Mommy Dearest: The Sheats Family Murders

[Music] [Music] Fulshear Texas is a quiet suburb about 30 miles southwest of Houston it's rated one of the top 5 safest cities in Texas is a beautiful area with nice neighborhoods good schools and pretty landscapes in 2016 Jason Sheets who was 44 and Kristi sheets who was 42 had been married for over 20 years they had moved from their hometown of Decatur Alabama to full-share Texas around 2002 they settled into a beautiful brick house on Remsen Hollow Lane in a quiet suburban neighborhood Jason and Kristi had two beautiful daughters Taylor who was 22 and Madison who was 17 in 2016 Taylor had been engaged for four years to her highschool sweetheart Juan Sebastian Lugo the two were set to be married on June 27th she had just graduated with honors from Lone Star College in Cypress Texas she was working full-time at a day care facility in Katy Texas called kids or kids and she was an incredibly talented artist her friends say that Taylor had a great sense of humor and was very independent Madison Sheets was going into her senior year at 7 Lakes High School her friends remember her as someone who was always smiling and who loved to be around children she loved cooking and also had a great sense of humor like her big sister Madison was known to have a very sweet innocence about her she had been babysitting part-time for the past three years and she would often dog sit for her neighbors Jason worked as an IT consultant for oxy which is a local oil and gas company in Houston he was an extremely hard worker for his family and he actually had a second job tutoring to make sure that his family had everything they needed neighbors remember that Jason and the girls were very friendly and would always wave when they were outside Kristi however was known as standoffish and cold she never really interacted with her neighbors our participated in any of the neighborhood gatherings when I was researching this case I went through everything that I could possibly find I picked through all of her social media pose everything that her friends about her and I really tried to get to know who Cristy sheets was what her personality is like and I did feel like I eventually could get kind of a sense of how she was and everyone who's into your crime has their own reasons but I am very into the psychology behind everything I think anytime you have a case this horrific it is important to look back and go as far back as you can as far as how this person was in their past leading up to it and any events that might have triggered up before that what was so interesting about this particular case is that when you go back and look at what anyone had to say about Christy there are two very polar opposite opinions a lot of people from Christy's past remember her as being a great mom and that she always wanted to talk about her children and that she would whip out her phone when you met her and show pictures and how proud she was of them and how much joy being a mom brought to her however after everything happened a lot of people described her as very erratic and self-absorbed saying that she had a very low self-esteem and could be passive-aggressive and basically that would spill over into her relationships it definitely does seem like the tale of two Christy's there was the Christy before who everyone remembers in a much more fond way and then there was the Christy post-2012 which was one her mental downward spiral began growing up in Alabama Christy's grandfather had raised her as his own daughter you can tell by looking at her pose from 2012 that she absolutely worshiped the ground that he walked on she writes that he basically was her touchstone for everything he gave her the attention and the love that she needed she went to him for everything he was very supportive and generous and kind and it doesn't seem like Christy had a lot of deep relationships in her life she has opposed on May 7th of 2012 that she visited her grandpa in Decatur Alabama for his 82nd birthday she thinks her husband Jason for allowing her to be there and she has a lot of guilt about being in Texas when he is so ill in Alabama exactly 30 days later on June 7th of 2012 Christy's beloved father passed away looking at Christie's social media you can see that she was absolutely devastated by this her wall is just post after post about how she's in so much pain she cannot stop crying she's marking the days since he died she has a post in November of 2012 where she can't get out of the car to go into the grocery store because she can't pull herself together two months after her grandfather's death her mother also passed away it doesn't seem like Christie's mom's death had that big of an impact on her she has one post about that her mother was really young and how sad it is and then she goes right back to posting about how she just cannot cope with the loss of her grandfather Christie's husband Jason actually said in an interview that wine and Christie's grandfather passed the woman that he married was gone according to Jason Christie sank into a deep depression and began drinking very heavily in turn the sheets marriage became very volatile and began to crumble as Christie continued her downward spiral the fort Bend Sheriff's Office was called to the sheets family home 14 times since January of 2012 three of these calls were emotional distress calls where Christie did threaten to commit suicide on each one of these occurrences Christie was transported to a private medical facility where she was held for several days untreated until she would inevitably say everything was fine be released back home and then Jason said this cycle would start all over again one thing that I noticed immediately when looking at these police logs is that Christie's mental health seems to deteriorate in the months leading up to the anniversary of her grandfather's death in June I believe that the murders that occurred in June 2016 were a culmination of things and were basically the perfect storm I think it's a pretty safe assumption that one of the contributing factors is that historically May and June have been very traumatic months for Christie at this point Christie and Jason's marriage was hanging by a thread and Christie would separate and go live in an apartment and then they would reconcile and it was a pattern and a very unstable situation around the sheets home by looking at Christie's social media you can kind of get a sense of what was going on in her had the last two years leading up to the murders in 2014 during one of Christie and Jason's trial separations Christie discovered the selfie if you look back prior she's always had a lot of pictures of herself but there were other pictures of her family really after 2014 it's basically selfie after selfie after selfie and there's no denying that Christie is a stunningly beautiful woman and she was much more beautiful in her 40s than she was in her 20s however instead of just kind of embracing this or being thankful it doesn't come across that way you can tell in the interactions in the comments of her selfies that she's looking for some kind of validation and trying to fill some kind of void and it almost seems like she's getting more and more desperate to do so according to her husband Jason she had a very low self-esteem and what he described as a deep-seated self-hatred that would spill over into her treatment of him and her treatment of their daughters according to Jason she would do things like tell Madison that went well when I was your age I was this size she would also try on her daughter's clothes and make references to her size just little passive-aggressive undermining things like that one post of Christy's in particular caught my attention for whatever reason and this was before I had read everything that Jason had to say about her personality and how she treated the girls the post is dated September 25th of 2015 so less than a year before the murders it reads happy daughter's day to my two amazing sweet kind beautiful intelligent girls I love and treasure you both more than you could ever possibly know she has some nice complements underneath and then one of her friends replies with holy crap Christie Bird sheets they look like you beautiful Christie responds with Thank You Shannon everyone always says that Madison looks like Jason sheets and Taylor looks like me I'm glad someone is finally being honest and saying that they both look like me haha wink emoji her friend Shannon responds with I'm gonna share a picture of you and throwback Thursday Christie bird cheese Christie responds to her friend with oh Lord this would be pretty hilarious considering it was the early 90s I'm excited to see it and I could do laughs today I have this stinking flue blah so two things jumped out at me right away number one Christie was highly annoyed at the comparison of herself and Madison she tried to hide it with her fake emoji but the response to her friend it was passive-aggressive the second thing is she did not want her friend dropping that picture in comments that's why she specifically asked her to send it in a private message and then she added in the part about the flu to try to cover her insecurities about having the picture first and I'm not trying to make this all about Christie's looks but it does seem from Christie's perspective that it was one of the main things that she tried to use to help fix this empty void that she had in her life and you're very hard-pressed to find anything negative about Jason online it's clear that his daughters absolutely adored him and that he seems like an excellent father in 2014 Christie got a job as a receptionist working for John Hollis John owned a tattoo removal company called clear canvas laser John described Christie's behavior as erratic and said that there were many times she wouldn't show up to work and wouldn't even bother calling in she told John that she was in the process of a divorce and that she was living in an apartment separate from her family John looked up Christie's LinkedIn profile and realized that she was misrepresenting herself as far as her role with his company she had herself listed as their business manager even though she was just a receptionist and she also had herself as working there for two years when she had actually been there for five months the owner of the company confronted Christie about the false information and repeatedly asked her to fix it but she never did five months after she started with the company John terminated her employment however John said that Christie appeared to take the news in stride and that the termination was amicable in June of 2016 Jason and Christie had recently reconciled from yet another separation however things were already starting to crumble again according to Jason she was taking multiple medications for her mental health struggles and she was seeing a therapist once a month in addition to that Christie and Taylor were fighting quite a bit about Taylor's upcoming wedding to her fiance Juan on the 27th Friday June 24th was Jason Sheetz 45th birthday Christie was fighting from the time she woke up with Madison Taylor and Jason that day Jason finally decided that he couldn't take it anymore and he told Christie that he wanted a divorce he later recalled telling her that day this will be the last birthday that you were going to ruin after Christie and Taylor had been fighting all day Christie wanted Jason to ground Taylor from seeing her fiancé Jason argued with Christie that it was inappropriate to try and ground their twenty two-year-old adult daughter and Christie was infuriated that he would not bend to her wishes a high school friend of Madison's recalls talking to Madison around 9:00 a.m. on Friday ascribed Madison is acting weird and anxious and she thought it was strange that she wouldn't give her a lot of details about what was wrong she would only tell her that her and her mom had been arguing around 5:00 p.m. on Friday in a rage Christie sat herself down on the living room sofa and called a family meeting she told Jason Taylor and Madison that they needed to talk Jason says that he thought that Christie was going to talk to the girls about the impending divorce she then demanded an apology from Jason who refused Christie became enraged and reached under the couch cushions and pulled out her 38 caliber five shotgun that her grandfather had left her to protect her family as they all stood frozen in terror Jason began screaming and begging Christie not to shoot their girls according to a family friend Jason told Christie please just shoot yourself make it easy on us and just shoot yourself Jason recalls Christie's cold response no that's not what this is about this is about punishing you he tried to bargain with Christie and promised that he would do whatever she wanted him to do Christie replied with no stop talking it's too late Christie then turned and shot Madison in the neck and Taylor in the back he managed to make it around the couch and was able to help his girls escape through the front door as they fled the house Christie fired off three more shots missing them and hitting the wall Madison was able to make it outside and get to the street where she collapsed and died almost immediately from her injuries Christie followed Taylor out to the street or Taylor collapsed as well Jason ran to a neighbor's house and begged them to call 9-1-1 as Taylor struggled to get up and get away from her mom Christie attempted to shoot her again but she was out of bullets the following are the 911 Madison and Taylor sheets and their neighbor this is the second 9-1-1 call placed by Taylor sheets Orpah now I'm wondering me believe fire or a ma'am this is the third call which was made by their neighbor I guess when you're ambulance right away two people believe we shot okay stay on the line okay you think they got shot you say yeah yeah okay this lady with a gun yes it's coming out of the house right now okay we'll shout outside okay okay where's the lady with the gun coming out on the street right now is she still shooting I know it's not shooting basically they're gonna hear in her hand I'll write to the back of my house okay who do you know who the lady is they're my neighbors okay and the people that she shot are do you know them okay are you with the patients right now no because it lady okay the gun came out I had to run her for me what is she wearing that's good what is she wearing for I'm sorry okay one has to run to the book okay can you do the sign for me what is she white black Hispanic or Asian yeah no she's a vacation okay okay what is she wearing she's wearing a dress what color do a window okay okay no problem don't put yourself in danger though but do you remember what kind of what color her dress was she wearing a purple dress purple dress yes okay a purple dress you don't know is a long short what is she where the patient industry then the meetaversary be good how was Londo it's two people laying in the street two people two ladies learning the street two females okay yeah two females and there's a guy trying to help them but the lady isn't on the top of one of them with a gun on her hand okay but the sub the suspect is on top of one of the females on the street your issues justice on the street justice ending up she's standing over at one of the patients with the gun yes yes okay and now it looks like both of our lives worked as a child personally today they're both alive but it okay you know she tried a shouting he's trying to shoot again on a Tucker but I promise you they're animal apprentices don't have any more bullets okay yeah I do too sir just stay on the line let me know what you see what's wrong is she going in front she's going inside the house now hopefully is not getting any more bullets because she looks like she's gonna look for more bullets okay all right Stan a line in there sir I don't know where that I went but apprentice she's she's just yelling at her and we're talking but I wanna describe the guy the guy you said also they're all Caucasian okay okay and so the the two females and the male is Caucasian yes so all four of them okay and if the chicken she's coming back again jiggaman picketing will but apparently shed bullets now her over okay stay stay on the line oh he's got her chin she saw her you got her again yes from the back she's trying to run she thought she shot another female again that was yes there was laying down on the floor show up on the back okay stay on the line you sure you should not again they running down the street are the end on the side don't bother again Buddhism everybody's get away oh no only porchetta fishapod yeah without a half - what are you doing what is she doing now there's a cute name later on the poor ok started on the floor yeah make sure your family is secure don't don't don't let everyone see you looking out the window okay can can anyone see you that's her address okay here I don't see them anymore there's a bullet okay I can hear bullet and shouldn't she land on the floor now the female that was shooting is lying down yes why'd she shoot herself I don't know I don't know I I just see her down before now but I don't I don't know what happened because I had to want to play my chance and safety okay go get us a long way okay did she shoot herself well Brenda she did do you think she shot herself premature her soul okay okay I don't she's moving yes okay you know it doesn't look like she's moving anymore okay okay put your stay on the line good good oh yeah okay stay on the line sir yes okay what do you see now other two like two are the two females - laying in the street I can't see them I have to take my son to safety hold on a second please okay no part is here if you if you have to take your family to safety then don't worry about going back through the window got a given category Hokkien just again yeah yeah okay pro con cuidado mika morien okay so do you happen to know the names of these people do you know your neighbors no I don't know their member names or anything okay okay and I see I'll go see I'm sorry I have to call my family you know we have multiple deputies on the way okay okay she's laying down deputies started arriving and trying to assemble not long after Christie had reloaded and had come back outside despite her critical injuries Taylor had gotten up and attempted to flee as you heard on the 911 in the back it then appeared as if she was gonna walk over and shoot Madison again who had already died Christie was ordered to drop the gun and when she failed to comply an officer opened fire and Christie was killed with a single gunshot to the chest Taylor was in a very critical condition and she was life flighted to a nearby hospital where she died shortly after Jason was physically unharmed but was taken to the hospital anyway due to the state of shock he was in the community and the Sheetz friends and family were at a loss as to how this could have happened this new details are coming out now after police were forced to kill a mother after they say she shot and killed both of her daughters good evening everyone I'm Natasha Barrett tom is off tonight neighbors are stunned and they say they want to know a motive after a mother opened fire killing both of her daughters in this neighborhood here Fulshear police say they came to this family's home on Remsen Hollow yesterday and they say that mother pointed a gun at them then they say they shot and killed her Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Lee is live from that neighborhood tonight with some new details from one of the daughters friends Lauren you know neighbors and friends are still trying to come to terms with this tragedy tonight two sisters with their whole lives ahead of them killed in an unthinkable tragedy allegedly at the hands of their own mother Fort Bend County deputies say both 22 year old Taylor sheets and 17-year old Madison sheets were shot by their mother 42 year old Kristi sheets before Christie was killed by a full-share police officer Friday night only Jason sheets the husband and father was not hurt you know it crushed him so Alek Arnold grew up not far from the sheets family home he loved his daughters they're like best friends I know that for sure today friends are remembering Taylor for her warm personality always had a good smile on her face and it's one of the things that everyone probably remembers about her Madison was going to be a senior at 7 lakes-- high school this fall her close friend telling me quote Madison brought nothing but happiness to everyone she ever met she was nice to everyone and she wouldn't have harmed a fly neighbors say the girls were killed on their father's birthday in Fort Bend County lauren lee 13 Eyewitness News on June 30th Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nell's gave a press conference on the murders mr. Sheets summarized the following he stated that he felt Christie wanted him to suffer during this incident Christie had ample time an opportunity to shoot and kill mr. sheets in the home but she chose not to mr. sheets stated Christie knew how much he loved the tailor in Madison and how much they loved him by killing his children mr. sheets will have to live the rest of his life with this horrible memory mr. sheets also stated that his oldest daughter Taylor had a verbal argument with Christie on Friday where Christie wanted to ground her and prevent her from seeing her boyfriend or fiancé because she argued with her mr. sheets did not agree with Christie and told her that it was inappropriate to ground their 22 year old daughter and prevent her from seeing her fiance as a result of a verbal argument we asked mr. sheets regarding Christie's mental health he stated that Christie was admitted to a private mental health facility for evaluation and treatment on three separate occasions related to attempted suicide regarding the gun that was used to kill Madison and Taylor mr. sheet stated that the gun was given to her by her grandfather who passed away in 2012 it's hard to say based on the information that we have available whether or not Christie was mentally ill prior to her grandfather's death out of the five types of maternal filicide or when a mother kills her children spousal revenge maternal filicide is the rarest type it's also the hardest to prevent because there's just not a lot of warning it usually happens after the mother finds out about an affair or a divorce especially when there's going to be potential custody issues however Christie did display some of the major warning signs which are severe depression and suicidal thoughts Taylor and Madison cheese were laid to rest on July 2nd 2016 at la Stowe Memorial Gardens in Athens Alabama Jason did not claim Christie's body so I'm assuming that someone and her family did it is not known where Christie is buried the only information I could find was that Christie was set to have a private service in Alabama and to be cremated after at Taylor and Madison's funeral service Jason read the following if you have loved ones tell them you love them every day and give them a hug because you never know it might be your last day he said one thing with his children he knows he has peace with is that he loved his kids his kids knew that he loved them and they loved him he showed them every day after the funeral Jason moved back home to Decatur Alabama according to his social media he was remarried within a year of the murders Jason will not speak publicly about what happened on June 24th 2016 he did a short interview with dr. oz but he refused to recall the exact details of what happened to his girls that day he is very open about the fact that it's his strong faith that enables him to get through life after losing his family in such a horrific way as far as his feelings about his deceased wife he's been very open about the fact that he's had a lot of anger and does not have anything positive to say he stated that he's come to the realization that Christie did not love him or the girls Christie did not love anyone not even herself it's hard to end a case like this on a positive note so I'll close it with this sweet post from Madison to her dad it's dated October 17 2010 and reads thank you to the best dad in the world Jason sheets for making my day amazing had an awesome time love you you

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Published: Sat Jun 20 2020