1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,965 [Katie] Christie was one of the most caring people I had ever met. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,172 She had the absolutely best personality. 3 00:00:12,172 --> 00:00:16,379 Marcus was funny, and they kind of meshed well. 4 00:00:16,379 --> 00:00:17,965 [Katie] Christie was a really good mom. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,551 -[Christie exclaiming] -[child laughing] 6 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:23,689 You could tell that her son just made her life complete. 7 00:00:23,689 --> 00:00:27,103 [Patty] So hard to know that this beautiful, smart, 8 00:00:27,103 --> 00:00:30,482 loving, giving person could ever deserve 9 00:00:30,482 --> 00:00:32,482 to have what happened to her. 10 00:00:32,482 --> 00:00:34,724 [phone ringing] 11 00:00:44,793 --> 00:00:48,241 I'll never forget this case. It was horrific. 12 00:00:48,310 --> 00:00:51,344 To be able to do something like this, he has to be 13 00:00:51,413 --> 00:00:53,137 some kind of monster. 14 00:00:53,793 --> 00:00:57,241 They say time heals everything, but I don't think so. 15 00:00:58,793 --> 00:01:02,241 [heavy theme music playing] 16 00:01:11,413 --> 00:01:14,862 [mellow music playing 17 00:01:17,586 --> 00:01:19,551 [narrator] Christie Holt and Marcus Garvin 18 00:01:19,620 --> 00:01:22,448 are high school students in Perry, Indianapolis. 19 00:01:23,517 --> 00:01:26,482 [Felicia] Christie was 15 and Marcus was 16. 20 00:01:26,482 --> 00:01:28,724 But he was funny, and I liked him. 21 00:01:29,586 --> 00:01:33,793 In class one day, Marcus was like, hey, you should let me 22 00:01:33,793 --> 00:01:36,103 talk to your cousin. 23 00:01:36,103 --> 00:01:39,378 He was kind of like a good fit for Christie, like both 24 00:01:39,378 --> 00:01:41,033 the outcast in a way. 25 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,310 [Steve] She thought Marcus understood her. 26 00:01:45,689 --> 00:01:47,448 [rhythmic guitar strumming] 27 00:01:47,517 --> 00:01:49,723 Marcus sang and played guitar. 28 00:01:52,620 --> 00:01:54,517 [Steve] He wrote his own songs. 29 00:01:57,827 --> 00:02:02,137 He wasn't very good, but he had a huge ego, 30 00:02:02,206 --> 00:02:04,827 so he thought he was great. 31 00:02:10,413 --> 00:02:13,896 Marcus was not very great at the guitar, 32 00:02:13,896 --> 00:02:16,310 or singing, actually, for that matter. 33 00:02:18,586 --> 00:02:21,586 And what's strange is how it kind of wooed Christie, 34 00:02:21,586 --> 00:02:24,379 like, oh, wow, that's so cool. 35 00:02:24,379 --> 00:02:29,034 Christie liked it because she was so enthralled by him. 36 00:02:29,103 --> 00:02:31,275 You don't like it because you don't understand it, 37 00:02:31,275 --> 00:02:33,172 kind of attitude. 38 00:02:33,172 --> 00:02:35,689 [Felicia] Christie would hype him up. 39 00:02:35,689 --> 00:02:38,724 She would like put him on this undeserving pedestal. 40 00:02:44,793 --> 00:02:47,000 [Steve] My parents adopted Christie into our family, 41 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,758 because her mom, my aunt, was struggling. 42 00:02:51,827 --> 00:02:54,586 She was kind of the annoying little sister. 43 00:02:54,586 --> 00:02:59,586 And then as she grew up, we found similar music 44 00:02:59,586 --> 00:03:00,724 that we liked. 45 00:03:00,724 --> 00:03:04,172 She loved going to bands, listening to live shows 46 00:03:04,172 --> 00:03:05,517 and things like that. 47 00:03:06,379 --> 00:03:08,034 She was really rambunctious. 48 00:03:08,103 --> 00:03:11,620 She definitely saw humor in everything. 49 00:03:12,379 --> 00:03:13,586 She was optimistic. 50 00:03:13,586 --> 00:03:16,034 That's, I think, the best way to explain that. 51 00:03:17,206 --> 00:03:20,034 We grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a place 52 00:03:20,103 --> 00:03:21,551 called Homecroft. 53 00:03:21,620 --> 00:03:23,655 My parents were extremely strict. 54 00:03:23,724 --> 00:03:29,000 We didn't have a lot of leeway or room in making mistakes. 55 00:03:29,724 --> 00:03:31,172 My parents being very restrictive, 56 00:03:31,172 --> 00:03:33,379 Christie was very expressive. 57 00:03:33,379 --> 00:03:37,103 She ended up being too much for them to handle. 58 00:03:37,103 --> 00:03:40,689 My parents were very despondent about Christie. 59 00:03:40,689 --> 00:03:44,067 Christie had a really tough time, you know, being there. 60 00:03:44,067 --> 00:03:46,793 She always felt like she was treated differently. 61 00:03:46,793 --> 00:03:49,275 She often asked me, you know, 62 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:51,241 what would you think if I just lived here? 63 00:03:51,310 --> 00:03:53,689 Or you think it'd be OK if I lived here? 64 00:03:53,689 --> 00:03:57,310 [Steve] When Christie was about 12, my dad kicked her out. 65 00:03:58,067 --> 00:04:01,275 [Felicia] So she came and permanently lived with us. 66 00:04:01,275 --> 00:04:03,758 Me and Christie were always really close, 67 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:05,689 like two peas in a pod. 68 00:04:05,689 --> 00:04:07,896 Christie just brightened up a room. 69 00:04:07,896 --> 00:04:10,793 She was silly. She was funny. 70 00:04:10,793 --> 00:04:12,896 I don't know, you can't help but love her. 71 00:04:12,896 --> 00:04:14,137 [Felicia] This is me and Christie. 72 00:04:14,137 --> 00:04:17,964 I'd have been 23, and she would have been just turning 21. 73 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,103 She's standing on the toilet in this picture to look like 74 00:04:21,103 --> 00:04:22,551 she was taller. 75 00:04:22,793 --> 00:04:26,000 That's what we were 95% of the time doing is being goofy. 76 00:04:29,172 --> 00:04:32,793 [narrator] Marcus Garvin was born in Indianapolis in 1989 77 00:04:32,793 --> 00:04:35,896 and raised by his grandparents. 78 00:04:35,896 --> 00:04:38,689 [Felicia] We actually were all just, like, a friend group. 79 00:04:38,689 --> 00:04:41,034 Christie would call us the Terrific Three. 80 00:04:41,103 --> 00:04:43,448 We always made Marcus take our pictures. 81 00:04:43,517 --> 00:04:45,344 The Photographer, we called him. 82 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,655 [Felicia] Christie and Marcus's relationship in 83 00:05:01,724 --> 00:05:03,862 high school was a fast-tracked relationship. 84 00:05:03,931 --> 00:05:07,379 They rushed into their I love you's, being around each 85 00:05:07,379 --> 00:05:09,000 other 24-7. 86 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,103 But they very much leaned on each other for everything, 87 00:05:13,103 --> 00:05:16,448 and to a point where if I would try to, like, step in 88 00:05:16,517 --> 00:05:19,655 and, like, "Hey, Christie, like, this is moving really 89 00:05:19,724 --> 00:05:23,586 fast," Marcus would bark back, essentially, at me, make me, 90 00:05:23,586 --> 00:05:25,482 like, take a step back. 91 00:05:25,482 --> 00:05:28,896 One of the first times that I met Marcus, we started to have 92 00:05:28,896 --> 00:05:32,379 a conversation about just things that 93 00:05:32,379 --> 00:05:34,068 we find interesting. 94 00:05:34,068 --> 00:05:36,965 He said, "I just like things that are grimy 95 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,689 and dirty and gross." 96 00:05:38,689 --> 00:05:43,482 Marcus had always had, like, a thing with blood. 97 00:05:43,482 --> 00:05:45,172 He thought blood was so cool. 98 00:05:45,172 --> 00:05:48,000 And to me, it was, like, nauseating. 99 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,793 He would cut himself, and then he would, like, swirl the blood 100 00:05:51,793 --> 00:05:56,137 around, and he put a C, and she thought that was just so sweet. 101 00:05:58,586 --> 00:06:02,413 [Patty] There was an incident in 2008. 102 00:06:03,206 --> 00:06:06,551 My youngest was about five, six years old 103 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:07,862 and won a goldfish. 104 00:06:07,862 --> 00:06:11,172 Was very excited about it because to her, it's a pet. 105 00:06:11,172 --> 00:06:14,862 So we got a bowl and everything and set it up in her room. 106 00:06:16,275 --> 00:06:20,482 So when Marcus was at our house, he took her goldfish 107 00:06:20,482 --> 00:06:25,103 and pulled it out of the water, took it outside, threw it on 108 00:06:25,103 --> 00:06:28,620 the cement, and lit it on fire in front of my little sister. 109 00:06:31,172 --> 00:06:33,379 He said, "How cool was that? Like, that was cool." 110 00:06:33,379 --> 00:06:36,655 My little sister was just sobbing. 111 00:06:36,724 --> 00:06:39,758 I mean, even Christie was like, "What in the... 112 00:06:39,827 --> 00:06:41,103 Why? Why did you do that?" 113 00:06:41,103 --> 00:06:44,137 And he started laughing, like an evil laugh. 114 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Later that night, when Marcus went home, I was like, 115 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,896 "Christie, like, that's insane." 116 00:06:50,896 --> 00:06:53,482 And she was like, "Oh, he didn't mean it in that kind 117 00:06:53,482 --> 00:06:54,655 "of way, he was just trying to be funny. 118 00:06:54,655 --> 00:06:57,896 Like, he was just trying to make everybody laugh." 119 00:06:57,896 --> 00:06:59,689 She would always brush off Marcus. 120 00:06:59,689 --> 00:07:03,793 From that point on, I realized that there was 121 00:07:03,793 --> 00:07:04,965 something wrong with him. 122 00:07:08,827 --> 00:07:11,862 [Felicia] When Christie and Marcus left high school, 123 00:07:11,931 --> 00:07:14,275 Marcus was accusing Christie of cheating. 124 00:07:14,275 --> 00:07:17,000 He was very possessive of Christie. 125 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,586 It finally came to a head where Christie couldn't do it 126 00:07:19,586 --> 00:07:21,758 at that time anymore. 127 00:07:21,827 --> 00:07:24,758 And shortly after that, they decided to kind of go 128 00:07:24,827 --> 00:07:26,103 their separate ways. 129 00:07:27,206 --> 00:07:30,793 [narrator] In 2009, Christie leaves Indianapolis 130 00:07:30,793 --> 00:07:33,034 only to return a year later. 131 00:07:33,896 --> 00:07:34,896 [Felicia] When Christie came back, 132 00:07:34,896 --> 00:07:37,551 she moved right back in with me and my mom. 133 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:46,275 [Christie laughing] 134 00:07:46,275 --> 00:07:50,344 That laugh, that laugh. Her laugh was so infectious. 135 00:07:50,413 --> 00:07:51,689 [Christie laughing] 136 00:07:51,689 --> 00:07:56,689 I think she had my favorite laugh of all time, honestly. 137 00:07:56,689 --> 00:08:00,655 [Katie] Christie and I met when Christie first moved back to 138 00:08:00,724 --> 00:08:06,793 Indianapolis, and it's been absolute best friends since. 139 00:08:06,793 --> 00:08:11,379 We would drive around on the interstate, and we would be 140 00:08:11,379 --> 00:08:13,896 drinking Polar Pops and just scream singing. 141 00:08:13,896 --> 00:08:15,206 [Christie laughing] 142 00:08:15,206 --> 00:08:18,689 [Katie] Christie had the best personality, you know, kind of 143 00:08:18,689 --> 00:08:23,000 hyper and upbeat and just happy about even the smallest things. 144 00:08:24,206 --> 00:08:28,172 About six or eight months from when she came back to 145 00:08:28,172 --> 00:08:32,482 Indianapolis, Christie started seeing Marcus again. 146 00:08:32,482 --> 00:08:36,448 Christie was pretty excited to rekindle that relationship. 147 00:08:46,275 --> 00:08:49,000 Marcus seemed like he worked on himself. 148 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,275 You know, he was a little bit more empathetic towards things, 149 00:08:51,275 --> 00:08:54,241 and he was understanding to why she left, 150 00:08:54,310 --> 00:08:59,172 and for a good five months, it was smooth between them two. 151 00:08:59,172 --> 00:09:03,241 [Katie] They ended up getting a townhome in an apartment 152 00:09:03,310 --> 00:09:07,965 building close by -- Marcus was a heavy drinker. 153 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 He had a pretty bad history with it. 154 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,896 And then it just slowly graduated into something 155 00:09:12,896 --> 00:09:15,172 bigger, where he had to have alcohol every day. 156 00:09:15,172 --> 00:09:17,586 [babbles incoherently] 157 00:09:17,586 --> 00:09:22,172 [Felicia] But it created way more intense arguments and disagreements. 158 00:09:22,172 --> 00:09:24,586 Ew. 159 00:09:24,586 --> 00:09:27,241 [Katie] Christie would get random text messages, 160 00:09:27,310 --> 00:09:28,448 and Marcus would say, 161 00:09:28,448 --> 00:09:30,758 "Don't respond to them," or, "Give me your phone." 162 00:09:30,827 --> 00:09:33,965 And she would just do it, because Christie wasn't 163 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,965 really confrontational. 164 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,896 Marcus was very possessive of Christie, yes. 165 00:09:37,896 --> 00:09:40,896 It was kind of like, you're mine, 166 00:09:40,896 --> 00:09:43,068 and not a funny, joking way. 167 00:09:43,068 --> 00:09:45,965 Like, he really, really meant it. 168 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,137 Their relationship, very quickly, just got worse. 169 00:09:51,724 --> 00:09:52,689 [phone buzzing] 170 00:09:52,689 --> 00:09:56,482 She would text me and say, "He hit me. 171 00:09:56,482 --> 00:09:58,586 He smacked me." 172 00:09:58,586 --> 00:10:01,137 I would pick her up, and we would just talk 173 00:10:01,206 --> 00:10:02,413 and kind of calm her down. 174 00:10:02,413 --> 00:10:04,896 I asked Christie, "Why do you want to be with him?" 175 00:10:04,896 --> 00:10:09,862 And she said that she loved him, and she felt that nobody 176 00:10:09,931 --> 00:10:12,068 knew him like she did. 177 00:10:12,068 --> 00:10:13,551 [Patty] Regardless of what we told her, 178 00:10:13,620 --> 00:10:15,965 she was gonna defend him, you know? 179 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,448 Even in the worst scenarios, she defended him. 180 00:10:19,517 --> 00:10:21,379 You know, they say red flags. It was more than that. 181 00:10:21,379 --> 00:10:22,896 It was an actual fear. 182 00:10:22,896 --> 00:10:25,137 To me, he was capable of anything. 183 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,517 He wrote this song, I think, about my sister. 184 00:10:48,482 --> 00:10:52,862 Christie could never separate herself from Marcus, no matter 185 00:10:52,862 --> 00:10:55,000 how much for the better it was. 186 00:10:59,206 --> 00:11:01,586 In his Myspace profile, he said, "I'm weird," 187 00:11:01,586 --> 00:11:03,724 and that was his only description. 188 00:11:14,482 --> 00:11:18,172 He enjoyed dissonance in his music, the screech 189 00:11:18,172 --> 00:11:19,448 in his voice. 190 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,862 He really liked being out of tune. 191 00:11:24,862 --> 00:11:27,379 Christie liked it, because I think she knew the story. 192 00:11:27,379 --> 00:11:29,827 It played on her emotions 193 00:11:29,896 --> 00:11:32,137 and so was appealing to her, I think. 194 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,275 I found out I was pregnant in February of 2012. 195 00:11:43,275 --> 00:11:45,000 Christie was so excited. 196 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,896 She told me how she can't wait to be Aunt Christie. 197 00:11:47,896 --> 00:11:51,448 [phone buzzing] 198 00:11:51,517 --> 00:11:58,000 In April, I received a call from Christie, and she was 199 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,758 crying hysterically and begged me to come get her. 200 00:12:02,482 --> 00:12:06,586 When I first pulled up, I saw Marcus throwing her clothes 201 00:12:06,586 --> 00:12:10,034 over the balcony and Christie sobbing. 202 00:12:10,103 --> 00:12:13,241 He thought that Christie was cheating on him, 203 00:12:13,310 --> 00:12:17,379 and so he started putting mustard all over her clothes 204 00:12:17,379 --> 00:12:19,448 and set them on fire. 205 00:12:21,172 --> 00:12:23,241 I thought, what is this psychopath doing? 206 00:12:24,758 --> 00:12:26,586 I told her not to worry. 207 00:12:26,586 --> 00:12:29,586 Just get in the car, and we're gonna leave. 208 00:12:29,586 --> 00:12:33,034 Marcus comes running down and said, "Christie's not 209 00:12:33,103 --> 00:12:35,172 going anywhere," and I said, "Yes, she is. 210 00:12:35,172 --> 00:12:37,482 She's going with me. She's gonna stay with me." 211 00:12:37,482 --> 00:12:39,758 And Marcus said no, 212 00:12:40,586 --> 00:12:42,793 and he punched me in my stomach. 213 00:12:42,793 --> 00:12:46,448 Marcus definitely knew I was pregnant, and that's why he had 214 00:12:46,517 --> 00:12:49,000 hit so low in my stomach. 215 00:12:50,206 --> 00:12:52,034 It was really scary, thinking back, 216 00:12:52,103 --> 00:12:53,931 I was gonna lose my child. 217 00:12:55,689 --> 00:12:59,379 Christie called the cops for me. An ambulance came. 218 00:12:59,379 --> 00:13:01,344 The paramedics checked me. 219 00:13:01,413 --> 00:13:05,482 They heard a heart rate, and they told me that seems 220 00:13:05,482 --> 00:13:07,103 like I'm fine. 221 00:13:07,103 --> 00:13:10,034 Christie didn't want charges pressed against Marcus. 222 00:13:10,103 --> 00:13:11,896 She knew what he did was wrong, 223 00:13:11,896 --> 00:13:15,000 but she didn't want Marcus to get in trouble. 224 00:13:15,413 --> 00:13:18,862 It's like he worked his charm on her, and all of a sudden, 225 00:13:18,862 --> 00:13:20,137 I'm the bad person. 226 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,068 Marcus did get arrested that day, 227 00:13:24,068 --> 00:13:27,379 and he spent two days in jail. 228 00:13:27,379 --> 00:13:33,103 I never received a call or any notification from detectives, 229 00:13:33,103 --> 00:13:36,896 so I didn't know there was gonna be a court hearing. 230 00:13:36,896 --> 00:13:39,862 Because I didn't show up, they dropped the case. 231 00:13:39,862 --> 00:13:44,758 And that was the first time that Marcus slipped through 232 00:13:44,827 --> 00:13:46,620 their fingers here in Indianapolis. 233 00:13:48,482 --> 00:13:52,000 After the incident, I didn't talk to Christie for 234 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,586 about a year -- it was a really big blow to me. 235 00:13:55,586 --> 00:13:58,931 Not only did they drop the charges, but I lost 236 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,931 my best friend because she chose him. 237 00:14:05,275 --> 00:14:07,655 [Felicia] It was October of 2012. 238 00:14:07,724 --> 00:14:10,655 Christie told me she was pregnant. 239 00:14:10,724 --> 00:14:11,620 She was so excited. 240 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:14,931 She could not wait to have a baby. 241 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,379 [Katie] It was completely out of the blue. 242 00:14:16,379 --> 00:14:19,103 The day that Christie told me she was pregnant, 243 00:14:19,103 --> 00:14:23,793 she apologized for sticking up for Marcus. 244 00:14:23,793 --> 00:14:27,551 I missed her a lot, and I wanted my best friend. 245 00:14:27,620 --> 00:14:30,620 So we started talking again. 246 00:14:31,586 --> 00:14:36,000 [Felicia] She had her son in June of 2013, 247 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,655 five or six weeks early. 248 00:14:37,724 --> 00:14:40,689 She always called him her pleasant little surprise, 249 00:14:40,689 --> 00:14:42,137 because he wanted to come early. 250 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,137 And it seemed like her and Marcus were adjusting well. 251 00:14:48,758 --> 00:14:50,482 [Katie] She always wanted to be a mom. 252 00:14:50,482 --> 00:14:54,586 You could tell that her son just made her life complete. 253 00:14:54,586 --> 00:14:58,379 -[Christie] Whoo! -[child laughing] 254 00:14:58,379 --> 00:15:02,689 [Felicia] But by June of 2016, it was very much Christie 255 00:15:02,689 --> 00:15:05,896 by herself doing the baby stuff. 256 00:15:05,896 --> 00:15:08,896 [Katie] Marcus was drinking every night, 257 00:15:08,896 --> 00:15:11,137 completely obliterated. 258 00:15:11,206 --> 00:15:15,241 On June 11th, 2016, Christie was at home taking care 259 00:15:15,310 --> 00:15:16,586 of the baby. 260 00:15:16,586 --> 00:15:21,172 Marcus was working, and he went out afterwards, drinking. 261 00:15:21,172 --> 00:15:24,896 He had came home, and he was very just, like, 262 00:15:24,896 --> 00:15:27,586 angry and picking a fight. -[phone buzzes] 263 00:15:27,586 --> 00:15:31,034 [Katie] I received a text saying, help. 264 00:15:31,103 --> 00:15:35,551 I called her and asked her what was going on, and I could hear 265 00:15:35,620 --> 00:15:37,275 her panting and crying. 266 00:15:37,275 --> 00:15:39,068 She said, "I need you to come get me. 267 00:15:39,068 --> 00:15:43,000 Marcus has lost it, and I think he's gonna kill me." 268 00:15:45,068 --> 00:15:47,862 That was really hard for me to tell her no, 269 00:15:47,862 --> 00:15:50,000 because I had my son with me. 270 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,758 I was going to even think about bringing him around that. 271 00:15:54,758 --> 00:15:58,758 So unfortunately, I told Christie no, and I'm sorry. 272 00:15:58,758 --> 00:16:00,172 She should call the cops. 273 00:16:02,482 --> 00:16:05,000 [Felicia] She said that he struck her in the face 274 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,103 and that she had kind of, like, fell back. 275 00:16:07,103 --> 00:16:10,172 And he got on top of her and started beating her. 276 00:16:10,172 --> 00:16:13,068 And she said, "I thought he was going to kill me." 277 00:16:13,068 --> 00:16:14,551 And she said that she reached for, like, whatever 278 00:16:14,620 --> 00:16:15,827 she could reach, 279 00:16:18,620 --> 00:16:22,172 and she stabbed him and then called 911, 280 00:16:22,172 --> 00:16:23,448 and she got arrested. 281 00:16:29,586 --> 00:16:32,551 So after the hospital, she was charged with 282 00:16:32,620 --> 00:16:33,965 attempted murder. 283 00:16:34,206 --> 00:16:37,137 I felt that she should have never been arrested in 284 00:16:37,206 --> 00:16:39,827 the first place -- she was beaten up. 285 00:16:39,896 --> 00:16:43,310 She wasn't just some girl that stabbed somebody. 286 00:16:44,103 --> 00:16:46,241 She was defending herself. 287 00:16:47,620 --> 00:16:51,137 Marcus was on life support, but he came through 288 00:16:51,206 --> 00:16:52,655 and he survived. 289 00:16:54,172 --> 00:16:56,896 Christie ended up going to jail. 290 00:16:56,896 --> 00:16:59,482 [Felicia] DCS took her child away, and essentially, 291 00:16:59,482 --> 00:17:01,000 he got adopted out. 292 00:17:02,103 --> 00:17:05,000 She shut down emotionally once they took the baby. 293 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,931 [narrator] Three months later, the case against Christie is 294 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,448 dropped because her actions are deemed self-defense. 295 00:17:13,517 --> 00:17:16,448 [Katie] I was so happy that she was released. 296 00:17:16,517 --> 00:17:19,758 I immediately went and picked her up downtown. 297 00:17:19,827 --> 00:17:21,655 She looked completely different. 298 00:17:21,723 --> 00:17:25,896 Her tooth was chipped off, because he had punched her in 299 00:17:25,896 --> 00:17:29,586 the face so hard, and she was so skinny. 300 00:17:29,586 --> 00:17:32,620 I got her a motel room for two weeks. 301 00:17:33,379 --> 00:17:35,172 [Felicia] Christie was doing really well, she had a job. 302 00:17:35,172 --> 00:17:36,931 She was thriving. She had clothes. 303 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 She seemed to be coming out of the rut she was in. 304 00:17:43,172 --> 00:17:47,172 [Katie] When I went to renew the motel for the third week, 305 00:17:47,172 --> 00:17:51,724 I went by the room, and Marcus was there. 306 00:17:52,413 --> 00:17:54,827 It was like the final gut punch. 307 00:17:55,689 --> 00:17:58,655 That was when I believe she stayed with him again for good. 308 00:17:58,724 --> 00:18:00,275 [Katie] She just kept going back. 309 00:18:00,275 --> 00:18:03,758 So I finally realized that I can't help her anymore. 310 00:18:03,758 --> 00:18:07,655 And that was the final time that I talked to her. 311 00:18:24,379 --> 00:18:28,689 [Felicia] This video was taken on her son's fifth birthday. 312 00:18:28,689 --> 00:18:30,275 Hurts my heart 313 00:18:31,241 --> 00:18:32,517 watching it. 314 00:18:44,275 --> 00:18:46,620 She wanted to be a mom so bad. 315 00:18:54,482 --> 00:18:58,103 She never deserved to feel that way, ever. 316 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 [narrator] In July, 2018, Christie, pregnant with her 317 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,206 and Marcus's second child, is hospitalized with preeclampsia. 318 00:19:30,965 --> 00:19:35,000 It's hard to watch, but I also look at it and think, like, 319 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,724 why didn't she call me? 320 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,206 She always had a place. 321 00:19:40,206 --> 00:19:42,620 I think it's because she knew Marcus couldn't come. 322 00:19:46,896 --> 00:19:52,448 [Felicia] In August of 2018, Christie gave birth to her second son. 323 00:19:52,448 --> 00:19:55,413 She only had him for three months before he got taken. 324 00:19:55,482 --> 00:19:59,000 And I believe that was because she was homeless. 325 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,103 They went back and forth from homeless shelters. 326 00:20:03,103 --> 00:20:05,413 They stayed where they could. 327 00:20:05,482 --> 00:20:08,931 I told her, I -- she always had a home with me, always. 328 00:20:09,793 --> 00:20:11,896 I just told her I could not deal with him. 329 00:20:33,793 --> 00:20:37,827 [Felicia] In September of 2019, Christie had found out 330 00:20:37,896 --> 00:20:39,275 she was pregnant again. 331 00:20:40,172 --> 00:20:43,517 Christie went to give birth in May of 2020. 332 00:20:43,586 --> 00:20:47,172 They asked about her home, and she told them that she was 333 00:20:47,172 --> 00:20:49,965 homeless, and that's why they took him straight 334 00:20:49,965 --> 00:20:51,103 from the hospital. 335 00:20:52,344 --> 00:20:56,137 I think losing the third son is, like, the last straw 336 00:20:56,137 --> 00:20:58,103 for both of them. 337 00:20:58,103 --> 00:21:00,586 I know she was very defeated at that time. 338 00:21:00,586 --> 00:21:06,655 I remember she told me that she didn't know what life was 339 00:21:06,655 --> 00:21:08,275 worth living for. 340 00:21:11,896 --> 00:21:16,137 She had totally fallen apart, and I think she really leaned 341 00:21:16,137 --> 00:21:20,000 into her relationship with Marcus, just because of all that 342 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,965 they had shared -- she didn't want to let him go. 343 00:21:22,965 --> 00:21:25,379 [Patty] I tried really hard to get them apart. 344 00:21:25,379 --> 00:21:26,655 We all did. 345 00:21:26,655 --> 00:21:30,000 But nobody understood that there was nothing I could say 346 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,068 or anybody else could say that made her think anything 347 00:21:33,068 --> 00:21:35,206 but she loved him. 348 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,862 [Katie] In May 2020, she said, 349 00:21:38,862 --> 00:21:40,965 "I don't feel like I belong anywhere, 350 00:21:40,965 --> 00:21:44,931 "but at least when I'm with you, I know I'm with who I'm 351 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,172 supposed to be with." 352 00:21:46,896 --> 00:21:48,689 It really hurts, 353 00:21:50,551 --> 00:21:52,586 because he's the complete opposite of who she was 354 00:21:52,586 --> 00:21:53,896 supposed to be with. 355 00:21:55,275 --> 00:21:56,413 And she did belong. 356 00:21:56,413 --> 00:21:59,137 He made her feel like she didn't belong anywhere 357 00:21:59,137 --> 00:22:00,896 but with him. 358 00:22:02,379 --> 00:22:06,310 [narrator] In October 2020, Christie and Marcus move into 359 00:22:06,379 --> 00:22:07,793 a motel on Shadeland Avenue 360 00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:11,000 and start working at the same gas station. 361 00:22:15,965 --> 00:22:18,241 [Felicia] On December 26th of 2020, 362 00:22:18,241 --> 00:22:20,000 Marcus was working third shift. 363 00:22:23,068 --> 00:22:25,931 Somebody came in to use the bathroom, like people do, 364 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,862 and he got upset because apparently the guy was in 365 00:22:28,862 --> 00:22:30,724 the bathroom for too long. 366 00:22:34,275 --> 00:22:37,000 And he started banging on the door and yelling at the guy 367 00:22:37,068 --> 00:22:38,482 to come out. 368 00:22:38,482 --> 00:22:42,000 And the guy came out, and he was kind of like, 369 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 "Hey, man, what's your problem" type thing. 370 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,896 And Marcus followed the guy outside 371 00:22:50,172 --> 00:22:51,689 and stabbed him. 372 00:22:54,448 --> 00:22:58,000 He went back into work and said something along the lines of, 373 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,620 "That was satisfying," 374 00:23:02,689 --> 00:23:04,000 and put the knife in the trash 375 00:23:04,758 --> 00:23:06,000 and went back to work. 376 00:23:11,551 --> 00:23:13,172 Until the police came and arrested him. 377 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,896 His bond initially was like, I believe, $30,000. 378 00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:22,724 And the judge had lowered it to $1,500 and gave him 379 00:23:22,793 --> 00:23:25,310 a GPS monitor and released him. 380 00:23:26,379 --> 00:23:28,655 He went right back to the motel with Christie. 381 00:23:28,655 --> 00:23:33,517 I definitely felt like there's no good way for this to end. 382 00:23:43,344 --> 00:23:45,517 When people write music, they're writing about 383 00:23:45,586 --> 00:23:47,482 their feelings and the thoughts in their head. 384 00:23:49,965 --> 00:23:52,034 That wasn't enough to tell her how he feels, 385 00:23:52,034 --> 00:23:54,413 I don't know what else he could have done. 386 00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:05,931 [narrator] In July, 2021, Christie breaks up with Marcus 387 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,310 and makes plans to move on. 388 00:24:09,689 --> 00:24:12,172 [Felicia] They weren't even together anymore. 389 00:24:12,172 --> 00:24:13,379 From my understanding, she was about three 390 00:24:13,379 --> 00:24:16,413 or four days away from leaving Marcus. 391 00:24:16,482 --> 00:24:18,931 I had a feeling something bad would happen, 392 00:24:20,482 --> 00:24:23,724 but I never would have thought that it would have been this. 393 00:24:27,379 --> 00:24:28,793 [phone ringing] 394 00:24:53,275 --> 00:24:55,517 [phone ringing] 395 00:25:10,586 --> 00:25:14,758 When the officers arrived on scene, the 911 caller directed 396 00:25:14,758 --> 00:25:19,103 them down into the creek, approximately 150 to 200 feet 397 00:25:19,103 --> 00:25:20,620 from the motel. 398 00:25:22,068 --> 00:25:26,482 They found what appeared to be a bundle of sheets. 399 00:25:27,241 --> 00:25:31,413 One of the officers starts to peel back the layers 400 00:25:32,344 --> 00:25:36,103 and determined that it is a human body. 401 00:25:36,103 --> 00:25:38,413 It was obvious it was a female. 402 00:25:38,482 --> 00:25:42,310 That is when my homicide unit was contacted. 403 00:25:43,758 --> 00:25:47,000 I arrived at approximately 6 AM. 404 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:52,275 It appeared to me that she was placed in a sheet to drag her. 405 00:25:52,275 --> 00:25:54,758 She obviously wasn't killed there. 406 00:25:54,758 --> 00:25:56,931 She was dumped there. 407 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,586 She had been dead for several days. 408 00:25:59,586 --> 00:26:03,137 She had so many defects on her body. 409 00:26:03,137 --> 00:26:08,827 I noticed most of them around her neck and upper torso area. 410 00:26:08,896 --> 00:26:13,379 It appeared someone tried to cut her leg off, dismember it. 411 00:26:14,103 --> 00:26:18,586 I was overwhelmed with just emotions of how someone could 412 00:26:18,586 --> 00:26:21,310 do this to another human being. 413 00:26:21,379 --> 00:26:25,241 I knew that who did this to her had to be someone very 414 00:26:25,241 --> 00:26:28,241 close to her -- that was a crime of passion. 415 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,517 I made notes of the person's tattoos. 416 00:26:32,586 --> 00:26:35,137 It was obvious to me she was white. 417 00:26:35,137 --> 00:26:37,793 I couldn't tell her age or anything of that nature. 418 00:26:37,793 --> 00:26:41,068 I couldn't even tell what color hair she had because of 419 00:26:41,068 --> 00:26:43,379 her body being so far gone. 420 00:26:44,896 --> 00:26:46,137 [narrator] Detective Howard goes to 421 00:26:46,137 --> 00:26:49,103 the front office to speak with the 911 caller. 422 00:26:49,103 --> 00:26:52,793 [Mark] The front desk clerk pulled up the camera. 423 00:27:08,551 --> 00:27:12,448 It appeared that the subject was dragging a heavy object 424 00:27:12,448 --> 00:27:16,000 wrapped in a cover or comforter from Room 210 425 00:27:17,068 --> 00:27:21,172 across the driveway, east, at approximately 4:30 426 00:27:21,172 --> 00:27:22,517 in the morning. 427 00:27:22,517 --> 00:27:26,896 That's a very odd time of day to be dragging anything across 428 00:27:26,896 --> 00:27:29,103 the parking lot into a wooded area. 429 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,241 [narrator] The clerk pulls up footage from a second camera. 430 00:27:48,379 --> 00:27:50,931 You could tell he was struggling with it. 431 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,379 At one point, the left arm fell out of the covers, 432 00:27:59,172 --> 00:28:04,517 and he stopped, put the arm back, and he continued dragging 433 00:28:04,586 --> 00:28:08,137 the body to the tree line, looking around, 434 00:28:08,137 --> 00:28:09,896 making sure nobody's watching him. 435 00:28:09,896 --> 00:28:12,862 You could clearly see the subject's face because 436 00:28:12,862 --> 00:28:15,448 he keeps looking back and forth over his shoulder 437 00:28:15,448 --> 00:28:20,000 as he's dragging the body towards the camera. 438 00:28:20,068 --> 00:28:23,103 The manager of the motel came on scene 439 00:28:23,103 --> 00:28:28,586 and she said that was 100% Marcus Garvin. 440 00:28:28,586 --> 00:28:32,000 I was informed that he had rented Room 210 with 441 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,103 Christie Holt and that they were staying together. 442 00:28:35,103 --> 00:28:39,896 The manager was able to tell me some tattoos that Christie had, 443 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,379 and they matched. 444 00:28:42,379 --> 00:28:47,310 I felt very comfortable that it was Christie. 445 00:28:47,379 --> 00:28:51,655 The first witness I interviewed lives at the motel property in 446 00:28:51,655 --> 00:28:54,586 one of the rooms, just a door or two down from Room 210. 447 00:28:54,586 --> 00:28:56,896 Her job is to work at the front desk. 448 00:28:56,896 --> 00:29:01,103 She was off duty at the time, and at about 4:40 or 4:45 AM, 449 00:29:01,103 --> 00:29:03,068 she walked across the parking lot to go check on 450 00:29:03,068 --> 00:29:05,586 the late shift employee from the night before. 451 00:29:05,586 --> 00:29:08,275 She saw Marcus walking back from the wood line 452 00:29:08,275 --> 00:29:09,551 behind the motel. 453 00:29:09,551 --> 00:29:11,931 She noticed he was out of breath and that his pant legs 454 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,034 were wet and his shoes were wet. 455 00:29:13,034 --> 00:29:15,689 And she noticed that he was dripping sweat. 456 00:29:15,689 --> 00:29:18,689 She told me that they looked straight at each other in 457 00:29:18,689 --> 00:29:21,275 the face before he went on into the room, 458 00:29:21,275 --> 00:29:23,379 and she went across the parking lot. 459 00:29:24,689 --> 00:29:28,344 The witness said she last saw Christie about a week earlier. 460 00:29:28,344 --> 00:29:31,655 The last time she'd seen her, she saw red marks or handprints 461 00:29:31,655 --> 00:29:34,413 around her neck as though someone had strangled 462 00:29:34,482 --> 00:29:35,965 or choked her. 463 00:29:36,103 --> 00:29:39,379 Christie told her that she'd been assaulted by her boyfriend 464 00:29:39,379 --> 00:29:41,310 and that she was scared of him. 465 00:29:41,379 --> 00:29:44,275 She said she was afraid one day she wouldn't wake up. 466 00:29:44,275 --> 00:29:47,586 When the witness offered to call 911, she refused and told 467 00:29:47,586 --> 00:29:50,413 her that she was scared that if they got him and he got back 468 00:29:50,482 --> 00:29:52,482 out, he would come, and he would kill her. 469 00:29:56,275 --> 00:29:58,724 [narrator] Detectives learn that Marcus is currently 470 00:29:58,793 --> 00:30:00,758 out on bail for the stabbing incident 471 00:30:00,758 --> 00:30:03,034 at the gas station and is wearing 472 00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:04,793 a GPS ankle monitor. 473 00:30:06,034 --> 00:30:09,068 They track his movements from the past two hours. 474 00:30:09,896 --> 00:30:12,000 [Eli] The GPS coordinates showed that 475 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,103 he moved from the motel room to 476 00:30:14,103 --> 00:30:17,517 the exact spot where the body had been dumped 477 00:30:17,586 --> 00:30:21,413 and then returned back to his hotel room. 478 00:30:21,482 --> 00:30:24,344 At that point, I knew we have a suspected killer 479 00:30:24,344 --> 00:30:26,241 inside Room 210. 480 00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:29,379 We're dealing with a very dangerous person, 481 00:30:29,379 --> 00:30:31,413 an unstable person. 482 00:30:32,482 --> 00:30:37,551 We chose to have our SWAT team take over the recovery of 483 00:30:37,551 --> 00:30:40,034 the suspect from the room. 484 00:30:40,034 --> 00:30:43,000 [narrator] The SWAT team arrives on scene. 485 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,724 [Mark] At 8:55 AM, they determined they were 486 00:30:45,793 --> 00:30:47,000 gonna to make forced entry. 487 00:30:47,655 --> 00:30:52,000 So they breached the front window and the front door. 488 00:31:07,965 --> 00:31:10,724 [narrator] The SWAT team enter Room 210. 489 00:31:21,034 --> 00:31:24,517 [Mark] He'd cut off his ankle monitoring device. 490 00:31:27,793 --> 00:31:30,068 He was trying to figure out a way to flee, 491 00:31:30,068 --> 00:31:32,172 but he had nowhere to go. 492 00:31:33,689 --> 00:31:36,137 They had pulled him out of the room, then placed him in 493 00:31:36,137 --> 00:31:38,931 the back seat of a police car, so he's secured. 494 00:31:44,586 --> 00:31:48,689 [Mark] When I entered that room, there was a putrid odor 495 00:31:49,482 --> 00:31:51,724 of a deceased person. 496 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,620 There was blood spatter on the walls, on the floor, 497 00:31:56,689 --> 00:31:59,137 and on the bed. 498 00:31:59,137 --> 00:32:03,000 In the bathroom was a knife laying on the floor 499 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,551 and a small garden sickle. 500 00:32:06,551 --> 00:32:10,620 I felt like maybe that's the items he used to attempt to 501 00:32:10,689 --> 00:32:12,103 dismember her body. 502 00:32:13,137 --> 00:32:15,482 Inside his backpack, there was another knife. 503 00:32:15,482 --> 00:32:19,068 You could see there had been blood on it. 504 00:32:19,068 --> 00:32:22,241 So I believe that was the murder weapon. 505 00:32:22,241 --> 00:32:26,862 I saw a grocery cart and a two-wheeled dolly 506 00:32:26,862 --> 00:32:29,931 next to the front door. 507 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,793 He was probably gonna use those to transport 508 00:32:33,793 --> 00:32:36,551 the body somewhere else. 509 00:32:36,551 --> 00:32:39,931 I go to the gas station just down the road to nail down 510 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 the last time she was seen alive by her co-workers. 511 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,758 Store manager said that he and Christie had recently begun 512 00:32:46,758 --> 00:32:48,379 a romantic relationship. 513 00:32:49,655 --> 00:32:52,931 He last saw Christie on July the 23rd. 514 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,379 She was supposed to come into work the following day, 515 00:32:56,379 --> 00:32:57,724 but she didn't show up. 516 00:33:01,241 --> 00:33:03,137 [narrator] Marcus Garvin is transported 517 00:33:03,137 --> 00:33:05,310 to IMPD Homicide Unit. 518 00:33:08,137 --> 00:33:10,103 [Mark] I walk into the interview room. 519 00:33:10,103 --> 00:33:12,551 As soon as I opened the door, 520 00:33:12,551 --> 00:33:15,793 the smell of death hit me in the face. 521 00:33:20,275 --> 00:33:25,586 I started asking Marcus where Christie Holt was. 522 00:34:04,275 --> 00:34:07,000 He was lying to me the entire time. 523 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:10,379 I was getting frustrated. 524 00:34:10,379 --> 00:34:13,688 The smell was making my eyes water, 525 00:34:13,688 --> 00:34:17,516 and it was making me literally want to throw up. 526 00:34:19,137 --> 00:34:21,000 Finally, I went to Lieutenant McAllister 527 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,413 and asked him if he could take over. 528 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,482 So I knew I had clear, compelling evidence. 529 00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:31,413 I had video of him dragging a dead body across 530 00:34:31,482 --> 00:34:33,413 a motel parking lot. 531 00:34:33,482 --> 00:34:36,275 So my goal was to build rapport with him 532 00:34:36,275 --> 00:34:39,000 and then disclose that specific evidence, 533 00:34:39,688 --> 00:34:42,896 and then leave him to explain in whatever way he chose. 534 00:34:57,655 --> 00:35:01,862 [Eli] We turned a corner, and he was not lying to me anymore. 535 00:35:01,862 --> 00:35:05,482 It was incredible how honest he was when he saw himself in 536 00:35:05,482 --> 00:35:06,862 black and white. 537 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,172 He describes to me picking her phone up off of her as 538 00:35:18,172 --> 00:35:20,448 she fell asleep with her phone unlocked. 539 00:35:20,448 --> 00:35:23,137 It was open to a conversation that she was having, 540 00:35:23,137 --> 00:35:26,586 a text thread with her manager at the gas station. 541 00:35:26,586 --> 00:35:30,000 And he saw they were having a romantic affair. 542 00:35:39,344 --> 00:35:43,413 The fact that they were making fun of him was, according to 543 00:35:43,482 --> 00:35:47,586 Marcus Garvin, the reason why he killed Christie Holt. 544 00:36:17,689 --> 00:36:22,931 Marcus Garvin was the most candid and forthright person 545 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,620 I've ever interviewed. 546 00:36:35,172 --> 00:36:38,103 He was just so casual and relaxed 547 00:36:38,103 --> 00:36:39,827 that it wasn't normal. 548 00:37:00,172 --> 00:37:02,827 He realized quickly that that wasn't going to be an effective 549 00:37:02,896 --> 00:37:05,000 method and tried to come up with another way. 550 00:37:15,172 --> 00:37:19,655 He was just kind of describing it as sort of a humorous 551 00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:22,206 account of how he couldn't get this thing done. 552 00:37:47,551 --> 00:37:49,689 It was very detached from 553 00:37:50,482 --> 00:37:52,724 the humanity of the individual whose body 554 00:37:52,793 --> 00:37:54,827 he was trying to dispose of. 555 00:38:33,275 --> 00:38:36,103 [Eli] This is a truly evil, cold-blooded murder that 556 00:38:36,103 --> 00:38:38,793 he committed, and he admitted to doing so. 557 00:38:43,586 --> 00:38:46,689 [narrator] After the interview, Marcus Garvin is arrested 558 00:38:46,689 --> 00:38:48,827 for murder 559 00:38:48,896 --> 00:38:51,241 and transported to Marion County Jail. 560 00:38:52,586 --> 00:38:56,241 [Katie] A mutual friend of ours had reached out to me, 561 00:38:56,241 --> 00:39:00,413 and she said, "Marcus killed Christie," 562 00:39:01,241 --> 00:39:02,689 and then sent an article 563 00:39:03,586 --> 00:39:08,517 where it just had a unidentified woman 564 00:39:08,586 --> 00:39:09,586 found dead. 565 00:39:11,068 --> 00:39:13,000 [Felicia] When I found out what he did, 566 00:39:14,275 --> 00:39:17,172 I felt like he stabbed me too. 567 00:39:17,172 --> 00:39:19,586 Christie saw him for what he truly was, 568 00:39:19,586 --> 00:39:21,379 and she still loved him. 569 00:39:21,379 --> 00:39:25,034 He killed the only person that was there for him. 570 00:39:25,034 --> 00:39:28,068 I started investigating the case in August of 2021. 571 00:39:29,448 --> 00:39:31,000 In the days leading up to the trial, 572 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,827 his defense attorneys reached out to us and said that he was 573 00:39:34,896 --> 00:39:36,655 interested in pleading guilty. 574 00:39:36,655 --> 00:39:41,241 Marcus Garvin pled guilty on June 2nd of 2023, 575 00:39:41,241 --> 00:39:44,517 and he received a sentence of 45 years in prison. 576 00:39:45,586 --> 00:39:49,586 Marcus killed Christie by stabbing her over 51 times. 577 00:39:49,586 --> 00:39:54,448 She was alive for over 30 minutes, but he clearly just 578 00:39:54,448 --> 00:39:58,931 keeps stabbing her over and over and over again. 579 00:40:01,103 --> 00:40:03,896 That would have been an extremely excruciating 580 00:40:03,896 --> 00:40:06,000 and painful death. 581 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,482 I'll never forget this case. It was horrific. 582 00:40:10,586 --> 00:40:14,965 I think he deserved life without parole. 583 00:40:14,965 --> 00:40:17,413 You know how when people say, don't use the word hate? 584 00:40:17,482 --> 00:40:19,172 It's a strong word. 585 00:40:19,172 --> 00:40:22,068 He's the one person I hate. 586 00:40:25,586 --> 00:40:28,448 At the gas station where she worked, her manager 587 00:40:28,448 --> 00:40:31,862 closed it, we had a balloon release there. 588 00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:34,068 [indistinct, distant exclamations] 589 00:40:34,068 --> 00:40:38,137 It was people that really knew her, people that were really 590 00:40:38,137 --> 00:40:41,620 close and knew truly who Christie was. 591 00:40:44,172 --> 00:40:48,068 They say time heals everything, but I don't think so. 592 00:40:51,586 --> 00:40:54,000 [Steve] One thing that I find helps me 593 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,448 a great deal is remembering 594 00:40:56,448 --> 00:41:00,965 the qualities that I had admired in my sister. 595 00:41:00,965 --> 00:41:05,034 Just always looking for the compassionate angle, 596 00:41:05,034 --> 00:41:09,344 always finding the good in people and the beauty in 597 00:41:09,344 --> 00:41:12,586 the moment, even in the worst of times. 598 00:41:14,241 --> 00:41:16,758 [Katie] I try to remember my best friend, 599 00:41:16,758 --> 00:41:18,965 the one that was carefree. 600 00:41:18,965 --> 00:41:20,241 [Christie laughing] 601 00:41:20,241 --> 00:41:22,793 She was so happy and loving. 602 00:41:23,379 --> 00:41:24,551 [distant laughter] 603 00:41:24,551 --> 00:41:27,275 [Felicia] I'll always remember her as quirky, 604 00:41:27,275 --> 00:41:30,862 goofy, and just very unique.