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Jennifer Nibbe: "I killed somebody's brother"

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MANKATO, Minn. -

"It was horrible. It was horrible. Once it happened I thought, oh my God what did I do, what did I do?"

The judge in the Nibbe murder trial will allow just about all of Jennifer Nibbe's statements to police to be heard in court, including some of the most shocking.
 
Prosecutors are stopping short of calling those statements a confession, but KEYC has obtained video of the interview.
 
The video we're showing you comes from an interview on September 11th, 2010.
About a week after the murder of James Nibbe, and a day after his wife, Jennifer Nibbe was arrested and charged for the crime.

In the video, she talks to Special Agent Mike Anderson from the BCA, and Detective Paul Barta from the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Department about her struggles with drugs, her unhappiness with her marriage, and a vague re-telling of the incident in the early morning hours of August 31st.

Nibbe never specifically confesses to murdering James Nibbe, though she does speak of killing.
 
Jennifer Nibbe says in the tape, "I took somebody's son and I killed somebody's brother, grandson and uncle and... he was a good person."

Nibbe states that she made it look like she was attacked by an intruder, and denies that her son had any involvement.

As mentioned before, Nibbe never fully confesses, but we do know jurors will hear her say this in court.

Nibbe says in the tape, "I don't know how I'm going to live with this the rest of my life. I don't know how. But the other thing is that I know Jim is in heaven and that Brady will someday go to heaven. And then if I tried to take my own life, I won't be with them..."

A Pre-Trial Hearing for Nibbe is scheduled for March 5th.