Without knowing it a nice record. It wasn t an if, it was a when were they going to tell us that she is not coming home? this is not what we was supposed to happen. The note was under her blanket. I saw it sticking out. Their daughter was a runaway. I am frantic, because i did not find her. They called police. They searched, and then a jogger found a ready to and a pool of blood. Here they are, three people at the door. I just started sobbing. They had found her daughter, but not the boy she was with. It was as if he had never existed. We couldn t find anything about lj. Months went by, still no trace of lj, and then an rookie took the case. How did you feel about it that this was going to be your case? i didn t know if i was going to be capable of doing this, i cried for 2 hours. 18 found dead. We still don t have an answer. And mysterious missing suspect she said that lj has killed someone before. And hers to solve. You are learning how to become a detective as you go. This is the ca
during her interview, she started telling detectives about a young girl she had seen a week prior. the cops thought some of what she said sounded eerily similar to annie s case. so they called draper p.d., and detective derek johnson and his colleague came over to hear what joanna had to say. tell me what you know about this girl. it was the second time i ve seen her over there. there, at the home where a man named daniel ferry used to live. danny ferry is a guy known to law enforcement. yes. as maybe a drug dealer? drug dealer. he was a member of a gang called vario loco town. and law enforcement has dealt with danny quite a few times, yeah. ferry had a long rap sheet. in fact, derek had served a search warrant on his home a year earlier. and now here was joanna telling derek that she saw a girl who sounded a lot like annie at daniel ferry s home on the night annie was killed. joanna also said the girl showed up with someone police had been
searching for but couldn t find. she came with l.j. l.j., the guy annie had written that note to. the alleged gang member. the one chris bagshaw said annie had run away with. we had annie s entries that said l.j. we had joanna telling us about l.j. on that night, said joanna, l.j. and the girl disappeared into the garage. she assumed they were having sex. then when they came out, she saw daniel approach the girl. he asked her if she wanted to [ bleep ] and she laughed. and she was like, no. and he just kind of grabbed her head and just rammed it into the wall. she said the girl was knocked unconscious. l.j. and another friend named v tried to calm daniel down. and then the three of them carried the girl out to the garage and changed her clothes. tell me about the clothes they changed her into. there was a lot of red. that s what i remember the most. what parts do you remember
being red? pants and shoes and a shirt, like white, white and red. the shirt was white and red? yeah. her shoes. shoes had white laces, and we were tying them. then, joanna said, daniel, l.j. and v wrapped the unconscious girl in a blue tarp, put her in a white suburban, and took off. and when they came back hours later, she said daniel was covered in blood and the girl was not with him. i asked daniel where she was, and he said that she went swimming. he said, she put up one hell of a fight once we got there. joanna s story rang true, leading derek johnson to believe the mystery girl was annie and daniel ferry was her killer. did you see blood on the carpet? yeah. was it carpet or hard floor? it was carpet. okay. positive it was carpet. now the search team found the carpet in ferry s house had been ripped up and the walls were freshly painted.
or ever at his house. detectives had never found enough evidence to make a murder charge stick. and it turned out there was an explanation. remember, while under suspicion for annie s murder, ferry was arrested for an unrelated kidnapping in a different town. the charge stuck. ferry eventually pleaded guilty and was sent to prison. draper police came to believe it was this kidnapping that star witness joanna had recounted to them. she had seen a totally different crime. not annie s murder. what s more, it happened on the same night annie was killed. no way daniel ferry could have committed both crimes. so now rookie detective jaclyn moore went back to the boxes and binders piled high on her desk. i felt lost. i decided i need to start from the beginning and see what information derek had when he first got the case. and so began the education of a detective. she started reading through pages and pages of annie s notes and journal entries. who does annie turn out to be,