BONUS: Patricia Aldridge and Mitchell Vickers (Snapped: Killer Couples)

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With no seller fees, you keep every dollar you earn. Hi, Snap listeners. We are bringing you a special bonus episode today from Oxygen's hit series, Killer Couples. You can also watch full episodes live or on demand on the free Oxygen app, or on peacock, by clicking the link in our description. Enjoy. [MUSIC PLAYING] We had a murder which was done with particularly gruesome amount of violence. But we would typically refer to as a rage killing. Everybody loved him. No possible enemy. So why would somebody want to murder him? [MUSIC PLAYING] You don't want to be alone coming tonight. It's not the water city. Let's go go ahead to the end of the 25th of June. That's the day we got involved. I do all the dire murdering, but I've done my hair for a reason here. And I tell him I'm standing to hail, boy. I was very shocking. Describing himself as being the murderer and the sole person responsible just didn't make sense and just didn't sound reasonable. There are two basic motives, plain old fashioned greed. Love gone wrong. Put those two things together. It's like pouring gasoline on fire. I love his life on the hard track. She has a bloodload of me. [MUSIC PLAYING] Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Huntington, West Virginia is a quiet community with deep roots. This town sits right on the Ohio River. So it's a pretty location. It's a mostly middle class working class people. It's a close tight knit community. On the afternoon of June 25, 1998, local resident Denny Aldridge receives a concerning phone call from his brother Miller's wife, Patricia Aldridge. My wife entered the phone and kind of quiet for a man. And she said, you need to talk to Trish or something wrong with your brother. Missing. I got on the phone with her. And if you don't know where he's at and you get gone, I said, call the police. 20 minutes later, a Huntington police officer arrives at the Aldridge residence. Patricia explains that she last saw her 42-year-old husband at 7.30 that morning. My brother was supposed to have a recall on his car down at 8 o'clock. She stated that he had taken the van that she usually drove and parked it out on the street and then had given her a hug and told her he'd meet her for lunch at about 11 o'clock. Patricia had gone to Walmart and to the bank and had returned home shortly before 11 o'clock and Millard was not there. She then proceeded on to work. Patricia said that while she was at work, she made civil phone calls trying to find Millard was not able to do so. Millard, you could pretty much set a clock by. He was very reliable on his daily life. She became very worried and so about 2 o'clock that afternoon she returned home. Patricia says her concerns grew when she entered the couples detached garage. She went back to the garage to see if he was there and she found bloodstains on the floor. She then contacted her brother and called the police. So what they originally thought might be a missing person became something more sinister in nature. When detectives arrived, they begin processing the scene and speak with Patricia. She said that Millard was our cameraman for the MSGZ. At that point, I recognized who he was. He would come to the courthouse and interview prosecutors after the conclusion of cases. He always seemed like a very nice guy. Born and raised in Huntington, Millard Aldridge came from humble beginnings. Our life was simple. We were country people. My dad worked every day. My mother was a housewife, and she did some jobs at times. I had one brother, and I had one sister. We're only three years apart in ages. So we were pretty tight-knit. We went to CK High School, but unfortunately, he didn't get to graduate from there. My dad had got hurt and was off work. And most of us ended up having to quit school and get jobs to make sure that we didn't lose our home. He had got an interview for a janitor's position for WSAZ Channel 3, and luckily, he got it. With a keen eye for photography, Millard quickly found a new career path. He worked his way up to be a journalist, photojournalist. He loved what he did, and he felt like he was making a difference in our community by helping report the news in the Huntington area. And becoming a photojournalist like he did was destined to be his thing. It was his calling. Two years into his career at WSAZ, Millard married his high school sweetheart. They had a little girl first, and then they had a little boy. Millard was a great father. He loved his kids. He took care of his kids. Millard was such a caring person. He never put himself first. He was just an all-around great man. He gave it everything he had to make a work, but he ended up getting a divorce. He was probably single for about four years, and then he met Trish. Next thing I know, he's in love, and he wants to marry her. Trish was always out for a good time, always laughing, and making jokes. I thought she was great, because she was making Millard happy. She seemed like she was going to be a true partner for him for the rest of his life. A Trish had one child from a previous marriage, and he treated her, Jennifer, like his own daughter. She loved Millard to death. Am I not have been her birth dad, but that was her dad. And then they had to son shortly after they were married. He was happy and proud. That's what he wanted to be. He wanted to be a 11-father in a husband. While Millard continued to build a successful career at WSAZ, Patricia pursued her own interests. She was real good-sowing, and stuff like that. She had her own business, which was called a stitch-in-time. She would make things for people, costumes, and outfits, and blankets, and different things. Millard and Trish, they seemed happy as a couple. Like they were going to grow old together and set on the front porch in a rocking chair. But after nearly two decades of marriage, the couple's future is suddenly in jeopardy. With the finding of the blood stains in the garage, that elevated things quite a bit. Once the area was secured, then the forensic investigators came in. I observed a 55-gallon size garbage can had been turned over. It looked like a struggle took place. The blood sputter indicated that this was a very violent attack. It looked more like what we would typically refer to as a rage killer. Coming up, authorities discover a second crime scene. Generally speaking, the purpose for burning a vehicle is to destroy evidence. The tip to law enforcement puts a suspect in their crosshairs. When human emotions are set ablaze like this, you don't know where the fire is going to go. Hours after 42-year-old Millard Aldridge was reported missing by his wife Patricia, investigators in Huntington, West Virginia find evidence of a violent attack in the couple's garage. We didn't find any weapons inside the garage, but there was a blood swipe on the floor. It looked to me like somebody had tried to use something to maybe clean up the blood pool. What was reported missing from the garage was Millard Aldridge and Millard Aldridge's vehicle, but there were no reports that anything else significant was taken from the garage. There were no signs of breaking at all. It didn't appear to be a rubber gumbed. Someone had gained entry either had access to the garage or was familiar with it somewhere. Investigators canvas the Aldridge's neighborhood, hoping that someone saw Millard leave home on his own. This is Westmoreland neighborhood of Huntington. It's a kind of a better breakfast family neighborhood, so for this to have happened was very shocking. The canvas turned up no results. There was nothing unusual that was noted either during that day, tonight before. The next step the investigators would take would be to put him into the National Crime Database, the NCIC, and it alerts law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for this missing person or this vehicle. Trish, she was worried about Millard, nervous because she didn't know where he was at. The whole family was hoping that he was still alive, but everybody was just in shock, total shock. I felt I had to do something to try to help find my brother. With my sons and my nephew, we jumped in my van and we went on backgrounds that we used to run when we was kids. Our hearts were sinking, hoping still that he would be found alive, but there was less hope of that happening. Nearly 24 hours into their search, Huntington Police received a call from neighboring Cabell County. A burnt vehicle was found on an H3 road. Immediately there was the suspicion that this might be Millard's missing car. The vehicle was destroyed to such an extent that they could not make any determination of what make model or serial number might exist there. There was a license plate that had been burned in half, but you could still read the first three digits. The first three digits on that license plate did correspond to the first three digits of Millard Aldridge's vehicle. So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together. It was pretty safe to assume that this was Millard's vehicle. So it was prudent to do a search in that area. We had a lot of people out there. We had people from the Sheriff's Barban, a volunteer group. The news had chemicals out there covering as much of the search as they could. A lot of the people that he worked with were all there, and it was a somber moment for everybody. Western State Police participated in the search of the area and it included cadaver dogs. Less than a quarter mile into the woods, investigators make a gruesome discovery. The body was maybe 10 to 15 feet over an embankment over the hillside. It was in a state of decomposition. And it was pretty apparent that there were some severe injuries to the face and head, enough to the point that he could not be immediately identified. We got to phone call and said, "We found a body and we think it's Millard." I was asked to go help identify the body. The hardest thing to do is identify your brother, but the only way I could do it was because when he was a young man, he thought he wanted to tattoo an initial limb on his shoulder. And another thing, he had a scar on his right leg, and that's basically how I was able to identify my brother. I didn't know what to do. I mean, I kind of felt in my knees. That immediately changed things from a missing person to a homicide investigation. When the body was carried out of the woods, Patricia was there with a couple of family members and she did break down, kind of collapsed. She was just absolutely devastated. I mean, crying beyond consoling, it was just a sick feeling. How can someone do something to take his life? The sad irony of Millard's career, which was to put the stories of others on camera, is that his horrible and untimely death played out on camera and in the media that he served. They had M.T. to transport Millard to the medical examiner's office to have an autopsy done on him. The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was the severe blunt force trauma to the head. This is consistent with the blood evidence that was found at the crime scene. And the M.E.'s report described a dozen injuries, one of which was so severe it caused several fractures to the head and face. For somebody to be not just beaten to death, but beaten multiple times to death indicates that there was a lot of rage involved in the crime. It didn't look like it could be a random type of crime. It looked more overkill. It seemed very personal. It was somebody of either size or strength or both. And so, clearly, we're probably not looking at a woman or somebody a small stature. That caused us to go back and talk to family members and try to get an idea of who might be responsible for this type of crime. We're racking our brain trying to figure out who would want to hurt him. He was the best man. You could ask for as a friend, a father, a son, a brother, nobody. In the family or the neighborhood, whatever guess that somebody would hate him, nobody. While interviewing Millard's family, detectives sit down with his 18-year-old stepdaughter, Jennifer. Jennifer had information she might be able to provide with regard to the relationship between her mother and father. By all our appearances, this was an ideal marriage. But Jennifer exposes a crack in her family's picture-perfect veneer. In speaking to her detectives learned that Patricia had an affair with a guy named Mitchell Dickers. Given the statements, they have to explore Mitch Vickers. Who's Mitch Vickers? Is he the type of person that could have harmed Millard Aldrich because of this affair? Two days into Millard Aldrich's murder investigation, authorities in Huntington, West Virginia have a promising lead. According to Millard's stepdaughter Jennifer, his wife Patricia was having an affair with a man named Mitchell Vickers. In speaking to her detectives learned that Patricia would meet with Mitchell Vickers at Jennifer's apartment. Jennifer disclosed to us that she'd have knowledge about the affair, just her general dislike and suspicions of Vickers, and this box of letters that she got from Patricia, a bunch of level letters between Patricia and Vickers. Jennifer mentioned that Vickers had threatened her if she disclosed the relationship to Millard Aldrich. She was scared of him. We ran his name, ended up pulling the jacket on him. Vickers had a fairly extensive record. He was what you might call a career criminal. Mitch Vickers was from the Barbersville area of Cabal County, which is just east of City of Huntington. He'd been involved in a lot of thefts and things like that and had had legal trouble in Florida and had been incarcerated there. He had recently been convicted of a couple of burglaries and had worked out a plea deal. Having pled guilty to those charges, he had asked for a delayed report date because his mother was in bad health. He was permitted to be released from jail and was to report on June 29 to the authorities in Cabal County to be transferred. forwarded to the prison. Detectives realized Mitchell had been released nearly a week before Millard was reported missing. Mitchell Vickers is a person who is very large. He is strong. He's capable of extreme violence. And so the nature of the injuries combined with the knowledge of the affair immediately moved Mitchell Vickers up to the top of the possible suspects of the state. It raises questions with the discovery of the affair. It's now necessary to go back and talk to Patricia. Detectives immediately contact Patricia at her home and press her about the state of her marriage. Very shortly after the investigators being the questioner, she admits to the affair with Mitchell Vickers. Mitchell admits that the affair began less than a year earlier in December of 1997. But her ties to Mitchell Vickers began decades earlier. Mitch Vickers and Patricia Aldridge had a relationship. When they were much younger back in the 70s, Mitch Vickers had moved away and they separated. When Mitch returned to town in 1997, they were re-acquainted by one of Patricia's friends. They reconnected and that grew from there into a full-fledged physical affair. I have to believe that the attraction to Mitchell Vickers to Patricia was the fact that he was almost the polar opposite of Miller. Whereas Miller was a stable guy with a job, was a law-biting guy, and Mitchell Vickers was a bad boy in and out of prison. Patricia talked about Vickers being re-arrested in February of '98 and so when he goes back into jail, she told detectives that she ended the affair with Vickers. She insisted that she's not involved, she's innocent, she loved her husband, and at that point, Patricia indicates that she's not sure if Mitchell Vickers is involved. As detectives are wrapping up their interview, Patricia steps away to take a phone call. Patricia says, "Hey, I've got somebody wants to talk to you." The person identifies as Mitchell Vickers on the phone, and he said, "I'm the one that did it. I'm the one that killed that SOP." He said to sleep my lady alone, she didn't have nothing to do with it. The obvious reaction immediately is just amazement. We didn't know it was a love story, gone bad, we didn't know exactly what the motive was. We had a little bit of a suspicion that perhaps Patricia had called him and convinced him to talk to the police. In addition to confessing, Vickers had also offered to surrender himself and gave us an address on location to find him. The detectives immediately leave to try to make contact with Mr. Vickers. At this point, he's not just a suspect, he's a suspect. Coming up, detectives come face-to-face with Mitchell Vickers, and an unexpected motive emerges. "I love his wife so much, how can I go to jail knowing that this ass s**t is going to be a better victim for her." I never had a confession that was quite like this. He had no remorse whatsoever. 48 Hours After Huntington Police recovered Millard Aldridge's body, his wife's lover, 40-year-old Mitchell Vickers, surrenders to authorities. "It gives a location for them to pick him up. When they encounter him, he's in a truck, he gets out of the truck. He's shirtless, and they obviously put him in a cruiser and transported him to be interviewed." The detectives take him to the barracks in Cabal County, and Mitchell Vickers voluntarily gives a statement at that time. In his statement, Mitchell Vickers talked about his relationship with Trish Aldridge, and the fact that they were in love with each other. "Dog ran around with the friends of mine. Their girlfriend knows Trish can somehow, my name came up. And we decided that we would make him just kind of discuss what he'd been up to in the last 18 years. First time we met, we met just a ton of laws, and it's before Christmas. It's very obvious we still had feelings for each other." Pickers stated that the reason why he killed Millard Aldridge was because Patricia had told them that Millard was very abusive. "She has told me things, for instance, that no one was nothing but a drug, D.O. and Shracks her around. They treat you like a piece of f*****." According to Mitchell, things came to a head when he was recently sentenced for his burglary charges. "I went berserk. I went crazy. You know, I love this way, if I'm hard, how can I go to jail knowing that this ass f***** is going to be a liar, beaten on her, and I just, man, no, I'm going to prison, I'm going to put his thoughts on this f*****." "I can't have for it. You know, I know I can't. But I've got a damn, I'm not going anywhere else to have for it." "What did you decide to do?" "I thought her address. I went down there." "I walked in her garage, approximately 4.30, that morning." "And how did you get into their garage?" "The door was open." "A way, a way, a day like came and those parties, every night at the block, I guess you'd probably come out there and drive your car and buy your trash with." "I just said that when Miller entered the garage, Victor's attacked him, first with a pipe, and then beat him with a claw hammer, and then stabbed him with a screwdriver." "And then I grabbed a present, right, I put some sign on the wall, I grabbed it, I started thinking about him, he was screaming, you know, "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!" This one was a chilling confession because of the cold and calculating manner in which he spoke about murdering someone. I never had a confession that was quite like this. "When I knew he was there, I'd go to a ride, don't even get a truck with a car, walked over to let's try to clean up on the air, you know, let it go, let's go to the radio." Victor's describes driving the car up to eight street road near Skyview Drive. He disposes of the body, dropping it over the side of a hill, and then, before gasoline on the car, and said it on fire. He then hitched a ride back to town. He seemed to be extremely proud, he leaned back in the chair, arms folded, shirtless, as if he were bragging about what he'd done. Almost as if he's trying to make himself out to be the hero rather than the bad guy in this. "First thing you got to do, be s**t, now I'm saying it all alone, you know, drinking and no matter anything, I'm proud to hear it." Victor's was extremely adamant about taking all of the blame himself, and that just even more raised suspicions because if Patricia wasn't involved, there would be no reason for him to even mention her. Following his confession, Mitchell is transported to the Huntington Police Department to be charged with first-degree murder. News crews eagerly await his arrival. "A suspect reportedly called police to confess to the murder of W.S.A.'s eat photographer, Miller Dahldrich." "Where does he belong?" "I'm going to hell this world soon." "I was at Miller's house with Trish and Miller's mom, and it come on the news. And Mitch Bigger's is on there, they've got him in handcuffs, he's cussing everybody saying that Miller was a terrible person, he deserved to die, he was a wife, Peter, and a child abuser, I mean, we're all in shock, glad that they arrested him, but where did he get this information from?" "He also apparently had a motive, he said it was a real relationship with a vet." When investigators circled back to Miller's family members, they say that in hindsight, they believe Miller must have been suspicious of his wife's infidelity. that something was bothering him a lot. Patricia wasn't really paying the attention to him like she was and she wasn't that happy, go lucky, smile. I think he might have kind of knew, but he didn't want it, though. He didn't want it to be real. - You could tell Patricia was a little bit nervous about all of it, but she was still trying to act like the innocent person in all this. - A lot of what I felt was a gut feeling that she wasn't being truthful. - Family members are adamant that Millard has never been abusive. Everybody that knows he knows he wasn't. - All of that kind of raised red flags. Everything we had up to that point said no, that's not true. - Since Patricia had allegedly fed this information to Mitchell, investigators have growing doubts about her story. Looking for clues, they compare her previous statements to the forensic evidence found at the scene and hit Haydert. - Luminol was applied to the crime scene in the garage and it was apparent that there had been a vehicle parked where the violence had taken place. It cast a lot of doubt to the explanation Patricia gave about Millard parking the van in front of the house before leaving. So we wanted to take a closer look at the van. - There are a lot of unanswered questions at this point. - Patricia had made a statement that the last time she saw Millard was when he pulled her vehicle from the garage around to the front of the house and parked it along the curb. We went back to examine Patricia's van and it didn't take long to find some blood stains. There was a couple of stains that were on the passenger side review mirror. But then I looked up in the wheel well, up above the tire and that's where I saw a lot of impacts batter, meaning that that portion of the vehicle would have been adjacent to the beating as the beating was taken place. - That's where the van had to be in the garage when the blood got on it. It made it very plain and obvious to me at that point that she was lying. Investigators immediately bring Patricia Aldridge into the station for questioning. - At this time, Patricia was confronted with this evidence and she indicates that she wants a lawyer. - Clearly she knew about it and had some kind of involvement in it. - Investigators don't have enough evidence to hold Patricia so they let her go. On June 27th, a local couple contacts police after seeing Vickers arrest on the news. - The day after Mitchell Vickers was arrested, the police received a telephone call from Cheryl Kowalski. - Cheryl Kowalski is a friend of Patricia's, Cheryl's husband, Ronald had spent time in jail with Mitchell Vickers. - Cheryl says in January of 1998, Mitchell contacted her husband, Ronald, with a proposal. - Cheryl tells police that Mitchell Vickers had approached her husband and offered money to kill Mildred Aldridge. - So detectives interviewed Ronald Kowalski. He provided the cooperating information. - He had a video that showed Patricia Aldridge and Mitchell Vickers at his home, Christmas of 1997. - Patricia was sitting on Vickers' lap and kissing him, hugging him, essentially carrying on like teenagers. - A month later, Mitchell had returned to Ron and Cheryl's home. - Ron said that Vickers had approached him, asked him if he wanted to earn some money. - He had been offered $7,500 to kill Mildred Aldridge, but he refuses. - According to Ronald, it wasn't just Mitchell who wanted Miller dead. - According to Ron, there was another time where he was approached this time. Patricia Aldridge and Vickers together. Patricia asked Ron if he would be willing to kill her husband and describe that she wanted him out of the picture. - The statement of the Kowalski's are important because it doesn't isolate Mitchell Vickers as being a lone person seeking to have Miller Aldridge kill. It clearly shows that this was a joint enterprise on their part. - As for why Patricia wanted her husband dead, her friends believe they know the answer. - Patricia had described that the reason she couldn't leave her husband was because it all boiled down the money. She couldn't make it financially on her own. - When investigators obtain the Aldridge's financial records, they learn why. - Patricia was the same, she had a business called Stitch and Time that eventually went background and closed. - Miller Aldridge worked for WSAZ TV here in Huntington and they had a policy that a burned employee got killed. They would pay a year salary to that employee's beneficiary. I was talking with the bookkeeper at WSAZ and I will never forget what the lady said to me. She said, "Honey, that's not what the money is." She said, "It's 401K." I said, "How much?" And she said, "around 250,000 dollars." - Mitchell Vickers is in custody for the confessed murder of Miller Aldridge. But now, friends of Miller's wife Patricia have come forward accusing her of being a co-conspirator. - Patricia indicates to some friends that she was not financially able to make it on her own by merely divorcing him and that eliminating him was the solution to her problem. She would have been the beneficiary of the 401K and the life insurance policy. So there was at least $300,000 there that she would have received. On July 1, 1998, through his attorney, Mitchell Vickers had made contact with the prosecuting attorney's office and agreed to give an additional statement. - He's been informed that the original motive that he gave the belief that Miller was abusive towards Patricia was false. Once he's confronted with that information, it becomes clear to him that at least in some part he was used by Patricia. And so he's no longer shielding her from everything that happened. - I love Trish. I love his faith on the heart. Because she has loved Logan Lee. - She got me to believe him, which out of doubt for her husband was real afraid. I don't even know if it made it. - He detailed the motive for the crime being the financial motive. - She didn't want to get rid of him for the time. She offered me $10,000. She asked me to do it, finally agreed to him. - And so he describes Patricia having set things up at the house. She disabled a motion light. - She unlocked the door to the garage. - He explained that he committed the act after Miller walked into the garage. And that he stuffed Miller's body in the trunk, took the car up to a street road sky view drive area. Dump Miller's body out. - She was right behind me in the van. We're gassed all over the car inside and out. We stood jumped in her man. We took her home. - Patricia then drove him to Walmart where she gets him a change of clothes. - And she took me from there, took me out to buddy of my son's home. I don't know. That's when I guess she went home and didn't report me. - So the additional information that Vickers now gives us further cemented Patricia's involvement in this murder. - She is a principal of the crime, just like the person who wielded the hammer. So at this point, she will be charged with first degree murder. - On July 3rd, Miller's Aldridge is late to rest surrounded by friends and family, including Patricia. - We're at the funeral home and her is still done in the booth who did a poor widow. - What about me thing? We all knew that she was involved. It was so hard for all of us to just grin and bear it. - We got to the cemetery and they lowered his coffin into the ground and we started filming it up. - That's when the police came up and arrested her. - Helletic justice of her getting arrested at the cemetery. That was just. (dramatic music) - Karma. - Just a week after her husband, Miller was found beaten to death, his wife was arrested and charged with first degree murder. - Despite confessing to Miller's murder, Mitchell Vickers takes his chance as a trial on May 4th, 1999. - We had corroborating evidence, but the most compelling evidence was his confession. - Not to go down to Miller's mind, not to go down to Miller's body to kill him. - Mitchell Vickers was found guilty of first degree murder, and he was sentenced to life without mercy. - We would have preferred the death penalty, but West Virginia doesn't really have that on the table. - Patricia Aldridge's trial gets underway on August 24th, 1999. - So we had to connect all those dots to clearly show that she was intimately involved in the planning and the murder of her husband. - It was hard to find out how much involvement she had. Just having Miller murdered by her lover was bad enough, but to find out that she helped plan everything. - The death's for hired is what it was. She was a mastermind of it all. - Her selfishness, her greed, everything is about her. - Mitch killed Miller because he loved Trish. He would do anything for her. - Well, Ferris deal with human emotions, and human emotions are set ablaze like this. You don't know where the fire's gonna go. On August 26th, Patricia takes the stand, attempting to refute the state's claim that this was a cold-blooded conspiracy. - Patricia Aldridge maintained that she may have been involved with Mitchell Vickers, but that he took it upon himself to do this. Mr. Vickers testified in her trial and recanted his second statement that she was involved. - And as his total self is depended on my part, the drug is in person, and such a serious discharge, the situation that I'm in, he didn't do anything bad. - In Mitchell Vickers' world, one of the worst things you can be is a snitch. And as much as anything, he may well have testified at that trial to rid himself of being a snitch. Mitch Vickers truly loved her, and I think he tried to save her one last time. - Following a three-day trial, the jury reaches a verdict. - Patricia Aldridge was found guilty of first-degree murder. Her sentence was life in prison with no possibility of parole. - They got exactly what they deserved. And I don't lose a man to sleep over. - There are two basic motives that come forward in this particular case. One is money, plain old fashioned greed. The other is love gone wrong. Put those two things together, it's like pouring gasoline on fire. - I think it was just a fatal attraction that they just couldn't get out of their system. - Patricia, I really don't understand how you can do this and tear a family up and take a great man, not just from us, but your kids, his kids. How could you do this? I just wish he was here. Oh, is he here? - My brother, we're being remembered in our family to me as one of the most loving, caring, devoted persons that you can ask for. Hopefully his legacy, people will still remember and hate it will live on. I know it will live on in our family, as long as we're here. - Patricia Aldrich is currently incarcerated at Lincoln Correctional Center in West Virginia and is not eligible for parole. Mitchell Vickers died in prison of hepatitis C in 2002.