1 00:00:09,551 --> 00:00:16,758 ♪ 2 00:00:16,758 --> 00:00:18,275 >>> THIS WASN'T JUST A CRIME 3 00:00:18,275 --> 00:00:19,000 SCENE, WAS IT? 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,275 >> NO, IT WAS NOT. 5 00:00:21,275 --> 00:00:24,758 THIS ONE WAS BAD. 6 00:00:24,758 --> 00:00:27,000 TWO INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT WERE ON 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,241 THEIR FIRST DATE HAD THEIR LIVES 8 00:00:32,241 --> 00:00:37,000 DESTROYED FOR WHAT REASON? 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,758 >> HOW WELL DID LESLIE REEVES 10 00:00:39,758 --> 00:00:41,827 KNOW CHRIS SMITH? 11 00:00:41,827 --> 00:00:42,689 >> FIRST DATE. 12 00:00:42,689 --> 00:00:45,965 CHRIS WAS IN A BAND AND A 13 00:00:45,965 --> 00:00:48,827 SINGER, AND THEY HAD CONNECTED. 14 00:00:48,827 --> 00:00:49,896 AND HE ASKED HER OUT. 15 00:00:49,896 --> 00:00:51,517 >> THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING 16 00:00:51,517 --> 00:00:53,034 THEY DECIDED JUST TO MEET UP, GO 17 00:00:53,034 --> 00:00:53,931 TO THE BAR. 18 00:00:53,931 --> 00:00:57,724 >> HE LIVED 65 MILES AWAY IN A 19 00:00:57,724 --> 00:01:02,103 REALLY SMALL FARMING COMMUNITY. 20 00:01:02,103 --> 00:01:04,034 >> THE BAR THAT NIGHT WAS VERY 21 00:01:04,034 --> 00:01:04,275 BUSY. 22 00:01:04,275 --> 00:01:08,103 THE PLACE WAS PACKED WALL TO 23 00:01:08,103 --> 00:01:08,310 WALL. 24 00:01:08,310 --> 00:01:10,068 CHRIS AND LESLIE WERE TALKING A 25 00:01:10,068 --> 00:01:11,724 LOT, LAUGHING, GETTING ALONG 26 00:01:11,724 --> 00:01:14,000 WITH EVERYONE AROUND THEM. 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,896 >> SHE TEXTED ME AROUND 10:00 28 00:01:16,896 --> 00:01:19,000 AND SHE SAID EVERYTHING'S GOING 29 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:19,379 OKAY. 30 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:23,103 SHE DID THEN TEXT A SECOND TEXT 31 00:01:23,103 --> 00:01:24,206 THAT SAID I FEEL LIKE 32 00:01:24,206 --> 00:01:27,275 SOMETHING'S A LITTLE BIT OFF OR 33 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:27,551 SOMETHING. 34 00:01:27,551 --> 00:01:28,551 I'M NOT SURE WHAT SHE MEANT. 35 00:01:28,551 --> 00:01:29,965 >> WAS THAT TEXT THE LAST TIME 36 00:01:29,965 --> 00:01:36,172 YOU HEARD FROM LESLIE REEVES? 37 00:01:36,172 --> 00:01:40,206 >> YES, IT WAS. 38 00:01:40,206 --> 00:01:41,586 >> DID YOU TRY TEXTING HER IN 39 00:01:41,586 --> 00:01:43,620 THE MORNING? 40 00:01:43,620 --> 00:01:44,378 >> MM-HMM. 41 00:01:44,378 --> 00:01:45,551 >> AND DID SHE RESPOND? 42 00:01:45,551 --> 00:01:46,000 >> NO. 43 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,620 I JUST STARTED DRIVING TOWARDS 44 00:01:48,620 --> 00:01:49,862 FARMERSVILLE BECAUSE I HAD THE 45 00:01:49,862 --> 00:01:51,000 ADDRESS AND CALLED THE POLICE 46 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:51,965 DEPARTMENT IN THAT AREA. 47 00:01:51,965 --> 00:01:53,206 >> MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF'S 48 00:01:53,206 --> 00:01:53,448 OFFICE. 49 00:01:53,448 --> 00:01:55,000 THIS IS JEFF. 50 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,448 >> HI. 51 00:01:57,448 --> 00:01:59,310 I'M GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT MY 52 00:01:59,310 --> 00:01:59,551 FRIEND. 53 00:01:59,551 --> 00:02:01,965 CAN SOMEONE DO A WELFARE CHECK? 54 00:02:01,965 --> 00:02:04,000 >> WHAT ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT 55 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:04,758 THIS POINT? 56 00:02:04,758 --> 00:02:06,206 >> A LOT OF ANXIETY BECAUSE I 57 00:02:06,206 --> 00:02:07,896 DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO 58 00:02:07,896 --> 00:02:09,965 WALK INTO GOING UP THERE TO THIS 59 00:02:09,965 --> 00:02:10,240 HOUSE. 60 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,379 I PULLED UP IN FRONT OF THE 61 00:02:13,379 --> 00:02:13,620 ADDRESS. 62 00:02:13,620 --> 00:02:15,482 >> AND THEN WHO CAME WHILE 63 00:02:15,482 --> 00:02:18,344 YOU'RE SITTING THERE? 64 00:02:18,344 --> 00:02:22,275 >> WHILE I'M SITTING THERE, 65 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:25,275 WHO'S THIS WOMAN PARK SND I 66 00:02:25,275 --> 00:02:28,000 SAID, WELL, MAYBE I'LL ROLL MY 67 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,586 WINDOW DOWN AND TALK TO HER. 68 00:02:30,586 --> 00:02:32,067 >> I ASKED HER IF SHE WAS CHECK 69 00:02:32,067 --> 00:02:33,689 ON CHRIS AND SHE SAID SHE WAS 70 00:02:33,689 --> 00:02:35,655 CHECKING ON HER FRIEND. 71 00:02:35,655 --> 00:02:36,379 THAT'S WHEN I WENT UP TO THE 72 00:02:36,379 --> 00:02:36,586 DOOR. 73 00:02:36,586 --> 00:02:38,344 I SAW THE BACK DOOR WAS BROKEN, 74 00:02:38,344 --> 00:02:40,206 AND I SAW CHRIS LAYING THERE. 75 00:02:40,206 --> 00:02:41,930 THEN I RAN BACK TO MY CAR AND 76 00:02:41,930 --> 00:02:43,344 CALLED 911. 77 00:02:43,344 --> 00:02:45,172 >> NO ONE'S ANSWERING THE DOOR 78 00:02:45,172 --> 00:02:47,137 AND THE BACK WINDOW'S SHATTERED 79 00:02:47,137 --> 00:02:49,344 AND THERE'S A BODY AND THERE'S A 80 00:02:49,344 --> 00:02:52,517 FOOT I SAW ON THE FLOOR. 81 00:02:52,517 --> 00:02:53,034 I'M ONLY 16. 82 00:02:53,034 --> 00:02:55,379 I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS. 83 00:02:55,379 --> 00:02:58,103 >> I WAS IN SHOCK, I THINK. 84 00:02:58,103 --> 00:02:59,930 >> SHERIFF'S OFFICE, JEFF. 85 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:01,172 >> YES. 86 00:03:01,172 --> 00:03:02,448 I NEED SOME HELP. 87 00:03:02,448 --> 00:03:05,068 I GOT ONE ALIVE, ONE DEAD. 88 00:03:05,068 --> 00:03:06,482 >> I JUST REMEMBER THEM BRINGING 89 00:03:06,482 --> 00:03:07,448 CHRIS OUT TO THE STRETCHER ON 90 00:03:07,448 --> 00:03:08,103 THE AMBULANCE. 91 00:03:08,103 --> 00:03:09,379 I REMEMBER THERE BEING A SHEET 92 00:03:09,379 --> 00:03:11,310 OVER HIM, SO IT MADE ME PANIC A 93 00:03:11,310 --> 00:03:11,862 LITTLE BIT. 94 00:03:11,862 --> 00:03:13,689 >> I GOT A CALL FROM OUR COMMAND 95 00:03:13,689 --> 00:03:15,655 CENTER IN SPRINGFIELD. 96 00:03:15,655 --> 00:03:17,827 >> SO YOU ARE THE LEAD CRIME 97 00:03:17,827 --> 00:03:19,379 SCENE INVESTIGATOR? 98 00:03:19,379 --> 00:03:20,000 >> YES. 99 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,586 >> WERE YOU REALLY PREPARED FOR 100 00:03:23,586 --> 00:03:24,689 WHAT YOU FACED WHEN YOU WALKED 101 00:03:24,689 --> 00:03:25,517 INTO THAT HOUSE? 102 00:03:25,517 --> 00:03:27,448 >> I WAS NOT. 103 00:03:27,448 --> 00:03:30,275 >> WHY WOULD SOMEBODY DO THIS TO 104 00:03:30,275 --> 00:03:30,655 HIM? 105 00:03:30,655 --> 00:03:32,448 WHY WOULD THEY TRY TO HURT MY 106 00:03:32,448 --> 00:03:32,655 BABY? 107 00:03:32,655 --> 00:03:34,275 THAT'S ALL I KEPT THINKING, HE'S 108 00:03:34,275 --> 00:03:36,758 MY BABY, SOMEONE HURT HIM. 109 00:03:36,758 --> 00:03:39,310 GOING ON A FIRST DATE AND THEY 110 00:03:39,310 --> 00:03:40,930 BOTH END UP GETTING SHOT IS 111 00:03:40,930 --> 00:03:45,517 BOTH END UP GETTING SHOT IS INSANE. 112 00:03:45,517 --> 00:03:51,137 INSANE. 113 00:03:51,137 --> 00:04:07,275 INSANE. ♪ 114 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:26,758 ♪ 115 00:04:26,758 --> 00:04:29,517 >>> ON THE AFTERNOON OF 116 00:04:29,517 --> 00:04:35,000 THANKSGIVING DAY 2021, NANNETTE 117 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,482 STIVER SAT IN HER CAR AND 118 00:04:36,482 --> 00:04:39,137 WATCHED ANXIOUSLY AS EMTs AND 119 00:04:39,137 --> 00:04:40,689 MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF'S 120 00:04:40,689 --> 00:04:42,034 DEPUTIES DESCENDED ON A HOUSE IN 121 00:04:42,034 --> 00:04:46,586 A TINY VILLAGE OF FARMERSVILLE, 122 00:04:46,586 --> 00:04:46,862 ILLINOIS. 123 00:04:46,862 --> 00:04:50,068 >> I WAS QUITE UPSET AND KIND OF 124 00:04:50,068 --> 00:04:53,241 GOING CRAZY IN THE CAR. 125 00:04:53,241 --> 00:04:55,965 >> NANNETTE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO 126 00:04:55,965 --> 00:05:00,724 REACH HER GOOD FRIEND, LESLIE 127 00:05:00,724 --> 00:05:01,000 REEVES. 128 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 NANNETTE KNEW LESLIE HAD GONE TO 129 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,137 THAT HOUSE THE NIGHT BEFORE TO 130 00:05:04,137 --> 00:05:05,965 GO ON A FIRST DATE WITH CHRIS 131 00:05:05,965 --> 00:05:07,896 SMITH, A MAN SHE HAD MET ONLINE. 132 00:05:07,896 --> 00:05:09,000 >> SHE WAS VERY EXCITED. 133 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,655 SHE THOUGHT, OH, THIS MIGHT BE A 134 00:05:11,655 --> 00:05:16,172 REALLY GOOD CONNECTION. 135 00:05:16,172 --> 00:05:21,275 >> BUT NOW NANNETTE WAS WORRIED. 136 00:05:21,275 --> 00:05:22,517 SHE'D SEEN CHRIS GET TAKEN AWAY 137 00:05:22,517 --> 00:05:24,034 IN AN AMBULANCE, BUT THERE WAS 138 00:05:24,034 --> 00:05:25,241 NO SIGN OF LESLIE. 139 00:05:25,241 --> 00:05:27,034 >> I KEPT HOPING, YOU KNOW, 140 00:05:27,034 --> 00:05:28,103 BRING LESLIE OUT, PLEASE. 141 00:05:28,103 --> 00:05:32,862 >> FINALLY A DETECTIVE APPROACH 142 00:05:32,862 --> 00:05:35,310 ASKED NANNETTE FOR A PHOTO OF 143 00:05:35,310 --> 00:05:36,517 LESLIE. 144 00:05:36,517 --> 00:05:40,793 SHE SHOWED HIM HER PHONE, AND HE 145 00:05:40,793 --> 00:05:41,344 GAVE HER THE HORRIBLE NEWS. 146 00:05:41,344 --> 00:05:43,689 >> I'M SO SORRY TO HAVE TO TELL 147 00:05:43,689 --> 00:05:46,517 YOU THIS. 148 00:05:46,517 --> 00:05:49,034 YOUR FRIEND HAS BEEN MURDERED, 149 00:05:49,034 --> 00:05:50,241 YOU KNOW, SHOT, HE SAID. 150 00:05:50,241 --> 00:05:52,034 HE DIDN'T TELL ME WHERE, BUT HE 151 00:05:52,034 --> 00:05:56,275 DID SAY I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT 152 00:05:56,275 --> 00:06:00,172 SHE WENT VERY QUICKLY. 153 00:06:00,172 --> 00:06:04,620 >> EMTs HAD FOUND CHRIS BARELY 154 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:05,896 CONSCIOUS AND UNABLE TO SAY 155 00:06:05,896 --> 00:06:07,000 ANYTHING ABOUT THE SHOOTING. 156 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,655 THEY RUSHED HIM TO THE HOSPITAL, 157 00:06:08,655 --> 00:06:12,655 AND DEPUTIES SEARCHED THE HOUSE. 158 00:06:12,655 --> 00:06:15,655 LATER THAT DAY CRIME SCENE 159 00:06:15,655 --> 00:06:17,896 INVESTIGATOR JOSH EASTON ON THE 160 00:06:17,896 --> 00:06:19,000 ILLINOIS STATE POLICE WAS CALLED 161 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,862 TO THE SCENE, AND HE BEGAN 162 00:06:20,862 --> 00:06:22,689 CATALOGING THE MAYHEM INSIDE. 163 00:06:22,689 --> 00:06:25,172 WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU FIRST 164 00:06:25,172 --> 00:06:25,620 APPROACH THE DOOR? 165 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:27,344 >> I NOTICED THE SIDE DOOR OF 166 00:06:27,344 --> 00:06:29,068 THE HOUSE THE GLASS IN THE 167 00:06:29,068 --> 00:06:31,379 DOOR'S BEEN BROKEN OUT. 168 00:06:31,379 --> 00:06:33,103 THE REFRIGERATOR WAS PULLED AWAY 169 00:06:33,103 --> 00:06:33,896 FROM THE WALL. 170 00:06:33,896 --> 00:06:35,172 THE KITCHEN TABLE WAS PUSHED. 171 00:06:35,172 --> 00:06:37,137 THE CHAIRS WERE KNOCKED OVER. 172 00:06:37,137 --> 00:06:39,689 >> NO WEAPON WAS FOUND, LEADING 173 00:06:39,689 --> 00:06:41,206 INVESTIGATORS TO SUSPECT THAT A 174 00:06:41,206 --> 00:06:44,758 THIRD PERSON WAS INVOLVED. 175 00:06:44,758 --> 00:06:48,310 EASTON TOOK NOTE OF EVERY DETAIL 176 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:49,896 INCLUDING THE BURNT PIZZA IN THE 177 00:06:49,896 --> 00:06:50,068 OVEN. 178 00:06:50,068 --> 00:06:51,758 >> I ASSUME THAT MAYBE THEY WERE 179 00:06:51,758 --> 00:06:54,827 KICKING A PIZZA FOR THE NIGHT, 180 00:06:54,827 --> 00:06:57,000 AND THE SUSPECT SHOWS UP AT THE 181 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:57,172 DOOR. 182 00:06:57,172 --> 00:06:59,655 THEY BOTH TRIED TO FIGHT HIM 183 00:06:59,655 --> 00:06:59,827 OFF. 184 00:06:59,827 --> 00:07:01,172 AND WHEN CHRIS WAS SHOT, LESLIE 185 00:07:01,172 --> 00:07:02,482 WENT TO THE LIVING ROOM TO TRY 186 00:07:02,482 --> 00:07:03,586 TO HIDE. 187 00:07:03,586 --> 00:07:05,310 >> HOW MANY TIMES WAS SHE SHOT? 188 00:07:05,310 --> 00:07:07,103 >> SHE WAS ONLY SHOT ONE TIME. 189 00:07:07,103 --> 00:07:07,965 >> IN THE HEAD? 190 00:07:07,965 --> 00:07:09,379 >> IN THE HEAD. 191 00:07:09,379 --> 00:07:12,551 >> LESLIE'S BODY WAS IN THE 192 00:07:12,551 --> 00:07:14,137 LIVING ROOM WHILE CHRIS HAD BEEN 193 00:07:14,137 --> 00:07:17,034 FOUND IN THE KITCHEN. 194 00:07:17,034 --> 00:07:20,379 EASTON SAID OF THE 1,800 CRIME 195 00:07:20,379 --> 00:07:21,689 SCENES HE HAD BEEN TO, THIS WAS 196 00:07:21,689 --> 00:07:24,413 ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFIC. 197 00:07:24,413 --> 00:07:25,655 >> THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE, 198 00:07:25,655 --> 00:07:28,000 THE CABINETS, THE REFRIGERATOR, 199 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,689 THE COUNTER TOP. 200 00:07:29,689 --> 00:07:31,758 THERE WAS BLOOD FROM CORNER TO 201 00:07:31,758 --> 00:07:33,482 CORNER IN THE KITCHEN. 202 00:07:33,482 --> 00:07:36,310 >> EASTON SPOTTED TWO SILVER 203 00:07:36,310 --> 00:07:38,758 COLORED BULLET CASINGS FROM A 9 204 00:07:38,758 --> 00:07:40,172 MILLIMETER GUN, ONE IN THE 205 00:07:40,172 --> 00:07:42,655 KITCHEN AND THE OTHER NEAR 206 00:07:42,655 --> 00:07:43,862 LESLIE'S BODY. 207 00:07:43,862 --> 00:07:46,379 AS EASTON PROCESSED THE SCENE, 208 00:07:46,379 --> 00:07:47,758 DETECTIVES BEGAN LEARNING ABOUT 209 00:07:47,758 --> 00:07:51,034 THE VICTIMS. 210 00:07:51,034 --> 00:07:54,241 CHRIS SMITH WAS A 48-YEAR-OLD 211 00:07:54,241 --> 00:07:56,413 DIVORCED FATHER WHO WORKED FOR A 212 00:07:56,413 --> 00:07:57,103 POOL CONTRACTOR. 213 00:07:57,103 --> 00:07:59,655 >> CHRIS WAS A NICE GUY. 214 00:07:59,655 --> 00:08:02,413 HE WOULD HANG OUT HERE 215 00:08:02,413 --> 00:08:03,862 FREQUENTLY, WAS FRIENDS WITH 216 00:08:03,862 --> 00:08:05,551 MOST PEOPLE IN TOWN. 217 00:08:05,551 --> 00:08:06,827 EVERYBODY KNEW HIM. 218 00:08:06,827 --> 00:08:10,310 >> BARTENDER DINA LEGRAND SAYS 219 00:08:10,310 --> 00:08:12,137 CHRIS WAS WELL-KNOWN IN TOWN AS 220 00:08:12,137 --> 00:08:14,344 THE GUY WHO GREW BANANA TREES 221 00:08:14,344 --> 00:08:16,000 AND GIANT PUMPKINS. 222 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,724 >> I REMEMBER ONE HALLOWEEN HE 223 00:08:18,724 --> 00:08:20,793 DONATED HUNDREDS OF PUMPKINS FOR 224 00:08:20,793 --> 00:08:23,793 DECORATIONS FOR ANY OF THE KIDS 225 00:08:23,793 --> 00:08:24,586 TO PAINT. 226 00:08:24,586 --> 00:08:27,034 HE GAVE BACK TO HIS COMMUNITY. 227 00:08:27,034 --> 00:08:28,896 >> DID EITHER ONE OF YOU EVER 228 00:08:28,896 --> 00:08:29,655 WORRY ABOUT CHRIS? 229 00:08:29,655 --> 00:08:30,965 >> NO. 230 00:08:30,965 --> 00:08:33,965 >> NO. 231 00:08:33,965 --> 00:08:38,344 >> SHARON CUSTANZA IS CHRIS' 232 00:08:38,344 --> 00:08:39,827 MOTHER. 233 00:08:39,827 --> 00:08:41,620 ASHLEY HOLCOMBE, HIS SISTER. 234 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:44,344 >> CHRIS WAS A STAY AT HOME 235 00:08:44,344 --> 00:08:45,000 PERSON THAT LITERALLY WOULD JUST 236 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,068 WORK IN HIS BACKYARD. 237 00:08:46,068 --> 00:08:49,310 >> CHRIS LIVED WITH A DOG NAMED 238 00:08:49,310 --> 00:08:52,448 TIKI AND AN EMT TOLD THE FAMILY 239 00:08:52,448 --> 00:08:54,310 TIKI MAY HAVE HELPED CHRIS MAKE 240 00:08:54,310 --> 00:08:55,896 IT THROUGH THE NIGHT BY HUDDLING 241 00:08:55,896 --> 00:08:57,517 WITH HIM FOR THE ROUGHLY 12 242 00:08:57,517 --> 00:08:59,000 HOURS THAT CHRIS WAS BLEEDING 243 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,206 BEFORE BEING RESCUED. 244 00:09:00,206 --> 00:09:02,517 >> I THINK TIKI PROTECTED CHRIS. 245 00:09:02,517 --> 00:09:03,758 I THINK SHE PROBABLY LAID RIGHT 246 00:09:03,758 --> 00:09:07,413 NEXT TO HIM. 247 00:09:07,413 --> 00:09:11,000 >> CHRIS' CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY 248 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,034 COULD NOT IMAGINE ANYONE WANTING 249 00:09:13,034 --> 00:09:14,827 TO KIMLL HIM. 250 00:09:14,827 --> 00:09:18,172 >> IT WAS LIKE NO WAY, WHY, HOW. 251 00:09:18,172 --> 00:09:19,000 >> WHO? 252 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,827 YEAH, WHO WOULD HAVE DONE THAT? 253 00:09:20,827 --> 00:09:22,172 >> INVESTIGATORS HAD THE SAME 254 00:09:22,172 --> 00:09:23,724 QUESTIONS ABOUT LESLIE AND 255 00:09:23,724 --> 00:09:25,931 LEARNED THAT SHE WAS A DIVORCED 256 00:09:25,931 --> 00:09:27,724 MOTHER OF TWO CHILDREN WHO LIVED 257 00:09:27,724 --> 00:09:31,310 IN TROY ABOUT AN HOUR'S SOUTH OF 258 00:09:31,310 --> 00:09:31,724 FARMERSVILLE. 259 00:09:31,724 --> 00:09:33,241 ALTHOUGH LESLIE HAD A MASTERS 260 00:09:33,241 --> 00:09:39,344 DEGREE IN ENGINEERING, SHE CHOSE 261 00:09:39,344 --> 00:09:41,310 INSTEAD TO TEACH PULOTTIES AND 262 00:09:41,310 --> 00:09:43,172 TO PROMOTE SELF-DEFENSE CLASSES 263 00:09:43,172 --> 00:09:43,931 FOR WOMEN. 264 00:09:43,931 --> 00:09:46,827 LESLIE POSTED THIS VIDEO TO HER 265 00:09:46,827 --> 00:09:50,000 YOUTUBE CHANNEL TO ADVERTISE ONE 266 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:50,517 OF HER CLASSES. 267 00:09:50,517 --> 00:09:51,758 >> EMPOWER YOURSELF AGAINST 268 00:09:51,758 --> 00:09:52,965 AGGRESSION AND ASSAULT AS WE 269 00:09:52,965 --> 00:09:54,689 TEACH YOU EASY TO LEARN 270 00:09:54,689 --> 00:09:57,827 SELF-DEFENSE TECHNIQUES. 271 00:09:57,827 --> 00:09:58,379 POWER UP! 272 00:09:58,379 --> 00:10:00,827 >> LESLIE TRIED TO HELP WOMEN IN 273 00:10:00,827 --> 00:10:02,551 ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS, BUT 274 00:10:02,551 --> 00:10:04,862 FRIENDS SAY SHE HAD HER OWN 275 00:10:04,862 --> 00:10:06,413 TROUBLES. 276 00:10:06,413 --> 00:10:08,103 NANNETTE TOLD DEPUTIES SHE WAS 277 00:10:08,103 --> 00:10:09,310 WORRIED ABOUT A FORMER 278 00:10:09,310 --> 00:10:11,517 BOYFRIEND, A CONTRACTOR BY THE 279 00:10:11,517 --> 00:10:13,517 NAMED OF ROBERT TARR, KNOWN AS 280 00:10:13,517 --> 00:10:13,724 BOBBY. 281 00:10:13,724 --> 00:10:15,206 >> SHE SAID I AM GOING TO 282 00:10:15,206 --> 00:10:17,137 COMPLETELY BLOCK BOBBY FROM 283 00:10:17,137 --> 00:10:18,896 E-MAIL, TEXTS, PHONE CALLS. 284 00:10:18,896 --> 00:10:23,000 I HAVE TO GO NO-CONTACT. 285 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,103 >> LATER THAT EVENING NEWS OF 286 00:10:26,103 --> 00:10:27,000 LESLIE'S MURDER BEGAN 287 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,551 CIRCULATING AND REACHED ANOTHER 288 00:10:29,551 --> 00:10:33,482 CLOSE FRIEND, AMY STEINHOWER. 289 00:10:33,482 --> 00:10:34,965 SHE HAD MET TARR, A DIVORCED 290 00:10:34,965 --> 00:10:36,241 FATHER OF THREE, AND DID NOT 291 00:10:36,241 --> 00:10:38,413 HAVE A GOOD IMPRESSION OF HIM. 292 00:10:38,413 --> 00:10:38,655 BUT -- 293 00:10:38,655 --> 00:10:41,103 >> YOU NEVER SEE SOMEONE AND 294 00:10:41,103 --> 00:10:43,034 THINK THAT THEY CAN KILL MY 295 00:10:43,034 --> 00:10:43,275 FRIEND. 296 00:10:43,275 --> 00:10:44,655 >> AMY CALLED THE SHERIFF'S 297 00:10:44,655 --> 00:10:48,586 OFFICE THAT NIGHT TO GIVE THEM 298 00:10:48,586 --> 00:10:50,000 TARR'S NAME. 299 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,068 BY THEN DETECTIVES HAD ALREADY 300 00:10:53,068 --> 00:10:56,000 SETOUT TO FIND BOBBY TARR WHILE 301 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,241 85 MILES TO THE NORTH, SURGEONS 302 00:10:58,241 --> 00:11:00,137 WERE FIGHTING TO TRY TO SAVE THE 303 00:11:00,137 --> 00:11:02,689 LIFE OF CHRIS SMITH. 304 00:11:02,689 --> 00:11:05,034 A BULLET STILL LODGED IN HIS 305 00:11:05,034 --> 00:11:17,448 BRAIN. 306 00:11:17,448 --> 00:11:24,931 ♪ 307 00:11:24,931 --> 00:11:26,586 >>> I JUST WANTED TO GET THERE. 308 00:11:26,586 --> 00:11:28,172 I JUST WANTED TO GET THERE AS 309 00:11:28,172 --> 00:11:28,862 FAST AS I COULD. 310 00:11:28,862 --> 00:11:30,137 >> AFTER LEARNING THAT CHRIS HAD 311 00:11:30,137 --> 00:11:31,448 BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD, HIS 312 00:11:31,448 --> 00:11:35,206 FAMILY RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL IN 313 00:11:35,206 --> 00:11:36,241 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, TWO HOURS 314 00:11:36,241 --> 00:11:37,068 FROM THEIR HOME. 315 00:11:37,068 --> 00:11:38,862 >> I WAS ON THE PHONE TO 316 00:11:38,862 --> 00:11:39,965 EVERYONE I COULD THINK OF 317 00:11:39,965 --> 00:11:42,620 BECAUSE I JUST NEEDED PRAYERS 318 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:44,034 FROM EVERYBODY. 319 00:11:44,034 --> 00:11:45,931 >> DOCTORS REMOVED PART OF 320 00:11:45,931 --> 00:11:47,655 CHRIS' SKULL AND SOME BULLET 321 00:11:47,655 --> 00:11:49,689 FRAGMENTS IN HIS BRAIN BEFORE 322 00:11:49,689 --> 00:11:52,310 PUTTING HIM IN A 323 00:11:52,310 --> 00:11:53,620 MEDICALLY-INDUCED COMA, HIS 324 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:55,275 FAMILY STRUGGLING TO PIECE 325 00:11:55,275 --> 00:11:57,379 TOGETHER WHAT HAD HAPPENED 326 00:11:57,379 --> 00:11:58,517 LEARNED THAT HE HAD BEEN OUT 327 00:11:58,517 --> 00:12:00,241 WITH A WOMAN NAMED LESLIE 328 00:12:00,241 --> 00:12:00,586 REEVES. 329 00:12:00,586 --> 00:12:02,206 HAD YOU EVER HEARD THE NAME 330 00:12:02,206 --> 00:12:03,379 LESLIE REEVES BEFORE? 331 00:12:03,379 --> 00:12:03,586 >> NO. 332 00:12:03,586 --> 00:12:05,241 I LOOKED HER UP AND THEN I TRIED 333 00:12:05,241 --> 00:12:06,758 TO REACH OUT TO HER FRIENDS, AND 334 00:12:06,758 --> 00:12:10,517 THEN I FOUND HER BEST FRIEND 335 00:12:10,517 --> 00:12:11,000 NANNETTE. 336 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,517 >> NANNETTE TOLD THEM THE SAME 337 00:12:12,517 --> 00:12:13,655 THING SHE HAD TOLD 338 00:12:13,655 --> 00:12:14,000 INVESTIGATORS. 339 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 SHE SUSPECTED LESLIE'S 340 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,344 EX-BOYFRIEND, BOBBY TARR. 341 00:12:19,344 --> 00:12:21,000 THAT NIGHT SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES 342 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,103 WENT TO TARR'S HOME IN 343 00:12:23,103 --> 00:12:25,068 COLLINSVILLE, AN HOUR'S SOUTH OF 344 00:12:25,068 --> 00:12:25,931 THE CRIME SCENE. 345 00:12:25,931 --> 00:12:27,448 AUTHORITIES SAY HE NEVER ASKED 346 00:12:27,448 --> 00:12:29,517 WHY THEY WANTED TO TALK TO HIM, 347 00:12:29,517 --> 00:12:31,724 AND HE AGREED TO GO TO THE 348 00:12:31,724 --> 00:12:36,586 POLICE STATION WITHOUT A LAWYER. 349 00:12:36,586 --> 00:12:38,000 ALTHOUGH HER FRIENDS SAID THE 350 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,310 COUPLE HAD BROKEN UP, TARR TOLD 351 00:12:40,310 --> 00:12:41,689 INVESTIGATORS THAT HE AND LESLIE 352 00:12:41,689 --> 00:12:44,586 WERE STILL TOGETHER. 353 00:12:44,586 --> 00:12:45,862 >> DID YOU AND LESLIE HAVE A LOT 354 00:12:45,862 --> 00:12:47,586 OF PROBLEMS? 355 00:12:47,586 --> 00:12:49,896 >> I WOULD SAY NOT WORSE THAN 356 00:12:49,896 --> 00:12:51,758 ANY AVERAGE COUPLE. 357 00:12:51,758 --> 00:12:54,000 >> IT WAS LESLIE THAT DETECTIVES 358 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 WANTED TO TALK ABOUT. 359 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 >> I WANT YOU TO DIG DOWN DEEP 360 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,448 HERE AND BE AS HONEST WITH ME AS 361 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:04,724 YOU CAN, OKAY? 362 00:13:04,724 --> 00:13:06,517 LESLIE IS DEAD. 363 00:13:06,517 --> 00:13:07,310 >> WHAT? 364 00:13:07,310 --> 00:13:08,758 >> CAN YOU HELP ME SHED SOME 365 00:13:08,758 --> 00:13:09,965 LIGHT ON THIS? 366 00:13:09,965 --> 00:13:13,413 >> HOW DID SHE DIE? 367 00:13:13,413 --> 00:13:15,551 >> SHE WAS MURDERED. 368 00:13:15,551 --> 00:13:16,241 >> WHAT HAPPENED? 369 00:13:16,241 --> 00:13:20,655 >> THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE WITH 370 00:13:20,655 --> 00:13:20,827 YOU. 371 00:13:20,827 --> 00:13:21,896 YOU HELP ME BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE 372 00:13:21,896 --> 00:13:22,931 NOT INVOLVED IN THIS. 373 00:13:22,931 --> 00:13:25,137 >> I'M NOT INVOLVED IN ANYTHING. 374 00:13:25,137 --> 00:13:27,137 >> INVESTIGATORS ASKED TARR 375 00:13:27,137 --> 00:13:28,310 ABOUT FARMERSVILLE, THE SCENE OF 376 00:13:28,310 --> 00:13:28,655 THE CRIME. 377 00:13:28,655 --> 00:13:33,965 >> WERE YOU IN FARMERSVILLE, 378 00:13:33,965 --> 00:13:34,206 ILLINOIS? 379 00:13:34,206 --> 00:13:36,275 >> FARMERSVILLE, CAN'T SAY I DO. 380 00:13:36,275 --> 00:13:38,931 I'VE NEVER BEEN THERE. 381 00:13:38,931 --> 00:13:40,413 NEVER HEARD OF IT. 382 00:13:40,413 --> 00:13:42,241 >> AND THEY ASKED TARR WHERE 383 00:13:42,241 --> 00:13:48,000 HE'D BEEN THE NIGHT BEFORE 384 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:48,310 THANKSGIVING. 385 00:13:48,310 --> 00:13:49,896 >> HE LEFT ME SOME MONEY OUT OF 386 00:13:49,896 --> 00:13:51,758 HIS SHOP AND GO PICK IT UP. 387 00:13:51,758 --> 00:13:53,068 >> THE FRIEND LIVED A SHORT 388 00:13:53,068 --> 00:13:54,793 DISTANCE FROM TARR'S HOME. 389 00:13:54,793 --> 00:13:57,034 >> DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT TIME YOU 390 00:13:57,034 --> 00:13:57,862 CAME BACK? 391 00:13:57,862 --> 00:14:03,034 >> YEAH, IT WASN'T THAT LONG. 392 00:14:03,034 --> 00:14:05,724 MAYBE 6:30-ISH, SOMETHING LIKE 393 00:14:05,724 --> 00:14:06,206 THAT. 394 00:14:06,206 --> 00:14:07,137 >> INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE 395 00:14:07,137 --> 00:14:08,655 SHOOTING TOOK PLACE SOME TIME 396 00:14:08,655 --> 00:14:10,862 EARLY ON THANKSGIVING MORNING 397 00:14:10,862 --> 00:14:12,068 AFTER 1:00 A.M. 398 00:14:12,068 --> 00:14:13,655 TARR SAID AFTER HE GOT BACK, HE 399 00:14:13,655 --> 00:14:14,413 WAS HOME ALL NIGHT. 400 00:14:14,413 --> 00:14:15,965 >> YOU CAN TALK TO MY DAUGHTER 401 00:14:15,965 --> 00:14:17,034 ABOUT ME BEING HOME. 402 00:14:17,034 --> 00:14:20,379 >> THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID. 403 00:14:20,379 --> 00:14:22,517 DETECTIVES BROUGHT TARR'S 404 00:14:22,517 --> 00:14:24,655 17-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, SHELBY, TO 405 00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:26,068 A DIFFERENT ROOM AT THE POLICE 406 00:14:26,068 --> 00:14:28,896 STATION, AND SHE TOLD THEM THAT 407 00:14:28,896 --> 00:14:30,241 HER FATHER ACTUALLY LEFT HOME 408 00:14:30,241 --> 00:14:32,413 TWICE THAT NIGHT. 409 00:14:32,413 --> 00:14:34,517 >> SO FIRST TIME HE LEFT WAS 410 00:14:34,517 --> 00:14:38,034 ROUGHLY 6:30? 411 00:14:38,034 --> 00:14:40,758 >> RIGHT. 412 00:14:40,758 --> 00:14:41,379 >> AND CAME BACK HOME ABOUT A 413 00:14:41,379 --> 00:14:42,206 HALF HOUR LATER AND SAID HE HAD 414 00:14:42,206 --> 00:14:42,758 TO GO BACK. 415 00:14:42,758 --> 00:14:43,413 >> RIGHT. 416 00:14:43,413 --> 00:14:46,551 >> AND THEN IT WAS 9:15-ISH WHEN 417 00:14:46,551 --> 00:14:47,931 HE GOT BACK HOME? 418 00:14:47,931 --> 00:14:51,793 >> YES. 419 00:14:51,793 --> 00:14:53,034 >> SHELBY SAID HE'D BEEN GONE 420 00:14:53,034 --> 00:14:53,896 TWO HOURS AND HE GETS HOME, HE 421 00:14:53,896 --> 00:14:55,103 WAS UPSET. 422 00:14:55,103 --> 00:14:56,724 >> HE WAS CRYING. 423 00:14:56,724 --> 00:14:59,344 HE WAS SOBBING. 424 00:14:59,344 --> 00:15:00,000 HE SAID HE WAS WITH LESLIE. 425 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,310 >> SHELBY SAID SHE WENT TO SLEEP 426 00:15:02,310 --> 00:15:05,344 AROUND 9:30 AND WAS AWAKENED BY 427 00:15:05,344 --> 00:15:07,482 HER FATHER AROUND 2:30 A.M. 428 00:15:07,482 --> 00:15:08,793 >> HE WAS PACING AROUND AND SAID 429 00:15:08,793 --> 00:15:10,034 I CAN'T SLEEP. 430 00:15:10,034 --> 00:15:12,482 >> DETECTIVES WENT BACK TO TARR 431 00:15:12,482 --> 00:15:14,896 AND TOLD THEM SHELBY'S STORY DID 432 00:15:14,896 --> 00:15:16,310 NOT MATCH HIM. 433 00:15:16,310 --> 00:15:19,000 TARR THEN CHANGED HIS STORY AND 434 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:19,689 SAID HE HAD GONE TO HIS FRIEND'S 435 00:15:19,689 --> 00:15:21,655 HOUSE TWICE BUT STILL INSISTED 436 00:15:21,655 --> 00:15:22,931 HE WAS HOME BY 8:00. 437 00:15:22,931 --> 00:15:25,000 AS TARR SAT AT THE POLICE 438 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,241 STATION, DETECTIVES SEARCHED HIS 439 00:15:27,241 --> 00:15:33,896 HOUSE AND FOUND HIS PHONE AND A 440 00:15:33,896 --> 00:15:35,068 GLAUK PISTOL. 441 00:15:35,068 --> 00:15:36,448 SHELBY HAD TOLD THEM HER FATHER 442 00:15:36,448 --> 00:15:38,413 HAD A DIFFERENT GUN, BUT THEY 443 00:15:38,413 --> 00:15:39,551 DIDN'T FIND IT. 444 00:15:39,551 --> 00:15:43,448 >> IT'S LITTLE AND ABOUT THIS 445 00:15:43,448 --> 00:15:43,896 BIG AND ARMY GREEN. 446 00:15:43,896 --> 00:15:45,689 >> SHELBY TOLD INVESTIGATORS SHE 447 00:15:45,689 --> 00:15:47,482 HAD SEEN IT THE DAY BEFORE 448 00:15:47,482 --> 00:15:49,724 THANKSGIVING IN HER FATHER'S 449 00:15:49,724 --> 00:15:50,793 SOCK DRAWER. 450 00:15:50,793 --> 00:15:55,034 >> YESTERDAY MORNING ACTUALLY. 451 00:15:55,034 --> 00:15:56,655 AND NOW IT'S NOT THERE. 452 00:15:56,655 --> 00:16:01,448 >> SO IT WAS THERE YESTERDAY AND 453 00:16:01,448 --> 00:16:04,586 NOT THERE TODAY? 454 00:16:04,586 --> 00:16:06,379 >> THEY HAD ALREADY LEARNED THAT 455 00:16:06,379 --> 00:16:08,241 HIS CAR HAD BEEN CAPTURED BY 456 00:16:08,241 --> 00:16:10,103 LICENSE PLATE READER CAMERAS 457 00:16:10,103 --> 00:16:11,586 JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, THE NIGHT 458 00:16:11,586 --> 00:16:12,413 OF THE SHOOTING. 459 00:16:12,413 --> 00:16:15,068 THE CAMERAS WERE NEAR A GAS 460 00:16:15,068 --> 00:16:16,310 STATION, AND INVESTIGATORS 461 00:16:16,310 --> 00:16:18,068 DISCOVERED THAT TARR HAD BOUGHT 462 00:16:18,068 --> 00:16:20,068 GAS THERE JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. 463 00:16:20,068 --> 00:16:30,241 BACK AT THE POLICE STATION, THEY 464 00:16:30,241 --> 00:16:31,448 CONFRONTED HIM WITH THE GAS 465 00:16:31,448 --> 00:16:31,827 STATION RECEIPT. 466 00:16:31,827 --> 00:16:33,068 >> I DON'T REMEMBER DOING IT. 467 00:16:33,068 --> 00:16:35,000 >> YOU DON'T REMEMBER BEING OUT 468 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,724 AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN YOU HAD TOLD 469 00:16:36,724 --> 00:16:38,793 US YOU ARE 100% POSITIVE. 470 00:16:38,793 --> 00:16:40,655 >> THE GAS STATION IS HERE IN 471 00:16:40,655 --> 00:16:40,862 TROY. 472 00:16:40,862 --> 00:16:41,793 >> YES. 473 00:16:41,793 --> 00:16:43,482 >> AND THE MURDER OCCURRED HERE 474 00:16:43,482 --> 00:16:45,965 IN FARMERSVILLE. 475 00:16:45,965 --> 00:16:46,275 >> CORRECT. 476 00:16:46,275 --> 00:16:47,517 >> THE GAS STATION WAS NEAR 477 00:16:47,517 --> 00:16:50,344 TARR'S HOME, AN HOUR FROM THE 478 00:16:50,344 --> 00:16:51,827 CRIME SCENE. 479 00:16:51,827 --> 00:16:52,724 ANDREW AFFRUNTI IS THE 480 00:16:52,724 --> 00:16:55,931 MONTGOMERY COUNTY STATE'S 481 00:16:55,931 --> 00:16:56,172 ATTORNEY. 482 00:16:56,172 --> 00:16:59,620 HE AS ESTONIA, A CONDITION THAT 483 00:16:59,620 --> 00:17:01,517 CAUSES MUSCLE TICKS AND TREMORS. 484 00:17:01,517 --> 00:17:02,931 SO WHY IS IT SIGNIFICANT? 485 00:17:02,931 --> 00:17:05,655 SO HE WENT OUT AND GOT SOME GAS. 486 00:17:05,655 --> 00:17:06,619 >> IT WAS SIGNIFICANT TO US 487 00:17:06,619 --> 00:17:11,586 BECAUSE WHY WOULD HE LIE ABOUT 488 00:17:11,586 --> 00:17:11,758 IT? 489 00:17:11,758 --> 00:17:13,448 >> INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED IT WAS 490 00:17:13,448 --> 00:17:15,000 PROOF TARR WAS LYING ABOUT HIS 491 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,068 WHEREABOUTS THAT NIGHT. 492 00:17:16,068 --> 00:17:17,862 THEY PLACED HIM UNDER ARREST. 493 00:17:17,862 --> 00:17:20,827 >> YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR 494 00:17:20,827 --> 00:17:26,172 MURDER. 495 00:17:26,172 --> 00:17:28,862 >> AFFRUNTI SAYS THEY ARRESTED 496 00:17:28,862 --> 00:17:30,137 TARR IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THEY 497 00:17:30,137 --> 00:17:32,793 FEARED CHRIS' LIFE WAS IN 498 00:17:32,793 --> 00:17:33,758 DANGER. 499 00:17:33,758 --> 00:17:36,034 AND THEY HADN'T FOUND THE MURDER 500 00:17:36,034 --> 00:17:36,275 WEAPON. 501 00:17:36,275 --> 00:17:39,172 >> IF HE WAS OUT OF CUSTODY, 502 00:17:39,172 --> 00:17:40,724 COULD HE TAKE FURTHER STEPS TO 503 00:17:40,724 --> 00:17:42,275 DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE? 504 00:17:42,275 --> 00:17:44,827 >> JUST ONE DAY AFTER LESLIE 505 00:17:44,827 --> 00:17:47,482 REEVES WAS KILLED AND CHRIS 506 00:17:47,482 --> 00:17:49,655 SMITH WAS LEFT FIGHTING FOR HIS 507 00:17:49,655 --> 00:17:50,758 LIFE, INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED 508 00:17:50,758 --> 00:17:55,241 THEY HAD THE MAN RESPONSIBLE IN 509 00:17:55,241 --> 00:17:55,620 CUSTODY. 510 00:17:55,620 --> 00:17:58,068 I'M ERIN MORIARTY. 511 00:17:58,068 --> 00:18:00,758 BUT IN HIS ONLY MEDIA INTERVIEW, 512 00:18:00,758 --> 00:18:03,413 BOBBY TARR TELLS 48 HOURS THEY 513 00:18:03,413 --> 00:18:04,000 GOT THE WRONG GUY. 514 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,896 >> THERE IS SO MANY THINGS 515 00:18:05,896 --> 00:18:06,448 UNTOLD THAT WILL PROVE MY 516 00:18:06,448 --> 00:18:12,310 UNTOLD THAT WILL PROVE MY INNOCENCE. 517 00:18:12,310 --> 00:18:22,034 INNOCENCE. 518 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:24,000 >>> BOBBY TARR CHARGED WITH THE 519 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,241 MURDER OF LESLIE REEVES AND THE 520 00:18:26,241 --> 00:18:28,827 ATTEMPTED MURDER OF CHRIS SMITH 521 00:18:28,827 --> 00:18:34,068 IS NOTHING IF NOT UNFLAFABLE. 522 00:18:34,068 --> 00:18:36,241 DID YOU KILL LESLIE REEVES? 523 00:18:36,241 --> 00:18:36,793 >> NO. 524 00:18:36,793 --> 00:18:38,344 >> DID YOU SHOOT CHRIS SMITH? 525 00:18:38,344 --> 00:18:39,000 >> NO. 526 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,034 >> HE KEPT HIS COOL EVEN WHEN 527 00:18:41,034 --> 00:18:42,482 CONFRONTED WITH A LITANY OF LIES 528 00:18:42,482 --> 00:18:44,000 HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS. 529 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,931 YOU TOLD POLICE YOU ONLY LEFT 530 00:18:45,931 --> 00:18:46,896 THE HOUSE ONCE. 531 00:18:46,896 --> 00:18:47,793 THAT WASN'T TRUE. 532 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:48,275 >> CORRECT. 533 00:18:48,275 --> 00:18:50,103 >> YOU TOLD THE POLICE YOU HAD 534 00:18:50,103 --> 00:18:53,000 NO IDEA WHERE FARMERSVILLE IS. 535 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,344 THAT WAS A LIE. 536 00:18:55,344 --> 00:18:55,620 >> MM-HMM. 537 00:18:55,620 --> 00:18:57,379 >> YOU LIED ABOUT GETTING GAS IN 538 00:18:57,379 --> 00:18:58,482 YOUR CAR THAT NIGHT. 539 00:18:58,482 --> 00:18:59,310 >> MM-HMM. 540 00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:01,965 >> WHEN HE SPOKE WITH US, TARR 541 00:19:01,965 --> 00:19:03,896 ADMITTED HE WAS AT CHRIS SMITH'S 542 00:19:03,896 --> 00:19:06,793 HOUSE THE NIGHT BEFORE 543 00:19:06,793 --> 00:19:08,862 THANKSGIVING, PLACING HIMSELF AT 544 00:19:08,862 --> 00:19:09,517 THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. 545 00:19:09,517 --> 00:19:11,482 HE SAYS THE NIGHT BEGAN WHEN HE 546 00:19:11,482 --> 00:19:14,896 MET LESLIE AT HER PART-TIME JOB 547 00:19:14,896 --> 00:19:17,758 AT THIS LOFT STORE. 548 00:19:17,758 --> 00:19:19,344 >> SHE HAD SAID SHE WAS GOING TO 549 00:19:19,344 --> 00:19:20,793 GO MEET SOME FRIENDS BECAUSE ONE 550 00:19:20,793 --> 00:19:22,000 OF THEIR FRIENDS WAS PLAYING IN 551 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:22,517 A BAND. 552 00:19:22,517 --> 00:19:25,172 SHE ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO GO. 553 00:19:25,172 --> 00:19:26,241 I SAID, YOU KNOW, I WOULD GO, 554 00:19:26,241 --> 00:19:27,620 BUT I HAVE MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER 555 00:19:27,620 --> 00:19:29,413 STAYING WITH ME FOR A WEEK. 556 00:19:29,413 --> 00:19:31,000 >> TARR SAYS THAT WHEN HE 557 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,586 DECLINED THE INVITATION, LESLIE 558 00:19:33,586 --> 00:19:35,620 ASKED IF HE WOULD FOLLOW HER TO 559 00:19:35,620 --> 00:19:37,620 FARMERSVILLE BECAUSE HER VAN WAS 560 00:19:37,620 --> 00:19:38,896 UNRELIABLE, AND SO HE DID. 561 00:19:38,896 --> 00:19:43,275 THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO LESLIE'S 562 00:19:43,275 --> 00:19:45,862 FRIEND, AMY STEINHOWER. 563 00:19:45,862 --> 00:19:48,206 >> SHE WAS TERRIFIED OF HIM. 564 00:19:48,206 --> 00:19:49,000 RIGHTFULLY SO. 565 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,896 >> JUST A FEW WEEKS EARLIER, AMY 566 00:19:51,896 --> 00:19:54,137 SAYS, LESLIE TOLD HER THAT TARR 567 00:19:54,137 --> 00:19:55,586 HAD SHOWN UP WHILE SHE WAS ON A 568 00:19:55,586 --> 00:19:58,413 FIRST DATE WITH A DIFFERENT GUY. 569 00:19:58,413 --> 00:20:00,413 AFTER THAT INCIDENT, LESLIE TOLD 570 00:20:00,413 --> 00:20:02,586 AMY SHE WAS FRIGHTENED BY TARR, 571 00:20:02,586 --> 00:20:05,103 AND TEXTED AMY "I COULD BE 572 00:20:05,103 --> 00:20:07,103 KILLED BY HIM SOMEDAY IF I DON'T 573 00:20:07,103 --> 00:20:09,034 CUT ALL CONTACT." 574 00:20:09,034 --> 00:20:11,344 SO YOU'RE TELLING ME NOW THAT 575 00:20:11,344 --> 00:20:13,379 THIS WOMAN WHO WAS SCARED OF 576 00:20:13,379 --> 00:20:14,758 YOU, WHO HAD ACTUALLY TEXTED A 577 00:20:14,758 --> 00:20:15,862 FRIEND THAT SHE THOUGHT YOU 578 00:20:15,862 --> 00:20:17,310 MIGHT KILL HER, ASKED HER TO 579 00:20:17,310 --> 00:20:19,793 FOLLOW HER TO ANOTHER MAN'S 580 00:20:19,793 --> 00:20:20,000 HOUSE? 581 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,241 >> MM-HMM. 582 00:20:21,241 --> 00:20:22,793 >> DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE? 583 00:20:22,793 --> 00:20:24,000 >> NO, I UNDERSTAND. 584 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,241 SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT TEXT 585 00:20:26,241 --> 00:20:27,000 IN GENERAL. 586 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,448 >> WHY DID SHE THINK YOU MIGHT 587 00:20:28,448 --> 00:20:28,965 KILL HER? 588 00:20:28,965 --> 00:20:30,620 >> I DON'T KNOW. 589 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:33,482 I'VE GOT NO CLUE. 590 00:20:33,482 --> 00:20:35,758 >> TARR SAYS LESLIE LIED TO HER 591 00:20:35,758 --> 00:20:37,862 FRIENDS ABOUT THEIR 592 00:20:37,862 --> 00:20:38,172 RELATIONSHIP. 593 00:20:38,172 --> 00:20:41,068 HE INSISTS SHE ASKED HIM TO 594 00:20:41,068 --> 00:20:42,000 FOLLOW HER NORTH TO 595 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:42,310 FARMERSVILLE. 596 00:20:42,310 --> 00:20:45,862 >> SO I WENT WITH HER UP THERE. 597 00:20:45,862 --> 00:20:47,896 I THINK WE ARRIVED THERE AROUND 598 00:20:47,896 --> 00:20:48,206 7:30. 599 00:20:48,206 --> 00:20:50,586 I PARKED IN FRONT OF HER VAN IN 600 00:20:50,586 --> 00:20:52,000 FRONT OF HIS HOUSE. 601 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,068 THAT'S AS FAR AS I WENT. 602 00:20:55,068 --> 00:20:55,344 I LEFT. 603 00:20:55,344 --> 00:20:56,655 I NEVER WENT BACK TO 604 00:20:56,655 --> 00:20:57,344 FARMERSVILLE AGAIN. 605 00:20:57,344 --> 00:20:59,931 >> IF HE HAD AN INNOCENT 606 00:20:59,931 --> 00:21:01,344 EXPLANATION FOR WHY HE WAS IN 607 00:21:01,344 --> 00:21:03,931 FARMERSVILLE, WHY DID HE LIE TO 608 00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:04,206 DETECTIVES? 609 00:21:04,206 --> 00:21:06,275 >> MY DAUGHTER, HER AND LESLIE, 610 00:21:06,275 --> 00:21:07,793 THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF 611 00:21:07,793 --> 00:21:08,724 TENSION BETWEEN BOTH OF TEM. 612 00:21:08,724 --> 00:21:10,758 I DID NOT WANT HER TO KNOW THAT 613 00:21:10,758 --> 00:21:12,310 I WAS GOING TO MEET LESLIE THAT 614 00:21:12,310 --> 00:21:12,517 NIGHT. 615 00:21:12,517 --> 00:21:13,931 >> TARR CLAIMS THAT AFTER HE 616 00:21:13,931 --> 00:21:16,586 LIED TO HIS DAUGHTER SHELBY 617 00:21:16,586 --> 00:21:18,034 ABOUT SEEING LESLIE, HE STUCK TO 618 00:21:18,034 --> 00:21:20,206 THAT LIE AT THE POLICE STATION 619 00:21:20,206 --> 00:21:23,965 BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID THEY WOULD 620 00:21:23,965 --> 00:21:24,689 TELL HER. 621 00:21:24,689 --> 00:21:25,827 AND HE NEVER CORRECTED THOSE 622 00:21:25,827 --> 00:21:28,413 LIES EVEN WHEN DETECTIVES 623 00:21:28,413 --> 00:21:29,034 ARRESTED HIM. 624 00:21:29,034 --> 00:21:31,862 WHY NOT JUST SAY, LOOK, BETWEEN 625 00:21:31,862 --> 00:21:34,000 YOU AND ME, I LIED TO MY 626 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,793 DAUGHTER, SO LET ME TELL YOU THE 627 00:21:36,793 --> 00:21:38,758 TRUTH, BUT LET'S JUST NOT SHARE 628 00:21:38,758 --> 00:21:40,068 THAT WITH HER? 629 00:21:40,068 --> 00:21:42,965 WHY WOULDN'T YOU DO THAT? 630 00:21:42,965 --> 00:21:43,517 >> I SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT. 631 00:21:43,517 --> 00:21:44,862 >> HE'S QUICK TO POINT OUT THE 632 00:21:44,862 --> 00:21:46,482 LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 633 00:21:46,482 --> 00:21:48,137 CONNECTING HIM TO THE BLOODY 634 00:21:48,137 --> 00:21:48,448 CRIME SCENE. 635 00:21:48,448 --> 00:21:50,068 INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED HIS WHITE 636 00:21:50,068 --> 00:21:51,896 JETTA BUT DID NOT FIND ANY 637 00:21:51,896 --> 00:21:54,758 SHARDS OF GLASS OR BLOODSTAINS. 638 00:21:54,758 --> 00:21:56,172 >> TWO TESTS BY THE STATE POLICE 639 00:21:56,172 --> 00:21:59,206 WERE DONE ON MY CAR. 640 00:21:59,206 --> 00:22:02,379 ZERO BLOOD FOUND IN MY CAR. 641 00:22:02,379 --> 00:22:05,482 THERE'S ZERO DNA OF MINE AT THE 642 00:22:05,482 --> 00:22:06,206 CRIME SCENE. 643 00:22:06,206 --> 00:22:09,517 ANYTHING FROM THE CRIME SCENE IN 644 00:22:09,517 --> 00:22:11,586 MY CAR OR ON ME OR ANY OF MY 645 00:22:11,586 --> 00:22:18,206 CLOTHING OR MY SHOES, ZERO. 646 00:22:18,206 --> 00:22:20,379 >> PROSECUTOR AFRONTY HAS TO 647 00:22:20,379 --> 00:22:21,275 CONCEDE THAT POINT. 648 00:22:21,275 --> 00:22:23,586 WAS ANY OF TARR'S DNA FOUND 649 00:22:23,586 --> 00:22:24,172 INSIDE THE HOUSE? 650 00:22:24,172 --> 00:22:24,862 >> NO. 651 00:22:24,862 --> 00:22:28,206 >> WERE ANY OF HIS FINGERPRINTS 652 00:22:28,206 --> 00:22:29,103 FOUND INSIDE THE HOUSE? 653 00:22:29,103 --> 00:22:31,586 >> NO. 654 00:22:31,586 --> 00:22:35,034 >> AND AUTHORITIES STILL HAD NOT 655 00:22:35,034 --> 00:22:36,551 FOUND THE MURDER WEAPON, BUT A 656 00:22:36,551 --> 00:22:38,000 WEEK AFTER THE SHOOTING THEY GOT 657 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,241 A PHONE CALL FROM TARR'S FRIEND 658 00:22:40,241 --> 00:22:41,758 BILLY ADAMS. 659 00:22:41,758 --> 00:22:43,000 ADAMS SAID TARR HAD CALLED HIM 660 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,241 FROM JAIL. 661 00:22:45,241 --> 00:22:45,758 THAT CALL WAS RECORDED. 662 00:22:45,758 --> 00:22:47,586 >> WHAT'S YOUR DAY LOOK LIKE 663 00:22:47,586 --> 00:22:50,068 TODAY BECAUSE I NEED TEN MINUTES 664 00:22:50,068 --> 00:22:50,586 OF YOUR TIME. 665 00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:52,724 >> TARR ASKED ADAMS TO GO TO HIS 666 00:22:52,724 --> 00:22:55,793 HOUSE AND LOOK FOR SOME DEAD 667 00:22:55,793 --> 00:22:56,034 BRACKETS. 668 00:22:56,034 --> 00:22:58,689 >> I'VE GOT SOME SPECIAL ALUMIUM 669 00:22:58,689 --> 00:23:00,620 BRACKETS THAT I NEED YOU TO GET 670 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:03,413 BECAUSE THEY'RE FOR ANOTHER JOB 671 00:23:03,413 --> 00:23:05,172 THAT I DIDN'T TELL DAD ABOUT 672 00:23:05,172 --> 00:23:05,758 YET. 673 00:23:05,758 --> 00:23:07,344 SO DON'T SAY NOTHING TO HIM. 674 00:23:07,344 --> 00:23:09,827 >> INSTEAD, ADAMS CONTACTED THE 675 00:23:09,827 --> 00:23:11,241 SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 676 00:23:11,241 --> 00:23:12,827 DEPUTIES SUSPECTED TARR KNEW THE 677 00:23:12,827 --> 00:23:14,068 PHONE CALL WAS BEING RECORDED 678 00:23:14,068 --> 00:23:15,758 AND WAS SPEAKING TO HIS FRIEND 679 00:23:15,758 --> 00:23:19,206 IN CODE ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER 680 00:23:19,206 --> 00:23:21,137 THAN DEPTH BRACKETS. 681 00:23:21,137 --> 00:23:23,586 >> YEAH, GET THEM AND GET RID OF 682 00:23:23,586 --> 00:23:23,793 THEM. 683 00:23:23,793 --> 00:23:25,068 >> THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS 684 00:23:25,068 --> 00:23:27,000 SUSPICIOUS, WHICH IS WHY THEY 685 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,068 >> INVESTIGATORS WERE ON THEIR 686 00:23:30,068 --> 00:23:31,000 HANDS AND KNEES IN TARR'S YARD 687 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,275 LOOKING FOR A GUN. 688 00:23:34,275 --> 00:23:35,896 DAN FOLTZ IS TARR'S DEFENSE 689 00:23:35,896 --> 00:23:36,137 ATTORNEY. 690 00:23:36,137 --> 00:23:40,206 >> THEY SEARCHED THAT AREA 691 00:23:40,206 --> 00:23:41,689 THOROUGHLY, NO GUN. 692 00:23:41,689 --> 00:23:44,965 YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID FIND, 693 00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:46,275 DEPTH BRACKETS. 694 00:23:46,275 --> 00:23:47,896 >> A FEW DAYS LATER THEY GOT 695 00:23:47,896 --> 00:23:49,620 ANOTHER PHONE CALL, THIS TIME 696 00:23:49,620 --> 00:23:52,448 FROM TARR'S BROTHER ASKING THEM 697 00:23:52,448 --> 00:23:54,172 TO COME BACK TO THE HOUSE. 698 00:23:54,172 --> 00:23:58,724 TARR'S FAMILY GAVE DEPUTIES A 699 00:23:58,724 --> 00:23:59,965 ZIP LOG BAG THEY'D SAID THEY'D 700 00:23:59,965 --> 00:24:01,655 FOUND IN THE SAME YARD THAT HAD 701 00:24:01,655 --> 00:24:07,103 BEEN SEARCHED JUST DAYS EARLIER. 702 00:24:07,103 --> 00:24:09,172 INSIDE, A SPRINGFIELD HELLCAT 9 703 00:24:09,172 --> 00:24:10,517 MILLIMETER PISTOL AND SILVER 704 00:24:10,517 --> 00:24:11,620 COLORED AMMUNITION. 705 00:24:11,620 --> 00:24:12,586 THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE 706 00:24:12,586 --> 00:24:15,965 DETERMINED THE GUN WAS THE 707 00:24:15,965 --> 00:24:17,137 MURDER WEAPON, AND THE 708 00:24:17,137 --> 00:24:18,275 AMMUNITION MATCHED THE CASINGS 709 00:24:18,275 --> 00:24:19,482 FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE. 710 00:24:19,482 --> 00:24:22,034 >> WE STILL TO THIS DAY DON'T 711 00:24:22,034 --> 00:24:25,068 KNOW HOW THAT ENDED UP THERE 712 00:24:25,068 --> 00:24:26,379 SPECIFICALLY IN THE SPOT THAT 713 00:24:26,379 --> 00:24:27,068 THEY SEARCHED. 714 00:24:27,068 --> 00:24:29,793 >> ARE YOU SAYING YOU WERE 715 00:24:29,793 --> 00:24:32,448 SETUP, SOMEONE WAS FRAMING YOU? 716 00:24:32,448 --> 00:24:32,793 >> YES. 717 00:24:32,793 --> 00:24:37,000 >> BUT IF SOMEONE WAS FRAMING 718 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,482 TARR, HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE TO BE 719 00:24:38,482 --> 00:24:40,586 PRETTY DETAIL-ORIENTED. 720 00:24:40,586 --> 00:24:42,034 THE STATE POLICE SAY TARR'S 721 00:24:42,034 --> 00:24:47,379 FINGERPRINT WAS ON THE ZIP LOG 722 00:24:47,379 --> 00:24:47,689 BAG 723 00:24:47,689 --> 00:24:48,241 LOCK BAG. 724 00:24:48,241 --> 00:24:49,655 >> HE IS ADAMANT HE WOULD NOT 725 00:24:49,655 --> 00:24:50,965 HAVE BEEN DUMB ENOUGH THAT HE 726 00:24:50,965 --> 00:24:52,068 WOULD HAVE CARRIED IT ALL THE 727 00:24:52,068 --> 00:24:56,517 WAY BACK TO HIS HOME AND SAID, 728 00:24:56,517 --> 00:24:59,862 HM, WHERE WILL I PUT THIS GUN ON 729 00:24:59,862 --> 00:25:00,793 MY 1-ACRE LOT, I THINK I'LL PUT 730 00:25:00,793 --> 00:25:03,724 IT NEXT TO THE FRONT DOOR. 731 00:25:03,724 --> 00:25:04,344 >> AND TARR POINTS OUT NEITHER 732 00:25:04,344 --> 00:25:05,482 HIS PRINTS NOR HIS DNA WERE 733 00:25:05,482 --> 00:25:07,758 FOUND ON THE GUN ITSELF. 734 00:25:07,758 --> 00:25:09,896 >> NOTHING ON THE FIREARM, NO 735 00:25:09,896 --> 00:25:11,758 DNA, NO PRINTS OF MINE ON THE 736 00:25:11,758 --> 00:25:12,000 FIREARM. 737 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 >> WHAT I THINK WHAT HAPPENED 738 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:20,758 WAS THE GUN WAS CLIPPEDEANED AND MR. 739 00:25:20,758 --> 00:25:22,137 TARR JUST MISSED A SPOT. 740 00:25:22,137 --> 00:25:24,931 >> THAT SPOT WAS FOUND ON THE 741 00:25:24,931 --> 00:25:27,206 ROD OF THE GUN. 742 00:25:27,206 --> 00:25:27,827 TARR'S EXPLANATION, THE GUN 743 00:25:27,827 --> 00:25:30,344 WASN'T HIS, IT BELONGED TO 744 00:25:30,344 --> 00:25:30,586 LESLIE. 745 00:25:30,586 --> 00:25:33,827 >> I PURCHASED THE HELLCAT, AND 746 00:25:33,827 --> 00:25:34,793 LESLIE PURCHASED IT FROM ME. 747 00:25:34,793 --> 00:25:36,586 >> AS INVESTIGATORS CONTINUED TO 748 00:25:36,586 --> 00:25:38,551 BUILD A CASE AGAINST BOBBY TARR, 749 00:25:38,551 --> 00:25:39,793 THEY SAY HE WAS HATCHING A PLAN 750 00:25:39,793 --> 00:25:42,965 TO SILENCE THE ONLY EYEWITNESS. 751 00:25:42,965 --> 00:25:46,517 DID YOU ASK A INMATE TO SHOOT 752 00:25:46,517 --> 00:25:51,931 CHRIS SMITH? 753 00:25:51,931 --> 00:25:54,172 >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF BOBBY 754 00:25:54,172 --> 00:26:07,793 TARR'S STORY? 755 00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,103 >>> LESLIE ACCOMPANIED ME HERE 756 00:26:12,103 --> 00:26:13,965 ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 757 00:26:13,965 --> 00:26:15,586 >> IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO KNEW 758 00:26:15,586 --> 00:26:19,241 WHAT GUNS LESLIE REEVES OWNED, 759 00:26:19,241 --> 00:26:21,344 IT'S HOWARD BOLTON, HER CLOSE 760 00:26:21,344 --> 00:26:22,931 FRIEND AND FIREARM INSTRUCTOR. 761 00:26:22,931 --> 00:26:24,620 >> WHEN I WOULD HOLD CLASSES, 762 00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:26,310 SHE WOULD ACTUALLY SHOOT WITH 763 00:26:26,310 --> 00:26:26,482 US. 764 00:26:26,482 --> 00:26:30,172 LESLIE WAS BECOMING A VERY GOOD 765 00:26:30,172 --> 00:26:30,551 SHOT. 766 00:26:30,551 --> 00:26:32,000 >> BOLTON SAYS LESLIE HAD 767 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,758 ORGANIZED A CLASS CALLED GIRLS 768 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:35,310 WITH GUNS NOT LONG BEFORE SHE 769 00:26:35,310 --> 00:26:36,965 WAS MURDERED. 770 00:26:36,965 --> 00:26:38,551 >> WE PUT THE GIRLS THROUGH 771 00:26:38,551 --> 00:26:39,413 THEIR PACES. 772 00:26:39,413 --> 00:26:40,413 THEY WOULD MOVE AND FIRE. 773 00:26:40,413 --> 00:26:42,137 THEY WOULD GO FORWARD AND FIRE. 774 00:26:42,137 --> 00:26:43,724 THEY WOULD COME BACK AND FIRE. 775 00:26:43,724 --> 00:26:46,344 AND LESLIE DID VERY, VERY WELL 776 00:26:46,344 --> 00:26:47,137 AT THAT. 777 00:26:47,137 --> 00:26:48,862 >> BOBBY TARR INSISTED TO US 778 00:26:48,862 --> 00:26:51,310 THAT LESLIE OWNED THE HELLCAT 779 00:26:51,310 --> 00:26:53,482 THAT WAS USED TO KILL HER, BUT 780 00:26:53,482 --> 00:26:55,862 HOWARD SAYS HE NEVER SAW HER USE 781 00:26:55,862 --> 00:26:56,000 IT. 782 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 >> LESLIE NEVER BROUGHT A 783 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,275 SPRINGFIELD LET ALONE A HELLCAT 784 00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:04,379 TO CLASS. 785 00:27:04,379 --> 00:27:07,000 >> SO HOW THEN DID LESLIE'S DNA 786 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,724 GET ON THE GUIDE ROD OF THE 787 00:27:09,724 --> 00:27:09,965 MURDER. 788 00:27:09,965 --> 00:27:12,000 HE BELIEVES LESLIE'S DNA COULD 789 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,586 ONLY BE ON THAT GUN ROD IF THE 790 00:27:13,586 --> 00:27:16,034 GUN WAS FIRED AT HER AT CLOSE 791 00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:16,241 RANGE. 792 00:27:16,241 --> 00:27:18,068 >> SO WHEN HE SHOT HER WHEREVER 793 00:27:18,068 --> 00:27:21,172 IT WAS HE SHOT HER, WOULD HAVE 794 00:27:21,172 --> 00:27:23,241 CONTAMINATED THAT PART OF THE 795 00:27:23,241 --> 00:27:23,448 GUN. 796 00:27:23,448 --> 00:27:25,551 >> IN FACT, HOWARD SAYS LESLIE 797 00:27:25,551 --> 00:27:26,965 OWNED A DIFFERENT GUN. 798 00:27:26,965 --> 00:27:28,655 HER FRIENDS SAY THEY WISH SHE 799 00:27:28,655 --> 00:27:30,517 WOULD TAKEN IT WITH HER THE 800 00:27:30,517 --> 00:27:31,379 NIGHT SHE WAS KILLED. 801 00:27:31,379 --> 00:27:34,448 >> HAD LESLIE TAKEN THE GUN WITH 802 00:27:34,448 --> 00:27:36,827 HER, I ASSURE YOU THE OUTCOME 803 00:27:36,827 --> 00:27:38,310 WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. 804 00:27:38,310 --> 00:27:40,103 >> TARR DECLARED HIS INNOCENCE, 805 00:27:40,103 --> 00:27:42,551 BUT THE CASE AGAINST HIM COULD 806 00:27:42,551 --> 00:27:44,862 HINGE ON WHAT CHRIS SMITH, THE 807 00:27:44,862 --> 00:27:46,862 ONLY SURVIVOR, REMEMBERS. 808 00:27:46,862 --> 00:27:49,827 WULD HE BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY 809 00:27:49,827 --> 00:27:50,724 HIM? 810 00:27:50,724 --> 00:27:52,517 THAT WAS THE QUESTION AS CHRIS 811 00:27:52,517 --> 00:27:53,482 REMAINED IN A COMA. 812 00:27:53,482 --> 00:27:55,241 >> WE WERE TALKING TO HIM, 813 00:27:55,241 --> 00:27:57,758 SINGING TO HIM, AND I WAS ALWAYS 814 00:27:57,758 --> 00:28:01,931 HOLDING HIS HAND. 815 00:28:01,931 --> 00:28:07,413 ♪ HALL LAY LULIA 816 00:28:07,413 --> 00:28:09,827 >> WHILE CHRIS SMITH LAY 817 00:28:09,827 --> 00:28:10,448 HELPLESS AUTHORITIES SAY TARR 818 00:28:10,448 --> 00:28:12,137 WAS PLAUING TO SILENCE HIM 819 00:28:12,137 --> 00:28:12,379 FOREVER. 820 00:28:12,379 --> 00:28:14,310 A GRAND JURY INDICTED TARR ON 821 00:28:14,310 --> 00:28:15,896 TWO COUNTS OF SOLICITATION OF 822 00:28:15,896 --> 00:28:16,103 MURDER. 823 00:28:16,103 --> 00:28:17,862 THOSE CHARGES ARE BASED ON 824 00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:20,827 ALLEGATIONS BY AN INMATE WHO 825 00:28:20,827 --> 00:28:23,137 SAYS TARR PAID HIM $10,000 TO 826 00:28:23,137 --> 00:28:26,310 SHOOT AND KILL THE LEAD 827 00:28:26,310 --> 00:28:31,275 DETECTIVE AND CHRIS. 828 00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:33,275 DID YOU ASK A INMATE TO SHOOT 829 00:28:33,275 --> 00:28:34,103 CHRIS SMITH? 830 00:28:34,103 --> 00:28:34,827 >> NO, MA'AM. 831 00:28:34,827 --> 00:28:37,000 >> AND TO KILL DETECTIVE ROACH? 832 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:37,965 >> NO, MA'AM. 833 00:28:37,965 --> 00:28:39,724 >> TARR SAYS THE ALLEGED PLOT 834 00:28:39,724 --> 00:28:45,000 WAS A LIE CONCOCTED BY A FORMER 835 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:45,275 CELLMATE. 836 00:28:45,275 --> 00:28:47,103 TARR SAYS HE LOANED THAT 837 00:28:47,103 --> 00:28:49,551 CELLMATE $10,000 FOR HIS BOND 838 00:28:49,551 --> 00:28:51,413 AND THAT IT HAD NOTHING TO DO 839 00:28:51,413 --> 00:28:53,172 WITH CHRIS SMITH. 840 00:28:53,172 --> 00:28:55,379 WERE YOU WORRIED HE WAS GOING TO 841 00:28:55,379 --> 00:28:57,206 TESTIFY AND POINT TO YOU AS A 842 00:28:57,206 --> 00:28:57,448 SHOOTER? 843 00:28:57,448 --> 00:29:00,448 >> NO, I WAS NOT WORRIED ONE 844 00:29:00,448 --> 00:29:00,655 IOTA. 845 00:29:00,655 --> 00:29:02,620 >> THE TRUTH WAS THAT NO ONE 846 00:29:02,620 --> 00:29:03,689 KNEW WHAT CHRIS SMITH 847 00:29:03,689 --> 00:29:04,000 REMEMBERED. 848 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 THE FIRST TIME HE REGAINED 849 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,758 CONSCIOUSNESS WAS IN EARLY 850 00:29:08,758 --> 00:29:11,655 JANUARY 2022, ABOUT TWO MONTHS 851 00:29:11,655 --> 00:29:17,620 AFTER THE SHOOTING. 852 00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:18,620 CHRIS' VOICE WAS SO WEAK IN 853 00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:23,896 THOSE EARLY DAYS, THAT HIS OLD 854 00:29:23,896 --> 00:29:26,172 FRIEND MARK REARDEN, A TALK SHOW 855 00:29:26,172 --> 00:29:29,241 HOST IN ST. LOUIS BARELY 856 00:29:29,241 --> 00:29:31,103 RECOGNIZED CHRIS ON THE PHONE. 857 00:29:31,103 --> 00:29:32,310 >> I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT I 858 00:29:32,310 --> 00:29:36,965 WAS HEARING FROM THIS GUY, AND I 859 00:29:36,965 --> 00:29:37,793 CRIED, HE CRIED. 860 00:29:37,793 --> 00:29:39,758 JUST TALKING ABOUT THAT MOMENT 861 00:29:39,758 --> 00:29:40,896 REALLY BRINGS ME CHILLS BECAUSE 862 00:29:40,896 --> 00:29:42,241 I JUST THOUGHT HE WAS NEVER 863 00:29:42,241 --> 00:29:43,551 GOING TO BE SOMEONE THAT WAS IN 864 00:29:43,551 --> 00:29:44,448 MY LIFE EVER AGAIN. 865 00:29:44,448 --> 00:29:45,931 >> WHAT DID CHRIS TELL YOU? 866 00:29:45,931 --> 00:29:47,965 >> WELL, WHEN CHRIS CAME OUT OF 867 00:29:47,965 --> 00:29:49,655 THIS, I WAS PRETTY SENSITIVE TO 868 00:29:49,655 --> 00:29:52,344 ASK HIM ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED 869 00:29:52,344 --> 00:29:53,206 THAT NIGHT BECAUSE I THINK I WAS 870 00:29:53,206 --> 00:29:54,862 A LITTLE AFRAID OF EVEN HAVING 871 00:29:54,862 --> 00:29:55,620 THOSE CONVERSATIONS. 872 00:29:55,620 --> 00:29:56,896 SO MOST OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE 873 00:29:56,896 --> 00:29:59,896 HAD WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON, HEY, 874 00:29:59,896 --> 00:30:00,793 HAD YOU? 875 00:30:00,793 --> 00:30:01,827 ARE YOU GOING TO BE OKAY? 876 00:30:01,827 --> 00:30:03,724 >> AFTER INTENSE PHYSICAL 877 00:30:03,724 --> 00:30:05,724 THERAPY, HE'S MADE THE CREDIBLE 878 00:30:05,724 --> 00:30:05,965 STRIDES. 879 00:30:05,965 --> 00:30:08,172 HE'S MUCH STRONGER THAN WHEN HE 880 00:30:08,172 --> 00:30:10,965 AWOKE FROM A COMA, BUT HE 881 00:30:10,965 --> 00:30:13,827 DISCOVERED THERE ARE GAPS IN HIS 882 00:30:13,827 --> 00:30:14,034 MEMORY. 883 00:30:14,034 --> 00:30:16,793 WHAT DOES HE REMEMBER FROM THAT 884 00:30:16,793 --> 00:30:18,413 TERRIBLE NIGHT? 885 00:30:18,413 --> 00:30:20,931 >> I WISH TO GOD I COULD 886 00:30:20,931 --> 00:30:22,896 REMEMBER SOMETHING, I MEAN EVEN 887 00:30:22,896 --> 00:30:25,965 JUST A SMIDGEN OF SOMETHING, BUT 888 00:30:25,965 --> 00:30:27,310 I REMEMBER NOTHING. 889 00:30:27,310 --> 00:30:30,000 >> HE REMEMBERS NOTHING OF THE 890 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,034 SHOOTING OR LESLIE REEVES. 891 00:30:32,034 --> 00:30:34,172 >> I SAID WHO THE HECK'S LESLIE? 892 00:30:34,172 --> 00:30:35,517 I DON'T KNOW LESLIE. 893 00:30:35,517 --> 00:30:37,275 >> YOU HAD NO IDEA. 894 00:30:37,275 --> 00:30:38,724 >> NO, NOTHING. 895 00:30:38,724 --> 00:30:39,620 >> NOTHING. 896 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:41,103 >> IS CHRIS THE SAME PERSON WHO 897 00:30:41,103 --> 00:30:42,689 USED TO COME ON YOUR SHOW BEFORE 898 00:30:42,689 --> 00:30:43,275 HE WAS SHOT? 899 00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:43,689 >> YEAH. 900 00:30:43,689 --> 00:30:46,482 I THINK AT THE CORE HE'S STILL 901 00:30:46,482 --> 00:30:47,000 THE SAME GUY THAT I KNEW. 902 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,655 HE'S STILL THE SMARTASS. 903 00:30:49,655 --> 00:30:51,448 HE'S STILL THE GUY GOING TO TALK 904 00:30:51,448 --> 00:30:53,068 ABOUT HOW GOOD HE IS AND HOW 905 00:30:53,068 --> 00:30:54,758 GOOD HE WAS AND HOW MUCH HE CAN 906 00:30:54,758 --> 00:30:55,586 LIFT WEIGHTS. 907 00:30:55,586 --> 00:30:58,448 >> CHRIS WORKS OUT AT THE GYM 908 00:30:58,448 --> 00:30:59,896 MOST MORNINGS TRYING TO REGAIN 909 00:30:59,896 --> 00:31:01,517 MUSCLE SO THAT SOMEDAY HE'LL BE 910 00:31:01,517 --> 00:31:06,103 ABLE TO WALK WITHOUT ASSISTANCE. 911 00:31:06,103 --> 00:31:09,862 HE'S EVEN BACK TO BEING THE LEAD 912 00:31:09,862 --> 00:31:11,758 SINGER IN HIS ROCK AND ROLL 913 00:31:11,758 --> 00:31:11,965 BAND. 914 00:31:11,965 --> 00:31:13,586 >> I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DID MAKE 915 00:31:13,586 --> 00:31:13,758 IT. 916 00:31:13,758 --> 00:31:14,931 I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE DID. 917 00:31:14,931 --> 00:31:17,413 HE'S A MIRACLE. 918 00:31:17,413 --> 00:31:20,379 >> BUT CHRIS IS AWARE HIS LIFE 919 00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:23,034 IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT 920 00:31:23,034 --> 00:31:24,275 ONCE WAS. 921 00:31:24,275 --> 00:31:27,137 >> SO I'M HALF THE MAN I USED TO 922 00:31:27,137 --> 00:31:29,655 BE, BUT I'M TRYING TO GET IT 923 00:31:29,655 --> 00:31:31,172 BACK AS BEST I CAN. 924 00:31:31,172 --> 00:31:33,413 AND MY LEFT LEG IS PARTIALLY 925 00:31:33,413 --> 00:31:35,275 PARALYZED FROM MY KNEE TO MY HIP 926 00:31:35,275 --> 00:31:38,034 AND KNEE TO MY TOES COMPLETELY 927 00:31:38,034 --> 00:31:38,310 PARALYZED. 928 00:31:38,310 --> 00:31:40,448 IF THERE'S ANY RESEARCHERS OUT 929 00:31:40,448 --> 00:31:44,103 THERE, PLEASE GET AHOLD OF ME. 930 00:31:44,103 --> 00:31:46,586 I WANT TO BE WHOLE AGAIN AND GET 931 00:31:46,586 --> 00:31:48,413 MY LIFE BACK, PLEASE. 932 00:31:48,413 --> 00:31:50,137 >> IT'S TOUGH, ISN'T IT, CHRIS? 933 00:31:50,137 --> 00:31:51,689 >> TOUGH DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO 934 00:31:51,689 --> 00:31:53,862 DESCRIBE IT. 935 00:31:53,862 --> 00:31:54,379 DOESN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT. 936 00:31:54,379 --> 00:31:56,862 >> CHRIS IS RESIGNED TO LIVING 937 00:31:56,862 --> 00:31:58,206 WITH PART OF THAT HOLLOW POINT 938 00:31:58,206 --> 00:31:59,448 BULL IN HIS BRAIN. 939 00:31:59,448 --> 00:32:01,068 DOCTORS SAY IT'S IN A SPOT THAT 940 00:32:01,068 --> 00:32:02,482 MAKES IT TOO DANGEROUS TO 941 00:32:02,482 --> 00:32:02,724 REMOVE. 942 00:32:02,724 --> 00:32:04,620 SO THAT'S WHERE YOU GOT SHOT? 943 00:32:04,620 --> 00:32:06,517 >> YEAH, RIGHT HERE. 944 00:32:06,517 --> 00:32:09,000 YOU CAN STILL FEEL IT IN MY 945 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:09,655 SKULL RIGHT THERE. 946 00:32:09,655 --> 00:32:11,137 >> AFTER DECADES ON HIS OWN, 947 00:32:11,137 --> 00:32:12,862 CHRIS HAD TO MOVE BACK INTO HIS 948 00:32:12,862 --> 00:32:16,965 MOTHER'S HOUSE. 949 00:32:16,965 --> 00:32:17,862 >> I THANK MY BLESSINGS DAILY 950 00:32:17,862 --> 00:32:18,724 THAT HE'S HERE WITH US. 951 00:32:18,724 --> 00:32:20,586 I JUST WISH THAT THIS GUY DIDN'T 952 00:32:20,586 --> 00:32:22,551 TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY FROM HIM. 953 00:32:22,551 --> 00:32:24,241 >> CHRIS VISITS WITH HIS LOYAL 954 00:32:24,241 --> 00:32:25,931 DOG TIKI BUT NO LONGER LIVES 955 00:32:25,931 --> 00:32:28,034 WITH HER, AND HE'D LOVE TO SEE 956 00:32:28,034 --> 00:32:29,241 HIS 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER MORE 957 00:32:29,241 --> 00:32:31,000 OFTEN, BUT HE CAN'T DRIVE. 958 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,206 AND HE'S LIVING IN ST. LOUIS 959 00:32:33,206 --> 00:32:34,862 ALMOST 2 HOURS AWAY FROM HIS 960 00:32:34,862 --> 00:32:36,965 DAUGHTER AND EX-WIFE. 961 00:32:36,965 --> 00:32:40,103 >> I MISS HER. 962 00:32:40,103 --> 00:32:41,896 SHE'S MY LITTLE PEA IN A POD. 963 00:32:41,896 --> 00:32:43,620 I MEAN WE DID EVERYTHING 964 00:32:43,620 --> 00:32:43,896 TOGETHER. 965 00:32:43,896 --> 00:32:46,137 >> THE TRIAL OF ROBERT TARR WAS 966 00:32:46,137 --> 00:32:47,931 SET FOR APRIL 2024, BUT CHRIS 967 00:32:47,931 --> 00:32:48,793 WOULD NOT BE THERE. 968 00:32:48,793 --> 00:32:51,000 HE TOLD THE PROSECUTOR HE WAS 969 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,482 TOO ANGRY TO ATTEND. 970 00:32:53,482 --> 00:32:54,689 YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU'D BE ABLE 971 00:32:54,689 --> 00:32:56,655 TO JUST SIT THERE? 972 00:32:56,655 --> 00:32:56,931 >> NO WAY. 973 00:32:56,931 --> 00:32:57,689 I MYSELF. 974 00:32:57,689 --> 00:32:58,793 THERE'S NO WAY. 975 00:32:58,793 --> 00:32:58,965 NO. 976 00:32:58,965 --> 00:33:01,241 >> BUT CHRIS' ALLEGED SHOOTER, 977 00:33:01,241 --> 00:33:02,827 BOBBY TARR WILL BE THERE, AND HE 978 00:33:02,827 --> 00:33:05,586 SAID HE WAS EAGER TO TELL THE 979 00:33:05,586 --> 00:33:08,000 JURY THAT HE'S NOT A VIOLENT 980 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:08,862 MAN. 981 00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:12,103 BUT ON THIS ONE NIGHT, EARLY 982 00:33:12,103 --> 00:33:15,034 MORNING DID YOU SNAP? 983 00:33:15,034 --> 00:33:15,241 >> NO. 984 00:33:15,241 --> 00:33:16,896 THAT'S NOT MY NATURE. 985 00:33:16,896 --> 00:33:20,310 I DON'T LOSE IT AND SNAP. 986 00:33:20,310 --> 00:33:22,689 >> FOLLOW ALONG WITH CHRIS' 987 00:33:22,689 --> 00:33:33,103 RE 988 00:33:33,103 --> 00:33:35,931 >>> WHEN BOBBY TARR WENT ON 989 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:38,551 TRIAL IN APRIL 2024, PROSECUTORS 990 00:33:38,551 --> 00:33:41,275 TOLD THE JURY THAT HE KILLED 991 00:33:41,275 --> 00:33:43,000 LESLIE REEVES RATHER THAN ALLOW 992 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,241 HER TO LIVE THE LIFE SHE WANTED, 993 00:33:45,241 --> 00:33:47,448 A LIFE WITHOUT HIM. 994 00:33:47,448 --> 00:33:50,000 >> MR. TARR COULDN'T DEAL WITH 995 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,448 THE FACT THAT LESLIE WAS SEEING 996 00:33:52,448 --> 00:33:53,931 SOMEBODY ELSE, AND HE HAD TO GO 997 00:33:53,931 --> 00:33:55,172 AND TAKE CARE OF IT. 998 00:33:55,172 --> 00:33:58,758 >> ANDREW AFFRUNTI SAYS TARR 999 00:33:58,758 --> 00:34:00,448 SECRETLY FOLLOWED LESLIE TO 1000 00:34:00,448 --> 00:34:02,103 FARMERSVILLE EARLY THAT EVENING, 1001 00:34:02,103 --> 00:34:04,586 AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS HIS PHONE 1002 00:34:04,586 --> 00:34:07,724 BEGAN SHOWING SOME INTERESTING 1003 00:34:07,724 --> 00:34:08,000 ACTIVITY. 1004 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,137 >> HE HAD ACTUALLY SEARCHED 1005 00:34:10,137 --> 00:34:11,724 CHRIS SMITH ON HIS PHONE AND 1006 00:34:11,724 --> 00:34:14,000 TRIED TO FIND HIS FACEBOOK 1007 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:14,241 PROFILE. 1008 00:34:14,241 --> 00:34:16,482 >> TARR HEADED HOME AND TEXTED 1009 00:34:16,482 --> 00:34:19,655 HIS FRIEND BILLY ADAMS. 1010 00:34:19,655 --> 00:34:22,206 "I DON'T FEEL LIKE SHE WOULD 1011 00:34:22,206 --> 00:34:23,379 DRIVE THAT FAR FOR A PARTY OR GO 1012 00:34:23,379 --> 00:34:24,447 OUT WITH A GIRLFRIEND. 1013 00:34:24,447 --> 00:34:27,000 I THINK IT'S FOR A DUDE." 1014 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,275 HE ALSO SEARCHED WHETHER POLICE 1015 00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:31,000 CAN TRACK HIS PHONE IF HE WAS 1016 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,137 USING A VPN, A VIRTUAL PRIVATE 1017 00:34:35,137 --> 00:34:35,379 NETWORK. 1018 00:34:35,379 --> 00:34:37,896 >> HE WAS RESEARCHING TO 1019 00:34:37,896 --> 00:34:39,310 DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THAT 1020 00:34:39,310 --> 00:34:41,413 WOULD MASK WHERE HIS LOCATION 1021 00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:41,827 WAS. 1022 00:34:41,827 --> 00:34:44,931 IT'S WHY HE WAS USING THE PHONE. 1023 00:34:44,931 --> 00:34:46,137 >> AUTHORITIES SAY AROUND 1024 00:34:46,137 --> 00:34:48,172 MIDNIGHT TARR LEFT HOME STOPPING 1025 00:34:48,172 --> 00:34:50,310 AT THAT GAS STATION. 1026 00:34:50,310 --> 00:34:52,275 AND THEN ACCORDING TO AFFRUNTI, 1027 00:34:52,275 --> 00:34:54,137 SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS AND CELL 1028 00:34:54,137 --> 00:34:55,585 TOWER RECORDS SHOW THAT TARR 1029 00:34:55,585 --> 00:34:57,413 DROVE BACK TO FARMERSVILLE. 1030 00:34:57,413 --> 00:35:00,413 YOU BELIEVE HE INTENDED TO KILL 1031 00:35:00,413 --> 00:35:03,068 BOTH CHRIS AND LESLIE? 1032 00:35:03,068 --> 00:35:06,275 >> I 100% BELIEVE THAT HE WENT 1033 00:35:06,275 --> 00:35:09,000 UP THERE WITH THE THE INTENT TO 1034 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,931 DO SERIOUS HARM TO BOTH OF THEM. 1035 00:35:11,931 --> 00:35:13,896 >> WITH ONE VICTIM DEAD AND THE 1036 00:35:13,896 --> 00:35:16,000 OTHER WITH NO MEMORY, IT'S 1037 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,931 DIFFICULT TO SAY WITH CERTAINTY 1038 00:35:17,931 --> 00:35:19,344 WHAT HAPPENED, BUT THE 1039 00:35:19,344 --> 00:35:22,068 PROSECUTION ARGUED THAT SOME 1040 00:35:22,068 --> 00:35:25,896 TIME AFTER 1:00 A.M., BOBBY TARR 1041 00:35:25,896 --> 00:35:27,172 TRIED TO ENTER THROUGH THE BACK 1042 00:35:27,172 --> 00:35:29,275 DOOR OF CHRIS SMITH'S HOUSE. 1043 00:35:29,275 --> 00:35:30,448 LESLIE AND CHRIS TRIED TO KEEP 1044 00:35:30,448 --> 00:35:31,827 HIM OUT. 1045 00:35:31,827 --> 00:35:33,517 >> THERE WAS SOME KIND OF 1046 00:35:33,517 --> 00:35:36,931 ALTERCATION OR STRUGGLE, AND 1047 00:35:36,931 --> 00:35:39,931 THAT'S WHEN THE GLASS WAS 1048 00:35:39,931 --> 00:35:40,137 BROKEN. 1049 00:35:40,137 --> 00:35:43,206 >> CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR JOSH 1050 00:35:43,206 --> 00:35:45,068 EASTON TOLD THE JURY WHAT HE HAD 1051 00:35:45,068 --> 00:35:46,793 OBSERVED INSIDE THE KITCHEN. 1052 00:35:46,793 --> 00:36:04,241 OBSERVED INSIDE THE KITCHEN. >> THE REFRIGERATOR WAS 1053 00:36:04,241 --> 00:36:45,000 >> THE REFRIGERATOR WAS 1054 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,586 >> HE SAYS EVIDENCE OF A FIGHT 1055 00:36:47,586 --> 00:36:49,655 IN THE KITCHEN TELLS A DIFFERENT 1056 00:36:49,655 --> 00:36:49,931 STORY. 1057 00:36:49,931 --> 00:36:51,344 >> THE EVIDENCE WAS ASTONISHING. 1058 00:36:51,344 --> 00:36:53,586 >> FROM LOOKING AT THAT CRIME 1059 00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:56,482 SCENE DO YOU BELIEVE THAT CHRIS 1060 00:36:56,482 --> 00:36:58,724 SMITH HAD TO FIGHT HIS ASSAILANT 1061 00:36:58,724 --> 00:36:59,827 IN THE KITCHEN? 1062 00:36:59,827 --> 00:37:01,275 >> IT WOULD APPEAR TO ME THAT 1063 00:37:01,275 --> 00:37:02,172 THERE WAS SOME SIGNIFICANT 1064 00:37:02,172 --> 00:37:03,344 STRUGGLE IN THAT KITCHEN BETWEEN 1065 00:37:03,344 --> 00:37:05,379 HIM AND SOMEONE ELSE. 1066 00:37:05,379 --> 00:37:06,758 >> AND HE SAYS THE ASSAILANT 1067 00:37:06,758 --> 00:37:08,275 COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BOBBY TARR 1068 00:37:08,275 --> 00:37:12,931 BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 1069 00:37:12,931 --> 00:37:13,724 COVERED IN BLOOD. 1070 00:37:13,724 --> 00:37:15,310 >> THEY DID NOT IDENTIFY A 1071 00:37:15,310 --> 00:37:18,379 SINGLE PIECE OF DNA IN HIS CAR. 1072 00:37:18,379 --> 00:37:20,793 THEY DIDN'T IDENTIFY A BLOODY 1073 00:37:20,793 --> 00:37:21,896 FINGERPRINT. 1074 00:37:21,896 --> 00:37:23,482 THEY DID NOT IDENTIFY ANYTHING 1075 00:37:23,482 --> 00:37:24,551 TYING HIM TO THAT CRIME SCENE. 1076 00:37:24,551 --> 00:37:28,620 >> BUT PROSECUTORS ARGUED THE 1077 00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:30,413 HOUSE WASN'T BLOODY WHEN TARR 1078 00:37:30,413 --> 00:37:30,896 LEFT. 1079 00:37:30,896 --> 00:37:33,931 THEY SAY CHRIS BLED HEAVILY IN 1080 00:37:33,931 --> 00:37:35,931 THE 12 HOURS IT TOOK FOR HELP TO 1081 00:37:35,931 --> 00:37:36,137 ARRIVE. 1082 00:37:36,137 --> 00:37:37,275 AND WHILE THE PROSECUTION DID 1083 00:37:37,275 --> 00:37:39,068 NOT HAVE A LOT OF FORENSIC 1084 00:37:39,068 --> 00:37:40,448 EVIDENCE LINKING TARR TO THE 1085 00:37:40,448 --> 00:37:43,000 CRIME SCENE, AFFRUNTI SAYS HIS 1086 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,689 PHONE ACTIVITY, HIS LIES TO 1087 00:37:45,689 --> 00:37:49,137 INVESTIGATORS, AND THE EVIDENCE 1088 00:37:49,137 --> 00:37:50,517 FOUND ON THE HELLCAT ALL PROVE 1089 00:37:50,517 --> 00:37:51,310 HIS GUILT. 1090 00:37:51,310 --> 00:37:53,275 >> WHEN YOU PUT ALL THAT 1091 00:37:53,275 --> 00:37:55,655 TOGETHER, THAT'S WHEN YOU GET 1092 00:37:55,655 --> 00:37:57,000 THE CLEAR PICTURE OF WHAT 1093 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:57,241 HAPPENED. 1094 00:37:57,241 --> 00:37:59,068 >> WHEN IT WAS THE DEFENSE'S 1095 00:37:59,068 --> 00:38:00,655 TURN, TARR SAYS HE WANTED TO 1096 00:38:00,655 --> 00:38:03,206 TELL HIS STORY TO THE JURY, BUT 1097 00:38:03,206 --> 00:38:05,241 HE CHOSE NOT TO TESTIFY. 1098 00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:06,758 WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST DECIDE YOU 1099 00:38:06,758 --> 00:38:07,896 WERE GOING TO TALK TO THE JURY 1100 00:38:07,896 --> 00:38:13,724 AND TELL THIS STORY IF, IN FACT, 1101 00:38:13,724 --> 00:38:16,448 YOU HAVE ASTERRY TO STORY TO TELL? 1102 00:38:16,448 --> 00:38:17,413 >> I SHOULD HAVE. 1103 00:38:17,413 --> 00:38:18,448 I VERY WELL SHOULD HAVE. 1104 00:38:18,448 --> 00:38:20,344 >> WE MADE A STRATEGIC DECISION 1105 00:38:20,344 --> 00:38:21,379 BECAUSE IT MAY HAVE OPENED THE 1106 00:38:21,379 --> 00:38:23,206 DOOR FOR A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER 1107 00:38:23,206 --> 00:38:24,448 MORE DAMAGING EVIDENCE TO BE 1108 00:38:24,448 --> 00:38:27,379 USED TO CROSS EXAMINE HIM. 1109 00:38:27,379 --> 00:38:29,310 >> THE DEFENSE DIDN'T PUT ON ANY 1110 00:38:29,310 --> 00:38:31,793 WITNESSES AND COUNTED ON THE 1111 00:38:31,793 --> 00:38:32,551 JURY TO FIND REASONABL DOUBT IN 1112 00:38:32,551 --> 00:38:36,448 THE LACK OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 1113 00:38:36,448 --> 00:38:41,206 AFTER THREE HOURS THE JURY FOUND 1114 00:38:41,206 --> 00:38:42,586 BOBBY TARR GUILTY OF FIRST 1115 00:38:42,586 --> 00:38:44,000 DEGREE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED 1116 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:44,206 MURDER. 1117 00:38:44,206 --> 00:38:46,517 >> EVERYONE CLAPPED, AND BOBBY 1118 00:38:46,517 --> 00:38:50,655 JUST SAT THERE SHAKING HIS HEAD. 1119 00:38:50,655 --> 00:38:52,103 >> TWO MONTHS LATER TARR WAS 1120 00:38:52,103 --> 00:38:54,517 BACK IN COURT FOR SENTENCING, 1121 00:38:54,517 --> 00:38:57,517 AND THIS TIME SO WAS CHRIS TO 1122 00:38:57,517 --> 00:38:59,793 TELL THE JUDGE HOW THE SHOOTING 1123 00:38:59,793 --> 00:39:01,103 IMPACTED HIM AND HIS FAMILY. 1124 00:39:01,103 --> 00:39:04,172 CAMERAS WERE NOT ALLOWED IN THE 1125 00:39:04,172 --> 00:39:04,586 COURTROOM. 1126 00:39:04,586 --> 00:39:08,551 >> LOST MY HOUSE, LOST MY TRUCK, 1127 00:39:08,551 --> 00:39:10,620 I LITERALLY LOST MY LIFE WITHOUT 1128 00:39:10,620 --> 00:39:12,172 BEING KILLED. 1129 00:39:12,172 --> 00:39:15,482 >> TARR ALSO SPOKE AND DENIED 1130 00:39:15,482 --> 00:39:16,620 SHOOTING LESLIE AND CHRIS. 1131 00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:19,724 THE JUDGE SENTENCED HIM TO 85 1132 00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:19,931 YEARS. 1133 00:39:19,931 --> 00:39:21,206 >> I HOPE THE REST OF HIS TIME 1134 00:39:21,206 --> 00:39:26,862 ON THIS EARTH IS HELL. 1135 00:39:26,862 --> 00:39:28,689 >> LESLIE REEVES' FRIENDS ARE 1136 00:39:28,689 --> 00:39:31,413 FOCUSED ON KEEPING HER MEMORY 1137 00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:32,068 ALIVE. 1138 00:39:32,068 --> 00:39:35,172 >> SHE WAS A LIGHT OF A LOT OF 1139 00:39:35,172 --> 00:39:35,827 PEOPLE'S LIVES. 1140 00:39:35,827 --> 00:39:37,034 SHE WAS ALWAYS SMILING. 1141 00:39:37,034 --> 00:39:39,379 SHE WAS A VERY GOOD MOTHER, 1142 00:39:39,379 --> 00:39:42,448 LIVED FOR HER KIDS AND WAS AN 1143 00:39:42,448 --> 00:39:46,137 ADVOCATE AND CHAMPION OF WOMEN, 1144 00:39:46,137 --> 00:39:48,896 WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AND ESPECIALLY 1145 00:39:48,896 --> 00:39:51,068 WOMEN THAT WERE ABUSED. 1146 00:39:51,068 --> 00:39:53,206 >> IF IT CAN HAPPEN TO HER, IT 1147 00:39:53,206 --> 00:39:55,137 CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE, SO WE ALL 1148 00:39:55,137 --> 00:39:58,275 NEED TO BE CAREFUL. 1149 00:39:58,275 --> 00:40:00,103 >> CHRIS SMITH SAYS HE NEVER 1150 00:40:00,103 --> 00:40:03,379 EXPECTED HE'D BE A VICTIM OF 1151 00:40:03,379 --> 00:40:04,000 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CAUTIONS 1152 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,482 OTHER MEN TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT 1153 00:40:05,482 --> 00:40:06,655 THEIR BEHAVIOR. 1154 00:40:06,655 --> 00:40:11,379 >> AS GUYS YOU FEEL LIKE YOU 1155 00:40:11,379 --> 00:40:14,896 WANT TO HURT A WOMAN, GET HELP. 1156 00:40:14,896 --> 00:40:16,862 >> WHILE CHRIS MOURNS HIS OLD 1157 00:40:16,862 --> 00:40:18,448 LIFE, HE'S WRITING A BOOK ABOUT 1158 00:40:18,448 --> 00:40:20,034 HIS EXPERIENCES AND SAYS HE'S 1159 00:40:20,034 --> 00:40:23,724 WORKING TO MAKE WHAT HE CALLS 1160 00:40:23,724 --> 00:40:26,275 POOR MAN'S MARGERITAS OUT OF THE 1161 00:40:26,275 --> 00:40:29,172 LEMONS AND LIMES HE'S BEEN 1162 00:40:29,172 --> 00:40:29,482 HANDED. 1163 00:40:29,482 --> 00:40:31,068 >> I'VE HAD A DO OVER. 1164 00:40:31,068 --> 00:40:33,034 THE GOOD LORD GAVE ME A DO OVER. 1165 00:40:33,034 --> 00:40:34,379 NOT MANY PEOPLE GET A SECOND 1166 00:40:34,379 --> 00:40:35,551 CHANCE AT LIFE. 1167 00:40:35,551 --> 00:40:37,655 >> CHRIS HAS FOUND LOVE WITH 1168 00:40:37,655 --> 00:40:38,482 MICHELLE ALBRECHT. 1169 00:40:38,482 --> 00:40:40,586 >> SHE'S AN ANGEL, LOVING ME AND 1170 00:40:40,586 --> 00:40:41,965 ACCEPTING ME THE WAY THAT I AM. 1171 00:40:41,965 --> 00:40:45,172 >> HE PROPOSED TO HER ON STAGE. 1172 00:40:45,172 --> 00:40:47,862 >> I JUST ASKED IF SHE'D MARRY 1173 00:40:47,862 --> 00:40:49,000 ME, GUYS. 1174 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,206 >> WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT 1175 00:40:50,206 --> 00:40:51,517 LESSON OUT OF ALL OF THIS? 1176 00:40:51,517 --> 00:40:53,344 >> DON'T EVER GIVE UP ON 1177 00:40:53,344 --> 00:40:55,620 ANYTHING EVER, NO MATTER HOW BAD 1178 00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:56,275 THINGS ARE. 1179 00:40:56,275 --> 00:41:07,172 THINGS ARE. DON'T EVER GIVE UP. 1180 00:41:07,172 --> 00:41:23,103 DON'T EVER GIVE UP.