Transcript of The Scream Murder, Episode 3: Hello Cassie New

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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?

And second, where did they come from?

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.

On the pavements, I saw something shiny.

You did see the crown?

Yes, exactly.

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In the midst of police investigating the brutal murder of Cassie Stoddart, they come across a videotape Found buried along with the knives and masks Torey Adamchak and Bryan Draper used in Kassi's murder.

Hello, Kassi.

The teen killers tried to destroy the tape, and police are about to find out why.

You could hear a pin drop, 'cause nobody in the room knows what we're about to see.

We're gonna be just like Scream, except real-life terms.

This is episode 3 of The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story podcast.

My name is Pat Rogers, and that's Conor McCarthy. On our last episode, Bryan Draper had just led police to a shocking videotape that he and Torey Adamczyk had made. We're going to go deep into that tape on this episode and much more. But I think it would be a good idea to just to go back and reset and show the beginning of this tape, a clip that Bryan had made on September 22nd inside Pocatello High School.

It's a shot of the camera POV, Brian holding it, walking down the hallway. You see a student off in the distance in a row of lockers. As you get closer, you realize it's Cassie. Hey, look, it's Cassie.

Hey, look, I don't know. Hello, Cassie. I'm getting you on tape, okay?

Say hi, please.

Oh, hi.

Okay, see ya.

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.

Cassie doesn't reply to Brian's question. She just shrugs and half smiles, moving on with her day. Imagine detectives all in a single room watching this for the first time, seeing Cassie living, breathing, alive, going to school, at her locker, changing out books. Bryan Draper spins around almost taunting her.

Yeah, her friend.

Her friend. Timestamp, September 22nd, 8:29 AM. She will be murdered 10 hours later. And it's Bryan Draper behind the camera.

Yeah.

The one who said he had nothing to do with it. Torey did everything.

So they continue making this tape throughout the day. Here's another clip from it.

This is around 12:00 PM. So assuming this is lunchtime.

Yeah.

They're still in school. They are in the library. They've set the camera on the table. They're both talking to it. They're in a corner, almost whispering.

It's hard— a little hard to hear.

Because they don't want anyone else to hear what their plan is.

Obviously.

He's always been patient, you know, and we were patient, never getting paid off because I missed him so long. So we got our plan all worked out now. So I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Cassie's family, but she had to be number one.

We have to stick with the plan.

She's perfect, so she's gonna die.

So this is a different version of Brian.

Yeah.

He's talking directly to Kassi's family. I'm sorry she has to die. We've chosen our victim. We know she's going to be home alone. Everything he said in his confession is—

Right out the window.

Right out the window.

Yeah.

He is now appearing as the leader of the pack.

I don't know what to say.

It's been a lot of fun back here.

Okay. This is the plain meaning of the tape. We know what happened. We know he was there, at least when it happened. But is there still some possibility that this is just part of the big scare?

Right.

We know they're horror film buffs.

Right.

Are they making some kind of found footage horror film? That's popular at this time. So is Brian playing a part? Is this a fantasy? And that, as he said in the confession, Torey went after her. So did Torey— was he planning something that Brian wasn't planning? Did it get out of hand?

Now, this next clip comes after they left Cassie and Matt at the house where Cassie was house sitting. Just to give it a little context, Brian and Torey had gone over to the house with Cassie and Matt on Friday night. They had played around on a weight machine in the basement. They had gotten something to eat. They watched a movie. What Cassie and Matt didn't know is when they were in that house, they were casing it. And this next clip displays that.

Timestamp of 9:54 PM, the night of Cassie's murder. Brian says, we're here in his car.

The time is 9:50, September 22nd, 2006. Um, unfortunately, we have the grueling task of killing our 2 friends, and they are right in that house just down the street.

We just talked to them. We were there for an hour.

We checked out the whole house. We know there's lots of doors there. There's lots of places to hide. Um, I locked the back doors. It's all locked. Now we just gotta wait. And, um, yeah, we're really nervous right now, but, you know, we're ready.

It was like you said, it was to case the house. Look for different ways, different points of entry. How are we gonna get in? How are we gonna get out? How are they not gonna be aware of what we're really planning? The fact that they go out and they're now documenting this plan, laying it out. This is where we were. This is what we're doing right now. Here is the plan, and this is what's gonna happen. There's one more piece that I want to play from this section of the tape.

We waited for this for a long time.

A long time.

Good.

We'll stay tuned.

So it might have been a little hard to hear. Brian said, we've waited for this for a long time. Stay tuned.

Stay tuned, as if he's making a television show. We don't know if they've been planning to murder Cassie and then buttoning it with stay tuned, as if they're talking to their future audience. This is how you plot, execute, and commit a murder.

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They leave, park the car nearby, and sneak into the basement door that they had unlocked when they were in the house with Cassie and Matt.

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. This next bit of tape we're going to play is, uh, it's difficult to listen to, and not just because it's a little hard to hear. The content is— it's shocking. Um, and this, this piece we're about to, to play, uh, jumps ahead on the tape 2 hours.

11:32.

Which is after they've left Cassie's house.

Just killed Cassie. We just left her house. This is not a fucking joke.

I'm shaking.

I stabbed her in the throat and I saw her lifeless body just disappear. Dude, I just killed Cassie.

Oh, oh, shit.

That felt like it wasn't even real. I mean, it went by so fast.

Shut the fuck up.

We got to get our act straight. It's okay. Okay, well, let's buy movie tickets now.

Okay. Come on.

No.

Goodbye.

I mean, I've listened to this too many times, and every time, um, it's sickening. It kind of makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. You can hear Brian almost gleefully— not almost, he's gleefully saying, he's excited— I just killed Cassie. I stabbed her in the throat. In a few minutes, we're going to contrast this tape with another bit of tape that we have of Brian Draper, but this is A real shocking piece of video that I've just never seen anything like this.

I mean, I think we should describe it. He's pointing the camera, they're in the car, he's pointing the camera out of the windshield. He never turns the camera to Tory, who's driving. He never turns the camera to himself. It's seemingly a black frame.

Yeah.

There are 2 different energies in the car.

Yeah.

Brian is— you almost can, like, see him shaking because the adrenaline is rushing through.

His voice is like rushing to get the words out.

But there's, there's an elation to it. Torey is, you know, he says, you know, I'm shaking, but he's calmer.

Play that part again.

Let's play this again.

Just killed Cassie. We just left her house. This is not a fucking joke. I stabbed her in the throat and I saw her lifeless body just disappear. Dude, I just killed Cassie. Oh, that felt like it wasn't even real. I mean, it went by so fast.

Shut the fuck up.

We gotta get our act straight.

Tory's— sounds like he has a plan or something.

Stick with the plan. And it's hard to hear, but what Brian says before he hits stop is, okay, let's go get our movie tickets.

Go get our movie tickets.

There's the alibi. There's the plan, which they don't do.

They don't do. We talked about that in an earlier episode. We should just you know, catch everybody up again, is that the alibi was after we left Cassie and Matt, we went to see a movie called Pulse. And when questioned about the movie, Brian didn't know anything about it. He clearly didn't go to the movie. But you hear him here say, let's go buy tickets. We gotta go buy our movie tickets now. So, you know, his contention and his confession that, you know, this was all— this is all going to be just to scare her. Doesn't make any sense.

Now it's 11:45 PM. The movie is over at that point. So, it's almost as if they needed to— and I don't want to try to help them with their alibi, but it's almost they should have, when they left, go buy the movie tickets, and then someone sees you there, and then come back.

One thing, I don't want to belabor this piece of tape and Brian's section of it, but I think it's helpful to listen to it and understand it in context of the other bits of Brian tape. That we have. So let's just play this one more time. And I know it's unpleasant is an understatement, but let's listen to it.

I stabbed her in the throat and I saw her lifeless body just disappear. Dude, I just killed Cassie.

I stabbed her. I saw. I, I, not Torey.

Yeah.

But now we have to put that next to what he's told police.

Yeah.

In his interrogation. And the first version of Bryan Draper is— I wouldn't say he's calm, but at least in the beginning he's making sense. He's got a story. He's, um, trying to wriggle out of this.

He didn't look like he was sweating bullets when he was sitting in that chair.

Not the first time.

Wait, not the first time. For the detectives to come into the room, he's absentmindedly drumming. He's sitting there. He's— he checks his wallet at one point, looks at his cash. Why he needs to do that? That's fidgety Brian though.

Play a little bit of that tape.

What would you say is your favorite movie of all?

Of all time, my favorite movie would have to be— there's lots of choices. Um, to be honest, I would have to say Halloween, my favorite movie.

He's trying to snowball these detectives.

Yeah, he's got his— he's sitting at the table, he's got his hands folded. He's looking at Detective John Ganski. He's answering his questions, seemingly normal. You know, the body language is not saying this is someone that had that memory of the murder in his head as he's talking to 2 homicide detectives. Then we go to his confession.

Right.

And that's version number 2.

Yeah.

Of Bryan Draper. Sobbing, out of control, you know, riddled with remorse and guilt and It just got out of hand. It wasn't my fault. It was Torey that did everything.

Yeah. So, I walked closer, and he was really scowling.

And I was like, what's going on?

He was just shaking. I killed her. I killed her.

I'm like, what are you talking about?

Now we have version number 3 of Bryan Draper.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Cassie's family, but she ate the number 1.

Who, when you see on that tape, seems like a determined killer.

The 3 Bryan Drapers. Obviously, Bryan is arrested and charged with Cassie's murder. And the police, the investigators, John Ganski, Andy Thomas, all of them, they have all this information. They have this tape. They have Bryan's story. They have the the aftermath of Cassie's murder on tape. They haven't even talked to Torey yet.

Yeah.

So this is all going into their first on-camera interview with Torey Adamchak. They have all this in their pocket.

And as far as we know, the Adamchaks knew nothing about this. They didn't know Brian was arrested. They didn't know he was— he confessed. They don't know about the Black Rock Canyon evidence that was collected, and they don't know about the tape. And I wanted to hear what Shannon, Torey's mother, had to say about that. And this is what she told me.

We go into the police station and the police saying right away, we're questioning him, so he needs to answer these questions. I got— definitely got worried during that point. It's the first time Torey's really allowed to speak about it or that Torey spoke about it, because at home for those 3 days, my whole thing was He's grieving the loss of his friend. All of these emotional reactions is the loss of his friend. This is a terrible thing that happened. Um, you know, but never, never crossed my mind. And I think I can speak for my husband, never crossed his mind. There's just no way. Torey was not that kind of person.

So Torey Adamczyk arrives at the police station with his parents. And, um, just a moment about Torey. He's probably a head shorter than Bryan. He's, you know, just a regular-looking 16-year-old kid.

He's dressed in a t-shirt, jeans, and Converse Chuck Tees, like every other high school student during that time.

And we're investigating a homicide.

Yes.

That Cassie Stoddard was murdered. You've known Cassie for about how long?

From 10th grade.

Okay, so you've known her for a little while?

Yes.

Okay, um, so what is your relationship with Cassie?

Friends.

All right, fair enough. Um, so, uh, so you arrived there. What, what happened when you get there?

She— Cassie and Matt gave us a tour of the entire house.

So what they want to do is hear his story knowing what the real story is. So he starts off, and let's play this clip. He almost immediately has a departure from what Brian had said. If you remember, Brian had said, we left the house and we went to go see a movie, Pulse. Here's what Torey said.

And then we went back upstairs and Matt— Brian kept Saying he had to go because it was, uh, we just had— he said he was gonna call his mom. And so we left planning to go. We knew the movie started at 10, but we never got around to going to that.

Yeah, so that's where he veers away from Bryan Draper's story. There's a theory that the detectives believe, uh, that The night of Bryan Draper's interview, and he ended with, I did not kill my friend, and I will gladly take a polygraph test. He goes home. Detective John Ganski theorized that after he got home, at some point, he snuck out that night, and they met at a local gas station down the street from the Drapers' house.

Bryan gave it up early, as you recall. Okay, we're lying. We're lying about the movie because we pressed him. Then he rescripted the story to say, okay, we were burglarizing cars. So I think after that interview, he communicated with Tory, said, by the way, the story's changing. You gotta— this is the story you gotta tell.

They're not buying the movie.

They're not buying the movie.

Yeah, don't talk about the movie.

I ended it with, we were breaking into cars, we were checking doors, and we need to stick with that. So they already know the movie theory is BS.

So this is after Bryan's first interview, before he had come in to take the polygraph but had confessed. So he had ended on, just tell him we're breaking into cars.

And that is the last time Tore Adamczyk ever spoke to Bryan Draper on the outside. He has no idea that the next day Bryan confesses, takes him to where the evidence was buried, and then he's quickly arrested and he is in jail. Torey has no idea any of this has happened.

So it's 9:30. You guys decide you're gonna leave?

Yeah, we backed up and we took the same route we got to get in, and we just parked right before the road off to getting out, and we waited there for about— we were scoping the neighborhood because we were planning to go through cars.

Now, the detectives in the room, they wanted to see how far he was willing to lie.

When you say go through cars, what do you mean?

Oh, see the ones that are open? We don't go through any with alarms or that are locked. We just walk by, push the handle, and if it's open, we get in it and steal the gas money or change.

So, so have you done that before?

Uh, once this year and in 9th grade.

He's elaborating on the lie, and detectives always like to see how far someone would be willing to go.

Here's what John Ganski said.

Torey seems confident. He seems like he, he's maybe rehearsed the story a bit, so he feels comfortable with it, and he feels like maybe we're buying it. He has no idea that Brian's been arrested. He doesn't know what we know at the time. So at this point, he's just, he's sticking with the story.

And a lot of times people in Tori Adamchuk's position say, the more detail I offer, the more believable this lie is going to be.

Embroidery. Embroidery. Yeah. Yeah. But it's also the more detail you give on a lie, the harder it is to remember. Yeah. And you know who does remember are the guys interrogating you. They're noticing everything. So if you get locked into a story and you give a detail and they ask you to go through a story again and that detail's out, You know, that's something for them, another thread to pull on.

What's different about Torey's interview, when they go into the room, both Torey's parents are in the room with him. Another set of parents that, let's just get through this. Our son didn't do anything.

There's no way he could have done that.

There's no way he could have done this.

Are we almost done?

We honestly are.

Okay, so then, because our son has to be picked up in like—

what if we finish?

Could we finish in like 10 minutes? 10 minutes.

Well, this game's probably over. At one point during the interview, Torey's mother Shannon had to leave to pick up—

Right, she had something to do.

Yeah, to pick up their third child, their youngest son. So it's just Torey with his father in the room.

Here's what John Gansky said.

There was an interruption during this period of time where his, his mother had to leave. The interview, I had to go pick up another child, and it quite frankly kind of ruined our momentum a little bit. And at that point in time, you know, we just basically told— confronted him, just let Torey know that I don't believe you.

You know, I'm not here to insult you or anything, but we don't believe your story. And we don't believe your story, and I don't think your dad believes your story about going through the cars. It's a tough one. And I don't believe it especially because I know it's not true. We got you going back into Cassie's house.

Tori, you know where we're going with this.

Yeah.

You know what we have.

They had so much.

Yeah.

Why are we going to listen to this story from this kid? They put the clamp down on him pretty quickly.

You know, we just basically told him, I think now's the time to come clean. And you could tell that the wheels were turning when you looked into his eyes and you could see him that he's thinking, Do they really know what they know? And I truly believe he was getting ready to confess, and then he played the card of saying, I think, I think I need to talk to my attorney.

He doesn't seem to be intimidated in the situation that he is in.

No.

I mean, or the fact that his classmate had been murdered and Even when they turn the heat on him, he doesn't seem to fluctuate.

No.

This is the key part of his interview. Listen to this.

We know the details. We've got the knife that you used. We've got the masks that you used.

We've got the videotape.

We've got it.

There's a tape up in there that you buried.

Okay.

Try to catch on fire. All that stuff. You know, you know what I'm talking about. I don't need to tell you that.

This is right, Torey?

What they're saying is true?

Sure.

That was the voice of, uh, Torey's father who had been in the room with him. Is this true? And Torey says yes.

Quietly says yes and a soft nod. That's as far as he went to his involvement in this case. And then the interview shut down.

Yeah.

In an earlier episode, we discussed the case of Nori Jones, a murder victim in Pocatello, Idaho. And we said at the time, remember that name, Nori Jones, because it's gonna figure into this case. And this is how. Nori Jones was murdered 2 years almost to the day that Cassie was murdered. She was stabbed in basically the same way, almost the same number of wounds. It was like a a blitz attack. She was home alone like Cassie. So there are very eerie similarities between these 2 murders. And it was unsolved, of course, at the time of Cassie's murder. Once they got onto Tory— and this is why we asked you to remember this name, Norrie Jones— once they got onto Tory, they realized that his house at the time where he was living At the time of the Norrie Jones murder, was very close to Norrie Jones' house.

The proximity of the Adamczaks, that just sort of fell into detectives' laps when they saw that.

Yeah.

Of course, all of them had to pause and say, is this a possibility? Could it be a possibility? Nothing is too outlandish for what we know right now. Yeah, look at the tape they made. Look at the tape, look at the masks, look at the knives, and look at the murder they committed.

So there was some initial speculation, suspicion that Tory, who at that time would have been 14, this was 2 years before Cassie, had actually possibly murdered Nori Jones. That was not the case. The true killer, a guy named Brad Komfer, was caught, tried, convicted, and also sentenced to life in prison without parole. So that's, you know, Tory had absolutely nothing to do with that. with that, but police at the time had to at least consider it.

Yeah, I talked to Detective John Ganski about that, and he said, welcome to investigating a crime. Sometimes these things happen that send you down these roads that are ending— end up to be meaningless, but these overlaps and these coincidences, you have to look into them. Uh, and that just happens, and this was just a bizarre set of circumstances of The timing, the unsolved, the victimology.

But for now, both Torey and Brian are arrested and charged with Cassie's murder, and they're in the same county jail.

I get into the police station, and they had handcuffed Torey and arrested him while I was gone. And they tell us Brian's confessed. We have a videotape. They're going to be arraigned tomorrow. And I remember them telling me, he's gonna be looking at something like a 20-year prison sentence. And I remember thinking, he's 16.

I wanna take a minute to talk about the families. There are actually 3 families that were impacted by the actions of Bryan Draper and Torey Adamchak. Obviously, Cassie's family is devastated. Um, the cruelty that was inflicted on that family is just unimaginable. But there are 2 other families. And we thought it was important to talk to the Drapers and the Adamczaks directly. Um, these are 2 families whose lives are also changed forever in a very different way because of the actions of Bryan and Torey. I talked to Shannon Adamczak, Torey's mother, and I talked to Pam and Cary Draper. And when Cary talked about walking away after his son had been arrested, It's like his previous life just vaporized. It didn't exist anymore. What do you do? I mean, your greatest fear as a parent is something's gonna happen to your child. But your second greatest fear is your child does something to someone else. And that's where the Drapers were, and that's where the Adamczaks were. The Drapers lived in a very nice house, sort of on the edge of Pocatello. Kerry rose up through corporate America.

He—

Traveled a lot, something that he now regrets. And his motive was, the more I work, the more money I make, the more cars in the garage, the bigger the house, the more toys for my son and my daughter, his 13-year-old at the time. And then suddenly, everything fell apart. It's before and after. What we talked about early on was what happens— you're living your life, and suddenly there's a knock on the door. You open it, and it's 2 homicide detectives who want to talk to your 16-year-old son. Bryan had a little sister. She was friends with a lot of people. Everybody knew each other. And I asked Cary about that. How do you break the news to your daughter that her older brother is not coming home, and he did something terrible? And this is what he had to say about that.

She was 13, 3 years younger than Bryan. We drove up into our driveway, and the house was flooded with police all over the house, all over the yard. So at that moment, I had no choice and told her, your brother was involved in Cassie's murder. And she freaked out. It was the scariest thing. I'll never forget it. No. She just kept saying, no, no, no, no, no. And just flailing. She didn't want to think about it. She didn't want to realize it. She didn't want it. She just wanted it to go away. It devastated her. It took her childhood. She was 13.

You know, there's a hole here in, in this podcast, and that is Cassie's family. I spoke to Anna at length early on and interviewed her, and she is not here in this podcast because she died. And she was more or less the best advocate for Cassie, for the family. She was her spokesperson. And Obviously, she, she couldn't be a part of this, and that's why there seems to be— if there is a hole here, that is it. But I think if she could respond to that, she would say, you know, her sympathy would be limited for the Drapers and the Adamczaks. As deeply sorrowful as Kerry is here, there is no comparison.

Yeah.

He said that it took his daughter's childhood. Well, it also took Cassie's future. And I think that's, you know, kind of what we should remember.

The news of Brian and Torey's arrest, like, just pulverized Pocatello. I mean, a 16-year-old girl is murdered by 2 16-year-old classmates who were her friends, who was friends with her boyfriend, friends with Cassie. It was a total shock to everyone. But what was interesting when we talked to several of the students, former students, they started to piece together the memories of where they were over that weekend to that Monday morning. And Miranda, a fellow classmate of Brian and Torey's, remembers both Brian and Torey were at school that day. And this is what she had to say.

I remember Brian being behind me in astronomy class that Monday morning. And he was jittery. He was anxious. He was shaking my chair, you know. He— there were baskets underneath of the desks at school, and everybody put their feet on there. And then it— I don't know if it was anxiety, just bouncing. I remember it pretty significantly. And then the day after, um, he wasn't there. So I thought it was suspicious. I really did at the time. But I didn't say anything. Like, why all of a sudden is this person not here? You know?

They went to school that Monday morning. They were sitting there as people were talking about— people are grieving, people are in shock. The killer was in the classroom. I mean, it's right out of a Hollywood movie. You know, what were they thinking? What was going on in their heads as they're watching the reaction to the news of the murder and also the investigation that's coming into the high school?

You know, you, you just said, you know, it's sort of like something out of a horror movie, like a teen horror movie where the killers are in the school. In a lot of ways, it was. They made a movie about it, and they also referenced a very popular horror movie franchise, Scream.

You wanna die?

The day before Cassie's murder, September 21st, 8:38 PM. Brian and Torey were driving around Pocatello that night. Brian has the camera and this is what they say.

We're not okay. They were sick psychopaths that get pleasure of killing other people.

That sounds good, baby.

We're gonna go down in history. We're gonna be just like Scream except real life terms. That sounds good, baby.

Brian says, It's gonna be just like Scream, except in real life terms. Just like Scream. Let's do 60 seconds on what Scream is and how the horror film element continues to weave itself into this case. Scream came out in December of 1996. Cassie was killed in September of 2006. 10-year anniversary of this, of this movie. On the surface, it's a, it's a slasher movie. But there was a flip with Scream, that it was meta before anyone knew what meta was. It was self-aware of the tropes.

Yeah.

Yet it followed the tropes. And throughout the movie, one by one, knife-wielding masked killer preying on high school students. Brian and Torey were obsessed with this movie. The opening scene of Scream is one of the most iconic, I mean, I would say movie moments in film history. Uh, it's Drew Barrymore. She's home alone and she's stalked and murdered by a masked killer. Her name in that movie was Casey.

Casey, Cassie.

Casey, Cassie. 2 letters off. We don't know if that had anything to do with it, if it was just a coincidence.

Yeah.

The other component is this: on the tape, there is a little clip of Brian playing the drums. It's September 22nd, the day of Cassie's murder. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. He's getting it out, his energy. He gets up, he has the camera probably stationed on his dresser, he grabs the camera to turn it off, and just as he hits stop, the camera passes his television.

What's on?

The opening scene of Scream, you see Drew Barrymore, Casey, on the phone. It's almost like his hype song. He is preparing for murder. Drums, the movie. And there's one other thing that I want to point out. Slasher movies in general are these masked, voiceless killers. Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees. Spoiler alert, In Scream, it's not one killer, it's 2 killers.

Billy and Stu.

Billy and Stu, not these ghouls. Billy and Stu, the, the teen heartthrob and the class clown. It was almost as if they saw a reality in these 2 characters as opposed to, I want to be just like Jason Voorhees, I'm gonna wear a hockey mask and walk around with machete. I think that's, that's noteworthy that This movie had a profound influence, but in no way is it the reason why they did it. It was almost as if it was a, a guidebook to how to get away with a murder.

Obviously, these kids were obsessed with horror movies. It seems as if they were making their own. And like any hit horror movie, there's always a sequel. And in this case, that holds true. Brian and Torey were planning a sequel. Cassie was their first victim, but she was not to be their last. And we're going to get into that in the next episode.

We're going to go snoop around over there and try to see if she's home alone or not. And if she's home alone, splat, she dead. People will die. Even memories will fade. Kill them one by one.

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