invites a friend to sleep over. the next morning, she s dead. oh, my god! i don t feel a pulse. what in the world happened? how could this be? turned out this was no ordinary slumber party. we know from their phones that this was a planned event. they had discussed it. they took pictures. stories surfacing of a dangerous experiment. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it. an experiment that just might tempt other teens. we know it s entered our high school. why the clues in this mystery could save a life in your family. you have a lot of people watching dateline that need to talk to their kids. welcome to dateline. parents always worry there are so many dangers out in the world a teenager can face. but at a slumber party in your own basement? how could something deadly have found its way there? taken a bright, talented girl. and could it happen in your town, to your child? here s kate snow with one small dose. they re killing our k
a bright and beautiful teen invites a friend to sleep over. the next morning, she s dead. oh, my god! i don t feel a pulse. what in the world happened? how could this be? turned out this was no ordinary slumber party. we know from their phones that this was a planned event. they had discussed it. they took pictures. stories surfacing of a dangerous experiment. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it. an experiment that just might tempt other teens. we know it s entered our high school. why the clues in this mystery could save a life in your family. you have a lot of people watching dateline that need to talk to their kids. welcome to dateline. parents always worry there are so many dangers out in the world a teenager can face. but at a slumber party in your own basement? how could something deadly have found its way there? taken a bright, talented girl. and could it happen in your town, to your child? here s kate snow with one small d
dangerous experiment. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it. an experiment that just might tempt other teens. we know it s entered our high school. why the clues in this mystery could save a life in your family. you have a lot of people watching dateline that need to talk to their kids. welcome to dateline. parents always worry there are so many dangers out in the world a teenager can face. but at a slumber party in your own basement? how could something deadly have found its way there? taken a bright, talented girl. and could it happen in your town, to your child? here s kate snow with one small dose. they re killing our kids and we need to do something about it. reporter: it s a new threat. she was saying, erin, your best friend died, and she kept yelling that over and over. reporter: and these teens found out about it the hard way. it s made out to seem like one of those, you re not really going to see it in your life kind of
friends knew that her parents didn t. tara was planning to experiment that night with lsd. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it, to try the drug. to try lsd? uh-huh. tara s friends say their group, including tara, didn t usually drink or do drugs. as far as going to parties and drugs and alcohol, it wasn t really something that was like her. but still, this was high school and they weren t exactly shocked that tara wanted to try something illegal. i told her that s a stupid idea. and you left it at that? yeah, and she didn t really want to be talked out of it. i think everyone kind of knew it was kind of a bucket list type thing for her. i mean, she was really into the beatles and they obviously talk about that kind of thing in their
at that time, i was so happy. i can t turn her down. i say sure. and the girl that came over was somebody you knew? we didn t know her as well as her close, core of girlfriends, but tara knew her pretty well. they would just sit there and watch scary movies or whatever. chat and talk. and eat junk food. it made me very secure knowing that they were in the lower level of our home, hanging out together. where they had some space from us, and yet, they re safe. reporter: but there was something some of tara s friends knew that her parents didn t. tara was planning to experiment that night with lsd. the main purpose of having the sleepover was to try it, to try the drug. to try lsd? uh-huh. tara s friends say their group, including tara, didn t usually drink or do drugs. as far as going to parties and drugs and alcohol, it wasn t really something that