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KILLING DAD PRESENTS: THE MISCREANTS

S1 Ep10: A First-Degree Mistake

KILLING DAD PRESENTS: THE MISCREANTS

Audio Up Inc.

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.3581 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Crystal is given a polygraph regarding her claims, the District Attorney speaks on the case and Crystal has a message that will hopefully change everything. 

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0:00.0

The following episode contains graphic material and talk of suicide that may be triggering to some audiences.

0:12.1

If you are in distress, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255

0:20.2

to be confidentially connected with someone in your area.

0:27.6

People kept telling me, like, you have a story and tell, like, you have a reason for me.

0:33.0

We may not know what it is, but I feel like it's connected with what happened to you.

0:38.3

And basically, a lot of people are telling me, like, you might not be able to change your

0:43.3

circumstance, but you'll be able to change someone else's life.

0:48.5

You're going to be able to make an impact.

0:50.8

I can't help but look back and think all the way back into the day that I killed my dad,

0:57.0

trying to shoot myself that day, and the gun being empty all the way until now.

1:03.0

Countless suicide attempts, things that normally would kill someone,

1:09.0

so I can't help but think like make there is a reason that I

1:13.2

define the odds and I guess every day is about trying to find that reason even after telling my

1:20.4

story trying to use what happens to make a change to better other people's lives because there

1:32.3

are some of the people out there who probably don't feel like they have a voice.

1:36.3

And it's taken me almost 10 years to feel like I've even had a voice.

1:42.3

So I guess my point is that at the time, like, you feel like it's over and it never really is.

1:52.9

We've come to the final episode of this special series, but is it really the end for Crystal Howell?

2:00.2

Once a lost and struggling teen, a product of her unstable and tumultuous upbringing, Crystal

2:06.7

has accepted the responsibility of taking her dad's life.

2:11.6

Now that you've heard all that she went through, did she get the sentence she deserved?

2:17.2

It is a topic that is widely contested and hotly debated should tell. Did she get the sentence she deserved?

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