Dr. Insanity - The Moment She Realized She Killed Her Boyfriend [With Video]
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Hey, what happened?
I don't know.
Did you just come home?
I was down the street, I was down the street,
walking my dog, and they shot him.
This is 22-year-old Alyssa Blackburn,
and she just returned home from walking her dog
to find her boyfriend shot and barely alive.
When deputies,
nothing.
I don't know how I was.
I couldn't check my candy on the floor.
When deputies arrived,
Alyssa would initially claim his injuries
were from a violent drive-by just minutes earlier.
But it wouldn't take long for them to start noticing holes in her story.
He's frantic.
I think she knows more than what she is saying.
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investigation began, detectives would uncover a meticulously planned homicide and a tragic
conspiracy, with Alyssa right in the middle of it.
First they got a witness saying that I observed a white male run out of the house.
Why are you lying to me? You understand me? Stop. Don't start lying to me.
Hey, you said, mother-old. I'm going to shoot you. I'm going to shoot you. And he was shooting
him all this damn female. It's all over a girl. You literally have one opportunity to talk
about this, otherwise you are.
On October 29th, 2022, the Escobia County Sheriff's Office received multiple 911 calls from frantic residents on the 1,100 block of Medford Avenue.
Earlier that morning, a driver in a black sedan had reportedly opened fire on a home in a small neighborhood.
Hours later, at around 2 o'clock p.m., the sound of gunshots would be heard again, but this time followed by a young man's anguished cries for help.
Quickly, officers were dispatched to the scene, racing.
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the first deputies
on the scene
arrived to find 26-year-old Jesse Gahagan lying on the floor in a pool of blood,
barely conscious, with bullet holes scattered throughout his body.
Pretty shot, bud.
Right here.
You said you got a chest to him?
Yeah.
Jesse is experiencing a pressure imbalance in his chest cavity, meaning his lungs could collapse at any moment.
With Jesse in the hands of paramedics, the deputies shift their focus to the next critical task,
piecing together what had happened.
With this in mind, Deputy Tinch
wastes no time,
turning to question the only witness present,
Jesse's girlfriend, Alyssa Blackburn.
Hey, what happened?
I was down the streets,
walking my dog, and they saw him.
Who shot him?
I don't know.
Did you find him like this?
Yeah, I just had to kick in the back door
and nobody was snuck in him.
So do you live here?
He is me.
Who is that gentleman to you?
It's my boyfriend.
Are you the one that called No-1-1?
No.
Who called No one because it was a female?
I called number one to people here to go to stop.
Why are you lying to me?
You understand me?
Stop.
Don't start lying to me.
Do you understand what's standing in there?
I need through.
I don't know what you did it.
Then don't tell me you didn't call.
You're going to get me shot out here.
You realize that?
We're more clear.
What's your last name?
Blackbird.
I don't think you realize that I'm rich.
You didn't call in you all, for real.
Right away, Deputy Tinch grew suspicious after noticing a flaw in.
in Alyssa's account of the 911 call.
However, considering the chaos of the moment,
he knew it was possible she could be in shock
and that her memory was distorted.
But unbeknownst to the deputy,
Alyssa would go on to provide more misleading statements,
making her story even more suspicious.
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her inaccurate account of the 911 call was suspicious, Deputy Tinge knew it could be due to her
frantic condition. If anything, this just made him want to know more.
Before you left, the Walt Gidalz, was he by himself?
Yeah, no, there was, yeah, there wasn't nobody else here.
And he wasn't like that, right?
No, he was not like that. He was fine. He was in the room, and he was not bleeding on the ground.
Who else lives here?
This is, I don't even know who's house was, I just got here like two days ago, real shit.
I swear to God, I just moved here. All my stuff's in that back bedroom, but my dog's in there.
According to Alyssa, the shooting occurred in the small window of time while she was walking her dog.
But none of this would matter to her, as her boyfriend would be carried out in a stretcher unconscious.
Was it broken before you left?
Was it out here when you left to walk the dog?
Okay.
Oh, my God.
Step over here.
Sure.
It's likely Alyssa in this moment believed Jesse had passed away.
way. First responders were using what's called a soft stretcher, not too different in appearance to a
body bag used when the victim is dead. However, Jesse is still alive. He was suffering from
multiple gunshot wounds and was slipping in and out of consciousness. He appeared to have been
shot in the upper abdomen and leg and was in critical condition. As paramedics loaded Jesse into
the ambulance, preparing to take him to the hospital, deputies could finally give Alyssa their
full attention as she was the only witness so far who could give them a lead. But soon, officers
would begin to suspect that Alyssa wasn't the innocent victim she portrayed herself as.
I don't know, honey. I'm sure he's talking to us, so yes, because he just gave us a bunch
of information, okay? I don't want anybody to see me. I can see you, okay? Let's call your parents,
Okay.
Due to Alyssa's seemingly frantic condition,
deputies were unable to get any more information from her
beyond what she had already recounted.
So in an attempt to make sense of the situation,
deputies on scene began sharing the information they had gathered,
and they quickly started to notice some intriguing details.
So I wonder, earlier it was a drive-by, this was Target House,
and then maybe somebody came back.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
They either they bucked us in the house, or they know her, they might have been to house.
Yeah.
But her time frame is way off, bro.
That's the problem.
She's like, I asked her who called.
She's like, not me.
I'm like, it was a female, honey.
She was like, okay, I called.
And then I said, stop in line to me.
This is serious.
She's saying that she left to go walk the dog came home to this.
And the time frame is not four hours ago.
Because she's saying she heard the shots.
So it wasn't the, I just figure out what I guarantee you.
clearly Alyssa's story wasn't adding up and despite her exaggerated crying officers were growing
more convinced that she might have somehow been involved but without definitive evidence to prove
her role in the crime these suspicions would remain as just that suspicions for now so officers
determined to find something concrete would begin searching the neighborhood that's when
deputy Brousette encountered a neighbor who would claim to have seen
everything. I heard two gunshots about this talk this morning, and I saw a little black car,
but come and go and come back. I don't know if they had anything to do with it, but it was like
they just took off from right up here. Did you hear some gunshots? Yeah, I heard four of them.
Over here? I just see a black boy and a white boy just getting the car. I see the white boy come
out with the gun in his hand. What kind of vehicle?
Um, it's like a beat up old school looking for you the camera.
And he came out of the door.
He said, I told him my, just on my boy to play with me.
Going to the black boy and white boy that got shot.
White guy got shot.
Oh, the one that lived there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They always go back and forth.
With different people?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Have you ever seen that car in the area before or that white guy?
He's always there.
The camera's always there?
Yeah.
With these witnesses.
just revealed was critical. According to them, shortly before the shooting, a beat-up Toyota
Camry pulled into the driveway of Alyssa's house. Two men stepped out, one white, one black,
and made their way towards the home. Additionally, one witness noticed something even more alarming.
The white male was armed, and moments after they entered the house, gunfire erupted, echoing
throughout the neighborhood. With this new information at hand, deputies could finally narrow
their focus to two prime suspects, who for now would remain unidentified. As for Alyssa, her role
in the investigation was still unclear. It still made no sense why she felt the need to lie about
her story. And given Alyssa's emotional state, it was impossible to get anything valuable out
of her, so her parents were allowed on the scene to help her calm down. In the meantime, deputies
would notice the biggest flaw in Alyssa's story yet.
So she did it?
No, no, no.
Britsa got a witness saying that they observed a white male run out of the house or the gun.
This house is not just two days lived in.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
So who are they?
This deputy just picked up on a very important realization.
The house Alyssa claimed she moved into with Jesse only two days ago looked well lived in,
contradicting her entire story.
With this new suspicious clue, Deputy Davidson devised a genius solution to finally determine
if she was just an innocent witness or if she had a bigger role in the shooting.
If I ask a slip here and she says no, she's lying.
Why would she lie?
All right, I'm just going to go for it.
Does anybody else live here with you and Jessie?
I don't know who lives here.
I don't know because there's people here all in and out and so I'm not going to lie.
Um, there's a dude named, uh, I mean, he slinks all the cops sometimes, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Because he was like, I'm just letting you stay here because he stayed in tip.
But the way they were talking, it sounded like he just got here.
So you want to be smaller.
Like, they haven't been there.
I don't know.
Alyssa finally cracks, admitting that one of Jesse's friends was living in the house with them.
This is important because he could potentially be another witness to the shooting or even a suspect.
Deputy Davidson would go on to press Alyssa for more information about this friend,
but to no avail. And with nothing else to go on, deputies reached a dead end in their investigation.
So far, they knew that two unidentified men had carried out the shooting of Jesse and fled the scene in a black Toyota Camry.
They also discovered that others had been living in the house with Alyssa and Jesse opening up possibilities for even more witnesses and suspects.
Lastly, Alyssa's account of events had proven quite unreliable due to her frantic condition.
So with the on-scene investigation at its end, Jesse clinging to life in the hospital,
and Alyssa, the only immediate witness.
The next move was clear.
Take Alyssa to the police station for a formal interrogation and get to the bottom of whatever she's hiding.
An hour later, Alyssa and her mom would be transported to the police station,
placed inside an interrogation room while detectives gathered all the evidence from deputies.
Alyssa doesn't know it yet, but this interrogation would go far worse than she could have ever imagined.
You're...
You swear to God!
I swear to God!
No!
I don't touch it!
Don't you...
touch me!
He says, no, he doesn't have to talk to his by the sense.
There's a camera in here.
There's audio in here, they hear everything.
There's no reason they have to talk this about it.
You're right.
Alyssa realizes she's being recorded and immediately makes her mom aware.
It's clear this isn't her first time in an interrogation room.
Unfortunately for her, the cameras would turn out to be the least of her worries.
Detectives would walk into the room with a clear plan in mind.
Figure out why Alyssa lied.
If they can press her on the details, she might slip,
giving them a real shot at actually.
solving the case.
I've got you there you, David Preston.
David, Preston, you know, David?
How do you know it?
Experience.
Experience?
Yeah.
I got in trouble.
Only two times I've been in trouble.
Oh.
I don't want to need.
I got you.
Well, I'm investigating Martinez.
I work with David, so I know.
Yeah.
That being said, we want to get some information as far as, like, how long you guys
been living there?
Who lives there?
Like, two days, two, three days.
I just got there.
If I have my phone.
I don't know exactly what they were let me get my phone.
Okay.
But it wasn't, I don't, I can't remember where it was, but.
Okay.
And the only reason I'm asking is, because, like I said, we haven't, we have to get a search warrant in order to get the house.
So, once we get into the house and we look around, if something's missing, like his cell phone.
Yeah.
Then maybe we can possibly start tracking and find him.
No, I'm not going to question you at all.
So that's why I was asking, you know, I'm not asking, like, to pry, but maybe something's missing and maybe we can,
missing and maybe we can track it and be like...
I know y'all just try to help for real.
I'm not that type of person.
I know y'all are just trying to.
Okay.
Alyssa has to be feeling the pressure at this point.
She's told her version of events several times by now.
And yet, investigators keep asking the same questions.
Perhaps that's why, after an entire afternoon of speaking to law enforcement,
she finally gives them something substantial.
All right.
So it's just you and Jesse that live in that house?
No.
there's two males there
and there's Jesse
but there's people
in and out of there
all the time
you know what I mean
I mean
it's like
literally like
a ghetto trap
kind of like
I don't know
you haven't seen the house
but the whole house
is like trashed
almost
I tried to clean it up
and I'm all the floors
and kind of stuff
like that
because
I don't know where to go
but
there's a dude
I think
for sure
I know because he sleeps
from the couch
and I know
he was getting help
from somebody
the dude who was there
I guess
around a regular
trying to get off
of drugs
Okay.
Because he's been a blackmail white now.
He's white.
Okay.
Yeah, he's tall.
He's real tall.
It's like, um, real tall to me at like fat foot.
Alyssa confirmed that two other people lived in the house,
noting that individuals are constantly coming and going,
a detail that could suggest drug activities considering her previous statements
and frantic behavior earlier.
But most importantly, she mentions one of the roommates by name.
If investigators can track him and the other roommate down,
They may not have to rely solely on Alyssa's version of events,
as it's obvious she hasn't been telling the whole truth.
So the detective continues to question Alyssa in hopes of extracting another name.
Start from what did you do today?
I'm going to have done.
I woke up on the couch and he was on the couch across from me.
And Justin was sitting in his chair.
It's in the living room wherever you.
I call my mom and daddy because I was supposed to go over there.
There's voice in the house.
I don't see him, he called him, I remember he's atop.
He called us.
I was there, he was supposed to go to get a hotel room with a girl the night before,
so he hasn't been there.
Who's that?
I think he seems.
Okay.
It starts with, but he wasn't there at all.
Alyssa doesn't realize it yet, but with the other roommate's name obtained,
the investigation has already taken a sharp turn.
The detective's top priority is no longer just her story,
It's tracking down the roommates she previously lied about who could be key witnesses to the shooting.
But before they could get to that, Alyssa and her mother would share one more major detail from the morning of the shooting.
We go to my new house where we're building because we're moving into it.
We just closed on it.
So we go over there.
She has somebody else come and get her to go through her paperwork for work and stuff like that because we're moving.
And I don't know who it was
It doesn't work it out
Because I would do FedEx
And stuff like that
And then I got
This person come pick you up
Did you call them
To come pick you up or they just shut up?
It's a friend
I don't really know
No like that
You know what I'm saying
Jesse doesn't like anybody
To know where we stay at all
Because what he does
And obviously I don't know he does
You know what I'm saying
Because I told the police
I don't know if y'all talk to police
Yeah
Okay yeah
Yeah
And what do you do
Sell drugs
allegedly
I don't even know if I just used that right
yeah he sells drugs
and what kind of car
did this person pick you up
a black car
yeah I don't know what kind of car
it was just black
it's an older paper that doesn't even have
the emblems on it
I didn't see it yeah it was black
it was like it was spray painted
I don't know yeah maybe
I don't know it was black though
like on Toyota or something like
that it was definitely a small fan um what's the city it's in the car correct yeah yeah maybe um
well that's um i think it's the four door alissa's mother just described the same car that witnesses saw
fleeing the scene a black toyota camry but what's even more crucial is alissa's own admission she was in
that very car after being picked up by a so-called friend with this insight detectives now have
have a major person of interest. Whoever was driving that black Camry. Now their top priority
is clear. Identify this man. What's his name together? Come and got you. I don't know him.
So I'm saying. Well, how did you call? Jesse, I didn't call him. I didn't call him. Oh, he just showed up
at the house? Yeah. My brother, well, my brother knows him and Jesse knows him and all kind of stuff
like that. He comes around all the time and hangs out with him. I don't assume he'd myself,
the people that he died. I'm not allowed to even be at the house by myself.
Is he white or what?
He's white, for sure.
Can you describe him to us?
Well, he's kind of ghetto.
I know he's ghetto.
He's got tattoos until he's been to jail.
20s, 30s?
At least like his late 20s.
Despite the vague description,
detectives can now confirm the driver of the Black Camry
is a white male in his late 20s with tattoos.
Combined with all the other information,
these details are enough for detectives to begin searching.
But before detectives wrap up Alyssa's interview, they would have to deliver the tragic news of what happened to Jesse.
I did just get off the phone with the doctor's office and he did not survive.
You're sorry to God.
You're sorry to God.
Don't you!
Don't you?
He told you.
My wife.
We're not there.
Why, doctor?
You're not here.
We can't leave.
You can't leave.
Jesse Gaghani did he didn't...
You're trying to...
God!
No!
Jesse Gahagen had died.
Alyssa seemed truly upset at this news,
even though she almost certainly expected his death,
as detectives would come to find out eventually.
But while it's not officially confirmed,
all signs point to one chilling reality.
This is, most likely, all an act.
and it would be revealed soon.
Yeah, we can get you out of here.
Where's you right here?
No, I'm not to.
Somebody killed your book.
Yeah, I called the police.
I tried to save his life.
What is?
I'm trying to make him do better, bro.
I try.
I'm the only one who gave me a s' about him.
Don't be as serious.
You don't get it.
Don't let nobody.
I'm the only one who called the police when he overdone.
Joyce, not even as well again.
I'll love myself.
Alyssa would continue this frenzy
until detectives had to end the interview.
Even though she seemed genuinely upset over Jesse's passing,
detectives would soon find evidence suggesting otherwise.
Nevertheless, the stakes were now higher
as this had escalated into a murder investigation.
At this point, detectives still weren't sure.
exactly what Alyssa was hiding but the interviews that followed would
begin to reveal the truth this is one investigator over is the one that you
ignored last night this is one of Jesse and Alyssa's roommates it's unclear
how investigators first located him but what is known is that he was initially
reluctant to cooperate ignoring multiple calls and texts from detectives
Perhaps he was hesitant to get involved.
But when he finally agreed to an interview,
he would deliver the biggest bombshell yet.
All right, man.
So let's start from the very beginning, okay?
That's it.
Now, I know before you came in here,
he said he knows who did it,
and who he can get us hooked up with that person and everything else
because he tried him catching up with you at Tom Thumb yesterday.
So before we get to all the details,
who is that person that actually pulled the trigger?
It's Jacob Colville.
Okay.
Who was the black guy that was there with you?
I've never seen him before my life.
Okay. If you were showing a picture of him, would you be able to possibly recognize him?
Should be able to.
Okay. How long would you be known, Colville?
Colville, I met I think 2018 in Walton County. He was a, we were in the same little pod together in Walton County.
Finally, thanks to the roommate, detectives have identified the white man with the gun, 29-year-old Jacob Colville.
The same so-called friend, Alyssa, and her mother described her.
But to the detective's surprise, the roommate had even more to reveal.
Colville showed up with two kids in the car and got out and started an altercation with Jesse.
And this is all over a female, this is all over a girl.
What's her name, Melissa, Blackburn of me.
I guess Colville is in love with his girlfriend or something.
I'm not even sure who the girl liked if she liked either of them or not.
And I thought they were supposed to be friends.
But no, as soon as the girl comes out of the house and says, Jesse's inside.
and says, Jesse's inside.
They didn't hesitate to, oh, she was even.
No, they went right inside my house,
and they'd go down the hallway,
and they looked through the first room,
looked through the second room,
and I'm, at this point, I'm playing stupid.
I'm like, what's going on, guys?
I don't know what's going on.
I wasn't watching, I didn't have my head turned,
turned towards down the hallway,
but there was two gunshots,
and I heard, you're screaming,
and there's two gunshots,
and then by the time I looked down the hallway,
I see Kojo backing up, like with the guns on Jesse.
And Jesse looked like he had blood right here,
maybe like in the stomach and the upper, the shoulder.
And even when he was on the ground,
he shot another couple rounds, I believe.
How many rounds total?
I can't.
What if you?
Yeah, I can't even tell you.
Whenever they, Colville and the black guy run out,
run out the front door, they took off.
What happened to the DVR?
I could figure, I could show it.
You have it?
Yes, sir.
What the roommate just revealed to detectives is everything they need to crack this case.
It appears that Jesse's murder stemmed from a long-standing conflict that began in an altercation between Jacob and Jesse.
Likely during the drive-by incident reported earlier that morning,
followed by Jacob returning an hour later to fatally shoot Jesse.
Meanwhile, Halissa not only fabricated her entire version of a vehicle.
but the whole altercation centered around her.
According to the roommate, she was in a love triangle with Jesse and Jacob that turned deadly.
It's likely that Alyssa had grown fed up with Jesse before orchestrating the shooting with her friend, or perhaps lover, Jacob.
This finally explains why Alyssa had been lying all along.
She wasn't just a witness. She was an accomplice to murder.
Fortunately, the roommate had the shooting recorded on surveillance cases,
and agreed to hand it over to investigators, providing them with undeniable evidence to bring the killer trio to justice.
This incredible stroke of good fortune would continue when the roommate successfully identified Jacob's accomplice from a photo lineup of known offenders.
He was 44-year-old Lawrence Bonner Jr.
The Escambia County Sheriff's Department quickly launched a statewide manhunt, alerting police to stations, and the public to be on the look at it.
to be on the lookout. Not long after, authorities would make a critical discovery. The black
Toyota Camry had been found underneath the mobile highway bridge over 11-mile creek
burned down to the frame. While the search for the assailants continued, detectives wanted
to solidify their case against Alyssa, so they would bring in the other roommate she mentioned
earlier, and he would reveal crucial details about Alyssa's sinister role in her boyfriend's murder.
That little black Toyota Camry or Avalon or whatever it was, you know the car they're
up in?
Yes.
His car is that?
In the Scobbles.
He burned it.
Did he?
Well, yeah.
So do you remember any of the conversation that was going on in the house?
Like when they come back, you told them that Jesse's hiding in the back, correct?
Yeah.
Okay.
What was being set out for that?
Nothing.
They were so quiet.
They were just creeping through the house, looking for Jesse.
They didn't find him at first.
You've ever seen Alyssa come in with a gun?
Who?
Alyssa, his girlfriend, Jesse's?
Yeah.
She first walks into the house and you're on the couch.
You know, she's holding the gun.
You know, we have the DVR.
Yeah, yes, I didn't have that.
Covil did say to Jesse, he said,
he said, I'm gonna shoot you, I'm gonna shoot you.
And he was shooting him the whole time.
Cause Jesse would say that Coble would never shoot him,
you know what I mean?
Cool, shop.
You know where Coble might be right now?
I have absolutely no idea, man.
We already have one of the three, so...
Oh, do you? Yeah.
One of the three?
There's another person that helped them out later.
Really?
At this point, detectives had multiple statements from both roommates
that not only implicated Alyssa,
but also discredited her alibi of being somewhere else at the time.
Combined with video evidence showing her holding a gun inside the house before the shooting,
there was no denying that Alyssa was certainly involved in the murder of Jesse Gehagen.
While detectives were wrapping up the roommate's interview,
one of the killer trio, Lawrence Bonner, was arrested after deputies surrounded his residence.
He was brought into the interrogation room directly across from this one.
Detectives didn't waste any time with Bonner
and would immediately confront him with video evidence to make him give up Jacob's location.
We want to know why he reached out to you, what he told you,
because we already know you participated there.
We know you didn't pull a trigger.
But at this point, you literally have one opportunity to talk about this.
Otherwise, you are.
And I'm going to be very straight with you.
And if you won't see the video.
Yeah, we'll show you the video.
Do you want to see it?
Okay.
You text.
They just ask if I wanted it.
Perfect.
How is this going to help me, though, man?
Why?
Because you didn't pull the trigger.
I mean, I see your face in there.
I mean, you acting like, what the f*** going on?
I'm still going to end up going to jail.
You are going to go to jail, but the difference is whether if you decide to be honest and to help out,
and then hopefully the courts will show leniency that you've helped out and you've been honest,
that ship went down fast or however it went down.
But not saying nothing, that video makes you look guilty as hell, bro.
It's cute.
You're ready?
He looking for him, and he found him yet.
Oh, there you go.
Oh, shit, he dropped his pistol.
He's trying to get on.
He's like, what the f***?
Here, hold this gun.
There you go.
Give me that gun.
There you go.
Oh, let me go ahead and finish him off right here.
Snap.
Snap.
Well, wait, he's not done yet, though.
Oh, shit, my gun, let me get it.
Oh, damn.
Oh, let me give him one more, which he did right there.
So now you know, we're not bullshitting.
What's fun of?
Hey, can I talk to my girl, man?
You're not to talk to y'all, man.
Now that Bonner understands the gravity of his situation,
he agrees to share everything he knows with the detectives,
starting with what the three of them did to Jesse.
I really don't know him.
But you know in my sight, he's seen him around.
I seen him around.
You know, he offered me a ride.
I tucked the ride, right?
Yeah, we put up at the house, the girl in the car, the girl, like,
She was just like
saying that the dude
was something about
to bust at the windows
or some shit like that
though
and then
old girl
she's knocking on the door
trying to get in
yeah
and then she comes back to the car
and she throws something in the car
and then she goes and walks her
dog
and then the rest of
self-explanatory
we see the shots that happen
and all that
y'all walk back outside
and y'all get in the car
and where's the girl?
Does she get in the car with y'all?
No, she had.
Don't mind, no.
Okay.
Bonner had just admitted his role in the shooting,
going so far as to confirm that Alyssa had been present
the entire time.
Under pressure from the video evidence,
Bonner would eventually confess to something even more damning.
He had provided Jacob with the gun used to shoot Jesse.
With that admission,
Bonner officially became
an accomplice to murder.
Investigators would wrap up Bonner's interrogation and book him into jail.
One member of the killer trio was down, two more to go.
A week later, on November 5th, authorities tracked down Jacob Colville in Eustace, Florida,
attempting to evade capture disguised in a wig, glasses, and makeup.
But his cover didn't last long.
An officer recognized him, initiated a traffic stop, and took him into custody.
When finally apprehended, Colville was found with a little.
loaded handgun and drugs in his car. He would reportedly state, I don't regret it, when inquired about
the murder. As for Alyssa, a warrant for her arrest was issued, and she was quickly apprehended,
held in county jail without bond. While the killer trio's exact motives remained unclear,
investigators determined that Colville, Blackburn, and Bonner were driven by a mix of
personal vendetta and criminal intent. Their actions were likely tied to drug dealings and internal
betrayals within their circle, leading them to see Jesse Gahagen as a liability that needed
to be eliminated.
Nearly two years later, in June 24, Colville was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree
premeditated murder of Jesse Gahagen.
Meanwhile, Lawrence Bonner and Alyssa Blackburn were also charged as principals to first-degree
murder.
As of this writing, both remain in jail awaiting trial.
If convicted, they too will likely face life in prison without the possibility of parole.