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 annie s case. so they called draper p.d., 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 i ve seen her over there. there, at the home where a man named daniel ferry used to live. danny ferry is a guy known to law enforcement. yes. 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. 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 ferry s home on the night annie was killed. joanna also said the girl showed up with someone police had been
being red? pants and shoes and a shirt, like white, white and red. the shirt was white and red? yeah. her shoes. shoes had white laces, and we were tying them. then, joanna said, daniel, l.j. and v wrapped the unconscious girl in a blue tarp, 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. joanna s story rang true, leading derek johnson to believe the mystery girl was annie and daniel ferry was her killer. did you see blood on the carpet? yeah. was it carpet or hard floor? it was carpet. okay. positive it was carpet. now the search team found the carpet in ferry s house had been ripped up and the walls were freshly painted.
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 ferry s home would push the case over the finish line. and then the blood work came back and it was whoops. blood work came back and the samples were negative for blood. not only were the samples not annie s blood, it wasn t even blood at all. a major blow to the investigation. didn t mean he s not good for the crime? it doesn t mean that he s not good for the crime. it just led us to believe that, okay, it didn t happen here, at the ferry residence. so ferry might be good for this thing, but, boy, you re just not getting there? yeah. the only bright spot, daniel ferry wasn t getting out of jail. he was also being investigated for an unrelated kidnapping and assault case in a neighboring town. so he s on ice while you
home to foster home before she was adopted by her case worker veronica. annie s 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 didn t go to, this is not what was supposed to happen. 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, didn t you? yeah. daniel ferry? yeah. what was his nickname? he used two. one was joker and the other was little joe. little joe. l.j.? yeah. maybe their witness was
they continued to investigate ferry. months went by. lead detective derek johnson was promoted to sergeant, which meant jaclyn moore s dream of making 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. 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. but when she checked 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. and she well knew the physical evidence wasn t there either. none of the dna came back saying annie was ever a friend