She Pretended To Be An Innocent Witness Until Detectives Exposed The Setup

In a small-town interrogation room, a 21-year-old woman named Alexandra—called Allie by the detectives—is being questioned about a murder that happened in her front yard. She claims she was just trying to hang out with a friend named Colton. She says he pulled up, got out of his truck, and was immediately attacked. She says she heard gunshots, saw "more than six people" in her yard, and ran inside. She insists she has no idea who those people were or why they came to her house. But the detectives aren't buying it. Over the course of the interview, they methodically peel away her story, revealing that she was far from an innocent bystander.

The story that falls apart

Alexandra’s initial account is a classic witness statement full of confusion and fear. She tells detectives that Colton was coming over to hang out, that she gave him her address, and that she was on the phone with him when he arrived. She describes seeing a fight break out, hearing shots, and then hiding inside. She volunteers that she thinks it might have been a robbery gone wrong, maybe over marijuana. The detectives let her talk, but they are already circling a contradiction: if this was a random robbery, why did the attackers pick her house? "Those people were not randomly there," one detective tells her. "They did not pick that address randomly."