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and they took the top bedding,

the blanket and the...

the top sheet,

and that's what they

wrapped her in.

They brought her out,

put her in the truck,

and they drove her out

to Crater Lake

to dispose of her body.

- And how does it happen?

Was it drugs?

- You know, I don't know

that there was ever

any direct evidence

as far as, you know,

drugs relating particularly

to this case.

I mean, honestly, it was just...

you know, they had a car.

You know, this lady owned a car

that they wanted,

so, you know, it was...

unfortunately, you know,

people died for a theft.

Other than it being dark,

this is pretty much

the way it was

that night

when we came out here.

You'll see all kinds of debris

and trash here, as I said.

This is... was pretty commonly

used for a dumping ground.

They've pulled lots of vehicles

out of... out of Crater Lake.

We've had, actually,

a few other bodies

that we've... that we've gotten

out of Crater Lake.

This is Crater Lake here.

This little area right here,

this is where the tire treads

in the dirt was actually here.

At the time that they first

came down here,

they actually backed up to that

and tried to slam

on their brakes,

hoping to eject the body

in the water,

and that didn't work,

so, again,

that was just something that...

that we heard.

I don't know that that's

actually what happened,

but you could tell from...

there wasn't any distinct

tire wear in the ground.

You could just tell

that a tire...

tires had been

spinning there, so...

So it seemed to fit the story,

but they ended up

getting the body

and... and carrying it out here,

and it was just dropped

in the water.

We didn't know when we

processed the scene here

and when we processed

Sandra Stotler's residence,

we still did not know

that we had any other victims

other than her.

This is the gated community

of Highland Ranch.

Inside those gates is the house

where Sandra Stotler

was murdered.

When Michael Perry

and Jason Burkett came back here

to get the Camaro

that they were after,

these gates were...

were shut and locked,

so they didn't have access

to it,

so they waited around

and parked

until Adam Stotler and

Jeremy Richardson returned home,

and that's when they got them to

come out in the woods with them

and... and murdered them

so that they could get

basically the clicker

to come back and get access in...

you know, into this gate

so that they could go back

to the house

and take the Camaro.

- So only because they

didn't have the code here

and it was closed at night,

two more young people

had to die.

- Yes, sir.

That's correct.

- Lieutenant, Jason Burkett

and Michael Perry

bragged about

what they had done.

How clear evidence was that?

- Well, because it came

from multiple people.

It wasn't just one.

We got reports

from several people

from the different hangouts

that they had said

that they had killed people.

That's how they got

the vehicles.

It was pretty convincing.

I mean, we believed it.

Although, again, we...

we didn't have evidence

that we had other bodies

at the time.

- Only after Perry confessed,

he pointed you to the location

of the two young boys.

- Yes, sir.

- As soon as I found out

my mother...

her body had been found,

that whole week is just a blur.

I was watching the news.

It was Monday morning,

and I saw helicopters flying

over Ronny's truck stop here.

Well, we live a mile,

and I had a glimmer of hope.

I said, "Adam got away.

He's found his way home."

Because that's the exit you'd

get off to come to my house.

So I told my husband.

I said, "Get in the car.

We're going down there."

'Cause they showed

the crime scene,

the helicopters.

My brother's car

was there on the news.

So we went up

to Ronny's truck stop,

and I saw all that stuff

on the car,

and I'm like,

"oh, that's not Adam's car.

He doesn't have all that stuff

on there."

- "Stuff" meaning?

- The stickers and the...

- "Gauge," "A.B."?

- Yeah, I saw all that stuff.

I was like,

"oh, that's not his car."

You know, and then I looked at

the license plate.

The car was riddled

with bullets,

and they had just

chased them down

and caught them at

the apartment complex,

and I was kind of

trailing behind them,

and they left to go

to the hospital,

and they told me...

I was like, "Please tell me,"

because Adam had been missing

now since Wednesday,

and it was now Monday,

and I said,

"Please tell me,

was Adam with them?"

And they said, "Adam got shot",

and they took him

to the hospital."

Now, Michael Perry

is still saying he's Adam.

He got out of jail.

He bonded out of jail.

- Perry just had his ID.

You believed...

- I believed he was alive.

- Your brother was safe,

only wounded,

because you were told

Adam was safe...

- Was shot.

- And shot but in hospital.

- And I... you know,

I was like...

Thank God.

So I started calling

the hospitals

trying to figure out

which hospital he was at,

and I described him,

and she's like...

I finally got a nurse

who would talk to me,

and she's like, "That's not

the kid that's here, ma'am."

- But you had hopes, I mean,

substantial hopes

that your brother Adam

was wounded but safe.

- Yes.

- Alive.

- Yeah.

- And all of a sudden...

- My world was ripped out

from underneath me.

Everyone was gone.

I called Lieutenant Davidson,

and he told me to come down

to the police station,

and I told him,

"I'm watching you on TV

right now.

Just tell me

if that's Adam."

And he said,

"I really would like you

to come down

to the station."

And I said, "Just tell me."

And he said,

"Yeah, it's Adam."

He said, "It's Adam,"

and my knees gave out,

and I never knew that your knees

really went weak, you know,

but that saying is true,

"Weak in the knees."

My knees went weak,

and I fell to the floor.

- This is Lindsey Lane.

This is where we were directed

on this road

by Michael Perry

in his confession

that we would find

two additional bodies

of Adam Stotler

and Jeremy Richardson.

We came down this road,

and then we split up.

We went to the end of the road,

and we actually walked

back this way

and discovered Adam's body.

They lured them into this area

by telling them that there was

a mutual friend of theirs

that had gotten hurt

while they were hunting.

This house obviously

was not here at the time.

You can see,

as this is coming out,

how it's coming around,

so it's gonna be

somewhere about...

somewhere in that concrete

is gonna be

about where his body

was discovered.

Once we actually

processed the scene

and we moved the body,

once we moved the body,

there was a cigarette butt

under it, which we collected,

and there was also another

cigarette butt close by,

but the one that was

under his body,

once we submitted it

to the state lab for DNA,

it had Michael Perry's DNA

on it.

- Which means the body

had fallen...

- Had fallen on the cigarette

after it was already discarded

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