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Yes.

He told me the whole story. He grounded Sinai, refilled the pills, and he gave her two pills. She had a car accident and she died.

She was driving slowly down, headed westbound.

Her eyes were still open, and her chest was gurgling, and she was just slumped there clutching her cell phone.

We heard something outside, like a pop. And I got up to look out the window, and as I was doing that, we heard a scream, and I saw Farrah fall. And then we heard another shot.

And I saw her laying down there by her car.

It was at that time when we realized she wasn't getting up that we dialed 911.

Just started giving them a play-by-play of what we were seeing. Okay.

Price-Dash setting him up to say, we just did this thing, you need to pay me off.

The police already had the gun in custody. They easily could have had her write that down.

There is no iota of evidence saying that he hired anybody.

There's no proof that money ever exchanged hands.

I knew I was looking for a 40-something white female. We had some driver license photos of both Tina, the sister, as well as Piper Roundtree.

We were looking for females. We were looking for females, and I was putting my money on blondes. Piper had brown hair. Tina had blonde. I stationed a uniformed officer at the end of the terminal with a set of pictures and asked him as well to stop anyone he thought might be either of the individuals. The plane landed and the passengers filed off.

She just got past us. There was too many people, too few of us, not enough people to stop every possible female that could have been this person.

He was very scared of her. I was with him a couple of times when she called and threatened him.

We knew it was going to be a difficult case, but not because of the facts. All of my female friends kept telling me throughout trial, they would keep saying he had it coming.

I believe that she intended to kick Bonnie's ass that day, okay? That's what she wanted to do. She wanted to go over, and she wanted to beat up Bonnie.

When two vehicles are moving at a high rate of speed and they're going at the same speed, you're not going to see huge damage when they collide.

It doesn't make sense to say this was an accident when you look at the surrounding circumstances.

You can't get up and give a big middle finger to the jury.

Mercy is for someone who says, I did wrong, give me mercy. Not for somebody who says, you got it wrong, but give me mercy anyway.

They schemed and planned this elaborate psychological experiment on him, and he passed it.

He would tell me, checks in the mail, FedEx, coming, be here soon. Nothing ever happened.

The PET scan shows abnormal function of the cells in the orbital frontal lobe.

I think he's of sound mind and he knows, you know, right from wrong.

He has planned this, okay? I think it's so outlandish, it's so preposterous that it's fabricated. Henry Turner and Stanko spent a lot of time together.

Why dad? You know, I mean, dadgum, he's 74 years old, eight days before his 75th birthday. I mean, come on. I mean, he befriended him.

I think what a lot of us felt is that he was temporarily insane when he wanted to be temporarily insane.

She was probably about like this.

She was probably about like this.

I was Miss Scarlet.

Yes.

He was Professor Plum.

He refused to set foot on the soil of Connecticut because it was an evil state and that was where his parents had died. So even if we had to drive between Boston and New York, he would not actually allow stops in the state of Connecticut.

That was not done. One waited.

The defendant.

I found out in August of 2007 that he was not Clark Rockefeller.

He was very secretive.

I ask you again, think about it. You know, I'm making myself clear.

Yes.

911 emergency. We just had like a transient type walking on our door. He's got a red shirt on.

I don't know what.

His painful cries were just almost unbearable to listen to.

She was murdered.

She was stabbed to death.

830 Saturday night, residents in the East Rock neighborhood heard the distinct sound of gunfire.

A sense of shock and sadness has settled on the Yale University community after the Saturday night shooting death of grad student Kevin Jiang.

The victim was a student at Yale's School of the Environment, originally from Chicago. He was an Army vet who posted on Facebook just a week ago his joy in getting engaged.

Nobody's answering the door, and the back window shattered, and there's a body, and there's a foot I saw on the floor. I'm only 16. I can't deal with this.

Yes, ma'am. It's the Holiday Inn. I'm not sure exactly what the address is.

We just seen a guy. We heard four or five gunshots here in the parking lot. The guy took off running right there to the right on the street. and there appears to be a guy shot in the driveway.

You know, the railroad track's right there. Yeah. You know, I walk on the railroad track, the steel part, right? Yeah. You know, once the train comes, your scent is going to be gone. I never heard that before. Yeah. I didn't think it would work, but it did work.

As the news of 18-year-old Anita Knutson's murder spilled into the city of Minot...

Well, I guess the million-dollar question is here, who would want to hurt her?

I seen Anita.

She was just lying in bed just inside the window.

I walked in and put my hand on her leg and she was cold.

Nicole and I were sitting on the couch, and someone from the kitchen was talking about it, and that's when it was stated. From Nicole Rice, it was that she had did it, that she had killed Anita. Nicole said that? Yes. Okay.

And I put the shade and the rod back in the apartment.

It appeared somebody came out.

I had a flat tire earlier in the day, and I had to come back to fix it. You know, it was raining, it was windy, it was just very miserable. I started to put all my tools away. For some reason, I just happened to look up. And I saw smoke going across the street. From the corner house? From going across from the corner house, going across to the right.

As soon as I saw that there was a bright amber glow, I knew that was a definite fire. So I decided to just quickly run back to my girlfriend, said, listen, call 911. There's a house that's on fire.

I started yelling. I started pounding on the door as hard as I could just to see if there was any activity, see if anybody was home. Anything? All the lights were off. Everything was quiet. When I went around to the side, the amount of smoke and the amount of flames, the basement was fully engulfed.

I also noticed that the neighbor had a spigot nearby. I was pouring water on the windowsill, but that fire inside was rolling.

Oh, here we go. Here we go. You're going to do this Einstein thing on us, huh?

Nicole and I were sitting on the couch and a couple of buddies were playing video games and someone from the kitchen was talking about it. And that's when it was stated, the comment. When what was stated? The comment was that from Nicole Rice, it was that she had did it, that she had killed Anita. Nicole said that? Yes.

Yeah, so we learned that Christopher Austin was about in middle school when he met Robert Baker and that his dad and Robert Baker were very good friends.

As the years went on, Christopher Austin and Baker developed a friendship. Christopher Austin even worked for him almost as an assistant and, you know, kind of the way he put it, doing whatever Baker needed him to do.

This is when Austin testifies that, yeah, he understands, like, he knows why he's there. And so when detectives finally bring him in for an interview, Christopher Austin admits to them that, yes, he was there and that, yes, he stabbed Fabio.

Yeah. Who knows if it's because now that he's confessed to detectives or for what reason, but Austin now starts opening up more to his cellmate. He tells him that his unk, his uncle, who we know is Robert Baker, and the woman that, and these are the words he uses, the woman that he was messing with, were both involved.

And at this point, the prosecutor in court asks him if he sees that woman, does he see her in court? Yes.

That's right. He mentions to the undercover agent that Monica was supposed to be coming into a large sum of money, which he said was insurance money.

Yeah, when he got emotional, and it usually happened during times when there was direct questioning about the murder itself, and he would kind of hang his head low and get quiet and emotional. And regarding the day of the murder, he testified that they were at Baker's apartment, and Baker gets a text. And Baker says the text is from Monica.

And that she is telling him that there is basically a small window. And so Baker's like, okay, this is the time. We got to go now. Does he talk about the actual murder and how it was carried out? Yeah, I would say that this was probably one of the most... Chalking things. I mean, it's not very often that we get to hear from a killer directly from his own mouth how a murder went down.

And that's exactly what we heard in Christopher Austin's testimony. He described once they got into the house how Baker sort of took the lead.

A lot of Austin's testimony focused on conversations he had with Baker. And so that's something that the defense really wanted to highlight in their cross-examination, is that Christopher Austin never spoke to Monica about a murder plan. He never saw a text that showed that Monica wanted Fabio dead. This is all coming through Robert Baker.

The other thing that they really wanted to highlight for the jury was that Austin did whatever was necessary in order to get himself the best deal that he could. And in his discussions with the prosecutor after the arrest—

The defense attorney quoted the transcript and said that Austin is basically telling the prosecutor, hey, I got to get home to my girls, his girls being his wife and his young daughter.

What the defense wants the jury to realize is that in exchange for getting the deal that Austin did, that's why his testimony is coming out the way it's playing out in court now. He ended up pleading guilty to second-degree murder, which carries a sentence of 16 years to life. Now, he won't be sentenced until after this trial is over, and his deal is...

is based on the truthful testimony that he gives in court. And whether it's truthful or not, I think what the defense wants the jury to hear is that, again, Christopher Austin had no direct knowledge that Monica wanted Fabio dead or had any part in this planning.

Oh, here we go. Here we go. You're going to do this Einstein thing on us, huh?

Nicole and I were sitting on the couch and a couple of buddies were playing video games and someone from the kitchen was talking about it. And that's when it was stated, the comment. When what was stated? The comment was that from Nicole Rice, it was that she had did it, that she had killed Anita. Nicole said that? Yes.

This does feel like it's gone to trial very quickly. There's an actual real issue of a new charge that just came up. We'll see what happens with that.

Anything else? All right. Thanks very much. See you, everyone. Bye.

I mean, I didn't think I hit him, hit him, but could I have clipped him? Could I have tagged him in the knee and incapacitated him? He didn't look mortally wounded as far as I could see. Or could I have done something that knocked him out and his drunkenness and in the cold didn't come to again?

Andrea, I love this topic. It's very timely to talk about right now.

The minister called and they said, do you remember my dad being killed? Never in a million years would you think that you'd see your parents' house taped off, the farm taped off by that yellow tape.

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Yes. So this is a security video that was broadcast by CNN in May of last year. So four months before Combs' arrest. It allegedly shows him assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie, in a hotel hallway in 2016. Prosecutors referred to the video in their indictment and want to show it to the jury as a part of their criminal case against him.

The defense asked the judge to throw the video out, arguing the video is wholly inaccurate, having been altered, manipulated, sped up, and edited to be out of sequence. All claims that CNN has denied. And on Friday, the federal judge overseeing the case ruled that the video can be shown in court.

Yeah. So the judge agreed to grant anonymity to alleged victims two, three, and four in the indictment. And he also refused to grant a delay in the trial, which the defense had asked for. But there was a partial victory for Combs' attorneys. They had asked the judge to throw out the testimony of a prosecution witness by the name of Dawn Hughes.

She's a clinical and forensic psychologist with expertise in sexual abuse.

Yeah. So she will be allowed to testify about why sexual assault victims might delay disclosing their abuse and stay in relationships that are abusive. But she won't be able to testify about coercive control or how perpetrators act to control their victims.

We don't know any details of the deal that was offered, but we know that Combs rejected it.

So the big news is that the judge has finally weighed in on whether Brian Kohlberger could face the death penalty if convicted at his trial this summer. And it looks like the answer is yes. Earlier this week, the judge denied a defense motion to take the death penalty off the table because of illegal technicality.

And this was after he ruled last week against another defense motion, which said that Kohlberger shouldn't face a death penalty because of his diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. In that ruling, the judge pointed out that no court has ever found ASD to be death disqualifying diagnosis.

Yeah, so this is the case of Anna Konezovich, the Colombian-American woman from South Florida who disappeared in Madrid in early 2024. According to prosecutors, she had moved to Spain to start a new life after separating from her husband, businessman David Konezovich. And he was arrested for her murder last year. Anna's body has never been found, and David denied any involvement in her death.

Remind us how David was allegedly tied to this case. Sure. So federal investigators said David kidnapped Anna from her apartment and killed her. There's security camera video of a masked man entering Anna's building around the time of her disappearance. and spray painting the security cameras in the lobby of the apartment building.

Authorities say that the man looked a lot like David and also that David was seen on camera at a nearby hardware store buying that exact brand of black spray paint.

So in some pretty shocking news, David Konezovich was found dead on Monday morning at the federal detention center in Miami where he was awaiting trial that was supposed to start in June. His defense attorney confirmed that he died by suicide and asked for a thorough investigation. Hmm.

Yeah, so I spoke to Santa, her best friend. You know, she's definitely shocked and still processing the whole thing. She was getting ready for trial. She was planning on being there. Her family has also released a statement that said, the suicide of Anna's murderer closes a painful chapter in our lives previously filled with the dread that he might not face justice.

Now we may never know where he put Anna's body.

Thank you, Andrea.

He says, that's my ex-girlfriend. She did this.

If the Commonwealth has proven both elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should return a verdict of guilty. If the Commonwealth has failed to prove one or more of those elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you must return a verdict of not guilty.

Eleven people have given statements that they did not see John O'Keefe enter the home at 34 Fivu that night. Zero people have said that they saw him enter the home Zero. No one. These people were not part of a conspiracy and certainly did not commit murder or any crime that night. They have been forthcoming with authority, providing statements, and have not engaged in any cover-up.

They are not suspects in any crime. They are merely witnesses in the case. To have them accused of murder is outrageous. To have them harassed and intimidated based on false narratives and accusations is wrong. They are witnesses doing what our justice system asks of them.

I'm asking the Canton community and everyone who feels invested in this case to hear all the actual evidence at trial before signing a guilt to people who have done nothing wrong. And certainly before taking it upon yourself to harass citizens who evidence shows have done nothing in this matter but come forward and bear witness. We try people in the court and not on the internet for a reason.

The Internet has no rules of evidence. The Internet has no punishment for perjury. And the Internet does not know all the facts.

Okay, can you just try to ask him? I know it's tough, but we already have the fire department going. I just got to know if he's breathing.

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Yes.

John O'Keefe? No. And where does he live? Right at the present.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

It's his girlfriend, yeah. They were out having drinks, and then she left and expected him to come home at some point, and he never did.

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Yes.

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Okay, what's going on? Is he face down?

Okay. And who's that in the background? Is that someone related to you?

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This girl had to hold her down while they were torturing her. And Tim was laughing as he was torturing this lady.

Tim should be looked at for any murders that happened in any area that he lived in at that time. How do we know he's not a serial killer? How do we know he's not murdered other people?

So Tim had a tattoo on his arm that was just letters. It said LOD. I was told it stood for Lords of Death. And in order to get the tattoo, you had to take someone's soul.

I'm convinced that we were living with a serial killer.

He shot at me when I was yelling Angie's name. I went through the window where he crashed through, and after I had realized that he had already shot the first man, I was screaming Angie's name, and I startled him, I guess. He turned around, that's when he fired at me, so I ducked, and then I went to the food to go.

I seen the little girl about three weeks ago, you know. She was coming out the apartment, in and out the apartment with him and his old lady, you know. I haven't seen him since. I ain't seen him since the other day.

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She's dead! She's dead? She's dead. I saw the light go down. She's dead. She saw the light go off. What happened, bro? She's dead.

This individual says he actually saw her die. He actually saw her die. I have the video. I have the video of the guy with the gun and there's still her. Okay, I want to get with you. I'm with TheBullards.com.

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I couldn't.

No.

Through his mom or dad.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

A white t-shirt with football logos on it and gray camel pants and his black and white shoes.

Black and white.

I wake up and see him cleaning his shoes. Okay.

The outside. Okay.

Yeah, that he messed up and he needed me to stand by his side.

Yeah.

Lovey-dovey.

No.

He did something wrong.

Yeah, he wanted me to do a little laundry.

Yeah.

Because he never really wanted me to wash his clothes. He wore the same clothes all the time.

the Carhartt hoodie and his pants and that shirt.

Yeah. What was it that you found? Like wadded up hair and like shavings of grass or like hay.

To tell them that he was wearing K-Swiss shoes.

No.

There was something else you said. Why would you wash those jeans?

What were you getting in Spanish? I was doing great because, so I started the year like any other with open mind, ambition. I want to get the work done. I'm not like other kids. I don't see, how do people have the same class on their phone? Like they know that we're excited. It's not that hard, honestly. And it makes you like hell. And it really just fucks over your future, honestly.

The screen was very old-fashioned. Hates technology. Yeah. Makes your life hell if she sees your phone. And she's not that great at English. So just that. And she kind of just stands in front of the class and, like, talks about stuff and then will give us worksheets. But I feel like the information has not been covered nearly enough. Some kids, like, else can do it. She picks favorites.

I don't feel good speaking English because she's missing. But I just, I wasn't one of her favorites, I think. And she will prioritize her favorites, even though they're the ones that are usually doing the best in class. And it's the way she teaches, it's not like to pass the class. And it feels very self-taught and you're on your own.

It's not like she's a very routine person.

Well, she's always on time. She's always where she says she'll be. when she says that I don't have too much of a personal relationship with her, but I know people that do.

I know there's a lot of kids that fall into the same boat as me in Spanish classes, and they don't like her. She's kind of an asshole sometimes. Not like her enough to hurt her. I don't know. I heard about her window being smashed. I don't know how long ago that was.

And then just yesterday, my dad, he had gone and actually had a meeting with her because I had been complaining to him about her and how Spanish is kind of shitting on my GPA. And so he was like, okay, I'm going to talk to her. And he just told me yesterday that on Will driving me to therapy, that he didn't want to tell me anything because I would still be seeing her.

But apparently, so I didn't know that it happened all in the same night. Her house got egged and pee-peed, and I guess the window was smashed. I guess I had it all at the same time. And that meeting, Ms. Graver had asked him about it. That's how he found out. Asked him because she was suspecting me.

come down on you if you were involved in an egging or a teething but if you were involved but if you were involved we want to get it out of the table now so we can identify that and move on from it so were you involved no you were not involved no I have no idea usually people like until this happens you can find out once again small town people can be boasty you never know when no word will slip from someone's mouth and then it can spread I haven't heard anything

And I could ask around me if I know, but I bet they're being very quiet. It was pretty serious. I mean, smashing somebody's window, that's a big charge. Actually, it's not. Well, it could very easily become breaking and entering, right?

No, other than us arguing in class. No, I don't. Okay. Yeah. I wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

And I got out of there because I wanted to completely disassociate myself from anything that would have happened. You wanted to at that time? Before anything happened, I said, I need to get out of here. If something goes down, I... don't want to be involved at all. And I left, and I didn't assist with anything.

I had no, I don't want to say no knowledge, but I, something was up, and... You felt like you didn't have knowledge. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. And I know there's... It's just, I... Something was kind of, I've been in situations where. No, this isn't my language. Okay. Don't shortchange it now. I'm not shortchanging it. Okay.

What I'm saying is that I've been in situations where I may not be involved, but I may be with the people that did it or whatever it was. And things go south very, very quickly as soon as officers show up and whatnot. And I knew, I could feel that this could very easily be one of those situations. Okay, tell me about the situation.

And I don't know anything past that point, other than the next day, I see that she's not at school.

We were hanging out for a little bit, and we were at this shelter that's... You can kind of see the parking lot. Even though it's far off, you can see the parking lot. Yeah. But then Zoe asked me if she needs, and then she didn't seem right. And I see Ms. Grayberg. Don't glaze over that. What didn't seem right? I had heard prior things for the past week about just a lot of people talking about Ms.

Grayberg. And just, I knew something. I bet that there were other people at the park. posted up, I don't know, on the trail or what. And I had seen some teenagers when they were coming, like in the distance, going down, and it was sketchy, and I see her, and I think something might go down. I need to disassociate myself, because I'm staying on the right track. I need to keep clean record.

I'm getting all my grades in. I'm getting as much college credit in. I'm not trying to fuck this up by becoming a suspect. because of me being by something that just happened and being a teenager. And so I left.

We were walking down the path, the road, and there were other people. Okay. I'm telling you, this was not a one-person thing. There were five, six, seven maybe. Okay. And I'm walking down and then we get to the, there's another trail that heads off and then I, a few minutes later, I look down and I couldn't see who, there were multiple people around and they were moving. Moving what? A body. Okay.

And I freaked out. I had a panic attack and I ran

I came home from work one day and I smelled an unbelievable smell in the bathroom. Couldn't figure out what it was and I found out that it was gun cleaning solvent.

He was acting strange and was falling all over the place and fell into the bathtub and the smell was just unbelievable. And then shortly thereafter was when he was cleaning again and it had gone off.

He was sitting at the dining room table and was cleaning the gun, and I wasn't very far away from him at all, and it went off. And it was just, you know, it was a foot away from me, and it was a hole in the floor. And he said that he didn't realize it was loaded, and it went off.

Well, I mean, of course I started yelling, and I was scared, and then I got on the phone and I was talking, and then I think, I don't remember if I actually left, I just don't really recall. All I know is I was extremely scared. And it wasn't too long after that that he went to work and I packed up my stuff and I was gone.

He followed me. He caught me on 31 one day and tried to get me to pull over and kept following me. And I wasn't going to pull over. And I know the roads a lot better than him and I end up losing him.

No, because I went into hiding, basically. And I went and stayed at a friend's house.

I mean, I was scared. I was literally scared. With what I was told at the Edinburgh Police Department, what they told me and everything that had gone together, I was just scared. I wanted to make sure everything was done and the divorce was finalized.

During your friendship with Mr. Randolph, did the defendant ask you questions that you thought odd or made you feel uncomfortable?

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Never. I wasn't even out there early in the morning. First we heard about it, I was in the car with it. Ray's brother, T, we were going to move a friend of his and we saw a lady passing out flyers and we stopped and he grabbed two flyers and was reading the flyers first, we heard about it.

That was like, yeah, I did go back over there that Friday because I went out to move.

And I went back home, yeah.

Yeah, it was, I don't know if she was white or Puerto Rican or something. She was standing right there in 93rd, kids were passing out flyers.

Christopher said that the only thing he knew about Aliana was the same thing anyone else did.

I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, we went in the house. Me, T, and... What's the other guy's name? Um... They call him, what is his nickname? They call him Boogie. Call him what? Boogie. Boogie? Yeah. I mean, we went and we took the hot water heater and the furnace out. T and Boogie?

And we took a couple pieces of some wiring, some, you know, little metal stuff connected to the furnace, took that out and took it to the scrap yard. So you're talking about the piping and wiring? Yeah, took it to the scrap yard. How long ago was that? That's like Monday, Tuesday when we was there.

We just put it on like a cart, a shopping cart. And took it up the street, and the next morning we put it in the van and took it to the scrapyard.

$37?

Right.

We walked around the house, but we just didn't walk. I mean, it's like we didn't focus in there like we in here trying to see what's in here. We just looked around. I mean, I'm not saying the basement and the dining room was the only thing we looked at. I mean, we looked around the house, but I didn't go around the house like just trying to see what's all in here we can take.

No, you know what, I did go upstairs because we went to see if they had a cast iron tub up there. You're talking about the second floor? Yeah, we went up to the bathroom, looked, came back down.

I'm trying to get it right, but I'm sitting here and I'm nervous because I'm actually in the house that this girl's body was found in. So I'm like, I want to get this right.

I would have no reason to speak to a 14-year-old.

I mean, I wasn't even over there on that date.

Well, sure you do.

What did you run into? I'm a crackhead. I get high and I do stupid shit for people for money. Okay.

Everybody you hang with, that you smoke with or get high with, you don't know everybody you deal with. went on that night or that morning, it's probably impossible because I was high.

By the time I realized how old this girl was, I left. Okay. I left. And there was other smokers around that, I mean, I might not know you if you were getting high, and I'd be like, you know where to get something at? Yeah, when you gonna look out for me? Yeah, whatever. How this little girl got involved, I do not know. If I could go back to this day,

Despite the video evidence of Christopher stalking Aliana near the church on 93rd Street, he tried to tell the police that two strangers invited him into the abandoned house and Aliana was already inside.

I was riding a blue and green mountain bike.

That was a bike laying around in the backyard down on Eddie Fork.

No, as far as hurting her, no. I had nothing to do with that. I'm going to be honest to God, they told me that she was somebody that was And now when I hear the news and they say she was slow, I understand why she was going along with what they were saying. She was probably scared or whatever. I had no idea. I'm high. I'm just... You get high. Thinking it's cool.

I mean, there's women out there that sell their body for dope.

Um... On the carpet, on the little bundle right there. Which room? I think it was the little room closer to the door.

No, she was naked when I got there.

When I went there Wednesday, we was just smoking. We was just getting high. I went and got some more dope, came back. And she was already there naked. I don't know how they got her naked, how they got her in there. Okay. She was already naked. And so I'm taking this to the party.

In the living room. She was just sitting there quiet. And she had like a black hat on. Black hat? The only thing she had on was like a black hat. I don't know if it was one of theirs or... It was basically like, it was like, man, just look out for me and she gonna look out for you, whatever, whatever. Like, lay down and open your legs, go ahead and get my dudes, huh?

Oh, so they offered her up to you? They basically.

surprising I mean it's surprising to me now that I look at this and I see what I saw on the news and I saw the flyers and I'm like well so it's just the three of you inside this house basically it's like I really didn't even fit inside her so it was basically me just sitting here and I jacked myself off basically do you use a condom or anything? no I gave the condom to somebody.

I gave it to one of them. I mean, I opened it up, and I was about to use it, but I just jacked myself off, and I rubbed up against her as I was coming.

Three people went in there scrapping and then the two people was in the house with me.

No, I'm not trying to blame other people. I'm trying to tell you exactly what happened.

Which bus stop were you standing at? Right there at the corner of Fuller, by the church. Okay. Because we was trying to decide where we was going to get the dope from.

Everybody that we was calling either wasn't even answering the phone or...

The video from the church is going to show... I'm standing here. My dude walked by to show him walking down, talking with Aliana. She's probably walking a few steps behind him. And I'm still standing here.

Actually, I stood like in the little storm thing and got high just so the wind wouldn't blow my lighter. You're talking storm door? Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, that leads to the basement. Okay. Where's she at? She's like standing right there by the door, back door, if you mean it.

I came through the house and Sometimes his delusions are so unbelievable that it does seem like the drugs removed him from reality.

I don't know exactly what happened at that moment, like she attacked me or whatever. Like if she suddenly realized I was wrong and I need to get away from here, but I was high and it scared me. I turned around and it's like I punched her, but then it's like after that, it's like, well,

right side of her face but in her face was it with a closed fist or an open hand it might have been a closed face but after that i just blacked out and i just was like when you said you punched her what did she like fall back or something like that i don't remember like like i said when i turned around and went into

Actually, those tools was there. They were there at the house? I remember seeing them there. Where did you see them at the house? Sitting on the ledge by the window. Did you use any of those tools? I don't remember what I picked. came through that it had happened and I'm just disgusted right now with myself.

Being honest with you, I don't remember your name, but I'm being absolutely honest with you. Okay.

I just regret getting high and if I... Their child would still be here. It's like, I mean, a lot of things get blamed on drugs, but like I told him, I was clean for three years, and then it's like when I started getting high again, I don't know what happened. It just turned on a monster inside of me, I guess. I don't know, and I just hated myself so much.

I never wanted this to happen, and ever since that day, I've been feeling regret and remorse. Through the year, I've made a lot of phone calls, and in those calls, I've said things, a lot of things, in order to protect my family's feelings. I've admitted to my guilt to the detectives and to my lawyers.

I ask my lawyers not to contest or challenge anything in this case because I really want to freeze family to have closure. I will not try to hide behind drugs or alcohol. I will not pretend or lie because it wouldn't be fair to the family. I apologize to the family and the community for my actions. There is no excuse for what I've done.

I can't imagine the pain the family feels, but I know the pain I felt when I had to look at what I'd done.

In this instance, I was coming from school. I got out of class around 2.15 and I took the, I was at J Street Metro Tech, took the uptown F train at 2nd Avenue. A man came on, stumbled on, he appeared to be on drugs. The doors closed and he ripped his jacket off and threw it at the people sitting down to my left.

I was listening to music at the time and he was yelling so I took my headphones out to hear what he was yelling. And the three main threats that he repeated over and over was, I'm gonna kill you. I'm prepared to go to jail for life, and I'm willing to die. You know, this was a scary situation, and Mr. Nyerle came on. He was threatening. I'm 6'2", and he was taller than me.

There's a common misconception that Marines don't get scared. We're actually taught one of our core values is courage, and courage is not the absence of fear, but how you handle fear. You know, I was scared for myself, but I looked around. I saw women and children. He was yelling in their faces, saying these threats. I couldn't just sit still.

Some people say that I was holding on to Mr. Neely for 15 minutes. This is not true. I mean, between stops is only a couple minutes. So the whole interaction lasted less than five minutes. Some people say I was trying to choke him to death, which is also not true. I was trying to restrain him. You can see in the video, there's a clear rise and fall of his chest indicating that he's breathing.

I'm trying to restrain him from him being able to carry out the threats. And then some people say that this is about race, which is absolutely ridiculous. I didn't see a black man threatening passengers. I saw a man threatening passengers, a lot of whom were people of color. A man who helped restrain Mr. Neely was a person of color.

A few days after the incident, I read in the papers that a woman of color came out and called me a hero. I don't believe that I'm a hero, but she was one of those people that I was trying to protect. We were all scared. Mr. Neely was yelling in these passengers' faces, and they looked terrified.

The reason why there was no video at the start of the altercation was because people were too afraid getting away from him and the videos didn't start until they saw that situation was under control. I knew I had to act and I acted in a way that would protect the other passengers, protect myself and protect Mr. Neely. I used this hole to restrain him and I did this by

leaving my hand on top of his head to control his body. You can see in the video, there's a clear rise and fall of his chest, indicating that he was still breathing. And I'm calibrating my grip based on the force that he's exerting. And I mean, I was trying to keep him on the ground until the police came. I was praying that the police would come and take this situation over.

I didn't want to be put in that situation, but I couldn't just sit still and let him carry out these threats.

So, Nakaira Cheyenne-Dedeau was 18 years old from Gulfport, Mississippi, To her close family and friends, she was known as Biscuit because her grandmother, Jennifer Smith, used to make her biscuits as a child and she used to love to eat them. And she used to call her My Biscuit. So among her close family and friends, that was her nickname. She was very close to her family. She had five siblings.

She was like probably one of the favorite grandchildren of this entire family. The proudest moment of her grandmother's life, for sure, was during her graduation in May. They had a party right before the actual ceremony where her mother made bouquets of money that they had given to her. And then they all got dressed. She got dressed in her, like, red cap and gown.

And all her family went in T-shirts with her face on it. Like, even the babies of the family went in ones with her face on it.

Yeah, so that was a surprise to her family and even some of her close friends that she was in New Orleans at all. When I spoke to her family yesterday, they had no idea that she had been there. And they said that if they had known that she was planning on it, that they would have convinced her otherwise.

Because her grandmother in particular talked about how she has always worried about these sorts of attacks, mass shootings, etc. on holidays. So she said that she would have convinced her otherwise to not go there.

Her grandmother told me that everyone is devastated. Her grandmother has 17 grandchildren. This is the first time she's lost a grandchild. What's particularly painful for the family to know was that in a few weeks she was getting ready to start a new phase in her life, going to school at Blue Cliff College, majoring in nursing.

She was supposed to follow in the footsteps of her mother and her grandmother, who were both nurses. One of the most poignant things that her grandmother told me in our conversation yesterday was was that Nakira was a joy for the little time that they had had her. And yesterday, they were really struggling, saying that it was hard to believe that she was gone.

Thank you so much.

The guy in the pickup truck just punched the gas and mowed over the barricade.

I turned to look down the street, and there's just bodies littered throughout the entire street. And the screams, I mean, you can't think about, you know, unhear that.

You know, at 1.30 in the morning, I was throwing beads off the balcony, trying to continue ringing in the fun of the new year. And so to come out of the balcony and immediately see dead bodies on the ground was jarring.

And he was just staring at me.

And he was just staring at me.

The first thing I remember is when I looked out the window And I saw a car pulled up into the driveway. I remember it was a BW Bug. And I remember seeing two guys get out. And I remember looking at the passenger as he got out and remembering his dark hair, but basically the same as the driver's.

He was covered in rain. He was clearly in trauma. He was in shock. And, you know, some of the people at the event brought him water. They sat him down. Are you OK? Were you shot? What happened? He's like, he's like, somebody call the cops, bring the cops in. So about 10 minutes later, when the cops actually came in, he said, I did this. He said, sir, I'm unarmed. He put his hands up.

He grabbed a red keffiyeh out of his pocket and started the Free Palestine chants. You know, there's only one solution and to fight a revolution. And he was being dragged out of the building as he was yelling Free Palestine.

When the cops actually came in, he said, I did this. He said, sir, I'm unarmed.

I was holding my phone, then I heard the shot. And when I looked at the guy, it was a gun, like a silencer gun.

But it was a huge death toll, and the smoke hung over the city. It was a very frightening place. I did see it. I guess I'm sorry I saw it in many ways.

My first thought was, oh, a body. I thought, oh, you know, you're reading a murder mystery. You know, silly girl. You know, that's not a body.

I didn't see his face head on when we first pulled in. I saw him when he pulled next to us to leave.

We were scrambling to find pen and paper and write the license plate number down.

Everything happened too fast. I was going to take her to this zoo this morning.

I was going to take her to this zoo this morning, and then I forgot the line she was going to bring. I turned around and came back here. And then I saw this car. This is her car. I like both of them. I like both of them.

And then... Oh, so his father called her to see what's going on because early in the morning, like, two people was here. And then he was... He tried to voicemail. I called Brandon. It's her husband. He's up there. I told him, I see a strange car, but I don't know who is that. Please come here. I'm scared. I was following the car. And then... He came here and then we went inside.

The guy, I don't know who it is, he was spanking her. I was just all here.

Yeah, he went upstairs first and then I went to see what was going on. I left in the basement and then... When I was there, Brandon was saying, police, drop the knife, drop the knife. They were yelling at each other. He was saying, like, drop the knife.

It's okay. You don't have to get it all out right now. You didn't see the girl before either? So the guy and the girl you don't know?

I see Leo next to her. They had blood on them. Then I see the defendant.

I WALK DOWN THE HALL AND I SEE THE LIGHT ON UNDER THE DOOR, SHE SAID. I SEE LULU. I KNEW THAT SHE WAS DEAD. SHE'S LYING IN THE BATHTUB AND HER EYES ARE OPEN. I SEE LEO NEXT TO HER. THEY HAD BLOOD ON THEM. THEN I SEE THE DEFENDANT. BLOOD ALL OVER HER AND EYES BUGGING OUT. ALL I REMEMBER SAYING TO HER IS, I HATE YOU. PROSECUTORS SAY LULU TRIED DESPERATELY TO DEFEND HERSELF.

Prosecutors described the children's wounds in painfully graphic detail. They claim Ortega was angry at the Crimms for overworking her and was resentful of Marina Crim for being able to provide for her children in a way she could not. The defense says the 55-year-old caregiver was suffering from mental illness and was unaware of the consequences of her actions.

During the two years Ortega worked for the family, Crim says Ortega never complained about any struggles that would lead to her actions on that horrible fall day. The devastated mother says, quote, she killed my best friends. And when leaving the courtroom, Crim turned to Ortega and said, you're gross. You're disgusting.

A day does not go by where I do not regret and feel remorse over the loss of AJ.

I can never again be sure that I know someone for who they truly are.

to make such an uneducated decision on behalf of everyone in Maddox's life. Any one of our family members or friends would have gladly taken her from you if you had just told her that you were feeling you were going to harm her.

His completely irrational actions have left me with no answers or closure. Brian has not only taken my daughter away, but also abandoned me as well, leaving me with feelings of extreme loneliness and sadness. This situation also leaves me questioning my own judgment of others' intentions and their character. Burying my daughter alone was the single most hallowing experience I've ever endured.

Knowing that her death was at the hands of the man that I once loved, entrusted with our lives, takes me to the core. Because of what Ryan has done, I can never again be sure that I know someone for who they truly are. Ryan learns his actions have affected the lives of others as well. Maddox was loved by everyone she met. She was strong and inspiring. She's missed greatly by everyone who knew her.

And those who are very close to her, such as our family, are heartbroken in outreach. I want her to be known for who she was, and I want to be known for the loving mom and wife that I truly was. As a result of Brian's actions, I need for him to spend the rest of his lifetime in prison. I fear for my safety and I fear for the safety of all of his peer roommates back in the community.

He's deceived everyone in his life with ease. And he's betrayed all of us with his actions.