Paige Blades
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Entanglement
Absolutely. That has been a concern since day one.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Entanglement
Any amount of safety that I felt surrounding Marty or any of the assistance that he had given me was shattered when it turned out that the information that I had was helpful to detectives. It was life-changing. It was shattering.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
No, she became, I wouldn't say so much jealous, but a little bit more possessive of him.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I met Scott in February 2011 and we became friends. I met his wife Desiree in May of the same year.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
He helped me with a lot of personal issues that I was going through.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
And his wife knew about it. I was accepted as a part of their marriage. I had a relationship right along with both of them.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
She became, I wouldn't say so much jealous, but a little bit more possessive of him. And it kind of went away. When she started feeling uncomfortable, we kind of ended it. It was completely amicable, agreed upon. We stayed friends. There's never been an issue.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
He had a funeral in Tri-Cities, and he ended up coming back here to spend the night.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
Oh, he has violent tendencies, but he's not... He's not violent without provocation.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
He's the one that got me the house. He bought my car outright, cash. I still haven't paid him back for it. He pays my insurance. He's done my grocery shopping. He's taken very well care of me.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
We had just found out about three weeks before the shooting that I was pregnant.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
Marty was one of the first people that I told. And apparently he decided that if the baby was Scott's like it was supposed to be, then Desiree would cause issues.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
Yeah. He just, he asked me, do you want me to take care of her like I did the last time?
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
He went in the front door because he knew that that was the closest to the bedroom. He alarmed off and he opened the door. And Ada came out barking. Des came out right behind her and he shot her. He shot her three times.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
It was a full clip. He got closer to her as she was trying to crawl away.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
He went back inside again, grabbed a jewelry box off of her dresser, and he left.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
Started the fire in the burn barrel. Burned all of the clothes, his shoes, his gloves.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
What is the word that we are using that if something bad happens that you are going to say? Avalanche.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
Because I know that you said that there was no evidence. So I'm just wondering for sure, for sure, if there's nothing left.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
You can't freak me out, put me in full-on panic mode, and then just be like, nope, I don't know what you're talking about.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
We talked about it if I came over next weekend and In your house where you know that nobody is listening? Strip me down first?
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
There are a lot of things that people get wrong about me. There are a lot of assumptions.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I love Des. And I don't say that past tense. She's still special to me. There's no part of me that ever wanted anything bad to happen to her.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
We became very good friends, and eventually friends with benefits, and eventually we didn't have a relationship anymore. She met Scott in early 2011,
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
They were in a one-bedroom apartment, and they had a California king bed. And she was like, there's plenty of room. All three of us shared the bed.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
Not all together, but I was sexually active with Scott and I was sexually active with Des.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
That was the big fight. I know that I was out of line with how I responded to her. There were a lot of other things that were going on in my life at the time that were compounding stress.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I still don't remember. And that one's come up quite a few times too.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
He was my rock for a little while. He would go on a grocery run for me if I needed, or if I needed to borrow gas money, then I would get it from him. He was the only person that I had that I could turn to if I had a struggle.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I assume that it had something to do with his undying love for me, as he would say.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
It was not just hard. It was a devastating blow. Who was this person that I had let into my life?
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I honestly don't know. I don't know or understand how Marty's mind works. I honestly never have.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
None whatsoever. I... I've heard that quite a few times, but never in a million years. There was never any reason for that to happen.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I don't think that's fair. I believe that if Marty hadn't been in my life, Des would still be alive. I understand that to a lot of people, it probably seems like and feels like I am central to everything. But from my own side, I'm on the outside looking in. I didn't feel like I was the one in the center.
Dateline NBC
Deadly Entanglement
I had nothing to do with it. It's incredibly unfair that I risked my life to do the right thing, and I'm being crucified for existing.