that bothered him. jake told police that the isaiah he knew had always been a standup guy. but recently he d heard stories about isaiah stealing from people. his roommate was telling me, he owes us rent, he stole my tv. and i said, he did what? oh my gosh. so he was on a downward spiral. something was going on. isaiah had been borrowing money, too. halee was one friend who d helped him out. she mentioned that she had loaned him $600 to pay his rent. that s a lot of money. but apparently not enough. me and halee had been hanging out. and she goes, it looks like someone had taken money out of my bank account. and she says, hang on i can pull up a picture. and she pulled up a picture of the check and it said, to isaiah hagan for groceries. and it was $300. halee being halee, she told
friends she d forgiven isaiah after he promised to pay her back. if you want to take a seat over there. sure. three days after halee s death, police decided it was time to talk to isaiah themselves. he sat there in this chair and i sat here. what was his demeanor like? this is a this is a big case. this is a young guy. almost surprisingly calm. just very, very quiet. and didn t show much emotion at all. isaiah told investigators the same story he d told jake. he d picked halee up at her apartment and then dropped her off at that local park. and she s, like, you can go if you want to, and i was, like, are you sure? like, is everything okay. she s said, yeah, everything s fine.
at the time that her phone came back on and started traveling it was nowhere near isaiah hagan. in fact, he was in a different county. so he could not have been pinging off the same tower that she was. which according to the defense meant someone else had to have halee s cell phone. but the prosecution insisted isaiah had the phone all along. it looks like it powers back up at the soccer field, but we ve since come to the theory that when you power your phone up, it hits on the last tower that it was on when it powered down and so that explains the reason why it looked like it was travelin . is that exact science, or is that the theory? that s a theory. but we have found absolutely zero evidence that there was anybody else involved other than isaiah hagan. the prosecution and the police, they believe that she was shot before isaiah left the soccer field, that his alibi doesn t hold up, because she was already dead.
where she met and started dating isaiah hagan, a shy, fellow waiter. he seemed really nice to me. and he seemed to let halee do her own thing, which i liked. how did you feel when you saw them together? did they seem like a good match? yeah. i mean, they weren t lovey-dovey at all, which i prefer, to be honest. he joked with us. he actually took an interest in talking to us, which is more than i can say for a lotta guys. the romance didn t last long, though the two remained good friends. besides, 20-year-old halee was laser focused on her schoolwork. on a sunday in late april 2017 she was home, studying for a big exam the next day. just hours later, the sun was rising and halee s mom heather was starting her morning. i was reading facebook, having coffee on a monday morning. just sitting on my porch and i scroll across a news article. it was shocking. police had found a body in a soccer field near newburgh. it says it s a young female, so i immediately start looking for t
though there was one thing that was plain to see isaiah s lies. right there in the interrogation video. the prosecution played the entire nine and half hours of it to the jury. i think anytime somebody says something that the state contends isn t true, you have to try to understand the dynamic of where it was said. phillips noted that detectives questioned isaiah aggressively for hours, they used profanity, invaded his space, intimidated him. i m supposed to believe a stack of maybe, he theorized, isaiah simply lied to make them go away. were you worried though the jury is going to hear lies, and that s just gonna trump everything else? this guy s lying. why should i believe him that he didn t kill her? that s a hard one to overcome. but we had no