later they looked at the tapes of cara recorded during that drive to the station. did she appear to be emotionally battered or anything? i mean if you watched the in-car camera, she s just kind of casually talking with him about being in the law enforcement community and knowing different people. yaz was on my husband s softball team. it was just kind of, you know, general conversation. she didn t seem so upset in that video. it was around 2:00 a.m. at police headquarters when cara revealed why j.j. was at her place that night even though he d left her, moved out three weeks earlier. it was quite a story. remember, cara met a new man after the breakup with j.j., also a sheriff s deputy. his name was scott, scott holderba holderbaum. for a week or so you are seeing this guy. it was fun. i was giddy. i was like a school kid and nye teacher in the room next to me,
was just furious. you say he assaulted you. what, he raped you? he did things against my will, yes. then cara told the detectives j.j. dressed and drove off, and she called him six times to try to get him to calm down. i called him right away, and i told him how sorry i was and how it s not serious with scott, and that i was going to call it off. and a few minutes later when he came storming back into the house, cara said she knew exactly who it was. i heard him through the door, and he told me he was going to kill me or he was going to make it to where nobody would ever want me again. and he came in the room, and that s when i grabbed the gun. a story which, as you ll see, would be rather important later. after they heard it, the detectives sent cara to the rape crisis center. but the results there only raised more questions, and something she said while there would have them wondering was
i d just run over and say he just texted me. what do i say? the day of the shooting, cara texted scott, a very explicit text complete with intimate selfie, inviting him to come over for a terroriryst. so embarrassing. i had never sent suggestive text messages, let alone body parts. it was mortifying. it would be sad if it wasn t so tragic, but it is tragic. so but he couldn t come? is that what happened? oh, scott was at work. he worked from 7:00 at night until 7:00 in the morning. so, she said, she sent the very same x-rated selfie and a similar invitation to j.j., and j.j., though he was seeing someone else, came right over. would he have thought of it as breakup sex? sure. maybe one last go-around with my girl. nostalgic. there s a country song we don t have to be lonely tonight.
then tomorrow we ll go our separate ways. she said as she and j.j. were in bed together, her phone kept beeping, incoming text messages. chirp chirp. so i ignored it. it was scott. it went off again, and i told him, just ignore it, just ignore it. and he leaned over and grabbed the phone, and he opened it. and he said, who the hell is scott holderbaum? that, cara told police, is when j.j. saw she d sent the same picture, the same invitation to both of them. so he saw kind of like the text message conversation or whatever you call it? i think he saw a photograph. i don t know. and that s when he became violent. he was angry. he assaulted me, told me he was going to kill me, told me he was going to kill scott. he said that at the time he saw this stuff. you ll both be dead by the morning light. you re a [ bleep ] whore, and he