He was like a ghost like this, the boogeyman. Yeah, I was scared everywhere. So as we received more known samples from individuals in this case, we anticipated that one of them would eventually or could potentially match the unknown DNA profile in this case. Oh, and say, OK, you go ahead. Sam. No, I can't die. It's all new. But this time Amber was more lucid and the story she told even now, years later, as she began to tell us the same story, waves of anxiety all but stopped her. Frustrating. I remember waking up on my stomach on the floor and my hands and my feet were bound with duct tape and my mouth was bound with duct tape up my eyes or not, I knew I was in danger. Patrol officer Dane Stratton, first person to respond to the scene, haunted by it all for years, who'd spent many nights searching on his own for Ember's attacker finally in court, saw her for the very first time since he'd rescued her. I'm sorry I didn't hurt you. What was truly astonishing to me was seeing this woman who had been so badly beaten, her face was so swollen. He stuck to his story, blaming his lifelong friend Bryce for attacking Amber and leaving her for dead. I'm Lester Holt. It was a really horrible day because. I would see people stumbling home from the bars and I kind of became a self-motivated taxi. I think that was very powerful to the jury because he added that human element to this case. Was it remotely possible he was telling the truth or what? Yes, absolutely. How can I watch Amber Heard's Dateline interview? Yeah. This person that is out there and is capable of these things. Yeah. Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Dateline NBC presents an original podcast on Richard Rosario, who was convicted of a 1996 murder in New York City. Death. None. Related To Sharon Bailey, Bruce Bailey, Jana Bailey, Sally Bailey, Joy Bailey. But Amber did not feel better with the passage of time. Detective Seymour also submitted a sample from her only person of interest, Aburish friend Eric Vanner. A murder plot. I love Sarah. So the police contacted me and said, your DNA matched up. Investigators are suspicious when a wealthy former radio DJ mysteriously disappears from his yacht in the Pacific Ocean. A wealthy couple. That was probably the longest two or three seconds of my life from the first not guilty and then to the next one and then out it came one by one. Contact Bryce, search articles and Tweets, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place. Sensitive, compassionate. Then more and more neighbors calling 911. This is my friend. Goodness, we thought it possibly could have been Eric, the person she was with the night before. If you got nothing. Four days after being rescued, Amber was released from the hospital and transferred to a local safe house, which Amber didn't really feel safe at all. 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Kirsti had been helping raise and her son was babysitting the night of the attack. I didn't know what to think. I just sobbed and I just remember, like looking at the jury and like why, like I was angry and understand I cannot begin. It was fine to feel safe. I can't leave my son behind. Coming up, Sam Moon says he saw someone else attack Amber, he shot her at her home. Where lust and obsession lead to murder and a classic double cross A podcast from Datelines Keith Morrison. But his story did seem to explain how his DNA could be on Ambriz body consensually. It wasn't him. I feel like I can finally move on with my life. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Coming up, Sam's parents say a brutal attack is just not in his character. We did a search warrant for specific keywords that Stefan had used in his interview about what the ad had said. Yeah, and he was eager to provide me with a sample of his DNA to exonerate him. Who can know where the person is capable of even a young man who lived with his parents and helped out at church. I was feeling this intense need to figure out who had done this and fear for who. So who a crime like this one at all? I don't know how to put words to it. The DNA told them it had to be one guy, one attacker, a semen stain recovered from her body. They have had to have done something in the past. Who was that man on top of her? So investigators watch the clock for the DNA results and speculated an attack like this is not somebody's first rodeo. Like I got to be a star out of Pulsers. Nevertheless, armed with the DNA evidence, the police eventually arrested Stefan, and he was convicted of a count each of second-degree kidnapping and first-degree assault, as well as two counts of sexual assault, which netted him a prison sentence of 128 years in 2019. He has committed to Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders. And there were so many problems. A community is on edge after a 27-year-old Egypt Covington is shot to death in her Michigan home. I was to be honest with each other, we have your DNA in her body. Her voice steady, calming as she gently lowered the boom. No, I don't even know Amber in 2013. Dateline NBC Showcast. Was it a stranger, a friend. Did you have fun with somebody last night and he beat the hell out of me and told me you killed her before anything quietly in her almost gentle way, Detective Seabaugh pushed back. You were given out free. Apr 1998 - Apr 20068 years 1 month. This didn't seem like a stranger thing to me. And you could just see, like. This is interesting. The red duct tape, severe beating, strangulation, like some practiced predator was living out an awful fantasy. We had no idea who could have done anything so horrible to her. So there was this tremendous amount of pressure to get it right. I don't know how this is happening. IE 11 is not supported. The brutality of this was unlike anything that I'd heard about why would you attack somebody and brutalize them to such a degree if you didn't know them or have a grudge against them? Then Sam Moon said something disturbing. Just what Amber needed to find was real, real supportive. Months passed. I don't even know how to describe that feeling to be pretty black darkness. But they were in a different park, not the one where she was found. This byline is for a different person with the same name. Hey, Sam and Amber and Sam hadn't talked in a while. And then in 2015, a whole group, in a way came to members rescue housemates who invited her to live here with them in this safe place among friends in a good neighborhood. June 12, 2016: School Camp. There is also scratches on her nose that were swabbed. They just said, say what you want. I didn't know him until two years after the assault took place. While in Asheville, North Carolina, for a new episode of Dateline, our producers met local musician, teacher and historian of Asheville: Wayne Erbsen. After 2013 sex assault, man befriended victim before being identified, convicted. I didn't hurt you. There was some around here a while ago. Those overwhelming DNA results were wrong. The two of you polished off a bottle. Your heart goes like crazy. Join me as we go into the roots of inequality and economic injustice and racial injustice. It was extremely emotional for me because it was so vivid when I was being asked about this crime scene. The only good news, we were pretty shocked as a DNA laboratory. We could have asked everyone for their consent. No, she's a survivor, focused on raising her son Gabe and giving back somehow. So what the searches showed me was that he still had a propensity towards rape and hurting women. How could anyone know whether or when he might attack someone else, where for it and any way she knew something else about that after going through his phone, something the jury didn't hear and it wasn't pretty. But there was always that fear that he would hurt somebody else. So why would his old pal Sam try to frame him for the attack on Amber? . And then detectives give her a job. Thank goodness I became intoxicated. And then detectives interview the man Sam says attacked Amber. Even with this powerful spotlight, he could still see nothing. He testified, told the same story about responding to a Craigslist ad offering sex at the park. And I've seen my share of a pretty horrible things. She didn't just swab the outside, which if you buy what the defense was trying to sell to that jury, the contamination would only be on the outside areas. Get the latest news, stats, videos, highlights and more about offensive lineman Bryce Bailey on ESPN. In February 2003, a shot rang out in famed music producer Phil Spectors California mansion. Evening again, one day later, Fort Collins, Colorado, and once again restaurants and bars began to fill with young people eager to meet new friends. I thought I was deceased or he had left the country. Take it home with you. Detective Chevon Seymour was hiking with her kids up in a place called Pooter Canyon, west of town, and her phone chirped text message from her boss. And then Sam told a whole different story about that terrible night. Her son, three year old Gabriel. But you can find out if your information is on the dark web. Was the person who attacked Amber Smith still out here looking fishing? It was good to hear your girlfriend's health care and her whole head was covered and it was just so bloody. She became very isolated and she was very self-conscious about everything and everybody that she was around. And that's when it happened, when the judge reads count one attempt to commit first degree murder, we, the jury find the defendant not guilty and there's an audible gasp. We're going to get him. Eric did agree to provide a sample of his DNA, which Detective Seymour got to the lab. It wasn't right. And the picture was Sam Sam Moon, but it didn't compute. I didn't hurt you. I didn't see anything about her, nothing. And then she focused on raising her son. And then the judge asked if Dane Stratton had anything to say. And soon fast friends like Bryce Bailey, a boyfriends buddy and Bryce's childhood pal, a friendly guy named Stephan Moon who crashed on the couch. David Bailey discusses his life trials in a Dateline NBC special which aired about 1998. I thought, like, it was rigged. Wayne told our producers a little more about the history of A Postcard from the Field: Meet Mr. Gresham, While on our travels in Gresham, Oregon, our producers met Todd Kirnan, a man also known as Mr. Gresham. It was a kick in the gut. Yeah, it's a lot. And this wound is never going to heal. And her emotions, her depression, her fear pulled her down for months. They came back something. Have a seat on the couch, though, because they were the two people who might know him best and for whom the news was a blow. No match? She had a hard time speaking because her jaw hurt so badly. I was so happy. If you do not have cable, you can watch it on an . It was a mistake. So I was hopeful the case was the jury's now the verdict would be swift, but what came next? So the owner called the cops and who was the owner? Who was he anyway? What would happen to you inside when that happened? And I was like, maybe this is my my duct tape guy. We found it on the tape that was used to find her. Very, very, very important. And soon after the phone call was done, police arrested Simon brought into the Fort Collins police station and then they shut him down here for one more conversation, except this time. She is such a strong woman. And soon fast friends like Bryce Bailey, a boyfriends buddy and Bryce's childhood pal, a friendly guy named Stephan Moon who crashed on the couch. We were pretty shocked as a DNA laboratory that there were no other offenders that this case matched to, how is this guy not in the system? This is the guy you confided in. Simpson Case. Can't die. The shooting was just the beginning of an investigation that would lead many to wonder if it could have been prevented. And then, nearly a week after the attack on Amber, DNA analyst Melissa Grass picked up the phone and called Detective Seymour with the news. It was covered and it was not so bloody. That one took a while. Just one more DNA sample to drop into that massive CODIS system, which, of course, also contains the samples taken from Amber Smith and. Would I have like an anxiety attack, just like the overwhelming sense of like of doom? Exceptionally sick. And what do you remember next? What is the sense or the level of responsibility that comes crashing down on your shoulders when you see a thing like that? Buckle up, its Mommy Doomsday, the haunting podcast from Dateline NBCs Keith Morrison. Moon's intent that night was to sexual assault, to leave her and have her die so that no one would be able to put together what happened and point to him about what occurred to Ross Perot. Indiana Hoosiers . We expected that it would either hit to other cases or to an offender in the database or of course, to the last person I remember being with Eric Vannak. Posted: Sep 24, 2020 / 02:27 PM EDT. She doesn't know. But give up. Sep 2015 - Present7 years 5 months. Did it seem like he that guy, that couch surfer could be your monster, could be your boogie man? He was famous for doing stupid things, the epitome of stupidity. And this tape on her forehead and face was just cutting into her skin. Are you sure this is who did it? Did they give you a script to read or anything like that? When Dateline continues, Detective Seymour had been so sure Amber Smith knew the man who raped her and nearly killed her. There's no way this is this is the wrong guy. I woke up the next day to a voicemail from the detective explaining what had happened to Amber. Explore the latest . Had you ever encountered a thing like that before? Protecting your IP at the source: licensing and other transactions, Up-and-coming KC musician Danza drops his second record. SkyWest Airlines. Zero. And so day by day, one by one, the men in Amber Circle were questioned, close to ten of them friends, acquaintances. I was heartbroken. A young woman survives a brutal attack and detectives work tirelessly to find a suspect. Mind you, Saddam himself tried to do that, too. And now time was running out. It was almost as if I was fighting for a sister to be able to find that sense of closure so that she could move forward with her life like we all wanted this for her. Well, youll just have to slow down and listen to find out, Producer Carol Gable typically works from her home office in South Carolina, but while she was in New York working on a story, we sat down at a guest desk to learn more about her (and her dog, Beau!). When Dateline continues. Amber, who refused to call herself a victim, even faced her attacker in . Couldn't Sam. So a partner of mine and I went to the church to contact him there. I went through some of the things that he had Googled and which is gross, gross stuff. That was a place for her to call home there. There had to be some mistake. Chodas is a great big system with every felon in the nation. And Amber found it hard to even go outside. She was found naked and bound with red duct tape. And certainly it made him look like a very bad friend. Could anyone understand how she was feeling, the grueling pain, the unrelenting terror, humiliation, loss? I feel empowered now. June 20, 2016: School Camp. Your friend needs this. Cops are people, too, after all, just like Amber Dane Straten needed relief, but I started to think, what is this guy? It had taken four long years to this moment in Amber Smith's little apartment, where Detective Chevon Seymour could finally tell her the news that the man who had raped and beaten and found her up, the red duct tape had been found. You can feel the terror that Amber felt, but I have not encountered something quite like this. But Sam did not report his roommate to the police. And as I swung my car around the headlights car on the service road, instantly my heart just jumped into my throat. I know I'm going to do that. By Cynthia Cole , Bryce Bailey , DJ Kim Lee. Just a bunch of friends living together like the TV show, frankly, didn't feel a bit like that. The hot bike thing is, Colorado frowns heavily on people who sell hot goods to pawnbroker's, which in the state of Colorado is a felony to lie. And then they started reporting they could hear her screaming, help, help. If I had laser beams out a her thing in the back of his head. My heart's in my throat. Access full episodes from the current season of Dateline on NBC. Bryce joined Baker McKenzie's IP Practice Group following his graduation from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2020. What did you expect this person would turn out to be? His mother was there and she said that he usually volunteers at the church. Well, of course you've guessed the answer. Bryce Bailey is on Facebook. We know it's hard to keep up with our schedule Get your Dateline weekly newsletter, so you don't miss a thing! Everybody called him Sam. Yet back at the police station, as she pressed for answers, he said something that caught her off guard. The idea crossed your mind. It's what they do. I didn't know if I was still in danger, that he maybe wasn't finished with you. So a significant match. Maybe an hour or two when he comes through the door and I can hear he's with somebody else and it's female. What if you could gain in demand credentials online and get personalized career services from a respected state university with a global reach at University of Maryland global campus online learning is not an afterthought. Tick tock. In the rush to market, to license to third parties or to create new software-as-a-service (SaaS), companies . I thought I would come back for me, even in the safe houses. I did do her best friend, Kirsty. Well, I'm going to do my best to make you as comfortable as possible. But again and again, there was nothing to find. And somebody who would do a thing like that to you must be on the list, right? What? I had nightmares about this case. Because the voice in my memory was her screaming, terrified, I want her real voice to be my new memory. Stream recent and classic episodes of Dateline now on Peacock TV. I still couldn't believe it. It stopped, thought, killed, Sam said he hid in his room with a door closed, so it looked to the door. Almost exactly six years after a then 20-year-old Fort Collins woman woke up naked and bound with duct tape in a . Get your free dark web scan at LifeLock dotcom slash scan. June 11, 2016: Offer. I teared up. And then suddenly it dawned on her what this picture could mean. A young North Carolina man named James Chambers goes missing and his family is frantic. I thought it was rigged. Greater Memphis Area. Well, that was easy, said Bryce on his ear, or to his trying to get revenge on me for getting in trouble in the first place. Remember how he said he looked under his bedroom door and watched his friend Bryce Bailey commit the crime? Talk to kids in the middle and I would talk to people hanging out. We don't have a suspect like how do we not have a suspect? Talk about things like that, but not to the extent that Steffon men have had said it had to be investigated, though prosecutors brand hard to win. That's all for now. That was not an option. Just I felt like I was going to vomit. But not everyone was satisfied, Sam Moon's parents, the mortified by what their son had done and what it all meant for their family, were not so convinced that he was the one who beat and bound that in duct tape. Take a look back at the case in Dateline Crime Capsule. He insisted again and again that he was innocent, that this was all a mistake and it was not a rapist. And the defense said, although even Sam's attorney acknowledged there was no evidence to show Amber posted anything on Craigslist anyway, the defense told the jury Amber was found in a puddle of fluid. My whole world is flipped upside down. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. 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