Erin Moriarty

Given his intimate knowledge of the crime, they had to consider the possibility that he himself could have been involved.

So they read him his rights.

I later sat down with Alvaro Garibay in 2018, five years after Chip and Claudia were killed.

Alvaro was then 22 years old with a full beard.

They thought you were involved.

The story that he had shared with the police still haunted him.

The story of his once close friendship with a teenage boy named Daniel Marsh.

Alvaro met Daniel in seventh grade at Holmes Junior High School.

Both of them were lonely, self-described outcasts who bonded over their mutual love of the heavy metal band Disturbed.

Like, we just hung out a lot.

What would you do when you'd hang out?

Alvaro said that he and Daniel became fast friends, almost family.

Daniel would talk to him about his rocky home life.

When Daniel was 10 years old, his parents separated, and his mother had an affair with a woman.

When his parents divorced shortly after, Daniel said he felt abandoned.

Alvaro told me that the situation infuriated Daniel, who over time directed his anger at the woman that his mother was involved with.

Did you think he was serious when he talked about wanting to kill her?

But enough to kill them?

The conversations disturbed Alvaro, but he remained close with Daniel.

In high school, they smoked marijuana together, played guitar, and watched YouTube videos.