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>> danielle, danielle, danielle, stop right now. >> yep. >> shhh. >> danielle, if you could go back and fix anything in your life, would you? >> yes. >> where is this house located? >> it's in flint. >> do you know what street it's on? >> oklahoma. >> the incident began at a house on oklahoma avenue in flint, michigan.

a 19-year-old waitress, danielle taylor, went to visit a group of friends she hadn't known for long. within days, the friends were behind bars facing charges including kidnapping and assault. the friends claim they were making a movie that night and danielle was acting in it. she said she knew nothing and that she believed she was going to die. when the film was eventually made public, many people in flint were shocked and asked themselves how their young people could possibly have thought this was a game. >> it's hard to blame anybody for what happened that night. you know, blame the town of flint for being so boring that there's nothing to do that these kids have to do these kinds of stuff to entertain themselves. >> when general motors closed most of its factories, it had a big impact on flint. jobs are scarce, and it has one of the highest crime rates in the u.s.

>> jimmy. hey, what are you doing? >> jimmy carwile and derek faxlanger are two of the defendants. they both have grown up in flint. >> do you still want to hang out and whatnot? yeah, i know. average day. it's friday. still nothing to do. ♪ >> my mother wanted me to stop going over towards oklahoma because she knew there were bad elements there that could possibly get me into trouble, and it turns out mom's always right. i got ahold of jimmy and decided let's go out and hang out together tonight and party. so we got together about 6:00.

ended up going back to the house. and after we got back there, we sat around, drank, watched some movies. danielle was there. christina, me, john, jimmy were there. >> at 11:00 p.m. the mood suddenly changed when travis reached for a camera. what you're about to see is from the unedited tape shot that night picked over for clues ever since it reveals an apparently terrifying ordeal. but is it all that it seems? among the many twists and half truths in this case lies one central mystery, was danielle taylor a willing participant? >> say hello. >> hi. >> okay. i have a question for you, you just said hi. >> uh-huh. >> but if you had one thing to say, if this was your last day on earth, what would it be?

[ inaudible ] >> take a drink. >> i don't know. >> hey, can you do one more favor, say, ready, set, go. >> no. >> all right, then i'll say it. ready, set -- jimmy. >> do you want me to go? >> put them behind your back. >> how are you doing? i take it it's been better, huh? just think, you're better now than you're going to be in half an hour, that's for sure. you can move all you want. you can scream even if you'd like. if you'd like, i'll help. somebody help. >> travis is really outspoken, not afraid to state his opinion at all.

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danielle is tied up by john cockerill and jimmy faxlinger, but the effectiveness of the

binding will later be called into question. how serious about the kidnapping were they? >> we're going to be called heroes. >> get around here. hey, derek, you're an accomplice, why don't you say hi? [ inaudible ] >> what do you got to say? >> all i have to say is, to be able to know pain is to accept death. >> and the thing is she's kicking like a little bitch. >> do you accept death? do you know pain? do you know what pain is? >> hey, derek, give me a smile. >> what really makes me tick is getting under people's skin, making them aggravated and make them think about what their beliefs are and maybe that they are wrong. >> if you scream and you fight we put a gag in your mouth and throw you in the trunk.

>> no. >> if you relax and accept death and what's coming to you and take it like a real woman would, then you just accept fate and realize what's going to happen and stop fighting. >> don't struggle. >> don't struggle. she's watched many of these. >> this is psycho. >> really? >> you're the one that wanted to hang out over here. >> yeah, but i never realized you guys were psycho. >> hey, realized just in time. this is your film debut. >> this is great, man. >> i'm feeling granny, man. >> i'm a fun-loving guy. you know, i always try to get everybody to laugh, comfort people when they are sad. we're not bad people. we're not violent people. we're just bored, drunken kids. you know, we're just out looking for fun. >> any movement that you even so much as sneeze for a half an

hour, i'll slit your throat. >> well, i want to be comfortable so i'm -- >> since everybody finally realizes you're behind this plot instead of just getting the girls over here, why don't you say a little something into the camera. >> a little something into the camera. >> that's my girl. >> me and christina never really got along and i don't like to talk about it that much because a lot of this has to do with it's all her fault. i believe that the reason this happened is because of jealousy. >> for a second i thought somebody was at the door. keep the dog in there. >> four of the friends leave the house and put danielle in the

back of a car. christina lumm is driving. derek faxlinger stays behind. danielle is taken to the woods half an hour outside of town. >> every demon, every ghost in your past, everything you want to say, i'm sure we'll all be dead or in prison but you might as well say them right now. >> travis, he's the strong one. he never breaks down. and nothing could ever hurt travis. and that's what a lot of girls think because he's just so big and macho and that's what i thought about him. he just had that image where you couldn't ruin his image. he had to be that strong person and that's how he was. >> last girl, she said nothing in this car ride. you know why? she never made it out of the house. she was in the trunk on this ride. >> in this section of the tape danielle's apparent terror and

the use of a knife will become crucial evidence for the prosecution. >> no matter what anybody else says, i have a million people that [ bleep ] me. you can't let it bother you. all right. you have, i don't know, a countdown. you have 15 seconds to say whatever you want to say. >> as they approach the woods, travis payea tells danielle to say good-bye to her family. >> mom, everybody, i love you. i'm sorry for everything. as to you guys i really don't have much to say to you guys because i can't say nothing. >> why can't you say anything? is your life good? >> well, it was. >> did you think that before you came over? >> yeah.

>> shhh. >> within days, the film is in the hands of the police and the five friends are all in custody. >> ow. >> i woke up to probably seven state troopers in riot gear swarming up the stairs into my bedroom and shotguns in the face. they took me and they ripped me out of my bed. threw me around, handcuffed me on the floor. picked me up. tossed me down the stairs and then all of a sudden we're on the news being seen as serial killers. i felt like jeffrey dahmer. walking around in a pair of oranges, you know, just overkill. way overkill. >> people versus carwile, number 0675, cockerell number 0674. >> now the defendants have to face danielle taylor at a

pretrial hearing in court. if convicted of kidnapping, they face a minimum of nine years and a maximum of life in jail. >> date and time set for preliminary examination, prosecution ready to proceed? >> yes, your honor. >> call danielle taylor. >> two questions lie at the heart of the case. did danielle know she was acting in a movie and was she taken from the house to the woods against her will? >> do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give in the cause now pending is the truth so help you god? >> i do. taylor. >> spell your last name for the court reporter. >> t-a-y-l-o-r. >> your full name. >> danielle nicole taylor. >> do you recall whose home you were at in the evening hours of march 6th? >> travis payea's. >> can you speak up. >> travis payea's. >> and do you remember who else

was present on the evening hours of march 6th? >> yes, i do. christina lumm, jim carwile, derek faxlinger, travis and jon cockerell. at approximately 11:00 p.m. we were just hanging out, having fun, you know, drank a little bit and supposed to just be a little get-together. >> quite frankly, it was one of the most repulsive, sadistic things i've ever seen in 24 years. >> within two months all the defendants have been released on bail until their case is resolved. but the prospect of life imprisonment hangs over them. >> abc 12's michael rosenfield spent the day in pierre county district court. he joins us for the story. michael. >> angie, this is the first time we have heard the victim in the case, 19-year-old danielle tyler. >> the media pounces when the tape is released by one of the

defense lawyers. >> it was all a prank. >> this is not the only time she hung out there. >> it was demented if you think about it. >> the videotape shows four individuals who are extremely mentally traumatizing another individual. >> local journalist jim smith has been following the case from the start. >> this kidnapping is one of the strangest things i've ever covered. for me this is in the top four or five anyway of all the cases that i've covered in 20 years. so you had such diverse opinions on both sides of this case. you had people who thought it was nothing and you had people who thought it was extremely serious. the community was totally split over whether these kids were the most evil thing that ever happened or they were just kids that pulled a prank. >> he said that they were going to bury me alive, they were going to slit my throat, and they were going to leave me there and that i was going to

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well, when i first saw the tape, i was taken aback. i mean i get the sense right out of the chute the girl was legitimately scared, and i didn't think she was faking. and i had to watch at it few times for it to really sink in. >> danielle absolutely knew what was going to take place that night. she was over at their house the night before. they had sat around and talked about having done this before and doing it the next night. >> i walked into the house, and they had the camera on. travis asked me to speak to the camera. out of the corner of my eye, i had seen something, and i moved to the other side of the room. >> jimmy. >> they started to tackle me. they wrestled with me until they got me to the ground. i was fighting with them, trying to get away. i didn't manage to get away. one of them tied my feet together first.

i was still fighting. and then they managed to get one hand tied. they flipped me over, and then they tied my other hand behind my back. at one point travis said not to fight, scream, kick or anything, or i will die. >> and were you participating in some type of a play or a movie at this point? >> not that i know of. i did not believe that i was. >> we told her in advance anyway. she knew about this four or five days in advance. told her that, you know, we're going to kidnap her, take her to a hole and we had nothing written down. everything was ad-libbed. we told her we were going to get her one night so be prepared. >> you guys are psycho. >> really? >> you're the one that wanted to hang out over here. >> yeah, well, i never realized

you guys are psycho. >> you realized just in time. this is your film debut. john, you watch her for just one second, all right. >> they all started talking amongst themselves. and i do believe it was john who blindfolded me. >> and after you were blindfolded, do you remember any other statements? >> that still if i kicked or screamed or fought, that i would not make it out of the house alive. >> do you remember who said that? >> travis did. >> defense lawyers focus on the detail of the tape to make their case. they claim danielle's announcement that her hands were untied shows that she was joining in with the film. >> i don't think you're about to rope me. >> they had given her some specific threats at that point in time telling her she would be harmed if she attempted to get away.

i think she's trying to make them understand, i'm not going to escape. >> there's a part where she reaches up and scratches her nose and puts her back behind her back. unless she's triple jointed she could never do that. it wasn't like they jumped on the fact that her hands were free. she put her hand back behind her back and they continued filming. >> danielle -- jimmy. >> right before she gets in the car and scratches her nose, we're again in a situation where they give her a clear choice. we'll do this the hard way or easy way. i think at that point in time too she sort of tried to placate them and play along probably thinking at some point in time she'll make a shot at getting away. >> i can't believe that she was scared or anything like that or thought we was going to kill her with a knife that was taped. >> the defense focuses on the fact that the knife blade was covered with tape. >> i mean, i'm looking at the knife right there and you can see there's something around the end it but it's very thin.

i don't know how that would disguise the end of a knife. now, see, she's moving her head and he's got that knife right in front of her face. >> if she would have said stop, we would have stopped. she never said stop. or don't do this to me. if she would have, we would have done it. she never said stop. we never thought honestly she was frightened. we never thought she might have thought her life was in danger or else we would have stopped. >> you can't let me bother you. nothing can get in your way of you and what you want to do unless you let it. >> it's my life right now. >> she's a darn good actress if she's acting there. i think she's clearly confused. i think at that point she's got some questions about what's happening. i don't think she -- she has no idea what they are planning, and i think that sort of summarizes the case. you got half the people that think it's a joke and the other half who is thinking like she is

that she's terrified. here's this knife that she can't see, and he's touching her with it. >> jimmy carwile out on bail having served two months is living back home with his father. >> i'll go down fighting, because i want my name cleared. it's scary. i don't know what's going to go on. i don't know if i'm going to walk out of the courtroom on the last day, or if i'm going to be handcuffed and sent to jackson prison, you know. my whole life is riding on 35 minutes of a drunken movie. >> this whole incident has flipped my life upsidedown kind of. the only thing on any of our minds that i was aware of was, hey, let's get together and watch some movies and party. and that's pretty much what i did and found out all this other stuff kind of happened around me.

truthfully, at some points i do think that she looked scared and that might come with maybe she was acting. i don't know. i really couldn't comment on what really went on. i wasn't around it. >> it took two days for danielle to go to the police. and the way in which the tape reached them was to raise questions about her state of mind after the filming. the defense suggests perhaps she was not so afraid of her attackers after all. >> the fact that she wasn't afraid to go over there, she wasn't -- you know, she allegedly was afraid for her life from these people that had threatened to kill her and she really believed it was true, but yet the next day or two days later she goes over there on her own volition to steal the tape. >> two days after the incident, danielle went back to oklahoma avenue to retrieve the tape.

defense lawyers claim this proves she was a consenting participant in the film and that her motive for going to the police was not fear, it was romantic revenge. they questioned why she would ask jimmy carwile to drive her back to the house if she had ever been truly afraid for her life. >> she wanted somebody to come pick her up that night when we all watched the film together. so i drove and i picked her up and she rode with me from here in davison out to the east side of flint. >> you indicated to trooper rogers that you wanted to get the tape. >> yes. >> is that correct? >> yes. >> why did you want to get the tape? >> because if they found out that i had gone to the police, they could destroy it. if i acted like i was friends with them and went over and watched the tape, they wouldn't believe that i would get the tape or take this to court. i do believe that they didn't

know that i was that upset about it. at first it was just talking, hanging out. i asked to watch the tape. we didn't sit down and all watch the tape together, but i ended up watching pieces of the tape. i just left it in there for a little while, and then everybody had gone out of the room, nobody was anywhere to be seen, so i took the tape out and switched it with a different tape. >> we never noticed that the tape was gone. it was nothing of our concern anyways because we didn't know that she was planning anything like that. we didn't know she was actually terrified. if she's that terrified why did she ride alone with me in the car and why did she put herself in danger to come back to us? >> if danielle was in on it, why would she report her friends to the police? the defendants claim the clue to danielle's true motivation lies in the tape itself.

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what was it about travis that made you start hanging around? >> i thought he was a nice guy. >> i am a nice guy. i've been trying to be nice through this whole thing. >> she had a crush on travis. it was plain to see. easy to see that she had a crush on travis. >> did he have a crush on her? >> no, no. >> travis had a variety of girls, i guess. i don't know. girls kind of flocked to him. it's kind of nice but i think he was seeing sarah or christina and i think danielle might have had a crush on him and my friend jessica too. >> i don't know what it was to tell you the truth. it was his eyes. it was his eyes. i can't -- i really can't explain why i was attracted to him when i was. it's just something that you kind of fall into. >> at the time of the incident, travis was living with christina lumm but danielle and sarah both had their eye on him.

>> christina and danielle, they were competitive against each other because they both had a crush on travis so they were competitive, a lot of tension in the air between them two. they didn't care for each other. >> the day after the alleged kidnapping, danielle called oklahoma avenue and spoke to christina and then to travis. she had an odd question to ask. >> let me ask you this, miss taylor, you, in fact, contacted certain individuals at that home after this incident took place. >> yes, i did. >> you mentioned my client christina lumm who was your friend in high school, correct? >> not friend. >> you spoke to her about the availability of mr. payea? >> yes. >> a potential relationship with travis? is that what available means? >> in a sense, yes. >> there were a lot of girls that were interested with travis but none of them had a chance. they thought they did. but they didn't. they just tried to get them to like him, tried to do anything. they tried too hard.

obviously he didn't like that. so -- >> you said you talked to travis? >> yes. i did. >> was that also by phone? >> yes. >> what did you talk to him about? >> why he did it. >> what did he tell you? >> he said you know how much power we had over you when we did that. it was basically a power trip and it's a rush. >> people in flint had to ask, did their city have so little to offer that a group of friends were driven to entertain themselves this way? >> i asked flint, many grievances with this city. a cesspool and filth and disgust, no jobs, nothing to look forward to. nobody wants to be the person 20 years from now still stuck in this nothingness.

>> the week before the night that i stopped over there, they went through another skit with a different girl, went through this struggle scene and this and that with her. like, you know, i like movies but i don't know if i'm into that. so i kind of took off. >> the woman derek saw it happen to is sarah. the recollections of the events of that night differ. >> one day i just walked into travis' room and they just started wrestling with me and throwing me on the ground and just saying, you know, we're going kidnap you and blah, blah, blah. i'm like okay, guys, really, i'm not in the mood today. this isn't funny. i don't want to do it. and they kept on doing it more and i'm like, okay, just stop. >> the reaction we got out of sarah would have been awesome to get on tape because that was

better than any acting, that was oscar-winning material right there. >> i was not scared. >> she absolutely flipped out. she -- we stopped, she was so scared we stopped. we did it for like three minutes and stopped because we were afraid she was is going have a heart attack, go into convulsions or seizures. she absolutely flipped so we stopped. >> it was muddy when they did it to me. so they did not stick me in the hole. i remember saying and i feel horrible for even saying this, i remember they got the handcuffs out -- they didn't have handcuffs and the rope out and i was like, why didn't you guys videotape that? you could have made so much money off that. two weeks later my friend get arrested for kidnapping. >> apparently sarah wasn't the only person subjected to this treatment. jimmy suggest they do this to one of their own group, the defendant, christina lumm. were sarah and christina told in

advance? again, the stories conflict. >> they told me they were going to do it before they did it. i remember where we were sitting when they said it. >> sarah wasn't told beforehand. i don't know if christina was or not. i wasn't there for that. >> so why didn't you tell danielle? >> because she didn't know us as long as the other girls did. she didn't know us as long and as well. and we didn't want to scare her or flip her out and, you know, we wanted to film, so we wanted her permission for that too. >> if the defendants are claiming that she knew that they were going to film her and do something, but she didn't know what, you still have the problem in this case in a kidnapping crime that if you're going to move somebody, abduct them against their will, then that is the crime. if it starts off that, hey, we're just going film you doing something and then they end up gagging her or binding her and threatening her, that goes beyond what they originally told her.

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your money needs an ally. six months after the incident, the strain is taking its toll on friendships within the group. >> we have let you breathe. >> i have lots of hostility built up from all of this. i mean, travis -- all i want to say, i can trust him as far as i can throw him and that's not too far, but, you know, i couldn't say that. i don't know. i have different convictions about different people's roles and what happened that night and how i got in trouble that kind of get to me still and personal reasons on how they treat different girls that i'm friends with.

>> in august 2002, the defendants claim it was a preplanned movie is seriously undermined. christina lumm agrees to a plea bargain with the prosecution. she claims that no one told danielle what was going to happen that night. the defense now focuses on the final scene at the grave site. >> danielle, danielle, danielle, stop right now. you're talking. you're talking. you're talking. >> christina agrees to testify that danielle was not told about the prank in advance. she pleads guilty to reduced charges of attempted felonious

assault and is given a six-month sentence, which is suspended pending the successful completion of probation. >> christina got upset. so i don't know. i've heard lots of rumors. really didn't have much involvement in what went on or really know what went on. was just kind of the unlucky eyewitness. >> christina also confirms that derek passed out on the couch early on. his charges are reduced, and he receives a $200 fine. >> my concept of friendship has kind of changed. i start hanging out with friends that i probably should have been hanging out with all along. i still hang out with jimmy once in a while, but we're both working, and we've been friends for a long time, and we can't turn our back on each other even if we have different views of what happened that night.

>> the other defendants cases remain open. jimmy carwile explains the charges he faces. >> felonious assault without intent to harm, that carries up to four years. there's conspiracy to felonious assault without intent to harm. that carries up to four years. there's kidnapping. that carries 25 years, and then there's conspiracy to kidnapping which carries 25 years, so altogether i'm facing 58. >> now that christina has agreed to testify for the prosecution, the closing moments of the tape as danielle is carried into the woods are even more critical for the defense. >> travis carried me down to the boat. i knew i was outside. it was cold. i could feel -- well, i knew we were stepping on snow but that's all i knew. >> shhh.

>> you guys sit her down in there. >> set her down face up. >> jimmy and john placed me in the hole. they said it was my grave. i was going to be buried alive. >> danielle, danielle, danielle, stop right now. >> i didn't do anything. >> you're talking. you're talking. you're talking. they are going to sit you down. as soon as you say one word, i promise you, christ, you won't say another. we're giving you the chance for what it's worth, enjoy what you have left. i'm going to let you know what's going on right now. >> john was whispering in my ear, telling me step by step what they were going to do. he said that they were going to bury me alive, they were going to slit my throat, and they were going to leave me there. >> what did you think at that point? >> that i was going to die.

>> danielle, i want to ask you one last time while we still got time, if you could go back and fix anything in your life, would you? >> yes. >> you honestly would. >> yes. >> i'm not sure who said they wanted me to see this, they wanted me to look at where i was at. someone took my blindfold off. >> do you know who? >> i'm not positive right now. >> when your blindfold was removed, what did you see? >> saw that i was sitting in a grave. travis was talking to them. they were still recording. christina had the camera then. >> do you really hate me, danielle? >> i don't hate anybody. >> even though i was a bitch to you, you don't hate me? >> no. >> thanks. >> well, what do you say, guys? >> i think it's time.

>> think it's time? >> yeah. >> all right. i get the honors, right? >> yeah. >> travis said that it was his kill. it was his turn to do it. then he managed to get over the hole and act like he was slicing my throat. >> where was the blindfold? >> it was on my throat still. >> and what did he do with the knife? >> he put it across my throat in a slicing motion. >> what did you feel? >> i felt the blade, but it wasn't like touching my neck really hard. >> congratulations. you're dead. welcome to the after-life. >> she's clearly acting because we know her throat wasn't slit. we know she's not dead. but she pretended. she acted. she went along with the play as she was doing all along. >> if a person thinks they're having their throat slit, do they really know what it feels like? number one.

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we only have 38 seconds left. here, you take the camera. >> john. >> oh. >> you want to do the roll? >> let's get the cast. >> we got trav. >> what, you started with me. i'm blushing. i appreciate that.

>> killer number one. >> thank you. i'll be here all week. >> christina, the driver. jimmy, he's the fat man. >> the fat man. >> the victim. >> the victim. >> i can't remember her name. >> danielle. >> danielle. >> and the director, me. >> good job. >> who wrote it? who wrote it? >> we did. you did, mostly. >> oh, yeah. >> thank you to the crew. let's get her out. >> i survived, and i'm freezing and my arms hurt. >> if you move any more, i'm using a blade to do this. >> at the end of the tape there's just a brief flash where she's crying and seems very relieved and happy, and i think that anybody who thought or would do this mind game and it's a very significant mind game would be relieved. >> with the reaction you would expect to be one of anger, one of like, you know, with a lot of foul language i can't believe you guys did this to me.

this was a very cruel, cruel and inhumane joke to play on a person. you know, you wouldn't expect to be like, oh -- >> she's still with these people. she's not free of them. so, you know, she's probably -- anybody would be careful not to do something that would further antagonize these folks. >> i can't remember her name. >> danielle. >> danielle. >> because he doesn't know her name, i think that that enhances the prosecutor's case that she's not part of the act. she doesn't get up and laugh and take a bow herself. she doesn't get her credits, where credit would be due if she was acting. >> i think these five kids know the difference between right and wrong. i think the problem was that in their kind of strange group dynamics, this to them wasn't wrong. this was a joke. this was some kind of prank. and they never equated it with the fact that the victim didn't have any clue what was going to happen to her.

and so to them for some reason they didn't recognize that as wrong. >> i think they took it too far mentally. they shouldn't have maybe tore a person down that much for their own enjoyment. i think that's wrong. >> if you could say something to danielle right now, what would it be? >> i'm sorry if i caused you any pain. we didn't plan to cause you any pain. i don't know what went on, what's going on in your head, but we meant no harm, meant no harm, and i'm sorry if we did harm you but -- ♪

>> i want this to be over with. i don't want to be recognized for anything. i just want to go on living my life. and not have people look down at me because, oh, you're that kidnapper guy or anything like that i just want to live my life back to normal before all of this. i just want to be who i was.

>> in 2003, jimmy carwile, travis payea and jonathon cockerill all plead no contest to charges of kidnapping and assault. jimmy carwile is sentenced to four months. travis payea and jonathon cockerill each get eight months. all three have their sentences suspended, pending the successful completion of probation at which point the kidnapping charges will be removed from their records.

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