Audrie & Daisy Page #4

one school divided.

It was weird, because I always sat

at a table filled with people.

Like, my teammates.

People I thought were my friends.

I had absolutely nobody.

[chuckles] No one.

I was one of the athletes.

I was All-Conference and All-District

in sports and...

once all that happened,

that was all taken from me in an instant.

I was now known as "Daisy's brother."

[Michael Coleman]

And it's a girl. Catherine Daisy.

Okay, go. Go.

Get your mother.

[Melinda coos]

-Get your mother.

-[giggling]

[Melinda] Mike was actually

an electrical engineer when I met him.

And, um, I was in vet school

and he told me

he had always wanted to be a doctor.

[chuckles] So, for the next...

Gosh, four years of med school,

internship and then residency,

I supported the family and had...

had babies every 20 months.

[laughs] It's pretty much...

Sissy eating ice cream.

Mom.

[Daisy] Before my dad died,

I always remembered thinking

that he's never gonna die.

Like, he's too big and strong to die.

Literally nothing's gonna happen to him.

[Michael] And there's the birthday girl.

Cheese.

I'll love this 20 years from now,

just seeing what I'm seeing,

a close-up of Daisy.

[Daisy] I was about nine at the time.

And we were heading

to a wrestling tournament.

Some black ice had frozen over

the night before.

So, when we drove over it,

my dad lost total control of the wheel.

And we ended up upside down in a ravine.

[Charlie] When we got to the hospital,

I sat there for probably two, three hours.

I was waiting for one of those

Disney movie fantasies to come to life,

where he woke up.

But he never did.

[Melinda] At first,

it was just shock for a while.

And each of them had a tough year.

And with Daisy,

she was so close to her dad.

She was such a daddy's girl.

He would always rock her to sleep and...

she would sit on his lap

in the chair in the morning and...

I worried a lot

about how she would handle it.

Not that we wanted to erase a memory or,

not have pictures and stuff,

but it was hard to go by the place

on the road where he'd been killed

and his old practice,

which was now an administrative building.

We decided it would be good to just

not be living with ghosts all the time.

So, the plan was to go somewhere

not too far away,

and... not so much larger that

it would be a shock to the kids.

And where they could still come back

and visit their friends.

[Charlie] After Dad died, we looked around

and looked around at places.

And the decision to move to Maryville...

it fit like a shoe.

It was everything we could've asked for.

It was about an hour from Albany.

It was small,

but it was also big enough

that everybody didn't know

everything about you.

The football team

had just won state that year.

So, I knew I was gonna get to play

football for a powerhouse program

and I kinda fell in love

with the entire thing.

I was my own person, finally,

and none of it had to do with

anything bad

that had ever happened before.

[crowd cheering]

[players grunting]

[Jim Fall] Last year, the high school,

the university,

the junior high, the junior varsity...

Nobody lost a football game.

We were like 60-0 for the year.

This gets really hokey, but that's...

that's small-town America, and that's...

That's where we are and I guess

that's what I am, and I'm proud of it.

[Melinda] It just felt like a fresh start

and kind of a weight lifted.

[woman] Okay, sweetie. All set.

[Melinda] It's kind of empowering

in a way.

To... have to support the whole family

and the triumphs, the feeling strong.

We were pretty happy

there for a while.

[Charlie] Good.

Right when things

started getting better,

Daisy's sexual assault

case happened and...

Maryville being that kind of

blessing to me and my family just...

It really did kind of dissolve

in an overnight fashion.

[Daisy] Do you know how, like, Jay Z,

it's like J-A-Y-Z?

-[Paige] Yeah.

-I'm doing that, but with a D.

-So it's like Day-Z.

-Oh. [chuckles]

[Paige] Where are the scissors?

[Daisy in funny accent]

You know what? Quit your whining.

I buy you a T-shirt with some glittered

letters and all you do is complain.

I pay for your school.

I feed you, clothe you.

Put a roof over your head.

All I hear is naggin'.

[Robin Bourland] For Paige, I think,

it's kind of a double-edged sword.

The juvenile that assaulted Paige

went to court

and the judge asked him

if he had raped Paige.

And he said, "Yes." He said,

"Was she intoxicated?"

And he said, "Yes."

He said, "Did she tell you 'no'?"

And he said, "Yes."

He was the only one out of the whole bunch

that admitted what he did.

And I think it was probably

healing for her to hear that.

[Daisy] Don't be shady.

[Robin] The negative is,

she carried around a lot of guilt about

what happened to Daisy.

[Daisy] Ah, success.

[Daisy] I was just in kind of total shock.

Like, I thought something bad

would never happen to me.

That after my dad died,

like, I already had my deal

of grief in life. I get to...

just live a life where

I'm invincible now, like...

And that's just

a stupid teenage thought.

We really aren't invincible.

People really were kind of, like,

verbally attacking me.

A lot people would just say things,

like... calling me a liar.

I was told not to say anything because

it could just mess with the case.

Like, I really wanted

to stand up for myself,

because not very many people

were standing up for me.

[Charlie] One day,

my sister was walking to class

in the hallway from the bathroom.

This kid in my class, he decided

he was gonna call her "a lying slut"

and yell it outside of the door.

And she heard it and she ran

back to the bathroom crying.

I can't tell you what kind of things

ran through my mind.

I said something to him, like,

along the lines of,

"Don't you ever say anything

to her again."

And I knew for a fact,

he's a little weeny bag.

He would have been

easy to kick the crap out of.

There was kind of a rumor,

there was no for sure about it,

but I found out from the grapevine

that there was a video.

One of the few people I still talk to,

had seen it and heard about

it being passed around.

He said that it was kind of blurry

and it was really dark.

And then it got more graphic and...

him on top of her

and she was just kind of, like...

limp and not really functioning very well.

He guaranteed I didn't wanna see it

and if I did,

that bad things would happen.

[Glidden] I know I'm not as young,

sharp and smart as you young guys.

[White] Within four hours

of getting the initial call,

that phone was in evidence.

Um, the phone was sent to the forensic

laboratory in Kansas City.

Their report came back,

said that whatever was on

that phone was deleted

and that through the magic

of Apple computers,

when they say delete,

they mean delete.

It's not like a regular computer

or an Android phone,

where you can go back...

Where you can go back... Move.

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