Transcript of The Scream Murder, Episode 2: Caught in a Lie

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Hi, this is Connor McCarthy. Today we're back with another episode of The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story. Remember, if you can't wait for more, you can listen ahead to the entire series right now, ad-free, when you subscribe to 20/20 True Crime Plus. Just click the link in the description to sign up. Terms apply. Now, here's the next episode.

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Last October's brazen daytime heist at the Louver was shocking. Now, nearly a year out, there are still critical questions to be answered. Where did they go?

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And second, where did they come from?

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In this series, I'll take you inside the events of that day like you've never heard them before, through the eyes of the people who lived them.

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On the pavements, I saw something shiny.

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You did see the crown?

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Yes, exactly.

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Heist at the Louver, a new series from ABC Audio, available now ad-free on Amazon Music.

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It's September 2006 in Pocatello, Idaho. The murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddard terrifies and enrages this small town. The investigation quickly leads to 2 unusual suspects, high school classmates of Cassie's. One of those classmates was just caught lying to detectives. I'm Pat Rogers, here with Connor McCarthy, and this is episode 2 of The Scream Murder. True Teen Horror Story podcast.

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Time is 9:50, September 22nd, 2006.

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So when we left the last episode, Bryan Draper had admitted that he had been lying about what he and Torey Adamczyk had done once they left the house where Cassie was murdered. He had said that he and Torey went to a movie. But now he says that's not true, and he has a new story about what happened that night.

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And I'm here to tell you, you didn't go to the movie.

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Okay.

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You were not at that movie theater.

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We didn't go to the movie.

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Okay, okay.

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I don't think you're the type of person that could kill somebody cold-bloodedly.

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Hey, look, especially my close friend.

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Especially your close friend.

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Of course.

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Okay.

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He came clean. All right, you got me. We didn't go to the movies. We were doing something else. What I'm about to play is the police interview with Bryan Draper and his second story he's gonna tell them.

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Hold on a sec, okay?

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Okay.

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I can tell you what we were doing. I was trying to hide this, but I guess I have to tell you now.

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You're gonna have to, man. It's your only way out.

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Um, we went through cars. And that's against the law. That's why I don't want to say that.

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Okay, you went through cars. What does that mean?

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Uh, we check for the cars that they aren't locked. Where at?

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Where was that?

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Where at? Connor, you could tell there was a bit of a rug pull for detectives here. His new story is, I was going through cars.

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Which is plausible because this is something that some teenagers do. They go around, Grab a handle, the door unlocked. What am I gonna find inside? Some change, maybe a dollar or 2, pack of cigarettes, CDs at that time. Um, but you want to know why he lied in the first place?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a murder investigation.

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It's a murder investigation. There's something interesting he said, because I know it's against the law.

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Yeah.

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Now, Pat, this is a 16-year-old kid. Is he more concerned with what his parents are gonna find out versus what the homicide detectives are gonna find out? Who is the one that he fears most? Because you're a kid. Am I gonna get grounded because now I'm gonna have to fess up that I was breaking into cars while my friend was, was murdered? The point is, this is the second story that Brian has told. And here's Detective John Ganski.

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I think with the juveniles, sometimes they're reluctant to tell us things that might get them in trouble. Maybe seems trivial to us, but it's a big thing You know, to them, and because of the stage they're at in their life, and the reason why they lied about going to the movie is because they were doing something, something else. And that something else that they were doing is that they were burglarizing or going through cars in the neighborhood of Whispering Cliffs near where Cassie was house-sitting.

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He is an unreliable narrator at this point because he is already capable of one lie, and police need to Once again, dig into this alibi.

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Will you be able to direct us to where those cars were?

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Uh, I remember seeing a long road and we went uphill.

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And Tory should be able to direct us to that?

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Yes, he should be able to direct us to that. He was driving. I was driving, so I don't know exactly what—

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So just like the movie, can you tell us any details about the movie? Who was in it? What was it about? Couldn't tell him. So they start down the same path Which cars? What color were they? What streets were they on? What did you get? What was the make and model? Don't know. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know. He had no information about the cars he allegedly was breaking into. And again, this is about the same time that police believe Cassie was murdered. So once his second story kind of falls apart, can't name any of the cars, no details, again, police really start to close in. And Detective Andy Thomas sort of grabs onto this thread now, the car break-in thread.

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The car burglary thing's not happening, okay?

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That's what happened.

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These are the types of situations that you don't lie in. Everything else in this world is game, and I'm a firm believer in that. I don't give a shit if you lie in anything else to a cop, whatever. When it comes to a murder, of a beloved friend, you do not lie, okay? The second part of that is I want you to take a deep breath and I want you to think about what part of this that you're, that you're involved in, okay? How much of this are you involved in?

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And if you are, that's fine. We can deal with that.

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Fine.

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We can deal with that.

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But you guys are ridiculous. We're not being ridiculous. You're gonna kill my friend. Brian, I didn't kill Cassie.

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Did anybody? Do you know who did?

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No, I don't know who killed Cassie.

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In the video, you can see Detective Thomas is right in front of him, staring right into his eyes, but Brian doesn't break eye contact.

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Yeah.

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But now he's been caught into 2 lies, and detectives don't like when you lie to them.

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And they offer Brian what they offered Matt. Hey, come in, take a polygraph. Maybe we can get you out of this.

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Let's clear this up.

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Let's clear this up. Brian immediately and enthusiastically says, yes, I will come in and I will take a polygraph.

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The confidence just hits a 10. It goes right from sullen, I didn't kill my friend, to absolutely, I will take this polygraph test. Let's do it. He's ready to clear his name. Everybody knows that polygraph test results are inadmissible in court. But detectives love them. They love it. They love them. You know, it's like you said, it's a tool that they can use. There's a psychology that they use.

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And they can argue it either way. You don't want to take a polygraph? If somebody doesn't want to take it, why don't you want to take it? That's odd to me, says the detective. Or if you take it and fail it, why'd you fail it? What are you lying about? Here's what John Ganski said.

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Polygraph tests are controversial at best. I think sometimes they can be useful, not the actual polygraph itself, but the interview process that comes with the polygraph and the possibility of your body indicating that you're lying. A lot of the times, we get the truth not from the machine, but from the interview process. Our next step with Brian was that he'd given us a story, and he agrees to a polygraph examination.

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And that was pretty much the end of the interview. And his mom, Pam—

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Pam.

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—drove him home.

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Drove him home.

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This is what she had to say about that whole situation.

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Well, the whole thing worried me. I mean, I was— I was worried for my family. I was worried for my parents who were elderly. I was worried for my daughter. I was worried about Everything at that point. And I was extremely worried for Brian because he was so quiet and withdrawn. Something was definitely telling me that he— he knew more than he was saying. He kept telling me he can't believe she's gone. He just kept saying, I can't— I can't believe she's gone, Mom.

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So, the Bryan that she sent into the room was different than the Bryan who came out of that room.

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Mm-hmm. All right, so maybe this is a good time to back up and talk a little bit about Bryan Draper's family situation, his background, and their whole situation. Connor, you met with his parents.

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Yeah, I met both Pam and Bryan's dad, Cary, when I was in Idaho. And, you know, they are— hardworking small-town residents, you know, trying to raise their kids. Bryan was actually adopted. They had a difficult time getting pregnant. So how they saw it, he was a blessing because they weren't sure if they were ever going to be able to have children. And then they were able to adopt him. His biological mother was quite young, so they adopted him as a baby and raised him as, as their son. Here's his dad, Cary.

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Bryan is very talented. In many ways, he flew through his education as an A student without trying. He was a musician from early on, played the piano. You'll find his room where he had a drum set. Yeah, he was down in that room pounding on the drums and playing this, and we loved it. In my mind, Brian was the Perfect son.

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So, when this came up, they were just blindsided by their son, who seemingly perfect all the way up to age 16, is now being questioned by police. Like, none of this tracks. This doesn't make sense.

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So, Bryan leaves, agrees to come back and take a polygraph. But meanwhile, police are still investigating. They're not just waiting for Bryan to take his polygraph. And that investigation rightly centered on Pocatello High School because you got Torey Adamchuk, Bryan Draper, Cassie, and Matt. All of them are students. Where would you go to find out more information about students than the high school? So, the students told us there were police in the hallways, police in the vice principal's office. You know, imagine how disruptive this is in a high school. And despite the fact that Matt had passed his polygraph by now— There were rumors.

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This is Dani Dixon, a former Pocatello High School student.

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Yeah, I remember initially how crazy it was. I remember everyone crying. There was counselors swarming the hallways. Just, yeah, everyone holding on, it felt like, to each other a little tighter. And so everyone was like, oh, Cassie's boyfriend, he was there and he was her boyfriend. And so you've seen a lot of crime movies. Like, I think people just thought, oh yeah, like, he probably did that.

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And this is frustrating for investigators because nobody knows that they had already talked to Matt and they had cleared him of any connection to the homicide. Yet they go into the hallways of Pocatello and everyone points the finger. It's the boyfriend.

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Right.

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With no other basis other than, well, I've seen a lot of movies and you know how things unfold in crime documentaries. It's always gonna be the boyfriend in the end. So, it's a frustrating setback. They're not progressing very much in the investigation at school. All they have right now is Bryan Draper. We need to follow up with his story and see what happens with his polygraph test.

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The following day, he comes back to the police station, but this time he's not alone. He doesn't have a lawyer, but he does have his mom and his dad. Pam and Kerry are there by his side. He sets up to take a polygraph. He's ready to clear his name like he said. But that is not what happened.

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John's on his way. How are you? I'm fine.

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Brian was in the interrogation room, nervous, scared, and he wanted to talk to police.

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Just tell me you wouldn't hate me. Really. Just tell me you wouldn't hate me.

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In the police interview, you can see Brian in the center of frame, Kerry just to his right, and Pam with Detective Ganski and Thomas. Everyone is looking at Brian. What is he about to say? He's highly emotional. It's about to explode out of him.

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Sure, yeah, I'm sure.

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He acted friendly, he talked friendly, he sounded friendly.

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They all knew that I did the scary boogie stuff.

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And I said, maybe she'll find out where this girl is.

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I saw him violent. Backhanded her.

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Pow!

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We didn't— we, we were real shy and we parked on the side of the gate. Okay.

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So Brian tells police that they left the house at 9:30. But what he says next is both shocking and case-altering forever. It is another major turning point here. He says that they doubled back and came back inside the house.

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They had no plans of actually leaving. They just wanted to convince Cassie and Matt that they were going to see a movie. That was never the plan.

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They come in through the basement where they had been earlier that night, and they had unlocked the door. You remember they were down in the basement playing with the weight machine. When they did that, they took that opportunity to unlock the basement door knowing that they were going to come back later. And that's part of the explanation of why the lights were going out. Brian explains that.

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Can you tell us a little bit about this? Did you mess with the lights or anything? Yeah, power box? Yes, sir. We went there when, uh, Matt was still here, and then we went, we turned all the lights off to scare him. Okay, so was your intent when you do those lights is to get him to come downstairs?

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Yes.

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Okay, so you thought he was going to jump out? Yes.

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Part of this confession, the sobbing, the The stuttering, the stammering, it's, it's hard to get what he's saying piecing together. He can barely get it out, get the words out. But he just said, we were just trying to scare them.

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Yeah. Okay.

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So what he's suggesting is a plan.

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Yeah. He also goes on to tell police that to lure them down into the basement, they had smashed an ashtray. And if you remember from episode 1, there was this glass that was at the bottom of the staircase. They couldn't really figure out why it was there. There was no windows broken, and there were no windows anywhere near this part of the basement. But they'd turn the lights off, off and on. They'd smash the glass in an attempt to scare them.

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As we talked in episode 1, when Matt was describing this, Cassie, Matt, And the dog are at the top of the stairs. They're looking down into a pitch-black basement. Now we know it was Brian and Torey. And keep in mind, Brian's parents are sitting right next to him. This is all brand new to them. This is brand new to everybody in that room.

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Remember, they thought, oh, we're coming in for a polygraph. He's gonna— he's maybe hiding something, but we'll be gone in a couple hours. This is— they're sitting here in real time Listening to this plot unfold.

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We were wearing masks that we had. Okay, what kind of masks?

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Uh, Halloween.

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Yeah, Halloween masks.

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He just says they put on Halloween masks.

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I mean, is it from the show Halloween? No, no, they're white and then we painted— I had mine was all black and stuff, it just red all over it.

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You can see Pam in the video tighten up.

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Yeah, she recoils.

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She puts her hand up to her face, almost hiding, shocked again. Like, where is this going? This is not a story he told me when I was at home with them all weekend or after the first police interview.

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We had the 2 masks. We had the guys, of course.

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Let's take a step back and remember Brian's first interview early on, they're just getting to know each other. What do you like? Movies. What kind of movies? Horror movies. What kind of horror movies? Slasher movies. Cut to him in the confession saying, we donned masks, we carried knives, we went up to scare her.

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He then explains that he and Torey waited in the basement until they heard Matt's mom come and pick Matt up and leave. So now they know that Cassie is alone in the house. And this is when they make their move.

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Brian and Torey walk up the stairs, knives in hand, masks on face, reach the top of the stairs. Cassie is in the living room, 20 feet away. She turns, she sees the two of them. What Brian is saying was that that's where it was going to end.

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So, Torey stepped in front of me, and he walked over here, and then hit— Cassie was saying, who's there? And stuff. And I was about to say, you know, hey, and then she screamed. So I walked closer and he was really stabbing her. And I was, you know, what's going on? He was just saying, dude, I killed her, I killed her. Like, what are you talking about? Okay, so you guys, you turn when he's stabbing her. Where are you at in the living room? What he's suggesting is Brian thought, we're just gonna do this to scare her.

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So you're saying that Tori stabbed her? All the stab marks, Tori did it? Yes.

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Brian puts everything on Tori. Torey attacked, stabbed Cassie to death.

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So the big question is, okay, because we have Cassie's body, okay? Yes. And we're gonna go find the knives and we're gonna compare the knives to the wounds. Okay? Yes. At any time, is your knife gonna be shown on her body? I didn't touch Cassie.

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When watching the police interview, Brian's dad, Cary, is in the corner of the room. He's trapped. He cannot move. And you see him gripping his son's shoulder. You see him tightening himself up. He is stuck in the worst possible place he could imagine.

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I think at that point in time, to a certain extent, I had checked out. I really say that because I don't— I think I was just going through the motions. I think I stopped thinking. I felt like I was watching a movie of somebody else's life. I knew he was toast. I knew I lost my son. I knew it.

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The cameras are still rolling even though the confession is over, and The cameras capture a very personal moment with this family in this time of extreme stress. Uh, Pam, Kerry, and Brian sort of lock together in embrace, and Pam says something to Brian.

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You've earned it. I don't want no ice. I don't want no soup.

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You are an incredible boy.

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An incredible boy.

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I talked to her about that moment in particular, and she said, even after hearing that he had been a part of this crime, he's still my boy. You know, you never stop being a parent.

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Then we went back in the room, and like I said, the first question he asked is, can I go back to school? And then before, when they were leaving, I believe is when I hugged him and told him that he was an amazing boy, and I was— It sounds weird. But that's the son I raised. The one who, even though he was naive about the finality and what was going to happen, he still went in and told the truth. And he's still my son.

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And that was—

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that never changes. He will always be my son.

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This may be controversial, and there are a lot of people out there that certainly do not want to hear a mother calling Bryan Draper incredible minutes after he confessed to participating in Cassie's death.

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Yeah.

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But she felt in that moment she needed to do something because of what he had just done. And he, as Kerry said, had no idea of what was coming for him. And they felt like they just needed to take a break. And just be parents for their only son, regardless of what just happened.

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Sure, that's her take. Incredible is not the word I would use.

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I wouldn't use that word, but they're in a highly unique situation and they're making this up as they go. No one's prepared for this.

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I think what you said is on the money, and it's understandable that she would do this. But I think people watching and Cassie's family might not think that Bryan Draper is an incredible boy. There's one other very strange moment captured by the cameras that was outside of the interrogation. So, Pam and Kerry were not in the room. The detectives were not in the room. Bryan's alone. The cameras are rolling, and he starts talking to himself, but he's also talking to Kassi. He addresses Kassi As if she's still alive.

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She was far enough. I didn't know. Imagine you being I would have stopped it, Cassie. I wish I would have stopped it.

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I will protect you, Cassie. I would have stopped him. I wanted to be your boyfriend. He's talking as if she's still alive.

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He's center frame. The camera's on him. Do you think he's aware that the camera is rolling?

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Well, that's the $64,000 question. Either he's had some sort of weird psychotic break where he's talking to her as if she's alive. I would stop him. I want to be your boyfriend. Either that's the case, or he knows those cameras are still on and is sort of constructing a, I would have stopped him, you know, Again, Tory did it.

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I love you.

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Did this kid in the moment come up with this, like, scheme to sort of, look, look, I'm apologizing to her, I wanted to be your boyfriend? Or is he really just— well, broken brain syndrome?

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That's the part that works against his story. I want to be your boyfriend. This is a different context.

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Yeah.

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He clearly had a liking. He had a crush on— I would, I would say from what he just—

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He's saying it.

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I had a crush on you, Cassie.

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Yeah.

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If you have a crush on a girl, do you put on a mask and wield a knife and go upstairs and terrorize her? No.

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Yeah.

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That doesn't track with someone who has a teenage crush on a girl. So for Brian, he confesses. They have a version of events. that closely coincide with the crime scene of how she died. But there are so many details between that. We have Brian's word, a person who's been caught lying not once, twice. Unreliable narrator. He's closer to the truth. They said, okay, Brian, we have your confession. You're putting it all on Torey. Now we need the evidence that matches your story. The knives, the mask, where is it? Because remember, nothing was found at the crime scene. And then Brian agrees, okay, I'll take you to Black Rock Canyon where everything is.

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Now, Black Rock Canyon, when we were making the documentary Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story, we went out there with Detective Ganski. And saw this area. You know, we were talking before about how Pocatello is kind of isolated. This is a good example of it. It's only 10, 15 minutes maybe outside of town, but you think you could be on the moon.

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It's pitch black at night. No one's going to be out there, but you can still hear the traffic from a distance. You're not that far away.

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Yeah.

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So you can go out there in 10 minutes, do what you want to do, and be back in town. And no one would notice.

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So what Brian said about Black Rock was that after they had killed Cassie, they drove out there and buried this evidence out there. So this is where Brian, after his confession, um, leads police out there, and he locates, even in the dark, um, the area where they had buried everything, and they start pulling out exactly what Brian said they would find there. The black clothes, the masks that they wore.

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These masks were clearly homemade, papier-mâché, and then they designed them themselves. They, they sprinkled paint down, bloody, you know, smears that were coming down, um, for maximum effort to terrify Cassie, uh, seemingly seconds before she was murdered.

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And then they pulled the knives out of the hole.

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And, and these— what we've been told from the autopsy report was one of them was a serrated knife. That doesn't do it justice. These were 10 to 12-inch long daggers, hunting knives almost. Uh, if you recall, the Rambo knife is sort of a moniker for this.

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So clearly this horror movie theme is something that's on their minds, and we'll see in later episodes That it's— it comes really to the forefront in a way that nobody could have predicted when this all started. The other thing they found in this hole of evidence was something that Brian had never mentioned, and it wasn't a murder weapon, and it wasn't something they wore there. It was a tape, a videotape.

00:32:20

A tape?

00:32:21

Yeah, what's that doing there?

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I mean, what is that doing there? And it looked like someone had tried to damage it, set it on fire. Maybe that's why Brian never mentioned it, but he knew that it was in that cache with everything else.

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So you think he didn't mention it because he thought, oh, it's so badly damaged, they'll never get anything off of it?

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Destroyed. Everybody at the police station, all investigators involved, were quickly notified. Guys, there's a tape, and our technician's been able to recover the footage that's on that tape. Everyone is brought into a single room. Everyone's gonna watch it at the same time. No one knows what they're about to watch, and are they about to watch something that they are going to regret?

00:33:02

Mm-hmm.

00:33:04

When I sat down with John Kansky and we got to the moment of the tape discovery, I could see him reliving this 20 years ago, that this was going to be a defining moment for him.

00:33:19

So we get a call that they got the videotape, they've, they've fixed it, looks like they'll be able to play it. They're in the conference room. Andy and I arrive about the same time. We walk in and you can hear a pin drop in the room because nobody in the room knows what we're about to see. And are you prepared to see what you're going to see?

00:33:40

There was so much tension as they're waiting for the technician to hit play. Opening shot is the camera in the hallways of Pocatello High School. Kids are moving around, they're going to lockers, they're getting stuff. It appears that Bryan is doing most of the camera work. Now, what's strange about this tape is that it jumps around because it's out of order. It's happening on multiple days. We're in March of 2006. And then we jump to September 21st, the day before Cassie is killed. But early on, something happens that catches everyone's breath in that police room when they're watching it. It's a shot of the camera, POV, Brian holding it, walking down the hallway, which is almost empty. You see a student off in the distance, in a row of lockers. As you get closer, you realize it's Cassie.

00:34:51

Hey, look, it's Cassie.

00:34:54

Ryan spins around, puts the camera on her, says—

00:34:59

Hello, Cassie. I'm getting you on tape, okay? Say hi, please.

00:35:07

Hi.

00:35:07

Okay, see ya.

00:35:09

Wait, have you seen Tory? He's supposed to meet me here at 7:30 and it's 8:19. He's an hour late. You don't even care, do you? Okay, see ya.

00:35:27

When you look at the timestamp, it's September 22nd, This is the day that they killed her.

00:35:33

He approaches her on tape in the hallways of Pocatello High School. Um, certainly a, a huge shock for anybody that's watching this.

00:35:44

She's in the clothes that she's killed in.

00:35:47

Yeah.

00:35:48

It's hard to watch.

00:35:49

Yeah.

00:35:50

It's clearly Bryan taunting her.

00:35:53

Yeah.

00:35:53

Is he taunting her with a plan to kill her? Is he taunting her with the plan to only scare her, and is that going to be a part of this tape? What else is on this tape?

00:36:04

Okay, so seeing Cassie at her locker alive the morning of September 22nd, knowing that that night she would be murdered, is certainly heartbreaking and shocking and diabolical kind of at the same time.

00:36:21

This tape is 35 minutes Seeing Cassie at the locker is one of the earlier scenes, if you want to call it that. And what police are going to see is that Brian and Torey captured the rest of their day and into the night. What is on this tape that Brian and Torey did not want anyone to see?

00:36:43

The most shocking parts are still yet to come, and we're going to explore that on the next episode.

00:36:50

We checked out the whole house. We know there's lots of doors. There's lots of places to hide.

00:36:57

And then in the video, you see them— they're driving there to commit this crime.

00:37:01

There should be no law against killing people. Just killed Cassie. We just left her house. Shut the fuck up. We got to get our act straight.

Episode description

In episode two of The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story, Brian Draper is caught in a lie, police dig in, and a shocking videotape is discovered.

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