I thought my daughter was making coffee out of love for her father, who knew she was poisoning him

My name is Helen Mitchell. I'm 73 years old, and three months after burying my husband of 46 years, I received a phone call that shattered my world.
"Mrs. Mitchell, this is Detective Brennan from homicide. We need you to come to the station immediately. It's about your husband's death."
Thomas died peacefully in his sleep. A heart attack, they said. Natural causes. We mourned him, buried him, and I was learning to live alone. But that phone call changed everything.
"Your husband was murdered, Mrs. Mitchell. Poisoned with digoxin. And we know who did it."
When they told me it was my daughter Rebecca, I thought they were insane. My beautiful, successful daughter who visited every week? Who made her father's coffee every morning during his last weeks? Who cried at his funeral and held my hand by his grave?
But the evidence was undeniable. The anonymous tip. The exhumed body. The lethal levels of poison in his system. And the recordings of Rebecca confessing to her fiancé, laughing about how her father thanked her every morning for the coffee that was slowly killing him.
And then I discovered the worst part: I was next.
The special herbal tea she'd been making me every evening? Poisoned. The inheritance she thought she'd get? Gone—my husband had cut her out of the will when he discovered her $300,000 gambling debts.
This is the story of how I discovered my own daughter was a murderer. How I survived her plot to kill me. And how I found the strength to send her to prison for life.
It's a story about betrayal, justice, and learning to live after losing everything you thought you knew about the person you raised.
Warning: This story contains themes of family violence, murder, and betrayal that some viewers may find disturbing.
⏰ Story Timeline:
0:00 - The Phone Call That Changed Everything
15:30 - The Truth About Thomas's Death
32:45 - Rebecca's Arrest
48:20 - The Trial
1:02:15 - Justice & Rebuilding
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