christina lumm is driving. live derek faxlinger stays behind. danielle is taken to the woods half an hour outside of town. every demon, every ghost in your past, everything you want to say, i m sure we ll all be dead or in prison but you might as well say them right now. travis, he s the strong one. he never breaks down. and nothing could ever hurt travis. and that s what a lot of girls think because he s just so big and macho and that s what i thought about him. he just had that image where you couldn t ruin his image. he had to be that strong person and that s how he was. last girl, she said nothing in this car ride. you know why? she never made it out of the house. she was in the trunk on this ride. in this section of the tape danielle s apparent terror and the use of knife
yes, i do. christina lumm, jim carwile, derek faxlinger, travis and jon cockerell. at approximately 11:00 p.m. we were just hanging out, having fun, you know, drank a little bit and supposed to just be a little get-together. quite frankly, it was one of the most repulsive, sadistic things i ve ever seen in 24 years. within two months all the defendants have been released on bail until their case is resolved. but the prospect of life imprisonment hangs over them. abc 12 s michael rosenfield spent the day in pierre county district court. he joins us for the story. michael. angie, this is the first time we have heard the victim in the case, 19-year-old danielle tyler. the media pounces when
danielle, i want to ask you one last time while we still got time, if you could go back and fix anything in your life, would you? yes. you honestly would. yes. i m not sure who said they wanted me to see this, they wanted me to look at where i was at. someone took my blindfold off. do you know who? i m not positive right now. when your blindfold was removed, what did you see? saw that i was sitting in a grave. travis was talking to them. they were still recording. christina had the camera then. do you really hate me, danielle? i don t hate anybody. even though i was a bitch to you, you don t hate me? no. thanks. well, what do you say, guys? i think it s time. think it s time?
to do it before they did it. i remember where we were sitting when they said it. sarah was told beforehand. i don t know if christina was or not. i wasn t there for that. so why didn t you tell danielle? because she didn t know us as long as the other girls did. she didn t know us as long and as well. and we didn t want to scare her or flip her out and, you know, we wanted to film, so we wanted her permission for that too. if the defendants are claiming that she knew that they were going to film her and do something, but she didn t know what, you still have the problem in this case in a kidnapping crime that if you re going to move somebody, abduct them against their will, then that is the crime. if it starts off that, hey, we re just going film you doing something and then they end up gagging her or binding her and threatening her, that goes beyond what they originally told her. if she does not give them
ended up going back to the house. and after we got back there, we sat around, drank, watched some movies. danielle was there. christina, me, john, jimmy were there. at 11:00 p.m. the mood suddenly changed when travis reached for a camera. what you re about to see is from the unedited tape shot that night picked over for clues ever since it reveals an apparently terrifying ordeal. but is it all that it seems? among the many twists and half truths in this case lies one central mystery, was danielle taylor a willing participant? say hello. hi. okay. i have a question for you, you just said hi. uh-huh. but if you had one thing to say, if this was your last day on earth, what would it be?