We were scared. Im starting to believe that there might be more to this than just a missing person. Where was he . Did someone have something to hide . There was under the car. A lovers triangle, a circle of friends. Was one of them a killer . This was planned. This was on purpose. How could you do something so horrific . Hello, and welcome to dateline. Highschoolers erika freeman, pedro, and christin aguilar. Were like three peas in a pod. After graduation, they even picked colleges in the same city. Then, one of them went missing. Last seen in a dangerous area of town. As the hours pass, the mystery deepened. Then, investigators uncovered a hidden truth. One they believed might be a motive for murder. He is Dennis Murphy with circle of friends. Remember going away to college . Maybe your first time away from home, there were new friends waiting to be made, the tingling of possibilities. Oh god, the first case was amazing. Sometimes disappointments when things did not work out. I thou
scarlettjenkinson and eddie ratcliffe, the killers of brianna ghey. distressing. the two had been close, trusted friends, at school together, untiljenkinson was temporarily moved to birchwood high where scarlett became friends with brianna. in terms of scarlett, there were no red flags that came up. i think sitting and listening in court to the messages between eddie and scarlett was very, very surreal, and trying to imagine that anyone would talk in that way, plan in that way, and for it to be a child that you ve actually met is even more shocking. brianna s friend had dark fantasies she shared with ratcliffe. she wrote a letter planning how they d attack her. he smuggled a hunting knife out of his home. unaware, on a saturday afternoon, brianna went to meet them. they walked to the park and murdered her in cold blood, stabbing her more than two dozen times before running off across the fields, leaving her to die alone. they were arrested shortly after the attack and conv
respectively in a highly unusual move, the judge in the case lifted the usual anonymity given to young people, allowing brianna s colours to be named. you may find some of the content disturbing in this report. scarlettjenkinson and eddie ratcliffe, the colours of brianna ghey. the two had been close, trusted friends, school together untiljenkinson was temporarily moved to a different school where scarlett became friends with brianna. in terms of skill, they were no red flags. i brianna. in terms of skill, they were no red flags. brianna. in terms of skill, they were no red flags. i think sitting and listening were no red flags. i think sitting and listening in were no red flags. i think sitting and listening in court were no red flags. i think sitting and listening in court to - were no red flags. i think sitting and listening in court to the - and listening in court to the messages between eddie and scarlett was very, very surreal and trying to imagine that anyone wo
afternoon in broad daylight, they stabbed her so brutally she stood no chance. leaving her to die, they ran off across these fields and with across these fields, and with blood still on his hands, one of the teenage murderers caught the bus home. now the two children who butchered brianna can be identified. scarlettjenkinson was 15 at the time. sentenced today, the court heard she enjoyed the killing and remains dangerous. scarlett, i have concluded that the primary motivation for brianna s murder was your deep desire to kill. the messages reveal your fantasies and show your sadistic motives. brianna s murder was exceptionally brutal. eddie ratcliffe brought the hunting knife to kill brianna and had different reasons for targeting her. you dehumanised brianna by constantly referring to her as it and your messages about wanting to see if she would scream like a man or a girl show your own interests in killing brianna link to your hostility towards her as a transgender person