03x02 - Summer Tatum and Andreen McDonald

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NARRATOR: This time
on "K*llers Caught on Camera."

In Alabama, a desperate call
from a distraught husband.

WESLEY CLARK: I remember
walking into the bedroom,

and it looked like chaos.

NARRATOR:
And in Texas, the alarm

is raised when the boss
fails to arrive for work.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: Why would
you buy a shovel, buy an axe,

buy gasoline?

This is not normal behavior
for somebody who's worried

about their missing wife.

MAN 1: It just
sounds like something

bad is happening to her.

WOMAN: We know what
happened because the video

tells us what happened.

MAN 2: I heard some g*nshots.

OFFICER 1: Drop it.

Whatever it is, drop it.

MAN 3: That does not prove
that I k*lled my wife.

MAN 4: The camera doesn't lie.

NARRATOR: In the heart
of Alabama

is the city of Prattville.

CJ ROBINSON:
Prattville is located

in Autauga County,
which is a kind

of a residential County
right outside of the state

capital, Montgomery.

WESLEY CLARK: I would
say, small town.

It's a very tight
knit community.

NARRATOR: Prattville was
also home to Summer Tatum.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: Summer was
good-hearted from day one.

She was bubbly, strong willed.

She loved to make people laugh,
and she just had a big heart.

ARIEL DERAMUS: We were
three years apart,

so we fought like
cats and dogs.

But as we grew
older, she's my rock.

I mean, I've talked
to her every day.

Any issue I had, she just
had the answer for it.

She was wonderful.

NARRATOR: But Summer faced
many challenges in her life.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: She
had the cerebral palsy.

And we found that out when she
was about seven months old.

But she never let
it slow her down.

She always made good
grades, always straight As.

ARIEL DERAMUS: She
knew from the beginning

what she wanted to do.

I mean, she never mentioned
anything other than getting

into radiology school.

NARRATOR: While
Summer was in college,

she met the love of her
life, Hunter Tatum.

ARIEL DERAMUS: She actually
met Hunter on Tinder,

and he was a mess.

He was at USA, the University
of South Alabama,

he was failing.

And Summer took him
in, and she kind of

got his life together for him.

They connected and they
never spent another day

away from each other.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: He
was a real sweet guy.

I mean, he constantly
writing her love notes,

bringing flowers to her.

ARIEL DERAMUS:
Hunter was wonderful.

He treated my sister like there
was no one else on this Earth.

NARRATOR: In July 2019,
the couple tied the knot.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: She
was really happy to be

marrying her best friend.

I could just see
the love that she

had in her heart for Hunter.

NARRATOR: Then, in May


life changing news.

ARIEL DERAMUS:
She was so happy.

She was so happy to be
having a healthy baby

boy growing in her, and we
couldn't wait for his arrival.

[PHONE RINGING]

[POLICE SIREN]

WESLEY CLARK: Patrol
officers responded.

They knew there had
been a sh**ting.

A gentleman named Hunter
Tatum told dispatchers that he

had just shot his wife.

When officers arrived, he
were still on the phone

with 911 dispatchers.

They took him
into custody, and then they

go try to find the victim.

NARRATOR: They found
Summer in the bedroom.

WESLEY CLARK: She was laying on
the bedroom floor on her back.

She was still alive.

She still had vital
signs, but they

knew that it was very serious.

There was a lot of blood.

She had a traumatic
injury to her head.

The prognosis of something
like that usually is not good.

NARRATOR: Medics did all
they could for Summer.

WESLEY CLARK: Any
medical assistance

and everything that
was done for Summer

was solely for the baby.

There was nothing
that I could be

done for Summer at that time.

NARRATOR: She was taken
to the nearest hospital

in critical condition.

In a desperate attempt
to save the baby,

doctors performed
an emergency cesarean section.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: I got a call.

It was a police.

And he said, ma'am,
are you sitting down?

And I said, no.

And he said, well,
you need to sit down.

He said, your daughter's
been shot.

- Just my soul left my body.

I'm like, this is a dream?

This is a nightmare?

What is going on?

NARRATOR: Back
at the crime scene,

Detective Wesley Clark
began to painstakingly

search the property.

WESLEY CLARK: I remember
walking into the bedroom

and it looked like chaos.

There was evidence everywhere,
from the firearm that was used,

there was clothing,
there was a bag

that was sitting on the bed.

NARRATOR: CJ Robinson was the
Chief Deputy District Attorney

for Autauga County.

CJ ROBINSON: Right now we don't
know, was this accidental?

Was this intentional?

Has there been
evidence that has

been tried to be disposed of?

All these things we don't know.

WESLEY CLARK: One
of the weird things

that I saw was
an Xbox in the sink.

Obviously, in my mind
that's odd.

I remember thinking,
I really need

to talk to him because I've
got to figure out

more than just the 911 call and
the scene that I'm looking at.

NARRATOR: Hunter was driven
to Prattville police department

where he was interviewed.

OFFICER 2: Have a seat
right here on the seat here.

WESLEY CLARK: I remember
walking into the room

and seeing him obviously
sitting across from me.

And he was very
wide eyed, pale.

I think it was probably kind
of starting to set in for him

what had just happened.

I've always joked
and said that there's

always three sides to a story,
hers, his and the truth.

But in this case I
knew I was only going

to get one side of the story.

- Essentially, he went
to sleep one night,

Summer went through his phone,
sensing something was off.

She found explicit
messages back and forth,

very sexual in nature,
which started leading

to marital strife, clearly.

JULIA SHAW: One
of the things that's

so interesting about
deception is that it is

often so caught up in reality.

It's potentially easier for him
to just go with what's true

than to craft an entirely
different emotional response

to the situation.

So I think the saying
it's my fault

is just him walking as close as
possible to the truth, which,

frankly, is a good strategy
if you're going to lie

because you want to keep
close to the facts

and distort as little
as possible.

- I'm trying to process
what he's telling me,

but I'm still trying
to paint that picture

of what actually happened.

- Essentially, his version was
that she was out of her mind.

That she was crazy,
she was irrational.

She was scaring him,
she was dangerous

and that she went
and got a g*n.

WESLEY CLARK: They
both kept g*ns

in their bedside table,
which is not uncommon,

especially in the Southeast.

He said that she basically
grabbed a g*n and

a struggle for the g*n ensued.

CJ ROBINSON: This is where his
version of what happened really

doesn't make sense.

Hunter claims that he took
the g*n away from Summer.

It's hard for us this early
in the investigation to know

is it true or not,
but then the decision

to sh**t her once
you've taken a g*n

away when she doesn't have
a g*n, something's not right.

JULIA SHAW: It does feel like
he is talking about himself

a lot and how he's feeling.

And whether or not he
is thinking about her,

obviously, we don't
know, but certainly he's

not expressing anything that
suggests he is really concerned

about their well-being.

NARRATOR:
At the hospital, staff

were still doing everything
they could for Summer.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: The doctor
came in and she said,

I'm not going to paint
you a pretty picture.

She said, Summer has been shot
twice in the back of the head.

The first shot, I thought,
yeah, it's a possibility,

but the second shot I figured,
no, she's not going to make it.

ARIEL DERAMUS: I held her
hand and I kissed her.

And I let her know
how much I love her.

But I told her it's OK to go.

It's OK.

And not too long after
that, she passed away.

WESLEY CLARK: I remember
calling the charge nurse

at the hospital
that day, and that's

when I was first informed that
they had delivered the baby

and the baby was in the NICU.

And it was a short time
later that I called back and

was informed, unfortunately,
that not only had the baby

passed, but so had Summer.

That's a complete game changer
in the mind of a detective

or an investigator
at that point in time.

This is no longer just
a domestic incident.

This is a double m*rder.

NARRATOR: Hunter was now
interviewed for a second time.

WESLEY CLARK: I
felt that fire of I

wanted to be the one to tell
him that not only is his child,

but his wife were gone.

I wanted his reaction,
I wanted to gauge

it not just for me personally,
but as an investigator.

I wanted to see
what that's like.

That to me that's evidence.

I want to be able
to speak on that.

I remember kind of looking
at him differently

I think probably my demeanor.

And I'm sure he could tell
that too in that room.

It was one of those, I'm
no longer your friend.

I'm not here to help you
through this process.

Like, now I'm an advocate
for Summer and the baby.

- This is the moment where he
is confronted with presumably

his worst fear, which is not
only are his unborn child and

wife dead, but also that
the police are actually

charging him for their m*rder.

WESLEY CLARK: It's
a lot to process, man.

JULIA SHAW: This question of,
what's going to happen to me?

I think is a normal one.

It feels a bit callous because
he's immediately moving on

from the fact that
they are dead,

but it's also presumably
something-- a moment

he has played in his head
over and over and over again

for the last 24 hours.

NARRATOR: Then Detective
Clark received a crucial piece

of video evidence.

WESLEY CLARK: We had
a neighbor come forward.

He basically told me
that he had security

footage from his home.

From a visual perspective,
you don't see much.

It was bug flying in the
backyard in the nighttime.

But the audio on that
footage really is what got

the ball rolling with this.

[SCREAMS]

- You can hear the screaming
from the bedroom,

and then you hear two g*nshots.

[g*nshots]

- Oh, wow.

It was just unreal.

CJ ROBINSON: At this point,
if this video is all you look

at and you still don't
know what she was saying,

what he was saying-- it
sounded like you could faintly

hear him yell as well--

but it was helpful
but it was not

the answers we were looking for
in having surveillance video.

WESLEY CLARK: We actually
got the autopsy result back

for Summer herself,
and that's when

we got the information
that it didn't match

exactly what he had said.

CJ ROBINSON: She was
shot in the head twice.

How does she not
die immediately?

Well, the first shot is what we
would commonly call a rat shot.

And so it's a lot of little,
small, tiny pellets.

There's not a lot
of penetrating power.

That's one reason why I
think there were two g*nsh*t

wounds is because the first
one did not

cause a massive amount
of damage, which

is what led
to the second shot which

ultimately would end her life.

NARRATOR: The autopsy revealed
another disturbing aspect

to the sh**ting.

CJ ROBINSON: It
appeared that Summer,

to get a b*llet in that
particular direction,

would have had to have been on
her knees and not facing him.

NARRATOR: There was more
video evidence to come.

WESLEY CLARK: We knew that
the Tatums had a home security

system, and it turned out there
was a camera on the back porch.

Even though the blinds were
open but partially open,

it doesn't mean
can see everything

but it's going to give
us a much better picture

into what happened that night.

NARRATOR: The recording
began earlier in the evening.

[SUMMER CRYING]

- This is the back patio.

And so in this area you
have the master bedroom

so you're '6 to 10 feet
away from the camera lens,

from the window of where
she was actually shot.

So it's pretty good in terms of
hearing what actually happened.

And you can hear
her crying, you can

hear her sobbing right now.

At this point in time
you don't hear Hunter,

but you hear her
in the bedroom.

NARRATOR: Over an hour and a
half after Summer went to bed,

she could be heard vomiting.

The bathroom light
then switched on

and Summer left the room.

Shortly after,
Hunter could be heard

entering the bedroom
from the living

room where he'd been sleeping.

- You can't exactly hear what
the conversation is but they're

very low tone, which
tells me they're

conversing back and forth.

And then it goes from
zero to 100 really quick.

[SUMMER SCREAMING]

CJ ROBINSON: You hear
her multiple times,

"Stop, don't hurt me."

He said no, probably five or
six times in response to her,

I'll stay, I'll do
whatever you want.

Nope, nope.

And then you had
the two g*nshots.

[g*n SHOTS]

That is essentially her
being ex*cuted by the person

that she trusted the most.

It's just very chilling
and it's very disturbing.

NARRATOR: The home
security video

clearly contradicted Hunter
Tatum's version of events.

WESLEY CLARK: He said
that she basically

grabbed a g*n and a struggle
for the g*n ensued,

but his version of what
happened doesn't pan out.

You can hear her
screaming, "Don't k*ll me."

JULIA SHAW: It's distressing to
hear her begging for her life

and trying to plead with
him to not k*ll her.

On top of that, we know that
she's six months pregnant,

we know that she
has cerebral palsy

and so she has weakness
on one side of her body.

And him saying that he's acting
in self-defense when he shoots

her, even if there
is a fight and

she did lunge
for him, for example,

is totally impossible
that he couldn't

have just overpowered her.

Like, the idea that she
would have overpowered him

and he had to sh**t her to save
his own life is at this point

completely implausible.

NARRATOR: For Detective
Clark, the video footage,

combined with the forensic
evidence from the autopsy,

pointed to only one conclusion.

WESLEY CLARK: In my mind,
there was zero doubt

she's not shot point blank.

She's shot in the back
of the head.

And I realized this
is an execution.

This is an absolute m*rder.

NARRATOR: When
looking for a motive,

prosecutors returned
to the first moments

after police arrived
at the Tatum home.

- So here we're
in the master bedroom.

And as the video was showing
the condition of the bedroom,

one thing that's very
prevalent is the bag here.

And that bag had clothes in it.

It was being packed in addition
to a suitcase on the floor,

to where it appeared
that Summer was

packing her things to leave.

Clearly, from her
standpoint, the marriage

appears to be over.

Now, if he had just let her
go, she would still be alive,

the baby would still be alive.

NARRATOR: The case went
to trial in June 2023.

Tatum initially
pled not guilty.

- I was there every day.

I was there every
day through it.

Most of my time was
out in the hallway

because I couldn't
listen to the videos.

How could you have done
something so horrible?

CJ ROBINSON: The video
evidence in this case,

it was a game changer.

It filled in all
those blanks that we

suspected but wasn't sure of.

And we didn't just
find out the answers,

it put an exclamation
point on the case.

NARRATOR: Hunter Tatum was
found guilty of capital m*rder

and sentenced to 99 years
for the death of both Summer

and their baby son,
a total of 198 years.

- Hunter Tatum 100%
deserved to be ex*cuted.

He had every chance in the
world to not pull that trigger,

but he chose to.

WESLEY CLARK: When you
hear somebody in real time

beg for their life, I mean, who
can do that to somebody else?

Especially someone
that they love.

To this day I don't
understand that.

CYNTHIA KNIGHT: It's horrible.

It's just-- even till today
it still doesn't seem real.

I mean, three years
later, it just--

sometimes it's
hard to comprehend

how something like that
could have happened to her.

ARIEL DERAMUS: Every
single day of my life,

every single day of my life
I think about my sister.

And she would have
been a great mother.

That baby would
have been so blessed

to have her as a mother.

And she was denied that.

But I do always
want to remember

her as just a bright light.

She was just a joy
to everyone around her.

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NARRATOR: Hunter Tatum
attempted to spin a lie

that was close to the truth.

- With a lie
of distortion where you're

tweaking little
bits of reality,

in some ways that's much
easier to try and get away with

and much easier to keep
to because most of what you're

saying is the truth, than
a lie where you're saying,

I had absolutely nothing
to do with this because then

you're searching for an alibi.

You're searching
for other things

that you did to fill
that time, and

you are trying to erase
the fact that you have

all this guilty knowledge.

You know exactly what happened.

So both lies are very different
in terms of how they feel

to the person who's lying.

And they're basically just
very different strategies.

NARRATOR: But in Texas,
a m*rder*r took

their lies to another level.

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In the South
of Texas, San Antonio.

- San Antonio is a vibrant,
bustling, joyful place.

It's just alive with activity.

There's also a large
Air Force base there.

NARRATOR: It was home to


- Andreen was raised
in Portland, Jamaica.

She was vivacious.

She has a huge
smile, very smart.

From a very young
age she showed

this high IQ and ambition.

NARRATOR: Andreen was




ROSE THAYER: Andre was
an officer in the Air Force.

He began as an engineer officer
in the active duty service,

but began to switch
from engineering

into more cyber warfare.

And in 2016 he was promoted
from captain to major.

NARRATOR: They married, and by


in San Antonio with one child.

ANDREEN MCDONALD:
Give mommy a kiss.

- Mwah.

- Love you.

NARRATOR: Andreen ran
a highly successful

chain of assisted
living communities

which the couple co-owned.

ROSE THAYER: They
had everything

going for them at that point.

The business was
valued at $1 million,

her and her family lived
in a pretty nice home,

she looked great.

She was very
into fitness and health.

She was always posting
videos of herself

lifting weights, working
out and encouraging others.

- I did come in before he did.

- Right, Andreen did defeat
me and she is so excited.

NARRATOR: But on Friday,
March 1, 2019,

Andreen failed
to turn up for work.

AVA GLASS: She
came to work every

single day at 8 o'clock,
and on that day she didn't.

She didn't come at 8:00,
and that was so striking.

She was absolutely
a woman of habit,

that she went to the gym
at 5:30 AM every

day and then to work at 8:00.

Her employees called
the gym and the gym

said she hadn't shown
up, and they couldn't

reach her on her phone.

They started trying to reach
her family because something

had to be wrong.

NARRATOR: Sergeant
Anthony Rodriguez

is a criminal investigator
with the Bexar County

District Attorney's Office.

- When she did not show up to
work, friends and family went

to Andreen's house,
they did a very, very

simple search of the home.

NARRATOR: They found Andreen's
purse and keys on the counter,

and her car was
still in the garage.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ:
It wasn't until they

entered the master bedroom that
they saw signs of violence.

They saw blood
on the light switch,

they saw blood on a door,
they saw blood on the floor.

NARRATOR: Sheriff's deputies
were soon on the scene.

They immediately took over
the search of the house.

JAVIER SALAZAR: Upon
initial entry to the home,

everything seemed
in place, everything

seemed very orderly
and clean but they

did find some signs of blood.

And then in the backyard
of the residence,

they found evidence that
something had been burned.

This is a very
affluent neighborhood,

very clean
neighborhood, certainly,

regular trash collection.

There's really no
reason to be burning

rubbish in the backyard.

We started to get the feeling
that something bad had

happened, something was amiss.

NARRATOR: At this point,
Andre McDonald arrived home.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ:
Andre told the deputies,

she's in the hospital.

I know, I just checked.

He said that the night before
they got into an argument and

Andreen left the house.

Andre said he didn't
know where she went.

That he went and checked on his
daughter, and he went to bed.

The following morning, he
assumed she was in the house

and he went to work.

NARRATOR: Suspicious,
investigators decided

to check out the story.

- Yes, there is a McDonald
in the hospital,

but it's not Andreen.

NARRATOR: Then they
pulled the CCTV footage.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: We see
him entering the hospital,

we see him approaching
the reception desk.

He asked the receptionist
whether a woman

named Andrea McDonald was
admitted into that hospital.

And it just
so happens that there

happens to be a person
that was admitted

with the last name McDonald.

He looks down to find out
exactly where this patient is

at, and when he looks
back up, Andre just

turns around and walks away.

And so we watch this
video, we can actually see

this odd behavior play out.

This is a man who's allegedly
worried about his wife

being missing, and he's
at a hospital where

there happens to be
a person with her name

and he doesn't even care.

He walks out.

NARRATOR: Andre's
behavior, combined

with the presence
of blood in the house,

was enough to now make
him a person of interest.

JAVIER SALAZAR: We didn't
have enough probable cause

to put handcuffs on Andre
and take him away,

but we made the decision,
first thing in the morning,

we're going to put some
covert assets on him--

in other words,
undercover officers--

to watch his movements
and see what happens.

NARRATOR: The following
day, undercover units

tailed Andre as he left home.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: They
don't know where he's going,

and so they follow him.

To their surprise, Andre
goes to a g*n store.

This put law enforcement
on edge because,

is she alive somewhere and he's
going to buy a g*n to k*ll her?

Andre filled out the paperwork
required to purchase a firearm,

he paid for it.

The sale was done, but he
just runs out of the store,

leaving the g*n there, leaving
his driver's license there.

It could be that he
realized that there

was an undercover
officer in the store

and he left for that reason.

JAVIER SALAZAR: There's such
a thing as what we consider

to be suspicious behavior.

There's something that we would
consider to be guilty behavior.

And then there's something
that we would consider

to be dangerous behavior.

He was doing all three.

So at that point,
the decision was made to take

him down there at the store.

NARRATOR: Once Andre
was in custody,

police noticed
cuts to his hands

that weren't there when they
spoke to him the day before.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ:
What we can see

is that he has linear
lacerations to his fingers.

They're solid cuts
that go straight

across the two fingers.

And we asked ourselves, where
did these injuries come from?

NARRATOR: Police carried
out further searches

of the McDonald home.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: The garage
door was knocked off

the tracks, they see what
appears to be a shovel

in the back seat of that car.

They found a hammer,
they found a flashlight

and they found clothing
hidden in a trash can.

They found two five gallon
containers of gasoline

and a large log splitting
axe, a small hatchet and

large trash bags.

What's important about
that is those items

weren't there the first
day in the first search.

NARRATOR: Forensic
analysis of the items

revealed disturbing details.

- The hammer
and the flashlight had what

appeared to be blood on it.

NARRATOR: Inside
the house, detectives

found other suspicious items.

JAVIER SALAZAR: We
were able to find,

in the trash can,
in the kitchen

are the remnants
of a receipt, and it had

been torn to little pieces.

It was a receipt
for many of the items

that were in the garage.

NARRATOR: The receipt led
investigators to the hardware

store where they were able
to recover surveillance footage

from the previous night.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ:
These are not

items that a husband
would be buying

when his wife is missing.

Like, why would you go
to a home improvement store

and buy a shovel, buy
an axe, buy gasoline?

This is not normal behavior
for somebody who's worried

about their missing wife.

NARRATOR: Police discovered
that the day before Andreen

went missing, her and Andre
had argued after they'd

visited their tax advisor.

Andre discovered that Andreen
had opened up a new business

without his knowledge.

LARISSA JOHNSON: Ideally,
you want your partner

to be supportive of your
ambitions and your goals

and your investment
in your growth, unfortunately,

that's not always the case.

Sometimes that can be
seen as intimidating

rather than inspiring.

And then as a result
of that, that could then

fracture the relationship
because one partner

might feel jealous
of another partner's

success and ambitions.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ:
We know an argument

continued to take place after
they left the tax office.

And we know this because when
we looked at his cell phone

records, we saw an argument via
text by both Andre and Andreen.

NARRATOR: Investigators
also recovered footage

from a local gas
station recorded

at exactly the same time this
text argument was taking place.

- We see Andre
at the gas station.

We see him park
at a pump, but he

stays in the car
for a prolonged period of time.

Andre is telling her,
how dare you open

another business without me?

And Andreen is basically
telling Andre to calm down,

and Andre clearly
is not calming down.

NARRATOR: In the wake of the
argument, Andre returned home,

arriving at 11:47 PM.

To shed light on what
happened next,

police pulled Andreen's
phone records.

- Andreen McDonald's
phone was turned

off one minute after midnight.

An hour later, he sends
her a text message

and he says, hey,
where are you?

And then he sends
one more text.

He writes, you should not have
opened that LLC without me.

NARRATOR: Phone records showed
that by then, Andreen's phone

had ceased all communication.

Financial searches also
showed no further activity

on her credit card.

And flight data checks proved
that she did not board a plane.

But a search of Andre's cell
phone proved more fruitful.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: He was
searching things like,

can you get fingerprints
off of wood?

Is Texas soil
acidic or alkaline?

How long does it take
for a body to decompose?

What's intriguing about this is
it gives us the investigators

an opportunity to see
what he was thinking.

NARRATOR: Police could
only draw one conclusion.

The search now began
for Andreen's body.

But it wasn't until four and
a 1/2 months later when a farm

worker made
a chilling discovery,

under the sun bleached skeleton
of a cow we're human remains.

JAVIER SALAZAR: Got
the call that we

found some human
remains on a ranch

not too far from where
Andrean disappeared.

The remains are extremely
dismembered and scattered,

possibly burned.

NARRATOR: DNA
analysis confirmed

the decomposed remains
belonged to Andreen McDonald.

Steven Speir was
the prosecutor on the case.

- She had been out
in, essentially,

ranchland field for several
months in South Texas.

Those are harsh conditions.

She was largely skeletal.

There was blunt force
trauma on her skeleton

on several different places.

She had a kind of a triangle
shaped area had been knocked

out right around the chin.

There have been some impacts on
the spine, also a broken rib.

Now, when this was looked at by
the medical examiner and also

by a forensic
anthropologist, all of them

indicated that this
could be from hits

from a tool such as a hammer.

NARRATOR: DNA testing
confirmed that the blood

found on the hammer at the
house belonged to Andreen.

And despite the advanced
level of decomposition,

the autopsy also
confirmed another

of the police's suspicions.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: Andre
attempted to burn her body.

We know this because we
were able to see

charred marks on her fingers.

We now know that he purchased
that gasoline to burn her body.

We look at the shovel, we
look at the log splitting axe

and the small hatchet
and the trash bags,

those items are clearly,
clearly purchased

for the sole purpose
of dismembering

and disposing of her body.

NARRATOR: Now, investigators
also had an explanation

for the cuts to Andre's hands.

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: There's
a wire fence that is around

the perimeter of that field.

And it is possible that he
received those lacerations

on his fingers, lifting
or lowering that wire fence

and trying to throw
her body over it.

NARRATOR: On Saturday,
July 13, 2019,

Andre McDonald was
charged with the m*rder

of his wife, Andreen.

- No one wants to think they
know someone capable of such

a horrific crime.

People thought really
highly of Andreen.

They thought she
was a great person,

she did so much
for the community,

it's hard to think that her
husband would want to hurt her.

NARRATOR: But when
investigators

dug deeper into the marriage,
a very different picture

began to emerge.

STEVEN SPEIR: This is far
from a happy marriage.

Andre and Andre
had been fighting.

Andre, on several
occasions, had

been physically
a*usive to Andreen

and that he had assaulted her.

NARRATOR: Tensions
over the business

increased over the course
of the marriage,

and police had
already been called

out to the house for a number
of domestic disputes.

ROSE THAYER: Andre
and Andreen likely

stayed together
in their relationship

far longer than it was healthy
to do because they had built so

much together, and they
likely both came

from traditional families.

I think a lot
of the reason they

didn't get divorced was because
they were in this business

together and they didn't
want to split it up.

NARRATOR: Further
investigations

found other conflicts
within the marriage.

Not least that
in recent months Andreen

had rekindled her relationship
with a former lover

back in Jamaica.

- Andreen might have
come to a conclusion

that, actually,
maybe this was not

a relationship she wanted
to be in for the longer term,

especially if it was
one that was violent.

If something isn't working,
you typically pivot and you try

and make something else work.

That can look like trying
to repair the relationship

with your partner
so that it can be

a safe and loving one again.

It can also look like
maybe I will search

for another
relationship elsewhere,

or I look for growth
in other areas of my life,

perhaps I'll go into business,
grow my business.

So how can I grow
when I feel stuck?

ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ: Did he
k*ll her because of the affair

or because of the money?

He became aware
of the affair more than six

months before he k*lled her.

It was the day he was at the
tax office that he k*lled her.

Clearly, the motive
here was monetary.

He wanted the money,
he wanted the business.

He could deal with the affair.

He didn't care about this
marriage any more than she did.

It was the business
that he wanted.

NARRATOR: At his trial, the
jury acquitted Andre of m*rder,

instead finding him
guilty of manslaughter.

He was sentenced to 20 years,
plus five more for tampering

with the evidence.

- I'm sad at the tragedy, at
the loss of a beautiful person

like Andreen MacDonald,
but I'm happy that I

was able to be part
of giving her, her family and

her daughter justice.

AVA GLASS: The m*rder
of Andreen McDonald

cost more than just one life.

It cost all the years
and all the good

that she could have
given to the world.

All the hard work
she was doing,

the business she was building,
the lives she impacted,

that all went with her.

And it is a huge loss.

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