Women Behind Bars - Season 1, Episode 2 - Cindy and Jennifer - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] on this episode of women behind bars one woman claimed she killed her mother
while in a drug-induced fog the autopsy showed significant severe injuries it was a pretty awful death
prison is cold hard steel another woman was convicted of murdering her mother and then dumping her on the side of a
road my sister tried to apparently burn the body in the trash can to get rid of the
evidence i i hid the fact that she was dead and i'm deeply ashamed of that and i feel horrible but i didn't kill my
mom [Music] two women two brutal crimes these are the stories of cindy countess and jennifer blake
[Music] [Music] on friday may 3rd 2002 49 year old cindy countess was caring for her ailing
mother edna dooley countess was supposed to have been taking the antidepressant paxil for depression
but according to court testimony she had missed her normal dosage for a week when her mother hid her medication on
the day of the crime cindy started taking her meds again later in the evening something went terribly wrong and her 82
year old mother ended up dead on the bathroom floor the autopsy showed significant severe
injuries to edna dooley it was a pretty awful death there was no doubt that cindy countess had done that to her
mother the whole question was why did cindy countess kill her mother in a cold-blooded rage
or was it an accident the result of an adverse side effect to an antidepressant cindy countess was born in 1954 in
roanoke virginia the second youngest of five children i feel that i have very blessed and very
loving and caring upbringing i was taught responsibility reliability honesty and all of these
things and more or less a christian home but family members believe that throughout cindy's childhood her mother
edna dooley struggled with undiagnosed mental illness i feel like she had mental
health issues for years and they were never diagnosed and no doubt that's why there
was so much tension growing up is because mama didn't know how she dealt with the
situation or her mental condition as well as she could i think she was bipolar and you know
people her age they weren't diagnosed with bipolar or schizophrenia or whatever her problem
was despite the difficulties in her dysfunctional family cindy was full of life she was very active she used to roller
skate and ice skate and she was very good at that she won different trophies and stuff like that
she did modeling and she did some acting cindy loved life she had a great love and zest for life she loved doing things
different experiences she played tennis and won trophies for that too she was married twice married right out
of school her marriage did not work out and she had a number of different occupations
met a second man and got married in 1988 cindy married an entertainer the couple moved to las vegas to pursue
careers in show business she was this aspiring singer actress model in las vegas but life in show business
was not always glamorous like her mother cindy began to show signs of mental illness
she was in and out of the mental health system several times she had a personality disorder that was
characterized by a great deal of emotional instability and they had this life that had its highs and its lows
then cindy's life got interrupted in 1997 cindy received an emergency call from her sister norma jean
asking her to help care for their ailing parents countess's father had suffered several
strokes and her mother was diagnosed with heart disease and dementia the 43 year old
left her husband and returned to virginia to assist with the care [Music] my father had at least four major
strokes and i would pick up the physical therapy for him i cooked and cleaned for them i i did
everything for them to the very best it's my perfect ability to do so there are no words to truly convey
the extent of difficulties that i and my older sister overcame she totally was overwhelmed at the job
that she was trying to do even though she loved my grandparents to death she was not the right person for
that job although their brothers lived in roanoke the two sisters say they were left to
handle all the care nobody else ever offered even when we asked nobody wanted to help
cindy's father passed away in december 2001. despite her precarious mental state
countess still became her mother's primary caretaker the living conditions were deplorable
my mother had the obsessive compulsive disorder she collected everything the house was in total chaos indicative
of hoarding which would be consistent with the mother's diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder
my mother bless her heart was a pack rat and so um i was the one that through the
years did the majority of the cleaning even to the point of getting worms one time and that winding up at an
emergency room as having done so mom had had open-heart surgery the year before mentally she just was in a bad state and
if she had to go to the bathroom she'd just go after four years of taking care of their parents every need
norma jean and cindy were worn out cindy and i both were just exhausted mentally and physically exhausted
and it was just too much trying to take care of mom too i wound up having a nervous breakdown i
was hospitalized for at least eight days in 2001. cindy started taking the antidepressant
paxil after she was released from the psychiatric hospital countess was still left to pick up the
brunt of her mother's care over the next six months cindy's mother's dementia worsened and she
became increasingly difficult to manage cindy was the primary caregiver the at-home caregiver
and many times her mother would get very agitated would scream yell take things would not do what cindy
wanted her to do we all loved her mother but trying to take care of her was like a nightmare
cindy struggled to meet her mother's unrelenting demands but her own health was in jeopardy in
addition to the ongoing depression doctors diagnosed countess with breast cancer she had surgery and radiation to
remove the tumor she's trying to deal with the depression and then she's trying to deal with
breast cancer herself and she's trying to take care of my grandmother who is a full-time job and i really just
feel like it was a recipe for disaster you had a mentally ill woman who was taking care of a mentally ill
mother and without any help except from her sister and she had said herself she was at her wits
end by the summer of 2001 the relationship between mother and daughter reached a breaking point
i had remained on the paxil that entire year and i had been taking my medicine explicitly
according to doctor's orders up until the point when my mother had hid both of our prescription medicines
my mother she got to where she didn't want to take her pills so she started hiding the medicine and
she hid cindy's too so cindy was forced into withdrawal off that paxil her mother was hoarding drugs and this
is again very common with people of dementia that cindy had not been on paxil for at least
a week and it may have been two weeks people who have been taking medicines like paxil
intermittently or suddenly stopped and they have a withdrawal we know that the more inconsistent they
take them the more likely they're going to get into trouble with them i found myself the week and a half
before the tragedy happened i was pacing the floor my skin was crawling my hands felt like
balloons when women behind bars continues we wind up the two of us taking turns grabbing
things to kind of flog one another with and that is pretty much the only memory that i have
of that night while dealing with her own mental illness cindy countess cared for her
obsessive-compulsive ailing year 82-year-old mother in april 2002 countess says her mother hid her
antidepressants allegedly forcing her into withdrawal after a week with no medication cindy
felt desperate she finds a paxil dose i think they said it was 30 milligrams which
is a lot and so she takes that one paxil dose and then the the description is that she becomes confused
it was just a nightmare but it was real [Music] later in the evening countess made her
mother dinner and put her to bed according to court testimony cindy then poured herself two mixed drinks to relax
i had been sitting at the computer and i had to go to the restroom and um my mother had to go
obviously about the same time but somehow or another while we were in the bathroom for some
reason she slapped me she remembers mama striking her but she doesn't remember over what she
said possibly mom got upset with her for putting the toilet paper in a certain place and not where she
wanted it cindy had come in and had gotten frustrated because her mother was also
yelling and agitated she was a demented agitated scared human being who didn't know what
she was doing cindy did perhaps overreact when her mother slapped her and then it just
went worse from there i believe she innocent essence did snap we wind up the two of us are taking
turns grabbing things kind of flogged one another with her mom had fallen to the ground with
her head by the sink and her feet towards the toilet and when her mother had gone down
cindy did stomp on her and the imprint of her of her shoes is on her mother while her mother lay unconscious from
the beating cindy claims she then blacked out my very next memory after the actual
altercation is i'm in the living room talking on the phone with my older sister it was right around 11 o'clock the phone
rang and she just seemed to be um not even sure of anything that was going on around her
in fact they said she had a smear of blood on her leg she has no idea how it got there
norma pleaded with her sister to get help from a nearby relative so i went and i got my older brother and
he came in and we both saw that my mother was on the floor behind the bathroom door
and so my brother reaches around and tries to take a pulse and everything the police arrived soon after to find
edna dooley dead on the bathroom floor cause of death blunt force trauma the autopsy showed significant
severe injuries to edna dooley to her ear her head the photos show that it was a pretty awful death
several witnesses reported that cindy appeared to be intoxicated but countess denied she drank alcohol
and says she never took a breathalyzer i had mistakenly told a couple of detectives that i had made
a mixed drink or so i had poured those out i never drank those drinks cindy countess had been drinking and so
to this date she doesn't remember what she did a month after the incident police
charged 49 year old cindy countess with first degree murder of her 82 year old mother edna dooley
during the trials i remember watching cindy and thinking that she seemed weak and a little bit
out of sorts i would say and not really in touch with reality definitely depressed
kind of like she lost her way like all this that happened in her life was pretty much over during the four-day
trial the defense argued that countess had worked hard to take care of her mother
and that cindy suffered from involuntary intoxication due to the paxil while involuntary
intoxication in virginia anyways relies upon the fact that a person is being prescribed a medication by their
physician they take the medication as prescribed and in the process of taking the
medication that's prescribed the medication impairs them to a degree to where it causes them to do something
they wouldn't normally do so the doubt in this case was yeah this medicine can do
things and cause a person to do things they wouldn't normally do but the other doubt was she wasn't
following her physician's instructions when cindy took the stand the prosecution asked if she had taken her
medication in the manner that her physician prescribed she was in tears and she would tell
the prosecute attorney that she didn't remember she didn't know she didn't remember when she would ask her
all these questions trying to pin her down to what time of day you gave medicine what
time you took medicine things like that cindy she couldn't remember all those things
cindy had no business in her mental state she had no business being called up to
testify she she damaged her own self by having to testify it was hard for my attorney it was hard for me
to be able to find the right words to describe just exactly what did happen to me
countess maintained she did not intentionally hurt her mother and believed she was innocent but her
tearful testimony did not resonate with the judge the prosecution argued that countess had
not taken her medication properly and that she had been drinking that night and killed her mother
in a blind rage the prosecution had very strong case i mean the forensic evidence was very strong
dna links and all that with the blood on cindy match to her mother the markings on dooley's face
i think were like the treads of the tennis shoes and that's how they were able to match up
that as pretty uh clear evidence that cindy countess had stepped on her mother and brutally killed her
[Music] the trial left a family at odds and raised some doubts by the end of the trial it was clear
that the family was divided the two brothers were sitting with the prosecution ms draper was sitting on ms countess's
side and both sides had other family members sitting with them so a clearly split family which both
sides confirmed was true neither of the boys had a great love for her mother they had both been trying to get what
little our parents owned long before my father died and i have never been totally convinced
that they didn't play some role in my mother's death i've always felt that there was there
was more to it than what we would ever know when women behind bars continues it's
easy to say well it's the drug's fault but i'm sorry the person took the drugs and you're responsible for your own
behavior in the fall of 2003 49 year old cindy countess stood trial for the stomping
death of her elderly mother edna dooley the prosecution maintained that countess committed the crime in
cold blood the defense claimed cindy suffered from involuntary intoxication a rare side effect of the
antidepressants that blurred cindy's ability to tell right from wrong so here we have a person with a chaotic
life taking medicines not as prescribed and in finding a dose taking it in a large amount no one
starts with 30 milligrams of the apaxel you start much lower and build your way up
and mixing it with alcohol so how much responsibility did this count is have in this
the judge rejected the involuntary intoxication defense saying after testimony from a
psychiatric expert that there was really not enough study done on the matter to show that this was
a condition that could be applied to this case [Music] we were totally shocked when we found
out what the judge was doing to her and you could tell a poor little thing she was
literally begging the judge to show some mercy to her it's easy to say well it's not
the person's fault it's the drug's fault but i'm sorry the person took the drugs
and you're responsible for your own behavior i wasn't surprised she was found guilty
because the the defense had a very very difficult case to deal with after her conviction cindy was taken to
roanoke city jail seven months later she returned for sentencing as a last-ditch effort the defense asked
the judge for leniency and to consider that cindy also suffered from caretaker burnout
caregiving is tough work as satisfying as it can be on one level over time it can
cause people to become significantly depressed and if they're depressed already it can worsen the depression the sick
person taking care of the sick person would neither have the resources to mediate a conflict i think the
constellation of events were such that cindy did kill her mother and appropriately doesn't remember what
happened because it was such an awful awful event he sentenced her to 30 years with 14 of
those to serve after the 14 years she should be under 10 years of intensively supervised
probation it was the most pitiful thing i've ever seen in my life i have a picture of her when she was
convicted and she was literally terrified she was absolutely terrified she had this
look of utter astonishment that she could have actually done this and be committed for it
the judge gave her the minimum sentence he could under the guidelines so judge wexting did what he felt
and believed and thought was just for a woman who had caused her mother's death second-degree
murder is a serious crime you can't really argue with the sentence that she got cindy was transferred to fluvana
correctional center for women a medium security facility in troy virginia the four years she has since spent
behind bars have taken a toll prison is cold hard still that's pretty much what you're surrounded by
that's pretty much what you are subjected to cindy will never totally adapt to where
she's at she will never totally adapt for one thing her health is so bad her nerves are shocked she's not a mean
hardcore person and so it's hard to deal with these hard people street people that she has to
deal with this is a very painful existence to me very painful cindy now passes the long
days by corresponding with her ex-husband and her two sisters who visit occasionally all of her letters are very
sad sometimes i'll go for a day or two without reading them because i dread getting depressed over them
to this day cindy has mixed feelings about the incident she mourns the loss of her mother but
also feels that she got a raw deal she does know that she had a role in her mother's death
although with her personality disorder she reinterprets this at this time i take responsibility that the tragedy
happened but in all overall picture i do not feel that i am capable of such a horrendous type of an act
[Music] with 10 years to go cindy has a long road ahead i'm 53 years old now so if i were to
serve the 10 remaining years of this 14-year sentence then i would be about 63 years old
i hope the remaining years fly by she's only been in prison now five years i'm not sure she'll survive prison
should that be the price for killing her mother some people say yes i say no but she's sentenced to serve less than
half of the 30 years still a substantial amount of time with some heavy probation at the end of it
it's certainly not out of line with similar decisions in similar cases cindy countess continues to grieve for
her parents and is deeply remorseful i would like to have been in a financial position to have paid for my parents
to have had 24 a day private care in their own home i love them to the point i wanted
to give them a lot more than ever i was able to give them and that's my biggest regret
next on women behind bars she was frozen there were signs that she had been burned
and she was wrapped in a bad sheep from the home for more information about women behind
bars go to www.wetv.com [Music] on december 26 2000 kathy cranick's burnt and frozen body was discovered on
the side of a dirt road she was frozen there were signs that she had been burned and she was wrapped in a bad
sheet from the home according to authorities the evidence pointed to kathy's daughter
jennifer blake and her boyfriend corey jackson she certainly wanted her mother out of
the picture she was going to do something to to get it done jennifer did horrible acts she put the blame on
everybody but her was jennifer the innocent daughter framed by her boyfriend or was she the mastermind behind her
mother's violent death jennifer lynn blake was born on april 4 1975 in puerto rico four years later her
mother kathy gave birth to jennifer's brother michael we pretty much had a good life
you know had everything we needed we weren't rich but we weren't poor we went to good schools
you know had good good upbringing i would say there was no evidence of any kind of
family trouble they all seemed happy kathy was very well loved by everybody she had a servant's heart she was very
kind but michael says there was an undercurrent of tension between the two siblings
she always said something about her where we just were never real close felt like she always held something
against me her father michael cranick senior was a navy man and moved the family from state to state
as he was assigned to different bases when jennifer was 11 the craneux settled in virginia
we moved a lot always having to get new to new places people you know things schools
lots of schools for jennifer the most painful adjustment was her father's absence
when he was out to sea for months at a time when i was growing up i had two lives
one when my father was home and one when he wasn't which was more often than not
when my dad was gone it was rough my mother was physically abusive to me emotionally verbally abusive to me
jennifer claims her mother kathy tried to choke her until she passed out she also says when her dad was away
kathy would loan jennifer out to men for cash she allowed some of the men that she
cheated on my father with to molest me her brother michael adamantly denies jennifer was molested
i don't think there was any truth at all and it was never no proof or anything to
back it up she lied a lot i've never heard any complaint from anybody about kathy being abusive or
being involved in anything immoral or improper if there's abuse that's long-standing and significant it
typically can be documented people know about it other family members know about it
by the age of 12 jennifer and her mother were constantly fighting about the rules
of the house my mother wasn't strong enough to really put her in her place she basically would
say what she wanted and then jennifer would do what she wanted and my mother couldn't do nothing about it
sometimes my sister would even put her hands on my mother the problem only escalated when jennifer
became a teenager i started acting out being more rebellious once i got to be about 12 13 i avoid
being home as much as possible i started running away a lot about every year at least two three
times a year things were tough but things are tough for every family everybody goes through trials and
tribulations it was nothing to to to explain why she acted the way she did towards us
i would say she was a pathological art she would lie about stuff that didn't even need to be lied about
she would say whatever it took to get what she needed or what she wanted you to believe
the situation reached a crisis in the winter of 1990 when jennifer's father was away on duty
the troubled teen attempted suicide i believe at the time that my mother was setting me up
to be molested again i ended up being committed in a psychiatric hospital after jennifer was released
from the hospital she became more violent towards her mother three days before my 16th birthday in
1991 i was arrested and charged with assault and batter against my mother my mother wasn't real
strong so my sister overpowered her and she took advantage of that i was placed on probation
i violated my probation that summer for running away individuals have a pattern of acting out they may as
children and adolescents be diagnosed as having conduct disorder which means a failure
to really respect the rights of others that may become a lifelong pattern of disregarding the rights of others
jennifer spent three weeks in a detention facility in 1993 the 17 year old dropped out of
high school got married and had her first child named jasmine but three years later the marriage ended
in divorce jennifer's mother took her daughter and her granddaughter in a young girl with a child that was my
mother's granddaughter she played she loved her so yeah that she let her move back in to help her out
but the cranic household was in turmoil and jennifer's parents divorced the 25 year old single mother began
dating another man and became pregnant two months into her pregnancy jennifer met 21 year old dishwasher corey jackson
and began a torrid affair he liked me from the moment we met i was engaged in about two months pregnant we ended up
having sex and it was so good that i couldn't leave it alone in april 2000 jennifer gave birth to her
second daughter she then broke up with the baby's father but continued to date jackson
while living at home my sister was she wasn't working and she was using marijuana alcohol just really not
doing nothing with her life to make matters worse jennifer started sneaking her boyfriend corey jackson
into her mother's home the garage door doesn't block the room over the garage is empty i said
if you need you know saying a place to crash you can sleep up there there's a bathroom in the garage
just get the hell out before she gets up for work in the morning she became it for him he relied on her
for housing i mean he snuck in that house i'm told every night to sleep there when
jennifer's mother found out she was furious she i guess had went out of town and i let
cory stay for like two days and um she came home early and and caught him in the house and she was livid
and she just told me you're just not welcome in my house my mother was like look jenny if you
keep bringing them in you got to leave jennifer refused to obey her mother's rules
pushed to the breaking point kathy gave her daughter an eviction notice kathy expressed that she and jennifer
weren't getting along well and finally one day she asked me whether or not she could have jennifer evicted
within a few days she asked jennifer to move out kathy had expressed some fear for her
own safety she was distressed that she had to give her 30 days advance notice and was concerned how those 30 days
would go especially once she gave notice to jennifer [Music] on sunday night according to corey
jackson's testimony corey snuck into the house and found jennifer distraught he finds her crying
and she begins to tell him about the so-called abuse that she says she endured by her mother's boyfriend years ago
and how she had had enough with her mother and she goes on to sit with him on the
bed and plan how to kill her mother when women behind bars continues my sister tried to
apparently burn the body in the trash can get rid of the evidence in 2000 25 year jennifer blake a single
mom of two had moved in with her mother kathy cranic alarm that jennifer was sneaking
her boyfriend in on a nightly basis crainick gave her daughter a month's notice to leave
she had nowhere to go with her children and she felt like she was gonna she was gonna end up in a
shelter according to court testimony jennifer and her boyfriend corey jackson then took matters into their own hands
they allegedly devised a plan to kill her mother at dawn while her two children were asleep
early one morning my mama had got up her at work she went to get uh showered and dressed
my sister's daughter jasmine she stayed in my mother's bed they were real close they were sleeping in the
same bed the youngest child keaney was asleep in another bedroom when authorities say
jennifer confronted her mother somehow my sister started an argument with my mother
and got her into the uh the bathroom she started to get her on the ground and she called for
help jennifer approached her and said i hate you and they struggled in the bathroom area so corey coming to
the bathroom and had to hold my mother's feet now and my sister choked her this whole time
my mom was apparently screaming you know saying jenny stop jenny stop and uh jasmine actually woke up and heard it
they suffocated and strangled her and to make sure that she was dead they took her head and they put it in a
tub of water to see if there were any bubbles jennifer tells a very different story
and denies any role in the murder she claims her mother was already dead when she woke up
there was corey sitting on the counter next to the bathroom sink and my mom was laying on the floor
she was dead and corey claimed to me that my dad had come to the house got in an argument with my mother and
ended up choking her in the kitchen and that cory moved her to the bathroom jennifer admits that instead of
calling police she helped corey dispose of the body to allegedly protect her father
corey told me to go get a trash can and i did it was a 17 gallon corey claimed that it was to burn her
body my sister tried to apparently burn the body in the trash can get rid of the
evidence he set my mother's body on fire in the garage there was smoke pouring out of the
garage it was disgusting it was horrible it was it was just that thick black acrid smoke it was disgusting
the garbage can is too small they can't burn it in the house so they figured that they better wrap it up in
the sheet put it in the trunk and drive it somewhere where they can dump it according to the police report the
couple was unable to find a place nearby to dump the body they picked up jennifer's seven-year-old
daughter jasmine from school and drove across the virginia border at nightfall after picking up the child mothers in
the back of the trunk they take the mother to rural north carolina and they dump kathy's body on the side
of a rural road there my sister's job jasmine she testified that she remembers stopping
she remembers my sister and cory getting out of the car after allegedly dumping the body in
a ditch corey jennifer and the kids checked into a motel after that they were like well we'll
come back later when jasmine's sleeping you know and actually buried everybody just put her in a ditch at this time
corey woke her up middle of the night about 3 4 o'clock in the night and apparently my sister said she couldn't
i don't know what was going on in her head at that time but she didn't want to go back and
and do anything about it so they just left her the way she was later that week jennifer filed a missing
persons report and the police began their investigation my sister's final story was my mother
was last seen getting in a red car with a friend of hers that she didn't know who it was
and uh was never seen again i remember them asking me was i responsible for her disappearance to which i answered no
did i know where she was at that moment to which i answered no two weeks after the murder police found
kathy cranek's body on the side of the road cause of death strangulation and suffocation
she was frozen you know there were signs that she had been burned and she was wrapped in a bad
sheep from the home the police quickly zeroed in on jennifer and corey initially when she talked to detectives
she tried to pin this on the father authorities eliminated michael cranick as a suspect and followed the evidence
back to corey and jennifer they tried to burn the body in the garage and he left evidence behind
they left evidence on the body i believe a hair from koi was found on a sock that he stuffed in the
mother's mouth so it didn't take long once they found the body to connect jennifer and corey to this
almost a month after kraenig's body was found police arrested jennifer and corey
and charged them with first-degree murder i would never kill my mom i would never help anybody kill my mom
i hid the fact that she was dead and i'm deeply ashamed of that and i feel horrible but i didn't kill my
mom in exchange for testimony against jennifer corey jackson entered into a plea agreement
and pled guilty to second-degree murder corey flipped on her immediately for a plea that reduced
what could have been life for him to second degree murder corey jackson took the stand and claimed
jennifer coerced him into murdering kathy cranek the defense argued that jackson's
testimony was not credible [Music] corey is the case against me corey jackson's self-serving lies was the case against
me the prosecution countered that jennifer had motive to kill her mother but jennifer maintained that she did not
kill her mother and she was only an accomplice after the fact when she took to stan and
when she testified she was a family person she loved her family she felt sorry she apologized to
him but she never admitted killing her mother my sister never admitted it she put the blame on everybody but her
the prosecution then presented powerful evidence that linked jennifer and corey to the scene of the crime
they found the motel records so they had her being in the area but the most damning evidence of all was
the testimony of jennifer's daughter jasmine who spoke of overhearing her grandmother
cry for help during the killing the biggest thing to implicate her was her daughter's testimony her hearing
specifically jenny stopped you know jenny stopped my mom yelling but i believe it was her daughter's
testimony that really sealed the case at the end of the four-day trial the jury returned the verdict within an
hour they found me guilty of one count of first-degree murder in the death of my mother i didn't think
it was real i didn't think it could be happening i honestly believe that i was going home
that day the judge sentenced jennifer to life in prison her accomplice who went for the plea
agreement received 35 years jennifer was transferred to a medium security prison
she's serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole she has had no contact with her daughter
jasmine who lives in florida her younger daughter keaney lives with her grandparents who bring her up to see
jennifer several times a year despite the conviction jennifer still maintains her innocence
an individual who killed a parent for what we would consider really selfish anti-social reasons might hold
on to that sense that they were a victim because they don't want to really deal with what
they did they believe that by maintaining their innocence that at some point they'll be vindicated
even though they're completely aware that they did in fact commit the act i still don't know who killed my mom it
wasn't me the person that took my mom from me took away any chance that i ever had
of resolving any issues we had yeah we had issues it was tough but it's my mom no matter what she did i would always
love her always want to be there for her always care for her you

Brief Summary

Cindy Countess and Jennifer Blake both murdered their mothers under complex circumstances involving mental health and strained relationships.

Key points

Cindy Countess's Tragic Story. Cindy Countess claims she killed her mother in a drug-induced fog, raising questions of intent.
The Trial of Cindy Countess. Cindy Countess stood trial for the stomping death of her elderly mother, with conflicting narratives.
The Murder Plan. Jennifer and Corey plotted to kill her mother after being evicted.
The Aftermath. Jennifer and Corey attempted to dispose of Kathy's body, leading to their arrest.
Trial and Conviction. Jennifer was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I feel horrible but I didn’t kill my mom.

Cindy Countess expressing her feelings about her mother's death.

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