Fraud to Murder - Deadly Women - S07 EP17 - True Crime

foreign are made of sugar and spice some  are made of poison a mother wants to cash in on her son you know it  was a horrible horrible situation a bookkeeper steals her way to murder  it was Bryson it was careless it was inexplicable and a rich teen indulges  her temper see that looks lovely yeah but it's not the one I wanted she  had money Beauty she had it all these deadly women take lives  without blinking they have no mercy August 2008. Russellville Alabama is small town Heartland  America h

ome to the Scott family [Music] Christy Doats on her youngest  son four-year-old Noah six-year-old Mason is more of a challenge no appearances are some attributes of autism he was on some sort of medication  and he's a lively child [Music] it's Noah's game what's going on it just  wants to play his father Jeremy has the patience to deal with Mason Christy  doesn't her tolerance toward Mason and and the way he reacted to things was  totally different than how she treated Noah it's been that that

way since the day Mason  was born [Music] he had several witnesses that had noticed how angry how quick anger she was  with Mason versus how patient she was with Noah [Music] I can't cope with you play by yourself we started learning that that she I guess  disciplined Mason more than she did Noah as an object an object that  was giving her a headache Christie's attitude to Mason Is An Open Secret  the mom even fights with him in the schoolyard she and Mason Scott got into a  huge argument it was

so bad and the appearance of it looked so bad don't you  Christie actually pushed Mason away from her when school officials actually  had to come and intervene stop there and had to basically separate them and  walk Mason into school themselves and she walked back to the car very angry  [Music] other mothers might give a child like Mason special attention  but Christy just gets angry [Music] in the early hours of August 15 2008.  Christy runs to her neighbors for help she robbed at the door of

her neighbor's home and so of course they pick up the phone call the 9-1-1 the husband starts to see if  there's anything he could do emergency Christy and Noah are safe husband Jeremy is  out of town but where is Mason where's your other boy he's inside what it wasn't until  over two and a half minutes later that the neighbor called back to 9-1-1 and said she  just told me that her son is in the fire as a parent I can't comprehend how that wouldn't  be the first thing that would be said is my m

y kids in the fire in the house and it's on fire  so for two and a half minutes they were reacting like it was a house fire versus a child is burning  alive and you've got to run down there and try to save it time in a burning house is forever  emergency services are quick to the scene I think everybody involved you know was doing  all they could do to to try to you know get the child out but there's just there was no way  little Mason's body is found next to his bed Mason died of smoke inhalati

on and burns and  you know it was a horrible horrible situation close knit Community rallies around the family but at her son's funeral Christy is acting  strangely what a beautiful day this lady said that she had her daughter there and  Christy was holding her little daughter the Christie said the most unusual thing Christy said Noah has always wanted a  little sister now maybe he can have one younger I mean Noah always wanted a little sister and Jeremy thought that was the wrong place  and tim

e to even be talking about that who actually says that who has ever said that when  their child was burned up in a fire a day or two before as well as planning her new family [Music]  Christy is expecting a financial windfall it's classic psychopath Behavior to not be able to wait  for something I want it and I want it now [Music] in 2008 while the tiny community of Russellville  Alabama Mourns six-year-old Mason Scott investigators searching his fire ravaged  bedroom finds something alarming th

is isn't supposed to be here and what he had found  was a smoke detector that had was just laying on the floor the smoke detector is still  working it should have saved Mason's life [Music] wiped it off with a rag and probably put  it back on the wall and it looked brand new it looks like someone has disarmed  it the smoke detector was determined to have been pulled off the wall I  knew somebody had killed Mason Scott fire investigators experienced ones can  smell and arson the way a shark smell

s a meal this is now a murder case [Music] investigators dig deeper and  discover fire and Christie go hand in hand she did have a lot of fires in her background  there was numerous fires reported at the father's house at the grandmother's house and even at  previous residences of Christian Jeremy's the ever so fires Christy had a lust for  it three years earlier Christie's home catches fire twice in the  same week arson is never proven wear their smoke fires in the same home just a few  days ap

art in my former line of work we call that clue I think it's the best home as an insurance  broker Christy makes sure she has protection and the day before Mason is killed she tells her  father to boost that protection I was thinking about taking another policy on the ones but you  got more than enough cover for them and the house she originally had a 75 000  insurance policy on Mason and within 12 hours of the actual  fire she had went and upped it a hundred thousand dollars which made it a  hu

ndred and seventy five thousand dollars a hundred thousand dollar life insurance  policy on a six-year-old the day before he dies is about as subtle as a brick  upside the head they have too much [Music] police pieced together what really happens  on that Hot August Night I bought your favorite dessert Christy's husband is away  thank you she serves Mason his last supper there we go his favorite dessert is that yummy  they say sometimes that a parent before they kill or murder a child will give

them some  one of their favorite things or favorite items and then she tucks him in [Music] are you ready  mama with an extra large dose of cough syrup was double the amount it would be normally given  a child of that age Christie keeps her favorite son Noah out of Harm's Way good night honey in  her bed [Music] then she ignites her Wicked plan [Music] somebody had taken that smoke detector off the wall to prevent an individual or a  person from being alerted or woke up the only adult in that ho

me was Christy [Music] saying that I guess that upsets me the most is  just the the fact that she could actually do that to a child and then the fact that it was her child fire Death has got to be one of the most  awful painful ways you know she must have really really not cared or hated her  child to allow him to die in a fire Christy Scott denies everything I've never been more sure about somebody  being guilty than I have on that trial in June 2009 the jury agrees [Music] Christy is  convicte

d of capital murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection she  remains on death row [Music] fire did a lot for Christy when she'd burn a house  down she got a new house when she burned down her last house she also got rid of a big problem Mason  Christy Scott showed no mercy for her first born child just an unquenchable desire to eradicate  him and boost her bank balance it would take an incredibly heartless person to burn their child to  death I don't think Christy gave a wit for Mason a y

oung woman with a bright future she was  diligent she was hard working takes the wrong path she had larceny in her heart and there's no pill  for them and walks it all the way to the bank she was consider grade for money and was  prepared to go to almost any extent to get it [Music] January 1999 in Sydney Australia 21 year old  accounts clerk sneeza sutesky starts the new year with a new job at the local car dealership  [Music] was the daughter of immigrant parents to Australia she presented ver

y well she had  a nice manner about her can you save it she was diligent she was hard working yeah  my course was all computer-based great but appearances can be deceiving me lift  the career company I needed a change [Music] sneeza has a dark secret  she'll do anything to hide hi I just need you to sign this information  sure six months earlier she worked for a courier company in the city so you joined the  job I am yeah I'm finding it rewarding good sneezes rewards are more than her pay packet

  she is defrauding the company not nickels and dimes but cold Hard Cash she had defrauded them  of something like a hundred thousand dollars what she'd done is she'd manipulated  invoices that have been coming into the phone sneeza thinks she's hit the jackpot decides to invest the money at her local casino [Music] drinks over here she is known to spend  ten thousand dollars a day sneezes greed trumped her good  judgment if she ever had any for sneeza it's easy come easy go until her Superior s

niff  out her daylight robbery to her father's horror career ending crime that could end in hard time  is that how could you she was informed that her fraud had been detected and that the police would  be involved I'm afraid we have the other option we have to call the police incredibly she gets  a last-minute reprieve I have money and I can I like to speak [Music] companies strikes a  deal sneezes father we can't understand this I promise I won't do it again I'm so sorry  her parents went and m

ortgaged their home to get the hundred thousand dollars to pay  off this company management have agreed so their daughter wouldn't be reported to the police Caesar steals 100 Grand without punishment  it's all gain and no pain I'm sure that her parents had the best of motives thinking  surely she will learn her lesson from this Psychopaths tend to not learn from  their mistakes and sneeza didn't either she has a taste for fast money and she's  hungry for more within months she was at it again sn

eeza soon gains the trust of her new  boss at the car dealership you're working back yeah I'm gonna get through these invoices good  for you 51 year old accountant Richard Peach he lived on his own he'd worked for a  long long time as the finance manager he was the sort of person that everyone liked  Richard has no idea sneezers just been fired for fraud she even has a reference from the company  that she stole from it didn't speak about her in glowing terms but it didn't disclose the fact that 

she had been responsible for a hundred thousand dollars fraud when the coast is clear she Dons her  apron of Deceit and goes to work cooking the books what snizzle would do was change the details of  the company that the money was going to be paid to so that it still had the name of that company  but a different account number and branch number Visa inserts per Bank details on the invoices  secretly siphoning the cash into her own account nobody the company suspected her of anything nobody woul

d have looked at her and thought  that she was engaged in massive fraud sneezer could have made a good  living and progressed well as an accountant but stealing was much more fun [Music] just six months sneeze up plunders 180 thousand  dollars most of it ends up lost at the casino thank you she is slipping into addiction sneeza  was desperate for money and desperate to get away with the theft the stakes couldn't be higher  sneeza is gambling with her freedom and the odds are stacked against her

it was a rising Act of  fraud that eventually was going to be Detective [Music] oh December 1999 Sydney Australia 21 year old sneeza suteski well it can take up  to a month to receive the payment steals 180 000 from her employer I'll look into it and get  that to you now she's in danger of getting caught hi it's only expect to see you today if sneeza  had stolen smaller amounts of money over a longer period of time I've got to go through the invoices  probably just about a bank she might have go

tten away with it but her greed compelled her to do  more and more and more and it became noticed the boss is getting the complaints that  bill was not being paid oh really oh well is there anything I can do that's  probably better if I'm confident sure she knew that there was only a little bit of  time left before her fraud would be detected by Richard Peach and she'd be in trouble again niza's  parents have saved her from the consequences of her thieving ways in the past this time she  needs a

nother solution she decides to have her boss Richard Peach attacked and beaten found  anything not yet so he is off work for two weeks bye see you during those two weeks she  would engage in a massive amount of fraud and then just before he was due to come  back she'd be Zone that was the plan [Music] sneeza goes looking for hired help to do her  Dirty Work 75 minutes late where are they relax a lot of women when they want someone dead don't  want to do it themselves so they hire someone sure we

can trust them he's my boyfriend and  he wants some money and that's what sneeza did hello hello Liza's friend has Connections  in the drug underworld she's introduced to a 19 year old heroin addict s not good there was one meeting that they  had where there was a particularly important conversation where they were discussing  exactly what would be done to Richard Peach so when does this need to happen  it has to happen before Christmas what she said was bashing stab him kill him  I don't give

a f i don't know as long as he doesn't show up for work what she was really  doing there was giving the Hitman a blank check you do whatever you think is  necessary I don't really care [Music] December 20th 1999. Richard is out for drinks with a friend  he has no idea it will be his last [Music] sneza was very much Hands-On she went into the  club whilst The Hitman waited in the car park foreign Rings The Hitman on his mobile phone to give him the warning that Richard  Peach is about to come out

yep he's under his son as he comes out of the club into  the car park there's a woman with him there's also a security guard in the vicinity there are too many witnesses he's as Hitman is forced to improvise so  he drives furiously to Richard Peach's home because he thinks I'll have a second  opportunity here outside his home to attack him Richard is walking to his home like  he's done a thousand times before he's utterly unprepared for this [Music] foreign comes up behind him hits him on the 

back of the head with a hammer thinking that he will lose Consciousness but Richard  is stronger than he looks he doesn't drop so surprised he pulls a knife out of  his pocket dabs repeating the chest with his aorta and Richard peach died within  several minutes from blood loss Richard bleeds out on the cold dark concrete I don't know if sneezer was motivated 100 by greed or she was desperate but in  the end she killed [Music] sneeza shows no remorse she is callous to the Core that Richard page

had died didn't dissuade  her from continuing with her original plan of this massive fraud over the next two weeks  she steals another one hundred thousand dollars this Final Act of greed will be her last  the murder of Richard page ensured that full focus of attention of the police was  on this company and and why Richard Peach was attacked and killed the Breakthrough comes  with the Hitman days before the murder he was seen casing the victim's neighborhood police pull  him in and he talks The

Hitman was prepared to give evidence in court against her and he did  a month after the death of Richard Peach sneeza is arrested and charged with one count of murder  and nine counts of fraud she pleads guilty to the fraud but not to the Murder She argues she ordered  a beating not a dead body but the law disagrees jury found that she was responsible  for his death and they convicted her of murder sneeza is sentenced to 24 years in  prison the stolen money is never recovered did she stash it or

is it lost at  the casino we may not know where the stolen money is but fortunately we  do know where sneeza is an 8x10 cell a spoiled rich kid she'd sleep all day and  then she'd go out at night and party you have to take me you won't take no for an answer  she was starting to exude behavior that was violent turns team Rebellion into tragedy she  had it all and she threw it away in one moment Hollywood 2001 the playground of the  Rich and Famous and those who want to be one of the want to bees

is 17 year old  Katrina sarkisian she had a half-sister Sabrina she lived with her in a very  exclusive Brentwood neighborhood in one side of L.A [Music] their wealthy mom Angelique  wants the best money can buy for her daughters [Music] yeah but I want that one Angelique is reported  to have just over indulged her children to the point where they had multiple mopeds go-karts  motorcycles just to get to the Starbucks to get a mocha okay we'll go back to the store tomorrow  Katrina's life would

be the Envy of most teenagers this was exactly what Katrina did not need  Trina needed structure and rules at home and at school Katrina is like a runaway train she  was a fairly normal kid up until middle school and that's when trouble started to appear the  little rich girl starts to run right off the rails I can smell what you're  doing my office now [Music] Katrina develops a passion for drugs and alcohol  and a burning hatred for anyone who gets in her way she was starting to exude behavior

that was  violent aggressive toward fellow students making threats to them just give her another no amount  of money can curb her wild Behavior by the time Katrina started really acting out badly it was too  late for her parents to control her just a minute there's a person who really needed somebody  to help but Katrina's not listening she just wants her Freedom she eventually  dropped out of high school at 16. now Katrina answers to no one she won't even  get up in the morning Katrina her mot

her described her as nocturnal she'd sleep all  day and then she'd go out at night and party her mother tries everything to help her daughter Petrina was on antidepressants for what  her mother described as a sleep disorder I don't think Katrina had a sleep disorder Katrina  had a I want to go out to a club every night disorder [Music] tonight Katrina gets out  on the wrong side of bed I need a lift well I can't take you I've Got Friends  coming she wants to go partying but Mom won't drive her h

ow am I supposed to get  there I don't know you have to take me now Trina had assaulted Angelique  multiple times in the home okay hitting a parent is a line that  should never be crossed Katrina did it across town another teenage girl  is also preparing for a night out 15 year old Deanna Moran is smart and  sensible so who's having the party tonight just a friend she was an All-Star volleyball  player she played a water polo she was in the track she was on the honor roll what friend okay  A fri

end with friend Deanna's been invited to a party in West L.A the All-Star student can  hold her own in a crowd I gotta go mom she was always the one standing up and defending  her friends or anybody who's being bullied two strangers tonight their paths will converge  it's a high school party no parents at home lots of drinking what could possibly go wrong [Music]  November 17 2001. it's Saturday night and in West Los Angeles A party's getting started a teenager's  parents are out of town you hav

e a backyard party with 15 year olds and there's alcohol and  maybe narcotics and Mom and Dad aren't there that's going to be a setup for a problem it's  not long until 15 year old Deanna Moran has a run-in with Sabrina sarkisian Deanna noticed  that hey Sabrina's breaking some potted plants chill this is someone's house she confronted  her said you know just stop breaking other people's property what are you gonna do  about it I'm going to tell you to behave and see how she would stand up for s

omebody else's property from what everybody says  it's kind of the person she was [Music] to the wrong girl the athlete  can win this fight but has no idea what she's getting herself into I'm  going to tell my sister about you Sabrina went over to the corner of the yard and  called her older sister I said come over here we gotta deal with this girl she pushed me down at  this party on it you should watch out it's crazy that sister is Katrina High School Dropout  drug abuser and troublemaker [App

lause] Trina races to the party to defend  her sister's honor [Applause] you can imagine how angry she would get [Music] Deanna has always stood up for what's  right and she won't back down it was me Indiana like Deanna does DARE Indiana  said it was me you got a problem with that but this is no simple cat fight it was just a quick punch and all of a sudden Deanna's laying on the ground  and she was kind of gasping for air a little bit your clothes were sticky she's bleeding me Deanna has been 

stabbed once through the heart Katrina sarkisian made sure she  had the upper hand in this battle it was a knife whose purpose was to be hidden in  someone's hand why did she have that I don't know what else Katrina would be doing with a knife  showing up at a party other than to do harm I don't think there's anything Deanna could have  said to Katrina to stop what was going to happen Katrina wanted to kill someone the sisters are  gone before anyone has time to react the terrified teens don't c

all 9-1-1 they decide to take Deanna  to the hospital themselves somebody pulled up in a car and they said well let's just take her to  the hospital we've got to get into a hospital which turns into be when you think  about it quite a fatal mistake without professional help Deanna dies  when she reaches the hospital [Music] with dozens of witnesses the police  come straight to Katrina's door Katrina gets picked up by two detectives with  the LAPD at about two o'clock in the afternoon so when was

the last time you  saw Deanna Her speech started to slur and she was acting not normal [Music] Trina isn't just evading the questions committing suicide she stopped reading we  need an ambulance you can only imagine that this person sitting at home being traumatized from  whatever occurred at that that party in her mind being so tormented that she's going to down a  whole bottle of pills and then go to the police station she's taken 43 antidepressants  that morning half that number is lethal ju

st like her victim Deanna no one can help  Katrina within not even a 24-hour span two sets of parents have lost their daughters  and it's just unspeakable I think in both households what was happening what started  out as a Teenage cat fight yeah ended up with two girls dead how am I supposed to get  there Katrina sarkisian couldn't be tamed not by parents my office now school who pushed  my sister or a stranger at a party it was me she was an explosion waiting to happen I think  Katrina had som

e sort of Rage within her that needed to be dealt with if it was Indiana  it would have been somebody else it would have been some other tragedy [Music] she  possessed everything you could wish for except Mercy Katrina had money Beauty she had  it all and she threw it away in one moment these deadly women were cold calculating and  selfish Christy Scott burned her son alive for an insurance payout sneeza suteski stole  much more than money and Katrina sarkisian's temper took a teenager's life al

l three cared  only about themselves they showed no mercy [Music] thank you