Speaker 1: Solve Presents The Happy Girl Part two. Hello, come on in.
Speaker 1: This is it last session? It is indeed last mandatory session.
Speaker 1: I'm on the record is saying that I think your
Speaker 1: therapy should continue. So how's the case going. It's taking
Speaker 1: some turns, that's for sure. What I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out now is what's that on your shirt where you're
Speaker 1: right sleeve? Oh? Nothing, it looked like blood. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: nicked myself shaving earlier. Your knuckles are bloody as well.
Speaker 1: It's it's not that big a deal you hit someone.
Speaker 1: It's not what you think. Seriously, we don't have to
Speaker 1: get into this. This is exactly the kind of thing
Speaker 1: we have to get into. Now, tell me what happened,
Speaker 1: all right? I guess it all started four days ago.
Speaker 1: So Kira was suicidal and hired someone to kill her.
Speaker 1: That's a new one. Maybe she was afraid she wouldn't
Speaker 1: go through it herself. More importantly, who replied to the ad?
Speaker 1: These Craigslist email chains are anonymous? He didn't give her
Speaker 1: any contact infoe Maybe he did, but she deleted it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we only have this much because she left
Speaker 1: it in her drafts folder. We can subpoena Craigslist for
Speaker 1: the full thread and the email addressed on the other
Speaker 1: side of this good until then her phone and he
Speaker 1: calls her text from someone we don't know. It started
Speaker 1: about two months ago. Let's see. Uh, she does have
Speaker 1: some phone calls with someone named Garrett. Looks like the
Speaker 1: first call was on January twenty, same day as those
Speaker 1: emails ship that we were supposed to go in from
Speaker 1: the Lust side, the Lust come on, kick It, kick
Speaker 1: it booted ship with come on hey girl during the game.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry to sneak up on you down here, your
Speaker 1: mom let us in. Who are you guys? Homicide detectives.
Speaker 1: We're investigating the death of Kara Matthews. Who's that? You
Speaker 1: know who she is, don't you? Their numbers all over
Speaker 1: her phone? Oh um Kira, Yeah, yeah, see I do
Speaker 1: internet tech support for prison. Kira had so many problems
Speaker 1: with her connection that I just I ended up giving
Speaker 1: her my direct line. Oh my god, she's dead. She
Speaker 1: had received calls from you too. Is that typical calling customers?
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get disconnected. The signal was really crappy down here,
Speaker 1: so I'll have to call them back. So, just to
Speaker 1: be clear, you didn't know her personally, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't know her at all. Okay, well, thanks
Speaker 1: for clearing that up, Garrett, and we are very sorry
Speaker 1: to interrupt your game. So he's lying, Oh yeah, Craig,
Speaker 1: lest should get back to us soon to confirmed. Garrett's
Speaker 1: on the other end of those emails. And in the meanwhile,
Speaker 1: location dot on her phone not just towers, find out
Speaker 1: if her phone joined any WiFi networks the night she
Speaker 1: was killed. Way more accurate on it. And okay, and well,
Speaker 1: in the interest of productive use of time, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: we asked Tom to come in our new prime. Suspect
Speaker 1: is down in that basement. I can feel it in
Speaker 1: my bones. I share that feeling. I do, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to solve this case based on feelings. Look,
Speaker 1: I know you said he's not a suspect, so let's
Speaker 1: just clear him and be done with it. Maybe he
Speaker 1: can at least shed some light on any mental health
Speaker 1: issues here might have had. I just had a scene
Speaker 1: over there, Tom, So, is is there any news? Well,
Speaker 1: we found something and we should warn you. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's disturbing. What is it? Before Kira died, she placed
Speaker 1: a personal ad online she wanted to hire someone to
Speaker 1: kill her. Why the hell would she do that? Seems
Speaker 1: to be in a assisted suicide situation. Okay, did Kira
Speaker 1: have a history of depression? I don't think so. But
Speaker 1: you didn't really talk about that kind of stuff. It
Speaker 1: wasn't really our relationship. Yeah, m hmm, Tom, where were
Speaker 1: you on the night of Are you fucking serious? We
Speaker 1: ask everybody this, You really think I could kill my
Speaker 1: own daughter? I've got to cover all my bases, that's all.
Speaker 1: I was at home the whole night, yes, so nobody
Speaker 1: else can corroborate this. I was by myself the whole time.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to interrupt detectives, he said to let you
Speaker 1: know as soon as it came in, Can you excuse
Speaker 1: us time? Thanks? Thanks that the email address of who
Speaker 1: replied to Kira's ad? Yep, Well this is why you
Speaker 1: always go with your gut. Watkins start talking. Okay, I
Speaker 1: replied to the ad, but I was never going to
Speaker 1: go through with it. You reply to an ad where
Speaker 1: someone says they'll give you a thousand dollars to kill them,
Speaker 1: and your plan was what I wanted to help her,
Speaker 1: and I did. I talked her out of it. How
Speaker 1: did you manage that? We started talking and we had
Speaker 1: a lot in common. We became friends. What kind of
Speaker 1: stuff does an eighteen year old girl have in common
Speaker 1: with a man in his thirties. We we were both gamers,
Speaker 1: both really in a true crime. True crime like podcasts,
Speaker 1: podcast documentaries, you name it. Kiro was obsessed with that stuff.
Speaker 1: That that's why, why what, Garrett? That's why she wanted
Speaker 1: to stage her own death. You guys know all those
Speaker 1: shows about girls who are mysteriously murdered. Well, that's what
Speaker 1: Kira wanted. It a Netflix special all about her. Why
Speaker 1: would she want that? When I first started talking to Kira,
Speaker 1: she was really sad, you know, really low self worth.
Speaker 1: I guess she just wanted to be to be remembered.
Speaker 1: So you respond to the ad and instead of going
Speaker 1: through with it, you swoop in like a white Knight
Speaker 1: and save her. Is that your story? I know it
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but it's the truth. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you really cared for her, maybe even
Speaker 1: more than her boyfriend did. Look, I know what you're
Speaker 1: getting at, and I already have a girlfriend. Let's just
Speaker 1: got the bullshit, huh, page you a thousand dollars gave
Speaker 1: you her boyfriend's gun and you shot her in the
Speaker 1: back of the head. And can you excuse us, Garrett?
Speaker 1: If you're gonna cut me off every time I get
Speaker 1: hot in there, I've got news for you. We won't
Speaker 1: get a confession. He wasn't going to confess. Look, let's
Speaker 1: keep this simple. If you think he's our guy, charge him.
Speaker 1: If not, you've got to cut him loose. Like Jason,
Speaker 1: what do you think I I think I'd like to
Speaker 1: poke holes in a story. First, d A might want
Speaker 1: to put him at the crime scene. Well, what did
Speaker 1: Garrett's mother say? She says she heard him playing video
Speaker 1: games all night. She hasn't saw him yet, so she's
Speaker 1: sure of it. He could have just left her game on,
Speaker 1: slipped out of the house. The money one dollars, that's
Speaker 1: what we need. Until then, we'll tell him not to
Speaker 1: leave town. We'll pick him back up when we have
Speaker 1: more facts. It was hell, no, okay, let him go.
Speaker 1: But if I'm right, we'll be dragging him out of
Speaker 1: his mom's basement in a couple of days. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: we never got to finish that interview with Tom again
Speaker 1: with this, when we have our prime suspect in our sights,
Speaker 1: tying off all our loose ends will make the case
Speaker 1: against scared even stronger. Tom volunteered that he was a
Speaker 1: ship dad, and he showed remorse for it. I heard
Speaker 1: nothing suspicious. You also said he's an alcoholic. Your point,
Speaker 1: alcoholics are liars. You know. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: digging into your personal history here, but if I had
Speaker 1: to guess, I'd say you're doing some projecting, and I'd
Speaker 1: say you have a blind spot for your friend detectives.
Speaker 1: We have a problem out front. Hey, break that, Jason,
Speaker 1: Get off him? Oh what did I do to you?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Would you do? You killed tiof?
Speaker 1: Take enough? How do you know he was here? My
Speaker 1: buddy Pete lives across the street from him. He says
Speaker 1: he saw you guys hauling this tub of ship out
Speaker 1: of his house. He killed her, right, No, I didn't
Speaker 1: you know. I knew she was cheating on me. I
Speaker 1: just didn't think it was with some loser like this.
Speaker 1: Take a walk, Jason, now, Garrett, get inside. We'll have
Speaker 1: someone drive you home. The location data from cures cell
Speaker 1: phone just came in. You're right. Her phone did join
Speaker 1: a WiFi network that night. Well, which one of those
Speaker 1: two do I have to grab neither? Who's that with
Speaker 1: a hard eye emojis on your caller? I d Abby boyfriend? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Um enough, I want to Detective Flaherty is very nosy.
Speaker 1: I'm not nosy. I'm curious. I like to know things.
Speaker 1: How to play tectonics work? Why is the sky blue?
Speaker 1: And why did you lie to us about seeing Kia
Speaker 1: the night she was murdered? I am I didn't want
Speaker 1: to get in trouble. And why would you get in
Speaker 1: trouble because I I was the one who gave her
Speaker 1: the drugs that night? Okay, Mabby, tell us what really
Speaker 1: happened that night. Let's start with where you got the drugs?
Speaker 1: Just some dealer. I don't know his name? Was it Garrett?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't know, or you don't know
Speaker 1: who that is? Both? I guess. So Kira comes over,
Speaker 1: you do some molly, then what h We're supposed to
Speaker 1: go to a party, but I caught a bad buzz
Speaker 1: and wanted to stay in, so she left on her own.
Speaker 1: I don't know where she went. The other day, you
Speaker 1: said you wouldn't describe Kira as a happy girl. What
Speaker 1: did you mean by that? It just meant Kira had
Speaker 1: a dark side. We heard she was a true crime addict. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we both were. We used to joke we can't remember
Speaker 1: the name of someone we just met, but can run
Speaker 1: off all of Casey's victims. I never got that. What
Speaker 1: is it with young girls being so into murder these days?
Speaker 1: I I don't know, um, just something fascinating about these stories.
Speaker 1: We were even going to start a podcast. We're going
Speaker 1: to be just like Sara Kanick and Julie Snyder and
Speaker 1: Cereal and all of this talk about death. Did Kira
Speaker 1: ever talk about her own? You're asking if she was suicidal?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but she could get sad sometimes. Look
Speaker 1: her whole life. People have been screwing her over. Hm.
Speaker 1: Hey Watkins, why don't you go grab the pronounce of
Speaker 1: that ad? Kira posted, Uh, sure you're back. You know Abby.
Speaker 1: I'm getting really sick and tired of people lying to me.
Speaker 1: I'm not lying. That's what you said last time. So
Speaker 1: what aren't you telling us this time? Nothing? I'm see see.
Speaker 1: That's what I hate. I tell someone not to lie
Speaker 1: and they keep doing it anyway. Now, what I want
Speaker 1: to know is why, why who are you protecting? Is
Speaker 1: it Garrett, I told you I don't know who that is?
Speaker 1: Someone else, yourself? Maybe what I didn't kill? Your best
Speaker 1: friend is dead and you're only telling us facts that
Speaker 1: are convenient for you. How do I know that you
Speaker 1: didn't kill her? I didn't had What is going on? Here?
Speaker 1: Go on? Get out of here. M h Can I
Speaker 1: get for you? Scotch? Hey? Tom, I thought i'd find
Speaker 1: you here. Yeah, well old comforts? Can you heard? It
Speaker 1: has judgment? No? No, I'd say now is the time
Speaker 1: for old comforts. You can get on the wagon later
Speaker 1: here to Cia. Are you gonna find my daughter's killer
Speaker 1: or not? Mike, No, we're trying. We've had some leads.
Speaker 1: They just they keep turning up to be dead ends.
Speaker 1: She was suicidal. I'm a little girl. Yeah, because of me. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't know. We don't have the full picture yet.
Speaker 1: If I wasn't there for her, then I'm going to
Speaker 1: be there for her now. I'll find the sun of
Speaker 1: a bitch. Who did this? Come on myself? Hey, watch
Speaker 1: your man? You sprayed it all over me. You watch
Speaker 1: an asshole? What did you say to me? Hey? We're
Speaker 1: fine here. Sorry with my friend, he's a little spilly,
Speaker 1: just he's going through a lot. Yeah, so give me
Speaker 1: some space. Well, hey, well what's going on here? These
Speaker 1: two little bitches were bitches. You're the one complaining that
Speaker 1: you've got a little bit of beer spill on your
Speaker 1: dress there, Nancy, Why don't you say that again and
Speaker 1: see what happens to you? Hey, be careful. This guy's
Speaker 1: a cop, is that right? Come on, don't listen to him.
Speaker 1: He's drunk, all right? Hey, I really liked that bar.
Speaker 1: Why do you have to go and gosh it? Mikey wow?
Speaker 1: I was trying to stick up for you, idiot, right, Yeah, thanks, Mike,
Speaker 1: you're a good friend. I crashed at Thomson came right here,
Speaker 1: so I I didn't have a chance to change my shirt.
Speaker 1: And were you just sticking up for your friend or
Speaker 1: did you feel like you wanted to punch someone? Maybe
Speaker 1: a bit of both. I did feel like a release.
Speaker 1: How do you think the police board will feel about it?
Speaker 1: You're not going to report this. I have to report this.
Speaker 1: You're in court mandated anger management therapy because you beat
Speaker 1: up the prime suspect in your last murder trial. He'd
Speaker 1: already confess I didn't stop the defense from getting him off,
Speaker 1: did it? Behavior like this is ex actly when I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to flag. But it didn't have anything to do
Speaker 1: with the case. Not this time, Suzanne. Listen to me.
Speaker 1: I need to be the one who catches Karen's killer. Please,
Speaker 1: I have to finish this technically. I have twenty four
Speaker 1: hours to report this. Thank you. Two hours. That's it,
Speaker 1: and I want you back in here next week. You
Speaker 1: got it? Thanks again? Hey, rough night, I didn't sleep much.
Speaker 1: It gets that way sometimes in a case. Larity, Superintendent,
Speaker 1: the good One girl is here at the front desk,
Speaker 1: said she left her phone in the interrogation room. Oh
Speaker 1: uh right, yeah, thanks, I'll go get it. I'll come with.
Speaker 1: I should apologize for chasing her out like that. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: phone's still here. It's Mr hart I emoji. Maybe I
Speaker 1: should pick up. See what he knows? Flat, don't. Finally
Speaker 1: you pick up? I must have called you after times.
Speaker 1: Who is this? What's this? Tom? Detective Michael Flaherty was
Speaker 1: played by Michael Trayner. Detective Lisa Watkins by the law batter,
Speaker 1: Tom Matthews by Jason huber Kia Matthews by Gina Vittori.
Speaker 1: Abby Goodwin by Lexi di Benedetto Gart Craig by Scott Cooper,
Speaker 1: Ryan Jason Kemp by Eric Lopez, Suzanne by Aaron Coker,
Speaker 1: Superintendent Brian Locke by Darren Cooper. This episode of Solve
Speaker 1: was written and directed by Corey Serge. Executive produced by
Speaker 1: Corey Serge, Executive produced by Walt Palmer and Sterling Barnett.
Speaker 1: Casting by Daisy Laura. Audio production and post production by
Speaker 1: Salt Audio production manager Liz LeMay, Recording engineer Zack Jurich,
Speaker 1: Hope Brush, and John Schmidt. Original music and score by
Speaker 1: Nathan Turchon, Edited and mixed by Zack Jurich. Assistant editor
Speaker 1: shy han Zu. Sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor
Speaker 1: Marilyn Miller