Page 2 - Travis Payea News Today

Pretile hearing in court. if convicted of kidnapping, they face a minimum of nine years and a maximum of life in jail. >> date and time set for preliminary examination, prosecution ready to proceed? >> yes, your honor. >> call danielle taylor. >> two questions lie at the heart of the case. did danielle know she was acting in a movie and was she taken from the house to the woods against her will? >> do you solemnly swear the testimony youre about to give in the cause now pending the truth so help...

>> travis. what was it about travis that made you start hanging around? >> i thought he was a nice guy. >> i am a nice guy. ive been trying to be nice through this whole thing. >> she had a crush on travis. it was plain to see. easy to see that she had a crush on travis. >> did he have a crush on her? >> no, no. >> travis had a variety of girls, i guess. i dont know. girls kind of flocked to him. its kind of nice but i think he was seeing sarah or christina and i think danielle might have had a ...

>> in 2003, jimmy carwile, travis payea and jonathon cockerill all plead no contest to charges of kidnapping and assault. jimmy carwile is sentenced to four months. travis payea and jonathon cockerill each get eight months. all three have their sentences suspended, pending the successful completion of probation at which point the kidnapping charges will be removed from their records.

I mean i get the sense right out of the chute the girl was legitimately scared, and i didnt think she was faking. and i had to watch at it few times for it to really sink in. >> danielle absolutely knew what was going to take place that night. she was over at their house the night before. they had sat around and talked about having done this before and doing it the next night. >> i walked into the house, and they had the camera on. travis asked me to speak to the camera. out of the corner of my ...

Going to leave me there. >> what did you think at that point? >> that i was going to die. >> danielle, i want to ask you one last time while we still got time, if you could go back and fix anything in your life, would you? >> yes. >> you honestly would. >> yes. >> im not sure who said they wanted me to see this, they wanted me to look at where i was at. someone took my blindfold off. >> do you know who? >> im not positive right now. >> when your blindfold was removed, what did you see? >> saw th...

Going to leave me there. >> what did you think at that point? >> that i was going to die. >> danielle, i want to ask you one last time while we still got time, if you could go back and fix anything in your life, would you? >> yes. >> you honestly would. >> yes. >> im not sure who said they wanted me to see this, they wanted me to look at where i was at. someone took my blindfold off. >> do you know who? >> im not positive right now. >> when your blindfold was removed, what did you see? >> saw th...

The week before the night that i stopped over there, they went through another skit with a different girl, went through this struggle scene and this and that with her. like, you know, i like movies but i dont know if im into that. so i kind of took off. >> the woman derek saw it happen to is sarah. the recollections of the events of that night differ. >> one day i just walked into travis room and they just started wrestling with me and throwing me on the ground and just saying, you know, were go...

They tried too hard. obviously he didnt like that. so -- >> you said you talked to travis? >> yes. i did. >> was that also by phone? >> yes. >> what did you talk to him about? >> why he did it. >> what did he tell you? >> he said you know how much power we had over you when we did that. it was basically a power trip and its a rush. >> people in flint had to ask, did their city have so little to offer that a group of friends were driven to entertain themselves this way? >> i asked flint, many gri...

>> you realized just in time. this is your film debut. john, you watch her for just one second, all right. >> they all started talking amongst themselves. and i do believe it was john who blindfolded me. >> and after you were blindfolded, do you remember any other statements? >> that still if i kicked or screamed or fought, that i would not make it out of the house alive. >> do you remember who said that? >> travis did. >> defense lawyers focus on the detail of the tape to make their case. they ...

>> well, what do you say, guys? >> i think its time. >> think its time? >> yeah. >> all right. i get the honors, right? >> yeah. >> travis said that it was his kill. it was his turn to do it. then he managed to get over the hole and act like he was slicing my throat. >> where was the blindfold? >> it was on my throat still. >> and what did he do with the knife? >> he put it across my throat in a slicing motion. >> what did you feel? >> i felt blade but it wasnt like touching my neck really hard....