1 00:00:16,616 --> 00:00:17,283 >> SHE WAS A TINY, LITTLE THING, 2 00:00:17,283 --> 00:00:20,387 BUT SHE WAS NOT SCARED OF ANYBODY. 3 00:00:20,387 --> 00:00:25,258 >> GOT A CALL FROM DISPATCH -- SAID THAT REBEKAH WAS MISSING. 4 00:00:25,258 --> 00:00:27,994 THERE WAS BLOODY ITEMS, PILLOWS, AND CLOTHING THAT WAS SHOVED 5 00:00:27,994 --> 00:00:30,697 UNDER THE BED. >> Reporter: WHERE'D THEY FIND 6 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:32,665 THE BODY >> RIGHT DOWN THERE, CLOSE TO 7 00:00:32,665 --> 00:00:36,102 THAT BIG TREE. >> Reporter: THERE'S YOUR GIRL 8 00:00:36,102 --> 00:00:39,873 IN A COFFIN. >> THERE'S MY -- YES 9 00:00:39,873 --> 00:00:42,542 >> Reporter: A LOT OF SUSPECTS >> A LOT OF SUSPECTS 10 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:45,812 CASEY WAS THE BOYFRIEND. THEY WAS ON AND OFF AGAIN. 11 00:00:45,812 --> 00:00:53,420 >> SHE HAD JUSTIN, WHO SHE WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH. 12 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:56,089 JUSTIN WAS THE BAD BOY WE HAD HEARD A RUMOR THAT CHRIS 13 00:00:56,089 --> 00:00:59,359 WAS COVERED IN BLOOD THAT DAY. SO THAT IS A RED FLAG. 14 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:02,062 >> WE HAVE NO FORCED ENTRY SO SHE KNEW WHO HER KILLER WAS 15 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:05,865 >> THERE WAS A CAR THERE WITH TEXAS PLATES 16 00:01:05,865 --> 00:01:09,102 WHO WERE THE TEXAS PLATES? >> HE HAD A PICTURE OF REBEKAH'S 17 00:01:09,102 --> 00:01:12,339 HEADSTONE. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS ABOUT 18 00:01:12,339 --> 00:01:15,575 REBEKAH'S MURDER >> WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID. 19 00:01:15,575 --> 00:01:17,744 WE KNOW HOW IT WENT DOWN >> Reporter: THIS IS A TOTAL 20 00:01:17,744 --> 00:01:19,379 BLUFF? >> IT IS 21 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:20,980 YEAH >> YOU'RE FREE TO GO AT ANY 22 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:22,615 TIME >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE 23 00:01:22,615 --> 00:01:24,451 DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING. >> RIGHT 24 00:01:24,451 --> 00:01:27,454 RIGHT. >> IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF SHOCK. 25 00:01:27,454 --> 00:01:30,156 "OH, MY GOD, IT'S OVER?" >> WOULD AN INVESTIGATOR'S RISKY 26 00:01:30,156 --> 00:01:32,859 STRATEGY DOOM A CASE OR REVEAL A KILLER 27 00:01:32,859 --> 00:01:45,805 I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS "DATELINE. 28 00:01:45,805 --> 00:01:58,752 HERE'S DENNIS MURPHY WITH "SECRETS IN THE OZARKS." 29 00:01:58,752 --> 00:02:04,724 >> Reporter: AN AWFUL ACT, ONE YOU COULDN'T UNSEE OR FORGET 30 00:02:04,724 --> 00:02:07,427 AND THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF SUSPECTS 31 00:02:07,427 --> 00:02:10,196 A SMALL MOUNTAIN TOWN WITH RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS TURNED 32 00:02:10,196 --> 00:02:19,439 AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. >> THEY ALL WENT THROUGH BEING 33 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:20,640 >> ACCUSED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM 34 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,676 IT HURT A LOT OF THEM. >> Reporter: WITHOUT AN ARREST, 35 00:02:22,676 --> 00:02:24,844 THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION NEVER REALLY WENT INTO RECESS OR 36 00:02:24,844 --> 00:02:27,213 STOPPED SPINNING FRESH THEORIES. OLD NAMES, NEW NAMES WHISPERED 37 00:02:27,213 --> 00:02:31,351 ABOUT. >> THERE WAS LOTS OF NAMES 38 00:02:31,351 --> 00:02:34,087 THROWED OUT THERE. >> RUMORS ABOUT JENNIFER 39 00:02:34,087 --> 00:02:40,093 >> HE FLAT-OUT TOLD SOME PEOPLE THAT I WAS THE ONE THAT DONE IT. 40 00:02:40,093 --> 00:02:42,262 >> CHRIS CANTRELL. AND LARGELY, CASEY 41 00:02:42,262 --> 00:02:45,432 EVERYBODY WAS POINTING THE FINGER AT HIM. 42 00:02:45,432 --> 00:02:52,005 >> Reporter: SO MANY REPUTATIONS WERE DRAGGED THROUGH THE MUD 43 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:54,107 THE TRUE KILLER, MEANWHILE, FOLLOWING IT ALL FROM SO MANY 44 00:02:54,107 --> 00:02:55,675 MILES AWAY, TICKLED TO BE GETTING AWAY WITH IT 45 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:58,478 >> HE WAS VERY PROUD THAT HE WAS ABLE TO FOOL EVERYBODY 46 00:02:58,478 --> 00:03:01,147 >> Reporter: UNTIL HE ENCOUNTERED THIS MAN AND ALL HIS 47 00:03:01,147 --> 00:03:03,350 BRAVADO FELL AWAY IN A HEARTBEAT. 48 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:05,685 THE EVIL LAID BARE BY A SIMPLE QUESTION 49 00:03:05,685 --> 00:03:15,762 >> WOULD YOU BE OKAY WITH TAKING A POLYGRAPH? 50 00:03:15,762 --> 00:03:19,065 I'LL JUST ASK YA >> Reporter: SO LET'S FOLLOW THE 51 00:03:19,065 --> 00:03:21,701 HILLS INTO THE POSTCARD-PRETTY ARKANSAS OZARKS. 52 00:03:21,701 --> 00:03:24,938 THAT'S WHERE REBEKAH, THE YOUNG WOMAN IN OUR STORY, WAS RAISED 53 00:03:24,938 --> 00:03:27,540 IF YOU LIKE, YOU CAN JUST LET YOUR EARS DIRECT YOU TO THE 54 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:36,883 SOUNDS OF THE FIDDLE AND THE SWEET SONG OF THE DULCIMER 55 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:42,822 * AND THERE YOU'LL BE IN THE TOWN 56 00:03:42,822 --> 00:03:47,093 OF MOUNTAIN VIEW, THE SELF-DESIGNATED FOLK MUSIC 57 00:03:47,093 --> 00:03:50,096 CAPITAL OF THE WORLD IN COZY PARLORS YOU CAN HEAR THE 58 00:03:50,096 --> 00:03:54,167 TIMELESS OLD HYMNS AND THE BALLADS OF FAITHLESS LOVERS COME 59 00:03:54,167 --> 00:03:57,404 TO MURDEROUS RUIN. BUT ONE PERSON'S TIMELESS AND 60 00:03:57,404 --> 00:04:02,809 SATISFYING CAN BE ANOTHER'S CLAUSTROPHOBIC 61 00:04:02,809 --> 00:04:06,613 >> THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT TO DO THERE. 62 00:04:06,613 --> 00:04:09,783 I MEAN, IT'S BEAUTIFUL AREA, BUT IT'S JUST A SMALL TOWN 63 00:04:09,783 --> 00:04:13,086 YOU'RE LUCKY IF YOU HAVE A STOPLIGHT IN YOUR TOWN 64 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:15,789 >> Reporter: TIFFANY MOORE GREW UP IN MOUNTAIN VIEW WITH THREE 65 00:04:15,789 --> 00:04:17,891 SISTERS. EVENTUALLY SHE ENROLLED IN THE 66 00:04:17,891 --> 00:04:22,195 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FAYETTEVILLE, THREE HOURS AWAY 67 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:24,431 SHE WASN'T SURPRISED WHEN HER RESTLESS KID SISTERS REBEKAH -- 68 00:04:24,431 --> 00:04:32,539 THAT'S HER ON THE RIGHT -- AND DANIELLE MOVED THERE TOO 69 00:04:32,539 --> 00:04:36,309 REBEKAH, 22 YEARS OLD, WANTED SO VERY MUCH TO BE A RAZORBACK. 70 00:04:36,309 --> 00:04:39,079 >> WELL, SHE WAS GOING TO A COMMUNITY COLLEGE BECAUSE SHE 71 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:44,984 WANTED TO GET INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS 72 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:48,788 BUT SHE HAD TO GET A COUPLE OF CLASSES UNDER HER BELT FIRST 73 00:04:48,788 --> 00:04:50,957 AND, UH, THAT'S WHAT HER AND DANIELLE WERE BOTH ENROLLED IN 74 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,559 THE SAME CLASSES, GOING TO THE -- 75 00:04:52,559 --> 00:04:54,994 >> Reporter: SO DO THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE THING. 76 00:04:54,994 --> 00:04:56,896 >> YES >> Reporter: AND THEN -- THEN 77 00:04:56,896 --> 00:04:59,099 BECOME A RAZORBACK >> YES, THAT WAS THE PLAN. 78 00:04:59,099 --> 00:05:00,700 >> Reporter: COLLEGE WAS THE FUTURE 79 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,036 BUT TIFFANY'S SISTERS MISSED THEIR MOM AND FRIENDS FROM THE 80 00:05:03,036 --> 00:05:05,171 OLD DAYS SO ON THAT THIRD WEEKEND OF 81 00:05:05,171 --> 00:05:07,240 SEPTEMBER 2004, WITH HER LITTLE DOG LADY AND SISTER DANIELLE 82 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,477 RIDING SHOTGUN, REBEKAH DROVE HOME FOR A VISIT 83 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:19,119 SHE PLANNED TO SPEND MOST OF HER TIME IN A NEARBY TOWN AT THE 84 00:05:19,119 --> 00:05:26,059 HOME OF A FRIEND A GUY NAMED CASEY, HUH 85 00:05:26,059 --> 00:05:27,327 >> CASEY, YES, YEAH. AND THAT'S WHO SHE WOULD STAY 86 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:29,429 WITH A LOT OF THE TIMES WHEN SHE WOULD, UM, GO BACK HOME. 87 00:05:29,429 --> 00:05:31,498 >> Reporter: BOYFRIEND OF REBEKAH, CASEY, OR NOT SO MUCH 88 00:05:31,498 --> 00:05:34,134 >> UM, AT ONE POINT, YES, THEY WERE 89 00:05:34,134 --> 00:05:38,071 THEY WERE KIND OF ON AND OFF >> Reporter: COME LATE MONDAY, 90 00:05:38,071 --> 00:05:40,774 SEPTEMBER 20th, 2004, THE SISTERS WERE SUPPOSED TO HEAD 91 00:05:40,774 --> 00:05:44,077 BACK TO SCHOOL, REBEKAH AT THE WHEEL. 92 00:05:44,077 --> 00:05:46,813 THAT NEVER HAPPENED. >> SHE DIDN'T ANSWER HER PHONE, 93 00:05:46,813 --> 00:05:49,449 AND SHE NEVER PICKED DANIELLE UP 94 00:05:49,449 --> 00:05:52,752 BUT REBEKAH WAS KIND OF LIKE THAT TOO, YOU KNOW 95 00:05:52,752 --> 00:05:53,887 SHE -- IF SHE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING, SHE WAS GOING TO DO 96 00:05:53,887 --> 00:05:55,388 IT >> Reporter: BY TUESDAY MORNING, 97 00:05:55,388 --> 00:05:58,625 REBEKAH'S MOM KNEW SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT 98 00:05:58,625 --> 00:06:03,530 >> SHE CALLED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ASKED THEM TO DO 99 00:06:03,530 --> 00:06:06,733 A, UM -- WHAT IS IT -- A WELFARE CHECK OR SOMETHING 100 00:06:06,733 --> 00:06:08,935 >> Reporter: SO WHEN THIS THING WENT DOWN, ARE YOU ALREADY 101 00:06:08,935 --> 00:06:11,104 WORKING? ARE YOU ON SHIFT 102 00:06:11,104 --> 00:06:14,708 >> I'D BEEN ON SHIFT ABOUT, UH, 30 MINUTES THAT MORNING. 103 00:06:14,708 --> 00:06:20,347 >> Reporter: CHARLIE MELTON IS NOW THE IZARD COUNTY SHERIFF 104 00:06:20,347 --> 00:06:25,185 BUT BACK IN 2004, HE WAS A NEWLY MINTED DEPUTY WHEN HIS 105 00:06:25,185 --> 00:06:29,322 DISPATCHER TOLD HIM TO LOCATE ONE REBEKAH GOULD. 106 00:06:29,322 --> 00:06:32,759 JUST IN GENERAL, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MISSION IS HERE 107 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:34,928 >> TO, UH, GO FIND SOMEBODY THAT HAS EITHER LOST OR JUST, UH, FOR 108 00:06:34,928 --> 00:06:37,130 SOME REASON, DIDN'T WANT TO GO BACK TO WHERE THEY SUPPOSED TO 109 00:06:37,130 --> 00:06:39,265 BE >> Reporter: SO YOU THINK IT'S 110 00:06:39,265 --> 00:06:42,068 GOING TO BE A PRETTY SIMPLE DEAL, HUH? 111 00:06:42,068 --> 00:06:47,073 >> JUST A PRETTY ROUTINE CALL. >> Reporter: REBEKAH'S MOM 112 00:06:47,073 --> 00:06:49,075 SUGGESTED THEY TRACK DOWN THAT FRIEND REBEKAH WAS STAYING WITH, 113 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:51,177 CASEY McCULLOUGH THEY'D MOST LIKELY FIND HIM AT 114 00:06:51,177 --> 00:06:52,812 WORK AT THIS SONIC DRIVE-IN. SO YOU WENT TO THE SONIC 115 00:06:52,812 --> 00:06:55,515 >> YES, SIR. >> Reporter: THERE HE WAS. 116 00:06:55,515 --> 00:06:57,650 >> HE WAS PULLING OUT AS I WAS PULLING IN 117 00:06:57,650 --> 00:06:59,853 >> Reporter: CASEY TOLD THE DEPUTY HE LAST SAW REBEKAH THE 118 00:06:59,853 --> 00:07:02,022 DAY BEFORE, MONDAY MORNING, WHEN SHE DROPPED HIM OFF FOR HIS 119 00:07:02,022 --> 00:07:04,724 SHIFT AT THE SONIC SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO PICK HIM UP 120 00:07:04,724 --> 00:07:08,028 LATER THAT DAY BUT, FOR SOME REASON, DIDN'T SHOW. 121 00:07:08,028 --> 00:07:11,765 HE SPENT THE NIGHT OUT WITH FRIENDS AND DIDN'T GO HOME 122 00:07:11,765 --> 00:07:15,035 BUT NOW, HAVING JUST SWUNG BY HIS PLACE, HE NOTICED REBEKAH'S 123 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:17,170 CAR AND DOG WERE STILL THERE SHE WAS NOT. 124 00:07:17,170 --> 00:07:19,305 THE DEPUTY ASKED CASEY TO TAKE HIM BACK TO THE HOUSE. 125 00:07:19,305 --> 00:07:22,575 SO THIS IS CASEY'S PLACE >> YES, SIR. 126 00:07:22,575 --> 00:07:25,245 >> Reporter: AND HERE WE ARE, WHAT, 19 YEARS ON? 127 00:07:25,245 --> 00:07:27,947 >> CLOSE TO IT >> Reporter: IT'S A MESS 128 00:07:27,947 --> 00:07:33,353 >> IT IS >> Reporter: BUT NOT SO BAD 129 00:07:33,353 --> 00:07:38,224 THEN, HUH? >> IT WASN'T 130 00:07:38,224 --> 00:07:42,062 IT WAS PRETTY WELL MAINTAINED AND TAKEN CARE OF AT THAT TIME 131 00:07:42,062 --> 00:07:46,332 >> Reporter: MELTON SAYS AS SOON AS HE WALKED INTO THE HOUSE HE 132 00:07:46,332 --> 00:07:48,501 REALIZED HIS ROUTINE CALL WAS ANYTHING BUT 133 00:07:48,501 --> 00:07:51,071 >> WENT IN HER PURSE WAS ON THE TABLE, AND 134 00:07:51,071 --> 00:07:52,305 HER DOG WAS THERE AND OTHER PERSONAL ITEMS, BUT SHE WASN'T 135 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:53,973 AROUND I WAS FOR SURE CONCERNED THEN. 136 00:07:53,973 --> 00:07:56,076 >> Reporter: HE ASKED CASEY TO SHOW HIM THE BEDROOM WHERE HE 137 00:07:56,076 --> 00:07:58,244 AND REBEKAH SLEPT. THE LINEN HAD BEEN STRIPPED OFF 138 00:07:58,244 --> 00:07:59,879 THE MATTRESS >> I ASKED HIM IF I COULD LOOK 139 00:07:59,879 --> 00:08:02,015 UNDER THE MATTRESS AND WHEN I FLIPPED IT UP, THE 140 00:08:02,015 --> 00:08:04,150 BOTTOM OF THE MATTRESS HAD BLOOD COVERING A LARGE PORTION OF IT 141 00:08:04,150 --> 00:08:05,885 >> Reporter: AND IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM, YOU FOUND SOMETHING, HUH 142 00:08:05,885 --> 00:08:08,188 >> THE WASHING MACHINE WAS JUST RIGHT OUTSIDE THE, UH, BEDROOM 143 00:08:08,188 --> 00:08:09,556 DOOR I LIFT THE LID ON IT, AND THERE 144 00:08:09,556 --> 00:08:11,191 WAS THE BEDDING. AND IN THE BLEACH DISPENSER FOR 145 00:08:11,191 --> 00:08:13,693 THE WASHING MACHINE, THERE APPEARED TO BE BLOOD 146 00:08:13,693 --> 00:08:15,562 >> Reporter: THIS SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE, SHERIFF 147 00:08:15,562 --> 00:08:18,031 >> IT WAS. AND AT THAT TIME IS WHEN I -- I 148 00:08:18,031 --> 00:08:19,866 TOOK CASEY OUTSIDE AND CALLED, UH, OUR SHERIFF, TOLD HIM WHAT I 149 00:08:19,866 --> 00:08:22,035 HAD FOUND. >> Reporter: TOLD THE SHERIFF 150 00:08:22,035 --> 00:08:24,437 THAT REBEKAH GOULD WAS MORE THAN JUST MISSING 151 00:08:24,437 --> 00:08:27,207 THE DEPUTY SUSPECTED THE YOUNG MAN STANDING BEFORE HIM KNEW 152 00:08:27,207 --> 00:08:52,332 WHERE SHE WAS AND, MAYBE, WHAT >> Reporter: ARKANSAS POLICE 153 00:08:52,332 --> 00:08:57,871 WERE ROLLING OUT 22-YEAR-OLD REBEKAH GOULD HAD 154 00:08:57,871 --> 00:08:59,773 GONE MISSING HER FRIEND CASEY McCULLOUGH'S 155 00:08:59,773 --> 00:09:03,076 HOME -- A POTENTIAL CRIME SCENE. >> THERE WAS BLOODY ITEMS, 156 00:09:03,076 --> 00:09:07,013 PILLOWS AND CLOTHING THAT WAS SHOVED UNDER THE BED 157 00:09:07,013 --> 00:09:09,015 THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE WALLS BEHIND THE BED 158 00:09:09,015 --> 00:09:10,583 >> Reporter: BUT IT DIDN'T REALLY DESCRIBE WHAT WAS 159 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:12,719 HAPPENING AT THAT POINT. >> IT DID NOT. 160 00:09:12,719 --> 00:09:15,355 >> Reporter: IT WAS BY THEN TUESDAY MORNING, 161 00:09:15,355 --> 00:09:16,556 SEPTEMBER 21, 2004, A FULL DAY SINCE ANYONE HAD SEEN OR HEARD 162 00:09:16,556 --> 00:09:19,826 FROM REBEKAH POLICE TOLD HER FAMILY LITTLE OF 163 00:09:19,826 --> 00:09:21,394 WHAT THEY'D DISCOVERED INSIDE THE HOUSE. 164 00:09:21,394 --> 00:09:25,699 >> THEY HAD TOLD ME THAT THEY FOUND -- THAT THERE WAS BLOOD, 165 00:09:25,699 --> 00:09:27,834 BUT, UM, THEY DIDN'T TELL ME HOW MUCH 166 00:09:27,834 --> 00:09:30,537 >> Reporter: REBEKAH'S SISTER TIFFANY MOORE AND HER 167 00:09:30,537 --> 00:09:37,043 HALF-SISTER ANGELA NEUBAUER WERE NOT ALARMED SO MUCH AS ROLLING 168 00:09:37,043 --> 00:09:40,246 THEIR EYES AT THEIR SISTER'S LATEST STUNT 169 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:43,049 THEY MADE THE LONG DRIVE OVER TO A TOWN NEAR THEIR OLD HOME AND 170 00:09:43,049 --> 00:09:46,219 CASEY'S. A PLACE CALLED MELBOURNE 171 00:09:46,219 --> 00:09:49,456 >> WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO GIVE REBEKAH A LECTURE BECAUSE SHE'S 172 00:09:49,456 --> 00:09:52,726 PROBABLY PARTYING SOMEWHERE BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY THIS 173 00:09:52,726 --> 00:09:56,663 COULD BE HAPPENING >> Reporter: TIFFANY, DO YOU 174 00:09:56,663 --> 00:09:59,165 AGREE? YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS AN INCIDENT 175 00:09:59,165 --> 00:10:04,037 WE'D ALL LOOK BACK AND LAUGH AT SOME TIME AFTER REBEKAH GOT A 176 00:10:04,037 --> 00:10:05,638 SCOLDING >> I DID 177 00:10:05,638 --> 00:10:07,273 YEAH, YEAH I -- I REALLY DID. 178 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:09,409 >> SHE WAS ALWAYS GONNA BE THE LAST ONE TO COME IF YOU CALLED 179 00:10:09,409 --> 00:10:11,578 HER. >> Reporter: REBEKAH'S FATHER, 180 00:10:11,578 --> 00:10:14,280 LARRY GOULD, LIVED AN HOUR AWAY. WHEN HE GOT WORD, HE WASN'T 181 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:15,382 OVERLY CONCERNED EITHER. NOT AT FIRST 182 00:10:15,382 --> 00:10:17,017 HE SAYS HIS DAUGHTER WAS A REBEL. 183 00:10:17,017 --> 00:10:19,219 HAD BEEN FROM THE WORD "GO." >> SHE HAD A MIND OF HER OWN 184 00:10:19,219 --> 00:10:21,354 SHE WAS REALLY FEARLESS, EVEN AT A YOUNG AGE. 185 00:10:21,354 --> 00:10:24,090 >> I MEAN, THINGS THAT SHE SHOULDN'T DO, LIKE SNEAKING OUT 186 00:10:24,090 --> 00:10:27,827 EVEN AT US JUST TO GO OUT AND GO DOWN TO THE PARK DOWN THE 187 00:10:27,827 --> 00:10:30,864 STREET IF SHE WANTED TO DO IT, SHE WAS 188 00:10:30,864 --> 00:10:32,132 GOING TO DO IT >> Reporter: FREE SPIRIT, HUH? 189 00:10:32,132 --> 00:10:34,868 >> SHE WAS VERY MUCH - >> AND FEARLESS. 190 00:10:34,868 --> 00:10:40,273 >> YES >> Reporter: FEARLESS AND 191 00:10:40,273 --> 00:10:44,010 INDEPENDENT BY NATURE. INDEPENDENT, BY NECESSITY AFTER 192 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:46,713 HER PARENTS DIVORCED >> AND I TRIED TO GET CUSTODY OF 193 00:10:46,713 --> 00:10:48,915 MY GIRLS FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS. 194 00:10:48,915 --> 00:10:50,517 THEY WENT WITH THEIR MOTHER AND LIVED THROUGHOUT ARKANSAS, 195 00:10:50,517 --> 00:10:56,523 DIFFERENT PLACES IN ARKANSAS >> Reporter: AN UGLY DIVORCE 196 00:10:56,523 --> 00:11:00,427 NONE OF THEM ARE GREAT, BUT THIS ONE WAS ESPECIALLY PAINFUL 197 00:11:00,427 --> 00:11:03,930 >> ABSOLUTELY, VERY. >> Reporter: IT INVOLVED NASTY 198 00:11:03,930 --> 00:11:05,665 ALLEGATIONS -- MOM AGAINST DAD DAD AGAINST MOM. 199 00:11:05,665 --> 00:11:08,902 IT WASN'T ALL BED OF ROSES FOR YOU GUYS GROWING UP, WAS IT? 200 00:11:08,902 --> 00:11:12,706 >> NO, NO, IT WASN'T IT WAS -- IT WAS - 201 00:11:12,706 --> 00:11:14,808 >> Reporter: SOME FOSTER HOMES ALONG THE WAY? 202 00:11:14,808 --> 00:11:17,877 >> MM-HMM. YEAH 203 00:11:17,877 --> 00:11:22,182 UH, WE'RE IN FOSTER HOME FOR, I THINK, A GOOD YEAR OR TWO. 204 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:26,186 >> Reporter: AFTER WHICH THEY REUNITED WITH THEIR MOM. 205 00:11:26,186 --> 00:11:30,557 BUT THEIR FATHER, A DENTIST, SAYS HIS DAUGHTERS LACKED 206 00:11:30,557 --> 00:11:33,793 STABILITY -- AND HE LACKED CONSISTENT CONTACT WITH THEM 207 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:34,928 BECAUSE OF THEIR MOTHER. >> SHE'D LIVE ONE PLACE AND THE 208 00:11:34,928 --> 00:11:38,665 GIRLS WOULD NEVER BE SETTLED SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN, AND THEN 209 00:11:38,665 --> 00:11:41,368 SHE WOULD MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE. SO, THERE WAS NEVER ANY SECURITY 210 00:11:41,368 --> 00:11:44,204 IN THEIR LIFE. >> Reporter: DID THAT WORRY YOU? 211 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:46,573 >> OF COURSE, IT DID, ABSOLUTELY 212 00:11:46,573 --> 00:11:48,341 >> Reporter: EVEN SO, TIFFANY REMEMBERS REBEKAH HAVING A 213 00:11:48,341 --> 00:11:49,976 MOSTLY HAPPY CHILDHOOD -- ONE FILLED WITH OUTDOOR ADVENTURES 214 00:11:49,976 --> 00:11:54,347 >> WE'D GO CAMPING A LOT THAT WAS OUR VACATIONS WHEN WE 215 00:11:54,347 --> 00:11:55,949 WERE LITTLE AND REBEKAH WAS ALWAYS IN THE WATER. 216 00:11:55,949 --> 00:11:58,651 SHE WAS EITHER SWIMMING OR TRYING TO CATCH CRAW DADS. 217 00:11:58,651 --> 00:12:01,888 >> Reporter: COULDN'T GET HER OUT OF THE WATER 218 00:12:01,888 --> 00:12:04,057 >> NOPE SHE WAS A LITTLE FISH. >> Reporter: THE SCRAPPY LITTLE 219 00:12:04,057 --> 00:12:06,626 MERMAID GREW INTO A SELF-ASSURED AND FIERCELY PROTECTIVE YOUNG 220 00:12:06,626 --> 00:12:09,462 WOMAN. >> SHE WAS ONLY 100 POUNDS AND A 221 00:12:09,462 --> 00:12:12,732 TINY LITTLE THING, BUT SHE WAS NOT SCARED OF ANYBODY. 222 00:12:12,732 --> 00:12:14,300 BUT PEOPLE WERE DRAWN TO HER PEOPLE LOVED HER 223 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,070 >> Reporter: SHE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SHE'D BE EASILY 224 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:19,205 INTIMIDATED. >> NO, SHE WASN'T. 225 00:12:19,205 --> 00:12:20,807 >> Reporter: SHE'D STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR HERSELF? 226 00:12:20,807 --> 00:12:23,076 >> OH, YEAH. >> AND ANYBODY ELSE SHE LOVED. 227 00:12:23,076 --> 00:12:25,178 >> YEAH, SHE - >> Reporter: SHE HAD THE WHOLE 228 00:12:25,178 --> 00:12:27,747 FAMILY'S BACK, HUH >> OH, ABSOLUTELY, I MEAN, I WAS 229 00:12:27,747 --> 00:12:29,482 THE ELDEST, BUT I GUARANTEE YOU, IF THERE WAS A CONFLICT THAT I 230 00:12:29,482 --> 00:12:34,320 WAS HAVING, SHE'D BE THE FIRST TO JUMP OVER ME TO GET THAT 231 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,624 PERSON TO, YOU KNOW, PROTECT ME. >> Reporter: NOW, MAYBE IT WAS 232 00:12:37,624 --> 00:12:41,394 REBEKAH WHO NEEDED PROTECTING. DEPUTY MELTON SUSPECTED -- AT 233 00:12:41,394 --> 00:12:45,098 THE VERY LEAST -- SOMEONE HAD ATTACKED THE YOUNG WOMAN BEFORE 234 00:12:45,098 --> 00:12:48,401 DRAGGING HER AWAY. HE BELIEVED CASEY KNEW MORE 235 00:12:48,401 --> 00:12:51,638 ABOUT HER DISAPPEARANCE. >> AND I ASKED CASEY AGAIN 236 00:12:51,638 --> 00:12:55,975 I SAID, WHERE IS SHE HE SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW 237 00:12:55,975 --> 00:12:59,212 AND I SAID, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER? 238 00:12:59,212 --> 00:13:01,915 AND HE SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW >> I LEFT WITH REBEKAH, AND WE 239 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:05,185 WENT TO MOUNTAIN VIEW. >> Reporter: CASEY, IN A 240 00:13:05,185 --> 00:13:09,522 RECORDED INTERVIEW, LATER RETRACED THE HOURS BEFORE 241 00:13:09,522 --> 00:13:15,462 REBEKAH VANISHED AS STATE POLICE BUILT A TIMELINE 242 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:18,131 HE SAID THE NIGHT BEFORE REBEKAH WENT MISSING, SUNDAY, WAS 243 00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:20,333 NOTHING SPECIAL. >> WHEN WE GOT TO MOUNTAIN VIEW, 244 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:22,502 WE REALLY ACTUALLY DROVE AROUND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING 245 00:13:22,502 --> 00:13:24,704 TO DO, AND THEN WE DECIDED TO RENT MORE MOVIES 246 00:13:24,704 --> 00:13:28,341 >> Reporter: THEY CAME BACK TO HIS PLACE AND WATCHED THE FIRST 247 00:13:28,341 --> 00:13:30,643 FILM >> AFTER THAT, SHE LOOKS OUT THE 248 00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:34,381 WINDOW AND SHE SEES SOMEBODY OUT IN THE -- ON THE ROAD, THE DIRT 249 00:13:34,381 --> 00:13:35,515 ROAD AND, UH, I LOOK OUT THERE, AND I 250 00:13:35,515 --> 00:13:37,150 TOLD HER IT WAS MY COUSIN. >> Reporter: CASEY SAID HIS 251 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:39,853 COUSIN BILLY, IN TOWN FROM TEXAS, STOPPED BY THAT NIGHT FOR 252 00:13:39,853 --> 00:13:41,988 A QUICK HELLO. NOW HOW LONG DID HE STAY 253 00:13:41,988 --> 00:13:43,723 >> ABOUT 10, 15 MINUTES TOPS WE JUST REALLY TALKED ABOUT OLD 254 00:13:43,723 --> 00:13:45,825 TIMES AND STUFF. >> Reporter: AN HOUR OR SO LATER 255 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:50,096 HE SAID HE AND REBEKAH WENT TO BED. 256 00:13:50,096 --> 00:13:53,433 ON MONDAY MORNING, REBEKAH DROVE HIM TO WORK -- JUST AS HE HAD 257 00:13:53,433 --> 00:13:54,934 ALREADY EXPLAINED TO THE DEPUTY. >> ALL I REMEMBER IS SAYING BYE 258 00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:59,305 AND SMILING AT EACH OTHER AND WAVING AND THAT'S THE LAST TIME 259 00:13:59,305 --> 00:14:02,575 I SAW REBEKAH. >> Reporter: HER PLAN WAS TO 260 00:14:02,575 --> 00:14:06,346 RETURN TO HIS PLACE TO CATCH A NAP, BEFORE PICKING HIM UP AT 261 00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:10,684 4:00 P.M., THEN DRIVING BACK TO SCHOOL 262 00:14:10,684 --> 00:14:13,386 WHEN SHE DIDN'T SHOW THAT AFTERNOON, HE CALLED BUT SHE 263 00:14:13,386 --> 00:14:16,623 DIDN'T ANSWER. AT THE TIME, HE SAID, HE 264 00:14:16,623 --> 00:14:19,359 SHRUGGED IT OFF. IT WASN'T UNTIL TUESDAY, WHEN HE 265 00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:22,595 RETURNED HOME WITH THE DEPUTY, THAT HE REALIZED SOMETHING BAD 266 00:14:22,595 --> 00:14:25,198 HAD HAPPENED >> DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO 267 00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:26,900 WITH, UH, REBEKAH'S DISAPPEARANCE? 268 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:29,636 >> NO, SIR >> DID YOU, IN ANY WAY, CAUSE 269 00:14:29,636 --> 00:14:32,305 ANY HARM TO REBEKAH? >> NO, SIR 270 00:14:32,305 --> 00:14:34,541 >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATOR WASN'T GETTING MUCH FROM CASEY 271 00:14:34,541 --> 00:14:37,777 AT ALL. THOUGH, WHEN HE ASKED ABOUT 272 00:14:37,777 --> 00:14:41,581 REBEKAH'S PAST, THE YOUNG MAN'S TONE CHANGED 273 00:14:41,581 --> 00:14:44,250 >> DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY SHE'S HAD RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS WITH OR 274 00:14:44,250 --> 00:14:48,555 SOMEBODY THAT KNOWS SHE'S OUT THERE THAT SHE WOULD FEEL 275 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:50,757 COMFORTABLE EITHER LETTING IN THE HOUSE OR -- OR THAT COULD 276 00:14:50,757 --> 00:14:52,325 TALK TO HER TO GET INSIDE THE HOUSE? 277 00:14:52,325 --> 00:14:53,993 >> UH, I DO KNOW >> Reporter: CASEY TOLD THE 278 00:14:53,993 --> 00:14:57,230 INVESTIGATOR THEY SHOULD CHECK OUT ONE OF REBEKAH'S OLD 279 00:14:57,230 --> 00:14:59,399 BOYFRIENDS AS IT TURNED OUT, HER SISTERS 280 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:01,034 WERE ALREADY CALLING HIM, A FELLOW NAMED JUSTIN GULLETT. 281 00:15:01,034 --> 00:15:03,370 >> CASEY KIND OF JUST FELL OVER HIMSELF FOR REBEKAH AND -- AND 282 00:15:03,370 --> 00:15:04,804 THEN JUSTIN WAS THE BAD BOY. >> Reporter: JUSTIN. 283 00:15:04,804 --> 00:15:25,225 POLICE NEEDED TO FIND HIM AND HAVE A CHAT. 284 00:15:25,225 --> 00:15:27,894 >>> Reporter: REBEKAH GOULD HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE MONDAY. 285 00:15:27,894 --> 00:15:30,630 BY WEDNESDAY, LAW ENFORCEMENT HAD LAUNCHED A FULL-SCALE 286 00:15:30,630 --> 00:15:32,565 SEARCH >> IT'S A LOT OF NATIONAL 287 00:15:32,565 --> 00:15:35,468 FORESTS. THEY'RE USED TO DOING THE 288 00:15:35,468 --> 00:15:38,672 SEARCHES >> Reporter: DENNIS SIMONS WAS 289 00:15:38,672 --> 00:15:42,442 AN INVESTIGATOR WITH ARKANSAS STATE POLICE WHEN REBEKAH 290 00:15:42,442 --> 00:15:45,512 DISAPPEARED. HE EVENTUALLY TOOK THE LEAD ON 291 00:15:45,512 --> 00:15:46,279 HER CASE HE KNOWS THIS PART OF THE 292 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:47,881 OZARKS. LIVED HERE FOR YEARS >> THEY DID HORSEBACK. 293 00:15:47,881 --> 00:15:49,582 THEY DID THE FOUR-WHEELER. ANYTIME WE'VE EVER DONE A SEARCH 294 00:15:49,582 --> 00:15:51,418 UP HERE YOU GET THE GAME AND FISH, YOU GET THE NATIONAL 295 00:15:51,418 --> 00:15:53,820 FOREST SERVICE, YOU GET THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS 296 00:15:53,820 --> 00:15:56,489 >> Reporter: HAVE TO, HE SAYS. THIS IS CHALLENGING TERRAIN. 297 00:15:56,489 --> 00:16:00,427 ESPECIALLY IN MID-SEPTEMBER. >> THAT TIME OF YEAR, YOU'RE 298 00:16:00,427 --> 00:16:01,928 GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF UNDERBRUSH, A LOT OF THORNS. 299 00:16:01,928 --> 00:16:04,631 I MEAN, IT IS VERY THICK, RUGGED TERRAIN, STEEP TERRAIN 300 00:16:04,631 --> 00:16:07,334 AND YOU CAN WALK TEN FEET FROM SOMETHING AND NOT SEE IT 301 00:16:07,334 --> 00:16:10,537 IT'S JUST VERY THICK UNDERBRUSH. >> Reporter: WHEN REBEKAH'S 302 00:16:10,537 --> 00:16:12,672 FAMILY GOT TO TOWN, POLICE EXPLAINED THEY THOUGHT IT 303 00:16:12,672 --> 00:16:16,042 UNLIKELY THAT REBEKAH, ON A WHIM, HAD DECIDED TO TAKE OFF ON 304 00:16:16,042 --> 00:16:20,046 HER OWN. WHEN DID YOU REALIZE SHE NEVER 305 00:16:20,046 --> 00:16:22,449 REALLY DID HIT THE ROAD BECAUSE HER CAR WAS THERE, HER PURSE WAS 306 00:16:22,449 --> 00:16:27,887 THERE? >> YEAH. 307 00:16:27,887 --> 00:16:30,557 HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT EVEN SANK IN 308 00:16:30,557 --> 00:16:33,827 I MEAN, WE WERE JUST HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS 309 00:16:33,827 --> 00:16:36,529 SOMEWHERE ELSE >> Reporter: THEN, POLICE FILLED 310 00:16:36,529 --> 00:16:39,666 THE FAMILY IN ON MORE OF THE DETAILS. 311 00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:42,969 STARTING WITH THE AMOUNT OF BLOOD FOUND IN CASEY'S ROOM. 312 00:16:42,969 --> 00:16:47,307 >> WHEN I FOUND OUT HOW MUCH BLOOD IT WAS AND THAT IT 313 00:16:47,307 --> 00:16:51,244 COULDN'T BE SOMETHING ELSE, IT HAD TO BE A LITTLE MORE SERIOUS, 314 00:16:51,244 --> 00:16:53,747 I STARTED GETTING CONCERNED. BUT I STILL DIDN'T THINK THE 315 00:16:53,747 --> 00:16:56,616 WORST. >> Reporter: THEY CONTINUED TO 316 00:16:56,616 --> 00:16:59,719 BELIEVE REBEKAH WOULD SHOW UP AT ANY MOMENT 317 00:16:59,719 --> 00:17:03,023 EXPLAIN IT ALL AWAY. MAYBE SHE WAS WITH THAT OLD 318 00:17:03,023 --> 00:17:05,091 BOYFRIEND OF HERS, THE ONE CASEY MENTIONED TO POLICE. 319 00:17:05,091 --> 00:17:07,827 >> JUSTIN, WHO SHE WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH, THAT WAS HER 320 00:17:07,827 --> 00:17:11,064 EVERYTHING PRETTY MUCH >> Reporter: JUSTIN AND REBEKAH, 321 00:17:11,064 --> 00:17:13,199 THAT'S THE COUPLE. >> JUSTIN AND REBEKAH. 322 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:16,036 YES. >> Reporter: THEY HAD LONG SINCE 323 00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:18,638 BROKEN UP. BUT TIFFANY SAYS REBEKAH STILL 324 00:17:18,638 --> 00:17:22,442 REGARDED HER OLD FLAME AS THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY 325 00:17:22,442 --> 00:17:24,644 >> I THINK JUSTIN ALWAYS STUCK OUT IN HER MIND THAT THAT'S WHO 326 00:17:24,644 --> 00:17:27,847 SHE LOVES AND WHO SHE WANTED TO BE WITH. 327 00:17:27,847 --> 00:17:30,583 >> Reporter: THEIR HUNCH, THAT REBEKAH WAS WITH JUSTIN, MADE 328 00:17:30,583 --> 00:17:33,219 EVEN MORE SENSE WHEN POLICE HANDED THEM REBEKAH'S PERSONAL 329 00:17:33,219 --> 00:17:36,089 ITEMS, INCLUDING HER PURSE INSIDE IT, ANGELA DISCOVERED A 330 00:17:36,089 --> 00:17:39,225 LETTER INTERESTING, A LETTER. 331 00:17:39,225 --> 00:17:41,895 FROM WHOM AND WHAT DID IT SAY? >> IT WAS FROM JUSTIN. 332 00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:44,064 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THE GIST OF THE LETTER, ANGELA? 333 00:17:44,064 --> 00:17:47,834 >> THAT HE LOVED HER, YOU KNOW, AND THAT THEY BELONG TOGETHER. 334 00:17:47,834 --> 00:17:50,070 >> Reporter: THE LETTER GAVE HER SISTERS HOPE 335 00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:53,807 NOW, THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO WANTED TO TALK TO JUSTIN 336 00:17:53,807 --> 00:17:58,144 POLICE DID TOO BUT HE WASN'T AT HOME. 337 00:17:58,144 --> 00:18:00,847 >> WHEN WE COULDN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM, WE COULDN'T GET A HOLD 338 00:18:00,847 --> 00:18:04,084 OF HER, WE JUST KIND OF HELD ONTO THAT HOPE THAT SHE WAS WITH 339 00:18:04,084 --> 00:18:09,522 HIM. >> Reporter: AFTER TWO DAYS OF 340 00:18:09,522 --> 00:18:12,192 CALLING, JUSTIN FINALLY ANSWERED HIS PHONE. 341 00:18:12,192 --> 00:18:14,394 >> HE WAS AT THE CASINO WITH HIS FATHER 342 00:18:14,394 --> 00:18:16,563 AND WE ASKED IF HE HAD SEEN HER, IF SHE WAS WITH HIM. 343 00:18:16,563 --> 00:18:18,698 AND ONCE HE SAID, NO, IT WAS JUST, IT WAS KIND OF 344 00:18:18,698 --> 00:18:21,434 DEVASTATING. >> Reporter: JUSTIN MET WITH 345 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:24,604 POLICE, AND THEY INTERVIEWED HIM. 346 00:18:24,604 --> 00:18:27,807 IT TURNED OUT THE OLD BOYFRIEND HAD BEEN OFF GAMBLING WELL 347 00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:30,543 BEFORE REBEKAH VANISHED. STILL, THE FAMILY WOULD NOT GIVE 348 00:18:30,543 --> 00:18:32,746 UP HOPE. >> I JUST KNOW THAT SHE'S OUT 349 00:18:32,746 --> 00:18:36,049 THERE AND SHE NEEDS US >> Reporter: NOT EVEN WHEN THEY 350 00:18:36,049 --> 00:18:37,617 JOINED THE SEARCH. >> YOU HAVE CAVES THERE. 351 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,252 YOU HAVE OLD WELLS >> Reporter: WOODS, FORESTS. 352 00:18:39,252 --> 00:18:41,388 >> YOU HAVE WOODS. >> Reporter: LOTS OF WATERWAYS 353 00:18:41,388 --> 00:18:46,826 >> YES AND SO SHE COULD BE ANYWHERE 354 00:18:46,826 --> 00:18:51,931 AND THE ONLY THING ON MY MIND WAS TO FIND HER. 355 00:18:51,931 --> 00:18:53,366 I JUST FELT LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO, SOMEBODY'S GOING TO SAY, 356 00:18:53,366 --> 00:18:57,137 "GOT HER, HERE SHE IS. >> I REMEMBER LOOKING AT BIRDS, 357 00:18:57,137 --> 00:19:02,542 AND WE'D WALK OVER TOWARDS WHERE THE BIRDS WERE FLYING AROUND, 358 00:19:02,542 --> 00:19:05,045 AND JUST KIND OF GIVING A SIGH OF RELIEF THAT WE DIDN'T FIND 359 00:19:05,045 --> 00:19:06,312 ANYTHING I REMEMBER THAT -- 360 00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:08,515 >> Reporter: YOU DO WANT TO FIND SOMETHING, BUT YOU DON'T, RIGHT? 361 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:10,050 >> RIGHT, RIGHT. YEAH 362 00:19:10,050 --> 00:19:12,185 WE DEFINITELY DIDN'T WANT -- >> Reporter: YOU WANT THE 363 00:19:12,185 --> 00:19:14,387 ANSWERS? >> WE WANTED THE ANSWERS 364 00:19:14,387 --> 00:19:17,023 YEAH BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO FIND 365 00:19:17,023 --> 00:19:20,360 ANYTHING >> Reporter: BUT HOPE, WITH 366 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,896 NOTHING TO SUSTAIN IT, CAN ONLY LAST SO LONG. 367 00:19:22,896 --> 00:19:26,232 BY WEEK'S END IT WAS GONE FOR GOOD 368 00:19:26,232 --> 00:19:27,901 SHERIFF, WHERE'D THEY FIND THE BODY 369 00:19:27,901 --> 00:19:30,603 >> RIGHT DOWN THERE CLOSE TO THAT BIG TREE. 370 00:19:30,603 --> 00:19:33,340 RIGHT THERE. >> Reporter: SHE LAY THERE ON 371 00:19:33,340 --> 00:19:36,543 HER SIDE, ABOUT 30 FEET DOWN A STEEP EMBANKMENT OFF THIS 372 00:19:36,543 --> 00:19:40,313 MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY IF YOU CAN PUT YOURSELF IN HIS 373 00:19:40,313 --> 00:19:43,049 HEAD, THE KILLER'S HEAD, WHY DOES THIS MAKE SENSE FOR HIM 374 00:19:43,049 --> 00:19:46,286 WHERE WE ARE >> 'CAUSE IT'S A RURAL AREA, A 375 00:19:46,286 --> 00:19:49,055 LITTLE TRAFFIC, NO HOUSES CLOSE BY 376 00:19:49,055 --> 00:19:51,691 SO THIS, THAT MAY BE THE REASON HE CHOSE THIS SPOT 377 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:54,928 >> Reporter: DESPITE THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE YOUNG 378 00:19:54,928 --> 00:19:58,064 WOMAN'S BODY, INVESTIGATORS WERE SURE IT WAS REBEKAH. 379 00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:00,367 SHORTLY AFTER, THEY GATHERED HER FAMILY IN A ROOM AT THE STATION 380 00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:08,441 AND TOLD THEM SHE HAD AT LAST BEEN FOUND 381 00:20:08,441 --> 00:20:12,245 >> IT DIDN'T FEEL REAL. IT DIDN'T AT ALL 382 00:20:12,245 --> 00:20:14,948 UM, THERE, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE IT. 383 00:20:14,948 --> 00:20:17,117 >> Reporter: STILL, POLICE NEEDED A FORMAL I.D. 384 00:20:17,117 --> 00:20:21,588 THAT FELL TO HER FATHER, THE DENTIST. 385 00:20:21,588 --> 00:20:23,056 >> THEY ASKED IF I HAPPENED TO HAVE DENTAL RECORDS ON MY 386 00:20:23,056 --> 00:20:25,759 DAUGHTER AND I SAID I DID, AND I PROVIDED 387 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:29,929 THEM TO THE STATE POLICE, WHICH WENT TO THE CRIME LAB. 388 00:20:29,929 --> 00:20:32,799 YEAH, THAT WAS HARD. >> Reporter: THE RECORDS WERE A 389 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:35,502 MATCH TO THE BODY. FOR ONE AGONIZING WEEK, ALL EYES 390 00:20:35,502 --> 00:20:38,171 HAD BEEN FIXED ON FINDING REBEKAH GOULD ALIVE. 391 00:20:38,171 --> 00:20:42,075 NOW, THEIR ATTENTION TURNED TO FINDING HER KILLER 392 00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:45,812 INVESTIGATORS WERE PRETTY SURE THEY ALREADY HAD HIS NAME, 393 00:20:45,812 --> 00:20:47,981 CASEY McCULLOUGH THEY'D DISCOVER A POSSIBLE 394 00:20:47,981 --> 00:20:50,350 MOTIVE SOON ENOUGH >> "I'M GOING TO TAKE REVENGE ON 395 00:20:50,350 --> 00:20:51,685 THIS GIRL. DEFINITELY A BIG MOTIVE FOR 396 00:20:51,685 --> 00:21:08,802 MURDER >> Reporter: THE DAY AFTER 397 00:21:08,802 --> 00:21:12,639 SEARCHERS RECOVERED THE BODY OF REBEKAH GOULD, THE COUNTY M.E. 398 00:21:12,639 --> 00:21:27,253 PERFORMED AN AUTOPSY DEPUTY MELTON SAW THE REPORT AND 399 00:21:27,253 --> 00:21:28,388 KNEW -- RUBECAH'S DEATH HAD BEEN ESPECIALLY GRUESOME. 400 00:21:28,388 --> 00:21:30,557 WHAT WAS THE M.E.'S FINDING ABOUT CAUSE OF DEATH? WHAT HAD 401 00:21:30,557 --> 00:21:32,192 HAPPENED TO HER? >> BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA. 402 00:21:32,192 --> 00:21:33,827 >> Reporter: BLOWS TO HER FACE AND HEAD 403 00:21:33,827 --> 00:21:36,896 TO INVESTIGATORS THAT SUGGESTED RAGE 404 00:21:36,896 --> 00:21:42,535 ANY INDICATION SHE'D BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED? COULD THEY 405 00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:45,805 SAY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER >> THEY COULDN'T SAY 406 00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:51,678 BODY WAS IN TOO BAD A SHAPE. >> Reporter: THE NEXT HEARTBREAK 407 00:21:51,678 --> 00:21:54,647 FOR HER PARENTS AND SISTERS -- FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS 408 00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:56,116 >> IT WAS YOU KNOW, THE ONLY TIME THAT I'VE EVER HAD TO 409 00:21:56,116 --> 00:21:58,785 REALLY DO THAT. UM, BUT, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH 410 00:21:58,785 --> 00:22:01,488 AND FIGURE OUT WHICH CASKET, YOU KNOW, SHE'S -- SHE WOULD BE 411 00:22:01,488 --> 00:22:03,089 HAPPY SPENDING THE REST OF HER LIFE IN -- OR HER, YOU KNOW, 412 00:22:03,089 --> 00:22:06,159 HOWEVER YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, SAY THAT 413 00:22:06,159 --> 00:22:07,127 >> Reporter: AND -- AND YOU FOUND ONE IN PINK. 414 00:22:07,127 --> 00:22:09,062 >> IT WAS LIKE A PINKISH PURPLE COLOR 'CAUSE THAT WAS HER -- HER 415 00:22:09,062 --> 00:22:10,697 FAVORITE COLOR >> Reporter: YOU DON'T WANT TO 416 00:22:10,697 --> 00:22:12,799 PICK YOUR SISTER'S CASKET, BUT THERE YOU WERE 417 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:14,467 >> YEAH, YEAH. SO, WE WANTED TO MAKE IT PRETTY 418 00:22:14,467 --> 00:22:20,573 FOR HER. >> Reporter: HER FATHER GAVE THE 419 00:22:20,573 --> 00:22:22,108 EULOGY >> I'M NOT A PUBLIC SPEAKER, SO 420 00:22:22,108 --> 00:22:28,081 FOR ME TO GET UP THERE AND DO THAT, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 421 00:22:28,081 --> 00:22:30,216 RIGHT NOW, IT MEANT THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD WOULD HAVE STOPPED 422 00:22:30,216 --> 00:22:32,385 ME >> Reporter: AND THERE'S YOUR 423 00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:35,088 GIRL IN A COFFIN >> THERE'S MY -- YES 424 00:22:35,088 --> 00:22:37,757 >> Reporter: HER PINK-THEMED FUNERAL WAS FILLED WITH FLOWERS 425 00:22:37,757 --> 00:22:43,530 AND THOSE SHE LOVED, INCLUDING HER DOG LADY 426 00:22:43,530 --> 00:22:47,500 >> AND I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT SOMETHING WAS BEING SAID ABOUT 427 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:51,771 REBEKAH, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE DOG BARKED 428 00:22:51,771 --> 00:22:57,777 IT WAS LIKE IT WAS PROGRAMMED. IT WAS AMAZING 429 00:22:57,777 --> 00:23:02,082 I BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT THE ONLY WAY YOU GET THROUGH HORRIFIC 430 00:23:02,082 --> 00:23:04,718 EVENTS IN LIFE IS YOU HAVE TO HAVE A FOUNDATION IN FAITH, OR 431 00:23:04,718 --> 00:23:06,820 IT WILL TEAR YOU UP. >> Reporter: AND THE DOG WAS 432 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:09,622 DELIVERING FROM CHANNELS UNKNOWN. 433 00:23:09,622 --> 00:23:13,660 >> ABSOLUTELY. IN MY MIND SHE WAS 434 00:23:13,660 --> 00:23:15,595 >> Reporter: A MOMENT OF PEACE, PERHAPS, TO CLING TO. 435 00:23:15,595 --> 00:23:18,965 INVESTIGATORS, MEANWHILE, WERE PULLING TOGETHER THE PIECES FROM 436 00:23:18,965 --> 00:23:20,967 THE CRIME SCENE, ALREADY DUSTED FOR FINGERPRINTS, GATHERED FOR 437 00:23:20,967 --> 00:23:24,437 DNA TESTING, HOPING TO RECONSTRUCT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO 438 00:23:24,437 --> 00:23:25,305 REBEKAH. >> I THINK FROM MINUTE ONE, THE 439 00:23:25,305 --> 00:23:29,309 ORIGINAL INVESTIGATORS REALLY FELT LIKE SHE WAS MURDERED IN 440 00:23:29,309 --> 00:23:32,379 THE HOUSE. >> Reporter: IN THAT BEDROOM, 441 00:23:32,379 --> 00:23:34,514 WHERE A LOT OF REBEKAH'S BLOOD WAS FOUND. 442 00:23:34,514 --> 00:23:37,584 A MISSING PIECE OF FURNITURE FROM ANOTHER ROOM SUGGESTED THE 443 00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:39,986 WEAPON USED ON HER >> AND IT WAS NOTED THAT A PIANO 444 00:23:39,986 --> 00:23:42,088 LEG WAS MISSING THAT WOULD REPORTEDLY BEEN LOOSE AND WOULD 445 00:23:42,088 --> 00:23:44,824 COMMONLY FALL OVER >> Reporter: AND IF YOU WALKED, 446 00:23:44,824 --> 00:23:49,362 TROD ON THE FLOOR IN THE WRONG WAY, THE PIANO LEG WOULD DROP 447 00:23:49,362 --> 00:23:52,966 OFF, HUH >> YEP, AND IF YOU WENT BY IT 448 00:23:52,966 --> 00:23:56,169 AND SHOOK THE FLOOR ENOUGH OR STEPPED JUST RIGHT, THE PIANO 449 00:23:56,169 --> 00:24:00,040 LEG WOULD FALL OVER. >> Reporter: ANOTHER MISSING 450 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,209 ITEM, HER SUITCASE, OFFERED A WINDOW INTO THE MIND OF HER 451 00:24:03,209 --> 00:24:06,479 KILLER >> I THINK THEY TRULY THOUGHT 452 00:24:06,479 --> 00:24:09,416 THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK IN WHATEVER LITTLE MINDSET 453 00:24:09,416 --> 00:24:13,053 THEY HAD THAT SHE JUST DISAPPEARED. 454 00:24:13,053 --> 00:24:15,755 SHE WENT -- SHE GRABBED HER SUITCASE AND LEFT. 455 00:24:15,755 --> 00:24:18,958 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE THOUGHT IF HE COULD FIND THAT 456 00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:21,628 SUITCASE, IT COULD LEAD HIM TO THE KILLER 457 00:24:21,628 --> 00:24:24,330 TO EARLY INVESTIGATORS IT LOOKED LIKE THAT PERSON WAS CASEY 458 00:24:24,330 --> 00:24:27,600 >> TELL ME HOW DID YOU COME TO KNOW REBEKAH 459 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,237 >> UH, WE WORKED AT SONIC TOGETHER AND THE VERY FIRST DAY 460 00:24:31,237 --> 00:24:33,206 THAT SHE WORKED AT SONIC, I THOUGHT SHE WAS THE MOST 461 00:24:33,206 --> 00:24:35,709 BEAUTIFUL CREATURE I'VE EVER SEEN. 462 00:24:35,709 --> 00:24:39,546 SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED TALKING. 463 00:24:39,546 --> 00:24:42,949 >> HIM AND REBEKAH HAD BEEN ON AND OFF AGAIN, BOYFRIEND 464 00:24:42,949 --> 00:24:44,951 GIRLFRIEND AND JUST BEING THE SIMPLE FACT 465 00:24:44,951 --> 00:24:47,821 THAT THEIR ROCKY RELATIONSHIP AND THAT SHE HAD BEEN STAYING 466 00:24:47,821 --> 00:24:49,723 THERE AND HER CAR WAS STILL AT HIS HOUSE AND HER BELONGINGS 467 00:24:49,723 --> 00:24:51,324 STILL AT HIS HOUSE WHEN SHE WENT MISSING. 468 00:24:51,324 --> 00:24:57,197 >> Reporter: ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENTS CAN BE PART OF THE 469 00:24:57,197 --> 00:25:00,033 COCKTAIL OF HOMICIDE, HUH? >> THEY CAN BE 470 00:25:00,033 --> 00:25:02,769 >> Reporter: REBEKAH'S FATHER SAYS IN THE WEEKS BEFORE HER 471 00:25:02,769 --> 00:25:05,472 MURDER, SHE COMPLAINED THAT CASEY WAS POSSESSIVE, THAT HE 472 00:25:05,472 --> 00:25:07,574 HADN'T GOTTEN THE MESSAGE THEY WERE THROUGH AS A COUPLE 473 00:25:07,574 --> 00:25:11,311 >> Reporter: HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT, DOCTOR 474 00:25:11,311 --> 00:25:13,613 >> BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SHE TOLD ME 475 00:25:13,613 --> 00:25:16,850 >> Reporter: SHE TOLD YOU? >> SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE STILL 476 00:25:16,850 --> 00:25:20,086 HAD TO GO DOWN AND TO -- TO BREAK IT OFF WITH HIM. 477 00:25:20,086 --> 00:25:22,789 >> THERE'S NO DOUBT, YOU KNOW, HE WANTS THIS GIRL 478 00:25:22,789 --> 00:25:25,592 HE -- HE WANTS HER THIS GIRL'S REJECTED ME. 479 00:25:25,592 --> 00:25:27,660 I'M GOING TO TAKE REVENGE ON THIS GIRL. DEFINITELY, A BIG 480 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:29,329 MOTIVE FOR MURDER, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT 481 00:25:29,329 --> 00:25:31,498 >> Reporter: JUST A WEEK BEFORE, LIFE WAS SIMPLE FOR 482 00:25:31,498 --> 00:25:33,667 CASEY MCCULLOUGH, FLIPPING BURGERS AND STRUMMING HIS 483 00:25:33,667 --> 00:25:35,835 GUITAR NOW IT LOOKED AS THOUGH HE WAS 484 00:25:35,835 --> 00:25:37,470 CRUISING TO A MURDER CHARGE. A TIMELY MIRACLE WOULD BE 485 00:25:37,470 --> 00:25:55,555 HELPFUL. AND JUST M 486 00:25:55,555 --> 00:26:02,462 >> Reporter: IN THE DAYS AFTER REBEKAH GOULD'S MURDER, 487 00:26:02,462 --> 00:26:05,298 CASEY McCULLOUGH WAS PRETTY MUCH PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE IN 488 00:26:05,298 --> 00:26:09,536 MOUNTAIN VIEW. EXCEPT, PERHAPS, TO HIS FAMILY 489 00:26:09,536 --> 00:26:10,470 AND FRIENDS. >> I CAN REMEMBER MY GUT TELLING 490 00:26:10,470 --> 00:26:12,339 ME -- AND I TRUST IT -- THAT MY FRIEND DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO 491 00:26:12,339 --> 00:26:14,507 DO WITH THIS, YOU KNOW >> Reporter: LARRON McCLURE AND 492 00:26:14,507 --> 00:26:17,777 PHILIP SCHULTZ ARE CASEY'S FORMER CO- WORKERS FROM THAT 493 00:26:17,777 --> 00:26:20,480 SONIC DRIVE-THROUGH. THEY SAY SOFT SPOKEN, MUSICAL 494 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,050 CASEY DIDN'T HAVE A MEAN BONE IN HIS BODY 495 00:26:24,050 --> 00:26:26,419 >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, WE HIT IT OFF. 496 00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:27,821 AND HE WAS A GREAT MUSICIAN, YOU KNOW, PLAYED THE GUITAR AND 497 00:26:27,821 --> 00:26:29,155 SANG, YOU KNOW >> WELL, I DON'T -- I -- A LOT 498 00:26:29,155 --> 00:26:30,824 HE DID, UH, PLAY IT A LOT. AND HE USED TO SING A LOT AT 499 00:26:30,824 --> 00:26:32,926 SONIC, WHICH KIND OF IRRITATED US A LITTLE BIT. 500 00:26:32,926 --> 00:26:35,061 BUT IT STILL -- AT THE SAME TIME, IT WAS LIKE IT -- IT WOULD 501 00:26:35,061 --> 00:26:37,397 BRIGHTEN UP A MOOD >> YEAH. 502 00:26:37,397 --> 00:26:39,432 >> Reporter: NOW THEIR FRIEND SEEMED TO BE WITHDRAWING FROM 503 00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:41,668 THE WORLD AND HIMSELF. >> Reporter: DID CASEY KNOW THAT 504 00:26:41,668 --> 00:26:44,237 HE WAS TWISTING SLOWLY IN THE WIND HERE IN THIS WHOLE THING? 505 00:26:44,237 --> 00:26:46,973 INVESTIGATORS WERE LOOKING AT HIM? 506 00:26:46,973 --> 00:26:49,175 >> OH, I'M SURE. >> YEAH. 507 00:26:49,175 --> 00:26:51,378 >> YEAH, I'M SURE. >> Reporter: HE KNEW 508 00:26:51,378 --> 00:26:54,080 INVESTIGATORS KEPT PUTTING HIM IN THE CHAIR 509 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,851 AND THEIR LINE OF QUESTIONING LEFT LITTLE DOUBT. 510 00:26:57,851 --> 00:27:01,087 >> DID YOU AND REBEKAH HAVE ANY KIND OF A DISAGREEMENT 511 00:27:01,087 --> 00:27:04,324 >> NAH, OTHER THAN THE FACT SHE WAS TRYING TO KEEP ME UP THE 512 00:27:04,324 --> 00:27:06,526 NIGHT BEFORE >> OKAY. 513 00:27:06,526 --> 00:27:08,661 AND THAT'S THE ONLY DISAGREEMENT Y'ALL EVER HAD THAT WEEKEND? 514 00:27:08,661 --> 00:27:11,398 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: THEY ONLY HAD 515 00:27:11,398 --> 00:27:13,500 CASEY'S SAY-SO THAT REBEKAH, INDEED, DROPPED HIM OFF MONDAY 516 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,503 MORNING FOR WORK WAS IT POSSIBLE HE'D KILLED HER 517 00:27:16,503 --> 00:27:17,771 BEFORE THEN, OR MAYBE AFTERWARD, WHEN SHE DIDN'T SHOW TO PICK HIM 518 00:27:17,771 --> 00:27:20,540 UP AFTER WORK AND HE GOT ANGRY >> I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT WORDS 519 00:27:20,540 --> 00:27:22,742 IN YOUR MOUTH, CASEY BUT I'M ASSUMING YOU WERE 520 00:27:22,742 --> 00:27:25,078 PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT -- A LITTLE BIT PUT OUT 521 00:27:25,078 --> 00:27:28,181 >> OH, YEAH, I WAS A LITTLE AGGRAVATED 522 00:27:28,181 --> 00:27:30,350 >> Reporter: THEY ALSO THOUGHT IT STRANGE HE DECIDED TO STAY 523 00:27:30,350 --> 00:27:32,485 OUT ALL NIGHT WITH FRIENDS, SOMETHING HE RARELY DID. 524 00:27:32,485 --> 00:27:35,755 DID HE DO HIMSELF NO FAVOR BY NOT COMING BACK TO THE -- HIS 525 00:27:35,755 --> 00:27:38,892 PLACE THAT NIGHT >> IT DID MAKE HIM LOOK MORE 526 00:27:38,892 --> 00:27:42,796 SUSPICIOUS BY NOT COMING HOME. >> Reporter: BUT A VAGUELY 527 00:27:42,796 --> 00:27:45,498 SUSPICIOUS STORY WASN'T ENOUGH TO PIN REBEKAH'S MURDER ON 528 00:27:45,498 --> 00:27:48,735 CASEY. INVESTIGATORS NEEDED TO NARROW 529 00:27:48,735 --> 00:27:52,372 DOWN THE TIMELINE OF HER DEATH AND CHECK THAT AGAINST HIS ALIBI 530 00:27:52,372 --> 00:27:54,841 TO RULE HIM IN OR OUT AS THEIR PRIME SUSPECT. 531 00:27:54,841 --> 00:27:58,478 THAT'S HOW CASEY'S SONIC CO-WORKERS GOT DRAGGED INTO HIS 532 00:27:58,478 --> 00:28:01,481 NIGHTMARE. >> THEY BRING US IN, YOU KNOW, 533 00:28:01,481 --> 00:28:03,850 ONE AT A TIME, AND INTERVIEW US. >> YEAH, THEY -- 534 00:28:03,850 --> 00:28:06,019 >> BUT - >> YEAH, THEY CAME TO OUR HOUSE. 535 00:28:06,019 --> 00:28:08,154 DENNIS -- DENNIS SIMONS THEN KNOCKED ON THE DOOR. 536 00:28:08,154 --> 00:28:10,323 I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT >> WELL, YEAH, A COP KNOCKS ON 537 00:28:10,323 --> 00:28:13,593 OUR DOOR >> IT WAS -- YEAH, IT WAS KIND 538 00:28:13,593 --> 00:28:16,329 OF SCARY >> UNNERVING FOR SURE. 539 00:28:16,329 --> 00:28:18,498 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: THEY AND OTHER 540 00:28:18,498 --> 00:28:20,934 CO-WORKERS PROVED TO BE CASEY'S LIFELINE 541 00:28:20,934 --> 00:28:23,370 THEY COULD LARGELY ACCOUNT FOR CASEY BEING AT WORK ALL DAY 542 00:28:23,370 --> 00:28:25,672 MONDAY FROM JUST AFTER 8:00 IN THE MORNING TO 4:30 IN THE 543 00:28:25,672 --> 00:28:28,241 AFTERNOON. THAT'S WHEN LARRON AND PHILIP 544 00:28:28,241 --> 00:28:30,377 PULLED INTO THE SONIC LOT TO FIND CASEY STRANDED. 545 00:28:30,377 --> 00:28:33,113 >> I WAS LIKE, "HEY, BUDDY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 546 00:28:33,113 --> 00:28:36,683 AND HE'S LIKE, "I'M WAITING ON MY RIDE. 547 00:28:36,683 --> 00:28:38,718 I'M LIKE, "OH, HE'S LIKE"-- I WAS LIKE, "WELL, WE'RE GOING TO 548 00:28:38,718 --> 00:28:40,653 THE MOVIES, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO GO." 549 00:28:40,653 --> 00:28:43,957 AND HE'S LIKE, "YEAH, YEAH, YOU KNOW, I'LL GO. 550 00:28:43,957 --> 00:28:47,160 >> Reporter: THEY SAID CASEY WAS WITH THEM FOR THE REST OF THE 551 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,896 NIGHT. THEY DROVE TO A NEARBY TOWN SO 552 00:28:49,896 --> 00:28:53,366 HE COULD PICK UP HIS TRUCK HIS DAD HAD BORROWED IT THE DAY 553 00:28:53,366 --> 00:28:54,668 BEFORE THEN THEY ALL WENT TO THE MOVIES 554 00:28:54,668 --> 00:28:55,835 AND BACK TO PHILIP AND LARRON'S FOR THE NIGHT. 555 00:28:55,835 --> 00:28:56,936 >> WE'RE AT, YOU KNOW, THE RECEIPTS FROM HASTINGS, THE 556 00:28:56,936 --> 00:28:59,072 MOVIE TICKETS. AND THEN - 557 00:28:59,072 --> 00:29:01,274 >> Reporter: SO THE NIGHT CHECKS OUT. 558 00:29:01,274 --> 00:29:03,376 >> THE NIGHT -- THE NIGHT JUST WAS WHAT IT WAS, YOU KNOW? 559 00:29:03,376 --> 00:29:05,578 >> Reporter: THE THING THAT STOOD OUT FROM THAT NIGHT WAS 560 00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:08,314 WHEN CASEY CHECKED HIS PHONE MESSAGES 561 00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:11,017 ONE WAS FROM REBEKAH'S WORRIED MOM. 562 00:29:11,017 --> 00:29:13,687 >> AND HE WAS SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF, "NOBODY CAN GET A 563 00:29:13,687 --> 00:29:15,855 HOLD OF REBEKAH. IT WAS A BIT ODD 564 00:29:15,855 --> 00:29:18,625 >> Reporter: THE NEXT MORNING, TUESDAY, THEY WATCHED AS CASEY 565 00:29:18,625 --> 00:29:21,261 GOT UP AND LEFT FOR WORK HOURS LATER, THEY HEARD THE 566 00:29:21,261 --> 00:29:23,563 NEWS -- REBEKAH WAS MISSING. >> THEY SAID SOMETHING'S GOING 567 00:29:23,563 --> 00:29:26,099 ON LIKE, THEY CAN'T FIND REBEKAH. 568 00:29:26,099 --> 00:29:28,835 AND THE COPS COME, GOT CASEY FROM WORK. 569 00:29:28,835 --> 00:29:30,437 >> Reporter: CO-WORKERS AND FRIENDS COULD ACCOUNT FOR 570 00:29:30,437 --> 00:29:34,774 CASEY'S MOVEMENTS THAT MONDAY INTO TUESDAY 571 00:29:34,774 --> 00:29:37,510 BUT WHAT ABOUT REBEKAH'S MOVEMENTS? 572 00:29:37,510 --> 00:29:40,180 INVESTIGATORS THOUGHT SHE STOPPED HERE AFTER DROPPING 573 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:42,382 CASEY OFF AT WORK ON MONDAY, A CONVENIENCE STORE CALLED THE 574 00:29:42,382 --> 00:29:45,085 POSSUM TROT JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE SONIC 575 00:29:45,085 --> 00:29:47,787 THEY BELIEVED THAT FOR TWO REASONS. 576 00:29:47,787 --> 00:29:51,057 THIS UNEATEN SANDWICH AND FULL CUP OF CAPPUCCINO FOUND IN 577 00:29:51,057 --> 00:29:53,727 CASEY'S KITCHEN SUGGESTED SHE BOUGHT THE MEAL TO EAT SOME TIME 578 00:29:53,727 --> 00:29:55,929 LATER. AN EYEWITNESS GAVE CREDENCE TO 579 00:29:55,929 --> 00:29:58,631 THE THEORY >> THE LADY AT THE POSSUM TROT 580 00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:02,402 ACTUALLY CALLED THAT IN AND SAID, "HEY, I REMEMBER SEEING 581 00:30:02,402 --> 00:30:05,205 REBEKAH AT MY STORE IN HER -- IN HER LITTLE VEHICLE, AND SHE WAS 582 00:30:05,205 --> 00:30:08,308 BY HERSELF." SO SHE GOES TO THE POSSUM TROT 583 00:30:08,308 --> 00:30:10,543 TIMEFRAME MATCHES EVEN THOUGH THEY COULDN'T GET EXACT TIME ON 584 00:30:10,543 --> 00:30:14,314 THE PURCHASE AND FROM THERE TO THE HOUSE. 585 00:30:14,314 --> 00:30:17,751 SHE NEVER EATS THE BISCUIT, AND SHE NEVER DRINKS THE CAPPUCCINO. 586 00:30:17,751 --> 00:30:19,786 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT CASHIER, NOT CASEY, WAS THE 587 00:30:19,786 --> 00:30:23,023 LAST PERSON CONFIRMED TO HAVE SEEN REBEKAH ALIVE 588 00:30:23,023 --> 00:30:25,692 THEY THINK REBEKAH RETURNED TO CASEY'S AFTER BUYING THAT MEAL 589 00:30:25,692 --> 00:30:27,961 >> SHE'D DO THAT AT HOME SHE'D PUT HER BREAKFAST IN THE 590 00:30:27,961 --> 00:30:31,164 MICROWAVE AND SHE'D GO BACK TO BED. 591 00:30:31,164 --> 00:30:33,900 >> Reporter: SO THERE WAS NOTHING UNUSUAL UP TO THAT PART 592 00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:37,137 OF THE STORY >> NOT AT ALL. 593 00:30:37,137 --> 00:30:40,974 >> Reporter: THEY REASONED THAT REBEKAH WAS KILLED SHORTLY 594 00:30:40,974 --> 00:30:43,610 THEREAFTER CASEY'S ALIBI SEEMED SOLID 595 00:30:43,610 --> 00:30:45,779 HE WAS NOT ARRESTED, NOT CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH REBEKAH'S 596 00:30:45,779 --> 00:30:47,514 MURDER INVESTIGATORS HAD NO CHOICE BUT 597 00:30:47,514 --> 00:30:50,583 TO START CONSIDERING OTHER POSSIBILITIES, LIKE HIS 598 00:30:50,583 --> 00:30:51,451 RELATIVES. >> THEY STARTED LOOKING AT THE 599 00:30:51,451 --> 00:30:53,353 REST OF THE FAMILY, WHO ELSE HAD ACCESS TO THE HOUSE. 600 00:30:53,353 --> 00:30:56,056 >> YOU DON'T CARE IF I CALL YOU CLAUDE, DO YOU 601 00:30:56,056 --> 00:30:58,792 >> NO, THAT'S FINE >> Reporter: THEY ASKED CASEY'S 602 00:30:58,792 --> 00:31:01,961 DAD, CLAUDE McCULLOUGH, ABOUT THAT MISSING PIANO LEG -- A 603 00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:04,731 WEAPON THAT COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO KILL REBEKAH. 604 00:31:04,731 --> 00:31:09,069 >> DID Y'ALL EVER COME UP WITH ANYTHING ON THAT PIANO LEG 605 00:31:09,069 --> 00:31:13,373 >> NOTHING >> THEY STARTED LOOKING INTO -- 606 00:31:13,373 --> 00:31:17,110 TO CASEY'S DAD YOU KNOW, COULD HE HAVE COME 607 00:31:17,110 --> 00:31:19,913 BACK TO THE RESIDENCE? >> Reporter: BUT CLAUDE, A TRUCK 608 00:31:19,913 --> 00:31:23,650 DRIVER, WAS ON THE ROAD WHEN REBEKAH WAS LAST SEEN. 609 00:31:23,650 --> 00:31:26,920 >> THEY ELIMINATED HIM PRETTY QUICK. 610 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,622 HE WAS TRAINING A NEW DRIVER WHO ALSO CONFIRMED, YOU KNOW -- I 611 00:31:29,622 --> 00:31:32,859 BELIEVE THEY WERE IN KENTUCKY OR SOMEWHERE DURING THAT TIMEFRAME. 612 00:31:32,859 --> 00:31:36,129 >> Reporter: NEXT THEY CONSIDERED CASEY'S BROTHERS. 613 00:31:36,129 --> 00:31:39,866 HE HAD THREE OF THEM LIKEWISE, THEY ALSO HAD ALIBIS 614 00:31:39,866 --> 00:31:42,635 THAT SEEMED SOLID. INVESTIGATORS EVEN TRACKED DOWN 615 00:31:42,635 --> 00:31:46,940 THAT COUSIN BILLY FROM TEXAS, THE ONE WHO STOPPED BY THE 616 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:49,642 SUNDAY NIGHT BEFORE REBEKAH'S DEATH. 617 00:31:49,642 --> 00:31:51,277 >> THEY CONTACTED THE TEXAS AUTHORITIES WHO PULLED THE 618 00:31:51,277 --> 00:31:54,547 FAMILY IN AND INTERVIEWED THEM, GAVE THE RESULTS OF THAT 619 00:31:54,547 --> 00:31:56,850 INTERVIEW BACK TO THE ARKANSAS STATE INVESTIGATORS. 620 00:31:56,850 --> 00:31:59,352 >> Reporter: NONE OF THE INTERVIEWS WITH RELATIVES LED 621 00:31:59,352 --> 00:32:02,622 INVESTIGATORS ANY CLOSER TO REBEKAH'S KILLER 622 00:32:02,622 --> 00:32:05,358 BUT THEY WEREN'T DISCOURAGED IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED, TIPS 623 00:32:05,358 --> 00:32:08,061 POURED IN. >> WE KEEP PURSUING OUR LOCAL 624 00:32:08,061 --> 00:32:10,764 LEADS 'CAUSE THEY JUST KEPT COMING IN, AND WE COULD NOT 625 00:32:10,764 --> 00:32:12,399 ELIMINATE PEOPLE >> Reporter: SIMONS SAYS THE 626 00:32:12,399 --> 00:32:15,101 FOCUS OF THE CASE PIVOTED FROM CASEY AND HIS FAMILY TO 627 00:32:15,101 --> 00:32:16,970 REBEKAH'S FRIENDS, THE PEOPLE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW SHE CAME HOME 628 00:32:16,970 --> 00:32:19,372 EVERY WEEKEND TO SEE SHE HAD MANY ADMIRERS HERE 629 00:32:19,372 --> 00:32:38,858 AND MAYBE A FEW ENEMIES. >> HE ACCUSEME 630 00:32:38,858 --> 00:32:40,994 >> Reporter: IF ANYTHING, CASEY McCULLOUGH'S FRIENDS 631 00:32:40,994 --> 00:32:46,966 THOUGHT REBEKAH'S KILLER WOULD BE FOUND CLOSER TO HOME -- HER 632 00:32:46,966 --> 00:32:50,637 HOME THEY KNEW SHE USED TO RUN WITH A 633 00:32:50,637 --> 00:32:53,473 TOUGH CROWD IN MOUNTAIN VIEW >> THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF 634 00:32:53,473 --> 00:32:56,676 IS SOMETHING MUST HAVE WENT WRONG, YOU KNOW, WITH WHATEVER 635 00:32:56,676 --> 00:32:59,446 SHE WAS TRYING TO DO WITH THE MOUNTAIN VIEW CREW 636 00:32:59,446 --> 00:33:01,614 >> Reporter: THAT SEEMED TO BE THE CONSENSUS IN THE MONTHS 637 00:33:01,614 --> 00:33:03,783 FOLLOWING HER DEATH. WHAT WERE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT 638 00:33:03,783 --> 00:33:05,952 IN TOWN? >> RUMOR MILLS JUST WENT WILD. 639 00:33:05,952 --> 00:33:09,189 EVERYBODY HAD A THEORY AND A THOUGHT OF WHO DONE IT 640 00:33:09,189 --> 00:33:11,891 >> Reporter: A LOT OF SUSPECTS ALL OF THE SUDDEN. 641 00:33:11,891 --> 00:33:14,627 >> A LOT OF SUSPECTS >> Reporter: IN THE WEEKS THAT 642 00:33:14,627 --> 00:33:17,297 FOLLOWED REBEKAH'S DEATH, HER SISTERS HAD ONE NAME IN MIND -- 643 00:33:17,297 --> 00:33:19,399 JENNIFER TURNER, ONE OF REBEKAH'S FORMER CO-WORKERS WHEN 644 00:33:19,399 --> 00:33:22,736 SHE, TOO, WORKED AT THE SONIC. JENNIFER HAD A THING WITH 645 00:33:22,736 --> 00:33:24,838 REBEKAH'S OLD BOYFRIEND, JUSTIN. >> HE HAD GOTTEN TOGETHER WITH 646 00:33:24,838 --> 00:33:27,574 JENNIFER, AND SHE WAS PREGNANT BUT HE STILL LOVED REBEKAH, AND 647 00:33:27,574 --> 00:33:30,310 REBEKAH STILL LOVED HIM. >> Reporter: JEALOUSY. 648 00:33:30,310 --> 00:33:32,445 >> YEAH, YEAH. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE 649 00:33:32,445 --> 00:33:37,450 DENNIS SIMONS SAYS EARLY JENNIFER CONNECTION. 650 00:33:37,450 --> 00:33:42,756 >> I NEVER HATED HER NEVER. 651 00:33:42,756 --> 00:33:47,694 NOT ONE TIME I LOVED HER. 652 00:33:47,694 --> 00:33:49,763 SHE WAS MY FRIEND, MY BEST FRIEND 653 00:33:49,763 --> 00:33:52,766 >> EVERYBODY SAYS, "OH, WE WERE BEST FRIENDS 654 00:33:52,766 --> 00:33:54,100 OH, YOU KNOW, I LOVE THIS GIRL, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH." 655 00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:56,269 I DIDN'T BUY ANY OF THAT PART OF IT 656 00:33:56,269 --> 00:33:58,371 THAT'S JUST SOMEBODY TRYING TO DEFLECT HEAT FROM THEM 657 00:33:58,371 --> 00:34:01,941 >> DID YOU EVER TELL ANYBODY THAT YOU WISHED SHE WERE DEAD? 658 00:34:01,941 --> 00:34:04,411 >> NO. >> YOU AND JUSTIN WOULD GET 659 00:34:04,411 --> 00:34:06,046 ALONG BETTER IF SHE WERE DEAD? >> OH, NO. 660 00:34:06,046 --> 00:34:07,647 >> DEFINITELY TOOK NOTICE OF HER. 661 00:34:07,647 --> 00:34:10,050 I MEAN, I BROUGHT HER IN FOR INTERVIEWS, UH, SUBPOENAED A LOT 662 00:34:10,050 --> 00:34:11,951 OF PHONE RECORDS >> Reporter: BUT FOUND NOTHING, 663 00:34:11,951 --> 00:34:14,120 REALLY, TO CONNECT JENNIFER TO THE MURDER 664 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,856 WHAT HE DID FIND WAS AN ALIBI THAT CHECKED OUT 665 00:34:16,856 --> 00:34:19,159 >> I DETERMINED DURING THE TIMEFRAME OF THE MURDER, SHE HAD 666 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,161 BEEN AT WORK SHE HAD WENT SHOPPING IN CONWAY, 667 00:34:21,161 --> 00:34:23,296 WHICH IS A TOWN ABOUT 60, 70 MILES FROM HERE 668 00:34:23,296 --> 00:34:27,133 >> Reporter: BUT THEN, THIS CASE HAD NO SHORTAGE OF SUSPECTS. 669 00:34:27,133 --> 00:34:29,269 >> REBEKAH WAS MY FRIEND SHE WAS A FIGHTER, AND I 670 00:34:29,269 --> 00:34:32,472 RESPECTED THE HELL OUT OF THAT >> Reporter: THIS IS J.B. YATES. 671 00:34:32,472 --> 00:34:36,409 LIKE JENNIFER, HE CONSIDERED REBEKAH A TRUE PAL -- AND A 672 00:34:36,409 --> 00:34:38,445 CUSTOMER >> SHE WANTED A SACK OF WEED 673 00:34:38,445 --> 00:34:41,147 AND I KNEW WHERE I COULD GET HER A SACK 674 00:34:41,147 --> 00:34:43,350 >> Reporter: REBEKAH, HE SAYS, WOULD BUY SMALL QUANTITIES OF 675 00:34:43,350 --> 00:34:46,553 POT FROM HIM TO TAKE BACK TO SCHOOL 676 00:34:46,553 --> 00:34:50,357 TYPICAL COLLEGE STUFF. AND SHE OWED YOU 20 BUCKS FROM 677 00:34:50,357 --> 00:34:54,294 THAT TRANSACTION >> SHE DID 678 00:34:54,294 --> 00:34:55,729 >> Reporter: HE SAYS HE WAS STUNNED WHEN REBEKAH DISAPPEARED 679 00:34:55,729 --> 00:34:59,099 AND FLOORED BY WHAT CAME NEXT. AND LITTLE BIRDIES IN THAT TOWN 680 00:34:59,099 --> 00:35:01,701 ARE TALKING, AND IT GETS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. 681 00:35:01,701 --> 00:35:05,472 >> OH, YEAH. IT JUST WENT -- BLEW -- BLEW UP. 682 00:35:05,472 --> 00:35:08,742 I MEAN, IT JUST BLEW IT UP AND EVERYBODY STARTS SAYING IT 683 00:35:08,742 --> 00:35:10,910 >> Reporter: THE SCUTTLEBUTT - JB KILLED REBEKAH. 684 00:35:10,910 --> 00:35:13,046 JB HAD A FORMAL SIT-DOWN WITH THE DETECTIVE. 685 00:35:13,046 --> 00:35:17,083 TENSE DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT. 686 00:35:17,083 --> 00:35:18,952 >> HE ACCUSED ME OF KILLING HER FOR -- OVER 20 BUCKS -- OVER THE 687 00:35:18,952 --> 00:35:21,688 $20 THAT SHE HAD OWED ME >> Reporter: SO IT ALL GOES BACK 688 00:35:21,688 --> 00:35:24,357 TO THAT DEBT THAT SHE HAD FOR NOT PAYING FOR THE -- FOR THE 689 00:35:24,357 --> 00:35:27,093 BAG OF WEED, HUH >> YES, SIR. 690 00:35:27,093 --> 00:35:31,931 >> Reporter: AND YOU, THEN, AS THEORY GOES, KILLED HER? 691 00:35:31,931 --> 00:35:35,702 >> THAT'S WHAT THEY CLAIM. >> JB'S INTERVIEW COME OFF AS A 692 00:35:35,702 --> 00:35:38,972 VERY COLD PERSON, JUST IN GENERAL. 693 00:35:38,972 --> 00:35:48,181 JUST IN GENERAL DEMEANOR, JUST A VERY NONCHALANT, JUST 694 00:35:48,181 --> 00:35:50,884 "I-DON'T-GIVE-A" -- KIND OF PERSONALITY. 695 00:35:50,884 --> 00:35:55,321 >> Reporter: JB INSISTED HE DID NOT KILL REBEKAH, THAT SHE HAD 696 00:35:55,321 --> 00:35:57,891 SETTLED HER DEBT A FEW DAYS BEFORE SHE VANISHED. 697 00:35:57,891 --> 00:36:00,026 NOT THAT HE COULD PROVE IT >> BUT SHE PAID ME 698 00:36:00,026 --> 00:36:02,729 AND BESIDES, IT'S 20 BUCKS I HAD PEOPLE THAT OWED ME WAY 699 00:36:02,729 --> 00:36:04,397 MORE MONEY THAN THAT >> Reporter: AND YOU'RE NOT IN A 700 00:36:04,397 --> 00:36:07,600 CREDIT CARD AND RECEIPT KIND OF BUSINESS IN THOSE DAYS 701 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,769 >> NO, SIR >> Reporter: AND YET, THE 702 00:36:09,769 --> 00:36:12,439 DETECTIVE COULD NOT LINK JB TO THE MURDER 703 00:36:12,439 --> 00:36:16,242 NO EVIDENCE EITHER OF JB BEING AT THE CRIME SCENE 704 00:36:16,242 --> 00:36:21,081 >> GOT A LOOSE THREAD THERE. I NEVER COULD PROVE THAT JB DID 705 00:36:21,081 --> 00:36:23,783 OR DID NOT KNOW WHERE SHE LIVED AT OR WHERE SHE WAS STAYING AT 706 00:36:23,783 --> 00:36:25,952 >> Reporter: SO HE BEGAN LOOKING AT THE MAN WHO STARTED THAT J.B. 707 00:36:25,952 --> 00:36:29,322 RUMOR. HIS NAME -- CHRIS CANTRELL 708 00:36:29,322 --> 00:36:31,858 >> AND HE HAD A REPUTATION FOR BEING A BADASS 709 00:36:31,858 --> 00:36:35,095 PEOPLE WERE SCARED OF HIM. >> Reporter: TURNED OUT CHRIS 710 00:36:35,095 --> 00:36:37,831 WAS DOING MORE THAN TOSSING JB'S NAME AROUND. 711 00:36:37,831 --> 00:36:40,533 HE WAS WEIRDLY PUTTING HIMSELF IN THE PICTURE FOR REBEKAH'S 712 00:36:40,533 --> 00:36:43,970 MURDER SO MUCH SO THAT POLICE GRILLED 713 00:36:43,970 --> 00:36:45,939 HIM REPEATEDLY OVER THE COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION 714 00:36:45,939 --> 00:36:49,709 >> HE BRAGGED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE ABOUT BEING INVOLVED IN THE 715 00:36:49,709 --> 00:36:52,979 MURDER >> Reporter: WHEN THE DETECTIVE 716 00:36:52,979 --> 00:36:56,616 HEARD A RUMOR THAT CHRIS HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT BLOOD IN HIS 717 00:36:56,616 --> 00:36:59,419 VEHICLE, SIMONS CONFRONTED HIM >> YOU NEVER TOLD US YOU HAD 718 00:36:59,419 --> 00:37:03,256 BLOOD IN THAT CAR, CHRIS >> I'M GONNA GET A LAWYER. 719 00:37:03,256 --> 00:37:05,425 'CAUSE HOW DO I KNOW YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO TRICK ME, MAN? 720 00:37:05,425 --> 00:37:08,094 >> Reporter: HE ALSO FOUND OUT THAT CHRIS SOLD THAT VERY CAR TO 721 00:37:08,094 --> 00:37:11,331 ANOTHER MAN. BECAUSE THE MAN INFORMED POLICE. 722 00:37:11,331 --> 00:37:14,601 >> AND SAID, "HEY, I BOUGHT THIS CAR OFF OF CHRIS CANTRELL. 723 00:37:14,601 --> 00:37:18,371 HE MADE SOME VERY WEIRD STATEMENTS ABOUT, 'IF YOU FIND 724 00:37:18,371 --> 00:37:21,608 BODY PARTS IN THE TRUNK. THANK GOD YOU HAD MY CAR 725 00:37:21,608 --> 00:37:24,844 DESTROYED BEFORE LAW ENFORCEMENT GOT TO IT.'" 726 00:37:24,844 --> 00:37:27,580 SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THAT STATEMENT? 727 00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:29,115 >> Reporter: AND YET CHRIS INSISTED TO POLICE, TIME AND 728 00:37:29,115 --> 00:37:31,284 AGAIN, HE WAS NOT INVOLVED IN REBEKAH'S MURDER 729 00:37:31,284 --> 00:37:33,486 >> REBEKAH'S LIKE FAMILY, MAN. YOU JUST TRYING TO SAY I HAD 730 00:37:33,486 --> 00:37:35,588 SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT, AND I DIDN'T 731 00:37:35,588 --> 00:37:37,791 >> Reporter: EVENTUALLY SIMONS HIT ANOTHER DEAD END 732 00:37:37,791 --> 00:37:40,126 ON THE ONE HAND, HE LIKED CHRIS FOR REBEKAH'S MURDER 733 00:37:40,126 --> 00:37:42,662 >> AND EVEN ANYBODY ELSE -- OTHER INVESTIGATORS WOULD READ 734 00:37:42,662 --> 00:37:45,899 THE CASE FILES LIKE, "MAN, THIS CHRIS IS YOUR DUDE." 735 00:37:45,899 --> 00:37:49,169 >> Reporter: BUT HE DIDN'T THINK CHRIS HAD A CONVINCING MOTIVE OR 736 00:37:49,169 --> 00:37:52,405 ACCESS TO CASEY'S HOUSE. MOREOVER, EVIDENCE COLLECTED 737 00:37:52,405 --> 00:37:56,710 FROM THE CRIME SCENE NEVER PUT HIM, JB, JENNIFER, OR ANYONE 738 00:37:56,710 --> 00:38:00,013 ELSE FROM TOWN INSIDE THOSE ROOMS. 739 00:38:00,013 --> 00:38:02,649 >> WE JUST COULD NOT GET A BREAK ON DNA EVIDENCE, FINGERPRINTS, 740 00:38:02,649 --> 00:38:05,885 OR ANYTHING ELSE >> Reporter: STILL, THE 741 00:38:05,885 --> 00:38:08,588 DETECTIVE DIDN'T REMOVE HIM OR ANYONE ELSE, REALLY, FROM HIS 742 00:38:08,588 --> 00:38:10,757 SUSPECT LIST IN THE MEANTIME, THE MOUNTAIN 743 00:38:10,757 --> 00:38:14,094 VIEW RUMOR MILL KEPT TURNING >> THERE WAS SO MANY PEOPLE THAT 744 00:38:14,094 --> 00:38:16,062 CALLED IN SO MUCH CRAP THAT JUST -- YOU HAD THE PSYCHICS, 745 00:38:16,062 --> 00:38:18,331 YOU KNOW YOU -- YOU JUST HAD -- LET'S 746 00:38:18,331 --> 00:38:21,034 JUST BE HONEST -- JUST NUTTY PEOPLE THAT SAT AROUND AND 747 00:38:21,034 --> 00:38:26,439 THOUGHT ABOUT THIS ALL DAY LONG. >> Reporter: UNTIL ONE DAY, A 748 00:38:26,439 --> 00:38:30,744 STRANGER STEPPED FORWARD WITH ONE PARTICULAR STORY 749 00:38:30,744 --> 00:38:33,480 HE SAID AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF HIS HAD CONFESSED TO REBEKAH'S 750 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,148 MURDER A DISTURBING TALE THAT BROUGHT 751 00:38:35,148 --> 00:38:37,751 THIS CASE AND ALMOST EVERYONE IN IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING 752 00:38:37,751 --> 00:38:39,886 >> THE WAY HE SAID IT, HE JUST LOST IT. 753 00:38:39,886 --> 00:38:58,738 AND HE SAID NEXT THING HE KNOWS, HE'S CLEANING STF 754 00:38:58,738 --> 00:39:03,410 >> Reporter: THERE HAD BEEN SO MANY SUSPECTS, SO MANY TIPS, BUT 755 00:39:03,410 --> 00:39:08,481 NEVER AN ARREST FOR REBEKAH GOULD'S MURDER 756 00:39:08,481 --> 00:39:11,184 MONTHS TURNED INTO YEARS AND REBEKAH'S FAMILY, INCLUDING 757 00:39:11,184 --> 00:39:14,454 HER SISTER ANGELA, WAS LOSING HOPE 758 00:39:14,454 --> 00:39:16,623 >> I WAS MAD, YOU KNOW I -- 759 00:39:16,623 --> 00:39:19,325 >> Reporter: WHAT MADE YOU MAD ABOUT IT 760 00:39:19,325 --> 00:39:22,362 >> BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EXPLANATION, NO ANSWERS. 761 00:39:22,362 --> 00:39:24,764 AND SHE HAD SO MUCH TO BE OFFER TO THIS WORLD, AND SHE HAD SO 762 00:39:24,764 --> 00:39:27,467 MUCH GOING FOR HER SHE WAS GOING TO SET THE WORLD 763 00:39:27,467 --> 00:39:30,203 ON FIRE. >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, 764 00:39:30,203 --> 00:39:33,373 LARRY GOULD, WHO'D WATCHED FROM THE SIDELINES AS THE POLICE 765 00:39:33,373 --> 00:39:36,142 WORKED THE CASE, BECAME FRUSTRATED 766 00:39:36,142 --> 00:39:38,278 BY 2010, 6 YEARS AFTER HIS DAUGHTER'S MURDER, HE COULDN'T 767 00:39:38,278 --> 00:39:41,047 TAKE IT ANYMORE AND FELT HE HAD TO DO SOMETHING. 768 00:39:41,047 --> 00:39:43,683 >> I'VE GIVEN THEM LOTS OF TIME. NOW IT'S TIME TO JUMP IN AND TRY 769 00:39:43,683 --> 00:39:46,353 TO FIGURE OUT FOR MYSELF WHAT HAPPENED 770 00:39:46,353 --> 00:39:50,190 AS A FATHER, THAT'S THE PART THAT ATE AWAY AT ME. 771 00:39:50,190 --> 00:39:54,060 I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MY DAUGHTER WAS MURDERED 772 00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:59,399 >> Reporter: SO THE DENTIST STARTED PEPPERING OFFICIALS WITH 773 00:39:59,399 --> 00:40:02,302 LETTERS -- LOTS OF THEM 774 00:40:02,302 --> 00:40:03,770 HE WANTED ACCESS TO SOME OF THE POLICE INVESTIGATIVE FILES 775 00:40:03,770 --> 00:40:05,939 "LET ME SEE RECORDS. LET ME SEE THE M.E. REPORT." 776 00:40:05,939 --> 00:40:08,641 >> YES >> Reporter: "LET ME SEE SOME 777 00:40:08,641 --> 00:40:11,811 DEPOSITIONS. >> I WANTED THE BASICS 778 00:40:11,811 --> 00:40:13,980 WHY CAN'T I HAVE AN AUTOPSY REPORT 779 00:40:13,980 --> 00:40:16,182 THAT'S MY DAUGHTER >> Reporter: OFFICIALS TOLD HIM 780 00:40:16,182 --> 00:40:18,985 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO RELEASE THE INFORMATION FOR FEAR IT MIGHT 781 00:40:18,985 --> 00:40:20,520 NEGATIVELY AFFECT THEIR INVESTIGATION. 782 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,189 ARE YOU BECOMING THE TROUBLESOME FATHER OF THE VICTIM WHO JUST 783 00:40:23,189 --> 00:40:25,392 WON'T STAY IN HIS PLACE? >> I HOPE I'M CHARACTERIZED THAT 784 00:40:25,392 --> 00:40:28,061 WAY. >> Reporter: "HE'S THERE AGAIN." 785 00:40:28,061 --> 00:40:30,830 >> IF ANYTHING, I SHOULD HAVE DONE A LOT MORE EARLIER. 786 00:40:30,830 --> 00:40:34,234 >> Reporter: REBEKAH'S DAD ENDED UP HIRING A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 787 00:40:34,234 --> 00:40:36,269 BUT FELT HIS FINDINGS ONLY ADDED CONFUSION AND WENT NOWHERE 788 00:40:36,269 --> 00:40:41,708 SO HE DEVISED ANOTHER IDEA >> I WANT A REBEKAH LAW. 789 00:40:41,708 --> 00:40:44,911 I WANT SOMETHING THAT MAKES THIS SYSTEM FUNCTION A LITTLE BIT 790 00:40:44,911 --> 00:40:49,082 BETTER THAN IT DOES. >> Reporter: HE WANTED A NEW LAW 791 00:40:49,082 --> 00:40:51,885 IN ARKANSAS THAT WOULD ALLOW LOVED ONES, AFTER A CERTAIN 792 00:40:51,885 --> 00:40:56,956 NUMBERS OF YEARS, TO SEE AT LEAST A PORTION OF A CASE FILE 793 00:40:56,956 --> 00:40:59,559 >> IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN AND YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER THAT'S MURDERED, 794 00:40:59,559 --> 00:41:02,262 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? YOU'D WANT TO KNOW THINGS. 795 00:41:02,262 --> 00:41:04,964 >> Reporter: IN 2016, THE PROSECUTOR VOLUNTARILY RELEASED 796 00:41:04,964 --> 00:41:09,302 ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE TO REBEKAH'S DAD. 797 00:41:09,302 --> 00:41:12,072 AND THAT'S WHEN HE LEARNED SOME OF THE DETAILS OF HOW HIS 798 00:41:12,072 --> 00:41:14,741 DAUGHTER DIED. >> HE FINALLY DID RELEASE THE 799 00:41:14,741 --> 00:41:17,977 AUTOPSY REPORT, SO HE -- HE DENIED ANYTHING ELSE, BUT HE 800 00:41:17,977 --> 00:41:22,315 RELEASED THE AUTOPSY REPORT TO ME 801 00:41:22,315 --> 00:41:27,187 >> Reporter: AFTER THAT, THE FAMILY DIDN'T HEAR MUCH UNTIL 802 00:41:27,187 --> 00:41:29,356 2018, THE 14-YEAR MARK OF THE HOMICIDE 803 00:41:29,356 --> 00:41:33,093 >> REBEKAH WAS BEAUTIFUL, POPULAR, AND FULL OF LIFE. 804 00:41:33,093 --> 00:41:35,829 >> Reporter: IT WAS BY THEN A NEW CULTURAL ERA 805 00:41:35,829 --> 00:41:38,565 PODCASTS BECAME A PHENOMENON AND THERE WAS A NATIONWIDE 806 00:41:38,565 --> 00:41:42,902 FASCINATION WITH ALL THINGS TRUE CRIME. 807 00:41:42,902 --> 00:41:46,206 AND ONE PODCAST ABOUT THE REBEKAH CASE TURNED HEADS WITH 808 00:41:46,206 --> 00:41:48,274 ITS REVELATIONS. >> I'VE COME BACK TO MOUNTAIN 809 00:41:48,274 --> 00:41:51,544 VIEW WITH ONE MISSION -- TO GET JUSTICE FOR REBEKAH. 810 00:41:51,544 --> 00:41:54,581 >> Reporter: "HELL AND GONE" IS HOSTED BY CATHERINE TOWNSEND, A 811 00:41:54,581 --> 00:42:00,253 WRITER AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR WHOSE FAMILY LIVED IN THE AREA 812 00:42:00,253 --> 00:42:03,456 HER SERIES MADE NEWS WITH A BLOCKBUSTER ACCUSATION 813 00:42:03,456 --> 00:42:06,760 >> HE SAID THAT HE KILLED HER. >> Reporter: A MAN TOLD THE 814 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,462 PODCASTER HE KNEW WHO KILLED REBEKAH. 815 00:42:09,462 --> 00:42:13,733 HE SAID A CO-WORKER OF HIS ADMITTED TO THE CRIME. 816 00:42:13,733 --> 00:42:17,070 AND WHO WAS THAT PERSON? NONE OTHER THAN 817 00:42:17,070 --> 00:42:20,306 CASEY McCULLOUGH THE PODCASTER SAYS NOT ONLY HAS 818 00:42:20,306 --> 00:42:23,576 CASEY ALL THESE YEARS BEEN THE NUMBER ONE PERSON OF INTEREST. 819 00:42:23,576 --> 00:42:26,246 IN FACT, HE'S CONFESSED TO IT? >> YES 820 00:42:26,246 --> 00:42:29,082 >> Reporter: THE MAN SAID HE WORKED WITH CASEY REPAIRING CELL 821 00:42:29,082 --> 00:42:32,252 TOWERS ACCORDING TO THE CO-WORKER, ONE 822 00:42:32,252 --> 00:42:34,888 DRUNKEN NIGHT CASEY CONFESSED AND SAID AFTER REBEKAH REJECTED 823 00:42:34,888 --> 00:42:38,725 HIM, HE KILLED HER >> HE SAID THAT PRETTY MUCH THAT 824 00:42:38,725 --> 00:42:43,563 SHE WAS TELLING HIM THAT THIS WOULD BE THE LAST THAT HE SAW 825 00:42:43,563 --> 00:42:46,800 HER BECAUSE THEY WERE, I GUESS, COMING TO AN END 826 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,469 BUT THEY GOT INTO IT, AND SHE SAID SOME OFFENSIVE THINGS TO 827 00:42:49,469 --> 00:42:53,306 HIM, AND THE WAY HE SAID IT, HE JUST LOST IT 828 00:42:53,306 --> 00:42:56,576 AND HE SAID NEXT THING HE KNOWS, HE'S CLEANING STUFF UP 829 00:42:56,576 --> 00:42:59,813 >> Reporter: IT WAS INFORMATION SPECIAL AGENT SIMONS COULDN'T 830 00:42:59,813 --> 00:43:03,083 IGNORE THE DETECTIVE, STILL WORKING THE 831 00:43:03,083 --> 00:43:06,286 CASE MORE THAN A DECADE LATER, INTERVIEWED THE CO-WORKER WHO 832 00:43:06,286 --> 00:43:09,589 THEN SHARED DETAILS. >> CASEY GETS DRUNK AND 833 00:43:09,589 --> 00:43:13,927 CONFESSES TO THIS -- THIS WITNESS THAT HE DID, IN FACT, 834 00:43:13,927 --> 00:43:17,163 KILL REBEKAH >> Reporter: BUT THERE WAS 835 00:43:17,163 --> 00:43:20,433 SOMETHING OFF ABOUT THE CO-WORKER'S STORY. 836 00:43:20,433 --> 00:43:23,169 HE SAID THE BLURTED OUT CONFESSION HAD OCCURRED EIGHT 837 00:43:23,169 --> 00:43:26,406 YEARS BEFORE, AND YET HE NEVER TOLD POLICE. 838 00:43:26,406 --> 00:43:29,642 >> IT NEVER MADE SENSE HIM COMING FORWARD THAT -- THAT MANY 839 00:43:29,642 --> 00:43:32,879 YEARS LATER. HE WAS VERY JUST UNCOOPERATIVE 840 00:43:32,879 --> 00:43:35,582 AND BITTER AND WHY WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO 841 00:43:35,582 --> 00:43:37,717 TELL ME CASEY MURDERED THIS GIRL 842 00:43:37,717 --> 00:43:41,254 >> Reporter: AND THERE WAS ANOTHER RED FLAG 843 00:43:41,254 --> 00:43:42,622 THERE WAS AN ACCUSATION CASEY ONCE HAD A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP 844 00:43:42,622 --> 00:43:44,824 WITH THE CO- WORKER'S EX-WIFE. >> CASEY HAD SLEPT WITH HIS -- 845 00:43:44,824 --> 00:43:47,761 HIS WIFE, AND HE WAS TRYING TO GET REVENGE ON CASEY FOR 846 00:43:47,761 --> 00:43:50,764 SLEEPING WITH HIS WIFE >> Reporter: WE REACHED OUT TO 847 00:43:50,764 --> 00:43:53,500 THAT CO-WORKER, WHO ASKED NOT TO BE IDENTIFIED BECAUSE HE'S 848 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:56,736 RECEIVED THREATS HE TOLD US HE STANDS BY HIS 849 00:43:56,736 --> 00:44:05,945 STORY AND DENIES HIS EX-WIFE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH CASEY 850 00:44:05,945 --> 00:44:09,749 SIMONS CONSIDERED IT A DEAD END. EVENTUALLY, MORE THAN HALF A 851 00:44:09,749 --> 00:44:13,319 DOZEN PODCASTS ABOUT THE CASE WERE RELEASED. 852 00:44:13,319 --> 00:44:16,790 AND NOW SOCIAL MEDIA, LIKE THE TOWN GOSSIPS OF YEARS BEFORE, 853 00:44:16,790 --> 00:44:21,628 WAS ON FIRE WITH FINGER-POINTING ACCUSATIONS AND SPECULATION. 854 00:44:21,628 --> 00:44:24,330 THE SISTERS FELT, AT TIMES, IT WAS JUST ALL SO DESTRUCTIVE AND 855 00:44:24,330 --> 00:44:27,067 POINTLESS. EVERY STATE HAS GOT SOME 856 00:44:27,067 --> 00:44:31,404 FASCINATING UNSOLVED MYSTERY >> RIGHT, RIGHT. 857 00:44:31,404 --> 00:44:32,706 >> Reporter: AND IN ARKANSAS, THAT BECAME THE -- THE STORY OF 858 00:44:32,706 --> 00:44:34,641 REBEKAH. >> MM-HMM. 859 00:44:34,641 --> 00:44:37,344 IT DID >> Reporter: DID THAT DISTRESS 860 00:44:37,344 --> 00:44:41,681 YOU? >> IT DID. 861 00:44:41,681 --> 00:44:44,384 I MEAN, IT'S -- IT'S HARD. IT'S CONSTANTLY, YOU KNOW, IN 862 00:44:44,384 --> 00:44:46,586 YOUR FACE. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO 863 00:44:46,586 --> 00:44:50,390 REBEKAH'S SISTERS, IT GOT SO WHACKO ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT SOME 864 00:44:50,390 --> 00:44:52,525 POSTERS SUGGESTED TIFFANY COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER. 865 00:44:52,525 --> 00:44:55,595 >> PEOPLE ARE MEAN THEY SAY MEAN THINGS AND HURTFUL 866 00:44:55,595 --> 00:44:58,465 THINGS, YOU KNOW IF IT KEPT THE CASE ALIVE AND 867 00:44:58,465 --> 00:45:01,167 FOREFRONT, I'M THANKFUL FOR THAT 868 00:45:01,167 --> 00:45:03,903 BUT I'M NOT THANKFUL FOR ALL THE DRAMA THAT IT CAUSED MY FAMILY 869 00:45:03,903 --> 00:45:06,072 >> Reporter: AS THE YEARS CONTINUED TO SLIP BY, IT WAS 870 00:45:06,072 --> 00:45:08,208 ALMOST CLOSING TIME FOR DETECTIVE DENNIS SIMONS. 871 00:45:08,208 --> 00:45:11,478 HE WAS NEARING RETIREMENT. IN 2020, HE RELUCTANTLY HANDED 872 00:45:11,478 --> 00:45:16,383 OVER HIS INVESTIGATION TO SOMEONE NEW. 873 00:45:16,383 --> 00:45:21,388 >> I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THIS THING UNRESOLVED 874 00:45:21,388 --> 00:45:23,923 >> Reporter: IN HIS 29-YEAR CAREER, HE SAYS IT WAS HIS ONLY 875 00:45:23,923 --> 00:45:27,193 UNSOLVED HOMICIDE, AND HE ESPECIALLY REGRETTED NEVER 876 00:45:27,193 --> 00:45:30,430 FINDING THAT MISSING SUITCASE, WHICH HIS GUT INSTINCT TOLD HIM 877 00:45:30,430 --> 00:45:33,099 MIGHT BE AN IMPORTANT CLUE >> IF I COULD FIND THE SUITCASE, 878 00:45:33,099 --> 00:45:35,835 MAYBE I COULD GET PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OFF OF IT, WHICH 879 00:45:35,835 --> 00:45:39,072 THROUGHOUT THE CASE, WE NEVER COULD GET PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 880 00:45:39,072 --> 00:45:43,410 THAT DAMN SUITCASE THEY JUST BREAKS MY HEART. 881 00:45:43,410 --> 00:45:47,147 >> Reporter: THERE WAS ABOUT TO BE A NEW INVESTIGATOR IN TOWN, 882 00:45:47,147 --> 00:45:50,417 SOMEONE WITH FRESH EYES TO TAKE HIS SHOT AT TURNING THIS CASE 883 00:45:50,417 --> 00:45:53,119 UPSIDE DOWN. WHY, THOUGHT THE NEW AGENT, HAD 884 00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:56,756 SO MUCH ATTENTION BEEN PUT ON CASEY McCULLOUGH BUT NOT THE 885 00:45:56,756 --> 00:46:00,026 REST OF HIS FAMILY >> ANY MALE McCULLOUGH, I WANTED 886 00:46:00,026 --> 00:46:02,862 TO PUT THEM UNDER THE MICROSCOPE BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS 887 00:46:02,862 --> 00:46:06,099 PROBABLY A SEXUALLY MOTIVATED CRIME. 888 00:46:06,099 --> 00:46:26,619 >> Reporter: AND THERE WERE A * (MÚSICA) * 889 00:46:26,619 --> 00:46:29,556 JANUARY 2020 COULD A NEW YEAR AND A NEW 890 00:46:29,556 --> 00:46:33,393 DETECTIVE FINALLY UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY -- WHO KILLED 891 00:46:33,393 --> 00:46:36,096 REBEKAH GOULD? * 892 00:46:36,096 --> 00:46:39,599 SPECIAL AGENT MIKE McNEILL, WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE POLICE, WAS 893 00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:44,204 NEWLY IN CHARGE OF THE NEARLY 16-YEAR-OLD INVESTIGATION. 894 00:46:44,204 --> 00:46:46,373 HE HAD A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO 895 00:46:46,373 --> 00:46:48,541 I'VE GOT A VISION IN MY HEAD OF, HERE COMES A DOLLY DOWN THE 896 00:46:48,541 --> 00:46:50,677 HALLWAY WITH A LOT OF BOXES ON IT 897 00:46:50,677 --> 00:46:52,846 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> Reporter: FILLED WITH 898 00:46:52,846 --> 00:46:54,481 DEPOSITIONS, VIDEOS, AND SOMEBODY BRING IT IN AND SAY, 899 00:46:54,481 --> 00:46:58,284 "HERE YOU ARE. HAVE AT IT." 900 00:46:58,284 --> 00:47:03,690 >> YEAH. WELL, I THINK IF YOU STACKED IT 901 00:47:03,690 --> 00:47:06,393 ALL UP IN DOCUMENTS, IT'D BE FOUR-FOOT HIGH 902 00:47:06,393 --> 00:47:08,461 >> Reporter: REBEKAH'S DAD REMAINED CAUTIOUS BUT HOPEFUL 903 00:47:08,461 --> 00:47:10,196 ABOUT THE NEW INVESTIGATOR ON THE CASE 904 00:47:10,196 --> 00:47:11,931 SO, McNEILL COMES ALONG. DO YOU THINK THIS IS A HEALTHY 905 00:47:11,931 --> 00:47:13,933 CHANGE, OR WE'LL SEE, OR I DON'T HAVE MUCH HOPE IN THIS 906 00:47:13,933 --> 00:47:16,670 >> HE DID THE RIGHT THING FROM THE START. 907 00:47:16,670 --> 00:47:18,805 >> Reporter: WHICH WAS >> CALLED ME ON THE PHONE, SAID, 908 00:47:18,805 --> 00:47:21,708 "CAN I COME UP THERE AND SEE YOU? 909 00:47:21,708 --> 00:47:24,577 HE SHOWED COMPASSION AND EMPATHY. BUT, MORE SO, HE REALLY 910 00:47:24,577 --> 00:47:27,514 WANTED TO HEAR MY FRUSTRATION, AND THE THINGS THAT I NEEDED AT 911 00:47:27,514 --> 00:47:30,750 THIS POINT AND THAT HIT HOME WITH ME. 912 00:47:30,750 --> 00:47:33,453 >> Reporter: AND McNEILL, A 24-YEAR POLICE VETERAN, DECIDED 913 00:47:33,453 --> 00:47:35,622 THAT IF HE WAS GOING TO FIND REBEKAH'S KILLER, HE NEEDED TO 914 00:47:35,622 --> 00:47:38,892 START FROM SQUARE ONE. LET'S GO BACK TO DAY ONE 915 00:47:38,892 --> 00:47:43,229 >> THAT'S RIGHT. YOUR FIRST FOCUS IS ON THE INNER 916 00:47:43,229 --> 00:47:44,798 CIRCLE OF THE VICTIM WHO DOES THE VICTIM KNOW 917 00:47:44,798 --> 00:47:46,966 CASEY IS OBVIOUSLY SUSPECT NUMBER ONE, JUST BECAUSE HE'S -- 918 00:47:46,966 --> 00:47:50,970 >> Reporter: HIS PLACE, HIS GIRLFRIEND 919 00:47:50,970 --> 00:47:53,540 >> HIS PLACE, HIS GIRLFRIEND YEAH 920 00:47:53,540 --> 00:47:58,411 ABSOLUTELY IT'S NICE TO FINALLY MEET YA 921 00:47:58,411 --> 00:48:02,182 >> YEAH, I WAS WAITING ON YA >> Reporter: SO RIGHT OFF THE 922 00:48:02,182 --> 00:48:04,918 BAT, CASEY WAS QUESTIONED YET AGAIN. 923 00:48:04,918 --> 00:48:06,553 AN IMPROMPTU INTERVIEW WAS DONE FROM THE DETECTIVE'S CAR 924 00:48:06,553 --> 00:48:10,623 >> THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE, FROM WHAT I CAN GATHER, THAT 925 00:48:10,623 --> 00:48:13,026 THINK YOU HAD A HAND IN THIS, RIGHT? 926 00:48:13,026 --> 00:48:15,729 >> ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND STUFF >> YEAH. 927 00:48:15,729 --> 00:48:19,165 >> Reporter: ALL THOSE PODCASTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS MOSTLY 928 00:48:19,165 --> 00:48:21,668 POINTED TO CASEY AS THE KILLER RUMORVILLE IN THE COURT OF 929 00:48:21,668 --> 00:48:24,404 PUBLIC OPINION CASEY IS THE GUY 930 00:48:24,404 --> 00:48:28,742 >> RIGHT YEAH, ABSOLUTELY 931 00:48:28,742 --> 00:48:35,782 >> Reporter: HE'S BEEN TRIED AND CONVICTED. 932 00:48:35,782 --> 00:48:37,417 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: BUT THE SPECIAL 933 00:48:37,417 --> 00:48:39,552 AGENT CAME TO BELIEVE CASEY McCULLOUGH WAS NOT 934 00:48:39,552 --> 00:48:42,489 INVOLVED >> I TRULY BELIEVE THAT YOU DID 935 00:48:42,489 --> 00:48:43,857 NOT HAVE A HAND IN THIS. >> MAKES ME FEEL BETTER. 936 00:48:43,857 --> 00:48:46,593 >> Reporter: BUT, McNEILL DID BELIEVE SOMEONE RELATED TO 937 00:48:46,593 --> 00:48:49,562 CASEY MCCULLOUGH HAD MURDERED REBEKAH. 938 00:48:49,562 --> 00:48:52,232 SO HE STARTED LOOKING AT HIS FAMILY 939 00:48:52,232 --> 00:48:54,834 REMEMBER, THE McCULLOUGHS OWNED THE PROPERTY WHERE REBEKAH DIED, 940 00:48:54,834 --> 00:48:55,802 A PLACE THAT'S LONG SINCE BEEN ABANDONED. 941 00:48:55,802 --> 00:48:57,937 SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS LIVED IN THE AREA 942 00:48:57,937 --> 00:49:01,741 >> I WAS PROBABLY 80% A McCULLOUGH IS RESPONSIBLE. 943 00:49:01,741 --> 00:49:07,681 >> Reporter: AND ARE THEY ALL IN YOUR FRAME 944 00:49:07,681 --> 00:49:11,518 >> ABSOLUTELY. ANY MALE McCULLOUGH. 945 00:49:11,518 --> 00:49:14,754 I WANTED TO PUT THEM UNDER THE MICROSCOPE BECAUSE I BELIEVE 946 00:49:14,754 --> 00:49:17,424 THAT THIS WAS PROBABLY A SEXUALLY MOTIVATED CRIME 947 00:49:17,424 --> 00:49:19,659 >> Reporter: McNEILL, LIKE HIS PREDECESSOR, THOUGHT REBEKAH 948 00:49:19,659 --> 00:49:22,896 KNEW HER KILLER. WE HAVE NO FORCED ENTRY THERE. 949 00:49:22,896 --> 00:49:25,065 >> WE HAVE NO FORCED ENTRY SO THAT WOULD LEAD YOU TO 950 00:49:25,065 --> 00:49:27,200 BELIEVE THAT SHE KNEW WHO HER KILLER WAS 951 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,402 SHE KNEW WHO SHE WAS LETTING IN. >> Reporter: McNEILL QUICKLY 952 00:49:29,402 --> 00:49:31,037 ELIMINATED CASEY'S DAD AS A SUSPECT. 953 00:49:31,037 --> 00:49:33,740 HE THEN MET WITH A HALF BROTHER, RANDY. 954 00:49:33,740 --> 00:49:36,409 >> RANDY >> YES 955 00:49:36,409 --> 00:49:40,246 >> HEY, CAN I TALK TO YOU A MINUTE 956 00:49:40,246 --> 00:49:42,949 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: IN A VOLUNTARY 957 00:49:42,949 --> 00:49:46,219 INTERVIEW, RANDY WAS COOPERATIVE. 958 00:49:46,219 --> 00:49:48,888 >> WHEN THIS HAPPENED, THE INFORMATION IN THE CASE FILE 959 00:49:48,888 --> 00:49:51,624 SAYS THAT YOU WERE WORKING AT THE FLOORING COMPANY 960 00:49:51,624 --> 00:49:54,861 >> NO, I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE. >> Reporter: RANDY WAS ALSO 961 00:49:54,861 --> 00:49:57,597 QUICKLY CLEARED. >> HE WASN'T EVEN IN ARKANSAS 962 00:49:57,597 --> 00:49:59,733 WHEN THIS HAPPENED HEY CHRIS. 963 00:49:59,733 --> 00:50:02,202 >> HOW ARE YOU >> GOOD, MAN 964 00:50:02,202 --> 00:50:03,536 YOU MIND HAVING A SEAT >> NO, I DON'T CARE AT ALL 965 00:50:03,536 --> 00:50:05,705 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE DECIDED TO MORE AGGRESSIVELY 966 00:50:05,705 --> 00:50:08,942 INTERVIEW THE NEXT BROTHER UP, CHRIS. 967 00:50:08,942 --> 00:50:10,543 HE BLUNTLY ASKED A SHOCKING QUESTION -- DID HE HAVE A SECRET 968 00:50:10,543 --> 00:50:13,279 SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH REBEKAH? 969 00:50:13,279 --> 00:50:16,016 >> BROTHERS SOMETIMES MESS AROUND WITH BROTHERS' 970 00:50:16,016 --> 00:50:18,718 GIRLFRIENDS. >> NO. 971 00:50:18,718 --> 00:50:21,988 >> IT HAPPENS. * 972 00:50:21,988 --> 00:50:25,225 >> Reporter: IT WAS A BLUFF. McNEILL HAD ABSOLUTELY NO 973 00:50:25,225 --> 00:50:27,927 EVIDENCE OF AN AFFAIR. >> I NEVER EVEN HUGGED HER OR 974 00:50:27,927 --> 00:50:30,630 ANYTHING, SO NO, THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN 975 00:50:30,630 --> 00:50:32,265 >> OKAY. >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE 976 00:50:32,265 --> 00:50:35,268 CLEARED HIM. BUT CHRIS, PERHAPS UNWITTINGLY, 977 00:50:35,268 --> 00:50:37,637 OPENED AN INVESTIGATIVE DOOR TO HIS BROTHER COREY. 978 00:50:37,637 --> 00:50:40,340 INVOLVING HIS WHEREABOUTS ON THE DAY REBEKAH WAS KILLED 979 00:50:40,340 --> 00:50:43,643 >> WHAT ABOUT YOUR OTHER BROTHER DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME 980 00:50:43,643 --> 00:50:46,346 WHERE WAS HE COREY. 981 00:50:46,346 --> 00:50:49,049 >> YOU KNOW, I HAVE NO CLUE. >> REALLY? 982 00:50:49,049 --> 00:50:51,418 I REALLY DIDN'T HAVE, ANY CONCERNS WITH ANY OF THE 983 00:50:51,418 --> 00:50:52,852 McCULLOUGHS EXCEPT COREY AND I -- 984 00:50:52,852 --> 00:50:55,555 >> Reporter: AND WHO IS HE >> HE WAS THE YOUNGER BROTHER. 985 00:50:55,555 --> 00:50:58,291 >> Reporter: WHY HIM >> WELL, IF I BELIEVED THAT A 986 00:50:58,291 --> 00:51:00,427 MCCULLOUGH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, AND I HAD ALREADY WENT 987 00:51:00,427 --> 00:51:08,601 THROUGH ALL OF THEM AND COREY'S MY LAST, WELL, COREY'S MY GUY. 988 00:51:08,601 --> 00:51:11,304 >> Reporter: COREY HAD WORKED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT HIMSELF, AS A 989 00:51:11,304 --> 00:51:14,574 PAROLE OFFICER McNEILL ASKED HIM TO COME IN FOR 990 00:51:14,574 --> 00:51:17,277 AN INTERVIEW IT DIDN'T GO WELL. 991 00:51:17,277 --> 00:51:21,081 >> I THINK THE INTERVIEW WITH HIM ENDED WITH ME TELLING 992 00:51:21,081 --> 00:51:43,169 HIM -- I BELIEVE THAT NEXT TIME I SEE YOU, I'M GOING TO BE 993 00:51:43,169 --> 00:51:48,108 >>> REGARDING THE DEATH OF REBEKAH, DO YOU INTEND TO ANSWER 994 00:51:48,108 --> 00:51:50,243 EACH QUESTION TRUTHFULLY >> YES 995 00:51:50,243 --> 00:51:52,946 >> Reporter: SPECIAL AGENT MIKE McNEILL AND ANOTHER OFFICER 996 00:51:52,946 --> 00:51:57,183 HAD A PRIME SUSPECT SEATED ACROSS THE TABLE FROM THEM -- 997 00:51:57,183 --> 00:52:00,053 COREY McCULLOUGH, CASEY'S BROTHER. 998 00:52:00,053 --> 00:52:04,657 >> I TOLD YOU WHEN I FIRST MET YOU THAT WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE 999 00:52:04,657 --> 00:52:06,493 THE DNA FROM THE KILLER AT THE CRIME SCENE. 1000 00:52:06,493 --> 00:52:09,696 >> Reporter: AS CAPTURED BY A CAMERA ON THE TABLE, McNEILL 1001 00:52:09,696 --> 00:52:12,966 TOLD COREY HE HAD SOME NEW, BLOCKBUSTER EVIDENCE 1002 00:52:12,966 --> 00:52:19,606 AND IT INVOLVED HIM. HIS DNA HAD BEEN FOUND ON A 1003 00:52:19,606 --> 00:52:22,175 CLOTH UNDER THE BED WHERE REBEKAH HAD BEEN MURDERED. 1004 00:52:22,175 --> 00:52:24,911 >> THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE, COREY, IS THAT WASH CLOTH RIGHT 1005 00:52:24,911 --> 00:52:28,181 THERE THAT HAS YOUR DNA ON IT. >> I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT. 1006 00:52:28,181 --> 00:52:30,350 I DON'T BELIEVE YOU. IF IT'S GOT MINE, IT'S FROM LONG 1007 00:52:30,350 --> 00:52:38,425 TIME AGO >> IT DON'T WORK LIKE THAT, 1008 00:52:38,425 --> 00:52:42,796 COREY. >> Reporter: COREY SEEMED TO BE 1009 00:52:42,796 --> 00:52:46,566 ADMITTING HIS DNA COULD BE AT THE CRIME SCENE. 1010 00:52:46,566 --> 00:52:48,768 YET HE REMAINED DEFIANT. >> OKAY, WELL, DO WHAT YOU GOTTA 1011 00:52:48,768 --> 00:52:52,872 DO I'M INNOCENT 1012 00:52:52,872 --> 00:52:55,241 AND I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS UNTIL I WAS TOLD ABOUT IT. 1013 00:52:55,241 --> 00:53:01,748 >> I DON'T BELIEVE YOU >> I'M NOT GOING TO SIT HERE AND 1014 00:53:01,748 --> 00:53:04,484 LET YOU DO THIS TO ME. EITHER LET ME GO OR ARREST ME. 1015 00:53:04,484 --> 00:53:09,255 >> Reporter: McNEILL THEN SAID HE HAD EVEN MORE EVIDENCE. 1016 00:53:09,255 --> 00:53:13,693 HE FOUND THE OLD TRUCK COREY OWNED BACK WHEN REBEKAH WAS 1017 00:53:13,693 --> 00:53:16,296 MURDERED REMEMBER, DETECTIVES BELIEVED 1018 00:53:16,296 --> 00:53:18,064 REBEKAH'S BODY HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED FROM THE CRIME SCENE 1019 00:53:18,064 --> 00:53:20,934 TO THAT RAVINE FIVE MILES AWAY >> YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BLUE FORD 1020 00:53:20,934 --> 00:53:24,537 RANGER IS RIGHT NOW? >> NO. 1021 00:53:24,537 --> 00:53:27,774 >> IT'S AT THE ARKANSAS STATE CRIME LAB. 1022 00:53:27,774 --> 00:53:29,976 >> COOL. I'M GLAD YOU FOUND IT. 1023 00:53:29,976 --> 00:53:32,679 >> I AM TOO. >> BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN 1024 00:53:32,679 --> 00:53:34,814 LOOKING FOR IT >> BECAUSE WHENEVER - BECAUSE 1025 00:53:34,814 --> 00:53:37,817 WHENEVER YOU GOT IN THAT TRUCK, YOU WERE COVERED IN BLOOD. 1026 00:53:37,817 --> 00:53:39,719 AND I GUARANTEE YOU, WE'RE GONNA FIND - 1027 00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,888 >> DUDE. >> -- REBEKAH'S DNA IN THE CAB 1028 00:53:41,888 --> 00:53:44,090 OF THAT TRUCK. >> I KNOW HOW THIS WORKS, AND I 1029 00:53:44,090 --> 00:53:47,260 KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO. I AM COMPLETELY INNOCENT 1030 00:53:47,260 --> 00:53:50,397 AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE WRONG PEOPLE 1031 00:53:50,397 --> 00:53:52,198 I MEAN, I'M SORRY. I DON'T WANNA BE A -- TO YOU, 1032 00:53:52,198 --> 00:53:55,468 BUT YOU'RE BEING AN -- TO ME >> Reporter: THERE WAS ONE THING 1033 00:53:55,468 --> 00:53:58,171 McNEILL DIDN'T TELL COREY. HE WAS BLUFFING -- A STANDARD, 1034 00:53:58,171 --> 00:54:00,340 BUT CONTROVERSIAL, POLICE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUE. 1035 00:54:00,340 --> 00:54:02,509 McNEILL USED THE PLOY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT MIGHT HELP HIM CRACK 1036 00:54:02,509 --> 00:54:05,745 THE CASE IN FACT, HE DIDN'T HAVE COREY'S 1037 00:54:05,745 --> 00:54:08,048 DNA AT THE CRIME SCENE AND HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS TRUCK 1038 00:54:08,048 --> 00:54:11,151 >> COMPLETELY INNOCENT TO THIS, MAN. 1039 00:54:11,151 --> 00:54:14,421 I REALLY HOPE I WAS ABLE TO HELP YOU WITH THIS. 1040 00:54:14,421 --> 00:54:17,323 >> YOU WERE. >> I REALLY DO 1041 00:54:17,323 --> 00:54:20,360 >> Reporter: WITH THAT, THE INTERVIEW ENDED. 1042 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,063 AND SO DID THE THEORY THAT COREY WAS THE LEADING SUSPECT. 1043 00:54:23,063 --> 00:54:26,466 McNEILL CONCLUDED HE WAS NOT THE KILLER 1044 00:54:26,466 --> 00:54:29,069 SO IT WAS TIME TO MOVE ON TO HIS NEXT SUSPECT 1045 00:54:29,069 --> 00:54:33,940 >> WHAT YOU DO IS YOU FIND OUT WHO WAS AT THE McCULLOUGH 1046 00:54:33,940 --> 00:54:37,177 RESIDENCE LAST, AND THEN YOU FOCUS ON THAT PERSON 1047 00:54:37,177 --> 00:54:39,379 THAT WAS BILLY >> Reporter: BILLY 1048 00:54:39,379 --> 00:54:42,082 BILLY MILLER WHO WAS HE 1049 00:54:42,082 --> 00:54:44,784 HE WAS CASEY'S COUSIN FROM TEXAS WHO HAD STOPPED BY THE HOUSE THE 1050 00:54:44,784 --> 00:54:48,088 NIGHT BEFORE THE MURDER. HE WAS INTERVIEWED IN 2004, BUT 1051 00:54:48,088 --> 00:54:51,291 POLICE DIDN'T CONSIDER HIM A VIABLE SUSPECT 1052 00:54:51,291 --> 00:54:53,993 BACK THEN, BILLY TOLD INVESTIGATORS HE HAD STOPPED BY 1053 00:54:53,993 --> 00:54:56,730 CASEY'S HOUSE THE NIGHT BEFORE REBEKAH WAS KILLED 1054 00:54:56,730 --> 00:55:00,500 McNEILL DECIDED TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK AND DO A DEEP DIVE INTO 1055 00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:04,871 BILLY'S BACKGROUND WHAT CAME BACK 1056 00:55:04,871 --> 00:55:08,641 >> SO IN 2002, 2 YEARS BEFORE REBEKAH IS MURDERED, HE IS A 1057 00:55:08,641 --> 00:55:11,911 SUSPECT IN AN AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A MINOR 1058 00:55:11,911 --> 00:55:15,782 NOW, THAT INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED WITH NO CHARGES. 1059 00:55:15,782 --> 00:55:19,519 >> Reporter: BUT THAT'S AN INTERESTING THING FOR YOU. 1060 00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:21,688 >> OH, THAT'S HUGE >> Reporter: BILLY, IT TURNED 1061 00:55:21,688 --> 00:55:23,823 OUT, HAD ALSO BEEN ARRESTED IN 2010 1062 00:55:23,823 --> 00:55:26,860 HE ALLEGEDLY USED HIS ELBOW TO PUSH HIS EX-WIFE AFTER HE FORCED 1063 00:55:26,860 --> 00:55:29,262 HIS WAY INTO HER ARANSAS PASS, TEXAS, HOME. 1064 00:55:29,262 --> 00:55:32,065 THE CHARGES WERE LATER DISMISSED. 1065 00:55:32,065 --> 00:55:34,701 >> NOW I'VE GOT TWO POLICE REPORTS THAT SHOW ME EXACTLY 1066 00:55:34,701 --> 00:55:37,971 WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR HE'S CHECKING THE -- THE SEXUAL 1067 00:55:37,971 --> 00:55:41,207 COMPONENT BOX. HE'S -- HE'S CHECKING THE 1068 00:55:41,207 --> 00:55:46,613 FORCIBLE ENTRY, UH, PHYSICAL HARM TO A FEMALE 1069 00:55:46,613 --> 00:55:49,282 >> Reporter: HE IS THE FOCUS OF THE INVESTIGATION? 1070 00:55:49,282 --> 00:55:51,451 >> HE IS I -- I DID THIS KIND OF 1071 00:55:51,451 --> 00:55:54,220 SYSTEMATICALLY, ONE AT A TIME, AND NOW I'M ON BILLY 1072 00:55:54,220 --> 00:55:57,457 LET'S SEE HOW FAR THIS TAKES ME. >> Reporter: McNEILL WANTED TO 1073 00:55:57,457 --> 00:56:00,260 MEET WITH BILLY IN PERSON. BUT THERE WAS A PROBLEM. 1074 00:56:00,260 --> 00:56:04,497 WHERE IS HE PHYSICALLY AT THIS POINT? 1075 00:56:04,497 --> 00:56:08,835 >> HE IS CURRENTLY MARRIED WITH A FAMILY LIVING IN THE 1076 00:56:08,835 --> 00:56:12,072 PHILIPPINES, AN OFFSHORE OIL RIG WORKER 1077 00:56:12,072 --> 00:56:15,342 >> Reporter: BILLY, WHO WAS 44, HAD MOVED TO THE PHILIPPINES 1078 00:56:15,342 --> 00:56:18,578 WHERE HE SAID HE OWNED A 30-ACRE FARM, INCLUDING A BANANA 1079 00:56:18,578 --> 00:56:22,449 PLANTATION HE HAD MARRIED A FILIPINO WOMAN 1080 00:56:22,449 --> 00:56:24,584 HE'D MET ONLINE. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER 1081 00:56:24,584 --> 00:56:26,186 AND WHILE LIVING OVERSEAS, McNEILL COULD SEE THAT BILLY 1082 00:56:26,186 --> 00:56:28,888 JOINED A FACEBOOK GROUP THAT ACTIVELY FOLLOWED REBEKAH'S 1083 00:56:28,888 --> 00:56:31,558 CASE IS HE ALSO POSTING NOTICES TO 1084 00:56:31,558 --> 00:56:34,828 IT >> HE -- HE MADE A NUMBER OF 1085 00:56:34,828 --> 00:56:35,895 COMMENTS HE'S TRYING TO KEEP TABS ON THE 1086 00:56:35,895 --> 00:56:39,165 INVESTIGATION FROM THE PHILIPPINES. 1087 00:56:39,165 --> 00:56:43,303 WELL, WHY? WHY IS THAT? 1088 00:56:43,303 --> 00:56:45,105 >> Reporter: McNEILL WOULD HAVE TO PATIENTLY WAIT. 1089 00:56:45,105 --> 00:56:47,273 HE PUT AN ALERT ON BILLY'S PASSPORT TO BE NOTIFIED IF HE 1090 00:56:47,273 --> 00:56:49,442 RETURNED TO THE U.S. AND YOU ASKED CUSTOMS, "IF YOU 1091 00:56:49,442 --> 00:56:52,145 GUYS GET A HIT, GIVE ME A CALL," HUH? 1092 00:56:52,145 --> 00:56:55,382 >> THAT -- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: DID THAT, IN FACT, 1093 00:56:55,382 --> 00:56:58,651 HAPPEN >> IT DID. 1094 00:56:58,651 --> 00:57:01,521 >> Reporter: IN OCTOBER 2020, ABOUT 10 MONTHS AFTER McNEILL 1095 00:57:01,521 --> 00:57:03,523 STARTED WORKING THE CASE, BILLY FLEW HOME TO SEE HIS MOTHER 1096 00:57:03,523 --> 00:57:06,259 LINDA IN OREGON. AT THAT POINT, THE DETECTIVE 1097 00:57:06,259 --> 00:57:09,496 GAVE BILLY'S MOM A CALL. AND THAT'S WHEN SHE SAID 1098 00:57:09,496 --> 00:57:12,665 SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS HER SON WAS STILL IN THE 1099 00:57:12,665 --> 00:57:16,569 PHILIPPINES. >> WHEN'S THE LAST TIME HE WAS 1100 00:57:16,569 --> 00:57:23,610 IN THE U.S.? >> IT'S BEEN -- IT'S -- HE'S -- 1101 00:57:23,610 --> 00:57:26,846 HE CAME LAST - >> SO THE LAST - 1102 00:57:26,846 --> 00:57:29,115 >> SO -- >> THE LAST TIME BILLY MADE IT 1103 00:57:29,115 --> 00:57:32,252 HOME WAS SOME TIME LAST YEAR, OR - 1104 00:57:32,252 --> 00:57:34,854 >> I -- I -- I DON'T KNOW. >> SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE HADN'T 1105 00:57:34,854 --> 00:57:37,090 SEEN BILLY AND SHE HADN'T TALKED TO BILLY 1106 00:57:37,090 --> 00:57:39,826 >> Reporter: WHICH YOU KNEW CLEARLY WAS A LIE. 1107 00:57:39,826 --> 00:57:43,096 BECAUSE -- >> RIGHT, BECAUSE HE HAD - 1108 00:57:43,096 --> 00:57:45,765 >> Reporter: IMMIGRATION HAD EYES ON HIM, RIGHT 1109 00:57:45,765 --> 00:57:48,501 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> HELLO, THIS IS LINDA MILLER 1110 00:57:48,501 --> 00:57:51,204 >> Reporter: BUT A FEW DAYS LATER, BILLY'S MOM CALLED BACK 1111 00:57:51,204 --> 00:57:55,275 WITH A NEW STORY, SAYING HER SON WAS GOING TO BE IN THE U.S 1112 00:57:55,275 --> 00:57:59,412 SHE WAS UNAWARE AUTHORITIES KNEW HE WAS ALREADY HERE. 1113 00:57:59,412 --> 00:58:02,615 >> WHEN'S BILLY COMING BACK? >> HE DATE HE'LL BE HERE, 1114 00:58:02,615 --> 00:58:05,852 NOVEMBER 7th THAT'S WHEN WE WANT TO HAVE, UH, 1115 00:58:05,852 --> 00:58:08,521 OUR MEETING WITH YOU >> OKAY. 1116 00:58:08,521 --> 00:58:11,858 NOVEMBER THE 7th >> Reporter: SHE SAID BILLY 1117 00:58:11,858 --> 00:58:15,128 WOULD VOLUNTARILY COME IN FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL AGENT 1118 00:58:15,128 --> 00:58:16,663 McNEILL. DID YOU HAVE ANY GUARANTEE THAT 1119 00:58:16,663 --> 00:58:19,899 HE WAS GOING TO BE A SHOW? >> NO, NO GUARANTEE. 1120 00:58:19,899 --> 00:58:23,703 HE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE IF HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE. 1121 00:58:23,703 --> 00:58:27,707 >> Reporter: UNDETERRED, McNEILL TRAVELED FROM ARKANSAS TO 1122 00:58:27,707 --> 00:58:30,210 COTTAGE GROVE, A PICTURESQUE TOWN IN OREGON WHERE BILLY'S MOM 1123 00:58:30,210 --> 00:58:33,113 LIVED. >> BILLY, YA WANNA HAVE A SEAT 1124 00:58:33,113 --> 00:58:34,547 RIGHT THERE? >> YES, SIR. 1125 00:58:34,547 --> 00:58:58,171 BY SINCE REBEKAH'S MURDER. FOR HER SISTER TIFFANY, THOSE 1126 00:58:58,171 --> 00:59:01,908 YEARS WERE FILLED WITH REGRET AND WHAT- IFS. 1127 00:59:01,908 --> 00:59:06,379 SHE STRUGGLED OVER WHETHER, BACK THEN, SHE COULD HAVE DONE 1128 00:59:06,379 --> 00:59:09,516 SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY. >> THERE'S SO MANY TIMES I'VE, 1129 00:59:09,516 --> 00:59:16,022 YOU KNOW, WISHED I COULD DO THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, TURN 1130 00:59:16,022 --> 00:59:19,225 EVERYTHING AROUND AND GO BACK. >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, AGENT 1131 00:59:19,225 --> 00:59:23,730 McNEILL WAS BUSY VERY BUSY. 1132 00:59:23,730 --> 00:59:25,765 RESEARCHING AND PREPPING FOR HIS MEETING WITH BILLY MILLER. 1133 00:59:25,765 --> 00:59:29,569 HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PLAY THIS THING? 1134 00:59:29,569 --> 00:59:32,839 WHAT'S YOUR STRATEGY >> WE KNEW REBEKAH HAD BEEN 1135 00:59:32,839 --> 00:59:35,642 TRANSPORTED FROM THE CRIME SCENE. 1136 00:59:35,642 --> 00:59:37,143 >> Reporter: YEAH. >> SO I KNEW A VEHICLE WAS 1137 00:59:37,143 --> 00:59:39,312 INVOLVED >> Reporter: THIS TIME, McNEILL 1138 00:59:39,312 --> 00:59:42,582 DECIDED HE WOULD TRY TO ACTUALLY LOCATE THE TRUCK BILLY OWNED 1139 00:59:42,582 --> 00:59:45,285 BACK IN 2004, A BLACK CHEVY S-10 1140 00:59:45,285 --> 00:59:47,120 16 YEARS LATER, WOULD IT STILL BE AROUND? 1141 00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,589 A LOT OF TIME'S GONE BY. THIS THING COULD BE IN A 1142 00:59:49,589 --> 00:59:52,058 JUNKYARD >> SIX -- SIX -- 1143 00:59:52,058 --> 00:59:54,461 >> Reporter: OR NOT ABOVE GROUND 1144 00:59:54,461 --> 00:59:56,596 >> YEAH, IT COULD BE IN A JUNKYARD 1145 00:59:56,596 --> 00:59:59,265 COULD BE -- IT COULD BE ANYWHERE 1146 00:59:59,265 --> 01:00:01,401 >> Reporter: SURPRISINGLY, THE TRUCK WAS STILL ON THE ROAD. 1147 01:00:01,401 --> 01:00:03,770 BILLY HAD SOLD IT LONG AGO BUT THE DETECTIVE FOUND THE NEW 1148 01:00:03,770 --> 01:00:07,374 OWNER AND HAD PHOTOS TAKEN OF THE VEHICLE. 1149 01:00:07,374 --> 01:00:11,711 A 16-YEAR-LATER PHOTOGRAPH WAS USEFUL TO YOU, WASN'T IT 1150 01:00:11,711 --> 01:00:14,414 >> IT WAS. I ENDED UP USING A -- A COUPLE 1151 01:00:14,414 --> 01:00:16,583 OF THEM, UH, IN BILLY'S INTERVIEW. 1152 01:00:16,583 --> 01:00:18,685 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE HAD ALREADY DECIDED HOW AND WHEN HE 1153 01:00:18,685 --> 01:00:21,388 WOULD USE THOSE PHOTOS >> BILLY, YOU'D WANT TO HAVE A 1154 01:00:21,388 --> 01:00:25,592 SEAT RIGHT THERE. 1155 01:00:25,592 --> 01:00:28,461 >> YES, SIR. >> Reporter: BECAUSE THIS AGENT 1156 01:00:28,461 --> 01:00:32,098 WAS ABOUT TO DEPLOY EVERY TECHNIQUE FROM HIS INVESTIGATIVE 1157 01:00:32,098 --> 01:00:36,036 TOOL BOX FOR BILLY MILLER'S INTERVIEW. 1158 01:00:36,036 --> 01:00:38,738 AND HE WOULD ONCE AGAIN USE A POTENT WEAPON -- THE BLUFF 1159 01:00:38,738 --> 01:00:41,975 >> YOU'RE NOT BEING DETAINED UH, YOU'RE FREE TO GO AT ANY 1160 01:00:41,975 --> 01:00:45,612 TIME >> Reporter: BILLY, VISITING HIS 1161 01:00:45,612 --> 01:00:47,947 MOM IN OREGON, ARRIVED 30 MINUTES EARLY AT THE LOCAL 1162 01:00:47,947 --> 01:00:51,751 POLICE STATION IT WAS TIME TO EXECUTE THE 1163 01:00:51,751 --> 01:00:54,421 DETECTIVE'S GAME PLAN. >> I'M GONNA BE HONEST WITH YOU 1164 01:00:54,421 --> 01:00:56,523 AND TRUTHFUL WITH YOU. >> Reporter: AND THERE HE IS 1165 01:00:56,523 --> 01:00:58,758 YOU GUYS ARE RIGHT ON. >> AND THERE HE IS 1166 01:00:58,758 --> 01:01:01,494 YOU NEVER KNOW HOW THIS THING'S GOING TO PLAY OUT. 1167 01:01:01,494 --> 01:01:04,164 >> Reporter: THE SPECIAL AGENT WANTED BILLY TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH 1168 01:01:04,164 --> 01:01:06,366 ON THE SPOT BUT FEARED HE WOULDN'T AGREE 1169 01:01:06,366 --> 01:01:09,069 SO HE CAME UP WITH A LESS THREATENING OFFER. 1170 01:01:09,069 --> 01:01:13,406 WOULD BILLY AGREE TO TAKE THE TEST LATER, IN ARKANSAS? 1171 01:01:13,406 --> 01:01:16,109 >> IF YOU EVER MAKE IT BACK TO ARKANSAS, MAYBE WE COULD, YOU 1172 01:01:16,109 --> 01:01:18,244 KNOW, GET YOU TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH. 1173 01:01:18,244 --> 01:01:20,413 'CAUSE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN POLYGRAPHS ON THAT THING 1174 01:01:20,413 --> 01:01:22,082 >> WHATEVER YOU WANT, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU. 1175 01:01:22,082 --> 01:01:25,218 I DON'T HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE >> Reporter: IT WORKED 1176 01:01:25,218 --> 01:01:27,954 WITH NO IMMEDIATE PRESSURE, BILLY QUICKLY AGREED 1177 01:01:27,954 --> 01:01:30,623 >> BILLY HASN'T BEEN TO ARKANSAS SINCE 2004 1178 01:01:30,623 --> 01:01:32,826 >> Reporter: HMM >> AND HE'S NEVER COMING BACK TO 1179 01:01:32,826 --> 01:01:35,228 ARKANSAS WILLINGLY, IN MY OPINION. 1180 01:01:35,228 --> 01:01:38,231 BUT WHAT DOES HE SAY "ABSOLUTELY. 1181 01:01:38,231 --> 01:01:40,333 SO NOW I'VE GOT HIM LOCKED IN ON A POLYGRAPH. 1182 01:01:40,333 --> 01:01:42,502 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE WAS SETTING BILLY UP AND WOULD SOON 1183 01:01:42,502 --> 01:01:44,704 COME BACK TO THAT QUESTION ABOUT TAKING A LIE DETECTOR TEST 1184 01:01:44,704 --> 01:01:46,940 >> I GO TO WORK FOR A MONTH. THAT'S, YOU KNOW, LIKE, CLOSE TO 1185 01:01:46,940 --> 01:01:49,009 25 GRAND >> RIGHT 1186 01:01:49,009 --> 01:01:51,177 >> Reporter: IN THE MEANTIME, THE DETECTIVE MADE BILLY FEEL 1187 01:01:51,177 --> 01:01:53,346 COMFORTABLE. >> LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG, MAN, 1188 01:01:53,346 --> 01:01:56,116 OUT IN THE PHILIPPINES >> $1,500, YOU LIVE LIKE A KING. 1189 01:01:56,116 --> 01:01:58,752 >> BILLY LIKES TO TALK UH, HE'S KIND OF LIKE A CHATTY 1190 01:01:58,752 --> 01:02:00,887 CATHY. >> I'M PUSHING FOR MOM TO 1191 01:02:00,887 --> 01:02:03,590 RETIRE WE TALK ABOUT THE KIDS, YOU 1192 01:02:03,590 --> 01:02:07,427 KNOW, "HEY, HOW ARE THEY DOING?" ALL HE TALKS ABOUT GOING TO, 1193 01:02:07,427 --> 01:02:09,062 LIKE, THE PHILIPPINES OR THAILAND 1194 01:02:09,062 --> 01:02:11,698 >> HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE SMARTEST ONE IN THE ROOM 1195 01:02:11,698 --> 01:02:14,467 >> AND THEN MY TRANSPORTATION WAS A BIKE 1196 01:02:14,467 --> 01:02:17,137 SO, YOU KNOW >> Reporter: BILLY WAS FRIENDLY, 1197 01:02:17,137 --> 01:02:20,373 HAPPY JUST TO SHOOT THE BREEZE WITH HIS SUSPECT RELAXED NOW, 1198 01:02:20,373 --> 01:02:23,610 McNEILL SAW HIS OPENING COMING HE CHANGED SUBJECTS. 1199 01:02:23,610 --> 01:02:26,880 "GETTING BACK TO THAT POLYGRAPH TEST," WOULD BILLY STAND BY HIS 1200 01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,750 WORD AND TAKE ONE RIGHT NOW? >> WOULD YOU BE OKAY WITH TAKING 1201 01:02:30,750 --> 01:02:32,285 A POLYGRAPH? I'LL JUST ASK YA 1202 01:02:32,285 --> 01:02:34,988 >> YEAH, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. 1203 01:02:34,988 --> 01:02:37,657 >> I'LL CALL A SERGEANT UP HERE TO SEE 1204 01:02:37,657 --> 01:02:39,826 THEY MAY HAVE A POLYGRAPHER IN TOWN 1205 01:02:39,826 --> 01:02:42,462 YOU KNOW, IT'S A SHOT IN THE DARK 1206 01:02:42,462 --> 01:02:44,731 >> Reporter: DOES HE KNOW YOU HAVE A GUY WAITING OUTSIDE THE 1207 01:02:44,731 --> 01:02:46,900 DOOR >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. 1208 01:02:46,900 --> 01:02:49,369 >> Reporter: POLYGRAPHER DAMIAN ACOSTA WITH THE OREGON STATE 1209 01:02:49,369 --> 01:02:51,538 POLICE WAS ALREADY AT THE STATION. 1210 01:02:51,538 --> 01:02:54,507 McNEILL HAD SET IT UP ALL IN ADVANCE. 1211 01:02:54,507 --> 01:02:58,278 BILLY HAD NO CLUE. >> IT'S WORTH A SHOT 1212 01:02:58,278 --> 01:03:00,647 >> Reporter: McNEILL ACTED AS THOUGH HE WAS TRYING TO FIND A 1213 01:03:00,647 --> 01:03:03,149 POLYGRAPHER AT THE LAST MINUTE >> DO YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A 1214 01:03:03,149 --> 01:03:06,386 POLYGRAPHER IN TOWN? >> Reporter: OF COURSE THEY DID. 1215 01:03:06,386 --> 01:03:09,122 McNEILL HAD HIM IN THE ON-DECK CIRCLE 1216 01:03:09,122 --> 01:03:11,825 >> ABOUT HALF AN HOUR, WOULD THAT WORK? 1217 01:03:11,825 --> 01:03:14,494 >> AWESOME YES, SIR 1218 01:03:14,494 --> 01:03:17,230 >> Reporter: NOW BILLY APPEARED HESITANT 1219 01:03:17,230 --> 01:03:20,467 HE WONDERED, "COULD THE POLYGRAPH RESULT BE USED AS 1220 01:03:20,467 --> 01:03:22,102 EVIDENCE AGAINST A DEFENDANT." >> BUT IT DOESN'T HOLD UP IN 1221 01:03:22,102 --> 01:03:24,771 COURT, CORRECT >> BOTH THE -- THE PROSECUTION 1222 01:03:24,771 --> 01:03:27,474 AND THE DEFENSE WOULD HAVE TO AGREE TO IT. 1223 01:03:27,474 --> 01:03:29,642 >> SO IN A WAY, I'M ASKING YA -- I'M A SUSPECT? 1224 01:03:29,642 --> 01:03:31,811 >> NO, I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE A SUSPECT. 1225 01:03:31,811 --> 01:03:33,980 >> Reporter: THEN CAME THE BIG SWING OF THE HAMMER. 1226 01:03:33,980 --> 01:03:36,649 THE DETECTIVE TOLD BILLY, FALSELY, THEY HAD THE KILLER'S 1227 01:03:36,649 --> 01:03:39,419 DNA FROM THE CRIME SCENE AND ASKED IF BILLY WOULD MIND GIVING 1228 01:03:39,419 --> 01:03:42,689 A SAMPLE REMEMBER, POLICE DIDN'T HAVE ANY 1229 01:03:42,689 --> 01:03:45,692 USABLE DNA EVIDENCE. >> IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER IF 1230 01:03:45,692 --> 01:03:47,527 HE PROVIDES ME WITH HIS DNA OR NOT. 1231 01:03:47,527 --> 01:03:49,662 I'VE GOT NOTHING TO COMPARE IT TO 1232 01:03:49,662 --> 01:03:52,365 I JUST WANT TO SEE HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT 1233 01:03:52,365 --> 01:03:55,101 >> Reporter: DOES HE GET A LITTLE ANXIOUS 1234 01:03:55,101 --> 01:03:57,804 >> HE DID. HE DID 1235 01:03:57,804 --> 01:04:00,507 >> OBVIOUSLY WE'VE NEVER GOTTEN YOUR DNA, YOU KNOW 1236 01:04:00,507 --> 01:04:03,176 IT'S MY JOB TO ASK IF YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH IT 1237 01:04:03,176 --> 01:04:06,446 >> NOW IT SEEMS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN THE WINDOW, TO ME, 1238 01:04:06,446 --> 01:04:09,182 THAT YOU'RE SAYING I HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. 1239 01:04:09,182 --> 01:04:11,885 >> IF YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING IT, I'M NOT GONNA -- I'M 1240 01:04:11,885 --> 01:04:14,621 NOT GONNA PUSH YOU OR TRY PUTTING ANY PRESSURE ON YOU. 1241 01:04:14,621 --> 01:04:17,357 IT'S JUST -- >> I'LL TAKE YOUR LIE DETECTOR 1242 01:04:17,357 --> 01:04:19,492 TEST AND ALL THAT STUFF. >> Reporter: HE SAID HE'D TAKE 1243 01:04:19,492 --> 01:04:23,296 THE "LIE DETECTOR" TEST BUT BALKED AT A DNA SWAB 1244 01:04:23,296 --> 01:04:25,965 McNEILL, NOT WANTING TO SPOOK HIS SUSPECT, MOVED ON. 1245 01:04:25,965 --> 01:04:28,702 IT WAS TIME TO BRING IN THE POLYGRAPHER. 1246 01:04:28,702 --> 01:04:31,938 >> GOOD -- MY NAME'S DAMIAN. I'M A STATE POLICE DETECTIVE 1247 01:04:31,938 --> 01:04:35,208 >> Reporter: BUT NOW BILLY WAS HAVING SERIOUS SECOND THOUGHTS 1248 01:04:35,208 --> 01:04:38,478 ABOUT TAKING IT. >> IF I REFUSED -- 1249 01:04:38,478 --> 01:04:40,580 >> MM-HMM. >> -- THEN I WILL BE MORE -- 1250 01:04:40,580 --> 01:04:43,850 LOOKED AT MORE OR NOT COOPERATING WITH THE POLICE AND 1251 01:04:43,850 --> 01:04:46,586 ALL THAT STUFF >> Reporter: SPECIAL AGENT 1252 01:04:46,586 --> 01:04:48,221 McNEILL, WATCHING A POLICE MONITOR IN ANOTHER ROOM NOW, 1253 01:04:48,221 --> 01:04:50,357 WAITED TO SEE HOW HIS PLAN WOULD PLAY OUT 1254 01:04:50,357 --> 01:04:52,425 >> MY HEART'S BEATING OUT OF MY CHEST. 1255 01:04:52,425 --> 01:04:54,594 >> Reporter: AND HE STILL HAD A FEW MORE SURPRISES IN STORE FOR 1256 01:04:54,594 --> 01:04:56,329 HIS SUSPECT. >> WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING IS 1257 01:04:56,329 --> 01:04:58,465 NORMAL >> Reporter: AFTER ALMOST TWO 1258 01:04:58,465 --> 01:05:01,735 DECADES AND DOZENS OF INTERVIEWS, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN 1259 01:05:01,735 --> 01:05:06,039 A BREAK IN THIS CASE BUT WAS THAT ABOUT TO CHANGE 1260 01:05:06,039 --> 01:05:08,775 >> I HAVE ANXIETY, REALLY BAD ANXIETY. 1261 01:05:08,775 --> 01:05:28,495 >> Reporter: COULD THIS, AT LONG LAST, BE THE FACE OF 1262 01:05:28,495 --> 01:05:34,067 >> Reporter: BILLY MILLER -- NOW SUSPECT NUMBER ONE -- WAS ABOUT 1263 01:05:34,067 --> 01:05:37,170 TO UNDERGO A POLYGRAPH TEST. BUT BEFORE THAT, THE TEST 1264 01:05:37,170 --> 01:05:39,873 ADMINISTRATOR DETECTIVE DAMIAN ACOSTA ASKED HIM 1265 01:05:39,873 --> 01:05:43,810 QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS VISIT TO CASEY'S HOUSE ON THAT SUNDAY 1266 01:05:43,810 --> 01:05:45,345 NIGHT BEFORE THE MURDER. >> WELL, I THINK WE PULLED IN, 1267 01:05:45,345 --> 01:05:47,514 AND HE SAW THE LIGHT OR WHATEVER, HE CAME OUT. 1268 01:05:47,514 --> 01:05:50,216 AND THEN HE REALIZE IT'S ME AND -- AND MOM 1269 01:05:50,216 --> 01:05:53,453 >> Reporter: AS HE'D TOLD POLICE IN 2004, BILLY SAID HE BRIEFLY 1270 01:05:53,453 --> 01:05:57,857 TALKED WITH HIS COUSIN IN THE DRIVEWAY THAT SUNDAY NIGHT, WHEN 1271 01:05:57,857 --> 01:06:00,727 REBEKAH WAS STAYING OVER AT CASEY'S. 1272 01:06:00,727 --> 01:06:02,662 THAT'S THE SAME STORY CASEY TOLD INVESTIGATORS BACK THEN. 1273 01:06:02,662 --> 01:06:06,032 >> HE SAID THAT HE HAD COMPANY AND SO THAT HE, YOU KNOW, KIND 1274 01:06:06,032 --> 01:06:08,101 OF "GET LOST," UH, MIGHT GET LUCKY. 1275 01:06:08,101 --> 01:06:11,338 >> Reporter: HOWEVER, BILLY ADDED SOME NEW DETAILS 1276 01:06:11,338 --> 01:06:14,207 HE HAD BEEN IN CASEY'S HOUSE BEFORE -- MEANING HIS DNA MIGHT 1277 01:06:14,207 --> 01:06:16,710 BE FOUND INSIDE. REMEMBER, SPECIAL AGENT MCNEILL 1278 01:06:16,710 --> 01:06:18,378 HAD FALSELY TOLD BILLY THEY HAD THE KILLER'S DNA 1279 01:06:18,378 --> 01:06:21,114 >> THEIR DNA'S - >> Reporter: BUT HE DIDN'T 1280 01:06:21,114 --> 01:06:23,316 >> SO I THINK THERE WAS TWO TIMES THAT I WENT INTO THAT 1281 01:06:23,316 --> 01:06:26,553 HOUSE. I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN IN THE 1282 01:06:26,553 --> 01:06:29,489 LIVING ROOM AND ALL THAT STUFF, AND I REMEMBER GOING TO THE 1283 01:06:29,489 --> 01:06:33,059 RESTROOM AND ALL THAT STUFF. >> OKAY. 1284 01:06:33,059 --> 01:06:36,262 >> Reporter: BILLY ADDED THAT THERE WAS A "WHOLE BUNCH" OF 1285 01:06:36,262 --> 01:06:38,832 FURNITURE, INCLUDING CHAIRS, COUCHES, AND BEDS THAT HIS MOM 1286 01:06:38,832 --> 01:06:41,134 GAVE TO THE McCULLOUGH'S -- FURNITURE THAT ENDED UP IN 1287 01:06:41,134 --> 01:06:44,404 CASEY'S HOUSE. >> SO IT'S POSSIBLE YOUR DNA 1288 01:06:44,404 --> 01:06:48,208 COULD BE ON ANY BED OR BEDDING THAT COULD BE -- 1289 01:06:48,208 --> 01:06:50,343 >> YEAH. >> OKAY, PERFECT 1290 01:06:50,343 --> 01:06:53,580 ALL RIGHT. >> BECAUSE ALL THAT FURNITURE 1291 01:06:53,580 --> 01:06:57,951 CAME FROM MY MOM THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT CAME -- 1292 01:06:57,951 --> 01:07:00,620 >> OKAY. >> -- FROM OUR HOUSE 1293 01:07:00,620 --> 01:07:03,857 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE CONTINUALLY ASSURED BILLY HIS 1294 01:07:03,857 --> 01:07:07,727 STORY MADE SENSE >> IF WE DIDN'T TALK TO YOU, WE 1295 01:07:07,727 --> 01:07:09,863 WOULDN'T KNOW THAT, RIGHT? >> DAMIAN FOLLOWED THE SCRIPT. 1296 01:07:09,863 --> 01:07:13,099 DID A SUPER JOB. INTERVIEWING BILLY, BUILDING 1297 01:07:13,099 --> 01:07:15,835 RAPPORT WITH BILLY, AND THEN PUTTING BILLY THROUGH THE 1298 01:07:15,835 --> 01:07:19,572 POLYGRAPH. >> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TO 1299 01:07:19,572 --> 01:07:22,942 TAKING THE POLYGRAPH, BILLY WAS INSTRUCTED NOT TO RESPOND 1300 01:07:22,942 --> 01:07:26,046 VERBALLY INSTEAD, HE SHOULD ONLY SHAKE 1301 01:07:26,046 --> 01:07:29,049 HIS HEAD "YES" OR "NO" TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. 1302 01:07:29,049 --> 01:07:31,051 >> DID YOU CAUSE THAT WOMAN TO DIE? 1303 01:07:31,051 --> 01:07:33,553 ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR CAUSING THAT WOMAN'S DEATH 1304 01:07:33,553 --> 01:07:35,321 >> Reporter: HE SHOOK HIS HEAD "NO. 1305 01:07:35,321 --> 01:07:38,625 AND AFTER ABOUT 45 MINUTES AND A SLEW OF REPEATED QUESTIONS, THE 1306 01:07:38,625 --> 01:07:41,861 TEST CONCLUDED >> SO HOW DO YOU THINK YOU DID 1307 01:07:41,861 --> 01:07:44,064 >> I DON'T KNOW. >> YOU FAILED THE TEST 1308 01:07:44,064 --> 01:07:46,199 >> I FAILED THE TEST >> YEAH, YES, AND SO - 1309 01:07:46,199 --> 01:07:49,469 >> MY HEARTBEAT FELT IT WAS JUST BEATING OUT OF MY CHEST. 1310 01:07:49,469 --> 01:07:52,706 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE DID 1311 01:07:52,706 --> 01:07:55,975 CONCLUDE BILLY WASN'T TELLING THE TRUTH. 1312 01:07:55,975 --> 01:07:58,745 AT THAT MOMENT, SPECIAL AGENT McNEILL RETURNED TO THE 1313 01:07:58,745 --> 01:08:02,482 INTERVIEW ROOM >> ALL RIGHT, BILLY -- 1314 01:08:02,482 --> 01:08:04,651 >> Reporter: GONE WAS HIS "GOOD COP" DEMEANOR. 1315 01:08:04,651 --> 01:08:07,487 HE WAS SHOWING BILLY "BAD COP" ATTITUDE 1316 01:08:07,487 --> 01:08:11,157 >> BECAUSE YOUR MOM -- >> Reporter: MCNEILL SAID HE 1317 01:08:11,157 --> 01:08:18,431 WASN'T BUYING BILLY'S STORY ABOUT WHY HIS DNA WOULD BE ALL 1318 01:08:18,431 --> 01:08:20,367 OVER CASEY'S HOUSE >> YOU EVEN SAID THAT IT -- IT 1319 01:08:20,367 --> 01:08:22,535 WOULD BE REASONABLE FOR YOUR DNA TO BE ON THE BEDDING, WHICH IS 1320 01:08:22,535 --> 01:08:26,373 ABSOLUTELY ABSURD. >> Reporter: ACTUALLY HE HAD 1321 01:08:26,373 --> 01:08:29,576 SAID THAT. NOW, McNEILL FELT IT WAS TIME TO 1322 01:08:29,576 --> 01:08:32,879 SHOW THOSE PICTURES HE'D BEEN HOLDING BACK -- ONES OF BILLY'S 1323 01:08:32,879 --> 01:08:36,082 TRUCK FROM 16 YEARS BEFORE >> THAT TRUCK LOOK FAMILIAR? 1324 01:08:36,082 --> 01:08:40,487 >> YEAH. >> YEAH. 1325 01:08:40,487 --> 01:08:43,189 THAT'S YOUR TRUCK. BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE, BILLY, 1326 01:08:43,189 --> 01:08:45,925 LASTS FOR DECADES. BLOOD, SKIN CELLS, ALL KINDS OF 1327 01:08:45,925 --> 01:08:49,129 STUFF. THAT WAS A REALLY BLOODY CRIME 1328 01:08:49,129 --> 01:08:53,366 SCENE. WHAT YOU -- WHAT HAPPENED -- YOU 1329 01:08:53,366 --> 01:08:57,404 GOT BLOOD ON THE SIDE OF YOUR SHOE 1330 01:08:57,404 --> 01:09:02,142 WE GOT REBEKAH'S DNA NEXT TO THE GAS PEDAL IN YOUR TRUCK. 1331 01:09:02,142 --> 01:09:05,378 NO QUESTION ABOUT IT HER DNA'S IN YOUR TRUCK. 1332 01:09:05,378 --> 01:09:11,017 >> Reporter: DID YOU HAVE TRACES OF HER BLOOD 1333 01:09:11,017 --> 01:09:13,486 >> NO. WE HAD NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 1334 01:09:13,486 --> 01:09:16,756 >> Reporter: SO THIS IS A TOTAL BLUFF? 1335 01:09:16,756 --> 01:09:18,391 >> IT IS YEAH 1336 01:09:18,391 --> 01:09:21,094 DO YOU KNOW WHO DID -- >> Reporter: SENSING HE WAS 1337 01:09:21,094 --> 01:09:23,229 MAKING PROGRESS, THE DETECTIVE CHIPPED AWAY AT BILLY MORE 1338 01:09:23,229 --> 01:09:26,533 >> DUDE, I'M TELLING YOU, YOU HAVE TO COME FORWARD RIGHT NOW 1339 01:09:26,533 --> 01:09:30,337 WITH WHAT YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT GET AROUND BIOLOGICAL 1340 01:09:30,337 --> 01:09:33,039 EVIDENCE IN THE FLOORBOARD OF YOUR TRUCK 1341 01:09:33,039 --> 01:09:36,810 OKAY SO TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED, BILLY, 1342 01:09:36,810 --> 01:09:40,580 TELL ME. >> I DID NOT KILL HER. 1343 01:09:40,580 --> 01:09:43,249 >> WHO DID WHO DID? 1344 01:09:43,249 --> 01:09:45,952 >> I DON'T KNOW WHO THE PEOPLE ARE. 1345 01:09:45,952 --> 01:09:49,222 >> Reporter: IN A DRAMATIC MOMENT, BILLY SUDDENLY CHANGED 1346 01:09:49,222 --> 01:09:54,494 HIS STORY. AND SHARED FOR THE FIRST TIME -- 1347 01:09:54,494 --> 01:09:55,595 16 YEARS LATER -- THAT HE ACTUALLY DID SEE WHO KILLED 1348 01:09:55,595 --> 01:09:58,398 REBEKAH. >> WHAT I SAW WAS IT LOOKED LIKE 1349 01:09:58,398 --> 01:10:01,134 SOMEONE WAS CLEANING UP. >> Reporter: BILLY SAID IT ALL 1350 01:10:01,134 --> 01:10:04,371 HAPPENED EARLY THAT MONDAY MORNING. 1351 01:10:04,371 --> 01:10:07,574 HE'D GONE HUNTING ON HIS GRANDFATHER'S PROPERTY WHERE HE 1352 01:10:07,574 --> 01:10:10,777 COULD SEE THE BACK OF CASEY'S HOUSE. 1353 01:10:10,777 --> 01:10:14,647 SUDDENLY HE SAW SOME MEN >> I SAW A WHITE VEHICLE AND A 1354 01:10:14,647 --> 01:10:18,451 YOUNG BLONDE-HAIRED GUY ON THE BACK PORCH, AND IT LOOKED LIKE 1355 01:10:18,451 --> 01:10:22,255 HE HAD GLOVES ON AND, UH, HE JUMPED OVER THE BACK PORCH 1356 01:10:22,255 --> 01:10:26,559 I JUMPED OVER, KIND OF WALKED INTO THE HOUSE AND -- TO SEE 1357 01:10:26,559 --> 01:10:31,998 WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON >> HE SEES THE REAR OF THE 1358 01:10:31,998 --> 01:10:35,769 McCULLOUGH RESIDENCE AND SEES TWO WHITE MALES FLEEING THE 1359 01:10:35,769 --> 01:10:39,539 RESIDENCE, GETTING INTO A VEHICLE AND -- AND SPEEDING 1360 01:10:39,539 --> 01:10:43,343 AWAY >> Reporter: SO HE'S GIVEN YOU 1361 01:10:43,343 --> 01:10:48,214 THE UNKNOWN PERPETRATORS >> RIGHT 1362 01:10:48,214 --> 01:10:52,218 >> Reporter: TWO GUYS. >> RIGHT 1363 01:10:52,218 --> 01:10:54,154 HE'S TELLING ME SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE 1364 01:10:54,154 --> 01:10:57,957 >> Reporter: BUT BEFORE BILLY WOULD TELL HIM MORE ABOUT THE 1365 01:10:57,957 --> 01:11:01,728 KILLERS, HE MADE AN UNUSUAL REQUEST. 1366 01:11:01,728 --> 01:11:04,464 >> CAN I SPEAK TO MY MOM OUTSIDE? 1367 01:11:04,464 --> 01:11:07,167 >> LET ME BRING YOUR MOM IN HERE AND LET'S TALK TO HER TOGETHER 1368 01:11:07,167 --> 01:11:09,903 IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. >> I WANT TO TALK TO HER 1369 01:11:09,903 --> 01:11:12,605 OUTSIDE. >> Reporter: HIS MOM 1370 01:11:12,605 --> 01:11:15,342 >> HIS MOM HE WANTS TO TALK TO HIS MOM. 1371 01:11:15,342 --> 01:11:17,944 HE WANTS TO LEAVE THE INTERVIEW ROOM AND MEET WITH HER 1372 01:11:17,944 --> 01:11:20,680 >> Reporter: THIS IS WHEN McNEILL'S PLAN WENT OFF-SCRIPT 1373 01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:22,849 BASIC INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES DICTATE YOU DON'T STOP AN 1374 01:11:22,849 --> 01:11:27,120 INTERVIEW WHEN A SUSPECT IS GIVING VALUABLE INFORMATION. 1375 01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:30,924 YET, THE DETECTIVE THREW THE DICE AND LET HIM LEAVE 1376 01:11:30,924 --> 01:11:33,660 >> Reporter: ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT BREAKING THE FLOW HERE 1377 01:11:33,660 --> 01:11:36,730 I MEAN, YOU'RE DANGLING HIM -- -- RIGHT OVER THE EDGE 1378 01:11:36,730 --> 01:11:39,666 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: HE'S PUT HIMSELF AT 1379 01:11:39,666 --> 01:11:42,302 THE SCENE. >> YEAH. 1380 01:11:42,302 --> 01:11:46,106 >> Reporter: AND THE CRITICAL TIME PERIOD IT'S TIME TO CLOSE 1381 01:11:46,106 --> 01:11:50,977 THE -- THE NOOSE HERE, RIGHT >> IT -- IT GOES AGAINST - 1382 01:11:50,977 --> 01:11:53,613 >> Reporter: THEN SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENED IN OUR 1383 01:11:53,613 --> 01:11:57,317 INTERVIEW WITH THE AGENT >> HM. 1384 01:11:57,317 --> 01:12:01,254 IT GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, AS AN 1385 01:12:01,254 --> 01:12:04,491 INVESTIGATOR, UM, YOU KNOW >> Reporter: IT CAME TO A SUDDEN 1386 01:12:04,491 --> 01:12:06,659 AND ABRUPT HALT. >> I NEED A BREAK. 1387 01:12:06,659 --> 01:12:23,109 >> Reporter: HAD SPEAL >>> Reporter: ARE YOU GUYS GOOD? 1388 01:12:23,109 --> 01:12:25,145 >> GOOD. >> Reporter: WE DIDN'T SEE IT 1389 01:12:25,145 --> 01:12:27,814 COMING SPECIAL AGENT MIKE McNEILL HAD 1390 01:12:27,814 --> 01:12:34,387 STOPPED OUR INTERVIEW. WHEN HE SAT BACK DOWN A FEW 1391 01:12:34,387 --> 01:12:39,225 MINUTES LATER, HE EXPLAINED WHY. >> INVESTIGATIONS LIKE THIS, YOU 1392 01:12:39,225 --> 01:12:41,961 ALLOW THE INVESTIGATION TO KIND OF CONSUME YOU 1393 01:12:41,961 --> 01:12:46,299 IT'S THE LAST THING YOU THINK OF BEFORE YOU GO TO BED 1394 01:12:46,299 --> 01:12:49,836 AND IT'S THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP. 1395 01:12:49,836 --> 01:12:53,273 AND THAT'S HOW THIS ONE HAS BEEN 1396 01:12:53,273 --> 01:12:57,110 YOU GET EMOTIONAL. >> Reporter: HE GOT EMOTIONAL, 1397 01:12:57,110 --> 01:13:01,381 HE SAID, BECAUSE OF HIS PIVOTAL DECISION TO LET BILLY WALK FROM 1398 01:13:01,381 --> 01:13:04,651 THE INTERROGATION ROOM, JUST WHEN HE WAS STARTING TO REVEAL 1399 01:13:04,651 --> 01:13:07,420 CRUCIAL INFORMATION. DID YOU THINK YOU WERE ON THE 1400 01:13:07,420 --> 01:13:10,090 EDGE OF GETTING THIS THING >> I DID 1401 01:13:10,090 --> 01:13:12,759 I DID. WHEN HE WANTED TO LEAVE THE 1402 01:13:12,759 --> 01:13:16,062 INTERVIEW ROOM, THAT'S LIKE A KISS OF DEATH FOR AN INTERVIEW 1403 01:13:16,062 --> 01:13:19,232 >> Reporter: YOU'VE LOST THE MOMENTUM, HUH? 1404 01:13:19,232 --> 01:13:23,570 >> WELL, BUT YEAH, VERY RARELY WILL YOU GET A SUSPECT TO GO 1405 01:13:23,570 --> 01:13:27,874 BACK INTO AN INTERVIEW ROOM. >> Reporter: NONETHELESS, THE 1406 01:13:27,874 --> 01:13:31,111 DETECTIVE DECIDED TO TAKE A RISK AND FOLLOW HIS GUT 1407 01:13:31,111 --> 01:13:34,381 BILLY WAS ALLOWED TO MEET HIS MOM IN THE POLICE STATION'S 1408 01:13:34,381 --> 01:13:37,617 GARAGE AGENT McNEILL AND ANOTHER 1409 01:13:37,617 --> 01:13:41,588 OFFICER STOOD BY >> THEY EMBRACE, THEY HUG. 1410 01:13:41,588 --> 01:13:44,657 HE IS WHISPERING SOMETHING TO HER IN HER EAR 1411 01:13:44,657 --> 01:13:47,894 I CAN'T MAKE IT OUT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO 1412 01:13:47,894 --> 01:13:52,232 HER. >> Reporter: BILLY WASN'T UNDER 1413 01:13:52,232 --> 01:13:56,002 ARREST, FREE TO LEAVE THE STATION AT ANY TIME. 1414 01:13:56,002 --> 01:13:59,839 * BUT HE DIDN'T. 1415 01:13:59,839 --> 01:14:01,441 >> OKAY. I HELD UP MY END OF THE DEAL 1416 01:14:01,441 --> 01:14:04,144 LET'S TALK >> Reporter: AND THAT'S WHEN 1417 01:14:04,144 --> 01:14:06,846 SOMETHING REMARKABLE HAPPENED. >> ONE THING ABOUT THIS IS IT'S 1418 01:14:06,846 --> 01:14:11,151 BEEN REELING IN YOUR HEAD LIKE A MOVIE REEL SINCE IT HAPPENED 1419 01:14:11,151 --> 01:14:14,421 THERE ISN'T ANYTHING ABOUT THIS THAT YOU FORGOT. 1420 01:14:14,421 --> 01:14:18,191 I KNOW THAT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN DOING THIS A LONG TIME 1421 01:14:18,191 --> 01:14:20,393 >> I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU THAT I DID IT. 1422 01:14:20,393 --> 01:14:23,096 I DID IT I'M SORRY. 1423 01:14:23,096 --> 01:14:28,735 I'M SORRY FOR WHAT I DID >> HE STARTS TO CONFESS TO THE 1424 01:14:28,735 --> 01:14:30,103 MURDER OF REBEKAH GOULD. * 1425 01:14:30,103 --> 01:14:32,272 >> Reporter: IT WAS A RARE AND STUNNING ABOUT-FACE, A FULL 1426 01:14:32,272 --> 01:14:35,308 CONFESSION >> I'M TELLING YOU THAT I DID 1427 01:14:35,308 --> 01:14:42,482 IT EVERYBODY THAT I'M ASSOCIATED IS 1428 01:14:42,482 --> 01:14:44,684 A VICTIM OF ME >> ABSOLUTELY. 1429 01:14:44,684 --> 01:14:46,853 >> A VICTIM. >> ABSOLUTELY. 1430 01:14:46,853 --> 01:14:49,522 >> AND I PLAYED EVERYBODY AS A FOOL 1431 01:14:49,522 --> 01:14:51,858 EVERYBODY. I NEVER TOLD ANYBODY BUT YOU 1432 01:14:51,858 --> 01:14:54,928 RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: BILLY SAID HE 1433 01:14:54,928 --> 01:14:57,597 CONFESSED BECAUSE HE THOUGHT REBEKAH'S DNA WAS FOUND IN HIS 1434 01:14:57,597 --> 01:15:00,767 OLD TRUCK. >> HE SAYS, "YOU'VE GOT MY DNA 1435 01:15:00,767 --> 01:15:04,137 I'M TELLING YOU I DID IT." >> Reporter: HE TOTALLY TOOK 1436 01:15:04,137 --> 01:15:08,475 YOUR BAIT. >> HE DID. 1437 01:15:08,475 --> 01:15:10,110 HE DID BILL YOU GOT EVIDENCE. 1438 01:15:10,110 --> 01:15:12,779 >> Reporter: AND NOW BILLY WAS READY TO TELL ALL, INCLUDING THE 1439 01:15:12,779 --> 01:15:15,315 HARD-TO-HEAR DETAILS OF HOW HE KILLED REBEKAH 1440 01:15:15,315 --> 01:15:17,117 EARLY THAT MONDAY MORNING, HE SAID HE PARKED HIS PICKUP TRUCK 1441 01:15:17,117 --> 01:15:19,819 ON HIS GRANDFATHER'S PROPERTY. HE WENT AROUND AND KNOCKED ON 1442 01:15:19,819 --> 01:15:23,056 CASEY'S DOOR REBEKAH ANSWERED 1443 01:15:23,056 --> 01:15:25,792 THE TWO HAD NEVER MET, BUT HE KNEW SHE WAS IN THE HOUSE FROM 1444 01:15:25,792 --> 01:15:29,062 HIS VISIT THE NIGHT BEFORE HE SAID HE WAS CASEY'S COUSIN 1445 01:15:29,062 --> 01:15:32,232 AND ASKED TO USE THE PHONE >> DO YOU EVER REALLY CALL 1446 01:15:32,232 --> 01:15:35,535 ANYBODY? >> NO. 1447 01:15:35,535 --> 01:15:38,204 >> THAT WAS JUST A RUSE TO GET INSIDE 1448 01:15:38,204 --> 01:15:41,074 >> YES >> ‘CAUSE YOU'D ALREADY MADE UP 1449 01:15:41,074 --> 01:15:44,177 YOUR MIND WHAT YOU WAS GONNA DO, RIGHT? 1450 01:15:44,177 --> 01:15:47,414 >> YEAH, YOU CAN SAY, YEAH >> Reporter: HE SAID REBEKAH 1451 01:15:47,414 --> 01:15:50,116 WENT TO THE BEDROOM, WHILE HE PACED BACK AND FORTH IN THE 1452 01:15:50,116 --> 01:15:53,353 LIVING ROOM. AND BY CHANCE, THAT PREVIOUSLY 1453 01:15:53,353 --> 01:15:55,522 BROKEN LEG FROM THE PIANO FELL OFF ON ITS OWN 1454 01:15:55,522 --> 01:16:01,461 HE GRABBED IT. >> SHE GOES BACK, GOES TO THE 1455 01:16:01,461 --> 01:16:06,466 BEDROOM, YOU GET THE PIANO LEG AND ENTER THE BEDROOM. 1456 01:16:06,466 --> 01:16:08,501 WHAT DOES SHE SAY? >> NOTHING 1457 01:16:08,501 --> 01:16:11,738 SHE'S SLEEPING SHE DIDN'T SEE IT COMING 1458 01:16:11,738 --> 01:16:16,576 >> HOW MANY TIMES YOU REMEMBER HITTING HER? 1459 01:16:16,576 --> 01:16:19,279 >> TWICE AND THEN THAT, THE THING FELL 1460 01:16:19,279 --> 01:16:23,750 APART. AND I WENT INTO, LIKE, A RAGE. 1461 01:16:23,750 --> 01:16:26,319 >> Reporter: HE SAID THE WOODEN PIANO LEG FELL APART 1462 01:16:26,319 --> 01:16:29,289 AS FOR WHY HE DID IT, BILLY DIDN'T HAVE AN ANSWER. 1463 01:16:29,289 --> 01:16:32,158 AND IT REMAINS UNKNOWN HE CLAIMS IT WAS NOT SEXUAL. 1464 01:16:32,158 --> 01:16:38,765 >> WHAT WAS YOUR INTENTIONS? YOUR INTENTIONS WERE TO GO IN 1465 01:16:38,765 --> 01:16:41,501 THERE AND JUST KILL HER? WHY? 1466 01:16:41,501 --> 01:16:49,075 >> I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE A LIGHT SWITCH THAT JUST WENT OFF. 1467 01:16:49,075 --> 01:16:57,917 AND I JUST, I DON'T KNOW IT JUST, IT'S LIKE ANGRY, OR 1468 01:16:57,917 --> 01:17:01,654 JUST KIND OF, I DON'T KNOW >> WAS -- SHE MADE FUN OF YOU? 1469 01:17:01,654 --> 01:17:04,357 >> NO. SHE DIDN'T 1470 01:17:04,357 --> 01:17:06,526 I JUST WENT IN THERE AND IT WAS LIKE, BAM, BAM, BAM. 1471 01:17:06,526 --> 01:17:08,094 AND THAT WAS IT. THEN I FREAKED OUT 1472 01:17:08,094 --> 01:17:11,398 >> Reporter: HE SAID AFTER HE HIT REBEKAH, SHE WAS STILL 1473 01:17:11,398 --> 01:17:16,269 ALIVE, SO HE USED A MAN'S TIE HE FOUND THERE AND STRANGLED HER. 1474 01:17:16,269 --> 01:17:19,539 HE THEN SCRAMBLED TO CLEAN UP. >> I TOOK THE BEDDING, PUT IT IN 1475 01:17:19,539 --> 01:17:23,810 A SUITCASE AND THEN FLIPPED THE MATTRESS ‘CAUSE THERE WAS BLOOD 1476 01:17:23,810 --> 01:17:26,813 ON IT. AND THEN WIPED UP EVERYTHING THE 1477 01:17:26,813 --> 01:17:31,951 BEST THAT I COULD. >> WHAT ABOUT THE LAUNDRY? 1478 01:17:31,951 --> 01:17:34,120 >> I PUT STUFF IN THE LAUNDRY. >> WHAT'D YOU PUT IN THE 1479 01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:36,723 LAUNDRY? >> THERE WAS BEDDING 1480 01:17:36,723 --> 01:17:38,458 >> SO BEDDING WENT INTO THE LAUNDRY AND IN THE SUITCASE? 1481 01:17:38,458 --> 01:17:41,127 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: IT ALL MATCHED WHAT 1482 01:17:41,127 --> 01:17:43,329 HAD BEEN DOCUMENTED AT THE CRIME SCENE. 1483 01:17:43,329 --> 01:17:46,066 AND HE KNEW ABOUT THAT MISSING SUITCASE 1484 01:17:46,066 --> 01:17:48,935 A FACT NEVER MADE PUBLIC BY POLICE 1485 01:17:48,935 --> 01:17:51,438 THE PIECE OF EVIDENCE DETECTIVE SIMONS HAD SO 1486 01:17:51,438 --> 01:17:57,110 DESPERATELY SEARCHED FOR, AND NEVER FOUND. 1487 01:17:57,110 --> 01:17:58,445 /M/M BILLY WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE 1488 01:17:58,445 --> 01:18:00,613 MURDER >> YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR THE 1489 01:18:00,613 --> 01:18:07,087 MURDER OF REBEKAH GOULD. >> OKAY. 1490 01:18:07,087 --> 01:18:11,424 * >> Reporter: SOON AFTER, 1491 01:18:11,424 --> 01:18:14,661 REBEKAH'S DAD GOT THE CALL HE THOUGHT MIGHT NEVER COME 1492 01:18:14,661 --> 01:18:17,931 WE HAVE MADE AN ARREST AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. 1493 01:18:17,931 --> 01:18:20,100 >> YES I THINK IT WAS MORE A LITTLE BIT 1494 01:18:20,100 --> 01:18:22,769 OF SHOCK BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW THE NAME AND I FELT, OH MY GOD, 1495 01:18:22,769 --> 01:18:31,144 IT'S OVER? >> Reporter: AND THERE HE'D BEEN 1496 01:18:31,144 --> 01:18:45,425 ALL THOSE YEARS. >> YUP, OFF LIVING HIS LIFE AND 1497 01:18:45,425 --> 01:18:48,595 FOOLING EVERYBODY. >> Reporter: AND PROUD OF IT 1498 01:18:48,595 --> 01:18:49,763 >> AND VERY PROUD. >> Reporter: IT'S CLEAR THE 1499 01:18:49,763 --> 01:18:51,631 OTHER SUSPECTS, CASEY, THE REST OF THE McCULLOUGH FAMILY, 1500 01:18:51,631 --> 01:18:53,533 JENNIFER, J.B. YATES, CHRIS, JUSTIN, NONE OF THEM HAD 1501 01:18:53,533 --> 01:18:55,735 ANYTHING TO DO WITH REBEKAH'S DEATH. 1502 01:18:55,735 --> 01:18:58,304 * STILL, THIS CASE WASN'T YET 1503 01:18:58,304 --> 01:19:00,006 OVER IT WAS CRUCIAL FOR POLICE TO 1504 01:19:00,006 --> 01:19:02,208 LOCATE THAT SUITCASE TO CORROBORATE WHETHER BILLY WAS 1505 01:19:02,208 --> 01:19:04,377 TELLING THE TRUTH. * 1506 01:19:04,377 --> 01:19:06,513 HE GAVE INVESTIGATORS A GENERAL LOCATION, IN A WOODED AREA, 1507 01:19:06,513 --> 01:19:09,315 WHERE HE SAID IT WOULD BE FOUND. A SEARCH PARTY WAS SENT OUT. 1508 01:19:09,315 --> 01:19:14,154 AND OF ALL PEOPLE, IT WAS DETECTIVE SIMONS, NOT YET 1509 01:19:14,154 --> 01:19:17,424 RETIRED, WHO FOUND IT. >> I DON'T KNOW THAT I GOT 1510 01:19:17,424 --> 01:19:20,126 EMOTIONAL, BUT I DANG SURE I GOT A LITTLE EXCITED 1511 01:19:20,126 --> 01:19:23,363 I KNEW THAT WAS THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN 1512 01:19:23,363 --> 01:19:26,032 I KNEW THAT WE HAD OUR MAN WHEN I FOUND THAT SUITCASE. 1513 01:19:26,032 --> 01:19:29,169 >> BUT JUST WHEN IT SEEMED IT WAS ALL OVER, CAME A BOMBSHELL 1514 01:19:29,169 --> 01:19:31,871 DEVELOPMENT. AND IT INVOLVED BILLY'S 1515 01:19:31,871 --> 01:19:34,741 CONFESSION >> NUMBER THREE, YOU HAVE THE 1516 01:19:34,741 --> 01:19:37,444 RIGHT TO TALK TO A LAWYER -- >> Reporter: IT MIGHT NOT BE 1517 01:19:37,444 --> 01:19:40,146 ADMISSIBLE IN A COURT BECAUSE HIS DEFENSE ARGUED HE DIDN'T GET 1518 01:19:40,146 --> 01:19:42,816 READ ALL HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS. >> DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? 1519 01:19:42,816 --> 01:19:45,552 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: AFTER READING THREE 1520 01:19:45,552 --> 01:19:47,654 OF THE MIRANDA RIGHTS, OFFICER ACOSTA GOT DISTRACTED BY A 1521 01:19:47,654 --> 01:19:49,856 QUESTION FROM BILLY. >> SO NUMBER FOUR -- 1522 01:19:49,856 --> 01:19:52,058 >> SO DO YOU THINK I NEED TO GET A LAWYER 1523 01:19:52,058 --> 01:19:55,261 >> THAT'S, I CAN'T GIVE YOU THAT ADVICE 1524 01:19:55,261 --> 01:19:57,964 I'M NOT A LAWYER >> Reporter: HE WAS NEVER READ 1525 01:19:57,964 --> 01:20:00,633 HIS FOURTH RIGHT AND ACCORDING TO BILLY'S 1526 01:20:00,633 --> 01:20:02,836 ATTORNEYS, GRAY DELLINGER AND JOE DENTON, THAT WAS A VIOLATION 1527 01:20:02,836 --> 01:20:05,538 OF HIS RIGHTS. >> IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD AN 1528 01:20:05,538 --> 01:20:08,775 ATTORNEY, ONE WILL BE APPOINTED FOR YOU. 1529 01:20:08,775 --> 01:20:12,045 >> THAT WARNING HAS TO BE GIVEN TO EVERY PERSON IN AMERICA, IF 1530 01:20:12,045 --> 01:20:16,950 THE POLICE WANT TO USE ANYTHING THAT THEY DEVELOP IN THAT 1531 01:20:16,950 --> 01:20:20,720 INTERROGATION LATER AT TRIAL >> Reporter: AFTER BEING 1532 01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:24,491 EXTRADITED BACK TO ARKANSAS, BILLY PLEADED NOT GUILTY 1533 01:20:24,491 --> 01:20:28,828 NOW, NOT ONLY COULD HIS ENTIRE CONFESSION BE THROWN OUT, SO TOO 1534 01:20:28,828 --> 01:20:33,166 COULD KEY EVIDENCE ERIC HANCE WAS THE PROSECUTOR 1535 01:20:33,166 --> 01:20:36,936 FOR THE CASE >> IF THERE'S A CONFESSION THAT 1536 01:20:36,936 --> 01:20:41,508 IS TAINTED, ANY EVIDENCE WE OBTAIN AS A RESULT OF THAT 1537 01:20:41,508 --> 01:20:45,045 CONFESSION IS INADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL AS WELL. 1538 01:20:45,045 --> 01:20:48,314 SO THE SUITCASE AND ALL OF THE CLOTHING AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS 1539 01:20:48,314 --> 01:20:53,219 THAT CORROBORATED THE CONFESSION WOULD GO OUT WITH IT 1540 01:20:53,219 --> 01:20:56,389 >> Reporter: IT FELT INCOMPREHENSIBLE 1541 01:20:56,389 --> 01:21:00,326 AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, IT SEEMED THE CASE MIGHT FALL APART. 1542 01:21:00,326 --> 01:21:03,396 >> AND WE TOLD THE FAMILY THAT, IF THE CONFESSION GOES OUT, HE 1543 01:21:03,396 --> 01:21:06,666 GOES BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES AND IT'S GAME OVER 1544 01:21:06,666 --> 01:21:09,903 >> Reporter: A TENSE THREE-DAY HEARING WAS HELD ABOUT WHETHER 1545 01:21:09,903 --> 01:21:13,106 THE CONFESSION COULD BE ADMITTED AT TRIAL 1546 01:21:13,106 --> 01:21:15,842 * BECAUSE BILLY SIGNED A DOCUMENT 1547 01:21:15,842 --> 01:21:20,680 ACKNOWLEDGING HIS MIRANDA RIGHTS, THE JUDGE RULED THE 1548 01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,883 CONFESSION WAS ADMISSIBLE. * 1549 01:21:23,883 --> 01:21:27,687 IN THE END, THE FAMILY AGREED WITH PROSECUTORS TO ACCEPT A 1550 01:21:27,687 --> 01:21:30,957 PLEA DEAL. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO RISK THAT 1551 01:21:30,957 --> 01:21:33,660 EVEN ONE JUROR COULD SET BILLY MILLER FREE. 1552 01:21:33,660 --> 01:21:37,831 HE GOT 40 YEARS WITH A CHANCE OF PAROLE 1553 01:21:37,831 --> 01:21:40,266 >> WE HAVE JUSTICE WE HAVE THE PERSON BEHIND BARS 1554 01:21:40,266 --> 01:21:43,903 HE CANNOT ROAM HE CANNOT FIND SOMEBODY ELSE AND 1555 01:21:43,903 --> 01:21:47,140 HE CAN'T DO THIS TO SOMEBODY ELSE 1556 01:21:47,140 --> 01:21:49,843 >> Reporter: AS FOR CASEY McCULLOUGH, HE SENT US A 1557 01:21:49,843 --> 01:21:52,545 STATEMENT. IN PART,, IT READ THAT HIS 1558 01:21:52,545 --> 01:21:55,815 "HEART GOES OUT TO REBEKAH AND HER FAMILY." 1559 01:21:55,815 --> 01:21:59,285 HE THANKED HIS "FRIENDS AND FAMILY" WHO STOOD BY HIM DURING 1560 01:21:59,285 --> 01:22:01,421 THE "SOCIAL MEDIA ATTACKS," AND SAID HE CAN NOW LIVE HIS "LIFE 1561 01:22:01,421 --> 01:22:04,457 IN PEACE." * 1562 01:22:04,457 --> 01:22:07,160 AND SPEAKING OF CASEY, BILLY HAD A QUESTION ABOUT HIS COUSIN, THE 1563 01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,130 MAN WHO'D ENDURED YEARS OF SCORN AND SUSPICION. 1564 01:22:10,130 --> 01:22:12,699 >> DO YOU THINK IT'S POSSIBLE THAT I COULD TELL CASEY THAT I'M 1565 01:22:12,699 --> 01:22:15,802 SORRY? WHEN I GO TO ARKANSAS? 1566 01:22:15,802 --> 01:22:20,106 >> I THINK YOU'LL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. 1567 01:22:20,106 --> 01:22:23,910 >> Reporter: AFTER BILLY'S SENTENCING, REBEKAH'S SISTER 1568 01:22:23,910 --> 01:22:30,417 DANIELLE PASSED AWAY AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER. 1569 01:22:30,417 --> 01:22:33,119 AS FOR REBEKAH'S FATHER, HE'S STILL WORKING ON GETTING 1570 01:22:33,119 --> 01:22:37,457 "REBEKAH'S LAW" PASSED * 1571 01:22:37,457 --> 01:22:40,694 HE'S NOW FOUND SOME PEACE IN THAT HE FINALLY FULFILLED A 1572 01:22:40,694 --> 01:22:44,497 PLEDGE HE MADE THE DAY HE BURIED HIS DAUGHTER 1573 01:22:44,497 --> 01:22:50,470 WHAT HE TALKED ABOUT, AND READ, AT BILLY'S SENTENCING. 1574 01:22:50,470 --> 01:22:55,842 >> NOTHING WOULD EVER STOP US FROM FINDING THE PERSON WHO 1575 01:22:55,842 --> 01:22:59,112 MURDERED REBEKAH TODAY I LOOK TO HEAVEN AND I 1576 01:22:59,112 --> 01:23:03,416 SIMPLY WHISPER, "PROMISE MADE, PROMISE KEPT." 1577 01:23:03,416 --> 01:23:08,321 >> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF "DATELINE." 1578 01:23:08,321 --> 01:23:12,092 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY AT 9:00/8:00 CENTRAL, AND OF 1579 01:23:12,092 --> 01:23:14,194 COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY 1580 01:23:14,194 --> 01:23:19,265 NEWS." I'M LESTER HOLT.