She decided she would just gather all of us together around the gas stove, blow out the pilot lights,

and her intentions were fully to take us all out at the same time.

You know, that's just something you don't tell people.

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anna Sige-Nikolazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries, true conviction.

And this is Anatomy of Murder.

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Today's case reveals a family ripped apart by a senseless murder.

Then we'll take the most unique investigative turn we've covered on AOM so far.

For today's case, Gail Armstrong was interviewed. She grew up in Carrollton, Georgia, and she grew up the only girl in a family full of boys.

She was wedged in between three older and three younger brothers.

It was kind of tough growing up. You know, the three older ones were pretty rough with you. You know, they just treated me like one of the guys.

I certainly don't come from a family that big, but being the middle of any family, I've got to believe it's hard, but being the only girl the lone female in a group of boys, I've got to think that in some ways, while hopefully she was put up on a pedestal and sorry if I'm sounding sexist there, but it also sounds to me like it must have felt lonely at times.

Yeah, I mean, you get a little bit of everything. Three brothers who look after you, be your protector when you're at school, and three younger brothers who you could be there and influence.

We lived out in the country in rural Georgia, actually. Our dad left when we were all very small. And then the three younger ones, I kind of had to be a mother to them because our mother had to work to support us.

And I spent a lot of my life being a substitute mom.

And even though as Gail has told us she had so many siblings, we're really focusing today on one in particular. And that was her brother, Joseph, who everybody called Jody.

He was a little different from the rest of us. He went to work in a men's clothing store while he was a teenager and he learned to dress top notch.

Well, he wanted to do the same for the females in his life. And he would spend way too much money buying outfits for my mother and myself. And he just loved to give anybody he met. He wanted to give something to you.

She talked about him as being a debonair and he loved his clothes, but he was also very into his sports. That whether it was football or golfing, he gave it as all and he was good at them all.

Jody was a year younger than Gail and while he was the athlete of the family, excelling at football at an early age, he had a real soft and gentle side as well.

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