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I think what makes
that video intriguing
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For people to watch
is what he's saying.
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It's almost comical.
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Some people may watch that,
and think, well,
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He doesn't know the difference
between right and wrong.
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Trust me when I tell you,
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He knows the difference
between right and wrong.
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In the long run,
this is about a murder.
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This is a serious crime
with someone losing their life.
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It was a very violent death.
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[don] he was just an
all-around good guy
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And he didn't deserve
what happened.
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I still don't know if we know
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Every specific bit
of god's honest truth.
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What it boiled down to
is a cold, calculated,
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Pre-planned homicide.
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It was a way for them to be
together as a couple.
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[music]
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[muffle scream]
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[gasp]
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[female narrator]
medford, oregon,
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Is a quiet community
deep in the heart
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Of the rustic rogue valley.
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[stephanie] medford is located
in southern oregon.
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We're about 30 miles
from the california border.
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We're close to mountains,
we're close to the ocean.
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Hiking, camping.
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I have been a medford police
officer for almost 30 years.
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It's a department that really
cares about their community.
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[narrator] on October 2nd, 2017
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The medford police department
receives an alarming 911 call
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From a local resident.
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The call came in at 6:42.
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It was from aaron friar's
girlfriend.
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[narrator]
aaron is a 50-year-old
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Medford resident and handyman.
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He's also the father
of three girls.
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His girlfriend reports that
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Aaron and his oldest daughter,
ellie, are missing.
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[bill] the girlfriend said
aaron's younger daughters
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Woke up about 6:30
in the morning,
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And all of a sudden,
they see blood there.
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And they don't know
where dad is.
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And they don't know where
older sister is.
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His fifteen-year-old daughter,
ellie friar,
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Was missing from the residence.
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[shannon] so,
they called dad's girlfriend.
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She came to the house,
saw the state of the house.
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And they ultimately decided
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To walk to their mom's house
down the street
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And call for help.
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Our officers were dispatched
to the residence.
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[shannon]
the address is in west medford.
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It's an older neighborhood
with older homes.
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[bill] patrol officers
entered the residence.
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At that point,
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They're in a lifesaving mode
to figure out what's going on.
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They're checking for any place
a human body can be at,
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Whether they're injured
or whether they're deceased.
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They basically searched the
house looking for the father,
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Aaron friar, and his fifteen
year-old daughter, ellie friar.
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They found blood on the couch,
inside the front room.
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Based on the amount of blood
that was there,
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We believe that it was
a possible no-body homicide.
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That they had been assaulted
and then
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Possibly taken somewhere
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Or removed from
the house deceased.
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[narrator] when detectives
arrive at the scene,
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Responding officers walk them
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Through their initial
discoveries.
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Officer logan boyd
had followed the blood path
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Out of the residence.
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Anyone and everyone is talked to
that has knowledge or knows
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The people that are involved
in this case.
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Our goal is to figure out
what's going on
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And find the people
that we need to find.
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[narrator]
originally from california,
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Aaron friar left a lasting
impression on everyone he met.
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[curtis]
I grew up with aaron in lompoc.
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He was like the best friend
you could ever have.
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He'd give you
the shirt off his back.
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That's the kind of guy he was.
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Aaron was very outgoing, always
wanting to make you laugh.
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Wanting to be the friend that
made sure you had a good time.
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He's very outgoing,
bubbly personality.
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[narrator] in 2000,
aaron moved to oregon,
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Where he settled down.
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Aaron met his wife, maggie,
in medford.
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They seemed happy.
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You could tell it, you know,
it was, it radiated from him.
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I was happy for him.
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[narrator]
over the next eight years,
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Aaron and his wife welcomed
three daughters.
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[curtis] aaron with his girls,
they were his world,
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And I saw it firsthand.
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You know, when I went up there
to visit,
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He would take me to school,
to go pick them up.
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He loved those girls
more than anything.
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[narrator] the couple's oldest
daughter, ellen,
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Or "ellie"
to her friends and family,
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Shined particularly bright.
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Ellie was definitely
a smart girl, she--
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She was in all of the, um,
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Advanced placement classes
with me.
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[kaden]
we were in band together.
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She was super talented,
she's good at the clarinet.
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Ellie was a super friendly
individual, um, very quiet,
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Maybe a little socially awkward.
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But always super nice,
funny, you know.
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Aaron was proud of her because
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She did a lot of recitals
in school.
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Every time he come visit,
he'd have those on his phone,
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And he would just have
to show me.
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[narrator] after more than
a decade of marriage,
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Aaron and his wife decided
to separate in 2014.
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[don] when they split up,
didn't move that far,
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And they co-parented
without really any, uh,
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Agreement of who gets who when.
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And that seemed to be working
really well for them.
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[kevin] the girls' mother,
she actually lived within
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A block and a half
of aaron's house.
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Uh so, the girls,
they would go back and forth
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Between his house there
and their mother's house.
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[shannon] when it was his turn
to have them over his house,
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He was all about that.
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Aaron wanted to be
at home with them.
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He wanted to spend time
with them.
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Aaron would encourage ellie
to play music.
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They would all have jam sessions
together and listen to her sing.
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He loved to hear ellie sing.
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He lived for them kids.
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That was,
that was his main concern.
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[narrator] by 2017,
aaron's three girls,
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Ages 8, 11, and 15
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Seemed to have adjusted well
to their new life.
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That same year, aaron was back
on the dating scene.
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[shannon] he started dating a
woman who I became friends with
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Her name was miki.
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She was wonderful, very nice.
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They seemed to hit it off
really well.
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[don] aaron,
his new girlfriend, and maggie,
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His ex-wife,
they got along great.
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She liked all the kids.
The kids liked her.
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It was a good dynamic.
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They definitely seemed
like a happy family.
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[narrator] but on October 2nd,
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Aaron and his eldest daughter
are missing...
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And medford police are searchin
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For witnesses who can explain
what happened to them.
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[bill]
there's a lot of moving pieces.
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We have to start canvassing
the neighborhood,
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Looking for witnesses.
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[narrator] detectives head
to aaron's ex-wife's house
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To speak with aaron's
girlfriend,
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Miki, who had called 911
earlier that morning.
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She explains that she last saw
aaron the night before,
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And he and the girls
were in good spirits.
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[narrator] miki confirms that
aaron's car,
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A silver mercury marquis,
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Was parked under the carport
when she left.
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So, once we know
that aaron's vehicle
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Was also missing
from the residence, immediately,
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We have all of our officers out
looking for the car.
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We don't know if they're
still alive,
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He's been kidnapped,
she's been kidnapped.
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We don't really know a lot
on the front end of this
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Until we can start digging and
figuring out what's going on.
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You're really turning it
into a lifesaving situation
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At that point.
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[narrator] coming up...
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Police learn new details as
aaron friar's youngest daughter
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Recount a harrowing ordeal...
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She woke up to her dad yelling
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And the sound
of something crashing.
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She's afraid to leave the room.
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It was actually heartbreaking.
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[narrator]
and a troubling allegation
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Exposes a sinister motive.
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They definitely had
this romeo and juliet
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Kind of situation
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Where they wanted to be
together,
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But everybody was telling them
they couldn't be.
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[music]
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[music]
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[narrator] medford police
are searching for 50-year-old
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Aaron friar and his 15-year-old
daughter, ellie,
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After his younger daughters
discovered a blood bath
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Inside their home.
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Authorities put out an apb
for aaron's missing vehicle,
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While detectives canvass
the neighborhood.
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There is surveillance
all around that neighborhood.
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People these days have cameras
on their houses,
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And we find a surveillance vide
that shows the car leaving.
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[narrator] the footage captures
aaron's silver mercury
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Pulling away from the home
at 5:39am.
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While this helps establish
a timeline,
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Detectives are unable
to identify the driver.
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Fortunately for us,
we have the two young daughters
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That were in the house
when this occurred
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To tell us everything they know
and walk us through stuff.
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This information is key.
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[narrator]
detectives make arrangements
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To speak with aaron's daughters
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I was assigned with talking
to the two young sisters,
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Who were possible witnesses to
what had happened at the house.
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They were eleven and eight
at the time.
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I made contact with the mother
and asked her to bring the girls
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To the children's
advocacy center
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So that I could
interview them there.
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[narrator] a few hours later,
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The two girls and their mother
come in for an interview.
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[shannon]
with interviewing children,
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We don't jump right into
the topic of concern.
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We build some rapport.
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Go over some ground rules
about how the interview's
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Gonna happen.
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The girls were obviously scared
and upset.
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It was actually heartbreaking.
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The older sister had
the most information.
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She heard and saw a lot.
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She knew something bad
had happened.
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She woke up to her dad yelling,
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And the sound
of something crashing
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At five o'clock in the morning.
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She's afraid to leave the room.
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[narrator] according to aaron's
middle daughter,
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She and her sister eventually
fell back to sleep.
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Ultimately, at 6:15, she gets up
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Because she needs to get up
and go to school.
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And she comes out
into the living room
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And goes to the couch
and puts her hand on the couch.
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And when she takes
her hand away, it's bloody.
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She turned on the light
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And was shocked because
there was blood everywhere.
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She used her dad's phone
next to the couch
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To get the phone number
for her dad's girlfriend.
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And she called
and asked her to come over.
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[narrator]
but aaron's daughter reveals
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That while she was hiding out
in her and her sister's room,
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She recognized a familiar voice
coming from the living room.
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[shannon] the older sister
tells me during the interview
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That after the crash
with her dad, she hears gavin.
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[narrator] detectives learn
that gavin macfarlane
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Is ellie's 19-year-old
ex-boyfriend.
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[shannon]
she's concerned because
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She knows that gavin's
not allowed to be at the house .
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She told me that he was
a, quote, "mysterious person"
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And that her dad hated him.
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At this point,
we were trying to find
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More information about gavin.
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I first met gavin
my freshman year of high school
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At south medford.
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Gavin was older than ellie
and was already graduated.
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I just kind of remember seeing
ellie and gavin hanging out
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Despite no longer being
a student there.
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He just kind of had a specific
kind of--like, a darker vibe,
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Like mystique surrounding gavin
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I would see gavin, like,
waiting outside the front,
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Kind of where the parents,
the staff parking lot,
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Where parents come
to pick up their kids.
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He'd be hanging out there
with a skateboard,
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And then ellie would come out
to meet him,
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And they would walk off,
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You know,
into the town together.
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They definitely seemed
like a happy couple.
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Ellie seemed almost
head over heels for him.
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[narrator] ellie's father,
on the other hand,
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Wasn't happy when he learned
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About his daughter's
relationship.
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[curtis] aaron would tell me
that the guy is a bad seed
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And not a good influence
on ellie,
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Because ellie was doing
very well in school.
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She was doing her band
and everything.
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But I think gavin held her back
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[shannon] ellie had recently
gotten into trouble for lying
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About where she was at
on the weekends.
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She had told her dad that
she was staying with a friend,
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And her dad found out that she
was actually at gavin's house.
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[narrator]
ellie's mother tells detectives
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That aaron had forbidden their
daughter from dating gavin,
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Leading to a tense confrontatio
outside gavin's home
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Only a month before aaron
and ellie went missing.
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[bill] about a month prior,
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Gavin macfarlane calls
the police department
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To report that aaron friar
is at his residence
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Threatening to kill him.
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We respond over
to the residence,
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An officer does, makes contact.
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And aaron's saying,
"yeah, I'm upset.
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"he's nineteen years old,
my daughter's fifteen.
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"I've told him I don't want
him around my daughter,
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"but yet, he keeps coming around
my daughter,
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And he's involved
in a relationship with her."
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[narrator] the animosity between
aaron and gavin suggests
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A clear motive to detectives.
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[bill]
we don't even know 100% sure
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Who's been injured
at the residence
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Because there's blood
on a couch,
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It's not in a bed,
in a certain person's bedroom.
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But we kind of figured
that something had happened
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To aaron and ellie
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And that it, more than likely
involved ellie's boyfriend.
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Ellie's mom was
understandably worried,
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And the girls were worried
and extremely tired.
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After I was done,
interviewing the girls,
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I talked to their mom.
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And I just said,
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"as soon as I have updates
for you, I'll let you know."
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We had every patrol officer,
every individual in the county,
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Everyone's looking
for this missing vehicle
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That belonged to aaron.
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Very quickly our officers
find it up in east medford,
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Parked on the street.
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[narrator] unfortunately,
there's no sign of aaron,
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Ellie, or gavin...
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And a sweep of the vehicle
turns up no evidence.
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Detectives focus all efforts
on locating gavin immediately.
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We began doing what's called
a geofence or a geo-ping
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For the location
of the cellphone.
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We have this phone ping going o
on gavin macfarlane's phone.
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That phone ping leads us
to a certain area of medford.
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[narrator] as officers scour
the neighborhood
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Where gavin's phone last pinged
there is a stunning development
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Detective jim williams
was driving down barnett road,
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Which is a major thoroughfare,
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And he spots ellie friar
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Just walking down the street
with gavin.
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[music]
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[music]
[narrator]
police in medford, oregon,
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Have just spotted missing perso
ellie friar
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With her ex-boyfriend,
gavin macfarlane.
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To authorities' surprise,
ellie appears to be unharmed.
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I learned that gavin, ellie, and
a third person had been located.
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[narrator] officers discover
that the third person
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Is 22-year-old russell jones.
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[bill] I had been told
that russell jones, ellie friar
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And gavin macfarlane
were being brought
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To the medford police
department.
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I already knew who russell was.
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I had had a prior case
with russell jones.
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He was involved in a burglary,
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In taking his grandparents'
property.
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Aaron's vehicle was found
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Very close to russell jones'
grandparents' residence.
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[narrator] while ellie friar and
gavin macfarlane refuse to talk
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Russell causes concern
for law enforcement.
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He is a strange individual.
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Very talkative.
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Talks very fast,
more than regular.
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[bill] it's now around
11:30 in the morning.
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All three subjects
have been brought
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Into the medford police
department.
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[bill]
we separate all three of them.
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[bill] they're all placed
in different interview rooms.
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Obviously, you don't want people
talking to each other.
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[narrator]
while the three teenagers
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Wait to speak with detectives,
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Russell's behavior becomes
increasingly bizarre.
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[narrator] when detectives enter
the interrogation room,
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Russell's demeanor
appears to shift,
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And he's willing to cooperate.
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[narrator] in an interview room
down the hall,
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Another detective meets
with ellie friar.
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[stephanie] I was assigned
to interview ellie.
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And she's small. She's petite.
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It was important for me
to let her talk.
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To establish a rapport.
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To ask open-ended questions.
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And that's kind of what I
tried to do from the beginning.
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[narrator] ellie outlines
that she had shared
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This allegation of abuse
with her boyfriend, gavin.
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[bill] ellie just wanted
her dad out of her life
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So she could be with gavin.
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00:26:06,898 --> 00:26:10,533
And gavin gets his buddy russell
involved in it,
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And russell's the protector.
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[stephanie] according to ellie,
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She had been removing items
of hers from her home,
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Putting 'em outside,
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00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:23,413
And then gavin would come
and pick 'em up
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And take 'em to his home.
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[narrator] ellie explains
that the night before,
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She planned to sneak out
of her home.
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But when gavin and russell
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00:26:37,229 --> 00:26:40,497
Arrived outside
her bedroom window,
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Russell was armed
with a machete.
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She told us that russell
had went through the window
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And was in ellie's bedroom.
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[stephanie] ellie was putting
everything on russell.
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She admitted to me
that he hurt her dad.
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[narrator] coming up...
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Authorities finally uncover
the whereabouts
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Of their true victim,
aaron friar...
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[narrator] and a chilling
confession
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Will leave police asking...
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What really happened
to aaron friar
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And who is responsible?
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He demonstrated for us
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That he took that bat
with two hands,
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00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:07,217
That he came up
over the top of him,
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00:28:07,219 --> 00:28:10,554
And that he drove the bat
into his head 5 to 6 times.
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00:28:13,658 --> 00:28:16,260
[music]
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00:28:21,166 --> 00:28:21,965
[music]
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00:28:21,967 --> 00:28:23,901
[narrator] less than 24 hours
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After aaron friar's
disappearance,
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His 15-year-old daughter ellie
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Has claimed that on the night
she ran away from home,
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00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:35,079
Russell jones attacked
her father with a machete.
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00:28:53,465 --> 00:28:58,468
Ellie, to me, was portraying
herself at points as a victim.
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She was acting like
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She didn't know a lot
about what had happened.
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[narrator] detective bill ford
confronts russell
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With ellie's claims.
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[bill]
he ends up telling us that
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The night prior,
around midnight,
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He wanted to help try to get
ellie out of a bad situation
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With her father.
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So, he had been living
with gavin at the time.
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[bill] he had a machete on him
outside the house
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In case something bad happened.
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He told us that him and gavin
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00:29:46,351 --> 00:29:48,786
Were gonna take ellie
back to gavin's
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And ellie was going to live
with gavin.
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[narrator] but what russell says
happened next stands
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In stark contrast to ellie's
version of events.
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[bill] he tells us
that a bat was used,
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00:30:42,707 --> 00:30:45,141
That gavin's the one
that used the bat.
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00:30:45,210 --> 00:30:48,411
That aaron was on the couch
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00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,281
When gavin assaulted him
and killed him.
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00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:53,483
It's just, like,
strangest thing ever.
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00:30:53,552 --> 00:30:56,452
He's not emotional,
he's not upset.
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00:30:56,522 --> 00:30:59,556
It's all like matter of fact,
like it's just another day.
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He tells us
his only involvement,
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His only involvement
was helping gavin
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00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:24,014
Remove the body
out of the house,
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00:31:24,082 --> 00:31:25,982
Put him in the tarp,
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00:31:26,051 --> 00:31:30,753
Put it in the trunk of the car,
of aaron's car,
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00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:32,489
And then ultimately
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Taking the body out
to the county
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And dumping the body.
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[narrator] russell agrees to
take detectives to the location
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Where they dumped
aaron friar's body.
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He directs us down highway 140.
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00:31:51,576 --> 00:31:54,210
We come back on a road
called antelope road.
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00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:55,679
And he takes us about,
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00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:58,381
I think it was seven,
eight miles up the road.
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00:31:58,450 --> 00:32:01,818
And he tells us, "stop here."
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00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:04,221
He tells us the body's right of
the edge of the bank.
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00:32:07,192 --> 00:32:10,126
We get out,
we look down the bank.
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00:32:10,195 --> 00:32:12,995
We see a green tarp rolled up,
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00:32:12,997 --> 00:32:15,398
Foot hanging out of the tarp,
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00:32:15,467 --> 00:32:17,634
About 50 feet down
the embankment.
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[narrator] as a team is called
in to recover aaron's body,
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Russell points out
a key piece of evidence.
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About 10 to 15 feet up
in a tree,
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00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:34,084
Kind of located behind the body,
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00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:36,186
Russell says,
"see the bat right there?"
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00:32:36,254 --> 00:32:38,721
And I'm looking, and I'm like,
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00:32:38,790 --> 00:32:41,425
"holy smokes, the bat did get
hung up in a branch."
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00:32:54,706 --> 00:32:57,440
[bill] he had told us
that ellie had thrown the bat,
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00:32:57,509 --> 00:32:59,042
And he kind of snickers
and laughs
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00:32:59,110 --> 00:33:00,610
That ellie had such a good arm,
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00:33:00,679 --> 00:33:03,746
And it was kind
of comical to him
463
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:08,184
That the bat had been caught up
in a bare tree branch.
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00:33:08,253 --> 00:33:11,187
It was really kind of surreal.
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00:33:11,256 --> 00:33:14,124
[narrator] when police recover
aaron friar's body,
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A preliminary examination
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00:33:16,194 --> 00:33:19,162
Reveals that he died
of blunt force trauma,
468
00:33:19,230 --> 00:33:22,532
Which is consistent
with russell's account.
469
00:33:22,601 --> 00:33:27,136
He had sustained massive trauma
to the brain and the skull.
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[narrator] the discovery
undermines ellie's story
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That her dad was attacked
with a machete.
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00:33:34,513 --> 00:33:36,846
Detectives return
to the police department,
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00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,416
Where they confront
gavin macfarlane.
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[narrator] that's when
gavin reveals the real reason
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00:34:05,009 --> 00:34:07,410
Why he needed to help ellie.
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[narrator] according to gavin,
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00:34:13,752 --> 00:34:17,654
Ellie had confided in him
about her father's alleged abus
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00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:18,955
The day before.
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00:34:31,670 --> 00:34:34,537
Gavin was loyal
and kind of ride-or-die.
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00:34:34,606 --> 00:34:36,606
He would absolutely go along
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00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:39,209
With pretty much any sort
of crazy plan.
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[bill] he said it's very dark
inside this residence.
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00:35:00,365 --> 00:35:02,499
He trips on a plastic bin.
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00:35:04,236 --> 00:35:05,935
It makes some noise.
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00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,504
It wakes dad up.
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[bill] he demonstrated for us
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That he took that bat
with two hands,
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00:35:20,219 --> 00:35:22,485
That he came up
over the top of him,
489
00:35:22,487 --> 00:35:27,357
And that he drove the bat
into his head 5 to 6 times.
490
00:35:37,903 --> 00:35:39,802
He kept saying, you know,
I didn't mean to kill him.
491
00:35:39,871 --> 00:35:41,071
I didn't want to kill him.
492
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:44,607
Well, somebody takes a bat
with two hands, an aluminum bat,
493
00:35:44,676 --> 00:35:46,442
And swings it up
over the top of him.
494
00:35:46,511 --> 00:35:47,844
Anybody should,
in their right mind,
495
00:35:47,912 --> 00:35:49,746
Should know that
that could cause death.
496
00:36:01,192 --> 00:36:05,361
[music]
497
00:36:10,635 --> 00:36:11,400
Ic]
498
00:36:11,470 --> 00:36:13,370
[narrator] in medford, oregon,
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00:36:13,438 --> 00:36:15,738
Gavin macfarlane
has just admitted
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00:36:15,807 --> 00:36:17,874
That his girlfriend,
ellie friar,
501
00:36:17,942 --> 00:36:21,611
Came up with the idea
to murder her father, aaron.
502
00:36:50,976 --> 00:36:53,142
[narrator]
when detectives confront ellie
503
00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:54,510
About gavin's claims,
504
00:36:54,579 --> 00:36:56,946
She continues to play innocent.
505
00:37:18,703 --> 00:37:22,071
In talking to ellie,
it was super frustrating.
506
00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:23,739
I knew she was lying.
507
00:37:23,809 --> 00:37:26,276
There were nonverbal cues
as well.
508
00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:28,511
Like trying to be distracting,
509
00:37:28,580 --> 00:37:31,614
Like drinking the water,
like coughing.
510
00:37:46,130 --> 00:37:48,765
Once she started realizing
511
00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:51,601
That we were putting the pieces
of the puzzle together,
512
00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:53,636
Then she was becoming
more truthful
513
00:37:53,705 --> 00:37:55,739
About what had happened.
514
00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:29,505
She was admitting at least some
of her part in the homicide.
515
00:38:29,507 --> 00:38:31,040
I think that was
a turning point.
516
00:38:33,211 --> 00:38:35,878
It was a very violent death.
517
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:41,050
I think ellie definitely knew
how violent of a death it was,
518
00:38:41,052 --> 00:38:44,620
And she was still blasé
about the whole thing.
519
00:38:44,689 --> 00:38:47,190
Like, hmm, no reaction.
520
00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:10,380
[narrator]
following their interviews,
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00:39:10,448 --> 00:39:14,650
Ellie, gavin, and russell
are charged on multiple counts,
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00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,687
Including murder and conspiracy
to commit murder.
523
00:39:18,757 --> 00:39:22,926
Despite her age,
ellie is charged as an adult.
524
00:39:22,994 --> 00:39:24,427
I was floored.
525
00:39:24,495 --> 00:39:27,864
What happened with aaron
was such a, a shock.
526
00:39:27,932 --> 00:39:31,101
I believe all of medford
was definitely shaken up.
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00:39:32,503 --> 00:39:34,337
[curtis]
I just couldn't believe it.
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00:39:34,405 --> 00:39:37,907
You know, little girl ellie,
you know, I couldn't believe it.
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00:39:39,344 --> 00:39:41,978
[narrator] as authorities
continue building their case,
530
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:45,915
They learn that ellie friar
is not pregnant.
531
00:39:45,917 --> 00:39:47,784
They also find no evidence
532
00:39:47,852 --> 00:39:51,321
That she was ever abused
by her father.
533
00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:53,289
During the course
of the investigation,
534
00:39:53,357 --> 00:39:57,393
We never found any evidence
or signs of sexual,
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00:39:57,462 --> 00:40:01,331
Physical or emotional abuse
by aaron friar to ellie
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00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:03,032
Or his two younger daughters.
537
00:40:05,469 --> 00:40:07,603
[bill] ellie's a manipulator.
538
00:40:07,672 --> 00:40:12,341
I think, even though
she's 15, she's 15 going on 20.
539
00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:14,377
She wanted things in her life,
540
00:40:14,445 --> 00:40:16,545
And she wanted them to be
a certain way.
541
00:40:16,615 --> 00:40:17,613
[ellen]
I think that they had, like,
542
00:40:17,682 --> 00:40:19,949
This romeo and juliet situation
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00:40:20,018 --> 00:40:23,019
Where ellie and gavin
wanted to be together,
544
00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:25,288
But everybody was telling them
they couldn't be.
545
00:40:27,725 --> 00:40:31,294
[bill]
ellie wanted her dad killed,
546
00:40:31,362 --> 00:40:34,330
And that was a way for them
to be together as a couple.
547
00:40:40,905 --> 00:40:42,504
[narrator]
when detectives execute
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00:40:42,506 --> 00:40:44,607
A search warrant
at gavin's house,
549
00:40:44,676 --> 00:40:47,610
They secure evidence
proving gavin and ellie
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00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:50,980
Had planned aaron's death
together.
551
00:40:51,049 --> 00:40:54,651
[bill]
we found letters, drawings,
552
00:40:54,653 --> 00:40:57,954
Written-out documents
by gavin, lots of 'em,
553
00:40:57,956 --> 00:41:00,990
About planning different ways
to do this.
554
00:41:01,059 --> 00:41:06,162
I mean, this was a cold,
calculated, preplanned homicide.
555
00:41:07,865 --> 00:41:09,399
[stephanie] and also,
we had a search warrant
556
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:11,467
For cell phone
text conversations
557
00:41:11,535 --> 00:41:16,772
That she was having with russel
and gavin about killing her dad
558
00:41:16,841 --> 00:41:19,809
There was talk of getting
chloroform,
559
00:41:19,878 --> 00:41:23,045
Putting it over aaron's face,
knocking him out,
560
00:41:23,114 --> 00:41:25,848
Putting him in a car,
taking him to california,
561
00:41:25,850 --> 00:41:28,484
Murdering him way out
in the county somewhere.
562
00:41:28,552 --> 00:41:32,421
Ultimately, they get a text
from ellie to come over
563
00:41:32,423 --> 00:41:34,690
And kill him there.
564
00:41:34,759 --> 00:41:38,260
Russell has this beat-up
old motor home,
565
00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:41,163
And they were going to make
their way to the motor home
566
00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:43,733
And take off
and go across the nation.
567
00:41:44,602 --> 00:41:46,302
And life's going to be grand.
568
00:41:47,972 --> 00:41:50,073
[narrator]
facing a mountain of evidence,
569
00:41:50,141 --> 00:41:52,808
Both ellie friar
and gavin macfarlane
570
00:41:52,810 --> 00:41:56,012
Make deals with the prosecution
571
00:41:56,014 --> 00:41:59,081
[lisa] mr. Macfarlane
pled guilty to murder.
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00:41:59,150 --> 00:42:03,152
Under oregon law, he received
a sentence of life
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00:42:03,221 --> 00:42:07,189
With a mandatory minimum
25 years in prison.
574
00:42:07,191 --> 00:42:10,627
Miss friar pled guilty
to the conspiracy charges
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00:42:10,629 --> 00:42:14,563
And then was sentenced
to 25 years.
576
00:42:14,565 --> 00:42:17,933
[sylvia] ellie should've gotten
the brunt of the guilt,
577
00:42:18,002 --> 00:42:19,636
But I understand that gavin
578
00:42:19,704 --> 00:42:22,372
Is still the person
who murdered ellie's father,
579
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,943
And I think 25 years to life
is the punishment for that.
580
00:42:29,180 --> 00:42:33,850
[narrator] in August 2021,
russell jones pleads no contest
581
00:42:33,918 --> 00:42:37,486
To conspiracy to commit murder
and attempted robbery.
582
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,890
He is sentenced to 15 years.
583
00:42:40,959 --> 00:42:44,326
As far as their sentencings go,
584
00:42:44,396 --> 00:42:46,629
I believe it's all fair.
585
00:42:46,698 --> 00:42:50,099
I think they all need to be
in there for their full term.
586
00:42:51,169 --> 00:42:54,169
The saddest part is that
the two little girls
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00:42:54,171 --> 00:42:55,838
No longer have their father.
588
00:42:55,907 --> 00:42:59,108
And that's because
their 15-year-old sister
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00:42:59,177 --> 00:43:01,510
Went to great lengths
to make sure he was killed.
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00:43:03,715 --> 00:43:05,715
[music]
591
00:43:09,854 --> 00:43:11,721
[curtis] I think aaron
should be remembered
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00:43:11,789 --> 00:43:14,724
As the most wonderful man
593
00:43:14,792 --> 00:43:18,261
And the best friend
any guy could ever have.
594
00:43:18,329 --> 00:43:22,231
Every year on June the 9th,
we get together,
595
00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:25,134
And we have a beer,
and we drink one for aaron.
596
00:43:25,203 --> 00:43:27,337
He touched so many
people's lives.
597
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:41,684
[music]