because she played these games, my son died. >> he says, i was so blind, so stupid, and so much in love. >> so we need to add call, tell me the number. so like that, right? hi, is this sharee? >> yes. hello. >> hey, sharee. it's juju chang calling. how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? >> i'm on the phone with sharee paulette kittly miller. she's a mom. she's a karaoke fan. but right now she's at the women's huron valley correctional facility in michigan. >> so i get up in the morning about 6:12.

i had a real job that i go to eight hours a day, come back, take my shower, make my food, i paint. i always have to be doing something. >> sharee miller is accused of using sex, lies, and the internet to get men to do what she wanted them to do. even if it meant breaking the law. >> it was like a video game and each man and each relationship was another level to me and each level was harder. maybe it was seeing how much i could get away with, how much i could make somebody believe. >> prosecutors say that sharee's online antics left two men dead. >> sharee's attorney says she's only guilty of creating a complex online fantasy life. >> most of it was sex chat. it would get very graphic and very detailed about going through sexual encounters over the internet.

and she would describe lesbian fantasies, and it would go back and forth. >> i spent hours upon hours online. talking to people. it's sex. i wanted to be in control of everything, obsessively in control of that man. >> you were an online sex addict? >> very much. >> sharee says she never told her whole story. and now, after years in prison, she says she wants to come clean on "20/20." >> well, this is the first time i'm going to tell the truth about this. >> this is the first time you're admitting this? >> yeah. >> you've got jail. >> sharee was born in flint, michigan, which is a town about one hour northwest of detroit. recent years, sadly, it's considered perhaps the epicenter of the rust belt.

>> when i grew up, flint was booming, and there were upwards of 200,000 people here. the plants were going, we had over 80,000 general motors jobs, and all the ancillary jobs that went with that. >> you didn't worry about going to college or getting -- you know, a trade degree or whatever, because gm was so big. everybody was just about guaranteed a job here. >> what do we want? >> jobs! >> when general motors pulled out, things turned. the 75,000 or so auto worker jobs were gone, down to about 7,500. >> hi, i'm michael moore. in my hometown of flint, michigan, general motors closed the factories. >> if you remember the movie "roger & me," the michael moore movie about all of the layoffs at various gm facilities there. that kind of sums it up for that city at that particular period. >> when gm left they tore everything down and it's just miles and miles of abandoned,

empty land that used to be productive factories. >> as far as where sharee was living, probably more rural. where there's several junkyards where people go and take cars or sell parts and do that kind of thing. >> growing up where i grew up, it was your normal, middle class neighborhood. every summer they sent us to florida with my grandma and papa where that was my safe space. >> she had a hard childhood. a product of several divorces that her mom had. different men coming and going in her household. >> she talks about being sexually abused. >> how old were you when you were first sexually assaulted? >> i want to say probably 3 or 4.

as kids, you take on, like, everything is your fault. i felt responsible in that moment, not understanding what i was feeling. >> she moved out early. she got married when she was 17. >> by the age of about 27, 28, she'd been married twice. she had three kids. >> as a single mom with three children, she really had to hustle. she worked as a representative for mary kay cosmetics. she worked in a nursing home and she also got a job doing the books at a local scrap yard called b&d auto that was owned by bruce miller. >> bruce miller was born and raised here in flint, michigan. did what a lot or people did, went to work for general motors. >> always into cars. he actually -- man, i'm thinking he's first car, because we used to have horses and stuff. he traded a horse for his first car at 16, 17 years old and was always into trying to race cars. >> he was a huge nascar fan. dale earnhardt was his favorite driver.

>> he just was a hard worker, went to work every day. fact, he stayed working on third shift, which is a hard shift to work 30, 40 years, but that shift allowed bruce to tinker at the junkyard. >> he was really close to retirement from general motors and he would've just had the junkyard to fall back on and do what he liked to do. >> to have a salvage yard with all those parts and all that stuff for him to play with was jut his idea of heaven. >> he also went through several marriages over his lifetime, he was married three times before. >> he had to be married. be a married guy. he knew where the court house was. >> bruce miller was a lot older than sharee, and he met her through the work at the salvage yard. >> this is a junkyard.

this is work. >> so what was the spark? who pursued whom? >> i pursued him. >> why? >> bruce was not interested. i pursued him. >> it was a short courtship between sharee and bruce. and their courtship was maybe four months. >> as soon as they started dating, she moved herself in with the kids. >> the 20-year difference in age between sharee and bruce might have raised some eyebrows, but this was a really solid man. >> he was a great family guy. he was a great husband. he treated her kids as his own. he was an all-around great guy. >> i think she didn't have really any place to live, no real stability for the kids. and so bruce provided that.

>> i asked him, "are you going to marry this one?" that was the first thing i said. he told me no.pwell, shortly af went to -- >> they went to vegas. >> they went to vegas. >> and we all at home thought -- >> they're going to get married then. >> sure enough, bruce and sharee elope at a las vegas wedding chapel. >> there was a beautiful picture of sharee looking into a mirror there. >> it was an odd coupling just by visualizing it and by the age difference. but at the wedding pictures, he looked happy. he liked to be married and she seemed happy. >> that wedding photo was taken in las vegas on april 23rd, 1999. by the end of the year, bruce would be dead. >> we opened the door and walked around the counter. around the counter. >> my brother-in-law is laying e

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had physically abused their infant son. >> the baby was crying and he had dropped him in the kitchen on the floor and he couldn't get him to quit crying. so he threw him, i think they said 4 to 6 feet, against a wall. >> if you were a person who had a grievance, and wanted to have a national audience listen to your concerns, you'd go to "the montel williams show." >> how much time did your husband get for this? >> 4 1/2 months with work release. >> why did you appear on "montel williams"? >> trying to change the laws in michigan -- the state of michigan gave him visitation rights, and made me show up with him so he could see his son. >> when she was on "the montel williams show," i think that started her craving for more attention. she was expecting people to be

really supporting her. but she never really got the recognition that she wanted. >> compared to some of sharee's preious lovers, her new husband bruce was a gem. >> he offered her stability, and as a mother with three kids that she needed to raise, that was attractive, but it wasn't enough. >> it didn't take long before she started taking advantage of all of this stability brought to her. she started spending a lot of bruce's money, including plenty on clothes and toys for her children. >> did you get everything you want? >> yup. >> then you're a spoiled, rotten brat. >> she's racking up his credit card. she racks up in that very short period of time, over $46,000 in credit card debt. and this is a man who's worked his whole life, paid his debts. >> well, she started paying things with one credit card and taking another credit card and paying them. that's how she was getting her -- without bruce knowing about money. >> i was on a spending spree. i ran up bruce's charge cards and took all the money in the

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think, of the '90s. >> aol at that time had these chatrooms where there would be a whole bunch of people talking about just about everything. >> her screen names were all pretty sexy. >> sharee had a lot of screen names. >> there were over a dozen of them, and they were all like, "look at me, i'm sexy." >> sexy kitten for you. just looking at her screen names suggested she was sexually active. >> she seemed to have a very high opinion of herself. >> how much time were you spending online? >> i didn't get up from in front of that computer. bruce worked at the shop and he had his business. so he was gone a lot. so i spent hours upon hours online talking to people. >> while sharee is perusing the internet, one particular screen name catches her eye. that's jlc1006.

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graveyard. i remember meeting him. someone goes, "oh, this is jerry. he's going to be on your shift." it was like, "yeah, we'll have some fun." >> it was gloria taylor and carol laughter. they kind of were like the big sisters he never had. they tried to guide him through life, tried to help him. >> my own personal feeling was that he was just going through a midlife crisis. trying to start over, but it wasn't working out. >> as far as i can remember, as he went to work for the casinos, that's when the drinking really picked up. he was depressed. >> in nevada, drinking and gambling is entertainment. >> it's a way of life. >> it's not seedy. it's right out in the open for everyone to see. he started drinking way too much, and he just spiraled. >> mom was having a hard time trying to find a job out there. money's getting tight. it led to fights. it led to arguments. she moved back to kansas city.

i stayed out with him. >> at some point in time during that, i guess he was meeting and conversing with women and stuff online. >> jerry, of course, is newly single, and he's looking for love. he goes on to aol and almost immediately finds the sexy sharee miller. and, boy, does it get hot and heavy in the chat room pretty quickly. >> i am all yours to do with me whatever you feel fit. >> the amount of instant messaging and emails back and forth is enormous. >> he's goin' through a divorce. he's drinkin' a lot. he's depressed. and he's havin' financial problems. sharee comes along. she's pretty, payin' attention to him, givin' him that male ego boost that he needed. but also, according to her, she's rich. >> she's telling him that she owns nursing homes, that she

owns a junkyard, that she has possible lawsuit settlements coming up soon that are going to give her riches. >> jerry, who has money trouble, sees somebody with money taking an interest in him. and of course he responds to that. >> i think she fulfilled his every fantasy. and he told me himself. he said, "mom, she is the woman of my dreams. i never dreamed i would ever meet anyone like her." >> right after bruce and i got married is when i met jerry for the first time. when i went to reno with my friend laura. >> what attracted you to jerry? >> for me, back then, it was like family at home. and then the dangerous side. so, like -- >> you were looking for danger? >> right. >> the weekend that she came into town, we all knew that she was coming in. and he was so excited.

and as soon as she hit the floor, he was taking her around and introducing her to gloria and i. >> she got all dressed up, put her best foot forward. >> i went to the table where he was dealing and played blackjack. and we kind of played like we didn't really know each other at all. and i know i was drinking a lot that night. it felt, like, dangerous and a little scared, but excited by it. >> not only does she meet him, but she sleeps with him. >> we knew the first time they spent the night together, i think the whole casino floor, the first night they spent together. >> at one point, she sends a photograph of herself wearing the same clothes that she wore that night to jerry.

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they were making plans to get together, live together. >> she sent me a long email, how madly in love she was with jerry, and how she wanted to make a home with him, and all of the plans that they had going down. >> sharee even sends jerry a video called "my family 1999." >> this is work. not as attractive as your work, is it., in thivio,erry is ngmages ofer children g, havg n, this beautiful domestic setting. and she's trying to show jerry that this is what your life canb sure youive wh us, the woman

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when you broke the news that that baby was gone, what did you say? >> i think i wrote him on a chat. i didn't tell him on the phone. he was devastated. >> devastated? >> devastated. >> devastation. absolute devastation. i mean, he was like, one minute he's the highest high and the next it's like, what happened? you know, you almost feel like you're scraping him off the floor. >> he tells sharee that she needs to leave her hsband. get away. >> "just leave bruce, come live with me, bring the kids, we'll live happily ever after." well, she said that bruce was involved with the mafia, and would beat her. >> well, we know it's not true because that wasn't bruce. >> very straight laced. >> he's never hit a woman in his life. you know what i'm saying? and then she says he's in the mob. it was just getting ridiculous what was going on there, and we knew that wasn't bruce. >> sharee was hot and cold. some days she loves him, some days she doesn't. sometimes she wants to come to

reno, sometimes she doesn't. >> "he'll find us. he'll put a bullet in our head. i can't leave him." but, on the same token, "i wanna be with you." >> despite the potential alleged danger from bruce, sharee keeps making trips to reno, and when she's there with jerry, he is ecstatic. but when she goes back home to bruce in michigan, he falls into deep depression. >> all of the turmoil involved in this relationship is hard on jerry, who doesn't deal with it well. and one night after getting off work at his casino, he goes to another nearby casino. >> he was playing blackjack and drinking. he got into some sort of a heated discussion. >> he gets belligerent. and finally they call security to usher him out of the casino. on the way out, he slams the

door, which hits one of the security people, which causes the police to come and arrest him. >> i got home from school that day, he wasn't there, which was strange. i got online trying to figure out if anybody knew where he was. that's when i was able to message a friend of his that he worked with. >> his son called me one and he said, "do you know where my dad is?" i'm like, "uh-oh." the first phone call i called was the jail, and that's where he was. >> so his family kind of gather around him and said, "listen jerry, you're not doing well out there. come back and be with family." >> i helped him move back to missouri. moved into a basement apartment and stuff with my cousin. >> he's got to work on his alcohol and addiction problems and so he begins going to aa. >> he was telling me he was going to church again and it

sounded like things were kind of coming back together for him, but he was, of course, still in touch with sharee. >> he carried that laptop everywhere. first thing he would do is connect with the laptop and get back on instant messages. it as a constant, constant deal and stuff. i could tell he was in love. that's what he wanted to spend his time doing. it's basically talking with sharee. >> jerry begins to receive word of new pregnancies, and in fact, it's twins. >> twins. this is huge news. and of course jerry is over the moon, especially because it happened so quickly after she reports her miscarriage. >> she was sending photos of the sonogram and her belly and that sort. jerry was just tickled to death to see, "here's my kids."

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we were good friends. me and bruce got along great. so i went to work for them down at the salvage yard. frame work, paint work, mechanic work. you name it, i did it. he'd give you the shirt off his back. that's just simple as it gets. >> but bruce miller's wife sharee is now deep into an affair.

she tells her lover jerry cassaday that he got her pregnant. and jerry is ecstatic about becoming a father again. >> then sharee informs him that bruce's violence terminated those pregnancies. >> and that terrible news will set off a series of tragic events. >> so bruce miller is just at work, a regular day for him. he's getting ready to go home, have dinner with his family. >> i had told bruce that i had ordered pizza and gave him a specific time that they said it would be done. >> and it's getting later and later, and bruce isn't showing up with the food. she calls chuck and judy miller, bruce's brother and sister-in-law, to go -- "please go to the junkyard and see if there's anything wrong."

>> well, she was all freaked out. he should have been home. and so it was like, "oh my god. where is he?" >> so i said, "well, i'll jump in the truck and go up to the junkyard and, you know, see if he's around there." and we opened the door and walked around the counter and he was laying on the floor in a pool of blood, and so i told her to call 911. >> genesee county 911. >> yeah, i need police and ambulance at b&d auto salvage. >> okay. what's the problem? >> my brother-in-law owns it, and he's laying on the floor and there's blood. >> okay. is he breathing? >> i don't think so. >> where's he bleeding from? >> it looks like from the head. >> he ended up laying face down. it was just a big pool of blood on the ground, like he hit his head. >> okay. you need to find out if he's breathing. >> i laid my hand on him, put my head on him, he was cold. >> he's cold. >> he's cold? >> he's stiff, yeah. >> they asked if we wanted to do cpr. >> he said there's no pulse, no nothing. >> does it look like he fell out of the chair and busted his head open?

>> no, it looks like something went wrong. i don't know, he said he thinks he's dead. >> the murder weapon was a shotgun. bruce took a blast right to the upper chest and neck. >> there was absolutely no evidence at all, no fingerprints, no footprints, no tracks, nothing. >> so about 2:00 in the morning, ives went to sharee's house and informed her of what was going on. >> and she is desolate. she is wailing on the floor crying. >> when you go to make a death notification, where you know there is violence, you're always watching how people respond. and if you're trying to hide something, it's not natural, so you got to be very methodical. we're always looking at body language, we're looking at how they should respond with these circumstances. >> but she seemed very appropriate. she was visibly upset, crying and after the first contact with her, i didn't suspect her. >> and he started asking me questions about who i thought it could be.

>> sharee had mentioned that bruce had problems with a gentleman named john hutchinson. >> i remember, like, me saying that john owed bruce money, which he did, and that they had been arguing about it. >> he had borrowed a large sum of money, which ended up being $2,000. i guess at that point you want to say he was our number one suspect. >> on the funeral, john hutchinson shows up with his wife to pay his respects to his friend bruce. >>e staramg and "mommy, mommy, daddy, daddy, g. he's the one who murdered my i to leave, so she would quit. >> 'cause i'm not welcome here after what's been done until this is cleared up, exact words. and that was a sickening feeling.

>> good morning, harold. it's scary! >> one of the big things that really helped us focus on john was his brother harold. >> this is sergeant kevin shanlian of the genesee county sheriff department. im with harold hutchinson. >> we begin talking to harold. >> we're talking about the murder of bruce miller. can you state your full name? >> harold made the statement that john had called him the day after the homicide and said, "everything's taken care of with bruce." >> you said that he was disposed of. that was his words? >> yes. >> what did he mean by disposed of? >> he means that he was gone. >> and gone means what? >> dead. >> not only that, harold told police that he actually heard his brother threatening bruce about that money he owed him. >> he said he was gonna kill him because of the money that he loaned him. >> and you thought he was serious? >> yup. >> i have no earthly idea where that comment came from, but yeah, did harold say it, yeah, 'cause harold's not all there. >> so now we got more reasons to go talk to john.

>> there was 50 police cars at my house surrounding me like i was a fricking criminal. and i had no idea in hell what was going on. confiscating guns, nobody could leave the house. it was a joke. they turned that place upside down, every little dust ball was moved. >> john did have an alibi to offer up to police, but it appears there was a questionable gap around the time of the murder. >> and they just said, "hey, he's lying." they ask you the same question a hundred times, and the answer was the same a hundred times, no, i didn't have nothing to do with it. >> so were you there? >> on the day that he was, no.p. >> no, i was not there. >> so somebody's lying to me? somebody's lying, that's guaranteed. >> police confront john hutchinson with their suspicion that he might be involved in a scheme to overcharge customers at bruce's lot. >> well, that's a pretty good motive for murder right there. because bruce was mad and gonna snitch you out on this. >> you're looking at the wrong person. >> no, i don't think so.

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that briefcase. >> this can't be happening. >> that's a special kind of evil. >> how do you understand somebody who kills as part of a game? >> i just wanted to do one righg thing before i leave this world. >> you have jail. >> 911 call from b&d auto parts reporting a possible doa. >> there's no pulse, no nothing. >> they find bruce murdered. >> he's laying on the floor and there's blood. >> any type of these investigations, when they're whodunits -- and that's what this was, a whodunit. we had no idea who done it. >> they wanted john hutchinson for the murder. that's the only suspect they had. >> i couldn't leave the state, couldn't leave the county. can't do this. don't do that.

and then, when you go somewhere, they look at you like a cockroach on a birthday cake. put yourself in my position. how would your life be? done. >> police give john a polygraph test, and the results are inconclusive. but they tell him he failed just to see what his reaction was. >> i believe at that time is when he looked at the polygraph machine and says, "oh, i'm [ bleep ]." >> and then he took the test again, and he failed. >> what do you think about these polygraphs you took? >> i think they're crap. >> i think you have a lot more knowledge than you are giving me. >> i wish i did. >> these denials are very weak, and he's giving us deceptive answers with his body language. >> you don't think you had any motive to -- to do anything to bruce? >> no, i don't. none whatsoever. >> usually when you have somebody accused of murder, they're pretty adamant about, "what -- what are you talking about?

what -- why do you think i had anything to do with it?" >> i think you are either directly involved or know a lot more than you are willing to give up,. >> investigations are very grueling for people because we have to use different tactics to elicit the truth. "you did it. you know you did it." which is hard to hear when you're in that box. >> it turns out that john hutchinson had once had a brief affair with sharee. could that have caused more tension? >> he'd actually slept with her, i think, before her and bruce got together. >> tell me about your affair with sharee miller. >> we slept together a couple times when me and my wife split up. >> later on, when bruce started dating sharee, john was quick to offer some advice. >> i thought he was making a huge mistake. because i knew she was a good road to go down for trouble. he said, "don't worry about it. i got it under control." "okay, i warned you." >> now, investigators have been

keeping the pressure on hutchinson for months but just can't make a case. >> we didn't have any hard evidence against him. nothing that actually said, "you're the guy." we're going to get a warrant for you. >> the weapon that we've taken from his house was a 16-gauge. we had learned from the crime lab that the shotgun that was used was a 20-gauge. >> sharee was upset about the lack of progress and stormed into the genesee county sheriff's department demanding to find out what's going on here. "what are you guys doing to solve my husband's murder?" >> at this point, the murder investigation has come to a halt until something incredible happens, 800 miles away. that changes everything. >> it involves that former homicide detective, jerry cassaday, who had been in

a hot and heavy affair with bruce's wife sharee miller. but now she's giving him the cold shoulder. >> the silence in his life was deafening. and then it starts to play in like, "wait a second. i am being kicked to the curb here." >> jerry was downstairs at his apartment in odessa, missouri. >> jerry sat down in a big easy chair. >> overlooking the lake. and he had a picture of his ex-wife, the mother of his son. he had a picture of his son. and he had a picture of sharee miller. >> there was a wedding ring on the windowsill. his divorce decree on a nearby table. >> and a bible in his lap. >> he opens it to

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the end of the affair with sharee miller drove jerry cassaday to suicide. he left that mysterious briefcase. >> not knowing jerry's state of mind at the time, they were going to x-ray it to make sure everything was safe there. >> so they had the bomb squad actually open the briefcase. of course, there was no bomb. >> now the family is gathered in

the attorney's office, and will find out what's inside. >> first, they read the suicide note he wrote to his mother that he had taped on the outside. jerry writes that he finally realized that sharee had been lying to him about her husband bruce. >> well, she said that bruce was involved with the mafia, was into money laundering. >> he'd already killed three babies and he would kill her. >> he saw himself as a white knight and she was a damsel in distress. >> he said, i went to flint, and i walked in the door, and i said, hi, i'm jerry. and i shot him." >> there was so much rage that he made sure he brought a shotgun, he hated bruce miller at that time. >> and then he said, i found out it was all lies, every bit of it. >> all for sharee, and she never

really loved me. it was all a game. >> and jerry goes on to say, i was just so blind and so stupid and so much in love. and he ends with, i'm so sorry, mom. i love you. >> my god, this was almost worse than jerry dying, to find out why he died and what it was all about. >> before, it was justifiable homicide in his mind. now it was first-degree murder. >> he judged himself, found himself guilty, and executed himself. that was his way of trying to make amends as best he could. >> now it's time to finally open that briefcase. >> we forced the briefcase open, and there were just pages among pages of information and stuff there. >> records of airline flights,

hotel rooms, emails and chat messages between jerry and sharee that seem to implicate her in her husband's murder. >> john o'connor says, we can lock this briefcase up. you can take it and throw it in orcan turn it over to the genee county sheriff's department. >> and the family had a hard decision to make. they were gonna ruin their son's reputation forever, calling him a murderer, or they can just shut the briefcase and go on with their lives. >> but that wasn't the point. the point was, she should pay for what she did. otherwise, two good men would have died in vain. >> john o'connor contacts authorities in michigan and says, i have some information you're going to want to look at. >> i got a briefcase here that indicates that sharee miller may have committed it, and i hung up the phone and said some rather

loud words that i shouldn't have said in the office. >> he was jumping around, saying, "she did it. i -- she did it." >> the detectives hop on a plane to missouri to bring that briefcase home. >> it was a treasure trove of evidence. it was a treasure trove of explanations they didn't have. >> i think the most damning thing in there is the instant message where they plotted the murder. >> a very intricate plan where they were going to meet at a rest area and sharee was going to give him her cell phone. >> where to park at the junkyard. when you go inside, don't ask him any questions, don't say anything, just kill him. >> great detail. i'm talking line by line, play by play, but their plan worked. and he would not have been able to put any of that together without her being the mastermind behind it. >> clearly, investigators need to speak to sharee miller, but at the time she's not in flint, michigan. where is she?

well, she's in reno, nevada, partying it up with her new boyfriend. >> why aren't you home mourning? why aren't you with your kids? why aren't you with his family? it's like, what the hell are you doing, woman? it's like, do you not feel anything? i mean, anything. >> the sheriff's department, they were waiting for them at the flint airport. took her back to the department and sharee was pretty sure she was still in good shape. >> do you know jerry cassaday? >> yes, i do. >> did you develop a relationship with him? >> no. >> nothing at all? >> a friendship. >> you never had a physical relationship or ever had sex with jerry -- >> no. >> -- with jerry cassaday? >> no. >> she had erased everything on her computer, but unbeknownst to her, jerry had not erased everything on his.

>> what would i tell you if i told you that jerry had saved his emails and instant messages that you and him had? >> i would tell you that you can change them, and you know that, and everybody knows that. i can change any email that somebody sends me. >> did you realize that they had you? >> i still thought that there's no way they're going to not believe me. if you say it, it's reality. >> isn't it true that you helped plan bruce's murder with jerry? >> no, it's not. no. >> she continued the lie, which is she had nothing to do with it. >> i have an email that lays it out right here in front of me about how you and jerry cassaday planned his murder. >> that's wrong. >> why would jerry even think about changing that? >> i don't have a clue. maybe because he was mad because i wouldn't have nothing to do with him. i don't know! >> they're fake, that's my response.

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prosecutors say that sharee and her lover jerry plotted over the internet to kill bruce. >> you've got mail. >> it was fueled by a steamy, sex-charged internet romance. >> it was eye-opening to me about the power of the internet. >> it was what everybody was talking about. you had the glare of a national audience watching. >> in what is being dubbed the nation's first internet-related murder. >> this case is about sharee miller manipulating and using her lover to kill her husband, bruce miller. >> and sharee, they dressed her very conservatively and modestly. >> it's like, that's her? >> because she had this suit on that she never would have purchased. they wanted her to look as innocent -- >> pathetic.

>> -- as dowdy as possible. >> yes. >> all the cassadays were there. and of course, bruce's family was there. >> we really didn't blame jerry. i mean, even though he was the one that pulled the trigger. >> we hugged and shed a couple of tears because we had both lost a son because of sharee. >> her lover, jerry cassaday, used a 20-gauge shotgun to kill bruce miller. >> marcy mabry was amazing as a prosecutor. >> she used a computer and his emotions to get him to do it. >> there may not be a bloody trail of evidence, but there's an electronic trail, and this is something new in the prosecutors' arsenal. >> the really only truth in the whole emails was that she was married, and she was a female. >> the jury needed to see while she may not have pulled that

trigger, she was the mastermind. >> they bring in deputies to begin reading passages back and forth. >> it made it easier for people to understand what was being said. they just read the words. but still, it rang in here. >> that exchange was a dramatic part of the court tv coverage. >> "want to make mad passionate love to you always. i am trying to leave, i will when i can." >> "honey, i hate that man, he will pay. no one is going to get away with the things he has done to you." brlled if you got together, you got married, and you decide, "okay, this isn't really what i want after all," walk away. >> it seems that the only plausible motive is money, but she got tens of thousands of dollars. it wasn't a gold mine. >> i felt a little bit off balance because i couldn't

understand, why did she have to kill him? why didn't she leave him? you know that the defense is going to bring that up. >> there's absolutely no motive for her at all to have killed her husband. >> david nickola is a great trial attorney. he is flamboyant and he just has this big hair and he has this big voice. >> this former police officer, he's no pawn, he's no sucker, he's no wimp. >> this was his moment. and he was defending this innocent 28-year-old wife, widow, mother. >> he was not manipulated at all, he was the one manipulating. >> there's also the claim by the defense that jerry is a jilted lover. >> and what happened is, he became bitter and hostile and vengeful towards her. >> and, you know, he made this all up because he was pissed off that he was duped and dumped.>> bitterness. >> when she rebuffed his advances, that he went after

her, and then killed himself. >> we have a killer, ladies and gentlemen, in this case. >> so the defense's theory is essentially that the real suspect is bruce's former employee who owed him money and didn't want to pay it back. >> the real killer of his, ladies and gentlemen, is john hutchinson. >> so the defense puts john's brother harold on the stand, and he repeats claims he had made to the police during their investigation, that john told him he did it. >> it made me look like crap. that there pretty well ended my relationship with him. we haven't talked long enough to have a hot dog since then. >> i made several phone calls trying to find him to see if he dropped off a car someplace. >> the fatal mistake, in my opinion, that sealed her fate, was when she testified. >> we had so many things that she said, that she did in those emails, that i think that she felt she had to testify to try to explain some of it away. >> sharee admits on the stand that she wrote most of these

exchanges, but she also wanted the jury to understand that in her mind, this was a fantasy world. you can make up whatever you want. >> but how does she explain all those messages to jerry complaining about the terrible abuse she supposedly suffered at bruce's hands? >> i thought by writing stuff like that he would leave me alone, that at that point he wouldn't want anything to do with me, and it didn't work. >> i wanted to just jump in and say, "you're lying. that's not true." >> it turns out that sharee miller lied about those pregnancies that brought so much joy to jerry. >> jerry believed he had impregnated sharee miller and he believed that bruce miller killed those children. >> she claimed that the reason why she told jerry that she was pregnant was because he was depressed. that is so twisted. >> it was really sad when you

learned in court that she had her tubes tied, and it wasn't even remotely a possibility. >> the defense claimed that those instant messages at the heart of the prosecution's case -- her step by step plan on how jerry should murder her husband bruce -- they claimed those were phony too. >> she was claiming that jerry faked it. and we found it on her computer. he couldn't have put it on her computer if he faked it. >> so david nickola brought out an expert witness sayin' that emails can be easily faked. >> but when pressed by the prosecutor about these specific exchanges, he says there's no indication that they were made up. >> which kind of blew all that out of the water. >> what you have is a cold, calculated, premeditated murder by sharee miller. >> on the day of the verdict, i saw her all dressed up and made up and all that stuff. i'm thinking, "she thinks she's getting out of here." >> and we not only get a

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murder as an aider and abettor. >> you can't believe the feeling of relief when they read the verdict guilty. >> and then it was like you could actually breathe. >> you were shocked. >> yes. like, it's over. like, people really know what i am, what i did. i'm going to prison. >> she had been there for six, seven, eight, nine years. >> and then in stepped a federal judge. from pree miller is free to pos >> you're granted an automatic appeal in the state of michigan. the judge determined that the suicide note shouldn't have come in. and so she was to be retried. >> a tearful and emotional sharee miller walked quietly out of the genesee county jail with her legal team by her side.

>> i was just like, "this can't be happening." >> she knew where we lived, but we didn't have any idea where she was. >> even her own family, they were kind of scared of sharee being out of prison. they didn't know what she was capable of. >> what was that like to be free again? >> i tried to live. i tried to make amends so much. >> she had a chance to know her -- her daughter and her grandchild and realize what she had done to jerry's family. >> it pissed everybody off quite a bit. but then the fact was, "this woman's not worth our time to think about." >> but you're still holding on to those lies. >> there was so many layers that it was, like, calloused on me. slowly those scales were starting to fall off. >> clearly there was something wrong with that decision, and eventually it was litigated.

>> prosecutors fought long and hard to get that conviction reinstated. after three years, they did. a court ruled that the suicide note was in fact admissible. so there will be no new trial for sharee, and she is ordered back to prison. >> that day when i had to walk through the door is when the full impact of everything that i did to everybody just -- it hit me really hard that day. >> sharee told me that saying good-bye to her daughter and granddaughter really changed her. but it would take another three-plus years before the biggest change happened, when she sent a letter to the judge and prosecutor, for the first time finally admitting what she had done.

>> now, that was truly astounding, to open up my mail one day and get a letter from sharee miller professing her guilt. >> she said, we got a couple of things wrong, but for the most part, we got everything right and she was no longer going to file her next appeal. >> this is a copy of that letter. it is four pages long, typewritten. and it reads in part, "i don't want bruce's or jerry's family to have to suffer anymore. they have waited 16 years to hear me say i am guilty. i did it." waa big deal because s h her in likeitade me wonder, why now? >> why do you think it took you so many years to fess up? >> well, it was so much easier lying about it to myself. its so much easier to look at

yourself when you don't have to look at yourself with the truth. >> she even says right in her letter, "i know i'm not going to get parole out of this." i don't know what her reasoning is. >> i did it because it was the right thing to do, and i've never done the right thing. i just wanted to do one right thing before i leave this world. >> and so you take responsibility? >> i absolutely do. not just for bruce, but for jerry's death as well. >> at that moment, maybe for the first time ever, i had some amount of sympathy for sharee l. miller. i like to think that finally she realized what she had done. >> everything she does, there's a scheme behind it. there's a plot behind it. >> who does it really benefit? benefits sharee miller. >> she wants everyone to believe that, "i'm finally being honest." she's not really honest. >> whether people believe what sharee wrote in that letter or

not, in our interview, she goes much further. she goes into great detail exactly how she says the murder happened. >> we had been talking about it for a while. >> was it days or weeks or months, do you think? >> probably weeks. >> on the day of the murder, jerry cassaday follows sharee's instructions. he drives to michigan and he meets with her so she can give him a cell phone to use. >> it was almost like a movie, that we were just playing a game. but after i met him at the truck stop, i knew this was going to happen. >> what was the plan moving forward? >> i was supposed to call to make sure that bruce was alone. >> "i will send you a signal by calling that cell phone. and that means he's alone. go do it."

>> so that was the signal for jerry, was, you called, rang once, and hung up? >> yes. and while i was on the phone with bruce is when bruce said that somebody was pulling up. and that's when i knew that jerry was there. >> jerry walks in and shoots bruce. he had planned on saying, "hi, i'm jerry," so that the supposed abusive mafia criminal would know exactly who was killing him. so you weren't on the phone with bruce when the gun was fired? >> no. i mean, it had to be within a minute. >> jerry had actually told me that she was on the phone with him at the time he did it. because she wanted to hear it done. that's a special kind of evil. >> and so how did you learn that the deed was done? >> afterwards, he called my landline and let it ring once and hung up.

that was his signal to tell me he was on his way back to kansas city. >> and how did you feel once you knew that your husband was dead? >> i think it was shock, even though i knew it was happening. it was still a shock. you're like, "this really happened. i really did this." >> part of the plan was somebody had to discover the body. and she called his brother to go look for him. >> she set me right up there to go find him, is just what she did. >> the hurt that she inflicts on people is remarkable. as if knowing that bruce has been murdered is not bad enough. >> if we are to believe sharee, then we understand the how. but what will come next is a shock to everyone. her answer to the question of why.

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i still have a really hard time looking in the mirror knowing what i did. >> and yet there are plenty of people who knew you when you were lying all the time, who think you're lying now, and that this is some sort of a big act. >> i'm sure. i can't make anybody believe me. all i can do is show 'em, you know? >> sharee miller told me she wanted to come clean about everything. for example, she admitted for the very first time that she started contacting jerry cassaday online even before she married bruce. she also reveals that she used sex as a weapon against men. >> that's how i got what i wanted. it wasn't just bruce or jerry. it was any man. it was what you could see you

could get a man to do. it was like a video game and each man and each relationship was another level. >> sharee's manipulation of jerry started with sex and moved on to more involved lies. all of it ultimately enough to convince a former homicide detective to commit murder. >> how did jerry react when you told him that you were pregnant with his baby? >> he wanted another baby so bad. he was really happy about that. >> you had had your tubes tied earlier. how were you able to fake the belly bump? >> i just pushed my belly out. jerry wanted to believe it so bad that i believed that he'd see the pregnancy even though it wasn't there. >> when you broke the news that that baby was gone, what did you

say? >> i wrote him on a chat. he was devastated. >> devastated. >> devastated. >> and you told him not just that you'd lost the babies, but that bruce had beaten you to the point of losing those babies. >> i did. i did. >> and so jerry saw red? >> very, very much so. >> i mean, you were a mary kay cosmetics consultant. was that makeup on your belly? >> yes, it was. i remember being in the mirror and just trying to make it be more real, trying to create more reality. >> she manipulated him into thinking that bruce was a terrible, horrible person and that the world would've been a better place without him. >> she definitely took advantage of jerry cassaday. there's no doubt. and set him right up to come up here and shoot my brother. >> why'd you have to do that? ruin people's lives the way you did. for what reason?

what did you have to gain? >> i wasn't sure she would answer that question. but when she did, what she said really surprised me. >> if i could just say it was so i could get money, it wouldn't sound as bad as what it really was. bruce was so close to knowing who i really was, like, what was really inside of me. the consequence of bruce dying was smaller than what the consequence would've been if he knew that i wasn't who he thought i was. >> so rather than face the truth, you were willing to have your husband be killed. >> yeah. yeah, it was a game to me. >> how do you understand somebody who kills as part of a game? it's hard to wrap your head around.

>> in her effort to, as she claimed, be open and honest, sharee went on to say that after the murder she not only knew that jerry was suicidal, she knew he wanted to confess. >> because he had been suicidal before, i think that people just didn't believe. but i -- i believed him. he told me about the briefcase. >> he told you he had a briefcase full of evidence against you? >> yeah, but i felt like i could talk my way out of anything. >> and so when the trial was approaching, did you feel like you were going to be found not guilty? >> yeah. i still in my head felt like there's no way they're not going to believe me. >> sharee said she felt so confident about her case that she rejected a plea offer during the trial. >> you could have saved yourself if you had simply told the truth. >> yes. i could have.

and i waited to tell the truth until i get nothing from it but hopefully, hopefully, a sense of peace. >> i've heard you say that you deserve to be in prison for the rest of your life. >> i do. i don't feel that i deserve to live life and be happy when they don't. you know? they don't get that chance. >> what we didn't expect in our conversation was that sharee was going to share that she had written apologies to the victims' families. >> would it be okay if i read them? >> sure. >> for the very first time, the victims' families are about to hear from sharee. >> i would kind of like to hear what she had to say. >> so when you are ready, just kind of push play and you guys can listen.

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there's no way for me to change or undo what i did. i eternally hurt you and i'm so sorry for that. >> sharee miller read what she called letters, apologizing to the people she hurt. >> so when you're ready, if you just kind of push play. >> and when we interviewed some of those victims' families, we asked if they wanted to hear the recording. >> mike, jerry's brother, jerry would've never hurt anyone. he didn't murder bruce. i did. i am so sorry for lying to and lying on jerry. he just wanted to protect and love me. bruce's family. not only am i responsible for bruce's death. i am responsible for continuing

to open the wound over and over by lying for 17 years. through it all, you showed an unbelievable amount of grace towards my family. for that, i thank you. >> my response to that letter? i just hope she rots in hell. that's where she belongs. >> it's difficult to believe anything that the woman has to say. i don't know if i could ever forgive her. >> i want to say that i could forgive her, but i can't. >> i can't. >> some things are not forgivable, and she is not forgivable. >> i forgive her, but it still makes your skin crawl knowing that there are people out there that can do these kind of things.

>> for all of the ugly devastation in this case, i hope she comes out of it understanding what she did and with a genuine attitude of making amends. >> one last question from me, which is, how would you describe your relationship with your children and grandchildren today? >> amazing. like, i can't believe how much i've put them through and they still love me. they still call me mom. i cherish every one of those moments. >> and bruce and jerry don't get those. >> they don't get those. they don't. >> jerry was a good guy all the way around. he loved to have fun, loved

spending time with his family at the lake. that was jerry. >> he never knew when he died that he was going to be a grandfather. and he would have made a wonderful grandfather. he never got to know any of that. it was just such a waste. >> bruce is my brother. it's been 22 years. so it seems like yesterday. you're just never going to forget it. that's all there is to it. >> bruce was a hell of a guy. he'll never be replaced and i love him. >> despite sharee's apology and

admission, the only way she can get out is if the governor gives her clemency. >> and there's almost no way that can happen. i'm amy robach. >> and i'm david muir. from all of us at "20/20," good night. >>

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