Rich Mass Killer Realizes She's Been Caught 8 Years Later

You doing okay this morning? Yep. Sorry to wake you up. Well, so my name's Tyler, this is Steve. Are you? This is 42-year-old Amy Valardi. And for the last eight years, she's been living with a terrifying secret that these detectives are about to expose. I gotta sign those case, but the homicide happened in 2012 and 2015. So we'd like to talk to you. Oh, my God! In 2015, Amy's parents and grandparents were found brutally murdered inside their family home. And with no witnesses, and no physical evidence connecting anyone to the murders, the case slowly goes cold. Hey, Amy! Years after the homicide, Amy and her husband Ross had moved on, spending their newfound fortune on cars, a new house, and expensive exotic animals. But unbeknownst to everyone, the killers had been closer to home all along. Amy's done what she promised she was going to. Hey, everyone's a killer! The deputies and stuff screwed up all the evidence. You're dead smack in the middle of this thing. We're not here because we think you're dead, you're lighter than we know you're dead. It's piling up Ross. We don't want to roll a dice on this, I'm telling you. We have been following this case closely for several years, working alongside police departments and legal experts to uncover every detail and bring you never-before-seen footage, investigating South Carolina's most disturbing quadriple homicide. It's approximately 10.30 a.m. on a Monday morning, just after Halloween. When the Anderson County Sheriff's Office receives a frantic 911 call from what sounds like a house of horrors. Anderson County, now a woman's location of emergency. Oh my God! Man, I can't understand you. What's your address? What are you doing? What are you doing? Man, what's going on? What are you doing? Oh my God! Is somebody hurt? Man, I can't. And my mom's health and health are dead. I can blood everywhere. Who are these people that are in the house? It's not all in my grandma, it's my getting emotional. On the line is 32-year-old Amy Valardi, reporting that her entire family has been murdered within minutes. Deputies rushed to the home where the scene awaiting them would be even more brutal than Amy had led them to believe. Once officers step inside, they discover three victims. Mike Scott, Barbara Scott, and Violet Taylor, lying deceased on the living room floor. Several feet away, inside a bedroom, lies the fourth and final victim, Kathy Scott. Each family member appears to have suffered multiple stab wounds and a single gunshot wound to the head. As crime scene investigators begin processing the home, they discover a trail of chuprints, a Chlorox bleach bottle sitting in the kitchen sink and two cell phones discarded outside. The only significant clues left behind by whoever carried out this brutal attack. Back outside, deputies speak with a 911 caller, Amy. She tells officers that she and her husband Ross live next door and became concerned after her mother, Kathy, failed to take her dog outside this morning. When Amy went to check on her, she says that's when she discovered the bodies of her parents and grandparents. After clearing the entire house and finding no murder weapon and very little physical evidence left behind, investigators grow increasingly concerned. They're dealing with a ruthless and calculated killer and that these may not be his first victims. At this stage, the only people on the investigators radar are Amy and Ross, seemingly grieving relatives of the victims. However, later that evening, as news of the Scott family murder spreads across Anderson County, Amy's ex-husband, Neil, contacts police with some interesting information. So you were married to Amy previously? I was her first husband. I believe she's capable of this. I say that because while we were married, she tried to stand me. What brought on y'all's separation? The fight? Actually, that was one of three fights. One, she just tried to charge me. Triple and later down on the ground. Down on that comeback after me. In the other time was a knockdown dragout. Where I was told she hit me and I knocked the end of the ball back. I don't remember that. The separation was on a no-free target. Did you get knocked out or something? I blacked out. Listen, Neil, I appreciate you calling in. And I'll keep your information handy. Amy's violent history places her under suspicion, but that soon becomes the least of detectives' concerns, as she and Ross begin behaving in ways no genuinely grieving couple ever should. On Wednesday morning, acting on information from Amy's ex-husband, investigators quickly secure a search warrant for Amy's trailer and rush over. The moment they step inside, they're struck by a peculiar smell. One eerily similar to what they encountered at the murder scene, as the search continues, detectives uncover an unusual amount of cash, $68,000 bundled inside a bedroom safe, along with 18 firearms, all of which are seized as potential evidence. Considering Amy and Ross' modest lifestyle, this discovery immediately raises questions. After clearing the trailer, investigators ask Amy and Ross to come to the station for an opportunity to clear their names, and interestingly, both agree, almost as if they've been expecting this very moment. Once Amy and Ross arrive at the station, they immediately asked if they were willing to undergo a polygraph test, something rarely requested of witnesses. Ross agrees, and is the first to take a seat, but before asking about the murders, the examiner would begin by trying to better understand the man sitting across from him. And Ross is about to reveal something from his past that makes him almost impossible to break. This is Mr. Lark. Oh, I'm polygraphs today. I'm not law enforcement. In any way, form fashion. I do a law test for law enforcement, but I don't have a gun about it. Any medical problems you know about? Physical or nothing physically wrong? No, no problem. I am ready for 30% for PTSD. Were you actually in combat? I know you had embassy duty. Some combat. Yeah, that was my last three years. My first two and a half, I was infantry unit. So you were in combat first two and a half years, you were there? Yeah, I did one deployment. So it's not like I did back-to-back deployments. Then you did one deployment in combat? Yes, sir. All right. You're correct. All right. Now you've been arranging what gunshots sounds like. Oh, yeah. You know what screaming and everything sounds like. Oh, yeah. Do you hear anything? No, it's out of ordinary. Not out of the ordinary. Amy sleeps with her television on. I hate to think that that would be the reason why I wasn't able to go save someone. Like Amy had done to do this? No, I don't think she had anything to do with this. Although Ross stares detectives away from Amy, his own background has started to draw attention to himself. Ross spent five years in the Marine Corps. During that time, he received extensive hand-to-hand combat training with knives, along with specialized instruction on how to resist interrogation if ever captured by the enemy. Realizing this, the examiner would allow Ross to share his thoughts on who could be responsible and his answer would be unexpected to say the least. What do you think I did this? I'm just, I have no freaking clue. You do it? I do it, no. You know what you'll get to him. There's three possible scenarios that one might deals in a lot of gold. He buys and sells gold. He buys and sells guns. He buys and sells video games and stuff like that. And maybe someone was disgruntled in a sale. Or maybe someone noticed that he dealt in a lot of this stuff and figured they'd cash in. That's one scenario that could be a slight possibility. The other one, I think, was Tuesday or Wednesday of this past week. He had mentioned to me that he had seen Amy's ex. Amy's ex-husband kind of skulking around. And then the third thing that kind of been thinking over the last couple of hours, but the last 24 is the last couple of weeks Mike has. And it may kind of live a weird habit where he'll just kind of walk up to the end of the driveway. And he'll just kind of make a couple of circles and kind of look back and forth and then he'll go up and walk up the road. So I don't know if that's something that is real suspect. I don't know if that's something that's relevant. But at this point, you know, the detectives are telling me, "Hey, think of anything that might be out of the ordinary." Unsurprisingly, none of Ross's theories involve himself or Amy. But now it's time for the polygraph. detectives are about to find out whether years of marine training are enough to help Ross beat it. In the end of the rain trying to y'all been talking about if you got caught, there's nothing about polygraph anything, if you get caught captured or whatever you're giving your name to rank, social security number blah blah blah, don't give any other information and so on and so forth. Did you live in Sao Kalan? Yes. You're going to physically harming the Dutch people that you intend that's a courtfully question. Yes sir. Before last year did you ever intentionally harming one? Yes sir. Did you physically harming anyone in that house? Yes sir. Is there something else you afraid of last year question about? Yes sir. So you kept calling it a test? Did I pass my test? Ha. Talks. That's it. Keep calling it a test. You know that I passed my test? The examiner gives nothing away, leaving Ross in the dark about whether he passed or failed his polygraph. Meanwhile, Amy is brought into another room for her own test. Like Ross, she's about to be asked who she believes is responsible for her family's murders and her answer would shift suspicion to someone already familiar to investigators. This has probably gone for a million times since then. Tell me, tell me what your theory is. A lot of different scenarios have went to my head. My ex-husband did not have a different relationship with my parents. Can you think of a motive why he would be involved in something like that? My mom and step-tab were pushing him for child support and pushing him to take care of the son and he was not doing that. Okay. Tell me why you would not be involved in something like this. Although Amy attempts to steer detectives towards her ex-husband Daniel, they have no evidence linking him to the murders and are not considering him a suspect. But now it's time for the test. Unlike Ross, she's never been trained to withstand the pressure of a high stakes interrogation. But as far as she knows, both her future and Ross' depend entirely on her results. Okay. Police, it's still the test is about to begin. Are the lights on in this room? Yes. Regarding whether you were involved in the deaths of any of those people in that double line, are you going to tell me the truth today? Yes. Were you present when any of those people in that double line were shot? No. Did you call any of those injuries to any of those people in that double line? No. Do you know the name of the person who caused any of those injuries to any of those people in that double line? No. You may not be entirely satisfied with the way things are going. No. White name. No, no. I'm just going to tell you right up front, you fail to crap out of this polygraph. Okay. There's no doubt my mind that you are involved in some way, shape or form, in this, okay. Great. Any of what isn't in close, it wasn't even close. I mean, you failed the cowboy dodge out of this test. You could not have done any worse. There theory is it. You're dead smack in the middle of this thing, and Ross is dead smack in the middle of it. What? Didn't Ross pass it? No. Hey, I'll know, not when you get passing. If you go smoke, you can come back and dock doors. Um, I would like to get taught my lawyer in her office next, thank you for your time. Let me ask you this, my goal every time I do this is to be fair. Do you think I was fair to you today? Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. In reality, from this moment on, Amy would hold a grudge against the examiner. One that would stay with her for years. Despite failing the polygraph, the results alone aren't enough to prove guilt. Without a confession or physical evidence, detectives have no choice but to let the couple go. And before long, the investigation comes to a halt. As weeks turn into months, leads begin to dry up, and the case eventually goes cold. For a time, Amy continues giving public interviews, pleading for the killer to be found. But behind closed doors, life goes on for Amy and Ross, and it appears they've put the tragedy behind them. After inheriting the family's home, the couple begins renovating the very place where the murders took place. Once the work is complete, they move in and settle into a comfortable, new life, benefiting from the money left behind by the victims. During this time, Ross would spend nearly $40,000 on a Dodge Ram, a Mustang, two Harley Davidson motorcycles, and a Yamaha personal watercraft. Eventually, the couple would sell the home and move to West Columbia, South Carolina. All the wild, they would keep the truth head not only from investigators, but also from their own children, who were still too young to understand where all this newfound fortune had come from. It's now 2023, and in an unexpected twist, the television series Cold Justice approaches the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, with the hope of finally solving the case. And eight years later, the investigation is officially reopened. Detective Tyler Duncan is assigned alongside veteran investigator Steve Spingola, and together, their tasked with re-examining every piece of evidence collected back in 2015. And as he scrolls through years of Facebook posts, he comes across something unexpected. A video, the couple would soon regret not deleting. Without this recording, detectives might have hit yet another frustrating dead end, especially since Amy's parents had no CCTV cameras surrounding their home. "You guys see all the police?" "Okay." "You guys see police?" "I did not call my police. I don't go any further. I don't go any further." "I don't go any further." "I don't go any further." "I don't go any further." This footage completely contradicts the story Amy and Ross had been telling police for years, becoming the first major lead detective Duncan believes could finally crack the case. And so, after eight years with virtually no progress, Detective Duncan prepares to pay Amy and Ross a visit, a couple who have spent nearly a decade believing they got away with murder. But what Detective Duncan is about to do is not without risks, knowing the couple had already loyered up in the past, detectives know they have only one chance to get this right or risk the case going cold for good. On December 11th at 8am, Detective Duncan and Spingola head to Amy and Ross's new home in West Columbia, South Carolina, more than 100 miles from where the murders took place. Once they arrive, the people inside the house have no idea, their lives are about to be turned upside down forever. "Are we ready?" "Let's go." "There we go." "There we go." "Hey, we're Ross." "I'm Tyler Duncan, I'm with Anderson County Sheriff's Office, this is Steve." "How you doing?" "How you doing?" "Um, so we're. I got assigned the case, but the homicide happened in Pendleton in 2015." "Okay." "And so I'm trying to go around basically to the start front of the beginning since Amy is Amy here." "She is." "So since she's the one that called 911, I think you were there also." "Yeah, well, I should have just actually called after that." "Okay. We're kind of starting from the beginning of the case and going back through it." "Yeah, my house is a mess right now." "Well, that's right. We can actually. We can just sit in the car here and talk to reports in there." "But you want to talk to both of us at the same time?" "We'll talk to you separately. And if you want to come on out, we'll talk to you and then we can talk to her." "Okay." "After Ross steps out of the house and walks towards the detective's vehicle, all three men know this could very well be their final standoff. The detectives have the element of surprise and the couple's unsettling digital footprint. While Ross relies on a rock-solid story backed by years of marine training, the stakes have never been higher as the couple's future now rests entirely in Ross's hands." "If we wake you up, yeah, I'm sorry. So if you just want to start from the kind of that, again, I want you to remember and we'll go from there." "All right. Well, this one, because that was quite a while ago. I went out to my errands. I didn't really notice anything out of the ordinary that I could see or, you know, that morning. When Amy got up, she noticed that her mom's dogs had not been taken out yet. Which was weird, because her mom takes her dogs out every morning. So she went out there to see why her mom's dogs hadn't been taken out. She let her mom's dogs out into the dog run. And she went up to the house to, you know, knock on the door, see if her mom maybe wasn't feeling well. See if someone was going on that she didn't, you know, didn't tell me about. She opened it up, walks in, and that's when she apparently found the scene that she found. She went poking back out of the house. I believe that's when she made the call. I think she called 911 before she called me if I remember correctly. From the start, detectives immediately notice a few things. Ross struggles to maintain eye contact, and the story he's telling is one they've already partially verified. On the day of the murders, surveillance footage captured Ross at a nearby quick trip, seemingly supporting his account. But what appeared to clear Ross of suspicion eight years earlier would eventually become one of the strongest pieces of evidence against him. For now, Ross's story matches his original account, but as he continues talking, small changes would begin to emerge, giving detectives an unexpected lead. Can you describe, I guess, your kind of your relationship with Mike and Kathy? Yeah. So, at first, when they, me and I first started dating, my relationship with Mike was really great, actually. Kathy is one of those people that if you don't understand her, she's hard to swallow, but I mean, overall, I mean, she was a really good person, I think. It's just like, just some of her mannerisms were a little bit, we'll say fun. There was a couple of things that kind of were red flags, but I don't know if they have anything to do with this or not. One of them was, at really weird times and weird hours of the day and night, I would see Mike walking around the perimeter of the property talking to himself. And something like this, what do you, where does your investigation normally, what do you guys normally follow in cases? TV shows that I watch always say follow the money, right? That's one of the biggest things. Follow the money and you find out where the real motives are. Interestingly, this follow the money approach will prove to be the key to solving the case, but not in the way Ross thinks. After a few more minutes, Ross's interview comes to an end, and he's asked to let Amy know it's her turn. As detectives wait for her, they know the last time Amy spoke to law enforcement, she sat silently, as they angrily confronted her overfilling a polygraph test. But now, Amy's attitude would be very different. And detectives are about to see how eight years of carrying a terrifying secret had changed her. He's the victim. I got that very quickly, very quickly, and he goes on and on and on and benefits from this world. But follow the money, follow the money. You could tell he's, yeah, I saw him, they cried. And every time he's talking, he would look and then when he would go to answer, and again, I don't. But, but he can't look at you in the face. His timeline is extremely old. You can just hop in the passenger seat. Okay. Well, we can, we can stand outside. Yeah. Start awake, yeah. Well, so my name's Tyler, this is Steve, but when we start with a case, you know, we consider a co-case, we want to start from him again. That's how I operate. I hope you have no bad feelings with me. I'm sorry that maybe the county or somebody has irritated you, I can only imagine. An irritation. You know, you get pretty irritated about lies. I understand. And stuff going around. I understand. Everything else, and how that affects your children. Circling. And. But we're trying to do right by your mother, your grandmother, and then obviously Mr. Scott and his mom, so. I don't know if y'all are redoing it, and how we're going to do it, just isn't that would be wonderful. Despite Amy claiming she's okay with the case being reopened, her defensive demeanor tells detectives otherwise. After reviewing the original case file, Detective Duncan knows that confronting Amy directly has never worked. So, learning from their previous experience, he decides to take an opposite approach to get to the bottom of what Amy truly feels about the victims. What do you remember? What can you help us with? Where should we look? I mean, I mean, obviously you've got to know finding dead people doesn't really leave you in the right state of mind. You can do things to you. Yes, ma'am. But, and then everything that ensued, I mean honestly, I can't even tell you, I can't fairly remember the funeral. I don't really remember much about being inside the house anymore. I think I've blocked that out. That's just, and that's just how it's going to have to be at this point, because I've got children, I've got to be here for them, and I can't be in a loom then. We had another girl who I was working for, she was around at the time, here and there, Roxy. You said her name was Roxy. Yeah, Roxy, both. How about, Lady? So, hey, Roxy, tell us a little bit about the relationship between, I guess, y'all and the family, and I guess it was good, and then something happened. Oh, yeah. I mean, what happened? I mean, a lot of people should remember what happened. We got into it around 4th of July, or something like that. It didn't have much to do with my mom and my grandmother, of course. My father died when I was 18, so I didn't need another father, because I was 23 and had my own kid. And there had always been issues there for years, but way rebuked this, so, you had issues with a couple of my ex-husbands, you had issues with a couple of my friends. No, this is my? Yeah, okay. I really hate to tell you all this. It probably sounds horrible coming from me, but it wasn't a nice person. For the first time in 8 years, Amy admits she never had a good relationship with her stepfather, but detectives would later learn her resentment towards him went far deeper. She also points Duncan and Spingola towards her friend, and former employee, Roxy. Someone detectives now need to interview as soon as possible. Before wrapping up, Detective Spingola has one more question for Amy. One they would return to, again and again, throughout the investigation. How are things going financially at this time, okay? Yeah, I was fine. No problems, nothing abnormal for me. And you tried to cooperate and all you answered questions before? Yeah. You took a polygraph? Yeah. How'd that go? They were like, they, they, they wouldn't even tell me. They acted like I did something horrible on it, you know, and it's not that I haven't wanted. Took a walk right, it's just you get to a certain point, and you see where things are going, and you're like, you know what, this and that. Okay, you lost, Mark. Yeah. Thank you for talking to us. She can't remember anything, she doesn't remember her lies, you're my wrong. Despite Amy's best attempts and detectives know, her account is full of lies, even more so than Ross's. Still, at the stage they have nothing concrete, tying either Amy or Ross to the murders, and the couple knows it. As detectives return to the station, both sides realize they're at a pivotal point in the investigation, as the next 24 hours could determine whether Amy and Ross walk free or spend the rest of their lives behind bars. The following morning, Detective Scotty Hill and prosecutor Kelly Siegler follow up on the previous day's leads and decide to pay a visit to Amy's former co-worker, Roxy. The detectives' hunch is that Amy believes this interview will strengthen her alibi, but by introducing a new potential witness, whatever Roxy is about to say now has the power to shift the investigation in either the detectives or the couple's favor. Hey, Rossy, here you go. Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead. Basically, what we've decided to do is start this case from the beginning and work it, like it's never been worked before. Do everything we can, so obviously you were kind of a bit deal in the early days of the case. You worked for a Ross name, right? Now, how is she to work for? Cool. Like that. We jumped around a lot and never took any more serious. I think I've seen Cathy and what was his name? Mike. Mike. at the the shop the grooming shop twice and the first time everything was great and then the second time they came it wasn't good um it was kind of I was in the back grooming so I didn't hear everything that was going on but just watching the body language and hearing what they were saying at the time it wasn't it was something to do with money okay um because afterwards Stacey I was facing Amy had talked about um how she was going to keep her kids away from um Kathy and Mike and that's when they would just wet caputes from there they'd never got along with her that and then throughout working there she'd always tell me about how she was treated growing up and all of that so what kind of stuff would she say about she was pretty good um she told me that she was always a daddy's girl and when um her dad passed away I think she said her dad had a he was working on a car and it crushed him and he would place the hospital um and her mom decided to pull the plug on him and she said she was only 13 and so she didn't really have a say so but she always hated the mom for that what Roxy has just revealed could provide detectives with one of the strongest motives behind the murders as Amy's hatred towards her mother over the decision to remove her father from life support had only deepened over the years and as detectives wrap up the interview and relay their findings to Duncan and Spingola Amy and Ross are completely unaware that their luxurious life is about to come crashing down while Amy and Ross continue enjoying their freedom Duncan and Spingola drive over to two people who knew the victims better than almost anyone else their closest friends Stan and Mary to see if their stories match detectives decide to interview them separately and while they expect to hear more unsubstantiated claims they're about to uncover much more than that did we just hop in the pasture seat so we sit down and talk about what happened back in 2015 real quick we're investigating the case again uh going through going through everything um and that's kind of why you know we can kind of talk in private a little bit and you see I know it at some point in time I think you would call and talk with some detectives back back then and stuff so I did because I felt like I need to tell what on you about what Margaret told me I kind of I kind of come on the case earlier this year I started reviewing and stuff I hope you catch it man I tell you what we were with him uh Kathy was here uh that Friday before we don't know exactly which he died the Friday night or Saturday whatever but uh she and Kelly and uh and we told the first people uh we were really good friend she cleaned her house but Mike and I were good friends and uh we sent food home for them that our food was in their refrigerator when they died I'd say at least three months before that happened she was just a nervous wreck over what was going on up there in that house and then that last time I went that was just a few days before that happened all Barbara was just I mean she was beside herself crying and going on about how uh Amy something bad was going to happen because Amy just seemed like she just hated their guts I think the week that he died or the weekend that he died I think he told his boss that he knew was gonna die you know why he would sit down he's gonna get killed he was out of free yeah he just knew I think they might have I don't remember all of that stuff but uh you know what to do to the detective surprise neither Stan nor Mary believe these murders came out of nowhere their accounts suggest this may have been a planned attack potentially explaining why so little evidence was left behind but what stood out to Stan and Mary even more was the couple's behavior in the days after the murders convincing them that one of the velardis is indeed the killer was weird weird why for them just come in like they were all up sitting and concerned about what it happened like that just didn't seem normal to me I don't know do you remember anything anything unusual happened at the funeral anything that stuck out in the morning do I have to say that yeah I don't want to say you know we we're trying to put this together she looks like a red red dress I don't remember the color of dress with short dress boots and all that's coming stuff Kelly will be able to tell you more than I can on that if she wasn't speaking to them or having anything to do with them I don't know why she decided she'd come in check on what's the gap minute I heard it I thought Amy's done what she promised she was going to I've never even considered it being anybody else when you heard them they're murdered what was your first thought they killed them what made you say that they did they're once a killer and y'all know that too so several people have told me you know just don't have the proof and what I was told were maybe your sheriff told me that but they went in over there the deputies and stuff thought it was a murder and screwed up all the evidence after speaking with Stan and Mary detectives Duncan and Spingola know they're closing in on a breakthrough they just hope it comes fast enough before the couple disappears over the following weeks Duncan and Spingola conduct dozens more interviews with family members and friends re-examining every piece of evidence to see whether anything had been overlooked over the years and that's when they come across something peculiar Amy had insisted from the beginning the $60,000 recovered from her home was her savings but as investigator Duncan digs deeper he discovers Amy and Ross's dog grooming business had been earning far less than they originally claimed that's when Spingola uncover something critical while reviewing the victim's phone records he finds that just days before his death Mike had photographed stacks of cash to prove to a seller that he had enough money for an upcoming purchase but upon closer inspection the serial numbers in this photograph exactly match the cash seized from Amy and Ross's home then comes their biggest breakthrough yet Duncan and Spingola revisit the CCTV footage from the morning of November first and identify the shoes Ross was wearing red A6 speed star sneakers when they compare them to the bloody footprint left at the scene the match is undeniable nearly a decade later detective Duncan finally has the concrete physical evidence he's been searching for on the morning of December 20th detectives return to the couple's home for what they believe will be their final visit once they arrive they spot Ross's brand new Ford Mustang confirming the couple hadn't disappeared while Amy refuses to speak with him this time Ross agrees to another interview after eight years without an arrest Ross is convinced any evidence against him simply doesn't exist but he's about to get a reality check and his final chance to explain away the damning evidence stacked against him hey so we just want to ask you a couple more things and we're going to get out of here okay so there was something that had come up while we was looking through the file do you remember owning a like a red pair of shoes red pair of shoes A6 speed star shoes so there was a video on your phone of you wearing these A6 speed star shoes okay I remember those shoes what happened to the shoes because I don't think they ever found they never found the shoes that's a good question because they have no idea that possibly thrown away the reason that I ask is we found this is from crime scene photos and these are confirmed to be A6 speed store shoes okay inside and they have blood droplets on them and interestingly enough here it's a quick trip wearing those shoes the night of the martyrs I have no idea how those shoes would have any kind of blood on them and obviously wearing them as kind of quick trips on the 31st and they never found the clothes either that you were wearing I mean I can understand where that would look like to be a problem but again I don't know where the shoes are at the moment and I don't remember whatever happened to those particular shoes if something were to have happened that I had done will be stupid for me to wear to be in the house and then wear them after that well that's what I'm saying they were never found so it's almost like you got rid of them and y'all did benefit from the murders okay because you got a lot of money we've been through your financials okay you can get y'all out of money from this y'all are struggling all up until the murders the money found in your safe there's money photos from my computer that matched the same serial numbers as the money that was found in the safe so it's not savings that's money that was found inside a Mike and Kathy's house that Mike was saving and y'all took it after you killed him okay and I'm telling you right now we're gonna prove it or you can roll a dice when that jury comes back - I'm telling you, like you said, it's not gonna be pretty good. We're not here because we think you did it or you might have did it, we know you did it. Okay, we're just here as a curse. - It's piling up, Rossi. - So you're telling me that, and if you guys said you went through my financials, you saw where I had made the money. - And we saw where you spent it? - No, you didn't. - Yes we did. - 'Cause I did not have the cars. Your car was even a report, buddy. - I'm not trying to scare you here, buddy. - That's actually absolutely what you're trying to do. - Wow, not. You said it the best, follow the money. We did that. And let it right into your single eye. Just telling you. - Using Ross' own words against him, Detective Duncan and Spingola follow the money, and ironically, it led detectives straight back to him. For the first time, Ross begins to realize he and Amy may not be as untouchable as they once believed. But even then, he's convinced detectives still don't have enough to secure a conviction, and he's about to show them just how confident he really is. - Let's just play this out in a hypothetical, right? - Right. - Let's say a deal happens, right? - What kind of deal would that be? - I don't know, Ross. - Here's okay, but here's the deal. - Nice and very bad analogy. Here's the things without a deal. There's no hope, do you believe that? - I want you to go and think about this. - I understand that, but my point being is, you guys just brought up my kids, my wife, my family, right? Mine is gonna be better than Amy, 'cause I came to the trough first, right? So, prison time, no matter what, Amy, prison time, no matter what, so now you're talking about both of us are going to prison. My three kids in here, they grew up without a father and a mother, granted my mother would be more than willing to take them. I understand that. We're not the ones who put you on this predicament, okay? Y'all made a decision for whatever reason, okay? To do what y'all did. - You say we made a decision? - Just telling you all I understand. - We make decisions that. - So now, you have, now, you know, eight years, whatever, now you're gonna have to deal with the consequences. - For almost 10 years now. No one has found anything enough to come down here and bother me or my wife. Or my family. For eight years, nothing's been enough to come down here. But now, all of a sudden, eight years later, there's enough evidence to come bother me. - Why or how? - And we found the missing pieces. - Okay. - Okay. - And I just showed you why is it eight years later that missing pieces have just finally, quote unquote, fallen in a place. - I can't answer that because I wasn't. I wasn't the ones that was investigating this case before I got it. - So tell me where they felt for sure. - I don't know. I can't plead guilty to something that. - Cross, don't go there. Don't go there anymore, please. I have a lot of respect for you. Don't go there anymore. - All right. - I won't say anything. - It's my job and you did yours, you understand it? - Yep, that's it. That's the bottom line. No more bull. - All right, and I won't, and then if that is where we are, then at this juncture, it is time for me to hop out of the truck and I probably will be contacting an attorney. - I'm afraid to go. - Okay. - Yep, you guys have a nice drive back to Anderson. Despite Ross still refusing to admit to the horrific crime he and Amy committed, Duncan and Spingola no longer need his confession. The evidence speaks for itself. Later that day, both Amy and Ross are arrested and transported to the Anderson County Detention Center, where they are charged with four counts of murder. Based on eight years of findings, this is one investigators believe happened on the night of October 31st, 2015. Around 11 p.m. that night, Amy and Ross walked the short distance from their trailer to the Scott family home because they were family. Detectives believe they were able to enter the house without forcing their way inside. Investigators believe Mike Scott was attacked first before he had a chance to defend himself. Kathy Scott, Barbara Scott, and Violet Taylor all suffered slash wounds, which investigators concluded were the fatal injuries. After they had already died, each victim was then shot in the head. The detectives believe Amy and Ross then took the cash Mike kept inside the home before leaving the scene. Two days after the murder, Amy returned to the house and placed the 911 call reporting she had discovered the bodies. In February, 2026, Amy is found guilty on all four counts of murder and sentenced to four life sentences. As of August, 2026, Ross remains behind bars, awaiting trial. If convicted, he too could receive four life sentences, one for each victim.