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00:05you get a phone call from the police saying your father was killed in an accident
00:10how could that happen how could that happen you know you could immediately see he was burned
00:17severely from head to toe simplest explanation is probably the correct one
00:25he was a known cigar smoker who was on oxygen but is it the result of a tragic accident
00:33or something more sinister
00:38some scenes make perfect sense but this scene completely confused me
00:44you could immediately see that he had no clothing on the worst burns were on his back which indicated
00:53where the fire had started
00:59when the evidence leads to a seemingly disturbed suspect investigators must determine whether
01:06the crime was unintentional or if it's all an act
01:13you knew that there was something wrong with her mind it certainly appears that she had poor impulse
01:18control we all knew she was going to take his life one day what we were surprised about is the
01:24way
01:24that she did he screamed for me he's like come out back he was on fire screaming my name when
01:32she told
01:32me that i knew i was truly in the presence of evil
01:50june 16th 2022
01:53it's 5 23 a.m in susquehanna township pennsylvania when police receive a strange 911 call
02:02what's your name evelyn
02:05your last name
02:07vigorelli
02:08henderson
02:08tell me exactly what happened
02:10yeah i believe uh carmen q henderson
02:15did not make it
02:18he um
02:19what do you mean did not make it
02:20no you got to be specific with me i'm not understanding what you're trying to tell me
02:24i think he is deceased
02:28the 911 operator is trying to get some information how do you know that he
02:32has passed away is he still breathing and she's like i i just know
02:44she said to the 911 operator that she had seen him at one o'clock in the morning heard him
02:53yell
02:53and chose at that time not to call 911
02:59she indicated that she found him in the morning when she got up
03:03the dispatcher's typing this information in uh it's going to the responding police officers
03:09the dispatcher felt there was something not quite right with the car
03:15police rush to the address where they are met by evelyn
03:20purple alex wagner was the first on scene
03:22he asked what's going on
03:24and she said
03:25my husband's out back and he's dead
03:29as he's approaching the back door
03:31he could see mr henderson on the ground
03:34on the back patio
03:37he's just completely
03:38burned to death
03:41the officer immediately secures the scene and calls for backup
03:46as i come around the back there's a stone patio
03:49i look down and there is a naked burnt man
03:56i was completely not ready for that
04:00i knew mr henderson from years ago
04:03he was a retired susquehman township police officer
04:06probably back in the late 70s early 80s
04:10some scenes make perfect sense
04:11you look and you can say okay this is likely what happened
04:15but this scene completely confused me
04:17and we're looking at the possibility of an accident
04:20maybe he set himself on fire with the cigar
04:24investigators know that his wife evelyn must have answers
04:27they pull her away from the scene to get more information
04:31the questions running through our minds were related to the different scenarios
04:38of how this could have occurred
04:40most of the attention was focusing on trying to determine if this happened
04:45accidentally or intentionally
04:54carmen q henderson was born october 31st 1937 in philadelphia to a doting mother
05:03my grandmother his mother took care gave him everything he was he had everything
05:09what to have as a child he grew up in germantown they moved up to harrisburg to change the way
05:16life was going for them
05:18his mother worked for the orphanage which is now the ywca and my dad went to school
05:25at william penn high school
05:30carmen met his first wife in high school
05:34the pair had two daughters together while he served in the military
05:38he was a airplane mechanic in the air force
05:42when he came out of the service he worked for firestone as a mechanic
05:50before long carmen decided he'd had enough of engine repair
05:54and began a new career back in pennsylvania
05:58first he was a state police officer
05:59then after that switched over to being a susquehanna township police officer
06:04he was one of the first minority police officers in this area
06:09his reputation was uh
06:12everybody thought he was an incredible man
06:16during his early career in law enforcement
06:18carmen and his wife separated
06:20but he remained close to his daughters
06:24even though we live with our mother
06:26i would see my dad every day because i would go to my grandma's house after school every day
06:30and my dad was there and my grandma would cook dinner
06:33and me and my dad would eat dinner every day
06:36he took us to the philadelphia zoo
06:38he took us to the land city
06:40to jersey because he liked the land city
06:43my dad took us everywhere
06:47carmen was just as caring with the people in his community
06:50he had risen through the ranks to be a deputy sheriff in dauphin county
06:58he was a good man he was a fair man and he was very well liked
07:03all different colored people i would run into and they would tell me
07:06that my dad helped him a lot when they were on parole and stuff
07:10how you know it changed their lives
07:13he didn't treat them like criminals
07:16he treated like people
07:18and i think that's what why everybody liked him so much
07:21carmen henderson was
07:23the grandpa of the neighborhood
07:26he was like mr rogers
07:28people love this man
07:29one person struck by carmen's charm was evelyn zigarelli
07:35born on march 4th 1956 in beaver county pennsylvania
07:41evelyn also seemed destined for a life of service
07:45she came from a family with a political background out in southwestern pa
07:51throughout high school evie was active in a range of activities
07:56including band sports and student government
07:59she carried a strong work ethic from adolescence into adulthood
08:04running for local office in 1983
08:07she was elected clerk of courts in beaver county in the mid-80s
08:13eventually she came to the harrisburg area
08:15and after she was here after she met mr henderson
08:18she tried to run for office in dauphin county
08:22no-nonsense evelyn found a lifelong ally and supporter in carmen
08:27the pair married in 1991
08:30and carmen's good reputation bolstered evelyn's political confidence
08:36she made several bids for office
08:38she came from beaver county
08:40and she thought that her experience and accolades
08:43and her past status as an elected official out there
08:46would instantly transfer over
08:52that was a rude awakening when she came here and realized all of a sudden
08:55no you're you're an outsider
08:58after a slew of lost elections
09:01evelyn and carmen decided to pivot their energy into opening a business
09:06say you know i'm just gonna give me a limousine
09:08that's what i'll do i'll just give me a limousine
09:10and start my own profession
09:13he did most of the work for the cars
09:16so he was able to save a lot of money that way
09:20evelyn ran the day-to-day part of the booking the trips
09:24and um getting clients
09:27they literally had the monopoly on limousines at one point
09:31and i can only imagine you know how proud he was of a business that he built
09:37but by 2022 the business had lost much of its revenue due to carmen's failing health
09:44mr henderson's health had been declining to some extent
09:49he was becoming uh more frail
09:52he was 84 years old
09:53wasn't able to walk as easily as he used to
09:59mr carmen was just you know getting older
10:02they were still getting some income in
10:05but
10:06it just slowly faded away
10:14but now carmen has been found burned to death in his own backyard
10:19and police are desperate for answers
10:23evelyn
10:24she now acts
10:25kind of surprised
10:27basically saying he caught himself on fire
10:31he was a cigar smoker
10:33everyone told us that
10:35he likes to smoke cigars out back
10:37and
10:37he will sometimes light the wrappers on fire
10:41so
10:42at one point she said
10:44maybe he set himself on fire because he was burning the wrappers
10:48her demeanor was described as strange
10:51you would expect someone to be hysterically crying and upset and inconsolable
10:54and she was just
10:56flat and had
10:57just a monotone reaction to everything
10:59one possibility would be that she's simply in shock from
11:04from what has occurred and what she witnessed
11:08i mean what's a normal reaction to have to your husband being burned alive
11:11there is no uniform normal reaction
11:15evelyn's bizarre response
11:17combined with the circumstances of carmen's death and the state of the home
11:22bolster detective's sense of urgency
11:25we treat every suspicious death as a homicide until proven otherwise
11:30so i knew we were going to have to get a search warrant for the house
11:33i knew we were going to have to remove her from the house
11:36in order to perform the search warrant to secure the scene
11:39make sure nothing gets tampered with
11:43i took a closer look inside the house at absolute deplorable
11:47it was filthy
11:49there was rotted food
11:52plates sitting haphazardly
11:55it was it was it was squalor
12:02coming up
12:04a search warrant provides strange clues
12:07people don't burn as bad as mr henderson does
12:11without accelerant
12:15and an interview with evelyn compounds the mystery
12:40pennsylvania police are investigating the bizarre death of a former officer
12:4584 year old carmen henderson
12:49his wife evelyn zigarelli henderson thinks he caught himself on fire
12:54but given the neglected state of their home
12:57detectives wonder about her mental state
13:01one of the first things that we look at in terms of how well people are doing mentally
13:06is how well do they take care of themselves
13:09if they're out of touch with reality
13:12or even just severely emotionally distressed
13:15that can be reflected in what surrounds them
13:18sometimes a place filled with clutter and that is not clean and has all sorts of indications of
13:24mental illness
13:26we asked her when did you see him last she said
13:29last night he went out to smoke a cigar
13:31around seven or eight o'clock and i went to bed
13:34and she said that she didn't see him until she woke up this morning called 9-1-1
13:40evelyn originally said she saw carmen around 1 a.m
13:45evelyn is confusing details and when you're getting different pieces of information like evelyn is giving here
13:51police are certainly going to be concerned about whether or not evelyn is a reliable source of information
13:56she had indicated that she was bipolar and she had stopped taking her her medication
14:04the characteristic bipolar disorder is cyclical mood swings from periods of elation to periods of depression
14:13this can affect memory and cause a person to become confused
14:16and that sometimes doesn't allow that person to perceive what's going on in the world in front of them
14:23so i said to her i said would you mind coming with us to the police station to talk and
14:27she said absolutely
14:30as evelyn is transported to the susquehanna township police station
14:35investigators search for other potential witnesses
14:39law enforcement canvases the neighborhood
14:41they want to talk to neighbors and see if anyone saw or heard anything
14:46no one reported hearing any yelling any screaming
14:49this was june so it could be you know that people had air conditioners in their windows
14:53it could be the time of night it happened maybe everyone was in a deep sleep
14:58at first glance the scene itself doesn't provide many answers either
15:04you could immediately see uh that he had no clothing on
15:10and he was burned severely from head to toe
15:15my question is you know why is he naked
15:18when you looked on the ground there was actually a pile of debris burned debris everything charred
15:27there were shoes parts of a belt a cuff of a shirt and so the more you kind of looked
15:34at the scene the more it became apparent that he actually was dressed when he caught fire
15:41we believed as he was on fire he more than likely was disrobing
15:51the severity of the burns raises other questions
15:55the initial thought is there must have been some sort of accelerant some kind of liquid flammable
16:02liquid that would have been poured onto him either by himself or or somebody else that would have ignited
16:09to cause those kind of burns people don't burn as bad as mr henderson does without accelerant
16:17there are no nearby accelerants carmen could have used when igniting the fire
16:23we actually brought a dog an arson dog to the scene the dog ran through the scene and came back
16:30as
16:32not indicating that they they detected any form of accelerant
16:37but the one thing the dogs don't hit on is alcohol because it's common to homes so just because the
16:44dog
16:44didn't hit on anything that doesn't mean that there wasn't an accelerant used
16:50now there was ignition source on the table we found a lighter
16:56and also very strange we found a paper towel that was rolled up and burnt at one end almost as
17:05if
17:05it was used like some people would use it to start pilot lights something like that
17:09so it didn't look this did not look accidental at all
17:14closer inspection of the patio reveals another clue
17:20there was a blue chair kind of off to the left as you walk out of the house and then
17:26there was
17:26another chair that was a gray chair like a folding camping chair that was turned on its side on the
17:33ground
17:34over near the wall the gray chair was involved in the fire it clearly had been burned in the back
17:41portion that you would lean against that was completely burned away but the arms the seat of the chair and
17:48the foot rest were not burned at all but the most important piece of evidence comes from carmen's body
17:57i look closely at his face a lot of times when someone is alive when they're burning you'll see
18:05soot on the nose as there as a breathing in the soot but what i found was fly larva
18:14fly larva is generally about 24 hours after time of death so that told me immediately that the story
18:21evelyn told 911 dispatcher was complete lie because there's no way with a short amount of time could
18:28flies have landed on the body and left their eggs behind they definitely think that something sinister
18:36has happened to him this is probably one of the worst ways that somebody could die so did she not
18:44remember because of her mental illness or is it deception either way it appears impossible that carmen lit himself on
18:54fire
19:09over three hours after evelyn henderson called 911 investigators are now seriously questioning her account of her husband's death
19:21when they sit down with her at the police station they ask her to go over the details of that
19:26evening again her demeanor is relatively the same as it is on the scene you know she doesn't get
19:34upset she is not crying she doesn't seem like she's grieving it did not seem like she was in
19:41any sort of shock from the incident at that point that that seemed like it may have been the case
19:47on
19:47the scene but now we're hours later she's removed from the scene and she's clearly understanding the
19:57questions so what happened that we're here today can you explain that to me well i called 9-1-1
20:08because carmen henderson needed help i'm trying to get her into a story that's consistent that she's
20:15staying with on the scene her version was that the last time she saw mr henderson was at seven
20:24o'clock at night and then she went to bed and didn't see him again till the morning
20:30then when she was talking to sergeant wilson the time changed to 11 o'clock at night
20:37i said evelyn didn't happen there's fly larvae in his mouth and nose i said that takes at least 24
20:45hours to develop what happened yesterday what happened yesterday when he caught himself on fire
20:53okay so now walk us through that because now we're talking about a whole different timeline now
20:59when someone is not giving proper sequencing it could be due to deception but it could also be due to
21:05a number of other factors including trauma
21:10unable to put evelyn in a consistent timeline they change tactics when they asked her did you go
21:17outside to the back patio you know she indicates yes i went outside well when i come to the door
21:24it was
21:25already on fire but i was not up there when it went first down and that was about what time
21:35i don't know
21:36i guess it was four or five o'clock i come back into call 911 and i did
21:45he screamed for me he was like come out back he was on fire
22:02he fell down he stopped talking and she just went about her day until at approximately 5 30 in the
22:09morning evelyn henderson about 9-1-1 investigators are stunned to realize that at least four hours would
22:18have passed before evelyn finally called police when she told me that i knew i was truly in the
22:25presence of evil some people make mistakes some people do bad things but she at that moment struck
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23:09Could she have been having a mental health issue?
23:12Possible, absolutely, could it be possible.
23:14But how she was telling the story, it just felt to me that it almost felt like it was more
23:20of a controlled act
23:21as opposed to a person with a mental illness.
23:24I felt she was involved, but we didn't even have anything concrete at that point.
23:30The interview continues for several more hours as police try to determine whether Evelyn had a reason to murder Carmen.
23:42She talks about their relationship as being kind of up and down, that it was good for a long time,
23:52but in recent memory that they had been arguing.
23:57That's what we argue about.
24:00Money. What were we arguing about money for?
24:03She goes, he doesn't know where all the money went, and he was blaming me for losing the business.
24:10Evelyn admits she mismanaged the finances of the couple's limousine company, overspending on luxuries.
24:19The spending, on her part, not being able to manage money, is what kind of put them under.
24:27She said that she knew that they're going to lose the house.
24:30They were $40,000 in debt on a second mortgage.
24:33They stopped making payments on it.
24:36She was worried about losing the home or not having a place to stay.
24:41She admitted at some point that there was a $10,000 life insurance on him.
24:50Evelyn said over and over again that she did not do this, that he lit himself on fire.
24:57She kept saying that repeatedly.
24:59I said, look, Evelyn, I said, nothing's making sense.
25:03I said, you know what?
25:05I said, I think it's going to point back to you, Evelyn.
25:09Coming up, Carmen's loved ones share disturbing stories about Evelyn.
25:16That crazy BRG series, she effing did it.
25:22But can investigators prove she committed murder?
25:26He was actually breathing in more flames than any sort of smoke.
25:32It's excruciatingly painful being burned.
25:50After a seven-hour interrogation, detectives are convinced
25:55Evelyn Henderson is the one responsible for her husband's gruesome death.
26:02At that point, based on her changing stories, not having an accurate timeline of events
26:09and all of the evidence on scene, the decision was made to charge.
26:13The charges the district attorney told us to go with was aggravated arson,
26:17which is arson committed during the course of a felony.
26:21The felony would be the homicide.
26:22Evelyn is transported to Pennsylvania's Dauphin County Jail while authorities continue to build
26:29a case against her.
26:32They believe personal testimonials and forensic evidence will help earn a conviction.
26:39We certainly had probable cause at that moment to believe that she had committed this crime
26:46and the charges we had charged her with, but there were things that still needed to be done.
26:53To learn more about the relationship between Evelyn and Carmen,
26:57investigators reach out to family and friends later that same day.
27:02We get a phone call from the police saying,
27:05your father was killed in an accident.
27:07They were saying that he was set on fire and said, how can that be?
27:12They said it's going to be treated as a homicide.
27:16So we're like, well, who did it?
27:19And they said, we arrested your dad's wife.
27:24I'm like, that crazy, excuse me, that crazy BRT series.
27:29She effing did it.
27:34According to Carmen's loved ones,
27:36the problems in the marriage had nothing to do with his treatment of Evelyn.
27:42My dad gave her everything.
27:45Everything you think of.
27:47Trips, cars, flows, jewelry.
27:51He did everything that she wanted to do.
27:53But she didn't seem appreciative of his efforts.
27:57They said everyone was rude to them, was mean to them.
28:00Treated Mr. Henderson like garbage.
28:04She didn't want us in the house because of the things that she was probably doing to my father.
28:07And he wouldn't tell us.
28:09In order for my dad to stay happy,
28:11we just didn't go around because it seemed to upset her if we would come over there to see him.
28:19They say Evelyn's behavior seemed to grow worse over time.
28:24She really just didn't have any type of people skills.
28:28So she would belittle people.
28:30She wouldn't be nasty to people.
28:34People that worked for the limousine company said she was mean and degrading
28:41and never had a kind word to say about anyone.
28:45Evelyn, she presented herself that she was better than them and everyone was below her.
28:49She had this air that she was like royalty.
28:53Evelyn was known to have some outbursts of anger and even yelling at strangers sometimes.
28:59And we know that people who've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder often engage in that very same behavior.
29:09Once Carmen's age forced him to retire, it left Evelyn completely in charge of the business and Carmen's failing health.
29:19He couldn't do all the work that he could do on the cars and Evelyn seemed to have more episodes
29:27and when she was having episodes, she was also losing business.
29:31She was such a mean, horrible, evil person.
29:35A lot of people boycotting my dad's business.
29:39They used to tell my dad all the time, you need to leave her because they saw something too in
29:44her that he didn't see.
29:45He never, he never, ever complained about how she would scream and holler, how she would cuss or anything.
29:55He loved her.
29:57So I just didn't understand what happened.
30:01Why would you kill somebody that loved you so much?
30:06We suspected just from everything that we knew that she may have grown tired of having to care for him.
30:15Since he was elderly and was not able to do everything for himself as time went on, that was something
30:24that put a larger burden on her.
30:26I truly believe she was waiting for him to die and he wouldn't die.
30:32And in her evil heart, she decided that's how she was going to get more money out of him for
30:37the last time.
30:41However, police still need direct evidence she killed Carmen.
30:46And there are viable theories to the contrary.
30:49I believe in Occam's razor, right, which the most simplest explanation is probably the correct one.
30:58Carmen was a known cigar smoker.
31:01He was an elderly gentleman with some physical limitations who was on oxygen.
31:06I'm just not convinced that she did it.
31:09Some people have said that she suffered from some type or types of mental illness.
31:15But I don't necessarily think that that translates to somebody becoming a murderer.
31:23The autopsy still needed to be conducted here.
31:26And then the fire investigators had to complete their investigation as well.
31:29After somebody is charged and or arrested, that's really only the beginning of the investigation.
31:51Five days after Carmen Henderson's burned body was found on his porch, a forensic pathologist performs an autopsy.
32:01The toxicology results for Carmen Henderson were not exactly what you would expect to see in a case if someone
32:11dies from a fire.
32:13Oftentimes, the thing that kills them is inhaling all of the smoke.
32:18His blood results did not bear that out.
32:22Dr. Rost was able to figure that he was alive when he was burned.
32:27The one sure indicator of that was that there was some soot that was ultimately found in his throat area.
32:39This was a fire that caught quickly, burned hot.
32:44And so there wouldn't have been a lot of smoke initially.
32:48And so he was actually breathing in more flames than any sort of smoke.
32:55Another huge thing that was found was that a majority of the worst burns were on his back, which indicated
33:03that that would have been where the fire had started.
33:06That triggered additional conversations talking about, could it have still been accidental?
33:13How could this happen where the fire essentially starts behind him if it if it's accidental?
33:20Looking at how cigars burn and how they can set clothing on fire.
33:26It just became more and more rock solid that there's no way he could have set himself on fire.
33:33Everything in the autopsy was consistent with this being a homicide.
33:39Based on the evidence, investigators believe Carmen was sitting in his deck chair when the fire began.
33:48The seat of the chair had almost no fire damage to it, but the upper part of the chair was
33:55completely burned away.
33:56That was something that was consistent with him being lit on fire from behind.
34:04Police obviously want to go and talk to Evelyn and confront her with this information because it does not align
34:09up with any of the stories that she has given to this point.
34:13The interview is done the same day as the autopsy.
34:18We drive to the Dauphin County prison, asked to have her brought to an interview room.
34:23I said, Evan, look, you're the only person that was there.
34:26I said, you and I both know you set him on fire.
34:31It was the longest pause of my life.
34:35And she goes, I did it.
34:40She indicated that Carmen was sitting outside on the back patio in the chair.
34:46He had his back towards the house.
34:49And she snuck up behind him and lit the back of the chair on fire.
34:53And that his clothes became engulfed in flames.
34:57And that he had called out, Evie, Evie, help me.
35:02As he burned and as she watched him burn.
35:08Those are chilling details, you know, setting somebody on fire.
35:13That's not like shooting somebody from a distance.
35:16It's a very personal thing.
35:19And it's excruciatingly painful being burned.
35:24She really didn't give a reason why she had done this.
35:30But her giving the confession and then talking through the details of how she did it in a way that
35:39was totally consistent with what we knew from the physical evidence.
35:43It's validation of what you concluded happened.
36:04By the time the preliminary hearing rolled around, she was denying that she did the crime.
36:12She basically recanted her confession.
36:16So the case wasn't over yet at that point and the investigation wasn't over.
36:22If Evelyn's confession is determined to be inadmissible, prosecutors must have evidence to prove she set Carmen's chair on fire
36:31and that it burned quickly enough to kill him before he could escape the flames.
36:37The biggest thing we had left to do was to conduct an experiment that showed this chair could be lit
36:44on fire without the use of accelerants.
36:47The decision was made to take portions of the chair that we had in evidence and actually test them, do
36:54live testing on them to see if they were flammable and how fast they would be engulfed in flames.
36:59I naturally assume that if you're making a product that people use while camping, it's going to be at least
37:04flame resistant.
37:05Well, we found out later that camping chairs burn like solid rocket fuel.
37:11Detectives conclude the chair was incinerated within a matter of seconds.
37:19Obviously, he's an elderly male. We know that he has mobility issues, trouble getting around.
37:26By the time he is able to react, his clothing is now on fire.
37:33He gets up, is frantically moving around, which knocks the chair over, gets his clothes off the best he can
37:42to try to get away from the flames.
37:45But by then, it's too late.
37:48He didn't fall asleep in his favorite chair and die.
37:51He was murdered and he was burnt to death.
37:54A hundred percent, that's what the evidence proves.
37:57The only remaining question is whether a jury will believe the evidence or Evelyn.
38:05Evelyn Henderson's attorneys contended that Evelyn had been offered bipolar medication and had made a false confession to setting the
38:13fire.
38:28On March 12th, 2024, nearly two years after Carmen Henderson burned to death, his wife, Evelyn Zigarelli Henderson, goes on
38:39trial for his murder.
38:41My opening statement, I started it out essentially with what Carmen's last words likely would have been, which was Evie,
38:47Evie, help me.
38:48And I just kind of cried that out to the jury five or six times to really get them to
38:53understand the impact of how awful of a death this was.
39:00The crux of the defense at trial was essentially to say that Evelyn Henderson gave a false confession, that the
39:10only reason she said she did it was because she had given up, as the defense put it.
39:17In many of these homicide cases, there is an element of mental health.
39:21The defense in this case certainly brought up that she was bipolar, which really the only evidence of that was
39:29she had indicated that she had stopped taking her medication.
39:33The claims of her being bipolar came from her and her alone.
39:37There was never any extrinsic evidence provided to us about that.
39:42The defense argues that the fire was simply an accident.
39:47Evelyn Henderson's attorneys also argued that Carmen Henderson set the fire himself during their closing arguments.
39:58Going into deliberations, we just hope that the jury followed the evidence.
40:03The jury's verdict in this case was very interesting.
40:06They convicted her of second-degree murder, which is felony murder in Pennsylvania.
40:11That verdict kind of indicates that the jury didn't think that she meant to kill Carmen Henderson, but believed that
40:17she set the fire.
40:21The day that she was convicted, there was something that I had in my mind, a surprise for her.
40:29Sheriff Chimeney leaned over to me.
40:31He goes, you know those handcuffs that she's wearing?
40:33I said, yeah, those are Carmen's.
40:37I asked Evelyn, how did those handcuffs fit?
40:41I said, these were your husband's handcuffs.
40:44Her reaction, her eyes kind of opened up, and it kind of hit her.
40:52At Evelyn's sentencing hearing, Carmen's friends and family are given the opportunity to tell her how her actions affected them.
41:01I told her that if Mr. Carmen had survived the incident, he would come in and bandage this and all,
41:08and be trying to convince the jury that she didn't mean it, he would forgive her.
41:13And I told her, that's the man you took from everyone.
41:17When I did the impact about how could you treat someone like that, that was so kind to you,
41:22and loved you, and gave you everything, that's when she broke.
41:26That was the first time she ever looked up, and you could see in her eyes that she did it,
41:30and that maybe she regretted it.
41:36Evelyn is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
41:42It was relief that we had gotten some justice for Carmen and for his family,
41:46and that they would be able to put this portion behind them.
41:49It's a very small portion of the grief that they'll have to go through for the rest of their lives.
41:55I don't know why my dad didn't see it.
41:58How could love overshadow something that evil?
42:06I want everybody to know that he was happy, always willing to help everybody,
42:13sociable, and best swimmer ever.
42:16Everyone that you meet has something good to say about that,
42:19and that was just, that kept us going,
42:22that we loved him and a lot of other people loved him.
42:26I wish everybody got a chance to be around him,
42:29and I wish he was hearing that.
42:31I wish him, you're looking good to see you.
42:34I wish him, but that's really beautiful.
42:43bottled
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