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She's not back yet. You mind if we take a look in her bedroom? Has she ever [music] disappeared before?
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She's didn't leave without permission. She doesn't not text me when I text her. What does she normally take with her
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when she leaves? Tag her phone. Her phone's not in here. I found you with that mom around here last night
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or I mean the night before. Anything. Any reason she would leave? No. I guess there's a rumor going around
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people telling us in this trade and go home. This is the moment Andy McCaulay realized police were on [music] his
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trail. Just hours earlier, his girlfriend's daughter, Riley Crossman, suddenly went radio silent, and police
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were quickly called to come and investigate. At first glance, it looked just like a messy teenager's bedroom
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with nothing out of the ordinary. But as the officers scoured through the clutter, unsettling details began to
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emerge. This was her book bag. Debbie says she were, but she said the kids already went
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through everything. Honey, [laughter] they would find items that a teenager might typically take if they were
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planning to run away. But as they begin to look even more, they start to notice blood.
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Blood was on her sheet, and more was found on her comforter. The cops were now certain that foul play had occurred,
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and something terrible happened to Riley. As they try to piece together the puzzle, police find themselves entangled
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in one man's web of deceptions and twisted lies, all crafted to conceal his one single disturbing secret.
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On May 8, 2019, dispatchers received a call from a concerned woman reporting the disappearance of her 15-year-old
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daughter, Riley Crossman. As officers arrive at the scene, they come into contact with the caller Shantel Oakley
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and her boyfriend Andy Macaulay. What's going on, man? Haven't seen you in a long time.
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It's been a while. Any word? You mind if we take a look in her bedroom? Has she ever disappeared before?
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Even without she doesn't not text me when I text her. This is the only mirror we have like this. So, I came in
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yesterday morning and I don't remember that being there and especially her glasses cuz I this is not exactly the
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way it was. I've been in here digging and looking to see if there was a note or anything like that.
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According to Riley's mother, this was unlike her and she wasn't one to run off without telling anyone. A quick search
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of her room revealed that her belongings were untouched except her bed, which was
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covered in blood stains. This was highly suspicious, so officers quickly took a sample and sent it off for DNA testing.
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But for now, officers need to gather as much information as possible from people
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who last saw Riley. So, they decide to question Andy about his whereabouts that day
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here last night or I mean the night before anything. Any reason she would leave?
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No. Okay. There's rumor going around people telling us that she was afraid to come
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home. I don't know if that's you know how people go but nothing like that. Okay. Oh,
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she she wouldn't have to be her. I mean, there ain't like that. Never like that.
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He said nothing. Nothing. Her mom was even home, right? She was to work. No, you you they said she got an
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argument. They didn't want to come home. No, she was she was her grandma. She was
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here doing dishes and and everything. Grandma's here till 7:30. Okay. Uh Debbie,
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right? Yeah. When's the last time you you saw her? Uh about 9, maybe 10ish at night.
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Yeah. And and what and what contacts was that? Oh, she was here in the house. She went
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to bed probably Well, I don't know what time she was bed, but she was all the kids were in the room by like 9:30.
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9:30. Did she leave in the morning? No, I left 4. I got 4:00 5 in the morning. That's 5. Okay. Go to work.
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According to family and friends, Andy was never an early riser. In fact, when police interviewed one of his
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colleagues, Johnny, he stated that he had to go to his house and repeatedly call him to wake him up. But on this
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particular day, things were different. I'll call him and see if he's up. So that morning, do you remember if you
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called him or he called you? Wednesday morning. I want to say he called. But this was not the only strange thing
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about Andy that day. He also told police that he was at work all day. And when cops interviewed another one of his
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colleagues to verify his alibi, they found out that Andy had left work and was gone for nearly 5 hours.
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And he gets back in roughly two 45. So he was gone a while. Four four almost 5 hours.
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Because of this, detectives now know that Andy hasn't been completely honest with them so far, at least about staying
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at work the full day. This is very clearly a red flag and means that he's trying to hide something from them. But
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Andy [music] might not be the only one hiding something as officers would find out when they decide to look into
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Riley's boyfriend, Hayden. For the last 8 months, the two reportedly facetimed every night. So officers believed that
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if anyone was in contact with Riley the night before, it would be Hayden. And he
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was soon called in for an interview 2 days after Riley went missing. Can you just um tell us when you were last
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facetiming? I was actually talking to her about the TC trip, what was going on. And could do you know exactly what time?
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10:30ish. On the night of Riley's disappearance, it just so happened that Hayden deleted
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all his messages with Riley because he did not want his mother seeing them. This is why detectives could tell that
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Hayden knows something. But [music] because of his mother's defensiveness, he's unable to speak his mind. That's
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going to form not to delete his messages, but he is in heaven. It's deleting everything. What do you know
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about her longer mom's lifestyle or with their relationship? I don't really know much.
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I feel like she just isn't a responsible person. She'll just let her do whatever
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she wants. They had a dance and she was wearing this short dress. She let her walk to the school by herself in this
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short dress. It's at night. Riley had way too much room. Although this interview was not too fruitful, it
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pushed Hayden to come forward with a crucial piece of evidence afterwards. A series of disturbing text messages that
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[music] Riley sent to him the night before she disappeared, saying that Andy was in her room and that she was scared.
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Immediately, all suspicion was further confirmed around Andy, and officers would later use this information to
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piece together this dark puzzle. But for now, finding out Andy's actual whereabouts and what really happened
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during the 5 hours that Riley was [music] missing is crucial to the investigation. And the reason why Andy
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would be called in for questioning. I just talked to Donnie, right? Saw him leaving. Okay.
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Would you be surprised if he told me something completely different? Uh, maybe. Do you not remember leaving that job
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saying to Red Hill? Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. We did go to It did. I'm sorry. We did. You're right.
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Okay. You're right. You did good and did a show. How How long were you there, Red
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Hill? Like the rest of the day. Okay. Like the rest of the day. Okay. Were you at that house the entire time fixing the
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shelves? No. Okay. Where were we at? I was at I was at the other house. Okay. I went You got some We went You got some
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I went got some more drugs. If Andy was off doing illegal drugs during those five missing hours, then that could
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possibly explain why he didn't initially tell the cops the truth about where he had been all day. But this also could
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just be his way of trying to distract the police by bringing their attention to something else. At this point,
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detectives know that Andy is desperate to give them an alternate alibi, and his drug story could possibly be true. So,
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to cross-check, they would call in Johnny again. Johnny had a history of drug use and the two would often do
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cocaine together so he can easily substantiate or discredit Andy's account. Would you say that there was enough to
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still do another line each? Oh, yeah. A couple lines each. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, you wouldn't have to
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You didn't need any more coke. No. So, now Andy's story about going to get more drugs isn't adding up. His
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colleague had already told the cops that they had more than enough cocaine to get
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them through the rest of the day, so there would be no reason for them to go get more drugs. Realizing that Andy has
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been lying, the police decide it's time to confront him and get to the bottom of
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his deception. What if I told you that I know you weren't this nogo and you didn't buy off
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anybody that day? See what I'm getting at? You went from this story to this story and I got a third story. This is
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one of these times you really need to think of what you're telling me. Hey, cuz you're not being honest. Remember
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what I told you about being honest? I'm not going to just throw [ __ ] at you. I
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know you weren't there. I know you didn't buy drugs off your cousin. And I know you didn't use them in that parking
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lot that day. Where did you go when you left? Went to my house to get the drugs.
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Okay. I already in my house. Okay. I already told you. I still want to tell you in my house.
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So, you go back home, you use your drugs, and then you go back to work, and then what?
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Considering the discrepancies in each version of the story he tells officers, there is more than enough reason for
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officers to not trust Andy. Like they would express, I'm just telling you the whole part
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about you being honest. I'm being honest with you. I've been honest with you. I told you [ __ ] I didn't even want to tell
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you. Okay. You're being somewhat honest. I mean, we're doing some polling to get some
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information about some drug activity, which is I don't even give two shits about, but yet we're having trouble
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pulling that out of you because [clears throat] I was worried about there. Okay. And I told you I don't care about
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that. You told us about the drug activity what two nights ago. Did I arrest you for it? your knees or
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anything. The main reason for detectives pressuring Andy like this is because a record of his movements is crucial for
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this investigation. Usually, law enforcement can just track a suspect's movements using their phone. But in
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Andy's case, he had supposedly left it at home the day that Riley went missing. Knowing that the more leniency
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detectives show to Andy, the bolder he would become in giving shady alibis, detectives decide to ramp up the
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intensity of the conversation even more to make Andy nervous and slip up about his real whereabouts.
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Um, you know, the further along this is, whatever happens and whoever did this to
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her, the worse off it gets for that person, too. Yes, I hope so. She was probably taken out of that house
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by somebody. Yeah. I hope I feel something that she was taken that way. out because she
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would be on by now. She would be she was taken from that house is what I'm saying. She didn't she didn't wander
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off. She didn't pack a bag and take her clothes, take her glasses, take a cell phone, charger, take all her money. She
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had most of her money. Um, someone's going to go back. Yeah. Um, so like I said, if someone's
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going to run away or do something, they're going to make a little bit of better effort. Um, even for a
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15year-old, I agree. For a 15-year-old kid, they're going to at least have the necessities. Even
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after explicitly stating the absurdity of the situation, Andy seems as calm as ever and won't crack about where he
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really was. But even in this situation, detectives have one piece of evidence that would cause the pressure to mount
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on Andy. The texts that Hayden had showed them. Once confronted with these, Andy's behavior changes immediately.
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What if I told you her last text to her boyfriend were saying, "Don't talk because she still has to FaceTime."
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Andy's in here. I'm afraid. That's what it said. What if I told you that? I would say that's crazy.
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I can put my hand on the Bible and tell you I saw those texts today. Well, I like to see him cuz I know the
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problem. He is scared of me. I [clears throat] know she was. Not only that, she said you were in here
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and she was in her bedroom because the FaceTime was stolen. I was never in her room.
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That's not what she's saying. I don't go in her room. Andy, I'm not lying to you. I was not in
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a room for one and for two, the kids are not scared of there's no reason for her
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to be scared of me. I've been there for interr obviously to her he's afraid of something.
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The walls are closing in on Andy quickly and he's no longer able to keep up with
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his lies. He can't think of any possible reason why Riley would be afraid of him
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or any explanation for why she would have sent her boyfriend those texts. There's no way. There's no way your
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mother will tell you that it's not true. There's no I'm telling you I read that with my own
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eyes today. I don't know. I know. So, you see where that puts us? Yeah, I understand. But the kid's not
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scared of me. I don't understand how you guys can say that. Despite the damning physical evidence, Andy continues to
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insist that there was no reason that Riley would have been afraid of him. Perhaps he thinks that if he denies this
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enough times, the cops will simply move on. That's not what her mother said. That's what she is saying. She's saying,
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that's why we're saying that. We don't know what goes on behind closed doors when you know you and Chantel are there
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or Chantel and Riley are there or we don't know. Okay. But obviously in her mind, she's afraid of you. Would you
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agree? It doesn't make sense. answers at all. So, does she have any reason to say
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that? No. Why would she say that? Oh, no. At this point, the cops have given Andy
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an opportunity to come up with any sort of explanation at all or even a lie. This would have been his chance to point
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towards something that may have happened in the past, even as simple as a disagreement between the two of them as
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a possible reason Riley would have written these things. But Andy is not taking the bait.
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Is she been neglectful towards you? Does she hate you? No, she'll hate me. She loves me. That's
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what I'm asking you. I don't know that. Does she argue with you? No, ever. We have
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She never cusss at you, curse you out, nothing. Never. Nothing in a year and a half.
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Nothing. Okay. So, it sounds like to me she does love you soheartedly. Yes. Okay. So, why would she say that?
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I don't know. In a year and a half, we have not had one conflict. Okay. Me and the boy.
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Yeah, we have. Okay. But there's never been anything like you said a year and a half or the
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last several weeks, several months, several days, nothing that's either like, "Oh yeah, I read about one time
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she wanted this and I told her that maybe she got mad and she's nothing." With all else failing, Andy would
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attempt to try and convince the cops that he shares the same sentiments as them.
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But you see where that puts us, right? I understand. I understand what you guys are if I'm mad that you guys are doing
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your job. I mean, that's the last message he has from her. I'm glad you guys are doing
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your job. I think she's doing her job, but there's nothing I can think of. He wants to do her job. That's that's
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what we're doing. I'm asking the job up. And I'm not mad. You guys don't know. Godamn. I think
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he's a little pissed off, but nothing. There's nothing that I can think of. She'll be mad at me for or she'll be
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upset with me or scared of me or anything with me. You didn't go in that room? No, she still had FaceTime one, too.
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Okay. Well, I was in that room. The cops lacked probable cause at this time to arrest Andy. But there is one
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piece of evidence that is about to change the course of this entire investigation. It was around this time
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that the lab results on that blood sample would finally return and it would be an exact match to Andy's DNA. But
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that's not all. They also learned that the blood they tested was also mixed with saliva. This made the cops suspect
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that Riley's face may have been forced into the pillow in an attempt to keep her from screaming. This is an important
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development, but they still haven't located Riley, and they need to find more information about where Andy was
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during those five missing hours. Luckily though, all of that can be answered in the CCTV footage that captured all of
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Andy's movements. There were cameras attached to a nearby high school that captured Andy Macaulay leaving his work
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site. That was the starting point of the investigation for the cops. They knew the direction of his travel, including
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the facts that he was on Route 9. An eyewitness who knew what Andy's vehicle looked like was able to confirm that she
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saw his truck backed up into the driveway of Riley's home in the middle of the day when he should have been at
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work. At this point, the cops [music] believe that Andy killed Riley during the late night or early morning hours,
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likely to keep her from screaming while he assaulted her. They believe he then hid her body in the bedroom until
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everyone left, and then later returned to the house when it was empty to pick up her body and [music] dispose of it,
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using CCTV footage to guide them. And with the help of police canines trained to pick [music] up Riley's scent, they
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search a nearby mountainous area. It is there that they tragically find [music] Riley's decomposing body left in a
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secluded area. While this is the outcome that nobody wanted, it marks the turning
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point in the case. Near where Riley's body is found, there are several unique-l lookinging screws discovered.
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These are the same screws that were located when the cops had searched Andy's vehicle the day previously. This
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is even further evidence that solidified the case [music] against him. And 8 days
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after the discovery of Riley's body, Andy is arrested and charged with her murder. [music] He pleaded not guilty.
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In the trial, Andy's defense argued that the prosecution failed to provide a clear motive or definitive cause of
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death, as the exact cause could not be determined due to the body's decomposition. Despite this, the jury
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found significant evidence linking [music] Macaulay to the crime, such as the presence of drywall mud on
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Crossman's body, which matched the drywall found in Macau's truck, and inconsistencies in Macau's statements
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about his whereabouts on the day of Crossman's disappearance. The jury deliberated for about 4 hours over the
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course of 2 days and decided [music] that the monster who murdered Riley was none other than Andy Macaulay. Finally,
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justice for Riley had been served. The only thing left was for Andy to be sentenced.