Snapped: Women Who Murder - Kisha Schaberg

Episode Date: April 2, 2023

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wonder East Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. After years of trying, a loving couple finally had the family they dreamed of. They had a lot of love to give to the stew voice. It has seemed like they had actually given birth to these boys.

They were the pride of small town Kansas, until a shocking crime stopped this community dead in its tracks. stopped this community dead in its tracks. We're very poor everywhere. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. When the investigation gets underway, clues found at the crime scene and a slew of possible motives will send police hurtling in all directions.

Did somebody have a bad business deal? There were a lot of questions. There were a lot of questions. There was a lot of fear. Were the blumbles the tragic victims of circumstance or had something or someone devoured this all-American family from the inside? They were enabling each other. He knew that he had aspirations to be a hitman.

The text message is, I need a gun to do a job. She's very good at getting people to do what she wants. I don't think there's any remorse. November 15th, 2013, 915 PM. Dispatchers in Wichita, Kansas receive an unusual call from the quiet suburb of Valley Center. The caller is 16-year-old Chris Blummel. Yeah, I just got home and my parents saw her both in the car. I think they're both passed out. He said that when he pulled into the drive-y parked back behind where his mom and dad's truck were.

He saw that the driver's side door was open. Dispatchers pressed Chris for more information about this possible medical emergency. My dad keeps them like coughing. And my mom or head were like bob loving down. I thought it was a joke at first, and then like this year they had not moved for like 30 minutes. It was just kind of a bizarre thing. It just very unusual how the scene was being described.

I was like, you know what I mean? I'm like, trying to wake him up and then erect you and all. Nothing at all. I want you to do it. How are they breathing? Yeah, my dad seemed like coughing. Okay, we do have the pervination in place on the way. So I was curiously, I want you to go in and lay them flat on their back on the ground. They're walking him through, trying to get him to do CPR.

Oh, my God. I just went from the door. We married before I had to wear. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Chris's parents, 53-year-old Melissa and 48-year-old Roger Blummel, were the quintessential Kansas couple. Melissa started as a bank teller at Chisholm Trail State Bank and quickly rose through the ranks.

Melissa was always there. She would do anything you asked her, and she was good at what she did. She was a great employee. Melissa put in long hours at work, but her true passion was a gregarious bobcat salesman, five years her junior named Roger Blummel. He's the kind of guy that could basically sell anything, no matter what it was, very friendly, very easy to talk to.

Special occasions, her birthday. You would always see Roger come in the bank with a bouquet of flowers. They were the proverbial couple. In the early 1990s, the couple married. Roger left his job selling bobcats and brought Melissa along with him. Roger eventually decided to open up his own business. So he ventured out and started doing sales on his own. It was a global contracting supply. Roger and Melissa both worked really, really hard.

Both came from families with great work ethics. Melissa was from a different device presidents position. The couple had dreams outside of their careers, too. All of their other friends that had gotten married were able to have kids, and that was always something that they had had desired. Melissa wanted a family very, very badly. The couple built a home on some rural property outside of town,

with plenty of room for children to play. But the baby, the blummel's dreamed of, never came. They had been trying for a while. Probably about eight years. It became evident that it wasn't going to happen for them. They decided to look into other ways But it wasn't going to happen for them. They decided to look into other ways of having a family and started looking through adoption. Not long after Melissa and Roger contacted a local adoption agency in 2001,

a social worker called the Blummel's with good news. They had found a potential match. The mother's name was Kisha Shawberg. Born in 1978, Kisha Reyes grew up in sprawling Los Angeles, California. While she enjoyed a typical suburban upbringing, Kisha was anything but conventional. My grandpa was strict. He always had rules, and Keisha was one that we didn't

care about the rules. She began to act out in school, not getting the grades that she was getting before. Everything just was declining. Kisha drank beer, she smoked marijuana, she would go party and go to high school parties. At 17, a discovery momentarily put the brakes on Kisha's wild ways. She learned she and her boyfriend were having a baby.

Her boyfriend left her soon afterward, and by the time her son Tony was born in 1995, Keisha was a single mom. She was more scared, been happy. I remember Keisha saying she didn't want kids yet. During this time in Keisha's life, I believe she was going through a lot of stress and struggles with herself.

A few months after she gave birth, she decided to move and she got up and just left. She told me she, she hitched a ride from a trucker and ended up in Missouri. It's in Missouri that Kisha met and fell in love with Chris Shawberg. The couple married soon after. And in 1997, Kisha gave birth to another son, Chris Shawberg, Jr. Over the next few years,

Chris, Kisha, and the boys bounced across the Midwest. She was a drug user. They were neighboring each other. They were standing in a hotel and not working. At one point in time, they were homeless. They were basically living out of her vehicle. Then, one night in 2001, while her four and six-year-old sons slept in the back seat,

Keisha came to a heartbreaking realization. She stated to me that she was not fit to take care of her children. She made the decision to give the boys up. She had seen an advertisement for an adoption agency, and she called this 800 number. for an adoption agency, and she called to say 100 number. The agency told Keisha that they already had a couple waiting, Roger and Melissa Blummel of Kansas. The agency reached out to Roger and Melissa

and told them that they had not just one, but two boys who needed a home. I truly believe they would have brought six kids home. If that would have been the situation, Melissa and Roger had a lot of blood together. Kisha was sad that she wasn't with Tony and Chris. She was, but she was also happy that the Blum was to come. Kisha had nothing but good things to say about the Blum's.

She was very grateful. Back at their new home in Kansas, Tony and Chris Blummel quickly settled into a new life. Melissa took six weeks of maternity leave, to stay home with the boys. In her eyes, those were her children from the very beginning. I would say within, you know,

a few years of them all living together, it has seemed like they had, you know, actually given birth to these two boys. By the time the boys hit high school, the family was a pillar of the Valley Center community. Boys were polite, well-behaved. They just seemed like very respectful young boys. Both Tony and Chris were very active in sports and other activities. By February 2013, Tony was a state champion wrestler. While his younger brother Chris had started making a name for himself on the football field. Melissa was one of those moms that always volunteered to make the dinners for the football players that would do

Anything to be involved with the boys In the spring of 2013 the busy blummel family was facing a new chapter as Tony prepared to graduate He didn't have any problem at school. It was, you know, a star athlete. He had talked about making plans to go into the Air Force. But on November 15, 2013, it appears Roger and Melissa may not live to see Tony or Chris' accomplishments. Just six months after Tony's graduation, Chris reports finding his parents

unresponsive in their truck. You see a chair pulling up? Yeah, they're right behind me. Police have still found a pulse and you know, it's outside the life. Our victims were code red and in our world. That means it's a serious injury. Police also find the source of all that blood.

They had both been shot in the head. Valley Center is a small town. So when you hear of a double shooting, you immediately start wondering what happened. Who would do something like that? Coming up, investigators discover friction within the family. Melissa had become, I believe, afraid of Tony. And no one is free from suspicion.

They're in their driveway, you know, possibly dying or dead. He was not very emotional at all. MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC By 2013, Melissa and Roger Blummel had carved out a nice life for themselves. And their two adopted sons, Chris and Tony, in Valley Center, Kansas. But on November 15, Melissa and Roger were found shot outside their home. Chris called 911 and reported that he had found his parents injured.

He made a comment on the call about their being blood. Still clinging to life, both Melissa and Roger are rushed to an area hospital. While Sheriff's deputies turned to Chris, they're only witness. Chris was enacting how people would perceive somebody that had discovered their parents shot. The only person that he could think of who could possibly

come anywhere close to this would be their oldest son, Tony. Police discovered the problems began in the spring of 2013. Tony's senior year in high school. Tony was a successful athlete, a successful kid. It wasn't until he'd begun to a pretty routinely smoke marijuana. I mean, this is something completely inconsistent with lifestyle of a state champion wrestler. And the blumels were having none of it.

As Tony got older, he resented, I think, the structure that the family had. He didn't understand why they were curfews or why he couldn't do this and would frequently act out. There had been a history of problems with Tony and Roger and Melissa in that he had shown a tendency to have some issues controlling his temper. They've talked about he had punched a hole in their wall.

Melissa had become, I believe, afraid of Tony. He was a strong kid. He was an aggressive kid. Things only got worse after Tony's graduation when he was arrested for a DUI. I think the Blum was really wanted Tony to have a career in the Air Force, but that went to shambles when he continued his drug usage.

Roger and Melissa are personal friends of mine. They had given Tony several chances to make some changes. It seems that they were unsuccessful in that. And eventually, they Roger made a decision that this was not good for the family to have drugs in the house, so they asked Tony to leave the house. Chris tells responding officers that in September 2013, Tony had taken off to California.

But in early November, Tony suddenly returned to town and made plans to reconnect with their parents. Tony had been out the dinner with Roger and Melissa, that evening. been out the dinner with Roger and Melissa that evening. Now, just hours after meeting with their wayward son, the blumbles are in critical condition. Initially, we were very suspicious of Tony. You know, really why is he in town?

You always start wondering, could it be people closest to them that could be the suspects? Officers take Chris from the crime scene to the station for a more formal interview. Supervision wanted as much information from him as quickly as possible. The decision was made to read Chris's rights.

He was asked to explain his activities from that evening and he declined to speak to investigators. Chris's sudden reticence raises a red flag with investigators. Once Chris invoked, we had to look even more strongly at whether or not he was an actual suspect. Chris was described as unusual by both the deputy and the supervisor.

They had said that he showed no signs of emotion. The law enforcement officers involved at the time thought, here's this 16-year-old kid that has come back and has found his parents and they've both been shot and they're in their driveway, you know, possibly dying or dead. He was not very emotional at all. Then, there was Chris's unusual behavior on the 911 call.

We learned that Chris took about 30 minutes to call 911 before he reported his parents being outside. I'm sure that police immediately thought, oh, that's a red flag right there. Why did this person not call any sooner? He obviously needs to be ruled out as a suspect before we can widen the net. While police work to track down Chris' whereabouts that evening,

detectives and forensic investigators study the crime scene for clues. The first substantial piece of evidence that we find on that day is a shell casing inside the vehicle. We identify that the gun that we're looking for is a 25 caliber handgun. One of the things that struck me, at least, as I was first being told about the case,

was the fact that they hadn't gotten out of the truck yet. It appears as a molissa opened the door to somebody. It appeared as though it would be somebody that the blumels would have known. But another detail about the scene soon raises questions about the validity of that theory. We see that the interior door that leads from the garage into the house

has been forced open. We go into the house and we start to see things that have been knocked over. And eventually we get into the master bedroom. And in the master bedroom, you can see that drawers have been opened, things have been knocked off of the shelving. Somebody had gone through some stuff. Items had obviously been moved around and placed on the bed.

So that area of we knew for sure that people had been in. So we focused our investigation there as far as trying to locate maybe fingerprints or DNA, anything that could maybe give us an idea who had been in there and gone through those dressers. At the time, we believe that somebody maybe had come in the house and actually robbed them and Roger Melissa pulled up in the driveway and may have interrupted a burglary in progress. The idea that the blumbles might have been shot by a stranger opens up even more theories. We know that Roger is a businessman, so we signed somebody to look into there.

Did somebody have a bad business deal? Was anybody upset with Roger over the sale of something? She worked at a bank and had authority at the bank. Was someone going there to hold her hostage and make her go in the next morning and rob the bank. To try and narrow their search, Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office investigators head to Wesley Medical Center, where life-saving medical procedures are still underway. Roger Melissa were in poor condition.

One of the things that I was asked to do when I was at the hospital was to try and see if we could figure out their injuries specifically. Both of the gunshot wounds were on the right side of each of their heads. It appeared in that first 12 hours that there was a single shooter. Whoever had attacked the blumels had likely acted alone. Could that trigger man be one of their adopted sons? Or had someone else set their sights on this prominent local family? Nobody knew who the shooter was, what the circumstances were. Coming up, a break in the case leads police in a surprising new direction.

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Follow 10 Fold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. You can listen early and add free on the Amazon Music or One Dreadp. 24 Hours After Being Rushed To a Kansas hospital with gunshot wounds to their heads, Melissa and Roger Blummel remain in critical condition. For Sedgwick County Kansas investigators, finding Melissa and Roger's shooter is a top priority. As to a possible motive, a couple of scenarios are on the table. You go through all the different scenarios. You start thinking, yes,

it could be some sort of botched robbery that happened as they were pulling in. But then you also start looking at the people who are closest to them because anyone could be a suspect. Had Tony or Chris Blummo fired the shots that struck down their adoptive parents. It's important as a law enforcement officer to try and keep an open mind.

While police continue working multiple fronts, investigators focus on finding 18-year-old Tony Blummo. It turns out he was looking for them. Tony Blummo was trying to get a hold of law enforcement because he had been told that something happened to his parents. We talked to Tony and asked him to come down to our office building downtown. Unlike his younger brother, Chris, who has invoked his Miranda rights, Tony is eager to speak to Sedgwick County Sheriff's Investigators.

He was asking a lot of questions. He wanted to know if we had any suspects. Tony is eager to speak to Sedgwick County Sheriff's investigators. He was asking a lot of questions. He wanted to know if we had any suspects. Tony is interviewed and acknowledges that he has had a rocky relationship with Roger Melissa in the past. Tony says that he moved in with a friend, and while he was there, a ghost from his past sent him a message. Kisha, who is Tony's biological mom, to succeed in making contact with Tony on Facebook.

Kisha was living at the time with a female name, Sean Hamilton, and they were in a romantic relationship with each other. Tony says that over a decade after she had given him up for adoption, Kisha had turned her life around, and now had a seven-year-old daughter, Tony's half-sister. Kisha's off drugs, raising her daughter and doing quite the job.

I believe she thought that this was her second chance to be able to be the mother that she couldn't be for the boys. Kisha seemed changed, she seemed happy, she just seemed kind of, I want to say, carefree almost. Upon my sister Victoria, visiting them, she had nothing but glowing reviews as to Ritesh and my half-sister were. Now she said that there was a big improvement.

Tony tells detectives that in September of 2013, he decided to make the trip out to San Diego, California, to reconnect with his birth mother. Kisha was crying when Tony walked in the door. She was just like, oh, my God, ecstatic. Tony had told me that he was happy to find his biological mother to finally come in contact with her. Tony says after about six weeks in California, to find his biological mother to find he come in contact with her.

Tony says after about six weeks in California, he began to miss his adopted family. So in late October of 2013, he, Keisha and her daughter, drove to Valley Center. He reunited with his adoptive parents on November 15th. They had picked him up at the hotel and they had gone to a Chinese buffet for dinner.

Tony said they asked part of trying to mend their relationship and make things better. That was one of the reasons that he went to eat separate with Roger and Melissa that night. Tony says that his parents dropped him in his half-sister back at the hotel around 8 p.m. That was the last time he saw them alive. Police are able to verify Tony's timeline with hotel staff. He has an L-buy.

There's no way to drive from that hotel that he's at to where the blumbles are at. So it's illogical for him to have been the person at the scene. It's obvious that Tony can't be the gunman. But what about the blummel's other teenage son, 16-year-old Chris? We started to try and verify his alibi. He had gone to a wrestling supper. It was the end of the wrestling season,

and they always have a big kind of get together. He left the supper 845. We take a look at the evidence off of Chris' phone when he made phone calls, and that all seemed to be consistent with what we were told. With both boys ruled out as the shooter, detectives turned to the community for potential clues. The law enforcement checked all the neighbors, all the areas to see if there's any surveillance. They do find a grainy video.

We're able to really identify when Chris arrived and when we believe Roger and Melissa arrived. The video quality wasn't the best, but we're able to see headlights. That captured footage seems to verify Chris's story, but it also reveals something else. We knew the other car had come in earlier than them. They were headed toward the blumels.

Though the grainy footage makes it impossible for police to identify the make and model of that vehicle, it's clear someone had arrived at the Blummel's home a couple of hours before either Roger, Melissa, or Chris. That was our best lead. This car appears to be involved. Then, on the evening of November 16, 2013, deputies receive grim news.

I get a phone call from the hospital and they tell me that Melissa has died. Now I'm dealing with truly homicide and one of my friends has died. Melissa, passport, Roger was still alive. On November 17, 2013, two days after the shooting, detectives at the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office receive a much needed break in the case. So your investigation gets a phone call from the Parks and Police Department and they notify

us that they have a kid by the name of Dalton, who believed he may have some pertinent information on the Blomohama side. As he was willing to come in and talk to us, and he agrees to come in and interview. Dalton starts to lay down his background of his ability to get firearms. According to Dalton, on November 13th, 2013, an acquaintance of his 18-year-old

Braden Smith contacted him via text message. The text message is, I need a gun to do a job. Dalton said that he had turned him down because he was trying to get out of that line of work and that out of that life. Braden was very persistent about it, contacted him numerous times saying, I know you can get a gun for me,

and every time Dalton would say, no, I'm not. Dalton says that when he heard the blumbles had been shot just two days later, he knew that Braden must somehow be involved. The case basically turns on that text message and Dalton coming forward. We do backgrounds and try and figure out who Brayden Smith is. And we find out that he is part of a group of kids up

in Valley that have been selling dope. Sedgwick County has a problem with burglaries. Could this possibly be a person who was looking to break into the residents to steal items or find money to support their habit and Roger and Melissa interrupted that when they came home. At this point, we had made a decision to put up surveillance on Breighton. With Breighton now under surveillance, detectives make their next move. Brighton is contacted by phone and asked if he would be willing to come in and tell us his side of the story. But prior to coming up to the office for the interview,

the surveillance followed him to Chisholm Creek Park. And they watched him throw an unknown object into the pond. Coming up, the list of possible motives is narrowed down from several to one. He would get a significant amount of money. He was going to use it to get his drug business off the ground. And the tangled web of conspiracy grows. He knew that he had had aspirations to be a hitman. On November 19, 2013, 18-year-old Braden Smith

has been brought in for questioning after a Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office surveillance team spied the teen disposing of something in a local pond. Investigators believe that the police have been After a Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office surveillance team spied the teen disposing of something in a local pond. Investigators believe that item might be the weapon that had been used to shoot Melissa and Roger Blummel. Roger Blummel had a gunshot wound to his head, but he's still alive, although his wife passed. We're looking for what we believe to be the murder weapon

as a 25 caliber pistol. When Sedgwick County investigators start to press the team about the shooting, Braden doesn't put up a fight. He came up for our interview and ultimately ended up confessing what had happened. As it turns out, Brayden has a connection to the Blummel family, courtesy of their 18-year-old adopted son. We figure out that he is actually a friend of Tony's.

The group in Valley Center that Brayden and Tony had run with, they were consuming the high grade marijuana. Brayden knew that Tony and Kisha had reconnected through social media. He talked about them going out to California to meet up with Kisha. This plan seemed to be that they were going to go out to California and again to grow marijuana.

Legally, they could stay with Kisha for free. Tony and Braiden stayed with Kisha myself and her daughter in San Diego. However, Braden says that their dreams of a California weed empire wilted within weeks. They got out there and very quickly realized nobody needed them in a dispensary. I lived in a one bedroom apartment and there was four adults and a child there. I'm working, nobody else is braided and tony,

or constantly smoking. Not even three weeks, Keisha is into it. All they do all day is sleep, play video games, and get high. Six weeks. At that point, that was the last straw. I told Keisha that her and the boys, you need to leave. You need to get out. According to Braden, that's when the group decided

that they had no other choice, but to travel back to Kansas. Braden had shared with us, so when they left California to come back to Kansas, when they were traveling, they had a discussion about getting rid of Roger and Lissa. Tony, either of his parents were gone. He is their legal child and that he would stand to inherit money. He believed that he would get a significant amount of money.

He was going to use it to, you know, get his drug business off the ground. Brayden says that he, Keisha and Tony, hatched a plan. Keisha was going to murder the blumbles, and that Brayden was going to be there with her to assist, so that the plan has hatched for Tony to take them to dinner, and in so doing, then he would allow Keisha and Brayden Smith to go back to the home and be there waiting for the blumbles to return.

However, as the day for the murder grew closer, Braden says he began to have second thoughts. In Braden's own words, he chickened out. He was told to find somebody to replace him. And so that's when he contacted his friend, Drew Elington. Braden knew that Drew had aspirations to be a hitman. Braden asked him if he'd be interested in making $1,000. And Drew told him yes.

On the 15th, Braden had met up with Drew and given him two firearms. Braden tells police that after that, he has no idea what happened. As to what he had tossed in the park pond earlier that day, Braiden admits they were firearms, but he claims neither weapon had been the gun used in the shooting. We do find two pistols through searching the pond. One of them is a 25 caliber, but we don't know at this point if it's the weapon

that was used or not. While detectives await answers from the state lab, police focus their efforts on finding 18-year-old alleged conspirator Andrew Ellington. Once Braden gave us all of his information, we had enough probable cost to arrest Andrew Ellington. Once Braden gave us all of his information, we had enough probable cost to arrest Andrew Ellington. We arrested him. He didn't seem surprised.

He's then brought up, and he confesses to us about his involvement. According to 18-year-old Drew, after being briefed on the plan on November 15th, he and Keisha had driven to the Blummel's house, while Tony took his parents out for dinner. Their whole plan was to make this homicide look like Roger and Melissa had interrupted a burglary. They went to the home, we knew from the evidence that they sort of, say, ransacked or gone through, certain areas of the home.

A little after 815 that evening, Drew and Keisha received a phone call from Tony. Tony let Andrew know that he was back at the hotel and Roger Melissa were headed home. When Roger and Melissa pulled up to the residence Keisha and Drew basically ambushed him in their truck. Drew was at the driver's side of the vehicle. Keisha was at the passenger's side of the vehicle. And when she opened the passenger's side door, she shot Melissa almost immediately. Drew indicated to us that there was a delay of a few seconds and then Keisha leaned in and shot Roger also. [♪ Music playing in background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in fire in the background, sounds of fire in the the background, the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of fire in the background, sounds of Tony it's done, and all Tony does is says,

okay, and then that's all the conversation there is about it. Drew says that Kisha got a long-sleeve shirt that she wrapped the firearm that she had in and gave that to him along with Melissa's person, told him that he needed to get rid of them. So Andrew drove out to a residential area and saw an area that had a small little correct to it and he threw the purse out into the water. A forensic test soon confirms that weapon and not the two tossed in the pond by Braden Smith had fired the two bullets that struck down Melissa and Roger Blummel.

On November 19, 2013, police charged Drew Ellington with capital murder and aggravated robbery. Now, there are just two more loose ends to tie up. On the 19th, the detective's knock on the door at the hotel. On the 19th, the detective's not on the door at the hotel. And they locate Tony and Tisha there. While officers escort Tisha to a patrol car, detectives begin digging for answers. Tony's the first person that they talk to. Eventually, they get Tony to confess.

And he talks about gaining the inheritance. However, Tony says that he's not the only one with a motive to kill. Keisha was the person who spearheaded the decisions in this murder. Coming up, Tony reveals his mother's darkest secrets. She's very good at feeding on people's emotions. And a new revelation makes the shootings all the more tragic.

Tony later comments that this whole thing was all for nothing. On November 19th, 2013, 18-year-old Tony Blummel tells Sedgwick County Sheriff's investigators that his biological mother, Kisha Shawberg, is the real mastermind behind the conspiracy to murder his adopted parents, Roger and Melissa Blummel. Though both were shot in the head, Roger is still fighting for his life in a local hospital. Part of Keisha's problem was that she wanted an open adoption. She wanted to be able to continue to have contact with the boys

and talk to them. But Roger and Melissa didn't really allow that contact to happen. Their ideology for Roger Melissa was, these two boys had been through a horrible situation. We're adopting them. The former life is over, the new life has begun. I feel like Keisha presented Anthony as adoptive parents.

She definitely talked about how much she missed her boys, so I feel like that probably just festered. Keisha had told Tony that she had even gone so far I really talked about how much she missed her voice, so I feel like that probably just festered. Kisha had told Tony that she had even gone so far as to drive up into the area where the Blumos lived because she was going to kill them so she could get her voice back. It was something that was in her head for a while,

I think, she wanted the voice. Tony says that once he and his biological mom reconnected on Facebook, Keisha dreamed of reuniting with her younger son, too, but Chris never responded to her messages. Chris wanted nothing to do with her. He didn't want any kind of contact whatsoever, and she thought that that was because of the globals.

There seemed to be some sort of misguided notion in her park that if she could just get the blooms out of the way, then Chris was going to come back into her life and the three of them could live happily ever after. Kisha was the mastermind of planning this murder. She's very good at getting people to do what she wants, and she's very good at feeding on people's emotions. But Tony tells police that after the plan was carried out, he realized that he and Keisha had made a terrible mistake.

They found out that he was no longer in the will and that he was ineligible to get any of the money. Tony later comments in our interviews with him that this whole thing was all for nothing. ["Toni's Love Song"] We talked to Keisha next, and explained to Keisha that they've had all these people

confess, and Keisha denies, denies, denies, denies, and denies. We decided to see if having Tony just come to the interview room door would maybe get some of connection with her. And Tony stood in the interview room door and had tears in his eyes and said, Mom, I told him everything. Kisha Stone Cold looked at him and said, I don't know what you're talking about.

the stone cold looked at him and said, I don't know what you're talking about. That same day, Keisha and Tony join Brayden Smith and Andrew Ellington in the county jail on charges of capital murder and aggravated robbery. Investigators break the news of the arrests to Roger and Melissa's families. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police.

The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. The investigation was done by the police. adopted son would do something to their adopted parents who had cared for them for so long.

Just as one stunning revelation washes over the community, another lands like a punch to the gut. On the 21st of December, Roger dies from his injuries. Roger would have never wanted to have been without Melissa. That's how close they were. Now that the case has become a double homicide, prosecutors amend the charges. They killed two people and this qualified for the death penalty.

With the possibility of the death penalty on the table, Kisha and Tony both plead no contest to capital murder and aggravated robbery in exchange for life in prison on May 15, 2015. Tony wrote an apology letter, and after reading it, I just don't grasp the sincerity from Tony. I don't think there's any remorse in Tony. Kisha never took responsibility for her actions. The judge did not grant Tony or Kisha any possibility

for parole. The pros for the family was, it's fun outing. It's done. There's no appeal. There's no risk of the case coming back. However, life in prison isn't the end of Kisha's story. When the snapped production team reached out to her, Kisha, for the first time, made a stunning confession.

I learned that Kisha had shared with the production folks that, yes, I killed Roger and Melissa. It really doesn't change anything for me. I knew that back when we solved this case. But even though Keisha took Melissa and Roger's lives, friends, family, and law enforcement believe that the blummel's legacy still lives on in their younger son. Through all this adversity, Chris went on to have one of the best seasons of his life.

He was a star athlete and obviously now he has moved on with his life and has a career of his own. Chris is doing amazingly well. He's an amazing person and for what he went through, I think that he should be really proud of himself. Chris living out his life positively is a good testament to the Blummel's legacy. Kisha Shawberg and her son Tony Blummel are both serving life in prison without parole. After her mother's arrest, Kisha's seven-year-old daughter was placed in foster care. Raiden Smith pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 24 and a half years

in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 2035 at the age of 38. Andrew Ellington was found guilty of first and second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison. For more information on snapped, go to oxygen.com.