03x10 - She-Devils

[bunniefuu]

She had a great group of
friends, like, super close.

We'd go to church together,
Bible schools together.

But no matter what religion
you are, somebody can turn on

you so easily.

You have the angel on one
shoulder, the devil on

the other shoulder,
saying, "You don't have to be

the good girl,
because the good girl
never wins."

[Ashleigh] They were
almost devil-like.

She was their leader,
the queen scorpion.

[Kristin]
Girl-on-girl crime can be very,
very cruel, but the violence in

this case was absolutely
stunning to me.

I think absolutely the devil
has a hand in this crime.

[heavy metal guitar playing]

[Man] Gotta have the first
burger, huh?
The first one off.

[Heather] It was Memorial Day
weekend.

Every year, we would always
have a party.

That was like a gathering place
for people to spend time with

their family and catch up.

I never would have dreamed that
that weekend would have ended

the way that it did.

[ominous tones playing]

[siren wailing]

When I first got the call from
dispatch, it was around


[Douglas] A home had been
broken into.

The house was ransacked,
and we've got two

missing females.

[Richard]
When I got to the scene,
it was around midnight.

It was pitch dark.

We had the entire area roped
off, the home,

the backyard, the woods.

We didn't want anybody
coming in or out.

[indistinct radio chatter]

And then we found a body.

There was multiple stab wounds.

I've worked a lot of homicides
over my 30-year career,

but I've never seen one
quite like this.

You have to be up close
and personal and right

in their face.
There was a sense of evil.

Maybe the devil just came in
and took over and did this.

[upbeat country music playing]

Max Meadows is a really small
town of about 500 people.

-It's a rural area.
-[Douglas] It's a picturesque
hometown.

You don't lock your doors
and you just feel safe.

[Richard]
Max Meadows is part of what
we call the Bible Belt here in

rural southwest Virginia.

We have a lot of churches that
have a lot of people in them on

Sunday mornings.

There's very few that I would
say don't go to church because,

I mean, it was a big deal.

[Kindra]
In Max Meadows, if you didn't
go to church on the regular,

they're gonna be
like, loser.

you were loser number one.

[Bluegrass music playing]

♪ when the Lord says
Jesus's calling ♪

♪ I'm 'a wait for him today ♪

[narrator]
Piling into the pews at
the Pentecostal Church are

Max Meadows' most faithful
teens -- middle school besties,

Kindra, Heather, and Nakisha.

I was the cheerleader,
the outspoken one.

Heather was the mom
of the group.

She made sure we walked
the line, and Nakisha,

she was kind of the follower.

[Heather]
Nakisha Waddell grew up in
a Pentecostal church.

I mean, it's hard to explain
because I grew up in it too.

I think we're more,
not necessarily weird,

but on the stricter side.

Drinking, smoking,
premarital sex,
you just don't do it.

Ask Kindra about Pentecostal.

[Kindra]
It was always fun to go to
Heather's and Nakisha's church

because it was so different
than my church.

-[chanting]
-Their church was very
loud and rowdy.

Speaking in tongues,
hellfire and brimstone.

If you needed to be prayed for,
you were brought down front.

People laying out on the floor
in the spirit, and Holy Ghost.

So, I mean, I feel like
we became such good friends

because we shared the same --

the same beliefs.

Not stealing, not lying,
not treating people bad.

Some people believe you can do
whatever you want to on

Saturday night, as long as
you go to church on Sunday,

you're good, and that's not me.

My goal was to please God.

I never thought I was better
than anybody,

but...

[narrator]
It's a well-known secret
that many of the local teenage

girls are not exactly
practicing what they preach.

But in this pious town,
image is everything.

And the title for most perfect
parishioner goes to...


Nakisha was very obviously
standing out from other teenage

members of her church.

Nakisha was still
pure and god-like.

[Heather] Nakisha and her mom,
Vaughne Thomas,

they definitely were like
a staple in the church.

[Ashleigh] Vaughne was always
helping with dinners,

extra events, Bible schools,
and of course Nakisha would be

there to help as well.

I feel like Vaughne was wanting
her to live up to

a certain expectation.

[Heather] I think the motive
behind it was acceptance.

That was the motive
behind all of it.

[narrator]
While Vaughne and Nakisha sit
atop the church's

holy hierarchy,

their ascent wasn't easy.

[Heather] Nakisha was born
in 1990.

Her family was different from
the rest of us.

Her dad was never in
the picture that I knew of,

and that isn't really something
that you would expect in

a Pentecostal church.

Unfortunately, members of
the Pentecostal faith can be

casting judgment upon you,
which can sometimes be

quite harsh.

But Nakisha and her mother were
a family unit unto themselves.

[Heather]
Nakisha was a mama's girl.
She was always with her mom.

When Nakisha was three,
Vaughne met Bobby Thomas

and they got married and moved
to Max Meadows.

[Douglas]
Bobby did not attend church
with Vaughne and Nakisha.

He went to another church,
but Bobby helped raise

Nakisha with Vaughne.

They were a perfect,
close-knit family.

[narrator]
While mother and daughter take
pride in their well-earned gold

status at their church,
others at the church are

green with envy.

In Nakisha's church, there is
a focus on family and faith,

but you also have an enormous
amount of focus

on material possessions.

The more that you have,
the more well-loved

and well-respected member of
the community you became.

I wouldn't say that Nakisha was
spoiled, but she definitely

didn't want for a whole lot.

She had pretty much
whatever she wanted.

Clothes, cosmetics.

If she wanted a new computer,

she was gonna
get the computer.

We all didn't have as much as
Nakisha did.

[Ashleigh]
People that live in Max Meadows
can be insanely jealous.

And I know that I couldn't
afford, and my parents couldn't

afford to buy everything
they did for her.

That's -- that's crazy.

[crickets chirping]

[narrator]
But as this godly girl enters
her teen years, Nakisha faces

a hard truth --
money doesn't buy happiness.

[Heather] At that time, Nakisha
was about six foot tall.

So she was quite a bit
taller than

everybody, boys and girls.

She was bigger,

and I think it really held
her back from a lot,

her size did.

In the summer,
Nakisha and Kindra and I,

we would always
have a sleepover.

We would do makeup and talk
about boys, and watch movies.

If we were doing cheers,
she kind of just sat

back and watched.

She was very shy, and I feel
like maybe she felt

a little left out.

In eighth grade,

that's when
boys kind of start
noticing you.

Heather and I were getting
attention from boys,

and being called pretty,
and Nakisha really wasn't

getting the same attention.

[distant indistinct chatter]

Starting our freshman year at
Fort Chiswell High School,

it's a whole new world.

Heather and I were a grade
younger than Nakisha.

So when she went
to high school,

we were in middle school.

So it was scary for both of us,
really, because we were

being separated.

This is the Bible Belt but you
always have some kids that

aren't raised in church so
Nakisha tried to avoid people

who don't believe.

[thunder cracking]

[Ashleigh]
Nakisha started out in
the religious group being

the nice wholesome girl because
people accepted

her in the church,

but somebody can turn on
you so easily.

Girls can be very, very cruel to
each other.

[Heather] Nakisha just wanted to
be included,

but she didn't realize how
dangerous that it actually was.

Fort Chiswell High School was
very small.

It was maybe a hundred people
in the freshman class,

and cliques were already kind
of formed before you ever

even got there.

[Ashleigh] Nakisha just assumed
that she'd be hanging out with

the religious group because
church played a big part

in their lives.

But Nakisha wasn't very popular.

In her gym class,

she was always one of
the last people picked,

or not picked at all.

[Kristin]
There were girls who were
members of Nakisha's church

who needed to feel better about
themselves by tearing down

a girl like Nakisha with a lot
of what I call

girl-on-girl crime.

They could be judgmental
and you do one wrong move

or say one wrong thing,
they don't forget it.

[Ashleigh] I remember there was
an instance when Nakisha was

being bullied by
another classmate.

The church group were silent,

they just let
whatever happened happen

without raising
their voice or anything.

So she was pretty much
on her own.

And then suddenly,
somebody came to

Nakisha's defense.

[narrator] Nakisha's protector
is an unlikely ally,

fellow freshman, Annie Belcher.

[Kindra] Annie was bigger than
all of the other girls.

She got made fun of for
her weight as well.

However, she stuck up
for herself.

[Kristin] When she saw Nakisha
being bullied by other people,

Annie would refer to it as
the Big Girl Code.

Big Girl Code is,
if you mess with one of us,

you mess with all of us.

The big girls,
we stick together.

And they began to bond with
each other.

[Heather]
They connected on the fact of
they weren't the most

popular in the class.

They weren't gonna be
homecoming queen.

And when I found out that,
you know, Nakisha and Annie had

struck up such a good
friendship, I was shocked.

[narrator] That's because Annie
has a reputation.

[distant group cheer]

[Heather] Growing up, I was on
the cheerleading team

with Annie.

Annie didn't have
the foundation that we had

going to church.

She was the type that I was
like, I am just not, --

I'm not even going there.

[Ashleigh] I met Annie
in eighth grade.

She wasn't part of
my friend group.

Annie's family was low class.

They lived in a trailer.

There were times when her mom
was in prison.

It's...sad.

I think Annie's upbringing
started to shape

her as a person.

Annie was very delinquent
in school.

One year, she didn't even have
her picture taken for

the yearbook because
she was suspended.

She wore black a lot.
She was just different.

[Kindra] So no one really
messed with her.

I don't know...
I don't want to say that.

Her mom come after me and...

[Ashleigh] In high school,
Annie's group,

they were the outcast.
They were against the church.

They would draw pentagrams
everywhere, the number six

three times.
And Annie was their leader.

[electric guitar playing]

The queen scorpion.

She had some type of power over
those individuals.

And they were
almost devil-like.

Annie found her own way to be
popular in a sense of

it's popular to stay
away from her.

Her scare tactic was,
you know, to be the bully.

And it worked.

[narrator]
While Annie instills
fear in others,

she has a soft spot for Nakisha.

[Ashleigh]
Nakisha found somebody
who was going to protect her,

and she's suddenly feeling that
she belongs somewhere.

She was starting to wear black
clothing and dark eyeliner,

completely different than how
she used to be.

[Heather] We'd still hang out
after school, on the weekends.

I could see that Nakisha,

to a certain degree,
was slowly changing.

I remember one day, all of
a sudden, Nakisha takes

something from her pocket.

She said, "I stole this makeup
from Walmart."

And I'm just like, I know
she did not just do that.

That was my first

realization that Nakisha maybe
wasn't the person

that I thought she was.

Nakisha went from being
a straight-A student to making

D's and F's, skipping school
and drinking alcohol,

which that's a big sin
in the church.

So that was a big

"Wow."

Nakisha lived a double life.

You know, she would be friends
with Annie at school and,

you know, get to be the bully.

And then she would go home
to her mom and live

the church life again.

She was a good church girl
on Sunday.

And I'm like, why is she there?

You know, why was
she there at all?

[narrator] In a small town like
Max Meadows,

secrets don't keep long.

So it's only a matter of time
before Nakisha's double life

is exposed.

Everybody talks.
Everybody knows their business.

Nakisha's mom, Vaughne,
would get calls from the school

saying that Nakisha did not
show up.

[Richard]
The people that knew Vaughne
Thomas told her that they had

suspected that Nakisha was
using some alcohol and possibly

even some ill*gal drugs.

[Ashleigh]
Vaughne made Nakisha get out
a notebook and write

the Lord's Prayer over
and over again,

thinking that it would
help her.

She used the religion as a form
of discipline to try to heal

her from the evil that
she was now part of.

[narrator]
Vaughne believes the devil has
a vice grip on her daughter's

heart and she knows exactly
who's to blame.

She saw this change in her kid
from the time that

she met Annie,

and she knew that it was only
progressively gonna get

worse if something didn't
change, and Vaughne's only hope

was for God to remove Annie
from Nakisha's life.

[narrator] And if not God,
then someone else.

[Ashleigh] Vaughne told Nakisha
to get rid of Annie.

Annie is not good for you.
There was no stopping Vaughne.

She wanted that friendship
to end.

In 2004, there's a pressure
cooker atmosphere happening

in Nakisha's house.

Nakisha was still engaging in
risky behavior, which was

causing more fights
and arguments with her mother

because according to Vaughne,
Nakisha was sinning.

[Heather]
Her relationship with Annie was
definitely pushing her further

and further from church,
from her mom, from me.

I think the devil was
motivating her life.

I know that Vaughne could feel
the grip she was losing on

Nakisha because
she actually told my mom.

She said, "I went in Nakisha's
room and anointed her room

and prayed over it."

She said, "Because you just
never know."

The more that Nakisha acted
out, the more intense

Vaughne became.

In our faith, anytime something
happens, you go to God,

that's where you find help.

But she was starting down
a path that was not
gonna end well.

[narrator]
But the power of prayer isn't
enough to stop Nakisha from

straying into even more
dangerous territory.

[Heather]
In 2004, that's really when
chat rooms started becoming

a thing, and we all did it.

Nakisha's on-screen name was
Sassy_N_Sweet.

She used that as
almost like a fantasy life.

She was talking to older men,
not anybody we knew.

[narrator] One of these older
men seems to stand out as

Nakisha's soul mate.

Nakisha never had a boyfriend
that I ever remember,

but she wasn't really,
you know, the type that all

the boys were after.

Nakisha was talking to
a 20-year-old sailor named

Victor from Portsmouth.

In our upbringing,
you're taught,

you know, you save yourself
for marriage.

It's hammered in your head
from day one.

Her relationship with this guy,
it was online, but there was

talk of, you know,
physical things.

That in itself was not
pleasing to God.

And she knew
I wouldn't approve.

Those were just the rules.

But Nakisha was thinking that
she did not have to follow

rules, and it's not fair.

For Nakisha, this was probably
a sense of, look at this

forbidden fruit, and now
let me go try to taste it.

[Heather] The attention she was
getting from Victor,

you know, she loved it.

I was hurt because Nakisha was
willingly sinning over and over

again, and I didn't really want
anything to do with it,

because maybe now,
she's not worthy of God's love,

so I just steered clear.

Annie was not a voice of
reason at all.

Annie encouraged Nakisha to
continue to talk to Victor.

The Pentecostal church
population wanted her to be

good and pure.

[Heather]
A lot of people were praying
that God remove anything from

her life that's not
good for her.

Basically protection.

She was going down a bad path
and it was something that none

of us could stop.

[Heather] It was Sunday night,
Memorial Day weekend.

It was probably 8:30.

My stepdad gets a call from
Bobby, Nakisha's stepdad,

and he says, "Have you seen
Vaughne or Nakisha?"

He said, "Well, I just got
home."

And he said, "Nakisha
and Vaughne aren't here."

He said, "And the house
is trashed."

You can literally throw a rock
to my house from hers.

And I'm thinking, is there
somebody, you know,

in the neighborhood breaking
into houses?

I was terrified, because,
I mean, where are they?

[Douglas] That Sunday, it was
a holiday weekend.

I get a call that we had
a missing daughter

and a missing mother,

Nakisha Waddell
and Vaughne Thomas.

And I know Bobby Thomas,
because it's a small community.

I said, "I'll be there
as quick as I can."

When I got to the Thomas home,
walked inside, and the house

was totally ransacked.

Bobby said that Vaughne's
jewelry was missing,

and he could not find Nakisha
or Vaughne anywhere.

From the beginning, I said,
"Something's not right."

[Richard]
Most burglars are not going to
go in and just ransack

the entire place.

They're gonna take what
they're after,

and they're going to
get out of there.

I told Mr. Thomas,
"This looks staged."

[Richard] When I first arrived
on scene, of course, we met with

Lieutenant Tuck
and Bobby Thomas.

[Douglas]
Bobby Thomas said that he had
gone out to Texas visit one of

his sons in the middle of
the week prior to this.

[Richard] He said the last time
he had spoke with Vaughne was

actually Thursday night.

He tried to call her again on
Friday night and could not get

a hold of her.

[narrator]
It's been three days since
anyone has spoken to

Vaughne or Nakisha.

With every passing hour,
concerns grow, and the chances

of finding them safe dwindle.

And that's when additional
staff began to respond to

process the crime scene.

Inside the kitchen area,

we spotted a small
amount of blood.

[Richard] This was very
shocking.

At this point, it was really
clear that the crime

we're investigating is much more
severe than a break-in

that looks staged.

[Douglas] A lot of things were
going through my mind.

We had to figure out what
happened and I was open to

every option from abduction...

to m*rder.

[indistinct radio chatter]

We've got two missing people,
Nakisha Waddell and her mother,

Vaughne Thomas.

Looking at how the house had
been ransacked, we're thinking

maybe there was some sort of
violence within the home.

So we've got to look
into Mr. Thomas.

We asked if there had been any
arguments between them two.

He told us they had been a good
home, they had a really

good foundation.

[narrator]
While the Thomas' marriage is
solid, Bobby explains

the relationship between Vaughne
and her daughter, Nakisha,

has been on thin ice
for months.

In spring of 2004,
Vaughne learned about Nakisha's

relationships with a lot of
adult men online.

And she was really appalled
and horrified because Nakisha

was talking about sex.

This was not the behavior that
she expected of her 14-year-old

daughter, who she had raised
in the church.

As a result, Nakisha and Vaughne
are fighting almost

all of the time.

Vaughne felt that the whole
situation was pure evil.

Nakisha was on the computer
a lot with these men at

an early age, and that's
very dangerous.

We see cases all the time where
these young 13- and 14-year-old

girls build these relationships
online with men, and they end

up getting abducted,
end up getting r*ped,

end up getting k*lled.

[Douglas] I said, "I got to look
at the big picture."

Bobby turned over Nakisha's
computer to

our investigative team.

[narrator] On Nakisha's
computer, investigators discover

her virtual life
as Sassy_N_Sweet.

[Richard]
We had developed additional
information that Nakisha had

started an online relationship
with a guy named Victor.

He was 20.
She's 14 years old.

The math just does not math
like it should.

Nakisha was lying to Victor
about her age and appearance.

She was telling him
she was older.

She was acting older,
and Victor believed it.

Nakisha knew that lying
was a sin.

She knew it was wrong.

On top of that, she told him
where she was living.

Victor may have actually showed
up and done something

with Nakisha and her mother.

I had his last name,

and I did eventually make
contact with Victor.

[narrator]
Victor tells investigators
he was just enjoying a little

online banter,
but Nakisha convinced herself

they were planning
a future together.

[Heather] She was living
a fantasy life

online with this guy,
but I didn't know that

she thought it was real.

In her mind, he was the one,
and she was gonna quit

school and move up there to
Portsmouth, and they were

gonna live happily
ever after.

According to what was told to
me by Victor,

on Friday, a friend drove
Nakisha six hours down there to

Portsmouth, and she finally
met Victor.

And it did not go her way.

He said that they got in
a big argument.

And she hollered at Victor.

He said he made her leave when
he found out her age.

The whole house of cards
for Nakisha ultimately fell

because Victor is not expecting
a 14-year-old girl.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[narrator]
In this one-horse town,

police lights don't
go unnoticed.

And while detectives continue
speaking with Victor,

a neighbor calls
the Thomas home.

Turns out to be a neighbor that
Nakisha goes to high school

with by the name of Stephanie.

I said, "I'm looking
for Nakisha."

She said, "I did see Nakisha
Friday afternoon after school."

She gave me directions to
a mobile home where Annie

lived, approximately three
or four miles down the road.

I didn't know what I was
getting myself into.

I knocked on the door of
the mobile home,

identified myself, and a man
came to the door.

He told me he was
Annie's father.

I said, "I'm looking
for Nakisha.

'"I'm looking for her mother.

Do you have any idea where
they could be?"

He invited me in and led me to
the back bedroom.

And Annie was there.
I didn't see Vaughne anywhere.

I saw Nakisha on the bed.

The lights were very, very dim,
and I could barely

see her face.

I didn't know if she was
still breathing.

We know that evil exists.

We see it in the cases
that we work.

I think absolutely the devil
had a hand in this crime.

[Douglas] I was at Annie
Belcher's mobile home.

And I walked back
to the bedroom,

and I found Nakisha on the bed,

and she got up.

I identified myself to her,

and Vaughne wasn't there.

I said, "I found you,
but I'm looking for

your mother.
Where is she at?"

And she looked at me and said,
"She's dead...

I k*lled her."

And that floored me.

And I said, "Can you say that
again, please?"

And she said it again.
I said, she's serious.

[Richard]
Annie and Nakisha were taken
back to the sheriff's office

where we can get a statement
from both of them.

[Douglas]
When I interviewed Annie,
she said Nakisha called her on

the phone that Friday morning
and told her she had gotten

into an argument
with her mother.

[Richard]
She said that Nakisha had gone
to her house because

she needed a friend.

Naturally, you're going to go
to your best friend and you're

going to talk about
these situations.

When Nakisha said that her mom
was dead, Annie was really

taken back, was really shocked.

She says she had no prior
knowledge of

the m*rder whatsoever.

[narrator]
In a separate room at the Wythe
County Sheriff's Office,

a stoic Nakisha
pens her confession.

Vaughne figured out that Nakisha
was talking to

older men online.

[Douglas] Nakisha told
me they'd argued all week,

and they started arguing again.
Vaughne left to go to work.

Nakisha decided, I'm gonna
skip school.

Vaughne came home around

An argument ensued.

According to Nakisha,
something in her snapped,

and she took the knife,
which was on the kitchen

counter, and stabbed Vaughne
in the shoulder.

Vaughne then retreated out
the back door.

I said, "What did you do then?"

She said, "I stabbed her several
times to make sure

she was dead."

She looked at me with straight
eyes and told me that.

She didn't show any emotion.

Being an investigator for

I do.

But I never had a 14-year-old
girl k*lling her mother.

[narrator] But sometimes the
devil is in the details.

And detectives notice
an inconsistency in

Nakisha's statement.

[Richard] Nakisha's statement
was all about her.

And then there was this
transition of pronouns.

She transitions from saying
"I" to saying "we."

I knew someone
had to help Nakisha,

and the only one left
was Annie.

So the second interview with
Annie, I said, "I just want to

get to the truth."

Eventually, she admitted that
she was at Vaughne Thomas's home

the day she was k*lled.

Annie watched Nakisha make
the final blows to take

her breath away.

She just stood
back and watched.

She said, "I was just trying to
help a friend out."

I said, "You're under arrest."

[Richard]
Nakisha tried to make it sound
like that this was just

a spur-of-the-moment
impulse crime.

But when we ex*cuted a search
warrant, we located a large

hunting knife that had
apparent blood.

We found notes, and we found
a diagram sketch

of Vaughne Thomas's residence.

And the door that she normally
comes in from work was marked.

They actually put a lot of
thought into how they were

gonna carry out this crime.

[Douglas] Nakisha, she wanted to
live free of her mother,

and she wanted to make her life
with this guy named Vic.

[Ashleigh] Vaughne was on
the ground, still warm.

And the first thing that
Nakisha thinks is to get in

a car and to go see
her boyfriend across the state.

And Annie was there to assist.

We were able to follow up
with Victor.

We learned that he had nothing
to do with this crime.

[Kristin]
Nakisha now has a long ride
home from Portsmouth if

you consider the fact that
her fantasy relationship has

now broken up, and she has
a dead parent waiting

for her at home.

[narrator]
Annie and Nakisha tell police
about their attempt to wash

away this mortal sin with
their own Holy Trinity --

a shovel, a mop,
and bleach, before staging

the scene to look
like a break-in.

We're processing the crime
scene when Lieutenant Tuck

calls one of our cell phones
and tells us to walk to

the back right-hand corner
of the yard,

we could see that they had
buried Vaughne in

a shallow grave.
Nakisha was telling the truth.

There was 43 stab wounds in
Vaughne Thomas, 43.

[Ashleigh] 43 times.

There was at least

have stopped.

Nakisha decided that her mom
was the enemy.

She was once considered to be
a perfect person, but she could

no longer live up to
that standard.

She wants to get away from
the church and Vaughne's

upbringings, and do what
she wants to do.

And it got to the point that
Nakisha couldn't take anymore.

Nakisha was full of rage,
but I do not feel that Nakisha

would have ever done something
like this had she not

met Annie.

[Richard]
You could just tell that Annie
had more of a deviant mentality

than what Nakisha had.

I think Annie made her think
that all this could go away if

she would just listen to her.

[Heather]
Annie had a major influence on
Nakisha, and Annie was jealous

of Nakisha's home life.

Nakisha had,
you know, whatever she wanted

and everything she needed,
and I think Annie was jealous

of that, and maybe...

thought, well, if I can't have
it, I don't want her to either.

Because of the severity of
the crime, both of these

juveniles would be tried
as adults.

But in the end, plea deals were
reached where Nakisha was

charged with
first-degree m*rder.

She was sentenced to 70 years
with 35 years suspended.

Annie was charged
with second-degree m*rder,

and she was sentenced
to 15 years.

And neither one of them showed
any remorse.

[Heather] I thought
we were close.

I thought, you know,
if something

between her and her mom was so
bad, why would I have not known

about it?
I loved Vaughne.

Her mom was so sweet
and so good to her.

She committed the ultimate sin.

[Ashleigh]
Thou shall not k*ll, honor thy
father and mother.

Both those commandments
were broken.

[Douglas]
To this day, I still think
the devil got into her soul

and in the minutes that it took
to k*ll Vaughne,

something inside
her possessed her.

[Heather]
If I was to speak to Nakisha,
I would tell her I forgive

her and that God forgives
her as long as she asks him to.

And that I hope and pray

that she lives a life that
her mom would be proud of.