Bad Romance - Season 2 Episode 7 -Love at First Click
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00:00you can't believe everything you see on the internet the one you think is the love of your
00:21life may turn out to be the death of you and that's not just an expression here
00:25beware of love at first click this is a story that is about manipulation cheating lust
00:45got salacious emails you've got x-rated videos
00:52sheree miller is accused of using sex lies and the internet to get men to do what she wanted them
00:58to do even if it meant breaking the law so we need to add call tell me the number so like that right
01:08hi is this sheree yes hey sheree it's juju chang calling how are you i'm good how are you
01:17i'm on the phone with sheree paulette kitley miller a mother from michigan and right now she's an inmate
01:25at the women's huron valley correctional facility but her attorney says she's only guilty of creating
01:32a complex online fantasy life most of it was sex chat it would get very graphic and very detailed
01:38about going through sexual encounters over the uh over the internet i spent hours upon hours
01:46online talking to people it's sex like i wanted to be in control of everything obsessively in control
01:56you were an online sex addict very much it was like a video game
02:02and each man in each relationship was another level to me and each level was harder maybe it
02:12was seeing how much i could get away with how much i could make somebody believe
02:23sheree's story begins in flint michigan once a vibrant center for the car industry
02:29when i grew up flint was booming and there were upwards of 200 000 people here the plants were
02:34going we had over 80 000 general motors jobs and then when general motors pulled out things turned
02:40it's a factory town i think has seen better days but the people there are very resilient
02:46growing up where i grew up it was like your normal middle class neighborhood every summer they sent us to
02:54florida with my grandma and papa where like that was my safe space she had a hard childhood product
03:03of several divorces that her mom had different men coming and going in her household she talks about
03:09being being sexually abused how old were you when you were first sexually assaulted i want to say
03:15probably three or four and kid you take on like everything is your love well she was a typical flint wildchild
03:25bars karaoke bowling alleys just partying she moved out early she got married when she was 17
03:34to her first husband they ended up getting divorced by the age of about 27 28 she had been married twice and
03:39divorced twice sheree is a single mom raising three kids working multiple jobs to make ends meet
03:47she's a sales rep for mary k cosmetics and works at a nursing home she also starts doing the books
03:52at a local scrap yard b and d auto owned by a man named bruce miller bruce miller was born and raised
04:00here in in flint michigan and did what a lot of people did as soon as they got out of high school
04:05went to work for general motors always into cars he traded a horse for his first car at 16 17 years
04:11old and was always into trying to race cars he was a huge nascar fan he just was a hard worker went
04:19to work every day in fact he stayed working on third shift which is a hard shift to work 30 40 years he
04:25was really close to retiring from from general motors and he would have just had the junkyard to fall back
04:31on and do what he liked to do to have a salvage yard with all those parts and all that stuff for him to
04:39play with was just his idea of heaven he also went through several marriages he was married three times
04:46before he always told me he knew where the courthouse was
04:50bruce miller was a lot older than sherry and he met her through the work at the salvage yard
05:04so what was the spark who pursued whom i pursued him it was a short courtship between sherry and bruce maybe
05:15four months he was 20 years older than her they weren't wasting a lot of time as soon as they
05:22started dating she moved herself in with the kids he treated her kids as his own i think she didn't have
05:30really any place to live no real stability for the kids and so bruce provided that because i asked him
05:42are you going to marry this one that's the first thing i said he told me no well it wasn't shortly
05:48after that they went to well they went to vegas they went to vegas and we all at home thought they're
05:55going to get married sure enough bruce and sheree elope at a las vegas wedding chapel there's a beautiful
06:02picture of sheree sort of looking into a mirror there there was an odd coupling just by visualizing it
06:11and by the age of difference but at the wedding pictures he looked happy he liked to be married
06:18and she seemed happy too less than a year after vegas a horrifying phone call
06:32there's no pulse no nothing
06:41you've heard the phrase third times the charm well at the start of sheree and bruce's marriage husband
06:53number three is making it look like it might be true he was a great family guy he was a great husband
06:59give you the shirt off his back he was well loved within the factory that he worked bruce was a hard worker
07:06he's just a kind man he offered her stability and as a mother with three kids that was attractive
07:13but it wasn't enough for me like back then it was like like family at home and then the other part of me
07:25that crazy side or like the dangerous side so like you were looking for danger
07:35right bruce was family complacent it it was too much like home too much like family
07:44she really tries what some call retail therapy buying and buying including lots of new toys and
07:53clothes for her kids i was on a spending spree i ran up bruce's charge card and took
08:01all the money in the house she's racking up his credit card very short period of time
08:06she racks up at over 46 000 in a credit card debt this is a man who's worked his whole life
08:12paid his debts well she started paying with things with one credit card and taking another
08:17credit card and paying them and that's how she was getting them without bruce knowing about money
08:23it was like a continuous void that i was trying to fill so sheree finds a new escape online chat rooms
08:36sheree had a lot of screen names there were over a dozen of them and they were all like
08:40look at me i'm sexy going into the sexual chat line you're meeting other people that may have
08:48some of the same fantasy life that you have she wanted to be anything she could be used fantasy
08:56to escape the pain bruce worked at the shop and he had his business so he was gone a lot
09:07so i spent hours upon hours online talking to people that was such an addiction it fed
09:18something in there that i did not understand during those hours long chat room sessions a certain
09:25user peaks sheree's interest jlc1006 the man behind the screen name is jerry cassaday how much time were
09:35you spending online with jerry and with other men for that matter i didn't get him from in front of that
09:41computer jerry cassidy grew up in the kansas city area missouri he was the youngest of the four boys
09:54he was competitive at a young age he actually became a police officer he was promoted to lieutenant
10:03of the detective bureau soon jerry is a father and a stepfather he and his wife barbara are parents to
10:10three boys two from his wife's previous marriage and a younger son together named james i remember
10:18helping him get dressed in the mornings and watching him get his uniform on and i was proud of my father
10:24he was enamored by the sheriff and the undersheriff but he started to see a lot of discrepancies he
10:31believed the undersheriff had taken and falsified a document in a murder case they brought in a special
10:37prosecutor in the process of that jerry knew that his time as a police officer was pretty much up it's
10:48hard for someone in law enforcement to go after their bosses i mean that's career suicide and in jerry's
10:55case it was career suicide it spills over in every area of life your purpose your recognition is not only
11:02taken away but you're seen as as the enemy he was never the same after that after he left the department
11:10he got a job as security but harris casino they transferred him harris did they had a position
11:18opened up in reno and he thought maybe a change of pace would be a good idea too
11:26in reno jerry's relationship with his wife barbara is becoming a house of cards he told her you wouldn't
11:34didn't want to be married anymore she moved back to can city i stayed out with him newly single jerry is
11:42looking for love online right away he connects with sheree hi baby he's my little sex kitten
11:51almost immediately sheree and jerry want to turn their virtual connection into what the online world
11:56calls an irl relationship in real life right after bruce and i got married is when i met jerry for the
12:06first time when i went to reno she got all dressed up and went to the casino to meet jerry
12:14i know i was drinking a lot that night it felt like dangerous and a little scared but excited by it
12:24but jerry cassiday has no idea of the danger he has stumbled into
12:44there's a new man in sheree miller's life and in reno pit boss jerry cassiday is finding casino
12:54culture hard to handle in nevada drinking and gambling is entertainment and it's a way it's
13:00right out in front in the open for everybody to see he started drinking way too much yeah and he just
13:08spiraled as far as i can remember as he went to work for the casinos that's when the drinking really
13:17picked up he was depressed
13:22but jerry cassiday thinks his luck is changing after he starts chatting with sheree miller
13:27the amount of instant messaging and emails back and forth is enormous he carried that laptop everywhere
13:36he went first thing he would do is connect with the laptop and get back on instant messages i'm all yours
13:43to do with me whatever you feel fit i think she fulfilled his every fantasy and he told me himself
13:52that he said mom she is the woman of my dreams i never dreamed i would ever meet anyone like her
14:00you are by far the sexiest woman i've ever known he's going through a divorce he's drinking a lot he's
14:06depressed and he's having financial problems sheree comes along she's paying attention to him giving
14:13him that ego boost that he needed but also according to her she's rich she's telling him that she owns
14:20nursing homes that she owns a junkyard that she has possible lawsuit settlements coming up soon
14:26jerry who has money trouble sees somebody with money taking an interest in him and of course he
14:32responds to that the weekend that she came into town we all knew that she was coming in
14:40and he was so excited and not only does she meet him but she sleeps with them
14:45we knew the first time they spent the night together i think the whole casino floor
14:55the first night they spent together at one point she sends a photograph
15:00of herself wearing the same clothes that she wore that night to jerry and says our first night together
15:05she returns to michigan back to her real life with her husband bruce but sheree miller starts sending
15:17pictures of her in different states of undress not only does she send them pictures she starts sending
15:22them videos of herself masturbating she labels it for jerry's eyes only which is clearly something to
15:30keep his interest sustained remember sheree and bruce are newlyweds and sheree's making multiple trips to
15:39reno leaving her kids with her in-laws chuck and judy miller we're just wondering why she was making so
15:44many so many trips and she just said she had a lot of people buying her mary k's stuff down there
15:48sheree miller tells jerry that she's pregnant and this is just weeks after they had their first sexual
15:54encounter she comes back after her first trip to reno after they made love for the first time jerry
16:00receives photographs of this pregnancy wand showing that she is pregnant with his child and of course
16:05he's over the moon about it they were making plans to uh get together live together he's elated the
16:11woman he loves he's gonna have a baby with they're gonna be rich and then she dropped the hammer that she
16:16lost the baby so sheree tells jerry that bruce found out she was pregnant and that he beat her
16:21her i never thought i would ever tell you that he hits i got in trouble because i was with you
16:28she sends him a picture of her torso with alleged bruises all over her body there's a lot of bruising
16:35you would have to beat her a lot when you broke the news that that baby was gone what did you say
16:42i didn't tell him on the phone i think i wrote him on a chat he was devastated one minute he's the
16:50highest high and the next it's like what happened you know and you you almost feel like you're scraping
16:58them off the floor all the turmoil involved in this relationship is hard on jerry who doesn't deal
17:05with it well and one night after getting off work at his casino he goes to another nearby casino and he
17:11was playing blackjack and drinking he got into some sort of a heated discussion he gets belligerent
17:21and finally they call security to usher him out of the casino on the way out he slams the door which
17:28hits one of the security people which causes the police to come and arrest him got home from school
17:36that day he wasn't there which was strange that's when i was able to message a friend of his that he
17:41worked with his son called me and he said do you know where my dad is and i'm like
17:48oh the first phone call i called was jail and that's where he was
17:56so his family kind of gather around him say listen jerry you're you're not doing well out there come back be
18:03with family i helped him move back to missouri moved into basement apartment and stuff with my cousin
18:11he's got to work on his alcohol addiction problems and so he begins going to a a he was telling me he
18:18was going to church again and it sounded like things were kind of coming back together for him but he was
18:27of course still in touch with sheree
18:35and sheree is making alarming claims over email well she said that bruce was uh involved with the
18:41mafia was in the money laundering and jerry is about to make a decision that will change everything he had
18:48told his brother that if anything happened to him there was a briefcase under the bed
19:04sheree miller and jerry casaday are still miles apart but their affair isn't slowing down
19:10jerry's in love but he's worried after all sheree told him that she miscarried his baby because bruce
19:18beat her so jerry really wants to be that white knight and go rescue his fair maiden he tells sheree
19:27that she needs to leave her husband get away just leave bruce come live with me bring the kids we'll
19:34live happily ever after well she said that bruce was uh involved with the mafia and um would beat her
19:42he'll find us he'll put a bullet in our head i can't leave him but on the same token i want to be
19:47with you but bruce's family says he wasn't a violent man and none of it is true well we know it's not true
19:54because that wasn't bruce he's never a woman in his life you know what i'm saying and then she says he's in
20:00the mobs it was just getting ridiculous what was going on there she's barely over the loss of one
20:08child allegedly and now weeks later she tells jerry that she's pregnant with twins she was sending
20:16photos of the sonogram and her belly and you know jerry was just tickled to death to see and
20:23you know here's here's my kids but the dates on the sonograms were from years earlier she had such a
20:31mental spell over him that as soon as she told him that she was pregnant that fantasy was a reality to
20:39him and so there was no reason to doubt the love of his life then all sudden it's bad with bruce again
20:46bruce storms into this relationship with uh with brutal emails jerry opens his computer expecting to
20:56hear from sheree and he sees an email from bd junk telling him that sheree is going to get rid of the
21:03two bastards in her belly the change in tone between the emails this is a completely new voice all caps
21:12old face caps you know it's the internet equivalent of screaming at jerry sheree then confirms jerry's
21:19worst fears it's happened again his babies not only one but then two twins had been killed by bruce
21:29miller and that just enraged him as it would any man but she lied about being pregnant that is cruel
21:39that is cruel when you know that a guy has feelings for you
21:44just weeks later sheree's husband bruce leaves for his normal day of work at the scrapyard
21:49so bruce miller is just at work he's getting ready to go home have dinner with his family
21:55i had ordered pizza and gave him a specific time that they said it would be done and it's getting
22:02later and later and bruce isn't showing up with the food she calls chuck and judy miller bruce's
22:12brother and sister-in-law to go please go to the junkyard and see if there's anything wrong
22:18we opened the door and walked around the counter and he was laying on the floor in a pool of blood
22:30i laid my hand on him with my head and he was cold he said there's no pulse no nothing does it look
22:48like he saw the chair busted his head open no it looks like something went wrong i don't know
22:53he told me to fix his neck the murder weapon was a shotgun bruce sort of took a blast right to the
23:01upper chest and neck so about two o'clock in the morning eyes went to sheree's house and informed
23:08her of what was going on she was visibly upset crying when you go to make a death notification where
23:16you know there is violence you're always watching how people respond and if you're trying to hide
23:21something it's not natural so you got to be very methodical we're always looking at body language
23:26she seemed very appropriate i didn't suspect her and he started asking me questions about um who i
23:34thought it could be sheree had mentioned that bruce had problems with a gentleman named john hutchinson
23:42bruce certainly knew john hutchinson they worked together for years at bruce's junkyard
23:47and sheree explains what she thinks the issue might be i remember me saying that john owed bruce money
23:54which he did and that they had been arguing about it as genesee county detectives investigate further
24:02they talk to hutchinson's brother harold harold tells police that yes he heard john threaten bruce
24:09and then after bruce died harold made the statement that john had called him the day after the homicide
24:16and said everything's taken care of with bruce he said he was disposed of that was his words
24:22yeah i have no earthly idea where that comment came from but yeah did harold say it yeah
24:28i guess at that point you want to say he was our number one suspect
24:31i couldn't leave the state couldn't leave the county can't do this don't do that
24:39and then when you go somewhere they look at you like a
24:42cockroach on a birthday cake put yourself in my position how would your life be done
24:50john did have an alibi to offer up police but there did appear to be a questionable gap
24:55around the time of the murder and they just said hey he's lying they asked you the same question
25:00100 times the answer was the same 100 times no i didn't have nothing to do with it
25:05he'd had a relationship with sherry miller we slept together a couple times and my wife split up
25:13after hutchinson and sheree break up that's when bruce starts relationship with sheree
25:19i thought he was making a huge mistake because i knew she was a good road to go down for trouble
25:26he said don't worry about it i got it under control okay i warned you investigators have
25:31been keeping the pressure on hutchinson for months but just can't seem to make a case there was
25:37absolutely no evidence at all no fingerprints no footprints no tracks nothing
25:43we didn't have any hard evidence against him not that actually said you're the guy while michigan
25:52detectives are hunting for a murderer they have no idea that their case will become one of the
25:57strangest they've ever faced and that 800 miles away in missouri another man is living on borrowed time
26:13in michigan bruce miller's murder remains unsolved and there's no pulse no nothing
26:24sheree was upset about the lack of progress and stormed into the uh genesee county sheriff's
26:30department demanding to find out what's going on here what are you guys doing to solve my husband's
26:36murder and in missouri jerry cassiday is suddenly getting the cold shoulder from sheree miller
26:41the silence in his life was deafening and then it starts to play in like wait a second
26:49i am being kicked to the curb here jerry was downstairs in his apartment in odessa missouri
26:58and he had a picture of his ex-wife the mother of his son he had a picture of his son and he had a
27:05picture of sherry miller there was a wedding ring on the windowsill and his divorce decree on a nearby
27:12table and a bible in his in his lap jerry the former police officer familiar with the concepts of
27:19guilt and punishment opens his bible to matthew 5 which reads you shall not murder and whoever murders
27:26shall be liable to judgment so you've got to think that he he made his peace with god and at that
27:34point he took a 22 caliber rifle put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger
27:45i knew jerry had issues and that sort i never thought he would he would do this
27:50he had told his brother that if anything happened to him there was a briefcase under the bed get a hold
27:58of it before anybody else did so i went into the bedroom and i found a briefcase
28:09it's got three letters attached to it and a note do not open this alone
28:14first jerry's family reads the suicide note taped to the outside of the case jerry writes that he
28:25finally realized that sheree had been lying to him about her husband bruce
28:32and finally jerry reveals that months ago he made a visit to sheree's hometown in michigan
28:38he said i went to flint and i walked in the door and i said hi i'm jerry and i shot him there was so
28:49much rage that that he made sure he brought a shotgun he hated bruce miller at the time
28:55and jerry goes on to say i was just so blind and so stupid and so much in love
29:01and he ends with i'm so sorry mom i love you
29:11he judged himself found himself guilty and executed himself that was his way of trying to make amends as
29:19best he could
29:23we forced the briefcase open and there were just pages among pages of information
29:29and the family had a hard decision to make they're going to ruin their son's reputation forever
29:48calling him a murderer or they can just shut the briefcase and go on with their lives but that wasn't
29:53the point the point was she should pay for what she did otherwise too good man would have died in vain
30:04soon investigators in michigan get a cryptic note about bruce's unsolved murder i got a briefcase here
30:12that indicates a sheree miller may have committed it i hung up the phone and said some rather loud
30:18words that i shouldn't have said in the office i think the most damning thing in there is the instant
30:25message where they plotted the murder i'm talking line by line play by play but their plan worked and
30:33he would not have been able to put any of that together without her being the mastermind behind it
30:39when they look for sheree she's no longer in flint not even in michigan
30:44in fact she's back in reno and this time she's visiting a brand new boyfriend why aren't you home
30:53mourning why aren't you with your kids why aren't you with his family it's like what the hell are
30:58you doing woman it's like do you not feel anything the sheriff's department they were waiting for them
31:06at the flint airport took her back to the department do you know jerry yes yes i do did you develop a
31:15relationship with him no you never had a physical relationship or ever had sex with jerry no she had
31:23erased everything on her computer but unbeknownst to her jerry had not erased everything on his
31:30what would i tell you if uh if i told you that jerry has saved his emails and used the messages that
31:38you and him had i would tell you that you can change them and you know that and everybody knows that
31:44she continued the lie which is she had nothing to do with it i don't know who changed that stuff but i
31:51did not write that no i didn't and at some point captain copper decided it was time to arrest her
31:57they said you're under arrest for the murder of your husband i got hysterical abc 12 news at five
32:06miller was arrested friday charged with the murder of her husband the media is fascinated by sheree's case
32:12the first of its kind in what is being dubbed the nation's first internet related murder sheree miller's
32:20trial is officially underway
32:22and when sheree herself arrives to the courtroom some attendees do a double take it's like that's
32:31her because she had this suit on that she never would have purchased they wanted her to look as
32:38innocent as yes dowdy as yes possible for many in that courtroom one glaring question remains i
32:48couldn't understand why did she have to kill him why didn't she leave him and it's our position then
32:53according to probate lawyers that the defense brought money couldn't have been a motive because
32:58after the credit card debts and the estate taxes and the attorney's fees she would be left with just a
33:05couple thousand dollars there's absolutely no motive for her at all to have killed her husband so the
33:12defense's theory is essentially that the real suspect is bruce's former employee who owed him
33:18money the real killer is ladies and gentlemen is john hutchinson remember john hutchinson bruce's
33:24friend and law enforcement's original suspect well investigators cleared him of any suspicion after
33:30seeing the contents of jerry's briefcase but the defense puts his brother harold on the stand where
33:37he repeats claims he made to police do you remember telling sergeant chandlin john told him he'd taken
33:43care of bruce yes i did made me look like crap that there pretty well ended my relationship with him
33:50we haven't talked long enough to have a hot dog since then and although police never found any physical
33:57evidence no fingerprints no footprints linking sheree to the crime the prosecution has something all new
34:03electronic evidence that they say leads right to sheree the jury needed to see while she may not
34:11have pulled that trigger she was the mastermind and i mean she had lie on top of lie on top of lie
34:21she lied about being pregnant she lied about being rich the really only truth in the whole emails was
34:27that she was married and she was a female the defense also argues that jerry was a jilted lover who framed sheree
34:41so david nicola brought on an expert witness saying that emails can be easily faked he was claiming
34:48that jerry faked it and we found it on her computer he couldn't have put it on her computer if he faked it
34:53and remember the photos sheree sent jerry of her bruised stomach it turns out those weren't even real
35:01you were a mary kay cosmetics consultant was that makeup on your belly yes it was the fatal mistake
35:08in my opinion that sealed her fate was when she testified we had so many things that she said that
35:16she did in those emails that i think that she felt she had to testify to try to explain some of it away
35:21but how does she explain all those messages to jerry complaining about the terrible abuse she supposedly suffered
35:29at bruce's hands i thought by writing stuff like that that he would leave me alone
35:37that at that point he wouldn't want anything to do with me and it didn't work
35:44and now sheree miller has an unexpected message for bruce and jerry's family members
36:05the jury finds the defendant guilty as charged you can't believe the feeling of relief when they read the
36:13verdict guilty and then he was like you could actually breathe you were shocked yeah like it's over like
36:24people really know what i am what i did i'm going to prison but sheree's prison stay wasn't the life
36:36sentence bruce's family expected she had been there for six seven eight nine years and then in step the
36:44federal judge
36:49sheree miller is free to post bond which would release her from prison you're granted an automatic
36:54appeal in the state of michigan the judge determined that the suicide note shouldn't have come in
37:00and so she was to be retried but that new trial never happens after three years of freedom the
37:08appellate judge's decision is reversed and sheree is once again behind bars
37:17and 16 years later the man who prosecuted her case gets a letter he never expected
37:22and that was truly astounding to open up my mail one day and get a letter from sheree miller professing
37:31her guilt bruce
37:35was so close to knowing who i really was like what was really inside of me the consequence of bruce dying
37:49was smaller than what the consequence would have been if he knew that i wasn't who he thought i was
37:58so rather than face the truth you were willing to have your husband be killed yeah yeah and eventually
38:07sheree admitted that she was the one who sent those threatening emails from the bd junk account to jerry bruce
38:14wasn't involved at all why do you think it took you so many years to fess up well it was so much
38:23easier lying about it to myself i did it because it was the right thing to do and i've never done the
38:31right thing i just wanted to do one right take before i leave this world at that moment maybe for
38:39the first time ever i had some amount of sympathy for sheree l miller i like to think that finally
38:45she realized what she had done jerry's brother is suspicious that sheree is just manipulating people
38:52all over again everything she does there's there's a scheme behind it there's a plot behind it
38:59there are plenty of people who knew you when you were lying all the time who think you're lying now
39:05and that this is some sort of big act i'm sure i can't make anybody believe me all i can do
39:15is show them sheree miller read what she called letters apologizing to the people she hurt
39:23would it be okay if i read them sure and when we interviewed some of those victims families
39:30we asked if they wanted to hear the recording he didn't murder bruce i did i am so sorry for lying
39:37to and lying on jerry bruce's family not only am i responsible for bruce's death i'm responsible for
39:47continuing to open the wound over and over by lying for 17 years some things are not forgivable
39:56and she is not forgivable i want to say that i could forgive her but i can't i can't it's difficult
40:06to believe anything that the woman has to say i don't know if i could ever forgive her it's a special
40:14kind of evil to plan this in so much detail with the uh letters the pictures the emails
40:23she's acting as she's bruce miller and knows about jerry my response to that letter
40:35i just hope she rots in hell
40:39today sheree is still serving a life sentence at a woman's prison in michigan
40:44she has exhausted further attempts to appeal her case bruce is my brother it's been 22 years so
40:54seems like yesterday you're just never gonna forget it that's all there is to it
40:58from start to finish she just destroyed two families and destroyed her own
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