Spoiled Teen Thinks She Can Get Away With Murder | Forensic Files

this is 20-year-old Devon Howard Devon is sitting in a cold interrogation room alongside his three co- accomplices due
to their suspected involvement in the brutal shooting and murder of 27-year-old Andrew jich coincidentally
all four claimed that they had no involvement in the crime whatsoever and in fact don't seem to take the situation
seriously at all need PE [Music] where did you pick her up at okay relax it's okay no I'm fine I'm
just tired okay I was involved in the murder of some somebody oh the time is right
there what the group doesn't realize at this time is that Andrew's murder was fully recorded on multiple security
cameras and shows a man getting out of 19-year-old Alicia valdez's car before killing Andrew even more disturbing is
that the same vehicle would drive over Andrew's lifeless body before fleeing the
scene Alexis Ellis a bystander at the scene would hear The Gunshot go off and rush over to Andrew to perform CPR while
her friend Alyssa called 911 jeffc 911 what is the address of the emergency um I don't no I'm just at the
corner it's like Sheridan and 20th um some guy just got shot and they took off in a silver twood door Pontiac and he's
on the ground he's like face down did you see the person that shot him did you see the person with a gun Alexis answer
my question did you see the person with the gun she said it look like a little Mexican dude okay and it was just the
one male in that vehicle or did she see anyone else um he got into a pass um the passenger seat of the car
okay he's hitting the chest he's got bullets in the chest and we're flipping him over cuz
he's not hang on he's not breathing unfortunately Andrew would pass away within minutes even more unsettling is that the
same car model would be seen at a local gas station later that night where everyone inside would happily buy snacks
joke and laugh as if nothing had happened just hours prior the footage inside the gas station would identify
the occupants of the vehicle as 19-year-old Alicia Valdez 20-year-old Caleb vigil and and 20-year-old Devon
Howard Lopez while painting these three out to be Killers just based on their car make is clearly premature it's
enough evidence for police to file a warrant for the arrest of the three suspects so they can bring them in for
questioning to try and determine if the bunch had any involvement in Andrew's death what makes this case so
interesting is the amount of blatant lies and misinformation that would come out during these interrogations you
would think that at least one of the suspects would feel guilty and confess but everyone involved would fabricate
their story and lie to lessen their perceived role in the crime but at this point the police have yet to apprehend
any suspects their only lead is a lifeless body sprawled on the pavement and two shaken Witnesses who made the
911 call police start by questioning Alexis the witness who called the cops remember this is an interview and not an
interrogation as currently Alexis is considered a witness rather than a suspect but there is something susp
icious about her that the detectives want to clarify 3 years earlier Alexis was charged as an accessory to murder after
her boyfriend shot and killed one of his friends from the vehicle she was driving
the detective leading the interview Nathan geis would discover this information during a brief preparation
period prior to the interview and is curious as to if maybe she had more to do with Andrew's murder than she was
letting on we pulled up we parked in the back parking lot my friend got out to go into
the dispensary um sitting on my phone playing on Facebook heard the shot thought it was a firework for a second
so I looked up and saw the victim um face down on the floor and the shooter there was a silver Pontiac in front of
the victim um and the shooter was in front of the car still kind of standing by the victim's body with the gun point
pointed at him um and then got back into the Pontiac on the passenger side they hesitated for a minute on which way
they're going to pull off looked like they were trying not to hit him um they kind of looked around the parking lot to
see if anyone saw it I was kind of trying to duck as much as possible I got out of the car once I saw that they were
gone um ran up to him I said are you hit he said yes please help me called 911 let him know there was an ambulance on
the way sounded like he was kind of crying he wasn't saying anything else after 2 minutes the crying stopped so
went to check for a pulse there was no pulse big neck big neck right yeah take note of Alexis's posture when discussing
the shooting she's leaned in towards the officer and seems comfortable showing little signs of resistance this language
presents truthfulness on her behalf so it's unlikely she feels any guilt which likely means that her recollection of
events is indeed accurate to what she believed happened so you hear nothing you first you that catches your
attention as a shot okay are you familiar with guns that's what I'm want probation
for um I was dating a guy for 3 weeks he asked for a ride um and Shan killed somebody at the king supers on Sheron
Hampton 2015 so you've heard him get him go off yeah he was 5et in front of me on that
one too you got some tremendous luck yeah did you get charge yeah accessory to a crime
F4 how do this make you feel I don't know I mean it's it was hard I was glad I was able to react like that
cuz I didn't react like that within M with my case at the same time I'm know my PO and everybody's probably going to
chew my for it but he didn't die alone he knew somebody was there trying to help just being around it and being
around the situation your fault no but any else was it going to go down no this interview clearly showcased the
responses suspects make when dealing with discomfort we could physically see her subtle movement patterns and how
they coincided with certain emotions Alexis was feeling her body language makes sense she felt uncomfortable while
discussing her own criminal history which is completely reasonable however when discussing a crime she had no part
in her demeanor changed significantly with an open posture and willingness to answer every question and with this we
should be now more prepared to analyze the interrogation of a less innocent suspect later on in this video following
this interview police would continue their hunt to find the whereabouts of the three inside the suspected vehicle
and it wouldn't take them long at all just a few hours later at 4:00 a.m. an officer spotted a vehicle closely
resembling the one described by Alexis driving recklessly and pulled it over it quickly became clear that this was no
ordinary traffic [Applause] stop hi ma'am hi hey officer Lloyd D police you can't turn left there oh I I
can't no it says there's a big sign up there it says do not turn left that's you don't have a front plate either is
it up in the window yeah cuz um my uh thing is broken so I got to get a new one to actually hold it the bracket yeah
gotcha okay do you have your license registration insurance man there there's those okay there you
go Alicia about this Alicia got to have you step out for a second don't grab anything with you okay
just step on out for me put your hands behind your back you got a warrant okay why why do you have a
warrant you probably know that better than I do but we're going to do some research and tell you exactly what it is
yeah they put out a felony warn out for you a felony warn yeah yep do you have anything on you I need to know about I
don't okay all right you want to watch them I'll Pat him down real quick I'm just
going to set you down in the curb okay you just put your wall on the top man I'll give it back to you in a second
here okay go and just put them right behind you're not in trouble you're not going to jail you're not getting
arrested right now all right let's get patch it down real quick then you can put your phone in your pocket same thing
as your partner you're not going to jail you're not getting handcuffed I'm just doing this for while you're going to be
sitting behind us okay okay anything in your hood or in your pockets you know about no perfect
okay you can go have a seat with him okay is your gold phone [Music] [Applause] okay at this very moment the officer
would discover a pistol inside the vehicle Caleb had just stated there were no guns inside the vehicle just minutes
earlier so the officer quickly places Caleb under arrest so they can safely investigate this increasingly tense
situation stand up man stand up try with mag back you're not going to tell me there's
a gun in the seat next to you what you weren't going to tell me that you're going to try to leave a gun
on the seat when you left that'd be nice to know would oh and a pocket full of bullets how about this I'm about to get
out the car officer I have a gun on me right what's that one more person yeah they're all
they're all hooked did you let them know that this is in the car what is it uh SCCY 9 mil
all four would be arrested following the discovery of Caleb's pistol however throughout the entire process Alicia the
owner of the car would stay eerily optimistic as as if she hadn't yet connected the dots that her arrest was
related to Andrew's murder just stay right there for let's have a seat over here on this
black chair if you could possibly find rest I really appreciate it too now that the suspects have finally been secured
detectives would begin the process of individually interrogating all four suspects with separate preparation and
planning made for each interrogation and attempts to get as many differing stories and general information as
possible they would begin with Alicia Valdez who was allegedly the driver of the vehicle they sit her in an open room
with a large TV to her left and a digital clock behind this is drastically different from the cold empty room seen
earlier in this video this is done purposefully this room is meant to feel welcoming and open the table creates a
subconscious comforting barrier between the suspect and the detectives something
that's absent in many more aggressive interrogations the objective is to get Alicia to feel comfortable and willing
to speak to the detectives remember at this point Alicia knows very little about what evidence the cops have she
has no idea that everything was recorded on CCTV and they know that her car was there the plan is to set a trap that
prevents Alicia from denying that she was at the scene so the more willing she is to talk at the beginning the better
that's why they start the questioning off lightly but it'll ramp up in no time at all yeah just have a SE right
there want some water thank you okay it's over here if you want it okay than you you all right cold yeah that was
nice earlier yeah the detectives offer her water to immediately try to appear friendly and form a bond people are much
more likely to tell a friend something than they are a stranger so this is an extremely important step you'll notice
this friendly demeanor slowly fades and changes as the interrogation continues yeah where do you live at um
right now kind of bit of everywhere okay um in my car in your car okay keep this
fact in mind for later on in the interrogation as the detectives will use it to prove she was at the scene later
on we're in the car with you today it's your car right how long have you own that car um I've had that car
for I believe about six months so six months about You' owned it where did you get it I bought it from a public auction
down in Colorado Springs okay okay so you have keys to the car mhm have you given your key keys to anybody else no
the only ones that were they're the ones that were in the car okay so when you bought the car there was one set of keys
mhm and then um I had another maid but they're together they're on the same okay this is a simple question and it
should have a definitive answer based on what she just said the fact that the only two keys are in her possession
there's no reason for her to be unsure who has access to the car she's deflecting so you say you've been kind
of homeless here recently mhm okay living out of that TR yeah yeah where else have you been St um sometimes with
um with um gentleman in the yellow I mean not yellow green out there Caleb mhm okay talk about who else was in the
car with your time um my boyfriend and uh another young woman I don't know who's your boyfriend
um de where'd you meet him uh mitual friends okay if you haven't noticed already Alicia is extremely nervous
we're 10 minutes into this interview and her leg hasn't stopped bouncing up and down the entire time she's also been
moving around in her chair and avoiding eye contact while answering very simple questions even without the evidence that
they'd already collected beforehand the detectives would likely already be convinced that she played a part in what
happened now it's just about exploiting these weaknesses and extracting a confession using everything they know
and the process starts by establishing a timeline who are the other two people in
the car um Caleb uh I I met him through mutual friends too I haven't really known him
that long what about the girl do you know her name I have no idea who who she is when did you meet her just tonight
where did you pick her up at I don't know cuz I don't know Denver like that where were you at before you
left to go pick um this girl up C was um Devon W uh there with you mhm so you were a few hours at Caleb's house and
then Caleb asked you to go pick this girl up is that right mhm okay and you picked her up and you were headed back
to Caleb's house when the police stopped you I we were headed we were headed back
but I um I spped at the 7-Eleven down the street which 7 get some drinks um one off of cax and a okay the detectives
now have a story that Alicia is locked into meaning that if anything she says contradicts this they'll know she's
lying and they can use it to trap her to put on more pressure Alicia however is playing a game of her own and trying her
best to dodge questions and hide certain details from the cops but she's fighting
a losing battle and the cops know it how long you been staying at Caleb's house um not really a lot um I'm just
trying to get a sense of like every other night every night you know um five nights a week what just
give me an idea maybe like one to two nights one to two nights a week what were you doing
today before you went over to the Caleb's house um mainly just hanging out with my boyfriend he's trying to keep me
distracted off today well because of them MH that's we all have stuff like that I
know yeah okay so where were you hanging out at um really just everywhere driving
driving but that was about it okay relax it's okay no I'm fine I'm just tired okay but Alicia is all too
aware that the final thing they did last night is exactly what police want to know about and she absolutely cannot
bring it up you stayed anywhere else since you come to Denver other than Caleb's or your
car um I stayed at this one girl's house I don't remember her name like I said I
met her through uh mutual friends um but those friends that I did meet her through no longer really in contact with
okay how long ago was that you stayed at her house a week ago a week or something
ago Devon stay with you at her house too mhm yeah he with me all the time this is
an extremely important statement if they can confirm that either Devon or Alicia
was at the scene of the crime they'll be able to lock both of them into it the detective immediately realizes the
importance of this and forces her to double down on her statement now has Devon been with you the entire time uh
since you've been here in Denver and since you and you he stayed with you at her house MH and he's been staying with
you uh in your car or at Caleb's this whole time up until tonight M Okay so so has Devon been in the car with you every
time you've been out in the car I believe so is now on top of the information from before the detectives
know that wherever her car was both her and Devon had to have been there too this is where the second stage of
the interrogation begins they're aware she's guilty have an extremely detailed timeline of events and know she's
feeling extremely uncomfortable now the plan is simple they want her to give up as much information about the actual
murder and the other suspects as possible so they can easily implicate everyone else that's waiting for their
interrogation so the detectives take a short break when they sit back down they plan
to switch gears completely they're going to heavily apply the pressure and attempt to extract a full confession
thank you for this is uh pretty apparent to me you're being truthful about things and it's also apparent that
there's some stuff you don't want to talk about but we've been sitting here talking for a
while I genuinely like you I think you're a good kid well to me you're a kid uh well I mean I am a kid yeah
you're younger than my daughter okay you're up here from the Springs you've had some stuff in your life but now
you're up here in Denver hanging with these guys that uh you got you know some history some rough history not your kind
of History right you're kind of out of your element up here all right I don't know that you got yourself into trouble
other than the people you're hanging with but these other people have gotten you into a lot of
trouble who Caleb for one he got me in a lot of trouble you just told me we spent here
spent a long time um we were very clear that no one else has been driving your car for the last week MH okay that you
and Devon or uh you and Devon and K would have been in your car there's a few random people
you don't know but even when those random people were in the car you and Devon are in the car mhm and that you
stay with that um pretty much okay it's a common tactic to give a suspect an excuse for
what they've done in this case the detective says he genuinely believes she's a good kid and has just been swept
along in what's happened it's likely he'll also tell her at some point soon that if she helps them out they might be
able to give her much lighter sentence it's also important to note that he's still trying to keep a friendly demeanor
to her and the reason for this hasn't changed if he starts to get angry at her now she might become closed off and
refuse to tell them anything if anything he's even trying to seem fatherly choosing to mention his daughter and
calling her a kid something that could even be a response to her saying her father passed away when she was younger
however all of this is leading up to something they're finally going to reveal why she's really there and
exactly what they know so I remember the day that it was raining it was snowing real bad weather that was
Friday mhm that night the night before all that snow and rain mhm you remember where you were
that night say I could not tell you okay you remember being in a dark parking lot
that night okay look at me you're your car at the scene of a murder someone got out of
your car shot someone and killed them got back into your car and drove away you just told me that you were driving
your car all week you need to tell me the truth uh I honestly I don't recall you
don't recall I don't we have it on video I know that the person who shot this guy
is a guy I know it wasn't you I know it was your car you tell me you're the only
one driving your car so you were driving the car I mean yeah but uh I don't I don't recall being in wherever you're
saying I was picture yourself in this situation if You' just been told that police
believe you were at the scene of the crime would your first response be I don't recall anybody innocent would be
shocked to hear this information and do everything they could to clear their name and distance thems from the crime
Alicia was is there and now the detectives are more certain of this than ever and they're starting to get
frustrated honestly you need to be honest with me here I no you're not I do know you were driving the
car now driving the car could make you an accessory to murder if you're going to sit here and
tell me you don't remember no no one in the world no one you put yourself in my position okay I know you were driving
the car I know your car was there cuz I got video of it put yourself in my position do you
think anybody in the world is going to believe that you don't remember that I don't know I just like I said I I drive
everywhere and yeah you would have remembered this though this is a chilling line from the
detective and you can clearly see it almost startles Alicia the sight of that man being shot will be burned into her
mind and being so clearly reminded of it would be jolting to say the least in fact the detectives didn't even realize
exactly how traumatizing it might have been until just moments later tonight uh Caleb had a gun on him mhm did you know
he had a gun on him um no cuz I don't just Pat everybody down and comes my well you you know he
owns a gun right you're staying at his place you drive with him every day not every day well I mean so he probably
carries a gun with him for protection in the parts of town well really I don't I don't really like
seeing guns I don't really like around guns only because of what happened to my dad have you seen him with a gun before
um not really no cuz I don't pay attention what happened to your dad with a gun um he was murdered he was murdered
okay with a gun so this is probably pretty traumatic for you seeing someone murdered with a gun I did not see
anybody happened right in front of your car I said I don't recall notice how quickly
the detective hones in on her father's murder and how similar that may have been to this incident he's looking for
any opening to make her feel uncomfortable and guilty and as horrible as it may sound this is about as good as
you can get so the detectives take one last break to think about their final move
and come back with the last and possibly most damning piece of evidence of [Music]
all want more water or something you been on the other side of this hav you your dad you've been on the
other side of this whole thing hav you what does that mean I mean you got a family member
murdered so you've seen the other side of this well not really um not really they let the the man that did
it go away they did how'd that feel did they catch him and no not they let him go I mean the way I see it
left go ahead and live it no that's not all right you don't believe that when you got stopped tonight there was a gun
in your car mhm did you see the gun that they took out of your car I didn't see it no you didn't see it but they took a
gun out of your car okay that was the gun that was used to murder this man and prove that too that's an easy
one the gun that was in your car you sure it was oh I'm sure it was yes I can prove
that that's easy the bullet that we dug out of this man's chest at the autopsy came from that gun that just came out of
your car that's a fact too your car was in the parking lot where he was shot you tell me how did the gun that
murdered a man get into your car I don't know the detectives get very little other information out of her from
this point onwards but they've already gotten more than enough they've heavily implicated her in the crime and it
sounds as though Devon had to have been there with her too it's at this point that we'll take a break from the
suspect's interrogation as unfortunately ly convicting the criminals is only one
half of these officers jobs and while all of this is going on another team of detectives and officers are tasked with
the brutal job of breaking the news of Andrew's death to his family Andrew's girlfriend Jessica was the only one
awake so in the middle of the night she'd get a knock on the door from a group of detectives all right Jessica
well I appreciate you answering my questions um so I have some I I have some news for you it's not I I'm just
going to come out and say it um Andrew's dead you're joking I'm not joking Andrew
is dead what happened um he was uh he was shot and he died um in the parking lot
oh my God have you guys already informed his mom or anything you're you're the first
person I was able to get a hold of and I know that this is hard to hear oh my God
this clip is devastating as it seems like Jessica had absolutely no idea of any of the events that transpired
earlier that night as far as she was aware Andrew was simply going out to get them barbecue dinner however as sad as
this is detectives have to consider the possibility of Andrew having some sort of connection to the group for all they
know this could have been a drug deal gone wrong or some other illegal activity that caused the shoo
with this in mind detectives would bring Jessica to the station where they could
conduct a formal interview to determine if Andrew had any prior connection to the group that killed him while
preparing for the interview a strange Discovery would be made police were given an anonymous tip that Jessica's
own brother had been planning to kill Andrew the two had supposedly a recurring issue with one another that
had gotten progressively worse this is awfully coincidental and something detectives need to get to the bottom of
my brother just saw on the news they just put it on the news oh did they yeah okay and then I saw the
picture of him on there okay I bet that was pretty rough so I received information uh going
back a year maybe two years your brother had had uh threatened Andrew yeah ver uh
he didn't threaten him directly it was indirectly to me meaning I was driving him to work one morning and we were
having a fight and that's when he really unnerved me so I told Andrew and then Andrew wanted to take it to the police
and the police said your best option would be just to move away from the situation so we did what was said that I
mean it was obviously fairly egregious if basically it was just probably something to effect I'll just take him
out too what do you think he meant by that I mean well the first thought to my head is to kill him you know taking
someone El while these comments from Jessica's brother are disturbing Jessica doesn't seem too bothered by it now but
at the time they took it seriously enough to move houses just to get away from him but the detective can't just
take Jessica's word for this luckily there are some simple ways that he might be able to prove if he was involved or
not what kind of card is your brother dve a Pathfinder what color is that green like
a dark Forest Queen does your brother have access to Firearms or anything like that he's not allowed to why not he has
charges like against him for past stupidity okay and I don't know all those crimes cuz I didn't bother to try
to talk to him about them the description of his cars don't match up with the one on CCTV at all and if he's
not allowed access to any Firearms then it's very unlikely that he was their guy
however before they wrap up the interview Jessica asks a final devastating question can I just ask you
one question sure Andrew can I ask you like kind of like where he was shot just because um his mom told me
that um when he was shut the witness who saw it ran to him and stayed with him until he passed he was uh he was shot in
the chest okay yeah deserve that at all no nobody deserves that so from all accounts from what you've
been saying it seems like he was a very good very good guy y this question echoed in the detective's heads for the
rest of this case it really seemed seemed like Andrew was a nice peaceful man who was brutally killed that night
detectives would go on to interview Jessica's brother as well and managed to fully clear his name as a suspect Caleb
Devon and Alicia had no connection to Andrew this was a coldblooded murder this case had just taken a far more
Sinister turn and detectives had to find Justice for not only Andrew but for the
rest of his family after Alicia's interrogation they would bring in Caleb the man who
they at this point believe actually pulled the trigger but Caleb wasn't planning on making things easy his
interrogation lasts Just 4 minutes but opens up an entirely new side to this investigation filled with dozens of
shocking New pieces of evidence all sparked by just one tiny thing that he said all right
Caleb it's been a long night huh yeah Caleb I'm detective John me I'm detective here with Denver and I'm going
to talk to you about your traffic stop your friends and the gun that you had on you tonight what's your home address
Caleb 1548 if you want to talk to me about what happened your answer is yes if you
don't want to talk to me you should say no out way okay the interrogation ended here but
unbeknownst to Caleb he gave away a crucial piece of evidence his address and it took police no time at all to
obtain a search warrant police open up the door police open the door sir sir show hands step up who else is in
here nobody do sir I don't live here this is not my house this is friend's house on my IA if
you're in here make yourself know do it now Police Department come up come out with your hands
up that was one of Caleb's friends and he's one of the three keys inside this apartment that would unlock the case for
the detectives the second was this giant stock of 9 mm bullets that perfectly match the bullet found lodged inside
Andrew's body and if that wasn't damning enough there was one more piece of evidence inside that was the most
shocking of all but the police hadn't even realized it yet instead they wanted to have a quick conversation with the
man they found inside it seems that Caleb was known to this guy as Modello and Devon as silencio often friends of
suspects like this tend to keep their mouths shut out of trust but this time well see for yourself Adel got out of
the car I guess to go mug this dude with a gun dude dropped the wallet on the ground Del unloaded into somebody I
guess um whoever was in the car I guess Ceno just told me that uh they saw him get back up or whatever and they ran him
over as they drove off that's all I knew this was everything detectives could have asked for but what came next was
their most haunting discovery of all inside Caleb's house was a receipt from 7-Eleven dated just minutes after the
murder proving that Caleb Devon and Alicia were in indeed the ones laughing at the gas station after the murder all
of these events transpired over 24 hours but police had left out one crucial suspect Devon AKA silencio and it was
for good reason police knew Devon was desperate to keep his girlfriend Alicia from getting charged so if they could
use that against him they might be able to get him to admit to the murders the mounting pressure on Devon became so
intense that he started confessing to other crimes robberies he had committed in the past I'll tell you straight up me
and Caleb together have done crimes before okay what you're about to witness is a 21-year-old talking himself into
over 300 years in prison yeah Devin do you go by Devon yeah I'm probably going to screw that up
so if I do I apologize right know worry about so Devon like I said my name is Mark Spurgeon I'm an investigator at the
Jefferson County District Attorney's Office you know Nate right right you know we're both cops yep okay um from my
it's been my understanding that uh when they made contact with you this afternoon that you were willing to talk
to talk to us again is that true to an extent yeah okay to an extent okay I just like to start make sure you
understand your rights because one of the things I don't want to do in this room is violate your rights you had
these rights and I think they're important to you so you know where you're at yeah well kind
of all right I know this sounds stupid I want to make sure you understand what we're doing where you at some police
station okay all right what state in Colorado who's the president Trump the detectives are being
perhaps even more careful at the beginning of this interrogation than they were in Alicia's they want to
confirm that Devon is of sound mind right now leaving the defense absolutely no opportunity to invalidate this piece
of evidence in court they can't leave any room for error because they know he's likely only here for one reason to
confess come into this investigation somewhat late so I kind of want to start out and ask you why are we sitting in
this room why are we here fill me in I was involved in murder of some somebody okay that's why that's
why so tell me about it cuz there the reason that you want to talk about it right I just want to get my girl out of
trouble cuz she had nothing to do with it all right like I said I come in late to this who's your girl
Elia the detective's plan worked perfectly he's here to tell the cops everything in hopes that he can maybe
get his girlfriend out of trouble but you can still clearly see how uncomfortable with this he is as soon as
he's asked why he's here he goes from sitting perfectly still to dancing around in his chair searching his
pockets and leaning back away from the detectives it doesn't matter if he thinks this is the right thing to do he
still knows he's being checkmated and he's about to sentence himself to a lifetime in jail you want to get her out
of trouble yeah all right she had nothing to do with it she's not a criminal she ain't even been to jail
before now okay was she there yeah she didn't know anything was going to happen though she have any hand
in there at all okay I was driving and you know you can feel I'm sure you already have like I said I'm coming into
this new I learned about this literally this morning they asked me to come in and and
kind of assist so that's what I'm doing do me a favor walk me through because if
you want to get her out of out of the situation she in she's in I understand I expect that but I need to know what
happened so walk me through it we were driving around honestly for nice having fun driving around having fun yeah we
like to drive it's fun we listen to music then we got had up pull into this parking
lot and then from there I don't really feel like I need to be going why not cuz you guys already
have pretty much everything figured out you guys know who you guys know she did not pull the trigger okay that's what
matters I'm trying I'm just here to get hurt out of trouble I'm not here to get anyone us in trouble except for myself
obviously right um all I can tell you is no one knew that the shooting was going
to happen it was not planned so it wasn't planned hell no wasn't plan who plans on driving to a parking lot
shooting some random white guy were you planning on robbing him like I said I wasn't plan on doing was Caleb planning
on Robin like said I'm not going to speak on that this is one of the detec I leading theories about what happened
they don't necessarily believe that they planned on murdering Andrew they think that this was more likely a robbery gone
wrong they intended to just steal Andrew's money but ended up freaking out shooting him and running him over to
ensure he couldn't turn them into the cops what makes you guys go at go at this kid who the victim the kid that die
he's not a kid he's 27 but right he is to me true well like I said I didn't know the mother I didn't know I don't
know I wouldn't plan on anything happening to him I didn't know G to happen to this guy when something went
off I drove off okay what happens we need to know what happens well everyone knows you got shot yeah I know that but
I'm trying to figure out who shot him and I need somebody to tell me that well that's not I'm not going to tell you
anything cuz I'm sure you guys already know and if you guys can't figure that out then there's some issues could well
let me ask you this she didn't shoot you know she didn't pull trigger I told you I was driving
right I mean mean can put the rest together it's not up to me but I guess I'm trying to understand is why I'm
trying to understand a motive I don't know I told you none of us do that happened I'm sitting in the damn car mhm
so I obviously don't know anything that's going to happen you drive him there you put him in that
lot unfortunately that's how it looks that is how it happened yeah it's nothing I'm telling you nothing was
plann let me ask you this were you just thinking of was Caleb or do you even know was Caleb
trying just to rip off get some money and bad we're not at this point it's obvious that
Devon's lawyer will have told him clearly not to discuss anything that doesn't relate directly to Alicia he's
only going to talk about anything that might help get her out of trouble it's also at this point that the detective
realizes that he knows that he's not going to get anything out of Devon beyond that so that's when he decides to
do something extremely clever he's going to abuse the fact that Devon only wants
to get Alicia out of trouble and phrase his next question in a way that forces him to give up some Vital Information
I'm not going to speak on what like anything else besides meia let me ask you this did you guys talk about
it what do you mean did you guys talk about it did you and Caleb say hey this is what we're thinking about cuz I'm
trying to figure out did Alicia is she the one planning this Alicia had nothing to any of this so help me understand me
I'll tell you straight up me and Caleb together have done crimes before okay I'm worried about this
one this one right [Music] here this supposed to go like that how was it supposed to
go like said I don't see need to get in all that it's not going to benefit me or
her poliy or him well right now we're still trying to figure out her role and if we can listen to me if we can explain
her role and only there's only two people that can explain her role you and Caleb Caleb ain't talking to us without
us understanding the specifics of how this went down and if her involvement or what her involvement was in that with
some expl that we can go back to a DA and say hey this is what's going on this person was honest she didn't know was
going to go down but I've got to know that but I've got to understand how God planned that you understand I have to
have some type of specifics to try to sell that if you want to try to help her help her
put simply if Devon wants to get Alicia out of trouble and pro she didn't plan the murder he'll have to tell them
exactly who did Solving the case for them on the spot he's been checkmated because no matter what story he tells
them from this point out they've got the evidence to prove or disprove it their entire plan was just to get him to talk
and that's exactly what they've done now it's finally time they heard the truth that's why I'm irritated about this cuz
I know this F in the bottom did you see the confrontation go down between Caleb and this guy looked like the white dude
was attacking the other person honestly but I saw the end of it right before the
dude got shot do you remember when you say the white dude was attacking the other guy right could you describe it to
me look like they were squared up and the white dude was rushing other guy let me ask you if I stood up would you show
me hm if I stood up and I'm the white dude would you show me or you be let me be the shooter you be the white dude
would you do that yeah so I understand it give me the vision so if you're the other dude the
white dude so I'm the other guy right white do on a b like this and he look like he
squared up started running toward him okay what's this guy doing running backwards that's going to h a gun shot
all right do you remember stand up again for me so how close are they come to me
where probably about this maybe a little further okay and then that's when I heard a gun shot go off and the white
dude rushing them so so the right d is closing that Gap yeah so come do they ever get right on top of each other so
there's always a distance yeah so about boths so right about both okay dude the white dude have anything
in his hand I couldn't see I saw the last interview I wasn't really looking for details I was kind of confused on
what was going on okay all right this guy not the white dude the other guy hands together hands apart
he's kind of like well he was standing like this trying to tell the dude to back up okay and that's when the white
dude kept rushing I'm assuming maybe he Tred to reach with a gun I don't know okay but that's when the shot goes was a
gun in the right hand then I can't remember okay but he had one hand up and the other hand back yeah that is that
right yeah okay getting a suspect to act out an incident is a great way of proving they actually knew what happened
they may be able to match the movements to the CCTV footage or witness accounts and a defense team will have a hard time
arguing that anything here could be misinterpreted from what Devon is saying it seems as though there was a struggle
between Caleb and Andrew where the shooter approached Andrew who quickly tried to defend himself it's becoming
increasingly obvious that this was intended to be a robbery but when Andrew tried to fight back it turned into a
murder in the blink of an eye so when these guys are in your windshield are they across from each other like you're
looking at the sides of each other they're like this position kind of like this would you drw for me the the white
dude I can't draw but the white dude standing they're both standing white dude's closer to me they kind of like
this all right so you're the driver right white dude's closer to the front of the car yeah kind of he's all right
so if you're looking are you looking at his back you looking at his sides looking at his front kind of kind of
like that yeah like this where's the other guy right about where he is I'm K where where's that you have where's the
other guy they're like they're like that literally and then but it's it's a little more way and I'm a little more
back so this way yeah what are you seeing at this guy his front I'm not paying attention to him I'm paying
attention to this guy okay and you think you see him kind of Rush no he did Rush
okay so he rushes but not to the point where they're on top of each other no they didn't get they they didn't get it
the other person was backpedaling okay so this person's moving back arm up they being
backpedaling the whole time that's when the shot goes off okay tell me where kaleb's arms are at how he I'm I'm not
even saying it was here again it sounds as though as soon as Andrew realized he was being robbed he started to go on the
offensive forcing Caleb backwards according to Devon he then tried rushing Caleb which scared Caleb into shooting
him they're slowly closing in on the truth here but not quite there yet which is why they're still trying to play some
tricks on Devon to try and get everything out of him Devon hasn't admitted that the shooter was Caleb but
notice how the detectives are consistently naming him as the shooter throughout the story they're trying to
get Devon to go along with it and agree or accidentally admit it himself but he's not slipping up however the
detectives are Relentless and don't stop trying for another hour of tireless interrogation it's then that Devon
finally makes a mistake goes on what else you guys talk about you I can't remember all that like
you it's not work on memory memorizing no not being care about her it had to be a emotional conversation not really I
mean I mean like don't get me wrong I mean I don't know the dude so I mean it's [ __ ] up they just die cuz I don't
know him I don't know who he is what he what kind of person he is or any of that
but it didn't really strike me emotionally cuz I don't I have that many emotions for I used to do much much so
like this doesn't really I mean I don't really have many emotions about it except for I'm pissed that he's in jail
for us I'm pissed that he died of course cuz I know the guy I was pissed about that was Caleb
pissed was Caleb pissed yeah he just shot somebody imagine you're in this position
you're trying to hide the facts that your friend shot an innocent man but the detectives have been taking that fact
for granted for the past 2 hours they've been using his name asking questions about details and refusing to accept the
fact that it might not have been him eventually you would internally ize this idea and forget that you even need to
lie that's what just happened here and it's why Devon barely even realizes that he's just confirmed that Caleb was in
fact the shooter of course there were mountains of evidence against him anyway but now they have it straight from the
source and a conviction will be easy the detectives now only have one last question was this really an accident or
had they planned this out as a murder from minute one you remember what he said is he panicked Oliver's kind of panicked
cuz like I said I didn't see it coming I don't like unexpected things like this happening because of this situation
exactly I mean look at me now in here for ACC murder that I didn't see this coming I mean if I do something
it's going to be planned out and it's going to get done correctly so I'm not in this situation that's why I was kind
of pissed and I was panick because I didn't see anything this about thaten so let me ask you this if this is your deal
and this is this is your plan you say you you're playing the robber and you've done we've already talked about that I'm
not asking when dates when just this is your your you're doing it's not going to
be random like this it's going to be planned out oh yeah and it's not be on a random person usually so what Cale this
other person we're calling would did pretty amateur hour right huh it's pretty amateur what what just Happ yeah
yeah like I said it wasn't even planned so I mean you can't even I don't think amateur be the right word just random it
wasn't supposed to happen 98% of the time I rob somebody they're not it's not random people which is why I'm irritated
about this whole situation cuz I don't know who the hell this guy was except for what the news said but the news
always makes any white dude who dies look like a peach so I don't know but that's why I'm irritated about this cuz
I don't know this food nothing about him Devon's main point ended up being that if he had planned the murder then they
simply wouldn't have caught him so it had to have been a spur of the- moment decision but the detectives didn't buy
it and in fact this approach actually made things exponentially worse for Devon the interrogation ended shortly
after but the detectives decided to do some further research into these other robberies they ended up connecting him
and Caleb to multiple other serious incidents including the robbery of a cell phone store the very next day and
an incident where they fired shots into a pregnant woman's home it was clear that they had been planning multiple
robberies and were using Caleb's gun as a method of intimidation to make money and as you could imagine this didn't
look good in court for any of them Devon received the highest sentence he was found guilty on 18 counts including
first-degree murder attempted murder aggravated robbery and aggravated intimidation of a witness he was
sentenced to life in prison plus 279 years Caleb also received a similar sentence of Life plus 118 years the
fourth passenger in the car eternity Lopez was also in interrogated but was found to be completely uninvolved she
was picked up after the murder so it seems like she was in the wrong place at the wrong time she was not charged with
the incident but possibly worst of all for Devon his efforts in the interrogation room failed to even help
Alicia get off any lighter she was also found guilty in the murder of Andrew jich and was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole

Hours after Andrew Jenicek was shot and run over, four suspects were caught on CCTV laughing and buying snacks, seemingly unfazed. Their car placed them at the scene, but in the interrogation room, they denied everything, leading detectives a web of lies, robberies and shootings...

Was it a robbery gone wrong, or something more sinister? The investigation would uncover more than anyone expected...

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Brief Summary

Four suspects are interrogated in the murder of Andrew Jich, revealing lies and confessions that lead to life sentences for the perpetrators.

Key points

The Cold Interrogation Room. 20-year-old Devon Howard and his accomplices sit in an interrogation room, claiming innocence.
The Disturbing Murder. Andrew Jich is brutally murdered, and the crime is captured on security cameras.
Witness to the Shooting. Witness Alexis hears the gunshot and rushes to help Andrew, calling 911.
Discovery of the Gun. During a traffic stop, police find a pistol in the suspects' vehicle, escalating the situation.
Interrogation Begins. Detectives begin interrogating Alicia Valdez, aiming to extract information about the murder.
Alicia's Alibi Crumbles. Alicia struggles to remember being at the scene of a murder, raising suspicion.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I was involved in the murder of somebody.

Devon admits to involvement in a murder during interrogation.

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Tension

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