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00:00The following program contains distressing scenes.
00:05In the early hours of September the 21st, 2016, in Dearborn, Michigan, a rage-filled father unleashed a nightmare on his unsuspecting family.
00:18He made his wife watch while he shot and killed her two teenage children.
00:24I can't imagine anything more cruel.
00:28I'm yelling to him like, no, you know, no, my baby.
00:33I 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.
00:43The killer was 49-year-old Gregory Green and his reign of terror was far from over.
00:50He carried the two other girls out to the garage, placed them in the car, tucked them in, shut the door and turned the car on.
00:59And they ultimately succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
01:06It was probably the most horrific crime that I've ever seen or dealt with during my career.
01:10But 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.
01:25The 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
02:02was 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.
02:20His final act of power over Faith Green, Gregory Green, allowed her to live
02:28and forced her to witness the murder of her children.
02:32And that gave him the power in his mind to manipulate her
02:37and make her live with these horrific memories for the rest of her life.
02:44I don't understand the mentality, but it seemed like torture to me.
02:50There was no trial.
02:52For 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
03:07coercively controlling people can become.
03:10Those children were totally dispensable, irrespective of whether they were stepchildren
03:16or 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?
03:29This killer story begins in Michigan on October the 12th, 1966.
03:44Gregory Green was born in Dearborn, on the outskirts of Detroit.
03:49In fact, he spent his entire life in Dearborn.
03:54We don't know a great deal about Green's upbringing, but we do know that it was a loving household
03:59brought up with his mother and father and siblings, and I think he described it later in life
04:04as a comfortable upbringing.
04:07Green'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,
04:23and joined a church community on the outskirts of Detroit,
04:27led by Faith's father, Pastor Fred Harris.
04:34As a little girl, I loved going to church.
04:37My dad became a pastor when I was about 11.
04:39It 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.
04:57I thought that he was cute, things like that.
04:59I used to just say hi to him, sometimes after church, sit next to him.
05:03He 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.
05:19On the 14th of July, Green attacked Tonya.
05:25And at that point, she was six months pregnant with Green's child.
05:31He attacked her brutally, ferociously, stabbing her in the face, chest, neck, back,
05:36killing not only Tonya, but also the unborn child.
05:39Certainly one of the factors that triggered Green's behaviour
05:46was 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
06:02and waited for the police to arrive and arrest him.
06:06It's really interesting when looking at the emotional state
06:12of 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.
06:29So they can, in that moment, behave quite rationally,
06:34but overlay that with the fact that they have felt completely justified
06:40in 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
06:52and a maximum of 25 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
06:56While Green was serving his sentence for the murder of Tonya,
07:02the woman who was to become his second wife
07:05was 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
07:14and immediately I just fell for him.
07:18And then once I graduated from high school,
07:22that's when we really started dating
07:23and then I got pregnant with my son when I was 19.
07:28He was, I shouldn't say like my little buddy,
07:30but 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.
07:36So he was just a quiet child
07:38and we did a lot together.
07:41He was very smart and artistic
07:42until he started drawing when he was really little.
07:46Another child followed quickly.
07:48When her son, Chadney, was almost two years old,
07:52Faith gave birth to a daughter, Kara.
07:56Kara was always the type of child
07:59where whatever the brother did,
08:01she wanted to be able to do it too.
08:03When he was learning to tie his shoes,
08:05she was like, I can do it too.
08:07She always wanted to boss him.
08:09So I always had to tell her like,
08:10Kara, you know, 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.
08:27Meanwhile, Gregory Green had been serving time in prison
08:30for 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
08:41gained momentum.
08:42Green, as was typical of him,
08:46maintained an absolutely calm presence in prison.
08:51But he was refused parole four times
08:54because he showed no empathy and no remorse whatever
08:58for killing Tonya and his unborn child.
09:02After that first murder,
09:03Gregory Green was a walking threat
09:06to any woman that he was going to get into a relationship with,
09:11especially if that woman challenges him
09:14or attempts to leave him.
09:18Green had been in prison for a considerable period of time
09:21when Pastor Fred Harris,
09:23who was a well-known figure in Detroit,
09:25began a campaign to get him released.
09:29Harris told the parole board
09:30that Green would be supported by the local community
09:34and welcomed back into the church.
09:36What he didn't do,
09:38and that's so significant later,
09:39he didn't warn his daughter Faith
09:41exactly what Green had done
09:43and why he'd been in prison.
09:46In 2008,
09:48after 16 years behind bars,
09:51Gregory Green was granted parole
09:53at the age of 41.
09:55He had a chance to start over,
09:58but his insatiable lust for murder
10:00could not be controlled,
10:02and eventually he would kill...
10:05again.
10:16In 2008,
10:18Gregory Green had just been released from prison
10:21after spending 16 years behind bars
10:24for the murder of his first wife
10:26and their unborn child.
10:29When Faith,
10:30who was single again,
10:32ran into him at church,
10:33old feelings resurfaced.
10:38At first,
10:39he didn't even know who I was
10:40until I told him.
10:41Then he was like,
10:42oh, okay, you know,
10:44he didn't even have a clue
10:45that I had, like,
10:46this crush on him,
10:47and a few times,
10:48like, after church,
10:49I would talk to him,
10:50and then eventually
10:51we exchanged numbers.
10:53One day we went out to dinner,
10:55just talked.
10:57The kids seemed like they liked them,
10:59and we just eventually started dating.
11:03Tragically,
11:04Faith wasn't aware
11:05of Green's crime
11:07when he was released.
11:09Her father didn't tell her,
11:10and I'm absolutely sure in my own mind
11:12that Green didn't tell her either.
11:14As far as she was concerned,
11:16with the help of her father,
11:18Green 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 it was some type of altercation,
11:30but it was self-defense.
11:32Any allegations made against him,
11:34he's going to deny.
11:35He's going to minimize.
11:37He's going to make it look like
11:38he was the victim.
11:39This is something that is so common.
11:41They call it DARVO.
11:43Deny, attack, reverse victim, and offend.
11:46Now that is straight from
11:47the coercive control playbook.
11:51He moved in with me
11:52for a little bit,
11:54but I was just feeling like
11:55something wasn't right.
11:57I don't know if it was just too soon.
11:59I ended up breaking it off with him
12:01for a while.
12:02So I didn't talk to him for a little bit,
12:04and then we started talking back,
12:06and then that's how I got pregnant with Coy.
12:07Like, we weren't even in a relationship
12:09or anything like that.
12:12A couple months after I had Coy,
12:14that's when we ended up getting married.
12:19In 2011,
12:21Green and his new wife
12:23moved into their first house together.
12:25The city of Dearborn Heights
12:27is pretty much a bedroom community.
12:30Borders the city of Detroit
12:31on 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
12:41for Faith to realize
12:43that Green perhaps wasn't quite
12:45as angelic as she might have thought.
12:48And quite quickly,
12:50she became unsettled.
12:51I didn't really know
12:55what was going on with him
12:56on the inside.
12:58He just would shut down.
13:00That's when I started to see
13:01the attitude
13:02and things like that.
13:06Coercive control
13:08is a pattern of behavior
13:09designed to trap someone
13:12in a relationship.
13:13And that will be the motivation
13:15of the controlling person.
13:17So they will do
13:18all sorts of things
13:20within that relationship.
13:21what we call tactics
13:22to make sure that person
13:24stays where they are,
13:26stays compliant,
13:27never leaves.
13:30Everything was just coy, coy, coy.
13:33He would tell me things like,
13:35if I leave the house,
13:36I got to take her with me.
13:38He didn't really want
13:38to give me a break.
13:40There was only one time
13:42during that first year
13:44where I was able to
13:45go out with one of my friends
13:47and then he was calling me.
13:49I'm like,
13:49it only had been
13:50literally probably
13:51like an hour,
13:51hour and a half
13:52and I was getting ready
13:54to be back on my way home.
13:56Green was incredibly
13:58controlling of faith.
14:00He tried to isolate her
14:02from forms of support
14:03and influence.
14:04He would have used
14:06psychological tactics
14:08tactics where he would
14:10demean her and question her
14:12so that she was constantly
14:14trying to meet
14:16his expectations
14:17and his rules.
14:18He will be presenting
14:19that as very normal.
14:20That's the way of things.
14:22You've got your role.
14:24I've got mine.
14:25You get on with yours
14:26and as long as you do it properly,
14:28I'll leave you alone.
14:28Like many women
14:32in that situation,
14:34Faith stayed with Green
14:35for the sake of her daughter.
14:38Coy was funny.
14:39She thought she knew it all.
14:41She loved wearing dresses.
14:42Loved wearing dresses.
14:43That was her thing.
14:45Almost two years
14:46after Coy was born,
14:48Green and Faith
14:49had a second daughter,
14:51Kayleigh.
14:53Somehow Green
14:54didn't take
14:55to the second daughter
14:56as much as he'd taken
14:57to the first.
14:58When she came,
15:02he didn't want anything
15:03to do with her.
15:04I don't know if it was
15:05because he didn't want
15:06another child.
15:07I couldn't even take that
15:08if that's what it was,
15:10you know?
15:10I mean, I don't have to like it,
15:12but make it make sense.
15:15It got to the point where
15:17it was really tense
15:18in the house.
15:22The home
15:23was a well-kept home,
15:25nice area
15:25by all accounts,
15:27you know,
15:28just a good family
15:28living in a quiet suburb,
15:30raising their kids.
15:31So,
15:32kind of goes to the heart
15:33of what we deal with
15:35in policing every day.
15:37You never know
15:38what's going on
15:38behind closed doors.
15:41Despite Green's
15:42apparent indifference
15:43to his second daughter,
15:45Kayleigh was adored
15:46by Faith.
15:48Kayleigh,
15:49Kayleigh was,
15:51she 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,
15:59I used to say,
16:00let's pray.
16:02And then she would tell me,
16:03mommy, let's pray.
16:05There was a couple times
16:06he'd flinch at her
16:07and she would stand up to him.
16:08No, baby,
16:09you should have to do that,
16:10you know?
16:14One night,
16:16I was sitting here
16:16on the couch
16:17and he's yelling,
16:18hollering,
16:19just saying demeaning things
16:20to me,
16:20calling me names,
16:22but he's holding coy.
16:24So, I'm like,
16:25can you please
16:26just put her down?
16:29So, finally,
16:30I got him
16:30to put her down
16:31and he starts yelling.
16:34He starts kicking the couch.
16:37Kayleigh's on this end.
16:38I'm like,
16:39please stop kicking the couch.
16:42That was my point there.
16:44I was just like,
16:45I have to leave.
16:47Faith attempted
16:48to get a personal
16:49protection order
16:50against her husband.
16:52I tried to go
16:53to the Dearborn Heights
16:54Police Department
16:55to file a PPO.
16:57I filled out the paperwork.
16:59They came back
17:00less than five minutes
17:01and told me
17:01it's not enough information.
17:05People don't go
17:06and get protective orders
17:07for nothing.
17:08They don't apply
17:09for them for nothing.
17:11But for some reason,
17:12probably a lack of evidence,
17:14I would have thought,
17:14that protective order
17:15was not granted.
17:17Domestic violence
17:19is one of those crimes
17:20that are unpoliceable.
17:21And that's one of the things
17:22that the police hate.
17:25We want to protect the public.
17:26We want to do what's out there.
17:27But the law,
17:28everybody thinks
17:29it's black and white.
17:30It's really not.
17:30I decided to go back to work.
17:32I decided to go back to work
17:33and I said,
17:34I'm just going to make a plan
17:36and leave on the last day of school.
17:37And that's what I did.
17:40After Faith left her husband,
17:42they lived apart
17:43for a couple of years.
17:46I did file for divorce.
17:48And we were at one of our,
17:53I guess,
17:54divorce proceedings
17:55and then
17:56I felt like we needed to talk.
17:59I didn't think like
18:00we were going to talk
18:01to get back together,
18:02but that's what ended up happening.
18:05So I said,
18:05well, this time
18:06we really need to talk
18:07about things in detail.
18:09And I felt like
18:10that's what we were really doing.
18:12I felt like he was making an effort.
18:14This is a controlling
18:16and manipulative person.
18:18So they will use
18:20any tactic they think of
18:21that is going to work
18:23for them to get what they want.
18:26Faith would probably
18:27have believed him
18:29that he was genuine,
18:31that he was going to change.
18:32They never do.
18:34In 2014,
18:36Green and Faith reunited
18:38and eventually she moved back
18:40into the family home
18:41with her four children.
18:43it would prove
18:44to be a fatal mistake.
18:47It was okay
18:48for a few months.
18:50We wanted the girls
18:51and everybody
18:51to have a good Christmas.
18:52So we got this
18:53huge Christmas tree
18:54that went up to the ceiling,
18:56bring all the toys
18:57and everything in the house.
18:59We were talking
18:59about renewing our vows,
19:01but things were just
19:03slowly dwindling.
19:05I was just like,
19:06oh, this is not going to work.
19:09Green would never
19:10have been able
19:11to sustain this character
19:14that he was playing.
19:16Once he got what he wanted,
19:18gone, forget it.
19:19This is not who he is.
19:21Who he is
19:22is a manipulative,
19:23abusive controller.
19:25As time went on,
19:27he was getting worse.
19:29So this time,
19:30I'm dead set.
19:31I'm like,
19:31I can't change my mind.
19:33I can't continue
19:34to put my children
19:35through this.
19:37In August 2016,
19:40Faith filed for divorce
19:41for a second time.
19:45Statistically,
19:46the period of separation
19:47or the threat of separation
19:49in a relationship
19:50where there's intimate
19:51partner violence
19:52is the most dangerous time
19:54for a victim.
19:55And the reason for that
19:57is because
19:58it's not about violence.
19:59It's about power
20:00and control.
20:01So when the abuser
20:03in the relationship
20:04feels that they're losing
20:06that power and control,
20:08their behavior ramps up
20:11and can become
20:13much, much more violent.
20:15Next thing I know,
20:16he's mad.
20:17He was just really upset,
20:19cursing,
20:19just real belligerent.
20:21And then eventually,
20:22he left and went to work.
20:24And I thought I was
20:24going to be all right
20:25because the most
20:27Greg ever did
20:28was just yell,
20:29holler,
20:29maybe be in my face.
20:32I just continued
20:32to go on about my day
20:34as usual.
20:37It was at that point,
20:40Gregory Green felt
20:41he ultimately lost control
20:42of the situation.
20:43And she was going
20:44to take his home.
20:45She was going
20:46to take his children.
20:48And he was not going
20:50to permit that to happen.
20:53It would be less
20:54than a month
20:55after he was served
20:56his divorce papers
20:57that Gregory Green
20:59finally snapped.
21:01What followed
21:01was a night
21:02of absolute horror
21:03that would change
21:05Faith's life
21:06forever.
21:13By September 2016,
21:20Faith Green
21:20had served her husband
21:22with divorce papers
21:23for the second time.
21:25Gregory Green knew
21:27his marriage
21:28was over.
21:30On the 20th of September,
21:312016,
21:33Green unleashed a nightmare
21:34on his unsuspecting family.
21:36It started off
21:39as a normal day.
21:41It spiraled
21:42into Faith Green
21:44and Gregory Green
21:45having an argument
21:46over text messages
21:48about the state
21:50of their marriage
21:51and the fact
21:52that she had filed
21:53for divorce.
21:56By the time Faith Green
21:58returned to the house
21:59that day,
22:01Gregory Green
22:02had become
22:03consumed by anger.
22:07I go to sleep
22:08and I remember him
22:09coming into the girls' room
22:10because I was sleeping
22:11in their room
22:11and he was like
22:13coming to the living room.
22:14It seemed serious
22:15so I got up,
22:17I go into the living room
22:18and I see my son in there
22:19and I'm thinking
22:20in my head like,
22:21he woke my son up
22:22so I can tell
22:22he was asleep.
22:25Greg takes out
22:25these big zip ties.
22:29I've never seen
22:30zip ties that big
22:32in my life ever.
22:33I didn't even know
22:33they made them that big
22:34so he's like,
22:35I want you to
22:36tie your mother up
22:37with this
22:37so Chad is like,
22:39Greg, wait.
22:40Then he pulls the gun out.
22:44So I was like,
22:45Chad, just do what he says.
22:48So he made my son
22:49zip tie me
22:50and then that's when
22:51he proceeded
22:52to zip tie my son.
22:55I was froze.
22:57I couldn't do anything.
22:58He came to the living room
23:02looking like he's tripping.
23:04Like, what is wrong
23:05with him?
23:05Like, you know,
23:06he lost his mind.
23:07She has no clue
23:09what just happened.
23:11But he ends up
23:12zip tying her
23:13and then he says
23:15he wants us
23:15to go to the basement.
23:18We just look at each other.
23:20The thoughts were so loud,
23:22like, go to the basement.
23:25We just look at each other
23:26and then we go down
23:28to the basement
23:29and then he made us
23:30lay down on the floor,
23:33duct tape our mouths,
23:36duct tape around our arms,
23:38behind our back,
23:39ankles,
23:40and then he, like,
23:42extra duct taped me
23:43a lot.
23:45I was thinking
23:46that he was just
23:47going to take the girls
23:48and leave.
23:49That's what I was thinking.
23:50I never thought
23:51he was going to do
23:52anything more than that.
23:53I thought he was really
23:54just trying to, like,
23:56really just scare me.
23:59Gregory Green
24:00had a mindset
24:01where,
24:03above everything else,
24:05he was entitled
24:06to things.
24:08He was superior.
24:10He was better.
24:12And if you didn't give him
24:13what he was entitled to,
24:16he would respond
24:17really, really badly.
24:19Almost like
24:20a petulant toddler.
24:22But a petulant toddler
24:24is nowhere near as dangerous
24:26as a fully grown,
24:28violent man
24:29with access to weapons.
24:32He sits down
24:33on the counter
24:34in the basement
24:35and he says
24:37that I'm going to suffer
24:38for what I did
24:39to him and his girls
24:40and he doesn't want
24:41his girls raised
24:42by anybody in my family.
24:44I just felt so bad
24:46because I couldn't help us.
24:48What was I going to do?
24:49Green spent the next hour
24:51going in and out
24:53of the basement.
24:54When he returned
24:55for the final time,
24:56he turned his gun
24:57on 17-year-old Kara.
25:01He shot her in the back
25:03twice
25:04and she just
25:06looked at me.
25:09I'm yelling to him,
25:10like,
25:11no,
25:11you know,
25:12no,
25:12my baby.
25:13I was begging him
25:15not to shoot her
25:16because once he shot her
25:17in the back,
25:18you know,
25:18she was bleeding
25:20from her mouth
25:21and I knew
25:22she wasn't going to make it.
25:25He next
25:26turned the gun
25:27on Chadney.
25:29He shot Chadney
25:30twice in the back
25:31and once in the head.
25:36I remember him saying,
25:37ouch,
25:37and he rolled over
25:38and he never
25:40moved again.
25:43Then he aimed
25:43a gun at me
25:44and I remember
25:45just trying to
25:46brace myself
25:47because I didn't know
25:47where he was going
25:48to shoot me.
25:49I just remember
25:49hearing gunshots.
25:52I remember
25:52that burning feeling
25:54and then
25:55he grabbed my face.
25:58So I remember that
25:59and then him,
26:00you know,
26:01cutting me
26:01from the side.
26:04I didn't feel it
26:05but I could just
26:05feel the warmth
26:06of the blood
26:06and I see,
26:07like,
26:07blood squirting.
26:08He spared
26:12Faith's life
26:13because he wanted
26:14her to suffer
26:15and live through it
26:17and live with it.
26:19It is an unimaginable
26:20burden
26:21for anyone to bear.
26:23Can you imagine
26:23any mother
26:24watching the death
26:26of her children
26:26in front of her
26:28by a man she's married
26:30and thought she could trust?
26:35It's fascinating
26:36from a law enforcement
26:38psychological standpoint
26:40to try to understand
26:42what Mr. Green
26:43actually was thinking
26:45that caused him
26:46to go to those lengths.
26:47What was it
26:48that you thought
26:50by sitting your wife down,
26:53killing her children
26:54in front of her,
26:56you were going
26:56to accomplish?
26:58That was the question
26:59that reigned in my mind
27:00for a long time after.
27:01In an eerie echo
27:05of the night
27:0625 years earlier
27:07when he'd murdered
27:09his first wife,
27:10Green then called
27:11the police
27:12and confessed
27:13to his crime.
27:15I heard him walk up
27:16the stairs
27:17and said,
27:18hi, my name is
27:18Gregory Green
27:19and that's all
27:20that I could hear.
27:22Then I heard
27:22the door close.
27:27I was called
27:28woken up
27:29by the sergeant
27:30that was working
27:32on the road patrol
27:34and was apprised
27:35of the situation
27:36at that time.
27:38You almost want
27:40to think
27:41that this isn't real.
27:42Am I dreaming?
27:43The officers
27:44responded to the scene
27:46from the 911 call.
27:48Mr. Green
27:49was sitting
27:49on the porch.
27:51He was taken
27:51into custody
27:52without incident
27:53by the first
27:54responding officers
27:55and that's when
27:57the officers
27:57then had
27:58the horrific task
27:59of going
28:00into the home
28:00and finding
28:01the crime scene.
28:03I remember
28:04just laying there
28:05and then
28:06there was a knock
28:07at the door
28:07and it was the police.
28:11Faith's children
28:12were shot to death
28:12in front of her.
28:15She had suffered
28:16a cutting wound
28:17from like
28:18the top of her
28:19forehead area
28:21all the way down
28:22to her cheek
28:23and she was also
28:26shot in the foot.
28:28I don't understand
28:29the mentality
28:30but it seemed
28:32like torture to me.
28:34Obviously our primary
28:35concern in that situation
28:36being there was
28:37no further danger
28:39to the community.
28:40We still have
28:41a victim
28:42that's alive
28:43making sure
28:44that Faith
28:44was taken care of
28:45and sought medical aid
28:47that was needed.
28:50On this side here
28:51they had to
28:52stitch on the inside first
28:53and then
28:54stitch the outside
28:55and if he would have
28:57cut me an inch further
28:58I would have
28:59actually bled to death.
29:01And they said
29:01that my foot
29:02should have been shattered
29:03like a lot of pieces
29:04but luckily
29:05the bullet curved
29:06and went out the bottom.
29:07Faith had survived
29:10her husband's attack
29:12but her nightmare
29:14wasn't over.
29:16Even more horrifying news
29:18was still to come.
29:20On September the 21st
29:312016
29:32Gregory Green
29:34had forced his wife
29:35to watch
29:35as he shot
29:37and killed
29:37her two teenage children.
29:40But as Faith
29:41was about to find out
29:42they weren't
29:44the only murders
29:45he'd committed
29:46that night.
29:47What became apparent
29:50was what Green
29:51was doing
29:52when he left
29:52his wife
29:53and two elder children
29:54tied up
29:55in the basement.
29:58He had already
30:00prepared the car
30:02in the garage
30:03of the home
30:04meaning he had
30:06fastened
30:07a piece of PVC pipe
30:09on the tailpipe
30:10of the vehicle
30:11ran a hose
30:12into the window
30:13of the car.
30:15He went into the house
30:16lifted the two girls
30:18one by one
30:18out of their beds
30:19they were asleep.
30:21One of the children
30:22briefly woke up
30:23but her daddy
30:25was holding her
30:26so she fell back
30:27asleep.
30:28He carried the two girls
30:29out to the car
30:30placed them in the car
30:32tucked them in
30:33shut the door
30:34and turned the car on.
30:40This was just
30:42incomprehensible
30:43to me.
30:46During this whole process
30:50Gregory Green
30:51would leave
30:52Coy and Kaylee
30:53in the car
30:54and then
30:55he would go
30:56into the basement
30:57to check on
30:57Kara and Chadney
30:59and Faith
31:00to make sure
31:01they were still
31:01down there.
31:02He didn't tell them
31:03at that time
31:04what was happening
31:05upstairs.
31:06After a period
31:07of time
31:08Gregory Green
31:09went back out
31:09to the garage
31:10he checked
31:11on the two
31:11youngest girls
31:12they appeared
31:13to be lifeless
31:14he turned
31:15the car off
31:16and then
31:17he carried
31:18them one
31:18by one
31:18back into
31:19the house
31:20and tucked
31:20them in
31:21bed together.
31:23Soon after
31:23being rushed
31:24to hospital
31:25Faith learned
31:26the true extent
31:27of what her
31:28husband had done
31:29to Coy
31:30and Kaylee.
31:31One of the
31:32doctors told me
31:33that they had
31:34passed but I
31:35remember
31:35the police
31:37saying that
31:37the little one
31:38is fighting
31:38I didn't know
31:40what was going
31:40on but Kaylee
31:42was the last
31:42to go
31:43so they
31:45wheeled me
31:46to one
31:47room
31:47and I saw
31:49Coy
31:49she was gone
31:50she was just
31:51so cold
31:52and then
31:53they wheeled me
31:54to another room
31:54and Kaylee
31:55she was
31:56still warm.
32:02There was a lot
32:03of the officers
32:04on scene
32:04that were just
32:05not believing
32:06this
32:06you know
32:07you can't believe
32:07that this happened
32:08but you put
32:09your feelings aside
32:10and you have
32:11a job to do
32:12and a crime scene
32:12to process
32:13an investigation
32:14to conduct
32:15and you move
32:15forward.
32:19Now in custody
32:20Gregory Green
32:22was questioned
32:22by police.
32:24During the course
32:25of his several
32:27hour statement
32:28he spoke about
32:29the details
32:30of the crime
32:31and his
32:34reasons
32:34for doing this.
32:36He repeatedly
32:37referenced
32:37the fact
32:38that Faith Green
32:39had filed
32:39for divorce.
32:41He repeatedly
32:41referenced
32:42the fact
32:43that she was
32:43going to take
32:44his house
32:44and he was
32:45going to have
32:46to pay
32:46child support
32:47and he would
32:48have nothing
32:48and he would
32:49starve
32:50and he wouldn't
32:50have his girls.
32:52He repeatedly
32:54indicated
32:55during the course
32:55of his statement
32:56that he had
32:57no choice
32:58he had to do
32:59this.
33:01The lack
33:02of emotion
33:03the lack
33:04of conscience
33:05the matter
33:06of factness
33:07in which
33:08Gregory Green
33:08detailed to
33:10the detectives
33:11what he had
33:11done to
33:12these children.
33:14What I found
33:16most troublesome
33:17about Mr. Green
33:18was there was
33:20a statement
33:20that alluded
33:21to the fact
33:21that he felt
33:22his children
33:23were better
33:24off in heaven
33:25with God
33:27than being
33:28raised by her.
33:28That was
33:30his logic
33:31behind taking
33:32the lives
33:33of his children.
33:35In this incident
33:36Gregory Green
33:38had every opportunity
33:39to also murder
33:40Faith Green
33:41and he intentionally
33:42did not do that.
33:45The detectives
33:45asked him
33:46why didn't
33:47you kill her
33:47and his words
33:50were death
33:50would have been
33:51too good for her.
33:53I wanted her
33:54to live with
33:54what she made me do.
33:55It's the ultimate
33:59act of power
34:00and control.
34:01Gregory Green
34:02knew at the time
34:03he did these things
34:04he was going to
34:05spend the rest
34:05of his life
34:06in prison
34:06and he was
34:07resigned to that fact
34:08but he wanted
34:09Faith Green
34:10to suffer
34:11forever
34:12and allowing
34:14her to live
34:15was his way
34:16of guaranteeing
34:17in his mind
34:18that he could
34:18control her
34:19and make her
34:19suffer forever.
34:22That's
34:22the sonification
34:23of evil
34:25and shows
34:27us exactly
34:29what his
34:29motivations were.
34:31His motivation
34:32was to punish
34:33Faith for having
34:34the audacity
34:36to leave him.
34:41In the days
34:42following the murders
34:44the story
34:45hit the press.
34:46It was only
34:47then that
34:47Faith learned
34:48the awful truth
34:49about her
34:50husband's
34:51first wife.
34:52I was on
34:53my dad's phone
34:54and that was
34:54like the first
34:55thing that popped
34:56up.
34:57She was about
34:58six, seven months
34:59pregnant
34:59and he stabbed
35:01her to death.
35:05And I was just
35:06thinking like
35:07oh my god
35:07and I'm just
35:08crying like
35:08because I
35:10never knew
35:11I'm just
35:11bawling my eyes
35:12out
35:13I'm just sick
35:13to my stomach.
35:15Faith found it
35:16hard to come
35:17to terms
35:18with the
35:18parole board's
35:19previous decision
35:20to release
35:21Green.
35:22He actually
35:23shouldn't have
35:24ever been
35:24let out.
35:25He was never
35:26rehabilitated.
35:27He just told
35:28them what
35:29they wanted
35:30to hear
35:30because he
35:31has a
35:31demeanor
35:31where people
35:32like him
35:32they gravitate
35:34toward him
35:34and he used
35:35that to his
35:36advantage.
35:38Faith's
35:39whole life
35:40had been
35:40destroyed
35:41in one night
35:42by the
35:42husband who
35:43claimed to
35:44love her.
35:45But there
35:45was still
35:46one piece
35:47of news
35:47she was
35:48yet to
35:48hear
35:49that would
35:49once again
35:50rock her
35:51to the core.
35:54One of the
35:54terrible ironies
35:56of this case
35:56is that Faith
35:58was in hospital
35:59recovering from
36:00the torture
36:00from Green
36:01when she heard
36:02it was her
36:03own father
36:03who'd helped
36:04him get out
36:05of jail.
36:06Imagine the
36:07shock that
36:08must have
36:09been to the
36:09young woman.
36:10I found
36:11out just
36:12like everyone
36:13else did
36:13that my
36:14father had
36:15wrote
36:16letters
36:16for my
36:17ex-husband
36:18to help
36:19him get
36:20out of
36:20prison.
36:22For a long
36:22time I
36:23didn't want
36:23anything to
36:23do with
36:24my father.
36:26I probably
36:27pushed my
36:27family away
36:28at some
36:28point too
36:29and vice
36:29versa
36:30because they
36:31weren't
36:31understanding
36:31what I
36:32was going
36:32through.
36:33I mean
36:33I didn't
36:33understand
36:34what I
36:34was going
36:35through.
36:35How do
36:36you really
36:37put your
36:37head around
36:38losing
36:38four children?
36:40I was on
36:41a lot of
36:41medication
36:42and I was
36:42spiraling out
36:43of control
36:43you know.
36:46Gregory
36:50Green was
36:51charged with
36:51a litany
36:52of felonies
36:53for the
36:54Dearborn Heights
36:54massacre
36:55including four
36:57counts of
36:57first degree
36:58murder.
37:02It was a
37:03very strong
37:04case because
37:05it almost
37:06came down
37:07to a point
37:08where once
37:09we did our
37:10protocol and
37:10procedures
37:11with Mr.
37:12Green confessing
37:13to committing
37:14the homicides
37:14having the
37:16victims having
37:17a live witness
37:17that witnessed
37:18everything
37:18there's really
37:20not much
37:21to argue.
37:25What the
37:26investigation
37:26showed was
37:27that approximately
37:28a week prior
37:29to the murders
37:30he had gone
37:31to a local
37:31hardware store
37:32here in
37:33Michigan.
37:34He had
37:34purchased
37:35the PVC
37:36pipe that
37:37he used
37:37on the car
37:38the plastic
37:39tubing he
37:40used on
37:40the car
37:41the zip
37:42ties
37:42and duct
37:43tape.
37:46During his
37:47interrogation
37:47Gregory
37:48Green admitted
37:48that he
37:49knew he
37:50was going
37:50to do
37:50something
37:51he just
37:52didn't know
37:52when he
37:53was going
37:53to do
37:54it.
37:54I think
37:57it would
37:57be a
37:58difficult
37:58argument
37:59for any
37:59defense
37:59attorney
38:00to make
38:00regardless
38:01of whether
38:02he had
38:02bought it
38:02days earlier
38:03the mere
38:04fact that
38:04his children
38:05died from
38:05carbon monoxide
38:06poisoning
38:07shows
38:08premeditation.
38:11Ultimately
38:12a plea
38:13offer was
38:13extended
38:14by the
38:15prosecutor's
38:16office
38:16to
38:17Gregory
38:17Green
38:18whereby
38:19he would
38:19plead guilty
38:20to four
38:21counts of
38:21second degree
38:22murder
38:22one count
38:23of torture
38:24one count
38:25of assault
38:26with intent
38:26to do
38:27great bodily
38:27harm
38:28and one
38:29count
38:29of felony
38:29firearm.
38:31The plea
38:32offer in
38:32this case
38:33took into
38:33account
38:34the objectives
38:35of Faith
38:37Green
38:37primarily
38:39that Gregory
38:40Green spend
38:41the rest
38:41of his
38:41natural life
38:42in prison.
38:43This plea
38:44offer also
38:45took into
38:46account
38:47the trauma
38:48that a trial
38:49would cause
38:50to Faith
38:51Green
38:51in having
38:52to relive
38:53and testify
38:54about
38:55witnessing
38:56the murders
38:56of her
38:57children.
38:59On March
39:00the 1st
39:012017
39:02approximately
39:03six months
39:04after he'd
39:05murdered his
39:06two daughters
39:06and his
39:07two stepchildren
39:08Gregory Green
39:10was back in
39:10court for
39:11his sentencing
39:12hearing.
39:16To her
39:17immense credit
39:18Faith
39:19turned up
39:20at Green's
39:22sentencing
39:22and indeed
39:24called him
39:26out in
39:26front of
39:27the jury
39:28and the
39:28judge.
39:29She said
39:30you're a
39:30con man
39:31you're a
39:31monster
39:32and you're
39:33the devil
39:33in disguise.
39:34she was
39:37very brave
39:38and very
39:39strong
39:39and she
39:41was there
39:42speaking
39:42for her
39:43children.
39:45I wanted
39:45to be
39:46face to
39:46face with
39:47him
39:47if it
39:48were my
39:48choice.
39:49You know
39:50that's why
39:50I kept
39:51looking at
39:51him even
39:52though it
39:52was the
39:52back of
39:53his head
39:53because
39:54to let
39:54him know
39:55how I
39:55felt
39:56so he
39:56could see
39:57my eyes
39:58feel my
39:58pain.
39:59I don't
40:01recall Mr.
40:02Green ever
40:03looking at
40:04Faith Green
40:04and making
40:04eye contact
40:05with her.
40:06I recall
40:07him sitting
40:07and just
40:08looking
40:08straight forward
40:09as she
40:10delivered her
40:10remarks
40:11with no
40:12emotion
40:12on his
40:12face.
40:15Mr.
40:15Green was
40:15ready to
40:16go back
40:16to prison.
40:17You know
40:17he was
40:17like I
40:18did it.
40:19I turned
40:19myself in
40:20can we
40:21just go
40:21now?
40:22He felt
40:23he was
40:23mission
40:24accomplished.
40:25It was
40:25like I
40:25killed my
40:26kids.
40:26I did
40:27what I
40:27did.
40:27Put me
40:28in jail.
40:28Just
40:29unfathomable.
40:31There was
40:32no remorse
40:33no shame
40:33no guilt
40:34and he
40:35kept talking
40:36about how
40:36God would
40:37look after
40:37him.
40:37So he
40:38still got
40:38that massive
40:39ego there
40:41that I'm
40:42special and
40:43I will be
40:44forgiven and
40:44God is
40:45going to
40:46look after
40:46me.
40:47I mean
40:47the extent
40:48of that
40:48man's
40:48ego is
40:49absolutely
40:50staggering.
40:52For
40:53Faith I
40:53don't know
40:54how she
40:55sat through
40:56those court
40:56hearings.
40:58looking at
40:58that person
40:59that just
40:59took her
41:00children.
41:02I was
41:03awed by
41:04her ability
41:05to stand
41:06up and
41:07face her
41:08abuser,
41:09face the
41:09man who
41:10had done
41:10this to
41:11her and
41:12never once
41:12waver.
41:14From the
41:14moment I
41:15met her I
41:16knew she
41:16was a
41:17very strong
41:17woman.
41:19She was
41:19committed
41:20to finding
41:22justice for
41:23her children
41:23from day
41:24one.
41:26I just
41:27had to
41:28let him
41:28know I
41:29wasn't
41:29scared of
41:30you and
41:31you know
41:31you did
41:32these things
41:32to hurt
41:33me because
41:34I wouldn't
41:35stay in
41:36your box
41:36because you
41:37wanted to
41:38control me
41:38and I
41:39wouldn't
41:40give in
41:40to him.
41:42And I'm
41:42still not
41:43giving in
41:43to him even
41:44though my
41:44children aren't
41:45here but I
41:45still continue
41:46to fight
41:47for them.
41:52Gregory
41:53Green was
41:53sentenced to
41:54serve 45
41:55to 100
41:56years in
41:57prison plus
41:58an additional
41:59two-year term
42:00for the
42:01firearms
42:01charge.
42:04I think it
42:05was a judge
42:05who said a
42:06father is
42:07there to
42:07protect his
42:07children and
42:08a husband is
42:09there to
42:09protect his
42:10wife.
42:11Green did
42:11neither.
42:13He was
42:1450 years
42:14old at the
42:15time so
42:16when we did
42:17the math
42:17I as a
42:18prosecutor
42:19understood he
42:20would not be
42:21eligible for
42:22parole until
42:23he was 97
42:24years old and
42:26that would be
42:26the first time
42:27parole could
42:28even be
42:28considered.
42:29So in
42:31effect it
42:32was my
42:33belief that
42:34he would
42:34die in
42:34prison.
42:37The wounds
42:38that Faith
42:39suffered, she
42:40may have
42:41recovered from
42:42the physical
42:42injuries but
42:44the emotional
42:44injuries and
42:45the sheer
42:46effect of
42:47on her
42:47will never
42:48go away.
42:49They cannot
42:49possibly.
42:51It is an
42:51unimaginable
42:52nightmare.
42:55I can't ever
42:56let him win
42:57so I'm going to
42:58keep honoring
42:58my children.
43:01I talk about
43:02them all the
43:03time.
43:04I have so
43:05many stories
43:06and pictures.
43:08I did so
43:09much with
43:10them.
43:10I enjoyed my
43:11children.
43:11I enjoyed being
43:12a mom.
43:16My children
43:16would be
43:17proud of how
43:17far I've
43:18gone.
43:18They wouldn't
43:19want me to
43:19be sulking.
43:20They would
43:20want me to be
43:21happy.
43:23Gregory Green
43:24murdered his
43:25family.
43:25I have
43:26to give
43:42that
43:42I'll
43:44see you.
43:44I've
43:44talked about
43:45how
43:46I'm going to be
43:46and I'll
43:47see you.
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