Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper were two teens from Idaho who wanted to become serial killers so they would start with their friend Cassie Jo Stoddart
Torey Adamcik And Brian Draper Video Transcript
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper Video Transcript
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1 secondWhat if the people who wanted you dead were the same ones who called themselves your friends? In the fall of 2006, in
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10 secondsthe quiet town of Pocutello, Idaho, a 16-year-old girl named Cassie Joe Stoddard was housesitting for a relative
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18 secondsover the weekend. She had no idea that two of her classmates had already decided she would be their first victim,
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26 secondsand they recorded almost all of it.
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29 secondsCassie Joe Stoddard was by all accounts a good kid. A junior at Pocutello High
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37 secondsSchool, she earned good grades, was well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and was known for being responsible and dependable.
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46 secondsOn Friday, September 22nd, 2006, Cassie and her boyfriend Matt Beckham went to a
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54 secondsfamily member’s home to housesit for the weekend, caring for the pets while the owners were away. That same Friday
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1 minute, 2 secondsevening, two classmates, Brian Draper and Tory Adam Chickic, came by the house. They hung out, watched Kill Bill Volume 2, and left around 9:30 p.m.
1:16
1 minute, 16 secondsCassy’s mom called to check in on her shortly after they left. It would be the last conversation they ever had. But
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1 minute, 24 secondshere’s what investigators would only later discover. Draper and Adam Chick didn’t just come over to watch a movie.
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1 minute, 33 secondsThey came to case the house. Before leaving, one of them had quietly slipped away and unlocked a basement door so
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1 minute, 41 secondsthey could come back later. Around 1000 p.m., the electricity went out in the house. It unsettled Cassie and Matt.
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1 minute, 50 secondsMatt called his parents, and when they came to pick him up at around 11:15 p.m., Cassie chose to stay behind. She
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1 minute, 58 secondscouldn’t leave the animals. When investigators eventually cracked this case, they found something that left
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2 minutes, 5 secondsseasoned detectives shaken. A burned videotape buried in the desert near Black Rockck Canyon.
2:13
2 minutes, 13 secondsForensic experts managed to salvage the footage, and what they saw was chilling.
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2 minutes, 20 secondsDraper and Adam Chick had recorded themselves in their school library writing what they called a death list.
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2 minutes, 27 secondsThey wanted to become serial killers,
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2 minutes, 30 secondsand they had modeled their plan after the slasher film Scream. The video even opened with footage of Cassie at her
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2 minutes, 38 secondsschool locker. Footage taken without her knowledge. She has to be the one, Draper said on camera. We have to stick to the
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2 minutes, 47 secondsplan. The two filmed themselves waiting nearby after leaving the house. Biden their time before going back. They cut
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2 minutes, 56 secondsthe power again. Wearing masks and gloves, armed with hunting knives, they crept back inside through the basement door they’d unlocked hours earlier.
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3 minutes, 6 secondsCassie Joe Stoddard, who had fought desperately for her life, according to investigators, was stabbed to death. On Sunday, September 24th, 2006,
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3 minutes, 19 secondsCassie’s body was discovered by relatives who had returned home. Idaho State Police. Lieutenant Robert Roush
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3 minutes, 27 secondsarrived to find her on the floor. Lots of blood. He would later recall. Police initially had no clear suspects. There
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3 minutes, 36 secondswas no murder weapon, no signs of forced entry, and no apparent motive.
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3 minutes, 43 secondsInvestigators first turned their attention to Matt, Cassy’s boyfriend,
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3 minutes, 48 secondswhose subdued reaction raised some flags, but he passed a polygraph test without issue. It was Matt himself who
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3 minutes, 56 secondsgave investigators the lead that broke the case. He mentioned that Brian Draper and Tory Adam Chickic had also been at
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4 minutes, 4 secondsthe house that night. When police interviewed the two boys, they claimed they’d left and gone to see a movie, but
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4 minutes, 12 secondsneither of them could describe what the movie was even about. And a theater employee confirmed. They were never there. “We knew they were lying to us,”
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4 minutes, 23 secondssaid Idaho State Police Captain John Gansky. “Now we had to figure out why.”
4:30
4 minutes, 30 secondsDraper initially told police they’d lied because they’d been breaking into cars.
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4 minutes, 35 secondsBut when he came in the next day for a polygraph before the test even started,
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4 minutes, 41 secondshe broke down. He confessed. Accompanied by his parents, Draper told detectives everything, or at least his version of
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4 minutes, 50 secondsit. He claimed that when Tori started stabbing Cassie, he was shocked.
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4 minutes, 56 secondsIt was supposed to be a joke, he said.
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5 minutesHe then led police to an area near Black Rockck Canyon where the two had buried evidence. Clothing, weapons, masks, and
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5 minutes, 9 secondsthat videotape. The tape told the real story. There was no joke. There was no accident. This was a planned,
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5 minutes, 18 secondspremeditated murder carried out by two teenagers who fantasized about becoming serial killers. Prosecutors also
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5 minutes, 27 secondsdiscovered something even more disturbing, a kill list with over a dozen other student names. Their
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5 minutes, 34 secondsambitions didn’t stop with Cassie. They had been planning a Coline style attack on their school. At trial, both Draper
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5 minutes, 43 secondsand Adam Chick tried to blame each other. The jury wasn’t buying it. Both were found guilty of firstdegree murder
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5 minutes, 51 secondsin 2007 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
