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- 0:00Speaker 1: You all right, Bob.
- 0:03Speaker 2: The door was walking in the room.
- 0:06Speaker 3: And okay, can you sit right here for me. These
- 0:09Speaker 3: are the two daughters of twenty eight year old Ashley
- 0:13Speaker 3: finish in just a few seconds. They're going to lead
- 0:17Speaker 3: the officer to their mother's lifeless body inside the bathroom.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Guys, we're burning and she's in there.
- 0:31Speaker 3: And as the oldest daughter bravely guides her siblings to safety.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Police are still unsure whether this was self inflicted or
- 0:38Speaker 3: if there's a killer on the loose, but they'd eventually
- 0:41Speaker 3: discover that Ashley's killer is closer to home than anybody expected,
- 0:46Speaker 3: pulling investigators into one of the most tragic domestic dispute
- 0:50Speaker 3: cases the state of Louisiana has ever seen.
- 0:54Speaker 4: She no, she's not they're young.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Yeah, they've done a number on her.
- 0:59Speaker 6: After Sure wanted him to leave, get out there, leave
- 1:01Speaker 6: the girls alone.
- 1:02Speaker 4: I said, I don't even, I don't know.
- 1:12Speaker 3: We've created a gofund me for these children, starting with
- 1:14Speaker 3: a ten thousand dollars donation of our own if you'd
- 1:17Speaker 3: like to help. More details are in the description. On
- 1:23Speaker 3: a quiet April evening in the small city of Diritter, Louisiana,
- 1:27Speaker 3: police receive a terrifying nine to one one call. But
- 1:31Speaker 3: what would shock the dispatcher is the eary, calmness of
- 1:34Speaker 3: the callergency.
- 1:39Speaker 7: Hi, I need to report a crime.
- 1:41Speaker 8: Hey, what's the address?
- 1:42Speaker 4: Through sixty five North?
- 1:44Speaker 7: Rage to drive sender Ritter Louisiana.
- 1:48Speaker 8: Stand get please home with us.
- 1:50Speaker 9: Thank you.
- 1:51Speaker 3: At this moment, the caller hangs up, leaving officers worried
- 1:56Speaker 3: he might be an immediate danger. Officer Josh Stanford rushes
- 1:59Speaker 3: to the report of the dress, unaware that he's only
- 2:02Speaker 3: moments away from discovering a scene more disturbing than he
- 2:05Speaker 3: could ever imagine.
- 2:16Speaker 9: You all right, Bob, the door was walking in the room, and.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Okay, can you sit right here for me?
- 2:24Speaker 8: Is anybody in there?
- 2:26Speaker 2: No, my sisters are inside right here.
- 2:30Speaker 10: Okay here the eggs.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Were burning and she's in there.
- 2:37Speaker 10: Okay, y'all come in here, Come come here, come here,
- 2:40Speaker 10: stay in here, stay in here.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Two far four City.
- 2:48Speaker 3: The woman has a single bullet wound to the right
- 2:51Speaker 3: side of her head and appears to have been dead
- 2:53Speaker 3: for some time. Yet the male caller is nowhere to
- 2:57Speaker 3: be found. But then the officer remembers there are still
- 3:01Speaker 3: four young girls nearby. Who have just lost their mother.
- 3:08Speaker 10: Come here, come here, Come help me, Come help me.
- 3:19Speaker 10: Do you know these children? Yes? Okay, you got parents here? Yah?
- 3:30Speaker 4: Huh?
- 3:31Speaker 10: Can you take them to a secure place for me?
- 3:36Speaker 3: Was there anybody else here?
- 3:37Speaker 2: Budy healthy.
- 3:42Speaker 3: And an unimaginable act of courage, the eldest daughter guides
- 3:46Speaker 3: her younger siblings to safety, leading them to the neighbor's house.
- 3:50Speaker 3: The neighbor bravely takes in the four traumatized children, who
- 3:53Speaker 3: would later turn out to be instrumental to the investigation.
- 3:57Speaker 3: Officers head back inside to try to locate the caller,
- 4:00Speaker 3: completely unaware that he's the one who pulled the trigger.
- 4:04Speaker 10: Is there one victim or two?
- 4:06Speaker 4: I'm I'm at north, Preach said you do.
- 4:09Speaker 11: I have one victimer too, so we need to clear
- 4:12Speaker 11: the rest of the house.
- 4:13Speaker 4: I wanted the impression that was a mail here too,
- 4:16Speaker 4: But there's thinking about this.
- 4:22Speaker 3: City. Please, hey, you please go right plea for.
- 4:32Speaker 11: Click.
- 4:36Speaker 12: See When the glass was on the phone with him,
- 4:38Speaker 12: I was under the impression there was a male subject
- 4:40Speaker 12: that had had been shot.
- 4:42Speaker 4: To look out in the backyard, thank you, thank you?
- 4:45Speaker 4: Checking what's that? A small they cook? Okay? Where does
- 4:51Speaker 4: she at? She's in that bathroom. Oh yeah, everything else cleared.
- 4:56Speaker 4: Everything else is cleared.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Officers find no one else inside, leaving them still in
- 5:01Speaker 3: the dark about who the collar really is. They'd further
- 5:05Speaker 3: look into the victim's injuries and quickly realize there was
- 5:09Speaker 3: almost no imminent struggle, leaving officers questioning whether the injuries
- 5:13Speaker 3: may have been self inflicted. But before anything else, they
- 5:18Speaker 3: still need to identify the victim, and this is when
- 5:21Speaker 3: the officer would make a devastating discovery, one that would
- 5:24Speaker 3: turn this into a far more personal case.
- 5:28Speaker 7: Well, I didn't want to wait till you guys here
- 5:30Speaker 7: for us are trying.
- 5:31Speaker 4: To find an idea or anything.
- 5:33Speaker 6: Let me how you want to turn a stove off?
- 5:35Speaker 4: Yes, Ashley Fish there across the street, Ashley Fish. I'm
- 5:51Speaker 4: I'm assuming young based off of what I'm seeing here.
- 5:55Speaker 4: Just strul with her, did you? Yeah, so she's praise Warber. Yeah,
- 6:02Speaker 4: I moved away. She and he came the Josh Fish. No,
- 6:05Speaker 4: I don't think she's.
- 6:07Speaker 6: Your ais though, or yeah, graduated together, So we're about.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Lead Detective Cooley immediately recognizes the name twenty eight year
- 6:17Speaker 3: old Ashley Fish. He knew Ashley as a deriter local,
- 6:22Speaker 3: someone who married her high school sweetheart and had only
- 6:25Speaker 3: recently moved back to Louisiana from Texas. Determined to find
- 6:29Speaker 3: answers and uncover who murdered his friend, he turns to
- 6:33Speaker 3: the neighbors for more information. Meanwhile, other officers begin reviewing
- 6:37Speaker 3: neighborhood CCTV footage, searching for anyone who may have been
- 6:41Speaker 3: at the house besides Ashley and the children, and they're
- 6:44Speaker 3: about to discover that someone else was indeed inside, someone
- 6:49Speaker 3: who is already on the run.
- 6:54Speaker 4: Zechy who Jeff Brown, Master micher Hey a couple of portions. Yeah,
- 7:01Speaker 4: you've gonna ask me anything, But I really didn't see anything.
- 7:04Speaker 11: The only one saw anything my son or saw one
- 7:07Speaker 11: that was he was mowing out here.
- 7:09Speaker 4: What's your buddy? Protect a coup? Nice to make you
- 7:15Speaker 4: heard you kind of saw some stuff, just a little bit,
- 7:18Speaker 4: not much, but you've seen some U something happened next door?
- 7:23Speaker 4: Uh well, I just want a line. And then I
- 7:27Speaker 4: saw like the car of the you ever.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Leave, lining up with what the boys saw. Another neighbor
- 7:36Speaker 3: offers ring camera footage showing a black truck leaving Ashley's
- 7:40Speaker 3: house just minutes before the nine one one call. Desperate
- 7:43Speaker 3: to learn who was driving that truck, officers turned to
- 7:46Speaker 3: the next neighbor, unaware they're about to speak with the
- 7:49Speaker 3: victim's best friend and is someone who knows exactly who
- 7:54Speaker 3: the driver is.
- 7:56Speaker 9: What's that the girls there at house?
- 8:00Speaker 4: It's not good. She no, she's not.
- 8:08Speaker 9: She was out here earlier, when about five o'clock or so.
- 8:11Speaker 12: I saw her out here.
- 8:12Speaker 9: Everything seemed fine.
- 8:12Speaker 7: There was a truck.
- 8:14Speaker 13: She has a significant other, she's going through a divorce
- 8:19Speaker 13: and they're legally separated.
- 8:21Speaker 3: But he was here, the truck, black truck was here.
- 8:24Speaker 9: Do you think he shot her?
- 8:25Speaker 6: Well, I can't.
- 8:26Speaker 10: I can't tell you a whole lot.
- 8:28Speaker 3: So as long as the children are safe with you
- 8:30Speaker 3: for now, we'll take care of her.
- 8:32Speaker 7: I know her, gosh, I'm assuming that it was okay.
- 8:36Speaker 12: Tyler was the person that was here.
- 8:39Speaker 7: I don't know if that was his truck usually drives
- 8:41Speaker 7: a black truck. And then her husband's name.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Is John John Fish.
- 8:46Speaker 3: She would go on to identify their main suspect as
- 8:49Speaker 3: thirty four year old Tyler der Rachowski, Ashley's new boyfriend.
- 8:53Speaker 3: Detectives immediately begin digging into his history, gathering anything they
- 8:57Speaker 3: can find and working to locate him as quickly as possible.
- 9:00Speaker 3: But just as they're about to begin the man hunt,
- 9:03Speaker 3: another nine to one one call comes in and it's
- 9:06Speaker 3: from the killer himself.
- 9:08Speaker 7: Hi, I need to turn myself into the police.
- 9:11Speaker 14: Okay, I don't know how to do this or you wanted?
- 9:14Speaker 7: Do you have an active warrant?
- 9:15Speaker 5: No?
- 9:15Speaker 7: I just committed a crime.
- 9:16Speaker 15: Okay, what crime?
- 9:17Speaker 8: Did you come up?
- 9:18Speaker 7: I shot somebody?
- 9:19Speaker 9: Okay located.
- 9:20Speaker 7: I'm at Burke's Outlet in de Ritter. I'm in the
- 9:24Speaker 7: parking lot and I just am going to wait here
- 9:27Speaker 7: to get picked up.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Okay, who did you shoot a woman?
- 9:31Speaker 4: Okay?
- 9:31Speaker 7: What is her name? Ashley Fish.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Officers rushed to the address he gave an empty parking lot,
- 9:38Speaker 3: still baffled as to why he confessed and why it
- 9:42Speaker 3: took him so long to come forward. Knowing he likely
- 9:45Speaker 3: killed a woman in front of her children, they braced themselves,
- 9:49Speaker 3: fully expecting anything to go wrong at any moment, or
- 9:52Speaker 3: even an ambush.
- 9:55Speaker 4: It's going to be in birch Margaret lot. Incredible.
- 10:07Speaker 14: Okay, So you just want to do this is sit
- 10:09Speaker 14: on your boot and start your legs.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Okay, Tipple, are you out with.
- 10:23Speaker 3: The main suspect arrested. Officers have no idea the investigation
- 10:27Speaker 3: is moments away from taking another unexpected turn. When they
- 10:31Speaker 3: search his vehicle, they find no weapons, but they do
- 10:35Speaker 3: find multiple prescription drugs, vials of testosterone, and syringes. To
- 10:40Speaker 3: their surprise, Tyler seems unusually calm for someone who just
- 10:45Speaker 3: took a life, and it would quickly become obvious that
- 10:48Speaker 3: this calm controlled demeanor is part of a plan, a
- 10:52Speaker 3: plan to get away with murder.
- 10:56Speaker 8: If you're still comfortable talking to me, can you tell
- 10:57Speaker 8: me a little bit about what happened here?
- 10:59Speaker 14: This woman who and I got on altercation last night.
- 11:01Speaker 14: Things were kind of falling out between the two of us,
- 11:03Speaker 14: just relationally, and I was getting ready to move back
- 11:05Speaker 14: to Oregon. So she pulled out she had a gun
- 11:07Speaker 14: in her drawer. She loaded it and was pointing it
- 11:10Speaker 14: at me and started fighting and.
- 11:14Speaker 4: Went off.
- 11:15Speaker 3: Tyler insists he shot Ashley in self defense after she
- 11:19Speaker 3: pulled the pistol on him, immediately complicating the investigation. Once
- 11:23Speaker 3: he's brought into the station, officers relay this information to
- 11:26Speaker 3: the team at the scene, who would begin searching for
- 11:28Speaker 3: anything that might support his claim and Unexpectedly, they do
- 11:32Speaker 3: find one piece of evidence in Tyler's favor, the murder
- 11:36Speaker 3: weapon itself. Okay, here's what I've I've got right now.
- 11:41Speaker 4: I know you got a lot of coming in.
- 11:43Speaker 3: Cameron has got the suspect, Tyler.
- 11:45Speaker 13: Gubowski over at at Park Terrace.
- 11:48Speaker 7: So he gave you a sales local without any problems, and.
- 11:50Speaker 8: He told you all that he did it.
- 11:52Speaker 4: Yeah, I see the hair and I've called in the
- 11:57Speaker 4: serial number. It's going to be a Smith and West.
- 12:00Speaker 4: She's been here for a minute, so I had to guess.
- 12:02Speaker 7: I mean she still has in some coming out of
- 12:06Speaker 7: the room, she still pretty warm, and I had to
- 12:09Speaker 7: get a hitten in between forty five minutes and an.
- 12:11Speaker 4: Hour and twenty will that sitting at up? Yes. So
- 12:15Speaker 4: once they run the strip and back out and you
- 12:17Speaker 4: get a curt point.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Forty, detectives still find no evidence of a struggle, but
- 12:26Speaker 3: they do discover something unexpected After running the gun's serial number,
- 12:30Speaker 3: it comes back not to Tyler but to Ashley herself,
- 12:34Speaker 3: meaning his version of events may not be entirely false.
- 12:39Speaker 3: And with that, investigators begin to grasp just how little
- 12:43Speaker 3: physical evidence actually ties Tyler to the shooting. They then
- 12:47Speaker 3: finished processing the scene, send Ashley's body for autopsy and
- 12:51Speaker 3: her phone for forensic examiners to be unlocked. Shortly afterwards,
- 12:55Speaker 3: the grandparents arrive at the scene to pick up the
- 12:57Speaker 3: four traumatized children into their care. It's at this point
- 13:00Speaker 3: that it becomes clear the oldest daughter witnessed something she
- 13:05Speaker 3: will wish she never had.
- 13:07Speaker 11: I've got Gray.
- 13:10Speaker 4: And Strawberry.
- 13:13Speaker 8: Young.
- 13:14Speaker 4: You're healthy. The one you want to talk to is Raley.
- 13:18Speaker 7: Yes, she supposedly told my wife that she saw something
- 13:23Speaker 7: and she didn't want to talk about.
- 13:25Speaker 4: Hey, my babies, I want to pick you up to exit.
- 13:40Speaker 3: This brings a small sense of relief to the officers,
- 13:44Speaker 3: knowing that children are finally away from the horrors inside,
- 13:47Speaker 3: but now comes the most difficult part, calling Ashley's ex
- 13:51Speaker 3: husband John and informing him that she is dead. Lead
- 13:56Speaker 3: Detective Coolly asks John to come to the station for
- 13:59Speaker 3: questioning as soon as possible, and while Tyler anxiously waits
- 14:02Speaker 3: for his chance to speak, detectives make a deliberate decision
- 14:05Speaker 3: to start with John instead, But the longer Tyler waits,
- 14:10Speaker 3: the more agitated he becomes, and by the time they
- 14:13Speaker 3: will finally sit down with him, he will snap.
- 14:16Speaker 4: I've never had someone do that to me. I've never
- 14:19Speaker 4: had someone get that mad at me that they load
- 14:20Speaker 4: up the weapon.
- 14:22Speaker 3: One hour after Ashley's deceased body was discovered, John arrives
- 14:26Speaker 3: at the station. John explains that he and Ashley were
- 14:30Speaker 3: together for over a decade. They had their first child young,
- 14:33Speaker 3: and went on to raise four beautiful daughters. For the detective,
- 14:37Speaker 3: one question matters most what does John think of Tyler?
- 14:42Speaker 3: Is he capable of hurting Ashley or was he simply
- 14:44Speaker 3: in the wrong place at the wrong time. But before that,
- 14:48Speaker 3: something else weighs heavily on John. He still has to
- 14:51Speaker 3: explain to his daughters why they will never hear their
- 14:55Speaker 3: mother's voice again.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I just want to let him know that she's no
- 15:03Speaker 1: longer with Mom's no longer with you know, she's you know,
- 15:06Speaker 1: she's an angel now. Yeah, the six year old and
- 15:09Speaker 1: four year old Dale know, they're kind of, oh, it's
- 15:12Speaker 1: an angel.
- 15:13Speaker 4: They're going to talk a little.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Bit about it, and they're more concerned about how she's
- 15:16Speaker 1: flying and everything. Right, I don't know what she's seen
- 15:21Speaker 1: that's got me.
- 15:22Speaker 4: Rod then as.
- 15:24Speaker 3: Shape, you know, on that devastating note, the detective would
- 15:28Speaker 3: shift the conversation to the final moments leading up to
- 15:32Speaker 3: Ashley's death. Tragically, Ashley seemed to sense that Tyler might
- 15:36Speaker 3: harm her, and just moments before she died, she would
- 15:40Speaker 3: make her final cry for hell.
- 15:42Speaker 9: When I see that he's calling, what runs in my
- 15:44Speaker 9: head and it's great, we.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Got some bows, bowl crap, we got some bull crap.
- 15:48Speaker 9: They're they're in some kind of argument and they're trying
- 15:51Speaker 9: to drag me into this and I.
- 15:52Speaker 4: Don't want to be portio drama. I don't want to
- 15:54Speaker 4: be portio drama.
- 15:56Speaker 9: Nothing in the past has ever felt like there was
- 15:59Speaker 9: anybody day talking to my kids. Kids never told me
- 16:02Speaker 9: anything's going bad around the house, So I'm not really
- 16:05Speaker 9: feeling too and do all this time, you know, I
- 16:08Speaker 9: text back, I'm not trying to get yo's drama.
- 16:13Speaker 1: That's when she texts, he won't leave.
- 16:15Speaker 4: I know.
- 16:15Speaker 9: As soon as I got that, when I actually looked
- 16:18Speaker 9: and seeing that he's not leaving, I called and she's
- 16:21Speaker 9: like oh.
- 16:22Speaker 1: And the first thing I go, what's going on? He's
- 16:24Speaker 1: mad because he's he's got to leave.
- 16:26Speaker 4: And I said, are my kids okay?
- 16:28Speaker 11: Are kids safe?
- 16:29Speaker 8: She said yes?
- 16:30Speaker 9: Because I was a little concerned and I wasn't like
- 16:32Speaker 9: super I'm straight for him to believe, like hung up
- 16:35Speaker 9: and then I text her said talking to my kids please.
- 16:38Speaker 9: At six fifty five, I just couldn't get hold of
- 16:40Speaker 9: her and I was like, this is weird. This is
- 16:43Speaker 9: just you know, it was just odd.
- 16:45Speaker 3: This is the moment. At six fifty five pm, John
- 16:50Speaker 3: lost all contact with Ashley and with it, the hope
- 16:54Speaker 3: of ever rebuilding a future with her. Shortly thereafter, Detective
- 16:59Speaker 3: Coolly wraps up his interview with John, who has made
- 17:02Speaker 3: one thing clear. Ashley was a loving mother, incapable of
- 17:06Speaker 3: harming anyone, and she deserves justice. Still not ready to
- 17:12Speaker 3: begin Tyler's interrogation, fully aware that physical evidence against him
- 17:16Speaker 3: is alarmingly weak, the detective instead brings in Ashley's other
- 17:20Speaker 3: relatives to give their statements, hoping to better understand Tyler's
- 17:24Speaker 3: character and whether he truly is a cold blooded murderer.
- 17:27Speaker 3: And it doesn't take long for one thing to become clear.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Every one of them deeply distrusted Tyler, to the point
- 17:35Speaker 3: of even threatening his life, fearing he might one day
- 17:39Speaker 3: snap and hurt Ashley.
- 17:42Speaker 6: You know I did threaten him, you know I wanted
- 17:44Speaker 6: him to leave, get out there, leave the girls alone,
- 17:47Speaker 6: you know. I said, it's just you know, but I didn't,
- 17:50Speaker 6: you know, And I went home and my wife and
- 17:53Speaker 6: my daughter, you know, they talk some sense into you know,
- 17:57Speaker 6: But I mean, thoughts crossed my mind. It's times now,
- 18:01Speaker 6: you know, if iry to carry that out, and I
- 18:03Speaker 6: know it's bad, but Dad had the moment.
- 18:06Speaker 13: He's there and he comes out and I think he
- 18:08Speaker 13: shook my hand and I'm like, you know, hey, Tyler
- 18:11Speaker 13: and has to meet you and whatnot. And he just
- 18:13Speaker 13: goes straight in the door and picks up Ashley's guitar
- 18:16Speaker 13: and goes and hikes his leg up on the damn
- 18:18Speaker 13: trampoline and starts looking at the moon and playing guitar.
- 18:20Speaker 11: And I'm like, Ashley, what is he doing?
- 18:23Speaker 4: Can we just go inside?
- 18:25Speaker 11: I don't wanna hear this prick playing or something, you
- 18:27Speaker 11: know something.
- 18:28Speaker 13: He stops and he come over there to pull us apart,
- 18:31Speaker 13: and I just rar back and.
- 18:32Speaker 11: Pushed him in the side of the head.
- 18:34Speaker 13: And I had told her he needs to go, you know,
- 18:36Speaker 13: you need to get the stone and get it, get
- 18:38Speaker 13: it done, get him on the road, you know.
- 18:40Speaker 11: Last couple of weeks she told me she hadn't made
- 18:42Speaker 11: her decision.
- 18:44Speaker 7: He did have to go, and this time it was
- 18:46Speaker 7: for good.
- 18:46Speaker 4: She said, I will be alone. And then this other guy,
- 18:50Speaker 4: a man, and I talked with my wife about it.
- 18:53Speaker 13: I said, I don't I don't understand why somebody that
- 18:56Speaker 13: supposedly has got their living already set, you know, they
- 19:00Speaker 13: ain't even got to work for a living to start.
- 19:02Speaker 11: Seeing as somebody that has four kids, they he has
- 19:04Speaker 11: no kids, I said.
- 19:05Speaker 6: The only thing I can think of maybe a stamped trust.
- 19:09Speaker 4: That sounds suspicious to me, you know is?
- 19:12Speaker 3: It quickly becomes clear to the detective that Ashley's relatives
- 19:16Speaker 3: all wish he had stayed with John instead of Tyler.
- 19:19Speaker 3: A walking red flag, fully capable of snapping at any moment.
- 19:24Speaker 3: But everything else investigators have is still circumstantial. Still, there's hope.
- 19:30Speaker 3: Police did find some concerning items in his car, multiple
- 19:33Speaker 3: antabolic drugs known to affect mood, judgment, and irritability. However,
- 19:38Speaker 3: even with these findings, detectives are grasping its draws. Yet
- 19:42Speaker 3: with time slipping away, Detective Cooley knows he can't wait
- 19:46Speaker 3: any longer. It's time to come face to face with
- 19:49Speaker 3: their killer, who By this point has been waiting for hours,
- 19:53Speaker 3: growing increasingly impatient to speak with the right lawyer. He
- 19:57Speaker 3: has a real chance to walk free with that one.
- 20:00Speaker 3: A single wrong word could now cost him his freedom
- 20:05Speaker 3: for life and for Detective Coolly, this isn't just another case.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Ashley was his friend, someone he had known for years.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Now he has to sit across from the man who
- 20:17Speaker 3: has already confessed to killing her.
- 20:21Speaker 11: Okay, if I record, it's just help me keep everything
- 20:24Speaker 11: in track.
- 20:25Speaker 8: So my biggest thing is is I want to know
- 20:27Speaker 8: who you are, because that's very important. We need to
- 20:31Speaker 8: know who Ashley is.
- 20:32Speaker 4: That's very important.
- 20:34Speaker 8: It's not just the events of what happened tonight, it's
- 20:38Speaker 8: the it's the whole totality of the history with you guys,
- 20:41Speaker 8: because that's gonna help best explain everything that led up
- 20:45Speaker 8: to where we're at. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you
- 20:47Speaker 8: that you remember the say and the truth will set
- 20:49Speaker 8: you free. The truth will set you free in here.
- 20:54Speaker 4: It's up to you. I can't make you. I would
- 20:56Speaker 4: love to know, we would all love.
- 20:57Speaker 11: To know, just for the sake of you and it
- 21:01Speaker 11: asch Actually, obviously.
- 21:03Speaker 4: I mean I feel like giving a statement just because
- 21:05Speaker 4: I'm here. I don't know how long we wait for
- 21:07Speaker 4: a lawyer to get here or whatever, but I just
- 21:09Speaker 4: wanted to talk about what happened, you know, tonight.
- 21:11Speaker 8: So I don't know if that's you know, I think
- 21:13Speaker 8: it's important because right now we've got obviously with I.
- 21:16Speaker 7: Think I need to tell what happens about six pm
- 21:20Speaker 7: A little round sixtem' run.
- 21:21Speaker 15: I'm quite sure when it was when I called the
- 21:23Speaker 15: actual police department called on one one well, I had
- 21:27Speaker 15: left it as there were four children in the house
- 21:32Speaker 15: and a woman from the outset.
- 21:35Speaker 3: Detectives suspect Tyler has a plan and that turning himself
- 21:39Speaker 3: in may have been his first step in trying to
- 21:41Speaker 3: appear more innocent, and as the interrogation unfolds, that plan
- 21:46Speaker 3: becomes crystal clear. Everything that happened that night was, according
- 21:51Speaker 3: to him, Ashley's fault.
- 21:54Speaker 7: The woman and I have had an altercation with a
- 21:56Speaker 7: loaded weapon and she had a bullet in her head.
- 22:00Speaker 4: Every initiated like violent contact on her, like that I'm
- 22:03Speaker 4: not the one that pulled the gun, like I don't
- 22:05Speaker 4: have the gun. I don't want the gun. I don't
- 22:08Speaker 4: want an indispuse with a gun. No attention to shoot. Actually, no,
- 22:13Speaker 4: I've never had. I don't want to take a mother
- 22:16Speaker 4: away from her four kids, like, that's not my thing.
- 22:18Speaker 4: I closed the door. I locked the bedroom door to
- 22:23Speaker 4: the bedroom so the kids don't go in there. I
- 22:25Speaker 4: had emptied out the gun. It was empty, and I
- 22:28Speaker 4: left it there and I went out. I didn't know
- 22:30Speaker 4: what the fuck to do. I'm sorry. I wasn't perfect.
- 22:33Speaker 4: The kids were there. There's a nine year old there
- 22:35Speaker 4: that's really responsible and was watching the kids.
- 22:37Speaker 7: The neighbors were outside across the street, or I had
- 22:39Speaker 7: seen neighbors outside at one point across the street.
- 22:41Speaker 4: I felt like I just needed to go and be like,
- 22:44Speaker 4: this just happened. So I drove to marking a lot
- 22:48Speaker 4: down the street and just called that hole one.
- 22:51Speaker 3: In Tyler's own words, the shooting was merely an altercation,
- 22:56Speaker 3: but what stands out even more is how he refers
- 22:59Speaker 3: to Ashley only as a woman, never as his partner
- 23:03Speaker 3: or ax. Up until this point, Tyler has not shown
- 23:07Speaker 3: any emotion when talking about Ashley, but detectives can sense
- 23:10Speaker 3: something beneath the surface. Tyler avoids eye contact, He rambles fidgets,
- 23:16Speaker 3: and appears restless, almost like He's on the verge of
- 23:20Speaker 3: a breakdown, and the moment detectives ask about Ashley's children,
- 23:24Speaker 3: Tyler would finally crack.
- 23:27Speaker 11: And She's got how many keys?
- 23:30Speaker 4: That's what I was told you. Okay, do you know
- 23:32Speaker 4: their names and ages?
- 23:33Speaker 8: Yes?
- 23:35Speaker 5: Yeah, Emma's two, Josie's four, Lexi is six, and Riley
- 23:46Speaker 5: is nine.
- 23:47Speaker 4: Okay.
- 23:48Speaker 11: Were they all at aush tonight?
- 23:49Speaker 4: Yes? Okay.
- 23:51Speaker 3: This is the first real emotion detectives have seen, but
- 23:55Speaker 3: they needed to determine whether this is genuine guilt, a
- 23:58Speaker 3: calculated tactic, or emotional instability tied to his anabolic substance abuse.
- 24:05Speaker 3: Aware that Tyler could shut down the interview at any moment,
- 24:08Speaker 3: Detective Coolly grows more cautious, so he starts carefully probing
- 24:13Speaker 3: Tyler about any problems in his relationship with Ashley. And
- 24:17Speaker 3: this is when Tyler would.
- 24:19Speaker 4: Slip up for five years. And I felt like a
- 24:21Speaker 4: man of honor, and I had a ring on and
- 24:23Speaker 4: I was proud of it. I was proud to be married.
- 24:24Speaker 4: I was proud to be a good husband.
- 24:26Speaker 7: And I fell into this, this weird relationship that I
- 24:29Speaker 7: never wanted, you know, to be in. I've never wanted
- 24:32Speaker 7: to be a part of.
- 24:32Speaker 4: And I just went down this road that I just
- 24:34Speaker 4: kind of felt like I could never escape from, like
- 24:36Speaker 4: drowning in it, you know.
- 24:37Speaker 7: So I'm just like, like I was able to divorce
- 24:40Speaker 7: in Oregon. You know, it went through in just wa
- 24:42Speaker 7: a couple of months, like a couple of months.
- 24:44Speaker 4: It was finalized when I was done her thing.
- 24:46Speaker 7: It's been a year, right, it takes a year for
- 24:48Speaker 7: them to like do the separation process and everything. And
- 24:51Speaker 7: so we've just been kind of in that rowind back
- 24:54Speaker 7: and forth with everything and stuff, and I've thought about
- 24:56Speaker 7: leaving multiple times. I've wanted to leave multiple times, just
- 24:59Speaker 7: be as this kind of too much to just take,
- 25:02Speaker 7: being like, am I taking.
- 25:03Speaker 4: This woman away from? Am I taking this man away
- 25:06Speaker 4: from four kids? Like his four kids whatever.
- 25:08Speaker 7: I just have felt fel love of guilt in my
- 25:11Speaker 7: life in this relationship.
- 25:12Speaker 3: According to Tyler, he felt guilty and was planning to
- 25:16Speaker 3: walk away from the relationship, but detectives already know this
- 25:19Speaker 3: isn't true. Ashley's ex husband has already shown investigator's messages
- 25:24Speaker 3: in which she repeatedly complained that Tyler refused to leave. Additionally,
- 25:29Speaker 3: detectives uncovered love letters exchanged between Tyler and his ex wife,
- 25:33Speaker 3: proof he wasn't trapped at all to my love. By
- 25:37Speaker 3: the time you see this letter, you're miles away from me.
- 25:40Speaker 3: Don't be mad. I hid one last love letter in
- 25:43Speaker 3: your things. You defeated the world to get to me.
- 25:46Speaker 3: I'm never going to forget about you. Don't forget about me.
- 25:49Speaker 3: I hope you're ready for when we meet again. It's
- 25:52Speaker 3: clear to the detectives that Tyler left his marriage by
- 25:55Speaker 3: choice and could have gone back at any moment, so
- 25:58Speaker 3: Detective Cooley would push further in to the dynamics of
- 26:00Speaker 3: their relationship, asking whether things had ever turned abusive. It's
- 26:05Speaker 3: at this moment that Tyler's mask would slip, revealing a
- 26:09Speaker 3: deep insecurity about his masculinity and a resentment towards Ashley
- 26:14Speaker 3: he could no longer hide.
- 26:15Speaker 4: Has it ever become physically? She ever hit you, struck
- 26:18Speaker 4: you kicked you, slapped you. Flap comes just kinda slap
- 26:23Speaker 4: with things, shoes or something like that.
- 26:25Speaker 7: She's hitting me with like shoes and stuff. Anger, frustration. Yeah,
- 26:29Speaker 7: she hits you hard. I mean just like a I
- 26:32Speaker 7: mean I don't want something to do. I mean she
- 26:34Speaker 7: just slapped me with like a with her like slippers.
- 26:37Speaker 4: We're talking about it. It's kind of like that across
- 26:39Speaker 4: the when she was mad about something.
- 26:40Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, so you know, like the way I picture
- 26:43Speaker 8: is like if my wife agitated with me or aggravated
- 26:46Speaker 8: with me, she pops.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Me with something. Yeah, are we saying something like that
- 26:49Speaker 4: or are we saying she aggressively No, like you know,
- 26:52Speaker 4: pops you with something. I'm saying the middle ground of
- 26:56Speaker 4: that just kind of like a piste about something. But
- 26:59Speaker 4: just that's how she rafting to it.
- 27:01Speaker 7: But she wasn't like overly like I'd never seen a
- 27:04Speaker 7: level of aggression till this talking point with the gun.
- 27:07Speaker 4: I don't know where that came from. I have no idea.
- 27:09Speaker 4: I've never seen her do any can pull any shit
- 27:11Speaker 4: like that ever, I didn't even know she could.
- 27:14Speaker 3: But now Tyler would inadvertently reveal something far more disturbing
- 27:19Speaker 3: about himself. As part of their custody agreement, Ashley wasn't
- 27:23Speaker 3: allowed to have anyone stay overnight, including Tyler, a rule
- 27:28Speaker 3: he knew very well, and as soon as their relationship
- 27:31Speaker 3: began to fall apart, Tyler's first instinct was to expose
- 27:36Speaker 3: that violation to her ex husband, knowing full well it
- 27:40Speaker 3: would cost Ashley custody of her children, and.
- 27:43Speaker 7: So our relationship was really falling out here, and uh,
- 27:48Speaker 7: I've threatened to tell him the truth.
- 27:50Speaker 4: When I was getting ready to leave, I was going
- 27:52Speaker 4: to call her husband and be like, I have been
- 27:53Speaker 4: spend the night here. I don't know what legal ramification
- 27:56Speaker 4: is gonna have for you guys, in your life and
- 27:57Speaker 4: your world. I've been in the relation with you. This
- 28:01Speaker 4: relationship has hurt me in a lot of ways.
- 28:03Speaker 7: I've sacrificed all things, and for me to go and
- 28:06Speaker 7: have closure, I think that like, I'm just gonna let
- 28:07Speaker 7: John know the whole suit that he deserves another truth.
- 28:09Speaker 4: And I'm sorry it was kind of an ugly ending
- 28:11Speaker 4: for both of us, this woman and I.
- 28:13Speaker 3: Tyler has just shown how quickly he can retaliate and
- 28:17Speaker 3: how easily he could justify harming ash Like whenever he
- 28:20Speaker 3: felt the need to do so. But according to Tyler,
- 28:23Speaker 3: what happened next wasn't just another argument. He claims Ashley
- 28:27Speaker 3: suddenly escalated the situation to a deadly level by pulling
- 28:30Speaker 3: a gun on him.
- 28:32Speaker 7: She has a loaded gun, or she has a gun
- 28:35Speaker 7: in her drawer next to the bed, and I was
- 28:37Speaker 7: in the bedroom talking with her, and she loaded her
- 28:41Speaker 7: gun and cocked it back.
- 28:43Speaker 4: And basically told me that she wasn't gonna let him
- 28:47Speaker 4: call and tell them. And so this just went to
- 28:49Speaker 4: like a thousand, like zero to one thousand and like
- 28:53Speaker 4: one blink of an eye.
- 28:54Speaker 7: Shit, I'm like in the bedroom talking with her, having
- 28:55Speaker 7: a normal conversation and she's a loading gun in front
- 28:58Speaker 7: of my face and she has a pistol.
- 29:00Speaker 4: Like literally packing some stuff, putting some stuff in the drawers.
- 29:03Speaker 4: I wasn't doing shit. I didn't hit her. I wasn't
- 29:05Speaker 4: like fighting her or anything. I was just talking and
- 29:07Speaker 4: she like loaded her gun and was pointing at me.
- 29:09Speaker 4: I just know that, like that's where that started from.
- 29:12Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that like like do some dig
- 29:14Speaker 4: myself in the grain, like oh the past, he never
- 29:17Speaker 4: saw it happen, and now she did that sounds like bullshit. No,
- 29:20Speaker 4: she did it though. I'm a man, I'm a lot
- 29:23Speaker 4: stronger than her.
- 29:23Speaker 7: I was aggressive, but it was like she's not she's
- 29:26Speaker 7: shot that gun before she knows what the fuck she's
- 29:27Speaker 7: doing with that. I don't shoot guns. I didn't like
- 29:30Speaker 7: barely shot a gun in my life. And so the
- 29:32Speaker 7: whole way it happened, I feel like for me, I
- 29:36Speaker 7: didn't mean to do anything. I didn't mean for her
- 29:38Speaker 7: to do anything. It was like basically felt like it
- 29:41Speaker 7: was like just fighting for my life. And I feel
- 29:43Speaker 7: like it was like this is how it ended.
- 29:46Speaker 3: According to Tyler, this chaotic struggle wasn't aggression, it was survival.
- 29:51Speaker 3: Detectives continue to press for details about what happened in
- 29:54Speaker 3: the bathroom and what Tyler would say next would either
- 29:57Speaker 3: support his self defense claim or unravel it completely.
- 30:01Speaker 8: Okay, how long from the time she came into the
- 30:03Speaker 8: bathroom to where it escalated to the point she gets shot,
- 30:07Speaker 8: talking about seconds or minutes.
- 30:09Speaker 7: Two minutes probably just struggling, two minutes fighting, trying to
- 30:13Speaker 7: It's a combination of talking, moving the gun around each other.
- 30:16Speaker 4: It's just like I'm trying to grab her, I'm trying
- 30:18Speaker 4: to hold onto her. It's just like it was just
- 30:20Speaker 4: just felt like it was like fight for survival. I
- 30:22Speaker 4: don't know what was going on. I felt like she
- 30:24Speaker 4: was gonna kill me.
- 30:25Speaker 11: So at no point you stripped the gun from her
- 30:28Speaker 11: and had the gun in your hand totally.
- 30:31Speaker 4: Not until it was over, not until she was on
- 30:35Speaker 4: the ground. Were you on top? Was she on top? Behind?
- 30:38Speaker 7: She you were behind like kind of like this like
- 30:41Speaker 7: kind of trying to do like a choke cold ship
- 30:43Speaker 7: thing or something.
- 30:44Speaker 4: She was like trying to get the gun to me.
- 30:45Speaker 4: So it was just in our general facial areas. Okay,
- 30:49Speaker 4: after the shot, what happens? I don't even I don't.
- 30:56Speaker 4: I stood there and I couldn't believe what the fuck happened.
- 30:58Speaker 7: And the first thing I thought of was is I
- 31:00Speaker 7: have to call somebody. I have to get someone here.
- 31:03Speaker 7: I have to stand up for what I've done.
- 31:05Speaker 3: Tyler is becoming increasingly more agitated, forcing detectives to call
- 31:09Speaker 3: a short break, concerned that pushing any further would cause
- 31:13Speaker 3: him to shut down completely. But the moment they step
- 31:15Speaker 3: outside the interrogation room, everything changes. New evidence comes in
- 31:21Speaker 3: and it directly contradicts Tyler's story. Tyler claims Ashley had
- 31:26Speaker 3: the gun in her hand and they were fighting over
- 31:28Speaker 3: the weapon, but when Ashley's body was discovered, her phone
- 31:32Speaker 3: was still in her right hand, her dominant hand, meaning
- 31:35Speaker 3: she hadn't been holding a weapon in the moments before
- 31:38Speaker 3: she was shot. Then came the most damning detail. Ashley's
- 31:42Speaker 3: hair was found inside the barrel of the gun. Combined
- 31:46Speaker 3: with skull fracture patterns, it proved the weapon had been
- 31:49Speaker 3: firmly pressed against her skin when fired. This wasn't self defense,
- 31:55Speaker 3: this was a cold blooded execution. This was exactly what
- 32:00Speaker 3: detectives needed. Armed with this evidence, detective coolly re enters
- 32:04Speaker 3: the room, and this time he's ready to confront Tyler
- 32:07Speaker 3: about his story. But to the detective's surprise, his controlled
- 32:11Speaker 3: demeanor has disappeared, and Tyler is about to lash.
- 32:15Speaker 11: Out, Well, do you feel like it probably just got
- 32:18Speaker 11: out of hand?
- 32:19Speaker 7: Yes, I think our whole relationship is out of panda,
- 32:21Speaker 7: And I think that I've never had someone do that
- 32:25Speaker 7: to me.
- 32:25Speaker 4: I've never had someone get that mad at me that
- 32:27Speaker 4: they loaded weapon in their house. The kids were asleep.
- 32:30Speaker 12: It was two nights ago, and she cocks it back,
- 32:31Speaker 12: and she's standing there like all cocky, looking at me
- 32:34Speaker 12: like she's gonna like she knows what she's gonna do
- 32:36Speaker 12: with it.
- 32:37Speaker 11: I mean, why not, if this lady's got a gun,
- 32:40Speaker 11: why not just get the hell out of there.
- 32:41Speaker 7: Because though she had never done anything else before, I
- 32:44Speaker 7: just the other night, two nights ago.
- 32:46Speaker 4: I don't even know why.
- 32:47Speaker 7: I let that go.
- 32:48Speaker 4: I should have left the house. I guess is it
- 32:51Speaker 4: fair to like say I was afraid from my life?
- 32:53Speaker 11: Though?
- 32:54Speaker 4: Yes, Like is that fair to say that?
- 32:55Speaker 12: I mean, I feel like the dude the cop out
- 32:57Speaker 12: there was like, oh, big dude, And I feel like
- 32:59Speaker 12: it's not fair if it's like you look like you
- 33:01Speaker 12: could held yourself. You could have just like punched her
- 33:03Speaker 12: in the face or like kicked her or something or
- 33:06Speaker 12: like like done something. And I'm like, I don't know, man,
- 33:09Speaker 12: one bullet goes off and you're fucked. Yeah, I just
- 33:12Speaker 12: felt like it was like for me, it's not about that,
- 33:14Speaker 12: that's right, It's about it was a fight for literally
- 33:16Speaker 12: like she I don't know.
- 33:17Speaker 4: What the fuck she's gonna do. She threatened the night.
- 33:19Speaker 4: So now I'm just like, I don't even know. It
- 33:21Speaker 4: just feels like it was an accident. I didn't try
- 33:24Speaker 4: to murder any but I didn't try to kill anyone.
- 33:26Speaker 3: I don't know how.
- 33:27Speaker 4: I don't know what happened. I don't know. I worked
- 33:29Speaker 4: in the medical film. I know that it's not good.
- 33:34Speaker 3: I know that Tyler's words no longer sound like the
- 33:38Speaker 3: frustration of a man defending himself. They sound like hostility
- 33:42Speaker 3: towards someone he blames for everything that happened. But this
- 33:46Speaker 3: is when Tyler would start to realize he isn't coming
- 33:49Speaker 3: across the way he hoped, and when detectives press a
- 33:52Speaker 3: little harder, they're about to make their biggest mistake, pushing
- 33:57Speaker 3: Tyler to shut down completely.
- 34:00Speaker 11: We're still missing some things that I feel that you're
- 34:05Speaker 11: kind of you're kind.
- 34:05Speaker 4: Of rushing through, and I think it's proussing today. I
- 34:11Speaker 4: just want to feel like I'm like someone's like on
- 34:13Speaker 4: my kind of listen, like on my side, on your side.
- 34:16Speaker 11: Right.
- 34:16Speaker 4: No, I'm not trying to I know I've seen this
- 34:19Speaker 4: in the movies. I know what I'm trying to do.
- 34:20Speaker 4: Like it's like the more I tell now, it's like,
- 34:22Speaker 4: the better it looks like.
- 34:23Speaker 7: The more I just tell now, it's like, but I'm
- 34:25Speaker 7: getting to that place where it's like where at like
- 34:27Speaker 7: the heart of everything that happened.
- 34:29Speaker 4: I'm trying to be really careful with like if I
- 34:32Speaker 4: fuck up or if I say something stupid, I don't
- 34:34Speaker 4: know what.
- 34:34Speaker 7: The more I talk, I feel like the more it's
- 34:36Speaker 7: like gonna look like, oh man, dude, I'm trying to
- 34:38Speaker 7: explain the best.
- 34:38Speaker 4: I can of what happened right now.
- 34:40Speaker 7: The whole world is they know what just happened is
- 34:42Speaker 7: probably like that guy's a piece of shit, So I
- 34:45Speaker 7: might feel really alone where I like don't have anyone.
- 34:47Speaker 7: My family's not here, No one's here. I understand. I
- 34:50Speaker 7: understand the national is not here either, and I'm trying
- 34:53Speaker 7: to process that ship right now.
- 34:55Speaker 11: But what we're gonna do is we're gonna refrain from
- 34:59Speaker 11: any more questions. If you feel compelled to re engage
- 35:04Speaker 11: or say anything, you are more than welcome.
- 35:07Speaker 4: You know, I appreciate you guys be impatient with me.
- 35:09Speaker 4: I know you guys got to some people in Steven.
- 35:11Speaker 4: I'm not trying to tell you that they don't want
- 35:12Speaker 4: counsel and don't want to tell more and more and more, I.
- 35:15Speaker 7: Just feel like I'm at that point of looking at
- 35:16Speaker 7: that piece of paper when I told you I want
- 35:18Speaker 7: to go to tell someone.
- 35:19Speaker 4: As I'm kind of like sitting heracle and like what
- 35:21Speaker 4: you're saying, you're saying maybe maybe some counsel. I know
- 35:25Speaker 4: you guys are counseling right now and I'm appreciating it,
- 35:27Speaker 4: but I need someone else. It just feels like it's
- 35:29Speaker 4: like there's this man.
- 35:32Speaker 3: It's at this point that Tyler refuses to answer any
- 35:35Speaker 3: more questions until his lawyer arrives. But with the evidence
- 35:38Speaker 3: stacked against him, Tyler would ultimately be charged with second
- 35:42Speaker 3: degree murder and four counts of child abandonment. He would
- 35:46Speaker 3: go to trial maintaining that he acted in self defense,
- 35:48Speaker 3: but the States case would be overwhelming. Tyler would be
- 35:51Speaker 3: found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in
- 35:55Speaker 3: prison with no chance of parole. Thank you for watching
- 35:59Speaker 3: and supporting our to help the four children affected by
- 36:02Speaker 3: this tragic case. We've set up a GoFundMe and began
- 36:05Speaker 3: with a ten thousand dollars donation from the Doctor and
- 36:07Speaker 3: Sanity team. The funds will primarily go towards therapy and
- 36:10Speaker 3: educational expenses, helping give these children the best possible chance
- 36:15Speaker 3: despite what they've been through.