The parrot reveals his owner's killer

Gun shooting early in the morning in the Sand Lake area of Michigan disturbed the community in the area.

When an anxious man went to search Glenna's home and Martin Duram, he found the place robbed. In the bedroom, Martin was dead on the floor with five gunshot wounds. Glenna had a bullet in her head and was barely breathing.

As Glenne struggled to survive, the community asked what had happened in their home. Who wanted the couple dead? If Glenna did not survive, would she ever be found guilty? But the killer did not know there was a witness to the shooting and in time would speak.

Martin, 46, and Glenna, 49, had been married for more than 10 years and both had children from previous relationships. Martin was seriously injured in a car accident in 1990, leaving him disabled, and Glenna was his guardian.

The couple gambled, but the woman was out of control because of large debts. She was responsible for all their finances, so Martin might not have had the idea that he was falling into serious debt.

By 2015, their financial problems were so bad that Duram's house was going to complete and was going to auction. Glenna knew what was happening and had tried to hide the truth from her husband.

It was May 12, 2015, when the neighbor heard gunshots from the couple's house.

Glenna spent several months healing in the hospital until the media talked about a suspected murder. When Glenna was able to speak, she claimed that she did not remember anything that had happened.

But Glenna was already the leading suspect in the police. Martin's children found three suicide notes in their house signed by Glenna é one for her ex-husband and one for each of the children.

Glenna insisted that she had not written her suicide notes, but an analysis of the handwriting revealed the truth.

Police suspect Glenna had shot Martin and then turned the gun toward herself.

Without knowing it, there was a witness who saw everything that night. And that was Bud, a gray African parrot, belonging to Martin and his ex-wife, Christina “don't shoot”, continued and repeated several months after the crime, imitating Martin's voice.

His parents agreed that Bud was repeating their son's last words after his wife shot him. The family recorded the parrot's words and gave him a journalist.

The publication of his words prompted authorities for a possible murder by his wife. More than a year after Martin's death, Glenna was arrested and charged with first - degree murder.

Before the trial, there was much speculation about whether a parrot trial can be used in court.

When the trial finally began this year, the prosecution told the court that Glenna had shot her husband five times with a married gun she owned, and then tried to commit suicide.

They speculated that the couple's financial problems had caused a strain on their marriage and that Martin had discovered that they would lose their home because of problems with Glenna's gambling.

In July, after a ten - day trial and eight - hour jury discussion, Glenna was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Glenna was obviously angry at the decision. A month later, she was sentenced to life imprisonment with no means of parole.

At first, Glenna was considered a victim, but thanks to a parrot named Bud and his loyalty to Martin, she was exposed as a brutal killer who fired five bullets on the man she claimed to love.