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Rachel Pittman Video Transcript
Rachel Pittman Video Transcript
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1 secondShe was welcomed into their home like family. They gave her shelter when she had nowhere else to go. They invited her
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9 secondsto Thanksgiving dinner. And then in one horrifying night, she took everything
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16 secondsfrom them. This is the chilling story of Rachel Pitman, a 16-year-old girl who committed one of Texas’s most disturbing acts of betrayal.
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27 secondsThree lives lost. A community shattered and a motive that remains a mystery to
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34 secondsthis day. Redwater, Texas, a quiet community in Bowie County where neighbors know each other by name.
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44 secondsIn the spring of 2011, this peaceful town became the setting for a tragedy that would shock the nation. Rachel
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53 secondsPitman was 16. By all accounts, she was struggling, running away from home,
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59 secondsfacing personal turmoil. And that’s when Amanda Doss opened her door. Amanda Doss, 34, was a mother who believed in second chances.
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1 minute, 11 secondsShe took Rachel in when she had nowhere to go. She introduced her to her children, 11-year-old Gyavir and
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1 minute, 19 seconds8-year-old Texas. To them, Rachel wasn’t a stranger. She was a guest, a friend.
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1 minute, 27 secondsMay 11th, 2011.
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1 minute, 30 secondsAround 3:00 a.m., Amanda answered a knock at her back door. It was Rachel.
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1 minute, 36 secondsShe’d walked over carrying a 2 L soda bottle filled with gasoline and a 4 to 5 in wooden handled kitchen knife hidden
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1 minute, 45 secondsin her waistband. They talked. Then Rachel stood up as if to leave and attacked. Investigators say she stabbed
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1 minute, 54 secondsAmanda to death, then killed Gwyavir in Texas. Afterward, she poured the gasoline on the bodies and around the
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2 minutes, 2 secondshouse and lit it with a lighter she’d brought. But Rachel wasn’t done. In a calculated effort to destroy evidence,
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2 minutes, 11 secondsshe doused the victims in a flammable liquid and set them on fire. The triple murder went unsolved for over a month.
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2 minutes, 20 secondsThen on August 12th, 2011,
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2 minutes, 24 secondsexactly 3 months later, Rachel’s own mother, Renee Pedigrew, called the Bowie County Sheriff crying. Rachel had just
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2 minutes, 34 secondsconfessed to her. Rachel went to the station willingly, Bible in hand, and gave details only the killer would know.
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2 minutes, 43 secondsShe described washing blood off in her bathroom, later confirmed by forensic tests, burning her clothes and shoes in
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2 minutes, 52 secondsa burn pile, breaking the knife blade into 20 pieces and scattering them in the woods, and even returning a week
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2 minutes, 59 secondslater to scrub the fence she’d jumped over. Rachel was 16, so Texas law barred
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3 minutes, 6 secondsthe death penalty. She was certified as an adult and indicted for capital murder.
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3 minutes, 13 secondsOn the eve of trial in 2013, now 18, she withdrew her insanity defense and took a
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3 minutes, 21 secondsplea. She plead guilty to two counts of firstdegree murder. Judge Leon Pek Jr.
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3 minutes, 28 secondsgave her two life sentences with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
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3 minutes, 32 secondsShe cannot appeal. As of 2026, Rachel Nicole Pitman is 31 years old. She is incarcerated at the Murray unit in Texas. TDCJ number 0183034.
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3 minutes, 46 secondsHer maximum sentence is life. Her parole eligibility date is August 12th, 2041 when she’ll be in her mid4s.
