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20/20

New Year's Evil

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Did a mom found dead in a luxury apartment slip and fall, or was it something more sinister? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

That awful day, December 31st.

0:04.0

Shelley's last day.

0:07.0

You see the last time she's captured on video,

0:13.0

which is entering the building at about 8 p.m.

0:16.0

Rodd says his daughter called him,

0:18.0

said something's wrong with mommy.

0:20.0

He sees his wife face down in the bathtub.

0:23.0

I got a call from Shelley's babysitter

0:26.0

when she said to me, there's been an accident.

0:28.0

Shelley slipped and fell, and I said,

0:31.0

Rose, is Shelley alive?

0:33.0

And she said no.

0:35.0

I heard that she had slipped in the bathtub

0:37.0

and died.

0:38.0

Obviously that was beyond shocking,

0:40.0

because she was young and she had little children.

0:43.0

As a detective, you could understand why this did look like an accident.

0:46.0

Absolutely.

0:47.0

Your sister's 47 years old.

0:50.0

Pretty healthy.

0:52.0

It didn't make sense.

0:55.0

But there are some things that seem inconsistent

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