The Cousin's Confession

When 32-year-old single mother Stacie Smith was found brutally stabbed in her kitchen with her three-year-old son playing nearby, the hateful message scrawled on her wall—"CHEATING WHORE"—pointed investigators toward a jealous lover. But as detectives unraveled a web of volatile relationships and planted evidence, they discovered the killer wasn't a jealous ex—it was her own cousin, Timothy Sutherland, who confessed to framing her while high on drugs. This is the shocking true story of how family betrayal nearly led to the perfect murder in small-town West Virginia .