Kill or Be Killed
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A woman shoots and kills her ex-boyfriend at home, lies to police that she thought he was an intruder, and then claims it was self-defense. So what really happened?
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| 1:08.8 | This was the case about a woman who shot and killed the person attacking her. Patrick Goholy. |
| 1:17.1 | Prosecutors' position is my client murdered Goholy in cold blood. They were the only two people |
| 1:26.1 | in that house that night. One of them is dead and one of them is on trial for his murder. |
| 1:32.7 | What really happened in Mount Olive, New Jersey on a cold cold March night in 2014? It began with a 9-1-1 call. |
| 1:43.7 | 9-1-1, where's your murder scene? |
| 1:54.0 | On March 3rd, 52-year-old Virginia Vertitas called 9-1-1 in a panic. There was an intruder at her |
| 2:01.6 | home, she said. But when police got there, they found another story altogether. That intruder |
| 2:09.4 | was in fact Virginia's longtime love, Patrick Goholy. Police arrive on scene at 10-07. |
| 2:16.1 | They see Patrick Lane there, motionless, dead. They see the gun, the 38 caliber. |
| 2:22.0 | So what happened? We have to know who these people are. Who was Patrick Goholy? Who is Virginia |
| 2:30.9 | Vertitas? I'm Aaron Moriarty 48 hours and this is my life of crime. Virginia Vertitas is an |
| 2:41.0 | unlikely killer. She was a suburban mother, a popular teacher with no criminal history. |
| 2:48.7 | So why did police arrest her that night? And why would she shoot and kill Patrick Goholy? |
| 2:55.6 | I know Virginia Vertitas. I've spent hundreds of hours with her. She had a high-paying |
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