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The next day, the police were down there.

I don't know that they saw anything that looked like

it was all that out of place.

I don't think that they went to, you know,

there was some big struggle

or there was, you know, a lot of blood here and there.

They were treating it as just a missing person,

and they weren't sure what happened to Allison.

Chris cooperated with the police from the very start

when they took him back to the police station to question

and that he answered their questions.

Chris, you got to help me out with something.

So, your wife stays at home all day, every day,

and never left unless she told you where she was going.

Am I right so far?

Yeah, pretty much.

So, help me understand how a woman with no car keys

or purse or vehicle just --

what did you say, "disappeared?"

I don't know, man. I don't...

I'm just as confused as anybody, you know?

Russellville -- it's one of the oldest towns in Kentucky.

Well, there's a lot of civil war history there.

Not very big, pretty much everybody does know everybody.

It's easy to get labeled as kind of an outsider,

you know, if you weren't born and raised there.

There is quite a bit of farmland --

like tobacco farms, pig farms, and stuff like that.

No malls, no -- nothing else. There's a Walmart.

Growing up, we were home-schooled.

Kristen and Allison will come to my house,

and my granny would teach,

and we'd all, you know, learn together.

We were like the three musketeers.

You didn't se one without the other.

Allison loved to smile.

She was always happy, always smiling.

You know, even the people she didn't know.

You know, you make eye contact with her,

and she immediately would smile at you.

She loved braiding hair.

She wanted to go to cosmetology school.

Allison's dad was a pastor. He was very strict.

No boys.

"No boys, stay in your books," type dad.

Growing up, our family met together every holiday --

Memorial Day, labor day, fourth of July --

whatever it was, easter, mother's day --

all of them, we were together.

We had, you know, cookouts.

If it wasn't a cookout,

you know, somebody was cooking inside,

cooking roast, cooking meatloaf.

Every holiday, we were together.

So, you know, my mom's fiancien has a bunch

of nieces and nephews, right?

Okay. So, that's George over there with a beer.

And that's Jessica. And that's Chris.

You remember him.

Yeah. Yeah.

I don't remember.

Yes, you do.

Remember, he used to come by the house all the time.

When?

Years ago. Remember? You were little.

Shoot, he's coming over.

We met the walkers when we were kids.

They lived in adairville.

I'll be honest, I never cared for that family anyways.

You know, sometimes, people just give you a funny feeling.

Hey, y'all.

Hey.

Hi.

You Allison hines, right?

Yeah.

Chris Walker. You remember me?

Of course I remember.

It's just -- it's been a long time.

Yeah, it's been a minute.

You've grown up.

So have you.

It's good to meet you.

See you. Meet you, see -- I don't --

whatever. It makes sense.

Yo, man, you get lost or...

No, man.

There was Chris, and then there was George.

There was a sister, Jessica.

I know some of the family was,

you know, involved with drugs and stuff like that.

George did go to jail a couple of times for drugs.

But Chris, you know, he seemed like nice people.

Chris, come on, let's go.

All right.

Looks like I got to get going.

But let me see your phone.

All right.

Now you got my number.

Let's not wait so long before we hang out again.

Barf. I'm leaving. Bye.

Okay. Bye.

Bye.

Okay.

I mean...

They is grown.

I think we've got US a future Mrs. Walker in the house.

Stop it.

And then Kayla was like, "well, it would be kind of funny

if you ended up being with him."

Then sure enough, they ended up being together.

Allison was very excited when they first got together.

Chris was very sweet in the beginning to Allison.

He would buy her flowers. He would take her out to eat.

Stuff like that -- just little things.

The relationship progressed pretty quickly.

It went from dating to, a few months later,

they were talking about getting married.

Chris and Allison got married in Russellville.

It was just kind of out of the blue.

I feel like that they did get married kind of too quickly.

But Allison loved Chris with everything.

She saw a caring, loving man in Chris --

somebody, you know, that would protect her.

She's barely in her 20s,

she gets married,

and she goes off to live with her new husband

out, you know, on the farm in south Logan county.

I got to think at some point that this probably seemed

like it was gonna be,

you know, sort of a fun, new adventure.

All right. Here we go.

I know what you're thinking.

Yeah, it's a pig farm, but you're gonna love it.

Yeah, I guess a part of me thought you were kidding.

Why would I kid about this? This place is great.

Well, well. The newlyweds.

George, why don't you come down

and give US a hand with these bags?

Chris, you don't need my help.

You're a big boy. You can handle it.

Hey, Ali.

Hey.

Welcome to the Walker estate.

I hope y'all don't mind.

I already moved all my stuff inside.

Chris? He did what?

Yeah, I've been meaning to tell you,

George is gonna stay with US just for a little bit.

Wait. When were you gonna tell me?

I'm sorry. All right? You're right. I'm sorry.

But George is family.

He needs a place to stay. What am I supposed to do?

Hey.

I just -- I thought it would be US, okay?

Hey. Look at me.

Family first, okay?

Okay. All right, now, come on.

Let me show you around. Watch it.

George lived with his parents.

Thanks for your help, bud.

When Allison and Chris moved into that house,

George went with them.

You know, just little stuff like that

didn't make much sense to me.

Why do you need to move in with them?

Evening.

I didn't hear you come in.

Well, that's because I'm super sneaky.

You know, like that show with the mouse.

"I'm super sneaky."

Mnh-mnh.

How's it going?

It's fine.

How's my brother treating you?

Everything is good.

How's the love life?

I hear that dies off as the marriage goes on, you know?

George, you don't even have a girlfriend.

Look, I know you don't like me being here with y'all.

George, it's not that I don't like you being here.

It's just...

Come on, Allison.

I'm not as blind or as dumb as you might think.

But here's the thing...

Family's always first.

Always.

But, George, I'm his wife.

Doesn't that count for something?

The point is...

Chris is my brother.

That'll never change.

You just kind of showed up.

So, don't think you're gonna shake things up

with the walkers -- that's all I'm saying.

Gosh, George, I swear I don't know

what you think I am trying to shake up.

I'm just trying to figure out how I fit in.

Great. Okay then. That is it.

Forget I said anything.

There would be times she would, you know, text me and tell me

that George was getting on her nerves.

"He's always listening to everything me and Chris say,

and I don't know why he's coming back here

trying to talk to me about US fighting,"

and, you know, stuff like that --

being too involved in the relationship.

George!

What?

Well, just let yourself in, Jessica.

Let myself into what, Allison, my brother's house?

I need you to give me a ride into town.

Yeah, sure.

Hey, sis, I need your keys.

George, I am not loaning you my car.

Why? You keep saying you want to be a part of this family.

This is what family does.

So, give me your keys. No.

Y'all talk too much. Let's go.

I feel like that there was,

like, a negative presence around Allison,

which was basically all of Chris' family,

you know, it was all negative people.

Shut the door.

She probably didn't have any idea

what the people she was living with

out of that farmhouse were capable of.

Adairville is about 10, 15 minutes from Russellville.

It's really not a big area at all.

You blink, and you'll miss it.

There may be one or two houses within a 10-mile radius.

It worried me when she moved out there,

but she seemed excited about having their own place.

After Allison and Chris moved to adairville,

I wouldn't see her as much.

It would be like weeks at a time before I would ever see her.

Allison just kind of changed.

She gave up on cosmetology school.

She didn't talk about any more of her goals.

She didn't talk about any more of her dreams.

Everything was about Chris and what he wanted to do.

Her car ended up getting tore up about that time,

so she had no vehicle to go anywhere.

Chris, instead of fixing her car,

he decided to go buy himself a truck,

so Allison didn't have

any transportation whatsoever of her own.

So, while Chris was at work,

she really had no choice but to just stay there.

There were times when I'd ask her

to go places with US, but she just wouldn't.

Why don't you come into town at least one day?

I'm off on Thursday.

Maybe.

No, Chris usually takes the car on Thursday.

It's your car, Allison.

Are you serious?

No, um...

Hey, can I call you tomorrow?

Yes.

I love you.

Love you, too.

Bye.

Bye.

The farm was dark.

There's no lights.

You know, there's no street lights.

When it's dark out in the country where this farm was,

it's pitch black.

You can't see your hand in front your face.

At times, you could tell that something was bothering her,

but she would never say anything.

You could just kind of tell something was off about Allison.

Allison seemed like a prisoner in her own home.

What do you want, al?

It's George, Chris.

Well, we already talked about that, didn't we?

But, Chris, I'm your family, too.

Well, it ain't the same, is it?

What does that mean?

It means what it means, al.

All right?

It means what it means.

Get on home.

What's that stuff anyway?

It's blood, al.

What do you think we're raising these pigs for, pets?

It's freaking gross.

It didn't seem like a healthy relationship.

Chris seemed very controlling.

It was pretty clear that it wasn't a happy marriage.

Chris and Allison shared a phone.

Every time, you know, I would kind of, you know,

try to reach out and talk to her or something,

Chris would always say that she wasn't there.

I felt like that he didn't want her talking

to any of her friends or any of her family at all.

She was left alone a lot in the house.

She had a journal. She journaled a lot.

It was almost like she was using that journal

as someone to talk to.

There was something inside of her

that was making her be afraid to call out for help.

If she got out more, or if Allison was,

you know, able to communicate, you know,

without having to share a phone or something,

then maybe she would have maybe cried out for help.

It's late.

What are you doing up?

What are you doing up?

You know, Allison, ever since you got here,

it's always something.

Chris.

Go to bed, Allison.

Now.

I didn't trust the walkers as it was.

It worried me a lot that she was around them.

You were taught that you stay in a marriage.

The only time you leave is when your spouse is cheating on you.

So, I guess that's the reason why she stayed.

I wish I would have talked to her about more stuff

that was going on at home.

I just would have grabbed her and took off with her.

Sunday, I felt like something was wrong,

and I couldn't put my finger on it.

And then Monday, I got a call, and it was Chris.

He was calling and asking have I seen Allison,

and I told him, "no, I haven't seen her."

Hey, Chris.

After when he called me, he called Kayla.

You haven't heard from Allison?

I had a missed call from her.

I called back, and it was Chris. I thought it was her.

He was like, "I was just checking

to see if Ali was with you," and I was like, "no."

Okay. All right.

Then after when he called Kayla, he called our parents.

Then he called our aunt.

He knows that she doesn't go over there

unless we have get-togethers.

So, I knew something was wrong then, when he did that.

Kayla had texted me and asked me if I'd seen her.

I was like, "no, why?"

And that's when she told me that she was missing.

It made my heart sink into my stomach,

knowing that Allison was missing

because Allison never went anywhere

without someone knowing where she was at.

I asked my mom if she'd seen her. She said, "no."

My grandparents -- "no."

She wasn't with any of US, so, you know,

I'm calling him back like, "something's not right."

But as the day went on,

he still didn't sound like he was concerned to me.

I'm getting worried and worried by, you know,

every second that goes by.

I was keeping communication with Kayla and Chris.

I wouldn't hear nothing from Chris for hours at a time.

I would ask him, you know, "have you contacted the police

or have you, you know, told him that she's missing?"

And he's just like, you know,

basically, "no," to every question that I asked him.

It's like everybody's worried except for Chris.

A couple hours later, I'm like, "have you seen her yet?

Nobody's seen her, Chris. You know, where is she?"

"I don't know, Kayla. I'm trying to figure it out."

I'm like, "Chris, you need to call the police.

This is not right. Something's wrong.

You need to call the police."

And he was hesitant. Chris was hesitant to do so.

He was like, "okay, I'll call them.

He said they told him they couldn't do anything till after 24 hours.

He didn't really seem concerned.

He was kind of chill about it.

It's after midnight. I'm still messaging him.

"Is she back? Is she back? Is she back?

"No, she's not back yet."

And he was like, "well, I got to go to bed.

I got to go to work tomorrow."

When Tuesday rolled around, she didn't come home.

One of my cousins called one of her friends

that works with the police station,

and she was like, "hey, my cousin's missing.

Is there anything you can do?"

She called back probably like ten, fifteen minutes later.

She was like, "hey, I got the police coming out there,

and I have a detective coming out there."

They started searching in the back of their house

and on the side of their house.

They put the yellow tape around it.

You see it on the movie, you see it on the t.V.,

but you don't see it in real life,

so that's when it became real to me

that something is really wrong.

Chris did seem to cooperate with the police

and, you know, didn't have any problem,

you know, going back to the police station

and talking to them and submitting to the interview.

Chris, you got to help me out with something.

So, your wife stays at home all day, every day,

and never left unless she told you where she was going.

Am I right so far?

Yeah, pretty much.

So, help me understand how a woman with no car keys

or purse or vehicle just --

what did you say, "disappeared?"

I don't know, man. I don't...

I'm just as confused as anybody.

Chris said that he and George left for work,

you know, early in the morning.

I will say, you know, 6:00 or something.

As some point, George took a break and came home

and then went back to work.

And then Chris took a break sometime after that,

walked home, and didn't see Allison,

and then went back to work

and continued to work the rest of the day

until it got off and went home,

and she was still missing.

If I'm being honest,

I think either you or your brother

knows exactly what happened to her.

My brother ain't got nothing to do with this.

Well, you keep saying that.

But somebody knows something.

When they first started to talk to George, you know,

he just basically said he didn't know what,

you know, had happened, where she was or anything.

Look, it's like my brother told y'all,

we came home from break, and...

She was gone.

It's end of story.

George, I don't think this is the end of the story at all.

I think we're just getting started.

Okay, George.

Thank you for your time.

Am I -- am I free to go?

Unless there's anything else you want to say.

Have a good night, detective.

You too, George.

They said he just seemed a little off that day --

a little fidgety, you know, just nervous about talking.

It started to sink in that something wasn't right.

Something wasn't right. They all know what happened.

None of this makes sense -- none of it.

Allison was missing.

I had to talk Chris into calling the police.

He didn't really want to,

and Chris was a person of interest, of course.

Detective Harvey.

I think I found something.

What do you got, Chris?

It's her journal -- diary.

Did you read this?

No.

No, it was just open like that on her dresser.

"Try come and find me."

What do you think that means, Chris?

I don't know. It means she ran off, right?

There was a page in the notebook

that just had something scrawled on it

that's said, "try to come find me,"

or, "try and find me" -- something like that.

It didn't really look like the rest of the writing

in the notebook, so they weren't sure

if this was something that may have been written

to try to make it look like maybe

Allison had ran off or something.

Chris, do you notice anything strange about this handwriting?

No.

Did you write this?

No.

No, I didn't write that.

What about your brother, George?

Now, why would George write that?

Well, I don't know.

It really didn't come to much, but it was just another

one of those little questions that was just left hanging.

Speak of the devil.

You guys hang with Chris. Chris, you stay here for me.

I'm gonna go talk to your brother.

Detective?

Hey, George.

Just got a few more questions for you.

What's up?

George seemed almost disconnected

when he was talking to police.

I can remember seeing the body cam footage of the interview,

and it was one of the weirdest things of the whole case.

As the deputies continue to talk to George,

at some point in the conversation,

and I don't think it was even...

...you know, them trying to drag it out of him or anything,

I think he just kind of volunteered the information

that they might want to go look in the river for Allison.

Why would you say that, George, about the river?

It's just something I heard in the wind.

And, you know, they asked him what that meant,

and he really didn't answer that.

But, you know, he heard it and the wind was what he said,

and that was one of the things that just kind of --

it kind of made the hairs on the back of my neck

kind of go up a little bit.

It just seemed kind of really weird

and odd and kind of out there.

Okay, George.

Let's take a walk.

You hear me?

Yeah. Yeah, sure. I'll walk with you.

Okay. Come on.

I got a knock on my door,

and it was the sheriff,

and he was like, "Kristen, we found your sister."

And I remember asking him, "is she okay? Where is she?"

You know, I was hoping she'd be in the back of the car

and just let me see her -- you know, is she okay?

And he's like, "no, honey, she's not okay.

We found her in the river."

I had a bunch of missed calls, had a bunch of texts,

a bunch of voicemails,

and the one in particular was my grandmother that called me.

And when I first start to listen to it,

I immediately hear people in the background

screaming and hollering.

It was Kristen and Allison's mother.

A sound I've never heard from either of them before.

My granny's trying to talk in the voicemail calmly,

and she's like, "Kayla... They found Ali."

I don't know what else she said.

I hung up immediately and just busted out into tears.

When I heard that it was George, my first thought was, "why?

Why would he do that?"

Family's always first.

Family's always first -- always.

George showed them essentially where she was in the river,

and that's where George confessed

that he had killed Allison.

George said that when he had taken his break

early on that morning before Chris' break,

that he had went back to the house.

And then he wound up strangling her in the kitchen

and killing her

and tied her body up and wrapped it in a tarp

and took her down to the river and put her in the river.

They were asking George shortly after he'd confessed,

"why did you do this?"

You know, "why did you kill Allison?"

And the only thing that he ever said was it was a wrong belief.

They asked George, "what does that mean?

What kind of wrong belief?" And he never answered that.

And we still don't know to this day what wrong belief it was

that led to him to kill her...

If that's what really happened.

I've always had a gut feeling

that Chris had something to do with it.

I just feel like that, just by the way he was acting,

he wasn't really looking for the person that,

you know, he claimed to love so much.

He wasn't really making any effort

to look for his wife that was missing.

I feel like they both had a hand in it -- absolutely.

What each of them did, I have no idea.

But my gut tells me that they both know what happened.

They both probably had a hand in killing her,

and they both helped each other tie her up.

They both threw her in the river.

George, you know, admitted

that he had killed Allison,

but the defense attorney spelled out that,

you know, Chris was abusive to Allison,

that they, you know, had a rocky relationship.

He was very controlling, didn't let her leave the house,

kept her there, you know, all that,

and basically said that Chris did it

and that George only confessed

to kind of cover up for his brother.

But Chris seemed, you know, during his testimony

that he was really upset

that George had, you know, allegedly killed his his wife.

They both lived there,

and Chris didn't say why George would have done it,

just that, you know, George did it.

There's just so many questions left unanswered

that I think it just makes sense that the family would wonder,

you know, was Chris involved, and if so, how?

It's just another mystery.

Basically, four years after the murder occurred,

Chris Walker's in jail.

He was indicted on charges of sexual abuse against a minor.

I want everybody to know

that Allison didn't deserve this.

She was a sweet soul.

She didn't deserve to be tossed away like trash.

She was one of a kind.

And I just feel like that

anybody that got to meet Allison,

it was a blessing.

I wish I would have paid more attention.

Keep your family members very close.

Pay attention, even if you think it's something small.

Definitely reach out. Always talk.

Make sure you know how they're feeling.

I blame myself a lot for not doing that,

but I do wish that I just would have paid more attention.

You know, she may still be here.