Murder With My Husband - 50. Lizzi Marriott – The Animal Lover

Episode Date: March 1, 2021

https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband  LIVE ONLINE SHOW TICKETS HERE! https://www.moment.co/murderwithmyhusband On this Episode of Murder With My Husband, Payton and Garrett discuss the story of Lizzi Marriott. Case Sources: 48 Hours S28 E18 – Dangerous Games https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5l4sl7 https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/lizzi-marriott-case-timeline/4/ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/star-witness-kat-mcdonough-acts-out/#x https://www.cbsnews.com/video/accused-killer-seth-mazzaglias-theatre-audition/ https://patch.com/massachusetts/sudbury/lizzie-marriott-murderer-denied-new-trial https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20160708/woman-in-lizzi-marriott-slaying-to-be-released-from-nh-prison Links: https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/murderwithmyhusband) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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the story, but your your fresh perspective from your husband is awesome. I do have one question, what is Garrett's favorite podcast that you two have made to date and why? Ooh, good question. So what episode do you feel like was your favorite or sticks out to you? So if I were to pick one, I'm not 100% sure, but I guess any survivor story just kind of sticks with me. Yeah. So I don't think I can pick one. I think they stick with all of us. We get a lot.

Yeah, but maybe the more like survivor ones we do, maybe I'll have one that's favorite. Yeah. That's a good question. Yeah, it was. Thank you. This case was suggested by one of our listeners. And on the new way, we do case suggestions.

We have a little thing that says, like, what's your information if you want credit for it? And I think she got a little confused. She just wrote heck yes. And so she did want credit, except for those are anonymous. So unless you leave me your name, I don't know what it is. But the story suggestion was good. And so please, if this was you, this suggested this story,

please, please message me so that I can give you actual credit because I'm all for the heck yes, except for I don't know your name, which I just cracked up. So our case sources are a 48 hours episode season 28, episode 18 called Dangerous Games, daily in Dover, New Hampshire. 19 year old Elizabeth Marriott, who goes by Lizzie, has just entered the university of New Hampshire as a sophomore. It was the fall of 2012 and Lizzie was hoping to study the Marine Biology program. And it was a pretty big deal at UNH and so she was beyond excited. I guess the Marine Biology program and it was a pretty big deal at UNH and so she was beyond excited. I guess the the Marine

Biology program there is is pretty good. So she had moved out of her parents' home whose names are Bob and Melissa Marriott and into her aunt and uncle's home whose names are Tony and Becky Hannah which was closer to UNH and so she just moved in with her aunt uncle to save money from living and student housing. She loved her friends, she was outgoing, and more than anything she loved animals. Lizzie had been volunteering at the New England Aquarium just before leaving for college. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Lizzie left her aunt and uncle a letter at home that said she

was going to a friend's house at night and would be home no later than 12 or 1230. By the next morning, Lizzie hadn't come home. Her aunt and uncle are skeptical, but don't want to budge too much into her life. She is a young adult after all at college. And if she wanted to stay too late at a friend's house and crash there for the night, that's okay. So it wasn't until Thursday morning when there was still no sign of Lizzie, not even her car that her at an uncle

truly began to panic. So they decided to call Bob and Melissa Marriott, Lizzie's parents to see if they had heard from their daughter who was staying with Tony and Becky. When Tony called Bob, he said, have you heard from Liz daughter who was staying with Tony and Becky. When Tony called Bob, he said, have you heard from Lizzie? We haven't seen her for a couple days. We're just getting a little worried.

And Lizzie's father, Bob replied, no, we were actually just about to call you guys because we haven't heard from her. Uh-oh, okay. Lizzie's parents are sick to their stomachs. Like, is there a checklist that you should do when your daughter is suspected to be missing? They lived a couple hours away in Massachusetts. So they decided to call police to report Lizzie missing. Meanwhile, making the drive to where Lizzie was last seen. I feel like we've been doing a couple of these missing ones lately. And it's just, it's horrible. Like, I can't imagine that feeling of

like we haven't heard or seen her in the car They also call anyone and everyone that they can think of that could help But they really don't get that you know, they don't get very far. Okay, but the problem is neither her parents nor her aunt and uncle New what friend Lizzie had left to go see that Tuesday night on the note She said we're going to see a friend. No one knew what friend it was But back at the police station, investigators had been immediately working the case. And they quickly found out through friends who Lizzie was supposed to go see that night. So everyone's actually, I guess,

investigating the case or not like, oh, she could have just run away. Yes, they immediately investigate, even though she's a young adult. Cause last week that was completely different. Yeah, they find out that Lizzie, the friend she was going to she's a young adult. Because last week, that was completely different. They find out that Lizzie, the friend she was going to see, was a young girl by the name of Cat McDonough. The friend who told police this information was named Nate McNeil.

He worked at the local target with Lizzie and Cat. So Lizzie worked at Target. She went to go see Cat that night. And Nate is the friend who said, oh, they were going to hang out because at work, we all work at Target together. They said they were going to hang out. Nate was one of Lizzie's new friends in New Hampshire and he says that Lizzie was always happy and searched for the best in everyone. He claims that Lizzie had an aura about her that made people want to talk

to her that she was super special. Nate tells police that when Lizzie hadn't been answering his texts and then he found out that she had been missing, he texted Kat to ask if she had seen Lizzie since they hung out on Tuesday. Why would Nate be texting her? Kat? Yeah.

Oh, just texting Lizzie in general? Yes. Because they were friends. Yeah, because they're good friends. They work together. They were friends. They talked pretty frequently. Keep in mind, she just moved here, so it's not like she has a ton of fans.

So they weren't like boyfriend or girlfriend or anything? No. Kat textedate back and is like, yeah, Nate, actually, we were supposed to hang out on Tuesday, but Lizzie never showed to hang out. And so I too am worried about Lizzie. And Kat also says, yeah, you know, please call to me. And I told them that Lizzie was missing and everything that happened and that she never showed up for when we were supposed to hang out.

And that's it. So now Kat and Nate had actually known each other for a long time. So they worked at Target together, but that's not how they met. They grew up together. Kat was actually one of Nate's sisters, friends, all the way back from kindergarten. They knew each other for a long time and then Lizzy kind of came into the mix in 2012. As investigators are piecing all of this information together as well, they learn that Kat McDonald lived with her boyfriend Seth

Mezilia. And Kat and Seth had met in the summer of 2011. So just a year earlier, and they both were involved in the local theater scene. Okay. And so, side note, when I was little, I wanted to be an actress in a singer so bad, I knew I was going to be famous, which I'm not. But I literally could have sworn I was going to be famous because I was going to be an actress or a singer. And so, yeah, I never took theater classes. That's funny.

Did you take theater classes? In high school, it was one of the electives. Oh, did you act in a play? No. Oh, you just took classes. I just, I kind of just did whatever needed to be done to pass the class. Oh, you were a stage manager. No. You were back done to pass the class. Oh, you were a stage manager. No.

You were back there pulling up the props. We'd actually had to do like, like for our final project, we actually had to like act in front of. Oh, in front of everyone. In front of everyone. Was that awkward? I don't know. It was fine.

I guess. Eight year old me would have aided up high school me. Never. It was awkward because I, I don't know if I'm remembering this correctly, but I think I had a, you had to do it by yourself on stage. Oh. You had to like talk to yourself. Yeah.

I don't know. I bet you were good at it. Thanks, babe. So they are in the local theater scene together. You can actually watch both Cat and Seth's audition for the local play. And we will play those on our YouTube video, but that's just kind of funny to see them like auditioning and we're not talking high school They're both out of high school. This is like there's like a local theater in in town. They actually know what they're doing. Yes, yes

The plays director tells police that shortly after meeting cat and Seth began hanging out a lot So they me after both getting a role in this play and then they begin hanging out a lot, but Seth was 29 and cat was only 17. Okay. So almost immediately after turning 18, cat moved in with Seth and cut off all contact with her family. So her parents obviously disapprove of this and this is like a really bad sign of an abusive relationship If you like just are you're young they're old you completely move you shut off everyone else in your other life And you everything is about this person. Yeah, and so the play director was like a little worried He's like this just doesn't seem right but Seth worked at a local electronic store as well as teaching martial arts and was actually

a trained EMT. So he just made his rounds. As police are looking into Seth, thinking that maybe Lizzie had made her way over to Kat's house where Seth lived as well, despite what Kat had texted Nate, and maybe Seth was home and something had happened to Lizzie there. While looking into this, they discover that Seth had had a dark side. Seth's name, when run, popped up on many sex and bondage sites. So BDM seemed to be a huge part of Seth's life.

Most of his online activity revolved around it. So when you mean pop up, you mean he was acting or doing things or just searching. No, he was just on doing things or just searching? You were just on a whole bunch of sites, groups, like ages about this. Okay. So while researching, police also discovered that cat had become involved in this online scene as well

since they started dating. He was posting pictures of herself with screen names like Vampire Actress and Miss Scarlett. So they were definitely into this, to this, to the scene together. And it's safe to say that Seth and Kat together as a couple were experimenting in bondage and submissiveness and had been looking around on websites posting

that they were interested in bringing a third person into their relationship. This kind of reminds me of, wow, maybe I am remembering some of these, but the other case we did, what was that? You know what I'm talking about, Craig? Yes, episode 30, that's the Sydney Loof case. That's what it was.

That's what it was. A boyfriend and a girlfriend. But they were in like a cult. Yes, yes. Well, he kind of started a cult. He kind of started a cult, but yeah, and they would like try to get other women to come in.

And so this couple is just looking for a third person to be involved in their relationship. Got it. So just three days after Lizzie disappeared, police brought in both Seth and Kat placed them in separate rooms and interviewed them. This is pretty fast work on the department side, granted, I know it's their job, but I do find it easy to kind of pick apart like police in these cases because you're just like, there's more they could have done. They didn't do this. They like last week. And sometimes like last week, they deserve it. So on the flip side, I will also acknowledge when they do a good job, which these people three days after she went missing brought in Seth and Kat and

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hung out once before, but Lizzie never came that night. And then the next thing she knew Lizzie was missing. What years is this again? 2012. Okay. I know I always ask this. Was there no cameras by the apartment complex? Are we just okay? No, but there are cell phones. They all have cell phones. Around the two hour mark of Kat's interview, Kat's like, I'm done answering questions. So she stops answering questions. So police are like, okay, well, you're free to go. I mean, she hadn't admitted to anything. She's not under arrest. But instead of leaving the police department, she sits in the front of the station and waits for Seth to be done with his interview as

well. Okay. But unbeknownst to Kat, Seth was going to be a little while. Because while he was in his interview, he was telling a completely different story about what happened Tuesday night. No way. Yeah. So Seth's interview would last around 11 hours. And in there, he would disclose to police that Lizzie had in fact made it to their apartment on Tuesday night. So Cat was lying. He tells them that there was sex involved and then something went wrong and Lizzie died. Very similar to the last to Sinyalus case. Wow.

Seth tells interrogators that when Lizzie died, he panicked and brought her body to Pierce Island where he dumped her in the water. And this is a place. Pierce Island is a place where a river meets the Atlantic Ocean. So the water is rough. It's running. Police immediately sent a search team to the body of water, but they find nothing. The search for Lizzie Marriott had now turned into the search for Lizzie Marriott's body. Okay. On Saturday morning, just five days after Lizzie Mary had been, had last been seen alive, Seth Mezalia was arrested and charged with her murder.

Media hears about the search and arrest, and Lizzie's parents are brought in by law enforcement to be told the news. Does cat not arrested for anything? Nope. So I literally, my next paragraph says, I know you are all asking about cats involved. Yes. And what exactly Seth told police in his initial interview, but the interrogation files are sealed. So we don't know what exactly he said. And police

really didn't let out much information, probably because they got a confession, so they don't really need the public's help. So like, oh, this is what we know. Can anyone help us? So everyone's confused because Seth was arrested right and Cat wasn't except for Seth and Cat were at the apartment together. And he said that sex was involved. So I mean, I assume Cat was there. Yes. So was Seth truly alone that night? Like, did Cat leave and he was alone? Or did he just cover for a cat? We don't know. Okay. And we'll never know.

We will. Oh. So you were like, and Nate actually ended up texting his coworker, Kat, after Seth's arrest, who he's known his whole life and says, like, are you ignorant as to what happened? Or like, did you know and not do anything? Like, can you ignorant as to what happened or like did you know and not do anything like can you imagine as a friend Yeah, I texted you about her and you said oh she never showed up and now your boyfriend's getting arrested for her Like kidnapping and murder especially because cat and him have been friends. Yeah, they've got each other for a long time I don't even know who she is. Yeah. Cat never replies to Nate's message. Police began searching cat and cess apartment and apartment building

and they discover evidence in the dumpster behind the building. Men's underwear, a pair of gloves and Lizzie's sweatshirt. The search for Lizzie's body lasted for weeks, but nothing was ever found. This is truly heartbreaking for Lizzie's parents, because they feel like their daughter is just in the ocean somewhere and someone threw her in there, like trash, and now they can't find her. And I think something that we can't fathom or comprehend until it happens to us would be how hard it is to go through something as horrible as your daughter getting kidnapped and murdered and then never finding the body. The body is all they have left really and they don't even have that.

I assume it's one of the biggest types of closure. Yes, yes. And it's like, I don't think we can understand how hard this would be for Lizzie's parents because we're like, well, you know, it's okay. And it's like to them, it's like, that's all we have to hold on to and we don't have it. And so I just, I feel bad. But after Seth's arrest, a woman named Catherine comes forward who claims that she dated Seth

while he was in college and she was in high school. So Seth apparently has a habit of dating a lot younger teenage girls from him. And she says that while they dated, he was obsessed with murder, violence, and he was also very abusive. That he didn't respect hard limits. When it came to BDSM, she would say stop, and he would push farther, which from what I understand is not how BDSM is supposed to work Like they're supposed to be very clear cut communication. I guess I've worked. Yes about what's accepted and what's not and that's how BDSM Properly works Catherine tells police that in 2002 her and Seth moved to New Hampshire

Leaving her family where he was also trying to bring another woman into their relationship. He had secluded her from everyone in her life and she grew scared of him. She moved out eventually, went into hiding and then not even 10 years later, Seth's arrested for murder with an 18 year old girlfriend coming to his defense. She went to hiding because she was scared that he was going to murder her. Yeah. Her, her, her. Yeah.

And so she comes forward and is like, it's totally him. Yeah. Like I was that 18 year old girl until I got out. Just two days after Seth's arrest, Kat meets with his lawyers to try to help him out. She looks wildly different than the first version of cats that we saw in like after when she was first brought in by police. Yes, so the pictures will be up on our YouTube channel. So if you wanna go check those out,

but they also will be up on our social media. So this is cat when everything happens. Okay. And this is cat when she comes in. No way. Yeah. To defend him in front of his lawyers to try to help him out on his team.

That is not the same person. And now typically, we wouldn't know much about what Cat told his lawyers. Wow. But due to what happens later in the case of this footage and information was released. Okay. So Cat before the arrest was young, spunky, unique. And when she shows up for the interview

with ses lawyers, she's reserved, has glasses, soft looking like two completely different types. She admits to his lawyers this time that Lizzie did actually come over that night. And they all played cards and watched movies, which eventually led to consensual sexual activities between the three of them. She says that they started getting a little more intense and that Lizzie eventually agreed to be tied up in a harness. She says that cat herself tied Lizzie up and it was the first time she had actually tied a harness on someone else. She had harnessed tied before, but not someone else. And she tells Seth lawyers that Lizzie eventually had a seizure, suffocated and died. What?

Yes. Just like, I think she's saying from the way the harness was tied, that it was an accident. She thinks it's down in the video on her knees to show the lawyer what position like everyone was in when this happened and it does seem a little detached the way Kat is talking about the event of someone dying like not even a week ago but at the same time I think she's solely here to save her boyfriend not to like confess to the the accident with Lizzy and she's not here because she feels bad about what happened. I'm wondering if she's just trying to make up more of a story or if this is what happened.

I guess we'll see. And all like her getting down on her knees and everything the footage will be on our YouTube. Lizzie's friends and family do not think that this version of events that Kat told the lawyers is what actually happens. They do not think that Lizzie would have willingly agreed to be tied up, especially with people she had only hung out with once before. Nate even tells police that Lizzie actually had a girlfriend named Brittany that she was

really happy with and so he's like, I really don't think she would have even done any consensual sexual activity with these guys because she was like in a committed relation monogamous relationship. Okay. So it would be two months before cat McDonough would be arrested in this whole situation. But not for murder for hindering the investigation. And she's also ordered to order to not talk to Seth again. So what exactly do you mean hindering does that mean prolonging the investigation? I think not coming in in the interview and lying about the fact that cat head come over. Okay. And also not calling police and saying hey, something bad happened. Got it. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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it ain't a 17 year difference in prison type of love. That's a huge difference. And so cat agrees to turn on Seth. Sure, I'll say whatever I need to be given a smaller sentence, which is why she's not arrested for murder. She's arrested for hindering the investigation. Is that real though? Like, that was really a three year to 20 year difference?

Yes. Wow. And so in May of 2014, two years after Lizzie's murder, Seth goes on trial. And at trial, Seth is saying, no, I didn't do it. So even though he said it was an accident and something happened, he's now a trial going No, I had no partner. The state relies on Kat's testimony against Seth, which is now a different story once again So we heard the first story of no Lizzie never made it to my house. We heard the second story of actually she did make it to my house And then we were all I tied her up and something went wrong because it it's two years later. Yes, two years later.

Why, why, why do we have to wait so long, I guess, do you know? Yeah, so to go to trial, to take a case to trial, where someone is pleading not guilty to what they're being tried for, it takes years and years for it to actually get there because the state is building their case. The the state is building their case. The defense team is building their case and to go to trial, you have to agree like, okay, we're ready to go.

Like, we've done all the investigating we can because essentially when like the defense goes to trial, they are building a case against the state's case. Well, I'm sure that was part of the defensive strategy, it would be my guess, to prolong as much as you can to confuse everyone. Oh, sometimes it is. And sometimes it's not, which is hard because everyone has the right to a speedy trial you've heard that before.

So sometimes they'll be like, the state doesn't have a very good case. We're gonna take it right now and their case is gonna fall apart. Or sometimes they'll prolong it and try to just appeal, appeal, pushback, another day, another day. We are actually seeing that

with the missing Rexburg kids, another day, another day. We are actually seeing that with the mixing, the missing Rex bird kids, the daybell case, they are finding every reason they can to be like, well, before we start, let's do this, before we start, let's just, and they have the right. That's your right. Okay. So as long as you have good lawyers who can figure it out, then yeah, it's possible. So yes, it is two years after and this time the prosecution states that cat was under control of Seth and in fear of her life Cat gets on stand and tells the jurors that Seth planned and murdered Lizzie while she stood by so this time She gets up and says nope Seth had planned it and I was just in the room She claims that she got tricked into her relationship

just in the room. She claims that she got tricked into her relationship with Seth and was told by him that she needed to choose someone to bring over for Seth to torture. Kat says this was the sole reason she raised up to Lizzie and that Lizzie showed up and they all agreed to play Strip Poker. Kat says the lights were dim and Kat was naked and Lizzie was only in her underwear. What a psycho that he wanted to just torture somebody. Yeah. Seth then suggested that cat and Lizzy kiss. So they're playing strip poker. This is all according to cat's testimony.

So she's changed her story once again, this is the new story. They're all playing strip poker. And Seth says, hey, cat and Lizzy, you two should kiss. But Lizzy's like, no, I'm in a committed relationship. Like we're monogamous, I'm not into that. And so Seth's like again, well, maybe Lizzie, you and I can have sex while Kat watches us. And she's like, no, I'm in a committed relationship.

I don't wanna do that. Kat said, and then Seth just left the room. And Kat was like, he was mad, But me and Lizzie just kept hanging out and then Seth left and put on gloves and grabbed a rope and came back Behind Lizzie and put the rope around her neck and started strangling her No way after this Lizzie was unconscious and dying and Seth raped her and Kat said that she just sat there silent and watched. What? Kat breaks down on the stand when talking about this, which is to me,

kind of weird considering that years earlier when the wounds were still fresh, she acted like she didn't really care about what was happening. But also she could have had battered women syndrome, like she could have just been sold in there. Yeah, to like defend him, not even realizing what had happened was bad. But now it's been two years and she's realizing like the extent of what had happened. I just so confused why someone Seth goes, I just want to kill somebody. I know. I don't understand. After this at trial, a woman named Roberta Gherkin was brought onto the stand who claimed

to be a friend of Seth and Lizzie's. She testifies that she got a weird call at 10.49 pm, the night of Lizzie's murder. And it was from Kat and she was asking her to come over. So Roberta grabbed her boyfriend, Paul Hickock, and drove to Seth and Kat's apartment. She says when they walked in, there was a body on the floor by the bed. Seth

told them that he went too far this time and they say that cat was in the kitchen against the cabinets in a fetal position. So the state brings this witness in to confirm the fact that cat had no part in the murder. So they were basically, because I was going to say why didn't they come forth earlier, but they were kind of holding on on purpose? This state was holding out on purpose. Yes. These two people just didn't come forward. Really?

They say that they eventually just left the apartment not wanting to get involved and they didn't call the police. Cat claims that after this together, they put Lizzie's body in Cess Car and Cat is saying while she's doing this, like like I was doing bad things like Everything I'm about to tell you is bad like I was doing bad things But I didn't murder her and so they put Lizzie's body it together in actually Lizzie's car and they drove 13 miles to the coast They parked and got Lizzie who was wrapped in a tarp and put into a suitcase It took her out of this suitcase. They dumped her body off the cliff

Now this part's really bad. So if you don't want to hear it fast forward They dump her body off the cliff, but it's low tide and so she didn't land in the water Oh my gosh, and so cat has to climb down the cliff and get Lizzy's body and move her into the water after they just threw her off. What a cat have to do this. Because Seth said he was tired. That's according to cat. Okay. They go back into Lizzie's car,

they abandon it in a parking lot and they walk six miles back to their home. The defense argues that cat is a liar and that she was actually the cause of the death like she said the first time in, or the second confession to his lawyers. So this is why that confession to his lawyers gets leaked. It's because by the time they go to trial, they are no longer on the same team.

So now they have this video of her backing up they're defendant. And now they're using it against her at trial which is why we saw access to it. But I think the other couple that came forth and said, this is what happened probably sealed the deal. Yes. And so the defense is like, cats, the aggressors, Seth just helped get rid of the body, basically just flip-flopping the stories. So two days after deliberation on June 27, 2014, the jury agrees on a verdict. June 27, 2014, the jury agrees on a verdict. Seth Mezzilia is found guilty of first degree murder

by strangulation, guilty of first degree rape and murder, and guilty of two counts of conspiracy. So the jury says that the premeditation came in. So for first-degree murder, has to be premeditated, right? You had to have planned it. And they say that they were able to agree on premeditation because of the gloves

that he went and put on. They were like, why a conciliar identity? Why would you go get gloves? If you didn't know that you were gonna go out there and kill her. And so that's what sealed the deal for the jury. Lizzie's parents don't think that cat would have done this without Seth, but they do think

that Seth would have done this without cat. Which I could see, I think. Yeah, and so they think the results are fair. Like they think it's okay that cat wasn't charged with more because they think that she was just got involved with the wrong guy who led her to do the wrong things. So seven weeks later on August 14, 2014, after Lizzie's parents give their statements, and Seth stands up and says once again that he did not murder Lizzie, he is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Lizzie's parents haven't been to the beach since Lizzie died. They can't look at the water. There is a memorial in the woods for Lizzie, no grave because they don't have her body. And in memory of Lizzie, her family has set up a scholarship in her memory called the Lizzie Marriott Ocean Explorer Fund. Cat was released on July 15th, Borough Fund. Cat was released on July 15th, 2016, after serving her sentence. And in December of 2016, Seth was denied a new trial after appealing on the fact that they didn't mention Lizzy sexual past at his first trial. Good. I'm glad he was denied. And it was actually taken pretty high. Really? So he tried to appeal and was was like her sexual past should have been released at trial

because it would have made me look less bad and People were like maybe and suddenly took it higher and higher and then they were like no Someone were not giving you a new trial because of this and so then he was denied So yeah, he's still in prison good, but yeah, that is the case of Lizzie, Mariette. That's just blows my mind that, I mean, he planned it. He'd totally planned to kill someone. No doubt about it. The glove thing didn't stand out to me until they said the jurors

and I was kind of like, they ain't paying, why don't you like see that? Like, you literally, it's true. Yeah, he went back, grabbed some gloves and he planned it out. Yeah. And it's hard. I think a lot of something that's up in the air about this case is how much is on cat's plate for what happened. She probably was abused, we know she was cut off from her family, we know that she was probably not choosing to

do any of this stuff, but at the same time you're a bystander, right? And so that is kind of what's hard. So she did surf time. And then also that couple who didn't call the police, they never like got in trouble from what I could find. I don't know if they legally could have though. Well, yeah, you knew what happened. You hid her in investigation too. Oh, that's true. Yeah, that's true.

Like you are equally as culpable as Cat if you saw the dead body and didn't report. I'm guessing they cut a deal where they said, look, we'll come forward. It will testify, which is probably what happened. But it's just kind of like, you know, like that was a really bad decision to not come forward because they didn't want to get involved. And then not get, you know, just basically get ready. I'm glad he's caught though. I am too, because I, and his ex girlfriend said, she's like, if it wouldn't have been Lizzie, it would have been someone else.

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