Wife Realizes Nephew Brutally Killed Her Husband

"Quiet, quiet, lie down, lie down!" This is Sean Eugene Good, and he has just killed his uncle in broad daylight. "I have to do it and then we'll cry this door, I'll leave you." 20 minutes earlier, during breakfast, he suddenly lunged across the table and began strangling his uncle to death as his aunt watched in horror. "I've eaten breakfast and everything was okay, I thought." And then he said, "If they don't take you, I will." Like he's got evil in it, which I don't know. The detectives still don't know if this was a calculated murder or a random act of evil. But over the next 24 hours, they begin to uncover the horrifying acts of this Christmas morning. "Come on, Eric." "Hop reading ads, that's what you got to listen to, man." In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office receives a frantic call from a woman claiming her nephew is choking her husband. On the line is 63-year-old Elizabeth Ann Pullen, her voice shaking as she struggles to pull her nephew away. Officers rush to the scene unaware that the elderly man is only moments away from death. Hey, what's that? Quit. Quit. Lay down. Lay down. I'm telling you, lay down. Put your hands behind your back, now. Put them behind your back, now. Don't you move. How's it going? You did a good one. Can't wait to ask him on what the elderly man was blowing the face. Let's move them over, that way they can work on them. What's his name? I'm Sean. I'm Sean. Sean, get up, man. Sean. I'm going to have to take me out. You have to turn over. Fender knees. Now, help me get you up. You know, I hope like God, we're just baddies. And then we cry to the storm. I leave you. This is Sean Eugene Good. Caught in the act of choking his uncle Ricky to death. All Sean can say is that he had to do it, which leaves officers with an even bigger mystery to solve. Meanwhile, as officers try to bring Ricky back to life, it becomes clear it may already be too late, and that they might have a murder investigation on their hands. Ricky. Ricky. Ricky. Ricky. He's choking. I'll put his own father choking on me so that I had him get in my pager, so get on your balance and I'll have to do it. I don't think less of that, where she is otherwise. You're going to think you're going to die. As they desperately try to revive Ricky, the officer speaks with his wife, Elizabeth. She's still in shock. Watching the nephew she's helped raise being arrested, while her beloved husband clings to life. But what she's about to reveal will become crucial evidence, painting a very dark picture of the man they've just taken into custody. I don't know what happened, I don't know. Is that your husband? Yes, he's been to not wear this. He came out here last night and I got up and worked. He let him sleep on the couch in my house. I fixed him breakfast, and everything was okay. I thought I went in the kitchen and kept coughing. He said he just. Next thing I know, he was hollering theirs, and I was trying to get him off of him, and he would get off. How was what he doing, too? I don't know. He was choking me. Okay. He choked until he taped his caperees. Initially when you come out, he's on top, choked, and even like in a headlock. Yes. Okay. What's going on? John's hollering, give it up, give it up, let it go, let it go. I don't know what he was saying. I mean, I don't know what that means. And then he said, if they don't take you, I will. So, what does that mean? As of now, no one understands what made Sean snap at his uncle on that peaceful fall morning. Sean's been living quietly there for years, though he's known to drink excessively and doesn't go outside much, he has never shown any signs of aggression before. But this is when the sergeant arrives, and he knows exactly how to handle the situation, so he lays out a detailed plan for the team, a plan that will ensure the victim's family gets the justice they deserve. He could still choke, and I pulled my ties around, I hit it off, yeah. And he rolled off and he started, like, he's going to get up. I said, get him, get him ground. Puffed in. Something's wrong with him, isn't it? Oh, that hurts. I heard it. I said we can figure out what kind of issue he's got. We need that body cam dock, so we can do that as quick as we can. Boy, that guy, I don't know if y'all been fucking heard. No, let's just go ahead and listen to that. They've landed on the street that way. The sergeant orders the officers to take Sean straight to jail. On the way, Sean keeps falling down, hyperventilating, and moving his hands erratically. But when they arrive and try to get him inside, he completely snaps. And we're going to get him out. I don't know, um, I've got to go out there. Let's get him off. OK, step out, it won't hurt. All right, hold still right there. Sean, what? Sean. Hey, hold him up. I'll treat you to pads, but I've put kind of mental issues in that. Not sure what he's got going on. Hey, these guys are here to check you out, Sean. Well, do you feel like you can walk? Or do you want us to wait on a wheelchair? There you go. You feel OK now? All right, just breathe, man. Just breathe, OK? I can't fit through it one time, so I'm going first. Careful with Sean. You want to please, OK? Remember that one on my desk. Yes, sir, keep this. All right. Well, two. What are you doing? Sean. Hey, hey, you all right? All right, well, let's sit you back out and get you in this chair. Where would you rather sit? I want you to be cut in there. In the chair? Oh, yes. Well, let's do this again. Sean is finally brought into the interrogation room, but since he's so disoriented, the detectives decide to give him some time to collect himself. Meanwhile, back at the scene, Ricky's wife receives devastating news. Despite the paramedics' best efforts, her husband has been pronounced dead. Sean's uncle was a hardworking, caring man, loved by everyone. His favorite pastime was sitting on the porch, counting airplanes with his grandkids. He cared deeply about Sean, which makes what happened to him all the more tragic. Now, with a murder case on their hands, the stakes rise significantly. And with Sean in no condition to talk, detectives bring his aunt Elizabeth into the station. What she says next points to the moment when Sean seemingly lost his grip on reality. A moment that ultimately led to Ricky's brutal murder. Ricky was hitting on the table, telling him to quit, and he went quit. He just kept saying, "If they don't get you, I will." And he's real. I agitated, you know? He's like, like, he's got evil in his arms. I don't know. Since his mom had died, it's like, they just went crazy, you know? And what makes you say that he went crazy after that? It's just, by the way, he was doing. Sean's mother died a few years ago, leaving his already fragile mental state even more unstable. This is when the detective truly begins to understand just how mentally disturbed Sean has been for years, and how the system's failures made today's tragedy feel almost inevitable. The detective ends the interview with Elizabeth there. And by now, Sean has calmed down considerably. And the detective decides it's time to question him, still holding out hope for some kind of motive. But what he learns is that sometimes evil can't be explained away. When asked why he did it, he offers one crazy explanation after another. I killed him because I loved him. It had to be done for the safety of the universe, for the world, for the children, for the military. But this is when Sean's delusions would begin to fade, and he would finally start to grasp what he's done. Oh my god, how are you doing? I'm sorry for this laugh. Sean, we're in injuries as you have the rookie fighting back. I mean, it's all that there's an injury at the end of the side of your hairline, on the right side of your head, can you show that to me? And you're still not sure where that head injury came from. You know, a big, good head or in the back seat of the car. And did you get your head ball? I was wrestling with something on my right. So the back seat of the car? I'll say the same. Yes, man, I gotta ask what happened. Were you planning on killing him? Where was this something's coming? It's going to happen. This is the moment Sean finally realizes he's killed the man who cared most about him. Perhaps even showing his first sign of regret. Sean Eugene Good was charged with murder and aggravated assault. He ultimately pleaded guilty to killing his uncle and received a life sentence with parole eligibility after 30 years.