Carrie's Grief Counselor
Appearances
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Dirty Little Secret
We're just trying to put one foot in front of the other and get through this. This is...
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Dirty Little Secret
I remember Nancy saying, Linda, have you ever considered that perhaps Carrie didn't take her life? I remember stammering and saying, what are you talking about?
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Dirty Little Secret
Murder, I mean, that's just not something that I could wrap my head around. I needed time to think, to process. This was too difficult for me to be able to discuss.
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Dirty Little Secret
And it was about that time where Matt's story no longer made sense. There were inconsistencies, outright lies, and we needed more answers.
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Dirty Little Secret
Her faith was the core of who she was. And so it was very important to her that she found someone whose faith was aligned with hers.
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Dirty Little Secret
I called them my guys, and they became as invested in this case as if they were fighting for their own child.
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Dirty Little Secret
Carrie, she was always the bubbly little blonde and just loved life. People were drawn to Carrie.
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Dirty Little Secret
We tried to talk Carrie into waiting a little longer. She really did not want to. Carrie was looking for a husband with morals and values that were similar to what she had. And Matt, she believed, had those.
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Dirty Little Secret
We knew there was going to be a birthday party. And we took a picture of all the girls and Matt and Vanessa.
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Dirty Little Secret
That made her angry, and she was going to leave him. I suggested they get counseling.
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Dirty Little Secret
What I saw from Vanessa's testimony was a man who was much more evil than even I believed he was.
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Dirty Little Secret
I'm talking to you, Matt, today, okay? You haven't looked at me in almost four years. Can you look at me today?
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Dirty Little Secret
I'm talking to you, Matt, today, okay? You haven't looked at me in almost four years. Can you look at me today?
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Dirty Little Secret
What helped Carrie, in addition to her faith and her family, was she saw a grief counselor for a year.
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Dirty Little Secret
And then you took her from us, Matt. You discarded her like she was yesterday's trash. You murdered the mother of your children. But love trumps evil. I don't know why, but I felt pity for him.
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Dirty Little Secret
Their mother was erased from them. They need to know she loved them, and she didn't leave them by choice.
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Dirty Little Secret
We received a phone call from the 911 operator telling us that we needed to get over to my daughter's house, that there had been an accident and we needed to get over there immediately.
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Dirty Little Secret
We ran out of the car and as I started running up to the front of the house, an EMT person stood in front of me and grabbed me and told me that my daughter was dead.