BONUS: Patricia Aldridge and Mitchell Vickers (Snapped: Killer Couples)

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We had a murder which was done with a particularly gruesome amount of violence.

What we would typically refer to as a rage killing.

Everybody loved him, no possible enemy, so why would somebody want to murder him?

That's the day we got involved.

I do want to die here and murder him, but I come there for a reason to kill him.

You know, and I tell him I'm sending you to hell, boy.

It was very shocking.

Describing himself as being the murderer and the sole person responsible just didn't make sense.

It just didn't sound reasonable.

Her two basic motives: plain old-fashioned greed.

Love gone wrong.

Put those two things together, it's like pouring gasoline on fire.

I love this slave on my heart.

Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Huntington, West Virginia is a quiet community with deep roots.

This town sits right on the Ohio River, so it's a pretty location.

It's mostly middle-class, working-class people.

It's a close, tight-knit community.

On the afternoon of June 25th, 1998, local resident Denny Aldridge receives a concerning phone call from his brother Millard's wife, Patricia Aldridge.

My wife answered the phone and kind of quiet for a minute and she said, you need to talk to Trish.

There's something wrong with your brother.

He's missing.

I got on the phone with her.

I said, if you don't know where he's at, you can't go.

I said, call the police.

20 minutes later, a Huntington police officer arrives at the Aldridge residence.

Patricia explains that she last saw her 42-year-old husband at 7.30 that morning.

My brother was supposed to have a recall on his car, Dine, at 8 o'clock.

She stated that he had taken the van that she usually drove.

and parked it out on the street

and then had given her a hug and told her he'd meet her for lunch at about 11 o'clock.

Patricia had gone to Walmart and to the bank and had returned home shortly before 11 o'clock and Millard was not there.

She then proceeded on to work.

Patricia said that while she was at work, she made several phone calls trying to find Millard,

was not able to do so.

Millard, you could pretty much set a clockback.

He was very reliable on

his

daily life.

She became very worried, and so about two o'clock that afternoon, she returned home.

Patricia says her concerns grew when she entered the couple's detached garage.

She went back to the garage to see if he was there and she found bloodstains on the floor.

She then contacted her brother and called the police.

So

what they originally thought might be a missing person became something more sinister in nature.

When detectives arrive, they begin processing the scene and speak with Patricia.

She said that Millard was a cameraman for WSAZ.

At that point, I recognized who he was.

He would come to the courthouse and interview prosecutors after the conclusion of cases.

He always seemed like a very nice guy.

Born and raised in Huntington, Millard Aldridge came from humble beginnings.

Our life was simple.

We were country people.

My dad worked every day.

My mother was a housewife and she did side jobs at times.

I had one brother and I have one sister.

We're only three years apart in ages, so we were pretty tight-knit.

We went to CK High School, but unfortunately he didn't get to graduate from there.

My dad had got hurt and was off work and both of us ended up having to quit school and get jobs to make sure that we didn't lose our home.

He had got an interview for a janitor's position for WSAZ Channel 3 and luckily he got it.

With a keen eye for photography, Millard quickly found a new career path.

He worked his way up to be a journalist, photojournalist.

He loved what he did.

He felt like he was making a difference in our community by, you know, helping report the news in the Huntington area.

And becoming a photojournalist like he did was destined to be his thing.

That was his calling.

Two years into his career at WSAZ, Millard married his high school sweetheart.

They had a little girl first

and then they had a little boy.

Millard was a great father.

He loved his kids.

He took care of his kids.

Millard was such a caring person.

He never put himself first.

He was just an all-around, great man.

He gave it everything he had to make it work, but he ended up getting a divorce.

He was probably single for about four years and then he met Trish.

Next thing I know he's in love

and he wants to marry her.

Trish was always out for a good time, you know, always laughing and making jokes.

I thought she was great because she was making Millard happy.

She seemed like she was going to be a true partner for him for the rest of his life.

Patricia had one child from a previous marriage and he treated her, Jennifer, like his own daughter.

She loved Millard to death.

It might not have been her birth dad, but that was her dad.

And then they had a son shortly after they were married.

He was happy and proud.

That's what he wanted out of his life.

He wanted to be a loving father and a husband.

While Millard continued to build a successful career at WSAZ,

Patricia pursued her own interests.

She was real good at sewing and stuff like that.

She had her own business, which was called a stitching time.

She would make things for people,

costumes and outfits and blankets and different things.

Millard and Trish, they seemed happy as a couple, like they were going to grow old together and sit on the front porch in a rocking chair.

But after nearly two decades of marriage, the couple's future is suddenly in jeopardy.

With the finding of the bloodstains in the garage,

that elevated things quite a bit.

Once the area was secured, then the forensic investigators came in.

I observed a 55-gallon size garbage can that had been turned over.

Looked like a struggle took place.

The blood splatter indicated that this was a very violent attack.

It looked more like what we would typically refer to as a rage killer.

Coming up, authorities discover a second crime scene.

Generally speaking, the purpose for burning a vehicle is to destroy evidence.

And a tip to law enforcement puts a suspect in their crosshairs.

When human emotions are set ablaze like this, you don't know where the fire is going to go.

Hours after 42-year-old Millard Aldrich was reported missing by his wife Patricia, investigators in Huntington, West Virginia find evidence of a violent attack in the couple's garage.

We didn't find any weapons inside the garage, but there was a blood swipe on the floor.

It looked to me like somebody had tried to use something to maybe clean up the blood pool.

What was reported missing from the garage was Millard Aldrich and Millard Aldrich's vehicle, but there were no reports that anything else significant was taken from the garage.

There were no signs of break-in at all.

Didn't appear to be a robbery gone bed.

Someone had gained entry, either had access to the garage or was familiar with it somewhere.

Investigators canvassed the Aldridge's neighborhood, hoping that someone saw Millard leave home on his own.

This is the Westmoreland neighborhood of Huntington.

It's a kind of a bed and breakfast family neighborhood, so for this to have happened was very shocking.

The canvas turned up no results.

There was nothing unusual that was noted either during that day, the night before.

The next step the investigators would take would be to put him into the National Crime Database, the NCIC, and it alerts law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for this missing person or this vehicle.

Trish, she was worried about Millard, nervous because she

didn't know where he was at.

The whole family was hoping that he was still alive,

but everybody was just in shock, total shock.

I felt I had to do something to try to help find my brother.

Me and my sons and my nephew, we jumped in my van and we went on back roads that we used to run when we was kids.

Our hearts were singing, hoping still that he would would be found alive.

But there was less hope

of that happening.

Nearly 24 hours into their search, Huntington police receive a call from neighboring Cabell County.

A burnt vehicle was found up on 8th Street Road.

Immediately, there was the suspicion that this might be

Millard's missing car.

The vehicle was destroyed to such an extent that they could not make any determination of what make, model, or serial number might exist there.

There was a license plate that had been burned in half, but you could still read the first three digits.

And the first three digits on that license plate did correspond to the first three digits of Millard Aldridge's vehicle.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.

It was pretty safe to assume that this was Millard's vehicle.

Generally speaking, the purpose for burning a vehicle is to destroy evidence, so it was prudent to do a search in that area.

We had a lot of people out there.

We had people from the Sheriff's Department, a volunteer group.

The news had Kimber Cruz out there

covering as much of the search as they could.

A lot of the people that he worked with, they were all there, and it was a somber moment for everybody.

West Virginia State Police participated in the search of the area and it included cadaver dogs.

Less than a quarter mile into the woods, investigators make a gruesome discovery.

The body was maybe 10 to 15 feet over an embankment over the hillside.

It was in a state of decomposition.

And it was pretty apparent that there were some severe injuries to the face and head, enough to the point that he could not be immediately identified.

We got the phone call and said, we found a body, and we think it's Miller.

I was asked to go help identify the body.

Now, the hardest thing to do is identify your brother, but the only way I could do it was because when he was a young man, he thought he wanted a tattoo, an initial M on his shoulder.

And another thing, he had a scar on his right leg, and that's basically how I was able to identify my brother.

I didn't know what to do then.

I mean, I kind of fell to my knees.

That immediately changed things from a missing person to a homicide investigation.

When the body was carried out of the woods, Patricia was there with a couple of family members, and she did break down, kind of collapsed.

She was just

absolutely devastated.

I mean, crying beyond consoling.

It was just a sick feeling.

How could someone do something to take his life?

The sad irony of Millard's career, which was to put the stories of others on camera, is that his horrible and untimely death played out on camera and in the media that he served.

They

had

EMTs to transport Millard to the medical examiner's office to have an autopsy done on him.

The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was the severe blunt force trauma to the head.

This is consistent with the blood evidence that was found at the crime scene, and the ME's report described a dozen injuries, one of which was so severe it caused several fractures to the head and face.

For somebody to be not just beaten to death, but beaten multiple times to death indicates that there was a lot of rage involved in this crime.

It didn't look like it could be a random type of crime.

It looked more overkill.

It seems very personal.

It was somebody of either size or strength or both.

And so clearly we're probably not looking at a woman or somebody of small stature.

That caused us to go back and talk to family members and try to get an idea of who might be responsible for this type of a crime.

We're racking our brain trying to figure out who would want to hurt him.

He was the best man you could ask for as a friend, a father, a son, a brother.

Nobody in the family or the neighborhood would ever guess that somebody would hate him.

Nobody.

While interviewing Millard's family, detectives sit down with his 18-year-old stepdaughter, Jennifer.

Jennifer had information she might be able to provide with regard to the relationship between her mother and father.

By all outward appearances, this was an ideal marriage.

But Jennifer exposes a crack in her family's picture-perfect veneer.

In speaking to her, detectives learned that Patricia had an affair with a guy named Mitchell Vickers.

Given the statements, they have to explore Mitch Vickers.

Who's Mitch Vickers?

Is he the type of person that

could have harmed Millard Aldrich

because of this affair?

Two days into Millard Aldridge's murder investigation, authorities in Huntington, West Virginia have a promising lead.

According to Millard's stepdaughter, Jennifer, his wife, Patricia was having an affair with a man named Mitchell Vickers.

In speaking to her, detectives learned that Patricia would meet with Mitchell Vickers at Jennifer's apartment.

Jennifer had disclosed to us that she'd have knowledge about the affair, just her general dislike and suspicions of Vickers, and this box of letters that she got from Patricia.

A bunch of love letters between Patricia and Vickers.

Jennifer mentioned that Vickers had threatened her if she disclosed the relationship to Nord Aldridge.

She was scared of him.

We ran his name, ended up pulling the jacket on him.

Vickers had a fairly extensive record.

He was what you might call a career criminal.

Mitch Vickers was from the Barbersville area of Cabell County, which is just east of the city of Huntington.

He'd been involved in a lot of thefts and things like that and had had legal trouble in Florida and had been incarcerated there.

He had recently, we discovered, been convicted of a couple of burglaries and had worked out a plea deal.

Having pled guilty to those charges, he had asked for a delayed report date because his mother was in bad health.

He was permitted to be released from jail and was to report on June 29th to the authorities in Cavill County to be transported to the prison.

Detectives realized Mitchell had been released nearly a week before Millard was reported missing.

Mitchell Vickers is a person who is very large.

He is strong.

He's capable of extreme violence.

And so the nature of the injuries combined with the knowledge of the affair immediately moved Mitchell Vickers up to the top of the possible suspects list.

It raises questions.

With the discovery of the affair, it's now necessary to go back and talk to Patricia.

Detectives immediately contact Patricia at her home and press her about the state of her marriage.

Very shortly after the investigators begin to question her, she admits to the affair with Mitch Vickers.

Patricia admits that the affair began less than a year earlier in December of 1997.

But her ties to Mitchell Vickers began decades earlier.

Mitch Vickers and Patricia Aldridge had a relationship when they were much younger, back in the 70s.

Mitch Vickers had moved away and they separated.

But when Mitch returned to town in 1997,

They were reacquainted by one of Patricia's friends.

They

reconnected and that grew from there into a full-fledged physical affair.

I have to believe that the attraction to Mitchell Vickers, to Patricia, was the fact that he was almost the polar opposite of Millard.

Whereas Millard was a stable guy with a job, was a law-abiding guy, and Mitchell Vickers was a bad boy.

in and out of prison.

Patricia talked about Vickers being rearrested in February of 98.

And so when he goes back into jail, she told detectives that she ended the affair with Vickers.

She insists that she's not involved.

She's innocent.

She loved her husband.

And at that point, Patricia indicates that she's not sure if Mitchell Vickers is involved.

As detectives are wrapping up their interview, Patricia steps away to take a phone call.

Patricia says, hey, I've got somebody who wants to talk to you.

The person identifies as Mitchell Vickers on the phone.

And he said, I'm the one that did it.

I'm the one that killed that SOP.

He said, just leave my lady alone.

She didn't have nothing to do with it.

The obvious reaction immediately is just amazement.

We didn't know if it was a love story, gone bad.

We didn't know exactly what the motive was.

We had a little bit of a suspicion that perhaps Patricia had called him and convinced him to talk to the police.

In addition to confessing, Vickers had also offered to surrender himself and gave us an address and location to find him.

The detectives immediately leave to try to make contact with Mr.

Vickers.

At this point, he's not just a suspect, he's the suspect.

Coming up, detectives come face to face with Mitchell Vickers,

and an unexpected motive emerges.

I love this lady with all my heart.

How can I go to jail knowing that this ass

is going to be higher beating on her?

I never had a confession that was quite like this.

He had no remorse whatsoever.

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48 hours after Huntington police recovered Millard Aldridge's body, his wife's lover, 40-year-old Mitchell Vickers, surrenders to authorities.

It gives a location for them to pick him up.

When they encounter him, he's in a truck.

He gets out of the truck.

He's shirtless, and they obviously put him in a cruiser and transported him to be interviewed.

The detectives take him to the barracks in Capill County and Mitchell Vickers voluntarily gives a statement at that time.

In his statement, Mitchell Vickers talked about his relationship with Patricia Aldridge and the fact that they were in love with each other.

Run around with a friend of mine.

Their girlfriend knows Trish and somehow

my name came up

and

we decided that we would meet and just kind of discuss what you've been doing with your life for the last 18 years.

First time we met, we met at Cono Lodge.

That's before Christmas.

It's very obvious we still had feelings for each other.

One thing about your mother, you know, and I felt right towards Christmas.

Picker stated that the reason why he killed Millard Aldridge was because Patricia had told him that Millard was very abusive.

She has told me things, for instance, that Millard was nothing but a drug.

He beat on her, he slaps her around,

he treats her like a piece of

according to Mitchell.

Things came to a head when he was recently sentenced for his burglary charges.

I went berserk.

I went crazy.

You know, I love this lady with all my heart.

How can I go to jail knowing that this ass

is going to be out here beating on her?

And I decided, man, no, I'm going to prison.

I'm going to put a stop to this.

You know, I mean, I can't have friends.

You know, I know I can't.

And I'm a goddamn, I'm not going to let anybody else have turned it.

What did you decide to do?

I found their address.

I went down there.

I walked in their garage approximately 4.30 that morning.

And how did you get into their garage?

The door was open.

I waited and away.

Daylight came until it was probably down at 8 o'clock.

I guess he'd finally come out of their garage.

He's carrying a bag of trash with him.

Vickers said that when Millard entered the garage, Vickers attacked him.

First with a pipe and then beat him with a claw hammer and then stabbed him with a screwdriver.

And then I grabbed a crescent wrench, which was hanging on the wall.

I grabbed it.

I started beating him with him.

He was screaming, you know, fish hell, fish, hell.

You know, and I told him, I'm sending you to hell, boy.

You.

This one was a chilling confession

because of the cold and calculating manner in which he spoke about murdering someone.

I never had a confession was quite like this.

When I knew that he was dead, I drove him around, told him in a chalk with his car,

walked over to try to clean up my mask, you know, I looked at the blood trail tomato.

Okay, what did you do after that?

Vickers describes driving the car up to 8th Street Road near Skyview Drive.

He disposed of the body, dropping it over the side of a hill,

and then poured gasoline on the car and set it on fire and hitched a ride back to town.

I didn't know I would do anything like this, but I cannot let somebody beat up for somebody I love.

He seemed to be extremely proud.

He leaned back in the chair, arms folded, shirtless, as if he were bragging about what he'd done.

Almost as if he's trying to make himself out to be the hero rather than the bad guy in this.

Trish ain't got no doofy.

Now I'm saying it all on the own.

You know, Trish didn't know anything about this.

Vickers was extremely adamant about taking all of the blame himself, and that just

even more raised suspicions because if Patricia wasn't involved, there would be no reason for him to even mention her.

Following his confession, Mitchell is transported to the Huntington Police Department to be charged with first-degree murder.

News crews eagerly await his arrival.

A suspect reportedly called police to confess to the murder of WSAZ photographer Millard Aldrich.

Where does he belong?

Long and hell just what I'm doing.

I was at Millard's house with Trish and Millard's mom and it come on the news

and

Mitch Vickers is on there.

They've got him in handcuffs.

He's cussing everybody, saying that Millard was a terrible person.

He deserved to die.

He was a wife beater and a child abuser.

I mean, we're all in shock.

Glad that they arrested him.

But where did he get this information from?

He also apparently had a motive.

He said it was over a relationship with a wife.

When investigators circle back to Millard's family members, They say that in hindsight, they believe Millard must have been suspicious of his wife's infidelity.

I could tell that something was bothering him a lot.

Patricia wasn't really paying attention to him like she was and she wasn't the happy-go-lucky smile.

I think he might have kind of knew, but he didn't want to know.

He didn't want it to be real.

You could tell Patricia was a little bit nervous about all of it, but she was still trying to act like the innocent

person in all this.

A lot of what I felt was a gut feeling that she wasn't being truthful.

Family members are adamant that Millard has never been abusive.

Everybody that knows him knows he wasn't.

All of that kind of raised red flags.

Everything we had up to that point said, no, that's not true.

Since Patricia had allegedly fed this information to Mitchell, Investigators have growing doubts about her story.

Looking for clues, they compare her previous statements to the forensic evidence found at the scene and hit pay dirt.

Luminol was applied to the crime scene in the garage, and it was apparent that there had been a vehicle parked where the violence had taken place.

It cast a lot of doubt to the explanation Patricia gave about Millard parking the van in front of the house before leaving.

So we wanted to take a closer look at the van.

There are a lot of unanswered questions at this point.

Patricia had made a statement that the last time she saw Millard was when he pulled her vehicle from the garage around to the front of the house and parked it along the curb.

We went back to examine Patricia's van, and it didn't take long to find some bloodstains.

There was a couple of stains that were on the passenger side rearview mirror.

But then I looked up in the wheel well up above the tire, and that's where I saw a lot of impact spatter, meaning that that portion of the vehicle would have been adjacent to the beating as the beating was taking place.

That says the van had to be in the garage when the blood

got on it.

It made it very plain and obvious to me at that point that she was lying.

Investigators immediately bring Patricia Aldridge into the station for questioning.

At this time, Patricia was confronted with this evidence and she indicates that she wants a lawyer.

Clearly she knew about it and had some kind of involvement in it.

Investigators don't have enough evidence to hold Patricia, so they let her go.

On June 27th, a local couple contacts police after seeing Vickers' arrest on the news.

The day after Mitchell Vickers was arrested,

the police received a telephone call from Cheryl Kowalski.

Cheryl Kowalski is a friend of Patricia's.

Cheryl's husband, Ronald, had spent time in jail with Mitchell Vickers.

Cheryl says in January of 1998, Mitchell contacted her husband Ronald with a proposal.

Cheryl tells police that Mitchell Vickers had approached her husband and offered money to kill Mildred Aldrich.

So detectives interviewed Ronald Kowalski.

He provided the cooperating information.

He had a video that showed Patricia Aldrich and Mitchell Vickers at his home Christmas of 1997.

Patricia was sitting on Vickers' lap and kissing him, hugging him, essentially carrying on like teenagers.

A month later, Mitchell had returned to Ron and Cheryl's home.

Ron said that Vickers had approached him, asked him if he wanted to earn some money.

He had been offered $7,500 to kill Millard Aldridge, but he refuses.

According to Ronald, it wasn't just Mitchell who wanted Miller dead.

According to Ron, there was another time where he was approached, this time Patricia Aldridge and Vickers together.

Patricia asked Ron if he would be willing to kill her husband and described that she wanted him out of the picture.

The statement of the Kowalskis are important because it doesn't isolate Mitchell Vickers as being a lone person seeking to have Miller Aldrich killed.

It clearly shows that this was a joint enterprise on their part.

As for why Patricia wanted her husband dead, her friends believe they know the answer.

Patricia had described that the reason she couldn't leave her husband was because it all boiled down the money.

She couldn't make it financially on her own.

When investigators obtained the Aldridge's financial records, they learn why.

Patricia was a seamstress.

She had a business called Stitch and Time that eventually went bankrupt and closed.

Millard Aldridge worked for WSAZ-TV here in Huntington, and they had a policy that if her employee got killed, they would pay a year's salary to that employee's beneficiary.

I was talking with the bookkeeper at WSAZ,

and I will never forget what the lady said to me.

She said, Honey, that's not where the money is.

She said, It's finished 401k.

I said, How much?

And she said, Around $250,000.

Mitchell Vickers is in custody for the confessed murder of Millard Aldridge.

But now friends of Millard's wife, Patricia, have come forward accusing her of being a co-conspirator.

Patricia indicates to some friends that she was not financially able to make it on her own by merely divorcing him and that eliminating him was the solution solution to her problem.

She would have been the beneficiary of the 401 and the life insurance policy.

So there was at least $300,000 there that she would have received.

On July 1, 1998,

Through his attorney, Mitchell Vickers had made contact with the prosecuting attorney's office and agreed to give an additional statement.

He's been informed that the original motive that he gave, the belief that Millard was abusive towards Patricia, was false.

Once he's confronted with that information, it becomes clear to him that at least in some part he was used by Patricia, and so he's no longer shielding her from everything that happened.

I love Trish.

I love this slave on the heart.

She

has a buffalo me.

She got me to believe him,

without a doubt, her husband was a real fake.

I don't even know the man.

He detailed the motive for the crime being the financial motive.

She'd been wanting to get rid of him for a long time.

She offered me $10,000.

She asked me to do it.

Finally, I agree.

And so he describes Patricia having set things up at the house.

She disabled the motion light.

She unlocked the door to the garage.

He explained that he committed the act after Millard walked into the garage

and that he stuffed Millard's body in the trunk,

took the car up to A Street Road, Skyview Drive area.

Dumped Millard's body out.

She was right behind me in her van.

Work gas all over her car inside and out.

Twitched it, jumped in her van.

We took her.

Patricia then drove him to Walmart where she gets him a change of clothes.

And she took me from there, took me over to a buddy of mine's house going high and drove me home.

That's when I guess she went home and everything for me.

So the additional information that Vickers now gives us further cemented Patricia's involvement in this murder.

She is a principal of the crime, just like the person who wielded the hammer.

So at this point, she will be charged with first-degree murder.

On July 3rd, Millard Aldridge is laid to rest, surrounded by friends and family, including Patricia.

We're at the funeral home, and her still doing the boo-hoo, dear poor widow.

What about me thing?

We all knew that she was involved.

It was so hard for all of us to just

grin and bear it.

We got to the cemetery and they lowered his coffin into the ground and

we started filling it up.

That's when the police came up and arrested her.

Poetic justice of her getting arrested at the cemetery.

That was just

karma.

Just a week after her husband Millard was found beaten to death, his wife was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Despite confessing to Millard's murder, Mitchell Vickers takes his chances at trial on May 4th, 1999.

We had corroborating evidence, but the most compelling evidence was his confession.

I do not die or murder planned.

I come here for a reason to kill him.

Mitchell Vickers was found guilty of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life without mercy.

We would have preferred the death penalty, but

West Virginia doesn't really have that on the table.

Patricia Aldridge's trial gets underway on August 24th, 1999.

So we had to connect all those dots to clearly show that she was intimately involved in the planning and the murder of her husband.

It was hard

to find out how much involvement she had.

Just having Millard murdered by her lover was bad enough.

But to find out that she helped plan everything,

a death for hired.

That's what it was.

She was the mastermind of it all.

Her selfishness, her greed, everything is about her.

Mitch killed Millard

because he loved Trish.

He would do anything for her.

Affairs deal with human emotions, and human emotions are set ablaze like this.

You don't know where the fire's going to go.

On August 26th, Patricia takes the stand, attempting to refute the state's claim that this was a cold-blooded conspiracy.

Patricia Aldridge maintained that she may have been involved with Mitchell Vickers,

but that he took it upon himself to do this.

Mr.

Vickers testified in her trial and recanted his second statement that she was involved.

That was just total selfish stupidity on my part.

to drag an innocent person in such a

serious charge situation that I mean she didn't do anything bad.

In Mitchell Vickers world, one of the worst things you can be is a snitch.

And as much as anything, he may well have testified at that trial to rid himself of being a snitch.

Mitch Vickers truly loved her and I think he tried to save her one last time.

Following a three-day trial, the jury reaches a verdict.

Patricia Aldrich was found guilty of first-degree murder.

Her sentence was life in prison with no possibility of parole.

They got exactly what they deserved.

And I don't lose a minute to sleep over it.

There are two basic motives that come forward in this particular case.

One is money, plain old-fashioned greed.

The other is love gone wrong.

Put those two things together, it's like pouring gasoline on a fire.

I think it was just a fatal attraction that they just couldn't get out of their system.

Patricia, I really don't understand how you could do this

and tear a family up

and take a great man not just from us but your kids, his kids.

How could you do this?

I just wish he was here.

I wish he was here.

my brother will be remembered in our family to me as one of the most loving caring devoted persons that you could ask for

hopefully his legacy

people will still remember and it will live on i know it will live on in our family as long as we're here

patricia aldrich is currently incarcerated at lacon correctional Center in West Virginia and is not eligible for parole.

Mitchell Vickers died in prison of hepatitis C in 2002.

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