A Killer Realizes Their Victim Is Still Alive

do you know what happened to Adriana tonight no I don't she talked to us she said that you and Heather did this to her so that's why we're talking to you two this is the moment Tina realized her murder victim was still alive and to make things worse her victim had just told the cops everything they needed to know to put her behind bars for the rest of her life we know what happened out there it's just going to be a matter of getting fingerprints and evidence back you're going to do it I promise the

co Ena is currently being interrogated over the horrific attack of her friend in Florida like most teenage fights it apparently started because of a dispute over a guy but this isn't the story that she and two other suspects would tell investigators in this extremely sick case okay Tina you know can I call you Tina mm okay obviously know something's up so tell me what happened tonight nothing happened that I know of Heather just said that something about Adriana got beat up real bad okay you know anything about that no see arms and hands if I

could okay what's this right here that little scratch there this yeah I have a puppy okay your puppy calls that look to got your chin okay 19-year-old Audriana had gone over to her neighbor's house to patch things up after an argument but she had no idea that fate was waiting for her that neighbor was Tina Brown and Audriana was walking straight into a trap what started off as a fight quickly turned into something much worse but according to Tina she's got an alibi so where were you tonight at Heather's at Heather's house Heather said she

was going to cook so I went down there she was cooking of fish and french fries and then we just started watching movies you were there all night until the cops came up there mhm what time did you go over there probably just started getting darkg okay so about about Sunset was anybody over at Heather's house when you went over there just Heather and her husband Heather okay there anybody come over there her and her little friend girls were at the house she said she hurt her hand so usually we get there and everything is

all right so I don't end up going with her but she said she was going to the emergency room what time was that when they came by you know was it long after you got there no okay so early in the evening um I don't know what time it was oh okay um so about 30 to 45 minutes after sunset Tina's daughter Britney was also at Heather's house at the time but the problem here was that they along with Tina were the three main suspects in the case the detective already knows there's bad blood between

Tina and Audriana and spend some time discussing their friendship what has been going on between you and Adriana this week a whole buchu actually um Adriana me and Adriana were together today okay where were you all together my house okay what was going on there we just sitting there watching movies trying to get my computer um pull it up where I can get iTunes and watch movies um have y'all had any problems oh yeah we've had problems the first three trailers we've had problems for a long time what's the problems well lately the new problem

is she thinks that I'm the one who had her boyfriend locked up in jail okay so she's mad at you thinking her boyfriend's locked up because of you yeah but we talked about it earlier today this would be one of several accusations that surrounded the four women Tina's daughter Britney also claimed Audriana slept with her boyfriend but even so Tina says there were no issues over the last few days I me me and her actually just started back talking today okay cuz I asked her um this morning what was I doing this morning oh we

was trying to make some phone calls and I wanted to heat up some chicken so I asked her where she put the Church's Chicken in her microwave and she heated it up for me and brought it to my house okay do you know what happened to Adriana tonight no I don't hella just say she got beat up but that's all I know a little bit more than that the detective is talking about the horrifying injuries covering audriana's body and despite her story Tina knows exactly what happened Tina Britney and Heather waited for Audriana to arrive

at Tina's house in Ensley before ambushing her with a taser and beating her down with a crowbar the three then threw her in the trunk of a car and drove her to a secluded patch of Woodland where they set her on fire and then walked away away clearly they expected her to be dead but Audriana not only survived this horrific attack but managed to crawl to a nearby house and find help she did this with Burns covering over 60% of her body none of the suspects including Tina know that she survived until the detective drops

this bombshell we're not sure if she's going to make it or not no I don't she talk to us or she talk to the people that came over to help her MH she told them something you know what she told them I go imagine what's thaten she said that you and Heather did this to her so that's why we're talking to you too but she said I called she's been saying a lot of stuff lately okay she said I called um cuz this is all stuff that we talked about today at my house okay about

um NRE was stabbed okay and I asked her she do it she said no I mean I couldn't prove she did it so we I didn't argue about it fuss about it or nothing but you thought she did it mhm just just because what people said but M did you hear about her window getting busted out whose window Adriana's window getting busted out a few days ago you didn't hear about it no sir I didn't and you said tonight you were over at Heather and Darren right yes sir and you didn't go anywhere no did

anybody come over there while you were there um he had somebody come over but I didn't go out what who were they that came over the the he was dark skinned and he had braids okay and then it was another guy but I didn't know who that guy blocker sound familiar yeah and did anybody else come over yep um white guy in a red truck you know who that was no he went out there and went outside and talk to him and what was Darren doing while yall over there cooking anything L on the couch

watching movies is that pretty much what y'all were doing all the way until the cops came mhm okay so you Darren and Tina were sitting in the room hea were sitting there in the in the living room watching movies and when the cops knocked on the door what' you'all do we were sitting there okay why you answer the door it ain't my door okay so y'all sat there and when the cops came they didn't answer the door and how long were y'all in there before you did that um I guess the the tape was going

out cuz Adriana has a little boy that's kind of hyper he said that that little boy probably got that taser and tased that little girl all right but you were home all night you didn't see any kind of disturbance going on over there before the cops came over there or anything no we would have heard something right now Tina is starting to show signs of guilt she's slumped over with her head hung down and avoiding eye contact indicating she's very ashamed and regretful or at the very least sorry she's been caught whatever the case may

be she definitely seems uncomfortable but as the detective points out it's definitely not for the right reasons you didn't go to go get anything or go anywhere at all I don't think so okay you seem kind of like aasal about this I'm telling you that this woman is uh probably going to die and has named you as the person that's harmed her it kind of you know doesn't sit easy with me that you're just so nonchalant about this I just I just talked to talk to her today and I told her I never called DCF

that's on little kids okay well she's probably going to die is the word we're getting we're concerned over that and the last person she said that did this to her is you and Heather okay we're going to go out there we know what happened out there it's just going to be a matter of getting fingerprints and evidence back okay once again Tina shows her guilt This Time by touching her lips this is often a Telltale sign someone is lying and is trying to hide that fact by covering their mouth the reason we're here basically what

she told the fireman was that you two came and grabbed her mhm say what now what she told the fireman was that you two came over and grabbed her pulled her out of that house beat her and harmed her and nobody out there the kids or nobody saw none of this nobody saw it we talk everybody in that neighborhood kids are always outside we' talked to everybody in the neighborhood you saw them all out there he nothing nope and she's saying that y'all did it and we're sitting here talking to you and then I i'

certainly appreciate and I know Tom appreciates that you're talking to us okay but we got to get to the bottom of this and we got to know what happened the truth and do two choices here either you're going to tell us or Heather's going to tell us so who's it going to be I didn't do anything to her her okay promise to God and you were home all night I was at Heather's house you were at Heather's All Night Never left there cuz see the story between Heather and Darren is already shaky and your story

is a third version of what they've told us so far this serious allegation I mean this is lifechanging and somebody's life may end over this we're getting told that she's in pretty critical condition at this point not likely to make it when Audriana was found she reportedly told her Rescuers that Tina had never expected her to make it out of the woods let alone make it to safety but despite her brave fight Audriana died from her deal 16 days after her rescue I mean she was just at my house today why she didn't tell me

I've been blamed for a lot well it's it's it's a c a cycle over there it goes trailer one trailer two trailer do it to herself somebody did it to her Adriana been riding that bike all day today okay but somebody did it to her I didn't okay I swear I didn't but she's saying you did it I didn't ad been saying I didn't I it may be the last thing she tells somebody you know Tina Heather and Britney were all found guilty of murder with Tina believed to be the ring leader had Audriana not

made it that day these three killers could have escaped justice but now Tina sits on death row waiting for her day of execution detectives often know exactly who the killers are right from the start they just need to prove it but sometimes things are different like in this case where the detectives realize they got things completely backwards and their main suspect ends up revealing the shocking truth in a hunt for a missing girl do you suspect Sam in any of this the guy that you know was interested in her and you know some other guys

that were interested in her but they found out she had a boyfriend you know they're just they're friends now I really couldn't see him doing it one afternoon in April 2016 17-year-old Ashley left her home in Illinois with her boyfriend for an interview and a basketball game saying she'd be back before 10:30 Ashley didn't return that night her terrified parents called the police who found her boyfriend's vehicle abandoned with two outfits one for the interview and one for the game adding up all the evidence her boyfriend Jeremy was now the prime suspect and was taken

in for questioning has she been through any kind of trouble or trying times recently or anything like that not recently a while back we had an abortion though and how long was that um probably December okay is well no it was a little bit before December how did she take that she was all right I mean it wasn't like horrible like about of depression or anything you know it was was she's fine and she's a lot better now how often do you see her once a day usually and then on Tuesday nights we don't see

each other cuz I got a designated party night with my buddies so other than that it's usually once a day once a day so I mean you guys are pretty serious yeah been going out for how long now almost two years it'll be two years in July what if somebody came up and said that you know that she had uh some marijuana in her room I'd be real surprised okay i' be she tells me everything what about uh possibly owing somebody in kokia some money for drugs what about that I'd be really surprised do you

know the name Mich that name sound M no sound a name comes up during the questioning that Jeremy has never heard before and his reaction to hearing the new name is noticeable this would be one of many men in Ashley's life that he doesn't know about but there's one that remains familiar to Jeremy 27-year-old Sam do you suspect anything between Sam and Ashley no I I I couldn't see it I mean I just I trust them both too much I me I trust her so much more than him you know because it's my girlfriend I

I he I don't think he would ever do anything to harm her you know it's just it doesn't seem like it's his nature well what about if uh you know possibly not even harming but what about uh uh if they were to you know if if they were an item or something like that would you supect that at all no no the fight that you had Tuesday night you were telling me you guys had a little argument what was that about it was because apparently I I yelled at her or something and she didn't like

it and then she gave me all my stuff back with what she had and said you know I want to break up with you and I no we talked it over and stuff and you you know that it was just all just I don't know just stress because that's when she thought that she might be pregnant and again yeah and and she turns out she wasn't and that was distress of that doing that and you know do you know any friends that she might be with that uh that you know that good friends that she

would hang out with that she would go to their house or anything like that I can't see the ones that she would their parents letting it happen and not letting her parents know I there's no way that if she went to Britney's house there's no way her Britney's parents would you know not tell Ashley's parents or Christy's house there's no way Christy's parents would not tell Ashley's parents you know who does she normally hang out with like they at at school christe and some other girls I I don't know their names cuz I I've never

really met him outside of school but she's played basketball with I think a couple of them that I haven't met and I I don't know their names but other than that just Christy's like the main one when Jeremy said Ash went out of town to play basketball the detectives wondered what it was that made her travel so far when there were basketball courts nearer her home it turns out that the reason was Sam and Jeremy was completely clueless about anything going on between them suddenly police have a brand new suspect uh how long have you

know say uh I was probably sophomore in high school I want to say when you met him he was a teacher he I I'm pretty sure he was a teacher over in St Louis I think he was doing something something with kids and then he was also doing wrestling stuff he plays a lot of sports so so does he yeah what's he like what's he he's just your allaround average you know guy I mean loves the party and you know loves to teach that's that's like his main goal but he's just average I mean there's

nothing special unique about him just easy going guy but uh as far as like uh physical abuse at the house no have you ever seen anything like that have you ever seen any marks on her or anything like that no bruises or anything that she called you up and told you anything like that or no okay I know she's runs into walls a lot like literally I mean she's got kind of I've seen her do it not like you know she says that she runs into the walls but I've seen her cuz I don't know

if you want to call it she's blonde or whatever but yeah it's not like a continuous thing I've just seen her do it a couple times but what's her mom like her mom mhm she's she's real nice I mean she's raising two girls and you know dealing with Mike but what's he like what's he he he's good he I mean he's a good dad I mean he loves them both both those kids to death after pressing him for nearly an hour it slowly became clear to detectives that Jeremy had nothing to do with his girlfriend's

disappearance but he had given them Vital Information about her 27-year-old basketball friend Sam was a teacher at a rival school and his number was found in Ashley's phone it turns out they made an awful lot of phone calls to each other so this time he was brought in for questioning in a story we've all heard before Sam started out by claiming their relationship was friendship and nothing more well i' give her like a hug goodbye I would do that that's not sexual is it give some hug back I think she kind of started becoming obsessed

with me cuz like I said she was calling me not like literally nonstop the time but after being confronted with the testimony of Ashley's friends he changed his story I will say this he never kissed never kissed yes we did have sex in the back of the vehicle there and after that day I felt absolutely terrible about that Sam changed his story several times during the course of the questioning and it was becoming clear to detectives he knew more than he was saying about Ashley's disappearance the detective needs to break down the barrier that Sam

has created and in order to do that they try to guilt him into a confession they're going to use his most loved family members against him as a way of making him crumble grandma is not here I know your mom's not here but you know what in a way they are because everything they taught you all the talks Grandma had with you are within you all of them are and unfortunately right now Sam he ain't telling us the truth can I go show you what happened please she still out there Sam she is and where's

it at I have to show you it took these detectives an agonizing 12 hours to crack Sam but he finally admitted to being responsible for Ashley's disappearance he told police that he got Ashley in a choke hold during the argument and heard her neck snap he decided to make it looked like she had been strangled so he choked her again and she became lifeless when he left the scene Sam thought after 30 hours she would be long dead and he was taking the police to find her body but by some miracle Ashley was found barely

alive it took her weeks to wake up from the coma she had slipped into and even longer to heal the psychological wounds but she was able to testify against Sam and live to see him sentenced to 20 years for her attempted murder if you enjoy true crime videos like this make sure you're subscribed to see more