WEBVTT - The Next Generation 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:03.000 A group of high school students. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.160 High school students Elizabeth and high school students started a 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.479 project to research a string of unsolved murders. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.720 Their research led to the identification of the killer. Investigators 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.680 now have an answer to a thirty four year old question. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.720 Once you start getting a few tips, or a few leads, 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.400 or few identifications, then the cold case isn't so cold anymore. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.280 There's a pretty good chance he's still alive. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.080 Everything that the students predicted through their profile turned out 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:32.800 to be accurate. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.760 Redhead Killer profile mail Caucasian, five nine six, two hundred 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.160 and seventy pounds, unstable home, absent father, and a domineering mother, 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.960 right handed, IQ above one hundred, most likely heterosexual. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.080 There is no profile of this killer except for the 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.320 ones the students created. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.880 Just because some of these women no longer have people 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.920 to speak for them does not mean that they deserve to. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:56.840 Not be so anymore. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.200 What if this guy's still alive? 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.520 Like, what if becomes after us? 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:06.200 You're gonna kill me? Who's a year? This is Murder 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.400 one oh one, Season one, Episode five, The Next Generation. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.240 I'm Jeff Shane, a television and podcast producer at Katie 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:24.600 Studios with Stephanie Leidecker, Courtney Armstrong, and Andrew Arnold. It 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.600 had been four and a half years since the original 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.720 assignment wrapped up, but mister Campbell always felt there was 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.240 more to uncover. While scheduling and timing made it challenging 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.280 for mister Campbell to teach another sociology class, something even 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.560 better would come his way. In the fall of twenty 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.039 twenty two. I spoke to him about a potentially game 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:41.880 changing update. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.560 I mean, who says it has to be them to 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.480 do the work? I mean, you know, I mean, this 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.480 class did this work four or five years ago, but 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.680 I have students now that could do the work too, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.360 and may want to do the work. For example, had 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.560 two young ladies basically begged me to teach each a 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.920 class on criminal psychology. And it's so funny because I 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.000 don't even think they knew really all the background of 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.160 things I did years ago. They weren't even at the 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.320 high school then. But what I'm saying is there is 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.160 work that needs to be done, but we also have 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.519 other students that I think are really willing to do it, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.799 and they want to learn, and they want to do 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.480 exciting things and help people too. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.120 So if there's a world where we can bring current 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.639 high school students in and have then kind of be 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.120 a part of these group meets where you assign things 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.040 and we talk about it and exciten me up. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.480 We had a teacher gets sick and so we're short 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.959 of subs that you know, teachers helped cover each other's classes. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.440 So I went into that classroom and it was a 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.960 you know, it was a health science class or something, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.000 and I don't know how it came up, but you know, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.679 they got their work done. There was a few minutes 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.520 at the end, and I'm just in there to make 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.760 sure everything's kind of calm. I don't have anything new 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.600 to teach them or anything. And they started talking about it, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.919 and you know, it just comes out. They're so into this, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.639 they're so into true crime. They're so into coology and 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.040 sociology and criminology. They were so excited. And then I'm 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.680 sitting here thinking like they don't have any idea who 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.920 they're talking to, because I'm excited about this stuff too, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.400 and they don't realize that there's this very important work 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.600 that things to be continued. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.760 A few days later, mister Campbell officially enlisted juniors. Riley 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.840 Whitson and Marlee Mathena to help work the case. The 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.040 plan was for the two teens to start meeting mister 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.440 Campbell before school to see what they could find. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.680 Okay, so, originally the students from about four or five 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.560 years ago were looking at six different victims, but because 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.240 of their work, a lot of stuff has. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.480 Really been coming out in the last few years. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.680 So why don't you ladies tell me what you've been 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.520 working on. Marley, why don't you go first. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.000 I've been working on the de Putto County Jane Doe 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.280 and she was found January twenty fourth. I'm in nineteen 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.120 eighty five. She was adjacent Tiway seventy eight in all 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.280 of Rinch, Mississippi. And she was white with red or 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.560 strawberry blonde hair. She was about twenty to thirty five 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.280 years old. She was kind of smaller lady. There's only 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.640 one hundred and ten pounds, about five two to five four. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.720 She was wearing a top, some jeans, but she had 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.600 no underwear, socks, shoes, broad jewelry, any of that. They 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.480 don't know her eye color. They think maybe brown, but 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.679 they don't know for sure. And she had scars from 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.640 surgeries and piercings and tattoos and everything, and they think 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.240 that she was sexually assaulted and her cause of death 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.839 was asphyxiation by ligature strangulation. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.919 So you fel the DeSoto County Jane do deserves to 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.040 be included with the other six that the students had 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.360 found a few years back. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:36.679 Yeah, I think she does. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:37.159 What. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.480 I don't know, what is it that jumps out about 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.240 that case that makes you think it needs to be included. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:42.359 With that list. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.880 Well, it just kind of lines up with everything, like 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.440 the strangulation and that she's smaller, has red hair, and 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.000 that she was dumped off on a highway. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.800 Now you said it was in Mississippi, Yes, and Mississippi 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.000 doesn't seem to fit the kind of East Well forty 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.120 corridor kind of thing. Where's that at in Mississippi? 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.039 It's in Olive Branch, but I think that's where his 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.039 sister lives. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:10.000 Jerry John's sister. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.839 Yes, he did have a sister that live in Batesville, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.359 which I think was kind of just south of the 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.560 Tennessee state line. So maybe we need to look at 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.760 that and let's see how far this victim was found 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.680 from West Memphis, where Lisa Nichols was found, and then 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.120 let's see how far that is from his sister's hometown 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.880 there in Mississippi, So maybe we can do that by 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:35.280 next week. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.239 That sound good, Riley, What have you been digging into? 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.920 I've been looking at the case of baby girl Jane Doe, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.400 who has now been identified as Tracy Sue Walker. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.839 Walker was born. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.200 June second, nineteen sixty three and reportedly went missing from 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.520 tip A Canoe Mall in nineteen seventy eight, which made 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.280 her around fifteen years old at the time her disappearance. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.440 Her mother also reported her as running away a couple 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.840 of times, so this made people believe that she had 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.240 just run away until she was identified in twenty twenty two. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.640 Okay, so what are some of the things you think 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.479 make this case deserve to be included. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.360 With the original six. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.280 Obviously, she had red hair, she was younger, smaller girls, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.640 some of the previously mentioned similarities between all of these cases. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.680 But something very interesting we found in the last couple 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.279 weeks of research was that there were similarities between the 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.360 knots and cloth of Tina Farmer and the survivor Linda Show. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.159 So that's been a very interesting finding and pretty compelling 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.440 as far as tying this all to Jerry Leon john 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:42.159 did they. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.040 Are you looking at there on your computer? Yes, let 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:44.480 me see that. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.640 You know, this is fascinating because a few years back 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.800 we scoured the internet, the students scoured the internet looking 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.400 for all this information. And I'm gonna be honest, this 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.919 was not there a few years ago. And Holy Michael, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.640 I think this was big. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.640 So let me tell you this. What's they set in? 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.760 I know it's up north a little bit. I think 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:05.479 it was Indiana. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.040 Hold on, yeah, Indiana. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.120 Lafayette, Lafayette, Yeah, Lafayette, Indiana. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.320 That is very interesting because I know that area, not 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.800 because I've ever been up through there. But actually Tina Farmer, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.000 who was the other Campbell County Jane Doe, went missing 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.240 from around Indianapolis, Yes, which is at that time probably 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.760 close to a ten hour drive from Knoxville, which is 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.880 where Jerry Leon Johns was spending a lot of time. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.200 And so think about this. Think about this for a second. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:44.080 Tina Farmer goes missing from around Indianapolis. This girl goes 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:49.040 missing from Lafayette, which is about an hour from Indianapolis, 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.920 and those are about ten hours away. And both of 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.240 those girls end up dead within a mile of each 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.960 other ten hour drive away. I think that's really big. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:01.320 What's the chance it. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.200 Is the greatest coincidence of all time? 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.360 Or and they're both red headed, and they're both white, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.480 and they're both teenagers, and they both have the same 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.600 body style and hete and wait and all those things. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.720 That is crazy. And then also I know. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.040 That by looking at the history of jer Leon Johns 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.840 that the cops put together for the lend of share prosecution, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.200 that he had lived in Rockford. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.880 Illinois, and he still had family in Rockford, Illinois. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.480 And if you look on the interstate, you have to 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.400 go through from from Tennessee, you have to go through 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.120 Indianapolis and Lafayette to get to Rockford. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.160 Which is about an hour away. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.520 So if he's traveling back and forth from his family 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.360 back down to areas here in Tennessee and East Tennessee, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.280 those interstates and those cities are on the is on 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.880 that interstate, right on the way. And the fact that 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.800 both those young ladies went went missing from so far 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.240 away and then end up dead within a mile of 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.720 each other, within a couple of years of each other, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:06.960 about thirty miles. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.120 North of where Jerry Leon Johnson is hanging out. That's crazy. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.640 And from what we've seen, I believe that Jerry Leon Johns. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.880 I believe he's a very opportunistic but also calculated killer. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.280 So I think wherever he's traveling, that's where we'll see 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.160 the path of destruction, you know what I'm saying. So 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.600 when we see these patterns of him traveling to these 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.160 different places, you know he's bound to recavoc where he goes. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.240 Yeah, so I think that's big. I definitely agree with you. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.360 We need to look at the Tracy Sue Walker case. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.720 And that's not because of bad work of the original students. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.079 It's because it's new. Information's going right, and she. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.319 Wasn't identified until August of this year. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.840 You know, Okay, awesome, So I think you guys are 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.400 doing a good job. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.600 I think we definitely need to continue to look at. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.000 These two victims and maybe they need to be included 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.800 in the inner circle. And Marty, we'll go back to you, like, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.680 what do you think you need to do next to 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.040 solidify the fact that you think she's connected with these 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.080 other murders. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.080 Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:26.720 a moment. Murder one O one. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.720 I think I definitely need to figure out like the 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:35.640 relationship between where she was found and where his sister lives, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.280 So definitely figure out that. So then it gives like 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.040 a reason for why he would be going down there, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.719 and it just connects it, so it's not like it's 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.719 crazy out of the way, And then I think look 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.600 at the other victims a little bit more and try 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.520 and find like connecting factors between this. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.960 And an unfortunate fact too, is so many of these women 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.360 were done injustice as far as the investigation goes, just 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.839 because so many of them were transient or were a 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.120 possible sex workers away from home. So many of them 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.040 were done a disservice by the justice system and enough 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.640 wasn't enough, attention wasn't given to them. Yeah, for Tina 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.040 Farmer and Linda, they were cloth that had been tied 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.839 around their necks and the knot was in the cloth 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:16.600 around their necks. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:21.840 So all right, So right here I have a huge 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.160 three ring binder. This is all of the information that 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.880 was collected for the Linda attempted murder. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:29.800 By Jerry Leon Johnson. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.080 So that's the only one that went to court. So 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.440 we have all this information and I have it right here, 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.000 and in this stack of a couple hundred pages, we 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:43.720 actually went down to Nashville, and here are some pictures 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:50.160 of the knots that were tied around her neck. Now, 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.439 it says in here that he took the T shirt 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.640 she was wearing, ripped it into strips, and then used 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.920 that to bind her ankles together and then her wrist together, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.280 and then tied her wrist her ankles like the hawg tie, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.160 And when she was in the car, that's how she 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.800 was tied. And so then he used those T shirt 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.480 strips to strangle her. And you're telling me that they 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:17.080 found something similar on Tina Farmer, who was who was 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.440 also another the other Campbell County victim. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.520 Yes, they found cloth that had been ripped up and 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.360 tied around the neck of her as well. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.199 So very very similar, as. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.280 You've said too, and just something interesting that when we 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.240 were personally into this case, it just kind of blew 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.160 my mind and shows you the ruthless, the ruthlessness and 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:41.079 the savageness of Jerry Leon Johns. Whenever Linda was choked, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.880 she was choked so hard that she was blind for 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.440 three days after the assault, and the whites of her 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.840 eyes we've seen the pictures from the hospital. The whites 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.480 in her eyes were completely red, as deep as red 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.920 as you can think. It was a haunting sight to 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.000 see her picture from them. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.800 I almost say something else like that. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:04.760 Information about Tina Farmer being strangled with a cloth was 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:05.640 not out there either. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.440 It didn't say anything like that when we were looking. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.880 And I didn't even know that she was found in 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.160 a blanket until it came out that she was identified. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.679 And they knew that Jerr Lee on John has killed 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.079 her because his DNA was found on the blanket, So 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.920 they didn't even release that. So the fact that now 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.520 we know that she was strangled with a. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.360 Cloth shirt from a. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:29.880 T shirts, from her T shirt. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.080 Okay, from her T shirt, very very similar to Linda. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.240 And then this girl Tracy Walker, who disappeared about an 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:41.360 hour from Tina Farmer up in Indianapolis, ends up about 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.439 a mile away from her. She also has been They 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.280 found the T shirt that survived, yes, I believe, so 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.080 they have strips of cloth with a knot in there. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.160 And then we know for a fact on the Linden 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.360 case that he tied her and then strangled her with 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.560 a T shirt. If that is not signature on a Yeah, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.040 then I don't know what is I totally agree that 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.760 Tracy C. Walker definitely needs to be like right in 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.720 the center of the possible victims. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.560 And I believe we should look and see what we 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.360 can find on other victims to see if there's that 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.240 possible Samemo. I mean, if he did something so similar 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.680 for these three victims, he's bound to do it for others. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.080 You know, is there anything else we need to do 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.160 this week? You know, just kind of research and see 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.320 if we can continue to pull these together. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.800 Like I said, just I think looking more into I mean, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.440 we know some of these small details that may seem insignificant, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.000 but these are the type of details that we're going 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.840 to put together to really make a compelling case for ourselves. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:40.040 You know. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.080 Yeah, well, girls, great job. I know it's almost time 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.280 to go to class. I appreciate y'all coming in early. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.200 I know you got your busy, you got basketball, you 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.680 got school. But I appreciate y'all coming in before school 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.160 and working on this in your spare time. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.840 I really think we've come a long way. I can't 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.120 wait to see what else you guys find. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.800 So who are the young women going above and beyond 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.000 in the search of justice. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.200 I'm Riley Wits, and obviously I'm sixteen. I'll be seventeen 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.520 the day before, no two days before Halloween, so I've 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.760 kind of always had that spooky ambiance follow me around 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:17.720 everywhere I go. But yeah, I've always been very interested, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.680 morbidly and fascinated with stuff that most people are like, Wow, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.360 You're either going to be a serial killer or a 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:25.600 brain surgeon when you grow up. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.640 Hi, I'm Malonsina. I'm a junior at elizabeth In High 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:30.880 School and I'm sixteen. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.800 Marley spoke about the extracurricular club. 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:35.880 We started, like a little club, which right now is 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.400 just me and Riley, so we just started getting into it. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.400 I would say that it's definitely out there, like I'm 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:46.160 not gonna take away from that, but like anyone's capable 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:46.720 of anything. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.640 So we decided, you know, to come in early few 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.360 times a week and do some work on our own 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.000 when we could. Me and Marley both play play basketball 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.160 for the school, so we'll be in the locker room 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.480 talking about it, and all our teammates are like, what 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.720 the heck is going on? 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.120 The rest is history. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.480 I guess Marley and Riley are best friends. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.240 Riley's my best friend. She has been since like third grade, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.000 so we've always been close. Well in third grade, we 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.880 met her basketball and we both still play basketball now 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.800 and we go over to her or I used to 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.800 go over to her house all the time and we 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.880 just did everything together. And back then I used to 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.480 be like really really quiet, like I would have a 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.400 panic attack. Before I had this phone call and she 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.840 was more outgoing. But she's still pullay the more the 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.360 outgoing one and all that. But I think I've gained 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.560 a little bit more of the outgoing this her. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.680 We spoke to Riley's dad, mister Woodson. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.560 I mean, they are literally best bff's best friends. Our 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.320 families are best friends. We vacation together, like we go 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.360 we go to Florida together every year. We you know, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.200 we travel, we stay together. We you know, we get 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.960 together on the weekend's cookouts with them, hang by the 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.880 pool where and she has a younger brother who is 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:02.720 the same age as my youngest daughter, and their best friends. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.240 So it's just like our whole folent family dynamic. It's 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.080 we were We didn't know them back then, but me 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.960 and my wife got married like a month apart from 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.119 Marley's mom and dad, Mikey and Courtney, and then we 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.000 had our first kids at the same time and our 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.000 second kids at the same time. They're just a couple 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.600 of parts. So yeah, it's a pretty interesting dynamic. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.240 We also got the chance to connect with Marley's mom, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:26.159 missus Mathena. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.400 They are peanut, butter and jelly. Riley is much more. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.600 Riley is the extrovert. She's out going, she could talk 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.239 to anyone. She's definitely not shy. She performs. She has 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.919 a beautiful singing voice, and it's comfortable. She you know, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:50.159 at many events. She everything from performing with the praise 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.640 band at her church, she sings at funeral she has 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.720 sung from the very large crowds for community events, the 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.439 national anthem. So Riley's there. Marley's more of the quiet 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.639 behind the scenes. But they balanced each other so well. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.879 You know, one is more cautious, one is more of 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.439 a risk taker. You know, you've got one pulling the 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.880 turtle out of the shell and the other one tempering, 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.120 you know. I mean, they are just in and yank. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:19.200 They are a perfect sweet little friendship. Basketball is their passion. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.640 Last year their team went to the state tournament. We 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.399 didn't win the championship, but we had an awesome run 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.879 and we lost no players. We had the juniors and 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.960 sophomores last year. So our goal this year is for 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.560 the girls to go back. They're working very hard. Riley 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.320 is point guard. She is an awesome shooter. She has 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.280 the most beautiful three point shot you've ever seen. Marley 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.320 plays the post position and again, you know, her timidness 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.479 has been, you know, something that she's been working to 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.160 come out of, and she has really grown and pushed 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.399 herself again to the next level and in her post 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.600 position really going after the ball and crashing the boards 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.040 and rebounding. They both girls are very, very very hard 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.639 workers on the court, off the court, in the classroom. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.239 Whatever they do their work ethic, they will put in 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.959 one hundred and ten percent. So them getting up at 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.280 seven o'clock in the morning, that's not out of character 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.760 for them. 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.520 Aside from being on her students and star basketball players, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.800 what truly bonded the girls was their obsession with true crime, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:29.840 and I think. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.520 That falls in with wanting to solve the Jane Doe 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.639 type stuff. She loves helping people less fortunate. It like 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.720 at church before at church and there's kids in the 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.240 youth who are kind of less fortunate, Riley will gravitate 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.200 to those kids. She wants to love on those kids 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:42.800 and help those kids, and I think they kind of 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.080 really as part of her passion for one to solve 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.880 the Jane Doe. She wants to help these ladies out, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.119 or these people, these victims who don't have a voice anymore. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.360 She wants to help them out. She is a typical teenager, 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.120 but she's she's. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:54.600 On her phone a lot. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.840 But I'm not kidding. If she's on her phone for 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.080 five hours in her spare time of day, four and 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.879 a half hours is with the crime podcasts. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.159 For Marley's mom, the newfound interest came as a bit 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:06.680 of a shock. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.879 She is not the child that enjoys thrill rides. She 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.920