Delusional Ex Wife Thinks She Can Leave After Admitting To Murder Plot

Watch this police interrogation with intense raw interrogation from the interrogation room as police conduct a full interrogation of a suspect. This raw interrogation footage captures every moment of the suspect interview, complete with deception detection techniques, and criminal psychology in true JCS style interrogation. 1. The Background Vanessa Valdiglesias LaValle (also referred to as Valdiglesias-Lavalle) was born and raised in Peru. She met Timothy Grady, approximately 25 years older, through an online dating service. Grady brought her to Skagit County, Washington; they married in 2008. They had two sons (referred to in court records as S.G. and J.G.). The couple separated by 2014. Grady filed for dissolution in 2015. After the divorce, Vanessa initially had custody and Grady paid child support. In 2019 a court awarded Grady full custody; Vanessa was ordered to pay support and received limited weekly unsupervised visitation. Defense materials later described a history of domestic conflict and immigration-related pressure during the marriage. The trial court noted empathy for those claims but found they were not sufficiently linked to the 2020 offense for a downward departure at the original sentencing. 2. The Crime Date: June 2, 2020. Location: Vanessa’s residence in Skagit County, Washington, during a scheduled four-hour visitation. Grady dropped off the two boys. During the visit, Vanessa discussed with the children the idea of putting rat poison in Grady’s food or drink so that she and the children could live together “forever.” The older son later told authorities he overheard talk of “bad stuff” and “rat poison” and went into the bedroom. No poisoning was carried out. Grady was not harmed. The charge was solicitation, not completed murder or assault. Court records describe the conversation as including an offer of being together permanently if the father were killed. That offer became the legal focus of whether it counted as a “thing of value” under Washington’s solicitation statute. 3. The Investigation The older son recorded part of the conversation (at Grady’s prior instruction to record if concerning talk occurred). The recording was provided to law enforcement and admitted at trial. The Court of Appeals later held that admission of the recording was proper. The son testified that he took the discussion seriously but that his mother did not hand him poison or a specific item to use. Vanessa did not testify at trial. Charges were filed in July 2020 (initially including attempted murder and solicitation; the case proceeded to trial on two solicitation counts). Key evidence: the audio/video recording, the child’s testimony, and the context of the recent custody change. Vanessa’s later habeas filing (2024) shows she remained in custody while challenging the conviction in federal court; public records available through 2025–2026 do not show the conviction itself being vacated after the state Supreme Court ruling. 4. Conviction and Sentencing Jury trial in Skagit County Superior Court. Verdict date: April 9, 2021. Guilty on both counts: solicitation to commit first-degree murder and solicitation to commit first-degree assault with a noxious substance. At sentencing (July 2021), the assault-solicitation count was vacated to avoid double jeopardy. Original sentence on the remaining count: 180 months (15 years), the low end of the standard range. The defense had requested a much shorter exceptional sentence (about one year) based on lack of criminal history and claimed domestic-violence trauma; the judge declined, saying the expert report did not connect that history to her mental state at the time of the offense. 2022: Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, ruling that a promise to be together “forever” was not a “thing of value” under the statute. 2023: Washington Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and reinstated the conviction, holding that “thing of value” can include non-monetary inducements that have desirability or utility. January 2024: Court of Appeals vacated the 15-year sentence and remanded for resentencing so the trial court could properly consider the defense expert report on mitigation. Publicly reported records through early 2026 confirm the conviction stands after the Supreme Court decision and that resentencing was ordered; a later precise new sentence length is not clearly published in the sources reviewed. A federal habeas petition was filed in December 2024. true crime,law and crime network,interrogation,interrogation analysis,red thread interrogations,interrogation jcs inspired,interrogation jcs style,interrogation psychology,interrogation psychology jcs inspired,new interrogations 2026,interrogation breakdown,police interrogation psychology,bodycam,interview,case analysis,bodycam footage,crime investigation,police interrogation,suspect interview,int,interrogations 2026,interrogation videos,jcs true crime