Original subtitles

Narrator: A private investigator vanishes in florida.

Casandra: These people, they know how to disappear

if they have to.

Chad: She had removed a hundred thousand dollars

from her account.

Richard: Perhaps she was alive and well and just hiding.

Narrator: But when a horrific discovery is made.

Danielle: Nobody ever expects to find a body buried

in their own backyard.

Bridgette: There was an obvious bullet hole in the skull.

Narrator: Homicide investigators chase a trail

of secrets and lies.

Chad: I'd found a six-shot revolver

but there were only five bullets inside the revolver.

Narrator: To catch a killer just out of reach.

Richard: A murderer just walked out of our building.

[♪♪]

narrator: In the panhandle of florida

tucked away like a hidden treasure

is the sun-soaked town of pensacola.

Danielle: Pensacola, it's a beautiful place.

The white sands, the blue waters.

Well, it's a bigger city.

It kind of has a small town vibe.

Living in pensacola, you'll find all different

diverse landscapes in your backyard.

The beach is vibrant, beautiful.

And then coming inland,

you'll find the vast more wooded areas.

Narrator: On a lovely fall day in October of 2017,

the typical tranquility in one local backyard

is suddenly interrupted by a most chaotic scene.

Bridgette: The morning that the search warrant

was executed, there were a number of agencies.

The pensacola police department was out there,

the florida department of law enforcement was out there.

We strongly believe based on the evidence

that a search team was going to find her body

at that property.

I was on the phone with one of the supervisors on scene,

asking if they had anything.

I mean, I was blowing their phones up.

Bridgette: After hours and hours of searching the property,

a gentleman from fish and wildlife

just kind of looked over to an area in the backyard

where it looked like the ground had maybe been

a little bit disturbed.

Chad: When he went over to investigate, you know,

moving around some yard debris.

Bridgette: He picked up one of the pieces of the concrete

and there was hair attached.

Richard: And so I'm yelling on the phone,

"what do you got? Tell me something.

Tell me something."

and he said, "I think we got the body."

bridgette: Very slowly and painstakingly

they went layer by layer.

As they uncovered more,

there was a hammock

that was kind of wrapped around something.

And as the hammock was removed,

they were able to see a human skull.

Narrator: Investigators must answer a terrifying question.

How did a skull end up buried in this florida backyard?

Sugar white sands frame florida's emerald coast.

Casandra: The beach is why many people come to pensacola

and it's primarily the reason why I ended up staying here.

It's just beautiful.

Narrator: And casandra waller's world

just became more beautiful still.

Casandra: My girlfriend, taylor and I,

we had always had just a great relationship

but I was so excited about taylor moving into my house.

On September 7th,

she literally was in the initial

two or three days of moving into my house.

And my phone was just blowing up

because we had a hurricane coming

and I think it was like hurricane irma.

And we got this call out from my job

saying school district is closed on Friday and on Monday.

That night, we both went to sleep probably around 8:30.

Narrator: The storm is still days away from pensacola

when the sun rises the following morning.

Casandra: September 8th, the morning of,

seemed like a-- a normal morning.

We woke up, taylor cooked breakfast.

Narrator: Recently divorced, taylor is eager

to begin a new chapter with casandra.

Kathleen: Taylor was loyal, loving, kind.

She could walk in a room and the first thing you got

from taylor was a big smile and a huge hug.

All that mattered was taylor's happiness.

Narrator: But starting over isn't going to be easy.

Danielle: Taylor wright was going through a lot of changes

in her life.

She was moving in with a girlfriend.

She was a mother of a young son.

Casandra: The following Tuesday,

taylor had a court appointment dealing with the divorce.

I've seen taylor stressed a little bit before

but nothing like this.

Narrator: Casandra is hoping taylor's plans

with her dear friend ashley mcarthur

will help raise her spirits.

Casandra: Ashley was one of taylor's,

like, number one friends.

Taylor was a private investigator

and they both were in law enforcement before.

Because of that, they were close friends.

I told taylor she's got me,

she's got some close friends,

everything is gonna be fine.

About 20 minutes later, ashley showed up.

Taylor gave me a hug and a kiss.

And I said, "well, you guys have a good day."

that was the last time that I ever saw taylor.

Narrator: Casandra's morning is crazed

but she takes a second to check in with taylor,

hoping her stress level has lowered a little.

Casandra: And I was texting taylor.

I asked her how things were going.

And she goes, "I'll tell you later."

and I told her, "we'll talk about it, it'll be okay."

I had sent her some text a little bit later in the day,

just casual text talk.

I tried to call her and got nothing.

Nothing, crickets,

and that's not like taylor.

Danielle: All of a sudden, casandra wasn't receiving

text messages from taylor.

That line of communication stopped,

which is when she reached out to ashley and asked,

"where is taylor? Are you guys okay?"

casandra: Ashley called me and she goes,

"taylor, she's just been really stressed out today

like she's cried a couple of times.

She's just dealing with a lot with the divorce

and just really emotional."

and I said, "well, tell her everything's gonna be all right

but tell taylor to call me."

[♪♪]

casandra: So, it was probably about 5:00,

I'm starting to get a little frustrated

because we had dinner plans.

I text taylor and I get nothing,

and call taylor and I-- I get nothing.

I text ashley,

I said, "where are you guys?"

this was probably 6:00 maybe 7:00 at night.

She goes, "what do you mean she's not home?"

she left my house around quarter after 5:00

and she said, "taylor took an uber downtown to have a drink.

She was stressed out

and she just needed to chill for a minute."

[crickets chirping]

casandra: So about 7:40, 7:50,

I get a text from taylor saying,

"hey, I'm not upset.

I just-- I need some time to get my head clear,

like I need a few days."

at that point, I'm, "what? You need a few days.

Like things have been great.

You're moving into my house.

What is going on?"

kathleen: For taylor, it was hard.

She had been married to jeff 10 years.

She was trying to find her way through that

and make a new life.

Bridgette: So even though all things seem to indicate

that this was simply taylor

taking a few days to herself,

something did not sit right with casandra.

Narrator: It seems out of character

until casandra recalls an odd conversation

taylor had recently.

Casandra: Taylor was a private investigator.

It was just kind of a joke

within the people that she worked with

like they're just so smart and savvy

that if somebody ever had to get away,

yeah, that they know how to get away.

They can disappear off the face of this earth.

I don't have any clue what's going on.

I just know that something is not right.

I was scared.

[♪♪]

richard: We have a large amount of money that's missing

and we have the owner of that money missing.

I told our surveillance team, "don't lose sight of her."

casandra: She can be very dangerous.

I never saw it coming.

And that's what's scary.

♪]

narrator: In the hours since 33-year-old taylor wright

seemingly disappeared,

those who love her are haunted by one question.

[♪♪]

narrator: "where could she possibly be?"

kathleen: When I heard taylor was missing,

I knew she wouldn't leave her son.

I was concerned at that point.

Danielle: Taylor had made a comment to a friend

that she could disappear if she wanted to.

So that kind of fed into the idea

that maybe she did take off.

Casandra: So Sunday, I wake up,

I still had heard nothing from taylor.

Ashley had contacted several of her friends

and nobody heard anything.

So I go with my gut instinct.

I text ashley and I said, "I'm gonna call the police."

so I called the police department.

I just laid everything on the line with them.

I said, "look, she's just got divorced.

There's a child involved,

the child is up in north carolina right now."

I did mention that taylor and a couple of her friends,

they know how to disappear if they have to.

So the officer, he said that maybe she's just doing this

on her own accord.

She could be going and trying to kidnap the son

because she doesn't have custody,

and they could disappear off the face of this earth

but you should probably call the ex-husband.

So Sunday evening, I called jeff

and I told jeff what was going on.

Bridgette: Casandra learned from jeff that

taylor and jeff's son had been trying

to reach out to taylor

and had not gotten any responses back.

Casandra: It was during that phone conversation,

jeff had told me how she had gone through

all those police training,

and she can be very dangerous.

And he said, "taylor's gonna be very upset with you

because you contacting the police department,

if she had any desire to be on the police force again,

that's not gonna look good."

and he told me, he said,

"you have kicked the hornet's nest."

his exact words.

Then he goes, "you need to protect yourself."

like, "what in the world are you talking about

that I need to be scared of taylor?"

and I'm like, "like, this doesn't add up."

so I started calling hospitals,

I called hospitals probably

everywhere from baton rouge,

all the way down towards orlando.

Bridgette: When taylor didn't end up coming around,

casandra went back to the police department

and filed a report just under a week

since taylor had gone missing

and at that point,

that started the investigation.

Narrator: The case lands on the desk of detectives

richard ghigliotty and chad willhite.

Chad: Any missing person investigation,

I always look at the inner circle people.

So it would make sense to check out casandra

and confirm her whereabouts and what she was telling us.

Casandra explained that taylor wright

was a private investigator.

She used to work for a law enforcement agency.

I asked casandra waller about her last day with taylor.

She explained that they woke up that morning

on September 8th, 2017,

everything was fine.

Casandra had planned to go to this nonprofit organization

and taylor was gonna go meet up with her friend,

ashley mcarthur.

Bridgette: Casandra said that was the last time

that she saw taylor.

Richard: And we wanna start gathering

as much information we could about taylor wright

and what kind of history she had.

Casandra: Taylor had a rough upbringing

but taylor was charismatic,

taylor was energetic,

she was hilarious,

she was always filled with humor.

Kathleen: Taylor was a great friend

and when I found out taylor was having a baby,

I thought taylor would be a great mom.

I met taylor's son drake here in pensacola

when they moved up here.

She adored him.

Casandra: Taylor was a fun mom

and with everything that was going on,

taylor was so excited about moving into my house.

We decided that we were in a monogamous relationship.

It was like, "yeah, this is-- this is it."

richard: As we were interviewing casandra waller,

she was very forthcoming and honest

about the circumstances, good or bad.

After I had finished speaking with casandra,

we were able to corroborate her statements pretty quickly.

I-- naturally, I wanted to speak with ashley next

because taylor spent a day with her.

So I called ashley mcarthur.

I asked her her relationship with taylor,

ashley explained that they were friends,

that they met through ashley's husband,

zach mcarthur

and taylor were private investigators together.

Bridgette: Ashley mcarthur,

she used to work as a crime scene technician

but at the time, she was actually running

her family's business.

Richard: Ashley explained that taylor was stressed out

and wanted to go out to east milton,

at ashley's family farm

and look at the animals.

She explained that once back at her house,

taylor told her that she was still stressed out

and wanted to go get a couple of drinks.

Chad: She said taylor had left in a uber

and that was the last time she saw her.

Narrator: Detective ghigliotty knows

girlfriends share everything

and senses there may be more to ashley's story.

Chad: She said taylor had removed some money

from jeff's and her account.

Casandra: Taylor gave ashley $34,000 to hold on to.

Four or five weeks before,

she didn't want jeff's attorneys to be able

to subpoena bank records and find that money,

and then they could freeze the account.

She didn't want me involved.

So she gave the money to ashley.

Richard: And ashley told us that day

they went to her house on raintree

to get the money.

Taylor was upset,

she was concerned about this court hearing

that was coming up.

Ashley explained that taylor got a duffel bag

and put the money in it and left.

Ashley was very forthcoming

and she explained the circumstances

surrounding, um, the money.

So that led us to taylor wright's ex-husband.

Chad: Jeff was obviously in taylor's inner circle.

Taylor had removed all this money

from jeff's and her account,

and there was also this child custody issue going on.

So we needed to check out jeff.

S

since former pi taylor wright

vanished without a trace.

And investigators are unsure

whether taylor has taken off with a pile of money

or is possibly the victim of foul play.

Richard: On September 18th,

I had called taylor's ex-husband,

jeff wright, who was living in north carolina.

I asked him if he was familiar with what was going on

and if he had heard from taylor.

He explained how taylor was very close with their son,

and they spoke on a regular basis,

and that the last time he had heard from taylor

was by a text message from her phone

on September 9th, the day after she disappeared.

This is the first time

that we heard taylor reaching out to anyone

after September 8th.

Jeff explained that the child wanted to--

to speak to his mom,

and that taylor wouldn't answer the phone,

that he has not talked to her since.

He also said that she did have odd behavior

when it came to custody of the child.

Casandra: Taylor was 110% absolutely bothered

by the fact that she didn't have custody of her son.

She was fighting that.

Narrator: With the missing money and the bitter custody battle,

investigators questioned jeff about his whereabouts

around the time of taylor's disappearance.

Richard: He'd explained that he was--

he was out of state at the time.

We knew that it wouldn't be difficult

to inquire to his whereabouts given that he was--

he was in the military at the time.

Law enforcement had to look into jeff wright's background.

He was, you know, upstanding citizen in the community,

was remarried, had a child,

um, with his new wife

that he was not even in pensacola

at the time that taylor went missing.

There was really nothing to link him to,

um, her disappearance.

Richard: He explained that he would never harm taylor,

that they had a rocky divorce

but that she's still the mother of his child,

and his behavior was odd,

and we still have a large amount of money

that's missing,

and we have the owner of that money missing.

Perhaps taylor was alive and well and just hiding.

Chad: I've told detective ghigliotty,

"if taylor wright's phone is still active,

we should need-- I wanna corroborate

tracking those phone calls, see where she's at,"

but the search warrant for phone records takes time.

Narrator: If taylor is hiding,

investigators suspect the most logical place

to look for her is the last place she was seen.

Richard: Detective willhite and I drove

to ashley and zach mcarthur's residence.

We arrived and detective willhite started to speak

to ashley's husband, zach mcarthur.

Chad: But he said he didn't know where she was at.

Richard: I asked ashley mcarthur if she would mind,

uh, showing me around her house,

in the property.

I'm looking for any signs if taylor was there recently,

if she is there, if she has any belongings.

We started out by walking into the backyard,

I opened the access for one of the house

and just looked under.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Narrator: Just when detectives are convinced

ashley and zach don't know where taylor is.

Ashley drops some revealing news.

Richard: She was very hesitant to tell us

but ashley revealed that

taylor had cheated on casandra.

Danielle: Taylor was having a relationship

with a woman in biloxi while she was seeing casandra.

Bridgette: Casandra confronted taylor

about that whole situation.

There was a big blowup between the two of them.

There were some text messages that casandra sent

after taylor went missing that were kind of,

you know, kind of angry, maybe hostile in nature.

Richard: At that time, we have some concerns

with casandra because casandra waller

had been cheated on.

We then thought, "could she be capable of harming taylor?"

we went to casandra's residence

and she allowed us in the house.

We began searching the house.

We started in the bedrooms,

specifically the bedroom that taylor was to have kept

property in.

During the search,

we found taylor's passport,

her id, small amounts of cash,

and a $19,000 uncashed cashier's check

in the name of taylor wright.

Bridgette: If she was taking a few days off

to gather her thoughts or get herself together,

these were personal items that she probably

would have taken with her.

Narrator: But it's what investigators discover next

that could change the course of this investigation.

Chad: During that search, I'd found a revolver.

It was a six-shot revolver.

When I opened the gun,

there were only five bullets inside the revolver.

That piqued my curiosity really fast.

[♪♪]

[gunfire]

[♪♪]

narrator: Investigators looking into the missing persons case

of 33-year-old taylor wright

now wonder if the savvy pi could have fallen prey

to a jealous lover.

[gunfire]

richard: During the search of casandra's residence,

we located a revolver.

We asked why it was that she felt

she needed a gun.

Casandra explained that she had talked to jeff wright,

taylor's ex-husband and that jeff told casandra

about taylor previously having been violent

with him before.

So casandra, she became scared.

Casandra: They were interrogating me.

"do you know where taylor wright is?"

"no?" "do you know

if somebody's harmed taylor wright?"

"no, I don't." I mean, it's like rapid fire.

They're like going really quick.

"did you kill taylor wright?"

you know, they asked-- and I lost it.

At that point, I broke down and I cried.

I maintained my innocence in this entire thing.

Chad: Detective ghigliotty and I eliminated casandra

based on her story and the text messages

on her phone.

Casandra: It's one thing to worry about

where your love one is,

but then when you're looked at, it's scary.

[♪♪]

bridgette: Later that same night,

ashley actually went over to casandra's house

trying to reassure casandra that, you know,

everything was okay, and that taylor would be fine,

that she just needed a little bit of time to herself.

Casandra: Ashley helped reaffirm and calm me down

a little bit.

She was there for me.

Narrator: Two weeks into the investigation,

detectives are no closer to solving this mystery

and start casting a wider net.

Richard: As this investigation develop,

we wanted the public's help in finding her.

So we reached out to the media.

There was a press release and taylor was entered

into a national database for missing persons.

Chad: We started getting tips in reference

to possible sightings of taylor.

Richard: We were hopeful that she was alive

and well and still missing.

Kathleen: While taylor was missing,

I was very, very concerned.

Casandra, ashley, and I would text back and forth

a daily update so we were all communicating like that.

Narrator: Detectives are frustrated landing

on nothing but dead end leads.

Then 18 days into their investigation,

they finally hit on some pivotal information.

Richard: We eventually got phone records,

cell tower records from taylor wright.

We looked at the route that ashley told us

that she drove with taylor and her timeline.

Started looking at the cell towers

and mapping them.

The tower showed taylor wright on the north end

of the county.

But ashley mcarthur told us that they were

in east milton 45 minutes away.

Bridgette: The cell tower record showed ashley was lying

to law enforcement.

Richard: We determined that we were gonna need

bank records and cell phone records

for not only ashley but her husband zach mcarthur as well,

because we knew zach to have been in law enforcement

previously with taylor.

Narrator: With suspicion growing,

detectives obtain subpoenas for phone and bank records.

And when they come back, they discover

an incriminating series of calls on ashley's phone.

Chad: We kept seeing that ashley's cell phone

was communicating with a cell phone tower up

in the beulah, cantonment area of town

and it was constant for several hours on the 8th,

the day that taylor was last seen alive.

I'm going back to her original interview.

Ashley said she and taylor were in milton.

So we got to figure what's going on up there.

Who she's visiting.

Richard: We located a family property of ashley's

on the north end of the county on britt road.

Chad: With the two cell phones

communicating with the same tower

near the britt road property, it led us to believe that

taylor and ashley's phones were up together.

Narrator: The evidence is damning.

But it's only the beginning of a trail of deceit.

Richard: At that time, we were getting bank records

where ashley mcarthur was depositing

taylor wright's checks in her own account.

There was one check that was deposited

by ashley mcarthur for $34,000

in taylor wright's name.

Chad: We knew that ashley mcarthur

was holding the $34,000 check for taylor wright.

Richard: There's a large amount of money

belonging to a missing person.

So now, there's motive.

Detective willhite and I both agree that more

than likely that taylor had been killed.

Chad: Detective ghigliotty and I really began to focus

in on ashley.

She was the last person to see her alive.

[♪♪]

richard: We learned that ashley and zach mcarthur

weren't your average married couple.

Chad: So detective ghigliotty and I come up with a ruse.

We didn't wanna take a chance of them being at home

when we went to execute the search warrants.

Narrator: In the days leading up to the disappearance

of taylor wright, investigators have found evidence

suggesting ashley was siphoning taylor's money

into her own accounts.

Richard: Based on recently received surveillance records

and deposit slips, we were able to trace

the money to numerous accounts and the money

was gone in 24 hours.

Narrator: But is ashley acting alone?

Richard: We learned that ashley and zach

weren't your average married couple.

They weren't close.

Chad: And we looked into the various purchases

that zach had made on the days leading up

to and around the 8th.

We determined zach wouldn't have been in the area

of the britt road address whenever taylor went missing.

Richard: So the records were able to alibi zach mcarthur.

He was no longer a suspect.

Even more concerning, ashley was depositing

taylor's money into her bank account

even after taylor's disappearance.

So the evidence was just piling up on ashley.

Chad: We were pretty confident that we had enough information

to apply for a search warrant and the judge signed

the search warrant for three different addresses

of ashley's family property.

Knowing that ashley and her husband

had law enforcement experience,

we didn't want to take a chance of them being at home

when we went to execute the search warrants.

So detective ghigliotty and I

come up with a ruse

to get ashley to come to the police department.

Richard: I asked her if she would come down

on October 19th because we wanted to conduct

an interview.

[♪♪]

chad: I think it was 8:00 in the morning.

And as soon as she got to the police department,

we gave the go ahead to execute the search warrants.

Narrator: While the team descends

on the 22-acre backyard,

miles away,

investigators question ashley.

Chad: We confront her about this britt road address.

You could tell her demeanor was starting to change

and she was getting a little bit more nervous.

Richard: At some point, I exited the interview room

and contacted our team leads

at the britt road property.

And they relayed that there was no evidence found.

The cadaver dogs were out and there were probably

two dozen people at this property.

Chad: Ashley began crossing her arms and her legs.

And I know that is a defense when you're being interviewed.

I slid my chair up, uncrossed her arms and her legs.

I didn't want her feeling comfortable.

I wanted her to know that she wasn't in charge.

Ashley ended up asking for an attorney

shortly thereafter.

Chad: Because we still hadn't found the body.

We ultimately had to let her leave the police department

that morning.

Woman: All right. Come on now.

Richard: I told our surveillance team,

"don't lose sight of her."

[♪♪]

narrator: More than a month after private investigator

taylor wright disappeared, a search warrant

leads detectives to a huge break in the case.

Richard: I was on the phone with one of the supervisors

on scene, asking if they had anything.

Then he puts the phone down and he yells to someone else,

"what do you have?"

bridgette: They were able to see a human skull.

One of the things that was observed

was an obvious, uh, bullet hole in the back of the skull.

[camera clicks]

bridgette: As they uncovered, uh, layer by layer,

there was some skeletonized bones.

There was a necklace that was entangled in hair

and in the concrete.

It had a symbol of a bullet.

And that we noticed from a picture of taylor wright.

[♪♪]

bridgette: My gut told me at that point that it was--

it was going to be taylor.

Richard: We got a call back a short time later

and the team out there said, "we do have the body."

never thought I'd be so happy to hear

that a body was found.

But then on the flip side, it's sad.

With all the evidence, we could conclude

that taylor wright was murdered by ashley mcarthur

and buried in the backyard of the britt road property.

[♪♪]

richard: I told my supervisor at the time

we needed to start looking at the arrest

because here we have more than likely a murderer

just walked out of our building.

[♪♪]

richard: Our surveillance team had indicated

that ashley mcarthur was at her house.

Just by coincidence, she happened to be walking out

of her house at that time and they arrested her.

[police sirens wailing]

richard: Ashley sat down in the interview room.

I looked in her eyes and told her that

she is being charged with first-degree

premeditated murder.

And she's going to prison.

[♪♪]

narrator: Forty-year-old ashley mcarthur

has just been arrested

for the murder of taylor wright,

one of her dearest friends.

[♪♪]

richard: She looked back at me with no emotion

and asked, "why?

Because I didn't do anything."

but I knew that ashley mcarthur

was guilty.

[camera clicks]

bridgette: The remains were ultimately

identified through dental records

and they were identified, um, as being taylor wright.

Chad: We knew we were fixed and have to go tell

family members, loved ones

that we have found taylor's remains.

And she's no longer alive.

Not the easiest thing in the world to do.

Especially now there's a small child involved,

who's not gonna see his mom no more.

Casandra: And I get a phone call from detective ghigliotty

and he's like, "we found taylor's body."

they had told me that they had arrested ashley.

I couldn't believe it because ashley was somebody

who throughout the entire time that taylor was missing,

ashley was like, "I'm your friend."

coming into my house and hugging me.

I just-- I lost it.

Um, it was hard, it was emotional.

Narrator: Nearly two years after taylor's

senseless death...

Her best friend ashley mcarthur stands trial for murder.

[♪♪]

danielle: This trial was huge.

There was definitely more interest

in this case because you had two women

in law enforcement

involved in this heinous crime.

This case became known as a former crime scene tech

killing a private investigator.

Narrator: Through a trail of evidence,

prosecutors describe how the murder played out.

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bridgette: The morning of September 8th,

taylor had been adamant that she needed

that $34,000 cashier's check back from ashley.

So ashley picked taylor up that morning,

knowing that they are never gonna go to a bank

because the money's gone.

She paid credit cards, her car payments,

she purchased a motorcycle.

Ashley kind of gave taylor the runaround that day,

stalling, making this trip to the bank.

And then ashley gave taylor some excuse

as to why she needed to run out to this property.

Ashley mcarthur took taylor wright way out

in the middle of cantonment on 23 acres of property.

Of course there's no eyewitness.

Chad: We believe they went out to the britt road farm,

probably inside of a barn.

Bridgette: Ashley shot taylor in the back of the head.

In such a manner that taylor would not have seen it coming.

Richard: Ashley mcarthur attempted burying

taylor wright's remains

under concrete and potting soil.

Danielle: Ashley then took taylor's phone

and was using that to send off messages

in the hopes of making people think everything was fine

and dandy.

Casandra: During the trial,

that was my first time seeing ashley.

And it was the most uncomfortable feeling.

Bridgette: Mr. [indistinct] says there's no dna,

there's no fingerprints. Of course there's not.

She's a former crime scene technician.

You think she doesn't know what they look for?

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narrator: After a four-day trial,

it takes the jury just two hours to come back

with a verdict.

Man: Let's bring the jury.

Judge: Ashley mcarthur, having been found guilty

beyond a reasonable doubt by jury of your peers

of first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm.

I am going to adjudicate you guilty.

I'm gonna sentence you to life with a mandatory

minimum 25 years state prison.

Casandra: We got the verdict that we had been waiting for

for two years. We finally got the justice

that taylor deserved.

I never saw it coming.

And that's what's scary.

She knew what she did.

And the whole entire time,

she was pretending to be my friend.

Ashley took somebody that I loved.

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kathleen: I am heartbroken.

Heartbroken for drake,

heartbroken that her life was taken,

and just heartbroken

that she's not here anymore.

I miss taylor.

I do.

Um, but I just have to keep

moving on, you know?

You keep taking, uh, a foot in front

and, um, I try to literally live

every day as if today is my last day

because you never know.

I hope that everybody remembers taylor...

As, um, funny.

She was hilarious.

She adore her son.

She was full of life.

Taylor will never be forgotten.

Never.

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go to oxygen.Com.

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