Daddy's Little Girl
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
16-year-old Mindy Berenyi admitted she fatally shot her father, but claimed she was a victim of physical and psychological abuse. At trial, Berenyi insisted she murdered her father in self-defense. A family is torn apart when ‘daddy’s little girl' became his killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/25/2001.
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| 0:00.0 | I come from a small town. |
| 0:04.0 | I come from a small town. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a farm community. |
| 0:21.6 | I think people think, well, you have the right to raise your child, how you want. |
| 0:27.6 | What goes on behind closed doors, stays there. |
| 0:32.6 | That's what we were always told in my family. |
| 0:34.6 | Whatever goes on here, you better not ever tell anyone. |
| 0:43.5 | The mystery of what really went on here in this middle class house in Antwerp, Ohio, |
| 0:46.5 | is at the heart of an unspeakable crime. |
| 0:49.1 | A beloved father lies dead. |
| 0:52.9 | His daughter, Mindy, a high school cheerleader, is in jail, awaiting trial for killing him in cold blood. |
| 0:57.0 | I had said before, you know, out of anger, I could kill him. But I'm not a murder. |
| 1:05.0 | She doesn't deserve to be there. We, myself, as a parent, should have saved her. |
| 1:14.6 | And I didn't. |
| 1:16.6 | So... |
| 1:17.6 | Packing up at her Indianapolis home... |
| 1:18.6 | We'll get up there tonight. |
| 1:20.6 | I'll take Mindy her clothes. |
| 1:22.6 | Mindy's mother, Shirley Barreni, is preparing for the fight of her life. |
| 1:25.6 | Court starts tomorrow morning. She'll be taking the stand at her daughter's murder trial to explain what happened. |
| 1:33.3 | She was still daddy's little angel there. |
| 1:35.3 | To a father-daughter relationship that had once seemed magic. |
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