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I'm here in pain, and so her and so sad. I would have anything for question to be here.

They were new to college and newly in love, the whole world ahead of them.

He gowns my chin and he pulled me album. He just gives me the magical case, but their .

secret romance would lead to something shatter ing when Christian vanished.

oh god, my Young life went out the window.

IT was tense. We were nervous. We were scared.

I'm starting to believe that there might be more to this than just a missing person.

Where was he? Did someone have something to hide?

There was blood funding the car.

a lover's triangle, a circle of friends. Was one of them a killer?

This was planned. This was on purpose.

How could you do something so horrific?

I'm letter hold, and this is deadline. Here's denis Murphy with circle of friends.

Remember going away to college, maybe your first time away from home, there were new friends waiting to be made, the tingling of possibilities.

Oh god, the first kiss was amazing.

Sometimes disappointments. When things didn't work out.

I thought he was just depressed. We just didn't take IT that seriously. And you know, maybe we should have four.

three floor of teenagers. The decisions they made as they started campus life had terrifying, lethal consequences.

I mean, that all seems so, so real when we're actually told about IT. We're like this can't possibly be happening.

The story of our three begins at a high school near miami, not quite hogwarts, but eric ayro in Christian, where, as inseparable as Harry, ron and her money, a trio of friends laughing and rustling through adolescence together at dal academy, a other school for high achieving smart kids.

I moved there when two thousand six, four, six grade .

for eric freeman. Dera academy was a special place.

I met people from all over the world actually, which is really interesting. And they had a lot of opportunities academically that I don't think you get an average high school.

Eric was smart, upbeat, pretty. SHE loved everything from skydiving to shakespeare. And in her song, more years, SHE called the eye of a cute going class paid robow o.

He was a big clown. He was kind of a funny guy around people. He was always making jokes.

disrupt to act out in class.

not really act out in class. But he did act out as soon as class over. And IT was just, you get a crowd laughing.

or this or that. Pedro was a fellow rocks solid student with an artistic flair. His journals were full of sketches and doodles that friends thought showed real talent.

I mean, he could draw anything, anything you wanted.

Robert Lopez was a friend in class. So anything from my graph comics up to, yeah.

a picture art, right? yeah. He was very, very, very gifted in that sense.

Eric and patro quickly became an item, teenage lovers, but with adult dreams we were .

a pretty serious relationship. Um we were a little bit more mature than the average. We didn't go out and drink. We were just very focused on school.

Other another sharply focused class made in their circle was paid. Rose, good study. Christian ella.

I met him through pedro. He was awesome. He was funny and he was nice. And we instantly, we are instantly good friends.

Christian was the soccer player who hit the books. The sun of colombian immigrants became the all american boy video games. Kyi west rappin his ears and plans to become a doctor. IT sounds as though to understand Christian, you have to realize how academically .

motivated he was. Oh yes, he was very rubin. And IT wasn't like his family pushing him. IT wasn't IT was just like he wanted .

to make them proud. These three high achieving muscatels Christian era and pedro all doubled IT prom together and pose for this snapshot in the winning days of high school. Did a limo.

We do do limo. And we also went to plenty of pictures. You know, that was fun for a lot .

of american kids. IT was for the history. Graduation from high school is one of those big patthern rossing in the words, a lot of what are you going to do next? Let's stay friends forever. Kind of goodbye.

mr. Christian.

Christian scholar that he was in tent on pursuing prey made got admitted to the selective university of florida in games. Will was Christian happy when his acceptance came to.

oh, he was so happy he was static.

And though all three friends wanted to be gators, had the U. F, F. As a top choice school only Christian got in, eric was headed to a different college in game spill safa, while payroll planned to take classes near his home in miami.

And is graduation here more life decisions? Erica broke IT off with pyro. SHE didn't want a long distance relationship. And after all, they were just eighteen years old. The big wide world was ahead of them both.

I wanted him to find someone and fall love with them, and, you know, live a Normal alive. I just think, think he was the one for me.

They were barely unpacked classes, just starting when a sudden change of plans paid. Rote didn't want to be left behind in miami after all, as the false semester started, he showed up in gains well, as his friend Robert remembered. And he just .

visited gains ville. And that was the intention, was just a visit and then end of signing the lease and enrolling for classes in the fall at some of a college.

Maybe there was life after hogwarts for pedro, Erica and Christian. Could the friendship be renewed and survive a five hour move of the inter state from miami, if that was indeed the hope? IT was dash with some awful news on september first two thousand twelve.

IT was tense. We were nervous. We were scared. You know what could have happened?

Christian never showed up at his dorm that night and wasn't answering his phone.

It's not like Christian to just not answer. It's not like him not to disappear. There was something wrong.

Christian angular had vanished.

What could be behind Christian sudden disappearance? When we come back, we tracing his last steps, a rough neighborhood and a curious stranger.

He tells me, at one point they stopped to pick up a hat hier.

and then eventually the hitch ker was like, I want to get out the car. And then shortly after, Christian said, know, I want to get out of the car too.

Three teenagers, all college freshmen, and gains ville, florida, longtime friends. But now one of them, Christian, was a no show for meeting with his circle of friends. Didn't pick up the phone, not so much as a text.

And I got later and later, and I start calling our friends. And i'm likely I just want to make sure, like, have you seen Christian when .

you're not getting text back? When do you start to go from worried to really getting freaked out?

Lonely, sly, all that night, I couldn't really sleep. I am had passed by his dorm room to see if possibly his phone died and he couldn't answer. His phone got wet.

I was thinking of all his difference in ario, and he wasn't in his store. Where was he all night? Where was he is saying, where was he sleeping?

where? Where is he the next morning? Still nothing from Christian. He hadn't come back to his dorm. So Erica and pyro, her x boyfriend together, went to the gains ville police.

So we go to the window, we start explaining our situation. And the lady, pretty like, laughed at me. Yeah and I was just there like, you know, this lady Better hope there's nothing wrong here. I was so upset at that point because I just wanted someone to pay tension. And you know, this is a serious thing.

But after all, Christian wouldn't be the first college freshman to go off the grid for a bit, maybe taking a break from his studies, crashing at another door. But his friends were worry, and the cops told them to go see if the campus police could help.

The big thing I want to find out is, has they have been to contact him? When was the last time they contacted them? Where was the last time many people was in contact with them?

Officer tim pack, talk to the concern pair, found out that petrol was a last friend to see Christian in the previous day.

Any kind of walked me through the day, you know, when he meets Christian, they go to, and for me as Christian is a flu shot, then they go back to pedros car, which is part time campus. And then at that point they go to best buy .

a pretty routine afternoon until paid row told him they decided to do something a little and pulling.

they tells me, at one point they stopped to pick up a hitchhiker.

Paid row told officer pack and erica, they drove around town for a bit.

Eventually, the hijacker was like, i'd want to get out the car and and then shortly after, Christians, I know, I want to get out the cartoon, you know, just pull over. I want to get up.

And that was where the friends parted near this auto body shop a few miles off campus. That neighborhood around the body shop raised alarms for officer pack IT had some rough spots.

Some of the area is known to be a high drug area, have some game activity as well. So that concerned me where they up. There's possibility for that reason, or in the process of Christian IT and dropped off and into something, wander into a bad area. I knew there .

was a large homeless community. There still is. Um so I was a little concerned about that if he was in the woods somewhere and he stumbled into a camp ground of homeless people and they decide to do something to him, know that was one of the options I had thought of.

a gang area, homeless camps and a mysterious hitch. There seemed reason enough to be worried. Erica called Christian parents Carlos and cloudy a ega down in miami and told them .

that Christian .

was missing worrying. Yeah, behavior was not at all, and that at all, that was not Christian. Along with Christian's Younger brother, alex, they jumped in the car to .

make that long drive up to gains. Well, I can was i've we didn't know what to say to one another.

What does that word missing .

mean to you missing at first, I guess I maybe may be trying to be positive, was just him. Maybe he went out to a party, maybe got injured, maybe he got into a court accident. We couldn't really tell because we don't know who he hangs out with.

And once they arrived, police said questions for alex and his parents to.

He brings this into a smaller, and we have an office who gave us a few questions, asking, whatever person is Christ? Is he Normally like this? What he usually go out? Does he drink?

Does he do any drugs? What are you seeing in Christian parents in this period?

Confuse of pain. There was just pain in their eyes.

but Erica says they were all about to channel that pain into determination. With more friends heading up for miami.

I had a whole group of individuals who were now just as concern as I was, just as focus as I was, just as driven to find Christian. I didn't feel so long once they got there. I felt we're going to find that we can do this.

Christian's family and friends were hopeful. He turned up and soon, and for officer pack, the case of the missing student got more baffling when he caught wind of a secret. Christian had been trying to hide something. Was his secret the key to finding you?

There's something else going on here that i'm aware what exactly that is. I'm not coming .

up this secret. Turns out someone else knew IT too, and I was about to be reveal right there at the police station. Do you know?

I was just concerned that I was just off the edge.

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Eric freeman and patro brava were at that U. F. Campus police station trying to help the cops track down their friend. Christian.

SurveilLance cameras were rolling as they made their report to officer impact, and his team quickly went to work tracing the missing student with the usual technological tools they paint. His cell phone IT was off. Check the university computers. Christian had not logged gone.

We check with the hospitals, local hospitals, to see if he had was in there. They will also check with our notes from the previous night, run his name to see if he's had any contact with us, check with the city in the country, their main dispatch center.

see if they had any contact with them. No sign of Christian anywhere. You're still calling, still texting.

I am still calling. I'm still texting. I meant setting him message is, like you, we're going to find you. You know, I love me so much as you know, I can't wait to see you again. You know, everything's gonna OK trying and calm myself down.

And IT was in those hours inside the campus police station that eric could disclosed a secret that Christian had been keeping. IT was her secret, too, since high school graduation at her break up with pedro SHE and had become more than friends.

That was very exciting. We thought I was great. We thought this is us learning how to get used to gainful.

And I was like, I had my best friend with me. IT was somebody who I could always turn to, somebody I did. I always turn to you, and somebody now that was always going to be there for me.

who made the move for the first embrace.

Oh, he he treated I, he drove to my house and I see him and I instantly we hug and i'm there and i'm just nervous and just I haven't been this nervous and all these butterflies, my stomach and he grows my chin and he he pulls me up and he just gives me this magical case. And you became .

a couple of that moment.

oh yeah, IT was like, we our first date was going to a restaurant, tric flay. And we just both had all those butterflies in our stomach ics. And we just felt like, like, is this really happening? This is still really happening. Like I just kept, you know, pinching myself like, god, this is crazy. I can't believe this.

And in a matter of weeks, they are Young, live SHE. And Christian had changed completely. They were maddy, deeply in love. What do you think the two of you .

had something very rare, something you don't find every day, something amazing, something I don't even know how to explain what we had. It's like not a care in the world because you're just so happy to be with that person.

N. G, Young girls are in love, sometimes with being in love, but this doesn't sound like that.

Oh, no, no. This is something where you click on every level.

But out of friendship and respect, theyd kept the new romance a secret from pedros eric aex. Yet his friends knew that something was eating away at pedro. Ever since graduating from high school, he'd been in a kind of funk. Did he change at all?

Yes, as matter of fact um as time went on, he he kind of was a little more withdrawn. He was just starting to keep to himself a little more. I thought he was just depressed. Um we all go through IT. We all feel like, oh.

my buddy Robert Lopez had noticed some odd, alarming behavior.

We all went out to the restaurant. The swarm is well known in game, so it's right next to the football stadium. And our tab ran until, like, seventy dollars.

And he picked up the whole tab and we asked him, my picture, why? Why would you pay for a whole time you pink for all your classes out of pocket? And he's like, i'm not worried about IT. I won't need this money soon.

Wow yeah that give you an insight into his header that yes.

that was when we realized, you know, he's not doing okay.

was paid row suicide dal. All the more reason for eric and Christian to keep their happy romance quiet.

I was just concerned that I was going to push more of yet. I don't want him to go home that night knowing that I was dating neutral friends and him thinking of, i've just going to end my life right now.

But now with Christian's disappearance, the cat was out of the bag at the university police station that day. Eric blurted IT out with pedro .

right there in the room yeah.

yeah and .

you know .

and SHE goes .

on to tell me that .

her and Christian had started dating, but I didn't think Peter know about their them dating.

How would pay drop react to hearing that the officer sense that something seemed to be brewing in the circle of friends. But what that was wasn't clear. For now, everyone was focused on finding Christian.

They were all feeling like we're all this together. We all worried about Christian. These our friend, we're trying to find out, do what we can to help locate .

officer pec could see that eric was becoming increasingly agitated. So as the campus cop was checking out the stories these friends had told him, he decided IT was time to bring in investigators from the gains. Will pd, and the first thing they'd want to do is .

to talk to a pedro ravel coming up.

a dramatic new clue.

We find Christmas backup.

Where would this discovery lead?

But I overheard police officers discussing, like a love triangle.

I'm starting to believe that there might be more to this than just a missing person.

College kids in a college town that first with of freedom can lead to some less than responsible, even reckless, behavior. But in the case of missing freshman Christian agr, campus police had begun to suspect something sinister may have happened. So they called in a veteran detected from the games. Bill pd.

when I first walked in, there was two girl city in the lobby, which was arka freeman and her sister. There was a male, which later I had found that was paid bra, was in an interview room.

You pater yes, a pater. Since puro was the last person known to have seen Christian, he taught the list of people detective andy Roberts wanted to speak to.

I wanted to hear mr. Robot story from beginning to end. exactly. He had told PPT so I could get a feel for what was going on.

OK do you hope it's that he's not .

missing for a me too? So in the last forty eight hours, when have you seen .

Christ yesterday pedro .

repeated his account of that last day. He'd seen his friend how the'd run some errands, grabbed by to eat swang over due best bite so Christian could pick up the latest ky. VCD.

That's them around three P. M. Smiling as they walk .

through the store.

And again, he told the story of how they picked up a hitchhiker in a rough part of town.

Think he was, he's around, i'd say me fifty, but I can't sell because he had a big White but SHE bearing with him. So but at the fifties around that.

what house was he dressed?

Any hair here I had detective .

Roberts then press pedro about how and why he, in Christian parted ways. That night he roll revealed that after dropping off the higher, he and Christian got into an argument about a girl. But he had nothing to do with erica. Remember, Christian and Erica had been trying to keep their new relationship a secret. This was about another girl from high school .

altogether and I I made a comment about like this girl had a crush on for like three years and he's bored his hard out to earn IT and didn't work out and he just got he got mad like this song for a few minutes and then he he told me to stop, stop the car. He wants to get out. I was angry and too, so I stop the car and I said, fine, get out.

The investigator listened with a skep year as paid row described, driving away, stopping at mcDonald, and then going home to bed with no idea as something that happened until this phone ring at four I am. And erika told him that Christian was missing.

I got up and tried to go back to sleep, but I couldn't because I like I was, because I felt kind of guilty, because I drop off. I was afraid like, what if something happens? What if he's lost right now?

Payer roll, let them search es car for any clues related to Christian. And bingo, they found something interesting.

They found a receipt showing that someone here or someone else using his vehicle had made a trip to mcDonald during the night.

mcDonalds, where petrol claimed he eaten right after Christian had jumped out of the car, call IT seven pm and change. And yet the receipt was time swamped much later, twelve fifty four A M more than five hours later than he told them.

You forget you love to mcDonalds in the middle that maybe you forget, maybe you go back .

and forth with. Detective robberts .

started sounding more like an interrogation makes.

And for that story about ht hiker, the cups checked IT out but couldn't come .

up with anything. We check the surveilLance video in the area where they said, dropped him looking, didn't find anybody. We checked every businesses to see if there was someone like that match description in the hitch I and finding one.

So was patrol bravo hiding .

something, things like that.

Well, there was just when IT seemed the interview was ending. Patro decided to keep talking. There was something he'd left out.

It's one thing I have to tell you, because you is, you and I can keep everything from you and I to tell you one thing.

And that one thing was huge.

like in the scuffle, is he wasn't just really an argument. I made the comment about his, the girl, I guess, a crush on, and he got angry at that, but then he came back with, maybe you like, maybe you just kill yourself and that's when I turn around and punch straight .

the face five. This was a new detail he'd never mentioned. Pedro was now admitting to leaving his study by the side of the road, bleeding from a sock and the road.

I'm starting to believe that there might be something more to this than just a missing person. But what?

While investigators tried to figure this out, they decided they couldn't let pedro go home. So they charged him with depriving a victim of medical care for bloody in Christians nose and then leaving him on the side of the road. Meanwhile, the search for Christian was only getting bigger, and for his family and friends, more desperate.

What's going through your head is that like, it's me, alex. I'm out here in the woods. I'm trying to find you. Where are you?

Yeah, I think when we were searching is just more just to do something because you feel so useless and so helpless. So you're just they're in what .

posters are going up.

We're hanging posters. We're hang our flyers during the football. And because this was football season gains.

ville police were doing their own searches too, as they focus more and more of their attention on pedro bravo and is robby story. They executed a search of his apartment less than two days after Christian had gone missing. And what do they find? Stashed way up in patrol closet.

we found Christians backup, hidden inside of pagers backup, then hidden inside of a suitcase.

So why would a friend have another friends backpack?

That's all you can say. Why would pay jo hide this backpacks so excessively? Because IT was very well hidden. So we thought this is pago trying to cover up.

Paja was gone from being a person of interest to a suspect.

Yes, IT was very quickly. I felt, I bet all happened. And it's hard to swallow something that huge when it's, you know, this is somebody even known for so long.

Erica had to face the possibility that maybe SHE in Christian hadn't been so good at keeping secrets. Maybe pedro had known all about their relationship and IT had sent him over the edge.

But I overheard police officers discussing that that I like a love, jealous rage kind of thing. Go like a love triangle. I think they had to decide.

So how do you bear up with that?

Um I didn't want to think of that. I didn't I couldn't imagine somebody doing something so far, especially somebody as smart pedro.

But when the crime scene text process pedro S S U V, there IT was blood. Now the police believe pedro hadn't just punched out Christian. They believed he killed him on the friday, a week after patrol, bravo had helped report his good friend missing. He was charged with first agreement or so paid to your high school boyfriend, is in your life for a long time, is now charged with the first degree murder of the guy you're describing as the man of your life.

Yes, exactly what happened with strings? Strange life I have.

But there's an axiom, homicide work, no body, no case. Investigators hadn't found Christian's body. So what else were they finding out about .

petrock prover coming up the case, heads into court and the star witness?

I want to be around him, the Young .

and now facing pedro and a painful.

I got really emotional, and I got really, I got really thrown back. I was just like, you know, why do you want to show me this?

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As pedro bravo SAT in jail charged with the murder of his friend Christian ega, the search for Christian continue his family, clinging to hope, but fear in the worst.

You are looking all day from sunrise, sunset with people you, you are meeting along the way, a bunch of volunteers, police officers.

But after three weeks of searching, just down this road here is where those two men found human remains. On friday afternoon, two hundred, walking through some average, came across a body buried in a shallow grave. IT was Christian .

in a way we had expected IT. We were just waiting for that phone .

call to actually happen. Eric could not .

absorb the news. You never want to just accept that kind of views, but least we're able to find him.

State of florida versus pedro bravo. Nearly two years after Christian died, his high school friend paid roll was now on trial for a murder. He pleaded not guilty. Era, your personal belief, do you believe that pedro killed Christian?

yes.

why? For what reason?

I think IT was a mixture of jealous y academically, and a mixture of jealous a involving me.

central to the prosecution case, simple high school geometry, a love triangle Christian, his new girlfriend Erica and her x pedro bravo, a motive as old. This time, the prosecutor said.

mister robb's plan, it's not just to a motor persian argument. That's just a part of he's got to reunite with her.

The prosecutor painted a picture of a teenage you're not just depressed over the break up, but obsessed with getting Erica back. And his star witness was the very objective pedro obsession, a very nervous erica.

I don't want see him. I don't want to be around him. I didn't want to fAiling near him. I just wanted him gone with paid row.

barely looking at her era re just some of the nonstop text messages pedro had been sending her.

I came all this way. I miss you like crazy. You and I love you despite everything that happened and may be, i'm stupid, but I can't help the feeling and am so sorry, i'm so so sorry.

understand? The prosecution asked eric to read out loud sections of paid rose journal thoughts that would show the jury just how fixated on her he was.

I can win her back. I will win her back. I want to give up everything to be with her again.

But IT was the side of an evidence back containing Christian's backpack, his personal stuff, from a carefree, happy time that caused eric to lose IT. On the stand.

I got really emotional. I got really, I got really throw back. I was just like, you know why? Why did you have to bring this out? Why do you want to show me this?

And the prosecution wasn't done. There was more to its theory of motive. Despite their best efforts, Christian and era hadn't done a very good job concealing their relationship from pedro pater.

went into Christian's facebook and email council, read conversations between Erica and prison.

So Christian was the romantic rival, and he needed to go argue the state.

But we know that he knew about a prior to them going off that day.

And this wasn't simply a crime of passion. The prosecution charged IT was a cold, premeditated murder. The prosecution alleged patrol s started plotting his friends murder on september sixteen, four days before Christian disappear.

He's at home and he's honest. Computer google .

searches were found on patrols, laptop questions like, what is lord m can rubbing alcohol knock someone out and what kinds of murders gets solved? And here on security video is pyrr o at a walmart buying a sleeped ID product, fifty five yards of ducks, tape hand, a hunting knife in his hand was a shufu he just bought at, lose, literally bite the murder of start pack.

And as the prosecution theory goes, payroll use those items to drug and strangle his friend right inside his car. And nine, twenty four, eleven, that blue blazer pulls in. They show the jury's surveilLance camp video, or pedro S.

U. V, in a walmart parking lot. Investigators believe inside the vehicle, the murder is going down.

They sit there for a long partito time and then pull up a little father and sit there for another long perty time when .

he leaves that parking. Virgin ago are dead. He murder in the car.

Forensics confirmed that was Christians blood that investigators had found in patrol SUV. And they discovered even more intriguing evidence in the trunk. An empty gateway bottle cake with residue from a sleepy ID and and anti histamine put .

in those two combinations together in a large quantity would cause someone to lose consciousness.

Once Christian was dead, pedro had to dispose of his friends body. And the tale of how that happened, the prosecution said, was told by pedros phone. His iphone had been on airplane mode for more than five hours that night, but investigators could see that patrol had used an APP, the flashlight APP for forty eight .

minutes he's using the flashlight is very increase as body.

And the prosecution had yet another piece of physical evidence, IT said. Tide pay rope beyond the reasonably doubt to the murder duck.

when we found Christian angularly body, he had ducked take, wrapped around his ankles, his rise and his neck peace from his ankle was identified as being torn from the same piece of tape that was inside pda, brother s. windchill.

When Peter roll was done bearing his friend, the prosecution said he stopped mcDonalds for that bite to eat. Then he drove to a car wash.

So one a clock in the morning we have paid. Your brother is pulling up to a car wash and washing his vehicle for twelve minutes tells me that he's trying to get rid of evidence.

When he got home, Peter washed, disclosed and crawled in bed in time to get era's four A M. Phonecall asking of Christians whereabout who dunk him.

major brolin who put him in the grave, major brother who killed him about after calling .

nearly fifty witnesses to the stand, the prosecution rested its case. The defense, though, thought I needed only one witness. In response, paid roberval was about to take the stand .

coming up that he would have a dramatically different story to tell. Did you drink the concoction and the gator ate bottle? Yes.

I think the concussion knows in the gateway boat.

Could the evidence presented against him actually .

help clear him?

The prosecution portrait of pedro bravo was clear and unforgiving. He was so fixated on winning back his former girlfriend. He would kill anyone who got in his way, anyone.

I didn't think Peter ever deserved to walk the streets. I don't think that would be safe for anyone, for him to be out in the real world with Normal people. You know, I think he, I think he could be boring social part.

But the defense had a lip side to .

the petrol bobo narrow eight year old on a student for miami charter academy.

But he had issues .

that you want to talk to his best friend about .

his best friend. That's what the defend said. Christian was to paid row right up to the time he disappeared. His lawyer insisted that payroll never saw Christian as a romantic rival. That's because he didn't know that Christian and eric, we're dating until that day in the police station.

And do you know? good.

Yeah yeah.

Have you know?

And now the jury was about to hear from pedro himself, and only pedro, the sole witness for the defense. And when he took the stand, the jurors didn't see some hawking psychotic ler, a pale, intelligent, love, sick boy in a tidy suit.

I graduated from dual .

economy is the distinctions.

I graduated my lad.

Though he denied any male stored, Christian Peter did concede another key element of the state's case. He was desperate to rekindle his relationship .

with Erica freeman. I still know that, like, I was still very nice to her, and I really wanted .

get back with her. And when IT became clear that he wasn't coming back, he told the jury he sank into a deep depression about eric and everything else in his sad, disintegrating life.

basically how I I felt like a failure. Everything's a mess. Everything feels like a mess, and I feel like i'm breaking apart piece by piece.

That's why he made plans to hang out with Christian that afternoon. He wanted help from his old friend.

This is one of the people like to talk to about this, because you'd also gone through a the same thing.

So how did that man and man talk end up in a first fight? Pedro says IT started after Christian said something.

turbine, and he tells me what, you go kill yourself.

So what happened next? I turned .

around and I hit him in the nose with my life is.

what are you driving?

Why i'm driving .

is that punch? The face could explain how Christians blood ended up in the car. Next, pay row told the jury that he pulled over and the fight moved into the street. But after a few minutes, pyro L, L left the scene.

What is crisis condition when you leave?

I like to tell us that he didn't get up right away when I was still moving.

So breathe, yes. When you did this, did you have any licious intent to kill Chris n. agua?

no. He was all spare the moment.

right and inside to leave.

yes.

And do you have you come to regret .

that decision?

I feel like i'm to regret that decision for those of my life.

So pedro admitted he thought Christian, but claimed he didn't kill him. And as he drove away, pedros said the only person he wanted to destroy was himself. That's when he says he decided to do IT suicide.

Now was this just, uh, suicidal or or we're going to act on IT? I was .

gonna on IT.

So all that evidence presented by the prosecution wasn't about murder. IT was about the drug list. Gateway cocktail wasn't meant for Christian IT was meant for pedro himself.

Did you drink the concussion in the gathering bottle?

Yes, I drink. The concoction is in the .

gathering bottle. Obviously an unsuccessful suicide attacks, but the defense argued pedro's desire to end his own life was very real. Pedro was combing the web for information about clora m, rubbing alcohol and sleeping pills because he was planning his own death. He even brought along the hubble as part of his plan.

And the beginning I was gonna go, date myself, migrate.

So the jury had to decide who is paid, a bravo, a killer without a conscience, or a self destructive love? Sick boy. But before they got the case, prosecutors gave the jurors something else to consider, some of the weirder evidence ever to come from a jail house snack.

Could you say your name please? Michael?

Charles Angelo, Michael Angelo, who had cut, deal with prosecutors and exchange for lyon sea in his own case, was a cell mate of petrol bravo.

And one day he said he needed my so sled, a chip back on to my door that I had a note in IT.

The note asked the cell mate to find someone on the outside to commit a series of murders similar to Christians killing, suggesting that the real murderer was still at large and he paid. Drop was innocent. He wrote, three to four people, unfortunately, must die.

They are random individuals, but preference would be two U. F. Students taste to incapacity and strangle to kill, then have the hands stocked, taped. It's basically a plan .

to convince the world that Christian angular was murdered by a serial killer who is still out there.

So just as the jurors struggled to get their heads around this bizarre twist, the trial came to an, and the fate of pedro bravo was in their hands. So much for one family to go through, you could see the tension on their faces as they began waiting for the virna.

T we will talk to each other. That day wasn't a day to celebrate.

Whatever the jury had decided, whatever the jury decided, ka, knew there would be sorrow all around. In fact, the jurors came back in less than four hours, and they found paid roberval guilty of murder in the first degree, a verdict the family wanted. But there were no winners that day. About an hour later, Peter roll bravo faced the judge at his sentencing, insisting to the end .

that I did not kill krishna lar. I know in my heart what I did, and I know god knows what I did.

Clearly unmoved, the judge sentence bravo to life without parole.

The day after the verdict.

Christian's family made a heart branching visit to the place where their beloved son's body had been found, and Christian's brother alex embraced an opportunity that had a bitter sweetness to IT graduating from the university of florida in game. I've always .

followed the example in school, and all that examples is gone. So I have to, I guess, just follow my own work.

Eric had got her degree in games will, along with memories that he will Carry forever. SHE can't forget that fleet moment when he fell in love with Christ, and then he was gone just like that.

We were not even doing that long and we have the death talk. We had, you know, what happens if something happened tomorrow? You got hit by car and he looked at me like, I don't know, do without you. I don't know what I would, you know and I looked when I was like, how tell you what you're going to do? You're going to find somebody and you're going to live your life.

Do you ever get up in the morning just shaking your fish and outrage of the havens? Pedro, why did you do this to me, not just Christian as the victim? You.

you become a victim too. It's so difficult sometimes still think of IT that way I would still give anything perception to be here. There's not in any other joke toes and another under the smile I see you and I look up for more anger and something it's not onna happen again. They're .

just memories.

That's all for now unless your halt. Thanks for joining us.

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