she's not back yet you might well take a look in her bedroom has she ever disappeared before leave without she doesn't not text me when I text her what does she normally take with her when she leaves phone your phone's not in here talk that here last night I mean night before anything any reason she would leave no cuz rumor going around people telling us that she was afraid to come home this is the moment Andy mccauly realized police were on his Trail just hours earlier his girlfriend's daughter Riley Crossman suddenly went radio silent and
police were quickly called to come and investigate at first glance it looked just like a messy teenager's bedroom with nothing out of the ordinary but as the officers scoured through the Clutter unsettling details began to emerge this is her book back Debbie say she wor but she said the kids already went through everything honey s they would find items that a teenager might typically take if they were planning to run away but as they begin to look even more they start to notice blood blood was on her sheet and more was found on her comforter
the cops were now certain that Foul Play had occurred and something terrible happened to Riley as they try to piece together the puzzle police find themselves in Tangled in one man's web of deceptions and twisted lies all crafted to conceal his one single disturbing secret on May 8 2019 dispatchers received a call from a concerned woman reporting The Disappearance of her 15-year-old daughter Riley Crossman as officers arrive at the scene they come into contact with the caller Shantel Oakley and her boyfriend Andy mcau what's going on man see you in long time any word you
take a look in her bedroom has she ever disappeared before didn't leave without without she doesn't not text me want to text her this is the only mirror we have like this so I came in yesterday morning and I don't remember that being there and especially her glasses cuz I this is not exactly the way it was I've been in here digging and looking to see if there was a node where that according to Riley's mother this was unlike her and she wasn't one to run off without telling anyone a quick search of her room
revealed that her belongings were untouched except her bed which was covered in blood stains this was highly suspicious so officers quickly took a sample and sent it off for DNA testing but for now officers need to gather as much information as possible from people who last Saw Riley so they decide to question Andy about his whereabouts that day talk you that M here last night I mean night before anything any reason she would leave no okay there rumor going around people telling us that she was AF to come home I don't know if that's you
know how people go that was nothing like that okay so she she wouldn't have to be her I mean they're they like that never like that is nothing her mom was even home right she at work no you you they said she got AR didn't want to come home she was she was Grand you can ask your grandma she was here doing dishes and everything Grandma's here to 7:30 okay uh Debbie right yeah when's the last time you you saw her uh about 9 maybe 10ish at night yeah and and what in what context was
that oh she was here in the house she went to bed probably well I don't know what time she bed but she was all the kids were in the room by like 9:30 9 9:30 did she leave in the morning no I left I got 4: in the morning left 5 okay go to work according to family and friends Andy was never an early riser in fact when police interviewed one of his colleagues Johnny he stated that he had to go to his house and repeatedly call him to wake him up but on this particular
day things were different I'll call him and see if he's up so that morning do you remember if you called him or he called you wednes morning I want to say he called but this was not the only strange thing about Andy that day he also told police that he was at work all day and when cops interviewed another one of his colleagues to verify his Alibi they found out that Andy had left work and was gone for nearly 5 hours and he gets back at roughly probably 245 so he was going a wild four
four almost 5 hours because of this detectives now know that Andy hasn't been completely honest with them so far at least about staying at work the full day this is very clearly a red flag and means that he's trying to hide something from them but Andy might not be the only one hiding something as officers would find out when they decide to look into Riley's boyfriend Hayden for the last 8 months the two reportedly facetimed every night so officers believed that if anyone was in contact with Riley the night before it would be Hayden and
he was soon called in for an interview two days after Riley went missing can you just um tell us when you were last FaceTiming I was actually talking to her about the DC trip I was going on and do you know exactly what time and 30ish on the night of Riley's disappearance it just so happened that Hayden deleted all his messages with Riley because he did not want his mother seeing them this is why detectives could tell that Hayden knows something but because of his mother's defensiveness he's unable to speak his mind I told him
before not to delete his messages but he is in heaven deleting everything her mom's lifestyle Rel I don't really know I feel like she just isn't a responsible person she'll just let her do whatever she wants they had a dance and she was wearing this short dress she let her walk to the school by herself in the short dress it's at night Riley had way too much Freedom although this interview was not too fruitful it pushed Hayden to come forward with a crucial piece of evidence afterwards a series of disturbing text messages that Riley sent
to him the night before she disappeared saying that Andy was in her room and that she was scared immediately all suspicion was further confirmed around Andy and officers would later use this information to piece together this dark puzzle but for now finding out Andy's actual whereabouts and what really happened during the 5 hours that Riley was missing is crucial to the investigation and the reason why Andy would be called in for questioning I just talked to Johny right saw him would you be surprised if you told me something completely different uh maybe do not remember
leaving that job site and going to Red Hill oh yeah oh I'm sorry we did go to and did I'm sorry we did you're right okay you're right we did go and did a shell how how long were you there red go like the rest of the day the rest of the day were you at that house the entire time fixing the shelves no okay where were you at I was at we at I was at the other house I went got some what you got some I got some more drugs if Andy was off
doing illegal drugs during those five missing hours then that could possibly explain why he didn't initially tell the cops the truth about where he had been all day but this also could just be his way of trying to distract the police by bringing their attention to something else at this point detectives know that Andy is desperate to give them an alternate Alibi and his drug story could possibly be true so to cross check they would call in Johnny again Johnny had a history of drug use and the two would often do cocaine together so he
can easily substantiate or discredit and's account would you say that there was enough to still do another line each oh yeah couple lines each oh yeah okay so you wouldn't have to you didn't need any more coke so now Andy's story about going to get more drugs isn't adding up his colleague had already told the cops that they had more than enough cocaine to get them through the rest of the day so there would be no reason for them to go get more drugs realizing that Andy has been lying the police decide it's time to
confront him and get to the bottom of his deception what if I told you I know you weren't with that snow pill and you didn't buy thrs off anybody that day see what I'm getting at we went from this story to this story now we're going to get a third story this is one of these times you really need to think of what you're telling me Hey cuz you're not being honest remember what I told you about being honest and I'm not going to just throw [ __ ] at you I know you weren't there
I know you didn't buy drugs off your cousin and I know you didn't use them in that Park a lot that day where did you go when you left went to my house get the drugs okay I already my house okay I already told Chantel I still want to tell you in the house so you go back home you use your drugs and then you go back to work and then what considering the discrepancies in each version of the story he tells officers there is more than enough reason for officers to not trust Andy like
they would Express I'm just telling you the whole part about you being honest I'm being honest with you I've been honest with you I thought you [ __ ] I didn't even want to tell you okay you're being somewhat honest I mean we're doing some polling to get some information about some drug activity which US I don't even give to [ __ ] about but yet we're having trouble pulling that out of you because I was worried about out there okay and and I told you I don't care about that I didn't say that you
told us about the drug activity what two nights ago did I arrest you for it the main reason for detectives pressuring Andy like this is because a record of his movements is crucial for this investigation usually law enforcement can just track a suspect's movements using their phone but in Andy's case he had supposedly left it at home the day that Riley went missing knowing that the more leniency detectives show to Andy the Bolder he would become in giving Shady aliis detectives decide to ramp up the intensity of the conversation even more to make Andy nervous
and slip up about his real whereabouts um you know the further along this is whatever happens and whoever did this to her the worst off catch for that person too yes hope so she was probably taken out of that house by somebody yeah I feel I feel something she was taken that I feel because she be by she was taken from that house is what I'm saying she didn't she didn't wander off she didn't pack a bag and take her clothes take her glasses and take a cell phone charger take all of her money she
had most of her money um someone's going to go money was still yeah um so like I said if someone's going to run away or do something they're going to make a little bit better effort um even for a 15year old for 15-year-old kid they're going to at least have the Necessities even after explicitly stating the absurdity of the situation Andy seems as calm as ever and won't crack about where he really was but even in this situation detectives have one piece of evidence that would cause the pressure to mount on Andy the texts that
Hayden had showed them once confronted with these Andy's Behavior changes immediately what if I told you her last text to her boyfriend were saying don't talk because she still has the FaceTime one and he's in here I'm afraid that's what it said what if I told would you that I would say that's crazy I can put my hand on the Bible and tell you I saw those texts today well I like to see him because I know proba he scared of me and I know she not only that she said you were in here and
she was in her bedroom because the FaceTime was still I was never in her room that's not what she saying I don't go in her room Andy I'm not lying to you I was not in a room for one and for two the kid is not scared of her there's no reason for her to be scared of me I've been there for inter right for a year and a half take care of but what we're saying like I get that I here but what we're saying is that's what she's saying so obvious obviously to her
he's afraid of something the walls are closing in on Andy quickly and he's no longer able to keep up with his lies he can't think of any possible reason why Riley would be afraid of him or any explanation for why she would have sent her boyfriend those texts there's no way there's no way you can ask your mother mother will tell you that is not true there I'm telling you I read that with my own eyes today I don't know I know so you see where that puts us yeah I understand but I the kids
not scared of me I don't understand how you guys can say that despite the damning physical evidence Andy continues to insist that there was no reason that Ry would have been afraid of him perhaps he thinks that if he denies this enough times the cops will simply move on she's not that's what she is saying she's saying that's why we're saying that we don't know what goes on behind closed doors when you know you and Chantel are there or Shantel and Riley are there or we don't know okay but obviously in her mind she's afraid
of you would you agree doesn't make sense doesn't make sense at all so does she have any reason to say that no why would she say that oh no at this point the cops have given Andy an opportunity to come up with any sort of explanation at all or even a lie this would have been his chance to point towards something that may have happened in the past even as simple as a disagreement between the two of them as a possible reason Riley would have written these things but Andy is not taking the bait is
she VCT toward you does she hate you no she don't hate me she loves me that's what I'm asking you I don't know that does she argue with you no ever we have never cuss at you curse you out nothing never nothing in a year and a half nothing okay so it sounds like to me she does love you sohe heartedly yes okay so why would she say that I don't know a year and a half we have not had one contct okay me and the boy yeah we have okay but there's never been anything
like you said year and a half for the last several weeks several months several days nothing that's you like oh yeah I forgot about that one time she wanted this and I told her maybe she got M just with all else faing Andy would attempt to try and convince the cops that he shares the same sentiments as them you see where that puts us right yeah I understand understand you guys are I'm mad that you guys are doing your job I mean that the last message he has from her that you guys are doing your
job I you doing your job but there's nothing I can think of want us to do our job that's that's what we're doing I'm asking job I'm not mad you guys don't I think a little pissed off but nothing there's nothing that I can think of she would be mad at me or she would be upset of me or scared of me or anything would me you didn't go in that room no she still had FaceTime one too okay well I wasn't in that room the cops lacked probable cause at this time to arrest Andy
but there is one piece of evidence that is about to change the course of this entire inv investigation it was around this time that the lab results on that blood sample would finally return and it would be an exact match to Andy's DNA but that's not all they also learned that the blood they tested was also mixed with saliva this made the cops suspect that Riley's face may have been forced into the pillow in an attempt to keep her from screaming this is an important development but they still haven't located Riley and they need to
find more information about where Andy was during those 5 missing hours luckily though all of that can be answered in the CCTV footage that captured all of Andy's movements there were cameras attached to a nearby high school that captured Andy mccauly leaving his work site that was the starting point of the investigation for the cops they knew the direction of his travel including the facts that he was on Route 9 an eyewitness who knew what Andy's vehicle looked like was able to confirm that she saw his truck backed up into the driveway of Riley's home
in the middle of the day when he should have been at work at this point the cops believe that Andy killed Riley during the late night or early morning hours likely to keep her from screaming while he assaulted her they believe he then hid her body in the bedroom until everyone left and then later returned to the house when it was empty to pick up her body and dispose of it using CCTV footage to guide them and with the help of police canines trained to pick up Riley's scent they search a nearby mountainous area it
is there that they tragically find Riley's decomposing body left in a secluded area while this is the outcome that nobody wanted it marks the turning point in the case near where Riley's body is found there are several unique looking screws discovered these are the same screws that were located when the cops had searched Andy's vehicle the day previously this is even further evidence that solidified the case against him and 8 days after the discovery of Riley's body Andy is arrested and charged with her murder he pleaded not guilty in the trial Andy's defense argued that
the prosecution failed to provide a clear motive or definitive cause of death as the exact cause could not be determined due to the body's decomposition despite this the jury found significant evidence linking MCA to the crime such as the presence of drywall mod on crossman's body which matched the drywall found in mcca's truck and inconsistencies in mcca's statements about his whereabouts on the day of crossman's disappearance the jury deliberated for about 4 hours over the course of 2 days and decided that the monster who murdered Riley was none other than Andy mccaulay we the members
of the pedit jury as to the issues joined find the defendant Andrew J mcau Jr as follows count one murder guilty of murder in the first degree finally Justice for Riley had been served the only thing left was for Andy to be sentenced the judge presiding over the case sealed his fate by giving him two life sentences he will never see the light of day as a free man ever again and most importantly he will never be able to hurt another innocent child
