The Shocking Murder of Vickie Edge | Killers Caught On Camera | Forensic Files

[TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: This time, on ''Killers Caught on Camera''. In Florida, a woman meets the man of her dreams.
WOMAN: I was really looking forward to meeting him, because I had heard all the good things
that she had said about him. [TENSE MUSIC] But she goes missing. And the police investigate her disappearance.
MAN: I asked him if Vickie was inside the residence, and he responded with, ''I have to tell you something''.
NARRATOR: And in the UK, a happy marriage is destroyed when a woman is found dead.
It was the whole world crashing down. NARRATOR: And her husband is discovered with multiple stab wounds.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] MAN: It just sounds like something bad is happening to her. WOMAN: We know what happened because the video
tells us what happened. MAN: I heard some gunshots. POLICE: Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it.
MAN: That does not prove that I killed my wife. MAN: The camera doesn't lie. [TENSE MUSIC] United States, Destin, Florida.
A small city nestled in the panhandle on the Emerald Coast. Over 100 miles west of the state capital, Tallahassee.
Home to 59-year-old, Vicki Edge, and friend, Sherrie Linn. SHERRIE LINN: Vickie was here probably almost every weekend
during the summer, because we'd always usually go out either after church or on Saturday.
We'd hop on the boat with all the girlfriends and just head out. My husband, Johnny, was our captain.
He'd happily take us wherever we wanted to go. SHERRIE LINN: She was always the life of the party.
She loved to dance and have fun and go on girls trips. So it was-- She was always fun to be around.
[TENSE MUSIC] Vickie and Sherrie met at high school. SHERRIE LINN: We just kind of grew
up together, and knew her family and she knew my family. And we just always did things together, forever since then.
As we grew up and got out of high school, she had one son, I have one son. We had all the mother stuff to go
through together, so we just always been there for each other. NARRATOR: Vickie was a single, successful businesswoman,
who wanted a relationship. SHERRIE LINN In her heart, she just wanted to be-- Kind of to have that person that she was going to grow old with.
A lot of times it's not fun out in the dating world. She wanted that to be over and just have peace and comfort
and, you know, somebody just to enjoy her-- Her older years with. NARRATOR: In May 2020, Vickie met Jerry Odum online.
A former karate teacher, also looking for love. SHERRIE LINN: She told me about their first date,
she called me when it was over and she told me how wonderful it was and how charming he was.
And she felt like she connected with him. And he was kind and a gentleman and, you know,
everything that you-- You hope a first date would be. She was very excited. NARRATOR: Things moved quickly.
After just four months, they were planning to get married and buy a house together.
SHERRIE LINN: The thing that seemed a little bit strange, I guess, was that she had told me that he had just got
a tattoo of Vickie on his arm. And I was thinking, well, you know, that was kind of fast.
But you're thinking, you know, the wedding's coming kind of fast, but maybe they're head over heels in love.
And if you're older, you think you don't want to wait. You want to go ahead and build your life together.
[TENSE MUSIC] Due to COVID restrictions at the time, none of Vickie's friends or family had met Jerry.
But Vickie and Jerry were planning their big day at Sherrie's house. SHERRIE LINN: Our place was kind of like her place,
so she felt like everybody could be at ease and just have a party and celebrate the new chapter that
was going to start in her life. NARRATOR: Jerry started to pay for the wedding preparations.
SHERRIE LINN: Vickie was real excited because he had given her a check for $15,000 for us to go shopping and to get all
the stuff to set up in the back yard to make it all cute, you know, the table, settings.
And I was, you know, really looking forward to meeting him, because I had heard all the good things
that she had said about him. SHERRIE LINN: And also he had taken her shopping to go buy her the house on the lake
that she had wanted. NARRATOR: August 7th, 2020, Vickie didn't turn up for a session at her spa.
SHERRIE LINN: I know Vickie's work ethic. She would not miss an appointment, unless something
bad had happened. We've got to find her, something's going on. NARRATOR: Alarm bells were ringing.
Vickie's close-knit family, friends and staff were concerned. SHERRIE LINN: Everybody kind of went into action
trying to call everybody we knew, trying to figure out, you know, who could we call, who was the last one to see her.
[TENSE MUSIC] Vickie had been staying with Jerry while she'd been recovering from COVID.
Vickie's brother and sister in law, tracked down Jerry's address in Milton. They headed to his house to find out
if Jerry knew where Vickie was. When they arrived, Vickie's car was in the driveway,
the license plate removed. Vickie's sister-in-law called 911 to ask for a welfare check.
NARRATOR: At the same time as Vickie's sister-in-law was talking to the police, Jerry Odum made a separate 911
call from inside the house. NARRATOR: Benjamin Posey was one of the patrol deputies
called to Jerry's house. BENJAMIN POSEY: When I first arrived on scene, I talked with Derric, Vickie's brother,
and then also her sister-in-law. They didn't know very much about Jerry. He just knew that Vickie loved Jerry.
She was willing to spend the rest of her life with him. NARRATOR: The police needed to find out
if Jerry knew where Vickie was. BENJAMIN POSEY: We knew he was inside the house,
because we were just on the phone with him not five minutes prior. The garage door opens up.
I made contact with Jerry and asked him if Vickie was inside the residence and he responded with yes.
And then he stated, I have to tell you something. BENJAMIN POSEY: At this point, we were in the garage.
Jerry has his hand on the doorknob in the garage door to make entry to the house.
You could tell he was very nervous because, he's very soft spoken. He didn't want his voice to carry out
to where the family could hear. And he opens the door just a little bit. And before we make entry, he stated again, ''I have
to tell you something first.'' BENJAMIN POSEY: She's been dead for two days. [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
BENJAMIN POSEY: The first thing that came to mind was she had a medical emergency, whether she had a heart attack
or there was a drug overdose of some sort. You ask the question, where's she at?
She's in the living room. How did Vickie die? He responded with, ''I'd rather not say without a lawyer.''
NARRATOR: The case was escalated. Captain Scott Jones headed to the house. SCOTT JONES: When I went into the scene,
Vickie Edge was covered with a blanket. I very carefully pulled the blanket back
and I could observe blood spatter on her and I could observe a large amount of blood
near the back of her head. However, the scene itself was fairly contained to the living room.
It didn't look like there had been a long, violent struggle. It looked like it had mostly occurred
there right in the central part of the living room. NARRATOR: Lieutenant Lance Bird is an experienced crime scene
investigator. LANCE BIRD: It didn't appear to be a natural death. The circumstances obviously wasn't pointing towards any kind
of natural death. SHERRIE LINN: You don't believe things like that are going to happen, so you just don't.
You know, my, my mind couldn't go there, that something that tragic was was going on.
NARRATOR: As crime scene investigators worked their way through the property. Jerry Odum was being interviewed.
LANCE BIRD: So Jerry was very, I'd say, laid back. He was really a matter of fact.
LANCE BIRD: You could tell he really wanted to tell us his story. DR. JULIA SHAW: Loads of people lie at the beginning
of relationships. There's actually a term for it in the literature, which is called ''self-presentation lies''.
Lying about who you are or some fundamental aspect of who you are, so that can also include things like beliefs
or how wealthy you are. If you lie at the beginning, the question is either do you reveal relatively early on that you've
been lying or do you keep running with it, in which case, at some point you are almost
certainly going to get caught. And then the question is, what do you do when that happens?
SHERRIE LINN: I think she thought he was comfortable enough for her little dream
of a little house, away from the city where she could kind of just be out in the country and just slow down and not
have to work so hard. She thought he was stable. SCOTT JONES: I could not believe what I was hearing.
It was the strangest reason for murdering someone I've ever heard. LANCE BIRD: He was just a matter of fact about it.
Didn't didn't cry, didn't have really a whole lot of emotional, you know, he wasn't breaking down or anything like that.
It was just detail after detail. NARRATOR: Jerry Odum's weapon of choice was significant.
Back at the crime scene, police discovered the murder weapon, covered in blood and the original packaging.
SCOTT JONES: When we found the bat, it still had a receipt taped on it from Walmart, which would be
crucial for locating, hopefully, some video surveillance to indicate that he was the person who purchased that bat.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] [TENSE MUSIC] The receipt helped the police to pinpoint the exact date, time and location where
the baseball bat was purchased. LANCE BIRD: You can see them coming through the entry
door in this green yellow jacket, walking through the entrance. We were able to follow him around the store
with different surveillance cameras throughout the business. He's walking through and he's looking.
The baseball bat area is going to be in that aisle or this row up here. So you can see him walking straight to them.
You can see when he's up here, he's picked one out. NARRATOR: Jerry Odum swung the bat
vertically, not horizontally. LANCE BIRD: He's moving it around trying to figure out
if that's going to be the one that he thinks is going to be able to actually kill somebody.
He's not acting any way out of the ordinary. To me, it doesn't seem like it's bothering him
at all, what he's about to do. I don't think at this point he knew when it was going
to happen, but it doesn't appear that it's bothering him at all what he's already got in his mind
that he's going to end up doing to miss Edge. LANCE BIRD: The video footage shows us
that the statement he gave us was confirmed, and we also helped us kind of put it together of his mindset
for the whole thing. NARRATOR: Jerry Odum purchased the baseball bat eight days before Vickie was murdered.
DR. JULIA SHAW: What we're seeing in the circumstance is someone who is struggling to plan ahead beyond the next step.
He's lying about who he is in order to get in with this person and/or start this relationship.
DR. JULIA SHAW: And this is the same where he's using a baseball bat to kill this woman, which obviously is
a ludicrous strategy to try and remove himself from the situation. So he's using consistently short term strategies.
NARRATOR: When you examine the footage, it's striking how much he reveals in the interview.
DR. JULIA SHAW: In some ways, you could say he seems to be incredibly honest and he's done some work really thinking
about how it got to this point. And he made the decision, I'm going to tell them everything.
Probably because he thinks, a, he gets to unload all of this and b, he's probably going to get a more
lenient sentence for complying. DR. JULIA SHAW: All the things he is saying are entirely plausible explanations
for how it got to this point. They're not reasonable explanations, but they are plausible.
Looking back at it, I think that maybe because he did give her the check, I think he was setting himself up to get found
out if there wasn't any money. SHERRIE LINN: He had written her a check that in a few days
we were going to find out was not any good. So I think that he was just backing himself into a corner
and. I guess he was a coward. SCOTT JONES: So at this point, with his bizarre confession,
we now have to determine whether this was a premeditated act or was this something that happened in the heat of moment.
The difference between those is very large. The difference between first degree murder, which you can
receive the death penalty for or second degree murder, which is a lengthy prison sentence.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: Mark Alderman is assistant state attorney for the First Judicial Circuit.
MARK ALDERMAN: In the state of Florida, premeditation involves a person making a conscious decision to kill.
And between that conscious decision and the act itself, there has to be enough time for reflection.
And that is ultimately a question for the jury as to is there enough time for reflection.
That was one of the other things that stood out about this case was the length of time between him buying
the weapon with the intent to use it and then him using it on Vickie. It was eight days previously, which is a huge amount of time
to be planning to do that. That's incredibly cold blooded. NARRATOR: Jerry's interview also helped shed light on why
he chose a baseball bat. DR. JULIA SHAW: One thing that we don't talk about very much, for obvious reasons, because we're
focusing correctly on the victims of these kinds of extreme crimes. But people who perpetrate these crimes also
often come away with PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, because they're having flashbacks to what they did.
DR. JULIA SHAW: So if you've killed somebody, of course it's not unlikely for you
to have psychological consequences for the act that you perpetrated. And so, trying to minimize that seems like correct,
because you are going to otherwise be scarred for life by what you just did. NARRATOR: Jerry also explained what happened
after he murdered Vickie. LANCE BIRD: You would think somebody who had just done that to somebody that they cared for, that you would be
wasn't able to get along with your life like normal every day. Hey, I'm going to go just eat a dinner and then, you know,
just hang out like I would any other day, after just murdering somebody. Knowing he was going to have to go back and deal with it,
it was obvious that he had planned it out. And it didn't bother him one bit. NARRATOR: The next day, Jerry headed back home.
NARRATOR: An interview with the neighbors confirmed that Jerry had spent the day with them,
while Vickie's body was lying in the house. NARRATOR: Vickie's body had been lying
in Jerry's house for more than 30 hours before it was discovered. MARK ALDERMAN: Jerry Odum, you know,
he could have called the police after this happened, but he did not. You know, two days later is when the police show up at his door.
So at the end of the day, I'll never know what he ultimately intended. I mean, he took some steps to try and cover his tracks,
in some ways. He put her phone in a bucket of water. He took the license plate of her car,
trying to hide the fact that her car was in the driveway. [JERRY'S VOICE] MARK ALDERMAN: He claimed that he
was planning on calling the police, but just didn't get around to it. I don't know if that's true or not,
but had her friends and family not looked for her and, you know, been very active in trying to find her,
he would have had several more days to do whatever he was going to do, whether it was, you know, trying to hide the body
or dispose of evidence. NARRATOR: Jerry had no previous convictions, but a police interview with his former girlfriend
revealed a chilling pattern of behavior. NARRATOR: There was clearly a disturbing similarity
between Jerry's relationships. But this time, why did he resort to murder? DR. JULIA SHAW: Maybe his ego is so fragile
that he felt that the only way to get past the situation is to remove her from the situation from his life.
Jerry Odum fits the profile of a vulnerable narcissist. In other words, he is presenting as amazing, as wealthy, as rich,
but he doesn't quite believe it. And that is a toxic mix, which can lead to someone
doing terrible things. NARRATOR: The evidence was overwhelming. The case never went to trial.
NARRATOR: In February 2021, Jerry Odum pleaded guilty to first degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison.
SCOTT JONES: The video surveillance was crucial in proving that this was a premeditated murder.
In the video, as you've seen, you can see the bat was bought specifically for the purpose of murdering Vickie Edge, which proved
definitively that this was a premeditated murder and not a heat of passion type of crime.
NARRATOR: Ultimately, Vickie's close relationships with family and friends led to the discovery of her murder.
MARK ALDERMAN: The fact that people cared about her and missed her almost immediately from the day she
was killed is ultimately what led to Jerry Odum being convicted. SHERRIE LINN: I want Vickie to be
remembered for being a strong, intelligent woman, that was very giving. A lot of the people in our community
are always going to remember Vickie. She was always so happy and full of life and made everybody around her happy.
And it was just always peaceful. We're all missing her a lot. And I wish she could have got to have the life
that she was dreaming about. NARRATOR: In the case of Vickie Edge, she never really knew what her partner was like until the very
last moments of her life. Jerry Odum's fear of being found out led him to a lethal solution.
His behavior fits with research on our darkest character traits. DR. JULIA SHAW: The dark triad is a cluster of what are
called dark personality traits. What that means is that all of us are on a spectrum,
on psychopathy, on narcissism, and on machiavellianism. And people who are high on the dark triad
are higher on one or all of these traits. Psychopathy is a lack of empathy is characterized
by manipulativeness. Narcissism is an inflated sense of self-worth, but that can stem from either actually believing you're
amazing or overcompensating, because you don't really believe you're amazing. DR. JULIA SHAW: And then, machiavellianism
is more of a strategic manipulation of circumstances to get ahead. In other words, you're using strategy to try and convince
someone that you're better than you are and you're manipulating someone on purpose to get what you want.
In this case, to maybe have sex and/or have this relationship. Research on the dark triad in the context
of romantic relationships has found that people who are dating someone who's high on the dark triad are much more likely to be the victims
of violence and of manipulation or other toxic relationship behaviors. NARRATOR: And in our next case, sometimes dark traits
can remain dormant for a very long time until stressful circumstances cause them to manifest.
NARRATOR: In the UK, the capital, London, Euston station in the heart of the city.
In October, 2022, a man was found collapsed on the platform with multiple stab wounds.
[POLICE] NARRATOR: His name, Philip Dafter. He was incoherent, but the police were so concerned,
they wanted to check on his wife nearly 70 miles away in Northampton. NARRATOR: They headed to the family home,
but the doors were locked. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] [POLICE] NARRATOR: Diana Dafter was dead.
NARRATOR: Amber Haque is a journalist based in the area. AMBER HAQUE: Diana Dafter was a 36-year-old woman.
She'd moved over to Northampton from Malawi, and she'd worked at a care home. Every job that Diana had was looking after people.
AUBREY MAKWE: Diana was my sister's first born. Since childhood, Diana was a very bright kid.
So upon completing her studies at secondary school level, she asked me if I could invite her to come and continue
her studies in the UK. I agreed, I accepted. Diana was really a child to us. NARRATOR: Dalia Banda was a close friend of Diana.
DALIA BANDA: We were very close and she was just like a little sister to me, she was beautiful.
And all the time when we have like family gatherings, she was so bubbly. NARRATOR: It wasn't long before she met someone.
AMBER HAQUE: She met her husband, Philip, who had worked in the army, then went on to drive a bus
and become a HGV driver. They got married and they had two kids together. AUBREY MAKWE: Throughout their marriage,
they used to like social media. Everything they were doing, they used to post it on Facebook.
You know, going to restaurants, going to fancy places. DALIA BANDA: It looks like they were in love, that's what I saw.
NARRATOR: Life was good. As the kids grew up, their social circle expanded and she met new people.
HEATHER MALOPA: She was kind, she was loving, she was gifted, she was talented. She used to do hair, she could bake cakes.
She actually started her own little business where she could grind like the white maize, turn it into flour.
And she used to sell it to people. NARRATOR: Diana also had professional ambition.
HEATHER MALOPA: She has always said, you know what, I want to go to school. She really wanted to to be a nurse, for the love
of caring for people. NARRATOR: In 2022, Diana's dream came one step closer when
she was accepted onto a nursing degree at Northampton University. DALIA BANDA: When she got her student ID, she was very excited
and she was talking about it all the time when you meet her. She was the happiest I've ever seen her.
We thought everything is now, well, she's happy, she's got a loving husband, she's
got two beautiful children, she's working. Happy families, good friends. We thought everything is going perfectly.
NARRATOR: On October 7th, 2022, everything changed. She dropped her daughter off at school,
but this was the last time she was seen alive. Three hours later. [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
NARRATOR: She was discovered stabbed to death in her own home. [POLICE] AUBREY MAKWE: Police say that they found
her lifeless body in the house. It was the whole world crashing down. [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
AMBER HAQUE: She'd been stopped five times and a post mortem a couple of days later showed that she had died from a single stab wound
to the chest. DALIA BANDA: It was just like, this is not true. Diana is just young, she can't die now, Why?
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The police checked hours of CCTV to piece together what happened that morning.
The first key footage was from the local supermarket. Diana's husband, Philip, was seen
buying a set of kitchen knives. Professor Coral Dando is a forensic psychologist.
After reviewing the video, she noticed something intriguing. PROF CORAL DANDO: He's picked up a packet of knives.
He shows his proof of age ID to the shop assistant. He makes no attempt to conceal his identity.
He's got a hood on, but he chooses not to put that up, which is an interesting observation.
And he just quite coolly, quite calmly buys these packets of knives and he's used his bank
card to pay for the knives. So he's made absolutely no effort to conceal his identity.
NARRATOR: Professor Vasilios Karagiannopoulos is a cybercrime expert. One has to wonder who buys kitchen
knives at 9:00 in the morning without actually buying anything else. We can see him, he's being very casual,
as if he's shopping for his daily shop. NARRATOR: Philip Dafter was caught on camera again an hour or so later,
approaching Northampton station. DR. VASILEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: Now, in this footage,
it's later in the morning, we see him walking to the train station, after he has parked his car, holding a bottle.
What we can clearly see is that he has changed clothes. NARRATOR: Philip headed to London, an hour long journey.
DR. VASILEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: We can see he doesn't look as calm and collected,
his stumbling about. NARRATOR: When he got to Euston, he staggered onto the platform,
met by Transport Police. [POLICE] NARRATOR: Philip Dafter was delirious and in danger
of bleeding to death. PROF CORAL DANDO: This officer here, who wants to assess what's going on,
to make some sort of immediate decision about whether his life is threatened by his injuries
or not. Because they've got to wait for an ambulance. And that will take some time.
And they're all standing around and recognizing that this is a man in some sort of mental distress
as well as physical distress. NARRATOR: He revealed that his wounds were self-inflicted.
[POLICE] PROF CORAL DANDO: Nobody's comfortable in that environment, because they're worried
about his physical injuries. But they're also, we're seeing here that Philip is in quite a lot of mental and emotional distress.
PROF CORAL DANDO: And, of course, individuals who are like that are unpredictable.
So everybody is standing around worried about what might happen next. NARRATOR: The family were in shock.
AUBREY MAKWE: These things we used to just read them in the newspapers or hear about them on TV.
And now that has happened to me, to my family. It was as if somebody had just taken a knife
and stabbed me right there. DR. VASILEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS: On the face of it, he seems very distressed at this time,
but we have seen him being very calm earlier, closer to the time of the murder. AMBER HAQUE: Philip Dafter was airlifted
to Saint Mary's Hospital in Paddington, where he was treated for a stab wound. NARRATOR: In his hospital bed.
Philip Dafter admitted that he alone was responsible for his wife's death. AMBER HAQUE: It was at this point he confessed that he had
been driven to do this to Diana, following an argument about this car issue. [POLICE]
PROF CORAL DANDO: I think the police believe that he might have scored. I also suspect that the officer thinks that he might try
to end his life or self harm again as soon as he leaves hospital. And so by arresting him, that means
as soon as he leaves hospital, he can go into police custody. PROF CORAL DANDO: We've got this sort of behavior
from Philip where he's just quite accepting of his fate. He recognizes, I think, that he's going
to be convicted for murder. I suspect it's just a carry over from the psychological distress
associated with murdering your wife. HEATHER MALOPA: She was murdered, and you were like, why?
Everyone was asking why. What happened? What did she do that she had to be killed in that way
and no one had the answer. Philip only had the answer, and he was not there to explain why,
why he did it. [POLICE] When it comes to extreme violence, things like psychopathy on the dark triad really help.
In other words, if you're low in empathy, you don't feel pain when other people are in pain, for example,
it's much easier to hurt somebody. And that combined with wanting to get ahead or wanting to pursue goals no matter what,
and maybe thinking that you deserve more, you deserve the world. That combination is really predictive of violent offending.
AMBER HAQUE: We already know that domestic violence is a huge issue within violence against women and girls.
And what is so tragic about this case and so many others is a woman is most likely to be killed in her own home by someone that she knows.
In 60% of cases, women are killed by their husbands or their ex partners. AMBER HAQUE: Just six days after the stabbing,
doctors arrived to do a mental health assessment on Philip. And he told them that this was a moment of madness
and he had been driven to do this to Diana. NARRATOR: Philip had confessed. But was it an emotional loss of control or a deliberate
final access control? AMBER HAQUE: During the trial, Philip tried to claimed that he
had diminished responsibility. Details started to come out of his mental health background.
He said he had these recurrent depressive episodes and that in the buildup to the killing
he'd become quite withdrawn. Now, it's difficult to say whether these were kind of
brought up as excuses almost to build up a picture that he wasn't really in control or whether this was somebody who
was doing something very calculated in the picture they were trying to put across to the jury.
NARRATOR: Digging into Philip and Diana's relationship revealed a not so picture perfect life together.
AUBREY MAKWE: He was very jealous of Diana going to work. At break times, he would force Diana to go home.
In his mind, he was thinking, if Diana is at work during break times, she'll be meeting men.
Men will be talking to her. NARRATOR: But it seemed Philip did not live by his own rules.
In court, it came to light that he'd had extramarital affairs and Diana planned to leave.
Diana had suspicions that Philip was cheating on her at various points. And so we would say probably cracks were starting to show.
On the 7th of October, when Diana came home from dropping the kids off, that was when
things really hit crisis point. The couple started having an argument and things began to escalate.
Philip stabbed his wife a number of times. NARRATOR: Philip replaced the broken knife
immediately after he'd killed Diana, which he later used on himself. DR. JULIA SHAW: Why did he kill her?
Is it because he wanted to cover up his shame? Is it because he couldn't see another option?
It seems to me like there was something else going on in his mind. And it was the line of thinking, which is most common when we're
looking at intimate partner homicide is the line of if she finds out, she's going to leave me, if she leaves me,
she's going to be with somebody else. And if I can't have her, no one can. That kind of thinking, that kind of pathway
is so common in intimate partner murder, that it would shock me that there wasn't some version of that playing out here in his mind
as well. NARRATOR: On July, 25th, 2023, Philip Dafter was sentenced to life in prison.
The jury arrived at their verdict after deliberating for just two hours. AMBER HAQUE: When you look on the surface level
that it took this jury just two hours to reach this conclusion, that's quite quick for a jury to to reach a deliberation.
Sometimes it can take days. So it seems in their mind they were pretty certain that this man intended to kill his wife.
PROF CORAL DANDO: I think it's about trying to alleviate his own psychological discomfort
associated with his behavior. His approach to doing that is to injure himself, drink alcohol,
and to just want to tell everybody really that he's in some sort of distress. But ultimately, he's responsible for his own current situation.
And there's nothing to suggest that that would be diminished responsibility. AMBER HAQUE: CCTV was crucial in this case.
It allowed them to make Philip accountable for what he had done. They were able to see that he was kind of trying to throw them
off the scent and some of his actions in the hours following that. They were able to get that conviction for murder
by proving that he was being very calm and calculated in how he behaved afterwards.
DALIA BANDA: This pain that I have for Diana's death it stays with me for a long time,
to be honest. I just don't understand why and how someone would do such kind of a thing to someone that they love.
When I think about all those things, it still brings the pain, but Diana is no more
and that I will never see her again in this life. It is very sad for me. The impact of her death has been massive.
It's huge. It has changed our life upside down. We have now to look after the children.
I would say to whoever is watching this out there. There is always somebody who is willing to listen,
somebody who can help you. Please get out of it and seek help. [END CREDITS MUSIC]

In the US, Vickie Edge found herself in a whirlwind romance, but her newfound joy is cut short when her family discovers her lifeless body wrapped in a blanket. Can surveillance footage identify a killer hiding in plain sight?

And in the UK, a man with multiple stab wounds is discovered on a train platform, but the fate of his wife, Diana Dafter is revealed to be much worse.

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Brief Summary

Vickie Edge and Diana Dafter were murdered by their partners, revealing dark psychological patterns and the impact of domestic violence.

Key points

Vickie's Disappearance. Vickie Edge goes missing, prompting concern from friends and family.
Jerry's Confession. Jerry Odum reveals to police that Vickie has been dead for two days.
Premeditated Murder. Evidence shows Jerry planned Vickie's murder days in advance.
Vickie's Legacy. Friends remember Vickie as a vibrant, caring woman.
The Dark Triad. Exploration of Jerry's personality traits and their implications for violence.
Diana's Ambitions. Diana was accepted into a nursing degree program, bringing her dream closer.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

She was always the life of the party.

Sherrie's description of Vickie.

1:58WatchJun 30, 2024

Tension

85/ 100High tension

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