After Everything I’ve Done For You SINISTER | S1 E6 (Sheila Trott)

From the outside looking in, Sheila and Daniel Trott seemed to have a picture perfect life. But no one could have predicted that years in the future Sheila would later find herself convicted of first degree murder after being caught in a love triangle.

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[skittletoes]

Picking up three jobs to put somebody through school and then getting cheated on would send me into psychosis

[trashpanda]

Please, if i ever work 3 jobs and do all the housework for a man just put me out of my misery. I've clearly gone insane.

[cjmchugh]

I’m so glad Gino had such a solid alibi. That could’ve gone very differently otherwise.

[Godsavem]

If i took THREE jobs to put a man thru school to fullfill his life dream...and he did me like that...i dont know just how far I'd go. Id go insane, that's certain.

[CorpseQueen]

"Restaurant life can really bring this sense of closeness"
Shows clip of woman very clearly saying "F*ck you" to the other staff 😂

[lilithisbored]

can't get over how absolutely awesome the intro is

[BudJr]

Boze you gotta do a video on Dorothea Puente, for your next Sinister video. She’s an old lady who ran a care center for other elderly people, the homeless, and people who were unhealthy, or just down on their luck. At some point a lot of the people in the home just disappeared out of nowhere. Later, a lot of them were found buried in the garden.

[a.evelyn]

Sheila seemed to be more in love with an image of Dan than Dan himself. She was equally obsessed with prestige, but she attained that through Dan. Dan was an object to her whom she wished to control, that is by being controlled by Dan & her desire for him or, as I said, the image of him & what having for him made her.

[coldbru-on-ice]

That Reddit post and Boze's theory is completely correct. I have those feelings too sometimes. Especially if you come from an environment where as a child, you test boundaries and do things that aren't right, and then the punishment for those things is shame, ridicule, and excessive guilt and blaming. You don't learn to acknowledge your faults, you learn to sweep them under the rug and pretend they don't exist. You try to be the perfect daughter/sister/mother/family member/etc. to cover up the flaws instead of sitting with them and understanding them, because you believe that they make you a horrible person. And that's just one of the ways you create a Sheila Trott

[a.evelyn]

It’s not healthy at all to make someone else’s dreams your own, like Sheila did. Your sense of self is dependent on that other person. It’s never healthy to be consumed by another individual, whether or not they’re your life partner & there seems to be genuine commitment there. Losing that individual is losing yourself, & that’s dangerous.

[thewerezatch]

I appreciate creators that do their ad reads in a different outfit. It makes it easier to skip past 😊

[stephanielloyd]

LOVE this series Boze! Something sinister happened in my little hometown of Worcester, UK. In the 70s, a man called David McGreavy brutally murdered 3 young children he was babysitting, then impaled their heads on spikes down town! He blamed it on PTSD and LSD! He was sentenced to life but has recently been seen on day release! Family are begging to keep him locked up. Nobody ever covers this case, and its crazy! Also the house it happened in, there was another murder in the early 1900s!!

[starlingswallow]

Schools NEED to teach kids on how to have their own identity, self esteem and self worth! Being addicted to external validation is _dangerous._
We need to teach kids how to give themselves internal validation, how to discover WHO they are, apart from anyone else. 💗

I sort of did what Sheila did (the supporting a spouses dreams instead of my own) and I was led around by the nose for years. I kept trying to _prove_ my worth to the ex, because he treated me like crap....and I took that as evidence to my greatest fears: I'm ugly, stupid, worthless 😢

None of it is true!! I know now....

[MoltenUranium]

I wonder if Shiela feels the need to follow up all of her negative statements (ex: “Kelly always has to be the centre of attention… but she’s always so much fun”) with a positive rebuke because she’s attempting to push back this shadow too. She doesn’t have any idea how to manage her negative thoughts and emotions because she’s always considered them a separate entity from herself. Maybe that’s why she ignored all of the cheating up until Kelly; she ignored it like she ignored this shadow until it got too big and swallowed her up, just like the divorce did.

[NoNameNomad....]

I don't usually like True Crime channels as it leaves an uneasy feeling in my soul. But, there's something so engaging about the way Boze tells stories that I find it easy to digest and educational, even. Plus all the informative tips and tools she gives out on how to deal with and de-escalate situations with narcissists, is extremely helpful.
Lord knows I've encountered a few!

As someone else's stated the intro is amazing, it's up there with law and orders iconic intro


Eww that got so gruesome, so fast. How extremely sad RIP Kelly

[michaelgroulx]

I still think about a couple of shows ago the hard-working, independent storytelling with empathy, respect, and etiquette miss Bose told and showed so much respect about this middle-aged guy who just played blues on the weekend and really put herself into the feelings of what that meant for him just blows me away. I love her so much and I get Sundays and Mondays off so this is technically my Sunday and I absolutely love this show and love her even more, she’s awesome

I had a little mental health thing pop up a while back that I’ve gotten over, but during the process when I was on the mend, I stumbled
Onto her . she showed so much empathy through her storytelling, and I was at a point where I wanted to just give up on the world and slowly showed me that there are people out there who are empathetic and on a deeper level how people can hurt other people, and it kinda gave me strength to realize that I wasn’t misunderstood in the world and it helped me in such a manner I can’t even ever repay her thank you boze for being out there in the world

[may-qydk]

i’ve fallen out of love with true crime recently but i still adore sinister

[bree]

I was just looking for something to watch thank you!!!

[pastaandmashedpotatoes]

My hamster really likes your voice for some reason, every time I play a vid he relaxes and starts falling asleep to you. He wouldn't get off me for an hour or more today bcs I was watching your vid (and that's wild bcs he never stays still)

[thomas]

This case instantly reminded me of one that took place in Italy in the early 2000's (2001-2003, I believe). A woman named Annamaria Franzoni was accused of murdering her three-year old son, Samuele. In that case, there was evidence pointing to a severe, underlying and undiagnosed mental illness that might have gotten her exonerated or confined to treatment at a psychiatric hospital, but she refused psychological analyses as she claimed she hadn't killed him. Among the things that got her convicted were:

1) The first people to show up at the scene - a neighbor and the family doctor - described her as coming in and out of a trance, robotic-like state prior to first responders showing up at the location. She'd be frantically crying and begging for help, and a couple of minutes later, she would be eerily emotionless and silent, just kind of zoning out of the whole situation.

2) When her husband showed up right as first-aid personnel were airlifting the boy to a hospital in the main regional city, they overheard Annamaria insisting to him that they make another baby.

3) During her various testimonies, after she seems to have "come to", she would blame different people, while hypothesizing how the murder who have taken place in such accurate detail, that either she had witnessed it happen before her very eyes, or she had been the culprit.

4) The morning of the murder, prior to the assault on Samuele, her husband had contacted the local equivalent of 911 because Annamaria reported body paralysis among other things, which strongly resembled symptoms of a panic attack. When first responders arrived, she was already feeling better. Still, when her husband left for work, she begged him to stay because she feared something bad would happen if he were gone.

5) Related to the above, she was known to have had crises over the past several years, as a result of which the family doctor had prescribed anti-depressants without a proper diagnosis. She apparently never took these.

Other elements unrelated to her mental state proved more damning, but evidence of her deteriorating mental state have made most Italian law enforcement officers and psychologists who have analyzed the case theorize that she may have entered into a stress- or pathologically-induced dissociative state after reaching a breaking point. This would explain her bizarre behavior, comments, and subsequent denial yet explicit descriptions of what happened. That entire first day of the murder, at least, she was probably coming in and out of a dissociative state, hence why she'd be crying as one would normally expect when she was "here", but then cold and distant when she regressed back to the "culprit" mindset. Afterwards, during testimonies inculpating others, her subconscious memory was likely providing the details of what happened, without her realizing she'd been the one to do it.

Like I said, though, she never accepted being tested for possible mental health issues, so she was ultimately convicted. Sheila Trott reminded me of this woman, because of her initial claims of having murdered Kelly the day of, then once she'd come to, she mentally switched the story. Without knowledge of her medical history, I can't say whether her dissociation would have been as strong as Annamaria's, or whether she was consciously trying to deflect the blame onto someone else, but it's food for thought regarding the mysteries of mental health.