Erin Moriarty

The police had shared with me pages copied from Daniel's personal journal from this time period.

And I showed them to Alvaro.

You want me to go through this?

Yeah, tell me.

Because this is like crazy stuff.

Well, tell me why you say it's crazy stuff.

It looks like someone with a gun.

In his mouth.

I pulled out one page that Alvaro had already seen.

Daniel himself had shown it to him.

The page was covered with drawings of skulls mixed with references to serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer and song lyrics about sex and murder.

This is kind of scary when you look at it, isn't it?

Another page was covered in expletives.

Daniel seemed able to keep much of that anger bottled inside.

In high school, he and Alvaro dated girls, and they all started hanging out together as a group.

But then, over time, Daniel's girlfriend also observed troubling behavior.

She called Alvaro.

Some of Daniel's journal entries involved his girlfriend.

And these ones didn't just talk vaguely about murder.

They showed just how seriously Daniel was thinking about killing.