:51a knife.

34:52David testified

34:53that T lunged

34:54at him sideways

34:55with the knife.

34:58He picked up

34:59the gun

35:00that T had

35:01in the bedroom,

35:03and that's

35:03where he shot her.

35:05He describes

35:06himself as

35:07firing blindly

35:08at somebody

35:09who was attacking

35:10him,

35:11covering his eyes

35:12when he shoots her.

35:14I argued

35:14in this particular

35:15case to the jury

35:16that it was

35:18not self-defense.

35:21It was clear,

35:23speaking to witnesses

35:24and looking at

35:25the forensic data

35:27that was recovered

35:27from both cell phones,

35:29that the relationship

35:30was dissolving.

35:33In a case like this,

35:34the motive

35:35often becomes

35:36very clear.

35:37The defendant

35:38did not want her

35:39to go

35:39and would do anything

35:40to prevent her

35:41from going.

35:41The argument

35:45that I made

35:46to the jury

35:46was that

35:47Mr. Swims

35:48entered that room

35:50where T was.

35:53That he brought

35:55the firearm

35:56with him

35:56with a deliberate

35:58design

35:58to kill T.

36:03T had three

36:04entrance and exit wounds

36:05indicating that

36:06she had been shot

36:07three times.

36:08There were three

36:09bullet holes

36:10in the wall

36:11behind where

36:12she would have been.

36:13Those bullet holes

36:14weren't in a tight group

36:16indicated not that

36:18T was coming

36:19at David,

36:20but that T was trying

36:22to get away

36:22from David

36:23and that he knew

36:24exactly how to aim.

36:27If T was coming

36:29at him

36:30with the knife,

36:31the knife would

36:32have dropped

36:33somewhere in the center

36:34of the room

36:35where he shot her,

36:36as opposed to

36:38in the back

36:38of the bathroom

36:39where it was

36:39ultimately recovered,

36:41that indicated

36:42that the knife

36:44clearly appeared

36:45to have been placed.

36:49Ms. Archie brought

36:51the information

36:51to law enforcement

36:53indicating that

36:54the text messages

36:55that she received

36:56from T's cell phone

36:58clearly was not

36:59from her,

37:00that David Swims,

37:01being the only other person

37:02who had access

37:03to that cell phone,

37:04sent those text messages

37:05indicated that

37:07he was trying

37:07to cover up

37:08for his crime.

37:13The length of time

37:14between when

37:15T was murdered

37:16and when David Swims

37:18called law enforcement,

37:21gave Mr. David Swims

37:22two days roughly

37:24to clean up,

37:25to come up

37:26with a story.

37:27He was very intelligent

37:29and physically fit

37:31from the waist up.

37:33But I believe

37:35he was unable

37:36to completely clean up

37:38the crime scene

37:39and he had no choice

37:41but to say

37:42that he had shot her

37:44in self-defense.

37:48When we finally

37:49made it to court,

37:51I learned

37:52the gruesome details

37:54of how my daughter died.

37:58When I got up

37:58on stand

37:59to give my

38:00victim impact statement,

38:02I looked dead

38:03in his eyes.

38:05I said,

38:06David Swims,

38:08do you hear me?

38:10This will hurt me

38:12until the day

38:14God calls me home.

38:17And he just sat there.

38:20He never responded.

38:21He never acknowledged.

38:25He showed no remorse.

38:28The trial lasts

38:29three days.

38:31On Thursday,

38:31September 21st,

38:33the jury returned

38:34with their verdict.

38:36When the judge

38:37asked for the verdict

38:38to be read,

38:40the foreman stood up.

38:42He said,

38:44guilty.

38:49Despite the prosecution

38:51working for a first-degree

38:52murder conviction,

38:54the jury remained

38:55unconvinced the crime

38:56was premeditated.

38:58The jury accepted

38:59that his actions,

39:00instead of being deliberate

39:01in nature,

39:02were depraved in nature,

39:04which is second-degree murder.

39:07I'm satisfied

39:07with that verdict.

39:09The jury also

39:10find David guilty

39:11of felonious possession

39:12of a firearm.

39:14Mr. Swims

39:15received a sentence

39:15of 40 years to serve,

39:17two of those years

39:18suspended,

39:1938 years

39:21in the custody

39:21of the Mississippi

39:22Department of Corrections.

39:24I don't know

39:25if I'd say

39:26I'm satisfied with that,

39:28but I'm happy with that

39:29because that's just

39:32like a lifetime for him.

39:34When they heard the truth,

39:37they knew what a monster

39:38he was.

39:40And he was one

39:41of a person

39:43that could not be changed.

39:45It was his way

39:46or no way.

39:48T had a big hand

39:49in assisting him,

39:52helping him,

39:52and nursing him back

39:53from that accident.

39:56She sacrificed.

39:58She gave everything

39:59for his life.

40:01And then he took hers.

40:03I remember my sister

40:09as the peaceful dove,

40:11the helper,

40:14the nurturer,

40:15the leader.

40:17That was my one person

40:19that knew everything

40:21about me,

40:23and I knew everything

40:24about her.

40:26I like to remember

40:27my daughter

40:28as the vibrant young woman

40:30that she was.

40:31and she would always

40:34tell me,

40:35Mama,

40:35just do it.

40:37If it's something

40:37you want to do,

40:39just do it.

40:41Smile like you're

40:43happy, happy.

40:45I know it.

40:48My daughter was loved.

40:51She was very much loved.

40:54But I'll never be the same.

40:56Vicky's love for Ryan

41:09was pretty intense.

41:11You think you're

41:11getting the hang of us?

41:13But her fear

41:14was awesome.

41:16There's no other word

41:18to describe him

41:19than as a monster.

41:19milepectedly.

41:24paintedly.

41:29There's no other word

41:29to see what he's

41:30interested in tonight.

41:30I will remember

41:31you.

41:31All right!

41:33Let's do it.

41:34Bye.

41:35Bye.

41:36And now,

41:36we're not prepared

41:37to talk about the

41:39you're faced.

41:40We're going

41:41to talk about truth,

41:41but let's go

41:42to my heart,

41:42to imagine

41:44what you're

41:45hoping

41:46to Reason

41:46and trên

41:4711.

41:47Children

41:47and Wellness

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