Serial manipulation

The woman used men to benefit. She was put on life

Michigan’s police believed that she had opened the murder, and was already preparing to close the case when it turned out that all this time they suspected the innocent. The customer of the murder almost managed to avoid punishment, but she was failed by her lover's jealousy.

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On November 8, 1999, 48 year old Bruce Miller lingered at work. He owned a dumping of scrap metal B&D Auto Parts and a business for the sale of used auto parts in the industrial city of Flint in Michigan. In the evening, he was supposed to drop by dinner at one of the local cafes and go home, but when his wife, 28-year-old Sheri, called Bruce's younger brother and asked him to go to the landfill too much.

Miller was found in his office, not far from the landfill. He had several gunshot wounds on his chest and neck. The police searched the surroundings, but the murderer could not be found.

Kevin Chanlian, a detective, who took up the investigation of the case, later recalled that all the signs indicated the robbery: “It is known that Miller wore a wallet with two thousand dollars in the purchase of car spare parts in his shirt pocket. Money is gone. "

Black portfolio

Almost immediately, a former Miller employee John Hatchinson came under suspicion.

According to Miller Sheri's wife, the relationship between John and Bruce was stretched. Sheri herself worked in her husband’s company: in 1998, she got a job at his company. Before starting a romance with Miller, she met with Hatchinson. According to Sheri, the conflict between her husband and Khatchinson remained after them with Bruce of the wedding.

In addition, on the eve of the murder, Khatchinson lent Miller two thousand dollars and, according to Bruce's brother, threatened to “get rid of Miller.

Another circumstance worked against Khatchinson. The police suspected him of fraud - according to investigators, Khatchinson faked serial numbers of cars, which, among other things, find out if they were stolen.

“We assumed that Bruce was going to call the police and hand over him [Hatchinson],” recalled one of the police officers investigating the case.

Investigators believed that this motive explained the attack. Hatchinson himself categorically denied guilt, but failed the test on the polygraph: the detector showed that he was hiding something. The police were already preparing to close the case and transfer it to the court when the Missouri prosecutor called the station and said that he had new evidence that should change the course of the investigation.

On February 11, 2000, in a small in the town of Odessa in Missouri, a thousand kilometers from the place of murder of Bruce Miller, they found the body of a retired police lieutenant Jerry Kessadei.

He committed suicide. When his brother found Jerry, he was sitting in a chair at his home with a shot head. The Bible lay on his knees.

A black briefcase was found under the Kessadei bed, the contents of which turned the course of the murder of Bruce Miller. Inside lay CDs, records of flights of airlines and hotel rooms, a suicide note and printout of a love correspondence between Kessadei and Sheri Miller. In a note, the cessades admitted that Bruce Miller shot himself, but claimed that Sheri forced him to go for a crime. At the end of the letter, the Cessades asked the lawyer to convey his recognition to the police.

Sheri Miller

Shary had a difficult childhood. She was born in Flint and grew up without her father, her mother drank a lot and often changed her partners. According to Sheri, in childhood, some of them subjected her to sexualized violence.

Before meeting with Bruce Miller Sheri, she was already married twice and alone raised three children. To ensure the family, she combined the work of an accountant, Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman and work in the nursing home.

When she was 27 years old, Sheri got a job as an accountant in Miller. Despite the age difference, they have a novel, and four months after meeting, April 23, 1999, they got married in Las Vegas.

With Jerry Kessadei, Sheri intersected on one of the dating sites shortly before the wedding with Bruce. Despite the marriage, Sheri loved to communicate with other men and spent most of her free time to correspond with them.

“I did not get up from the computer,” she recalled in an interview with ABC News. “Bruce worked a lot, so he often was not at home.”

She felt her hobby as a video game, where every man was as a new level that needs to be passed.

During acquaintance with Sheri, Jerry Kessadei experienced a protracted depressive episode. After failure in one of the investigations and conflict with his superiors, he was removed from the service, at the same time he was divorced with his wife. As a result, the cessions moved to Rino, Nevada, and got a job in a casino.

At first they simply corresponded, but soon they began to flirt and exchange Nyuds. The kessade was in love and told his mother that he had finally met a "woman of dreams." A few weeks later, Sheri and Jerry Cessade Correspondence met for the first time. Despite the fact that the cessions lived far from the Millers' family, Sheri came to him several times. She said to Bruce that she was going on a business trip from a cosmetic company whose products she sold.

“I loved them. I wanted them "

Sheri told Jerry Kessadea that her husband was supposedly connected with the mafia and beat her regularly. From time to time, she sent him photographs of bruises. As investigators later found out, Sheri painted all the abrasions on the body of Sheri.

In September 1999, she told Kessadea that she was pregnant and sent him a photograph of her stomach along with a positive test. “I just protruded my stomach. But Jerry wanted this so much that he believed, ”Sheri later recalled .

However, joy did not last long: soon Sheri wrote to Jerry that, having learned about pregnancy, her husband hit her with his foot in the stomach and she had a miscarriage. A few months after the next date, Sheri again informed Jerry that she was pregnant, this time twins. However, he soon received a letter, supposedly from Bruce, which said that he forced his wife to abortion. Kassedei was beside himself with anger.

According to the investigation , after this incident, cessatals decided to kill Bruce Miller. Sheri gave him detailed instructions where and how to find her husband. On November 8, 1999, the cessions came to his office and shot him from a shotgun. “After that, he called on my phone and immediately hung up. It was a signal that he was returning to Missouri, ”Sheri later said .

After the murder of Miller, Sheri lost interest in Jerry Kessadei and began to meet with other men. Then he plunged into an even deeper depression and after three months he committed suicide.

In addition to a suicide note, three more letters lay in his suitcase: his son, ex -wife and parents. In letters, he described in detail his motive: “Mom and dad, I am sorry for all the pain that I caused you, but I had to do it. After Sheri and I met, I found out that she was married. She lied to me, and I believed everything. Sorry, mom. It was to be my children. I loved them. I wanted them. I went there and killed him. "

New man

Having studied new evidence, the police arrested Sheri. The trial of it began in March 2000. The accusation insisted that she was interested in her husband’s death: as a widow, she was entitled to social and insurance payments. Sheri denied her involvement in the murder.

The matter was unprecedented: the only evidence of Sheri's guilt was a correspondence on the Internet and the suicide note of Kessadei, and the state had never been sentenced to evidence taken from the Internet. The defense insisted that the letters that Jerry provided were fabricated, and Jerry’s testimony should not be believed due to the fact that he had problems with alcohol and drugs: a few months before the murder he was really detained for drunk and beatings.

The jury conferred for two days. Most of them did not believe that Sheri had nothing to do with it. On December 22, 2000, they found her guilty of a conspiracy for the purpose of murder and murder. The court sentenced her to life imprisonment without the right to early release.

Sheri was lit in news and criminal current shows. Thanks to one of these programs in 2007, she met 56-year-old Michael Denoire.

“I watched a lot of SnApped ( a popular Troops of the Show.-Approx.“ Cold ” ), and Sheri Miller appeared there. In her eyes and voice there was something that made me think about her innocence. She looked lonely and sad, ”he later recalled in an interview.

Denoire began to correspond with Sheri, and they had a novel. In 2008, they engaged in prison. According to one version, she hoped that this marriage would help her appeal the sentence.

In 2009, Sheri Miller filed an appeal. She insisted that the dying notes of Kessadei and the printouts of their correspondence could not be used as evidence of her guilt. The court decided to re -consider the case. She was allowed to go free on bail. Immediately after the release, she threw Denoire. “And then it dawned on me: I was mistaken. She needed sex and money, but I did not have enough brains to understand this, ”Denoire later said in an interview.

Confession

Sheri spent three years free. But in August 2012, the district court restored the conviction and withdrew her pledge, so she had to return to jail. On February 11, 2014, the Federal Court of Appeal made the final decision and confirmed the guilt of Sheri.

In 2016, Sheri Miller sent a letter to the judge of the district court, in which she admitted that she planned the murder of her husband. She said that she went to it because of the fear that the Bruce family and he himself will learn about her betrayal.

“My husband was a wonderful person,” wrote Sheri. “He never harmed me and my children.” He just wanted a family. All he did was loved us. ”

“Because of my lies and manipulations, I allowed one person to kill another. I hurt many people and destroyed many lives. The time has come to put the end of the lie and tell the truth, ”she summed up .