[TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: This time, on
''Killers Caught on Camera''. In Florida, a woman meets
the man of her dreams. WOMAN: I was really looking
forward to meeting him, because I had heard
all the good things that she had said about him. [TENSE MUSIC] But
she goes missing. And the police investigate
her disappearance. MAN: I asked him if Vickie
was inside the residence, and he responded with, ''I
have to tell you something''. NARRATOR: And in the UK, a
happy marriage is destroyed when a woman is found dead. It was the whole
world crashing down. NARRATOR: And her
husband is discovered with multiple stab wounds. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] MAN: It just sounds
like something bad is happening to her. WOMAN: We know what
happened because the video tells us what happened. MAN: I heard some gunshots. POLICE: Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it. MAN: That does not prove
that I killed my wife. MAN: The camera doesn't lie. [TENSE MUSIC] United
States, Destin, Florida. A small city nestled in the
panhandle on the Emerald Coast. Over 100 miles west of the
state capital, Tallahassee. Home to 59-year-old, Vicki
Edge, and friend, Sherrie Linn. SHERRIE LINN: Vickie was here
probably almost every weekend during the summer,
because we'd always usually go out either after
church or on Saturday. We'd hop on the boat
with all the girlfriends and just head out. My husband, Johnny,
was our captain. He'd happily take us
wherever we wanted to go. SHERRIE LINN: She was always
the life of the party. She loved to dance and have
fun and go on girls trips. So it was-- She was
always fun to be around. [TENSE MUSIC] Vickie and
Sherrie met at high school. SHERRIE LINN: We
just kind of grew up together, and knew her
family and she knew my family. And we just always did things
together, forever since then. As we grew up and got out of
high school, she had one son, I have one son. We had all the
mother stuff to go through together,
so we just always been there for each other. NARRATOR: Vickie was a single,
successful businesswoman, who wanted a relationship. SHERRIE LINN In her heart,
she just wanted to be-- Kind of to have that person that
she was going to grow old with. A lot of times it's not fun
out in the dating world. She wanted that to be over and
just have peace and comfort and, you know, somebody
just to enjoy her-- Her older years with. NARRATOR: In May 2020,
Vickie met Jerry Odum online. A former karate teacher,
also looking for love. SHERRIE LINN: She told me
about their first date, she called me when it was over
and she told me how wonderful it was and how charming he was. And she felt like she
connected with him. And he was kind and a
gentleman and, you know, everything that you-- You hope a first date would be. She was very excited. NARRATOR: Things moved quickly. After just four months, they
were planning to get married and buy a house together. SHERRIE LINN: The thing that
seemed a little bit strange, I guess, was that she had
told me that he had just got a tattoo of Vickie on his arm. And I was thinking, well, you
know, that was kind of fast. But you're thinking,
you know, the wedding's coming kind of fast, but maybe
they're head over heels in love. And if you're older, you
think you don't want to wait. You want to go ahead and
build your life together. [TENSE MUSIC] Due to
COVID restrictions at the time, none of Vickie's
friends or family had met Jerry. But Vickie and Jerry were
planning their big day at Sherrie's house. SHERRIE LINN: Our place
was kind of like her place, so she felt like everybody could
be at ease and just have a party and celebrate the
new chapter that was going to start in her life. NARRATOR: Jerry started to pay
for the wedding preparations. SHERRIE LINN: Vickie was real
excited because he had given her a check for $15,000 for us
to go shopping and to get all the stuff to set up in the
back yard to make it all cute, you know, the table, settings. And I was, you know, really
looking forward to meeting him, because I had heard
all the good things that she had said about him. SHERRIE LINN: And
also he had taken her shopping to go buy
her the house on the lake that she had wanted. NARRATOR: August 7th,
2020, Vickie didn't turn up for a session at her spa. SHERRIE LINN: I know
Vickie's work ethic. She would not miss an
appointment, unless something bad had happened. We've got to find her,
something's going on. NARRATOR: Alarm
bells were ringing. Vickie's close-knit
family, friends and staff were concerned. SHERRIE LINN: Everybody
kind of went into action trying to call everybody we
knew, trying to figure out, you know, who could we call,
who was the last one to see her. [TENSE MUSIC] Vickie had been
staying with Jerry while she'd been recovering from COVID. Vickie's brother
and sister in law, tracked down Jerry's
address in Milton. They headed to his
house to find out if Jerry knew where Vickie was. When they arrived, Vickie's
car was in the driveway, the license plate removed. Vickie's sister-in-law called
911 to ask for a welfare check. NARRATOR: At the same time
as Vickie's sister-in-law was talking to the police, Jerry
Odum made a separate 911 call from inside the house. NARRATOR: Benjamin Posey was
one of the patrol deputies called to Jerry's house. BENJAMIN POSEY: When I
first arrived on scene, I talked with Derric,
Vickie's brother, and then also her sister-in-law. They didn't know very
much about Jerry. He just knew that
Vickie loved Jerry. She was willing to spend the
rest of her life with him. NARRATOR: The police
needed to find out if Jerry knew where Vickie was. BENJAMIN POSEY: We knew
he was inside the house, because we were just
on the phone with him not five minutes prior. The garage door opens up. I made contact with
Jerry and asked him if Vickie was
inside the residence and he responded with yes. And then he stated, I have
to tell you something. BENJAMIN POSEY: At this
point, we were in the garage. Jerry has his hand on the
doorknob in the garage door to make entry to the house. You could tell he
was very nervous because, he's very soft spoken. He didn't want his
voice to carry out to where the family could hear. And he opens the door
just a little bit. And before we make entry,
he stated again, ''I have to tell you something first.'' BENJAMIN POSEY: She's
been dead for two days. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] BENJAMIN POSEY: The first
thing that came to mind was she had a medical emergency,
whether she had a heart attack or there was a drug
overdose of some sort. You ask the question,
where's she at? She's in the living room. How did Vickie die? He responded with, ''I'd rather
not say without a lawyer.'' NARRATOR: The case
was escalated. Captain Scott Jones
headed to the house. SCOTT JONES: When I
went into the scene, Vickie Edge was
covered with a blanket. I very carefully
pulled the blanket back and I could observe
blood spatter on her and I could observe a
large amount of blood near the back of her head. However, the scene
itself was fairly contained to the living room. It didn't look like there had
been a long, violent struggle. It looked like it
had mostly occurred there right in the central
part of the living room. NARRATOR: Lieutenant Lance Bird
is an experienced crime scene investigator. LANCE BIRD: It didn't appear
to be a natural death. The circumstances obviously
wasn't pointing towards any kind of natural death. SHERRIE LINN: You don't believe
things like that are going to happen, so you just don't. You know, my, my mind
couldn't go there, that something that
tragic was was going on. NARRATOR: As crime scene
investigators worked their way through the property. Jerry Odum was
being interviewed. LANCE BIRD: So Jerry was
very, I'd say, laid back. He was really a matter of fact. LANCE BIRD: You
could tell he really wanted to tell us his story. DR. JULIA SHAW: Loads of
people lie at the beginning of relationships. There's actually a term
for it in the literature, which is called
''self-presentation lies''. Lying about who you are or some
fundamental aspect of who you are, so that can also
include things like beliefs or how wealthy you are. If you lie at the
beginning, the question is either do you reveal
relatively early on that you've been lying or do you
keep running with it, in which case, at some
point you are almost certainly going to get caught. And then the question is, what
do you do when that happens? SHERRIE LINN: I
think she thought he was comfortable enough
for her little dream of a little house, away from
the city where she could kind of just be out in the country
and just slow down and not have to work so hard. She thought he was stable. SCOTT JONES: I could not
believe what I was hearing. It was the strangest
reason for murdering someone I've ever heard. LANCE BIRD: He was just a
matter of fact about it. Didn't didn't cry, didn't have
really a whole lot of emotional, you know, he wasn't breaking
down or anything like that. It was just detail after detail. NARRATOR: Jerry Odum's weapon
of choice was significant. Back at the crime
scene, police discovered the murder weapon,
covered in blood and the original packaging. SCOTT JONES: When
we found the bat, it still had a receipt taped on
it from Walmart, which would be crucial for locating, hopefully,
some video surveillance to indicate that he was the
person who purchased that bat. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] [TENSE MUSIC] The
receipt helped the police to pinpoint the exact date,
time and location where the baseball bat was purchased. LANCE BIRD: You can see them
coming through the entry door in this green
yellow jacket, walking through the entrance. We were able to follow
him around the store with different surveillance
cameras throughout the business. He's walking through
and he's looking. The baseball bat area is going
to be in that aisle or this row up here. So you can see him
walking straight to them. You can see when he's up
here, he's picked one out. NARRATOR: Jerry
Odum swung the bat vertically, not horizontally. LANCE BIRD: He's moving it
around trying to figure out if that's going to be the one
that he thinks is going to be able to actually kill somebody. He's not acting any way
out of the ordinary. To me, it doesn't seem
like it's bothering him at all, what he's about to do. I don't think at this point
he knew when it was going to happen, but it doesn't
appear that it's bothering him at all what he's
already got in his mind that he's going to end
up doing to miss Edge. LANCE BIRD: The video
footage shows us that the statement he
gave us was confirmed, and we also helped us kind of
put it together of his mindset for the whole thing. NARRATOR: Jerry Odum purchased
the baseball bat eight days before Vickie was murdered. DR. JULIA SHAW: What we're
seeing in the circumstance is someone who is struggling to
plan ahead beyond the next step. He's lying about who he is in
order to get in with this person and/or start this relationship. DR. JULIA SHAW: And this is the
same where he's using a baseball bat to kill this woman,
which obviously is a ludicrous strategy
to try and remove himself from the situation. So he's using consistently
short term strategies. NARRATOR: When you
examine the footage, it's striking how much he
reveals in the interview. DR. JULIA SHAW:
In some ways, you could say he seems to
be incredibly honest and he's done some
work really thinking about how it got to this point. And he made the decision, I'm
going to tell them everything. Probably because
he thinks, a, he gets to unload
all of this and b, he's probably
going to get a more lenient sentence for complying. DR. JULIA SHAW: All
the things he is saying are entirely
plausible explanations for how it got to this point. They're not reasonable
explanations, but they are plausible. Looking back at it, I think
that maybe because he did give her the check, I think he was
setting himself up to get found out if there wasn't any money. SHERRIE LINN: He had written
her a check that in a few days we were going to find
out was not any good. So I think that he was just
backing himself into a corner and. I guess he was a coward. SCOTT JONES: So at this point,
with his bizarre confession, we now have to determine whether
this was a premeditated act or was this something that
happened in the heat of moment. The difference between
those is very large. The difference between first
degree murder, which you can receive the death penalty for
or second degree murder, which is a lengthy prison sentence. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: Mark Alderman is
assistant state attorney for the First Judicial Circuit. MARK ALDERMAN: In
the state of Florida, premeditation involves
a person making a conscious decision to kill. And between that conscious
decision and the act itself, there has to be
enough time for reflection. And that is ultimately
a question for the jury as to is there enough
time for reflection. That was one of the other
things that stood out about this case was the length
of time between him buying the weapon with the
intent to use it and then him using it on Vickie. It was eight days previously,
which is a huge amount of time to be planning to do that. That's incredibly cold blooded. NARRATOR: Jerry's interview
also helped shed light on why he chose a baseball bat. DR. JULIA SHAW: One thing
that we don't talk about very much, for obvious
reasons, because we're focusing correctly on the
victims of these kinds of extreme crimes. But people who perpetrate
these crimes also often come away with PTSD,
post-traumatic stress disorder, because they're having
flashbacks to what they did. DR. JULIA SHAW: So if
you've killed somebody, of course it's not
unlikely for you to have psychological
consequences for the act that you perpetrated. And so, trying to minimize
that seems like correct, because you are going
to otherwise be scarred for life by what you just did. NARRATOR: Jerry also
explained what happened after he murdered Vickie. LANCE BIRD: You would
think somebody who had just done that to somebody that they
cared for, that you would be wasn't able to get along with
your life like normal every day. Hey, I'm going to go just eat
a dinner and then, you know, just hang out like I
would any other day, after just murdering somebody. Knowing he was going to have
to go back and deal with it, it was obvious that
he had planned it out. And it didn't
bother him one bit. NARRATOR: The next day,
Jerry headed back home. NARRATOR: An interview
with the neighbors confirmed that Jerry had
spent the day with them, while Vickie's body
was lying in the house. NARRATOR: Vickie's
body had been lying in Jerry's house for
more than 30 hours before it was discovered. MARK ALDERMAN: Jerry
Odum, you know, he could have called the
police after this happened, but he did not. You know, two days later is when
the police show up at his door. So at the end of the
day, I'll never know what he ultimately intended. I mean, he took some steps
to try and cover his tracks, in some ways. He put her phone in
a bucket of water. He took the license
plate of her car, trying to hide the fact that
her car was in the driveway. [JERRY'S VOICE] MARK ALDERMAN: He
claimed that he was planning on
calling the police, but just didn't
get around to it. I don't know if
that's true or not, but had her friends and
family not looked for her and, you know, been very
active in trying to find her, he would have had several more
days to do whatever he was going to do, whether it was, you
know, trying to hide the body or dispose of evidence. NARRATOR: Jerry had no
previous convictions, but a police interview
with his former girlfriend revealed a chilling
pattern of behavior. NARRATOR: There was clearly
a disturbing similarity between Jerry's relationships. But this time, why did
he resort to murder? DR. JULIA SHAW: Maybe
his ego is so fragile that he felt that the only
way to get past the situation is to remove her from the
situation from his life. Jerry Odum fits the profile
of a vulnerable narcissist. In other words, he is presenting
as amazing, as wealthy, as rich, but he doesn't quite believe it. And that is a toxic mix,
which can lead to someone doing terrible things. NARRATOR: The evidence
was overwhelming. The case never went to trial. NARRATOR: In February
2021, Jerry Odum pleaded guilty to first degree murder. He was sentenced
to life in prison. SCOTT JONES: The
video surveillance was crucial in proving that
this was a premeditated murder. In the video, as
you've seen, you can see the bat was
bought specifically for the purpose of murdering
Vickie Edge, which proved definitively that this was a
premeditated murder and not a heat of passion type of crime. NARRATOR: Ultimately, Vickie's
close relationships with family and friends led to the
discovery of her murder. MARK ALDERMAN: The fact
that people cared about her and missed her almost
immediately from the day she was killed is
ultimately what led to Jerry Odum being convicted. SHERRIE LINN: I
want Vickie to be remembered for being a strong,
intelligent woman, that was very giving. A lot of the people
in our community are always going
to remember Vickie. She was always so
happy and full of life and made everybody
around her happy. And it was just always peaceful. We're all missing her a lot. And I wish she could
have got to have the life that she was dreaming about. NARRATOR: In the
case of Vickie Edge, she never really knew what her
partner was like until the very last moments of her life. Jerry Odum's fear
of being found out led him to a lethal solution. His behavior fits with research
on our darkest character traits. DR. JULIA SHAW: The dark
triad is a cluster of what are called dark personality traits. What that means is that all
of us are on a spectrum, on psychopathy, on narcissism,
and on machiavellianism. And people who are
high on the dark triad are higher on one or
all of these traits. Psychopathy is a lack of
empathy is characterized by manipulativeness. Narcissism is an inflated
sense of self-worth, but that can stem from either
actually believing you're amazing or overcompensating,
because you don't really believe you're amazing. DR. JULIA SHAW: And
then, machiavellianism is more of a strategic
manipulation of circumstances to get ahead. In other words, you're using
strategy to try and convince someone that you're
better than you are and you're manipulating someone
on purpose to get what you want. In this case, to maybe have sex
and/or have this relationship. Research on the dark
triad in the context of romantic
relationships has found that people who are
dating someone who's high on the dark triad are much
more likely to be the victims of violence and of manipulation
or other toxic relationship behaviors. NARRATOR: And in our next
case, sometimes dark traits can remain dormant
for a very long time until stressful circumstances
cause them to manifest. NARRATOR: In the UK, the
capital, London, Euston station in the heart of the city. In October, 2022, a man was
found collapsed on the platform with multiple stab wounds. [POLICE] NARRATOR: His name,
Philip Dafter. He was incoherent, but the
police were so concerned, they wanted to check
on his wife nearly 70 miles away in Northampton. NARRATOR: They headed
to the family home, but the doors were locked. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] [POLICE] NARRATOR: Diana Dafter was dead. NARRATOR: Amber Haque is a
journalist based in the area. AMBER HAQUE: Diana Dafter
was a 36-year-old woman. She'd moved over to
Northampton from Malawi, and she'd worked at a care home. Every job that Diana had
was looking after people. AUBREY MAKWE: Diana was
my sister's first born. Since childhood, Diana
was a very bright kid. So upon completing her studies
at secondary school level, she asked me if I could invite
her to come and continue her studies in the UK. I agreed, I accepted. Diana was really a child to us. NARRATOR: Dalia Banda was
a close friend of Diana. DALIA BANDA: We were
very close and she was just like a little sister
to me, she was beautiful. And all the time when we
have like family gatherings, she was so bubbly. NARRATOR: It wasn't long
before she met someone. AMBER HAQUE: She met
her husband, Philip, who had worked in the army,
then went on to drive a bus and become a HGV driver. They got married and they
had two kids together. AUBREY MAKWE: Throughout
their marriage, they used to like social media. Everything they were doing, they
used to post it on Facebook. You know, going to restaurants,
going to fancy places. DALIA BANDA: It looks like they
were in love, that's what I saw. NARRATOR: Life was good. As the kids grew up, their
social circle expanded and she met new people. HEATHER MALOPA: She was kind,
she was loving, she was gifted, she was talented. She used to do hair,
she could bake cakes. She actually started
her own little business where she could grind like the
white maize, turn it into flour. And she used to
sell it to people. NARRATOR: Diana also had
professional ambition. HEATHER MALOPA: She
has always said, you know what, I
want to go to school. She really wanted to to
be a nurse, for the love of caring for people. NARRATOR: In 2022, Diana's
dream came one step closer when she was accepted
onto a nursing degree at Northampton University. DALIA BANDA: When she got her
student ID, she was very excited and she was talking about it
all the time when you meet her. She was the happiest
I've ever seen her. We thought everything is
now, well, she's happy, she's got a loving
husband, she's got two beautiful
children, she's working. Happy families, good friends. We thought everything
is going perfectly. NARRATOR: On October 7th,
2022, everything changed. She dropped her
daughter off at school, but this was the last
time she was seen alive. Three hours later. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: She was
discovered stabbed to death in her own home. [POLICE] AUBREY MAKWE: Police
say that they found her lifeless body in the house. It was the whole
world crashing down. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] AMBER HAQUE: She'd
been stopped five times and a post mortem
a couple of days later showed that she had
died from a single stab wound to the chest. DALIA BANDA: It was just
like, this is not true. Diana is just young,
she can't die now, Why? [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The police checked
hours of CCTV to piece together what happened that morning. The first key footage was
from the local supermarket. Diana's husband,
Philip, was seen buying a set of kitchen knives. Professor Coral Dando is
a forensic psychologist. After reviewing the video, she
noticed something intriguing. PROF CORAL DANDO: He's
picked up a packet of knives. He shows his proof of age
ID to the shop assistant. He makes no attempt to
conceal his identity. He's got a hood
on, but he chooses not to put that up, which is
an interesting observation. And he just quite
coolly, quite calmly buys these packets of knives
and he's used his bank card to pay for the knives. So he's made absolutely no
effort to conceal his identity. NARRATOR: Professor
Vasilios Karagiannopoulos is a cybercrime expert. One has to wonder
who buys kitchen knives at 9:00 in
the morning without actually buying anything else. We can see him, he's
being very casual, as if he's shopping
for his daily shop. NARRATOR: Philip
Dafter was caught on camera again an
hour or so later, approaching Northampton station. DR. VASILEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS:
Now, in this footage, it's later in the
morning, we see him walking to
the train station, after he has parked his
car, holding a bottle. What we can clearly see is
that he has changed clothes. NARRATOR: Philip headed to
London, an hour long journey. DR. VASILEIOS
KARAGIANNOPOULOS: We can see he doesn't look
as calm and collected, his stumbling about. NARRATOR: When he got to Euston,
he staggered onto the platform, met by Transport Police. [POLICE] NARRATOR: Philip Dafter
was delirious and in danger of bleeding to death. PROF CORAL DANDO:
This officer here, who wants to assess
what's going on, to make some sort of
immediate decision about whether his life is
threatened by his injuries or not. Because they've got to
wait for an ambulance. And that will take some time. And they're all standing around
and recognizing that this is a man in some sort
of mental distress as well as physical distress. NARRATOR: He revealed that his
wounds were self-inflicted. [POLICE] PROF CORAL DANDO: Nobody's
comfortable in that environment, because
they're worried about his physical injuries. But they're also,
we're seeing here that Philip is in quite a lot of
mental and emotional distress. PROF CORAL DANDO: And, of
course, individuals who are like that are unpredictable. So everybody is standing
around worried about what might happen next. NARRATOR: The family
were in shock. AUBREY MAKWE: These
things we used to just read them
in the newspapers or hear about them on TV. And now that has happened
to me, to my family. It was as if somebody
had just taken a knife and stabbed me right there. DR. VASILEIOS KARAGIANNOPOULOS:
On the face of it, he seems very
distressed at this time, but we have seen him being
very calm earlier, closer to the time of the murder. AMBER HAQUE: Philip
Dafter was airlifted to Saint Mary's Hospital
in Paddington, where he was treated for a stab wound. NARRATOR: In his hospital bed. Philip Dafter
admitted that he alone was responsible for
his wife's death. AMBER HAQUE: It was at this
point he confessed that he had been driven to do this to
Diana, following an argument about this car issue. [POLICE] PROF CORAL DANDO: I
think the police believe that he might have scored. I also suspect that the officer
thinks that he might try to end his life
or self harm again as soon as he leaves hospital. And so by arresting
him, that means as soon as he leaves hospital,
he can go into police custody. PROF CORAL DANDO: We've
got this sort of behavior from Philip where he's just
quite accepting of his fate. He recognizes, I
think, that he's going to be convicted for murder. I suspect it's just a carry over
from the psychological distress associated with
murdering your wife. HEATHER MALOPA:
She was murdered, and you were like, why? Everyone was asking why. What happened? What did she do that she
had to be killed in that way and no one had the answer. Philip only had the answer, and
he was not there to explain why, why he did it. [POLICE] When it comes to
extreme violence, things like psychopathy on
the dark triad really help. In other words, if
you're low in empathy, you don't feel pain when other
people are in pain, for example, it's much easier
to hurt somebody. And that combined with
wanting to get ahead or wanting to pursue
goals no matter what, and maybe thinking
that you deserve more, you deserve the world. That combination is really
predictive of violent offending. AMBER HAQUE: We already
know that domestic violence is a huge issue within violence
against women and girls. And what is so tragic
about this case and so many others
is a woman is most likely to be killed in her own
home by someone that she knows. In 60% of cases, women are
killed by their husbands or their ex partners. AMBER HAQUE: Just six
days after the stabbing, doctors arrived to do a mental
health assessment on Philip. And he told them that this
was a moment of madness and he had been driven
to do this to Diana. NARRATOR: Philip had confessed. But was it an emotional loss
of control or a deliberate final access control? AMBER HAQUE: During the trial,
Philip tried to claimed that he had diminished responsibility. Details started to come out of
his mental health background. He said he had these
recurrent depressive episodes and that in the
buildup to the killing he'd become quite withdrawn. Now, it's difficult to say
whether these were kind of brought up as excuses almost
to build up a picture that he wasn't really in control or
whether this was somebody who was doing something
very calculated in the picture they were trying
to put across to the jury. NARRATOR: Digging into
Philip and Diana's relationship revealed a not so
picture perfect life together. AUBREY MAKWE: He was very
jealous of Diana going to work. At break times, he would
force Diana to go home. In his mind, he was thinking,
if Diana is at work during break times, she'll be meeting men. Men will be talking to her. NARRATOR: But it seemed Philip
did not live by his own rules. In court, it came to light that
he'd had extramarital affairs and Diana planned to leave. Diana had suspicions
that Philip was cheating on her at various points. And so we would say probably
cracks were starting to show. On the 7th of October,
when Diana came home from dropping the kids
off, that was when things really hit crisis point. The couple started
having an argument and things began to escalate. Philip stabbed his
wife a number of times. NARRATOR: Philip
replaced the broken knife immediately after
he'd killed Diana, which he later used on himself. DR. JULIA SHAW: Why
did he kill her? Is it because he wanted
to cover up his shame? Is it because he couldn't
see another option? It seems to me like
there was something else going on in his mind. And it was the line of thinking,
which is most common when we're looking at intimate partner
homicide is the line of if she finds out, she's going to
leave me, if she leaves me, she's going to be
with somebody else. And if I can't have
her, no one can. That kind of thinking,
that kind of pathway is so common in
intimate partner murder, that it would
shock me that there wasn't some version of that
playing out here in his mind as well. NARRATOR: On July, 25th,
2023, Philip Dafter was sentenced to life in prison. The jury arrived
at their verdict after deliberating
for just two hours. AMBER HAQUE: When you
look on the surface level that it took this jury just two
hours to reach this conclusion, that's quite quick for a jury
to to reach a deliberation. Sometimes it can take days. So it seems in
their mind they were pretty certain that this man
intended to kill his wife. PROF CORAL DANDO:
I think it's about trying to alleviate his own
psychological discomfort associated with his behavior. His approach to doing that is to
injure himself, drink alcohol, and to just want to tell
everybody really that he's in some sort of distress. But ultimately, he's responsible
for his own current situation. And there's nothing to
suggest that that would be diminished responsibility. AMBER HAQUE: CCTV was
crucial in this case. It allowed them to make
Philip accountable for what he had done. They were able to see that he
was kind of trying to throw them off the scent and
some of his actions in the hours following that. They were able to get
that conviction for murder by proving that he
was being very calm and calculated in how
he behaved afterwards. DALIA BANDA: This
pain that I have for Diana's death it stays
with me for a long time, to be honest. I just don't
understand why and how someone would do such kind of a
thing to someone that they love. When I think about
all those things, it still brings the pain,
but Diana is no more and that I will never see
her again in this life. It is very sad for me. The impact of her
death has been massive. It's huge. It has changed our
life upside down. We have now to look
after the children. I would say to whoever is
watching this out there. There is always somebody
who is willing to listen, somebody who can help you. Please get out of
it and seek help. [END CREDITS MUSIC]
