Killer Daughter-in-Law Realizes Her Life Is Over - Full Police Interrogation

On a Monday afternoon in late January, police arrived at a house in Albuquerque to investigate a missing person. The missing woman was Marilyn, a postal worker in her fifties who had last been seen alive on Friday. The people still inside the house—packing up the last of their belongings under the pressure of a recent eviction—were her daughter-in-law Alyssa, Alyssa's adult son Drake, and two female friends, Annie and Nikki. The officer on scene began interviewing Alyssa in the front yard, and the conversation that unfolded over the next hour became the first layer of a case that would soon be understood very differently than how it first appeared.

The strained relationship at the center

Alyssa, 45, had been married to Marilyn's son Ryan for 23 years before he died by suicide in 2014. She told the officer that her relationship with her mother-in-law had been "very good" while Ryan was alive, but deteriorated sharply after his death. Marilyn blamed Alyssa for not leaving Ryan sooner, given what Alyssa described as years of abuse. After Ryan died, Marilyn let Alyssa and her children live in the house rent-free for a time, but eventually began charging $550 a month. When Alyssa lost her job and stopped paying, Marilyn moved to evict her. Court proceedings concluded in January, and deputies served the eviction notice on Tuesday, January 23, giving the family three days to vaca