Paige Blades

Absolutely. That has been a concern since day one.

Absolutely.

Any amount of safety that I felt surrounding Marty or any of the assistance that he had given me was shattered when it turned out that the information that I had was helpful to detectives. It was life-changing. It was shattering.

No, she became, I wouldn't say so much jealous, but a little bit more possessive of him.

I met Scott in February 2011 and we became friends. I met his wife Desiree in May of the same year.

We were friends, we all hung out, we did stuff together.

He helped me with a lot of personal issues that I was going through.

And his wife knew about it. I was accepted as a part of their marriage. I had a relationship right along with both of them.

I slept in their bed, I shared food costs, I cooked, I cleaned.

She became, I wouldn't say so much jealous, but a little bit more possessive of him. And it kind of went away. When she started feeling uncomfortable, we kind of ended it. It was completely amicable, agreed upon. We stayed friends. There's never been an issue.

He had a funeral in Tri-Cities, and he ended up coming back here to spend the night.

that I was pregnant.

No, I definitely wasn't there to destroy their marriage.

Oh, he has violent tendencies, but he's not... He's not violent without provocation.

If he's attacked, he'll attack.

He's a teammate at the plant that I work at.

He's the one that got me the house. He bought my car outright, cash. I still haven't paid him back for it. He pays my insurance. He's done my grocery shopping. He's taken very well care of me.

We had just found out about three weeks before the shooting that I was pregnant.

Marty was one of the first people that I told. And apparently he decided that if the baby was Scott's like it was supposed to be, then Desiree would cause issues.

I was explaining to him what was going on.

Yeah. He just, he asked me, do you want me to take care of her like I did the last time?

He went in the front door because he knew that that was the closest to the bedroom. He alarmed off and he opened the door. And Ada came out barking. Des came out right behind her and he shot her. He shot her three times.

It was a full clip. He got closer to her as she was trying to crawl away.

He went back inside again, grabbed a jewelry box off of her dresser, and he left.

Started the fire in the burn barrel. Burned all of the clothes, his shoes, his gloves.

He worships the girl I walk on.

What is the word that we are using that if something bad happens that you are going to say? Avalanche.

Because I know that you said that there was no evidence. So I'm just wondering for sure, for sure, if there's nothing left.

You can't freak me out, put me in full-on panic mode, and then just be like, nope, I don't know what you're talking about.

We talked about it if I came over next weekend and In your house where you know that nobody is listening? Strip me down first?

There are a lot of things that people get wrong about me. There are a lot of assumptions.

I love Des. And I don't say that past tense. She's still special to me. There's no part of me that ever wanted anything bad to happen to her.

Oh, absolutely. I am a completely different person.

We became very good friends, and eventually friends with benefits, and eventually we didn't have a relationship anymore. She met Scott in early 2011,

They were in a one-bedroom apartment, and they had a California king bed. And she was like, there's plenty of room. All three of us shared the bed.

Mm-hmm. And she's the one who put Scott in the middle.

Not all together, but I was sexually active with Scott and I was sexually active with Des.

I honestly don't remember that conversation.

That was the big fight. I know that I was out of line with how I responded to her. There were a lot of other things that were going on in my life at the time that were compounding stress.

No, I definitely wasn't there to destroy their marriage.

No. Him solely?

I still don't remember. And that one's come up quite a few times too.

He was my rock for a little while. He would go on a grocery run for me if I needed, or if I needed to borrow gas money, then I would get it from him. He was the only person that I had that I could turn to if I had a struggle.

I assume that it had something to do with his undying love for me, as he would say.

It was not just hard. It was a devastating blow. Who was this person that I had let into my life?

I honestly don't know. I don't know or understand how Marty's mind works. I honestly never have.

None whatsoever. I... I've heard that quite a few times, but never in a million years. There was never any reason for that to happen.

I don't think that's fair. I believe that if Marty hadn't been in my life, Des would still be alive. I understand that to a lot of people, it probably seems like and feels like I am central to everything. But from my own side, I'm on the outside looking in. I didn't feel like I was the one in the center.

I've heard that.

I had nothing to do with it. It's incredibly unfair that I risked my life to do the right thing, and I'm being crucified for existing.

I risked my life to do the right thing, and I'm being crucified.