The Mysterious Fire That Killed Catherine Novak | Killer's Mistake | Real Crime 

So Sad 😢 Such a sad and horrible crime.. Just can't imagine what poor Catherine went through having a husband that was cheating on her and then tragically murdered is just unspeakable and horrific 😢

“Causes a nice person to do bad things” wasn’t really a nice person, you can’t really be manipulated into committing murder, at the end it’s a decision made, clearly wasn’t a very nice person to help Novak kill his wife. 😂

He didn't give a dam about those children. He left them home all dope up and went on with his sick idea and killed their mother. He wanted that money and not to pay those few dollars to take care of their children😢😢. My heart aches 💔 for the wife who lost her life. While 2 people could have said no and called the law.

The fact the girlfriend listened to this horrific case, knew the $$ was from an insurance, then kept quite for 4yrs 🤷🏼‍♀️ wth she is as bad as the dirt bag ex husband !

So sad Catherine thought she could make him change. Never happens

If someone is told 'I'm going to kill my spouse' and doesn't report it to the police. They should be charged with a crime. You know when someone is joking or not. And might I add, NY has been screwed up for quite some time if all of their EMT ranks have mental health issues. Good Lord!

What is wrong with people? I don’t care who it is telling me they are going to kill someone, whether it’s a husband, a boyfriend, a co-worker, family member, etc. I would never not go to law enforcement or even that person as well to prevent it!

That witch only told on him for revenge. Shame on the justice system for given that witch immunity.

The world is full of evil AND stupid people. Be careful with who you associate yourself !

@34:23 ..... SHE SLIPD RIGHT THERE ... SHES PUTN IT ALL ON HIM BUT RIGHT THERE SHE SAY "BUT UGH ... "WE" WERE GUNA DO IT ON A WKND" !! SHE knew the whole time

WOW I am only into this story (at 13:45) and what sort of Fire Department is this??? NOBODY reports this "employee?" - Are they all the same? Come on man.....

Kathy Augustine had one daughter named Dallas(by her Delta Airlines pilot husband). I just read where Dallas killed her female partner and then herself in a murder-suicide. WOW! There has been a lot of tragedy in this family. I was also wondering if Chaz may have killed Kathy's husband who died in the ICU...just a thought.

So Paul telling her he didn’t love her and never had wasn’t enough to leave him but it took a phone call from his girlfriend for her to wake up?

Why did the girlfriend think he was going to be honest to her. If a man can cheat on his wife. What makes you different? Murder. You were scared for your life. But you didn't even think about the poor wife when he was taking her life. God have mercy on all of you sick monsters. We all will reap what we sow in this world 🌎.

And these people's jobs was to save people? .... how ironic!

Those nurses who were smart enough to know something wasn't right and decided to trust their instincts by quietly taking those liquid samples while Cathy was still alive... are absolute crusaders. They should all get raises because not only did thier actions provide justice for Cathy, but no doubt they saved future victims.

So this Miss Truthteller after 4 years and being cheated on then now thought she could do “the right thing” and come clean 🙄🙄. Had she not been cheated on would she have done the right thing 🤬

If he will cheat with you...He will cheat on you!!!

The narrative about a seemingly healthy 50 yr old female having a heart attack as implausible is completely wrong. Happened several times in my experience as an ER dr.

Interesting that the neighbor/journalist is Nina Burleigh who all of us in NYC know for her own sordid tale of getting married to an architect in the city, getting ready to move with him to Chicago and then the day after the wedding meeting a photographer in a bar, falling for him (he was 10 years her junior), divorcing and marrying the new man. No comparison but just interesting.

The scary part is this couple were saving life’s the mistress should be in prison also

I was HOPING that the puzzle would be taken APART in the end!! Would have been more "fitting!" YIKES! WHAT FREAKS. Those poor children.😢😢❤

That girlfriend playing poor me professional victim is full of BS. Why didn't the dead wife change that insurance beneficiary? An EMT is NOT a paramedic

LaFrance is the name of a company in Elmira, NY that build fire engines and emergency equipment

So, if he’d remained faithful to girlfriend she’d never have admitted it! Whoa, that’s hard! What on earth made her think he’d be faithful to her. I’m sorry, but if she knew about the plan and didn’t alert anyone , she’s complicit. Guilty as much as he is. Life in prison - and we mean life! - at the very least. Gosh, I was always against the death penalty but people like this make you change your mind. Poor, poor children. Learning that dad killed their mom. 🙏🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

How does it go from love to murder in 10 years?

The second story is just as sad 😢

He killed her on my birthday. Geez... the more criminal investigation documentaries I watch the more I find that crimes were committed in the window of Dec 11-13th, or were taken to court in that area. It's odd and slightly uncomfortable to know that at the time when I celebrate reaching another year, someone's life gets taken or is finalized for their crime by the justice system.

I was hoping they somehow managed to mess up that silly symbolic puzzle and end up with a mangled portrait

I find it outrageous that Michelle and Scott could think Paul justified in MURDERING HIS WIFE. Or pretend to.

He killed her the same way he killed her husband who had stroke when he recovered he suddenly died in the hospital days before discharge. he killed him upon her request bc she was dating him while her husband was laying in hospital bed "karma"

He used a drug that Paralyzed her. I had that drug when I was in the hospital. I was aware of everything that was going on but I could not move. It was a terrible feeling and if he murdered her no I know he murdered her that she would have. Known what was going on as I did as I laid in my hospital bed with the same medicatit.Was terrible.She knew exactly what was happening to her but she couldn't not do a thing.He is a big PO.S

what is really scary is these are paramedics. How was the addiction not picked up.

Jesus these women must have been desperate to have a relationship with him!

Paul is a keeper😂

I’m a man, we look at things. We can’t help it. It’s in our nature. But any creep that looks his stuff at work. Yuk. Red flag for me.

Why DID companies like The EMS ALLOWED THEM TO WORK IN THE MENTAL CONDITION THEY WERE IN? UNSTABLE UNBELIEVABLE!

Talking about killing his wife, a JOKE????

Why are some people dumb enough to be with someone they know killed their spouse? Why wouldn’t you think you could be next?

So the girlfriend was okay with him murdering his wife as long as she was his girlfriend.. But now that she's not his girlfriend, all the sudden she has a problem with it? What makes her think that he would not have done this to her? She's lucky that he just decided to mess around with somebody else and not be faithful to her, rather than kill her too 🤦

The constant moving of puzzle pieces is so annoying!

🙋🏾‍♀️😳😳😳 this is sad and this is weird and was weird for me. These people are trained are supposed to be confident in helping saving lives, and they themselves need to be saying they have all type of psychological issues bipolar. Why are you working SNMT emetic and you got bipolar, I would trust you with my life and you have bipolar yourself. You need to be help you need to be monitored. You need to be watched. This is weird “”weird”””😳😳😳. thanks for uploading this now when I see him teasing the ambulance ambulance when I see them I’m gonna wonder if they suffering from bipolar and his hearing😳.

The only person who you can change is yourself. Catherine was very naive. Rest in peace, Catherine. If someone tells you that they'll murder anyone, go to the police and report it 😢

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Damn he’s probably the smarter criminal I’ve seen . Used a different car, drugged the kids, left phone at home , booties, duct tapes clothes ect. Had those 2 not come forward he just may have gotten away with it 😮😮

Why was my comment taken down, RU-vid?😡😡😡All I wrote was what goes around comes around!

That mistress is an accessory after the fact. She should be imprisoned

Whip out the laundry list of diagnostic terms people use to try and excuse their behavior and poor me professional victim mode. Immediately cue fake tears, sanctimonious outrage, false claims and outright LIES. Immediately deploy the professional victim textbook and victimology textbook.

Murder aside, what the hell was WRONG with his coworkers to put up with his unprofessional shite at work??? What gives with NY EMTs???

What a tragedy...........................Life is about making the right choices.

That "connection " is LUST. Not "love".

That friend is so annoying with her community and not having someone too look after her kids or gossip.

What the hell makes friends throw away their lives, risk it all by helping their crazy friends commit murder ?

4 ex husbands??!! Wtf!!? Who believes that woman was sane??!!

2nd story does seem like they both met their match 🤢

Yes. Sudden adult cardiac death can happen. It's a misfire of the heart rhythm. Did they have an EP see her to check for an electrical malfunction in her heart? Did anyone think chaz aided to her problems in the hospital? Did anyone watch him when he visited her? It's a good thing they checked her blood. Was it given to her for intubation?

Those poor children....

Ok. In this case he killed her. But a calm voice isn't that unusual from a person trained in medicine. Shock and/or being in handling a crises mode can make people act like that too.

Both these cases would’ve been solved before anything happened if only two people who clearly didn’t get along wouldn’t have gotten together

Thats the death penalty surely

The minute you said porn addiction and drugs, to me, that’s a huge deal breaker.

Catherine: how cute is her wedding dress and hat? She should have had her happy ending.

You should cover the Meaghan McDonald Case out of Middletown NY!!!

If Paul didnt cheat on her then what?

Higgs is now released on bail.

I work in an ER and we keep Succinylcholine in our airway cart with a code of 1234. It's not even regulated, checked or accounted for because we use it alot in emergency situations. Kind of scary ay

At 55:55 ,was that still part of the "reconstruction"?😂

A little bit guilty?! She should be feeling a lot guilty.

Novak thinks he needs a driver (who I'm sure he offered money in order to do it) but the driver doesn't even drive him back from the murder? Novak has to drive. And the investigators can't even figure out it's arson and murder? She wouldn't have had smoke inhalation since she already would have been dead. So Novak gets all the insurance money. Thanks for being stupid, insurance company! His girlfriend and his friend were fine with murder too. Neither of them were "good" people. They also had "twisted morals."

This story rings way too many bells

All of the EMTs Are Complicit!

Shame on that lady. 4 years? Smh

Chaz Higgs sounds a bit like The Donald.

I feel very sorry for the wife. She obviously was a very doting mother and I feel terrible that she wasn’t t able to be in her child’s lives…….BUT I also feel terrible for that dog trapped in a cage. Horrible, despicable excuse of a human being!

Nothing worst then a women scorned. But thank goodness she finally told the truth. Justice for Catherine Novak, but could bring her back, but still justice.

It was okay with his girlfriend until he cheated on her, but she knew what he did and lied and stayed with him for 4 more years! What a piece of crap! Knowing what he did to the mother of his children, why wouldn’t you think he could do that very easily to you!

Raced around in the woods at 160mph? Yeah, I'm calling BS.

Rural New York is beautiful, but seems to collect a fair number of sketchy characters.

38:18 that's not how strangling works at all. Who directed the reenactments? 😅

Sooo he described to her how he murdered his wife , and you , the side chick thought this was good husband material? You had no problem closing your eyes and sleeping next to him at night , but he got a new woman and you developed a conscience? Uh huh 🙄. I’m surprised she survived, like they say , when a man marries his mistress he creates a vacancy.

Maybe don’t start a video by telling us the end at the start mate

Neighbors r just nosy asking her probaby to many personel questions 🇺🇲

They didnt skip a meal

To be fair, who hasn’t researched chloroform? Nobody? Oh never mind.

i find myself drawn to that woman Linda Rodriguez, Hi, my name is beholder & beauty is in my eye

Girlfriend needed some time too

Kathy seemed to be intelligent. Why would she leave everything to a scum bag like Paul ? Love be damned , he may have gotten a smidge of the pie, but the greater portion would have been left in trust for my children .

Hell I mean I find it very weird behavior for a woman to lose her husband and take another man that allegedly is a stranger to Hawaii only like a few weeks later I find it odd that a woman would take a man nurse out to lunch and start marrying him three weeks later they got married and this was like a week later he died that they went to Hawaii I want even question that s*** that's the behavior of a person that just killed her husband and is getting a million dollar life insurance policy that's how you that's a person that killed their husband that's that's how you behave what he's doing is exactly the same thing only less it's not like he's out taking somebody some nurse to Hollywood or Hawaii or a f****** you know like on a cruise or some s*** that would be suspicious right but it wasn't when she did it I just can't wrap my mind around the difference between what he's doing after she died and the way that she behaved after her husband died like a week later that's weird to me this is why I believe that Kathy knew this guy way before her husband died and she actually arranged for her husband to die because he didn't want her to be in politics anymore and no one even questioned that s*** that is crazy to me they wouldn't be able to see what they did to her husband after he died they wouldn't be able to find anything they would just assume it was a stroke because of his age and that's exactly what they did but now that she's dead it's a it's a big deal I find that funny

The background sound track is too loud and very annoying, I ended up turning it off.

These two shouldn’t have married. They didn’t like the same kind of life. No matter how many sparks fly in the bedroom, if your goals are diametrically opposed to one another, it won’t work! You have to be able to be friends that can be together doing the ordinary, mundane, and even tedious. Paul, however, is a scumbag. Normal people just get divorced. If need be, forgo the child support to keep the peace. Work three jobs if need be. Do not murder your wife. Better be know as a deadbeat Dad and womanizer than a murderer. And torching the dog? That’s just low!

I wonder if she has something to do with her husband's death is it possible that she killed her husband she gave him something that would have given him a stroke and nobody even bothered to look into it because of who she was and how old he was it's interesting how old much older he was to her then you know what I mean like if this was anybody else it would have looked like a murder I wonder if Kathy had something to do with her first two I wonder if she had something to do with her husband's death is what I'm saying before she died like a million-dollar life insurance policy on an old man that seems a little extreme also she takes this f****** nurse on a honeymoon or a vacation that you're supposed to take with your husband I thought they were separated I thought her and her husband had been separated to begin with so what the hell was she what was this Hawaii trip about you know it doesn't make any sense she literally just met this guy and 3 weeks later they're married I wonder if she had known him before that I wonder I mean the whole the whole he happens to work in the same hospital that her husband dies and he happens to go with her to the Hawaii trip if they happen to get married three weeks after knowing each other maybe she knew him more than she claims that she did

When her husband died everything that he did he just did it again with with her like you know like I don't know how you guys don't see that Kathy's a murderer too

Oh the girlfriend felt guilty all of a sudden because it was her turn to deal with the same thing his wife went through if she was still with that man she wouldn’t care like she didn’t care before when she was living good off that money he got for killing his wife she’s as guilty as he is.

She was beautiful

Well how was Kathy able to carry on as if her husband had just died she was carrying on because she was in bed with Chaz because she had known him before her husband died I mean give me a f****** break here

This is A NARCISSIST BEHAVIOR 😮

You know what it sounds to me like she would have only she only clung to this guy because he had a secret about her and him that secret being that they killed her first husband and she didn't want him to leave that's why he was able to clean out her f****** bank accounts ruin her career and all this s*** you understand what I'm saying like it just doesn't seem right to me it doesn't make sense otherwise it doesn't make sense you know I I can't help but wonder if she had something to do with her older husband's death you know like do you see what I'm going with like do you see where I'm going with this and I don't think that jazz or whatever his name is I don't even think he's straight I think he's homosexual who's using women to get what he needs and that's it that's all he ever did that's why he's always at the gym he's actually at a bath house bathhouse where he's not actually working out he's he's losing weight just not not in the way you think if you know what I'm saying he was losing weight is not the way you think and he was definitely addicted to protein just not the kind of protein you think

So he filed for bankruptcy, you married him and want to be a stay at home mom? OK!!!

No his affaire was not pretty!

Not antisocial probably like me dont mess with my nosy neighbors 🇺🇲