Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 12 - Natasha and LaSonya - Full Episode | Forensic Files

on this episode of women behind bars one woman pleads guilty in the group slaying of a religious family
based upon the evidence they were preparing to go across country robbing and killing
people i just screamed please don't hurt them please don't hurt them ah please don't hurt them
then lasonia larry tells her story she confessed to the stabbing death of her live-in boyfriend
he was standing naked in front of me he was like um you want to have sex i was like no i'm
not having no sex there's a pattern of doing drugs and stabbing all her boyfriends
two women two brutal murders these are the stories of natasha cornett and lasonia larry
[Music] [Music] on april 6 1997 the bullet riddled bodies of 34 year old vidar lillylid
his 28 year old wife delfina and their two young children were found along a road about a mile from interstate 81.
they were devoutly faithful and humble people who were shot to death for their car vidar and delfina were
already deceased when police arrived six-year-old tabitha and two-year-old peter were helicoptered to a local
hospital where tabitha was pronounced dead the following day and peter remained in
critical condition this is one of the worst murders that i've ever witnessed in the last 30 years
within days 18 year old natasha cornett and five friends were arrested as prime suspects in a case that would make
national headlines she was the one that was practicing satanic worship she is the person that
created the events that came together on that april the 6th of 1997. one of the statements we
retrieved from a young girl natasha had called her and told her they were going to start armageddon
if she's been going to kill anybody it should have killed me was natasha cornett the ringleader of a
hateful satanic cult or was she simply with the wrong crowd at the wrong time [Music]
natasha cornett grew up in a small devoutly religious mining town in the foothills of the appalachian
mountains it's a very beautiful scenery to grow up in but it's a suffocating place to live
she had energy to burn she liked to draw to read she left dogs and babies as a young student natasha
earned top grades in her class but when she was in middle school she awoke one morning to find that her
mother now divorced had overdosed with prescription drugs my mom was on the bed naked with a bottle of pills laying
next to her i didn't know she was dying natasha i know she it did something to her it messed with me
although madonna wallen recovered natasha began a downward spiral of anti-social behavior
i started cutting things out of my you know diet the less i eat the better i felt it
wasn't one area that i did have control of she lost 30 pounds in one month to make
matters worse relations between mother and daughter became increasingly volatile
as natasha continued to act out i used a belt one time and the buckle slipped from my hand
and it hit her on the back of the leg but it made a bruise on her on the advice of a doctor natasha was
admitted to charter ridge behavioral health system in lexington the center found her to be a danger to
herself and others yet they just released her after 11 days diagnosed as bipolar she continued to
see a counselor but felt she did not get the care and attention she needed from adults in her
life in the seventh grade she just started changing the clothes the big baggy paints the big shirts
she wore a rope with the emblems you know hanging everybody thought it was weird i started
drinking and smoking and associating with people that were weird you didn't have to
be perfect around them in high school natasha continued to feel like an outcast and banded together with
like-minded friends the closest of whom was karen howell karen was my life raft she was the only person
that understood me and let me be me she knew my pain she had went through the same stuff
teens like natasha they have a thrill-seeking personality and need that stimulation because just
sitting around leading a normal life feels boring to them karen and natasha started dabbling in
dark activities that would eventually build into a cult-like behavior everything that we did though it was
very destructive it was all self-destructive nothing was ever done that was harmful
to anybody but ourselves i started cutting because i was going through a rough time with my
mom it was a release in the ninth grade natasha dropped out of school and on her 17th birthday
she married steve cornett we had been friends for a while it seemed like the logical thing to do
but the marriage was short-lived when after about six months steve abruptly drove away and never
returned it was awful i just kind of caved in on myself after a brief trip to new orleans a few weeks later
natasha sat the company of a widening circle of friends seventeen-year-old karen howell and
natasha were already close eighteen-year-old crystal sturgill had been in natasha's grade
two guys who regularly joined the group were 19-year-old edward dean mullins a church-going friend with no prior record
and 20-year-old joe reisner natasha and her fellow outcasts would hang out at her mother's trailer
i had been friends with joe for a while right before the crime occurred joe was dating karen crystal needed a
place to stay and she was friends with dean while drinking excessively and getting high
the friends would play games related to the occult natasha started hearing voices and talking to
people on the ouija board her and karen fed on each other and it just kept you know getting worse teens who
gravitate towards the dark side of the occult are simply doing so to find something that is more powerful than
themselves despite finding a growing range of activities to keep her busy natasha continued to feel stultified by
the small town of pikeville kentucky and she longed to escape she went away from all the people that
that called her freak all i could think of is i need out i need out i need help i can't breathe i need
out when women behind bars continues peter was being held by his mother when he was shot
he had his legs wrapped around her waist and his arms around her neck and his back was to the gun
and he was struck by two bullets i screamed please don't hurt don't please jason he's like stop
crying by the time natasha cornett was 18 the high school dropout with a diagnosis of
bipolar disorder had been in a failed marriage and was hell-bent on self-destruction
authorities believed her to be the ringleader of a group of friends who spent their time at her mother's trailer
drinking getting high and dabbling in the occult they all shared at least one prevailing
yearning they wanted to vanish from the small town where they grew up as fate would have it though they would
soon become notorious for shooting a devout family of four in which only the youngest child survived
the most recent addition to the circle was fourteen-year-old jason bryant jason didn't make a huge impact on me he
seemed dangerous like people pretend to be bad i thought that that was just his hook he
was the bad boy i got the feeling from people we talked to that he was not as controllable on april 4 1997 the
group spent the night partying at one of their usual haunts the cauli motel we had been hanging out
and drinking we went to the hotel room i think on a friday night there was some blood and they had burnt
some places in the carpet with burning candles me and karen just started cutting
and at first it was just too cut and then i wanted to die i thought eventually if i kept myself so many
times i would just bleed out the other people that had been there with them partying
their statements led us to believe that they've been having a satanism a seance mostly it was just me and karen drinking
each other's blood we just didn't do seances natasha told me they set the place on fire
the management was gonna call the cops karen had just got in trouble and she didn't want to go
juvenile and jason just got out of juvenile and he didn't want to go back and i was ready to run away at any given
moment so it just kind of came together we were all going to run away joe was on spring break from school
and he was the only one with a car they wanted to go to new orleans because that's the only place i was familiar
with and i said i wouldn't go back down there without some kind of protection natasha according to her mom had been
raped in new orleans said she wasn't going to be raped again but according to the prosecution
natasha and her gang had a different motive prior to leaving the defendants would watch natural-born
killers that movie depicts individuals who are carefree killing people there don't appear to be
from that movie any consequences they may have felt that there were going to be no consequences for their actions
natasha was the one that wanted jason and the other kids to get a gun and she also
told me that they had plans to go carjacking the teens left kentucky in a compact
hatchback chevy citation and drove through the virginia panhandle where they were pulled over for speeding
the officer did not search the car if he had he would have found two handguns acquired for protection
according to testimony there was talk of ditching the citation along the way and getting another car based upon the
evidence of what their their stated purpose was the night before they left they were preparing to leave
pikeville and go across country robbing and killing people driving south through eastern tennessee
they pulled over at the belton rest stop in greene county according to natasha for one reason only
karen needed to pay that's it among the people milling about the rest stop were the lilly lids
a family of jehovah's witnesses 34 year old vidar a native of norway and his wife delfina
had moved to tennessee from miami to raise their children six-year-old tabitha and two-year-old
peter in a safer more peaceful environment the little is a warm family very caring
kind-hearted people vidar worked as a bellman his wife was a stay-at-home mother
they lived simply walked most everywhere from work to church they had been to a religious gathering they had stopped
on their way home and i think they were sort of proselytizing a little bit there
at the rest area it was just part of their religion that they go out and and try and talk to people they saw
the defendant's unusual appearance they might have appeared to to need some discussion about the lord vidar and
alfina began to talk about their religion and the group followed up with questions
some of the teens invited the lilly lids over to the picnic area for a more private discussion
natasha claimed she and karen followed to keep a close watch on things when i talked to natasha and other
people about what happened they said that joe reisner went back to the car and got
his gun and told her that something was going to happen as natasha tells it she had a bad feeling right from the
start when joe wanted to talk to a jehovah's witness about religion things didn't add up and then him and
jason walked off together i told karen something was wrong and then he pulled out a gun joseph
verizoner described the abduction during the sentencing phase and he was the one that actually
pulled the gun natasha says she tried to stop joe but there was no turning back joe pointed the loaded weapon at the
lily lid family and started making demands he was just like nothing's going to happen
we just need your car and all i could do was like look at them and apologize vidar
was fearful and immediately offered his wallet said take the car take my money please
don't hurt my family joe attempted to reassure him that he was not going to hurt him
they got in the van crystal and dean followed in the chevy citation natasha says she got in the van with the
others hoping to prevent things from getting worse i didn't think that the people that i
was around could actually do anything bad even jason i thought i could stop something
but authorities say it was natasha who engineered the entire plan it became apparent from interviews in
kentucky and talking to a lot of their friends that natasha was the one that was perceived by the group to have power
to draw on demons and was the driving force in the group natasha wanted to be more than just a
a leader she wanted to give the orders to karen to jason bryant edward mullins came from
a very good home but she manipulated him to do things for her the rest of them were
following her and were drawn into this by her she had the control to stop the situation
at any time i think the whole time the little it felt like oh we'll probably get away or we can talk them out of this
because they were saying we know we're safe with you they left the interstate it was abandoned road then they turned
onto a dead end road the lilitz were ordered out of the car when they got to payne hollow road
joe reisner apparently told him to stand in a ditch jason just pulled pulled the gun up and pointed it at him
all i could see was rage on his face and joe walked away from it he was like i can't do that and i got in
front of the gun and i was like jason what are you doing and he was just like i'll shoot you
he was kissing and get the step out of the way get the other way move unless you want to die move
i won't move until he promised me that he at least would not hurt the kids and then i moved what happened next
would become the source of enormous controversy about whether it had been planned or impulsive
and also who controlled the events that unfolded what detached told me is that jason took the gun and
shot vadar first in the head then delfina then went up to tabitha and put the gun
point blank to her tabitha had been shot in the head peter was being held by his mother when he was
shot she was facing the gun and she was holding peter he had his legs wrapped around her waist
and his arms around her neck and was holding on to her so that his back was to the gun and
he was struck by two bullets and what i understood from natasha is that jason went back to the car got another gun
and shot a number of more times because there were 17 total shots from friends i've heard other things
like joe got involved and started shooting too and that seems a little bit more plausible because of the way the shots
were i didn't watch i sat down in the van and just screamed please don't hurt them please don't hurt
them ah please don't hurt them oh nice jason he's like stop crying he just left but police believe that natasha was more
involved in the shootings than she admits i think natasha put him up to it i think that she um instruct them how to
fire the weapons in the matter that they were fired and once it was done they had to figure out how to get out
and leave when they got their car stuck then they took the little lids van the teenagers drove over the victims bodies
as they left the area they left their abandoned car and got on the interstate and left when women behind bars
continues one of the first things i remember is some attorney talking about his client he says natasha cornett
has informed him that she is the daughter of satan and i just thought something's wrong and
later he ain't never gonna beat you again okay and i mean i even have freedom against
my life on april 6 1997 natasha cornett and five friends took part in a massacre of a
family of jehovah's witnesses according to natasha she did not pull the trigger but was too stunned to do
anything except go along with her group after you witnessed something that atrocious i didn't know what to do
the alleged killers abandoned their chevy citation at the scene of the crime and made their getaway in the victim's
van headed towards mexico through douglas arizona the original plan i think was to go to new orleans
and then it changed to mexico when they got into trouble in the meantime a local resident alerted
the greene county sheriff's department to the gun shots heard off of payne hollow lane i backed
down the road i looked over to valencia and that's when i seen the little lid family laying there on the bank
we knew that one of them was a live little peter and the little girls are breathing
we got on ready on call for ems to come to assist us an emergency medical services crew
arrived minutes later there was no identification on either vidar or delfina lillylid
we found a pager on the mail we were able to find out that a van was registered to
him but then the car that was left there was a chevrolet citation and it was stripped of its
identification although the group had taken the citations license plates they had left
the vehicle identification number the vin basically was useless without knowing what state it was
so we searched the car and we found one receipt that had been left behind from a
store in pikeville kentucky and we knew now that the van that had left was most probably the lillywood van and that
these victims were probably victimized by one or more of the six people who occupied the citation
a description of the van was broadcast nationwide while investigators went to pikeville to interview the parents and
friends of the group including natasha's mother the group was considered armed and dangerous
they had been down into mexico and as they were coming back through the uh computers at the border had uh
not been functioning so that the border couldn't check on who was coming in and out but
just as that group came back in the computers suddenly started working and when they put the license tag into
the system they got a hit and they were arrested there in arizona those defendants who were adults were
informed that the state would seek the death penalty if convicted of the lilly-lid murders
under the law karen howell and jason bryant could not be charged with the death penalty since they were under 18
when the crime was committed as natasha and the other defendants arrived to be booked into jail
there was a standing room only crowd outside the jail on the streets and at the courthouse
they wanted to get a look at these kids they'd been heavily covered on television and
newspapers and their pictures had been plastered everywhere they had begun to take on a
larger-than-life status they were brought up individually six separate police cruisers
and the first one arrived the crowd began to shout you murderers you're gonna fry rot in jail
you baby killers [Applause] as the state built their case against the defendants each member of the group
hired attorneys to represent them at first eric kahn was natasha's attorney after
eric khan got started with the devil worship and the vampirism it kept getting you know worse
and worse i didn't tell him that i even had any inclination towards that all i knew was here was a lawyer saying
that he wanted to represent me pro bono at no point have i ever been a satanist ever i remember some attorney holding a
press conference in arizona about his client he says natasha cornett has informed him that she is the
daughter of satan and i just thought something's wrong as natasha tells it the damage to her case
was irreparable once something like that said i mean you can't just like take it back khan was replaced by stacy
street as natasha's attorney this is the first time he has agreed to an interview about the case
we have to stop the bad publicity all death penalty cases are are scary because state can literally kill your client
it was the prosecution's contention that based on the evidence all six defendants were involved in the
murders and should be tried together each one of these killers took an individual trophy from their
victims and kept it attached to a chain in the wallet karen howell had peter's social security
card one had hello kitty merch dice and was identified as having belonged to tabitha natasha cornett she had a
tabitha's social security card in her wallet the prosecution also alleged that natasha was not only involved in the
shootings but was the ringleader as well they looked up next to natasha she would get the motel rooms she had
ways of getting those drugs there and the other kids would follow it was always natasha cornett the
ringleader the daughter of satan average person on the street probably couldn't name any of the other
individuals but they knew natasha cornett i had to blame eric kahn for that but right before the trial was to begin
district attorney general barkley bell offered the defendants a plea bargain based on the evidence that a key witness
for the prosecution would be compromised we were very concerned that the proof might focus
on the juveniles as being the shooters juveniles can't get the death penalty and if they couldn't get the death
penalty we were concerned that no one else would get the death penalty either what we reached was
an agreement that we'd have a hearing in exchange for pleading guilty the four adults would be exempt from receiving
the death penalty all six defendants would be heard at the same sentencing hearing
stacy street discussed natasha's options with her including a last-minute plea deal
offered by the prosecution the offer has to be accepted by that day it's all or nothing everyone
has to take it we were very clear with her that if she accepted this deal as young as she was at the time then she
would probably spend the rest of her life in prison natasha and the others accepted the deal
all pled guilty to three charges of first-degree murder and one charge of attempted murder
there was a possibility that they might all receive the same sentence the defendants had differing stories
about who pulled the trigger and if there was one shooter or several you had six defendants
each of whom was interested in their own welfare so you had stories that contradicted
each other natasha and karen wept a lot they expressed a lot of remorse at the fact that people had been killed
that their child had been left an orphan at the same time they denied having anything to do with the guns
being shot i don't think i have any choice in the case ms cornett but to sentence you to life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole it's been my position that that was a type of initiation into that group
that everybody had to participate in the [Music] shooting life without parole is a death penalty
they come out in a box it just takes longer to impose the final penalty she wasn't the shooter she got the same
thing as the shooter i went to the women's prison and interviewed natasha and karen and crystal i
explained that peter was in counseling and natasha became emotional and asked me could he
walk yet how was he emotionally and she wept and asked me then to relay to the family
her her deep regret and her wish that he would make a full recovery at 30 years old natasha is serving her
sentence at the tennessee prison for women she is a licensed cosmetologist and has
earned her high school equivalency diploma 11 years i'm an entirely different person
i hope to gain as much education as i possibly can here she and her mother hope that teens who
have similar problems know that they can get help you don't have to resort to negative
things like cutting or trying to die if nobody is helping you go on a website talk to people peter
lillylid is now a teenager and lives with relatives peter made amazing progress at the time the
shooting happened natasha has a message for him peter deserves a better life and for april 6
to never happened [Music] next up on women behind bars no thought went through my head i just grabbed the
knife when i grabbed the knife i swung it for more information about women behind
bars go to wetv dot com [Music] on march 23 2007 lasonia larry a crack addict with a turbulent history
of domestic altercations fatally stabbed her boyfriend shedrid bernie lasagna will cut somebody in a minute
but i don't see her just brutally murdering somebody i don't lasonia fled and spent the night smoking
crack cocaine she did not call 9-1-1 or contact police shedrid's body was discovered the next
day there's a pattern of doing drugs and stabbing all her boyfriends and she was going to play the role of the victim
and say she did this in self-defense i regret it but i don't even have skills to cry i
don't believe you beating me so much i don't believe she intended to kill him i believe she
intended to hurt him and figured it'd just be like all the rest she'd cut him he wouldn't prosecute
that'd be the end of it did lasonia larry stab her boyfriend in self-defense or was she a violent drug addict who is
out of control as a child lasonia knew her father willie as a generous man dad would always bring gifts every time
he comes to grandmother's house but her mother claudette was not as predictable claudette she was on drugs
she was in the streets she was living with different guys you know here and there
lasonia's childhood was playful but an accident in her use damaged her eyesight on one eye we were
playing on the railroad tracks and when we both turned around some boys were throwing rocks and
that rock hit her in the left eye lasonia was left partially blind but the pain from that incident was overshadowed
by claudette's absence in her life as a young adolescent lasonia became defiant and would stay out late
searching for her mother she couldn't always find claudette when she couldn't find her she'd come
and she'd just go in the room and cry she used to tell me her mom was dead by seventh grade lasonia started
skipping school because she was losing hope that she would ever be with claudette
she said her mother wasn't there so she felt like no one else cared but they did care the young rebel missed
almost the entire year of seventh grade and never went back when i first stopped
going to school i was basically stealing shoes stealing little short sets hanging just hanging out at other
people's house doing nothing by her teens lasonia was hustling and turning tricks i think she was just
trying to follow her mother's steps lasonia was 15 when she became a mother she named the baby janelle
it was wonderful i want to do everything for her in the first two years it was like that
and then i want to go back and hang with the boys and run the streets in order for lasonia to make room for
her social activities janelle was left with relatives just as lasonia had been when she was a little
girl to me she was a good mother she took care of her but when she wasn't there she was
to me a bad mother lisonia again became a fixture on the streets but denied rumors of her drug use i
asked about it she said girl don't listen to them they line it think about drugs ain't no drugs
by her late teens she landed in prison for the first time on charges of possession and sale of crack cocaine
i got a year and a day in prison and i did like two months or so and i was like this all i got more defiant
the former convict followed her first prison sentence with more arrests related to cocaine
i just always stayed just on that one path and it was a path of destruction by the
time lasonia turned 22 her mother had passed away and lasonia's drug use escalated the day
that we buried her i would put the crack on the can the way i seen people smoking
and i've been smoking crack ever since until my arrest [Music] lasonia would spend the next several
years turning to reckless sex to support her drug habit i got six girls all of them from
different mans three of them addicted to drugs except for janelle lasonia did not see
much of her daughters they were either cared for by relatives or adopted the childless mother could not find a
safe haven for herself and admits to creating a chaotic environment in her relationships as well
if there wasn't a guy abusing me at times i felt like well this this man don't love me
physical fights with boyfriends like alex grimsley became common lasagna would say she wants this and
they want that then i would say no i'm not going to get it then that would start an argument right there
i'm not gonna sit here and say i was an angel but i never initiated i saw you cut me in my head
with a box cutter she gave me 17 staples because i told her no that i wasn't going to get
any more drugs for her she's known for cutting that's the truth alex and two other men filed aggravated
battery reports against the hostile addict but she was never formally charged the cycle repeated until shedrid bernie
entered her life he was just everything that i hadn't had he was supportive he was caring he was romantic
mutual friend robert barnes liked to go fishing with shedrid who everyone knew as rat rat did
anything for anybody you know without any strings attached but lasonia's daughter
janelle believes there were conditions to the relationship whenever he wanted sex he gave her money
she wanted to got her drugs she came making how she cleaned cooked it was basically a living
prostitute lisonia says she had real feelings for rat it was an experience she was not
accustomed to having cedric provided that security i really started to feel something right there
but i think i fell in love with him about two or three months but lasonia had been warned
a friend in the neighborhood told her to stay away from rat she said that's bad man or you would you
have a history of being on women lo and behold four five months later i'm at rats how i'm living with him now
and um the beating stars when women behind bars continues i was like well rap i'm not having sex it's simple is
that so he slapped me [Music] lasonia larry a middle school dropout and drug addict was in and out of jail
most of her adult life after what she calls several abusive relationships she met
shedrid bernie an older man friends called rat who tried to help her i think rat had got lasagna off of drugs
for a while she was looking different and she just seemed like she was so happy i don't think they were happy that's
just put on something you know to show people that they were happy in front of other people
lasonia says friends did not know what happened when she was alone with rat he would just beat me kick me stomp me
he broke said you broke my nose once and the alleged abuse came in different forms
he would always try to knock my self-esteem down always i never had a problem with my looks i
had a pretty smile i think i had pretty eyes i never let him got my self-esteem down
because that was that defiant in me lasonia continued to stay with rat and found comfort in something familiar
crack cocaine she wasn't ready to give up the drugs the drug is a disease it's a sickness
when i relapse i think i really dug a hole and got in there because i just i really didn't care then by 2006
lasonia and rat each made domestic disturbance calls to police but with nowhere else to go she kept
returning to the house after each dispute he comes home it's about five o'clock in
the evening and i wanted some blue crabs and i was like um can you go up to the market and
get me some crabs and he was like he is a crab so i started laughing at him despite an argument the night before rat
got lasagna the crabs and some beer after he prepared the meal for her he took a bath
and then he came back out and he was standing naked in front of me he was like um
you want to have sex i was like no i'm not having no sex rat got dressed but as lasonia tells it
he was upset that even after he made her dinner and got her beer lasonia had refused to have sex with him
i was like well rat i'm not having sex just simply is that so he slapped me i dropped my head back down and i went
to eat some more crabs and he slapped me again and i looked up at him i had tears
coming out of my eyes i said you know i'm just really sick of you putting your hands on me
but before i can go out the front door he had already went out he'd come back with this long piece of
antenna like thing and he hit me with it right across my neck lasonia says she snatched it from
rat and he grabbed her it was then that she saw a knife on a small table there was no thought went through my
head i just grabbed the knife i swung it i don't know if i hit him in the shoulder i don't know if i hit him
in the chest but when they made contact with him he said oh b you don't effed up now
and i knew i knew then i better i better leave when lasonia left the house she claims
rat was still alive after throwing the knife in a lawn service truck she went to her old
neighborhood and got high i knew it was hurt but i didn't know how bad i just kept asking everybody y'all
seeing rat it was like no so i really didn't think anything of it rat never came to find her
and lasonia spent the night in a crack house i'm reporting that um someone may be
stabbed in the house why do you think someone's been stabbed yeah a friend of his he
got a phone call his nephew's calling him and saying that um it's a possibility that he had got
stabbed by his wife when i woke up i just happened to look out of the window and there was police
tape right by my front door and there was a crowd starting to gather and the police
had blocked off the road bernie's body was found on the floor in the master bedroom
it was a stab wound to the chest penetrated i believe three to four inches in a downward
[Music] motion word traveled quickly that rat was dead it was an absolute surprise because this
is a neighborhood where nothing ever happens officers immediately looked for lasonia
she was found and arrested at a crack house on an outstanding warrant she kept asking us that all this is
about is that all this is about and kept trying to see if there's anything else detectives ask lasonia what happened
being back we had an argument yesterday and i walked out the house that was yesterday afternoon there's a lot more
to it than just walking out of the house what did you do to him [Music] i don't know
at first she was denying anything happen and typically started laying out the facts of what we knew
about the phone calls how he was found and eventually she told us what happened i regret it but i don't even have skills
to cry i don't because he's beating me so much [Music] detectives a detailed confession she
didn't really have anything good to say about it she set the responsibility and gave
her version of what happened painting herself to be a bigger victim than we could
find ever being recorded investigators knew lasonia had a history of violence they focused on her intentions that
night have you ever talked about man i got nothing else to do i'm gonna have to kill this guy
no but i've said to myself you know saying i don't know what else i'm gonna do i never thought about actually killing
this man that would be my last that'd be the last thing i would want to do i don't believe she intended to kill him
i believe she intended to hurt him and figured it'd just be like all the rest she'd cut him he wouldn't prosecute
if i could take it all back i would do it different there's nothing nothing in this world
that i think is worse than taking another human being's life the sonia was charged with second degree
murder second degree murder is a life felony the maximum punishment that you can get
is life in prison i didn't want to go to trial and so i just went ahead and i took a
plea bargain [Music] knowing that she got at least 18 years with her violent past
that makes me feel like i got the job done lasonia's daughter janelle had been getting to know her mother better before
she went to prison i can't cry no more really i'm used to her not being in my life i'm used to her
being in the jail in the prison and everything when i need somebody to talk to when i'm
just going through some things i don't have nobody to talk to it just makes me mad because it's like you could
have got out this situation way before it even came to this point janelle started to follow the familiar
path of claudette and lasonia but today she's leading a different life i told my mom i said mom i'm going to
school and i'm going to get me a job i got sisters that need a role model in their
life and i got to be there for them i want to be better than you and better than what you did
lasonia who will be released from prison in 16 years says she will change too they're going
to look back they're not going to see me as being a murderer or doing 18 years in
prison they're going to see me as doing something to change somebody's lives somewhere i know this
i know it without a shadow of a doubt i [Music] know you

Brief Summary

Natasha Cornett and Lasonia Larry recount their violent crimes, revealing troubled pasts and the consequences of their actions.

Key points

A Family's Tragic End. On April 6, 1997, a family of Jehovah's Witnesses was brutally murdered.
The Rise of Natasha Cornett. Natasha's troubled past leads her down a dark path, culminating in violence.
The Shocking Massacre. Natasha and her friends commit a horrific act against an innocent family.
The Plea Bargain. The district attorney offers a plea deal to avoid the death penalty for the defendants.
Natasha's Regret. Natasha expresses deep remorse for her actions and the impact on victims' families.
Lasonia's Confession. Lasonia reflects on her violent past and the regret of taking a life.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Natasha Cornett has informed him that she is the daughter of Satan.

A shocking claim made by Natasha's attorney.

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Tension

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