Love, Betrayal, and a Dark Twist - Fatal Vows - S02 EP212 - True Crime

were such a bad boy last night a fresh start  leads to new love she was exciting to him in his first marriage honey we're talking there was  no excitement at all they were putting a lot of time and a lot of money into this beautiful  home but for some one love isn't enough get out they started seeing each other and they saw  each other often and they were bold about it and behind closed doors Unholy Secrets slowly reveal  themselves it probably crushed him to know that there was competition and

Shake A Pious town to  its very core he was really angry and I think he was deeply deeply hurt bastard love may be blind  and marriage Bliss but divorce is [Music] murder Rocky Ford Colorado is the perfect place for  a fresh start a place where Sharon Fuller and her husband Mike a 7th Day Adventist Minister  hope to repair their ailing marriage but this marriage is beyond repair can I just ask you to  please for the last time do up the last button after 12 years of marriage Sharon Fuller wants 

a different sort of fresh start one that doesn't include her husband Mike was the kind of guy who  had a very regimented way of looking at the world and he wanted his wife to fit that view too and  she just couldn't look it's our reputation I'm talking about reputation what are you talking  about for Sharon Mike's a constant reminder of her own strict religious upbringing Sharon grew up  in a very restrictive home her parents really told her what to do and when to do it and I think  when she mar

ried Mike she kind of got another taste of that she felt suffocated she felt like  everything about her marriage was about control shortly after arriving in Rocky Ford the Fullers  are invited to dinner at the home of wealthy local optometrist Perry Nelson Sharon is thrilled to  be making new acquaintances hi especially men hi uh sorry my wife Julie Harry Nelson is not  eligible quite yet but since his marriage to Julie is also on the Rocks there's a good chance  that he could be persuaded it re

ally boil down to the fact that his wife was uh kind of frigid  she was a quiet decent person but uh life was very serious with her honey we're talking and he  was very sexually frustrated that's what I mean I know because he told me Sharon and Perry seemed  to develop an immediate connection not drinking oh my wife Donna she was very perceptive she saw  things that I never saw I would just look right past it but but Donna caught it all and she said  Sharon has really been making eyes at at Perr

y love what you're wearing it's nice wow thanks  she was exciting she was vious outgoing bubbly funloving the partying type you know she was  exced writing to him and in his marriage there was no excitement at all just two weeks after  their first meeting Perry succumbs to Sharon's charms a normal stupid male you know that's what  happens most of us can't control ourselves and I think that's what happened to him all I know  is that uh eventually she seduced him and he yielded to Temptation and c

ommitted adultery her  breath got men she had a way of uh showing them off real well she used to wear low cut tops  spaghetti strap tops men like that of course they like the the breasts several months later  Sharon and Perry leave their respective Partners Sharon gives up custody of her two children  to ex-husband Mike while Perry splits custody with his ex-wife it's just a small town and when  something like that happens it's pretty shocking this is July 3rd 1977 any last words soon to be  Mrs

Nelson come stop stop coming that's soon to be Mrs Nelson can you get a shot of this finally  ignoring the scandalmongers and the town gossips Sharon age 31 and Perry age 35 tie the knot the  following spring they have a baby boy together 2 years later he's followed by a baby girl to  house their new family Sharon and Perry start to build a new home in the neighboring town of Weston  nestled in the Majestic Rocky Mountains they were putting a lot of time and a lot of money into this  beautiful

home it was what they called roundhouse it was situated on the top of a mountain with a  360° view of the hills and the mountains below I mean really it was a show place and everybody  talked about they thought wow look at what that golden couple's able to create up there you know  they must have something really special together if they can create that Perry and Sharon even  work together at Perry's optometry clinic where Sharon assists with the books you need to give me  a minute I want to be

perfect for the best aist in town forensic psychologist Brian Russell  and psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser believe that Sharon and Perry have a shot at making  their second marriage a success they seem to be unconcerned about what other people think  which is unusual they're really just focused on who they are what they want and the love they had  between them so my hope in this situation would be that Sharon and Perry learn from their past  and that they really try to have a healthy and productive

relationship ship they're going to have  a little bit of an uphill battle they're going to have some people in the community who are going  to look down on their decisions that they made to get out of their first marriages and pursue  a new one with each other and they're going to have people who are sort of just waiting for the  chips to sort of fall so Susie squirrel left with Chucky squirrel for now the new couple is proving  everyone wrong Second Chances are possible love with chu moreover

they become a popular couple in  town and host many local events Sharon is known for her vivacious personality and Perry for  his warm hospitality and generosity they had 17 kids 17 kids I won't need this everybody say  oh she's so great and she's this and she's that it was a new start and Perry was just a really  nice guy just a really he get along with anybody and had a really good personality where he was  an outcast now he was a celebrity he was that wonderful Dr Nelson but as the new house

nears  completion Sharon surprises Friends by confiding that things in her marriage may not be quite  as perfect as they seem I mean I thought the rich husband the house the family you know I  thought that was going to make me happy but I'm really bored sweetheart son sorry and Sharon  has the same complaint about Perry that she did about her former husband Mike she was saying you  know this doctor just weren't doing it for her anymore the simmering tension at home is about  to get worse Sharon

Sharon is in charge of the couple's finances but money that should be used to  keep the house running is now funding her high-end lifestyle a simple job at the office just pay  the bills can't you just pay the pay the bills get out get out what the get out she was just  taking everything he could make not paying the bills uh electric bills things of that nature  I think that's one reason why he wanted to put the generator up there is because she didn't pay  the electric bill I can have it for yo

u by the end of the week their new home may be built on  Colorado Granite but this marriage is built on quicksand Sharon what's going on what do you mean  Sharon begins spending less and less time time at home and Perry becomes despondent I'm sorry Listen  sweetheart come on sweetheart if you leave you're not coming back in here you could tell though  he was having a tough time he would get in a depressed state and he you you know he wasn't  the same guy as we knew all all along Sharon and Perry

really have to take an interest in why  the others marriage didn't work out the first time around was it something beyond their control was  it that they their spouse maybe cheated on them and they were sort of on the receiving end of  infidelity was it something though about their character or their personality what the [ __ ]  when people don't deal with the issues that they had in one relationship their issues come with  them wherever they go and so part of what happens is they repeat the sa

me patterns over and over  again because they've never learned how to fix them Sharon decides it's in everybody's best  interest if she moves out so Sharon actually packed up her bags and moved to an apartment  outside of town to try to figure out what to do next whether she should stay with him or whether  she should go but as they try to decide on the future of their family a rugged stranger shows up  on Sharon's doorstep a man who will add fuel to an already volatile situation Sharon told peo

ple  that he made her feel like a woman for the first time Sharon and Perry Nelson's marriage is failing  Sharon moves out of their new house in order to figure out what to do the separation is  harder on Perry than he anticipates and he falls into a depression he already had the  feeling of failure from his first marriage and he just didn't want that marriage to  fail to make things worse he has become sexually obsessed with his wife yeah it's me  um still waiting to hear from you I think we sh

ould talk so give me a call he found in her  the answer to things that had never happened before in his life she would give him what he  needed maybe as often as they needed it Sharon is also thinking twice about the separation 7  months after moving out Sharon returns to their shared home she's determined to look past  the flaws in their relationship and repair the damage hi um can I come in Perry gladly  welcomes her back thanks look I'm I'm really sorry and I I miss you like he wanted it to 

work and he loved her so he he accepted her back family and friends are surprised  to discover that Perry has given their relationship another chance the couple picks  up exactly where they left off as though not a day has passed you're such a bad boy last  night there's a term in Psychology called escalation of commitment where that person  just doubles down and just keeps throwing good effort after bad because the prospect  of turning back seems worse and harder and longer than just trying to

power through  getting married for the second time puts a lot of pressure on the relationship because  you already feel like you failed once and and you don't want to fail again so you're invested  more you want to work harder you don't want it to go the same way the other one [Music] went but  their attempt at reconciliation is about to hit a roadblock a few weeks after Sharon moves back in  a local Carpenter Gary Adams appears at Sharon's doorstep he's been hired by Perry to do some  work at t

he house have uh Mallet who are you car Gary he was a carpenter roofer type guy  he he uh did a lot of odd jobs you know things of that nature all right well the the malet  out back Gary yeah in the garage yeah in the garage I think in a lot of ways at least to  Sharon's perspective Gary Adams was the total package I mean he was handsome he was rugged he  liked to hunt and fish he was you know worked with his muscles and all those kinds of things  that Perry really wasn't just a few months later

Sharon throws a Halloween party for all the  locals where she dresses up as Scarlet O'Hara and she wants Gary not Perry to be her rat  Butler honey come let's Dan oh I had heard rumors before they had a Halloween party one  night and they snuck off together and everybody knew about it that kind of thing was going on  Harry could you get me a jonic jonic coming up thanks so [Music] much Gary Adams showed up in  sort of a western Mountain Man type get up and they got very very chummy on the Dance

Floor  let's go in the room come you want to show me something she is consumed by her desire for  Gary despite the fact he too has a wife and child the coast clear yeah you know what I feel  like doing what I feel like riding your horse come here Sharon told people that he made her  feel like like a woman for the first time she did think of him as a soulmate I don't think she  ever thought her other husbands were soulmates at all she did feel there was something special  a special connection th

at she had with Gary Adams they started seeing each other and they  saw each other often and they were bold about it I mean they would go to a motel and you know  meet for the afternoon or they'd go to meet at a place in a meadow somewhere you know to have  it was constant it was not really private either everybody kind of knew what was going on when  a person grows up in a conservative upbringing they often Rebel and I think Sharon is one of  those Rebels Sharon wants to feel like she can do wh

atever she wants whenever she wants to and  I really think it's manifesting itself in the sexual Arena she has decided that there are no  limits she can have sex with whoever she wants to and that she should be allowed to do that  [Music] ready for a cold one yeah buddy all the while Perry remains oblivious to it all he  has no idea about his wife's new Affair I used to do this my grandmother when oh yeah yeah  she was in the country house give it a shot man see what you got it's stuck it's poss

ible  that Perry just didn't think Gary was Sharon's type I mean he was a laborer he wasn't a rich  guy with a lot of money and he kind of knew his wife's taste kind of leaned toward that in  fact Perry hired him to do household chores you know they had some Paving that needed to be  done they had some Landscaping work that needed to be attended to there at The Roundhouse and  they hired Gary to do it all Perry had no idea that during their lunch breaks that Sharon and  Gary were having sex he's

he's really paranoid lately super controlling it's like's he calls my  friends to see where I'm at I think he's got some sort of private eye following me or something  Sharon finds that Gary is also a sympathetic ear has you ever hit you Sharon was confiding  to Gary that there were all sorts of problems in the marriage not just money problems and not  just a lack of love but maybe some abuse was going on too that Perry was so controlling and  so mean to her that he'd actually left bruises on h

er body and she showed those bruises to Gary  shouldn't let anyone hit you like that bastard Sharon's allegations of abuse seemed to provoke  Gary to become more protective of her perhaps too protective he kept close to ABS on her he came  by at night he would survey the place he would make sure that Sharon was safe and keeping  an eye on her meant you know never letting her out of his sight my impression was that he  was always looking over shoulder like somebody was going to get him he was jus

t super jumpy and  squirly as crazy he could be really intense so I think Sharon sort of saw a glimpse of that and  wondered really what have I gotten myself into yeah I want to make sure you're safe I think part  of what's appealing about Gary is he's sort of the rugged unpredictable bad boy and I think she's  kind of enjoying the excitement and adventure of wondering what someone like Gary is going  to do next somebody who is like Sharon has a tendency to think they could maybe have it all  th

ey could have the stable person and then on the side over here they could have the exciting  risk-taking fun with his second marriage falling apart and his finances in disarray Perry's  friends and clients are starting to Desert him people were canceling appointments saying  look I don't like your wife I don't like like you and I'm not going to patronize your business  anymore and these were people that had come to his office for many many years so that hurt really  bad in debt and on edge he mo

ves his practice to a cheaper office space and sells his car the  IRS is also after him for unpaid taxes he became very paranoid about it he got to the place where  he had a sign on his property says no trespassing and that included the sheriff and everybody else  no trespassing his personality changed because he he was under such duress as Sharon pursues  her sexual obsessions with abandon Perry's life spirals further downward turning a drama  into a tragedy I was shocked terribly terribly [Mus

ic] shocked the Nelsons can no longer  hold on to What's Left of their marriage you're a really bad boy but if you want it  you're going to have to come get it Sharon Nelson is riding a new high with her lover Gary  Adams she found the one she after all this looking after all these marriages after all these TRS  with all these guys around town she'd finally settled on the perfect guy meanwhile Perry's life  is plagued by guilt and paranoia to an unbearable level God damn it bab I'm going to hell

he was  referring to the fact that he had uh divorced his first wife and he had married Sharon and I  said Perry you don't have to go to hell I was quite worried I didn't know if he was suicidal  or not increasingly concerned Bob goodhead and his wife pay a visit to Perry I told my wife I  said I'm going to have a serious talk with Perry I mean a brother brother to brother talk and  I've I've got to help him out of this Perry's not home Sharon says that he has been away for  a few days at a con

ference in Denver and she was expecting him back earlier that afternoon she's  been drinking and begins to talk quite candidly she started saying things to my wife like uh what  would you do if your husband didn't come home ever again what would you do it made no sense because  he wasn't that late something's weird here and it's about to get weirder Perry never returns  from his conference that evening and the next afternoon a jogger spots something at a ravine  on the outskirts of town it's Per

ry and Sharon's car at the side of the river police inform Sharon  that the car is empty and there's no trace of her husband I was shocked terribly shocked terribly  terribly shocked I just can't believe it you know this car as the weeks go by and Perry doesn't  surface friends and family become increasingly anxious everyone in town has a theory the theory  I thought might have happened was that he was up there camping and and got caught in a flood  you know others believe Sharon and Perry may b

e involved in a conspiracy I think they were  both in it for the money the insurance money but Sharon appears to be genuinely devastated  and although her husband may be dead she won't receive a penny in life insurance until a body is  found unable to pay the taxes for The Roundhouse she has no choice but to move out with her two  children to a SD rental in Rocky Ford Not only was her husband missing Sharon was devastated for  a lot of other reasons too I mean she had these two children she was

Raising she didn't have any  money she had to move out so this was not a good time for Sharon at all she was devastated upset  and desperately worried Sharon seeks solace in the well muscled arms of the one person she  has left her true love Gary how are things going with uh my wife yeah same old nothing new  same old yeah Sharon asks to leave his wife and be with her but Gary refuses oh I guess I thought  that you car about me I would leave my wife after 15 years Sharon is devastated and their

love  affair abruptly comes to an end at this point Sharon has nothing no husband no boyfriend no  roundhouse you know nothing at all so she's going to have to start over and that's what she thinks  about where am I going to go what am going to do next a year after Perry's disappearance Sharon  finds herself more alone than ever before and then less than a mile from where Perry's car was  found a jogger makes a shocking Discovery it's Perry or what's left of [Music] him after a close  examinatio

n of the body police find no evidence of foul play when Perry's body was discovered  he had skull fractures the body was severely decomposed and everything about his death and  their investigation was consistent with an accident the case is officially closed but Perry's  life insurance payout has been delayed because of the time it took to find the [Music] body Sharon  can't ignore her mounting debts she's now broke and alone desperate for a chance to rebuild her  life she looks for romance in t

he personal ads Sharon is a Survivor she has always managed to  pick herself up move on and find another man and I believe that's exactly what she's going to do and  Sharon's new boyfriend like the others before him will quickly realize she's full of surprises at  that point of course he was thinking you know this is definitely a mistake he realized that something  was really [Music] wrong after the Unexpected death of her husband Perry Sharon Nelson has  lost everything her husband her lover an

d her house she looks for support in the personal ads  and sets her sights on a 38-year-old firefighter Glenn harlson who lives in the neighboring  town of Thornton Colorado they have much in common including children from their previous  marriages he was obviously enamored with her and what purportedly she had to offer uh in the way of  friendship companionship uh ready-made family and that's what he was looking for Glenn is looking  to start over after a painful divorce I think he was getting

lonely and he and I were really good  friends and I had met my husband and everybody around us in the singles group seem to be meeting  people and he wasn't meeting anybody will you go out with me again yeah he can't believe his  luck when the alluring and outgoing Sharon Nelson accepts a second date he was a little more  alive when he was around her he was pretty he was pretty sad before he met her and everybody wants  to meet somebody and everybody wants to meet their you know their perfect ot

her and I think he felt  he had found somebody that would bring out the best in him and that was very exciting for him  so you guys met in a personal ad oh yeah we did before long the two of them are going steady he  did describe her as very beautiful actually sexy very Lively vivacious she was very sensual she  was very she just really put herself out there and she was very outgoing very outspoken but he was  nervous yeah you were a bit nervous yeah yeah I was she was the extrovert to his intro

vert he was  just uh euphoric he was happy uh seemed to be the Old Glenn almost Sharon moves in with Glenn in his  Thornton House 3 hours from Weston you know what I didn't like it there yeah you know did you like  it well I guess I just got used to it I think here here that's where it should be she settles her and  her two children comfortably in Glenn's new house Glenn is infatuated Glenn you know really from the  outset he put her on a pedestal he thought Sharon was the most amazing accomplis

hed attractive woman  that he'd ever seen that he was lucky to be with someone of her caliber it was you know a a dating  Whirlwind and he seemed to think that he' found the one I was very surprised at how fast they  moved together I was a little surprised but she was again she was very personable very charismatic  she was interesting are um are you making fun of me I think you are oh really Glenn's a firefighter  he believes in being the hero and the protector and Sharon needs someone who is go

ing to take  care of her and so that combination appears to be a match made in heaven he's happy she's happy and  for the moment they think it's going to work out it appears that both Sharon and Glenn are rushing  into a new relationship at this point although for different reasons it seems like Glenn is vastly  overestimating his ability to size up a new woman in a very short period of time hey that dinner  was after several weeks Sharon makes a shocking request so I was just I was thinking um

uh-huh  have you ever thought about you know seeing other people you're kidding right no I think Glenn felt  like by then he was the only one that he was going to be the man of her dreams and it probably  crushed him to know that there was competition look why is there something wrong with me no not  at all Glenn is surprised and disappointed but is still willing to give Sharon and the benefit  of the doubt what I think is good for us knowing Glenn's uh attitude towards others I think that  he p

robably imagined himself in a in a capacity to be able to overcome and uh make that part go away  he was definitely willing to work things out with her he loved her there's no doubt in my mind he  loved her and the more wrapped up he becomes with his new lover the less his friends see of him no  way J it's been a while we got to go Sharon made it very clear that she was not interested in  uh befriending any of Glenn's prior friends or even getting to know and was very very much in  our estimatio

n attempting to alienate him from his prior life entirely still Glenn is willing to  make the sacrifice his perseverance pays off when Sharon finally agrees to marry him and Sharon  seems content with Glenn just Glenn he seemed happy and that's really all any of us cared about  was that he started on the pathway to mending even better Sharon's financial situation is about to  drastically improve Perry's life insurance money finally comes through worth almost a quar of a  million dollars Sharon i

s now able to pay the IRS bye with her death paid she decides to  move back into her old house in Weston look you know it's only for the week and  then on the weekends we're together it's great still she tells Glenn she's  committed to the marriage and that he can come up and see her on weekends all  right all right all right look bye thank you he traveled back and forth from his house  here in Thorton all the way out there so he could continue his career here at the fire  Department it was hard

actually it was it was hard to watch hey there hi great I think part  of what's going on for Glenn is he thinks if he does everything right if he works hard if he's  dedicated and loyal he will have what he wants ultimately which is Sharon I think that Sharon's  becoming in toxicated with her power over men I think she truly believes that she can control  and manipulate any man that comes her way Glenn suspects that Sharon is seeing her old lover Gary  he knew that they were still seeing each o

ther because he would come back home and we would go  out to breakfast or coffee and he would talk about being really upset because the cigarette butts  found around the house were not his brand nor were they hers he was really angry he was and  I think he was deeply deeply hurt deeply hurt Sharon's secret life is beginning to make him  anxious okay ma' what's up it's Sharon and at that point of course he was thinking you know  this is definitely a mistake and it was soon after that that that he

realized you know it  wasn't just a mistake that that you could walk away from or or you know that you could just  get a divorce and move on with your life he he realized that something was really wrong he's  right to be worried several weeks later neighbors alert the fire department when they see smoke  emerging from an upper window of the fireman's house luckily Glenn's kids are located  at his ex-wife's house Glenn however is missing and his colleagues have the  daunting task of searching fo

r one of their own inside the Blazing Inferno he was  to have reported to work at some point and didn't not show up so they didn't know where  he was his vehicle was there he was there he had to be somewhere as the Smoke Clears  an extraordinary truth will be revealed she said I'll talk to you I'll tell you  everything I'm tired of living the [Music] lie just weeks after discovering his new wife  Sharon is keeping secrets Glenn haralson's home is engulfed in flames but there's no sign of  Glenn

emergency crews are unable to find him anywhere inside or outside the house there was  a period of time where um they didn't know if he was in the house or not they were looking  for him when the fire is finally extinguished investigators scour the house for Clues the  fire did extensive damage in the family room to where it had burned a hole hole about a 9-t  hole in the family room down into the crawl space after descending into the crawl space they  make a gruesome Discovery it's Glenn harals

on's corpse the body was very burned uh in what  what they call a pugilistic stance because of the fire all the muscles had retracted in  in ligaments I can't imagine what that would have been like for those investigators to have  gone into that that hole that crawl space and found a body and then to realize that it was in  fact one of their own people I can't fathom what that would have been like for them what's worse  it seems IM immediately clear that Glenn's death was no accident Glenn had b

een shot twice in  the head one was in the mouth one was you know up the nasal cavity police inform friends and  family that Glenn harelson was murdered I'm I'm really sorry I know I dropped the phone and  got really upset and my husband had to pick me up what happed because he said there had been an  accident and there had been a fire are you okay the first thing my husband said was I'm sorry  he died in a fire he's a fireman that seems weird everyone is worried about Sharon I said  is anybody

called Sharon you know this is going to be hard for her this is going to be her second  husband that she's lost somebody's got to be with her the crime scene does not give up any clues  as to the identity of Glenn's killer so the cops turned to the only lead they have the rumors of  Sharon's adultery we had got a phone call from one of the deputies that said you might look  at this Gary Adams the next day investigators Elaine and Glenn call Sharon into the Trinidad  police station for questionin

g initially Sharon was somewhat withdrawn not real forthcoming  but we asked her if we could just sit down and and talk to her about her relationship with  Glenn he was my he was my husband there was no indication that she had even cried her eyes were  not swollen red blurry eyed it was just amazing that there was no effect on her whatsoever I was  at home in my uh my late husband's home that we had together suspicious of her calm demeanor  detectives try and get her to lower her guard I knew at

this point that Sharon had had been  married multiple times and felt that maybe she liked male attention and so I did Lean in uh  really try to befriend her make her feel like I thought she was very important I looked at her  and said listen if you're hiding something we can protect you we can keep you safe Glenn's intimate  line of questioning has a sudden and dramatic effect and and she said I'll talk to you I'll  tell you everything I'm tired of living the LIE can we get out of here and she

said I'm not going  to talk to you here these walls have ears we said we'll take you wherever you want to go we started  going north on I25 had no idea where we were going I was nervous and Glenn and I were talking we were  both in the in the front seat my mouth is this an ambush where are we going she said there's a Pizza  Hut here in walsenberg she said if you just want to pull in there I'll U I'll tell you everything  please you guys could you know as promised Sharon drops a shocking confessi

on she reveals her old  lover Gary Adams murdered Glenn and there's more Gary Adams not only killed my husband Glenn he  killed my first husband Perry she claims that Gary is the jealous Mastermind mind behind the  murders and that the situation was beyond her control he's jealous you she'd been caught up with  this man who was a renegade you know Mountain Man Out of Control who' do anything to be with  her including kill two of her husbands she says that Gary purely on his own initiative killed

  Perry for the insurance payout all right pull up here according to Shar Gary  tricked Perry into giving him a ride to Denver lured him out of the  car for a bathroom break and pretended to lose his wallet what's going on Dro my  wallet where in the creek get out of the car it was dark and so when Perry  was then looking for the wallet uh Gary picked up a large Rock and  hit Perry over the head with it and then Gary you know did drown him and left  his body in Clare Creek so he just let him go

down the river it worked Perry's death was  never suspected to be murder Sharon eventually received a quarter of a million dollars  in life insurance money and gave a small portion to Gary Sharon tells police that Gary  must have wanted to recreate another accident with her third husband Glenn and this time  the motive was love he wanted Sharon all to himself Gary hid in the shadows  of Glenn's house waiting for him to come home he did hit him over  the head Glenn actually started to struggle wi

th Gary and that's when  Gary shot him twice in the head [Music] Sharon is hoping her candid confession with police  will play in her favor so she threw Gary under the bus she pretty much said let's point the  finger at him he's the one that did all this I'm innocent here I just love too much we have  somebody who thinks that they could talk their way out of something by coming up with what they  think is a plausible way to lay the blame onto a third party I think she thinks she's going to  get

away with this Sharon has gotten away with everything she's tried to do in the past so why  wouldn't she think that she would get away with this Sharon grows increasingly confident that  Gary will take the wrap but the cops buy their time and as Sharon grows more confident she  gets careless revealing her prior knowledge of the plot to kill Glenn she just told us  that her marriage to Glenn was not what she had thought it would be and Gary had told her  there's only two ways to get this done fir

e or water he'd asked Sharon if there was um kerosene  or gasoline in the garage yeah there's lawnmower gas in the garage why perfect she told us that  he showed up at 4:00 in the morning and that he had said it's done it becomes obvious that Sharon  was involved in the planning you did it it's done she even admits to police that Gary brought her  Glenn's wedding ring as proof that Glenn had been killed I think it was the trophy you hear of that  a lot with crimes the you know keeping something

of the victims as trophy for your deed and I  think for her that wedding ring was her trophy investigators believe that both Sharon and Gary  are jointly responsible what are you doing you're under arrest for the murder Perry Nelson and  Glenn harelson they arrest her for first-degree murder I swear I told you the truth it wasn't it  wasn't me very clearly she was implicated in his death and and was as much a conspirator as if  she had been been standing in the room at the time initially with Dr

Nelson it was all about the  money you know getting rid of him she knew that he had all these Life policies that were worth a  lot of money with Glenn she indicates that she really did love Gary and it was all about this  love for Gary I feel like riding your horse we never got a clear picture what his motivation  was other than his back and forth was Sharon and their onag off again sexual relationship  sociopaths seek a feeling of power and control the two of them came together in hopes of bei

ng  a powerful force and let's not forget that they actually did get away with it with Perry for  a long time and so they figured because we got away with this first one we'll probably get away  with the second one as well what we know about sociopathic people is they tend to find somebody  like themselves and they sort of feed off of each other's so sociopathy and they sort of excite  each other and sometimes they actually sort of stretch each other's sociopathy to new heights the  detectives T

racked Down Gary Adams near his home a small mountain cabin put your hands up get down  on your knees drop your [Music] weapon on June 7th 1989 Sharon Nelson pleads guilty in Colorado  State Court to two counts of first-degree murder so she can avoid the death penalty she is given  two life sentences 2 Days Later Gary Adams also receives two life sentences at first I wanted both  she and Gary to be put to death um I thought that was fair but ultimately they answered a God not  me Sharon's four b

iological children and five ex stepchildren have cut off all ties to their mother  or step stepmother and the small towns of Weston and Thornton Colorado are still haunted by this  dark chapter in their history well I was enraged I I made the statement to my wife I said you now  I shouldn't have said this but I did I said U if I could catch Sharon out in the Boondock someplace  and I had a rifle I'd just do her in cuz it made me pretty mad that she had the audacity to do that  I've since forgive

n her it's hard to forgive her but now I pray for her soul to have a parent taken  away just suddenly like that out of nowhere it was nobody could expect that especially a teenager  you know he was stolen away from us it's terrible not to have him here you know we think about it  every day you never realize how fast everything can be taken away from you um and the kind of  people that can be around without you knowing [Music] it [Music]