1 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,200 >>> THERE'S DEFINITELY MYSTERIES 2 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:19,833 INVOLVED IN THIS CASE. 3 00:00:19,833 --> 00:00:21,300 >> IT WAS A COLD MORNING. 4 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:23,633 EVEN SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND. 5 00:00:23,633 --> 00:00:26,500 THE CALL CAME OUT AT 5:37 IN THE 6 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:29,500 MORNING. 7 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:34,933 >> MY WIFE SHOT HERSELF. 8 00:00:34,933 --> 00:00:39,733 >> COLBY TRICKLE HAD CALLED OUR 9 00:00:39,733 --> 00:00:41,400 DISPATCH. 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,367 ANY MENACE ON THE PORCH? 11 00:00:43,367 --> 00:00:44,800 >> WHERE'S THE HOUSE? 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,733 >> THIS ONE. 13 00:00:45,733 --> 00:00:47,767 THIS ONE THAT'S RED AND WHITE. 14 00:00:47,767 --> 00:00:49,933 >> DID HE SEEM UPSET? 15 00:00:49,933 --> 00:00:51,533 >> I MEAN, THERE WERE TEARS 16 00:00:51,533 --> 00:00:52,667 COMING DOWN. 17 00:00:52,667 --> 00:00:55,167 IT WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 18 00:00:55,167 --> 00:00:57,200 HE WAS CHOKED UP. 19 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,167 WE GO UP TO THE DOOR. 20 00:00:59,167 --> 00:01:03,233 START MAKING ANNOUNCEMENTS 21 00:01:03,233 --> 00:01:03,467 INSIDE. 22 00:01:03,467 --> 00:01:05,099 >> POLICE DEPARTMENT. 23 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:08,633 >> LOOKING TO MY LEFT IS WHEN I 24 00:01:08,633 --> 00:01:09,500 FIRST SEE KRISTEN. 25 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:11,300 I COULD SEE THE MOVEMENT OF HER 26 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:17,267 JAW. 27 00:01:17,267 --> 00:01:19,867 >> SO SHE WAS STILL ALIVE. 28 00:01:19,867 --> 00:01:21,467 >> WE WERE HOPEFUL. 29 00:01:21,467 --> 00:01:22,333 >> COULD SHE BE SAVED? 30 00:01:22,333 --> 00:01:27,433 >> NO. 31 00:01:27,433 --> 00:01:30,067 >> AFTER YOU DID YOUR AUTOPSY, 32 00:01:30,067 --> 00:01:32,700 HOW DID YOU RULE ON KRISTEN 33 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:34,366 TRICKLE'S DEATH? 34 00:01:34,366 --> 00:01:35,467 HOMICIDE OR SUICIDE? 35 00:01:35,467 --> 00:01:38,667 >> SUICIDE. 36 00:01:38,667 --> 00:01:41,167 >> THE VICTIM'S FAMILY IN THIS 37 00:01:41,167 --> 00:01:43,100 RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE WAS JUST 38 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:46,567 ADAMANT THAT THIS WAS NOT A 39 00:01:46,567 --> 00:01:46,833 SUICIDE. 40 00:01:46,833 --> 00:01:49,866 >> THE SCENE WAS KIND OF 41 00:01:49,866 --> 00:01:50,100 UNUSUAL. 42 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:52,667 WE HAD A FEMALE WITH A LARGE 43 00:01:52,667 --> 00:01:55,167 WEAPON LAYING IN BED. 44 00:01:55,167 --> 00:01:58,667 IT'S NOT COMMON TO SEE THAT. 45 00:01:58,667 --> 00:02:01,100 >> YOU HAVE A REPLICA, A VERY 46 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:02,200 SIMILAR TYPE OF GUN. 47 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,100 CAN YOU SHOW IT TO ME? 48 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:05,233 >> SURE. 49 00:02:05,233 --> 00:02:07,667 >> HOW LARGE -- OH. 50 00:02:07,667 --> 00:02:09,800 >> IT'S PRETTY HEFTY, AS YOU CAN 51 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:10,067 TELL. 52 00:02:10,067 --> 00:02:11,800 >> I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED. 53 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,967 >> IT'S AWKWARD TO MANEUVER. 54 00:02:13,967 --> 00:02:16,267 NOT SOMETHING YOU WOULD EASILY 55 00:02:16,267 --> 00:02:17,600 TURN ON YOURSELF. 56 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,133 >> WE HAD EVIDENCE THAT LED US 57 00:02:20,133 --> 00:02:21,767 TO BELIEVE THAT COLBY TRICKLE 58 00:02:21,767 --> 00:02:23,133 HAD KILLED HIS WIFE. 59 00:02:23,133 --> 00:02:25,900 >> I DO NOT BELIEVE HE DID IT. 60 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:29,200 I WAS COLBY TRICKLE'S DEFENSE 61 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:29,466 ATTORNEY. 62 00:02:29,466 --> 00:02:31,167 WHEN HE CALLED 911, SHE WAS 63 00:02:31,167 --> 00:02:32,500 STILL SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE. 64 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:35,433 HAD HE INTENDED TO MURDER HER, 65 00:02:35,433 --> 00:02:39,933 IT SEEMS ODD THAT HE WOULD CALL 66 00:02:39,933 --> 00:02:40,233 IMMEDIATELY. 67 00:02:40,233 --> 00:02:43,933 I THINK IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT 68 00:02:43,933 --> 00:02:45,567 KRISTEN TRICKLE PICKED UP A GUN 69 00:02:45,567 --> 00:02:47,433 IN GREAT ANGUISH AND ENDED HER 70 00:02:47,433 --> 00:02:47,933 LIFE. 71 00:02:47,933 --> 00:02:49,800 >> A PROFESSIONAL CAME IN AND 72 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,233 LOOKED AT THE LIFE OF KRISTEN. 73 00:02:52,233 --> 00:02:55,067 DUG INTO EVERY ASPECT OF HER 74 00:02:55,067 --> 00:02:55,233 LIFE. 75 00:02:55,233 --> 00:02:56,067 GOT INTO WHO KRISTEN WAS PRIOR 76 00:02:56,067 --> 00:02:59,367 TO HER DEATH. 77 00:02:59,367 --> 00:03:01,867 >> SO BASICALLY, THIS IS A 78 00:03:01,867 --> 00:03:03,633 PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY TRYING TO 79 00:03:03,633 --> 00:03:05,233 FIGURE OUT THE STATE OF MIND OF 80 00:03:05,233 --> 00:03:07,133 A PERSON WHO DIED. 81 00:03:07,133 --> 00:03:08,133 THAT'S DIFFICULT TO DO, ISN'T 82 00:03:08,133 --> 00:03:08,300 IT? 83 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:11,567 >> YEAH. 84 00:03:11,567 --> 00:03:13,733 >> AND HAD THIS EVER BEEN DONE 85 00:03:13,733 --> 00:03:15,200 IN THE STATE OF KANSAS BEFORE? 86 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,466 >> NEVER IN A CRIMINAL CASE, NO. 87 00:03:23,233 --> 00:03:31,700 * 88 00:03:33,067 --> 00:03:40,500 * 89 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:07,767 * 90 00:04:07,767 --> 00:04:11,233 >>> SERGEANT BRANDON HAUPTMAN OF 91 00:04:11,233 --> 00:04:12,133 THE HAYS POLICE DEPARTMENT 92 00:04:12,133 --> 00:04:15,067 VIVIDLY REMEMBERS THE DARK COLD 93 00:04:15,067 --> 00:04:16,899 OF THE HALLOWEEN MORNING AS HE 94 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:18,832 ARRIVED AT KRISTEN TRICKLE'S 95 00:04:18,832 --> 00:04:19,067 HOME. 96 00:04:19,067 --> 00:04:20,767 >> THE BEDROOM SHE WAS IN WAS 97 00:04:20,767 --> 00:04:21,933 THIS WINDOW ON THE LEFT. 98 00:04:21,933 --> 00:04:24,233 >> OH, THE BEDROOM IS RIGHT 99 00:04:24,233 --> 00:04:24,467 THERE. 100 00:04:24,467 --> 00:04:26,133 >> THAT'S THE BEDROOM RIGHT 101 00:04:26,133 --> 00:04:26,367 THERE. 102 00:04:26,367 --> 00:04:28,633 >> AND THE MOMENT HE FOUND THE 103 00:04:28,633 --> 00:04:29,900 26-YEAR-OLD NEAR DEATH IN BED. 104 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:31,567 >> I COULD SEE THE FIREARM. 105 00:04:31,567 --> 00:04:34,332 FROM WHAT I COULD TELL 106 00:04:34,332 --> 00:04:39,167 INITIALLY, A LARGE CALIBER 107 00:04:39,167 --> 00:04:39,700 REVOLV 108 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:39,967 REVOLVER. 109 00:04:39,967 --> 00:04:41,367 >> HOW WAS SHE DRESSED? 110 00:04:41,367 --> 00:04:43,400 >> SHE WAS ALMOST FULLY 111 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:44,067 UNDRESSED. 112 00:04:44,067 --> 00:04:45,467 SHE WAS JUST WEARING UNDERWEAR. 113 00:04:45,467 --> 00:04:47,133 >> AFTER SHE SHOWED SIGNS OF 114 00:04:47,133 --> 00:04:49,267 LIFE, HE QUICKLY MOVED THE 115 00:04:49,267 --> 00:04:50,600 REVOLVER AWAY FROM HER AND 116 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,067 CARRIED HER INTO THE LIVING ROOM 117 00:04:52,067 --> 00:04:53,332 FOR CPR. 118 00:04:53,332 --> 00:04:55,167 >> THE ONLY INJURY THAT I COULD 119 00:04:55,167 --> 00:04:56,633 SEE AT THAT POINT WAS THE 120 00:04:56,633 --> 00:04:57,933 ENTRANCE WOUND. 121 00:04:57,933 --> 00:04:59,533 >> WHERE WAS THAT ENTRANCE 122 00:04:59,533 --> 00:04:59,800 WOUND? 123 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,733 >> UNDERNEATH HER CHIN HERE. 124 00:05:01,733 --> 00:05:04,467 >> THERE WAS NOTHING THE FIRST 125 00:05:04,467 --> 00:05:05,800 RESPONDERS COULD DO FOR KRISTEN. 126 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,200 >> I WENT OUT TO COLBY ON THE 127 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:14,567 PORCH AND TOLD HIM SHE HAD DIED. 128 00:05:14,567 --> 00:05:17,100 >> HAUPTMAN'S BODY CAMERA WAS 129 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,500 ONLY RECORDING AUDIO THAT DAY. 130 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:22,167 >> SHE DIED. 131 00:05:22,167 --> 00:05:26,832 I'M SO SORRY. 132 00:05:26,832 --> 00:05:29,100 >> ARE YOU SURE? 133 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:32,500 >> SERGEANT HAUPTMAN SAID HE 134 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:34,067 ASKED KRISTEN'S HUSBAND COLBY TO 135 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:35,600 GO TO THE POLICE STATION SO HE 136 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,400 COULD TELL INVESTIGATORS WHAT 137 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:37,667 HAPPENED. 138 00:05:37,667 --> 00:05:41,500 DID HE SEEM TO BE COOPERATIVE? 139 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:42,233 >> HE WAS. 140 00:05:42,233 --> 00:05:46,467 WE GOT HIM SOME SHOES. 141 00:05:46,467 --> 00:05:47,100 >> AT THE STATION COLBY SAID 142 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:49,267 HOURS EARLIER, KRISTEN HAD COME 143 00:05:49,267 --> 00:05:52,332 HOME FROM WALMART WHERE SHE 144 00:05:52,332 --> 00:05:53,067 WORKED IN THE GARDENING CENTER 145 00:05:53,067 --> 00:05:54,633 AND THE TWO PLAYED VIDEO GAMES. 146 00:05:54,633 --> 00:05:56,767 HE WENT TO WIFE BEFORE HIS WIFE, 147 00:05:56,767 --> 00:06:00,100 HE SAID, AND WOKE UP TO HIS EARS 148 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:01,267 RINGING. 149 00:06:01,267 --> 00:06:02,433 AND THEN FOUND KRISTEN LYING 150 00:06:02,433 --> 00:06:04,967 NEXT TO HIM WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND 151 00:06:04,967 --> 00:06:08,600 TO HER HEAD. 152 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,867 >> I RAN UP TO HER AND SHE WAS 153 00:06:12,867 --> 00:06:14,467 JUST LOOKING AT ME. 154 00:06:14,467 --> 00:06:20,867 >> THEN WHAT DID YOU DO? 155 00:06:20,867 --> 00:06:22,467 >> I RAN OVER TO MY PHONE AND I 156 00:06:22,467 --> 00:06:23,867 CALLED 911. 157 00:06:23,867 --> 00:06:24,767 >> HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS WHILE 158 00:06:24,767 --> 00:06:27,800 HE WAS ON THE PHONE WITH 911, HE 159 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,933 CHECKED KRISTEN'S PULSE BUT FELT 160 00:06:29,933 --> 00:06:30,167 NOTHING. 161 00:06:30,167 --> 00:06:32,667 THEN PICKED THE REVOLVER OFF HER 162 00:06:32,667 --> 00:06:32,867 BODY. 163 00:06:32,867 --> 00:06:36,332 >> WHERE WAS THE GUN? 164 00:06:36,332 --> 00:06:39,667 >> IT WAS LAYING BY HER NECK. 165 00:06:39,667 --> 00:06:40,867 I PULLED IT BACK. 166 00:06:40,867 --> 00:06:42,467 >> FOR A MOMENT HE SAID HE 167 00:06:42,467 --> 00:06:43,733 THOUGHT ABOUT TAKING HIS OWN 168 00:06:43,733 --> 00:06:48,667 LIFE. 169 00:06:48,667 --> 00:06:53,167 >> I STARTED TO PUT, PUT IT TO 170 00:06:53,167 --> 00:06:54,700 MY HEAD. 171 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:57,832 BUT I WAS ON THE PHONE. 172 00:06:57,832 --> 00:07:00,867 THEY SAID THEY WERE SENDING 173 00:07:00,867 --> 00:07:01,133 PEOPLE. 174 00:07:01,133 --> 00:07:02,967 I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY COULD HELP 175 00:07:02,967 --> 00:07:03,633 HER. 176 00:07:03,633 --> 00:07:05,333 >> WHILE COLBY TRICKLE WAS STILL 177 00:07:05,333 --> 00:07:08,533 AT THE STATION, KRISTEN'S AUNLT 178 00:07:08,533 --> 00:07:10,167 DELYNN AND UNCLE BRANT RICE, A 179 00:07:10,167 --> 00:07:12,533 LOCAL PASTOR, FOUND OUT KRISTEN 180 00:07:12,533 --> 00:07:13,333 HAD DIED. 181 00:07:13,333 --> 00:07:18,767 >> I GOT A CALL FROM MY MOM AND, 182 00:07:18,767 --> 00:07:20,633 THE WORST PHONE CALL EVER TO 183 00:07:20,633 --> 00:07:20,800 GET. 184 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,167 SHE SAID KRISTEN IS DEAD. 185 00:07:22,167 --> 00:07:24,600 SHE'S BEEN SHOT. 186 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,433 AND IT WAS JUST -- MOM, THAT 187 00:07:26,433 --> 00:07:26,933 CAN'T BE RIGHT. 188 00:07:26,933 --> 00:07:28,433 THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT. 189 00:07:28,433 --> 00:07:29,867 THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE. 190 00:07:29,867 --> 00:07:33,067 >> BUT MORE BAFFLING WAS THAT 191 00:07:33,067 --> 00:07:35,367 COLBY HAD SAID KRISTEN' DEATH 192 00:07:35,367 --> 00:07:37,267 WAS A SUICIDE. 193 00:07:37,267 --> 00:07:38,167 >> WHAT DID YOU TELL 194 00:07:38,167 --> 00:07:39,267 INVESTIGATORS INITIALLY? 195 00:07:39,267 --> 00:07:41,600 WE JUST DON'T THINK SHE WOULD DO 196 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:41,900 THIS? 197 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:43,133 >> 100%. 198 00:07:43,133 --> 00:07:44,733 THERE'S NO WAY OF ALL THE PEOPLE 199 00:07:44,733 --> 00:07:45,733 I KNOW IN THIS WORLD, THE LAST 200 00:07:45,733 --> 00:07:47,600 PERSON I WOULD EVER THINK WOULD 201 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,067 TAKE THEIR OWN LIFE WOULD BE 202 00:07:49,067 --> 00:07:50,467 KRISTEN BECAUSE OF THE JOY SHE 203 00:07:50,467 --> 00:07:51,167 HAS. 204 00:07:51,167 --> 00:07:52,832 >> IT'S SO OUT OF CHARACTER TO 205 00:07:52,832 --> 00:07:54,967 KRISTEN AND HOW SHE SOLVES 206 00:07:54,967 --> 00:07:55,233 PROBLEMS. 207 00:07:55,233 --> 00:07:56,800 SHE'S NOT A RUNNER FROM 208 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:57,067 PROBLEMS. 209 00:07:57,067 --> 00:08:00,433 >> DELYNN AND BRANT RICE SAID 210 00:08:00,433 --> 00:08:01,933 HER FAMILY AND HER TWO DOGS 211 00:08:01,933 --> 00:08:03,167 MEANT THE WORLD TO HER. 212 00:08:03,167 --> 00:08:04,833 >> THE THOUGHT OF HURTING 213 00:08:04,833 --> 00:08:07,133 HERSELF IN ANY WAY -- 214 00:08:07,133 --> 00:08:08,467 >> OR ANYONE -- 215 00:08:08,467 --> 00:08:10,467 >> IS SO FOREIGN. 216 00:08:10,467 --> 00:08:12,067 SHE WOULD NEVER TAKE HER LIFE 217 00:08:12,067 --> 00:08:14,967 AND NOT TIE UP LOOSE ENDS WITH 218 00:08:14,967 --> 00:08:17,600 HER FAMILY, MAKE SURE HER DOGS 219 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,800 HAD SOMEWHERE TO GO. 220 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,067 >> AND THEY BELIEVED THEY KNEW 221 00:08:21,067 --> 00:08:22,767 HER BETTER THAN JUST ABOUT 222 00:08:22,767 --> 00:08:24,133 ANYONE ELSE. 223 00:08:24,133 --> 00:08:26,332 THEY HAD WATCHED HER GROW UP. 224 00:08:26,332 --> 00:08:28,133 >> IT IS HARD TO FIND A 225 00:08:28,133 --> 00:08:30,433 PHOTOGRAPH SHE IS NOT SMILING 226 00:08:30,433 --> 00:08:32,767 JUST FULLY. 227 00:08:32,767 --> 00:08:33,967 SHE HAD HAD THAT SMILE EVEN 228 00:08:33,967 --> 00:08:36,732 THOUGH DELYNN AND BRANT SAY 229 00:08:36,732 --> 00:08:38,500 KRISTEN HAD A TOUGH CHILDHOOD. 230 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,200 HER MOTHER LEFT HER AND HER 231 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,667 FATHER WHEN KRISTEN WAS 2 YEARS 232 00:08:42,667 --> 00:08:42,933 OLD. 233 00:08:42,933 --> 00:08:46,067 WHEN SHE WAS 17, KRISTEN MOVED 234 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:47,800 I WITH HER AUNT AND UNCLE AND 235 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,067 THEIR THREE KIDS. 236 00:08:50,067 --> 00:08:55,200 DELYNN AND BRAND SAY SHE 237 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:55,567 THRIVED. 238 00:08:55,567 --> 00:08:56,133 >> SHE LOVED BEING WITH OUR 239 00:08:56,133 --> 00:08:56,367 FAMILY. 240 00:08:56,367 --> 00:08:57,933 SHE LOVED THE PEACE IN OUR HOME. 241 00:08:57,933 --> 00:08:59,733 >> CHLOE IS THEIR DAUGHTER. 242 00:08:59,733 --> 00:09:00,933 >> SHE WAS MY OLDER SISTER 243 00:09:00,933 --> 00:09:03,100 FIGURE IN MY LIFE AND I REALLY 244 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:04,400 LOOKED UP TO HER. 245 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,600 SHE WAS JUST LIKE ALWAYS THERE 246 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,833 TO MAKE ME FISMILE AND FEEL 247 00:09:09,833 --> 00:09:10,100 IMPORTANT. 248 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:13,667 >> THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHEN THEY 249 00:09:13,667 --> 00:09:14,167 MET COLBY. 250 00:09:14,167 --> 00:09:15,800 THEY WERE BOTH 18 YEARS OLD. 251 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,500 >> COLBY ATTENDED OUR CHURCH. 252 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:19,700 FOR A TIME HE WAS ON THE WORSHIP 253 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:21,567 TEAM AT OUR CHURCH. 254 00:09:21,567 --> 00:09:24,267 THEY ARE THE BAND THAT PLAYS THE 255 00:09:24,267 --> 00:09:25,700 WORSHIP MUSIC DURING OUR 256 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:26,067 SERVICES. 257 00:09:26,067 --> 00:09:29,267 HE WOWED HER WITH HIS GUITAR 258 00:09:29,267 --> 00:09:30,167 PLAYING ABILITIES, SONGS THAT HE 259 00:09:30,167 --> 00:09:35,800 HAD WRITTEN. 260 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:36,067 * 261 00:09:36,067 --> 00:09:38,733 >> BUT JUST FIVE YEARS LATER, 262 00:09:38,733 --> 00:09:40,767 KRISTEN WAS DEAD AND COLBY WAS 263 00:09:40,767 --> 00:09:45,367 SAYING SHE TOOK HER OWN LIFE. 264 00:09:45,367 --> 00:09:47,267 CORONER LYLE NOORDHOEK EXAMINED 265 00:09:47,267 --> 00:09:48,900 THE SCENE, AND LOOKING AT THE 266 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:51,100 WOUND, HE BELIEVED THE REVOLVER 267 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:54,133 WAS IN CLOSE RANGE TO HER CHIN 268 00:09:54,133 --> 00:09:55,700 WHEN IT WAS FIRED. 269 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:57,567 IN NOORDHOEK'S EXPERIENCE, THAT 270 00:09:57,567 --> 00:10:00,067 WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR A 271 00:10:00,067 --> 00:10:01,433 SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND. 272 00:10:01,433 --> 00:10:02,967 HOW WOULD YOU BELIEVE THE 273 00:10:02,967 --> 00:10:04,467 REVOLVER WAS BEING HELD? 274 00:10:04,467 --> 00:10:06,167 >> CLOSE TO THE CHIN AND 275 00:10:06,167 --> 00:10:07,600 PARALLEL TO THE BODY. 276 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:08,667 >> LIKE THIS. 277 00:10:08,667 --> 00:10:09,633 >> YEAH. 278 00:10:09,633 --> 00:10:13,367 >> BUT DETECTIVE JB BURKHOLDER 279 00:10:13,367 --> 00:10:15,233 HAD ALSO BEEN CALLED TO THE 280 00:10:15,233 --> 00:10:15,433 HOUSE. 281 00:10:15,433 --> 00:10:17,867 >> WE RESPOND TO SUICIDES. 282 00:10:17,867 --> 00:10:19,533 THEY HAPPEN SEVERAL TIMES A 283 00:10:19,533 --> 00:10:19,867 YEAR. 284 00:10:19,867 --> 00:10:21,967 >> TO HIM THIS DIDN'T SEEM LIKE 285 00:10:21,967 --> 00:10:22,467 SUICIDE. 286 00:10:22,467 --> 00:10:24,500 >> HAVING A FEMALE WITH A 287 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:25,767 GUNSHOT WOUND, ESPECIALLY TO THE 288 00:10:25,767 --> 00:10:27,933 HEAD, WAS UNUSUAL FOR US. 289 00:10:27,933 --> 00:10:29,900 >> WHY IS THAT MORE UNUSUAL FOR 290 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:30,100 WOMEN? 291 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:32,333 >> FOR WOMEN, THEY'RE A LITTLE 292 00:10:32,333 --> 00:10:33,500 MORE CONCERNED ABOUT LOOKS EVEN 293 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:36,667 AFTER DEATH, SO THEY HAD ABOUT 294 00:10:36,667 --> 00:10:36,867 THAT. 295 00:10:36,867 --> 00:10:38,267 >> AND THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE. 296 00:10:38,267 --> 00:10:40,300 >> WHEN I GOT THERE, I REMEMBER 297 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:44,933 AN ALARM GOING OFF. 298 00:10:44,933 --> 00:10:46,567 >> KRISTEN'S CELL PHONE ALARM IS 299 00:10:46,567 --> 00:10:48,633 HEARD REPEATEDLY ON AUDIO 300 00:10:48,633 --> 00:10:50,267 RECORDED BY FIRST RESPONDERS. 301 00:10:50,267 --> 00:10:52,733 >> I THINK I ACTUALLY SILENCED 302 00:10:52,733 --> 00:10:52,900 IT. 303 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:54,767 SHE HAD SET AN ALARM TO GET UP, 304 00:10:54,767 --> 00:10:56,667 GET READY FOR WORK, AND HAD 305 00:10:56,667 --> 00:10:57,400 PLANS FOR THAT DAY. 306 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,067 A LOT OF TIMES INDIVIDUALS WHO 307 00:11:00,067 --> 00:11:01,533 ARE THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE, 308 00:11:01,533 --> 00:11:03,400 THEY'RE NOT SETTING ALARMS. 309 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,767 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHEN THEY GET 310 00:11:06,767 --> 00:11:07,500 UP. 311 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:08,867 THERE WAS CANDY SET OUT IN THE 312 00:11:08,867 --> 00:11:09,933 KITCHEN AREA. 313 00:11:09,933 --> 00:11:12,067 SHE AND COLBY HAD PLANNED FOR 314 00:11:12,067 --> 00:11:13,467 HALLOWEEN TO GO ALONG AS IT 315 00:11:13,467 --> 00:11:15,667 NORMALLY WOULD WITH TRIG OR 316 00:11:15,667 --> 00:11:15,933 TREATING. 317 00:11:15,933 --> 00:11:17,700 >> AND NOTHING TROUBLED HIM MORE 318 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,067 THAN THAT WEAPON FOUND AT THE 319 00:11:20,067 --> 00:11:20,233 SCENE. 320 00:11:20,233 --> 00:11:22,767 DETECTIVE BURKHOLDER WASN'T SURE 321 00:11:22,767 --> 00:11:27,667 KRISTEN WAS THE ONE WHO FIRED 322 00:11:27,667 --> 00:11:27,833 IT. 323 00:11:27,833 --> 00:11:30,533 >> IT WAS A FULL-SIZE .357 324 00:11:30,533 --> 00:11:31,067 CALIB 325 00:11:31,067 --> 00:11:31,267 CALIBER. 326 00:11:31,267 --> 00:11:32,933 APPROXIMATELY 11 TO 12 INCHES. 327 00:11:32,933 --> 00:11:34,233 IT CAN BE HARD TO HANDLE. 328 00:11:34,233 --> 00:11:35,833 SO PLACING THAT UNDER YOUR 329 00:11:35,833 --> 00:11:37,667 CLINTON AND DISCHARGE THAT 330 00:11:37,667 --> 00:11:38,833 FIREARM DIDN'T SEEM VERY LIKELY 331 00:11:38,833 --> 00:11:42,467 FOR A SMALLER FEMALE. 332 00:11:42,467 --> 00:11:45,700 AND WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS A DARK 333 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:45,933 BEDROOM. 334 00:11:45,933 --> 00:11:48,200 THIS WASN'T AN OPEN AND SHUT 335 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,633 SUICIDE CASE. 336 00:11:49,633 --> 00:11:54,933 THERE WERE QUESTIONS. 337 00:12:04,967 --> 00:12:07,233 >>> AFTER HIS WIFE KRISTEN DIED 338 00:12:07,233 --> 00:12:10,433 IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON 339 00:12:10,433 --> 00:12:11,733 HALLOWEEN, COLBY TRICKLE SPOKE 340 00:12:11,733 --> 00:12:15,567 WITH INVESTIGATORS FOR MORE THAN 341 00:12:15,567 --> 00:12:16,200 11 HOURS. 342 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,167 >> WHAT'S YOUR NAME? 343 00:12:18,167 --> 00:12:18,933 >> COLBY. 344 00:12:18,933 --> 00:12:20,067 >> YES, MA'AM. 345 00:12:20,067 --> 00:12:21,800 >> I'M SO, SO SORRY. 346 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,433 >> HE WAS ASKED OVER AND OVER 347 00:12:23,433 --> 00:12:25,200 AGAIN TO RECOUNT THE EVENTS OF 348 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,967 THE NIGHT BEFORE. 349 00:12:28,967 --> 00:12:30,633 >> DID YOU HAVE ANY FIGHTS, 350 00:12:30,633 --> 00:12:31,567 ANYTHING LIKE THAT YESTERDAY? 351 00:12:31,567 --> 00:12:32,733 >> NO. 352 00:12:32,733 --> 00:12:33,767 >> COLBY TOLD INVESTIGATORS 353 00:12:33,767 --> 00:12:36,200 ABOUT HIS JOB WITH THE U.S. 354 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,133 MILITARY AS PART OF HUMAN 355 00:12:39,133 --> 00:12:40,067 INTELLIGENCE. 356 00:12:40,067 --> 00:12:40,867 >> THERE IS SOME INTERESTING 357 00:12:40,867 --> 00:12:43,867 PLACES THEY SEND YOU WITH BEING 358 00:12:43,867 --> 00:12:44,567 IN INTEL. 359 00:12:44,567 --> 00:12:48,300 BUT I GUESS THAT MAKES YOU, THEY 360 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:50,433 SENT ME TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND 361 00:12:50,433 --> 00:12:52,500 THEY SENT ME DOWN TO CENTRAL 362 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:52,733 MANAGER. 363 00:12:52,733 --> 00:12:55,500 >> THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF 364 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:57,467 COLBY TRICKLE WAS HE WAS A GUY 365 00:12:57,467 --> 00:12:59,267 INTO MILITARY. 366 00:12:59,267 --> 00:13:01,867 HE HAD A, I GUESS, A DECORATED 367 00:13:01,867 --> 00:13:05,200 PAST OF OVERSEAS TOURS, AND THEN 368 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,367 ALSO COLBY TRICKLE WAS A GUY WHO 369 00:13:07,367 --> 00:13:10,200 LOVED HIS WIFE. 370 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,933 >> BUT DETECTIVE J.B. BURKHOLDER 371 00:13:12,933 --> 00:13:14,900 SAID HE HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 372 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:16,100 MORNING KRISTEN DIED. 373 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:17,967 AFTER FINDING HER, HE CALLED 374 00:13:17,967 --> 00:13:18,400 911. 375 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,400 AND AS HE LATER TOLD POLICE, HE 376 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,167 PICKED UP THE GUN AND THOUGHT 377 00:13:22,167 --> 00:13:25,333 ABOUT ENDING HIS LIFE. 378 00:13:25,333 --> 00:13:27,933 WHAT TROUBLED BURKHOLDER IS 379 00:13:27,933 --> 00:13:30,067 WHERE COLBY PUT THE GUN AFTER HE 380 00:13:30,067 --> 00:13:31,867 CHANGED HIS MIND. 381 00:13:31,867 --> 00:13:33,667 BACK ON KRISTEN'S STOMACH. 382 00:13:33,667 --> 00:13:36,500 >> I PUT IT BACK DOWN AND RAN 383 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:36,733 OUTSIDE. 384 00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:39,633 >> VERY ODD. 385 00:13:39,633 --> 00:13:40,733 IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE I'M CALLING 386 00:13:40,733 --> 00:13:43,400 RAIN IN 11, MY WIFE IS DYING ON 387 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,100 THE BED, I WOULD PLACE THE GUN 388 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:46,567 BACK DOWN ON HER BODY. 389 00:13:46,567 --> 00:13:48,567 >> COLBY WAS ASKED IF THERE WAS 390 00:13:48,567 --> 00:13:52,067 ANY LIFE INSURANCE ON KRISTEN. 391 00:13:52,067 --> 00:13:55,133 >> I HAVE SOME ON ME FROM THE 392 00:13:55,133 --> 00:13:57,400 MILITARY BUT THAT'S IT. 393 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,100 >> NO INSURANCE ON KRISTEN, EM. 394 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:01,067 AND THEN WAS ASKED IF HE HAD 395 00:14:01,067 --> 00:14:03,367 ANYTHING TO DO WITH KRISTEN'S 396 00:14:03,367 --> 00:14:03,600 DEATH. 397 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,400 >> DID YOU IN FACT KILL HER? 398 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:08,567 >> NO. 399 00:14:08,567 --> 00:14:12,833 >> COLBY LEFT THE POLICE STATION 400 00:14:12,833 --> 00:14:14,567 THAT DAY BUT FIRST RESPONDER 401 00:14:14,567 --> 00:14:16,600 SERGEANT HAUPTMAN WAS 402 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,367 INCREASINGLY SUSPICIOUS ABOUT 403 00:14:18,367 --> 00:14:19,367 COLBY'S ACTIONS AT THE SCENE. 404 00:14:19,367 --> 00:14:22,067 HE WONDERED WHY COLBY DIDN'T 405 00:14:22,067 --> 00:14:24,433 DEMAND TO BE BY KRISTEN'S SIDE 406 00:14:24,433 --> 00:14:26,267 AS THEY TRIED TO SAVE HER LIFE. 407 00:14:26,267 --> 00:14:28,500 >> YOUR WIFE IS INSIDE AND HERE 408 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:31,100 SHE IS BLEEDING OUT, DYING. 409 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:32,933 AND YOU'RE ON THE PORCH. 410 00:14:32,933 --> 00:14:34,933 >> WHILE FIRST RESPONDERS WERE 411 00:14:34,933 --> 00:14:37,967 ADMINISTERING CPR, COLBY WAS 412 00:14:37,967 --> 00:14:40,133 CHATTING WITH OFFICERS ABOUT 413 00:14:40,133 --> 00:14:41,467 VIDEO GAMES. 414 00:14:41,467 --> 00:14:42,900 THAT CONVERSATION WAS REPORTED 415 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,733 BY A POLICE BODY CAM. 416 00:14:44,733 --> 00:14:47,233 >> WHAT KIND OF GAMES DO YOU 417 00:14:47,233 --> 00:14:48,533 LIKE TO PLAY? 418 00:14:48,533 --> 00:14:49,867 >> EVERYTHING FROM CALL OF DUTY 419 00:14:49,867 --> 00:14:52,467 TO MINECRAFT. 420 00:14:52,467 --> 00:14:55,367 >> THAT DAY AS INVESTIGATORS GOT 421 00:14:55,367 --> 00:14:57,233 A SEARCH WARRANT FOR COLBY'S 422 00:14:57,233 --> 00:15:00,200 CELL PHONE, AN AUTOPSY FOR 423 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,833 KRISTEN TRICKLE WAS UNDERWAY. 424 00:15:01,833 --> 00:15:06,233 AT THE SCENE, CORONER KYLE 425 00:15:06,233 --> 00:15:07,267 NOORDHOEK WHO SUSPECTED SUICIDE 426 00:15:07,267 --> 00:15:08,733 LOOKED FOR ANY EVIDENCE THAT 427 00:15:08,733 --> 00:15:10,533 SOMEONE ELSE WAS INVOLVED LIKE 428 00:15:10,533 --> 00:15:12,167 SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE. 429 00:15:12,167 --> 00:15:15,433 >> WERE THERE ANY SIGNS OF 430 00:15:15,433 --> 00:15:16,833 DEFENSIVE WOUNDS OR DEFENSIVE 431 00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:18,200 SIGNS THAT SHE HAD FOUGHT WITH 432 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,100 ANYONE BEFORE SHE DIED? 433 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:23,367 THE CORONER SAID HE ALSO 434 00:15:23,367 --> 00:15:25,233 EXAMINED KRISTEN'S BODY FOR 435 00:15:25,233 --> 00:15:27,700 SIGNS OF PAST PHYSICAL ABUSE. 436 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:29,733 >> TYPICALLY IF THERE'S A SERIES 437 00:15:29,733 --> 00:15:31,933 OF PROGRESSIVE INJURIES OVER A 438 00:15:31,933 --> 00:15:33,400 PERIOD OF TIME, YOU CAN TELL 439 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:34,867 THEY'VE BEEN BEATING ON EACH 440 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:35,200 OTHER. 441 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,500 IN THIS CASE, I WASN'T REALLY 442 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:37,933 SEEING THAT. 443 00:15:37,933 --> 00:15:40,567 SO I'M GOING, WELL, I HAVE TO 444 00:15:40,567 --> 00:15:43,867 TAKE THE HUSBAND'S STATEMENT AT 445 00:15:43,867 --> 00:15:45,833 WORD VALUE, THAT HE WAS THERE 446 00:15:45,833 --> 00:15:51,633 AND THE GUN WENT OFF AND SHE IS 447 00:15:51,633 --> 00:15:52,067 DEAD. 448 00:15:52,067 --> 00:15:53,967 >> NOORDHOEK SAID THREE DAYS 449 00:15:53,967 --> 00:15:56,300 AFTER KRISTEN'S DEATH, BASED ON 450 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:57,967 THE INFORMATION HE HAD AT THE 451 00:15:57,967 --> 00:16:00,467 TIME, HE DETERMINED THAT THE 452 00:16:00,467 --> 00:16:03,833 MANNER OF DEATH WAS A SUICIDE. 453 00:16:03,833 --> 00:16:06,167 BUT KRISTEN'S AUNT AND UNCLE 454 00:16:06,167 --> 00:16:07,967 SAID THE MORE THEY LEARNED ABOUT 455 00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:10,933 THE FACTS OF THE CASE, THE MORE 456 00:16:10,933 --> 00:16:12,167 QUESTIONS THEY HAD. 457 00:16:12,167 --> 00:16:15,200 >> WHEN I HEARD THAT IT WAS A 458 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,300 GUN, THERE IS NO WAY. 459 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:20,100 WE KNEW KRISTEN WAS SCARED OF 460 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:20,400 GUNS. 461 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,067 KRISTEN WAS ALSO VERY, VERY 462 00:16:23,067 --> 00:16:24,633 PRIVATE IN HER BODY. 463 00:16:24,633 --> 00:16:26,067 VERY MODEST. 464 00:16:26,067 --> 00:16:29,367 WHEN I FOUND OUT SHE WAS NOT 465 00:16:29,367 --> 00:16:31,333 DRESSED, THAT WAS SHOCKING TO 466 00:16:31,333 --> 00:16:31,500 ME. 467 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,367 >> REFLECTING ON KRISTEN'S 468 00:16:34,367 --> 00:16:39,200 RELATIONSHIP WITH COLBY, THEY 469 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,067 SAID THEY WERE BOTHERED BY WHAT 470 00:16:41,067 --> 00:16:42,933 THEY SAY WAS COLBY'S CONTROLLING 471 00:16:42,933 --> 00:16:43,400 BEHAVIOR. 472 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,067 >> IF SHE DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY 473 00:16:45,067 --> 00:16:47,733 RESPOND TO A TEXT OR WASN'T ABLE 474 00:16:47,733 --> 00:16:49,567 TO ANSWER HER PHONE, HE WOULD 475 00:16:49,567 --> 00:16:51,400 GET VERY FRUSTRATED WITH HER. 476 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,933 HE WANTED HER AT HIS BECK AND 477 00:16:54,933 --> 00:16:55,133 CALL. 478 00:16:55,133 --> 00:16:59,067 >> AT THE TIME, THE RICES SAY 479 00:16:59,067 --> 00:17:00,767 THEY TOLD KRISTEN THEY HAD 480 00:17:00,767 --> 00:17:03,067 SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT COLBY. 481 00:17:03,067 --> 00:17:05,099 >> WE KNOW THAT SHE WAS NOT 482 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:06,500 HAPPY WITH US. 483 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:12,267 I BELIEVE THAT HE CONVINCED HER 484 00:17:12,267 --> 00:17:14,532 THAT WE WERE AGAINST HER AND 485 00:17:14,532 --> 00:17:17,767 THEREFORE SHE SEPARATED HERSELF 486 00:17:17,767 --> 00:17:18,067 SOMEWHAT. 487 00:17:18,067 --> 00:17:19,400 >> KRISTEN DECIDED TO MARRY 488 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,767 COLBY AND EVENTUALLY MOVED 489 00:17:22,767 --> 00:17:25,467 ALMOST 300 MILES AWAY TO KANSAS 490 00:17:25,467 --> 00:17:25,733 CITY. 491 00:17:25,733 --> 00:17:27,967 BUT LIVE FOR THE COUPLE WAS 492 00:17:27,967 --> 00:17:30,833 DIFFICULT, SAYS BRANT. 493 00:17:30,833 --> 00:17:35,167 COLBY ENLISTED WITH THE ARMY 494 00:17:35,167 --> 00:17:35,733 RESERVE AND WORKED ODD JOBS. 495 00:17:35,733 --> 00:17:37,400 SHE WORKED AT A VET CLINIC. 496 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,333 MONEY WAS TIGHT. 497 00:17:39,333 --> 00:17:41,967 IN EARLY 2019, THE COUPLE MOVED 498 00:17:41,967 --> 00:17:44,767 BACK TO THE HAYS AREA, AND THE 499 00:17:44,767 --> 00:17:46,667 RICES SAY KRISTEN WAS COMING TO 500 00:17:46,667 --> 00:17:47,867 THEIR CHURCH AGAIN. 501 00:17:47,867 --> 00:17:49,067 >> WE WERE THRILLE. 502 00:17:49,067 --> 00:17:52,667 >> WE WERE SO THRILLED TO 503 00:17:52,667 --> 00:17:53,600 RECONNECT WITH KRISTEN. 504 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,900 IT WAS JUST LIKE IT WAS WHEN SHE 505 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:57,533 LIVED IN OUR HOME. 506 00:17:57,533 --> 00:17:59,200 >> IN THE MONTHS BEFORE HER 507 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,900 DEATH, THEY SAY SHE WAS MAKING 508 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:04,067 PLANS TO LAUNCH HER PET BOARDING 509 00:18:04,067 --> 00:18:04,567 BUSINESS. 510 00:18:04,567 --> 00:18:06,233 >> SHE HAD PICKED OUT A LITTLE 511 00:18:06,233 --> 00:18:08,067 HOUSE THAT WAS SOUTH OF TOWN AND 512 00:18:08,067 --> 00:18:10,333 HAS A LITTLE BARN BEHIND IT. 513 00:18:10,333 --> 00:18:12,833 SHE WANTED TO TURN IT INTO THE 514 00:18:12,833 --> 00:18:14,800 BOARDING AREA. 515 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,067 >> TO THE RICE FAMILY, KRISTEN 516 00:18:17,067 --> 00:18:19,733 SEEMED HAPPY AND EXCITED FOR HER 517 00:18:19,733 --> 00:18:19,967 FUTURE. 518 00:18:19,967 --> 00:18:24,067 AFTER HER DEATH, BRANT AND 519 00:18:24,067 --> 00:18:26,433 DELYNN WONDERED ABOUT COLBY. 520 00:18:26,433 --> 00:18:33,433 WAS HE CAPABLE 521 00:18:41,967 --> 00:18:43,900 >>> AS INVESTIGATORS BEGAN 522 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:46,267 DIGGING INTO COLBY'S STORY, THEY 523 00:18:46,267 --> 00:18:49,600 POURED OVER THE DATA IN HIS CELL 524 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:49,833 PHONE. 525 00:18:49,833 --> 00:18:52,100 >> THERE'S SEVERAL, I GUESS, TWO 526 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:55,367 BIG AHA MOMENTS. 527 00:18:55,367 --> 00:18:56,900 >> THEY DISCOVERED COLBY HAD 528 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:01,067 BEEN AND CHANGING FLIRTACIOUS 529 00:19:01,067 --> 00:19:02,800 SNAPCHAT MESSAGES WITH ANOTHER 530 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,067 WOMAN. 531 00:19:03,067 --> 00:19:04,400 >> HE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH HER 532 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,067 WHICH WOULD BE DESCRIBED AS A 533 00:19:08,067 --> 00:19:09,133 SEXTING CONVERSATION. 534 00:19:09,133 --> 00:19:12,067 >> ALSO ACCORDING TO JB 535 00:19:12,067 --> 00:19:12,767 BURKHOLDER, THERE WAS EVIDENCE 536 00:19:12,767 --> 00:19:14,400 THAT CONTRADICTED WHAT COLBY HAD 537 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:15,600 FIRST TOLD INVESTIGATORS WHEN 538 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,767 ASKED ABOUT LIFE INSURANCE ON 539 00:19:17,767 --> 00:19:18,833 HIS WIFE. 540 00:19:18,833 --> 00:19:22,267 >> I HAVE SOME ON ME FROM 541 00:19:22,267 --> 00:19:24,067 MILITARY, BUT THAT'S IT. 542 00:19:24,067 --> 00:19:26,367 >> CELL PHONE DATA REVEALED THAT 543 00:19:26,367 --> 00:19:28,567 NOT ONLY WAS COLBY AWARE KRISTEN 544 00:19:28,567 --> 00:19:31,833 WAS COVERED BY A LIFE INSURANCE 545 00:19:31,833 --> 00:19:34,167 POLICY CALLED SGLI FOR SPOUSES 546 00:19:34,167 --> 00:19:36,267 OF MILITARY MEMBERS, IN THE DAYS 547 00:19:36,267 --> 00:19:39,100 BEFORE HER DEATH, THEY SAY HE 548 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:40,200 GOOGLED THE AMOUNT THE POLICY 549 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,333 WOULD PAY OUT. 550 00:19:41,333 --> 00:19:44,433 >> DID HE GOIVE RIDGEWAY WAS 551 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:46,633 ABLE TO FIND I BELIEVE A SCREEN 552 00:19:46,633 --> 00:19:48,700 SHOT OF A SEARCH THAT HE HAD 553 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:51,767 CONDUCTED TEN DAYS PRIOR TO 554 00:19:51,767 --> 00:19:54,333 KRISTEN'S DEATH ASKING WHAT HIS 555 00:19:54,333 --> 00:19:56,100 SPOUSE'S LIFE INSURANCE WOULD 556 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:56,267 BE. 557 00:19:56,267 --> 00:19:59,700 >> ON NOVEMBER 4th, 2019, 558 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:02,000 INVESTIGATORS ASKED COLBY TO 559 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:08,567 RETURN FOR MORE QUESTIONING. 560 00:20:08,567 --> 00:20:10,633 >> TEN DAYS AGO YOU LOOKED UP A 561 00:20:10,633 --> 00:20:12,467 LIFE INSURANCE ISSUE. 562 00:20:12,467 --> 00:20:13,533 >> WHEN? 563 00:20:13,533 --> 00:20:13,733 WHEN? 564 00:20:13,733 --> 00:20:15,467 I NEVER DID. 565 00:20:15,467 --> 00:20:16,500 >> YOU DID. 566 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:20,367 >> I NEVER DID. 567 00:20:20,367 --> 00:20:21,433 IF I DIED? 568 00:20:21,433 --> 00:20:22,200 >> NO. 569 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,267 IF YOUR SPOUSE DIED. 570 00:20:24,267 --> 00:20:26,033 >> COLBY WHO AGREED TO TALK 571 00:20:26,033 --> 00:20:27,767 WITHOUT A LAWYER SUGGESTED THAT 572 00:20:27,767 --> 00:20:29,400 KRISTEN MIGHT HAVE DONE THE 573 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,633 SEARCH HERSELF ON HIS PHONE. 574 00:20:32,633 --> 00:20:34,133 >> WE ALWAYS GAVE EACH OTHER 575 00:20:34,133 --> 00:20:35,033 ACCESS TO EACH OTHER'S PHONES 576 00:20:35,033 --> 00:20:36,467 AND STUFF. 577 00:20:36,467 --> 00:20:37,433 >> INVESTIGATORS ASKED COLBY 578 00:20:37,433 --> 00:20:41,333 ABOUT HIS ONLINE RELATIONSHIP. 579 00:20:41,333 --> 00:20:42,600 COLBY ADMITTED THAT IT HAD 580 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,367 STARTED A FEW MONTHS PRIOR TO 581 00:20:44,367 --> 00:20:46,033 HIS WIFE'S DEATH AFTER HE MET 582 00:20:46,033 --> 00:20:49,133 THE WOMAN ON A GROUP CHAT WHILE 583 00:20:49,133 --> 00:20:51,300 PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. 584 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:54,733 >> DID KRISTEN FIND OUT ABOUT 585 00:20:54,733 --> 00:20:55,833 THAT RELATIONSHIP? 586 00:20:55,833 --> 00:20:57,267 >> COLBY TOLD THEM THE 587 00:20:57,267 --> 00:20:59,200 RELATIONSHIP WAS A VIRTUAL ONE. 588 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,433 THAT HE HAD NEVER ACTUALLY MET 589 00:21:01,433 --> 00:21:03,200 THE WOMAN. 590 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:03,900 BUT INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED HE 591 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:07,300 HAD BEEN TEXTING WITH HER JUST 592 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,233 HOURS AFTER KRISTEN'S DEATH 593 00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:11,133 WHILE HE WAS STILL AT THE POLICE 594 00:21:11,133 --> 00:21:11,367 STATION. 595 00:21:11,367 --> 00:21:13,300 >> I GUESS TO HIS CREDIT, HE 596 00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:14,800 SAID THAT HE WAS BUSY AND 597 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,733 COULDN'T TALK RIGHT NOW. 598 00:21:17,733 --> 00:21:20,767 BUT THEN HE SAID, I WISH I 599 00:21:20,767 --> 00:21:21,733 COULD. 600 00:21:21,733 --> 00:21:25,700 >> AARON CUNNINGHAM IS THE 601 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:26,800 ASSISTANT CUNNINGHAM ATTORNEY. 602 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:27,833 >> PROBABLY THE LAST THING YOU 603 00:21:27,833 --> 00:21:29,500 SHOULD SAY TO A WOMAN YOU'RE 604 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,933 HAVING AN ONLINE AFFAIR WITH 605 00:21:31,933 --> 00:21:33,767 WHEN YOU'RE BEING INVESTIGATED 606 00:21:33,767 --> 00:21:36,167 ABOUT YOUR WIFE'S DEATH. 607 00:21:36,167 --> 00:21:37,600 >> WHEN COLBY LEFT THE POLICE 608 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,067 STATION AFTER A SECOND 609 00:21:39,067 --> 00:21:40,967 INTERVIEW, DETECTIVE BURK HOLDER 610 00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:42,300 CHECKED OUT HIS CLAIM THAT 611 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:44,467 KRISTEN HAD USED HIS PHONE TO 612 00:21:44,467 --> 00:21:46,067 RESEARCH LIFE INSURANCE 613 00:21:46,067 --> 00:21:46,333 POLICIES. 614 00:21:46,333 --> 00:21:49,133 >> WE WERE ABLE TO GET VIDEO, 615 00:21:49,133 --> 00:21:50,500 SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE 616 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:51,267 WALMART STORE. 617 00:21:51,267 --> 00:21:54,367 >> WHAT THEY DISCOVERED WAS THAT 618 00:21:54,367 --> 00:21:56,067 KRISTIN WAS AT WORK AT WALMART 619 00:21:56,067 --> 00:21:57,067 AT THE TIME THE CELL PHONE 620 00:21:57,067 --> 00:21:58,267 SEARCH WAS MADE. 621 00:21:58,267 --> 00:22:00,067 >> WE WERE ABLE TO SEE THAT SHE 622 00:22:00,067 --> 00:22:03,067 DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO A PHONE. 623 00:22:03,067 --> 00:22:06,067 >> THE INCONSISTENCIES IN 624 00:22:06,067 --> 00:22:07,700 COLBY'S STATIONS KEPT PILING UP, 625 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:11,333 SAYS BURKHOLDER, LIKE THIS ONE. 626 00:22:11,333 --> 00:22:13,400 >> SHE KEEPS ON IT HER SIDE. 627 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:14,933 >> HE SAID THAT SHE KEPT 628 00:22:14,933 --> 00:22:18,067 THE .357 BY HER SIDE OF THE BED. 629 00:22:18,067 --> 00:22:19,867 BUT THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO LINE UP 630 00:22:19,867 --> 00:22:21,933 WITH WHAT BURKHOLDER SAW AT THE 631 00:22:21,933 --> 00:22:22,200 SCENE. 632 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,200 >> WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE SCENE, 633 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,067 WE SAW MULTIPLE FIREARMS ON WHAT 634 00:22:27,067 --> 00:22:28,600 WAS DESCRIBED AS COLBY'S SIDE OF 635 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,067 THE BED. 636 00:22:31,067 --> 00:22:33,067 >> THERE WERE ALSO PHOTOS OF THE 637 00:22:33,067 --> 00:22:34,833 BEDROOM ON COLBY'S PHONE. 638 00:22:34,833 --> 00:22:36,400 >> THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN, I 639 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,200 BELIEVE, A MONTH PRIOR TO 640 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,167 KRISTEN'S DEATH. 641 00:22:39,167 --> 00:22:42,533 YOU SEE A LARGE FRAMED REVOLVER 642 00:22:42,533 --> 00:22:47,100 ON THE BED WHERE COLBY TRICKLES 643 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:49,600 DESCRIBED BEING HIS. 644 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,133 >> DO YOU THINK THAT'S THE .357? 645 00:22:51,133 --> 00:22:55,233 >> THAT'S THE ONLY .357 IN THE 646 00:22:55,233 --> 00:22:55,667 HOUSE THAT WE FOUND. 647 00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:58,933 THAT TELL ME THIS WAS COLBY'S 648 00:22:58,933 --> 00:22:59,100 GUN. 649 00:22:59,100 --> 00:22:59,800 >> STILL THE INVESTIGATION 650 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,100 STALLED. 651 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:02,167 YOU HAVE ALL THESE INVESTIGATORS 652 00:23:02,167 --> 00:23:04,267 WHO ARE UNCOVERING MORE AND MORE 653 00:23:04,267 --> 00:23:05,567 EVIDENCE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING 654 00:23:05,567 --> 00:23:07,067 REALLY WRONG WITH THIS CASE. 655 00:23:07,067 --> 00:23:10,167 YOU'VE GOT THE CORONER WHO CALLS 656 00:23:10,167 --> 00:23:11,233 THIS A SUICIDE. 657 00:23:11,233 --> 00:23:13,767 I MEAN, THAT'S A PROBLEM, ISN'T 658 00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:14,067 IT? 659 00:23:14,067 --> 00:23:15,667 >> IT IS AND IT ISN'T. 660 00:23:15,667 --> 00:23:18,167 >> IT WAS INITIALLY, WASN'T IT? 661 00:23:18,167 --> 00:23:19,167 >> SURE. 662 00:23:19,167 --> 00:23:20,433 CERTAINLY AS FAR AS THEIR 663 00:23:20,433 --> 00:23:21,800 ABILITY TO INVESTIGATE AS 664 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,067 EFFICIENTLY AS THEY NORMALLY 665 00:23:24,067 --> 00:23:24,233 WOULD. 666 00:23:24,233 --> 00:23:27,800 >> CUNNINGHAM SAYS THE CORONER'S 667 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,533 DETERMINATION THAT KRISTEN HAD 668 00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:32,767 DIED BY SUICIDE LIMITED THE 669 00:23:32,767 --> 00:23:34,867 INVESTIGATOR'S ABILITY TO OBTAIN 670 00:23:34,867 --> 00:23:36,100 SEARCH WARRANTS. 671 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:38,367 >> THERE WERE STILL ELEMENTS OF 672 00:23:38,367 --> 00:23:38,867 THE INVESTIGATION LAW 673 00:23:38,867 --> 00:23:40,867 ENFORCEMENT WANTED TO FOLLOW UP 674 00:23:40,867 --> 00:23:41,133 ON. 675 00:23:41,133 --> 00:23:44,567 >> Reporter: IN THE WINTER OF 676 00:23:44,567 --> 00:23:46,233 2020, COLBY BEGAN COLLECTING 677 00:23:46,233 --> 00:23:48,100 PAYOUTS FROM TWO INSURANCE 678 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:49,200 POLICIES. 679 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,500 23,000 FROM WALMART, AND 680 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:55,567 $100,000 FROM THE U.S. MILITARY. 681 00:23:55,567 --> 00:23:56,833 MEANWHILE, INVESTIGATORS 682 00:23:56,833 --> 00:23:58,233 CONTINUED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT 683 00:23:58,233 --> 00:24:00,267 HIS TIME IN THE MILITARY. 684 00:24:00,267 --> 00:24:02,867 >> HE WAS A RESERVE OFFICER IN 685 00:24:02,867 --> 00:24:04,067 THE MILITARY. 686 00:24:04,067 --> 00:24:05,900 THAT WAS NEVER DEPLOYED. 687 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:06,633 >> WAIT. 688 00:24:06,633 --> 00:24:07,267 WAIT A MINUTE. 689 00:24:07,267 --> 00:24:08,967 SO HE WAS NEVER DEPLOYED TO 690 00:24:08,967 --> 00:24:09,767 CENTRAL AMERICA? 691 00:24:09,767 --> 00:24:13,567 >> HE HAD NO OVERSEAS 692 00:24:13,567 --> 00:24:15,100 DEPLOYMENTS THAT WERE TOLD TO US 693 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:16,300 BY THE UNITED STATES MILITARY. 694 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:17,533 >> AND HE HAD NO EXPERIENCE 695 00:24:17,533 --> 00:24:19,700 TALKING TO INFORMANTS AS PART OF 696 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:21,733 HIS JOB AS AN INTELLIGENCE 697 00:24:21,733 --> 00:24:22,067 ANALYST. 698 00:24:22,067 --> 00:24:22,933 >> RIGHT. 699 00:24:22,933 --> 00:24:25,167 >> BUT EVEN WITH WHAT LOOKED 700 00:24:25,167 --> 00:24:26,300 LIKE BLATANT LIES AND AN 701 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:29,100 APPARENT MOTIVE TO KILL HIS 702 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:30,600 WIFE, POLICE DIDN'T ARREST 703 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,533 COLBY. 704 00:24:31,533 --> 00:24:33,833 SO IN THE YEAR AFTER KRISTEN'S 705 00:24:33,833 --> 00:24:35,600 DEATH, AUTHORITIES WATCHED AS 706 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,533 COLBY TRICKLE WENT ON WITH HIS 707 00:24:40,533 --> 00:24:40,733 LIFE. 708 00:24:40,733 --> 00:24:43,867 >> IT IS VERY FRUSTRATING TO ME. 709 00:24:43,867 --> 00:24:48,500 I WOULD RUN INTO HIM IN PUBLIC. 710 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:50,267 >> PLAYING MUSIC AT A RESTAURANT 711 00:24:50,267 --> 00:24:51,667 IN TOWN. 712 00:24:51,667 --> 00:24:54,400 >> IT MADE MY SKIN CRAWL. 713 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:55,867 >> WHATEVER STORM YOU'RE IN, 714 00:24:55,867 --> 00:24:57,067 KEEP PUSHING FORWARD. 715 00:24:57,067 --> 00:24:59,333 >> POSTING FACEBOOK SELF-HELP 716 00:24:59,333 --> 00:25:00,067 VIDEOS. 717 00:25:00,067 --> 00:25:01,067 >> GET TO THE OUTSIDE WHERE 718 00:25:01,067 --> 00:25:03,200 YOU'RE FREE AND ENJOY LIFE. 719 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,833 >> BUT THEN NEARLY TWO YEARS 720 00:25:05,833 --> 00:25:08,800 AFTER KRISTEN'S DEATH, A NEWLY 721 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,367 ELECTED COUNTY ATTORNEY DECIDED 722 00:25:10,367 --> 00:25:27,567 TO TRY 723 00:25:29,167 --> 00:25:30,667 >>> COUNTY ATTORNEY ROBERT 724 00:25:30,667 --> 00:25:35,267 ANDERSON WAS JUST DAYS INTO HIS 725 00:25:35,267 --> 00:25:37,200 NEW JOB WHEN THE ASSISTANT 726 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,333 ATTORNEY AND DETECTIVE JB 727 00:25:40,333 --> 00:25:41,567 BURKHOLDER PULLED HIM ASIDE. 728 00:25:41,567 --> 00:25:43,100 >> WE CORNERED HIM AND SAID THIS 729 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:44,967 IS SOMETHING THAT IS CLEARLY 730 00:25:44,967 --> 00:25:45,500 HOMICIDE. 731 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:47,433 HELP US TO GET THE NAILS PUT IN 732 00:25:47,433 --> 00:25:48,367 THIS COFFIN. 733 00:25:48,367 --> 00:25:50,467 >> AFTER REVIEWING THE FILE, 734 00:25:50,467 --> 00:25:52,400 ANDERSON BELIEVED THAT THE 735 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,867 CORONER GOT IT WRONG AND THAT 736 00:25:53,867 --> 00:25:56,367 THIS WAS A HOMICIDE. 737 00:25:56,367 --> 00:26:01,633 ON JULY 14th, 2021, HE CHARGED 738 00:26:01,633 --> 00:26:03,300 COLBY TRICKLE WITH THE MURDER OF 739 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:04,067 HIS WIFE KRISTEN. 740 00:26:04,067 --> 00:26:06,433 >> CERTAINLY THE INSURANCE MONEY 741 00:26:06,433 --> 00:26:07,533 PROVIDES MOTIVE. 742 00:26:07,533 --> 00:26:10,133 IN ADDITION BEING IN BED NEXT TO 743 00:26:10,133 --> 00:26:11,700 YOUR HUSBAND NAKED, SHOOTING 744 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,567 ONE'S SELF IN THE FACE AFTER 745 00:26:13,567 --> 00:26:15,400 HAVING SET ALARMS TO GET UP THE 746 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,200 NEXT DAY FOR WORK, AFTER SETTING 747 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,967 OUT CANDY FOR HALLOWEEN, THESE 748 00:26:20,967 --> 00:26:22,733 CIRCUMSTANCES DON'T POINT TO A 749 00:26:22,733 --> 00:26:25,633 WOMAN WHO WAS PLANNING A 750 00:26:25,633 --> 00:26:25,867 SUICIDE. 751 00:26:25,867 --> 00:26:27,600 >> STEP OUT OF THE CAR AND COME 752 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,067 TO THE BACK OF THE CAR WITH ME. 753 00:26:30,067 --> 00:26:31,367 >> WHEN POLICE ARRESTED COLBY, 754 00:26:31,367 --> 00:26:34,300 HE DIDN'T SEEM SURPRISED. 755 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:36,167 >> DETECTIVES HAVE SOME 756 00:26:36,167 --> 00:26:37,233 QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 757 00:26:37,233 --> 00:26:38,500 WOULD YOU TURN AROUND AND PUT 758 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,267 YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK? 759 00:26:40,267 --> 00:26:41,067 >> SURE. 760 00:26:41,067 --> 00:26:43,067 >> AND DENIED KILLING KRISTEN. 761 00:26:43,067 --> 00:26:44,467 >> I DIDN'T DO IT. 762 00:26:44,467 --> 00:26:45,867 I KNOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE 763 00:26:45,867 --> 00:26:47,700 THAT AND I RESPECT THAT. 764 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:49,200 >> I BELIEVE HIM. 765 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,067 >> YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT HE 766 00:26:51,067 --> 00:26:52,133 WOULD SHOOT HIS WIFE. 767 00:26:52,133 --> 00:26:53,100 >> I DO NOT. 768 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:56,667 >> CASSY ZEIGLER IS ONE OF COLBY 769 00:26:56,667 --> 00:26:57,500 TRICKLE'S DEFENSE ATTORNEYS. 770 00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:59,433 >> HE CARES ABOUT HIS SPIRITUAL 771 00:26:59,433 --> 00:26:59,700 LIFE. 772 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:01,167 HE'S A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN. 773 00:27:01,167 --> 00:27:03,500 I DON'T SEE THAT IN HIM. 774 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,167 THIS ABILITY TO CONNIVE AND PLAN 775 00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:10,300 ALL OF THIS. 776 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:11,433 >> SHE SAID KRISTEN HAD SUFFERED 777 00:27:11,433 --> 00:27:14,067 FROM DEPRESSION SINCE CHILDHOOD. 778 00:27:14,067 --> 00:27:16,133 >> I THINK THAT KRISTEN DEALT 779 00:27:16,133 --> 00:27:18,467 WITH A LOT MORE PAIN IN HER LIFE 780 00:27:18,467 --> 00:27:20,833 THAN PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGED. 781 00:27:20,833 --> 00:27:22,133 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY WORSE 782 00:27:22,133 --> 00:27:24,067 REJECTION IN LIFE THAN TO BE 783 00:27:24,067 --> 00:27:26,733 REJECTED BY YOUR BIOLOGICAL 784 00:27:26,733 --> 00:27:26,967 MOTHER. 785 00:27:26,967 --> 00:27:30,067 AT AN EARLY AGE, THAT'S EXACTLY 786 00:27:30,067 --> 00:27:30,967 WHAT HAPPENED. 787 00:27:30,967 --> 00:27:32,367 >> SHE FELT CONFIDENT GOING INTO 788 00:27:32,367 --> 00:27:34,300 THE TRIAL THE CORONER WAS 789 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:35,800 STANDING BY HIS ASSESSMENT THAT 790 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,733 KRISTEN'S DEATH WAS A SUICIDE. 791 00:27:37,733 --> 00:27:39,533 >> YOU HAD THE ABILITY, YOU HAD 792 00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:41,833 THE POWER TO CHANGE THIS 793 00:27:41,833 --> 00:27:43,167 DETERMINATION IF YOU WANTED TO 794 00:27:43,167 --> 00:27:44,900 PRIOR TO TRIAL. 795 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:45,633 >> YES. 796 00:27:45,633 --> 00:27:46,700 >> YOU COULD HAVE. 797 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:47,733 BUT YOU DIDN'T. 798 00:27:47,733 --> 00:27:51,567 >> IF I MADE A DETERMINATION, AM 799 00:27:51,567 --> 00:27:53,567 I GOING TO CHANGE IT TO HOMICIDE 800 00:27:53,567 --> 00:27:57,600 BASED ON AN ACCUSATION BEFORE A 801 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,100 COURT PROCEEDING, NO. 802 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:01,900 >> SO COUNTY ATTORNEY ANDERSON 803 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:03,900 KNEW HE HAD TO DO SOMETHING TO 804 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:07,267 CONVINCE A JURY THAT KRISTEN 805 00:28:07,267 --> 00:28:09,067 DIDN'T DIE BY SUICIDE. 806 00:28:09,067 --> 00:28:10,600 THAT'S WHEN HE PURSUED A 807 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,233 DIFFERENT TYPE OF AUTOPSY. 808 00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:15,367 A PSYCHOLOGICAL ONE. 809 00:28:15,367 --> 00:28:17,067 AN AUTOPSY OF THE MIND. 810 00:28:17,067 --> 00:28:19,067 AND TO CONDUCT IT, ANDERSON 811 00:28:19,067 --> 00:28:22,300 HIRED A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST, 812 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:25,167 DR. ASHLEY CHRISTIANSEN. 813 00:28:25,167 --> 00:28:27,233 HER JOB, TO DETERMINE KRISTEN'S 814 00:28:27,233 --> 00:28:30,067 STATE OF MIND LEADING UP TO HER 815 00:28:30,067 --> 00:28:30,267 DEATH. 816 00:28:30,267 --> 00:28:32,067 >>> BEING UNABLE TO SPEAK WITH 817 00:28:32,067 --> 00:28:33,367 THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE, OF COURSE, 818 00:28:33,367 --> 00:28:35,233 NO LONGER HERE, THEY HAVE TO 819 00:28:35,233 --> 00:28:36,967 SPEAK WITH THEIR FAMILY, THEIR 820 00:28:36,967 --> 00:28:39,233 FRIENDS, THEIR CO-WORKERS. 821 00:28:39,233 --> 00:28:42,067 THEY REVIEW SOCIAL MEDIA, 822 00:28:42,067 --> 00:28:43,467 DIARIES, JOURNALS, ANYTHING THEY 823 00:28:43,467 --> 00:28:43,967 CAN. 824 00:28:43,967 --> 00:28:46,733 >> CHRISTIANSEN'S CONCLUSIONS 825 00:28:46,733 --> 00:28:48,167 WOULD EVENTUALLY TAKE CENTER 826 00:28:48,167 --> 00:28:50,400 STAGE AT COLBY TRICKLE'S TRIAL. 827 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,167 IT WAS SEPTEMBER 2023. 828 00:28:53,167 --> 00:28:54,333 AND PROSECUTORS CUNNINGHAM BEGAN 829 00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:57,500 BY TELLING THE JURY THAT KRISTEN 830 00:28:57,500 --> 00:28:59,200 TRICKLE WAS MURDERED FOR THE 831 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,067 OLDEST REASONS IN THE WORLD. 832 00:29:02,067 --> 00:29:06,067 >> THIS CASE IS AS SIMPLE AS A, 833 00:29:06,067 --> 00:29:07,200 B, C. 834 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,100 A, AN AFFAIR. 835 00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:12,467 B, A BREAKDOWN IN CONTROL. 836 00:29:12,467 --> 00:29:16,300 AND C, COLD HARD CASH. 837 00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:20,433 >> COLBY'S ATTORNEY DISPUTED 838 00:29:20,433 --> 00:29:20,667 THAT. 839 00:29:20,667 --> 00:29:22,133 >> YOU MAY HAVE A SEAT. 840 00:29:22,133 --> 00:29:22,733 >> THANK YOU. 841 00:29:22,733 --> 00:29:27,467 >> CASSY ZEIGLER SAID COLBY'S 842 00:29:27,467 --> 00:29:28,500 ALLEGED AFFAIR WAS REALLY JUST 843 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,200 AN ONLINE FLIRTATION. 844 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,700 >> I DON'T THINK THERE WAS A 845 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:36,067 PLAN TO HAVE THIS LONG-TERM 846 00:29:36,067 --> 00:29:36,467 INTIMATE AFFAIR. 847 00:29:36,467 --> 00:29:38,900 >> SHE ALSO DENIES THAT COLBY 848 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:40,367 PLOTTED TO KILL KRISTEN FOR 849 00:29:40,367 --> 00:29:41,133 CASH. 850 00:29:41,133 --> 00:29:42,933 AND ABOUT THE GOOGLE SEARCH INTO 851 00:29:42,933 --> 00:29:46,067 THE LIFE INSURANCE PAYOUT? 852 00:29:46,067 --> 00:29:46,967 SHE SAID COLBY DOESN'T REMEMBER 853 00:29:46,967 --> 00:29:48,067 DOING THAT SEARCH. 854 00:29:48,067 --> 00:29:49,733 BUT SHE ACKNOWLEDGES, HE HAD 855 00:29:49,733 --> 00:29:51,133 BEEN FILLING OUT PAPERWORK 856 00:29:51,133 --> 00:29:54,200 AROUND THAT TIME FOR HIS OWN 857 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,200 MILITARY LIFE INSURANCE. 858 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,567 AND IF HE DID DO IT, MAYBE 859 00:29:58,567 --> 00:29:59,133 THAT'S WHY. 860 00:29:59,133 --> 00:30:01,500 IT IS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT 861 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:02,467 THIS IS HAPPENING DAYS BEFORE 862 00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:03,367 HIS WIFE DIES? 863 00:30:03,367 --> 00:30:06,067 >> UNFORTUNATELY SO. 864 00:30:06,067 --> 00:30:07,667 YEAH. 865 00:30:07,667 --> 00:30:09,267 BAD TIMING. 866 00:30:09,267 --> 00:30:11,167 >> AT TRIAL, THE JURY LEARNED 867 00:30:11,167 --> 00:30:13,567 THAT COLBY TRICKLE HAD NOT ONLY 868 00:30:13,567 --> 00:30:16,567 COLLECTED MORE THAN $120,000 869 00:30:16,567 --> 00:30:18,967 FROM TWO LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES 870 00:30:18,967 --> 00:30:22,133 ON HIS WIFE, HE HAD ALREADY GONE 871 00:30:22,133 --> 00:30:23,600 THROUGH IT. 872 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,000 >> I THINK HE HAD SPENT ALL THE 873 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,367 MONEY IN APPROXIMATELY EIGHT 874 00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:27,600 MONTHS. 875 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:28,267 >> WHAT DID HE SPEND THE MONEY 876 00:30:28,267 --> 00:30:31,233 ON? 877 00:30:31,233 --> 00:30:33,167 WHEN DETECTIVE JB BURKHOLDER 878 00:30:33,167 --> 00:30:35,867 TOOK THE STAND, HE WAS ASKED TO 879 00:30:35,867 --> 00:30:41,533 DESCRIBE ONE EXPENDITURE IN 880 00:30:41,533 --> 00:30:42,000 PARTICULAR. 881 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,233 >> $1,942 FOR TRUE TOUCH DOLLS. 882 00:30:45,233 --> 00:30:46,567 WERE YOU ABLE TO DETERMINE WHAT 883 00:30:46,567 --> 00:30:46,967 THAT WAS? 884 00:30:46,967 --> 00:30:49,100 >> THERE WAS A COMPANY THAT 885 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,033 MAKES AND MANUFACTURES AND 886 00:30:51,033 --> 00:30:53,067 DISTRIBUTES LIFE-SIZE SEX DOLLS. 887 00:30:53,067 --> 00:30:55,333 >> COLBY'S ATTORNEY SAID COLBY 888 00:30:55,333 --> 00:30:56,900 WAS HAVING TROUBLE SLEEPING 889 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:59,100 ALONE AND WAS QUITE OPEN ABOUT 890 00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:00,067 THE PURCHASE. 891 00:31:00,067 --> 00:31:01,467 >> HE WENT AND TALKED TO HIS 892 00:31:01,467 --> 00:31:03,067 MOTHER ABOUT IT. 893 00:31:03,067 --> 00:31:04,733 IF YOU'RE GOING TO BUY A SEX 894 00:31:04,733 --> 00:31:07,067 TOY, A GROWN MAN WON'T TALK TO 895 00:31:07,067 --> 00:31:08,467 HIS MOTHER ABOUT THE SEX DOLL HE 896 00:31:08,467 --> 00:31:09,133 WILL BUY. 897 00:31:09,133 --> 00:31:11,267 >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TOM? 898 00:31:11,267 --> 00:31:12,267 >> DISGUSTED. 899 00:31:12,267 --> 00:31:13,900 JUST DISGUSTED. 900 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:14,967 >> IT WAS DESCRIBED AT TRIAL 901 00:31:14,967 --> 00:31:17,533 THAT HE NEEDED THIS DOLL FOR 902 00:31:17,533 --> 00:31:17,867 COMFORT. 903 00:31:17,867 --> 00:31:20,367 >> COMFORT AND WARMTH. 904 00:31:20,367 --> 00:31:21,900 WE HAVE ELECTRIC BLANKETS THAT 905 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:23,567 WE USE FOR THAT. 906 00:31:23,567 --> 00:31:25,133 >> WHEN BRAND RICE TOOK THE 907 00:31:25,133 --> 00:31:28,800 STAND, HE WILL THE JURY THAT HIS 908 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,467 NIECE HAD BECOME MORE ASSERTIVE 909 00:31:29,467 --> 00:31:30,767 IN HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER 910 00:31:30,767 --> 00:31:34,733 HUSBAND IN THE MONTHS BEFORE HER 911 00:31:34,733 --> 00:31:34,967 DEATH. 912 00:31:34,967 --> 00:31:36,300 >> SHE HAD REALLY BEGUN TO STAND 913 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:38,133 UP FOR HERSELF. 914 00:31:38,133 --> 00:31:39,767 WE WERE PROUD OF HER FORM. 915 00:31:39,767 --> 00:31:41,533 >> AND THERE WERE TEXTS AS 916 00:31:41,533 --> 00:31:42,900 CUNNINGHAM THAT SEEMED TO 917 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,067 SUPPORT COLBY FEARED HE WAS 918 00:31:45,067 --> 00:31:47,067 LOSING CONTROL OVER KRINGS. 919 00:31:47,067 --> 00:31:50,833 ON APRIL 8th, 2019, WITH COLBY 920 00:31:50,833 --> 00:31:51,800 TESTIFIED THAT SHE SEEMED 921 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,467 DIFFERENT AND PUSHY WITH THINGS, 922 00:31:53,467 --> 00:31:54,500 SHE RESPONDED. 923 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:56,633 >> I'M JUST DECIDING TO STICK UP 924 00:31:56,633 --> 00:31:58,667 FOR MYSELF JUST LIKE YOU, I'M 925 00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:02,233 TAKING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. 926 00:32:02,233 --> 00:32:03,867 >> AND THEN PROSECUTORS CALLED 927 00:32:03,867 --> 00:32:08,733 THEIR STAR WITNESS, DR. ASHLEY 928 00:32:08,733 --> 00:32:09,067 CHRISTIANSEN. 929 00:32:09,067 --> 00:32:11,800 >> AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH, 930 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:12,867 THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGS 931 00:32:12,867 --> 00:32:15,900 SUGGESTING THAT SHE HAD A LOT OF 932 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:16,200 HOPE. 933 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,400 >> IT WAS TESTIFIED THAT SHE 934 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,100 TALKED TO FAMILY MEMBERS ABOUT 935 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:21,233 FUTURE PLANS AND SEEMED 936 00:32:21,233 --> 00:32:21,533 OPTIMISTIC. 937 00:32:21,533 --> 00:32:23,500 >> SHE WANTED TO OPEN HER OWN 938 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:28,067 PET BOARDING OR DOG GROOMING 939 00:32:28,067 --> 00:32:29,233 BUSINESS, AND DISCUSSED THE GOAL 940 00:32:29,233 --> 00:32:32,067 OF OPENING THAT FOR BUSINESS. 941 00:32:32,067 --> 00:32:34,533 >> SHE ALSO TESTIFIED THAT SHE 942 00:32:34,533 --> 00:32:35,767 INTERVIEWED COLBY FOR THE REPORT 943 00:32:35,767 --> 00:32:38,533 AND HE OFFERED WHAT SOUNDED LIKE 944 00:32:38,533 --> 00:32:40,167 A REASON WHY KRISTEN MIGHT HAVE 945 00:32:40,167 --> 00:32:41,533 BEEN STRESSED. 946 00:32:41,533 --> 00:32:43,400 HE TOLD THE DOCTOR KRISTEN KNEW 947 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:44,500 ABOUT HIS ONLINE RELATIONSHIP 948 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:45,600 WITH THAT OTHER WOMAN. 949 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,100 >> HE REPORTED THAT THEY HAD 950 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:49,367 DISCUSSED THAT RELATIONSHIP THE 951 00:32:49,367 --> 00:32:50,433 WEEK OF HER DEATH. 952 00:32:50,433 --> 00:32:53,667 >> BUT REMEMBER, IN HIS POLICE 953 00:32:53,667 --> 00:32:55,067 INTERVIEW, COLBY HAD TOLD 954 00:32:55,067 --> 00:32:57,467 INVESTIGATORS THAT HE DIDN'T 955 00:32:57,467 --> 00:33:01,267 THINK KRISTEN KNEW. 956 00:33:01,267 --> 00:33:03,267 >> DID KRISTEN FIND OUT ABOUT 957 00:33:03,267 --> 00:33:04,400 THAT RELATIONSHIP? 958 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,067 >> NOT THAT I KNOW OF. 959 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,333 >> DID SHE KNOW OR DIDN'T KNOW? 960 00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:09,833 >> I BELIEVE SHE KNEW. 961 00:33:09,833 --> 00:33:11,633 >> WHETHER OR NOT KRISTEN KNEW 962 00:33:11,633 --> 00:33:13,200 DR. CHRISTIANSEN TOLD THE JURY, 963 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,167 SHE BELIEVED THAT AT THE TIME OF 964 00:33:15,167 --> 00:33:17,067 HER DEATH, KRISTEN WAS AT A LOW 965 00:33:17,067 --> 00:33:19,500 RISK FOR SUICIDE. 966 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:23,067 >> IT IS MY OPINION THAT IT IS 967 00:33:23,067 --> 00:33:26,233 RELATIVELY LESS LIKELY THAT HER 968 00:33:26,233 --> 00:33:27,700 DEATH WAS THE RESULT OF SUICIDE. 969 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:29,900 >> I LOVE THOSE WORDS. 970 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:30,967 RELATIVELY LESS LIKELY. 971 00:33:30,967 --> 00:33:33,133 THAT DOESN'T TELL ME ANYTHING. 972 00:33:33,133 --> 00:33:34,733 WE CAN'T KNOW THE MIND OF 973 00:33:34,733 --> 00:33:37,767 SOMEONE WHO WILL END THEIR LIFE. 974 00:33:37,767 --> 00:33:38,900 >> DEFENSE ATTORNEY ZEIGLER DOES 975 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:40,267 NOT THINK THE REPORT SHOULD HAVE 976 00:33:40,267 --> 00:33:42,067 BEEN ALLOWED IN AS EVIDENCE. 977 00:33:42,067 --> 00:33:44,800 SHE POINTS OUT THAT DR. 978 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,700 CHRISTIANSEN, WHO NEVER MET 979 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:47,833 KRISTEN TRICKLE, DID INTERVIEWS 980 00:33:47,833 --> 00:33:51,067 AND PREPARED A REPORT NEARLY TWO 981 00:33:51,067 --> 00:33:53,300 YEARS AFTER KRISTEN'S DEATH, AND 982 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:55,333 ZEIGLER BELIEVES PEOPLE'S 983 00:33:55,333 --> 00:33:56,933 MEMORIES CHANGE OVER TIME. 984 00:33:56,933 --> 00:33:58,333 >> THAT IS A LONG TIME TO GO 985 00:33:58,333 --> 00:34:03,233 BACK AND TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT 986 00:34:03,233 --> 00:34:03,500 KRISTEN. 987 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:04,567 >> BUT PROSECUTORS THOUGHT THERE 988 00:34:04,567 --> 00:34:06,733 WAS ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE 989 00:34:06,733 --> 00:34:08,500 THAT COULD BRING THEM A GUILTY 990 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,699 VERDICT. 991 00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:14,733 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST 992 00:34:14,733 --> 00:34:16,132 POWERFUL EVIDENCE AGAINST COLBY 993 00:34:16,132 --> 00:34:16,367 TRICKLE? 994 00:34:16,367 --> 00:34:27,067 CHAT NOW 995 00:34:29,433 --> 00:34:33,833 >>> NEARLY FOUR YEARS HAVE 996 00:34:33,833 --> 00:34:34,467 PASSED SINCE KRISTEN TRICKLE 997 00:34:34,467 --> 00:34:37,467 DIALED FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND TO 998 00:34:37,467 --> 00:34:38,400 HER HEAD. 999 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,867 HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE LAST 1000 00:34:39,867 --> 00:34:42,467 FOUR YEARS? 1001 00:34:42,467 --> 00:34:44,900 >> HELLISH. 1002 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:48,933 >> ON SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2023, IT 1003 00:34:48,933 --> 00:34:51,167 WAS COLBY TRICKLE'S LAST CHANCE 1004 00:34:51,167 --> 00:34:52,833 TO CONVINCE A JURY THAT HE HAD 1005 00:34:52,833 --> 00:34:55,367 NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS WIFE'S 1006 00:34:55,367 --> 00:34:55,800 DEATH. 1007 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,067 HE DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY, BUT 1008 00:34:59,067 --> 00:35:02,067 HIS ATTORNEY CASSY ZEIGLER 1009 00:35:02,067 --> 00:35:05,167 CALLED HIS MOTHER TINA KREUTZER 1010 00:35:05,167 --> 00:35:05,733 TO THE STAND. 1011 00:35:05,733 --> 00:35:08,100 >> IS IT FAIR TO SAY THAT 1012 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:09,900 KRISTEN WAS PRETTY RESERVED WHEN 1013 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:10,833 YOU MET HER? 1014 00:35:10,833 --> 00:35:11,967 >> YEAH. 1015 00:35:11,967 --> 00:35:12,967 VERY TO HERSELF. 1016 00:35:12,967 --> 00:35:14,433 >> SHE DESCRIBED HER 1017 00:35:14,433 --> 00:35:15,933 DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AS A WOMAN WHO 1018 00:35:15,933 --> 00:35:18,333 RARELY REVEALED HER FEELINGS. 1019 00:35:18,333 --> 00:35:20,267 >> COULDN'T READ HER. 1020 00:35:20,267 --> 00:35:21,300 VERY EMOTIONLESS. 1021 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:24,433 >> IT'S A DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT 1022 00:35:24,433 --> 00:35:26,500 KRISTEN, SAYS ATTORNEY ZEIGLER, 1023 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,933 THAN THE ONE HER FAMILY 1024 00:35:28,933 --> 00:35:29,200 DESCRIBES. 1025 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,500 >> BY THEIR EXPLANATION, JUST 1026 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:32,800 THE HAPPIEST, MOST JOYFUL 1027 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:33,067 PERSON. 1028 00:35:33,067 --> 00:35:34,400 NEVER STOPS SMILING. 1029 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,900 SHE IS ALMOST WALKING ON WATER. 1030 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:37,667 WHEN THE REALITY IS WE HAVE NO 1031 00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:40,233 IDEA HOW SHE'S REALLY FEELING. 1032 00:35:40,233 --> 00:35:42,167 NOW YOU FIND OUT HE'S HAVING AN 1033 00:35:42,167 --> 00:35:43,100 EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH 1034 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:44,700 SOMEONE ELSE ONLINE. 1035 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:46,300 I JUST, I CAN IMAGINE THAT BEING 1036 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:47,300 THE LAST STRAW. 1037 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,667 >> BUT IN HIS FINAL ARGUMENT TO 1038 00:35:49,667 --> 00:35:52,467 THE JURORS, PROSECUTOR AARON 1039 00:35:52,467 --> 00:35:55,067 CUNNINGHAM SHOWS THEM THE WEAPON 1040 00:35:55,067 --> 00:35:57,700 THAT KILLS KRISTEN AND SAYS, SHE 1041 00:35:57,700 --> 00:35:58,967 COULDN'T HAVE FIRED IT. 1042 00:35:58,967 --> 00:36:00,600 >> MEMBERS OF THE JURY, THIS 1043 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:01,500 DOESN'T ADD UP. 1044 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:03,767 THE STATE IS GOING TO 1045 00:36:03,767 --> 00:36:05,067 DEMONSTRATE THAT. 1046 00:36:05,067 --> 00:36:05,867 >> Reporter: PROSECUTOR 1047 00:36:05,867 --> 00:36:07,200 CUNNINGHAM SHOWED US WITH A 1048 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,067 SIMILAR GUN. 1049 00:36:08,067 --> 00:36:10,633 >> IF YOU LOOK AT THE AUTOPSY 1050 00:36:10,633 --> 00:36:12,933 PHOTOS, YOU SEE A LITTLE DIVOT 1051 00:36:12,933 --> 00:36:14,467 AT THE 3:00 MARK WHICH IS 1052 00:36:14,467 --> 00:36:17,067 BELIEVED BY THE CORONER TO BE IS 1053 00:36:17,067 --> 00:36:18,467 SITE IMPRINT OF THE GUN. 1054 00:36:18,467 --> 00:36:20,633 >> I SEE THAT. 1055 00:36:20,633 --> 00:36:22,867 >> I KNEW KRISTEN WAS 1056 00:36:22,867 --> 00:36:23,200 RIGHT-HANDED. 1057 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,333 THE NATURAL WAY A RIGHT-HANDED 1058 00:36:24,333 --> 00:36:26,500 PERSON WOULD HOLD A GUN TO THEIR 1059 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:27,500 HEAD FOR SUICIDE WOULD BE 1060 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:28,967 SOMETHING LIKE THIS OR MAYBE 1061 00:36:28,967 --> 00:36:31,133 SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 1062 00:36:31,133 --> 00:36:32,433 PUTTING THE SIGHT MARK SOMEWHERE 1063 00:36:32,433 --> 00:36:35,967 BETWEEN 9:00 AND 6:00. 1064 00:36:35,967 --> 00:36:41,600 SO FOR THE SIGHT MARK TO HAVE 1065 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,700 WOUND UP :00 ANGLE WOULD BE 1066 00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:44,733 VERY UNNATURAL. 1067 00:36:44,733 --> 00:36:47,067 >> HE SHOWS US HOE HE BELIEVES 1068 00:36:47,067 --> 00:36:50,067 COLBY TRICKLE SHOT HIS WIFE 1069 00:36:50,067 --> 00:36:52,167 WHILE SHE SLEPT NEXT TO HIM. 1070 00:36:52,167 --> 00:36:53,367 >> IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT 1071 00:36:53,367 --> 00:36:54,700 WITH THE SIGHT MARK THAT HE 1072 00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:56,400 WOULD HAVE GRABBED THE GUN FROM 1073 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,067 HIS NIGHT STAND, ROLLED OVER IN 1074 00:36:58,067 --> 00:36:59,867 GUN AND PLACED THE GUN JUST 1075 00:36:59,867 --> 00:37:01,567 UNDER HER CHIN AND PULLED THE 1076 00:37:01,567 --> 00:37:01,800 TRIGGER. 1077 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,267 >> IF YOU KEEP IT HERE, THEN 1078 00:37:04,267 --> 00:37:05,267 THIS WOULD EXPLAIN WHAT APPEARS 1079 00:37:05,267 --> 00:37:07,833 ON HER NECK HERE. 1080 00:37:07,833 --> 00:37:09,833 >> AS THE CASE WENT TO THE JURY, 1081 00:37:09,833 --> 00:37:11,100 ZEIGLER HAD HOPED THAT THEY 1082 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,067 WOULD STILL HAVE TOO MANY 1083 00:37:14,067 --> 00:37:14,300 DOUBTS. 1084 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,700 HOW SIGNIFICANT IS IT, THE FACT 1085 00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:19,867 THAT THE CORONER WENT TO TRIAL 1086 00:37:19,867 --> 00:37:21,833 STILL SAYING IT WAS A SUICIDE 1087 00:37:21,833 --> 00:37:23,467 WHEN THE PROSECUTORS ARE SAYING 1088 00:37:23,467 --> 00:37:25,267 IT'S A HOMICIDE? 1089 00:37:25,267 --> 00:37:26,733 >> IT'S HUGE. 1090 00:37:26,733 --> 00:37:28,567 WE HAVE TO SHOW DOUBT THAT'S 1091 00:37:28,567 --> 00:37:29,167 REASONABLE. 1092 00:37:29,167 --> 00:37:31,600 AND I THINK THERE'S PLENTY OF 1093 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:31,867 THAT. 1094 00:37:31,867 --> 00:37:33,800 >> THAT'S WHAT KRISTEN'S FAMILY 1095 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,900 FEARED AS WELL. 1096 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:39,700 >> ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS 1097 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,333 CONVINCE ONE OF THOSE 12 THAT 1098 00:37:42,333 --> 00:37:44,500 THEY HAVE A REASONABLE DOUBT. 1099 00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:47,400 WHAT DO WE DO IF HE WALKS OUT A 1100 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:48,167 FREE MAN? 1101 00:37:48,167 --> 00:37:50,967 >> THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT LONG. 1102 00:37:50,967 --> 00:37:52,867 LESS THAN TWO HOURS LATER, THERE 1103 00:37:52,867 --> 00:37:54,867 WAS A VERDICT. 1104 00:37:54,867 --> 00:37:55,533 >> COUNT ONE. 1105 00:37:55,533 --> 00:37:57,600 WE THE JURY FIND THE DEFENDANT 1106 00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,200 GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED MURDER IN 1107 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,333 THE FIRST DEGREE OF KRISTEN 1108 00:38:03,333 --> 00:38:03,567 TRICKLE. 1109 00:38:03,567 --> 00:38:05,167 >> COLBY TRICKLE WAS FOUND 1110 00:38:05,167 --> 00:38:07,600 GUILTY FOR FIRST DEGREE 1111 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,567 PREMEDITATED MURDER AND 1112 00:38:10,567 --> 00:38:11,567 INTERFERENCE WITH LAW 1113 00:38:11,567 --> 00:38:13,633 ENFORCEMENT, FALSELY REPORTING 1114 00:38:13,633 --> 00:38:13,967 INFORMATION. 1115 00:38:13,967 --> 00:38:15,500 >> WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER OF THE 1116 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:15,933 VERDICT? 1117 00:38:15,933 --> 00:38:17,400 WHAT DID YOU HEAR? 1118 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,933 >> JUST FEELING LIKE I COULD 1119 00:38:19,933 --> 00:38:21,067 BREATHE. 1120 00:38:21,067 --> 00:38:21,667 >> YEAH. 1121 00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:23,067 JUST THE FEELING OF BREATH. 1122 00:38:23,067 --> 00:38:26,267 >> THE RELIEF OF SAFETY FOR OUR 1123 00:38:26,267 --> 00:38:26,500 FAMILY. 1124 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:28,600 >> I FEEL LIKE WE GOT OUR LIFE 1125 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:28,800 BACK. 1126 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:29,800 >> YEAH. 1127 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,967 >> AFTER THE VERDICT WE SPOKE 1128 00:38:33,967 --> 00:38:36,467 WITH CORONER LYLE NOORDHOEK WHO 1129 00:38:36,467 --> 00:38:38,500 SAID HE PLANNED TO AMEND THE 1130 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,867 DEATH CERTIFICATE TO NOW READ 1131 00:38:41,867 --> 00:38:42,500 "HOMICIDE." 1132 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:44,667 HE ADMITTED HE HAD DECIDED ON 1133 00:38:44,667 --> 00:38:47,467 SUICIDE BEFORE TALKING TO ANYONE 1134 00:38:47,467 --> 00:38:49,067 IN KRISTEN'S FAMILY OR SEEING 1135 00:38:49,067 --> 00:38:52,767 THE WEAPON USED TO KILL HER. 1136 00:38:52,767 --> 00:38:55,067 >> I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED. 1137 00:38:55,067 --> 00:38:56,333 WOULDN'T THAT HAVE BEEN 1138 00:38:56,333 --> 00:38:57,433 IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE SIZE OF 1139 00:38:57,433 --> 00:38:59,300 THE WEAPON TO MAKE YOUR DEATH 1140 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:00,767 INVESTIGATION DETERMINATION? 1141 00:39:00,767 --> 00:39:01,967 >> THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE ALL 1142 00:39:01,967 --> 00:39:02,567 THAT INFORMATION. 1143 00:39:02,567 --> 00:39:04,233 AND IT IS USUALLY CORRELATED 1144 00:39:04,233 --> 00:39:06,067 WITH THE PATHOLOGIST BUT WASN'T 1145 00:39:06,067 --> 00:39:06,567 IN THIS CASE. 1146 00:39:06,567 --> 00:39:08,367 >> THE FACT THAT HE HAD DONE 1147 00:39:08,367 --> 00:39:09,333 RESEARCH ON INSURANCE. 1148 00:39:09,333 --> 00:39:10,533 WERE YOU AWARE OF THAT? 1149 00:39:10,533 --> 00:39:11,667 >> NO. 1150 00:39:11,667 --> 00:39:13,200 >> WERE YOU AWARE THAT THEY 1151 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:14,133 FOUND EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS 1152 00:39:14,133 --> 00:39:15,633 HAVING AN ONLINE AFFAIR? 1153 00:39:15,633 --> 00:39:16,367 >> NO. 1154 00:39:16,367 --> 00:39:18,133 THEY DIDN'T SHARE THAT WITH ME 1155 00:39:18,133 --> 00:39:18,367 EITHER. 1156 00:39:18,367 --> 00:39:20,433 >> IF YOU HAD KNOWN THAT, WOULD 1157 00:39:20,433 --> 00:39:22,167 YOU HAVE LEFT THAT AS SUICIDE? 1158 00:39:22,167 --> 00:39:23,300 >> NO. 1159 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:24,400 >> INVESTIGATORS ACKNOWLEDGE 1160 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,533 THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE A BETTER 1161 00:39:26,533 --> 00:39:29,367 JOB KEEPING HIM INFORMED. 1162 00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:32,933 ON NOVEMBER 20th, 2023, COLBY 1163 00:39:32,933 --> 00:39:36,833 TRICKLE RETURNED TO COURT FOR 1164 00:39:36,833 --> 00:39:37,133 SENTENCING. 1165 00:39:37,133 --> 00:39:38,833 ADMITTING ONLY THAT HE COULD 1166 00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:41,900 HAVE BEEN A BETTER HUSBAND. 1167 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:44,433 >> SOMETHING I CANNOT APOLOGIZE 1168 00:39:44,433 --> 00:39:46,600 FOR IS HARMING KRISTEN. 1169 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,300 I CANNOT APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT I 1170 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:49,667 DIDN'T DO. 1171 00:39:49,667 --> 00:39:51,900 REGARDLESS OF THAT FACT, I STILL 1172 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:54,400 TAKE PARTIAL BLAME FOR THAT 1173 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:54,833 MORNING. 1174 00:39:54,833 --> 00:39:56,267 I WILL ALWAYS WONDER IF SHE 1175 00:39:56,267 --> 00:39:57,700 WOULD STILL BE HERE IF I HAD 1176 00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:00,500 BEEN A BETTER HUSBAND. 1177 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,800 >> THE JUDGE SENTENCED COLBY 1178 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:03,100 TRICKLE. 1179 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:04,567 >> THE COURT SENTENCES YOU TO 1180 00:40:04,567 --> 00:40:05,700 LIFE IN PRISON WITH NO 1181 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:09,200 POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE FOR 50 1182 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:09,433 YEARS. 1183 00:40:09,433 --> 00:40:11,400 >> WITH COLBY TRICKLE IN PRISON, 1184 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,433 THE RICES SAY THEIR FAMILY IS 1185 00:40:13,433 --> 00:40:15,300 FINALLY BEGINNING TO GRIEVE THE 1186 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:19,567 YOUNG WOMAN GONE WAY TOO SOON. 1187 00:40:19,567 --> 00:40:23,867 * SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT -- * 1188 00:40:23,867 --> 00:40:25,333 >> KRISTEN'S COUSIN CHLOE WHO 1189 00:40:25,333 --> 00:40:29,933 GREW UP WITH KRISTEN WROTE A 1190 00:40:29,933 --> 00:40:30,267 SONG FOR HER. 1191 00:40:30,267 --> 00:40:32,200 * WE NEVER SAY GOODBYE * 1192 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,367 >> HOW OFTEN DO YOU THINK ABOUT 1193 00:40:34,367 --> 00:40:34,667 KRISTEN? 1194 00:40:34,667 --> 00:40:35,567 >> ALL THE TIME. 1195 00:40:35,567 --> 00:40:36,367 EVERY DAY. 1196 00:40:36,367 --> 00:40:39,067 >> EVERY DAY. 1197 00:40:39,067 --> 00:40:43,400 WE DRIVE BY THAT LITTLE HOUSE. 1198 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,133 >> THE HOUSE WHERE KRISTEN ONE 1199 00:40:45,133 --> 00:40:50,300 DAY HOPED TO START HER DREAM 1200 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:50,567 BUSINESS. 1201 00:40:50,567 --> 00:40:53,000 >> YOU CALL IT KRISTEN'S HOUSE, 1202 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:53,833 DON'T YOU? 1203 00:40:53,833 --> 00:40:54,800 >> YEAH. 1204 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,800 >> SHE HAD A FUTURE. 1205 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,767 SHE HAD FOUND HER FAITH AGAIN. 1206 00:40:58,767 --> 00:41:03,133 >> WHEN YOU WERE WITH HER, YOU 1207 00:41:03,133 --> 00:41:03,833 FELT LOVED. 1208 00:41:03,833 --> 00:41:05,900 A BEAUTIFUL HEART. 1209 00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:08,067 A GENTLE, GENTLE SPIRIT. 1210 00:41:08,067 --> 00:41:13,767 SHE WAS JUST AN AMAZING GIRL. 1211 00:41:13,767 --> 00:41:15,367 >> I NEVER HAD THE CHANCE AND 1212 00:41:15,367 --> 00:41:19,400 NOW I'M TELLING YOU GOODBYE * 1213 00:41:36,067 --> 00:41:38,767 >>> A WELL-KNOWN RESPECTED 1214 00:41:38,767 --> 00:41:40,700 DETECTIVE, HIS WIFE WAS SHOT 1215 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:40,900 DEAD. 1216 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:42,200 >> HE'S A SUSPECT BUT THE 1217 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,400 PROSECUTION HAS A PROBLEM. 1218 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,467 >> THE FAMILY OF A VICTIM 1219 00:41:45,467 --> 00:41:46,867 STICKING UP FOR THE ACCUSED 1220 00:41:46,867 --> 00:41:48,267 MURDERER OF THEIR LOVED ONE. 1221 00:41:48,267 --> 00:41:49,700 >> HE COULDN'T HAVE KILLED HER. 1222 00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:51,300 COULD HE?