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description box down below. But other than that, I will stop rambling and let's get to the juicy story. Ugh, I shouldn't say juicy, it's awful. I was gonna say juicy makeup but whatever. Let's get to the story, huh? Today's story is about Stacey Ruth Daniels who was born July 24th, 1967. Happy birthday, I guess. Her parents were you know,
simple parents, great. She grew up in Clay, New
York, which is a pretty large, not pretty large but like somewhat large, predominantly white
middle class suburb area just outside of Syracuse, New York. Now Stacey came from like a
good family, at least it seemed, you know, based off of what I read. But growing up it was said
Stacey was really intelligent and she really, from a young
age, she wanted to get into law and like she was really
on her way to do so. She did well in school and like she was just
really working towards that. I mean, that's always
special, I feel like. 'Cause law ain't easy, baby. So in 1985, when Stacey was just 17, one of her friends had introduced her to a guy named Michael Wallace and it was said that
it was love ever sight. You know, Michael was just
one of those guys who, he was the party. When he showed up, you knew
it was gonna be a good time. He was outgoing, he was very
social and he liked to party. Some would say he partied a
little too hard but you know, I'm not making excuses for it
because it just kinda seemed like he was going through that party phase you go through when you're a teenager or like in college or whatever. I don't know, drugs, alcohol, and you're just like doing that. Seemed like he was doing that. And a later interview Stacey said that when she first met Michael she knew like she was gonna marry him within the first couple
minutes of meeting. It was just love that
first sight, wasn't it? The two of them they ended up dating for I think like two years and then they had their
first daughter Ashley in the year 1987. And then a year or two later, I'm not quite sure because
it just wasn't clear but a year or two later the
couple decided to get married and they ended up getting married
in Stacey's parents' home. That's really held the ceremony, it was cute, it was wonderful,
everyone seemed happy. And then not long after
the family of three turned into a family of four when they welcomed their
second daughter, Bree in 1991. Stacey's mom, her name was Judie, she said that her daughter, she had been like the happiest she had ever been, at least to her. She was like, "Wow, my daughter just
seems to be the happiest." During this time, Stacey had worked for an
ambulance dispatch company while Michael, he worked
nights as a mechanic. They were both working
nonstop to make ends meet which obviously very
exhausting for the couple but it's what they had to do. It's what a lot of people
have to do, you know? Especially with the
growing family, all that. Now unfortunately, because
of the couple's opposite work schedules, it was
causing quite a strain on the relationship and
like within the home. The family all lived under the same roof but it really felt like everybody was just living
separate lives, right? Everyone was just kind of a
shadow, coming and going, sucks. And that trend also just really continued when it came down to their
kids 'cause the parents would be playing favorites
which I don't have kids, so you know, I'm sure you
guys have a favorite low key but you don't like admit it, right? I don't know, whatever. Anyways, so Bree, the youngest, she was more of a daddy's
girl and while Michael never really said it out loud,
it was obvious to everybody. He didn't really like do a good job of hiding his favorite child. Now Stacey noticed that
her other daughter Ashley didn't get as much attention as Bree. So to compensate, Stacey really
tried to focus her attention on Ashley and she would also try to spend a lot of time together. And Stacey, she liked her
daughter Ashley so much that she would even call
her her best friend. That's endearing in a way, right? I don't know 'cause you
don't want your parent to be your best friend
but at the same time, I think she's just doing
it 'cause she feels bad. But I'm not really sure. Either way, she's a best friend
friend and you'll see why. Okay, as time went on though, the family just started falling apart. Stacey and Michael, their
marriage was really like on the verge of divorce
and the kids were divided and there were even rumors
swarming around the neighborhood that Michael and Stacey were participating in some kinda sexual affairs. I'm not sure if it was true or not but Stacey had gone to a
friend and told her that she couldn't take it anymore, she was thinking about divorcing Michael. At this point, Michael
had been drinking a lot. He was still like using
drugs and this affair was just kind of like the last straw. Fair, right? So when Stacey's having this
conversation with her friend, Christmas was like
right around the corner. So the friend is like, "Hey,
why don't you just like chill "and wait until the holiday passes "and then you can move forward
with the idea of divorce?" You know, makes sense. Why break up the family
right before the holidays that would just, I'm sure
traumatize your kids. Maybe, I don't know. Okay, so it's late December, 1999. The family at this time still
living in upstate New York and the winters, I hear,
are pretty terrible. So at this time when Michael
comes down with like the cough and like a fever whatever, like no one really thinks
much of it, you know? 'Cause everyone kinda gets
sick around this time. But his cough ends up
lasting for over six weeks which is a little concerning
but still not like a reason to rush to the emergency
room in their eyes, you know? Not to stereotype but not to, it's not really that easy to get men to go to the emergency room, you know? So he's like, "I'm fine, I'll
be okay, I'll walk it off." But their daughter, Ashley, remembered that this one
afternoon where she and her dad were like hanging out in the living room and Michael, her dad, was
coughing and just coughing and coughing to the
point that he like puked all over the coffee table. And then he just laid on
the couch trying to recover and it's really all he could do. But Ashley thought like,
this is really weird, he's really sick. So Christmas Eve rolls around and everyone is like getting
together, coming to the table, you know, to have like dinner. Michael ends up coming to sit
down and everyone had noticed like how puffy and swollen his face was. So naturally the family's
like, "What the hell? "Like stop being stubborn,
you need to go see a doctor." And Michael finally agrees. Because it's the holidays, he can't get an appointment right now but he makes one and he waits. So then on January 11th, 2000, Michael was laying on the
couch while Ashley was at home hanging out with him and she
said she started to notice him acting a little funky. He was just making like weird faces and doing funny things with his arms. Like his arms I guess flew
up and down in the air and then he fell down on the couch. And Ashley, who's just a tween, she didn't really think anything of it. She said it, she truly thought
her dad was just being like silly dad, he's just being
weird and being goofy. So she didn't think anything really of it. So she leaves him on the couch
because she has to go walk and pick up her younger
sister from school. And when she comes back
into the living room, that's when she notices
that her dad wasn't moving and she knew something was wrong. So she dialed 911, the paramedics arrived
but they were too late. Michael at the age of 38 was dead. 38, what the hell! His body was taken to a hospital where it was then determined by the doctor that Michael had died of a heart attack. Now Michael's sister was,
I think it was his sister, but she was skeptical of a heart attack being the cause of death
because to her like Michael was a pretty healthy guy. I mean, the only issue
he ever had was like I think a hernia or something. But besides that, he was pretty healthy and besides the weird
cough but still overall, he was healthy. And Michael's sister just
couldn't like believe that he could have died
from a heart attack. I mean, she really wanted
to have an autopsy done. But Stacey, Michael's wife, you know, she said no, I mean, there's
no reason to question the doctor's diagnosis. He, the doctor, was positive
it was a heart attack so it must have been a heart
attack and that was that. I mean, people do have heart
attacks at a young age. He was a hardworking man so obviously, Michael's death was
really hard on the family. The girls losing their dad,
Stacey losing her husband, sad. You know some time passes and Stacey, she receives Michael's
life insurance policy which is like I think around $50,000. And with that money, I know
one thing she decides to do is take the girls on a
trip to Disney World. Again, I think it's Disney World or it might have been Disneyland. Either way she takes them
Disney and she's like, maybe I'll just lift
their spirits a little. You know, something, shit. Well, life goes on, doesn't it? So then in 2001, Stacey is like about 34, she left her job at the
ambulance dispatch company and she got a job working
as an office manager for an HVAC company. So she gets this new job, great. Her boss at the time was
like, "Hey, our owner is here, "let me introduce you to him." He takes her over to
the owner, David Castor. So the owner David, he
was around 44 years old. He was tall and handsome and you know, honestly Stacey, she didn't hate it. She liked it, she was
enjoying what she saw. And once again, Stacey
would, well, she wouldn't say but based off of my own personal opinion, it just seemed like lust
at first sight again. David and Stacey, they had
connected with one another. They started talking and
like David shared with Stacey that he had an older son who was grown and like moved outta the house and Stacey shared that
she had two daughters and they really connected
and like seemed to just enjoy each other's company, really. So they're connecting, they're
really feeling each other and this really leads to
them having a little fling. Everybody loves love, don't they? ♪ Nobody wants to be lonely ♪ Okay, so they're connecting,
they're having a fling and honestly David, he was not shy about like taking her
out to nice restaurants or a spoiling her with like
little gifts at the office. I don't know what it is
but a gift at the office, so nice, I don't know why, so stupid. So he was just treating
her like a queen, okay? Lust was turning into love and guess what? The two of them go on to get married on August something of 2003. So when Stacey and David
started dating so quickly after their father's death,
Ashley and Bree, the kids, they were not very
welcoming of this new guy, their new stepfather. He moves into the house and
he came with his own like set of rules that the girls had to follow. And these girls were just not feeling it. They're teenagers, they're not feeling it. They're like, "Who is this new guy trying
to tell us what to do? "You're not our dad." And it's like shit, fair, you know? You can't tell them nothing. I guess he came in pretty strong, demanded respect right off the bat. But there were obvious tensions growing between David and the
girls and it wasn't good. So David felt like the
girls were being selfish and honestly, quite disrespectful. I mean, he was the man of the
house and what he said goes so things were just rocky
within the family home right off the bat. So it was a late Monday afternoon on August 22nd, 2005, around 2:00 p.m.. Stacey had called the
local sheriff's office to tell them that her
husband, David Castor, had locked himself in their
bedroom after a fight they had. And this is what she tells them. She's like, "Hey, hey, I'm Stacey." Sorry. So she says that their two
year wedding anniversary was coming up and David was
thinking that he and Stacey could like go on some kind of
romantic getaway as one does for anniversary sometimes, you know? But this getaway would
just be the two of them. So he goes to Stacey and tells
her like what he's thinking and how they should
celebrate and Stacey's like, "Oh my God, I love this idea. "Our family deserves all the
fun it could have, you know?" And she's thinking the
whole family would be going. Now I guess, according to Stacey, David got a little annoyed. He's like, "No, I just want
it to be like the two of us." Well, Stacey was not having that and she wasn't going on the
trip unless the whole family was going on the trip too. Well, according to Stacey, this ended in just a huge
fight between the two of them. Some sources say that this
fight went on for seven hours but I need more context there because you don't just
fight for seven hours, there's breaks, bathroom
breaks, you get a snack. Like, so I'm mentioning
that but like eye roll too 'cause it's like, okay, whatever. So they end of this huge fight, then she tells them that David, he's like, "You know what? I've had enough." And he grabs a bottle of alcohol, he went up to their
bedroom, slammed the door, and then locked himself in the room. I mean, he was done with the
argument, no more discussion. So this happened on a Friday
and Stacey told police that she hadn't seen David
so angry before that night. She was like very upset. She ended up sleeping on the
couch and just avoiding him for the rest of the weekend. So Stacey, she told the officers
that David liked to drink like a lot and she told them
that he was probably just drunk sitting in that room,
just drinking himself to, I'm trying to think of a
word and I just went blank, you know, just drinking
himself to, fill in the blank. So one of the sergeants at
the county sheriff department, they go out to the family home. Once again, Stacey tells
them the whole story and when the sergeants goes
up to the master bedroom and he was like, "Okay, the
door is indeed shut and locked," knocking on it. And Stacey's telling him that it's been like that for days now. So the sergeants knocking on the door, doesn't get a response. Knocks again, nothing. So he then kicks down
the door to gain access. And what he sees inside was
not what anyone was expecting. Inside the master bedroom,
laying across the bed was 48 year old David laying naked across like a vomit covered bed. Ugh, what? Yes, right? Yeah, crime scene photos are not great. I would not recommend seeing them. But it's like, in crime scene photos, have you ever noticed there's
never sheets on the mattress? Have you ever noticed that? No matter how nice the
house is or anything like there's never sheets on the mattress. And this is something
that I've always wondered. It's not funny but my brain
has to protect myself. And it's like, no sheets. What's that about? Anyways, poor David is dead. So investigators, they start
looking around the room, right? And they notice that on
the bedroom side table there was a glass of
cranberry juice, right? And then there was another
glass that was like half full of a bright green liquid. On the floor, guess what they see? It was like slightly under the bed was an open container of antifreeze. Yeah, and then also under
the bed was a shotgun. Very mysterious items found but officers have to go tell
Stacey that her husband's dead and as you'd expect, she's
screaming, she's crying, she just can't not imagine
that he killed himself. Like she just starts screaming and crying. I can't even imagine how anyone
would be acting, you know? David's body is taken to a
coroner and they determine that David had committed suicide
by consuming a lethal dose of antifreeze. Right? Side eye, sure. Officers would even go on to
say that they have seen like many cases of different people
who have committed suicide by antifreeze. Now they would go on to say like, "It's not easy, it's not
short, it's definitely painful "but people have done it before." Plus like antifreeze is
known to taste kinda good. Don't ask me why I know this. Dude, my Google history is so messed up. It's like, is antifreeze delicious? Yes, finding antifreeze recipes. It's not an easy death though. Like it's really painful. Okay, if you're gonna
commit suicide like that's, yeah, that's an option but like it's weird because like, right? I have no words but I
feel like you understand. So Stacey had told officers that David had been like
recently very depressed because his father had died like suddenly and he was really sad about it. So she was really worried that
he might have killed himself because he was so down. That could be enough and no questions would further be asked, there was one detective who thought, "Hmm, that's a little suspicious, bitch." There was one question lingering
in his noggin, you know? The fact that David would
know what antifreeze was, he ran an HVAC company, he
knows what antifreeze is. So killing himself by antifreeze
was like an odd choice, especially because there was
a shotgun underneath the bed. Not saying you should do
that instead but it's like if you were gonna do that,
why not just do it quickly? Why would you wanna do this
slow painful option, right? I'd hope. When investigators search
the home for any other clues, they also found a few
items to have like DNA and slash or fingerprint tested. The glass of antifreeze on the nightstand was dusted for fingerprints which they discovered had
three fingerprints on it. And the fingerprints
were like oddly placed as if someone was holding the
cup from the bottom like this, I'm gonna show you with my Red Bull. Like three fingerprints,
wait, one, two, three. Can you see that? Wait, not sponsored. Anyways, three fingerprints as if someone was holding
the cup from the bottom and the fingerprints matched Stacey's but it wasn't like really
unusual to have her fingerprints on a glass in her own home, you know? So it was kinda like,
okay, that's something but it's not everything. Now on the actual container of antifreeze, there were no fingerprints found. Like none at all. Hmm, in the kitchen investigators
also find a Turkey baster. Now this Turkey baster was
found in the kitchen garbage. Now it might not be weird but it was noted because first of all, the kitchen looked like
it hadn't been used for cooking recently. And second of all, that Turkey baster looked
brand spanking new. I mean, who's throwing away
a brand new Turkey baster? You get one in your
life and then that's it. You have it forever, right? Never seen one thrown away before. So, okay, weird. So like they take pictures of
the Turkey baster in the trash and then it was taken to be
tested for DNA or whatever because it had a smell to
it, it smelled like alcohol and there were a few
drops of liquid in it. So they wanted to see
what that was all about. So it gets taken, it's tested
and the testing revealed that no fingerprints were on
the Turkey baster itself but on the end, where
like the drip comes out, is that how you describe it? That had David's DNA on it. Now I know what you're thinking. Oh I get it, I know what happened. Shut up, don't ruin it because listen, be patient 'cause there's so much more. Well, this one investigator
is like kinda noticing these weird things but like
nothing is really coming of it just yet, you know? So life is going on for poor Stacey who lost two of her husbands now. Talk about bad luck, Stace. Stacey ended up having
David buried in a plot right next to her
previous husband, Michael. Yeah, she had them buried side by side. I don't know if that's
weird or not but I was like, what the fuck, girl? What is that? But I mean, at least it limits travel time for when she does visit those graves. I think maybe that was her thought process but that was an odd choice. So in David's will, he left everything to Stacey and her daughters and not one thing to his
own grown son David Jr. And that in itself was weird. His son sadly took it as his dad like wanted nothing to do with him and didn't even try to fight it. He was just like, "I guess my dad doesn't want
anything to do with me." Like poor guy but yeah, he
didn't see it as worth a fight which good for him. I mean, not really but like some people just fight
and fight and it's like, is it worth it? I don't know, actually don't listen to me. So since everything was left to Stacey, she ended up taking
over the HVAC business, you know David's business and things were slowly getting
back to normal, I guess. Well, there was this one detective, his name was Detective Spinelli
which side note, I know, wasn't that the girl's name
on that cartoon "Recess", Spinelli? Anyways, this detective, he was smelling something funky going on. I mean, he deep inside
believed that David's death was not a suicide but maybe a murder. So he's like, "You know what? "I'm gonna do some
digging on my own time." And I love that, right? And that's when he decides, "You know who I should reach out to first? "I should reach out to Stacey's
first husband, Michael, "maybe he can give me some answers." And that's when he finds out that he can't because Michael too is dead. Ooh, you're in trouble. So Detective Spinelli, he
reached out to investigators who handled Michael Wallace's death and that's when he realized there were a lot of similarities going on. A surprising out of nowhere
death to both of these men. So detective is like, "This bitch." I mean, did she kill her husbands? Now because there was no
autopsy report for Michael, the only way they could
like dig a little deeper into this theory was by
exhuming Michael's body and actually like, you
know, do an autopsy on him. So they exhume Michael's body, they get a toxicology report
after they exhume his body and when it comes back it tested positive for a presence of antifreeze in the body. Yeah, and Michael's
body, the first husband, I'm noticing a theme here, right? You see antifreeze
poisoning can be identified within the body by the growth
of calcium oxalate crystals and this happens within the kidneys. And these crystals were found
in not only Michael's body but also in David's body, right? (Bailey's fingers snapping) Aha, right? Stacey, hm, hm, what are you doing girl? So the detective orders his team to have Stacey's house wire tapped. Now they wanted to
listen to any phone calls made from within the home, any unusual conversations,
you know, all that. He also ordered for the
team to set up cameras that were facing towards Stacey's home and also at the grave sites
of both Michael and David. I mean, they were really
hoping to catch any odd or unusual behavior on her end, right? And they, it's not funny, they
didn't catch anything unusual other than the fact that Stacey
never visited their graves. This fucker bitch, right? She put them next to each
other, at least pretend bitch. Shit, like damn! She
couldn't even go once? So then on September 7th of like 2007, so quite some time has gone by, Stacey was brought in for questioning. Now the investigators are asking her, they're showing her a
picture of the nightstand. Do you remember which glass it was that you poured the cranberry juice in? And she looks at the
photographs of the glasses and she responded with, this is a quote, "Well, I poured the anti-free, "I mean," and then she stopped and said, "I mean, the cranberry juice," like we're in a "Scooby-Doo" show. She had a slip up, you
know, I just, she did that. She said that, that's what she said. Naturally, because the
detective isn't an idiot. He picked up on that
and he called her on it. He's like, "What'd you just say?" "The anti-free?" Stacey in return accused
them of trying to frame her and she demanded the interview
be stopped and she told them, "I'm not answering any more questions." She got up, she was
about to leave the room and she looked at the stack of photographs the detective had, right? And she saw one photograph
on his pile of papers and it was an image of the
Turkey baster from her trash can. And before leaving the room,
she looks and she's like, "What do you have that for? "What's that for?" Like just in a really aggressive way. She's like, "What is that? "What is that?" But in response, the detective said like, "Are you answering questions or not?" And he was a sassy bitch
and I was here for it. Obviously, she stormed out but she was very upset about something. Police kept their eyes on the cameras and the wire tap at the family home. And Stacey was making a round
of phone calls to friends and she was just like
going on and on like, "I can't believe they think I'm involved. "I can't believe they think I did this. "I'm just shocked. "I don't know what to do,
like why would they blame me?" You know, she was just complaining on all of the phone calls like how could they even think this? Why would they even think this? I'm a victim. And her friends were like,
"I don't know, Stace, "like just play it cool, girl. "Everything's gonna be fine, girl, "I believe you." Well, investigators decide to
question Stacey's daughters. So they end up locating Ashley, remember the oldest daughter,
they end up locating her and ask if they can ask a few questions about her relationship
with her mother and father and if she noticed anything
unusual with Michael's death, her biological father. She's like, "No, like nothing at all. "Like why would you even think that." She was becoming pretty
defensive which is understandable because like why are they
questioning her out of nowhere? And she just felt like it
was straight up disrespectful that the authorities are even
asking her anything like this but also she was upset
because they had located and questioned her on
her first day of college. It's like her first day
of school at a new college and they find her stop
her and question her like in front of ah, hello,
like that's embarrassing. So she was not really open
to answering questions. As soon as the authorities left though, the first thing she did, she picked up her phone and
she called her mom, Stacey. And she tells her mom, she's like, "Look mom, the authorities like," you can tell she's very shaken up and sad. You know when you're like
so irritated and annoyed that you start crying? It's like that. Like she's crying but like
you could tell she's just, anyways, so she's telling
her mom, she's like, "They came to my school,
they questioned me. "Like, how could they do this?" And Stacey's on the other end like, "What? "Oh my gosh, she's just all like shocked "that this would even happen." So Ashley is just on the
phone venting to her mom, all upset, all frustrated
and her mom says, "You know what sweetie? "Sweetie, you know what? "Look, just come home. "We both had a rough week,
let's both just like get drunk." This is what her mom says
to Ashley, her daughter. In later interviews she
says, she was like, "Oh cool, "oh cool yeah, like she low
key thought it was awesome "that her mom was giving her permission "to have some alcohol with her." She's still a teenager at this point or like not legal to drink. So it was pretty cool. She's like, "Oh cool, I'm
gonna go drink with my mom." So she ends up going
back to her mom's house. She has a couple, I think maybe just one
adult beverage with her. And then she ends up passing out at home and then she wakes up the next morning with like a full on hangover. Not fun but it happens
when you drink, right? So Stacey goes to school the next day and her mom calls her again. Stacey calls to invite
her daughter back over, come over and have a drink with me again. You know, it's time to
relax, let some steam off. Maybe we can have a little
drink for your birthday that's coming up. A pre-birthday cocktail. And Ashley once again is like, "Okay," it's her mom, that's her best friend. So when Ashley gets to her mom's house, the first thing Stacey
does is offer her a drink. Ashley said, when she
took a sip of that drink, it was really nasty tasting
but she held onto it, she didn't wanna be rude but she's like, I'm not gonna keep drinking
this, it tastes like crap. So Stacey's like, "What's wrong? "You don't like your drink?" And Ashley's like, "Oh, it
just doesn't taste very good." And Stacey's trying to tell
Ashley like that's alcohol, it tastes like shit. So if you do this, and Stacey kinda shows her
daughter a trick with a straw. You know when you get liquid in the straw and then you pour it in your mouth. She was doing that to get the drink to the back of her throat
so she could swallow it which would then get her drunk without having to taste the alcohol. And she's like, "Oh cool, mom, thanks." So Ashley ends up drinking it like that and she continues drinking
because again, why not? It's her mom, okay? It's her best friend, it was
cool to hang out with her and act like an adult with her, right? Now this is the part that
shook me to my core, bitch, because 17 hours go by and
her younger sister, Bree, came into Ashley's room where she had knocked out for the night. She tries to wake up her sister and instead Ashley was unresponsive. So Bree is yelling for her mom. You know, Stacey. She's yelling at her,
"Call 911, call 911." So Stacey made the call
and told a dispatcher that Ashley was unresponsive, that she thought her daughter
was having trouble breathing and also that she believed her daughter had taken like a bunch of pills. She then is on the phone with
a dispatcher and she's like, you can hear it in the recording. She's like, "She drank an
entire bottle of vodka. "Oh, Ashley, why?" I hate to judge but it's
kinda calm for someone whose daughter's like dying
right there, you know? But then again, Stacey's seen
a lot of deaths at this point. Bree runs out of Ashley's room, they make the phone call to 911. Bree runs back to Stacey's room and comes across a suicide letter. Oh yeah, and it was not far from Ashley. Now this letter or note was
typed, it was very long. There were no periods
or punctuation at all. So it's just one like run on sentence but while reading the letter, it appeared to be Ashley's
quote unquote murder confession. In this letter, Ashley allegedly admitted to having killed her father and stepfather by putting antifreeze
in both of their drinks. And also said that she gave
Michael rat poison to quote, "Finish the job", which
there was actually rat poison found in Michael's autopsy report and like that wasn't public knowledge. In the letter, she also
mentioned killing herself, killing her stepdad and her real dad. And said she did it for quote,
"For her mother," end quote. In the end it said, quote, "Now everyone is going to
know what really happened. "And they know it wasn't you, it was me. "Please don't hate me. "Remember I love you." end quote. Well, the ambulance and all that arrived and they rushed Ashley to the hospital and it was like a pretty close call but she ends up surviving, miraculously. They ran some tests on
her and they revealed that there was a potentially
fatal amount of painkillers in Ashley's system. And if the paramedics arrived
like any minute later, she most likely could have died. So time passes, Ashley wakes up, she's all sorts of confused, okay? She tells investigators she has no idea what happened to her. She had little to no memory
about the night before. Police when they did
come into question her, she said the last thing
that she remembered was her mom giving her a drink. And then they mentioned like, "Do you remember writing
a suicide letter?" She had no idea what
they were talking about. And she also told the officers that she never wrote a suicide note. She's like, "I have no idea
what you're talking about." This was all they needed, investigators. They're like, "Stacey is our bitch." I think she just tried
to kill her daughter. Lucky for them they wouldn't
have to go far to find Stacey. She was right outside the door smoking and they placed her under her arrest for the murder of David Castor and for attempting to murder Ashley and framing her for the
murders of David and Michael. Yeah, this is a lot. Stacey was shocked. She's like, "Oh my God, you
guys got this all wrong? "I am innocent, please." Naturally, Stacey pled not
guilty telling everyone, literally everyone who
interviewed her or anything that it was her daughter
Ashley who killed everyone. She's like, "Hello, the letter." Could you imagine? She's literally blaming her daughter. This is where I was like, "What? Huh? "What now, she's blaming her daughter? "This is new." So Stacey is in jail awaiting
for her trial, right? She's claiming to be innocent. So Stacey's team, they
hire private investigators to try and find the connection to Ashley, try to find the Ashley
connection to the murders. So one thing they found was a letter, it was like an old letter
to Ashley's boyfriend, both teenagers at the time, saying that she was going to kill herself. But that was like the
only evidence they found. And to many, it gave that
dramatic teenager vibe. You know what I'm saying? When you're a dramatic teen, you're like, "I'm gonna
fucking kill my, I wanna die." It was giving that. Either way the defense saw
this as their like, gotcha, see? Gotcha. She wanted to die everybody. But it didn't make a lot of sense that Ashley would've killed her father because at the time of his
death, she was only 12 years old. So if she did do it, she would have to know, at 12
years old, about antifreeze and also rat poison and stuff. So it was kinda like, what
kinda 12 year old knows that? Before the internet and all that you guys. I mean, the internet was
like still pretty new but like still, you know? So prosecutors, they argued
that the typed suicide note where Ashley quote, unquote
confesses to killing her father and stepfather was
actually written by Stacey and not Ashley. On top of that, prosecutors
found several drafts of Ashley's suicide note
on Stacey's computer. Now ain't that some shit? I know this story's awful and bad but the part that's just
like blowing my mind still is the fact that this is her daughter. She's blaming her daughter,
she tried to kill her daughter. Do you understand? She tried to kill her
daughter and blame it on her. I just can't imagine that. I just can't, I still cannot, I just wanna punch this
lady in the face like what are doing, lady? You could blame anyone else. You're not gonna get away from it but like literally, you
could blame anybody else but you blame your own kid? Your favorite kid, your best friend? Mm mm mm mm, there's
some sickos out there. Sometimes they're your own mother. Oh, that's so scary. Forensic investigators
noted that the timestamps of the documents themselves
had been written/typed when Ashley was in school. Thank you for a timestamp, right? There was no way she
could have typed it up. She's in school, okay? Plus remember the wiretap recordings that the police had set
up from Stacey's home? Well, this was all like, is
this speculation? I'm not sure. But like listen, in court
they play this one phone call that had taken place around the same time that the suicide letter
was being typed up. Stacey made a phone
call that was recording through the wire tap while it's believed the suicide letter was
being written or typed up. It was Stacey, she's on the
phone talking to a friend which mind you, side note,
she was dating a new dude. Yeah, she was already dating a new dude and they're talking on the phone like, "Hm babe, I can't wait to see you. "Oh, what do you want me to wear, oh?" She's got beer flavored
nipples or something. You know what I'm saying? Anyways, but on this call, you
could hear in the background typing noises and so they played
in court and they're like, "What are you typing
around this exact timestamp "that the suicide letter was typed up? "Can you let us know?" She's like, "I don't
know, I wasn't typing." She was just being a
little shit on the stand. I don't know anything, I know nothing. I didn't do it. I don't know, I don't know. Prosecution argued that Stacey
was writing one of the drafts of Ashley's suicide note during the call. The note itself contained
Stacey's fingerprints on it but not a single print of
Ashley's was on the page. Now that's a little funky, ain't it? Should we all agree? Prosecutors, they were out to prove that Ashley's suicide
attempt, quote unquote, was actually another
murder planned by Stacey. Prosecutors believe
Stacey saw the evidence of her two husband's murders, you know, they are starting to stack up
and she's like, "Oh, fuck." And like when she learned
that the police had exhumed her first husband's body and she found out that they found traces of
antifreeze in his system, she most likely panicked and realized she needed to come up with
a plan to protect herself. So she comes up with this one. Wow, so Ashley ends up in court, she ends up taking the
stand and she recounted how her mother had convinced her to drink the two nights before she almost died. And the only reason she drank the quote, unquote nasty, tasty drink was because she trusted her
mom, it was her best friend. There was a lot of
things presented in court that still like didn't make sense and didn't have clear answers to. Like the glass that
was found next to David on the nightstand was missing
his fingerprints, right? Also how the Turkey baster that they found in the kitchen trash had both David's DNA and traces of antifreeze on it. And the DNA on the Turkey baster and the lack of David's
fingerprints on the glass suggested that David was
force-fed antifreeze, you know? Rather than like willingly take it, you know, it's all just, what's it called? Speculation, theories, ideas. I think we can all get behind it. So prosecutors presented
a timeline that suggested Stacey had been feeding
her husband the antifreeze with the Turkey baster for four days in order to make it look like a suicide. So she was like squirting
it in there, you know? Most likely wearing gloves. Stacey countered the argument
claiming David got the idea to commit suicide, wait for this, she said David got the idea to
commit suicide by antifreeze while they were both
watching some kind of like "Dateline" situation about Lynn Turner. Do you know about Lynn Turner? Ouch. Let me tell you about Lynn Turner. Ms. Lynn Turner over here, she got the nickname the Black Widow, which I find like a lot
of killers and stuff kinda get that title, don't they? So Lynn Turner, she got
the nickname Black Widow because she murdered two past
lovers by using antifreeze. This dumb bitch. She's like, "Yeah, that's how
he got the idea from a woman, "the Black Widow." He's like, "That looks
fun, I'm gonna do that." Yeah, that's what he said. This is what she's running with. Hm, mm, like what do you even say? Okay, I'm sure you were watching
that Stacey, but all right. So prosecutors believed one
of the main motives was money. You know, it always seems
to be money, doesn't it? So they believe that Stacey
murdered her husbands to collect their life
insurance and their estates. Michael's death, Stacey
got 50K, 50 to 55,000. Stacey also had David's will
changed to exclude his son from a previous marriage
leaving her $300,000 as the sole beneficiary. And David, he was pretty well
off like he had motorcycles, jet skis, snowmobiles,
a house, a business, and all of that went to Stacey. So could be a good motive, right? Stacey's defense team had the task of creating reasonable doubt. Doubt, I don't know why
I said it like that, I'm feeling saucy today. So they tried to make it seem
that even at the age of 12, young Ashley still could
have killed her father. They said her motive for killing him was the fact that she was
jealous of the favoritism he showed her younger
sister Bree over her. That's why she did it. The defense team noted that
Ashley and David's relationship was rocky and how it was no secret the two did not get along. I mean, the defense was pretty convincing. They even had Stacey's mother,
Judie, the girl's grandma, believing that her granddaughter
had committed the murders. Could you imagine your
teenage self angry diary being like taken into court and read. You know when you're a
teenager, you're so angsty and just mad at everyone and everything and you say the stupidest sometimes. I know in my diary I was
like, I'm gonna fucking die and I hate everyone. And if that ever got read in court, I would just cry and shit my pants. But they were using this as like gospel like her teenage notes and shit. So many felt like there were many flaws in Stacey's version of the night. Stacey had claimed that
it was her daughter Ashley who had murdered both her husbands. And while she couldn't
prove any type of motive for her daughter's actions, she implied it was probably
because her daughter was mentally ill. And then the prosecutors also
pointed out the impossible coincidence that Ashley
confessed to the murder when David's death was ruled a suicide. Does that make sense? 'Cause at first it didn't click for me. 'Cause David's death was ruled a suicide so why would she say it was murder? You know, does that make sense? The prosecutor said
something in court like, isn't it an amazing coincidence
that a guy who was thinking about suicide is being
murdered at the same time? Stacey, anything to say? And Stacey's just like, "I don't know, I don't
know, I don't know." She didn't know anything. It's like, girl, what do
you know at this point? Do you know your name, for Christ's sakes? She knew, she knew, don't lie girl. I was kinda shook at that. Stacey even took the
stand in the first place in her own defense and she
still pointed the finger at her daughter Ashley. And it's like her daughter
was right there in the court. Could you imagine the betrayal, the hurt, the feelings you would have? Oh my God, that would be just, I just couldn't imagine. Anyways, many were kind
of believing Stacey's side of the story but all evidence was pointing to fucking Stacey. Okay, listen, if you
don't think it's Stacey, then you're idiot. Anyways, but on February 5th, 2009, the jury found Stacey guilty
of second degree murder in the poisoning death of David Castor and of attempted second degree murder for overdosing her daughter
Ashley with vodka and drugs. I mean, thank God Stacey was found guilty but her poor daughters,
they don't have fathers or a fucking mom 'cause
her mom is a piece of shit. Anyway, so Ashley, she ended up giving a
statement at the end. Going on to say that like she never knew what hate was until now. She was like, "I still love
her but at the same time "I hate her and it's just so confusing." And in the end, all she wanted
was for her mom to say sorry for everything she did,
including all of the lies. But Stacey never did. It was really sad. I mean, the fact that like
Ashley was giving this really touching statement to the court like talking directly to her mom, her mom wouldn't even look at her, didn't even like even
address her own daughter. I still can't get over that,
I still can't get over that. I can't believe she's that
heartless, that's so sad. So the judge told Stacey
that he had never before seen a parent attempt to murder their child in order to set their child up for a crime they themselves committed. I mean, it was really mind blowing, right? But in the end, Stacey was
sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of David and
an additional 25 years to life for the attempted murder of Ashley. So when Stacey was sentenced,
she was 41 at the time so pretty much it was like a rest of her life sentence, you know? Hold on, let me put on my lip. Stacey was placed in Bedford Hills Correctional
Facility for Women in Bedford Hills, New York. And her earliest possible
release date is June 15th, 2055. And that would be like just
after her 88th birthday, June, July. When's her birthday? July, June? I can't remember but it'd be around then. But guess what? In 2009, you know good
old 20/20 came through. They did a story on this
case and they were even able to interview Stacey. During the interview,
Stacey even went on to say, "Ashley brought this on. "Ashley really knows what happened." Yeah, she's still, still. And I was like, "Girl, what the fuck?" But Stacey said she felt bad
for her younger daughter Bree, saying that she was the
innocent victim in all of it. Don't you just wanna slap this
woman in the face, punch her, give her a nose bleed,
something like what? Anyways, after the trial, neither of their daughters
spoke to their mom again. Neither of them spoke to their mom again. That was just it. All they wanted was an apology
and they never got one. Isn't that awful? In 2010, it was confirmed that
there was an investigation going into the death of Stacey's father. His name was Jerry Daniels. So he died in 2002 and
Stacey's father Jerry had been hospitalized for
some kind of lung ailment and was on the road to recovery like he was even scheduled to be released in a couple of days, right? So Stacey, she had come by
to visit him in the hospital on February 26th, 2002. And it was reported when Stacey came, she brought like a drink for him and they believe when she came in, the can was open and the very
next day, Jerry suddenly died. Yeah, what the fuck? After his death, Stacey became
the executor of his estate and she also made sure her
father's remains were cremated. Can you believe that? Now I was trying to figure out
if this case was still open or closed, I couldn't find anything. Plus, I don't know because
listen, in June 11th, 2016, sorry, my hair is really
tangled and just kinda gross. Just trying to look cute for you guys. June 11th, 2016, only seven
years into her sentence, seven years, Stacey was
found dead in her jail cell at the age of 48. It was later determined
she died of a heart attack with no evidence of
suicide or of foul play. Life will get you, huh? And like, it's kinda
bittersweet but at the same time I wanted her to live forever just in jail 'cause I feel like that's like torture. And you would hope one day she
would apologize to her kids because she died, the
kids never got an apology. I don't know if they would ever get one. 'Cause it seems like
Stacey is a fucking loon. It's really sad, I feel
really bad for the kids. I mean, they're grown now. I hope they're doing
well and not giving up because that's exactly
what their mom would want, you know what I'm saying? Lifetime ended up doing like a movie about this story as well, it was called "Poisoned Love:
The Stacey Castor Story". It's on my to watch list but do I need to watch it
at this point? I don't know. You can also watch the court
trial of Stacey and all that, like her on the stand which
is interesting to watch because she just fuck, she just lies. Ah, that my friends is the
story about Stacey Castor. I don't know what to call
her, an actual demon? I've heard this story before
but when I was actually kind of digging more into it, it just really sad 'cause I was like, "Damn, she really blamed her own kid "and then tried to kill her kid." Oh my God, I cannot imagine this. I cannot imagine this
ever happening and it did. And it was like sickening. Ew, I'm glad she's dead. I'm sorry, I said it. Did she kill her father? Let me know down below
in the comment section. I would say probably yes. And what the was wrong with that woman? I'm glad she was put down. Let me know your guys' thoughts
down below if you have any. I've been doing a lot
of woman killers lately. I have, huh? I've been on one. Thank you guys so much for
hanging out with me today. I hope you have a
wonderful rest of your day. I feel cute, I'm gonna
go on a date with myself. What did I say? Have good day and make good choices. Let me know down below who you want me to talk about next week. But other than that, I'll
be seeing you guys later. Goodbye. (bright upbeat music)
