My mother would have the same reaction 😢

I was crying just listening to her

So glad Cheryl could finally have a real funeral for Mike. I still feel like both Denise and Brian should get life in prison for murdering Mike but I understand why the deal was made; to find Mike’s body.

I was just gonna say that, she was so amazing.

God gave strength

Alicia H : So very true, I do admire Cheryl a lot and wish her well.

And still sporting both pigtails hairdo like a boss... she's an awesome mother..

It touched my heart seeing her get to see justice.

And for what? A brief sense of justice and some plaudits from anonymous netizens? Now she is dealing with the ramification that her foolish quest for truth came at the cost of a normal life for her only granddaughter.

I love this mother iwould have done the same thing for my child .God bless a good mother.

Read the Bible you will get the answer to why the monsters in love killed him.

Don't read the Bible, it's very derivative.

Shit do what you want

was fairly obvious soon as the 2 million life insurance policy was done, and denise was quick at wanting the certificate that mike was dead

It’s instinctual for a daughter to do that. Who knows what lies her mother was feeding her.

Just like Barry Morphew and his daughters

That is so heartbreaking that Ansley is so naive and brainwashed. I feel sorry for her. Especially after hearing all the evidence and witness statements. Her poor Dad is rolling over in his grave. What a slap in the face to him

How a child could know their mother so little is beyond me. I realized in my early teens that my mother was a narcissistic sociopath. Ansley clearly missed all the signs.

it truly is sad. she probably doesn't want to believe that her mother could do something like that... if she admits it to herself, then she would be losing her remaining parent. but i feel like that's something you would constantly question

A mother’s love! I’m glad she saw the perps were brought to justice. My heart hurts for her too

So sad.... Shes got the fighters heart for sure. Sad the grand daughter wont reach out to her... makes my heart hurt

I'm astonished by her, and slightly ashamed of myself. When I saw them wheeling that little old lady in, with her hair in bunches, I too, underestimated her. She spoke beautifully and eloquently and reminded me that one should never judge a book by it's cover. It's a crying shame her granddaughter has been so taken in by her mother, but it's not her fault, she's been brainwashed by a very conniving woman. She will discover the truth one day, truth having the uncanny ability to come out, in the end. As for the dude who killed his "best friend" for his woman - lowest of the low. What a dreadful end he gave his poor friend. Unforgivable. Hearing him confess, I think he knows that.

A mother _knows_ when something ain't right. She could feel it in her bones that what happened to her son was not an accident. Her granddaughter will hopefully gain some maturity in the years to come and realize that her grandmother was a victim of betrayal, too. I don't understand why the local retailers weren't questioned after Mike went missing, to see if any of them had recently sold a shovel or other suspicious items to Brian, especially since his affair with Denise was common knowledge. RIP, Mike. You deserved a better wife and for sure a better friend.

Who is Denis?

Agreed. She is a force of nature if I ever saw one. Her devotion to her son is unmatched, simply amazing.

The definition of Mama Bear!

What about her grand daughter

@@lilyyroz3046 Unfortunately the granddaughter can't see past her mother's sins (@35.12).A real shame she can't see what a conniving & evil person she really is.

What a wonderful mother so. Strong and love her son with all of her heart . Your heart break for her but God was with her all the way BW.

is she related to Killery Clinton by any chance?

Bloody legal team of Denise Such crap people!

And don't forget that you wanted the Insurance Money too

Mike's Mother Is a rock

Her interview with the investigators told me she was full of BS and that she was in on it. Callousness incarnate. She wanted the whole shootin' match for herself. Heartless.

Public perception. It's all most Catholics care about. Most wouldn't do any of it in private.

May her soul Rest in peace

Wretched horrible woman his widow. Another “good Christian” POS. Goes crying to the police as a victim-- brilliant. Heartless, soulless, useless wench.

@@BeaIEngio What? She's not Catholic , she's ''Christian''. I find that most people who preach and proclaim being ''christian'' do the most un-Christian things .

Hypocrites....people like these are hypocrites! If there is a hell, she will go there.

Damn near broke my heart, God bless her 💔

I just can’t fathom her pain over the years. The abuse she received and people mocking her. I wish we could all line up and just give her a big, long hug. And let her know how strong she is.

It made me cry 😢 during her impact statement

Couldn't agree more.

Same…I sat here and cried

Isnt it karma,where he used to kill those innocent ducks,just for hobby and fun,turned out to be place of his own murder,i hate hunters,you kill an innocent living creature just for fun or your adernaline rush

I thought I was the only one brought to tears by her speech. She fought so hard for the son she loved very much.

It is because it was pure raw sadness, as I had rarely openly heard in public...

Good points.

Whose God’s Grace. The Christian god? Gimme a break. The two murderers were hiding under Christianity. Not that other religions are not just as hypocritical.

ANgeica : So very true. What an extraordinary human being.

I lived in Florida and followed this till it was solved it's very sad because his mother wasn't beautiful skinny and rich I know you think that doesn't matter but it greatly matters

At the cost of her granddaughter. I think it would bring her cold comfort as she dies alone alienating her daughter in law and her only granddaughter

@@troycambo Wouldn't you do that for you child? The one you birthed and gave life to? Someone vicously took his life away. The granddaughter is living and breathing, and you can pray that she one day will understand the truth. I believe not choosing justice, will eat you up inside, and it's not something that will just go away. Do you think it gives you warm comfort to allign yourself with the person who killed your child for visitation with your granddaughter?

@troyvietnam Cheryl didn't alienate her granddaughter, she fought for justice for her, a gut feeling strange to understand but her life (the granddaughter) was also in danger of what escalated to be reckless actions of her mother. I empathise with the child and pray that God brings healing and clarity through all this. But justice was served, not vengeance.

God Bless Her

Truly. An epitome of a mother

Mike's mother doesn't deserve a medal. It's called love. A parent's love for a child is unique and there's no greater loss to a person, than to lose their child.

Courageous as well!

She has lost everything. What will that medal bring her? Both killers got away easy.

well said! thoughts are with mikes mom. horrible case. very sad

Amen 🕊

Omg me too, her voice spoke directly to my heart. I wish I could give her a hug

Every. Darn. Time.

RIP MIKE 🙏 YOU WERE LOVED

Isnt it karma,where he used to kill those innocent ducks,just for hobby and fun,turned out to be place of his own murder,i hate hunters,you kill an innocent living creature just for fun or your adernaline rush

​@@rahulsharma-ht7utThat was an extremely evil comment. I hope you don't eat any meat whatsoever. Nothing at all in your house should be made of leather to include your belts. There should not be anything in your family's life that pertains to an animal. If so you're an extreme hypocrite

​@@rahulsharma-ht7utVery well said. My heart cries for innocent and precious animal death.

She was never a Christian. She’s a child of Satan

It’s all about the money. I don’t think she even cared if people found out that she committed adultery.

@@smurfiennes she's a narcissist and appearances are everything to them.

Right?! What a contradiction…let’s keep up my appearance as a “Christian” by not publicly getting a divorce, meanwhile I’m doing the absolute worst thing….cheating on my husband with his best friend and conspiring to kill him…because that’s totally the more Christian thing to do. See, this is why everyone automatically assumes every Christian is a hypocrite. There are just no words for her stupidity, selfishness, and heartlessness. That’s pure evil.

Exactly… that word is a joke now a days… they think the can hide behind it

Couldn't agree more. Blows my mind that divorce is taboo, but murder apparently does not form part of the Ten Commandments. Denise has no moral compass, what a sanctimonious bitch.

Unfortunately, it sounds as if she passed it along to her daughter and Cheryl will never get to see her granddaughter bc of it!

Yes it was manipulative but the gran was equally foolish and stubborn. What's done is done and her foolish quest didn't achieve anything but destroy her granddaughter's chance for a normal life.

@@troycambo rubbish. Her own mother destroyed her chance for a normal life. Her grandmother fought for justice for her son.

@@troycambo Yep, just let killers get away with it! If it wasn't for the grandma that girl could be living happily with her killer mom and killer stepdad now!

Plus it was so obvious that Denise was strongly involed in the "disappearance" of Mike...No woman who loves her husband would have spoken those words ever

Not just cold but vulgar and indecent woman!

Imagine how Mike's daughter must feel too? She grew up with a lie, the dad she knew and her mother murdered her father, denying her to have known him and now she lost the two parents she knew.

@@honeybunch5765 Yes this is unspeakably sad. Maybe one day soo she`ll finally make contact with Cheryl. This would help her and Cheryl so much.

It was deeply moving indeed ... I wept profusely. It was simply stated & from the heart, and for all that she endured for her son, I cannot help but have the greatest of reverence for her. In time, she'll be united with her son ... and I can only imagine how his arms will open wide to embrace her with so much love & gratitude. May God be with her until that day ... ❤

She sounds like a glory hound. Prioritised her futile quest for truth over her granddaughter's chance at a normal life

HELL IS WHERE SHE WILL END IF SHE DOES NOT REPENT....HELL IS REAL!!! AND IS NOT A WEEKEND, IT IS FOREVER AND EVER. HELL IS IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH... THE FIRE 🔥 OF THE VOLCANOS 🌋 COMES FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 🌎 ONE SECOND IN HELL IS COMPARE TO ETERNITY. DEREK PRINCE MINISTRY. GOD’S ATOMIC POWER. THE BLOOD OF JESUS DO NOT MISS THIS TEACHING. IT WILL HELP YOU TO KNOW IF YOU ARE SAVE....

Not just his friend, but that evil creature he married…she wanted his friend and the 2 million…greedy unpleasant woman

Absolutely!

Late comment but the rancid couple got insanely lenient sentences. It seems they also got the huge insurance pay out. No trial for that? There's nothing Christian about an adulterer, schemer and murderer. My only concern over Mike's lifestyle was his endless working hours (where his boss locked the building to stop him,) and leaving his wife and child to pursue his hobby if not at work. Not a healthy balance. Mike's mum was brilliant and I hope she found the peace and comfort of God after her victory.

Yup this brian guy is the classic pathetic jealous 'friend'. A pretender thats warm to your face but prays for your downfall. He's just an extreme example

She got a measure of justice. She never got closure. There's no such thing.

@@charlesfaure1189 you're not wrong.

That statement made me cry. She fought so hard to get justice for Mike. I am so glad she lived to see it.

@@diannaperry8116 She didnt just lose her son, but also her stupid grand kid

That got me too! 🥺

@RClover2461 - Do you often write to "Jesus" on KZfaq comments?? Ever get a response?

@@warriormanmaxx8991 hoe pedantic are you. Get a freaking life.

That's how brainwashing works.

Yep, poor kid does not know the half of what her Mother was capable of apparently. I could tell from her restraining order request that she was bad news all the way. Too much going on in her head and too much out the mouth! She is where she belongs

@anon Thankfully Mike’s mother didn’t lose her whole family. She has Nick, her other son, and another granddaughter. Still really sad that the Mike’s daughter was kept away from her father’s family, though.

It's not the grandchild she been fed lies throughout her childhood put yourself in her shoes

I know! Her grandchild was her only living connection to her son.. I'm glad that Denise is rotting in jail!

They both r disgusting....

Lucky for Cathy that she didn’t have life insurance and got a divorce rather than knocked off.

She and he are both vile!!

I wonder what if Denise’s daughter is not from Mike?! What if Brian is her father!!😱

she's also ugly. I don't know what both Mike and Brian saw in her. Maybe women are in extreme short supply in that area?

So proud of her..💙💙💙

She is. Anytime some died on an important day of his/ her life, psychopath comes into my mind. Happy day for others are their worse. Difficult to understand this psychology 😭

I try to imagine myself old enough to have a few kids when my wife passes and one day an adult offspring of mine goes missing, How do I tell myself they're not alive? I imagine knowing they aren't contacting anyone they know and they aren't coming back would be a sign, but I'd lose my whole friggin mind over it. I'd tell myself they're alive one day and be convinced I'll never see them again the next day, I'm sure I'd be crushed by not knowing

A warrior angel!

I cried hearing her statement at the end.

She selfishly prioritised her sense of justice over a normal life for her granddaughter.

The best I've heard, bar none.

@@troycambo That's what you do for your children. She might had to sacrifice her relationship with her granddaughter, but she is alive and breathing and will come to realize on day that her father viciously taken away from her, and that she was kept away from people who loves her. You might choose comfort over justice, but I believe that it will eat you up inside and you will be a restless soul until you die.

I don’t know if I would or could have convicted her on the words of a killer. The only other evidence was a phone call with his ex wife where even then she didn’t admit anything. I think it is probable that she conspired, but this is one case where I can’t believe she was actually convicted on such circumstantial evidence.

@@loc5377 I’m sure they found more than that. Brian and Denise are having an affair and then husband winds up dead, then they wind up married with his money, you can’t tell me there is nothing wrong with that picture.

Yes she thought she will always win. She was pushing her luck. If she would never report anything no one will figure out what happens. Totally karma.

14:00 she is cold heartedly confessing to the police as someone trying to cover-release herself from a hidden and a more serious issue. That is why emotionally she is not as someone spontaneously struck by the events experienced in her declaration to the police but actually her talking is cold hearted and calculated. To me she is unconsciously accusing herself as having a part on her husband’s dead.

@@loc5377 :"woman are weak and frail and can't possibly do anything horrible"

I know I just can't seem to wrap my brain around some of the evil things people have done/did to another person, especially if your a friend, lover, Partner, child even a stranger. I honestly feel the same way about someone purposely hurting torturing or starving and just abusing an animal....any animal, animals are actually kinder than people and smarter lots of the time....One day there will be no more evil or tears....

Her pigtails are adorable🥰❤

A dangerous game… thus not a game at all.

Yeah, amount of betrayal in this case is unbelievable, listening Brian testimony in the court.

And she was such a pious Christian believer. Oh yeah.....

I think she also cheated on Brian with someone named Chuck.

@DHAMBAAL He is mentioned in the phone conversation between Kathy and Denise. I am not sure which minute that is in.

💔😭 feeling more for Cheryll 😓

Right 😪 having that as the last thing he saw. I feel for his daughter.. then her awful mother takes her away from her paternal family, all she has left of her daddy. People who use their children as pawns make me sick. My brother's wife does that to my parents... she gets butthurt over nothin, then will take the kids away. The last time she was offended over a joke, she made my brother pack up and move them to Tennessee (were from Louisiana). We haven't seen or spoken to them since 2018. I doubt my niece and nephew even know who we are or remember us. It hurts everyone involved.

What he did is inhumane and yet he got a lighter sentence lmao.

Bit like the innocent ducks probably felt when Mike aimed a gun at them and blew them away I guess.

@@dalefc9331 do you eat meat? Beef, chicken, pork, venison... any meat at all?

First thing I thought too lol.

I hope she realizes just what an inspiration she is too.

@Leigh Jacobs I thought the very same thing. And when I saw his stare at her with absolute vitriol as she walked past him, the raising of his upper left lip, I knew that she had part to do with it and that she was going to pay with him squealing on her! She knew all along and put his mother through absolute hell! Yeah no, sorry, not sorry, Denice will have a special place in the next world..

@@gabriellafox7948 You can't know anything from someone raising their lip.

Hehehehehehe...she is mad women.

@@eadweard. Actually you can. Ask body language experts.

@@gabriellafox7948 The idea that you can know what someone's thinking because they raise their lip is scientifically-illiterate idiocy.

On your wedding anniversary at that, terrible.

The worst betrayal you could expect, I wonder how it feels the last moment before you die and knowing the reason is you were stab in the back by two people you cared the most. Sad, lonely, disappointed, doesn't even have time to let the anger sink. Truly the worst, no punishment in life could repent their evil doing.

You better believe it I have a son and I'm with him when he's right but if he ever does anything like what Brian did our relationship as mother and son is over that means you didn't trust me enough to talk you off that ledge if Denise loved Brian he would've known the minute she asked him to take the life of her daughter's father that's her babies family forever not her's she was a signature away from a divorce and she chose the hardest way out for greed

well said

And Denise being so against divorce! But murder she’s ok with?

@@suejohnson8457 Agreed! I hate to say this; but I lived in Nashville for 10 years (the Bible Belt). There are more churches per capita in Nashville than any other city in the U.S. but Nashville is home to the worlds largest adult bookstore and countless strip clubs. I'll never forget during the Gulf War one of the local strip clubs wrote "God Bless Our Troops" on the marque outside. In other words going to church in the south is more of a cultural thing than an authentic desire to follow Jesus. It's what I call "cultural Christianity". Of course that's happening all over the country; but it becomes really obvious when you live in the south. Brian and Denise strike me as classic examples of that kind of "Christian". They prayed, and went to church at the same time as they were going to strip clubs, getting drunk, making lesbian sex videos, committing adultery and ultimately murdering the man they were committing adultery against. Think about that for a second. Both Brian and Denise actually talked about scripture as they were considering how they would murder Mark. I don't believe you could find a more profound example of how people can be so deceived about the state of their own wickedness and Godlessness. Personally it has made me look very deep into my own heart; and to ask God to reveal any wickedness in my own heart. As the Bible tells us, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” Jeremiah 17:9-10

Yes, they started sleeping with each other before Mike and Denise were married, so lust came first, then the insurance policy, which his best friend draws up for him. Then they plot to kill him over it. The love of money is the root of all evil. Poor Mike and his Mom. 😢

​@@OnlyKidWithCamera P. S. I lived in Memphis in the early 1980s so I know what you mean. It's even worse now. I moved to Florida 20 yrs ago. Psychic places everywhere (which is against God's word bc it is divination. God wants us to come to Him, not Psychics.) and of course all the things you mentioned, strip clubs, etc. Northern Florida is actually the most 'Southern' part of Florida in terms of Christianity, as it borders southern States.

@@OnlyKidWithCamera @suejohnson8457 I agree with you both. OnlyKidWithCamera, you sound very kind and have a deep feeling of compassion and empathy for ppl. It's nice to hear truth and understanding in the comment section. ✌️ and ❤️ to you both in the New Year of this very disturbing world we live in.

She was asking about the payment after only 19 days.

2 million dollar... the other 500k was in a different policy

Agree

This was a bewilderingly conspicuous plan. I mean, why didn't they just take out an ad for "Hit Man" in the local paper. I have no idea how any sane person would expect to get away with it.

Her mother has poisoned her against Mike's family

Since Denise hated Mike's side of the family her daughter must have grown up having similar feelings towards Mike's mother. Also, since she lost her father, her mother was the only person close to her so at this point she has been brainwashed. She thinks her mother is an angel and her father side of family are a bunch of troublemakers. Hopefully one day she realises that her mother was putting on a mask all these years and Mike's mother is the actual good person in her family.

all three of Denise's sisters think she's innocent too...that she was framed

@@julieblount5674 her sisters that’s not very convincing.

@@gaylakenney5939 I'm just stating what they believe. I think she's guilty

i actually quite literally cannot, because she doesn’t give a rat’s ass about me 😂

Exactly

that woman deserves an award, and to think she was mocked and called 'crazy', how many crazies out there are actually right???

"Catholic values" on divorce? Lmao, sure because murder is much less serious... The nerve of that woman..

Denise did it because she is evil. Brian did it because he is evil. Lust, adultery, greed and ultimately the shedding of blood.

​@@AnthonyJ504Satan is a very powerful deceiver and so are his followers. Pure evil.

Brian also resented Mike over his own father's love for him. It becomes obvious when you see his full testimony. Brian was no mere tool in Denise's hands. He's as much a monster as she is.

❤❤❤

Because of the insurance money

Cheryl - what an incredible woman and mother. God bless!

Her cute lil pigtails 🥺