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03x05 - Wicked Witches

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Mean Girl Murders". Aired: March 13, 2023.*
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It showcases the inner workings of cliques, backbiting and cruel intentions.

03x05 - Wicked Witches

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[suspenseful music playing]

[suspenseful music builds]

[Sarah] Witches are everywhere.

You'll know a witch
when you find one.

[bell dings]

She said we had a hex
put on us by this girl.

[suspenseful music continues]

[Sarah] All these coven members
feel like, if someone's sending

all this bad magic to us,
then we have

to put a stop to this.

She was using witchcraft
to get people to do

what she wanted them to.

There had been no inkling
that there was gonna be trouble.

Nobody had any idea that any
of this was gonna happen.

[electric guitar playing]

[phone ringing]

The Richland County Sheriff's
Department received a call

a little after 3 a.m.

About stabbings and a sh**ting,
and they needed help.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Kelly] I asked the captain
where he wanted me to go,

and he said,
"Go to the hospital and talk

to the guy that's been shot."
I said, "I sure will."

No one knew if he was a suspect
or a victim at that time.

I walked into the hospital
emergency room.

[machines beeping and whirring]

I pulled his oxygen mask off,
and I said,

"Now, you're hurt really bad."

So, if you want to tell me
something, tell me now.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Kelly] He said that...

[suspenseful music builds]

she put a hex on us.

[insects and birds chirping]

Olney is definitely
a small town. It's quiet.

It's like the movie
Pleasantville, just over

and over again.

There's just not a lot to do
other than maybe hanging out

in the high school parking lot
and going to the grocery store.

I think young women in towns
like this spend a lot of time

trying to connect with other
people, trying to find deeper

meaning or stand out
in an interesting way.

And if I'm being honest,
sometimes for women living

in a small town with nothing
else to do, that level

of boredom can breed bitchiness.

And there are definitely things
that go on in the dark

that we don't always see.

[narrator] Olney might not be
Las Vegas, but there is

one place young women
like to hang out --

the 24-hour Walmart.

My name is
Misty Gangloff.

I started working at Walmart
in 2000.

I'm wearing the glasses
due to migraines.

I started having migraines
when I was around 18 years old.

The red helps tone
everything down.

Olney Walmart, you would have
the strange people come out

when it came in dark,
middle of the night.

[Courtney] If you think about,
like, "The Lost Boys"

or "Buffy," you know, sort
of things feel a little off,

or maybe you're hearing
or seeing things in a small town

that you're not quite sure
if they're there.

And it's easy to make
the leap to think,

"We live in a place where
there's something bigger,

and darker and more
mysterious going on."

[light buzzing rhythmically]

Walmart isn't Misty's dream
job, but it'll do for now.

[rock music playing]

[Misty]
I didn't know what I wanted
to do, who I wanted to be.

I just felt out
of place anywhere.

But working at Walmart, I felt
like I had a couple friends.

I became friends with Oscar Eck
and Jenny Wolfe.

I became friends with Oscar
because of his energy.

It seemed positive.

And then Oscar and I were
living together as roommates.

And then I met Jenny
through Oscar.

[Courtney] Jenny Wolfe was
in her early 20s.

Jenny was a bit of a troubled
soul, didn't have the best

home life, was a little lost
and trying to find herself,

trying to find
family or community.

I thought she was a good kid
because she was younger

than I was.

And I just thought we'd
be good friends too.

We would hang out together,

talk, learn more
about each other,

about our pasts,
what we did,

and everything seemed good.

Misty and Jenny grow closer
and soon discover they have

something else in common
besides Walmart.

I became interested in Wicca
around 2000, 2001.

Somewhere in there.

And it was mainly Earth
and nature and positive.

[Sarah] Wicca is a form
of Paganism.

It's keeping in mind
that everything is connected

in the universe.

[Misty] I talked with Jenny
about the herbs,

the flowers, the crystals,
the stuff that is

supposed to help ward
away the negative.

Misty, and Jenny's mystical
bond over Wicca elevates

their friendship into
a whole new realm.

[Sarah] Witches are everywhere.

You'll know a witch
when you find one.

The thing I love
about witchcraft is

that no one gives you
your power.

You already have it,
and you wield it yourself.

But I think anything that's
about self-possessed power

for women incites fear
in others.

[Misty] Some people relate Wicca
to witchcraft, which are like

two different things,
at least in my mind.

Anything I would do
would be Wicca.

It was never witchcraft.
Wicca is the good, positive.

Witchcraft, depending on
the person, can either be

positive or negative.

[birds chirping]

[music playing over
store speaker]

But there's another witch
walking the streets

of Olney, Illinois.

And she's about to turn this
innocent dabbling

into something much darker.

So Jenny and I worked
third shift together at Walmart.

So we were overnight,

middle of the night.

I had taken Jenny home a few
times in the morning.

And she wanted to know if
I wanted to come in and visit

for a little bit.

And I went in there
and met Irenia.

[Courtney] Irenia was a single
woman in her mid-30s.

She was living with Jenny,
who she had sort of taken

under her wing.

[Misty] Jenny didn't have
any family.

She had told me that Irenia had
taken her in when

she was young.

For Jenny and myself to be
friends, Irenia had

to be involved.

That way, Irenia could keep
an eye on Jenny.

Irenia didn't seem like too big
a presence, but something didn't

sit right to begin with.

I just couldn't pinpoint
what it was.

Irenia seemed like she was dumb
as a box of rocks.

Not only does Irenia seem dense
to Misty, but she comes

off a little desperate, too.

[Misty] I would go to hang out
with Jenny, try to be able to do

something, and Irenia was
just there.

and she was always complaining
about something.

It was always some problem
here or there.

[Courtney] Irenia is always just
sort of there being this weird

kind of "pick me" character
in their lives.

And Misty is not so sure about
this older woman who always

seems to be there.

I believe Irenia was hanging
around with younger people such

as Jenny and myself because
she didn't have anybody her age

to hang around.

It doesn't take long for Irenia
to figure out the perfect

in with the two younger women.

Irenia definitely thought
she was a witch.

She was very much into candle
reading and tarot cards.

Jenny told Irenia about
their shared interest

in the occult, and there was a
bit of a, like, "jackpot moment"

for Irenia.

She immediately pitches that
they should form a coven.

I think when a lot of people
hear the word "coven,"

they immediately think of like
broomsticks and cauldrons

and women in tall hats
and chanting in circles

in the moonlight.

But there's a more modern
version, which is just women

who want to be a part
of something, women who have

interest in things that are
more supernatural or more

adjacent to the occult.

But I was never
coven-comfortable, I guess.

I was more of a loner.

I'd rather go with my Wicca on
my own, that way I know it's not

going to be muddled in any way.

Misty may have no interest
in joining Irenia's coven

but if she wants to keep
hanging out with Jenny,

she'll have to play along.

[Misty] Jenny felt like she owed
Irenia for taking her in.

She didn't have anybody else.

She was afraid she was going
to be thrown out

and on the street.

I felt like she needed a way
out and needed help

to get there.

[Courtney] The three of them
started doing, kind of,

light witchcraft, sort of
things together, like,

saging their home, and casting
light spells, and things.

It makes people feel powerful,
especially people

who previously didn't feel
powerful at all.

Plagued with excruciating
migraines, Misty turns to these

newfound powers to try and get
some relief.

[Misty] I had a voodoo doll.

I would use a needle in
the voodoo doll to try to

release the tension or the pain.

I never used a voodoo doll as
somebody else.

I never envisioned it as
anybody but me.

Migraines are so painful,

and I feel like anyone in pain,
it's understandable to become

desperate to stop the pain.

But the voodoo doesn't work,
and Irenia sees an opportunity.

Irenia tells her that she can
use her magic to take away

this migraine pain.

She made up some bags

of some sort
that were supposed to help.

I think she called those
protection bags.

The protection bags were made
with different

herbs and everything.

We were supposed to have
the protection bags on us

at all times.

[Courtney] She had already
brought Jenny in a way

that Jenny was very much relying
on Irenia for a lot of things in

her life at that point.

And I think Irenia thought
taking away this migraine pain

was a way to bring Misty in
just as close.

Irenia presents herself as
someone who absolutely believes

in the truth
of this power saying,

"I have the answers for you."

I can really see how
everyone aligned with her

and said,
"Okay, guide us, protect us."

Despite almost a year of
casting healing spells,

life for the witches of Olney
has gone from bad to worse.

I still had the migraines.
I still had the issues.

The protection bags never
helped relieve anything.

And if Misty's migraines
weren't bad enough,

Irenia's dogs started
mysteriously falling ill.

That's when Irenia
has a revelation.

These bad things are happening
for a reason.

Irenia told Misty and Jenny
that she had traveled

to Northern Indiana and spoken
to a much more powerful witch

who had told her that a hex
had been placed upon them

and very bad things, potentially
death, is going to occur

if they don't break this spell.

There's this very powerful
witch, who has hexed them,

named Lindsey.

And Misty and Jenny
are sort of like...

"Who is Lindsey?"

[mysterious tones playing]

Irenia said we had a hex put
on us by this girl who I had

never met called Lindsey.

And Lindsey ain't some
no-name witch.

She's been on Irenia's radar
for months.

[Courtney] Irenia had had
a relationship with a man

named Jackie, and they'd had
this passionate affair for,

I think, around four years.

Lindsey Kaysinger happened to
be the woman who Jackie left

Irenia to start
a relationship with.

And at this point, Lindsey is
also pregnant.

I went to school
with Lindsey Kaysinger.

When you look at pictures of
Lindsey, she was a beautiful

girl and just a very sweet,
gentle person.

But Irenia saw Lindsey as
the cause of all

of her problems in the world.

Irenia tells her witches
that Lindsey put a hex on them

because Jackie is still in love
with her.

Lindsey wants to destroy
their coven so she can have

Jackie all to herself...
forever.

In order to survive,
they must find a way

to break the hex.

So it was, "Okay, so this one
put a hex on us, so how can

we reverse it and put it back
on her?"

Did I truly believe it?
I don't know.

[Sarah] Witchcraft
is about power.

Irenia is making sure that
everyone knows how powerful

of a witch she is.

According to Irenia,
the only way to fight a witch

and break the hex is with
more witchcraft.

She said that we needed to jump
over this broomstick.

It was laying on the ground.

And we just walked in a line
and jumped over it.

Then I went through
my Wicca books.

Chamomile was supposed to help
keep the negative away,

so I did go around the yard
and sprinkle chamomile around

the whole yard just as
a protective measure.

They consulted a candle to see
if the flame told them

that the hex was still present.

The flame affirmed
that the hex was still there.

They had not yet broken it.

[insects chirping]

With nothing to show for
their efforts, Irenia tells

Jenny that the dark forces have
spoken to her once again.

The hex cannot be broken unless
Lindsey dies.

But Irenia and Jenny

decide to keep this particular
detail to themselves.

[Misty] Irenia had
suggested going

and watching the house
from a cornfield.

So we went and sat
in the cornfield.

I'm like, "Why are we supposed
to be watching a house?"

That's when Irenia told Jenny to
go put firecrackers

in the gas tank
in one of the vehicles.

The idea is that the car will
explode while Lindsey's

driving it.

And when you think
about it logically,

it actually cannot work.

They are cutting off
the oxygen supply,

meaning the fireworks
just kind of fizzle out,

and nothing happens.

[Courtney]
Jenny believes a hex has
been put on her guardian mentor,

but has also been convinced
that she is at risk,

her friend misty is at risk,

if they don't put an end
to this hex.

But Misty has seen enough.

I thought that this is
a bunch of BS.

Irenia pretty much would tell
you what she thought you needed

to hear to do what she wanted
you to do.

Irenia is losing her patience.

Every day Lindsey is not
destroyed is another day

for the hex to wreak havoc
on their lives.

So she tasks the girls
with an even more direct

and dangerous mission.

Irenia sends Jenny and Misty to
Lindsey's house, and Jenny then

pours gasoline, I believe,
on multiple corners

of the home, sets the gasoline
on fire.

It ignites, and then,
in about five minutes,

it just burnt itself out.

The match does ignite,
but then the fire

extinguishes itself.

Now, Irenia is saying,
"You tried to set her house

"on fire, and the flames
extinguished themselves.

"We're dealing with someone very
powerful here.

We've tried everything else.
Nothing is working."

So the next attempt to m*rder
Lindsey is going

to involve a g*n.

When the indirect attempts to
k*ll Lindsey don't work,

Irenia gives Jenny a g*n,
and she tells her she needs

to just go up to the house,
knock on the door,

and sh**t and k*ll Lindsey.

Jenny's only 20 years old
and feeling fearful

of this act.

[Courtney] Once they get there,
Jenny approaches the home.

And she's just too scared.
She can't go through with it.

Jenny has defied the head witch
in charge.

There will be punishment.

Irenia is so upset with Jenny
that she takes away this magic

salt that she had
gifted Jenny --

the salt from one of her
patented medicine satchels.

Salt is a crucial element
in witchcraft.

It's very protective.
It's cleansing.

[Courtney]
It was probably humiliating,
very upsetting to Jenny,

who is obviously very dedicated
to Irenia and dedicated

to the coven.

Meanwhile, Misty has had enough
of Irenia's power plays.

She decides to distance herself
from the coven.

I stopped going over
and hanging around them.

I stopped being anywhere
near Irenia.

And the only time I would come
in contact with Jenny was

at work.

I was better by myself
than around Irenia.

and Jenny.

But the so-called hex remains,
and Lindsey, growing more

pregnant every day,
still seems untouchable.

Misty's out, and Jenny doesn't
seem to have the guts to do

what Irenia wants.
Irenia needs new minions.

Fortunately, there are people
out there who are even easier

to control than young women.

Young men.

[Misty] She had pulled my friend
Oscar in the mix.

It had to have happened when
Oscar was giving Jenny rides

home from work.

He was also Misty's platonic
roommate and also had interest

in the occult.

After he met Irenia,
he was convinced that she was

very powerful,
somebody who could teach him

the ways of
the occult and witchcraft.

And having two new henchmen
under your command

is better than one.

[Courtney]
So, enter David Linder,
who Irenia met when he traveled

with his roommate to visit
Irenia and Jenny in Illinois.

David seemed like he was a bit
of a big talker, and I do

believe he had some interest
in the occult.

David Linder gave
the impression he was

a bad guy.

Whether it was true or not,

he just put the impression
out there.

[Courtney] He either said he was
in the military or had been

in the military.

I think Irenia immediately knew
that this was somebody who was

potentially going to be able to
hurt or k*ll her target.

And it does seem that Irenia
was able to convince David

that she was a very
powerful witch.

Irenia tells Oscar and David
about the hex and how the only

way to break it is
to k*ll Lindsey.

Oscar has an interest in
the occult, and David is

especially excited to help.

He claims he's a warlock
and has broken hexes before.

[Courtney]
I do believe that Oscar
and David were also seduced

by this idea of power,
that she was somebody who was

very powerful and could imbue
them with the same power.

[owl hooting]

Irenia waits until Jenny
leaves for work.

Then she gathers her new
henchmen for a seance.

[haunting chanting]

[Sarah] They started
by casting a circle.

A circle has no
beginning or end.

That's creating a protective
space to do whatever it is

you intend to do
with your ritual.

Irenia carved Lindsey's name
in one candle and "baby"

on the other candle.

Now, if you're using candles in
your ritual, the intention can

be carved into the candle to be
very direct with what you are

sending your energy towards.

The dark forces warn Irenia.

Their window is closing,
and Lindsey and her baby must

be gone before these candles
burn out.

I believe that added in this
element of time, this speed,

where how can you really think
about anything if it needs to

happen so fast?

With the flames lit and
the clock ticking, Irenia turns

up the heat.

[evocative whispering]

[Sarah] They were calling
in demons to assist them.

[whispering continues]

[Courtney]
She wanted to open the gates
of hell and receive messages

and protection from these,
I believe, seven sub-demons.

[whispering becomes
growling chants]

[Courtney]
Then she very dramatically
presents Oscar with the m*rder

weapon, which is a knife that
needs to be used to stab

Lindsey and her unborn baby.

The men set out into the night,
headed over to where Lindsey

was staying that night.

It was dark.
Lindsey's sound asleep.

There had been no inkling that
there was gonna be trouble.

Nobody had any idea that any of
this was gonna happen.

Oscar borrows his roommate,
Misty's car, which runs quieter

than his old Mustang.

But first, he and David make
a stop at a familiar location.

David and Oscar drove
to Walmart in Olney,

and they bought leather gloves
and ski masks.

They then headed to Jackie's
house because they had been

following Lindsey's movements
enough that they knew

she would be staying at Jackie's
house instead of her own.

[Kelly] They'd already ran
surveillance on that.

So they knew what they were
going to try to go in and get

through an unlocked door.

[Courtney]
They initially entered the home
to sort of case it out and get

a sense of who exactly was
there and where they were

in the home.

But the second they entered --
-[dog barking]

A dog started barking.

[Sarah] It's dark.

They can't see exactly
what's going on.

Then all of a sudden,
they look down the hall,

and there's a woman.

She had a larger midsection.

Lindsey's eight months pregnant
at the time.

They attack her and stab
her three times.

A man rushes in,

and they stab him, too.

They stabbed him right in
the chest, right in the heart.

And that's when another man
runs up from the basement

with a shotgun.

[Kelly] He points the shotgun up
in the air, and he clubs Oscar

in the face with it.

And then David grabs the barrel
of the shotgun to help Oscar,

and the trigger's pulled.

David is shot in his abdomen.

And then the man picked
up the knife,

and he just swung the knife at
Oscar Eck,

and he stabbed him in the leg.

And Oscar runs out the door.

The dispatch called and said
that they had evidently had

a man shot and another man
stabbed in Claremont.

I'm less than a minute away.

So I just went straight to it.

-[sirens wailing]
-[indistinct radio chatter]

As I got to the house,
they were screaming.

Somebody got shot, somebody got
stabbed, there's

blood everywhere.

That's when Deputy Sheriff
Blythe sees someone he knows,

Lindsey's boyfriend,
and Jackie, alive but in shock.

Jackie was afraid
that I was gonna arrest him

for sh**ting David.

And I said, "I'm not arresting
you. You know, we got to get

to the bottom of this."

I went in the door and noticed
a guy laying on the floor

on his back.

And he's trying to push himself
backwards towards the door.

At that point, nobody had
a clue who the guy on the floor

was that had been shot.
Even when he told he told us

his name, "David."
Nobody had ever heard of him.

And then they took him away
in the ambulance.

Then I saw what appeared to be
a young man that had

been stabbed.

There was also a woman.
She had been stabbed, too.

But it wasn't Lindsey.
Lindsey didn't get stabbed.

Instead, Lindsey is
unharmed and outside.

[Robert] Lindsey was just
in a panic.

She was just shaking
and crying, and she just

couldn't believe what was
going on.

Deputy Sheriff Blythe learns
that the stabbing victims are

Jackie's father's live-in
girlfriend, Jacqueline Bennett,

and her 20-year-old son, Josh.

I am Josh Bennett's aunt.

Josh grew up in Illinois.

He went directly from
high school into the army.

and did his basic training
and then was in Louisiana where

he was working in a kitchen.
He liked to cook.

Josh's dad, Jerry,
was everything to him.

In July, Jerry had a heart
attack and had passed.

So Josh came home to Illinois
from Louisiana to attend

his dad's funeral.

Jacqueline, Josh's mom,
kept calling Josh and asking

him to come visit with
her before he went back

to Louisiana.

Josh, when he was younger,
was close to his mom,

so he said he would go,
and he went there.

And that night, he was in
the wrong place

at the wrong time.

I got a call early in
the morning from Jake,

Josh's older brother,
telling me that his mom had

been stabbed.
She was in the hospital.

She went through a couple of
surgeries to repair her damage

that was done to her.

She made it through
the surgeries okay.

Jacqueline eventually recovers
completely from the attack,

but her beloved son,
Josh, isn't so lucky.

Josh died on the scene.

Josh didn't deserve that...

at all.

Josh was a good kid.
He had a lot of good friends.

His dad, Jerry, would have been
very proud of Josh.

When I first heard what
happened, I couldn't make sense
of things.

Why were they breaking in?

[indistinct radio chatter]

Deputy Sheriff Blythe tries
to piece together the chaos

and confusion of the scene.

It was, "Why is this
happening here?"

Because we didn't know
these guys.

I did see a knife laid
on the floor.

I asked, "Where's the g*n?"

Jackie told me,
"It's over there."

And he said,
"But there's somebody else.

There's another guy."

And Jackie said,
"I stabbed him."

And I said,
"Where is he?"

And he said,
"Well, he went out

the front door."

I looked all
around the exterior.

We couldn't find anything there.

I was pretty certain he was
gonna have to seek medical

attention somewhere.

I had my dispatcher call all
the hospitals around and tell

them, "Be on the lookout for
a white male that has been

stabbed in the leg."

But what police don't know is
that Oscar's first stop

isn't the hospital.

Rather than going to have
his wounds treated, Oscar went

straight to Irenia's house to
tell her that the plan had gone

very sideways.

She is absolutely furious that
they botched the plan so badly

and that Lindsey has not
been k*lled.

Irenia and Oscar head
to Misty's to return

the getaway car Oscar borrowed
from her for the evening.

[Misty] They came back
to my house.

I had no clue what was going on.

They went to the bathroom,
grabbed some band A*DS,

went out into the garage.

I just sat on the couch.

Oscar and Irenia drive off in
Oscar's Mustang, leaving Misty

with a very bad feeling.

I was scared.
I was nervous.

And I was wondering what I had
gotten myself into.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[Kelly] The captain on the
sheriff's department had called

me and he said, "Go to
the hospital and talk to the guy

that's been shot."
I said, "I sure will."

I walked into the hospital
emergency room and I saw him.

[machines beeping and whirring]

He had a severe injury.

I pulled his oxygen mask off
and asked him what happened.

And David looked at me and
he said, "She put a hex on us."

I was in shock from him saying
"hex," because I'd never had

that happen before.

After that, I did believe that
people were targeted instead

of just a robbery.

Obviously, it was
a targeted attack.

He then made remarks
that Oscar Eck was with him
in the early

morning hours at the scene
before they got shot

and stabbed at that house.

Oscar Eck is wounded,
armed, and at large.

We put out a BOLO of
"Be on the lookout for anyone

with an injury from
a stab wound."

And Lawrence County,
Illinois hospital made the call

to the sheriff's department

that an individual had been
stabbed and was treated.

Once the state trooper starts
asking questions,

Oscar realizes he has no way
out and tells them everything

about the m*rder plot.

After police spoke to David
and Oscar in the hospital,

they traveled to Oscar's
residence to provide and see

if they could find any
other evidence.

We found witchcraft material,
books, and candles.

I was amazed.

From David Linder,
early in the morning --

"She put a hex on us," too.

Now we have witchcraft books
in the house.

And we start tying
the case together.

Then they encountered Misty,
who is Oscar's roommate

at the time.

I was taken in
to the police station.

And my parents told me,
I need to tell them the truth.

I need to tell them what
happened when I was around.

[Kelly]
She said that Lindsey had put
a hex on 'em, and the only way

to break that hex would be to
m*rder her or k*ll her.

But Lindsey had no knowledge
about witchcraft, nor education

about witchcraft,
and she denied knowing anything

about witchcraft.

It came from Irenia.
She's the boss.

Irenia was jealous

of Lindsey because Lindsey was
the girlfriend to Jackie.

That kind of straightened
things out a little bit.

Police bring Irenia
to the station,

where Detective Henby finally
comes face to face

with the wickedest witch
in all of Illinois.

[Kelly] She was not cooperative
in the first interview or two.

I think she thought she had
manipulated the other officers

and avoided making
any admissions.

And when I came in,
I wasn't nice.

You know, I was to the point.

I said, "Did you want to k*ll
the young lady that was
pregnant?"

And she said,
"Yes, I did."

Misty, along with Irenia,
Oscar, and Jenny, are all

charged in connection
with Josh's m*rder.

I was dumbfounded.
I did not understand it at all.

My brain just would not process.

My charge was conspiracy of
first degree m*rder,

and my bond was set
at $3 million.

[Courtney] Even though Misty had
completely exited before Oscar

and David entered the picture,
she was treated very harshly

based on the accountability
theory, meaning she knew about

the crime before it was
committed, had opportunity

to stop it or do something
about it, and didn't.

Instead of just being a player,
she should have just stayed

away from it.

Misty should have made
better choices.

I thought Irenia was full of it.

Irenia did not seem like she was
that smart of a person,

but I believe that Irenia's
playing dumb to continue

with the manipulation.

Because if you look at it now,
she couldn't have been that

dumb to get people to do what
she got them to do.

She was playing games

that she was far superior at
than us stupid kids.

David was in a care unit in
Missouri, and he passed away

from the g*nsh*t wound to
his stomach from infection.

But there was a lot of physical
evidence recovered.

And the cooperation of
the suspects also helped create

more evidence.

I was quite confident there
would've been convictions.

Over the next year,
Misty and Oscar plead guilty

to their charges
and avoid trial.

[Misty] The judge said,
"Seven years."

I felt ruined.

I had ruined my life
because of the manipulator.

I did a total of three years.

[Kelly] Oscar was sentenced
to 20 years

in the Illinois Department
of Corrections.

Irenia and Jenny take
their chances at trial.

It did not go well for them.

Jenny Wolfe was found guilty of
m*rder and sentenced to


Irenia Cotner was found guilty
of m*rder and sentenced

to 50 years for the m*rder and
seven years for conspiracy to be

served consecutively.

But sentencing Irenia was just
completely checked out,

and on her way out,
she essentially told the judge

to kiss her a*s.

[Patti] The judge told her,
with her age, she would be

in prison the rest of her life.

That was the most
important thing.

She took Josh's life.

She should not have a life,
and she won't.

In the end, the true power
Irenia wielded over her coven

was never magic.

it was manipulation.

Irenia hid behind the power
of witchcraft, something that is

meant to bring good and balance
into the world, and used it in

such a destructive,
horrible way.

[Misty] That poor guy
didn't deserve to die.

David, that came from
St. Louis, he didn't deserve to

die because of her manipulation.

[solemn piano playing]

Josh was a very caring person,
a lovable person.

I really could have seen him
with a wife and kids.

He would have succeeded in life.

But he never will.

Irenia took that away.

Lindsey stayed in town,
even after everything

that happened.

She did have her baby,
who is an adult now.

I don't think she has ever
talked about what happened.

She probably is still haunted
by everything that happened.

Even though it was almost

would be very, very deep,
and she just doesn't want

to open that wound again.

[Misty] Irenia was just evil.

Instead of her being a witch,
it started with a "b."

All it takes is one bad egg.

On the next
Mean Girl Murders...

In the world of women's sports

being on top means
being in danger.

When you are such
a good athlete

a lot of people don't like
to see you succeed.

Jealousy, envy,
it was tumultuous.

It was catty.
It was back-and-forth,

and I don't think any of us
could have saw

what was coming next.

[g*nsh*t fires]