Audrie & Daisy Page #3

you were this tough," or whatever.

And since I have three brothers and

it was guys kind of taunting me to do it,

I kind of almost saw it as a challenge.

Like, "Yeah, I'll show you. I'm not just,

like, a little girl" kinda thing. Yeah.

I drank all of that and had quite a few

swigs straight from the bottle,

which probably amounted to, like,

11 or 12 shots by that time.

I remember a dog ran up on the couch

and sat on my lap,

and I said something

really loudly about it,

and they told me to quiet down.

And that's...

literally the last thing

I remember, so...

[Paige] I was really drunk.

Every time he tried to make a move,

I'd always tell him no.

A lot of times

I had pushed his hands away and...

I mean, I made it clear, very clear,

that I didn't want to do this,

but I was sexually assaulted.

I don't know. There was a lot more

I wish I would have done,

maybe fought back a lot harder. But...

Then who knows

what would have happened after that.

When I was in the room,

I could still hear them all

in the living room talking, drinking...

After that five, ten minutes,

it got quiet.

That's when Matt took her into the room.

It was quiet until I came back out.

I came back out and...

Uh, they just told me to

sit on the couch and wait.

Whenever they opened the door...

um, she was just kind of laying there.

Half sprawled on the bed,

half on the floor.

Uh, she couldn't talk.

She couldn't move hardly at all.

She was just completely incoherent.

They had decided they're going to

have to just pick her up

and put her through the window

because she couldn't walk.

And then they pretty much

dragged her to the car.

They were freaking out in the car,

trying to figure out

how they were going to drop us off

without her brothers waking up.

And they told me that,

"It's all right. We'll sit here and

watch her, all she has to do is sober up."

They said,

"Just go inside and go sleep."

And so, I went inside,

pretty much just blacked out.

[reporter 1] Good morning, Maryville.

It's a cold start to the day.

Only 21 degrees, getting up to an

expected high of 44 this afternoon.

Later tonight, expect temps

to drop back below freezing...

[Melinda Coleman] Ten till five

in the morning, I heard...

something outside...

And we got to the front door

and Daisy was laying in the yard.

She had, um,

just sweatpants and a T-shirt on

and her hair was wet

and it was frozen to the ground...

And we carried her in

and wrapped her in a blanket

and we were trying to warm her up.

And she was not unconscious,

but not really conscious.

She couldn't speak.

She couldn't move or answer any questions.

Then I panicked, I thought,

"Where's Paige?"

You know? Is she out there somewhere?

I was being bombarded with questions

and trying to figure out

what was really going on

and I myself really didn't know

what was going on at first.

[Melinda] So, I started filling my tub up

with cool water

and I had started to kind of undress her

and I noticed that she was

really, really red

in places...

Like in her groin and thigh area.

That was the thing

that kind of made me think

maybe something else had happened.

So at that point, I went ahead

and took Daisy to the hospital

and they did the exam.

They did the rape kits and they talked

to both Daisy and Paige at that time.

We did do a blood alcohol level on her.

It came back 134.9.

I mean, it tells very clearly that,

at the time they dropped her in the yard,

just based on half-life,

she had to be close to comatose.

She had to have been close

to blood poison level.

[Daisy] By the time that they took me

to the hospital, I could not sort out

what happened, really.

So my story to the cops the first time

was really, really, really hazy.

I was pretty...

probably pretty messed up, still.

I was really confused.

[Charlie] Daisy's phone was in the yard,

face down in the snow.

One boot was next to it

and another boot was ten feet away.

I dried the phone off on my pant leg

and we started going through it,

and the first name I saw on there

was Matty B.

And I knew, I freaking knew...

that was Matt Barnett.

I knew that that was something

I wouldn't have put past Matt,

to try to have sex with my sister.

But the fact that

Nick and Cole were considered

two of my best friends,

and Jordan, like, my teammate...

I wrestled that guy every single day.

Like, how hard would it have been

for Jordan to text me and say,

"Why is your sister at Matt's?"

But he didn't. Nick didn't. Cole didn't.

I called Nick and I was like,

"We gotta talk.

I know you were there. What happened?"

I drove to his house,

sat outside and I texted him.

I'm like, "I'm here."

No reply. Called him. No reply.

And I was instantly... I was livid

and I told Mom, "You call the cops."

[Melinda] Because we were

just outside of city limits,

you know,

it was literally right on the line,

so it was technically

the sheriff's jurisdiction

when we called the emergency number.

-[girl 1] You're always on that side.

-[girl 2] I'm on this side?

-[girl 1] Other side.

-[girl 2 chuckles] Oh.

No, wait. I want to... Okay.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[Darren White] I guess

it's a Midwestern thing.

But around here, everybody's real big

on the one finger wave, you just kinda...

[chuckles]

A lot of these families

have been here for generations

and are pretty well entrenched.

You know, everybody's connected

in one way or another.

Of course, obviously,

you have to be really careful

of who you're talking about because

you never know who they're related to.

-All right. See ya later.

-[girl] Bye.

[White] Raising kids

in a small town is really pretty great.

Just having daughters is... [chuckles]

I'm convinced that they're...

that they're trying to kill me.

[car honking]

I was elected sheriff in 2008.

And then was re-elected in 2012.

Um, you know, not to sound

like a Harry Truman clich,

but the buck really does stop here.

There's nobody above the sheriff.

You know, it's safe to walk down

these sidewalks at night

and you don't have to worry about,

somebody jumping out from the bushes

and hitting you on the head

and taking your wallet.

We don't want to fool ourselves

into thinking that

we don't have things that go on here,

but we take a pretty

proactive approach and...

you know,

we try to deal with things swiftly.

Something that comes in

as a sexual assault,

certainly raises your ire.

[bell rings]

Based upon the information

that was given by the girls,

we had a list of names of people

that had been at this house.

We were able to round them up,

bring them in,

and we went from there.

Tell me about--

[White] From the time of call,

to victims interviewed,

suspects interviewed, people in jail...

we're talking about four hours.

That's pretty darn quick.

[indistinct chatter]

[Charlie] Monday, we went to school.

And...

It was 180 from that Friday.

The Friday before. It was...

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