before the murder, laura and p.j. are at a different walmart buying a large tarp, bungee cord and more drink cleaner. the tarp and the bunches matched up to the ones found on cracks body. and the day of the murder, here s colin buying a shovel, a shovel identical to the one left on the side of the road for craig s body was found. a diabolical plans for? here it appears that way. over a number of days? yes. there was laura on tape looking completely relaxed, a wife, a mother and now investigators believed, a killer. craig sister saw a woman who had somehow turn two sons against their own father. honest to god i don t know how that happened. what was said that could ve turned the kids against him? this is the ultimate story of betrayal? yes. what do you believe happened that night? my belief is that the two
we discovered that in the woods, there is a body under a tarp. okay. is it near your home? it s down the road. could it be craig? the victims identity was an obvious right away. the killer or killers had to use some kind of acid to intentionally disfigure his face. that sounds like someone had a major grudge with this person? it certainly seemed like they were interested in him being found. but even though the victim was unrecognizable, deputies were able to i.d. him pretty quickly. the answer was found in his pocket. when the body was found, the victims phone was ringing. the person popping up on the color i.d., it was robbyn drew, craig s sister. as i was trying to reach in, the cell phone was ringing in his pocket. and your calling and the phone is ringing in yates county and your brother is and my brother is dead. yeah. sounds like some really dumb
prank. but his sister was worried. she urged him to report it to police. my name is craig rideout what happened? i wake up at midnight with a sharp pain in my arm. i jumped up this ill sound crazy. a hood black figure not a black man. was running out of the room. the reason i have to file a police report, is my blackberry. which was taken that night. robbyn made a point to talk to her brother every day. july 19th, just a few days after the break in, was no exception. i said i will call you in the morning. check in on you in the. kids but morning came and craig wasn t returning robbyn calls. if he had been in a meeting and felt his phone go off he would ve sent a response. in a meeting, call you later. concerned, robbyn decided to pay a visit to craig s a town house. inside that house, the
were her brother craig was. it was a warm summer morning. wednesday, july 20th, 2016. you can t reach him at work. you can t reach him at home. right. i m getting no response. that break in was fresh in robbyn s mind when she decided to leave work at lunch and head to craig s town house. his soon to be ex wife laura was there. she couldn t find him either. she says, oh i figured it wouldn t be long before someone came looking for him. i don t know where he is. laura told robbyn a had been craig s night with the two youngest children. but that morning, laura said the kids texted her to say dad was there when they woke up. she sent colin over to get them. colin was always picking up his siblings. he would drive them places. robbyn decided to look around her brother s house. she went upstairs to his bedroom. the door was locked. i thought, that s really odd. did you worry that he might be in the bedroom? i was worried that he might have been in the bedroom. had it ha
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