The Murder of Michele Neurauter

March 31, 2025

In this episode, Payton and Garrett dive into the case of Michele Neurauter, a mother found dead in her home. But when the autopsy results come in, it’s clear her death was no accident.

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You're listening to an Oh No Media podcast.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder With My Husband. I'm Payton Moreland.

And I'm Garrett Moreland.

And he's the husband.

I'm the husband.

So I was reading this statistic the other day that if you are in the percentage that listens to Murder With My Husband, you're statistically more good-looking than the rest of the world.

Where'd you read that?

Online.

I agree with you.

Oh, it's not like agreeable or not—it's a statistical fact.

Yeah, okay.

Do you have your 10 seconds?

I ate really healthy for like a month, and then last week I just haven’t been eating the best. I don’t know—I went to put my shorts on this morning and they were really tight. I don’t think it’s because of that... I just—yeah, that’s about it.

I don’t really have anything.

Give us something.

That’s just kind of what’s been going on in my life. My shorts are kind of tight right now.

You're playing pickleball this weekend.

Oh yeah, I’m playing pickleball this weekend. I’ve been getting some heartburn. That’s basically my life, guys. Some heartburn, playing pickleball, working. That’s all.

I don’t have anything new. My hair is growing—getting there.

For anyone on YouTube who wants to see, the front's still not growing a lot yet, but it’ll take some time. We’ll get there.

We're driving to St. George right after we record this. We’ll be there for a few days, and that’s why we’re going—'cause I’m playing pickleball there, but mainly because we just wanted to see sunshine for a couple of days.

Mhm.

Sorry, that’s all I got. I know that probably sounds really boring this week.

It’s okay. Some people are really frustrated that you don’t know what 10 seconds is, so that one was for you guys.

Yeah, it was still kind of long.

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Okay, so while most of us probably won’t admit it out loud, we all have one parent we are—or maybe were—closer to than the other.

Except me.

Mom, Dad, I love you equally. You’re both my favorite parent. Just like I’m your favorite child.

You might be a daddy’s little girl or a mama’s boy, but either way, that bond you have with that parent is like nothing else in the world. A lot of us would go to the ends of the Earth for our parents. We would do whatever we need to impress them, make them proud, make them feel loved and appreciated.

But today I want you to ask yourself: What would you do if your parent asked you to help them with the unthinkable? Would you risk the relationship and rat them out if you knew what they wanted was wrong? Or would you help them in their time of desperation, even if it meant risking your own future?

What would you do?

It depends. It's got to be a lot more context than that, you know what I’m saying.

Yeah, the correct answer is just no. Like, “Eat—no, I'm just...”

Okay, for those who don’t know, that UFC fighter that just got sentenced to prison, for example...

Oh, okay.

He chased down and shot someone who supposedly—I guess the guy had come onto or molested his daughter. Do you blame him? You know what I’m saying? Also, the guy didn’t die, and he still got five years. There’s like a huge thing going on right now about “Free him.”

Well, I mean, you can’t shoot someone.

You can’t shoot someone, but also—you can’t molest someone either. Like, I don’t know.

Look, there are consequences to your actions.

On both sides.

On both sides. And—but the guy knew that. The dad knew that.

But also, don’t molest anybody and you won’t get shot.

I mean, honestly. End of story.

I'm just speaking as someone who doesn’t have a kid, 'cause I’m pretty sure if I had a kid—I don’t know how parents do it.

Oh, I’d be chasing him down.

Because like, genuinely.

And then I would tell every single one of my listeners—all of you guys—to go to the courthouse. Free Garrett. Free Garrett. Free Garrett.

Anyway, sorry. We’re off track. Let’s get back into it.

Okay, so we are in the year 2017.

I always—when it’s like 2017, 2016, 2018—I always want to be like, “So recently!” But it’s actually... no. It’s not.

Not recently.

Okay, but 2017. In upstate New York.

It is the charming little city of Corning, and that’s where Michelle Neurauter and her ex-husband Lloyd had chosen to raise their family.

So Lloyd and Michelle were originally high school sweethearts. They met back in 1989, when Michelle was turning 18 and Lloyd was 16.

After they both graduated high school, they tied the knot two years later in 1991.

Still, they both went to college. But fresh out of those years, Michelle got pregnant with the couple’s first daughter.

Then they had another little girl two years later, and then another girl about five years after that.

So now, having to support a family of five, Lloyd found work at the glass company the town was named for—Corning Glass—as an engineer.

Meanwhile, Michelle worked as an English professor at a nearby college.

This was at least in the earlier years, because eventually Michelle did quit her job to be a stay-at-home mom to their three little girls.

Still, despite being the primary breadwinner, Lloyd seemed to be pretty present in his daughters’ lives. Apparently, he was often seen dropping the girls off at their dance classes in the evening, and many of the mothers found it sweet how good he was with his kids.

But inside the Neurauter home, things weren’t exactly perfect.

As the girls got older, Lloyd and Michelle grew apart.

And in 2008, Lloyd was offered a job down in New Jersey.

But Michelle wasn’t keen on the idea of uprooting their lives to go with him.

So Lloyd went alone, and Michelle and the kids stayed back in their life in Corning.

Friends of Michelle’s said she actually seemed much better for this— That after Lloyd left, it was as if Michelle was more relaxed. She was happier.

Apparently, the distance made Lloyd happier too, because sometime after that move, Lloyd told Michelle he wanted a divorce.

But I do want to mention—although the fact that they were both happier apart—this divorce wasn’t very amicable.

In 2013, Michelle moved into a new home with the girls, and while their custody seemed to be split, Lloyd wasn’t happy with the arrangement. He wanted sole custody of their daughters—something he fought for for years, even as the girls got older.

I mean, their eldest daughter had moved out for college, as did their middle daughter, Carrie, who in 2017 was living in Syracuse, New York, and attending the Rochester Institute of Technology.

But by this point, when he’s still fighting for custody, their youngest daughter—14-year-old Charlotte—was living at home with Michelle, who still had shared custody.

Which was why the events of August 28, 2017, were so surprising and devastating.

That afternoon, a neighbor stopped by the house to pick 14-year-old Charlotte up for a carpool to swim practice—only, Charlotte didn’t seem to be home.

Instead, when the neighbor rang the doorbell, they saw Michelle—the mother—through the glass paneling at the front door. She was standing on the stairway, but she was completely motionless.

It was as if she didn’t hear the door. Yeah, she was just standing there.

And it actually freaked the neighbor out enough that they called 911. They were like, “Is everything okay? What is going on? I can see her.”

So officers were dispatched to the house, and when they got there, they let themselves in.

They found 46-year-old Michelle on the staircase, still—just like the neighbor had mentioned.

Only, she had a rope around her neck.

Oh.

And she had died by what appeared to be a suicide by hanging.

So she wasn’t actually standing on the stairs—she was hanging.

Well, that’s—yeah. It is eerie.

Yeah. But there was something one of the detectives noticed on Michelle. It was this little U-shaped mark on her chin. Sort of looked like the rope maybe got stuck around her face before it went around her neck.

She also appeared to have scratch marks on her face, which told the police she maybe had second thoughts and tried to remove the rope.

But they can’t say for sure.

All they know right now is that this is very unsettling.

So is the fact that Charlotte, her 14-year-old daughter who was supposed to be picked up that day, is nowhere to be found at this point.

And when police try to contact her, they can’t get ahold of her. She’s not answering her cell phone, and no one seems to have seen her.

So police are wondering—was she home during this? Is this some sort of homicide? Kidnapping?

There are just so many things about this scene that are alarming.

Yeah, because your mind—the detectives’ and the police’s, whoever’s working on this—their mind isn’t going to, “Oh, maybe she was involved.” It’s going to, “Has she been kidnapped? What’s going on? Where is she? Yada yada yada.”

Then, later that day, officers get a call down at their station—and it’s Michelle’s middle daughter.

Nineteen-year-old Carrie, who's in college in New York, says she got a disturbing phone call from one of her friends. They had heard that her mother might have died by suicide in the home earlier. Carrie was literally calling the police to find out if this was true.

Unfortunately, police do confirm this for Carrie, but they get a tiny bit of relief when Carrie says that her younger sister, Charlotte, had been with her for the weekend. Carrie explains that on Saturday—Michelle was found on that Monday—Carrie went back to Corning to spend the night with her mom and sister before getting settled into her new apartment and starting her next semester of college.

Apparently, at that point, Carrie had been going back and forth between her mom's house and her dad's house. During that weekend, her dad was supposedly at a job interview in California, so Carrie probably didn’t want to stay at her dad’s house alone, which is why she went to her mom’s house. But that Saturday, Carrie said she didn’t even make it through the night with her mom. She got into a huge fight with Michelle over the same thing they usually fought about—she was taking her dad’s side in the divorce, particularly the custody battles.

Rather than spend the night there, Carrie told Charlotte, get in the car and leave with me to my apartment. And so, according to Carrie, the two sisters drove to Carrie's new apartment to spend the rest of the weekend there and not with their mom.

So now police are thinking, okay, if what Carrie is saying is true, then maybe Michelle was so distraught over the fight, and both her daughters leaving, and just the divorce in general, that she did take her own life that weekend in the house alone.

Before she ends the call with police, though, Carrie gives them her father’s number—he was apparently in California that weekend—but it seems like they have a pretty hard time trying to get in touch with Lloyd over the next few days.

Meanwhile, Michelle’s body goes in for an autopsy, and they determine that Michelle did die of asphyxia, but that she likely died late Saturday night. So this was after Carrie had supposedly left—it was either that night after the fight or early the following morning.

The medical examiner also notices a little U-shaped mark on her chin and scratches on her face. This is why they decide not to list the death as a suicide yet. They mark it as undetermined until more investigation is done.

Police continue to look into how Michelle died, and they aren’t anywhere near closing the book on this one yet. When they speak with Michelle’s mother, Jean, she says with a lot of confidence that she was pretty sure her daughter was murdered, and this death was staged to look like a suicide.

Now look—I want to state, just because someone has future plans or seems outwardly happy does not mean they aren’t struggling. It doesn’t mean they wouldn’t take their own lives. Sometimes even the people closest to us don’t really know how we’re feeling.

But Jean encourages police, just keep following the leads, because I don’t believe this was suicide. She says Michelle was excited about this new chapter of her life—her kids leaving, her personal interests, her religion. Which is why Jean tells them, not only do you need to be looking into this as a murder, you need to look into Lloyd, her husband that she’s currently divorcing.

Here’s the thing—Lloyd's on the other side of the country at that job interview in California, so he's got a pretty good alibi. And while Lloyd does seem to be dodging their phone calls, that doesn’t mean police are closing the book on the murder theory—or him as a person of interest.

A couple of weeks pass, and there’s little movement in the case. That is, until investigators notice something tiny in one of the crime scene photos as they’re relooking at the evidence.

Michelle’s bed appears to be slightly askew. So they’re looking at this photo, zooming in, and behind it, they notice a very faint stain on the wall that they didn’t catch originally. It looks like a bloodstain.

Police go back to the county medical examiner and are like, hey, we need a second opinion on that autopsy. And when they look closer, they find that the damage to Michelle’s throat is not consistent with the injuries usually seen in self-strangulation cases—which tells them this probably means another party was involved in the hanging.

They also learn there was another detail about the day Michelle supposedly died—one Carrie seemingly left out when she told police about the big fight she had with her mom.

See, that same day Michelle was found dead, she had just had a major victory in their court case—something to do with the ongoing custody battle she’d been engaging in with Lloyd over the youngest daughter.

That’s just more confirmation to police that Michelle likely wouldn’t have chosen to die by suicide—not after she had just made huge progress in this custody case.

But more importantly, when they learn this, it makes them question the 19-year-old daughter, Carrie. So they get a copy of Carrie’s phone records, because they want to corroborate the story she initially told them.

She said she wasn’t at her mom’s house for very long that night—only about 15 minutes—before she took her sister, got in the car, and drove to her apartment in Rochester to spend the weekend.

But the phone records show Carrie was at her mom’s house for a lot longer than she said—more like two hours in the house before she left.

Uh-oh. Here we go.

That’s a pretty obvious lie. You would know the difference between 15 minutes and two hours. You might not know an hour and a half versus two hours, but 15 minutes? That’s a huge discrepancy.

So they’re like—this is an obvious lie. She obviously lied. And the fact that her mother, according to the autopsy, died that same night or in the early morning? Red flags, man. Here we go.

It puts some serious suspicion on Carrie and her story. So the question for investigators was: would Carrie have done something like this alone?

The other sister was there. This is why the police speak with her again. And this time, she tells them, okay—actually, my dad wasn’t in California that weekend.

She’s feeling pressure from police, and so she gives up the lie and says he was actually back by that point—and he was with me in Rochester, helping me move into my new apartment.

Which means Lloyd’s alibi is sort of scrubbed now, considering he was only a two-hour drive from his ex-wife’s house on the night she died—not all the way across the United States.

So that’s when the police take a much closer look at the family dynamics as a whole. Because they’re like—okay, there are lies going on. We confront her—she doesn’t really say, “Oh yeah, I lied about that night.” She says, “What? I lied about my dad and his whereabouts.”

A hanging? That’s pretty intense, right? Like, she didn’t shoot them, didn’t stab them—hanging someone? Well, if you’re staging a suicide, it’s just… I don’t know. I mean, it’s all brutal, but it’s just unique. I don’t even know what word to use.

So police dig further into this family’s dynamics. They begin interviewing people who know them. And remember how a lot of the Dance Moms saw Lloyd as the caring, charismatic father who took an interest in his daughters’ extracurriculars?

Well, it turns out some of the girls’ friends saw another side of Lloyd growing up—one that sort of scared them.

Apparently, Lloyd was a really strict disciplinarian with the girls. Kept them on a short leash. He just seemed controlling at times. I’m talking militant, drill-sergeant type control. Not like a normal parent’s control.

One friend said there was a time when she saw Lloyd snap his fingers and yell, “Front and center,” and the girls rushed over to him and knelt in front of him.

What the—

There was another time when a friend witnessed Lloyd slap the girls across their faces.

This is what he was doing—with friends in the house. Friends and company. That’s insane.

But this sort of control wasn’t reserved for just his children. Apparently, he would also do this in public—with his wife.

Around 2007, he even made her cut ties with her own parents. Michelle’s mother, Jean, believed that was because Lloyd was threatening to take the children away if she didn’t stop speaking with them.

I was actually reading something the other day—I forget where, maybe some article—and it talked about how one of the number one signs of... I don’t know if it was a narcissist? I forget. But one of the top signs was making the other person cut ties with their family.

Yeah, because then they have no one to, you know, reach out to.

Yep, exactly.

It’s also a number one sign of a cult—or a cult-like leader.

Oh yeah, that too.

Mhm. Which... maybe that’s what it was. Maybe it wasn’t a narcissist—or probably just very narcissistic tendencies.

Yeah.

But things only got worse after Lloyd moved to New Jersey and the couple decided to get divorced. That’s when Lloyd started turning the girls against Michelle—particularly Carrie, the middle daughter.

Now, I don’t know all of the nuances of what Lloyd would say to Carrie or her sisters, but over time, I know Carrie truly grew to hate her mother. And a lot of that had to do with the little seeds that Lloyd was planting over the years during the divorce.

Now, just to show you how brainwashed Carrie was—and remember, she already would go kneel in front of her dad—she was visibly shaken. There was one incident that happened back in 2015. This was two years before Michelle’s death.

One afternoon, Michelle was backing her car slowly out of the driveway after another fight with Carrie. Carrie tried to block the car from leaving, but eventually Michelle made her exit.

No one was hurt, from what I can tell, during this argument. But Lloyd convinced Carrie that Michelle’s intentions that day were nefarious—and that she was actually trying to run Carrie over with her car. Her dad looks at her and says, Your mom—your mom was trying to kill you. Freak.

That's insane. It's just very... that's weird. It's toxic.

Yeah, she was so convinced of her father's version of events that she actually filed a police report against Michelle—although the allegations didn’t hold up. Because there's, I mean, obvious reasons. But even with manipulation and psychological warfare aside, Lloyd was also trying to ruin Michelle’s life using the court system.

I guess after the couple finalized their divorce in 2013, Lloyd filed 26 separate post-divorce filings, which is why this was still ongoing by the time of the murder. He was basically suing Michelle using false claims to try and get out of things like paying child support—and of course, as we heard earlier, trying to get full custody of their youngest daughter, Charlotte.

Now, according to some lawyers who worked on Michelle’s case, it’s normal to have maybe two or three post-divorce filings. But 26 is outrageous. Which is strange, because that many filings sounds pretty expensive. I mean, imagine all those lawyer fees you’re paying each time you head to court.

And yet, Lloyd was extremely broke. By 2017, he was $100,000 in debt—at least. This debt was due to the child support and alimony payments that he needed to make. Payments that Lloyd was clearly hellbent on fighting.

That was until August of 2017. On that afternoon, Lloyd didn’t show up for his court appearance—the one for full custody of Charlotte. He didn’t answer the court’s emails or phone calls. Just... no call, no show. So the case was dismissed, meaning Michelle would maintain the custody agreement that they had for Charlotte.

Obviously, like I said, that was a major win. She was thrilled about it. She was celebrating.

And then she died by hanging later that night.

The timing of all of this is extremely suspicious to police. Here’s a man that was fighting his ex-wife tooth and nail over every little thing—and on the day she dies, he mysteriously doesn’t show up for court.

It also doesn’t help that Lloyd was very well aware of a life insurance policy Michelle had taken out recently. And if she died, $200,000 was meant to go to 14-year-old Charlotte.

Even stranger, one of the first places Lloyd apparently went after he learned about his ex-wife’s passing was to Family Court—to turn off his child support and alimony payments, because his wife was now dead.

So now, not only has Lloyd’s alibi—that he was in California—been thrown out the window, he also seems to have a lot of motive as well. Not just hatred. Not just wanting custody of a child. But also a ton of debt. And money.

And with police having a hard time getting a hold of him, they figure they’re just going to have to corner him and get him to answer some questions.

Where do they find him? At one of his favorite places, of course—a few days later, at the local courthouse, settling more business.

Now, once police get to talk to him, Lloyd gives pretty much the same story that Carrie last gave: on the afternoon of August 26th, he helped Carrie move into her new apartment near campus, and then he went and stayed at a hotel nearby.

He says Carrie came with him that night. They hung out for a little while, and then she left to go stay at her mother's house. So, he walked her to her car, said goodbye, and invited her back to have breakfast with him in the morning. Then he says he spent the night in the hotel, and the following morning Carrie came to breakfast and met him. But now, she had Charlotte.

So, when police go to corroborate his story, they look into his cell phone location and find that it tracks Lloyd’s phone, which never left the hotel that night. But the security cameras in the parking lot tell a very different story.

Is this good for you, Garrett? It's been a while since we've had some good camera footage.

I feel like that contradicts the story. Yeah, I feel like it's been lacking a little bit. I used to...

Anyways. So, that evening, when Carrie left to go to her mother's house, Lloyd—her father—got in the passenger seat and drove off with her. So, just because his cell phone stayed behind at the hotel doesn’t mean he did. And those cameras don’t show Lloyd or Carrie returning to that hotel until 6:30 a.m. the next morning.

He obviously left his phone there on purpose, right? I mean, he knew what he was doing.

Okay, even if Carrie's cell phone was there for 2 hours, which police believe, she doesn’t come back with her dad until 6:30 a.m. the next morning, and they are both wearing the clothes they left in the night before. They never changed into pajamas, which means they probably never slept.

Dude, I cannot believe that she's involved. That's... I’m curious to see what the jury thinks.

Well, you also have a 14-year-old daughter here.

What do you mean? Charlotte's here—during all of this. So, the next question is, what was she doing?

So, police realized this and they have a theory. They’re like, Carrie and Lloyd went to Michelle's house together to kill her that night, something Lloyd was already banking on pulling off when he failed to appear in court earlier that day. The tricky part now is getting either one of them to confess, especially with how little evidence there was to prove this was a homicide.

And again, where was Charlotte?

So, around September 2017, about a month after Michelle's death, police decide to go ahead and put a wiretap on Carrie and Lloyd’s phones, and they start listening in on their conversations. Now, at first, they aren’t giving them much to go off of. The conversations are pretty day-to-day stuff—how’s school? How’s things going? Nothing for police to get them on.

So, in November, police decide to sort of up the ante. They do something called tickling the wire.

Okay, I don’t like that. They should have named it something else. I did not like that at all.

One of the investigators on Michelle's case calls Carrie to deliberately put her on edge, basically saying, We need to meet up with you in person soon. We have a few things we need to talk to you about. When can you come down to the station? Carrie’s like, Oh sure, I'll be there Monday afternoon. The investigator’s like, Yep, see you. They hang up.

Seconds later, Carrie calls her father.

Yeah, for sure. Takes the bait, hook, line, and sinker. And when Lloyd picks up, it’s clear that Carrie is panicking. She says, What do I do now?

At first, Lloyd's like, Look, it's probably just standard procedure, don’t worry. But halfway through the conversation, he starts to sort of panic. He tells Carrie, Actually, just don’t go in and speak with them. He even comes up with an excuse for her: Tell them you have to have a counseling appointment back in New Jersey. It's going to be hard to squeeze it in. Then he asks Carrie something really weird. He says, Can you cry? Meaning, over the phone when she calls detectives back, can she fake some tears? And Carrie says, I might, which is just bonkers.

Then they talk a bit more about what the investigators might want, and Lloyd reassures her, If they were planning to arrest us, they’d have just stormed in with a warrant, not asked you to come down for a quick conversation.

I can tell you one thing: it doesn’t seem like Carrie makes it into the police station that Monday.

So, in January of 2018, police devised one more plan to try and get the two to confess. On the 24th of January, two detectives show up at Lloyd’s New Jersey office and tell him, The medical examiner has ruled your ex-wife’s death a homicide, and we know you weren’t at the hotel that night because of security footage. They basically say, We’re on to you guys. How about you come meet us down at the station, take a polygraph, and we’ll rule you out? Lloyd agrees.

Meanwhile, police are also showing up at Carrie’s door, confronting her about their suspicions and asking her to take a polygraph as well. But when Carrie gets down to the station, she proves she’s not very good at keeping up with the lies because she completely caved under the pressure of this interrogation.

And here’s what she says: About a week before the murder, her father went to her and unloaded his problems on her. He said that Michelle was bleeding him dry, and he could no longer afford to pay for any of the things he owed her. He told Carrie that he felt like there were only two ways out of this mess—either he killed Michelle, or he killed himself. And he forced Carrie, his daughter, to make the decision for him.

Holy crap.

Now, Carrie—remember—has been manipulated by her father for years, and she has chosen to side with him. She sees her mother is the evil one. So, together, they devised a plan for how to get rid of Michelle. They were going to stage her death as a suicide. Then, on the night of August 26th, Lloyd got into Carrie’s car and drove with her over to Michelle’s house. Carrie let him inside, and he snuck up to Michelle’s bedroom and confronted her there.

Now, remember, I was like, But Charlotte’s there. What are they going to do with Charlotte? What’s going on? Carrie’s job in this plan was to keep her 14-year-old sister, Charlotte, distracted while her father was in another room strangling their mother to death. And when he was finished staging the death to look like a suicide, the three of them would drive off into the night.

Apparently, Carrie did such a good job distracting Charlotte that she had zero idea her mother had been killed.

Oh my God.

Until that following Monday.

Imagine the trauma of being in a house when that happened and finding out later that you were in the house when that happened—and you had no idea what was going on. That’s just... yeah.

Carrie tells police at this interrogation that she had no physical involvement. She said, I was just... I knew the plan, and I was to distract my sister. I also did disconnect the electronics in the home. I imagine this means things like cameras that could give away the fact that her father was even there that night.

So hearing this over at the Rochester station, police are ready to put Lloyd in handcuffs the second he enters the New Jersey station for that polygraph. Only, he doesn't show up. Instead, police track his phone and find him miles away at a parking structure in Princeton, New Jersey. When they get there... oh, he killed himself. Lloyd is standing on the roof of the building, threatening to jump.

For the next two hours, police are trying to literally talk Lloyd off of a ledge. Eventually, when Lloyd lets his guard down for a second, one of the larger state troopers who was there pulls him back to the ground. Within seconds, Lloyd is placed in handcuffs and charged with first-degree murder. That same day, Carrie, his daughter, is also arrested. She’s charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence for her involvement in the crime. Pretty open and shut at this point.

I mean, yes, but there’s also not a ton of physical evidence outside of Carrie's confession. It’s true. So basically, the prosecutor’s like, I think the only way we can really get Lloyd, who’s pleading not guilty, is if we get Carrie, his daughter, to testify against him. And for that, they’d probably have to give her a pretty good plea deal. She pleads guilty to her crimes and second-degree manslaughter. But what does she get for testifying? She’s given only one to three years behind bars.

Okay, but that also means she’ll be the star witness in Lloyd's trial. Only, it doesn't get that far. Soon, Lloyd’s defense team learns there’s not just circumstantial evidence against him. It’s not just his word versus his daughter’s. There’s actually DNA to prove he was at the scene of the crime that night.

Forensics had processed some of Michelle’s clothing after her death, and when the District Attorney’s Office had them re-examined by the state police, they found Lloyd’s DNA on the pajamas Michelle was wearing that night. So just two weeks before Lloyd is set to go to trial, the DA goes to Lloyd and says, Look, we now have physical evidence. Do you want to plead guilty? And the 48-year-old Lloyd shockingly says, Yeah, I’ll accept the plea deal, which was 25 years to life with the possibility of parole if he's lucky. Only, it doesn’t go that way. He accepts the plea, and the judge still gives him life without the possibility of parole.

Oh, sh**.

Yeah, I mean, a judge can override.

Yeah, I mean, he killed someone, so I don’t feel bad.

However, on January 16th, 2020, the 22-year-old Carrie was released from prison after serving less than two years of her sentence. Her father remains behind bars in Elmyra Correctional Facility in Elmyra, New York.

Now, whether or not the two have had contact in the time since their imprisonment, I can’t say for sure. But I do know this: Michelle's mother, Carrie’s grandmother, Jean, knows that Lloyd was really the one to blame. So the grandmother says, He had spent so much time brainwashing Michelle's children. He weaponized his own daughter against his wife.

And Jean told 48 Hours that, despite everything Lloyd said, she felt her job was now to reverse the narrative. To let Michelle's daughters know how much Michelle had loved them and that all she ever wanted was for her girls to be happy.

And that is the case of Michelle Neurauter.

That's insane. It's just... I don't know, there are so many layers to it. I’m glad that... I mean, not that it makes her any better, but at least the girls weren’t there, like, killing... Could you imagine being the mom, seeing your daughters also being part of the plan to kill you? You know what I’m saying? I don't know, it’s just... the whole thing’s gross and disgusting.

Yeah, also, it’s interesting how many parents should not be involving kids in divorces. Well, I mean, divorce is between the parents. Don’t involve your kid. Don’t start talking crap. Like, I know people are going to probably ask me, Well, I mean, my parents are divorced. I think that's something they did a really good job of. Yeah, they just don’t involve the kids. That’s not their issue, that’s not the kids' issue. Has nothing to do with them.

Right. I do credit your parents for that. It surprises me how many parents involve their children in divorces, and it’s so immature. But anyways, I think the dynamic between a father and daughter—not only planning the murder of the mother, but executing it—oh yeah, that’s pretty intense.

Yeah, it is.

You know? Alright, you guys, that is our case for this week, and we will see you next time with another one.

I love it.

And I hate it.

Goodbye.

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