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My Wife, The Killer's Attorney
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00:02on 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
00:19carved 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
00:36invited her over to have christmas dinner with us tessa was busy all day she knew nothing about all
00:40this and now i had just brought the body to the funeral home when tessa showed up with derek and
00:44his brother damian derek looked at the memorial setup and frowned ryan just because tessa makes
00:49money doesn't mean you should waste it on a dead person damian walked up and spat on the body
00:54you think you deserve this old woman i rushed at him but tessa shoved me away and pulled both of
00:59them behind her they're just telling the truth your mom is already dead why waste money on her now i
01:05stared at tessa in shock i couldn't believe what i was hearing ever since her mom was killed tessa
01:09hadn't shown one bit of concern when i sued damian for murder she even said she would defend him and
01:14get
01:14him clear she also pulled strings and spent a lot of money to get damian released on bail i thought
01:18derek had talked her into this madness i didn't realize she thought the victim was my mother
01:22ryan go get a refund this setup must have cost a fortune right your mom was always after tessa's
01:29money when she was alive now you are too what else would it be like mother like son a woman
01:34as greedy
01:35and vicious as your mom deserved to get stabbed to death my mom never did anything to you stop
01:40insulting her refund the money we're not doing this funeral as for the body do whatever you want with
01:48it tessa the dead still deserve some respect why not put the body there and keep it simple
01:52after cremation you can dump the ashes in there too back to nature you'll even save money on an urn
01:58and a burial plot what do you think ryan he should be thanking you for being so kind then she
02:03directly
02:04told the staff to move the body i tried to stop them but tessa had people walking i looked at
02:09my
02:09mother-in-law's body sorry for her tessa lost her father when she was young susan raised her alone and
02:15played both parents even when she had almost nothing to eat she still made sure tessa could
02:20go to tutoring and 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
02:40rimp her off why are you getting so angry over this i looked at the body rolling in the filthy
02:45ditch covered in muck and sewage you're going to regret this what would i regret i'm not wasting
02:51time on this other nonsense write damien of a forgiveness letter he's still a college student
02:56he can't lose his whole life over this no susan only caught damie stealing from tessa's house she
03:03tried to stop him that was all and he stabbed her 20 times he even avoided the vital spots on
03:09purpose
03:10he wanted her to suffer he wanted her to die slowly a monster like that had no right to
03:15forgiveness and tessa a lawyer was defending the man who killed her own mother if susan couldn't rest
03:22in peace this was why ryan i'm not discussing this with you i'm giving you a chance i'm a top
03:29attorney
03:31even in court i can still get him cleared i just don't want you losing embarrassing yourself
03:36and embarrassing me everybody knows you're my husband if you're that afraid i'll embarrass you
03:42then let's get divorced ryan you've got a lot of nerves you're threatening me with divorce over
03:51something this small even if he accidentally kicked your mom's body into the ditch he helped
03:56clean 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 the 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
04:25derek never cared about evidence he took cases based on his own gut and made up whatever story
04:30he 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
04:47with me because she felt bad for me i didn't have anyone if that upset you i'm sorry but please
04:52stop using divorce to scare her what if she takes it seriously ryan you are completely unreasonable let
04:58me 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
05:12courtroom either ryan you forced me to do this after tessa left i spent a huge amount of money
05:17to have susan cleaned up again and had the memorial rebuilt then i hired a lawyer to draft divorce papers
05:23and called tessa to come back and sign them
05:30derek answered the phone ryan tessa's 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 open
05:42i could hear tessa getting even louder on the other end i forced myself to record it before i hung
05:47up
05:47in disgust since she refused to sign the divorce papers i had no choice but to bring this to court
05:53i messaged her then i'll see you in court on the day of the murder trial i had just reached
05:58the courthouse
05:59when i got a notice that my divorce filing had been rejected i knew right away that tessa was behind
06:04it
06:04then the funeral home called they said the memorial had been trashed and someone had taken
06:09the body by force a staff member sent me a video the second i opened it my eyes went 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
06:26funeral 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
07:08derek in the face you piece of shit tessa screamed and jumped in front of him ryan do you want
07:15me to
07:16send you to prison too the ones who belong in prison are you two did you forget i'm a lawyer
07:22i 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
07:27court 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
07:41a 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
08:00when 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
08:25tessa 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
09:09grabbed the
09:09phone and told the people on the other end to do it i lunged for the phone tina swung her
09:14purse
09:14straight into my face i think derek's right you are not gonna bully him again you are not gonna bully
09:22him 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
09:36send 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
10:03the 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
10:14she blooded it out before she could stop herself there has to be a mistake how could that be susan
10:21monroe no mistake the victim is your mother susan monroe
10:34tessa'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
10:58turned to me and screamed how did you bribe this many people to lie to me just days ago she
11:02was
11:02talking 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 saving
11:39even now she still thought this was my fault court officers dragged her back to her seat at that
11:45point there was no way she could keep acting as defense counsel this was a murder case and tessa
11:50and i had been fighting publicly so a lot of relatives had shown up for the hearing didn't tessa
11:55say the dead woman was her husband's mother so it was her own mom now they were finally starting
12:00to piece it together they whispered to each other in disbelief whose mother it was doesn't even matter
12:06defending a killer like this is wrong either way i heard he stabbed her 20 times
12:13how 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
12:38but 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
12:56found
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
13:15but 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
13:35use an
13:35insanity defense to get his killer brother off my brother had a mental disorder as far as i knew
13:43this had been tessa's backup plan after all these years as a lawyer she had plenty of tricks for helping
13:49guilty people walk she was just using them for the wrong side what she forgot was i used to be
13:54a
13:54damn good lawyer too i understood every one of these moves i only gave up my own career to push
13:59hers
13:59forward and 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 i submitted the
14:19evidence how do you even have this tessa said this plan was foolproof if you don't want people
14:24finding out don't do it a murderer belongs behind bars in the end derek's brother was convicted
14:30he stabbed susan 20 times and avoided the vital organs on purpose that was an especially brutal killing
14:38his brother was sentenced to life in prison when we came out of the courthouse tessa was back from
14:45trying to recover her mother's body the smell on her was so bad people covered their noses
14:51tessa didn't notice the looks derek you pushed me into this you're the reason i dumped my mother's
14:56body into a septic tank i'm not letting this go and you knew from the start that the dead woman
14:59was
14:59my mother didn't you otherwise why did you keep stopping me from reading the full case file and your
15:03brother he didn't just kill my mom he he also did those things to her body he is never getting
15:07out of
15:07prison tessa was screaming so hard she was shaking tears and snot ran down her face she looked
15:14completely wrecked derek shoved tessa away with open disgust you were the one who said your plan
15:22would 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
15:35forgiveness 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
15:50shouted that she looked at me then guilt flashed across her face i let out a mocking laugh i had
15:54no
15:55interest in watching the two of them tear each other apart once i got in the car quinn turned
16:00from the passenger seat and smiled at me so total win quinn was also a lawyer at tessa's firm she'd
16:07been pushed around for a long time because she couldn't stand how tessa twisted the truth and
16:11helped monsters walk free quinn had already been planning to quit then all of this happened i needed
16:15someone inside the firm to keep an eye on tessa and derek quinn figured out what i wanted and offered
16:20to help but she had one condition i couldn't stop her from exposing everything tessa had done
16:25she wanted tessa ruined at first i still wanted to leave tessa some dignity then she did all that i
16:29was done so i agreed but i still didn't feel happy it's about susan isn't it don't blame yourself too
16:36much you tried to stop it when i got home i shipped out all the things i had already packed
16:41up for tessa
16:42she called me i didn't answer then she texted me she said she wanted to give susan a proper funeral
16:47and hoped i would come i went i went there for susan tessa held a huge funeral the second she
16:52saw
16:52me she walked straight toward me like she wanted to say something i spoke first can you sign the
16:56divorce papers now you really want to divorce me i almost found that funny did she really think there
17:03was still any chance for us ryan can we not do this i was fooled by derek that bastard lied
17:08to me
17:09all 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 that only made it more ridiculous derek was never even good at lying he came from an
17:26ordinary family he 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
17:54together right my mom was sharp back then she told me tessa was too sensitive and too fragile she said
18:00that kind of mind could lead someone to do things they could never take back and even if my mom
18:04didn't
18:05want us married at first she treated you more than well after we got married when you wanted to start
18:09your law firm she used her connections to send powerful clients your way she introduced you to
18:14people who mattered she helped build your name the only reason you became a star attorney this fast was
18:19because my mom helped you that's not true i became a top lawyer because i'm good at what i do
18:26i earned that on
18:27my own sure you're talented but talent alone doesn't land you a jewelry mogul as a client right after you
18:35start working 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
18:50past the
18:50level 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
19:04but i wanted so badly to prove myself that doesn't matter now sign the divorce papers
19:10i won't sign you still love me don't you what gave you that idea you think i still have feelings
19:18for
19:18someone who hurt me and hurt my mother like that but you still helped get justice for my mom in
19:22court didn't you that was your mother she deserved justice and every person who came to this funeral
19:26came for her not for you tessa do you really think you can do all those vile things and walk
19:29away with
19:30no price to pay i sued you too for desecrating a corpse for violating legal ethics for giving false
19:35evidence you can't do this to me why not in the end she agreed to sign
19:46once i had the papers i lit incense for susan and left
20:01tessa 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
20:29a failed marriage doesn't define your whole life and don't blame yourself too much
20:35my son already did more than enough
20:42i didn't expect this but before tessa's case even went to trial derrick sued her too
20:49he had been tessa's intern
20:53back when tessa covered for him and cleaned up his messes she had helped create a lot of false evidence
20:59now he brought it all to light he also had plenty of dirt on the other lawyers at the firm
21:05no one
21:05pitied her everyone thought she had it coming derrick dumped everything online too then he smeared susan's
21:11name and claimed she was mentally unstable and had come on to his brother he said his brother snapped
21:16from humiliation and killed her in the heat of the moment he was obviously still making one last push to
21:22get his brother's sentence reduced if the dead woman had really been my mom that smear would have
21:27landed on her instead that had been one of tessa's backup plans too now derrick was using all of it
21:33on
21:33her tessa already hated derrick for what he and his brother did and his brother to her mother's body now
21:38this pushed her completely over the edge she stormed off to confront him and somehow she killed him
21:43she stabbed him 20 times exactly 20 but she used a meat cleaver so derrick's body was hacked to pieces
21:5020 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
22:13all to prop up tessa and derrick a lot of people get trapped with no way to speak up because
22:17of
22:17lawyers with no ethics so i launched a legal aid program that charged clients nothing i wanted more
22:23people like damien to actually face justice the work was free for the clients i paid the firm's lawyers
22:29out of my own pocket no one pushed back quinn frowned at me what do you take me for this
22:35matters
22:37i want to do it what about everyone else if you refuse payment they'll feel weird taking it doing
22:44good still has to pay the bills right you're still the same
22:48my chest tightened i looked away i could tell quinn liked me but after everything i wasn't ready to
22:56think about love again not yet i had been out of law for years i was rusty but quinn never
23:03got tired
23:03of helping me she walked me through cases slowly i stopped fighting it i told myself i'd let things
23:11happen when they happened less than a year later tessa died in prison i heard one of the people she
23:18had wrongfully put away killed her that ending did not surprise me if she had any humanity left at
23:24all maybe her life would not have ended there do you think your mom would like this maybe we should
23:29bring more gifts i know after cremation you give money on a burial plot you don't have to overthink it
23:39she'll like anything you bring because my mom had always believed the same thing
23:44the thought was what mattered if it came from the heart it was enough no way this is my first
23:51time 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 her
24:01and i was right the second my mom met quinn she took her hand and started telling her story after
24:08story about me quinn loved every second of it she listened she laughed she gave my mom all the warmth
24:16in 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 finally
24:28over that chapter was closed for good
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