[eerie music playing]
[Robert] They wanted to create their own horror movie.
[screams]
[Michael] It's beyond rage. There is some kind of message
being sent with this murder.
Someone who may appear very normal can snap
and commit a murder, even one this brutal.
One wonders is this a type of sexual obsession
that is partly driving this offense.
You're holding your breath fearful for what you might just see
on this videotape.
[gasps, screams]
[Robert] They wanted to have
everlasting fame and terror
associated with their names.
[Tish] Every day in North America,
dozens of people are murdered.
The key to solving the toughest of these homicides
lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.
To crack the case,
detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline,
the minutes and hours containing evidence
that can help unlock the mystery
and catch the killer.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] Pocatello, Idaho,
a town where locals pride themselves
on knowing right from wrong.
[Robert] It is a railroad town.
It is also a town that has Idaho State University,
so it is a college town.
So it is blue-collar meets white-collar.
And it's not like many communities
where you don't know your neighbors.
I grew up in Pocatello.
It's just one of those good places, still is,
to live, you know, and raise a family.
The majority of crime is property-based crime, thefts.
And you'll get the occasional vandalism
or sometimes a stolen vehicle.
We did occasionally get, you know, homicide.
Those were not very common.
[Tish] On a peaceful Sunday afternoon,
an alarming call comes into 911
from longtime Pocatello resident,
- Allison Contreras. - [phone rings]
- [dispatcher speaking] - [Allison speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[Allison speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[Allison speaking]
Allison Contreras,
her husband, and their family...
they've been gone for the weekend.
They came home Sunday afternoon.
Came in and found her niece, Cassie,
lying on the living room floor,
covered in blood, and unresponsive.
So we hopped into our patrol cars
and headed straight for the scene.
[Tish] When police arrive, Allison directs them
to the living room where they discover the body of her niece,
Cassie Jo Stoddart.
[Robert] She was lying in front of the couch.
A lot of blood around her
and multiple stab wounds all over her torso.
She had a bunch of wounds indicative of a very sudden attack.
A very brutal, very aggressive,
very deadly attack.
This only happens in bigger cities.
This doesn't happen in Pocatello, Idaho.
[Vic] The initial investigators that went
into the residence,
when they observed the body,
they could see some obvious signs
of self-defense wounds.
[Robert] Her pinky finger was nearly
severed from her hand
trying to defend herself
from this very brutal attack
that she was enduring.
There was spatter on the television.
High velocity blood thrown on to the walls.
That's indicative of someone flinging their knife backwards
and then coming down again very fast.
It speaks to the violence of the attack.
[Vic] In fact, there were 31 stab wounds to her body.
Twelve of which were fatal wounds.
And when you're dealing with an individual
that was stabbed 31 times,
this is a crime of violence.
This isn't just something that happened.
This is a premeditated violent act
committed against this young woman.
[Michael] This is a frenzy murder.
I mean, it's beyond rage.
There is some kind of message being sent
with this murder, to create the most
horrific tableau imaginable
for whoever is going to find that body.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] Cassie's mother, Anna, arrives on the scene.
She can't imagine who would have wanted
to kill her daughter so savagely.
Cassie was a 16-year-old young woman
that had high aspirations.
She had aspirations of going to law school
and possibly being a prosecuting attorney,
possibly being a veterinarian.
The world was at her fingertips.
[Robert] She was very interested in art
and those sorts of things.
But, also, Cassie was known to have compassion.
She was a defender of people
who were looked down upon by others.
She was very passionate about the things in life
that she felt strongly about,
and was not afraid to take a stand.
She was very, you know, mature for 16.
And, in life, she was going to do something that would matter.
[Tish] Tasked with investigating
the brutal murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart,
our detective, Robert Rausch,
and prosecuting attorney, Vic Pearson.
[Robert] I have a son that's the same age.
He's born right in the same group with Cassie.
And it makes it even harder for me, as a parent,
to investigate the murder.
You have to distance yourself.
And at the same time, it's hard when you're looking
at this and you're looking at people who are...
Have lost someone that's the same age
and the same point in life that your child is.
You just can't make any sense of this.
[Tish] To track down Cassie's killer,
investigators will need to unravel
the final 24 hours of her life.
We find a phone next to Cassie's body.
It could mean she was trying to call.
It could mean that she simply had it in her hand
in case someone called.
We don't know for sure, but it is something else
that we would look at closely for fingerprints.
Bloody footprints are in the area around Cassie's body,
and they go across the carpet
and through the garage, across the garage
and then outside from the garage.
The trail terminates out there
in the gravel and grass.
In this case, what appears to be one lone set of footprints,
bloody footprints, leading away
initially points in the direction
of a single attacker.
[Tish] Investigators follow the footprints
down to the basement.
Downstairs around the corner, there's the breaker box.
Some of the breakers are still thrown,
including the breakers for upstairs
for the phone and the TV and that,
right where Cassie was.
So who was in the breaker box?
Why were they in the breaker box?
We needed to get some fingerprints
and figure out whose hands have been on that box.
[Tish] As they continue to search the crime scene,
investigators consider if they could be looking
at a burglary gone wrong.
[Robert] The home did not appear to be ransacked
or like a robbery gone wild.
It seemed a very focused attack.
- [screams] - [Vic] This wasn't a forced entry.
Somebody had either come in through an unlocked door
or had been invited in.
[Tish] And then detectives find a piece of evidence
that paints a different picture of the crime.
[Robert] We discover a discarded condom
in the bathroom.
It is absolutely a possible theory
that Cassie was sexually assaulted,
and then perhaps she was killed to keep her quiet.
It is something that you have to kind of carry forward
and say, okay, we might possibly be looking
for someone who would have this kind of fixation on her.
We also, of course, look at boyfriends
and other people close to her.
[Tish] To check their theory against the forensic evidence,
investigators turn to the medical examiner.
[Vic] We complete a sexual assault kit
and we do find that there had been sexual activity,
but we don't know whether this was
consensual sexual activity
or forced sexual activity.
[Tish] The medical examiner also helps establish
Cassie's window of death.
[Robert] She has a bloated stomach
and she has rigor mortis.
It tells us she's been deceased for a while.
Time of death was thought to be either
early Saturday sometime or late Friday.
[Tish] To continue building the victims timeline,
investigators turn their attention
to Cassie's mother, Anna Stoddard.
[Robert] So Anna relays that Cassie was house sitting
for her aunt and uncle.
They have some dogs and cats,
and she was gonna house sit with them.
And she was gonna get there Friday, which she did,
and was gonna stay until Sunday evening
when the Contrerases were due home.
[Tish] On Friday night, Anna gave Cassie permission
to invite her boyfriend, Scott,
over to the Contreras house to hang out.
[Robert] When we interview Anna,
she tells us that she dropped off Cassie and Scott
at the Contreras' home 5:30 PM on Friday.
Later that evening, Anna had called Cassie
to see how she was doing and Cassie told her
that she had had some problems with the phone
and some problems with the power going out,
but things were okay and she was doing fine.
Scott was there with her.
Anna felt that these little things didn't really seem
to have Cassie scared that much.
They were just kind of inconveniences to her.
[Tish] When Anna is unable to reach Cassie on Sunday,
she goes to the Contreras house to check on her
only to learn that she's been brutally murdered.
[Vic] Anna arrives at the scene shortly after
Cassie's body is found.
And she calls Scott and she says,
"What the F did you do to my daughter?"
[Robert] To Anna's knowledge,
the last person with Cassie was Scott.
And so, in her mind,
I'm sure that's what she was thinking is,
"You were the last person with my daughter
and now my daughter is dead.
What did you do to my daughter?"
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] Police have their first suspect in the vicious slaying
of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart,
her boyfriend and the last person to see her alive,
Scott Linderholm.
We have to focus on what we have in front of us.
Look at all the pieces.
And Scott is a piece at this time.
And he also has an emotional attachment.
They're boyfriend-girlfriend.
We discovered, you know, that in the five months
that they had been dating, they'd have occasionally
a spat here and there.
It didn't seem too out of line
for a normal teen relationship.
But we understand that someone
who may appear very normal otherwise,
under the right circumstances,
can snap and commit a murder,
and even one this brutal.
[Vic] Talking to Cassie's family, there were a few things
about Scott and Cassie's relationship that worried us.
There had been a couple incidences
where Scott had been argumentative and rude
towards Cassie and her family.
Anna and Cassie had had a couple recent arguments
regarding Cassie and Scott's relationship
and didn't necessarily approve of Scott
as a good boyfriend for Cassie
just based upon some of their interactions
between each other.
The question becomes motive.
Did something happen between them
on that particular evening that caused the fight?
[Robert] When you're younger, you don't think as much about consequences,
so pressures like rejection can be especially traumatic.
Older people might say, "Well, there's other fish in the sea,"
where young people, "This is the only fish in the sea."
[Tish] With suspicions swirling around Scott,
investigators bring him in for questioning.
[Vic] Scott when he's first interviewed,
you'd expect him to be extremely emotional,
extremely upset, but he wasn't
and this was out of the ordinary.
[officer speaking]
- [Scott speaking] - [officer speaking]
[Scott speaking]
Scott was asked about
the condom found in the toilet.
And he was quite embarrassed, nervous,
and kind of like overwhelmed by the situation.
But he was quick to point out that the sexual relations
with he and Cassie were consensual
and that they had occurred.
As he is answering questions,
you're looking at subtle changes in body language.
If he displays any emotion, is it appropriate emotion?
Because it's hard for someone to keep up a front,
especially for a crime like this,
which takes an intense amount of rage
and an intense amount of some sort of emotion
that the rest of us don't normally have
to do something like this.
[Tish] Detectives drill down on Scott's alibi
during the window of time Cassie was murdered.
[Robert] Scott relayed that Anna have driven them out
to the Contreras' home
and dropped him off about 5:30 PM.
Scott called two of his friends,
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper
to come over and watch a movie with him,
spend some time.
Scott describes Brian and Torey as friends of his.
Guys he hangs out with at school every so often.
According to Scott, Cassie was not happy at all
that he had called and let Brian and Torey know
that this is where they were going to be.
She really didn't want him to because she wanted to have
just a nice, easy, quiet evening with her boyfriend.
But Cassie is very nice to everyone
and so she tolerates a lot
because these are Scott's friends.
[Vic] At approximately 8:20 PM,
Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik
had arrived at the residence.
[Tish] Cassie takes them on a tour of the house
ending in the basement.
[Vic] Brian, Torey, and Scott went around.
They messed around on some gym equipment.
They were very immature to her, so it was less
of a fun time together,
more of a babysitting venture.
And then they went upstairs
to watch a movie, Kill Bill 2,
but Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik
had not stayed for the whole movie.
About 9:45, they had decided that they were going to leave
to go watch a movie in a theater.
[Robert] They actually asked if Scott wanted to go with them,
but he said he was gonna stay with Cassie.
And so they left the residence at that time.
Scott tells us that approximately 10:15 PM,
the lights go out at the house
and him and Cassie start hearing
some strange sounds coming from the basement.
They're not a hundred percent sure what's going on.
And this goes on for a while.
[Vic] The lights start going off and on,
and they're starting to get worried.
They have some dogs in the house
that are barking at the top of the stairs.
So there's a lot of things going through their minds.
Certainly, fear is one of them.
And then the power comes back on
and Scott's makes a determination
that he's gonna call his mother
to pick him up.
Approximately 11:20,
Scott's parents arrived at the house.
The lights have been back on, so nothing was
out of the ordinary at that point.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] Scott then says he went home
and watched movies with his dad.
From 11:40 PM
until they went to bed at 3:00 AM.
Scott did say that he called multiples times on Saturday
and couldn't get a hold of Cassie
and that they had spoke daily,
so this was very odd for him.
[Tish] But instead heading over to check on Cassie by himself,
Scott meets his buddy, Torey Adamcik.
[Robert] Torey comes over and picks him up
in the evening, around 7:00.
They go back to Torey's house.
Torey tells him that he can't take him
over there to Cassie's place,
which granted is across town.
He says 'cause he doesn't have enough gas in his car
and he needs to save the gas he has in his car.
And so, you know, they never do get to go over there
and check on her on Saturday night.
Why didn't Scott ask Torey's mom and dad if they would take him over there
or see if he could put some more gas in Torey's car?
[Root] Sometimes people feign concern
to show themselves as not somebody capable
of committing such an act.
[screams]
[Root] It is designed
to throw the police off their scent.
[Tish] To corroborate Scott's story,
detectives reach out to his parents.
Both of Scott's parents said that they picked him up
at the Contreras' house at 11:20 PM on Friday night,
and both of them gave exactly
the same version of the events.
[Vic] But Scott's parents don't enter the house.
They call him on the phone
and Scott just exits the house and comes outside.
So they never see Cassie on that particular evening.
[Robert] Scott was the only person with Cassie
from 9:45 until 11:20.
That provided him the opportunity
to have committed this crime.
[Tish] Without an airtight alibi,
detectives put Scott on the backburner
and focused on the two boys who were at the house
the night of the murder.
[Robert] The initial interview with Torey
is just essentially establishing
whether or not Scott's story has credibility
and then also because he and Brian
were also in the vicinity, at least until 9:45.
His demeanor is sort of caught between
nervousness and almost a form of like hero worship,
because we have a position of power.
Torey did express that he not only knew Cassie
but knew her pretty well and had known her for years...
[officer speaking]
[Torey speaking]
[Robert] ...and thought that she was a very smart
and very beautiful young lady.
It very much did seem like he had a crush on Cassie
and he feels bad for what happened to her.
[Tish] Investigators home in on Torey's timeline
for the night of the murder.
[Robert] Torey stated that he picked up Brian
and went over to the house.
They got there at 8:20.
He had originally been told by Scott
that this was gonna be a party,
and when nobody else came over,
it kind of bummed him out.
They hung around for a little while.
They had popsicles, which Scott had opened up
with like a box opener kind of knife.
[Tish] Torey claims the four of them went back upstairs
and put on a movie,
but he and Brian weren't that interested.
[Robert] They had already seen Kill Bill and they decide
they wanna go see something else.
Quoted, "This wasn't going to be a party,"
and so it was time to go at that point.
We asked him what movie he went to
and he advises us he went to a show called Pulse
until 11:45
and then returned home after watching that movie.
[Robert] Brian had spent the night.
They're watching another movie at Torey's house
and then they went to bed,
and Brian had left about 10:30
on Saturday morning.
[Tish] Police asked Torey
if anyone can back up his alibi.
We talked to his parents
and Torey had went up to his parents
to apologize for getting in at midnight
because he was supposed to be home at 11:00
and went to bed.
As we're examining what Torey is telling us
and we're comparing that to what Scott is telling us,
it is kind of striking that they both have
such a well put together alibi for Friday night
and then they spent Saturday night together.
And we still had questions
about why Scott didn't press harder to check on Cassie.
There is that possibility
that both Scott and Torey could be
part of some sort of conspiracy
in relation to this crime,
so absolutely we need to talk to Brian Draper.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] Detectives have zeroed in
on three persons of interests
in the murder of 16-year-old,
Cassie Jo Stoddart.
Her boyfriend, Scott Linderholm,
and his friends, Torey Adamcik
and Brian Draper.
During Brian Draper's interview,
he was a little bit more scared in the moment,
a little more nervous in the moment.
[officer speaking]
- [Brian speaks] - [officer speaking]
When asked about his relationship with Cassie,
he talks about knowing her for quite a while.
And he did also speak kindly of her
in terms of what kind of person she was.
He did describe her as a friend.
[Tish] Knowing Scott
and Torey's versions of events,
investigators questioned Brian about his whereabouts
the night Cassie was murdered.
Brian relayed essentially the same timeframe of events
that Torey did for Friday night.
Brian also relayed that Scott had a knife
and he got it out and played with it a little bit.
When we asked Brian about going to the movie,
Brian relayed to us that
he had run into a friend named Heather,
chatted with her for a few minutes
before he went into the movie.
[Tish] Brian also tells the same story
about staying over at Torey's house
and leaving at 10:30 Saturday morning.
When we're comparing Brian's story to Torey's story,
they're relatively consistent
and so we have no reason to necessarily suspect
that they committed this crime.
[Tish] Torey and Brian's alibis show
they did not have the opportunity
to kill Cassie,
and they are eliminated as suspects.
Then the forensic results come in
and they swing the case in a whole new direction.
[Vic] Cassie's mother has a boyfriend named Ralph,
and on the breaker box,
we found Ralph's fingerprints.
Now, we certainly know that
there could have been some opportunity
to commit this crime against Cassie.
We don't have any specific motive
of why Ralph would have wanted
to commit a crime like this.
[screams]
[Vic] There's the typical situations
that people think of
with a boyfriend of the mother
and maybe there are some strange relationship
in that respect
that he wants to keep secret.
[Tish] Investigators haul Ralph
down to the station for questioning.
[Vic] Ralph tells us that they've lived together
for a period of time
and they have a good relationship.
But Ralph's relationship with Cassie
wasn't always the best because that's not dad
but it's somebody that's kind of playing
that father figure.
[Tish] Detectives asked Ralph
why his fingerprints were found
on the breaker box.
What we find is that
Ralph did some work for the Contrerases
and had been in the breaker box.
[Vic] Does that mean that he didn't commit the crime
on that evening?
No.
But at least we know
there's one reason for his fingerprints
to be there already.
[Tish] Still suspicious,
investigators asked Ralph to submit
to a polygraph examination.
[Vic] We asked Ralph pointblank,
"Did you murder Cassie?"
And he denies it.
He says I had nothing to do with the death of Cassie.
[Tish] But the polygraphs results indicate
there is some deception in Ralph's answers.
[Vic] That causes the hair on the back of our necks
to stand up just a little bit taller.
[Tish] With Ralph now the prime suspect
in Cassie's murder...
detectives take a closer look
at his timeline.
Ralph tells us that he was working till 7:00 PM.
And then he has dinner with Anna
till approximately 9:30.
And at 9:30 PM, he goes to a neighbor's house
where he played video games
till approximately 1:30 in the morning.
[Tish] Police worked to verify Ralph's alibi
for the night of Cassie's murder.
[Vic] So we go ask that neighbor,
"Was Ralph with you from 9:30 to 1:30?"
And the neighbor does tell us,
"He was with us at that particular point."
Then we talked to Anna and Anna says,
"Yeah, Ralph arrived back home at 1:30."
So we have verified
that the story Ralph have given us is the truth.
[Tish] With no opportunity to commit the crime,
Ralph is cleared as a suspect.
And the investigation
into the murder of Cassie Stoddart
hits a wall.
Right now, we just know
that there's a killer on the loose.
We have nobody in custody
and we have a 16-year-old girl
that's been stabbed to death brutally,
and so we have our work cut out for us.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] The small town of Pocatello, Idaho
has been rocked by the senseless murder
of Cassie Jo Stoddart.
With a killer on the loose,
locals fear he could strike again.
There was a tremendous reaction
throughout the community.
This is not supposed to happen to a 16-year-old.
And when the method of death came out,
that was additionally extraordinary
to the community.
They could not imagine
somebody having this kind of rage.
You just don't expect that this kind of thing to happen.
And so I think that really sent a chill up
a lot of people up their spines for sure.
[eerie music playing]
When you listen to some of the behaviors
that are described here as part of this crime,
one wonders is this a type of sexual obsession.
Some sort of sexual desire towards Cassie
that hasn't been realized
that is partly driving this offense.
[Tish] Police turned to Cassie's friends,
searching for anyone who could fit the profile
of an obsessed killer.
They start by interviewing her friend, Heather.
[Robert] Heather relayed to us that
she felt there was fairly common knowledge
that Torey had a crush on Cassie.
She says that Torey was obsessed with knives
and talked about his collection
of knives at school,
and that Torey had,
at times, pretended to stab people.
[Vic] Torey likes movies.
He likes a particular genre of movies,
that being slasher films.
And so that becomes a red flag for us.
[Tish] Investigators ask Heather
about seeing Torey and Brian at the movies
the night Cassie was killed.
She makes a startling revelation.
[Robert] Heather said that she had not
in fact spoken with Brian Draper
that night at the movie theater
like Brian had told us that he had.
[Tish] To get to the truth,
officers bring Brian in for a second interview.
[Robert] When we interviewed Brian Draper
about going to the movie,
we asked him questions about the plot of the movie
and he was very vague.
[Brian speaking]
If he's paying any attention at all,
he would know way more than,
"Well, it's a movie about this."
He would know some important points of the plot,
and he didn't know any of those things.
[Tish] When detectives confront him about lying,
Brian tries to offer up something else.
[officer speaking]
- [Brian speaks] - [officer speaking]
[Brian speaking]
[Tish] Brian insists that he lied
because he didn't want to get into trouble
with the law.
[Robert] He says that approximately 10:00 PM,
they had started opening doors
and checking cars
until they finally went over to Torey's house at midnight,
and that is when they were locked down there
for the evening.
[Tish] But then,
Brian changes his story yet again.
It's pretty obvious
that Brian Draper's been crying.
He's just very emotional.
And he wants to tell the truth now.
[Vic] Brian tells us
that Torey had committed this crime
and that Torey told him
that if he didn't help,
that he was going to kill him.
[eerie music playing]
[Vic] When they did leave the house,
what they did is they went to their car.
They then entered the residence
through a door that they had left unlocked
in the basement.
And at that point in time,
Cassie and Scott were still upstairs.
And in an attempt to lure
both Cassie and Scott downstairs...
Torey started turning the lights off and on,
throwing a few items.
And what they were trying to do is get both of these
two young individuals to come downstairs
where they'd be ambushed.
[phone rings]
[Vic] Scott gets a call from his mother
that both Brian and Torey can hear.
And they realize that
Scott's parents are on their way to pick him up.
So what do they do?
They turn the lights back on at the house
so nothing's out of the ordinary
and they just lie and wait downstairs
until Scott leaves with his parents.
[eerie music playing]
[Vic] Him and Torey then walk up the stairs,
Cassie's there, and she screams.
Torey then rushes her and starts stabbing her.
[Robert] By the time that he realized
what actually was happening with Torey,
they had both ran out of the home.
Brian's explanation of what happened
is quite a believable explanation.
He's a young person
who's just seen something horrific happen.
He wasn't a party to the offense
as he's describing to the police.
And for the police, it would have been
a very plausible explanation
that he was completely unaware
that Torey was gonna commit the murder.
[Vic] Later on,
both of the boys appeared at Torey's house.
Torey went in and told his parents,
"Hey, I'm home. Sorry I'm late."
He was supposed to be home at 11:00.
That helps give him an alibi.
Then he and Brian go hang out in the house
till about 1:30 when they leave.
They bring alcohol
and the shovel and stuff with them,
and they buy matches.
They had driven out
to a place called Black Rock Canyon,
which is south of Pocatello.
They had buried all of their things,
their knives, everything in this hole,
poured the alcohol on it, and lit it on fire.
They left shortly thereafter.
About 2:30 or so,
they went back to Torey's house.
[Michael] What we have with Brian's story
is something called the Svengali Defense
whereby when you have a co-conspirator,
or a partner in crime,
or maybe signed on for one thing,
and when things then get out of control,
he's too afraid to act
because they're afraid they may be the next victim.
They're essentially brainwashed
and just go along with it.
This is a way to try
to diminish criminal responsibility.
[Tish] With Brian's confession,
Cassie's boyfriend, Scott, is finally eliminated
as a suspect in her murder.
Investigators now confront Torey
about his involvement in Cassie's murder.
[Robert] When we get Torey in and asked him,
"Did you kill somebody?"
Torey says, "I want a lawyer."
[officer speaking]
[Torey speaking]
[officer speaking]
So we cease our interview of Torey
at this point in time.
[Tish] Detectives need Brian's cooperation
to build their case
and convinced him to take them to the spot
where the boys burned and buried the evidence.
The fire had not burned everything.
Alcohol is not the best accelerant.
Had they grabbed a can of gas or something,
important pieces of evidence
probably would have been destroyed.
So it's for the fortunes of justice
that this was done in haste.
Pulling items out of this fire pit,
we find a Scream mask,
some outer covering, clothing,
and their knives that they had used.
[Vic] Most importantly, we find something
that Brian didn't tell us have been there.
We find a videotape.
That videotape turned out
to be the most damning piece of evidence
that I've dealt with in my career
as a prosecuting attorney.
- [Torey] Hey. - [Brian] Hello.
[Torey] Hello, Cassie.
Say hi please.
Hi.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] In the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddard,
investigators have found a video
that could be the key
to cracking the case wide open.
I'll never forget the moment that I watched that tape
for the first time.
It was just one of those moments
that you're holding your breath, fearful
for what you might just see on this videotape.
It shows Torey and Brian plotting.
And they describe themselves as evil.
[Brian] We found our victim, and she's our friend.
But you know what?
We all have to make sacrifices.
Our first victim is gonna be Cassie Stoddart.
She's gonna be alone in a big dark house.
How perfect can you get?
[Keira] When we think about
what is the psychology that's driving Torey
and Brian's behavior.
There should be no law against killing people.
[Keira] When you have people who have callous
and unemotional traits,
they don't have the same level of empathy
for other people, that has been...
Led to what we call fledgling psychopathy.
[Torey] I'm horny just thinking about it.
[Brian] Hell, yeah.
They wanted to become famous.
They wanted to be serial killers.
[Brian] We're sick psychopaths
who get pleasure of killing other people.
[Torey] That sounds good, baby.
[Brian] We're gonna go down in history.
We're gonna be just like Scream,
- except real-life terms. - [Torey] That sounds good, baby.
[Brian] We're gonna be murderers.
Like, let's see, Ted Bundy.
Like, the Hillside Strangler.
- [Torey] No. - [Brian] The Zodiac killer.
[Torey] Those people are more amateurs
compared to what we're gonna be.
I have no doubt
that if they would have gotten away
with Cassie's murder,
that they would have killed again.
[Robert] One consistent theme keeps reoccurring.
They have a fascination for movies
where people are killed,
slaughtered, if you will, indiscriminately,
largely with knives.
And so we took from Torey Adamcik's house
a collection of knives
and a very large collection of horror movies.
Brian Draper's house,
we seized a bunch of movies as well.
The fact that these two boys have
a shared obsession
and that their worlds intersected,
this is essentially a nuclear reaction.
This is what makes these pairings
so incredibly dangerous.
[Brian] They are right in that house
just down the street.
[Torey] We just talked to them.
We were there for an hour but...
[Brian] We checked out the whole house.
We know there's lots of places to hide.
We're ready.
[Robert] I think one of the things
that becomes apparent is Torey and Brian
wanted to create their own horror movie,
and they wanted to have that kind of everlasting fame
and terror associated with their names.
Their motivation was based a lot
on trying to live in a world
where they inspired fear and power
and control over other people.
[Tish] Investigators can now piece together
Cassie's final 24 hours.
[Cassie screaming]
On September 22nd, 2006...
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper arrived
together in Torey Adamcik's car
about 8:20 PM at Cassie's aunt's house.
Brian and Torey took a tour of the house
to scope it out for this crime.
They left a door unlocked
so they could sneak back in later,
so they could carry out their plan.
Torey and Brian leave Cassie and Scott
saying that they're going to watch a movie
at a movie theater.
They use that as their ruse
to leave the house at 9:45 PM.
Sometime just after 10:00,
they reentered the house through the door
that Torey had left unlocked.
This time though they're in their mask
and in their costumes.
And they have their knives with them.
[Vic] At approximately 10:15 PM,
they started turning the lights off and on.
Pretty soon, the power comes back on
and Scott makes a determination
that he's gonna call his mother.
[Robert] So at 11:20 PM, Scott leaves the house
with his parents.
And, at that point,
Brian and Torey put the rest of their plan into action.
They go up the stairs
and then attacked Cassie in the living room.
[screams]
[Vic] Brian and Torey film themselves
at approximately 11:31 PM,
just after they had killed Cassie.
So we know in that rough 10-minute timeframe...
that's the time
that it took them to kill Cassie.
[Keira] I think fantasy is actually
what may have brought these two youths together
and they're feeding off one another.
And when we think about
all the stated motivations here
potentially to make a slasher movie,
to potentially be serial killers,
they all have the same underlying theme,
"I want people to listen to me.
I want people to see me."
And I think at some level,
that's what each of these boys wanted.
[eerie music playing]
[Tish] Both Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper are charged
with first degree murder.
They are convicted
and sentenced to life without parole.
As a prosecuting attorney,
there are certain cases that you'll never forget.
This is one of those cases
that'll have a lasting effect on me
for the rest of my life.
I know, as a father, I can tell you
I hug my kids a little bit harder
at that point in time.
[Robert] After all these years,
the thing that sticks out to me most in this case
is that there were a lot more victims
than just Cassie and her family.
Our community was a victim.
I think all of us that worked on it,
left a lot of ourselves here.
We... Certainly, all of us lost
a lot of our innocence that day.
And I know Cassie's family has had trouble.
And I mean that in a sense of grief and loss.
They never got to see her graduate,
walk down the aisle, you know?
So many things they didn't get.
So...
these cases affect all of us.
They absolutely do.
So...