Meet, Marry, Murder - Season 1, Episode 50 - Tsang Williams - Full Episode | Forensic Files

a young mother arrives home one morning to a scene of carnage even some of the most seasoned
detectives were just shocked when they saw brutal i mean really brutal manling sang had stumbled upon her whole
family slain but to cops her response didn't add up crying one minute but then acting like
everything was a joke the next how much of manling's story is true she said that
when she left the house at around 4 am she left the door unlocked who was responsible for murder in an la suburb a
jealous ex an unknown intruder or a killer much closer to home [Music] [Music] [Music]
according to statistics in western societies so-called family annihilators are most likely to be white males in
their 30s family annihilators are are driven to kill their family in an act known as familicide
95 of family annihilators are male and in half of cases after they've murdered their family they then go on to take
their own life men when they commit this act it's typically for egotistical reasons
men who kill their families might have failed financially they might think their wife has betrayed
the family and so must be punished everything from a man being so crazily obsessed and jealous that his
girlfriend or wife is out at night and when she comes home he's beat the baby to death it's a pretty bizarre
phenomena they start to blame the child for the behavior of the other person in their relationship i've
never personally worked a case where someone just killed their child without having some sort of rage with
the other party pretty sick people some of whom decide their family isn't the status symbol that they hope they
would be such are the typical cases of familicide but every now and then a case of
familicide comes along which breaks all of the conventions and that's what happened in roland
heights los angeles county on august the 7th 2007 with mandling known as ling sang
at the heart of tragic events she didn't have rage against her children she might have seen them as an
impediment to her future goals or future plans during the hot dry summer of 1999 in the
eastern suburbs of los angeles california two shy teenagers crossed paths for the first time
neil had been talked into going a friend talked him into going to a performance of the rocky
horror picture show and that's where he meets manling neil williams a student who worked
part-time at a fast food restaurant had been raised in a close loving single-parent family in the photogenic
town of whittier neil williams was just kind of one of those nice guys that you don't necessarily remember from
school he grew up with his mother jan and his sister mala in the los angeles county
he was described as somewhat of a geek he and his mom jan were very much alike she says
she says that they were both geeky they both liked star wars a lot uh computer gaming
quoting monty python and he liked to collect things particularly had kind of an obsession with collecting unusual
swords uh samurai type swords manling sang had a less harmonious relationship with her parents
men ling sang of taiwanese descent she was born also in the l.a county area and grew up there
she had a more difficult ride she had a learning disability and so that made it kind of rough in school and you can
imagine that she wouldn't have enjoyed her school years this much [Music] i think when children have a difficult
time growing up maybe a difficult time being accepted possibly even being bullied made to feel unloved
it's really hard to get your footing in life forensic psychologist dr judy ho believes what manding experienced during
her formative years could well have shaped her personality and not for the better
it's really hard to feel good about yourself to believe that you deserve good things and to have good
decision-making i think when those types of adverse factors happen in your childhood sometimes it makes it more
difficult for you to not not be narcissistic when you're an adult to think about other people and the good of
others this was not a side of herself that she showed to the young man she met at the
movies in 1999 and mandling a meal both on the fringes of their peer groups for different
reasons hit it off neo was probably just your your textbook geek i'm thinking that saying williams was
not so much a geek as she was awkward uh as as a result of her upbringing i think neil and manly gravitated toward
one another because they needed one another their kindred spirits in many ways they were both a little bit of an
outcast and they got to geek out together over things that they mutually enjoyed and bonded over and he's really
never met anyone like her before and he just thinks she's just amazing she's beautiful and she's smart and she's
funny and manly and neil become an item and they start dating the young couple was smitten but their
days of being carefree and unencumbered were few a missed period unexplained nausea a trip to the drugstore and
confirmation of the news that brought their youthful happy-go-lucky relationship to something of an abrupt
end before long uh menling is pregnant so in 2000 she gives birth to a baby boy and the couple
do sort of a rush marriage it didn't seem like it was planned and they kind of got thrown into marriage as
a result they go to the county courthouse and they get married and then they plan and have later
a more formal wedding in a taiwanese church the big formal wedding with all the friends and family
they were just 21 years old it was a rocky start to married life let's not forget they married at a young
age there was no support from her family for that marriage in fact they were scandalized by it
but neil and manling were in love and with the optimism of youth they were certain they could make a go of things
in some ways i think they were each other saving grace i think they saw each other at that time during their young
age as a way towards a better life and it explains why they would rush towards marriage at such an early age perhaps
even before they really understood what marriage would be about i think their relationship escalated so quickly and
advanced so quickly because they were all that the other person had at the time the newlyweds heard something to prove
they wanted to show their families that they could cope that the marriage hadn't
been a mistake a couple years later the couple has a second child a little boy again
to everybody else this looks like kind of the picture-perfect marriage the couple seems to be happy the children
are happy the young family moved to a condo in the 18200 block of camino bello roland
heights an area known to the local taiwanese immigrant community as little taipei
manling and neil rented the apartment from mandling's parents who run a business in the area
she's working as a waitress she's doing pretty well with her tips her husband is
working at a amusement park at disney amusement park and it's great for him because he's that fun-loving geek he's
still kind of a just a big kid they put on a good show for family and friends but playing at being grown-ups
was not easy i think it's so difficult to have children when you're still young and
you're still a child yourself in many ways and you're still developing and all of a sudden now having all these
responsibilities where you have to take care of others and you can't think about your own
interests and needs and goals and you have to already put the needs of your children ahead of yours and i think that
was probably a struggle for both of them very quickly manling realized she wanted more from life
menling is not happy with where they're living she wants a house instead of this little apartment
she wants to be able to spend more money and they don't have that much pretty early on in the marriage ben ling
and neil are having financial difficulties they're struggling to to make ends meet he's not bringing in as
much money and meddling pressures him so in 2006 he quits his job at the amusement park and at her urging he
takes a course and tries to learn to sell life insurance but he's not really much of a salesman
so it's not going so well and that job doesn't last neil really struggled with holding down jobs
manly ended up having to work full-time manning increased her hours at the restaurant where she waited tables
while neil gave up working together to become a full-time stay-at-home dad for him it was the ideal scenario
he loves being with the kids he loves being a dad it's perfect for him and then in his spare time he can play video
games manling though was left feeling like she got the raw deal neil basically regressed into a child
when he became the stay-at-home father and manling continued to work full-time he basically just stayed home never
cleaned the house didn't really cook menling is really desperately unhappy she's working
as a waitress and she's really had it with her husband neil because she will come home from work and while neil was a
good dad he was a pretty terrible housekeeper and the place is always a mess six years into her marriage mrs williams
had begun to wonder if she was cut out to be a wife or a mother she's kind of had it with being a mom
she hadn't really bonded with her children and they were part of the cause for her unhappiness
was there any way out of what she thought was a miserable life one that she had made for herself
who knew but the seeds of a horrific story had just been sown by the spring of 2007 neil and manling
williams marriage was on the rocks so the couple is now six years seven years into their
marriage and they're fighting all the time i'm in loud fights as their relationship deteriorated it was
reported that they'd have these huge arguments and screaming matches back and forth sometimes the
neighbors can hear them screaming it's pretty clear that things aren't going well
it was around this time that maddling sang williams first raised the idea of a divorce
neil i think it's time to really get serious i want a divorce neil says no there's no way my parents got divorced i
don't want that i don't want that for us i don't want that for our kids so he's resisting she's unhappy
so the couple stayed together but in manling's mind the marriage was all but over
i think when manley started to think about this relationship as being over wanting to divorce wanting to leave neil
i think the more she talked about it the more resolute she became in this decision i think the more she talked
about it she decided that this had to happen one way or another i don't think that she was thinking maybe there's a
way to work around this it wasn't just her marriage she was disillusioned with manling's young sons
were beginning to feel like a millstone around her neck she's kind of had it with being a mom
kids are getting a little older they're not as cute and cuddly as they were when
they were babies it definitely seemed like manly had a hard time bonding with her children and it may be that there
was a part of her that resented having them in the first place maybe she could have bonded with them better but she
just didn't want to and she didn't want to become more invested in them because if she did then she would have to even
spend more time in her life dedicating herself to her children's needs and so i think it was a conscious effort to not
get closer to her family you know it sounds like manling had this feeling that she things were just beyond her
control that she really didn't have a say in in much of what had happened to her life
she told her friends that she felt like she was rushed into this marriage because she got pregnant and suddenly
now she has two young children and she's a housewife and working as a waitress and
and she never wanted that life manling may have struggled with motherhood and neil may not have been the provider his
wife wanted him to be but there was somebody else in their life who was happy to pick up the slack
neil's mother jan she and her son were so close and once he was married manling was like
a daughter to her and she was very supportive of the two of them she helped them out financially when
they needed she was very close to the children she was just the most wonderful grandmother loves spending time with her
two little grandsons years later jan williams would recount a memory that continued to haunt her
she remembers this one night where she was caring for her two little grandsons and little ian asked her to sing one of
his favorite songs puff the magic dragon so she starts singing it and in the middle of it devin stops her and he says
no stop i'm scared and she says why why are you scared and he said because the song says
the dragon lives forever but not so little boys and she laughs and she says honey that just means that little boys
grow up to be grown-ups and they don't need their toys anymore though just seven years old the little
boy's question to his grandmother jan would turn out to be eerily prophetic she says that song now comes back to
haunt her she says i told him he'd be safe in his bed and he wasn't that was in the spring of 2007. by the
early summer manning had begun to rebel against the situation that she found herself in acting in many ways as though
the last six or seven years had simply never happened she was spending a lot of her off time partying
with her friends going out drinking instead of being a mother june of 2007 manling gets on myspace which was the
hot place to be before facebook arrived manling discovers an old flame and she's intrigued so menling and her
old flame and her friends from high school all get together they're out having a
wonderful time having drinks talking remembering the good old days manling feels free like she hasn't in years a
few days later she asked her mother-in-law jan to take care of the two little boys because she had to go to
santa barbara for work imagine asking your mother-in-law to watch your kids so that you can go
out and cheat on her son with some other guy but that's just what meddling has done
so she gets to santa barbara and she gives her old boyfriend a call and she says hey i'm in town
why don't we get together so they actually met up and during that weekend they had sexual
relations manling sang williams a wife and mother had crossed the line she sees this life unfolding before her
she can just imagine being with him and not having to deal with with being a housewife and and kids and all of that
that goes with it and the messy house and she's so enthralled with this guy and he says you know menling um
you're married i don't i don't feel right about this if you want to have a relationship you have
to get out of the one you're in the affair came to nothing but manling still only in her 20s had got a taste
for what life could be like if she was once again free and single i don't think that manly was actually
looking to be with the man she had a brief fling with it was very brief and i think that was just her acting out
because she was unhappy in her life i think that it gave her a taste of what freedom could feel like
that summer los angeles county was hit by drought during the long hot nights manling sang
williams struggled to sleep manling is just seriously unhappy and she's having trouble sleeping and
she tells her sister that she's having this recurring nightmare she dreams that she comes home to find
her whole family dead and that she commits suicide manling confided in her sister that in
other dreams neil had murdered their little boys before taking his own life it begins to look like either she really
is coming apart and she's building this in her own imagination or she's actually
plotting what's about to happen the fact that madeline was basically fantasizing
in her dreams about neil being dead i think there was a blurring of reality versus
fantasy i think in her mind she probably thought this would be the cleanest way to go
had manling begun to plan her escape from the family the family she had come to resent
she really looked at her husband as a reason for all of her suffering because she needed to pin it on somebody and i
think she decided to pin everything on her husband making it his fault that she got pregnant too early and making it his
fault that now they have two children and she has to be a full-time working mom while still having household and
child care responsibilities she also started saying that neil had changed and that she was afraid that he may have
hurt her or hurt the boys to former homicide detective rod emery manling's claims about her husband
didn't drink true neil was not a violent person nor did he ever display any personality of such in
hindsight these stories were manufactured to kind of lay the groundwork for what was about to happen
as the long hot la summer of 2007 wore on manling's dissatisfaction with her marriage
grew how would this unhappy union end let's not kid ourselves she intended for him to die whether he did it by his own
hand or hers august 8 2007. as the sun rose on a still dry day in los angeles county the piece of the
early morning was shattered by a woman's screams it was manling sang williams in the
doorway of her roland heights condo surveying a horrifying scene oh my god what's happened here
oh my god and her neighbors all come to her aid and they're all surrounding her and she says
my husband my husband oh my god he's dead he's dead the neighbors described her as being barefoot wearing boxer
shorts smelling like alcohol so she's screaming you know oh my god who's done this my husband somebody help me
her hands and feet spattered with blood manling begged her neighbors for help she told them that she just returned
from a late night drive to cool off her hair she likes to do that from time to time
when she can't sleep and she was watching the sun rise so when the neighbor went in the house they saw
neil who was obviously dead blood all throughout the house there was clearly no saving 27 year old
neil williams the shop neighbor dialed 9-1-1 officers were there in minutes so the police arrive they go inside
they find neil at the top of the stairs covered in blood it's blood everywhere he has clearly been stabbed and next to
him in this pool of blood is this big samurai sword and it's bathed in blood the officers could tell that even with
the blood and all the destruction that the house was not well kept there was garbage overflowing from the garbage
cans there was things in disarray and the house just wasn't very much cared for what are the two little boys neil
william's sons where were they in all of this carnage as they continued to look around they
went to the boys bedrooms looks like the children are still sleeping so you know they're relieved and then they
realize wait a minute and they try to wrestle the children and they realize the children are not sleeping both were
dead in their beds the young one ian on his bottom bunk and then above on the top bunk the older
brother devin they're both dead in their beds it was a devastating discovery manling's
husband and her two little boys lay dead in the family home yet the hysterical young mother seemed
oblivious to the finality of her loss she's screaming does anybody know is my husband is my husband still alive is he
still alive and she's saying my baby's my baby somebody please help my babies manling was taken to a sheriff's outpost
six miles away in walnut williams hearing for the first time of the tragedy that had befallen her son
and grandsons assumed manning's questioning was a formality within hours the grieving grandmother
would be hit by the shocking truth police take meddling down to the station um for questioning
and they asked her you know where was she she said she she was out she told them that she had just gotten home from
shopping she had early morning grocery shop this was not the same story that she had
told neighbors the one about the early morning drive because she couldn't sleep a game of detective cat and mouse was
about to begin stories are not adding up and she's really sort of grasping for stories here
but cops are starting to suspect that that something is really wrong here she changed her story slightly and she told
police that she couldn't sleep that night so she got up went to the ridge to smoke a cigarette and came back home to
find the family dead she said that when she left the house at around 4am she left the door unlocked
then she asked if her husband was okay and if her children were okay so when she heard that they were dead
she had a huge reaction she screamed and cried and wailed she gets sick and she could stick into a trash can
this could have been just an overwhelming stress response detectives were baffled
i think this point the police weren't sure what her reaction was was it genuine or was she acting or did she
really know more than she was saying so police are saying you know who would do this why would anyone want
to kill your husband can you think of anything and she says well you know my husband was actually having
an affair for over a year he just confessed to me recently that he was having this affair
and you know i don't i don't know you know could this maybe be a jealous person as
his girlfriend that might have done this or maybe she had somebody do it could it be jealousy
detectives interviewed manling for hours over the course of that day and she consistently denied knowing anything
about the murders of her sons and husband investigators found her version of events hard to believe
and her behavior even stranger one of the things that the investigators mentioned during her interview was that
her moods changed quite a bit you know one minute she was arrogant one minute she was sad one minute she was happy and
the the variations in the mood were just too odd i think manley probably did feel
a couple of different conflicting feelings as she was processing this in the aftermath but the fact that she was
so dysregulated crying one minute but then acting like everything was a joke the next probably
shows the truth of her emotional instability if i were interviewing her then it would be
a challenge to find out why the mood swings what did detectives make of the grieving
mother's bizarre behavior in their place rod demery would have seen it as a vital
clue was it because she actually was in shock about what happened or was it because she was pretending that she
didn't know what happened or trying to make up a story or a personality so it would have been very interesting to find
out exactly at what point and what question was asked that her mood changed while manling answered hour after hour
of questions and neil's family waited for news detectives were searching the williams condominium in rowland house
there they made a discovery that turned manning's story upside down detectives have been investigating um
all kinds of of leads and one thing they're looking at is electronic devices and computers as they
always do um and when they look at the computer in the home they find a suicide note supposedly written by neil
saying that he has just killed the children and he's going to kill himself could this explain what had really
happened at that cluttered apartment on camino bello to answer that detectives turned to the
crime scene examiners who were building a picture of how the father and his little boys had died
three-year-old ian and seven-year-old devin showed no signs of traumatic injury it appeared they may have been
suffocated to death neil williams was a different story even some of the most seasoned cops when
they found neal's body they were just horrified he's lying in this pool of blood and he has
just countless stab and slash wounds in all over 90 of them the autopsy would reveal several stab
marks a large x mark on the stomach his hands from defensive wounds were mingled
basically he's been butchered the suicide note supposedly written by neil suggested he was going to take his
own life but could he really have stabbed himself 92 times how could we expect anybody to commit
suicide with a samurai sword it's odd because that doesn't add up with what's actually happened
he couldn't have killed himself with that sword still manling stuck to her guns perhaps
neil's jealous mistress had killed her family perhaps neil himself had done it then comes the smoking gun in this case
it's a cigarette pack as officers continued their meticulous investigation into the couple's lives
they seized the game-changing piece of evidence inside manling's car police find a cigarette pack with blood
on it and they trace that blood and they find that it goes back to kneel so police confront
manling we found the cigarette box in your car why it's important that they found a cigarette box in the cart with
blood on it is it shoots her story out manling had told cops that she'd been for a drive into smoke before coming
home to the scene of carnage she claimed that she left the house came home and found them
dead if she had done that there would be no blood on a cigarette box in her car so
obviously when she got into the car she had blood on her and got it on the cigarette box and now
she knows it's over and she breaks down and she confesses everything what exactly had happened that night
in the home of mr and mrs williams and you imagine he has been asleep and he's waking up and he's being stabbed to
death late on the 8th of august 2007 in an interview room at the walnut headquarters of the los angeles county
sheriff's department 27 year old manling sang williams walked detectives through
the grisly events of the night before so august 7th menling feeds her children pizza for dinner so
hawaiian pizza with pineapple and ham their favorite and she puts them to bed and
she tucks the youngest one into his bed with his favorite little blanket the little teddy bears all over it
and she tucks her older son into the top bunk and he's lying there with his little blanket his favorite with
spongebob squarepants and then she lets them fall asleep once they were sleeping she crept back
into their room she goes over to the youngest one ian she takes the pillow and she puts it over his head and she
holds it there and he's squirming and she holds it there until she doesn't feel him breathing anymore
she's pushing the life out of her son it must have been a very tough way to go for her children to be struggling for
what probably would have been minutes she gets on the ladder and she climbs up to her older son devin's bed
she does the same thing she takes his pillow she puts it over his face and she holds
it there and he's squirming a little harder he's a little older and she holds it and
she forces it and she is squeezing the life out of her little boy her husband kneel out of the house
manling was focused on what she needed to get her life back i think at that point manly was
completely single-minded she hadn't really bonded with her children and they were part of the cause for her
unhappiness and so perhaps she even delighted in taking her children's lives and in fact she did so in such an
intimate and painful way she then arranged their bodies she kind of put them in a natural sleeping
position with their favorite blankets and toys and they both look like they're just sleeping
and she leaves the bedroom with her two now dead children and she goes to her computer and she turns it on
she logs on to myspace [Music] after looking at the profile of the man she'd so recently cheated with at around
9 30 pm manling sent text messages to friends showered got changed and went out she went to tgif fridays and had drinks
with friends you're the mother of these two young children you have just with your bare hands you have smothered
both of your children to death and then you go out and have drinks that shows me that there's a profound
lack of empathy callousness involved what's mending intended to happen next is a matter of speculation
it appeared that she was hoping that neil would come home find the kids dead and commit suicide it's very possible
that neil would have said something to her to that effect god if anything ever happened to you or the kids i would kill
myself and it's you know she might have taken that at face value and thought that he was absolutely serious
when manning returned to the condo little after midnight neil had done nothing of the sort he was sitting at
the computer oblivious to the bodies of his sons lying in the bunk bed just meters away
she gets home and she opens the door and the place is just a mess it is trash there's trash everywhere and neil has
left his his dinner what's left of it sitting out on the counter everything is just the trash is overflowing
she's furious she is so angry the couple argued according to manling it was about sex a neighbor heard raised
voices then neal went to bed and fell asleep leaving manling enraged that her plan for him to take his own life hadn't
come together lisa's how the story goes when he didn't do that that's when she took actions
into her own hands she goes to his collection and she pulls out the samurai sword and she gets to
her husband and she starts stabbing him and she stabs and slashes over and over neal woke up and began to
try to defend himself and run off but as he ran she kept slicing she chases him from the bedroom he's he's literally
dying he's been stabbed she just doesn't stop she just keeps slashing and stabbing
over 90 times she is so enraged she doesn't stop until she knows he's dead in his last words were was something
like like like help me help me an autopsy would later find that neil had 92 separate wounds including 22 on
his hands where he had tried desperately to defend himself the tips of two of his
fingers had been severed his lungs were punctured as was his small intestine his skull was fractured and in a blow
that even without the others would have caused certain death he had been stabbed
through the heart manling's annihilation of neil indeed of her entire family was complete
it's just an unbelievable thing to imagine what he must have looked like at the end of his
death when she had hacked at him so many times there was obviously so much built
up anger and resentment but also i believe a semblance of evil for somebody to do it that many times when you know
you probably already killed the person by the fourth or the fifth slash of the sword
she had got what she wanted she was once again free and unencumbered but had she
planned her next steps i believe manling did completely think through her murders of her family members i just
don't think that she thought through what would happen after she murdered them i think she
thought through to the point of when i remove these obstacles to my happiness that my life will be different but she
didn't really have a plan afterwards for what that would actually look like once
her entire family was dead first there were practical considerations she changes her clothes and she grabs
the bloody clothes and she takes them with her she gets in her car and she drives and
on the way she stops and she dumps this pile of bloody clothing into a trash can
and then she continues on and goes to her favorite place this ridge near their home and she lights up a cigarette and
she smokes and she waits for the sun to rise [Music] on august 9 2007 having taken manling's
shocking confession detectives charged her for her crimes she's charged with three counts of first
degree murder multiple murder and lying and weight if found guilty she could be sentenced to death
the callousness of premeditation and the planning of it and the fact that you had
to be pretty certain that you wanted to kill these people to go through so much forethought whereas
in a heated situation where you just flow to changes the scenario for the punishment
news that manly had been charged came as a shock to the couple's families but it
would be three long years before they would find out if the case against her could be proven
in the fall of 2010 the trial began and the prosecution's point of view was that madeline just
wanted her life back she wanted to be free and single and not have the responsibilities or the restrictions of
a marriage and children she just wanted to get back to where she was calling the man that she had slept with
in the summer of 2007 to the stand prosecutors used the affair to make sense of the killings
the prosecution argues that you know her motive was that she wanted to get back with this old boyfriend that
was it during closing arguments the prosecution showed or attempted to show that
this was pre-meditated for months before and some of the stories that meddling had told family and friends about neil
that weren't true were kind of set the groundwork for a story that she wanted to finally reveal after she committed
this murder the defense had a different story they believed that she was abused by her husband she
had a difficult childhood a difficult past abusive past no this was not planned this was you know uncontrolled
rage she just sort of snapped madeline's father actually testified and said that
he believed that he might have done something for her to behave that way and he apologized to
neil's family which version of manling's crime would be the most believable to the jury the
trial concluded in november 2010 the jury deliberates for eight hours in november of 2010 meddling was found
guilty of all charges including the special circumstances of land and weight a few days later a jury convened once
again to decide manling's fate then comes the punishment phase life in prison or the death sentence
the jury deliberates and deliberates and they can't come to an agreement it's a hung jury the verdict was split
eight for the death penalty and four against it was a blow for jan williams neil's
mother who simply wanted the process to be over so she could begin to properly grieve and process the loss of her son
grandchildren both manling's family and neil's family agreed or asked the judge to give her
life in prison rather than the death penalty because of the appeals processes and the
cumbersome processes of a death row or death sentence they just wanted it to end
their pleas fell on deaf ears in august of 2011 a second jury convenes for the punishment
of manlington williams in this case in the end the jury is unanimous they recommend the death
penalty and in january 2012 the judge makes it official manling sang williams is sentenced to
die in summing up the case the judge made his contempt of manling's actions clear
he said she had savagely killed her husband and just heartlessly murdered her children
for selfish narcissistic reasons because she wanted to start a new life with a new man and
leave her old life behind he said she killed her own two children when there were people who would have been
happy to take these children in and those are long and brutal deaths several minutes and during each time she could
have reflected and decided not to but she continued on he said you know she planned this this
was clearly premeditated she laid out this plan over two months she had plenty of time to reconsider and
back out the fact that she wore gloves when she killed her husband or latex gloves when she killed her husband
showed that this was not in the heat of passion the judge said you know this was a heartless killer
selfish narcissistic heartless killer who could take her own children's lives he said you know i it's not for me to
forgive and the people who the only people who would be in a position to forgive aren't here anymore
the case against manling sang williams was overwhelming despite the death penalty she remains
alive [Music] meddling is currently on death row marlene sam williams is currently being
held at the california central women's facility in chauchila california of the 700 death row inmates in california
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Manling Tsang Williams was disillusioned with marriage and parenthood. Instead of divorcing her husband Neal, she committed an unimaginable crime.

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Brief Summary

Manling Sang Williams murdered her husband and two sons in 2007, driven by dissatisfaction and a desire for freedom.

Key points

A Scene of Carnage. A young mother returns home to find her family brutally slain, shocking even seasoned detectives.
The Rise of Familicide. Statistics reveal that family annihilators are often white males in their 30s, driven by egotistical reasons.
A Rocky Marriage. Neil and Manling's rushed marriage leads to financial struggles and dissatisfaction, culminating in conflict.
A Shocking Discovery. Manling's screams shatter the morning as she discovers her husband dead in their condo.
A Devastating Discovery. Officers find two young boys dead in their beds, leading to a shocking investigation.
The Confession. Manling Sang Williams confesses to the murders, revealing the chilling details of the night.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Oh my god, what’s happened here?

Manling arrives home to a horrifying scene.

19:32WatchJun 8, 2022

Tension

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