Payton Moreland

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Murder With My Husband · 258. The Killer Cadets - The Murder of Adrienne Jessica Jones · 3 Mar 2025 podcast

Er begann, sie ständig zu besuchen, bis es zu dem Punkt kam, dass sie sich verstecken und lügen musste, als er vorbeigekommen wurde. Habe das gehört, haben die Polizei entschieden, dass 17-jähriger Brian ein Verbrecher war. Und um ehrlich zu sein, war seine Geschichte ein bisschen schrecklich. Zuerst verurteilt er, Adrian alle zusammen zu kennen, wenn er die Polizei spricht.

Dann sagt er, okay, gut, ich kenne sie. Also nicht auf einen guten Start. Aber als sie ihm fragten, was er machte, am Abend, als Adrian verschwand, war er so, ich habe mich selbst getrunken.

Wenn Teenager andere Teenager töten, ist es entweder Leidenschaft oder.

He told police he was upset that night because he realized all of his friends had girlfriends and he didn't. So this is raising all types of red flags for police. They even get a search warrant for Brian's house. They impound his truck. But Brian's friends all say, look, there's no way he hurt Adrian. He's a gentle soul. He would never hurt a fly. His dad also says, my son was home all night.

There's no way. Still Brian sits in a jail cell from Christmas Eve to New Year's Eve. Eventually he's given a polygraph test. He passes with flying colors. So with zero evidence, police release Brian, which means they're back to square one. And that's where the case sits for a month. No new leads, no confessions or evidence, just dead end after dead end.

Währenddessen geht das Leben in Mansfield weiter. Für einige Menschen zumindest. Linda und Bill Jones finden sich immer noch auf der Straße zu fahren, wo Adrian gefunden wurde, weil sie denken, dass sie vielleicht dieses Mal etwas finden, was die Polizei verpasst hat. Einige Schüler versuchen immer noch, Griechische Begrüßung zu suchen.

Andere malen ein Porträt von Adrian auf der Tür des Werkstattes. Aber viele Schüler, wie David Graham und Diane Zamora, vorbereiten sich für den Rest ihres Lebens. As the two temporarily parted ways, the summer of 1996 was spent in intensive boot camps for both of them. Diane was at the Naval Academy in Maryland and David at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

And while David was excelling in his training, Diane was having a much harder time with the physical training and with the distance from her fiancé David. Other cadets said she talked about him constantly. Yeah, I know where this is going now. So she thought, why not get him back? So Diane began cozying up to her squad leader, a guy named Jay Guild.

And she opened up to Jay about her relationship. And when Jay asked her why she didn't trust David, Diane told her it was because he had cheated on her in the past. And when Jay asked, okay, well, what did you do about it back then? Diane looked this man dead in the eyes and said, I made him kill the girl. Now Jay sort of laughs it off. I mean, she can't possibly be serious.

But that's not the only time Diane says something like this. One night Diane's having a late night conversation with her two roommates telling them how deeply in love she and David are. And when one of them says to Diane, I bet you guys would do absolutely anything for each other, probably even kill for each other. You know what Diane says? Oh, we already have.

Now, there's an honor code in the Navy. It's called the Brigade of Midshipmen Honor Concept. And it basically requires anyone who hears of wrongdoing from a fellow officer to report it. Yep, no questions asked. Because if you don't, it could be grounds for dismissal from the Academy.

I mean, we talked about earlier that there is an honor code when you're part of the military, even in the academy. So her roommates go and tell the people in charge and the people in charge don't just sit on this information. Officials call the police stations in and around Diane's hometown. They're like, hey, she's saying that her and her boyfriend killed a girl.

And sure enough, they learned that there's an unsolved case from last year, that of Adrian Jessica Jones.

That both her and her boyfriend were questioned in.

On August 30th, 1996, officers pulled her out of a pep rally and brought her in for questioning. Now, once Diane's confronted by these detectives and Navy officials, she says, I made the whole thing up for attention. I just wanted to look tough. Which the police think, okay, that could be possible. I mean, they have absolutely zero evidence on her besides other people.

Perhaps she heard the news on Adrian and is making a false confession. Wouldn't be the first time someone's done this. But she doesn't get to just resume classes the next day. She's given a one-way ticket home to Texas while police rule her out for sure. Only Diane doesn't go home to Texas.

When she gets to Atlanta on her layover, she goes to the ticketing agent and says, hey, can you actually put me on a flight to Colorado? Next thing you know, she's showing up on David's doorstep.

Which is a very stupid mistake. Because that happens to be the detective's next stop. Obviously. So you're telling me that if she didn't go around saying that she killed someone, they probably would have gotten away with this. Yeah. So this friend is like, yeah, no, they showed up on my doorstep to change their clothing. They tell police that.

And then when police are talking to David and tell him, well, your friend said you showed up in bloody clothing, he breaks. From there, he goes on to write a four-page confession letter detailing every little thing that happened that December night back in 1995 and what happened leading up to it. And here's what he says. It all started at a track meet in November.

This would be a month before Adrian's death. Adrian and David were away with the rest of the team for a cross-country event. And during that weekend, they got pretty close chatting during their free time. And when the buses finally dropped them off back at Mansfield High, Adrian asked David, hey, can you give me a ride home?

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