02x03 - JaRay Wilson

[bunniefuu]

- Nobody thought
that, you know, anything bad

could happen in Weatherford.

- Weatherford was a good town
to be in,

or so I thought.

- That was the last text
I received from her.

- We had reports that she could
be a human trafficking victim.

- She's not a runaway.
Something is wrong.

- We interviewed everybody
in the last 48 hours

that was on her phone.

- There was no sign of her.

- I wasn't sure
if we were ever gonna know

what happened to her.

- I never lost hope.

- If you're a parent
that cares,

you don't ever give up.

- I was thinking that he was
a serial k*ller in the making.

- I knew that there were
bad people out there.

I just didn't realize
that they were so close.

♪ ♪

- A young woman
is missing tonight

after leaving a bar
with a stranger,

then texting help to a friend.

♪ ♪

- You are watching
her terrifying abduction.

♪ ♪

- A missing woman's nude body
was discovered in this ravine.

- Miraculously,
the young woman survived.

♪ ♪

[camera shutter clicking]

- There is an alarming crisis
of violence,

kidnapping, and m*rder
against innocent women.

- The senseless m*rder
has struck a chord

with thousands of women.

♪ ♪

- This has sparked
a global movement online

of women sharing
their own fears.

They're united under the
hashtag #textmewhenyougethome,

a phrase that women
are all too familiar with.

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[cell phone keyboard noises]

- In 2012, JaRay Wilson
is an expressive,

free-spirited 16-year-old girl

living
in the small rural community

of Weatherford, Oklahoma.

- JaRay and I--
we were very inseparable.

We did everything together.

She was very spontaneous,
very independent,

and also very hardheaded.

[laughs]

- I was friends
with JaRay since I was

about 10 years old.

If you saw the two of us
standing next to each other,

it did not make sense.
I was shy.

She walked around with, like,
the utmost confidence.

And that was just
terrifying to me.

I mean, she was
unapologetically herself.

- A lot like her dad.

No fear, just speak her mind,

do whatever she wanted to do,
whenever she wanted to do it.

- We were married 12 1/2 years
when we had JaRay.

And she was our only child
and spoiled rotten.

[laughs]

JaRay and I were very close.

She was my whole life.

Everything in my life was her.

She loved music.

She learned to play
the guitar.

She was very artistic.

She friended everyone.

New kids would come to school.

JaRay made them
feel welcomed there.

She, you know, had their back,
no matter what.

- She did not like watching
anybody else be put down.

I mean, even if it meant
that she was gonna get

in trouble,
she would take

the very first opportunity
to help other people out.

- I'm not much of a texter.

JaRay was.

She could type a paragraph
in a matter of seconds,

when it'd take me 30 minutes
to say "I love you."

- Me and JaRay text every day.

If she was gone,
I knew where she was at.

If she went somewhere else,
she would text me and tell me.

And she would even text
me from her bedroom

to the living room, you know?

Text me eating
across the table.

- The town
of Weatherford, Oklahoma,

with a population
of just under 12,000 people,

is about an hour west
of Oklahoma City.

- Weatherford's kind of known
to not really have much to do.

We'd go to the movies
occasionally.

Everyone kind of knew
everyone.

And so it was
kind of comforting in the fact

that if something happened,
someone would know.

- I enjoyed growing up
in Weatherford.

It was kind of close-knit.

It was known
to always be very safe.

I never got bored because
I was raised on a farm.

And so I always felt

like there was a bunch
of stuff to do,

even though a lot
of other people

thought that it
was very boring.

- If you meet people,
almost everybody waves at you.

[laughs] It's just how we are.

- It is a real pretty country,

rural, a lot of farmland,
rolling hills.

Weatherford is a safe town,

and from what I understand,

there's been one homicide
in the last 100 years

in Weatherford itself.

- Homicide is so rare
in the Weatherford area

that a stretch
of rural highway

has been named after a case.

Dead Women Crossing,

which still exists
on maps today,

got its name
from the 1905 unsolved m*rder

of a 29-year-old woman
named Katie DeWitt James.

- I've been
in the oil field all my life.

That was what I did.

I worked my butt off

so they could be comfortable.

I worked an average
of 320 days a year,

so I was gone a lot,

missed out on a lot.

Once JaRay was born,
I was basically--

I was gone.

- Her dad worked
out of town a lot.

I know he would reach out
to her pretty much

on a daily basis
to tell her good night,

and they would stay
in decent contact

while he was gone.

- We were inseparable,
pretty much,

until she became a teenager,
you know.

Then she thought
she was too big to be with Mom.

JaRay was definitely
a free spirit.

She had her own mind.

- JaRay was very big
on expressing herself.

She would express herself

in her outfits, in her clothes,
in her room.

- I do remember
a text one time

saying she wanted to write
something on the wall,

a song.

I mean, it's her bedroom.

They make paint.
We can get rid of it.

I'd been gone
about nine months,

and I come back, and I mean,
it's, like, plastered.

- Spray paint, Sharpies.

We did whatever we wanted
to those walls.

It was very personalized.

If someone came over,

you'd get to autograph
the wall.

- She was kind of naturally
rebellious, I would say.

- I do think a lot of it was
because I was gone a lot.

I was working in North Dakota.

My drilling engineer called me
and asked me,

"When was the last time
you been home?"

I said, "It's been
eight or nine months."

He goes, "Rodney, go home."

I drove 1,500 miles home.

Got home, and I could tell
something was wrong.

Something was different.
Something was not normal.

Lying constantly.

That's not her.
Never was her.

- Troubled by JaRay's change
in disposition,

Rodney takes a drastic step
to be closer to her.

- I went back up for a week
and quit and came home.

And that was right
before her 16th birthday.

- Shortly after turning 16,

JaRay asks if she can spend
the night with friends.

But the next day,
she doesn't return home.

Her parents become concerned

after reaching out
to her friends

and decide to call the local
sheriff's department.

- Some older people had got
her messed up in some drugs.

And we had finally
got her back home,

and we grounded her.

- Her parents did show
tough love to her.

Not in any kind of cruel way,
by any means,

just the typical-- you know,
the rules,

we'll take your phone away,
we'll ground you,

stuff like that, curfew.

But I mean, they all loved
each other very, very much.

- We drug-tested her
the whole time.

And she didn't have
any drugs in her system.

And that's why we decided
to let her go

with her friend that day
to church.

- It was a Sunday,
and she said,

"Dad, I want to go with one
of my friends to church."

And I told her, I said,
"I don't trust you.

Last time I let you out,
you never came back."

I said, "I had to call
the cops on you."

She...

[crying]

She started crying.

And she said, "Dad, I don't
want to lose your trust.

I'll be home after church."

So I let her go.

Another lie.

- She texted and didn't want
to come home.

And we told her
she had to come home.

And she said, "I will
if I don't have a curfew."

And we said, "You're only 16.

You're gonna have a curfew."

She goes,
"So I can't come home?"

I said,
"No, you can come home,

but you're gonna have
a curfew."

She said,
"Then I'm not coming home."

- She wanted to be an adult,
and she was 16.

She would never really give us
her location

'cause she knew
I'd come find her.

So it was always a big mystery.

Every night
while she was gone,

she would text and say

"I love you, Dad,"
or "I love you, Mom,"

and "I wish I could come home."

"You can come home.

"We're not keeping
you from home.

But you are going
to abide by the rules."

"Well, I'm not coming home
then."

- And this went on for a week.

- She came to my house

the night
before she went missing.

She called me.

She asked me what I was doing,
if she could come over.

We hadn't talked for a while.

I asked my dad.

He said yes.

She came over.

She checked all
the windows and the doors

to make sure they were locked.

We went to my bedroom,
and she sat on my bed,

and she was freaking out
about some people

that she owed money to.

Eventually, she said
she needed to go.

She needed some pants
before she left,

so I gave her this bag

and put some extra pants
in it for her,

and then she left.

She did not tell me
where she was going.

I was not worried about her

because she was always up
to something.

Not necessarily anything bad,
but she was a very busy girl.

- She never confided in me
that she was feeling unsafe

or that people were maybe
after her, by any means.

I mean, I wish
I would have known.

[cell phone keyboard noises]

- The last text
was at 6:20 p.m.

♪ ♪

[cell phone keyboard noises]

- 16-year-old JaRay Wilson
has been living away from home

for a week
because she refuses to comply

with her parents' curfew.

Believed to be staying
with friends,

she remains
in constant contact via text

with her mother and father
throughout.

- JaRay text me,
ask me where I was,

what I was doing.

I told her I was driving,
which I was.

I know I shouldn't have been
texting while I was driving.

[chuckles]
And she said, "Sweet,"

her normal thing.

- On that Sunday,
nothing seems to have changed.

- She'd text every day
about coming home,

and I'd tell her
she can come home.

And it was the same
pretty much every day.

But every night,
I'd text her and tell her,

"Good night,"

and she would text back
and say good night.

She would text her dad
and tell him good night,

until that Sunday night,

when she never texted us back.

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And then Monday came,
and she never texted us back.

- When I didn't hear
anything from her at all,

I sent her a text,
and I said,

"You need to let me know
if you're okay.

You need to answer me."

No communication.
That's not her.

- Jara was saying that
they hadn't heard from her,

and it appeared like nobody
had heard from her.

And she just kind of had quit
communicating with them.

- So I called the police
and reported her missing.

They said they would look
into it,

that she had probably just run
away

and they'd find her.

And I said,
"No, you don't understand.

"She had been in contact
every single day,

"and all of a sudden,
it just stopped.

"She's not a runaway.

Something is wrong."

- She was considered missing,

and they were filing
a missing persons report

and trying to get the word out
and sharing it on social media

and stuff like that.

- After she had left
my house that night,

I didn't hear from her again.

I ended up texting her
a few days later

after I have caught wind

that no one has heard
from her.

It says,
"we, apostrophe, R-E are you?"

And I was thinking that
she was mad at her parents.

That's why
she wasn't responding.

So I thought sure enough,
she would feel comfortable

with texting me back.

And she didn't.

[cell phone keyboard noises]

- It's been two days
since JaRay vanished.

But due to the fact
that she had already left home

once before, authorities are
treating her disappearance

as merely a runaway teen.

Unsatisfied
with that categorization,

Jara and Rodney do
their own investigating.

- I would check social media.
I would text her friends.

I'd look
at their Facebook pages.

All her friends were
hooked to my account,

so I had all of her contacts
in my phone, too.

So I just started trying
to get a hold of everyone.

I knew that she was around.

Started going
to different people's houses.

- One of JaRay's friends
actually said

that she saw JaRay
with two local boys,

Cody Godfrey and Tucker McGee.

- Two days later, Jara gets
a call from Tucker McGee.

- Tucker contacted me
on the 18th of October

and told me he was
with JaRay on the 14th.

He had picked her up
at a friend's house

and dropped her off

at some apartments
in Weatherford

to wait for a ride.

I questioned him, you know,
why would she go there?

She didn't know anybody there.

Why would she go there?

He said she wanted a ride
to Mountain View

to the people's house that had
got her messed up in drugs.

He said she texted someone
and they were gonna come

pick her up.

As soon as I got off the phone,

I called
the sheriff's department

and told them that he called me

and that he was with her
that day.

He did tell the sheriff
that Cody was with him.

He said they picked her up
at a friend's house,

went riding around,
and then they took her

to the apartments
to wait for her ride.

And they drove off
and didn't ever see her again.

The police checked
the apartment complex.

They knocked on doors,
said no one had seen her.

No one remembered
seeing her there.

[cell phone keyboard noises]

- After more than a week
with no word from JaRay,

the State of Oklahoma gets
involved in the search.

- There was a big increase
in human trafficking events

that were taking place
in Oklahoma.

The Bureau of Narcotics
had established

a human trafficking unit,
and I was a part of that.

We had reports
that JaRay was missing

and that she could be
a human trafficking victim.

So my boss at the time asked
me to come to Weatherford

and assist the Custer County
Sheriff's Office,

who had already opened up
an investigation.

- That's where
the OBNHT stepped in.

JaRay was their very first case
in the state of Oklahoma.

- Investigators obtain

the last known video taken
of JaRay.

- There were
some surveillance footage

of JaRay the day
that she came missing.

She had stayed
at a friend's house

the night before,

and she'd went
to the local store in Hydro

and used her cell phone,

and she was trying to get
a ride.

She stayed in the store
for about 25 minutes,

I believe,
and waited for someone,

and someone picked her up.

And we saw who that was,

and we conducted
some investigation on that,

which ended up just being
a ride to a friend's house.

- Agents from
the human trafficking unit

examined cell phone
communication in detail.

- We interviewed everybody
in the last 48 hours

that was on her phone
as far as talking or texting.

- They asked me.
They said,

"This number is on there
a lot."

And they said,
"Whose number is that?"

I said, mine.

That's how many times
she had texted me

and called me, and my number
popped up more than anyone's.

- Phone logs record

texting interactions
with JaRay,

but not the content
of the texts themselves.

That information is discerned
from the physical examination

of friends' phones.

A high school friend
of JaRay's named Trey

has what police believe

are the last texts
from JaRay's phone.

They indicate
that she was, indeed,

with Tucker McGee
and Cody Godfrey

and that she was feeling,
quote, "sketched out."

However, unbeknownst
to JaRay's family at the time,

a simultaneous text
conversation with her mother

would indicate JaRay
was not in any distress.

- She never asked me
to come get her.

She just--like she was--
everything was just fine.

- Interviewed separately,

the boys' stories
about dropping JaRay off

at the University Park
Apartments holds up,

and cell data confirms

that the last pings
from JaRay's cell phone

were recorded near
the University Park Apartments

after they had dropped
her off.

- They had their alibi,
whatever.

- They told us, you know,
we don't have any evidence

that they did anything.

- At that point, we were just
moving forward with the case

and keeping them in mind
as the last two individuals

that were with JaRay.

- But investigators
are greatly concerned

when they learn
about a comment

JaRay had made to some friends

regarding her fate.

- JaRay was dating
this guy named Stephan.

And he owed Gilberto Paz money.

- Gilberto Paz
is an alleged drug dealer

in the Weatherford area.

Stephan himself is
never considered a suspect,

as he was in jail at the time
of JaRay's disappearance.

- What her friend said was

that Gilberto
was gonna hold JaRay

until Stephan paid the money

or JaRay paid him the money.

And if she didn't pay,
he was going to sell her

into human trafficking.

- It's been almost two weeks
since 16-year-old JaRay Wilson

has gone missing,
and police sprang

into action to apprehend
a person of interest.

- Her friend Stephan
supposedly owed

Gilberto Paz money for drugs.

And Gilberto was
telling everyone

he was holding her
as basic ransom

until Stephan could pay
his bill off.

- JaRay mentioned his name
in a text message,

that he was going to sell her
into human trafficking.

- Sex trafficking
and human trafficking,

what they do to these kids.

They t*rture them
beyond belief.

They drug them up to the point
of where they're addicted

so they have them

in their back pocket,
you just might say.

And the things
they do to them...

I couldn't even imagine
if JaRay was going

through something like that.

- Gilberto Paz is arrested
for concealed carry

and possession of a firearm

and held as a material witness
in JaRay's case.

- We questioned him.
We searched his phone.

I think we did
a polygraph on him.

- But what seems like
a smoking g*n

quickly falls apart.

- Just that timeline
with Gilberto didn't match up.

- Lowlife.

Thought he was a gangster.

He didn't have anything
to do with JaRay.

- None of this really happened.

Definitely a dead end.

- We ended up clearing him
as a suspect,

which moved us
to other suspects

who we interviewed as well.

- As is typical
in many investigations,

the people closest
to the victim

are also scrutinized.

- I was questioned
multiple times.

I owned a dirt park
at the time.

And I'd rent a dozer,
build a bunch of jumps.

Well, one of her
so-called friends

made the comment to one
of the officers

that I k*lled her

and I buried her
underneath one of the jumps.

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So, yeah,
I got questioned a lot.

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- I knew she was
out there somewhere.

There was several tips
that she was being held

in different towns.

And we'd contact
the local police department,

and they'd go with us,
and it wasn't true.

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- Days had turned
into weeks, and there were

still rumors of,
"Well, she's just a runaway."

I knew from the get-go
that it wasn't just

a simple runaway situation

because that line
of communication had stopped,

and she would not have chose

to put her parents
through that.

She loved them too much,
and she did respect them

too much to do that.

- I called the Center for
Missing and Exploited Children

and put her on there.

And then we contacted
the television stations.

Anything we could get
out there, we was gonna do.

- It's been three months
since Weatherford teenager

JaRay Wilson has gone missing.

And so far, investigators
are tight-lipped

about any progress
in the search.

Wilson was last seen
on video surveillance tape

caught in Hydro

on the afternoon
of October 14th.

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- We hung up flyers.

And then weeks
turned into months.

And every month, on the 15th,
we had a candle vigil.

♪ ♪

- The town of Weatherford
really came together.

There would be hundreds
of people and just candles,

candles everywhere.

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- We'd release balloons
with her flyer hooked to them,

thinking if one
landed somewhere,

it might bring her home.

A friend of ours had owned
a printing company

that made T-shirts

and would just
give them out to people

with her picture on them.

We had a lot of support
from a lot of strangers, too,

people that hung flyers
in different towns,

people I've never met
to this day.

- The hope never goes away.

The last thing
you ever want to think is,

they're not coming home.

I can't tell you
how many times I pulled off,

went through an old barn,
went through an old cellar,

went through an old house.

We had psychics tell us
that she was in a railroad car.

♪ ♪

I can't tell you
how many railroad cars

I went through.

If you're a parent that cares,
you don't ever give up.

- Then, in the midst
of the family's anguish,

comes a terrifying surprise

in the form
of a Facebook message

to JaRay's father, Rodney.

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[dramatic music]

- 16-year-old JaRay Wilson
has been missing for months

after her texts
to her parents abruptly stop.

No clues
to her whereabouts exist,

and no suspects
have been arrested.

One evening, as Rodney,
JaRay's father,

checks his Facebook messages,

he sees a terrifying note
claiming to be

by someone who m*rder*d JaRay.

The post is anonymous
and sent from a new account.

♪ ♪

Police eventually identify
the sender.

It is a teenager living
in Rodney's hometown

of Hobart, Oklahoma.

The message is
a ghoulish hoax.

- I couldn't even imagine
doing something like that.

As stone cold
as stone cold could be.

[sniffs]

- Due
to the perpetrator's age,

he has not been identified
by authorities.

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- There was a lot of leads
in this case,

and most of them led nowhere.

We followed up
on just about every lead

that came in that we could.

And they were dead ends.

And some of them looked
real promising.

We would follow those,
and they would just be

another rabbit trail
and wouldn't lead anywhere.

- After several months
had went by

and there was no turnout,

we all started to lose hope.

- You can't look for somebody
and not have any hope and win.

I mean, you have
to have that hope.

That's what pushes you.

♪ ♪

[cell phone keyboard noises]

- It is 14 months since
JaRay Wilson went missing.

As the case turns cold,
a grand jury is convened

to preserve information
gathered

during the investigation,

which includes taking
witness statements under oath.

The first two witnesses are
Cody Godfrey and Tucker McGee,

the two boys last known
to have been with JaRay

on the day she disappeared.

- Cody and Tucker
were subpoenaed

to be in front
of the grand jury

for an interview,

as well
as follow-up polygraphs.

- From what I understand,
in the United States,

that's the only way
you can be made

to take a lie detector test

is if the grand jury says
you have to.

- But when Cody Godfrey
is hooked up to the polygraph,

his disposition
abruptly changes.

- He said, "I wanna talk."

He said,
"I can't do this no more."

And he started talking.

- What Cody says next
shocks everyone.

- All of a sudden, he decided
he was gonna cooperate.

And he told
the polygrapher that he wanted

to give information
and he knew the k*ller.

♪ ♪

He said
that he was there, present,

and also helped move
JaRay's body into the woods.

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- Was this another hoax,

or would the Wilsons
finally learn

the fate of their daughter?

♪ ♪

Cody's story shakes
Agent Brian Veasey.

- Based on testimony
from Cody,

Tucker picked up Cody and said,
"Hey, JaRay needs a ride."

Um, Tucker pulled out a g*n
and said,

"Hey, we could k*ll her."

♪ ♪

Well, Cody thought
he was joking.

He didn't think anything--
that he would really do

something like that.

They pick up JaRay.

They go out
to this wooded area,

pull up on the side
of the road,

and they just are hanging out.

- The location is
an undeveloped area

north of Weatherford
nicknamed "Party Field"

by local teens
who gather there

for keg parties and bonfires.

♪ ♪

Tucker and Cody are reportedly
smoking synthetic marijuana,

which can cause
severe paranoia,

delusions, and hallucinations.

- JaRay wanted to leave,
and she wanted

someone to come pick her up.

At that time, Tucker
pulled out the g*n,

and Cody saw that and said,

"Oh, wow, this is
really gonna happen."

- Cody tells police he panics
and returns to the vehicle.

- He was trying to leave
because he got nervous,

and he got scared.

And he said he saw the shot

and heard the shot...

[g*nsh*t]

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And saw JaRay fall

and turned around
and came back.

- When Cody returns
to the scene,

he sees JaRay lying
on the ground, moaning.

- Tucker was standing
over the body,

wondering,
"Why is she not dead?"

And then Tucker shot
her again in the face.

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So after the sh**ting,
they moved JaRay's body

over a fence
and into the woods.

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The next day,
they met up after school

with a friend, Caleb McLemore.

Caleb, I think, got involved
not really wanting to.

He just kind of got dragged
into this after the m*rder.

Tucker told him
all what happened.

And then the next day,
he asked Caleb to come help,

and Tucker, Caleb, and Cody

buried the body
there in the woods.

- While there,
they find JaRay's phone,

which they later destroy
and throw into a creek.

With this horrific confession,

investigators immediately take
Cody Godfrey to the area

in an effort
to verify his story

and to locate JaRay's remains.

- So we get information
of where the body

is approximately located,

and with the witness, Cody,
we went to the location

to see if we could find
the body was buried.

- The area
police are searching

shares the same cell tower

as the University Park
Apartments,

which is why
the boys' alibis held up.

- We found an area
where Cody basically said,

"It's real close to this area.

It could be 25 yards
from around here."

So we weren't real optimistic
because that's a big area,

25 yards.

So we're kind of walking
through the woods.

"There's a field over here.
There's a big tree here.

Do you remember any of this?"

And then about that time,
we're walking,

and I think I was initially
the first person to see it.

It's just a ray of light
shining on this shiny object.

And as we got closer,
the medical examiner said,

"Ooh, that's a skull."

♪ ♪

I mean, when something--
that divine intervention,

when this ray shining
just perfectly on the skull,

just to kind of say,
"Hey, here I am,

you know, come find me,"

it kind of gave you chills,

you know,
just thinking about that.

Yeah.

- I got a call
from one of my news friends

and said, "Be prepared.

TV stations are probably
coming to your house."

Five minutes after that,
Brian Veasey calls.

♪ ♪

Wants to know if we're home.

[dramatic music]

- I remember I was
in the living room.

And they came to the door.
Let them in.

When they told us
to sit down...

[sniffs]

♪ ♪

I knew what I was
getting ready to hear.

- They said
that they had found her

and that they wanted us
to know

before media got a hold of it.

And when you get
that kind of news, it's--

we thought--because you had
hope until the end.

But I still sat
at that door all day,

thinking maybe they were wrong

and she was gonna come
through that door.

♪ ♪

So, you know, finding out--
it still don't give you peace.

You never have peace from this.

[crying]

- It was absolutely
devastating.

Rodney was standing up
on the hill behind the house.

And I told Mom to stop
and let me out

before she pulled up
to the house,

and I went up there.

And it felt like we hugged
for hours at that point.

- I wasn't prepared
for the way they found her,

to have been buried
in a shallow grave, face down.

♪ ♪

A ray of sunshine
is the only thing

that let them find her.

♪ ♪

- JaRay's bedroom remains
untouched since 2012.

♪ ♪

It is exactly as she left it:
everything she drew,

everything she wrote,
everything she wore.

♪ ♪

Even her clothes
remain in the hamper.

For JaRay's father, Rodney,
it remains

a memory frozen in time.

- Every time I walk
by her door,

I tell her I miss her.

♪ ♪

- Shortly after JaRay's
remains are discovered,

Agent Veasey and other
law enforcement personnel

interrogate Caleb McLemore,

the boy who had become
involved after the m*rder

and helped to conceal it
for 14 months.

Authorities hoped
to get matching stories

before moving on to Tucker.

- He just wasn't really
cooperating,

wasn't talking to us,
just leading us in circles.

And he was drinking
one of the--

I think it was a Sobe drink
or one of these drinks.

- Sobe, energy drink.

They put the little messages
inside the cap.

He took the cap off,
looked at it,

threw the cap
in the trash can,

set the bottle down,
and spilled his guts

and told Brian Veasey
everything that Cody had told.

- This is exactly
what happened.

Tucker shot JaRay.

He buried the body.

And he just went off
and told the whole story.

And I'm like,
"What did that bottle cap say?"

- Brian said he picked it up,
and he looked at it,

and it says, "Everybody knows."

♪ ♪

- "Everybody knows."

♪ ♪

- With both Caleb and Cody
corroborating the details

of JaRay's m*rder, police
move in on the k*ller himself,

Tucker McGee.

Cody agrees to call Tucker
on a recorded line

to try to get an admission.

- Police arrest Tucker McGee
for the m*rder

of JaRay Wilson.

- I never expected
anything like this

to come out of Tucker.

He always seemed very friendly.

During the 14 months
that she was missing,

we were actually
at a party together,

and I even have pictures of me
and him just smiling in them.

- Them two boys even
handed out flyers of her.

♪ ♪

[scoffs]

- Because Weatherford
is so small,

I remember just walking
down the halls at the school

and, like, wondering,
like, did that person know?

Did that person know?

- I didn't know at the time

that she was texting her friend

and telling him
that she felt sketched out

and that something
wasn't right.

And the whole time
she was texting me,

but she didn't ask me
to come get her.

♪ ♪

And that was the last text
I received from her.

- Cody Godfrey
and Caleb McLemore

are also arrested

for their involvement
in the m*rder.

In early 2015,
Cody pleads guilty

to accessory after the fact.

He is given a chance
to avoid prison

by testifying
against Tucker and Caleb.

- Cody Godfrey got
seven years' probation.

They cut him a real sweet deal.

- But Caleb McLemore
also pleads guilty.

- Caleb was given 25 years
with ten in

and then 15 years' probation.

He spent three years in.

- In March of 2015,
Tucker goes to trial.

- During the whole trial,
didn't look like there was

any remorse, anything at all.

Neither one
of the other defendants knew

why Tucker would do this.

They just said if it
wasn't K2 involved,

which is
a synthetic marijuana,

they think JaRay
would still be alive.

But there has never been
an answer for why.

I never had a chance
to talk to him after the fact

and find out if there was
a reason or why he did this.

Just the profile of Tucker,

in his room were some posters
of Dexter,

which is a serial k*ller,

and I don't know if he was

the beginning
of a serial k*ller,

and this was his first victim.

- The jury deliberates
for just over two hours.

Tucker is found guilty

and is sentenced to life
in prison without parole.

- Tucker McGee is sentenced

to life in prison
without parole

for the brutal
and senseless m*rder

of 16-year-old JaRay Wilson.

But her family's ordeal
is far from over.

- During the appeal process,
the Supreme Court came back,

stating
that you can't give a minor

life without parole
'cause you can't prove

that they can't be
rehabilitated.

So all he got was life.

- He was ten days
from being 18.

Ten more days, he'd have got
the death penalty.

He will come up for parole
when he's 53, I believe.

I pray he never gets out.

- I think about her

all the times
that things get rough.

[crying]

I told myself
I was gonna be okay.

♪ ♪

She was just always
there for me.

She was always
like a rock in my life.

It didn't matter
what was going on.

She'd always be there.

- I think about her
every single day.

I have a picture of her
in my car, and I mean,

I have a tattoo
on my shoulder for her.

I try to make sure
that she's never forgotten.

♪ ♪

- Ten years after the m*rder
of her daughter,

Jara Wilson makes
a pilgrimage to the site

where JaRay lay for 14 months.

She has been here before.

♪ ♪

- I honestly have no idea
why Tucker did what he did.

♪ ♪

I think he just wanted
to see what it felt like

to k*ll someone,
to take someone's life.

♪ ♪

I always hoped she would
come home, safe and sound.

But she came home,

just not the way
I wanted her to.

She had a laugh
that I miss big time.

♪ ♪

- As is the case
with many parents

whose child dies,

especially their only child,

Rodney and Jara's marriage
did not survive.

Yet they are still united
in their memories of JaRay

and in keeping
her legacy alive.

♪ ♪

- It's rough to lose a child.

There's good days.
There's bad days.

There's times
when you can't take it anymore.

♪ ♪

- I don't cry every day
like I used to.

♪ ♪

But I do have
some of those days

that I don't even want
to get out of bed.

♪ ♪

And some days,
I wish I wouldn't wake up

so I could see her.

So I believe
I'll see her again someday.

♪ ♪

- Some good has come
from the tragic death

of JaRay Wilson,

part of it involving
an unrelated m*rder case.

- So Gilberto Paz was a suspect

that we were cleared
in the JaRay case,

but found out that he was
involved in a m*rder

in--I believe
it was Cleveland County.

And they were able
to convict Gilberto,

as well
as two other individuals,

on a m*rder case.

- And in death,
JaRay has managed

to save other young lives.

- There was two girls
that were 14 years old

that were rescued
from human trafficking

because there was a possibility
that's where she was.

So there was
a lot of good things

she did
without even being here.

And I think when she was
found, she was ready.

She had done the things
she needed to do and made good.

And she was ready to come home.

♪ ♪

- JaRay is laid
to rest on my property.

♪ ♪

I didn't want her
to be buried again,

so I made a mortuary.

♪ ♪

This way,
I can actually go in.

I can talk to her.

If I got a problem,
I can go in and say hi.

Or if I wanna go scream
my lungs out,

I can go in there and do it.

But she's not gonna get
another piece of dirt on her

ever again.

My vault is already
at the back.

Jara's vault's at the front,

and JaRay's is right
in the middle.

And all three of us will be
together at some point again.

♪ ♪

- I was already
a protective dad,

but now it's even
much more protective,

and this case was
a big reason for that.

Just, like, you really can't
trust even close friends.

All those things had
a big effect on me

and then how much more control
I try to have on my daughter,

maybe to the point
where she just didn't like it.

But you know, she's gonna have
to live with it.

- I do feel like
cell phones serve

a really big purpose
in women's lives.

I am 25, and I live alone.

And I feel like it's
very important to tell people

when I am leaving my house,
where I'm going,

when I expect to be home.

- Choose your friends wisely.

Trust your instincts.

If you don't feel comfortable,
if you don't feel safe,

contact people who can help you
get out of that situation.

- No matter what,
how bad you think

you're gonna get in trouble
by your parents,

if you're feeling
uncomfortable,

you follow that,
and you call your parents

or text your parents
and have them come get you.