-Everybody knew chris.
He was really outgoing, super personable.
-He's an all-american teenager.
-Everybody wanted to always be around him.
-He was always out with girls or going to parties
Or just doing what high school kids do.
-But when chris daigle disappears...
-Chris wasn't at home.
Chris wasn't at school.
Where is he?
-There was evidence that something had happened.
-It sparks a years-long investigation into rumors...
...Lies...
-He said, "you wanna know where chris is?
I killed chris."
-...And unspeakable horror.
-I just started crying.
Ran away and just fell on the ground and cried.
-It all adds up to a killer relationship.
-You're not supposed to bury your children.
♪♪
-We've all heard the quote "keep your friends close
And your enemies closer."
Well, high school senior and varsity baseball player,
Chris daigle has more friends than he can count.
The popular 17-year-old texan is a social butterfly,
Always up for adventure.
But in November of 2022, chris mysteriously disappears.
The question is, did he leave on his own,
Or is there an enemy within?
♪♪
-November 11, 2002,
I was dispatched to a missing person call,
Subject by the name of chris daigle.
His grandmother was calling in to report him as missing.
♪♪
-Chris lived with my mom, his grandmother,
And sometimes he wouldn't come home on the weekends.
He'd stay with his friends.
But he always came back home.
-Chris was so popular.
He was always out with girls or going to parties
Or just doing what high school kids do.
-Everybody knew chris.
He was really outgoing, super personable.
He had a lot of girlfriends.
Everybody wanted to always be around him.
But on November the 7th,
He went to school, and he never came back home.
And when his friends, even the girls,
Didn't know where he was,
That was a sign, and I felt something was wrong.
-My mom, she starts calling all around
To his friends and stuff.
Nobody's seen him.
-Chris wasn't at home.
Chris wasn't at school.
Where is he?
-Christopher allen daigle is born on July 10, 1985.
To tracie gregory and jimmy daigle.
Both 21 years old, it soon becomes evident
That the first-time parents can't provide chris
With a stable home.
-Jimmy ended up going to prison,
So I was a single mom, taking care of him.
It was kinda hard being young and first child and working.
So when chris was 3, he went to go live with my mom
Because she was able to take care of him better than I was.
-Chris was good at everything he did.
Year 'round, he was into sports.
Chris played football, chris played baseball,
Especially baseball.
-He was a natural. He would run around the bases,
He would steal all the way around and steal home
Before the next batter could hit the ball.
He was awesome.
-Chris just gets better and better
And easily makes the varsity team in high school.
-Excellent short stop, excellent catcher.
He wanted to play ball for the major leagues.
-That was his passion.
That was what was gonna get him out of here, he said.
You know, that was his ticket.
♪♪
-Chris is tight with all the players,
But he's got a special connection
With the team's pitcher, ricky mendoza.
-Chris and ricky didn't have a father in their life,
So they bonded over that, I believe, and baseball.
They were friends, you know,
Through little league, and they were close.
-Well, ricky was a good pitcher.
Chris was a great catcher.
Anybody that knows baseball,
Those two kind of go hand in hand.
♪♪
-But chris's life takes a sudden dark turn
At the start of his senior year,
After an incident with a teammate.
-He was on the high school baseball team,
And on their way home from a baseball tournament,
Somebody had urinated in a bottle and threw it,
And it landed on chris.
-Sometimes, chris was a very aggressive person,
And he did get into some fights.
I don't want to say he liked to fight,
But he never backed down from a fight.
-So chris threw it back, and I guess it hit the coach,
And the coach kicked him off the team.
♪♪
-He was really upset 'cause baseball was his dream,
Everything he wanted to do.
-Well, we tried to get him back on the team,
And then the coach finally agreed to it,
And then chris said, "no, I don't want to.
I don't want to be around him."
-He could be stubborn. Very stubborn.
It broke his spirit, I believe. It really did.
I don't think he dealt with it very well.
-Chris was starting to get in some drugs and alcohol
And it all happened so quick.
-Chris started hanging out with the wrong people.
He just started becoming a different person.
He started getting a bad attitude.
-Chris was starting to become somebody
That he did not want to become.
-Not long after his downward slide,
On November 7, 2002, chris vanishes.
-This wasn't the first time.
However, grandma was a little bit more concerned this time,
Because he was gone longer than he normally has been gone.
So I went ahead and gathered all the information,
Got his name, his birthday,
Where he was last seen, who he was with.
-But to sergeant luera, there's no cause for alarm,
At least not yet.
-I never dealt with chris daigle,
But we did have call history at his house,
For just adolescent disagreements.
He had a history of leaving, he had a history of drug use.
Grandma verified that history.
Could be he's off with his friends doing drugs,
And he just lost track of time,
And then he -- he'll be back home.
-They just said, "he's a high school student, he's a teenager.
They run away all the time. They'll come back."
But I just had a feeling that something was wrong.
-Although the authorities are confident
Chris will turn up soon,
They diligently cover all the bases
To track down the missing young man.
-I had dispatch contact the local jails,
Any major hospitals around our city --
Fort bend county, harris county,
Galveston county, and brazoria county.
No one has seen him at all during that time period.
-And when several days pass with no sign of chris,
The case is handed over to detectives.
-The detective who was assigned the disappearance
Immediately started calling all the friends,
And they start to go back, and talk to witnesses,
People who may have had contact with him.
The detectives talk to ricky mendoza.
He said, "oh, yeah, I know chris,"
And, "yeah, we hung out on that day,
On the 7th, and we went to the mall."
-Ricky mendoza had stated
That he had dropped off christopher daigle
At the sugar land mall
And left him there because he had ran into
Some female acquaintances that he knew.
-Ricky said that chris met some girls
And that was the last time he saw him.
He said, "I left him at the mall."
-Ricky tells the detectives he doesn't know the girls,
So from there, no one knows what happened.
Days turn into a week, and chris still doesn't come home.
His family begins to panic.
-Tracie had been out driving around,
Mom had been out driving around.
We're all just looking everywhere we can.
-I was looking in ditches and around ponds.
I thought maybe that chris had gotten into
Some kind of accident and was injured,
Laying in a ditch somewhere.
-At this point, with the timeframe of him missing
That long, it was evidence that something had happened
And that the outcome was not gonna be good.
♪♪
-As a week rolls into two, the investigators' concerns mount.
They continue speaking to chris's large circle of friends
Only to get conflicting accounts of
When and where he was last seen.
-They were getting witnesses who said,
"well, I saw him leaving that day with ricky mendoza."
But then there's other people saying, "oh, yeah,
But I saw him a couple of days after that,"
Or, "I saw him the next week at a party."
Their memories aren't exact,
And so there wasn't, like, this very tight timeline on
When he disappeared.
-Some of 'em had said,
"chris had been talking about leaving and running away,"
And they felt like that's what it was,
But some of 'em kind of thought "well, you know,
Surely he would've touched base."
-Chris was very social. He would never just disappear.
♪♪
-Without any solid leads,
The missouri city detectives continue following up on rumors.
They also distribute a missing-persons flier.
Weeks stretch into months.
-Here comes thanksgiving.
We're still looking. We've still got hope.
Christmas comes. He's still missing.
I'm thinking, "he'll be back.
He's gonna walk through that door any minute."
No, he didn't.
♪♪
[ school bell rings ]
-Chris's absence made our friend group fall apart.
He was kind of like the glue
That held all these different personalities together.
-Desperate for any bit of news,
Brittany keeps her ear to the ground
And also keeps chris's grandmother informed.
-I was constantly talking about chris.
Everything I heard, I'm like, "grandma wanda?"
I'm sharing anything I heard.
-Brittany's obsession with chris's disappearance
Grates on her boyfriend's nerves.
Nick is a senior at hightower high
Who was never fond of chris.
-Brittany and nick had been dating, and at some point,
He said, "quit whining and complaining
And wondering what happened to chris."
-He didn't want to hear any more about chris.
♪♪
-One night, nick drives brittany to the outskirts of town.
His manner then turns threatening.
-We pull up to this field.
He said, "stop [bleep] talking about chris.
I wish you'd just shut the [bleep] up about chris.
You wanna know where chris is?
I killed chris."
♪♪
-The psychic had told us, "he's here.
This is the spot."
-To find out really what happened
Just floored us.
-He had a conversation recorded
Where he admitted to killing chris.
♪♪
-It's been five months since anyone has seen or heard
From 17-year-old high school senior chris daigle.
Then, one night, chris's good friend, brittany,
Is out with her boyfriend, nick.
Nick takes her to a remote area outside of town,
And there, he drops a bombshell.
♪♪
-We pull up to this field.
He said, "you wanna know where chris is?
I'm the reason chris went missing.
I killed chris.
And if you don't shut the [bleep] up about chris,"
It's gonna happen to me.
I was so scared. I did believe him.
He was convincing.
I was having nightmares.
I was also holding a lot of guilt,
'cause that was, like, the first thing
That I did not tell grandma wanda about.
Finally, I had a complete, absolute meltdown.
I told my dad, and my dad brought me to the police.
♪♪
-Brittany told the detectives both of them were very,
Very high, and she was basically
Crying about chris's disappearance.
And nick said, "oh, I killed him,"
And, "just quit crying about chris."
But he didn't give any details at all.
Like, he didn't say how he did it or, you know,
What he did with the body or anything like that.
-The investigators need more information,
So they go straight to nick.
He said, "I don't remember saying that,
But that definitely did not happen.
I did not kill chris." he was very believable.
He had really no motive to do anything to chris.
And so we figure he just kind of said it
To get her to quit crying about this other guy.
♪♪
-Nick's alleged confession is just another story about chris,
So the detectives move on.
And with no evidence of foul play,
Police continue treating chris daigle's disappearance
As a missing-person case.
As the months tick by,
Different investigators pick up the case,
Hoping to find a clue that could turn into a breakthrough.
-We're checking everything out.
We're following up on every single lead
Or tip that's provided.
Any information that the family's providing,
We're following up with,
And we're doing our absolute best to get to the bottom of it.
-It was a very frustrating case.
Detectives wanted to solve the thing and find him --
Find him alive.
But very seldom did the detectives get
Any credible new information.
[ dog barking in distance ]
♪♪
-As the anniversary of chris's disappearance nears,
His family becomes increasingly desperate to learn his fate.
-We pretty much accepted the fact that he was probably dead.
But we needed to know what really happened.
-He was always on my mind.
I was talking to people I didn't know,
Making phone calls, and dedicated most of the time
To looking for chris.
♪♪
-The longer he was gone,
The more we turned to different resources of finding him.
-Chris's sister jen
Had a friend in school that her mom was a psychic.
-I said, "would y'all be willing to talk to her?
She's even helped, you know,
The houston pd find missing children."
♪♪
-We went to her house.
I was, just, you know leery of it, too,
But she recited the lord's prayer.
She had her crystals.
And we took chris's baseball hat.
♪♪
-She's like, "what do you wanna find out?"
And I was like, "I wanna know where he's at."
Like, a blank look came over her face, and she says,
"okay. Okay."
She just starts crying.
And she started saying that there were three boys.
They had on hats.
They went down this dirt road, with tree line, and it was dark.
And there was an argument.
And she says chris was shot...
[ gunshot ]
...In the back of his head with a shotgun.
She gets paper out.
She's like, "I don't know where this is,
But I can tell you what I'm hearing in the background,
What I'm seeing."
She could hear kids playing. It was near a school.
There was a number of 34 that was green and white.
And so we were trying to figure out
If it was a street or road.
She told us that where his body was lying,
That if we got there, it would be visible to us.
-The psychic said he was --
His bones were underneath a blue tarp,
Next to a chain-link fence.
And you could hear a loud horn in the background.
[ horn blaring ]
♪♪
-After that, for days and days and days,
We would go looking and looking and looking.
-Wanda, my mom, and jennifer,
They went to arcola, which is about a mile and a half,
2 miles from where we lived.
-We did find a place near the railroad tracks.
-When we got out to the field, I don't know what came over me,
But I was just, like, "he's here.
I think this is it. This is the spot."
-And then tracie's like, "there's something over here."
-And she found this spot next to a train tracks
With a chain-link fence, a blue tarp.
-I mean, I'm just shaking at this point.
I just fell to my knees and started digging.
We found bones in there.
And I just started crying.
♪♪
-Chris daigle's family is desperate for answers,
So desperate measures are in order.
A psychic steers them to a field
Where the missing young man may have been shot.
-We did find a place near the railroad tracks with a tarp.
It was just like the psychic said.
-My mom, tracie, she pulled the blue tarp back.
There was bones there.
She got completely freaked out.
-I just started crying. I went -- ran away
And just fell on the ground and cried.
♪♪
-They called the police department.
They came out there, and they looked at it.
-It's just like, "is this it? Did we find him?"
Like, "is this gonna be over with?"
-The shape and size of the rib and vertebrae
Tell trained investigators they're not human remains.
-The family thought they were chris's bones,
And it turned out to be animal bones.
-Was kind of like a big letdown.
And I know it was frustrating for the grandmother
And the mother, tracie and wanda.
They wanted to solve it, you know?
Get some closure.
-The investigation hits a wall yet again.
♪♪
A year stretches into two, and the rumor mill grinds to a halt.
And for chris's classmates,
High school is now in the rearview mirror.
-Some of them, you know,
Graduated and moved on to college and things like that.
Some of them, you know, they were working.
♪♪
-Detectives put him into every database
And check his social security number to see
If anybody was working with that social security number.
You know, check any leads of missing people
That might match his description.
But this case was very, very difficult
And without any real leads.
♪♪
-The years went by. The hope started dying.
'cause there ain't no way chris could go that long
Without contacting grandma wanda. No way.
-During that time, my mom got sick
And was diagnosed with cancer.
-But she was not gonna let herself die
Before she knew what happened to her grandson.
♪♪
-Five years after chris daigle disappears,
His case is reassigned to detective craig weathers
And his partner.
As the new detectives dive into a difficult case,
Chris's family never gives up trying to learn his fate.
-There's always been rumors that he was killed.
We just didn't know how.
Our family believed people knew what had happened.
-I made chris a promise
That I wouldn't stop looking for him until I found him.
I was making a lot of bold moves
Because that's my son. I needed peace.
So I went to work at a bar
Because the kids were old enough to drink.
And I thought, "well, when people drink,
They start talking."
I started asking, "do you remember chris daigle?"
I said, "well, I'm his mom."
I remember, one night, tyler hall came in the bar.
-22-year-old tyler hall starts talking about the old days,
Hanging out with friends like chris, ricky mendoza,
And ricky's girlfriend, megan.
-I knew megan since I was a toddler.
When she was in seventh grade, she met ricky.
She started dating him.
-Megan told me ricky was jealous of chris
Because megan was hanging out with chris a lot.
♪♪
-One day, megan ended up coming to skip school with us.
It was soggy, so it was, like, a good day
To just run through the mud with the boys and their trucks.
-Ricky found out that chris
And a number of other people had gone mudding
And that megan had gone with them.
She's with other boys,
But we didn't think too much of it
Until we met up with ricky,
And he just started screaming at her,
And he just physically charged her.
And it wasn't just shocking for me,
It was shocking for the guys.
Chris was not gonna stand for that.
-Chris had seen some family violence growing up,
And he ain't gonna let ricky lay a hand on her
Or talk to her disrespectfully.
-Chris leads the charge to put ricky in his place.
Ricky backs down, but the sting of public humiliation lingers.
More than six years later, and several drinks in,
Tyler lets go of a terrible secret.
-A lot of people tell the truth
And not a lie when they're drunk.
She said that she knew what had happened.
She was friends with ricky,
And she said that ricky killed chris.
And I went -- [ gasps ]
♪♪
-There's a term -- ambiguous loss --
And it's considered the most distressing loss of all.
Not only is living with uncertainty agonizing,
But it prevents grieving.
For chris daigle's family, it's been more than six years
Struggling with ambiguous loss.
But they never gave up trying to find out
What happened to their loved one.
As tracie pursues her quest for answers,
She hears a deeply unsettling tale from a young patron.
-One night, tyler hall came in the bar
Where I was working, and I ask her about chris,
And she said that she knew what had happened.
Ricky said that he'd killed chris.
I begged her and asked her, "please talk to the detectives."
♪♪
-When I talked to tyler, she told me,
At one point, while they were still in high school,
Tyler had a conversation with ricky mendoza.
'cause they were friends, also.
Tyler actually said, "I had been driving around with ricky,
One day, and the conversation came up about chris
And all the rumors whether he was killed by someone.
And ricky drove by this ranchland,
And he just pointed in the distance
Where he claimed they shot and buried him."
At the time, she felt like maybe he was just making it up,
You know, bragging a little bit, trying to be the big shot,
"yeah, I killed him. I got away with it."
♪♪
It was very hard for tyler to believe
That he could actually do that to anyone,
Much less his childhood friend.
-Tyler took detective weathers out to the area
Where she said he had left the body.
♪♪
-When we took her out there, she was like,
You know, "it all looks the same."
You're looking at hundreds, if not thousands, of acres,
And she couldn't narrow it down.
We went back several times to try to find
Some kind of evidence out there.
And we drove all around, walked all over the place,
And couldn't find anything.
The way tyler explained it,
Ricky didn't drive out to the spot
And say, "this is where he's at.
He's buried here," or anything like that.
He might just be lying and boasting about it.
-Tyler's account is similar to brittany's story
From five years ago about nick confessing to killing chris.
Still, the investigators have a hunch there's more to it.
Unlike nick, ricky was a close friend of chris's,
And he's one of the last people to have had contact with him.
-The last time that chris was seen alive
Was with ricky mendoza.
And we felt like, "yeah, he knows something."
-The authorities try repeatedly
To get ricky down to the station.
-He was somewhat reluctant
When he agreed to go into my office and talk to me.
I said I'd heard that he had been upset
Because chris had been talking to his girlfriend,
And he was pretty well closed off to talking about it.
He wasn't giving us really anything.
-Now 24 years old,
Ricky insists he never told anyone he killed chris daigle.
Plus, when chris first went missing,
Detectives interviewed ricky's then-girlfriend, megan.
She swore she didn't know anything then,
But will she say the same thing now?
-We talked to her, and we tried to see what she did know,
But she kept telling us, "I don't think he did it."
We felt like she knew a lot more than what she was saying.
But we're back to, you know, another standstill.
-The detectives feel that something is off about ricky,
But with no proof against him, they can't do much.
Then, a year after tyler gives her statement to detectives,
Chris's brother travis gets a tip.
-There was a guy I met named jose lopez, and he said,
"I think I know who killed your brother --
Ricky mendoza."
And I said, "how do you know this?"
And he said, "he was at my house talking about it."
So I told my mom what happened, and she called the police.
-The detectives bring in 22-year-old jose lopez
For an interview.
[ gunshot, birds squawking ]
-It's a shocking story.
But the detectives tread carefully.
With chris missing for so long,
This could be a wild rumor resurfacing.
Even jose has his doubts.
-But then, he offers up potentially explosive evidence.
-Jose lopez said that he had a camera outside
On his front porch area
And that he had a conversation recorded
Where ricky admitted to killing chris.
It was the first time since I had looked at the case
That I actually felt like we possibly solved this thing.
♪♪
-He led them to the exact location,
And he said, "this is where the body was dumped."
-I wanted to look him in the eye and let him know
I was gonna get justice for chris.
♪♪
-The missouri city detectives may be on the cusp
Of solving the most frustrating homicide of their careers
When an informant claims he has video evidence
Of ricky mendoza admitting he killed chris daigle.
-It was a vhs tape, and it was old.
Detective tippit and I, we went through the whole tape.
There was parts of it you could understand...
...And then a lot of it you couldn't
And a lot of road noise.
[ vehicle passing ]
But it wasn't anything to do with the murder victim.
And so the best bet was to send it off to the fbi.
It was months.
We finally got a report back from them saying,
"sorry. We were unable to get anything on the video."
-Still, jose's story gives the detectives a big, new lead.
-Daniel rodriguez and josh fretz,
They were friends, and then daniel rodriguez
Was ricky's cousin.
-Back in 2002, daniel and josh are sophomores
And two years younger than the strong,
Intimidating 17-year-old senior, ricky mendoza.
Now that many years have passed,
The detectives hope the young men have more perspective.
-We went out there and talked to josh,
And we just told him, "if something happened to chris
And he or his friends knew about it,
It was time to do something," and he swore up and down
He didn't know anything.
-The investigators suspect josh is lying,
But they can't prove it.
And getting ricky's cousin daniel to talk
Will be even more challenging.
-Having daniel tell on his own cousin
Was going to tear his family up.
♪♪
-Then, in July 2011,
Joshua fretz has a run-in with the law,
And the detectives get another crack at him.
-Josh got in trouble on another case where he was a suspect.
♪♪
It's a little bit different story now.
You know, "you're in trouble.
You're looking at going to jail."
So they brought up chris.
-Just prior to the murder,
Megan and chris were both in the same classroom.
Ricky came walking by
And thought he saw chris kissing megan.
-Chris leaned over,
And it looked like he had kissed her.
But the kiss did not happen.
-But it was too late.
Instead of confronting chris,
Ricky remains friendly, all while plotting his revenge.
According to ricky, there are loads of magic mushrooms,
Ripe for the picking, in the nearby woods.
-Joshua said, when they got out of the truck,
Ricky pulled out a shotgun.
Chris said, "well, why do you have a shotgun?"
"oh, well, if I see a bird or something, you know,
Maybe might shoot at it." didn't think anything of it.
-Then they dragged chris's body into an area
Where they could cover it up with some brush.
Joshua said that then they all changed clothes,
And also, whatever was on chris he took all of this
Back to his place and burned it in a barrel.
♪♪
-After nine long years,
The investigators have a detailed
And more credible account
Of ricky mendoza killing chris daigle.
But without a murder weapon or a body,
There's no proof of murder.
-When you have a missing person and you don't have a body,
That's not a good thing
Because then you have the defense is able to say,
"hey, this guy's still alive. He's out there somewhere.
They just can't find him."
Detectives robb and tippit went out to the field
With joshua fretz.
He led them to the exact location,
And he said, "this is where the body was dumped."
They had some cadaver dogs and some equipment taken out there,
And they started digging.
And they were able to find a couple of bones.
-Dna samples from chris daigle's mother and father
Were obtained for identification purposes.
-It takes 12 days for the results to come in.
-The mitochondrial dna came back as positive for being chris.
[ sniffles ]
♪♪
[ crying ]
♪♪
-To build a strong case against ricky mendoza,
The district attorney needs a second witness
To corroborate joshua's statement.
-And so officer tippit and officer robb
Made a plan to go speak to daniel rodriguez.
Daniel gave them the exact same story that joshua did,
So he corroborated everything.
Both of them had reasons to be very fearful of ricky.
They watched him kill somebody,
And ricky basically said, "you can't tell anybody.
You're involved. You'll be prosecuted, too."
Now there's two eyewitnesses.
So at this point, we felt pretty good about the fact
That ricky committed the murder, and we went ahead and got
An arrest warrant.
-Police are dealing with a violent, volatile killer.
They'll need to take every necessary precaution
To apprehend him.
♪♪
-For nine years, this small texas town
Keeps an awful secret -- who killed chris daigle?
But now, on August 12, 2011,
The missouri city police cautiously move in
On the trailer where his alleged killer,
Ricky mendoza, lives.
-I was with my mom, shopping.
And they called and said that they arrested ricky.
We just started hugging and crying,
Ricky was arrested on a Friday, went to fort bend county jail,
And I went in, signed in as a visitor,
And they brought him.
I wanted to look him in the eye
And let him know I was not going away
And that I was going to get justice for chris.
And when he saw me sitting there,
He just started pacing back and forth --
"I don't know her. I don't want to talk to her."
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-Ricky mendoza's trial started on January 29, 2013.
The courtroom was very tense
Because you had all of ricky's family on one side
And all of chris's family on the other side.
-Ricky, he came in his street clothes,
And, you know, looking nice, with a smirk on his face like,
"nothing's gonna happen to me."
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-The trial lasts 10 days.
After closing arguments, the jury deliberates for five hours.
-And then, when they did come back and say that he was guilty,
That was -- it was -- I was so happy.
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-[ sighs ] I mean, we were all crying happy tears.
Like, thank god, you know? Finally.
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-I felt like the jury really needed to give him a strong,
Long sentence because he didn't show any remorse,
Because there was no justification for what he did.
-He took my son.
I hope he gets the fullest penalty possible
For what he's done."
-Ricky mendoza is sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Daniel rodriguez and joshua fretz
Are not charged.
-Neither one of them participated in any way
In the murder, nor did they do anything
To encourage ricky in committing the murder.
With them not having any knowledge whatsoever
That ricky was going to shoot chris,
They could not have been tried for the murder.
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-With chris's killer finally behind bars,
Grandma wanda gets some measure of closure.
-It wasn't very long -- a year or so after the trial
And everything -- that she finally got to join chris.
She passed away, and we got chris's remains back.
We had him cremated so we could have a funeral at the same time.
-Jen and tracie still get chills thinking about
How close the psychic came to uncovering the truth.
-Tracie pulled out all the paperwork
From the psychic.
Everything she said is true.
Chris was shot in the back of his head with a shotgun.
-Three boys, they went down this dirt road with tree line.
-Tracie was like, "do you remember that number,
And we didn't know what it was?" and I was like, "yeah."
And she's like, "that's ricky's baseball jersey number."
-Now that we've found closure on the case,
There's not a day that doesn't go by
That I don't think about chris being here,
Especially now that I have my son.
I still miss him.
-My son's name is christian.
It's like chris plus ian, chris and ian,
My name and chris's name together.
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-He wanted to have a child.
That's something that I'm -- miss out on.
Mm. Sorry.
I just wonder if he would have children now
And what he would be doing.
It's hard to deal with it.
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You're not supposed to bury your children.
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-An extroverted, talented athlete,
Chris daigle was ready to take the baseball world by storm.
But his dream of the big leagues
Was shattered by a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Ricky mendoza was a jealous teammate
Who warped a close friendship
Into a killer relationship.