Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik kill teenager Cassie Jo Stoddart

Cassie Jo Stoddart’s boyfriend makes a bombshell revelation

Matt also revealed a fact that would change the course of the case. He told investigators that two classmates from the teen school, Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, were also at the house on September 22nd.

They had come by and watched Kill Bill: Volume 2 before leaving around 9:30 p.m. When questioned by police, Draper and Adamcik said they went to the movies after they left.

When neither teenager could remember what the movie they supposedly went to was about, it sparked an outcry. A theater employee who went to school with the teens confirmed they were not at the theater.

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“We knew they were lying to us,” Ganske said. “Now we have to figure out why they’re lying to us?”

When confronted by police, Draper said he and Adamcik lied about stealing cars. He denied having anything to do with Cassie’s murder.

Draper agreed to take a lie detector test the next day. But before the exam began, he was distraught and said he needed to talk to investigators.

Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik become suspects

Accompanied by his parents, Draper stated that he and Adamcik secretly returned to the house where Cassie was caring for their pet. They turned off the power to scare Cassie and wore masks to disguise themselves.

Draper claimed he was shocked when Adamcik began stabbing Cassie. “It was supposed to be a joke,” he said.

Draper eventually led investigators to an area near Blackrock Canyon in Idaho, where he and Adamcik had buried evidence of their heinous crime.

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A shocking video was found

Among the clothing, weapons and masks was a burned videotape. Experts were able to save the tape – and what was on it left experienced detectives cold.

The video showed that Draper and Adamcik were determined to make their own real-life version of the slasher film Scream. It started with the scene of Cassie at her school locker.

Draper and Adamcik recorded themselves in the library and created a “death list.” Cassie was targeted because her killers believed she was alone in the house looking after herself.

“She has to be the right one,” Draper said. “We have to stick to the plan.”

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When the teenagers came over and watched a movie, their motivations were far more sinister. They were there to get a feel for the layout of the house and secretly unlock a basement door so they could sneak back in later.

The pair recorded themselves waiting nearby before returning to carry out their deadly plan. If Matt had stayed, police say it would have been a double murder.

“Shortly after Matt left, it was time for the final act,” Morrison continued Dateline.

The teenagers cut the power again. Wearing masks and gloves and armed with hunting knives, they crept upstairs and slaughtered Cassie.

“We just killed Cassie,” one of them said in the video. “This isn’t a joke.”

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Anna Stoddart died of cancer in 2022. In 2009 Dateline In the interview, she talked about how her beloved daughter Cassie’s time was stolen.

“The way she was taken away from us just wasn’t fair,” Anna said. “Too young, she had too much more to do in her life.”