[Applause] Quit. Quit. Lie down. Lie down. This is Shawn Eugene Good and he has just killed his uncle in broad daylight. Had to do it. And then he went crazy and started hitting him. 20 minutes earlier during breakfast, he suddenly lunged across the table and began strangling his uncle to death as his aunt watched in horror. Fixing breakfast and everything was okay, I thought. And then he said, "If they don't take you, I will." Like he's got evil in his eyes or something. I don't know. The detectives still don't know if this was a calculated murder or a random act of evil, but over the next 24 hours, they begin to uncover the horrifying acts of this Christmas morning. Come on, Eric. I'm reading in the tags about what kind of mental issues he had. In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office receives a frantic call from a woman claiming her nephew is choking her husband. On the line is 63-year-old Elizabeth Ann Pullen, her voice shaking as she struggles to pull her nephew away. Officers rush to the scene unaware that the elderly man is only moments away from death. Hey, quit that. Quit. Quit. Lie down. Lie down. I'm telling you, lie down. Put your hands behind your back now. Put them behind your back now. Don't you move. Had to do it. Had to do what? Tell him as come on with it. Elderly male's blue in the face. Let's knock him over that way they can work on him. What's his name? I'm Shawn. Shawn, get up, man. Shawn. You can go ahead and pick me up. Yeah, turn over. Bend your knees. All right, now help me get you up. You know, I don't like that with this fatty. And then he went crazy and started hitting him. This is Shawn Eugene Good caught in the act of choking his uncle Ricky to death. All Shawn can say is that he had to do it, which leaves officers with an even bigger mystery to solve. Meanwhile, as officers try to bring Ricky back to life, it becomes clear it may already be too late and that they might have a murder investigation on their hands. Rick. Rick. Rick. Ricky. He's choking him. I pulled him up. He was on top of him choking him and he said, "I I had him I got him in my power." And he said, "Get on your belly." He said, "I had to do it." I don't think he's breathing. Yeah. Unless the doctor says otherwise, he's going to have to get a calling a doctor. As they desperately try to revive Ricky, the officer speaks with his wife, Elizabeth. She's still in shock watching the nephew she's helped raise being arrested while her beloved husband clings to life. But what she's about to reveal will become crucial evidence painting a very dark picture of the man they've just taken into custody. I don't know what happened. I don't I mean I don't know. Now, is that your husband? Yes. What happened? He was not well this He come out here last night when I got off from work. Let him sleep on the couch in my house. I fixed him breakfast and everything was okay, I thought. I went in the kitchen and kept coughing and all of a sudden he just Next thing I know, he was hollering this and I was trying to get him off of him and he wouldn't get off. How was What was he doing to him I hate that. He was choking him. Okay. He choked him till he can't can't breathe. When initially when you come out and he's on top choking him like in a headlock? Yes. Okay, what happened? Hollering Shawn's hollering "Giving up. Give it up. Let it go. Let it go." I don't know what he was saying. I mean I don't know what that means. And then he said, "If they don't take you, I will." So, what does that mean? As of now, no one understands what made Shawn snap at his uncle on that peaceful fall morning. Shawn's been living quietly there for years. Though he's known to drink excessively and doesn't go outside much, he has never shown any signs of aggression before. But this is when the sergeant arrives and he knows exactly how to handle the situation. So, he lays out a detailed plan for the team, a plan that will ensure the victim's family gets the justice they deserve. He was still choking him. I I pulled my taser out and I said, "Get off, yeah." And he he rolled off and he started out like he was going to get up. I said, "Get on the ground." Cuffed him. Something's wrong with him. It don't I don't know. That's the I heard him say that. See if we can figure out what kind of issues he's got. We need that body cam doc so we can review that as quick as we can. The way he's acting, I don't know how y'all going to be I can't really hear him. Yeah, let's let's go ahead and just send him back here. He's laying on his side. The sergeant orders the officers to take Shawn straight to jail. On the way, Shawn keeps falling down, hyperventilating, and moving his hands erratically. But when they arrive and try to get him inside, he completely snaps. How we going to get him out? I don't know. Um I God damn. Okay. Step out, it won't hurt. All right, hold still right there. Shawn, what Shawn. I'm reading in the tags about what kind of mental issues he had. Not sure what what he's got going on. Hey, these guys are here to check you out, Shawn. Well, do you do you feel like you can walk or do you want us to wait on the on a wheelchair? There you go. You feeling okay now? All right, just breathe, man. Just breathe, okay? I can't fit through it one time, so I'm going first. Careful with Shawn, if you would, please, okay? Remember that one on my desk. Yes, sir. All right. Dude. What are you doing? Shawn. Hey. Hey. You all right? All right, well let's let's sit you back up and get you in this chair. Where would you rather sit? In the chair? Well, let's let's do this again. Shawn is finally brought into the interrogation room, but since he's so disoriented, the detectives decide to give him some time to collect himself. Meanwhile, back at the scene, Ricky's wife receives devastating news. Despite the paramedics' best efforts, her husband has been pronounced dead. Shawn's uncle was a hard-working, caring man loved by everyone. His favorite pastime was sitting on the porch counting airplanes with his grandkids. He cared deeply about Shawn, which makes what happened to him all the more tragic. Now, with a murder case on their hands, the stakes rise significantly. And with Shawn in no condition to talk, detectives bring his aunt, Elizabeth, into the station. What she says next points to the moment when Shawn seemingly lost his grip on reality, a moment that ultimately led to Ricky's brutal murder. Ricky was hitting on the table telling him to quit and he wouldn't quit. He just kept saying, "If they don't get you, I will." Like he's real like agitated, you know? He's like like he's got evil in his eyes or something. I don't know. He said his mama died. It's like they just went He just went crazy, you know? And what what makes you say that he went crazy after that? It's just by the way he was doing. Shawn's mother died a few years ago leaving his already fragile mental state even more unstable. This is when the detective truly begins to understand just how mentally disturbed Shawn has been for years and how the system's failures made today's tragedy feel almost inevitable. The detective ends the interview with Elizabeth there and by now, Shawn has calmed down considerably and the detective decides it's time to question him still holding out hope for some kind of motive. But what he learns is that sometimes evil can't be explained away. When asked why he did it, he offers one crazy explanation after another. "I killed him because I loved him. It had to be done for the safety of the universe, for the world, for the children, for the military." But this is when Shawn's delusions would begin to fade and he would finally start to grasp what he's done. Hey Shawn, how are you? [Music] How you feeling? I'm sorry for this lot. Shawn, are there any injuries that you have that were from Ricky fighting back? No. I've been told that there's an injury in in inside your hairline on the right side of your head. Can you show that to me? And you're still not sure where that head injury came from? No. It could have or in the back seat of the car. And did you hit your head wall? I was wrestling or something. I don't know where it was. In the back seat of the car? Yeah. Man, I got to ask what happened. Were you planning on killing him or This is something that just kind of It just kind of happened. It just kind of happened. This is the moment Shawn finally realizes he's killed the man who cared most about him, perhaps even showing his first sign of regret. Shawn Eugene Good was charged with murder and aggravated assault. He ultimately pleaded guilty to killing his uncle and received a life sentence with parole eligibility after 30 years.