You drove your car into a kid's birthday party and killed two kids. I guarantee this is national news. >> What was meant to be a day of joy turned into a nightmare. On the afternoon of April 20th, 2024, a child's birthday party became a scene of tragedy. Two innocent lives stolen in an instant because Marshella chose to get behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol. >> Take care of the baby first. >> Take care of the baby first. Can you come with me just for a second? >> Are you driving? >> Can you come with me just for a second? You okay? >> Are you okay? >> I think so. >> Okay, >> I think so. >> Okay, >> I got you. I got you. >> Go. >> Where you going with her? >> Over towards my car. Okay. >> What happened? >> I just I passed out. >> Okay. Have you been feeling ill or anything like that? >> Yes. >> Were you here for the party? >> No. >> Oh my gosh, this is terrible. >> Have you been drinking at all today? >> A little bit. Yes. >> Okay. When's the last time you had something to drink? >> Probably a half hour ago. >> Half an hour ago. What do you drink? >> Wine. >> Wine. Okay. Have What's What's your name, hun? >> Marshall. >> All right. I'm just going to leave you back here just for a little bit. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. Do you need to see any medical attention right now? >> I don't think so. >> Okay. I'm going to roll down this window over here. Just get you some air. Okay. >> I just want to separate her from everything that's going on. >> Anybody in there? >> I don't know. >> Is anybody in here? >> I don't think that. >> Okay. >> We have several more in here. >> Yep. We have a a gentleman behind the bar and then we have a young lady that's against the bar right here. >> These two ladies, >> I might get somebody for him. Okay. >> Just at no. >> Okay. >> Your your your aunt's somewhere here. She's >> I know she is. She's not there. >> Okay. >> Okay. You You're going to be good, dude. You push down. >> Is he okay? >> I'm not quite sure yet. What happened today when you were around here? Real real quick. >> I'm not sure. I drove up to the boat club and that's the last thing I remember. >> One second. Just cuz you're in handcuffs, um I got to read you this. Okay. >> Okay. >> Um you have the right for me silent. You can decide at any time to exercise his rights and not answer any questions or make any statements. Do you understand what I've just read to you? >> Yes. >> Okay. Do you wish to speak to me? >> Pardon? >> Do you wish to speak to me? Like, do you want to have a >> No, I'm I'm good. >> Like, do you want to talk or No. Oh, I'm I'm just hoping no one was hurt. >> Oh, sure. Um I just So, can I talk to you? >> Yes. >> Okay, perfect. Um police placed Marshella in handcuffs and into the back of their vehicle. Her interrogation about to begin. >> So, what happened today? Where where were we at today? >> I went to lunch with some friends. >> Okay. About what time was that? >> Um noonish. >> So, around noon you went to lunch. Do you remember what you ate? >> Yep. I had some chili and a fish sandwich. A fish sandwich. Okay. Where was that at? >> At Verest. >> At Verest. Uh, what do you drink there? You drink water, pop? >> I had a glass of wine. >> Just one glass of wine. >> Yep. >> After that, what happens? You leave at noon. Where do you go? >> Came home. >> Okay. Um, what do you do when you get home? >> I just came home and just kind of chilled out and was waiting for my husband to get up. He was taking a nap. >> Okay. Did you drink anything else there? Did you take any medication, anything? >> No, I didn't even I didn't even get a drink down here because I never made it this far. >> Okay. Did you eat anything else today? >> No. >> And then where where were you driving to? >> Just from Verest to here. >> To here. What were you coming here for? >> Home. >> Oh, you're So you're going from Veras to home? >> Yeah. >> And you left Veras at noon? >> Yes. >> Okay. How long were you at Verna's then? >> Uh maybe an hour. Not even that long. >> Okay. So you made no stops between Vera's and here? >> No. >> And when did you go to Vera again? >> Uh about noon. >> About noon. Okay. So, uh this is a preliminary breath test. Michigan law requires that you submit to a preliminary breath analysis upon request of a peace officer. Your refusal to submit as requested shall result in you being charged with a civil infraction with a penalty of up to $100 fine. Um, do you understand that? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, this breath test, um, I just want to see where you're at with your alcohol level. If you have one glass of wine, it's going to be really low. Okay? So, uh, just go ahead and, uh, blow like you're blowing a balloon. Okay? Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Thank you. I just want to make sure everything is okay. >> Oh, absolutely. >> Oh my gosh, that was so scary. Yeah. Can >> you put a PVT point on that, please? >> Do you remember what happened when you were going around here? >> No, not really. I pulled into the parking lot and I was I thought I was driving up to the boat club and evidently I was driving right into the pavilion. >> When you got to the parking lot, what happened? >> I don't remember. You don't remember? >> I don't remember. >> Okay. On a scale of 0 to 10, zero being like you're stone cold, sober, you can drive perfectly. Uh 10 being you're passed out drunk. Uh where do you think you're at right now? >> Uh seven. >> A seven. Okay. Do you think you're okay to drive? >> I wouldn't want to drive. >> You wouldn't let you drive? >> No. >> Just give me one second. Okay. Sorry, my phone's ringing. I think it's going to be my boss. I apologize. >> So, when we got here, there's all there's all kinds of people all over. A whole bunch of people's already been transported by ambulance in the different hospitals, but there is a large amount of people still inside their family members, people that were at the party with that stuff. Meanwhile, the victim's father received the unthinkable news, shattered, devastated, collapsing into the arms of a friend as he cried out, questioning God. >> What about you don't know nothing? Come up here. >> Come up here. >> This is good right here. >> So, in case you want to know who he is. >> No, I know. I know. No, I seen this. No, I don't want to talk to him. I'm not You don't have to talk to him. >> You don't have to. I just want to let you know that he's right here with me. Okay. >> He's just here. He's here. He's here to help. >> Don't do this to me. Please. >> Please. >> I'm begging you. I'm begging you. Don't Don't tell me. Don't tell me, >> Brian. Okay. Listen to me. Okay. All right. We're here to support you. Okay. So, is your is your wife, right? >> She's my baby's mother. >> Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'm backing you. I'm [ __ ] backing you. >> Come on. Come on. >> Come on. Come on. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Not me. Not me. >> Come on, bro. >> I didn't do nothing. >> I haven't done nothing. I haven't done nothing, bro. No. >> No. No. No. You're lying. This is a dream. This is a [ __ ] dream right now, bro. Please wake me up. Please. I'm begging you. Wake me up. No. No. Right now. He's lying, bro. Please. He's lying, bro. Bro, bro, please. Please. He's lying. Please tell me he's lying. Please. Please. No way. They just was with me. They just was with me. They just was with me. No. No. No. No. Lying. He's lying. I'm telling you right now. I was just with him. I was just with them. Stop. He's lying, bro. I'm telling you. No. Stop. He's lying. I'm telling you that he's lying, bro. He's lying, bro. No. No. He's lying. Listen. Stop. But he's lying. He's lying, bro. >> He's just It was at a birthday party. >> No. >> Listen, listen. Listen, listen to me. Just listen to me. >> Need you right now. >> Listen. Everybody needs you right now. >> Everybody needs you right now. Please. Everybody needs you right now. You need to >> tell me what are they doing? >> She's in custody, bro. >> They'll bury her. She took her, bro. >> She took both of them. >> I know. Listen, listen. Listen. >> We can't do this life anymore. Mike, >> no. You can't do it right now, Mike. >> Look at me. >> You still a dad. >> No one is going to be able to tell me nothing is wrong right now. >> I'm not saying that. We're not saying that. >> It's not fair. I have nothing. There's no reason why this is happening to me right now. >> Look what he just did to me. Look what he did to me. >> Don't do that, bro. >> Look what he did to me. Mike, don't tell me. Don't tell me. Look what he did to me. Look what he did to me, bro. >> That drunk did that, bro. >> God didn't do that. That drunk did that. She decided to do that, bro. With crossed legs and her left arm overlapping her cast, Marcela lacked contrition as she laughed mid-in. >> I want to talk to you about some events that happened. >> Um, I met some friends for lunch. >> Okay. >> Um, and then, um, I didn't finish eating my lunch because I got like a canker sore on the inside of my mouth. So, it's pretty sore. >> So, you you said you met some people for lunch. >> Mhm. >> Okay. Where was that at? >> At Verest. Do you know about what time at Vernas? >> Um, I think we met at 11:30. >> Any water, pop, beer, wine? >> Um, had a water and a glass of wine. >> What type of wine? >> Chardonnay. >> Chardonnay. Okay. Is that your normal? >> Mhm. >> Chardonnay. The fruity nutty. >> I'm not a wine. I >> I'm not a wine snob either. Uh, that takes us up to about 1210. >> Yep. >> Okay. How'd you get to Verus? >> I drove. Okay. Was anybody with you? >> No, I met them there. >> Okay, got it. When you were done at Verest, where did you go to? >> Um, went to the boat club. >> Straight to the boat club. >> They were having a birthday party. >> What's the next thing you remember? >> Waking up in the patrol car. >> So, you woke up in the police car. >> Yeah. >> Uh, what we do as investigators is we put together a puzzle. And so, that's why I talk to everybody and I also gather evidence. We gather evidence. Okay. And part of that evidence is say like surveillance footage and this that and the other. And so what we do then is we create a timeline. And that's what I'm trying to do here with you. >> Okay. >> Okay. So we know you're at Vern at 1210 and then you say you go to the boat club. Right. To the boat club. >> Mhm. >> That's not exactly accurate because I have surveillance footage of you at the boat club at 3:00. Okay, that could be >> okay. So that's that's why I'm I'm trying to get a a full account of the time. So So from 12:10, we didn't go directly to the boat club. We went home. Did we go to the store? Did we go to a friend's house? Um what did we do during that time? >> I don't know. I don't know. I know that um the party started at 3:00, the birthday party. So, I was there a little bit before that. >> So, you're saying you believe the party started at 3? Well, the party actually started at 1. >> Oh, okay. >> I I really need you to think long and hard about where you're at between noon and 3. We need to fill in that time gap. And it's very important that you think as hard as you can. >> I may have stopped home um just to check on my husband to see what he was up to. So I could have >> Okay. >> I could have stopped at home. I wouldn't be there for very long. >> And if you stopped home, would it be common that you had another glass of wine? >> I don't believe so. No. >> No. Okay. How often do you drink? I was drinking quite a bit there, but I've kind of switched over and I'm doing a free now. >> What's a free? >> It's uh alcohol free. Alcohol-free Cabernet. >> Alcohol-free Cabernet. >> Mhm. >> And it was just one glass. >> Yes. >> We know that you weren't drinking alcohol-free wine. >> That's correct. >> You had a little much and you know you crashed into the building, right? >> I know. So, one glass at Verest. >> Yes. And I might have had a glass at the boat club. >> When at the boat club? >> When I went there after Verus. >> So, you went there after Verus? >> Yes. >> And then you went home? >> No, I went stopped at home first. >> And then went to the boat club, had a glass of wine. >> Yes. >> And then blacked out in the back of the car. >> Yes. >> Well, that's not accurate. >> Okay. >> Okay. because your car is going 50 miles an hour into the driveway and drives into the building. >> So, you didn't go to the boat club before the crash. Okay. And we know the crash is at 3. >> Okay. >> And we know that Verna's was at 12:10. >> Okay. >> And so, >> and it might have been 12:30. I >> Okay, that's fine. So, from 12:30 to 3, would you have been at home drinking regular wine? >> No. No, because the alcohol level you were at at 4:00, it's not practical. It's not feasible that you had one glass of wine. It is not. >> And I I >> I've I've been doing this for 23 years >> and I may had um a glass of wine at Verest, but then I had a glass of wine at the boat club, too, or two glasses of wine. >> Okay. Well, we know when you were at the boat club. >> Okay. >> Okay. And so, did you go into the Did you do you recall going into the party at all? Being at the party at all? >> No. >> Being in the bar at all? >> I was in the bar >> while the party was going on? >> Yes. Well, I thought the party didn't start till 3:00. >> So, so you go from Vera's home to Boat Club, back home, and then back to boat club. >> No. No, that's not >> No, I stopped at home first. >> Okay. >> Before I went to the boat. >> Okay. So then then it's not possible that you drank at the boat club because your car drives into the building and everybody stops drinking. Nobody's drinking >> and you didn't go over to the bar and get a drink after you drove into the car. Drove in. No. >> And I don't remember any of that. No, I take that back. I had one um actually I was at the boat club and I was drinking free and that's when I they call it a like a white halo effect and it just everything gets really bright. >> Did you know anybody at that party? >> Yes. >> Were you upset with anybody there? >> No. >> Would you intentionally drive your car into the boat club? >> No. >> No. Did you have a birthday present? >> No. >> A card? Yes. >> Card. Where's that in? >> Uh, that's a good question. >> In your car? >> No, I believe I put it in the card box. >> Well, you couldn't have put it in the card box cuz you weren't there cuz you drove right there, >> right? >> And you drove through the wall. >> Yes. >> So, you didn't put a card in the card box? >> There. There might have been There might have been a card box on the bar. >> You didn't go to the bar. >> I did. I did go inside the boat club. >> See, it's just not adding up. >> No, I went I went home before I went to the party. >> You're You're saying you went to the boat club and had a couple glasses of wine? >> Yes. >> And then you walked from the the bar at the boat club to the party >> to the to my car. >> To to your car. Okay. Where did you when you got there? Do you remember where you parked? >> Yeah, there's plenty of parking spots right there. >> Okay. Well, what what Sergeant Hooper is saying here is that we got the video like like we said, you didn't park and go in and then go back to your car and then drive into the into the building. Okay. You come down from where your house is going very fast and you just drove right into the building. >> See, I don't remember any of that. >> There's some questions that are unanswered. >> Okay. >> Okay. Because again, you're a 21 a 21. Okay. And one glass of wine does not do that. Two glasses of wine doesn't do that. Three glasses of wine doesn't do that. Four glasses of wine doesn't do that. >> Yeah, that surprises me. >> Five glasses of wine doesn't do that. Six glasses of wine doesn't do that. Okay. And even given your body type and, you know, other things. I I I'll give you, you know, probably seven or eight could get you there. I want the truth from you, Marcela. I want the whole truth. Okay? Because right now we're sitting here and I need the truth from you. And let me tell you why. Okay? The truth will help you. >> Okay? >> Okay. The time of downsizing what we do is over. So, we're going to start fresh. >> Okay? >> And I'm going to ask you a very blunt question. >> Okay? Are you an alcoholic? >> I don't believe so. >> Can you sit there and tell me that this I see you're getting a little emotional. I apologize. >> Well, I I think >> it's I have to ask these hard questions and and you need to look into yourself, >> right? >> And answer this truthfully, >> right? And I would say I drank considerably more when I was not drinking the free. But since I started drinking the free, I'm not drinking nearly as much. >> When we talk about the free, is it like the light wine that's less calories? >> It's alcohol-f free. >> I've never seen it. We talked to people and when we asked them about Marshall, >> what do you think they said? Probably. I used to be a pretty heavy drinker. >> Try again. >> Pardon? >> Try again. >> That I'm a heavy drinker. >> Yes. >> That you're an alcoholic. >> Okay. >> You need to look and hear right now. >> Okay. >> Because this is the time, Marcela. This is the time. Do you have a problem? And you need to be honest. Do you have a problem? Are you an alcoholic? How many glasses of wine did you have yesterday? Because it was excessive. >> Yeah, >> you would agree it was excessive. >> And I'm surprised by that. I really am. I didn't think that I drank that much. So, I'm shocked when you tell me that. That six glasses of wine, that's a lot of wine >> right at 3:00. >> Well, I certainly um I'm not going to be drinking anytime in the near future. That's for sure. Do you want me to tell you? >> Sure. >> Okay. You probably are the most hated person in the United States. >> I bet >> you drove your car into a kid's birthday party and killed two kids. >> Oh no. >> And many more are at the hospital in critical condition right now. >> Oh no. >> Adults as well. That is why I'm trying to get the truth from you, Marshall, so I can tell the prosecutor that you're not a low down dirty drunk that wants to go out there and kids. >> Oh gosh, no. >> I'm looking for the truth, Marshalla. The truth needs to come out because you are the most hated person in the whole United States right now. I guarantee this is national news. You are the most So you need to change that narrative right here. You need to change it. There's only one way you can change it and that's by telling the truth. I've been doing this for a long time. I've sat across the table from before like really really bad. You're not that person >> and I don't remember. Honestly, I do not remember. I would think I would remember something like that. >> Well, you're not being truthful about how much you drank. You're not. It's scientifically impossible to be the alcohol level you were last night with one glass of wine like you're telling us. It is impossible. Science. The world cannot have you had that level with one glass of wine. >> Again, I was pretty sure that I had a couple glasses of wine at the pool club. >> Before you keep spinning this story with us, I I just I want to leave with one thing, Marshall. >> Okay. Okay. When you stand before God, you think he's going to ask you, "Why did you lie to those detectives?" >> I'm not. Honestly, I'm not lying. I don't recall. >> So, then you shouldn't have been driving, should you? >> No, probably not. I was only going from my house, so I didn't even really give it a thought. Oh, I'm just devastated. >> So are many people right now. >> I'm sure they are. They're looking for answers and we're trying to help them find answers. >> I understand. >> But you're not telling us the truth. You understand? But you're not telling us the truth about how much you drank yesterday. You're not. >> I don't know how much I have at the book club. >> So, there's one thing I want to leave you with, Marshall, because I'm tired of being lied with. You did this. You see that kid there? You did that. You did that. And you continue to lie to me. >> I'm not lying. >> You did this. >> I'm not saying that I didn't, but I certainly don't remember. I don't recall. >> That's not going to cut it. >> False information began to spread, twisting the truth. But investigators held firm, backed by undeniable evidence aligned against her own words. In the courtroom, witnesses took the stand. Victims, officers, medical staff, all called to testify. Each voice bringing the truth closer to light. >> Deputy, you were present when the tow truck driver was removing the EDR. >> Yes. While he was doing so, he located a 187 ml bottle of Sutter home Chardonnay, which was turned over to me, photographed, and was placed in the evidence here. The court sentenced Marshella to 25 to 50 years in prison after it convicted her of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Explicit footage of her liquor guzzling was also shown. Was the punishment enough for Marshella? Let us know in the comments and subscribe to Badge Camp Patrol, where the law always catches