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that she's not coming home? this is not what was supposed to happen. andrea canning (voiceover): the note was under her blanket. i saw it sticking out, and i grabbed it. andrea canning (voiceover): their daughter was a runaway. veronica kasprzak: i'm frantic because i didn't know how to find her. andrea canning (voiceover): they called police, they searched, and then a jogger found a red shoe and a pool of blood. dennis murphy: here, they are-- three people at the door. i just, started sobbing. andrea canning (voiceover): they had found her daughter, but not the boy she was with. it was as if he'd never existed. we couldn't find anything about lj. andrea canning (voiceover): months went by, still no trace of lj, and then, a rookie took the case. how'd you feel about it, that this was now going to be your case? i didn't know if i was capable of doing this. i cried for two hours. andrea canning (voiceover): a teen found dead-- we still don't have an answer. andrea canning (voiceover): --a mysterious missing

suspect, and her's to solve. i get the feeling, jaclyn, you're learning how to become a detective as you go. this is the case that taught me. you have no surefire way to keep your children safe. hello, and welcome to "dateline." social worker veronica kasprzak made one of her toughest cases deeply personal, when she decided to adopt annie. over the years, annie thrived, but it turned out, she was keeping a secret that was only discovered after her disappearance. could a fake pregnancy really have been the motive for an all-too-real murder, or had annie run into the wrong crowd? here's dennis murphy with, "the girl with the red shoes." dennis murphy (voiceover): veronica kasprzak-bratcher is a determined woman.

dennis murphy: did someone ever say "you can't save them all;" to you? veronica kasprzak: my mother is probably the one that would say-- and still says that, but yeah, i heard that a lot. dennis murphy (voiceover): she rarely listened, though. the desire to do good, to save a child was too strong. though, sometimes, in the quiet hours, she wonders, if she did the right thing? veronica kasprzak: if i wouldn't have picked that house, if i would have not taken a shower, if i would have done something else, she wouldn't have been in that situation. dennis murphy (voiceover): of course, no one could have known then, that it would end up like this. her daughter was annie grace kasprzak. though, when veronica first met annie, she wasn't a kasprzak at all. she wasn't even her daughter. she was a client, just seven years old with a rough childhood. veronica kasprzak: she'd been through some abuse, and she had a hard time trusting other people.

dennis murphy (voiceover): back in 2005, veronica was a caseworker for utah's division of children and family services. her job was to find homes for kids who no longer had one. annie was one of those kids. veronica kasprzak: annie has kind of a larger than life personality. whatever annie does, she never did small. if there was something she liked, she loved it and she was huge. if there was something she didn't like, it was big, and there was no question about it. drama came with it, huh? oh, yes. oh, yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): veronica tried for years to find annie a stable home, but after annie had been flung back to the state nine times, veronica, young, naive, and stubborn, made a surprising decision-- to adopt annie. dennis murphy: did your superiors tell you, we don't do that, veronica? oh, yes. dennis murphy: don't cross that line. uh-huh. you have a professional relationship with this child, but don't bring her into your home. veronica kasprzak: well, and that was very true because at the time, i also happened to be about six months pregnant. so i'm sure the thought was, ok, crazy pregnant lady, she

doesn't know what she's doing, but it was, very much, "are you sure?" "you can't save everybody." dennis murphy (voiceover): but veronica was determined to try. she and her then husband dennis adopted 10-year-old annie in january 2007. annie, who had bounced around from house to house, finally had a home, parents, and brothers who adored her. veronica kasprzak: she was the immediate cool, big sister. she liked being the oldest, being in charge, and teaching them all of this cool stuff. dennis murphy (voiceover): she was wanted, happy, making memories-- [inaudible excitement] opening gifts on christmas morning, her first trip to the beach. not that everything was perfect, mind you. veronica kasprzak: there was still definitely, a i'm going to test you. as much as you say you love me and you're keeping me, i'm going to make-- i don't believe you. dennis murphy: how would she challenge you, for instance? just the quintessential, i'm not going to do what you say. i'm going to do whatever i want. so there's a psychological tussle going on there. uh-huh.

[inaudible] just have him drive me everywhere. dennis murphy (voiceover): which only intensified when annie entered her teen years. veronica kasprzak: she was about as boy crazy as i could imagine. she always had a boy that she liked or that liked her, and it was never a here, let me see. it's, oh, i'm so in love with you, this is forever, i couldn't imagine anybody being more amazing. she was very, all in. dennis murphy (voiceover): but annie was also into her education and her future. she wanted to be a therapist, just like veronica. she even wanted her new family to adopt more kids. veronica kasprzak: well, what about this other girl, mom? she's there, and she's really having a hard time. i think we should bring her home. it was-- she was really becoming your daughter, in a way. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): veronica eventually divorced and remarried. she and her new husband james settled here in riverton, utah, a quiet suburb of salt lake city. annie had james wrapped around her finger. james bratcher: i took her with me to help me pick out her mother's valentine's day gift,

and there was a shoe store right across the way. she had a way with me. she could talk me into just about anything. and one of them was her favorite shoes that she found, and she was so excited about them, and they were a red pair of shoes. dennis murphy (voiceover): just a few weeks later, march 10, 2012, annie, now 15, was watching her brothers while veronica and james went out for dinner. veronica kasprzak: and then, when we came home, everything seemed the same. i mean, annie had changed from running around the house in shorts to jeans, and i just kind of chalked that up to ok, she's gotten cold. and i had a massive headache i couldn't get rid of, so i went to take a shower, and annie had gone downstairs to a room to listen to music. and we just figured it was another saturday. dennis murphy (voiceover): but it wasn't. when veronica finished her shower, annie was gone. james searched her bedroom. james bratcher: the note was tucked underneath her blanket. and i grabbed it, and it just said, "i'm sorry, mom, that i haven't been totally honest with you." dennis murphy (voiceover): annie, it turned out, was keeping a secret.

in the note, she wrote, "i lied to my friends. i told them i was p." p-- veronica and james knew that stood for the word no teenager's parents want to hear-- pregnant. just a few months earlier, they had learned that annie had had sex for the first time. veronica kasprzak: she'd had sex. so to annie, she had assumed that, well, because we've had sex, i could be pregnant or i am pregnant. dennis murphy (voiceover): but the pregnancy test was negative, and annie was now on birth control. why would she lie about being p? even more alarming was where annie said she was going. "by the time you read this note, i'll be on my way to california. please, don't try and look for me because i don't want to be found." the first thing we did was we called the police, and then the second person i called was chris. dennis murphy (voiceover): 14-year-old chris bagshaw, annie had brought him over to the house a few times. veronica kasprzak: he was kind of quiet. i kind of took it as the all right, i'm here with my girlfriend's parents, and i want to make sure they don't kill me.

was in and out of the picture for her, as the boyfriend of the moment? mm-hmm. his stock would rise and fall. veronica kasprzak: yep. she was crazy about him. dennis murphy (voiceover): chris told veronica, he didn't know where annie was, but he did have some potentially significant information. chris said annie told him, she was running away with a guy named lj. veronica kasprzak: we were shocked because, i mean, we didn't know all of her friends because they changed a lot, depending on who she was hanging out with at the moment, but it wasn't familiar at all. dennis murphy (voiceover): a police officer came and took a report. james, meanwhile, called up the gps function on annie's cell phone. james bratcher: it put her around or about, the golf course out in riverton, within a mile of that, which is around the bridge area. dennis murphy (voiceover): the bridge at the jordan river, just a couple of miles from their home. a place joggers and horseback riders frequent during the day and young lovers at night. james, veronica, and the officer watched as annie's phone pinged across the computer

screen in real time. you're watching her move. yes. when it moved so fast, our immediate assumption was ok, she's getting in a car. so this is a hot pursuit now, looking for your girl. yep. dennis murphy (voiceover): and then, the signal just stopped. veronica drove to a walmart near where they tracked annie's phone. veronica kasprzak: and i have her picture on my cell phone, and i'm showing it to the people that are sitting at the front, the greeters, going, "have you seen this girl? are you collected, or are you a wreck while all this is going on? i am frantic. dennis murphy (voiceover): veronica went back home. she and james watched the front door, and they kept calling annie, but her phone went straight to voicemail. dennis murphy: in the best of worlds, she's out with some young boyfriend you may or may not know, off on a lark of some kind, but it'll come to an end and you'll get her back and regroup. yeah. our worst case scenario at that point is, ok, she's going to come home pregnant. dennis murphy (voiceover): worst case scenario, not even close. andrea canning (voiceover): coming up.

chad carpenter: he had told us that lj had driven by the house threatening chris. andrea canning (voiceover): and a jogger makes a grim discovery-- 911 operator: 911, what is the address of the emergency? jogger: i'm at the river bottom. there's some pools of blood. andrea canning (voiceover): --when "dateline" continues. wow, this charmin ultra soft smooth tear has wavy edges that tear so much better. i'm starting to get tearied away. designed with smooth tear edges, charmin ultra soft smooth tear has wavy perforations that tear so much better for a smooth more enjoyable go. plus it has more cushiony softness than ordinary squares. try charmin ultra soft smooth tear. voted #1 product of the year.

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spring was still officially days away, but in draper, utah, its promise was clear. morning dew on the brush, the crisp air, the sun rising over the wasatch mountains, it should have been a beautiful day, but for a jogger on the jordan river parkway that morning, it was anything but. sergeant chad carpenter was one of the first on the scene. chad carpenter: we called forensics out, and we did a presumptive test, which was able to tell us that it actually was human blood. dennis murphy (voiceover): human blood-- that changed things. chad carpenter: that made us think, ok, we might have a body in the water, so we called the highway patrol helicopter. dennis murphy (voiceover): the helicopter was in the air for just under an hour before it spotted something about a mile north of where the jogger saw the blood.

it was caught up in some branches. as the chopper got closer, it was clear. there was a body in the river. dennis murphy: sergeant, when the divers pulled the victim out, what were the injuries that they observed to her face/ she had a laceration here on her forehead. her face was very swollen, so we weren't able to tell to what extent the injuries were, and we couldn't even identify who she was. dennis murphy (voiceover): their jane doe, dressed in a red and white plaid shirt, looked to be about 20 years old. her features possibly asian, and obviously, she had been murdered. leading the investigation was a young detective named derek johnson. dennis murphy: tell me about him. right when he came in to the academy, he sat next to me and started teasing me. and the rest of the class time, we just harassed each other and laughed and giggled all day. dennis murphy (voiceover): jaclyn moore met derek at the police academy. she and derek hit it off immediately.

jaclyn moore: a detectives spot came open, and we both applied, and he got it. did you think, rats? jaclyn moore: i did. he got it, and i didn't. yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): now, derek had caught his first case, which was also the first homicide the small town of draper had seen in years. reporter: someone called police just after 10:00 this morning to report they had come across a gruesome scene. dennis murphy (voiceover): by the time veronica and james saw the reports, annie had been missing for nearly 20 hours. dennis murphy: in the information, that it's an asian woman in her 20s, i think was the initial report, that would seem to rule out annie, certainly. initially, we're thinking, no, that's not possible, there's no way. dennis murphy (voiceover): but then, a detail sergeant carpenter shared with salt lake city's nbc affiliate ksl tv. there was a shoe found at the crime scene, and there was one on the body. dennis murphy (voiceover): a red shoe, the same kind james had bought annie for valentine's day just weeks earlier. veronica and james tried to stay calm. veronica kasprzak: so we called the police, and we said, hey, our daughter's missing.

i think, logically, i was going, they're just going to rule it out. i just need them to rule it out. dennis murphy (voiceover): but they couldn't rule it out. veronica kasprzak: after i called the police, i called my parents to come and pick up our boys, and i just, started sobbing. dennis murphy (voiceover): police soon determined the 20-something asian victim was really 15-year-old annie kasprzak. she had been killed by blunt force trauma to the head. veronica and james had thought the rapid pinging of annie's phone meant she was driving away. now, there was no hope of her ever coming home. dennis murphy: so there's the very worst moment of your life at that point. here they are, three people at the door. they confirmed that it was annie. i think, we were in shock. we went into automatic-- what do you need from us? tell us what you want. you can have it. look at anything. dennis murphy (voiceover): veronica told investigators what she learned from annie's on again, off again boyfriend, chris bagshaw-- that annie had run away with a boy named lj.

police spoke to chris bagshaw and his father at their home. naturally, police also had to ask chris where he was. they went through the usual questions. and a red jacket. >> just blue jeans. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> blue chris wanted to help. he gave those nike's to investigators, as well as his clothes. he even gave a dna sample. and after his interview, chris's dad called up sergeant carpenter. chad carpenter: he had told us in this phone call, that lj had driven by the house,

was threatening chris. so here, more information that this lj is a very real and threatening person. yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): detectives also spoke to chris and annie's friend, spencer criddle. spencer said he was at the gym with his brother the night annie was killed. becaus before he left the interview, spencer shared one more thing with police. dennis murphy: you thought lj was your killer. we thought lj was involved. dennis murphy (voiceover): did boy crazy annie fall for a gang member? in a room, police found this poem

she had written to lj, and with it, for the first time, a name-- layton jendon, but police couldn't track him down. jaclyn wasn't working the case then, but she remembers crossing paths with spencer at the station. jaclyn moore: and he immediately tensed up, clenched his fists, his eyes got big, he couldn't take his eyes off of me, and i thought, this kid has done something wrong, and he thinks i'm coming to arrest him because i'm approaching him in uniform. did you share that with derek? jaclyn moore: yes. he said, we've received more information now, and we think we have another suspect. dennis murphy (voiceover): another suspect, a new name altogether, based on information from an eyewitness, who may have seen annie kasprzak the night she was killed and knew who killed her. andrea canning (voiceover): coming up, is this how annie was murdered? and is this the man who murdered her?

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dennis murphy (voiceover): and now, draper police were working hard to catch her killer. we're trying to actively locate suspects in this case, any witnesses, so that we can actually bring this case to a conclusion for the parents. dennis murphy (voiceover): and within a week of annie's murder, they found that witness. her name was joanna, and she'd been picked up on a fraud charge by neighboring west jordan pd. during her interview, she started telling detectives about a young girl she had seen a week prior. the cops thought some of what she said sounded eerily similar to annie's case, so they called draper pd. and detective derek johnson and his colleague came over to hear what joanna had to say. there, at the home where a man named daniel ferry, used to live. dennis murphy: danny ferry is a guy known to law enforcement-- yes. dennis murphy: --as maybe a drug dealer.

drug dealer. he was a member of a gang called vario loco town, and law enforcement has dealt with danny quite a few times-- yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): ferry had a long rap sheet. in fact, derek had served a search warrant on his home a year earlier. and now, here was joanna telling derek that she saw a girl who sounded a lot like annie at daniel ferry's home on the night annie was killed. joanna also said the girl showed up with someone police had been searching for, but couldn't find. lj, the guy annie had written that note to, the alleged gang member, the one chris bagshaw said annie had run away with. we had annie's entries that said lj. we had johanna telling us about lj. dennis murphy (voiceover): on that night, said johanna, lj and the girl disappeared into the garage. she assumed they were having sex. then, when they came out, she saw daniel approached the girl.

she said the girl was knocked unconscious. lj and another friend named vee tried to calm daniel down. and then, the three of them carried the girl out to the garage and changed her clothes. red. i don't even know. >> what parts. >> do you remember being red? >> pants and shoes. and the. >> pants and shoes. and the. >> s then, joanna said, daniel, lj, and vee wrapped the unconscious girl in a blue tarp, put her in a white suburban, and took off. and when they came back, hours later, she said daniel was covered in blood and the girl was not with him.

joanna's story rang true, leading derek johnson to believe the mystery girl was annie, and daniel ferry was her killer. now, the search team found the carpet in ferry's house had been ripped up and the walls were freshly painted. dennis murphy: so you got signs of a cover up. yeah, it's looking more and more like, this is actually true-- all this information that we're receiving. did you find blood-like splotches on the wall? we found indications that there would be blood on the wall. dennis murphy (voiceover): they swabbed those areas, and then went looking for daniel. they found him at an apartment complex, arrested him, and brought him in.

it was the detectives, thought, the typical bad guy response. they were sure, daniel knew something. they asked him about lj. and then, about annie. that was at your house at a dennis murphy: you showed him a picture of annie. yep. dennis murphy (voiceover): detectives thought daniel was lying, and they were done playing around. i. >> do want a lawyer. because there's. >> no. >> way is. >> way is.

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whom police could never find, but in the course of their investigation of ferry, detectives learned something interesting. dennis murphy: and you had another lj in that crowd, didn't you? - yeah. daniel ferry-- yeah. dennis murphy: --what was his nickname? uh, so he used to. one was joker and the other one was little joe. little joe? lj. - yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): maybe their witness was confused, or deliberately hiding the fact that ferry and lj were one in the same. either way, ferry seemed like their man, but the da wanted more evidence before filing charges. derek johnson and chad carpenter thought the blood samples taken from daniel ferry's home would push the case over the finish line. dennis murphy: and then, the blood work comes back and whoops. blood work came back and it was negative for blood. dennis murphy (voiceover): not only were the samples not annie's blood, it wasn't even blood at all. a major blow to the investigation. didn't mean he's not good for the crime. doesn't mean that he's not good for the crime. it just-- it led us to believe that ok,

it didn't happen here, at the ferry residence. so ferry might be good for this thing, but boy, you're just not getting there. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): the only bright spot-- daniel ferry wasn't getting out of jail. he was also being investigated for an unrelated kidnapping and assault case in a neighboring town. dennis murphy: so he's on ice while you guys can develop your theories about his involvement in this thing. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): they continued to investigate ferry. months went by. lead detective derek johnson was promoted to sergeant, which meant jaclyn moore's dream of making detective finally came true. maybe, a case of beware what you wish for. one of her first assignments was the annie kasprzak murder. dennis murphy: how did you feel about it, that this was now going to be your case? i cried for two hours. dennis murphy (voiceover): jaclyn decided she needed to start again from the beginning, following the chain of evidence that led her colleagues to daniel ferry. she thought she might link ferry to annie through his phone calls, but when she checked--

all of his cell phone records showed he was in the middle to northern part of salt lake county. he had never gone south close enough to where annie was killed, not even near her house. dennis murphy (voiceover): and she well knew, the physical evidence wasn't there, either. none of the dna came back saying annie was ever a friend or ever at his house. dennis murphy (voiceover): detectives had never found enough evidence to make a murder charge stick, and it turned out, there was an explanation. remember, while under suspicion for annie's murder, ferry was arrested for an unrelated kidnapping in a different town. the charge stuck, ferry eventually pleaded guilty, and was sent to prison. draper police came to believe it was this kidnapping that star witness joanna had recounted to them. she had seen a totally different crime, not annie's murder. what's more? it happened on the same night annie was killed. no way, daniel ferry could have committed both crimes. so now, rookie detective jaclyn moore

went back to the boxes and binders piled high on her desk. i felt lost. i decided, i needed to start from the beginning and see what information derek had when he first got the case. dennis murphy (voiceover): and so began the education of a detective. she started reading through pages and pages of annie's notes and journal entries. dennis murphy: who does annie turn out to be, the more you learn about her? she's very lost. she wants to be loved by anyone and everyone. dennis murphy (voiceover): and jaclyn saw that there was one person in particular annie wanted to be loved by-- chris bagshaw. his name was scribbled all over her journals. veronica remembered annie gushing about him. dennis murphy: she liked him. he was different. he had enough of the bad boy going on that he wasn't a goody two shoes, so she didn't feel like he looked down at her. dennis murphy (voiceover): annie's diaries revealed something else, too. she and chris had sex. dennis murphy (voiceover): chris was the boy annie had slept with just months before her death, after which, remember,

she lied about being pregnant. i am starting to think that she made up the pregnancy to keep chris around because he didn't want to be with her anymore. dennis murphy (voiceover): next, jaclyn pored over annie and chris's phone records from the night of the murder. not only was chris the last person annie spoke to, but the pattern of their calls spoke volumes. 30 seconds here, and then it hangs up. immediately, one of them calls the other back. sometimes, the call is ignored. sometimes, chris's phone is blocked. what do you think is going on? it looks like a fight. it looks, like, they're yelling at each other and hanging up on each other. dennis murphy (voiceover): chris had no criminal record, and no eyewitness put him at the scene. and there was still the mysterious lj, annie's reported boyfriend whom police could never find, not in any police database, not anywhere. that is, until jaclyn knocked on one more door. [knocking on door]

her close buddy and predecessor, derek johnson, was by her side when she went to interview annie's friend, jackson. he told them the same story that they'd been hearing all along-- annie telling friends she was pregnant, nothing new, but then they asked jackson, if he knew who lj was? his answer floored them. a stunning revelation. was lj, all along, just annie's nickname for chris bagshaw? andrea canning (voiceover): coming up-- 911 operator: maybe an officer involved shooting andrea canning (voiceover): --a death on the road and a body blow to jaclyn's case-- jaclyn moore: i lost any information that i needed on that case. andrea canning (voiceover): --when "dateline" continues. ooo! our car's value went up! maybe we should track all our cars' value on carvana? we need more trackers!

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while he was sitting in the driver's seat of his car. dennis murphy (voiceover): derek, wounded, tried to drive away, but lost control and crashed head on into a tree. he died at the scene. it was hard. yeah, it sucked. you have to give me a second. so derek, he-- he was a good guy, good cop, good friend. dennis murphy (voiceover): derek was just 32 years old, leaving behind his wife and his six-year-old son and his family at draper pd. chad carpenter: everybody talks about cop's cop, and the best cop you can have, and how he treated and served the community. derek was one of those guys. dennis murphy (voiceover): for jaclyn moore, the loss was twofold. jaclyn moore: he was starting to get some free time to come help me with the case and tell me more about what he did when he was on the case,

and then he was killed. i didn't have anyone else to ask. you lost your friend, your old competitive friend. i lost my friend, and i lost any information that i needed on that case. there was no one else. because he was kind of the institutional memory of this thing, wasn't he? yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): jaclyn had only herself to rely on, now. in the balance-- justice for annie, now dead for a year and a half. she strongly suspected chris bagshaw knew more than he was telling. jaclyn listened to chris's interviews again and again and noticed something interesting chris said about his shoes. on. >> my shoes. you swear. >> on the shoe is that. >> it was on my shoe laces? i'm

>> it was on my shoe laces? i'm not sure which shoe. spencer-- remember, jaclyn had seen him coming into the station in the days following annie's murder. she had a gut feeling back then, that he was hiding something, and detectives at the time asked for his phone. it was a message from chris-- "the cops might come back to your house. i need you to tell them that annie got a bloody nose, so i don't get blamed." lab results eventually did show annie's blood was on chris's shoes. detectives questioned him about it during a second interview, but then, his story began to change.

in fact, the lab found more than just those two spots of blood. they found several, but studying the case file, jaclyn noticed that the lab didn't test every spot to see if it belonged to annie. they also hadn't tested the bottom of chris's shoes. so what do you do? jaclyn moore: well, at that point, we went with a private lab to see if they could test the shoes further. it appeared, the bottom of the shoe, both shoes, were soaked in blood. dennis murphy (voiceover): it seemed, like, damning evidence, but after testing that blood further-- it came back with two males and two females. again, nothing you can take to the jury. right. dennis murphy (voiceover): six months passed and more dead ends. it had now been two years since annie's murder. jaclyn moore: i was starting to think, maybe we're not going to actually solve this case. dennis murphy (voiceover): but jaclyn was tenacious. she enlisted the help of a cell phone expert, a former homicide detective named sy ray.

sy ray: there are certain cases, like this case, when you hear the details and you understand what's going on and you see that the agency is having challenges, how do you not get involved? dennis murphy (voiceover): he reviewed 35,000 of chris bagshaw's calls and texts, and one call stood out-- an incoming call at 9:01 pm the night annie was killed. what really stood out is we see these 25 hand-offs. dennis murphy (voiceover): hand-offs-- the signal bouncing from tower to tower. sy ray: the signal strength had to be so similar within those four towers, and a very poor signal at that, that it would cause the handing off that we saw. was it because-- dennis murphy (voiceover): eventually, they found it-- the only spot in town that caused the strange pattern of pings. it was at the jordan river, the very spot where annie was killed. we feel very, very comfortable saying at 9:01 pm on march 10, the phone was within 100 meters of where we're standing. dennis murphy (voiceover): it turned out, of all the people who could have called chris that night, the one who did at precisely 9:01 pm was annie's mom veronica.

that was because of something annie had told veronica earlier that morning, something about chris. veronica kasprzak: he'd asked her, "what would you do if i asked you to run away with me?" run away. veronica kasprzak: and then, i told her, i said, you know if you're ever missing, he's the first person i'm calling. dennis murphy (voiceover): which she did, and without even realizing it, helped police place chris bagshaw at the scene of the crime, right around the time her daughter was killed. it was early morning october 16, 2014 when veronica got another life-changing call. andrea canning (voiceover): coming up-- jaclyn was on the line. she says, we're in colorado, and we're in the process of arresting chris. andrea canning (voiceover): --when "dateline" continues. (♪♪) ♪ (slow down) ♪ (♪♪) cut!!!! i get it! slow motion. slow down geographic atrophy. but we don't need gimmicks.

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>> your arrest. >> for murder. >> for murder. >> and obstruction of justice. chris was extradited back to utah. veronica and james were grateful to police, but they knew nothing could bring annie back. veronica kasprzak: while we support the police department and the attorney's office and we appreciate all the work that they have continued to do, it does not change what happened. dennis murphy (voiceover): february 29, 2016, almost four years since annie's murder, and darwin christopher bagshaw's trial was just a week away. he had refused to talk to police and pleaded not guilty. we were preparing for trial the following week, and i got a phone call that chris's attorney scheduled a hearing that day. dennis murphy (voiceover): jaclyn, now a sergeant

with the utah state police, ran down to court and barely made it in time. when she got there, she saw chris standing before the judge. judge: the case is set for a change of plea hearing today. are we going forward with that, mr. bown? christopher bown: yes, we are, your honor. all right. if you'd like to-- dennis murphy (voiceover): there was no deal offered, just a change of heart. judge: are you pleading guilty to the charge because you're guilty of it? yes, your honor. dennis murphy (voiceover): chris's attorney said chris wanted to take responsibility for what he had done. judge: all right. then, as to count one, murder, a first degree felony, how do you plead? guilty, your honor. dennis murphy (voiceover): a guilty plea, confirming what jaclyn had pieced together over the years of her investigation. and she had a theory about how it all went down. so march 10, annie is discussing, over the phone, what her options are for her baby with chris, and chris is telling her, he's come up with a plan, and they can run away and be together. dennis murphy (voiceover): jaclyn thinks chris really believed annie was pregnant, so he persuaded her to meet

him at the river, but-- jaclyn moore: chris has no intent on running away. chris's only reason for being there is to kill her. so he just starts beating her until she dies. turns out to be very sloppy crime, the amount of blood. mm-hmm. i feel that he betrayed annie more than he betrayed us. annie knew him, and annie trusted him. dennis murphy (voiceover): at his sentencing, chris, now 18, sounded remorseful. chris bagshaw: i'm very sorry for everything that's happened, and i want to apologize to annie's family and to my family and to everybody in court today for putting everybody through this. still trying to put words into everything that has happened. dennis murphy (voiceover): but for veronica, no amount of i'm sorrys could make up for what she and annie's entire family lost. veronica kasprzak: so may you feel sadness, may you feel loss, may your tears heal your soul,

but may your conscience never clear. i will grieve my daughter every day. and so for the charge of murder, a first degree felony, i'll sentence you to an indeterminate term of not less than 15 years, in which-- dennis murphy (voiceover): chris bagshaw robbed annie of her future, and now a judge had decided his fate. it would be 15 years to life in prison. jaclyn has other cases to work these days, but this one, annie's case, will surely always hold a special place in her heart. dennis murphy: do you think derek would have approved? his confidence in you would have been vindicated, finally? jaclyn moore: i wished, so bad, he was there. dennis murphy (voiceover): annie started off as a case for veronica too, but she became so much more. veronica kasprzak: we put her ashes in the ocean so that-- so that she would never be in one place.

and so that wherever we were at, we could feel, like, she was there. dennis murphy (voiceover): despite the horrific events that took away her daughter, veronica is still as determined as ever to continue to do good work and to help children in need. she and james have since adopted five more children. it is just what annie would have wanted them to do. man: you know i don't have a full day, so give me a break. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm andrea canning. thanks for watching. crew: that's good. hello, i'm craig melvin, and this