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Cockerill, is now holding the knife dangerously close to danielles throat. shes been asked what she would like to say to her family. >> what about your family? >> how much i love them. >> how much you love your family. >> how much i love my mom and im going to miss her. and im sure shes going to miss me too. >> its now just past midnight. after being driven down a dark road, danielle is taken out of the car and carried like a sack into the snow-covered woods. travis, who just an hour earlier dan...

Crucial evidence for the prosecution. >> no matter what anybody else says, i have a million people that [ bleep ] me. you cant let it bother you. all right. you have, i dont know, a countdown. you have 15 seconds to say whatever you want to say. >> as they approach the woods, travis payea tells danielle to say good-bye to her family. >> mom, everybody, i love you. im sorry for everything. as to you guys i really dont have much to say to you guys because i cant say nothing. >> why cant you say an...

Christina lumm, jim carwile, derek faxlinger, travis and jon cockerell. at approximately 11:00 p.m. we were just hanging out, having fun, you know, drank a little bit and supposed to just be a little get-together. >> quite frankly, it was one of the most repulsive, sadistic things ive ever seen in 24 years. >> within two months all the defendants have been released on bail until their case is resolved. but the prospect of life imprisonment hangs over them. >> abc 12s michael rosenfield spent the...

Christina lumm is driving. derek faxlinger stays behind. danielle is taken to the woods half an hour outside of town. >> every demon, every ghost in your past, everything you want to say, im sure well all be dead or in prison but you might as well say them right now. >> travis, hes the strong one. he never breaks down. and nothing could ever hurt travis. and thats what a lot of girls think because hes just so big and macho and thats what i thought about him. he just had that image where you coul...

Hes a mans man. travis is like a mans man, you know, very athletic, very competitive. hes a ladies man too. we all call him, because hes short, the ladies gnome because hes short. >> john, jimmy, smile and say hi. >> hi, mom. >> those are my boys. >> mom, im going to be a little bit late for school today. i was too busy, you know, killing some girl. >> i love everybody. i love you. and im sorry for everything. to you guys i really dont have much to say to you guys because i cant say nothing. did...

Face danielle taylor at a pretrial 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 no...

Tape, i was taken aback. 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....

For a long time, and we cant turn our back on each other even if we have different views of what happened that night. >> the other defendants cases remain open. jimmy carwile explains the charges he faces. >> felonious assault without intent to harm, that carries up to four years. theres conspiracy to felonious assault without intent to harm. that carries up to four years. theres kidnapping. that carries 25 years, and then theres conspiracy to kidnapping which carries 25 years, so altogether im ...

You, you dont hate me? >> no. >> thanks. >> 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...

They just tried to get them to like him, tried to do anything. 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 driv...