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Crystal had been looking for a way out of her dad's house because of his volatile moods.

She used a routine dad-daughter grocery shopping day to pre-planned shoplifting in hopes of being caught

and hauled off to the police station to ask for help. Instead, the store manager released

Crystal to her dad with a scolding and public humiliation for Michael Howell. After a fear-evoking threat in the kitchen, Crystal says her dad uttered what would be

his last words.

He told me to not even think about running away that he would deal with me when he got

up and my dad went and laid down for an app.

And that was the last thing he ever sent to me.

I'm Melissa McCarty.

And I'm Kelly McClare.

We are Emmy-nominated investigative journalists, and we've been talking to Crystal Howell since her dad's murder in 2014.

Eight years after Michael Howell's murder at 25 years old, Crystal is telling her story.

We bring you the exclusive series, Killing Dad, a first-degree mistake.

Michael Howell told Crystal he'd deal with her after his nap.

His former roommate Holt says he was a creature of habit,

especially under high stress.

When Michael couldn't take it anymore,

whatever it was he couldn't take,

he would lie down on the sofa sofa and he had this funny little old tie-eyed shirt that he had

rolled up.

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