[Jim] The nightmares you have of all the different scenarios
of what could have possibly happened.
[Paul] With the severity of the neck wound,
you're going to lose a lot of blood quickly,
and you're going to die quickly.
It was very chilling to think that there had been ransom demands.
"If you don't send me $25,000, I'm gonna feed her to my dogs."
They were horrified.
[Sergeant Stake speaking]
He said, "I can't wait until they find you raped and murdered in the desert."
This is just pure evil.
Just speaks volumes to the kind of sickness
that lives in some people.
[wailing loudly]
[opening music playing]
[opening music concludes]
[Shoshone medicine man vocalizing]
[Wendy] A Shoshone medicine man performs a spiritual ritual
to purge the evil from this pocket
of Nevada's Ruby Mountains.
For one family, it's all they can do to push the darkness away
and cleanse this hallowed ground.
[singing continues]
[Tyler] Elko's the greatest city in Nevada, if you ask me.
It's rural America, the people here are wonderful.
There's no other place that I'd rather live.
We've got a lot of families that are, uh,
been ranching here for generations.
[horse neighing]
[Sergeant Stake] The rodeo circuit is really big around here.
We also have a large mining industry,
which is really what a lot of the economy revolves around here.
[machinery running]
[Wendy] The booming mining industry drew the Ujlaky family to the Elko area.
An area known for rodeos
and also for its Native American tribal lands.
[Jim] There you go.
My name is Jim Ujlaky.
I'm a gold miner.
Good girl.
The mining out here is pretty good,
so we moved here from Colorado in August of 2010.
My daughter, Britney, was seven,
my son, James, was six.
My name is Alisha Ujlaky, and I'm James and Britney's mother.
It was a very, very fun, cool place to move the kids,
and that's where my daughter learned to ride horses.
She thought she was pretty hot stuff.
She'd ride off into the field
and come back just proud as a peacock.
[James] My name is James, I'm Britney's brother.
Britney's a year and three months older than me.
Britney was just so beautiful and at the same time,
really just strong and just independent
and always doing her own thing.
We were really close.
Whenever we needed each other, we were always there.
We had adventure after adventure in that house.
But over time, me and Jim realized we just weren't good married.
[Jim] But we just made the agreement that,
you know, the kids come first no matter what.
They need both parents.
They need guidance and we just agreed we're just gonna get along,
so we remained friends.
[Wendy] Alisha moves out but stay nearby
to make it easier for her and Jim
to raise their children together while living apart.
Britney lives with her father, where she can ride her horse everyday.
My sister and my dad got along
better than any father-child duo I've ever seen.
They were really, really close.
My son and Alisha, her mom, called her mini me.
If I like the team, she liked the team.
If I like the movie, she liked the movie.
It was almost scary how much she... like me she was.
Britney's actual name was Gabrielle Ujlaky.
But as the years went on,
people called her Britney and that kind of stuck.
When I was investigating this case and writing the story,
what intrigued me was that this girl seemed so vivacious.
And in March of 2020,
she had everything going for her.
[Selina] I became friends with Britney
beginning of high school.
We both shared the same passion for horses,
and we both were into rodeos.
I met Britney at the rodeo that we have here at Elko.
We just kind of clicked after that.
She brought out my inner child 100%.
Always just a goofy, bubbly person,
and I feel like I can be myself around Britney.
Between her horses, her family and her friends,
Britney Ujlaky has a wonderful life for a 16-year-old.
But on Sunday, March 8th,
nothing goes according to plan.
[James] Every other Sunday, my dad had band practice.
My dad's band was like a classic slash heavy metal band,
and Britney decided to, uh, go with him to band practice.
[heavy metal music playing]
[Jim] When we got to band practice,
everyone in the band loved her.
Just, just couldn't wait for Britney's smart remarks to come in,
and I'd sit there and laugh.
[Wendy] The afternoon wears on and while Jim is practicing,
Britney is Snapchatting with her friends.
[Jim] Then, at some point she said, "Bryce is gonna come pick me up,
I'll meet you at home, love you, bye."
They were real good friends.
[Britney laughs] Bryce.
Britney and Bryce met at the rodeo,
where she had met other friends.
And he would make sure she got home on time,
and would just kind of keep an eye out for her,
which made her parents really happy.
[James] They hung out a lot at school.
Britney and him would go to the rodeo,
or they'd just go drivin' around,
or just goin' to getting food in town, anything... anything like that.
Just hanging out together.
[Jim] That night, after band practice
I got home by, I think, 07:30.
She wasn't home. I started calling her
and her phone would go right to voicemail.
I called her mom, "Britney with you, where's Britney?"
[Alisha] I could hear in his voice
everything was wrong.
Then I called her phone,
and it went right to voicemail and I...
My heart dropped because I knew that was not right.
My daughter never had her phone off.
And so I instantly got on the phone to James
and I said, "Have you heard from Britney?"
And he said, "no."
[James] She wasn't answering the phone,
so I thought that she just went to some party or anything like that.
James had said, "Well, Mom,
maybe she went out and she got drunk."
[James] I thought that she just didn't wanna get in trouble.
Just trying to duck consequences.
I told him, I says, "Get a hold of Bryce right now and find out what's going on."
[James] I texted him right away and asked,
"Hey, where's Britney at?"
And he said, "I dropped her off at the high school."
And I was like, "Okay, well, who did you drop her off with?"
He said, "White guy. Tall. Had a cowboy look.
I didn't get a much better look than that.
She said something about a new friend."
He said, "He had a truck, I caught, like, a small glimpse of it."
I was like, "Okay, well, what kind?"
He said, "It was, like, a green, older, like, ugly F-150."
[Alisha] When James told me that, and I panicked.
[chuckles] You know? 'Cause I'm like, "What do you mean?
Here's this random cowboy that nobody's seen before,
nobody knows anything about him,
and my daughter just happened to get in the truck with him?"
[Alisha] It was just insane to me that we couldn't find her.
And then I thought, "Oh, well,
Britney's smarter than that. She wouldn't have gotten into a truck.
But at the same time,
my daughter's 16 years old
and what if she did have some crush on a cowboy?"
[Jim] I did not sleep a wink that night.
The next morning, around 6 o'clock,
I had called Alisha and told her,
call the sheriffs out to file a missing persons report.
-[gasping] Hi. -[male deputy] Hello.
The sheriff's department sent a deputy over
to just kind of get the lay of the land
and see what was going on.
[male deputy] Okay.
[male deputy] Has she, has she ever did this before?
[male deputy] Hey, young man, what's your name?
[Baker] Alisha told the deputy that Britney's friend Bryce
had last seen her at Spring Creek High School.
[male deputy] Is there any other friends
that were with Bryce or was it just Bryce?
[male deputy] And she was with him and then
he dropped her off and he had no idea who this guy was?
[male deputy] And all we know is that it was a green truck?
[male deputy] Okay.
[Baker] And then Alisha told the deputy that
maybe the guy Britney met was this guy J.T.
[male deputy] We don't know, we don't know anything else about this other guy, huh?
[male deputy] Let me go get this entered and I'll talk
to my supervisor, see what he wants to do.
So, I'm Lieutenant Doug Fisher of the operations division
in the Elko County Sheriff's Office.
I asked Bryce to meet with me
in the parking lot of the local high school.
I wanted to hear the details from him,
because he was the last person that had seen Britney.
[Lieutenant Fisher speaking]
Bryce says that the friend was a taller cowboy
that was wearing a cowboy hat.
[Bryce speaking]
We needed to have an actual, solid description of this truck.
And then Doug Fisher asked questions about
Bryce Dickey's vehicle.
[Lieutenant Fisher speaking]
[Bryce speaking]
[Sergeant Stake] We looked into Bryce,
we didn't see anything that raised alarms.
All in all, he just seemed to be a
pretty much well-rounded, all-American kid.
-[Lieutenant Fisher] 'Preciate it, sir. -Yup, no problem.
[Wendy] Using their only lead,
Elko County sheriffs spread the word
about their missing teen.
[Sergeant Stake] We of course put out a press release for that,
saying that Britney was missing
and that we were looking for a green Ford F-150
driven by a white cowboy.
[Wendy] Another potentially major factor
that could help locate Britney
would be tracking her cellphone,
which has yet to be located.
[Lieutenant Fisher] When there's an emergency we believe is life-threatening
we can ask for the cell providers
to do a ping on the phone.
And that gives us a generalized GPS location.
We had an initial ping from her phone
that was out on Boyd-Kennedy Road,
which is basically to the east of the Spring Creek High School,
where she had been dropped off.
Because of the ping from her phone,
the deputies went out to the Boyd-Kennedy area
to conduct a thorough search.
[Baker] While the Elko Sheriff's Department is doing
everything it can to locate Britney,
Britney's family and friends go out and do their own searches.
I left to go look for Britney, me and my friend.
We went way down to the end on Boyd-Kennedy Road,
turned around, came back up, took another road coming back the other way.
[Selina] When I first found out that Britney was missing,
we started driving all over the place looking for her.
We didn't know anything about this guy, this J.T.
The whole town was pretty much keeping their eyes open
for a dark green F-150.
We had messaged Bryce if he could think of anywhere
where maybe no one has looked yet.
And he said, "Spring Creek Mountains."
And then he texted me and he told me,
"I love you, I'm so sorry this happened,
but I hope you guys don't blame me."
And I said, "Bryce we definitely do not blame you one bit.
We love you too bud keep your head up."
The whole community came together.
"We need to find Britney, we need to find this pick-up truck.
We need to find whoever the hell this cowboy is."
It's such a small town that
things like this usually don't happen.
Nothing was just making sense.
[Selina] We did have the whole town, especially us young girls
had had us watching our backs every step we took.
[Alisha] The next day, I went and printed 540 flyers,
hanging them everywhere.
I covered Elko, I covered Spring Creek,
you know, putting her picture out.
[Cheyenne] I made a post on social media,
if anyone knew anything, if they could, like, let us know.
That's one thing about this town,
is when something like this happens,
the whole community pulls together,
and they will do whatever they can to help find that child.
[Sergeant Stake] We were just inundated with calls.
We could hear every two to three minutes
a different phone at a station would ring,
and this is 6 o'clock in the evening.
And the phone's never ringing over here at 6 o'clock in the evening.
[Wendy] Investigators sort through tips
and try to verify which ones are credible.
Until late in the evening of March 10th,
when Alisha gets an alarming text message
from a number she doesn't recognize.
[Alisha] And everybody was frantically looking
for this green truck and this cowboy and then
I got a text message,
but it was, "We have your daughter.
If you don't send me $25,000, I'm gonna feed her to my dogs."
And they kept telling me that she's very sick.
The drugs that they used to take her
didn't react well with her and she's gonna die.
I instantly was thinking about where I could get the money.
I told him I was trying to make phone calls
to do anything I could to get the money together.
[Wendy] Detective Stake tells Alisha
not to reply to whoever is texting her
on the ransom demands until investigators can trace the phone number.
[Sergeant Stake] The next morning,
Alisha came down to the office.
I was looking at the ransom demands to
start tracking down that phone number
of the people who supposedly had Britney.
[Alisha] All the sudden, people started texting me again saying,
"We tried to tell you if you didn't get back to us, we're gonna kill her."
And just all kinds of crazy things and I'm panicking.
[Wendy] Detective Stake ushers Alisha into an interview room,
while specialists analyze her cellphone.
They have one goal, which is to trace the source
of the ransom messages before her daughter is harmed.
At that point in time, I received a call from Sergeant Fisher,
who was outside of town in the Burner Basin area.
[Lieutenant Fisher speaking]
That was the last location we had a ping from Britney's phone.
[Lieutenant Fisher speaking]
[Wendy] On the morning of March 11th, 2020,
Elko County Lieutenant Doug Fisher
is called out to a location
eighteen miles outside of town called Burner Basin.
There, locals searching for Britney
make a horrific discovery.
[Lieutenant Fisher] Burner Basin was remote Nevada.
When we first arrived on scene,
the local guys were noticeably distraught.
They had pulled pretty much right on the roadside
right next to what they thought was suspicious to them.
They pointed out what appeared to be blood on the roadway.
And they pointed to the blue tarp.
[sighs]
That point in time, we went to see what we actually had.
We saw a deceased female,
so we backed out the exact same way that we came in and
contacted Sergeant Stake.
[Sergeant Stake] When I got the call from Lieutenant Fisher
informing me that they had located a female's body,
it was very chilling to think
that there had been ransom demands,
since the previous night we didn't meet that ransom demand.
And because of that she might have been killed.
At that point, I needed to get to the scene as fast as possible.
But first I had to notify Alisha
that I was going to leave
and go out to a scene with a body.
[door opens, closes]
[Sergeant Stake speaking]
[Alisha] He goes, "We found a body."
I knew it was my daughter.
He didn't tell me it was my daughter, you know?
But I knew it was my daughter.
That's when the panic hit.
[hurriedly] I'm gonna pass out. Can you get me some help?
-Can you get me some help? -[Sergeant Stake] Yup. Yup.
-There's some people... Okay. -Can you get me...
[wailing] No, no, God, my God. Give me some help.
-[wailing indistinctly] -[Sergeant Stake] I need you to...
[Alisha screaming indistinctly]
[Sergeant Stake] I've seen a lot in law enforcement,
and out of everything in my career,
the one thing that really sticks with me
is the sound that Alisha made after I told her
that I was going out to investigate a dead body.
[Alisha wailing loudly]
-[shouting] Help me, please! -[Sergeant Stake speaks indistinctly]
[Alisha crying, wailing]
It was by far the worst sound
I'd ever heard in law enforcement.
[groans, sniffles]
[exhales heavily, sniffles]
[Alisha] He looked at me and he said,
"Alisha, I need you to try really hard not to panic
right now because I have to go."
And then he ran.
As I arrived at the scene, one of the first things I noticed
was red staining in the roadway.
And there was a pretty significant amount,
and I could tell that it had really saturated the soil in several areas.
And then I also observed a
condom wrapper on the edge of the roadway.
I started looking closer in that area
and I found white earbuds that were hanging off a sagebrush.
And at that point in time,
we found a used condom that was in the same sagebrush.
[Sergeant Stake] As I was looking at things, I noticed from the roadway
what appeared to be drag marks from the red staining
on the side of the road that went to a female's body
that was located underneath a blue tarp.
I noticed that the body was face down,
and the tarp was kind of loosely draped over it.
[Lieutenant Fisher] When we pulled the tarp off and saw the body,
we believed that there was a potential sexual assault.
[Sergeant Stake] The pants and panties had been pulled down to her ankles.
The shoes were still tied.
There was quite a bit of blood and what appeared to me
to be a puncture wound or a mark on her neck.
And then just to the north of the body,
a keychain was located.
It said "Brittany" on the keychain.
Based on that, we knew that it was most likely Britney.
At that time, the body was sent down for an autopsy
to officially confirm her identity.
[police siren ringing]
[Lieutenant Fisher] So after we got done processing the scene,
it was late at night, but someone had to go notify Jim, the father.
There'd also been some social media and
information out there that there was a body that was found,
a young female had been killed.
So I went to his house.
[Jim] At 02:30, the dogs start barking real loud
and there's a knock on the door. [crying]
[sniffles] And that's...
When they sent Doug Fisher, I knew.
And he walked in, and I said, "It was her?"
He said, "yeah."
So...
[Lieutenant Fisher] We sat down and we had that conversation
that nobody wants to have with a father, you know, and to tell him
that their daughter's not gonna come home.
The scenarios that race through your head
and disrupt your life for good.
And the nightmares of what could have possibly happened.
I tried to reassure him that we were gonna solve the case.
[Jim] Doug Fisher's a phenomenal man.
He sat here with me for quite a while,
made sure I was gonna be all right before he left.
Jim called me and woke me up, you know, to tell me,
but I told him, I, I said, "I already know... I already know."
[Jim] I finally fell asleep.
It might have been 7:00, 8:00.
For about 10 minutes,
and James opened my door.
[James] I'd woke up that morning and
opened my phone, to, like, 40 Snapchats.
[phone dinging with notifications]
[James] "I'm so sorry for your loss," da-da-da-da-da.
"Please tell me this isn't real."
Then I saw my dad.
I was, like, "What's going on?" And then...
After my dad had told me,
I didn't believe it. I was, like...
No, no. That didn't happen. Like...
...You got, like, the identification wrong, or something.
I just went completely numb after that, it was just...
[Cheyenne] When I heard that they found her body,
I didn't know what to do. I felt lost.
I drove out to Alisha's house.
And I took the biggest bouquet of flowers that I could find.
And I handed her the flowers.
And I hugged her, as hard as I could.
And I remember sitting there, crying with her.
[Naugle] While Britney's family and friends mourned,
investigators examined Alisha's phone,
to determine who was behind the ransom messages.
[Stake] We had an investigator tracking down that phone number,
and we found out that it was kind of a spoof number.
It was not located in Nevada,
so we determined the ransom demands were probably not valid.
[Naugle] Unfortunately, it's a dead-end.
But Detective Stake is hopeful
that the autopsy results will provide a new lead.
[Stake] That was really the biggest piece
of evidence that I was waiting for,
was to find out what the medical examiner was gonna tell me.
Britney's cause of death was strangulation,
and the neck wound.
[Stake] She did have a single puncture wound to the neck,
that severed the carotid artery.
The medical examiner informed us that it looked like
some sort of a sharp, bladed instrument had been used.
[Ingram] The severity of the neck wound was such that,
you're going to lose a lot of blood.
You're going to lose a lot of blood quickly.
And you're going to die quickly.
[Naugle] Investigators believed that Britney
was sexually assaulted,
and that the killer's DNA could still be on her body.
[Ingram] The medical examiner collected
swabs from Britney's neck, to be analyzed.
[Stake] They collect DNA swabbings of the fingernails,
to see if there's any foreign DNA or skin cells.
[Ingram] There was some superficial injuries,
bruising, on the hands.
It certainly could have been consistent with defensive wounds.
[Fisher] You don't want a bunch of delays in this,
so we had made arrangements with the crime lab
to expedite this DNA.
If they can link the used condom to Britney,
then whoever used it is her killer.
And while investigators await DNA results,
their interest turns back to this cowboy
driving a green Ford F-150.
There was this name, JT, floating around,
that maybe the guy Britney met was this guy JT,
but no one really knew much more about him.
[Stake] Supposedly, Britney was interested in JT,
or had been talking to a JT,
and potentially wanted to date him.
[Alisha] I'm calling people,
frantically looking for this green truck and this cowboy.
Asking if they know of anybody named JT.
[Cheyenne] I know one JT.
I was Snapchatting him at the time.
And he was in Alaska.
So I'm, like there's no damn way it was him.
[Fisher] Cheyenne knew a JT that lived here locally,
but was out of the area during that period of time
when Britney came up missing,
so that person was excluded because of that.
[Stake] JT is a popular nickname,
so we tried to cross-reference
any of the potential JTs
that were linked to the green Ford F-150
to try and figure out who this individual was.
[Fisher] We do have a transient population of workers that come in
to work on the multiple different ranches.
There was a major concern that this unknown male
could be one of these transient workers,
that frequent our area, and has since moved on.
I was calling around everywhere.
My neighbor said,
"Oh, well I know somebody that lives out on a ranch
that drives an old green F-150. His name's JT."
So I told the sheriff's department.
[Stake] We started looking at different ranches that had JTs,
and we actually identified two JTs
that she may have had contact with,
and had green Ford F-150s.
I was looking into one of the ranches,
while other investigators checked the other.
Investigators find both ranch hands named JT,
but after looking into their backgrounds,
they learn that neither man was in the area
at the time of Britney's murder.
[Stake] At that point in time,
those two JTs were eliminated from the investigation.
[Naugle] After the JT lead takes Elko County sheriffs
on a wild goose chase,
investigators feel like they're back at square one.
They return to the Ujlakys for help.
[Alisha] I was asked if there was people
that would wanna hurt my daughter,
and I was really hung up
on the guy that Britney had a crush on
a few months before all this had happened.
[James] Britney really liked him,
because she thought that he was a good person.
He dressed like a cowboy, with a nice car.
But at one point, he was trying to move too fast for Britney.
And she didn't like it.
And he didn't like that she was shutting him down.
[Alisha] She did not wanna have sex with him,
and then he broke up with her.
But Britney was still good friends with his younger sister.
[James] One night, Britney was driving down the road
with his little sister in the car,
and some other person was on their phone, not paying attention.
And rammed them off the road.
Tipped the car over.
And so they had to go into the hospital for that.
There was a little bit of bad blood
between Britney and this guy,
because his younger sister
was involved in that vehicle accident.
[James] I remember being in Britney's room with her
when she was on the phone with him,
and he was, like, "I wish you would have died in that car accident."
She'd hung up the phone,
and came out here to my dad, crying, and told him about it.
[Cheyenne] He would tell her, "Go kill yourself.
You're a waste of space. You are nothing."
All of the things he said to her every single day.
It built up, and I remember one night,
she called me, crying.
[James] One of the times they were in an argument,
he said something along the lines of, like,
"I can't wait until they find you raped and murdered in the desert."
Three months later, my daughter was dead.
[Stake] Because these threats had been made,
that definitely did put him on the radar
as being potentially involved in this homicide.
So there was a potentially adversarial relationship,
but we ended up getting the video surveillance footage
and it showed that he was actually at work
when Britney came up missing.
That's when we excluded him.
[Naugle] With no more viable leads,
detectives expand their search
for any surveillance footage.
They wanna see if they can spot the green F-150 truck
that Britney was last seen alive in.
[Stake] We looked at all the areas around Spring Creek High School,
where Bryce said that he dropped her off on that Sunday afternoon,
to see if there was Ring cameras, anything like that.
They located that the Maverik convenience store,
down the street from the Spring Creek High School,
was in the Boyd-Kennedy area.
Boyd-Kennedy Road is really the only way
to get to Burner Basin,
where Britney's body was found.
[Ingram] The video surveillance from the Maverik gas station
captured the roadway in the direction
where Britney's body was found.
[Naugle] Detectives are hopeful that they will finally get a glimpse
of the cowboy they've been searching for,
and his green Ford F-150.
[Baker] They study the surveillance footage.
And they don't see any sign
of a green F-150.
But they do see something else.
They see Bryce's blue Chevy truck drive by.
You can see what appears to be Bryce's truck,
completely bypass the entrance
to the Spring Creek High School
and continue on Boyd-Kennedy Road.
You can clearly see Bryce Dickey's vehicle,
driving in the direction
where Britney's body was found.
And we knew immediately
that Bryce Dickey was not telling the truth.
[Naugle] Detectives decide to reconstruct a timeline
for when Bryce and Britney were hanging out,
starting with when he picked her up.
[Ingram] We knew that Britney made arrangements
for Bryce to drive from Spring Creek to Elko,
to pick her up at Angel Park, at Jim's band practice.
[Stake] We conducted several area canvasses.
And we obtained footage from residents
across from the Angel Park area,
that allowed us to see when
Britney first got in the truck with Mr. Dickey.
And so that was able to give us a timeline
of when he picked Britney up,
and then when they passed by the Maverik.
[Naugle] To determine if Britney is still
in the truck with Bryce
when he drives by the Maverik 30 minutes later,
investigators look at both Britney and Bryce's phone data.
[Ingram] We requested and received search warrants
to analyze and map the geolocation data.
We can see that Bryce's phone and Britney's phone
were co-located in the same area by Angel Park.
We can trace the exact path
that they took through Elko,
past Maverik,
and we know that they were co-located together
where her body was found.
Detectives decide it's time to interview Bryce,
and they ask him if he'd mind coming in
to share his phone data with investigators,
telling him it could help with the case.
[detective 1 speaking]
But what they're really after is his DNA.
[detective 1 speaking]
[detective 2 speaking]
After Bryce provides a DNA sample to detectives,
they let him go,
while waiting for the results to come in.
Shortly after, we received the DNA test of the condom,
and we were able to confirm
that it matched Bryce and Britney.
[Ingram] The swabs from Britney's fingernails
were also analyzed,
against the DNA sample
that Bryce Dickey voluntarily gave.
And Bryce Dickey's DNA was located
underneath Britney's fingernails.
The swabs from Britney's neck also matched Bryce Dickey.
When I heard those DNA results,
I only had one job to do,
and that was to prosecute this case.
[Naugle] Now, with the bombshell
piece of evidence in their back pocket,
detectives ask Bryce to come in for one more interview.
-[Bryce speaking] -[Stake] All right.
I allowed him to tell his story,
and then ultimately,
he was gonna have to back that up with facts.
And walking into that interview room,
I had a lot of facts.
[Stake speaking]
[Naugle] Confronted with his DNA on the condom,
Bryce Dickey begins to change his story.
[Bryce speaking]
[Stake] As the interview went on,
the story would change again, and again.
Can't remember the exact count,
but I think by the time the interview was over,
there had been six different, um, stories that were told,
with his version of events.
[Stake speaking]
-[Bryce speaking] -[Stake speaking]
[Ingram] It was surreal, hearing Bryce Dickey's story.
And then flashing back
to seeing Britney's body wrapped in a tarp.
And then seeing Detective Stake...
...tell Bryce to turn around and face the wall.
[Naugle] On March 19, 2020,
Bryce Dickey is arrested
and charged with the murder of his friend,
16-year-old Britney Ujlaky.
[Jim] Alisha and I were told about an arrest,
and then we both raced down to the sheriff's department.
And when we got there, Nick came out,
and started hugging Alisha.
Saying, "We got him."
[Alisha] I had to try to process what I was hearing.
That it was Bryce.
It didn't make sense.
Still doesn't make sense that he hurt her.
[James] My mom called me and said, "It was Bryce."
Like, blew my mind.
Wow. Just, wow.
Like, my heart hurt.
My...it was horrible.
And especially him texting me, "Hope you don't blame me."
That started really making sense,
to why he said that.
[Naugle] Two years after Britney is killed,
Bryce Dickey stands trial for her murder.
Her father, Jim, attends trial every day,
to bear witness to his daughter's last moments,
and hopefully, to see justice served.
I sat through and looked at every picture.
Every way.
To the point where it almost killed me.
[Ingram] Even though we never ended up finding a murder weapon,
every single piece of evidence
that we had pointed to Bryce Dickey.
The jury was instructed that they are allowed to use
their common sense when deciding guilt.
And common sense, in this case,
was that Bryce Dickey committed that murder and sexual assault.
[Naugle] After a 9-day trial,
the jury in Elko County comes back with a verdict
after less than four hours of deliberation.
Bryce Dickey is guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault.
He is sentenced to two life terms.
One of the things that Britney's family
wanted most from Bryce,
was some kind of explanation.
And to this day, he has not said one word
as to why he did this.
Um, I think he's a whole different kind of evil.
To be able to hurt somebody that cared about you.
Just speaks volumes
to the kind of sickness
and the kind of evil that lives in him.
[man singing and softly beating drum]
[Alisha] Because that was her happy spot,
up there in that meadow.
We had made the decision to spread her ashes.
And, uh, Britney was always just a little bit immersed
in the different cultures
that she got to experience out there with the Shoshone.
So, Jim's best friend. He's a Native man.
And he did the initial prayer
to start to cleanse the evil away.
[James] If I was able to talk to my sister one more time,
I'd wanna show her that everything I've done,
from the day she that passed away has been for her.
No matter what it is.
I'm doing it for her.
[Jim] We lost an amazing soul.
That's what I want everyone to know.
Simply amazing.
She just lit the room up wherever she was.
I have nothing of my daughter now but memories.
I have a little necklace with her ashes on it around my neck.
That's my daughter.