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this is a murder case that began with a nightmare and a woman who had visions of
violence to me it was a dream but I woke up and it just startled me I usually have very strange dreams
when I wake up in the morning I remember bits and pieces and within half an hour
it's completely gone I said I'm worried about Kelly I think Kelly's hurt Kelly Brennan was a nurse at one of
the local hospitals well thought of at the hospital Kelly was beautiful when she
came in the room it was like glamorous she was patient oriented wasn't afraid to take charge we called
her thege but tell me what happened what did you dream about Kelly everything was
black and she was arguing with somebody and I saw the sign for Mark's landing on
February 15th 2010 Kelly BR went missing she didn't show up for work there was like A unsettling Panic that
we didn't know what would happened to Kelly something was not right it was not adding up and that's why we called the
police 911 what's the problem there I think there's been a murder we sent people down to start to look at Mark's
landing and in that area to see if they could find Kelly and actually put a Aviation unit up in the
helicopter had had spotted what they believed to be a a person laying in the wooded area shortly later we were able
to uh identify that it was Kelly Brun if you follow me Peter right back in here toward the scrub wow back in the
bush and this is where Kelly ended her life right here most of the injuries are are directed direct at her
head so there's a frenzied attack with many blows being struck there's a lot of anger and rage that once the body's
found and it's where she says it is Mark's Landing I said I can see Mark's Landing of course then she becomes your
prime suspect in the dream it's just like I told them she was arguing with somebody my name is Todd darany I was a
criminal defense lawyer and one day Sheila tro came into my office and told me that she was accused of murder Sheila
was trying to convey to me that she didn't commit any murder and that she merely had a dream a vision about this
that came to her like she was Clairvoyant if it hadn't been for me they wouldn't have gone to Mark's
Landing looking for her I told the truth and I'm continuing to tell the truth I did not kill Kelly Brennan you don't
believe that she has some Supernatural ability that all these facts came to her in a dream no I don't think she's
Clairvoyant I think she's a killer I'm I'm Peter vanand tonight on 48 Hours a vision of
[Music] [Applause] [Music] murder it's hard to imagine this picturesque Seashore marks landing on Florida's
Space Coast as a Beachside [Music] grave is this the spot where Kelly Brennan was lying on the
ground you noticed her legs sticking out from the bushes a little bit and kind of
the lower part of our TSO it was on the morning of February 16th 2010 that Chopper pilot John Copa of the
bravard County Sheriff's Department spotted a body we landed I got out of the helicopter ran over to her I saw a lot
of trauma to her head it's it's a very sad moment to see somebody dead like that it was 46 year old Kelly Brennan
who had vanished from her home in Indie Atlantic less than 24 hours earlier there was no saving Kelly Brennan no
unfortunately no there was no saving her she was so alive she was always you know
running around doing things and then to know that she was dead it was just a total
shock Lou irves and Kelly were close friends and nurses at a local hospital they often kayaked together when you
think about Kelly Brennan what do you miss the most her friendship working with her was good because she was a good
nurse she knew her stuff and but but also just as a friend Kelly was committed to her patients even after she
was diagnosed with an incurable disease multiple sclerosis it would flare up at times and she would just keep working
and work right through it which was another thing I admired about her Sheila Trot the woman at the center of this
murder says Kelly Brennan was her friend as well what is it about her that you liked we had the type of friendship
where we wouldn't see each other for four or five years and then something would bring us together she hosted
parties she liked to be the center of attention Kelly was a great girl there was nothing that she did to deserve that
at all so how did it come to this Sheila Trot suspected of brutally murdering her
friend and dumping her body right here among these bushes well it's a complicated tale of Secrets lies and
Intrigue a story that begins with an eerie dream and ends like a Shakespearean tragedy does this case
have an affair yes sex sure Jealousy on both sides major Todd goodier is the lead investigator and a nightmare and
visions and who knows what Clairvoyance of course that's our our suspect saying that she's Clairvoyant for us that's
somebody that's trying to live with what they've done I woke up and it just startled me and I said I'm worried about
Kelly I think Kelly's hurt in this dream was Kelly Brennan dead mm- did you see her blooded no mm-m
did you see her body at Mark's Landing uh-uh no you did not kill Kelly no no I would never have Hur
Kelly no I never would have hurt Kelly but to truly understand just how strange this story is you have to go
back in time 20 years Kelly Brennan a nursing student and Sheila Trot were friends Sheila was working three jobs to
put her husband Daniel through flight school Dan was an upwardly mobile kind of guy liked Limelight a little bit some
of the things we heard was he a little narcissistic one of those people that liked to believe he had a little more
power and a little more status she was Head Over Heels Allison Bartlett remembers when her best friend Sheila
fell for the tall handsome aspiring pilot I never heard or saw that spark in her that I did when she talked about Dan
and sent photos of Dan and I could see that they were going to be getting married and what did she tell you about
his personality fun like the same things that she did I think in a lot of ways she found a soulmate at least she
thought she did at least she thought she did Sheila and Dan were married on August 26th
1989 the couple had two sons kraton and Graham Sheila became a real estate agent
and Daniel trot achieved his dream of becoming an airline pilot in 2002 his political career also took off when he
was elected mayor of their small town in the Atlantic based on your investigation
were Dan and Sheila Trot considered a power couple in India Atlantic I think within town because of his status of
being U you know formly in the political circles there and her being a real estate agent and being fairly well too I
think they were in that Social Circle to where they would be well known throughout the
community from the outside Sheila and Dan seemed to have the perfect life but images can be
deceiving what did you see in his behavior what happened he began having Affairs I would notice his ring was on
the counter he wasn't wearing his ring and then when I would say look at we need to talk what's going on he would
swear and cuss at me that's Sheila's story 48 Hours reached out to Dan trot about these allegations but he refused
to comment by January 2009 Sheila had had enough so you asked for the divorce oh
absolutely yes I said I'm done while her marriage was crumbling Sheila and Kelly met for a girl's night
out and it wasn't long before Sheila realized that Kelly's six-year marriage to restaurant manager gin Rallo was on
the Rocks too she had made a point of saying that she wouldn't care if Gino had an affair
which I thought was a really strange thing to [Music] say Dan Trot moved out and joined a
Cycling group where Kelly Brennan was a member and soon they were going out on more than long bike rides Dan and Kelly
were both lying to everybody saying that they weren't having an affair and while
this whole thing was going on I was having my problems with Dan he was just being very belligerent Sheila's mother
repeated to investigators her daughter's claims of of other Affairs but major goodar says it was Dan's admitted
relationship with Kelly that led to murder she's going to lose Dan I'm going to kill the thing that he now loves or
I'm going to take that away and I'm going to hurt him as bad as he's hurt me and then you get the third thing if I
can't have him nobody's going to have him you've been portrayed as being obsessed with Dan you laugh you that
you're saying that's not true oh no he would I'm sure he wishes I was obsessed with him no absolutely not you couldn't
be the thought of losing him you couldn't bear the thought of him with another woman oh no well the fact that I
set him up with Kelly would you know that would be a little different but uh with Kelly Brennan yes absolutely you
set them up yes absolutely wait a second yeah she was my ticket out of a bad marriage but police aren't buying one
word of Sheila's story and they want to question her about Kelly Brennan's murder God's honest truth if I was going
to kill kill anybody for any reason it would have been [Music] him that's the place that's the place
that she loves that's where her heart is right there Sheila Trot had a lifelong love affair with the water you know I
should have been born with gills I suppose long before she was accused of murder she spent Carefree Summers on
this picturesque Canadian Island this is where she learned to swim and this was her favorite place in the whole
world Margaret Byer says her daughter doesn't belong at the center of this murder investigation but back with her
family in Canada Sheila used to just love to run through these rocks if she could see this right now she would would
just be in tears this is where she belongs it was Sheila's love of the water that Drew her
to live on the Florida coast where she was a diving instructor and went to college now she swims in a sea of
Suspicion I did not kill Kelly Brennan she was the best thing that could have ever happened to me in fact Sheila says
she orchestrated the relationship between Dan and Kelly one night over dinner to speed up her own divorce so I
said to her I said you know something Kelly I said you and Dan would be great for each other and she just perked up
and she said really and I said yeah and I said but Kelly you're going to have to
lose weight but prosecutor Samantha Barrett says Sheila is making up the Matchmaker
story Barrett says that Sheila was simmering with anger and jealousy over the relationship anger that finally
boiled over when she savagely killed Kelly on this lawn right behind me it was horrific she was lying in wait
for Kelly When Kelly came out of her house I believe once she started the attack and she knew Kelly wasn't going
to be able to fight back that that's when the the rage came to the surface authorities begin building a
timeline that prosecutor Jim McMaster says started on the night of February 15th 2010 when Kelly misses an
appointment with her personal trainer and they couldn't find her or could contact her and couldn't find her
Kelly's roommate files a missing person's report 2 hours later they checked every Police Department every
hospital fire rescue Highway Patrol they went to her residence and were clueless
as to where Kelly Brennan was meanwhile according to her sons Graham and kraton Sheila arrives home
after a 4-Hour trip to Walmart she was dizzy shaking and acting strangely was address the emergency so her son's
girlfriend calls 911 a paramedics arrived they couldn't find anything physically wrong with her so they left
an hour later another call to 911 my boyfriend's mom just had a seizure about an hour ago and they said to call back
if she's been acting weird or anything and she's acting very strange she was then transported to the hospital and
they ran routine test and nothing of medical significance was identified she was released from the hospital and came
home when they return from the hospital in the wee hours of the morning Sheila begins talking about the dream she
called her younger son Graham into the bedroom she told him she had a bad dream she kept seeing Kelly's face in the dark
and that she believed that she hurt Kelly worried Sheila's Sons telephone their grandmother Graham just said to me
Margaret we need you we need need you she drives from her Florida condo to Sheila's house where she finds her
daughter curled up in a fetal position on her bed she was shaking from head to toe and she said call the police I said
what happened she said mom everything's black everything's black and all I can see is Kelly's
face it was Graham that said to me Margaret I think Mom's killed Kelly fearing her daughter was having a
nervous breakdown Margaret buers makes yet another 911 call um we just need a policeman please what's the problem
there please this call would change Sheila's life forever I think there's been a murder my daughter I has had a
nervous breakdown and she's saying she's killed somebody your daughter's telling
you she killed somebody yes all right she she didn't tell you who she's saying she killed she's saying she I don't know
Kelly Kelly do you did she tell you where this happened well she it's down Mark's Landing Mark's
Landing it's sort of the defendant's own words through her mother and and through
her sons I mean she's basically confessing to the crime in the 911 call after that explosive call officers rush
to Sheila trt's home and she continues rambling about the dream she's making some statements I believe I hurt someone
I keep seeing Kelly's face to the point that the IND Atlantic police believe we may have a homicide on our hands then
detectives put two and two together wait a minute we had a missing person report
last night of Kelly Brennan and when you make that connection what are you thinking you're talking to the
killer that's when Kelly's Body is spotted from the air and cops on the ground rush to Mark's Landing detectives
have been at this indiatlantic home for some time all after the body of 46-year-old Kelly Brennan was found 10
mil away in this sand area Kelly's body was found exactly where Sheila dreamt it
would be and so less than 2 days after Kelly Brennan disappeared Sheila Trot is arrested for
murder I'm going to be in jail for a very long time okay Sheila Trot calls her son kraton right they're charging me
with first-degree murder she says but it's not true I didn't do it Sheila hires defense attorney Todd
deratany and even though that dream led to Kelly's Body darany insists the prosecution's case Isn't So Ironclad the
police didn't have DNA they didn't have fingerprints Witnesses and they didn't have any blood that matched the Sheila
Trot looks like you've got at a minimum a case of Reasonable Doubt absolutely reasonable doubt it was a dream case so
little physical evidence prosecutor say because Sheila Trot planned it that way it's not like she all of a sudden found
out that Kelly was having an affair with Dan Trot and then confronted her immediately and beat her to death she'd
known this had been going on for months and months and months and she planned it
down to the Last Detail she's a murderer my daughter I has had a nage breakdown and she's saying she's killed
somebody did you kill Kelly Brennon no I didn't kill Kelly Brennan absolutely not
Sheila Trot remains behind bars for 4 and A2 years awaiting trial for the brutal murder of her friend Kelly
Brennan she said all I want to do is hug my boys and I understand that cuz all I
want to do is hug my girl to day you absolutely believe in your daughter's innocence correct absolutely
110% as the trial finally begins in September of 2014 remain seated come to order please
for investigators believe they've built a strong but admittedly circumstantial case beginning with that bizarre dream
the defendant began saying that she'd had a dream that she may have hurt Kelly and that it happened at Mark's Landing
do you have an eyewitness to this murder no do you have a murder weapon no do you
have Sheila trt's DNA on Kelly Brennan no no I don't believe so but major Todd goodar does have a theory of the murder
based on blood stains and divots in the grass in front of Kelly's home Peter this is the house where we believe that
Sheila Trot laid in wait waited for Kelly Brennan to come out to her vehicle snuck up behind her at at nightfall hit
her in the back of the head and then continued to hit her in the head multiple multiple times with some type
of object we believe a hammer good you believe Sheila then put Kelly's body inside Kelly's own SUV where csis found
her blood on the passenger side floor he says Sheila then drove Kelly's SUV to Mark's Landing where she dumped the body
then she abandoned the SUV at a nearby condo what kind of a murderer could I have been that I didn't leave
fingerprints I didn't leave hair I had no bruises I had no broken Nails no cuts on me or anything like this nothing
connects me to this crime whatsoever this was not a physical fight this was an ambush where she bashed in
This Woman's brains with a hammer um she probably didn't have to break a nail to
do that what the lack of physical evidence means to me is how premeditated the crime actually was defense attorney
Todd der teni couldn't wait to bring this case to trial I was absolutely certain that this was 80% chance I could
have won this case working at half speed it was that good of a case but as the trial begins derit teny won't be able to
show how good a case he thought he had he's nowhere near the courtroom you looking for 4x4 or two whe Drive he's
selling used cars across town at a dealership he now owns Big Boy Motors he has had his own legal troubles
Florida state supreme court has permanently disbarred him for harming clients by taking their money and then
failing to represent them so while daran's counting the cash from his car business Sheila is fighting for her
Freedom the prosecution plays that damning 9911 call from Sheila's mother all right she she didn't tell you who
she saying she killed I don't know K did she tell you where this happened Mark Landing the man at the center of this
alleged love triangle takes the stand my name is Daniel Trot last name is spelled
t TT it's Sheila's husband and Kelly's boyfriend at the time of the murder clearly annoyed Dan Trot wishes he could
be anywhere but here do Rec call the date of February 15th of 2010 yeah you have specific memory about
that date I've been spending nearly the last 5 years trying to forget it but yes I
suppose I remember a few things prosecutors need to establish Dan's affair with Kelly as the motive which
push Sheila to kill you're looking forward to seeing her that evening absolutely very much so Sheila's new
attorneys public defenders CN opening they used Dan Trot to point the finger at a man they believe had the strongest
motive to Kill Kelly her jealous husband Gino R Who reacted with violence when he
learned of the affair he physically shows up at your house and confronts you he physically broke through the door and
came up and essentially assaulted me yes did he have a weapon in his hand when he
barged through the door yes he did describe that weapon uh it was some sort of Jack Dan suffered
injuries to his face and neck he says moments later Kelly followed Gino home where Gino turned his rage on her he uh
attacked her in the garage essentially was choking her it was rather rather violent encounter less than 2 months
later Kelly was murdered State calls Gin Gin Rallo testifies Sheila Trot was the
master manipulator who taunted him into attacking Dan she would call me from time to time and say hey this is going
on and they were having an affair how many times was theant calling you about this a
lot did you believe it at the time I did not prosecutors say Sheila used emails to light Gino's fuse as well but they
also revealed her own deep-seated anger in one email she wrote he was sitting in
front of you lying to your face were you hoping that Gina was going to go over and attack his wife or attack your
husband putting an end to this affair so you could have Dan back oh no oh no I wasn't upset that Dan was having an
affair with Kelly I was upset that he was spending the money that he was still trying to prove no one was more upset
than Gino Sheila's attorneys want the jury to hear a voicemail that he left Dan 2 months before Kelly's murder you
mother come on you want to this marriage suck I'm going to cat your mother ass but the judge refuses declaring it
irrelevant Gino's the only person who knew where Kelly specifically was that evening it sounds like you think Gino's
the killer I'm not going to say who I think it is Gino could absolutely do it Kelly wanted out of that marriage
prosecutors say Gino has a strong alii they say this security video from a drugstore in another town proves gen
couldn't have been at the murder scene and Kelly's nextdoor neighbor Scott Vickers testifies that he saw a blonde
woman not a man on Kelly's lawn that night um it was a light colored a light colored outfit which you know that's or
else I wouldn't have been able to to really see but it was uh some type of light outfit that light colored outfit
detectives theorize could be a reason why none of Kelly's blood was found on Sheila what do you think think about
their contention that you were wearing some sort of Hazmat like that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard we're
next to Disney World why didn't they just put me in a Mickey Mouse suit are you serious things are about to
get very serious at Sheila trt's trial her two sons are about to take the stand against her and what they have to say is
another nightmare for their mother in a tragedy that seems to know no bounds Sheila trt's two sons are about
to testify at her murder trial for the prosecution how are you related to her she's my mother and do you see her in
the courtroom here today yes can you with his mother watching and listening just 15 ft away Graham Trot first
describes helping her when she seemed to be having a seizure the night Kelly Brennan was killed I picked her up and
put her on the couch cuz she was hitting her head against the wall and prosecutor
Samantha Barrett quickly cuts to the chase asking him what happened after his mother came home from the hospital a few
hours later she was telling me she was seeing things what did she say she saw she saw Kelly's face and she said she
thinks she's hurt and a beach despite the prosecutor's efforts did you ever hear her say
I think I hurt Kelly no Graham won't repeat what he initially told investigators in a recorded interview
she said I think I hurt Kelly and I keep seeing her face and then I hurt her and
I was like well that's not good but what he does reveal next is a bombshell and it's something he did not
tell law enforcement until shortly before the trial I said do you want to drive down to this beach that you're
seeing and we can see see there's nothing there and then we can call tonight and go to sleep Sheila agreed
taking her son's Graham and kraton and Graham's girlfriend on a maob field trip to Mark's landing and there with Sheila
leading the way the boys 16 and 18 years old at the time saw Kelly's bludgeon body you could see I mean just a
lifeless body just lying there was your mother with you when you saw that yes um
what did she say I don't nothing really was just in shock why would you take your two
teenage Sons out to Mark's landing and show them where the body was the kids took me you let them to that place I
didn't take them right to the body we walked around and we were just on our way out when we saw her feed why is is
it when your mother came over to the house you didn't tell her we just got back from Mark's Landing where we saw a
dead body uh you'd have to ask the kids that I don't know it just never really came
up when my mother first came in there come up didn't come up Sheila didn't come up you just been to see a dead body
a woman whose whose skull was crushed mhm well when my mom came in I was in bed and she woke me up I don't remember
the conversation very well as inexplicable as that seems the of the night didn't end there for Sheila's Sons
she told them she also had visions of a nearby vacant lot and that's where kraton Trot tells the court they made a
second damning Discovery a bag mom opened it up went into the purse and saw opened up the wallet and we saw
Kelly's driver's license what did you do next after you saw the bag with uh Kelly
Brennan's driver's license in the wallet um told her that we didn't want to have
anything to do with it that me and Graham were going to go to sleep and that she had to deal with it on her
own how important are these boys to your case their testimony is absolutely critical it seemed that they were
determined to do what was really the right thing and tell the truth sir you're free to go but after her son's
scathing testimony Sheila's defense team faces a hug huge uphill battle they try
to poke holes in the forensic evidence gathered at Mark's Landing well we know that Kelly's Body comes out of the car
and comes down this way and we know that because there's blood transfer found on
this Pole right here Kelly's blood was on this very post right the defense says not so fast the spots on the fence post
and did you afford them for forensic testing they were not so as to whether those items are
blood or a kid's red slurpie we're left to guess right if you would like to put it that way and the defense tries to
tear apart the alleged motive that Sheila was jealous and murderously angry over her husband's affair with Kelly
Elizabeth McHugh was Sheila's divorce attorney she says Sheila seemed fine with the affair she really didn't have a
problem with Kelly because she knew her and so she knew she would be very good with the children and wouldn't really be
a problem in the divorce okay motive aside Sheila's dream about Kelly line hurt here at Mark's landing and that
field trip with her two sons here are among the strongest evidence against her but there is a new twist to this tale
Sheila says that dream was actually a memory of witnessing Kelly being killed by a strange man she was arguing with
him and I heard him say but kill and she said enough and then she went and bent into the car to do something and I saw
him hit her while behind bars awaiting trial Sheila says that her memory has come back to her and she's written a
detailed account of what happened then you write he dragged her into the grass and kept hitting her mm
is that what you saw yes yeah yes and I didn't do anything you didn't call police why not
I don't know Sheila shared this memory in a letter to a friend she claims that she had decided to stop at Kelly's house
that night to ask Kelly to stop driving by her house looking for Dan and at the exact moment she arrived Sheila saw a
strange Man attack Kelly how would you describe this man who was with Kelly it was too dark it
was too dark this letter prosecutors say this is a confession no it's not a confession letter that's my account of
what happened that evening but Sheila's new account becomes even more bizarre instead of running for
her life or to the nearest police station she followed the stranger's car all the way to Mark's landing and
watched him dispose of Kelly's Body and belongings do you understand as you sit across from
me right now that your story is a fantastic story you follow the killer which doesn't make a lot of sense to
anyone mhm and then you don't tell cops what happened what unfolded you don't even tell your own mother all these
things are consciousness of guilt are they not well if they're consciousness of guilt why would we call the police if
I committed this crime and I had killed her I would have taken off I'm not stupid enough to stick around come door
please and Sheila believes this new memory could set her free but the question is will the jury get to hear
Sheila tr's version of what happened the night Kelly Brennan was [Music] killed is Sheila Clara voyant has she
had Visions throughout her life dreams that have come true I don't think so Peter with her daughter's dream now
being described as an eyewitness account of Kelly's murder 48 Hours has brought Margaret a copy of that document Sheila
wrote ask you do you recognize the handwriting on this letter yes who is it Sheila's she reads for the first time
from its 22 Pages he dragged her into the grass and kept hitting her I felt the blood rush out of my arms and legs
and I start to shake are these the writings of an eyewitness to a murder or the writings of a murderer describing
what she has done I think she must have seen it she couldn't have done it Peter I did not murder Kelly I witnessed
it now came the moment in court where Sheila Trot could take the stand and persuade the jury her new story is true
but on the advice of her attorneys first of all have you made a decision about whether you wish to testify in your case
or not yes sir what is your decision not to Sir that you've chosen not to testify
yes sir Sheila's first lawyer thinks he knows why Sheila didn't testify and explain that letter obviously this was
just her confessing to the crime she needed to get it off her chest Todd daratan Todd daratan is a liar so the
case goes straight to closing arguments with prosecutors zeroing in on what Sheila did say after Kelly
disappeared The Smoking Gun in this case are the defendant's own words telling the police where the dead
body is they play Margaret's damning 911 call one last time and my daughter I has
had a nervous breakdown and she saying she's killed somebody your daughter's telling you she killed somebody
yes defense attorneys make no mention of Sheila's new claim she saw Kelly's killer instead they try to pick apart
the state's case you're being asked to believe 115 lb person is going to be able to pick up 146b Town person
probably deceased at this point and no pun intended but there's dead weight but she's going to pick her up from the
floor lift her up and place her in the seat of not of AA Civic but of an SUV Place her in there with no neighbors
hearing a thing no neighbors hearing blow after blow after blow does that make any logical
sense they end by pointing the finger at Kelly's jealous husband she had no ill will no spite no evil intent no
premeditation you saw the person you heard from the person that had all those things and how he acted on those
feelings ladies and gentlemen decision that you need to speak is that Sheila grah Trot is not
guilty thank you less than 3 hours after beginning their deliberations jurors reach a
verdict Margaret can't wait to hear the good news I was dancing I was dancing in
the elevator I was so excited cuz I knew I knew and I kept saying we're going to
bring our girl home instead the defendant Sheila Graham Trot is guilty of first-degree premeditated
murder guilty of first-degree murder Sheila Trot was immediately sentenced it's the sentence of the court
that you serve um life in prison as a minimum mandatory sentence for Margaret buers who wishes
she never made that 911 call The Embers of blame burned deep within her heart you are a loving mother and
grandmother and you love Sheila dearly yes does it tear you up at night to think that I put my own daughter in jail
yes it sure does it just tears me up you think I put my kid in jail for the rest
of her life absolutely isn't it time for you to stop telling these stories and tell the truth
mhm don't let your loved ones suffer thinking that you're innocent when you did this MH I told the truth and I'm
continuing to tell the truth and I'm going to keep telling the truth she killed Kelly Brennan she's a murderer
she's finished as well she should be for Kelly Brennan's mother the taste of justice is
Bittersweet what tragedy for that family as well almost 5 years after her death Kelly's friend Lou says her kind Spirit
lives on when she did come to work she was always happy and she had her little corner it was called Kelly's Corner a
place in the hospital where Kelly gave Extra Care and attention to her patients and even after she died that was a an
area of reverence if you went there um it was it was [Music] comforting why shouldn't this audience
believe you're just a clever sociopath that you are a killer you know the difference between right and wrong but
in the case of Kelly Brennan you don't care I do care I do care when would her body have been
discovered you said yourself who led them to the body it was us saying that it was at Mark's Landing they would
never have checked at Mark's Landing but despite leading her sons to Kelly's battered body and being found
guilty by a jury of six Sheila Trot is unrepentant the real killer she insists still walks free I have to live with a
lot of guilt for not stopping the attack now I'm paying the price Kelly's family has closure but
they don't have Justice cuz I didn't kill Kelly 48 Hours don't miss an [Music] episode
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A Florida mother claims she saw the murder of a friend in a dream. Is she really clairvoyant or is she a killer? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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Brief Summary

Sheila Trot is convicted of murdering her friend Kelly Brennan after claiming to have dreamt about the crime.

Key points

A Nightmare Unfolds. A woman dreams of violence, leading to a shocking murder case.
The Discovery of Kelly's Body. Helicopter pilot spots a body in the woods, identified as Kelly Brennan.
Sheila's Confession. Sheila's strange behavior leads to a 911 call where she hints at murder.
The Arrest. Sheila Trot is arrested for the murder of her friend Kelly Brennan.
Trial Begins. Sheila's trial starts with a circumstantial case based on a bizarre dream.
Sheila's Defense. Sheila claims she witnessed Kelly's murder, but her story raises doubts.

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Episode quotes

I think she's a killer.

Peter expresses doubt about Sheila's clairvoyance claims.

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