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
dad, and they made a mistake that killed my daughter. they have to take responsibility for that. reporter: but it never came to that. inside the county attorney s office, negotiations got underway and all three teens reached plea agreements. they pleaded guilty to drug sale charges in juvenile court and were sentenced to a combination of parole, fines and one weekend a month in a detention facility. you end up negotiating a pretty creative deal for the three high school students. i think so. why d you do that? because we try to be fair. they weren t the ones making money distributing it. this seemed like a one-time deal. i don t want them to suffer, but they need to have some guilt about what they did. it can t be free. reporter: mai and tom were disappointed with the more lenient plea deals the teens negotiated. is it justice? no, not by a long shot for me. no, it s not. tara s parents would say it wasn t enough.
got underway and all three teens reached plea agreements. they pleaded guilty to drug sale charges in juvenile court and were sentenced to a combination of parole, fines and one weekend a month in a detention facility. you end up negotiating a pretty creative deal for the three high school students. i think so. why d you do that? because we try to be fair. they weren t the ones making money distributing it. this seemed like a one-time deal. i don t want them to suffer, but they need to have some guilt about what they did. it can t be free. reporter: mai and tom were disappointed with the more lenient plea deals the teens negotiated. is it justice? no, not by a long shot for me. no, it s not. tara s parents would say it wasn t enough. we were not flip about it. we put a good deal of time into going, are we being too tough? are we being tough enough? but i m convinced they were fair resolutions in the end. reporter: tom went to all