it just seems like it s not him in that video. [ bleep ], man. i would rather she didn t be found. the family liked him, thought he was a good man. but there are so many defendants who come before a court who have convinced everybody that they don t have an evil bone in their body. even so, patrick opts not to go to trial. he pled guilty for murder for hire. he got nine and a half years. we knew we had the defendant himself on camera talking about the murder of his wife. we knew we were bargaining from a position of strength. still patrick says they re not considering the subtleties of the story. in his version, his marriage falls apart when starla begins acting erratic, violent, and in his words a danger to herself and others. she s a disgrace.
his wife killed. i don t know why he didn t consider divorce instead of murder. maybe there was some sort of worry or fantasy involved. maybe there s something deeper inside of him that preferred the violent option. maybe there was a level of antipathy or anger with her that divorce wouldn t satisfy. patrick admits he seems emotionless on camera but maintains he s feigning nonchalance because he s scared of the man who fabricated the story of murdering starla and throwing her body in the lake. i still talk to him, but, you know. starla s mother regina night believes her son-in-law. even talked with his mother. we were pretty much his parents and me was both in the dark with all this stuff that went on. it s like, you know, it s like something you d see in a movie is the way i look at it. it just seems like it s not him in that video.
his wife killed. i don t know why he didn t consider divorce instead of murder. maybe there was some sort of worry or fantasy involved. maybe there s something deeper inside of him that preferred the violent option. maybe there was a level of antipathy or anger with her that divorce wouldn t satisfy. patrick admits he seems emotionless on camera but maintains he s feigning nonchalance because he s scared of the man who fabricated the story of murdering starla and throwing her body in the lake. i still talk to him, but, you know. starla s mother regina night believes her son-in-law. even talked with his mother. we were pretty much his parents and me was both in the dark with all this stuff that went on. it s like, you know, it s like something you d see in a movie is the way i look at it. it just seems like it s not him in that video.
i didn t know she disgraced me. everything she touched, man. she wrecks people. even after starla leaves and relocated to new orleans, patrick maintains it s the witness who orchestrates the plot. in a letter to msnbc, patrick writes he spoke of killer women who came to murder their exes. he had through his manipulations made starla into a clear and present danger. and then projected himself as the solution. i eventually submitted to his way of thinking and agreed to the crime. it s hard to know exactly what happened, who put that idea out there. but from what the tapes show, mr. shemorry was dead set on seeing this accomplished. starla did not respond to msnbc s interview request. but regina knight says her daughter forgives patrick.
we believe around the end of 2008, beginning of 2009 they started having some marital strife. mr. shemorry was saying she was not acting as she had before. there were some allegations she had been going through money very quickly. at some point they decide to take a trip down to new orleans. i think that was an attempt to see whether they could make the marriage work. and from what i understand, the trip to new orleans was actually fairly successful. patrick chronicles the journey on facebook describing this playful photo with the caption good thing starla didn t see this. despite the innocent facade, they are also exploring the transgressions of the big easy. a mission that eventually leads them to the man prosecutors come to label witness number one. mr. shemorry s wife had found him randomly as we understand and tried to get him to buy what i believe was cocaine at that time.