Dateline vashti seacat biography

For one Kansas couple, brewing marital troubles turned dark and deadly on a fiery night in the spring of 2011. 

In the early morning hours of April 30, 2011, Brett Seacat called 911 to report that his wife, Vashti Seacat, had set the house on fire and then killed herself.  

At first listen, his story sounded credible enough to authorities: He’d been sleeping on the couch in their Kingman, Kansas home when Vashti, who had been asleep upstairs, called him on his cellphone and told him to get the children so they wouldn’t get hurt.  

He claimed he then heard a loud bang and went upstairs, where he found his wife dead from a gunshot wound and the house set ablaze. Brett said he grabbed their two young children and placed them inside of his wif