who told us he did party with them on a regular basis. >> drink until they got sloppy? >> he did consume alcohol in number time of days. >> some witnesses told police at the party the night he disappeared. >> he was creating somewhat of a disturbance and was asked to leave. >> pravin's friends expected him to meet up at a bar, but he never showed. they did not see him the next day or the day after that. finally, four days after he was reported missing, someone came forward with a tip. pravin had scored a ride after the party. cops track down the driver. >> his statement was pravin seemed to be intoxicated and unable to tell where was he was going. >> there had been a fight and the driver said pravin had run into the woods at the edge of town. >> now we have an area to look. >> team spandau to search and it did not take long.
missing. >> it made me sick to my stomach. >> he seemed eager to tell detectives everything he knew. >> he came up to my window and said give me a ride. i said okay. it's cold outside. nobody needs to be walking in this cold. >> gaege said pravin didn't seem to have a clue where he was going. they drove around in circles for 30 minutes. he said they didn't talk that much. >> he was on the phone the majority of the time. trying to get cocaine of somebody. >> gaege said the talk of drugs made him nervous and he wanted to get home. >> i was like, i told you to get out of my vehicle. then he started to get aggressive. >> gaege said he pulled over and that's when he said things got ugly. >> he got out of the vehicle and swung on me. self-defense, i hit bad. dodged it the night hit.
ride that i. he was the last person known to have seen pravin alive. puts the character of this kid? what did you learn? >> at face value, typical southern illinois guy. middle-class family. >> his name is gaege bethune. just like pravin, he was 19 years old. just like lovely, his mom was also a nurse. >> gaege was very laid back. a good kid. a lot of dreams and hopes. >> penny said gaege have fell sorry for pravin walking in the bitter cold. >> did not have a codon and as gaege free ride. gaege said his. >> she said gaege had no idea pravin was missing until days later when he saw story about it on tv. >> he immediately went to his father and they went and took care of things. >> a statement taken from gaege bethune. >> he told police he was upset when he heard pravin was
>> exactly. we have all been 19 whether you have been to in trouble or not, you have lived about something one way or another. >> penny said gaege had been honest when it mattered. he told the state trooper that pravin was in the woods and wondered why the trooper hadn't gone to look for him. you put some blame on the officer. >> i put most of the blame on the officer. >> why didn't he looked for that kid? whatever he didn't do that night, his mother said he was not responsible for pravin dying in the woods. >> he had done nothing wrong besides getting into a scuffle and giving the kid a ride. >> the special prosecutor thought differently. july 2017, three years after pravin's body had been found, gaege was charged with two counts of felony murder. the special prosecutor had a new theory. check out these tweets that appeared weapon posted by gaege. the prosecutor believed that gaege using a racial epithet was bragging about hustling
anyone or point fingers. we just demand answers. >> the investigation appeared to be over but lovely refused to give up. >> this is not over. >> she had filed a lawsuit against the city of carbondale and its police chief, accusing them of negligence. 12 days after the boy's family files a lawsuit against you, you were fired? >> it was over the weekend. >> 30 years of law enforcement workup and spoke. >> it got to my career. >> the city manager said the dismissal was a confidential matter they had nothing to do with any litigation. the former chief believes he was the scapegoat of a city under siege from pravin's family. did you think it was a good investigation? >> i did. i did think it was a good investigation. there were conscientious people working hard. >> there was one other person lovely suit. a driver had given pravin a
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