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When two young men suspect a member of their own
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circle may be their friend's killer, they collaborate with law
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enforcement and go undercover to capture secret recordings.
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Why did he say that?
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Why did you say, just want to talk to me?
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Freeze your hands out of the vehicle.
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Beloved cheerleader Emma Walker was just a few months into
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her junior year at Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee,
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when her life meta tragically abrupt end. Initially, it seemed
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it was some sort of terrible accident. There was no
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other way to explain it. However, investigators would soon untangle
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a twisted web of lies and uncover the horrific reality.
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Someone had wanted Emma dead. Growing up, Emma's ultimate dream
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was to become a neonatal ICU nurse someday, and the
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honor student was putting in the necessary effort to ensure
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she'd get there. She was making the most of high school,
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and her inate ability to excel in her endeavors was
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also exhibited in her role on the cheerleading squad. Her
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third year had just gotten under way, and she was
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loving it. Then the morning of Monday, November twenty first
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arrived like she'd done so many times before. Jill went
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to her daughter's room to wake Emma for school around
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six o'clock. Right away, it was apparent that something was
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terribly wrong.
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Do we get my daughter?
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We can and cher.
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You said that she's nonresponsive, the thing out of her mouth.
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Stay on the one. I'm transferring you to real Metro.
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Word of the mysterious tragedy spread quickly among those hit.
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Particularly hard by the devastating news of Emma's death was
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her boyfriend of two years, Riley Gall. The two had
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first met in the fall of Emma's freshman year at
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Central High. She was the only freshman to secure a
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spot on the cheerleading squad. It was right around then
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that Emma caught the attention of junior and star wide
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receiver Riley Gall. It came as no surprise that the
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two were soon inseparable. A steady stream of posts with
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photos saturated their social media feeds, documenting the fun times
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they shared. There were collages such as the one that
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read look how lucky I Am, posted by Emma and
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May of twenty sixteen. By the time that fall of
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twenty sixteen rolled around, Emma and Riley were two years
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into their relationship. Emma, now a junior, remained a dedicated
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member of the cheerleading squad at Central High. Though Riley
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had graduated that previous spring, he stayed close to his
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hometown and was attending Maryville College, where he quickly made
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a name for himself as a wide receiver on the
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foot ball team. Then, just a few months into the
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new school year, young Emma was gone. As routine procedure goes,
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the Knox County Sheriff's Office immediately began speaking with those
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closest to Emma. Riley was brought in that evening on
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the outside chance that he might be able to aid
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in the investigation based on a tweet from earlier that day.
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He was very distraught and understandably so that's my beautiful Emma.
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Rest easy now, sweetheart. It read, and it just so happens.
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Word has gotten back to law enforcement that Riley has
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some particularly eerie information to share. Apparently, Emma had been
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receiving threatening text messages from an unknown source during the
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course of the previous weekend. The detectives start with brief introductions,
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then get a technical matter out of the way. The
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following footage has been analyzed by a qualified team including
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a licensed attorney, a licensed clinical psychologist, a former licensed
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professional counselor, and a licensed professional counselor.
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Before gets started, I understanding you're not under a restaurant.
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Now he came down your free can with your granddad,
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your mom. But because you're in a secure area, I
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have to read you're rights.
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Okay, because basically if you're in a position that you
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can't get up and let you can get out on
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your own, they technically look at that in court as
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mean in customer.
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But I understand you're not in custody. I have if the.
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Handcuffs only I'm not told you've been charge. Ali's just
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a film.
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After Riley has read his rights, they engage him in
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a bit of small talk and efforts to build rapport,
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establish a baseline, and make him feel comfortable.
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While we're waiting on him, tell a little bit about
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yourself and I will obviously play football at Merrim College.
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I'm assuming you played football in high school. It's cot position.
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I seer cornerback part hire and keep your turing pirn
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super good.
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Well you kick calls but all over the place. Last year,
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so has been your senior year? Yeah?
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Good?
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It's always painful with you guys, and the stakes days.
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Work at A few minutes later, the detectives dive into
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the true reason for the meeting. They asked Riley to
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provide a timeline of his whereabouts over the previous weekend.
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Let's start with Friday. What do you have classes during
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the day? Wednesday?
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Friday, I have an eight am and nine am. And
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Tuesday Thursday I have a six am and eleven am.
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And in the other class on Monday Wednesday Friday is
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at one pm.
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Wow, you super goods attention. Let's start with Friday. You
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get out a class at one pm. What happens from there?
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Riley explains that he headed to his grandparents home that evening,
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then went to his friend Noah's home shortly after, where
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he spent the night. Then, according to Riley, his seemingly
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normal mourning took a chilling turn. And it all started
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with a message from Emma.
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And she was she was kind of acting frantic over
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the phone, and she said that someone's trying to get
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into her house.
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Somebody who was dressing all black. They had a face
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mask on. She said that she's on. She said she thought.
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They were just taking a walk in the neighborhood, and
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then when she passed him to call into her dogway,
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they put on a pair of glasses and they started,
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like she said, they kind of like sped up.
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So she went into the garage and shot the garage and.
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That's when I dropped all stuff I was in it
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must say, to his house and drove all the.
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Way to her neighborhood. Do you have said she takes
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to do that information? She where?
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She texted me like she's asking if it was me
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at first when I told her to know what's going on.
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And then when she faced time called me, she was
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crying and freaking out.
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So I said, okay, give me a minute. I'll come
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down and check it out.
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Right, raced to Hima's home, and approximately ten minutes later
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he arrived.
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I went to your backyard, made sure you know when
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I was back there.
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Checked out of the port, and everything looked up and
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down the street.
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But by that time the would be intruder was gone. Still,
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a residential surveillance camera captured a few seconds of footage
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as the man walked down the street. Riley returned to
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Noah's house somewhere around eight pm and stayed the night,
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once again.
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Leave and where do you go? Sunday morning.
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I don't know what time I look up, but when
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I woke up, I went back to my grandparents and
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then went back over to Noah's house, and I got.
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Back to campus around eleven thirty.
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Eleven forty five.
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Naturally, the college freshman had left his homework until somewhere
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around midnight Monday morning.
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I got back up.
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To my dorm and I tried logging in on to
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my Americal college email, but.
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I realized I couldn't because I was log.
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In on my grandparents my grandmother's laptop back in Auxville.
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And it was late almost twelve thirty, twelve fifteen or
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twelve thirty around there, so I didn't think they were away.
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So I drove back to Auxville because I need to
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do my homework. I love myself at the laptop at
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my grandparents house.
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My grandfather was a way to go. He saw me
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logging at a laptop, and from there out left.
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It's intriguing that Riley felt the need to emphasize how
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his grandfather saw him log out of the laptop, almost
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as if he's expecting that the detectives will think he's lying.
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About why he went home.
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He's all me logging at a laptop.
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When someone who's being questioned acts defensive before they have
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even been accused of something, it can be seen by
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law enforcement is a possible sign of deception.
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I ended up not doing my homework instead.
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I got back to campus around one am and just sat.
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In my car for about two hours, two and a
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half hours, and just wit for thirty fellas leap fellosly
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for him then, and that's when I woke up to.
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People calling me about what had happened.
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Well, Percy, he texted me and he was like, hey, man,
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I'm sorry that what happened.
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So I was like, what are you talking about?
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And he called me after that and he said, did
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you not hear what happened?
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I said, no, what are you talking about?
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And he said they found him this.
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Morning or unresponseed was what he told me. And that's
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when I started freaking out, having a breakdown. So my
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parents or my mom and my grandmother were coming out
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to campus evening. They probably got their own h thirty
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somewhere around there.
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As soon as he starts talking about being told about
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Hima's death, rightly, he starts stroking his face. This is
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a self soothing behavior indicative of heightened anxiety. This could
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be because the topic is distressing for him, which would
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be understandable, or a hint that maybe something else about
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the topic makes him nervous. Although some dismiss nonverbal analysis
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as pseudoscience and whether or not the viewer agrees with it,
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it is used by the FBI, CIA, and police daring interrogations,
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which is why we include it. When the CIA is
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interrogating an individual, they look for clusters of three or
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more indicators that occur in either quick succession or all
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at once. These indicators can be signs of discomfort or
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uncertainty in what the individual is stating, rather than indicators
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of deception. It's extremely important to note that you cannot
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detect deception through non verbal analysis alone.
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So then what your grandparents got you and you went
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back to my granmedy is I can't got you. That's
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where back in our spence all I've spent all day
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in my grandparent's hot today.
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Until after a comprehensive run through of Riley's previous weekend,
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the detectives trend position to the sensitive subject of his
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longtime girlfriend's unexpected death, perhaps Riley can provide something for
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law enforcement to go on, a detail that may seem
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insignificant to him, maybe the very information needed to crack
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the case.
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Tell me what you know, Aboulliams passing. I've always been
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all kind of roads and speculation or have you heard
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I'll try.
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To put anything, all of it out because.
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I've heard seven different things. I've heard she just passed
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in her sleep. Heard she try to cancel.
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I heard a strable it came.
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To the wall.
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But that made no sense to me because it's her room.
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It's a strable, it dwells from It has to be
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from the backyard because that's where her window is.
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Now.
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Yeah, that one didn't make sense to me, but those
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are the main theory.
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Who you talked to her? Have you heard these rumors
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about asking earshally've done all that.
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I've had a bunch of my Myra hesited me today
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at my grandparent's house, and maybe just tell me different
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So they've heard from different people.
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Riley has been fidgeting and spinning his seat throughout the
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interview so far, but as soon as the detectives start
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asking about Emma's death and the rumors surrounding it. He
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also begins picking at his fingers, which is typically an
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anxiety response.
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Okay, do you remember who told you the straight bullet?
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Yeah, he was actually about an hour ago when he
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said him.
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His name's Jacob. You know Jacob.
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We've been friends in the second grade.
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Did he say where he heard the true bullet theory?
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Now, he said it was the same thing like hearsay said.
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He probably said that didn't sound right to.
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Him either, But horrifyingly so, it seems that the detectives
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are beginning to consider that the killer could be hiding
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and play inside as a grieving friend. Perhaps they even
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paid Riley a visit and an attempt to avoid suspicion,
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simply playing the part of another young mourner expressing condolences
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to the longtime boyfriend of the deceased. Detectives of collected
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potential leads in Riley's visitors from earlier that day, and
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with this, the entire trajectory of the investigation has drastically changed.
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Can you think of anyone that would want to hurt him?
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Not because I mean she was shot enemies? No, she hadn't.
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No enemy isn't going to hurt her.
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I mean she had high school drama and he's but
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Gross didn't life, but.
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She she kind of got alonger and by I mean,
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She was very likable. She didn't I mean she was
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friends with mostly either. She thought to the last time
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you taught her? And he said it was Sunday, so
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they not. Did she make any comments about it, maybe
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mad at her, upset at her, or anal urger now.
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But the only thing that I thought it was, whoever
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the person was?
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I heard house Saturday morning. That's the first thing I
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thought it would hire that.
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She passes morning.
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Then a completely unexpected revelation is brought to light and
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it changes everything.
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Do you get people that are mad at you? That
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you or anything in the wife.
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It could mean that the person being interviewed needs time
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to think about their response. A deceptive individual likely wants
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to prevent awkward silences after a question, as that could
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seem suspicious. However, if they need a moment to consider
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what they should say, they might repeat the question to
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fill that conversation gap.
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Was I didn't want to I'm sorry. I just don't
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want to talk about it because it was traumatizing. I
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didn't know what to make of it, and that's pretty
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important to us. Poole names. Might I gess that I
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don't know? Like I don't know anything about it.
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Notice the weak movement Riley makes here. It's a half
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hearted shrug and his hands barely raise. Throughout his illustrators
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have been minimal. We don't have anything of him before
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the interview to really compare to. But it's an atypical
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behavior for people in general to have such weak nonverbals.
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Illustrators help people make points while they speak. In contrast,
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restrained gesturing is believed to be a telltale sign of deception.
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When did this.
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Wench kidnacting take place? Friday Dispatch, Fraun, When.
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Did that happen?
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I just don't I don't remember much about it.
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I was remember two guys literally, I was Friday night
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before I got two knows that's Monta's house.
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And I was pulled in the routway and this vand
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pulled it over across in the semi circle.
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And these two guys were like walking across the street.
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I was didn't think anything of it. Because they were
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like a rush, and I turned.
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Around and about to get in my car and his cano.
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One of them grabs my back, and the other ones
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around the corner, and they just like.
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Put their hands over my face and just took me to.
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Their van or whatever.
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Finally we see Riley use larger non verbal indicators. His
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poems are up in a position, usually indicating that he's
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asking to be believed or trying to be convincing, but
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they don't fit with his words. His hands just sit
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there for quite a long time with no words to
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go along with it.
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And then I don't remember much. They just had me.
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I couldn't see anything they had, some of them as
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hadn't told them Mom or anybody about the pru Wow
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parafod so going feeling any money a gambling that is
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to be gambled. So the guys just random or picked
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you out for no reason.
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I guess Riley's account sounds a bit questionable, especially because
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he doesn't give a clear reason as to why he
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can't remember much of it. He's also left out any
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mention of his feelings during the event, and only mentions
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being terrified to justify why he hasn't told his mom
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about it. Most people who were telling the truth about
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something major, such as being kidnapped, will express what their
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emotions were at the time. This is because their emotions
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are tied to the memory of the traumatic event. When
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someone leaves these details out, it can be a red
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flag for possible deception. But the question is what could
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he be leaving out. That same night, Emma had attended
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a gathering at a friend's home after the football game.
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It was somewhere around eleven thirty PM when she began
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receiving alarming text messages from an unfamiliar phone number.
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They did ask me.
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They're like, like, whould you want to talk to for
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the last time? That's also for you now, and I
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said Emma.
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Text messages instructed Emma to go outside. They stated that
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they had her loved one in their possession and if
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she didn't comply with their demands, he'd be hurt.
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And they made me call him a She would answer
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my phone multiple phones, so they used their phone and
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I was just crying screen and she thought it was
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a joke.
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She started playing prank card.
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Riley has been fidgeting with his hands and moving in
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his seat this entire time. This indicates that he's been
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letting off his excess energy, which is going to be
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a red flag to the officers that he may be
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hiding something. The fact that Emma thought Riley was playing
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a joke on her could suggest that he had done
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something in the past to make her doubt his sincerity.
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A friend accompanied him outside, and that was when they
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located Riley lying face down in a nearby ditch. According
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to her friend, Riley appeared to be disoriented.
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I woke up where Emma was who her friends yard?
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It's run off tassel hi. I literally remember them. My
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headache for the rest and I want to go back.
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Ten was after that? Do you still know all that?
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Yeah, they thought it was.
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They thought it was. That's why I haven't talked to
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any about it from no one would take me seriously.
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It's interesting that Riley still hasn't asked exactly what happened
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to Emma. Most people would ask at some point, while
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maybe not early on, since they don't want to interrupt investigators.
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They wouldn't want to sit through the entire interview without
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asking for some kind of information about what happened. This
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is likely a red flag to detectives after acquiring the
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information they need for the time being. The detectives conclude
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their interview with Riley.
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Prob We want thank you for coming and talking to us,
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who appreciate that.
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It's clear that investigators know Emma didn't take her own life,
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but instead believe something far more sinister occurred. Though the
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information hasn't yet been made public, they're aware that Emma
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died as a result of a single gunshot, the bullet
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having traveled through the exterior of her house before striking
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Emma in the head. Somewhere around this time, law enforcement
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is approached by friends of Emma who strongly suspect they
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know the identity of the killer they want to assist
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in the investigation. In fact, they believe they can get
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their hands on the very weapon that might have been
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used to murder him earlier that same morning. If the
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rumors that she died of a gunshot wound are accurate.
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You see, the person they suspect is also a close
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friend of theirs. In addition, one of the teens has
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recently witnessed something quite coincidental. The suspect had recently acquired
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a firearm. In fact, he'd gone so far as to
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show it to one of them. With the friends having
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come forward, the idea that the killer is among them
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has gained even more credibility, disturbing as it is, Despite
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the potential dangers of which they're warned, the amateur detectives
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ought to go through with the sting operation on November
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twenty second, just one day after Emma had died. A
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plan is constructed and the friends are wired and equipped
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with a hidden camera.
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All of you.
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There's nobody else. Word to go into the studs. Nobody else.
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I could go.
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Shi insane guys.
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Hey, every day lock man, every day locks go play
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some one.
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There you go another day, man? Yeah, look at that
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fun that the Yeah, thanks guys.
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And with the short briefing from detectives, the precarious mission,
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headed by a brave couple of teams is underway. The
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friends return to one of their homes and prepare for
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the suspect to arrive.
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So fuckers back in the good Yeah that's fine, okay, Yeah,
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we'll go there, all right, I'll see you.
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Why did he say that? Why did he say he
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just wanted to talk to me? Why is he going
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to talk to man?
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Can think about?
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Is a human touched humility? Which I mean, yeah, because
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I'm hard, all right, fl Guys, my roommate is not home.
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He's going to be a word to tell about like
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one or two a mania.
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One of the friends updates law enforcement who's listening in.
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The suspect is due to arrive in just a few minutes.
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The hidden camera is strategically placed just before the suspect
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enters with his friend and both take a seat on
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the couch. Apparently the two had a short conversation outside
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and the suspect would like for his friends to accompany
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him on an errand of sorts. But before they get
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to that, they speculate on him A's potential manner of death.
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We know that very little information has been made public
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and they only have rumors to go on, well two
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of them at least. We suspect that the third knows everything.
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They would have automatically ruled out he kind of suicide,
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or I mean not ruled it out, but like is
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you would go to show through wal You don't just
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get shot and die instantly unless you get hit and
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throw her in the head. Yeah, unless she got shot
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directly in the heart. It's still even that, Like you're
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gonna feel that wake up and be able to try
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and like crawl out your bed. Yeah, it doesn't make
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seems like I do don't understand how she does.
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It's likely that no part of this discussion is medically accurate,
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but the undercover friends play along in an attempt to
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get more information from the suspect, and the speculation continues.
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I don't either, But if like true, got shot their wall,
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then she would like say, hits her and STUFFA say
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some much shot on the wall here and stomach, she's
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gonna she's going to wake up. You don't just get
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shot and wait there. You know, I don't see how
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she wouldn't screen or something lurking and things and she's
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late unless it was just like a ridiculous shot. If
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it hit her in the head, then they would have
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saw that. Yeah, but you don't know, you know, they
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could have walked indn't seen her. Just well, it was
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it was a murder investigation from that morning. As far
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as on the line, they never know. I always don't
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know anything about how she was found or when she
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was him because whatever he has exactly whatever they always
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knew whatever he's heard from could not eat.
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They knew it was always from the first thing, because
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they put in protective custody. Serious.
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Yeah, the suspect is clearly alarmed by this information. The
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thought of a friend having been murdered would be quite
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devastating to hear. However, it's much more probable that the
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shock is from knowing that if her death was in
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fact a homicide, then law enforcement's main focus will be
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the locate the killer, which brings us to our next
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important topic of conversation.
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So I'm trusting you guys, like with my life, because
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I mean, this is seventy years in jail. If I
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be convicted of something I didn't do. Yeah, are you
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are you busy right now? If you have to do anything,
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we can get the books because I need you.
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Good blos.
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I'm gonna throw it in the water. They will never
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go everyone. I'll try to get the water with like rosy. Well, yeah,
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we did it with bogs.
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We can go on that.
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The smaller alleged that really looks out of the water.
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I mean, after bad man, I just needs christ I got.
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If it goes, if it's in the Tennessee.
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River, they will never find it.
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So that's why I just want to eliminate that from
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the equation as a whole. I see you cover your
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basis the basic I mean, I see that's that's that's
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your season. Well thee go right now, I'm finally have
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some there stack started. I started being myself. You know,
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I'm gonna call love at.
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After preparing a couple of hot pockets, the teens depart
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and route to an area that overlooks the Tannessee River
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not far from the University of Tennessee campus known as
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the Bluffs. It's possible that the suspect isn't just looking
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for moral support here by involving his friends in the
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disposal of the gun. He's likely trying to protect himself.
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If he gets them to help, they'll be more likely
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to follow his plan of lying to the police about
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what they know of the gun, and he'll be able
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to hold their involvement over them. They won't want legal
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consequences for their part and getting rid of potential evidence,
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so they'll feel more motivated to lie for the suspects.
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So I can jump the fence, my armes, I'll go
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into the church. You're not back in two minutes, We'll
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come after you.
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Less than four nerve wracking minutes later, the suspect returns
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to the vehicle.
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I just want to throw it to be done.
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I'm going if you feel it. My got stuff.
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I think there's clothes that you put.
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Something.
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Can amuse its take it out. It's call. I'll carry us,
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carry it up the gloves on.
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We'll get to the top, throw the bullets individually.
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Judging by the fact that the suspect keeps repeating how
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he wants to get rid of the gun, it seems
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that he's assuming that getting rid of the gun will
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mean that police will not have any evidence that points
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to him. They make one more detour and stop for
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some gas and fast food. The suspect, seated in the
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front passenger seat, hasn't allowed him as death to affect
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his appetite. About fifteen minutes later, they arrive at the
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bluffs and the horrifying moment of truth has almost arrived.
517
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Let me see this touch that she had closed on
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our store long. They don't have my fingerprints in any database.
519
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That was Oh my god, O god.
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The utter magnitude of the reality has to be overwhelming
521
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as they lay their eyes on the very weapon that
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they believed was used to end Emma's life. Then seemingly
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00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.319
out of nowhere. The teens are rudely awakened to find
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that they're not alone.
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The hand out the beauw you got, free your hands
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out of the vehicle amid the chaos.
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In just seconds, the suspect will be ordered to exit
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the vehicle, and all those present are aware that he's
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a the possession of the suspected murder weapon. If the
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suspect feels like he has nothing left to lose and
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senses that his friends betrayed him, he may choose to
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take revenge.
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You hear me, Yes, open the door from the outside,
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open the door all the way.
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Ask you to men, don't keep your hands up, hands up.
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Thankfully he's apprehended without incident.
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Were passenger.
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Do don't move?
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Do you understand me?
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Yes?
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Do you understand yes? Do don't move your hands?
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Yeahloves gloves righter, richer, Move the bag back towards to sleep.
543
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Yep, yep, just not just pull that magnif list just
544
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to see the cereal number, just to see the serial number.
545
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How if you want to look at this, you want
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me to start and see it left for a hold
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and specimply.
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Take care of no one is I'll call the Chilie
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cam Right.
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Boys, and with that, the serial number was confirmed to
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belong to a gun that has very recently landed itself
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on law enforcement's radarm. It had been kept under the
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driver's seat of the owner's vehicle until on November eighteenth,
554
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when he realized it was missing. And here's where it
555
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:38.519
all begins to come crashing down. On November twentieth, James
556
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:42.880
Walker reported his glock nine millimeter pistol stolen. Though James
557
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and Emma's family share a surname, they are no relation. James, however,
558
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is related to someone else who's very close to the case.
559
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His grandson happens to be none other than the grieving boyfriend,
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Riley gall That's right, the suspect was actually Riley all
561
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all Long. In addition to the firearm, other damning evidence
562
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was recovered, including the gloves we heard mention of and
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black clothing that would later confirm that Riley was likely
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the suspicious man dressed in black. As it turns out,
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there's much more to this convoluted story than initially meets
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the eye. Let's take a closer look into the events
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that transpired over those two years. What you're about to
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00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.799
see will paint a picture of a tumultuous roller coaster
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of a relationship remarkably different than what you've seen so far.
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It all started when that freshman cheerleader caught the eye
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of that star wide receiver Wed.
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We dated all off for about two years until about
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two weeks ago when she.
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Really cut it off. I've cut it off in the
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past before she cut it off for he just kind
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of went back and forth through.
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The months at a time.
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Then we have a small fallout, and then we get
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back here.
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It was far into the relationship before Emma's friends and
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family began to see concerning signs. Emma's friends observed Riley
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exhibit behavior that they could only describe as controlling, possessive,
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and clingy. Riley wanted Emma to himself, and, according to
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Emma's mom, Jill, Riley even attempted to control what Emma warm.
585
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This sort of jealousy and possessiveness is typical of abusive relationships.
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The perpetrator essentially treats the victim like a possession rather
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than a human being. It is common for perpetrators of
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abusive relationships to have antisocial personality disorder. Individuals with this
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personality disorder often have a need to dominate others and
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use others to fulfill their own emotional needs. Along with this,
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Riley quickly became obsessed with Emma and their relationship. Their
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relationship seems to have followed the three stages of obsession.
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The first is the absorbed stage. The initial attachment is
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dream and everything becomes serious. Very early on. The obsessive
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partner places the other partner in a specific role, which
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is consistent with Riley's attempt to dictate what Emma warm.
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Next comes the agitated stage. As the relationship progresses, the
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obsessive partner increasingly attempts to control the other. They text, call,
599
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or email numerous times a day. They're jealous of anyone
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or anything that takes time away from the relationship, and
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attempt to isolate their partner from friends and family. The
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third and final stage is the aggressive stage, which typically
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starts when either previously successful attempts at controlling the partner
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have failed or the partner has ended the relationship. At
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this point, the obsessive partner ups the ante. They may
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suddenly show up to places uninvited. They may alternate between
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pleas to reunite and vows of vengeance. For some desperate
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or disturbed individuals, the behavior can escalate to s jaling
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threats or physical violence. As it turns out, in the
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midst of those breakups, Riley referenced he'd send Emma the
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most vile of messages through social media, among them I
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hate you, I hate everything about you, and you're the
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biggest I've ever come in contact with. The messages eventually
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escalated to a whole new menacing level, with one in
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particular reading you're dead to me, I'll check the obituary you.
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When Emma's parents caught wind of this, Riley was understandably
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no longer allowed in their home. They confiscated Emma's cell
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phone in an attempt to end communication between her and Riley,
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but the attempt failed. They advised Emma to break up
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with Riley, and her friends did the same. However, Emma
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wasn't ready to cut ties, and she was one to
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make her own decisions. It can be incredibly difficult for
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someone to leave an abusive relationship. Those on the outside
624
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.039
often question why someone would stay, but abusers are not
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abuse of all the time, and often have a seemingly
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loving side to them. By turning the charm on. Abusers
627
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are able to manipulate their partner into staying or giving
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the abuser another chance. However, the cycle of abuse will
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likely continue, and the level of abuse can escalate over time,
630
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and of course, Riley's behavior became increasingly alarming. He began
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stalking Emma. He'd wait for hours on end outside the
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supermarket where she worked, and continued attempting to speak with her,
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even after Emma's parents had forbidden contact between the two. Finally,
634
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somewhere around early November of twenty sixteen, Emma ended things
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with Riley. In fact, she informed a close friend that
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they were done for good, and for a matter of
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about two weeks, friends and family had their Emma back.
638
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It's important to note that when someone leaves an abusive relationship,
639
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this is considered to be the most dangerous time. Once
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the abuser realizes that none of their usual tactics are
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working to get their partner back, their violent behavior may
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escalate because they feel so out of control. Shortly after
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Emma ended the relationship, Riley allegedly attempted to take his
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own life. Campus friends took him to the local hospital
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for treatment, effectively saving his life. Maybe it was then
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that he made the ultimate decision. If he couldn't have Emma,
647
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he'd see to it that no one would. Then a
648
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:39.159
crime of convenience presented itself. Back in Riley's previous interrogation,
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the questioning turned to the missing firearm. Investigators are starting
650
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to look at the means and access to the aspects
651
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:49.679
of the crime, which is in a sense, Riley's ability
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to commit the crime.
653
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:53.519
And now I understand that.
654
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Your grandfather has set gun stole under missing or something
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that you know.
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Can you tell his jo he was during the week
657
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last week because he he came and switched out my
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car with his car to go get it to he
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00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:16.039
will changed back in Knoxville. So he left his car
660
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on campus, but he took his keys with him, and
661
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:23.519
he said when he got back, we switched out cars
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again and he took off and he called me maybe
663
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ten minutes later or five or ten minutes later, and said.
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He normally done that.
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I said, no, I haven't been in your car.
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Do you remember what time last week was?
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It might have been.
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Friday, then it was I'm sorry, it was Thursday or Friday.
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He came to that, but he left his car on
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campus but he took his keys with him. Okay, so
671
00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:50.519
I didn't even go to the car because.
672
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It only took an hour. He brought my car back.
673
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We switched out again, and that's when he got on
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the road and called me about five or ten minutes
675
00:38:57.519 --> 00:38:59.480
later and asked if I message was gone?
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Does so did you have a way to use his call?
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I mean, did he give you some keys or now
678
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that he take the keys with you, I mean, I
679
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:08.920
didn't know if you have an extra sale.
680
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:11.679
I mean like I've got keys to my brother's vehicles.
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00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:14.599
Guys, he's got an extra to honk car that you used.
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I can't monkeys on me because.
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I need to keep him on door.
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The detective has a few important questions, but have.
685
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You ever taken your grandfather's gun? They might take a
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chill vote or any playing right back? And I love
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him mat see, I mean I think where your grandfather's
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call kids now.
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00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.719
Riley maintains constant eye contact here.
690
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:38.559
Well.
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Many mistakenly believe that eye contact indicates honesty. The opposite
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is true. Sustained eye contact typically indicates dishonesty, as the
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individual is carefully watching to see if their story is
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being believed.
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00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:54.559
I understand he told you about the gun.
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I had that gun because I was scared about what happened.
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00:39:58.760 --> 00:39:59.639
I know you don't believe me.
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00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:01.960
You've probably don't either, whatever I'm telling you.
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00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:04.760
I mean, I don't believe that, but I believe the
700
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more that you didn't shoot him, because that's a big step.
701
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.679
Though we can't be sure which scary occurrence Riley was
702
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:13.760
referring to. We know that the gun went missing before
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00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.719
the weekend, and all the events that came with it
704
00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:23.000
even arrived. This simply cannot be explained away. Apparently, before
705
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Riley actually put the stolen gun to use, he made
706
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a couple of last ditch efforts to reel Emma back in.
707
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There was the stage kidnapping, but Emma was wise to
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his scheming ways and told him to leave her alone.
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Riley retreated to his friend Noah's home, where he stayed
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the night. And you probably recall that Noah didn't even
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buy Riley's story of having been abducted.
712
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:49.320
I mean, I don't believe that, but I believe the
713
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more that you didn't shoot him, because that's a big
714
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step you.
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Still, Yeah, this could be an indication that Riley's friends
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know that he tends to lie or make up stories.
717
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.559
Lying is another key trade of individuals with antisocial personality disorder.
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These individuals lie in order to manipulate others and get
719
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their needs met. Since people with antisocial personality disorder lack empathy,
720
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they're often indifferent to the fact that their lies and
721
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manipulation can harm others. After the stage kidnapping failed to
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win Emma back, Riley conjured up a new plan and
723
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put it into action The following morning, Saturday, November nineteenth,
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the infamous masked man dressed in all black. Emma was
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so terrified she'd later tell her friends she thought she
726
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was going to die.
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So you went to the back yard, Hickswafy, So I
728
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:48.440
find how you get the vaculated?
729
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:51.800
A good question here, seeing as how detectives know that
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a shot was fired into the house from the backyard, which.
731
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They are off to the right of her house. There's
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a gate as a lawn just open up to letches,
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and you know.
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That detectives are effectively establishing Riley's familiarity with Emma's house
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and yard layout, which supports the establishment of ability, knowledge,
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and opportunity to commit the crime. Riley's knowledge of where
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to shoot in order to strike or frighten Emma is
738
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an important piece of evidence related to his ability to
739
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carry out the crime. Of course, by the time Riley arrived,
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the masked man was conveniently nowhere to be found. Around
741
00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:35.960
that very time, Emma's mother returned home.
742
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Monks and.
743
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Her her parents aren't call me, so she just saw
744
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.079
me and told me to leave.
745
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:51.880
And I was coming up to Carl's life, not here
746
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:52.800
to arrest her.
747
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.480
I was just here, so she called her hope.
748
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:59.119
Here are some more authentic displays of Riley's nonverbals. We
749
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:01.320
can be fairly so, and this happened just as he
750
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:04.760
said it, and his gestures are less restrained and more
751
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:09.000
spontaneous as well. They easily match up with what he's saying.
752
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.760
Her parents didn't care for me at all was because
753
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:18.559
of the first time we broke up and I achieved
754
00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:22.000
on it, and her parents never forgave me for that,
755
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.199
you know, when she did, and they never let us,
756
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:28.039
never let us have an actual relationship for the remainder
757
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:28.840
of the time we were together.
758
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:32.599
After that, I finally went back over to Nowa's house.
759
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.000
Do you have your phone with you? I do not,
760
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:41.599
Oh man, I'd like to see the next message from him.
761
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:43.159
Do so much? How we do it?
762
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:49.039
I don't after that we did everything because I don't want.
763
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:51.800
I just don't want to.
764
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:55.519
Think of But clearly there was a motive behind the act.
765
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.360
It wasn't just a case of attempting to spare himself
766
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:01.320
the painful memories of the love he once had and lost.
767
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.679
The inspiration behind it was something much more calculated. He
768
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.599
wanted to hide the contents of his conversations with Emma
769
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.639
and didn't want to leave behind any information related to
770
00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:15.079
his whereabouts on the night she was killed. Or maybe
771
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:18.559
the text messages never even happened, and Riley is claiming
772
00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:21.559
to have deleted them to explain the absence of messages.
773
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:24.800
It would later be found that another one of Emma's
774
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:28.960
friends had witnessed Riley roaming the neighborhood that morning dressed
775
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:32.960
in all black. After these most recent failed attempts to
776
00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:36.119
lure Emma back into his clutches, Riley had come to
777
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:39.400
a crossroads. Emma had drawn the line in the sand.
778
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:43.440
She was done once and for all. Riley, it seems,
779
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:46.559
was faced with two choices. For one, he could choose
780
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:48.960
to move on with his own life, just as Emma
781
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:53.119
planned to do. Then there was the other option. Just
782
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:56.000
two days later, his decision would be reflected in an
783
00:44:56.119 --> 00:45:00.440
utterly horrendous act. You probably recall Riley's story of how
784
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:03.840
Sunday night played out. Well, there was more to it
785
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:07.519
than he'd originally led the detectives to believe. In fact,
786
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.840
he'd failed to include the most crucial details about Monday's
787
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:12.360
earliest hours.
788
00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:17.039
Lisa's Sunday not that you UFOs round to live.
789
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.679
Yes, he went back to campus around forty five, called
790
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:24.000
him from Maxton.
791
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.880
From Maxtone, Riley had borrowed a phone from his friend
792
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:32.239
Max Siegel, also a football player at Maryville College, because
793
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:35.280
Emma had either blocked his number or refused to answer
794
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:39.039
his calls. Coincidentally, Mack was one of the friends who
795
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:41.639
took Riley to the hospital for treatment a week or
796
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:45.920
two earlier after his attempt to take his own life. Oftentimes,
797
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.760
people who were highly manipulative and controlling and relationships will
798
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.039
make or fake an attempt to take their life as
799
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:56.079
a means of trying to manipulate and control their partner.
800
00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:02.000
This is truly the ultimate form of emotional manipulation. This
801
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:04.840
was the point where Riley realized he'd have to log
802
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.920
out of his grandmother's computer in order to access his
803
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.320
call a Gmail, or so he said. Then Riley's story
804
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:16.079
took a peculiar detour upore attempt to explain away an
805
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:20.239
account of a very suspicious, alleged conversation that it made
806
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:23.079
its way back to detectives get.
807
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:24.679
Backs dos around twel fifteen.
808
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:30.480
Yeah, I don't wall preserve, yes, So how do you
809
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:32.239
have conversations when you come.
810
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:34.960
In at twel fifteen about how to get finger Prince?
811
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.119
Now, it wasn't a conversation with him. I walked in
812
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:40.119
there and I was about to get on my laptop.
813
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:41.880
So I was in there for maybe four minutes and
814
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.599
then realized that I had to go back to lock
815
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:45.760
myself out of Mymerical College email address.
816
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:49.920
And he was like, hey, have his rifle or whatever.
817
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:51.840
He was like, you know, how to get smudges and
818
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:52.559
stuff off.
819
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:55.039
Like the barrel, the handle of the butt all that.
820
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:56.800
And I'm like, what do you mean smudges? And he's like,
821
00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:58.679
like your fingerprints, like the oil.
822
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.320
And dirt and all that, and I was like, I
823
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:00.599
don't know.
824
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:04.039
Riley has made a poor attempt to establish an alternate
825
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.880
set of facts in order to cover up the conversation
826
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:12.559
about removing fingerprints on a firearm. However, detectives likely believe
827
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:16.559
they have established Riley's knowledge of guilt, despite the fact
828
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.039
that Riley was in a state of despair after the
829
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.119
phone call with Emma hadn't gone well. He took the
830
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.400
time to research the question further.
831
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:27.840
And when I called, no upset about that apple now
832
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.280
on the phone, I said, when I asking that question,
833
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.519
He was like, it's a really sketchy question asked, And
834
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:34.920
I was like, I know, but you're the first person
835
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:35.480
on the phone.
836
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:37.760
So I figured out just ask you.
837
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:42.480
Detectives had to have detected deception in that far fetched tale.
838
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.079
Of course, they let that one go for the time
839
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.280
being and continued with Riley's account of that fateful Monday morning.
840
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.840
And then you went back to your grandparents. Yes, a
841
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:55.159
logo for their livestop.
842
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:59.480
He hides his hands in his pocket here a gesture
843
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.440
intended to give someone a sense of comfort and safety
844
00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:06.639
in a situation that is clearly becoming increasingly more stressful.
845
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.599
Go back campus around one and set the car and
846
00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:15.000
wet for two three hours and just crying, And why
847
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:18.199
I was I just had it because I knew.
848
00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:20.079
She wasn't going to come back, and I've always got
849
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:21.920
her to come back in the past, and I was
850
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:25.599
just she walked on everything, so I couldn't send anything anything.
851
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:27.679
I could send her messages on Twitter, and that's why
852
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:29.239
I told you I sent that message around one.
853
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:37.559
I just thought her how much I was there little
854
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:38.119
sorry that.
855
00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:40.599
She hadn't want what we had anymore, and I hope
856
00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:42.079
that she was going to do great things.
857
00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:42.440
In the future.
858
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.679
It appears that Riley is picking at his nails here,
859
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:49.800
which is a grooming gesture. Grooming behaviors alone are not
860
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:53.079
a definite sign of deception, but they do indicate that
861
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:56.119
the person may be feeling uncomfortable and is trying to
862
00:48:56.199 --> 00:49:01.320
release some anxiety, possibly because they're lying. Despite Riley saying
863
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:04.320
how much he loved Emma, there's no emotion in his
864
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:07.679
voice to support this, and he hasn't expressed any interest
865
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.400
in finding out what happened to her.
866
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:12.159
And I was I thought her I was in the
867
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:12.760
leader alone.
868
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:15.800
Yeah, but there was one more thing he had to
869
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.760
do before he'd leave her alone.
870
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:20.079
Here in my saw, are you here, Garth?
871
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:23.960
I'm gonna know I'll work in my funeral Hoteln looking
872
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.039
the pictures of us for three hours.
873
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.079
Two and a half. Maybe I mean I just sat
874
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.840
there in cars. I've done that before.
875
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:36.679
This window of time supposedly spent in his car is
876
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:40.599
a convenient explanation of his whereabouts for those three hours,
877
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:43.440
which we know was precisely the time that Emma was
878
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:46.880
killed in her room. Also convenient is the fact that
879
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:49.800
no one saw him because he was alone in his car,
880
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.679
so a roommate, for instance, can't be questioned later and
881
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:57.719
asked when Riley returned to the dorm that night. Riley,
882
00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:01.719
the master manipulator, is using his go to tactic is
883
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:06.800
supposed emotional distress. The detective then deferred to his partner
884
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:10.400
and asked if he had any questions. However, Riley was
885
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:11.679
wise to the tactic.
886
00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:14.800
They were playingly good, caught backuper like they leg like
887
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:17.960
I didn't know Copps actually did that. They do because
888
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:20.480
the one that was being decent was asking me all
889
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:22.000
the questions, and then when he was done, he'd be like,
890
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:23.920
do you have any questions? And then the guy would
891
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:25.920
just be like, yeah, I was just wonder my little
892
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:28.000
foggy on who you're with, And it seems like you're
893
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.440
kind of lying too, and I was like, I'm not lying.
894
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.400
Yeah, it didn't quite unfold like Riley had described.
895
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:36.920
More than Ingles.
896
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.519
If you're not yes, have you ever had any service
897
00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:45.079
or anything at angles dis services?
898
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:47.639
Maybe y'all ever get the thought pardon law or anything
899
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:47.920
like that.
900
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:48.519
Yeah.
901
00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.440
I don't remember what day, but it was a little week.
902
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:52.519
Maybe a week and a half ago.
903
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:54.760
I met her when she was going into work because
904
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:57.159
she had done the same.
905
00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:57.679
Thing she'd been doing.
906
00:50:57.800 --> 00:50:59.719
She's been blocking me telling me that she had done
907
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.960
and I went there and I thought her I was trying.
908
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:04.519
To just get it a reason with me.
909
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:08.599
Then the bad cop has a few more pertinent questions
910
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:09.119
for Riley.
911
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:12.039
And every time they'll come up and talk.
912
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:14.360
To somebody that the gun has come up to Ingles
913
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:16.320
in England apartments you turn over with a gun. They're
914
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:17.719
saying that I may have a gun and I don't
915
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:19.119
want to wear up to have you or anything like
916
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:21.280
that spark out there.
917
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.400
But you have you done that before? Then? Now I've
918
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:26.480
never done that. Why Why does why does people say
919
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:29.480
that you may have no gun? I don't know.
920
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.280
I mean they're your friends. I mean they're they're your
921
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:34.280
they're your boys or your thre repeat.
922
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.079
Why would they keep telling me that they have that
923
00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:37.800
you have a gun?
924
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:43.440
I mean, help me understand that. So there is Alex,
925
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.840
Isaac and Noahs. There three that your three best friends,
926
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:49.920
three of them, I mean no free coming. So you
927
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:53.320
spent a weekend with no if we're ever closed me.
928
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.599
Liars. So they're just honest.
929
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:02.119
Everybody's a liar, I mean you No, truly, everybody lies.
930
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.239
I don't know why they lie or why they got
931
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:06.599
that common misconception.
932
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:10.119
Did not one of them have it? It's the gun? Yeah, no,
933
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.400
you know they well live, but not with somebody in
934
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:13.400
your circle have it?
935
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.639
Nobody take it to My grandfather always kept it under
936
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:17.719
his car or under the bed.
937
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:21.760
Naturally, Riley wasn't pleased that his friends had disclosed information
938
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.039
about the gun they knew he had in his possession.
939
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:28.199
His displeasure is clearly reflected in a text message thread
940
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.760
between him and his friend Alex, shortly after Riley's only
941
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:35.119
interview took place. Why did you tell him about the gun?
942
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:38.480
Riley asks Alex. They think I shot her because of it?
943
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.840
Please text me back. Among Alex's replies, if you didn't
944
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.000
do anything. You have nothing to hide. Why did you
945
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:47.880
tell me you were trying to get rid of the gun?
946
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.480
You lied and said you already gave it back to
947
00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:54.079
your grandpa. Then that evening, Riley followed up with some
948
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:57.800
questionable legal counsel for both Alex and Noah.
949
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.920
What I'm saying is is, if I have to go
950
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:03.679
to court in front of a grand jury or anything
951
00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:05.320
and you have to testify, or if the cops come
952
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:08.519
and talk to you again, whenever you talk to them,
953
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:11.360
just be like you were too afraid to tell them
954
00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:11.840
that you were.
955
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:13.559
On acid because you thought you were gonna get in trouble.
956
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.400
That's true. I never meant that, you know.
957
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:20.239
Yeah, And if anything about that gun, just say I
958
00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.760
must have misunderstood or something because I was tricking balls.
959
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:23.920
I really don't know what was going on.
960
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.079
If he was just like Riley was just complaining to
961
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:29.800
me about some stuff. I guess I thought I heard
962
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.440
something about a gun and his grandfather.
963
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:32.880
Thinking that he took it.
964
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.000
You know, if you tell them you're on LSS, you
965
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:38.639
were drunk and you're high, your mind was altered. Whatever
966
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:42.800
statement you give them wasn't a straightforward answer. If you
967
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:47.000
just tell them that you were on acid, high and drunk,
968
00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:49.400
and just you didn't really understand what I was saying.
969
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:50.519
You just kind of went along with it.
970
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:52.880
I just tell him I was the only sober person here,
971
00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:56.679
and I'll guess I'll talk to Isaiac because I was
972
00:53:56.679 --> 00:53:57.960
going to be sketchy about that too.
973
00:53:57.960 --> 00:53:59.679
With telling the cops that he was on the drug.
974
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:02.159
But I'll talk him another time.
975
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:06.400
The detectives decide it's time to confront Riley. It's obvious
976
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.559
he isn't being forthcoming with them, and they definitely aren't
977
00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:13.559
convinced by his elaborate lies. They apply more pressure as
978
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:14.960
they lay it all out for him.
979
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:25.239
Really, gun that bost your grandfather business? Okay, we have
980
00:54:26.039 --> 00:54:29.239
all your friends saying that you've been talking about this gun.
981
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:31.519
We have one of your friends saying.
982
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:33.599
That he saw you with the gun, that you showed
983
00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:36.039
him again, and that you told him you got it
984
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:37.079
from your grandfather.
985
00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:42.599
Okay, Okay, I kind of hard believe these gas is
986
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making me good. I don't have anything else to say.
987
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:48.119
I've told you that I'll told you injury from me,
988
00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:51.679
So that's if it's going to be the same question, that's.
989
00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:52.199
The same answer.
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00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:56.079
Riley is clearly frustrated at this point, but he sticks
991
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with his original story and remains consistent and allow Stitch
992
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:03.480
effort to get more from Riley. The detectives divulge a
993
00:55:03.559 --> 00:55:05.239
bit of what they've found so far.
994
00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:13.440
We've recovered smiles and those rounds happen to match the
995
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:15.039
same type of ammunition.
996
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:16.480
The true grandfather uses in his gun.
997
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:19.960
Say you do know how she did, and said that
998
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:23.159
we have recovered surrounds in those rounds with the same
999
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:26.159
topic of browns that your grandfather uses in his gun.
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00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.559
Look at his hand movement, even while in his pocket,
1001
00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:32.559
his hands shift up to cover his stomach when he's
1002
00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:37.079
told the bullets match his grandfather's gun. When someone finds
1003
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:40.880
themselves in a vulnerable situation, they may put their hands
1004
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:44.599
over their stomach to comfort themselves and feel more protected.
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00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:47.400
When a suspect doesn't show a level of concern that
1006
00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:51.239
is appropriate for the situation, detectives will see this as
1007
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:54.559
a red flag. While it's true that people may handle
1008
00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:58.280
grief and difficult news differently, having a complete lack of
1009
00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:00.920
reaction to finding out the cause of your loved one's
1010
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.119
unexpected death would be unusual for someone who is innocent
1011
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.880
Riley's focus throughout the interrogation has remained on himself, and
1012
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.920
he hasn't expressed any interest in finding out what happened
1013
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:17.039
to the girl he supposedly loved. Of course, we're now
1014
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.719
aware that he knows exactly what happened to him.
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00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:21.039
I if I am.
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Able to find your grandfather's young then I can match
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00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:29.559
that to these rounds that found and determine whether or
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00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:31.760
not that gun and these rounds are.
1019
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:37.519
Actually from the same part. So help me. I'm helping you. Okay,
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00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.599
I don't know. I understand that.
1021
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:42.519
But Riley sticks to his story.
1022
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:49.039
Your timeline, while it's somewhat consistent, still has holes in it.
1023
00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:52.360
There's one major hole in his story.
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00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.559
So you sat in a call for three hours and wept?
1025
00:56:56.920 --> 00:56:57.119
Yeah?
1026
00:56:57.679 --> 00:56:59.880
Did you let me ask you? Did you call him
1027
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.960
during that time? A rap through family or anything like grid?
1028
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:07.960
Of course, Riley can't recall for sure. He'd have to
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00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.559
take a look at his cell phone, which conveniently is
1030
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:13.920
not on him at this time. But with the help
1031
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:17.719
of local cell towers, Riley's path during those three hours
1032
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is traced, and the findings completely destroy his story. Riley
1033
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:26.199
left campus slightly before twelve to fifteen am, just as
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00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:29.880
he'd stated. However, he didn't return until approximately four to
1035
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:33.599
twenty AM. At the time Emma's death was estimated to
1036
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have occurred roughly around three am, Riley was clearly in
1037
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:41.679
the vicinity of Emma's home, nowhere near the college campus.
1038
00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:45.639
This evidence is difficult to refute, to say the least.
1039
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As the interview is coming to a close, the bad
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00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:51.960
cop drops one more bombshell on Riley.
1041
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:55.559
Outside of the house. Today the house was shot at
1042
00:57:55.800 --> 00:58:00.440
coup rounds the rails that we found out for Alta
1043
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:04.559
when Ramsler found out or came from your grandfather's gone.
1044
00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:06.920
I don't know where it comes back.
1045
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:09.760
Well, who would want to Who would want to take
1046
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:13.559
your grandfather's gone and take it to the house and
1047
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shoot at the house?
1048
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I do not know.
1049
00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:21.440
Lead Again, do you know anybody who want to do that?
1050
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:23.800
I don't know anyone that we have when I heard
1051
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that girl.
1052
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Riley's detachment and lack of feeling for Emma is evidenced
1053
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in the way he repeatedly refers to her as that
1054
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girl rather than using her name. This also allows him
1055
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to distance himself from her. Riley remains unaffected by the
1056
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pressure and is very confident, so much so that it
1057
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almost seems as if this is something he's familiar with,
1058
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though Riley may appear unaffected by the pressure he's rubbing
1059
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his face, which is generally considered to be a self
1060
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soothing behavior. Then the detective proposes a potential explanation gone.
1061
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Up, saying that all this and they're trying to hurt her.
1062
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I want you to watch I'm scared, someone'mont say that
1063
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that's what that's happened over there.
1064
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But I'm saying that the house was shot.
1065
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No, I don't know anyone that we want to do it.
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The detective seems to be trying to provide Riley with
1067
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a way out, a possible explanation that he can use,
1068
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because it's likely easier for Riley to confess that he
1069
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was trying to scare Emma rather than confessing to intentionally
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trying to shoot her. The detective is probably hoping that
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Riley will find himself cornered and then ultimately confess to
1072
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this less severe explanation of Emma's death. Make a mental
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note of the detective's explanation.
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I want you to watch on scared, someone'mons say that
1075
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that's what's happened over there.
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You'll see that it will surface again shortly. At this point,
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the detectives have found themselves between a rock and a
1078
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hard place. They're not gaining any ground. The interview is concluded.
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Riley seems confident that he's outmaneuvered the detectives, as if
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he already has this one in the bag.
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They interrogate me for two and a half hours.
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If they could, they would have arrested me already.
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Riley is likely feeling confident that as long as he
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gets rid of the gun, the detectives won't have enough
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evidence to convict him. He may have an inflated sense
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of self esteem and believe he can outsmart the police
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and even get away with murder. However, as he sits
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on this very sofa before two of his closest friends
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and feeds them false information to relate to law enforcement,
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there's much more going on behind the scenes than he
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could ever imagine. The steing operation was carried out Tuesday night,
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just one day after Emma was murdered, and Riley was questioned.
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As you heard, everything went down as planned, and the
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operation proved to be a success. When the trial rolled
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around in May of twenty eighteen, Riley and his attorneys
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adopted a creative defense. You probably recall this come.
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Up saying that all the sander's trying to her, I
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like to watch him scare or some imist say that
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that's what that's happened over there.
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But I'm saying that the house was shot.
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No, I don't know anyone that we want to do
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it well.
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According to his attorney, Riley had never intended to harm Emma.
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The two gunshots that pierced the exterior walls of her
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home were simply another attempt to scare Emma in hopes
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she'd reach out to him for help. Once again. He
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never intended to shoot her, they claimed. In the end,
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though the jury found no credibility in the defense, Riley
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was found guilty of stalking, theft, reckless endangerment, possession of
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a firearm during a dangerous felony, and of course, first
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degree murder. And in Tennessee, a first degree murder conviction
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is accompanied by an automatic life sentence. And keeping with
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her thoughtful nature. March twenty fourth will remain Emma Walker
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Day in Knoxville. It will remain a time to recall
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the happy memories and perform random acts of kindness in
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memory of a kind soul who whose life was cut
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far too short,
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When two young men suspect a member of their own
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circle may be their friend's killer, they collaborate with law
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enforcement and go undercover to capture secret recordings.
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Why did he say that?
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Why did you say, just want to talk to me?
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Freeze your hands out of the vehicle.
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Beloved cheerleader Emma Walker was just a few months into
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her junior year at Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee,
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when her life meta tragically abrupt end. Initially, it seemed
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it was some sort of terrible accident. There was no
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other way to explain it. However, investigators would soon untangle
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a twisted web of lies and uncover the horrific reality.
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Someone had wanted Emma dead. Growing up, Emma's ultimate dream
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was to become a neonatal ICU nurse someday, and the
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honor student was putting in the necessary effort to ensure
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she'd get there. She was making the most of high school,
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and her inate ability to excel in her endeavors was
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also exhibited in her role on the cheerleading squad. Her
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third year had just gotten under way, and she was
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loving it. Then the morning of Monday, November twenty first
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arrived like she'd done so many times before. Jill went
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to her daughter's room to wake Emma for school around
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six o'clock. Right away, it was apparent that something was
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terribly wrong.
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Do we get my daughter?
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We can and cher.
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You said that she's nonresponsive, the thing out of her mouth.
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Stay on the one. I'm transferring you to real Metro.
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Word of the mysterious tragedy spread quickly among those hit.
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Particularly hard by the devastating news of Emma's death was
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her boyfriend of two years, Riley Gall. The two had
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first met in the fall of Emma's freshman year at
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Central High. She was the only freshman to secure a
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spot on the cheerleading squad. It was right around then
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that Emma caught the attention of junior and star wide
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receiver Riley Gall. It came as no surprise that the
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two were soon inseparable. A steady stream of posts with
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photos saturated their social media feeds, documenting the fun times
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they shared. There were collages such as the one that
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read look how lucky I Am, posted by Emma and
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May of twenty sixteen. By the time that fall of
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twenty sixteen rolled around, Emma and Riley were two years
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into their relationship. Emma, now a junior, remained a dedicated
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member of the cheerleading squad at Central High. Though Riley
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had graduated that previous spring, he stayed close to his
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hometown and was attending Maryville College, where he quickly made
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a name for himself as a wide receiver on the
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foot ball team. Then, just a few months into the
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new school year, young Emma was gone. As routine procedure goes,
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the Knox County Sheriff's Office immediately began speaking with those
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closest to Emma. Riley was brought in that evening on
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the outside chance that he might be able to aid
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in the investigation based on a tweet from earlier that day.
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He was very distraught and understandably so that's my beautiful Emma.
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Rest easy now, sweetheart. It read, and it just so happens.
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Word has gotten back to law enforcement that Riley has
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some particularly eerie information to share. Apparently, Emma had been
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receiving threatening text messages from an unknown source during the
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course of the previous weekend. The detectives start with brief introductions,
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then get a technical matter out of the way. The
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following footage has been analyzed by a qualified team including
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a licensed attorney, a licensed clinical psychologist, a former licensed
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professional counselor, and a licensed professional counselor.
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Before gets started, I understanding you're not under a restaurant.
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Now he came down your free can with your granddad,
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your mom. But because you're in a secure area, I
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have to read you're rights.
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Okay, because basically if you're in a position that you
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can't get up and let you can get out on
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your own, they technically look at that in court as
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mean in customer.
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But I understand you're not in custody. I have if the.
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Handcuffs only I'm not told you've been charge. Ali's just
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a film.
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After Riley has read his rights, they engage him in
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a bit of small talk and efforts to build rapport,
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establish a baseline, and make him feel comfortable.
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While we're waiting on him, tell a little bit about
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yourself and I will obviously play football at Merrim College.
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I'm assuming you played football in high school. It's cot position.
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I seer cornerback part hire and keep your turing pirn
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super good.
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Well you kick calls but all over the place. Last year,
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so has been your senior year? Yeah?
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Good?
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It's always painful with you guys, and the stakes days.
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Work at A few minutes later, the detectives dive into
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the true reason for the meeting. They asked Riley to
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provide a timeline of his whereabouts over the previous weekend.
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Let's start with Friday. What do you have classes during
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the day? Wednesday?
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Friday, I have an eight am and nine am. And
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Tuesday Thursday I have a six am and eleven am.
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And in the other class on Monday Wednesday Friday is
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at one pm.
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Wow, you super goods attention. Let's start with Friday. You
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get out a class at one pm. What happens from there?
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Riley explains that he headed to his grandparents home that evening,
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then went to his friend Noah's home shortly after, where
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he spent the night. Then, according to Riley, his seemingly
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normal mourning took a chilling turn. And it all started
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with a message from Emma.
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And she was she was kind of acting frantic over
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the phone, and she said that someone's trying to get
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into her house.
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Somebody who was dressing all black. They had a face
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mask on. She said that she's on. She said she thought.
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They were just taking a walk in the neighborhood, and
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then when she passed him to call into her dogway,
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they put on a pair of glasses and they started,
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like she said, they kind of like sped up.
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must say, to his house and drove all the.
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Way to her neighborhood. Do you have said she takes
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to do that information? She where?
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at first when I told her to know what's going on.
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crying and freaking out.
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down and check it out.
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Right, raced to Hima's home, and approximately ten minutes later
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he arrived.
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I went to your backyard, made sure you know when
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I was back there.
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down the street.
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a residential surveillance camera captured a few seconds of footage
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as the man walked down the street. Riley returned to
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Noah's house somewhere around eight pm and stayed the night,
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once again.
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Leave and where do you go? Sunday morning.
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I woke up, I went back to my grandparents and
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then went back over to Noah's house, and I got.
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my Americal college email, but.
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I realized I couldn't because I was log.
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In on my grandparents my grandmother's laptop back in Auxville.
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twelve thirty around there, so I didn't think they were away.
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do my homework. I love myself at the laptop at
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my grandparents house.
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logging at a laptop, and from there out left.
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his grandfather saw him log out of the laptop, almost
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as if he's expecting that the detectives will think he's lying.
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About why he went home.
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even been accused of something, it can be seen by
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I ended up not doing my homework instead.
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half hours, and just wit for thirty fellas leap fellosly
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for him then, and that's when I woke up to.
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People calling me about what had happened.
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Well, Percy, he texted me and he was like, hey, man,
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I'm sorry that what happened.
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you not hear what happened?
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Morning or unresponseed was what he told me. And that's
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when I started freaking out, having a breakdown. So my
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parents or my mom and my grandmother were coming out
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to campus evening. They probably got their own h thirty
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Hima's death, rightly, he starts stroking his face. This is
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a self soothing behavior indicative of heightened anxiety. This could
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be because the topic is distressing for him, which would
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be understandable, or a hint that maybe something else about
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the topic makes him nervous. Although some dismiss nonverbal analysis
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as pseudoscience and whether or not the viewer agrees with it,
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it is used by the FBI, CIA, and police daring interrogations,
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which is why we include it. When the CIA is
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interrogating an individual, they look for clusters of three or
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more indicators that occur in either quick succession or all
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at once. These indicators can be signs of discomfort or
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uncertainty in what the individual is stating, rather than indicators
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of deception. It's extremely important to note that you cannot
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detect deception through non verbal analysis alone.
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So then what your grandparents got you and you went
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back to my granmedy is I can't got you. That's
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where back in our spence all I've spent all day
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in my grandparent's hot today.
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the detectives trend position to the sensitive subject of his
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longtime girlfriend's unexpected death, perhaps Riley can provide something for
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law enforcement to go on, a detail that may seem
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insignificant to him, maybe the very information needed to crack
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the case.
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Tell me what you know, Aboulliams passing. I've always been
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all kind of roads and speculation or have you heard
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I'll try.
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To put anything, all of it out because.
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I've heard seven different things. I've heard she just passed
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in her sleep. Heard she try to cancel.
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I heard a strable it came.
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To the wall.
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But that made no sense to me because it's her room.
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from the backyard because that's where her window is.
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Yeah, that one didn't make sense to me, but those
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are the main theory.
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Who you talked to her? Have you heard these rumors
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about asking earshally've done all that.
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I've had a bunch of my Myra hesited me today
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at my grandparent's house, and maybe just tell me different
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Riley has been fidgeting and spinning his seat throughout the
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interview so far, but as soon as the detectives start
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asking about Emma's death and the rumors surrounding it. He
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also begins picking at his fingers, which is typically an
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anxiety response.
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said him.
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His name's Jacob. You know Jacob.
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We've been friends in the second grade.
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Did he say where he heard the true bullet theory?
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He probably said that didn't sound right to.
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Him either, But horrifyingly so, it seems that the detectives
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are beginning to consider that the killer could be hiding
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and play inside as a grieving friend. Perhaps they even
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paid Riley a visit and an attempt to avoid suspicion,
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simply playing the part of another young mourner expressing condolences
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to the longtime boyfriend of the deceased. Detectives of collected
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potential leads in Riley's visitors from earlier that day, and
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with this, the entire trajectory of the investigation has drastically changed.
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Can you think of anyone that would want to hurt him?
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Not because I mean she was shot enemies? No, she hadn't.
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No enemy isn't going to hurt her.
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I mean she had high school drama and he's but
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Gross didn't life, but.
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She was very likable. She didn't I mean she was
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friends with mostly either. She thought to the last time
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you taught her? And he said it was Sunday, so
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they not. Did she make any comments about it, maybe
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mad at her, upset at her, or anal urger now.
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I heard house Saturday morning. That's the first thing I
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thought it would hire that.
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She passes morning.
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it changes everything.
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you or anything in the wife.
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to think about their response. A deceptive individual likely wants
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to prevent awkward silences after a question, as that could
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seem suspicious. However, if they need a moment to consider
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what they should say, they might repeat the question to
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fill that conversation gap.
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Was I didn't want to I'm sorry. I just don't
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want to talk about it because it was traumatizing. I
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didn't know what to make of it, and that's pretty
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important to us. Poole names. Might I gess that I
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don't know? Like I don't know anything about it.
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hearted shrug and his hands barely raise. Throughout his illustrators
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have been minimal. We don't have anything of him before
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the interview to really compare to. But it's an atypical
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behavior for people in general to have such weak nonverbals.
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Illustrators help people make points while they speak. In contrast,
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restrained gesturing is believed to be a telltale sign of deception.
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When did this.
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Wench kidnacting take place? Friday Dispatch, Fraun, When.
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Did that happen?
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I just don't I don't remember much about it.
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I was remember two guys literally, I was Friday night
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before I got two knows that's Monta's house.
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And I was pulled in the routway and this vand
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pulled it over across in the semi circle.
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And these two guys were like walking across the street.
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I was didn't think anything of it. Because they were
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like a rush, and I turned.
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Around and about to get in my car and his cano.
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One of them grabs my back, and the other ones
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around the corner, and they just like.
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Put their hands over my face and just took me to.
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Their van or whatever.
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poems are up in a position, usually indicating that he's
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asking to be believed or trying to be convincing, but
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they don't fit with his words. His hands just sit
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there for quite a long time with no words to
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go along with it.
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And then I don't remember much. They just had me.
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I couldn't see anything they had, some of them as
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hadn't told them Mom or anybody about the pru Wow
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parafod so going feeling any money a gambling that is
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to be gambled. So the guys just random or picked
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you out for no reason.
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he doesn't give a clear reason as to why he
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can't remember much of it. He's also left out any
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mention of his feelings during the event, and only mentions
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being terrified to justify why he hasn't told his mom
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about it. Most people who were telling the truth about
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something major, such as being kidnapped, will express what their
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emotions were at the time. This is because their emotions
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are tied to the memory of the traumatic event. When
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someone leaves these details out, it can be a red
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flag for possible deception. But the question is what could
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he be leaving out. That same night, Emma had attended
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a gathering at a friend's home after the football game.
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It was somewhere around eleven thirty PM when she began
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receiving alarming text messages from an unfamiliar phone number.
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They did ask me.
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They're like, like, whould you want to talk to for
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the last time? That's also for you now, and I
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said Emma.
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Text messages instructed Emma to go outside. They stated that
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they had her loved one in their possession and if
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she didn't comply with their demands, he'd be hurt.
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And they made me call him a She would answer
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my phone multiple phones, so they used their phone and
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I was just crying screen and she thought it was
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a joke.
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She started playing prank card.
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his seat this entire time. This indicates that he's been
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letting off his excess energy, which is going to be
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a red flag to the officers that he may be
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hiding something. The fact that Emma thought Riley was playing
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a joke on her could suggest that he had done
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something in the past to make her doubt his sincerity.
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A friend accompanied him outside, and that was when they
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located Riley lying face down in a nearby ditch. According
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to her friend, Riley appeared to be disoriented.
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I woke up where Emma was who her friends yard?
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It's run off tassel hi. I literally remember them. My
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headache for the rest and I want to go back.
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Ten was after that? Do you still know all that?
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Yeah, they thought it was.
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They thought it was. That's why I haven't talked to
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any about it from no one would take me seriously.
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It's interesting that Riley still hasn't asked exactly what happened
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to Emma. Most people would ask at some point, while
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maybe not early on, since they don't want to interrupt investigators.
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They wouldn't want to sit through the entire interview without
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asking for some kind of information about what happened. This
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is likely a red flag to detectives after acquiring the
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information they need for the time being. The detectives conclude
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their interview with Riley.
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Prob We want thank you for coming and talking to us,
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who appreciate that.
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It's clear that investigators know Emma didn't take her own life,
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but instead believe something far more sinister occurred. Though the
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information hasn't yet been made public, they're aware that Emma
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died as a result of a single gunshot, the bullet
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having traveled through the exterior of her house before striking
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Emma in the head. Somewhere around this time, law enforcement
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is approached by friends of Emma who strongly suspect they
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know the identity of the killer they want to assist
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in the investigation. In fact, they believe they can get
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their hands on the very weapon that might have been
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used to murder him earlier that same morning. If the
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rumors that she died of a gunshot wound are accurate.
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You see, the person they suspect is also a close
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friend of theirs. In addition, one of the teens has
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recently witnessed something quite coincidental. The suspect had recently acquired
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a firearm. In fact, he'd gone so far as to
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show it to one of them. With the friends having
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come forward, the idea that the killer is among them
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has gained even more credibility, disturbing as it is, Despite
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the potential dangers of which they're warned, the amateur detectives
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ought to go through with the sting operation on November
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twenty second, just one day after Emma had died. A
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plan is constructed and the friends are wired and equipped
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with a hidden camera.
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All of you.
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There's nobody else. Word to go into the studs. Nobody else.
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I could go.
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Shi insane guys.
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Hey, every day lock man, every day locks go play
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some one.
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There you go another day, man? Yeah, look at that
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fun that the Yeah, thanks guys.
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And with the short briefing from detectives, the precarious mission,
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headed by a brave couple of teams is underway. The
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friends return to one of their homes and prepare for
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the suspect to arrive.
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So fuckers back in the good Yeah that's fine, okay, Yeah,
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we'll go there, all right, I'll see you.
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Why did he say that? Why did he say he
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just wanted to talk to me? Why is he going
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to talk to man?
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Can think about?
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Is a human touched humility? Which I mean, yeah, because
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I'm hard, all right, fl Guys, my roommate is not home.
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He's going to be a word to tell about like
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one or two a mania.
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One of the friends updates law enforcement who's listening in.
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The suspect is due to arrive in just a few minutes.
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The hidden camera is strategically placed just before the suspect
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enters with his friend and both take a seat on
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the couch. Apparently the two had a short conversation outside
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and the suspect would like for his friends to accompany
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him on an errand of sorts. But before they get
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to that, they speculate on him A's potential manner of death.
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We know that very little information has been made public
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and they only have rumors to go on, well two
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of them at least. We suspect that the third knows everything.
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They would have automatically ruled out he kind of suicide,
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or I mean not ruled it out, but like is
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you would go to show through wal You don't just
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get shot and die instantly unless you get hit and
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throw her in the head. Yeah, unless she got shot
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directly in the heart. It's still even that, Like you're
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gonna feel that wake up and be able to try
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and like crawl out your bed. Yeah, it doesn't make
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seems like I do don't understand how she does.
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It's likely that no part of this discussion is medically accurate,
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but the undercover friends play along in an attempt to
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get more information from the suspect, and the speculation continues.
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I don't either, But if like true, got shot their wall,
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then she would like say, hits her and STUFFA say
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some much shot on the wall here and stomach, she's
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gonna she's going to wake up. You don't just get
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shot and wait there. You know, I don't see how
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she wouldn't screen or something lurking and things and she's
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late unless it was just like a ridiculous shot. If
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it hit her in the head, then they would have
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saw that. Yeah, but you don't know, you know, they
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could have walked indn't seen her. Just well, it was
450
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it was a murder investigation from that morning. As far
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as on the line, they never know. I always don't
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know anything about how she was found or when she
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was him because whatever he has exactly whatever they always
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knew whatever he's heard from could not eat.
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They knew it was always from the first thing, because
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they put in protective custody. Serious.
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Yeah, the suspect is clearly alarmed by this information. The
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thought of a friend having been murdered would be quite
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devastating to hear. However, it's much more probable that the
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shock is from knowing that if her death was in
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fact a homicide, then law enforcement's main focus will be
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the locate the killer, which brings us to our next
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important topic of conversation.
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So I'm trusting you guys, like with my life, because
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I mean, this is seventy years in jail. If I
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be convicted of something I didn't do. Yeah, are you
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are you busy right now? If you have to do anything,
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we can get the books because I need you.
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Good blos.
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I'm gonna throw it in the water. They will never
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go everyone. I'll try to get the water with like rosy. Well, yeah,
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we did it with bogs.
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We can go on that.
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The smaller alleged that really looks out of the water.
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I mean, after bad man, I just needs christ I got.
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If it goes, if it's in the Tennessee.
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River, they will never find it.
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So that's why I just want to eliminate that from
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the equation as a whole. I see you cover your
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basis the basic I mean, I see that's that's that's
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your season. Well thee go right now, I'm finally have
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some there stack started. I started being myself. You know,
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I'm gonna call love at.
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After preparing a couple of hot pockets, the teens depart
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and route to an area that overlooks the Tannessee River
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not far from the University of Tennessee campus known as
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the Bluffs. It's possible that the suspect isn't just looking
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for moral support here by involving his friends in the
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disposal of the gun. He's likely trying to protect himself.
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If he gets them to help, they'll be more likely
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to follow his plan of lying to the police about
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what they know of the gun, and he'll be able
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to hold their involvement over them. They won't want legal
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consequences for their part and getting rid of potential evidence,
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so they'll feel more motivated to lie for the suspects.
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So I can jump the fence, my armes, I'll go
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into the church. You're not back in two minutes, We'll
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come after you.
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Less than four nerve wracking minutes later, the suspect returns
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to the vehicle.
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I just want to throw it to be done.
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I'm going if you feel it. My got stuff.
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I think there's clothes that you put.
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Something.
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Can amuse its take it out. It's call. I'll carry us,
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carry it up the gloves on.
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We'll get to the top, throw the bullets individually.
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Judging by the fact that the suspect keeps repeating how
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he wants to get rid of the gun, it seems
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that he's assuming that getting rid of the gun will
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mean that police will not have any evidence that points
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to him. They make one more detour and stop for
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some gas and fast food. The suspect, seated in the
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front passenger seat, hasn't allowed him as death to affect
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his appetite. About fifteen minutes later, they arrive at the
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bluffs and the horrifying moment of truth has almost arrived.
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Let me see this touch that she had closed on
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our store long. They don't have my fingerprints in any database.
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That was Oh my god, O god.
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The utter magnitude of the reality has to be overwhelming
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as they lay their eyes on the very weapon that
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they believed was used to end Emma's life. Then seemingly
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out of nowhere. The teens are rudely awakened to find
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that they're not alone.
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The hand out the beauw you got, free your hands
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out of the vehicle amid the chaos.
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In just seconds, the suspect will be ordered to exit
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the vehicle, and all those present are aware that he's
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a the possession of the suspected murder weapon. If the
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suspect feels like he has nothing left to lose and
531
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senses that his friends betrayed him, he may choose to
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take revenge.
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You hear me, Yes, open the door from the outside,
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open the door all the way.
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Ask you to men, don't keep your hands up, hands up.
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Thankfully he's apprehended without incident.
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Were passenger.
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Do don't move?
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Do you understand me?
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Yes?
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Do you understand yes? Do don't move your hands?
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Yeahloves gloves righter, richer, Move the bag back towards to sleep.
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Yep, yep, just not just pull that magnif list just
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to see the cereal number, just to see the serial number.
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How if you want to look at this, you want
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me to start and see it left for a hold
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and specimply.
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Take care of no one is I'll call the Chilie
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cam Right.
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Boys, and with that, the serial number was confirmed to
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belong to a gun that has very recently landed itself
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on law enforcement's radarm. It had been kept under the
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driver's seat of the owner's vehicle until on November eighteenth,
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when he realized it was missing. And here's where it
555
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all begins to come crashing down. On November twentieth, James
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Walker reported his glock nine millimeter pistol stolen. Though James
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and Emma's family share a surname, they are no relation. James, however,
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is related to someone else who's very close to the case.
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His grandson happens to be none other than the grieving boyfriend,
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Riley gall That's right, the suspect was actually Riley all
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all Long. In addition to the firearm, other damning evidence
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was recovered, including the gloves we heard mention of and
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black clothing that would later confirm that Riley was likely
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the suspicious man dressed in black. As it turns out,
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there's much more to this convoluted story than initially meets
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the eye. Let's take a closer look into the events
567
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that transpired over those two years. What you're about to
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see will paint a picture of a tumultuous roller coaster
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of a relationship remarkably different than what you've seen so far.
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It all started when that freshman cheerleader caught the eye
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of that star wide receiver Wed.
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We dated all off for about two years until about
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two weeks ago when she.
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Really cut it off. I've cut it off in the
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past before she cut it off for he just kind
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of went back and forth through.
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The months at a time.
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Then we have a small fallout, and then we get
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back here.
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It was far into the relationship before Emma's friends and
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family began to see concerning signs. Emma's friends observed Riley
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exhibit behavior that they could only describe as controlling, possessive,
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and clingy. Riley wanted Emma to himself, and, according to
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Emma's mom, Jill, Riley even attempted to control what Emma warm.
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This sort of jealousy and possessiveness is typical of abusive relationships.
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The perpetrator essentially treats the victim like a possession rather
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than a human being. It is common for perpetrators of
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abusive relationships to have antisocial personality disorder. Individuals with this
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personality disorder often have a need to dominate others and
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use others to fulfill their own emotional needs. Along with this,
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Riley quickly became obsessed with Emma and their relationship. Their
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relationship seems to have followed the three stages of obsession.
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The first is the absorbed stage. The initial attachment is
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dream and everything becomes serious. Very early on. The obsessive
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partner places the other partner in a specific role, which
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is consistent with Riley's attempt to dictate what Emma warm.
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Next comes the agitated stage. As the relationship progresses, the
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obsessive partner increasingly attempts to control the other. They text, call,
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or email numerous times a day. They're jealous of anyone
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or anything that takes time away from the relationship, and
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attempt to isolate their partner from friends and family. The
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third and final stage is the aggressive stage, which typically
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starts when either previously successful attempts at controlling the partner
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have failed or the partner has ended the relationship. At
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this point, the obsessive partner ups the ante. They may
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suddenly show up to places uninvited. They may alternate between
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pleas to reunite and vows of vengeance. For some desperate
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or disturbed individuals, the behavior can escalate to s jaling
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threats or physical violence. As it turns out, in the
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midst of those breakups, Riley referenced he'd send Emma the
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most vile of messages through social media, among them I
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hate you, I hate everything about you, and you're the
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biggest I've ever come in contact with. The messages eventually
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escalated to a whole new menacing level, with one in
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particular reading you're dead to me, I'll check the obituary you.
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When Emma's parents caught wind of this, Riley was understandably
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no longer allowed in their home. They confiscated Emma's cell
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phone in an attempt to end communication between her and Riley,
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but the attempt failed. They advised Emma to break up
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with Riley, and her friends did the same. However, Emma
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wasn't ready to cut ties, and she was one to
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make her own decisions. It can be incredibly difficult for
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someone to leave an abusive relationship. Those on the outside
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00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.039
often question why someone would stay, but abusers are not
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abuse of all the time, and often have a seemingly
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loving side to them. By turning the charm on. Abusers
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00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:14.639
are able to manipulate their partner into staying or giving
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the abuser another chance. However, the cycle of abuse will
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likely continue, and the level of abuse can escalate over time,
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and of course, Riley's behavior became increasingly alarming. He began
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stalking Emma. He'd wait for hours on end outside the
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supermarket where she worked, and continued attempting to speak with her,
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even after Emma's parents had forbidden contact between the two. Finally,
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somewhere around early November of twenty sixteen, Emma ended things
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with Riley. In fact, she informed a close friend that
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they were done for good, and for a matter of
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about two weeks, friends and family had their Emma back.
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It's important to note that when someone leaves an abusive relationship,
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this is considered to be the most dangerous time. Once
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the abuser realizes that none of their usual tactics are
641
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working to get their partner back, their violent behavior may
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escalate because they feel so out of control. Shortly after
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Emma ended the relationship, Riley allegedly attempted to take his
644
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own life. Campus friends took him to the local hospital
645
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for treatment, effectively saving his life. Maybe it was then
646
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that he made the ultimate decision. If he couldn't have Emma,
647
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he'd see to it that no one would. Then a
648
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crime of convenience presented itself. Back in Riley's previous interrogation,
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the questioning turned to the missing firearm. Investigators are starting
650
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to look at the means and access to the aspects
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of the crime, which is in a sense, Riley's ability
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to commit the crime.
653
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And now I understand that.
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Your grandfather has set gun stole under missing or something
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that you know.
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Can you tell his jo he was during the week
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last week because he he came and switched out my
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car with his car to go get it to he
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00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:16.039
will changed back in Knoxville. So he left his car
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on campus, but he took his keys with him, and
661
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:23.519
he said when he got back, we switched out cars
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again and he took off and he called me maybe
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00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:29.079
ten minutes later or five or ten minutes later, and said.
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He normally done that.
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I said, no, I haven't been in your car.
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Do you remember what time last week was?
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It might have been.
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Friday, then it was I'm sorry, it was Thursday or Friday.
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He came to that, but he left his car on
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campus but he took his keys with him. Okay, so
671
00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:50.519
I didn't even go to the car because.
672
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It only took an hour. He brought my car back.
673
00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:55.280
We switched out again, and that's when he got on
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the road and called me about five or ten minutes
675
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later and asked if I message was gone?
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Does so did you have a way to use his call?
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I mean, did he give you some keys or now
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that he take the keys with you, I mean, I
679
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:08.920
didn't know if you have an extra sale.
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I mean like I've got keys to my brother's vehicles.
681
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Guys, he's got an extra to honk car that you used.
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I can't monkeys on me because.
683
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I need to keep him on door.
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The detective has a few important questions, but have.
685
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You ever taken your grandfather's gun? They might take a
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chill vote or any playing right back? And I love
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him mat see, I mean I think where your grandfather's
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call kids now.
689
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.719
Riley maintains constant eye contact here.
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Well.
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Many mistakenly believe that eye contact indicates honesty. The opposite
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is true. Sustained eye contact typically indicates dishonesty, as the
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individual is carefully watching to see if their story is
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being believed.
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I understand he told you about the gun.
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I had that gun because I was scared about what happened.
697
00:39:58.760 --> 00:39:59.639
I know you don't believe me.
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00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:01.960
You've probably don't either, whatever I'm telling you.
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I mean, I don't believe that, but I believe the
700
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more that you didn't shoot him, because that's a big step.
701
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.679
Though we can't be sure which scary occurrence Riley was
702
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:13.760
referring to. We know that the gun went missing before
703
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.719
the weekend, and all the events that came with it
704
00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:23.000
even arrived. This simply cannot be explained away. Apparently, before
705
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:26.159
Riley actually put the stolen gun to use, he made
706
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a couple of last ditch efforts to reel Emma back in.
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There was the stage kidnapping, but Emma was wise to
708
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his scheming ways and told him to leave her alone.
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Riley retreated to his friend Noah's home, where he stayed
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the night. And you probably recall that Noah didn't even
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buy Riley's story of having been abducted.
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I mean, I don't believe that, but I believe the
713
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more that you didn't shoot him, because that's a big
714
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step you.
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Still, Yeah, this could be an indication that Riley's friends
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know that he tends to lie or make up stories.
717
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.559
Lying is another key trade of individuals with antisocial personality disorder.
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00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:13.760
These individuals lie in order to manipulate others and get
719
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their needs met. Since people with antisocial personality disorder lack empathy,
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they're often indifferent to the fact that their lies and
721
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:26.679
manipulation can harm others. After the stage kidnapping failed to
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00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:29.880
win Emma back, Riley conjured up a new plan and
723
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put it into action The following morning, Saturday, November nineteenth,
724
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the infamous masked man dressed in all black. Emma was
725
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so terrified she'd later tell her friends she thought she
726
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:43.039
was going to die.
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00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.440
So you went to the back yard, Hickswafy, So I
728
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:48.440
find how you get the vaculated?
729
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:51.800
A good question here, seeing as how detectives know that
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00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:55.719
a shot was fired into the house from the backyard, which.
731
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They are off to the right of her house. There's
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a gate as a lawn just open up to letches,
733
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and you know.
734
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That detectives are effectively establishing Riley's familiarity with Emma's house
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and yard layout, which supports the establishment of ability, knowledge,
736
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and opportunity to commit the crime. Riley's knowledge of where
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to shoot in order to strike or frighten Emma is
738
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:24.320
an important piece of evidence related to his ability to
739
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:27.800
carry out the crime. Of course, by the time Riley arrived,
740
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the masked man was conveniently nowhere to be found. Around
741
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that very time, Emma's mother returned home.
742
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Monks and.
743
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Her her parents aren't call me, so she just saw
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00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.079
me and told me to leave.
745
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And I was coming up to Carl's life, not here
746
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:52.800
to arrest her.
747
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.480
I was just here, so she called her hope.
748
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Here are some more authentic displays of Riley's nonverbals. We
749
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can be fairly so, and this happened just as he
750
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said it, and his gestures are less restrained and more
751
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:09.000
spontaneous as well. They easily match up with what he's saying.
752
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.760
Her parents didn't care for me at all was because
753
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:18.559
of the first time we broke up and I achieved
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on it, and her parents never forgave me for that,
755
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.199
you know, when she did, and they never let us,
756
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:28.039
never let us have an actual relationship for the remainder
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of the time we were together.
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After that, I finally went back over to Nowa's house.
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Do you have your phone with you? I do not,
760
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:41.599
Oh man, I'd like to see the next message from him.
761
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:43.159
Do so much? How we do it?
762
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:49.039
I don't after that we did everything because I don't want.
763
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:51.800
I just don't want to.
764
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Think of But clearly there was a motive behind the act.
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It wasn't just a case of attempting to spare himself
766
00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:01.320
the painful memories of the love he once had and lost.
767
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.679
The inspiration behind it was something much more calculated. He
768
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wanted to hide the contents of his conversations with Emma
769
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and didn't want to leave behind any information related to
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his whereabouts on the night she was killed. Or maybe
771
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the text messages never even happened, and Riley is claiming
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to have deleted them to explain the absence of messages.
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It would later be found that another one of Emma's
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friends had witnessed Riley roaming the neighborhood that morning dressed
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in all black. After these most recent failed attempts to
776
00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:36.119
lure Emma back into his clutches, Riley had come to
777
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:39.400
a crossroads. Emma had drawn the line in the sand.
778
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:43.440
She was done once and for all. Riley, it seems,
779
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:46.559
was faced with two choices. For one, he could choose
780
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to move on with his own life, just as Emma
781
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:53.119
planned to do. Then there was the other option. Just
782
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two days later, his decision would be reflected in an
783
00:44:56.119 --> 00:45:00.440
utterly horrendous act. You probably recall Riley's story of how
784
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Sunday night played out. Well, there was more to it
785
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:07.519
than he'd originally led the detectives to believe. In fact,
786
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he'd failed to include the most crucial details about Monday's
787
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earliest hours.
788
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Lisa's Sunday not that you UFOs round to live.
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Yes, he went back to campus around forty five, called
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him from Maxton.
791
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From Maxtone, Riley had borrowed a phone from his friend
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Max Siegel, also a football player at Maryville College, because
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Emma had either blocked his number or refused to answer
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his calls. Coincidentally, Mack was one of the friends who
795
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took Riley to the hospital for treatment a week or
796
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two earlier after his attempt to take his own life. Oftentimes,
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people who were highly manipulative and controlling and relationships will
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make or fake an attempt to take their life as
799
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a means of trying to manipulate and control their partner.
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00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:02.000
This is truly the ultimate form of emotional manipulation. This
801
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:04.840
was the point where Riley realized he'd have to log
802
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.920
out of his grandmother's computer in order to access his
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call a Gmail, or so he said. Then Riley's story
804
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:16.079
took a peculiar detour upore attempt to explain away an
805
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account of a very suspicious, alleged conversation that it made
806
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:23.079
its way back to detectives get.
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Backs dos around twel fifteen.
808
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:30.480
Yeah, I don't wall preserve, yes, So how do you
809
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:32.239
have conversations when you come.
810
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:34.960
In at twel fifteen about how to get finger Prince?
811
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Now, it wasn't a conversation with him. I walked in
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there and I was about to get on my laptop.
813
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:41.880
So I was in there for maybe four minutes and
814
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.599
then realized that I had to go back to lock
815
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:45.760
myself out of Mymerical College email address.
816
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:49.920
And he was like, hey, have his rifle or whatever.
817
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:51.840
He was like, you know, how to get smudges and
818
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:52.559
stuff off.
819
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Like the barrel, the handle of the butt all that.
820
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:56.800
And I'm like, what do you mean smudges? And he's like,
821
00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:58.679
like your fingerprints, like the oil.
822
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.320
And dirt and all that, and I was like, I
823
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:00.599
don't know.
824
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:04.039
Riley has made a poor attempt to establish an alternate
825
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.880
set of facts in order to cover up the conversation
826
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:12.559
about removing fingerprints on a firearm. However, detectives likely believe
827
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they have established Riley's knowledge of guilt, despite the fact
828
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.039
that Riley was in a state of despair after the
829
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.119
phone call with Emma hadn't gone well. He took the
830
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time to research the question further.
831
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:27.840
And when I called, no upset about that apple now
832
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.280
on the phone, I said, when I asking that question,
833
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.519
He was like, it's a really sketchy question asked, And
834
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:34.920
I was like, I know, but you're the first person
835
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:35.480
on the phone.
836
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:37.760
So I figured out just ask you.
837
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:42.480
Detectives had to have detected deception in that far fetched tale.
838
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.079
Of course, they let that one go for the time
839
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.280
being and continued with Riley's account of that fateful Monday morning.
840
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.840
And then you went back to your grandparents. Yes, a
841
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:55.159
logo for their livestop.
842
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:59.480
He hides his hands in his pocket here a gesture
843
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.440
intended to give someone a sense of comfort and safety
844
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in a situation that is clearly becoming increasingly more stressful.
845
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Go back campus around one and set the car and
846
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wet for two three hours and just crying, And why
847
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:18.199
I was I just had it because I knew.
848
00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:20.079
She wasn't going to come back, and I've always got
849
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her to come back in the past, and I was
850
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just she walked on everything, so I couldn't send anything anything.
851
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:27.679
I could send her messages on Twitter, and that's why
852
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:29.239
I told you I sent that message around one.
853
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:37.559
I just thought her how much I was there little
854
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:38.119
sorry that.
855
00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:40.599
She hadn't want what we had anymore, and I hope
856
00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:42.079
that she was going to do great things.
857
00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:42.440
In the future.
858
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.679
It appears that Riley is picking at his nails here,
859
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:49.800
which is a grooming gesture. Grooming behaviors alone are not
860
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:53.079
a definite sign of deception, but they do indicate that
861
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:56.119
the person may be feeling uncomfortable and is trying to
862
00:48:56.199 --> 00:49:01.320
release some anxiety, possibly because they're lying. Despite Riley saying
863
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:04.320
how much he loved Emma, there's no emotion in his
864
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:07.679
voice to support this, and he hasn't expressed any interest
865
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.400
in finding out what happened to her.
866
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:12.159
And I was I thought her I was in the
867
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:12.760
leader alone.
868
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:15.800
Yeah, but there was one more thing he had to
869
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.760
do before he'd leave her alone.
870
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:20.079
Here in my saw, are you here, Garth?
871
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:23.960
I'm gonna know I'll work in my funeral Hoteln looking
872
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.039
the pictures of us for three hours.
873
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.079
Two and a half. Maybe I mean I just sat
874
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.840
there in cars. I've done that before.
875
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:36.679
This window of time supposedly spent in his car is
876
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:40.599
a convenient explanation of his whereabouts for those three hours,
877
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:43.440
which we know was precisely the time that Emma was
878
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:46.880
killed in her room. Also convenient is the fact that
879
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:49.800
no one saw him because he was alone in his car,
880
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.679
so a roommate, for instance, can't be questioned later and
881
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:57.719
asked when Riley returned to the dorm that night. Riley,
882
00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:01.719
the master manipulator, is using his go to tactic is
883
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:06.800
supposed emotional distress. The detective then deferred to his partner
884
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:10.400
and asked if he had any questions. However, Riley was
885
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:11.679
wise to the tactic.
886
00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:14.800
They were playingly good, caught backuper like they leg like
887
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:17.960
I didn't know Copps actually did that. They do because
888
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:20.480
the one that was being decent was asking me all
889
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:22.000
the questions, and then when he was done, he'd be like,
890
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:23.920
do you have any questions? And then the guy would
891
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:25.920
just be like, yeah, I was just wonder my little
892
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:28.000
foggy on who you're with, And it seems like you're
893
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.440
kind of lying too, and I was like, I'm not lying.
894
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.400
Yeah, it didn't quite unfold like Riley had described.
895
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:36.920
More than Ingles.
896
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.519
If you're not yes, have you ever had any service
897
00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:45.079
or anything at angles dis services?
898
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:47.639
Maybe y'all ever get the thought pardon law or anything
899
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:47.920
like that.
900
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:48.519
Yeah.
901
00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.440
I don't remember what day, but it was a little week.
902
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:52.519
Maybe a week and a half ago.
903
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:54.760
I met her when she was going into work because
904
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:57.159
she had done the same.
905
00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:57.679
Thing she'd been doing.
906
00:50:57.800 --> 00:50:59.719
She's been blocking me telling me that she had done
907
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.960
and I went there and I thought her I was trying.
908
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:04.519
To just get it a reason with me.
909
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:08.599
Then the bad cop has a few more pertinent questions
910
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:09.119
for Riley.
911
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:12.039
And every time they'll come up and talk.
912
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:14.360
To somebody that the gun has come up to Ingles
913
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:16.320
in England apartments you turn over with a gun. They're
914
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:17.719
saying that I may have a gun and I don't
915
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:19.119
want to wear up to have you or anything like
916
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:21.280
that spark out there.
917
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.400
But you have you done that before? Then? Now I've
918
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:26.480
never done that. Why Why does why does people say
919
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:29.480
that you may have no gun? I don't know.
920
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.280
I mean they're your friends. I mean they're they're your
921
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:34.280
they're your boys or your thre repeat.
922
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.079
Why would they keep telling me that they have that
923
00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:37.800
you have a gun?
924
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:43.440
I mean, help me understand that. So there is Alex,
925
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.840
Isaac and Noahs. There three that your three best friends,
926
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:49.920
three of them, I mean no free coming. So you
927
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:53.320
spent a weekend with no if we're ever closed me.
928
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:57.599
Liars. So they're just honest.
929
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:02.119
Everybody's a liar, I mean you No, truly, everybody lies.
930
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.239
I don't know why they lie or why they got
931
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:06.599
that common misconception.
932
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:10.119
Did not one of them have it? It's the gun? Yeah, no,
933
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.400
you know they well live, but not with somebody in
934
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:13.400
your circle have it?
935
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.639
Nobody take it to My grandfather always kept it under
936
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:17.719
his car or under the bed.
937
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:21.760
Naturally, Riley wasn't pleased that his friends had disclosed information
938
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.039
about the gun they knew he had in his possession.
939
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:28.199
His displeasure is clearly reflected in a text message thread
940
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.760
between him and his friend Alex, shortly after Riley's only
941
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:35.119
interview took place. Why did you tell him about the gun?
942
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:38.480
Riley asks Alex. They think I shot her because of it?
943
00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.840
Please text me back. Among Alex's replies, if you didn't
944
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.000
do anything. You have nothing to hide. Why did you
945
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:47.880
tell me you were trying to get rid of the gun?
946
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.480
You lied and said you already gave it back to
947
00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:54.079
your grandpa. Then that evening, Riley followed up with some
948
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:57.800
questionable legal counsel for both Alex and Noah.
949
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.920
What I'm saying is is, if I have to go
950
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:03.679
to court in front of a grand jury or anything
951
00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:05.320
and you have to testify, or if the cops come
952
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:08.519
and talk to you again, whenever you talk to them,
953
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:11.360
just be like you were too afraid to tell them
954
00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:11.840
that you were.
955
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:13.559
On acid because you thought you were gonna get in trouble.
956
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.400
That's true. I never meant that, you know.
957
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:20.239
Yeah, And if anything about that gun, just say I
958
00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.760
must have misunderstood or something because I was tricking balls.
959
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:23.920
I really don't know what was going on.
960
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.079
If he was just like Riley was just complaining to
961
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:29.800
me about some stuff. I guess I thought I heard
962
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.440
something about a gun and his grandfather.
963
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:32.880
Thinking that he took it.
964
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.000
You know, if you tell them you're on LSS, you
965
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:38.639
were drunk and you're high, your mind was altered. Whatever
966
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:42.800
statement you give them wasn't a straightforward answer. If you
967
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:47.000
just tell them that you were on acid, high and drunk,
968
00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:49.400
and just you didn't really understand what I was saying.
969
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:50.519
You just kind of went along with it.
970
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:52.880
I just tell him I was the only sober person here,
971
00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:56.679
and I'll guess I'll talk to Isaiac because I was
972
00:53:56.679 --> 00:53:57.960
going to be sketchy about that too.
973
00:53:57.960 --> 00:53:59.679
With telling the cops that he was on the drug.
974
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:02.159
But I'll talk him another time.
975
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:06.400
The detectives decide it's time to confront Riley. It's obvious
976
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.559
he isn't being forthcoming with them, and they definitely aren't
977
00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:13.559
convinced by his elaborate lies. They apply more pressure as
978
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:14.960
they lay it all out for him.
979
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:25.239
Really, gun that bost your grandfather business? Okay, we have
980
00:54:26.039 --> 00:54:29.239
all your friends saying that you've been talking about this gun.
981
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:31.519
We have one of your friends saying.
982
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:33.599
That he saw you with the gun, that you showed
983
00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:36.039
him again, and that you told him you got it
984
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:37.079
from your grandfather.
985
00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:42.599
Okay, Okay, I kind of hard believe these gas is
986
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:45.679
making me good. I don't have anything else to say.
987
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:48.119
I've told you that I'll told you injury from me,
988
00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:51.679
So that's if it's going to be the same question, that's.
989
00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:52.199
The same answer.
990
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:56.079
Riley is clearly frustrated at this point, but he sticks
991
00:54:56.119 --> 00:55:00.360
with his original story and remains consistent and allow Stitch
992
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:03.480
effort to get more from Riley. The detectives divulge a
993
00:55:03.559 --> 00:55:05.239
bit of what they've found so far.
994
00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:13.440
We've recovered smiles and those rounds happen to match the
995
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:15.039
same type of ammunition.
996
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:16.480
The true grandfather uses in his gun.
997
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:19.960
Say you do know how she did, and said that
998
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:23.159
we have recovered surrounds in those rounds with the same
999
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:26.159
topic of browns that your grandfather uses in his gun.
1000
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.559
Look at his hand movement, even while in his pocket,
1001
00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:32.559
his hands shift up to cover his stomach when he's
1002
00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:37.079
told the bullets match his grandfather's gun. When someone finds
1003
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:40.880
themselves in a vulnerable situation, they may put their hands
1004
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:44.599
over their stomach to comfort themselves and feel more protected.
1005
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:47.400
When a suspect doesn't show a level of concern that
1006
00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:51.239
is appropriate for the situation, detectives will see this as
1007
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:54.559
a red flag. While it's true that people may handle
1008
00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:58.280
grief and difficult news differently, having a complete lack of
1009
00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:00.920
reaction to finding out the cause of your loved one's
1010
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.119
unexpected death would be unusual for someone who is innocent
1011
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.880
Riley's focus throughout the interrogation has remained on himself, and
1012
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.920
he hasn't expressed any interest in finding out what happened
1013
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:17.039
to the girl he supposedly loved. Of course, we're now
1014
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.719
aware that he knows exactly what happened to him.
1015
00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:21.039
I if I am.
1016
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:25.679
Able to find your grandfather's young then I can match
1017
00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:29.559
that to these rounds that found and determine whether or
1018
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:31.760
not that gun and these rounds are.
1019
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:37.519
Actually from the same part. So help me. I'm helping you. Okay,
1020
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.599
I don't know. I understand that.
1021
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:42.519
But Riley sticks to his story.
1022
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:49.039
Your timeline, while it's somewhat consistent, still has holes in it.
1023
00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:52.360
There's one major hole in his story.
1024
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.559
So you sat in a call for three hours and wept?
1025
00:56:56.920 --> 00:56:57.119
Yeah?
1026
00:56:57.679 --> 00:56:59.880
Did you let me ask you? Did you call him
1027
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.960
during that time? A rap through family or anything like grid?
1028
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:07.960
Of course, Riley can't recall for sure. He'd have to
1029
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.559
take a look at his cell phone, which conveniently is
1030
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:13.920
not on him at this time. But with the help
1031
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:17.719
of local cell towers, Riley's path during those three hours
1032
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:22.599
is traced, and the findings completely destroy his story. Riley
1033
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:26.199
left campus slightly before twelve to fifteen am, just as
1034
00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:29.880
he'd stated. However, he didn't return until approximately four to
1035
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:33.599
twenty AM. At the time Emma's death was estimated to
1036
00:57:33.679 --> 00:57:37.679
have occurred roughly around three am, Riley was clearly in
1037
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:41.679
the vicinity of Emma's home, nowhere near the college campus.
1038
00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:45.639
This evidence is difficult to refute, to say the least.
1039
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:48.960
As the interview is coming to a close, the bad
1040
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:51.960
cop drops one more bombshell on Riley.
1041
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:55.559
Outside of the house. Today the house was shot at
1042
00:57:55.800 --> 00:58:00.440
coup rounds the rails that we found out for Alta
1043
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:04.559
when Ramsler found out or came from your grandfather's gone.
1044
00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:06.920
I don't know where it comes back.
1045
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:09.760
Well, who would want to Who would want to take
1046
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:13.559
your grandfather's gone and take it to the house and
1047
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:14.880
shoot at the house?
1048
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:17.960
I do not know.
1049
00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:21.440
Lead Again, do you know anybody who want to do that?
1050
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:23.800
I don't know anyone that we have when I heard
1051
00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:24.199
that girl.
1052
00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:28.159
Riley's detachment and lack of feeling for Emma is evidenced
1053
00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:30.719
in the way he repeatedly refers to her as that
1054
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.119
girl rather than using her name. This also allows him
1055
00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:38.880
to distance himself from her. Riley remains unaffected by the
1056
00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:42.159
pressure and is very confident, so much so that it
1057
00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:45.280
almost seems as if this is something he's familiar with,
1058
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.920
though Riley may appear unaffected by the pressure he's rubbing
1059
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:52.960
his face, which is generally considered to be a self
1060
00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:59.239
soothing behavior. Then the detective proposes a potential explanation gone.
1061
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:01.000
Up, saying that all this and they're trying to hurt her.
1062
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:03.840
I want you to watch I'm scared, someone'mont say that
1063
00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:05.400
that's what that's happened over there.
1064
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:07.400
But I'm saying that the house was shot.
1065
00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:10.960
No, I don't know anyone that we want to do it.
1066
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:14.920
The detective seems to be trying to provide Riley with
1067
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:18.119
a way out, a possible explanation that he can use,
1068
00:59:18.599 --> 00:59:21.320
because it's likely easier for Riley to confess that he
1069
00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:25.039
was trying to scare Emma rather than confessing to intentionally
1070
00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:28.280
trying to shoot her. The detective is probably hoping that
1071
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:31.880
Riley will find himself cornered and then ultimately confess to
1072
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:36.360
this less severe explanation of Emma's death. Make a mental
1073
00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:38.639
note of the detective's explanation.
1074
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:40.840
I want you to watch on scared, someone'mons say that
1075
00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:42.360
that's what's happened over there.
1076
00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.280
You'll see that it will surface again shortly. At this point,
1077
00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:48.800
the detectives have found themselves between a rock and a
1078
00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:53.159
hard place. They're not gaining any ground. The interview is concluded.
1079
00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:57.679
Riley seems confident that he's outmaneuvered the detectives, as if
1080
00:59:57.719 --> 00:59:59.519
he already has this one in the bag.
1081
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:01.840
They interrogate me for two and a half hours.
1082
01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:03.880
If they could, they would have arrested me already.
1083
01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:07.239
Riley is likely feeling confident that as long as he
1084
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:10.119
gets rid of the gun, the detectives won't have enough
1085
01:00:10.199 --> 01:00:13.679
evidence to convict him. He may have an inflated sense
1086
01:00:13.719 --> 01:00:16.360
of self esteem and believe he can outsmart the police
1087
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:20.480
and even get away with murder. However, as he sits
1088
01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:23.280
on this very sofa before two of his closest friends
1089
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:26.679
and feeds them false information to relate to law enforcement,
1090
01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.199
there's much more going on behind the scenes than he
1091
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:34.920
could ever imagine. The steing operation was carried out Tuesday night,
1092
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:39.320
just one day after Emma was murdered, and Riley was questioned.
1093
01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:42.960
As you heard, everything went down as planned, and the
1094
01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:47.360
operation proved to be a success. When the trial rolled
1095
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around in May of twenty eighteen, Riley and his attorneys
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adopted a creative defense. You probably recall this come.
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Up saying that all the sander's trying to her, I
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like to watch him scare or some imist say that
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that's what that's happened over there.
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But I'm saying that the house was shot.
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No, I don't know anyone that we want to do
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it well.
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According to his attorney, Riley had never intended to harm Emma.
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The two gunshots that pierced the exterior walls of her
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home were simply another attempt to scare Emma in hopes
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she'd reach out to him for help. Once again. He
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never intended to shoot her, they claimed. In the end,
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though the jury found no credibility in the defense, Riley
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was found guilty of stalking, theft, reckless endangerment, possession of
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a firearm during a dangerous felony, and of course, first
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degree murder. And in Tennessee, a first degree murder conviction
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is accompanied by an automatic life sentence. And keeping with
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her thoughtful nature. March twenty fourth will remain Emma Walker
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Day in Knoxville. It will remain a time to recall
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the happy memories and perform random acts of kindness in
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memory of a kind soul who whose life was cut
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far too short,
