20/20 - Bad Romance: Love at First Click

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

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Hey, it's Brad Milkey. This week on the Crime Scene Weekly, we're talking about a mom who gained national attention for faking her own kidnapping. Sherry Papini is back in the spotlight, but now she's changing her story and trying to change her custody arrangement with her kids. Listen to the latest from the case on the Crime Scene Weekly. weekly. Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again?

Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love again? You can't believe everything you see on the internet. The one you think is the love of your life may turn out to be the death of you.

And that's not just an expression here. Beware of love at first click. This is a story that is about manipulation, cheating, lust. You've got salacious emails, you've got X-rated videos. Sherrie Miller is accused of using sex lies and the internet to get men to do what she wanted them to do, even if it meant breaking the law. So we need to add call it meant breaking the law. So we need to add call. Tell me the number. So like that, right? Yeah, all right.

Hi, is this Cherie? Yes, good afternoon. Hey Cherie, it's Juju Chang calling. How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm on the phone with Cherie Paulette Kittley-Miller, a mother from Michigan. And right now, she's an inmate at the Women's Huron Valley

Correctional Facility. But her attorney says she's only guilty of creating a complex online fantasy life. Most of it was sex chat. It would get very graphic and very detailed about going through sexual encounters over the over the internet. I spent hours upon hours on wine talking to people. It's sex. Like I wanted to be in control of everything obsessively in control. You were an online sex addict. Very much. It was like a video game and each man in each relationship was another level to me.

And each level was harder. Maybe it was how much I could get away with, how much I could make somebody believe. Cherie's story begins in Flint, Michigan, once a vibrant center for the car industry. When I grew up, Flint was booming. And there were upwards of 200,000 people here. The plants were going. We had over 80,000 General Motors jobs. And then when General Motors pulled out, things turned.

It's a factory town. I think it's seen better days, but the people there are very resilient. Growing up where I grew up, it was like your normal middle class neighborhood. Every summer they sent us to Florida with my grandma and papa where like that was my safe space. She had a hard childhood, product of several divorces that her mom had, different men coming and going in her household. She talks about being sexually abused. How old were you when you were first sexually assaulted? I wanna say probably three or four.

As a kid you take on like everything is your flaw. Well, she was a typical Flint wild child. Bars, karaoke, bowling alleys, just partying. She moved out early. She got married when she was 17 to her first husband. They ended up getting a divorce. By the age of about 27, 28, she had been married twice and divorced twice.

Cherie is a single mom raising three kids, working multiple jobs to make ends meet. She's a sales rep for Mary Kay Cosmetics and works at a nursing home. She also starts doing the books at a local scrap yard, B&D Auto, owned by a man named Bruce Miller. Bruce Miller was born and raised here in Flint, Michigan. He did what a lot of people did as soon as they got out of high school, went to work for General Motors. Always into cars.

He traded a horse for his first car at 16, 17 years old and was always into trying to race cars. He was a huge NASCAR fan. He just was a hard worker, went to work every day. In fact, he stayed working on third shift, which is a hard shift to work 30, 40 years. He was really close to retiring from General Motors, and he would have just had the junkyard to fall back on and do what he liked to do.

To have a salvage yard with all those parts and all that stuff for him to play with was just his idea of heaven. He also went through several marriages. He was married three times before. And he always told me he knew where the courthouse was. Bruce Miller was a lot older than Sherry, and he met her

through the work at the salvage yard. So what was the spark? Who pursued whom? I pursued him. It was a short courtship between Sherry and Bruce, maybe four months. He was 20 years older than her. They weren't wasting a lot of time.

As soon as they started dating, she moved herself in with the kids. He treated her kids as his own. Think she didn't have really any place to live. No real stability for the kids. And so Bruce provided that. Because I asked him, are you going to marry this one? That was the first thing I said.

He told me, no, well, it wasn't. Shortly after that, they went to Vegas. They went to Vegas. And we all at home thought, they're going to get married. Sure enough, Bruce and Cherie elope at a Las Vegas wedding chapel. There's a beautiful picture of Cherie sort of looking into a mirror there. There was an odd coupling just by visualizing it and by the age of difference. But at the wedding pictures he looked happy. He liked to be married.

And she seemed happy too. Less than a year after Vegas, a horrifying phone call. married and she seemed happy too. Less than a year after Vegas, a horrifying phone call. This show is supported by Odoo. Imagine you're a business owner who has to rely on a dozen different software programs to run your company, none of which are connected, and each one is more expensive and more complicated than the last. It can be pretty stressful.

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He was a great family guy. He was a great husband. He'd give you the shirt off his back. He was well loved within the factory that he worked. Bruce was a great family guy, he was a great husband. He'd give you the shirt off his back. He was well loved within the factory that he worked. Bruce was a hard worker. He's just a kind man. He offered her stability, and as a mother with three kids, that was attractive. But it wasn't enough.

For me, like, back then, it was like family at home. And then the other part of me that crazy side or like the dangerous side. You were looking for danger. Right. Bruce was family complacent. It was too much like home, too much like family. Cherie tries what some call retail therapy,

buying and buying, including lots of new toys and clothes for her kids. I was on a spending spree. I ran up Bruce's charge card and took all the money in the house. She's racking up his credit card, very short period of time. She racks up over $46,000 in a credit card debt. This is a man who's worked his whole life, paid his debts.

Well, she started paying with things with one credit card and taking another credit card and paying them. That's how she was getting them without Bruce knowing about money. It was like a continuous void that I was trying to fill. So Cherie finds a new escape. Online chat rooms. Cherie had a lot of screen names. There were over a dozen of them, and they were all like,

look at me, I'm sexy. Going into the sexual chat line, you're meeting other people that may have some of the same fantasy life that you have. She wanted to be anything she could be. She used fantasy to escape the pain. It says something in there that I did not understand. During those hours-long chat room sessions, a certain user piques Cherie's interest, JLC1006.

The man behind the screen name is Jerry Casaday. How much time were you spending online with Jerry and with other men, for that matter? I didn't get home from in front of that computer. Jerry Cassidy grew up in the Kansas City area, Missouri. He was the youngest of the four boys. He was competitive. At a young age, he actually became a police officer. He was promoted to lieutenant of the detective bureau.

Soon, Jerry is a father and a stepfather. He and his wife Barbara are parents to three boys, two from his wife's previous marriage, and a younger son together, named James. I remember helping him get dressed in the mornings and watching him get his uniform on, and I was proud his uniform on. I was proud of my father.

He was enamored by the sheriff and the undersheriff, but he started to see a lot of discrepancies. He believed the undersheriff had taken and falsified a document in a murder case. They brought in a special prosecutor. In the process of that, Jerry knew that his time as a police officer was pretty much up. It's hard for someone in law enforcement to go after their bosses. I mean, that's career suicide, and in Jerry's case, it was career suicide.

It spills over in every area of life. Your purpose, your recognition is not only taken away, but you're seen as the enemy. He was never the same after that. After he left the department, he got a job as security with Harrah's Casino. They transferred him. Harrah's dead.

They had a position open up in Reno, and he thought maybe a change of pace would be a good idea, too. In Reno, Jerry's relationship with his wife, Barbara, is becoming a house of cards. He told her, you didn't want to be married anymore. She moved back to Kansas City. I stayed out with him. Newly single, Jerry is looking for love online.

Right away, he connects with Cherie. Hi baby. Hey my little sex kitten. Almost immediately, Cherie and Jerry want to turn their virtual connection into what the online world calls an IRL relationship in real life. I know I was drinking a lot that night. It felt like dangerous and a little scared, but excited by it. But Jerry Cassaday has no idea of the danger he has stumbled into.

["Dreams of a New World"] There's a new man in Cherie Miller's life. And in Reno, pit boss Jerry Cassaday is finding casino culture hard to handle. In Nevada, drinking and gambling is entertainment. It's not seedy. And it's a way of life. It's right out in front in the open for everybody to see. He started drinking way too much. Yeah, and he just spiraled.

As far as I can remember, as he went to work for the casinos, that's when the drinking really picked up. He was depressed. But Jerry Cassaday thinks his luck is changing after he starts chatting with Sheree Miller. The amount of instant messaging and emails back and forth is enormous. He carried that laptop everywhere he went. First thing he would do is connect with the laptop and get back on instant messages. I'm all yours to do with me whatever you feel fit.

I think she fulfilled his every fantasy. And he told me himself that he said, Mom, she is the woman of my dreams. I never dreamed I would ever meet anyone like her. You are by far the sexiest woman I've ever known. He's going through a divorce, he's drinking a lot, he's depressed, and he's having financial problems. Shree comes along, she's paying attention to him, giving him that ego boost that he

needed, but also according to her she's rich. She's telling him that she owns nursing homes, that she owns a junkyard, that she has possible lawsuit settlements coming up soon. Jerry has money trouble. See somebody with money taking an interest in him and of course he responds to that. The weekend that she came into town we all knew that she was coming in and he was so excited and not only does she meet him, but she sleeps with him. We knew the first time they spent the night together. I think the whole casino floor.

The first night they spent together. At one point, she sends a photograph of herself wearing the same clothes that she wore that night to Jerry. This is our first night together. Cherie returns to Michigan, back to her real life, with her husband Bruce. But... Cherie Miller starts sending pictures of her in different states of undress. Not only does she send them pictures, she starts sending them videos of herself masturbating.

She labels it for Jerry's eyes only, which is clearly something to keep his interest sustained. Remember, Cherie and Bruce are newlyweds, and Cherie's making multiple trips to Reno, leaving her kids with her in-laws, Chuck and Judy Miller. We just wondered why she was making so many trips, and she just said she had a lot of people buying her Mary Kay stuff down there. Sheree Miller tells Jerry that she's pregnant, and this is just weeks after they had their first sexual encounter. She comes back after her first trip to Reno, after they made love for the first time.

Jerry receives photographs of this pregnancy wand, showing that she is pregnant with his child. And of course, he's over the moon about it. They were making plans to get together, live together. He's elated. The woman he loves, he's gonna have a baby with. They're gonna be rich. And then she dropped the hammer that she lost the baby.

So Shree tells Jerry that Bruce found out she was pregnant and that he beat her. I never thought I would ever tell you that he hits. I got in trouble because I was with you. She sends him a picture of her torso with alleged bruises all over her body. There was a lot of bruising. You would have to beat her a lot.

When you broke the news that that baby was gone, what did you say? I didn't tell him on the phone. I think I wrote him on a chat. He was devastated. One minute he's the highest high, and the next it's like, what happened? And you almost feel like you're scraping him off the floor.

All the turmoil involved in this relationship is hard on Jerry, who doesn't deal with it well. And one night after getting off work at his casino, he goes to another nearby casino. And he was playing blackjack and drinking. He got into some sort of a heated discussion. He gets belligerent and finally they call security to usher him out of the casino. On the way out, he slams a door which hits one of the security people which causes the police to come and arrest him.

Got home from school that day, he wasn't there which was strange. That's when I was able to message a friend of his that he worked with. His son called me and he said, do you know where my dad is? And I'm like, uh oh. The first phone call I called was the jail. And that's where he was. So his family kind of gather around him

and say, listen Jerry, you're not doing well out there. Come back, be with family. They helped him move back to Missouri. Moved into a basement apartment and stuff with my cousin. He's gotta work on his alcohol addiction problems and so he begins going to AA. He was telling me that he was going to church again and it sounded like things were kind of

coming back together for him. But he was, of course, still in touch with Cherie. And Cherie is making alarming claims over email. She said that Bruce was involved with the mafia, was in the money laundering. And Jerry is about to make a decision that will change everything. She said that Bruce was involved with the mafia, was in the money laundering. And Jerry is about to make a decision that will change everything. He had told his brother that if anything happened to him, there was a briefcase under the bed.

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but their affair isn't slowing down. Jerry's in love, but he's worried. After all, Cherie told him that she miscarried his baby because Bruce beat her. So Jerry really wants to be that white knight and go rescue his fair maiden. He tells Cherie that she needs to leave her husband. Get away.

Just leave Bruce. Come live with me. Bring the kids. We'll live happily ever after. Well, she said that Bruce was involved with the mafia and would beat her. He'll find us. He'll put a bullet in her head. I can't leave him, but on the same token,

I want to be with you. But Bruce's family says he wasn't a violent man, and none of it is true. Well, we know it's not true because that wasn't Bruce. He's never had a woman in his life, you know what I'm saying? And then she says he's in the mob. It was just getting ridiculous what was going on there. She's barely over the loss of one child, allegedly,

and now weeks later she tells Jerry that she's pregnant with twins. She was sending photos of the sonogram and her belly, and know Jerry was just tickled to death to see and you know here's my kids. But the dates on the sonograms were from years earlier. She had such a mental spell over him that as soon as she told him that she was pregnant, that fantasy was a reality to him. And so there was no reason to doubt the love of his life. Then all of a sudden it's bad with Bruce again. Bruce storms into this relationship with with brutal emails.

Jerry opens his computer expecting to hear from Cherie and he sees an email from BD Junk telling him that Cherie is going to get rid of the two bastards in her belly. The change in tone between the emails, this is a completely new voice. All caps, old-faced caps, you know it's the internet equivalent of screaming at Jerry. Cherie then confirms Jerry's worst fears. It's happened again. His babies, not only one, but then two twins,

had been killed by Bruce Miller. And that just enraged him, as it would any man. But she lied about being pregnant. That is cruel. That is cruel when you know that a guy has feelings for you. Just weeks later, Sheree's husband Bruce leaves for his normal day of work at the scrapyard. So Bruce Miller is just at work.

He's getting ready to go home, have dinner with his family. I had ordered pizza and gave him a specific time that they said it would be done. And it's getting later and later and Bruce isn't showing up with the food. She calls Chuck and Judy, Miller, Bruce's brother and sister-in-law, to go, please go to the junkyard and see if there's anything wrong. When we opened the door and walked around the counter and he was laying on the floor in a pool of blood. to police and ambulance at B&B, auto salvagee. OK, what's the problem? My brother-in-law owns it, and he's laying on the floor,

and there's blood. He laid my hand on him, put my head on him, he was cold. He said there's no pulse, no nothing. Does it look like he fell out of the chair and busted his head open? No, it looks like something went wrong. I don't know what he's doing. OK.

The murder weapon was a shotgun. Bruce sort of took a blast right to the upper chest and neck. So about two o'clock in the morning, I just went to Sheree's house and informed her of what was going on. She was visibly upset, crying. When you go to make a death notification where you know there was violence, you're always watching how people respond. And if you're trying to hide something it's not natural so you got to be very methodical. We're always looking at body language.

She seemed very appropriate. I didn't suspect her. And he started asking me questions about who I thought it could be. Cherie had mentioned that Bruce had problems with a gentleman named John Hutchinson. Sherrie had mentioned that Bruce had problems with a gentleman named John Hutchinson. Bruce certainly knew John Hutchinson. They worked together for years at Bruce's junkyard. And Sherrie explains what she thinks the issue might be. I remember me saying that John owed Bruce money, which he did, and that they had been arguing about it.

As Genesee County detectives investigate further, they talk to Hutchinson's brother, Harold. Harold tells police that yes, he heard John threaten Bruce, and then after Bruce died. Harold made the statement that John had called him the day after the homicide and said, everything's taken care of with Bruce.

He said he was disposed of. That was his words? Yeah. I have no earthly idea where that comment came from, but yeah, did Harold say it? Yeah. I guess at that point you want to say he was our number one suspect.

I couldn't leave the state, couldn't leave the county, can't do this, don't do that. And then when you go somewhere, they look at you like a cockroach on a birthday cake. Put yourself in my position, how would your life be? Done. John did have an alibi to offer up police, but there did appear to be a questionable gap around the time of the murder.

And they just said, hey, he's lying. They asked you the same question a hundred times and the answer was the same of the murder. And they just said, hey, he's lying. They asked you the same question 100 times and the answer was the same 100 times. No, I didn't have nothing to do with it. He'd had a relationship with Sherry Miller. After Hutchinson and Cherie break up, that's when Bruce starts a relationship with Cherie. I thought he was making a huge mistake because I knew she was a good road to go down for

trouble. He said, don't worry about it, I got it under control. Okay, I warned you. Investigators have been keeping the pressure on Hutchinson for months, but just can't seem to make a case. There was absolutely no evidence at all. No fingerprints, no footprints, no tracks, nothing. We didn't have any hard evidence against him.

Nothing that actually said, you're the guy. While Michigan detectives are hunting for a murderer, they have no idea that their case will become one of the strangest they've ever faced. And that 800 miles away in Missouri, another man is living on borrowed time. In Michigan, Bruce Miller's murder remains unsolved. There's no pulse, no nothing. Cherie was upset about the lack of progress and stormed into the Genesee County Sheriff's Department demanding to find out what's going on here.

What are you guys doing to solve my husband's murder? And in Missouri, Jerry Cassaday is suddenly getting the cold shoulder from Cherie Miller. The silence in his life was deafening. And then it starts to play in like, wait a second, I am being kicked to the curb here. Jerry was downstairs in his apartment in Odessa, Missouri. And he had a picture of his ex-wife, the mother of his son. He had a picture of his son and he had a picture of his ex-wife, the mother of his son.

He had a picture of his son and he had a picture of Sherry Miller. There was a wedding ring on the windowsill and his divorce decree on a nearby table. And a Bible in his lap. Jerry, the former police officer, familiar with the concepts of guilt and punishment, opens his Bible to Matthew 5, which reads, You shall not murder, and whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.

So you've got to think that he made his peace with God. And at that point, he took a.22 caliber rifle, put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger. I knew Jerry had issues of that sort. I never thought he would do this. He had told his brother that if anything happened to him, there was a briefcase under the bed to get a hold of it before anybody else did. So I went into the bedroom and I found a briefcase. It's got three letters attached to it and a note, do not open this alone.

First, Jerry's family reads the suicide note taped to the outside of the case. Jerry writes that he finally realized that Cherie had been lying to him about her husband, Bruce. And finally, Jerry reveals that months ago, he made a visit to Cherie's hometown in Michigan. He said, I went to Flint and I walked in the door and I said, hi, I'm Jerry and I shot him. There was so much rage that he made sure he brought a shotgun. He hated Bruce Miller at that time.

And Jerry goes on to say, I was just so blind and so stupid and so much in love. And he ends with, I'm so sorry, Mom. I love you. He judged himself, found himself guilty, and executed himself. That was his way of trying to make amends

as best he could. We forced the briefcase open and there were just pages among pages of information. Records of airline flights, hotel rooms, emails and chat messages between Jerry and Cherie that seemed to implicate her in her husband's murder. And the family had a hard decision to make. They're gonna ruin their son's reputation forever, calling him a murderer, or they can just shut the briefcase

and go on with their lives. But that wasn't the point. The point was she should pay for what she did. Otherwise, two good men would have died in vain. Soon, investigators in Michigan get a cryptic note about Bruce's unsolved murder. I got a briefcase here that indicates that Cherie Miller may have committed it. I hung up the phone and said some rather loud words that I shouldn't have said in the office. I think the most damning thing there is the instant message where they plotted the murder. I'm talking line by line, play by play, but their plan worked.

And he would not have been able to put any of that together without her being the mastermind behind it. When they look for Cherie, she's no longer in Flint, not even in Michigan. In fact, she's back in Reno. And this time, she's visiting a brand new boyfriend. Why aren't you home morning? Why aren't you with your kids? Why aren't you with his family? It's like, what the hell are you doing, woman? It's like, do you not feel anything? The Sheriff's Department, do you not feel anything? The sheriff's department, they were waiting for them at the Flint airport, took her back

to the department. Do you know Jerry Cassidy? Yes, I do. Did you develop a relationship with him? No. You never had a physical relationship or ever had sex with Jerry? No. physical relationship or ever had sex with Jerry? She had erased everything on her computer, but unbeknownst to her, Jerry had not erased everything on his.

I would tell you that you can change them and you know that and everybody knows that. She continued the lie, which is she had nothing to do with it. I don't know who changed that stuff, but I did not break that stuff. You broke that stuff? No, I didn't. And at some point, Captain Coppola decided it was time to arrest her. They said you're under arrest for the murder of your husband. I got hysterical. ABC 12 News at 5.

Miller was arrested Friday charged with the murder of her husband. The media is fascinated by Cherie's case, the first of its kind. In what is being dubbed the nation's first internet related murder. Cherie Miller's trial is officially underway. And when Cherie herself arrives to the courtroom, some attendees do a double take. It's like, that's her?

Because she had this suit on that she never would have purchased. They wanted her to look as innocent, as doubty, as possible. For many in that courtroom, one glaring question remains. As pathetic. As... Doubty. As... Yes. Possible. For many in that courtroom, one glaring question remains. I couldn't understand. Why did she have to kill him? Why didn't she leave him? And it's our position now.

According to probate lawyers at the defense brought, money couldn't have been a motive because after the credit card debts and the estate taxes and the attorney's fees, she would be left with just a couple thousand dollars. There's absolutely no motive for her at all to have killed her husband. So the defense's theory is essentially that the real suspect is Bruce's former employee who owed him money. The real killer here, ladies and gentlemen, is John Hutchinson. Remember John Hutchinson? Bruce's friend, and law enforcement's original suspect.

Well, investigators cleared him of any suspicion after seeing the contents of Jerry's briefcase. But the defense puts his brother, Harold, on the stand, where he repeats claims he made to police. Do you remember telling Sergeant Shandlin? John told him he'd taken care of Bruce. Yes, I did. It made me look like crap. That there pretty well ended my relationship with him.

We haven't talked long enough to have a hot dog since then. And although police never found any physical evidence, no fingerprints, no footprints linking Sherrie to the crime, the prosecution has something all new. Electronic evidence that they say leads right to Sherrie. no footprints linking Sheree to the crime, the prosecution has something all new, electronic evidence, that they say leads right to Sheree. The jury needed to see, while she may not have pulled that trigger, she was the mastermind.

And I mean, she had lie on top of lie on top of lie. She lied about being pregnant. She lied about being rich. She lied about being rich. The really only truth in the whole emails was that she was married and she was a female. The defense also argues that Jerry was a jilted lover who framed Sharif. So David Nicola brought on an expert witness saying that emails can be easily faked.

He was claiming that Jerry faked it. And we found it on her computer. He couldn't have put it on her computer if he faked it. And remember the photos Cherie sent Jerry of her bruised stomach? It turns out those weren't even real. You were a Mary Kay Cosmetics consultant. Was that makeup on your belly? Yes, it was.

The fatal mistake, in my opinion, that sealed her fate was when she testified. We had so many things that she said that she did in those emails that I think that she felt she had to testify to try to explain some of it away. But how does she explain all those messages to Jerry, complaining about the terrible abuse she supposedly suffered at Bruce's hands? I thought by writing stuff like that, that he would leave me alone, that at that point

he wouldn't want anything to do with me. And it didn't work. And now, Sheree Miller has an unexpected message for Bruce and Jerry's family members. Get tickets now. Look, I got a dog! To the movie event of the summer. You sure that's a dog? Yeah. Rough. Everybody out!

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Like people really know what I am, what I did. I'm going to prison. But Cherie's prison stay wasn't the life sentence Bruce's family expected. She had been there for six, seven, eight, nine years. And then in stepped a federal judge. She had been there for six, seven, eight, nine years. And then in stepped the federal judge. Cherie Miller is free to post bond, which would release her from prison. You're granted an automatic appeal in the state of Michigan.

The judge determined that the suicide note shouldn't have come in, and so she was to be retried. But that new trial never happens. side note shouldn't have come in and so she was to be retried. But that new trial never happens. After three years of freedom, the appellate judge's decision is reversed and Cherie is once again behind bars. And 16 years later, the man who prosecuted her case gets a letter he never expected. later, the man who prosecuted her case gets a letter he never expected.

Now that was truly astounding to open up my mail one day and get a letter from Sheree Miller professing her guilt. knowing who I really was. Like, what was really inside of me, the consequence of Bruce dying, was smaller than what the consequence would have been if he knew that I wasn't who he thought I was. So rather than face the truth, you were willing to have your husband be killed? Yeah. Yeah. And eventually, Cherie admitted that she was the one who sent those threatening emails

from the BD junk account to Jerry. Bruce wasn't involved at all. Why do you think it took you so many years to fess up? Well, it was so much easier lying about it to myself. I did it because it was the right thing to do and I've never done the right thing. I just wanted to do one right thing before I leave this world. At that moment, maybe for the first time ever, I had some amount of sympathy for Cherie L. Miller. I like to think that finally she realized what she had done. Jerry's brother is suspicious that Cherie is just manipulating people all over again.

Everything she does, there's a scheme behind it. There's a plot behind it. There are plenty of people who knew you when you were lying all the time, who think you're lying now and that this is some sort of big act. I'm sure. I can't make anybody believe me. All I can do is show them. Sheree Miller read what she called letters apologizing to the people she hurt. Sure.

And when we interviewed some of those victims' families, we asked if they wanted to hear the recording. lying on Jerry. Bruce's family, not only am I responsible for Bruce's death, I'm responsible for continuing to open the wound over and over by lying for 17 years. Some things are not forgivable, and she is not forgivable. I wanna say that I could forgive her, but I can't. I can't. It's difficult to believe anything that the woman has to say. I don't know if I could ever forgive her. It's a special kind of evil to plan this in so much detail with the letters, the pictures, the emails acting as she's Bruce Miller and knows about Jerry.

My response to that letter, I just hope she rots in hell. Today, Cherie is still serving a life sentence at a woman's prison in Michigan. She has exhausted further attempts to appeal her case. Bruce is my brother. It's been 22 years, so it seems like yesterday. You're just never going to forget it. That's all there is to it. From start to finish, she just destroyed two families and just destroyed her own. number one morning show. The morning's first breaking news, exclusive interviews,

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