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  • Maddie Mogen Person
  • Katie Gong Person
  • Maggie Sanders Person
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: My name is Lawrence.
SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00: And if everybody you actually spoke to the common way.
SPEAKER_00: You probably seen the little prince on you?
SPEAKER_00: What's your middle initial?
SPEAKER_00: And what's your last name?
SPEAKER_00: What's your date of birth?
SPEAKER_01: Two zero zero three.
SPEAKER_00: And what is a good phone number for you?
SPEAKER_00: You've got your phone with you?
SPEAKER_00: No worries.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Do you have any pictures, any video, anything like that?
SPEAKER_00: Any social media posts?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And what's a good address for you?
SPEAKER_01: Like
SPEAKER_00: Just make somewhere where do you live in
SPEAKER_01: right now?
SPEAKER_00: Are you here in at the university?
SPEAKER_00: What house is that?
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_00: Is that an apartment or a sorority?
SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a house.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know the sorority.
SPEAKER_00: I apologize.
SPEAKER_01: I I
SPEAKER_00: don't even know if there's any what's there.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So tell me what you know.
SPEAKER_01: K.
SPEAKER_01: So we there was a semichai party, obviously, as we were drinking.
SPEAKER_01: I left to go to my friend's house.
SPEAKER_00: When was that party?
SPEAKER_01: I think I went there around, like,
SPEAKER_00: Last night or this morning?
SPEAKER_01: Last night.
SPEAKER_01: And then I went to and then me and my friend and then and then we just all went to bed.
SPEAKER_01: Was the house you went to for a little bit, and then it was just me, like, who came home and then later.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Is
SPEAKER_01: She's a girl.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And are they all in the same place?
SPEAKER_00: It is a
SPEAKER_01: She has
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Means.
SPEAKER_01: Got it.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you guys were there.
SPEAKER_00: You came home early?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: And then She lived her place.
SPEAKER_00: Where did she live?
SPEAKER_01: She lives, like, down the street.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know exactly where it is.
SPEAKER_01: And then Maggie and Kaylee came home from the club, and then we all went to bed.
SPEAKER_00: What time do you think you got home?
SPEAKER_01: I think I got home around 12:30 to one.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Between there.
SPEAKER_00: And then what time do you think
SPEAKER_01: home?
SPEAKER_01: Like, ten, twenty minutes after I did.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And then Maddie and who else came from the Katie.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't they came home, like, 01:30.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: And at that point, nothing
SPEAKER_01: Nothing weird at all.
SPEAKER_01: K.
SPEAKER_01: Then everyone's asleep.
SPEAKER_01: At 4AM, I, like, look at my phone, and I can hear Kaylee and Murphy, like, dancing because I can tell it's her voice and that it's Murphy because he's barking.
SPEAKER_01: And then I hear her go upstairs because you can hear, like, everything.
SPEAKER_01: And I heard her say, there is someone here, and I thought she ran downstairs.
SPEAKER_01: And then I jumped up and locked my door because I didn't know what else to do.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So Kaylee and Murphy.
SPEAKER_00: Murphy's her
SPEAKER_01: Murphy.
SPEAKER_01: So Kaylee and is Kaylee's ex boyfriend.
SPEAKER_01: They share the dog pretty much.
SPEAKER_00: And Murphy's the dog?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What is Kaylee's last name?
SPEAKER_00: Goncalves.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, boy.
SPEAKER_00: Spell that one for me.
SPEAKER_01: G o n c l a v e s.
SPEAKER_00: And is she here today?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Was she one of the ones that was hurt?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Where is Kaylee's room compared to yours?
SPEAKER_01: Like, right above my shoes.
SPEAKER_00: Above.
SPEAKER_00: What are you on the first, second?
SPEAKER_01: Second.
SPEAKER_00: And she's on third?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: And you said that Kaylee and Sharon Murphy?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And
SPEAKER_00: is Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Current?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: He's X-ray now.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Any problems between Keter?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: They're really good, like, friends still.
SPEAKER_00: Still play with the dog and stuff like that?
SPEAKER_01: Every now and then.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: So you hear Kaylee upstairs.
SPEAKER_00: She's dancing, playing with the dog.
SPEAKER_00: Normal kind of thing, probably.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: And then she says there's someone here?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Once she goes I can hear her go upstairs, and then I can I think she's in her room?
SPEAKER_01: She says that someone's here, and I can tell she's scared, and she runs downstairs.
SPEAKER_00: Where do you think she ran?
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if she ran past the stairs
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Or
SPEAKER_01: if she's it was in the living room.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: But you heard her you heard her on the stairs?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: I heard her running, like, super fast down the stairs.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_01: And then I didn't open the door.
SPEAKER_01: I just called her name, and I called Xana, Kaylee, and Mogan on my phone.
SPEAKER_01: And then
SPEAKER_00: What were those other names?
SPEAKER_00: Xana?
SPEAKER_01: Xana, Maddie sorry.
SPEAKER_01: Nicole mug Mogan is Maddie and Kaylee.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What's the the Alexander's last name is?
SPEAKER_01: Kernodele, k e r n o o d l e, I believe.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: And what about Maddie?
SPEAKER_01: Mogen, m o g e n.
SPEAKER_00: And Kaylee Gomez.
SPEAKER_00: Gomez.
SPEAKER_00: That's the same one.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Were these three friends?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: We're all roommates.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Who was sharing the room with Kaylee?
SPEAKER_01: Kaylee and Mogin are both upstairs.
SPEAKER_01: They don't share rooms.
SPEAKER_00: They have their own rooms?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: We all have our own rooms.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So these two are up on the 3rd?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Where's Xana?
SPEAKER_01: Xana?
SPEAKER_01: My floor.
SPEAKER_00: Your floor?
SPEAKER_01: She's closest to the bathroom or my floor.
SPEAKER_00: Bathroom.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So and Katie aren't an issue?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: They're not at all.
SPEAKER_00: What about for Xana or Maddie?
SPEAKER_00: Are there any guys that are an issue?
SPEAKER_00: Any girls that are an issue?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Maddie has a boyfriend Boise.
SPEAKER_01: Super nice.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Xana is dating Ethan who was in the room with her.
SPEAKER_01: They're really nice too.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: I apologize.
SPEAKER_00: I'm I don't know anybody's name or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00: So was Ethan, Xana, Maddie, and Kaylee all upstairs still?
SPEAKER_00: Are those the ones that got hurt?
SPEAKER_00: Those are the ones that got hurt.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then the other girl that's here, she's on the 1st Floor.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And was she the one in the yellow hoodie?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: She's over there.
SPEAKER_00: So anybody that would wanna hurt Ethan or that's jealous of Ethan?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing like that?
SPEAKER_01: Or have you learned anything?
SPEAKER_00: Any cars that were in the area that you can think of that wouldn't have been I
SPEAKER_01: don't I wasn't really looking at that.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And you did see anybody come downstairs.
SPEAKER_00: Did you hear anything else?
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know how they got in.
SPEAKER_01: We're usually pretty good about locking doors, and we've never had problems before.
SPEAKER_01: Like, it was just really random.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you're getting home around 12:31.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: You've got Maddie that comes home shortly after.
SPEAKER_00: Maddie comes home shortly after that.
SPEAKER_00: And then from that point, from about two to four, did you fall asleep?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: I fell asleep.
SPEAKER_01: And Kaylee also came in with Maddie at the same time from the club.
SPEAKER_00: So between that time, obviously, you're not hearing anything.
SPEAKER_01: Uh-uh.
SPEAKER_00: You had something to drink, so, obviously, you're gonna sleep a little bit deeper.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And then you hear her.
SPEAKER_00: She says what she says.
SPEAKER_00: You hear her hitting the stairs.
SPEAKER_00: You open the door and cry out to her?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: And then you close the door because you're scared?
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: What happens at that point?
SPEAKER_01: I open the door again, and I heard I what I thought was Katie crying in the bathroom, and I heard this man's voice say, it's okay.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna help you, but it wasn't, like, in a nice way.
SPEAKER_01: Like, it was just weird, and it was a voice I've never heard before.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then I called out to her, and there was there was no crying after that.
SPEAKER_01: I don't really know what happened after that.
SPEAKER_00: So when you opened the door, you thought you heard Kaylee crying in the bathroom?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: But it could have been Dana, but I thought I thought it was Kaylee at the time.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if these questions are really helping, but I'm just right right with the zombie.
SPEAKER_00: And you can't you said that you don't recognize the voice?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: And then I opened the door again, and the guy is right there.
SPEAKER_01: And he's maybe my height, a few inches taller, not, like, skinny athletic belt.
SPEAKER_01: He has all black.
SPEAKER_01: He's wearing some masks that covers just his forehead, and here it goes, like, around.
SPEAKER_01: He was white.
SPEAKER_01: He saw me, and I saw him, and he just left.
SPEAKER_01: And he was holding it looked like it was this and this.
SPEAKER_01: It's black, and I didn't I didn't think that it was a gun, but now I'm thinking that it probably was.
SPEAKER_01: But I was just in and out of it because I was so tired.
SPEAKER_00: You say this.
SPEAKER_01: Like, it was cylinder like this, and then it went straight out and then in.
SPEAKER_01: So I don't mean
SPEAKER_00: Almost like a arrow?
SPEAKER_00: Or
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Kind of.
SPEAKER_01: It was It was weird.
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't really I call it, like, a mini vacuum.
SPEAKER_01: I don't really know what it was.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And you say you've got your height.
SPEAKER_00: How tall are you?
SPEAKER_01: I'm five ten.
SPEAKER_01: So he's probably around six foot.
SPEAKER_00: So he's gonna be the average height?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Any of the girls at all in the house get any kind of freak weirdness going on the last couple weeks that they talked about?
SPEAKER_01: It's been all normal.
SPEAKER_01: Nothing weird at all.
SPEAKER_01: Weird calls.
SPEAKER_00: No texts.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, nothing weird happens in Moscow usually.
SPEAKER_00: Right.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So and I I apologize.
SPEAKER_00: I keep backing up just a little bit just to because everything's gonna be jumbled up with you, and I totally get that.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: So you hear her dancing.
SPEAKER_01: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: You hear her say somebody's here.
SPEAKER_00: She goes sounds like she goes through the stairs.
SPEAKER_00: You open the door, call to her, close the door, and then you go to open the door because you and hear her crying.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Or at least somebody might have might not have been her.
SPEAKER_00: And then did you close the door and then reopen it before you saw him?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: I closed it before I opened opened it it and and saw saw him.
SPEAKER_01: Him.
SPEAKER_00: From the time that you heard her say there's somebody here to the time that you saw him, how much time do you think?
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: I think it was, like, around ten, twenty minutes.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was really out of it.
SPEAKER_01: I don't I just everything was kind of blurry.
SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't fully remember it, I would say.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: So help me figure out where like I said, I haven't been into the building.
SPEAKER_00: Where would your if this if it
SPEAKER_01: was a
SPEAKER_00: layout of it, where would your apartment be?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So Or your room, I should say.
SPEAKER_01: I guess, like, to the doors right here.
SPEAKER_00: This is the apartment or the
SPEAKER_01: whole It's like a house.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: It's a whole house.
SPEAKER_01: Then there's stairs that go up diagonally like this.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Living room.
SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01: You're looking at the living room.
SPEAKER_01: To the right is the bathroom in Santa's room.
SPEAKER_01: Right in front of you is my room and the stairs.
SPEAKER_00: On the 2nd Floor.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: So you've got the stairs that are here on the 2nd Floor.
SPEAKER_00: You've got the bathroom here?
SPEAKER_01: Bathroom in Santa's room around here.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: My room's, like, right in front of it.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And there's a kitchen.
SPEAKER_00: So there's a kitchen.
SPEAKER_01: Then there's stairs that go up to the 2nd Floor.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So that's up.
SPEAKER_01: And then Katie's room is on you know, going up the stairs.
SPEAKER_01: Katie's room's on the left.
SPEAKER_00: Up top.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Up top.
SPEAKER_01: And Maddie's room is on the right.
SPEAKER_01: And there's also a bathroom next to Maddie's room.
SPEAKER_00: So your door faces the stairs going down to the bottom?
SPEAKER_01: Faces more like, you can you can see
SPEAKER_00: them when you look up, but
SPEAKER_01: it's not totally facing.
SPEAKER_01: It's more like facing like this.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So your door's more over on the side?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And then I could see, like, the window door that slides open back there.
SPEAKER_00: So if you opened your door, where was he at?
SPEAKER_01: In between my door and the kitchen.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And I saw him go out the door, I believe.
SPEAKER_00: Out the kitchen door?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And I just remember saying, like, no.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: And I shut the door and locked it as fast as I could.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So is this is there a deck out back?
SPEAKER_00: How
SPEAKER_01: It's like just cement, and there's, like, no fence.
SPEAKER_01: So I guess anyone could come in on the So
SPEAKER_00: is the bottom floor kind of like a daylight basement?
SPEAKER_00: So you can come in that floor, and then you go out the back up up one?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So 510, all black.
SPEAKER_00: Could you see what color his eyebrows were or anything like that?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: K.
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember what his eyes look like either.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say anything to you?
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I saw I saw his eyes, and he saw me, but he didn't walk towards me and didn't see anything Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Which I found was really weird.
SPEAKER_00: But didn't recognize eyes.
SPEAKER_00: Definitely a white guy?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Definitely a white guy.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Any smells, anything like that that would be weird?
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: After he usually left, what happened?
SPEAKER_01: I and was like, I heard it sound like a firework, and I didn't, like, put two and two together.
SPEAKER_01: And so I told her, like, I called everyone.
SPEAKER_01: They're not answering, and I'm in and out of it.
SPEAKER_01: I don't think anything of it.
SPEAKER_01: I just think everyone's asleep.
SPEAKER_01: And I go to her room, we lock the door, and just go to bed.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then this morning, it's, like, eleven or twelve, and we're calling everyone, and no one's waking up.
SPEAKER_01: And we have, like, really bad feeling.
SPEAKER_01: So I called and he said, you need to call the cops right
SPEAKER_00: now.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: We he wouldn't let us see what happened because he didn't want us to
SPEAKER_00: see Close.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Your house go ahead.
SPEAKER_01: Just girls.
SPEAKER_00: Just girls.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_01: She so Xana is on the same floor as me.
SPEAKER_01: 1st Floor, Mugen, the key to the other 3rd Floor.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what I'm missing out.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Did you hear a car start up?
SPEAKER_00: Nothing like that after the fact?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_00: And then no one has has anybody seen anything then?
SPEAKER_00: Any social media posts?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody talking about anything?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: At the Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Anything weird, strange, not normal?
SPEAKER_00: Did they get angry with anybody?
SPEAKER_00: Anybody?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: It was just normal.
SPEAKER_01: Like, everything everyone seemed fine.
SPEAKER_01: Xana and Ethan were with me, and it was totally normal.
SPEAKER_00: Like, there
SPEAKER_01: was nothing weird or out of place or suspicious.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody hooked up that might have a boyfriend that wouldn't be Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00: Pissed off at him or something?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: Anything else you can think of that I should know?
SPEAKER_01: All that I really know was me saying that there was, like, a lot of boom, but I didn't hear it.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't really know how I did it because I was on that floor.
SPEAKER_00: Because you were just right below it.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Below me and Dana and me on the same floor.
SPEAKER_01: So, like, Dana and me, same the same floor.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I get you.
SPEAKER_01: Down here.
SPEAKER_00: Santa's in between the bathroom and the kitchen?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Pretty much.
SPEAKER_01: There's, like, a wall, and there's kitchen.
SPEAKER_01: Then that's for a bathroom.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody else on your floor?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_00: And then downstairs on the first?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: And then up on the third was I just moved there.
SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01: Kaylee and Maddie.
SPEAKER_00: Kaylee and Maddie.
SPEAKER_00: Those are both on the third?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Similar layout where one is one bedroom over the other?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: So Kaylee's room was here, bathroom in the corner, and then Morgan's room.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So Morgan would be over Xana's room
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Ish?
SPEAKER_01: Ish.
SPEAKER_01: I think so.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And I guess Kay would be above my room, I'm thinking.
SPEAKER_00: So Xana is on your floor, but she was upstairs with Kaylee and Morgan.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: She was in her room.
SPEAKER_00: She was in her room?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And Ethan was in
SPEAKER_00: Her room.
SPEAKER_01: Xana's room as well.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you had two of them there, then two of them onethree.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Got it.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Will give you this just in case you think of anything else, which Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Is totally normal Okay.
SPEAKER_00: To just have th