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00:02How much has this case affected you?
00:08I think about it every day.
00:11I believe she met a monster that morning.
00:15She was by herself in a remote part of the parking lot.
00:19Next thing you know, the guys at her door with a handgun.
00:22I saw the suspect making his way into my sister's car and driving her car away.
00:29My heart sank immediately.
00:34I felt like every second Naomi was slipping away from us.
00:37Time was of the essence.
00:39We had public searches. The whole community was there.
00:44It means so much.
00:46Our family could not go through this without them.
00:50I never let myself doubt that she wasn't still with us.
00:58They got a break in the case when her car was found.
01:01I saw it sitting there, so I came back around and then...
01:04In my opinion, the suspect put it out there for law enforcement to find it.
01:08I think it was just part of his sick game.
01:11What was your greatest fear as you approached her car?
01:16Her body would be in there.
01:20It's like standing on the edge of the abyss.
01:38Hi, I'm Paula Zahn, and tonight we're on the case in Fernley, Nevada.
01:43The peaceful suburb about 40 miles east of Reno seemed an unlikely setting for a terrifying crime until 18-year
01:52-old Naomi Arion mysteriously vanished.
01:55As police began their investigation, a disturbing picture slowly came into focus with each frame of video evidence they discovered.
02:04Every clue revealed another part of a cold and calculated plot one detectives feared would end with Naomi dead and
02:15her family heartbroken.
02:22March 13th, 2022.
02:24It was early on a chilly Sunday morning, and Casey Vallee was filled with a nervous tension.
02:31He couldn't locate his sister Naomi, who had failed to return home after work.
02:41When was the last time you saw your sister?
02:45It was a Friday night, and I told her that the dome light was on in her car, to which
02:51she gave me a very characteristic teenager eye roll, and we both went to bed after that.
02:58Naomi had been living with her older brother for less than a year, while her parents were overseas on a
03:04diplomatic mission for the U.S. State Department.
03:07Naomi had her own car and a good job at the Panasonic plant in Sparks, Nevada.
03:14Was she supposed to work the next day?
03:16Yes.
03:21The diligent 18-year-old left for her shift before 5 every morning.
03:27When did you expect to see her the next time?
03:29I expected to see her Saturday night, but sometimes she didn't come straight home.
03:34So when I went to bed at 8 o'clock and she wasn't home yet, it wasn't that strange.
03:40But I fully expected to see her the next day.
03:42When did you realize she was actually missing?
03:45On that Sunday, I texted her a couple times. I didn't hear from her. I started getting really worried.
03:54Casey tried to be patient, but within a few hours, he shared the unsettling news with his parents.
04:03I called my mom. She hadn't heard from her since Friday night. That was odd.
04:10We started reaching out to friends that also hadn't heard from her.
04:15At that point, we knew that there was a problem, and I called the police department.
04:27But the officer Casey spoke with wasn't ready to launch an official missing persons investigation.
04:34Did he say why?
04:36He said that there wasn't enough to go on.
04:40He said that she's an adult. She's allowed to not answer her phone.
04:44Were you angry?
04:45I was very upset, and he refused to take my report.
04:50Didn't send out a be on the lookout or anything.
04:58Casey turned his frustration into action.
05:02He began retracing his sister's last known movements on his own,
05:07starting with a call to the Panasonic plant.
05:10Did she ever show up for work on Saturday?
05:12No, she did not.
05:13Had she ever missed a day of work before?
05:16No, never.
05:21We didn't know what was going on.
05:25This is not like her.
05:31As Casey's concern grew, he considered other possibilities.
05:37Could something have happened to Naomi on the way to the plant?
05:42He called hospitals and even the local jail.
05:46Then he raced to the Walmart parking lot, where his sister caught the shuttle bus to work every morning.
05:57What was your plan when you headed to Walmart?
06:00The plan was to find the security people and ask them to help us look for her car.
06:06Naomi's car wasn't in the lot, and the desperation in his voice convinced the reluctant security team to let him
06:14review surveillance video.
06:15They focused on the time frame between 4.40 and 5 a.m. when Naomi would have gotten there.
06:23It took us close to an hour to find the right footage.
06:29We eventually did find it.
06:33Casey watched in silence as Naomi's car pulled into and parked in the dimly lit lot.
06:42My sister was driving a 91 Mercury Sable, which has a very long headlight across the entire front of the
06:48car.
06:50Pretty easy to pick out in a grainy surveillance video.
06:55What the cameras captured next will remain etched in his memory forever.
07:01What did you actually see?
07:03That's when I saw the first video clip of the suspect.
07:10My heart sank immediately.
07:14To most observers, the way the man walked across the lot may have looked fairly innocent.
07:20But Casey was certain that something terrible was happening.
07:27He did a circle around the car, and then he circled back to the car.
07:33Was it possible that it was someone she knew?
07:36No.
07:38It looked like he brandished something.
07:43Casey then watched in horror as the unknown man entered his sister's car and drove out of the parking lot
07:50with Naomi trapped inside.
07:54It was hard to breathe.
07:56That's when I knew that she was really taken.
08:01I called 911 and told them that I had evidence of the kidnapping.
08:09Detective Eric Cusmers was assigned to the case.
08:12He was alarmed by the evidence Casey had uncovered.
08:18After you talked with Casey, was there any doubt in your mind that Naomi had been kidnapped?
08:23The minute I got off the phone with Casey, I believe she had been kidnapped.
08:26I sent out a text to all the other detectives and I was like, this is real.
08:30What was their reaction?
08:31They immediately went to work, headed up to Fernley, started gathering video surveillance and starting the investigation.
08:39Detective Cusmers raced to the Walmart and viewed every angle of the video himself.
08:45He also spoke with several potential witnesses.
08:50Give me a sense of how many people took the shuttle to work from that parking lot.
08:54There's approximately 20 to 30 people that ride the shuttles.
08:57But none of Naomi's co-workers had seen nor heard anything.
09:02Did you find that odd that they wouldn't have noticed anything unusual happening?
09:09No. Most of the employees were likely on their cell phones, not paying attention to their surroundings.
09:15And even if someone had looked up from their phone, there was nothing on the video that indicated that Naomi
09:22had struggled with her abductor.
09:25So there were no signs of resistance?
09:28That's correct.
09:32It was clear to Lieutenant Ty Joyner that even Naomi hadn't realized what was happening until it was too late.
09:42Did her abductor look like someone who didn't seem to be living in fear that he was going to get
09:49caught?
09:50Yes. He looked comfortable in the parking lot. He looked like he had a plan and was executing it.
09:57What happened as he approached the car?
10:00He basically goes directly to her car. He nonchalantly opened the door.
10:05We assume that she's likely in the dark looking at her cell phone and next thing you know, the guys
10:09at her door with a handgun.
10:16Naomi's abductor then slid behind the wheel and calmly drove her car out of the parking lot.
10:23The vehicle leaves with no headlights on. It was very clear that something happened.
10:29How long after Naomi was abducted did the bus show up?
10:33Less than a minute.
10:37What did you make of that timing?
10:39It definitely appeared to be a planned out kidnapping.
10:47Everyone on the case was now certain that Naomi Irion was in imminent danger.
10:55And they were almost 48 hours behind her abductor.
11:01How acutely did you feel the race against time?
11:05Extremely. I felt like every second Naomi was slipping away from us.
11:09Time was of the essence.
11:23Police in Fernley, Nevada were desperate for a lead that might help them find Naomi Irion before it was too
11:31late.
11:34For her loved ones, it was a dark time filled with desperation.
11:45What did you do to search for her?
11:47Anybody that she'd even mentioned to me in passing, I tracked them down.
11:52I talked to everybody that she'd ever really had contact with.
11:56Talking with everyone Naomi knew was not as big of a job as it might have been with a typical
12:03teenager.
12:08Naomi had a much smaller social circle after spending years abroad with her parents.
12:14They moved to Moscow while she was in middle school.
12:18And then they were in Germany for a couple of years.
12:21She finished out her high school in South Africa.
12:24What was it that had your family moving around so frequently?
12:27My stepdad working for the State Department as a diplomat.
12:36Naomi enjoyed the globetrotting.
12:38She was exposed to new music, art, and culture.
12:42But in her heart, the teenager longed to be back home.
12:47When did the two of you develop a plan for her to move in with you?
12:51We started talking about it about a year before she graduated high school.
12:55Naomi was all on board, really excited to come to the States and get a job, get a car, and
13:01work her way through community college.
13:03But now Casey feared that all of Naomi's future plans were in jeopardy.
13:13As police searched the area for the teenager and her missing car, they hoped that cell phone records might provide
13:20a lead.
13:22Were you able to track Naomi's cell phone activity?
13:25Yes.
13:26We were able to see her cell phone leave her residence and go to the Walmart parking lot.
13:31And then we were able to see it leave the parking lot and travel to the west side of Fernley
13:35before it completely stopped communicating with the cell phone towers.
13:40What did you think that meant?
13:42The phone was damaged or destroyed.
13:45We had no way of tracking where she was at.
13:51Still, investigators pursued the only clue they had.
13:55We went to the location where her cell phone was last active and there was approximately 50 cops from all
14:01over northern Nevada that came and searched that area.
14:04Did you find any clues?
14:06Nothing that ended up being relevant to this case.
14:12Police had barely finished that grid search when a Fernley patrol officer called in a shocking report.
14:20He had located Naomi's car parked in an empty dirt lot.
14:25It was like just driving all over looking for it.
14:28And as I was getting off here, I saw it sitting there.
14:31Lieutenant Ty Joyner raced to the scene.
14:34How far away was that from the Walmart parking lot?
14:37About three quarters of a mile from the Walmart parking lot.
14:44Detectives and CSI teams from around the state responded to the lightly traveled roadway.
14:50I just parked here and I walked over and then walked away.
14:53All right.
14:56Rumors of the police activity led Naomi's brother to head there too.
15:02What was your greatest fear as you approached her car?
15:05Her body would be in there.
15:10It's like standing on the edge of the abyss.
15:17There was no sign of Naomi in the front or back seat.
15:22Then came the moment of truth.
15:26They finally opened the trunk of the car.
15:29What did they tell you?
15:34That she's not there.
15:38For a few moments, Casey was incredibly relieved.
15:42But finding Naomi's car without a clue as to her whereabouts forced him to consider how the search for his
15:50sister might end.
15:53Was it hard to hold on to hope that she was still alive?
16:00I never let myself doubt that she wasn't still with us.
16:08Although detectives knew that Naomi's car being returned without her was a bad sign, they also believed it was still
16:16possible she was alive.
16:18Was there any evidence of a struggle inside the car?
16:21No, not that we found.
16:29Investigators scoured the area for a clue that might lead them to Naomi or the suspect who had kidnapped her.
16:38Were you able to find any surveillance video around the area where the car was found?
16:43Yes, we were able to capture her vehicle being parked on video surveillance.
16:53Could you make out who had been driving the car?
16:55No.
16:56The video surveillance shows Naomi's vehicle being parked off a dirt road out of sight of video surveillance.
17:05The time stamp on the video added another chilling detail.
17:10What time was the car left there?
17:13It was around 4.30, 5 o'clock the same afternoon after she was abducted.
17:19Just 12 hours after abducting Naomi, her kidnapper had brazenly abandoned her car less than a mile from the Walmart
17:29where he had kidnapped her.
17:31Why do you think her abductor chose that spot?
17:35In my opinion, he put it out there for law enforcement to find it.
17:38Why?
17:39I think it was just part of his sick game.
17:54As police study the troubling clues in Naomi Irion's disappearance,
18:00it seemed that her abductor might be engaging them in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
18:08What kind of perpetrator did you think you were now looking for?
18:13Somebody who definitely knew what they were doing.
18:15He was very calculated in his plan.
18:18Someone who perhaps had done this before?
18:20Very possible.
18:25Detectives had no leads on a suspect until Naomi's brother mentioned a new detail.
18:31The night before the kidnapping, the teenager had gone out on a first date with a man she had met
18:38online.
18:40What does she tell you about how it went?
18:42They had an okay time and she wasn't sure if she was going to see him again or not, but
18:48she wasn't against it.
18:50I did give whatever info I had about that guy to law enforcement.
18:58Police jumped on the lead.
19:00They met on a social media dating website.
19:03We found him and started looking into his whereabouts during her kidnapping.
19:08He was definitely a person of interest.
19:10Where did they go for that date?
19:12She drove from Fernley to Reno and met with him.
19:15They went shopping at a clothing store and had some food.
19:19Investigators were intrigued.
19:21The young man had likely seen Naomi's car and she could have told him where and when she took the
19:28shuttle to work.
19:35When they brought him in for questioning, they pressed him for information.
19:40What was his demeanor when he was asked about her disappearance?
19:44He seemed very concerned.
19:45Did he have any contact with her after they left each other?
19:49He said he did not.
19:50Police were skeptical until they confirmed that Naomi's date could not have been at the Walmart parking lot the next
19:58morning.
20:01He was in Reno, Nevada during her kidnapping.
20:04He had a strong alibi.
20:06He was not involved in Naomi's abduction.
20:12After quickly eliminating that potential suspect, forensic analysis of the Walmart video provided investigators with some physical characteristics of the
20:23man who had kidnapped Naomi.
20:26From the video surveillance, we were able to do a triangulation.
20:29And based off that, we believed he was six foot two.
20:34Investigators also shuttled through hours of footage from other businesses that might have captured Naomi's abductor abandoning her car.
20:43And their hard work led to the next break in the case.
20:52Upon reviewing video surveillance, we observed that there was a truck that parked nearby. A male subject exited the truck.
21:01Disappeared out of the camera view. A short time later, her car is seen driving back into camera view.
21:07Investigators were stunned.
21:09Investigators were stunned.
21:09When you compare that image to the image at the Walmart parking lot, was there any doubt in your mind
21:15you were looking at the same man?
21:16It was hard to say from that distance, but there's a solo person that entered her vehicle in the Walmart
21:22parking lot.
21:22Now there's a solo male subject where her vehicle was parked.
21:30Although police still couldn't identify the driver, the clear images of the pickup truck he was driving were now the
21:38best lead they had.
21:43That piece of video was where we really got our starting point to start looking for something real.
21:48That subject was somehow involved in her disappearance.
21:55While forensic experts worked on enhancing the video, detectives tried to make sense of the suspect's puzzling actions.
22:06It appeared he had initially abandoned Naomi's car outside of camera range and then returned to move it.
22:15How far away were the two spots?
22:17Probably 100 yards.
22:20The inexplicable decision left police with another tormenting question.
22:28Why do you think he went back to her car?
22:30All of law enforcement was speculating that he left evidence in the vehicle, forgot something, wanted to wipe it down
22:37for Prince one more time.
22:39In my opinion, I think he made a mistake.
22:54Just over a week after Naomi Irion's disappearance, police were still analyzing a massive amount of video they hoped would
23:02lead them to her abductor.
23:06Meanwhile, the Fernley community was rallying around the teenager's family.
23:14Did you feel the support of the community?
23:17Absolutely. It was fantastic.
23:20When we had public searches, the whole community was there.
23:24When we had our vigil, there was thousands of people there.
23:32Naomi's heartbroken parents who had flown back from South Africa were overwhelmed by the outpouring of goodwill.
23:40The love of the community has been, it means so much, so much.
23:45I know our family could not go through this without them.
23:50Naomi's loved ones pleaded with the public to come forward with any information they had.
23:56They knew that it might be the smallest of clues that ultimately solved the case.
24:02It's like putting together a puzzle.
24:07Every piece is important.
24:10Police agreed, and as they connected the pieces of video from different surveillance cameras in the area, they were inching
24:18closer to identifying the man who had abducted Naomi.
24:23Perhaps the most important images were the ones of the blue truck the suspect had fled in after abandoning Naomi's
24:31car.
24:32What did you learn by looking at that portion of the videotape?
24:38We took still shots that showed the truck drive past the business.
24:42The local Chevrolet dealerships were able to identify what make and model the truck was.
24:47It was a 2500 or 3500 Chevy.
24:51Is that a popular truck in the area?
24:54It is a popular truck in the area.
24:55The Department of Motor Vehicles sent us a list of all 2020 to 2022 Chevrolet 2500 to 3500 trucks.
25:05The DMV records didn't note color, so the total number of trucks was staggering.
25:13You're basically getting every Chevy truck registered in the state of Nevada.
25:17How daunting of a task was it to narrow down that list?
25:21It was going to be very difficult.
25:22We planned on looking at every single truck on that list until we found the right one.
25:27Investigators went to work trying to zero in on their target.
25:31They carefully studied the photograph and cataloged all of the details that could be used to identify that particular truck.
25:40There were several features such as chrome door handles, chrome running boards, color-matched bumpers.
25:45It had roof-mounted marker lights.
25:48It had a sunroof, rear sliding window, the emblem of the Chevy bow tie on the front of the truck.
25:59Police were able to eliminate hundreds of trucks based on their color alone, using insurance information and license plate reader
26:07cameras.
26:08But even after that huge effort, there were still dozens of trucks left to check.
26:15What did you think the chances were that they'd actually be able to find out who owned the truck on
26:22the surveillance table?
26:24Just going through that list, I thought it was a slim chance that they would find the truck.
26:29The work was time-consuming and required an officer to do an in-person review of each truck.
26:37Investigators were out driving and trying to find the vehicles. It just took a lot of groundwork.
26:45Slowly, a pattern began to emerge.
26:49Looking at these trucks for several days, which normally cost between $60,000 and $80,000,
26:54we noticed that the residents these trucks were parked at were nicer homes, nicer neighborhoods.
27:00All of the addresses fit that description except for one.
27:05The address just did not match the rest of the residences we had been looking at.
27:09The property was run down.
27:11And most importantly, there was no Chevy pickup parked out front.
27:16Lieutenant Joyner could have just moved on to the next truck on his list, but his instincts told him to
27:22do a deeper dive.
27:23That's when I started trying to research the registered owner, Troy Edward Driver.
27:30When Lieutenant Joyner received Troy Driver's DMV records, his hunch became a lead.
27:37His driver's license said he was 6 feet 2 inches tall.
27:41That made Troy Driver a physical match to the triangulation done of the suspect in the Walmart parking lot.
27:50Lieutenant Joyner immediately contacted District Attorney Steve Rye for more information.
27:57What did you learn about Troy Driver?
28:00I learned that he had spent a significant time in prison for some violent crimes,
28:06that he had gotten out of prison and moved to Nevada,
28:09and that he had gotten a job in construction and had moved up to a management position.
28:15Those details convinced Lieutenant Joyner the investigation was on the right track.
28:21They called me that he was a registered ex-felon.
28:26His criminal history was extensive.
28:29That 100% piqued my interest.
28:31We decided we needed to find that truck immediately.
28:37Driver's insurance records provided the updated answer.
28:41Where was the truck at that time?
28:42The truck was located in Fallon, Nevada.
28:44I contacted some Churchill County detectives, which is the neighboring county.
28:48They were able to drive by the address, get some long-range surveillance photos.
28:52And we were able to look at that truck.
28:54As police studied the photos, they were stunned.
28:58The truck they were looking at had all of the different dealer add-ons they had identified in the surveillance
29:05stills.
29:06His truck matched everything that we were looking for on the suspect truck.
29:09Where did the investigation go from there?
29:11That was enough to start applying for search warrants.
29:16The investigation was heating up, and the FBI provided detectives with more fuel for their suspicions.
29:24They had found video of that same truck being parked near the Walmart just before Naomi was abducted.
29:31When Naomi was kidnapped, we didn't know where he had parked his truck.
29:36The FBI reviewed hours and hours of footage and ultimately located the truck being parked the morning of March 12th.
29:45Identifying where the suspect had left his truck prior to the abduction allowed investigators to create a map of the
29:53likely route the abductor had traveled.
29:58They searched for cameras between that area and the Walmart, as well as the dirt lot where he had abandoned
30:06Naomi's car.
30:07We now can try to narrow down the focus of video surveillance to try to see him going to the
30:14truck or to the car.
30:17The building blocks of the case against Troy Driver seemed to have fallen into place.
30:23Did you have enough to arrest him at that point?
30:27Not at that point.
30:29Our district attorney's office wanted just one more piece of evidence.
30:32What did you think that could be?
30:34We couldn't say for certain, so we pushed the panic button, trying everything with search warrants and video surveillance footage.
30:39But none of them realized that the clue that might bring Troy Driver to justice was hidden in plain sight.
31:02Police had zeroed in on a suspect in the Naomi Irion abduction case.
31:08His name was Troy Driver.
31:12Investigators believe they had linked the 41-year-old's blue Chevy truck to the kidnapping through surveillance video.
31:20But police still didn't have enough to make an arrest.
31:25You never know if it's the owner driving the truck. The video is too far away.
31:36Detectives hope the GPS data from either Driver's work or personal phone would provide the smoking gun that placed him
31:44at the crime scene.
31:45Was there any cell phone activity on his phone before Naomi was kidnapped?
31:52No. Troy Driver's cell phones were actively connected to towers, but they were at his residence in Fallon, Nevada.
31:59The day that Naomi was kidnapped, there was zero activity on either phone.
32:03What do you think that actually meant?
32:04That his phones were specifically left at home so we couldn't be tracked.
32:13Investigators were frustrated.
32:29Did additional surveillance video ever surface?
32:32Yes.
32:35On the afternoon, Naomi was kidnapped.
32:37Troy Driver returned to the area in her car and walked from her car directly to his truck.
32:43He made a huge mistake and he walked past a camera mounted on a pole at a bank.
32:48The bank's video showed Troy Driver with his hood down.
32:53It was super clear video surveillance and you could clearly see the face.
32:57What was your reaction?
32:59It was definitely a gotcha moment.
33:02The video placed Troy Driver at the crime scene minutes after Naomi's car was abandoned.
33:11It was the final piece of the puzzle.
33:17Describe to me how his arrest unfolded.
33:20He was at work in Reno, Nevada.
33:23As he exited work for the day, law enforcement jumped out and took him into custody.
33:28Troy Driver?
33:29Yeah.
33:30Don't move.
33:32Police hoped that Driver would confess when he was confronted with the case police had compiled.
33:39So we have our suspect in custody.
33:42Once he was in custody, did he reveal anything about Naomi's abduction?
33:47No.
33:48He lawyered up.
33:51How frustrated was law enforcement when he decided to lawyer up without giving you any information about her abduction?
33:59Very frustrated. I was hoping he would lead us to where we could find Naomi.
34:07Investigators went back to work, determined to find answers to all of the remaining questions, no matter how painful they
34:15might be.
34:16And conversations with Troy Driver's girlfriend moved them one step closer to their goal.
34:23You spoke with Driver's girlfriend after his arrest.
34:27What did she tell you that alarmed you?
34:29The driver had told her that he was going camping that weekend, and he left the night before Naomi was
34:34kidnapped.
34:35When he got home, he was not acting normal.
34:37She started piecing everything together.
34:39I think she came to the realization that he had done it.
34:47Headlines about Driver's arrest also raised the suspicions of one of Driver's coworkers.
34:53He said he had delivered an excavator to Driver at an abandoned job site in the weeks leading up to
35:00Naomi's abduction.
35:01Detectives discovered that Driver often worked alone in the remote location.
35:07Based on that information, a sergeant from the Pershing County Sheriff's Office drove out there, looked around, and found a
35:14spot that looked abnormal.
35:15A patch of fresh dirt.
35:19One look at that disturbed ground left Lieutenant Joyner convinced it was time to begin the grimmest job in law
35:27enforcement.
35:29We started marking the area, and we started to dig into that dirt to see if there was something in
35:35there.
35:36How long did the process take?
35:3820 to 30 minutes before we started getting the odor of decomposition.
35:43We had called for forensic technicians to come in, and they were out there for probably 15, 20 hours, when
35:48we actually saw a flash of skin in the dirt.
35:53A closer look revealed that the victim was Naomi Erion.
36:01What condition was her body in?
36:03Her body was well preserved.
36:05It was still cold outside, and she was buried several feet in the ground.
36:10Naomi was naked, and the cause of her death was clear.
36:15The medical examiner determined that Naomi had been shot twice, once in the back of the head.
36:21One more time through the chest.
36:25Was the murder weapon ever found?
36:28No, the murder weapon was not found.
36:32For her loved ones, the discovery of Naomi's body extinguished their last glimmer of hope.
36:40How did you all confront this terrible, tragic news?
36:47I was trying to comfort my mother.
36:49She passed out.
36:50Everybody cried.
36:51It was horrible.
36:54I was very upset.
36:56I was beside myself.
37:01But within all the anger and heartbreak, there was a small sense of relief as well.
37:07Naomi was home.
37:12And the evidence police found left little doubt that Troy Driver would face justice for her murder.
37:19During the autopsy, a sexual assault exam was conducted on Naomi, and DNA swabs were collected.
37:26Those DNA swabs showed positive for Troy Driver's DNA.
37:33The investigation had exposed Driver's entire sadistic plot.
37:40Troy Driver waited in the dark.
37:42He saw a single young female pull in by herself and park in a remote part of the parking lot.
37:48He was able to stalk up to her car without being seen by her.
37:53He opened her car door, brandished a weapon, and got into the driver's seat.
37:58He drove out of the parking lot.
38:02And then he drove her out to his pre-designated location to sexually assault and murder her.
38:09It was absolutely horrific.
38:10Nobody should ever have to go through that.
38:13And you saw it all play out with the exception of the murder on tape.
38:18Yeah, seeing her leave that Walmart parking lot was very tragic.
38:23How would you characterize someone who can come up with a sadistic plan like that?
38:28Psychopath. I can't think of any other way to characterize it.
38:35She met a monster that morning.
38:42But before the mountain of evidence that documented his crime could be presented to a jury,
38:48Troy Driver committed suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial.
38:54How disappointed were you when you found out that Driver had managed to kill himself?
39:01I was disappointed that the family wouldn't get to see him get convicted in court.
39:05Do you have any doubt that Driver would have been convicted had he not committed suicide?
39:11I have no doubt at all.
39:16Naomi's family agrees.
39:18And they even found a shred of solace in Driver's final act of cowardice.
39:24He's never going to hurt anybody again.
39:26And that's good.
39:28It was hard to think of him as human.
39:31He was just an animal.
39:34Today, Naomi's loved ones remain committed to finding a way to move forward,
39:40while never forgetting what they have lost.
39:44How has this tragedy forever changed your family?
39:49I mean, there's always someone missing.
39:53There was definitely a big hole there.
39:57Her room is still intact.
40:00Sometimes I just sit in there and think about her.
40:04And we think about her a lot.
40:07It's brutal.
40:14Naomi's family is grateful for the amazing work of law enforcement and the community, whose outpouring of love they feel
40:22to this day.
40:24I'm Paula Zahn.
40:26Please join us again next time when we're back on the case.
40:30On an all new season of on the case.
40:33She was in a remote part of the parking lot.
40:36Next thing you know, the guy's at her door with a handgun.
40:39I believe she met a monster that morning.
40:42I said, I honestly don't believe this girl's coming home alive.
40:45Can you even imagine him walking into that nightmare?
40:49It was horrifying.
40:51And it made me feel sick.
40:53I ran through the house just screaming, no, no, no, no, no, no.
40:57It can't be true.
41:00Where the victim's voice is never silenced.
41:03I believe any case can be solved.
41:05It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
41:08We hit some dead ends, but we were not going to give up.
41:11All I see is blood on the ground.
41:13Please, hurl.
41:15She stabbed and set on fire.
41:17Who could do something like this to a young mother?
41:19What did you realistically think were the chances of solving this case?
41:24I knew we'd find something.
41:26If it is you, I'm coming.
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