Summer Tatum: Tragic Murder of Expecting Mother | Killers Caught On Camera | Forensic Files

This time on Killers Caught on camera in Alabama, a desperate call from a distraught husband. My wife, she pulled
a gun on me and said, "I remember walking into the bedroom and it looked like chaos."
And in Texas, the alarm is raised when the boss fails to arrive for work. Why would you buy a shovel, buy an axe,
buy gasoline? This is not normal behavior for somebody who's worried about their missing wife.
It just sounds like something bad is happening to her. We know what happened because the video tells us what
happened. I heard some gunshots. Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it. That does not prove that I killed my wife. The
camera doesn't lie. In the heart of Alabama is the city of Prattville. Proud is located in Atoga County, which
is a kind of a residential county right outside of the state capital, Montgomery.
It's I would say small town. It's a very tight-knit community. Prattville was also home to Summer
Tatum. Summer was good-hearted from day one. She was bubbly, strong willed. She loved to make people laugh and she just
had a big heart. We were three years apart, so we felt like cats and dogs. But as we grew
older, she's my rock. I mean, I talked to her every day. Any issue I had, you know, she she just had the answer for
it. She was wonderful. But Summer faced many challenges in her life. She had this cerebopal paly and we found
that out when she was about 7 months old but she never let it slow her down. She
always made good grades, always straight A's. She knew from the beginning what she wanted to do. I mean she never
mentioned anything other than getting into radiology school. While Summer was in college, she met the
love of her life, Hunter Tatum. She actually met Hunter on Tinder. He was a miss. He was at
um USA, the University of South Alabama. He was felon. And Summer took him in and
she kind of got his life together for him. They connected and they never spent another day away from each other.
He He was a real sweet guy. I mean, constantly writing her love notes, bringing flowers to her.
Hunter was wonderful. He treated my sister like there was no one else on this earth. In July 2019, the couple tied the
knot. She was really happy to be marrying her best friend. I could just see the the love
that she had in her heart for Hunter. Then in May 2021, Summer received lifechanging news.
She was so happy. She was so happy to be having a healthy baby boy growing in her. And we couldn't wait for his
arrival. [Music] Talking 911. Say your location. Oh my god. Okay. What's going on there, sir?
My god, sir. Oh my god. Sir, my my wife. It's my fault. She did what? My wife. She found
a She pulled a gun on me and then Okay. She pulled a gun on you and then what? And then I got it from her. She
was wrestling before I just shot her. [Music] Patrol officers responded. They knew
there had been a shooting. A gentleman named Hunter Tatum told dispatchers that he had just shot
his wife. When officers arrived, he was still on the phone with 911 dispatchers.
Hunter. Oh my god. Hunter, stay with me. There's officers there. I need you to walk to the door. Okay, walk to the door
for me, Hunter. Unit on scene. Be advised still has the phone in his hand. Get on the ground. Get on the ground.
Get on the ground right now. Put your hands on your head. They took him into custody and then they go
try to find the victim. Right there. Go up there. Stay here. They found Summer in the bedroom.
Ma'am, where you shot? Ma'am, Officer Campbell with the Proud Bill Police Department. She was laying
on the bedroom floor on her back. She was still alive. She still had vital signs, but they knew that it was very
serious. Okay, she's a lady alert for the blood. She You hear? She's still alive. She's been in here. He said,
"Looks like you see the head." There was a lot of blood. She had a traumatic injury to her head. The prognosis of
something like that usually is not good. Shot in the head. Medics did all they could for Summer.
She's pregnant, bro. [Music] Yes. any medical assistance and everything that was done for Summer was solely for
the baby. There was nothing that could be done for Summer at that [Music] time. She was taken to the nearest
hospital in critical condition. In a desperate attempt to save the baby, doctors performed an emergency cesarian
section. I got a call. It was the police. And he said, "Ma'am, are you sitting down?" on.
And I said, I said, "No." And he said, "Well, you need to sit down." He said, "Your daughter's been
shot." Just my soul left my body. I'm like, "This is a dream. Is this a nightmare? What is going on?"
Back at the crime scene, Detective Wesley Clark began to painstakingly search the property. I remember walking
into the bedroom and it looked like chaos. There was evidence everywhere from the firearm that was
used. There was clothing. There was a bag that was sitting on the bed. CJ Robinson was the chief deputy
district attorney for Ataga County. Right now, we don't know. Was this accidental? Was this intentional? Has
there been evidence that has been tried to be disposed of? All these things we don't know.
One of the weird things that I saw was an Xbox in the sink. Obviously, in my mind, that's odd.
Go ahead and get him off and talk. Stay up there. What's up? I remember thinking I I really need to
talk to him because I've got to figure out more than just the 911 call and the scene that I'm looking at. All right, go
ahead and step on me. What did you do? Hunter was driven to Prattville Police Department where he was
interviewed. Got the seat right here. I'm going to uh shoes. I remember walking into the room and seeing him
obviously sitting across from [Music] me and he was very wideeyed, pale. I think it was probably kind of
starting to set in for him what had just happened. How long y'all been buried? Two years.
When you get the first six, I've always joked and said that there's always three
sides to a story. Hers, his, and the truth. Uh, but in this case, I knew I was only going to get one side of the
story. What happened this evening? She's been praying for 6 months. And there was just some disconnect or
something. And probably about 5 months ago, I started talking to just talking to this
to this other woman. and she's from overseas, you know, never met her, seen her, done anything with
her, but that all came out yesterday. Essentially, he went to sleep one night. Summer went through his phone
sensing something was off. She found explicit messages back and forth, very sexual in nature, uh, which started
leading to to marital strife. Clearly, she was just saying, you know, like there's just there's
nothing left kind of deal and it's my fault. One of the things that's so interesting
about deception is that it is often so caught up in reality. It's potentially easier for him to just go with what's
true than to craft an entirely different emotional response to the situation. So
I think the saying it's my fault is just him working as close as possible to the
truth which frankly is a good strategy if you're going to lie is you want to keep close to the facts right and
distort as little as possible. I'm in her sleep on the couch and I hear her throwing up people she's freaking
pregnant and I go there and check on her and she just starts talking out of her head and you know she's going to get
back at me and you know I'm like that's okay. Like I get it. It's like, well, I'm trying to process what he's telling
me, but I'm still trying to paint that picture of what actually happened. And and then she just
started going for her thing and said she was going to kill me and cuz we both have pistols in our nightstand. She got
hers up and started, you know, pointed at me and whatever and kind of pushing all over the place.
and I got it from her and then she starts screaming trying to not kill her or shoot her and I'm telling her I'm
not. Essentially his version was that she was out of her mind that she was crazy. She was irrational. She was
scaring him she was dangerous and that she went and got a gun. They both kept guns in their bedside
table which is not uncommon especially in the Southeast. He said that she basically grabbed a gun and a struggle
for the gun ensued. You know, I'm like holding the gun back from her and then she keeps reaching for it and pulling on
my shirt and stuff. This is where his version of what happened really doesn't make sense.
I just knew that if it wasn't that she was going to go get down with her. I mean, I've got to go save
her. Just don't want to die. Hunter claims that he took the gun away from Summer.
Like she's reaching for it and she falls down and then she's getting back up. But
I just knew that if I didn't do something that it was going to be something else that she would go get.
And and that's where I just I know I shot her. I just don't know where where he'll be.
It's hard for us this early in the investigation to know is it true or not. But then the decision to shoot her once
you've taken a gun away when she doesn't have a gun, something's something's not
right. It does feel like he is talking about himself a lot and how he's feeling and
whether or not he is thinking about her. Obviously, we don't know, but certainly
he's not expressing anything that suggests he is really concerned about their [Music]
well-being. At the hospital, staff were still doing everything they could for Summer.
The doctor came in and she said, "I'm not going to paint you a pretty picture." She said, um, Summer has been
shot twice in the back of the head. The first shot I thought, you know, yeah, it's possibility, but the
second shot I figured, no, she's not going to make it. I held her hand and I kissed
her. And I let her know how much I love her. But I told her it's okay to go. It's
okay. Not too long after that, she passed away. I remember calling the charge nurse at the hospital that day, and
that's when I was first informed that they had delivered the baby and the baby was in the NICU.
And it was a short time later that I called back and was informed unfortunately that not only the baby
passed but so had [Music] summer. That's a complete game changer in the mind of a detective or an
investigator at that point in time. This is no longer just a domestic incident. This is a double murder.
Hunter was now interviewed for a second time. Sorry to wake you up, man. Go ahead.
I felt that fire of I wanted to be the one to tell him that. Not only his child, but his wife
were gone. I wanted to get I want his reaction. I wanted to gauge it, not just for me personally, but as an
investigator. I wanted to see what that's like. That to me, that's evidence. I want to be able to speak on
that. Well, you just let you know. Uh, I'll give you an update. Okay. I'm just tell you like it is. Okay. Um the baby
passed this morning at 9:30. Okay. Um so your wife and the baby unfortunately did
pass. Okay. Um they had the baby in the NICU and were doing their their best to um to do
what they can. I remember kind of looking at him differently and I think my probably my
demeanor and I'm sure he could tell that too in that room. It was one of those I'm no longer your friend. I'm not here
to help you through this process. Like now I'm an advocate for Summer and the Baby. Um that being said, the warrant
that I had issued for you yesterday for the domestic violence assault first has now been upgraded. Okay? You do have two
charges of murder. Okay? So I'm just letting you know you've been informed that you got one count of murder for
your wife and one count of murder for the baby. Okay? This is the moment where he is
confronted with presumably his worst fear, which is not only are his unborn child and wife dead, but also that the
police are actually charging him for their murder. It's a lot to process, man. What do I do from
here? I'd be having to spend the rest of my days in jail. I I don't know if I had the best answer
for that, man. I I mean, this is a kind of a unique This question of what's going to happen
to me, I think is a a normal one. It's feels a bit callous because he's immediately moving on from the fact that
they are dead, but it's also presumably something a moment he has played in his head over and over and over again for
the last 24 hours. Then, Detective Clark received a crucial piece of video evidence.
We had a neighbor come forward. He basically told me that he had security footage from his
home. From a visuals perspective, you don't see much. It was bugs flying in the backyard in the nighttime, but the
audio on that footage really is what got the ball rolling with this. You can hear the screaming from
the bedroom and then you hear two gunshots. Oh wow. I mean, I just it was just unreal. At this point, if this video is
all you look at, you still don't know what she was saying, what he was saying. It sounded like you could faintly hear
him yell as well. But it it was helpful, but it was not the the answers we were looking for in having surveillance
[Laughter] [Music] video. We actually got the autopsy result back for Summer herself and
that's when we got the information that it didn't match exactly what he had said.
She was shot in the head twice. How does she not die immediately? Well, the first
shot is what we would commonly call like rat shot and so it's a lot of little small tiny pellets. There's not a lot of
penetrating power. That's one reason why I think there were two gunshot wounds is because
the first one did not cause a massive amount of damage, which is what led to the second shot, which ultimately would
end her life. The autopsy revealed another disturbing aspect to the shooting. It appeared that Summer to get a bullet
in that particular direction would have had to been on her knees and not facing him.
There was more video evidence to come. We knew that the Tatums had a home security system and it turned out there
was a camera uh on the back porch. Even though the blinds were open but partially open, doesn't mean you can
see everything, but it's going to give us a much better picture into what happened that night.
The recording began earlier in the evening. This is the back patio. And so in this
area, you have the master bedroom. So you're 6 to 10 ft away from the camera lens from the window of where she was
actually shot. So it's it's pretty good in terms of hearing what actually happened. And you can hear her crying.
You can hear her sobbing right now. Uh at this point in time, you don't hear Hunter, but you hear her in the bedroom.
Over an hour and a half after Summer went to bed, she could be heard vomiting. The bathroom light, then
switched on, and Summer left the room. Shortly after, Hunter could be heard entering the bedroom from the
living room where he'd been sleeping. You can't exactly hear what the conversation is, but they're very low
tone, which tells me they're conversing back and forth. And then it goes from zero to 100 really quick.
[Music] You hear her multiple times. Stop. Don't hurt me. He said, "Nope." Probably five or six
times in response to her, "I'll stay. I'll do whatever you want." Nope. Nope. And then you had the two
gunshots. That is essentially her being executed by the person that she trusted the most. It's It's very chilling and
it's very disturbing. The home security video clearly contradicted Hunter Tatum's version of
events. He said that she basically grabbed a gun and a struggle for the gun ensued, but
his version of what happened doesn't pan out. You can hear her screaming, "Don't kill me."
It's distressing to hear her begging for her life and trying to plead with him to
not kill her. On top of that, we know that she's 6 months pregnant. We know that she has cerebral pausy and so she
has weakness on one side of her body. And him saying that he's acting in self-defense when he shoots her, even if
there is a fight and she did lunge for him, for example, is totally implausible that he couldn't have just overpowered
her. Like the idea that she would have overpowered him and he had to shoot her to save his own life is at this point
completely implausible. [Music] For Detective Clark, the video footage combined with the forensic evidence from
the autopsy pointed to only one conclusion. [Music] In my mind, there was zero doubt. She's
not shot. Point blank, she's shot in the back of the head. And I realized this this is an execution. This is an
absolute murder. When looking for a motive, prosecutors returned to the first moments after
police arrived at the Tatum home. Ma'am, so here we're in the master bedroom, and
as the video is kind of showing the condition of the bedroom, one thing that's very prevalent is the bag here.
And that bag uh had clothes in it. It was being packed in addition to like a suitcase on the floor to where it
appeared that Summer was packing her things to leave. Clearly from her standpoint, the
marriage appears to be over. Now, if he had just let her go, she would still be alive. The baby would still be
alive. The case went to trial in June 2023. Tatum initially plead not guilty. I was there every day. I was there every
day through it. Most of my time was out in the hallway cuz I couldn't listen to the the
videos. How How could you have done something so horrible? The video evidence in this case, it was
a game changer. It filled in all those blanks that we suspected but wasn't sure of. And we
didn't just find out the answers. It put an exclamation point on the case. Hunter Tatum was found guilty of
capital murder and sentenced to 99 years for the death of both Summer and their baby son, a total of 198 years.
Hunter Tatum 100% deserved to be executed. He had every chance in the world to not pull that trigger, but he
chose to. When you hear somebody in real time beg for their life, I mean there who can do
that to somebody else, especially someone that they love. I I don't I I to this day I don't understand
[Music] that. It was horrible. It's just uh even to this day, it still doesn't seem real. I mean, 3 years later, it
just uh sometimes it's hard to comprehend how something like that could have happened
to her. [Music] Every single day of my life, every single day of my life, I think about my
sister and she would have been a great mother. That baby would have been so blessed to have her as a
mother and she was denied that. But I do always want to remember her. It's just a bright
light. She's just a joy to everyone around her. Hunter Tatum attempted to spin a lie
that was close to the truth. I don't want to die. with a lie of distortion where you're
tweaking little bits of reality. In some ways, that's much easier to try and get
away with and much easier to keep to because most of what you're saying is the truth than a lie where you're
saying, "I had absolutely nothing to do with this." Because then you're searching for an alibi. You're searching
for other things that you did to fill that time and you are trying to erase the fact that you have all this guilty
knowledge. You know exactly what happened. So, both lives are very different in terms of how they feel to
the person who's lying. And they're basically just very different strategies. But in Texas, a murderer
took their lies to another level. In the south of Texas, San Antonio. San Antonio is a vibrant,
bustling, joyful place. It's just alive with activity. There's also a large Air Force base
there. It was home to 29-year-old Andrin Macdonald. Andre was raised in Portland,
Jamaica. She was fivacious. She has a huge smile, very smart from a very young age. She showed this high IQ and
ambition. Andreine was 19 when she first met 30-year-old Andre Macdonald. Andre was an officer in the
Air Force. He began as an engineer officer in the active duty service, but began to switch from um engineering into
more cyber warfare and in 2016 he was promoted from captain to major. They married and by 2019 the couple were
settled in San Antonio with one child. Can mommy get a kiss? Love you. Andreine ran a highly successful chain
of assisted living communities which the couple co-owned. They had everything going for them at
that point. The business was valued at a million dollars. Her and her family lived in a pretty nice home.
She looked great. She was very into fitness and health. She was always posting videos of herself lifting
weights, working out, and encouraging others. I did come in before he did. Right. And
did defeat me, and she is so excited. But on Friday, March 1st, 2019, Andre failed to turn up for work.
She came to work every single day at 8:00. And on that day, she didn't she didn't come at 8. And that was so
striking. She was absolutely a woman of habit that she went to the gym at 5:30 a.m. every day and then to work at 8.
Her employees called the gym and the gym said she hadn't shown up and they couldn't reach her on her phone. They
started trying to reach her family because something had to be wrong. Sergeant Anthony Rodriguez is a criminal
investigator with the Bayer County District Attorney's Office. When she did not show up to
work, friends and family went to Andre's house. They did a very, very simple search of the home.
They found Andrin's purse and keys on the counter and her car was still in the garage.
It wasn't until they entered the master bedroom that they saw signs of violence. They saw blood on the light
switch. They saw blood on a door. They saw blood on the floor. Sheriff's deputies were soon on
the scene. They immediately took over the search of the house. Upon initial entry to the home,
everything seemed in place. Everything seemed very orderly and clean, but they did find some signs of
blood. And then in the backyard of the residents, they found evidence that something had been
burned. This is a very affluent neighborhood, very clean neighborhood, certainly regular trash collection.
There's really no reason to be burning rubbish in the backyard. We started to get the feeling
that something bad had happened. Something was a miss. At this point, Andre McDonald arrived
home. Andre told the deputies, "She's in the hospital. I know. I just checked." He said that the night before
they got into an argument and Andre left the house. Andre said he didn't know where she went. That he went checked on
his daughter and he went to bed. The following morning, he assumed she was in the house and he went to work.
Suspicious, investigators decided to check out the story. Yes, there is a McDonald in the hospital, but it's not
our dream. Then they pulled the CCTV footage. We see him entering the hospital. We see
him approaching the reception desk. He asked the receptionist whether a woman named Andre McDonald was admitted
into that hospital. And it just so happens that there happens to be a person that was admitted with the last
name McDonald. He looks down to find out exactly where this patient is at. And when he looks back up, Andre just turns
around and walks away. And so we watch this video. We can actually see this odd behavior play out. This is a man who's
allegedly worried about his wife being missing and he's at a hospital where there happens to be a person with her
name and he doesn't even care. He walks out. Andre's behavior combined with the presence of blood in the house was
enough to now make him a person of interest. We didn't have enough probable cause to put handcuffs on Andre and take
him away, but we made the decision first thing in the morning, we're going to put
some covert assets on him. In other words, undercover officers to watch his movements and see what happens.
The following day, undercover units tailed Andre as he left home. They don't know where he's going, and so they
follow him. To their surprise, Andre goes to a gun [Music] store. This put law enforcement on edge
because is she alive somewhere? and he's going to buy a gun to kill her. Andre filled out the paperwork
required to purchase a firearm. He paid for it. The sale was done, but he just runs out of the store, leaving the gun
there, leaving his driver's license there. It could be that he realized that there was an undercover officer in the
store, and he left for that reason. There's such a thing as what we consider to be suspicious behavior. There's
something that we would consider to be guilty behavior. Uh and then there's something that we would consider to be
dangerous behavior. He was doing all three. So at that point, the decision was made to take him down there at the
store. Once Andre was in custody, police noticed cuts to his hands that weren't there when they spoke to him the day
before. What we can see is that he has linear uh lacerations to his fingers there. There are solid uh cuts that go
straight across the two fingers. And you know, we asked ourselves, where did these injuries come from?
Police carried out further searches of the McDonald home. The garage door was knocked off the
tracks. They see what appears to be a shovel in the backseat of that car. They found a hammer. They found a flashlight.
And they found clothing hidden in a trash can. They found two 5gallon containers
of of gasoline and a large log splitting axe, a small hatchet, and large trash bags.
What's important about that is those items weren't there the first day in the first search.
[Music] Forensic analysis of the items revealed disturbing details. The hammer and the flashlight
had what appeared to be blood on it. Inside the house, detectives found other suspicious items.
We were able to find in the trash can in the kitchen the remnants of a receipt and it had been torn to little pieces.
It was a receipt for many of the items that were in the garage. The receipt led investigators to
the hardware store where they were able to recover surveillance footage from the
previous night. These are not items that a husband would be buying when his wife is missing.
Like, why would you go to a home improvement store and buy a shovel, buy an axe, buy gasoline? This is not normal
behavior for somebody who's worried about their missing wife. Police discovered that the day before
Andre went missing, her and Andre had argued after they'd visited their tax adviser. Andre discovered that Andre had
opened up a new business without his knowledge. [Music] Ideally, you want your partner to be
supportive of your ambitions and your goals and your investment in your growth. Um, unfortunately, that's not
always the case. Um, sometimes that can be seen as intimidating rather than inspiring. And then as a result of that,
that could then fracture the relationship because one partner might feel jealous of another partner's
success and ambitions. We know an argument continued to take place after they left the tax
office. And we know this because when we looked at his cell phone records, we saw
an argument via text by both Andre and Andre. Investigators also recovered footage
from a local gas station recorded at exactly the same time this text argument was taking place.
We see Andre at the gas station. We see him park at a pump, but he stays in the car for a prolonged period of
time. Andre is telling her, "How dare you open another business without me." And Andre is basically telling Andre to
calm down. And Andre clearly is not calming down. [Music] In the wake of the argument, Andre
returned home, arriving at 11:47 p.m. To shed light on what happened next, police
pulled Andre's phone records. Andre McDonald's phone was turned off 1 minute after midnight. An hour later, he
sends her a text message and he says, "Hey, where are you?" And then he sends one more text. He writes, "You should
not have opened that LLC without me." Phone records showed that by then Andre's phone had ceased all
communication. Financial searches also showed no further activity on her credit card. And flight data checks proved that
she did not board a plane. But a search of Andre's cell phone proved more fruitful.
He was searching things like, "Can you get fingerprints off of wood? Is Texas soil acidic or alkaline? How long does
it take for a body to decompose?" What's intriguing about this is it gives us, the investigators, an opportunity to see
what he was thinking. Police could only draw one conclusion. The search now began for
Andre's body. But it wasn't until 4 and a half months later when a farm worker made a chilling
discovery. Under the sunbleleached skeleton of a cow were human remains. Got the call that we found some
human remains on on a ranch not too far from where Andreine disappeared. The remains are extremely
dismembered and scattered. possibly burned. DNA analysis confirmed the decomposed
remains belonged to Andrin McDonald. Steven Spear was the prosecutor on the case.
She had been out in essentially ranchland field for several months in South Texas. Those are harsh conditions.
She was largely skeletal. There was blunt force trauma on her skeleton on several different
places. She had a kind of a triangle-shaped area had been knocked out right around the
chin. There have been some impacts on the spine, also a broken rib. Now, when this was looked at by the medical
examiner and also by a forensic anthropologist, all of them indicated that this would be uh from hits from a
tool such as a hammer. DNA testing confirmed that the blood found on the hammer at the house
belonged to Andrin. And despite the advanced level of decomposition, the autopsy also confirmed another of the
police's suspicions. Andre attempted to burn her body. We know this because we were able
to see charred marks on her fingers. We now know that he purchased that gasoline to burn her body. We look at
the shovel. We look at the log splitting axe and the small hatchet and the trash
bags. Those items are clearly clearly purchased for the sole purpose of dismembering and disposing of her body.
Now, investigators also had an explanation for the cuts to Andre's hands. There's a wire fence that is around the
perimeter of that field and it is possible that he received those lacerations on his fingers lifting or
lowering that wire fence and trying to throw her body over it. On Saturday, July 13th, 2019, Andre
McDonald was charged with the murder of his wife Andre. No one wants to think they know someone capable of of such a
horrific crime. People thought really highly of Andreine. They thought she was a great person. She did so much for the
community. It's hard to think that her husband would want to hurt her. But when investigators dug deeper into
the marriage, a very different picture began to emerge. This is far from a happy
marriage. Andreine and Andre have been fighting. Andre on several occasions had been physically abusive to Andre and
that he had assaulted her. Tensions over the business increased over the course of the
marriage and police had already been called out to the house for a number of domestic
disputes. Andre and Andreine likely stayed together in their relationship far longer than it was healthy to do
because they had built so much together and they likely both came from traditional families. I think a lot of
the reason they didn't get divorced was because they were in this business together and they didn't want to split
it up. Further investigations found other conflicts within the marriage, not least
that in recent months, Andrin had rekindled her relationship with a former lover back in Jamaica.
Andreine might have come to a conclusion that actually maybe this was not a relationship she wanted to be in for the
longer term. Especially if it was one that was violent. If something isn't working, you typically pivot and you try
and make something else work. That can look like trying to repair the relationship with your partner so that
it can be a safe and loving one again. It can also look like maybe I will search for another relationship
elsewhere or I'll look for growth in other areas of my life. Um perhaps I'll go into business, grow my business. So
how can I grow when I feel stuck? Did he kill her because of the affair or because of the
money? He became aware of the affair more than 6 months before he killed her. It was the day he was at the tax office
that he killed her. Clearly, the motive here was monetary. He wanted the money. He wanted the business. He could deal
with the affair. He didn't care about this marriage any more than she did. It was the business that he wanted.
At his trial, the jury acquitted Andre of murder, instead finding him guilty of manslaughter. He was sentenced to 20
years plus five more for tampering with the evidence. I'm sad at at the tragedy,
at the loss of a beautiful person like Andre McDonald. But I'm happy that I was able to be part of giving her her family
and her daughter justice. The murder of Andre McDonald cost more than just one life. It cost all the
years and all the good that she could have given to the world. All the hard work she was doing, the business she was
building, the lives she impacted, that all went with her. And it is a huge loss.
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In 2021, an Alabama man calls 911 and reports that his pregnant wife was shot inside their home. The couple’s home security footage plays a crucial role in revealing the haunting final moments of Summer Tatum’s life.

In 2019, Andreen McDonald, a successful entrepreneur and beloved mother, vanishes from her Texas home. As investigators close in, her husband’s bizarre behavior raises chilling questions about what really happened behind closed doors.

Killers Caught On Camera is a true-crime series with a voyeuristic twist: video footage from home security cameras, CCTV, and dashcams take center-stage, helping detectives catch perpetrators in moments of criminal intent to acts of pure evil. Family members of victims and law enforcement provide first-hand accounts of how these chilling events unfold while experts like Criminal Psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw dissect the darkest corners of the mind.

Brief Summary

Two tragic murder cases: Summer Tatum shot by her husband, Andre McDonald goes missing and is later found murdered.

Key points

Desperate Call from Alabama. A distraught husband calls 911 after a shocking incident with his wife.
Summer's Life and Challenges. Summer Tatum, a vibrant woman, faced many challenges but remained strong and determined.
Tragic Shooting Incident. Hunter Tatum calls 911 after shooting his wife, leading to a complex investigation.
Video Evidence Reveals Truth. Home security footage contradicts Hunter's claims, revealing chilling moments before the shooting.
Trial and Sentencing. Hunter Tatum is found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to 198 years.
The Disappearance of Andre McDonald. Andre McDonald goes missing, prompting concern from family and friends.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

The camera doesn’t lie.

A key statement regarding the evidence in the case.

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Tension

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