but the pregnancy test was negative, and annie was now on birth control. why would she sly about being why would she lie about be g why would she sly about being p ? even more alarming was where annie said she was going. by the time you read this note, i ll be on my way to california. please don t try and look for me because i don t want to be found. the first thing we did is we called the police. and then the second person i called was chris. 14-year-old chris bagshaw. annie had brought him over to the house a few times. he was kind of quiet. i kind of took it as the, all right, i m here with my girlfriend s parents, i want to make sure they don t kill me, so. was he in and out of the picture for her as the boyfriend of the moment? mm-hmm. his stock would rise and fall? yep, she was crazy about him. chris told veronica he didn t know where annie was, but he had potentially significant information. chris told veronica she was running away with a guy named l.j. we w
of other people that all verify she was there, danny. okay. show me a picture then. you showed him a picture of annie. yep. brittany? is her name brittany? no, it s annie. detectives thought daniel was lying, and they were done playing around. what if i told you she s dead? i didn t do it. what the [ bleep ]? if you guys think i did this, i do want a lawyer. okay. because there s only we re done. the only thing that is shaking me we re done daniel, because i think you did it. well, if you think i did it, then you ve got the wrong guy, man. for real. good luck. find the right guy. derek was confident he had. they booked daniel for annie s murder. l.j., whoever he was, still hadn t turned up. but detective johnson still thought he had wrapped up his first homicide. all he needed was the lab to confirm that the blood found in the home was annie s, but then the lab called, and everything unraveled. coming up i cried for two hours.
she wanted to be a therapist, just like veronica. she even wanted her new family to adopt more kids. well, what about this other girl, mom? she s there, she s really having a hard time, i think we should bring her home. she was really becoming your daughter in a way, huh? veronica eventually divorced and remarried. she and her new husband james settled here in riverton, utah, a quiet suburb of salt lake city. annie had james wrapped around her finger. i took her with me to help me pick out her mother s valentine s day gift. there was a shoe store right across the way. she had a way with me. she could talk me into just about anything. one of them was her favorite shoes she found, she was so excited about them. they were a red pair of shoes. a few weeks later, march 10th, 2012, annie, now 15, was watching her brothers while veronica and james went out for dinner. then when we came home, everything seemed the same. i mean, annie had changed from running around the house in sho
but it wasn t familiar at all. a police officer came and took a report. james, meanwhile, called up the gps function on annie s cell phone. it put her around the golf course around riverton, within a mile of that, around the bridge area. the bridge at the jordan river, just a couple of miles from their home, a place joggers, horseback riders, frequent during the day, and young lovers at night. james, veronica, and the officer watched as annie s phone pinged across the computer screen in realtime. you re watching her move? yes. it moved so fast. our immediate assumption was, okay, she s getting in a car. so this is a hot pursuit, looking for your girl. yep. and then the signal just stopped. veronica drove to a walmart near where they tracked annie s phone. and i have her picture on my cell phone, and i m showing to it the people that are sitting at the front, the greeters, going, have you seen this girl? are you collected or are you a wreck while all this is going
their jane doe, dressed in a red and white plaid shirt, looked to be about 20 years old. her features possibly asian. and obviously she had been murdered. leading the investigation was a young detective named derek johnson. tell me about him. right when he came into the academy, he sat next to me and started teasing me. and the rest of the class time, we just harassed each other and laughed and giggled all day. jaclyn moore met derek at the police academy. she and derek hit it off immediately. a detective spot came open, and we both applied, and he got it. did you think, rats? yes. he got it, i didn t? yes. now derek had caught his first case, also the first homicide the town of draper have seen in years. someone called police just after 10:00 this morning to report they had come across a gruesome scene. by the time veronica and james saw the reports, annie had been missing nearly 20 hours.