The murder of a local man by a neighbor in 2018 is the subject a freshly released true crime series on Netflix.
The four-episode “Worst Neighbor Ever” series was released Wednesday and includes “firsthand testimonials and shocking bodycam footage,” according to Netflix. The series “uncovers the intensely violent stories of neighbors gone bad.”
The first episode features the murder of beloved local community member David Scott. Scott worked part-time at the Montgomery County Regional Jail and for Summit Polymers. He also served as a girls’ softball coach.
According to authorities, Scott, 47, was shot and killed by neighbor Frances Zaayer at his Washington Avenue home May 26, 2018. Scotts wife, Shawna, was also wounded but survived. She had to undergo multiple surgeries to her face.
Zaayer pleaded guilty to murder, second degree assault and first degree wanton endangerment and was sentenced in 2022 to 35 years in prison.
Zaayer also allegedly fired several gunshots at a family member who was driving by shortly after the shooting incident, the Advocate previously reported.
The case was already featured on the ID network’s “Fear They Neighbor” series in 2023.
In this week’s Netflix release, the 56-minute episode that covers the Scott case is titled “She Finally Snapped.” The episode’s description claims that Frances “Goes from Shawna and Dave’s house guest to a paranoid neighbor obsessed with grievances—and intent on escalating her one-sided feud.”
Shawna is among those interviewed in this series. She did not appear on camera for the ID episode.
Shawna describes in a trailer for the Netflix series that her family’s lives “were torn apart in that moment (David was killed).”
The Advocate previously reported Zaayer and the Scott family had been engaged in a lengthy dispute and that law enforcement had been called numerous times.
“She’d be out there mowing her yard naked ... she would follow me to the grocery store. It doesn’t mater what we did, she was non-stop calling the police,” Shawna cites as examples of Zaayer’s alleged behavior prior to the shooting.”
Ashley Stone was a Montgomery County 911 dispatcher at the time of the incident.
She took the call and vividly remembers it, she shared on social media.
“It was one of my last big calls before I left dispatching in Montgomery County. I can still remember that call to this day. It was such a horrible tragedy that didn’t have to happen,” Stone said.
A portion of the 911 call can be heard in the “She’s Finally Snapped” episode.
“You’ll hear my voice in the beginning and towards the end—when the call came in and when I spoke to the suspect. To many it may seem I am being nice to her (suspect) but what many don’t hear and see are the multiple officers on the other side of her door! I knew the only way I could get her to surrender was to be kind. I had officers to protect as that is my job,” Stone said.
Stone said she didn’t want the officers hurt or them having to hurt someone else.
“It doesn’t share the whole conversation with her but I picked up the phone and called her and after some time got her to lay her weapon down and go to the door to my officers,” Stone said.
Stone described the Scott family incident as a horrible situation no family should ever have to endure.
“To this day in my dispatching career my main goal is my responders’ safety! I will always do everything in my power to make sure they go home to their families at the end of the day,” she added.
Zaayer is currently lodged at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, a prison near Pewee Valley. She is not expected to be released until 2053 but could be eligible for parole in 2038.
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