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This is an approximate area of where the crime scene was.

I've replayed it in my mind a lot, what it must have been

in those moments, knowing that you won't make it

out of these woods alive.

It's hard to imagine how small she was.

I almost broke down.

Someone forced her into the woods,

and she was murdered.

In a small town, the killer could easily have been

just down the road.

Wow, could my father have done something like this?

The man most of us know as Ted

has been seen only in a picture.

They had no idea it was the Ted Bundy who had

terrorized this state.

For decades, law enforcement couldn't rule anybody out.

And then they managed to locate something.

Amazingly, it broke the case wide open.

For those of us who cover crime at People magazine,

the sheer number of suspects in this case is staggering.

No one had any idea if the killer could still be

out there lurking in the dense forests

of the Pacific Northwest.

Growing up in Bothell back in 1972

was very small town, USA.

We'd either be working on our tree fort or we would be

running down the street to go ride horses.

The area was very country.

After school, we'd do our chores and farm duties.

People didn't lock their doors.

Everybody knew each other.

You felt safe.

The Loomis family live on Winesap Road.

There's the mom, Rosemary. There's the dad, John Sr.

There's Jody Loomis, who's 20.

She lives at home with her parents

and her younger sister, Jana, who's 12.

And then they also have an older brother, John,

but he at that point is living out of the house.

My sister, Jody, was eight years older,

and she was everything that I wanted to strive to be.

She could draw. She could paint.

She could carve.

She could just pick anything up, and she would see

something in it, and it would mean something to her.

At that time, my sister was still living at home,

and Jody would paint storefront windows and sell her carvings

and make her money.

Jody's biggest passion is taking care of animals,

including her horse, Saudi, who is boarded

just four miles up the road.

I remember one time she had run across some people

target-shooting with pigeons, and there was a pigeon flailing

around on the ground, and she put the pigeon

in her shirt and rolled it up,

and she started yelling at them to stop.

That was Jody.

She would always look out for the underdog.

In 1972, with Jana finally catching up

to her older sister's height, they arrive at a sisterhood

rite of passage.

Jody was around 5 feet tall, and for the first time,

I could fit into something of hers, or she could fit

into something of mine.

And that was just good fun.

On August 23, 1972, Jody wants to go ride her horse, Saudi.

And she wants to wear her sister Jana's new boots.

My mom had just purchased some boots for me for school

called waffle stompers,

because of the waffle shape, they would leave on the ground,

and my sister really liked them.

So that particular day, Jody wanted to wear them

to go ride Saudi.

So Jody tied up the boots and walked outside with my mom.

Jody grabs her new white 10-speed bike and gets ready

to ride the four miles to the farm

where Saudi is boarded.

My mom always wanted to make sure that if we needed

to make a call that we had a dime on us for a pay phone.

And so my mom said to her, "Jody, do you have your dime?"

She checked her pocket, it was there.

And she said, "Yep, I got it."

At that point, my mom said goodbye, and Jody wrapped

her horse's bridle around the handlebars

and rode off.

That was the last time that my mom ever saw Jody.

I'm sorry.

A couple of miles away from the Loomis household,

Walter Morris and Cathy Gogal had gone into the woods

in order to do some practice shooting.

They drove their car into a pathway and discovered

that it was blocked by a log.

When they got out to move that log, they discovered

a woman who clearly suffered a traumatic wound to her head,

surprisingly still alive.

She wasn't able to speak, but she did have

some raspy breath.

And so they immediately swooped her up and drove as fast

as they could to the nearest hospital.

On the drive to the hospital, there was a moment

that they realized she had likely passed.

On the evening of the 23rd at Stevens Memorial Hospital

down in South Snohomish County,

I was directed to a deceased female between 17 and 22,

but very tiny,

very petite, with what appeared to be a bullet wound

to the right side of her head.

The woman did not have any identification on her,

so at that point she was considered a Jane Doe.

She was partly nude, but still in her underwear,

boots, and socks.

She had glasses kind of hanging off her face and some jewelry.

The boots were kind of a hiking boot.

We called them waffle stompers.

One was tied and one wasn't, which seemed to indicate

that maybe she was either getting dressed

or undressed when she was shot.

When detectives arrive, they ask Walter Morris

and Cathy Gogal to bring them back to the woods

where they found Jane Doe.

All summer long, I ran a produce stand

on the corner of 164th and the Bothell-Everett Highway,

selling the produce that we grew on our farm.

And in the early evening on August 23rd, 1972,

all of a sudden, there's all these police cars

heading up Penny Creek Road.

And I thought, "Wow, I wonder what happened up there."

Probably three quarters of the way up the hill

on Penny Creek Road,

there was a dirt drive that went off into the woods.

The witnesses, Walter and Cathy, took the detectives

down that dirt road heading to the crime scene

and find a man named Ken Rice and his son, Alan,

along the dirt road cutting firewood.

And the police talked to them and learned

that the Rice family lived at the bottom of the hill

and they were renting this particular property.

My dad and brother had been cutting wood.

We lived on 2,000 acres where we had our farm,

our garden, but that area was nothing.

Ken Rice didn't remember ever hearing a gunshot,

but he did add that it wasn't uncommon to shoot

on that property.

Ken and Alan Rice are told to vacate the area

while deputies cordon off the scene.

Once Ken Rice and his son, Alan Rice, leave the area,

the couple take the investigators

to where the body was found.

And there was a pool of blood there by the log.

The deputies and detectives are looking for any sort

of evidence they can use to help them figure out what happened,

figure out who Jane Doe is.

And unfortunately, they don't find a whole lot.

But they do find a white 10-speed bicycle.

And on the path,

they find a dime.

My parents' rule was to be home by dark, and that day,

I remember running down Poppy Road going, "Oh, my gosh,

I'm pushing this, it's dusk."

I walked in the door, and my mom said,

"OK, well, you're here, but your sister's not here."

I didn't think anything,

just that she's gonna be in trouble.

As the hours tick by, Mr. and Mrs. Loomis begin

calling Jody's friends, local hospitals,

and the sheriff's office.

Soon word reaches the detectives

investigating the Jane Doe.

When my mom was making calls, her voice was shaking,

and all of a sudden it dawned on me, she's scared.

My dad's scared.

And then...

...there was the knock at the door.

And I remember my mom's look on her face.

There were two detectives at the door,

and they told us, "We think--

"we think your daughter is deceased,

and she's at the hospital."

With that, my mom went to the ground.

My dad is just standing there numb.

It was an unbelievable

moment.

I've never seen pain like this before.

And as a 12-year-old, I think I totally changed

as a person that day.

Yeah.

Detectives ask Jody's father, John, to come identify

the body of the Jane Doe at the hospital.

At about 1 o'clock in the morning,

I met with Mr. Loomis

and escorted him back to the examination room

to possibly identify this young woman.

When we got there, Mr. Loomis got very upset,

and that's when he kind of fell apart.

I still feel.

I still identify with him.

'Cause it's just--

It's so hard to be around that and not feel all their pain.

The next morning, as news spreads of Jody Loomis' murder,

a pathologist and Deputy Coroner Christensen

conduct an autopsy.

The pathologist was able to locate two bullet fragments

inside of her head.

One was just barely under the skin, and the other one

had penetrated through the skull into the brain,

which was the cause of death.

The bullet fragments were from a .22-caliber pistol.

They believe that the gunshot wound

to the right side of Jody's head

was at a downward trajectory, meaning somebody

was above her, whether she was sitting, or kneeling,

or on the ground, when she had been shot.

Based on her state of undress, it is also clear

to Deputy Coroner Ken Christensen that there was

some kind of sexual assault that took place.

So they do a rape kit.

Swabs and her panties were sent for detailed analysis,

and they got a report back stating it was

positive for semen.

But in 1972, there was no DNA.

People knew about it, but it was never

a forensic tool.

So that evidence was just booked into the property room

at the sheriff's office.

But looking at the autopsy, it appears Jody Loomis was

forced into the woods at gunpoint, made to undress,

and then was raped.

And as soon as he let her up, she was able to get her panties

and her boots on, and she tied the right boot

and was in the process of tying the left boot while she was

sitting on the ground, and that's when she was shot

in this side of the head at a downward angle.

Without more evidence, investigators turned

to Jody's family to gather information that could

point to a suspect.

That next day, I remember detectives asking questions.

Who was the last person to see Jody or talk to Jody?

Or had anybody called the house?

My mom, my dad, they didn't know anything.

They tell them Jody was riding her bike.

She took her dime with her. She had her horse bridle.

Jody's mother told detectives that no one else

other than her family would have even known that she

would have been on that road.

So now investigators track the path

that she would have ridden her bicycle.

As they're retracing Jody's bike route,

they come across a farm stand, and they meet

this 14-year-old girl named Kenda Rice.

I remember it was a very slow day,

and a sheriff came to the produce stand

and showed a picture of Jody.

That's when I learned that the young lady that I'd seen

on the bicycle had been assaulted.

And I told them everything that I could remember.

It was sometime after 4, and a girl not much older

than myself came heading east on 164th on a bicycle.

I rode horses all the time, and I noticed she did have

her bridle with her on the bicycle.

And she rode by the produce stand, across the highway,

across the driveway for our house, and headed up

Penny Creek Road, which goes very steeply up the hill

and around a corner, and I lost sight of her.

They asked Kenda Rice, was she talking to someone?

Was there any vehicles that were seen?

Anything that stood out?

I remember that within a few minutes, a car came by,

and it was a Brady station wagon.

It was really long, and the whole side was

that wood paneling.

There were two gentlemen in the car, mid-to-late 20s.

They had the sideburns, big glasses,

long hair.

And they went straight up the hill, the same way

that the young lady on the bicycle had gone.

After a good hour, the same vehicle came back

down the hill and headed out.

After they had interviewed me, I was in shock.

So my mother came over and we packed everything up

and we did not do the produce stand the rest of that summer.

We had never locked our cars. We had never locked our house.

And from that day forward, we did.

Deputies continue to search the woods

where the woman was found.

They're looking for a small-caliber gun.

They searched for a shell casing and didn't find one.

They looked for Jody's bridle, and it was never found.

There wasn't much to go on.

Although nothing more of Jody's can be located

in the area, investigators do find a man's red jacket...

...and they trace it back to someone spotted near

the crime scene shortly after Jody's murder.

When Jody would have been killed, Ken Rice had been

out in the land with his 12-year-old son,

Alan, and they were essentially each other's alibi.

But at this point, investigators weren't going

to just take their word for it, and they were able

to interview them at the Rice family farm.

When the sheriffs were questioning my father,

I was surprised.

My father wasn't one to be able to keep a huge secret like that.

Ken Rice is confronted with the red jacket,

and he confirms that it does belong to him,

but that he must have forgotten to grab it after he was asked

to clear the area the day before.

Investigators were curious as to how it was

that he wouldn't have heard a gunshot go off that day...

...considering the woods and the way it would echo.

And so investigators keep digging.

At that time, Ken Rice actually said that he had seen Jody

that day riding her 10-speed, which means he was

the last person to see Jody Loomis alive

other than her killer.

Ken Rice told detectives that around the time

that he saw Jody on her bicycle...

...he also heard loud motorcycles in the area.

And like his daughter Kenda Rice, he also described

seeing a station wagon driven by two men.

He described them as kind of "hippies"

with long hair and beards

around the time that Jody was killed.

After that, Ken Rice said that he and his son, Alan,

continued chopping wood up until the sheriff's detectives

arrived later on that afternoon.

Now, with an additional report,

the sheriff's department notifies local newspapers

to get the word out that they're seeking the two men

in the station wagon.

At the same time, they're still keeping their eye on Ken Rice

as a person of interest.

I knew that my brother was with him the whole time,

but part of me questioned,

"Wow, could my father have done something like this?"

Which seriously concerned me from that day forward.

For a few days, my parents were pretty speechless.

My brother had arrived, and being Jody's protector

from the time that they were little, there was no words

to say about the pain in that spot in his life.

Five days after my sister was murdered,

my parents held her funeral.

For a 12-year-old, it was really eerie,

and I just remember thinking, "Jody's gone."

We have no particular suspects at this time.

We do have several people we do wanna talk to.

We have talked to two already.

Every angle was looked at.

They looked into friends, people that would have

some sort of motive.

And in Bothell, even though it was small, there was

a ton of names that couldn't be eliminated.

There was nobody that actually witnessed the crime.

There was no weapon that was ever recovered.

They couldn't locate a station wagon that was involved.

Tips dried up.

It didn't take long, and this case

started going cold.

My parents called the detectives all the time

asking questions. "How do we solve this?"

And "Who could have done this?"

And "Are they gonna hurt somebody else?"

And all of a sudden, your mind just starts

looking at people and things differently,

friends, our neighbors.

In a small town, Jody's killer could easily have been somebody

that was, you know, just down the road.

And you think, "Are they out there in the trees right now

just staring and watching?"

A year and a half later in April 1974,

an anonymous tip comes in from a member of a biker gang

known as The Reapers Roadmen.

The Reapers Roadmen were a roaming biker gang

in the Snohomish County area known for various crimes,

including acts of violence towards women,

oftentimes with firearms.

In 1974, one of the members of Reapers Roadmen was working

as a police informant and reported hearing

other members talking about the rape and murder

of a young girl.

They were describing her body, and they were actually

describing a 10-speed bike that she had been riding.

The informant thought that the details were

very similar to Jody Loomis.

Remembering that Ken Rice had told investigators that he had

heard motorcycles in the area on the day of Jody's murder,

detectives looked deeper into the Reapers Roadmen.

The detectives discovered that one of their members

had recently been involved in a shooting where the shooter

used a .22 caliber, which is the same caliber

that Jody was killed with.

The perpetrator's name was Richard Lovell.

His nickname was Yamaha.

And Yamaha shot at a train and actually hit the conductor.

And at the time of the arrest, he was in possession

of a .22-caliber handgun.

So the detective working the Jody Loomis case

at that point was able to get the bullets and the gun

and send it off to the FBI crime lab

to see if there was a match.

Unfortunately, those lab results showed that was not

the weapon that was used to kill Jody Loomis.

But the elimination of the gun itself didn't convince anyone

that this group or a member of this group was not

responsible for Jody's murder.

It just meant that that specific gun wasn't

responsible for it.

It's a huge blow to the case, and investigators feel

like they're back at square one.

This was their best lead, and now they have nothing.

But at this point, there's a turn

in the Pacific Northwest.

The man most of us know as Ted has been seen only in a picture.

It's a composite drawing that police created

from eyewitness accounts.

Young women the same age as Jody Loomis had been

vanishing into the dense woods of the Pacific Northwest,

all of them connected to a man simply named Ted.

Police admitted that they would only catch Ted

if he committed another crime and got caught.

In Utah 1975, investigators arrest

this Ted character.

Ted Bundy was first brought to the attention of the police

by a phone call from a citizen.

He's charged in Salt Lake City

with aggravated kidnap and attempted murder.

Ted Bundy had terrorized this state and, in fact,

the entire Pacific Northwest with his crimes.

In 1975, when word got to the Snohomish County

Sheriff's Office about his arrest,

he was the first person that they immediately thought of

as being someone that could have been involved.

He was described as a smooth-talking man

with his arm in a cast who asked several women to help him

load a boat onto a Volkswagen.

Ted Bundy preyed on young women.

He'd fake injuries or he would ask for help when they were not

around a lot of other people.

In looking at Jody's personality, it wasn't outside

the realm of possibility that, if Ted Bundy asked for help,

that she likely would have offered the help.

She was definitely young and full of spirits.

Very tender-hearted person.

She couldn't hardly stand to see anybody hurt.

All of a sudden, this name appears,

and you start noticing, "Oh, he's from our state.

"They're tying him to the wooded areas.

"He's a manipulator asking girls for help.

Could he be somebody involved over here?"

And all of a sudden you get hope.

Investigators were actually able to establish

that Ted Bundy was elsewhere on the day

that Jody Loomis was killed, and so he was eliminated

as a suspect in this case.

Despite being able to eliminate Ted Bundy,

investigators are left with a laundry list of suspects.

It includes members of the Reapers Roadmen gang.

It includes Ken Rice.

And they have no leads.

As soon as I was 17, I left home.

I couldn't wait to go.

But because Jody Loomis was murdered on our property,

it was important for me to just check in regularly

with the sheriff's office to see, had any progress been made?

And at the same time, I always wanted to know,

was my father still a suspect?

Because from what I personally experienced at his hand,

I did not confidently know that my father was not involved.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was sexually assaulted by my father

many times.

I have sisters, and when they went to bed at night,

they padlocked their bedroom doors.

It's difficult to talk about, but truth is truth.

And so it really always was in the back of my mind,

did my father commit this crime?

But I never got one word of anything that offered

too much information about this case.

Kenda Rice doesn't tell law enforcement

about the sexual abuse.

And as time passes, occasional newspaper articles

are written about Jody Loomis in the hopes that somebody

might know something,

but ultimately, nobody knows anything.

So this one right here, Thursday, August 24th of '72.

So this was the day after we lost Jody.

Over the years, my dad kept all of the articles

regarding Jody.

In '89, this was an article on Ted Bundy.

We were always very interested in him to make sure

that he truly was in another area

and that he had nothing to do with Jody's death.

My mom would always keep her eyes open for anything

that seemed suspicious and let the detectives know.

But as time went on and Bothell started to evolve

and get bigger, my parents came to the reality of the fact

that they're probably never gonna find this guy.

After 33 years, there's been little to no progress.

But things changed in 2005 when the sheriff's office creates

a specialized cold case team.

Jody Loomis' case was one of the cold cases

that had the best chances of being solved

because we knew there was semen evidence collected in 1972,

now that we could get a DNA profile on.

So we started going through the evidence,

but we find that there is no underpants,

there were no swabs,

there were no bullets,

and everyone was very concerned.

At the time, I was the supervisor

of the Sheriff's Office Evidence Unit.

I went through 40 years of paperwork trying to find out

what happened to that DNA evidence.

Every spare moment I had, I was looking for it.

I finally just had to give up. I couldn't find it.

I was really upset.

Here we thought we were gonna have the best DNA evidence,

and we've got nothing.

It made us sick.

Investigators dig through the evidence locker

to locate whatever other evidence from the crime scene

might still be in their possession.

The boots are still there, the pants, the shirt,

the bra's still there.

Might as well send those clothing items

to the crime lab and just see what we can get out of 'em.

May 18th of 2008, the State Patrol crime lab said

they found semen

on the right waffle stomper boot that Jody Loomis was wearing

when she was raped and murdered.

That semen has gotta belong to our killer.

Forensic scientists were able to take that known profile

and compare it to CODIS.

CODIS is a database of DNA samples

from criminals and offenders throughout the country,

and they were looking for a match.

Unfortunately for investigators,

there is no hit in CODIS,

which means likely that this person has managed

to stay off of law enforcement's radar all of these years.

At that point, I told the Loomis family that we got

a DNA profile of Jody's killer and that the next step is

go through a list of suspects

and start ruling them out one at a time.

Detective Scharf told us that they were gonna be

doing the DNA swabs from people that were suspicious.

And we're all excited, thinking, "OK, this is gonna be solved."

I contacted Ken Rice and got his saliva sample

and ruled him out.

The DNA did not match my father.

It was just a relief that there was

finally an answer for me.

But, of course, I always wanted justice for Jody.

Over the next 10 years, we tracked down all the people

that were ever listed as a suspect.

I had to serve search warrants on the Reapers Roadmen.

Yamaha was living in El Paso, Texas.

Another guy was living in Florida.

I had to get DNA from the son of another Reapers Roadman

that was deceased.

Got DNA from those guys, and that ruled them out.

Unfortunately for all of those years collecting

potential suspects' DNA,

Detective Scharf didn't identify a suspect.

But in 2018, cold case detectives wonder,

can we upload this male DNA profile

to a privately owned site, like people do to build family trees?

And can we get some sort of tip of who our suspect is?

Investigators sent that DNA profile,

and it was at that point that investigators got

their break in the case.

They got a really strong match to Jacquetta and Albert Miller,

who had six sons, and one of those six sons was

the person that had murdered Jody Loomis.

Detective Scharf came to me and said,

"Hey, do any of these six have any kind of criminal history?"

And one of them stood out, Terrence Miller.

In 2018, Terrence Miller was approximately 77 years old,

and investigators quickly focused on Terrence

because he had lived in the area most of his life

working construction close to where Jody Loomis was killed,

and he was no stranger to law enforcement.

In the 1970s, there was accusations

that Terrence Miller had sexually assaulted

his daughters, more recently had been accused

of sexually assaulting his granddaughters.

Surprisingly, he had actually never really served

any time on them, which would explain

why his DNA profile wasn't in the CODIS system.

We had detectives do surveillance and follow

Terry Miller around and collect anything that touches his mouth

'cause we want to get his saliva to see if we could

get a DNA profile on him.

What they were hoping for was that he would discard

some sort of item, a cigarette butt, piece of gum, coffee cup,

things of that nature.

Detectives followed him to the Tulalip Casino,

and he was playing the slot machines

and drinking coffee from this cup.

And he threw it in a garbage can

so they were able to collect that cup.

I took it to the crime lab.

Using now the known DNA sample that they have

from Terrence Miller in that coffee cup,

they were able to compare it to the DNA sample

from Jody Loomis' boot.

Today, a breakthrough.

Detectives announced the arrest in the 1972 homicide

of 20-year-old Jody Loomis.

His name is Terrence Miller.

He was charged with murder in the first degree

yesterday afternoon.

Detective Scharf told us Terrence Miller had been

booked into jail for the murder of Jody.

I can tell you, we were all jumping up and down,

like, "Yes, but yet, here you're saying a name

that I've never heard before." How did he run across Jody?

The investigators' working theory was

not that he knew her,

but in fact that this was a crime of opportunity.

That he had seen her that day when he was traveling for work.

And that he had taken that opportunity

to commit this act.

After we arrested him,

Terrence Miller agreed to talk to me.

He agreed to answer my questions

right up until I saw his face

when we showed him Jody's picture.

Mm-hmm.

Miller's arrested, he's arraigned, and then

in a shocking twist, a judge lets him out on a $750,000 bond

because Miller says he has to take care

of his elderly wife who suffered a stroke.

I was actually shocked Mr. Miller was granted bail.

All the years that I've done this, I've never had

a murder suspect out of custody.

After the shock of seeing Terrence Miller walk free

on bail, the trial begins on October 26, 2020,

and the prosecution makes its case by highlighting

the DNA evidence connected to the key piece of evidence

in the case, Jana's waffle stompers.

The first time I saw my boots in 48 years was at the trial.

And the murderer is sitting right there

and it still doesn't faze him.

He still thinks he's above it all or what?

I don't know.

Defense cited to the fact that the murder happened in 1972

and they really wanted to try and paint him as somebody

who was nonviolent in nature,

who is not a criminal, and he was innocent.

The trial lasts two weeks, and finally the jury files out

to make their decision.

I remember putting on my suit that morning

and driving to work.

I felt good, and then I got a phone call

from one of our patrol sergeants.

And she said, "I hate to tell you this, but...

Terry Miller committed suicide."

And I remember sitting there just shocked, and I said,

"I'm sorry, I don't-- you need to tell me that again."

And she said, "He's dead. He committed suicide."

While Terrence Miller was out on bail awaiting that verdict,

he had committed suicide using a .22-caliber pistol.

In fact, he had committed suicide in the same manner

with which he murdered Jody Loomis,

which just solidified my belief in our case.

Investigators test that .22-caliber handgun,

but unfortunately, it's not the same gun

that was used to murder Jody.

When I found out he shot himself...

I was angry at that moment because I felt like that was

the weaselly thing to do.

Back in the courtroom, prosecutors know what happened.

The judge knows what happened.

The judge decides to let the jury return their verdict

without letting them know Miller's committed suicide.

When the jury came back with a verdict, I can remember

them being a little confused as to why Terrence Miller was

not sitting there.

We all rise, and the verdict was read.

And when I heard the word, "Guilty,"

I think I froze.

It was an odd feeling of feeling happy

that we had done our jobs,

feeling happy that Jody finally got justice

and that her family finally had answers.

He cheated us in us seeing him hear the guilty verdict,

but Terry Miller is guilty.

You felt like you could breathe.

See, this would be the left shoe,

the little waffle-stomper shoes

uh, that I took off of Jody Loomis.

Looks like it's brand-new and very petite.

They appear to almost be a child's size.

These boots were actually too big for her.

They belonged to her sister, and she was wearing them.

It's hard to imagine all this--

this has happened 50 years ago, and it's still with me.

It was a terrible thing.

She didn't deserve what happened to her,

and it's good that it's taken care of.

And I'm sorry it took so long.

Jody's horse, Saudi, was always waiting there

for Jody to come, and she never made it.

After Jody's death, I wasn't riding horses for many years,

but I started riding again with my own daughter,

and it's a good feeling of this is what Jody would want.

This is something that she would have done with me

and then with her own, you know, child.

So, I feel like I gotta try and do my best to live the life

that Jody missed out on.

All the things that she didn't get to do,

um, I'm living for her.

Dad. Please, dad.

Her dad was slumped over

in the backyard of multiple stab wounds.

It appeared like a blitz attack.

We just need you to be truthful.

How do you do that?

We were shocked to the core.

To think you were going to get away with it

blows my mind.

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