Witness Statement
SPEAKER_00: 12/01/2022. SPEAKER_00: Call to o. SPEAKER_00: It's eighteen o five hours. SPEAKER_00: Hi. SPEAKER_00: This is Cody. SPEAKER_01: Hi. SPEAKER_01: You just called me, I believe. SPEAKER_00: Hi. SPEAKER_00: Did I pronounce your name SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_00: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Alright. SPEAKER_00: So hey. SPEAKER_00: I also have my partner here. SPEAKER_00: His name is Matt Heinle. SPEAKER_00: And actually, he'll probably be talking with you most of the time. SPEAKER_00: But basically, we we have quite a bit of information on the tip that you left, page out here, but we just kinda wanted to talk with you in person and maybe fill in some of the details that whoever took the actual or actually typed this up, you know what I mean, make sure we're not missing anything. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_00: Matt, if you want to. SPEAKER_02: Okay, are you there? SPEAKER_01: Yes I am. SPEAKER_02: Hey, my name is Matt, like you said. SPEAKER_02: Basically what we wanted to do is kind of go over some of the stuff that you left in your tip. SPEAKER_02: Can I first get some information from you though? SPEAKER_02: Is this your cell phone? SPEAKER_01: Uh, yeah, it is. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And how do you spell your full name? SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And then are you living in, uh, on campus or off campus when you're at school? SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So first and foremost, um, your it says here that you're friends with Oh, yeah. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: How do you know them? SPEAKER_01: With her and I were in the same rush group when we were, like, coming into Moscow, and then we were really close ever since. SPEAKER_01: And then I've always known her through and which is one of our other really good friends. SPEAKER_01: And then they started living with each other, and I would just go over quite a bit, and that's how we got a lot more closer. SPEAKER_01: Was here. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So when you say rush group, is that for? SPEAKER_01: Rush group is just like formal recruitment, like choosing what house you're gonna be in, like that whole process. SPEAKER_02: Gotcha. SPEAKER_02: Well I'm pretty ignorant to some of that, so I'm probably gonna have a lot of questions about that. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Just to pre warn you, okay. SPEAKER_02: And you were in the same group, and I'm taking some notes here so forgive me, you've to have a little bit of patience. SPEAKER_01: No, you're fine. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: So I'm trying to write as fast as you talk. SPEAKER_02: So know that in the same rush group, you're deciding, you know, which which house you're gonna go to, and then how did come in on that? SPEAKER_01: After it was, like, probably, like, a couple of months after they joined and I quite a bit. SPEAKER_01: And then once they once moved in to the same apartment with all of them, um, that's where I felt a lot more and, like, considered her, like, a friend. SPEAKER_02: Did you meet SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Pretty much. SPEAKER_01: Or, I mean SPEAKER_02: And by you mean? SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: Give me one second. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Do you happen to have phone number by any chance? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: I do. SPEAKER_01: Do you want it? SPEAKER_02: Yes, please. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: She's also in she's going to the memorial on Friday, so I don't think you'll be able to contact her till, like, Saturday if you guys want to, like, speak to her. SPEAKER_02: That's fine. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And then real quick, can I grab your date of birth too? SPEAKER_02: Your your date of birth. SPEAKER_02: Sorry. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So same rescue group as me basically. SPEAKER_02: And then so ever since then, you guys have kinda been friends? SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So how how long total you think have you known? SPEAKER_02: Like, if you had to just put a ballpark on it. SPEAKER_01: Since, like, of last year. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Or two years ago. SPEAKER_01: So '29 '21. SPEAKER_02: So '21? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Probably around SPEAKER_02: this. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Now let's talk about some of the information that you had of that night. SPEAKER_02: And I don't We can go over some stuff that you gave as a tip, but I'd rather you just recall it from your own memory, and then if I have a question I'll ask you about it. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: So if you start from like, from there, Jane, or whenever, I can go. SPEAKER_02: So I would just say, can you give me the twenty four hours, listen, give me all of your Saturday, like what you had going on, and then, um, we'll work up all the way through Saturday. SPEAKER_02: You know, Saturday night the twelve turns into Sunday, and then what you guys did Sunday. SPEAKER_02: Does that make sense? SPEAKER_02: So just give me twenty four hours before and after. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: So I woke up at oh, she's grown up. SPEAKER_01: They were doing a, like, barbecue type thing at their house. SPEAKER_01: So I went home, changed, and then I went back. SPEAKER_01: And they were doing they started their, like, dinner thing. SPEAKER_01: I want to make around one, and then I hung out there, like, pretty much all day. SPEAKER_01: And SPEAKER_02: then Okay. SPEAKER_02: So you you Well, I I gotta write it down as you talk to. SPEAKER_02: So so you on the twelfth, you you woke up, you you said you went to a it was like a bar. SPEAKER_02: So and then is that right? SPEAKER_02: Or what what okay. SPEAKER_02: And you get you guys call oh, that's okay. SPEAKER_02: So it's like a slime term. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Gotcha. SPEAKER_02: So you you went to for a barbecue around one. SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_01: And then I was with I was a kinda like our main friend group. SPEAKER_01: We were just kinda like sitting there eating, and then they decided to leave to Telgate a little bit, but I had one actual game. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Hold on one second. SPEAKER_02: I wanna nail down who you were with there on that. SPEAKER_02: So you you were with SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Was with SPEAKER_02: Do you know And SPEAKER_01: then I was kind of yeah. SPEAKER_01: So we were just there hanging out. SPEAKER_02: Do you have SPEAKER_00: her phone SPEAKER_02: number by any chance? SPEAKER_01: I do, actually. SPEAKER_02: I'll take that too, please. SPEAKER_02: And by this is still SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: K. SPEAKER_02: So Who else? SPEAKER_01: They're one of their friends. SPEAKER_01: I don't know her very well, though, but they're a good friend. SPEAKER_01: And then our driver SPEAKER_02: And do you know last name? SPEAKER_02: And then do you have his phone number by any chance? SPEAKER_01: I don't think I do actually. SPEAKER_01: I can check. SPEAKER_02: Appreciate that. SPEAKER_02: Thank you. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Don't. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Does know them too? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: They're, like, my best friends. SPEAKER_01: Like, we're all really good friends with him. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And then I think there was one other name you said. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: That's SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Same last name? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: And then do you happen to have his number by any chance? SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: I don't. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: No deal. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So you're at the oh, wait. SPEAKER_02: Hold on a second. SPEAKER_02: You didn't know who was? SPEAKER_02: You just knew her SPEAKER_01: Like, I know her, but I don't, like, know her know her. SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm not, like, really good friends SPEAKER_02: with her. SPEAKER_02: Her last name? SPEAKER_01: I can actually get it. SPEAKER_01: And SPEAKER_02: I I appreciate you looking all that stuff up. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Can you just spell it all out for me again? SPEAKER_02: Her her first name is okay. SPEAKER_02: So again, sorry I'm gonna we're gonna interrupt you a bunch and have to backtrack and stuff. SPEAKER_02: So don't don't get annoyed. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So you guys are at the barbecue. SPEAKER_02: About how long do you guys spend there at the barbecue, you think? SPEAKER_01: Quite a while because the game, I believe, was at three or four. SPEAKER_01: I'd have to, like, really think and, like, look back, but I believe it was, like, three or four. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So the game SPEAKER_01: was No. SPEAKER_01: It was let me see. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: I don't remember. SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry. SPEAKER_01: I don't have, like, any pictures either. SPEAKER_02: It's all good. SPEAKER_02: I'm just trying to approximate stuff anyway. SPEAKER_02: Okay? SPEAKER_02: So let's think the game started around three years or do you think later? SPEAKER_02: Five? SPEAKER_01: I think it was three or four. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Now they went to tailgate. SPEAKER_02: Is that what you said? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: I yeah. SPEAKER_01: I think they went only for a while and went back to but I could I'm not sure because I kinda did my own thing with SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Well, since you can't you don't know what they did. SPEAKER_02: What did what did you do from there? SPEAKER_01: I I went to the game, and then we were only there till, like, halftime, and then we left back to SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So who did you go to the game with? SPEAKER_01: I went with and SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: Hold on. SPEAKER_02: One name at a time. SPEAKER_02: Sorry. SPEAKER_02: Oh, no. SPEAKER_02: It's okay. SPEAKER_02: What was the first one? SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: That's okay. SPEAKER_02: Do you have his phone number? SPEAKER_01: I do, actually. SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So then who? SPEAKER_01: And then and I don't have the phone number. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: And then I was also with yeah. SPEAKER_02: And then do you have a phone number there? SPEAKER_01: I don't know. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: How do you know those guys? SPEAKER_02: Just school stuff or what? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: They're just freshmen. SPEAKER_01: And then because, like, my So I hang out with them a lot. SPEAKER_02: What's a SPEAKER_01: It's just, like, kinda like you, like, mentor them, and they're they, like, look up to you kind of. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Like okay. SPEAKER_02: Like a mentor program. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Gotcha. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: So you go to the game. SPEAKER_02: You're there till about halftime. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: And then we leave and go back. SPEAKER_01: And we're there till about, like, 08:30 because, um, one of my at an out of house. SPEAKER_01: Um, so we went back to so I could change, and then we all went there together. SPEAKER_02: Excuse me. SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: You're fine. SPEAKER_02: I'm probably gonna have one more. SPEAKER_02: Hold on a second. SPEAKER_02: Wow. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Add the game to about halftime. SPEAKER_02: You leave. SPEAKER_02: And then you go back. SPEAKER_02: So you went back to SPEAKER_01: For, like, a few hours till about 08:30. SPEAKER_01: Till SPEAKER_02: about Okay. SPEAKER_02: And then were you with were you with at at SPEAKER_01: I was with yeah. SPEAKER_01: So I was with but stayed at and another one of our good friends came with us to to our exchange. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So when you left, that's when you said stay there? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: And then came with me to Mhmm. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Left view. SPEAKER_02: With And then you said what's last name? SPEAKER_02: Do you have his phone number? SPEAKER_01: I don't know. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So you went to the change and then go to a How does she spell it? SPEAKER_02: Like Do you have her phone number? SPEAKER_01: I don't know. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_01: But it was, like, at it was, like, not a that's not her house. SPEAKER_01: It's, like, our older members who live out of house, if that makes sense. SPEAKER_02: Do you know what that address is? SPEAKER_01: Not, like, the exact address, but I know that it's on yeah. SPEAKER_01: It's on SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So it's out of house? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a out of house. SPEAKER_01: They, like, grill this Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: So how long were you at the birthday party, you think? SPEAKER_01: I left with at around eleven slash 11:30. SPEAKER_01: And we went to SPEAKER_02: So you left around 11:30, is that what you said? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: I would say 11:30. SPEAKER_02: And you went to what was it again? SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And then from tell me what happened. SPEAKER_01: I met up with and we went into, like, apartment, like, high, like, the way their house is. SPEAKER_01: They have, like, an apartment. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: And then I saw Xana and Ethan there. SPEAKER_01: They were just hanging out, talking for quite a while, and then we would me went to the lodge, which is their, like, party where I left them, like Ethan and his channel. SPEAKER_01: We went with them into there, and we kinda just, like, danced and did whatever. SPEAKER_01: And then me and left at 01:30 ish or no. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: Like, 04:30. SPEAKER_01: And we went to one of my really good friends, her out of house. SPEAKER_01: Like, she was in a house on Avenue. SPEAKER_02: Mhmm. SPEAKER_02: The SPEAKER_01: What was that? SPEAKER_02: Is that SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: So is that Yeah. SPEAKER_02: So is a female or a male? SPEAKER_01: She's a female. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: She's a She ain't even know that at all. SPEAKER_02: A SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: We'll we'll make a note of that. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So you guys get there around, you're thinking, 01:30 ish? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: It's like 01:30. SPEAKER_01: And then that was, like, literally there for, like, ten minutes. SPEAKER_01: And she was, like, really tired and not feeling it. SPEAKER_01: So she went home, and she, like, went she walked by herself. SPEAKER_02: So she oh, she walked from SPEAKER_01: the House Okay. SPEAKER_01: Apartment. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And then could you describe the state? SPEAKER_02: Like, was she sober? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: She's pretty sober. SPEAKER_01: She we were all, like we kinda just, like, mentioned how, like, none of us could get, like, drunk all night. SPEAKER_01: Like, we just weren't really feeling it. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Kind of. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: And let me let me preface real quick. SPEAKER_02: We so just so you're aware, Cody and I, we are not out to get anybody, and we are not out to, like, dig dirt and and punish for honesty. SPEAKER_02: Honestly, if if you're underage drinking, we do not care at all. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: That's not we are not worried about any of that. SPEAKER_02: That is very insignificant. SPEAKER_00: Or drug use, stuff like that. SPEAKER_02: We don't care. SPEAKER_02: All we're trying to do is find out exactly what happened in that timeline. SPEAKER_02: So do not feel that you I understand, you know, we're the cops and you probably don't want to share a ton of stuff and that's fine, but what we're trying to do is so much bigger than MIP or a drug charge or anything like that. SPEAKER_02: Our plans are to not, you know, criminalize honesty at this point. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So please, please feel free to tell us exactly. SPEAKER_02: So and I'm not saying you're lying. SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying don't feel like you have to cover for people. SPEAKER_02: Some of some of the stuff we're already gonna know. SPEAKER_02: So just be as honest as be as brutally honest as you can. SPEAKER_02: Okay? SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So so again, how was how was SPEAKER_01: eight? SPEAKER_01: She wasn't like I like she wasn't I could she might have been, like, tipsy, like, might have been tipsy, but she wasn't, like, bad at all or Okay. SPEAKER_02: So not not stumbling, not slurring, not SPEAKER_01: Oh, no. SPEAKER_02: Couldn't take care of herself, walking home was a bad idea, anything like that? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: She was completely fine. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: And how how was your mental state? SPEAKER_02: Were you SPEAKER_01: For me, I was very sober until I got and that's like before shift, like, after shift left, just when I started drinking. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: No problem. SPEAKER_02: Alright. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So now that we got that out of the way, just wanna make sure so she she's pretty sober, walks home, and then what? SPEAKER_01: I stayed at till about 03:30. SPEAKER_01: And then SPEAKER_02: And see Real quick. SPEAKER_02: Who all was there with you at SPEAKER_01: I k. SPEAKER_01: So it was me, his friend, one of our really good friends, they were all there already. SPEAKER_01: And, like SPEAKER_02: What's And last name? SPEAKER_02: Do you have her phone number? SPEAKER_01: I do. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: But she was very, very drunk. SPEAKER_02: That's okay. SPEAKER_01: I think she will. SPEAKER_01: Bye bye. SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, sir. SPEAKER_02: K. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So was there? SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh. SPEAKER_01: One of really good friend was there. SPEAKER_02: And how do you spell that? SPEAKER_02: Do you have his phone number? SPEAKER_01: I don't know. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_02: So I'm assuming you. SPEAKER_02: Anybody else? SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah. SPEAKER_01: Which is like I let me look how he spells it. SPEAKER_02: What's his phone number? SPEAKER_01: I don't have his phone number. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Any other names SPEAKER_01: But he's a really good friend. SPEAKER_01: He's been like a family friend of ours for a really long time. SPEAKER_01: But SPEAKER_02: you don't have his number? SPEAKER_01: I don't know. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Any other names sticking out to you that were there? SPEAKER_01: I don't think so. SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_01: Oh, wait. SPEAKER_01: Yes. SPEAKER_01: Her roommate showed up because was just there, like, usually on the weekends at a specific time. SPEAKER_01: So she showed up. SPEAKER_01: I want I I wanted I can get, like, a time stamp of when I think she got it, but, her name I don't have a phone number, and she also lived there. SPEAKER_02: Yeah. SPEAKER_02: And then So SPEAKER_01: I think she showed us around, like, 02:30. SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: K. SPEAKER_02: Got it. SPEAKER_01: And then they also have a roommate that I don't know her very well. SPEAKER_02: Was she there? SPEAKER_01: No. SPEAKER_01: I didn't see her. SPEAKER_01: I never see her when I'm there. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Just kind of keeps to herself? SPEAKER_01: Yeah. SPEAKER_01: I think she's with her boyfriend a lot. SPEAKER_02: Got it. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Okay. SPEAKER_02: Now that we know who you're there with, kind of describe already walked home. SPEAKER_02: Now pick up where you left off. SPEAKER_01: Okay. SPEAKER_01: So we just kind of played drinking games, and then we're all just chilling. SPEAKER_01: It wasn't like a party. SPEAKER_01: Was like, mom and could kick back. SPEAKER_01: And then at around 03:30, we and walked home, but was finished for the night. SPEAKER_01: I and then she ended up not. SPEAKER_01: She she just said, like, sh