Speaker 1: Solve Presents The Happy Girl Part three. Mike, Mike, it
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Kira. Don't give me that ship.
Speaker 1: They're completely unrelated. I swear Abby's your daughter's age, Tom,
Speaker 1: she's legal, she's eighteen, you're almost fifty, and she's your
Speaker 1: daughter's best friend. No it it sounds gummy? Are you
Speaker 1: fucking kidding me? Sounds does Abbey? No? You know? No?
Speaker 1: I came right over here. I'm gonna go talk to
Speaker 1: her next. What other secrets are you keeping? Tom? None?
Speaker 1: I swear we knew how it looks like. We just
Speaker 1: weren't ready to tell anybody about our relationship yet. Your relationship.
Speaker 1: You've known this girl since she was eight, Tom, you're
Speaker 1: basically a predator. You think this is an actual relationship.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. We're in love. See. I knew you
Speaker 1: wouldn't understand. Nobody would. That's why we had to keep
Speaker 1: it a secret. Did Kira No? I don't think so, Tom,
Speaker 1: This is important? Did Kira? No? No? Okay, ask Abby
Speaker 1: if you have to. Hey, Hey, Abby's waiting for us inside.
Speaker 1: What Tom say? You were right? Watkins? I barely even
Speaker 1: know the guy. Come on, we're running out of time.
Speaker 1: We are how long was this relationship with Kira's father
Speaker 1: going on for Abby? Just a couple of months. If
Speaker 1: there's anything else you're not telling us, now is the
Speaker 1: time to let us know. Abby, Tom is who I
Speaker 1: got the drugs from, but he didn't know I was
Speaker 1: going to do them with Kira. This is your best
Speaker 1: friend's father, Abby, a man who you know tormented her.
Speaker 1: Don't you think I know that? Do you have any
Speaker 1: idea how guilty I feel? Look, I get it. I've
Speaker 1: been there eighteen and an older man wants you. It
Speaker 1: makes you feel desired, attractive. It's just I don't take
Speaker 1: a lot, Okay, I don't. I don't really get a
Speaker 1: lot of attention. So yeah, it's a lot to process.
Speaker 1: Our Our question is did Kira find out about you too?
Speaker 1: M About a week before she died, she told me
Speaker 1: she heard him on the phone with me. I copped
Speaker 1: to it. I told her how sorry I was, so
Speaker 1: she did now Was she angry? No? More like concerned
Speaker 1: for me. She warned me to stay away from him,
Speaker 1: and I have been. That's why I haven't been answering
Speaker 1: his calls. Did she tell Tom she knew? Maybe told
Speaker 1: him to back off? Shouldn't sigh, Abbey, Now you have
Speaker 1: to listen to me because it's very important. Do you
Speaker 1: have any reason to believe Tom felt Kira was interfering
Speaker 1: with your relationship? I I don't know. Why do you
Speaker 1: keep doing that checking your watch? You've been doing it
Speaker 1: all day, nervous habit. I guess you're starting to like
Speaker 1: your friend as our killer. I'm starting to think we
Speaker 1: should stop calling him my friend. But yeah, some things
Speaker 1: are starting to add up, except the manner in which
Speaker 1: she was killed. Yeah, we know that this is how
Speaker 1: Kira wanted her death scripted, So how did he know that?
Speaker 1: That's why I've stayed on top of Garrett. I think
Speaker 1: I've got something. Come have a look. We've been wondering
Speaker 1: where that thousand dollars Kira took out before she died.
Speaker 1: Went monitoring Garrett's bank activity, no sign of it. So
Speaker 1: it got me thinking, Garrett's a big tech guy, probably
Speaker 1: has a cryptocurrency account, and sure enough he does, but
Speaker 1: Kira withdrew actual physical cash. Yeah. A lot of these
Speaker 1: cryptocurrencies have a t m s where you can make deposits.
Speaker 1: Garrett made a deposit at one of them in Bend
Speaker 1: the day after Kira was killed. How much one dollars?
Speaker 1: Mm hm, m hmm. These cookies are amazing, Garrett homemade.
Speaker 1: My mom made him. M hmm. Now I respect a
Speaker 1: good cookie. You know what, I've never been able to
Speaker 1: respect cryptocurrency. I don't know, I'd guess. I just don't
Speaker 1: get it. Seems like internet geek play money to me. Well,
Speaker 1: you could argue that actual money doesn't have any real
Speaker 1: value either. We all just kind of agree it does. Hm.
Speaker 1: I do get that part. I get that if you
Speaker 1: trade magic coins with other people who agree magic coins
Speaker 1: are worth something, it's a great investment. It's also a
Speaker 1: great place to stash money. Now walkins here. She's a
Speaker 1: geek too. She figured it out. We tracked your crypto
Speaker 1: account and saw the A t M deposit you made
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, same amount you were promised when you replied
Speaker 1: to Kira's ad. So Kira got her hit man after all? No.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, she gave me the money, but that's
Speaker 1: not what it was for. I know, it sounds crazy.
Speaker 1: It sounds more than crazy. We have enough to formally
Speaker 1: charge you with Kira's murder this time, Garris, don't please look,
Speaker 1: the money was for my mom. She's a diabetic. She
Speaker 1: hasn't samny. She needs all of these meds. I try
Speaker 1: to help, but it just keeps adding up. So Kira
Speaker 1: gave you the money for your mom. Yes, she told
Speaker 1: me that since she decided not to go through with
Speaker 1: the assassination, that she wanted the money to go to
Speaker 1: something good, just like that, just out of the goodness
Speaker 1: of her own heart. Yes, Kira was that kind of person.
Speaker 1: She'd give you the shirt off her back if she
Speaker 1: gave you this money, Like you say, did it not
Speaker 1: set off alarm bells? Like maybe she was planning on
Speaker 1: taking her life some other way? I guess it did.
Speaker 1: She seemed better. I don't know what changed, all right,
Speaker 1: they've heard enough. I him telling you the truth. I
Speaker 1: didn't do it, you replied to Kira's ad offering a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for someone to kill her. Kara gives you
Speaker 1: that money, and it's found murdered in the exact manner
Speaker 1: she wanted. No, it wasn't exactly what she wanted. What
Speaker 1: do you mean they said on the news. She was
Speaker 1: found in the woods. The way Kire explained it to me.
Speaker 1: She wanted to be shot in the woods, but have
Speaker 1: her body discovered someplace else? Why is that it increases
Speaker 1: the mystery? You know, Cura wanted her murder to seem
Speaker 1: really fucked up and confusing. So where did she want
Speaker 1: her body found? When we first started talking and she
Speaker 1: asked if i'd be able to carry her body over
Speaker 1: to the river, the current would take her and she'd
Speaker 1: wash up like two towns over. If you're gonna restume again,
Speaker 1: we just get it over with. Thank your mom for
Speaker 1: the cookies. We'll be in touch right now. Hey, Watkins,
Speaker 1: come on, stay focused. We gotta crack this. Sorry, it's
Speaker 1: just sad. This girl clearly needed help. It sounds like
Speaker 1: Garrett tried, if you actually believe him, not particularly. The
Speaker 1: problem is everyone's been lying to us. I think I
Speaker 1: get why Kira would stage her own murder like this.
Speaker 1: She wanted to be remembered. But who stood the benefit
Speaker 1: the most from pulling the trigger? We got the boyfriend, Jason.
Speaker 1: It was his gun that shot. Kira claims it was stolen,
Speaker 1: which he only bothered to mention after we found it.
Speaker 1: I thought Kira was cheating on him. Rich coming from
Speaker 1: the guy who was cheating on her, But then we
Speaker 1: saw him explode on Garrett, and Garrett said Jason had
Speaker 1: access to Kire's email. He could have seen what we did,
Speaker 1: the Craigslist post detelling how she wanted to be killed.
Speaker 1: He could have mimicked the murder to make it look
Speaker 1: like Kira set it up. Or Kira did set it up.
Speaker 1: She hired Garrett, just like she originally planned Occam's Razor.
Speaker 1: But then there's Abby lied to us about seeing Kira
Speaker 1: that night, didn't tell us about her secret relationship with
Speaker 1: Kira's dad. For all we know, Kira asked her to
Speaker 1: help her ender life. What are friends for? Right? Then
Speaker 1: there's the other half of that equation, Tom, Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I alive by it for the night of the murder.
Speaker 1: Shitty dad at best, abusive at worst. Flaherty, Mike, it's Susanne. Hi,
Speaker 1: did you Yes? I just sent my report to the
Speaker 1: police board. I see sature Superintendent. I'm sorry, Mike, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who was that? Uh? I'm about to be thrown off
Speaker 1: the case. What why I got into a bar fight
Speaker 1: the other night? Super is gonna be on his way
Speaker 1: over any minute now, cases yours, Watkins, Not until he
Speaker 1: walks in here. It's not You're still the lead. What
Speaker 1: do you want to do. Let's take it back to
Speaker 1: the beginning the map of the crime scene. Kira was
Speaker 1: found here, but the bullet casing was a few yards away,
Speaker 1: so we know that she was moved. It looks like
Speaker 1: they were on their way to the river, like Garrett said,
Speaker 1: but didn't make it all the way. That's assuming that
Speaker 1: Garrett's telling the truth that this was some sort of
Speaker 1: assistant suicide. If Kira was killed that of malice, it
Speaker 1: could be irrelevant. And the the only thing we found at
Speaker 1: the scene where her gloves here on the trail, Now,
Speaker 1: what were they doing there? She purposely dropped them on
Speaker 1: the way in. This is a part of the puzzle,
Speaker 1: or the killer dropped them on the way out. Did
Speaker 1: we ever get those gloves analyzed? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: What would we be looking for? Come on, we gotta
Speaker 1: get over to the lab. So we didn't lock at
Speaker 1: five o'clock. Stop. They should have the analysis back soon.
Speaker 1: If you're right about this, I'm not sure it's enough
Speaker 1: of a smoking gun. No, only a confession which you'll
Speaker 1: be doing what No, you should insist. It's it's your case,
Speaker 1: it's our case. It's your friend. He's not my friend.
Speaker 1: Come on. It'll be good for your career. You need this,
Speaker 1: so do you? Is that the report s CM testing
Speaker 1: of the fleece gloves found traces of Holy shit, You
Speaker 1: were right flat out. Now give me a minute to explain.
Speaker 1: You're off the case. We can talk back at the station.
Speaker 1: I know who did it. Just let me get the
Speaker 1: confession and PTS taken over. You get the confession respectfully, Sir.
Speaker 1: Detective Flatty figured this one out. He should conduct the interrogation.
Speaker 1: Just let me bring her suspect in. Come on, give
Speaker 1: me one shot to bring this home. One shot, let's go. Kay,
Speaker 1: do you know why you're here? No? I don't. You
Speaker 1: were Kira's best friend, right, Yeah, you would have done
Speaker 1: anything for her, of course, even kill her if she
Speaker 1: asked what watkins he has gloves? We did a forensic
Speaker 1: analysis on them and found gunshot residue, meaning the killer
Speaker 1: was wearing these when they shot Kira, then ditched him
Speaker 1: on the way out of the forest. I don't see
Speaker 1: any of our other suspects fitting into these girls gloves. Mabbe.
Speaker 1: At this point, lying will only make things worse. It's
Speaker 1: time to tell the truth. Yeah, okay, let's start with
Speaker 1: Kira's plan. How did you get involved? M that day? Um,
Speaker 1: that was the first time she told me about it.
Speaker 1: All she said was that she wanted to get high.
Speaker 1: She asked if I knew someone who could hook us up.
Speaker 1: So I asked Tom and he gave me the molly.
Speaker 1: So you were never going to a party like you said? Well,
Speaker 1: I thought we were. We got in her car. I
Speaker 1: told her she shouldn't be driving, but she insisted. She
Speaker 1: took us to the woods and that's what she told
Speaker 1: me about her plan. Abby, will you help me with this?
Speaker 1: M hm, come on, you're messing with me right No? Look,
Speaker 1: yeah she is. Where did you get it done? It's
Speaker 1: Strayson's Come on, this will be big for both of us.
Speaker 1: You're going to get to do the podcast about the
Speaker 1: mysterious Benham Falls murder. You'll be the next Sara kaneg Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're just really fucked up right now. Abby, Please,
Speaker 1: after everything that you did with my dad, cure, don't
Speaker 1: throw that in my face. I said, how sorry I am,
Speaker 1: and you've said you would make it up to me.
Speaker 1: This is how Look put my gloves on. You won't
Speaker 1: leave any prints on the gun here. I don't want
Speaker 1: you any Toby. It's always about what other people want,
Speaker 1: and someone just her second give a ship about what
Speaker 1: I want? Please? Abby, will you do this for me?
Speaker 1: And after you shot her, you were supposed to move
Speaker 1: her body to the river, right, she was too heavy.
Speaker 1: You started to panic and you ran. You ditched the gun,
Speaker 1: the gloves. You had to leave Curi's car there. So
Speaker 1: I'm guessing if we were to look at your phone,
Speaker 1: check your rideshare apps, we'd find you got picked up
Speaker 1: somewhere around Benham Falls that night. It's what she wanted.
Speaker 1: Everybody in this life hurt Kira, including me. Mhm. I
Speaker 1: was just helping my friend. I know, Happy, I know, Mikey. Tom,
Speaker 1: we've charged someone with Kira's murder. Abby, what That's impossible.
Speaker 1: Shekra was suicidal, She talked Abby into it. I can't
Speaker 1: believe this. How could she do that to Kira? How
Speaker 1: could she do that to me? You're talking as if
Speaker 1: Abby is the only one culpable here. Tom. You're not
Speaker 1: saying I had something to do with this. Come on,
Speaker 1: Abby may have pulled the trigger, but you're just as
Speaker 1: responsible for Kira's death. You made her life hell and
Speaker 1: then you took away one of her last safe spaces
Speaker 1: by starting a relationship with her best friend. What kind
Speaker 1: of a father does that? Are you going to hit me? Mike,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to come in and answer some questions.
Speaker 1: They'll want to ask you about the drugs. I'd get
Speaker 1: a lawyer. Come on, Mikey, Are you serious? We're friends, Mikey?
Speaker 1: Well what you got it? All? Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 1: If I forgotten anything, I know where to find you. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll be right here, desk duty for eternity. You guys survive.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got lots of paperwork to keep me company.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm sure we'll talk before the trial.
Speaker 1: Bring it home, Watkins, see if flirty Welcome to this
Speaker 1: calming meditation. To start, take a deep breath in and
Speaker 1: long breath out. The Happy Girl. Detective Michael Flaherty was
Speaker 1: played by Michael Trayner. Detective Lisa Watkins by the law batter,
Speaker 1: Tom Matthews by Jason Huber, Kira Matthews by Gina Vittori,
Speaker 1: Abby Goodwin by Lexi di Benedetto, Gret Craig by Scott Cooper, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Jason Kemp by Eric Lopez, Suzanne by Aaron Coker, Superintendent
Speaker 1: Brian Locke by Darren Cooper. This episode of Solve was
Speaker 1: written and directed by Corey Serge Executive produced by Corey Serge,
Speaker 1: Executive produced by Walt Palmer and Sterling Barnett. Casting by
Speaker 1: Daisy Laura. Audio production and post production by Salt Audio
Speaker 1: Production manager Liz LeMay, Recording engineer Zack Jurich, Hope Brush,
Speaker 1: and John Schmidt. Original music and score by Nathan Turchion,
Speaker 1: edited and mixed by Zach Jurich, Assistant editor Shay han Zu.
Speaker 1: Sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor Marilyn Miller