WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Aaron Hodge [From the Archives] 0:00:46.480 --> 0:00:48.000 School of Humans. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:53.000 Helen Got Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders in 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.200 an effort to raise public awareness invite witnesses to come 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:00.120 forward and present evidence that could potentially be further investigated 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.760 by law enforcement. While we value insights from family and 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.720 community members, their statements should not be considered evidence and 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.520 point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases. 0:01:12.320 --> 0:01:15.800 We remind listeners that everyone has presumed innocent until proven 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.080 guilty in a court of law. Nothing in the podcast 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.080 is intended to state or imply that anyone who has 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.600 not been convicted of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.120 Thanks for listening. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.640 In October of nineteen ninety five, something strange was going 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.840 on inside the Flick home at three h two McNabb 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.000 Street in Rector, Arkansas. The family was made up of 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.200 thirty six year old David Flick, his wife, four year 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.840 old Barbara, their daughter, eleven year old Andrea Flick, and 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.160 Barbara's son from a previous relationship, seventeen year old Aaron 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:57.080 Michael Hodge. Aaron was never officially adopted by David Flick, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.440 but at the time he used his last name, so 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.800 he went by Aaron flick. Barbara was a nurse, her husband, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.800 David had a transmission shop. Friends and family said that 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.000 they were a happy couple. Andrea played basketball and did 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.520 beauty pageants. Aaron was well liked by his friends as well. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:21.360 Both Andrea and Aaron were popular at school. Aarin would 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.720 later say. Andrea, Barbara, and David were planning on going 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.160 to Florida to visit relatives, leaving seventeen year old Aaron 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:33.600 at home, and, like many teens at home alone, Aaron decided. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.640 To throw a party. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:39.640 This seems perfectly normal, except that David, Barbara, and Andrea 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.480 never arrived in Florida. Their relatives were concerned, and after 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.840 a week a friend of Barbara's called the police. She 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.920 said the family never showed up at their relative's house 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.680 and that no one had seen them in several days. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:55.600 So police did some checking. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.920 They found that no one in Florida had seen David, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.520 Barbara or Andrea, nor had anyone in Rector, Arkansas. But 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.320 there was one member of the family who had been 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.960 spotted around town, Aaron Hodge. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:10.880 People had seen. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.200 Aaron driving his stepfather's pickup truck around Paragold. That weekend 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.720 was a big weekend to be out and about in 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.200 that area. It was homecoming weekend, which is a big 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.840 deal everywhere and especially in small towns. Everyone was at 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.400 the Friday night football game. On October thirteenth, nineteen ninety five, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.320 Aaron drove to the homecoming game and parties in David's 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.280 truck and was hanging out with friends there. He was 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.960 picked up by police at the homecoming festivity and taken 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.840 to the Paragold Police station. Paragold police officer Audrey Emberton 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.280 came to the station and interviewed Aarin. Officer Emberton and 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.080 another officer, Terry Prewitt, then went to the Flick family 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.240 home in the early morning hours at around one am 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:01.920 on Saturday, October fourteenth. Aaron lived in a converted garage. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.240 It was in the main. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.640 Part of the house, but it was his own kind 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.840 of separate area, away from the rest of the family. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.960 When the police asked Aaron about his family, he said 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.160 they were fine. He said he had heard from them 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.240 a couple of days earlier and they were supposed to 0:04:16.280 --> 0:04:20.280 be back later that day, meaning later on Saturday. Police 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.280 did not buy that story. At three am, Officer Prewitt 0:04:24.280 --> 0:04:26.360 went back to the home to talk to erin again. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.960 This time Officer Prewett asked if he could get access 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.680 to the main part of the house where the rest 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.840 of the family lived. Aaron told police that the doors 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.880 were locked, so Officer Prewitt looked around. He looked in 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.960 a window of the main house and saw some sheets 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.560 on the floor. When he asked Aaron about the sheets, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.000 Aaron said the family had been doing some remodeling. Later 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.960 that morning, Aaron was at the police station answering questions, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.160 and police went back to the Flick house. Officer Prewitt 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.240 got closer to the front door and he smelled something horrible. 0:04:59.960 --> 0:05:04.960 The stench of decomposition was so overpowering that police later 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.080 noted they could smell it when they were one hundred 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.000 and fifty. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:08.920 Feet away from the house. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.640 Officer Prewitt entered the home, the smell got worse as 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.280 he went further in. He found David, Andrea, and Barbara 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.800 all dead, and forensic testing later showed they had been 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.960 dead for about a week. This episode is going to 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.200 be a little bit different from other cases we cover 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.040 because this case isn't open. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.160 It's already been solved. 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.920 But I thought that it was important to cover because 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.600 this is a very divisive case. There is a man 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.520 in prison for these murders, someone who claims that he 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:49.440 was wrongfully convicted. So was there a misunderstanding, could someone 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.080 else have been involved? Or is the right person behind 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.960 bars for killing this family in cold blood? On the surface, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.480 this appeared to be a perfect family, but detectives quickly 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:06.400 discovered things behind closed doors were far from what they seemed. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.240 What happened to turn this seemingly perfect family into a 0:06:11.280 --> 0:06:12.120 house of horrors? 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.320 I'm Catherine Townsend. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.520 Over the past five years of making my true crime podcast, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.960 Helling Gone, I've learned that there's no such thing as 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.160 a small town where murder never happens. I've received hundreds 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.120 of messages from people all around the country asking for 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.360 help with an unsolved murder that's affected them, their families, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.880 and their communities. If you have a case you'd like 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.200 me and my team to look into, you can reach 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.240 out to us at our hele and Gone Murder line 0:06:39.280 --> 0:06:42.720 at six seven eight seven four four six' one four 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.360 five at six seven eight seven four four six one four, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.200 five or you can send us a message On instagram 0:06:51.240 --> 0:07:39.320 At Helen. Gonepod this Is Helen Gone Murder line police In. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.680 Arkansas we're interviewing seventeen year Old Aaron hodge about a 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:47.520 possible involvement the triple homicide of his entire. Family aaron was. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:52.040 Crying he said he had no idea what. Happened, meanwhile 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.760 police were processing the crime. Scene inside the, house the 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.320 doorway To andrea's room was. Locked police busted it down 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.880 and found her lying in her. Bed andrea had been 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.600 shot in the. Head her torso was on the bed 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.560 and her feet were dangling off. It she was wearing 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.080 only her underwear and had been covered up with her. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.080 Comforter andrea's white shorts AND t shirt were on the 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.480 floor near the. Bed her head was leaning against a 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 wall and her arm was up in what may have 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.520 been a defensive. Position detectives said they felt like she 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.440 had struggled with her, killer and that her killer had 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.040 used a pillow to muffle the noise from the. Gun 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.800 aaron lived in a converted bedroom right off the. Garage 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.960 his room was neat with no trace of. Blood police 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.480 did fine shells from a thirty eight caliber weapon In aaron's. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.080 Room they later said that the murder weapon had been 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.480 a thirty eight caliber gun like the one owned By David. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:53.520 Flick police followed the trail of blood down the hall 0:08:53.560 --> 0:08:56.480 To barber's. Bedroom they found her lying on her bed 0:08:56.680 --> 0:08:59.760 in her, nightgown with layers of bedding covering her. Body 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.760 because she was wearing her nightgown and because of the 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.240 position of her, body they felt That barbara had been 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.680 sleeping when she was. Attacked they Found david's body there, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.720 too face, down at the foot Of barbara's water. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.680 Bed he was wearing blue pants and a WHITE t. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.160 Shirt police noted they found no signs of a struggle 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.560 in this. Bedroom police thought That david had not been 0:09:25.560 --> 0:09:28.360 shot and killed In barbara's, bedroom but that he had 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:29.760 been dragged there from the living. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.200 Room there were pulls of. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.440 Blood on the living room sofa and a blood trail 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.560 down the hallway of the house that had been covered 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.800 up with. Pillows officers believed the killer had used the 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.240 pillows to muffle the sound of the, gun but there 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.240 was a lot that police didn't know because the bodies Of, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.200 David andrea And barbara were too decomposed to know exactly 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.040 what happened to them or how long they had been. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.640 There all three victims were bloated and covered in large 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.760 blisters that were filled with. Fluid all of them had 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.200 been shot in the head at close. Range barbara And 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:10.480 andrea had each been shot. Once david had been shot three. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.840 Times SO i want to back up and look at 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.680 how long the police had been asking questions about the 0:10:17.680 --> 0:10:21.480 family and how Long aaron had been stalling with giving 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:26.200 them any. Information On october, fourteenth after Officers pruitt And 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.000 imbriden talked To aaron at three am and he said 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.920 his family was, fine police went To David flick's transmission 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.720 shop to see if they could find any. Clues police 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.240 Asked david's employee if he had noticed. Anything he said 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.400 that a toolbox Of david's had been broken, into there 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.760 was some, money and a gun that belonged To david. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.280 Missing police suspected that something was, wrong so by now 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.360 the police Had aaron in. Custody when they got to 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.760 the interview, Room Officer, leach the officer who was Interrogating, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.920 aaron Asked aarin to tell him what he. Knew aaron 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.240 said that his family were in the, home and Then 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.680 Officer leach asked what condition they were in if they were. 0:11:07.680 --> 0:11:13.280 Okay aaron said they're, Dead so Then aaron told his 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.480 version of the. Story, first he said he wasn't sure 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.360 what happened to his. Family, later he completely denied having 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.320 anything to do with their. Deaths he basically said that 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.160 he had gotten into a big fight With david and 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:37.960 That david had killed his. Family one week After David, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.040 Flick Barbara, flick And Andrea flick were supposed to arrive In, 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.960 florida police were Interviewing aaron at the deaths of his family, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.400 members But erin claimed that he didn't kill his. Family 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.840 he said that his, Stepfather David, flick had Killed andrea 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.400 And barbara in a fit of rage and then turned 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.520 the gun on. Himself but it was obvious that someone 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:04.000 had covered up the bodies in the. Home there were, sheets, blankets, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.840 pillows and rugs spread out all over the living, room 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.600 So aaron's version of the story on the, surface seemed 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.520 to make zero. Sense If david had killed his wife 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.640 and daughter and then shot, himself how could he have 0:12:19.680 --> 0:12:21.120 shot himself three. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:21.800 Times in the. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.320 Head this would mean That aaron had found the bodies 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.920 and then moved. Them after finding the, bodies police Reinterviewed 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.320 Arin Arin now said That david had been cheating On 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.480 barbara and that they had been sleeping. Separately aaron claimed 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.800 that he told his mother about the infidelity and that 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.440 she had made a plan to Leave. David aaron claimed 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.000 That andrea And barbara were planning on going To florida 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.960 without him And. David he said that He, aaron was 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.160 supposed to go To florida to meet them. Later aaron 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.720 said he was supposed to stay with his grandmother until 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.080 he made the trip To. Florida then he was going 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.960 to be reunited with his mother and. Sister aaron admitted 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.440 that he did break Into david's. Store he stole his 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.840 stepfather's gun in, cash but he said he did that 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.600 Because david owed him. Money aaron said he and a 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.480 friend of his Named David gun had broken in To david's. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.240 Shop after that he went. Home he had the gun 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.080 and the money with. Him he wanted to Avoid, david 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.400 so he said he went to his bedroom and locked the. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.680 Door while in the, bedroom he claimed he was counting 0:13:30.680 --> 0:13:33.200 the money and messing around with the, gun putting bullets 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.120 in it and pulling them. Out he Said david came 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.080 into his room and found him with the gun and the. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.680 Money he said that he and his stepfather got into an. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.640 Argument at some, point the argument spilled out into the living. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.720 Room aaron said he Told david That barbara hated him 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.480 and that they were going to leave. Him aaron said 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.400 he told his stepfather he wished that he was. Dead, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.920 Then aaron claimed that his stepfather was trying to Get 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.760 aaron to fight. Him aaron said he refused to do 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.000 that and he left the. House aaron claimed that when 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.880 he came back to the, house he heard something a, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.720 gurgling snoring kind of noise coming From. David david was 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.160 on the. Couch he noticed there was blood pouring off 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.840 of the. Couch he claimed That david was already. Dead 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.360 aaron said that he was horrified to find his mother 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.040 and sister dead as. Well he said he believed That 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.920 david had killed both of them and then turned the 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.640 gun on. Himself aaron said that when he realized What 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.840 david had, done he shot his stepfather's body two more 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.720 times because he was so angry at. Him police Asked 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.560 daron why he hadn't called the authorities to report that 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.360 his parents and sister were. Dead he, said, basically he was. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.680 Scared he said that he was afraid that police would 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.320 blame him for the, killings so he just shut the 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.680 door to the. House he went out to his own 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.720 separate area and left them, there and then he threw 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.040 a party in his part of the, house one that 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.200 didn't end for several. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.440 Days could this be? 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.760 Possible Could aaron have found the bodies, and in some 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.440 kind of disassociated state of, shock just Moved david into 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.640 the bedroom and then stayed away gone out with his. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.960 Friends after the, interview detectives had to figure out If 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.640 aaron's version of events was even. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.880 Possible was this just. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.440 A terrified teen who was disassociated from reality after abuse 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.920 at home or a cold blooded. Killer in the days 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.360 between his family's deaths and police discovering the, Bodies aaron lived. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.600 Large he drove David it's black nineteen eighty NINE gmc 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.560 pickup truck around. Town he spent the money that he 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.000 had stolen from the. Shop he also Used david's credit. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.080 Cards witnesses told police That aaron spent money on clothes AT. J. C, 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.560 penny on gas and other, items and That aaron was 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.040 Signing david's name for these. Purchases one Of aaron's friends 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.120 told police he saw receipts for big amounts six hundred 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.120 to seven hundred, dollars and when friends and family members 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.600 would Ask arin where his parents, were he told everyone 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.480 that they were on vacation In. Florida after police Told 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.480 aaron they found the, bodies he insisted That david had murdered. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.760 Them police talked To david And barbara's. Friends many of 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.080 them Said david And barbara had a lot of problems With, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.800 aaron and one friend Of barbara's confessed something even more. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:40.480 Suspicious she said Both barbara And david had been afraid Of. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.200 Erin they said That aaron had issues at, school that 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.520 he had recently been suspended for a day for making 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.200 an obscene gesture while the class picture was being. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.080 Taken but things were more serious than just school. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.920 PRANKS a friend Of david's who worked with him at 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.760 the transmission shop told police That david had Bought aaron 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.560 A mustang for his sixteenth, birthday but that one condition 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.240 of buying the car was That aaron had to maintain good, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.400 grades But aarin, Didn't his grades slipped and the car 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.640 was taken. Away Then arin got stopped at THE asu. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.440 Campus he gave his name As Aaron flick and apparently 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.240 used a fake social security. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:19.600 Number. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.800 Anne david also confided in his friend That arin had 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.000 choked his Sister andrea because she wouldn't give him. Money 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.400 david told his friend that he was ready to Leave 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.880 barbara because he couldn't Discipline aaron the way he wanted, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.600 to but he said he wouldn't leave because of his 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.560 love for his. Daughter so tensions were rising inside that. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.920 House but what could have happened that led to the triple. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.480 Homicide friends Of aaron said that he drank and took. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.240 Drugs his, grandmother the grandmother he said he was supposed 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.120 to stay, with was the only one WHO i can 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.320 find in police interviews who actually had some nice things 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.800 to say About. Aaron she apparently described him as being 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.480 a mild mannered. Person in, fact things had gotten so 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.960 bad Between aaron and his parents they were planning on 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.600 sending him to a juvenile facility The Arkansas Baptist Boys 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.320 ranch In, harrison and the relationship Between aaron and his, 0:18:20.360 --> 0:18:26.960 Stepfather david was particularly. Tumultuous police talked To aaron's, Friend David. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.400 Gunn this friend later testified That aaron asked him if 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.320 he would drive erin to his stepfather's transmission shop at 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.360 eleven pm On, Sunday october, eighth nineteen ninety. Five when 0:18:38.360 --> 0:18:40.800 they got, There aaron tried his keys in the, door 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.680 but the keys didn't, work So david said that Anir 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.560 aaron broke into the shop and then broke open a. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.640 Toolbox all there was in there was fifty, dollars Which aaron. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.680 Stole the friend testified this seemed to be kind of 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.200 a surprise To, aaron Because aaron said he expected to 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.320 find more. Money aaron's friends said That aaron also stole 0:19:00.360 --> 0:19:03.880 a pistol a holster in shells from the. Toolbox he 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.760 said That aaron loaded five shells into that. Pistol after, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.280 That David gunn said that he And aaron took a 0:19:10.360 --> 0:19:13.000 ride and drove to a. Cemetery aaron got out of 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.160 the car and said he needed to. Think then he 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.680 came back to the. Car they drove To aaron's. House 0:19:19.360 --> 0:19:23.280 aaron walked in carrying that stolen. Pistol the next time 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.120 he Saw aaron was when he was at school the 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:31.200 next day driving his stepfather's. Truck police were trying to 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.480 establish a timeline because of the fact That aaron was 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.840 driving the. Truck police believed the family were killed on 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.480 the night Of october, eighth nineteen ninety, five which means 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.360 they would have been lying there for five days until 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.360 the thirteenth or the early morning hours of the, fourteenth 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.560 when they were. Found more than one person told police 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.520 it was very unusual For aaron to be driving his stepfather's. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.080 Vehicle they knew he did not normally have permission to 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:02.080 drive that. TRUCK a lot of people told Police aaron 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.000 and his stepfather did not get, along And aaron didn't 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.400 just drive the truck to school that one. Day he 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:11.720 drove his stepfather's truck for several. Days he took his 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.120 friends to the, Movies he drove Around rector And paragold 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.640 And jonesboro in the, truck and he threw parties at. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.920 Home police talked to a lot of teenagers who said 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.760 they were drinking and smoking pot in that apartment all. 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.080 Week police also talked to a young woman who testified. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.480 She had sex With aaron in his bedroom off the. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.080 Garage some people at the parties said they noticed a 0:20:37.120 --> 0:20:40.360 bad smell even though the bodies were in the main 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.120 part of the. House they Said aaron had excus. Uses 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.120 he told them the sewer was backing. Up he told 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:48.200 others it was cat. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:49.160 Litter he. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.400 Said there was work and remodeling and stuff going on 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.520 in the main part of the, house so everyone just 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.120 stayed away from. It it wasn't until much later that 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.560 these teens realized with horror they had been partying next 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.400 to three dead. Bodies his friend said during that week 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.560 That aarin seemed calm and happy and, normal that he 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.200 told more than one person it was the best week 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.360 of his. Life he had plenty of money to spend 0:21:15.360 --> 0:21:19.160 on purchases and a nice truck to. Drive police found 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.520 bloody clothing In david's, truck along with a pillow that 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.520 appeared to have a gunshot hole in. It that was 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.440 the one they believed the killer used as a. Silencer 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.640 this didn't seem to make, sense because If aaron's version 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.840 of the story was, true Then david would have to 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.160 have killed his wife and, daughter then put that bloody 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.320 pillow case into the, truck then gone, back lay down 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.280 on the sofa and shot himself in the. Head this 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.600 was something That aaron never really explained in his version 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:54.120 of the. Story aaron told police he did not kill his, 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.560 family but he did tell several different versions of the. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.360 Story at, first he said he had no idea what 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:04.040 happened to. Them, later according to court, documents he said 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.040 he didn't remember exactly what, happened but that he could 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.040 have done. It he admitted to police he hated his. 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:12.840 Stepfather he said he felt like he was out of. 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:17.400 Control Was aaron being abused at? Home was this just 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.480 a fight that got out of, control or was this 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:25.520 something much more. Premeditated one friend Of barbara's Named Darlene, 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.360 bolin Testified david told her specifically that he was afraid 0:22:29.360 --> 0:22:32.080 Of erin and afraid of quote what was going to. 0:22:32.120 --> 0:22:37.000 Happen aaron's, Friend David, gunn also Testified aaron had been 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.680 thinking about killing his. Stepfather he said That aaron told 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.400 him six months before the murders that he planned to 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.040 Kill David flick by hitting him on the head with 0:22:46.120 --> 0:22:51.040 a wrench and later burying the. Body, Then aaron's friend 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.760 Said aaron planned to say that his stepfather was. Missing 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:59.600 police didn't Believe aaron's, story but there was gunshot residue 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:00.480 On David flick's. 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:02.320 Hands an employee of. 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:05.920 The State Crime laboratory Testified David flick's left hand tested 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:10.600 positive for gunshot, residue his right hand tested. Negative the 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:14.480 problem was most of the gunshot residue was on the wrong, 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:18.360 hand Because David flick was right. Handed when the state 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.480 crime expert was asked about this in, court she Said 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.160 david could have had that residue on his hands because 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:27.120 he had fired a weapon, recently but it also could 0:23:27.120 --> 0:23:30.000 have been there for other. Reasons for, example it could 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.560 have rubbed off On david if his body was dragged 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.640 away by some person who had gunshot residue on their own. 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:40.240 Hands police were not Buying aaron's. 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.920 Story aaron was charged with triple capital murder for the 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:48.160 killings Of, David, barbara And. Andrea at, Trial aaron's defense 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.240 attorneys said his, Father David, flick was the, killer that 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.120 he Killed barbara And andrea and then shot. 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:57.520 Himself they claimed That david. 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:00.280 Shot his wife and daughter using his left hand so 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.360 his non dominant hand to, fire and that he used 0:24:03.360 --> 0:24:08.680 the pillowcases as homemade silencers to muffle the. Sounds aaron's 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:12.320 lawyers set in court that he was so distraught after 0:24:12.360 --> 0:24:15.520 coming home and finding his mother and sister's bodies And 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:18.920 david lying on the sofa already, dead that he Shot 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:23.560 david twice more in the, head and that after trying 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:27.920 to cover up the bodies and, blood he basically disassociated with. 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:30.760 Reality at, trial the. 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:34.760 State and the defense painted two very different versions of 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:38.440 what was really going on behind closed doors inside The flick. 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.440 House there was no question there were major problems in that. 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:46.160 Home had hated his, stepfather and at least one Of 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:49.320