When Cops Catch the Killer of _American Sniper_ Chris Kyle

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I still got tons of people that are eating up
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my soul right now. I knew if I did not
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take out his soul, he was coming to take mine next.
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Eat shit and die.
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On the night of February 2nd, 2013, officers with the
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Lancaster Police Department respond to a call informing them that
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a suspect who committed a horrendous act was sitting in
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a stolen truck just outside his residence. Despite their efforts
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to coax him out of the truck, he suddenly takes off,
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leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase.
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Hey, get in the car, get moving, somebody get.
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In the car! As the suspect turns a corner, he
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can be seen jumping the curb and driving at dangerous
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speeds down a residential sidewalk. However, this is still only
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the beginning of the strange turns and bizarre events this
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case is going to expose. I'll call the chase.
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Another unit is front west on Pleasant Run.
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Passing 1,000, 1,000, 1.
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1,000, 1,000, 1,000, 1,000.
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North Blue Grove, North Blue Grove. Stay straight, stay straight.
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10-9-200.
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10-9-200.
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We're going to the McLaughlin.
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I'm on the service road.
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Northbound on the service road.
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The events leading up to this moment began hours ago
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when an emergency call was placed to Somerville County dispatchers.
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911, where is your emergency?
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Yes, ma'am.
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I need an ambulance out to Rough Creek Lodge and Resort.
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Okay, Rough Creek Lodge. And what's going on?
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I just had a report of two unconscious men out
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at my long-range shooting range.
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Deputies arrive to find two deceased men with multiple gunshot
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wounds lying near a scattering of shell casings. The suspect
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had fled the scene in a truck belonging to one
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of the victims, and his identity is unknown. The Texas
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Rangers are called to investigate and inform that one of
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the victims is a widely known public figure. Immediately, news
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of his death begins to spread like wildfire. The suspect
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would soon be identified, as his sister would call 911
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to say her brother, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh came to
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her home and confessed to the killings before fleeing once again.
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She then called her mother, Jody, who contacted Detective Chevra,
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Eddie's next-door neighbor and friend. Upon learning Eddie was involved,
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he races to his home to search for him. It
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isn't long before he pulls up to the home in
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the stolen truck with no intention of surrendering.
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Watch it.
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In a situation that is only going to grow more tense,
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officers don't know yet that they've barely scratched the surface
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of this sinister case and its peculiar suspect.
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Watch it.
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Eddie!
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Eddie!
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Eddie!
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Turn it off, Eddie!
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Turn it off, Eddie!
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Turn it off!
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Eddie! Turn it off, please!
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Eddie!
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It's Sergeant Logan! Turn off the truck, guys.
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Come talk to him. Come on with your hands open, buddy.
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It's not worth it.
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I'm going to shoot out the tires.
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Eddie!
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Eddie!
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Eddie!
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Eddie!
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The officers appear on edge, knowing there are firearms inside
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the truck. Given his friendship with the suspect, officers quickly
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call on Detective Chevra to step in, seemingly hopeful that
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he may be able to de-escalate this outlandish situation.
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Hey, let T.T.
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Talk to you. Let Jesse talk to you. Jesse, come here.
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Jesse's going to talk to you.
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Eddie.
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All right, look, guys.
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I know this looks really bad right now, but we're
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all scared here, too. Hey, do me a favor. If
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you can hear any clarity, just shut the truck off
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for a minute.
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Okay?
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Turn it off for a minute. Turn it off and
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talk to me, okay? We're trying to figure it out
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right now, okay? We're trying to figure it out right now.
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So right now, the best thing for everybody is you
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step out of the truck with your hands open so
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we can see. Everybody can relax, okay? Now, I want
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you to open the door very slowly. Come out with
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your hands straight up and come talk to me, okay? Eddie,
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I don't want to hurt you, Eddie. Okay? We all
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grew up together here. Listen to me, buddy. Okay? This
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is going to be bad for everybody if you don't
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do as I ask you. Trust me, because your parents
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are going to do what you've heard. If we don't
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get this thing resolved peaceably, okay?
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Detective Chevra continues pleading with Eddie, but his paranoid behavior
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seemingly has the other officers on high alert.
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Throw me the keys out here as a gesture that
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you're not going to run off while I try to
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get them down here and make them strip, try to
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get down here, okay?
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Get somebody to get the car around here. Get ready
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to block him.
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Can you hear me?
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No, because that's going to go bad, Eddie.
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Get somebody to get around there and block him if
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he goes takeoff.
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Okay.
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Let me ask you this. Somebody get the car around
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here and block it. No, don't block it yet. Just
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get ready to block. Okay.
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Get ready to block.
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Let's find that out together.
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I can't trust him.
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I can't trust him.
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Okay.
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You have no reason not to trust me here.
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Okay.
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I can't trust him anymore.
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What are you talking about?
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Uh-huh.
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Well, the people.
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After.
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Fleeing the crime scene, Eddie made multiple stops, details of
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which remain unknown for now.
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During the standoff, his seemingly unstable state of mind becomes
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increasingly evident.
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Is this about, like, hell walking on earth right now?
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I'm not sure what you mean by that, but... The
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hell is walking on earth with us right now. Tell
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him he'll walk over to the house and talk to him.
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He'll get out with his hands up.
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Well, what I'm trying to tell you is that I'll
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walk over here to your house or your front yard,
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and my hands will be open, and your hands will
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be open, and we can talk about this, and we
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can call your mom and dad on my phone... And
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you can tell them that you need to see them.
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While it appears Detective Chevro remains hopeful he can reason
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with Eddie, other officers consider a riskier approach.
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Yes, and I guarantee you that. Okay, roll the window down.
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And I'll hold the light on him if he can
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ease up right through there.
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Okay, yes, you're right. But if I get your parents
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on the phone and get them to come down here
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and get there in two or three hours, will you
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come with me and wait with you until they get there?
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The two victims, who were close friends, were identified as
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35-year-old Chad Littlefield and 38-year-old Chris Kyle, author of the
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best-selling memoir American Sniper. Chris had recently gained national attention
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due to the upcoming film adaptation of his book, Eddie's
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horrifying reasons for turning on them remain to be seen.
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For now, the focus shifts to de-escalating the baffling situation
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officers have found themselves in with Eddie, though their presence
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only seems to heighten Eddie's paranoia.
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I've been watching it on the news for weeks, or,
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you know, two, three days now.
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Jesse's a fanart.
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He's been killing the world.
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I'm going to call your parents, okay? But if they're
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going to agree to come down, are you listening to me?
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I don't know what's going on. Give me a second, okay? Okay. Here. Okay,
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but hear me out, okay? We need to see your hands, okay?
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We need to see that.
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You are at peace and we can relax. We can
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turn the light off if you'll do this. If you'll
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drop that window over and put your hands on the
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steering wheel, and then we can drop the light so
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we can kind of not put it in your eyes, okay?
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I can't drop the window because then y'all win.
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How do we win, Eddie?
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If I drop the window far enough, y'all are going
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to take me out of this truck.
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No, no, Eddie.
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Eddie, no.
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I'm not going to walk up there and yank you
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out of the truck, not as anybody else either, okay?
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Eddie?
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Eddie?
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Don't do that. Let me call your parents.
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We'll call them and get them on the phone and
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get them down here.
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Okay. I'm going to call, okay?
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With the possibility that his parents may be able to
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calm him down, Detective Chevra gets Eddie's mother, Jody, on
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the phone.
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Eddie, I'm going to tell her what we talked about, okay?
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Okay.
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Hey, Jody?
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Okay.
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Eddie doesn't know what's going on. We don't know exactly
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what's going on. on either, but here's what we're trying
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to do. We're trying to get Eddie to come out
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of the truck and come with us, but here's the deal.
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Eddie said he will come out of the truck. If
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you guarantee you'll come down tonight and he wants to
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see y'all. I'm trying to talk to him and to
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come in with me, be safe.
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And secure until you get here so you don't have
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to rush and be worried about him and something happening.
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Because you can't tell what's going on here over the phone.
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Well, I'm going to talk to you over the phone.
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If he will come with you, you.
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Can help him.
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If he will help you, you know he will.
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I can't trust that, Mom.
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Do you want to talk to Daddy?
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Yeah, I don't even know if I can trust him
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or not.
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Eddie, have I ever given you a reason not to
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trust me in anything?
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Yes.
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When? Whatever the situation, I'm not going to guide you wrong. Okay?
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I'm not going to do that, Eddie.
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All I think we can do at this point is
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go forward and go up with the situation up in
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a way that's going to be best for you, for
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your parents, me, everybody around us.
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Despite the combined efforts of Jody and Detective Chevra, Eddie
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still refuses to leave the truck. He's clearly on edge,
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and it won't be long before his paranoia will reach
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a breaking point.
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Do y'all have any guns? Do we have guns? Well,
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we have to. It's our job.
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I do, too.
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It's my job. Okay. Well, that's a good possibility you do,
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but we don't want to show our guns. You don't
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want to show yours. We don't need that. No, we don't.
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There you go.
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See, we agree on the same thing. Well, if that's
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not a.
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Problem, then I'm going to crank this truck and move forward.
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Eddie, Eddie, don't do that, Eddie.
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I can't keep sitting here watching these cats scurry by
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and they're moving all around me that I don't even
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know about.
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Eddie, don't crank that truck up because I know you
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probably want to go to your house, but I'm worried
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that before you get to your house, you want to
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make a decision and keep going.
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And we don't want to do that, Eddie.
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A sudden movement by Eddie sets the surrounding officers on
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high alert.
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Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. What's that? You got a phone?
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Yes, sir.
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Tell him you'll.
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Walk to the house with him.
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He's on the phone with somebody. He's on the phone
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with somebody. Looks like he answered it.
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Do you think.
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That door is locked? Yeah, he lost it. He reached
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up and lost it.
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Though the officers were unaware at the time, the cell
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phone Eddie answered did not belong to him. On the
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other end of the line was a man named Chet,
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attempting to reach one of the victims, Chad Littlefield. In
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a later interview, Chet explains the chilling encounter.
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I'll pick up the phone and call Chad. So, you know,
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immediately he picked up the phone. It was that, I mean,
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first thing. And he knows my name, and I don't
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know if that's why.
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He picked up the.
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Phone, and I said, Chad, this is Chad. What is
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going on? Is everything okay? And he answered back, what
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do you mean, what's going on? And I said, I
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noticed the voice wasn't Chad. And I said, this is
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not Chad. So I said, who is this? And he said,
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this is Eddie.
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That's right.
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While Chet's connection to Eddie is clear, the relationship between
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Eddie and.
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The victims, Chad and Chris, remains a mystery.
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How they ended up together this fateful night and what
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transpired between them will soon come to light. In the meantime,
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Eddie has been in the truck for nearly 30 minutes
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and the tense situation is moments away from exploding into chaos.
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Have you thought of anything that would maybe work this
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thing out to where we could kind of me and
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you go together and then wait for your mom and dad.
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Mom and dad, excuse me, I got some gas here.
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Have you thought of anything? I feel somebody blocked that
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car off. This time.
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Okay, can you just make sure that you don't do
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me a favor, Eddie.
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I'm not trying to treat you like a kid.
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We want to relax and we don't want to misinterpret something.
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Just kind of keep your hands up the way you've
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been doing so we can see and we can all
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relax a little bit, okay? Well, no, because then we
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can't hear you if you try to call me because
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it's so loud.
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This diesel is so loud.
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Okay.
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Eddie.
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Five minutes, Eddie.
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Okay?
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Without warning, Eddie steps on the gas and flees the scene.
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Ten minutes later, the vehicle's tires are damaged from the
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stop sticks that the officers had placed. The vehicles come
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to a complete stop immediately after.
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Hey, hey, hey, don't, don't, don't!
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What are you doing with it?
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I just let it stand real good.
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Nah, I'm just gonna rock and roll with it. Nah,
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you rock and roll?
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What's happening in the world right now? It's going to
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be all right, Eddie, okay? I don't understand. I know
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we don't either, but we're going to work this thing out, okay?
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As Eddie is checked for.
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Injuries by paramedics.
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An officer poses an important question.
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With Eddie secured in custody, he's brought to the station
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for an interview.
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While he awaits.
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Questioning, Eddie.
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Begins to speak to an officer sitting off-camera.
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His bizarre comments hinting that the following interrogation will be
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anything but ordinary.
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Everybody knows it'd be the.
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Right thing to do, you know what I mean?
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What'd you say?
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The right thing and the wrong thing to do in
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the world. Yeah. There is certain things you've got to
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start doing.
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I just.
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Hope my mom and dad aren't too late, you know,
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to see it.
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They won't be.
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Why is this world, why? Why didn't we see it coming.
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Before and before and before and before?
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Okay.
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But you know what?
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You ask me questions that.
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I've already been asked many, many, many times. The world
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keeps going.
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Ranger Briley soon enters, appearing ready to get to the
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bottom of today's tragedy.
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Can you talk with me a little bit this evening?
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I know you've had a rough time. I have been
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having a pretty.
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Rough time, but you know.
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I just want to sit in here and visit with
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you and Ranger Briley next reads Eddie Hismiranda writes, But.
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His response is only the beginning of the unsettling answers
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that soon follow.
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You understand I was right.
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I go around and talk to people a lot.
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And I never knew that counseling was more, you know,
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counseling between men and women needed to be more heavy
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in the world than it did. But when you're surrounded
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on all fronts where you begin, you can't just start
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in one place, you know.
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You understand those rights and you're okay with talking with me, right?
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What?
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I've been living with somebody with their hand on.
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My ass my whole life.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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I'm not okay with that. That's not right.
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Somebody doing that to you.
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So sad how it had to happen and stuff, you know,
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and how.
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It did happen.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a.
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I just wish it would stop, you know?
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If there are world councils that can speak about this, it.
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There has to be.
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There has to be to keep people accountable.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Right.
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Evidently, you know?
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You're right.
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For stuff like this that people that.
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You can walk on the ground with because they never
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walk on the same ground with you, you.
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Know what I mean?
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Right.
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With Eddie making little sense, Ranger Briley appears to formulate
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an idea for what could possibly explain his odd behavior.
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Was there a.
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Time today you used any drugs?
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Yeah, I did use some tobacco today.
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I was kind of looking at your eyes a little bit,
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constricted it.
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I thought maybe you might have used some methamphetamine or
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something today.
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I had not.
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Oh, you had not?
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I did not. Okay. That's why I've.
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Been having such a hard time sleeping, because I haven't
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been taking drugs, and I can't sleep at night.
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Though Eddie claims that he hasn't consumed substances aside from tobacco,
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the question was likely posed due to what was uncovered
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during a search of his residence. Among the items found
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in his home were a blue jean jacket with possible bloodstains,
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firearm ammunition, and a small box containing paraphernalia.
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Was there a bomb, like a drug bomb, in some
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of your stuff?
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Uh, tobacco.
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Is that what was in the bomb? Is that true
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or not?
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I don't know. You know, you have to be truthful
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with me.
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If it wasn't, just be truthful. What was in that bomb?
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There's probably some pot in there, too, you know.
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A little bit of pot.
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All right.
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And what else?
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You know, can't trust anything in Texas.
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With weed in it because it's usually laced up, you know,
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A type of different drugs.
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Had you used it today?
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Yeah.
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And you're being truthful with me? Yes, sir. I smoked
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a little bit today.
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I've got so many abandonment issues and trust issues here
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that I don't know what the f * * *
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to think, you know?
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I've been having these problems in my town.
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Since I was growing up, you know? Since a boy.
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I'm trying to fix this s * * * that's
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wrong in our country right now.
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Evidently, the communism party wants to run rampant in America.
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The communism times are here upon us, you know.
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The Reds are already eating.
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Up all the Indians.
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We know that. It's a tragedy. The ones that can't
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eat the Indians that want to, you know.
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They're going to have to have problems about them.
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Eddie would later admit that he thought his neighbors were
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bloodthirsty savages and cannibals, and believed that his excrement would
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travel to his neighbor's home through the sewers, where his
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neighbor would eat it. As Ranger Briley continues to navigate
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Eddie's confusing rhetoric, the focus of the conversation shifts to
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the crime that brought them here in the first place.
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I want to talk about what happened.
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And you can start with when you woke up today.
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Well, you know, I just, I keep talking to Chris,
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you know.
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I keep talking to Chris's in my world, and it
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seems like every time I talk to another man named Chris,
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I just get sent to another man named Chris.
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I think about talking to the wolf, you know, to
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the one in the sky.
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The ones in the.
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Sky are the ones that fly, you know what I mean?
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The pigs in the world.
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They can truly say they're pigs. I've been smelling it
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this whole time, you know.
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I'm just tired of everybody saying bullshit. I can smell bullshit.
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I can tell the difference between two different kinds of pigs.
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I don't know how you can smell your.
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I'm not trying to say nobody stinking, but stinking, you
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know what I mean?
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And what exactly happened today after you woke up?
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I'm finally getting rest, peace of my mind, you know?
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Yeah.
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Peace of my mind.
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Back that I won't ever get back.
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In an interview with Eddie's parents, his mother Jody begins
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to elaborate on her son's history as a United States
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Marine and the experiences that would later entwine tragically with
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the fate of the two victims.
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I believe after 9-11 happened, he really wanted to serve
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his country. I say I believe because he never told
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me that straight forth. After it happened, he really became
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more patriotic and cared more about his country, and he
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wanted to serve. He looked at the Army and looked
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at the Marine Corps and decided he wanted.
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To be a Marine.
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He was out of high school for, I think it
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was only 10 days. He graduated, and 10 days later,
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he was on a plane to boot camp.
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Eddie's work as an armorer and prison guard was served
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overseas in Iraq, where his father, Raymond, explains he went
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on several combat missions.
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He really didn't really want to talk about it when
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he got back. Like most of them do, the only
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time I could get anything out of him when he
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was drinking was And then I could get some stuff
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out of them, but it wasn't very much.
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Who's saying who's right and who's wrong?
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You know, nobody wants to admit that they're right.
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Nobody wants to admit that they're wrong. I'm the only
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man that can change it.
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Yeah.
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That's why these are behind my back right now.
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Yeah.
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It was when Eddie returned from a volunteer mission in
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Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 that they began noticing
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significant changes in his mental state.
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He was there for, I want to say, almost six months.
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Six months.
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Do you remember any letters he wrote you telling you
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what was going on there?
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Yeah, he was telling us he was picking up dead
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bodies with a grappling hook, dragging them out of the
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water and then throwing them in a front-end loader and
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then loading them up in a dump truck and then
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putting them in a grave.
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They further explained that when Eddie returned, he began having
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nightmares and flashbacks. What truly alarmed them, however, was his
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apparent descent into dangerous delusions.
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He asked me, like, to feel of his muscles, and
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I felt of his muscles, and he said, they're just,
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they're going away, Mom, my muscles are going away.
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They're disappearing.
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00:27:06.430 --> 00:27:09.869
I said, well, son, you know, your muscles are fine.
514
00:27:09.910 --> 00:27:12.880
He said, no, I got a tapeworm, and it's eating
515
00:27:12.890 --> 00:27:13.410
me alive.
516
00:27:14.339 --> 00:27:17.579
Eddie soon began expressing thoughts about taking his own life.
517
00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:22.460
At the VA hospital, he was diagnosed with PTSD. prescribed medication,
518
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.799
and released back into the care of his parents. However,
519
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.740
he would soon return to the hospital, as Eddie's rampant
520
00:27:28.779 --> 00:27:32.539
paranoia would only escalate, and the next time, it wouldn't
521
00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:36.559
be his own life he would threaten. Meanwhile, Ranger Briley
522
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:38.680
has yet to uncover how Eddie wound up at the
523
00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:43.089
firing range with Chris and Chad, likely prompting his next question.
524
00:27:43.109 --> 00:27:44.869
How did you meet Chris?
525
00:27:46.410 --> 00:27:48.329
He was the one that was protecting the schools.
526
00:27:48.349 --> 00:27:50.569
My mom, she was a teacher.
527
00:27:51.690 --> 00:27:52.309
School teacher?
528
00:27:53.170 --> 00:27:56.109
No, I finally met the guy. I could smell him.
529
00:27:56.650 --> 00:27:59.630
I smelled him for what he was worth. What's his
530
00:27:59.750 --> 00:28:00.190
last name?
531
00:28:01.970 --> 00:28:03.490
He was.
532
00:28:04.579 --> 00:28:05.279
A Kyle.
533
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:06.660
Kyle?
534
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:07.759
Yeah, he was Kyle.
535
00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:10.420
And what's that other guy's name?
536
00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:12.980
I couldn't even remember.
537
00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.460
When was the first time you met the other guy?
538
00:28:18.410 --> 00:28:19.769
The first time I ever met either one of them
539
00:28:19.789 --> 00:28:20.549
was yesterday.
540
00:28:20.569 --> 00:28:22.470
I didn't know who they were or not, you know.
541
00:28:22.869 --> 00:28:23.069
Yeah.
542
00:28:23.089 --> 00:28:24.069
Okay.
543
00:28:24.930 --> 00:28:27.450
I knew who they were, but I didn't know, you know,
544
00:28:27.670 --> 00:28:28.170
who they were.
545
00:28:28.490 --> 00:28:28.619
Okay.
546
00:28:28.630 --> 00:28:32.940
It's very evident now who they were because I'm obviously
547
00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:34.000
here on top, on the.
548
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.880
Top side of the world. So, no, not.
549
00:28:37.900 --> 00:28:40.700
The revelation that Eddie knew neither of the victims further
550
00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:42.799
deepens the mystery of how they ended up at the
551
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:47.299
firing range together. the devastating truth would soon be revealed.
552
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.160
For now, Ranger Briley further questions Eddie while his answers
553
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:53.339
continue to blur the lines of reality.
554
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.859
How did you meet them? Did you meet them at
555
00:28:55.900 --> 00:28:56.420
your house?
556
00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:59.720
They came and got me at my house.
557
00:29:00.029 --> 00:29:01.609
And then where did they take.
558
00:29:02.930 --> 00:29:03.009
You?
559
00:29:03.029 --> 00:29:05.829
We drove down into the country out there and then
560
00:29:05.869 --> 00:29:08.529
they went and did some shooting sports, you know.
561
00:29:08.970 --> 00:29:10.089
What kind of shooting sports?
562
00:29:11.890 --> 00:29:13.890
Well, I'd imagine they're headhunters.
563
00:29:14.259 --> 00:29:19.079
You know, trying to hunt everybody down that did them
564
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.059
wrong before. You know, I don't, I'm not trying to
565
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:23.759
hunt down anybody that I did wrong.
566
00:29:24.660 --> 00:29:24.940
Are you?
567
00:29:26.099 --> 00:29:30.089
I'm like, you know, I try to be as reasonable
568
00:29:30.109 --> 00:29:30.970
and normal as I can.
569
00:29:31.269 --> 00:29:33.029
I try to be as normal and as reasonable as
570
00:29:33.130 --> 00:29:34.109
I can every day, and I.
571
00:29:34.069 --> 00:29:35.109
Think about it every day, and.
572
00:29:35.089 --> 00:29:37.930
I'm like, it's pretty damn reasonable.
573
00:29:38.289 --> 00:29:38.509
Yeah.
574
00:29:39.009 --> 00:29:39.930
I'm pretty damn fair.
575
00:29:40.349 --> 00:29:45.799
Right. What happened out there today on the shooting sports?
576
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:46.630
What kind of guns?
577
00:29:46.650 --> 00:29:48.839
I was reasonable and fair with them boys, you know.
578
00:29:48.859 --> 00:29:50.819
They looked at me in the eyes and I looked
579
00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:52.039
at them in the eyes and then.
580
00:29:54.619 --> 00:29:59.140
And what happened to them today from your perspective? Well.
581
00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:03.259
I can't just keep eating my soul up about this,
582
00:30:03.299 --> 00:30:03.619
you know?
583
00:30:03.819 --> 00:30:04.180
You're right.
584
00:30:04.819 --> 00:30:07.009
And you can't just keep letting people eat your soul
585
00:30:07.069 --> 00:30:08.049
up for free, you know?
586
00:30:08.829 --> 00:30:09.829
It's not what it's about.
587
00:30:09.970 --> 00:30:12.069
It's about having the soul that you have.
588
00:30:11.970 --> 00:30:15.569
In you for yourself. And I still got tons of.
589
00:30:15.549 --> 00:30:17.950
People that are eating on my soul right now. I can't,
590
00:30:17.970 --> 00:30:21.990
I haven't even been able to sleep. Could have been
591
00:30:22.029 --> 00:30:23.710
waiting for them to come back and get my soul.
592
00:30:25.069 --> 00:30:29.450
Despite continued outpatient treatment with the VA hospital, Eddie's paranoid
593
00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:33.299
behavior continued to decline, as his father Raymond explains.
594
00:30:33.819 --> 00:30:38.319
He was at the lake and he started talking about
595
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:41.119
a demon coming out in him. And then he started
596
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:43.039
telling me he was a vampire. And then he told
597
00:30:43.059 --> 00:30:47.009
me he was a werewolf. And I looked around one
598
00:30:47.049 --> 00:30:49.329
time and he had my pistol. I had to go
599
00:30:49.349 --> 00:30:52.410
get my pistol away from him. I unloaded it and
600
00:30:52.450 --> 00:30:54.990
put it in the trunk. Went back out there, he
601
00:30:55.029 --> 00:30:57.119
had it again, and I took it back away from
602
00:30:57.150 --> 00:30:58.640
him and I took all my bullets and throwed it
603
00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:01.099
in the lake because he was saying he wanted to
604
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:04.220
blow his brains out. And I asked him why. He
605
00:31:04.259 --> 00:31:06.059
was going, Dad, I don't know. There's something in my
606
00:31:06.099 --> 00:31:09.369
head telling me I need to go. And I said, well, son,
607
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:11.690
you can't do it on my watch. You know, a
608
00:31:11.730 --> 00:31:13.710
dad can't watch his own son die.
609
00:31:15.269 --> 00:31:19.150
Eventually, Eddie's mental state reached a dangerous breaking point. Jody
610
00:31:19.190 --> 00:31:23.690
describes one terrifying incident on January 17th just two weeks
611
00:31:23.769 --> 00:31:26.849
before the shootings, in which he held both his girlfriend
612
00:31:26.930 --> 00:31:29.009
and her roommate, Jen, hostage.
613
00:31:29.650 --> 00:31:33.029
So he was over there with her, and he just
614
00:31:33.069 --> 00:31:35.609
became very paranoid that somebody was trying to get in
615
00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:40.509
and hurt her and her roommate. And Jen kept saying,
616
00:31:40.549 --> 00:31:43.269
nobody's trying to get us. You know, we're fine. And
617
00:31:43.309 --> 00:31:45.009
then he went and got a knife from the kitchen
618
00:31:45.029 --> 00:31:47.490
and was guarding the door. Said he wasn't about to
619
00:31:47.539 --> 00:31:50.180
let anybody hurt her. He had hurt her first before
620
00:31:50.220 --> 00:31:51.329
he let someone else hurt her.
621
00:31:52.500 --> 00:31:56.460
According to the roommate's statement, Eddie made multiple threatening comments
622
00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.400
and refused to let either of them leave. She secretly
623
00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:02.779
sent texts to her friend, who contacted the police. They
624
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:05.440
arrived shortly after, arresting Eddie.
625
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:08.960
It was actually a former Marine police officer that came,
626
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:12.809
and she told him that she wasn't as fearful for
627
00:32:12.849 --> 00:32:15.930
herself as she was for him. She was more afraid
628
00:32:15.950 --> 00:32:20.779
for his safety. So he transported him over to... Green
629
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.509
Oaks Hospital there in Dallas. And they kept him overnight
630
00:32:24.529 --> 00:32:27.750
the next day. And on Monday, they transferred him over
631
00:32:27.809 --> 00:32:28.589
to the VA.
632
00:32:29.809 --> 00:32:33.109
Eddie was discharged from the VA hospital the following Thursday,
633
00:32:33.190 --> 00:32:37.930
January 31st, just two days before the tragic shootings took place.
634
00:32:38.630 --> 00:32:42.539
As the interview continues, Eddie's confusing explanations continue to muddy
635
00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:44.299
the events at the firing range.
636
00:32:45.339 --> 00:32:48.259
What did these guys say to you today when you
637
00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:48.680
were with them?
638
00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:51.309
What did they tell you? They didn't really talk to
639
00:32:51.329 --> 00:32:53.170
me about much. You know, they were just.
640
00:32:53.950 --> 00:32:55.529
Talking about a common man, you know.
641
00:32:56.470 --> 00:32:57.650
Yeah, tell me what they said to you.
642
00:32:57.809 --> 00:33:00.170
Well, you can't walk around as a common man in
643
00:33:00.190 --> 00:33:00.670
a world.
644
00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:02.309
Of stakes, you know.
645
00:33:02.470 --> 00:33:04.730
Is that what they told you? If that's what the
646
00:33:04.750 --> 00:33:06.529
world has seen me as. I want you to tell
647
00:33:06.549 --> 00:33:07.529
me about that.
648
00:33:08.269 --> 00:33:09.210
I'm not a mistake.
649
00:33:10.609 --> 00:33:12.930
I'm tired of missing out on my life.
650
00:33:13.049 --> 00:33:17.069
I want you to tell me what these men told
651
00:33:17.109 --> 00:33:21.019
you today. These These heroes you were with, tell me
652
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:21.980
what they told you today.
653
00:33:23.180 --> 00:33:25.819
Well, you know, they're telling me about, you know, stuff
654
00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:26.500
they've done.
655
00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:28.680
Stuff they've experienced and stuff.
656
00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:30.559
Well, I've already seen that stuff on the other side
657
00:33:30.579 --> 00:33:31.119
of the pond.
658
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:31.980
You have?
659
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:32.700
Yeah.
660
00:33:33.259 --> 00:33:35.829
And I came back to this one, and it's happening
661
00:33:36.589 --> 00:33:40.289
more and more rampant, even more here in Lancaster than anywhere.
662
00:33:41.289 --> 00:33:46.450
You know. And how are they helping you today?
663
00:33:48.130 --> 00:33:48.549
Who's that?
664
00:33:50.690 --> 00:33:52.470
Though Eddie's explanations remain unclear.
665
00:34:12.269 --> 00:34:15.429
His mother, Jody, was able to explain the heartbreaking truth
666
00:34:15.469 --> 00:34:18.199
of how he came to meet Chris and Chad and
667
00:34:18.300 --> 00:34:20.800
what they may have been doing together at the firing range.
668
00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:22.579
It was the day he ended up getting out.
669
00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:23.260
Of the hospital.
670
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.320
Chris Giles' children went to the school where I work,
671
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:29.920
and he would drop them off every morning where I
672
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:34.719
had duty. And I knew he helped veterans with PTSD.
673
00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:38.320
So I opened the car door when his kids got out,
674
00:34:38.909 --> 00:34:40.789
opened the front door, and I said, Hey, Mr.
675
00:34:40.829 --> 00:34:41.130
Giles.
676
00:34:41.929 --> 00:34:45.969
Do you still work for the company that helps veterans
677
00:34:46.230 --> 00:34:47.110
with PTSD?
678
00:34:47.130 --> 00:34:48.329
And he said, yes, ma'am, I do.
679
00:34:48.349 --> 00:34:53.780
I said, well, my son's very sick, and he really
680
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:55.659
needs help, and we're just not getting the help we
681
00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:58.840
need at the VA. I explained to him kind of
682
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:00.880
what had been going on with Eddie, a lot of
683
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:03.800
the things I just told you. And I said, he
684
00:35:03.820 --> 00:35:06.960
just needs help so desperately, and I don't know what
685
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:07.900
to do anymore.
686
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.519
He said, uh, Ms. Ralph, I'll do everything in my
687
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.460
power to help your son. And I started to cry
688
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:20.340
because I was happy that somebody, some person that I
689
00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:23.030
don't really even know, was willing to help my son.
690
00:35:23.050 --> 00:35:26.650
And he said then, he goes, I'm going to get
691
00:35:26.690 --> 00:35:30.309
together with Eddie this weekend. And I said, that'll be good.
692
00:35:30.329 --> 00:35:31.710
That'll be really good.
693
00:35:31.730 --> 00:35:35.530
And the next day was the 2nd of February.
694
00:35:35.550 --> 00:35:39.079
And I didn't even know, really, that.
695
00:35:40.190 --> 00:35:40.449
Mr.
696
00:35:40.489 --> 00:35:41.730
Connell's come to get Eddie.
697
00:35:41.750 --> 00:35:47.570
But they had talked and set this up to go
698
00:35:47.659 --> 00:35:48.699
out to the gun range.
699
00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:52.300
While on the way to the firing range, Chad and
700
00:35:52.340 --> 00:35:55.639
Chris would send text messages to one another. The haunting
701
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:58.760
details of what they discussed would soon send chills down
702
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.570
the investigators' spines. In the meantime, though, the mystery of
703
00:36:02.630 --> 00:36:05.590
how they met Eddie is resolved. The question of why
704
00:36:05.630 --> 00:36:08.030
he shot the two men remains to be seen.
705
00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:13.400
You know, what you did today is wrong, right?
706
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:16.139
You understand that? Yes, sir.
707
00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:19.719
What do you think should happen?
708
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:25.360
Nothing can keep covering it up forever. That's the reason
709
00:36:25.389 --> 00:36:27.070
you fled, right? Because you knew it was wrong?
710
00:36:27.769 --> 00:36:29.809
Well, I knew that there was certain that was wrong
711
00:36:29.849 --> 00:36:30.230
about it.
712
00:36:32.269 --> 00:36:33.849
Some of that certain was killing him.
713
00:36:33.869 --> 00:36:36.409
You knew that was wrong, right?
714
00:36:36.989 --> 00:36:37.230
Right.
715
00:36:38.329 --> 00:36:44.320
And you knew driving away, thinking that truck was wrong.
716
00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:46.900
And where did you drive to after that?
717
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:49.260
Well, if I was so right, I should have just stayed.
718
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:55.090
Although Eddie will soon reveal his motives, his cryptic explanations
719
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:59.110
will leave investigators struggling to make sense of them. For now,
720
00:36:59.170 --> 00:37:03.050
the puzzling details surrounding the incident finally begin to come together.
721
00:37:03.070 --> 00:37:05.949
How many times did you shoot them today?
722
00:37:07.050 --> 00:37:11.269
A couple of years. A couple few shots were fired.
723
00:37:12.510 --> 00:37:13.550
How close were you to them?
724
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:18.639
I was right up close to them. I didn't mean
725
00:37:18.659 --> 00:37:19.760
to be so close, but.
726
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:21.739
Did they know you were going to shoot them?
727
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:24.380
They didn't know.
728
00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:27.639
Why do you think that?
729
00:37:28.949 --> 00:37:30.409
Because their training wasn't as good.
730
00:37:30.429 --> 00:37:35.329
My training's been better, you know, my life.
731
00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:39.739
While they may not have known Eddie's intentions, they were
732
00:37:39.820 --> 00:37:43.380
wary of his behavior. At 2.30 p.m., Chris sent a
733
00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:46.679
text to Chad saying, This dude is straight up nuts.
734
00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:51.349
Chad responded, Sitting behind me, watch my six, which is
735
00:37:51.409 --> 00:37:56.369
military slang for watch my back. Soon after, Eddie opened fire.
736
00:37:56.869 --> 00:37:59.929
Chris and Chad were each shot six times at close range,
737
00:38:00.269 --> 00:38:03.250
with some shots being fired after they'd fallen to the ground.
738
00:38:04.190 --> 00:38:08.409
Eddie then fled the scene, making several stops afterward. Eddie
739
00:38:08.449 --> 00:38:10.929
first went to his Uncle James' house, where he showed
740
00:38:10.949 --> 00:38:13.750
him the firearm used to shoot the men, with claims
741
00:38:13.789 --> 00:38:17.090
he was driving a dead man's truck. Next, he stopped
742
00:38:17.139 --> 00:38:20.380
at his sister's house, where he confessed to the horrific crimes.
743
00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.079
He then went to his house to pick up his dog.
744
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.579
From there, he visited a Taco Bell restaurant before finally
745
00:38:26.619 --> 00:38:30.250
returning to his house, where the standoff began. In a
746
00:38:30.309 --> 00:38:34.469
haunting confession, Eddie finally shares his twisted reasons for pulling
747
00:38:34.550 --> 00:38:35.230
the trigger.
748
00:38:35.889 --> 00:38:36.909
Who did you shoot first?
749
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:40.800
The one that I could identify with better.
750
00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:42.679
Clearly identify.
751
00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:43.500
Mm-hmm.
752
00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:46.780
The one that I could clearly identify that was... I
753
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:49.760
knew if I did not take out his soul, he
754
00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:54.190
was coming to take mine next. Or one of his
755
00:38:55.090 --> 00:38:57.409
gangsters was coming to take one of my souls next.
756
00:38:57.570 --> 00:38:59.389
One of his kids' gangsters. Mm-hmm.
757
00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:03.159
As the interview ends, it appears as though a few
758
00:39:03.219 --> 00:39:06.000
questions still linger on Ranger Briley's mind.
759
00:39:07.460 --> 00:39:09.739
You tried to run from the police. I heard them
760
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:12.099
talking to you, trying to get you to give up.
761
00:39:13.469 --> 00:39:17.969
What I heard them saying is, you know, just come
762
00:39:18.130 --> 00:39:22.150
and get out. You know, surrender, right? That's what they're saying.
763
00:39:23.690 --> 00:39:24.670
Why weren't you compliant?
764
00:39:24.690 --> 00:39:28.360
Because of what happened?
765
00:39:28.389 --> 00:39:30.840
Okay.
766
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:32.300
Yep.
767
00:39:33.780 --> 00:39:37.320
What do you want to tell your mom? I love.
768
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Her.
769
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What do you want to tell your sister?
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I love her, too.
771
00:39:41.619 --> 00:39:47.559
Do you wish this had never happened? You seem like
772
00:39:47.579 --> 00:39:49.980
you won't cry about it. I see the water in
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your eyes. Yeah.
774
00:39:50.739 --> 00:39:53.719
If you.
775
00:39:55.699 --> 00:39:56.909
Could take it back, you would.
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As Ranger Briley leaves the room, Eddie once again chats
777
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with the officer just off camera, sure to leave him
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00:40:11.190 --> 00:40:12.590
with a lasting impression.
779
00:40:12.610 --> 00:40:15.070
So is there anybody we can talk to about getting
780
00:40:15.090 --> 00:40:16.090
these cups off and.
781
00:40:15.969 --> 00:40:18.650
Letting me get a smoke? That dude that just left?
782
00:40:20.190 --> 00:40:22.170
I said we're gonna be doing all we're talking to.
783
00:40:23.030 --> 00:40:24.469
We might have to go outside and.
784
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:27.400
Smoke some, so. You ain't got no cigarettes?
785
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:29.519
I have some before long.
786
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:32.699
It's only a matter of time.
787
00:40:33.019 --> 00:40:33.380
You know.
788
00:40:34.019 --> 00:40:35.380
Where you gonna get cigarettes from?
789
00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:36.320
They're coming.
790
00:40:37.260 --> 00:40:39.329
Okay, you just blew that ice cream coming too?
791
00:40:39.349 --> 00:40:44.369
Yeah. Hell, I had to eat all night. You got
792
00:40:44.389 --> 00:40:45.409
plenty to eat on there.
793
00:40:45.510 --> 00:40:49.030
I've got nothing to eat on, you know. Charged with
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00:40:49.050 --> 00:40:50.449
two counts of capital murder.
795
00:40:50.570 --> 00:40:55.489
Eddie is soon transported to the county jail to await trial.
796
00:40:55.510 --> 00:41:01.920
According to court documents, he.
797
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:05.300
Was overheard by a deputy saying.
798
00:41:16.190 --> 00:41:18.909
I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me, adding,
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00:41:19.329 --> 00:41:22.269
I'm sure they've forgiven me. Eddie entered a plea of
800
00:41:22.369 --> 00:41:26.389
not guilty by reason of insanity. At his trial, experts
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00:41:26.429 --> 00:41:30.929
presented conflicting views, some supporting and others questioning Eddie's state
802
00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:34.380
of mind during the incident. The jury ultimately found him
803
00:41:34.409 --> 00:41:39.340
guilty of two counts of capital murder, and on February 24, 2015,
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00:41:39.340 --> 00:41:43.199
25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh was sentenced to life in prison
805
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:47.920
without the possibility of parole. and ordered to pay $ 116, 250
806
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:52.269
in restitution. Though he appealed the conviction in December 2015,
807
00:41:52.250 --> 00:41:57.400
the sentence was upheld. He's currently imprisoned at the Texas
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00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.440
Department of Criminal Justice in Rosharon, Texas.