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00:08I was supposed to go pick her up and she never showed up Samantha was a mother of three recently
00:15separated one of the worst experiences I've ever been through anytime that you've got a missing
00:20person's case the ultimate goal is to find the missing person alive and well their boyfriend's
00:28claiming that he don't know where she's at her relationship was a good relationship was loving
00:31we cared for each other quite a whole lot but when you ask questions he would start yelling and
00:39degrade you when you need somebody to go in the box match wits with the suspect Jim Holland is who
00:48you
01:17want
01:24wise County was largely rural wooded very conservative kind of what I would term salt
01:30of the earth for the most part hard hard-working people I've lived in this area since I was five
01:37years old it's always been that way but at the end of the day you'll be surprised sometimes where you
01:45find yourself and what you'll find yourself doing that couldn't be any more true in this line of
01:51work last time I talked to my daughter Samantha I was supposed to go pick her up she was texting
02:02me
02:02on the phone saying where to meet her and out and she would be there at a certain time I
02:08got there a
02:08little bit early and she never showed up then I just lost contact with her for a little while after
02:18that it was normal not to hear from her but then when she finally texted I noticed that the texting
02:30was
02:30different Samantha would always make you know short answers and then abbreviate everything but then they
02:37were all start to be wrote out and then they just stopped I never heard anything back we filed missing
02:50persons report the next day we went out handing out flyers any place we could
03:07Decatur Bridgeport Chico there was flyers going out everywhere and we were searching in different
03:15places trying to get her located I hope she would come home or she'd call and say hey come get
03:22me yeah
03:24nothing Samantha was young lady 28 years old mother of three recently separated from Paul that she has the
03:35children by the authorities needed to confirm that the person she was separated from was ruled out as
03:46suspect the timeline is very important I mean that's one of the first steps we do Paul was at the
03:52very end
03:52of the timeline they did mention searching my property I said fine let's search it together I met Samantha
04:13because I worked with her mom and dad her dad installed swimming pools she started coming to the jobs with
04:20us she
04:20was a hard worker she's beautiful always has been funny always cutting jokes and pulling pranks on people
04:29Samantha would prank anybody another shoving them in the swimming pool you name it she would do it and she
04:36could throw a punch we loved each other very much super my first love hers too we spend every day
04:48together at work love letters
04:50all day long I have a box of love letters at home we had three kids together life was great
04:59love and laughter and fun all the time
05:05Samantha and Paul got together really young and then later on they just kind of grew apart
05:15one night at our house she met David I knew the Malone family from the truck stop they were truckers
05:22she
05:23started dating him after that night they seemed really nice it would bring her own flowers and
05:29take her places and seemed like a really nice guy and then shortly after they got together Samantha moved in
05:42with him when I found out that David Malone was Samantha's boyfriend I was concerned I've had dealings with David
05:50Malone in
05:50the past David did have a criminal history of violence against women David and Samantha they was together for about
06:00four months before she did become missing it wasn't too long into the relationship that I noticed things
06:10wrong Samantha come home with marks around her neck and she said it was from rough sex and it's like
06:17no
06:18that's not but that's what she kept on saying every time my first encounter with David Malone was going to
06:27get my
06:28kids immediately you can tell someone's jealous or think something's going on even if absolutely there
06:35was nothing going on like that
06:48during the time they actually lived together David wanted her to stay there at the house all the time he
06:55wanted his control over she called me and said I need you to come get me please when Springtown picked
07:14her up took her to my house the house we were raising our kids in she read to Courtney they
07:21pizza together
07:23she said somebody's coming to pick me up said it better not be it's not it's not and then she
07:30said
07:31if I don't ever see you again I love you
07:48Samantha reported in Parker County that she was sexually assaulted by David Malone she went to the hospital
07:57and they did a rape kid on her she pressed charges CBS was called and I got emergency custody of
08:06the kids
08:07thank God do you know the system don't always work she had been beaten raped several times and picked up
08:16by her brother I was trying to make sure she left David this time but she was her own person
08:22there was
08:23nothing I could do she wouldn't listen
08:34I don't know how many times I called her for the next couple of days
08:39I continuously blew her phone up I started getting on the phone to other people and telling them
08:44something's wrong and her mom agreed with me nobody's heard remember you write some song
09:00anytime that you've got a missing person's case the ultimate goal is to find the missing person and
09:06hopefully find them alive and well we had searched many areas that we knew Malone was connected to
09:13eventually the warrant guys located him at that time Malone actually had a warrant for his arrest for
09:20sexual assault it was a traffic stop he is arrested for the outstanding warrant I was hoping that they
09:28would find him and she would be there but she's not with him I'm like we gotta find her
09:44David Malone was transported back to Parker County
09:48after finding David you know we're hoping that we're gonna find Samantha I go down there interview him
09:56as long as you let him talk he's fine but when you start wanting to ask questions it kind of
10:00changes
10:01he would get upset he would start yelling and trying to degrade you he didn't seem really concerned about Samantha
10:11I mean he's only wanting you to believe what he wants you to believe
10:18but as far as any kind of details no
10:26in any situation where you need somebody to go in the box and match wits with the suspect
10:36Jim Holland is who you want
10:54a North Texas mother of three young children disappears there's no sign for two weeks as her family waits wonders
11:02and hopes
11:03and this hits the news and it just blows up
11:13Wise County Sheriff's Department gets the idea that Samantha McNaughton's boyfriend David Malone is going to be a special dude
11:20and if he did this or if he had anything to do with it
11:23then you know maybe I can get him to talk
11:28there's always a chance that Samantha McNaughton's alive and we're hopeful
11:35but there's a clock and it's ticking
11:38that's a lot of pressure on me but moments like this are why I became a ranger
12:06I know when I get into the box with David Malone the only way I'm going to get
12:10the truth out of him is to be patient and listen to the story he wants to tell
12:15I need him to trust me
12:19you've known Samantha for how long?
12:21I've known Samantha since June this year
12:24so like four or five months?
12:25like four or five months
12:26okay and you're a boyfriend and girlfriend?
12:28we're boyfriend and girlfriend
12:30okay and in the course of this four to five months I guess you're living with Samantha is that correct?
12:35that's correct
12:36is there anyone else living with you?
12:38I mean Samantha and her kids
12:40okay and does Samantha have a job?
12:43she worked part-time
12:44okay but you were the-
12:46yes she only worked part-time
12:47you're basically supporting Samantha and her kids?
12:49yes
12:51I start off the interrogation by building him up
12:55by letting him understand that I recognize that you know he's a hard-working person
13:00that he's been supporting this girl that he's been supporting her children
13:05describe your relationship as a good relationship
13:08our relationship was a good relationship
13:10it was loving
13:10we cared for each other quite a whole lot
13:14and it was kind of rocky
13:16but you know what good relationship is
13:19prior to this record statement
13:21we talked about how you're being bothered by some things
13:23is that correct?
13:24that's correct
13:35I was driving
13:37around seven o'clock at night I get this call from a captain at Wise County Sheriff's Department
13:43and he said I need you
13:44this girl's missing and I need you to go to Parker County and interview this dude
13:51so I reached out to Tony Bradford who was a ranger in Parker County
13:56Jim primarily needed my help because he wanted a Robin to his Batman so to speak
14:03I've known Jim since 2007 he can be the most arrogant cocksure person you've ever met but then he's also
14:11very down-to-earth and he's able to relate to a whole spectrum of people
14:15he's as good as gold in my book
14:20Parker County Sheriff's Department tells me right away that Malone was hungry
14:26so I grabbed some fast food for David Malone and myself
14:29and the idea is break bread and build some type of rapport
14:37they said the Texas Rangers had come in
14:41when you know they're coming
14:42you know things are fixing to be set right
14:46they are a special group of people
14:50I said it to myself
14:52they would find out where Samantha's at
15:14so I introduced myself to David Malone
15:17and we sit there and we eat hamburgers
15:19and just kind of get to know each other a little bit
15:25everyone this guy has talked to
15:27has immediately jumped him about Samantha McNorton
15:31I felt like that was not the place I needed to go
15:37he basically just says as we're eating
15:39that he dated Samantha McNorton
15:42but he didn't have anything to do with her disappearance
15:45he says the last time he saw her
15:48he had dropped her off at a convenience store
15:50and they had kind of reconciled a friendship
15:54and he agreed to take us there
15:56myself and Ranger Bradford
15:59thought process was that
16:01in the vehicle
16:02we can get him talking
16:04and begin this opportunity of communication
16:13almost immediately
16:15Malone says I didn't sexually assault her
16:18he really seemed to concentrate
16:20on this aggravated sexual assault
16:23and then he starts talking about
16:25how Samantha McNorton was cheating on him
16:28we opened up the conversation
16:30and kind of talking about
16:32you know yeah I've been there before
16:34and trying to empathize with him
16:35and I pull in Ranger Bradford
16:39if I remember right I made up some
16:42bullshit about some old gal that cheated on me in college
16:45or when I was in the army or something like that
16:47you know letting them know hey yeah I get it
16:50you know you're right
16:51they can break your heart
16:52and you can't trust them and all that
16:56Malone is really buying into this
16:58this underlying theme just really pops out
17:01that this is all about guys being done wrong
17:03by their cheating girlfriend
17:07the more we talk about the cheating
17:10the more and more anger that you start seeing in this
17:15it didn't take long to draw a beat on him
17:17personality wise
17:19it's obvious he had a problem with women
17:22he likes to hear the fact that we both had issues with women
17:27and so you create this character
17:31I guess that would be someone
17:33that if they're going to share their you know
17:34innermost secrets that they would open up
17:36and share them with
17:43we get to the convenience store
17:46Malone says you know this is where I left her off
17:48and he says we sat down and we talked
17:50and we worked everything out
17:52I left and that was it
17:55it didn't make any sense to me
17:58I mean as we're driving
17:59he's mad he's cussing at her
18:01he's calling her all these horrible names
18:03and then all of a sudden he changes to
18:07but we talked and we were friends
18:09and she was going to go be with her boyfriend
18:12I left and that was it
18:17based on this immediate 180
18:20and complete change in persona
18:22there was no doubt in my mind
18:25that he was lying
18:28of course I start pointing out video cameras
18:31in the parking lot
18:32I told him you know this is your problem
18:35that's not going to be on video
18:39but he basically says
18:40well I don't know what to say
18:41other than that's what happened
18:45so then it's
18:46all right well let's pivot
18:47where did you go next
18:49and he said well I went to
18:50my dad's house
18:51in Runaway Bay
18:57so the thought process was
18:58let's keep talking
18:59let's keep driving
19:01the longer that he talks to us
19:03the more likely he is to shoot himself in the foot
19:06the more you can keep them talking
19:09the more rope you give them to hang yourself with
19:13we start driving
19:17Malone really really starts opening up
19:20you know how horrible
19:22how angry and mad and upset he was getting
19:26because she was cheating on him
19:31we arrive at Malone's father's residence
19:36and I basically tell Malone
19:39man look
19:40we haven't seen this girl for 11 days
19:43and it's looking more and more like
19:47she's not alive
19:48and I said you know David
19:50if this is a crime of passion
19:53you need to tell us
19:54because that's different than premeditated murder
19:58and he has to smoke a cigarette
20:05and so we step out into this grass area right
20:08in front of the lake
20:09with a bunch of trees and stuff around
20:12you see the anger in his eyes
20:16this isn't a feigned anger
20:18I mean if there's anything that's clear at this point
20:21he hates this woman
20:23he just turns around
20:25I feel like this could be the moment
20:30he finally says
20:31I need to think about this overnight
20:34I knew not to push him any farther
20:37because I think if I would have continued to push him
20:39he would have shut down
20:43it's a roller coaster of emotion
20:44but at the end of the day
20:47it's up to them
20:47it's not up to you
20:51so we ended up taking him back to Parker County
20:53and putting him back in the jail
21:10the next day
21:11I head back up there with Ranger Bradford
21:14there was some strategy talk
21:16about how we're going to approach it
21:18Jim even told me
21:19I'm going to bear down on him a little bit
21:21bring a little more pressure today
21:26we meet with Malone
21:27and he goes
21:28I want to take you somewhere
21:29and show you something
21:31I mean
21:33what do we have to lose
21:36the first day
21:37you know
21:38we get the chisel in
21:39but I felt like the second day
21:40one of my goals
21:41was to really
21:43hammer him into a story
21:45and really lock him in
21:48in a situation like this
21:50you're kind of up to bat
21:53you're going to knock in
21:54a winning run
21:55or you're going to lose the game
22:00Malone said that he was going to
22:01take us to his grandmother's house
22:03that Samantha McNorton's glasses
22:05were there
22:09we pulled down this road
22:11into I guess what would
22:13best be described
22:14as a compound
22:16and as soon as I pull in there
22:19I get this bad feeling
22:23we stop and get out
22:25he's going to show me
22:26where these glasses are
22:27and all of a sudden
22:28men start coming out of the house
22:30you know
22:31one, two, three, four
22:32I don't remember how many
22:35and the house just starts
22:37emptying out with hillbillies
22:38and we're
22:39nobody knows
22:40we're out here
22:41with this son of a bitch
22:42okay
22:44that's what had my ass
22:45tight enough
22:46you couldn't shove a marble in it
23:15myself and ranger brad
23:18we're in a bad spot this is the Malone family compound it hits me I remember
23:27the location because I had been out there to this 20 to 40 acre piece of
23:32property that actually has tunnels and caves in it about a year before helping
23:37the DEA serve a warrant on the property there were several individuals that
23:43lived out at that location that had pretty serious criminal histories you know
23:48I felt like at any minute a shootout could occur
23:56Ranger Bradford quickly disappears behind my truck I'm out there getting this 308
24:03out and putting it on the tailgate I was afraid we were gonna end up getting in a
24:09banjo rifle shootout out there I'm stuck out on the other side of the truck with
24:17Malone and his family and they bring him out some tea and everyone's drinking tea
24:24it's almost like we're you know we're having a family get-together a family
24:28social I really felt like things were gonna go south and I started coming up
24:36with ways to defuse it I said you know David's made a rough decision he's
24:43decided to help us and we're actually here to help him and that seemed to kind
24:48of settle them down I basically thanked them for their time and grabbed Malone
24:53and escort him back to my truck as Tony's taking cover on both of us
25:00and we pull out of there happy to be alive happy not to have been in a shootout
25:09we start driving down the road again and Malone said I want to go to my mom's house
25:16I literally locked up on the brakes in the middle of the highway I said man I'm not your taxi
25:20service
25:21we know this occurred and now it's time to tell us what happened
25:29it was awful because you didn't know where he put her there was so many places he could have put
25:33her
25:37it's one of the worst experiences I've ever been through a lot of staring out the windows
25:45I've seen her in a dream and something was wrong I was trying to get to her and I couldn't
25:51get to
25:51her it was cold getting cold and I'm like we gotta find her she's cold I had keyed in on
26:07the fact that
26:08for Malone it was just sticking in his craw that he was being charged with sexual assault that
26:14morning I discussed my idea with Jim about calling the DA to write this letter out that if he cooperates
26:22in the disappearance of Samantha this sexual assault charge will be dropped Jim said yeah he said that
26:28sounds good go for it I said David I feel like you're not giving us information because you do have
26:35issues with the sexual assault so we got this letter from the district attorney and he seemed to really
26:42really appreciate that I remember it seemed like it was instantaneous where he looked at Jim he said
26:49all right let's go inside it's time to really put the screws to David Malone the juggle was I wanted
27:08the
27:08confession but I really needed the body the only way I'm going to get his help on the body is
27:15if I hold
27:16his hand during that confession and he at least believes that I'm trying to help him out I've
27:25got all the confidence in the world in Jim there's nobody I'd rather have in there but I'm a born
27:31pessimist there's still that in the back of your mind it's thinking what if he gets in there and then
27:37Malone just decides to give the big finger to everything and be like take me back to jail
27:47at a certain point in this relationship did you start wondering if um she's having these I guess
27:53sexual relations with other people yes why do you start thinking that because she'd be gone for hours
28:00and the way that her attitude was and everything it showed all the signs of her having sexual relations
28:07with other people going into the interview I felt like if I could put him in this painful place again
28:14I could really drive him into the truth and if he felt like he had accurately portrayed why her murder
28:23was ultimately justified then we wouldn't have any issues and him leading us to the body
28:42David Malone was convinced that his girlfriend Samantha McNorton was cheating on him the entirety of their
28:49relationship the question is what exactly happened the day she disappeared that escalated things
29:01so let's go to around I guess November 5th do you remember that day yes I remember that day clearly
29:09we got up and I was waiting on my boss to call me to go to work okay and who's
29:14your boss the guys
29:15working for at the time is Justin and Samantha came to work with me that day okay and does anything
29:20strange or peculiar happen that day yes we're at work and you know she Samantha's helping me run the
29:27plumbing and everything in the attic I see that Justin and Samantha are kind of messing around it was dark
29:36we're cleaning the stuff up I'm standing in front of Samantha and Justin's behind her and he bends down
29:43to act like he's getting parts and Samantha shines a light in my eyes so I couldn't see what they
29:48were doing
29:49as Malone describes everything specifically what happened on November 5th at his job site you see
29:58the anger really starts setting in but he's behind her yes he's behind her so what do you think's going
30:05on I think what's going on is she was grabbing on her and messing with the rear end or whatever
30:15it's interesting because Malone never says that he actually sees anything he just believed from
30:19seeing his boss behind his girlfriend that you know she'd done something wrong and obviously that
30:27doesn't make any sense and it was just bizarre but there's no doubt in his mind that she's cheating on
30:35him
30:37so what happens next I'll get upset and I tell her to go to the truck I'll go back and
30:44confront
30:44Justin about it he denies it and he says that she had been shouting a lot in his eyes all
30:49night he gets
30:50in his truck and he leaves and I get in my truck and I leave okay you leave with Samantha
30:54yes me and
30:55Samantha are in my truck and we leave and we go house we go there and I noticed that the
31:01curtains
31:01pulled down and somebody had broken into my house okay and then what happens I go in the house somebody
31:09had just broke in and for all the reason I still don't know did that happen probably not these are
31:18things that he developed in his own mind based on this paranoid psychosis that he was living in and
31:24it's the same paranoia that convinced him that his boss was having sexual relations with Samantha
31:31and so I get you know a few of my things my clothes and me and Samantha leave okay I'm
31:41just
31:41basically driving around to find somewhere so we can sleep until we wake up in the morning and figure
31:45out what we're gonna do I don't know the actual road name or anything but we turn off on our
31:52on the
31:52dirt road off of that highway that goes to toward Bridgeport okay and when we're going down there you
31:58know I'm trying to talk to Samantha about what's going on and I told her that I'm tired of her
32:02lying
32:03to me and I told her that she needed to tell me the truth I wanted to really get his
32:08emotion on video of
32:10of how much this alleged cheating affected him and how much anger there was and and you could see that
32:22when we eventually get to where we're going we pull off the road and I'm looking over at her and
32:28this is starting to get serious and I'll grab Samantha by the hair and I'll put her in my head
32:35in my lap
32:35okay and I'm asking her to tell me the truth to tell me everything his paranoid psychosis has
32:43convinced him that she's having relationships and he wants to take complete and total control of her at
32:50this time the reality is is this poor young lady as a madman holding her down in the middle of
32:57nowhere
32:59and the truth doesn't matter
33:03she had been cheating on me and I was tired of it and I was fed up and I wanted
33:07to know the truth
33:08okay and while we're sitting there I feel this out of body experience of like this is the reason
33:17why I was put on the earth to to be there that night with Samantha and I feel like Lucifer's
33:24with us
33:24there I can't think of a single time that I've been interviewing someone about a murder and they
33:33started telling me about how Lucifer appeared to him and I'll put it to her back and I tell her
33:42to tell
33:42me the truth and she starts telling me about the guys that she's been with and she goes into gory
33:49details basically just trying to hurt me in my head basically what he did was interrogated her about all
33:58the times that she's cheated on him is there any truth to this no Sam wasn't like that she was
34:05faithful she had a pure heart she wasn't a party person she was a faithful person whoever she was with
34:14but Malone he is convinced that something was going on and so we have a poor woman who's being held
34:23down by
34:24her hair who's got a knife shoved into her back you know he's doing what she can to save her
34:28life
34:32so basically she's saying when you're going off to work busting your ass yes then while you're
34:36gone she's sleeping with other men that's correct this interrogation's a tightrope because as Malone's
34:45going through what he did to Samantha I'm sickened by it but I know if I let it in for
34:52a second I'm going
34:53to be thinking about what I want to do to David Malone and that doesn't do any good I don't
34:59want
35:00Malone to think that I'm judging him in a negative way because I want him to lead me to her
35:04body
35:06and what happens next
35:23I've been talking to David Malone for two days he begins telling me how he grabbed Samantha
35:30McNaughton by her hair and pulled her into his lap and began forcing her to answer his questions
35:39I can't imagine what Samantha went through she had to be wondering if she was ever going to get out
35:46of
35:46this alive I've got the knife and it's in her back and she starts screaming and fighting she grabs a
35:58knife
35:59and we're resting around in the front of the truck and she goes over to the passenger side
36:06and somehow the door opens and we both fall out and I put my hands around her throat and I
36:13basically
36:14choke her to death
36:23I think ultimately Samantha knows that she's going to die she tries to fight him off and Malone is able
36:32to immediately grab her and to suffocate her to death I can't imagine how horrible that was
36:40and there's this presence with us and I turn around and I see this dark shadowy figure like someone's
36:51standing there like the Grand Reaper and I feel the presence and it's just like a chill all the way
36:56down
36:56inside my body from inside the depths of the most eternal depths of my body I feel this presence there
37:03and I tell her that she's here you tell Samantha he's here yes and you mean the Grand Reaper yes
37:10the devil
37:16I've worked a lot of murders a lot of murders
37:21I think it's probably one of the oddest murder confessions that I've ever heard I've heard some real
37:30weird shit that was pretty far out there but kind of roll with it because you don't want to confront
37:40them on something that's core to their beliefs
37:46reality's setting in what's going on and I get Samantha and I pick her up and I put her in
37:54the back of the truck
37:56okay and where do you go next I got to the place where I'm going to bury her body and
38:02I park and I
38:03get out and I dig a hole okay I get Samantha out of the back and I drag her to
38:11the hall and I put her in the barrier
38:20we conclude it and he agrees to take us to this location
38:28so we drive north and we get to this rural location the Stanford ranch
38:37we get out and he directs us to where he had dug holes and buried her
38:53as we were using brushes to remove the layers of dirt on top of her you started seeing a picture
39:01on her hand there appeared to be a defensive wound from a knife which I think at the end of
39:08the day
39:08shows you the type of person that she was I mean she was not someone who was ready to die
39:13and she fought valiantly ultimately removing the knife from him with her hand cutting herself
39:21and trying to live
39:26friends and family of Samantha McNorton held a candlelight vigil at a Decatur park
39:30it came just hours after they learned their search may have ended in tragedy
39:35we had a candlelight vigil set up for the night that they found her so it went from a vigil
39:42to
39:42a memorial it was really really hard it was about six or seven days later I got a call from
39:51the
39:51Sheriff's Department dispatch and they advised me that David Malone had hung himself in his jail cell
39:59immediately after getting off the phone with his mother thank God I didn't have to sit through a
40:04trial that would hurt really bad there is justice
40:15the Texas Rangers
40:20they're doing God's work if they hadn't come along I don't believe that we would ever found out anything
40:28when Jim starts the work of homicide he refuses to accept the fact that this is going to be unsolved
40:35case he will go without sleep he will not eat whatever it takes we wanted to find this woman and
40:44we were both dedicated to doing whatever we needed to do to bring her back and to seek some type
40:52of justice and make sure that David Malone didn't kill anyone else
40:58Samantha's family wants her legacy to be people having a better understanding of domestic violence
41:06I know of two after she was killed that got out of their relationships and they're still alive today
41:13and don't put up with that anymore
41:16what's my message get out and don't go back
41:25what's my message
41:27I'm going to see you
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