let me ask you a question, you re not setting me up, are you? i ve never told anybody. i know. i m just i m getting this weird vibe. i ve never told anybody. swear to me that you re not setting me up, because i m scared to death right now. he said, are you setting me up? and that s when things got really scary. but she kept her cool. ok, then we ll stop talking about it. how s that? and they did. and then, about ten minutes later, shane came back with just what the detectives needed to hear. to answer to your question, i am very, very remorseful. very. i can t tell you. you re so stupid. i know. i was angry at him. i made the wrong decision. there is nothing you can do, you know. she made him so confident and comfortable that he came back to the subject and left us with what we really needed at that point. it came out of his own mouth. they picked him up the next day. took him downtown, asked
is there any more? can you get me any more? and ultimately he started talking about a motive. and that s when the whole story took a turn into the twilight zone. he told me that it was concerning shane ragland being blackballed from a fraternity. what d you think when you heard that? that s a stupid reason to kill somebody. the fraternity in question was sigma alpha epsilon, sae. detective evans looked through sae s records, and there it was, a pledge list with shane s name crossed off. and then it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed, is because it was something this weird. evans went to one of trent s closest friends and asked, had he heard of this guy shane ragland? and he said, shane ragland. and then i could just sort of see it at that point on his face, you know? and i let him tell the story. a story about an unpleasant little incident. shane was among the freshmen pledging the sae fraternity. and one day, as th
her on the stand. his attorney will come along and say, she s full of it. yeah, and in this particular case it s, yeah. you know what? that in itself is not gonna do it, nor should it. we re still in a situation where this has to come from him. him, meaning shane ragland. evans told her they had to find a way to get shane to admit on tape what he did. otherwise, what jury would buy such a ludicrous motive for murder? there was only one way, he told her, she d have to wear a wire. she wasn t very happy with that obviously. i should think not. yeah. she asked me if i could spell anonymous. but, he said, she came
evans went to one of trent s closest friends and asked, had he heard of this guy shane ragland? and he said, shane ragland. and then i could just sort of see it at that point on his face, you know? and i let him tell the story. a story about an unpleasant little incident. shane was among the freshmen pledging the sae fraternity. and one day, as they were getting to know the campus they went into trent s dorm and trent was there and on the wall was a calendar of some sorority girls. when shane saw that calendar, right away he pointed to one of the girls pictures and he bragged that he d had sex with her. what shane didn t know is that girl was the girlfriend of the president of the fraternity. trent did not like that one bit. got word to the sae
to come from him. him, meaning shane ragland. evans told her they had to find a way to get shane to admit on tape what he did. otherwise, what jury would buy such a ludicrous motive for murder? there was only one way, he told her, she d have to wear a wire. she wasn t very happy with that obviously. i should think not. yeah. she asked me if i could spell anonymous. but, he said, she came around. she wanted to do what s right all along, she just would like to do that without getting herself killed doing it. but she would only proceed on one condition. i had to prove why she was gonna be safe. i had to prove how we were gonna do this. it wasn t enough for me to say, oh, don t worry. he won t have a gun. we ll look for bulges. so, they came up with a plan. gave her a cover story to protect her, a fictitious job, a phony address. and then, casually, she resumed contact with shane, a few emails. a little flirty at times, on both ends people sometimes hear from their