She called 911 in tears. Her fiancé had been shot. She described the killer in detail. Height, weight, clothing, direction of flight. Police searched for hours. They found no one matching the description. They reviewed the surveillance footage from a nearby gas station. The only person near the scene at the time of the shooting was the woman herself. She was holding a gun.

The 27-year-old mother of eight claimed she and her fiancé were walking home when a masked man approached and opened fire. Her story changed three times. First she saw the shooter's face. Then she did not. First he ran toward the highway. Then he ran toward the park. A detective noticed inconsistencies in her timeline. Her phone placed her at the scene an hour before the shooting, not minutes before as she claimed.

When confronted with the footage, the woman confessed. She had shot her fiancé during an argument. She staged the scene to look like a random act of violence. She thought being a mother of eight would make her seem sympathetic. The jury was not sympathetic. She was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years. Her children are being raised by grandparents.

Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the mother of eight thought she could lie her way out of murder. The camera told a different story.

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