Interrogation Of Husband & Killer - A Staged Crime Scene Leads to Lies

In a police interrogation room, a man is asked why multiple people have told investigators he previously tried to recruit someone to kill his wife, Lindy. He doesn't deny it outright. Instead, he explains that he has "a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other," and that for years he has had conversations about suicide and "just wanting to end it all." The detective presses: he isn't asking about suicide, but about asking someone else to kill on his behalf. The man’s halting, careful answers become the central puzzle of this episode of True Crime Stories, which presents an extended, unbroken interrogation of a husband whose wife has just been murdered—and whose own story is beginning to fray.

The Staged Scene and the Missing Story

The episode opens not with a narrator, but with the raw audio of a police interview. The man, whose name emerges as the husband of the victim Lindy, is being questioned about his relationship with a former prison friend named Daryl. The officers are methodically probing the timeline: when did Daryl last visit? (The previous summer.) What was their friendship like inside? (They played softball, walked the track.) Did Daryl have a motorcycle? (Yes.) Did the husband know if Daryl was affiliated with any clubs? (He didn't think so.)