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When a middle schooler vanishes without a trace, suspicion quickly falls on the new circle of older friends she’s been spending time with. As family and friends dig deeper, secrets unravel, and the line between loyalty and betrayal starts to blur.
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00:01When you're 13, your friends are everything.
00:07They're your go-to's for a sense of belonging and emotional support.
00:13If you're lucky, they're also a source of great adventures.
00:20But if you aren't careful, you'll pick the wrong friends
00:24and turn your world upside down.
00:32Very bittersweet spot for me.
00:54I spent a lot of time down here fishing and camping.
00:59Now it's a constant reminder of what happened.
01:12It still lives in the back of your mind.
01:15What if?
01:17You know, I was just a kid. I didn't know.
01:29Welcome to a doll's life, a captured clown and look at 16.
01:34A double-cross my life.
01:37You're my friend. You're my friend.
01:43So growing up in the 90s in the Melford, there was not much to do at all.
01:47Just basically ride bikes and walk and just have fun.
01:51We hung out a lot outside.
01:53A lot of times we were just basically wandering around, talking.
01:58We relied on our friend group because there's really nothing to do in New Melford.
02:02And around sixth grade, that was mostly Donna, Marianne, Michelle and Scott.
02:09Marianne was girly. She had definitely the 90s style.
02:13Donna was definitely like a little mischievous. She liked to have fun, goof around.
02:19Michelle, she was quiet.
02:22But she had a rebel side to her.
02:24Don't piss her off because she will come for you.
02:28I was older than them.
02:30They were a grade younger than I was.
02:34We all just hung out in the neighborhood together all the time.
02:37Doing girl things, tanning during the summertime.
02:42Me and Marianne were great for getting burnt because we used to put the baby oil on instead of, you know, sunblock.
02:51And then there was Scott. Scott is the only guy in the girl group.
02:56Scott. What can I say about Scott?
02:59He was a little bit of a troublemaker.
03:02He would be the first to say, hey guys, let's go to the field and get drunk.
03:04Or jump in someone's pool and like run away.
03:07At that time it felt innocent.
03:12This is the green.
03:15I have lots of good memories of hanging out here.
03:19We kind of like hang out after school and then talk about like crushes, things like that.
03:27You never know who was going to be there because it was the 90s.
03:32We didn't have the cell phones.
03:35No one bothered us.
03:38We were in public, but at the same time we're secluded.
03:43We used to do the dumbest stuff on that green.
03:45If that grass can talk, we'll probably be in big trouble.
03:51But this summer of 97, things started to change.
03:54And that does bring back some bad, dark memories.
04:04Marian was telling me about the people she was hanging out with.
04:06It was an older crowd.
04:07She told me that she was seeing an older guy named Keith.
04:17He was about 21 years old.
04:20And he bought her flowers and he made her feel really special.
04:23Marian was just 13 years old.
04:27I told Marian, I was like, I don't think this is a really good idea.
04:31Like he seems a lot older than you.
04:33And then she kind of just reassured me that he was friends with Scott.
04:37And that's what made her feel comfortable with it because it was somebody we knew.
04:44Scott and Marian were hanging out with Keith's friends.
04:47They were like the townies.
04:49There was this guy named Alan.
04:51We all know him by AJ.
04:53And he was 19.
04:56And then there was June.
04:58June was 17.
05:00She was an older sister of one of our friends.
05:03She is not the type that Marian would hang out with.
05:07Because to me, from what I gathered about June, she's mean.
05:11Like, that's not Marian.
05:13June was hanging out with the older group and with Keith.
05:15Then June started hanging out more and more with Marian, becoming like her best friend.
05:22I was a little bit jealous because when Marian started hanging out with this older group, she started to distance herself.
05:30She just thought they were cooler.
05:33She was riding around in the car.
05:36They had access to, like, cigarettes.
05:41It kind of opened up a whole new world.
05:43As a big sister, she was very protective and loving.
05:57And she had, like, a really big role because, um, she was the oldest.
06:02When Marian met the older group, there was a lot of changes in her behavior.
06:12She was a little more distant.
06:14She had less time for me.
06:16She had a little bit more of an attitude.
06:19In the fall, she started skipping school.
06:22The change was very obvious that it was coming from the influence of that older group.
06:27My mom did have a hard tire with her.
06:31You know, like, honey, I'm scared for you.
06:33All of your behaviors right now, this is not what a 13-year-old child's doing.
06:39You can't do this anymore.
06:40And then one day, I was at home, and I remember the phone ringing.
06:54Marian called Mom from the payphone on the green.
06:57And said, Mom, you gotta come get me.
07:02So, Mom flew down and picked Marian up.
07:05Then when Mom came back, she asked if Marian was home.
07:10I said, what?
07:12Well, you went and got her, but she's not with you?
07:15Where is she?
07:16Mom says after she picked her up, they went to the store, and Mom went inside.
07:29And Marian stayed in the car.
07:34And a few minutes later, Marian is not in the car.
07:40And so Mom didn't really know what happened.
07:43And she was scared.
07:44Marian wouldn't just leave.
07:51I was at a friend's house.
07:53And that's when her dad came in and said, hey, girls, have you seen Marian?
07:58I get a call saying that Marian is missing.
08:03Her mom doesn't know where she is.
08:04Do you know where she is?
08:06I said, no.
08:11So Mom walked into the New Milford Police Department.
08:15And reported her missing.
08:17But they didn't seem to take it serious.
08:21It felt like the police just assumed that Marian was a troubled teen.
08:26So they labeled her as a runaway right away.
08:29They were telling Cindy to go home and just wait for her to come back.
08:33Since Marian was skipping school, the school ended up reporting a case for, I don't know if it was truancy or what it was.
08:42But the police decided that made her a runaway.
08:45I didn't know what to think if nobody knew what happened to her.
08:51I did ask June if she knew what happened.
08:55But she said she had no idea what happened to Marian.
08:58The people in the group say, no, you know, we have no idea.
09:01We'll help you look for her.
09:02Did she get out of the car to walk home and get kidnapped?
09:08Could it be the mailman?
09:11Like, who was it?
09:13I remember Donna, Ashley, Michelle, you know, having questions, having anger and frustration, too.
09:18It definitely came to my mind that somebody was holding her captive or, like, torturing her.
09:25We don't know where she went.
09:26We don't know who she was with.
09:28She just went missing and disappeared and nobody saw anything.
09:33There was way more to this story than what we knew.
09:36Marian had secrets.
09:38I remember her saying something, like, a few days prior about something going on.
09:43And she didn't know she'd tell us.
09:44I think she was scared.
09:47You can see it in her face.
09:49Like, she didn't know what to do.
09:50So she opened up to me about it and I'm like, holy crap.
10:07There's more to what happened to Marian before she went missing.
10:11And I remember one day we were in the cafeteria and we were sitting there and Marian was really quiet.
10:22And I'm like, what's going on?
10:24She was genuinely scared.
10:27And she finally came out and told us.
10:29She said that she had become sexually active with Keith.
10:36And then Keith and AJ, both of them, started doing things to her sexually.
10:42And she felt gross and felt like she did things that she maybe really didn't want to do.
10:47Keith was 21.
10:49And AJ was 19.
10:51And she's 13.
10:53Like, you shouldn't be enduring.
10:55You shouldn't even know anything about that.
10:57Marian told Donna and I at lunch that she had confided in her mom.
11:02Her mom thought it was the right thing to do to go to the police and write a statement about them taking advantage of her.
11:07Because these were grown men.
11:10That's some pretty deep stuff to share at 13 with your mom.
11:14But mom comforted her versus, like, getting upset with her.
11:18She said, honey, you don't have to feel that way.
11:21You're not wrong.
11:23They're wrong.
11:24You know, they're grown men.
11:25They shouldn't have touched you.
11:27And I know that she told Marian that what had happened was statutory rape.
11:31The day she told us a secret, her mom was actually picking her up early from school to bring Marian to the police department.
11:47Marian felt worried about writing the statement because she was friendly with them.
11:52She was close to them.
11:54So I kind of feel like she felt the betrayal to them.
11:58I think the detectives and the officers felt like she was feeling overwhelmed.
12:03So they kind of just let her break.
12:05And so she was supposed to actually go back and finish the statement, but never did.
12:12So the statutory rape charges could never stick because they needed more information from Marian.
12:18And they couldn't get that because she went missing.
12:28When I found out about the rape, I was very angry with the police department.
12:36You have a 13-year-old young lady that was giving you a statement.
12:42And she was just pushed off as a runaway.
12:47I did know Keith and AJ from school.
12:51I wasn't friends with them.
12:54I knew of them.
12:55They did not have the best reputation.
12:57It wasn't anyone I would have wanted to hang out with.
13:00But I knew that Scott was hanging out with them.
13:04So I figured if anyone would have known where Marian would be, it would have been Scott.
13:09But Scott was not around when Marian went missing.
13:15Unfortunately, Scott had crashed a vehicle.
13:19And being a minor and driving, Scott ended up put away for a little bit.
13:26When Marian went missing, I was in juvie.
13:38In there, you can only call home.
13:41And that's when I found out.
13:45My mother had told me.
13:47And of course, I was very concerned.
13:49I just couldn't wait to get home and pound the pavement and help find her.
13:53I thought she might be just not coming home for a few days and trying to hide out with Keith.
14:00Or more than likely, with someone in the older friend group.
14:05I hung out with all of them.
14:08And I introduced Marian to them.
14:11So of course, I trusted them.
14:13I mean, as far back as I can remember, I've known Keith.
14:19As a kid, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents' house.
14:21And him and his family lived behind them.
14:25We always kind of looked up to him because he was older.
14:28And he would pick us up at the bus stop and give us a ride home.
14:31I always thought that was cool.
14:32And he was always nice to us younger kids.
14:36And AJ, he was the one I trusted the most out of the group.
14:39I genuinely always thought that he would look out for me.
14:41And Marian and I had fun and didn't really worry about what could potentially happen.
14:49Honestly, just being a teenager, I didn't really think about the age gap.
14:54But when I heard about the statutory rape, I was pretty surprised because it's 100% wrong.
15:03And they were wrong for doing it.
15:05There was a lot of rumors when she was missing.
15:14One was that she was pregnant and ran away because she was pregnant.
15:18When mom heard that rumor, she put a thing in the newspaper, like a letter to Marian.
15:22It was like, honey, if you read this, please come home.
15:28You know, I'll love you and I'll love your baby.
15:32She was doing everything that she could to bring her back.
15:39I think as a kid at 12 years old, when the day started going by and we didn't see her,
15:44we felt like we had to take matters into our own hands.
15:46I remember going to school and taking a picture of Marian.
15:52And the guidance counselors allowed us to use their printers
15:56and start making missing posters for her.
15:59We would go to school and try to act normal.
16:02But after school, we were looking for Marian.
16:05I remember running around everywhere, screaming for her, looking for her.
16:11Walking the tracks at night with my pit bull walking the roads.
16:16Going in the woods, screaming her name over and over again.
16:21This is November. It's getting dark early.
16:24And like these 13, 14 year old girls are out there screaming their best friend's name in the woods.
16:31That's gotta be terrifying.
16:33We just wanted to find our friend.
16:46We thought that maybe she was staying at Keith Foster's house.
16:50So one day we decided like, let's go see his house.
16:54I was thinking that maybe she was there and I can like go in and grab her.
16:59Like I didn't know what to do.
17:01We're just gonna play it by ear. Like I had no plan.
17:02So we sat at the bottom of his road where I can barely see his house.
17:08Just waiting and waiting.
17:10All I wanted to know is she's really there.
17:13At one point, Keith came out.
17:16But we didn't see Marianne.
17:22For me personally, there was a huge shift when I got home from detention.
17:28It was 100% out of the realm that she would go zero contact for a week.
17:34Let alone a month.
17:35It was always that hope that she did run off or maybe she was kidnapped and then we'll let her go.
17:47It did create paranoia bad because we didn't know what happened.
17:52So now we're thinking there's a kidnapper in our tiny town.
17:55Was it our neighbor?
17:57Was it the bus driver?
17:59Could it be the creepy guy up the street?
18:01Who was it?
18:04Everyone was in full panic mode.
18:07And now we're looking at weeks.
18:10Rolls into months.
18:12At that point, we're starting to be in the newspapers.
18:18We were out handing out flyers.
18:20We were going to known locations, places we would hang out looking for.
18:26Never found.
18:27And then an article came out that there was a body found in Lake Illinois.
18:40And they were unsure if it was her or not.
18:45When your friend goes missing, your thoughts typically avoid the worst case scenarios.
19:00But the moment a body is found, there's no avoiding the darkest of realities.
19:05Every part of you prays it's not them.
19:08This is where we all met. We all grew up.
19:10We had kind of all known each other from school, but this is where, like, our friendships really formed.
19:16It's so weird seeing the house a different color because I'm always used to it being blue.
19:22Yeah, our window.
19:23That was Marianne's window.
19:24Yep, I remember that.
19:25That was a big window.
19:26It stuck out.
19:27Used to stand out here and talk to you guys in the window all the time.
19:29It always feels like home to me up there, even though when you go up there now, there's nobody left.
19:32I remember being little and spying on you guys and there was cigarette smoking going on.
19:55Do you remember that?
19:56Scott was probably involved in it.
19:58You were probably.
19:59I, I didn't know you were spying.
20:01I didn't even know you were spying.
20:02I know you spied on the window and caught me and Mary Ann kissing.
20:05I know, not from my first time.
20:07I didn't even know she kissed a boy until then.
20:10A lot of good memories up here with her.
20:14We were kids enjoying life and loving life
20:19up until, you know, that tragedy occurred.
20:24Somebody spotted a body in the water.
20:31The body was wrapped in a blanket.
20:37The wrists and the ankles were bound in chains.
20:41The dental records then confirmed that it was Mary Ann Musil's body.
20:47We were in the kitchen and I heard, like, cars pull up.
20:53I heard car doors and all the adults are just, like, talking,
20:57like, brewing a pot of coffee.
21:00And I looked out the mini blind down the window.
21:06And there was, like, police cars.
21:09And a guy from the church, a clergyman with the...
21:12I just remember the white.
21:16My mom, she screamed, no.
21:22And she just dropped.
21:32Clearly, something really savage happened to her.
21:35I remember news reports.
21:36I remember seeing the little blow-up boat that they used to get her body out of the water.
21:50to realize, like, this is now my life.
21:56This is our life.
21:57That's my sister.
21:59I just sat there and laid on my bed for hours.
22:03I just couldn't understand why.
22:05I never had a friend that I could just let my guard down and actually talk about my feelings with.
22:14Being a boy, you know, you gotta keep up this, like, tough guy exterior.
22:20But I didn't have to do that around her.
22:23But now she's gone.
22:26She went from missing to being found.
22:29And I think that's what scared the shit out of all of us.
22:33There was a killer among us in this small town.
22:40When her case was officially a homicide, the state police had taken over.
22:45And they pretty much had to start from scratch.
22:48She was in the lake for nine months.
22:50So our family was told there was no physical evidence.
22:54They didn't have DNA evidence.
22:55They didn't have fingerprints.
22:56So now they have to go based on who's gonna talk.
23:00I did get questioned a little bit.
23:04They were trying to find out if I knew who did this.
23:09Being around cops is really scary because you don't want to say the wrong thing
23:13or, like, put them in the wrong direction.
23:15It's kind of like you're being very cautious about what you say
23:18because it's a really big deal.
23:20When I was questioned by the Connecticut State Police, I was 15.
23:26I told the state police, you know, what we did when we all hung out,
23:30how we all knew each other, who was dating who, who was sleeping with who,
23:33who hated who, that kind of stuff.
23:38The state police focused mainly on AJ Walter
23:41and Keith Foster.
23:48But AJ and Keith said that Marian was their friend.
23:51They said that they would never hurt her.
23:58After Marian was found, I wasn't really hanging out with Keith or AJ or anybody like that.
24:04But honestly, I, I just always felt in my gut that Keith had something to do with it.
24:12AJ was a very quiet guy.
24:14He didn't really express too much emotion or anything like that.
24:19But when I did bring up Keith, I do remember him agreeing with me.
24:24He thought Keith might have something to do with it.
24:27But AJ would never expand on much.
24:33I don't feel like the cops were doing enough at that point.
24:37Why didn't detectives hurry up and figure out who did this?
24:39There were so many unanswered questions and we didn't know if it would happen again.
24:44There was a lot of fear back then.
24:51So her family got together at this booth at Faraday's.
24:55It was right between the tank and the gazebo here.
25:00So anybody that walked by, if anyone had information, if anyone knew anything,
25:03they had a place right there where they could tell us.
25:06We were just trying to bring awareness and find out if anybody knew anything about her.
25:15Maybe people from other towns would come or somebody who knew something that we hadn't spoke to yet.
25:21And at one point, Donna and I were together at the booth and behind us was Keith.
25:29And I started hearing this voice behind me saying something about murder in the Milford, getting away with it.
25:34And then something about they're never going to know.
25:38And I looked at Ashley, I'm like, did you hear that?
25:40She's like, yeah.
25:41When he said you could get away with murder, that really turned it around to,
25:47this is somebody who may have been very hands-on and done something to her.
25:52At that point, I was so focused on him admitting it to get him, you know, arrested.
25:57That was my goal.
25:59Because I knew it was Keith Foster.
26:02It was him, him.
26:03We knew who it was.
26:05But we need real evidence.
26:07It was game off.
26:16We were still working with the detectives, focusing on Keith.
26:20When all of a sudden, our neighbor, Glenn Cook, was arrested for kidnapping and doing brutal things to two 12-year-old girls.
26:33Glenn was a stereotypical, like, rape van guy that would, like, lure you in with, like, candy.
26:40He had a creeper van, so he fit the description, like, to a T.
26:45Kind of fits.
26:46Kind of fits.
26:47Really does fit.
26:48You know?
26:49Like, was it Glenn?
26:51When the police searched his home, they found pictures of girls in the neighborhood.
26:58And Marianne's picture was found in there, too.
27:11Our neighbor, Glenn Cook, became a suspect.
27:16Because he kidnapped two teenage girls.
27:21And the police found pictures of Marianne in his home.
27:27He had been using duct tape and chains on 12-year-old girls, very similar age level.
27:37And he took those girls in the woods and raped them.
27:41And the stories and things that he did to them were very similar to how Marianne was found.
27:49We kind of knew the cops really well, and they would tell us,
27:53yeah, he seems like he's the one that did it.
27:56But he's not.
28:00Glenn Cook was eventually ruled out as a suspect.
28:04There wasn't good evidence that he did it.
28:09I was surprised, because we definitely thought that everything lined up.
28:12New Milford police and the state police had spent years working on the case.
28:22And Governor John Rowland announced a $50,000 reward for anyone giving evidence that would lead to Marianne's killer being found.
28:34So years have gone by, and we started to see Scott's older friends dispersed.
28:45But they would still kind of linger around town, and we would have interactions in different places.
28:50And I always just felt super uncomfortable.
28:55There was a time that I was with Donna, and we stopped at the gas station.
29:00And Keith was there.
29:05I've always wanted to confront him.
29:08Like, I always wanted to say something to him.
29:11But me, who I am, A, I have no filter.
29:14And B, it might go from zero to 1,000.
29:16I might end up hitting him.
29:18But I didn't care.
29:20We were extremely confrontational.
29:23And her and I were like little pitbulls.
29:25We're like, so how did you do it?
29:27Did you kill her?
29:28And then right before the report didn't kill her.
29:30He started to take off.
29:32He was getting away from us.
29:34And we're not done.
29:36I want answers.
29:37You know, I know what you did to my sister.
29:38I know you took my sister's life.
29:40I'm like ready to fight him.
29:41Like, I'm ready to hit him.
29:43Like, I'm not backing down.
29:45The more we screamed at him and baited him, the more angry he got.
29:49You know, you don't know what you're talking about.
29:51Leave me alone. You're harassing me.
29:53That's when he kind of like, comes like, towards us.
29:58And there's a look in his face.
30:03His dark, creepy eyes.
30:10He looks dead at both of us and says, maybe I'll do it again.
30:15My body went completely numb.
30:20And I saw red.
30:23Me and Jenny jumped back into the truck.
30:26We flew back to Cindy.
30:28And we're like, this is what happened.
30:30Like, he admitted it.
30:32Finally, after all these years, finally he said it.
30:33Like, this is what we needed.
30:34But the police said it was hearsay and they can't go by hearsay.
30:39I was so mad because I thought this was it.
30:41It's done. It's over.
30:46But it wasn't.
30:47The police spent years just trying to get someone to crack or to fumble over their stories.
31:00It was really hard.
31:09I was friends with June's little sister.
31:12We were classmates.
31:14She was the girl I sat with at lunch.
31:17Missing and talking about my sister and wondering where she was.
31:22She knew Marianne because Marianne had been at her house a lot right before she died.
31:28And she was my little support group.
31:30And it was really special that I had her.
31:33And then, um, one day June's sister came to school and said that last night June said that she was solving the case.
31:43Working with the detectives and that she was going to get that $50,000 reward.
31:48I said, what?
31:52She said that she overheard her sister talking to the detectives.
31:57And she said that June brought the detectives to their first piece of tangible evidence.
32:08And it didn't make sense to me.
32:11How would June know what happened?
32:13Are you telling me June was there?
32:16It's a shocking revelation.
32:20Followed by another bombshell.
32:23The devastating truth of what happened to Marianne is as dark and twisted as a kiss.
32:29After Marianne's murder, five years later, and we don't have answers.
32:40And then finally it's happened.
32:44We're going to get answers.
32:46Now the truth is going to come out.
32:48June was pretty nice to Marianne.
32:50She kind of acted like a big sister.
32:54I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.
32:57So I never thought she was involved.
32:59June brought the detectives to the woods and there was a washer and Marianne's shirt was in the washer.
33:19June knew because she was there when it happened.
33:23June, it happened.
33:26By leading the detectives to the washing machine where Marianne's clothes were, June thought that she was going to get the reward.
33:35You think that the state is going to give her a reward?
33:38You don't get a reward after confessing to your crime.
33:43You get jail time.
33:47June told a story from start to finish of what happened.
33:53She said Marianne told her about the statutory rape and going to the police.
33:59Marianne opened up to her, believing she can trust her.
34:06And then June told AJ and Keith.
34:09June said that AJ orchestrated the whole thing.
34:12So basically silenced Marianne from going back to the police.
34:19I honestly thought it was one person.
34:21Maybe it was just, you know, Keith Foster.
34:24But then June admitted that there's eight people involved.
34:27That whole group.
34:30So June.
34:32Keith Foster.
34:34AJ.
34:36Their girlfriends.
34:38And three other friends.
34:40All of them were involved.
34:42I was just so sick.
34:44To think that Marianne actually thought she was hanging out with friends.
34:49But they were planning on murdering her.
34:50That day Marianne was on the green.
34:52It was raining.
34:53It was cold.
34:55AJ was with Keith.
34:57And June and all of them.
34:58They were there too.
34:59Driving around.
35:01And they were threatening her.
35:03So Marianne called her mom and was like, hey, come get me.
35:05I'm scared.
35:06I'm cold.
35:07I'm wet.
35:08I want to go home.
35:09And then they kidnapped Marianne out of Cindy's car.
35:13And brought her over to River Road.
35:14They get her out of the car.
35:16And start beating on Marianne.
35:18But Marianne was a fighter.
35:19She wasn't going to just go down easy.
35:21She did break away and run to the railroad tracks.
35:24And June chased her screaming in the dark down the tracks.
35:27And then she dragged her back.
35:29And fed her right back to the wolves.
35:30Next thing you know, Keith and EJ, and another guy start raping her and hurting her.
35:41And she asked, like why are you doing this to me?
35:43And then she dragged her back and fed her right back to the wolves.
35:51Next thing you know, Keith and EJ and another guy start raping her and hurting her.
35:56And she asked, like, why are you doing this to me?
36:01And then they brought her over to the river and held her head down into the water
36:07until there was no more bubbles coming up.
36:10And then they wrapped her in blankets and chains.
36:16And they threw her into the river.
36:24It breaks my heart that I wasn't there for her.
36:28I feel like I could help her. I don't know what I could have done, but I feel like I could have done it.
36:31Them beating on her and raping her and holding her under the water until the bubbles stopped,
36:44that's probably the comment that haunts me the most.
36:49It was mind-blowing.
37:00Seeing pictures of them in cuffs on the news and all over the newspapers.
37:04And it was like, wow, I spent every day with those people.
37:09I was hanging out with a bunch of murderers and I didn't even know it.
37:12I will always harbor some guilt and blame because I literally introduced one of my best friends to her own killers.
37:21So this is the spot where it all went down, where Marianne was taken from us.
37:38And she took her final breaths right here.
37:46And then they left her here to float through town while we all looked for her.
37:54Scott definitely carries guilt, but he's not the reason that this happened to her.
37:59They are the reason.
38:02Seven of them pled guilty.
38:05AJ was basically sentenced to life.
38:07June got 30 years.
38:10June deserved a lot more than 30 years.
38:13Keith was the only one who went to trial.
38:16In May 2006, he was found guilty and sentenced to life plus some.
38:21That was a really good feeling.
38:23I knew he would be found guilty.
38:25Taking him to trial was really stupid.
38:28He was stupid for that.
38:29Anytime one of them got sentenced, it was a relief.
38:33But to me, it didn't feel like enough.
38:36I wanted them all to get the death penalty.
38:38It's unfair.
38:40Why are they allowed to sit there in prison and live their life while we had to bury Marianne at 13?
38:46That's sick.
38:47Two of the guys would have gotten 18 months for statutory rape.
38:54So instead, they ended her life and ruined all of ours.
39:00Forever.
39:00I never raised my kids to believe that there's no monsters.
39:05I never, ever.
39:06People tell their kids, like, no, honey, monsters aren't real.
39:09Yes, they are.
39:10They are.
39:12And I've lived my life with eight monsters.
39:14It is all right.
39:34It is all right.
39:34It's kind of wild.
39:45This is the first time we've all been down here together.
39:48Thank you for coming here.
39:49Yeah, thank you.
39:51I know it was hard.
39:56I wonder what she'd be like at 40 years old.
40:04I know she would be a great mother, you know?
40:06I wish she could have met her nieces and nephews and met all of her friends' kids and gone to all their weddings.
40:14I think about that all the time.
40:16I am friends with Michelle, Jenny, Scott, and Donna still to this day because of Marianne.
40:24And that's one of the greatest gifts that she could have given me.
40:27Even though she's not with us now, having them as friends, I couldn't imagine going through this without them.
40:32She was so young.
40:34She was 13.
40:35She had so much stuff going for her.
40:39It just sucks.
40:40Like, I wish she was still here.
40:42I just miss her so much.
40:43It's really hard to trust people.
40:48I tell my kids, I tell everybody and anybody, watch who your friends are.
40:53On the next, a killer among friends.
41:14What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas.
41:18There's so much I wish I would have done.
41:20But when your best friend winds up dead, everything seemed fine.
41:23I wish she would have told us more.
41:25Everyone's secrets must be revealed.
41:28I'm speaking to a murderer right now.
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