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Michigan mother of three Sharee Miller sat in the center of a complicated love triangle. She used sex, deception and the internet to pit her lover, Jerry Cassaday against her husband Bruce Miller. (OAD 2/11/22)
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Because she played these games, my son died.
He says, I was so blind and so stupid and so much in love.
So we need to add call. Tell me the number.
So like that, right?
Hi, is this Sheree?
Yes, hello?
Hey, Sheree, it's Jiju, Chen calling. How are you?
I said, how are you?
I'm on the phone with Sheree, Paulette, Kitley Miller.
She's a mom, she's a karaoke fan.
But right now, she's at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility.
In Michigan.
Sheree 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.
It was like a video game and it made an image relationship with another level.
And each level was harder.
Maybe it was to hear how much I could get away with.
How much I could make somebody believe.
Prosecutors say that Sheree's online antics left two men dead.
Sheree's attorney says she's only guilty of creating a complex online fantasy life.
Most of it was sex chat.
It would get very graphic, very detailed about going through sexual encounters over the internet.
And she would describe lesbian fantasies and it would go back and forth.
I spent hours upon hours asking why talking to people.
In fact, I wanted to be in control of everything,
because of being in control of that being.
You were an online sex addict.
Very much.
Sheree says she never told her whole story.
And now, after years in prison, she says she wants to come clean on 2020.
The first time I'm going to tell the truth about that.
And this is the first time you're admitting this.
Yeah.
You've got jail.
Sheree was born in Flint, Michigan, which is a town about one hour northwest of Detroit.
Recent years, sadly, it's considered perhaps the epicenter of the rust belt.
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 all the ancillary jobs that went with that.
You didn't worry about going to college or getting a trade degree or whatever,
because GM was so big, everybody was just about guaranteed a job here.
How do we do?
And when General Motors pulled out, things turned.
The 75,000 or so auto worker jobs were gone down to about 7,500.
Hi, I'm Michael Moore.
In my hometown of Flint, Michigan, General Motors closed the factories.
If you remember the movie Roger and me, the Michael Moore movie about all the layoffs at various
GM facilities there, that kind of sums it up for that city at that particular period.
When GM left, they tore everything down and it just miles and miles of abandoned empty land
that used to be productive factories.
As far as where Sheree was living, probably more rural, where there's several junk
guards where people go and take cars or sell parts and do that kind of thing.
Growing up where I grew up, it was like your normal middle-class neighborhood.
Every summer they sent us to Florida with my grandma,
Papa, where like, that was my safe base.
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 want to say probably three or four, and to do things like everything to be sure for,
like I felt responsible in that moment, not understanding what I was really.
She moved out early. She got married when she was 17.
By the age of about 27-28, she'd been married twice.
She had three kids. As a single mom with three children,
Sheree really had to hustle.
She worked as a representative for Mary Kay Cosmetics.
She worked in a nursing home, and she also got a job doing the books at a local scrapyard
called B&D Auto that was owned by Bruce Miller.
Bruce Miller was born and raised here in Flint, Michigan.
Did what a lot of people did, as soon as they got out of high school,
went to work for General Motors?
Always in the cars.
Yep, he actually, when he's, and I'm thinking he's first car,
because we used to have horses and stuff. He treated a horse for his first car at 16, 17 years old,
and he was always in trying to race cars, whatever he loved.
He was a huge NASCAR fan. Dale Earnhard was his favorite driver.
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.
But that shift allowed Bruce to tinker at the junkyard.
He was really close to retiring from General Motors, and he would have just had the junkyard
fall back on and do what he liked to do.
To have a salvage art with all those parts and all that stuff for him to play with was just his
his idea of heaven.
He also went through several marriages over his lifetime. He was married three times before.
He had to be married. He had to be a married guy.
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.
This is a junkyard. This is work.
So what was the spark who pursued him?
I pursued him. Why?
Bruce Bruce was not interested. I pursued him.
It was a short courtship between Sherry and Bruce, and their courtship was maybe four months.
As soon as they started dating, she moved herself in with the kids.
Perhaps the 20-year difference in age between Sherry and Bruce might have raised some eyebrows,
but this was a really solid man. It was a great family guy. He was a great husband.
He treated her kids as his own. He was an all-around great guy.
I 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, you know, are you going to marry this one? That was the first thing I said.
He told me, no, well, it wasn't surely up to that. They went to Vegas.
They went to Vegas. And we all at home thought they were going to get married then.
Sure enough, Bruce and Sherry alope at a Las Vegas wedding chapel.
There's a beautiful picture of Sherry sort of looking into a mirror there.
It 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.
That wedding photo was taken in Las Vegas on April 23rd, 1999. By the end of the year,
Bruce would be dead. We opened the door and locked her on the counter.
Sherry Miller's life was very difficult. She says she was abused sexually as a child.
And to add to that pain, one of her own children became a victim of abuse.
Today on Montel, please welcome Sherry from the show.
Three months before she married Bruce, Sherry appeared on the Montel Williams show
and shared how her ex-husband had physically abused their infant son.
If you were a person who had a grievance and wanted to have a national audience listen to your concerns, you'd get to the Montel Williams show.
How much time did the husband give him?
Well, four and a half months. It worked really.
Why did you appear on Montel Williams?
Trying to change the laws of Michigan, the state of Michigan gave him visitation rights.
It made me show up with him so he could see his son.
When she was on the Montel Williams show, I think that started her craving for more attention.
She was expecting people to be really supporting her, but she never really got the recognition that she wanted.
Compared to some of Sherry's previous lovers, her new husband, Bruce, was a gem.
He offered her stability. And as a mother with three kids that she needed to raise, that was attractive, but it wasn't enough.
It didn't take long before she started taking advantage of all of the stability brought to her.
She started spending a lot of Bruce's money, including plenty on clothes and toys for her children.
Do you get everything you want?
Or then you're spoilt, right, Brad?
She's racking up his credit card, very short period of time.
She racks up at over $46,000 in a credit card debt.
And 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 her without Bruce, no one, about money.
I was on a spending spree. I ran up Bruce's charge cards and took all the money in the house.
It was like a continuous voice that I was trying to fill.
Despite her new marriage, it seems that Sherry still craved the attention of men.
And she finds this brand new landscape to start searching for new connections.
It's called AOL and she is busy online a lot.
The internet at that point was very new.
AOL was the giant at that time and people were just getting their home computers
and learning how to navigate their way through the worldwide web.
AOL came about, chat rooms started coming on.
She started using that and opened up a whole new world tour of talking to different people.
It was so big. Everyone was so intrigued by this whole platform
that a Hollywood movie was made called You Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
I turn on my computer.
I go online.
Welcome.
And my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words.
Today the nation's largest online service is going to get even bigger.
America Online with nine million subscribers will add two and a half million more from CompuServe.
In America Online, the colossus subsiders base.
Everybody logged in to AOL and at that point it was the only one in the industry.
America Online so easy to use, so easy to get started.
With email, instant messages and a buddy list, it's the easiest way to keep in touch.
You got the AOL, you signed up and could always get a free AOL account.
I still have an AOL account.
You've got mail.
More and more people are going into internet chat rooms looking for romance and finding it.
It's the new social avenue I think of the 90s.
AOL at that time had these chat rooms where there would be a whole bunch of people talking about
just about everything.
Her screen names were all pretty sexy.
She had a lot of screen names.
There were over a dozen of them and they were all like, look at me, I'm sexy.
Like sexy kidn for you, just looking at her screen names suggests that she was sexually active.
She seemed to have a very high opinion of herself.
How much time were you spending online?
I didn't get off from and from that computer.
Bruce worked at the shop and he had his business so he was gone a lot.
So I spent hours upon hours on why he's talking to people.
While Sharri is perusing the internet, one particular screen name catches her eye.
That's JLC 1006. The man's name is Jerry Cassaday and it turns out he's a pit boss at
a Reno, Nevada casino. Hi, baby.
It seems all this online flirting was heating up the keyboards because it didn't take long
for this to turn into an actual physical romance.
Three months after she and Bruce got married.
She's on her way out to Reno to meet Jerry Cassaday.
She got all dressed up and went to the casino to meet Jerry.
What attracted you to Jerry?
It was the dangerous life.
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The ink is barely dry on the marriage license between Sheree and Bruce before she's
already developing an online relationship with Jerry Cassidy, who she's never met.
Jerry Cassidy grew up in the Kansas City area, Missouri.
He was the youngest of the four boys. He was competitive. He thought he could do anything
that his big brothers could do. A lot of good memories. Every year would go deer hunting.
He had a special tree that he'll love to hunt out of and nobody could get close to that area.
That was Jerry's area. At a young age, he actually became a police officer and it was very short
time. He was promoted to Lieutenant. Jerry would meet his wife, a woman named Barbara,
who worked as a dispatcher at his department. She had two sons from a previous marriage and then
they had their own child together, a son named James. I was proud of my father. I remember
helping him get dressed in the mornings and watching him get his uniform on and
just a whole different person when he put on that uniform.
He was enamored by the sheriff and the undersheriff, but he started to see a lot of discrepancies.
Came to find out that there was some corruption going on. He believed the undersheriff had taken
and falsified a document in a murder case. They brought in a special prosecutor.
As a result of the investigation, County Sheriff was removed from office.
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. He was never the same after that.
It spills over in every area of life. Your purpose, your recognition is taken away.
After he left the department, he got a job as security, but Harris, Casino,
which was just opening in Kansas City. He continued to struggle. He really had a hard time
grappling with the events of his life and he ultimately decided just to get that heck out of
Kansas City. They transferred him, Harris did. They had a position open up in Reno and he thought
maybe a change of pace would be a good idea. So Reno is a tourist town. It's also a gambling
town, but it is not nearly as crazy as Vegas. Jerry was looking forward to having a fresh start
and right away, he was promoted to a dealer. We worked at Harris' property in downtown Reno
and we're both dealers. 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. graveyard. I remember meeting him and someone goes,
oh, you know, this is Jerry, he's going to be on your shift and it was like, oh yeah, we'll have some fun.
It was Gloria Taylor and Carol Slaughter and they kind of were like the big sisters he never had.
They tried to guide them through life, tried to help them. My own personal feeling was that he
was just kind of going through a midlife crisis, you know, trying to start over, but it just
wasn't working out. 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.
In Nevada, drinking and gambling is entertainment. It's not ZB. It's right out in front of the open
for everybody to see. He started drinking way too much. Yeah, and he just spiraled.
Mom was having a hard time trying to find a job out there when he was getting tight.
Let fights, let arguments. She moved back to Kansas City. I stayed out with him.
At some point in time during that, I guess he was meeting and conversing with women and stuff online.
Jerry, of course, is newly single and he's looking for love. He goes on to AOL and almost
immediately finds the sexy Sheree Miller and boy, does it get hot and heavy in the chat room pretty
quickly? I'm all yours to do with me, whatever you feel fit.
The amount of instant messaging and emails back and forth is enormous. Talking about everything
under the sun. He's going through a divorce, he's drinking a lot, he's depressed, and he's having
financial problems. Sheree comes along, she's paying attention to him, giving him that ego
boast 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,
that are going to give her riches. Jerry, who has money trouble, sees somebody with money
taking an interest in him, and of course he responds to that. 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. Right after Bruce and I got married is when I met Jerry
for the first time when I went to Reno with my friend Laura. What attracted you to Jerry?
For me, like back then, it was like family at home and then the dangerous side, so like,
you were looking for danger. Right.
The weekend that she came into town, we all knew that she was coming in, and he was so excited,
and as soon as she hit the floor, he was taking her around and introducing her to Gloria and I.
She got all dressed up, put her best foot forward.
I went to the table where he was dealing and played blackjack, and we kind of played like we
didn't really know each other at all, and I know I was drinking a lot that might, it felt like
dangerous and a little scared, but excited by it. Not only does she meet him, but she sleeps with them.
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's, is our first night together.
Sheree returns home to Michigan to be with Bruce and the kids, but every opportunity she gets,
Sheree is back online trying to keep that fire burning between her and Jerry.
Sheree Miller starts sending pictures of her in different states of under us.
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.
Most of the online chats between Sheree and Jerry consisted of sex talk.
You are by far the sexiest woman I've ever known. But shortly after she actually met Jerry,
she announces to him online that she's pregnant with his child.
Jerry is ecstatic about the pregnancy, but the news quickly sour.
So Sheree tells Jerry that Bruce found out she was pregnant.
I never thought I would ever tell you that he hits. I got in trouble because I was with you.
Sheree Miller is a newlywed with three kids. This should have been her honeymoon period.
But she's making multiple trips to Reno, leaving her kids with her in-laws,
Chuck and Judy Miller.
Sheree having an affair with Jerry, but she tells him that she's pregnant with his child.
He was ecstatic overjoyed. They were making plans to get together, live together.
She sent me a long email how madly and loved she was with Jerry and how she wanted to make a
home with him and all of the plans that they had going down. Sheree even sends Jerry a video called
My Family 1999.
Now in this video, Jerry is watching images of her children playing,
frolicing, having fun, this beautiful domestic setting. And she's trying to show Jerry that
this is what your life can be like if we are together and we raise our baby with my children.
He's all excited. He's related. The woman he loves, he's going to have a baby with,
they're going to be rich. They're going to live in these nice houses.
But Jerry's sense of joy and delation takes a daunting turn one day when he finds some really
shocking emails in his inbox. Jerry begins getting emails purportedly from Bruce Miller under his
beauty junk email address from the business saying that he knows about Jerry and Jerry and their
relationship. So Sheree tells Jerry that Bruce found out that she was pregnant and that he
beat her and that caused her to lose the baby. She sends him a picture of her torso with alleged
bruises all over her body. There was a lot of bruises you would have to beat her a lot.
So Sheree is now telling Jerry that her husband beat her so badly that she miscarried.
And in Jerry's mind, his baby is gone and he's helpless to do anything about it.
When you broke the news that that baby was gone, what did you say?
I think I wrote him on a chat. I didn't tell him on the phone. He was devastated.
Devastated. Devastated. Devastation. Absolute. Devastation. I mean, he was like,
one minute he's the highest high and the next it's like, what happened, you know, and you
you almost feel like you're scraping him off the floor. He tells Sheree that she needs to leave
her husband get away. Just leave Bruce, come live with me, bring the kids, we'll have happily
ever after. Well, she said that Bruce was involved with the mafia and would beat her.
Well, we know it's not true because that wasn't Bruce. He's never been 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? We knew that wasn't Bruce. Sheree was hot and cold. Someday she loves
him. Someday she doesn't. Sometimes she wants to come to Reno. Sometimes she doesn't.
He'll find us. He'll put a bullet in our head. I can't leave him. But on the same token,
I want to be with you. Despite the potential alleged danger from Bruce, Sheree keeps making
trips to Reno. And when she's there with Jerry, he is ecstatic. But when she goes back home to Bruce
and Michigan, he falls into deep depression. All of 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
heated discussion. He gets belligerent. And finally, they call security to us to remodel the casino.
On the way out, he slams the door, which hits one of these security people, which causes the
police to come and arrest him. God help him score that day. He wasn't there, which was strange.
I got online trying to figure out if anybody knew where he was. 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? I'm like, the first phone call I called into 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. I helped him move back to Missouri, moved in to
a basement apartment and stuff with my cousin. He's got to work on his alcohol addiction problems.
And so he begins going to AA. He was telling me 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 Sheree.
He carried that laptop everywhere he went. The first thing he would do was connect with the
laptop and get back on the instant messages. It was a constant, constant deal and stuff.
I could tell he was in love. That's what he wanted to spend his time doing. It's basically
talking with Sheree. Jerry begins to receive word of a new pregnancies and in fact it's twins.
Twins. This is huge news. And of course Jerry is over the moon, especially because it happened
so shortly after Sheree reported she miscarried. She was sending photos of the sonogram and her
belly and you know Jerry was just tickled to death to see and you know here's here's my kids
and he was ecstatic. Once again Bruce storms into this relationship with brutal emails.
Jerry opens his computer expecting to hear from Sheree and he sees an email from B.D. Junk
telling him that Sheree is going to rid of the two bastards in her belly that he had created.
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.
We were good friends. Man Bruce got along great.
If I want to work for them, don't solve it Jerry.
Framework, paintwork, mechanic work. Do you name it? I did it. He'd give you the shirt off his back.
That's just simple if it gets. But Bruce Miller's wife Sheree is now deep into an affair.
She tells her lover Jerry Cassidy that he got her pregnant and Jerry is ecstatic at the prospect
of being a dad again. Then Sheree informs him that Bruce's violence terminated those pregnancies.
And that terrible news will set off a series of tragic events.
So Bruce Miller is just at work a regular day for him. He's getting ready to go home,
have dinner with his family. I had told Bruce that I had ordered pizza and gave him a specific
time and they said it would be done. And it's getting later and later and Bruce is enjoying
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. Well she was all freaked out.
He should have been home and so it was like oh my god, you know where is he? He says well I'll jump
into the truck and go up to the junkyard and you know see if it's around there.
When we opened the door he walked around the corner and he was laying on the floor and I blew a
blood. So I told her to call 911.
It's easy. He ended up laying face stone. There's just a big pool of blood on the ground like
he hid his head. Okay, you need to find out if he's breathing.
They had my hand on him but my head on him was cold.
He's cold. He's cold. He's cold. He's stiff. Yeah.
They asked if we wanted to do CPR. He said there's no cold. No nothing.
It doesn't look like he saw the chair busted his head open.
No, it looks like something. I don't know. He's okay. He's sad.
The murder weapon was a shotgun. Bruce sort of took a blast right to the upper chest and neck.
There was absolutely no evidence at all. No fingerprints, no footprints, no tracks, nothing.
So about two o'clock in the morning I went to Sheree's house and informed her of what was going on.
And she is desolate. She is wailing on the floor 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.
We're looking at you know how they should respond with these circumstances.
But she seemed very appropriate. She's visibly upset, crying.
After the first contact with her, I didn't suspect her.
And he started asking me questions about who I thought it could be.
Sheree had mentioned that Bruce had problems with a job and named John Hutchinson.
I remember like me saying that John owed Bruce money,
what he did and that they had been arguing about it.
He had borrowed a large sum of money which ended up being $2,000.
I guess at that point you want to say he was our number one suspect.
On the funeral John Hutchinson shows up with his wife to pay his respects to his friend Bruce.
Sheree started screaming and crying because she thought for sure that John had did it.
Mommy, mommy, daddy, daddy, get him out of here. He's the one who murdered my husband.
So I went and asked John to leave. So she would quit.
Because I'm not welcome here after what's been done until this is cleared up.
Exact words.
Not was a sickening feeling.
Good morning, Harold.
It's scary.
One of the big things that really helped us focus on John was his brother, Harold.
We begin talking to Harold.
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.
What did he mean by disposed of?
I mean that he was gone.
He gone means what?
Yes.
Not only that, Harold told police that he actually heard his brother threatening Bruce
about that money he owed him.
Because he said he was going to kill him because of the money that they owned him and you thought he was serious.
Yep.
I have no earthly idea where that comment came from.
But yeah, did Harold say it?
Yeah, because Harold's not all there.
So now we got more reasons to go talk to John.
There was 50 police cars at my house surrounding me like I was a freaking criminal.
And I had no idea in hell what was going on.
Confiscating guns.
Nobody could leave the house.
It was a joke.
They turned that place upside down.
Every little dust ball was moved.
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 say, hey, he's lying.
They ask you the same question a hundred times and answer was the same a hundred times.
No, I didn't have nothing to do with it.
Police confront John Hutchinson with their suspicion that he might be involved in a scheme
to overcharge customers at Bruce's lot.
Because Bruce was mad because they shot at us.
They're looking for wrong person.
But I don't think so.
I've never thought before my way around now.
John denies any involvement in the scheme.
But for the police, at this point, he's still pretty much suspect number one in Bruce's murder.
And the rope is tightening around his neck.
So it looked bad for me, I guarantee it.
And then a polygraph test definitely doesn't help his case.
He looked at the polygraph machine and says, oh, I'm f***ing.
But then detectives learn about a seemingly unrelated, violent death,
hundreds of miles away that will add the strangest twist to this case that nobody saw coming.
He had sex, he had murdering, he had had the internet.
You've got mail.
It was done with the first internet murder.
And how did you feel once you've knew that your husband was dead?
They found each other in an AOL chat.
Shreee comes along.
She's paying attention to him giving him that ego post that he needed.
He saw himself as a white knight because she was a damsel in distress.
And they could never be happy until Bruce was dead.
He was laying on the floor and on blue blood.
And he would not be the only one.
Shreee had told his brother that if anything happened,
there was a briefcase send to the bed, get a hold of it before anybody else did.
There was a bombshell inside that briefcase.
This can't be happening.
That's a special kind of evil.
How do you understand somebody who kills as part of a game?
I just wanted to do one right piece before I leave this world.
You've got mail.
Now I'm in one call from B&D Auto Parts reporting a possible DOA.
They find Bruce.
Murdered.
Any type of these investigations when they're who done it,
and that's what this was, a who done it.
We had no idea who done it.
They wanted John Hutchison for the murder.
That's the early suspect they had.
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?
Police give John a polygraph test,
and the results are inconclusive.
But they tell him he failed just to see what his reaction was.
I believe at that time is when he looked at the
polygraph machine and says, oh, I'm ****.
And then he took the test again and he failed.
I think you have a lot more knowledge than you're giving me.
I wish I did.
These denials are very weak,
and he's giving us deceptive answers with his body language.
Cucin, when you have some accused of murder,
they're pretty adamant about what,
what are you talking about?
What, why do you think I had anything to do with it?
I think you are either directly
involved or don't.
A lot more you wouldn't give up.
Investigations are very grueling for people
because we have to use different tactics
to elicit the truth.
You did it.
You know you did it,
which is hard to hear it when you're in that box.
It turns out that John Hutchinson had once had a brief affair with Cherie.
Could that have caused more tension?
He'd actually slept with her,
I think before her and Bruce got together.
Tell me about your affair with Cherie,
no, I always slept together a couple times
with him and my wife split up.
Later on when Bruce started dating Cherie,
John was quick to offer some advice.
I thought it 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.
Now, investigators have been keeping the pressure on Hutchinson for months,
but they just can't make a case.
We didn't have any higher evidence against him,
nothing that actually said you're the guy
and we're going to get a warrant for you.
The weapon that we had taken from his house was a 16-gauge.
We had learned from the crime lab
that the shotgun that was used was a 20-gauge.
Cherie was upset about the lack of progress
and stormed into the JNC County Sheriff's Department,
demanding to find out what's going on here,
what are you guys doing to sell my husband's murder?
At this point, the murder investigation has come to a halt
until something incredible happens 800 miles away
that changes everything.
It involves that former homicide detective,
Jerry Cassidy, who'd been in a hot and heavy affair
with Bruce's wife, Cherie Miller,
but now she's giving him the cold shoulder.
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.
Jerry sat down in a big, easy chair overlooking the lake.
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 Cherie Miller.
There was a wedding ring on the windowsill
and his divorce decree on a nearby table.
And a Bible in his lab.
He opens it to Matthew 5, which says,
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.
And he took his own life.
It's an extreme shock.
I knew he had issues in this or I never thought he would do this.
You're not supposed to bury your children, but we were.
Mike got the duty to clean Jerry's stuff out of the apartment.
I spent some time just downstairs trying to grasp what would go on.
He had told his brother that if anything happened to him, there was a briefcase
sent to the bed to get a hold of it before anybody else did.
So I went into the bedroom and looked down to the bed and I found a black briefcase.
It's got three letters attached to it and I do not open this alone.
Mike do not open contact, John O'Connor.
The attorney, John O'Connor, just knows of Jerry professionally.
Didn't know if maybe he had pissed him off professionally.
They were like, well, this could be booby trapped.
Maybe the case is rigged.
Maybe it's a bomb inside.
So they have the bomb squad examined the briefcase.
He made his peace, but he left a mess for the rest of us.
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The end of the affair was Sheree Miller drove Jerry Cassidy to suicide.
He left that mysterious briefcase.
Not knowing Jerry's state of mind at the time,
they were going to x-ray it to make sure everything was safe there.
So they had the bomb squad actually opened the briefcase.
Of course, there was no bomb.
Now the family is gathered in the attorney's office,
and we'll find out what's inside.
First, they read the suicide note.
He wrote to his mother that he had taped on the outside.
Jerry writes that he finally realized that Sheree had been lying to him about her husband, Bruce.
Well, she said that Bruce was involved with the mafia, was in the muddy laundering.
He'd already killed three babies and he would kill her.
He saw himself as a white knight, as she was a damsel in distress.
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 the time.
And then he said, I found out it was all lies, every bit of it.
All for Sheree and she never really loved me, it was all a game.
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.
My god, this was almost worse than Jerry dying to find out why he died.
And what it was all about.
Before it was justifiable homicide in his mind,
now it was first degree murder.
He judged himself, found himself guilty and executed himself.
That was his way of trying to make the man's as best he could.
Now it's time to finally open that briefcase.
We forced the briefcase open and there were just pages among pages of information and stuff there.
Records of airline flights, hotel rooms, emails and chat messages between Jerry and Sheree
that seemed to implicate her in her husband's murder.
John O'Connor says we can lock this briefcase up, you can take it and throw it in a river,
nobody ever knows. Or we can turn it over to the Genesee County Sheriff's Department.
And the family had a hard decision to make. They're going to ruin their son's reputation forever,
calling him a murderer or they can just shut the briefcase and go out 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.
John O'Connor contacts authorities in Michigan and says I have some information you're
going to want to look at. I got a briefcase here that indicates a Sheree 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.
He was jumping around saying she did it, she did it.
The detectives hop on a plane to Missouri to bring that briefcase home.
It was a treasure trove of evidence. It was a treasure trove of explanations they didn't have.
I think the most damning thing there is the instant message where they plotted the murder.
A very intricate plan where they were going to meet at a rest area and Sheree was going to give
him her cell phone. Where to park at the junkyard? When you go inside, don't ask him any questions,
don't say anything, just kill him. Great detail. I'm talking lined 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. Clearly investigators need to speak to Sheree Miller,
but at the time she's not in Flint, Michigan. Where is she?
Well, she's in Reno, Nevada, partying it up with her 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? I mean,
anything. The Sheree's department, they were waiting for them at the Flint airport,
took her back to the department and Sheree was pretty sure she was still in good shape.
Do you know Jerry Kesley? Yes, I do. Did you develop a relationship with him? No. That's
like it all. That's what I had said. You never had physical relationship with Jerry Kesley.
She had erased everything on her computer, but unbeknownst to her,
Jerry had not erased everything on his. What would I tell you if I told you that Jerry
was suing his emails and used the messages that you had had? I would tell you that you can change
them and you know that and everybody knows that. I can change any email that somebody sends me.
Did you realize that they had you? I still thought that there's no way they're going to
not believe me. If you say it, it's reality. Isn't it true that you don't plan for
Sheree? Because not. No. She continued the lie, which is she had nothing to do with it.
I have an email that leaves me out right here in front of me about how you and Jerry Kesley
planned his murder. That's fine. Why would Jerry even think about changing? I don't have a clue.
But maybe because he was mad because I wouldn't have nothing to do with him. I don't know.
They're fake. That's my response. Stick with that theme until proven otherwise.
I did not write that stuff. I don't know.
I changed that stuff, but I did not write that stuff first. No, I didn't.
Sure. No, I shouldn't. She's not in the line.
Because you guys are dead as well.
They were able to surprise her, which is a great interrogation technique.
Catch them in their lives. And at some point, Captain Compody said it was time to arrest her.
They said you're under arrest for the murder of your husband. I got hysterical.
Miller was arrested Friday, charged with the murder of her husband.
She planned and helped to carry out that murder.
But despite all those damning instant messages and emails,
this is still a tough case to bring to trial. It's essentially circumstantial evidence.
Sherry Miller, someone who is an experienced actress.
She's duped a police officer. There's a concern that 12 jurors might very well believe her story.
She used manipulation to get everything from a free lunch to someone to commit murder for.
She was arrested for the murder of her husband.
Prosecutors say that Sherry and her lover, Jerry, plotted over the internet to kill Bruce.
You've got mail. It was the evil via steamy sex charge internet romance.
It was eye-opening to me about the power of the internet.
It was on everybody was talking about. You had the glare of a national audience watching.
In what is being dubbed the nation's first internet-related murder?
This case is about Sherry Miller manipulating and using her lover to kill her husband, Bruce Miller.
And Sherry, they dressed her very conservatively and modestly.
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 doubly, as possible.
All the castaways were there and of course Bruce's family was there.
We really didn't blame Jerry. I mean, even though he was the one that pulled the trigger,
we hugged and shed a couple of tears because we had both lost a son because of Sherry.
Her lover, Jerry Cassidy, used a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Bruce Miller.
Mercy Maybury was amazing as a prosecutor. She used a computer and his emotions to get him to do it.
There may not be a bloody trail of evidence, but there's an electronic trail.
And this is something new in the prosecutor's arsenal.
The really only truth in the whole emails was that she was married and she was a female.
The jury needed to see, while she may not have pulled that trigger, she was the mastermind.
They bring in deputies to begin reading passages back and forth.
It made it easier for people to understand what was being said.
They just read the words, but still it rang in here.
That exchange was a dramatic part of the court TV coverage.
I want to make mad passionate love to you always. I am trying to leave. I will when I can.
Honey, I hate that man. He will pay. No one is going to get away with the things he has done to you.
Why did you want to have Bruce killed?
If you got together, you got married and you decided,
okay, this isn't really what I want after all.
Walk away.
It seems that the only plausible motive is money, but she got tens of thousands of dollars.
It wasn't a gold mine.
I felt a little bit off balance because I couldn't understand why did she have to kill him?
Why didn't she leave him?
And it's our position, then.
You know that the defense is going to bring that up.
There's absolutely no motive for her at all to kill her husband.
David Nicola is a great trial attorney.
He is flamboyant and he's just this big hair and his big voice.
This former police officer, he's no pawn, he's no sucker, he's no whimper.
This was his moment and he was defending this innocent 28-year-old.
Wife, widow, mother.
He was not manipulated at all.
He was the one manipulating.
There's also the claim by the defense that Jerry is a jilted lover.
And what happened is he became bitter and hostile and vengeful towards her.
And you know, he made the saw up because he was pissed off that he was duped and dumped.
And that he framed her out of bitterness.
When she rebuffed his advances, that he went after and then killed himself.
We have a killer, ladies and gentlemen, in this case.
So the defense's theory is essentially that the real suspect is Bruce's former employee who owed
him money and didn't want to pay it back.
The real killer is ladies and gentlemen is John Hutchinson.
So the defense puts John's brother herald on the stand.
Good morning, Harold.
And he repeats claims that he made to police during the investigation
that John told him he did it.
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.
I made several phone calls trying to find him to see if he dropped off a car someplace.
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 those emails that I think that she felt
she had a testify to try to explain some over the way.
She read myths on the stand that she wrote most of these exchanges.
But she also wanted the jury to understand that in her mind,
this was a fantasy world.
You can make up whatever you want.
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 went wanting anything to do with me.
And it didn't work.
I wanted to just jump in and say,
you're lying.
It's not true.
It turns out that Shere Miller lied about those pregnancies that brought so much joy to Jerry.
Jerry believed that he had impregnated Shere Miller.
And he believed that Bruce Miller had killed those children.
She claimed that the reason why she told Jerry that she was pregnant was because he was depressed.
That is so twisted.
It was really sad when you learned in court that she had her tubes tied and it wasn't even remotely
a possibility.
The defense claimed that those instant messages at the heart of the prosecution's case
her step-by-step plan on how Jerry should murder her husband Bruce.
They claimed those were phony too.
She 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.
So, David Nicola brought out an expert witness saying that emails can be easily faked.
But when pressed by the prosecutor about these specific exchanges,
he says there's no indication that they were made up.
Which kind of blew all that out of the water.
What you have is a cold, calculated, premeditated murder by Shere Miller.
I'm the day of the verdict.
I saw her all dressed up and made up and all that stuff.
I'm thinking she thinks she's getting out of here.
We not only get a verdict, we get yet another unexpected turn in the case.
I was just like, this can't be happening.
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The jury finds the defendant guilty is charged to conspiracy to commit first-degree
premeditated murder.
She just stood there.
No expression at all.
Guilty of second-degree murder as an hater and a murder.
You can't believe the feeling of relief when they read the verdict guilty.
And then it was like, you could actually breathe.
You were shocked.
Yeah, like it's over.
Like people really know what I am, what I did, I'm going for this.
She had been there for six, seven, eight, nine years.
And then in step to federal judge.
Sheree Miller is free to post bond, which would release her from prison.
You're granted an automatic appeal on the state of Michigan.
The judge determined that the suicide note shouldn't have come in.
And so she was to be retried.
A tearful and emotional Sheree Miller walks quietly out of the Genesee County Jail with her
legal team at her side.
I was just like, what, this can't be happening.
She knew where we live, but we didn't have any idea where she was.
Even her own family, they were kind of scared of Sheree being out of prison.
They didn't know what she was capable of.
What was that like to be free again?
I tried to live. I tried to make the best so much.
She had a chance to know her, her daughter, her grandchild,
and realize what she had done to Jerry's family.
It pissed everybody off quite a bit, but in fact was, you know, this woman's not worth our time
to think about. But you're still holding on to those lies.
There was so many layers that would like tell us, I'm slowly those skills were starting to fall off.
Clearly there was something wrong with that decision, and eventually it was litigated.
Prosecutors fought long and hard to get that conviction reinstated.
After three years, they did.
A court ruled that the suicide note was, in fact, admissible.
So there will be no new trial for Sheree, and she's ordered back to prison.
That day, when I had to walk through the door,
and when the full impact of everything that I did, everybody just hit me really hard that day.
Sheree told me that saying goodbye to her daughter and granddaughter really changed her.
But it would take another three-plus years before the biggest change happened.
When she sent a letter to the judge and prosecutor for the first time, finally admitting what she'd done.
Now that was truly astounding. To open up my mail one day and get a letter from Sheree Miller
professing her guilt. She said we got a couple things wrong, but for the most part we got
everything right and that she was no longer going to file her next appeal.
This is a copy of the letter. It's four pages long, typewritten, and it reads in part.
I don't want Bruce's or Jerry's family to have to suffer anymore. They have waited 16 years to hear
me say, I am guilty. I did it.
The fact that she confessed was a big deal because she had maintained her innocence.
It made me wonder why now. Why do you think it took you so many years to fess up?
Well, it was so much easier lying about it to myself. It's so much easier to look at yourself
when you don't have to look at yourself with the truth.
She even says it right in her letter. I know I'm not going to get parole out of this.
I don't know what her reason to guess.
I did it because it was the right thing to do. I never thought the right thing.
I just wanted to do one right thing before I leave this world.
And so you take responsibility?
I absolutely do. Not just for Bruce, but for Jerry's death as well.
At that moment, maybe for the first time ever, I had some amount of sympathy for Sheree O. Miller.
I like to think that finally she realized what she had done.
Everything she does, there's a scheme behind it, there's a plot behind it.
Who does it really benefit? Benefits Sheree Miller.
She wants everyone to believe that I'm finally being honest. She's not really honest.
Whether people believe what Sheree wrote in that letter or not,
in our interview, she goes much further.
She goes into great detail exactly how she says the murder happened.
When we had been talking about it for a while,
was it days or weeks or months, do you think?
Probably weeks.
On the day of the murder, Jerry Cassidy follows Sheree's instructions.
He drives the Michigan.
And he meets with Sheree so that she can give him a cell phone to use.
It was almost like a movie that we were just playing again.
But after I met him at the truck stop, I knew this was going to happen.
And what was the plan moving forward?
I was supposed to cause to make sure that Bruce was alone.
I will send you a signal by calling that cell phone.
And that means he's alone. Go do it.
So that was the signal for Jerry.
Was you called, rang once, and hung up?
Yes.
And while I was on the phone with Bruce,
this one, Bruce said that somebody was pulling up.
And that's when I knew that Jerry was there.
Jerry walks in and shoots Bruce.
He had planned on saying, hi, I'm Jerry,
so that the supposed abusive mafia criminal
would know exactly who was killing him.
So you weren't on the phone with Bruce when the gun was fired?
No, but within that, I mean, it had to be a minute.
Jerry had actually told me that she was on the phone with him at the time he did it.
Because she wanted to hear it done.
That's a special kind of evil.
And so how did you learn that the deed was done?
Afterwards, he called my landline and let it ring once and hung up.
That was his signal to tell me he was on his way back to Kansas City.
And how did you feel once you knew that your husband was dead?
I think it was shocked. Even though I knew it was happening,
it was still a shock.
You're like, this really happened. I really did this.
Part of the plan was somebody had to discover the body.
And she called his brother to go look for him.
She sent me right up there to go find you just what she did.
The hurt that she inflicts on people is remarkable.
As if knowing that Bruce has been murdered is not bad enough.
If we are to believe Shari, then we understand the how.
But what will come next is a shock to everyone, her answer to the question of why.
Why did you want him dead?
It took a long time for me to try to put this into words.
Oh, good, good, good, good, good, good, I made bad.
I still have a really hard time looking at the mirror, knowing what I did.
And yet 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, you know.
Shari Miller told me she wanted to come clean about everything.
For example, she admitted for the very first time that she started contacting
Jerry Cassidy online even before she married Bruce.
She also reveals that she used sex as a weapon against men.
That's how I got what I wanted. It wasn't just Bruce or Jerry, it was any man.
It was what you could see, you could get a man to do.
It was like a video game and each man and each relationship was another level.
Shari's manipulation of Jerry started with sex and moved on to more involved lives.
All of it ultimately enough to convince a former homicide detective to commit murder.
How did Jerry react when you told him that you were pregnant with his baby?
He wanted another baby so bad, he was really happy about that.
You had had your tubes tied earlier. How were you able to fake the belly bump?
I just pushed my belly out. Jerry wanted to believe it, told bad that I believed that he
seemed the pregnancy even though it wasn't there.
When you broke the news that that baby was gone, what did you say?
I wrote him on a chat. He was devastated.
Devastated. Devastated.
And you told him not just that you'd lost the babies but that Bruce had beaten you to the point
of losing those babies. I did. I did.
And so Jerry saw red. Very, very much so.
I mean, you were a Mary K. Cosmetics consultant. Was that makeup on your belly?
Yes, it was. I remember being in the mirror and just trying to make it be more real,
trying to create more reality. She manipulated him into thinking that Bruce was a terrible,
horrible person and that the world would have been a better place without him.
She definitely took advantage of Jerry Cassidy. There's no doubt in setting him right up.
Come up here and shoot my brother. Why did you have to do that?
I'm ruined people's lives the way you did.
For what reason? What did you have to gain?
I wasn't sure she was going to answer that question. But when she did,
what she said really surprised me.
If I could just say it was so I could get money,
it wouldn't sound as bad as what it really was. Bruce
was so close to 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, it was a game thing.
How do you understand somebody who kills as part of a game?
It's hard to wrap your head around.
In her effort to, as she claims, be open and honest,
Sheree went on to say that after the murder, she not only knew that Jerry was suicidal,
she knew he wanted to confess.
Because he had been suicidal before I think that people just didn't believe,
but I believed him. He told me about the briefcase.
He told you he had a briefcase full of evidence against you.
Yeah, but I felt like I could talk my way out of anything.
And so when the trial was approaching, did you feel like you were going to be found not guilty?
Yeah, I still in my head felt like there's no way they're not going to believe me.
Sheree said she felt so confident about her case that she rejected a plea offer during the trial.
You could have saved yourself if you had simply told the truth.
Yes, I could have, and I waited to tell the truth.
And till I get nothing from it, but hopefully, hopefully, I'm the key.
I've heard you say that you deserve to be in prison for the rest of your life.
I do. I don't feel that I deserve to live life.
I'd be happy with they don't. They don't got that to you.
What we didn't expect in our conversation was that Sheree was going to share that she had written
apologies to the victim's families. Would it be okay if I read them?
Sure. For the very first time, the victim's families are about to hear from Sheree.
I would kind of like to hear what she had to say.
So when you're ready to just kind of push play and you guys can miss it.
There's no way how will they react?
There's no way for me to change or undo what I did.
I have eternally hurt you, and I am so sorry for that.
Sheree Miller read what she called letters, apologizing to the people she hurt.
So when you're ready to just kind of push play.
And when we interviewed some of those victims' families, we asked if they wanted to hear the recording.
My eighth, Jerry brother. Jerry would have never heard anyone. He didn't murder Bruce. I did.
I am so sorry for lying to and lying on Jerry. He just wanted to protect him of me.
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.
Through it all, you showed an unbelievable amount of grace towards my family. For that, I thank you very much.
My response to that letter, I just hope she rots in hell. That's where she belongs.
It's difficult to believe anything that the woman has to say. I don't know if I could ever forgive her.
I want to say that I could forgive her, but I can't. I can't.
Some things are not forgivable, and she is not forgivable.
I forgive her. I'm still Mike your skin and crawl, knowing that there's people out there that can do these kind of things.
For all the ugly devastation in this case, I hope she comes out of it understanding what she did.
And with a genuine attitude of making amends.
One last question from me, which is, how would you describe your relationship with your children and grandchildren today?
Amazing? Like, I can't believe how much I've put them through, and they love me. They still call me mom.
I cherish every one of those moments.
And Bruce and Jerry don't get those. They don't.
Jerry was a good guy all the way around. He loved to have fun, loved spending time with his family
at the lake. That was Jerry. He never knew when he died that he was going to be a grandfather.
And he would have made a wonderful grandfather. He never got to know any of that.
It was just such a waste. 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.
Bruce was a hell of a guy. I'll never be replaced. I love him.
And despite Jerry Miller's admission and apology, the only way she could get out of prison
is if the Michigan governor actually grants her clemency.
And our experts say there is virtually no way that will happen.
From all of us here at ABC News in 2020. Good night.
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