floor. my god help me please. a teenage mom at the center of a murder mystery. fingers were pointed everywhere at everybody. who had a motive to kill? hello and welcome to dateline. a teenage mom and her close circle of friends find themselves at the center of an emotional situation. they were carefree california girl still in high school, but soon their lives would change in a way that if you could ve predicted. here s keith morrison with mean girls. an interesting species a teenage girls. some are sweet. some are not. we call them mean girls. and some in particular as you are about to see have been very mean indeed. i was 1997 when their story began here in the high desert north of l.a.. lancaster, california. there was sara chapin, than 18, a cheerleader and local beauty queen. you are pretty popular kid in high school? i was fairly popular but i was a cheerleader. which helps? yes. amy priest myre, 16, sporty, and ap student who looked like the girl ne
stuff which paid very well. in fact, ricky was the proud owner of a new bmw, and though he s still lived at home he was if anything mature for his ears. this didn t matter a bit to the girls of the house sporty. to to them he, was tall and good-looking and what else matter besides? that amy and one of our other friends was fighting over him because they had a little thing for him. right away, boom she wanted? him well, when you are a teenage girl and you see a cute guy of course, everything falls into place. well, it s certainly did. was he crazy about her to begin? with yeah, he matter and i was like instantly. they were together from that very first night. it didn t seem to matter to ricky than aimee was still in high school, she was a sophomore, they were in love. he took her away on trips, he butter lots of gifts. but when he introduced her to his parents, debbie and rick senior, they were not quite so bold over by amy.
anything until the broader downstairs. that i knew. i thought, oh no, no, no, no. like your whole life is disintegrating right there under it did. then the paramedics brought ricky to a waiting helicopter. rick sooner road to the hospital with his son. he was comprehending what we were talking about a little bit. he was hurt pretty hard. i tried to tell them it s gonna be okay, we ll get the doctors to fix it. and they did try. as the doctors worked on ricky, his family gathered. amy was there to of course. but whoever had attacked him i ve done so much damage to his head, his brain, by august 14th, two days in intensive care it was clear. there was no fixing ricky. he was comatose now. only the machines kept him alive. his family went to his bedside to say their goodbyes. amy was beside herself. it hardly made.
sense and she said, why did you have to go ahead and die? he was supposed to buy me a car for my birthday? you are supposed to buy me a? car and in my mind i couldn t even fathom that. of course, but they were too distraught to try to comprehend what was going on in the mind of amy 16 years old. who soon after that the rookie died. his heart, kidney s, liver were donated to people in need. amy moved back in with her parents to get ready to have ricky s baby. and debbie and rick senior vowed to find out who did this. and that s when the long journey began, long and as you will see very strange. coming up. on the trail of a killer. he actually told people when he saw those helicopters, he said that was me, i did that. when dateline continues.
this gift. but i don t have him anymore. and the break in the case came soon to. a 19-year-old who lived down the street from amy and ricky s place. billy hoffman was arrested for ricky s murder. turns out he bragged to loads of friends about what he s done. he was proud of it. he actually told people there was a girl that he would carpool with, for instance to go to work i came. aren t he, said you saw those helicopters? they were over there. she said yeah. he said, that was. me i did that. so, he did not to the authorities but he already told a number of several people? several people. he had one person who actually helped him get the gun. and another person that helped him get rid of the gun. i mean, he would tell people that he did. this i, mean which was obviously his demise because he got arrested shortly thereafter. billy hoffman was a drug user and small time dealers.