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Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is

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not intended for all audiences.

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Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 3: You have seen established with same anybody, because I've had

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the entire town of Spring Creek asking me if I've

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killed Britain, and he might.

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Speaker 4: As well have.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't see, I think, well, it's another one.

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You knew it was coming right. This is Sword and

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Scale episode three hundred and eleven, the show that reveals

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that the worst busters are real? Why did I say

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that so fast? I still have a little time? You

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want to you want to hang out or something? This

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episode was written and produced by Elena Thomas, one of

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our senior producers. Here towards Scale, I keep meaning to

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give them credit, but I keep getting bogged down and

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forget because I have to mention how awesome our plus

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service is. If you haven't checked out the app lately,

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we've made all sorts of improvements, check it out. Teenagers

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live in a world of contradictions. They crave independence, but

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they lack experience. That's why they say so many really

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stupid things on Instagram and Snapchat. Oh and that Chinese

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spying app TikTok. They trust too easily. Their instincts are

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still underdeveloped. It's a stage of life defined by growth, curiosity,

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and vulnerability. A time when friendships feel unshakable, but they

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are shakable, they'll probably end, and most people you talk

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to right now as a kid won't be around in

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a couple of years. It's a time when the world

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feels safe, but somehow, danger lurks around every corner. These days,

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technology is the sun we all seem to orbit around,

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myself included, and teenagers are uniquely susceptible to both the

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wonders and the perils technology brings. Apps like Snapchat promise

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the allure of privacy, letting users share photos and messages

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that disappear. It's no secret this technology seems maliciously marketed

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towards underage users. Why would a kid need access to

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an app with vanishing messages and photos? Think about it.

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It's a disaster waiting to happen. Your kid buys drugs

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from someone over Snapchat and overdoses, well, too bad, those

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messages are gone. Your kid agrees to meet up with

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someone in the middle of the night, well you may

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never find out where they went. Kids tend to view

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Snapchat as infallible unless someone takes a screenshot of what

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you've sent them, and Snapchat does notify both users when

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that happens. Teens can sleep easily knowing the photos they've

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sent or gone forever. But this is how Snapchat used

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to work. Its new features have opened doors for law enforcement.

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This hasn't changed how kids interact with the app, though.

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I mean, we've said it here a million times. Kids

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are dumb. I don't know any better. It's interesting when

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something designed to make things disappear ends up the only

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witness to a heinous crime. Spring Creek, Nevada, is a

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small town in Elko County, near the base of the

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Ruby Mountains. It's located in the northeastern quadrant of the

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state for the population of just over fifteen thousand. It's

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a place like so many others we've talked about in

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past episodes. Everyone knows each other, everyone looks out for

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each other, blah blah blah, all that. To the people

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of Spring Creek. Danger is something that exists in other towns,

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not theirs. For sixteen year old high schooler Brittany Ulicky

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and her family, Spring Creek was home. Brittany was a bright,

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social teenager who loved working on the ranch almost as

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much as she loved hanging out with her friends. Her mom, Alicia,

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worked as a nurse, often pulling long shifts, while her dad, Jim,

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a local musician, played shows with his band. Though Alicia

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and Jim were divorced, they stayed connected through their kids,

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sharing a sense of pride in Brittany's growing independence. But

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on Sunday, March eighth, twenty twenty, the routine predictability of

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Spring Creek life shattered. The day started, like many others,

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Brittany spent the morning in nearby Elco at her dad's

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band practice, a regular event. She was supposed to be

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spending the night at his place. Brittany was good about

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checking in with her parents regularly. Jim said, no matter what,

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Brittany called me every hour. It was a little after

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three thirty PM when Brittany left band practice. She told

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her dad that she had caught a ride, and they

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laughed about how Brittany would end up beating him home.

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Later on, when Jim got in his truck to head

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back and called his daughter to let her know he

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was on his way, Brittany's phone went straight to voicemail.

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At first, Jim tried to stay calm. Maybe Brittany's phone

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battery died, or maybe she was home banger watching TV.

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But when he arrived and found the house empty, he

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called her again and again and again. By the third time,

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the unease was hard to ignore. Meanwhile, Alicia was experiencing

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her own growing panic. By the next morning, Alicia assumed

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Jim had called the police and made a report himself,

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but she discovered that he hadn't.

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Speaker 2: He's just very friendly.

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Speaker 4: When coming to Sure.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so is it son or daughter?

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Speaker 3: Daughter?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Okay, what is daughter's name?

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Speaker 2: Brittany?

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Speaker 6: We get a finished her name Britany.

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Speaker 7: She was supposed to be going home yesterday. She was

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in town with her dad, okay, and she got her

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She told her him, I'm going to get a ride

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home with a friend. I'll beat you home, and he

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says you better beat me because I'll be there in

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Speaker 6: And she goes, We're going right home, talking about coming here.

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Do you know her dad lives in Southwark? We're split up? Okay,

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I don't know. Her friend that had her I talked

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Speaker 7: He dropped her off at the high school down here

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at four o'clock with some.

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Speaker 1: Guy, and I go, what guy?

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Speaker 6: And he goes, I don't know.

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Speaker 7: She just said my new friend, tall white, cowboy looking

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guy with a great drug and now no, we can

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find her.

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Speaker 2: No, no, her friends, her phone's not.

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Speaker 3: On Okay, I don't know where to did do?

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Speaker 5: So I have to ask the glurying question, when did

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you guys become extremely worried that she was missing? I mean,

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because we're talking about now quite a long period of

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time between when she got dropped off with this male

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and I was.

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Speaker 4: On it last night.

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Speaker 8: Her dad was supposed to calling in any I asked

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heim this morning, did the cops?

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Speaker 6: Did you make the report?

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Speaker 4: And who's no?

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Speaker 2: So I made up all night.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so you assumed that dad was doing what you're doing.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 1: There are a million different possibilities in a situation like this.

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Law enforcement has to get a good picture of what

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kind of team they're dealing with so they can decide

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whether this is a runaway or whether they're in Amber

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alert territory. By the way, they were desperate to find Brittany.

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Speaker 6: Does she go here to Spring Creek High School? She's

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actually doing homeschool.

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Speaker 2: Okay, she's got a lot of enemies, and I'm scared.

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Speaker 5: She has a lot of enemies. Why would you say.

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Speaker 6: That she just does not in school?

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Speaker 8: Everybody wants the last time she went to a Rodier

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skeed jump by four girls, and I just I'm just.

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Speaker 5: You guys weren't in a fight or anything like that.

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There'll be no reason for her to rebel or stay out.

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Speaker 8: No, I mean, I got lots of problems with her anyway,

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because she's seventeen, are almost seventeen, and Jesus, but.

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Speaker 9: Yesterday, in the last few days, we've been in a

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really good mole.

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Speaker 7: I talked to her FaceTime for an hour at like

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one point thirty.

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Speaker 6: Are youth English? Just fine, stretches, happy, go lucky.

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Speaker 2: Everything was good.

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Speaker 1: Alicia's mother and grandmother wondered out loud whether there were

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any security cameras in the parking lot when Brittany was

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dropped off and got into that green pickup truck. The

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eighteen year old boy, a close family friend, said that

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he had left Brittany in the Spring Creek High School

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lot at her request.

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Speaker 5: And all we know is that it was a marine truck.

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We know nothing else about the individual.

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Speaker 2: No, the boy.

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Speaker 8: Said it was an ugwig green from the Earth two thousand.

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Speaker 6: Bryce Dicky is the kid that dropped her off.

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Speaker 2: Person that we know of that her. I'm going to

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take this.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to get her entered, and then I'm going

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to go speep with my supervisor and see what the

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next course of action is going to be.

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Speaker 6: Okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: The next day, police worked a track down all of

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Britney's friends, including the one who had dropped her off

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at the high school parking lot, eighteen year old Bryce Dicky.

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Bryce was out of town with his mom for some

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doctor's appointments, so detectives first spoke with him over the

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phone and later met up with him at the same

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parking lot that he left Brittany at the day before.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Bryce, I appreciate me there, so can tell me

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run me through so I can understand what's going on.

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So I'm gonna stand in the shade over here for

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your wants, all right.

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Speaker 11: So Sunday round eleven, I started texting, got a few

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texts from Brittany and just asked her if I wanted

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to hang out. I said sure, got ready and stuff.

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Told me she could meet me at Angel Park because

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she said her dad was doing and practice, and then

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I went to town, called her when I got into

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town on fifth, and then picked her up at Angel Park.

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Kept driving around and then we were over in the

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horsebow session and my dad called me, asking if I

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did come back home, so I told her I needed

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to go. Pasked her if she wanted me to just

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drop her back off at Angel Park, and she said

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that she wanted to meet to drop her off at

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the high school to meet her new friend, and said

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her dad he was going to pick her up later.

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So then came over here, pulled in right over there,

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give her a hug and stay, and then she got out.

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I pulled out and then started hitting that way, and

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the F one fifty was over there, but I didn't

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know that was where she was going at that time.

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They were both standing outside the truck. And then I

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got to the turnout right over there by the middle school,

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and then that that F one fifty was in motion.

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Speaker 10: So you said, what was the F one fifty?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it was the tritons, the ones that are really

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ugly looking up the sidestepping.

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Speaker 10: Uh, like that winter green, dark forest green, like a

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dark forest green.

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Speaker 1: Price's account matched what Britney's family had recounted from their

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conversation with them. He talked about a green truck, an

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ugly one from the early two thousands, a toolbox and

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stickers on the rear window.

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Speaker 11: It looked decently dirty, but just like about as much as.

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Speaker 1: That the truck is right there, a typical truck.

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Speaker 11: That a typical spring treat to the truck, yeah, and

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then had a silver toll box in the bed, had

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stickers on the back window, but I didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: Any of them wore with such a clear and descriptive lead.

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This case was about to move very quickly, but no

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one was less prepared for how everything would pan out

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than Brittany's mother, Alicia.

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Speaker 8: Brittany was always a very fiery, full of energy, funky

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little girl.

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Speaker 2: And she was always so full of passion right from

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the get go, you know what I mean. She was

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just this.

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Speaker 8: Little ball of fire, light and just fun, you know,

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a very good girl. She was born in Colorado Springs

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and we lived there for a while, and then we

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made the move over here to Elko because her dad

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got hired at the gold mines over here.

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Speaker 2: She would have been eight, so we made the.

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Speaker 8: Move over here which was exciting for me at first because.

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Speaker 2: I grew up over here, I went to high school

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over here.

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Speaker 8: We went to the same I went to Spring Creek

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High School, so it was kind of exciting, and I thought, oh,

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this will be fun.

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Speaker 2: This is such a safe.

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Speaker 8: Place, and the opportunities are going to be great over

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Speaker 2: And we came over here with a lot of high hopes.

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Speaker 1: The activities Elko County had to offer. Spoke to Brittany.

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She loved being surrounded by the mountains and the desert.

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Speaker 8: She instantaneously grabbed onto the bukaroo cowboy lifestyle of this place,

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you know, and that was her lifestyle. That was her

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friend group, you know, just all a bunch of the

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kids that liked to ride horses and participate in rodeo.

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And you know, Brittany was a real deal cowgirl on

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the ranch. And there was no trophies, there was no judges,

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but there was you know what I mean. She was

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a little bit more. She wasn't an arena cowgirl. Was

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just put it that way.

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Speaker 1: Brittany had a big personality, but deep down she was

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steady and determined. She had plans for her future and

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worked hard to make them happen, surprising people with how

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driven she could be. But public school wasn't easy for

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her because she had severe dyslexia and some issues with bullying.

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Brittany's parents decided to pull her out just before her

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junior year and.

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Speaker 8: Homeschooler, and she was thriving. She was on track to

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graduate early. The Navy recruiters had definitely got to her,

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which I was not winning that argument with her because

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she was full steam ready to go. But I'm telling you,

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she was so strong, you know what I mean, and

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like she would come and do more pull ups than

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the recruiter and he was just like oly cow kid,

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you know.

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Speaker 2: So she was on track. She was going to graduate

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a year early. She was going to join the Navy,

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and you know she.

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Speaker 1: Was doing it despite the hurdles. Brittany wasn't one to

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give up. Staying on track to graduate early while dealing

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with severe dyslexia is no small feat.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we were handling it really well.

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Speaker 8: We were adapting to the situation. Things were going good,

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and then that day happened.

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Speaker 2: You know, I just blew everything up. We were a

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very normal whatever you want called normal.

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Speaker 8: We're a very average family, you know what I mean,

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And then to have something like this come and happen

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is just unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Everyone depended on Bryce to recall every detail of that day.

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From Alicia's perspective, if Brittany had been abducted and was

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taken out of state, his description of the man and

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vehicle could be their only shot at finding her.

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Speaker 3: So I got a.

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Speaker 12: Little bit of the story as to what your involvement was,

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but I'm not clear on a lot of things, and

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I'm just trying to do the best job that i

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can do.

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Speaker 6: So so hopefully you ask you a question that you

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would like perfect.

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Speaker 12: Man, Thank you very much. Now, what was kind of

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the nature of that conversation? What's your relationship with her?

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Speaker 13: Brittany has been one of my closest friends since probably

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my seventh or eighth grade year.

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Speaker 12: Oh, because you known each other for a well yeah, okay, okay,

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And that.

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Speaker 13: Was one of the issues we had with the previously,

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is I think we're going over because there a phone

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in her name and my phone is little siss because

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she's called.

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Speaker 6: Me a big brother since freshman year.

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Speaker 13: And then he kept asking me, well, if she's your

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little assist, why didn't you know her better?

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Speaker 6: Because there was questions of that I.

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Speaker 2: Didn't know the answer to.

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Speaker 1: We won't make you sit through the whole story again.

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But Bryce rec picking up Brittany at Angel Park. They

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drove around for a while, and he details her routes

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and stops for detectives. He says his dad called telling

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him to come home. Brittany was on the phone in

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the passenger seat before asking Bryce to drop her off

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at the high school to meet a friend. She gave

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him a hug, walked towards the green truck, and Bryce

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drove away.

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Speaker 6: And right before I got out.

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Speaker 13: And looked back over and I just saw her over

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at the f one fifty with someone that was it.

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Speaker 6: Could you see the type of clothing or anything on?

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And nothing specific that I could just and was it

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a white head? Black head?

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Speaker 13: It didn't look light, so I didn't don't think it

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was a straw happen.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they do make black straw hats like that.

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Speaker 1: So by this point, Bryce and some of Brittany's other

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friends had been out searching for one of the officers

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actually crossed path with a vehicle of kids as they

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drove around scouring the town and surrounding desert. Bryce was

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the only one who knew what this guy looked like,

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though the line of sight he had from the gas

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station across the street gave him a vague picture of

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who was now known as the mysterious cowboy in the

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green truck.

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Speaker 12: Was there any conversation when you picked I'm sure there

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was conversation, But was there any conversation that kind of

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sticks out in your mind? When you picked her up?

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Speaker 13: I had a ton of conversations. There was a few

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because the coups had previously asked me if she was

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said anything about going anywhere. Besides she said that she

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was planning and going to Texas after the summer with

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her friend.

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Speaker 12: You keep in contact with her pretty regularly even though

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she wasn't at school, or is it just kind of.

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Speaker 8: Kind of.

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Speaker 6: Talk to her a couple couple of times a week?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 12: Now, then the reason I'm asking, man, is, did she

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say anything about anyone that she was having problems with,

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or any people that she was interested in or anything

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like that.

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Speaker 13: We all knew she was talking with some guy that

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we think was in New York, but I mean she'd

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be talking to him for a while. Okay, says that

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my Kaid told everyone knows a lot of people had

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problems with Brittany, but nothing that we would see this outcome.

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Speaker 12: Sure sure will openly be okay.

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Speaker 1: It sounded like Brittany might have been talking to a

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stranger online, one that she may have actually met up with. Luckily,

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Spring Creek High School was right in town, and though

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there were no security cameras on the building itself, there

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were numerous businesses with a view of the parking lot.

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Surely one of them had some helpful footage. Brittany's friends

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and family tried not to lose hope, but the signs

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weren't looking good. To make matters worse, her phone had

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been inactive this entire time.

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Speaker 8: And it's interesting that that's when me and Jimple are alarmed.

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I started going off and we were starting to you know,

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and for Brittany, her phone was never off. She was

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a little social media junkie if.

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Speaker 2: You well, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 8: It was all about snapchat selfy. So it just got really,

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really really scary that her phone, you know, kept going off.

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And then added into the fact that Dicky had told

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my son, well, I dropped her off with somebody you

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know what I mean. So my brain is going, holy shit,

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somebody grabbed my daughter, you know what I mean, and

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they are they trafficked her? There what something?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. That's the thought that went

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through my head.

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Speaker 8: And because I was like, I don't I don't care

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if she didn't run away, If putting her as a

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runaway puts her in the system.

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Speaker 2: Fine she ran away.

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Speaker 8: Just get her in the system. Something is wrong, you know,

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something is wrong.

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Speaker 1: A parent's intuition is very real. It was just after

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five pm on March eighth, the day Brittany disappeared, when

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her phone pinged off a cell phone tower for the

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last time. Investigators chose to keep this crucial information to themselves,

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with holding it not just from the public, but even

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from Brittany's parents. This final ping gave detectives a defined

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area to search. Then, on March eleventh, two days after

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Brittany was officially reported missing, they found something. When sixteen

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year old Brittany Yuliki went missing, Spring Creek, Nevada, was

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suddenly a town full of questions. Her parents, Alicia and Jim,

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were desperate for answers, and as words spread, the search

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for Brittany pulled in nearly everyone in the town. She

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was tough, outspoken, and more at home on horseback than

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anywhere else. But on March eighth, twenty twenty, she wasn't

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on the ranch. She was in town, spending the afternoon

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with a friend, Bryce Dickie. According to Bryce, he dropped

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her off at Spring Creek High School so she could

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meet someone. A cowboy in a green four f one

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fifty pretty generic description if you ask me. Then again,

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I live in Texas, So there's that. That was the

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last time anyone saw. Three days later, at one fifty

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in the afternoon, two men called nine one they had

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found what they thought might be a body near Berner Basin,

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a remote stretch of land between Elco and Spring Creek.

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Speaker 6: It looks like.

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Speaker 5: Looks like estavity in the dark.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's.

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Speaker 3: Our drag mark there.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, I stopped right here.

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Speaker 1: He barked right there where he's at.

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Speaker 14: I stopped and I backed up right there.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know, guys, do the tire prance and

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all that or if that's all?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, shoot, we'll get a statement from you guys

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here in a second.

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Speaker 3: So all.

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Speaker 6: I we'll find out that, but.

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Speaker 10: First glance doesn't look good. Drag mark right there.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh.

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Speaker 5: See, yeah, that's up.

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Speaker 10: Well that's the ten ninety two.

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Speaker 1: That's a body.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, let's get out.

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Speaker 6: Yep. I'd like to see enough right now.

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Speaker 10: It looks like a girl's handless back out.

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Speaker 1: Nobody needed autopsy results to know who this was. Brittany's

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partially clothed body was found lying in the desert sand

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and brush. Someone had tried to cover her up with

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a tarp, but they didn't do a very good job.

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There was blood evidence and even drag marks leading from

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the roadway to her final resting place. Police collected a

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condom wrapper, a used condom, a pair of air pods,

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and a lanyard of keys with the name Brittany on it.

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Just like the information about the phone ping. Detectives decided

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to keep these discoveries to themselves, aside from Brittany's family.

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After all, their interview process was far from over.

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Speaker 8: But I got a call that on Wednesday that you know,

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I needed to go down from my interview. You know,

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they were going to dump my phone. You know, it's

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a full on forensic interview at this point. Apparently too,

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because that's when I got that scam phone call about

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we've got your daughter, We've kidnapped her. She's not doing

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well from the drugs that we used, and she's going

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to die. And if you don't send me twenty five

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hundred dollars, I'm in a feeder to my dogs.

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Speaker 1: What kind of sick person messes with the mind of

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a grieving parent like that. I mean, Jesus Christ, is

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the Internet toxic? Some of you people need to just

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be put down.

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Speaker 8: I think it's because I had put the missing poster

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out on some of these social media groups that I

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had that I knew would be more far reaching than

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the posters I just had here. And I'll go because,

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like I said, I figured somebody had grabbed her, was

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on the road with her. Somebody got ahold of the

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poster and got my number.

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Speaker 9: YEP.

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Speaker 8: And it was awful because as these messages are coming in,

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part of you is telling yourself, this is completely illogical,

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you know, I mean, this isn't But the other part

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of you is just panicking, going you know. So I

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remember the detective Steake and and I want to say

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FBI agent was at my house that night trying to

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tap into this number or whatever. And the next morning,

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when I was in there waiting for my interview to start,

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they started texting again, saying, I told you you know

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that whatever, we're going to kill her now. And I'm

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just panicking in the waiting room, and so they said, well,

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we're going to take your phone anyway.

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Speaker 2: You know, they were going to do what they do

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with the phones anyway.

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Speaker 8: Then I went into the interview room and yeah, that's

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00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,200
when he was just asking tons of questions.

479
00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: And then he got up to leave, and he had.

480
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,599
Speaker 8: Been gone for way too long, and I was I

481
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,480
remember sitting there thinking to myself, God, I do not

482
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,720
have time for this police interviewed tactic shit where you're

483
00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:13,839
trying to leave me in here to make me nervous. Dude,

484
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,200
I need to get out there at buying my kid.

485
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,079
Could you hurry this along? I remember thinking that. And

486
00:29:20,119 --> 00:29:23,319
then that's when he came back in and had told me, Hey,

487
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,519
I got to talk to you, you know what I mean.

488
00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:28,799
And he told me that they found a body. He

489
00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:31,440
didn't even say my daughter's body. He just said we

490
00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:34,599
found a body. And that's the last thing I remember.

491
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:40,519
To be honest, I didn't remember anything about that until

492
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,960
I watched the footage that they had of that, because

493
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,640
I just I do remember going to the ground, and

494
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,480
then the next thing I remember, I was sitting in

495
00:29:51,519 --> 00:29:54,880
the parking lot outside of the sheriff station on the ground,

496
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,000
and I just remember just sirens and cop cars just

497
00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:01,759
flying past me on both sides, and then Buyer Department

498
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,000
running up to me and putting me in an ambulance,

499
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,799
and I was telling no, no, no.

500
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: No, no, I gotta go, I gotta go. I gotta

501
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,160
go find my son.

502
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 8: And they tapped the blood pressure being and they says, no.

503
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 2: No, honey, you're trying to have a stroke on me.

504
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 8: And they hit something in my arm and I woke

505
00:30:20,519 --> 00:30:21,920
up seven hours later.

506
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: When the tarp was removed, it was clear that what

507
00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:31,559
Brittany had gone through was horrendous. She was face down

508
00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:34,759
in the dirt, with her hair splayed around her head

509
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:38,640
in all directions. Her pants and underwear had been pulled

510
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:44,319
to her ankles, and her sweatshirt was pushed above her chest.

511
00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:48,480
An autopsy revealed ligature marks around her neck and a

512
00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:51,720
fatal stab wound in the center of her neck, just

513
00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:56,160
above her collarbone. By this point, footage of the high

514
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,640
school parking lot was in and had been scrubbed for evidence,

515
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,200
and one clip showed a dark colored truck with a

516
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,880
silver toolbox in it. Detectives printed out photos of all

517
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,720
the vehicles that even loosely fit Bryce's description and line

518
00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:15,920
them up in front of them. Then, sitting in the

519
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,839
same interview chair that Alicia was interviewed in, Bryce took

520
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,559
them back through the whole story once again.

521
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,799
Speaker 14: So you're with Brittany on the eve, just talking through

522
00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:29,920
that from the beginning to the end.

523
00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 3: Probably around eleven or so, started texting and she says

524
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,960
she was in town Fordud's band practice and then.

525
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 6: Asked upon to hang out. So got ready bent the

526
00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:53,759
town around one and then.

527
00:31:55,519 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 3: On the right over the fifth Street bridge, turned on

528
00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,640
the silver and called her.

529
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:01,599
Speaker 6: She wanted me to pick her up at Angel Park,

530
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,720
so she said she was.

531
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 3: Going to walk down, So I called her, got to

532
00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:11,839
Angel Park, picked her up, and then drove around town

533
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,839
because we had no idea what we were wanting to do,

534
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,359
and then my dad six and asking if I would

535
00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:20,720
come home, So I asked her.

536
00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:23,039
Speaker 6: She wanted me to drop her back off at the

537
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:27,319
Angel Park or take her herd at band practice. And

538
00:32:27,359 --> 00:32:32,000
then she got on her phone for a minute or so, and.

539
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,279
Speaker 3: Then just as I could drop her off at the

540
00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:38,960
high school, and then pulled into the high school.

541
00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:43,599
Speaker 6: And that's when I actually drove right past that. I

542
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,880
find didn't realize that's why I was dropping her office.

543
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,279
Speaker 1: Bryce had not mentioned this part before.

544
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 3: So pulled in front of high school, I gave her

545
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,319
a hud, dropped her off, and I was.

546
00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 6: Already pulling back off. You when she's welcome back over

547
00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:03,960
there from fifty and then right about here, that is

548
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,680
when you look back here and you saw Brittany standing

549
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,160
over here and he said he was outside too.

550
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:16,759
Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, and this is about where the truck was, Yeah, correctly.

551
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 6: And what time did you say this was about that you.

552
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 3: Dropped about I think it was for thirty thinks. I

553
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,960
literally just looked in my very mirror when I got there,

554
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,640
and I just saw him and bringing outside the truck.

555
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:40,279
Speaker 15: Okay, So when you saw both of them stand next

556
00:33:40,319 --> 00:33:43,920
to the truck, did you see the truck too or yeah?

557
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:44,319
Speaker 6: I could.

558
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 3: I could see the truck, but also my mirrors on

559
00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:51,920
my Chevy er pretty worn, so it's not the best

560
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:52,359
of the use.

561
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,039
Speaker 6: If I recall you said something about your dad had

562
00:33:58,039 --> 00:34:00,960
called or something. Yeah, he texted me. Okay, so he

563
00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:08,400
texted you and that was to do that car or something. Yeah, okay,

564
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,360
So what what happened after that? I just went straight

565
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,039
back home. And then.

566
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 3: That's why I had timeline after that for me, like

567
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,599
starting to help coping, because the.

568
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:28,119
Speaker 6: Questioned me after I left the high school. I think

569
00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:30,159
I got on my phone for once.

570
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:35,159
Speaker 3: In I was just at my dad's for about an

571
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,920
hour and a half, I think, and then went over

572
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:38,760
to my mom's house.

573
00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 6: My parents are spit.

574
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: Even though everyone else had been through the same rigorous

575
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,159
interview process, being asked to retell his story so many

576
00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:51,519
times made Bryce feel like he was in the hot seat.

577
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,119
In a Snapchat message thread with a mutual friend of

578
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:59,360
his and Brittany's, he shared his fears. Remember, at this point,

579
00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:03,559
nobody but her family knew that Britney's body had been found.

580
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,480
I just got interrogated for what the Britney shit? What

581
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:15,199
they ask you literally everything, like every goddamn inch of

582
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:15,679
that day.

583
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 9: Damn, you're not in trouble though, are you not?

584
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,079
Speaker 1: Right now? But he was really digging like I did

585
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:27,199
something to her. It was a legit interrogation had me

586
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,519
freaked out.

587
00:35:28,679 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 9: Dude, you and her are like dumb and dumber. There's

588
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:31,960
no way you would ever hurt her.

589
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, he saw that her name in my phone was

590
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:39,119
little Sis, and he kept questioning me about it, and

591
00:35:39,199 --> 00:35:41,559
it seemed like he was making it sound like I

592
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:44,719
wasn't close to her and that it was suspicious.

593
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:47,199
Speaker 9: Did you have an alibi for after you got home?

594
00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:50,679
Speaker 1: Sort of? But I don't even remember what time I

595
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,559
got home. I wasn't on my phone at all.

596
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:54,639
Speaker 9: Do you think she would run away?

597
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: Honestly? No, but I don't know. I'm at a loss

598
00:35:58,920 --> 00:35:59,320
right now.

599
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 9: We all kind of are. Nothing seems to make sense

600
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,679
at all. My mom's friend is a sheriff, and she's

601
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,679
asked him if he thinks that when she gets found,

602
00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:09,280
if she'll be found alive, and he said yes, I

603
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,159
believe very much.

604
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: So well, that's relieving.

605
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,079
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't think she's dead somewhere. Either someone's holding

606
00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:19,000
her somewhere or she really just up and left. I'm

607
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,639
sure she'll turn up. It'll just take time, I sure hope.

608
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 2: So he probably came into the picture where I can

609
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,519
really remember it, probably about eighth ninth grade.

610
00:36:31,519 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 8: He had been in my house multiple times, and I

611
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,079
remember my first impression, which I don't think now, but

612
00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:40,800
as I used to just think, Oh, look at what

613
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,239
a shy little kid he is, because he just kind

614
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:47,239
of look at his feet. He'd never really look up.

615
00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 9: You know.

616
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 2: It's not so different with some of these little cowboy kids.

617
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 8: You know, a little shy cowboy guy kicking his boots

618
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,000
looking down, you know.

619
00:36:55,039 --> 00:36:56,639
Speaker 2: And that's kind of what I thought it was.

620
00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 8: He always had her home when she was supposed to

621
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,199
be home, Like there was there was a weird pattern

622
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,800
of trusts, I guess, because so many times he would

623
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,719
be he would make sure that she was home exactly

624
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,159
when they said they were going to be home, and

625
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,599
you know what I mean, So there was a there

626
00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:17,719
was a trust there. Brittany was not a boy crazy

627
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,519
girl in any way, shape or form.

628
00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:21,199
Speaker 2: She just didn't have time for that. Yet.

629
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,519
Speaker 8: I'm not saying that wouldn't have come. But again, there

630
00:37:24,559 --> 00:37:28,440
was nothing special about Dickie. She was just a sweet

631
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,039
soul and she would do things for people that like,

632
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,960
he couldn't even be in the main building at school.

633
00:37:35,039 --> 00:37:37,559
He had to be in the trailers because you know

634
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:37,880
what I.

635
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 2: Mean, he couldn't get to school.

636
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,039
Speaker 8: He was having all these troubles, so he was all

637
00:37:41,079 --> 00:37:43,119
on his own, isolated out in these.

638
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 2: Trailers to go to school. And Britney would feel bad

639
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,239
about it, and she'd be like, oh man, Mom, can

640
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,039
you get me a blue gatorade.

641
00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:51,599
Speaker 8: And some and a pizza so I could take it

642
00:37:51,639 --> 00:37:53,360
to him so that he can have a good day,

643
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,039
you know what I mean. But that was just Britney.

644
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: Behind the scenes. While keeping Britney's death, the findings of

645
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,639
the surveillance footage and other key pieces of evidence secret police,

646
00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:08,360
we're also using snapchat, of all things to paint a

647
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,239
picture of Britney's final moments. Geolocation data showed both Brittany

648
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,920
and Bryce at the Berner Basin Spot, a location off

649
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:22,480
of Boyd Kennedy Road, at around four thirty pm. Bryce

650
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,400
had not mentioned this trip during any of his interviews.

651
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,760
Soon enough, the discovery of Britney's body was publicized, and

652
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,639
her friends and family set with the reality that she

653
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:36,559
was gone forever.

654
00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 9: I can't believe this. I don't know what to think

655
00:38:41,039 --> 00:38:43,960
or say or do. I'm so sorry, Bryce.

656
00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: I just found out. I love you. If you need anything,

657
00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:51,719
text me, I'm so sorry this happened. I have a

658
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,079
lot of regrets that I can't take back, and that's

659
00:38:54,119 --> 00:38:56,920
on me. But I hope you guys don't blame me.

660
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,039
If so, then you have the right to. But thank

661
00:39:01,079 --> 00:39:03,599
you for being here for me. It means the world.

662
00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 9: Bryce. We definitely do not blame you one bit. None

663
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,840
of this is your fault, none of it. The only

664
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,079
one who is at fault is whoever did this to her.

665
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,360
We love you too, Bud. Keep your head up. We're

666
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,639
here for you no matter what. If you need anything,

667
00:39:18,639 --> 00:39:20,960
you know how to get a hold of us. Stay strong.

668
00:39:21,039 --> 00:39:22,039
They'll find who did this.

669
00:39:23,079 --> 00:39:26,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not letting my girl go anywhere alone. I'm

670
00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:28,639
having her friend at work walk her to her truck

671
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:31,920
at night because I trust him. On Facebook, where the

672
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:37,440
Cattle Run Free, Bryce posted this yesterday, we all received

673
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,440
news that made us hit the floor. At around eight

674
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:44,280
in the morning, we all started meeting up at my

675
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,320
house to grieve and mourn Brittany's life, which was taken

676
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,679
far too soon. That day, I had tears of pain

677
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,760
and joy. I wish she could have seen the amount

678
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,840
of us that came together to honor you.

679
00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,559
Speaker 9: Sis.

680
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: We love you so much. Just know you won't ever

681
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:04,440
be forgotten.

682
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,599
Speaker 8: Me and Jim had actually we took the dress and

683
00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:11,639
the boots down to the funeral home that she was

684
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,760
going to be cremated in, and we had just dropped

685
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,480
him off, and we were driving home and Nick called

686
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,320
me and he said, Alicia, there will be an arrest

687
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,360
within the next three hours.

688
00:40:25,639 --> 00:40:29,079
Speaker 2: He goes, whatever time it was right, and he goes.

689
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 8: Can you meet me at the station in such and

690
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:32,400
such time?

691
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 2: And still didn't tell me anything. Still did not tell

692
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:38,719
me anything.

693
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 8: I had no idea he had been arrested until I

694
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:43,039
got down there.

695
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,559
Speaker 2: To the station that day. I had no idea that

696
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:47,400
he had arrested him.

697
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:52,679
Speaker 1: No, one did not yet Anyway, She was mourning, trying

698
00:40:52,679 --> 00:40:55,679
to hold on to what little she had left of

699
00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:59,519
her daughter. But as they drove toward the police station,

700
00:40:59,679 --> 00:41:04,519
drawing closer to that cramped interview room, Bryce Dickey was

701
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:09,920
losing his grip. Every lie he told was turning against him,

702
00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:13,480
suffocating him. He tried to hold the story together, but

703
00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:18,199
much like the rest of his life, it was already

704
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:59,280
starting to fall apart. Eighteen year old Bryce Dickie had

705
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:04,440
spent days weaving a story, a good one, too. He

706
00:42:04,519 --> 00:42:10,599
lied effortlessly, which is amazing on those interviews, convincing Britney's

707
00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:13,159
friends and family that he was just as desperate to

708
00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:18,480
find her as they were. But behind closed doors, detectives

709
00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:21,840
weren't buying it, and they had this feeling since the

710
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,880
very beginning. Snapchat geelocation data had placed him near Berner Basin,

711
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,159
the place where Britney's body was found. At the time,

712
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:34,320
he claimed he had already dropped her off with a

713
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:40,119
cowboy in a green truck. Surveillance footage contradicted his timeline,

714
00:42:40,119 --> 00:42:47,079
and one by one, his lies collapsed. After hours in

715
00:42:47,119 --> 00:42:50,159
the interrogation room, his explanations were no longer cutting it.

716
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,960
He wasn't dealing with the alkopd anymore either. He had

717
00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:58,679
entered into the big leagues and now Bryce Dickey had

718
00:42:58,719 --> 00:42:59,960
nowhere to run.

719
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,159
Speaker 6: If you could say something that Britany, what would you say?

720
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,719
I love you? Maybe the first thing I would saying

721
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,440
about the second, I'm sorry because myself for this, even

722
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:16,360
though what we're.

723
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 3: Playing myself, I mean, I know that I didn't know

724
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,519
what was going to happen, but I am.

725
00:43:23,199 --> 00:43:28,039
Speaker 6: I'm the last one that even sorr before she's dead.

726
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:33,119
Speaker 16: No, just out of curiosity and promise won't tell your girlfriend.

727
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 3: Had you ever been time? I got that question the

728
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,800
last two times. Brittany and I have never been an

729
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,199
intimate anyway.

730
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 6: I mean, like a lot of people get.

731
00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 3: Their wrong attentions because I mean do with all my friends,

732
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,880
but like calling females.

733
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,519
Speaker 6: My female friends love and stuff like that.

734
00:43:53,559 --> 00:43:56,599
Speaker 3: But that's just kind of the way I was raised

735
00:43:56,639 --> 00:43:59,320
in a sense, the grammar wise, But Brittany and I

736
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,239
have and I have never had relationship or had been intimate.

737
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,360
And that's why my girlfriend was comfortable with her.

738
00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:10,519
Speaker 6: Has never started with me or anything like that.

739
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 3: Did you really want to be No? Never, I never

740
00:44:17,159 --> 00:44:19,960
had that honorge or anything.

741
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 6: I literally saw Brittany as my little sister.

742
00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: Then they confronted Bryce with the discrepancies between his statements

743
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:32,480
and what surveillance footage revealed. An image is worth a

744
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:37,400
thousand words and possibly a conviction or two. He had

745
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,239
repeatedly told investigators that he picked Brittany up at Angel

746
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,480
Park at one thirty PM, but the cameras told a

747
00:44:44,519 --> 00:44:47,920
different story, showing her getting into his truck two hours

748
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,840
later at around three point thirty pm. Not only that,

749
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,920
but surveillance footage showed that Bryce's truck with Brittany still inside,

750
00:44:57,599 --> 00:44:59,840
never stopped at the high school parking lot, where he

751
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,039
aimed she got out and got into that green F

752
00:45:03,079 --> 00:45:07,239
one fifty. Instead, the truck drove right past the school

753
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,039
and continued down BOYD Kennedy Road. What was that at

754
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:16,719
the end of that road? You might wonder, well, Berner Basin, wonder.

755
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 16: If I told you we had surveillance British that a

756
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:25,440
period of truck kept going out for Kenny Road.

757
00:45:25,519 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, here's the thing. If you're sitting here talking,

758
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,400
I just want to clear this up.

759
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 17: Okay, I just.

760
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 4: Want to clear everything up and get.

761
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:43,679
Speaker 16: Your explanation for this, okay, because you seem like you say,

762
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,039
we didn't sitting here chatting and stuff like that, okay,

763
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,039
And I just want to kind of help you through

764
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:56,079
this so that way we can kind of explain myself, okay. Okay,

765
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,360
So with these you could kind of see from my

766
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,119
perspective when I'm living at this what that looks like.

767
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I can see. I'm I can't remember.

768
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:16,199
Speaker 3: I got startled after the the third cop I talked

769
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:17,960
to them that called me down to the high school

770
00:46:18,039 --> 00:46:23,199
because called me a liar about three times and.

771
00:46:24,079 --> 00:46:32,559
Speaker 6: Kept asking me if I killed Britney. So okay, and

772
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,280
it honestly startled the ship animal and I don't want

773
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,440
to I know, I mean, only been eighteen for a

774
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,400
little bit now, but I know I'm eighteen now, so even.

775
00:46:44,039 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 3: Changing a little bit on the story isn't a big thing.

776
00:46:48,599 --> 00:46:51,679
Speaker 15: Well, it is good, okay, That's why I'm trying to

777
00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:52,239
sort through it.

778
00:46:52,760 --> 00:47:00,280
Speaker 6: Okay. So when he talked to me, I went down

779
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:06,400
Boyd a little bit but not far, and then I

780
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:06,800
took that.

781
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:13,119
Speaker 3: First left off of the Boyd Kennedy which goes straight

782
00:47:13,159 --> 00:47:16,679
back to the right to the bottom of the trailer session,

783
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:23,119
and then I went back to the high school being

784
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,639
that boy kind of you at the same time, which

785
00:47:26,679 --> 00:47:33,000
wouldn't miss it worried me because I didn't want I

786
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,920
I lied because I was scared of people think he is,

787
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:43,360
which a lot of problems understanding person, yeah, which honestly

788
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:50,800
scares me. But I see that there's issues with me, honest.

789
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 2: And let everything out.

790
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: Bryce looks uncomfortable at this point. He's picking at his

791
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,639
fingernails and looking down at his feet. If we couldn't

792
00:48:00,639 --> 00:48:04,360
see that he's sitting inside of an interrogation room. You'd

793
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,280
almost think he's one of those shy cowboy types.

794
00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:11,559
Speaker 6: I kind of have, like a said, little thing of

795
00:48:11,679 --> 00:48:14,079
loops that I do when I get more dragon on

796
00:48:14,079 --> 00:48:18,079
the screen creak so and that's one of the ones

797
00:48:18,119 --> 00:48:19,800
that I do a lot of.

798
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 3: And but being so close to him, being on what

799
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,719
Kennedy and this is, people were saying that's where she

800
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:27,360
went missing.

801
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 6: I kind of got scared. I have one other constauant.

802
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, And like I said, I'm just trying to

803
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:44,679
figure out what's going on, and I just want Okay,

804
00:48:45,519 --> 00:48:46,880
you located.

805
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,199
Speaker 17: Some items or item.

806
00:48:50,679 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 6: Okay, do you have any idea what that item might

807
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,000
be left? Okay? What if I told you to have

808
00:48:56,119 --> 00:48:57,039
both yours and.

809
00:48:57,159 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 18: Britney's DNA a decade?

810
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: I don't have any idea.

811
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 4: Now it's the time to be the truthful.

812
00:49:06,679 --> 00:49:09,559
Speaker 3: I'm being a hundred percent sir. I don't know what

813
00:49:09,599 --> 00:49:11,000
you're referring to.

814
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,599
Speaker 18: And you told me before that you and Brittany had

815
00:49:13,639 --> 00:49:15,719
never been intimate in a sexual way.

816
00:49:16,519 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 6: Okay, what if I said I had evidence, it shows

817
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,840
that that might not be accurate either. I'm not lying.

818
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:30,119
Speaker 3: I've never kissed, I've never had sex with Brittain, I says, hugging,

819
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:34,760
and that's I've never had sex or any intimate.

820
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 6: Relationship with Brittany. Okay. Have you ever watched TV and

821
00:49:40,079 --> 00:49:44,320
seen DNA comparisons? I mean, I've watch your term shows,

822
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,760
but I haven't really paid attention to it.

823
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,639
Speaker 14: So you gave a DNA sample a way, Yes, we

824
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:57,280
found a condom, all right, and we found Brittany, and

825
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:01,599
we have Brittay's DNA we have already.

826
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:06,639
Speaker 3: It can be it is I I've never had sex

827
00:50:06,679 --> 00:50:07,159
with Brittany.

828
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:11,119
Speaker 6: I swear I've never had sex with Brittany. Okay. So

829
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:13,760
then explained to me, I don't I don't know.

830
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,039
Speaker 3: I'm freaking out right now because I've never had sex

831
00:50:17,119 --> 00:50:17,639
with Brittany.

832
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 6: Okay.

833
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 14: I've never had sense to me how I condom as

834
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,320
your DNA and side on the outside.

835
00:50:26,119 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: There could be no other explanation for something like that.

836
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 2: I'm going to say, the evil that he is, I

837
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:32,880
think he thought about it for a while.

838
00:50:33,599 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 8: I think that's why they got him on premeditated too,

839
00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:41,519
because I think that I absolutely think he thought about it.

840
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,480
I had heard some weird stories about his journals. I

841
00:50:45,519 --> 00:50:50,360
never continued to like ask or push for them. But

842
00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:54,599
now I think he's a sick six son of a bitch,

843
00:50:54,639 --> 00:50:57,000
and I think he sat and probably thought about it

844
00:50:57,039 --> 00:50:58,599
and fantasized about it a lot.

845
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,079
Speaker 1: I want to hear one of these sick puppies poems.

846
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,000
Of course you do, because you're also sick puppy, and

847
00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:10,920
that's probably why you're here. This lovely passage is called

848
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:17,760
the sick truth. Okay, so you ready, There we go.

849
00:51:19,039 --> 00:51:23,320
I'm laying in the dark of night. My mind is fighting,

850
00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:28,440
turning my thoughts into a game like Russian Roulette, slowly

851
00:51:28,519 --> 00:51:32,320
pulling its trigger, trigger, trigger, waiting for the moment the

852
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,360
fight will end. I hate the way I feel tonight.

853
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:40,239
I open my eyes, yet nothing changes. I hear him

854
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:45,199
screaming in my dreams, that dream in my head. But wait,

855
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,440
I'm awake. It's me, it's me, it's me, I am screaming.

856
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,760
The gun didn't kill me, It only stirred the pot.

857
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,480
Now the demons have awoken. They will no longer lurk

858
00:51:58,519 --> 00:52:01,400
in the dark. They crawl out of my dream and

859
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:06,400
into day, a predator hunting my actions. I turned my

860
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:10,519
cheek to pretend it's not there. He's waiting for me.

861
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:15,559
To slip. My weakness feeds the beast, for each step

862
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:22,119
I take is filled with fear. Help me, please, I'm begging.

863
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,920
I know you can't hear me screaming. I can't startle

864
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:31,400
the demons, but I'm leaving you a trail of breadcrumbs.

865
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,440
You won't see it, though, will you. I'll have to

866
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:40,119
fight this day by my own persistence. My silence is

867
00:52:40,159 --> 00:52:45,360
not a phase. It's me hiding. Thank you for teaching

868
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:50,480
me what it's like to feel, to have nights screaming

869
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:55,000
like I'm dying, learning how to put a mask over

870
00:52:55,079 --> 00:53:00,400
my drained body. Without you, I wouldn't no pain. But

871
00:53:01,079 --> 00:53:05,000
while everyone's moving on, I still hold my sights on

872
00:53:05,079 --> 00:53:09,039
the back of your skull. Goal go slowly squeezing the trigger,

873
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,760
waiting for the moment the pain will unfold. They will

874
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,199
not understand why I pulled it. I was not an

875
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:23,440
action of easy consequence. In the end, your breath was

876
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,079
far too much to take. I hope it was worth it,

877
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:33,559
because now we shall both be on our sentence to hell.

878
00:53:33,679 --> 00:53:35,559
And some of you call me edgy.

879
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 8: The closest thing that we could compare him to is Dahmer.

880
00:53:43,159 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 2: He's that sick he's that twisted. He's a necrophiliac. He's

881
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,840
a control freak, you know. Okay, so maybe he liked girls.

882
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 8: But the level of disgusted twistedness is Jeffrey Dahmer level

883
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:02,679
with dot kid. Well, you know, I know as our mother,

884
00:54:03,559 --> 00:54:07,679
you know, I think backwards in time, and when she

885
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,159
would see things on TV, she would tell me, I

886
00:54:10,199 --> 00:54:11,880
just want you to know that if anybody tries to

887
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:13,920
rape me, they will kill me because they'll never rate me.

888
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:22,519
And he absolutely desecrated her dead body, which blows the

889
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:24,159
defense's theory out of the water.

890
00:54:24,199 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 2: And I think that I think.

891
00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 8: Actually that's what happened because the defense was running with

892
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:31,480
this theory. Well there was no tearing or there was

893
00:54:31,519 --> 00:54:36,840
no you know, the normal signs of rape and are

894
00:54:37,039 --> 00:54:42,639
phenomenal DA because he's amazing. I think he stood up

895
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:45,239
and he asked one question and he goes.

896
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 2: My question is if the you know, the person is

897
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,960
decease when those kinds of things happen. She's like, nope,

898
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:51,719
absolutely not.

899
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 8: So absolutely I will peg him to the world as

900
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:56,320
a necrophiliac.

901
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,079
Speaker 6: Answer a question, I going to get a confession.

902
00:55:02,199 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 15: I'm trying to figure out how your DNA gone on

903
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,159
a condom on the inside that has her DNA on

904
00:55:08,199 --> 00:55:08,800
the inside.

905
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 4: I need to figure out what.

906
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 6: Happened with that condom.

907
00:55:11,159 --> 00:55:14,199
Speaker 4: Our job is to work. Is hard to prove innocence

908
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,079
as it is good if you need to do this.

909
00:55:19,559 --> 00:55:20,880
What works in the end of the earth to prove

910
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,840
that you needn't do this, But that requires.

911
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,119
Speaker 19: Honesty on your end, because the stuff we have indicates

912
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:30,679
hasn't been there.

913
00:55:31,559 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: Bryce ends up telling detectives that Brittany performed oral sex

914
00:55:36,079 --> 00:55:38,760
while they were in the truck and when she was done,

915
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,960
she threw the condom out the window. This was another lie,

916
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:43,440
of course.

917
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 15: When I was at the scene with Brittain, I found

918
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,559
a condom where one of our people found a condom

919
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,159
that was you know, Brittany was at. And there was

920
00:55:55,199 --> 00:55:59,320
also a common after that was on the roadway as well.

921
00:56:01,199 --> 00:56:03,639
In that commum that I told you about is much

922
00:56:03,679 --> 00:56:05,239
closer to where Brittany was found.

923
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,519
Speaker 6: And this is not where Brittany was fout.

924
00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 20: Okay, I just told you. I just want to try.

925
00:56:11,519 --> 00:56:15,320
I'm telling the truth. That is where I That's where

926
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:21,480
it happened. What happened for Brittany and my head. I

927
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,559
don't know if it's count of sex. I think it's

928
00:56:24,599 --> 00:56:25,320
a sexual acts.

929
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 3: So that is where Brittany and I had sex, and

930
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,559
then straight after I went straight to the trailer section

931
00:56:32,519 --> 00:56:35,159
and that was that was it, okay?

932
00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 14: And did you ever have any sort of intercourse or

933
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:43,159
or otherwise anywhere else with Britain?

934
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:49,079
Speaker 3: Just just the blow job that was since like two

935
00:56:49,159 --> 00:56:51,199
maybe three kisses, and that was about it.

936
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,639
Speaker 6: Honestly, there wasn't my sheep.

937
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:02,519
Speaker 3: It was almost didn't seem real in a sense because

938
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:05,119
she literally just asked if I wasn't a blow drop.

939
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:08,920
It did not quite seem real almost.

940
00:57:10,119 --> 00:57:13,079
Speaker 1: That's because it wasn't real, duh.

941
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:18,519
Speaker 6: Her testing her friend actually did happen.

942
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,119
Speaker 3: And she asked me to drop her off with somebody

943
00:57:20,159 --> 00:57:27,840
I don't know who it was, and he actually had

944
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:35,920
met us on Voyd and I didn't actually meet the

945
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:41,079
guy or anything.

946
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:42,719
Speaker 6: I get through this together.

947
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 3: Everything everything mess ups on the timeline is true. That

948
00:57:56,599 --> 00:58:02,559
was the exact same track that I saw. I honestly

949
00:58:02,599 --> 00:58:05,760
couldn't tell you how the gut was that close to

950
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:06,679
Brittany's body.

951
00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:16,239
Speaker 6: I don't know how that happened, because Brittany was still

952
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:17,480
alive by the time.

953
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 3: I dropped her off on the road with whe the

954
00:58:22,519 --> 00:58:23,079
guy was.

955
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:28,719
Speaker 6: I just wasn't thinking at all and I dropped her

956
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:33,039
off and we just drew her off price. Okay, I'll

957
00:58:33,119 --> 00:58:34,719
let you look at from my perspective.

958
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 17: Okay, you've told us several different versions.

959
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 15: Okay, do you really expect me to believe that you

960
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,159
met a die after you.

961
00:58:46,119 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 6: Guys had had sex and you just dropped.

962
00:58:50,119 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 17: Britain off with him and you don't know who that was?

963
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:59,039
Speaker 6: You're you're a smart guy. I'm a smart guy. Okay,

964
00:58:59,039 --> 00:59:02,599
I have it, but I honestly don't know who is.

965
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 15: So I need you. Okay, you just think about it

966
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:13,519
from my perspective. When we started out today, I just

967
00:59:13,679 --> 00:59:17,800
I just wanted to tru okay, and then the story changed.

968
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,599
The story has changed it again, the stories.

969
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,119
Speaker 1: Even after being called out for changing his story so

970
00:59:25,239 --> 00:59:29,960
many times, Bryce was about to do it again. What

971
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:34,360
a fucking idiot. He points his guilty finger directly at

972
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:39,719
an innocent kid named Chaz Randall. Poor Chazz didn't even

973
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:40,400
know we gave it was.

974
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 6: Back in town.

975
00:59:41,119 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 3: It was the Chaz random is the one I picked

976
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,360
her up. I swear, I swear it was Jazz rand

977
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,360
That kid's kind of distinguishable.

978
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 6: So you're telling the jazz Randall that you're on the road.

979
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 19: I told you what and you've known the chance, random Brittany,

980
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,639
and you're just waiting to say something.

981
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,679
Speaker 21: Do you love yourself as a person to see who

982
01:00:08,679 --> 01:00:11,280
are alive? You expects us to believe that you might

983
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:12,880
be I was the last person to see you alive.

984
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,760
I put myself in that position, and I'm going to

985
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,880
stay here for a week and a half letting you

986
01:00:17,039 --> 01:00:18,480
what to think. I was the last one to see

987
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,760
you alive when I know who's the last person your live?

988
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:22,960
Do you think we're going to believe that you're smarter

989
01:00:23,079 --> 01:00:23,480
than that?

990
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 17: I that's okay.

991
01:00:31,079 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 6: You guys are just looking for a confession.

992
01:00:34,079 --> 01:00:35,599
Speaker 4: I'm looking for the fast matchup.

993
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 6: What facts don't match up? Right now? Okay? I think

994
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:44,000
you know I don't like it lost.

995
01:00:44,239 --> 01:00:46,239
Speaker 4: Do you think we've been doing nothing for the last week?

996
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:46,519
Speaker 2: No?

997
01:00:46,599 --> 01:00:49,639
Speaker 6: I think you guys are working to a ton of people.

998
01:00:50,159 --> 01:00:52,719
Speaker 19: Your name is kind of a lot, and the conversations

999
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,239
they've had with you, but your story is to us

1000
01:00:55,519 --> 01:00:57,079
don't And.

1001
01:00:57,159 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 6: I don't know how that is.

1002
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,239
Speaker 19: So you're what's that nice to believe that you drop

1003
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,760
her off? And her body and appear where the kind

1004
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,840
and by some strange frequency.

1005
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 6: I did not kill.

1006
01:01:11,199 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 3: Brittany, but I imagine being in my position trying to explain.

1007
01:01:19,519 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 22: This if you she ended up dead, but I realized

1008
01:01:26,239 --> 01:01:29,000
she disappeared on the eighth. You've been sitting in this

1009
01:01:29,159 --> 01:01:31,800
knowledge without saying.

1010
01:01:32,119 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 11: Because I've had the entire town of Spring Creek asking

1011
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,119
me if I've killed Brittany.

1012
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,599
Speaker 4: And you might as well have if you didn't see it,

1013
01:01:38,599 --> 01:01:39,159
I think.

1014
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 17: Okay, sorry, Yeah, So this is the story that you're

1015
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:50,599
gonna still with.

1016
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:51,239
Speaker 2: Sir.

1017
01:01:57,920 --> 01:01:58,079
Speaker 9: Fee.

1018
01:02:01,719 --> 01:02:05,639
Speaker 1: It was March nineteenth, twenty twenty eleven, days after Brittany's

1019
01:02:05,679 --> 01:02:10,039
disappearance and her killer was finally in handcuffs. The people

1020
01:02:10,039 --> 01:02:14,079
closest to Brittany had trusted Bryce. They trusted this kid.

1021
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,440
He'd been part of their lives, part of their search,

1022
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:24,320
and part of their grief. But looking back, perhaps some

1023
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:28,440
had felt it that's something just wasn't right.

1024
01:02:29,199 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 2: Jim tells me that he was instantly suspicious of him.

1025
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,039
I don't know why I wasn't. I just guess they

1026
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,320
just lived in this fantasy world, which.

1027
01:02:41,159 --> 01:02:44,159
Speaker 8: Is maybe partly why I want to do her story

1028
01:02:44,199 --> 01:02:46,719
so much. As people need to understand that you need

1029
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,559
to have a little bit of healthy dose of reality

1030
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:51,840
and fear, you know what I mean, and maybe question

1031
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,960
people more than I did, because I had I didn't

1032
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,320
think he had it in him.

1033
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,679
Speaker 1: Most people were blindsided by the arret, especially Bryce and

1034
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:07,079
Britney's mutual friends. Bryce couldn't read a snapchat messages behind bars,

1035
01:03:07,119 --> 01:03:11,440
but his phone was digging away with an onslaught of

1036
01:03:11,719 --> 01:03:17,280
verbal attacks. If words are violence, which they're not, by

1037
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:21,119
the way, then this was an outright execution.

1038
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 9: You're a serious piece of shit. We were all there

1039
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:28,639
for you, cried with you, and all you did was

1040
01:03:28,679 --> 01:03:31,559
play us all like a fucking puppet master. All I

1041
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:34,440
can say is, don't ever dare to show your face

1042
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:35,599
in this town again.

1043
01:03:37,519 --> 01:03:40,719
Speaker 2: I think I didn't. I think I didn't know what

1044
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:41,199
to say.

1045
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 8: I think I probably sat quiet for that whole night

1046
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,519
because I just couldn't.

1047
01:03:47,239 --> 01:03:48,519
Speaker 2: I just couldn't.

1048
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 8: Bathom what I had just been told, you know what

1049
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,960
I mean, Because first off, you should have seen that

1050
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,039
little girl throw a haybell. And I don't know if

1051
01:03:56,079 --> 01:03:58,559
you've picked up a haybell, but them things suck heavy.

1052
01:04:00,119 --> 01:04:02,119
Speaker 2: She could throw him, you know what I mean?

1053
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:07,559
Speaker 8: Like he probably truly had to think about how he

1054
01:04:07,679 --> 01:04:09,360
was going to come at her so that he could

1055
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:13,239
get the upper hand, because this little girl was no

1056
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:18,280
weak little girl, and Dicky was a geek that had

1057
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:21,639
get his ass kicked by anybody. I still don't understand.

1058
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:27,079
His body type is unathletic and dowe and weak. I

1059
01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:29,360
still don't understand. The only thing I can think of

1060
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:32,639
is it was she was taken by such surprise, and

1061
01:04:32,679 --> 01:04:35,559
I guarantee who came from behind, you know, because she

1062
01:04:35,639 --> 01:04:38,800
had his DNA under all ten of her fingernails. As

1063
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:42,119
you know that all ten of her fingernails had his

1064
01:04:42,239 --> 01:04:47,320
DNA under them. So she fought, but he managed to

1065
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,440
keep out. Like sometimes I wish that we could go

1066
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,719
back and make him take his shirt off in those

1067
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,199
first couple interviews with you know what I mean, because

1068
01:04:55,199 --> 01:04:56,760
I would love to have seen where she got him,

1069
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,800
because she got him, you know what I mean.

1070
01:04:58,679 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 2: She got him.

1071
01:05:00,159 --> 01:05:03,239
Speaker 1: Bryce Dickey was booked and charged with first degree murder

1072
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:07,079
and sexual assault with a deadly weapon. There was no

1073
01:05:07,199 --> 01:05:11,280
bail set. Bryce, who was almost certainly cooking up another

1074
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:16,960
story to explain away Brittany's death, pleaded not guilty. No surprise,

1075
01:05:17,079 --> 01:05:23,519
there Why would you take accountability, you fucking psychopath. At trial,

1076
01:05:23,679 --> 01:05:27,960
Bryce's mother, Cynthia, was served with a subpoena to testify

1077
01:05:28,039 --> 01:05:32,039
against her son. She shared that Bryce had been seeing

1078
01:05:32,039 --> 01:05:36,480
a counselor for bipolar disorder and depressive tendencies, but he

1079
01:05:36,599 --> 01:05:40,000
wasn't on medication. It's hard to feel sympathy for the

1080
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:44,400
killer's parents, but I mean, what else could you do.

1081
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:47,360
You're seeking treatment for your son. You're doing all the

1082
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:52,360
right things, and sometimes that's just not enough. Bryce's ex

1083
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:56,519
girlfriend also testified that he choked her during sex without

1084
01:05:56,559 --> 01:06:02,079
consent on multiple occasions. They were clues, but they were

1085
01:06:02,159 --> 01:06:06,920
scattered and probably kept private. Though it was probably uncomfortable

1086
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,039
for Bryce to sit through his former loved ones making

1087
01:06:10,079 --> 01:06:13,800
a case against his character, no one was more unhappy

1088
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:18,159
about having to endure a trial than Britney's parents. Jim

1089
01:06:18,159 --> 01:06:21,559
and Alicia sat in the courtroom every day, forced to

1090
01:06:21,599 --> 01:06:26,519
watch Bryce's parents fan the flames of romance as prosecutors

1091
01:06:26,559 --> 01:06:30,039
showed photos of their daughter's bloodied corpse.

1092
01:06:30,679 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 2: The murder of my daughter brought those two back together.

1093
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,639
It was quite disgusting to watch. They had been divorced,

1094
01:06:36,679 --> 01:06:38,519
and then when we were going through a trial.

1095
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:43,039
Speaker 8: Those two disgusting humans sat there, loving on each other

1096
01:06:43,079 --> 01:06:44,159
and cuddling.

1097
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 2: Like it was a movie gate. I wanted to rip

1098
01:06:47,519 --> 01:06:49,920
their hair out. I'm not gonna lie. Sitting in that

1099
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:51,840
courtroom for that trial was probably one of the hardest

1100
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,440
things I've ever done in my life. It had been

1101
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,920
pounded into my head so much. Don't do anything that

1102
01:06:58,039 --> 01:07:02,320
could you know what I mean? Oh I didn't, But

1103
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:03,039
I tell you what.

1104
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:07,159
Speaker 8: I had a friend though, that let her have it.

1105
01:07:07,199 --> 01:07:08,199
Speaker 2: When the verdict got read.

1106
01:07:09,079 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 8: You know, the bail up even came after my friend

1107
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,719
and was like, you need to be quiet, you know,

1108
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:15,920
But because yeah.

1109
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 2: You can't, you can't say anything. You can't have any emotion,

1110
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,320
which is really hard in a trial.

1111
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 8: Everything had happened, and I have my own questions, you know,

1112
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,239
I still have my own questions about his mother. I'm

1113
01:07:27,239 --> 01:07:29,400
not sure that anybody will ever convince me that she

1114
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:30,480
didn't help him clean up.

1115
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 2: I don't think that she knew about it. I don't

1116
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:34,559
think anything like that.

1117
01:07:34,679 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 8: But you'll never convince me that she didn't help him

1118
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,719
clean up and get rid of things.

1119
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:41,639
Speaker 2: You'll never convince.

1120
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 6: Me of that.

1121
01:07:42,679 --> 01:07:47,039
Speaker 1: The jury's verdict was a resounding guilty. Initially, he received

1122
01:07:47,079 --> 01:07:50,679
twenty years to life in prison with the possibility of parole,

1123
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:54,159
but that was before the court tacked on an additional

1124
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:58,360
fifty years for the use of deadly weapons. Bryce Dickey

1125
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:03,280
had a life sentence that he very much deserves. But

1126
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:07,039
what many people forget is the life sentence suffered by

1127
01:08:07,119 --> 01:08:11,159
the families of the murdered victims. When all the hooplah

1128
01:08:11,239 --> 01:08:15,960
goes away, you're left with the reality that your loved

1129
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,319
one is never coming back.

1130
01:08:19,119 --> 01:08:23,520
Speaker 8: That's been actually a huge journey for me because he

1131
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,479
did sentence me to a lifetime of rage and anger,

1132
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:30,319
and it is intense. And I remember a couple of

1133
01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:33,439
years ago, I just was looking in the mirror and

1134
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:35,520
I'm like, okay, self, you know.

1135
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:39,319
Speaker 2: This rage, of this anger that you're feeling.

1136
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:42,359
Speaker 8: We've got to find a more healthy way to do this,

1137
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:46,560
because your heart is pounding out of your chest. You're

1138
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:49,159
adrenaline is busting so much that all you do is

1139
01:08:49,199 --> 01:08:54,079
shake and thank goodness, he is not where I could.

1140
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:54,760
Speaker 2: Get my hands on him.

1141
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,520
Speaker 8: I'm not like him, and I don't think I guarantee

1142
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,520
you I wouldn't take his life, but oh I would

1143
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:01,840
beat him silly with a shoe.

1144
01:09:02,239 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 2: Okay, would I know? The rage is really hard to

1145
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:08,000
deal with.

1146
01:09:08,199 --> 01:09:12,279
Speaker 8: Actually, it's something that I fight daily and it affects

1147
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:31,399
every aspect of my life. Britney's key phrase is flowers

1148
01:09:31,399 --> 01:09:36,239
makes everything better. Go ahead and take the extra five

1149
01:09:36,319 --> 01:09:39,520
minutes out of your day to be extra nice to somebody,

1150
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,439
because that's what Brittany was about. She was about taking

1151
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,560
the extra couple minutes that it might take to make

1152
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:51,079
people smile and make people feel loved and make people

1153
01:09:51,079 --> 01:09:53,279
feel safe in a very unsafe world.

1154
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 2: So if you're going to.

1155
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 8: Ever be like Brittany, take five minutes and be humble,

1156
01:09:59,039 --> 01:10:03,159
be kind, and make somebody smile, because that was Brittany's

1157
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:07,560
life and you would have never found a better advocate

1158
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:12,640
for somebody to love people as Brittany. And just everybody

1159
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:18,319
just be nice, emulate Brittany, make people feel safe, and

1160
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:24,439
always remember a healthy dose of distrust is a very

1161
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:24,880
good thing.

1162
01:10:26,079 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: And what does a healthy dose of distrust look like

1163
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:32,439
in a situation where there are no red flags?

1164
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 8: I've thought about that and the only thing I could

1165
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:36,399
come up with, the only thing.

1166
01:10:36,239 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 2: That I could come up with is be insistent.

1167
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:43,039
Speaker 8: On more than two. If there would have been one

1168
01:10:43,039 --> 01:10:45,960
more person there, Okay, three or more. That's the only

1169
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:49,000
thing because, believe me, for the last what almost five years,

1170
01:10:49,319 --> 01:10:51,880
I've gone over that almost daily in my head, and

1171
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:52,600
the only thing.

1172
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 2: I could think of is really.

1173
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 8: Push that issue that groups are where it's at, not

1174
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:02,199
two people. If one more person would have been in

1175
01:11:02,279 --> 01:11:05,000
the truck that day, I promise you that wouldn't happened.

1176
01:11:05,119 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 2: You know, so I'd say.

1177
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:09,319
Speaker 8: That's the only thing I've been able to come up

1178
01:11:09,359 --> 01:11:12,119
with is never be too.

1179
01:11:13,039 --> 01:11:15,640
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the world sucks, especially for kids nowadays.

1180
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 8: It's sad, but never be so comfortable with somebody that

1181
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:20,960
you think you can just take off down a dirt road,

1182
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:22,319
which is you and one other person.

1183
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Speaker 2: Always make sure there's three or more.

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Speaker 1: You grow up being told to watch out for strangers,

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to be wary of the dark alley, the unknown number,

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01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:37,399
the unfamiliar car pulling up to the curb. But the

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truth is danger doesn't always look like danger, you know that, right,

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and trust, well, trust is a dangerous thing. Brittany trusted Bryce,

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her family trusted Bryce, and in the end that trust

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was misplaced. So turned to Snapchat. She, like so many others,

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believed what the app promised that messages, locations, and memories

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could vanish with the tap of a button, that no

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01:12:11,159 --> 01:12:14,439
one could ever trace where you had been or who

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01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:18,840
you had been with. But Snapchat doesn't make things disappear,

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not really, Because when Brittany went missing, the app she

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relied on to erase her footsteps became the very thing

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that exposed them. The digital trail she thought was gone

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was still there, waiting to be found. Kids are dumb

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if you don't realize that, in twenty twenty five you

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have no privacy whatsoever. I don't know what to tell

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01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:49,600
you other than you're dumb too. Sorry. It is what

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it is. Nothing really disappears, not in life, not in death,

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and certainly not in truth. You can obfiscate it all

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you want, but truth finds a way of revealing itself.

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Technology changes, laws change, but human nature the stuff we

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01:13:09,079 --> 01:13:13,920
talk about here, that pretty much stays the same. We

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01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,399
trust because we want to believe the good in people.

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We want to believe that people around us are inherently good.

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Makes life easier. In fact, we trust because it's easier

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than considering the alternative. Nobody wants to live in paranoia.

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Believe me, it's exhausting. But trust is also a choice,

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and as Alicia said, a healthy dose of distrust just

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might be the thing that keeps you safe. You ever

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01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:17,079
finished an episode and feel emotionally exhausted, No, of course

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you don't. You don't have a podcast. It's lovely here anyway.

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We say this every week, but I mean stay safe,

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and please, please, please take that extra effort to keep

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your kids safe. They may seem real independent and real

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mature and real adult like, but do not be fooled.

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It's a very, very scary world out there, and kids

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just don't know any better. They're dumb. It's not their fault.

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01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:51,680
They haven't figured it out yet. It's up to you,

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the parent, to do it for them, all right, See

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you next week, su