Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 6 - Alicia and Patricia - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] on this episode of women behind bars one woman is convicted of killing a man
she contacted through an online dating service it just happened so fast into a blink of
an eye it appears that she had some bottled up rage from being rejected she was extremely
out of control and it was a violent death then patricia donnelly tells her story
she pled guilty to the murder of a stranger she enticed in a swingers club she was standing behind him and she took
her purple bra off that she was wearing and that's when she all of a sudden threw this brawl around his neck and
tightened it up and choked him to death my intention was to have sex do whatever with this man get
the money and get michael out of jail two women who snapped in fits of rage two brutal crimes these are the stories
of alicia williamson and patricia donnelly on august 5th 2003 police received a dire 911
when police arrived at the mobile park home they found 40-year-old robert atkins jr
a computer maintenance expert stabbed to death 27 times everybody was extremely emotional
everybody was in disbelief 37 year old alicia williamson a single mother of two confessed to the
horrific killing it just happened so fast into a blink of an eye it appears that
in this case she had some bottled up rage from being rejected was alicia williamson a time bomb
waiting to explode or did she kill in self-defense alicia williamson was born to carolyn
mcbride and willie conley who was 12 years older than carolyn she was a teenage mother and i think it was
hard on her having two small kids at such an early age the family lived in the projects
west of downtown birmingham when alicia was three years old her mother divorced her father
and told her children he was dead as a single mother now in her 20s alicia's mother wasn't
home often to care for her children my mom if she wasn't working you know she was out
having fun young and free alicia watched over her younger brother as they grew up
one christmas i remember that we were probably as poor as you were going to get and she basically recycled
something from the year before but she made me like a necklace and she gave it to me and says hey you
know here's a christmas present for me she just wanted to make sure that you know i had something
when alicia was seven years old the family's financial status stabilized her mother married an entrepreneur who
adopted alicia and her brother two years later their mother gave birth to a girl she named angela who looked up
to her big sister alicia was fun and caring and loving four years after angela was born
their stepfather died of a massive heart attack again alicia's mother was left to support her
kids then during alicia's teens an incident occurred that would shatter her self-esteem
and contribute to her depression as an adult i was raped by one of my cousins and it was not just once it was more
than once alicia said she told her mother who did not believe her until she learned her
daughter was pregnant she took me somewhere to have abortion i can't even remember what i remember
it wasn't good to make matters worse alicia discovered that although her mother worked as a city transit bus
driver she had other ways of making money and coping with her life i found out in my junior year high
school that my mom was doing drugs despite the pressures at home alicia studied nursing at college
but dropped out to take care of her mother and sister when she was 22 she got pregnant by her
boyfriend freddie lee motley who she says physically abused her one time he punched me in my stomach so
i had started having problems after that i went to my last checkup before my delivery and i
had a std that he had given me in spite of the abuse they married in february of 1988 just
before their son freddie junior was born we stayed together until my son was about
eight months in 1989 alicia's personal life took an unexpected turn when she found out that her mother had
lied about something important an aunt told alicia that her biological father was not dead
but was living in southern california and had a family of his own i called him and we talked and so he
sent for me i found out we have a lot of ways of life we're both quiet we're not really
talkative unless you know the conversation is really interesting in december 1991 alicia gave birth to
another child she named nakia those are my miracle babies because um they always told me i was gonna never
have children but almost two years later alicia suffered a devastating loss when her biological dad with whom she
had reunited three years earlier died without my dad there i could talk to him about anything
no matter what although times were tough for the single mother she still managed to help her younger
sister with her children when i had my daughters she i'm a single mom she helped me out a lot
taking my burden away from me while she lost her own father alicia married her daughter's dad terence
williamson and relocated to atlanta but just four years later the couple separated he couldn't come to
a grip that he was a married man and married man do not stay out all night the rejection from two husbands weighed
heavily on alicia's diminishing self-esteem to lift her spirits she tried to buy a
new car she could not afford by forging a check stolen from a woman she took care of
there are people who want things more than they can have and that was at the time
my sister's thought process that need to have landed alicia in jail when she was
arrested for check fraud in smyrna georgia in june 2003 and that's when her downward spiral began
it just seemed like everything in my life was just going so wrong when women behind bars continues i hit
him twice in the head she claimed that mr atkins attacked her choked her she grabbed a barbell struck
him in self-defense in june 2003 alicia williamson a single mother with a history of two failed
marriages and suffering from depression had recently been released from a two-week
sentence in jail for forgery i had just gotten out of jail for like two weeks i want all everything to be
taken care of trying to get things in order feeling lonely and depressed when she
got out alicia looked for companionship on an internet dating website my ad it was just
telling what kind of person that i was and um what i'm looking for and a friend and
that's somebody i could go out to dinner with we saw the site we saw her pictures
they were very very very sexy very showing a lot alicia found robert atkins jr a former air force officer and high
school football star whom she had briefly met at a job fair the year before he's the type of person that would open
the door for you you know if you're getting out the car he would run around and he'd open the
door for you he's a true gentleman the divorced father had moved to the charlotte suburb three years earlier to
be closer to his 17 year old son james the young man was living with his mother linda bond
three hours away he was a good father he was a good dad uh he's yeah he's great he's always watching football all the
time or he's a big star trek fan too so that was definitely good robert is what you would consider a nice guy he
um he loved women he loved prince he made me feel safe robert was also a celebrated officer who
had been stationed in england and italy during his eight years with the air force
i think maybe he felt that that would be a good opportunity for him to see the world he didn't have
not evil bone in his body he just he wanted to help people alicia and robert frequently spoke on the phone it was
strange and we really didn't date i talked to him it was like he was a confidant for me
this was just on the phone after a month of soul-searching conversations with robert
alicia found herself trusting her new friend completely he was really nice i mean he was a
really nice person before he was living in suburban charlotte north carolina but decided to drive to
atlanta to see alicia he was just listening to everything you know that was happening in my life and
he was just like okay do you want to come to charlotte and start over to alicia robert's offer to help her
start a new life seemed irresistible i think that miss williamson had been rejected
going through a divorce looking to start fresh coming to charlotte i don't believe she said that they had
any sort of intimate relationship i just wanted a new start where nobody didn't know me and i could
just start all over i guess she would help with the bills that's not his type of person robert
dates very quiet women when i saw her in another picture she's total opposite of what he likes
although alicia says that robert made no promises of an intimate relationship authorities believe that she might have
harbored hopes for more than just a friendship we did recover her journal and stated she loved robert so we know
that there was a relationship in her mind that she wanted to have with robert atkins
alicia figured she would bring her 11 year old daughter nakia to north carolina once she landed a job
in the meantime she had a relative care for her and left without telling the rest of her family
on july 27 2003 alicia moved in with robert atkins after a phone relationship only a few
weeks old the first day it was good alicia says that she concentrated on her job search
i had put in resumes at different places to work and actually the lady had called and said
she wanted to interview with me she was really pleased with my resume but by the second of nine days that alicia
lived with robert she claims things began going downhill it was just crazy i could ask him things and
he wouldn't answer me he did answer me it was in a harsh way i thought it was strange she called me
one day and wanted me to enroll her daughter in school she then told me she was in north carolina and she could not get
back and i asked her why she could not get back and she was like i explained late i just can't get back but i need
you to enroll my daughter in school in the meantime robert had second thoughts about
inviting alicia to stay with him he and a former girlfriend had decided to get back together
but in order for their relationship to work he told alicia that she would need to move out she was
being told that he didn't want her living at his place if there was any relationship that
was going to happen between them it wasn't going to take place now it was like he was a different person
like dr jekyll mr hyde he just changed i needed to go to the store because i am a diabetic and i
i needed food and he did not want to take me to the store cooped up in robert's home
and away from her family alicia felt isolated and betrayed she's supposed to be my friend and
friends don't treat each other like that alicia says she saw some signs of this change a week earlier while robert was
driving her from atlanta to charlotte he didn't even want me to stop to the drugstore to get my medication
the medication she needed was an antidepressant which she says she took to stay focused
so i had to email my sister to send me my medicine through the mail after nine days of living with robert in
a platonic roommate situation alicia was becoming depressed and confused because she was without her
antidepressants having low self-esteem at that time i wasn't really thinking the tension between them
had grown since robert had asked alicia to leave if i was on a computer talking to my sister you need to stay
off my computer robert decided a solution to getting alicia out for good would be to pay for
a hotel room until the end of the month but when he returned from work around nine that
evening he did not discuss that option with her instead according to alicia he erupted in anger when he realized
that she had been working on his computer she had used the computer that he had fixed for her
and she had locked it down preventing him from using it she claimed that mr atkins attacked her
choked her probably she said he may have kicked her in the stomach although alicia claimed she was
defending herself what happened next would indicate she suddenly went out of control alicia
remembers what she was thinking i didn't want to be hurt too bad you know verbally and some physical with my first
husband i didn't want to live like that it just seemed like everything happened so fast
he grabbed my arm and bent it back she grabbed a barbell struck him in self-defense i hit him
twice in the head so as i was turning around he grabbed me by my ankle and i remember i unblended my jeans and i
crawled out of my jeans and i ran after that broke up it looks like that she went into the kitchen area
got a knife returned i jumped across the counter and i grabbed the first thing i saw and that
was a knife she stabbed him on his left side the left shoulder area he had some stab wounds on the right side
of his facial area then he also had stab wounds on his back he said it was hard it's the last thing
i heard him say then after that everything else are blank robert lay dead on the floor in a
pool of blood he would have bled to death uh you know within moments from the injuries that he sustained
during the attack when women behind bars continues i don't have anything to say to elisha
may god have mercy on her soul and later a brief encounter with a stranger in a swinger's bar turns deadly
on august 5th 2003 alicia williamson fatally stabbed robert atkins jr her roommate of nine days after the two
got in a heated argument she then called 911 [Music] was i'm not sure detective terry brandon responded to the
crime scene with his partner that area was just extremely bloody you could tell that the victim had lost
a lot of blood aspirated blood was seen on the wall in a window blind police arrived
they found mr atkins in a hallway there in this mobile home they noted and it was confirmed by the
medical examiner he had suffered multiple trauma injuries as well as stab wounds
[Music] we believe that the victim was sitting at his desk and was working on a computer with his back
to the rear of the door where she would have entered she walked in picked up a barbell and hit him in the
head when investigators first interviewed alicia she lied about what happened she said it looked like he may have been
robbed what she was saying just wasn't adding up and she came off of it and said that
she would tell the truth alicia then claimed that she stabbed atkins in self-defense
i did not believe that she acted in what she seemed to be claiming to be perfect
self-defense there was a lot of rage and anger that she exerted upon the victim she was
extremely out of control and it was a violent death the medical examiner's report showed
robert suffered 27 stab wounds to my knowledge i only stabbed him three times but the option said 27.
police charged 37-year-old alicia renee williamson with the murder of robert atkins jr
atkin's sister denise did not buy alicia's defense that her brother attacked her
he was not aggressive at all no he was very quiet laid back you know very calm alicia has always been very timid
she's never been the type of person to even ball of her fist at anyone it was unbelievable
everyone was stunned it was a lot of built up anger not only from him from way back when
it was just releasing it she had some bottled up rage here she is being put out again
by someone that she thought maybe was going to help her and maybe have a relationship with
investigators theorized that robert's rejection might have been the spark that ignited
alicia to snap alicia believes it was the final blow in a series of failed relationships
and the past alleged physical and mental abuse in her life the news of the murder came as a shock
to both families i don't have anything to say to alisha may god have mercy on her soul
i was working on a project in the charlotte area and i got back to my hotel when i turned
on the news and then popped up this report and her picture here's my sister right here alicia
williamson on the news um being held for murder i told him his father died i don't i'm not crying for that
but i'm crying because james's face i first found out i i definitely couldn't take it as i broke
down tears during the week after the murder police allowed james his mother and other
family members to gather robert's belongings they tried to look for answers to why his life was
taken from what we saw in the bedroom she had like a little notebook and in the notebooks she had wrote mr
mrs atkins mrs lisa atkins mr mrs robert and alicia you know she just went page to page to page hearts
kisses in her mind she thought that things were going to happen between them and that she was coming
here to start a new life and that he was going to take care of her and their relationship had deteriorated to
the point that he just told her he couldn't help her anymore he wanted her out that could have been part of what
happened was being a victim of her past days after alicia was arrested linda bond and robert atkins younger
sister jennifer visited her in prison according to linda his sister was curious about the woman
who killed her brother we had posed as missionaries from the church of god linda said robert atkins
sister jennifer was quiet during the visit she was a little shaken but she she was
okay i think in her heart she had to see you know to put an end to it if you want to see this evil
but evil is not what they saw she came out in that suit i said it's campy she looked like a little girl she
was a little short i thought i was beat this mean you know she looked like a sweet young girl
alicia says she was never told they were from a church and suspected they might be robert's relatives
they seemed like they was there out of concern but i knew deep down they wasn't after the short visit alicia found out
that linda and jennifer were relatives of the man she murdered for a second degree murder under north
carolina law for someone with no record like miss williamson the maximum one could get
it'd be around 16 years with a minimum 13. but the judge presiding over alicia's
case took into consideration that she had no violence in her past and that she was the mother of two
children i thought the judge imposed a fair sentence based upon her lack of record
the circumstances which she claimed caused her to take mr atkins life justice was not served
she only got 10 12 years you know she took a life a life for a life she took my brother's life she should do
life i'm sorry for their loss i really am because they lost a person and so did we he definitely
went to a better place it's just you know the way you went since she's been in prison
alicia has taken classes in business management parenting and domestic violence i'm sorry about
how things had happened if i could turn back the hands at times and do things differently i would
it's just that i can't change what happened i played that scene in my head over and over and over
and over i feel like then i'm giving her another chance that society has given me
another chance for her good behavior alicia has allowed day passes to see her family
outside of prison she also has been chosen for various work assignments throughout her years
when women behind bars continues no matter what i do it's never going to make mans i cannot
say i'm sorry for this and fix it he had a mother she will never see her son and i did that
for more information about women behind bars go to wetv.com on the evening of june 15 2000 23 year
old patricia donnelly entered san souci a swingers club in north dallas searching for someone who would trade
sex for money she needed money to bail her husband out of jail donnelly found a stranger 43 year old
carrie taylor a local from the dallas suburbs who was interested in her offer they
went to her apartment a half hour away when they arrived she changed her mind she had
got him in her house and she had him out of the van and choked him to death patricia confessed to strangling taylor
by using an unusual murder weapon she said she snapped and just tightened the bra down and just kept
hiding until he was dead was patricia donnelly a cold-blooded killer or did a spontaneous sex act
turn deadly [Music] from the very beginning patricia donnelly's life was atypical
i grew up believing that my grandmother was my mother and my mother was my sister until i was
about seven years and then my grandmother told me that my mom was my real mom and she was
my grandmother her grandmother raised her because she felt her own daughter patricia's mother
was too unstable to care for a child she had problems with depression took a lot of pills just was not stable
even though patricia's depression was hereditary she did not feel comfortable talking to her grandmother about how she
was suffering i've suffered depression since i was 10 and i would write that down
in my journal but when she found it she was mad and i would suffer consequences whatever i loved was taken
away it was a cat or a dress or whatever her grandmother's alcoholism spilled into patricia's upbringing as well
even as a baby she was drinking alcohol alcohol in the bottle to make her go to sleep at night
i was drinking peppermint shops from aging i was probably addicted at 10 years old
she grew up in the clubs every night her grandmother was an avid alcoholic and her mother was a drug
i had a lot of bro problems my grandmother she taught me to play the piano how to sew how to cook she was awesome
in that regard and she loved me but then when she would get drunk it would turn totally different if i made her mad
i remember walking past the panel my face would be cut out of the pictures or she would cut up my favorite dress
but according to jason donnelly patricia's former husband alcoholism was not the only problem she
faced as a child she even told me she was raped that her grandmother allowed men to come into the
house and use her for sex i've been sexually assaulted or abused when i was six by my uncle he really wasn't my uncle
the depression drinking mental and alleged sexual abuse in her childhood all contributed to a suicide attempt at
age 10. i still to this day don't know why my great-grandmother was on halidol it was liquid and i didn't exactly know
what it was but i knew i wasn't supposed to take it so i drank it and it sent me into shock patricia moved
from one relative's home to another in her early teens i know petty ended up in foster care because she had so many
problems as a child at age 17 patricia met jason donnelly who was a plumber's assistant
she arrived unexpectedly at his apartment in abilene texas in 1993. one morning my cousin knocked
on the door at six o'clock in the morning and told me they needed this girl to come stay a couple days
jason took patricia in she lived there for six months before he asked her to marry him
i asked jason to wait and not marry her at that time but he kind of ran off and got married
patricia's mother-in-law weda heath was suspicious of her right from the start kind of mysterious yeah she kept to
herself quite a bit [Music] in 1994 shortly after they were married jason enlisted in the air force
they lived at the shepherd air force base in texas the following year patricia became
pregnant and in september 1995 she gave birth to a baby boy she named nyland at first i was not happy about being
pregnant i'd never been around children and i was scared when neil was born i didn't know
anything jason was gone 12 hours a day after she had him she went right into postpartum depression
and we started having all kinds of problems it wasn't until they had been married
for a while that i started finding out the things that she was doing that i thought were wrong like going out
and being with other men drinking and doing drugs and being very deceitful to jason
according to her former husband patricia would also sniff paint which made her hallucinate she had an
illusion she told me she saw the angel of death face to face trying to kill her she had been tough and pain i could come
in the house and smell strong smell of paint patricia admits to getting high on paint fumes and drinking
she also blames herself for being physically abusive to her former husband and cheating on him i was very young and
i should not have gotten married at age 17. i was not promiscuous in high school
but as soon as i got married i was one time we got an argument and she said i'll break all the dishes
in the house if you if you say anything else and i did i said one more thing and she
she took every dish in the house and busted it patricia acknowledges that she was
ill-equipped for motherhood since she did not grow up in a nurturing environment
i feel like i was the best mother i could be with what help i had what i knew her former mother-in-law said patricia
often left her son at her house she just wasn't able to take care of him and then when he was just a few months
old she brought him to me and told me i could have him but she didn't want him jason got patricia on medication for
depression and the marriage stabilized in 1998 she gave birth to a second son she named him joseph i don't think
any mother is perfect i never abused them physically emotionally or mentally relatives said
when patricia was lax in taking her medication she would return to drinking and drugs
as a result the marriage completely fell apart right after joseph was born just as she met michael carl weighed he
was a cousin of one of jason's friends on the military base where they lived patricia was smitten with him i guess he
was more of the bad boy but he was intelligent if you caught him on a normal basis he was a pretty pretty
decent person he seemed like he really cared about her and loved her but then he would go
through really violent periods in november 1999 jason and patricia were divorced with
jason getting custody of their two sons patricia and michael moved together to denton texas
a half hour north of dallas we had a lot of the same likes as jason and i did not
so that's what attracted me to him it was an attraction that would prove fatal when women behind bars continues
that's one of the worst ways to die is by strangulation but it's not normal for a woman to
strangle a man in the fall of 1999 23-year-old patricia donnelly and her husband
jason divorced jason got custody of their two sons nylen and joseph and brought them to
england where he was stationed with the air force patricia moved north of dallas texas
with michael carl wade who became her common-law husband on valentine's day two thousand
they were what we in texas called common law married common law means if you present yourself
as man and wife then you are believed to be man and wife they never had a license
but they were married when she called herself patricia wade heather disney was patricia's neighbor
at the thomas street apartments in denton texas where they became close friends she was very very sweet she was
very low tempered and [Music] just always wanted to give to other people always wanted to help everybody
out she said the couple was always fighting about money or about michael going out
with his friends he would say that she came after him she would say that he would come attack her
but at the end result she was always the one that was beat up and then the next day it was like
nothing ever happened and there was always an excuse for where the bruises came from she would
just say i should have just left but she never did leave on june 12 2000 a fight between the two
was extremely violent i had heard trish screaming and walked in the door and she had come
out and she had blood just coming down her head really bad and she was trying to get away
heather said she went to a neighbor's apartment and called the police she had told the police that she had
slipped getting into the bath and busted her head on the bathtub spout and i told the police
that's not what happened he's he was in there beating up on her police charged michael with assault
and brought him to the denton county jail they set bond at 250 patricia frantically tried to get
michael out of jail but she did not have the money i wanted to bail him out because i loved
him and i wanted to show him what unconditional love was she ran around asking everybody if she
could borrow ten dollars here twenty dollars just trying to get the money together to get
them out and nobody would come up with the money or even attempt to the only way she could think of to get
the money was to uh was to hire herself out for sex on the night of june 15 2000 patricia
and a friend went to the san souci swingers club in dallas looking for someone to pay patricia for
sex her friend found carrie taylor clean-cut neon sign installer who was eager to pay patricia for her services
he was just a good nature person everybody liked him he had a lot of friends carrie who was divorced from his high
school sweetheart lived on his parents large farm with his three brothers he would speak to his parents several
times a day he'd probably give people's shirt off his back if he if they asked him for it yeah he was
kind he he was nice to me according to patricia her plan was simple and pragmatic
my intention was to have sex do whatever with this man get the money and get michael out of jail
we went to a lake i remember drinking some beers and then we went back to michael's in my
apartment patricia says she knew that carrie wanted to be tied up so she arranged her furniture to
accommodate him the way my living room was set up the couch was in the middle of it and so the door was
behind it so she took the shoestrings out of her husband's shoes the couch was moved away from the
wall slightly and she cut a slit behind the couch and there are springs and framework that run down there
so she had carrie reach his arms over his head she tied his wrist and then tied them to
the back of the couch patricia told police that carrie began to squirm because she took so long
she was standing behind him and she took her purple bra off that she was wearing
and kind of danced in front of him a little bit naked went behind him and asked him if he if
he wanted to be tied up more but then patricia claimed she could not go through with it the thoughts in my
head i did not want to i didn't want him to be there i hadn't gotten any money yet i just
wanted all of it to go away patricia says she was also angry over the way her two marriages turned out
and furious with her mother it all came out in a flood of rage i think all my anger from everything
probably from way back yonder came out on that man when anger wells up it's sometimes not
controllable and that's when she all of a sudden threw this brawl around his neck and
tightened it up and choked him to death it didn't seem real i remember walking back
pacing and crying but it did not seem real the following day having just killed a
man and still without cash patricia called a friend to help her pay michael's bond he put it on his credit
card and i went and got michael out of jail and told him we have a dead body in our
apartment when he got home sure enough there was a dead body rolled up in the carpet
inside the living room so he kind of freaked out that afternoon patricia's neighbor
heather came to the apartment when i went in there the next day her living room walls were spray painted
like a black color she wouldn't make eye contact if you asked or anything she had this smirk smile on her face
this evil really evil smile almost zombie-like just kind of assume that she had sniffed too much pain
heather also noticed that the apartment furniture was moved around and the bedroom carpet was cut out i
went ahead and sat down and sat on the carpet that was rolled up the body was still rolled up in the
carpet from a day earlier heather left without noticing police believe a day or two later
patricia and michael put the body in the back of carrie taylor's dodge intrepid and drove three hours to athens texas
where she grew up they had wrapped the body in a leopard comforter and dumped it in a ravine
next to a swamp michael told me get rid of his car and i did not patricia continued driving
carrie taylor's car for almost a month then on july 14 2000 police stopped her in denton texas for
stealing gas investigators had no idea what they were about to discover she was vague on what she was doing with
the vehicle at one point she said that she was buying the vehicle from carrie taylor
the car was traced to taylor whose parents had reported him missing on june 23 2000 detectives held the mother of two
at the county jail for questioning and after five days she confessed to the murder patricia
took investigators to the secluded ravine where she dumped carrie's body all we had were bones we collected about
98 of the bones which in a rural area where you have wild animals is very good but we found the bra in the area where
the bones were found the bones were sent to a forensics lab for identification when the lab confirmed the remains
belonged to carrie taylor police notified his mother and the rest of the family she was horrified when she found that
they were not going to have a body they had bones they did not have their son if somebody's planning to kill
somebody and they shoot them from 20 feet away 100 yards away it's not as personal as strangulation
you're right there to the last gasp that tells me that she's a very cold person july 14 2000 police charged patricia
donnelly with murder and michael carl weighed with evidence tampering he went to trial eight months later
the thing that he did was wrong was when he found out about it he did notify the authorities he never
indicated that he ever helped dispose of the body but he admitted that he backed the vehicle
that he rode uh in the vehicle with her when she disposed of the body that in and of itself is sufficient
no matter what i do it's never going to make mans i cannot say i'm sorry for this
and fix it he had a mother she will never see her son and i did that no nobody else did it no
matter what i've gone through my childhood no matter what michael did to me it doesn't give me permission to take a
life i hope that she eventually finds peace when patricia went to prison her son
joseph was one and nielan was three they were too young to even obtain any type of understanding i
explained to neelan in little kids terms mommy's in timeout he understands a lot more now
the 32 year old mother has not seen her sons in eight years but they no longer wonder where she is i
tell them the truth i debated over that for many years recently i've told them everything
patricia is at a prison in gatesville texas she creates cards for neyland and joseph
and says she thinks about her family as well as carrie taylor i know that i wrecked their life i have
an impact on my children's life by not being there so i know the damage that i've done to
everybody's life i accept responsibility i don't blame it on because this happened or that because i
make my own choices [Music]

Brief Summary

Alicia Williamson and Patricia Donnelly commit murder under intense emotional circumstances stemming from their troubled pasts.

Key points

Alicia Williamson's Rage Explodes. Alicia Williamson fatally stabs Robert Atkins Jr. after a heated argument.
Alicia's Troubled Past. Alicia's history of abuse and rejection contributes to her violent outburst.
The Fatal Encounter. A brief encounter in a swinger's bar turns deadly for Robert Atkins Jr.
A Life for a Life. Alicia's sentence sparks outrage as she receives only 10-12 years for murder.
Patricia's Dark Past. Patricia Donnelly's troubled childhood is revealed, filled with abuse and neglect.
Murder and Regret. Patricia's rage leads to a shocking murder, leaving her with a dead body to hide.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It just happened so fast into a blink of an eye.

Describing the suddenness of the violent act.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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