Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 11 - Lutrische and Anita - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] on this episode of women behind bars one woman pled guilty to the murder of
her husband he said picture him know how to use it i said we're going to see and i took the safety off i pumped it
and i shot him she continued to try to make it melt make it burn i didn't know what to do and i just kept
trying to cover it up cover it up cover it up then anita gonzalez was convicted of
murdering and robbing an elderly friend our officers found the victim ed woodree's door flying in the garage
he had received severe blunt trauma to his head and face she's the devil in disguise
two women two brutal crimes these are the stories of lutrice dancy and anita [Music]
gonzalez on october 6 2003 miami-dade police officers were called to a local home
where neighbors reported a horrific odor coming from the residence when i got here the smell was just
incredible throughout the years of experience it was a familiar order that of a decomposed body inside the
home detectives made a grisly discovery the corpse of 51 year old walter dancy investigators determined the body had
been shot doused with acid and set on fire i haven't seen a corpse violated that
way i don't think ever police arrested the victim's wife of two years latrice danci the aftermath of the
murder is what really is totally out of the ordinary because of the extent that she
went to to try to dispose of the body she continued to try to make it melt make it burn
try to do so many things to it i just scared i didn't know what to do and i just
kept trying to cover it up cover it up cover it up i wouldn't say i was saying because
a same person really wasn't doing what i did i'm just angry and did everything spontaneously
and i just did was latrice dancy insane when she murdered her husband and ravaged his body or was she a
ruthless killer covering up a calculated crime [Music] latrice dancy grew up in the
working-class neighborhood of little haiti a few miles from the glistening miami
skyline and world-class beaches i was number five out of nine mom and dad together
we was poor when my dad made ends meet mom take care of kids take care of home life for the nine cooper kids revolved
around attending church school and minding their parents latrice had other ideas
she was lovable very and tremendous wild trish with a special breed she just rebelled i was a rebellious
child because if i get punished if i get a beat it didn't matter to me i'm going to do it and receive the
consequences later her stubborn determination both haunted and helped lutrice throughout the rest of her life
at age 11 her childhood almost ended when lutrice contracted a rare blood disorder
the illness paralyzed her entire body gilliam brain is a blood disease that collapsed the muscles in my body
a lot of people thought she wouldn't recover but she did i had to learn to talk walk and do all
that over again it was kind of scary but you know i survived it lutrice overcame her bout
with death only to face yet another challenge i was having sex i started at the age of 12. i was 13 when i had
the child body didn't live i guess that was like a i blessing too young to escape the
trauma of her illness and losing her baby lutrice tried to find a positive outlet
for her pain i played sports in school i did everything sung in the choir honors
choir she was on a track team she played softball she played soccer you name it trish did it very talented
in sports she played softball she played basketball and she was good at it but sports
weren't enough to keep her attention she started hanging out with an older crowd and experimenting with pot and
cocaine the addiction would chase her for the rest of her life i hung out with the
older girls and they'd use it and all the men they had the drugs i just wanted to fit in with the crowd
and then i started enjoying it it's like she was withdrawn like something just took her life away
the fragile 18 year old no longer wanted to live and attempted suicide by taking pills
my brother-in-law have all kind of adventures and he gave me some because i don't want to
live no more his effect is very bad very bad the tree survived the suicide attempt
but there would be others in 1988 with her life back on track she met a rastafarian named david
the couple married and the tree soon became pregnant i got pregnant against when i was about to get high
she continued using and seven months later the trees gave birth to a premature baby girl named oia
the infant weighed only one pound three ounces the social worker came to see me and she
said so much drugs are sound found in your child's system the doctors didn't even
know what some of it was and she said what are you going to do i say i'm going to treatment
she went on to have two more kids but like so many addicts she relapsed again and again
finally faced with losing her children she moved into the village an inpatient rehab center where
drug-addicted mothers lived with their kids i don't want to leave nobody responsible
to take care of my children but me and it's time for me to be a mom that's me using drugs is not going to
help them 13 months later latrice emerged sober and determined to lead a positive life
everybody in stay didn't want the best any school function a christmas play a talent show she'll be
there i volunteered at school the whole year i got a year that year because i was just just
like i'm going to work she was always at my school latrice continued to thrive working in
outreach and caring for her three kids in 1996 she and her husband david divorced
because she says his use of marijuana threatened her recovery two years later she met 46 year old
walter dancey he was a hard-working man and provided for the household and did what he could for his children he
had children and he had siblings who were he was very close to they often got together as a family latrice
was part of that as well he's very supportive the whole while we dating very respectable you know
he was all ww walter went to work every day he based on what we learned during the course of the
investigation he also hung out a lot with his male friends drinking point blank he was a [ __ ]
it was a [ __ ] when i met him he was a [ __ ] when i dated him it depends on who you ask to describe
their relationship latrice described him as domineering sort of like i'm the man i
do what i want accept where i've been walter's family described lutrice as being domineering in terms of no
matter what he did it never pleased her the couple married in 2000 because lutree says she was pregnant
after getting an abortion latrice claims walter became violent there were no police reports
that we could find about it there were no anecdotal reports by her to other people with
regard to the domestic violence that doesn't mean doesn't happen and it happens all the time oftentimes you see
the women or the victims and they have been abused and there's not a single iota of
documentation anywhere it's unfortunate according to lutrice there was a reason no police reports
were ever filed they don't have no reports because guess what every time they come to the house
he go talk to them and anytime i call i end up in the hospital when women behind
bars continues she grabbed a shotgun and she pointed it at him he said picture him
know how to use it i said we're going to see and i took the safety off i pumped it
and i shot him [Music] after years of battling depression and a severe addiction to crack cocaine
the trees dancy finally got sober and was even voted parent of the year at her kid's school
in 1998 the 36 year old met self-employed walter dancy the couple married and moved in together in a miami
suburb with lutrice's three children but she claims the problems began as soon as she said i do
he hit my mom and they got into a big altercation and some nights we'll just leave like a
couple of days then come back i began to start hating him for the beatings and this man really
playing games and i'm the laughingstock after two years of marriage latrice says
she felt totally humiliated and began to unravel i couldn't believe on all the men's i dated and this is the
way i get treated you have mental health issues and you have substance abuse issues it can be a
very violent combination after several more hospitalizations and alleged suicide attempts latrice was at
her wit's end she and her marriage were in crisis her and walter hadn't been getting along
walter came home slightly intoxicated and went to sleep the trees went outside to the car to see
if he had left any money instead of finding the money in his glove compartment which he found were
some incriminating photographs of mr dancy supposedly with some other women graphic photos
depicting sexual acts and that sort of set her off tears start coming up i'm just like i
don't believe this he bring this crap all over here now i got a husband that's sitting here with
people sitting and smoking stuff sick people and i'm having unprotected sex with you
according to latrice she'd been wronged for the last time this was at least in her mind the ultimate
humiliation comes inside and of course there were a variety of weapons in the house baseball bats
handguns and there was a shotgun she grabbed a shotgun and she pointed it at him and in his
shoeing her off and making light of the situation again he called her a stupid [ __ ] and he said
picture him know how to use it i said we're going to see and i took the safety off i pumped it and i
shot him and he just looked at me and dropped i'm i guess because of the alcohol his
system no blood went anywhere nobody heard anything i was in my room really didn't like i didn't hear nothing
at all walter lay dead on the floor from a shotgun wound to the chest what happened next would shock even the
most hardened homicide detectives that night i bagged them up and i put them in the closet because
my kids like to come to my room [Music] dancy told her kids that walter had left
and sent them to school paralyzed with fear lutrice played solitaire at home all day
while she tried to come up with a plan i cried i heard i lost my husband even though he
beat me i just i didn't want it to happen like that i just wanted him to just go and just
leave me alone [Music] desperate to cover her tracks the 41 year old mother of three decided she had
to get rid of the body but first she reported walter missing not only she called the police but she
called the victim's family who came over so while she had this poor man in the closet wrapped up in garbage bags
she had his kids his older children and telling them how he was missing to be able to sit down with your
husband's family and file a falls police report that's pretty bad she probably had rationalized it too she
makes a police report then everyone perceives him as being missing so if he never turns up again then he's
missing it's not that she killed him after three days in the closet walter's body was in full decomposition
and gave off a foul stench she sent her kids to stay with a friend and put in motion her plan to dispose of
the body she comes up with a secondary plan of putting him in the bathtub and going to buy some some acid pour it
on the body and hopefully the acid is going to dissolve the body and she'll get rid of
it that way latrice went to a hardware store and purchased two gallons of muriatic acid
gloves and a rake some miniature halloween pumpkins also caught her eye i'm a holiday
festive person when i saw those pumpkins they're going to get one from my mom's house she was also concerned about the
fact that someone would be suspicious of her buying these pool chemicals that would kind of mislead them to
assure that once home latrice dragged walter's swollen corpse to the bathtub she doused him with two gallons of acid
hoping to melt him i wasn't thinking maybe like i'm put the acid on a little shrivel up and
get his bones and just deteriorate it nothing happened but he just like bubbled up and
i'm just like oh he was still there and now he's smelled even worse so at that point she decides to light
him on fire so she bought lighter fluid he scored lighter fluid on him hoping to burn away the stench but
latrice had to do something to deal with the smoke i put the grill on the outside of my
bathroom door putting hamburgers out on the grill so i could be smoking out there so
to see the smoke out of the bathroom they won't think no bad bad and just cooking some hamburger
because i always like to cook out while she was barbecuing the meat it was to cover the smell of the burning
walter like the acid lighting walter on fire did not work his ravaged body was still there i was
just trying to eliminate it just let it dissolve just disintegrate just go away i just wanted that whole day night to go
away like it never existed to see it's not there now latrice is at a point where she's
tried this and it's not working so she's got to go to the next step she's got to get the body out of the
house the smell started getting then i went to home depot and i got some freshener and down the family dollar
family dollar got paid a lot of money off of me trying to keep that smell down despite latricia's efforts to mask the
smell the stench spilled into the street several neighbors called the police to report the suspicious odor
i told my neighbor that my sewer had all backed up she met the police and said well
no you mean dead body she saw a sewer backed up the police could not find the source of
the smell and believe the neighboring left human bodies start to putrefy particularly if they're not in
cold storage relatively soon after a person dies also swell and she decided she's just
got to get rid of walter i was trying any and every way to do what i got to do by myself i didn't want
to tell nobody i just wanted to get rid of his body i take him too long i just got to get the body out of here
as a last resort latrice decided to take walter's body to the everglades and dump
it but first she had to get his corpse out of the house and into her chevy she finally got so exasperated that she
went to a neighbor and said listen i need to wheel out my husband's body when women behind bars
continues when i actually went inside was just a combination of things that this victim
had gone through i had never seen anything like that before i felt bad because here it is he has
three children then i took their father and it started hurting real bad and later one thing i've
learned about this job is evil exists i've seen it this woman is evil evil people need to be removed from society
on october 1st 2003 lutrice dancy after suffering years of alleged infidelity and abuse
shot and killed her husband walter dancy known in the neighborhood as wau lewis the 41 year old mother of three then
attempted to cover up the murder by dissolving his corpse in acid and burning the body
when neither worked the trees planned to dump dancy in the everglades desperate she asked a neighbor to borrow
a dolly to move her dead husband the neighbor goes back inside and he's like wait a minute did she just say
she was going to move her husband's body and at that point he called the police in her panic
latrice locked herself out of the home as reality set in she then called the one man who was always
there for her i called my dad and i said daddy i i killed why louis he said baby don't go
nowhere i'm coming over so now this time i'm losing it joe cooper met the police and told them
what happened homicide detective rolando garcia was one of the first on the scene
it was a hot day normal routine call once i get out of the car i i felt and i sensed
and smelled that decomposition when i actually went inside it was just a combination of things that
this victim had gone through i had never seen anything like that before the six-day ordeal was over
and the trees finally broke down her demeanor was totally distraught with whatever she wanted to do she knew she
was going to get away with it she was pretty hysterical police arrested lutrice and took her to the
miami police department where she was interrogated by sergeant eunice cooper let me ask you this
why did you decide to burn it with the acid it was is it because he was smelling i
just fit he can just burn and be easy for me to put my little bags put her in bags and i'm just like it's
not doing anything anyway it's just making scissors and sounds and stuff going outside of the window
what did it have a smoke a cloud yeah you know yeah i think her willingness to talk about it
and the rambo acts that she took to kill him i think it all came very easily and it was not like i'm sorry i did it
it was not like i wish i hadn't done it it was more like i had to do it and these are the things that i did to
get it done i'm caught red handed and i did it so what what's the high now police charge the trees with
first-degree murder with a full confession gruesome crime scene photos and stacks
of incriminating evidence the defense faced a near impossible legal battle i had filed a notice of reliance
on an insanity defense and i had her evaluated by an eminent neuropsychiatrist she had
major depression she had confused thinking she had an ability to control anger behavior but
he couldn't diagnose her as being schizophrenic or psychotic the defense attorney did a lot of work
with regard to her mental state i think he believed the only way to defend this case would have been a mental
health defense but it just wasn't there based on her actions she demonstrated rationality by lying
hiding the body moving her children buying pool acid trying to get rid of the smell now these were all
obviously sick behavior and impractical but once again it didn't arise to the level of what would be
considered insanity under the law state of florida two years later in 2005 the case went to trial
if found guilty latrice would be sentenced to life without parole my opinion to latrice was that if you go
to trial regardless of what jurors we pick doesn't matter and they play your tape and as soon as
they look at the pictures they're going to convict you because if you say you did it explain how you
did it and they see what you did they'll have no alternative but to convict you at the last second lutrice accepted a
plea guilty of second-degree murder with a sentence of 45 years with her age and everything that that
would be a long enough sentence that she's not getting out of jail i know i'm guilty
so there's no way i'm not i'm going to be found not guilty 45 years to me is less
than life no possibly a parole i'd be able to walk out of here if you committed a crime like that i
it's got to be a reason and this really would upset me so bad and when she sat in jail two years and
then took a plea bargain to me why would no plea bargain what she did to mr dancy was horrendous
and cruel 45 years is the exact price that fits the crime i don't see any reason
why she should get out before then in 2005 latrice was transferred to a maximum security prison near miami
florida she has adapted well to the structured life behind bars saying somebody then you can sit down do
this do that do this i can follow orders i'm very cooperative you get three meals a day you get a cart
all you got to do is clean cook whatever you got to do just do it and you're back into just
like you're back home latrice is now sober and faithfully takes her medication although she is in touch with her kids
through letters it pains her to be away from them i'm sorry i love you sorry i put you
down i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i truly haven't accepted that part that i love my kids out there they're my
main concern you know i love them i just wish that she could come home and be here with us
everybody loves her and we miss her dearly the tree still thinks about how she could have handled the situation
differently with her husband no one deserved to die because they cheat he beat me i just got angry and i just
got tired of it in latrice dancy's case her efforts to save herself from her perceived humiliation caused
a lot of pain for her children for her family for walter's family and ultimately it ended up with her
being incarcerated and away from the very people whom she was trying to save face with
a lot of regrets i could have just gone ahead packed up and just gone and started over
somewhere else and left him he'll be alive and i'll be with my children [Music] next up on women behind bars a robbery
turns fatal you can't say that you're totally innocent and then go to a bank with the check from a dead man
for more information about women behind bars go to wetv.com on january 26 1996 a teller at a check
cashing business became suspicious when 37 year old anita gonzalez tried to cash an 11 thousand dollar check
allegedly signed by edward riesdorff the girl at national check cashing calls back to the reason's door
of home a young male answers the phone and starts talking to the check cashing company representative
this is supposed to be an elderly man so she got suspicion she refused to cash the check
police raced to the home but they were too late sixty-eight-year-old edward resdorff lay dead in a pool of blood
he had received severe blunt trauma to his head and face authorities arrested 18-year-old david shane tate
his mother anita gonzalez and two acquaintances but police believe that it was anita who planned the robbery and
murder one thing i've learned about this job is evil exists i've seen it this woman is evil and
evil people need to be removed from society was anita gonzalez a calculating greedy
woman who orchestrated her close friend's death or was she a victim manipulated by a
gang of hoodlums [Music] anita is a lot of fun she always felt inferior to her older sister
but she had a good childhood the stapletons raised their kids on the coast of northern florida near the world
famous kennedy space center but from an early age anita tested her parents and defied their rules
she would get upset about things and she'd take off and be gone for several days in high school anita
enjoyed cheerleading but earned only average grades and dropped out before graduating
at age 17 she got pregnant and married the father it was a bad time because the one that she married was
plain speaking of no good skunk he was abusive in 1977 anita gave birth to a son named
david shane tate whom she called shane according to anita the next three years were a life of hell
due to the daily beatings from her husband the couple divorced in 1980 soon after
anita claims she cut her hand in a tomato slicer while working in a restaurant as a result she was in and out of the
hospital some 40 times she was on workers comp a lot of her identity was being sick
i don't remember exactly when she started having them but she's always had health problems
[Music] but anita's insurance company questioned the validity of her claims she was sent to a psychiatric hospital
for a three-week evaluation they determined that a part of it was a mental issue but it was also a physical over
the next 10 years anita alleges she underwent 12 more operations for another work-related injury
she admits that as a result she became addicted to painkillers she was always taking medicine she was
becoming attached to them and it did worry me i'm extremely skeptical about her medical claims
if they weren't self-induced they were fabricated for purposes of acquiring drugs
anita's personal life was also in crisis after two more failed marriages the 32 year old married husband number four
todd wagner wagner had a three and a half year old son named sean from a previous relationship
a thursday night in june todd called me and wanted me to bring my son shawn over and i said okay fine
friday morning my child supposedly got into a bottle of elevo and ate 30 tablets shawn was rushed to
the hospital but the pills used to treat anita's depression were too much for his little body police
investigated anita for neglect and allegedly prohibited her from being around children or the elderly
robin alderman believes anita played a more serious role in sean's death it is impossible that my son took 30
pills she's the devil in disguise anita denied any wrongdoing in shawn's death but there would be more brushes with the
law she was essentially a little mob barker she'd previously been charged and pled
with burglary and theft she'd been investigated for insurance fraud by the mid-1990s anita's 18 year old son
david shane tate was also racking up a criminal record and hanging out with a gang of kids
known as the merritt island posse shane he was doing a lot of residential burglaries a lot of vehicle burglaries
married island posse is a group of about 100 kids that lived in my town we just raised
hell none of these kids had any real education they were just having a grand old time
and they thought the party would last forever and apparently it didn't while her son
shane ran wild anita says she was drowning in guilt because she felt she couldn't provide for him
she was so desperate for cash she took out credit cards in her mother's name the credit cards that she had i did not
apply for and i had to take the money out of my retirement and pay them off but authorities believe
anita found a new mark in 1994 when she met her ex-boyfriend's elderly parents teddy and donna risdorf their son
describes his parents first encounters with anita she said she had cancer my mom
said i think i've got cancer and then anita started coming over and she befriended my parents they treated
her as if she was their daughter and she liked that relationship and liked having that feeling of being liked dad
worked for southern belle for about 35 years before he retired and my mom sold real estate but within
the last 10 15 years she just kind of was a homemaker over the next year anita ingratiated
herself into the restore family they loved her very dearly and she loved them anita claims she oversaw donna's medical
care and teddy gave her donna's credit card to help her with her finances but authorities paint a different
picture ms riesdorff was still in the hospital anita acquired at least one of donna
ruizdorff's credit cards which she had been using he might have helped her out on a couple things
like groceries but he's not going to pay her bills i guess anita had found out about his finances and
then when the time was right she stole that uh atm card from my mom's purse while she was in the hospital and
uh started racking it up we had numerous videotapes receipts uh for weeks of anita
at atms at two three four o'clock in the morning draining several hundred dollars at a
time out of mr reisdorf's checking account and she was taking that money and she was
having parties with her son and all her son's friends it was at one of these drug-fueled parties that police say
anita recruited her 18-year-old son and his friend timon black to steal blank checks from her beloved friends
twenty-three-year-old anisha muncie who met anita a couple of weeks before the murder
also joined to help cash the forged checks anita um myself and david we're gonna go to the house
the two boys were gonna go inside and see if he was home if he was they were gonna time up and
put him into the bathroom anita was gonna go in and get the check and we were gonna go to the bank and
catch it there was no talk of killing in front of me when women behind bars continues he told
him please leave me alone shane didn't stop he blunged my my father to death right here david
shane tate actually did the murder but his mother masterminded it in 1994 anita gonzalez met edward and
donna riesdorff an elderly couple living in melbourne florida the three became close
but police believe the 37 year old had an ulterior motive addicted to painkillers and deeply in
debt authorities assert anita conspired to rob the restores with her 18 year old son and two
acquaintances the plan was to go into mr riesdorf's home subdue him tie him up steal his
checkbook anita would then write checks out and anisha muncie would then go and cash
these checks but prosecutors maintain that unbeknownst to anisha and timon anita and her son david shane tate plan
to kill mr restore from the beginning all this activity that had been going on by anita on the credit card
that statement was due mr reisdorf was going to be killed before he could find out about
this on january 25th 1996 at the break of dawn anita her son david shane tate timon black and
anisha muncie drove to the riesdorf residence anita knew that donna riesdorff was visiting
her mother leaving her husband teddy in the house by himself the stress level went up when we dropped
the two boys off and we went and parked it in the street 5 36 in the morning dad was in his chair
reading the paper and drinking his coffee and he heard some commotion in the garage
so he got up to go check on it and he went out through the back to go out into the garage
the dad came around here to this door to see because they got into the side door
and that's when the confrontation started and i guess they wrestle around shane armed himself with the pipe wrench
and then struck mr riesdorff mr reisdorf fought with him he told him please leave me alone don't hit me anymore i'll
give you what you want and shane didn't stop he plunged my my father to death right here
while shane allegedly attacked mr riesdorff in the garage anita and anisha pulled into the
driveway according to anisha she had no idea the plan included murder police say that when anita walked up to
the driveway she discovered that timon had fled anita went after him while anisha entered into
the garage so that left me in shane there when he stepped back in the garage the man was
already laying down and he picked up a piper and she hit him twice i didn't stop it
at that point i don't know if i would have saved him or not that's a question that i've had to deal
with the group sped off leaving the 68 year old's lifeless body on the cold garage
floor the gang then dumped the wrench in a nearby river in the clothes on a dirt
road back at anisha's house anita proposed returning to the resource for a second
shot at stealing the blank checks but anisha refused to go anita went back in she stole the check
anita still wanted to catch the check but i wouldn't agree to do it at that point it was it was too much
according to police anita then took the boys on a spending spree with a credit card she had allegedly taken from mrs
riesdorff months before she took them all to the mall spent off credit cards took them out to
lunch she had a very carefree attitude the next day anita forged ahead with the plan to cash one
of the checks the check was typed out to anita for eleven thousand dollars timon then forged mr restore's name
she made timon do the signature forgery on the chicks as punishment for leaving shane at the
house during the crime she first went to her own bank apparently and they wouldn't cash it and then she
went to national check casting register they've made a copy of her identification the
girl down there cashing the check indicated that well i'm going to have to call on this one
after approval so they tried to call mr riesdorf's house where of course nobody answers because there's nobody
alive there so anita said well he's probably sleeping i'll go over to mr resource
house and wake him up supposedly timon broke into the house again and answered the phone and said yes this
is a good check this is supposed to be an elderly man yet the voice on the phone sounded like
obviously a young man so she got suspicious she refused to cash the check anita left this girl then called law
enforcement our officers made entry into the house and found edward raisdorff he was lying in the garage partially
covered with a blanket he had received severe blunt trauma to his head and face while officers processed the
scene a swat team stormed anita's residence timon and shane were found hiding in the
attic and were taken into custody anisha was also brought in shane denied any involvement with the burglary
or murder but timon and anisha told a different story i didn't kill anybody david shane tate actually did the murder
he committed a murder but his mother masterminded it detectives had yet to bring in their
prime suspect but in a surprising turn of events anita called the station first inquiring
about her friend's death she volunteered to come in and speak with detective casey
she was very sad that he had died towards the end of the interview when we explained that we had already
spoken with anisha the co-defendant and that the co-defendant had explained her involvement in it
then she tried to blame it on anisha but never made any admissions to being involved
anita and shane were charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery in january 1999 anita's trial began but
was declared a mistrial due to anita's medical problems a second trial commenced three months
later the prosecution had surmised that although anita did not commit the murder
she was the instigator she set all the pieces in place and then she shoved him out the
door and said go forth and do this the best analogy would be charlie manson i don't think anita could be a ring
leader she may have been a needy person but i don't think she was ever a ring leader
any type the defense maintained that anita had nothing to do with the murder or burglary
and put the blame back on anisha and timon my defense was she was around these people she was influenced by these
people but the act that they committed was on their own teddy was one of her best
friends and so was donna i knew she didn't kill him and i still to this day know that
although the murder weapon was never found the prosecution presented a key piece of evidence
the smoking gun was that check you can't say that you're totally innocent and then go to a bank
with the check from a dead man she first said that this check was given to her previously
the problem is that check did not fit the numbers after three weeks of testimony the jury returned
with the verdict people were very passionate about anita gonzalez either on her side or wanting to see her
rot in hell the state of florida is about 200 years behind times there was no evidence that convicted
them there was lies and suppositions all of us that were sitting in my area supporting my father we all
hooted and hollered yep [Music] no [Music] it's probably better that they didn't
get the electric chair because now they got to wake up every day in prison thinking about what they did
anita has since admitted that she was involved in the burglary but still maintains she had nothing to
do with the murder in 2008 while in prison anita says doctors found a lump in her chest
the growth that she has on her chest is in some way connected to her lungs so we don't face a very
rosy future at this point as long as she's around i'll be with her teddy reisdorf's wife donna passed away
from cancer six weeks after her husband was murdered for randy reesdorf there has been one
positive change as a result of his father's death while at the trial he met and fell in
love with robin alderman the mother of the little boy who died taking anita's medication
she had lost a son years ago and this woman anita was behind it in one way or another
and we had a lot in common his dad was murdered by the same person and it's the bond that's unbreakable somehow
we've made it work for 10 years still randy believes he can never let go of what happened to his father
this is her last stunt i can't forgive shane or anita i probably never will get over
that you

Brief Summary

Lutrice Dancy shot her husband in a rage; Anita Gonzalez plotted a robbery that led to murder.

Key points

Latrice Dancy's Confession. Latrice Dancy shot her husband Walter in a moment of rage and desperation.
The Aftermath of Murder. Latrice attempted to cover up the murder by disposing of Walter's body.
Latrice's Plea Deal. Latrice accepts a plea deal for second-degree murder, reflecting on her guilt and sentence.
Anita's Dark Turn. Anita's life spirals as she becomes involved in a robbery that leads to murder.
The Murder Plan. Anita conspires with her son and friends to rob an elderly couple, leading to a tragic murder.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I took the safety off, I pumped it, and I shot him.

Latrice Dancy recounts the moment she shot her husband.

11:58WatchJan 12, 2021

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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