WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.839 Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and just 2 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:05.639 not intended for all audiences. 3 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.000 Listener discretion is advised. 4 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:12.759 On to know. 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:13.599 As I heard. 6 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:19.519 Shooting upstairs and then my my mother yelling and screaming. 7 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:25.039 I want to say. I have to thank you guys. 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.320 Some of you are so nice, you really are. I 9 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:32.200 had mentioned something briefly about an illness that I suffered 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.600 over the last couple of years, and so many of 11 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.200 you reached out and said, you know, you were praying 12 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:39.479 for me, that you hope that got better, that you 13 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:43.280 were curious about what it was. I don't want to 14 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.679 put certain parts of my life out there in the public, 15 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:52.000 just it's just not a good idea. But I do 16 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.079 want to thank all of you for the kind words. 17 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:54.479 You know. 18 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:56.799 I was really thinking about maybe this being the last 19 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:01.079 season of Sword and Scale ever, because kind of in 20 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:05.359 a transitional period and a lot of the audiences dropped off, 21 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.879 probably due to some of the politics of some of 22 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.040 the themes we cover here. But I took a couple 23 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.439 of weeks to just clear my mind, and I don't 24 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:22.480 think I'm gonna do that. I don't think I can 25 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:27.519 do that. The show is now firmly part of me, 26 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:52.120 and we're just gonna keep making it better. Police move 27 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:56.560 through a developing Utah complex and full tactical gear. The 28 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:02.400 rifles up in place, shields folk boots scraping over dirt 29 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:07.519 and construction dust. Their eyes dart back and forth past 30 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:11.719 fresh block walls, unfinished houses, open lots, and weeds tall 31 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:18.759 enough to perhaps hide someone someone named Mia Bailey. They've 32 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:22.719 been looking for her since the previous evening, through a 33 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.000 dry creek bed near river road, under bridges, and around 34 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:31.919 a golf course. They're searching with drones, a helicopter, and 35 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:36.599 a canine dog. Tracking through the dark. Swat teams are poised. 36 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:41.319 Officers have gone house to house, asking neighbors what they saw, 37 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:45.400 whether they know Mia, and whether they have any idea 38 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:49.199 where she might have gone. By morning, the search has 39 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:54.479 shifted into this new subdivision, where officers have to clear backyards, 40 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.360 check unsecured houses, and try to keep residents out of 41 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.400 the line of fire. From above, the scene is all 42 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:07.120 angles and movement. Patrol cars blocking new streets, Officers posted 43 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:12.000 at corners. Other deputies move alongside yards and unfinished walls, 44 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:16.319 all of them watching the same rough field behind the homes. 45 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:24.400 Mia is armed and she's desperate. Police believe she has 46 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.080 already killed two people. 47 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.879 This is a John jrge Police defendment. Come out of 48 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:31.840 bed jar. 49 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:33.840 Maria. 50 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.439 This is a kind of George story. Ste found that 51 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:37.120 if you come out of it as up. 52 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.879 I comply if you will now be injured again, come 53 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.000 out of the as you are regularly. 54 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:47.639 That this is a new neighborhood. In a way, it 55 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:54.599 seems post apocalyptic or dystopian. The sun is glaring, bullhorns blaring, 56 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.280 but the landscape is barren and dry. 57 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:03.439 My name is Courtney Sanagra. I'm a deputy Washington County Attorney. 58 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.960 I'm a prosecutor, and I'm also our office's public information officer, 59 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:12.800 and I was involved in the Mia Bailey case from 60 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:17.600 the night of the incident. Any of the experiences that 61 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.639 I share are my own personal experiences, my own personal opinions, 62 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.360 and not necessarily reflective of the Washington County Attorney's Office. 63 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:33.079 This is a nice neighborhood in our county, more affluent. 64 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:38.480 In fact, one of our top attorneys lived just across 65 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.120 the street from the scene, and so she came out. 66 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.079 She was gardening. She's like trimming her rose bushes and 67 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:50.560 all these cop cars are there responding. 68 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.519 Behind the houses, the land opens into a rough dirt 69 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:00.199 field dotted with dry brush and tumbleweight. In places, the 70 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:04.040 weeds are high enough to hide a person. Officers move 71 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.720 car to car, waile the wall, trying to hold a 72 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:11.720 perimeter around it. Some of the homes have residents, and 73 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:16.199 some are still under construction. Every open door, every backyard, 74 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:19.279 every unfinished garage is another place Mia could be hiding. 75 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:24.199 No one wants to be that officer who accidentally walks 76 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:29.360 past her. They clear what they can, They watch their angles, 77 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.000 and they call out warnings. They talk over the radio 78 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:37.639 about crossfire. The helicopter overhead is noisy, making it hard 79 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:42.439 to hear each other. Then finally someone gets eyes on her. 80 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:44.600 I tell her we have the helicopter and we can 81 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:52.240 see her, and to comply, that's going to be us. 82 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:54.879 She's thirty yards out, yeah. 83 00:05:54.720 --> 00:06:01.800 On the ground under a burn. Mia. We can see 84 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.519 you on the ground, laying down. 85 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:07.519 We need you to put your hands up, stand up, 86 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.839 nothing in your hands, and apply with officer command. 87 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.000 Walk towards the headlights. 88 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.319 She's loaded the ground, hidden under a patch of dried weeds, 89 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.319 about fifteen feet from a tall block wall in one hand. 90 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:26.079 She has a handgun. Most of the time, she keeps 91 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.000 it pressed to her temple. From an upstairs window, officers 92 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.839 watch the scene below them. Mia in the dirt, the 93 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:39.639 gun at her head, rifles pointed in her direction. Negotiators 94 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.639 trying to reach her from the other side of the wall. 95 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:47.879 Mia, missus Tyler with the Saint George Poene. 96 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:48.600 Can you hear me? 97 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:49.040 Mark? 98 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.720 You that's on in the field loose enough, Maybe you 99 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.959 think you can try to and hear some conversations. 100 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:55.000 I can't hear. 101 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:56.439 I'll turn you, rid you off. 102 00:06:58.839 --> 00:06:59.040 Nea. 103 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:00.920 This is Tyler with the same George pd Can you 104 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:07.160 hear me? Okay, Mia, I'm here to talk to you. 105 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.600 I'm here to help you through this. I know that 106 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.560 you're going through a rough time right now, and that's okay. 107 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.720 I'm here to help you out. We want to definitely 108 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:17.680 come to a peaceful resolve. We don't want you to 109 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.639 get hurt. We don't want any of us to get hurt. 110 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.639 Making contact isn't easy. Mia is hidden behind a wall. 111 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.600 Officers are spread out around the field, and a drone 112 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.199 overhead is drowning out her voice. 113 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.879 Okay, Meat, we want to help you. We don't want 114 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.240 you to do anything to yourself. We don't want you 115 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.319 to do anything to us. So we want to come 116 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.160 up with a plan on how we can help you. Okay, Miah, 117 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.120 I heard that you said, okay, but I couldn't hear 118 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:49.319 the rest. I need you to need you to put 119 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.959 the weapon down and put your hands up in the 120 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:54.600 air so we can know that we can talk safely. 121 00:07:54.639 --> 00:08:02.079 Okay. I can't do that. Okay, why can't you do that? Mia? 122 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:06.199 The whole neighborhood is on lockdown, Tensions are high, and 123 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:11.040 this is a volatile situation. Mia shouts something about her 124 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.680 last hope and then makes it clear she doesn't want 125 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:19.600 to talk to the police. She wants someone else. They 126 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:22.160 always want someone else, I. 127 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:25.439 Protor. 128 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.560 She said that you you want to talk to the prosecutor. Okay, Mia, 129 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.679 we can help you talk to a prosecutor. We can 130 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.159 help you talk to an attorney. But obviously, in this 131 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.080 situation where you're at right now, they're not going to 132 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.480 come out to where we're at because it's it's not safe. 133 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:48.159 Once the officer has positioned himself and can hear better, 134 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.759 he realizes that Mia is shouting about a last chance 135 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:55.840 and a nuclear option. It was clear they were dealing 136 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.639 with someone who was desperate. The officers in that field 137 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.960 weren't starting from zero. They were negotiating with a killer, 138 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:06.840 trying to keep her alive and make sure no one 139 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.679 else in the proximity or broader community would be hurt. 140 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:14.320 But before police ever found Mia in that field, her 141 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.720 phone had already called nine one one, not because she 142 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.039 had called for help, but because she'd thrown it from 143 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.960 her car and the phone thought it had crashed. 144 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:24.320 Hello, can hear me? 145 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:25.120 This is nine one one. 146 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.320 The owner of his iPhone was in. 147 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:29.399 A severe car passion. 148 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:31.039 Is not responding to this home. 149 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.399 Almost at the same time, another call came in from 150 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.000 the neighborhood that Mia had just fled. 151 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.840 Nine On the other the emergency, My neighbors just came 152 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:44.360 running down the road lying call nine one line her 153 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:49.799 gunshop and a yellow Chia's whole that just stropped away 154 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:50.559 from their house. 155 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.799 I don't know what so in the house, So in 156 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:56.840 our house, run inside, grab a towel. 157 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.200 So in the house, they. 158 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:01.559 Just served us the shriek. 159 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:03.799 I'm not even here where my neighbors went. 160 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.240 They just came screaming, yelling, not I mean. 161 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.759 If we're getting other calls about it as well, so 162 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.519 I don't know what happened. He had to come in 163 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:14.080 our front door. 164 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:14.759 But as the wall of. 165 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.799 The neighbor told dispatch what they heard from outside, gunshots, panic, 166 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:25.480 and a yellow Kia Soul leaving the area. But there 167 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.039 was another call coming directly from the survivors and they 168 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.639 were able to tell dispatch exactly what they had lived through. 169 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.480 One one, what is the address on? I need an 170 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.840 officer to ten thirty nine East Drives. 171 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:40.679 There's gunshots? 172 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:43.480 Okay, is somebody shot? 173 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.799 I think so you shot? 174 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:48.279 Yes? 175 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:49.759 Can you see the person? 176 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:52.799 Okay? 177 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:54.679 Did you hear gunshots? 178 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:55.039 Yes? 179 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:56.440 Thank you? 180 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.559 Okay. It looks like we've gotten a couple other calls 181 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.879 about this, and we're getting help on the way right now. 182 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.039 Can you see anything that's going on? 183 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:11.639 You know, we just went to the house. 184 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:20.919 Okay, leads to Please, we've got help on the way 185 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:21.320 right now. 186 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:23.320 Okay, I want you to stay on the line with 187 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:24.960 me and let me know what you hear and what 188 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.639 you see. Okay, don't do anything that you feel like. 189 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:32.519 What's you in danger? What something shot at your house? 190 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:33.320 Yes? 191 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:35.279 Shot upstairs? 192 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.919 Do you think your parents were shot upstairs? Yes, okay, 193 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:42.279 have you been upstairs to check? 194 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:43.159 No? 195 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.399 Did someone come into your house to shoot? 196 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.200 Yes, we're downstairs and I started hearing gunshots and. 197 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:53.039 Screaming up to this. 198 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.960 Okay, were you able to hear anybody upstairs? 199 00:11:58.320 --> 00:11:59.720 Gunshots and screaming? 200 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:01.000 Gunshots and screaming. 201 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.519 Okay, But it wasn't over. After the gun was fired upstairs, 202 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.440 the caller heard footsteps pounding on each step as the 203 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.039 shooter headed towards the basement. Corey and his wife had 204 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.919 no choice but to flee out the window even as 205 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.200 shots were being fired through the door, and after making 206 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.360 it to the neighbor's house, they had no idea what 207 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.879 condition their parents were in. Were they alive or were 208 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:27.399 they dead. 209 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.600 We do have officers in a loose perimeter in the area. 210 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:35.559 That's their biggest priority before sending medical units in to 211 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.480 help your parents, okay, is just to make sure that 212 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.720 the scene is safe. But as soon as they secured 213 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:44.559 the scene, medical will go in to help your parents. 214 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:49.759 Okay, Okay, that's definitely not what you want to be 215 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:55.039 told after hearing multiple gunshots, screaming, and then silence from upstairs, 216 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.879 when you know your parents were up there going about 217 00:12:57.879 --> 00:12:59.000 their evening routine. 218 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.840 You don't want to hear anything but sirens, an emergency 219 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.320 personnel not We have to clear the scene first, it 220 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:10.440 might take a while. By the time Deputy Attorney Courtney 221 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:14.559 Sanagra arrived, the house wasn't just the scene of an emergency. 222 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:17.080 It was a bloody crime scene. 223 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:22.399 Our office has what's called a death phone, and by 224 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:28.320 law in Utah, anytime there's an unattended death in the jurisdiction, 225 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.399 a county attorney needs to be notified. And so I 226 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.840 was working late at our office. Actually it was like 227 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:41.080 eight pm. I was a brand new prosecutor. I've been 228 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:45.039 working about six or eight months. And two of our 229 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.840 other attorneys were also there, and one of them had 230 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.240 the on call phone and came down and said, Hey, 231 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.279 there was a double homicide. Do you want to go 232 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.840 on scene? So of course I was like yes. I mean, 233 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.399 I was hesitanting. I was like, oh, can I handle this? 234 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:06.240 This sounds gruesome, But I did want that experience for 235 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.159 my job, and so the three of us went over 236 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:10.200 to be on scene. 237 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.399 The chaos had passed by the time Courtney arrived, Me 238 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.759 and his brother Corey and his wife were safe at 239 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:21.440 the neighbor's house. Officers were at the scene and were 240 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:25.519 also tracking the killer, but in eerie calm, this now 241 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:29.519 filled the Bailey home. The ordinary details were still sitting 242 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.799 exactly where Gail and Joseph Bailey had left them. 243 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:37.080 But something that stood out to me where it did 244 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.879 feel just very eerie, as when you walked in. The 245 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:44.039 first thing I noticed was we walked into the hallway 246 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.559 and there was a living room and MSNBC was on 247 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:53.159 on the TV, and there's two dead bodies in the 248 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:57.320 living room area. Joseph was actually down the hallway, but 249 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.600 Gail was in the living room, and I just thought, Wow, 250 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.039 these people were just having a normal night. They're watching 251 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:03.600 the news. 252 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.399 That's the kind of image you can't shake from your brain, 253 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:12.440 not just the stark faces of death, but the reminder 254 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:17.480 that they were just alive just a minute ago. The 255 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:22.039 television is still on, still filling the room with disembodied voices, 256 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.000 but nobody's listening anymore. The furniture is still in place, 257 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:32.039 seats cooling where a body had just sat. It was 258 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:36.480 an ordinary evening, the kind we all picture because it's 259 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:40.840 the kind we all live every day. You're just sitting 260 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:44.000 at home, half watching the news, thinking there will be 261 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:47.720 a tomorrow and suddenly there isn't. 262 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.600 When I did see Joseph, he was laying face up 263 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.960 and there was a little bit of blood coming from 264 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:01.080 his head. What I remember most is his glasses were 265 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:04.679 split in two. He had worn like spectacles, and it 266 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.759 was clean shots to his forehead right where his glasses 267 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:12.279 had been. But the mom was just off the sofa. 268 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:14.480 I don't know if she was sitting down. I don't 269 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.279 know if she had stood up, but she was found 270 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.399 face front near the sofa, shot in the back of 271 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:21.840 the head. 272 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.679 But Mia didn't stop with just her parents. She was 273 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.120 out for blood and there was more blood to shed 274 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.240 in the basement where her brother's family was staying. 275 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:40.840 Then we went downstairs and there were children's toys everywhere 276 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:48.399 in this downstairs living room area, little kid's toys. And 277 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:53.639 that gave me the chills, because what if these kids, 278 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:58.080 who were MIA's nieces and nephews had been home. 279 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.840 By the time investigators finished walking through the house. They 280 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:06.720 know what Mia did, but they just can't imagine why 281 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.519 a daughter would come home and turn on her own 282 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:13.640 family like a wounded coyote. And this is a story 283 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:44.240 that can only be told by Mia. By this point. 284 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.920 It is the night of June eighteenth, twenty twenty four. 285 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:52.720 In Washington City, Utah. Investigators are on a manhunt for 286 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.039 twenty eight year old Miya Bailey. On the evening of 287 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.839 June eighteenth, twenty twenty four, she stormed into the family 288 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.640 home and executed both of her parents. When she heard 289 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.279 her brother's voice in the basement, she went for him 290 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:09.960 and his wife too. Thankfully, they escaped through a bedroom 291 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.720 window before the bullets could reach them, and when investigators 292 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:19.240 walked through the house afterwards, the horror wasn't only upstairs. Downstairs, 293 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:23.240 where MIA's nieces and nephews might have been, children's toys 294 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:27.519 were still scattered across the room, police could clearly make 295 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:31.400 out what happened at the scene, and besides, casings were 296 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:36.440 left behind. Mia, however, had vanished into the dark in 297 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:42.119 a yellow Kiah, armed and desperate. The question would follow 298 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.319 them through the night from the quiet, blood stained house 299 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:49.880 in Washington City to the streets of nearby Saint George. 300 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.839 The chase would come to a head in a half 301 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.119 built neighborhood on the edge of town, where Mia would 302 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:58.960 finally be found in a patch of Weeds with a 303 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:05.160 gun to her head before the standoff ended. Before Mia 304 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:10.359 was brought into the interview room, investigators were already working backwards. 305 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.880 While officers in Saint George tried to keep her alive, 306 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.960 Other investigators were calling the people who had seen her, 307 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.240 heard from her, or knew what had been happening in 308 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.839 the days and hours before the shooting. They were trying 309 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.839 to build a picture of Mia before the field, before 310 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.599 the gun, before the house, and one of the first 311 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.000 pieces of that picture came from someone Mia had only 312 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.039 recently started dating, and even in that short time, he 313 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.160 had already seen signs that Mia was not okay. 314 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:42.759 How did you meet Mia? 315 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:44.279 No matter how? 316 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:47.319 He's the place where I work, maybe like a week 317 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:51.519 and a half ago out there, and she just seem nice. 318 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.039 Asked her if she had facebooks. She said yes, and 319 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.480 then it's kind of how I got to. 320 00:19:58.400 --> 00:19:58.920 Know each other. 321 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.119 So you known her for a week and a half, Yeah, 322 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.279 I can tell that she wanted to progress things fast. 323 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:06.240 Yeah. 324 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:09.880 Yeah, are you guys boyfriend and girlfriend or what? Were 325 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:13.200 you just starting dating? Well just kind of starting okay, 326 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:14.319 but nothing was official. 327 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.599 Well, she put on her Facebook that he was her boyfriend. 328 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:20.319 Yeah, that surprised me when. 329 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.200 I said to Corny, how did you feel about that? 330 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:24.839 You know, because he hadn't even known. 331 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.440 Her, so she made that decision on her own. 332 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:33.599 Okay, Yeah, I just got out of her relationship before 333 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:35.920 and it was hard broken over, so I wasn't looking 334 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:36.759 to jump into. 335 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:38.319 Anything right away. 336 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.200 A week and a half isn't very long, but it 337 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.759 was long enough for him to notice two things. Mia 338 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.279 wanted the relationship to move faster than he did, and 339 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:51.920 underneath that something was off. 340 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:52.720 Yeah. 341 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:54.400 I just I just started to get to know her 342 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:56.880 like a couple of weeks ago. Okay, I don't know 343 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:01.200 her very well. Okay, I think I know that she 344 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:05.400 was kind of depressed and I could tell that she 345 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:10.720 told me she used to cut herself, and as far 346 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:13.119 as where she is, I really don't know. 347 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.799 He didn't view her depression or even her fast paced 348 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.680 as a red flag, though they were starting out as 349 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:22.759 friends and even had plans that evening. 350 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:25.759 When was the last time we talked to her yesterday? Well, 351 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:27.680 I left this morning. 352 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.200 When I texted her, we were going to arrange like, 353 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.559 you know, like a game date night, and that's she 354 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:40.039 said she had to get her her stuff. I guess 355 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.720 her family's home. And that's the fast I heard from her. 356 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:48.279 She's like, I'd be sure to I said, be sure 357 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.160 to tell me what other games she has, like Morgan's 358 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.079 and she said she has to rabbit you know there, 359 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.839 And then I said, bring her again would be funny. 360 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:04.240 And that's the last uh I heard from her. Right there, 361 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:05.559 that was. 362 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:09.400 A version of Mia. He knew that morning there was 363 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:13.680 someone making date night plans and talking about board games, 364 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:15.680 someone who was normal. 365 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:17.599 It was true. 366 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:19.920 Mia was in the middle of moving out of one 367 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.039 place into another and away from the people who had 368 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:25.720 been letting her stay with them. 369 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:29.119 She said, she's in the process of moving, but I 370 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:31.240 don't are you aware of her renting like any U 371 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:32.839 haul trucks or anything like that? 372 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:36.599 Oka say where she was moving to? 373 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.039 She said she was applied to a few different places. 374 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:42.680 She says she tried Jewel Plaza and then she said 375 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:45.200 it fell through and then I don't. 376 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.279 I don't know why they denied her, but that's all 377 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:49.960 so I know. 378 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:53.400 Okay, do you know of any other friends she has? 379 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:55.680 If you ever hung out with any other friends with 380 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:56.759 her or anything like that. 381 00:22:57.319 --> 00:22:59.640 I've seen her with her cousin and that's that's all 382 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:00.440 I love you with. 383 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.720 She seems you know her. Her cousin is yeah. 384 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:05.279 Jay, Joe Jay. 385 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.799 The cousin was Jay, and the house Mia had been 386 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:16.240 staying and belonged to Jay's mother, MIA's aunt, Jenny. So 387 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:20.839 investigators called Jenny next. She had seen Mia that afternoon, 388 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:24.640 just hours before the first nine one one calls came in. 389 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:30.279 Hello, Hello, hells Jenny, Hey Jenny, this is Detective John 390 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:30.599 Doe with. 391 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:31.880 Washington City Police Department. 392 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:32.720 Yeah. 393 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:35.200 Hey, so you got a second I can talk with you. 394 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:38.599 Put your belt on, Yeah, go ahead, I'm trying. 395 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:44.440 I'm here at on scene trying to gather some more information, Okay, And. 396 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:45.680 So I just wanted to kind of talk with you 397 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:46.279 real quick and. 398 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.400 See when the last time you talked with MEA was 399 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:52.319 in five forty seven. 400 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:58.319 Five forty seven, that was almost exactly one hour before 401 00:23:58.359 --> 00:24:02.839