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A former adult film star, a bizarre blended family, and a father found headless in his own bed.

Prosecutors say the brutal killing was driven by jealousy and desperation.

Recovering Nevada v. Devin Michaels, a case built on a gruesome crime scene, a confession, and two wildly different theories of who did it.

August 7, 2003, police in Henderson, Nevada, arrive at John Willett's home after his mother called 911 when

she found his decapitated body in his bed.

Say, let's let's lock this down there.

What did he say in that video?

If it was missing head, let's lock it down.

Meaning there's now a crime scene, so we kind of push everybody out and freeze that area,

limit access to that, to the house essentially.

Jonathan Willett was 46 years old and a father of three.

And in a surprising twist in this family dynamic, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his teen daughters, Devin

Michaels, was married to his adult son, DeVierre. On August 7th of 2003, the defendant, Devin Michaels,

brutally murdered and savaged the body of her ex, Jonathan Willett. But the story did not begin on August 7th,

the 2003. And all I can say is buckle up because you're in for a wild ride. Devin Michaels was a former adult film actress who went by the name of Nikki Fairchild. Prosecutors say that Jonathan

Willett had full physical custody of his and Devin's two daughters and that after she married

his son, Devere, she wanted her ex-boyfriend out of the picture. At the time of the murder, she was giving John a massage on the bed.

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