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he was a tiny little thing, but he was not scared of anybody.

got got from this batch said that Rebecca was missing. There was bloody adam. Pillars and clothing never shaved under the bed where .

they find the body.

But then they're close that big trip.

There's your girl in a coffin.

There's A.

Yes, a lot of suspects.

a lot of suspects. Casey was the boyfriend. They was on and off again.

SHE had Justin, who he went to hostile with IT. Justin was a bad boy. We had heard a rumor that Chris was covered in blood that day. So that is a red flag.

We have no force entry. So he knew who her killer was.

There was a car there with texas plates. Who was a texas plates?

He had a picture of Rebecca headstone, newspaper clippings about rebeca murder.

We know what you did. We know how IT went down.

This is a total blood IT.

Yeah, you're free. Go anytime.

The detective doesn't have anything.

right? right?

IT was a little bit of shock.

Oh my god. It's over what that investigators, risky strategy doom a case or reveal a killer. I'm less to hold and this is deadline.

Here is Dennis movie with secrets in the osage.

And also act when you couldn't unc or forget. And there was no shortage of suspects. A small mountains town with relatives and neighbors turned against one another.

They all went through being accused, every single one of them. I heard a lot of them without an arrest.

The quarter public opinion never really went into recess or stop spinning fresh theories, old names, new names, whispered about.

There was lots of names slowed out there.

merse about. Jennifer.

we've found out, told some people that are one at night.

his cantrell .

in largely casey, thereby this point.

the finger at him, so many reputations were dragged through the month. The true killer, meanwhile, following IT, all from so many miles away, tickled to be getting away with .

the he was very proud that he was able to full .

everybody until he encountered this man and all his brave to fell away in a heartbeat. The evil layed bar by a simple question.

would you be OK with taking a polygraph? I'll just ask you.

So let's follow the hills into the postcard, pretty arkansas oser. That's where rebeca, the Young woman in our story, was raised, if you like, you can just let your ears direct you to the sounds of the fiddle and the sweet song of the dossier.

And there you'll be in the town of mountain view, the self designated folk music capital of the world. In cozy power, you can hear the time less old himes and the baLance of faithless lovers come to murderous ruin. But one person's timeless and satisfying can be brothers crop's bic.

there's not a whole lot to do there. I mean, it's beautiful area, but is just a small town. You're lucky if you have a stop light.

Tiffany more grew up in mountain view with three sisters. Eventually, he enrolled in the university of arkansas at fail three hours away. SHE wasn't surprised when her restless kid sisters, Rebecca at her on the right, and Danielle move there too. Rebecca, twenty two years old, wanted so very much to be a razor back while SHE was .

gone into a community college because he wanted to get into the universal arkansas, but he had to get a couple of classes under belt first. And that's what her I were both enrolled in the same classes to community .

college thing and then become a regime.

Yes, that was the playing.

College was the future about Tiffany. Any sisters missed their mom and friends from the old days. So on the third weekend of september two thousand, four, with her little dog lady and sister dan yell riding shotgun, rebeca drove home for a visit. SHE planned to spend most of her time in a nearby town at the home of a friend are going in.

casey. Casey, yes. yeah. And that too, SHE would stay with a lot of times when he would go back home.

Boyfriend, ever. Becca, casey.

or not so much. And at one point, yes, they were they were kind .

of on and off come late money, september twenty or two thousand four, the sisters were supposed to head back to school rebeca at the wheel that never happened.

SHE didn't know her phone and SHE never picked anio love. But rebeca was kind of like that too, you know, SHE, if SHE wanted do something.

he was gonna do IT.

By tuesday morning, Rebecca mom knew something wasn't right.

SHE called the police department and asked them to do a, what is in a welfare attack or something?

So when this thing went down, are you already working here?

You want to shift? Have been on shift about thirty minutes that morning.

Charly melting is now the izard county share of, but back in two thousand and four, he was a newly amended deputy when his dispatch told him to locate one. Rebecca gold, just in general, what do you think your mission .

is here to go find somebody that is either lost or just for some reason, didn't want to go back to .

where they expose me?

The routine all rebec z mom .

suggested they tracked down that friend rebeca was staying with casey micah. They'd most likely find him at work at this sonic riven.

So he went to the onic. Yes, there he was. He was pulling out as as pointed an.

Casey told the deputy he later saw Rebecca the day before monday morning when he dropped him off for his shift at the sonic. SHE was supposed to pick him up later that day, but for some reason didn't show. He spent the night out with friends and didn't go home, but now, having just run by his place, he noticed her back, his car and dog.

We're still there. SHE was not the deputy s. Casey to take him back to the house.

So this is case's place. Yes, here we are, one twenty years on close to, it's a mess. IT is, but not so bad.

Then he went. IT was pretty well maintaining, taking care of that time, melton says. As soon as he walked into the house, he realized his routine call was anything but .

when in her paris on the table and her dog was there in other persons atoms. But he went around that I was for sure concerned the in.

He asked casey to show in the bedroom where he in rebeca slept. The lindon had been script off the mattress.

I asked him if I could look under the matters when I fled IT up the bottom of the matters had blood covering large portion of IT.

And in the laundry room we found something.

The worst machine was just right outside the bedroom door. I left the lid on yet, and there was the beating. And in a bleach dispenser for the worse machine that appeared to be blood.

this sounds a trouble shelf.

IT was in the that times when I I took casey assad and called the art share building. What i'd found .

told the share of that rebeca gold was more than just missing. The deputy suspected the Young man standing before him knew where he was and maybe what had been done to.

Arkansas police were rolling out twenty two year old rebeca gold had gone missing her friend casey mccolo home, a potential crime. Cy.

there was bloody adam pillars and clothing that they have done to the bed. There was blood on the walls behind the bed, but I didn't .

really describe what was happening at that point. He did not IT was by then tuesday morning, september twenty first, two thousand four, a full day since anyone had seen or heard from rebeca. Police told her family little of what they discovered inside the house.

They had told me that they found that there was blood, but and they didn't tell me how much .

rebeca sister Tiffany, any any more and a half sister, Angela newby, we're not alarmed so much as rolling their eyes at their sister's latest stock. They made the long drive over to a town near their old home and cases, a place called melbourne. We're probably going to give rebeca lecture because she's probably party and somewhere because there's not why this could be happening. If you agreed you thought this was an incident, would all look back and laugh at some time.

After rebec I got to school, I really did.

He was always gonna the last one to come. If you called .

her Rebecca's father, Larry gold lived an hour away when he got word, he wasn't overly concerned either. Not at first. He says his daughter was a rebel, had been from the word .

go SHE had a mind of her own SHE was really fearless, even in a Young age.

I mean, things that SHE shouldn't do, like sneaking out even, that is just to go out and go down to the park, down the street if SHE wanted to do.

he was gonna do IT.

SHE was very much, very less. Yes.

fearless and independent by nature, independent by necessity. After her parents divorce.

trying to get custody of my girls for years and years and years, they went with their mother and lived throughout arkansas, different places in arkansas.

An ugly divorce. Nona mercury. But this one .

was especially painful. Absolutely.

very IT involved nasty allegations. Mom against dad, dad against mom. IT wasn't all a Better roses .

for you guys. Grow up now. I was .

some ster homes .

along the way. Yeah, we're in Foster home for, uh, thinking a good year or two .

after which they .

reunited with their mom. But their father, a dentist, says his daughter lacks stability and he lack consistent contact with them because of her mother.

SHE live one place and the girls will never be settled. Something would happen and SHE moved somewhere else. So there was never any security in their life. Did that were you? Of course, I did absolutely.

Even so, Tiffany remembers Rebecca having a mostly happy childhood, one filled with outdoor adventures.

We go camping a lot. That was our vacations when we were little. And rebeca was always in the water. He was either swiming or .

trying to catch crowd.

SHE was little fish.

The scrappy little mammae grow into a self fiery red and fiercely protective.

Young woman was only hundred pounds and a tiny little thing, but he was not scared of anybody. But people were trying to her. People loved her.

SHE doesn't sound like you'd be easily intimidate.

No SHE was that .

sh'd stand up and fight for .

her self and anybody else he loved .

SHE SHE had the whole family is back.

I absolutely, and I was the eldest, that I guarantee you, if there was a conflict that I was having, you'd be the first to jump over me, to get that person to, you know, protect me.

Now, maybe IT was rebeca who needed protecting deputy melting, suspected, at the very least, someone had attacked the Young woman before dragging her away. He believe casey knew more about her disappearance.

And I ask casey again. I said, who is he? He said he didn't know. And I said, what happened to any said he didn't know.

I was back and we went to market.

Casey, in a recorded interview later retrace the hours before rebec a vanished as state police built a timely, he said the night before rebeca went missing sunday was nothing special.

When we got a lot of really is around trying to forget something to do and something more movies.

they came back to his place and watch the first film.

After that.

SHE looks at the window and he sees some monday out the on the road, the duck road, and I look out there.

casey said. His cousin Billy, in town from texas, stopped by that night for a quick alone.

How long do you say that tops? We just talk top and the and .

hour or so later, he said he in rebeca went to bed. Monday morning, rebeck drove him to work, just as he already explained .

to the deputy that last time was all back.

Her plan was to return to his place to catch a nap before picking him up at four pm, then driving back to school when SHE didn't show that afternoon, he called, but he didn't at her at the time, he said he struggled off. IT wasn't until tuesday when he returned home with the deputy that he realized something bad had happened.

Did you have anything to do with rebeca s. disappearance? no. Did you in any way calls any harm? Rebeca.

the investigator wasn't getting much from casey at all, though when he asked about rebeck is past the Young man's tone changed?

No, but he had a relationship problems with her. Somebody that know she's out there that he was feel conflict are letting in the house, or or they could talk to her to get inside the health. And I don't know.

Casey told the investigator they should check out one of rebec as old boyfriends. As I turned out, her sisters were already calling him a fellow named Justin garden.

Casey kind of just fell over himself for her back in. And then Justin was the bad boy.

Justin. Police needed to find him and have a chat right away.

Rebeca gold had been missing since monday. By wednesday, law enforcement had launched a full scale search.

It's a lot of national force. They're used to doing the searches.

Then assignment was an investigator with the arkansas police. When rebeca disappear, he eventually took the lead on her case. He knows this part of the ozarks lived here for years.

They did horseback. They did the full whaler. Anytime we've ever done a search japers here you get the game in fear. You get the national force service, you get the volunteer .

fire departments. Have two, he says this is chAllenging terrain, especially in midst september.

Next time here you going to have a lot of under brush, a lot of thone. I mean, that is very thick rug train, steep train, you walk can feet from something I see IT. And this is very thd under brush.

When Rebecca family got to town, police explained that they thought IT unlikely that rebeca on a wim had decided to take off in a room. When did you realize you never really did have the road? Because her car was there, her person was there?

Yeah, I I don't know that that even think again. I mean, we were just just hoping that, you know, he was somewhere else.

Then police filled the family in on more of the details, starting with the amount of blood found in cases .

room when I found out how much blood IT was, and that IT couldn't be something else that had to be a little more serious, I started getting concerned that I still didn't think the worst.

They continue to believe rebeca would show up at any moment, explained IT. All away. Maybe SHE was with that old boyfriend of her, the one casey mentioned .

to police just then, who he went to hostile with. That was her everything .

pretty .

Rebecca a, yes.

They had long sense broken up. Partie says rebec is still regarded her old flame as the one who got away.

I think, just always stuck IT out in her, in her mind that that who he loves and who he wanted be with their .

hunch that robeco was with Justin made even more sense when police handed them Rebecca s. Personal items, including her purse, incited Angela discovered a letter, interesting, a letter from home.

And what is from Justin?

What was the gist of the letter? And that he loved her, you know, and that they belong together. The letter gave her sisters hope. Now they weren't the only ones who wanted to talk to Justin. Police did two, but he wasn't at home when we .

couldn't get a hold of him. We couldn't get a hold of her. We just can a held on to that hope that he was with them.

After two days of calling, Justin finally answered his phone.

He was that that could see now with his father and we asked um if he had seen her if he was with them and once he said, no I mean that was just IT was kind devastating Justin .

met with police and they interviewed him IT turned out the old boyfriend had been off gambling while before rebec a vanished still the family would not give up hope.

I just know that she's out there and he needs us.

not even when they joined the search.

You have caves there.

You have world, world.

So SHE could be anywhere. The only thing on my mind was to find her. I just felt like we're going to something going to say, gotten, here he is.

I remember looking at birds and we walk over towards where the birds were fine around and just kind of giving a sigh relief that we didn't find anything. I remember .

that to find .

something that .

you don't .

right finites answer, you find anything .

but hope with nothing to sustain. IT can only last so long by weeks end. IT was gone for good share. They find the body.

then they are close. That big tree restaurant.

SHE lay her on her side, about thirty feet down a steep and backman of this mountain highway. If you could put yourself in his head, the killer's head. Why does this make sense for him?

Where we are because it's a rule area, little traffic, no house is closed by. So is that may be the reason, shows a spot.

Despite the decomposition of the Young woman's body, investigators were sure IT was rebeca shortly after, they gathered her family in a room at the station and told them he had at last been found.

Then real. I didn't. I didn't at all. There you you don't, you don't know how to take get.

Still, police needed a formal I, D, that fell to her father, the dentist.

as if I happened, had dinner records on my daughter, and I said I did, and I provided them to the state place, which went to the crime out. That was hard.

The records were a match ched to the body for one agonizing week. All eyes had been fixed on finding rebeca gold alive. Now the attention turned to finding her killer.

Investigators were pretty sure they already had his name, casey makola. They discovered a possible motive. Soon enough.

I want to take revenge on this girl. Definitely a big motive for order, no doubt about IT.

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The day after searchers recovered the body of rebeca gold, the county mi performed an autopsy. Deputy meltings saw the report and knew Rebecca's death had been especially groison. What was the M. S. Finding about cause of death? What had happened to, or blunt .

for strong blows .

to her face and head, two investigators that suggested rage, any indication, trade, been sexually assaulted because they say one where the other.

I can say body isn't too bad .

to shape the next heartbreak for her parents and sisters funeral arrangements.

The only time that i've ever had to really do that but yeah, you have to go through and fear out which casket you know, she's SHE would be happy spending the rest of her life in our hoo, you know, however you want to.

And you found one in pink .

IT was like a pink ish purple color because that was her favorite .

color to pick you sisters can get put there.

Yeah, yeah. So we wanted to make IT pretty for her .

father gave the ology.

I'm not a public speaker, so for me to get up there and do that, i'm going to tell you right now IT meant that nothing this world would to stop me.

And there's your girl in a coffin.

There's a my.

yes. Her pink theme funeral was filled with flowers and though he loved including her .

dog lady and i'll never forget that something was being said about rebeca and I always said the dog bark IT was like I was program IT was amazing. I believe strongly that the only way you get through horrific events in life is you have to have a foundation in faith, or IT will tear you up.

And the dog was delivering from channels unknown, absolutely.

In my mind.

SHE was a moment .

of peace, perhaps to clan, to investigators. Meanwhile, we're pulling together the pieces from the crime scene, already dusted for fingerprints gathered for DNA testing, hoping to reconstruct what had happened to rebeca.

Now, I think from minute one, the original al. Investigators really felt like he was murdered in the house.

in that bedroom where a lot of rebeck s blood was found. A missing piece of furniture from another room suggested the weapon used .

donor IT was noted that .

a piano leg was missing. That I would .

bottle been losing would commonly fall over.

And if you walked drawn on the floor in the wrong way, the piano they would drop off.

If you went by IT and chuck floor enough or step gesta, the piano g would follow .

another missing item. Her suitcase offered a window into the mind of her killer.

I think they truly thought they were going to make people think in whatever SHE just dispute. SHE went SHE graduate case .

and left the detective, thought if you could find that suitcase, he could lead him to the killer to early investigators. IT looked like that person was casey.

Tell, how did you have no rebeca? Um we worked IT on together and very first day that he worked IT so I thought beautiful grains so after him the beck .

had been on an afghan boyfriend, girlfriend and and just being simple fact, their rocky relationship and that SHE had been staying there and her car was still at his house and her belonging still at his house once SHE went missing .

romantic and tanglement can be part of the cocktail of honos .

do they can be Rebecca's father .

says in the weeks before her murder SHE complained that casey was positive ve that he hadn't got the message they were through as a couple.

How do you know that? Because that's what he told me. He told you. He told me that he still had to go down and to to break IT off with him.

There's no doubt know he wants this girl. He he wants her. This girls rejected me. I want to take revenge on this girl. Definitely a big motor for mother, no doubt about IT.

Just a week before life was simple for casey makola flipping burgers and strumming his guitar. Now i'd looked as though he was cruising to a murder charge. A timely miracle would be helpful and just maybe the story told by a breakfast sandwich wouldn't hurt.

In the days after rebeca god's murder, casey mccolo was pretty much public enemy number one in mountain view cept, perhaps to his family and friends. I can remember my god telling me, and I trust IT, that my friend had anything to do with this. You know, learn mcClair and phillip shows are case's former coworkers from that sonic drive through, they say, soft spoken musical.

Casey didn't have a mean bone in this body. Know he was a great musician. You have played the guitar and saying.

you know, well, I don't a lot. He did played a lot, and he used to sing a lot in something which gonna irritated this a little bit. Still, at the same time.

he was like IT IT would write up a mood. yeah. Now their friends seemed to be withdrawing from the world and himself.

Did casey know that he was twisting, slow in the wind? Deer, this whole thing. Investigators, we're looking at him.

我想 吃。 你 想 吃。 He knew investigators kept putting him in the chair, and their line of questioning left .

little doubt of the business.

This room, my job here, waiting.

They only had casey say so that rebeca indeed dropped him off monday morning for work was IT possible. He had killed her before then, or maybe afterward, when he didn't show to pick him up after work. And he got angry.

They also thought it's strange. He decided to stay out all night with friends, something he rarely did. Did he do himself no favorite by not coming back to the his place that night?

IT did, making look more suspicious.

but not come on, but a vegal suspicious ous story wasn't enough to pin rebec as murder on casey. Investigators needed to narrow down the timeline of her death and check that against his alii to rule him in or out as their prime suspect. That's how casey si coworkers got dragged into his nightmare and in interview is 被 i came to our house dinoseb did knocked on the door。 I never forget that .

they and other co workers proved .

to be cases lifeline. They could largely account for casey being network all day monday, from just after eight in the morning to four thirty in the afternoon. That's when layer and philp pulled into the sonic lot to find casey stranded.

Everybody would you done? He's like, wait on my ride on my own. He also like, well, we're going to the movies, you know, if you want to they said casey was with them for the rest of the night.

They drove to a nearby town so he could pick up his truck. Is dad had borrowed at the day before then they all went to the movies and back to Philip and lawns for the night. We're know the receipts from hating the moody tickets.

And then so the night checked out. The night just was what I was know. The thing that stood out from that night was when casey checked his phone messages.

One was from Rebecca's worried mom, and he was something along the lines. Nobody get a hold of Rebecca IT was a bit odd. The next morning, tuesday, they watched as casey got up and left for work.

Hours later, they heard the news Rebecca was missing. They said something going on like they can't find rebeca and the cops come, got casey from more coworkers and friends could account for cases, movements that monday into tuesday. But what about Rebecca's movements? Investigators thought you stopped here after dropping casey off at work on monday.

A convenient store called the power from just down the road from the onic. They believe that for two reasons, this uneaten sandwich and a full cup of catini found in cases kitchen suggest, achieve both the meal to eat. Some time later. And I went, ness gave creation to the theory.

the light post process called that. And I I remember see rebec at the store and her in her little vehicle, and he was by herself. So he goes to the post on chart, time frame matches, even though they couldn't get an exact time more on the purchase. And from there to the house, he never eats ed the biscuit, and he never drinks the capo.

Investigators say that cashier, not casey, was the last person confirmed to have seen rebeca alive. They think rebeca return to cases after buying that meal.

SHE do that at home. She's put her breakfast in the mark wave and he would go back to bed.

So there was nothing unusual up to that part of the story. The reason that rebeca was killed shortly there after case's ali bi him solid, he was not arrested, not charged in connection with rebeca murder. Investigators had no choice but to start considering other possibilities like his relatives.

They started looking at the rest of family who also had access to the house.

They ask cases dead laud my color about that missing piano leg, a weapon that could have been used to kill rebeca.

They started looking into two cases, dad, could he have come back to the residence?

But claude truck driver was on the road when rebeca was last scene.

They liberate him pretty quick. He was training a new driver who also confirmed film after the rank taker somewhere during that time frame.

Next, they considered case's brothers. He had three of them. Likewise, they also had alibis that seem solid. Investigators even track down that cousin Billy from texas, the one who stopped by the sunday night before rebecka s. death.

They contacted texas authorities, who pulled the family in an interview. Dim, get the resulting view back to the archives. Le state investigators.

none of the interviews with relatives LED investigators any closer to rebeca killer. But they weren't discouraged in the weeks that followed tips. Pred in.

we keep pursuing our local needs because they just kept coming and we could not eliminate people.

Simon says the focus of the case pivoted from casey in his family to rebecka friends. The people in mountain view SHE came home every weekend to see he had many admirer here, and maybe a few enemies. He keep me kill and air for over twenty books over the twenty .

dollars that SHE love me.

If anything, cassim's friends thought rebeck s killer would be found closer to home, her home. They knew he used to run with a tough crowd in mountain view. The first thing you think of something must have went wrong. You know, whatever he was trying to do with the mount of you, who that seemed to be the consensus in the months following her death.

What were people talking about? The town rumor. Males just went wild. Everybody had a theory and a thought of who done IT lot of a lot of spects .

in the weeks that followed. Rebec is death. Her sisters had one name in mind, Jennifer Turner, one of rebec, is former coworkers. When SHE too, worked at the onic, Jennifer er had a thing with Rebecca s. Old boyfriend.

Justin had got together with Jennifer and he was pregnant, but he still loved her becking rebeca still loved yeah ah.

detective denis Simon says early investigators dug into this Jennifer connection.

I never, never, not one time I love my best.

Everybody says all we were best friends. Oh, you know, I love this girl. Blow, I didn't buy into that part, just somebody trying to deflect from.

Them definitely notice.

suffered, I mean broader ing in front of views uh, sept. A lot of phone records.

but found nothing really to connect Jennifer to the murder. What he did find was an ally by that checked out.

I determined during the time frame of the murder, SHE had been at work. He went shopping and convey, which is a town about sixty, seventy miles from here.

But then this case had no shortage of suspects. Beck, as maherry SHE is a father, and I respected to hill out of that. This is jb ates.

Like jennie, he considered rebeca a tropical and a customer. He wanted to sacco de an undergrad deter sac. Rebeca, he says, would buy small quantities of part from him to take back to school.

Typical college stuff. And he owed you twenty bugs from the transaction. SHE did.

He says he was stunned when rebeca disappeared and floored by what came next in little birdies. And neat town are talking, and IT gets a long enforcement. Oh yeah, I just went blew, blew up. I mean, I just blew IT up.

And nearby star sign, the scuttle bot jb killed Rebecca jb had a formal sit down with a detective tense doesn't even begin to describe IT the keys make kill and air for over twenty books over the twenty dollars that SHE had owed me that all goes back to that debt SHE hat for not paying for for the bag. We a yes. And you then if there goes killer.

that's what J. B, S. Interview, come off as a very cold person. Just in general, just in general domain or just a very nasha just I don't give kind of personality.

Jb insisted .

he did not kill rebeca that he had settled her dead a few days before SHE vanished. Not that he could prove IT, but he paid me in the sad as ti box I had. People love me.

Wait more money than that, and you're not in a credit card kind of business in days. And yet the detective could not link J, B to the murder. No evidence either of J, B being at the crime scene.

T, J, B, know where he lived everywhere he was staying at.

So he began looking at the man who started that J, B rumor, his name Chris can.

And he had a reputation for being a Better people.

Scared of me. Turned out Chris was doing more than tossing j. Bs came around. He was weirdly putting himself in the picture for rebecka murder. So much of the police grilled him repeatedly over the course of the investigation.

He bragged to a lot of people about being involved in the murder. When the .

detective heard a rumor that Chris had been talking about blood in his vehicle, Simons confronted him.

Every he. Had black me cry, i'm law.

He also found out that crustal that very car to another man because the man informed police said.

hey, I bought this coral off a Christian and trial. He made some very large statements about, he found body parts in the trunk. Thank guide. You had my car destroyed before a enforcement got to IT. No, I think, why would you make that statement?

And yet Chris insisted to police time and again, he was not involved .

in Rebecca's murder.

Eventually, simmons hit another dead end. On the one hand, he liked Chris for Rebecca murder .

any anybody else other investors should read the case, finds that man crisis you.

but he didn't think ris had a convincing motive or access to cases house. Moreover, evidence collected from the crime scene never put him jb, Jennifer or anyone else from town inside those rooms.

which just could not yet to break on DNA evidence thing prints or anything else.

Still, the detective didn't remove him or anyone else really from his suspect list. In the meantime, the mountain view roman mill kept turning.

There are so many people to caught in so much crap. Just you had the psychic, you know, you just had just beyond st. Nudge people with set around and thought about this .

all day long until one .

day a stranger step forward with one particular story. He said an old, the acquaintance of his had confessed rebecks his murder, a disturbing tale that brought this case. And almost everyone .

in IT back to the beginning. He said, I know something up.

There has been so many suspects, so many tips, but never in arrest for rebeca goals, mr. Months turned to years, and rebecka s family, including her sister Angela, was losing hope. I was mad, you know what? Major mad about IT, because there is no explanation, no answers. And he had so much to get off of this world, and he had so much going for and show them set the world on fire. Meanwhile, Larry gold, who'd watch from the sidelines as the police work the case, became frustrated by two thousand and six years after his daughter's murder, he couldn't take IT anymore and felt like he had to do something.

I've given them lots of time. Now it's time to jump in and try to figure out for myself what happened as a father. That's the part that aid way at me. I wanted to know how my daughter was murdered.

So the dentist arted Petering officials with letters, lots of them. He wanted access to some of the police investigator files. Let me see records. Let me see the mi report. Let me see some deposition.

I want to the basics. Why can I have an autopsy report? Is my daughter officials .

told him they didn't want to release the information for fear IT might negatively affect their investigation. Are you becoming the troublesome father of the victim who just won't stay in his place? I hope i'm characterized that was there again.

If anything, I should have done a lot more earlier.

Rebec, his dad ended up hiring a private investigator, but felt his findings only confusion and went nowhere. So he devised another idea.

I want a rebeca law. I want something that makes this system function a little bit Better than he does.

He wanted a new law in arkansas that would allow love loans after a certain number of years to see at least a portion of a case file.

If you have children and you have a daughter that's murdered, what would you do? You'd wanted know things.

In two thousand and sixteen, the prosecutor voluntarily released one piece of evidence to rebeck is dead, and that's when he learned some of the details of how his daughter died.

He finally did release the autopsy report, so he denied anything else. But he released the autopsy report him.

After that, the family didn't hear much until two thousand and eighteen, the fourteen year mark of the homicide rebeca was beautiful, popular and full of life. IT was by then a new cultural era podcast became a phenomenon, and there was a nationwide fascination with all things true crime. And one podcast about the repeated case turned heads with its revelations.

I've come back to mind you with one mission to get justice for rebeca. Helen gone is hosted by Katherine townson, a writer and private investigator whose family lived in the area. Her series made news with a blockbuster accusation.

A.

B, A man told the podcast he knew who killed Rebecca. He said a coworker of his admitted to the crime. And who wants that person? None other than casey, but color the podcasts .

er says none only is .

casey all these years been the number one person of interest, in fact is confess to IT.

yes.

The man said he worked with casey repairing cells hours, according to the coworker, one drunk at night. Hay confessed and said after rebeca rejected him, he killed her.

He said that pretty much that he was telling that this big last time that he saw that they were, I just comments, and they got into and he says, in the sense of things time, the way he said he had lost IT, it's nice. I know this point of IT was information special.

Agent Simons could ignore the detectives still working the case more than a decade later, interview the co worker who then share details.

Casey is drunk, confesses to this this witness that he did, in fact, kill rebeca.

But there was something off about the coworker story, he said the blurted out confession had occurred eight years before, and yet I never told police and never .

made until come for that. That many years later, he was very just unCoOperative and bitter. And why would you not one tell me, casey.

murder this grow. And there was another red flag. There was an accusation casey once had a sexual relationship with the coworkers sx wife.

Casey had slept with his, his wife, and he was trying to get Robinson on casey for sleeping with his wife.

We reached out to that could work, or who asked not to be identified because he's received threats. He told us he stands by his story and denies his x wife had an affair with casey Simons, considered IT a dead. And casey claims was .

he was killed.

the killer. And somewhat, eventually more than half a dozen podcast about the case were released. And now social media, like the town gossips of years before, was unfair with fingerpointing accusations and speculation the sisters felt at times he was just also destructive and pointless. Every state has got some fascinating unsolved ed mystery arts l that became the the story of Rebecca.

嗯， 再见。

Do that to stress you.

I didn't. I mean, it's it's hard. It's constantly, you know, in your face.

according to rebeca sisters that got so vecchio on social media. But some poster suggest tifany could be responsible for the murder. People are mean.

They say mean things and herself things. You know, if I kept the case alive in forefront, i'm thankful for that, but i'm not thankful for all the drama that IT calls my family.

As the year's continued to slip by, IT was almost closing time for detective 点 assignments。 He was nearing retirement in twenty twenty. He reluctantly handed over his investigation to someone .

know I didn't want to leave this .

thing resort in his twenty nine year career. He says that was his only unsolved homicide. And he especially regretted never finding that missing suitcase, which has got instinct, told him might be an important clue.

Fan suitcase, maybe I get physical evidence off of IT, which throughout the case we never could get physical evidence that damn suitcase .

and IT just breaks my heart. There was about to be a new investigator in town, someone with fresh eyes, to take his shot at turning this case upside down. Why thought the new agent had so much attention been put on casey, my color, but not the rest of his family.

any male mccolo. I wanted to put them under the microscope because I believe this was probably a sexually motivated crime.

And there were a lot of my colors.

Arkansaw january twenty twenty could a new year and a new detective finally unraveled the mystery who killed rebeca good. Special agent mike, mick neil, with the arkansas state police, was newly in charge of the nearly sixteen year old investigation. He had a lot of catching up to do. I've got a vision in my head of here comes a dully down the whole way with a lot of boxes on IT that filled with deposition videos. And somebody bring in and say, here you are.

have about IT. yeah. Well, I think if you stack IT all up and documents, i'd be for foot .

high rebec is dead. Remain cautious but hopeful about the new investigator on the case. So magnet comes along. Do you think this is a healthy change or will see or I don't have much openness?

He did the right thing from the start, which was called me on the phone, said, can I come up there and see you? He showed compassion and empathy, but more so, he really wanted to hear my frustration and the things that that I needed at this point. And that hit home in me.

And mcneil, a twenty four year police veteran, decided that if he was going to find because killer, he needed to start from square one.

Let's go back to day one. Your first focus is on the inner circle of the victim. Who does the victim know? Casey is obviously suspect. Number one, just because he's his place.

his girlfriend.

his place, his girlfriend. Yeah, absolutely.

It's nice to finally meet you. Yeah, I White known .

you so right off the bat. Casey IT was questioned yet again and improved to interview was done from the detectives car.

There is a lot of people, from what I can gather, think you had a hand in this .

right social media. yeah.

All those podcasts and social media post mostly pointed to casey as the killer room marvel. In the course of public opinion, casey is like, right?

Yeah, absolutely. He's been tried and convicted, absolutely.

But the special agent came to believe casey, my color was not involved.

I truly believe .

that you did not have a hand in this, so Better.

But mcneil did believe someone related to casey mccolo head murdered rebeca. So he started looking at his family. Remember, the mccolo owned the property where rebeca died, a place that long sense been abandoned. Several family members lived in the area.

I was probably eighty percent a macos responsible.

And are they all in your frame?

absolutely. Every any male mccolo, I wanted to put them under the microscope because I believe this was probably a sexually .

motivated crime.

Bicknell, like his predecessor, thought rebeca knew her killer. We have no forced century.

We have no force century. So that would lead you to believe that he knew who her killer was. SHE knew who he was let in .

in mcneal quickly eliminated case's dad as a suspect. He then met with a half brother, Randy, I can talk you minute in a voluntary interview. Randy was CoOperated .

when this happened. A the information in the case file says that you working at the foreign company. No.

I was an air force. Randy was also quickly cleared.

He wasn't even in orchestra in the Chris.

good night, you might have to see .

the detective decided to more aggressively interview the next brother, rob Chris. He bluntly asked a shocking question, did he have a secret sexual relationship .

with rebeca brothers sometimes mess around with brother's girlfriends. IT happened.

IT was a love. Micky el had absolutely no evidence of an affair. Anything okay, the detective clear them. But Chris, perhaps on wedding ly, opened an investigative door to his brother cory involving his whereabout ts on the day rebeca was killed.

What about your other brother during this period of time? Where was he court?

You know, I have no glue.

really.

I really didn't have any concerns with any of the malas accept cory and I.

Who was he?

He was the Younger brother. Why him? Well, if I believe that a meca was responsible for this, and I had already went through all of them and Carries .

my last well corries.

my guy, cory.

had worked in law enforcement himself as a parole officer. Think neal systems to come in foreign interview IT didn't go well.

I think the interview with him ended with me tell in him.

I believe that next time I see you, i'm going to be put hand of some.

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Regarding the death of Rebecca, do you intend to answer each question? truthful. Ly, yes.

Special agent mike, mick neil and another officer had a prime suspect seated across the table from them. Com color cases. Brother.

I told you when I first met you that we believe that we had the from the killer, the crime scene.

as captured by a camera on the table. Mcneil tok corry, he had some new blockbuster evidence, and IT involved him. His DNA had been found on a clock under the bed where rebec admin. murder.

The problem .

that we have .

core is that wash cloth right there that has your DNA 用 的。 I seriously about that, I believe you if it's got man, is from long time ago, I don't work like that called.

Tori seemed to be admitting his DNA could be at the crime scene.

yet he remained defied. Do I innocent? And I knew nothing about this until I was told about IT. I'm not always going to let you do this to me. Let me go or rest me.

Micky ellin said he had even more revenues. He found the old truck curry owned back when rebeca was murdered. Remember, detectives believe rebecka s body had been transported from the crime scene to that reveal five miles away.

You know where your blue ford ranger is right now? No, said the arkansas, a state crime man. cool.

I'm glad you found that I am too what you because whenever you got in that truck, you were covered in blood. And I guarantee you we're going to find reference as DNA in the cabal truck. I know how this works, know what you're trying to do. I'm completely innocent and you're looking at the wrong people. I mean, i'm sorry.

I don't want to be a to you that you're be there was one thing my nee el didn't tell corry he was bluefin, a standard but controversial police and interrogation technique. Micky el use the employ because they thought that might help him crack the case. In fact, he didn't have courage DNA at the crime scene, and he .

didn't have a truck. Man, I really hope I was able to help you with this. You were, I really do with that.

The interview ended and so did the theory that cory was the leading suspect. Mcneal concluded he was not the killer. So IT was time to move on to his next suspect.

What you do, you find out who was at the mccolo residence last, and then you focus on that person. That was Billy.

Billy, Billy Miller, who was he? He was cases cousin from texas, would stop by the house the night before the murder. He was interviewed in two thousand and four, but police didn't consider him a viable suspect back then. Billy told investigators he'd stopped by cases house the night before rebeca was killed. Mickael decided to take a second look and do a deep dive into billion's background.

What came back? So in two thousand and two, two years before rebecks murdered, he is a suspect, an an aggravated sexual assault on a minor. Now that investigation concluded with no charges.

but that's an interesting thing. It's huge. Billy had turned out, had also been arrested in two thousand and ten. He allegedly used his elbow to push his x wife after he forced his way into her irani's past texas home. The charges were later dismissed.

Now i've got two police reports that show me exactly what i'm looking for. He's check in the the sexual component box. He's checking the forceful entry, physical harm to a female.

He is the focus. I did this kind of systematically one at a time. And now i'm on Billy. Let's see how far this takes me.

Mcneil wanted to meet with Billy in person, but there was a problem. Where is he physically this point?

He is currently married with a family living in the Philippines. An offshore oil rig worker.

Billy, who was forty four, had moved to the Philippines, where he said he owned a thirty acre farm, including a banana plantation. He had married a Philippine, a woman he had met online. They had two children together. And while living overseas bank, neil could see that Billy joined a facebook group that actively followed rebecka s case. Is he also posting notices?

He made a number of comments? He's trying to keep tabs on the investigation from the Philippines or why?

Why is IT? Micky el would have to impatiently wait, put an alert on Billy's passport to be notified if he returned to the us. And us.

customs. If you guys get to hit, give me a call so that. In october twenty, twenty, about ten months after mcneil started working the case, Billy flew home to see his mother, Linda in organ. At that point, the detective gave Billy's mom a call, and that's when he said something suspicious. Person was still in the Philippines .

once the last time he was in the us.

IT he came with so the the last time .

Billy made at home was sometime last year.

I I don't know.

He told me that he hadn't seen Billy and SHE hadn't talked to Billy. What you knew clearly was he.

Hello, this will find the mower.

But a few days later, billion's mom called back with a new story, saying her son was going to be in the us. SHE was unaware. Authorities is knew he was already here once.

barely coming .

back in seven. That's when we want to have a our meeting with you.

Okay, no member.

the seven, he said Billy would voluntarily come in for an interview with special agent mcneal. Did you have any guarantee that he was gonna a show?

No, no guarantee. He didn't have to be there. He didn't .

want to be .

undeterred. Magnet traveled from arkansas to coffee grow, a pictures town in oregon where Billy mom lived. And on the designated day, Billy willingly came into the local police station.

He didn't have any idea what we had in store forgn.

Sixteen years had gone by since wrote his murder for her sister's phony. Those years were filled with regret. And what if ves. SHE struggled over whether back then he could have done something differently?

There are so many times of, you know, which I could do things and you know turn everything around in quebec.

Meanwhile, agent mcneil was busy, very busy, researching and prepping for his meeting with Billy Miller. Where are you going to play this thing? What your strategy?

We knew Rebecca had been transported from the crime scene, so I knew a vehicle was involved.

This time, mcneil decided he would try to actually locate the truck. Billy, ow, back in two thousand four, a black chevy. S ten, sixteen years later, would IT still be around a lot of times .

gone by that thing? IT could be anywhere.

Surprisingly, the truck was still on the road. Billy had sold IT long ago, but the detector found the new owner and had photos taken of the vehicle. The sixteen years later photograph was useful to you.

As I was, I ended up using a couple of them in Billy's interview.

The detectives ve had already decided how and when he would .

use those photos so because this agent .

was about to deploy every technique from his investigative toolbox for a Billy Miller interview and he would once again use a pot weapon with the bluff.

You're not being detained. Um you're free to go at any time .

visiting his mom and oregon arrive thirty minutes early at a local police station. IT was timed to execute the detectives game plan.

And there .

is you guys a right eye and there is.

you never know how these things can play out.

I going back and looking at this .

special agent wanted ability to take a polygraph on the spot, but feared he wouldn't ree. So he came up with a less threatened offer. Would Billy agree to take the test latter in our console?

If you ever make back dark sole, maybe we could, you know, give you to take a polygram because a bunch of people take a polygraph in that thing. Whatever you want, i'll given to you, I don't have nothing .

in IT worked with no immediate pressure. Billy quickly agreed.

Billy hasn't been arkansas since two thousand four and he's never coming back dark and soul willingly, in my opinion. But what is he say? absolutely. So now i've gonna locked in on a polygraph.

The detective was setting Billy up and would soon come back to that question about taking .

a lie detector test. I like close to twenty five .

brand in the meantime. And the det .

made Billy feel comfortable. Llys, you like a king.

Billy likes to talk. He's kind like chat, Kathy.

Tail.

he thought he was the smartest st.

One in the room was the bike.

Billy was friendly, happy, just to shoot the breath with his suspect. Relax now make neel saw his opening coming. He change subjects, getting back to that polygraph test. Would Billy stand by his word and take one right now?

Would you be OK with taking a polygraph? I just ask you, I don't know. I all the giant appear to see they may have a political in town. T. T.

does he know you have a guy wait outside the door? Absolutely not polite. Pd damie in a caster with the organ. State police was already at the station. Mcneil had seit up all in advance.

Billy had no clue.

Mcneil acted as though he was trying to find a the. Of course they did make neil had him in the index iro. Now Billy appeared hesitant. He wondered, could the polygraph result be used as evidence against the defendants?

But IT doesn't the hold up in court correct both the the prosecution and the defense would have to agree to IT. So when waiting and asking you i'm a suspect. No, i'm not saying your suspect.

Then came the big swing of the hammer. The detective told Billy falsely they had the killers DNA from the crime scene and asked if Billy with mind giving a sample. Remember, police didn't have any usable DNA evidence.

IT really doesn't matter if he provides me with his DNA or not. I've got nothing to compare IT to. I just want to see how he feels about .

IT as you get a little animals.

When he did, he did. Obviously, we've never got your DNA. You you know, it's my job to ask if you don't feel comfortable with IT. Now that seems like, you know you're in the window today that you say that I if you don't feel comfortable IT, i'm gonna not gonna put sure, try putting pressure on, he said he d take .

the lie detector test, but walk at a DNA walk. Mickael, not wanting to spook a suspect, moved on. IT was time to .

bring in the poorest phere.

But now Billy was having serious second .

thoughts about taking IT. I feel more, look at more are not a corporate and what the police in all that special agent with .

neil watching a police monitor in another room. Now wait to see how this plan would play out.

Be down my ship.

And he still had a few more surprises in store. For the suspect.

your experience is Normal.

After almost two decades and dozens of interviews, there had never been a break in this case. But was that .

about to change?

Could this, at long last, be the face of rebeca goals killer?

Billy Miller, now suspect number one, was about to undergo a polygraph test, but before that, the test administrator, detective damian acasta, asked him questions about his visit to case's .

house on that sunday night before the murder, I think we pulled in.

And as he told police in two thousand four, Billy said he briefly talk with his cousin in the driveway at sunday night when rebeca was staying over the cases. That's the same story. Casey told investigators back then.

He said that he company so.

However, Billy added some new details. He had been in case's house before, meaning his DNA might be found inside. Remember, special agent mcneil had fastly told bly they had .

the killers DNA.

but he didn't.

I think there was two times that I went into that house. I I remember sitting down and living room at us. As I remember, one of the Billy added .

that there was a whole bunch furniture, including chairs, couches and beds, that his mom gave to the macos furniture that ended up in cases house possible.

Your DNA could be on any bad or Better. I could be just okay, perfect, because all the furniture from my mom that came from house.

the detective continually assured bully.

his story made sense. Diamond .

followed the script, did a super job interviewing Billy, building report with Billy, and then put in Billy through the polygraph.

When I came to taking a polygraph, billie was instructed not to respond verbally. Instead, he should only shake his had yes or no to answer the questions.

Did you caused that woman today? Are you responsible for causing that woman now?

He shook his head no. And after about forty five minutes and a slew of repeated questions, the test concluded.

那个 登记证。 No, the test, I have the test. So like he was in my chest. yeah.

The detective did conclude Billy wasn't telling the truth at that moment. Special agent magney return to the interview room.

Gone was his good cop.

demeter. He was showing Billy that cop attitude.

Micky el said he .

wasn't buying Billy story about why his DNA would be all over cases.

House human said IT would be reasonable for your DNA to be on the bedding, which is absolutely absurd. No, I didn't say that.

Actually, he had said that now, mick neel felt was time to show those pictures he'd been holding back ones of billies truck .

from sixteen years before I translate familiar yeah that your truck biological evidence, Billy less for decades. Skin sales, all kinds of stuff that was a really bloody crime scene. What you what happened? You got the words on the side of your show.

We are. Where back is D N. A next to the gas peddle in your truck? No question about IT heard DNA in your truck.

Did you have traces of blood? No, we had no physical ever. So this is a total blood. IT is.

yeah.

Sensing he was making progress, the detective chipped away at billion more.

Tell you, you have got to come forward right now with what you know because you cannot get around biological evidence in the floor or boarding your truck. Okay, so tell me what happened, Billy? Tell did not care who did.

Who did? I don't know. Who is they who are?

In a dramatic moment, Billy suddenly changed this story and shared for the first time, sixteen years later, that he actually did see who killed Rebecca.

saw look like something was clean.

Billy said that all happened early that monday morning. He's gone hunting on his grandfather's property where he could see the back of cases house. Suddenly he saw a men.

I saw a White vehicle and a Young Brown hair guy on the back porch and IT looks like and loves home and um he jumped over the backwards I jumped over, walked into the house and to see you at the .

house on he sees the rear of the maco residents and seize two White males flew the residence getting into a vehicle and speeding away so he's given you .

the unknown perpetrators right to guys.

right? He's telling me some I have never heard before.

But before Billy would tell him more about the killers, he made an unusual request .

to my mom outside. Let me bring your mom in here and let's talk to heart together if that's what you wanted. Do I want to talk to her outside?

His mom? His mom? What's talk to his mom? He wants to leave the interview room and meet with her.

This is one big neal's plan and one off script. Basic interrogation techniques dictate you don't stop in interview when a suspect is giving valuable information, yet the detective through the dice and let him leave. You weren't about breaking the flow here. I think you're dangling him rate over the age he's put himself at the scene. And the critical time here is time to close the news.

IT goes against IT.

Then something unexpected happens in our interview with the agent.

IT goes against everything that the you know is an investigator, you know.

IT came to a sudden .

and a Brown halt. Have special agent mcneill's decision to let people leave that interrogation room proved to be one of the biggest mistakes of his career.

Because good, good.

we didn't see IT coming.

Special agent mike mickle el had stopped our interview when he started back down. A few minutes later, he explained .

why investigations like this, you allow the investigation that kind of consume you. It's the last thing you think of before you go to bed in the first thing you think of when you wake up. And that's that's how this one has been. You get emotional.

He got emotionally said, because of his pivotal decision to let bill walk from the interrogation room just when he was starting to reveal .

crucial information.

Did you think you were on .

the educate in this thing I did, I did when he wanted to leave the interview room. That's like a kissed death for an interview.

You've lost .

them on animum. Well, yeah, very rarely will you get a suspect to go back into an interview room.

none's. The detective decided to take a risk and follow his gut. Billy was allowed to meet his mom and the police station's garage agent, micky eel, and another officer stood by.

They embrace, they hug. He is whispers ing something to her in her ear. I can make IT out. I don't know what he said to our.

Billy wasn't under arrest. Free to leave the station at any time, but he didn't.

Okay, I heard that my end of the deal, let's talk.

And that's when something remarkable happened.

One thing about this is it's been real and in your head, like a movie real since IT happened. There is anything about this you forgot. I know that because I did doing this so long time, and that I did, I did IT you can sorry, sorry for.

And did he starts to contest to the murder or back a goal?

IT was a rare and stunning about face of .

full confessional. Everybody that I am associated is a to me, absolutely. Icm, absolutely. And I played everybody as A. Body, and I never told anybody but you right now.

Billy said he confessed because he thought reback, his DNA was found in his old truck.

He says, you've got my DNA. I'm telling you I did IT.

He's totally took your bit.

He did.

He did, did you?

And now Billy was ready to tell all, including the hard to hear details of how he killed rebeca. Early that monday morning, he said he parked his pickup truck on his grandfather's property. He went around and knocked on cases door.

Rebeca answered. The two had never met, but he knew he was in the house from his visit the night before. He said he was cases cut and asked to use the phone.

Do you ever really call anybody? No, that was just a use to get, because you'd already pay up your mind what you is going to do. He said. Robeco went .

to the bedroom while h Epaced b ack a nd f orth i n t he l iving r oom. And by chance that previously broken leg from the piano fell off on his own, he grabbed .

SHE goes back, goes to the bedroom. You get the piano leg and enter the bedroom, would you say nothing SHE sleep ing SHE then he, come on, how many times you remember, hit her twice and the the same of one. And I was my age.

He said that wouldn't piano leg fell part as for why he did, IT really didn't have an answer, and IT remains unknown. He claims IT was .

not sexual intentions, were to go there and just killer. Why I like a light switch that just went off and I just.

Like angry or just kind of, I don't know what you made, some of you no, is he did I just went in there, your side bang and bang. And that was that when I free out.

he said after he hit rebeca, SHE was still alive. So he used a man's tie. He found there and strangled her. He then scrambled to clean .

up after the beating, but didn't a new case. And look the mattress, because they are blood on IT. And then like that, everything the best I could.

What about the laundry? I put them in the laundry. Would you put in the laundry? There was nothing. So betting met in the laundry and in the suitcase. yeah.

IT all matched what had been documented at the crime scene. Anti knew about that missing suitcase, a fact never made public by police. The piece of evidence detective assignments had so desperately searched for and never found. Billie was arrested and charged with first degree murder.

You're under the rest of the murder of that goals, okay?

Soon after Rebecca's dad got the call, he thought might never come. We have made an arrest after all these years.

Yes, I think that was more of a little bit of shock because I didn't know the name and I felt, oh my god, it's over.

And there he had been all those years, but everybody else was in .

the hot seat of living his life and and falling. Everybody and .

proud of IT.

I'm very proud.

It's clear the other suspects, casey, the rest of the mccolo family, Jennifer, jb, ates, Chris, Justin, none of them had anything to do with Rebecca s. death. Still, this case wasn't yet over.

IT was crucial for police to locate that suitcase to colaba ate whether Billy was telling the truth. He gave investigators a general location in a wooded area where he said he would be found. A search party was set out head of all people IT was detective Simon s. Not even retired, who found IT.

I know that I got emotional, but i'd then sure I got a little excited. I knew that was a nail in the cough, and I knew that we had our man when I found that suitcase.

But just when IT seemed that was all over came obama heal development and IT involved billies confession.

IT might not .

be admission the court because his defense argued he didn't get read all his Manda rights. After reading, three of the Manda Wright officer or cast got distracted .

by a question for ability so yer I can't he was never read his .

fourth right and according to billions attorneys great dolen er and joe denton, that was a violation of his rights.

If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.

That warning has to be given to every person in amErica if the police want to use anything that they develop in that interrogation. Later at trial, after being extradited back to arkansaw, Billy pleaded not guilty. Now not only could his entire confession be thrown out, so too could key evidence.

Eric hands was the prosecutor for the case. If there's a confession that is tainted, any evidence we obtain his resolve of that confession is inadmissible at trial as well. So the suitcase and and all of the clothing and all of those things that that CoOperated a compassion would would go out with IT IT felt incomprehensible, after all these years have seen the case might fall apart.

And we told the family that the confession goes out is he goes back to the Philippine and IT game over a tense three day hearing was held about whether the confession could be admitted. Ted, at trial, because Billy signed a document acknowledging his maranda rights, the judge ruled the confession was admissible. In the end, the family agreed with prosecutors to accept a plea deal.

They didn't want a risk that even one jr. Could set Billy Miller free. He got forty years with a chance of parole.

We have justice. We have the person behind bars. He cannot wrong. He cannot find somebody else, and he can do this to somebody else.

As for casey makola, he said as a statement in part IT read that is hard, goes out to rebeca and family. He thanked his friends and family who stood by him during the social media attacks and said he can now live his life in peace. And speaking of casey, Billy had a question about his cousin, the man who d endured years of scorn and suspicion.

I O, I. I think you have an opportunity.

After the sentencing, rebec sister Daniel passed away after a long battle with cancer.

As for Rebecca's father.

he's still working on getting Rebecca's law past. He's now found some peace and that he finally fulfilled a pledge he made the day he buried his daughter. When he talked about and read at belly sentencing.

nothing would ever stop us. From finding the person who .

murdered rebec today.

I looked to heaven and I simply whisper, promise made, promise kept.

That's all for this edition of date line. I'll see you again next friday at nine eight central. And of course, i'll see which week night for nbc nightly news.

I'm letter hold for all of us and nbc news. good. Good night.

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