Latest / 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories / Calculated and Cold Ellie Friar

Transcript

Calculated and Cold Ellie Friar · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

• 0:08
  Despreshing mister. Early in the morning of the second of October twenty seventeen,
• 0:42
  fifteen year old Aaron Fryar's youngest daughters woke up and discovered that their father was
• 0:47
  gone. They was missing. There were puls of blood on the family couch,
• 0:52
  and there was also no sign of the girl's older sister, Ellie,
• 0:55
  who was fifteen years old. The Friar daughters were terrified, and they called
• 1:00
  their father's girlfriend, Michelle Robinson, who immediately called the police. When law
• 1:06
  enforcement arrived at the Friar house, they spoke to the two girls, who
• 1:10
  were eleven and eight years old. The eleven year old told the officers that
• 1:14
  about five a m. That morning, she had woken up to the sound
• 1:18
  of her father shouting, as well as loud crashing sounds. She hadn't immediately
• 1:23
  gotten up to investigate, but when she walked into the dark living room later
• 1:26
  that morning, she had touched the couch and felt that the fabric was wet.
• 1:32
  When she turned the light on, she saw that her hand was now
• 1:34
  covered with blood, and so was the couch. The detectives asked the girls
• 1:41
  whether they'd heard or seen anybody in the house that morning, and the older
• 1:45
  sister responded that she'd heard one additional voice, nineteen year old Gavin McFarlane,
• 1:51
  who was dating Ellie. Ellie was completely smitten with her older boyfriend, but
• 1:57
  her family didn't feel the same way about In fact, they didn't like him
• 2:01
  at all. One of Aaron Fryar's friends remembered Aarin describing Gavin as a bad
• 2:07
  seed who was a negative influence on his daughter. Since the young couple had
• 2:12
  gotten together, Ellie's grades had reportedly started to slip, and her loved once
• 2:16
  believed that Gavin was holding her back. Aaron's dislike of Gavin had been strong
• 2:22
  enough that he had recently told Ellie that she was forbidden from continuing to date
• 2:27
  him. At around the same time, Gavin had made a nine to one
• 2:30
  one call reporting that his girlfriend's father had showed up at his house and was
• 2:36
  threatening to kill him. As soon as investigators learned about the history of the
• 2:39
  conflict between Gavin and their two missing people, they became interested in locating him
• 2:46
  as soon as possible, but they did not have to look for very long.
• 2:50
  Shortly afterwards, Gavin was seen on the street with two people, a
• 2:53
  twenty two year old friend and none other than his fifteen year old girlfriend,
• 2:59
  Ellie Fryar, who wasn't missing. After all, the trio were apprehended and
• 3:04
  taken in for questioning. During Ellie's first police interview, she claimed that her
• 3:08
  father was air quotes very controlling, describing him as verbally, emotionally and physically
• 3:15
  abusive a few times. She told the officers when I did something he didn't
• 3:21
  like, he would grab me by the throat and he would pin me against
• 3:23
  the wall. Ellie stated that she had tried to run away from home that
• 3:27
  morning due to Aaron's abuse, but she had arranged for Gavin and his friend
• 3:31
  Russell Jones to pick her up. However, when Gavin and Russell arrived,
• 3:37
  Russell had been armed with a machete, which he used to attack Arin while
• 3:42
  he was sleeping. Ellie insisted that she hadn't known about any kind of plan
• 3:47
  to hurt her father, saying that as soon as she heard Aaron screaming,
• 3:51
  she had to run away. However, the investigating officers didn't believe Ellie's story
• 3:57
  was entirely true. In their eyes, Ellie had a wrong motive for wanting
• 4:00
  her father gone. She wanted to continue her relationship with Gavin without anybody else
• 4:05
  interfering, and it certainly didn't help that Ellie had started her police interview with
• 4:11
  lies. She had confidently lied about her own name, how old she was,
• 4:15
  and what grade she was at high school. The detectives told Russell about
• 4:20
  Ellie's version of events, but although Russell admitted that Aaron had been attacked that
• 4:26
  morning, he claimed that Gavin had been the one to do it, and
• 4:30
  instead of a machete, he carried out the attack with a baseball bat.
• 4:33
  Quote. Gavin goes into the living room and he beats the crap out of
• 4:38
  the guy. I walked through the front door, and I saw a dead
• 4:41
  body. Several of Gavin's friends agreed that he was the type of guy who
• 4:45
  would be willing to kill someone for someone he loved. One of his friends
• 4:48
  later described Gavin as loyal and kind of a ride or die, saying he
• 4:54
  would absolutely go along with any sort of crazy plan. Although Russell insisted that
• 4:59
  he had only arrived at the house after Aaron Fryar was already dead, he
• 5:02
  admitted that he had assisted Gavin to dispose of the body. The two men
• 5:06
  had wrapped Erin's body in a sheet of tarp, then drove it to a
• 5:11
  remote location where they dumped it along with the baseball bats that had been used
• 5:15
  to carry out the murder. Russell alleged that Ellie helped with the disposal of
• 5:19
  her father's body, explaining that she had been the one to throw the baseball
• 5:24
  bats to the grounds at the dump site. Shortly afterwards, Russell proved that
• 5:29
  he was at least partially telling the truth by agreeing to show detectives where the
• 5:32
  dump site was located, and sure enough, they found Aaron Fryar's remains.
• 5:39
  Aaron's autopsy also supported Russell's story. Instead of machete wounds, he had actually
• 5:44
  been killed by blunt force trauma, as if he had been viciously beaten with
• 5:48
  a baseball bat. There was no sign that a machette had been involved at
• 5:53
  all. Despite Russell's help with the investigation, the detectives were disturbed by how
• 5:59
  little he seen to care about the fact that he had played a role in
• 6:02
  a brutal murder. Quote it's just like the strangest thing ever, Detective bill
• 6:08
  Ford later said. Russell is not emotional, he's not upset. It's all
• 6:12
  just matter of fact, like it's just another day, when Gavin MacFarlane learned
• 6:17
  that the body had been discovered and that his friend had told detectives that he
• 6:21
  was the killer, he admitted that he had been the one to murder Arin.
• 6:27
  However, he claimed that he had only murdered Arin to protect Ellie from
• 6:30
  her father's abuse. Gavin alleged that he had recently found out that Ellie was
• 6:34
  pregnant, and when she confided in him about the abuse, he had been
• 6:40
  willing to do anything to help his girlfriend. However, he claimed that he
• 6:45
  had not been the one to suggest murdering Erin. In fact, that had
• 6:48
  been Ellie's idea, although she didn't want to be in the room when it
• 6:53
  happened, She told Gavin go out in the front room, take him out
• 6:57
  and then text me and let me know when it's done. I was just
• 7:00
  trying to protect Ellie. That's what set me off, Gavin said. I
• 7:05
  was just really angry at that moment. The anger had just been building up
• 7:10
  because of the things that Ellie had been telling me. Despite Ellie's story about
• 7:14
  the machete, Gavin confirmed that Aaron had been killed with the baseball bat.
• 7:18
  He even went as far as to act out the murder, mining the way
• 7:21
  that he fatally beat erin. One thing that all three stories had in common
• 7:28
  was that Aaron had been sleeping on the couch in the living room when the
• 7:30
  attack began. He hadn't even had a chance to fight back. Despite Gavin's
• 7:35
  belief that Ellie was pregnant, the investigation quickly revealed that this was not true.
• 7:42
  Although it wasn't clear whether Gavin was lying to the cops or whether Ellie
• 7:46
  had lied to her boyfriend, medical testing showed that Ellie was not pregnant,
• 7:50
  and that she also had not recently lost a pregnancy. A thorough investigation into
• 7:56
  the Friar children showed no signs that Ellie had ever been physically abused, and
• 8:01
  neither of her younger sisters reported any instances of emotional or physical abuse. Russell
• 8:07
  Jones was sentenced to fifteen years of jail time after pleading guilty to conspiracy to
• 8:11
  commit murder for his role in helping to dispose of Aaron's body. As the
• 8:16
  person physically responsible for Aaron Fryar's death, Gavin MacFarlane received a life sentence after
• 8:24
  pleading guilty to murder and is eligible for parole as early as twenty forty three
• 8:30
  because of his romantic and sexual relationship with Ellie, who was under age,
• 8:35
  he was also charged with statutory rape. Like Russell, Ellie Frar received a
• 8:41
  lighter sentence than Gavin. She was only sentenced to conspiracy to commit murder.
• 8:46
  She pled guilty and received a twenty five year sentence. In twenty forty one,
• 8:50
  she will be thirty nine years old and she will be eligible for parole.
• 8:56
  In the meantime, her two little sisters will be left with the knowledge
• 8:58
  that they were asleep in their bed while their father was brutally murdered. That
• 9:31
  is ten Murder for today, brief and vengeable true crime. My name is
• 9:37
  Joe. I'm the host, and thank you so much for taking the time
• 9:39
  out of your day to listen to ten Murder. If you'd like to follow
• 9:43
  the podcast on social media, there are links in the show notes that you
• 9:46
  can you can find the show. You can also go to ten minute murder
• 9:50
  dot com. On that web page, I've got everything that's related to the
• 9:54
  podcast. There are blogs there, there's all the places that you can possibly
• 9:58
  listen. Listen to this podcast. If you're listening somewhere and you're like,
• 10:01
  huh, I don't really like this place. You can find a new place
• 10:03
  on ten minute Murder dot com. And also you can get in touch with
• 10:07
  me if you go to ten minute Murder dot com. So that's really the
• 10:11
  place to go if you're really interested in what all the podcast is up to
• 10:15
  and what it's doing, if you want to follow on social media, so
• 10:16
  go check that out. And if you do like the podcast, let me
• 10:20
  encourage you to leave a five star review any place that's possible that helps more
• 10:26
  and more people find and enjoy ten minute Murder. That's going to do it.
• 10:30
  That's your episode for today. Thank you for listening to ten Minute Murder.
• 10:35
  Good night or bye. I mean it may be morning if you're listening.
• 10:39
  I don't know what time you leave Happy lunch, I don't know