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Step out of the car, ma'am. Move over here. Hands up, please. Why are you doing this?
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Let me ask you this. What did you do to that girl? Police. Anyone here? Anyone's up there? Come down with your
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hands up now. I think there's blood on this wall. Yeah, this looks like dried blood.
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These cops just found the blood stains of a missing girl. Samantha Guthrie left her mother's house the previous day,
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never to be seen again. And her blood was just discovered on the walls of this abandoned house. But the police are
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about to realize that this is a couple's murder house, and the killers have already fled across town hunting for
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their next victim. Why don't you explain what's going on? Just really tasteless. Enough.
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With no idea who the next victim of the killer couple could be. And with time running out, detectives find themselves
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entangled in a web of multiple suspects, all tied to the abandoned murder house.
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You're looking at some serious problems. I got to say, y'all are in prison. Nobody else sitting here. I got nothing
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to say. Help us. This is [music] serious. She was early to show like this. [screaming]
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Everything started in November 2018 when a mother called police worried that her
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daughter had vanished without a trace. It had already been more than a day since anyone had seen 18-year-old
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Samantha Guthrie, and the cops arrived quickly to [music] take her mother Joany's statement.
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Hello. What's going on? I need to file a missing person form. Okay. For my daughter.
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Okay. How old your daughter? She's 18. Okay. So, what makes her missing? We can't find her. We got a call
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yesterday saying she was shot in the head, thrown in the trunk of a car, and they took off. The police were called
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yesterday. They search they went over to the house that it supposedly happened at. They checked. They said they didn't
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see anything. Right. Okay. And where was this supposed to be at? I'm Lillian. Lillian?
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Where's Lillian at? I've never heard of it. Little did this cop know, he'd become
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extremely familiar with Lillian Street, as it would become the site of hours and
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hours of investigation and one of the most disturbing crimes to come out of this city in years.
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But for now, it sounds as though Samantha was murdered or at the very least kidnapped. But nobody can be sure.
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All this information came over a mysterious phone call from someone they didn't even know.
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What's the address again? 375 Lillian. Why would she be over there? Because she's in started getting into
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bad stuff. Okay. She turned 18. She left. What? When was that? So that's the house right there.
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I don't know what the house looks like. I didn't go there. It turns out the house that Joanie is talking about was
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due to be boarded up in just a few days. It's in a rough area of town and has been abandoned for months. And as Joanie
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said, Samantha had been struggling heavily. She left home as soon as she turned 18 and instantly fell in with a
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bad crowd. She was often seen frequenting abandoned houses known to be used by drug abusers and criminals. And
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she was slowly getting more distant from her family. Yeah. Lillian address is vacant
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right now. and they they the officers had it ported up. So, we didn't see any no blood, no nothing. But to be honest
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with you, I think somebody's playing a prank on you. After this, Joanie would give over a description of Samantha,
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including a distinctive butterfly tattoo on her right arm before telling the cop
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one more crucial piece of information. You want the name of the person she was last with, the supposed person that shot
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her? Okay, sure. Danny Hamby. Who? Danny Hamby. This wasn't a familiar name to police and the officer still
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wouldn't seem to be too worried by the situation, but that would soon come to change
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cuz the very same evening after publishing a missing person's report of Samantha, a lone man would come to
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police claiming he knew exactly what happened to her and would lead police to launch a monthslong investigation into
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Akran, police had just published a detailed description of Samantha. And the morning after, a very worried man
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would contact and claim to have details that could either save her life or lead them to her body.
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All right, today is Tuesday and we're here with what's your first name? John Marshall.
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All right, so we're here to talk about something that happened over on uh Lilian Street back in November 4th.
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Mhm. All right. Why don't you tell me about uh about what happened that night? John
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Marshall was the first of many witnesses in this case, and he got in contact with
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the cops after hearing that they were looking for Samantha. Apparently, he was actually at the house on the night
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everything happened and saw it all with his own two eyes. The problem is, it almost sounds too good to be true. The
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cops don't know Marshall and can't necessarily trust him to give a truthful statement, [music]
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meaning they'll have to verify all evidence he gives over. So, as Marshall talks to the cops, we'll be keeping
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track of each piece of information and then following how the cops investigate and verify it all in order to hopefully
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solve the case and find Samantha. Uh Sam had been trying to get a ride over to the house for a few hours. I
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didn't feel like driving anymore to go pick her up, so I didn't pick her up that night. And a few hours later, she
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showed up from an Uber, I'm guessing, that her dad had. All right. Now, when you when you say
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the house that what's the address? 75 million. Okay. I'm guessing uh from what I've been
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told, her dad paid for an Uber for her to get over there. Okay. This is already an easy piece of
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information to verify. If Samantha's dad did pay for the Uber, then he'd certainly remember that and be able to
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confirm it. And conveniently, the cops had interviewed her dad a few hours later, and he did indeed tell him that
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he bought her an Uber that night. On top of that, the address Marshall gave was also correct. So, it seems that he's
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turning out to be trustworthy so far. But I was walking to the Circle K on Copley and Roads [snorts]
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to get cigarettes and a soda when I seen her and Yoshi walking to the house on Lillian. And about half hour after I got
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back to the house in half hour, 45 minutes or so, Danny showed up and knocked on the back door. I answered the
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door. Now, how do you know Danny? Uh, just in passing. Do you know him from the house?
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Yeah. And you know what his last name is? Andy. Now things are starting to get weird.
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That's the name that Joanie said could be the killer. And Marshall seems to know him and the people he's friends
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with. Okay. Was he by himself? No, he was with uh Tony. Okay. Is what I was told her name was. And
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that uh one black guy that I have never seen before. Okay. [snorts] Do you know what he looks
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like? Yeah. Uh, I think what's his name? Margus. Something with an M. I want to say or
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what's he look like? William. Okay. William. All right. What's he look like? Uh, tall. About 6'2, 63,
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225, medium build. Okay. Dark skin. So, they they came up to the back door. Yeah.
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All right. And they knocked on the door. Yeah. And who let him in? I did. Okay. So, you let him in. And then what
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happened? They went upstairs and talked to Jod. Upstairs in Jod's room was Jody, Kim,
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Kate, Sam, then Danny, and Tony, and William stayed downstairs. This is incredibly useful information
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that Marshall is passing over. He's just given the names of six potential witnesses and suspects, and he seems to
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know them all personally. If this is all true, then Marshall could have just taken this case from no leads at all to
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almost too much to handle. The only thing the cops need now is verifiable information about exactly what happened
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to Samantha. That's when the detective asks this question and gets much more than he bargained for.
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All right, so everyone So Sam and all them were upstairs. Yes. So what happens next?
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Um I didn't hear any yelling or anything, but music was playing and Sam came downstairs looking kind of
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distraught and she looked at me. And I'm like, "Then go out the back door. Go out
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the back door." If you, you know, she kind of looked like she was panicking, so I'm like, "Leave."
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But she went to the basement and 2 or 3 minutes later. I heard a little bit of a
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commotion and then Sam came upstairs first and she had like a little bit of a bloody nose.
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Okay. Or a busted lip. I couldn't tell. And she went back upstairs to Jod's room.
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Danny and Tony followed. Like followed her or chased her? No, followed. kind of, you know,
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followed and 5 maybe 10 minutes later, Sam came running down the stairs. Danny was right behind her and by the time she
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got to the fourth or fifth stair down from the living room floor, he shot her in the back of the head.
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It doesn't get much clearer than that. Apparently, Samantha then fell to the ground and the house fell into disarray.
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Two men named Yoshi and William then started to order Marshall and his friends around before helping to carry
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Samantha's body to a vehicle outside. The detective was starting to get a perfect picture of what this case really
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was. But there was still one burning question. Okay. Is Sam alive? It sounded she was making noises, but in
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my past experiences, it sounded more like death gargles. Your body's shutting down sleep.
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So, she's still kind of breathing at this point. Yeah, but she got shot in the back of the head by 8 to 10 in away
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with a Smith and Wesson MP40. Okay. From the sounds of it, Samantha technically survived the shot, but it
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wasn't looking good. If she wasn't taken to a hospital quickly, she likely wouldn't have made it, but it doesn't
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seem like the killers were expecting her to live. At least the cops now have a possible murder weapon, a Smith and
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Wesson MP 40. Remember though, the cops have already searched the house and didn't find any evidence of a murder.
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But given the importance of this information, they decide to go back and see if they missed anything. At this
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point, Samantha's life hangs in the balance. If they find a single bullet casing or blood splatter, it likely
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means that Marshall was telling the truth and Samantha is long dead. So just pulled up.
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Police are here. Make yourself known. These are the steps that Samantha was allegedly shot on. But the cops can't
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stop to investigate yet. Knowing how hot this house is and how many places there
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are for people to hide, they have to be on high alert and clear the entire place
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out before they can even think about letting their guard down. All three officers have their guns drawn and are
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doing their best to stick together should anybody be inside. Clear please. Black Maril leave the parking lot.
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By the looks of it, dad came here. All right. It seems like the house is empty, but
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it's a complete mess. There's no obvious evidence of a murder anywhere, so it's now clear why the cops didn't find
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anything their first time here. However, Marshall had told them two very important things. Exactly where the shot
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was allegedly taken, and more importantly, that William and Yoshi had actually come back to clean up the
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scene. That means that any signs of the murder could be extremely difficult to find, but not impossible. In fact,
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you've actually already seen some evidence that proves Marshall's story to be 100% true. Take another look at the
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marking on this wall right below the crack. It's a little difficult to see, but that isn't graffiti. That's Samantha
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Guthri's blood. Once the cops spotted this, it all fell into place. Multiple blood spatters that hadn't been cleaned
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up were found on the walls, as well as the bullet casings that looked similar to the bullets that the Smith and Wesson
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MP40 uses. Marshall was telling the truth. Danny and Tony were now wanted for murder, and they had four other
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witnesses they could use to track them down and convict them. And in fact, they wouldn't have to wait long as police
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were soon called to a house where a girl claimed a couple had chased her with a gun.
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How you [screaming] doing today, sir? What's going on? Um, this young lady in my back door and
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what's going on? You want to step outside and talk? Who's they? Huh? Do you need EMS for anything?
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This is Kimberly. One of the girls that Marshall mentioned was at the house the day Samantha was shot. The owners of
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this home called the cops after she begged them to let her inside as she was being chased, allegedly by some others
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that frequent the house on Lillian Street. The cops are desperate to know what could have possibly made her this
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distressed. So, they bring her outside to their cruiser to talk. You're safe now. Okay. Why don't you explain
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what's going on? Who's they? What do they look like? This guy named human. Black guy, white guy.
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Black short. What was he wearing? Black pants and a black short sleeve hoodie thing that like had a hood like
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straw shirt right here. But it wasn't like a hoodie hoodie. Just one black guy. I think they were with bunch of white
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guys. I think a black and white guy. There was a bad guy. They threw away. Whatever happened to Kimberly was
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clearly a blur to her, but the cops are starting to get a little concerned. Barely a couple days after Samantha's
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supposed death, one of the witnesses gets chased by a group of people holding guns. It could just be coincidence,
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albeit a terrifying one. So the cops ask her why she was in town to see if this could be related to anything else. And
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they get the most worrying answer possible. So you were you're from the falls. You
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were visiting a friend here in A. Where's that friend at now? And where do you know where they live?
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I have no idea where they are. I have no idea. I'm going to run her name. What's what's
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the friend's name that you're What's her last name? Harris. Jodie Harris. And do you know what
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street she lives on? That's a guy. What's that guy? Okay. What street do you live on?
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What is it? Lillian. The only reason Kim was in town was to meet her friend Jodie on Lillian Street.
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And she doesn't know anyone else from around here. That's when the cops come to a horrifying realization. They think
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Kim was just attacked because she was a witness to Samantha's supposed murder. And now they have a terrifying situation
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on their hands. If they don't track down the killers and all their accompllices quickly, they could be looking at a lot
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more than just one murder. This case had now become a top priority. And all local
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officers and detectives were on high alert for any leads that could help them find even just one of the suspects. And
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that's when they got a potentially life-saving call. A man was claiming that Danny and Tony had pulled a gun on
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him inside the house and that the suspects were now in the parking lot outside bragging about killing somebody
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just days earlier. Cops immediately headed to the scene thinking this might be their chance to
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catch the lead suspects behind Samantha's disappearance. Step out of the car. Step out of the
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car, ma'am. Move over here. Step out of the car. Hands up, please. Hands up, please. What
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is that? Okay. Put all that stuff down. Put it down. Why? Why are you in Put it down. Hands on top of your head.
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Why are you doing this? Stay Stay right there. Turn around. Turn around. Nope. Stay. Stay right there. I'm I'm
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ting you for now. Okay. I'll explain to us what's gone in a second. Do you have any anything sharp on you?
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No. Any any weapons or anything? Don't reach for nothing. I'm fine. Do you have any any weapons on you?
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No. Have a seat. Stand up. Stand up for me. What are you doing with your foot, man?
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I got blisters. Blisters and [ __ ] It's called jungle. There's another one right here.
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Where at? Don't reach me. Yeah. Pocket. [ __ ] pocket right here. Okay. There's a knife right here.
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I'll I'll take care of it. [music] I just want to make sure I got a bag of needles in my pocket.
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A bag of needles, sir. Yes, sir. So far, this has been surprisingly easy. At this point, the officer had no idea
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it would actually be the interrogations that'd be the hardest part of this process, but he's enjoying the
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simplicity while it lasts. Soon, a couple more officers arrive on the scene to help search Danny and Tori, secure
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them, and collect some information before they're taken away for questioning. I haven't been upstairs to talk to her
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cliffs here yet. Okay. Uh when I pulled up, he was in the driver's seat. She was
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digging in the trunk. She saw me because she did something to she close it real fast. I just did a quick pack on him.
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Make sure there have any guns on him. But if you guys could try to get a hold of him, figure out what the hell is
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going on here. Okay. You don't have anything on you. It's going to pop me. Anything like that,
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right? No weapons we need to be aware of. If you do, tell me now. I actually have my gun. I only have it
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because Where is it at? Loaded. I only have it. Right here on the side. I don't want to set it off. I don't I
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know. I just I never used it before. I just My mom made sure I took it with me. I'm the
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one. She got a gun. I haven't yet. Where's her? You got a gun? What's your name?
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Danny. Is it okay if I check your pockets here real quick? Yeah. We're not trying to give anyone a
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hard time. We got a call that people with guns and warrants and things like that.
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Warrants. Oh, hell no. Oh, lower. What is it? Math. Math. Just come around. There you go. Good.
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Eventually, the officers brought Danny and Tony back to the station for interrogation. And this is where the
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hard part started for the detectives. Detective Ross, how you doing? So, I got you with a gun.
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Okay. You okay? I want my turn. Okay. Can I read what you do then anyway? Yeah. For the record,
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you have the right to remain silent. You understand this, right? Here, it's important to note that Dany thinks he's
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been brought in just because of the gun incident. [music] At this point, he is unaware that police have him and Tony as
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lead suspects for Samantha's disappearance. Detectives are doing this to potentially lead him into a fake
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story or timeline that they can prove wrong later. You've indicated that you want to talk
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to your lawyer, correct? I don't know what it's about, but still want my attorney. I know that this
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All right. I don't know what to do about your 911 numbers. Give me my [snorts] attorney.
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All right. Uh, man, I don't know what we can do about your freezing, but maybe get you out of here as soon as we can.
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How's that? While you're here, can we can we cover at least cover something? You can talk, right? I ain't going to
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say nothing. Uh, you mind if we get a some swabs for me? Like I said, you can talk, right? I
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ain't going to say nothing. All right. Like this, man. I got 11 numbers, 23 years in the system. I ain't
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got nothing to say to y'all. Got my attorney present. Nobody else sitting here. I ain't got nothing to say.
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Danny's been in this situation before and he knows exactly what to do. at the very least stall the detective's process
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for as long as possible. He's staying quiet and refusing to speak without an attorney present as is his right. So,
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the detectives have no other choice but to switch over to Tony and see if she will budge instead.
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Lieutenant, this is Detective Ross. Hello. Hi. Um, I didn't know anything else. I never had
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a weapon before in my life. my mom cuz I was still working out here at late night. So,
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we're going to read your Miranda rights. Okay. They already did that. Okay. Good. Okay. You understand him and
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everything? Okay. There's a girl that's missing and we have strong reason to believe
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he's involved in her disappearance. He doesn't do that. So, he couldn't do that.
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How? Why? Why couldn't he do it? Cuz he's not that type of person. Okay. But we, like I said, we have a
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[snorts] lot of information pointing to his involvement in this girl's disappearance. So, what I want from you
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to know if you've ever seen this girl before and think hard before you answer, we want to know if you've seen her.
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Okay? And you've never seen her before. That's true. They're deciding to be a lot more
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upfront with Tony and treat her not as a suspect, but more of a witness. It's likely she wouldn't confess to being
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involved in the murder, but they think there could be a chance that she'd turn Dany in if she thought it meant she'd
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get away. Unfortunately though, having been on the wrong side of the law in the past herself, she's not about to help
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the cops out so easily. I'm going to be straight with you. He's he's looking at some serious serious
00:25:05
problems. And from what you're telling me, if you were with him that whole time, the past 3 days, which she went
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disappeared in the last 3 days, so if you were with him the whole time, you know what my next leap is?
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Well, that's ridiculous because he was with me. We were in war. Think real hard because this is very
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important to what happens with you in the future. Okay. No, I get that. I'm I'm not that stupid.
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Hang on. Hear me out. So, this is not a misdemeanor crime we're investigating. We don't do that, okay? When we get
00:25:38
involved, something bad has happened. We know some other stuff went on this weekend, specifically yesterday,
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Saturday night, at a house in Akran. So, I don't want you to get in any trouble with something that you were just along
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for the ride. But if you're going to sit here and tell us with you the whole time, you think you're helping him, but
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you're not. You're hurting yourself. Let me tell you about the house where it happened at. We've talked to people
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that's been at the house. They were all at this house where this girl disappeared from. In fact, something bad
00:26:08
happened to her at the house. You know why we know that? Cuz the the guys, we've already talked to him all day. We
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spent all day talking to him. And he gave us detailed accounts of what happened at that house. You have to
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think hard about how you want to handle this because if you're going to sit here
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and vouch for him, that can get you caught. That can get you in trouble. You have uh you have kids?
00:26:28
Yes. You mentioned two kids. Two boys. Yes. Okay. Um, what would you do if one of those boys went missing?
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Everything I could to find him. Okay. Would you expect people to help us to find him, to locate him?
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Yeah. The route the detective is taking is obvious and would work on the majority
00:26:46
of people. He's trying to scare Tony into giving up what she knows so they can get to the bottom of things faster.
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If she gives Dany up, she might get a good deal with them. But if not, things could end up real badly for her. The
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most interesting dynamic here, though, is how the detective is trying to use Marshall's earlier statement against
00:27:04
her. This happens all the time, but usually they're exaggerating the strength of the evidence or making it up
00:27:10
completely. This time though, they actually have an airtight statement, but Tony simply doesn't believe them. That
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means she thinks she can just continue to deny everything and instead of taking a deal for less jail time, she can just
00:27:24
get away with no charges. So, with this in mind, watch how confidently she denies everything, unaware that the
00:27:31
detectives know. Every word she speaks is a lie. So, this girl's family has been out looking for her all day,
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okay? But unfortunately, we already know what happened to her. So, from here on out, anything that we from based on what
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you're telling us, I we're giving you this chance to talk to us now. Anything that in relation to her, what happened
00:27:54
to this girl is going to be attached to you, too. Okay? Cuz we're giving you a chance. But if you want to cover for
00:28:00
him, that's fine. I don't care. It don't matter. It don't matter to me. We're going to move on. The
00:28:05
investigation that this happened to that girl. I don't We have reason to believe you were
00:28:08
there. I was there. I don't take it in a like that. I just started to come to a hired. We're not
00:28:16
saying that you it was a every weekend thing, but we're saying that we have reason to believe based on what we've
00:28:23
been doing all day you were there. No, sorry. I've never seen that girl in my life.
00:28:27
And we have people that says that have told us you were there. Oh, that's ridiculous cuz I don't know anybody
00:28:34
really from you know actually in addition to the people that we talked to said that this all started cuz you and
00:28:42
this girl got into some kind of altercation. I don't know this girl. I've never seen
00:28:48
this girl. Okay. Like I said, once we move forward in this investigation, from what you're telling us, since
00:28:58
you're with him, you're going to be attached to whatever we do with him. Do you you understand that, right?
00:29:04
Yeah. I'm his girlfriend. Okay. Just so we got that clear. I've never seen that.
00:29:09
Who's that? I don't know who that is either. You hardly even looked at him. I looked at him. I don't know who that
00:29:17
is. Well, I got to know him. So did Detective Ross. We got to know him a lot today. We spent the entire day with him.
00:29:25
What's his name? And uh well, that's not important. You don't know him. So, what difference does
00:29:29
it make? In reality, Tony is extremely familiar with the man in the photo, as he's the
00:29:35
man that helped load Samantha into her car. That man is Yoshi. Conveniently, Yoshi, whose real name is Dylan, had
00:29:44
just been brought in on unrelated warrants, and detectives couldn't believe their luck. One of the main
00:29:50
witnesses, possibly even an accomplice, had been brought right to them without any effort whatsoever. The best part,
00:29:57
Dylan wasn't the hardened criminal they expected. In fact, his interrogation was
00:30:02
unlike anything you've ever seen. Not only is it truly heartbreaking, but it was actually key to putting not one, not
00:30:10
two, but three people behind bars for Samantha's murder. Help us. This is serious. Did something
00:30:19
bad happen to her? I [music] don't know. She's a young girl, man. I know. What happened to her?
00:30:29
I don't know. I just met her a couple of days ago. Help us. [music] You see something bad?
00:30:51
Not five minutes into the interview, we see an emotion painted on Dylan's face you don't often see in the interrogation
00:30:58
room. He's holding back tears, trying to hide his face, and is exhibiting a type
00:31:04
of stress you rarely see in criminals. He's terrified and devastated at the same time. After all, he's just 19 years
00:31:13
old. he shouldn't be caught up in all of this. The detective picks up on this immediately and wants to figure out
00:31:19
precisely why Dylan feels so strongly about all this. They spend some time discussing simple details with Dylan
00:31:25
deflecting pretty much everything. But this whole time, the stress is building up in Dylan. And 15 minutes later, the
00:31:32
detective notices that he's on the verge of completely breaking down, and he decides to exploit this perfectly.
00:31:39
What did you say? I told you what? I mean, there's more that you saw. We need your help.
00:31:48
She deserved to be killed by this. Help us. What if this was your family member, your sister?
00:32:00
Hey, there comes a time where in your life where you have to do make a right decision, do the right thing. We need
00:32:07
your help. She's actually dead. Okay. Did she? That's what I'm talking to you about.
00:32:22
[snorts] Did you see something that happened to her? If we talk about it, you're going to
00:32:27
feel like the weight of the world is off your shoulders. [snorts] There's only one thing that
00:32:36
makes a person get this emotional. That's they saw something bad. I remember a couple days ago when we
00:32:43
were talking, we were having a good time and I don't know why. I don't know why. Why
00:32:56
I feel so close to her. You guys said, "Well, you're close to the same age, right? You felt a
00:33:04
connection with her. Is it because you've maybe had the same problems growing up and stuff like that?
00:33:10
Probably. What did you guys talk about? Just life and stuff like that. [clears throat]
00:33:21
Listen to music as well. You guys you guys like she play music? I I don't really prefer music. I just like the
00:33:31
white noise. It's tough, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry we're here. I think I up to this point.
00:33:46
Not talking about it, not thinking about it. I mean, I was thinking about it, but
00:33:51
what were you thinking about? Just disparing that could have been a potentially good friend or maybe I don't
00:34:04
know. is not going to be that person. I know her. [music] You can help her. She may not be here, but that doesn't
00:34:19
mean you can't help her. [snorts] Help her what? Help us find out what happened to her.
00:34:27
There are hardly any words to describe what Dylan must be feeling here. He was clearly born on the wrong side of the
00:34:35
tracks and fell in with a bad crowd. He also clearly loved Samantha, which is really the biggest tragedy of all. Over
00:34:43
the dozens of interrogations with witnesses that were conducted, detectives realized that Samantha was
00:34:49
murdered over a small disagreement with [music] Danny and Tony. It was needless,
00:34:54
senseless, and ruined countless lives. And Dylan is unwillingly right in the center of it all. The detective gives
00:35:01
Dylan a moment to calm down and work through his emotions. Then he tells Dylan that he has one more chance to
00:35:08
tell him what happened, [music] bring peace to Samantha's family and get to the bottom of this once and for all.
00:35:16
We I was on my way out. Sam came back and I guess his girl or someone came in with her. They were yelling at each
00:35:26
other, arguing, yelled towards a direction, went downstairs. Um, she turned around, came back, either
00:35:34
slapped her or put something on her cheek or something. I don't know. And she went downstairs.
00:35:43
And while she was on the stairs turning back corner to to go down the rest of the stairs, he followed her
00:35:50
and the gun shot. I don't know where he hit her. He only graced her. She fell on
00:35:57
the ground at the bottom of the stairs. [music] I had to carry her out to the trunk.
00:36:03
Did you make me do that? Make you carry out the trunk? I wasn't not going to still have the gun out at that time. No,
00:36:13
but I mean that's not what had me do it. I mean there's a body in the living room
00:36:19
and blood everywhere. So we got all the furniture. I got all the furniture. Tore the carpet [snorts]
00:36:29
clean up floor underneath. Where's the carpet though? Gone. Gone where? Burned. How'd you get all the furniture
00:36:38
out of there? I moved it. What? What did you do once it was outside? It wasn't outside. It's all in the
00:36:45
kitchen. Still in there, probably. Everything Dylan has said lines up perfectly with not just Marshall's
00:36:53
statement, but the evidence, too. [music] Outside, the detectives found a fire pit where something had recently
00:36:59
been burned. They surmised that this was a carpet with all of Samantha's blood [music] on it. And inside, right at the
00:37:06
bottom of the stairs we looked at earlier, a large area of carpet and drywall are missing, right where
00:37:13
Samantha was shot. However, that's where Dylan says his involvement ended, meaning he can't
00:37:20
answer the single most important question that the detective still had. Where was Samantha's body? For that,
00:37:28
they told the cops to turn to the fourth and final suspect that the cops had had
00:37:32
since the very beginning. William, who Dylan said left in the car with Danny to hide Samantha's body.
00:37:42
Our concern is obviously for mostly for the family. I think and and I think you're you're probably feeling that way
00:37:49
too a little bit. Um whatever this girl's relationship with her mom and dad, she has a mom and dad
00:37:56
[snorts] and they want to be able to bury the kid. The kid, we know she's dead. I know you're
00:38:00
probably wiped out. I mean, we're wiped out. We've been at this since I thought this morning I thought too
00:38:06
we need I know you probably haven't eaten either but and I understand you're having some issues as far as you know
00:38:11
[music] where you guys actually were at. So we're kind of want you to try at least
00:38:18
think about like where you guys put the body in the back of the car. I remember going
00:38:26
back home and going up the hill and unfortunately it's just the way that they I was laying down on the back.
00:38:34
You were like actually physically lay down or you like relaxing? No, I was no way lay.
00:38:41
They wanted me to lay low like I was scrunched up. I was down. I I thought they wanted me to lay down in the back
00:38:48
and they wanted me to see where we're going and I really thought that was that was it for me really.
00:38:55
William was happy to cooperate with the detectives which made their jobs considerably easier. The only problem is
00:39:01
that he didn't actually see where they drove. He was forced to lay down in the back of the car, so nobody saw him in
00:39:08
the car from the outside. So, he might not be as helpful as the detectives initially thought. However, he was able
00:39:15
to tell them that they didn't travel for very long and gave a description of the
00:39:19
area where they finally hid the body. Was there like a lot of Was it a real rural area? Was
00:39:25
it was getting more rural at that point? Yeah, I remember just a lot of before we got to the [music] the place
00:39:34
with the fenced off area where he pulled in where he wanted to I guess take her body to I just remember like a lot of
00:39:43
taller trees. I remember being seeing a lot of orange, you know, a lot of, you know, a lot of the fall colors, you
00:39:51
know, just really popping out. Like it was just really, really bright because there was so many trees,
00:39:57
you know, so I knew we were getting more. Then I popped up to get out of the car. Like I said, it was just like a
00:40:04
two-lane road, you know, not really marked, [music] you know, just two lane road. I didn't see any cars coming or
00:40:10
going. It wasn't the most detailed description ever, but it turns out it was all they needed. A few days later,
00:40:18
an officer mentioned they might know an area just outside of Akran that matched the description. So, they sent out a
00:40:24
patrol car to search the area. And sure enough, they found it. Samantha's body lying amongst the dirt, not even buried,
00:40:34
just dumped out in the open. Immediately, they were able to identify it by the butterfly tattoo on her arm
00:40:40
that her mother had mentioned all those days ago. Their search had finally come to an end, and her family could finally
00:40:47
make peace. The only question now was what to do with the suspects. The detectives clearly named Dany as the
00:40:54
murderer, with Tony having a large role in the murder, too. However, despite how
00:40:59
helpful William ended up being, the rest of his interview and other witness statements implied he had a lot more to
00:41:05
do with the murder than he initially led on. So, he was charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence with
00:41:11
a sentence of 10 years, and the court had to decide on the fate of Dylan, the 19-year-old. They decided that he
00:41:19
shouldn't have been involved in this, and given a second chance, he might be able to get his life back on track. So,
00:41:26
he was charged with tampering and obstructing, but he was only given five years of probation. As for the killer
00:41:32
couple, Tony was given 16 years for tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice, and Danny was charged with
00:41:38
murder and abuse of a corpse and given a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 24 years. Thanks again,
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