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Months went by. Still no trace of l. J. And then a rookie took the case. Howd you feel about it, that this was now going to be your case . I didnt know if i was capable of doing this. I cried for two hours. A teen found dead. We still dont have an answer. A mysterious missing suspect. She said that l. J. Had killed someone before. And hers to solve. I get the feeling, jaclyn, youre learning how to become a detective as you go. This is the case that taught me. You have no surefire way to keep your children safe. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Dennis Murphy with the girl with the red shoes. Reporter Veronica Kasprzak bratcher is a determined woman. Did someone ever say, you cant save them all, to you . My mother is probably the one that would say and still says that. But yeah, i heard that a lot. Ep listened, though. The desire to do good, to save a child was too strong. Though sometimes, in the quiet hours, she wonders if she did the right thing. If i wouldnt have picked that house. If i would have not taken a shower. If i would have done something else, she wouldnt have been in that situation. Reporter of course, no one could have known then that it would end up like this. Unified Police Department. I need to report a runaway. My daughter is missing. Reporter her daughter was anne grace kasprzak. Though when veronica first met annie, she wasnt a kasprzak at all. She wasnt even her daughter. She was a client, just 7 years old, with a rough childhood. Shed been through some abuse, and she had a hard time trusting other people. Reporter back in 2005, veronica was a case worker for utahs division of children and family services. Her job was to find homes for kids who no longer had one. Annie has kind of a largerthanlife personality. Whatever annie does, she never did small. If there was something she liked, she loved it and she was huge. If there was something she didnt like, it was big. And there was no question about it. Reporter drama came with it, huh . Oh, yes, oh, yes. Reporter veronica tried for years to find annie a stable home. But after annie had been flung back to the state nine times, veronica, young, naive and stubborn, made a surprising decision to adopt annie. Did your superiors tell you, you know, we dont do that, veronica . Oh, yes. Reporter dont cross that line. You have a professional relationship with this child. But dont bring her into your home. Well, and that was very true. And because at the time, i also happened to be about six months pregnant. And so im sure the thought was, okay, crazy pregnant lady. She doesnt know what shes doing. But it was very much, are you sure . You cant save everybody. Reporter but veronica was determined to try. An january 2007. Annie, who had bounced around from house to house, finally had a home, parents and brothers who adored her. She was the immediate cool big sister. She liked being the oldest, being in charge and teaching them all of this cool stuff. Reporter she was wanted, happy, making memories. Opening gifts on christmas morning. Her first trip to the beach. Not that everything was perfect, mind you. There was still definitely a im going to test you. As much as you say you love me and youre keeping me, im going to make i dont believe you. How would she challenge you, for instance . Just the quintessential, im not going to do what you say. Im going to do whatever i want. Reporter so psychological tussle going on here . Uhhuh. Reporter which only intensified when annie entered her teen years. She was about as boy crazy as i could imagine. She always had a boy that she and it was never a, here, let me see. Its a, oh, im so in love with you. This is forever. I couldnt imagine anybody being more amazing. She was very all in. Reporter but annie was also into her education and her future. She wanted to be a therapist just like veronica. She even wanted her new family to adopt more kids. Well, what about this other girl, mom . Shes there. And shes really having a hard time. I think we should bring her home. It was reporter she was really becoming your daughter in a way, huh . Yeah. Reporter veronica eventually divorced and remarried. She and her new husband james settled here, in riverton, utah, a quiet suburb of salt lake city. Annie had james wrapped around her finger. I took her with me to help me pick out her mothers valentines day gift. And there was a shoe store right across the way. She had a way with me. She could talk me into just about anything. And one of them was her favorite shoes that she found. And she was so excited about them. And they were a red pair of shoes. Later, march 10, 2012. Annie, now 15, was watching her brothers while veronica and james went out for dinner. And then when we came home, everything seemed the same. I mean, annie had changed from running around the house in shorts to jeans. And i just kind of chalked that up to, okay, shes gotten cold. And i had a massive headache i couldnt get rid of. So i went to take a shower. And annie had gone downstairs to her room to listen to music. And we just figured it was another saturday. Reporter but it wasnt. When veronica finished her shower, annie was gone. James searched her bedroom. The note was tucked underneath her blanket. And i grabbed it. And it just said, im sorry, mom, that i havent been totally honest with you. Reporter annie, it turned out, was keeping a secret. In the note, she wrote, i lied to my friends. I told them i was p. P. Veronica and james knew that stood for the word no teenagers parents want to , had learned that annie had had sex for the first time. She had had sex, and so to annie she had assumed that, well, because weve had sex, i could be pregnant, or i am pregnant. Reporter but the pregnancy test was negative, and annie was now on birth control. Why would she lie about being p . Even more alarming was where annie said she was going. By the time you read this note, ill be on my way to california. Please dont try and look for me because i dont want to be found. The first thing we did is we called the police. And then the second person i called was chris. Reporter 14yearold Chris Bagshaw. Annie had brought him over to the house a few times. He was kind of quiet. I kind of took it as all right, im here with my girlfriends parents. And i want to make sure they dont kill me. Reporter was he in and out of the picture for her as the boyfriend of the moment . Uhhuh. Reporter his stock would rise and fall . He didnt know where annie was, but he did have some potentially significant information. Chris said annie told him she was running away with a guy named l. J. We were shocked. Because, i mean, we didnt know all of her friends because they changed a lot depending on who she was hanging out with at the moment. But it wasnt familiar at all. Reporter a Police Officer came and took a report. James, meanwhile, called up the gps function on annies cell phone. It put her around or about the golf course out in riverton and within a mile of that, which is around the bridge area. Reporter the bridge at the jordan river, just a couple miles from their home, a place joggers and horseback riders frequent during the day and young lovers at night. James, veronica and the officer watched as annies phone pinged across the computer screen in realtime. Youre watching her move. Yes. When it moved so fast, our immediate assumption was, okay, shes getting in a car. Reporter so this is a hot pursuit now, looking for your girl . Reporter and then the signal just stopped. Veronica drove to a walmart near where theyd tracked annies phone. And i have her picture on my cell phone. And im showing it to the people that are sitting at the front, the greeters, going, have you seen this girl . Reporter are you collected . Or are you a wreck while all this is going on . I am frantic. Reporter veronica went back home. She and james watched the front door. And they kept calling annie, but her phone went straight to voicemail. In the best of worlds, shes out with some young boyfriend you may or may not know, off on a lark of some kind. But itll come to an end. And youll get her back and regroup. Yeah, our worstCase Scenario at that point is, okay, shes going to come home pregnant. Reporter worst Case Scenario . Not even close. What had happened to annie . And who was the mysterious l. J. . When we return he had told us that l. J. Had driven by the house threatening discovery. 911. What is the address of the emergency . Im at the river bottom. Theres a pool of blood. The cash back is unlimited and you can spend it on anything. Like, whatever the next ad is selling. Get the new chase freedom unlimited card. Ugh, celebrity endorsements are the worst. 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Spring was still officially days away, but in draper, utah, its promise was clear. Morning dew on the brush. The crisp air. The sun rising over the wasatch mountains. It should have been a beautiful day. But for a jogger on the jordan River Parkway that morning, it was anything but. 911, what is the address of the emergency . You know, im not real sure. Im at the river bottom, and theres some pools of blood. And im guessing its just an animal, but in the water right by the river theres a shoe. Reporter sergeant Chad Carpenter was one of the first on the scene. This is what the jogger sees, blood here. Pooling blood . Clotted blood . Yeah, so basically in this area right here, you had the blood droplets. And then on the cement right here you had mud in this area. On that beam right there. In this area you had a little bit of blood. And then you had pooling down on the ground right there. And then in this area, down to those rocks, was where the majority of the blood had been deposited. Reporter down there is where most of the blood was . Yeah. It was a large amount of blood. Reporter with all the wildlife around, they thought it might be animal blood, but we called forensics out and we did a presumptive test, which was able to tell us that it actually was human blood. Reporter human blood. That changed things. That made us think, okay, we might have a body in the water. So we called the Highway Patrol helicopter. Reporter the helicopter was in the air for just under an hour before it spotted something about a mile north of where the jogger saw the blood. It was caught up in some branches. As the chopper got closer, it was clear. There was a body in the river. Sergeant, when the divers pulled the victim out, what were the her face . She had a laceration here on her forehead. Her face was very swollen so we werent able to tell to what extent the injuries were. And we couldnt even identify who she was. Reporter their jane doe, dressed in a red and white plaid shirt, looked to be about 20 years old. Her features possibly asian. And obviously, she had been murdered. Leading the investigation was a young detective named Derek Johnson. Tell me about him. Right when he came into the academy he sat next to me and started teasing me. And the rest of the class time we just harassed each other and laughed and giggled all day. Reporter jaclyn moore met derek at the police academy. She was a hair stylist who had gotten bored with rinses and blowouts. I wanted something more challenging. So i went on a ridealong with a local Police Department and fell in love. Reporter that took a lot of guts to do that. Yeah. But thats what i was looking for. Reporter she and derek hit it off immediately. You guys became friendly competitive head butters, huh . Yes. When we both applied at draper and he got hired, we started our competition. Reporter their competitive streak clearly apparent when a new position opened up. A detective spot came open, and we both applied and he got it president. Reporter did you think, rats . I did. Reporter he got it and i didnt . Yes. Reporter now derek had caught his first case. Which was also the first homicide the small town of draper had seen in years. Someone called police just after 10 00 this morning to report they had come across a gruesome scene. Reporter by the time veronica and james saw the reports annie had been missing for nearly 20 hours. The information that its an asian woman in her 20s, i think, was the initial report. That would seem to rule out annie, certainly. Initially, we were thinking, no, thats not possible. Theres no way. Reporter but then, a detail sergeant carpenter shared with salt lake citys nbc affiliate ksl tv. There was a shoe found at the crime scene, and there was one on the body. Reporter a red shoe. The same kind james had bought annie for valentines day just weeks earlier. Veronica and james tried to stay calm. We called the police. And we said, hey, our daughters missing. I think logically i was going, theyre just going to rule it out. I just need them to rule it out. Reporter but they couldnt rule it out. After i called the police, i called my parents to come and pick up our boys. And i just started sobbing. Reporter police soon determined the 20something asian victim was really 15yearold Annie Kasprzak. She had been killed by Blunt Force Trauma to the head. Veronica and james had thought the rapid pinging of annies phone meant she was driving away. Now there was no hope offer ever coming home. So theres the very worst moment of your life at that point. Here they are, three people at the door. They confirmed that it was annie. I think we were in shock. We went into automatic, what do you need from us . Look at anything. Reporter veronica told investigators what she learned from annies onagain offagain boyfriend Chris Bagshaw. That annie had run away with a boy named l. J. When you talked with l. J. , how did you talk to him . I talked to him once. Okay. Actually on the phone. Okay. Reporter police spoke to Chris Bagshaw and his father at their home. And when you talked to him on the phone, did he speak with an accent or did you notice anything distinctive about his voice . No. Reporter naturally, police also had to ask chris where he was. I was with my grandma. Okay. And at one point i did walk up to see if my friend can hang out, but he wasnt home. Okay. Reporter they went through the usual questions. When you walked to your friends, what did you have on . Just regular jeans and a tshirt and my red jacket. Just blue jeans . Yeah, blue jeans, nike shoes and a tshirt underneath. And he had his red hoodie on. Do you mind if we see your nikes . Yeah, sure. Reporter chris wanted to help. He gave those nikes to investigators, as well as his clothes. He even gave a dna sample. And after his interview, chris dad called up sergeant carpenter. He had told us in this phone call that l. J. Had driven by the house, was threatening chris. Reporter so heres more information that this l. J. Is a very real and threatening person . Yes. You know, i never wanted to do this. Reporter detectives also spoke to chris and annies friend spencer riddle. Spencer said he was at the gym with his brother the night annie was killed. Sometimes you just have got to point and shoot. Reporter on his phone detectives found this video of spencer, annie, chris and another friend hanging out. Taken just weeks before annie was killed. Detectives looked carefully. Was annie throwing a gang sign . They asked spencer about it. Did she have an interest in not that she didnt really tell me. Im just maybe she does because of some person named l. J. That i have no idea who it is. All i know is she told me he was in a gang. I dont know for sure. Reporter before he left the interview, spencer shared one more thing with police. She said that l. J. Has killed someone before. She never gave me the name, but she said that, she knows that or Something Like that. Thats why she was scared when apparently l. J. Threatened chris to come kill him. Reporter you thought l. J. Was your killer . We thought l. J. Was involved. Reporter did boycrazy annie fall for a gang member . In her room, police found this poem she had written to l. J. And with it, for the first time, a name leyton jendon. But police couldnt track him down. Not showing up on social media and kid stuff . Nothing. Not even on any drivers license database. We checked all of the gang databases that we have in the salt lake valley. Nothing. Reporter jaclyn wasnt working the case then, but she remembers crossing paths with spencer at the station. And he immediately tensed up, clenched his fists. His eyes got big. He couldnt take his eyes off of me. And i thought, this kid has done something wrong. And he thinks im coming to arrest him because im approaching him in uniform. Reporter did you share that with derek . Yes. He said, weve received more information now, and we think we have another suspect. Reporter another suspect. A new name altogether. Based on information from an eyewitness who may have seen Annie Kasprzak the night she was killed and knew who killed her. Coming up is this how annie was murdered . And is this the man who murdered her . What if i told you shes dead . I didnt do it. Ats really not good. [burke] it happened august fourteenth,2008, and we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum theres nothing like snuggly softness. But the more love it gets, the more odor it gets. New snuggle plus super fresh. Snuggly softness plus new odor eliminating technology. And it releases freshness. 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The idea that somebody else could do that to her was just even now, its hard to imagine that thats even possible. Reporter and now Draper Police were working hard to catch her killer. Were trying to actively locate suspects in this case, any witnesses, so we can actually bring this case to a conclusion for the parents. Reporter and within a week of annies murder, they found that witness. Her name was joanna, and she had been picked up on a fraud charge by neighboring west jordan pd. During her interview, she started telling detectives about a young girl she had seen a week prior. The cops thought some of what she said sounded eerily similar to annies case. So they called draper pd, and detective Derek Johnson and his colleague came over to hear what joanna had to say. Tell me what you know about this girl. It was the second time ive seen her over there. Reporter there at the home where a man named daniel ferry used to live. Danny ferry is a guy known to Law Enforcement . Yes. Reporter as maybe a drug dealer . Drug dealer. He was a member of a gang called vario loco town. And Law Enforcement has dealt with danny quite a few times, yeah. Reporter ferry had a long rap sheet. In fact, derek had served a search warrant on his home a year earlier. And now here was joanna telling derek that she saw a girl who sounded a lot like annie at daniel ferrys home on the night annie was killed. Joanna also said the girl showed up with someone police had been searching for but couldnt find. She came with l. J. Reporter l. J. , the guy annie had written that note to. The alleged gang member. The one Chris Bagshaw said annie had run away with. We had annies entries that said l. J. We had joanna telling us about l. J. Reporter on that night, said joanna, l. J. And the girl disappeared into the garage. She assumed they were having sex. Then when they came out, she saw daniel approach the girl. He asked her if she wanted to [ bleep ] and she laughed. And she was like, no. And he just kind of grabbed her head and just rammed it into the wall. Reporter she said the girl was knocked unconscious. L. J. And another friend named v tried to calm daniel down. And then the three of them carried the girl out to the garage and changed her clothes. Tell me about the clothes they changed her into. There was a lot of red. Thats what i remember the most. What parts do you remember being red . Pants and shoes and a shirt like a white red. The shirt was white and red . Yeah. Her shoes. Shoes had white laces, and we were tying them. Reporter then, joanna said, put her in a white suburban and took off. And when they came back hours later, she said daniel was covered in blood and the girl was not with him. I asked daniel where she was, and he said that she went swimming. He said, she put up one hell of a fight once we got there. Reporter joannas story rang true, leading Derek Johnson to believe the mystery girl was annie and daniel ferry was her killer. Jaclyn was part of the team that secured daniels home while detectives searched it. I was about half a block away from daniel ferrys house. I could see his house, but i was more concerned with people coming in and out of the street. Reporter did you see people coming and going that night . Yes. Daniel ferrys family was trying to get in. Reporter a tense scene. Daniel himself wasnt there. But detectives did learn something more in another interview with joanna that bore out their star witness story. Did you see blood on the carpet . Yeah. Was it carpet or hard floor . It was carpet. Okay. Im positive it was carpet. Reporter now the search team found the carpet in ferrys house had been ripped up and the walls were freshly painted. Youve got signs of a coverup . Yeah, its looking more and more like this is actually true, all this information that were receiving. Reporter did you find bloodlike splotches on the wall . We found indications that there would be blood on the wall. Reporter they swabbed those areas and then went looking for daniel. They found him at an apartment complex, arrested him and brought him in. Do you want to talk to us without counsel . Yeah, whatever. But whats it about . Let me ask you that. What do you think . I got no clue. Reporter it was, detectives thought, the typical bad guy response. They were sure daniel knew something. They asked him about l. J. Who the hells l. J. . Thats what im asking you. Dude, i dont know no l. J. Reporter and then about annie. Tell me about annie. Tell me about annie. Annie who . Who the [ bleep ] is annie . Annie is a girl that was at your house for a party last weekend. Dude, i have no idea who annie is. Weve already talked to a lot of other people that all verify she was there, danny. Okay. Show me a picture, then. Reporter you showed him a picture of annie. Yep. Brittany . Is her name brittany . No, its annie. Reporter detectives thought daniel was lying, and they were done playing around. What if i told you shes dead . I didnt do it. What the [ bleep ] . If you guys think i did this, i do want a lawyer. Okay. Because theres only were done. The only thing that is shaking me. Were done daniel, because i think you did it. Well, if you think i did it, then youve got the wrong guy, man. For real. Good luck. Find the right guy. Reporter derek was confident he had. They booked daniel for annies murder. Did this name mean anything to you . Ferry . No. Reporter guys known for doing drugs. Uhhuh. I didnt understand it. Annie was extremely antidrugs. Reporter annies 15. The guy arrested is what, y uhhuh. Reporter a person known to the police, as they say . Uhhuh. That compounded the, oh, guilt of, boy, what bad parents are we that not only did this happen to her, but that we didnt even know she was hanging out with people like this. Reporter l. J. , whoever he was, still hadnt turned up, but detective Derek Johnson still thought hed wrapped up his first homicide. All he needed was the lab to confirm that the blood found in daniels home was annies. But then the lab called and everything unraveled. Coming up not the best time for a rookie detective to be taking over. How did you feel about it . That this was now going to be your case . I cried for two hours. I had only had a few months in detectives and i didnt know if i was capable of doing this. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Introduces new, easytoswallow tablets. So now, there are more ways, for more people. To experience. Complete protection from frequent heartburn. Nexium 24hr. The easytoswallow tablet is here. Annie kasprzak had had a rough childhood. She was passed along from foster home to foster home before she was adopted by her case worker, veronica. Annies life finally seemed to be turning around. Then in 2012, annie, just 15, was found murdered, her body floating in the jordan river. There was never a second that your mind didnt go to, this is not what was supposed to happen. Reporter Draper Police were on the hunt to find her killer, and a week after annies murder they believed they had. Known gang member and drug dealer, daniel ferry. I know that she was at the house, but how she got to the house, thats something were working out. If shed been to the house before, we dont know. Reporter an eyewitness said she saw daniel ferry assault a girl the night annie was killed. That witness also said the girl had shown up with l. J. , whom police could never find. But in the course of their investigation of ferry, detectives learned Something Interesting. And you had another l. J. In that crowd, didnt you . Yeah. Reporter daniel ferry . Yeah. Reporter what was his nickname . He used two. One was joker and the other was little joe. Reporter little joe . L. J. . Yeah. Reporter maybe their witness was confused or deliberately hiding the fact that ferry and l. J. Were one and the same. Either way ferry seemed like their man. But the d. A. Wanted more evidence before filing charges. Derek johnson and Chad Carpenter thought the blood samples taken from daniel ferrys home would push the case over the finish line. You and derek have to think youre done there, you got it . A lot of our investigators thought that we had it nailed. Reporter while they waited for the blood results to come back from the lab, they went searching for the carpet that had been ripped out from the ferry home, the carpet joanna had said the girl had bled on. We sent investigators to the landfill here in salt lake county, and all of the carpet that had been brought in from all the different places had been piled together. So our investigators went through each piece of carpet. Reporter thats a nasty job . That was terrible. We actually burned our clothes afterwards because we were walking in all this stuff. Reporter they found a couple of carpet scraps but no way to making those blood samples theyd taken from the wall even more critical. It was weeks later when they heard back from the lab. And then the bloodwork comes back and oops . Bloodwork came back, and it was negative for blood. Reporter not only were the samples not annies blood, it wasnt even blood at all. A major blow to the investigation. Didnt mean hes not good for the crime . It doesnt mean that hes not good for the crime. It just led us to believe that, okay, it didnt happen here, at the ferry residence. Reporter so ferry might be good for this thing, but boy, youre just not getting there . Yeah. Reporter the only bright spot, daniel ferry wasnt getting out of jail. He was also being investigated for an unrelated kidnapping and assault case in a neighboring town. So hes on ice while you guys can develop your theories about his involvement in this thing . Yeah. Reporter they continued to investigate ferry. Months went by. Lead detective Derek Johnson was promoted to sergeant. Which meant former hairdresser detective finally came true. Maybe a case of beware what you wish for. One of her first assignments was the Annie Kasprzak murder. How did you feel about it . That this was now going to be your case . I cried for two hours. Reporter really . You closed the door and i actually drove to my parents house, and i cried at their house. Reporter what was your anxiety . I had only had a few months in detectives, and i didnt know if i was capable of doing this. Derek told me when he passed it off to me that it was probably going to be a cold case. I had five huge binders staring at me and hundreds of items of evidence in our evidence locker. I didnt know where to go. Reporter did you think i should have stayed in the salon cutting hair . No. No. I knew i could do this. It was just very overwhelming. Reporter jaclyn decided she needed to start again from the beginning, following the chain of evidence that led her colleagues to daniel ferry. She thought she might link ferry to annie through his phone calls. All of his cell phone records showed he was in the middle to northern part of salt lake county. He had never gone south close enough to where annie was killed. Not even near her house. Reporter and she well knew the physical evidence wasnt there either. None of the dna came back saying annie was ever a friend or ever at his house. Reporter and no matter how much derek and the other investigators leaned on him, daniel ferry didnt budge. Hes saying all along, its not me . Yes. Reporter now jaclyn, her detectives badge still shiny new, started to believe he might be telling the truth, which would mean annies killer was still walking free. Coming up a trail of phone calls. What do you think is going on . It looks like a fight. 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I decided i need to start from the beginning and see what information derek had when he first got the case. Reporter and so began the education of a detective. She started reading through pages and pages of annies notes and journal entries. Who does annie turn out to be, the more you learn about her . Shes very lost. She wants to be loved by anyone and everyone. Reporter and jaclyn saw that there was one person in particular annie wanted to be loved by. Chris bagshaw. His name was scribbled all over her journals. Veronica remembered annie gushing about him. She liked him. He was different. He e going on that he wasnt a goody twoshoes, and so she didnt feel like he looked down on her. Reporter annies diaries revealed something else, too. She and chris had sex. Reporter chris was the boy annie had slept with just months before her death. After which, remember, she lied about being pregnant. I am starting to think that she made up the pregnancy to keep chris around because he didnt want to be with her anymore. Reporter next, jaclyn pored over annie and chris phone records from the night of the murder. Not only was chris the last person annie spoke to, but the pattern of their calls spoke volumes. 30 seconds here and then it hangs up. Immediately one of them calls the other back. Sometimes the call is ignored. Sometimes chris phone is blocked. Reporter what do you think is going on . It looks like a fight. It looks like theyre yelling at each other and hanging up on each other. Reporter then, while going through the case file, jaclyn found an interesting piece of evidence that investigators collected when they searched a tornup note written by chris that, when pieced together, looked like this. It seemed to be an inventory of details regarding annies murder. And all the way at the bottom was something that caught jaclyns attention. I notice he writes that she was wearing a white jacket. Reporter which was odd, because when the body is recovered, is there a white jacket there . No. I called veronica and i said, does annie have a white jacket . And she said, yes. And i said, is it still at your house . And she said, no. We havent seen it since she left. Reporter how does he know about a white jacket . Right. He would have seen her that night. Reporter one more thing about that note. Written at the top of the page were the letters akd. Someones initials or maybe an acronym . I believe it meant Annie Kasprzak death. Reporter her more experienced colleagues had looked at chris, too, of course, but eventually moved on. And for good reasons. Chris had no criminal record and no eyewitness put him at the scene. Mysterious l. J. , annies reported boyfriend whom police could never find. Not in any police database, not anywhere. That is, until jaclyn knocked on one more door. [ knocking ] hey. Hows it going . Hi. Are you jack . Yeah. Im detective moore. This is detective johnson. Reporter her close buddy and predecessor, Derek Johnson, was by her side when she went to interview annies friend jackson. He told them the same story that theyd been hearing all along, annie telling friends she was pregnant. Nothing new. But then they asked jackson if he new who l. J. Was. His answer floored them. She would always referred to this guy as l. J. , and i asked her, well, whats his real name . And she said chris. Reporter a stunning revelation. Was l. J. , all along, just annies nickname for Chris Bagshaw . Jaclyn knew she was getting somewhere, but there was still one big prob he was clouding her investigation. As i was interviewing annies friends, they were all giving me stories about annies night, and it was based on what theyd heard from the news. Reporter so thats a tainted source for you . Yes. Reporter you want somebody who doesnt know whats out there in the press . Yes. Reporter so jaclyn took a bold step and went to her bosses, asking them to publicly clear daniel ferry. It was a year, almost to the day, after the murder of Annie Kasprzak when the news broke. Draper police have been tightlipped about this investigation, but today they did say that daniel ferry is no longer a person of interest in the murder of Annie Kasprzak. Reporter ferry, for months the prime suspect, was officially no longer a suspect at all. When the case fell apart, were you disappointed . Exhausted. Reporter exhausted by the police investigation. Exhausted that this was just not ever going to end and that, okay, heres a big thing that kind of rocks your world. And guess what . Were going to have to do this answer. Reporter to them it seemed as if the investigation was going backwards. Yet clearing ferry brought veronica one small comfort. It was, like, okay, you have not completely failed as a parent. You did not miss this big drugng wdealild going on in your daughters life. Reporter not much comfort for jaclyn moore. The rookie detective had convinced her supervisors to clear ferry. Now she knew it was on her to solve the case. And then, nearly a year and a half after annies murder an officerinvolved shooting. Reporter another tragedy. Officer has Bullet Wounds through his shoulder. We are getting a helicopter in the air. Coming up the death of an officer. Was it also the end of jaclyns case . Coming soon from progressive, its savin u, the new hit single from the dizzcounts. Cash money the Biggest Discount and understand. The dizzcounts. Safe driver, paperless, paidinfull, multicar and joey fatone. Dred im savin you five hundred we have autotune, right . Oh, yeah. Thats a hit all yeah whenever im around you i go home a little bit theres just something about you where the pieces all fit theres a lightness that surrounds you and it guides me like a star oh i am, who i am because y are, who you are september 1, 2013, it was 6 00 a. M. Derek johnson, once the lead detective on annies murder case, was now a sergeant. He was just finishing his graveyard shift and headed back to the station when he noticed a car parked on the side of the road. It looked like a stranded motorist. Derek stopped to help but never made it out of his car. That motorist had a gun, and he was angry. Reporter Draper Police chief brian roberts. And he fired at Derek Johnson while he was sitting in the drivers seat of his car. Reporter derek, wounded, tried to drive away but lost control and crashed headon into a tree. He died at the scene. It was hard. Yeah, it sucked. It you have to give me a second. So derek, he was a good guy. Good cop. Good friend. Reporter derek was just 32 years old, leaving behind his wife and his 6yearold son and his family at draper pd. You know everybody talks about a cops cop and the best cop you can have and how he treated and served the community. Derek was one of those guys. Reporter for jaclyn mo the loss was twofold. He was starting to get some free time to come help me with the case and tell me more about what he did when he was on the case. And then he was killed. I didnt have anyone else to ask. Reporter youd lost your friend. Your old competitive friend. I lost my friend, and i lost any information that i needed on that case. There was no one else. Reporter because he was kind of the institutional memory of this thing, wasnt he . Yes. Reporter jaclyn had only herself to rely on now. In the balance, justice for annie, now dead for a year and a half. She strongly suspected Chris Bagshaw knew more than he was telling. What she needed but didnt have was something tying chris to annie the night she was killed. So jaclyn reviewed every interview, every piece of evidence on chris. The clothes he handed over to no presence of annies dna or blood anywhere. But then there were the shoes he handed over. Do you mind if we see your nikes . Yeah, sure. Reporter jaclyn listened to chris interviews again and again and noticed Something Interesting chris said about his shoes. She had a bloody nose last time i hung out with her, and we were sitting right next to each other, and she did drip it on my shoes. Do you remember where on the shoe . It was on my shoe laces. Im not sure which shoe it is. When was that . About five days ago maybe, me and my friend spencer were hanging out, and she just came over. Okay. Reporter spencer, the guy from that cell phone video. Remember, jaclyn had seen him coming into the station in the days following annies murder. She had a gut feeling back then that he was hiding something and detectives at the time asked for his phone. Do you have an idea why we took your phone . For call logs . Well, no, thats paf reason. But there was a message on there that were kind of interested in. Do you know what that message is . Reporter it was a message from chris. The cops might come back to your house. I need you to tell them that annie got a bloody nose so i dont get blamed. He told me about the he said something about the bloody nose. That i actually dont remember seeing. I remember hearing it though. Reporter lab results eventually did show annies blood was on chris shoes. Detectives questioned him about it during a second interview. Okay. It would have just been one drop . Yeah. Reporter but then his story began to change. Where did it drip on your shoe . There was a little bit on the shoelace and then there was a little bit right here. Okay. So those are two separate drops you could see . Yeah. Reporter in fact, the lab found more than just those two spots of blood. They found several. But, studying the case file, jaclyn noticed that the lab didnt test every spot to see if it belonged to annie. They also hadnt tested the bottom of chris shoes. Well, at that point we went with a private lab to see if they could test the shoes further. And there is a new machine out called the mvac. Reporter a strange mix of high and low tech. Its like a steam cleaner and vacuum. So it spits out steam and then vacuums it back up. Reporter the mvac can collect minute dna samples other methods miss. And when the crime lab tested the mvac samples from chris shoes, jaclyn couldnt believe it. It appeared the bottom of the shoe, both shoes, were soaked in blood. Reporter it seemed like damning evidence, but after testing that blood further it came back with two males and two females. Reporter again, nothing you can take to the jury. Right. Reporter she tested some of the other evidence, but it didnt lead anywhere. There was one last hope. When she was recovered, her left pants pocket was pulled out. So were thinking the suspect may have used her pocket to pull her into the river, so his dna might be on that pocket. Reporter ow process vacuumed that pocket, did it find anything . Male dna. Enough to get a profile. Reporter but there were also what dna techs call inhibitors, sand from the river and the dye from annies jeans that could block an accurate reading. So jaclyn decided to hold off testing until a new, highly sensitive dna kit became available. I get the feeling, jaclyn, youre learning how to become a detective as you go. This is the case that taught me. Reporter but she was about to learn another lesson about being a detective. Things dont always go as planned. Coming up evidence lost. This case has had so many dead ends. And evidence found. I said i have this cell phone map and i cant explain it. Look at it. Thank you so much. Did you say honey . Hey, try some . Mmm that is tasty. Is it real . Of course. Are you . Nope animated you know im always looking for real honey for honey nut cheerios well youve come to the right place. Great, mind if i have another taste . Not at all mmm youre all right bud . Never better i dont know if he likes that. Yeah part of the complete breakfast when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. Annie kasprzak had been dead two years. Brut t family who had given her a Second Chance at life and who had loved her deeply. I miss waiting for the time where she wouldve grown up and figured out, okay, life is okay. I can trust, i can relax, i can settle down. I feel like our ending was taken from us. Reporter their happy ending gone. And annies killer, whoever it was, still Walking Around free. Somebody is getting away with annies murder, huh . Did you think it was going to get resolved, james . Eventually. Everything always gets resolved at some point. Reporter sometimes it doesnt. Sometimes. Reporter what did you think, veronica . I think i got to a point where i had to come to terms with the idea that it might not. Reporter detective jaclyn moore had compiled strong circumstantial evidence against annies sometime boyfriend Chris Bagshaw. Police had even found blood on his shoes. But no physical evidence that definitively put chris at the river where the body was found. The last, best hope, dna from annies pants pocket. Preliminary tests showed it was male. This belief about the pocket has turned into the gold nugget of this whole case. Its true. Theres dna on this pocket and its male dna. Its not annies. Reporter and if you can compare it properly where youre going to get a name out of this thing. Uhhuh. So im extremely happy. Reporter this is a good day in the investigation. Very good. Reporter this was the last little bit of dna left in the entire case. So to be sure they could identify who that dna belonged to, jaclyn told the lab to wait to test it until they got a new, more sensitive kit from the fbi. One that could see through the contaminants in the sample. The feds were sending down a new kit that would block those inhibitors. Reporter so this is an even more refined science . Yes. Reporter she waited for that kit for months. And then, finally, a call from the lab. They said, no, we didnt get a profile. There were too many inhibitors. Reporter but theres not supposed to be inhibitors with this new technique, right . Right. I asked them exactly that. Well, why are there inhibitors . This new kit was supposed to block them. And they said they didnt use the new kit. Reporter a critical mistake. And there was no doover. I was extremely upset. We had waited for months for this kit. We had had inperson meetings, several meetings with this lab asking them to please use this kit. Reporter what do you do . Go for a tenmile jog . Kick the dog . What . I told my boss, and i wanted them to get in trouble. But theres nothing you can do. The dnas gone. Reporter how do you absorb a body shot like that to your case . This case has had so many dead ends and so many issues come up, i was starting to get used to it. I was starting to think maybe were not going to actually reporter but jaclyn was tenacious. She went back to where she started, back to the phone records. Her late friend, sergeant Derek Johnson, had mapped out the pings from chris cell phone from the night of annies murder. But that map was confusing. It was all over the valley. The south end of the valley. And it was moving faster than you could in a car. Reporter she pored over chris records, trying to make her own map. But all those numbers were like a Foreign Language to her. So i decided i was just going to put myself through a cell phone training and learn on my own. Reporter youre kidding . No. Reporter youre putting yourself back to school . Yes. Reporter this is more of jaclyn learning how to be a detective. Yes. Reporter she took a weeklong course on cell phone investigation taught by a former homicide detective. His name was cy ray, and he was a busy man. I said, hey, i have this case, and its two years old. And i have this cell phone map and i cant explain it. Will you look at it . Reporter is he interd bothering me . He seemed interested as long as it took five to ten minutes to look at. Reporter almost immediately, rays expert eye caught something in those cell phone records. This is one of the most unique calls i have seen as an investigator in my history of working these type of cases. Reporter could it be the key to solving the case . Coming up how a phone call from her mom may help catch annies killer. I told her, i said, you know, if youre ever missing, hes the first person im calling. In one advanced pac for an astonishing level of clean. And keeps clothes up to 3 shades whiter. Give us your worst, well give it our all. 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He reviewed 35,000 of Chris Bagshaws calls and texts and noticed something very unusual. Weve mapped, as a company, probably 18 million phone calls. I dont know that ive ever seen a set of records as unique as this. Reporter one call stood out, an incoming call at 9 01 p. M. The night annie was killed. Its a 1 59 in length. And what really stood out is we see these 25 handoffs. Reporter handoffs, the signal bouncing from tower to tower. But the 25 handoffs were only between these four towers that we were looking at here. Reporter sy created this map and right there, somewhere in the red, was the area he believed chris phone likely was in when the call was made. We could tell that were dealing with an area about 12 square miles. And now the challenge is going to be can we position where within that 12 square miles that the phone is located at. Reporter next, sy took his hightech scanner and tracking equipment and drove around with jaclyn trying to locate the area that produced what they saw in chris records. We were looking for a very isolated area where we had four towers that were servicing an area. But the signal strength had to be so similar within those four towers, and a very poor signal at that, that it would cause the handing off that we saw. Reporter eventually they found it, the only spot in town that caused the strange pattern of pings. It was at the jordan river, the very spot where annie was killed. Sy discovered it was the geography of the area that caused the pings to bounce around. So whats happening is we have this bowl. Itus because of the river cutting through here. And that phone is just jumping back and forth between these four phone towers. Reporter which also explained the rapid pinging veronica and james observed when they tracked annies phone. Annie hadnt gotten into a car as they suspected. She was at the river, and the records proved that Chris Bagshaws phone was there, too. We feel very, very comfortable saying, at 9 01 p. M. On march 10th, the phone was within 100 meters of where were standing. Reporter of course, a skilled defense attorney could argue just because chris phone was there, didnt mean he was. Except for one important detail. It turned out of all the people who could have called chris that night the one who did, at precisely 9 01 p. M. , was annies mom, veronica. That was because of something annie had told veronica earlier that morning, something about chris. He had asked her, what would you do if i asked you to run away with me . Reporter run away. Missing, hes the first person im calling. Reporter which she did, and without even realizing it, helped police place Chris Bagshaw at the scene of the crime right around the time her daughter was killed. It was Early Morning october 16th, 2014, more than 2 1 2 years after annies murder when veronica got another lifechanging call. Jaclyn was on the line. She says, well, were in colorado and were in the process of arresting chris. And i say, what . Tell me that again. What a second, i dont understand. Reporter chris, now 17, had moved to grand junction, colorado, and was living with his mom. He was completely unprepared for the undercover officers who approached him on his way to school and for the young detective who met him in the interview room. Chris, hey. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Reporter jaclyn had wanted to question chris all along. Now she finally had her chance. Is this an interview . Yes. Reporter but just as soon as it began im not going to talk to you without a lawyer. Okay. Reporter it was over. Well, we have a warrant for your arrest. For . Murder and obstruction of justice. I thought i proved myself innocent . Nope, you didnt. Reporter chris was extradited back to utah. Veronica and james were grateful to police, but they knew nothing could bring annie back. While we support the Police Department and the attorneys office, and we appreciate all the work they have continued to do, it does not change what happened. Reporter they braced themselves for what would be coming next. Can you go through a trial . Are you steeled for it . I dont think its optional. Reporter another year came and then, just one week before the trial was set to begin, jaclyn got another unexpected call that would change everything. Coming up was a fake pregnancy the motive for an all too real murder . Its chilling even if you tell it, isnt it . Joint pain and swelling in as little as two weeks, and help stop further joint damage. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. Dont start xeljanz if you have an infection. 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He had refused to talk to police and pleaded not guilty. We were preparing for trial the following week, and i got a phone call that chris attorney scheduled a hearing that day. Reporter jaclyn, now a sergeant with the utah state police, ran down to court and barely made it in time. When she got there she saw chris standing before the judge. The case is set for a changeofplea hearing today. Are we Going Forward with that mr. Bown . Yes, we are. Reporter there was no deal offered, just a change of heart. Are you pleading guilty to charge because youre guilty of it . Yes, your honor. Reporter chris attorney said chris wanted to take responsibility for what he had done. All right. Then as to count one, murder, a firstdegree felony, how do you plead . Guilty, your honor. Reporter a guilty plea, confirming what jaclyn had pieced together over the years of her investigation. And she had a theory about how it all went down. So march 10th, annie is discussing over the phone what her options are for her baby with chris. And chris is telling her hes come up with a plan and they can run away and be together. Reporter jaclyn thinks chris really believed annie was pregnant. So he persuaded her to meet him at the river. But chris has no intent on running away. Chris only reason for being there is to kill her. So he just starts beating her until she dies. Reporter turns out to be a very sloppy crime. The amount of blood. The shoe, unobserved, apparently, not collected by him. I dont think that late at night, how dark it was, he even knew how much blood was there. Reporter its chilling, even as you tell it, isnt it . Because youre talking about a child killing a child. Uhhuh. Reporter this is a kid whod been in your h, reporter do you feel betrayed that this is the child that took your girl . I feel that he betrayed annie more than he betrayed us. Annie knew him and annie trusted him. Reporter at his sentencing, chris, now 18, sounded remorseful. I am very sorry for everything thats happened. And i want to apologize to annies family and to may my family and to everybody in court today for putting everybody through this. Still trying to put words into everything that has happened. Reporter but for veronica, no amount of im sorrys could make up for what she and annies entire family lost. May you feel sadness. May you feel loss. May your tears heal your soul. But may your conscience never clear. I will grieve my daughter every day. And so for the charge of murder, a firstdegree felony, i will sentence you to an indeterminate term not less than 15 years. Reporter 15 years to life in prison. Chris bagshaw will be eligible for parole when he is 33 years old. Today youll still see joggers and bike riders traversing the path along the jordan river. Young lovers still walking handinhand. But somehow that onceserene setting will never be quite the same. Do you ever go down to the bridge area or is this all youre putting this behind you . When i worked the case i would go down a lot. But no, i dont go down there anymore. Reporter jaclyn has other cases to work these days. But this one, annies case, will surely always hold a special place in her heart. Do you think derek would have approved . His confidence in you would have been vindicated finally . I wished so bad he was there. Reporter you were the Kid Detective that became a veteran reporter what did you learn about human nature along the way . A child can murder another child. An adult can give up on a case thats solvable because it seems too hard. Reporter this was a lot that youd taken on from your days of cutting hair. Yeah. Reporter did it also tell you, im glad i did this, that i made the transition . Yes. It was worth every second. It was worth all of the stress. It was worth missing sleep. Reporter annie started off as a case for veronica, too, but she became so much more. She completed their family. And when the time came to let her go they brought her back to a e she d visited only once, a place one day she hoped to live. We let the kids play. And we put her ashes in the ocean, so that she would never be in one place, and so that wherever we were at, we could feel like she was there. Reporter despite the horrific events that took away her daughter, veronica is still as determined as ever to continue to do good work and to help children in need. She and james adopted three more children in 2015. It was just what annie would have wanted them to do. And thats our story for tonight. Let me take a moment now to tell you about Something Special that the dateline team has put together for the next few sundays. A new magazine show were callicall ing on assignment. And it starts this sunday. Heres a sample. Not too often you travel to a war zone to find a sanctuary. Were heading for a Tropical Forest that few dare to visit. 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