Snapped: Women Who Murder - BONUS: Kaleigh Fryer and Jay Chiles (Snapped: Killer Couples)

Episode Date: June 9, 2022

We are bringing you a special bonus episode featuring a case from Oxygen's hit series, “Snapped: Killer Couples.”  When a beloved Oklahoma father is discovered murdered inside h...is home, the search for his killer uncovers a forbidden romance and a deadly double-cross. Season 15, Episode 4 Originally aired: May 26, 2021 Watch full episodes of Snapped: Killer Couples live or OnDemand for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/KillerCouplesPodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi Snap listeners, we're bringing you a special bonus episode today from Oxygen's hit series, Snap Killer Couples. You can also watch full episodes live or on demand on the free Oxygen app by clicking the link in our description. A friendly Oklahoma neighborhood is terrorized when a father and his teenage
Starting point is 00:00:41 children fall victim to a deadly home intrusion. There's one everywhere I can't do in here. There's aggression, there's anger. This is a very in-your-face direct attack. The investigation will unravel dark secrets. I just don't think they could stand each other. Divorce causes an emotion to run high and bad things happen. Had a family dispute turned deadly,
Starting point is 00:01:09 or was the true motive behind the crime something more startling and sinister. It wasn't an illegal relationship. It's not somebody that you wanted to mess with. She was in love with him and she would do anything he said. I was very shocked, because I just didn't see it coming. A lot of people can't imagine that type of hatred or that type of evil could be next door. May 13, 2010, Guthrie, Oklahoma. It's just before 7 a.m. when an alarming 911 call comes into the local police station.
Starting point is 00:02:00 Number one. Uh, my dad was dead. Hey, where's the fat? I'm one. Uh, my dad was dead. Hey, where's the sad? My health. There's blood everywhere I can't go in there. The caller identifies herself as 15-year-old Kayley Fryer. Who's the dad's man?
Starting point is 00:02:20 We was Fryer. She didn't make me up in the morning. He was part of the line. Everything's gone. He's a blood, he said there's blood. He said there's blood. All over the floor, I said to wake him up. I said he didn't wake up.
Starting point is 00:02:34 I have him in route, OK? I guess. I say calm, OK? I never see this in my room. Within minutes, first responders arrive at the home. I never see this in my room. Within minutes, first responders arrive at the home. They find the teenage caller waiting for them outside. I observed Kaylee, Friar, sitting on the concrete floor on the cardboard, just sitting there crying.
Starting point is 00:03:01 So at that point, when we enter the house, we do draw our weapons because you don't know what you're going into. You don't know if there's a suspect still in the residence. You're on a high alert, clearing the kitchen, bedrooms, closets, under the beds, just to make sure that that house is safe. Officers locate the victim in the master bedroom.
Starting point is 00:03:25 They found Mr. Fryard deceased on the bedroom floor. I saw a laceration of the back lacerations on his head, area, torso, where he looked like he'd been in a fight. The victim's injuries were obvious. He had been stabbed in the neck and in the back. And there was a great deal of blood there on the bedroom floor. Anytime we have a homicide like that,
Starting point is 00:03:50 we'll contact the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations to come in. I spoke with officers at the scene and was briefed of the situation that there was a deceased male in the back bedroom, and that his 15-year-old daughter had found him deceased, and she was sitting in a patrol car. She was put in a unit just for to get her out of public eye. She was sobbing.
Starting point is 00:04:19 This was a young lady that just found her father deceased. Anytime there's a murder, it always shakes your community that you live in, and your first thoughts are who could possibly done this? Who would want to kill this man? The first time you've ever seen a young lady that just found her father deceased? Any time there's a murder, it always shakes your community
Starting point is 00:04:40 that you live in, and your first thoughts are who could possibly done this? Who would want to kill this man? Keith Friar, or Louis to his friends and family, was the quintessential family man, and proud father to his two children, Keith and Kaylee. My dad always did everything he could to be everything that we needed. He was really just like a stand-up parent. The father of two had fallen in love with his children's mother, Trisha,
Starting point is 00:05:02 nearly two decades before. While Louis was known for his quiet and collected demeanor, Trisha was the polar opposite. She's very eccentric, very outgoing. Accentric was like the best word for her. Louis was drawn to Trisha's zest for life, and the two were married within a year. By 1994, the couple had expanded to a family of four. Settling into a quaint home in Guthrie, Trisha stayed home with the kids,
Starting point is 00:05:36 while Louis worked to support the family. For work, my dad always worked for a high-end picture framing company. He was actually involved in the design of the frames. But while Louise career flourished, his marriage fell apart. In large part, because Trisha had developed a drug habit that led to legal problems. My early childhood, I don't remember a lot of my mom,
Starting point is 00:06:04 because she would come in and out of our lives because she did a lot of prison time. My dad said we have to get a divorce, and she agreed to it. She definitely loved them, but she wasn't very motherly. It was like she totally locked that maternal instinct, and she just wanted to be their friend.
Starting point is 00:06:27 Louis and Trisha's divorce was finalized in 1997. Louis was awarded full custody of both kids. While being a single father had its challenges, Louis worked hard to build strong relationships with both his children. My dad was a coach. That was the best way to describe him. He liked any sports and he was constantly watching sports. Anything that the University of Oklahoma was doing, if OU was competing, he was watching it, especially football.
Starting point is 00:06:57 The OU Texas game was like a family holiday for us. Every morning, he would take me to school and I would let him just like spew all of his knowledge of any sport to me. He was constantly just trying to, like, just make our lives better in any way. He treated his kids right, and I had a lot of respect for him. But the Friar family falls victim to a horrific tragedy
Starting point is 00:07:25 on May 13, 2010. As a CSI unit examines the crime scene, officers ask Kaylee Friar to walk them through the events of the previous 12 hours. She pretty much stated that her and her dad watched a movie the night before and I believe roughly maybe 10 30 they went to bed. She went to her bed and and he went to his bed. On that morning, Kaylee Friar says she woke up at 7 a.m. Kaylee said that when she got up this morning,
Starting point is 00:08:05 she was surprised that her dad had not woken her up, which he normally does. So she got up, and she went into his room, and that's when she found him. So that's when Agent Dean is saying, well, did you sleep through the night? Did you hear anything? She said, no, I slept all the way through the night.
Starting point is 00:08:24 I didn't hear anything. Inside Louis Friar's bedroom, investigators with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation find evidence of a violent struggle. There was blood on the bed. There was blood on the pillow. There was blood on the wall. The room was in disarray.
Starting point is 00:08:43 There was obvious defensive wounds to his body, where he was trying to defend himself during the fight. The first thing that we think is robbery on bad, you know, is they break in. Bluey discovers um, ball and soos, they kill him, they swipe his toes, believe. But that theory quickly loses traction when investigators study the position of Louis' body. The blood on the bed was indicative that Louis' fire was in bed at the time he was attacked
Starting point is 00:09:16 and that this was a very brutal attack that Louis came out of the bed, fought his attacker, and made every attempt to save his own life. They're in that bedroom. There was no forced entry into the home, so if this is being described as a burglary, you would have expected broken windows, broken door, and there weren't them.
Starting point is 00:09:38 On top of that, there was not a scene of an obvious burglary in the house. If nobody forced their way in, then it leads me to believe that the say that was a known person of the family. This was a very personal attack. When you're stabbing somebody eight times, this is not a random act.
Starting point is 00:09:58 There's aggression, there's anger. This is a very, in-your-face direct attack. The question now facing Guthrie Police is who would want to attack Louis Friar in such a vicious way? And why? Louis Friar was a great dad. He was a nice guy in the community. There was no reason for someone to dislike him to this level.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Anybody and everybody is pretty much a suspect. Coming up, investigators uncover conflict within the fire home. I screamed at him and I told him he was lying, and I grabbed the chair from under me and I threw it against the wall, and police ID someone from Louis Friars passed with a potential motive.
Starting point is 00:10:46 The force is a motivator. It causes a motion to run high and bad things happen. In Guthrie, Oklahoma, OSBI agents are investigating the stabbing death of 50-year-old Louis Friar. The crime scene unit continues processing the Friar home and makes an ominous discovery in the kitchen. It was believed that the murder weapon was a kitchen knife. There was a knife missing from the butcher
Starting point is 00:11:18 block at that point. Evidence suggests the killer had fled the scene due the back of the home. Blood smears were found on the back door on the inside of the door, showing the subject had left out the back door. So now the investigation began with Louis at Target. To answer that question,
Starting point is 00:11:41 investigators with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation speak with the victim's 15-year-old daughter, Kaylee. The officers had placed her in a patrol car to keep her, how'd it have seen, but keep her safe. I went and spoke to her in the patrol car. Kaylee tells investigators she believes whoever killed her dad had been there to rob him. She informed me that her father's car was missing, that it had been parked in the driveway the night before.
Starting point is 00:12:14 Investigators immediately put out a bolo for Louis Fryer's missing vehicle. We began a search for that vehicle, and we notified outlying agencies to be on the look for that particular vehicle, and if it was located to notify us. Before ending their interview, detectives ask Kaylee if she can think of anyone
Starting point is 00:12:37 who might target her father for money. She says she can't. But she does admit that her brother Keith had left home after a fight with their dad three days earlier. Her brother had been living at a friend's house for a few days. He had gotten a fight at school and got kicked out of the house. Kaylee is transported to the station while police try to make contact with her mother.
Starting point is 00:13:05 In the meantime, investigators head to Guthrie High School to speak with Louise 18-year-old son Keith. As soon as the second hour started, there was a knock at the classroom door. There was a bunch of cops and they all escorted me to the principal's office. The entire time that I'm going from the classroom to the principal's office. I didn't understand. And whenever I got there, the principal wasn't in his office. Instead, there was a OSPI agent.
Starting point is 00:13:34 I did notify Louie's son that his father was deceased. And he became extremely emotional and upset. I screamed at him. I just screamed at him and I told him he was lying. And I grabbed the chair from under me and I threw it against the wall. I just punched the principal's door until it opened, and I just ran out into the hallway. They'd pulled me back into the principal's office eventually whenever I had calmed down.
Starting point is 00:14:06 Investigators press Keith about his relationship with his father. I got in a fight at school. And my dad's rule was, you know, once you're tard 18, you get in a fight at school, you're out of the house. So I was out of the house, only like three days before it all happened. But Keith claims the move was only temporary. The day of that he had kicked me out, he went and had lunch with one of my close friends. And he told my friend, well as soon as he comes crawling back, I'll let him back in.
Starting point is 00:14:37 Homicide detectives asked Keith for his whereabouts the previous 24 hours. He had stated he was with friends the night before. He had an alibi of where he was at, which eliminated him. He asked me if my dad had any enemies, and I was just like, what do you mean? Keith provides detectives with more insight into his family's history. They learned Louis was divorced from his children's mother,
Starting point is 00:15:07 Trisha. Police released Keith and dig deeper into Louis' relationship with his ex. The divorce is a motivator. It causes the emotion to run high. And bad things happen. Investigators attempt to call Trisha, but they are unable to reach her.
Starting point is 00:15:28 There were questions initially about her because she was difficult to find. It was no secret that she was drug addict, that she was not someone who was stable. Police are surprised when Trisha Friar unexpectedly arrived someone who was stable. Police are surprised when Trisha Fryer unexpectedly arrives at the station later that afternoon. She claims her phone had been dead, and she'd been nearly an hour away in Oklahoma City all night.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Trisha also swears she would never harm the father of her children, especially over custody. My dad would let her see us more than what the courts had even demanded. He decided that she could have us for any weekend, and it wasn't every weekend that she was able to, but a lot of weekends she would try, and she would have us for the weekend.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Investigators quickly rule out Trisha as a possible suspect. They next request to speak with her daughter, Kaylee, for a second time. Trisha agrees and sits with Kaylee while the 15-year-old tries to shed light on her father's mysterious death. Some of the questions that Kayleigh was asked was, who did this in the arguments with anybody?
Starting point is 00:16:49 I wouldn't want to kill your death. I don't know. She had any of them. No, everybody likes my dad. Given the lack of forced entry, investigators ask Kayleigh if anyone else has access to the home. As he's questioned her, do people normally come over to your house?
Starting point is 00:17:06 Do you have a lot of company? She says, no, that just didn't happen. Her father didn't allow it. With Kaylee unable to offer any more information, authorities head back to the crime scene. We walked around asking if anybody had heard anything, seen anything, any suspicious activity at that residence. Police are unable to locate witnesses
Starting point is 00:17:32 who had seen anything suspicious the night before. But as they continue speaking with neighbors, two of Kayleigh Fryer's friends come forward with valuable information. They probably offered the most information about everything going on at that house, because they knew Kaylee, the new Mr. Fryer. Kaylee's friends say Louis was a good dad,
Starting point is 00:17:54 but he had become very strict about Kaylee's social life. Kaylee was a fighter. I mean, she stood her ground. She didn't put up with no BS. Bailey was not somebody you wanted to mess with. People knew that if it came down to it, she wouldn't be afraid to throw hands and get in some of these space.
Starting point is 00:18:18 She was always getting in a fight at school. She got expelled from the same school three different times. She had not been in school for quite a while, and she just did what she wanted while her dad was at work. People were coming in and out. When Louis Fire was not at home, there were parties there. She was using drugs and alcohol. Her dad was trying to put his foot down
Starting point is 00:18:43 and trying to establish some rules inside the home that she wasn't in favor of. That's when friends revealed that Kayleigh had started sneaking around behind her father's back. It was determined that Miss Fryer had a boyfriend. They knew that he was 21 years old while Kayley was 15. It was clear that Kayley was telling a story different from what Kayley's friends provided to law enforcement.
Starting point is 00:19:12 Police are asking themselves, why didn't Kayley not mention this boyfriend at the beginning? Ladies and gentlemen, get ready and buckle up. We've got the one and only Conan O'Brien, making a legendary appearance on Smartless. Picture this, the iconic Conan O'Brien, puffy red hair and all, joining forces with me and Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes. It is just, it's a recipe for podcast perfection exclusively on One Re plus. We're taking you on an unforgettable journey behind the curtain. We're pulling back the veil on the world of late night and giving you an inside look into the mind of a true legend.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Our episode with Conan is the second of ten special episodes exclusive to One Re plus. These episodes are the full recorded interviews from our smart list tour that was filmed in front of thousands of our biggest fans from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles. You're not going to want to miss this conversation with Conan. You can listen to these episodes exclusively in Add Free with One Re Plus, find One Re Plus in the One Re app, or on Apple podcasts. It's been eight hours since 15-year-old Kaley Friar found
Starting point is 00:20:23 her father, Louis Frier, stabbed to death. When investigators learned that Kayley had kept a big secret from her dad. Miss Fryer had a boyfriend that was a 21-year-old male. There's always the question, you know, what's a 21-year-old guy dating a 15-year-old daughter? Kayley's friends tell investigators that Kaley had been dating Jerry J. Childe
Starting point is 00:20:52 since February of 2010. We all had the same group of friends. So I believe that's how they probably met. And then just over time, you know, got together. Me and J, at that time, you know, got together. Me and Jay at that time were best friends. His personality, he was very shy and quiet. Kaylee was fond and outgoing, and she loved to just do different things.
Starting point is 00:21:16 It didn't matter what it was. She was down for it. The way they looked at each other was you could just tell that they had that bond and that connection. I thought the age difference was a little odd, was you could just tell that they had that bond and that connection. I thought the age difference was a little odd, but I didn't put you much thought into it because I knew that Kayleigh kind of preferred guys that were just a bit older. I thought that their maturity levels kind of matched up.
Starting point is 00:21:40 According to friends, Kayleigh knew her father wouldn't approve of the age difference between her and Jay. So she kept their relationship hidden from him. I hung out with Jay and Kayleigh at her house while her father wasn't at home. I remember we just spent the time watching TV and just hanging out until her father was about to be home. And then Jay would just sneak out.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Jay was relatively homeless at the time. He had been kicked out of his house. He had gone to live with another friend, had been removed from that house. So was staying on a couch of another person. He was not stable, had nowhere to go. Didn't have a car, didn't have a job, had no money. Jake did stay at Kaley's house when her dad was not around.
Starting point is 00:22:33 But investigators learned that just three days earlier, Louis had discovered Kaley's secret romance with Jay. My dad wasn't aware of the relationship until I was kicked out, and I told him about it. He wasn't happy about it for the age difference, and that's not something he would condone by any means. Beyond his own personal disapproval, Louis was also well aware that the romance between Kaley and Jay
Starting point is 00:23:01 wasn't legal in the state of Oklahoma. Being that he was over 18, she was 15 at the time. I mean, she didn't meet the statutory level of consent for current Jay to be having a sexual type relationship. It wasn't an illegal relationship. It wasn't a legal relationship. In tent on putting an end to the romance, Louis Friar had tracked J. Tiles down the next day as he walked through the Friar's neighborhood.
Starting point is 00:23:36 My dad was in his car and he was driving by. How many just stopped and he was like, hey, you're a lot older than my daughter, and I'd like you to not see her anymore. Kaylee's dad did want them to break up. But according to Kaley's friends, it seems that Louise demand had fallen on deaf ears. After my dad told Jay that he did want him to see his daughter
Starting point is 00:24:01 anymore, they still continued to go about it as if it didn't happen. Kayley's father did not allow J. Charles to be in the home, but her friends knew that he frequently was there, that he would come after her father had gone to bed at night, or he would come when her father was at work. The revelation that J and Kayleigh continue to see each other, despite her father's wishes,
Starting point is 00:24:29 leads detectives to question whether the couple's illicit romance might have something to do with Louis Friar's violent death. Once that came to light, that's where the focus was at to try to find the boyfriend. When calls to Jay's cell phone go unanswered, investigators initiated an APB for the 21-year-old. We began looking for Mr. Childs just to do an interview and see what he possibly knew.
Starting point is 00:24:57 It seemed like it made a lot of sense that Jay was the one who did it. In my head, I didn't even point to him. So it kind of took me best of my eyes, but not really. And from that point, I was pretty convinced it was him. While police attempt to locate Jay, they also double their search efforts for Louis missing vehicle. Investigators believed early on that whoever had Louis Friars vehicle
Starting point is 00:25:26 would be the person that had taken his life. It isn't long before detectives get a tip. We had received notice from Valley Brook, Oklahoma, that a vehicle matching that description with the tag number was located abandoned. The car had been called in by somebody in the neighborhood, a suspicious car in the neighborhood, and that's what led police to the car.
Starting point is 00:25:55 It appears the vehicle had been abandoned. OSBI looked for any forensic evidence. It could be located. None was found in the vehicle. The only thing that was located in the vehicle were the keys, which were in the center council. It was determined that any type of murder weapon was not located.
Starting point is 00:26:14 A canvas of the area turns up no other leads. But as authorities expand their search, they receive a tip that J. Childs has been located in Oklahoma City. He actually called somebody to come and pick him up. When he called me, I was very confused. He said, can you please come pick me up? I'm stuck down here. He wants me to find him a ride and I just'm not gonna do that.
Starting point is 00:26:39 I told him that OSB I wanted to ask him a question or two and to please just come in and talk to them. I told him that OSB I wanted to ask him a question or two, and to please just come in and talk to them. He had stated he was down at the Crossroads Mall area, which is just a few blocks from Valleybrook. I didn't want them to like throw him on the ground. I said he's willing to come in and talk, and this is where he's at, and this is where he can become.
Starting point is 00:27:05 The investigation Investigators quickly assemble a team to bring J. Childs in. You're trying to get resources from other agencies and stuff there to help. That was quickly as possible, so we didn't leave. They did locate child's outside the mall. He was taken into custody without incident.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Okay, we got him in custody. Now it's getting back up her to the question. Coming up, authorities sit down with their primary person of interest, but a shocking admission points to a new possible suspect. This was not somebody that you wanted to mess with. I don't know that anybody ever suspected anything like this. 11 hours into the murder investigation of Louis Friar, police have taken their primary suspect
Starting point is 00:28:06 and the boyfriend of Louis' daughter, Kaley, 21-year-old Jay Childs, into custody. Jay is interrogated by law enforcement. And he says he didn't have anything to do with it. He doesn't know what happened to Mr. Friar. But as investigators press Jay about his relationship with Kaylee, J finally admits that he had been staying over in Kaylee's bedroom for the past several nights.
Starting point is 00:28:32 He was not allowed at the house, and he was not wanted around there, according to her dad. So Kaylee would let J know when her dad was sleeping and J would come over and be with Kayleigh. On the day of the murder, Kayleigh asked him to come after her father. I had gone to bed at night. She tells him that she'll leave the back door open. He had stated that he had went into the residence
Starting point is 00:29:02 to spend the night, that night, at the friar residence, by sneaking in with Miss Fryer's permission. But Jay tells investigators that Louis must have woken up and heard Jay sneak into the house, because moments after Jay arrived, both he and Kaylee could hear her father walking down the hall and approaching her room. J. Toad detectives that he had stuck into the house
Starting point is 00:29:29 and later was found inside the bedroom with Kayleigh. Louis became irate. He said that Mr. Friar went back to his bedroom got a glob of poop. J. Says he paint because he didn't know what Louis was going to do. So he went into the kitchen and got a knife to defend himself. He said Mr. Fryer came adding with a golf club
Starting point is 00:29:51 and that he had simply defended himself by using the knife. He's saying that the struggle happened in the hallway. But investigators aren't buying Jay's story of self-defense. Agentine tells him there's no blood in the hallway. The golf clubs were located inside the closet. Luis' feet were against the closet door, so the closet door couldn't have opened. It was impossible for a golf club to have been used, and no other golf club was found
Starting point is 00:30:28 outside of the closet. So that, we knew, was not a true story. Blood evidence found at the crime scene also doesn't line up with J statement. Agent Dean confronted him. Hey, how did the blood get on the bed there? We know that Louis Farr was in his bed when he was attacked. We know that most likely he was asleep, and we know that because there's the blood on the bed,
Starting point is 00:30:54 and we know he went from the bed to the floor. Confronted with the evidence from the crime scene, Jay changes his story. He admits that he had come to the house with the intention of robbing Louis Friar, but claims Louis was never supposed to get hurt. He said that, you know, I went to the house about three o'clock in the morning.
Starting point is 00:31:21 I came in through the back door. He said he actually said something to Kaylee, but he doesn't remember if Kaylee even responded. about three o'clock in the morning. I came in through the back door. He said he actually said something to Kaylee, but he doesn't remember if Kaylee even responded to him. But he walked into the bedroom. He decided he's going to just get the money, get the wallet, and get the valuables. And when he did that, he said he made some noise.
Starting point is 00:31:41 And Mr. Friar started to move. J says in that moment he panicked. Mr. Childs then began to attack Mr. Friar while he was in bed. Mr. Friar did try to fight back and was hollering for help at the time of the attack. Louis tries to fight him off. That's when he stabs him in the neck. Once Louis had stopped fighting back, Jay says he took Louis' car keys and fled out the back door. But something about Jay's story still doesn't add up for investigators.
Starting point is 00:32:23 Why had Jay armed himself with a knife if he only meant to rob Louis Friar? In the third story that Jay tells Agent Dean is when he finally tells him Kaylee and Chudden Moonknife was. Jay implicates Kaylee as being a motivating or driving factor behind this. Investigators asked Jay to explain Kayleigh as being a motivating or driving factor behind this.
Starting point is 00:32:45 Investigators asked Jay to explain what motivation Kayleigh might have to kill her father. According to Jay, Kayleigh had grown increasingly tired of her father's attempts to control her dating life. Jay's belief is that her father's main tour and has too many rules. And she wants her dad dead because she believes with him dead, she'll be allowed to live with her mom,
Starting point is 00:33:12 and she'll be happy, and she and J can be together. J alleged that Kayleigh Fryer asked him on numerous occasions to murder her father. At first, he said, no. But when Kaylee's brother got kicked out of the home, Kaylee found a new opportunity to once more ask Jay to kill her dad. And this time, she revealed a secret that, according to Jay,
Starting point is 00:33:38 finally persuaded him to take her plans seriously. He was told by Miss Friar that she was pregnant with his child. Jay said that, you know, Kayleigh said her dad would never agree to them being together. She wanted to live with him and them have a family together,
Starting point is 00:33:58 and that she had given him this plan of how they were able to do this. This is somebody who's been kicked out of his house. And Kayleigh offers him a plan that they're going to go live with her mother. They're going to be happy. They're going to have a place to live. And this just offers him something that he can't turn down. Ultimately, Jay agreed to help Kayleigh.
Starting point is 00:34:25 He arrived at the fri's house in the early morning hours of May 10th, after Kaylee had called to let him know that her father was asleep. Mr. Childs was told to come into the residence through the unlock back door after they had went to bed. She would leave the back door open. She also showed him which knife to use that was in a block. went to bed. She would leave the back door open. She also showed him which knife to use that was in a block
Starting point is 00:34:50 of knives that was located on the kitchen counter and instructed him to go into the bedroom and stab Mr. Fryer to death. He talks about he's going with you to murder him. Mr. Charles had stated he was standing at the foot of the bed, looking at Mr. Friar while Mr. Friar was sleeping, and stated that he almost didn't do it. He says that he stood over him and Louie moved a little bit,
Starting point is 00:35:20 and he just started stabbing. Jay says he paid because he didn't know what Louis was going to do. Mr. Child stated that Miss Fryer did not come in to assist him during the attack, that she had stayed in her room during the entire incident. Jay tells investigators that after Louis was dead, he fled in Louis' car. Kaley told him where he keeps the keys to the car.
Starting point is 00:35:48 Mr. Child stated that he did take the vehicle and did drive to Oklahoma City, like he was instructed. He says that after the murder, that when he flees, he throws the knife out the window, somewhere off of I-35. Jay says once he got to Oklahoma City, he ditched the car and called Kaylee. They talked for a minute, and Kaylee said
Starting point is 00:36:15 that she was going to call 911, as soon as she hung up. The plan was that Kaylee would make arrangements to meet him at the mall or pick him up at the mall. This would never happen. Jay had been phoning, trying to get a hold of Miss Friar, that she was supposed to have picked him up. He thinks she and her mother are coming to pick him up at the mall and they never arrived.
Starting point is 00:36:42 He went on to state that he mall, and they never arrived. He went on to state that he did regret and felt very bad about what had happened to Mr. Friar. Authorities officially charged J. Childs with first degree murder. They then obtained an arrest warrant for Kayley Friar, who has been in her mother's custody since the investigation began. At 10.40pm that evening, less than 16 hours after the 15-year-old had called 911, police arrest Kayley outside a restaurant where she's eating dinner with her mother.
Starting point is 00:37:27 She was crying. She was pretty upset. I don't know. She's upset. She got caught, where she was upset that she realized that she was a part of Killer Dad. Kaylee lawyers up immediately. Once you get asked for an attorney, you're not interviewed. Kayleigh was booked into the Logan County jail, there in Guthrie, and she was charged
Starting point is 00:37:50 with one count of murder in the first degree. With the alleged co-conspirators behind bars, investigators must decipher if what J. told them is true. I was very shocked. It just didn't make sense how she could just all of a sudden want her dad dead. And it also didn't make sense that Jay would just go do it. I was just kind of blown away that a 15-year-old can convince
Starting point is 00:38:19 a 21-year-old to kill her dad. killed her dad. In Guthrie, Oklahoma, 15-year-old Kaley Fryer and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Jay Childs, have been arrested for the murder of Kaley's father, Louis Fryer. While Jay has admitted to the stabbing, he's implicated Kaley as the crime's true mastermind. Anytime you have a 15-year-old child that dislikes her dad so much to put a plan in place to kill him, I mean, it shocked a lot of people in our community. When investigators secure warrants for Kayleigh's phone records, her communication with Jay
Starting point is 00:39:03 only strengthens his claims. Kaley had told the additional investigator, Michael Dean, that she slept through the night. We know the murder happened approximately 3am, but at 3.30am, she is awake and accessing the internet through her phone. And then we know at 6.59 is the call from Jay Childs before she makes the 911 call.
Starting point is 00:39:26 She's there in the house with her father's body from 3 a.m. until law enforcement arrived shortly after 7. So about 4 hours, you have to wonder, you know, what was she doing all that time? Kaley's phone records aren't the only damning evidence investigators uncover. Upon searching the residents, they had found a diary that was Miss Fryer's diary.
Starting point is 00:39:55 Upon reviewing the diary, there were several different entries pertaining to how much she hated her father. It was very hateful things that she had written. With Kaylee's trial looming, authorities receive surprising news from the women's prison. All the jail phone calls are recorded. And normally before trial, we have an investigator assigned or someone assigned to listen to the jail calls.
Starting point is 00:40:24 But the fact that Kaylee was not pregnant came out and jail phone calls with her mother. When J. Childs learns of the development, he's heartbroken. This is another piece of the puzzle. The fact that she was not pregnant is Kaylee manipulating J. Childs to do what she wants. She manipulated J into doing what she wanted,
Starting point is 00:40:50 and she got what she wanted. In July 2010, J. Childs makes the decision to plead guilty to his role in the crime. In exchange for Mr. Child's testimony, he agreed to a plea bargain of first-degree murder and theft of an auto. If he would testify truthfully at her trial, the state would not request a life without parole for him
Starting point is 00:41:24 that it would only be life. In May 2011, one year after her father's murder, 16-year-old Kayley Fryer is tried as an adult in a Logan County courtroom. If it's a crime of homicide or an aggravated felony of some degree, they can choose to charge her as an adult. At trial, Jay took the stand and he testified against Kayleigh. It was emotional testimony.
Starting point is 00:41:56 He was very honest and is it a brutal account of what happened? I believe Jay's motive for it all was to have a happily ever after life with Kay. I honestly think she wasn't looking at that life to be with Jay. And her whole thing with the plan was as long as she don't do the murder, she's not going down. Despite Kaylee's claims of innocence, a jury finds her guilty of first-degree murder on May 17, 2011. Kayleigh Fryer was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder. In the state of Oklahoma, life with parole is determined to be 45 years, and it is an 85% crime. You have to serve 85% of that 45-year sentence
Starting point is 00:42:53 before you're eligible for parole. And Jerry Childs received the same sentence. Jay made his own decisions, and he stood over an innocent person with a knife and brutally stabbed him to death. Kayleigh was the mastermind behind this. If it hadn't been for her words, this would have never happened and her father would be alive. I'm still not sure that she had much to do with it.
Starting point is 00:43:25 She was 15 years old. She didn't do the stabbing. He did. And I honestly think he probably should have got more time. I think both Kayleigh and Jay had problems and they fed off of each other. Our belief is and always will be that justice has been served in this case, that Kayleigh Friar, despite her age, the jury was able to see the facts of the case, the jury was able to discern the truth,
Starting point is 00:44:02 and they were able to render both a verdict and recommend a sentence that we believe is just for the death of Lewis Keith Friar. The most disturbing thing to me is, God-named Mr. Friar was doing the absolute best he could to raise his daughter as a single parent. And this is the return he gets for trying to make her do what's right.
Starting point is 00:44:30 This is a dad that would even forgive Kaylee if everything was true. He would forgive her anyway. That's how I'd want him to be remembered. Kaylee Friar will be eligible for parole in 2056. She will be 61 years old. J. Childs will be eligible for parole in 2077 at the age of 88.

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