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00:01on christmas an old woman was stabbed 20 times she died my wife is a top attorney she's defending
00:07the killer in court he's just a college kid can't you be a little more forgiving drop the case
00:14stop trying to ruin a young man's life over your dead mother i looked at the body on the slab
00:18carved up beyond recognition i laughed because my arrogant wife didn't know the woman who got
00:23stabbed to death wasn't my mother it was hers my mom was supposed to spend christmas with us
00:27we'd already made the plan but this morning she said she wasn't feeling well and called to cancel
00:31then by pure coincidence i ran into my wife tessa's mom susan monroe at the grocery store so i invited
00:36her over to have christmas dinner with us tessa was busy all day she knew nothing about all this
00:40and now i had just brought the body to the funeral home when tessa showed up with derrick and his
00:44brother damien derrick looked at the memorial setup and frowned ryan just because tessa makes money
00:49doesn't mean you should waste it on a dead person damien walked up and spat on the body you think
00:54you deserve this old woman i rushed it but tessa shoved me away and pulled both of them behind her
01:00they're just telling the truth your mom is already dead why waste money on her now i stared at tessa
01:05in shock i couldn't believe what i was hearing ever since her mom was killed tessa hadn't shown one bit
01:10of concern when i sued damien for murder she even said she would defend him and get him clear she
01:14also
01:15pulled strings and spent a lot of money to get damien released on bail i thought derrick had talked her
01:19into this madness i didn't realize she thought the victim was my mother ryan go get a refund this
01:25setup must have cost a fortune right your mom was always after tessa's money when she was alive
01:29now you are too what else would it be like mother like son a woman as greedy and vicious as
01:35your mom
01:36deserved to get stabbed to death my mom never did anything to you stop insulting her refund the money
01:44we're not doing this funeral as for the body do whatever you want with it tessa the dead still
01:49deserve some respect why not put the body there and keep it simple after cremation you can dump the
01:54ashes in there too back to nature you'll even save money on an urn and a burial plot what do
01:59you think
02:00ryan he should be thanking you for being so kind then she directly told the staff to move the body
02:05i tried to stop them but tessa had people walking i looked at my mother-in-law's body
02:10sorry for her tessa lost her father when she was young susan raised her alone and played both parents
02:16even when she had almost nothing to eat she still made sure tessa could go to tutoring
02:20and in the end tessa would not even give her a decent funeral
02:29damien actually kicked my mother-in-law's body straight into the ditch
02:34my foot slipped you're not mad are you old man he didn't mean it just get some water and
02:40rip her off why are you getting so angry over this i looked at the body rolling in the filthy
02:45ditch
02:45covered in muck and sewage you're going to regret this what would i regret i'm not wasting time on
02:51this other nonsense write damien of a forgiveness letter he's still a college student he can't lose
02:57his whole life over this no susan only caught damie stealing from tessa's house she tried to
03:04stop him that was all and he stabbed her 20 times he even avoided the vital spots on purpose
03:09he wanted her to suffer he wanted her to die slowly a monster like that had no right to forgiveness
03:16and tessa a lawyer was defending the man who killed her own mother if susan couldn't rest in peace
03:22this was why ryan i'm not discussing this with you i'm giving you a chance i'm a top attorney
03:30even in court i can still get him cleared i just don't want you losing embarrassing yourself and
03:36embarrassing me everybody knows you're my husband if you're that afraid i'll embarrass you
03:41then let's get divorced ryan you've got a lot of nerve you're threatening me with divorce over
03:50something this small even if he accidentally kicked your mom's body into the ditch he helped
03:55clean it up after he knows he was wrong he deserves forgiveness
04:02i turned and looked damien was grinning while he pissed on susan's body after they dragged it back
04:08out i stared at tessa in shock her face looked twisted damien was desecrating a corpse and she
04:15called that cleaning it up when did she become like this what happened to the tessa who had just
04:20become a lawyer and swore to offer justice it probably started when derek became her intern
04:24derek never cared about evidence he took cases based on his own gut and made up whatever story
04:29he wanted and tessa helped him twist the truth she helped him send victims to prison i told tessa that
04:35was wrong she acted like she had a noble reason she said she was only trying to protect a young
04:40intern from losing confidence i'll send you the divorce papers tomorrow ryan tessa only spent christmas
04:46with me because she felt bad for me i didn't have anyone if that upset you i'm sorry but please
04:51stop using divorce to scare her what if she takes it seriously ryan you are completely unreasonable let
04:57me make this clear not only am i not divorcing you i'm signing that forgiveness letter myself i'm doing
05:02it as your wife that set tessa off completely she immediately had someone bring her paper and a pen
05:06right in front of me she wrote the letter and signed her name and i'm not letting you step into
05:11that courtroom either ryan you forced me to do this after tessa left i spent a huge amount of
05:16money to have susan cleaned up again and had the memorial rebuilt then i hired a lawyer to draft divorce
05:22papers and called tessa to come back and sign them
05:30derek answered the phone ryan tess is busy she doesn't have time to talk to you she said you can
05:37forget using divorce to make that forgiveness letter invalid then he deliberately kept the line
05:41open i could hear tessa getting even louder on the other end i forced myself to record it before i
05:47hung up in disgust since she refused to sign the divorce papers i had no choice but to bring this
05:52to
05:52court i messaged her then i'll see you in court on the day of the murder trial i had just
05:57reached the
05:58courthouse when i got a notice that my divorce filing had been rejected i knew right away that tessa
06:03was behind it then the funeral home called they said the memorial had been trashed and someone had
06:08taken the body by force a staff member center sent me a video the second i opened it my eyes
06:14went red
06:16susan's body which should have been in the refrigerated casket had been replaced with the
06:20carcass of a big fat pig there were wreaths on both sides with my mother's name on them even the
06:25funeral banners had been changed into filthy insults derek showed up late with his arm around tessa
06:30she glanced at my phone screen and spoke with pure malice ryan this is what happens when you insist
06:36on doing things your way if you walk into that courtrooms today you'll never see your mother's
06:41body again derek pointed at the pig inside the casket look doesn't it look exactly like your mom
06:48tessa and i went through a lot to find such a perfect replacement you'll get your mother's body
06:53back after my brother is found not guilty i didn't think tessa and derek could sink this low
06:58they were doing everything they could to stop me from going into court they still thought the dead
07:02woman was my mother as immediate family if i refuse forgiveness tessa's letter meant nothing i punched
07:08eric in the face you piece of shit tessa screamed and jumped in front of him ryan do you want
07:15me to
07:15send you to prison too the ones who belong in prison are you two did you forget i'm a lawyer
07:21i won't be the
07:22one ending up in prison you can't threaten me you better get this straight do you want to appear in
07:26court or do you want your mother's body tessa has it ever crossed your mind that this isn't my
07:31mother's body it's your mother's tessa didn't buy it my mom was decent and out honest there's no way
07:40a good college kid would stab her then she pulled out her phone and facetune someone with one word from
07:46me your mother's body will rot with maggots on the screen susan's body was being dragged toward a septic
07:53tank as they pulled her an old burn scar showed on her forearm susan once told me about that scar
07:59when tessa was little she knocked over a kettle of boiling water susan threw herself in front of her
08:05and got burned later she lied and called it a birthmark so tessa would not feel bad about it
08:11derek's eyes narrowed he pointed at the scar before i could speak tessa ryan's mom really is insane
08:19it wasn't enough for her to dress like your mom now she had to copy her birthmark too for a
08:24second
08:24tessa looked unsure then her face turned to pure disgusting my mom has a birthmark his mom probably
08:31burned her up to fake it that is so pathetic ryan i didn't know your mom was this sick and
08:37my mom
08:37always said your mom was a good person that was a lie my mom was never copying susan she knew
08:43susan had
08:44a hard life whenever she bought clothes or jewelry she bought susan the same set susan was grateful
08:49for that that was why she had always been good to me my chest taped me but i still tried
08:54to stop
08:54tessa she really is your mother and that is not a birthmark she got that burn protecting you
09:02this dead woman having the same mark as your mom is bad luck why not cut it off then he
09:08grabbed the
09:09phone and told the people on the other end to do it i lunged for the phone tina swung her
09:13purse
09:14straight into my face i think derek's right you are not gonna bully him again you are not gonna bully
09:21him again on the screen they were already cutting into susan's arm and making it even worse
09:30tessa do you have any humanity left you're the one with no humanity you're the one trying trying to
09:35send derrick's brother to prison i gave you a chance you're the one who threw it away
09:45throw the body into the septic tank
09:49i watched susan's body get dumped into the tank then she looked at me like she had won and walked
09:55into the courthouse with derrick the trial officially began the judge started reading the basic facts
10:02the defendant damien hayes stabbed the victim susan monroe after a conflict during a thief
10:08the stabbing caused susan monroe's death tessa's face went blank susan monroe the judge said she
10:15blooded it out before she could stop herself there has to be a mistake how could that be susan monroe
10:21no
10:22mistake the victim is your mother susan monroe
10:33tessa's face frozen she asked the judge to see the case file and there it was the victim was her
10:39mother she forced out a smile that looked worse than crying my mom is fine she was fine how could
10:46she be dead her hand shook as she called susan then a phone rang from the evidence table it was
10:53susan's phone even the ringtone was the one tessa had picked for her tears rushed into her eyes she
10:57turned to me and screamed how did you bribe this many people to lie to me just days ago she
11:01was
11:01talking about bringing me homemade sausage how could she be dead i'm not that powerful i looked at her
11:07from across the courtroom my eyes were cold and false accusations come with legal consequences
11:13we're in court counselor you should be careful what you say i had told her the truth more than once
11:20she was the one who refused to believe it tessa broke down
11:28ryan you knew it was my mother and you still didn't tell me you did that on purpose didn't you
11:33how can you be this cruel she tried to rush me and claw at me i looked at her she
11:38was beyond
11:38saving even now she still thought this was my fault court officers dragged her back to her seat
11:44at that point there was no way she could keep acting as defense counsel this was a murder case
11:49and tessa and i had been fighting publicly so a lot of relatives had shown up for the hearing
11:53didn't tessa say the dead woman was her husband's mother so it was her own mom now they were finally
11:59starting to piece it together they whispered to each other in disbelief whose mother it was doesn't even
12:04matter defending a killer like this is wrong either way i heard he stabbed her 20 times
12:12how can that girl not know right from wrong anymore the way they looked at tessa completely changed
12:17it was all contempt tessa was so ashamed she could barely stand it and then she remembered what she had
12:23done she had thrown her own mother's body into a septic tank regret hit her all at once she panicked
12:32and demanded people pull the body out then she left early
12:37but derek stayed when tessa learned the truth he wasn't surprised at all the second she left he took
12:44over the defense for his brother then derek pulled out the forgiveness letter tessa had written he looked
12:50at me like he had already won like even after tessa knew the truth he could still get his brother
12:55found
12:56not guilty that meant one thing derek had known from the start who his brother killed what he wanted
13:03was tessa's forgiveness letter and because he knew i cared about susan he tortured her body to get back
13:08at me for trying to fire him from the law firm tessa this is the man you chose vile to
13:13the core
13:14but i came prepared i also submitted evidence that made tessa's letter invalid it was the recording from
13:22that day the one where tessa brought derek to force me to sign derek pulled out a psychiatric diagnosis
13:28from a top hospital then he kept talking but it all came down to one thing he was trying to
13:34use an
13:35insanity defense to get his killer brother off my brother had a mental disorder as far as i knew this
13:43had been tessa's backup plan after all these years as a lawyer she had plenty of tricks for helping guilty
13:49people walk she was just using them for the wrong side what she forgot was i used to be a
13:53damn good
13:54lawyer too i understood every one of these moves i only gave up my own career to push hers forward
13:59and handle everything else so she had nothing to worry about
14:07and i had connections too so getting proof that tessa had faked that psychiatric diagnosis was not hard
14:13from the second tessa decided to defend derek's brother i had people watching them
14:18i submitted the evidence how do you even have this tessa said this plan was foolproof if you don't
14:23want people finding out don't do it a murderer belongs behind bars in the end derek's brother was
14:30convicted he stabbed susan 20 times and avoided the vital organs on purpose that was an especially
14:37brutal killing his brother was sentenced to life in prison when we came out of the courthouse tessa was
14:44back from trying to recover her mother's body the smell on her was so bad people covered their noses
14:50tessa didn't notice the looks derek you pushed me into this you're the reason i dumped my mother's
14:55body into a septic tank i'm not letting this go and you knew from the start that the dead woman
14:59was my
14:59mother didn't you otherwise why did you keep stopping me from reading the full case file and
15:02your brother he didn't just kill my mom he he also did those things to her body he is never
15:06getting out
15:07of prison tessa was screaming so hard she was shaking tears and snot ran down her face she looked
15:13completely wrecked derek shoved tessa away with open disgust you were the one who said your plan
15:21would get my brother off so why did he end up with life tessa froze for a second then she
15:28burst out
15:28laughing life in prison is still too good for him he should have gotten the death penalty write another
15:34forgiveness letter for my brother was when not letting him sit in prison you said it yourself
15:39he just went off to college his life is just starting it can't be ruined like this that was
15:44because you misled me i only did all that because i thought the dead woman was ryan's mother after she
15:49shouted that she looked at me then guilt flashed across her face i let out a mocking laugh i had
15:54no
15:54interest in watching the two of them tear each other apart once i got in the car quinn turned from
16:00the passenger seat and smiled at me so total win quinn was also a lawyer at tessa's firm she'd been
16:07pushed around for a long time because she couldn't stand how tessa twisted the truth and helped monsters
16:11walk free quinn had already been planning to quit then all of this happened i needed someone inside
16:16the firm to keep an eye on tessa and derek quinn figured out what i wanted and offered to help
16:20but
16:20she had one condition i couldn't stop her from exposing everything tessa had done she wanted tessa ruined
16:26at first i still wanted to leave tessa some dignity then she did all that i was done so i
16:30agreed but i still didn't feel happy it's about susan isn't it don't blame yourself too much
16:37you tried to stop it when i got home i shipped out all the things i had already packed up
16:41for tessa
16:41she called me i didn't answer then she texted she said she wanted to give susan a proper funeral and
16:47hoped i would come i went i went there for susan tessa held a huge funeral the second she saw
16:52me she
16:52walked straight toward me like she wanted to say something i spoke first can you sign the divorce
16:56papers now you really want to divorce me i almost found that funny did she really think there was
17:03still any chance for us ryan can we not do this i was fooled by derek that bastard lied to
17:08me
17:08all those clothes and jewelry your mom bought for my mom he always told me he bought them
17:13i only have my mom and i just want to protect her memory that's why i did those things please
17:19forgive me
17:20that only made it more ridiculous derek was never even good at lying he came from an ordinary family
17:26he made three grand a month how was he supposed to buy gifts worth hundreds of thousands
17:33even if you were fooled you wanted to be fooled deep down you already had a problem with my mom
17:38i just don't understand why
17:48why because she looked down on me she never thought i was good enough for you she never wanted us
17:53together
17:54right my mom was sharp back then she told me tessa was too sensitive and too fragile she said that
18:00kind
18:00of mind could lead someone to do things they could never take back and even if my mom didn't want
18:05us
18:05married at first she treated you more than well after we got married when you wanted to start your
18:09law firm she used her connections to send powerful clients your way she introduced you to people who
18:14mattered she helped build your name the only reason you became a star attorney this fast was because my
18:19mom helped you that's not true i became a top lawyer because i'm good at what i do i earned
18:27that on my own
18:28sure you're talented but talent alone doesn't land you a jewelry mogul as a client right after you start
18:35working you couldn't have done that you wouldn't have even gotten in the room what i said was harsh
18:42it was also true and this time tessa had nothing to say my mom's quiet help had pushed her far
18:49past
18:50the level her real experience could carry that was why she lost herself so fast ryan i'm sorry
18:59you never told me i know i shouldn't have been so blindly confident but i wanted so badly to prove
19:06myself that doesn't matter now sign the divorce papers i won't sign you still love me don't you
19:14what gave you that idea you think i still have feelings for someone who hurt me and hurt my
19:19mother like that but you still helped get justice for my mom in court didn't you that was your mother
19:23she deserved justice and every person who came to this funeral came for her not for you tessa do you
19:27really think you can do all those vile things and walk away with no price to pay i sued you
19:31too
19:31for desecrating a corpse for violating legal ethics for giving false evidence you can't do this to me
19:38why not in the end she agreed to sign
19:46once i had the papers i lit incense for susan and left
20:00tessa refused to give up every day she either sent flowers or had gifts delivered
20:10whatever you decide i'll support you i just want you to be happy
20:16she had always been that kind of person
20:24i'm not forgiving tessa what she did doesn't deserve forgiveness
20:28a failed marriage doesn't define your whole life and don't blame yourself too much my son already did
20:36more than enough i didn't expect this but before tessa's case even went to trial derek sued her too
20:49he had been tessa's intern
20:53back when tessa covered for him and cleaned up his messes
20:56she had helped create a lot of false evidence now he brought it all to light
21:02he also had plenty of dirt on the other lawyers at the firm
21:05no one pitied her everyone thought she had it coming
21:07derek dumped everything online too
21:09then he smeared susan's name and claimed she was mentally unstable and had come on to his brother
21:14he said his brother snapped from humiliation and killed her in the heat of the moment
21:19he was obviously still making one last push to get his brother's sentence reduced
21:24if the dead woman had really been my mom that smear would have landed on her instead
21:28that had been one of tessa's backup plans too
21:31now derek was using all of it on her tessa already hated derek for what he and his brother did
21:36and his
21:36brother to her mother's body now this pushed her completely over the edge she stormed off to
21:40confront him and somehow she killed him she stabbed him 20 times exactly 20 but she used a meat cleaver
21:47so derek's body was hacked to pieces 20 stab wounds
21:53how is that a crime of passion
22:02tessa went to prison too i took over her law firm that also meant quinn no longer had to quit
22:08as for the other lawyers i replaced almost all of them they had thrown away their ethics too all to
22:13prop
22:13up tessa and derek a lot of people get trapped with no way to speak up because of lawyers with
22:18no ethics so i launched a legal aid program that charged clients nothing i wanted more people like
22:23damien to actually face justice the work was free for the clients i paid the firm's lawyers out of my
22:29own pocket no one pushed back quinn frowned at me what do you take me for this matters i want
22:37to do it
22:38what about everyone else if you refuse payment they'll feel weird taking it doing good still has
22:44to pay the bills right you're still the same my chest tightened i looked away i could tell quinn liked
22:52me but after everything i wasn't ready to think about love again not yet i had been out of law
22:59for
22:59years i was rusty but quinn never got tired of helping me she walked me through cases
23:07slowly i stopped fighting it i told myself i'd let things happen when they happened
23:13less than a year later tessa died in prison i heard one of the people she had wrongfully put
23:18away killed her that ending did not surprise me if she had any humanity left at all maybe her life
23:25would not have ended there do you think your mom would like this maybe we should bring more gifts
23:32i know after cremation you did money on a burial plot
23:37you don't have to overthink it she'll like anything you bring because my mom had always
23:42believed the same thing the thought was what mattered if it came from the heart it was enough
23:49no way this is my first time meeting her i need to make a good impression
23:56quinn and i had started dating i was taking her home for dinner i had a feeling my mom would
24:01like
24:01her and i was right the second my mom met quinn she took her hand and started telling her story
24:07after story about me quinn loved every second of it she listened she laughed she gave my mom all the
24:16warmth in the world i thought you'd never open your heart again i've always believed people have to keep
24:20moving forward so i'm glad you figured that out quinn is a good woman don't you dare mess this up
24:24i know i'll be good to her mom was right people have to move forward everything behind me was
24:28finally over that chapter was closed for good
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