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best mom her daughter could have ever wished for. A

10:03

family friend had a house

10:05

in Brightsville that he just flipped and

10:07

it was a perfect opportunity. It was

10:09

so pretty. First time house, two bedroom

10:11

house, really nicely done. But almost

10:13

as soon as the family had moved into their

10:15

new home, Samantha and Marcus broke up. They

10:18

continued co-parenting their daughter, wanting to

10:20

minimize the disruption for her as

10:22

much as possible. Fast forward several

10:25

months, and by the spring of

10:27

2015, Samantha was really excited for

10:29

what lied ahead. She

10:31

was going back to school, about to

10:33

take final classes for her phlebotomy course,

10:36

which she deferred while she was raising

10:38

her daughter immediately after giving birth, wanting

10:40

to provide for her daughter best she could. She'd

10:43

also started dating a new guy whom we're

10:45

going to be calling Jason for the purpose

10:47

of this episode. And by all

10:50

accounts, things were going really well. At

10:52

the same time, Samantha was also working.

10:54

She got a job through Angelica at

10:56

an assisted living facility. Angelica

10:58

also happened to work for the same company

11:00

at a different location. So both of

11:02

the sisters kind of knew everyone. Samantha

11:05

loved her job. She loved listening to the residents

11:07

stories, and she loved being able to care for

11:09

them. Then one

11:11

afternoon in mid April, Angelica was chilling out

11:13

at home with her family when she

11:15

got a call from her and Samantha's workplace.

11:19

Her sister hadn't turned up for her shift. My

11:22

phone starts going off around three o'clock-ish,

11:25

and I was like, what do you guys

11:27

want? And she's

11:29

like, your sister didn't show up for work today, have you heard from

11:31

her? And I was like, no, but she

11:33

should have been there. Let me call her. She's like,

11:35

well, her phone goes straight to voicemail. And I'm like,

11:38

okay, let me call her mom because I was super

11:40

close with her mom as well. This

11:42

was very out of character for Samantha. She

11:44

was always reliable. And if she couldn't make

11:46

it for some reason, then she'd have called.

11:49

Angelica also knew that Samantha wouldn't place her

11:51

in a difficult situation by just not turning

11:54

up. But Samantha's mom hadn't heard

11:56

from her either. So it's not a good sign.

11:58

I call her. I called her mom and asked

12:00

if she heard from her and she said no,

12:02

she'll call around to see if she heard from

12:04

her. And I was like, okay.

12:06

I didn't think anything of it. Angelica

12:08

wasn't necessarily panning at this point,

12:11

more so just confused. She

12:14

then reached out to Samantha's new boyfriend Jason via

12:16

Facebook to see if he knew anything about where

12:18

she could be. I went

12:20

through Facebook, messaged him because I didn't have his

12:22

number. I said, hey, if my sister's with you,

12:24

I don't know if you guys went out. Like,

12:26

what if they just went out and she like,

12:29

overslept is what I was thinking. So then I

12:31

ended up sending him a message, asked

12:33

him to call me. Well, he calls me right away. And

12:36

he's like, hey, I'm actually on my way to

12:38

your mom's. Like, he was kind of panicking. He's

12:40

like, she didn't show up from work. I was like, yeah, I just got a call

12:42

from her work. One of the girls knew him,

12:45

so they called him. And then he's

12:47

like, I just don't know what to do. I keep

12:49

calling everybody. They were just all thinking that maybe they

12:51

just had an argument. She just didn't want to talk

12:54

right now. But nobody like heard from

12:56

her. When Angelica realized Jason

12:58

was so concerned that he was driving

13:00

over to Samantha's mom's house, she felt

13:02

panic rising in her chest. So

13:05

then I called my stepmom back and I said, I'm

13:08

panicking. So we're just going

13:10

to come to your house and come up with a

13:12

game plan. Well, she's like, OK, so then now I'm

13:14

getting her panic. So then I left my house. I

13:18

lost reception at one point and

13:20

he calls me right when I got reception.

13:22

Said he found my sister's car. So

13:26

it appeared that Samantha wasn't answering

13:28

anybody's calls. And now Jason

13:30

had found her car. But where was it?

13:32

And where was Samantha? She

13:34

didn't have her daughter with her that weekend

13:36

either. So was her baby girl safe? Like,

13:38

what is going on? To answer

13:40

these questions, you know the drill. We've got to

13:42

go back. We

13:48

mentioned that around the time Samantha graduated

13:51

high school, she started dating a young

13:53

man named Marcus Bordelon. Someone

13:55

else Samantha had always been close to was a

13:57

family friend on her dad's side. Her name was

13:59

Kate. who is our second first

14:01

degree for today. And Kate

14:04

later went on to become Samantha's sister-in-law after

14:07

marrying Samantha's brother, Jordan, way

14:09

down the line. Kate and Samantha used

14:11

to love hanging out together and playing the Sims.

14:14

But once Samantha started dating Marcus, who

14:16

was three years ahead of Kate at the

14:18

same school, Samantha started isolating herself from those

14:20

she was closest to. I

14:23

actually grew up with Sam

14:26

from their dad's side.

14:28

Me and Sam, we were

14:31

always close. When we

14:33

got older, we didn't really see each other

14:35

as much. But it was basically

14:37

when she got with Marcus, that's

14:39

when our relationship went downhill and

14:42

she just cut me off. The

14:44

last memory I have of

14:47

her was the one time

14:49

she picked me up to go to,

14:52

it was BAM at the time,

14:55

where you could get books and

14:58

coffee and you could

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sit there and use the internet. And

15:02

we actually played The Sims. She

15:06

was a Sims lover and I am too.

15:09

So that is my last memory of her.

15:12

We know that Samantha and Marcus went on to have their daughter and buy a

15:14

house together. The

15:16

couple was really young. These are

15:19

a lot of adult responsibilities. But

15:21

at the time it seemed they were both really committed

15:23

to providing security for their family. Here's

15:26

Angelica again. Samantha wanted to

15:28

give her daughter the life that none

15:30

of us were ever giving. The mom and dad

15:32

both living under the household. As

15:35

the relationship continued, Samantha wasn't in touch as much with

15:37

her loved ones as she had

15:39

been before she started dating Marcus. In

15:42

a way, it kind of made sense given they

15:44

had a new relationship and they were also starting

15:46

a family. All of this

15:48

can really monopolize our time. She

15:51

did get pregnant early on in their relationship. When

15:54

that happened, stuff started to

15:56

turn. Samantha started not coming

15:58

around. she was very

16:01

involved with everybody and wanted always to

16:03

be everywhere. She did start to seclude

16:05

herself and working more or

16:08

like doing stuff with him and it

16:10

was fine. But

16:13

it wasn't long before things started to

16:15

deteriorate. Marcus was controlling and

16:17

possessive and Samantha's family became concerned

16:19

for her safety, especially when

16:21

police were called to the home on multiple

16:24

occasions. He definitely didn't

16:26

like when she needed something me

16:28

and her brother were there or

16:30

like our family was there. The

16:33

family would express their concerns

16:35

to Samantha. They wouldn't voice unto him

16:37

because they didn't want to make things

16:39

worse for Samantha because they bought

16:42

a house together and they were trying to

16:44

make a life. Samantha's

16:46

family eventually grew so concerned they urged

16:48

her to leave Marcus. So

16:50

only a month after Samantha had moved into the

16:52

home in December of 2014, she

16:55

ended the relationship and moved out, taking

16:57

her daughter with her and moving in with an

16:59

aunt. She handled it. She did

17:01

her thing, got herself out, got the child out and

17:04

then she did not

17:06

tell me until at least

17:08

a week or two after she moved out of

17:10

his house that he actually was

17:12

very abusive to her. He choked her to the

17:14

point where she almost passed out. She didn't tell

17:16

me that because she knew that I

17:19

probably would do something that I

17:22

would later regret. Samantha moved on

17:24

with her life and started dating

17:26

Jason, but Marcus did not move

17:28

on and he took things to a more

17:30

chilling level. On January 22nd,

17:32

2015, he followed

17:34

Samantha to a local bowling alley where she'd

17:36

gone to watch Jason play in a league.

17:39

Marcus slashed the tires on Samantha's

17:41

Dodge Neon, resulting in him being

17:43

arrested for criminal mischief involving an

17:45

automobile. A week later, he was

17:48

then reported for following Samantha. For

17:51

both of these citations, Marcus pleaded guilty

17:53

and just paid a fine, but there

17:55

were no other consequences. However,

17:58

Samantha was terrified. She

18:00

tried applying for a Protection from Abuse

18:02

Order, or a PFA, but

18:04

because there was no recent direct evidence of

18:06

Marcus physically harming her, even

18:08

though Marcus had been physically abusive in

18:11

the past, Samantha's request was denied by

18:13

police. And this is one

18:15

of the major problems in applying for such orders.

18:18

By the time there's physical harm, it's too late.

18:21

It's actually very hard

18:24

to get a PFA if you don't go

18:26

right away with evidence of them harming you

18:28

and putting you at harm. And Samantha didn't

18:31

go right away. She was thinking, if

18:33

I left him from Trokeny and

18:35

nothing else happens, like, I'm fine, we can

18:38

co-parent. But then all this

18:40

other stuff, it was kind of too

18:42

late because you only had the one

18:44

slicing of the tires and it's not

18:46

harm done to her. It's just her

18:48

stuff. They didn't see it, that it

18:50

was enough to put a PFA on

18:52

him. The reality of

18:54

all of this is infuriating and terrifying

18:56

for victims. Because we know that

18:58

this is how abusers and stalkers operate. They

19:01

start with behavior like tire slashing

19:03

and following people, and it always

19:05

escalates. Incidents don't need to be

19:07

physical to be abusive. And then

19:09

the law enforcement and the law doesn't

19:11

take women's concerns seriously. They

19:13

don't recognize the dynamics of intimate

19:15

partner violence and stalking, or work

19:18

from a trauma-informed perspective that protects

19:20

women. You often hear police

19:22

arguing that if they granted protection orders to everyone

19:24

who wanted one, then they wouldn't be worth the

19:26

paper they're printed on. And it would make a

19:28

mockery of the system, which I guess sort of

19:31

makes sense, but does it? Jeez.

19:33

You know, but the responsibility of

19:36

senior law enforcement is

19:38

to invest in better training. So officers dealing

19:40

with this stuff every day can respond appropriately

19:42

and recognize the signs of something that is

19:44

likely to escalate. So they can do everything

19:46

in their power to shut it down. Despite

19:49

Marcus' disturbing behavior towards Samantha, she reluctantly

19:51

acknowledged that it was important for her

19:53

daughter to have a relationship with her

19:56

dad. So she let her see him

19:58

here and there, wanting to do the right thing. thing by

20:00

her daughter. So on the

20:02

afternoon Angelica received the call saying Samantha

20:04

hadn't shown up to work she was

20:06

perplexed after multiple failed attempts

20:09

to trace Samantha. We know Jason had found

20:11

her Dodge neon on his way to her

20:13

mom's house and he called

20:16

Angelica to tell her what was going on. It's

20:18

like it's off the carport of rightsville and 30 and

20:20

I said there you know just call mom

20:22

and tell her to meet me there. So I

20:25

called missy and I like can you just meet us there and we'll go

20:27

from there. So we got there. And

20:30

it was definitely her car. So

20:32

missy got on the phone with a

20:34

cousin who's a state trooper just to see

20:36

like what we can do maybe she got

20:39

pulled over like why is her car just

20:41

sitting here. So luckily Angelica

20:43

had an idea of who might know where

20:46

Samantha was. Samantha and Marcus's daughter

20:48

had stayed with her dad the night before and

20:50

he called Samantha asking her to come over because

20:53

he said something was wrong with her daughter. It

20:56

just didn't look right to me like something told

20:58

me it wasn't right and I said I'm going

21:00

to go to Marcus's

21:02

house and see if

21:05

she's there why would she feel the need to

21:07

hide her car appears to nobody sees it. He

21:10

asked if he could have for

21:12

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As far as prosecutors were concerned, while

38:03

Marcus was without a doubt a manipulative

38:05

person, Natasha chose to

38:07

participate in planning Samantha's slaying. There

38:10

was no denying that even though Natasha

38:13

wasn't there for the physical act of

38:15

hurting Samantha, her text indicated that she

38:17

very much wanted to be there and

38:20

she confessed to conspiring with Marcus to do

38:22

all of this. Natasha's defense

38:24

planned on arguing that she'd been suffering

38:27

from trauma in the form of battered

38:29

spouse syndrome, given Marcus was emotionally abusive

38:31

and took advantage of Natasha being vulnerable

38:33

and impressionable. Prosecutors didn't

38:35

buy it, putting Natasha's involvement

38:38

down to willingness, selfishness, and

38:40

immaturity. The co-acuse were held

38:42

without bail while awaiting preliminary

38:44

hearings. In late August,

38:46

Marcus pleaded not guilty, but given

38:49

the felony kidnapping charge against him

38:51

was an aggravating factor, as

38:53

was the fact that Samantha had been essentially

38:55

tortured. He was facing the death

38:57

penalty. So it's pretty

38:59

clear that Marcus did this because he

39:01

was an abusive, controlling, insecure piece of

39:04

garbage who refused to focus on moving

39:06

on with his life and instead chose

39:08

to focus on externalizing and projecting his

39:10

anger. So many people in

39:12

the heat of the moment said something like, oh

39:14

we want to kill somebody, but it's a figure

39:16

of speech, nobody acts on it. And

39:19

how could there have been nothing stopping Marcus

39:21

from stabbing Samantha at least 50 times? So

39:24

we know that there was no love loss between

39:26

Natasha and Samantha because Natasha had it in for

39:28

someone who had never done anything to hurt her.

39:31

And it was clear she was jealous of Marcus

39:33

and Samantha's relationship. When she found

39:35

out that Samantha was pregnant she made

39:37

some threats on Samantha to make her

39:39

to lose the child. My sister

39:41

called me crying, she said she came across the

39:43

message while Marcus was sleeping that Natasha said if

39:45

I see her I'm gonna push her down the

39:47

stairs and make sure she loses this catch. But

39:50

planning something like this over such a long

39:53

period, when it pertains to three people and

39:55

not just one, is wild

39:57

when you consider how young Natasha was. And

40:00

even though Marcus and Samantha had well

40:02

and truly finished high school by the time all

40:04

of this was going on, things

40:06

had actually come to a head at prom in

40:08

2014. Marcus

40:11

still hung out with kids, even though he was

40:13

over 20. He still hung out with

40:15

kids that were high schoolers. So

40:18

he was around very young people that he

40:20

would consider his best friends and stuff. His

40:22

friends really attached to Samantha, but at the

40:24

end of the day, they were his friends.

40:27

One guy took Samantha as a date, and

40:29

then one of the people took Marcus as

40:32

a date to go to prom, and Natasha

40:34

went after my sister there,

40:37

and my sister ended up getting an

40:39

altercation with Natasha. Natasha

40:41

was so intent on being with Marcus, no matter

40:43

what, that she even asked Samantha if she could

40:46

move in with them so they could all raise

40:48

their daughter together. This is

40:50

because Natasha knew that Marcus would never leave the

40:52

mother of his child. But needless

40:54

to say, Samantha thought that this was very

40:56

bizarre and was not going to be sharing

40:58

her home or her boyfriend with anybody else.

41:01

I think whatever happened in her

41:03

life made her so obsessed with

41:05

Marcus, and maybe he did pull

41:07

that young love thing with her

41:10

at the beginning. But because

41:12

of Samantha actually producing

41:14

his first child, and him actually

41:17

leaving her for Samantha and starting this family,

41:19

and then holding on to her and playing

41:21

these emotions because realistically, as

41:23

much as I want to pinpoint him as an

41:26

innocent thing, he wasn't innocent in this

41:28

at all. But I think she

41:30

was so obsessed with him and then obsessed with

41:33

Samantha because she was the only girl that actually

41:35

was able to pull Marcus

41:37

from her, and she didn't like that too

41:39

much. Natasha even

41:41

wanted to come visit Samantha and Marcus's daughter

41:43

in the hospital after she was born, which

41:46

rightfully scared Samantha so much she had

41:48

to put Natasha on a no-visit list

41:51

with the hospital. is

42:00

escorted off because she's not allowed around this

42:02

kid. The accused couple

42:05

was said to be tried separately when in December

42:07

of 2016, 23-year-old

42:09

Marcus pleaded guilty. He

42:11

avoided the death penalty, but was now looking at

42:14

life in prison without parole, which in February of

42:16

17, he got. He

42:18

was also sentenced to a concurrent 10 to 20 years for

42:21

conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and

42:23

six to 12 months for abuse of

42:25

a corpse. Marcus told

42:27

Samantha's family that he refused to seek therapy

42:29

after the end of the relationship for fear

42:31

of what others would think. And

42:34

while he apologized for what he called,

42:36

quote, selfish choices, he couldn't

42:38

explain why he did this. A

42:41

week after Marcus was sentenced, Natasha also

42:43

pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy to commit

42:45

first degree murder, obstructing the

42:47

administration of law and criminal conspiracy

42:49

to obstruct the administration of law.

42:52

She was facing a maximum sentence of 22 to 44 years in

42:54

prison. On

42:57

April 27th, 2017, she

42:59

was sentenced to 12 and a half to 25 years with

43:02

12 months probation to run consecutively. As

43:05

much of a relief as it was for

43:07

Samantha's family to not have to sit through

43:09

two trials, the sentencing were

43:12

painful enough. And above all,

43:14

the biggest tragedy in all of this is

43:16

that Samantha's daughter now doesn't have either a

43:18

mom or a dad. Now

43:20

splitting her time between three houses,

43:23

Samantha's mom and dad and Marcus's mom.

43:26

Natasha appealed her sentence, but it was affirmed in April

43:28

of 2018. While

43:30

Marcus will likely die in prison, Natasha will

43:32

become eligible for parole around 2028, which

43:35

is only a few years away. However,

43:38

Angelica hopes that she stays inside as

43:40

long as possible. She

43:42

should stay in there so she can't bear

43:44

any children and reinvent herself. Cause

43:46

I do feel like some people do reinvent

43:49

themselves when they do something horrible,

43:51

but with the DA talking the way

43:53

that they talked and the evidence that

43:55

was released, you can't reinvent yourself. And

43:57

why do you get to live on

43:59

when she...