christian, his new girlfriend america and. her ex, pedro bravo. a motive as old as time, the prosecutor said. mr. bravo s plan, was not just to lower christian agular. that s just part of it. he s got to reunite with erica. the prosecutor painted a picture not just of a teen depressed over the breakup and obsessed with getting erica back. and his star witness was the very objective pages of session, . a very nervous erika. i did want to see him, i didn t , when i just wanted him gone. with pedro barely looking at her, erica address some of the nonstop messages that pedro at center. i came all this way, and i still love you like everything has happened. and that maybe i m stupid, but i can t help the feeling. and i m so sorry. i m so sorry. on the stand asking erika to read out loud sections of pedro s journal. thoughts that would show the jury just how fixated on her he was. i can win her back.
pair found out the paper was the last one to see him the previous day. and he walks me through, once he meets christian. they go to the pharmacy because christian needs a flu shot. then they go back to pedro s car which is parked on campus. then at that point they go to best buy. a pretty routine afternoon. until, pedro told him, they decided to do something a little impulsive. he tells me at one point they said stop to pick up a hitchhiker. pedro told officer that they drove around for a bit. eventually the hitchhiker was like, i want to get out of the car. and christian was like, i want to get on the car to. just pull over. and that s where they did, near this auto body shop. a full miles off campus. that body shop raised alarms for officer peck. it had some rough spots. some of the area is known to be a high drug area. has some gang activity as well. so that kind of concerned me. where they up there specifically for that reason? or, in the process of christian
and sit there for another prolonged period of time. when he leaves that parking lot, christian aguilar is dead. he murders him in the car. forensics confirm that was christians blood that investigators had found in pedro s as to the. and they discovered even more intriguing evidence in the trunk. an empty gatorade bottle, caked with residue from a sleeping aid and antihistamine. putting those two combinations together in a large quantity would cause someone to lose consciousness. once christian was, that pedro had to dispose of his friends body. and the tale of how that happened, the prosecution said. was told by pedro s phone. his iphone had been on airplane mode for more than five hours that night. but, investigators could see that pedro had used an app, the flashlight app, for 48 minutes. he s using the flashlight, he s very increases body. and the prosecution had yet another piece of physical evidence that he said tied pedro beyond a reasonable doubt, to the murder.
that christian and erica were dating until that day in the police station. do you know christian? yeah. how do you know? him and his girlfriend. and now the jury was about to hear from pedro himself, and only pedro, the sole witness for the defense. and when he took the stand, the jurors didn t see some hulking cycle killer, but a pale, intelligent, love sick boy in the tiny suit. i graduated from dorlan cadamy yes. any distinctions? i graduated mana cum laude. though he didn t , he did concede another key element of the states case. he was desperate to rekindle his relationship with erica. i still love her, and i was still very and that murdered with her and i really want to get back together with her. and when it became clear
friends wanted to be gators, having it as a top school, only christian got in. erica headed to a different college in gainesville, santa fe. while pedro planned to take classes near his home in miami. and, as graduation neared. more life decisions. erica broke it off with pedro. she didn t want a long distance relationship. after all, they were just 18 years old. the big wide world was ahead of them both. i wanted him to find someone and fall in love with them, and live alone normal life. i just didn t think he was the one for me. they were barely unpacked. classes just starting, when a sudden change of plans. pedro didn t want to be left behind in miami after all. as the fall semester started, he showed up in gainesville as his friend robert remembered. he just visited and ended up signing the lease and enrolling for classes at santa fe college. maybe there was life after hogwarts, for pedro, erica, and christian. could the friendship be renewed? survive a five hour moves up t