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Be able to see that tape and make their own determination. a jury never gets the chance. following a plea bargain, travis payea, jonathan cockerill and james carlyle all plead no contest to attempted kidnapping and felony assault. and christina lumm pleads no contest to attempted felony assault. they are sentenced to the time they ve already served in jail, about 60 days plus probation. travis payea gets the toughest sentence, three years probation. but just two months before it was to end, in april 2006, payea is found dead at a friend s house. he was 24. his family never reveals the cause of his death. coming up [ bleep ]! do you have a street address for me? oh, crap. dude, i m so scared. these kids, i don t know why they re doing this to me. we saw people being stomped, people being hit with hammers. [ bleep ]! ....
In fact, there are television shows. america s dumbest criminals. this appears to be right down that alley. the accused are 20-year-old travis payea, a horror film buff who plays the most prominent role in the video, 20-year-old jimmy carlisle who early on in the video helps push danielle to the ground. 19-year-old christina lumm. she drives the car to the so-called grave site. and 20-year-old jonathan cockerill who is seen on the tape tying danielle up and later holding a knife to her in the car. they all claim it was a joke. they were making a movie and danielle taylor was a willing participant. but danielle taylor tells police that she thought she was going to be killed. that s what we alleged, it was against her will, it s illegal. if you re in a fraternity and you know you re going to be hazed and you go into it consensually, you know, some strange things are going to happen, and they go crazy, it s ....
Cockerill, is now holding the knife dangerously close to danielle s throat. she s 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 i m going to miss her. and i m sure she s going to miss me too. it s 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 danielle considered a new friend, continues to narrate as they approach what looks like a predug grave. we re going to set you down. if you say one word, i promise you [ bleep ] you won t say another. we re giving you the chance, for what it s worth, to enjoy what you have left. then they start to fill the grave. we re burying you alive. you are going to die. ....
You. just [ bleep ] sheer murder. murder. for the next 35 minutes on the tape, danielle is told over and over again that she s going to die. a half an hour from now, you ll never feel another thing. enjoy that pain. it s the last thing you ll ever feel. danielle is blindfolded. if you even so much as sneeze, i ll slit your [ bleep ] throat. and about 15 minutes into the tape, she s led from the house to the back seat of a car, and now travis has a kitchen knife. i m talking about emotional pain. think about it. you think physical pain means anything compared to what you re going to be thinking? the second this knife digs one inch further into your [ bleep ] neck? travis pal, jonathan cockerill, is now holding the knife dangerously close to danielle s throat. she s been asked what she would like to say to her family. what about your family? ....
Straight face through this whole thing. lawyers who represent travis payea and jimmy carlisle. she would have kicked them in the face, pushed them away. it would have taken two people to tie her legs up, but they do it without any difficulty at all. turn it down a little bit, guys. look at the knife carefully. it s entirely covered in scotch tape so that it doesn t injure her in any way at all. but the other side doesn t buy it. these people were performing a very illegal, unethical experiment to get into the mind and thoughts of someone who believes at any moment they re going to die. where s the [ bleep ]? i didn t come over here tonight. the tape speaks for itself, and the jury and the state will be able to see that tape and make their own determination. a jury never gets the chance. following a plea bargain, travis payea, jonathan cockerill and ....