WEBVTT - The Cabin in the Woods 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:32.045 School of humans. These it's not just the victim and 0:00:32.045 --> 0:00:34.165 the victim's family. It's the worst for them, but there's 0:00:34.165 --> 0:00:37.685 also the people who are accused, and it's never cleared 0:00:37.685 --> 0:00:39.245 one way or the other, really, and so they get 0:00:39.245 --> 0:00:43.325 whispered about in town and just the crazy rumors hurt 0:00:43.365 --> 0:00:45.245 a lot of people. When there's no justice done, it 0:00:45.325 --> 0:00:47.005 hurts a lot of people. It hurts the whole town. 0:00:48.005 --> 0:00:49.565 I mean a lot of these people. Their children may 0:00:49.605 --> 0:00:52.085 be getting to that age, their kids might be sixteen 0:00:52.245 --> 0:00:55.245 or even older, and so that's got to be hard 0:00:55.285 --> 0:00:57.005 if you saw something like that at a party and 0:00:57.005 --> 0:00:59.845 you never told anyone. And it's interesting because I could 0:00:59.885 --> 0:01:04.405 completely understand being sixteen years old. You're terrified, you're terrified 0:01:04.445 --> 0:01:07.605 of getting in trouble for drinking and you know whatever. 0:01:08.645 --> 0:01:11.805 But that's very different from thirty years later. You've got 0:01:11.885 --> 0:01:15.525 kids who are older, like you know. It's just interesting. 0:01:16.885 --> 0:01:19.805 It's the end of winter and icicles are frozen on 0:01:19.845 --> 0:01:23.085 the gutters of my dad's house in Mountain View. I'm 0:01:23.125 --> 0:01:25.605 on the top floor in the war room, and in 0:01:25.605 --> 0:01:28.645 front of me are two boxes. There's a small brown 0:01:28.645 --> 0:01:31.885 one that looks like an oversized briefcase and a huge 0:01:31.925 --> 0:01:36.005 plastic blue one. These hopefully hold the clues to what 0:01:36.165 --> 0:01:39.725 happened to Janie Ward on September ninth, nineteen eighty nine. 0:01:41.165 --> 0:01:44.725 Everything in these boxes was collected by Janie's dad, Ron. 0:01:45.805 --> 0:01:48.245 He died last summer, but I feel like I've been 0:01:48.285 --> 0:01:50.965 talking to him every single day. Weird how things will 0:01:51.005 --> 0:01:54.445 hit you emotionally. You're really you know, you're okay for 0:01:54.485 --> 0:01:56.605 a long time, and then you see something. The autopsy 0:01:56.605 --> 0:01:59.565 photos I saw were war horrific, something that no family, 0:01:59.605 --> 0:02:02.005 you know, father should ever have to see. And then 0:02:02.045 --> 0:02:05.445 you'd see things like all of Ron's correspondence with his attorney, 0:02:05.605 --> 0:02:09.565 me and with the state. And Ron had obviously googled 0:02:09.565 --> 0:02:12.925 how to write a business letter and what to do, 0:02:13.005 --> 0:02:15.085 how to get a notary, how to get a notarized statement. 0:02:15.165 --> 0:02:18.085 I mean he really every single thing in there was 0:02:18.125 --> 0:02:21.285 documented by him, and you could just see how meticulous 0:02:21.285 --> 0:02:22.965 he was and how hard he worked, and right up 0:02:23.005 --> 0:02:25.485 until the end, he had his to do list. Like 0:02:25.525 --> 0:02:28.085 we did with Rebecca's case, In order to figure out 0:02:28.125 --> 0:02:32.165 what really happened to Jane, we need to focus on victimology. 0:02:32.205 --> 0:02:34.485 We have to try to reconstruct what was going on 0:02:34.565 --> 0:02:36.685 in her life. And the days and the hours leading 0:02:36.765 --> 0:02:40.565 up to her death, what really happened at that party? 0:02:41.005 --> 0:02:45.165 And thirty years later, why don't we know the truth 0:02:45.165 --> 0:02:48.885 about how Janie died. I'm Catherine Townsend and this is 0:02:48.885 --> 0:03:25.405 Helen Gone. So yeah, I'm keeping him in the order 0:03:25.525 --> 0:03:27.885 Ron had them in, But then I'm also separable going 0:03:27.925 --> 0:03:30.645 back to the week leading up to the party on Saturday, 0:03:30.725 --> 0:03:33.685 September ninth, nineteen eighty nine. I'm keeping him the same 0:03:33.725 --> 0:03:36.325 folders that Ron had them in, and he was very methodical, 0:03:36.325 --> 0:03:38.085 so I don't want to mess that up, and I've 0:03:38.085 --> 0:03:39.885 put a few aside I think we need to be 0:03:39.925 --> 0:03:41.885 to deal with first that are contradictory. But anyway, we're 0:03:41.965 --> 0:03:44.605 using witness statements from the Arkansas State Police case file. 0:03:45.525 --> 0:03:48.725 The ASP took charge of Jane's case at the request 0:03:48.845 --> 0:03:52.525 of Sircy County Sheriff Kent Griggs. The sheriff had a 0:03:52.605 --> 0:03:55.485 history with Ron and he wanted to avoid any suggestion 0:03:55.565 --> 0:03:59.605 of impropriety. Arkansas State Police investigator Bill Beach got the call, 0:04:00.085 --> 0:04:03.525 he drove to Marshall and started his investigation. And there 0:04:03.525 --> 0:04:08.765 are also contradictory things about out where Janie was. They 0:04:08.765 --> 0:04:10.325 call her Olivia in a lot of the statements because 0:04:10.325 --> 0:04:12.925 her name's Olivia Jane, But I mean most of these 0:04:12.965 --> 0:04:17.565 witness statements spend more time talking about the kegs and 0:04:18.165 --> 0:04:20.965 who collected money at school during the party and who 0:04:21.045 --> 0:04:24.325 was playing the party. By that Wednesday, everyone in the 0:04:24.405 --> 0:04:27.885 junior class at Marshall High School is buzzing about a party. 0:04:27.925 --> 0:04:31.085 It's being thrown by one of Janie's cousins, Jamie Ward. 0:04:31.565 --> 0:04:34.725 Since their names are so similar, will refer to him 0:04:34.765 --> 0:04:37.805 as Jay from this point on. Jay lived at a 0:04:37.845 --> 0:04:41.685 cabin in the woods off of unpaved Zach Road. The 0:04:41.725 --> 0:04:45.405 cabin was owned by Jay's father, Steve Ward. Even though 0:04:45.525 --> 0:04:48.245 Jay is only sixteen, his parents let him live in 0:04:48.245 --> 0:04:50.725 the cabin by himself so he could keep going to 0:04:50.765 --> 0:04:54.725 Marshall High School. Jane's family lived pretty far away from 0:04:54.765 --> 0:04:58.725 downtown Marshall. Janie's mom, Mona, told Bill Beach that it 0:04:58.765 --> 0:05:00.845 was not unusual for Janie to spend the night with 0:05:00.885 --> 0:05:04.685 friends on the weekend. On most Fridays, Jane rode the 0:05:04.685 --> 0:05:07.045 school bus home and then a friend would pick her 0:05:07.165 --> 0:05:11.205 up to go back to downtown Marshall. Ron told Bill 0:05:11.245 --> 0:05:13.605 Beach that the last time he saw his daughter was 0:05:13.645 --> 0:05:18.085 the morning of Friday, September eighth, a day before the party. 0:05:18.205 --> 0:05:20.485 He told Beach that she left home wearing a pin 0:05:20.605 --> 0:05:24.885 striped shirt and stonewashed jeans. We know that Janie was 0:05:24.925 --> 0:05:27.525 excited about the party from an interview her friend Leslie 0:05:27.525 --> 0:05:29.805 did with Bill Beach. It's been an interview of Leslie, 0:05:29.965 --> 0:05:34.685 student died in tenth grade approximately four twenty FM. Leslie 0:05:34.685 --> 0:05:36.685 says Janie spent the night with her on the Friday 0:05:36.725 --> 0:05:41.405 night before the party. Where was last night time? The 0:05:41.525 --> 0:05:44.125 last time Leslie saw Janie was at around four thirty 0:05:44.165 --> 0:05:52.245 pm on Saturday, finish fir on linked she said shirt. 0:05:52.645 --> 0:05:55.605 Leslie just said that Jane borrowed a shirt from her. 0:05:55.845 --> 0:05:58.885 When did you find out which one she bought? Say? 0:05:59.005 --> 0:06:04.565 After it happened. She tells Beach that she discovered her 0:06:04.605 --> 0:06:07.845 missing shirt day after Janie died when she went through 0:06:07.845 --> 0:06:10.125 her drawer to see which one of her shirts was missing. 0:06:11.045 --> 0:06:14.725 It was her deaf leopard one. So we know where 0:06:14.725 --> 0:06:17.445 the shirt came from, but we still don't know how 0:06:17.485 --> 0:06:19.445 she could have been wearing one shirt at the funeral 0:06:19.485 --> 0:06:22.085 home in Marshall and then a different one at the 0:06:22.085 --> 0:06:26.165 crime lab in Little Rock. Leslie also says Janie told 0:06:26.165 --> 0:06:27.805 her she was going to stash her clothes at the 0:06:27.805 --> 0:06:29.885 pool hall so that she could pick them up after 0:06:29.885 --> 0:06:34.285 the party. Was there anything in the time that she's 0:06:34.365 --> 0:06:38.085 fad with you last year it was saying to be 0:06:38.205 --> 0:06:44.925 bothering her INtime that she's concerned bat Nothing as far 0:06:45.005 --> 0:06:48.925 as well she's trying to glory kiss I ran her 0:06:48.965 --> 0:06:55.245 financial tumble. Yes, she get into the air. While Jane's 0:06:55.245 --> 0:06:58.205 at Leslie's house fixing her hair, Jay is at his 0:06:58.325 --> 0:07:01.725 house getting ready for the party. He's setting up kegs 0:07:01.725 --> 0:07:05.725 on the front porch. He's also preparing the PGA pine bunch, 0:07:06.125 --> 0:07:09.765 which stands for pure grain alcohol. He'd taken up money 0:07:09.805 --> 0:07:12.725 at school and he collected around one hundred and fifty dollars. 0:07:12.965 --> 0:07:17.405 Follow will be a swarm statement of Jamie Ward. Why 0:07:17.405 --> 0:07:22.245 am I oil seventeen? Is that right? When was the 0:07:22.285 --> 0:07:28.605 alcohol purchase for the party? In my hum? I don't know. 0:07:28.605 --> 0:07:33.925 I ain't got it, Jamie. I'd I say that, Well, 0:07:34.085 --> 0:07:37.605 you're under oath, you're not a suspect. Jay is reluctant 0:07:37.645 --> 0:07:39.765 to share who bought the alcohol for the kids at 0:07:39.805 --> 0:07:43.645 the party, but Beach has already discovered it was twenty 0:07:43.645 --> 0:07:46.045 two year old Gary Don, did you go with Gary 0:07:46.085 --> 0:07:49.445 Shnod's Big Flat? Gary Don is a graduate of Marshall 0:07:49.485 --> 0:07:51.885 High School, and it's still friendly with the students there. 0:07:52.605 --> 0:07:54.325 I told you when we started that I talked to 0:07:54.325 --> 0:07:55.885 a lot of people since I talked to you the 0:07:55.885 --> 0:07:58.885 first time. I told you when we started, and I 0:07:59.005 --> 0:08:01.525 tell you you're again in front of your mother, that 0:08:01.645 --> 0:08:05.005 we're not your point fingers, and we're not gonna say 0:08:05.685 --> 0:08:09.685 to somebody specificly college Jane's dead, but that we do 0:08:09.805 --> 0:08:13.725 have to have the trivia because these are unanswered questions 0:08:13.725 --> 0:08:16.485 if we can't leave unanswered to close out this investigation. 0:08:17.285 --> 0:08:20.285 Circe is a dry county, so to get the booze, 0:08:20.925 --> 0:08:23.845 Jay drives with Gary donn the thirty minutes to the 0:08:23.925 --> 0:08:27.325 Junction liquor store in Big Flat, which sits right on 0:08:27.365 --> 0:08:31.645 the border of Circe and wet Baxter County. Ever Clear, 0:08:32.165 --> 0:08:34.445 which is what the kids at the party Jane attended 0:08:34.445 --> 0:08:38.565 were drinking, is one hundred and ninety proof. That's ninety 0:08:38.605 --> 0:08:42.285 five percent alcohol content, making it one of the purest 0:08:42.365 --> 0:08:47.365 and most potent alcoholic beverages available, and Jay tells police 0:08:47.525 --> 0:08:50.805 that along with the punch, he added fruit pieces soaked 0:08:50.805 --> 0:08:54.845 in rubbing alcohol to make it extra strong. I remember 0:08:54.925 --> 0:08:57.925 my high school chemistry teacher lecturing about the dangers of 0:08:57.965 --> 0:09:02.125 grain alcohol. He took a styrofoam cup. This is what 0:09:02.245 --> 0:09:04.605 grain alcohol does to your stomach, he would tell us, 0:09:05.285 --> 0:09:08.005 And when he poured the alcohol into the cup, the 0:09:08.085 --> 0:09:13.245 styrofoam bottom melted instantly. I can't remember what chemical reaction 0:09:13.445 --> 0:09:16.205 caused the cup to melt, but I can remember that, 0:09:16.565 --> 0:09:19.845 far from being deterred by the potential danger, the kids 0:09:19.845 --> 0:09:23.565 in my class had the opposite reaction. Strong plus cheap 0:09:23.765 --> 0:09:37.325 equals a maximum buzz for minimum cost. Shortly after saying 0:09:37.325 --> 0:09:40.845 goodbye to her friend Leslie, Jane heads to the town square. 0:09:41.645 --> 0:09:44.405 They're in the Daisy Queen were the main spots where 0:09:44.485 --> 0:09:48.605 teens would hang around on the weekends. Janie's friend Ron 0:09:48.685 --> 0:09:51.445 Rose is driving around the town square in his truck. 0:09:52.325 --> 0:09:56.085 He's with Kim, another friend. Jane asked them for a 0:09:56.205 --> 0:09:58.925 ride to the party. Should be a swarm statement of 0:09:59.085 --> 0:10:03.605 Ron Dale Rose, twenty years old. This is Ron Rose, 0:10:04.165 --> 0:10:07.765 not to be confused with Janie's died Ron Ward. How 0:10:07.805 --> 0:10:12.765 did how did Olivia act when he first talked her 0:10:12.805 --> 0:10:14.925 out there on the square? Did that she's doing a 0:10:14.925 --> 0:10:19.085 pretty good movie. When she was talking being really happy, 0:10:19.365 --> 0:10:22.045 do you remember anything in particular if she talked about 0:10:22.525 --> 0:10:26.485 what you got to the bar? I really I just 0:10:26.645 --> 0:10:28.245 wondered who all was going to be down there and 0:10:28.325 --> 0:10:32.165 what was doing on? Okay, so you and Olivia and 0:10:32.565 --> 0:10:35.765 Kim went to the party together. Ron says the three 0:10:35.805 --> 0:10:37.885 of them got to the party around five point thirty 0:10:38.005 --> 0:10:41.725 or six pm. Soon after that, more people start arriving. 0:10:42.565 --> 0:10:45.125 Here's Gary Donn, the twenty two year old who bought 0:10:45.165 --> 0:10:48.165 the alcohol, and we in associated with a few people, 0:10:48.565 --> 0:10:53.165 and I seen Jane, and there's more. There's more people 0:10:53.365 --> 0:10:56.525 and went on into the house, went there and there 0:10:56.605 --> 0:10:59.125 was people doing different things. There's people who listened to 0:10:59.165 --> 0:11:02.725 this ORYA. Only there's people in the kitchen, and there's 0:11:02.765 --> 0:11:05.165 some people out there that had ferried out there as 0:11:05.685 --> 0:11:07.925 messing with the There's more people out in the backyard. 0:11:07.925 --> 0:11:10.885 And I'm or less walked on through one housesosiated with 0:11:10.925 --> 0:11:14.245 a few more than people. Multiple witnesses see Janey at 0:11:14.285 --> 0:11:17.365 the party. Some people say they saw Jane drinking the 0:11:17.445 --> 0:11:21.085 PGA punch, chewing on a few pieces of fruit, the 0:11:21.165 --> 0:11:24.885 one soaked and rubbing alcohol. But no one at the 0:11:24.965 --> 0:11:27.445 party is paying close attention to what Janie is doing. 0:11:28.445 --> 0:11:30.885 A lot of partygoers said they talked with Jane, but 0:11:30.965 --> 0:11:34.205 they don't remember what they talked about. People say she 0:11:34.365 --> 0:11:37.125 was sitting on Ron Roses truck's tailgate, or on a 0:11:37.205 --> 0:11:40.445 couch on the front porch, she was leaning against a post, 0:11:40.765 --> 0:11:43.045 or sitting on the rail of the porch. No one 0:11:43.165 --> 0:11:47.885 knows for sure. According to the National Weather Service, sunset 0:11:47.965 --> 0:11:51.525 on September ninth, nineteen eighty nine was at seven twenty 0:11:51.605 --> 0:11:55.485 seven pm, and that's around the time that all hell 0:11:55.565 --> 0:12:00.125 breaks loose. Depending on who you ask, two things happen 0:12:00.245 --> 0:12:05.085 simultaneously or one after the other. Janie falls and someone 0:12:05.165 --> 0:12:07.525 shout that the party is about to get busted by 0:12:07.565 --> 0:12:12.245 the cops. Even though it didn't have electricity, the cabin 0:12:12.325 --> 0:12:15.685 had a phone. It's called a party line, and it 0:12:15.845 --> 0:12:18.845 was a common sight in rural Arkansas during the eighties. 0:12:20.045 --> 0:12:22.645 A party line is a phone line where you're able 0:12:22.725 --> 0:12:25.245 to pick up the phone and listen in on conversations 0:12:25.285 --> 0:12:28.725 happening nearby. If you want to use the phone to 0:12:28.805 --> 0:12:31.245 call out, you usually have to wait for another person 0:12:31.285 --> 0:12:34.645 to hang up and someone at the party. No one 0:12:34.765 --> 0:12:37.885 is sure who heard a neighbor calling the cop on duty, 0:12:38.005 --> 0:12:40.485 Joey Pruett, and telling him a bunch of kids were 0:12:40.485 --> 0:12:43.885 having a party with alcohol. The neighbor also complained that 0:12:43.965 --> 0:12:46.045 the party goers ran her off the road as they 0:12:46.125 --> 0:12:50.845 zoomed up to the cabin. Of all the people at 0:12:50.885 --> 0:12:54.605 the party, only three say they actually saw Janie fall. 0:12:55.325 --> 0:12:59.045 Garyed on a cheerleader named Sarah and Billy, the high 0:12:59.045 --> 0:13:02.885 school quarterback. Sarah said that she was on the porch 0:13:03.205 --> 0:13:06.805 when Janey sort of twisted sideway then just fell on back. 0:13:07.765 --> 0:13:11.125 In Billy's statement, he says, she just came straight back 0:13:11.245 --> 0:13:15.045 like a tree. Gary Donn was socializing on the porch, 0:13:15.805 --> 0:13:19.485 so I looked away, and then I was more or 0:13:19.565 --> 0:13:21.565 less glass back in this in fly. I mean I 0:13:21.725 --> 0:13:25.005 called her in flight, is what I'm saying. I mean 0:13:25.085 --> 0:13:27.685 she was falling when I looked, and I mean just 0:13:27.765 --> 0:13:32.285 happened that quick. This, I mean, all that right there 0:13:32.925 --> 0:13:36.245 we've been talking about happened more or less in just 0:13:36.325 --> 0:13:40.565 a little wat. I mean she fell. I mean somebody hollered. 0:13:40.685 --> 0:13:43.485 Joy Prut was coming, That's what I heard. Joey Prutt 0:13:43.565 --> 0:13:46.005 was the police officer supposedly coming to bust the party. 0:13:46.165 --> 0:13:48.805 But and then people started scattering running by her. And 0:13:48.925 --> 0:13:51.445 that's more or less whenever I really started paying attention 0:13:51.565 --> 0:13:54.205 to her, because I mean, I couldn't get nobody to 0:13:54.245 --> 0:13:55.965 help me. I didn't know if she was knocked out 0:13:56.125 --> 0:13:59.605 or what or really hurt or anything. I knew when 0:13:59.645 --> 0:14:02.165 I got down there and turned her head over, safety 0:14:02.205 --> 0:14:04.205 busted her head over. That's the first thing I did. 0:14:05.005 --> 0:14:08.005 I mean, I try and save our head was much 0:14:08.045 --> 0:14:10.005 the over good. I thought her, she might knock yourself out. 0:14:11.085 --> 0:14:13.045 It's me and somebody lift her up on the porch 0:14:13.085 --> 0:14:15.285 j in the light, because the porch just kind of 0:14:15.325 --> 0:14:17.645 had her face shaving and stuff. It had her shaved 0:14:17.965 --> 0:14:20.085 a little bit, and we raised her up in the 0:14:20.165 --> 0:14:22.245 light where we could really see her, pay attention to her. 0:14:22.845 --> 0:14:27.885 And basically from that, this payple is going wild. The 0:14:27.965 --> 0:14:30.725 thing no one can agree on is how long Janie 0:14:30.805 --> 0:14:33.605 was laying on the ground. Gary don makes it seem 0:14:33.685 --> 0:14:36.005 like it was less than a minute, but Billy said 0:14:36.005 --> 0:14:38.365 it was more like fifteen to twenty minutes before anyone 0:14:38.445 --> 0:14:43.605 moved her. So this is the Billy Harris statement. Yeah, 0:14:43.645 --> 0:14:46.365 this is brutal. Kim Weddie went over to Janie and 0:14:46.405 --> 0:14:48.925 said she had passed out. I never saw anybody else 0:14:48.965 --> 0:14:50.805 go over to her. I went back in the house 0:14:50.845 --> 0:14:53.445 and talked with Jason, Matthew Brian. She probably laid there 0:14:53.525 --> 0:14:57.645 fifteen to twenty minutes before anybody moved her. Me, Jamie, Gail, 0:14:57.765 --> 0:14:59.885 and Gary Donn moved her to the back of Ron's truck. 0:15:00.565 --> 0:15:02.325 I don't think she was ever moved onto the porch. 0:15:02.845 --> 0:15:04.925 Jamie and Gil said she needed to go to a doctor. 0:15:05.085 --> 0:15:06.725 I noticed that's when I came back outside, that she 0:15:06.805 --> 0:15:08.925 had a bowel movement. I could see that her pants 0:15:08.965 --> 0:15:10.925 were wet and she was having a hard time breathing. 0:15:11.605 --> 0:15:13.525 Rose and Kim were in the cab of his truck, 0:15:13.725 --> 0:15:15.965 and Rose said there was no room for Janie except 0:15:16.005 --> 0:15:18.045 in the back. I offered to ride with her in 0:15:18.125 --> 0:15:20.365 the back, but Rose said no, he didn't want any 0:15:20.405 --> 0:15:22.565 trouble with the wall. I offered to get a blanket, 0:15:22.605 --> 0:15:24.805 and he said no, she'd be all right. I believe 0:15:24.885 --> 0:15:26.765 she moved her arm across her chest and we'd put 0:15:26.765 --> 0:15:28.805 her in the truck. She never said anything else that 0:15:28.885 --> 0:15:31.165 I heard. Janie was on the ground fifteen to twenty 0:15:31.205 --> 0:15:33.965 minutes before someone said the police was coming. Everyone just 0:15:34.005 --> 0:15:40.125 thought she was drunk and and passed out. Once everyone 0:15:40.285 --> 0:15:44.565 found out the cops were coming, people started panicking. Gary 0:15:44.645 --> 0:15:49.365 Dahn said, everyone was running around like maniacs. They see 0:15:49.485 --> 0:15:53.245 Janie soil herself. At this point, they know she's in 0:15:53.365 --> 0:15:58.805 serious trouble, maybe dying. The decision was made to put 0:15:58.925 --> 0:16:05.365 Janie into the back of Ron Rose's truck. Ron, Kim, 0:16:05.685 --> 0:16:09.725 and Sherry, another friend, got in the front. They started 0:16:09.765 --> 0:16:13.605 the three mile drive on rural roads to marshall'stown Square. 0:16:14.605 --> 0:16:17.165 At first, no one is sitting in the back of 0:16:17.205 --> 0:16:20.045 the truck with Jane during the rocky ride back to town, 0:16:20.805 --> 0:16:24.005 until Kim opens the window of the truck cab and 0:16:24.125 --> 0:16:28.645 climbs into the back to check on Jane. As Ron 0:16:28.765 --> 0:16:33.165 zoomed down Highway sixty five, he passed another friend, Carla Brightwell. 0:16:34.125 --> 0:16:36.525 She flashed her lights at his truck and when he 0:16:36.565 --> 0:16:39.685 didn't slow down, she thought something must be wrong, so 0:16:39.845 --> 0:16:43.365 she followed him. They ended up at the bank parking lot. 0:16:44.605 --> 0:16:47.845 At this point, Carla said, Ron and the girls were 0:16:47.965 --> 0:16:51.565 arguing about whether Jane was just passed out and whether 0:16:51.685 --> 0:16:54.165 or not they should take her home. I heard somebody 0:16:54.245 --> 0:16:57.085 say she's called, you know, and Dennie Wynn got a 0:16:57.245 --> 0:17:04.365 jacket at somebody's car and put over Jane and someone 0:17:04.445 --> 0:17:08.805 said she hadn't I already seen her move, that she 0:17:08.925 --> 0:17:12.725 fell off the porch, and I kind of thought, right then, 0:17:12.845 --> 0:17:15.605 though she fell off, of course she hadn't moved, you know, 0:17:15.725 --> 0:17:18.965 like all these end runs in my head. So Pam 0:17:19.045 --> 0:17:21.605 and I went over to her, and we were trying 0:17:21.645 --> 0:17:24.245 to feel her pulse, you know, because you know from 0:17:24.285 --> 0:17:25.645 when I said of like, you know, fell off of 0:17:25.725 --> 0:17:28.005 what I thought, maybe she's look for her, that's what 0:17:28.165 --> 0:17:31.765 you bag what I thought. Carla took control. She told 0:17:31.845 --> 0:17:34.725 Beach that she felt for a pulse and thought she 0:17:34.845 --> 0:17:37.925 might have found one, but she since decided that what 0:17:38.125 --> 0:17:41.925 she felt was her own pulse. She picked up Janie's arm. 0:17:42.765 --> 0:17:46.005 It felt cold. I knew enough to know to go 0:17:46.125 --> 0:17:51.365 get somebody that might know what to do, but they 0:17:51.405 --> 0:17:53.325 don't train. You didn't know what to do to pull 0:17:53.405 --> 0:17:54.765 up in a bag of the truck and there's a 0:17:54.845 --> 0:17:56.605 girl lay in there and you don't have a certainty. 0:17:56.805 --> 0:17:59.205 I didn't. I didn't know what to do, true, and 0:17:59.965 --> 0:18:01.645 I need to get help somebody that didn't know what 0:18:01.725 --> 0:18:05.365 they were doing. So Carla had run across the street 0:18:05.565 --> 0:18:09.485 the ambulance service to alert them of Jane's condition. J D. 0:18:09.645 --> 0:18:12.525 Beeson was the ambulance driver and manager of the ambulance 0:18:12.565 --> 0:18:16.005 service at the time. He and his wife, Kathy, a 0:18:16.125 --> 0:18:19.765 licensed LPN, arrived on the scene and would later testify 0:18:20.005 --> 0:18:23.605 that Jane was lying on her right side. In a statement, 0:18:23.725 --> 0:18:27.005 Cathy said, we checked and rechecked for needle marks at 0:18:27.005 --> 0:18:31.325 the request of the sheriff. Coarse sand, dry leaves, and 0:18:31.485 --> 0:18:34.405 small twigs were found at the blouse neck and the 0:18:34.485 --> 0:18:38.325 LEVI waste. Coarse sand was found on the abdomen under 0:18:38.365 --> 0:18:42.605 the bra Cathy said this immediately led her to conclude 0:18:43.005 --> 0:18:47.365 this was a suspicious death, not an accidental death. Another 0:18:47.445 --> 0:18:51.045 employee of the ambulance service stepped in. He stated that 0:18:51.125 --> 0:18:54.925 he noticed something else, a strong odor of alcohol on Jane. 0:18:56.125 --> 0:18:59.005 That's odd because it doesn't match witness statements at the 0:18:59.045 --> 0:19:02.165 party who said that she wasn't drinking heavily. One of 0:19:02.205 --> 0:19:05.645 the paramedics who examined Janie remembers seeing a black back 0:19:05.765 --> 0:19:09.925 def leopard T shirt over a white pinstriped shirt. She 0:19:10.005 --> 0:19:12.445 remembers having to unbutton and roll up the shirt in 0:19:12.565 --> 0:19:17.845 order to get to Janie's body. Meanwhile, many of the 0:19:17.925 --> 0:19:21.165 kids who had left the party congregated at the Daisy Queen. 0:19:22.165 --> 0:19:24.325 All of them were talking about what happened to Jane. 0:19:25.845 --> 0:19:27.685 A lot of them came to the Bank parking lot, 0:19:28.125 --> 0:19:32.445 where a huge crowd gathered around Jane's lifeless body. By 0:19:32.525 --> 0:19:36.485 this point, half the town is there. It even makes 0:19:36.565 --> 0:19:40.485 the evening news, but her parents Ron and Mona still 0:19:40.645 --> 0:19:44.525 have no idea what has happened to their daughter. Jane 0:19:44.685 --> 0:19:49.325 is pronounced dead at eight forty five pm. We'll be 0:19:49.485 --> 0:20:06.965 right back on the night Jane he died. Bill Beach 0:20:07.125 --> 0:20:10.045 interviews four of the people at the party, Gary Dawn, 0:20:10.445 --> 0:20:15.765 Kim Jay, and Ron Rose. He then asked the sheriff 0:20:15.845 --> 0:20:21.085 to send everyone home. Over the next few days, the 0:20:21.165 --> 0:20:24.885 sheriff collects statements from the kids at school. Beach then 0:20:25.005 --> 0:20:29.205 interviews thirty people. Over the next few months, he reinterviews 0:20:29.285 --> 0:20:32.445 some of the key witnesses. As I read through his interviews, 0:20:32.965 --> 0:20:36.725 several things start to bug me. A lot of the 0:20:36.805 --> 0:20:40.205 statements collected from people at the party are incredibly short 0:20:40.645 --> 0:20:43.845 and don't provide much detail, and they spend half the 0:20:43.925 --> 0:20:46.485 time talking about who provided the booze for the party. 0:20:47.805 --> 0:20:52.925 And over the months people's answers change. The cheerleader Sarah 0:20:53.525 --> 0:20:55.725 changes her answers of who she was at the party with, 0:20:56.325 --> 0:20:59.725 and also adds a story about Janie, calling her a snob. 0:21:01.365 --> 0:21:04.965 Gary Don initially said he saw Janie fall, but later 0:21:05.325 --> 0:21:08.245 in a reenactment video done by the Arkansas State Police, 0:21:08.845 --> 0:21:13.565 he demonstrated how Janey was likely to have fallen. It's strange. 0:21:14.485 --> 0:21:17.165 A couple of other partygoers also said they heard a 0:21:17.245 --> 0:21:22.245 thud when Jane fell, and then a statement from a 0:21:22.325 --> 0:21:27.725 police dispatcher named Harold Young throws everything off. Ron, Rose, Kim, 0:21:28.045 --> 0:21:30.845 and Sherry all said they drove from the cabin to 0:21:30.965 --> 0:21:34.565 the parking lot without stopping, but the dispatcher at the 0:21:34.645 --> 0:21:37.885 police station that night said Ron came by the sheriff's 0:21:37.925 --> 0:21:40.605 department at six thirty pm to tell him there was 0:21:40.605 --> 0:21:43.285 an injured girl in the back of his truck. The 0:21:43.365 --> 0:21:46.925 dispatcher's statement was notarized, and he confirmed what he said 0:21:47.005 --> 0:21:51.685 years later during another investigation into Janie's death. So, depending 0:21:51.725 --> 0:21:54.365 on how you read the witness statements and who you believe, 0:21:55.125 --> 0:21:57.805 the time between Janie falling and being in the Bank 0:21:57.925 --> 0:22:01.325 parking lot could either have been half an hour or 0:22:01.405 --> 0:22:05.805 more than ninety minutes. The order of events and how 0:22:05.925 --> 0:22:08.285 much time passed between them becomes one of the most 0:22:08.325 --> 0:22:11.765 hot button issues throughout the last thirty years of investigations. 0:22:12.845 --> 0:22:15.245 We thought having all of these statements available to us 0:22:15.365 --> 0:22:18.485 would be an advantage in figuring out this case, but 0:22:18.605 --> 0:22:22.765 it's leading me to even more questions what could have 0:22:22.885 --> 0:22:26.125 happened in those ninety missing minutes. This is one of 0:22:26.165 --> 0:22:30.245 the recurring questions that the journalists Mike Masterson asks in 0:22:30.365 --> 0:22:35.445 his columns about Jane. After Jane died, the Ward family 0:22:35.565 --> 0:22:38.485 heard plenty of troubling stories about what could have happened 0:22:38.565 --> 0:22:41.805 during that missing time. Well, and that's why Jamie and 0:22:41.965 --> 0:22:44.925 the Brose boy after they've directed to go to the 0:22:44.965 --> 0:22:48.445 macparking lots so Janey could be discovered there. That's why 0:22:48.525 --> 0:22:50.885 they were sitting there debating on whether to take Jennie's 0:22:51.005 --> 0:22:54.445 body to us so Ronnie could take it from there 0:22:54.685 --> 0:22:57.125 instead of them going along with their cover up. So 0:22:57.205 --> 0:22:59.005 they didn't know what to do. Well, they also took 0:22:59.005 --> 0:23:01.085 her to the Mac parking lot because there is a 0:23:01.445 --> 0:23:05.085 car wash there and that's where they redwashed her body 0:23:05.085 --> 0:23:08.645 and marsh they were directed to take hersh her off 0:23:09.045 --> 0:23:11.605 and wait at the bank parking lot until they could 0:23:11.645 --> 0:23:14.485 come and discover her. Did they ever explained why she 0:23:14.685 --> 0:23:16.285 was wet and where her hair was wet and where 0:23:16.325 --> 0:23:22.805 there was sand in her clothes? I mean no, no, no, 0:23:22.965 --> 0:23:27.365 that was never addressed. Yeah, I just rumors and witnesses 0:23:27.485 --> 0:23:29.485 claiming that they washed her now with the water hose 0:23:29.525 --> 0:23:32.405 at the car lot or the car wash in the 0:23:32.445 --> 0:23:35.765 bank parking lot. And when you say witnesses, was it 0:23:35.845 --> 0:23:38.525 people in the official report? Who so it was? This 0:23:38.685 --> 0:23:42.805 is like people talking beyond these missing minutes. What confuses 0:23:42.885 --> 0:23:45.565 me the most is the statements from the ambulance service 0:23:45.605 --> 0:23:50.645 attendants JD and Kathy. First of all, it took Bill 0:23:50.725 --> 0:23:53.605 Beach more than three months to interview them, and that 0:23:53.765 --> 0:23:57.165 was after they requested he talk to them. They were 0:23:57.245 --> 0:24:00.045 so concerned they even compiled their own statements to deliver 0:24:00.165 --> 0:24:05.645 to him. Talked to hit This is an interview you 0:24:05.725 --> 0:24:09.045 that Ron Ward did with j D and Kathy. As 0:24:09.085 --> 0:24:13.045 Beach does his investigation, Ron has started his own would 0:24:13.045 --> 0:24:15.925 you like my opinion? And this is just speculation? Okay? 0:24:15.965 --> 0:24:18.285 I thank somebody throwing the damn river and picked her up. 0:24:18.365 --> 0:24:20.365 Work took to a carb wars and holder or something, 0:24:21.165 --> 0:24:23.485