He was depressed after his 2013 tour in afghanistan. erin was someone he could talk to. i confided in her, i was feeling suicidal. and you know she s like, you can t be doing that stuff. you know, it s kind of like she was someone to talk to about stuff that i do want to talk about with my wife. he said erin confided in him as well. a terrible secret that she suffered physical abuse at the hands of her husband jon. she said her husband was beating her, and choking her, and she was scared for her life. she d say that he would choke her whenever like he would get mad. the way chris told it, erin s story of jon s abuse, is what brought them together. i just like being in a state i was i was like okay, i can fix this. and then you know, broken pieces to fix each other. so we just kind of started developing a bond. chris said that bonding soon turned to love. when you told her that you loved her, did she tell you that she loved you? she did. okay. remember, police
Lol we shall see. her friend responded with a series of emojis including a diamond ring, hearts, and question marks, suggesting perhaps an engagement? erin responded, may be. and mentioned he was mysteriously playing with my ring the other night. erin added we shall see, this day cannot come quick enough! and it apparently takes two hours just to get their. a long slow drive. good talking time though! after erin went missing, that same friend spoke to john. she told me that erin had supposedly gone out with chris that day. and that she was expecting that chris was supposed to propose to her that day. how betrayed did you feel? earth shattering. i was i felt like someone to stop a knife down my back.
Investigation, detectives learned that erin s relationship with chris seem to be going strong right up until the day she disappeared. it wasn t just your friendship, slight infidelity. it was full-on they were completely involved with each other. one of erin s close friends back in tennessee told investigators she talked and texted with arid nearly every day. erin, the friend said, was making plans for a life with chris lee. erin had expressed to this friend that she was going to get married to chris. the friend told investigators that chris was taking erin on a special trip the day she disappeared and she texted her friend all about it. erin wrote, so apparently the surprise trip is super important and i finally got him to tell me it s by the national park. erin told her friend she didn t know what plans chris had in store. yeah, i am clueless, lol. i m ready to know what it is! i mean, i have a couple ideas. i feel like it s big but, yeah
Nothing. but then detectives caught a break. remember that trip chris took with a friend to look at mines? turns out chris s friends had taken pictures. detectives obtained the photos and, seven weeks into the search, showed them to cave dog. without skipping a beat mr. billings almost immediately began identifying each photographs and plotting them on the top of graphical map. the first picture that they showed me was the mine across, here i mediately recognize the tower. i recognize that, the second they showed me the cabin. and then the next picture was of the mind that we are standing next to. so they bet on billings memory and focused their efforts here around what is known as the rosette peru mine. around the pros of peru mind are hundreds of other abandoned mines like this one, and any one of them could have been a potential burial site. investigators had high hopes that they would finally target the right area. but, after an exhaustive and
Piece of information. erin had told her friend back in tennessee that she was supposed to meet up with someone the day she vanished. her neighbor and lover, chris lee. deputies first knocked on prices door the day erin was reported missing. christopher lee told the extent of any contact he had ever had with erin corps wind was waving high in passing in the hallway of the pargman complex. apparently that wasn t true. but it wasn t necessarily incriminating either. he had every reason to downplay s relationship with erin. nevertheless, detectives knew it was time to talk to chris lee again. coming up we found her car. oh did you? yeah, it was partked in that area. he seemed surprised that we found the car. did he start to tense up after this reveal? yes. i could see definitely him more tense and his body. marine corporal to sleep prepares for battle. your tire tracks are there
Interested in helping find her friend erin. extremely uncooperative, angry, the and now what you d expect of someone who s trying to assist in an investigation. isabelle told, i m chris, and nicole, had searched the internet for some specific information. they researched how to dispose of a body, a dead body. she had said, we have watched enough of those csi movies to no, no body, no case. remember, it was nicole who told jon about the affair. according to isabelle she said she then confronted iran. it was important for her to tell errin, if she ever had anything to do with her husband, she would kill her herself. given that erin has disappeared, and it is now very relevant. did you have to consider her as a possible suspect as well? of course. hearing a statement like that, obviously,
i knew it was true and i gave them my honest answers and i never lied to them. a light shining through. but chris lee had lied to them and seemed interested in how to dispose of the body. and isabel had told him that he had taken a trip to the desert with a friend of the week before erin disappeared. we found a lot of minds, but i found this one mind that no one would ever find. detectives believed it was all adding up. chris that killed erin and then dumped her body in a mine shaft. so they decide to start searching. but here is the problem, the mojave desert is pockmarked with hundreds of mine shaft. detectives knew they needed help. the search and rescue folks explained that there was a guy who knew a lot about the desert, knew a lot about the caves. would be a great resource to us. this is the man they were talking about. doug killings, cave dug into
that small. we thought she was the sweetest little thing. our oldest girls were 16 and carried her around. she was like a little doll. they loved her. laurin their husband officially adopted their little doll which was three. aaron grew into a shy little girl. reserved around those she didn t know. but with the horses she cared for the east tennessee writing club, that was a different story. when i think of aaron and horses i think of her as a bigger cause she s very confident. she knows exactly what she wants and what she s going to do. aaron s friend, abby uche. but with people, she was much meeker, much quieter, calmer. courses would always be aaron s first love. and as she entered 13 years, a certain young man caught her eye. his name is john corwin. what is it about you that could break through to erin because her mom says how shy
Pieces to fix each other. so we just kind of started developing a bond. chris said that bonding soon turned to love. when you told her that you loved her, did she tell you that she loved you? she did. okay. remember, police had heard from a friend of aaron s that she thought she was pregnant with chris s baby. but chris insisted the relationship had stayed pretty pg. and how many times did you guess? kiss for tops. maybe some like, hands up and down while we were kissing, but nothing real heavy. okay. nothing under clothes or anything like that. okay, so close never came off? chris said that they talked about running away together but he didn t want to risk losing his daughter liberty. and i told, or i m not going to put liberty through a broken home. you know, we had bounced the idea back and forth. he said the affair and it abruptly when his wife nicole found out about it. chris also said that s when he learned a big part of his bonding with aaron was based
For its part of the manhattan project which produced the first atomic bomb. oak ridge still prides itself on being a community of putting signs an education for us. and a great place to raise a family. this is where urban grew up. when she was six years old she joined us as a family as a foster child this is her mom. she was a tiny thing. five pounds, three ounces. that small. we thought she was the sweetest little thing. our oldest girls were 16 and carried her around. she was like a little doll. they loved. her laurin their husband officially adopted their little doll which was three. aaron grew into a shy little girl. reserved around those she didn t know. but with the horses she cared for the east tennessee writing club, that was a different story. when i think of aaron and horses i think of her as a bigger cause she s very confident. she knows exactly what she wants and what she s going to do. aaron s friend, abby uche.