Snapped: Women Who Murder - BONUS: Patricia Aldridge and Mitchell Vickers (Snapped: Killer Couples)

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

After evidence of a violent attack is discovered in a West Virginia home, the body of a beloved photojournalist is found in the woods. The search for the killer reveals a sordid affair and a murder-for-hire plot with a shocking co-conspirator.Season 17, Episode 19Originally aired: April 28, 2024Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 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? God want to kill him, come in me, I don't know what it did it. Let's go ahead to the 25th of June. That's the day we got involved. I do want to die in a murderer, man. I come there for a reason to kill him.

And I tell him, I'm saying, you to hell, boy. It was very shocking. Describing himself as being the murderer and the sole person responsible. It 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 his slave on my heart. She has buffalo me. Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Huntington, 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, D.C. Denny Aldridge receives a concerning phone call from his brother Millard's wife, Patricia Aldridge. My wife answered the phone and kind of quiet for a minute and she said,

you need to talk to Trish or 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 on. I said, call the police. 20 minutes later, a Huntington police officer arrives at the Aldridge 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 8 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 o'clock. Patricia had gone to Walmart and to the bank that had returned home shortly before 11 o'clock, 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 2 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 Miller was a cameraman for W.S. a cameraman for WSCZ. At that point, I recognized who he was. He would come to the courthouse and interview prosecutors after the conclusion of cases. He always seemed like a very nice guy. Born and raised in Huntington, Millard Aldridge came from humble beginnings.

Our life was simple. We were country people. My dad worked every day. My mother was 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 their home. He had got an interview for a janitor's position for WSA-Z Channel 3, and luckily he got it.

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, you know, helping report the news in the Huntington area. And 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 sweetheart. They had a little girl first, and then they had a little boy.

Miller was a great father. He loved his kids. He took care of his kids. Miller 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 a work But I 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, you know, 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 him 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 Miller to death. It might not have been her birthday. of being 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 to be. 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 stitch in time. She would make things for people, costumes and outfits and blankets and different things. Miller and Trish, they seemed happy as a couple, like they were going to grow old together and set 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 bloodstains in the garage, that elevated things quite a bit. Once the area was secured, then the forensic investigators came in. I observed a 55-gallon-sized garbage can that had been turned over. It looked like a struggle took place. The blood sputter 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 a suspect in their crosshairs. When human emotions are set ablaze like this, you don't know where the fire's going to go. Hours after 42-year-old Millard Aldridge 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 Miller-Aldridge and Miller-Aldridge'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 some way. Investigators canvassed the Aldridge's neighborhood, hoping that someone saw Millard leave home on his own. This is the Westmoreland neighborhood of Huntington. It's a kind of 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 before. The next step the investigators would take would be to put him into the National Crime Database, the NCIC, It alerts law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout 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. We had my sons and my nephew. We jumped in my van, and we went on backrocks that we used to run when we was 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 8th Street Road. Immediately there was the suspicion that this might be Millard'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 place.

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 Aldridge'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 Miller's vehicle.

Generally speaking, the purpose for burning a vehicle is to destroy evidence. So it was proven 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 of 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.

Western State Police participated in the search of the area and included cadaver dogs. 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, said, we found a body, and we 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 and 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've kind of felt 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, kind of collapsed. She was just absolutely devastated. I mean, crying beyond consoling.

It was just a sick feeling. How could someone 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 on him. 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 M.E.'s 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 a small statured. 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 Aldridge's murder investigation, authorities in Huntington, 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'd have knowledge about the affair, 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 had. He disclosed the relationship to Miller Aldridge. 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. Mitch Vickers was from the Barberysville area of Cabell County, which is just east of the city of Huntington. He'd 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 pled 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. Detective's realize 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 begin 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 Aldridge 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. When 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. 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, Vakers 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 heart. How can I go to jail knowing that this ass is going to be there, speaking on fur?

I never had a confession that was quite like this. He had no remorse whatsoever. 48 hours after Huntington Police recovered Millard Aldridge's body, his wife's lover, 40-year-old Mitchell Vickers to authorities. It gives a location for them to pick him up. When they encounter him, he's in a trust. 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 Cavill 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'm running around with a friend of mine. Their girlfriend knows Trish, and somehow my name came up.

And we decided that we would meet and just kind of discuss what you've been done if you're like for the last 18 years. First time we met, we met the Conno Lodge. It's before Christmas. It's very obvious we still had fillings for each other. Pickers stated that the reason why he killed Millard Aldridge was because Patricia had told him that Miller was very abusive she has told me things that for instance that Milord was nothing but a drug he'd be on and slaps her around he treats you like a piece of a

According to Mitchell, things came to a head when he was recently sentenced for his burglary charges. I went berserk, I went crazy. You know, I love this lady, but I'm a heart. How can I go to jail knowing that this ass is going to be out there, beating on her? And I just thought, man, no, I'm going to prison. I'm going to put his tops of this . You know, I mean, I can't have it. You know, I know I can't.

God damn, I'm not going to let anybody else have time. What did you decide to do? I thought for address. I went down there. I'm walking their garage approximately 4.30 that morning. And how did you get into their garage? The door was open. I waited and away.

Daylight came. And it was probably at a clock. I guess he'd probably come out of their garage I was carrying a bag of trash with him. Vickers said that when Miller 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, rent, which was hanging on the wall. I grabbed it. I started beating him head. He was screaming, you know. Trish hell, Chris, hell. And I told him, I'm saying, you to hell, boy. 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 drug him around, told him in a chalk of his car. I walked over because I was trying to clean up my mess. I let him blood trail from the tail. Okay. What did you after that? Vickers describes driving the car up to 8th Street Road near Skyview Drive.

He disposed of the body, dropping it over the side of a hill. And then poured gasoline on the car and set it on fire. Been hitched a ride back to town. I didn't know what to do anything like this, but I cannot let somebody beautiful, somebody I love.

He seemed to be extremely proud. He leaned back. back in the chair, arms folded, shirtless, as if he was 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. Trish ain't got nothing to do for his shit. I'm saying it's all on my own.

You know, Trish didn't know anything about this. Vickers was extremely adamant about taking all of the blame himself, and that just even more raised suspicion. 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 await his arrival. A suspect reportedly called police to confess to the murder of WSAZ photographer Millard Aldrich. Where does he belong? I was at Miller's house with Trish Miller'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 But he said it was over a relationship with a wife. 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 kind of 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 adamant that Millard has never been abusive. Everybody that knows he knows he wasn't. All of that kind of raised red flag. Everything we head 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 along 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 rearview 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, meaning that that portion of the vehicle would have been adjacent to the beating as the beating was taken 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 Aldridge 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 kind of 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 Cheryl Kowalski. Cheryl Kowalski is a friend of Patricia's, Cheryl's husband. Ronald had spent time in jail with Mitchell Vickers. Cheryl says in January of 1998, Mitchell contacted her husband Ronald with a proposal. Cheryl 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 Cheryl's home. Ron said that Vickers had approached him, asked him. him if he wanted to earn some money. He had been offered $7,500 to kill Miller Aldridge, 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 Aldridge and Pickers together, Patricia asked Ron if he would be willing to kill her husband and describe that she wanted him out of the picture. The statement of the Kowalskies 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 the It all boiled down the money. She couldn't make it financially on her own. When investigators obtained the Aldridge's financial records, they learn why. Patricia was the seamster. She had a business called Stitch in Time. That eventually went bankrupt and closed. Miller-D Aldridge worked for WSA TV here in Huntington,

and they had a policy that her employee got killed. They would pay a year's salary to that employees' beneficiary. I was talking with the bookkeeper at 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 its 401K. I said, how much? And she said, around $250,000. Mitchell Vickers is in custody for the confessed murder of Millard Aldridge.

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. to her prop. She would have been the beneficiary of the 401k 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 state 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. Oh, Trish. I love his slave on the heart. Kelly. She has... He just buffaloed me. She got me to believe in, without doubt,

for her husband was a real thing. I don't even know the man. He detailed the motive for the crime, being the financial motive. She'd been going to get rid of him 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 Miller walked into the garage and that he stuffed Miller's body in the trunk took the car up to A Street Road Skyview Drive area

dump Miller's body out she was right behind me in her van We're gas all over the car inside and out. Towards the jet to jump in her man. We took a home. Patricia then drove him to Walmart, where she gets him a change of clothes. And she took me from there.

Took him out to the buddy in my house and brought me home. That's when I was, yes, she went on to do it before it. So the additional information that Vickers now gives us further cemented, Patricia's involvement in this murder. She is a principal 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 3rd, Millard Aldridge 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 run 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 4th 1999

We had corroborating evidence but the most compelling evidence was his confession I do die of murder plan I come there for a reason to kill Mitchell Vickers 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 Aldridge's trial gets underway on August 24th, 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 hire. 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. Oh, gross. 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's 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 Aldridge 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. It was just a total selfish stupidity on my part to drag an innocent person

in such a serious charge situation that I mean 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 men 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 can do this and tear a family up and take a great man, not just from a... 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 will live on. I know it will live on in our family as long as we're here. Patricia Aldrich is currently incarcerated at Lakin Correctional Center in West Virginia and is not eligible for parole. Mitchell Vickers died in president of hepatitis C in 2002.