Went up in flames. Caller theres a fire. His wife was inside. None of it made sense to me. In the ashes, secrets. I dont care what you think you are seeing, you are dealingi with a murder. The gun, how did it end up completely underneath her body . In the front drivers seat appeared to be a note. She had rekindled a relationship with one of the executives. Did someone has something to hide . Did you kill her . No. It was like a script, he had answers for everything. He would realize this is it. You are going to hell for what youve done in this case. It was dark, past 3 00 a. M. , a hint of Crescent Moon struggled to penetrate the night here in middle america. Everyone asleep except on a quiet residential street, a woman unable to sleep watched a crime show on tv. Was the Popping Noise from somewhere in the neighborhood, or was it her tv show, or just a remnant of a windy day around her windowsill . April 30th, 2011, tornado season. And there was a storm that night. A whirlwind sweeping all of wh them into its vortex, but it began not with wind, but with fire. Caller whats the problem . Calm down. Caller theres a fire. The man on the phone was frantic, out of breath. Here is the video of an officer on duty that night, speeding to the fire where he met the 911 caller outside. You can see them both recorded on video. The man said his wife was in the Master Bedroom in the back of the house, second floor. And if that was true, it did not look good for her. A passerby caught this video on his cell phone. By then the Volunteer Fire Brigade was arriving. Not much any of them could do for the woman inside. As the man calmed down a littlee he told the officer he was ablei only to rescue his 2 and 4year old sons carried to safety, so somewhere in there, his wife, their mother, was dead. There is more to the story as you will hear much more. But for now the dismal business of was sorting out what happened. So where to begin . Ha the Man On The Street said his name was vashti secat. My dad thought the name was neat, so we named her vashti. Neither could believe what they heard that morning. I called the county Sheriffs Department just to verifyme. Expected they help yo they asked who i was, and i explained my relationship to vashti, and he said yeah, there has been a fire. We believe she is deceased. The man outside his Burning House was brett seatac, her very first love. She did some stats for a team when he was a wrestler. First love in high school, first boyfriend girlfriend. They broke up and got back together until they married in 2004. That first love holds a special place in your life. I don on the 30th of april, 2011, though as you will hear britney what to do in a crisis there was nothing he or anyone could do to get it back. The life he had with vashti and their two boys, now motherless boys, brandon, born in the fall of 2006, bronson less than two years later. It was a happy time. My sister was mother of the year, award goes to her. Ar at 4 00 came she would get up and handmake baby food, so her kids could have organic healthy food. She lived for those babies. Not just her own kids. She was the first to help someone at the boys daycare. A little boy had, it was cancer, leukemia, something, and she stayed up and baked mini loaves of banana bread for him to get treatment. He did walks with them. He would play outside with them. He was very engaged as a dad. He was very proud of his sons. Brett was a family and law man, a former sheriffs deputy, and for the last few years he had been Teaching Officer recruits of kansas law informant enforcement training. He was hired to replace me when i left there. So what was the job of teaching what . Got into the investigation, but he was much more into physical training and defense tech decks than i ever was. He had more interest in that . He did. Growing up he got into martial arts. He was into wrestling in high school, and got into bodybuilding, martial arts, and things. He was a lot bigger than i was. The Training Center had regular hours, which was a Welcome Change for being a deputy sheriff, especially with those two boys clamoring for his attention at home. He was close to the boys but very masculine, he raised them as boys, he was tough, they wrestled a lot, and he would wrestle with them, he would bounce them off the couch, and they would come running back. A terrible thing to happen to such beautiful known family, even if the fire was all you heard about it, but now brett seacat headed to the local Law Enforcement, and he repeated to fellow Law Enforcement officers something he had said on the 911 call, that the fire was not what killed Vashti Seacat. Coming up , what did happen to vashti . She was lying on her left side like she was under the covers, asleep. Is Appraising Piece of evidence right there in the bedroom. 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If you looked at it from the front of the house, you noticed part of the roof had collapsed as you made your way around back, there was heavy fire damage to include collapse at the second and third floor, which is significant. Really the front facade anybody going by could tell there was a fire that occurred inside on the second and third floors. Expected to hear anything about a body . I will meet with the on scene investigators, the fire chief, local officers, and they had informed me that is the First Arriving officer got there he made contact with brett seacat, and he indicated his wife was inside. They also told him when the First Responders arrived that the windows in the Master Bedroom were still intact, which would have tacked down the fire inside the room where vashti was last seen. There was some chance that some evidence would still exist in there. It would not be completely incinerated by the flames. And sure enough, when monti got inside what was left of the house, he saw the body of Vashti Seacat lying on the mattress in the Master Bedroom on the second floor. She was lying on her left side, her knees were slightly drawn up. It appeared that her elbows were bent. There was still a significant amount of blanket or covering on her, like she was under the covers asleep. Also there, a weapon. The firearm was actually under her left hip, which would have been against the mattress with the barrel facing downward. It became clear the gun had been the source of a single Gunshot Wound to the side of her lower school. There were other wounds, too. Oddly enough you can hear gunshots going off during the fire in that Cell Phone Video Shot by a passerby. [ sound of gunfire ] when the hot fire exploded the remaining bullets in the gun, Firing Bullets into vashtis body. Windows didnt burn up completely. We noticed a red Plastic Container close to her back on the mattress itself. A Plastic Container for what . It was a gas can. Clearly . Yes. What did that tell you . Our job was to determine the origin of the fire and classify, whether it was accidental, whether it was incendiary, or whether someone intentionally started the fire. That would be an indicator. Suspicious, oh yes, but maybe not what you are thinking. Maybe not murder. In fact, the answer to what happened to Vashti Seacat was right there in her husbands panics call to 911. But why would the mother of two boys kill herself . That was a story only her widower, brett seacat, could tell. Coming up. She wanted to make everybody happy. Brett seacat has secrets to share. She would put on one face for her family, and she would be a different person at home. A brandnew and nobody else . Rights. Inside a relationship on the ropes. I made it perfectly clear i was going to do everything i could to make sure she didnt see those kids again. When dateline continues. 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Okay. This must be a terrible time for you. The agent was about to discover brett was not just dealing with grief, but with a heavy burden of guilt, though it took a while to get to that part of the story. When i interview people i want them to start at the beginning. It told them the story of how he met vashti in high school, how he was smitten from the first moment. She was great. She wanted to make everyone happy. She really worked on that, she really cared what people thought about her, almost to the point of neurosis, thats what i always thought. She had been paying too much attention to our job, he said, even when at home. She was dedicated to her job, and i thought that took away time from the kids. Making matters worse, was that vashti was depressed and had been for a long time, something no one else knew. He said vashti was basically two people. She had a mask for public, and one for at home. So that brett only knew about it . Right. She was always worried about how people would view her, and even as her boyfriend, as her husband, the only reason i even ever got exposed to it, because i was the guy spending nights with her. Things got so bad brett said, her depression was affecting their marriage. They started seeing a therapist. He told investigators that to help her lose weight she took a Hormonal Supplement, hcg, which has been linked to depression. That he remembered something that now came back to haunt him, he told them. One night she and vashti are watching a drama on tv during which someone omitted suicide with a firearm, and she asked him if that gun would be a good gun to do that with. He said yeah. I have got one of those, which he indicated was the 44 magnum they had, would be a better tool to do that with. You look back on it then in the interview with you as oh my gosh i told her how to kill herself. Right. But it got worse, said brett, when vashti told him she wanted to split up and served him with Divorce Papers. He told her the night she died you and i will i made it perfectly clear whether i was truthful or not that if this went to court, i was going to do everything i could so she didnt see the kids again. There was no sharing a bed anymore, and after he fell asleep on the couch downstairs he said, he said his cell phone rang. It was vashti calling from the bedroom upstairs. When i answered, she said are you awake . You need to get the boys. Brett said he jumped up but heard a loud noise. Like someone slammed the door as hard as they could. He said he heard someone Walking Around and bounded upstairs to the bedroom. There were small flames around the door. The flames were about that high off the ground. Then he said he ran into the Master Bedroom. The bed was on fire, and the floor could have been on fire. Im pretty sure it was, but i was just looking right there, and vashti was laying on her back right in the spot where she sleeps. He said he reached for vashtis right shoulder, and around her neck she sank into my arms, then all of a sudden it came to me dead, fire, kids. He ran to the boys room, scooped them up, put them in the car, then called 911. Then ran back into the house to try to get vashti me he covered his face with a Wet Dishcloth and ran up the stairs. By the time i get to the top of the stairs i cant see anything, not even my hand in front of my face. I told myself to get out. And now vashti was dead, and brett couldnt stop wondering if she was thinking about the kids as she prepared to end her life. You want me to tuck you in and say good night or say goodbye . Because she did love those kids, and i could see her go in and kiss each one of them good night. Brett explained that mommy is in heaven now, that she is with god. We talk about it every night before bed. It was as if brett seacat was in a confessional booth, full of sorrow for threatening to take away the boys, the trigger, he was sure, for her suicide. Did he seem remorseful . Yes he did, he showed remorse that he had driven her, that he had given her no other out than to take her own life. Coming up, a journal. In the front drivers seat appeared to be a note to brett and her children. A final message to her family . She said take care of each other, i took care of the house for you. None of it made sense to me. When dateline continues. Kills 99. 9 of bacteria that detergents leave behind. Clean is good, sanitized is better. Lowes knows when you need clean is good, sanitized is better. A new appliance today you want it at a great price. Shop deals on samsung bespoke refrigerators and the new samsung bespoke ai laundry combo the industrys largest capacity, fastest allinone washer and dryer. Shop lowes now for memorial day deals. Want the power of 5 serum benefits in 1 . 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