Speaker 1: In the early hours of September the twenty first, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: in Dearborn, Michigan, a rage filled father unleashed a nightmare
Speaker 1: on his unsuspecting family.
Speaker 2: He made his wife watch while he shot and killed
Speaker 2: her two teenage children. I can't imagine anything more cruel.
Speaker 3: I'm yelling to him like, no, you know, no, my baby.
Speaker 3: I was bagging him not to shoot her because once
Speaker 3: he shattered her, beg you know, she was bleeding from
Speaker 3: her mouth and I knew she wasn't gonna make it.
Speaker 1: The killer was forty nine year old Gregory Green, and
Speaker 1: his reign of terror was far from over.
Speaker 4: He carried the two other girls out to the garage,
Speaker 4: placed them in the car, tucked them in, shut the door,
Speaker 4: and turned the car on, and they ultimately succumbed to
Speaker 4: carbon monoxide poisoning.
Speaker 5: He was probably the most terrific crime than I've ever
Speaker 5: seen or dealt with during my career.
Speaker 1: But astonishingly, this wasn't the first time Gregory Green had
Speaker 1: killed his family.
Speaker 6: Back in nineteen ninety one, he killed his first wife,
Speaker 6: and not only her, but also the unborn child, his
Speaker 6: child that she was carrying.
Speaker 1: The man who killed his family twice would forever come
Speaker 1: to be known as one of the world's most evil killers.
Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, fifty year old Gregory Green was ordered
Speaker 1: to spend the rest of his natural life in prison
Speaker 1: for the murders of his two stepchildren, nineteen year old
Speaker 1: Chadney and seventeen year old Kara, and his two biological daughters,
Speaker 1: five year old Koi and Kayley, who was just four.
Speaker 4: His final act of power over faith Green, Gregory Green
Speaker 4: allowed her to live and forced her to witness the
Speaker 4: murder of her children, and that gave him the power
Speaker 4: in his mind to manipulate her and make her live
Speaker 4: with these horrific memories for the rest of her life.
Speaker 5: I don't understand the mentality, but it seemed like torture
Speaker 5: to me.
Speaker 1: There was no trial. For the second time in his life,
Speaker 1: Gregory Green pled guilty to the murder of his family.
Speaker 2: This case is a perfect example that shows how incredibly
Speaker 2: dangerous coercively controlling people can become. Those children were totally dispensable,
Speaker 2: irrespective of whether they were step children or biological children.
Speaker 2: I have got to make this woman pay, you Locke,
Speaker 2: and pay with your lives, so that I can restore
Speaker 2: my ego. How evil is that?
Speaker 1: This killer's story begins in Michigan on October the twelfth,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 6: Gregory Green was born in Dearborn and the outskirts of Detroit,
Speaker 6: and in fact, he spent its entire life in Dearborn.
Speaker 6: We known a great deal about Green's upbringing, but we
Speaker 6: do know that it was a loving household, brought up
Speaker 6: with his mother and father than siblings, and I think
Speaker 6: he described it later in life as a comfortable upbring.
Speaker 1: Green's second wife, Faith, remembers him talking about his childhood.
Speaker 3: He said that like in high school, he always had
Speaker 3: nice things. There were times like if he didn't want
Speaker 3: to go to school, he didn't have to.
Speaker 1: By his early twenties, Green had married his first wife, Tanya,
Speaker 1: and joined a church community on the outskirts of Detroit
Speaker 1: led by Faith's father, pastor Fred Harris.
Speaker 3: As a little girl, I loved going to church. My
Speaker 3: dad became a pastor when I was about eleven.
Speaker 1: It was at church where Faith first met the man
Speaker 1: who would turn out to be her future husband.
Speaker 3: I was fourteen years old at that time. He was
Speaker 3: probably about twenty four twenty five. He had no blue
Speaker 3: that I had a crush on and I thought that
Speaker 3: he was cute. Things like that. I used to just
Speaker 3: say hi to sometimes after church, sit next to He
Speaker 3: was there for a while, then he wasn't there anymore.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety one, unbeknownst to fourteen year old Faith,
Speaker 1: Gregory Green had been sent to prison for killing his wife, Tanya.
Speaker 6: On the fourteenth of July, Green attacked Tanya, and at
Speaker 6: that point, she was six months pregnant with Green's child.
Speaker 6: He attacked her brutally, ferociously, stabbing her in the face, chest, neck, back,
Speaker 6: killing not only Tanya but also the unborn child. Certainly,
Speaker 6: one of the factors that triggered Green's behavior was the
Speaker 6: fact that she was planning to divorce him. I don't
Speaker 6: think Green wanted anybody else to have Tanya. If he
Speaker 6: couldn't have her, no one else was going to have her.
Speaker 1: Gregory Green calmly dialed nine one one to report what
Speaker 1: he'd done and waited for the police to arrive and
Speaker 1: arrest him.
Speaker 2: It's really interesting when looking at the emotional state of
Speaker 2: people who kill somebody close to them, like a wife
Speaker 2: or a child. The first emotion they feel afterwards is relief,
Speaker 2: not remorse, not shame, not guilt, not terror, relief, So
Speaker 2: they can in that moment behave quite rationally, but overlay
Speaker 2: that with the fact that they have felt completely justified
Speaker 2: in killing their wife for trying to leave them.
Speaker 4: Gregor Agreen pled no contest to the crime, a second
Speaker 4: degree murder. He was sentenced to a minimum of fifteen
Speaker 4: years in a maximum of twenty five years in the
Speaker 4: Michigan Department of Corrections.
Speaker 6: While Green was serving his sentence for the murder of Tanya,
Speaker 6: the woman who was to become his second wife, was
Speaker 6: going about an ordinary life. In fact, she got married
Speaker 6: and she had two children.
Speaker 3: I met Kiara and Chaney's dad in the tenth grade,
Speaker 3: and immediately I just fell for him.
Speaker 7: And then once.
Speaker 3: I graduated from high school, that's when we really started dating.
Speaker 3: And then I got pregnant with my son when I
Speaker 3: was nineteen. He was I shouldn't say like my little buddy,
Speaker 3: but he was like me. He was a night out.
Speaker 3: Even when I carried him, he was up at night.
Speaker 3: That's just how I was. So he was just a
Speaker 3: quiet child and we did a lot together. He was
Speaker 3: very smart and artistic till he started drawing when he
Speaker 3: was really little.
Speaker 1: Another child followed quickly. When her son Chatney was almost
Speaker 1: two years old, Faith gave birth to a daughter, Kara.
Speaker 3: Kara was always the type of child where whatever the
Speaker 3: brother did, she wanted to be able to do it too.
Speaker 3: When he was learning to tie his shoes, she was like,
Speaker 3: I can do it too. She always wanted to boss him,
Speaker 3: so I always had to tell her, like, Kiera.
Speaker 7: You know, stop bossing your stop bussing your brother.
Speaker 4: Row.
Speaker 3: He just wanted to play his games and things like that.
Speaker 3: But as they got older, the relationship got better.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Gregory Green had been serving time in prison for
Speaker 1: the murder of his first wife. Most of his adult
Speaker 1: life had been spent behind bars, but in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five a push to give him a second chance
Speaker 1: gain momentum.
Speaker 6: Green, as was typical of him, maintained an absolutely calm
Speaker 6: presence in prison, but he was refused parole four times
Speaker 6: because he showed no empathy and no remorse whatever for Killingtonia,
Speaker 6: an example child.
Speaker 2: After that first murder, Gregory Green was a walking threat
Speaker 2: to any woman that he was going to get into
Speaker 2: a relationship with, especially if that woman challenges him or
Speaker 2: attempts to leave him.
Speaker 6: Green had been imprisoned for a considerable period of time
Speaker 6: when pastor Fred Harris, who was a well known figure
Speaker 6: in Detroit, began a campaign to get him released. Harris
Speaker 6: told the parole board that Green would be supported by
Speaker 6: the local community and welcomed back into the church. What
Speaker 6: he didn't do, and that's so significant. Later he didn't
Speaker 6: warn his daughter Faith, exactly what Green had done and
Speaker 6: why he'd been in prison.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, after sixteen years behind Buzz,
Speaker 1: Gregory Green was granted parole at the age of forty one.
Speaker 1: He had a chance to start over, but his insatiable
Speaker 1: lust for murder could not be controlled, and eventually he
Speaker 1: would kill again. In two thousand and eight, Gregory Green
Speaker 1: had just been released from prison after spending sixteen years
Speaker 1: behind BUZZ for the murder of his first wife and
Speaker 1: that unborn child. When Faith, who was single again, ran
Speaker 1: into him at church, old feelings resurfaced.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: First, he didn't even know who I was until I
Speaker 3: told him. Then he was like, oh, okay, you know,
Speaker 3: he didn't even have a clue that I had like
Speaker 3: this crush on him. And a few times, like after church,
Speaker 3: I would talk to him and then eventually we exchanged numbers.
Speaker 3: One day, we went out to dinner, just talked the kids,
Speaker 3: seemed like they liked them, and we just eventually started dating.
Speaker 6: Tragically, Faith wasn't aware of Green's crime when he was released.
Speaker 6: Her father didn't tell her, and I'm absolutely sure in
Speaker 6: my own mind that Green didn't tell her either, as
Speaker 6: far as she was concerned. With the help of her father,
Speaker 6: Green was being rehabilitated.
Speaker 3: I probably should have asked more questions. I did know
Speaker 3: that he had went to prison. We were told there
Speaker 3: was some type of altercation, but it was self defense.
Speaker 2: Any allegations made against him, he's going to deny, He's
Speaker 2: going to minimize, He's going to make it look like
Speaker 2: he was the victim. This is something that is so common.
Speaker 2: They call it DARVO, deny attack, reverse victim, and offender.
Speaker 2: Now that is straight from the coercive control playbook.
Speaker 3: He moved in with me for a little bit, but
Speaker 3: I was just feeling like something wasn't right. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it was just too soon. I ended up
Speaker 3: breaking it off with him for a while for a
Speaker 3: little bit, and then we started talking back. And then
Speaker 3: that's how I got pregnant with KOI, like we weren't
Speaker 3: even in a relationship or anything like that. A couple
Speaker 3: months after I had KOI, that's when we ended up
Speaker 3: getting married.
Speaker 1: In twoenty and eleven, Green and his new wife moved
Speaker 1: into their first house together.
Speaker 5: The city of Dewberent Heights is pretty much a bedroom
Speaker 5: community borders the city of Detroit on the east side
Speaker 5: of the city. Nice place to live, pretty safe. It's
Speaker 5: good community, very eclectic, very diverse.
Speaker 6: It didn't take long for Faith to realize that Green
Speaker 6: perhaps wasn't quite as angelic as she might have thought,
Speaker 6: and quite quickly she became unsettled.
Speaker 3: I didn't really know what was going on with him
Speaker 3: on the inside.
Speaker 7: You just would shut down.
Speaker 3: That's when I started to see the attitude and things
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Coercive control is a pattern of behavior designed to trap
Speaker 2: someone in a relationship, and that will be the motivation
Speaker 2: of the controlling person, so they will do all sorts
Speaker 2: of things within that relationship, what we call tactics to
Speaker 2: make sure that person stays where they are, stays compliant,
Speaker 2: never leaves.
Speaker 3: Everything was just koy koy koy. He would tell me
Speaker 3: things like, if I leave the house, I got to
Speaker 3: take her with me. He didn't really want to give
Speaker 3: me a break.
Speaker 7: There was only one.
Speaker 3: Time during that first year where I was able to
Speaker 3: go out with one of my friends and then he
Speaker 3: was calling me.
Speaker 7: I'm like, it only had been.
Speaker 3: Literally probably like an hour, hour and a half, and
Speaker 3: I was getting ready to be back on my way home.
Speaker 2: Green was incredibly controlling of Faith. He tried to isolate
Speaker 2: her from forms of an influence. He would have used
Speaker 2: psychological tactics where he would demean her and question her
Speaker 2: so that she was constantly trying to meet his expectations.
Speaker 2: In his rules, he will be presenting that as very normal.
Speaker 2: That's the way of things. You've got your role, I've
Speaker 2: got mine. You get on with yours, and as long
Speaker 2: as you do it properly, I'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1: Like many women in that situation, Faith stayed with Green
Speaker 1: for the sake of her daughter, Coy.
Speaker 3: Was funny. She thought she knew it. Ours love wearing dresses.
Speaker 3: Love wearing dresses. That was her thing.
Speaker 1: Almost two years after Coy was born, Green and Faith
Speaker 1: had a second daughter, Kayley.
Speaker 6: Somehow, Green didn't take to the second daughter as much
Speaker 6: as he'd taken to the first.
Speaker 3: When she came he didn't want to thing to do
Speaker 3: with her. I don't know if it was because you
Speaker 3: didn't want another child. I could even take that if
Speaker 3: if that's what it was, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't have to like it, but make it make sense.
Speaker 3: It got to the point where it was really tense
Speaker 3: in a house.
Speaker 5: The home was a well kept home, nice area by
Speaker 5: all accounts, you know, just a good family living in
Speaker 5: a quiet suburb raising their kids. So kind of goes
Speaker 5: to the heart of what we deal with in policing
Speaker 5: every day. You never know what's going on behind closed doors.
Speaker 1: Despite Green's apparent indifference to his second daughter, Kayleie, was
Speaker 1: adored by Faith Kayleie.
Speaker 7: Kayleie was a little little rambunctious. She was glued to
Speaker 7: my head.
Speaker 3: She was observant. She sat back and watched when her
Speaker 3: dad was mean to her. I used to say, let's
Speaker 3: let's pray, and then she tell me, Mommy.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 3: It was a couple of times he flitched at her
Speaker 3: and she would stand up to him. No baby should
Speaker 3: have to do that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: One night I was sitting on the couch and he's yelling, hollering,
Speaker 3: just saying the meaning things to me and calling me names.
Speaker 3: But he's holding cooy, So I'm like, can you please
Speaker 3: just put her down? So finally I got him to
Speaker 3: put her down. Then he starts yelling. He starts kicking
Speaker 3: the couch. Kaylee's on this end. I'm like, please stop
Speaker 3: kicking the couch. That was my point there. I was
Speaker 3: just like, I have to leave.
Speaker 1: Faith attempted to get to personal protection order against her husband.
Speaker 3: I tried to go to the Dearborn Heights Police Department
Speaker 3: to follow a ppo.
Speaker 7: I filled out the paperwork.
Speaker 3: They came back less than five minutes and told me
Speaker 3: it's not enough information.
Speaker 2: People don't go and get protective orders for nothing. They
Speaker 2: don't apply for them for nothing. But for some reason,
Speaker 2: probably a lack of evidence, I would have thought that
Speaker 2: protective order was not granted.
Speaker 5: Domestic violence is one of those crimes that are unpoliceable,
Speaker 5: and that's one of the things that the police hate.
Speaker 5: We want to protect the public, we want to do
Speaker 5: what's out there. But the law, everybody thinks it's black
Speaker 5: and white, it's really not.
Speaker 3: I decided to go back to work and I said,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna make a plan to leave on a
Speaker 3: last day of school and that's what I did.
Speaker 1: After Faith left her husband, they lived apart for a
Speaker 1: couple of years.
Speaker 7: I did file for a divorce.
Speaker 3: And we were at one of our I guess divorce proceedings,
Speaker 3: and then I felt like we needed to talk. I
Speaker 3: didn't think like we were going to talk to get
Speaker 3: back together, but that's what ended up happening. So I said, well,
Speaker 3: this time, we really need to talk about things in detail.
Speaker 3: And I felt like that's what we were really doing.
Speaker 3: I felt like he was making an effort.
Speaker 2: This is a controlling and manipulative person, so they will
Speaker 2: use any tactic they think of that is going to
Speaker 2: work for them to get what they want. Faith would
Speaker 2: probably have believed him that he was genuine, that he
Speaker 2: was going to change.
Speaker 7: They never do.
Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, Green and Faith reunited and eventually she
Speaker 1: moved back into the family home with her four children.
Speaker 1: It would prove to be a fatal mistake.
Speaker 3: It was okay for a few months. He wanted the
Speaker 3: girls and everybody.
Speaker 7: Have a good Christmas.
Speaker 3: So we got this huge Christmas tree that went up
Speaker 3: to the ceiling, bring out the toys and everything in
Speaker 3: the house. We were talking about renewing our vows, but
Speaker 3: things were just slowly dwindling. I was just like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is not gonna work.
Speaker 2: Green would never have been able to sustain this character
Speaker 2: that he was playing. Once he got what he wanted,
Speaker 2: gone forget it. This is not who he is. Who
Speaker 2: he is is a manipulative, abusive controller.
Speaker 7: As time went on, he was getting worse.
Speaker 3: So this time I'm dead, said, I'm like, I can't
Speaker 3: change my mind. I can't continue to put my children
Speaker 3: through this.
Speaker 1: In August twenty sixteen, Faith filed for divorce for a
Speaker 1: second time.
Speaker 4: Statistically, the period of separation or the threat of separation
Speaker 4: in a relationship where there's intimate partner violence is the
Speaker 4: most dangerous time for a victim. And the reason for
Speaker 4: that is because it's not about violence, it's about power
Speaker 4: and control. So when the abuser in the relationship feels
Speaker 4: that they're losing that power and control, their behavior ramps
Speaker 4: up and can become much much more violent.
Speaker 3: Next I know he's mad, he was just really upset.
Speaker 3: Cursing is real belligerent. And then eventually he left him
Speaker 3: went to work, and I thought I was going to
Speaker 3: be all right, because the most Greg ever did was
Speaker 3: just yell, hollered maybe be in my face. I just
Speaker 3: continue to go on about my day as usual.
Speaker 4: It was at that point Gregory Green felt he ultimately
Speaker 4: lost control of the situation and she was going to
Speaker 4: take his home. She was going to take his children,
Speaker 4: and he was not going to permit that to happen.
Speaker 1: It would be less than a month after he was
Speaker 1: served as divorce papers that Gregory Green finally snapped. What
Speaker 1: followed was a night of app salute horror that would
Speaker 1: change Faith's life forever. By September twenty sixteen, Faith Green
Speaker 1: had served her husband with divorce papers for the second time.
Speaker 1: Gregory Green knew his marriage was over.
Speaker 6: On the twentieth of September twenty sixteen, Green unleashed a
Speaker 6: nightmare on his unsuspecting family.
Speaker 4: It started off as a normal day, it spiraled into
Speaker 4: Faith Green and Gregory Green having an argument over text
Speaker 4: messages about the state of their marriage and the fact
Speaker 4: that she had filed for divorce. By the time Faith
Speaker 4: Green returned to the house that day, Gregory Green had
Speaker 4: become consumed by anger.
Speaker 3: If I go to sleep and I remember him coming
Speaker 3: into the girls' room cause I was sleeping in their room,
Speaker 3: and he was like, come in the living room. It
Speaker 3: seemed serious, so I got up. I go into the
Speaker 3: living room and I see my son in there, and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking in my head, like he woke my son up,
Speaker 3: so I can tell he was sleep. Gray takes out
Speaker 3: these big zip ties. I never seen zip tides that
Speaker 3: big in my in my life ever, I didn't even
Speaker 3: know they made him that big. So he's like, I
Speaker 3: want you to tie your mother up with this. So
Speaker 3: Chad is like, Gray, wait, then he pulls a gun out.
Speaker 3: So I was like, chadny, just just just do what
Speaker 3: he says. So he made my son zip tide me.
Speaker 3: And then that's when he proceeded the zip tie my son.
Speaker 7: I was froze. I couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3: Car came to the living room looking like he's tripping,
Speaker 3: like what is wrong with and like, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: lost his mind. She has no clue what just happened.
Speaker 3: But he ends up zip tying her and then he
Speaker 3: says he wants us to go to the basement. We
Speaker 3: just look at each other. The thoughts were so loud,
Speaker 3: like go to the basement. We just look at each other,
Speaker 3: and then we go down to the basement. And then
Speaker 3: he made us lay down on the floor, duct tape
Speaker 3: our mouths, duck paper around our arms behind our back ankles,
Speaker 3: and then he like extra, duct take me a lot.
Speaker 3: I was thinking that he was just gonna take the
Speaker 3: girls and leave. That's what I was thinking. I never
Speaker 3: thought he was gonna do anything more than that. I
Speaker 3: thought he was really just trying to, like, really just
Speaker 3: scare me.
Speaker 2: Gregory Green had a mindset where above everything else, he
Speaker 2: was entitled to things. He was superior, he was better,
Speaker 2: and if you didn't give him what he was entitled to,
Speaker 2: he would respond really, really badly, almost like a petulant toddler.
Speaker 2: But a petulant toddler is nowhere near as dangerous as
Speaker 2: a fully grown, violent man with access to weapons.
Speaker 3: He sits down on a counter in the basement and
Speaker 3: he says, I'm going to suffer for what I did
Speaker 3: to him and his girls, and he doesn't want his
Speaker 3: girls raised by anybody in my family. I just felt
Speaker 3: so there because I couldn't help us.
Speaker 7: What was I going to do?
Speaker 1: Green spent the next hour going in and out of
Speaker 1: the basement. When he returned for the final time, he
Speaker 1: turned his gun on seventeen year old Kara.
Speaker 3: He sat her in the beck twice and she just
Speaker 3: looked at me. I'm yelling to him like no, you know, no,
Speaker 3: my baby, that I was begging him not to shoot her.
Speaker 3: Cause once he shot her in the back, you know,
Speaker 3: she was bleeding from her mouth and I knew she
Speaker 3: wasn't gonna make it.
Speaker 4: He knacks turned the gun on Chadney. He shot Chadney
Speaker 4: twice in the back and once in the hut, and.
Speaker 3: I remember him saying ouch, and he rolled over and
Speaker 3: he never moved again. Then he aimed a gun at me,
Speaker 3: and I remember just trying to brace myself cause I
Speaker 3: didn't know where he was gonna shoot me. And I
Speaker 3: just remember hearing gun shots, and I remember that burning feeling.
Speaker 3: And then he grabbed my face, so I remember that,
Speaker 3: and then him, you know, cutting me from this side.
Speaker 3: I didn't feel, but I could just feel the warmth
Speaker 3: of the blood and I see, like blood squirty.
Speaker 6: He spared Faith's life because he wanted her to suffer
Speaker 6: and live through it and live with it. It is
Speaker 6: an unimaginable burden for anyone to bear. Can you imagine
Speaker 6: any mother watching the death of her children in front
Speaker 6: of her by a man she's married and thought she
Speaker 6: could trust.
Speaker 5: It's fascinating from a law enforcement psychological standpoint to try
Speaker 5: to understand what mister Green actually was thinking that caused
Speaker 5: him to go to those lengths. What was it that
Speaker 5: you thought by sitting your wife down, killing her children
Speaker 5: in front of her, you were going to accomplish That
Speaker 5: was the question that rained in my mind for a
Speaker 5: long time after.
Speaker 1: In an eerie echo of the night twenty five years
Speaker 1: earlier when he'd murdered his first wife, Greene then called
Speaker 1: the police and confessed to his crime.
Speaker 3: And I heard him walk up the stairs and said, Hi,
Speaker 3: my name is Greg Green, and that's all that I
Speaker 3: could hear.
Speaker 7: Then I heard a door close.
Speaker 5: I was called woken up by the surgeon that was
Speaker 5: working on the rope patrol and was apprised of the situation.
Speaker 5: At that time, you almost want to think that this
Speaker 5: isn't real? Am I dreaming? The officers responded to the
Speaker 5: scene from the nine one one call. Mister Green was
Speaker 5: sitting on the porch. He was taken into custody without
Speaker 5: incident by the first responding officers, and that's when the
Speaker 5: officers then had the horrific task of going into the
Speaker 5: home and finding the crime scene.
Speaker 3: I remember just laying there. Then it was a knock
Speaker 3: at the door and it was the police.
Speaker 5: Face. Children were shot to death in front of her.
Speaker 5: She had suffered a cutting wound from the top of
Speaker 5: her forehead area all the way down to her cheek,
Speaker 5: and she was also shot in the foot. I don't
Speaker 5: understand the mentality, but it seemed like torture to me. Obviously,
Speaker 5: our primary concern in that situation being there was no
Speaker 5: further danger to the community. We still have a victim
Speaker 5: that's alive. Making sure that Faith was taken care of
Speaker 5: and sought medical aid that was needed.
Speaker 3: On this side here they had to stitch on an
Speaker 3: inside first and then stitch the outside. And if you
Speaker 3: would have cut me an inch further, I would have
Speaker 3: actually glad to death. And they said that my foot
Speaker 3: should have been shattered like a lot of pieces. But
Speaker 3: luck the bullet curved and went out the battle.
Speaker 1: Faith had survived her husband's attack, but her nightmare wasn't over.
Speaker 1: Even more horrifying news was still to come. On September
Speaker 1: the twenty first, twenty sixteen, Gregory Green had forced his
Speaker 1: wife to watch as he shot and killed her two
Speaker 1: teenage children. But as Faith was about to find out,
Speaker 1: they weren't the only murders he'd committed that night, what.
Speaker 6: Became apparent was what Green was doing when he left
Speaker 6: his wife and two elder children tied up in the basement.
Speaker 4: He had already prepared the car in the garage of
Speaker 4: the home, meaning he had send a piece of PBC
Speaker 4: pipe on the tailpipe of the vehicle, ran a hose
Speaker 4: into the window of the car. He went into the house,
Speaker 4: lifted the two girls one by one out of their beds.
Speaker 7: They were asleep.
Speaker 4: One of the children briefly woke up, but her daddy
Speaker 4: was holding her, so she fell back asleep. He carried
Speaker 4: the two girls out to the car, placed them in
Speaker 4: the car, tucked them in, shut the door, and turned
Speaker 4: the car on.
Speaker 5: This was just incomprehensible to me.
Speaker 4: During this whole process, Gregory Green would leave Coy and
Speaker 4: Kaylee in the car, and then he would go into
Speaker 4: the basement to check on Kara and Chadney and Faith
Speaker 4: to make sure they were still down there. He didn't
Speaker 4: tell them at that time what was happening upstairs. A
Speaker 4: period of time, Gregory Green went back out to the garage.
Speaker 4: He checked on the two youngest girls. They appeared to
Speaker 4: be lifeless. He turned the car off and then he
Speaker 4: carried them one by one back into the house and
Speaker 4: tucked them in bed together.
Speaker 1: Soon after being rushed to hospital, Faith learned the true
Speaker 1: extent of what her husband had done to Coy and Kaylee.
Speaker 3: One of the doctors told me that they had passed.
Speaker 3: But I remember the police saying that the little one
Speaker 3: is fighting. I didn't know what was going on, but
Speaker 3: Kaylee was the last to go. So they willed me
Speaker 3: to one room and I saw Coy.
Speaker 7: She was gone. She was just so cold.
Speaker 3: And then they wheeled me to another room and Kaylee
Speaker 3: she was still warm.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of the officers on seeing that
Speaker 5: were just not believing this is you know, you can't
Speaker 5: believe that this happened. But you put your feelings aside
Speaker 5: and you have a job to do in the crime scene,
Speaker 5: to process, an investigation to conduct, and you move forward.
Speaker 1: Now. In custody, Gregory Green was questioned by police.
Speaker 4: During the course of his several hour statement, he spoke
Speaker 4: about the details of the crime and his reasons for
Speaker 4: doing this. He repeatedly referenced the fact that Faith Green
Speaker 4: had filed for divorce. He repeatedly referenced the fact that
Speaker 4: she was going to take his house and he was
Speaker 4: going to have to pay child support, and he would
Speaker 4: have nothing, and he would starve, and he wouldn't have
Speaker 4: his girls. He repeatedly indicated during the course of his
Speaker 4: statement that he had no choice, he had to do this.
Speaker 4: The lack of emotion, the lack of conscience, the matter
Speaker 4: of fact in which Gregory Green detailed to the detectives
Speaker 4: what he had done to these children.
Speaker 5: What I found most troublesome about mister Green was there
Speaker 5: was a statement that alluded to the fact that he
Speaker 5: felt his children were better off in heaven with God
Speaker 5: than being raised by her. That was his logic behind
Speaker 5: taking the lives of his.
Speaker 4: Children in this incident. Gregory Green had every opportunity to
Speaker 4: also murder Faith Green, and he intentionally did not do that.
Speaker 4: The detectives asked him, why didn't you kill her? And
Speaker 4: his words were death would have been too good for her.
Speaker 4: I wanted her to live with what she made me do.
Speaker 4: It's the ultimate act of power and control. Gregory Green
Speaker 4: knew at the time he did these things he was
Speaker 4: going to spend the rest of his life in prison
Speaker 4: and was resigned to that fact. But he wanted Faith
Speaker 4: Green to suffer forever, and allowing her to live was
Speaker 4: his way of guaranteeing in his mind that he could
Speaker 4: control her and make her suffer forever.
Speaker 2: That's the soonification of evil and shows us exactly what
Speaker 2: his motivations were. His motivation was to punish Faith for
Speaker 2: having the audacity to leave him.
Speaker 1: In the days following the murders, the story hit the press.
Speaker 1: It was only then that Faith learned the awful truth
Speaker 1: about our husband's first wife.
Speaker 3: That was on my dad's fault, And that was like
Speaker 3: the first thing that popped up. She was about six
Speaker 3: seven months pregnant and he stabbed her to death. And
Speaker 3: I was just thinking, like, oh my God, and I'm
Speaker 3: just crying, like because I never knew. I'm just balling
Speaker 3: my eyes out. I'm just stick to my stomach.
Speaker 1: Faith found it hard to come to terms with the
Speaker 1: parole Board's previous decision to release Green.
Speaker 3: He actually shouldn't have ever been let out. He was
Speaker 3: never rehabilitated. He just told them what they wanted to hear.
Speaker 3: Because he has a demeanor where people like him, they
Speaker 3: gravitate toward him, and he used that to his advantage.
Speaker 1: Faith's whole life had been destroyed in one night by
Speaker 1: the husband who claimed to love her, but there was
Speaker 1: still one piece of news she was yet to hear
Speaker 1: that would once again rock her to the core.
Speaker 6: One of the terrible ironies of this case is that
Speaker 6: Faith was in hospital recovering from the torture from Green
Speaker 6: when she heard it was her own father who'd helped
Speaker 6: him get out of jail. Imagine the shock that must
Speaker 6: have been to the young woman.
Speaker 3: I found out, just like everyone else did, that my
Speaker 3: father had wrote letters for my ex husband to help
Speaker 3: him get out of prison. For a long time, I
Speaker 3: didn't want anything to do with my father, and I
Speaker 3: probably pushed my family away at some point too, and
Speaker 3: vice versa, because they weren't understanding what I was going through.
Speaker 7: I mean I didn't understand what I was going through.
Speaker 3: How do you really put your head around losing four children.
Speaker 3: I was on a lot of medication. I was firaling
Speaker 3: out of control, you know.
Speaker 1: Gregory Green was charged with a litany of felonies for
Speaker 1: the Dearborn Heights massacre, including four counts of first degree murder.
Speaker 5: It was a very strong case because it almost came
Speaker 5: down to a point where, once we did our protocol
Speaker 5: and procedures, with mister Green confessing to committing the homicides,
Speaker 5: having the victims, having a live witness that witnessed everything,
Speaker 5: there's really not much to argue.
Speaker 4: What the investigation showed was that approximately a week prior
Speaker 4: to the murders, he had gone to a local hardware
Speaker 4: store here in Michigan. He had purchased the PVC pipe
Speaker 4: that he used on the car, the plastic tubing he
Speaker 4: used on the car, the zip ties and duct tape.
Speaker 4: During his interrogation, Gregory Green admitted that he knew he
Speaker 4: was going to do something, he just didn't know when
Speaker 4: he was going to do it.
Speaker 5: I think it would be a difficult argument for any
Speaker 5: defense attorney to make, regardless of whether he had bought
Speaker 5: it days earlier. The mere fact that his children died
Speaker 5: from carbon monoxide points shows premeditation.
Speaker 4: Ultimately, a plea offer was extended by the prosecutor's office
Speaker 4: to Gregory Green, whereby he would plead guilty to four
Speaker 4: counts of second degree murder, one count of torture, one
Speaker 4: count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm,
Speaker 4: and one count of felony firearm. The plea offered in
Speaker 4: this case took into account the objectives of Faith Green,
Speaker 4: primarily that Gregory Green spent the rest of his natural
Speaker 4: life in prison. This plea offer also took into account
Speaker 4: the trauma that a trial would cause to Faith Green
Speaker 4: in having to relive and testify about witnessing the murders
Speaker 4: of her children.
Speaker 1: On March the first, twenty seventeen, approximately six months after
Speaker 1: he'd murdered his two daughters and his two stepchildren, Gregory
Speaker 1: Green was back in court for his sentencing hearing.
Speaker 6: To her immense credit, Faith turned up at Green's sentencing
Speaker 6: and indeed called him out in front of the jury
Speaker 6: and the judge. She said, you're a con man, you're
Speaker 6: a monster, and you're the devil in disguise.
Speaker 4: She was very brave and very strong, and she was
Speaker 4: there speaking for her children.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be face to face with him if
Speaker 3: it were my choice.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: That's why I kept looking at him, even though it
Speaker 3: was the back of his head, because to let him
Speaker 3: know how I felt, so he could see my eyes,
Speaker 3: feel my pain.
Speaker 4: I don't recall mister Green ever looking at Faith Green
Speaker 4: and making eye contact with her call him sitting and
Speaker 4: just looking straightforward as she delivered her remarks with no
Speaker 4: emotion on his face.
Speaker 5: Mister Green was ready to go back to prison. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he was like, I did it. I turned myself in.
Speaker 5: Can we just go now? He felt he was mission accomplished.
Speaker 5: It was like I killed my kids, I did what
Speaker 5: I did, put me in jail. Just unfathomable.
Speaker 2: There was no remorse, no shame, no guilt. And he
Speaker 2: kept talking about how God would look after him. So
Speaker 2: he's still got that massive ego there that I'm special
Speaker 2: and I will be forgiven and God is gonna look
Speaker 2: after me. I mean, the extent of that man's ego
Speaker 2: is absolutely staggering.
Speaker 5: For Faith. I don't know how she sat through those
Speaker 5: court hearings looking at that person that just took her children.
Speaker 4: I was awed by her ability to stand up and
Speaker 4: face her abuser, face the man who had done this
Speaker 4: to her, and never once waiver. From the moment I
Speaker 4: met her, I knew she was a very strong woman.
Speaker 4: She was committed to finding justice for her children. From
Speaker 4: day one.
Speaker 3: I just had to let him know I wasn't scared
Speaker 3: of you, and you know you did these things to
Speaker 3: hurt me. Because I wouldn't stay in your box because
Speaker 3: you wanted to control me, and I wouldn't give in
Speaker 3: to him. And I'm still not giving in to him,
Speaker 3: even though my children aren't here, but I still continue
Speaker 3: to fight for them.
Speaker 1: Gregory Green was sentenced to serve forty five to one
Speaker 1: hundred years in prison, plus an additional two year term
Speaker 1: for the firearms charge. I think it was a judge
Speaker 1: who said a father is to protect his children and
Speaker 1: her husband is there to protect his wife.
Speaker 6: Green did neither.
Speaker 4: He was fifty years old at the time, so when
Speaker 4: we did the math, I, as a prosecutor, understood he
Speaker 4: would not be eligible for parole until he was ninety
Speaker 4: seven years old, and that would be the first time
Speaker 4: parole could even be considered. So in effact, it was
Speaker 4: my belief that he would die in prison.
Speaker 6: The wounds that Faith suffered. She may have recovered from
Speaker 6: the physical injuries, but the emotional injuries and the sheer
Speaker 6: effect on her will never go away. They cannot possibly.
Speaker 6: It is an unimaginable nightmare.
Speaker 3: I can't ever let him win. So I'm going to
Speaker 3: keep honor of my children. I talk about them all
Speaker 3: the time. I have so many stories pictures that did
Speaker 3: so much with them. I enjoyed my children, I enjoyed
Speaker 3: being a mom. My children would be proud of how
Speaker 3: far I'm come, so they wouldn't want me to be
Speaker 3: Sulkan and would want me to be happy.
Speaker 1: Gregory Green murdered his family not once, but twice. He
Speaker 1: stabbed his first wife to death, killing not only her
Speaker 1: but their unborn child too. Then, twenty five years later,
Speaker 1: after his release from prison, he shot and killed his
Speaker 1: two stepchildren in front of their mother, and gassed his
Speaker 1: own two daughters, who were just four and five years old.
Speaker 1: His name is now synonymous with unimaginable family betrayal and tragedy,
Speaker 1: leaving no doubt that Gregory Green is one of the
Speaker 1: world's most evil killers.