Emily Simpson

And I think, as far as I know, this town that they were in, there were no other kids.

He didn't have family members.

There wasn't anyone at school.

There were no family members.

There wasn't anyone in his life that was gay.

Well, his mom claims that she knew that it was obvious, but I don't think there was ever a conversation or anything.

Right.

So you have these two outcasts that don't feel like they belong.

You've got one that's adopted, one that's gay but doesn't know how to articulate it or deal with it.

Or live that lifestyle.

And then so... Then they connect.

Yeah.

And they find some type of common ground between them talking about murdering people.

And then, you know...

You said it correctly before when you talked about how it's like they just excite each other and pump each other up.

I don't think individually by themselves they would have gone into that house and murdered someone.

But when you have someone saying, let's do it, let's record it, let's talk about it, we're going to do this, we're going to... Then it snowballs.

I don't think they'd been friends long.

I remember that.

I don't think it had been very long, but I think once they found each other, it was like very kind of fast and furious.