Jonathan Hirsch

It's also kind of dangerous.

Like, do you say no to this person?

Are they going to hurt you?

Exactly.

You've been unwittingly like roped into a criminal conspiracy at that point.

So what do you say?

The plan fell apart though, because another friend of theirs had heard about this plot and had like warned Bart's parents.

Ideating on the possibility.

And I think Kent had dismissed some of those earlier situations as just- Teenage angst.

Yeah, exactly.

He didn't really connect the dots until much later, obviously.

Okay, so detectives are digging into Bart's old roommate, Adam, and what he reported.

And as they were doing that, they discovered this was not just like a one-off comment, but a pattern of behavior.

He had reached out to other roommates as early as December of 2000 to try to orchestrate some kind of ambush plot inside of the house, similar to the one that happened

that was successful, except in this case, the home alarm went off when they were inside the house.

And when the relatives approached, they didn't enter the house.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And I mean, it's so clear that this person had been planning this as they start to unravel and hear from different people.

They've been planning this for a long, a long time.