Emily Simpson

Well, they were obsessed with horror movies in general.

Horror.

Horror movies.

Not horror movies.

Horror movies in general.

I know, but I was trying to enunciate.

Horror.

Horror movies.

They were into scary movies.

And one of the movies they were especially intrigued by or obsessed with was the Scream murders with the mask.

So Cassie Jo Stoddard was a 16-year-old high school student who was brutally murdered on September 22nd of 2006.

This was while she was house-sitting for relatives in Pocatello, Idaho.

So we're back to Idaho.

Mm-hmm.

We go all over the map, but now we're back to Idaho.

It was deemed the Scream murder, and investigators later found that her attackers instilled fear before making their move, like switching off the power in the house and wearing creepy Halloween masks over their faces.

They had also planned the killing in advance and recorded videos discussing it, reportedly drawing inspiration from the horror film Scream.

Scream.

The teens were arrested within days, convicted of first-degree murder, and were each sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, which is now viewed as extremely controversial, which we will also get into because in the third part, they actually talk about a Supreme Court decision that has to do with whether minors should be convicted of...

life without parole so we'll talk about that all right let's go through a little bit of this timeline so in the weeks leading up to this murder again what year is this this is 2006 okay