the night Alex drowned.
I was on the boat with her.
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And honestly, I don't remember much about that night,
'cause I had been drinking.
But I do know that if I had been sober...
I could have pulled Alex out of the water.
And that she'd still be alive right now.
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And I'm so sorry.
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That's not how my daughter died.
We're just trying to figure out why he'd want to come to our house.
Or even how he knows where she lives.
We have him on camera.
In his red pickup truck.
Detective: Listen, I just reviewed the gas station tape.
We don't have a plate yet, but we do have a partial view
of the vehicle that hit your husband.
It was red, but it wasn't a truck.
It was an SUV.
So, it wasn't Reverend Stewart?
No, ma'am. Doesn't appear so.
Okay.
Thank you.
So, he wasn't the one who hit Eddie.
Then why does he keep coming by your house?
You and Alex did go out on the water that night.
Apparently, you went for a swim off the boat.
But you both made it back to the dock.
How do you know that?
Colleen told me.
She said you passed out afterwards,
and she and Alex went off alone.
No, I talked to Colleen.
She didn't say that.
Why wouldn't she have told me that?
Alex and Colleen stayed up partying that night.
I knew they'd been drinking that summer.
I'd seen the bottles they'd hidden.
But apparently, that night, Colleen had brought drugs.
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Colleen insisted it was the first time
that Alex ever tried it.
Alex had a bad reaction, and...
her heart stopped.
Colleen woke me up in tears.
Our whole lives had changed in an instant.
Alex was gone.
There was nothing I could do about it.
But Colleen was still there.
If anyone found out Alex had died
using drugs her sister had given to her,
i-it would have ruined Colleen's life.
All of our lives.
So I told Colleen to go to bed,
and I carried my little girl out to the boat.
And I...
And I made it look like she drowned.
I had to --
I had to protect my family.
Why are you telling me this now?
I wanted to tell you before.
The last time you came to the lake house, I-I saw you.
I followed you when you left.
Colleen told me how you blamed yourself for what happened.
I waited outside the bar,
trying to find the courage to tell you the truth,
but I just couldn't.
[ Horn blares ]
[ Tires screech ]
[ Tires screech, crash ]
The next thing I knew, you were on the ground.
Man: Oh, my God!
I saw the SUV take off, so I called 911,
and I -- and -- and I-I chased them.
But I was too late.
I turned around and went back,
but by then, the ambulance was there.
[ Sirens wailing in distance ]
I didn't think my lie was hurting anyone but myself.
I was wrong.
[ Voice breaking ] Obviously, it was tearing you apart
in ways I could never have imagined.
I came here...
to confess.
May the Lord forgive me for what I have done to you.
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