WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:11.720 In the last episode, we discussed part one of Sheila Davilou. 2 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:14.880 Now today we're going to be continuing that story with 3 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:17.879 part two, so be sure if you haven't heard yet, 4 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:20.879 to check out part one before continuing with us today. 5 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:24.559 But for now, let's get into the rest of the story. 6 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:28.879 My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:37.159 and Grim, a true crime podcasting. The following podcast and 8 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:38.880 material intended for. 9 00:00:38.920 --> 00:01:03.359 A mature audience. Listener discretion is advised. I owe everyone 10 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.920 on an apology. Do you I do? 11 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:07.239 What the heck did you do? 12 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.760 When I uploaded part one the other day, I forgot 13 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.159 to put part one in the title. Wow, until like 14 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.719 it was like six hours later and I realized so. 15 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.840 But however, we did talk about in the intro of 16 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:22.120 that episode that it was part one. Oh, but I 17 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.200 forgot to put in the title. 18 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:24.560 Was that intentional? 19 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:26.599 No, it wasn't. It was completely accidental. 20 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.359 I know, I'm just bugging. Yeah. 21 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:29.959 I was just sitting there chilling. Then I can just 22 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:31.760 all of a sudden, this like epiphany hit me, and 23 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:33.640 I was like, I didn't put part one in the title. 24 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.959 So I rushed back and edit it and put it 25 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.239 back in and I was like, I hope not too 26 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:39.680 many people are going to be mad at me. 27 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:43.799 You gotta love those epiphanies, say right, that realization of oops, 28 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.879 I fucked up. I hate when they happen in the 29 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:48.599 middle of the night, when you're like trying to fall 30 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.480 back to sleep or something and you're like, oh shit, 31 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:52.280 that's when it. 32 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.480 Feels the worst. It feels like you're your like heart 33 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.439 and stomach is dropping through the bed you're laying on, 34 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:02.920 you just like sink deeper into just like despair. Oh 35 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:08.159 it's the worst. But one thing does help that, really. Yeah, 36 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.080 Actually there's two things that helps it. This and signing 37 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:15.919 up over on Patreon. Did you see that covin I did. 38 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:17.360 Actually that one I saw. 39 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.800 Well, you probably thought it was gonna be the first one, 40 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:20.919 didn't you. 41 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:22.280 No, No, no, I didn't. 42 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:23.439 Okay, Well, the second thing. 43 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.520 I'm here and can see you going to open your 44 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.120 oh to fair. 45 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.439 Enough, fair enough. Well, maybe I got some people out there. 46 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:31.879 But the second thing is signing up over on Patreon, 47 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.240 and we have some amazing patrons to thank this week, 48 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:37.919 just like Maggie Williams, Amanda greg Ka Ray. I hope 49 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.400 I said your name right, Sandra and Dennis, Katie Ort, 50 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:46.960 Cody Yates, Tammy Sutton, Sarah Wellen, Kristen and Amanda Graham. 51 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:49.840 They all signed up. They're getting that access behind the scenes. 52 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.800 They get our Friday photo dump, some pre shows exclusive 53 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.080 episode that comes out at the end of the month 54 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.960 for anyone who signed up to that all access. 55 00:02:57.879 --> 00:02:59.599 Than mag It's a good list of peeps. 56 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.800 It is good list of peeps, and it's it's a 57 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:03.800 nice little place to just hang out, learn more about 58 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:05.439 the show and learn more about us too. 59 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.159 Yeah, it's good vibes over there. Honestly, good vibes is 60 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.159 a good way of putting it. Yeah, but are. 61 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:10.919 You ready for part two? 62 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.719 Yeah? Talking about good old Sheila. 63 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.599 Talking about good old Sheila. I don't know if i'd 64 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:19.960 really say good old Sila. 65 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:21.000 No, she's terrible. 66 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.759 She kind of a bitch. But we're telling her story regardless. 67 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:26.400 She's kind of a bit. 68 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:28.479 She's kind of a fucking bitch. I'm not gonna lie. 69 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.159 It's the truth. That's that's what she's like. 70 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:32.360 Oh that was good. 71 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:33.759 You like that? 72 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.280 I did? Yeah, I really did. 73 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.879 Okay, Well, I've got a little bit of a recap 74 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.120 in case there's been some time since you listen to 75 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:42.960 part one, So a little bit of a recap on 76 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.520 what happened on last episode. So. Sheila Davlou was a 77 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.800 pharmaceutical research scientist living in New York in the early 78 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.759 two thousands. She was married to Paul Christos, a doctoral 79 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.360 student and researcher, and the two appear to be living 80 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:00.879 a stable, very professional life now. In reality, Sheila had 81 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:04.199 a very long history of hiding relationships and controlling what 82 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.919 people around her knew about her personal life. After immigrating 83 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.120 from Iran as a child, Sheila grew up in a 84 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:15.080 very strict household, one that emphasized academic success and obviously 85 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.279 a public image to go along with it, because hey, 86 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.800 that's what we want, right people to perceive us well 87 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:24.240 and also to do well. She studied biochemistry at Stonebrook 88 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.759 University and later earned a master's degree at New York 89 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.959 Medical College. Under family pressure, she entered her first marriage 90 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.680 at quite a young age, but still while married, that's 91 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.240 when she began an affair with Paul Christos. Now after 92 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.160 her divorce, she married Paul in two thousand and moved 93 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:45.319 in with him in Pleasantville, New York. Both Sheila and 94 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.959 Paul worked very demanding schedules, and their marriage gradually became 95 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:53.319 rather emotionally distant. Paul remained loyal and very trusting, believing 96 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.160 that their situation would eventually improve, and in two thousand 97 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.319 and one, while working at Purdue Farmer in Stamford, Connecticut, 98 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.199 began an affair with a coworker named Nelson Sessler. Now 99 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.920 Nelson was unaware that she was married, and to keep 100 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.639 the two men separate, Sheila told Paul that her mentally 101 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:15.040 ill brother visited regularly and required Paul to leave their apartment, 102 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.000 remove all his belongings in any existence of him, basically 103 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:22.199 not to upset her brother. Now during these periods, she 104 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.000 brought Nelson to the condo, of course, not this brother, 105 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.399 making him believe that she was in fact living alone 106 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.839 and single. So at the same time, Sheila told Paul 107 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.319 very ongoing stories about a workplace love triangle involving Melissa 108 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.279 Jack and Anna Lisa. Now these stories were actually about herself, Nelson, 109 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.519 and another woman in Nelson's life, Anna Alissa Raymundo, and 110 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:49.759 Paul unknowingly gave Sheila advice about well her own relationship 111 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:54.399 that was on the side. Nelson eventually chose Anna Alisa 112 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.879 over Sheila, and as her relationship became more serious, Sheila 113 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:03.360 became increasingly obsessed with him. She monitored his schedule with Analisa, 114 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:08.920 access to Nelson's voicemail, and arranged coincidental encounters in public spaces. 115 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.800 By late two thousand and two, she viewed Annalisa as 116 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.319 the main obstacle to being with Nelson. She's the one 117 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.079 in the way. So on November eighth, two thousand and two, 118 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:24.360 Shila left work for several hours and went to Analisa's condo. Now, 119 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.199 after gaining entry, she attacked her in a violent struggle 120 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.199 and stabbed her to death. Then she placed an anonymous 121 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.560 nine to one one call from a nearby pay phone, 122 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.120 tipping off the very bloody murder scene she had just 123 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:41.839 left behind, and then returned to work. Police initially focused 124 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:46.560 on Nelson, but his ALBI proved extremely concrete, so now 125 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.160 investigators didn't know about Sheila's relationship with him at the time, 126 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.720 and early forensic evidence did not identify any other suspect, 127 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:59.040 so the case essentially stalled. After the murder, Sheila reinserted 128 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.600 herself into nelson life as the emotional support person, and 129 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:07.040 their relationship started to blossom in razume. Meanwhile, Paul, well, 130 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.600 he remained unaware of all of this, and he continued 131 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:15.160 leaving the home during those supposed brothers visits. Now, early 132 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.319 in two thousand and three, Sheila was again maintaining two 133 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:23.279 separate relationships, but the difference now was Paul was beginning 134 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.920 to question some of these things. And that is where 135 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:27.639 we left off. 136 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:32.959 Oh, that is just a wild story. It is, yes, 137 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.199 hard to believe that that is even true. 138 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.160 I know she is a very much so manipulative person. 139 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.360 I want to say a master manipulator, which she very 140 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:42.800 much so is, but I don't want to give her 141 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:44.199 that credit. At the same time, you know what. 142 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:45.680 I mean, She's kind of a bitch. 143 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:49.199 She's kind of a bitch. That's the ongoing theme of 144 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:50.399 this story for sure. 145 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.480 Oh my gosh, I'm obsessed with us. 146 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:54.800 Do you have any questions or anything you want to 147 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:56.519 go over before we dive into the rest of the 148 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:57.160 part too. 149 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:00.279 No, pretty straightforward. Yeah, it all came back to me 150 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:01.480 in one little. 151 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:07.319 Hush, little overwhelming wave of she kind of a bitch? Yeah, gotcha. Okay, Well, 152 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.120 with that all out of the way, let's dive into 153 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.040 the rest of the story. So by early two thousand 154 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:14.680 and three, the strain on Sheila and Paul's marriage had 155 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.519 become quite impossible to ignore. What had once been a 156 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.920 partnership built around shared ambition and mutual respect, while it 157 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:26.079 had slowly turned into a relationship that was more defined 158 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:29.519 by distance. Paul was spending most of his time working 159 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:33.080 on his doctoral research and teaching, while Sheila seemed increasingly 160 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.600 absorbed in her own world. Their schedules while they rarely aligned, 161 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.240 and when they were together and conversations happened while they 162 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.519 were often brief and only really surface level ones. The 163 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:47.799 arrangements surrounding Sheila's brother, it too, had become one of 164 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:52.360 the biggest sources of tension between them. For years, Paul 165 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:54.840 had accepted the idea that he needed to leave his 166 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.679 own home whenever her brother had visited. He packed up 167 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.840 his belongings, removed fos, photos and any sort of personal items, 168 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.600 and stayed in hotels without any sort of complaint. 169 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.480 Well, that's pretty messed up, because it's not just that 170 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.559 he's like leaving, it's that he has to take his 171 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.840 whole existence out of the house. 172 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:14.799 Which is true. And what we talked about in Part 173 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:18.399 one was the idea that like her brother being mentally ill, 174 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.279 she's leaning on the idea of saying that, well, if 175 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.799 he sees that I have a relationship with you, it 176 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.039 could upset him that, you know, he's not central to 177 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.279 my life anymore and disrupt his like his balance, right. Yeah, 178 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:34.000 So I understand Paul's wanting to be very supportive of that, 179 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.519 but at a certain point that becomes too much, you know. 180 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.600 Well, yeah, and I think it it in his mind, well, 181 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:42.759 I think we should just let me meet the brother 182 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:44.279 and like work this out kind. 183 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:45.919 Of thing for sure. Like at first, he's like, Okay, 184 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.879 I'm probably doing something necessary to not only integrate myself 185 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.240 into her life, but you know, the brother's life. You know, 186 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:55.399 we'll get there. But over time he's like, Okay, these 187 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.600 visits are becoming more frequent, less predictable, Like they happened 188 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:00.879 like monthly, and other times they were even like more 189 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:04.159 often than that, and each visit it meant that Paul 190 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.399 was disappearing from his own life for days at a time, 191 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.840 and he eventually is just like, well, this is no 192 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.799 longer a reasonable situation. So he had never met the 193 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.679 brother in law, he'd never been included in conversations about 194 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.679 the future. He was being asked to pretend that his 195 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.039 life inside his own marriage basically didn't exist, and so 196 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.960 his frustrations are growing, and he started actually expressing some 197 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.840 concerns to Sheila, which is good. Good for him, right, 198 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.480 He's actually standing up to himself or for himself and 199 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:32.720 be like, Okay, I think like, at first, I want 200 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.080 to be supportive and do what you're wanting and needing 201 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.799 from me, but at a certain point you need to 202 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:39.519 let me have me too. 203 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.320 Well, yeah, it's unreasonable and we need to come up 204 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.960 with a game plan going forward one hundred percent. 205 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.159 So he asked whether the situation could change, and he 206 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.240 suggested that her brother might eventually need to know the truth, 207 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.639 and he questioned whether continuing to live separate lives if 208 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.720 it actually made any sense. Now, these conversations with Sheila, 209 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:03.200 they didn't exactly go well. Sheila reacted quite emotionally whenever 210 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:06.080 the topic was brought up. She framed Paul's concerns as 211 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.840 selfish or insensitive, and she doubled down on her responsibility 212 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.960 to her family and her brother's mental health. Any suggestion 213 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:18.960 of change whatsoever was met with tears and anger. Now, 214 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.240 while Paul was pushing back. He also began noticing other 215 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.159 changes in his wife. She was more secretive with her phone, 216 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:29.559 she worked late more often, and she sometimes seemed distracted 217 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:33.440 even when they were together. He couldn't pinpoint anything specific, 218 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:38.200 but he felt that something in their relationship had fundamentally shifted. 219 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.600 It was now like off. Something was there he couldn't 220 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.759 quite point out, but still he didn't suspect any sort 221 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:49.639 of infidelity. He was just assuming that it was stress, exhaustion, 222 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.360 you know, career pressure, those sort of things that would 223 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:55.720 have been responsible. Now, with all of this happening from 224 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.600 Sheila's perspective, Paul was becoming a bit of a problem. 225 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.240 He was no longer content to quietly accept her word 226 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.720 and disappear on a whim. He was beginning to assert 227 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.679 himself and he wanted to live openly as her husband. 228 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:14.279 And those expectations, will they directly threaten the life that 229 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:15.960 she had built around Nelson. 230 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.200 That is so messed up that that would be a problem. 231 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.679 I know, right, But that's exactly the situation. She's leading 232 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.519 two different lives. She's with two different men, or at 233 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.399 least like trying to be with one and not necessarily 234 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:28.879 the other. 235 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.480 Because I'm obsessed with Paul. He just seems like the 236 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.159 perfect husband really. 237 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.559 Basically, I mean he's a little naive, let's put it 238 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.799 that way and be honest. But yeah, he's very trusting, 239 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:42.120 he wants this to work, and he's very open and 240 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.279 accepting of what she needs from him. 241 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:47.080 Uh huh. But he is not what she wants I guess, 242 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:50.360 or you know, wants him to keep being this little 243 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.679 naive person that doesn't ask questions or think about outside 244 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:57.000 the box of how can we fix this or change this? 245 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.159 Right, she just wants attention in certain ways, and if 246 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.919 that falls off the grid in any sort of relationship, 247 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.240 she finds it in the other and another relationship with 248 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:06.919 another person. 249 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:07.279 Yep. 250 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.080 And then it's not only confronting it and trying to 251 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.000 fix it or talk about it or maybe even get 252 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.519 a divorce because hey, this relationship isn't for me, it's 253 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.120 I'm going to find someone else and lead the double life. Now, 254 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.399 at this point, Shila faced a choice. She could end 255 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.360 her marriage, pursue a divorce just as I was talking about, 256 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.960 and deal with the financial, the professional, the social consequences, 257 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.799 all of that sort of stuff that comes along with it, 258 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.879 or choice number two, she could remove Paul as an 259 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:40.960 obstacle entirely, just like she had done before. 260 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:44.279 Two. Okay, okay. 261 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.799 So it was not long after these tensions intensified that 262 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:53.080 Sheila introduced Paul to a new idea. She told him 263 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.799 that she heard about a trust game from coworkers now. 264 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.639 She described it as a bonding experience, something designed to 265 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.600 bring couples together in like a little closer like it 266 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:04.759 had a little bedroom game sort of say, it's a 267 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.759 game for couples, you know, involving blindfolds, handcuffs, and guessing 268 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:14.360 objects based on touch. Sheila framed it as very harmless 269 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.879 and intimate, a way for them to reconnect after months 270 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:22.080 of emotional distance right now. Paul being very eager to 271 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:25.600 improve their marriage, he missed feeling close to his wife, 272 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.519 and he believed that she was genuinely wanting to rebuild 273 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.720 the relationship, and when she suggested playing this game, he 274 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:36.480 agreed without hesitation. On Sunday, March twenty third, two thousand 275 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.840 and three, Sheila and Paul spent most of the day 276 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:42.279 running errands and visiting family. They had lunch with Paul's 277 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:45.720 mother in White Plains and returned to their Pleasantville condo 278 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.639 in the afternoon. By all appearances, it was a very 279 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.720 calm and usually pleasant day for the couple that had 280 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.879 grown distant. They talked easily, shared small moments, and showed 281 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.480 signs with no conflict in them. But later Paul would 282 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:03.240 describe it as one of the better days that he 283 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:08.279 had in those months with his wife. They were together, 284 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.600 they were living, they were existing. Now it was some 285 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:16.240 time around four pm. Sheila reminded Paul about this trust 286 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.480 game that she had mentioned earlier in the week, and 287 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.080 so she gathered what she said she needed for the game. 288 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.799 A blindfold that she made from some black pantyhose, a 289 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:29.320 pair of handcuffs, and a heavy wooden chair with sturdy rungs. 290 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:31.960 They set it up in a spare bedroom that had 291 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:36.679 carpeted flooring. Now Sheila went first. Paul handcuffed her wrists 292 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.440 to the chair and tied a blindfold around her eyes. 293 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.039 He pressed various objects from the house against her body 294 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.799 and asked her to guess what they were. Now, they 295 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.000 used various items from the home, like a camera and 296 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.519 a box and whatever else they could find, and after 297 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.559 several rounds, Sheila correctly identified most of the items. And 298 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.720 when it was over, Paul removed the handcuffs and the blindfold, 299 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.720 and then it was Paul's turn. Sheila secured his wrist 300 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:07.120 to the chair and blindfolded him. She began the same process. 301 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.600 Paul guessed most of the items correctly too, as they 302 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:14.039 were pressed against his skin. And as the game continued, 303 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.840 Sheila left the room several times in searching for some 304 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.799 objects to use, of course, and at one point Paul 305 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.919 heard her in the kitchen, and when she returned to him, 306 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.559 she told him that the next object would be the 307 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:31.679 last one. Now Paul, still tied to the chair, was 308 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.399 waiting for the last object to be pressed against his skin. 309 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.840 He felt his wife, Sheila, begin to position herself with 310 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.039 her legs on either side of his thighs as he 311 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:44.639 sat cuffed in the chair. Then he suddenly felt an 312 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.000 intense blow to the chest. The impact was so powerful 313 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.919 that it knocked the breath right out of him, and 314 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.639 he heard Sheila scream. The moments later, he felt another 315 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:58.720 violent strike right near the same spot. Now, Paul, remember 316 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.039 was still blindfolded in handcuffed to this chair. He couldn't 317 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.960 see what was happening to him. He struggled to breathe 318 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:09.759 and felt a very immediate severe pain. Sheila told him 319 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.480 that she thought she had hurt him accidentally, and she 320 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.799 claimed that, you know, she must have accidentally fell or 321 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.319 tripped and caused some injury. And when Paul insisted she 322 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:22.480 removed the blindfold, she eventually did, and he saw her 323 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:27.240 standing over him, panicking and disoriented, and his shirt was 324 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.519 covered in blood as it was seeping down to the 325 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.920 floor and beginning to pool. 326 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.759 Holy shit, Sheila. 327 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.799 Had stabbed him two times in the chest with a 328 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:42.279 pairing knife accidentally quote accidentally, according to her, But he 329 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.720 didn't really understand this. Still, he didn't know exactly what 330 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:47.799 had happened. All he knew was that his wife had 331 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.880 somehow hurt him, and he assumed that, yeah, it was 332 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.880 in fact an accident. Why would he think otherwise. Now, 333 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.279 Sheila said she could not find the handcuff key as 334 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.759 he asked to be uncuffed, so instead Paul just told 335 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.640 her to break the wrung of the chair, and after hesitating, 336 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.079 she did so, freeing his arms. Now he tried to 337 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.119 stand up, but collapsed from the pain and the weakness, 338 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.839 and he began sweating heavily and felt his heart racing. 339 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:18.519 He repeatedly told Sheila to call nine one one, but instead, 340 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.039 when she went into the kitchen, she returned with a 341 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.759 glass of juice, telling him to drink it. When he refused, 342 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.440 she eventually pulled out her phone and appeared to make 343 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.279 a call. While pacing through the apartment, she told Paul 344 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.799 she was speaking to the emergency services and that help 345 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.640 was on the way. She told Paul eventually that emergency 346 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:41.119 responders were short staffed and it would take twenty five 347 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.160 to thirty minutes before they would arrive at the scene. 348 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.359 Now this explanation made very little sense, but Paul was 349 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.519 in too much pain to argue otherwise. He began to 350 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:55.440 feel himself fading out, and at one point Sheila offered 351 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.440 him night quill, suggesting it would help him feel better, 352 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:02.319 but he pushed it away, and Paul he realized he 353 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.480 couldn't wait for the ambulance. He didn't have twenty five 354 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.960 minutes or thirty minutes, however long it would take for 355 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.079 them to arrive. He told Sheila that she needed to 356 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:12.799 drive him to the hospital, and she needed to do 357 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:17.160 it immediately now. She agreed, and after slowly helping him 358 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.039 into a jacket, she brought him to the car and 359 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:24.160 placed him in the back seat. Instead of taking the 360 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:29.599 direct route to Westchester Medical Center, Sheila drove slowly along 361 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:33.559 a secondary route. She made unnecessary turns and delays in 362 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.039 the path she was driving, and Paul became increasingly alarmed 363 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.480 at what was going on. He's slowly starting to think, 364 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:42.200 why is she doing this? Why is she taking so long? 365 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:47.039 Why is she taking these routes? And finally, when she 366 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:51.079 got to the hospital grounds, she drove right by the 367 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:55.279 emergency entrance to the er and drove behind the building 368 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:00.359 into a largely empty parking lot near the rear at 369 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:01.240 the end of that lot. 370 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:05.079 Oh, my goodness, gracious, this woman doesn't have a heart. 371 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:06.160 She is just like Puer. 372 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.839 Evil she is. She's essentially trying to prolong this and 373 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:10.799 hope that he died. 374 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:11.920 Yeah. 375 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.359 Now, After stopping the car, Sheila dropped the keys on 376 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.680 the floor and was pretending to search for them. And 377 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.880 when she finally exited the vehicle after allegedly finding the keys, 378 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:26.519 she walked around to Paul's door on the passenger side 379 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.920 in the back seat and opened it, but instead of 380 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.559 helping him out, she lunged at him holding a knife, 381 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.480 and she stabbed him in the chest once again. What 382 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.359 and as she raised the knife for another strike, Paul 383 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.160 reacted instinctively. He knew now that what had happened wasn't 384 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:48.440 an accident. He knew she was attacking him, trying to 385 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:48.920 kill him. 386 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:51.920 He knew that his wife was batshit. 387 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.640 Crazy exactly, and as this strike was coming down this 388 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:57.759 would have been the fourth stab, he blocked her arm 389 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:01.160 and shoved her away and forced himself out of the car, 390 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:05.559 despite losing blood rapidly. He grabbed the blade with his 391 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.839 bare hands and ripped it from her grip. He threw 392 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:13.680 it aside and staggered towards two people exiting a nearby building. 393 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:17.880 Now Sheila followed him, and she was pleading with him 394 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:20.240 to say this was just an accident. Just please just 395 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.240 tell him it was an accident. She told him that 396 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:24.119 if he told the truth, she was going to get 397 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:27.559 in so much trouble. And when the bystanders reached Paul, 398 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:31.039 they immediately saw the severity of his injuries and called 399 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:36.200 for emergency assistance. Sheila ran from the scene right away, 400 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:39.400 but police caught up with her a very short distance 401 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:44.279