there s these messages the night she was murdered, where she was messaging back and forth with jordan, hey, i m gonna go pick up my wallet from your house late at night the night she was killed. so then that was the theory, she wept, she told jordan, thaddeus killed her over it. investigators decided it was time to find out what thaddeus and jordan knew. thaddeus refused to talk to them. but jordan did. we did interview thaddeus girlfriend. she was she said they were home together all night at thaddeus brother s house. we checked out the surveillance video from that neighborhood. we were able to see halee come into the neighborhood when she was there to get her wallet, and we saw halee leave the neighborhood. but we never saw jordan and thad leave. it seemed like thaddeus had a good alibi. heather worried that investigators seemed no closer to making an arrest. i think that the fear was overwhelming. i kept saying, i
night she was murdered, where she was messaging back and forth with jordan, hey, i m gonna go pick up my wallet from your house late at night the night she was killed. so then that was the theory, she wept, she told jordan, thaddeus killed her over it. investigators decided it was time to find out what thaddeus and jordan knew. thaddeus refused to talk to them. but jordan did. we did interview thaddeus girlfriend. she was she said they were home together all night at thaddeus brother s house. we checked out the surveillance video from that neighborhood. we were able to see halee come into the neighborhood when she was there to get her wallet, and we saw halee leave the neighborhood. but we never saw jordan and thad leave. it seemed like thaddeus had a good alibi. heather worried that investigators seemed no closer to making an arrest. i think that the fear was overwhelming. i kept saying, i hope that they make an arrest before her funeral. i don t know how i can stand ther
boyfriend a man named thaddeus rice had dropped the baby down the stairs after tripping over a diaper bag. jordan was crying and we, like, gave her a hug. and i looked at halee. and halee like looked at me and i was, like, what are we gonna do? they did what they could to help. they got jordan some food and went to her apartment to get her some clean clothes. we walked in and halee s, like, do you know what s weird? and i was, like, what? she goes, the diaper bag is sitting right there. like, as soon as you walked into the door, the diaper bag was sitting right by the couch. it didn t look like the diaper bag had fallen down the stairs, like what thad had said. so you re thinking, we might ve just caught thaddeus in a big lie? yeah. after two days on life support, jaxon died. grief-stricken, halee agonized over whether she should tell police about her suspicions. she had said, you know, what if they wanna talk to me? i m like, you talk, you know? bu
halee if she spoke out. thaddeus had a bad reputation around town. halee could be poking a hornet s nest. she absolutely could have. if she starts making accusations. now halee was dead. and heather wondered if her fears had come true had thaddeus killed halee to shut her up? i just felt like you know, he was looking at some pretty serious charges if i had to think of people who had reasons to hurt her, that would have been number one. the day after halee was murdered someone sent heather this snapchat video. it was thaddeus brandishing a gun. you got that video, so that must have really heightened oh, the video was your suspicion. huge. i was positive at that point. he did it. and heather wasn t the only one pointing the finger at thaddeus. halee s friends knew that she d gone to see the baby s mom jordan the night she died. there s these messages the
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 confession, first and foremost. isaiah never said anything like, i killed halee rathgeber. so if isaiah didn t kill halee, who did? the defense pointed to thaddeus rice the man investigators had now charged with the murder of 10-month-old jackson. thaddeus pleased not guilty, had he been worried halee had evidence against him?