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00:05a deadly fall in rural pennsylvania
00:16a small town left shell-shocked by the death of a loving wife and mother carol's death rocked the
00:24community it was just so unexpected and so surprising i think both of us felt sick in
00:29our stomachs and emotional like just a shock was it simply a tragic accident perhaps carol
00:39had somehow fallen in the bedroom and bled gone outside for fresh air and stumbled down
00:45the stairs and died or was it murder were you at the house on the day of carol's death
00:51yeah no okay okay they knew at that point that they had a bigger case on their hands
01:19carol hiccock was born carol miller on june 30th 1945. she was the second oldest of 10 children
01:28carol to help her family took a job delivering newspapers and that's where she met roger
01:33hickok and carol and roger hickok married on may 9th 1964. the couple went on to have three children
01:43and raised them in rural pennsylvania my name is betty thorin and i was first met carol in 1968
01:53at church we were new when we moved here to canton pennsylvania and she was one of the first gals
02:02that
02:02i met canton is a very small rural town i believe the population when we came was about 3 000
02:11and you
02:12had 30 miles plus to go either way north or south to a larger city to shop and people often
02:19know
02:19what's going on in your business before you know it it's a very tight-knit community everybody knows
02:25everybody and you know there's small mom and pop kind of businesses there and then you go to the
02:30outer lands it's very rural and it's very bucolic you know it's dotted with beautiful red barns and at
02:36one time it was a large dairy community there were a lot of farms here roger had a farm and
02:42roger
02:43became a very successful veal farmer carol also had her own little veal business and she did very well
02:52with that she was respected she was a businesswoman she ran the business for them she did a very good
02:59job
03:00and uh was a good mom to her three children
03:06life seemed pretty good for roger and carol
03:09but in 1996 their relationship changed forever
03:16by all accounts you know roger and carol were living a good life she was a good wife she was
03:21a devoted mother
03:22well revered in the community and for one reason or another roger met emily and they began a 15-year
03:31affair
03:33after emily bellows schaefer and roger started a relationship he made no secret of their affair
03:40roger would spend time with emily and um he would go home with carol and uh she would make these
03:47wonderful
03:48meals and pies and and welcome him home and then he would be with emily the other times
03:55and there was a cabin above their home that emily did stay in from time to time carol did know
04:02that
04:03emily was there she told me not everyone could do that or would do that she did that and she
04:09chose to
04:09do because she thought it was right regardless of what anyone said
04:13a mutual friend told my husband that he knew
04:17that roger had a little boy
04:20a child with emily
04:22it was very difficult to believe but my husband assured me that it was so and that they had a
04:26little boy
04:28the existence of roger and emily's son charlie
04:32would eventually be learned by bradford county district attorney
04:35daniel barrett
04:37after the son was born at one point roger had started a divorce from carol but emily
04:44i guess abandoned roger at that point and then roger and carol reconciled
04:48she said people want to know why i'm still here basically with roger
04:53she said i don't feel that the lord wants me to divorce roger
04:58i know i'm to stay here and
05:02that's what i'm going to do
05:04and then when emily wasn't taking very good care of her child
05:07roger got involved in seeking custody of the child because the child needed care
05:14carol was a religious woman
05:16she enjoyed children
05:18and she willingly accepted
05:21charlie into her home
05:24and they built their life around the child
05:28carol roger and charlie were living together as a family
05:32when in the early hours of september 15th 2010
05:36everything changed
05:39an occasional insomniac roger was having trouble sleeping
05:43on the morning of the 15th roger hickok woke up
05:47and as he commonly did he headed to a nearby coffee shop to get coffee and talk with his friends
05:55after arriving at the cafe in canton roger sat and drank coffee for several hours
06:01after a while uh he it was getting near school bus time so he called home to make sure that
06:08his son was on the school bus
06:10his wife didn't answer uh the his son answered the phone and his son said that he didn't know where
06:17mimi was because mimi is what he called his stepmother
06:20a few minutes later charlie calls his father and says mom is outside at the bottom of the steps
06:29she's unresponsive she's not moving i need you here
06:33roger then
06:36was stunned and called for 9-1-1 help because he knew something horrible had to have happened
07:08roger raced home to find carol at the bottom of some steps
07:13unresponsive and covered in blood from what looked like a severe head wound after a tragic fall
07:19carol was showing no signs of life and roger recognized that she was dead
07:24he and his son just said a prayer and waited for the emergency personnel to arrive
07:31at 8 16 a.m the coroner arrived to find carol hickock's body wrapped in a blanket
07:37and she was officially pronounced dead at the scene
07:47news of carol's sudden tragic death spread quickly to family and friends
07:53we received a phone call about 20 after eight from a friend who told us that carol had passed away
08:02i think both of us felt sick in our stomachs and um emotional like just a shock my husband and
08:09i
08:09larry and i just just sat down and how can this be carol's family were devastated by her sudden death
08:19they struggled to comprehend how they were going to move on with their life they just said it was the
08:23most heartbreaking thing that they'd ever had to comprehend carol's death rocked the community
08:30it was just so unexpected and so surprising because she was a vibrant healthy woman and here something so
08:38seemingly simple took her out carol's death appeared to be a tragic accident from a fatal fall
08:45down the rear steps of her home but when first responders entered the house
08:50they found there might be more to the story than they realized
08:56in the master bedroom it became very clear that something big happened
09:02there was a lot of blood there was blood on the corner of the dresser
09:07there was blood on the floor investigators found blood on the bed
09:12but the comforter had been removed from the bed and placed in a washing machine still covered in blood
09:20the washing machine had not been turned on
09:22that was a mystery and for the police there was an effort to determine what can we see what
09:29might tell us something that had happened here and the circumstances were quite strange
09:40despite the discovery of a large amount of blood in the bedroom and on the comforter found in the
09:45washer investigators still considered the possibility that carol's death had been accidental
09:52they began to theorize that perhaps carol had somehow fallen in the bedroom and bled
09:58tried to pick up the clothing and and sheets that she bled on gone outside for fresh air and stumbled
10:08down the stairs and died
10:10it made no sense that this woman would have been the victim of some sort of violence because there was
10:17no sign that anybody had been there
10:18and there's also no reason why anybody would drag the woman out on the porch or left her in the
10:25lawn
10:27but investigators also had to follow protocol for an unexplained death
10:32and treat it like a homicide investigation until proven otherwise
10:36in cases where there's a possible injury there's always the questions that have to be asked
10:43who would want to kill this person the question here would be to look at the family look at the
10:49husband
10:49and uh anybody that might have a grudge or a reason to benefit from carol's death
10:57with investigators open to the possibility that carol may have been murdered roger became suspect number one
11:15after carol hiccock was found dead at the bottom of a flight of steps at her home on september 15th
11:212010
11:23investigators went to speak to her husband roger to see if he could help them work out if her death
11:29was the result
11:29of an accidental fall or something more sinister
11:35when police arrived at the house they were carrying on their investigation roger was sat smoking a cigar
11:41and this kind of jumped out to the authorities as quite strange behavior he was smoking a cigar
11:46just yards away from where his wife's dead body lay
11:51police took roger to the local station for an interview
11:55roger is being questioned because he's the husband he's the last person to have seen carol alive that
12:01morning so naturally they had questions for him
12:06roger explained to the police that he routinely would wake up early and want to do something and
12:13would go and get coffee they immediately deployed officers to the coffee shop to check the cctv and
12:20verify roger's story roger had arrived at the coffee place sometime in the range of 4 a.m it was
12:27before
12:28daylight quite early and it was easy to check whether he'd been there the records of the coffee shop could
12:35confirm that when questioned about the bloodied blanket that had been left in the washer roger said
12:42i don't even do the washing in our household i wouldn't even know how to use the machine
12:47police probed further to ask roger what had happened that night had there been any disagreements between
12:52the couple he said no and that they'd gone to bed as normal between 9 to 9 30 p.m
12:57and it was at that
12:58point of 4 a.m that he decided to leave the house and that was the last time that he
13:02saw his wife alive
13:06early indications suggest that carol hickok died sometime between 4 a.m and 7 a.m
13:13so roger's timeline stacked up officers then asked roger to take a polygraph test to verify what he had
13:21told them the major benefit of polygraph is it assists peace in eliminating suspects roger's
13:31willingness to take the polygraph was of course a good sign the police know that the impact of their
13:41suggestion of a polygraph test can be significant on a potential suspect so they often use the polygraph
13:49as a tool to elicit a reaction to see what reaction they get someone who readily agrees to take a
13:58polygraph test usually this indicates that this is someone who wants to prove their innocence roger
14:06hickok was on heart and blood pressure medication he was 65 years old and the medications are well known
14:14to mess up polygraph results so his polygraph result was inconclusive despite roger's willingness to take
14:23the polygraph test the inconclusive result meant police continued to treat him as a suspect
14:30the investigation stayed with roger because he was the other person in the home he was married to her
14:37so he he remained somebody that might have in one way or another had some benefit or some motive
14:44police needed to consider all possible suspects at this stage and that included roger's son charlie
14:50even though he was 11 years old he was the person who discovered carol's body so the police
14:55had to ask him some questions to rule him out as a suspect however charlie's story that he was asleep
15:02during carol's death checked out so he was very quickly ruled out as a suspect diving deeper into
15:08carol and roger's family background police then found out about roger's affair with emily
15:14a revelation that dramatically changed the course of their investigation
15:21they found out that charlie wasn't carol's biological son and charlie was emily's son carol hickock's
15:30family of course had a fair amount of uh resentment i guess about roger's whole uh involvement with emily
15:39and the pain it must have caused carol over the years and the disruption to the family life once the
15:46investigators found out about this complicated situation possibly a love triangle it then gave
15:52them a bit of a motive to question whether emily had anything to do with carol's death
15:58roger however said that he had no relationship with emily anymore they hadn't been in contact for
16:03a long time and that she didn't have anything to do with charlie meanwhile police eagerly awaited the
16:09results of carol's autopsy hoping that it would reveal whether she had died from an accidental fatal
16:15fall or if her injuries suggested foul play and the possibility that she was pushed to her death
16:23when the autopsy comes back it showed the blunt force trauma to her head it showed bruising on her torso
16:30and her body but at the end of the day the cause of death was undetermined
16:34it is a huge disappointment for investigators because now they have no idea how carol really died
16:45nine days after carol's death trooper james carrick went over to interview emily at her home which is
16:51around an hour away in pennsylvania from where carol lived after this two hour long interview carrick
16:59said that emily was intelligent she was cooperative but he did notice this resentment that seemed to
17:05still be there towards roger and carol especially because of her lack of contact with charlie when
17:12asked directly if she had any involvement in carol's death emily simply answered no emily told trooper
17:21carrick that she could not have got to canton to commit murder because there was no gas in her tank
17:26and she had no money when he left that day trooper carrick knew that although emily could have had
17:32something to do with carol's death he had no evidence at this point so with no clear leads all
17:39the authorities could do was wait for the forensic and lab results to come in three months after carol's
17:46death with investigators no closer to determining how she had died the coroner decided to revisit the case
17:53it's not common for a coroner to revisit a case but there was just something about this case that
18:01didn't sit right with investigators the coroner is going through the photos again and he notices
18:07that there are scratches to carol's neck and it almost looks like defense wounds
18:15suddenly investigators had a potential cause of death
18:20if their suspicions were right then at some point carol had been fighting for her life while somebody
18:27had their hands around her throat
18:31what had once seemed like a mystery was now a murder investigation
18:38after discovering that they were now dealing with a homicide police received a phone call
18:44that revealed yet another twist to the story carol's brother contacted the police to say
18:50that roger and charlie had now moved to roger's home in crystal river in florida and that emily was
18:57living with them there too when it became known that roger had gone to florida with emily bellow shaffer
19:05and their son it was something of interest to the police this was very conflicting to what the
19:12investigators originally thought they had been told that emily had nothing to do with charlie yet now
19:17she had practically stepped in to be another mom to him all living together as a family under one roof
19:24and also it seemed possible that emily and roger all along had been carrying on their relationship
19:30and that actually it had been carol who was getting in the way
19:35the news of roger's move to florida with his ex-lover sent shockwaves through carol's family
19:42and the local community people who had reasons to resent either roger's conduct or emily's conduct
19:51over the years found a good opportunity to use the trip to florida as a reason to justify suspicions
20:00that roger or roger and emily or emily had been involved in carol's death
20:16just three months after carol hickok was found dead at the foot of the steps outside her home
20:22in canton pennsylvania her husband roger had moved to florida with his former lover emily
20:28and their son but without enough evidence police were unable to bring them back to pennsylvania to
20:36be interviewed seven months later on july the 19th 2011 police received a call that would turn the case
20:46on its head police get a phone call from emily schaefer and she says she has something interesting to
20:53tell them about carol hickok emily had explained to police that she and roger had a falling out
21:01she told officers that following their argument roger had taken charlie back to their home in
21:06canton pennsylvania that was kind of the last straw for emily she was very frustrated she was missing her
21:14child the reason that emily schaefer was even in town was because she had a court hearing to go over
21:20custody of young charlie eager to speak to emily about carol's death police collected her from the
21:31courthouse for a voluntary interview at the station emily arrives at the police station and they bring
21:37her into an office rather than an interrogation room so emily was not under arrest at this point
21:44this is just a conversation they have no idea what she's about to tell them
21:51trooper dave pelichick led the interview with trooper nathan lewis also in attendance
21:58we received a phone call from you today yes you wanted to to share some information with us yes
22:05she arrives with a backpack full of paperwork and troopers want to hear what she has to say
22:13roger hickok and i have had we've known each other over 15 years and it was a rocky 15 years
22:22as as time progressed he became more and more angry and violent do you think he's capable of
22:31something of causing harm to someone at first i thought you know there's no way roger could have done
22:37this but the more i see that he still has the hair trigger temper and the split personality i think
22:47anything is possible she's afraid of roger all of a sudden after a 15-year relationship where they're
22:52loving each other and they have a child suddenly she's afraid he's abusive she's scared of him she
22:58doesn't know what's going to happen and it looks like she's trying to protect herself from roger he is
23:06a narcissist and he is a sociopath emily then went on to talk about carol's history with charlie and roger
23:15prior to carol's death she was the primary caretaker of charlie after carol's death
23:20i went to florida with him primarily to take care of charlie because he does not
23:26it becomes very clear that emily is no longer roger's ally
23:33when roger and emily and their child went to florida the relationship with him didn't develop
23:38it wasn't at last we were together at least as far as roger was concerned emily had nothing
23:44really to call a job she was living from hand to mouth and eventually as the winter ended he headed
23:50back to pennsylvania and made it clear that he wasn't bringing emily with him
23:57in the middle of the interview as she's carrying out about how awful roger is her cell phone rings
24:04this is roger calling right now roger had called emily to ask her out for lunch
24:10when the call comes in from roger inviting her lunch he was calm and reasonable and wasn't yelling
24:16or complaining at her he just invited her so his calling her was consistent with very being very
24:24reasonable why did you want to have lunch
24:29because what he says to me and what he says to other people are opposite ends of the spectrum
24:38suspicious of emily's description of roger as a violent sociopath
24:43troopers continued to probe emily on their relationship we were supposed to have shared
24:49custody but he refused every opportunity every request that i had to see charlie he refused to let
24:58me see him roger does not want charlie talking to me emily is spinning this tale to investigators
25:04about how awful roger is and she's not really getting to the point of why she's there
25:10and so investigators are just letting her talk because eventually it's going to come out
25:16when's the last time before carol said that you had been intimate with roger
25:22the last weekend in july i was so desperate for any contact at all that i had with charlie that
25:30if i had to sleep with a son of a bitch i'd sleep with just so i knew what was
25:34going on in charlie's
25:35life investigators understand they have something going on here and they
25:40realize if they let her keep talking she's going to bring them back to the date of carol's death
25:46you talked to roger between the end of july and the date of carol's death did you have any contacts
25:53with him i probably talked to him but i didn't see him he made it a point to let me
25:59know that he was
26:00not home um the morning that carol died he sent me a text message at four o'clock in the
26:06morning what
26:07did the text say
26:13the text said september 15th at 4 0 7 a.m he sent a text message you up i texted
26:23back him
26:23at 7 0 2 a.m saying i'm up i said favor to ask can i borrow the ford and
26:30the big trailer i was
26:31moving out of my apartment he texted back troubles that was around 2 21 in the afternoon
26:39i said work question mark i said get earlier messages question mark he said death and i said never
26:48good then he texted back uh 302 at state police tawanda i said what's up and he said troubles
26:57and then i texted back prayers let me just back up a little bit when when he kept saying death
27:02you
27:02never asked who i i never asked who i he didn't say she's not asking about anybody else in the
27:12house
27:12so to me that's a giant red flag you're not asking about your son who lives in the house or
27:19the woman
27:19who's taking care of your your child or any of the other people that are in that family you're not
27:25asking about any of them i found that to be very unusual palachic knew emily had a motive that she
27:31was
27:31mad at roger that she didn't like roger and she had things to say so his curiosity was quite up
27:38there
27:38this was the time to see where the case would take him and keep the person talking very uh let
27:45her talk
27:45and ask her questions what was the only thing standing in the way between you and charlie prior
27:52to carol's death prior to carol's death roger i would say carol no she took care of no between the
28:00only between you and charlie was carol okay because the minute carol was removed i moved right in
28:07you certainly had motive to get carol out of the picture in emily's mind it's obvious at that point
28:14that she realized that she was becoming a suspect they weren't accepting everything she had to say
28:22were you at the house on the day of carol's death yeah no okay okay
28:30when emily stammers and first she says yes then quickly corrects herself and says no
28:36they knew at that point that they had a bigger case on their hands
28:45this responding and then correcting herself shows somebody trying to strategically manage the
28:52interview situation to give interviewers the response she thinks is most appropriate and indeed
28:58there are times when these kind of verbal slips are direct indicators of deception of of what the real
29:07answer is to the question investigators can use that kind of slip very directly and strategically to
29:15pursue that line of inquiry and they can use it just as a broad indicator of somebody who is not
29:22telling
29:22them the whole truth are you a violent person because if this was not an accidental death yeah this is
29:29the first time this person has caused harm to someone can i tell you a little bit he came into
29:35the house one
29:36time he said i'm going to take charlie and leave and i picked up the nearest cast iron frying pan
29:42and i hit
29:42him square in the back with it and he handed charlie back to me and left the fact that emily
29:49struck roger
29:50with the frying pan showed that she could let her anger take her to the point of senseless violence
29:55and uh real violence too not a slap across the face or anything like that
30:03it was at this point that police decided to ask emily to take a lie detector test
30:09we would like you to take a polygraph at some point just to say hey it's not me i didn't
30:13do anything to
30:14well i was i was never at the house the two twos one goes higher chest one goes lower measure
30:21your
30:21breathing some people breathe more through their chest some people breathe more through their stomach
30:24okay the reason we measure these i breathe through my chest because i sing in the shower when she's
30:36singing and starting breathing exercises i think she was probably trying to be cute and try to endear
30:42herself to the policeman and make them think that she's very relaxed and confident and so forth
30:51it's an act emily has gone into this interview as a woman very confident very organized very used to
30:59handling authority not intimidated in any way and i feel that the singing is part of this attempt to
31:07to continue to charm the officers she believes she can sweet talk her way out of the situation
31:15the test is about to begin please remain still
31:17according to that woman's death do you intend to answer each question truthfully yes they had been
31:23interviewing emily for four hours yet nobody had asked her directly if she was responsible for carol's
31:30death did you cause that woman's death no did you cause that woman's death at her home no
31:39just about them please remain still
31:44did i fail or did i pass or what you failed
31:51i fail yes no the point at which the suspect is told they failed the polygraph that's when it's
32:00raised the level it's made it a confrontational uh situation were you in that house that night with
32:06her no absolutely not absolutely if that was the truth you would have passed the polygraph
32:13yes emily what happened that night tell us the truth please i wasn't there i wasn't there
32:23is this the thing that you want to be truthful and tell us what happened
32:34after failing a polygraph test about her movements in the hours before carol
32:39hickok was found dead at the bottom of a flight of steps at her home emily bellow schaefer continued
32:46to deny any responsibility for carol's death i don't have it in me to hurt anybody not intentionally
32:58roger in the back with a skillet
33:03listen we know you were there okay i told you that can you look at me please please we know
33:11you
33:11were there did you go about to kill her that night at that point she knows they're trying to determine
33:18what happened and that she had responsibility there did you intend for her to die no
33:27what happened that night what was your purpose of being there you can do it emily claimed that
33:35uninvited she had gone to the hickok home that morning to visit her son and when she encountered carol
33:42a fight between the two unfolded i don't want charlie to know any of this
33:49i don't want him to hear how she attacked me
33:54what did she do to you she used her fists can you show me it was like this like two
34:00of them together
34:02oh it was like this and you were close to her i was close enough
34:07i pushed her backwards she fell backwards
34:15into the bedroom into the dresser we wrestled around a little bit i think we rolled over the bed once
34:25was she saying anything to you during this yeah my husband my husband
34:32i'm not here to see your damned husband i'm here to see my son
34:37the last place i saw her she was on the floor next to the dresser
34:42was she conscious she was breathing okay do you know if she was bleeding at that time
34:49well there was blood on the bedspread did you do something with the bedspread i put the bedspread
34:56in the washing machine but i don't know how to run the washing machine so i just left the bedspread
35:01in
35:01the washing machine she knew that her blood was on those sheets and she knew that her blood might be
35:08that be detected sooner or later on those sheets so that's why she headed to the washing machine
35:13she had some finger marks on her neck does that trigger anything you're trying to get
35:18unless i tried to get her off of me did you have blood on you i don't remember blood on
35:24my hands or my face
35:25i don't remember
35:31i don't remember any blood on my clothes i asked if she had blood on her it's as if emily
35:38forgets
35:39herself and and goes back in time and she's there at the moment of the murder and she holds up
35:44her
35:44hands and it's as if she's she's she's looking at the the murder weapons for a moment we get this
35:50curious
35:52indication of absolute guilt did you ever tell roger what happened no did he ever ask you no emily had
36:00the opportunity here to implicate roger that he had somehow enabled or assisted her in murdering carol
36:07but she didn't take that opportunity and so he was cleared how did she get to the bottom of the
36:12stairs
36:13i don't know how she got to the bottom of the stairs she was quite alive the last time i
36:20saw her
36:22after talking to emily for eight hours the troopers decided to end the interview for the day
36:29are you going to arrest me and fingerprint me and send me to jail and
36:33you are going to have to face the music in this at this point they read emily her rights they
36:41let her
36:41know she is under arrest and they take her to the county jail the following day investigators visited
36:49emily to confirm her videotaped confession in writing during the videotaped interview emily tried
36:56to claim that carol had confronted her in the hallway and it wound up uh that carol died the next
37:04day she
37:04did not change that version the only part she changed was instead of saying carol was alive when
37:09she left the house she admitted that carol was dead that she had taken carol out of the house
37:15and she acknowledged at that point that she had moved carol's body down to the foot of the stairs
37:22all police needed now was dna evidence proving that emily was at the scene of the crime the sheets
37:30and bedding and blood on the scene was analyzed by the state police laboratory and it was determined
37:36that some of the blood there was emily's blood which of course placed emily in the scene
37:44emily's confession and dna evidence meant that she faced a lengthy prison sentence for carol's death
37:50if found guilty of homicide but because emily denied the charge of murder the case went to court
37:59in august 2012 nearly two years after carol hickock's death emily stood trial for the murder of her son's
38:07stepmom i'm tapped to be there every day i show up at the courthouse at least a half hour beforehand
38:15every day because it was more than just a story at that point i had to let the community know
38:20what
38:21was going on it was very important for me to be at this trial i felt that i needed to
38:26be there for
38:26justice for carol she was an innocent victim that should be alive today i wanted to know the truth
38:35because there had been so many stories going around this and that and the other thing that i know the
38:40truth should come out in the trial and i needed to be there for those reasons something i found
38:46incredibly remarkable was that there was no one for emily she has no support in that courtroom whatsoever
38:54emily was incredibly stoic during the trial she showed very little emotion any emotion she showed
39:01she would tip her head down and she would talk to her attorney and that was about it she was
39:07very
39:07silent through that trial well the one thing i remember clearly about emily i did not see remorse
39:14i never saw a bit of remorse
39:19that i could not fathom and i could not get past during the trial the prosecution played emily's videotape
39:28confession to the jury before unveiling another key piece of evidence the most interesting part of
39:36that trial was the introduction of emily's diary because you could really see where she began to
39:41unravel one excerpt read she's referring to roger here and you can get a sense of how angry she is
39:49toward roger i wish i had a two by four i'd hit you upside your head and scream at your
39:55lifeless body
39:56now or even because i died a little every single day you have kept us apart
40:02and then she goes on to say there will be no i love you's until this situation is resolved
40:07how why on earth would could i love anyone who could so carelessly heartlessly do this to me
40:14who would be so blind and selfish
40:19the things that emily put in her diary showed that she very much resented
40:24that she didn't have much carol was the reason that roger didn't need her to help raise the boy carol
40:31was the reason that roger didn't want to live with her and so forth so she wanted to get rid
40:37of carol
40:37six days before the murder emily wrote i must do what i must do the information in the diaries
40:44pulled everything together and brought real context to what it was emily was doing when she went to the
40:51home of roger hickock and carol hickock the prosecution also highlighted the evidence found
40:59by the coroner when he revisited the autopsy photographs a very small but very significant
41:06part of the evidence was little mark's cuts on carol's neck where she was trying to pry away emily's
41:15fingers trying to get those fingers off her neck and it actually cut into her own skin it showed
41:22among other things that strangulation was the cause of death
41:27the prosecution argued that the only reason emily went to carol's house on the day of her death
41:33was to commit murder the evidence was clear she had no need to go to the house to see charlie
41:40she
41:40could have done that at lunch she had no reason to go there to see carol because carol wouldn't
41:45wanted to talk to her that she went to the house went into the house and killed carol shows that
41:52that
41:52was her objective from the start emily's confession took herself as far as the offense of voluntary
41:59manslaughter that is causing a death during a fight the overall circumstances of the case were such that
42:08it was undeniable that this was uh murder this wasn't a well this wasn't a fight that went bad
42:17on august 10th 2012 the jury retired to deliberate and at 4 pm they returned with their verdict
42:26the jury found emily guilty of second-degree murder the felony offense of burglary and other charges
42:37on september 27 2012 emily bellows schaefer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of
42:44parole and she remains incarcerated
42:53this tragedy began when roger began a dalliance with emily bellows schaefer that wound up with emily
43:00involved in their lives but the murder itself is all the fault and crime of emily bellows schaefer and
43:11that's where guilt was found and that's where the true and complete blame lies
43:18carol's death was truly tragic a horrible thing happened to a very good person because of someone else's
43:26anger greed uh selfish intentions carol will always be remembered as a pillar in this community
43:35i never met carol hickok but i regard her as a wonderful woman and almost a saint because i don't
43:44know how
43:45many women could take in the child of their husband's mistress and carry on and love that child as if
43:52the
43:52child were her own i give her a lot of respect for that carol was strong what she did she
44:02did 100 her
44:04business her hunting her mothering her cooking her marriage vows and the way she loved charlie
44:13spoke volumes just spoke volumes she was faithful in friendships she was kind
44:22just a hundred percent her girl that's all i can tell you she just was great
44:30so
44:37so
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