floor. my god help me please. a teenage mom at the center of a murder mystery. fingers were pointed everywhere at everybody. who had a motive to kill? hello and welcome to dateline. a teenage mom and her close circle of friends find themselves at the center of an emotional situation. they were carefree california girl still in high school, but soon their lives would change in a way that if you could ve predicted. here s keith morrison with mean girls. an interesting species a teenage girls. some are sweet. some are not. we call them mean girls. and some in particular as you are about to see have been very mean indeed. i was 1997 when their story began here in the high desert north of l.a.. lancaster, california. there was sara chapin, than 18, a cheerleader and local beauty queen. you are pretty popular kid in high school? i was fairly popular but i was a cheerleader. which helps? yes. amy priest myre, 16, sporty, and ap student who looked like the girl ne
nothing is for dna. nothing missing and nothing in particular about ricky cowles that would lead you to think that he d be a murder victim. he s not the sort of person who would normally be a victim of that kind of crime. unless, maybe, he owed money, drug field or hadn t paid a gambling that. that wasn t anything that was out there. tom harrison and detectives with los angeles county sheriff s homicide worked on the case. we also know the victims lifestyle because that s usually what s going to tell you where to go. and rickie worked all the time with this father. he drink some beer when he d get done working. and he probably smoked some weed every once in a while. but beyond that pretty standard middle class guy. the. he was a hardworking kid. so he wasn t the type of kid who would have some big drug that. but, if the cops didn t have much to go. on that group of girls seems to have some rather shocking ideas. though, of course, reporting this to the cops would be a
this whistle-blower, which still doesn t make sense. even if you discredit the whistle-blower that s like someone saying there was a bank robbery going on and calls the police and the police find the bank robber in the bank and the person who called the cops didn t see me. it doesn t make any sense if you have corroborating evidence else where. even if the attempts to discredit joe biden and his son, even if whatever they re claiming some wrongdoing that took place which has not been found. even if it had been found, what the president did would still be problematic. that doesn t exonerate him. it really isn t clear why they re going with this, other than they think they want to keep their supporters on their side and by discrediting the whistle-blower and by attacking the bidens they think they can do that. the president has been going on in the past few days and unique for him. over the weekend he quoted
and then someone else confessed to the crime. here he is, admitting that he did. something happened with that gun. [inaudible] one more question. i need you to be honest with this question. [inaudible] you didn t dream up this idea. you did this. is that right? [inaudible] john: the cops didn t put the idea into his head, he says. he did it. he served 17 years in prison for a crime he didn t commit. it s hard to believe but it happens repeatedly. one of our audience members served 16 years. jeffrey, can you come up here? to join us up here?
have rogue cops out of control who want to shoot people for no or little reason? the media jumps on those bandwagons. and it s unfair and it shouldn t be they need to wait for the dust to settle. witnesses need to be interviewed. evidence needs to be analyzed and collected. and then if the officer did in fact do something wrong, then he or she should face the consequences. but let s not jump to conclusions and give one side of the story before all the facts are on the table. what we hear more and more is that, well, the cops didn t need to kill him. and we heard that in this wisconsin case that we just discussed, the 19-year-old was unarmed. why did he have to kill him? why couldn t he tase him? why couldn t he do something less than that? the tasers, the night sticks, pepper spray, these are tools at the officer s disposal. many times they don t work. drugs that are being made in people s garages that are not showing up in autopsy reports and drug tests are causing