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Video, is it a kidnapping? a crime? or were these actors in a sick, amateur movie, a movie this young woman was acting in? >> are you starting with me? dude, i'm blushing. i appreciate that. >> killer number one. thank you, i'll be here all weekend. the driver. jimmy. >> trav is travis payea, part of a group of young men who rented this dingy party house in flint, michigan. 19-year-old danielle taylor is a cashier for a fast food restaurant. she comes over late one night in 2002 to visit travis. suddenly, she is wrestled to the ground. >> hold her. >> her hands and legs bound. travis payea is ...

>> my conclusion had been, based upon the totality of the video, that the victim was not a willing participant. she displayed behaviors throughout the video that are typified by victims of terrorism. >> you move, you make one [ bleep ] sound or movement, you'll die right then. >> i counted no less than nine direct threats to her life as a consequence for her not cooperating. >> but friends and fellow students insist it was a prank. these people are friends of jonathan cockerill's. >> jon is real big into horror movies. >> yeah. >> horror movies are easy to make. they're cheap. >> i thought it ...

And my arms hurt. >> in fact, that night she returns to the house with the group. but at a doctor's appointment the next day, the doctor notices abrasions on her wrists. she tells him what happened, and he calls police. danielle then goes back to the party house and retrieves the tape. within 48 hours, the county prosecutor has charged four young people with the kidnapping and assault of taylor. if convicted, they face anywhere from seven years to life in prison. >> i have never had a case where alleged defendants tape their own alleged crimes. i can't explain criminals. in fact, there are tel...

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 scream right now, we bury you half alive. >> and then with only minut...

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 ask...