Foster Daughter's Motive For Murdering Her Mother Shocks Police | Interrogation Raw | A&E

9-1-1 what an emergency what is going on hello [Music] where is your sister was I got everyone coming to you honey where is your sister right now I was on patrol and I heard the call come over dispatch I have an email with stab wounds attention you could tell by the tone of her voice that it wasn't normal Sabrina has a 12-inch bread knife that she is holding in her right hand she's covered in blood I could see blood on the blade I can see blood on her immediately we started screaming to drop the knife it almost like Snapped her out of whatever she was in back to some type of reality I kicked it away from her and we put her down on the floor it was a very tense couple seconds the suspect Sabrina zunich she was a 18 year old foster child of Lisa canafel also inside the house was Megan Antonella and Haley knavel Megan being 13 and Haley being three years old the father Kevin was away on a trip he was a truck driver and he was in Michigan at that point Sabrina was in foster care for many years before she came to the knavels [Music] the Sabrina Landing with the knee Falls really represented a fresh start for her she went from a troubled home with her biological father and Grandma to a youth shelter where she did not want to be she's getting along with the family she's doing great at school she's not getting in trouble things seem to be looking up for her I couldn't find anything indicating something like this could happen [Music] I mean please yeah you remember me right [Music] [Music] our main goal when we first interviewed Sabrina was to get Sabrina to tell us exactly what happened we caught her coming out of the room so we knew she did it we wanted to know why so what uh what do you recall yesterday did I hang down with my homework I don't know and that's it and we're at home would anything usual happen I don't know [Music] how you get along with Kevin having a miracle I mean even more the one that helps me out because this is Megan to deal with and so we made agreements a long time ago that if I did anything that I can go to Kevin about um at least uh dealing with her we only think I've never been the best she never seemed to like me and she's been wanting me out of the house what's your thoughts on how Lisa is not alive now what [Music] unless you you had a knife you establish so I did Mr and Megan called the police they didn't give me trouble I mean it is I'm sorry this is really good [Music] sorry but it looks like this nobody else deserved nobody else has heard thank goodness Sabrina never denies committing the murder she just acts confused when I tell her that she's the one who killed Lisa kimathful we could have waited here for four days and we were probably gonna get the same answers from her we made the decision that we're just going to cut this down because she's not going to give us anything else that we need thank you I was hoping to find some text messages some emails some search history as to why this crime took place over the past several weeks Kevin canafel and Sabrina text messaged each other over 1 000 times I did not think it was normal for a foster father and a foster daughter to have thousands of text messages between the two of them [Music] thank you we are confident that Kevin left for work at 8pm the night before the murder and he didn't get back into town until after Lisa's death so we want to know from his perspective as to if there was any argument going on at the house before he left and then you told me you want to talk about his wife's work correct the subject matter yes I told his lawyer that we would just talk about the work but I was hoping that maybe he would open up and give us some insight as to what was going on and what why the reason that this happened Kevin do you know anything that was happening at the house the night before you left for work that night well I was hang on a sec we just talked about talking about his wife's work what's going up the house night before it's not his worst one okay where's your wife work at okay how many children think so what does she do there she was a social worker for the um children's secondary school he was looking down there was no tears there was no anger were you and Lisa in the process of going through a divorce okay now we're getting outside the uh let's go Kevin kniefel was not willing to help the police in finding out exactly what happened to his wife why is he not cooperating with us what is he hiding from us [Music] so a proffer is a good faith first up when the defense attorney the prosecution me with the suspect it's an opportunity for them to be 100 complete honest and tell exactly what happened it's a first step into a plea agreement we cannot use this against her in court what we believe is in conversations aside to this murder is that there was another party involved in planning that yes Kevin kniefel my foster father it was Kevin's idea and it was talked about after we were having sexual relations and him and Lisa were having problems in marriage he wanted to get a divorce but Haley which is a three-year-old daughter of his and her was in the picture and he wanted full custody she would get custody or it would be shared and he didn't want that happening so the alternative was for this to happen when was it after you started to live there on a daily basis that you're really going to sexual nature start to change um it all started not with sex but with massages because he was a truck driver and his legs would cramped so it was inner thigh then it progressively got into sex ever tell you hey you can't tell anybody about this all the time can you say what would happen if you do then you'd be taken out of my care and I could lose my foster parent license what did would you say in response I would never do that tell on him as Sabrina Kevin's relationship continued Sabrina described the increasing pension she felt from Lisa and that Sabrina felt that she wasn't welcome in the house anymore so Kevin convinced Sabrina that if she did Kill Lisa and did get caught that she would only do two to five years that he would protect her and that after she got out that he would be there with her they would buy a house and basically she can be like a mother figure to Haley talk to him no not I don't put money on my books no letters no calls no nothing that's when we learned that Kevin helped plan this murder it was calculated and essentially Kevin using Sabrina to get his wife out of the picture and to collect life insurance money Sabrina's childhood I believe is probably the most important thing to understand why something like this could happen [Music] Sabrina had never experienced a stable family a loving household the sense of security the sense of belonging Kevin seemed to know how to prey on Sabrina's vulnerabilities [Music] [Music] in my opinion the verdict came very quickly the jury came up with a guilty verdict I believe it took a matter of about two days [Music]

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Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 06 2022