this is not what was supposed to happen. the note was under her blanket. i saw it sticking out and i grabbed it. their daughter was a runaway. i am frantic! because i did not know how to find her. they called police, they searched, and then, a jogger found a red shoe and a pool of blood. here they are, three people at the door. i just started sobbing. they had found her daughter, but not the boy she was with. it was if he had never existed. we couldn t find anything about. months went by, still no trace of lj. and then, a rookie took the case. how did you feel about it? that this was not gonna be your case? i didn t think i was capable of doing this. i cried the first few hours. a teen found dead. we still don t have an answer. a mysterious answer and the missing suspect. they say, lj has killed someone before. and hurts to solve. i have the feeling, you are learning how to become a detective as you go. this is the case that taught me.
veronica and james were grateful to police, but they knew nothing could bring any back. while we support the police department and the attorney s office, and we appreciate all the work they have continued to do. it does not change what happened. february 29th 2016, almost four years of anthony s murder, and christopher s trial was just a week away. he had refused to talk to police, and pleaded not guilty. we were preparing for trial in the following week, and i got a phone call that chris s attorney scheduled a hearing that day. jacqueline, now a sergeant with the utah state police, had barely made it in time. when she got there, she saw chris standing before the judge. the cases that four we are going forward with that? all right. there was no deal offered,
not only was krystal last person and he spoke to, but the pattern of the calls spoke volumes. 30 seconds, here and then it hangs up immediately. immediately one calls the other back. sometimes the call is ignored, sometimes christa s phone is blocked. what do you think it s going? on a looks like a fight. it looks like they re yelling at each other and hanging up. chris had no criminal record, and no eyewitness put him at the scene. there was still the mysterious lj. police could never find. nine any police database, not anywhere. that is until jacqueline knocked on one more door. hey. how is it going? i. are you jack? i m detective her close buddy and predecessor derek johnson was he told them the same story that they have been hearing all along.
gangs? not that she didn t really tell me. maybe she does, because of some person named lj that i have no idea who he is. all i know she told me he was in a gang. i don t know for sure. before he left the interview, showed one more thing with police. he said that algae has killed someone before. she never gave me the name, but she said that she knows that or something like that. that is why she was scared when apparently lj threatened chris to come kill him. you thought it was your killer. we thought algae was involved. did boy crazy and fall for a gang member interim police found a poem she had written to lj, and with it for the first time a name. leighton tanden. but police could not track him down. jacqueline wasn t working the case then, but she remembers crossing paths were spencer at the station. he immediately ten, stop clinched his fifth, his eyes got big, he couldn t take his
she had been killed by a blunt force trauma to the head. veronica and james had thought the rapid pinging of her phone meant she was driving away, now there was no hope of her ever coming home. it s the worst moment of your life at that point, here they are three people at the door? they confirmed that it wasn t any. i think we were in shock. we went into automatic what do you need from us? tell us what you want, you can have, and look at anything. veronica told investigators which he learned from an east on again off again boyfriend chris. and he had run away with a boy named lj. when you talked with lj, how did you talk to? when i talk to him once. okay. actually on the. phone okay. police spoke to chris and his father at their home. and when you talked him on the, phone did he speak with an accent? or did you notice anything distinctive about his voice? no. naturally police also had to ask chris where he was. i was with my grandma, and