Emily Simpson
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They were 18 and 21, or 19 and 21 or something.
Well, here's the other thing too.
And this is what the judge said.
And this is why they were sentenced to life without parole is because he said also on these videos, they, they, and this evidence that they found, they also found a list of other
students at their high school that were like a hit list, a kill list.
But then on these videos that they found, they also found evidence of them stalking other girls in their class, like going to their house and watching them and making a video talking about they couldn't wait for them to be alone because the plan was, I believe, was to commit this type of crime multiple times.
And that's what the judge said.
Yeah.
You would be at the parole hearing throwing down.
So the case became widely known as the scream murder because Draper and Adam chick claimed inspiration from the horror franchise.
Cassie's family later filed a lawsuit against the local school district related to events leading up to the crime.
The Idaho Supreme court ruled that the K the school district was not liable for failing to prevent the murder of Cassie, despite warnings of a column bind like shooting.
The justices said that the murder though tragic was unforeseeable and absent the benefit of hindsight.
But as far as her being killed in a remote house, like not at school... It's not like she was complaining, these boys keep bothering me.
No, I mean, actually, she was friends with them.
And she invited them over.
That's the part that's the sad part is that she invited them into her home because they were all friends.
Right.
And the other reason...
just to go just to backtrack a little bit, we talked about how they bought the movie tickets as an alibi.