night as he was poorly dressed for the weather. he had a t-shirt and a pair of jeans and. he froze to death. that was the cause of death. that was the cause of death. they said the injuries were hardly life-threatening. if anything the defense argued, was the alcohol in his system that made him more vulnerable to hypothermia. what about the negative tox results? the kid was not correct? he lived for three or four hours after he went into the woods. the body is metabolizing. absolutely. how drunk could pravin a ben if he made the phone call to his friend telling her do not hang up? he s having a sensible phone conversation with a friend in chicago. he is able to dial his phone. you are assuming this lady was not on speed dial. the defense said the prosecution s case added to a bunch of nothing. there was no proof of a beating in zero evidence of a robbery.
he headed toward the cars? are used as phone to call for help? we was a phone? it was found to his right side. lovely was more convinced than ever that pravin s death was a result of foul play which is why she was so surprised when six weeks after his death, the official autopsy report came back and confirm what police had originally said. pravin died of hypothermia. the report did note some abrasions on his body but said there was no significant trauma. one report has one report not needing a band-aid a one blunt force trauma. that s a time i thought i m in the twilight zone. there was something else in the autopsy report. something big. no alcohol had been founded pravin s blood. didn t that undermine the theory that he had gotten lost because he was drunk? it certainly got the attention of the police pathologist who wrote strangely tax is negative. no reason for pravin s bizarre
i felt a connection with her. i thought, i can tell her anything. lovely confided how hurt she was by all the talk of pravin drinking. she was completely shattered. she just said this is not my kid. something is wrong. pravin s cousin ashley had already given lovely his version of events. was pravin drinking that night? was he drinking too much? no. what about reports of rowdy behavior? that is how pravin is in general. friends and family posted videos of his boisterous behavior. he is intergenic. it was hard for lovely not to wonder if he was just telling her what she wanted to hear. until monica interviewed three other students on a radio show who were at the party that night. this is our second show we ve done on this particular issue. explained from what they had
ride that i. he was the last person known to have seen pravin alive. puts the character of this kid? what did you learn? at face value, typical southern illinois guy. middle-class family. his name is gaege bethune. just like pravin, he was 19 years old. just like lovely, his mom was also a nurse. gaege was very laid back. a good kid. a lot of dreams and hopes. penny said gaege have fell sorry for pravin walking in the bitter cold. did not have a codon and as gaege free ride. gaege said his. she said gaege had no idea pravin was missing until days later when he saw story about it on tv. he immediately went to his father and they went and took care of things. a statement taken from gaege bethune. he told police he was upset when he heard pravin was
he said those tweets were posted almost one year before pravin s death. they were crude and stupid but that s all they were. words and did not prove anything. they hadn t even been allowed into trial by the judge. what s more dashed when pravin was found, he had his wallet. he had $24 in his wallet. the defense attorney made a bold mood. he called gaege to the stand and it did not go well. gaege s first at cross- examination was tough. shocked. miracle. dream come true. because gaege did something monica had never imagined. he admitted punching pravin and demonstrated to the jurors how he had done it. lovely said, he said it. i hit him right here. she said that s all i need. lovely had fought for years to get her some s case heard inside a courtroom. after nine days of testimony,