Marissa Pierce (Daughter of Maurice Pierce)

Because I was with him and I knew he didn't do it.

Because Detective Polanco told Maurice that the gun that he had was the murder weapon that killed the four girls at the yogurt shop.

Kimberly, what did you think when you heard that?

they'd already went down a rabbit hole with me and my questioning that I already knew that they were lying.

So I, I didn't believe anything that they said.

They were telling me he was in a cult.

Him and Forrest were in a cult, like with,

animal sacrifices then they when that didn't work that's when they tried to say that he was at the yogurt shop visiting one of the girls like trying to make me jealous and I was like they're lying you know that they later on said Maurice confessed to being part of that that wasn't true was it

I mean, he never confessed.

He just, when they said that was the murder weapon, he basically said, I didn't have it for this chunk of time.

And so I don't think he said Forrest did it, but he's like somebody that was with Forrest or Forrest, if he had, you know, gave the gun to somebody else at the mall or something, um,

But he didn't have it at that time.

I mean, basically, you're figuring it out when he got picked up on October 6th of 1999.

And Marissa, do you remember?

How old were you?

I didn't tell her why he was in jail.

I just, uh, told her he was in jail.

I mean, at first, so that day they came really early before work.

I mean, it was a whole SWAT team.

Um, and, but I heard all the commotion, like the dogs were barking and I, I went out, I was still in my nightgown and, uh,