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00:00Pennsylvania has state game lands set up all over the state.
00:27It is just a large chunk of woods, several hundred acres put together, that's accessible
00:33to the public during hunting season.
00:39Access to it is limited to prevent any damage to wildlife.
00:46They have certain trails that allow you access during large game hunting seasons, but you're
00:52on foot only going back there.
00:55It would be very common to find bones in the state game lands.
01:02But a hunter discovered a polo shirt in the area as well.
01:16And he realized there were also human remains.
01:23This is a very common sense.
01:30You can see the killer's wall from the ground.
01:34You could see the killer's wall.
01:38You can see the killer's wall.
01:42Oh, my God.
02:12It was the first week of hunting season around Thanksgiving.
02:21The hunter, he contacted the state police in Gibson, and we immediately sent investigators
02:31to meet with the hunter and locate the area where the remains are in.
02:36The closest access to it was off of Rose Hollow Road, and this area was farther back in the
02:46woods in the game lands.
02:48It was remote.
02:53Sometimes when you respond to a call, it turns out worse than you could have ever imagined
02:59it being before you get there.
03:02This was horrifying.
03:05And I have been with the Pennsylvania State Police for 18 and a half years.
03:09It is very common to find bones in the state game lands, but extremely uncommon to find
03:16human remains.
03:18We immediately contacted the Mercyhurst College anthropological team.
03:24At that time, I was an assistant professor at Mercyhurst University in the Department of
03:29Applied Forensic Sciences.
03:33I remember that we had to walk maybe two kilometers or so to get to the area.
03:40It was not drivable.
03:42When I'm walking to the scene, my question in my head is like, does another human have ever
03:48been here?
03:50It was very, very remote.
03:53There was a lot of branches and trees, and it was cold.
04:00The bones looked very, very fresh.
04:05They were very scattered.
04:09And they were also damaged.
04:14The overall pattern of the fractures were very clear that it was trauma.
04:19And it was significant.
04:21I mean, it shocked me.
04:25So my question in my head is like, why the remains were like that?
04:38That didn't make sense anatomically.
04:40Some force have, like, scattered them in that way.
04:48There was a lot of leaf litter that we had actually to remove to make sure that we had
04:53each skeletal element.
04:57In this case, we had the pelvis.
05:01We had both femora.
05:04And then we have the cranium and the bandit ball, one scapula, and some birds.
05:12And there was no doubt that it was human.
05:16At the time of this incident, I was a member of the Criminal Investigation Unit.
05:21This was the first homicide investigation that I dealt with in Susquehanna County.
05:27When human moraines are found in the woods, my first question is, how did this occur?
05:32It could have been a suicide.
05:33It could have been somebody that got lost in the woods.
05:38But the state gamelands is also the perfect place to dispose of a body.
05:43It's secluded.
05:44And there's so many different places that somebody might be able to dump somebody.
05:48We needed to figure out what happened here.
05:51We finished cleaning the remains in the morgue and then assigned them if that's a perimortem
06:06fracture or it's a post-mortem damage.
06:10The only trauma we could find was the fractures in both femora.
06:16They were both fractured exactly at the same level.
06:20The remains are not that precise.
06:22And also the overall pattern of the fractures did not fit with damage by animals.
06:27This is post-mortem damage trauma that occurred around the time of death.
06:33And it was land force trauma.
06:37It was significant.
06:38The victim did have femur breaks, which could have indicated some kind of traumatic event,
06:43such as him being run over, but the roads are five miles away from where the remains
06:48were found.
06:49You can only access it by foot, but that's not all we found.
06:54Unusual.
06:55When we found the cranium and we found the mandible, it looks so young and has no teeth.
07:03It's not normal that you see somebody so young without teeth.
07:09We had a theory that he was beat up bad, and this was horrifying.
07:15When these remains were first found, as a news reporter, I knew this was the kind of story
07:27that was going to capture the community's interest.
07:29Because this whole case, it was violent, it was unimaginable.
07:35There were a lot of people in Susquehanna County on edge.
07:41There were a lot of rumors going around, and there was a lot of fear in the community because
07:47they didn't know what occurred out there.
07:50Due to the brutality of the injuries, somebody wanted this person to disappear and never be found.
07:55It was clear that whoever murdered this person, they were trying to send a message.
08:00And whoever did it, and whoever did it, was still out there.
08:06And honestly, it is on your mind because you're thinking, could this happen to me?
08:10We needed to figure out who this victim was and any piece of evidence that might help us link the killer
08:16in the acts that occurred that night.
08:18But there wasn't any wallet, phone, keys, or any other article of evidence that would help us definitively link this to the victim.
08:27There were bones there, there wasn't much else.
08:31But we did have one thing, a missing persons report.
08:43Susquehanna Depot Borough in Susquehanna County.
08:46It is mountainous and rural.
08:50Interstate 81 travels north to south, that's the main thoroughfare.
08:55Scranton is 45 minutes south.
09:01That's the closest city in Pennsylvania.
09:07The Susquehanna Depot is an older kind of railroad town.
09:11In the early 2000s, there was a large boom with fracking
09:16and the influx of pipeline workers putting in the infrastructure needed for the natural gas.
09:22Now, all the pipelines are in the ground and the wells are drilled.
09:27And once that was all done, there was an outflow of people.
09:31And Susquehanna Depot fell on harder times.
09:37But when human rains were found in the woods,
09:41I don't think the people of Susquehanna were afraid for a long period of time.
09:46I think they were more concerned that, how can someone from such a small community go missing and not be found?
10:01I was working on paperwork at my desk when I was advised of a missing person, 28-year-old Tyler Barber.
10:06When Tyler went missing in September of 2022, his family knew something was up.
10:16Because this is a guy who has a young child who just wouldn't disappear for days.
10:24Tyler Barber's mother, Tammy, and his uncle are looking for him.
10:28They haven't seen him, they haven't talked to him.
10:30The mother of his child hasn't seen or heard from him.
10:33So that was something that jumped out to us immediately,
10:36that he had stopped contacting people that he had talked to regularly.
10:43Tyler had multiple social media accounts, specifically on Facebook,
10:47and they had all gone silent immediately as well.
10:52You know, this is somebody who didn't have a ton of friends on there.
10:55So it seemed like Tyler was reaching out on social media, really wanting more connections,
11:01but he wasn't getting much back.
11:05Tyler Barber was described by his mother as a good person that happened to run with the wrong crowd,
11:10but he was trying to turn his life around.
11:13For his family's sake and his kids' sake.
11:15Once you, um, better yourself and everything, people try to knock you now.
11:22So you go back to where you were.
11:25Tyler Barber's mother, Tammy Barber, was concerned because it had been two weeks
11:32since she last spoke with her son, and she was starting to expect the worst.
11:39We were two weeks behind trying to solve everything and gather evidence, leads, and interviews.
11:44We started by going to one of his last known addresses on Elm Street.
11:59The end of Elm Street, there is a large apartment building two blocks down on the corner.
12:03Quite a few people were living at the house on Elm Street.
12:08I was told that Tyler Barber was last seen in that house.
12:15During our search, we found that the house was disheveled.
12:18There were things everywhere.
12:22There was a bucket with multiple baseball bats in it.
12:25There were clothes scattered everywhere.
12:27You could tell that it was a place that people come and go.
12:31As an investigator, I want to hear the walls talk.
12:33But that place was just such a disaster.
12:38It was hard to find clues.
12:40The only thing we could tell is that his keys and wallet were not there.
12:45It was a mess without a message.
12:46But we had a very strong feeling that something bad had occurred there.
12:55I interviewed the mother of his child, and Tyler Barber had been messaging throughout the day,
13:01as they normally did.
13:07But I saw that the messages on her phone went from read to unread to undelivered,
13:13as the night went on, from September 1st to September 2nd.
13:17And that led us, again, to believe that something bad had occurred to Tyler Barber.
13:23We needed to know who Tyler was with that day, and who was the last person to see him alive.
13:29We interviewed lots of people in Susquehanna.
13:32Some of them were saying, yeah, I saw him walking down the street.
13:35Or I saw someone that looked like him.
13:38Okay, just so you know, I'm searching for a young man by the name of Tyler Barber.
13:43And we still can't find him anywhere, and I'm worried.
13:47I'm sick to my stomach, worried about this.
13:49I am too.
13:50I need help.
13:52I know.
13:53I need help.
13:54When was the last time you saw Tyler?
13:56Um, I thought it was last week.
13:59But when I talked to the police, it must have been the week before that.
14:03The missing person that we're talking about is Tyler Barber.
14:08I know Tyler Barber fairly well from, uh, Fort City.
14:11He was young.
14:12He was like 16, 17.
14:14No, our Tyler Barber is 28.
14:17I don't know this dude.
14:19I couldn't pick him out of the line though.
14:21When was the last time you saw Tyler?
14:24Maybe two weeks before I see him downtown.
14:26Grand Street.
14:28Capital.
14:29Is it customary for you not to see him for a week and a half to two weeks?
14:33You don't see him every day?
14:34No.
14:37We decided to try to find surveillance cameras in the area.
14:41We go through hours of surveillance video.
14:45And the night of Tyler Barber's disappearance from September 1st to September 2nd,
14:50we find a Hyundai leaving the Elm Street apartment,
14:56returning back to the Elm Street apartment, and then leaving again about 45 minutes later,
15:01and then returning back again.
15:05I asked myself if this was the footage of Tyler departing Susquehanna Depot.
15:14Two days after the missing persons report was filed for Tyler Barber,
15:18we tried to find the driver of the suspicious vehicle.
15:23But this is still a place that everybody knows everybody.
15:26They don't want to be seen as a snitch or a rat.
15:31You know, those folks disappear.
15:34So they weren't not saying anything to police.
15:38At this point, we had to get in touch with his family.
15:43We knew his mother, Tammy, and his uncle had been looking for him for weeks.
15:49The family might also have more luck with getting information out of people.
15:55They might know some of these people on a different term.
16:00It turns out that we were right.
16:03It was this series of successive interviews that led to someone giving us information.
16:08Tyler Barber is your first cousin, and it's your understanding that what, regarding Tyler?
16:14Well, this guy comes up to me and she's like,
16:15hey, he's got something to tell you.
16:16I'm like, what do you mean?
16:18And then he proceeds to tell me, he's like,
16:22Tyler won't be coming back around here no more.
16:24Prior to finding bones scattered in a wooded area, Tyler Barber went missing.
16:42We were pretty desperate to know where Tyler was because nobody had seen him.
16:46Nobody heard from him.
16:48We found an individual that said that he knew that Tyler was dead.
16:52Tyler Barber is your first cousin, and it's your understanding that what, regarding Tyler?
16:58Well, this guy comes up to me and she's like,
17:00hey, he's got something to tell you.
17:01I'm like, what do you mean?
17:02And then he proceeds to tell me, he's like,
17:06Tyler won't be coming back around here no more.
17:10And I'm like, well, what is that supposed to mean?
17:12What do you mean?
17:13That's all he told me, man.
17:14That's all he told me.
17:14I couldn't get much out of him.
17:16That was it.
17:16He seemed terrified or scared or what.
17:18Yeah.
17:19A few days after that, Tyler's uncle, Danny Labore, contacted law enforcement.
17:25And he told them that he was in the state game lands with an individual named Matthew Baker.
17:32And Matt knew what happened to Tyler.
17:33I told Danny Labore to come with Matthew Baker to the boat launch.
17:42I would meet with them.
17:45The state game lands once it comes to late November and towards wintertime.
17:49All the leaves are dead and it's quite barren, quite eerie.
17:54The area was quiet.
17:56There was not a sound for miles.
17:59Out there, no one could hear you if he screamed.
18:06When I arrived, Matthew definitely seemed nervous.
18:10He seemed scared as he was discussing this.
18:16But he also continued to provide us with information that painted a more vivid picture
18:22of what happened to Tyler that night.
18:24He went missing.
18:26Matt Baker reveals to them this incredible story about how Tyler Barber was kidnapped,
18:33beaten, and robbed.
18:36And he was there from beginning to end.
18:38But also, he didn't do anything.
18:40They made him take off his clothes and then they burned him.
18:45Where do you think Tyler's at right now?
18:48Matt Baker says, hey, we saw him in the state game lands and nobody saw him since then.
18:52We searched the area for days.
18:57There was a large search in the woods.
18:59There was a large search on the river nearby.
19:02We used a bunch of resources.
19:04Our canine unit, northeast search and rescue, aviation.
19:09And nothing finds Tyler Barber.
19:12There's no sound of him.
19:14There's no nothing.
19:15We can't find him.
19:17I had to ask myself how much of what Matthew Baker was saying was true.
19:20We were trying to prove something that we didn't know happened.
19:33Finally, we find a burn pile in the middle of the road.
19:36We end up finding his glasses.
19:44There's a button from a pair of jeans.
19:48But there's no body.
19:50There's nothing else.
19:51Something happened out there, but we didn't know what exactly is going on.
19:57It is here being at a crime scene, seeing evidence that the crime occurred, but not finding the victim.
20:05And we didn't have anybody saying definitively that they killed Tyler.
20:08We were heading towards a no body case.
20:12It would have been a tough battle.
20:20And that's when we found the remains.
20:22In this case, law enforcement had an individual that was missing for a couple of months.
20:29But we cannot have, like, an assumption that this person is that person, because sometimes it turns out that it's not.
20:37Missing person reports come in all the time.
20:39I would say the vast majority of missing persons do not result in a dead body.
20:44They are usually found alive and well.
20:46When we found human remains, we never know how this individual is going to be identified.
20:55So maybe we can get fingerprints.
20:57We always take radiographs of the dentition.
21:01And we are always ready to send samples for DNA from the bones.
21:07In this case, we identified him by the radiographs that we have from the dental area and the maxillofascial structures.
21:14And using those dental records, they identified him as Tyler Barber.
21:23When Tyler's family learned the details of exactly what happened to Tyler, it was extremely difficult.
21:29He was my sidekick.
21:32He would take his shirt off his own bag to help somebody.
21:36This was not just some average person who had zero connections to the area.
21:41You know, this was someone people cared about.
21:45It was confirmed that he was dead and we had his body.
21:48We don't have enough evidence to even move forward a homicide case.
21:54It was really just bones.
21:56It was like the force swallowed the evidence.
21:58At this point, we had to put together a timeline.
22:06Tyler Barber went missing in the early morning hours of September 2, 2022.
22:12Last seen at the Elm Street residence.
22:15He was reported missing September 13, 2022.
22:20And we found his remains on November 28, 2022.
22:23With no physical evidence, the next step is critical.
22:28Somebody has to talk.
22:30The only witness that investigators have is Tyler's friend, Matthew Baker.
22:34And now, all roads are leading to him.
22:40At this point, we have the accounts of what happened for Matthew Baker,
22:43because he was the one that initially told us about this.
22:46We're just trying to run through things again here.
22:48Just trying to make sure we paint a good picture of what all happened.
22:52We appreciate you volunteering and playing a talk.
22:54I know.
22:55And I thank you guys for keeping it under, down and under.
22:59Of course.
23:00Baker admitted to having his hands in it, but he didn't admit to the killing.
23:05In a case like this, everybody's got dirt.
23:08The question is whether Matt was dirty or if he was dangerous.
23:16Now that Tyler's remains were found, a lot of the focus started turning to Matthew Baker,
23:29because he was the guy that ended up leading them into the woods.
23:33When investigators first met Matthew,
23:36they were getting bits and pieces of how this gruesome murder played out.
23:42But there were still a lot of questions from him, how much of his story was true.
23:51Now, Matthew Baker was starting to become their prime suspect.
23:55It is important to continue to question Matt,
23:59because each time you were able to compare answers to see if he was being deceptive.
24:07Matt, through the following days,
24:09started giving more and more information about this crime.
24:13He was tied with his legs up.
24:15He didn't want to be tied to the tree right.
24:17What were they doing to him while they were fighting?
24:19Were they punching him, kicking him, hitting him with something?
24:23Punching him in the stomach.
24:25Did you hit Tyler at all?
24:28Yes, I did.
24:30I was forced to, or they said that they were going to do the same thing to me.
24:34I did believe that Matthew is credible, and it doesn't seem like something that somebody would
24:55just make up, especially if they were implicated in it themselves.
24:58Matthew Baker named multiple other individuals that were involved.
25:04He stated that Daniel Williams, Blaise Corder, John Sullivan, and Nicholas Petrich were all
25:10involved in this incident.
25:13I would describe the individuals as known criminals in the area.
25:17They were all in the same circle of friends.
25:20They all stayed at the same apartment on Elm Street,
25:23and they were someone that Tyler Barberth is friends with.
25:30One of the things we did was search warrants for cell phone records
25:35and their physical phones.
25:37Some of the cell phones were certainly helpful with tying those guys to that place.
25:45So at this time, all of Tyler's friends became suspects, but nobody knew who actually killed them.
25:52All five guys were interviewed, some of them repeatedly,
25:56and none of them gave a confession to murdering Tyler Barberth.
26:01In each of the interviews, they were actually trying to protect one another,
26:04not saying anything to police.
26:05What was going through our minds at this point is, when is somebody going to crack?
26:10Because this looked like a homicide to us,
26:14but we didn't have anybody saying, definitively, that they killed Tyler.
26:19According to police, as Matthew Baker was opening up about more and more,
26:23he was still adamant that, hey, I didn't do it, I'm not your guy, but I know why Tyler was murdered.
26:28All I know is that when the one trooper pulled over Tyler and it was that night that it happened.
26:39Matthew Baker told me that on the night of September 1st, 2022, they were at the Elm Street apartment
26:46and that there were claims of Tyler Barber snitching.
26:52Blaze Quarter, Daniel Williams, and John Sullivan were all upset with Tyler Barber over these allegations.
26:58On September 1st, people saw Tyler talking to the police.
27:08Two troopers, they are out making traffic stops to stop the stem of meth into the area.
27:14They just stop and talk to him and they run his name. He is not wanted. He does not have any drugs on him.
27:22He does not provide any useful information whatsoever. And he walks away.
27:29But work gets back to the apartment on Elm Street that he was stopped and that the police talked to him.
27:35Several hours later, two other people from that apartment on Elm Street leave in a vehicle.
27:46They are pulled over coincidentally by the same two troopers still on patrol. And one is arrested
27:54because he has an active warrant. And he is taken to the Susquehanna County Prison on that warrant.
27:59When word gets back to the apartment that that person was arrested, they assume that Tyler Barber had snitched.
28:13All I know is that he did a drug bust with the cops.
28:17Okay.
28:18And he got away scot-free and that's what actually started.
28:25That's what started this?
28:26Yes.
28:27In reality, that did not occur.
28:30Obviously, you made them upset.
28:32Yeah.
28:33Who else got upset, like, around that you know?
28:35Um, Nick Petridge.
28:37Nick Petridge?
28:38Yeah, and then, uh, Blaze.
28:43And they concoct a plan.
28:48They are going to kidnap Tyler Barber and that they are going to punish him.
28:57All of them admitted that this occurred.
29:01They all admit putting a bag on his head.
29:10Yeah, but it was tied up so that you wouldn't be able to get it off of his head.
29:17But he didn't do it enough so that it would choke him out.
29:22We don't get in my car.
29:25So I'm driving out.
29:29It's dark out.
29:30He's got a hood on his face.
29:31How does Blaze get him out of the car?
29:36He just pulled him out of the car.
29:39He's like, let's go.
29:40He's like, let's go.
29:43He took that look into the woods, out of sight of the gate.
29:51They tied him to the church.
29:52Well, after, they dropped him off a little bit.
29:56As far as I know, they were just trying to scare the kid.
29:59I walked up the hill with them, seeing what was going on.
30:03I just turned around.
30:03I went back down.
30:04So I decided right down and there, I don't want to have a part of this.
30:07But apparently, I got involved anyway.
30:12So you go walk him back down to the car.
30:14They come down.
30:15No Tyler.
30:16Yeah, I was like, what happened?
30:18They said nothing.
30:19We scared him.
30:21I figured they were just going to strand him out there and make him walk home.
30:25Pretty sure he could walk back to town from there.
30:28I figured they just scared him and that was it.
30:31Last we did, we let him go.
30:32We go back to the house.
30:33I think Tyler, honestly, is terrified enough that he's afraid to even contact anybody.
30:41But we left him, Thomas, flat out that he was going to stay in there.
30:43He was going to stay away from Susana and he was going to leave town.
30:52You know we found his body in the woods, right?
30:54Yes.
30:59He was found in that area.
31:03So there's a big gap there that somebody needs to explain.
31:07And I can't.
31:08My story ends after we walked out to him.
31:11Is there any other information about the death of Tyler that you could give us?
31:15I had no information on the death of Tyler because he was alive when I see him last.
31:25I know for a fact that we didn't kill him.
31:28I wouldn't let that happen to him.
31:31Dan said that he's the one that's stopping everyone from killing him.
31:37So Dan stopped it.
31:41Dan put an ad to it up there.
31:42Yeah.
31:45Nobody admitted to killing Tyler.
31:48The question in our minds was when somebody was going to crack.
31:52There are, uh, big monsters among us.
31:55Okay.
31:57I hope justice really fails on this one.
32:02So which one of these suspects actually killed Tyler?
32:04It's very hard to stop mob mentality once it started.
32:09It could be a dangerous situation for the community.
32:17After months and months of investigating, it was clear to investigators.
32:22It wasn't a question of which of Tyler's friends were actually there.
32:26They were all there, all five of them.
32:28But the full truth was that it was darker than the police initially thought.
32:34You can't correct you.
32:39Nobody was fessing up to the murder.
32:42So investigators have to find another way to verify the story.
32:45And that's when they find Tyler's phone.
32:50We find a phone dead and smashed in an area where Tyler Barber's phone is said to be.
32:56I contacted the regional computer forensic lab.
33:00And they were able to turn the phone on and show that if Matt Baker was correct,
33:06that the version of events that we had thought to be true was true.
33:10And we were able to put together the events that occurred that night.
33:18Matthew Baker said that they were berating Tyler Barber and that they were accusing him of snitching,
33:25saying that something bad is going to happen to him.
33:27As they escorted Tyler Barber out to the vehicle,
33:32Police Quarter told Tyler that he had five seconds to run.
33:35But he didn't run at all.
33:39It's like he knew it was going to happen then, but he didn't want to run.
33:44He just let it happen.
33:46And they all pile into the car with Tyler Barber seated in the middle in the back seat.
33:52And they drive him out to the middle of nowhere.
33:57He did not fight.
33:59He did not resist because he thought they were his friends.
34:07We drive to the location I showed you guys.
34:11Police Quarter took Tyler's phone, smashed it.
34:16Threw it out a window.
34:23Once they get to Rose Hollow Road, they're able to park, take Tyler out of the car,
34:30escort him to an area that is out of view and out of sound to anyone.
34:38Who was the ringleader up there?
34:40Who do you think was the guy in charge?
34:42Police.
34:42Police.
34:43Police.
34:43Police.
34:44Police.
34:44Police.
34:45Police.
34:45Police.
34:46Police.
34:47Police.
34:47Police.
34:48They remove his clothing down to his underwear, and they burn it.
34:55Please and Dan might even come up the hill.
35:00Tied him up.
35:02Put the rope around a tree.
35:03They're asking him if he snitched, why did he rat and they're beating him and he says
35:21I'm sorry he's apologizing even though we know he didn't do anything he is simply trying to
35:26get out of the situation. There was a log after he was secured there I hit him once
35:44much or twice but it wasn't like crazy hard it was a big log I kind of figured if I
35:50picked a big log where he looked more medicine I definitely went overboard.
35:58When Dan hit him his hands like you know what I mean and that's the nightmare that I have still.
36:07It's been months but it's still vivid in my brain sometimes and I have horrible
36:12PTSD's. Dan hit him a couple times with the tree branch and the glaze was hitting him
36:20he made me come around to punch the kid so I probably punched the kid eight to six to eight
36:27times but probably I tried not to hit him as hard as I can. I'm not missing innocent but I was forced
36:34into doing it. I got you. I knew it was up. I was terrified but I knew if I didn't do it they're gonna
36:45kill me. Then Nick Dan and Blaze come back with the baseball bat.
36:59Nick Petrich begins striking him with a baseball bat.
37:02Blaze quarter looks around and removes the knit hat from Matt Baker's head and he shoves it
37:22into Tyler Barber's mouth to prevent him from screaming.
37:29Blaze quarter tells everyone they all have to strike Tyler with a baseball bat or they're going
37:35to be hit with a baseball bat themselves. I was forced to or they said that they want to do the same thing to me.
37:44He said at least three times and then you can just walk away.
37:49They all take turns striking Tyler Barber with a baseball bat
37:53and once they're done they loosen the restraints and they leave him there in the woods.
37:57He looked awful. He just stayed on the ground and didn't move.
38:05Do you remember having a conversation with everybody involved and saying under no circumstances
38:11do we talk about this ever again? Nothing is to be said and nothing is to be heard about this.
38:19It wasn't just one of these guys who killed Tyler. All of his friends took a swing at him with an aluminum baseball bat.
38:30We knew that Daniel Williams was driving a car matching the description given by Matthew Baker.
38:35It was a black Hyundai.
38:41We go through hours of surveillance video. When the Hyundai was traveling into the game lands,
38:47it was captured on a game commission trail cam and we were able to get images of the vehicle
38:52traveling into the woods and then out of the woods again on the trail cam.
38:58We tracked down the vehicle as evidence. As we searched the vehicle, we found ropes in the trunk.
39:06And the DNA results came back that not only Tyler Barber's DNA was on those ropes, but also
39:13Blaise Quarters and Dan Williams' DNA. And Matt Baker agreed to show us where the hat was and we sent
39:18that hat for DNA testing. And the hat came back with Tyler Barber's DNA on it as well.
39:32The five guys that were involved in murdering Tyler Barber are nothing short of killers. Any of them
39:39could have prevented this from occurring and none of them did.
39:44I don't think they plotted to kill him. I don't think they had a plan other than to kidnap him
39:50and beat him. I think the mob mentality took over and he died as a result.
39:58And ultimately all pled guilty.
40:00Nicholas Petrich, Daniel Williams, and Blaise Corder all pleaded guilty to third degree murder
40:08and they were sentenced to 15 to 40 years in prison.
40:13John Sullivan ended up committing suicide the night before sentencing at the Susquehanna County
40:19Correctional Facility. Matthew Baker was the only one out of the five who was not charged with murder
40:27because of his willingness to cooperate with police during the entire investigation.
40:31He pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, voluntary manslaughter,
40:35and he was sentenced to nine to 32 years in prison.
40:42When I think about how they sat around making those plans, I think about just how depraved they are.
40:46It's incomprehensible what happened to Tyler Barber that night. It was just brutal.
40:59It's rather eerie driving down Elm Street, driving by that house and knowing exactly what took place there.
41:05As I walk in the house, you can smell the blood. It's still like a dream.
41:17Blood, a Christmas tree, those two things don't go together at all.
41:23I've never been over. Evil doesn't take a holiday.
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