Husband Leaves Behind Bloody Scene in Wife’s Gruesome Death: Cops

It started with a phone call from a husband concerned about his wife, but once police got to their home, they realized this case could be much more than what the husband had initially led off. On the surface, they appeared to be a happy couple, but just waiting until you hear the stories, the husband told responding officers and what police found when they dug into his criminal history in a case that would become a murder. We're on the case presented by Law and Crime, I'm Chris Stewart. In too many of the cases we cover, the smiles and pictures, a welcome sign by the front door or a story by a loved one about a victim are really just a facade. And it takes some hard questions and a critical eye to get to the truth. And that is what this story is about. The story of a woman named Michelle Feather of West Lake, Ohio, a nice suburb of Cleveland. Michelle was married to Bill Feather. The two of them seemed to love spending time together. They lived in this home with the patriotic welcome sign on the front steps. But on July 17th, Bill called 911 because something was wrong with Michelle. Yeah. Okay. My wife, I'm very concerned about her. How old is she? Uh, she's 57. And what's going on with her? Uh, she's not breathing well, um, and I, I, she's, she's not doing well. Okay. Is she awake right now? No. She's not. She's just yes. Okay. And you said she has breathing, right? She's breathing. Okay. Seem like she's breathing normally. No, it's like something's not right. Officers then respond to the featherhole. Now you have to bear with us as we go through this because police have redacted the visuals inside the home. It is all blurred. But you can clearly hear the conversations that they have, including what Bill tells them. Police also notice that blood was allegedly in multiple parts of the house. Fresh although it would be brown, I think dog paws, it looks like dog paws, but never mind. I figured it out, I figured it out, it's, uh, it's probably not good, it's probably bad. All right, remember to, um, remember to bring your shoes, please. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We'll just go up to the source. Well, that was one of the destinations. Originally it didn't, uh, made it by my wife, so, at least she's spotted. Now I won't go put my feet up on the couch at home. Now, investigators say not only did they find blood in the house, but they say it was fresh. Mostly blood. Mostly blood starts in the bed here, or at least, then if you look there, it seems to be a weird sort of splatter, but you could see it's at least some of it. All right, all right, all right. This is where we see investigators first make contact with Bill Feather, the husband who called 911 who said he had no idea what happened to his wife, Michelle. She says she was just watching TV and stopped breathing. Yes, you know what, all the blood on the floor is in both these rooms. Oh, okay, what happened there? What happened? I used it myself to work. Oh, okay. What are you working at? I'm a carpenter. Oh, okay. How that happened, that looks like it hurts. What'd you do? I see a piece of plywood came down on my, on my legs. I don't have. Okay. Question first. No. No. I just want to make sure my wife's okay, like, I drink, like I just take a look over there or what. They wish you was sitting. I'm assuming they're going to take her to St. John's, so they take care of her. So they tell you? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Take a look at her. You can go. Where was she bleeding? Is she bleeding from, what part of her body? I. Looks like it's blood better. They got her mouth or? It was out of her mouth, yes. Okay. Yeah. She's had some teeth issues. Okay. What other medical issues does she have? I'm sure you're going over it with the ambulance guys, but. You know, I. Okay. Okay. Okay. And, uh, I'm just trying to deal with it. Okay. Any medical issues? [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] And nothing like this has ever happened before. [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] Bill says that Michelle is a history of seizures and you might have picked up on this as well. He is the first one to bring up the words domestic violence. This is a bad episode right now. The Odyssey. Are you recent falls, right, Eddie? No. Okay. Do you see the Canada earthquake for a second? There's no domestic violence. There's nothing of that sort, okay? You ever want to see that? Okay. I'm just trying to figure out what happened and why she's like this. I don't know. What? That's why we're asking always questions. It's a little bit short. Sure. It's for sure it's fine. We got to get to section. [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] [Bleep] What do you like to do? We're in St. John's. Yep. We should be going to St. John's in our office. Okay. You want to go there? Don't fall alone. They're going to be going there in about 10 minutes. We're going to work out in the ambulance and then take care of it. Okay. Um. I need to do it tomorrow. Maybe. Relax a little bit. And I'll be up there in about half an hour. So Bill says that he needs to relax and get some water. And then, he'll go to the hospital to visit Michelle. At this point, she was still fighting for her life. But the red flags are going off her place. There's lots of suspicious things. Um. And he is being very. It's like simple things are very complicated. They're asking simple questions, getting very. I don't remember. Convoluted answers. And, like, he's making. He made weird comments about, like, out of the blue domestic violence. Um. Her being emotional and hard to deal with. Like, you know, it's. There's blood everywhere. Um. He's got a bloody tone. And he says it from the interior that work. So there's blood on the floor. There's blood in the shower. There's blood all over the couch where. She had blood all around her mouth. Supposedly, she was peeping up blood. Investigators go back in to ask Bill a few more questions. They write in a police report that they also allegedly noticed a scratch on Bill's face and blood under his fingernails. So, maybe this person, I like, concerned based on what she's getting going on. Like, it looks like maybe some injuries or something. I want you to just walk us through the morning. It seems like you're having a hard time remembering what's going on, so we're trying to get. As much detailed information as you can. As though what happened with her. Just start following you. Look up. And so we got it. How's that sound? You know what? Every day is a hard day, every day. Okay? It is. It's like, why is it like this? It's just. Um. She's having. No. I don't know what else to say. You know what I got to deal with it every day. Okay, so walk us through from when you guys woke up until we got here. Kind of give us, give us everything that happened. It's just a normal morning, really. Really, really. Do you know what I'm saying, I can play my play, do you woke up or do you need me to breakfast, what walk us through it at? You know, I made a bowl of cereal, woke up, you know. Do you sleep in the same bedroom, do you sleep or do you sleep? She generally sleeps on the couch and I sleep there, when she was, can you sleep upstairs? Yeah. What time did she wake up then? Did she sleep around the couch last night? Yes. Okay. What time did you wake up? I don't know. 10 thirty. 10 thirty? 10 thirty and 10 thirty this morning? Yeah. I think so. It's 10 fifteen right now. How long have you been awake? Have you had the estimate? About an hour. Okay. Been awake about an hour. And then, was she sleeping when you came down or was she already awake? She was asleep on my couch. Okay. What happened then? How did that hour go? It's hard to say. It's hard to say, you know, I'm an ice man, I really am. I'm just taking her back by this whole thing. By what? By having three policemen in my house. So, it's normally on a medical call, we don't have the significant other immediately saying that there was no domestic violence, we didn't even question that initially. Okay. It's not a thing to say. Okay. You can't count for anything this morning at all. Your behavior to me, I don't know you, but it seems a little off, like for you not to be able to remember anything, any of the details of this medical episode that just happened. It seems invasive at best. That's why we're questioning you more. Plus, like I said, there's injuries to her that concern the ambulance personnel, dry blood on her. That's why we're trying to get a full story going to happen this morning. Okay. But you can't remember anything, which is not very helpful. So, was there any physical violence you're talking about? No. Okay, so try to remember, you woke up about an hour ago, she was still asleep on the couch. What time did she wake up? The one in the top, you can't just pay you die real quick for weapons. Is that cool? Yeah. Put your hands up. Sure. We're headed to St. James. Just letting you guys know. All right. All right. Relax. Good. She was asleep for a while. You were awake or what? I woke up and she woke up. You know what? Is there any conversation you guys had? Not really, not anything out of the ordinary. And then what did you notice when the medical officer started publishing acting, what happened with her? Well, she was on the couch, laying, sitting, laying down on the couch, bleeding out around mouth. And that's why I called you guys, okay? Okay. She's saying something to you that you asked her anything. She was unconscious. Did you talk to her all the morning, was she conscious at one point? No. She was asleep the whole time or? I woke up and found her on the couch. And she was bleeding out of her mouth. That's why I called you guys. Well, you said you woke up about an hour ago and she was still asleep. When did you notice the blood? As soon as I saw the blood coming out of her mouth, I called 911. Okay? You had no conversation with her or you should look at or anything, the hour you were up while she was laying on the couch. Again, I woke up, she was on the couch, and she was bleeding out of her mouth. I called you guys, but here you are. You said you were up for an hour while she was laying out of the couch. You know what I mean? You were awake, she was on the couch for about an hour, you said, right? Probably yes, okay? What were you doing during that hour? It's watching TV. Where were you sitting? In my chair. Which one? Yeah. One. Right here. What was laying down right here? I'm sitting here, all right, I'm watching TV, okay? And I didn't notice, perhaps, for however long until I checked on her and I saw she was bleeding out of her mouth, I called you guys. Okay. Have you ever been domestic violence between you guys before? No. Nothing that we've ever been called to or anything like that. No. And what is she going to say as far as the injuries that we saw in her, what is she going to say now? No, you have to ask her, what do you think she's going to say? You know something, it's a two-way street, okay? I'm a nice man, all right? I'm not a violent man. I'm sorry that you're in my house. And I -- We're not saying that you're not a nice guy, we're not saying that you did something wrong, but you -- the way you started off our conversation when we came back and talked to you was that it's hard every day because she's emotional. And when emotions get involved, people can lose control and lose -- and that's understandable, you know what I mean? And we're not saying that you're a terrible person, but what we're saying is that some things aren't making sense to us so we're trying to figure it out. And that's all it is. And if you lost control today or guessed last night or whatever it may be, not saying you're a bad person, you know, we just want to figure out what happened. That's all it is. Now that really happened, I mean, I don't know why you guys are at my front door. I have no idea, okay? Well, it's because you called the -- I didn't call it -- or emergency services. Who called us? You called for an ambulance, right? You were getting -- who -- who called for her medical issue? She must have. I didn't -- you told us for the past like 10 minutes or that you noticed blood and then you called us. It's all very confusing right now, okay? Things are just getting very bizarre inside of this house because Bill now says he's not the one who called for help. Even though we all heard the phone call that he made to the fire department allegedly that morning. He also told police there was no history of domestic violence and that is just not true. Because in January, he was arrested on a charge of domestic violence and then he took a plea for a lesser charge. That's according to Cleveland 19 News. Do you remember when, uh, I mean, another officer came here, I mean, I want to say the end of the last year and we took your guns, remember that? What was that in relation, too? I forget what you did. I didn't do that. Okay. But what -- what was -- what do we -- what were we doing? The nature of the call. Why did we show up? Uh, my wife called you guys and he came in and took my guns. Okay. Did you get those back or did you? No, I don't. I don't have them back yet. Uh, any other ones in the house? Nope. Okay. No more firearms. There's nothing here. What were you, uh, I mean, there's obviously a dry blood on that mop, too, where were you, uh, mopping up? This is mopping the floor. There's just always blood on your floor. Hi, you guys. There's blood all along this floor leading into the bathroom and bedroom, which I have to figure out what that's from. So this sleeps in that bed in the corner in the -- in the corner room in the front. Again. You said you sleep upstairs? Hi. I -- I -- I sometimes sleep downstairs, I sometimes sleep upstairs. Sometimes I sleep on the couch. And you can see why we're asking these questions right there, normal questions, because it's stuff you're saying doesn't make any sense. We're not trying to give you a hard time, but it's not making any sense. You couldn't even remember that you called us a few minutes ago. That's why we're delving deep into this, because it doesn't make any sense. So we're not trying to give you a hard time, but there's blood everywhere. There's blood in bedroom, there's blood in bathroom. It's blood on you that looks fresh that you say is too exult that has no medical treatment. You have blood on your face, you said you've shaved yesterday, which doesn't make any sense either. Why would you still blood on your face today? You see we're going with this, like, none of it makes sense. That's why we're asking all these questions over and over, you know what I'm saying? You said we've never been here before, clearly we've here last year and they took your guns for some reason. So we've been here before. There's been a call for service that the police came and it was enough to take your guns, usually means domestic violence of some sort, correct? Okay. So why wouldn't you just be honest about that? Clearly we're going to go check the records anyway. Why? Why be a base of about that? I mean, why immediately, why immediately offer to us that there was no domestic violence when that wasn't even a question initially? I get your door please. Sure. Bill offers to the police that he and Michelle had an argument just about an hour before they arrived, but he says he can't remember what it was about. Let's tell us everything, all right? Yeah, let's have a seat. I do my best every day, you guys. I really do. I'm not saying you don't care. And it's hard. I mean, she's a hard case, I'm sure. And it takes everything in my power to keep my hands to my side. You understand? Yeah. It's understandable, for sure. Things can get emotional. Things can get heated by understanding, but hey, I keep my hands to my side. Oh, I just felt so bad. Oh, no, I mean, every day, bludgeoned to the next. All right. So Officer's getting her side now, detectives are coming here. Okay. This is potentially crime scene. So we're going to investigate that as a crime scene. Okay. Because you're not giving your side, but she's giving her side right now. So I'm giving my side. Not giving us anything. You're giving us nothing. We're talking in circles. Listen, let me talk for a minute. Okay. I'm just giving this up every turn, we're talking in circles, you can't remember, then you can remember, then you can't remember. You're being evasive with us because, like you said, you know, so you can't see the effects getting to this point, but so in theory, you should be able to recall things that happen within the past hour, right? Yes. Correct. But you can't, at least according to you, blood, injuries, your story, all indicate something suspicious is going on, potentially, crime, okay? We're trying to get your side out of it. Okay. Like she's giving her side. We're trying to get your side. All right. You keep saying you're, you know, you try to keep your hands through yourself. I'll get that. I'm sure it is hard. But I want you to be honest with that. That's what I want to do. There's two sides of every story. Now we're trying to get yours. I got it. Go ahead and go. I'll wake up every day and it's a struggle. Okay. Okay. It's what happened specifically this day. I don't know. All of a sudden, the police are at my door. All right. It's the same thing every day. What is it? Everything. It's just a struggle. How so? Oh. Oh. Well. Shit. Shit. Okay. I'm sure it's hard. There it is. Bill is just talking in circles as you watch this body cam video and he won't go beyond saying that he doesn't know what happened and even why the police are there. He's contradicted himself multiple times. And he also told police that he doesn't take medication for anything. Police say he is going to go to the hospital to be checked out because they say he's bleeding. I figured it's much, but I was just checking to bleed all over the place. Yeah. I see enough blood for a while. Yeah. How's she doing? That's probably the same thing if it evolves in a way it could be. Where do you want him at the station? In the back hall. Okay. Is that him now? We'll do it again. Thank you. I got my wife's phone, my wife's phone, they're out there. What did you lose it? What's that? When did you lose it? Yesterday? Okay. I haven't found it. Where's the last time you saw it? It's probably in the shop somewhere. And that's in the back? No. All right. We'll drive you down there. All right. Okay. I know we checked your radio, it's going to make sure there's no other weapons right there. Sadly, the next day, Michelle Feather would die from her injuries. And police say that she was the victim of a domestic violence homicide. A grand jury later indicted, William Feather, on charges of murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and domestic violence. Her images of Bill Feather at the time he was booked. His initial bond was set at $5 million, but it is now at $1 million according to online court records. It's unclear when he is next due in court. As for Michelle, the woman Bill is seen with in so many pictures smiling, her obituary states that she loved gardening, bird watching, and spending time with her family and friends. She was also a mom. And in the section of her obit, where it talks about all the people she survived by, it lists a ton of people, and it says that she always considered her friends to be family. But it's important to note that it makes no mention of her husband, the man who is now in jail accused of her murder. He is, of course, presumed innocent until proven guilty. That will do it for on the case presented by law and crime. Subscribe to us on YouTube and Spotify and we're also streaming on peacock. I'm Chris Stewart. We'll see you next time.