hi guys how are you today my name is
Bailey Sarian and today it's Monday which means murder mystery and makeup
Monday let me get comfortable I need a better chair. So if you're new here every
Monday I've been talking about a crime story that's caught my attention and I
sit here, I get ready, I do my makeup and I just tell this crime story. This is my
third episode. I appreciate your guys's feedback on this
little series I got going so far plus I get like really into crime stories and I
just don't have anyone to talk to about them so I feel like this is my place to
like vent about it talk about it get off my chest and see what you guys think as
well . So I appreciate you guys when you comment your thoughts and give
feedback. Its like I'm in a little group discussion finally people who get it.
Just a little disclaimer today's crime story does contain some domestic
violence, some of you were saying if it does to add a disclaimer.
Another disclaimer we are going to talk about murder
so people dying. This week I thought I should even it out and talk about a
girl who killed. Which mind you it's so much easier to find a man who kills
versus a girl. I don't know ladies you're really letting me down out there.
I asked snapchat earlier today like I originally had a story I want to talk
about, but it was another dude and I was like dude I need to find a girl who
kills who are some lady killers out there I should talk about cuz I was just
like I don't know it's the same Jodi arias , what's her name that I'm drawing a
blank on that the movie Monster was about. It was just kind of the same names
I'm familiar with the stories , Casey Anthony was another big one I'm really
familiar with those stories but I want to find stories that I haven't heard of
on snapchat hey hey Irene I'm assuming Irene is her name, hey Irene she reached
out to me and said that I should look up Traci Rhode, I haven't heard of this name
and I was like okay let me look her up and see what she's all about so here I
am because I once again got heavily involved Traci Rhode let's get into it
because the ending of this story is so Traci Rhode met Scott when they were
teenagers they dated in high school and became highschool sweethearts
and at that time they lived in Iowa so they had been together for a very long
time the couple married in 1990 a few years after Traci had graduated high
school Scott ended up putting himself through college to become an engineer
and Traci went to college to become a nurse specializing in childbirth and
delivery care. Over the years the couple ended up having three sons and based off
photos of the couple and just the family in general seemed like typical happy
family all that stuff that usually isn't true. Traci had said that there was a
different side to Scott he was very controlling and very jealous she said it
was slowly destroying their marriage that he was constantly accusing her of
having affairs that she wasn't having so when she was at home Scott would come
into the room where she was at and would ask her like why she was washing her
hands she must be having an affair because she's washing her hands. It was
constant . There was a family friend who were close to Scott and Traci and this
family friend had known them for a long time and she said that Scott was
possessive controlling he felt like he owned her he would accuse Traci of
sleeping with different doctors and having affairs with these different
doctors that she worked with and her friend knew that Traci wasn't having an
affair there's no way. In an interview at Tracy
goes on to tell about this one night when she had to stay late at work
because she was delivering a baby or something and she ended up getting home
at like midnight and when she got home Scott and her kids weren't home and she
was freaking out trying to call them she called the emergency room because she
thought something had happened to them she hears the garage door open, in comes
Scott and Scott just goes off on her accusing her of having an affair like
that's why she was late . Scott started yelling at Tracy calling her a tramp and
a whore, I'm assuming this was like in front of her kids too and Scott said
that he went looking for her that night to show the kids what a tramp and a
whore their mother was. That kind of gives
to you an idea of their relationship I guess so in an interview they asked
Tracy okay well why did you, which I hate this question you know when you're
in a very bad relationship they always ask, "why did you stay? why did you stay
if it was so bad?" and Tracy said that she stayed because she loved him he was the
father of her babies. She said that they had just as many good times as they did
bad times and to her it was worth working out and honestly like she didn't
say this this is just my opinion sometimes its just easier to stay. Its really
sad to say. Throughout the years Scott moved the family five times
in 13 years and the reason he moved so much , he would get
really jealous and accused Tracy of infidelity to get her away from
whomever she was having an affair with and then eventually they ended up in
Texas in 2003 Tracy was far from her friends and from her family. so she felt
really secluded, she didn't have anybody so he got her all to himself but
once they got to Texas Tracy ended up meeting somebody at her workplace. This
time it was for reals his name was Shawn Michaels and he
worked as a unit secretary in the same hospital that Tracy worked at and Tracy
said he would kind of flirt with her here and there and she always told him
Shawn that she was married and Shawn would say that he was
just kidding, he was just messing around I guess he just kept doing it kept
flirting with her and then one afternoon Tracy and Shawn decided to meet in a
parking lot she said that they just stood there, they
were talking hanging out it was nothing romantic and then when she went to go
say goodbye Shawn leaned in and gave her a kiss . uh-huh okay this eyeliner is
making my eyelids stick together so Shawn and Tracy ended up kissing in the
parking lot. Tracy stands by the fact that she did not have an affair when she
was married but I don't think Tracy knows that like having an emotional
affair, I believe counts as an affair. It sounded like she
emotionally was falling for this guy and kissing in the parking lot. Like no it's
not the same thing as having sex but in all the interviews she says I did not
have an affair I did not have an affair but I think like emotionally she she was
into this Shawn guy she's allowed to think that's fine whatever
anyways moving on so one week later after the the parking lot kiss scott
confronts tracy in the bathroom and accuses her of having an affair like he
does i guess every other night or whatever and tracy says in the heat
of the moment she just blurts out that yes she was having affair and she was
falling in love with this guy Shawn I mean finally she had the answer he
wanted to hear right she said for the first time in her life there was
somebody and it wasn't about sex it was Shawn wanted her and cared about
her and she just had somebody to talk to I guess that night when Tracy said that
Scott just looked at her and said you have no idea what you've done
October 15th 2003 police were called to the home of Scott and Tracy inside the
couple's home lay Scott with a gunshot wound to the head Tracy said in an
interview that that morning she woke up really early like 4 in the morning
and she went for her morning walk she came home she took a shower or she she
started a shower I don't know if she took the shower and then she heard a
moaning sound it was then she discovered her husband in bed and he was shocked
Tracy said that she moved the pillow back and "I saw blood, his eyes were
swollen and I touched his face and said Scott can you hear me?". By mid-afternoon
it was clear that Scott was brain dead and then he soon passed away. Within
hours from the 9-1-1 phone call one of the detectives changed his mind
essentially he said that it seemed like it was an attempted suicide at first but
upon looking onto it a little bit deeper it shifted to a possible homicide the
detective said that there were all the ingredients of a classic murder plot
there was a love interest jealousy a pretty young wife who was behaving
suspiciously that's what he said the detective said that she was a nurse
she gave no first aid to her husband whatsoever and the reason she says she
didn't she didn't give any first aid was because she was in shock. well what could
she have done I don't know Tracy says that he was still breathing so he
couldn't give him CPR and that the only thing she could really do was wait for
an ambulance to come but the detective said she's a nurse you know she could
have gave some kind of first aid I don't know maybe covered the hole which he was
bleeding from? But despite the shock that Tracy was in, she still ended up
calling into work, told her work that she wasn't gonna be coming in that day and
that they needed to find someone to replace her shift and detectives thought
that was weird like if you're in shock why would you call your work and tell
them that you're not coming in so they thought that was a little suspicious.
People do the darndest things. So police and everyone we're out her house right
Tracy decides to go and wash her hands detectives thought that was weird
why is she washing her hands? Is she trying to wash off the gunshot residue?
Tracy's defense was that she could smell blood on her hands because she did touch
her husband she just wanted to get her hands clean Tracy said that she went
over to the sink she washed her hands she just ran hot water over her hands
and she stood there and just cried but the detectives think suspishhh. so while
doing some investigating that's when detectives learned that
Scott had hired a divorce attorney. Just one day before the shooting
Scott took Tracy to the divorce attorney's office to have a meeting and
then that's when investigators decided to interview the divorce attorney.
So that's where they found out that Scott had this plan, he was going to take
full custody of the kids and Tracy would have liberal visitation and if she chose
to fight that they would use Shawn against her , the guy that she was like
not having affair with, in order to win full custody
so obviously Tracy is shocked she doesn't wanna lose her kids she was very
upset because Scott never told her that he was going to do this and she came
back and said she didn't care if they used Shawn
against her because she was gonna fight no matter what to get full custody of
these children she said that she loved her children and that she was a good
mother and all this wasn't fair Tracy then told
Scott that they needed to go home and discuss this before moving forward
pretty much the divorce attorney said that Tracy was obviously very upset and
that she stormed out of the office. Oh my gosh no I just dropped my microphone in
foundation. So when they got home they both agreed that they didn't want to put
their kids through an ugly custody battle. Later that night Scott, his mood
had changed apparently and Scott flew into rage so Scott went and grabbed a
baseball bat he kept asking Tracy where does Shawn live because he was gonna
bash his head in with the baseball bat and he kept screaming at Tracy tell me
where he lives and Tracy kept telling him that she doesn't know where he lives
she's never gone to his house before and then that's when Scott got physical with
Tracy so he grabs her by the throat puts his fists up to her told her that he was
gonna knock the shit out of her. So once that was over Tracy goes into the
bedroom she grabs a suitcase she starts packing and she was just
gonna stay in a hotel. Scott started crying and begging her not to go and he
convinced her to like stay he said come lay down with me I'm sorry and just come
like snuggle with me pretty much after that altercation everything was fine and
then the next morning Scott was found dead by apparent suicide. The detectives
spent the next two years trying to find physical evidence to link Tracy to
this murder . Investigators kept digging until they found a break
something that had been staring them in the face all along.
On August 11th 2005 Tracy was arrested for Scott's murder. You see the
gun and where it was found would become one of the biggest disputes in this case.
Tracy said the gun was in his hand and somewhere on the bed and she stood by
this story , her story never changed it was very consistent. One of the prosecutors said that the pillow was used
to muffle the sound , that Traci used the pillow to prevent any back spatter from
coming back and getting on her hands or the weapon and she also used the pillow
to disassociate herself from her husband so prosecutors believed ooh that's what
happened because if Scott killed himself when would he have time to put the
pillow over his face? This is what they believe. There was a forensic blood stain
expert who pored over police photos taken at the scene and he reported
saying that he took one look at the gun and knew in his mind that it was not a
suicide sergeant Pablo Flores one of the
first officers on the scene, he removed the gun and he said when he removed the
gun, the handle of the gun was resting on his left hand and the barrel on his
right. He also said that there was no blood on Scotts hands and the gun did
not come in contact with any blood on the bed and yet there was blood around
the handle and a thick glob in the actual gun itself. Also there was no
blood on Scotts hands but from my understanding if you shoot yourself I
mean I think, you know, there should be blood on your hands and one of the
crime-scene photos there's a stain on the carpet of blood and the theory is
that the gun was lying in the pool of blood next to the bed. So there was just
randomly like a pool of blood on the carpet.
they think that the gun was originally on the floor and then it was moved to
Scotts hands. They believed that Tracy put the gun to his head
with the pillow covering it, she shoots the gun when she did she dropped the gun
landed on the floor and then she waited for her husband to die but then she
realized that she made a big mistake and then she picks the gun off of the floor
and then she placed it in Scotts hand . In an interview Tracy says that they were
just trying to make her out to be a murderer that the gun was never on the
floor and she was not lying. Four years after Scott's death Tracy went on trial.
Her relationship with Shawn was the center of the prosecution's case because
they see this you know as a motive pretty much so they ended up calling
Shawn the side boo to the stand no audio recording was allowed during
the trial. but he did it knowledge the mutual
attraction, he said over and over again that they did not have a sexual
relationship but Tracy fucked up. 10 days after Scott died Shawn and Tracy
checked into the Red Roof Inn aka a motel Tracy says that they did not meet
at the hotel to have sex, they met to talk. Apparently they had met at like a
pancake house before going to the hotel and Tracy said she felt really
uncomfortable because there were a bunch of police officers around and she felt
like she was just being watched so they decided to leave and go to a motel just
to talk . She insisted that they were not there to have sex but things
did end up going further that night and I guess they did have a sexual
relationship. Don't go to a hotel to talk nobody goes to a hotel to talk because
if you just want to talk you could do that for free in the parking lot or like
on the phone I don't know there's so many other places to talk. 10 days after
he died they did that , which did not look good she says that she is fully aware it
didn't look good but she just needed somebody who understood to talk to. Shawn and Tracy their relationship ended up lasting two years so it lasted for a
while after . The prosecution showed that the gun and the gun holster fit
perfectly into that stain that was on the carpet. After two days of
deliberation we finally had a verdict the jury found Tracy guilty of murdering
her husband. They think okay she had a motive , Scott was gonna take away the
kids, she was also having like this emotional affair with Shawn and the only
way she was gonna get that is if she got rid of Scott. Okay but look, listen, she
was found guilty right but here's the kicker.
So in Texas the defense has the option of letting the jurors decide the
PUNISHMENT as well as the VERDICT so they go back to the courtroom for the
second phase of the testimony. This time Tracy took the stand told the jurors
that she did not kill her husband and that she did not agree with their
verdict. Also her two older boys took the stand and they told the
jurors that they loved their father and their mother and that the mom didn't do
it she needed to be with the kids pretty much they beg to let her be with
them because they needed her. They already lost their dad to a suicide and
they need their mother and it was reported that it really tugged at the
hearts of the jurors because these kids are so innocent so young and they just
aw. just really got to them so that was kind of, I don't wanna say it was smart,
but it kind of was. Then the jury went back to deliberate as far as the
sentencing goes. So what is she gonna get? Life? A couple years? What. And then
two days later, the jurors finally made their decision and girl was it it a
decision. I had to finish my lips completely before telling you the
results okay hmm I'm ready I'm ready to tell you so Tracy got 10 years
probation. Probation. Tracy got zero prison time. She did spend three days in
jail, to give her some kind of credit and she was also fined $10,000. So she was
punished hard. Probation means that she cannot leave the county and she has an 8
p.m. curfew. Her nursing license was also revoked and she lost her job. She
stands by the fact that she did not kill her husband and to this day she is just
she's out she's free. Okay look my final thoughts on this. To
reading the different interviews and stuff, the evidence. I think
she did it. There was a good motive. I thought it
was weird there was no blood on his hands or the gun. The whole thing
just seemed kind of weird. I mean did she go on a run that morning? There was
nobody that saw her run. I think there was a lot of people who were torn on on
if she did it or if she didn't do it. When you read about the story, all signs
are like yes she did it and then when you watch interviews with her, you almost
are like, no no she didn't do it. And that's the story of Traci Rhode and I
believe she's still currently in Texas, she still has her son's and she got she
got off pretty easy. And let's be honest here, if that was a
man or pretty much anyone other than a pretty white woman, they probably would
be in jail right now. Come on let's all have a moment of honesty here.
So I guess moral of the story is if you're going to kill somebody do it in
Texas because they have that law, a jury can decide your sentence. It's just a
little confusing to me how the jury found her guilty but then they only gave
her ten years probation. I don't know the whole thing is freaking weird right? and
that is the story. Ten years probation. Let me know what you think down below.
Do you think she did it? I would love to hear what you think about this case and
just your thoughts. I hope you have a good day today, you make good choices.
Please be safe out there, take care of yourself okay. Don't kill anybody today.
Anyways I will be seeing you guys laterrrrrrr bye
I just may go a tad mental at some point this week.
Does this mean no new video? 🤔