- It's January 30 at 11:52.
Case number 18JST.
We had two missing kids for several weeks.
Looks like shower.
(SINGING) How sweet thou art.
- We're not giving up by any means.
- It's a desolate area.
It's the end of December. It's cold.
It's winter.
There's snow on the ground.
We got the call the they had found Jeep.
- The tires were punctured
with a screwdriver or a knife.
We think there's foul play.
It started sending red flags.
We didn't know who we were dealing with
and what the capabilities might be.
- We're not finding them on the surface.
So they've got to be underground.
In Eureka, the mining town, there's mine shafts everywhere.
Mine tunnels everywhere.
- He wasn't going to come out to.
Talk to us.
Danger was definitely possible.
- She's hysterical.
And she's just saying, I promise I won't tell.
And he says, hush, darling.
- The East Tintic Mountains are located
more northwest Juab County.
The mountains are very steep, rugged,
rocky, tough to get around.
- In Juab County,
there are sagebrush, cedar trees,
few pine trees, pinion pines.
- It's open, dry, airy desert.
And it gets really cold in the winter.
- It was a boomtown mining area.
There was several towns that aren't there anymore.
Just up and disappeared.
There's thousands of mineshafts out through the western Utah.
You could be riding a four-wheeler off through
the sagebrush and where you go?
You're going down.
NARRATOR: In March of 2018,
a flurry of law enforcement activity
surrounds Tintic standard mine number 2.
Rescuers work to recover two bodies
from the cavernous abyss.
- The mission, to bring the bodies up out
of the mine, is very dangerous because it looks like it
could cave in at any minute.
The opening of the mine itself is probably about 30 feet wide
and it's 112 feet down.
Everybody was very anxious.
We could hear the firemen down at the bottom saying, OK,
I'm ready to load the body up.
Once the bodies were brought up and they were examined,
you can clearly see that their hands
are tied behind their back.
We were able to tell that it was one male, one female.
The bodies were pretty well-preserved
because bodies do not decompose as fast in colder weather.
On the female body, we saw that the throat was cut--
a pretty wide open gash was present.
And with the male, we could see some wounds around the neck.
These two just didn't stumble into an open mineshaft.
- The kids were down there for months.
It was cold.
It had snowed.
- That shaft was so deep.
What happened to this couple and how
did they end up buried in the snow
at the bottom of a mine shaft?
[dramatic music playing]
Eureka was, at one time, the biggest city in Utah.
Big silver mining town.
- It was a bit like what
you see on cowboy shows.
Ride the horse to town and have a gunfight and go home.
It used to be a lot more in the olden days,
but those days are gone.
- Eureka is a small town.
It's kind of a ghost town.
NARRATOR: With a high school of only 145 students
and no mall or movie theater, local teenagers
need to make their own fun.
- Kids go to school.
You know, they have their friends.
They do the four-wheeler and the motorcycles
and different things like that, so.
- It's a good place to grow up.
There's a lot of parks so a lot of outdoor activities for kids
to do.
Breezy's full name is Brelynne, but she got the nickname
Breezy because Breezy was wild and windy, carefree,
and it just fit.
Breezy was loud, funny.
She was always honest and blunt.
She was a firecracker.
We were together all the time when we were kids.
When Breezy was 12 and I was about 13, my mom and my stepdad
both passed away in 2012 in a car accident.
And then my grandpa and my grandma
adopted me and Breezy and Madison, our younger sister.
And we moved to another house in Tooele.
My relationship with Breezy was very close.
She was only like a year younger than me.
Sometimes I think that's just regular childhood,
but it probably wasn't.
- My wife and I adopted Riley and his sisters
when he was not quite one, from his biological mom, Misty.
And we adopted him because the state
had taken him away because of the problems at home.
When my wife and I ended up getting a divorce,
and I took Riley with me when he was eight years old.
And my wife had Riley's sisters.
I wanted him to have a better chance at life
so I was a single dad raising Riley
and hopefully, I did a good job.
Riley is a good kid.
He was interested in basketball.
He liked to go shooting.
He liked to ride motorcycles, junior
dragsters, four-wheelers.
- Breezy and Riley's sister,
they met in high school and became friends.
And that's when Breezy met Riley.
- I don't know if Riley ever had a plan
for what he wanted to do.
I think he was just going day by day.
Meeting Breezy changed his life.
- Breezy really wanted
to finish school in Eureka.
She wanted more of an opportunity
that she didn't have when she was growing up.
- Breezy and Riley
were getting on pretty good.
They both liked to go four-wheeling and beating up
my poor Jeep, so.
Riley had asked her to marry him and had got her a ring.
And so that's pretty serious.
She moved in with us probably under a year.
NARRATOR: It's Christmas season 2017.
And 17-year-old Breezy and 18-year-old Riley make
the rounds visiting family.
- They spent Christmas with Riley's family
in Eureka.
And then they went to Tooele to stay with my sister Jamie.
I did see her on the 27th in Tooele, Utah.
- I had given her
a blanket that I had had made.
She told me that she was going back to Eureka
and then getting things ready for the new year.
- And then we said goodbye.
That's when they never showed back up in Eureka.
- Riley was pretty
good with checking in with me.
Riley called me on a Wednesday, and I talked
to him for quite a while.
I was in Mount Pleasant on my property up there.
But when I got back after New Year's, I
figured Riley would be home, but they weren't there.
Cell phones wouldn't work in Eureka because we
didn't have any cell towers.
So I was asking other people if they saw Riley.
And no one seemed to know where Riley was.
And Amanda came into the picture.
- For Breezy to not call her sisters,
to me there was something that was not right.
NARRATOR: It's now been six days since anyone
has seen Breezy and Riley.
The families contact the Juab County Sheriff's Department to
file a missing persons report.
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- Bill was very concerned.
You could tell that he cared about them
and wanted to make sure that they were safe.
[music playing]
He did say that Riley would like to get out and get in the hills
and explore.
My initial thought was that maybe
they were broke down somewhere.
Didn't have cell service.
- We thought that maybe they were offroading
and had gone off the road.
It is the middle of winter.
Roads are icy.
- It's a vast desert out there.
There was not a lot of cell phone service.
There's lots of dead zones.
There's obviously an urgency there to locate the vehicle,
locate them, provide rescue.
If they crashed and were trapped in the vehicle, that time
of year in December out there, way below freezing,
there's definitely a concern for their survival.
- We heard a rumor about one kid
wanted to kill Riley and throw him in a mineshaft.
- There's over 800 mineshafts in Juab County.
- We brought in a team of cadaver dogs.
[dogs barking]
There had been a search going on for Riley and Breezy
for a few days.
And they had searched the desert.
I mean, multiagency search coordination.
- The large part of the search effort
was just looking for the Jeep.
It's definitely plausible that if he was doing
any sort of extreme driving in the Jeep and he crashed,
it would be an out of sight of some main roads.
- We couldn't geolocate them.
Investigators found they used mostly
Facebook, Instant Messenger.
I mean, there were hundreds and thousands of pages of messages.
And then nothing.
Their phones stopped.
- We were out searching for those kids
every single weekend.
Bill, the first week they were missing,
was sunup to sundown searching.
- We got the information
out there to the public the best we could.
We had put posters up all around town,
you know, wanting to find the kids and everything.
- Initially, the communication
for the community was through a Facebook post.
But then, because of the coverage,
the media was able to pick it up.
There were easily over 100 people in Eureka
helping search.
- Everybody was searching.
We had planes out.
Flying cowboys came out and helped us and the Jeep party.
Townspeople were searching.
And everybody was saying, where could they be?
- It is the middle of the winter
and it gets below zero out there,
that a huge concern for us was their safety
and them freezing to death.
Every day when we came home with nothing, it was devastating.
We're not giving up by any means.
- You can't find the Jeep.
You can't find them.
It's like, what the heck happened to them?
You just don't fall off the face of the Earth.
- The 9th of January,
we were given the case.
And by then, I would have thought that they would have
found either the Jeep or them.
It had kind of turned into us feeling like something maybe
was going on, that maybe there's a little more than they
were just missing or just stuck or you
had some sort of an accident.
NARRATOR: Desperate for any leads, Breezy
and Riley's families pool their resources to offer
a reward for information.
- The reward initially started at $2,000
and went to $5,000.
- None of us are rich.
And so we really couldn't put up a lot of money,
but we did the best we could.
- Now, you get all kinds of rumors
obviously, floating around that you've
got to try and chase down.
- In the town of Eureka, people like to talk.
If there's not a story to tell, they'll make a story to tell.
- The police pitches reached a standstill.
They were following up every single rumor
no matter how outlandish it was.
- We received rumors
that they were in Arizona because they had stolen
money from somebody in town.
Breezy was pregnant and they needed to get out of town.
People speculated that Breezy and Riley ran off to elope.
It's like spaghetti, people were just throwing
stuff to see what stuck.
- So at this point, we're working 12,
14 hours a day.
And then we're going home at night
and we're texting each other.
What about this?
And then we get the call that they had found the Jeep.
They're flying over Cherry Creek in Juab County
and they looked down and find the Jeep parked
up in some juniper trees.
That's 150 yards off a main road.
You couldn't see it from the road.
- The van matches the registration.
That's how we know this is the Jeep.
This is Riley's Jeep.
We didn't notice any significant damage to the vehicle.
The Jeep looks more like it got two flat tires
and was stranded there or maybe they broke down.
And they had to leave it there.
- All their warm clothes are in the Jeep.
All their identifications in the Jeep.
- If the Jeep broke down or got stuck there
and they walked to Eureka, then that's
something they would have probably
put on in the cold weather.
- We found out that the Jeep
started and ran and drove.
They could have easily gotten to a road and flagged down help.
The Jeep had two flat tires, but still drivable.
So it started sending red flags that maybe we weren't dealing
with some kids that were just--
got lost.
- And then the Jeep had a tie down
strap on the driver's side rear axle,
like somebody tied it down to a trailer.
We start theorizing about why does it have a tie down.
Did someone drive it out there and drop it off?
The passenger side tires were deflated.
It's odd to get two flat tires at the same time.
When we're processing the Jeep, we
discovered the tires were punctured
with probably a tool of some type, possibly
a screwdriver or a knife.
We do have foul play going on.
NARRATOR: It's been 16 days
since anyone has seen or heard from teenagers Breezy
Otteson and Riley Powell.
The discovery of their Jeep in the remote mountains
of Juab County has detectives and family fearing foul play.
- The day we found the Jeep, we
have at least a starting point.
- We had this Jeep, but nothing else.
No footprints.
No tire prints.
Nothing to indicate where the kids had gone.
- I remember their search efforts
on foot, on ATV, the aircrafts.
That area was just scoured looking for Riley and Breezy.
- That was my new job, searching.
And I took it very seriously.
- When you start
to realize there's foul play involved,
we definitely ramped up our efforts,
pulled in more resources, reached out
to different law enforcement agencies,
started interviewing a lot of people.
Was it just a social interaction gone bad?
Was it some sort of a party out there that they were at?
Why Breezy and Riley?
What happened to them?
We were kicking over every rock.
We were running down every tip that came in.
We would still follow up on it in hopes
that it would lead us to locating Riley and Breezy.
- We heard a rumor
about one kid who wanted to kill Riley
and throw him in a mineshaft.
With that, that didn't pan out to anything,
but then that gave us the idea to start searching mines.
We're not finding them on the surface,
so they've got to be underground.
NARRATOR: For over a century,
the region has been scarred by silver mining.
The landscape is now riddled with derelict mines.
- Yeah, make sure you're
stable around that rock.
- There was so much community involvement
in helping search for the kids.
We had made contact with individuals that did spelunking
as a recreational activity--
going down mineshafts, going into different,
you know, caving.
They offered their services to help
search for Breezy and Riley.
We used the USGS map to plot the different mineshafts
to visit throughout our search.
There's over 800 mineshafts in Juab County.
NARRATOR: As spelunkers continue to probe mines
across the county, a phone tip from a concerned local woman
catches investigators' attention.
- Someone had reported seeing the Jeep being
towed New Year's day on a highway
in between Eureka and Vernon.
It's called SR-36, which runs right near a turnoff that leads
out to Cherry Creek Reservoir.
The reporting party described the vehicle
as a greenish blue Chev truck, extended cab,
and it was pulling a blue Jeep, is what she said.
She had possibly known the individual
that was towing the Jeep--
Lee Sheppard.
Lee Sheppard was dating Misty Powell, which
was Riley's biological mom.
And they were living together in a trailer.
- Riley's mother lives
in between Eureka and Tooele.
- We found out that Riley
and Breezy would go there often to see Misty and Lee.
Seemed very suspicious that we were able to tie that truck
sighting after Lee Sheppard.
I mean, it was definitely our best lead at the time.
- Riley's mother hadn't really reached
out to us asking questions.
It didn't seem like she was necessarily concerned.
And so that's a red flag.
You're not asking questions.
Maybe you know what happened.
NARRATOR: Lee has a long history of past arrests.
Investigators are cautious about approaching
the isolated trailer.
- We felt that the danger
was definitely possible.
We had two missing kids.
We didn't know who we were dealing with
and what the capabilities might be.
So it was definitely a concern for safety
to enter that property.
We entered the property, obviously
have other officers kind of watching
for safety around the property.
- I look in the back
of her boyfriend's truck.
There's tie down straps that look
identical to the one we find on the Jeep in the back
of this person's truck.
- And we ended up making contact
with Lee in the trailer.
And he wasn't going to come out to talk to us.
- He's not cooperating.
We've got the tie down strap.
We've got this witness that possibly
sees him towing the Jeep.
And now, he doesn't want anything
to do with law enforcement.
Doesn't want to help find his girlfriend's son.
- It's definitely set off red flags.
- It tells me that we're on the right track.
- We got an 18-year-old boy
and a 17-year-old girl.
What would the mafia want anything to do with these two
in Eureka, Utah.
- She finally said,
I have seen him kill two people.
NARRATOR: In the search for Breezy and Riley,
a tip has brought investigators to the door of Riley's
biological mother, Misty Powell, but her boyfriend
Lee Sheppard isn't cooperating.
- We asked Lee to come with us,
and he refused, adamantly refused that he wasn't
going to come to the Sheriff's Office
and answer some questions.
Misty finally agreed to come with us.
So we took her to Juab County Sheriff's Office
and conducted an interview.
During the interview, we did find out
that Riley and Breezy had stopped by the house
before New Year's Eve.
And Lee and Misty were with them.
They all traveled into Tooele.
And there had been an argument of some sort
that Riley had gotten in with Lee.
So we were thinking maybe there was
a possibility that an argument had gotten out of control.
And that's why Lee wasn't coming in to talk to us.
We brought in a team of cadaver dogs to do a search for Misty
and Lee's property.
We spent half a day out there.
We didn't get any hits on anything.
- Lee finally began to cooperate with us
and came in for an interview.
We learned it's not Riley's Jeep that
was being towed on the trailer.
It was a relative's vehicle that had broken down.
- We ended up finding that vehicle.
It was a Nissan pickup truck with the shell.
Could be mistaken for a Jeep.
Obviously, there was a lot of suspicious things that happened
and coincidental things that happened with Lee.
But it didn't put anything to put them at the scene
to corroborate that.
It was just dead end after dead end after dead end.
- We were able to essentially
rule them out of any foul play that was involved.
- We requested Riley's bank records.
And the last transaction we saw was at a 7-11 on December 29,
where he purchased gas.
Nothing unusual.
- I looked at Breezy's bank statements,
but there was no activity.
- We got warrants
for their Facebook records.
And the last Facebook message was from a girl, Morgan Lewis.
- According to the message,
they were on their way to go meet Morgan
on the night of December 29.
NARRATOR: Morgan Lewis lives with her boyfriend,
Jerrod Baum, in nearby Mammoth.
- We initially asked
Morgan, what are you hearing?
Morgan said she didn't know who Riley
was and didn't know Breezy.
And then we confront her with Facebook information.
You're the last person they've talked to.
What's going on?
But body language was very big with Morgan.
I could see her getting nervous.
She had a bracelet, she just kept playing with and playing
with and playing with it.
And then it turns out, Riley and I have known
each other for a little while.
She claims it was the first time she'd ever met Breezy.
Every time Morgan would say something,
I noticed she would look at Jerrod.
Maybe look for his approval of what she had said.
And then we talked to Jerrod.
And he also then admits that he had met Riley one time.
That was the time that Morgan had introduced him.
Then he starts telling us about, you know, well, I heard
some cartel members did it.
And they're probably in a landfill somewhere.
I'm thinking, OK, we got an 18-year-old boy
and a 17-year-old girl.
What would the mafia and the cartel
want anything to do with these two in Eureka, Utah?
- This interaction
we just had with Morgan Henderson
and Jerrod Baum is highly suspicious.
We know from Facebook, Riley's plan was to go meet Morgan,
and Morgan just admitted that they came there.
So what happened to them?
- They were not telling the truth
about knowing Riley and Breezy.
It was very suspicious.
But we didn't have any hard evidence.
And so we kept following up on leads, phone calls, anything
we could to try and get information.
- We're putting
a ton of time and effort.
It's our life.
Late nights, weekends.
NARRATOR: Then nearly three months later,
a chance traffic stop in a nearby county
presents an opportunity.
- I get a call.
Part-time deputy on duty ends up stopping Morgan.
He sees some large weapons in the car--
a firearm, large, like, machete-type weapons.
And he arrests her.
- But when the officers ran her name,
they had discovered that Juab County marked her as a stop
and hold so that we can talk to her.
She was a person of interest, and there
was some question about whether or not she could
legally possess those weapons.
- We all met at the Sheriff's Office
that night and proceed to interview
Morgan throughout the night.
At the beginning, I mean, she was the same.
I don't know anything.
- I got the impression
that she was a victim of domestic violence
because she stated that Jerrod would not
allow her to have any friends.
And he controlled everything in Morgan's life--
her car, her money, what she did with her time.
- The strategy is to keep her talking.
We just kept at it.
Come on.
You got to tell us more.
How involved are you?
If Jerrod's the one that did this, you need to tell us.
And eventually, she tells us that night,
Jerrod killed Breezy and Riley.
When Morgan finally tells us that Jerrod told her
he killed Riley and Breezy, we were just re-energized back
into the case.
Now, our hopes are high that we're going to solve it.
NARRATOR: Morgan is held for further questioning.
While investigators attempt to locate Jerrod
for another interview, they're surprised to find him in jail
on an unrelated offense.
- I asked him flat out,
did you have anything to do with it, Jerrod?
Did you have anything to do with these guys going missing?
And he's like, no, I didn't.
But one of the huge things that threw red flags up for me
was that he began to talk about Riley
having a possible sexual relationship with Morgan
in the past.
I just remember thinking, wow, you know a lot about Riley
for not knowing Riley.
At that point, we keep interviewing Morgan.
- We knew we would have
to prove the truthfulness of what
she was saying because she was untruthful in the beginning.
- So she tell us about their cell phones
and how they're in this sludge barrel.
And she agreed to take us out to that sludge barrel.
- This barrel is
located just to the East of Jerrod's residence,
in walking distance.
So she leads us there, and she says, this
is where he's kept the phones.
There's a metal burn barrel that has gathered,
like, water into it and turned the contents of it
into a sludge.
We find links of rope, two sheaths to a knife,
we find garbage bags, and we find a few broken cell phones.
- We kept pressing her for information
of, you know, where are they?
What did you do?
What happened?
NARRATOR: Morgan isn't talking,
and the team heads back to the station.
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- We're driving down through this canyon.
And that's where the Tintic Standard Mine is.
And so as we're passing this right close to the mine,
I noticed a change in Morgan.
She's emotional.
She's shaking, like physically, visibly shaking.
- The Tintic Standard
number 2 mine is about a half a mile away from Jerrod's house.
We contacted Spanish Fork City's sewer department.
They brought out a truck and put a camera attached to a cable
and we put it down inside the mineshaft.
I remember standing outside of the truck.
And I heard one of my lieutenants shout, I found him.
I found him.
- And sure enough, you can see a body
laying there plain as day.
The body we saw was a male, shorter haircut.
The camera operator moves around to a dark corner of the mine,
and they see another body.
Our next call was to the Unified Fire
Authority, a heavy rescue team.
They specifically train for these dynamic rescue
operations, rappelling and climbing in places
where it's not really easy to get to.
And so the first person, he had to rappel down.
You could hear small pebbles and stuff kind of going down.
The second person, they just dropped
him straight down the hole.
So he didn't have to touch the sides at all.
Because believe it or not, down there
in the bottom of the mineshaft, that is a crime scene.
They didn't want to contaminate the scene.
We were very anxious.
We could hear the firemen saying, OK,
I'm ready to load the body up.
They lifted the wire basket to retrieve
the bodies from the bottom.
They were immediately taken from the van
to the medical examiner's office.
- They notified us that they had found
two bodies in the mineshaft.
(ON) KYLYSTA MAXFIELD: We had been
through so much that it just couldn't-- couldn't be Bree.
Couldn't.
- We were heartbroken.
As much as we knew in our hearts that they were in a mineshaft,
it was the last thing that we wanted, to know it was true.
NARRATOR: At autopsy, the bodies
are officially identified as Breezy
Otteson and Riley Powell.
(ON) CHRISTINE SCOTT: The autopsy
showed Riley had been stabbed 13 times in his chest in his leg,
in the head, and through the neck, which
caused instantaneous death.
Breezy only had one wound to her neck.
Her throat was slit from one side to the other.
- Once we discovered the condition
of the bodies, we knew that Morgan obviously
hasn't told us the full story.
And we had a lot of questions.
- By this time Jerrod was in jail.
But in this intimate partner violence relationship,
he becomes a sort of all-powerful figure to her.
She was scared for what was going to happen to her
or what Jerrod was going to do to her.
They took a picture of Riley's body in the mine,
and they showed her that.
And she said, it's time to tell everything.
It doesn't matter what happens to me.
He deserved for people to know what happened.
NARRATOR: Still in custody, Morgan Lewis
agrees to tell investigators what happened the night
of Breezy and Riley's murders.
It all starts with a Facebook message on December 29.
- She told us that she used to date Riley,
and Jerrod knew that.
Morgan and Riley were still friends.
Morgan reaches out to Riley, asks him if he
wants to come over for a visit.
Riley responds back and says, hey, I'll be there at midnight.
Riley shows up with his girlfriend Breezy Otteson.
They visit for about 45 minutes.
- But Morgan is very scared about Jerrod
finding out that they were there.
- They come in.
They share cigarettes.
They talk.
They leave.
Morgan goes to shower.
- Morgan leaves the bathroom,
goes back into her bedroom, and that's when Jerrod
barges in through the door.
He said, I told you that no one was
supposed to be at the house.
Grabbed her phone and then looked
through her text messages.
- They go outside.
And Riley and Breezy are bound, gagged
in the back of Riley's Jeep.
- They drive to the Tintic
Standard number 2 mine.
Jerrod is saying, hey, it's OK, we're just
going to go have a little talk.
They parked near the mine.
Morgan and Jerrod both get out of the Jeep,
and they start walking.
When they get to the opening of the mine,
the atmosphere turns scary.
And Jerrod's demeanor changes.
(ON) CHRISTINE SCOTT: Jerrod started
stabbing Riley, stabbing him everywhere in the head,
in the chest.
Calling him names.
It was just very brutal.
At this point, Breezy is hysterical.
And she's just saying, I promise I won't tell.
And he comes up behind her, and he says, hush, darling.
And then he takes the knife and slit her throat.
- Jerrod carries Breezy over to the mineshaft
and drops her in.
From there, he goes over to Riley
and picks him up and throws him into the mineshaft.
Morgan is hysterical at this point Morgan says,
once they get back to the Jeep and start driving home,
Jerrod begins laughing, almost euphoric.
When they get back to the house, they have
to dispose of Riley's Jeep.
He instructs Morgan to get in the driver's seat.
Now, Morgan breaks down again.
And so Jerrod takes a garrote, which is a wire with two
handles on each side.
He puts the garrote around Morgan's neck and says,
you better stop crying about Riley.
So she stops.
Jerrod gets in his truck, and they both drive
out to the Cherry Creek area.
On the way to the Cherry Creek area,
the roads are not maintained.
It was snowing.
NARRATOR: Jerrod's truck gets stuck in the snow.
They use tie down straps to pull out the vehicle.
And then they continue to Cherry Creek
where they ditch Riley's Jeep.
- That's when Jerrod
pops the tires to make it look like they
got flats and got stranded.
They return home, and they take a shower with bleach.
And they end up burning some clothes.
- Jerrod starts breaking apart their phone.
And then they go walking to the rock quarry
and there's a 55-gallon drum there,
drops it inside of this barrel.
NARRATOR: But what motivated
Jerrod Baum to kill Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson?
- It was a jealous rage.
Morgan had told us she was not supposed to have male friends.
Jerrod knew that Riley was over there.
- Jerrod did not like Riley
because Riley dated Morgan.
Jerrod was a jealous man.
NARRATOR: While still in jail on a previous offense,
Jerrod Baum is charged with the kidnapping
and murder of Riley and Breezy.
- Morgan was facing
30 second-degree felonies for obstruction of justice,
concealing evidence, lying to the police.
You were warning somebody about the police.
She was facing 30 years in prison.
In exchange for both cooperating with the police
and testifying against Jerrod, Morgan sentence was
reduced to three years in jail.
NARRATOR: The COVID pandemic delays the proceeding.
It will take four years for Jerrod Baum
to stand trial for the murders of Breezy
Otteson and Riley Powell.
- We were at every court
hearing, every court date.
We never missed a single thing.
NARRATOR: On April 15, 2022,
the jury returns their verdict.
(ON) CHRISTINE SCOTT: Jerrod Baum
was found guilty on all counts.
- Evil doesn't win.
Love wins.
Both Breezy and Riley are loved by more people
than they'll ever know.
- I remember Breezy as my fun,
strong, brave, carefree sister.
She never stepped down from anything or anyone
for that matter.
- I still have Riley home.
He's in my living room.
I actually talk to him every day, so.
He don't answer though.
I'm waiting.
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