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00:00my mom loved caring for people just showing love to everyone michelle wanted someone to share a
00:14life with her to cherish her a hopeless romantic vanishes it felt like the entire world came
00:22crashing down on me and a nightmare comes true made you sick to know that one human being can
00:28treat another one like that hidden identities rocky switzer was supposed to be one of her like old
00:34friends from high school i'm starting to wonder if rocky switzer even exists jilted lovers she was in
00:42a very heated state of mind and revenge jealousy and scorn not a great combination all lead up to
00:50a killer relationship she's expecting to meet romeo and she meets the grim reaper
00:5738 year old newly single mother of two michelle rider is looking for love and someone to share
01:16it with during this next chapter of her life her teenage children want their mom's next boyfriend
01:21to be someone worthy of her affections so on september 10th 2012 when michelle tells her
01:28roommate denny that she's off to meet a new prospect a man she met on facebook named rocky
01:33switzer michelle's hopes are high for the perfect match
01:37michelle was excited about meeting rocky in person and kind of exciting feeling it out
01:46was this somebody that maybe something could go a little bit further with michelle had already told
01:52me she would be home by 11 because she had to go to work in the morning and she said okay i'll see you
01:58in a little bit and i said okay and that was my last words
02:03i came home about 11 30 and michelle's car still wasn't there
02:11i texted her and i said hey how's it going and i didn't hear nothing back
02:18denny isn't the only one waiting on her michelle's children live with their dad but are in constant
02:25communication with michelle and her son ty's birthday is just around the corner
02:30i was texting my mom about gifts for my birthday about getting me a black felt cowboy hat and those
02:37are kind of pricey she was kind of giving me a hard time back and then she just stopped texting me
02:43which was really odd for my mom at about four o'clock in the morning she still wasn't home
02:48and the final time i woke up about seven i said okay i'm worried i'm calling the police
02:56while denny speaks with a patrol officer michelle's ex-husband steve rider and her two kids
03:03feel a sense of dread ty and my dad woke me up and they were like we can't get a hold of
03:11your mom she didn't call she's missing i thought i was in a weird dream
03:17if you knew michelle like i knew michelle i knew something happened
03:22michelle monique rivera is born in upstate new york in 1973 and is the oldest of three
03:36money is tight so everyone has to chip in and help out my mom learned how to become a mom
03:42because she helped raised her two siblings she was tough as nails she was very outgoing very funny
03:50she had a good group of friends growing up she loved pets she loved animals my mom wanted to get
03:57her nursing license she loved caring for the people just showing love to everyone but before she even
04:05graduates high school michelle starts dating an older guy named steve rider who works in construction
04:11my parents met when my mom was 16 and my dad was 24 25 my father was a fun guy everyone was either
04:21his friend or they were laughing with him my dad loved her more than anything
04:26at 19 michelle discovers she's pregnant steve has family in texas so they move to a tiny town just
04:35outside abilene called trinton to start a new life in august of 1993 ty is born my mother and i it felt
04:45like we kind of grew up together sometimes because we used to joke around and kind of horse playing
04:50i was the only child until i was about five or six everyone else had a sibling but me and i was like
04:57i want a sibling when ty is seven years old he finally gets his wish when michelle and steven
05:04welcomed their baby girl alexis into the world when alexis was born it was probably one of the most
05:10exciting moments in my life i have a photo of him holding me for the first time his face is like
05:17pure joy but also pure terror sadly the love between married couples sometimes fades when ty is 15 and
05:27alexis 9 cracks start to show in michelle and steven's relationship my parents fought a lot
05:35michelle told me that they just got to where they just weren't getting along they were having a lot
05:41of difficulties they just ended up you know deciding that divorce was the best route to go
05:48michelle quickly meets a new love interest 49 year old long-haul trucker lanny bush michelle finds him
05:59rugged and charming my mother kind of immediately moved in with lanny after the divorce it was a pretty
06:06sudden thing my dad was hurt with the divorce but they both came to the agreement that me and ty
06:13should not be separated and that we would be better with our dad it was tough on michelle to be away
06:20from her kids but she felt it was better for them to stay in the area where they had grown up they had
06:28gone to school they had friends my mom didn't want to just like rip us away from all these roots that we
06:35had built over the next few years the family adjusts to their new reality the kids live with their dad in
06:42trenton during the school week and with their mom and lanny on weekends two hours away in brownwood
06:48when lanny and michelle first moved into the trailer she was excited they were going to be
06:54fixing it up and she was excited to have her own little space from the outside it looks like michelle
07:03is rebuilding her life she's in a new relationship and she has a good job at home depot but a few months
07:09after moving into the trailer her friends noticed traces of sadness things were not good all the
07:17time i think there was a lot more going on behind closed doors that michelle wasn't letting on
07:22michelle had invited me out to their house for dinner lanny needed to be part of the conversation
07:30all the time like he it needed to be about him i just did not get a comfortable feeling with him
07:36she would talk to me about certain situations where she felt like he was trying to control her too
07:43much i think she just got to a point where like she just finally was done in the summer of 2012
07:51after four years together michelle and lanny part ways i told michelle come stay with me
07:57we'll get it worked out it's all good
07:59michelle is a woman who hasn't been on her own since she was a teenager and she wants to explore
08:08the dating scene but the town where she lives is so small her options are limited so when a new man
08:14named rocky reaches out on facebook michelle is eager to pursue the opportunity one night michelle
08:21was in her room she's got all her yearbooks laid out on the bed and i'm like what are you doing
08:27and she said well this guy friended me on my new facebook he says he went to high school with me
08:35she said but i can't find him anywhere here in my yearbooks
08:39then the next day she's like oh hey i figured out who that guy is he was in my sister's class
08:48he messaged me and we were talking he remembered steve she's like yeah i'm pretty sure he's a good guy
08:55it seemed like they had a lot in common but he didn't have a profile picture
09:02i don't know if i can put my finger on it there was just something about it that just didn't sound
09:08right
09:08it's been 36 hours since michelle left to go on a date with the man she met on facebook
09:17michelle's family and friends are so insistent that something's wrong
09:21brownwood pd assigns the case to detective brian tompkins officers were able to find out on the
09:29initial interview with denny that michelle had a red rosebud tattooed on the back of her right shoulder
09:36and that she was wearing a black and white blouse blue jeans and black slip-on shoes when she left for
09:43the day the first steps i began this investigation was contacting local emergency rooms i was not able
09:53to locate her in any of the local hospitals or funeral homes detective tompkins requests the logs for
10:00michelle's cell phone but when he contacts the steakhouse where denny told them michelle was going
10:05on her date he's in for a surprise i was explained that they were closed on the night in question
10:13and there would have been no way they would have went there on a date to eat dinner
10:17alarmed the detectives returned to danny warrell to learn everything they can about rocky i went to
10:24pull up the profile to show the officer who she had gone on a date with and the profile was gone
10:30i was thinking why would he delete it why would he cancel his facebook site that didn't sit right with
10:38me my father tried to tell her multiple times this is not who you think it is i learned that michelle was
10:47also seeing another subject in brownwood by the name of kemper croft she didn't label it a relationship
10:54they were just running around together and now we're involving intimate relationships with
11:00married people that's one thing about the truth is it never changes but lies are like dominoes i mean
11:07my red flag meter was just going up and up and up
11:19it's been 48 hours since michelle writer vanished after connecting with a potential love interest on
11:25facebook named rocky switzer he claimed they went to high school together but when detectives discover
11:32that rocky's facebook profile has mysteriously disappeared they pushed the investigation into high
11:39gear i reached out to michelle's sister melanie in new york and spoke to her about rocky and she
11:47explained to me that she could not remember anybody with that name or anything about it through high
11:53school the only person melanie knows who might be able to tell them more is michelle's ex-husband steve
11:59writer who she divorced four years earlier michelle and steve had a good relationship with each other
12:07they were you know co-parenting two kids i asked steven of his whereabouts on the ninth question september
12:14tent and he explained that he was in home with his children he did show signs he was worried for the
12:21mother of his kids and what had happened to her steven was also aware of rocky from conversations he had
12:28with michelle rocky switzer was supposed to be one of her like old friends from high school
12:35but he didn't remember the exact high school they went to my father had tried to tell her multiple
12:41times this is not who you think it is steve tells detective tompkins that michelle said rocky worked as
12:49an airplane mechanic in the dallas fort worth area i started making some phone calls to the local
12:56airports nobody advised they employed anybody by the name of rocky switzer at this point in the
13:04investigation i'm starting to wonder if rocky switzer even exists convinced that steve rider harbors no
13:11ill will for michelle detective tompkins rules him out and goes to speak with michelle's co-workers at
13:18home depot while none of them are able to provide any leads on rocky michelle's manager reveals something
13:25that points tompkins in a new direction michelle was also seeing another subject in brownwood
13:34by the name of kemper croft michelle met kemper through work he would come into her place of
13:40employment to purchase things she didn't label it a relationship they were you know just running around
13:49together michelle's co-workers confirmed that michelle had been seeing kemper croft for a few weeks
13:55but there was one hitch i learned that kemper croft was a married man and he was married to susan croft
14:05and i also learned that she had contacted michelle on the 10th at work the day michelle went missing
14:13highly upset accusing michelle of having an affair with kemper
14:17jealousy and scorn not a great combination susan was in a very heated state of mind if you look
14:27at the particulars on that communication between susan croft and michelle rider that actually happened
14:33on the day that michelle had went missing you can't ignore the timing the coincidence of that
14:39michelle was under the impression that they were separated michelle didn't want to hurt anybody
14:48the situation was just not good michelle was done with kemper at that point
14:54so now i've got many red flags i've got one rocky switzer i still haven't been able to identify him
15:01and now we're involving intimate relationships with married people
15:09detectives asked kemper croft to come down to the station to talk
15:13and he admits that he and michelle were having a relationship he really didn't seem nervous he showed
15:19some worry about michelle being missing but he was just more upset that his wife had found out
15:26kemper explained that michelle would come hang out at barbecue competitions that kemper cooked at
15:34he explained that he didn't feel like it was the affair that susan believed it was
15:40when they asked him you know were you having a sexual relationship with her
15:43you know well i tried but i couldn't get it up kind of thing
15:47i think it was pretty clear that there had been a more intense relationship than what he was letting on
15:53him also during this interview i asked kemper if he knew who rocky switzer was and he didn't have
16:02any idea who he was kemper claims the last time he spoke with michelle was either saturday september 8th
16:08or sunday the 9th and when i asked him his whereabouts on september the 10th when michelle went missing
16:16kemper croft explained that he was at home with his wife susan now i need to talk to susan
16:23after hearing that susan has parkinson's disease and witnessing her physical limitations
16:29detective tompkins downgrades her as a possible suspect and then asks her how she learned about
16:35the affair she explained that this unknown man that knocked on her door
16:42introduced himself with michelle's ex-boyfriend lanny bush
16:47when susan told me this information it was a big bombshell and at this point now i have added
16:57another person to this equation and that person is lanny bush
17:0838 year old mom michelle writer has been missing for close to 60 hours and as the investigators start
17:15unearthing the layers of michelle's love life they find several potential suspects a lover kemper croft
17:22and a mysterious facebook date rocky switzer so far these pieces appear separate but investigators are
17:30starting to think there may be a common thread the ex-boyfriend lanny bush
17:35it definitely heightened my interest in why lanny would be talking to susan on the day michelle went
17:44missing i then started looking into the relationship between michelle and lanny
17:52detective tompkins digs into court records and discovers a warrant for michelle's arrest over a
17:58domestic dispute michelle's friend denny tells him what she thinks happened she still had quite a bit
18:07at her and lanny's trailer so lanny had finally told her okay you can come get your stuff
18:17well michelle didn't come home that night from going to pick her stuff up i'm like what's going on
18:21lanny called 911 and said that she was abusing him that she was hitting him that she was throwing
18:30things at him danny tells detective tompkins that after lanny showed police scratches on his face
18:37they charged michelle with domestic assault and locked her up in jail for the night
18:42i knew immediately that this was not right michelle was not a violent person i knew that she had not hit
18:50him she had not done anything detective tompkins learns that protective orders were put in place
19:00to keep michelle and lanny apart he also discovers that lanny bush has a long police record of petty
19:07crimes dating back to the 1970s nothing showed that he had been arrested for any domestic violence but i
19:15need to talk to lanny and figure out his whereabouts on that question according to denny shortly after
19:22michelle left lanny moved in with a new girlfriend in san angelo 100 miles away i contacted an
19:30investigator for tom green sheriff's office by the name of billy bloom that i have worked with many times
19:35in the past i knew of lanny mostly by reputation i had worked cases uh drug investigations
19:44concerning some of his family members investigator billy bloom and his partner gary cole go to lanny's
19:52girlfriend's house he opened the door and i said hey billy bloom tom green county sheriff's office
20:00my partner gary cole hey billy yeah hey thanks man i know you yeah man lanny you know so yeah lanny i
20:08come to talk to you man uh he goes yeah sure sure come on in so we went in that also gave us an
20:16opportunity to look around to see if miss rider was in the residence i told him why we were there
20:23lanny was very nice he was very cordial he seemed really shocked that oh she's missing like well
20:30what do you mean she's missing he said that they had dated for several years and recently broke up
20:38the way lanny told us that it was not unusual for her to disappear on occasions
20:45and then proceeded to put out that maybe she was very promiscuous
20:51first she was seeing a married man and then he brought up that she was talking to some other guy
20:58that you know was a truck driver
21:02he just kept talking and talking he was just overly excited to talk to us
21:07i mean my red flag meter was just going up and up and up
21:12i did ask when his last time he saw her and he said that he was supposed to have met up with her
21:17the date that she went missing he said billy i never met with her she called the meeting off
21:25i believe that lanny was withholding information i did immediately call detective tomkins advising
21:31he needed to get to san angelo and have an interview with lanny but before he leaves he gets a call
21:39we had a big break in the case we located michelle's abandoned vehicle at the burt massey sports complex
21:47in brownwood texas it didn't appear that there was any type of foul play everything seemed in place
21:55i located michelle's driver's license her visa card and a business card of kemper croft in the center
22:02console of the vehicle the question is if michelle left town of her own volition why would she leave her
22:09credit card behind and what is the significance of kemper croft's business card the things i didn't
22:17locate that worried me too was the fact i didn't locate a purse or her cell phone in the vehicle which
22:24is normally taken when somebody leaves when they found her car that's when my hopes started going down
22:33a little bit by the next day word of the discovery has gotten out and rumors start circulating around
22:43town about who might be responsible for michelle's disappearance soon those rumors find their way to
22:50lanny bush lanny called me at my house he was upset because he just got on with his daughter and she
22:59had advised her father lanny that lanny was a suspect in the michelle ryder's disappearance i'm
23:06like calm down lanny and he asked me if i could come by that he wasn't completely honest in our first
23:12interview and i said sure i immediately called detective tompkins investigators go to lanny's
23:19girlfriend's residence and that's when lanny drops a bomb about the identity of the man michelle was
23:25supposed to have a date with the night she went missing suddenly lanny then explained to me that
23:33rocky switzer was not a true person he made him up that he was rocky
23:47four and a half days after michelle ryder goes missing her ex-boyfriend lanny bush makes a bombshell
23:58confession to investigators he is rocky switzer the man michelle thought she was meeting for dinner
24:05the night she disappeared
24:11the reason he said that he was using an alias through facebook was
24:14that neither one are supposed to be communicated with each other lanny tells detectives that shortly
24:20after he initially contacted michelle as rocky he revealed his true identity to her the way he just
24:27said it was we we were just talking trying to repair but we didn't want to get in trouble because
24:32of these protective orders because if we did both of us would get arrested i was like you were the last
24:38one to talk to her it sounds like and he was just no no no and then he even said like are they
24:43going to pin this on me and we're like pin what at this point in the interview lanny started shedding
24:52tears talking about how scary he was how much he missed her how he hoped nothing was wrong with her
24:58lanny said that michelle was the love of his life and the the thing that came to my mind was
25:05no one can have her but lanny i'm thinking there's a motive
25:09when we got back to the truck we all looked at each other and we were like holy crap he is involved
25:20the problem is the investigators have no proof that lanny did anything and despite waiting for days
25:27for michelle's phone records they still don't have them that means there's no way to track michelle's
25:32movements on the night she went missing at this point i felt like something major had happened to
25:38michelle so i requested the assistance of the texas rangers
25:45first thing i want to do is get familiar with the with the case and absorb all the details
25:50we had kemper croft who was potentially a suspect because he was having a relationship with michelle
25:55i had talked to the investigators and they were confident that it wasn't
25:59kemper he had an alibi his wife didn't fit the bill so my focus was lanny bush texas rangers have
26:08reached that local agencies don't so they're able to expedite not only michelle's cell records but also
26:15lanny's at this point in the investigation i was able to obtain the gps coordinates for the cell phones of
26:22lanny bush and michelle rider i next provided an investigator with the brown county sheriff's office
26:29with the gps coordinates and he was able to plot both phones on the same map of their location on
26:37the night michelle went missing what they can tell is that on september 10th both cell phones were
26:44pinging off towers near the softball field where michelle's car was found the two phones traveled
26:50together all the way to an area near highway 67. after that michelle's phone goes silent
26:58with that data in hand investigators launch a massive search party looking for any signs of michelle
27:06the whole area that we were searching was several thousand acres of wooded farm fields in texas we have
27:16an issue with feral hogs and they're devastating the worry was feral hogs will eat anything
27:24with the specific search area underway ranger hannah brings lanny in for questioning
27:30i'm just sat down right there the approach is always to start getting information and locking them
27:36down to a story that's one thing about the truth is it never changes but lies are like dominoes
27:42i appreciate you coming down here to visit with us let's try to get this mess straightened down
27:49all right i think it's been weighing on you pretty heavy i haven't been able to sleep i didn't know
27:55or tell me about i mean any guy that has michelle in this life is the weakest man alive yes you don't
28:03want for nothing she makes you feel like you're on top of the world i mean i know some stuff like that
28:10it was bull yeah i mean why why do you want to do that that's why i set up that date with her
28:18well yeah i mean rocky set that date up with her just the world you know the best thing i ever had
28:23in my life has left me yeah i understand you know yeah lanny tells ranger hannah that michelle agreed
28:31to meet him on september 10 even though she knew rocky wasn't real what time are you going to meet at
28:37riverside park three o'clock at three p.m right okay she didn't show about 3 45 she texted me and
28:47told me she said i can't meet you all the way too much going on ranger hannah knows he's lying
28:53because the gps cell data tells a different story so he presses lanny harder so lanny initially denied
29:00seeing michelle at all but we displayed to him the evidence says otherwise then he did acknowledge
29:05that they had seen each other and in fact not only had they seen each other but they had engaged
29:10in sex inside his truck we had some great sex i've never had in my life yeah yeah pretty passionate
29:17very passionate yeah what time are you heading home now seven seven thirty yeah something like
29:22that probably somewhere around you remember what time he got home it was about
29:27see he said it was like 10 30 11. we know between brownwood and san angelo probably an hour and 45
29:34minutes and he didn't arrive home until maybe closer to 11. what accounts for this time difference
29:42well i was having trouble with my truck what kind of trouble do you know how cord has the
29:48clip line thing on the fuel pump he stated that he had had trouble with the fuel filter
29:53on his truck he said the clips kept popping off every time i get
29:59on 15 20 miles down the road billet pressure plunk it up i grew up selling auto parts so i know what
30:04a fuel filter looks like that's been taken off when you handle it the grease and the grime will be
30:09smudged the clips will be broken so it was really a matter of just crawling underneath this truck
30:15and examining the fuel filter this was pristine it hadn't been touched and so we're able to discount
30:21that pretty quickly lanny was the most confident idiot i've ever met he felt that anything he could
30:29tell us if he said it with enough conviction that somehow that made it true lanny ends the interview
30:40by asking for a lawyer but since he's already confessed to creating the fake facebook identity
30:46the rangers are able to arrest him on a felony charge of false impersonation but they won't be
30:52able to hold him indefinitely and despite days of searching there's still no sign of michelle
30:58i think people often underestimate how hard it is to find a body
31:05then five days after lanny bush is arrested detective tompkins finally gets a call they found
31:11something about 30 miles from brownwood i responded to the second bridge underneath it in a dry creek bed
31:20of farm market 1026. i could smell the faint odor of decomp coming from this area texas rangers team
31:29arrived and started photographing the scene and then we started seeing portions of fingers sticking out
31:37and at this time we knew we had found a human body my mom was supposed to be going on a date i was like
31:45what what happened from here to there he became obsessed as far as dna or some biological evidence
31:55you realize the chances are pretty slim
31:57that's what happened to him on september 24th 2012 two weeks after michelle writer disappeared the
32:10rangers unearthed a shallow grave in a remote area near where her phone last registered off a cell tower
32:17the further we got into removing the dirt we were able to see a rose tattoo on her right shoulder
32:31and at that time i knew it was michelle there had been a significant amount of decomposition which
32:38had occurred still pretty hot in september in texas due to the condition of the body the coroner can't
32:45immediately determine a cause of death was there a bullet hole we missed or was there some trauma
32:52to the trachea that indicates that she was choked but in the case of this one we we did not have those
32:58answers with no apparent cause of death investigators still can't tie lanny to the murder so they asked
33:05for a more extensive autopsy the results could take months now after an agonizing 14 days with their
33:12loved one missing the detectives have the grim task of reaching out to michelle's family members
33:20they called me and said they found her body and it felt like the entire world came crashing down on me
33:29i didn't understand what happened because like my mom was supposed to be going on a date they find my
33:38mom's body in the in a ditch i just i was like what what happened from here to there i desperately wanted
33:49things to be different the two seconds at the doorway where she said i'll see you later and i said okay
34:00as she walked out my door i desperately wanted those two seconds back
34:13with lenny still in jail on an increased bail bond of two hundred thousand dollars for the impersonation
34:19charge the investigators have some breathing room to find more evidence against him
34:24a murder is a different animal it can't be impulsive you've got to be on a firm foundation when you make
34:32that charge i obtained a search warrant for for lanny's truck in the bed of the truck one item of
34:39interest we found was a wooden handle shovel the shovel itself uh had it kind of a rust line comes
34:45from rust on it we believed it had been used recently because the rust was disturbed at the towards the tip
34:51of the shovel in line of the totality of the circumstances very likely the shovel was used
34:57in the uh concealing the body of michelle in the glove box they find a receipt from an outdoor supply
35:05business in brownwood called the sportsman it's dated the day michelle disappeared
35:13we were able to pull some video from the sportsman and although the frame was a little bit pixelated
35:20we could tell from the color scheme on the box we could tell about the size and the shape we found
35:25that he bought remington 32 calorie ammunition next the investigators searched lanny's girlfriend's
35:32house where they find the computer he used to catfish michelle he had a list of different searches
35:39you know leading up to this time period that were just highly suspicious he had looked at homemade
35:46knockout drops can putting visine and somebody's drink knock them out what's the missing person
35:52protocol the searches that normal people don't make especially considering the significant other
35:58disappears a few days later but the google searches ammunition receipt shovel and phone records are all
36:06circumstantial evidence none of it proves that lanny killed michelle in fact without a cause of death
36:13they may not be able to prove she was murdered for five grueling months investigators stand by for
36:21word from the coroner while lanny bush waits patiently in jail confident they don't have enough evidence
36:27to charge him and then finally the wait is over the autopsy report showed that the cause of death was
36:35undetermined they stated they couldn't rule out suffocation or overlay of the nose and mouth
36:44the detectives are at a loss if they charge lanny now they risk exposing the jury to reasonable doubt
36:51my perspective on juries they're lay people they don't do this for a living as far as an investigator
36:57lanny never gave an account that for me personally was believable but you never know about a juror
37:05in a disappointing blow the final autopsy report is consistent with the coroner's initial findings
37:17michelle ryder's cause of death is inconclusive at this point investigators don't feel confident
37:24charging lanny bush with her murder but they're not giving up
37:28i don't like people that hurt other people i'm not even really a fighter but when you get somebody
37:36that does that it's your natural instinct but like you know what i'm going to make sure that
37:42you're held accountable and brought to justice because of the mountain of circumstantial evidence
37:48the investigators believe they know what happened it all started when lanny found out about michelle's
37:54affair with camper croft he became obsessed if she was not going to be in his life and he could not
38:03control her he was going to make her miserable and he was going to take everything he could away from her
38:11he takes on this persona of rocky switcher and she's expecting to meet romeo and she meets the grim
38:17reaper you know if you go back to september the 10th of 2012 michelle had a date that was planned with
38:25rocky switzer and she was planning on meeting him at a restaurant in santiana texas
38:31and then prior to that that she had planned on meeting her ex lanny bush
38:40lanny and her was set to meet at six o'clock or 6 30 somewhere around that time period
38:45they had met up at a park what we think happened is that lanny bush uh while at the park using a pistol
38:55took her at gunpoint and made her get into a vehicle with him
39:00we learned that a 32 caliber handgun had been stolen from lanny's grandmother's residence
39:06two or three days later we determined lanny was buying 32 ammunition at the sportsman in brownwood
39:14he then drove her through the back roads out to the valera area where he then either used knockout
39:23drops or some other method to incapacitate her after lanny had killed her he had buried her into a
39:31shallow grave and left her body there for dead the purchase of the ammunition the theft of the gun a
39:38couple days before along with all the facebook and texting communications this is all part of a plan
39:46orchestrated by lanny for the murder of michelle rider
39:54with his narrative in hand prosecutors are ready to charge lanny bush with capital murder nearly one
40:02year after michelle's death lanny bush stands trial in coleman texas he pleads not guilty a key piece of
40:11evidence in the prosecution's case is lanny's phone in this case there was a definitive
40:19tracking ability from when lanny and michelle came together on that day all the way to the grave
40:27where michelle was found buried that evidence spoke volumes in and of itself
40:34the trial takes five days and the jury deliberates for only a few hours before they're back with a
40:41verdict they announced that the defendant was in fact guilty and responsible for the capital murder
40:47for the death of michelle rider and held him accountable the judge proceeded to sentence
40:52him to life without the possibility of parole lanny thought he had us fooled but in the end he fooled
40:59himself he's smart enough to literally take over somebody's facebook but he was too stupid to figure
41:07out that at even in 2012 they could follow you step by step by step by step on your phone
41:13as to where you were going and what you were doing and he thought that he was smart enough to pull
41:19it over on law enforcement and we're not that smart but we figured it out lenny thinks he's big and bad
41:28but i mean the cops made sure like they struck down that ego real quick i will say that
41:37after everything that happened with my mom i feel like she didn't get to live how she wanted to live
41:43and do what she wanted to do so a part of me wants to make my mom proud by doing the things that she never
41:50got to do like i work in health care and i get to care for people and i love it every single day
41:58i just hope nobody has to go through what our family has to go through hopefully this helps someone
42:05realize that they're in a bad situation and they need to get help i think michelle's message would
42:13be leave when you feel like you should leave if something is not right it's okay to walk away from
42:21it be strong michelle writer was a loving mother and cherished friend who took a chance on love but was
42:31met with deadly betrayal instead all because of a man who thought he was too clever to get caught all
42:38because of a killer relationship
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