he s taking that extra step to make it clear that laura hall does not have to talk to him any further. detective david fugate is watching the interview from an adjoining room. he and lead detective mark gilchrist have been working the case since jennifer cave s body has been found headless and handless in colton pitonyak s bathtub eight days earlier. do you understand what i want you to do? yes, i do. think about that. and when i come back, you can make a decision. absolutely. i interpreted that as false caution on his part. i think it was an effort to make laura hall feel like he was looking out for her. okay. okay what? i ll talk to you. okay. according to laura, she receives an early morning phone call from colton on august 17th, 2005, and accepts an invitation to visit his apartment near the university of texas.
laura hall and jennifer cave. after failing to hear from her daughter, jennifer s mother and her fiancee have forced their way into colton s apartment, encountering a grisly sight in the bathtub. her head was severed and her hands in the hope of removing any dental work or fingerprints. so there s a saying among homicide detectives which i have inscribed on the bracelet on my list, which means let the dead teach the living. our job as homicide detectives are to speak for the dead. they have a family that s got to continue on without them. to pursue that mission, detective fugate explores the
further. detective david fugate is watching the interview from an adjoining room. he and lead detective mark gilchrist have been working the case since jennifer cave s body has been found headless and handless in colton pitonyak s bathtub eight days earlier. do you understand what i want you to do? yes, i do. think about that. when i come back, you can make a decision. absolutely. i interpret thad as false caution on his part. i think it was an effort to make laura hall feel like he was looking out for her. okay what? i ll talk to you. okay. according to laura, she receives an early morning phone call from colton on august 17th, 2005, and accepts an invitation to visit his apartment near the
austin, texas, august 26th, 2005. away from the swirl of activity on 6th street, university of texas undergraduate laura ashley hall finds herself alone in an interrogation room contemplating the possibility of prison. police have already charged laura with hindering apprehension for driving boyfriend colton pitonyak into mexico after he kills his own girlfriend, 21-year-old jennifer cave. investigators also suspect laura of dismembering the corpse in the bathtub, cutting off the head and the hands to prevent identification. didn t say anything about handling the body. i didn t touch the body. didn t say anything about handling things
look, jennifer, there are other girls he knew. every girl he knew was sketched out. laura hall considered colton pitonyak to be her girlfriend and had a glik for jennifer cave. once colton revealed to her the body was in the bathtub, we believe laura hall stabbed the torso and face. and he told me that she came in and shot at him and missed and that he shot her. he said in the head. he also said he shot her in the chest. she s trying at all times to outsmart them. i think she clearly thinks she s the smartest person in the room. it might be important forensically to know did you