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

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. We had a murder which was done with a particularly gruesome amount of violence, what we would typically refer to as a rage killing. Everybody loved him, no possible enemy, so why would somebody want to murder in.

God wanted to kill him. Come get me. I don't want to do it. Let's go ahead to the 25th of June. That's the day we got involved. I do, I was dying of murder, man. I come in for a reason to kill him. And I tell him, I'm saying, You the hell, boy.

It was very shocking. Describing himself as being the murderer and the sole person responsible just didn't make sense. It 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 this place on my heart. She I just thought, what am I eating?

Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Hunting 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 mostly middle-class, working-class people. It's a close, tight-knit community.

On the afternoon of June 25, 1998, local resident Denny Aldrich receives a concerning phone call from his brother Millard's wife, Patricia Aldrich.

My wife answered the phone and quiet from it, and she said, You need to talk to Trish. There's something wrong with your brother. He's missing. I got on the phone with her. I said, If you don't know where he's at, you can't go. I said, Call the police.

20 minutes later, a Huntington police officer arrives at the Aldrich 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 done at eight 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: 00. Patricia had gone to Walmart and to the bank and had returned home shortly before 11: 00, and Millard was not there.

She then proceeded on to work. Patricia said that while she was at work, she made several 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 two o'clock that afternoon, she returned home.

Patricia says her concerns grew when she entered the couple's detached garage.

She went back to the garage to see if he was there, and she found blood stains 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 arrive, they begin processing the scene and speak with Patricia.

She said that Millard was a cameraman for WSAZ. At that point, I recognized who he was.

He would come to the courthouse house and interview prosecutors after the conclusion of cases. He always seemed like a very nice guy.

Born and raised in Huntington, Millard Aldrich 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 side jobs at times. I had one brother, and I have 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 both 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 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. He felt like he was making a difference in our community by helping report the news in the Hunting area.

Him becoming a photojournalist like he did was destined to be his thing. That was his calling.

Two years into his career at WSAZ, Millard married his high school's 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 it 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 for the rest of his life.

Patricia had one child from a previous marriage, and he treated her, Jennifer, like his own daughter. She loved Millard to death. It might not have been her birth dad, but that was her dad.

And then they had a son shortly after they were married.

He was happy and proud. That's what he wanted out of his life. He wanted to be a loving father and a husband.

While Millard continued to build a successful career at WSAZ, Patricia pursued her own interests.

She was real good sewing and stuff like that. She had her own business, which was called a Stitching 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 sit 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 stone-size garbage can had been turned over. It looked like a struggle took place.

The bloodspetter 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.

And a tip to law enforcement puts suspect in their crosshairs.

When human emotions are set ablaze like this, you don't know where the fire is going to go.

Our Years after 42-year-old Millard Aldrich 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 Aldrich and Millard Aldrich's vehicle, but there were no reports that anything else significant was taken from the garage.

There were no signs of break-in at all. It didn't appear to be a robbery gone bad. Someone had gained entry, either had access to the garage or was familiar with it in some way.

Investigators canvas the Aldrich's neighborhood, hoping that someone saw Millard leave home on his own.

This is the Westmoreland neighborhood of Huntington. It's a bed and 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, the night for.

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 look out 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. Me and my sons and my nephew, we jumped in my van and we went on back roads that we used to run when we were 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 receive a call from neighboring Cabell County.

A burnt vehicle was found up on eighth Street Road. Immediately, there was the suspicion that this might be Miller'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. And the first three digits on that license plate did correspond to the first three digits of Millard Aldrich'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. Generally speaking, the purpose for burning a vehicle is to destroy evidence. 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 Department, a volunteer group. The news had camera crews out there covering as much as the search as they could. A lot of the people that he worked with, they were all there, and it was a somber moment for everybody.

West Virginia State Police participated in the search of the area and then included cadaver dogs.

And 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 the phone call and said, We found a body, and we I think it's Miller. 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 a tattoo, an initial M 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 then. I mean, I fell to 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, collapsed.

She was just absolutely devastated. I mean, crying beyond consoling. It was just a sick feeling. How could someone one 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 EMTs to transport Miller to the medical examiner's office to have an autopsy done 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 EMEs 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 this crime.

It didn't look like it could be a random type of crime. It looked more overkill. It seems 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 of 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 a 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 would ever 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 outward 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 Vickers.

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 Hunting, 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 had disclosed to us that she had knowledge about the affair there, just her general dislike and suspicions of Vickers, and this box of letters that she got from Patricia, a bunch of love letters between Patricia and Vickers. Jennifer mentioned that Vickers had threatened her if she disclosed the relationship to Miller Daldrich. She was scared of him. We ran his name, ended up pulling a jacket on him. Vickers had a fairly extensive record. He was what you might call a career criminal.

Rich Vickers was from the Barbersville area of Cabell County, which is just east of the city of Huntington. He had 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, we discovered, been convicted of a couple of burglaries and had worked out a plea deal. Having played 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 29th to the authorities in Cabell County to be transported 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 list. 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 began to question her, she admits to the affair with Mitch Vickers.

Patricia 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 Aldrich had a relationship when they were much younger, back in the '70s. Mitch Vickers had moved away, and they separated. But when Mitch returned to town in 1997, they were reacquainted 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 Millard. Whereas Millard was a stable guy with a job, was a law-abiding 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 insists 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, Just leave my lady alone. She didn't have nothing to do with it.

The obvious reaction immediately is just amazement.

We didn't know if 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, a 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 the suspect.

Coming up, detectives come face to face with Mitchell Vickers, and an unexpected motive emerges.

I love this lady, my lord. How can I go to jail knowing that this ass is going to be in there, being on the fur.

I never had a confession that was quite like this.

He had no remorse whatsoever.

48 hours after Huntington police recovered Millard Aldrich'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 Caval County, and Mitchell Vickers voluntarily gives a statement. At that time. In his statement, Mitchell Vickers talked about his relationship with Patricia Aldrich and the fact that they were in love with each other.

I'd run around with a friend of mine. There and her girlfriend knows Trish, and somehow my name came up, and we decided that we would meet and just discuss what you've been doing for your life for the last 18 years. The first time we met, we met your car, it was before Christmas. It's very obvious we still had killings for each other. When you left your mother, I fell back to Mildred.

Picker stated that the reason why he killed Millard Aldrich was because Patricia had told him that Millard was very abusive.

She has told me things, for instance, that Millard was nothing but a drug. He beat her, he straps her around. He treats you like a piece of shit.

According to Mitchell, things came to a head when he was recently sentenced for his burglary charges.

I went bizarre. I went crazy. I love this lady by my heart. How can I go to jail knowing that this ass is going to be out there beating on me for it? And I just thought, Man, no, I'm going to prison. I'm going to put this top to this shit. I can't have her. I know I can't. But I was like, God damn, I'm not going to let anybody else have her. What did you decide to do? I thought for an address. I went down there. I walked in their garage approximately 4: 30 that morning. And how did you get into their garage? The door was open. I waited and waited. Daylight came, and it was probably an hour and a half. I guess he'd probably come out of the garage and carry a bag of trash with him.

Vickers said that when Millard entered the garage, Vickers 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 the crescent, which was hanging on the wall. I grabbed it. I started beating him in the head. He was screaming, Chris, help, Chris, help. And I told him, I'm sending you to hell, boy. You.

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 that he was dead, I drove around, drove him in a chocolate car, walked over because I was trying to clean up my mess. I let him blood-trail from the middle. Okay, what did you That's right.

Vickers describes driving the car up to eighth Street Road near Skyview Drive. He disposed of the body, dropping it over the side of a hill. And then poured gas lean on the car and set it on fire. Been hitched a ride back to town.

I didn't know I could do anything like this, but I cannot let somebody be for somebody I love.

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.

Chris ain't got nothing to do with his shit. Now, I'm I'm saying it all on my own. Chris didn't know anything about this.

Vickers 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 wait his arrival.

A suspect reportedly called police to confess to the murder of WSAZ photographer Millard Aldrich.

Where does he belong?

Welcome to hell. Just where I've seen.

I was at Miller's house with Trish and Millard's mom, and it come on the news. And Mitch Bickers is on there. They've got him in handcuffs. He's cussing everybody saying that Millard was a terrible person. He deserved to die. He was a wife beater 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 over a relationship with a run. When investigators circled back to Millard's family members, they say that in hindsight, they believe Millard must have been suspicious of his wife's infidelity.

I could tell that something was bothering him a lot. Patricia wasn't really paying attention to him like she was, and she wasn't the happy-go-lucky smile. I think he might have knew, but he didn't want to know. 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 adam that Millard has never been abusive.

Everybody that knows him knows he wasn't.

All of that 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 the scene and hit pay dirt.

Luminal 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 on 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 rear view mirror. But then I looked up in the wheel well, up above the tire, and that's where I saw a lot of impact spatter. Me meaning that that portion of the vehicle would have been adjacent to the beating as the beating was taking place.

That says 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 Aldrich 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 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 Sheryl Kowalski Sheryl Kowalski is a friend of Patricia's.

Sheryl's husband, Ronald, had spent time in jail with Mitchell Vickers.

Sheryl says in January of 1998, Mitchell contacted her husband, Ronald, with a proposal.

Sheryl tells police that Mitchell Vickers had approached her husband and offered money to kill Millard Aldrich.

So detectives interviewed Ronald Gowalski. He provided the collaborating information.

He had a video that showed Patricia Aldrich 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 Sheryl's home.

Ron said that Vickers had approached him, asked if he wanted to earn some money.

He had been offered $7,500 to kill Millard Aldrich, 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 Aldrich and Vickers together. Patricia asked Ron if he would be willing to kill her husband and described that she wanted him out of the picture.

The statement of the Kowalskis are important because it doesn't isolate Mitchell Vickers as being a lone person seeking to have Miller Aldrich killed. 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 Aldrich's financial records, they learn why.

Patricia was the same. She had a business called Stitch and Time. That eventually went bankrupt and closed.

Millard Aldrich worked for WSAZ TV here in Huntington, and they had a policy that if her employee got killed, They would pay a year's salary to that employee's beneficiary. I was talking with the bookkeeper, WSAZ, and I will never forget what the lady said to me. She said, Honey, that's not where the money is. She said, It's in his 401k. I said, How much? She said, Around $250,000. Mitchell Vickers is in custody for the confessed murder of Millard Aldrich.

But now, friends of Millard'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 her problem. She would have been the beneficiary of the 401(k) 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 It.

He's been informed that the original motive that he gave, the belief that Millard 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 face on my heart. She has Buffaloed me. She got me to believe in without a doubt that her husband was a real freak. I don't even know the man.

He detailed the motive for the crime being the financial motive.

She's been wanting to get rid of me for a long time. She offered me $10,000. She asked me to do it, and finally I agreed to it.

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 Millard walked into the garage, and that he stuffed Miller Miller's body in the trunk, took the car up to eighth Street Road, Skyview Drive area, dumped Millard's body out.

She was right behind me in her van, with gas all over her car inside and out. The tors didn't jump in her van. We took her off.

Patricia then drove him to Walmart, where she gets him a change of clothes.

And she took me from there. Took me out to the building of my house, gone high and brought me off. That's when I guess she went off in there and forth.

So the additional information that Vickers now gives us further cemented Patricia's involvement in this murder.

She is a 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 third, Millard Aldrich is laid to rest surrounded by friends and family, including Patricia.

We're at the funeral home, and her still doing the boo-hoo, poor widow, what about me thing.

We all knew that she was involved. It was so hard for all of us to just grand and bear it.

We got to the cemetery, and they lowered his coffin into the ground, and we started filling it up.

That's when the police came up and arrested her. Poetic justice of her getting arrested at the cemetery. That was just karma.

Just a week after her husband, Millard, was found beaten to death, his wife was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Despite confessing to Millard's murder, Mitchell-Vickers takes his chances at trial on May 4, 1999.

We had corroborating evidence, but the most compelling evidence was his confession.

I knew I was dying of murder plan. I found my her for a reason to kill her.

Mitchell Bakers 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 Aldrich's trial gets underway on August 24, 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 Millard murdered by her lover was bad enough. But to find out that she helped plan everything?

A death for higher. That's what it was. She was the mastermind of it all.

Her selfishness, her greed, everything is about her.

Mitch killed Millard because he loved Trish. He would do anything for her.

Affairs deal with human emotions, and human emotions are set ablaze like this. You don't know where the fire is going to go.

On August 26th, Patricia takes the stand, attempting to refute the state's claim that this was a cold-blooded conspiracy.

Patricia Aldrich 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.

That was just total selfish stupidity on my part to drag an innocent person in such a serious to charge situation that 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 Aldrich 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 minute to sleep over it.

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 a 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 could 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. I wish he was here.

My brother were being remembered in our family, to me, as one of the most loving, caring, devoted persons that you could ask for. Hopefully, his legacy, people will still remember it, and 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 Laken Correctional Center in in West Virginia and is not eligible for parole. Mitchell Vickers died in prison of hepatitis C in 2002.