Today is Thursday, March 12th, 2020.

On this day in 2009, Brian Lewis murdered his common-law wife, Haley Jones. His motive was unthinkable.

Brian claimed he killed his wife over a Facebook status.

Welcome to today in true crime, a parcast original.

Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Today we're covering the killing of young mother

Haley Jones at the hands of the man she'd trusted most.

Let's go back to New Tridegger in South Wales to the home Haley shared with her

partner Brian Lewis and their four children. It was evening and Brian had

already been drinking for three hours.

Brian had already been wife of cheating for the past two years, but for the past ten days he'd been convinced all of the long hours at work the late night

Facebook sessions and then the texts from coworkers inviting her out.

After looking through her computer,

Brian thought he knew everything.

He was ready to fight to keep his wife.

Not that this was new. They fought often. He'd screamed at her, hit

her, but nothing helped. She wasn't the girl he fell in love with and he increasingly feared she'd never be that

girl again. What Brian couldn't understand was that Haley felt the same way.

Two years of unemployment had Brian spiraling

into depression and alcoholism.

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