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of a smile.

These pictures are all taken

Christmas Day 2004.

That would be...

...the last Christmas

before she died.

When she was little, it was

just like a rope tied to her.

And everywhere Mom went,

Amelia went.

And...

I don't know

that she ever got over that.

She always understood...

We never had battles

or fights or anything.

We always just, as Michael said,

we just got along beautifully.

She got her driver's license.

We wanted to go buy...

She wanted to get a car.

So we started going

car shopping.

Well, the car she liked

was a little Mazda Protege,

and it had

a 5- speed transmission.

And teaching her how to drive

a manual transmission

was an experience.

It took us

probably a week or two

to get where

she was really comfortable

and felt good about it.

- What?

- Two days.

And I was the one who taught her

how to drive with a stick shift.

Yes.

She caught on very quickly.

But the thing

that was interesting is,

she wrecked that car.

We met in ninth grade.

And we actually...

I remember meeting her.

We were in French class.

And we were...

We ended up becoming partners

for something.

I forgot what it was.

But we just loved each other

right from the start.

If one of us

were walking down the hallway,

and they didn't see

the other one with us,

they'd be, "Where's Amelia?"

Or "Where's Macall?"

And we were just inseparable.

We were always together.

Amelia loved Macall.

She just loved Macall.

I n fact, one of the last things

we said to Amelia...

Michael was joking with her

and said,

"Don't you think you've seen

enough of Macall this weekend?"

And I said that, and she said,

"You can't ever

get enough of Macall."

And that was the last thing

she said to me.

We didn't plan on using drugs

or anything.

But I ended up

talking to Amelia,

and I told her that my parents

were going out of town

for the weekend.

And she said that she had...

She wanted to get high.

And she wanted to use heroin.

And I told her,

"Okay, well, I can get it."

I saw the two girls,

and I said...

And I had a bad feeling.

And I remember saying...

I was...

I just was worried about Macall

for some reason.

And I called Amelia up,

and I said,

"Amelia, will you make sure

that Macall doesn't do

any more drugs.

I'm really worried about her,

that she's gonna die."

And Amelia said, "Yeah.

I'll make sure of that."

We had asked Amelia

several times

about Macall and her drugs.

Amelia said

that she was doing fine,

that she was being tested,

and she was clean.

And everything seemed

to be going well.

She just used used them

recreationally.

She would use them once

in a while at parties and...

Or when she and I were together.

That whole weekend

was her first time shooting up.

It was the first time

using syringes.

All I remember is just

teaching her how to shoot up.

And then I shot up.

And that's it.

And then I ended up

going downstairs

because I wanted to be

with my boyfriend.

Macall had a boyfriend

who did not do drugs at all.

I don't know how he didn't know

Macall was doing them.

It's almost impossible

for him not to have known.

LDS.

I n the Church.

I'm an Eagle Scout.

Good kid in school.

Got good grades.

Averaged a 3. 3 GPA.

Played football.

Just a normal, you know...

Normal good kid

with no drug involvements.

Did you ever sense

that she was on drugs?

I asked her.

I'm like, "What's the worst

thing you've ever done?"

Like, "How many drugs

have you done?"

Just to find out.

And she didn't lie to me at all.

She said, " I've pretty much

tried everything.

But that's in my past,

and I'm moving forward."

It's gonna be a mystery that

we will never be able to solve.

Because we honestly thought

that Macall had gotten over

the drugs.

You know, Amelia was there

trying to help her.

And somehow,

for whatever reason,

she turns around

and pulls Amelia...

gets Amelia

to go right down with her.

This came from the police...

and so we kind of assume

that it has to be

there's some fact to it...

that Macall and Amelia

took heroin.

Macall injected Amelia

because Amelia couldn't do it.

When you overdose,

you usually do it

right there and then.

Because I've overdosed myself.

She never told me

that she was sick.

She never told me

that she felt anything.

She just seemed like

she was fine.

We had perfectly normal

conversations.

And so I just left her upstairs.

And then about 3:00 or 4:00

in the morning,

Macall and her boyfriend

came upstairs

and found Amelia passed out

on the kitchen floor.

You know, then she started

breathing a little funny.

I'm like, "We should

seriously call somebody."

You know, she's unconscious.

We can't even get her

to respond to anything.

She's like, "No, it'll be okay.

She'll be okay."

I felt for...

I just...

The feeling

that I had inside was...

It was just so awful.

Just seeing my friend

on the floor.

And Jasen said,

"We ought to call 911."

And Macall said no.

I was scared to death.

Never seen someone like that

in my life.

Not knowing what's wrong and not

knowing it's a drug overdose.

You know, not knowing

how to help this person.

Yeah, calling 911,

that was my first thing,

but I was told not to.

And, so, trying to help them

the best I could.

It's scary just not getting

a response out of a person,

'cause never seen that before,

and you see it all of a sudden.

It's just like, what do you do?

I thought that

she was gonna come back.

I thought she was gonna come to.

And...

She... We ended up moving her

over to the couch 'cause...

And we fell asleep beside her.

And the next morning,

we woke up,

and she was blue and black

in the face.

She was gone.

After that,

I'm not sure exactly what took

place between Macall and Jasen.

They decided that

they had to get rid of the body.

They took her body

up to the "Bountiful"...

up by the "B" in "Bountiful"...

and tried to hide it.

Buried it.

Tried to cover it with weeds

and twigs and all those things.

And then Tuesday came,

and we had...

All of the news media were here

Tuesday morning

wanting to talk about

what was going on.

And...

... someone said, "Did you know

they found a body?"

And I just thought,

"Well, that's it, then.

I don't need to talk anymore

on the TV, because that's it.

She's gone."

And soon after that,

South Jordan police came.

And he sat down.

And we took each other's hand.

And the officer

looked at me, and he said...

- It was a chaplain.

- Chaplain.

Looked at me, and he said,

"We found Amelia.

She's dead."

And the shock and the horror

of hearing what you knew

you were gonna hear,

but you just kept hoping

against hope you wouldn't hear.

The shock is so painful

that you can't move.

And you just sit there

as this wave goes down.

Starts at the top

of your head

and goes down

through your whole body

like an electric shock.

And then he showed us

her picture.

And...

... her face was swollen

and bruised.

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