This is Deborah Roberts. Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault. Each week we reach back into our archives and bring you a story we found unforgettable.

Only a true psychopath could do this.

Pull of blood coming from his head.

Somebody had been paid to kill me.

Why would you want your husband killed?

Take a listen. What could have done this to them?

A murder on a man that was fighting with everything he had.

High school sweethearts, celebrating their 32nd anniversary,

when a nightmare home invasion seems to take place.

The scene looked like something you'd see in the movies.

A chair was propped up against the door holding it shut from the outside.

When he opened it, he saw Sandy lying there,

tied up.

Jim was found nude and beaten and stabbed to death.

A robbery gone wrong or a murder committed much closer to home.

Isn't it ironic that he black out an exact time when he's getting stabbed?

Screaming after screaming.

I need a lawyer because you're going to just trying to torture me.

Clearly, the evidence pointed out that she's the one that did it.

I know how it looks.

But I was also tied up.

How could a frail woman bound hand and foot commit

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