owner of a bmw. though he still of down home, which matter not a bit to the girls at the house party. to them, he was tall and good-looking. what else mattered besides that? amy, one of our other friends were fighting over him. they both had a thing for him. right away, boom. she wanted? him when you re a teenage girl, and you see a cute guy, of course. everything falls into place. well, it certainly did. was he crazy about her? yeah. he met her and it was instantly. they were together from the very first night. it didn t seem to matter that amy was still in high school, just a sophomore. they were in love. he took her away on trips, he bauder lots of gifts. but, when we introduce you to his parents, debbie and rick senior, they were not so bold over by amy. she just manipulated him. she was really cute, really
knew. i thought, oh, no, no no. like your whole life is disintegrating right unr your hand. it did. then the paramedics brought ricky to a waiting helicopter. rick senior rode to the hospital with his son. he was comprehending what we were talking about a little bit, but he was hurting pretty hard. i tried to tell him, we ll get okay. we ll get the doctors to try to fix this. and they did try. as the doctors worked on ricky, his family gathered. amy was there, too, of course. but whoever attacked him had done so much damage to his head, to his brain. by august 14th, two days in intensive care, it was clear there was no fixing ricky. he was comatose now, only the machines kept him alive. his family went to his bedside to say their good-byes. amy was beside herself, hardly made sense. and she said, why did you have to go ahead and die? you were supposed to buy me a car for my birthday. i m
talking about breaking up with amy. he says, i want to ke care of the baby. i says, you will. that s your responsibility. but he says, i need a way to tell amy that we can t be what she wants us to be. i need a way to tell her. she wanted to be married. he didn t want to do that. now he had this big problem. just the problem you worried about all along. uh-huh. and then turmoil. rick wy and amy ared. he told her to leave, go back hometo her parents. then, after they spent a weekend apart, thinking it over, something changed. i sat on the porch with him, and we had a beer and cigarette. and he said, you know, i m so excited for our life now, i ve just thought about everything, and everything is just going to be fine, we re going to make it work. ricky was happy. ricky really was looking we forward to being a daddy. because a lot of guys 20 or 21 years old who just met a girl and got her pregnant right away would not
thinking, did i just hear that? you were supposed to buy me a car? odd, of course, but the cowless were with far too distraught to try to figure out what was going on in the mind of amy, 16 and pregnant. it was soon after that ricky died. his heart, kidneys and liver were donated to people in need. amy moved back in with her parents to get ready to have ricky s baby. and debbie and rick senior vowed to find out who did this. that s when a long journey began. long, and as you ll see, very strange. coming up, on this trail of a killer. he said, that was me. i did that. when dateline continues. i did that when dateline continues