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00:00In the early hours of September the 21st, 2016,
00:05in Dearborn, Michigan, a rage-filled father unleashed a nightmare
00:10on his unsuspecting family.
00:13He made his wife watch while he shot and killed her two teenage children.
00:19I can't imagine anything more cruel.
00:23I'm yelling to him, like, no, no, no, my baby.
00:27I was begging him not to shoot her because once he shot her in the back,
00:32you know, she was bleeding from her mouth and I knew she wasn't going to make it.
00:37The killer was 49-year-old Gregory Green and his reign of terror was far from over.
00:46He carried the two other girls out to the garage, placed them in the car,
00:51tucked them in, shut the door and turned the car on.
00:54And they ultimately succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
01:00It was probably the most horrific crime that I've ever seen or dealt with during my career.
01:05But astonishingly, this wasn't the first time Gregory Green had killed his family.
01:12Back in 1991, he killed his first wife, and not only her,
01:17but also the unborn child, his child, that she was carrying.
01:21The man who killed his family twice would forever come to be known
01:26as one of the world's most evil killers.
01:29In 2017, 50-year-old Gregory Green was ordered to spend
01:48the rest of his natural life in prison for the murders of his two stepchildren,
02:0319-year-old Chadney and 17-year-old Kara,
02:07and his two biological daughters, 5-year-old Koi and Kaylee, who was just four.
02:13His final act of power over Faith Green, Gregory Green, allowed her to live
02:22and forced her to witness the murder of her children.
02:28And that gave him the power in his mind to manipulate her
02:32and make her live with these horrific memories for the rest of her life.
02:37I don't understand the mentality, but it seemed like torture to me.
02:45There was no trial.
02:47For the second time in his life, Gregory Green pled guilty
02:51to the murder of his family.
02:57This case is a perfect example that shows how incredibly dangerous
03:02coercively controlling people can become.
03:05Those children were totally dispensable,
03:09irrespective of whether they were stepchildren or biological children.
03:13I have got to make this woman pay.
03:16You lot can pay with your lives so that I can restore my ego.
03:21How evil is that?
03:28This killer story begins in Michigan on October the 12th, 1966.
03:35Gregory Green was born in Dearborn and the outskirts of Detroit.
03:44In fact, he spent his entire life in Dearborn.
03:49We don't know a great deal about Green's upbringing,
03:52but we do know that it was a loving household brought up with his mother
03:55and father and siblings, and I think he described it later in life
03:59as a comfortable upbringing.
04:01Green's second wife, Faith, remembers him talking about his childhood.
04:07He said that, like, in high school, he always had nice things.
04:10There were times, like, if he didn't want to go to school,
04:12he didn't have to.
04:14By his early 20s, Green had married his first wife, Tonya,
04:18and joined a church community on the outskirts of Detroit,
04:22led by Faith's father, Pastor Fred Harris.
04:29As a little girl, I loved going to church.
04:32My dad became a pastor when I was about 11.
04:36It was at church where Faith first met the man
04:39who would turn out to be her future husband.
04:42I was 14 years old.
04:45At that time, he was probably about 24, 25.
04:48He had no clue that I had a crush on him.
04:51I thought that he was cute, things like that.
04:54I used to just say hi to him,
04:56sometimes after church, sit next to him.
05:01He was there for a while, then he wasn't there anymore.
05:05In 1991, unbeknownst to 14-year-old Faith,
05:09Gregory Green had been sent to prison
05:12for killing his wife, Tonya.
05:15On the 14th of July, Green attacked Tonya.
05:20And at that point, she was six months pregnant
05:23with Green's child.
05:25He attacked her brutally, ferociously,
05:28stabbing her in the face, chest, neck, back,
05:31killing not only Tonya, but also the unborn child.
05:34Certainly one of the factors that triggered Green's behaviour
05:41was the fact that she was planning to divorce him.
05:44I don't think Green wanted anybody else to have Tonya.
05:48If he couldn't have her, no-one else was going to have her.
05:52Gregory Green calmly dialed 911 to report what he'd done
05:57and waited for the police to arrive and arrest him.
06:01It's really interesting when looking at the emotional state
06:07of people who kill somebody close to them,
06:10like a wife or a child.
06:13The first emotion they feel afterwards is relief.
06:17Not remorse, not shame, not guilt, not terror.
06:21Relief.
06:22So they can, in that moment, behave quite rationally,
06:29but overlay that with the fact
06:32that they have felt completely justified
06:35in killing their wife for trying to leave them.
06:40Gregory Green pled no contest
06:43to the crime of second-degree murder.
06:45He was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years
06:47and a maximum of 25 years
06:49in the Michigan Department of Corrections.
06:53While Green was serving his sentence
06:55for the murder of Tonya,
06:57the woman who was to become his second wife
07:00was going about an ordinary life.
07:02In fact, she got married and she had two children.
07:06I met Karen Chaney's dad in the 10th grade
07:09and immediately I just fell for him.
07:13And then once I graduated from high school,
07:17that's when we really started dating.
07:19And then I got pregnant with my son when I was 19.
07:23He was, I shouldn't say like my little buddy,
07:25but he was like me.
07:26He was a night owl.
07:27Even when I carried him, he was up at night.
07:29That's just how I was.
07:30So he was just a quiet child
07:33and we did a lot together.
07:35He was very smart and artistic
07:37till he started drawing when he was really little.
07:41Another child followed quickly.
07:44When her son, Chadney, was almost two years old,
07:47Faith gave birth to a daughter, Cara.
07:51Cara was always the type of child
07:54where whatever the brother said,
07:56she wanted to be able to do it too.
07:58When he was learning to tie his shoes,
08:00she was like, I can do it too.
08:02She always wanted to boss him.
08:03So I always had to tell her, like,
08:05Cara, you know, stop bossing your brother around.
08:08He just wanted to play his games and things like that.
08:11But as they got older, the relationship got better.
08:22Meanwhile, Gregory Green had been serving time in prison
08:25for the murder of his first wife.
08:28Most of his adult life had been spent behind bars.
08:31But in 2005, a push to give him a second chance
08:36gained momentum.
08:39Green, as was typical of him,
08:41maintained an absolutely calm presence in prison.
08:45But he was refused parole four times
08:48because he showed no empathy and no remorse whatever
08:53for killing Tonya and his unborn child.
08:55After that first murder, Gregory Green
08:59was a walking threat to any woman
09:03that he was going to get into a relationship with,
09:06especially if that woman challenges him
09:09or attempts to leave him.
09:13Green had been in prison for a considerable period of time
09:16when Pastor Fred Harris,
09:18who was a well-known figure in Detroit,
09:20began a campaign to get him released.
09:22Harris told the parole board
09:25that Green would be supported
09:27by the local community
09:29and welcomed back into the church.
09:31What he didn't do,
09:33and that's so significant later,
09:34he didn't warn his daughter Faith
09:36exactly what Green had done
09:38and why he'd been in prison.
09:41In 2008,
09:43after 16 years behind bars,
09:46Gregory Green was granted parole
09:48at the age of 41.
09:50He had a chance to start over,
09:53but his insatiable lust for murder
09:55could not be controlled,
09:57and eventually he would kill...
10:00again.
10:01In 2008,
10:13Gregory Green had just been released from prison
10:16after spending 16 years behind bars
10:19for the murder of his first wife
10:21and their unborn child.
10:24When Faith, who was single again,
10:26ran into him at church,
10:28old feelings resurfaced.
10:30At first,
10:33he didn't even know who I was
10:35until I told him.
10:36Then he was like,
10:37oh, okay, you know.
10:39He didn't even have a clue
10:40that I had, like,
10:41this crush on him,
10:42and a few times, like,
10:43after church,
10:44I would talk to him,
10:45and then eventually,
10:46we exchanged numbers.
10:48One day,
10:49we went out to dinner,
10:50just talked.
10:52The kids seemed like they liked him,
10:54and we just eventually started dating.
10:57Tragically, Faith wasn't aware
11:00of Green's crime
11:02when he was released.
11:04Her father didn't tell her,
11:05and I'm absolutely sure in my own mind
11:07that Green didn't tell her either.
11:09As far as she was concerned,
11:11with the help of her father,
11:12Green was being rehabilitated.
11:14I probably should have asked more questions.
11:19I did know that he had went to prison.
11:22We were told there was some type of altercation,
11:25but it was self-defense.
11:27Any allegations made against him,
11:29he's going to deny.
11:30He's going to minimize.
11:32He's going to make it look like
11:33he was the victim.
11:35This is something that is so common.
11:36They call it DARVO.
11:38Deny, attack, reverse victim, and offender.
11:41Now, that is straight from
11:42the coercive control playbook.
11:46He moved in with me for a little bit,
11:49but I was just feeling like
11:50something wasn't right.
11:52I don't know if it was just too soon.
11:54I ended up breaking it off with him
11:56for a while.
11:57I didn't talk to him for a little bit,
11:59and then we started talking back,
12:00and then that's how I got pregnant with Coy.
12:02Like, we weren't even in a relationship
12:04or anything like that.
12:05A couple months after I had Coy,
12:09that's when we ended up getting married.
12:14In 2011, Green and his new wife
12:17moved into their first house together.
12:21The city of Dearborn Heights
12:22is pretty much a bedroom community.
12:25Borders the city of Detroit
12:26on the east side of the city.
12:28Nice place to live.
12:29Pretty safe.
12:31It's a good community.
12:31Very eclectic.
12:32Very diverse.
12:33It didn't take long
12:36for Faith to realize
12:38that Green perhaps wasn't quite
12:40as angelic as she might have thought,
12:42and quite quickly,
12:45she became unsettled.
12:48I didn't really know
12:50what was going on with him on the inside.
12:53He just would shut down.
12:55That's when I started to see
12:56the attitude and things like that.
13:00Coercive control is a pattern of behavior
13:04designed to trap someone in a relationship.
13:08And that will be the motivation
13:10of the controlling person.
13:12So they will do all sorts of things
13:14within that relationship,
13:16what we call tactics,
13:17to make sure that person stays where they are,
13:21stays compliant,
13:22never leaves.
13:23Everything was just coy, coy, coy.
13:28He would tell me things like,
13:30if I leave the house,
13:31I got to take her with me.
13:32He didn't really want to give me a break.
13:35There was only one time
13:37during that first year
13:39where I was able to
13:40go out with one of my friends,
13:42and then he was calling me.
13:43I'm like, it only had been
13:44literally probably like an hour,
13:46hour and a half,
13:47and I was getting ready
13:48to be back on my way home.
13:51Green was incredibly controlling.
13:53He tried to isolate her
13:57from forms of support and influence.
13:59He would have used psychological tactics
14:03where he would demean her
14:06and question her
14:07so that she was constantly
14:09trying to meet his expectations
14:12and his rules.
14:13He will be presenting that as very normal.
14:15That's the way of things.
14:17You've got your role.
14:19I've got mine.
14:20You get on with yours,
14:21and as long as you do it properly,
14:22I'll leave you alone.
14:23Like many women
14:27in that situation,
14:29Faith stayed with Green
14:30for the sake of her daughter.
14:33Coy was funny.
14:34She thought she knew it all.
14:36She loved wearing dresses.
14:37Loved wearing dresses.
14:38That was her thing.
14:40Almost two years
14:41after Coy was born,
14:43Green and Faith
14:44had a second daughter,
14:46Kayleigh.
14:46Somehow, Green didn't take
14:50to the second daughter
14:51as much as he'd taken
14:52to the first.
14:55When she came,
14:57he didn't want anything
14:58to do with her.
14:59I don't know if it was
15:00because you didn't want
15:01another child.
15:02I couldn't even take that
15:03if that's what it was,
15:05you know?
15:05I mean, I don't have to like it,
15:07but make it make sense.
15:10It got to the point
15:11where it was really tense
15:13in a house.
15:17The home was a well-kept home.
15:20Nice area.
15:21By all accounts,
15:22you know,
15:22just a good family,
15:23living in a quiet suburb,
15:25raising their kids.
15:26So it kind of goes
15:28to the heart of
15:29what we deal with
15:30in policing every day.
15:32You never know
15:33what's going on
15:33behind closed doors.
15:36Despite Green's
15:37apparent indifference
15:38to his second daughter,
15:40Kayleigh was adored
15:41by Faith.
15:43Kayleigh, um,
15:44Kayleigh was,
15:46she was a little rambunctious.
15:47She was glued to my head.
15:49She was observant.
15:51She sat back and watched.
15:53When her dad was mean to her,
15:54I used to say,
15:55let's, let's pray.
15:57And then she would tell me,
15:58Mommy, let's pray.
16:00There was a couple times
16:01he flinched at her
16:02and she would stand up to him.
16:03No, baby,
16:04you should have to do that,
16:05you know.
16:09One night,
16:11I was sitting down
16:11on the couch
16:12and he's yelling,
16:13hollering,
16:14just saying demeaning things
16:15to me,
16:15calling me names,
16:16but he's,
16:17he's holding coy.
16:19So I'm like,
16:20can you please
16:21just put her down?
16:24So finally,
16:25I got him
16:25to put her down.
16:28And he starts yelling,
16:29he starts kicking the couch.
16:32Kayleigh's on this end.
16:33I'm like,
16:34please stop
16:34kicking the couch.
16:37That was my point there.
16:39I was just like,
16:39I,
16:40I have to leave.
16:42Faith attempted
16:43to get a personal
16:44protection order
16:45against her husband.
16:46I tried to go
16:48to the Dearborn Heights
16:49Police Department
16:50to file a PPO.
16:52I filled out the paperwork.
16:54They came back
16:55less than five minutes
16:56and told me
16:56it's not enough information.
17:00People don't go
17:01and get protective orders
17:02for nothing.
17:03They don't apply
17:04for them for nothing.
17:05But for some reason,
17:07probably a lack
17:08of evidence,
17:08I would have thought,
17:09that protective order
17:10was not granted.
17:11Domestic violence
17:14is one of those crimes
17:15that are unpoliceable.
17:16And that's one of the things
17:17that the police hate.
17:20We want to protect
17:20the public.
17:21We want to do
17:21what's out there.
17:22But the law,
17:23everybody thinks
17:24it's black and white.
17:25It's really not.
17:26I decided to go
17:27back to work
17:28and I said,
17:29I'm just going to
17:30make a plan
17:31and leave
17:31on the last day of school.
17:32And that's,
17:33that's what I did.
17:35After Faith
17:36left her husband,
17:37they lived apart
17:38for a couple of years.
17:40I did file
17:42for a divorce
17:42and we were
17:46at one of our,
17:48I guess,
17:49divorce proceedings
17:50and then
17:51I felt like
17:53we needed to talk.
17:54I didn't think
17:55like we were going
17:55to talk
17:56to get back together
17:57but that's what
17:58ended up happening.
18:00So I said,
18:00well, this time
18:01we really need
18:02to talk about things
18:03in detail.
18:04And I felt like
18:05that's what we were
18:05really doing.
18:07I felt like he was
18:08making an effort
18:08This is a controlling
18:11and manipulative person
18:13so they will use
18:15any tactic
18:16they think of
18:16that is going to work
18:17for them to get
18:18what they want.
18:21Faith would probably
18:22have believed him
18:24that he was genuine,
18:26that he was going
18:26to change.
18:27They never do.
18:29In 2014,
18:31Green and Faith
18:32reunited
18:33and eventually
18:34she moved back
18:35into the family home
18:36with her four children.
18:38It would prove
18:39to be
18:39a fatal mistake.
18:42It was okay
18:43for a few months.
18:45We wanted the girls
18:46and everybody
18:46to have a good Christmas
18:47so we got this
18:48huge Christmas tree
18:49that went up
18:50to the ceiling,
18:51bring all the toys
18:52and everything
18:52in the house.
18:54We were talking
18:54about renewing our vows
18:56but things
18:57were just
18:58slowly dwindling
18:59and I was just like
19:01oh, this is
19:02not going to work.
19:04Green would never
19:05have been able
19:06to sustain
19:07this character
19:09that he was playing.
19:11Once he got
19:12what he wanted,
19:13gone, forget it.
19:14This is not
19:14who he is.
19:16Who he is
19:17is a manipulative,
19:18abusive controller.
19:19As time went on
19:22he was getting worse
19:23so this time
19:25I'm dead set
19:26I'm like
19:26I can't change my mind
19:28I can't continue
19:29to put my children
19:30through this.
19:32In August 2016
19:34Faith filed for divorce
19:36for a second time.
19:40Statistically
19:40the period of separation
19:42or the threat
19:43of separation
19:44in a relationship
19:45where there's
19:46intimate partner violence
19:47is the most
19:48dangerous time.
19:49for a victim
19:50and the reason
19:52for that
19:52is because
19:53it's not about violence
19:54it's about power
19:55and control.
19:56So when the abuser
19:58in the relationship
19:59feels that they're
20:01losing that power
20:02and control
20:03their behavior
20:05ramps up
20:06and can become
20:08much, much
20:09more violent.
20:11Next thing I know
20:11he's mad.
20:12He was just
20:13really upset,
20:14cursing,
20:14just real belligerent
20:15and then eventually
20:16he left and went to work.
20:18and I thought
20:19I was going to be
20:20all right
20:20because the most
20:22Greg ever did
20:23was just yell,
20:24holler,
20:24maybe be in my face.
20:27I just continue
20:27to go on about my day
20:29as usual.
20:32It was at that point
20:34Gregory Green felt
20:36he ultimately lost
20:37control of the situation
20:38and she was going
20:39to take his home,
20:40she was going
20:41to take his children
20:42and he was not
20:45going to permit
20:46that to happen.
20:48It would be
20:49less than a month
20:50after he was served
20:51his divorce papers
20:52that Gregory Green
20:54finally snapped.
20:56What followed
20:56was a night
20:57of absolute horror
20:58that would change
21:00Faith's life
21:01forever.
21:02By September 2016,
21:15Faith Green
21:15had served her husband
21:17with divorce papers
21:18for the second time.
21:20Gregory Green knew
21:21his marriage
21:23was over.
21:25On the 20th of September,
21:262016,
21:28Green unleashed a nightmare
21:29on his unsuspecting family.
21:31It started off
21:34as a normal day.
21:36It spiraled
21:37into Faith Green
21:39and Gregory Green
21:40having an argument
21:41over text messages
21:43about the state
21:45of their marriage
21:46and the fact
21:47that she had filed
21:48for divorce.
21:50By the time
21:52Faith Green
21:52returned to the house
21:54that day,
21:56Gregory Green
21:57had become
21:58consumed by anger.
22:01I go to sleep
22:03and I remember
22:04him coming
22:04into the girls' room
22:05because I was
22:05sleeping in their room
22:06and he was like
22:08coming to the living room.
22:09It seemed serious
22:10so I got up,
22:11I go into the living room
22:13and I see my son in there
22:14and I'm thinking
22:15in my head like,
22:16he woke my son up
22:16so I can tell
22:17he was asleep.
22:19Greg takes out
22:20these big zip ties.
22:22I've never seen
22:25zip ties that big
22:26in my life ever.
22:28I didn't even know
22:28they made them that big.
22:30So he's like,
22:30I want you to tie
22:31your mother up with this
22:32so Chad is like,
22:34Greg, wait.
22:35Then he pulls the gun out.
22:38So I was like,
22:39Chad,
22:40just do what he says.
22:43So he made my son
22:44zip tie me
22:45and then that's when
22:46he proceeded
22:47to zip tie my son.
22:48I was froze.
22:52I couldn't do anything.
22:56Kara came to the living room
22:57looking like he's tripping.
22:59Like, what is wrong with him?
23:00Like, you know,
23:01he lost his mind.
23:02She has no clue
23:03what just happened.
23:06But he ends up
23:07zip tying her
23:08and then he says
23:09he wants us
23:10to go to the basement.
23:13We just look at each other.
23:15The thoughts were so loud,
23:17like,
23:17go to the basement.
23:20We just look at each other
23:21and then
23:22we go down
23:23to the basement
23:24and then he made us
23:25lay down on the floor,
23:28duct tape our mouths,
23:31duct tape around our arms,
23:33behind our back,
23:34ankles,
23:35and then
23:35he, like,
23:37extra duct taped me
23:38a lot.
23:40I was thinking
23:41that he was just
23:42going to take the girls
23:43and leave.
23:44That's what I was thinking.
23:45I never thought
23:46he was going to do
23:47anything more than that.
23:48I thought he was
23:48really just
23:49trying to, like,
23:51really just scare me.
23:54Gregory Green
23:55had a mindset
23:56where,
23:58above everything else,
24:00he was entitled
24:01to things.
24:03He was superior.
24:05He was better.
24:06better.
24:06And if you didn't give him
24:08what he was entitled to,
24:10he would respond
24:12really, really badly,
24:14almost like a petulant toddler.
24:17But a petulant toddler
24:19is nowhere near as dangerous
24:21as a fully grown,
24:23violent man
24:24with access to weapons.
24:26He sits down
24:28on the counter
24:29in the basement
24:30and he says
24:32that I'm going to suffer
24:33for what I did
24:34to him and his girls
24:35and he doesn't want
24:36his girls raised
24:37by anybody in my family.
24:39I just felt so bad
24:41because I couldn't help us.
24:43What was I going to do?
24:44Green spent the next hour
24:46going in and out
24:48of the basement.
24:49When he returned
24:50for the final time,
24:51he turned his gun
24:52on 17-year-old Kara.
24:54He shot her
24:57in the back
24:57twice
24:59and she just
25:01looked at me.
25:04I'm yelling to him
25:05like, no,
25:06no, no, my baby.
25:09But I was begging him
25:10not to shoot her
25:11because once he shot
25:12her in the back,
25:13you know,
25:13she was bleeding
25:15from her mouth
25:16and I knew
25:17she wasn't going to make it.
25:20He next turned
25:22the gun on Chad
25:23and he shot her
25:24Chadney twice
25:26in the back
25:26and once in the head.
25:31I remember him saying,
25:32ouch,
25:32and he rolled over
25:33and he never moved again.
25:38Then he aimed
25:38a gun at me
25:39and I remember
25:40just trying to
25:40brace myself
25:41because I didn't know
25:42where he was going
25:43to shoot me.
25:44I just remember
25:44hearing gunshots.
25:45I remember that
25:48burning feeling
25:48and then
25:50he grabbed my face.
25:53So I remember that
25:54and then him,
25:55you know,
25:56cutting me from the side.
25:59I didn't feel it
26:00but I could just feel
26:00the warmth of the blood
26:01and I see, like,
26:02blood squirting.
26:03He spared Faith's life
26:08because he wanted
26:09her to suffer
26:10and live through it
26:12and live with it.
26:13It is an unimaginable
26:15burden
26:16for anyone to bear.
26:18Can you imagine
26:18any mother
26:19watching the death
26:21of her children
26:21in front of her
26:23by a man she's married
26:24and thought she could trust?
26:26It's fascinating
26:31from a law enforcement
26:33psychological standpoint
26:35to try to understand
26:37what Mr. Green
26:38actually was thinking
26:40that caused him
26:41to go to those lengths.
26:43What was it
26:43that you thought
26:45by sitting your wife down
26:47killing her children
26:49in front of her
26:50you were going
26:51to accomplish?
26:53That was the question
26:54that reigned in my mind
26:55for a long time after.
26:58In an eerie echo
27:00of the night
27:0125 years earlier
27:02when he'd murdered
27:03his first wife,
27:05Green then called
27:06the police
27:07and confessed
27:08to his crime.
27:10I heard him
27:11walk up the stairs
27:12and said,
27:13hi, my name is
27:13Gregory Green
27:14and that's all
27:15that I could hear.
27:17Then I heard
27:17the door close.
27:22I was called,
27:23woken up
27:24by the sergeant
27:25that was working
27:26on the road patrol
27:28and was apprised
27:30of the situation
27:30at that time.
27:33You almost want
27:35to think
27:35that this isn't real.
27:37Am I dreaming?
27:38The officers responded
27:40to the scene
27:40from the 911 call.
27:43Mr. Green
27:44was sitting
27:44on the porch.
27:45He was taken
27:46into custody
27:47without incident
27:47by the first responding officers
27:50and that's when
27:51the officers
27:52then had
27:53the horrific task
27:54of going into the home
27:55and finding
27:56the crime scene.
27:58I remember
27:59just laying there.
28:00Then there was
28:01a knock at the door
28:02and it was the police.
28:06Faith's children
28:06were shot to death
28:07in front of her.
28:10She had suffered
28:11a cutting wound
28:12from, like,
28:13the top of her
28:14forehead area
28:16all the way down
28:17to her cheek
28:18and she was also
28:20shot in the foot.
28:23I don't understand
28:24the mentality
28:25but it seemed
28:26like torture to me.
28:29Obviously,
28:29our primary concern
28:30in that situation
28:31being there was
28:32no further danger
28:34to the community.
28:35We still have
28:36a victim that's alive
28:38making sure
28:39that Faith
28:39was taken care of
28:40and sought medical aid
28:42that was needed.
28:42On this side here
28:46they had to
28:47stitch on the inside
28:48first
28:48and then
28:49stitch the outside
28:50and if he would have
28:52cut me an inch further
28:53I would have
28:53actually bled to death.
28:55And they said
28:56that my foot
28:56should have been
28:57shattered
28:57like a lot of pieces
28:59but luckily
29:00the bullet curved
29:01and went out the bottom.
29:04Faith had survived
29:05her husband's attack
29:06but her nightmare
29:09wasn't over.
29:10even more horrifying news
29:13was still to come.
29:24On September the 21st, 2016
29:27Gregory Green
29:29had forced his wife
29:30to watch
29:30as he shot
29:31and killed
29:32her two teenage children.
29:35But as Faith
29:36was about to find out
29:37they weren't
29:38the only murders
29:40he'd committed
29:40that night.
29:43What became apparent
29:45was what Green
29:46was doing
29:46when he left
29:47his wife
29:48and two elder children
29:49tied up
29:50in the basement.
29:53He had already
29:55prepared the car
29:57in the garage
29:58of the home
29:59meaning
30:00he had
30:01fastened
30:02a piece of
30:03PVC pipe
30:04on the tailpipe
30:05of the vehicle
30:06ran a hose
30:07into the window
30:08of the car
30:09he went
30:10into the house
30:11lifted
30:11the two girls
30:12one by one
30:13out of their beds
30:14they were asleep
30:15one of the children
30:17briefly woke up
30:18but
30:18her daddy
30:20was holding her
30:21so she fell back
30:22asleep
30:22he carried
30:23the two girls
30:24out to the car
30:25placed them
30:26in the car
30:27tucked them in
30:28shut the door
30:29and turned
30:30the car on
30:30This was just
30:37incomprehensible
30:38to me
30:39During this
30:44whole process
30:45Gregory Green
30:46would leave
30:47Koi and Kaylee
30:48in the car
30:49and then
30:50he would go
30:51into the basement
30:51to check on
30:52Kara and Chadney
30:53and Faith
30:55to make sure
30:56they were still
30:56down there
30:57he didn't tell
30:58them at that time
30:59what was happening
31:00upstairs
31:00After a period
31:02of time
31:03Gregory Green
31:04went back
31:04out to the garage
31:05he checked
31:05on the two
31:06youngest girls
31:07they appeared
31:08to be lifeless
31:08he turned
31:10the car off
31:11and then
31:12he carried
31:12them one by one
31:13back into the house
31:15and tucked
31:15them in bed
31:16together
31:17Soon after
31:18being rushed
31:19to hospital
31:20Faith learned
31:21the true extent
31:22of what her
31:23husband had done
31:24to Koi
31:25and Kaylee
31:26One of the
31:27doctors told me
31:28that they
31:29had passed
31:29but I remember
31:30the police
31:31saying that
31:32the little one
31:33is fighting
31:33I didn't know
31:35what was going
31:35on
31:36but Kaylee
31:37was the last
31:37to go
31:38so
31:39they wheeled
31:40me to
31:41one room
31:42and I saw
31:43Koi
31:44she was gone
31:45she was
31:45just so cold
31:47and then
31:48they wheeled
31:48me to another
31:49room
31:49and Kaylee
31:50she was
31:51still warm
31:52there was
31:57a lot
31:58of the
31:58officers
31:58on scene
31:59that were
32:00just not
32:00believing
32:00this
32:01you know
32:02you can't
32:02believe
32:02that this
32:03happened
32:03but you
32:03put your
32:04feelings
32:04aside
32:05and you
32:06have a
32:06job
32:06to do
32:07and a
32:07crime scene
32:07to process
32:08an investigation
32:09to conduct
32:10and you
32:10move forward
32:11now in custody
32:15Gregory Green
32:17was questioned
32:17by police
32:18during the course
32:20of his
32:21several hour
32:22statement
32:23he spoke
32:24about the
32:25details of
32:26the crime
32:26and his
32:28reasons
32:29for doing
32:30this
32:31he repeatedly
32:32referenced
32:32the fact
32:33that Faith Green
32:34had filed
32:34for divorce
32:35he repeatedly
32:36referenced
32:37the fact
32:37that she was
32:38going to take
32:39his house
32:39and he was
32:40going to have
32:41to pay
32:41child support
32:42and he would
32:43have nothing
32:43and he would
32:44starve
32:45and he wouldn't
32:45have his
32:46girls
32:46he repeatedly
32:49indicated
32:50during the course
32:50of his statement
32:51that he had
32:52no choice
32:53he had to
32:53do this
32:54the lack
32:57of emotion
32:57the lack
32:59of conscience
33:00the matter
33:01of factness
33:02in which
33:02Gregory Green
33:03detailed
33:04to the detectives
33:06what he had
33:06done to these
33:07children
33:07what I found
33:10most troublesome
33:11about Mr. Green
33:13was there
33:14was a statement
33:15that alluded
33:16to the fact
33:16that he felt
33:17his children
33:18were better
33:19off in heaven
33:20with God
33:21than being
33:23raised by her
33:23that was his
33:25logic behind
33:27taking the lives
33:28of his children
33:28in this incident
33:31Gregory Green
33:32had every opportunity
33:34to also murder
33:35Faith Green
33:36and he intentionally
33:37did not do that
33:38the detectives
33:40asked him
33:41why didn't
33:42you kill her
33:42and his words
33:45were
33:45death would have
33:46been too good
33:46for her
33:47I wanted her
33:49to live with
33:49what she made me do
33:50it's the ultimate
33:54act of power
33:55and control
33:55Gregory Green
33:57knew at the time
33:58he did these things
33:59he was going to spend
34:00the rest of his life
34:00in prison
34:01and he was resigned
34:02to that fact
34:03but he wanted
34:04Faith Green
34:05to suffer forever
34:07and allowing her
34:09to live
34:10was his way
34:11of guaranteeing
34:12in his mind
34:12that he could
34:13control her
34:14and make her
34:14suffer forever
34:15that's the
34:18sonification
34:18of evil
34:20and shows us
34:22exactly
34:23what his
34:24motivations were
34:25his motivation
34:27was to punish
34:28Faith
34:29for having
34:29the audacity
34:31to leave him
34:33in the days
34:37following the murders
34:38the story
34:39hit the press
34:40it was only
34:42then that
34:42Faith learned
34:43the awful truth
34:44about her
34:45husband's
34:46first wife
34:47I was on my
34:48dad's phone
34:49and that was
34:49like the first
34:50thing that popped
34:51up
34:51she was about
34:53six seven months
34:54pregnant
34:54and he stabbed
34:56her to death
34:56and I was
35:01just thinking
35:01like oh my god
35:02I'm just crying
35:03like
35:03because I
35:04never knew
35:06I'm just
35:06bawling my eyes
35:07out
35:07I'm just sick
35:08to my stomach
35:09Faith found it
35:11hard to come
35:12to terms
35:13with the parole
35:14board's previous
35:14decision
35:15to release
35:16Green
35:17he actually
35:18shouldn't have
35:19ever been
35:19let out
35:20he was never
35:21rehabilitated
35:22he just told
35:23them
35:23what they
35:25wanted to hear
35:25because he
35:25has a demeanor
35:26where people
35:27like him
35:27they gravitate
35:29toward him
35:29and he used
35:30that to his
35:31advantage
35:31Faith's whole
35:34life had been
35:35destroyed in
35:36one night
35:37by the husband
35:38who claimed
35:38to love her
35:39but there was
35:40still one piece
35:41of news
35:42she was yet
35:43to hear
35:43that would
35:44once again
35:45rock her
35:46to the core
35:47one of the
35:49terrible ironies
35:50of this case
35:51is that Faith
35:52was in hospital
35:53recovering from
35:55the torture
35:55from Green
35:56when she heard
35:57it was her own
35:58father
35:58who'd helped
35:59him get out
36:00of jail
36:00imagine the
36:02shock that must
36:03have been
36:04to the young
36:04woman
36:04I found out
36:06just like
36:07everyone else
36:08did that
36:09my father
36:09had wrote
36:10letters for
36:12my ex-husband
36:13to help
36:14him get
36:15out of prison
36:15for a long
36:17time I didn't
36:18want anything
36:18to do
36:18with my
36:19father
36:19I probably
36:21pushed my
36:22family away
36:23at some point
36:23too and vice
36:24versa
36:25because they
36:26weren't understanding
36:26what I was
36:27going through
36:27I mean I didn't
36:28understand what
36:29I was going
36:29through
36:30how do you
36:31really put
36:32your head
36:32around losing
36:33four children
36:34I was on a lot
36:36of medication
36:36I was spiraling
36:37out of control
36:38you know
36:38Gregory Green
36:45was charged
36:46with a litany
36:47of felonies
36:48for the
36:48Dearborn Heights
36:49massacre
36:50including four counts
36:52of first degree
36:53murder
36:54it was a very
36:58strong case
36:59because it almost
37:01came down
37:02to a point
37:03where once
37:04we did
37:04our protocol
37:05and procedures
37:06with Mr. Green
37:07confessing to
37:08committing the
37:09homicides
37:09having the
37:11victims
37:11having a live
37:12witness
37:12that witnessed
37:13everything
37:13there's really
37:15not much
37:16to argue
37:18what the
37:21investigation
37:21showed was
37:22that approximately
37:23a week prior
37:24to the murders
37:25he had gone
37:26to a local
37:26hardware store
37:27here in Michigan
37:28he had purchased
37:30the PVC pipe
37:31that he used
37:32on the car
37:33the plastic
37:34tubing he used
37:35on the car
37:36the zip ties
37:37and duct tape
37:38during his interrogation
37:42Gregory Green admitted
37:43that he knew
37:44he was going
37:45to do something
37:46he just didn't know
37:47when he was going
37:48to do it
37:49I think it would be
37:52a difficult argument
37:53for any defense attorney
37:55to make
37:55regardless of whether
37:57he had bought it
37:57days earlier
37:58the mere fact
37:59that his children
38:00died from carbon
38:01monoxide poisoning
38:02shows premeditation
38:03ultimately
38:06a plea offer
38:08was extended
38:09by the prosecutor's
38:11office
38:11to Gregory Green
38:13whereby he would
38:14plead guilty
38:15to four counts
38:16of second degree murder
38:17one count of torture
38:19one count of assault
38:21with intent
38:21to do great bodily harm
38:23and one count
38:24of felony firearm
38:25the plea offer
38:27in this case
38:28took into account
38:29the objectives
38:30of Faith Green
38:32primarily
38:33that Gregory Green
38:35spend the rest
38:36of his natural life
38:37in prison
38:38this plea offer
38:39also took
38:41into account
38:42the trauma
38:43that a trial
38:44would cause
38:45to Faith Green
38:46in having to relive
38:48and testify
38:49about witnessing
38:51the murders
38:51of her children
38:52on march the 1st 2017
38:57approximately six months
38:59after he'd murdered
39:00his two daughters
39:01and his two stepchildren
39:03Gregory Green
39:05was back in court
39:06for his sentencing hearing
39:08to her immense credit
39:13Faith turned up
39:15at Green's sentencing
39:17and indeed
39:19called him out
39:21in front of the jury
39:23and the judge
39:23she said
39:25you're a con man
39:26you're a monster
39:27and you're the devil
39:28in disguise
39:29she was very brave
39:33and very strong
39:34and she was there
39:37speaking for her children
39:38I wanted to be
39:41face to face with him
39:42if it were my choice
39:44you know
39:45that's why
39:45I kept looking at him
39:46even though it was
39:47the back of his head
39:48because to let him know
39:50how I felt
39:51so he could see my eyes
39:52feel my pain
39:53I don't recall
39:57Mr. Green ever
39:58looking at Faith Green
39:59and making eye contact
40:00with her
40:01I recall him sitting
40:02and just looking
40:03straight forward
40:04as she delivered
40:05her remarks
40:06with no emotion
40:07on his face
40:08Mr. Green was ready
40:11to go back to prison
40:11you know
40:12he was like
40:13I did it
40:13I turned myself in
40:15can we just go now
40:16he felt he was
40:18mission accomplished
40:19it was like
40:20I killed my kids
40:21I did what I did
40:22put me in jail
40:23just unfathomable
40:25there was no remorse
40:28no shame
40:28no guilt
40:29and he kept talking
40:31about how God
40:31would look after him
40:32so he still got
40:33that massive ego
40:35there
40:36that I'm special
40:38and I will be forgiven
40:39and God is going
40:40to look after me
40:41I mean the extent
40:42of that man's ego
40:44is absolutely staggering
40:46for Faith
40:48I don't know
40:49how she sat
40:51through those court
40:51hearings
40:52looking at that person
40:54that just took
40:55her children
40:55I was
40:58awed
40:59by her ability
41:00to stand up
41:01and face
41:02her abuser
41:04face the man
41:05who had done this
41:06to her
41:06and never once
41:07waver
41:08from the moment
41:09I met her
41:10I knew she was
41:11a very strong woman
41:13she was committed
41:15to finding justice
41:17for her children
41:18from day one
41:19I just had to
41:22let him know
41:23I wasn't scared
41:24of you
41:25and you know
41:26you did these things
41:27to hurt me
41:28because I wouldn't
41:30stay in your box
41:31because you wanted
41:32to control me
41:33and I wouldn't
41:35give in to him
41:35and I'm still
41:38not giving in to him
41:38even though my children
41:39aren't here
41:40but I still continue
41:41to fight for them
41:42Gregory Green
41:48was sentenced
41:49to serve
41:5045 to 100 years
41:52in prison
41:53plus an additional
41:54two-year term
41:55for the firearms charge
41:57I think it was
42:00a judge who said
42:01a father is there
42:02to protect his children
42:03and a husband
42:04is there
42:04to protect his wife
42:05Green did neither
42:07he was 50 years old
42:09at the time
42:10so when we did
42:12the math
42:12I as a prosecutor
42:14understood
42:14he would not be
42:16eligible for parole
42:17until he was
42:1897 years old
42:20and that
42:21that would be
42:21the first time
42:22parole could even
42:23be considered
42:23so in effect
42:26it was my belief
42:28that he would die
42:29in prison
42:29the wounds
42:33that Faith suffered
42:34she may have
42:36recovered from
42:37the physical injuries
42:38but the emotional injuries
42:40and the sheer
42:41effect on her
42:42will never go away
42:44they cannot possibly
42:45it is an
42:46unimaginable
42:47nightmare
42:48I can't ever
42:51let him win
42:52so I'm going to
42:53keep honoring
42:53my children
42:54I talk about them
42:57all the time
42:58I have so many
43:00stories
43:01and pictures
43:03I did so much
43:04with them
43:05I enjoyed
43:06my children
43:06I enjoyed
43:07being a mom
43:08my children
43:11would be proud
43:12of how far
43:13I've come
43:13they wouldn't
43:13want me
43:14to be
43:14sulk
43:15and they
43:15would want
43:16me to be
43:16happy
43:16Gregory Green
43:19murdered his
43:20family
43:20not once
43:21but twice
43:22he stabbed
43:24his first wife
43:25to death
43:25killing not only
43:26her
43:27but their
43:28unborn child
43:29too
43:29then 25
43:31years later
43:32after his
43:33release from
43:33prison
43:34he shot
43:35and killed
43:36his two
43:36stepchildren
43:37in front
43:38of their
43:38mother
43:38and gassed
43:40his own
43:40two daughters
43:41who were
43:42just four
43:42and five
43:43years old
43:44his name
43:46is now
43:46synonymous
43:47with unimaginable
43:49family betrayal
43:50and tragedy
43:51leaving no doubt
43:53that Gregory
43:54Green
43:54is one
43:55of the
43:56world's
43:56most evil
43:57killers
43:58ferr slide
44:05for the
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