Dr. Insanity - The Moment She Realized She Killed Her Boyfriend [With Video]

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:17 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,
Starting point is 00:00:34 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.
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Starting point is 00:01:36 As the 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.
Starting point is 00:02:09 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. When we even really to drive, we don't a name to his car, or a carmion. Betty, midnight, gross-jone. What which makes your firted
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Starting point is 00:03:14 unfolded I got what we got 331 we need you met some round gunshot victim
Starting point is 00:03:26 side the house anybody else in here no no my job in the bedroom please don't go in there I got a chest
Starting point is 00:03:32 I'm a little I'm going to keep helping 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.
Starting point is 00:03:50 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,
Starting point is 00:04:12 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?
Starting point is 00:04:25 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.
Starting point is 00:04:35 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.
Starting point is 00:04:47 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.
Starting point is 00:04:59 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,
Starting point is 00:05:18 making her story even more suspicious. What's worth noting is that situations like these can be especially traumatizing for everyone involved, including those watching at home, just like you. If you've ever felt that you need help with mental health, you should know that there are always people you can reach out to. That's why I'd like to thank BetterHelp, the sponsor of today's video. I've partnered with them to help provide you with an easy and simple solution to therapy.
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Starting point is 00:06:09 And if it's not right the first time, you can switch therapists as many times as you want, no hard feelings. So if you're struggling, consider joining BetterHelp. Start fresh any day of the year with BetterHelp. Click the link in the description or go to BetterHelp.com slash Dr. Insanity and get 10% off your first month of therapy. With that said, let's get back to Alyssa. Even though 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.
Starting point is 00:06:45 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?
Starting point is 00:07:18 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
Starting point is 00:07:44 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.
Starting point is 00:08:26 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.
Starting point is 00:08:51 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.
Starting point is 00:09:03 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.
Starting point is 00:09:19 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,
Starting point is 00:10:02 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.
Starting point is 00:10:35 White guy got shot. Oh, the one that lived there. Yeah. Yeah. They always go back and forth. With different people? Mm-hmm. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:45 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.
Starting point is 00:11:10 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?
Starting point is 00:11:54 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?
Starting point is 00:12:10 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.
Starting point is 00:12:43 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.
Starting point is 00:13:00 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.
Starting point is 00:13:36 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.
Starting point is 00:14:18 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!
Starting point is 00:14:36 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.
Starting point is 00:15:02 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?
Starting point is 00:15:20 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.
Starting point is 00:15:27 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.
Starting point is 00:15:41 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.
Starting point is 00:16:01 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.
Starting point is 00:16:18 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.
Starting point is 00:16:40 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
Starting point is 00:16:47 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
Starting point is 00:16:53 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
Starting point is 00:17:00 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
Starting point is 00:17:06 I guess around a regular trying to get off of drugs Okay. Because he's been a blackmail white now. He's white. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:14 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.
Starting point is 00:17:37 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.
Starting point is 00:18:02 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?
Starting point is 00:18:21 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.
Starting point is 00:18:53 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
Starting point is 00:19:14 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
Starting point is 00:19:24 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
Starting point is 00:19:33 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
Starting point is 00:19:45 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
Starting point is 00:19:59 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
Starting point is 00:20:43 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?
Starting point is 00:21:10 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.
Starting point is 00:21:29 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?
Starting point is 00:21:57 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...
Starting point is 00:22:06 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,
Starting point is 00:22:27 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.
Starting point is 00:22:47 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.
Starting point is 00:23:02 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
Starting point is 00:23:26 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.
Starting point is 00:24:06 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
Starting point is 00:24:21 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?
Starting point is 00:24:38 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.
Starting point is 00:25:21 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,
Starting point is 00:25:39 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,
Starting point is 00:25:53 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,
Starting point is 00:26:17 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?
Starting point is 00:26:30 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.
Starting point is 00:27:03 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.
Starting point is 00:27:51 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
Starting point is 00:28:36 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?
Starting point is 00:28:46 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.
Starting point is 00:29:03 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.
Starting point is 00:29:15 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.
Starting point is 00:29:34 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.
Starting point is 00:29:52 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,
Starting point is 00:30:31 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?
Starting point is 00:30:43 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.
Starting point is 00:30:55 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?
Starting point is 00:31:29 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.
Starting point is 00:31:41 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.
Starting point is 00:31:57 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.
Starting point is 00:32:15 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
Starting point is 00:32:31 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
Starting point is 00:32:39 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
Starting point is 00:32:51 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,
Starting point is 00:33:06 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.
Starting point is 00:33:28 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
Starting point is 00:34:02 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.
Starting point is 00:34:43 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.

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