The Plot to Eliminate Alyssa Burkett
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[music] What was lost when Alyssa was taken? What was lost with her murder? My daughter will lose mother, everything. How do you keep Alyssa alive for her daughter Willow? Show her pictures, this is your mom, this is your mom. Every mother's day, we visit the grave, we take flowers, we take cards. You know, we talk about her all the time. What does this say? Mother of Willow Ann. I hope that when she learns what happened, she doesn't let it tear her apart. October 2nd, 2020. Any crime scene is going to be inside that tape. It's inside that tape. I remember my phone was continuously ringing, ringing. And I finally answer it because it's my supervisor. And she's frantic and she's telling me you've got to get to Green Tree Apartments. I'm going to hear that pop and I turn around, I know it was a gunshot. And she says something has happened to Alyssa. What happened to her? We're going to start having family members show up here. Pull up police, fire trucks, ambulance, everywhere. She got shot in the car. Okay. She can see her handprints. Who are you? I'm Detective Harding. I remember asking that officer, I said she didn't make it, did she? And he said no she didn't. And I just lost it at that point. When you learned that your sister was dead, did you have a suspect in mind? I knew immediately it was Andrew Beard. I knew that the only person I could think that would warrant dead was Andrew Beard. She even said, I think he's the kind of person that's going to try to kill me. And he did, he did. Oh my God. It was one of the most brutal scenes that I've been to in 32 years long force. You could see the rage. Don't touch anything, okay? What does it tell you when it's this vicious about the killer? It's personal. She apparently has had a history with baby daddy. Within an hour of getting to the crime scene, we knew that we needed to look for Andrew Beard. Andrew Beard is the suspect? Yes. Who can not get away with this? They can not get away with this. At first, this seemed like an open and shut case. But as it turned out, Andrew Beard was only half the story. In the months after Alyssa Burkett was murdered, she appeared to her mother Teresa Collard in a dream.
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A toxic couple orchestrates an elaborate plan to kill a mother. Peter Van Sant reports.