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00:00The following program contains distressing scenes.
00:30The killer was 49-year-old Gregory Green, and his reign of terror was far from over.
00:51He carried the two other girls out to the garage, placed them in the car,
00:56tucked them in, shut the door, and turned the car on.
01:00And they ultimately succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
01:05It was probably the most horrific crime that I've ever seen or dealt with during my career.
01:11But astonishingly, this wasn't the first time Gregory Green had killed his family.
01:17Back in 1991, he killed his first wife, and not only her, but also the unborn child, his child, that she was carrying.
01:26The man who killed his family twice would forever come to be known as one of the world's most evil killers.
01:34In 2017, 50-year-old Gregory Green was ordered to spend the rest of his natural life in the world's most evil.
01:51In 2017, 50-year-old Gregory Green was ordered to spend the rest of his natural life in prison
02:05for the murders of his two stepchildren, 19-year-old Chadney and 17-year-old Kara,
02:12and his two biological daughters, 5-year-old Koi and Kayleigh, who was just four.
02:18His final act of power over Faith Green, Gregory Green, allowed her to live and forced her to witness the murder of her children.
02:31And that gave him the power in his mind to manipulate her and make her live with these horrific memories for the rest of her life.
02:42I don't understand the mentality, but it seemed like torture to me.
02:50There was no trial. For the second time in his life, Gregory Green pled guilty to the murder of his family.
02:58This case is a perfect example that shows how incredibly dangerous coercively controlling people can become.
03:11Those children were totally dispensable, irrespective of whether they were stepchildren or biological children.
03:18I have got to make this woman pay.
03:21You lot can pay with your lives so that I can restore my ego.
03:26How evil is that?
03:33This killer's story begins in Michigan on October 12th, 1966.
03:44Gregory Green was born in Dearborn, on the outskirts of Detroit.
03:49In fact, he spent his entire life in Dearborn.
03:52We don't know a great deal about Green's upbringing, but we do know that it was a loving household brought up with his mother and father and siblings.
04:02And I think he described it later in life as a comfortable upbringing.
04:06Green's second wife, Faith, remembers him talking about his childhood.
04:11He said that, like, in high school, he always had nice things.
04:15There were times, like, if he didn't want to go to school, he didn't have to.
04:19By his early 20s, Green had married his first wife, Tonya, and joined a church community on the outskirts of Detroit,
04:27led by Faith's father, Pastor Fred Harris.
04:30As a little girl, I loved going to church.
04:37My dad became a pastor when I was about 11.
04:41It was at church where Faith first met the man who would turn out to be her future husband.
04:48I was 14 years old.
04:50At that time, he was probably about 24, 25.
04:53He had no clue that I had a crush on him.
04:56I thought that he was cute, things like that.
04:58But I used to just say hi to him, sometimes after church, sit next to him.
05:06He was there for a while, then he wasn't there anymore.
05:10In 1991, unbeknownst to 14-year-old Faith,
05:15Gregory Green had been sent to prison for killing his wife, Tonya.
05:20On the 14th of July, Green attacked Tonya.
05:24And at that point, she was six months pregnant with Green's child.
05:30He attacked her brutally, ferociously, stabbing her in the face, chest, neck, back, killing not only Tonya, but also the unborn child.
05:39Certainly one of the factors that triggered Green's behaviour was the fact that she was planning to divorce him.
05:49I don't think Green wanted anybody else to have Tonya.
05:53If he couldn't have her, no-one else was going to have her.
05:57Gregory Green calmly dialed 911 to report what he'd done and waited for the police to arrive and arrest him.
06:05It's really interesting when looking at the emotional state of people who kill somebody close to them, like a wife or a child.
06:18The first emotion they feel afterwards is relief.
06:22Not remorse, not shame, not guilt, not terror.
06:26Relief.
06:27So they can, in that moment, behave quite rationally.
06:34But overlay that with the fact that they have felt completely justified in killing their wife for trying to leave them.
06:45Gregory Green pled no contest to the crime of second-degree murder.
06:50He was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 25 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
06:58While Green was serving his sentence for the murder of Tonya,
07:02the woman who was to become his second wife was going about an ordinary life.
07:07In fact, she got married and she had two children.
07:11I met Karen Chaney's dad in the 10th grade and immediately I just fell for him.
07:18And then once I graduated from high school, that's when we really started dating.
07:24And then I got pregnant with my son when I was 19.
07:26He was, I shouldn't say like my little buddy, but he was like me.
07:31He was a night owl.
07:32Even when I carried him, he was up at night.
07:34That's just how I was.
07:35So he was just a quiet child and we did a lot together.
07:41He was very smart and artistic until he started drawing when he was really little.
07:45Another child followed quickly.
07:49When her son, Chadney, was almost two years old, Faith gave birth to a daughter, Kara.
07:56Kara was always the type of child where whatever her brother said, she wanted to be able to do it too.
08:02When he was learning to tie his shoes, she was like, I can do it too.
08:06She always wanted to boss him.
08:08So I always had to tell her like, Kara, you know, stop bossing your, stop bossing your brother around.
08:13He just wanted to play his games and things like that.
08:16But as they got older, the relationship got better.
08:19Meanwhile, Gregory Green had been serving time in prison for the murder of his first wife.
08:33Most of his adult life had been spent behind bars.
08:36But in 2005, a push to give him a second chance gained momentum.
08:42Green, as was typical of him, maintained an absolutely calm presence in prison.
08:50But he was refused parole four times because he showed no empathy and no remorse whatever for killing Tonya and his unborn child.
09:01After that first murder, Gregory Green was a walking threat to any woman that he was going to get into a relationship with.
09:10Especially if that woman challenges him or attempts to leave him.
09:18Green had been in prison for a considerable period of time when Pastor Fred Harris, who was a well-known figure in Detroit, began a campaign to get him released.
09:29Harris told the parole board that Green would be supported by the local community and welcomed back into the church.
09:36What he didn't do, and that's so significant later, he didn't warn his daughter Faith exactly what Green had done and why he'd been in prison.
09:46In 2008, after 16 years behind bars, Gregory Green was granted parole at the age of 41.
09:55He had a chance to start over.
09:57But his insatiable lust for murder could not be controlled.
10:02And eventually, he would kill...
10:05Again.
10:09In 2008, Gregory Green had just been released from prison
10:21after spending 16 years behind bars for the murder of his first wife and their unborn child.
10:29When Faith, who was single again, ran into him at church, old feelings resurfaced.
10:35At first, he didn't even know who I was until I told him.
10:41Then he was like, oh, okay, you know, he didn't even have a clue that I had, like, this crush on him.
10:47And a few times, like, after church, I would talk to him.
10:50And then, eventually, we exchanged numbers.
10:53One day, we went out to dinner, just talked.
10:57The kids seemed like they liked him.
10:59And we just eventually started dating.
11:02Tragically, Faith wasn't aware of Green's crime when he was released.
11:09Her father didn't tell her.
11:10And I'm absolutely sure in my own mind that Green didn't tell her either.
11:14As far as she was concerned, with the help of her father, Green was being rehabilitated.
11:20I probably should have asked more questions.
11:23I did know that he had went to prison.
11:27We were told there was some type of altercation, but it was self-defense.
11:32Any allegations made against him, he's going to deny.
11:35He's going to minimize.
11:37He's going to make it look like he was the victim.
11:40This is something that is so common.
11:41They call it DARVO.
11:43Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.
11:46Now, that is straight from the coercive control playbook.
11:49He moved in with me for a little bit, but I was just feeling like something wasn't right.
11:57I don't know if it was just too soon.
11:59I ended up breaking it off with him for a while.
12:02I didn't talk to him for a little bit, and then we started talking back.
12:05And then that's how I got pregnant with Coy.
12:07Like, we weren't even in a relationship or anything like that.
12:11A couple months after I had Coy, that's when we ended up getting married.
12:19In 2011, Green and his new wife moved into their first house together.
12:25The city of Dearborn Heights is pretty much a bedroom community.
12:30Borders the city of Detroit on the east side of the city.
12:33Nice place to live.
12:34Pretty safe.
12:36It's a good community.
12:36Very eclectic.
12:37Very diverse.
12:39It didn't take long for Faith to realize that Green perhaps wasn't quite as angelic as she might have thought.
12:48And quite quickly, she became unsettled.
12:51I didn't really know what was going on with him on the inside.
12:58He just would shut down.
13:00That's when I started to see the attitude and things like that.
13:06Coercive control is a pattern of behavior designed to trap someone in a relationship.
13:13And that will be the motivation of the controlling person.
13:17So they will do all sorts of things within that relationship.
13:20What we call tactics to make sure that person stays where they are, stays compliant, never leaves.
13:30Everything was just Coy, Coy, Coy.
13:33He would tell me things like, if I leave the house, I got to take her with me.
13:37He didn't really want to give me a break.
13:39There was only one time during that first year where I was able to go out with one of my friends and then he was calling me.
13:48I'm like, it only had been literally probably like an hour, hour and a half.
13:52And I was getting ready to be back on my way home.
13:56Green was incredibly controlling of Faith.
13:59He tried to isolate her from forms of support and influence.
14:04He would have used psychological tactics where he would demean her and question her so that she was constantly trying to meet his expectations and his rules.
14:18He will be presenting that as very normal.
14:20That's the way of things.
14:21Like many women in that situation, Faith stayed with Green for the sake of her daughter.
14:37Coy was funny.
14:39She thought she knew it all.
14:41She loved wearing dresses, loved wearing dresses.
14:43That was her thing.
14:45Almost two years after Coy was born, Green and Faith had a second daughter, Kayleigh.
14:53Somehow Green didn't take to the second daughter as much as he'd taken to the first.
15:00When she came, he didn't want anything to do with her.
15:03I don't know if it was because you didn't want another child.
15:07I couldn't even take that if that's what it was, you know?
15:10I mean, I don't have to like it, but make it make sense.
15:15It got to the point where it was really tense in a house.
15:22The home was a well-kept home.
15:25Nice area by all accounts.
15:27You know, just a good family living in a quiet suburb, raising their kids.
15:31So, it kind of goes to the heart of what we deal with in policing every day.
15:37You never know what's going on behind closed doors.
15:41Despite Green's apparent indifference to his second daughter, Kayleigh was adored by Faith.
15:48Kayleigh was a little rambunctious.
15:52She was glued to my head.
15:54She was observant.
15:56She sat back and watched.
15:58When her dad was mean to her, I used to say, let's pray.
16:02And then she would tell me, mommy, let's pray.
16:05There was a couple of times he'd flinch at her and she would stand up to him.
16:08No, baby, you should have to do that, you know?
16:10One night, I was sitting down on the couch and he's yelling, hollering, just saying demeaning things to me, calling me names.
16:21But he's holding coy.
16:25So, I'm like, can you please just put her down?
16:29So, finally, I got him to put her down.
16:33And he starts yelling.
16:34He starts kicking the couch.
16:36Kayleigh's on this end.
16:38I'm like, please stop kicking the couch.
16:42That was my point there.
16:44I was just like, I have to leave.
16:47Faith attempted to get a personal protection order against her husband.
16:52I tried to go to the Dearborn Heights Police Department to file a PPO.
16:57I filled out the paperwork.
16:59They came back less than five minutes and told me it's not enough information.
17:03People don't go and get protective orders for nothing.
17:08They don't apply for them for nothing.
17:11But for some reason, probably a lack of evidence, I would have thought, that protective order was not granted.
17:18Domestic violence is one of those crimes that are unpoliceable.
17:21And that's one of the things that the police hate.
17:25We want to protect the public.
17:26We want to do what's out there.
17:27But the law, everybody thinks it's black and white.
17:30It's really not.
17:30I decided to go back to work and I said, I'm just going to make a plan and leave on the last day of school.
17:37And that's what I did.
17:40After Faith left her husband, they lived apart for a couple of years.
17:45I did file for a divorce.
17:49And we were at one of our, I guess, divorce proceedings.
17:55And then I felt like we needed to talk.
17:59I didn't think like we were going to talk to get back together, but that's what ended up happening.
18:04So I said, well, this time we really need to talk about things in detail.
18:09And I felt like that's what we were really doing.
18:12I felt like he was making an effort.
18:15This is a controlling and manipulative person.
18:18So they will use any tactic they think of that is going to work for them to get what they want.
18:26Faith would probably have believed him that he was genuine, that he was going to change.
18:32They never do.
18:33In 2014, Green and Faith reunited, and eventually she moved back into the family home with her four children.
18:43It would prove to be a fatal mistake.
18:47It was okay for a few months.
18:50We wanted the girls and everybody to have a good Christmas.
18:52So we got this huge Christmas tree that went up to the ceiling, bring all the toys and everything in the house.
18:58We were talking about renewing our vows, but things were just slowly dwindling.
19:05I was just like, oh, this is not going to work.
19:09Green would never have been able to sustain this character that he was playing.
19:16Once he got what he wanted, gone, forget it.
19:19This is not who he is.
19:21Who he is is a manipulative, abusive controller.
19:24As time went on, he was getting worse.
19:29So this time, I'm dead set.
19:31I'm like, I can't change my mind.
19:33I can't continue to put my children through this.
19:37In August 2016, Faith filed for divorce for a second time.
19:45Statistically, the period of separation or the threat of separation in a relationship where there's intimate partner violence is the most dangerous time.
19:54For a victim.
19:56And the reason for that is because it's not about violence.
19:59It's about power and control.
20:01So when the abuser in the relationship feels that they're losing that power and control, their behavior ramps up and can become much, much more violent.
20:16Next time I know, he's mad.
20:17He was just really upset, cursing, just real belligerent.
20:20And then eventually, he left and went to work.
20:23And I thought I was going to be all right because the most Greg ever did was just yell, holler, maybe be in my face.
20:32I just continued to go on about my day as usual.
20:35It was at that point, Gregory Green felt he ultimately lost control of the situation.
20:43It would be less than a month after he was served his divorce papers that Gregory Green finally snapped.
21:00But what followed was a night of absolute horror that would change Faith's life forever.
21:07By September 2016, Faith Green had served her husband with divorce papers for the second time.
21:25Gregory Green knew his marriage was over.
21:29On the 20th of September 2016, Green unleashed a nightmare on his unsuspecting family.
21:36It started off as a normal day.
21:40It spiraled into Faith Green and Gregory Green having an argument over text messages
21:48about the state of their marriage and the fact that she had filed for divorce.
21:54By the time Faith Green returned to the house that day, Gregory Green had become consumed by anger.
22:04I go to sleep, and I remember him coming into the girls' room because I was sleeping in their room.
22:12And he was like, come in the living room?
22:14It seemed serious, so I got up.
22:16I go into the living room, and I see my son in there, and I'm thinking in my head, like,
22:21he woke my son up so I can tell he was asleep.
22:25Greg takes out these big zip ties.
22:29I've never seen zip ties that big in my life ever.
22:33I didn't even know they made them that big.
22:35So he's like, I want you to tie your mother up with this.
22:37So Chad is like, Greg, wait.
22:40Then he pulls the gun out.
22:43So I was like, Chad, just do what he says.
22:48So he made my son zip tie me, and then that's when he proceeded to zip tie my son.
22:55I was froze.
22:57I couldn't do anything.
22:58He came to the living room looking like he's tripping.
23:04Like, what is wrong with him?
23:05Like, you know, he lost his mind.
23:07She has no clue what just happened.
23:11But he ends up zip tying her, and then he says he wants us to go to the basement.
23:16We just look at each other.
23:20The thoughts were so loud, like, go to the basement.
23:25We just look at each other, and then we go down to the basement, and then he made us lay down on the floor.
23:33Duct tape our mouths.
23:36Duct tape around our arms, behind our back, ankles.
23:39And then he, like, extra duct tape me a lot.
23:45I was thinking that he was just going to take the girls and leave.
23:49That's what I was thinking.
23:50I never thought he was going to do anything more than that.
23:53I thought he was really just trying to, like, really just scare me.
23:57Gregory Green had a mindset where, above everything else, he was entitled to things.
24:07He was superior.
24:10He was better.
24:12And if you didn't give him what he was entitled to, he would respond really, really badly.
24:19Almost like a petulant toddler.
24:22But a petulant toddler is nowhere near as dangerous as a fully grown, violent man with access to weapons.
24:32He sits down on the counter in the basement, and he says that I'm going to suffer for what I did to him and his girls,
24:40and he doesn't want his girls raised by anybody in my family.
24:44I just felt so bad because I couldn't help us.
24:48What was I going to do?
24:49Green spent the next hour going in and out of the basement.
24:54When he returned for the final time, he turned his gun on 17-year-old Kara.
25:00He shot her in the back twice.
25:05And she just looked at me.
25:09I'm yelling to him, like, no, no, no, my baby.
25:13I was begging him not to shoot her because once he shot her in the back, you know, she was bleeding from her mouth, and I knew she wasn't going to make it.
25:25He next turned the gun on Chadney.
25:29He shot Chadney twice in the back and once in the head.
25:33I remember him saying, ouch, and he rolled over, and he never moved again.
25:43Then he aimed a gun at me, and I remember just trying to brace myself because I didn't know where he was going to shoot me.
25:49I just remember hearing gunshots.
25:52I remember that burning feeling, and then he grabbed my face.
25:57So I remember that, and then him, you know, cutting me from the side.
26:04I didn't feel it, but I could just feel the warmth of the blood, and I see, like, blood squirting.
26:11He spared Faith's life because he wanted her to suffer and live through it and live with it.
26:19It is an unimaginable burden for anyone to bear.
26:23Can you imagine any mother watching the death of her children?
26:27In front of her, by a man she's married and thought she could trust.
26:35It's fascinating from a law enforcement psychological standpoint to try to understand what Mr. Green actually was thinking that caused him to go to those lengths.
26:47What was it that you thought, by sitting your wife down, killing her children in front of her, you were going to accomplish?
26:58That was the question that reigned in my mind for a long time after.
27:01In an eerie echo of the night 25 years earlier, when he'd murdered his first wife, Green then called the police and confessed to his crime.
27:14I heard him walk up the stairs and said, hi, my name is Gregory Green, and that's all that I could hear.
27:22Then I heard the door close.
27:23I was called woken up by the sergeant that was working on the road patrol and was apprised of the situation at that time.
27:36You almost want to think that this isn't real.
27:42Am I dreaming?
27:43The officers responded to the scene from the 911 call.
27:48Mr. Green was sitting on the porch.
27:50He was taken into custody without incident by the first responding officers.
27:55And that's when the officers then had the horrific task of going into the home and finding the crime scene.
28:03I remember just laying there.
28:05Then there was a knock at the door and it was the police.
28:11Faith's children were shot to death in front of her.
28:14She had suffered a cutting wound from, like, the top of her forehead area all the way down to her cheek.
28:23And she was also shot in the foot.
28:28I don't understand the mentality, but it seemed like torture to me.
28:34Obviously, our primary concern in that situation being there was no further danger to the community.
28:40We still have a victim that's alive, making sure that Faith was taken care of and sought medical aid that was needed.
28:47On this side here, they had to stitch on the inside first and then stitch the outside.
28:56And if he would have cut me an inch further, I would have actually bled to death.
29:00And they said that my foot should have been shattered, like, you know, like a lot of pieces.
29:04But luckily, the bullet curved and went out the bottom.
29:09Faith had survived her husband's attack.
29:11But her nightmare wasn't over.
29:16Even more horrifying news was still to come.
29:29On September the 21st, 2016, Gregory Green had forced his wife to watch as he shot and killed her two teenage children.
29:39But as Faith was about to find out, they weren't the only murders he'd committed that night.
29:48What became apparent was what Green was doing when he left his wife and two elder children tied up in the basement.
29:56He had already prepared the car in the garage of the home, meaning he had fastened a piece of PVC pipe on the tailpipe of the vehicle, ran a hose into the window of the car.
30:14He went into the house, lifted the two girls one by one out of their beds.
30:19As they were asleep, one of the children briefly woke up, but her daddy was holding her, so she fell back asleep.
30:28He carried the two girls out to the car, placed them in the car, tucked them in, shut the door, and turned the car on.
30:35This was just incomprehensible to me.
30:48During this whole process, Gregory Green would leave Coy and Kaylee in the car,
30:54and then he would go into the basement to check on Kara and Chadney and Faith to make sure they were still down there.
31:02He didn't tell them at that time what was happening upstairs.
31:06After a period of time, Gregory Green went back out to the garage.
31:10He checked on the two youngest girls.
31:12They appeared to be lifeless.
31:14He turned the car off, and then he carried them one by one back into the house and tucked them in bed together.
31:22Soon after being rushed to hospital, Faith learned the true extent of what her husband had done to Coy and Kaylee.
31:31One of the doctors told me that they had passed, but I remember the police saying that the little one is fighting.
31:39I didn't know what was going on, but Kaylee was the last to go.
31:44So they wheeled me to one room, and I saw Coy.
31:49She was gone.
31:50She was just so cold.
31:53And then they wheeled me to another room, and Kaylee, she was still warm.
32:02There was a lot of the officers on scene that were just not believing this.
32:06You know, you can't believe that this happened, but you put your feelings aside,
32:10and you have a job to do in the crime scene to process an investigation to conduct, and you move forward.
32:16During the course of his several-hour statement, he spoke about the details of the crime and his reasons for doing this.
32:36He repeatedly referenced the fact that Faith Green had filed for divorce.
32:41He repeatedly referenced the fact that she was going to take his house, and he was going to have to pay child support,
32:47and he would have nothing, and he would starve, and he wouldn't have his girls.
32:51He repeatedly indicated during the course of his statement that he had no choice.
32:57He had no choice. He had to do this.
33:01The lack of emotion, the lack of conscience, the matter-of-factness in which Gregory Green detailed to the detectives what he had done to these children.
33:12What I found most troublesome about Mr. Green was there was a statement that alluded to the fact that he felt his children were better off in heaven with God than being raised by her.
33:29That was his logic behind taking the lives of his children.
33:35In this incident, Gregory Green had every opportunity to also murder Faith Green,
33:41and he intentionally did not do that.
33:44The detectives asked him, why didn't you kill her?
33:49And his words were, death would have been too good for her.
33:53I wanted her to live with what she made me do.
33:58It's the ultimate act of power and control.
34:01Gregory Green knew at the time he did these things he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison,
34:06and he was resigned to that fact.
34:08But he wanted Faith Green to suffer forever.
34:12And allowing her to live was his way of guaranteeing in his mind that he could control her and make her suffer forever.
34:22That's the sonification of evil,
34:25and shows us exactly what his motivations were.
34:30His motivation was to punish Faith for having the audacity to leave him.
34:41In the days following the murders, the story hit the press.
34:46It was only then that Faith learned the awful truth about her husband's first wife.
34:52I was on my dad's phone, and that was, like, the first thing that popped up.
34:57She was about six, seven months pregnant, and he stabbed her to death.
35:05And I was just thinking, like, oh, my God, and I'm just crying, like,
35:09because I never knew.
35:11I'm just bawling my eyes out.
35:13I'm just sick to my stomach.
35:14Faith found it hard to come to terms with the parole board's previous decision to release Green.
35:22He actually shouldn't have ever been let out.
35:25He was never rehabilitated.
35:27He just told them what they wanted to hear,
35:30because he has a demeanor where people like him,
35:33they gravitate toward him, and he used that to his advantage.
35:36Faith's whole life had been destroyed in one night
35:42by the husband who claimed to love her.
35:45But there was still one piece of news she was yet to hear
35:48that would, once again, rock her to the core.
35:53One of the terrible ironies of this case
35:56is that Faith was in hospital, recovering from the torture from Green,
36:01when she heard it was her own father who'd helped him get out of jail.
36:06Imagine the shock that must have been to the young woman.
36:10I found out, just like everyone else did,
36:14that my father had wrote letters for my ex-husband
36:18to help him get out of prison.
36:21For a long time, I didn't want anything to do with my father.
36:26I probably pushed my family away at some point, too, and vice versa,
36:30because they weren't understanding what I was going through.
36:33I mean, I didn't understand what I was going through.
36:35How do you really put your head around losing four children?
36:40I was on a lot of medication.
36:42I was spiraling out of control, you know.
36:49Gregory Green was charged with a litany of felonies
36:53for the Dearborn Heights Massacre,
36:55including four counts of first-degree murder.
36:59It was a very strong case because it almost came down to a point
37:07where once we did our protocol and procedures
37:11with Mr. Green confessing to committing the homicides,
37:15having the victims, having a live witness that witnessed everything,
37:19there's really not much to argue.
37:23What the investigation showed was that approximately a week prior to the murders,
37:30he had gone to a local hardware store here in Michigan.
37:34He had purchased the PVC pipe that he used on the car,
37:39the plastic tubing he used on the car,
37:41the zip ties, and duct tape.
37:43During his interrogation, Gregory Green admitted
37:48that he knew he was going to do something.
37:51He just didn't know when he was going to do it.
37:56I think it would be a difficult argument
37:58for any defense attorney to make,
38:01regardless of whether he had bought it days earlier.
38:03Ultimately, a plea offer was extended
38:14by the prosecutor's office to Gregory Green,
38:18whereby he would plead guilty
38:20to four counts of second-degree murder,
38:23one count of torture,
38:25one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm,
38:28and one count of felony firearm.
38:30The plea offer, in this case,
38:33took into account the objectives of Faith Green,
38:38primarily that Gregory Green spend
38:41the rest of his natural life in prison.
38:43This plea offer also took into account
38:47the trauma that a trial would cause to Faith Green
38:51in having to relive and testify
38:54about witnessing the murders of her children.
38:57On March 1st, 2017,
39:02approximately six months after he'd murdered
39:05his two daughters and his two stepchildren,
39:09Gregory Green was back in court
39:11for his sentencing hearing.
39:13To her immense credit,
39:19Faith turned up at Green's sentencing
39:22and, indeed, called him out
39:26in front of the jury and the judge.
39:29She said,
39:30you're a con man, you're a monster,
39:32and you're the devil in disguise.
39:34She was very brave and very strong,
39:39and she was there speaking for her children.
39:45I wanted to be face-to-face with him
39:47if it were my choice.
39:49You know, that's why I kept looking at him,
39:51even though it was the back of his head,
39:53because to let him know how I felt
39:56so he could see my eyes, feel my pain.
39:58I don't recall Mr. Green ever looking at Faith Green
40:04and making eye contact with her.
40:06I recall him sitting and just looking straight forward
40:09as she delivered her remarks
40:10with no emotion on his face.
40:15Mr. Green was ready to go back to prison.
40:17You know, he was like, I did it.
40:19I turned myself in.
40:20Can we just go now?
40:22He felt he was mission accomplished.
40:25It was like I killed my kids.
40:26I did what I did, put me in jail.
40:28Just unfathomable.
40:31There was no remorse, no shame, no guilt,
40:34and he kept talking about how God would look after him.
40:37So he's still got that massive ego there
40:41that I'm special and I will be forgiven
40:44and God is going to look after me.
40:46I mean, the extent of that man's ego
40:49is absolutely staggering.
40:52For Faith, I don't know how she sat
40:56through those court hearings
40:57looking at that person
40:59that just took her children.
41:02I was awed by her ability
41:05to stand up and face her abuser,
41:09face the man who had done this to her
41:11and never once waver.
41:13From the moment I met her,
41:15I knew she was a very strong woman.
41:18She was committed to finding justice
41:22for her children from day one.
41:24I just had to let him know,
41:28I wasn't scared of you
41:30and, you know, you did these things to hurt me
41:33because I wouldn't stay in your box
41:36because you wanted to control me
41:38and I wouldn't give in to him.
41:42And I'm still not giving in to him
41:43even though my children aren't here,
41:45but I still continue to fight for them.
41:47Gregory Green was sentenced
41:54to serve 45 to 100 years in prison
41:58plus an additional two-year term
42:00for the firearms charge.
42:04I think it was a judge who said,
42:06a father is there to protect his children
42:08and a husband is there to protect his wife.
42:11Green did neither.
42:13He was 50 years old at the time
42:15so when we did the math,
42:17I as a prosecutor understood
42:19he would not be eligible for parole
42:22until he was 97 years old
42:25and that would be the first time
42:27parole could even be considered.
42:29So, in effect,
42:32it was my belief that he would die in prison.
42:37The wounds that Faith suffered,
42:40she may have recovered from the physical injuries,
42:43but the emotional injuries
42:45and the sheer effect on her
42:47will never go away.
42:49They cannot possibly.
42:51It is an unimaginable nightmare.
42:55I can't ever let him win,
42:57so I'm going to keep honouring my children.
43:01I talk about them all the time.
43:04I have so many stories and pictures.
43:08I did so much with them.
43:10I enjoyed my children.
43:11I enjoyed being a mom.
43:15My children would be proud of how far I've gone
43:18because they wouldn't want me to be sulking.
43:20They would want me to be happy.
43:23Gregory Green murdered his family.
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