[dramatic music]
- You're running your bitch ass mouth
when you don't really know who you're [bleep] with.
- We have a potential suspect
threatening people over Facebook.
- If you make it worth my time to come get you,
you will be a [bleep] boy hostage.
- Do you wanna intimidate our community?
- Now I'm gonna tell you one more [bleep] time.
Don't play with me, man.
- I need a witness protection program.
- He's threatening to kill them.
- I'm really [bleep] scared for my life here.
- As soon as the cadaver dogs started their search,
they found a body.
- You need to find out who you're [bleep] with
before I take your birthday.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
- The case began with a man named David Roberts
reporting to law enforcement
that he was a witness to a homicide
of a female named Trinity Parker.
[suspenseful music]
The crime was reported to have occurred
in a rural abandoned farmhouse,
thought to be near the wind farms
in northern Madison County.
[dramatic music]
- Daniel Jones was a problem in our community.
He has a long, lengthy history with law enforcement.
So then David Roberts shows shows us that Daniel Jones
was threatening people over Facebook.
- You know, all you [bleep] boys out there like you [bleep],
you know, you wanna talk [bleep].
You need to find out who you [bleep] with
before I take your birthday.
- We learned that Jones had intended to kill Trinity
because he believed that she had snitched
on someone on another crime.
- He puts an end to the snitches.
That's what he was telling people
and it was important for him to have that big reputation
and for everyone to be afraid of him.
- That's possibly why Roberts
is being looked for now by Daniel Jones.
So he couldn't snitch on the initial murder of Trinity.
[suspenseful music]
- Roberts had also indicated
that his friend David Phillips was missing
and he didn't know where he was and he was concerned
because he feels that Daniel Jones was involved.
Initially, we weren't sure what to think about his story.
Roberts admitted that he had been on drugs,
which fogged his memory.
So we need to verify his story
and it becomes reliable information.
[suspenseful music]
It should have been easy to find this location,
but ultimately we just spent three or four hours
driving him around and got nowhere.
[truck roars past]
It became very frustrating for us at this point
because you start wondering,
is this actually a factual story
or have the drugs filled something into his mind
that may or may not have happened?
[suspenseful music]
- When I found out Trinity was missing,
I posted on Facebook, "Have you seen me?"
You know, she's missing.
Have you seen her?
I went looking for her.
I drove all over Anderson and I just remember driving
and driving and driving 'cause I was kind of in shock.
- I was like, maybe she just took off.
You know, maybe she's on
one of her little adventures or something,
but somewhere in your gut you just know differently.
I knew that when she was missing,
it wasn't gonna be good.
[clock ticks]
[suspenseful music]
- Someone in the family always talked to David every day.
But we were all at my mom and dad's house
and we were just all like,
we haven't seen David, heard from David,
and that's not David.
He always called us back and so we just was like,
there's just something not right.
It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of crying.
But I held out the hope that, you know, he's somewhere.
- Mr. Phillips' family becomes concerned
and they do an investigation on their own
and talking to people.
The name Daniel Jones comes up again.
We were told Daniel Jones
was the person that killed Trinity.
We put two and two together
and now we have a main suspect connecting the Trinity murder
with Phillips' disappearance.
[suspenseful music]
He had been arrested
because he was at a park in the city of Anderson
waving a gun around.
We also found out
that Jones had in his possession
David Phillips' food stamp card when he was arrested.
That was a big red flag.
- Food stamp cards aren't something
that people just leave laying around.
It's something that Mr. Phillips had on him
probably at the time he became missing.
- There was obvious relief that he was in jail.
Give us more time to conduct our investigation
before we interview Daniel Jones.
Generally speaking,
the suspect is the last person that you want to talk to.
You have no way of knowing
that he's telling you lies
if you haven't done your homework before you talk to him.
The other big thing, we still don't have a body.
Trying a murder case without a body
is a difficult thing to do.
So it's very important to make sure
that we find David Phillips and Trinity Parker.
[clock ticking]
[suspenseful music]
- We received information
that a female by the name of Brittney Vontress
had told some people that Phillips' body
was at the Rangeline Nature Preserve.
[suspenseful music]
- As soon as the cadaver dogs started their search,
I would say it was within five,
10 minutes at the most, they found a body.
[tense suspenseful drone]
- The scene itself was down a trail a couple hundred feet.
As soon as I saw the body,
I immediately knew it was Phillips.
I knew what he looked like.
- David Phillips' body was badly decomposed.
He had some trauma to his skull
that was indicative of a gunshot wound.
When we found David Phillips,
it certainly corroborated the story
that David Roberts initially told us.
Roberts was in fear that Daniel Jones
may have killed Phillips while trying to get to him.
Obviously there's something to this.
Now we have a body.
- I was at work and my mom called me
and she says, "Brena, they found him."
And I just remember immediately dropping to the floor
by my locker in tears crying.
He loved everybody.
He didn't meet a person that he did not like.
Everybody was a friend.
He would go down to the ballpark
and play basketball with some friends
and he'd come home without a shirt on and we're like,
"Where'd your shirt go?"
And he'd be like, "Well this kid didn't have a shirt on
and I gave it to him."
He was just a giving person.
I couldn't think of anybody.
I just couldn't understand why
they would want to do that to David.
[solemn music]
[suspenseful music]
Okay.
So at this point we have heard the rumors
that Brittney was somehow involved in this,
but we still don't have a lot of information.
My first impression of Brittney
is that based upon her movements,
she's obviously been on some drugs
and is obviously probably coming off of some drugs.
So I've gotta be gentle with the way I interview her
and she's gonna be hard to read.
Where do you wanna start with this?
And we can go as deep into this as we need to.
I didn't do nothing.
- [Brad] Well-
- I'm really [bleep] scared for my life here.
[dramatic music]
[light music]
- When David was murdered,
not only did I lose my only brother, I also lost a friend.
The impact it had on our family was
we were close,
but it tore us apart a little bit at the same time.
[suspenseful music]
- There's a lot of people with a lot of speculation
about what has happened here and what's gone on, okay?
We know some little bits and pieces, okay?
And there's a part of this where you fit into this.
- Okay, so we will do whatever we can
to try to keep everybody safe, okay?
- I don't even want to be brought in this [bleep].
I don't even want my name brought out of this.
- Okay.
- If I talk to you,
like if I tell you what the [bleep] you wanna know,
I don't want any part of this
because I didn't have anything to do with it.
I just know what he told me. - Right.
- The initial reaction of her being scared
and the way she was acting, I felt that that was genuine.
So I've gotta kind of calm her down
and hone her in on and then start asking,
who exactly are you talking about?
Who told you that they did it?
Did someone admit to you
that they're actually the person that shot him?
- Yes. - Okay. What's his name?
- Okay. You know his last name?
- Daniel Jones, okay.
- He admitted to you that he-
- I don't, it's not David that I'm talking about
that he admitted to.
There's another person involved.
- Well, we can't help you unless you-
- There's somebody else involved.
Okay, the girl that's missing,
she's involved in this [bleep] too.
- When she says there's more to this involving other people,
another girl missing is, okay, we're talking about Trinity.
- That's the case that we started with.
David Roberts stated that he witnessed Trinity Parker
being shot in an abandoned home.
So she's corroborating what David Roberts had told us.
- So can you explain to me?
Because that's the story I don't know.
- I don't know what, I don't even know her.
- Take a second.
- All I know is that she snitched on somebody.
- Okay.
And from what I gather,
they killed her because she snitched on him.
- Jones thought Trinity was a snitch.
That provides a motive.
And also he's trying to get respect from people
the only way he knew how by threatening,
intimidating, you know, hurting people.
- So the word is that Trinity snitched on someone
and that's why she's been killed.
Roberts, what's Roberts' involvement there?
- Okay.
To her snitching or to the murder?
- Okay.
Was Jones afraid Roberts was gonna snitch on him
for shooting Trinity then? Is that what-
And Phillips was, I guess a mishap because of Roberts.
- Because they were trying to track down Roberts, okay.
- We have somebody that's dead.
- I just know what I was told.
Like I'm like, "What the [bleep] just happened?"
- This is where I'm getting into this because we,
as you heard 50 stories. - Yeah.
- We've heard 50 other stories.
- [Brittney] Yep.
- So the first thing I wanna do
is see if we can clear you from some of this stuff.
Did you drive somebody out to the nature preserve?
- On Rangeline, there's-
- Do you know who drove him over there?
- I don't even know what the [bleep] nature, like-
- [Brad] Okay.
- I'm so confused with this nature preserve thing.
- The reason we went out to the nature preserve
is because we were told that you told someone
about the nature preserve, okay?
- [Brittney] Mm-hmm.
- Is that true?
- That's why, I know. Okay.
Brittney acts like she knows nothing
about what a nature preserve is.
My initial thought is I don't believe that.
Everyone that's up around that community
is aware that we have a nature preserve.
They've heard of it.
That was the first real big red flag.
She wants to distance herself as far away
from something that's occurred there.
Is there anything else you can think of?
Because I don't want to,
I'd rather hear from you now than-
- I felt like there was more information
that she was not willing to tell me,
but I didn't wanna be too confrontational with her
to where she shuts down.
Odds are I'm gonna have to come back
and talk to her again to clarify some stuff
that she had told or didn't tell.
At this point,
I have nothing to think she's a suspect of anything.
She's still a witness to us at this point
and I allow her to leave.
[suspenseful music]
[vehicles roar past]
So we wanted to see if we can figure out
how Phillips got there,
who, if anybody was with him when he went down there.
When we got to see the video for the first time,
we observed a gold Cavalier pull into the parking lot.
It pulls into a parking spot.
Then we see David Phillips exit the vehicle.
Two people then lead Phillips down a trail
and we realize that this is the last time
David Phillips is seen still alive
and whoever's in the car knows what's going on.
We need to find these other people involved.
{suspenseful music]
[suspenseful music]
- Based on the surveillance video
we found three men were dropped off at the nature preserve.
They enter the woods.
- They go into the woods with three people.
They come out and there's only two.
There's no David Phillips.
- After we see the video,
we realize that we know the two other people involved.
We identified Jordan Zirkle because of his criminal history.
The other person that's our main suspect, Daniel Jones.
We've been told that they were hanging out
for multiple weeks.
They're living together.
And when Jones was arrested for the gun charge,
Jordan Zirkle was with him.
- It tells us that Jordan Zirkle and Daniel Jones
escorted David Phillips down that trail
at that part of the nature preserve to kill him.
[suspenseful music]
- We learned Taylor Wheeler and Brittney Vontress,
who was my initial interview,
lived together in an apartment.
Daniel Jones and Jordan Zirkle
were friends with Taylor and Brittney.
They all were hanging out pretty much 24/7
over about a two week period.
I think their drug use
fueled a lot of what they did together.
- Also, we found out Brittney is dating Jordan Zirkle,
so she possibly would've had some kind of idea
of what had happened that day
- From the video,
we can't tell who the driver is at that point in time.
We just can tell that there's two females in the car
and there had to be some kind of conversation.
Whoever's in the car knows what's going on.
[suspenseful music]
- When I arrived into the area,
I remember seeing that car
that perfectly matched the description.
It probably wasn't 10 minutes
that two people exited the house.
It was Jordan Zirkle and Taylor Wheeler
and we transported them separately
to the sheriff's department.
[dramatic music]
[clock ticking]
- Hi. - Hi.
You get a water?
- Yeah, it feels better. It's been so hot.
- At this point, we don't know much about Taylor Wheeler.
We don't know what her involvement is,
if any, in this murder.
All we know is that we've seen the video
of her car at the nature preserve.
I don't know what you're about to tell me.
I don't know what's,
where any of this is gonna go.
- This whole thing,
like this the [bleep] people
that I'm acquaintances with, right?
- Just so you understand
the magnitude of what we're talking about.
Do you understand the magnitude?
- Yes. - Of what we're talking about?
- Yes, I do.
- We're here to be truthful because somebody's dead.
So if you know even anything
in the slightest of anything,
if you have any information,
I mean even the most minute bit of information
that you don't even think would be
beneficial to us knowing, we need to know.
- Yeah, and if you guys can gimme a number
and if I like, literally hear anything.
- Well, I mean we're gonna sit and talk here for a while,
so I wanna make sure you understand that.
- Oh yeah.
- She has no concern that a murder has occurred.
Not caring about David
and that David's been killed
is stuff that's standing out to me.
She'd go so far as to say
she wants us to give her our number
so she can call us if she hears anything
where we already know that her car's been used
to drive to the park.
How do you know Jordan?
- Okay, and you're talking about Brittney
is Brittney Vontress? - Yeah.
- And Jordan is, his last name is Zirkle,
is that right? - Yeah.
- Okay. But you know this, you know Daniel Jones?
- Yeah.
Oh, I don't know his last name, but I know him.
- How often was Daniel around?
- Not much.
He literally just like came over
and hung out for a little bit
and then went back to his grandma's
and they just hung out.
- So Daniel and Jordan were together quite a bit?
- Yeah. - Okay.
But you said you really only met Jordan just a couple-
- Yeah, just a couple times. - Okay.
So there wouldn't be any reason
that your car would be on video anywhere else
with them in the car or anything like that?
- Mm-mm. - Okay.
Do you know where the Rangeline Nature Preserve is
out on Rangeline Road?
Do you know where that's at at all?
- [Taylor] Mm...
- Do you know where Rangeline road's at?
- Where is that? Can you put it like?
- The Rangeline Nature Preserve is up here.
It's like a little like set of walking trails and stuff.
- [Brad] Say that again.
- Where you can go pet the animals?
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- You're talking to a blonde.
I'm just trying to like, I'm trying to like-
- Okay, so if I say like that
and you might not know it by name,
but have you ever been anywhere and dropped them off
or been with them and dropped them off
where there's like a parking lot?
Maybe you don't know? - [Taylor] No. No.
- Maybe you don't the name of it.
- [Taylor] No.
- Has there ever been a point where with Jordan and Daniel
that David would've been,
the three of them would've been together in your car?
- No.
- At that point I think
is when it first starts sinking into her
that we know more than what she's told us so far
and she's not comfortable being in this room.
She's fidgeting around, moving around.
She keeps changing her leg, where she has her legs at.
I think you're making some poor decisions now
by not being truthful with me to try to protect these people
that you're calling your friends and I don't want that.
- [Taylor] Yeah. - Okay? I wanna start over.
- [Taylor] Okay.
- Have you ever been to that Rangeline Park
with them or without them in the last week?
And I wasn't driving them.
Brittney was dropping them off.
I was sitting right there.
- [Brad] Brittney was driving? - Mm-hmm.
- [Brad] But driving your car? - Mm-hmm.
[dramatic music]
- And I was sitting in the back seat and Brittney drove
and Jordan was in the front and Dave was right there.
- Daniel was there?
- Okay.
- Initially, Brittney Vontress had said
that she wasn't really involved with anything
that happened at the nature preserve,
that she wasn't in the car.
- Did you drive somebody out to the nature preserve?
- [Brittney] What is a nature preserve?
- Do you know who drove him over there?
- I don't even know what the [bleep] a nature preserve-
- [Brad] Okay.
Now Taylor Wheeler is saying Brittney was the person
that was driving this vehicle.
- When you and, Brittney was driving,
but you dropped them off.
And what did you and Brittney do?
- We went back to my house.
- And when you came back,
it was just Daniel and Jordan?
- Yep. - And no David?
- No David.
- Did they say anything? - No.
- This is where it's very important
that if they said something about what they did.
- [Taylor] No.
- And I think you know what they did.
I mean, you understand
you're tied up in a murder. - Yeah.
- That should really bother you.
I think she's only worried about herself.
Everyone in that car knew
what was gonna happen when they got to the nature preserve.
She was sitting next to him before he was killed
and she doesn't care.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[car buzzes past]
[clock ticking]
- I'm just like, you know,
basically just an innocent bystander
in the middle of this for no [bleep] reason.
You know what I mean?
- This is where I find it hard to believe
that one of them didn't say something
when they got back in that car about what happened.
I find that really-
I think Daniel murdered him.
- Well, why do you think that?
- [Taylor] Because he didn't come back
when we dropped him off.
- Did Daniel ever say, "I did this or I did that?"
- No, he never.
- Did he ever say that to Jordan?
- No.
- Did Jordan ever say, "Holy [bleep] Daniel did
this, this or this when we were back here?"
- Well he did say, well, he was like,
"Holy [bleep] he's scary.
I've never seen anything like that."
- The entire thing was an uphill battle.
I felt we had got to a point
to where she had told a little bit of the truth,
but wasn't willing to give everything.
We needed the pressure on her to know
that we know a lot more of this
than what you're willing to tell us.
- I just don't wanna get killed.
I need a witness protection program.
- Somebody said something, I need to know.
I mean, you realize you were in a car,
in your car with somebody
and they went and murdered somebody.
That's where we're at, Taylor.
- Yeah, I know that's [bleep] up and-
- That's where we're at.
And you knew.
I did not know.
- Okay. You knew though.
You know enough,
you know enough to know
with everything leading up to that.
That's not rocket science.
You've been honest with me before
and you haven't been, okay?
So I wanna make sure we're on the same page here, Taylor.
- [Taylor] Yeah.
- Was there any kind of arguments in the car?
- There was confrontation.
They were arguing a little bit.
- Who was arguing?
- Daniel was arguing with Dave
'cause he's looking for the other Dave,
because, I don't know, they didn't tell me.
I don't know the details, but something did something
and they're looking for him, you know, there's a pattern.
- Because he was really trying to get to David.
To David Roberts? - [Taylor] Yeah.
- And did Daniel have the gun out then?
- Yes.
- Did he have the gun out
basically the whole time you guys were in the car?
- While they were arguing?
And what's his demeanor with David then?
- Angry as [bleep]. - [Brad] Okay.
- Yeah.
- She knew there was a gun there.
She knew that three people walked into a trail
and only two walked back out.
Taylor knew what had happened.
She didn't want to come out forth
and tell us that she knew that he had been killed.
She's a culpable person in this.
I'm gonna backtrack a little bit
and throw a whole 'nother wrench in here.
Have any of 'em talked about another girl?
- No. - That could be dead.
- No. Another girl?
- Trinity. Trinity Parker.
Have you ever heard that name?
- No, I don't even know who the [bleep] that is.
[Taylor laughs] - You sure?
- Okay.
She says she doesn't know Trinity
and she doesn't know anything about her.
We found this hard to believe
because the closeness that these four had
between Taylor Wheeler, Brittney Vontress,
Jordan Zirkle, and Daniel Jones.
At some point in time
they had to be some kind of a conversation.
[suspenseful music]
Getting your ID back
for me to write that stuff down.
I approached the interview
to get as much information out of him
and get a story out of him that he was gonna tell me
before I transitioned into knowing that
he was on the video,
going down the trail,
knowing he was present when the murder occurred.
That gives me a gauge as to
how much information am I gonna have to pull out
of this person through interview tactics
versus how truthful they're gonna be.
All right.
So I'm just gonna let you tell me what's going on
and then I will see what I need,
what questions I have from there.
- Okay, well, what I know what's going on
is there's been three different stories
since the day it started.
After getting arrested
with that gun he had and everything,
I've heard three different people say
that this David guy has come up missing, David J. Phillips?
- First of all, who got arrested with the gun?
Who are we talking about?
- Daniel Jones or something like that.
- All right, so,
I need you to be completely honest with me about Daniel.
Okay? A lot of people are scared of him.
- Okay.
- [Brad] Has he made threats to you?
- [Brad] Okay. What kind of threats has he made to you?
- He's told me if anything's ever said or done
that he would come after people's family.
- Has there been a conversation between Daniel and you
or Daniel and everybody else
that he's done something to Phillips?
- Yeah. - Okay.
So what was that, how'd that conversation go?
- I don't know exactly how the conversation went.
I know he said something
about having a conflict with him and having a problem.
He said something about knot being on his head.
Next time you see me, he'd have a knot on his head.
So I was under the accusation
that he got beat up or something.
I didn't know anything other than that until this
and I've watched him myself
be pretty violent towards people, so.
- Okay.
Where the body, where Phillips' body was found today,
there are cameras on the parking lot.
- [Jordan] Mm-hmm.
- Okay. Is there any reason that the cameras
are gonna show you and Daniel there?
- I wouldn't think so. - Okay.
Well this is the night that everything went down,
that he got shot.
There's video from the park of who took him out to the park.
- Uh-huh.
- Okay?
If those people are identified and aren't cooperative,
they're gonna be charged with murder also.
The video obviously shows him getting out of the car.
So don't try to lie about this information.
I'm tired of playing games with you.
You're either gonna tell me
or you're gonna be charged with murder.
[suspenseful music]
- Okay. In what car?
- [Jordan] In her car.
- Okay. Taylor's car?
- Yes, the gold one. - Okay.
What was the purpose of everyone going out there?
Just to go out on the walking trails and stuff like that?
- That's what my assumption was.
- Okay. All right.
So we're getting somewhere.
This is something that you didn't come out
with initially, okay?
I'm gonna keep prefacing with you.
- Well no- [both chattering]
I'm scared of what's going on with all of this, with him.
- So what I know is that someone else was with Daniel.
Someone drove Daniel and Phillips out there.
That person may or may not
be the person that pulled the trigger.
I don't think they are, but I think they're a witness.
I'm just trying to minimize his involvement
and make him feel more comfortable that,
okay, I'm not the monster.
He's the monster.
Jones is the one that pulled the trigger.
So if you're just a witness,
you should be able to tell me this stuff.
[clock ticking]
- Okay.
- Did you guys go out there Monday
after he said that he had a problem with him?
- It was either Monday or Tuesday.
We went out that way.
- Okay. Who all went out there?
- Me, him, Brittney and Taylor.
All four went out there.
- What all went on at the trails?
- I walked the trails.
Daniel said something about he'd catch up to us.
I sat there, the girls were up at the car waiting on us.
I went up, [bleep] sat up there for a minute,
waited on them, they came back around.
We got in the car and we took off.
- Okay.
So you, Brittney, Taylor, Daniel.
So the girls go back to the car.
Where did you go?
- Okay. What happened?
Listen, be honest with me because-
- I am, I am.
We walked the trails for a little while.
- Okay. - We got up a little ways.
He said that he had to go do something
and I told him I was going back to the car.
I turned around and walked back.
- We know that he came out of the trail with Jones.
There was no coming out by himself
and there was no sitting at the car
'cause the girls had actually left.
He's pushing himself away from the actual crime
when the crime committed.
He's trying to get himself distanced away from that.
So at this point I come at him a little bit harder.
Well, there's a guy that's dead.
He died when you guys were out at the trails
and I'm trying to get this information out of you, okay?
Like I told you, there's a camera out there.
- Okay?
We know how they ever, how everyone got out there, okay?
What happened back there between you,
between Phillips and Daniel is what I want you to tell me.
Okay, I think you didn't pull the trigger.
You didn't have a gun, did you?
- You didn't pull the trigger, did you?
- Daniel pulled the trigger, right?
- Okay. Were you standing there watching?
- No? Come on.
- Okay.
So the video's gonna show you coming up
for how long before Daniel comes up?
- Just seconds really.
I mean, I come up-
- Did you hear the shot?
- No.
- What'd he say when he came up?
- Jordan, you need to be honest.
- I am.
- Did Phillips come back out?
- Okay, and nothing was said?
No one asked, "Where's Phillips?"
- I'm gonna tell you right now.
I'm gonna step out for a second
and you better think real quick, okay?
- I don't know what else to think about this, sir.
- The truth because you were there when it happened.
- [Jordan] I'm telling the truth though-
- You were there when it happened.
Initially I was gonna take a break
and then I could tell in his posture
what I was saying was actually sinking in with him.
He's got his hands together, which is an indication to us
that it's almost like he's getting ready to pray for help.
That's a position right there
that tells us he's ready to talk.
He's gonna tell us what's going on.
You were there when it happened, okay?
Now do you wanna be charged with murder
or do you wanna be a witness to what went on, okay?
- Then tell me about what went on other than,
"Well, I don't know.
We went down the trail. I don't have a clue."
Okay?
That's complete [bleep].
We're talking about a murder.
Someone's dead.
- Okay. - [Brad] All right?
- Look, I will be. - [Brad] Come on, let's, okay.
- You're not the only one whose life that he's threatened.
- Okay.
[dark suspenseful drone]
Yes, he was looking right at him.
- Okay, so they were facing each other?
- Yeah.
- Okay, did he fall down right away or?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- When he goes into the emotion of the crying,
I don't think is the remorse
of what happened or what he saw.
But I think that is the emotion coming out from,
I'm finally telling what happened
and I understand what the consequences are.
Whose idea was it to go out
to the Rangeline Nature Preserve?
- Was Phillips forced to go out there?
- Yes. - Okay.
What was said to Phillips to force him to go out there?
- All kinds of stuff.
- Tell me.
- Oh, he said things about killing him,
shooting him in the back,
beating him up, breaking fingers.
Said something about cutting a finger off.
- And what was he telling to Phillips
when he got outta the car?
- [Jordan] He's threatening to kill him.
- Threatening to kill him? - Yes.
- [Brad] Okay.
- Okay, so the intent of going to Rangeline Nature Preserve.
Okay, he's making threats to kill him.
- [Brad] He tells you to get outta the car and go with him.
Okay, everyone's aware that something's about
to go down at Rangeline?
- Yes. - Okay.
But everyone else is just scared to death
because he runs his mouth and threatens everybody.
- When he got to the point
of actually telling me about Phillips
and he finally let that emotion out from Phillips,
he seemed to relax a lot more.
So my thought process here is I had transitioned over
to talking about the Trinity side of the case.
So Trinity Parker,
what do you know about that?
- I've heard the name through them.
- [Brad] Okay. - I don't know.
- I get it.
There's a lot, a lot of stuff
that's going on in a short amount of time.
Stuff's gone like a whirlwind.
It's spun out of control, okay?
- Well the first thing you need to do
is you gotta be honest with yourself, okay?
You need to be honest with us, okay?
We've gotta solve this stuff and get this past us, okay?
Like I told you from the beginning,
your honesty's gonna go a long way, okay?
- [Brad] Okay.
- I wanna know where Trinity's at, okay?
She has a mom, she has a dad, she has siblings,
because I wanna be able to give closure to the family.
I know there is a girl,
I don't know if it's the same Trinity girl,
but there is a girl that David Roberts guy
that all of this started over.
- Mm-hmm.
- Me and Daniel and him went and picked up [bleep].
Daniel was driving at the time and we drove her out
and everything to some place he knew of.
- Did you guys end up by the windmills?
- It is, it is.
- It is? Okay.
- Yeah. And that's the exact, now listen to me.
That's exactly how the story starts off that I have, okay?
But she didn't come back home.
- Describe the house to me.
- When you go up to it,
it's like an abandoned house here
and it's got like a little warehouse type house.
- What color's the house?
- White, if I remember correctly.
- Okay.
- I think it's white.
I don't remember for sure.
- Like a realtor or something?
- Like he was giving 'em a place to stay.
It sounded like a legit story.
And then me and David was going back downstairs
and all of a sudden as the other two
were coming down the stairs, they heard pop, pop, pop.
And [bleep] we all took off running.
- So you didn't see him shoot?
- No.
- [Brad] Did you see her?
- When it first happened, yeah.
That's where we were all at.
- Where was she at? - She was,
they were coming down the stairs.
- Last you saw of her?
- Last I seen, she fell down the stairs
and was laying at the foot of the stairs.
- Okay.
What was the conversation on the way back to Anderson?
- [Brad] Okay.
- Now we have two individual people
who are telling us the same thing, right?
So David Roberts initially told us
about Trinity Parker getting killed by Daniel Jones.
How she was killed. Where she was killed.
And now we've got Jordan Zirkle in an interview room
corroborating what David Roberts had told us.
So it was very crucial for us to get him
to tell us the location of Trinity Parker at this point.
- Okay, so you go into this house,
where, I need you to tell me where this house is
because I need to go get her.
That is Trinity Parker, she is-
- Where's it at?
- I don't know exactly where it is.
I mean that's what confused me about the whole thing
because we just drove and drove and drove and drove.
- Is there anything else that's going on?
- No, sir.
- You sure? - I swear on my life.
[suspenseful music]
- Now that we've got an understanding
of what happened to Phillips,
we want to get to the answer of what happened to Trinity.
We need that biggest piece of evidence, which is a body.
Without finding the body, we don't have a homicide case.
[suspenseful music]
We're driving roads back and forth
and I couldn't decipher if he was actually trying to help
or just leading us on a wild goose chase.
And so then after a few hours
of driving around and getting nowhere,
we're back to nothing.
We don't know where she's at.
And that was frustrating.
- It was just a matter of that last hurdle
to put this together was finding Trinity
and Daniel Jones is the last piece of the puzzle
that would lead us to where she is.
[suspenseful music]
- If you make it worth my time to come get you,
you will be a [bleep] boy hostage.
- Everything we've heard about him
is that he's this intimidating guy.
- You don't really know who you're [bleep] with.
- Absolutely not.
This is gonna be our interview.
We've heard enough of the stories.
We want to find Trinity.
I've got a witness that saw you shoot Trinity.
- [Daniel] That's [bleep]. - Why is that?
- I didn't shoot Trinity.
[dramatic music]