Payden Allen was a teen from Texas who would shoot and kill his father
According to court documents Payden Allen was suppose to show up at a family event however when he was a no show relatives would ask police to perform a wellness check. However a neighbor would discover the body of Brandon Allen who had been fatally shot in the head
Payden Allen would be arrested and charged with Capital murder. Payden would be found guilty to of murder and be sentenced to 47 years in prison
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Where is Payden Allen now
Payden Allen is currently incarcerated at the Briscoe Unit in Texas
When is Payden Allen release date
Payden Allen current release date is 2069 however he is eligible for parole in 2045
Payden Allen Found Guilty
A 23-year-old man from Anton has been found guilty of the 2017 murder of his father, Brandon Allen. The jury deliberated for nearly five hours.
The murder trial began on Wednesday for Payden Shaine Allen. He was identified as the suspect after authorities were called to his father’s home near Anton. Brandon Allen was expected at a family gathering in San Antonio and never showed up, so the family called authorities for a welfare check. On June 10, 2017, police found his body in the living room. He had been shot.
Payden Allen was 19 at the time. Police interviewed him and he confessed to the shooting. He was taken into custody and charged with murder.
After the arrest of her son, Payden’s mother released a statement saying he suffers from multiple autistic tendencies.
In trial proceedings that began March 9, 2022, the jury observed testimony regarding Allen’s mental state and his ability to know right from wrong.
Two psychologists told the jury, based on tests, Payden does have an intellectual disability, including autistic patterns. During interviews with psychologists, Payden admitted he was in fear of his father, telling them his father caused him to lose consciousness on five occasions.
Payden’s caregivers stated before the shooting, his behavior became “aggressive,” including yelling and at one point hiding weapons.
Closing statements started Tuesday, March 15.
The sentencing phase started just before 5 p.m. He faces up to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Victor Alas was fifteen years old and Jose Reyes was sixteen years old when they would murder a sixteen year old girl in Texas
According to court documents Victor Alas and Jose Reyes would lure Corriann Cervantes to an abandoned home where they would sexually assault, torture and then murder the sixteen year old. Corriann Cervantes had an upside down pentagon carved into her stomach
Victor Alas and Jose Reyes would soon be arrested and prosecuted as adults. The pair would receive automatic life sentences for capital murder however due to their age are able to apply for parole after 40 years.
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Where is Victor Alas now
Victor Alas is currently incarcerated at the Stiles Unit in Texas
Where is Jose Reyes now
Jose Reyes is currently incarcerated at the Robertson Unit in Texas
When is Victor Alas release date
Victor Alas is serving a life sentence however is eligible for parole in 2054
When is Jose Reyes release date
Jose Reyes is serving a life sentence however is eligible for parole in 2054
Victor Alas And Jose Reyes Sentencing
The second suspect in a grisly murder case was found guilty Friday in what has been described as a satanic ritual killing of a 15-year-old Houston girl.
Victor Alas and Jose E. Reyes were convicted for strangling, stabbing and sexually assaulting Corriann Cervantes last year. They also carved an upside-down cross in her abdomen.
Following a week-long trial in District Judge Brock Thomas’ court, a jury found 17-year-old Victor Alas guilty, giving him an automatic life sentence. During his trial, prosecutors shared a video of Alas confessing to strangling Cervantes.
Later in the trial, Victor Alas testified, an unusual move. “Alas chose to take the stand and say he gave a false statement to law enforcement at the location and that he did not take part in the murder, but the jury saw through that,” prosecutor John Jordan said.
Defense attorney Mario Madrid said Alas’ confession was “very difficult to overcome.”
“It was a difficult case with overwhelming evidence,” Madrid said. “We fought hard but we certainly respect the jury’s verdict.”
The slaying was investigated as a satanic ritual killing because of the cross carved into Cervantes’ abdomen and objects found at the scene.
We’ve always believed that this crime was evil and both people could be easily convicted,” Jordan said. “(Reyes’) jury got a lot more evidence of satanic issues.”
Reyes was convicted last year of capital murder after prosecutors shared letters he sent from jail stating the devil was directing him during the murder. Witnesses testified that Reyes bragged about the slaying as a means of selling his and Alas’ souls to the devil.
Witnesses in Reyes’ trial testified that, on the night of the slaying, the three teens were at a party where they were drinking, smoking marijuana and taking Xanax. Following the party, the group reported left together and began to have consensual sex in a vacant apartment in Clear Lake.
Cervantes was strangled with a belt, beat in the head with a porcelain toilet lid and stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver. Plastic rods from the window blinds in the apartment were used to gouge out her eyes and then to sexually assault her.
In order to reach a capital murder conviction, prosecutors needed to prove he intentionally killed while also committing a felony or causing serious injury.
Corriann Cervantes Was Brutally Slain
Murder in the name of Satan is not new or as uncommon as we would like to think. However, when we hear about the kinds of acts that are typical in satanic ritual, the details are so brutal that they are almost impossible to fathom. What happened to Corriann Cervantes is no exception.
Corriann was a 15 year old girl who liked to listen to music and take selfies, just like any other teenager. Reports indicate that she also went to church. In February of 2014 her life was brutally cut short by two boys who went to the same alternative school as Corriann in Clear Lake, Texas. The 17 year old boy, Jose Reyes, had already sold his soul to the devil, and devil worship items were subsequently found in his room. His friend, Victor Alas, 16, also wanted to sell his soul to the devil, and he asked Reyes if he could accomplish that by murdering someone. Reyes said yes. Together they decided they would perform a heinous satanic ritual in which they would rape, bludgeon, and mutilate a beautiful girl as an initiation rite for Alas.
The crime began Tuesday evening when Corriann Cervantes decided to go out. She went to a friend’s house where she drank and smoked marijuana. Reyes and Alas were also at this party, and they led Corriann to a vacant apartment. Reyes stabbed her while he had sex with her. When she tried to get away they dragged her back in, and he hit her over the head with a toilet tank lid, which broke the lid in half.
Consensual sex turned into a gruesome rape. The two boys stabbed her in the face and body “dozens of times” with a screwdriver. They also bludgeoned her further with the toilet tank lid and an ashtray. While she begged for her life they gouged her eye out. When Reyes bragged about the murder to an individual identified as Miranda Leal, he told her Corriann cried out, “Why are you doing this to me?” But they continued to torture her. They also strangled her and carved an upside-down cross into her abdomen.
A few days after the murder a passerby noticed the door to the apartment open. When he went in he found Corriann’s disfigured body. Jose Reyes and Victor Alas had placed religious objects around her body. They had bashed in her head. Later during the autopsy, the coroner found pieces of porcelain embedded in her face.
After the murder, Reyes told two people explicit details about what they had done to Corriann, and someone reported him to the police. Miranda Leal said that he laughed and smiled while he boasted about the gruesome acts. She didn’t take it seriously, because it seemed just too bizarre for her believe. Once the police arrested Reyes, he confessed to the interrogators. He explained that he was just doing what the devil told him to do, and that the devil watched the whole time they were doing it. Later in court, Reyes smiled for the cameras.
Kristina Adkins was thirteen years old from Michigan when she would murder her Grandmother
According to court documents Kristina Adkins would steal her Grandfather’s morphine pills and use them to poison and kill her Grandmother Virginia Bentley
Needless to say Kristina Adkins was caught pretty quick and would be charged as an adult for the murder
In the end Kristina Adkins would plead guilty to murder and be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole until 2037
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MDOC Number: 706987 SID Number: 3576977W Name: KRISTINA LYNN ADKINS Racial Identification: White Gender: Female Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Height: 5′ 3″ Weight: 168 lbs. Date of Birth: 08/23/1992 (31)
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Kristina Adkins is currently incarcerated at the Huron Valley Complex
When is Kristina Adkins release date
Kristina Adkins is serving a life sentence however she is eligible for parole in 2037
Kristina Adkins Sentencing
A 16-year-old girl who admitted poisoning her grandmother at their Addison-area home two years ago was taken to a women’s prison Friday to begin a life sentence as an adult.
“I really am sorry. I can sit here and tell you I’m sorry over and over again and it won’t make any difference,” a tearful Kristina Adkins said at her sentencing hearing in Lenawee County Probate Court. “I not only took someone from you that you loved, but someone I loved,” she said to family and friends in the courtroom.
Kristina Adkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder three weeks ago in the same courtroom. She said she intended to kill her grandmother, 53-year-old Virginia Bentley, by slipping her grandfather’s morphine pills into capsules of Bentley’s medication. She died at her Rollin Township home on Aug. 1, 2006.
The life prison term handed down by Judge Margaret M.S. Noe was a stronger punishment than Ireland “Buzz” Bentley?Jr. said he expected his step-granddaughter to receive.
“I think what the court did was right,” Buzz Bentley said. But nothing can make up for the loss, he added.
“No matter what they give her, my wife got a worse sentence,” he said. “They say there’s going to be closure at the end of this, but I don’t feel any closure. I still don’t have my wife.”
Why Kristina Adkins would kill the woman who raised her since she was an infant remains unclear.
“Nobody knows but her,” said Buzz Bentley. The only conflict he knew of at the time was his wife’s plan to homeschool Adkins and her older sister because of behavior problems they were having.
“Things are not like they seem to be, that’s all I can say,” said Doris Dupuie, Virginia Bentley’s mother and Kristina’s great-grandmother.
Dupuie said she has been visiting Kristina Adkins regularly at the Maurice Spear Campus since she was charged in December with murder. They were not allowed to discuss the case during the visits, however, and Dupuie said she does not understand why Kristina would do what she confessed to doing.
A letter Kristina Adkins sent her included a drawing of a heart with the name Virginia Bentley and the dates of her birth and death. She also drew a rose inside the heart, Dupuie said, and wrote next to it, “Please foregive me.”
Dupuie said she had the drawing laminated and planned to place it Friday on her daughter’s grave, she said, as Kristina Adkins asked in the letter.
“She wanted her mom, her grandmother, to know she didn’t really mean it,” Dupuie said.
Defense attorney Michael McFarland of Adrian said Kristina Adkins never gave a direct explanation for wanting to kill her grandmother.
“I think it was cumulative of her entire life experience,” McFarland said.
At the sentence hearing, McFarland told the court that Kristina had a troubled childhood that included mental health problems and drug abuse by the time she was 13. McFarland said she also told psychologists about both mental and physical abuse in the Bentley home.
He said she initially intended to kill her grandmother with the morphine tablets but changed her plan to only keeping her ill and in bed by continuing to put morphine in her medicine.
“Kristina is not the same individual she was at the age of 13,” McFarland told the court. “She has very deep sorrow, sincere sorrow I believe, for destroying their family.”
McFarland argued she be sentenced as a juvenile or at least assigned to a juvenile facility to the age of 21 before serving any additional time in an adult prison.
“She wants to change her life. She wants to come out of the system a better person so she can give back,” McFarland said.
Kristina told the court she is taking responsibility for what she did and is dealing with her drug problems.
“In the last 10 months, I’m not the same person I was in November 2007,” she told Noe. “I know I have made things difficult for myself. But I’m not going to let that hold me back.”
Buzz Bentley told the court he and his wife always put the two girls first in their lives since they took over raising them when Kristina was only 8 months old. He said his wife was strict because she wanted to protect the girls from bad influences.
“You see, Kristina, you grew up not caring about anyone else,” he said.
“I personally don’t think there is much help the court could give that would benefit you,” he said. “I hope that, whatever the sentence is, you think of Ginny while you serve it. You not only took her life, you took mine.”
Lenawee County Prosecutor Jonathan Poer asked the court for an adult sentence.
“While she may be a teenager, the result of her conduct is undeniable and permanent,” Poer said. Society would not be protected if Kristina was placed in a juvenile facility, he said, adding that she told a probation officer she is not sure if she might kill again. Poer said that Kristina saw her grandmother in pain for several days from the morphine before increasing the dose to a fatal level.
Noe agreed the severity of the crime and the risk to society are too great for a sentence to a juvenile facility.
“She was your guardian, your grandmother, the person who raised you from 8 months of age, and you murdered her in a cold and calculated manner,” Noe told Kristina. The lives of all in her family are forever distorted by the killing, she said.
There is no evidence to support claims she was abused, Noe said, and described the complaints as similar to those often made by children against those who discipline them.
“I believe you have probably embarked on major changes in your life,” Noe told her. But she said Kristina showed no willingness to improve her behavior problems until after she was charged with the murder and placed in the county juvenile facility.
Noe urged Kristina to continue her education and treatment for mental health and drug problems while in prison to prepare for parole review in the future.
Maxwell Adams was a seventeen year old from Virginia when he murdered his father
According to court documents Maxwell Adams would stab his father Dennis Adams multiple times. Maxwell would then stab himself and call 911.
When officers arrived they would find Dennis Adams deceased and Maxwell Adams would tell them that robbers had burst into their home and stabbed them. Maxwell story quickly fell apart.
Maxwell Adams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to 32 years in prison
In 2019 Maxwell Adams demanded guards allowed him to call his mother after the phones were turned off for the day. When guards told him he would have to wait for the next day Maxwell would tell guards if they did not allow him to use the phone he would kill himself. Guards again refused. Maxwell Adams would take his own life
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Maxwell Adams took his own life in 2019 at the Augusta Correctional Center
Maxwell Adams Sentencing
An 18-year-old Arlington man has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for killing his father, police announced Thursday. (Subscribe to Arlington Patch for realtime news alerts and daily newsletters.)
Maxwell Adams was sentenced Wednesday for the second-degree murder of his father—Dennis “Andy” Adams, 46—on April 1, 2016.
“Mr. Adams tragically lost his life in a senseless act of domestic violence by someone he spent his life caring for,” Arlington County Deputy Chief Daniel J. Murray, Commander of the Criminal Investigations Division said, in a statement. “Today’s sentence will not return Mr. Adams to his family, but we hope it provides some solace to know that the individual responsible will be held accountable for his actions”.
On the night of April 1, officers responded to the 100 block of S. Glebe Road for an assault with injuries and found two people suffering from stab wounds. Dennis Adams was transported to George Washington University Hospital Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Maxwell initially claimed he and his father were victims of an alleged home invasion, police said. Throughout the investigation, detectives uncovered numerous inconsistencies in Maxwell’s account of these events.
Detectives ultimately determined the stabbing resulted from a domestic incident that took place inside a residence in the 3600 block of 3rd St. S.
Maxwell Adams took his life Thursday, March 14th, 2019 in the Augusta Correctional Center’s isolation/segregation unit. Earlier that evening, according to word among the inmate population, he told the authorities that if they did not allow him to call his mother that he was going to kill himself. So today another mother will bury her child… “…In the thirty-eight years of my incarceration. I have witnessed men kill one another, rape one another, beat one another and cry for help from within the darkness as their mental health eroded away under peer pressure and the fear of dying alone in prison. But the worst of all is when they kill themselves out of feeling abandoned or rejected by family, friends and peers… “It is still everyone’s responsibility to help others to see the value of living regardless of the struggle that an incarcerated lifestyle may bring. I know that God did not place these burdens upon us without a means of escape or help… The agony of grief in a suicidal person often goes overlooked until the coroner is notified to pick up the body.”– by an anonymous fellow prisoner
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper were two teenagers from Idaho who decided they wanted to become serial killers. In order to start this odd quest they would pick their first victim, Cassie Jo Stoddart
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper would film themselves on the days before the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart talking about their plan to kill their friend.
On the night of the murder Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper would visit with Cassie Jo Stoddart and her boyfriend. When they left they ensured the back door was left open. The two budding serial killers would return to the home and would stab Cassie Jo to death.
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper would film themselves leaving the scene of the murder and their need to get their story straight and how the killing made them feel.
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper story would quickly fall apart and soon they would be arrested and charged with the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper were both convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole
Torey Adamcik is currently incarcerated at the Saguaro Correctional Center
Where is Brian Draper now
Brian Draper is currently incarcerated at the Idaho State Correctional Institution Unit 16
When is Torey Adamcik release date
Torey Adamcik is serving life without parole
When is Brian Draper release date
Brian Draper is serving life without parole
Torey Adamcik And Brian Draper Court Case
On September 22, 2006, Stoddart was spending the night at her cousin’s house, the Whispering Cliffs residence, performing house-sitting duties. Matt Beckham (Beckham), Stoddart’s boyfriend, stated that he and Stoddart had invited Torey Adamcik to the Whispering Cliffs residence that evening to “hang out.” Adamcik and Brian Draper arrived at the Whispering Cliffs residence at approximately 6:30 or 7:00 PM. After spending approximately two hours at the Whispering Cliffs residence, Draper informed Stoddart and Beckham that he needed to leave and shortly thereafter Draper and Adamcik departed.
Approximately fifteen minutes after Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper departed, the power at the Whispering Cliffs residence went out. Beckham called his mother to ask for permission to stay the night, but such permission was denied. After speaking with his mother, Beckham phoned Adamcik to inform him that Beckham would be going home for the night. Beckham later said that during their conversation Adamcik spoke in a whisper and claimed to be at a movie. Beckham and Adamcik spent the following day together. Beckham tried repeatedly to call Stoddart throughout the day but was unable to get an answer.
On September 24, 2006, it was discovered that Stoddart had been killed at the Whispering Cliffs residence. Police officer Hatch responded to the scene and noted large amounts of blood on the victim’s body, as well as deep lacerations and stab wounds. Shortly after responding, police and paramedics confirmed that Stoddart was dead. Detectives conducting the preliminary investigation determined that Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper had been among the last people to see Stoddart alive.
Detectives Thomas and Ganske went to the Adamcik home and interviewed Torey Adamcik on September 24, 2006. Adamcik’s father, Sean Adamcik (Sean), was present. This interview was the first of two interviews that detectives Thomas and Ganske conducted with Adamcik. During the course of the first interview, Adamcik informed the detectives that he and Draper had gone to the Whispering Cliffs residence at approximately 8:30 PM on September 22, 2006, for a party. Adamcik stated that when it became apparent that a party was not going to take place, he and Draper decided to go and see a movie in Pocatello. When the detectives questioned Adamcik regarding the movie he had reportedly seen, Adamcik was unable to describe what the movie had been about. Adamcik told detectives that following the movie he and Brian Draper had gone to spend the night at Adamcik’s home.
On September 27, 2006, after Adamcik’s first interview, but before the second, Brian Draper led law enforcement agents to a stash of evidence buried in the Black Rock Canyon area (BRC site). The evidence uncovered by law enforcement at the BRC site included:
1. Two dagger-style knives with sheaths.
2. A silver-and-black-handled knife with a smooth and non-serrated blade.
3. A folding knife with a silver blade and black handle, which is similar to a survival knife. The portion of the blade nearest to the hilt is serrated.
4. A homemade Sony videotape (BRC tape).
5. A box of stick matches.
6. A melted brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide.
7. Partially burned notebook paper.
8. A partially melted multi-colored mask.
9. A red and white mask.
10. A pair of black boots.
11. A single black glove.
12. A pair of black “Puma” gloves.
13. A pair of blue latex gloves.
14. A pair of fingerless black “Athletic Works” gloves.
15. A black “Calvin Klein” dress shirt.
16. A black “Hagger” shirt.
Torey Adamcik conceded that his handwriting was present on the notebook paper found along with the other evidence at the BRC site. The BRC tape contained footage of Adamcik and Draper planning Stoddart’s murder, and later reacting to having killed Stoddart. The BRC tape skips around and is not recorded in chronological order. The following relevant portions of the BRC tape have been rearranged according to the time and date stamps that appear on the BRC tape.
1. September 21, 2006, at 8:05:23 PM [Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper are in a car, Adamcik is driving and Draper is filming from the passenger seat]
Draper: We’re going for a high death count.
Adamcik: Plus, we’re not going to get caught Brian, if we’re going for guns, we’re just gonna end it. We’re just gonna grab the guns and get outta there and kill everybody and leave.
Draper: We’re going to make history. ․ We’re gonna make history.
Adamcik: For all you FBI agents watching this—
Draper: (laughing)
Adamcik: Uh ․ you weren’t quick enough. (laughing)
Draper: You weren’t quick enough, and you weren’t s-s-smart enough. And we’re going over to [Jane Doe 1’s] house, we-we-we’re going to snoop around over there and try to see if she’s home alone or not, and if she’s home alone, SPLAT! ․ She dead.
Adamcik: Don’t put your humor into this Brian.
Draper: Uh, I’m not putting any humor into it. ․ Yep, people will die, and m-m-memories will fade.
Adamcik: Memories will fade. ․ I, hmm, I wonder what movie you got that from Brian?
Draper: Myself!
Adamcik: (laughing)
Draper: That was from myself.
Adamcik: No wonder it was so lame.
Draper:—kay, we’re on our way, and I’m gonna, I’ll let you stay tuned, we’re almost there.
2. September 21, 2006, at 8:08:12 PM [Adamcik and Draper are in a car, Draper is filming Adamcik with the camera light on]
Draper: We’re at [Jane Doe 1’s] house. It’s clear out there in the pasture. We’ve already snooped around her house a couple times, Uh, and sh-sh-she’s not at home so we’re gonna go to that church over there and we’re gonna call a girl and a guy named Cassie and Matt. They’re our-our friends but we have to make sacrifices. So um I feel tonight i-i-it is the night and I feel really weird ․ and stuff. I feel like I want to kill somebody. Uh, I know that’s not normal but what the hell.
Adamcik: I feel we need to break away from normal life.
Draper: How bright is this light? [Draper has turned the camera light directly onto Adamcik]
Adamcik: Because ․ let’s put it this way ․ parents, along with their parents, along with their parents, and so on—
Draper: Uh-huh
Adamcik:—taught them about God, Jesus, the whole bullshit—
Draper: (laughing)
Adamcik:—line. I’m sure you guys believe in God as well. I realized when I was in seventh grade ․ along, you don’t believe in Santa Claus or—
Draper: (laughing)
Adamcik:—vampires, or werewolves, they’re used to metaphor, not let—they teach their kids back in the 1800s, I learned this in English class, about telling their kids that they can’t go outside or a vampire will get you—just to make their kids stay and do what they want to do. God is basically—
Draper: That’s what God’s for right?
Adamcik:—the same way—
Draper: Yep.
Adamcik:—tryin’ to get people to do good, or else “so-called” [air quoting] you go to hell.
Draper: And we’re obviously going to hell if it’s real, but who gives a shit?
Adamcik: And why would you say it’s real?
Draper: [talking over Adamcik] Yeah, but it’s not real. It’s not real, cuz it’s so blatantly obvious that it’s not real, but (laughing)
Adamcik: People believe it because their parents teach them, and so it’s so hard for them to let go of it because they’ve been taught their whole life.
Draper: Yeah, I know.
Adamcik: But, fuckin—
Draper: What?
Adamcik:—the point I’m makin’ is ․ we are also taught that things like killing people and other things is wrong. The only thing that is wrong about is because it’s breaking the law and the law is only wrong (mumbling, searching for words)—
Adamcik: There should be no law against killing people. I know it’s a wrong thing, but ․
Draper: Natural selection—
Adamcik:—Hell, hell, you restrict somebody from it, they’re just gonna want it more.
Draper: Exactly. Goodbye camera.
3. September 21, 2006, at 8:15:39 PM [Adamcik and Draper are in a car, Adamcik is driving and Draper is filming from the passenger seat]
Draper:—home. My friend’s too pussy to go investigate—turn here
Adamcik: Too smart—
Draper: Why aren’t you turning there dude?
Adamcik: Cuz it’s faster this way
Draper: Now we’re going to go over to Cassie and Matt’s house. If they’re home alone, we’re gonna ․
Adamcik: It’s Cassie’s house. Matt is there.
Draper: Matt is there. Sorry. We’re gonna ga—we’re gonna knock on the door. We’ll see who is there. We’ll, we’ll see, we’ll see-see if their parents are home or not. If they’re home alone we will leave our way and then we will come back in about ten minutes. We’ll sneak in through the door because chances are they’re probably in Cassie’s room. S–s–s–so we will sneak in the front door, we’ll make a noise outside.
Adamcik: And Matt will come out to investigate.
Draper: We’ll kill him. And we’ll scare the shit out of Cassie ․ okay?
Adamcik: Sounds like fun.
Draper: Well stay tuned.
4. September 21, 2006, at 8:36:46 PM [Adamcik and Draper are in a car, Adamcik is driving and Draper is filming from the passenger seat]
Draper: We found our victim and sad as it may be she’s our friend but you know what? We all have to make sacrifices. Our first victim is going to be Cassie Stoddart and her friends ․
Adamcik: [directed at passing car] God, turn your brights off asshole!
Draper: We’ll let you ․ (laughs) we’ll find out if she has friends over, if she’s going to be alone in a big dark house out in the middle of nowhere (laughs). How perfect can you get? I, I mean like holy shit dude.
Adamcik: I’m horny just thinking about it.
Draper: Hell yeah. So we’re gonna fuckin’ kill her and her friends and we’re gonna keep moving on. I heard some news about [Jane Doe 2], she’s gonna be home alone from six to seven so we might kill her and drive over to Cassie’s thing and scare the shit out of them and kill them one by fucking one. Hell yeah.
Adamcik: Why one by one? Why can’t it be a slaughterhouse?
Draper: Two by two and three by three. Cause we’ve got to keep it classy.
Adamcik: Keep it classy.
Draper: So yeah. It’s going to be extra fun.
Adamcik: You’re evil (laughs).
Draper: Yes, I am. So are you dude. Evil. Evil.
Adamcik: No. Evil is an expression of God. That was another test you failed.
Draper: Evil is not an expression of God.
Adamcik: Yes, it is.
Draper: That is bullshit and you know it.
Adamcik: Evil of origin is a follower of fucking Satan.
Draper: There is no Satan.
Adamcik: Is Satan real? Then shut up.
Draper: Then how are we supposed to express ourselves?
Adamcik: Good and Bad.
Draper: We’re, we’re bad.
Adamcik: We are bad.
Draper: That sounds so shitty.
Adamcik: We’re evil. That sounds even shittier.
Draper: Hey, we’re not, okay. Then we are sick psychopaths who get their pleasure off killing other people.
Adamcik: That sounds good baby.
Draper: We’re gonna go down in history. We’re gonna be just like Scream except real life terms.
Adamcik: That sounds good baby.
Draper: We’re gonna be murderers. Like, let’s see, Ted Bundy, like the Hillside Strangler.
Adamcik: No.
Draper: The Zodiac Killer.
Adamcik: Those people were more amateurs compared to what we are going to be, we’re gonna be more of higher sources of Ed gl ․
Draper: Gein
Adamcik: Gein
Draper: (laughs) Well let’s say we’re that sick and that twisted—
Adamcik: Oh, you know what Ed Gein’s words were?
Draper: What?
Adamcik: He saw a girl walkin’ down the street, right?
Draper: Yeah.
Adamcik: Two questions came to his head. Hmm, I could take her out and have a nice time with her—
Draper:—and then kill her? Skin her alive?
Adamcik:—charm the pants off her. Or, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick? (laughs)
Draper: (laughs) Holy shit!
Adamcik: It’s creepy huh?
Draper: Kick ass.
Adamcik & Draper: (laughing)
Draper: Murder is power, murder is freedom, goodbye.
Adamcik: Umm—
5. September 22, 2006, at 12:10:58 PM [Adamcik and Draper are sitting at a table with the camera facing them]
Draper: Alright, cool.
Adamcik: [looking down and writing in a notebook] I was planning to kill him.
Draper: September 22, 2006, we’re skipping our fourth hour class. We’re writing our plan right now for tonight. It’s gonna be cool.
Adamcik: We? Torey and Brian ․ [writing] ․ we’re making our death list right now, for when, for actually tonight ․
Draper: (whispering) she’s watching us ․
Adamcik: (unintelligible)
Draper: She’s still watching us ․
Adamcik: (mumbling, unintelligible)
Draper: [loudly] Number 2 is what?
[long
gap where Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper are both concerned a teacher
is going to see them, are whispering various things related to this and
trying to make themselves less visible]
Adamcik: [writing again] Then ․ (unintelligible)
Draper: Yeah, if you’re watching this we’re probably deceased.
․
Draper: Hopefully this will go smoothly and we can get our first kill done and then keep going.
Adamcik: For you future serial killers watching this tape
Adamcik & Draper: (laughing)
Adamcik: I don’t know what to say.
Draper: It–It’s—
Adamcik:—good luck with that.
Draper: Good luck.
Adamcik: Hopefully you don’t have like 8 or 9 failures like we have.
Draper: Yeah, we’ve probably tried maybe 10 times, but they’ve never been home alone so—
Adamcik: Or when they have, their parents show up.
Draper: As long as you’re patient you know, and we were patient and now we’re getting paid off, cuz our victim’s home alone, so we got er, our plan all worked out now ․ I’m sorry. I’m sorry Cassie’s family, but she had to be the one. We have to stick with the plan ․ and she’s perfect, so she’s gonna die (laughs)
․
6. September 22, 2006, at 9:53:20 PM [It is dark and Draper and Adamcik are sitting in a car.]
Draper: We’re here in his car. The time is 9:50, September 22nd, 2006. Um ․ unfortunately we have the grueling task of killing our two friends and they are right in—in that house just down the street.
Adamcik: We just talked to them. We were there for an hour, but ․
Draper: We checked out the whole house. We know there’s lots of doors. There, there’s lots of places to hide. Um, I unlocked the back doors. It’s all unlocked. Now we just got to wait and um ․ yep, we’re, we’re really nervous right now but, you know, we’re ready.
Adamcik: We’re listening to the greatest rock band ever.
Draper: We’ve waited for this for a long time.
Adamcik: Pink Floyd. Before we commit the ultimate crime of murder.
Draper: We’ve waited for this for a long time.
Adamcik: A long time.
Draper: We—well stay tuned.
7. September 22, 2006, at 11:31:56 PM [Adamcik and Draper are in a car driving.]
Draper:—just killed Cassie! We just left her house. This is not a fucking joke.
Adamcik: I’m shaking.
Draper: I stabbed her in the throat, and I saw her lifeless body. It just disappeared. Dude, I just killed Cassie!
Adamcik: Oh my God!
Draper: Oh, oh fuck. That felt like it wasn’t even real. I mean it went by so fast.
Adamcik: Shut the fuck up. We gotta get our act straight.
Draper: It’s okay. Okay? We—we’ll just buy movie tickets now.
Adamcik: Okay.
Draper: (Unintelligible)
Adamcik: No.
Draper: Okay. Bye.
On September 27, 2006, after the BRC site evidence was found, detectives Ganske and Thomas conducted a second interview with Torey Adamcik at the Pocatello Police Department in the presence of Adamcik’s parents. Detective Ganske read Adamcik his Miranda rights at the beginning of the interview and Adamcik signed a waiver-of-rights form. During the course of the interview, Adamcik informed detectives Ganske and Thomas that he and Draper had arrived at the Whispering Cliffs residence at 8:00 or 8:30, got a tour of the home, watched a portion of the film Kill Bill Vol. 2, departed from the Whispering Cliffs residence at approximately 10:00 PM, and began attempting to break into cars. Torey Adamcik stated that during the course of their attempted burglaries he made multiple calls to Beckham and during the final call Beckham informed Adamcik that his mother was coming to get him from the Whispering Cliffs residence.
Adamcik stated that he and Brian Draper returned to Adamcik’s house at around 11:30 PM and did not leave for the remainder of the night. However, when Ganske informed Adamcik that witnesses had seen him at the convenience store, Common Cents, Adamcik stated that he and Draper had gone to the store so that Draper could buy matches for Draper’s cigarettes. Adamcik eventually admitted that he and Draper had gone to Black Rock Canyon. At the close of Adamcik’s second interview, the detectives informed Adamcik of the evidence that they had discovered at the BRC site and pressured Adamcik to tell the truth. Adamcik responded by asking “Can I talk to an attorney?” The detectives stopped questioning Adamcik immediately, and exited the room, allowing Adamcik and his father, Sean, to converse in private in a different room. Following this private meeting, Adamcik, Sean and the detectives reconvened in the interview room where detectives proceeded to tell Adamcik that he was going to be arrested and informed Adamcik of the evidence they had gathered. In response to intervening questions from Sean, Adamcik made both verbal and nonverbal replies.
At trial, the jury heard extensive forensic testimony documenting and analyzing Stoddart’s wounds. The medical examiner, Dr. Steve Skoumal, performed the autopsy on Stoddart on September 25, 2006. Dr. Skoumal determined that the cause of Stoddart’s death was stab wounds to the trunk. In all, Dr. Skoumal documented thirty knife-related wounds on Stoddart’s body, twelve of which were potentially fatal. The State also had forensic pathologist Dr. Charles Garrison examine Stoddart’s body. Dr. Garrison testified “It’s my opinion that there were at least two knives used, one of which was a non-serrated blade, and one of which was a serrated blade.” In general, the majority of the potentially fatal wounds that Dr. Skoumal listed were inflicted with the serrated blade, however, wound number 1, which struck the right ventricle of Stoddart’s heart, was inflicted by a non-serrated blade—consistent with Dr. Garrison’s testimony—and was potentially fatal.
On June 8, 2007, the jury found Torey Adamcik guilty of both conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and first-degree murder.
