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My Wife, The Killer's Attorney
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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
00:12drop the case stop trying to ruin a young man's life over your dead mother i looked at the body
00:18on the slab carved up beyond recognition i laughed because my arrogant wife didn't know
00:22the woman who got stabbed to death wasn't my mother it was hers my mom was supposed to spend
00:26christmas with us we'd already made the plan but this morning she said she wasn't feeling well and
00:30called to cancel then by pure coincidence i ran into my wife tessa's mom susan monroe at the grocery
00:35store so i invited her over to have christmas dinner with us tessa was busy all day she knew nothing
00:39about all this and now i had just brought the body to the funeral home when tessa showed up with
00:43derrick and his brother damian derrick looked at the memorial setup and frowned ryan just because
00:49tessa makes money doesn't mean you should waste it on a dead person damian walked up and spat on the
00:52body you think you deserve this old woman i rushed at him but tessa shoved me away and pulled both
00:59of
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
01:13get
01:14him clear she also pulled strings and spent a lot of money to get damian released on bail i thought
01:18derrick 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
01:28money 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
01:57and a burial plot what do you think ryan he should be thanking you for being so kind then she
02:03directly
02:03told the staff to move the body i tried to stop them but tessa had people walking i looked at
02:08my
02:08mother-in-law's body i felt sorry for her tessa lost her father when she was young susan raised her
02:14alone and played both parents even when she had almost nothing to eat she still made sure tessa
02:19could go 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
03:09he 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 and
03:36embarrassing me everybody knows you're my husband if you're that afraid i'll embarrass you then let's
03:42get divorced ryan you've got a lot of nerve you're threatening me with divorce over something this
03:51small even if he accidentally kicked your mom's body into the ditch he helped clean it up after
03:56he 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 derek never
04:25cared about evidence he took cases based on his own gut and made up whatever story he wanted
04:30and tessa helped him twist the truth she helped him send victims to prison i told tessa that was
04:35wrong she acted like she had a noble reason she said she was only trying to protect a young intern
04:40from losing confidence i'll send you the divorce papers tomorrow ryan tessa only spent christmas with
04:47me because she felt bad for me i didn't have anyone if that upset you i'm sorry but please stop
04:52using
04:52divorce to scare her what if she takes it seriously ryan you are completely unreasonable let me make
04:58this 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 money
05:17to have susan cleaned up again and had the memorial rebuilt then i hired a lawyer to draft divorce papers
05:22and called tessa to come back and sign them
05:30derrick answered the phone ryan tessa's busy she doesn't have time to talk to you
05:35she said you can forget using divorce to make that forgiveness letter invalid then he deliberately kept
05:41the line open i could hear tessa getting even louder on the other end i forced myself to record it
05:46before i hung up in disgust since she refused to sign the divorce papers i had no choice but to
05:52bring this to court i messaged her then i'll see you in court on the day of the murder trial
05:56i had
05:57just reached the courthouse when i got a notice that my divorce filing had been rejected i knew right
06:02away that tessa was behind it then the funeral home called they said the memorial hadn't been trashed
06:07and someone had taken the body by force a staff member sent me a video the second i opened it
06:13my eyes
06:14went red susan'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 derrick showed up late with his arm around
06:29tessa she glanced at my phone screen and spoke with pure malice ryan this is what happens when you
06:35insist on doing things your way if you walk into that courtrooms today you'll never see your mother's
06:41body again derrick 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
06:53body back after my brother is found not guilty i didn't think tessa and derrick 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
07:07i punched derrick in the face you piece of shit tessa screamed and jumped in front of him
07:13ryan do you want me to send you to prison too the ones who belong in prison are you two
07:19did you
07:21forget i'm a lawyer i won't be the one ending up in prison you can't threaten me you better get
07:25this
07:25straight do you want to appear in court or do you want your mother's body tessa has it ever crossed
07:30your mind that this isn't my mother's body it's your mother's tessa didn't buy it my mom was decent
07:38and out honest there's no way a good college kid would stab her then she pulled out her phone and
07:44facetune someone with one word from me your mother's body will rot with maggots on the screen
07:50susan's body was being dragged toward a septic tank as they pulled her an old burn scar showed on her
07:57forearm susan once told me about that scar when tessa was little she knocked over a kettle of
08:03boiling water susan threw herself in front of her and got burned later she lied and called it a
08:09birthmark so tessa would not feel bad about it derrick's eyes narrowed he pointed at the scar
08:15before i could speak tessa ryan's mom really is insane it wasn't enough for her to dress like your mom
08:21now she had to copy her birthmark too for a second tessa looked unsure then her face turned
08:27to pure disgusting my mom has a birthmark his mom probably burned her to fake it that is so pathetic
08:34ryan i didn't know your mom was this sick and my mom always said your mom was a good person
08:39that was a lie my mom was never copying susan she knew susan had a hard life whenever she bought
08:45clothes or jewelry she bought susan the same set susan was grateful for that that was why she had always
08:51been good to me my chest taken but i still tried to stop tessa she really is your mother and
08:57that is
08:57not a birthmark she got that burn protecting you this dead woman having the same mark as your mom
09:05is bad luck why not cut it off then he grabbed the phone and told the people on the other
09:11end to do it
09:11i lunged for the phone tina swung her purse straight into my face
09:16i think derek's right you are not gonna bully him again you are not gonna bully him again on the
09:23screen 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
10:14she blooded it out before she could stop herself there has to be a mistake how could that be susan
10:20monroe no mistake 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
10:57she turned to me and screamed how did you bribe this many people to lie to me just days ago
11:01she
11:01was talking about bringing me homemade sausage how could she be dead i'm not that powerful i looked
11:07at her from 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
11:19she 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 point
11:45there was no way she could keep acting as defense counsel this was a murder case and tessa and i
11:50had
11:50been fighting publicly so a lot of relatives had shown up for the hearing didn't tessa say the dead
11:55woman was her husband's mother so it was her own mom now they were finally starting to piece it
12:00together they whispered to each other in disbelief whose mother it was doesn't even matter
12:05defending 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 it
12:18was all contempt tessa was so ashamed she could barely stand it and then she remembered what she
12:23had done she had thrown her own mother's body into a septic tank regret hit her all at once
12:31she panicked and 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
12:44took over the defense for his brother then derek pulled out the forgiveness letter tessa had written
12:49he looked at me like he had already won like even after tessa knew the truth he could still get
12:55his
12:55brother found not guilty that meant one thing derek had known from the start who his brother killed
13:01what he wanted was tessa's forgiveness letter and because he knew i cared about susan he tortured her
13:07body to get back at me for trying to fire him from the law firm tessa this is the man
13:12you chose vile to
13:13the core but i came prepared i also submitted evidence that made tessa's letter invalid it was the recording
13:22from that day the one where tessa brought derek to force me to sign derek pulled out a psychiatric
13:28diagnosis from a top hospital then he kept talking but it all came down to one thing he was trying
13:34to
13:34use an insanity defense to get his killer brother off my brother had a mental disorder as far as i
13:42knew
13:42this had been tessa's backup plan after all these years as a lawyer she had plenty of tricks for helping
13:48guilty people walk she was just using them for the wrong side what she forgot was i used to be
13:53a damn
13:54good lawyer too i understood every one of these moves i only gave up my own career to push hers
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
14:31he stabbed susan 20 times and avoided the vital organs on purpose that was an especially brutal
14:37killing 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
15:07getting
15:07out of prison tessa was screaming so hard she was shaking tears and snot ran down her face
15:12she looked completely wrecked derek shoved tessa away with open disgust you were the one who said
15:21your plan would get my brother off so why did he end up with life tessa froze for a second
15:27then she
15:28burst out laughing life in prison is still too good for him he should have gotten the death penalty
15:34write another forgiveness letter for my brother was when not letting him sit in prison you said it
15:38yourself he just went off to college his life is just starting it can't be ruined like this
15:43that was because you misled me i only did all that because i thought the dead woman was ryan's mother
15:49after she shouted that she looked at me then guilt flashed across her face i let out a mocking laugh
15:54i had
15:54no interest in watching the two of them tear each other apart once i got in the car quinn turned
16:00from
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
16:31still didn't feel happy it's about susan isn't it don't blame yourself too much you tried to stop it
16:38when i got home i shipped out all the things i had already packed up for tessa she called me
16:42i didn't
16:43answer then she texted she said she wanted to give susan a proper funeral and hoped i would come
16:47i went i went there for susan tessa held a huge funeral the second she saw me she walked straight
16:53toward me like she wanted to say something i spoke first can you sign the divorce papers now
16:57you you really want to divorce me i almost found that funny did she really think there was still
17:03any chance for us ryan can we not do this i was fooled by derek that bastard lied to me
17:08all those
17:09clothes and jewelry your mom bought for my mom he always told me he bought them i only have my
17:14mom
17:14and i just want to protect her memory that's why i did those things please forgive me that only made
17:21it more ridiculous derek was never even good at lying he came from an ordinary family he made three
17:27grand a month how was he supposed to buy gifts worth hundreds of thousands even if you were fooled
17:34you wanted to be fooled deep down you already had a problem with my mom i 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 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
18:13people who mattered she helped build your name the only reason you became a star attorney this fast was
18:18because 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 my own sure you're talented but talent alone doesn't land you a jewelry mogul as a
18:33client right after you start working you couldn't have done that you wouldn't have even gotten in the
18:39room what i said was harsh it was also true and this time tessa had nothing to say my mom's
18:48quiet help
18:48had pushed her far past the level her real experience could carry that was why she lost herself so fast
18:55ryan 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 mother
19:19like that but you still helped get justice for my mom in court didn't you that was your mother she
19:23deserved 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
19:39why 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
20:35my son already did more than enough
20:42i didn't expect this but before tessa's case even went to trial derek sued her too
20:49he had been tessa's intern
20:52back 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 no one pitied her everyone thought she
21:07had it coming derek dumped everything online too then he smeared susan's name and claimed she was
21:12mentally unstable and had come on to his brother he said his brother snapped from humiliation and
21:18killed her in the heat of the moment he was obviously still making one last push to get his
21:22brother's sentence reduced if the dead woman had really been my mom that smear would have landed on
21:27her instead that had been one of tessa's backup plans too now derek was using all of it on her
21:33tessa already hated derek for what he and his brother did and his brother to her mother's body
21:37now this pushed her completely over the edge she stormed off to confront him and somehow she killed
21:43him she stabbed him 20 times exactly 20 but she used a meat cleaver so derek's body was hacked to
21:49pieces
21:4920 stab wounds how 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
22:12all to prop up tessa and derek a lot of people get trapped with no way to speak up because
22:17of lawyers
22:17with no ethics so i launched a legal aid program that charged clients nothing i wanted more people
22:23like damien to actually face justice the work was free for the clients i paid the firm's lawyers out
22:29of my own pocket no one pushed back quinn frowned at me what do you take me for this matters
22:35i want to
22:37do it what about everyone else if you refuse payment they'll feel weird taking it doing good still
22:44has to pay the bills right you're still the same my chest tightened i looked away i could tell quinn
22:52liked
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 away
23:18killed
23:19her that ending did not surprise me if she had any humanity left at all maybe her life would not
23:25have
23:25ended there do you think your mom would like this maybe we should bring more gifts i know after
23:32cremation you give money on a burial plot you don't have to overthink it she'll like anything you bring
23:40because my mom had always believed the same thing the thought was what mattered if it came from the heart
23:47it was enough no 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 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
24:16the 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
24:24i'll be good to her mom was right people have to move forward everything behind me was finally over
24:28that chapter was closed for good
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