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There. Are few stories that are as difficult to comprehend as the one I'm about to share with you today, how anyone could allow something like this to happen is just beyond me. This episode is not going to be gratuitously violent, however, it is going to be highly disturbing as such viewer discretion is advised before we get into today's story if you're A. Fan of the strange dark and mysterious deliberate and story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week once on Monday. And once on Thursday, so that's of interest to you please offer to mount the five star review buttons brand new seventy five inch T. V. to their wall, but when you. Do purposefully miss all of the study, also please subscribe to the Mr Ball and Podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads, okay, let's. Get into today's. overtime Or was born on January sixteenth, nineteen, eighty four in Everett, Washington, which is a city that is located twenty five miles north of Seattle and sits on the banks of the. Puget Sound, which is large inlet of the Pacific Ocean at the time of her birth, Rachel's parents Bill and Denise already had one child, daughter named Meghan and so. When Rachel arrived, they decided their family was complete, initially there was some concern that Rachel could have some health issues because by the time she was two and half years. Old she still was not talking is or parents were concerned she could be death, but shortly after they went to specialist about her hearing, it's racial would say her first. Words and then from that point onward her parents could not get her to be quiet as youngster Rachel had huge imagination in preschool she would pretend her fingers were. "Imaginary friends and she would speak to them during class, often getting in trouble because of this", she also had prized collection of troll dolls who she gave very intricate backstories. To by the time Rachel was in grade school, she developed keen. Then. Of humor, specifically, she had the gift of mimicry she could basically become any of her friends or family members, and everyone thought it was really funny in addition to her bubbly. personality Rachel was also very gifted athlete who was always one of the very best players on her basketball, soccer, volleyball or track to him all this despite growing to be. Only four foot, eleven inches tall, speaking of her smaller stature, even though she was not self conscious about it Rachel did, were four inch platform shoes virtually everywhere she went, including. "It's just going out to the mailbox and high school, unsurprisingly, Rachel became very popular", her father joked that he was her answering machine because her many friends would call the. House Day and Night looking for, but despite this abundance of friends, Rachel took all of her relationships very seriously, she never forgot anybody's birthday and she would even sometimes send out. These random parts that weren't even on birthdays to her friends and to her family members just telling them how much she loved. Two thousand and one when Rachel was seventeen years old and in her third year of high school, it just seemed like she was this amazing person who is destined to any totally charmed life, however, this would not last. Then. All of her friends Rachel's best friend was an eighteen year old boy named Corey Hands, she had met him when they were young and then quickly become soul mates at least. According to their families, however, their relationship was not romantic one, it was more of brother sister style relationship. They spent nearly all of their time together and in the rare times they were not together, they could always be found speaking on the phone. Then. Summer following Rachel third year of high school, Corey was riding in car with three other students from his and Rachel school, Rachel was not with them and at some point. The driver of the vehicle lost control, Sars, slip off the road, and when it finally came to stop, one hundred feet away from the road, Corey and one of. Then. The student passengers, seventeen year old named Lee by waiting for both, unfortunately deceased. When? Rachel heard the news about this crashed, she fell apart not only was corey literally her best friend in the world, but she was also very close with Levi as well and. So over the rest of that awful summer, Rachel spent most of her time crying in her bedroom, looking at pictures of her and Corey and her and Levi for older sister. Megan would say that Rachel was just beyond heartbroken, it was like all of the joy and happiness that normally characterized her was just gone. Finally. That summer did come to an end, and it was time for Rachel to return to Marysville, pill Chuck High School, to begin her fourth and final year, or family hoped that. Finally, being around some other students again would help heal her and help her move on, but unbelievably over the course of that school year for more students, all of whom are. Friends with Rachel would die there was suicide of the drowning, hit and run and an accidental shooting, it was like the school was cursed. The second half of that school year, Rachel, like many other students at the school, had become deeply depressed, the trauma of losing so many people close to her had just crushed her spirit. When her grades, which were normally quite good, began to decline dramatically or parents pulled her from the high school and enrolled her in an alternative high school, they also began sending her to grief counseling. Not long after joining this alternative high school did Rachel drop out, so she did not get her high school diploma. Her. Parents were not happy about this decision, but they did understand their child's life had been completely disrupted in catastrophic way over the past year, I mean the trauma she had. Experienced already, as this young person was more than what most adults would experience in their entire lifetime and so they honored their daughter's decision to drop out and they just gave. Her some space to try to fix. Wow, or she wanted to do next? After. Dropping out of school in the spring of two thousand and two Rachel got a job at local pizza and pasta shop in town, but after only couple of months. She quit, she did pick up some hours babysitting that summer, but for the most part, she spends her time just sitting in her room alone and sad. Then one day her father looked at the family stone bill and saw it was significantly higher than normal. When he reviewed all of the individual charges, he saw there was one that really stood out to him. There were dozens and dozens of collect calls they have been pleased from an inmate at correctional facility. When? Confronted his daughter about these calls, she would tell him that yes, she was speaking to an inmate at correctional facility, and his name was John Anderson, he was twenty years. Old he went by digging that was his nickname and that she and Dickie were in the sort of new romantic relationship, she told her father that she had met Dickie A. Year earlier at high school party, this was before he was sent to jail on drug and burglary charges. Then he had been very interested in her at the time, but she wasn't interested in him. Then. Played the rejection, though, digging continue to pursue Rachel well after this party, but it wasn't until year later when she had dropped out of high school that she finally decided. To give him shot, Rachel would tell her father that digging, despite being convicted criminal, was very misunderstood, he was actually very nice guy who just had troubled. Past and that was why he kept getting in trouble with lot or father did not approve and was very worried about his daughter, but he wanted to be supportive and. fella he didn't really know the whole situation and so he just told are, you know, please just be careful. Not. Long after this father daughter talk dig, he got out of prison and so Rachel, who had spent the better part of the last year shut up in her room, was now. Suddenly going out all the time to see him and his group of friends, it's important to understand hear that Dickie and his group of friends were in Rio. What? He just group of petty criminals and drug dealers for the most part, however, they thought of themselves as full fledged, organized criminal gang and they were very proud of. It and the even refer to themselves as the Northwest, Mafia and Dickie was very clearly their leader. Quickly. It became apparent to Rachel family that big part of quote spending time with dickie and the Northwest Mafia was partying and doing drugs and drinking alcohol, and so naturally the. Parents were very concerned for their daughter, who they sell, it was really starting to go down the wrong path in life. Then. Over the next couple of months, Rachel's parents and her sister all tried to gently convince Rachel to stop spending so much time with dickie and his crew because they were totally. That influence on her, but Rachel was adamant that did he and his crew was making her happy in that right now that was what she needed that she needed to be. Around them that they were really just awesome people and that you gotta trust her and her family, they didn't trust her, they felt like, you know, maybe she's going through A. Phase where she wants to date, you know, bad boy, they didn't really get it, but they also didn't have way of getting through to her and seemed like she. Was just convince this is what she needed to be doing, how, and so they just for kind of at loss, then one day it seemed like everything had just magically. fallen into place, it was on sunny morning and late July of that year, Rachel's father was outside working on his garden when his daughter Rachel suddenly appeared looking happier than. She had and long time bill smile back at her and was like, "What's going on, why you so happy and she would tell him?" That she had plan she was going back to school and she was going to become medical technician, and she was just absolutely beaming as she telling him this news. When? She was asked what had brought about this incredible change, she explained that she had recently made new friend who was encouraging her to do this, she said his name was. Maurice reverse: "He was eighteen years old like she was, and he was part of the Northwest My. The told her dad that she had previously interacted with him when she first started seeing digging a few months earlier. That she had never really had real conversation with him, she'd only just kind of waved and said hi whenever they were at gatherings together. That. A few days earlier, when she was at a Northwest Mafia party, she and Maurice just kinda happened to find themselves alone and so they struck up friendly conversation and during. That talk Maurice confided in Rachel that he was actually really unhappy and he wanted to leave the Northwest Mafia and he wanted to go back to school and seen actually dropped. Out of high school as well. And. When Rachel heard him say this she had an epiphany, she realized she felt exactly the way he did, she didn't like being in the northwest, Mafia didn't even know why she. Was in the northwest, Moccasin know why she was seeing the gates and it was like it all clicked for her and so she confided in Maurice this guy who she barely. knew she said, "You know what I feel the same way don't want to spend time with these people want to go back to school" This. Random conversation they had at this party really immediately bonded them together, it was like they both had been harboring this deep dark secrets but now only with each other they could. Discuss it openly and was very liberating for them, and so by the end of this first real conversation they had had, the pair had promised each other that they were going. To cut out of the northwest mafia, they were going to go back to school, they were going to clean up their acts, there were six their lives and they were going. To do it together, they were in a support each other and have each other's back Rachel Wood even joke with her father that they were already talking about when they went. Back to schools that they would go to senior prom together, although she assured her dad's that their relationship was totally platonic, this was not romantic that. Bill, her father had no idea what to say this was literally, it's the best case scenario it was the thing her family had been hoping for over these last several months and it seemed like it was finally happening. And so, he told Rachel him so proud of her, he gave her big hug and said "Looks is either" Then. You know, just let me know, and Rate smiled at she gave him hug back, and then she turned around and skipped back inside the house and sure enough over the. Next two months, Rachel did act very differently, she started very intentionally getting her life back together, she started spending more time at home with her family and started going to church. With her mom and she also began reconnecting with some of her older high school friends who had always been positive influence on her. So by September of that year Rachel did seem like she was more or less back to her old happy south. Except. There was one element of her life of her old life, so to speak that she was not able to shake, and that was her relationship with digging, she just could not. And that she had tried to, but apparently he didn't want to break up and so they fell into the sort of weird on and off again relationship that kept Rachel periodically. It's going back to these northwest Mafia gatherings or family was obviously unhappy about this particular detail. But. They did so confident that given her recent changes that she would eventually break it off for good with the gates and so until that happened, they were actually quietly grateful that. Her new friend Maurice was also still spending time with the Northwest Mafia, he too was kind of struggling to fully break contact with them and so the family was thinking well. You know, yeah, they do need to leave, but for the time being when they're at these gatherings, at least they'll have each other. On September twenty third of that year Rachel was invited to Northwest Mafia get together in she did agree to go. Before. She left her house, she did not give her family very much information about what's she was doing, where she was going, all they knew was that apparently she was going. Out to see some friends and so that night when Rachel did not come back home or family was definitely concerned about her, but they assumed she must have made plans to. Stay out at this friend or friend's house for the night and since she didn't have cellphone, they couldn't call her to. From that and so, they just had to wait until the next day to see if you would show up again. Then. Next day arrived and Rachel did not show up again and when or family began calling around to her various friends houses, both old and new, no one seems to know where. She was for couple of days the family continued to call around town and even drove around town, putting up posters asking people to come forward if it's seen her but there. Was no sign of her and so finally on September twenty seventh, the family went to police and they officially reported Rachel missing, the police immediately jumped into action, sending out units. To scour all corners of Everett Washington and the surrounding areas they also began questioning virtually anyone who was even remotely affiliated with Rachel and hopes they might know something to. split this really aggressive initial push by police it lead to nothing than out of nowhere, someone very unexpected came forward and gave the police huge step in this tip would ultimately lead police to discover the truly on believe bull story. Of what happened to Rachel following, is that story After. Leaving her house on the afternoon of September, twenty third, that she told her family she was going to see friends Rachel made the short drive over to sixteen year old. Nathan Lovelace, his house, he was gonna be the hosts for that evenings, get together with the Northwest Mafia when she arrived Nathan along with Rachel's good friend Maurice and seventeen. Year old named Mathew Dirhams were sitting in the living room and while they waited for more friends of theirs to arrive, Nathan's father suddenly came home, apparently he had gotten off. Or girlies and so not wanting to hang out around the prying eyes of apparent, the tree decided it would be better if they just left and spent their night and someone. elses house and so they made their way over to Kevin Jihad house, Kevin was thirty two year old and he owns his own place when they arrived, they found Kevin. Along with twenty two year olds John Whitaker and Jeffrey Barth and twenty year old Tony. William, all sitting around in the living room just kind of joking around or play video games or drinking alcohol and they're smoking marijuana. Rachel, along with Murray's Nathan and Matthew, just took up spots on the couch right near the entrance to the room and before long they were joking around and having good time to.

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Four. PM Rachel's on again

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off again, boyfriend Dig he stormed

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into Kevin's living room looking serious

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without warning he punched to the guys

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sitting nearest Rachel and then he pulled

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out a. Gun and he began aiming at wildly

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around the room and this instantly silenced

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the group because no one knew what he was on

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about and Rachel, who's sitting right near the.

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Door, she does not want to be part of this and

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she's thinking this has nothing to do with me and so

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she decides she's gonna get up and kind of slip.

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Out and let them deal with Digby

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and whatever is going on in here and so

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she stands up trying to be as quiet as small

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as you can, it's against edging. towards the door,

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but in order to fully leave the

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living room and escape the situation,

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she would lead to walk right past

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Dig, who was standing in the doorway and

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as. She got closer to him about to make that move

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out of the room, dig he seemed to

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notice or and he put his gun down and

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he turned to face or. And then he turned his whole body

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so he was squared up with Rachel

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as if he was getting ready to fight hard and then Rachel

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this kind of tried to make. yourself a small and

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timid as you possibly could, and she tied to slip

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past Emus that right as she did,

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did he reached out with his left hand and

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he? Grabs her scalp grabbed her hair and

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then he wound up and he blasted her in the face

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with his right hand and then with his left

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to collect sucked back. into

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the room she just tried to escape

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from and then the worst night

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of rates of leave would begin soon

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as she hit the floor in that room she tried to scramble

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back to our feet or before she could she was getting

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punched and kicked by digging and several

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other of other friends who had just

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been sitting in the room joking around with her

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and then the others who were in the room who are not

17:55

actively participating in beating her

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which included mores rebus stay safe

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Italy. Doing nothing while Rachel screamed

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for their help when her screams got so

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loud, Dickie was concerned the neighbors

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would hear her one of the idol onlookers

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in the room twenty year. Old Tony Williams simply

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turns the music up to drown her

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screams out after few

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horrible, violent minutes, stig

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he told the others to stop at which point

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he reached down. And he grabbed Rachel's hair

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again and dragged her out of the room, and then

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he dragged across the kitchen floor and through

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door that lead into the garage once

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she. Was inside the garage he jammed

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dirty sock into her mouth and he covered her mouth

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over started and then he bounds her wrists

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and her body with rope and then. Once he was

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certain she could neither make any noise

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or go anywhere he pushed her over,

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so she was laying on our side all bound up

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and then he just left. He went back into the house

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and back into the living room with the others what

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Rachel was not aware of was this

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entire night was digging.

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was furious with are most likely due

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to combination of rage that she

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tried to break up with him and just jealousy

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that she was now showing affection two other

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men in the group such as maurice

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and maurice few others and so did he had ordered

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the other members of the northwest mafia to

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help put her in her place

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was unclear exactly what he meant by

19:15

this but all of the mafia members

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new this meant simply

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harming rachel harming some way and

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they agreed to it originally the plan had

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been to lure her to nathan's house

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under the false pretenses of just normal

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night hanging out with some friends and then at some

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point nathan matthew and are close friend

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maurice would abductor and

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bring her to dig eve or whatever else he had

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planned for her but nathan's dad had come

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home early before they could and

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after their plan and so when that happened

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nice and had to sneak off and privately called

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digging and ask what to do next and

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digging who's totally frustrated by this

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to said you know what bring her to kevin cells

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and we will all have deal with her when she gets here

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so when rachel sat down on the couch

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in taverns house next to more reason

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more other friends Who? She thought she was

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just enjoying fun night out with, in

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reality, they were all acting,

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they were trying to act like this was just

20:08

another night and can get her. Off guard,

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so that when dig he came storming

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into the room pretending to be mad, which

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was the sign they would all attacker

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but now that the plan had worked and.

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Rachel had fallen into their trap and so

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I'd gotten badly beaten up in was restrained

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and helpless in the garage, Dickie

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didn't have plan for what they were going

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to. Do next, so instead of doing

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anything, the eight guys who had just

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beaten up and restrained Rachel

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simply went back to doing drugs

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and drinking and playing video games in the. Living

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room, then few hours later, at

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nine p.m., Cabin's girlfriend,

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Trust corner, she came home and

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when she did, she entered the house through the

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garage and when she. Saw Rachel

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laying on the ground restrained badly,

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beaten up her left eye is totally swollen

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as she ran over her because one

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she actually didn't know who Rachel was so

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this. Is just random girl and her garage

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that's been up and restrained and so she runs

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over to her, she rips the tape often for

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mouse, he pulls the sock out. And right away,

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Rachel is pleading with or to let her go

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short, tell anyone, and for says totally

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confused because she really has no clue what's

21:14

going on she was not. A part of the plan

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to harm this girl that's a dresser just

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instinctively runs into the house,

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she does not make any contact with the guys

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in the living room, she. Goes straight into the kitchen

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and she gets nice and then she runs back

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into the garage and she begins cutting

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through all of Rachel's restraints to

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free her but before. She could finish the job

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dig he apparently had heard the commotion

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of Trista come again, it's hurt her running around

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the house and so did he come storming

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into the garage. He sees what Princess doing

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so he runs over and he grabs or hands

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and is physically stops or from freeing

21:47

Rachel and then he threatens tricep that

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he's gonna harm Per. Se les rates of go

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in so tress are amazingly at

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this point, despite clearly seeing something

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very bad is happening to

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this girl instead of continue. Going

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to try to fight this and cigarette what's going

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on and maybe try to help us girl, she just gets

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mad at de as I don't want to sell my

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house, what are you doing, so don't want to scroll my house,

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you know, it's I'm going to call the cops if

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you don't? Get rid of her. Meaning.

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don't care what you do with her, but don't want this my

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health, don't want to be involved with whatever

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the sets and then she promptly begins

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to leave. Rachel alone with digits

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she starts walking away and Rachel she's

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heartbroken, this was her way

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out she was about to be let go and

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now for so is leaving her behind.

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Is a Rachel's begging her to come back,

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police gonna let me go, but

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prison didn't listen, she walked into

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the house and shut the door behind her and then

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DiCkie who? Was still in the garage, he

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just immediately turned around, he tied Rachel

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back up his stuff, sock back in her mouth, take

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the shot and then he went right back. into

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the house and shut the doors leading

22:50

Rachel all alone again, but few

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minutes later dig he would come back this

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time with John Whitaker and the two

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of them. Would show up with this black duffel

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bag this huge bag and they walk

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over to Rachel, who's now whimpering in the corners

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kind of pushed herself to the side and they. Lifted

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her off and they forced her small body

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into this black bag and then

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they sifted shut and while they

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did this Matthew Durham, who had been in

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the living room. He had gone outside

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and gotten his red jeep, and he had backed

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it up to the closed garage door

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and then once degree, and John had

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Rachel secured in this bag. They open

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the garage door up and they put her in the back

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of the jeep and they shut the Jeep's back door

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and been digging ordered jaw and along

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with Matthew. And Rachel's friend Maurice,

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who just come outside to just go drive

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around town with Rachel in the trunk

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until he digs, figured out what they were

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going to do next and. So the trio hopped

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in the red jeep and did what their leader told

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them to do, they began driving around every

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with Rachel in the trunk and this whole

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time Rachel. Could clearly hear

23:53

anything that was said inside

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of the vehicle, but apparently during

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this initial drive around the trio

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didn't. So. "It's unclear if she understood

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who was actually with her, but eventually

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during this drive around, one

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of the three young men in the Jeep got

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call from digging through", told them Then he

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his plan, so come pick him up at this

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point, the trio decide for whatever

24:15

reason to just dump Rachel somewhere,

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basically stash or somewhere in her

24:20

bag and. Go pick up the gate

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and then once they had dig they would go back, they

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would get Rachel and then they would figure out what they were going

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to do. They hear the plan that dig he had in store

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and so Matthew drove the red jeep

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about ten miles north of average

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to quiet cul de sac in the suburban.

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Neighborhood and then once the jeep was stopped,

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Matthew and Maurice got out, and they went

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around the back of the jeep, they opened it up and

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they pulled Rachel out of. The trunk and

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they walked her over and put it behind some

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big tree on someone's front property,

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now it's night time this was not well

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lit up area and so. They sought by

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putting her behind the street, she be out

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of sight of the road and in have no one would see

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her and they also decided that

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one of them. Would need to stay back and

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guard her to make sure she didn't escape

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for that nobody did accidentally

25:08

find her, and they decided Maurice

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would be the one who would stay. Back and do that,

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and so after Rachel has been planted behind

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this tree, Maurice made his way over any sat

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down next to her and then Matthew when

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John, they just. drove off and the cheap

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to go get dig and so once the Jeep

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had driven off, Rachel, who could clearly hear

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their discussions and she could hear the g pulling

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off. She knows she is now alone

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with her good friend Maurice and

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so this is or opportunity to plead with

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him to helper and so soon

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as she hears that Jeep designs. She starts

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screaming through her gag on her

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mouth to try to get his attention, and it

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worked Maurice quickly unzipped the bag

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and pulled her gag off, but he didn't

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untie. Her and right away, I mean Rachel,

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she's so upset she's frantic, and

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he said to Maurice they're gonna kill

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me if you don't get me outta here you

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have to frames. And Maurice was just

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very nonchalant.

26:00

The bigger making a big deal about that you're going to be fine

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just school along with it's not big

26:05

deal or are. we what she

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was hearing and so she sang maurice

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don't get it they are gonna kill meets

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this is the chance let me out saved

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me you're supposed to be my friend let me go

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put more reason to continue to do nothing

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he just kept telling her it wasn't big deal she

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was screwing this up out of proportion and

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then at some point rachel after quite after bit time

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has passed and now she's thinking of dickie

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and the others different be back soon and

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soon she says the worries you know what They're.

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Going to kill me just don't want to be drowned,

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I'm terrified of being drowned at least

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make them suit me, make it quick, and

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at this maurice just doesn't say anything.

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And instead he reaches down and he grabs

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the sock, and he puts it in Rachel's mouth, he

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puts the tape over her mouth and then he presses

26:48

her down into the. Bag and Simpsons.

26:51

Then. He waits for Dickie and the others

26:53

to come back and sure enough just couple minutes

26:55

later, Matthew John and did

26:57

he returned in the jeep to the call the sax.

26:59

They got out and they lifted Rachel up inside

27:02

of the bag and broader back over and put her in the

27:04

trunk of the cheap, which now contain for

27:06

new shovels. And then once the trunk

27:08

was shot, all four men piled and side

27:10

as well and then digital Matthew

27:13

to head out to particular off roading

27:15

spot he was familiar with. It was about thirty

27:17

miles to the north east and over the

27:19

course of this hour long drive,

27:21

Rachel could hear everything being said

27:24

inside of the street and she would

27:26

have. Heard all the details of

27:28

exactly what did he had planned for

27:30

her and so she knows what's gonna happen

27:32

to her, but she could do anything about it she just found.

27:34

In the back of the street.

27:36

So. Around midnight they reach their destination

27:39

this off roading site, which was basically this

27:41

thick forest at the foot of a mountain near small

27:43

pond, and once they parked the

27:45

men. Got out leaving Rachel in

27:47

the trunk with the trunks shot and they began

27:49

walking around the back of the vehicle

27:51

and started looking on the ground until

27:54

dig, he said he. Has found spot that he really

27:56

liked in it was about ten or fifteen feet behind

27:58

the vehicle.

28:00

Oct. One identified the man

28:02

walked back to the cheap, they opened up the

28:04

trunk and they left Rachel, but

28:06

they pulled out there shovels digging

28:09

join in Matthew, they all took their. shovels

28:11

and walked to the designated spot on

28:13

the ground and they began digging

28:15

was more east, it's he stayed back

28:18

at the Jeep standing right against the trunk

28:20

with Rachel, right? Behind him so again

28:22

he has this opportunity were inferior,

28:24

he could help Rachel, but while she

28:26

whimpered behind him and tried to get his attention

28:29

and tried to get him to. Help her, he

28:31

just ignored her and he pulled out a cigarette, the

28:33

begin smoking, and he also had soda

28:35

that he was drinking since of he's just standing

28:37

there doing. Nothing, and at some point he

28:39

looks up and notices tests, and he yells

28:41

at Maurice to come help them get your shovel

28:43

is start digging and so Maurice

28:45

reluctantly puts a. Cigarette out throws

28:48

soda can away and then he grabbed the last

28:50

remaining shovel and then he walked away

28:52

from Rachel and the jeep over to the street

28:55

and he began. To dig for.

28:57

the next thirty minutes or so rachel

29:00

who's still in the trunk the trunk is open she

29:02

still in the bag

29:03

Then. Sport to listen to the sound

29:05

of these four people dig what

29:07

sounds like a very sizable hot,

29:10

and then when they finally start digging, she heard

29:12

them talk their symbols aside. And start

29:14

walking back over to her and when they reached

29:16

her the under the bag and they pulled her out

29:19

and they sat her down on the back of

29:21

this cheap. That is kind of sitting, it's looking

29:23

in the direction of the stig side and

29:25

as they began cutting off or restraints and

29:27

removing the tape from her mouth, she

29:29

gets A. Clear view of what they

29:31

had been digging and she knows immediately

29:34

what it is, they were digging first

29:36

place after all the restraints

29:38

and everything was off of her dickie ordered.

29:40

John start taking all of her clothes

29:42

and jewelry off Rachel New at

29:44

this point, she was about to die, there was nothing

29:46

she could do to stop at she was out. Number two in the middle

29:49

of nowhere she would have been overpowered, so she

29:51

knows she's going to die

29:53

and so she had nothing to lose and

29:55

so when John grabbed her. And tried to rip her clothes

29:57

off, she thought back aggressively.

30:00

And she looks at digging and she says, "at least allow

30:02

me the dignity of removing my clothes

30:04

and jewelry myself" "The did

30:07

he looks at her", he says. So.

30:09

All the men back up and then Rachel

30:11

in front of these for people who, earlier

30:13

that day, she would have considered her friends,

30:16

she began taking all of her clothes off.

30:18

And then, after she had removed all of her clothes

30:20

and all of her jewelry, she left

30:22

one ring on her hand that

30:24

she clutched it with or other hand, and she.

30:26

Looked at Dickie and said, "Can I please

30:28

just keep this once the ring she was

30:31

holding onto was a ring that her good friend,

30:33

Corey Haynes, had given her right before?"

30:35

He was killed in that car accident and

30:37

dig it just says. The

30:39

reaches out and he literally pulls it

30:41

off of her hand, and so standing there completely

30:44

naked and alone and terrified.

30:46

Rachel. Was then ordered by dickie to

30:48

start walking towards the grave and

30:51

so Rachel with as much grease as she

30:53

could muster stood up straight, took

30:55

a deep breath and began walking. And then

30:57

she finally reached the edge of the

30:59

grave at which point Dickie told her to walk

31:01

down inside. Rachel. Berry carefully

31:03

turned round and lowered herself down into

31:06

the grave, and then she stood up in the

31:08

middle of the grave with her back to her attackers

31:10

and which point he. Said, "Get on your knees,

31:13

so she did this in as soon as she was down on

31:15

her knees", she looked skyward and she

31:17

pressed her hands together and put them right. Up against

31:19

her chest and she began praying and

31:21

as she's looking upwards towards the sky

31:24

dig, he laughs at her and says "Don't worry

31:26

you'll be up there some and then" Dig he pulled

31:28

his gun out, he aimed at her back

31:31

and he began several,

31:33

times into the back of our heads into or back

31:35

and then his Greece and at. Which point he cleared

31:38

the jams T v loaded his goons

31:40

and then fired, or sure the.

31:42

her then he put his gun away

31:45

and he along with the other three men

31:47

who had just witnessed this and participated in

31:49

this use their supposed to sell their whole

31:51

back in covering her up once she was

31:53

buried the man rounded up all the

31:55

per things along with shovels and the murder

31:57

weapon it's and they chucked it's into they nearby

31:59

fun Digg. He made sure

32:01

to crush the ring is Rachel

32:03

and said was so important to her before

32:05

he threw it into the water, then the man

32:08

climbed back into the red jeeps. And

32:10

they drove back to ever it, and on

32:12

the ride did he would tell them that if

32:14

they told anyone about what they had just done,

32:16

he would kill them to. But just a few

32:18

days later, after Rachel had been reported

32:21

missing, the mother of

32:23

Jeffrey Barth jeffrey with someone who had

32:25

been at Kevin's hothouse on

32:27

the night Rachel was. Abducted it's, and he also

32:29

played role in her capture. His

32:32

mother, Jeffrey, birth mother. Behind

32:34

his back went to police and

32:36

told them that she thought her son

32:39

knew something about Rachel's disappearance,

32:41

and so the police, rooster, Jeffrey, and

32:43

interviewed him, and he would quickly say, "Oh,

32:45

I don't know anything but use it to the Matthew

32:47

Darren" Matthew. If you remember was

32:49

the driver the night Rachel was killed, he

32:52

also helped dig a grave and he witnessed or

32:54

murder, and when police spoke to Matthew

32:56

at first he refused. To speak and tried to

32:58

act tough, not when the police ratcheted

33:00

up the pressure he cracked, and he told

33:02

him everything, including where to find Rachel's

33:04

body, the and as soon. As it became

33:07

clear the police had Rachel's body

33:09

every other member of the northwest Mafia

33:11

who had been involved in Rachel's murder

33:13

rushed to stick with the police because

33:16

they were. All trying to save themselves

33:18

by blaming the other people in the group.

33:20

The that is why we have such clear

33:23

picture of exactly what happened

33:25

to Rachel in her final moments because

33:27

those responsible told the police

33:30

everything. During their trials

33:32

all eight of the accused northwest

33:34

mafia members or Smog and

33:36

did not take responsibility for the.

33:39

worst of all of them by far was

33:41

digging Or? Use trial, he smiled

33:44

and even repeatedly turned around to look

33:46

at Rachel's family so he could laugh at

33:48

them and wink of them ultimately

33:51

all eight of the accused were found. guilty

33:53

of various charges ranging from rendering

33:56

criminal assistance all the way up to first

33:58

degree murder. Sixteen.

34:00

Nathan Lovelace, who's home was supposed

34:02

to be the site of the kidnapping, it was sentenced

34:04

to one hundred and sixteen days in jail.

34:07

Twenty. Year old Tony Williams, who turned

34:09

the volume of the music up to drown out

34:11

Rachel Screams and who also got the duct

34:13

tape for digging when he was restraining

34:15

Rachel in. The garage he received

34:18

slightly more than nine years in prison, twenty

34:20

two year old jeffrey Bars, who played a large

34:22

role in subduing and kidnapping Rachel

34:25

and whose mother had gone. To police

34:27

and tipped them off about what had happened, he

34:29

received ten years in prison.

34:31

Eighteen year old Mores reverse, who was Rachel's

34:34

closest friend in the group and who had pledged

34:36

to support her and half her back as they got

34:38

their lives together. He was sentenced

34:40

to nearly twenty six years in prison for

34:42

assisting and Rachel's abduction and helping

34:44

take her brain. Seventeen year old

34:47

Matthew Durham, who drove the cheap that

34:49

carried Rachel to her death and who also

34:51

helped dig Rachel's grave, he

34:53

received twenty six years in prison. Thirty

34:55

two year old cabin Jihad, who was determined

34:58

to have masterminded the finer details

35:00

of the abduction and the murder, he was

35:02

sentenced to nearly thirty seven years in prison.

35:05

Twenty. Two year old John Whitaker was sentenced

35:07

to life in prison for being directly

35:09

involved in the entire abduction and

35:11

murder process and twenty

35:13

year old John De Gea Anderson, the

35:15

leader. Of the northwest, Mafia and Rachel's

35:18

ex boyfriend, he was also sentenced

35:20

to life in prison for his role in her murder

35:22

throughout Rachel's horrible ordeal,

35:25

there were many people who could. Have stepped in

35:27

and stopped what was happening to her most,

35:29

notably Trust the Connor, who was Kevin Job's

35:31

girlfriend and who found Rachel tied

35:33

up in the garage and Maurice readers.

35:36

Who was alone with Rachel in that called

35:38

a sack and could have easily fried her but?

35:40

Then. "Result of these heart wrenching details,

35:43

Rachel's family and their legal team worked

35:45

very hard to pass a bill called

35:47

S. H. B. One, two, three, six,

35:49

this bill makes it a. Criminal offense

35:52

in America: If you do not summon

35:54

assistance for person that has suffered substantial

35:57

bodily harm, they are hoping this will save

35:59

at least one. Then. Person from suffering unnecessarily

36:02

today, the Bruckheimer family is still

36:04

grieving the loss of their Rachel, however

36:07

her father Bill take solace

36:10

in particular photograph the police

36:12

showed him after Rachel's. Grave site

36:14

was discovered in her body was removed

36:16

from it, the police took photo

36:18

of the grave itself, and in this photo

36:21

you can see an imprint in the soil.

36:23

Of Rachel's hands where she sell

36:25

after she was shot, and it looks like

36:27

her hands were pressed together and near her

36:29

chest, meaning she was likely

36:32

praying in her final moments. On

36:34

Earth and Bill likes to believe

36:36

that means she was piece when she finally

36:38

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