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00:24There's nothing in the human language to describe what they did to her.
00:29They had an opportunity to help her or to let her go, and none of them stepped up to do
00:36that.
00:38The cell phone was located at a hotel.
00:42The police had the place surrounded.
00:44These people were very, very dangerous.
00:47They used tear gas.
00:51There was a lot of finger pointing going on.
00:54Detectives knew there was more to the story.
00:58I photographed his hands.
01:00I saw some calluses.
01:02We knew they were from digging the grave.
01:07It was an utterly horrendous, heartless crime.
01:14That's what wakes you up at night.
01:16The jeopardy is that you mess it up, and these people walk free.
01:44Long Highway 2.
01:48Over the mountains into eastern Washington is Gold Bar.
01:59It's one of the last towns you come to before you get out in the middle of nowhere.
02:06Very small, narrow, dirt roads.
02:10Streams flowing across the road.
02:18There is absolutely no one around that could hear anything that was going on.
02:27It was early in the morning, nine days after a missing girl was last seen by her family.
02:33A 17-year-old high school kid took the detectives down a small road that goes into this old forestry
02:42area.
02:43It was very remote.
02:46Investigators searched the ground looking for bullets.
02:50One of the detectives arrived and grabbed a shovel and started scraping away some dirt.
03:02Towards the end of the day, he found a portion of a leg.
03:12They uncovered the body.
03:15She was face down in this hole.
03:17She had several gunshot wounds to the back of the head, wounds on her fingers, no clothes on.
03:27This woman was small, 4'11", weighed less than 100 pounds.
03:32Brutally murdered?
03:33No question in my mind.
03:35You can't stop looking.
03:37You cannot stop asking questions.
03:41We have to find those responsible for her murder.
04:07Snohomish County, it's a rural part of western Washington.
04:12It's beautiful.
04:15Anybody who loves nature or outdoors, it's paradise.
04:20Beautiful trees.
04:23Puget Sound.
04:24Rivers.
04:26Lakes.
04:27And mountains.
04:38Growing up in Snohomish County,
04:41was really, really sweet.
04:43We played a lot of sports.
04:45We would go to the beaches.
04:48Lots of bonfires with friends.
04:56My sister, Rachel, and I were three years apart.
05:01I remember when she came home from the hospital, she was my baby.
05:05It was my job to look out for her, protect her.
05:09We were super, super close.
05:14Our parents divorced when Rachel was probably six years old and I was nine.
05:20Her and I spent countless nights with my dad.
05:24Her laugh was just contagious.
05:27She definitely stood out.
05:29She was amazing.
05:30Beautiful, gorgeous, just a lot of energy.
05:34I always really admired the relationship she had with her father, Bill.
05:41My dad, he was an athlete when he grew up, so he was really in on coaching her.
05:48It was something that bonded them.
05:51Rachel was a total jock.
05:54We always would describe her as a 4'11 giant because she was small in stature.
06:02But she was mighty.
06:05Being super athletic, she still loved being all done up.
06:08We had even talked about, perhaps, working in the beauty industry together.
06:17As Rachel grew into her teen years, she was definitely Miss Popular.
06:23People were just so drawn to her.
06:26In high school, Rachel and Corey were very close.
06:30Corey was definitely her best friend.
06:33He meant the world to her.
06:39On August 5th, 2001, Corey was in a fatal car crash.
06:47It really shook the entire school.
06:50It shook all of our friends.
06:54Rachel had survivor's guilt.
06:58She was supposed to be in that car.
07:04And that's where everything changed.
07:08She went into a heavy depression.
07:11She dropped out of school.
07:13She was self-medicating.
07:16Partying and doing drugs recreationally.
07:19Trying to fill a void.
07:22She kind of started losing herself a little bit.
07:25Started hanging out with people that she may not have been hanging out with before.
07:30Rachel was vulnerable.
07:33Because of her own trauma.
07:35Rachel really, in essence, chose a lifestyle where she's walking on razor's edge.
07:42Then, one day, she tells me, yeah, I met this new guy.
07:47His name's Diggy.
07:48He was a bad boy.
07:50And they met at a high school party.
07:53Luckily, they had only dated for about six months before they broke up.
07:59After that, Rachel had this resurgence.
08:06She knew that she needed to pull her life together and start thinking about finishing school.
08:17And one day, she was really, really excited.
08:20She told my dad that she met a new friend named Maurice.
08:25They made a pact that they were going to graduate high school together and turn their lives around.
08:35September 23, 2002.
08:41I remember turning around and looking at the kitchen counter.
08:45She always made to-do lists.
08:48So I looked at her list.
08:50It said, be home tonight.
08:53I thought, okay, good.
08:54Like, I'll see her tonight.
08:59By the time I got home from work that evening, I had been calling her.
09:03I had left voicemails.
09:04There was just no communication.
09:09The next morning, I wake up and I don't see her.
09:13I'm looking through a room.
09:14All of her belongings are there.
09:16All of her clothes.
09:18All of her makeup.
09:19If she had planned on being gone for any period of time, she would have taken her things.
09:25I remember my dad said, maybe she just stayed at a friend's house and she'll be back later.
09:36The next morning, I'm up at 6 a.m. and the home phone is ringing.
09:42It's her friend Carrie.
09:43I said, what's going on?
09:44You haven't seen my sister?
09:47She said, no.
09:48I've been trying to reach her since Monday.
09:50And I just completely panicked.
09:56I'm getting very freaked out.
10:00And I grabbed my dad.
10:01And I told him he just went white as a ghost.
10:06He knew there was something really bad going on.
10:10That's when he called the police and reported her missing.
10:16Our patrol officers responded to his address and took the initial report.
10:23We are pleading with them, and we're telling them her things are here.
10:27This is out of character.
10:29The information that I got from her father is she was kind of a party girl.
10:35Her ex-boyfriend at the time was Diggy.
10:39His real name was John Anderson.
10:42Her father said when Diggy and Rachel broke up, she started dating this guy, JJ.
10:55After we took the report, we run a criminal history check on Diggy.
11:01We learned Diggy had done some time in prison for a robbery.
11:08Police were trying to piece all of this together.
11:11They're already starting to think maybe Diggy or JJ know what happened to Rachel.
11:18After we reported her missing, we got every single friend, family member, church member on board.
11:26We are doing our own searches, searching for her car, searching for anything.
11:32We were checking the morgues, checking the hospitals.
11:35We are posting up missing posters all across the state.
11:48Then on September 30th, I found Rachel's car.
11:53It's parked in an apartment complex.
11:56First thing I notice when I look at the car is that it's backed into a parking spot.
12:03My sister didn't back in anywhere.
12:06The car was unlocked, and her wallet with her ID and $80 cash is on the seat.
12:15The driver's seat is really far back, and she's short.
12:20My sister wouldn't have been able to reach the pedals.
12:23My sister didn't park this car.
12:26Whoever did something to her, they parked this car.
12:31We knew that everybody on the other side of the duplex was lying to us.
12:36He felt like she had been torturing him, and he just wanted to hurt her.
12:41He broke out.
12:43He told us Rachel was taken out of the Jeep, and that he just heard some shots.
13:10On September 30th, I found Rachel's car.
13:19The driver's seat is really far back, and she's short.
13:25My sister didn't park this car.
13:27Whoever did something to her, they parked this car.
13:31We call the police, and the police come out.
13:36One of our deputies learned that an ex-boyfriend of Rachel's by the name of JJ lived in that apartment
13:44complex.
13:46Officers interviewed him.
13:48JJ insisted he had no idea where Rachel was or what happened to her.
13:54He didn't know why Rachel's vehicle was there in that apartment complex.
13:59We learned that JJ had some outstanding arrest warrants.
14:04At that point, officers arrested JJ.
14:13We knew that there might be evidence of what happened in Rachel's car.
14:19We processed that car thoroughly.
14:25We didn't find any fingerprints.
14:29Rachel's car was clean.
14:33Next day, I arranged for the family to come into my office.
14:40They were all very, very concerned.
14:44I had found a stack of love letters.
14:48They were from Diggy to Rachel.
14:51He's really obsessive, like, I can't live without you.
14:56Talking about if she ever needs protection, he's there, and no one's ever going to love you like I do.
15:03We determined that it was important for us to locate Diggy.
15:09And then Rachel's dad received information from one of Rachel's friends.
15:16They told us where Diggy was staying, the extended stay in Everett.
15:30Diggy did allow us to look through his hotel room to make sure that Rachel wasn't there.
15:39Nobody was in the room at the time.
15:45Diggy said he believed that Rachel was hanging out with JJ.
15:51We learned after Rachel and Diggy broke up, Diggy considered JJ as an enemy when she started dating JJ.
16:00Nothing that took place at the hotel ruled Diggy, John Anderson, out.
16:08That afternoon, we got a call from a female who had information that Rachel had been at her duplex a
16:16few days before
16:17with this group of guys that hung around with this group of guys that hung around with Diggy.
16:21They fancied themselves as hardcore gang members.
16:25She was suspicious that there was a problem.
16:29She provided us with some background information on one of Rachel's friends, Yusuf Jihad,
16:38who was living next door in this duplex with Trissa Connor.
16:46We run a criminal history check.
16:50The police discover Yusuf Jihad is the ringleader of a group called the Northwest Mafia.
16:58Most of the other individuals involved were between the ages of about 16 to 18.
17:03The second in line was Diggy Anderson, who was 20.
17:17On October 2nd, we went to the duplex.
17:21A black male came out, identified himself as Yusuf Jihad.
17:26I told him that we were looking for 18-year-old Rachel Berkheimer.
17:31He admitted that he knew Rachel.
17:34They were friends.
17:36He provided us with information that he was supposed to meet with Rachel the weekend before she had disappeared.
17:43He had last seen Rachel at a hotel party in Everett.
17:49Rachel actually invited Diggy and Yusuf Jihad to the party.
17:53They saw her with some people that they felt threatened by, so they left.
18:01And at that same location, I identified John Whitaker.
18:07He was a very close associate of Diggy and Yusuf Jihad.
18:12He also had last seen Rachel at a hotel party in Everett.
18:21Finally, we met Trissa Conner.
18:23Trissa actually owned the duplex, and her to-be-husband was Yusuf Jihad.
18:32Trissa told us that she didn't know Rachel.
18:36She did allow detectives to walk through her side of the duplex.
18:44We located a locked door inside the duplex.
18:49Trissa Conner told us that that is the door that leads into the garage.
18:52It was locked, and she didn't have a key to it.
18:56One of the things that we noticed about the locked door
18:59is that it was turned to where you could lock the garage,
19:03and nobody from the house could get in there.
19:05That was rather unusual.
19:08To me, that was telling me that there was something going on in that garage.
19:15Then Jeffrey Barth, another gang member,
19:17actually came out of the other side of the duplex.
19:21He confronted me, wanting me to leave the property.
19:25We had nothing to arrest anybody on,
19:28so we packed our stuff and left.
19:34Something's going on,
19:35but we did not have any solid information
19:39that they were involved in anything that happened to Rachel.
19:45The day after we'd made contact at the duplex,
19:49we got a phone call from one of the neighbors.
19:52She said, after we had left the duplex,
19:55things started going a little crazy.
19:57She told us that she'd heard some of the neighbors talking.
20:01Rachel had, in fact, been at that duplex.
20:07Rachel had been tied up and placed in the garage.
20:13We needed to get inside that garage.
20:41Detectives got a phone call from one of the neighbors.
20:45She told us, she heard some of the other kids say
20:49that Rachel had, in fact, been at that duplex.
20:54She had been tied up and placed in the garage.
20:59She said Rachel had been taken out of the duplex
21:03and put in the back of a Jeep.
21:06She also felt it was important that we knew
21:09that everybody in the duplex was lying to us.
21:12We knew the background of some of these people.
21:16They thought they were hotshot little gangsters.
21:20I took the information and started working
21:23on a search warrant affidavit for that side of the duplex.
21:29Several people needed to be interviewed.
21:32We located a teenager named Maurice Rivas.
21:37Rachel's dad had pointed out that Maurice was encouraging
21:41Rachel to go back to school, get her life back on track.
21:46We located him.
21:48He admitted that he knew Rachel and Diggie.
21:52Maurice said he was trying to disassociate himself with Diggie.
21:56He was supposed to meet with Rachel the weekend
21:59before she had disappeared,
22:01but that was the last time that he'd seen her.
22:05He said he didn't know what was going on.
22:08He was worried about Rachel.
22:13That night, during the process of the search warrant,
22:15we made arrangements for the FBI crime scene team
22:20to come out and process the duplex.
22:24But when we arrived at the duplex,
22:27there was nobody in there.
22:31Trissa was next door.
22:34She was nervous that we were there.
22:37She told us that there was nobody inside that unit,
22:41and she didn't have a key to it.
22:43We forcefully entered the duplex
22:49and cleared it to make sure there wasn't anybody inside.
22:53Then we turned the duplex over to the FBI crime lab
22:59for them to process it for any evidence.
23:02When we processed the scene,
23:05there was evidence that the scene had been cleaned up,
23:08but we did not locate any blood or hair
23:12that we could associate with Rachel.
23:15Detectives were interviewing Trissa Conner
23:20when she was confronted with the witness's story
23:24that Rachel had been in the garage.
23:27We discovered Trissa had been holding back.
23:31She told us that at one point,
23:34she gets home from work.
23:36She knows that something's going on.
23:40There's people in her garage.
23:42Yusuf Jihad is being very evasive with her.
23:46She tried to get into the garage.
23:49Diggy tried to keep her out of there.
23:52She pushed her way into the garage
23:56and found Rachel taped up there
23:59and was on the carpet.
24:01Trissa told us that Barth, Diggy, and Whitaker were there
24:06and a 17-year-old high school guy named Matt Durham.
24:11Rachel had been beat up.
24:14Trissa runs upstairs.
24:17Yusuf followed her
24:18to make sure she wasn't going to call 911.
24:22A short time later,
24:24Rachel was taken out of the garage
24:27in Matt Durham's Jeep.
24:29We established probable cause
24:32to secure the Jeep that belonged to Matthew Durham.
24:39Detective went to Matthew Durham's house.
24:41They talked in the detective's car.
24:44Matthew gave them a story
24:46which lacked significant detail.
24:49He told detectives
24:51Rachel was taken out of the Jeep
24:52and that he drove away.
24:57We took the Jeep for processing.
25:00The detective said,
25:01Matthew, there seems to be more to the story here
25:04than what you told us.
25:07You've got a little sister.
25:08If something happened to your sister, Matthew,
25:10wouldn't you want to know?
25:12The detectives really made him think of his family.
25:15That's when he was really able
25:17to let the consequences of his actions sink in.
25:20He broke down.
25:22He told us he was sure
25:24that Rachel had been killed.
25:29The SWAT team had the place surrounded.
25:32They were very, very dangerous.
25:35They start turning on each other.
25:39Said this is where she was shot and buried.
25:42It's just your worst nightmare.
26:04It's been approximately nine days
26:06after Rachel Borkheimer
26:08was last seen by her family.
26:14With every day,
26:16you just start losing hope
26:20and becoming even more shrouded in terror
26:25each day.
26:32We had one subject in custody,
26:3817-year-old Matthew Durham.
26:41He admitted to detectives
26:43that Rachel had been killed
26:45and buried at a remote location
26:48in eastern Snohomish County.
26:53And that was a major break in the case.
26:56The first major piece of evidence
26:58that set into motion everything else.
27:02Durham told us that he had received a call
27:06from Diggie asking him to bring Rachel
27:09to the duplex,
27:11Yusuf Jihad's place.
27:12When they got there,
27:15Yusuf Whitaker and Tony Williams,
27:18who was Tris's cousin,
27:20were there.
27:21Jeff Barth and Maurice Rivas
27:23both eventually arrived.
27:25They're playing video games.
27:27There's laughter.
27:28Then the energy completely changed.
27:32Rachel was beat up
27:34and was taken out of the garage,
27:36put in the Jeep.
27:39They drove her out
27:40to the Gold Bar area.
27:42Matthew Durham said
27:44Rachel was taken out of the Jeep
27:45and that he drove away
27:47and just heard some shots.
27:52Based on the information
27:53that Matthew Durham provided,
27:55we had probable cause
27:56to arrest Diggie,
27:58John Whitaker,
27:59Yusuf Jihad,
28:01and Jeffrey Barth.
28:02But we didn't know
28:04at the time
28:05who was shot at.
28:07It was determined
28:08that I would go ahead
28:09and book Matthew Durham
28:11for kidnapping.
28:13We couldn't prove a murder
28:16because we hadn't found
28:17the body yet.
28:18But we had enough information
28:19that we could arrest these guys.
28:22I met with Prosecutor Downs
28:24and briefed him.
28:26We knew we needed
28:28to find the body.
28:30Matthew Durham agreed
28:31to take them
28:32to the location
28:33where Rachel was buried.
28:36Matthew Durham
28:37took the detectives
28:38up to Gold Bar.
28:45It's a small little road
28:48that goes into
28:49this old forestry area
28:51over the mountains
28:52into eastern Washington.
28:58It was early in the morning
29:00when Matthew Durham
29:01showed us
29:06where the gravesite was.
29:17We secured the gravesite
29:19and brought in
29:20the crime scene team.
29:23A detective grabbed a shovel
29:25and started scraping away
29:27some dirt.
29:29On October 4th,
29:30at approximately
29:31five o'clock
29:33in the afternoon,
29:36that's when they located
29:38what appeared to be
29:39human remains.
29:41they found an exposed part
29:43of one of the victim's legs.
29:46They uncovered the body.
29:49She was five foot tall,
29:50maybe 90 pounds,
29:52face down in this hole.
29:55She had several gunshot wounds
29:58to the back
29:58and to the back of the head.
30:01She had some wounds
30:03on her hands or fingers,
30:04no clothes on.
30:07Once the medical examiner
30:09was able to remove
30:10her remains,
30:12detectives continued
30:13to process
30:14below and around
30:16the grave.
30:18They recovered
30:19bullet fragments
30:21inside the grave
30:22and several spent casings.
30:27The next day,
30:28I drove to
30:30Bill Burkheimer's house.
30:33I told him
30:34that the tattoos match
30:36and that it was Rachel.
30:39It was afternoon time.
30:42Detective Pins showed up.
30:44I'll just never forget.
30:47So silent.
30:48I mean,
30:48you could hear a pin drop.
30:55After about a few minutes,
30:57all the tears started
30:58just coming.
31:00Everybody's crying.
31:05It's just your worst nightmare.
31:14And at that point,
31:16you know there's evidence
31:18out there
31:18and you've got to get it
31:19and you keep pushing through.
31:21We had to get
31:22all of the people
31:23that were involved.
31:24They were very dangerous.
31:26That's when
31:27the hunt started.
31:47Nine days after Rachel
31:49has disappeared,
31:51her remains
31:52are found
31:53in a shallow grave
31:54in the Cascade Mountain
31:56foothills.
31:57The police
31:58are now proceeding
31:59to find and arrest
32:01those responsible
32:02for her murder.
32:06We knew that Rachel
32:07had been shot
32:08several times.
32:10Detectives weren't
32:11working to locate
32:12the gun.
32:15The evening of the 5th,
32:17Matthew Durham
32:18showed us
32:19where the pond was
32:20that the gun
32:21had been disposed of.
32:26We had members
32:28of our dive team
32:29out there.
32:30It took them
32:31several hours
32:32to find the handgun.
32:40At this point,
32:41Matt Durham
32:42was in custody.
32:44He identified
32:46several suspects
32:47that we were able
32:49to tie to
32:49Rachel's murder.
32:52We had established
32:53probable cause
32:55to arrest
32:55Maurice Rivas
32:56and Diggy Anderson,
32:58as well as
32:59John Whitaker,
33:00Yusuf Jihad,
33:01and Jeffrey Barth.
33:05I received a call
33:07from a witness.
33:09He had information
33:10that there was
33:11this juvenile party
33:13going on
33:13at an address
33:14in Linwood.
33:15They saw
33:16Maurice Rivas
33:17and Diggy Anderson
33:18at this party.
33:21I put out information
33:23to our patrol officers
33:25that this party
33:26was taking place
33:26and that Diggy and Rivas
33:28were supposed
33:28to be there.
33:29They arrived.
33:31One of our deputies
33:32saw somebody
33:34in the house
33:35that he identified
33:37as Diggy.
33:39My supervisor
33:40made the decision
33:41to call out
33:42the SWAT team.
33:44There was lots
33:44of young adults,
33:4619, 20 years old there.
33:48The deputies
33:49had the place
33:50surrounded
33:50and eventually
33:52they talked
33:52many of the people
33:54inside into coming out.
33:56One of those persons
33:57that came out
33:57was identified
33:59as Maurice Rivas.
34:00They arrested him.
34:02We got the information
34:04from the people
34:05inside the house
34:05that Diggy had gone up
34:07in the attic.
34:10We knew he was in there
34:12and he wasn't coming out.
34:15The SWAT team
34:16filled the house
34:17full of tear gas.
34:18They pulled some sheetrock
34:20down and they located
34:21John Diggy Anderson
34:22in the attic.
34:24He gave himself up
34:25and he was taken
34:26into custody.
34:31He was very uncooperative.
34:33I saw some calluses.
34:36I photographed his hands.
34:40It was proof
34:42of what happened.
34:43They were from
34:44digging the grave.
34:45Then I took him
34:46to the jail
34:47and booked him
34:48for murder.
34:52At this point,
34:53we needed to arrest
34:55John Whitaker,
34:57Yusuf Jihad,
34:58and Jeffrey Barth.
34:59We didn't know
35:00where they were at.
35:02We developed information
35:03that they probably
35:06had fled the state.
35:09Barth had his mother's
35:11cell phone.
35:13We were able to locate
35:15that cell phone
35:16as it was going down
35:18the coast
35:19in the California area.
35:22A day later,
35:24we had information
35:25that the cell phone
35:26was located
35:27in the L.A. area
35:29at a hotel.
35:31We contacted
35:32the L.A. authority
35:33They determined
35:36which room
35:37Yusuf Jihad was in.
35:44All three
35:46were arrested
35:47and taken into custody.
35:56Whitaker and Jihad
35:59both gave statements
36:01to the FBI,
36:02downplaying their
36:04involvement.
36:05Jeffrey Barth
36:06was not as cooperative.
36:09Back in Snohomish County,
36:11I had a couple
36:12other detectives
36:13come in
36:13and do the interview
36:15on Maurice.
36:16We were sure
36:17that he knew
36:18what happened
36:18that night.
36:20The detectives
36:21that had dealt
36:21with Maurice
36:22had discovered
36:24that he had
36:24some calluses
36:26on his hands
36:27as well.
36:33It was one
36:34of those
36:34physical reminders
36:36of how much
36:37he really was
36:38a part
36:38of this crime.
36:41At that point,
36:42Maurice realized
36:43the horror
36:44he was involved in.
36:46He said he was
36:47ready to come clean.
36:50The next step
36:51is to take
36:52Maurice's statement
36:52and assess
36:53whether you have
36:54sufficient information
36:56to take it
36:57in front of a jury
36:58and persuade the jury
36:59beyond a reasonable doubt
37:01that these people
37:02did it.
37:03But the jeopardy
37:04is that you mess it up
37:05and these people
37:06walk free.
37:24after Rachel Burkheimer's
37:26remains are found,
37:28there's no question
37:29in my mind.
37:30Seven people
37:31were involved
37:32in Rachel Burkheimer's
37:33death.
37:37At that point,
37:38we had Durham,
37:40Maurice,
37:41Dickey,
37:42Whitaker,
37:43Jihad,
37:44Jeffrey Barth,
37:45and Tony Williams
37:46in custody.
37:49Yusuf Jihad's
37:51girlfriend,
37:51Trissa,
37:52was never arrested.
37:53We determined
37:54that it would be
37:55better just to use
37:56her as a witness.
37:58We needed to interview
38:00everybody involved
38:01in it.
38:03Basically,
38:04they start turning
38:04on each other.
38:06Ultimately,
38:07Maurice told
38:08detectives the core
38:09of what actually
38:10happened.
38:14According to
38:15Maurice Revis,
38:16Dickey asked
38:17Matthew to bring
38:20Rachel to the house.
38:23Dickey appears
38:24and he's really angry.
38:26He gets into it
38:27with Jeff Barth.
38:28They're both
38:29waving guns around
38:30and getting in
38:31each other's faces.
38:34Dickey felt like
38:35she had been torturing
38:36him,
38:37dangling her happiness
38:38around him
38:39when they weren't
38:40together anymore
38:40and he just
38:42wanted to hurt her.
38:44Rachel headed
38:45for the door.
38:47Dickey grabbed her,
38:48punched her in the face.
38:50John Whittaker started
38:52kicking her.
38:54Tony Williams
38:55turned up the stereo
38:57to ground out
38:58her screams.
39:00They taped her up
39:01and put Rachel
39:03in the garage.
39:04At some point,
39:06Tressa Connor
39:07came home
39:07and she was told
39:09to get out of there.
39:11and Rachel was put
39:13in a black hockey bag
39:15in Matthew Durham's Jeep
39:17and taken up
39:18to Gold Bar, Washington.
39:21While Rachel was
39:23in the bag
39:24at the trailhead
39:25with Maurice,
39:27Maurice unzipped
39:28the bag
39:29and took the tape off
39:31so she could talk.
39:34Rachel pleaded to him.
39:36He put the tape back on
39:37and zipped her up.
39:40Maurice was her friend.
39:42They had plans
39:44to go back
39:44to high school together
39:45and she's terrified.
39:48In that moment,
39:49he could have just
39:50let her go
39:51and he chose not to.
39:54John Whittaker,
39:56Matthew Durham,
39:57John Dickey Anderson
39:58and Maurice Rivas
39:59dug a grave.
40:02Dickey proceeds
40:03to shoot her
40:03seven times.
40:05Three times in the head
40:07and four times
40:07in the back.
40:11And she was buried.
40:17And Dickey reminded
40:19everybody in the ride
40:20back that loose ends
40:22get clipped.
40:29The prosecutor's office,
40:31they worked
40:32day and night
40:33on this case.
40:34They finally decided
40:36to go to trial.
40:38The jury was persuaded
40:39in all three trials
40:41that the murder
40:42was premeditated.
40:45Dickey,
40:46John Anderson
40:46and John Whittaker
40:48were convicted
40:49of aggravated murder
40:51and their sentencing
40:52was life without parole.
40:54Yusuf Jihad
40:55was convicted
40:56of first-degree murder
40:57and received
40:5937 years.
41:02Durham
41:03and Maurice Rivas
41:05received
41:0526 years.
41:08Tony Williams
41:09got a 10-year sentence.
41:14Any number of people
41:15could have stopped this,
41:16but they didn't.
41:18This is a point
41:20and illustration
41:20of what groupthink
41:22can be like.
41:23They were too afraid
41:25to speak up
41:26and to be humiliated
41:27by their peers
41:27or to be kicked
41:28out of this group.
41:29As a result,
41:30Rachel was killed.
41:32The Burkheimer family
41:34went through
41:34a living hell.
41:37Getting a conviction
41:38was important,
41:38but that doesn't fix it.
41:40Absolutely nothing
41:41that we ever did
41:41could fix it.
41:48Everyone that was
41:49in her life,
41:50friends,
41:51family,
41:54she left us
41:54with so much love.
41:57She extracted
41:57every drop
41:58out of every minute
41:59out of every day,
42:00and that's something
42:01that most of us
42:02never achieve
42:03in a lifetime.
42:05I know that she knows
42:06I was looking out
42:07for her,
42:08and I'm so grateful
42:10that I got lucky enough
42:12to be her sister.
42:14Like, I hit the jackpot.
42:16that I am.
42:33I mean,
42:42This will kennelt
42:44allow me
42:44then let herÙˆ
42:44ann Labor would
42:44break and
42:44then let her of
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