Your good friend. I was. Or if she didn't, he'd be a predator who had committed other similar crimes. Amber, yes. So Erik claimed he left her there asleep and drove around, but then got worried about it. And I called her. Where lust and obsession lead to murder and a classic double cross A podcast from Datelines Keith Morrison. Subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts to get ad-free listening on every episode, early access to new originals, plus exclusive bonus content. While waiting in the car, Dianna was joined . Exceptionally sick. Then they tracked down Bryce Bailey, told him what Sam said. Oh, yes, he stole Bryce's bike, remember? I mean, we could have I mean, it's not realistic. We did a search warrant for specific keywords that Stefan had used in his interview about what the ad had said. And I was like, maybe this is my my duct tape guy. Yeah, I had sex with her in 2013. From the 2013 incident, the one I told you about, the one I wrote down to you and told you about multiple times. So this case was worked on the rush status. 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. What kind of person does that sort of thing? Coming up, Sam's parents say a brutal attack is just not in his character. All right. A wealthy couple. Oh, I think I could tell you about Sam as day is a constant liar. She is also relishing the first tender steps of a reclaimed and strengthened life, a newfound sense of self. But they were in a different park, not the one where she was found. No idea. 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. I don't even know how to describe that feeling to be pretty black darkness. I remember I didn't look at myself very thank God, three days. And when I saw her driver's license picture, it was nothing like the person that was laying in that bed. But was he still here in Fort Collins planning his next attack or long gone? Greater Memphis Area. Was it remotely possible he was telling the truth or what? He insisted again and again that he was innocent, that this was all a mistake and it was not a rapist. I just felt sick. Could anyone understand how she was feeling, the grueling pain, the unrelenting terror, humiliation, loss? There's been an update in your duct tape case where at that moment were you thinking, like, we got it. Yeah, a huge and just mind screw, if you will, just that this person that you developed a relationship with and trusted not only betrayed you, attacked you, assaulted you, and may have tried to kill you. They couldn't be. Kirsty Aguilar's saw her once happy friend turned into someone she barely recognized. So how would your DNA be in my vagina? Um, yeah. The university is pushing the administration to look for room in the Tuscaloosa area to develop. It's you. But nothing nothing aggressive, nothing violent. He was like a ghost, like the boogeyman. She said there's been an update on your duct tape case. What would happen to you inside when that happened? This was the person who did that. She had several friends that he brought up that may have been involved in this. June 12, 2016: School Camp. 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. And then for Amber, a brand new trauma have like an anxiety attack, just like the overwhelming sense of doom. I'm sorry for them and my heart breaks for them, but I just don't think that that's the right choice. Instead, her son and husband are shot when a gunman opens fire at their front door. I was like the last thing I thought about. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm not a victim. You just kept stammering and kept denying and denying. The DNA told them it had to be one guy, one attacker, a semen stain recovered from her body. I thought that was my last moment on Earth. So good to her and her son Gabe. Oh. This is not right. He was famous for doing stupid things, the epitome of stupidity. Simpson case? And certainly it made him look like a very bad friend. We found it on neck swabs that were taken from the ligature marks and the markings on her neck. There was some around here a while ago. No, I don't even know Amber in 2013. Like, I know. She's bruised and beaten and bloody. None of this stuff makes sense to me. Amber and her team hear the verdict. Yes. Then Detective Seymour pulled out the picture of the prime suspect finally putting a face to that unspeakable crime he committed against her. So often late at night in his patrol car, he prowled through city parks looking for what, a villain, a rapist, because if he'd done it once. 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. Let's slow it down. So the detective offered some inconvenient facts. 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. Prepare lease quotes based on weekly cost of funds in order to maximize . She became very isolated and she was very self-conscious about everything and everybody that she was around. The story he believed would clear his name. TUSCALOOSAThe University of Alabama is expanding into the land where Bryce Hospital resides. Bryce Bailey attends Vanderbilt Commodores camp. It's my world. Hey, it's Amber. The other part to keep in mind is if it wasn't Steffon Moon, there was no one else's DNA there. But his story did seem to explain how his DNA could be on Ambriz body consensually. So his DNA would be in CODIS, the national database. When Dateline continues, the trauma of the kind suffered by Amber Smith is a beast, the long tail. Dianna Brice was last seen on March 30, 2021, at the K Laundry laundromat on Church Lane in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, where her mother was doing laundry. While in Asheville, North Carolina, for a new episode of Dateline, our producers met local musician, teacher and historian of Asheville: Wayne Erbsen. And I remember it was like a one, two or three. . It was covered and it was not so bloody. Indiana Hoosiers . We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. A New Jersey federal judge is the intended target during an attack at her home. With an electrical engineering degree, practical work experience for various electrical contractors, and studies in circuitry design and electromagnetics, he is able to leverage his experience across the patent prosecution, IP litigation, and technology transactions areas. Rapping or the sock or anything. I thought I was deceased or he had left the country. And yes, no surprise, Amber, just 20 years old, had also been raped. Yet back at the police station, as she pressed for answers, he said something that caught her off guard. Like, everything that was real is not real anymore, but it was certainly real to the two seasoned prosecutors. So she went on Facebook and found this picture. This really shakes the whole foundation. Bryce S Bailey, 57. We caught up with Sarah Goode at her desk to find out a little bit more about her! And then it was. That's how police got Sam's DNA and Bryce back and forth. She was found naked and bound with red duct tape. Yeah, it was great. That is 10, followed by 18 zeroes. Good situation. We have that. It stopped, thought, killed, Sam said he hid in his room with a door closed, so it looked to the door. Moon. So ordinary next swabs on our hands on the left hand swab to take your DNA. It's what they do. I didn't have the opportunity any longer. And the terrified victim waited. 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. Between 1986 and 1989, at least eight people were murdered near or along Virginias Colonial Parkway by an apparent serial killer. We did a sex assault exam on her. Then one day and he's just about everybody's notice somebody stole a bicycle. I have no idea what I'm getting myself into or what's going to be at the end of this drive. 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. I still questioned. Who was that man on top of her? Mind you, Saddam himself tried to do that, too. He said he did not rape Amber. 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? He was always the boogie man to me. A romantic early morning cruise on Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ends in tragedy. I thought they missed something but they did have one. It was beyond anything that I would imagine she'd been strangled and left here for dead. It's OK, no, it's OK. That was embarrassing and disgusting and disturbing. Oh, yeah, um. A romantic Valentines Day evening at the park turns into a horrifying crime scene for married couple, Stacey and Richard Schoeck. Because I thought I was my friend. Related To Sharon Bailey, Bruce Bailey, Jana Bailey, Sally Bailey, Joy Bailey. And now time was running out. But she was a mother, now two young boys. Who can know where the person is capable of even a young man who lived with his parents and helped out at church. We could have asked everyone for their consent. Six chances for you to help bring somebody home. Eric was twenty something, lived with his parents, but he wasn't home. June 20, 2016: School Camp. Yeah, but all somebody is. So why would he be so hard to find? So how do you explain that. Had you ever encountered a thing like that before? I was shaking. Amber was the victor. I was still just blown away that I was him. So they for her safety, they put her under an alias name. Contact Bryce, search articles and Tweets, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place. Yes. Was it his buddy Eric or someone else altogether? The judge gave Mr. It was a kick in the gut. This didn't seem like a stranger thing to me. Yeah. Amber passed out at an outdoor picnic table. That is why she believes the only place for him is in prison. We don't have a suspect like how do we not have a suspect? I did not hurt you, Amber, but that was a terrible thing to say. Of the ducted case. She had been strangled, strangled like somebody tried to kill her. Which is mind screw. I would try to be as sneaky as I could in these places. You can hear his wheels spinning as he's trying to create the story that is somehow plausible, given the evidence he's trying to figure out how to make what we have matched, something that could have happened. I had post-traumatic stress, not being able to sleep auditory, hearing her shouts. He's going to slip up. But you want an explanation. Detective Seymour hope the moons might offer some insight into Sam and the odd habits of fetishes, even sexual deviances of their 30 something year old couch surfing son. Stream recent and classic episodes of Dateline now on Peacock TV. There were other charges, other verdicts to come, but the concern is they'll make that same finding all the way through. He testified, told the same story about responding to a Craigslist ad offering sex at the park. Like, who is this guy? Yes. Moon the maximum possible sentence. The case colder than the Colorado winter. I didn't know him until two years after the assault took place. Well, Detective Chaban Seemore raced against an awful possibility, maybe a probability that a serial kidnapper, rapist killer had moved into her town. The evening air was warm and thick with anticipation, college students returning a new mixed and drank and laugh with young locals and darkness fell on Fort Collins, Colorado. 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. That was a place for her to call home there. Not really. Now, the searches were done years later after the event. He didn't do it. Bailey, was living in the basement and . You can change how the story ends. And yeah, I guess it could have been working out. I wasn't. And the thing is, you could miss certain threats to your identity by only checking bank statements and monitoring your credit. She was afraid because she didn't know who did this and confused. Yeah, I confidently thought so. And then some words were said to me, words we are simply not going to repeat. I was beyond scared. Maybe an hour or two when he comes through the door and I can hear he's with somebody else and it's female. And I said, what? Join Facebook to connect with Bryce Bailey and others you may know. It's a new kind of family dynamic, isn't it? I just was overwhelmed. 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. About four o'clock in the morning, we get a call of a female's voice in a park screaming. And Carol Boksburg said they didn't believe Sam's alibi for a minute. I picked up the phone and I was really excited to say to her, You're not going to believe what happened today, Melissa. Detective Seymour also submitted a sample from her only person of interest, Aburish friend Eric Vanner. Take a look back at the case in our Dateline Crime Capsule. It's inspiring. And then when you see the photos. Really? Goodness, he swore he didn't hurt her. Get started today at UMG Dot Edu Slash podcast. She answered the door and I said, we got a hit. Your heart goes like crazy. And you should never have to go through that and nobody should ever have to go through that. 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. 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. Did they give you a script to read or anything like that? Yeah, you got the guy. It was a really horrible day because. I showed her a picture and she said, oh, my God. He'd been on the job barely two months. What could happen to this community if you did not find somebody quickly? After all, many convicted murderers have got much less time, have had a chance to be released. It didn't seem to register because that was her old friend, her gentle confidante, her housemate, that man. And I was driving about as fast as I could. But what this job has taught me time and time again is people are not always who you think they are. Provide false information to a pawn broker. I was dumbfounded. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. The answer? Well, in my recollection, it's been several years. And then at the end of the call, it's like a light bulb went on in his head with you. It was four years since the attack on Amber Smith. Bryce Bailey, one of Ember's old housemates. Those overwhelming DNA results were wrong. And every time there was a violent sexual assault here in town, I was certain it was my guy until it wasn't. It was never our guy ever. No match? Twenty fifteen. When bad choices become a twisted tale of deadly obsession A podcast from Datelines Josh Mankiewicz. I woke up the next day to a voicemail from the detective explaining what had happened to Amber. Bryce joined Baker McKenzie's IP Practice Group following his graduation from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2020. I'm Trymaine Lee, host of Into America, a podcast from MSNBC. And then when I saw my face, I was like, Who am I? Yeah, we have sex, I didn't hurt you, we had sex, we had sex, that Rossborough Park, Rossborough Park, remember, that was the place Amber had been drinking with a different friend. And new crimes were demanding attention. Apr 1998 - Apr 20068 years 1 month. So in my mind, a case of this gravity, we'll get an answer within days if we have the offender in CODIS, CODIS, the national DNA database that houses DNA profiles of people who have been arrested for or convicted of felonies. Goodness, we thought it possibly could have been Eric, the person she was with the night before. 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. I still couldn't believe it. And I went to the home and I looked under the door to figure out what the vantage point was that Stephon had claimed he had. Frustrating. Unseen by the party crowd, a rookie cop named Dane Stratton prowled the streets around the Little City graveyard shift. A stew of emotions overlaid with confusion. That one took a while. The last person Amber remembered being with, her friend Eric Bana, Gunnis Detective Seymour got a warrant, tracked his name and address. That was my sister, my best friend. She had suffered from a broken jaw. Officially, it wasn't even a case anymore, the Amber Smith investigation was closed two years after the attack. I'm Lester Holt. I just sobbed and I just remember, like looking at the jury and like why, like I was angry and understand I cannot begin. Latest on Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders wide receiver Bryce Bailey including news, stats, videos, highlights and more on ESPN The Drew Peterson began in 2001 but ended up lasting more than a decade. And should he be able to walk around in our community that it's just a matter of time before he goes off again? Darkness. I don't know. I was horrible. Yes, she'd need to find out a lot more about Simon. Oh my God, Amber, I, I, I don't know what to say. On February 12, 2010, shots rang out at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She's naked, she's bound, there's just red all over her face. And this wound is never going to heal. We're not his. 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