Former Kansas Cop Accused of Killing Wife
MALVEAUX: A former Kansas police officer is on trial for allegedly murdering his wife. His name is Brett Seacat. Hers was Vashti. And Seacat accused of shooting his wife and then setting her body on fire. Listen to his response in a police interrogation.</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Did you murder her?</s>SEACAT: No.</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Did you pull the trigger?</s>SEACAT: No.</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: Did you kill her?</s>SEACAT: No!</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: She told a friend a week and a half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.</s>SEACAT: What!</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: You threatened to burn the house down and you threatened to make it look like she did it.</s>SEACAT: That is bull</s>MALVEAUX: Our Ted Rowlands has been covering the case. He joins us from Kingman, Kansas. Ted, he seems pretty defiant there in that video. What is his defense?</s>TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, basically, he's saying, Suzanne, that his wife was depressed and that she did this herself. That she set the house on fire and then got in her bed and shot herself in the head. He claims that he was downstairs. And he had just been served divorce papers three days prior to this murder, this killing. He says he got a phone call from her on his cell phone saying, get up here and get the kids. They had a 4-year-old and a 2- year-old. He claims he ran upstairs, saw the flames, ran into the bedroom, picked her up and realized she was dead, saw all the blood on the bed, dropped her and thought of the kids. So he runs out, grabs the kids, gets out of the house. And he calls 911 saying the house is on fire and my wife is upstairs. The prosecution saying that's complete malarkey. There's no way a woman is going to set her house on fire in three different spots, get back into bed, pull the covers all the way up onto her body and then shoot herself in the head. They say that this was a person that could not live without his wife. He had threatened to kill her before. And he did absolutely that. It's going to be a fascinating trial here. We're eight days into it. And the state of Kansas is absolutely riveted on this. This is a law enforcement family. He was a cop. His dad was a cop. His brother's a cop. He's going to take the stand. And he's going to have to save his skin here because there's evidence against him that is very compelling. And we expect the prosecution to finish their case up in the next few days. We expect him on the stand by the end of the week.</s>MALVEAUX: Ted, fascinating. We're going to be following that case very closely. Thank you, Ted. Appreciate it. Watch this. We have homes, schools, even churches now reduced to rubble after a terrifying tornado hitting Oklahoma. Up next, our own Nick Valencia just came back from a tour of a school where students had just minutes to run for cover.