Nov. 27, 2024

Chapter 87: Murder in the Mine-The Murders of Breezy Otteson and Riley Powell

Chapter 87: Murder in the Mine-The Murders of Breezy Otteson and Riley Powell

Teenagers Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson were wildly in love and looking forward to building a future together. After childhoods filled with various hardships and heartache, they finally found love and happiness. However, everything would change in...

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Teenagers Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson were wildly in love and looking forward to building a future together. After childhoods filled with various hardships and heartache, they finally found love and happiness. However, everything would change in December 2017 when the actions of a jealous man would cut their lives short.

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a lot, so I haven't had the time that I

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would like to dedicate to researching. I have a couple

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of cases on the back burner that we are slowly

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getting through. But today CJ has so graciously helped me out.

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The story I have for you today is one that

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is so senseless and the fact that it should not

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have happened, and no murder should happen. However, this case

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really hit me hard because it is so terrible and

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it is so heartbreaking for two young people to have

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lost their lives. The story I have for you today

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is the murders of Breezy Otsen and Riley Powell. Their

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love was special. For one, it was young loves, true

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love brielin. Breezy Odsen was only seventeen years old and

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she had been dealing with the death of her mom

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for several years, and she was struggling to feel young again.

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But she found that love from her boyfriend, Riley Powell.

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Now Riley was eighteen years old, and there were many

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times that he too struggled to feel loved, but with

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Breezy he felt warmth and comfort. Riley had gotten into

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a bit of trouble in high school. He had taken

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a gun to school, not for anything nefarious, but because

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he had plans to go rabbit hunting after But as

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everyone knows, bringing a gun to school is not good

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for anybody. Because of this, Riley was actually sent to

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a boy's home and he ended up changing schools, graduating,

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and he got a job as a plumber. Now, the

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young couple's dreams were of having a future and a

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family together someday, and in fact, over Thanksgiving of twenty seventeen,

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Brazy told her aunt that she might actually be pregnant.

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For the time being, though the young couple were living

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with Riley's dad in Eureka, Utah. Now Eureka is about

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seventy five miles south of Salt Lake City and part

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of Juab County. It sits in the East Tintic Mountains,

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and East Tintik was named for a U tribal chief

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named Tintik. Eureka is also located in the Tintick Mining District,

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which has hundreds of abandoned mines in the vicinity. Or Gold, silver, copper,

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and lead were the popular resources of these mines. The

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area continues to serve as a historical site of a

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time of great prosperity for many now. Another couple with

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great importance to this story would be the couple of

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Jared Baum and Morgan Lewis Henderson. This couple was much

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older than Ryley and Breezy. This older couple had a

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lot more baggage that they carried with them as well.

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Forty one year old Jared was a wildly crazy jealous man.

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He'd leave their house in Mammoth, Utah and tell Morgan

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she'd better not ever have any male visitors while he

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was away, and Morgan always promised that she wouldn't. Jared

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had also been in and out of jail ever since

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the age of fifteen, when he had robbed a Burger

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King fast food restaurant. Thirty four year old Morgan, on

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the other hand, was actually acquainted with Riley, as she

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had dated the much younger man briefly at one time,

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and the two of them remained friends. You know, a

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few days after Christmas, Morgan would call up Riley and

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make plans for him to come over to the house.

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After Jared had left. Morgan wanted to smoke some weed

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and she knew Riley could score some now. Riley told

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Morgan he would only come over if he could bring

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Breezy too, which Morgan was fine with. She said, that's fine,

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no problem, that both of you can come over. That

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December twenty ninth, Riley and Breezy spent some after Christmas

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time celebrating the holidays with Breezy's relatives, and later in

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the evening, they drove to Jared and Morgan's home in

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Riley's cheap Now, Jared was not home, and remember he said,

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under no circumstances could Morgan have men in the house

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if he was not there.

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Now.

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Not long after hanging out and smoking some weed, Jared

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would actually arrive home and freak out at the presence

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of Riley and Breezy in their home. He flew off

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the handle at Morgan for disobeying him, and then he

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bound Riley and Breezy. He tied both teenagers up and

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ductate their mouths. In fear for her own safety, Morgan

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knew she was in big trouble with Jared, and she

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became complicit in assisting him. Jared dragged both Riley and

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to Riley's jeep and shoved each one of them into

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the back seat. He yelled at Morgan to get into

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the passenger seat. The gee pulled up to an abandoned

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mind shaft. Jared got out of Riley's jeep and pulled

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ball teenagers out of the jeep as well. Morgan got

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out of the car and waited for further instruction from

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her boyfriend. While roughing the teenage couple up, Jared removed

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the duct tape from their mouths now Breezy asked if

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she could be untied, as she was pregnant and her

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hands were going numb. Jared just chuckled and congratulated both

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of the teens on their pregnancy, and he told Breezy

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no because they were almost there. He led them to

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the front of the mine. Jared made Morgan neil on

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the ground. He then ordered Breezy tinniel beside Morgan. Breezy

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did as she was told. Her sobs were loud and

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tears heavily streamed down her cheeks. Jared made her watch

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as he'd beat Riley bloody, and then he removed a

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knife from his pocket. Morgan reached over and held one

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of Breezy's bound hands. Jared repeatedly stabbed Riley, and Riley

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fell to the ground and was gurgling. He managed to

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sputter out the words I'm dying. Jared stabbed Riley a

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few more times and then waved at him, saying, quote, goodbye, Riley,

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you piece of shit, as he rolled Riley down a

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two thousand foot mind shaft. Satisfied with what he had

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just done to Riley, Jared walked over to a terrified Breezy,

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who was pleading and promising she would tell no one

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would happen there that night. I guess Jared was feeling

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a little bit more remorseful, a little more soft due

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to the crying, whimpering Breezy because he walked behind Breezy

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and Morgan. He told Breezy would all be okay. As

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he stood her up and held her from behind, Jared

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decided to end her life quickly and painlessly. He slid

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her throat and then he pushed her into the mind

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shaft too. Morgan suddenly felt warm blood on her leg

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and it was from breezy. Morgan was also crying as

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she watched Jared use his foot to try and cover

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all the blood on the ground by moving dirt around.

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Morgan more than once thought she too would be dying

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that night. As the dust settled, Jared wiped any residual

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blood on the knife off on his jeans. He folded

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up the knife and put it back in his pocket.

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He kneeled in front of Morgan and told her to

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pull herself together and that she needed to help him

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clean up the mess or he'd hurt her and her son.

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They soon were both trying to cover blood with the dirt. Now,

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Jared got back into Riley's jeep and told Morgan to

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also get in. As Jared shut the driver's side door,

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he said to Morgan, quote, I told you you couldn't

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have guy friends. The couple abandoned Riley's jeep behind some

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trees about a mile from Cherry Creek Reservoir, and Jared

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made sure to slash two of the jeep's tires so

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it looked as if maybe the driver was in distress

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and just left their jeep there. On January second, twenty eighteen,

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Riley and Breezy were reported missing and a search for

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the two teens was underway. Search and rescue teams looked

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nearly everywhere they could think of, including out some of

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the mines, but they never looked in the minds as

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they were too deep. On January nights, on a tip

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from either Breezy's family or Riley's dad, police went to

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Jared and Morgan's home. They answered the home and began

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to ask Jared and Morgan questions. The couple answered that

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they heard Riley got into a physical altercation on New

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Year's Eve, but they didn't know with who, the reason, why,

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or what happened to Riley and Breezy. Afterwards, police left

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to go soak in with the couple had just told them,

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and to see if they could find any leads of

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Briley being in a fight on New Year's Eve. On

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January eleventh, Riley's sheep was located and impounded. Police obtained

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to search Warren for Riley's mother's house, and it would

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seem the police immediately suspected foul play in the disappearance

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of Riley and Breezy, but I'm not fully sure why

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they would suspect Riley's mom. There's been no information about

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the relationship between them and his mother being hostile, but

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either way, she was cleared. Still at an impasse in

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the case, police decided to visit Morgan again on January

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twenty fifth, based on a Facebook conversation that they had

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found where they read that Morgan had invited Riley and

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Brazy to her home on the twenty ninth. Now, Jared

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was there, and the police conducted their second interview of

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Morgan inside their police car at her and Jared's residence,

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but Jared had to stay outside and just watch so

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as not to influence her witness statement. Now, not having

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Jared with her to take over the conversation or answer

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for her, Morgan still told the police the teens never

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came to visit her the night of December twenty ninth,

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like they were supposed to. Detectives continued to press Morgan,

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and she finally admitted that, yes, the kids did come over.

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They stayed about forty minutes, then they left, and after

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they left, she had no idea where they were. Morgan

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had just outed herself as a liar to law enforcement. Obviously,

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the heat was on and time was closing in on

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the lying Morgan and her jealous boyfriend. Police were keeping

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an eye on the couple, and on March twenty third,

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Morgan was pulled over for speeding. A search of her

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car turned up on registered weapons in illegal drugs, and

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Morgan was arrested. At the station, Morgan was again questioned

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about Breezy and Riley. She finally admitted to withholding knowledge

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about the two teenagers who were missing. She told the

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detectives her boyfriend Jared Baum had murdered them, and she

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also told them exactly where they could find the teen's

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bodies in Tintic Standard mine number two. When police went

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again to search the mine Morgan had told them about,

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they put a long wired camera with a light down

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the mine shaft. About one hundred feet down is where

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they found the slightly decomposing bodies of Breezy and Riley,

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still bound by rope. On March twenty eighth, Jared was

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arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Breezy and Riley.

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A few days later, Jared is charged with two counts

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of first degree murder, along with a storing of other

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related felonies. The medical examiner revealed Breezy was actually not

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pregnant as she had suspected, so there were no charges

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in relation to a possible murder of their fetus. Jared's

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day in court turned into a month long trial. Now

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Morgan agreed to testify against Jared, her now ex boyfriend,

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in exchange for a plea deal which earned her three

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years in prison for obstructing justice. Morgan told the court

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that they had went home after dumping Riley's cheap They

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had burdened her clothes and showered and scrubbed their bodies

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with bleach. Jared dumped his knife in an old oil drum,

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and Riley's cays were buried in multiple dirt piles. Morgan

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also testified she was so distraught with the guilt of

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the teenagers being murdered she bought an illegal gun in

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some mushrooms. She was driving to the mountains to kill

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herself when she was pulled over for speeding and taken

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to jail. Now the defense tried to play upon the

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fact that Morgan lies. She lied to the police a

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number of times before coming clean, but the prosecution pointed

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out Morgan has been reliable since she told the truth.

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She led police to the teen's bodies and evidence surrounding

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the case. After the month long trial that happened four

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years after the murders, the jury deliberated for eighteen days

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and came back with a guilty verdict for Jared. At first,

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the prosecution was deciding if they wanted to seek the

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death penalty, but they ultimately decided against it and to

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go for a life sentence without parole. Much to the

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chagrin of the teen's families. The judge sentenced Shared to

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life without the possibility of parole. In twenty twenty three,

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the Tenttik Standard number two Mine was sealed, preventing any

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more public access or tragedies from occurring there. However, many

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of the other minds in the vicinity were purchased by

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the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining with the

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intentions of reclamation and reopening them. These were wildly senseless murders.

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These two teenagers, Riley and Breezy, had done nothing wrong.

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They were good kids. They were just looking forward to

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their future together. They were both vibrant young teenage barely adults,

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and Jared Bomb, in his irrational jealousy, killed them for

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hanging out with his wife or his girlfriend. And part

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of me sympathetic to Morgan because she didn't want to

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be in that situation. I truly believe that she only

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went along with it out of self preservation. You know,

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she herself did not lay a hand on the two,

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and while she lied, I know that a lot of

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those lies were probably out of fear of retaliation from Jared.

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This was a short one today, or I guess you

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can consider it more of a mini chapter, a short chapter,

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a mini episode, what have you. But big appreciations to

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CJ for helping me out this week. There's just a

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lot going on for me behind the scenes, but I

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have a few days off coming up. I'm going to

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spend all of that time researching and working on Lisa's

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Christmas present and trying to take a very long nap.

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But again, head on over to Beyond the Rainbow. T're

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crying to the LGBTQ and show CJ some love for

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the work she did on this episode and again helping

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me out. We love her dearly. She is wonderful. Go

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say something nice to her. She deserves all of the

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good vibes forever and ever. But with that, I will

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leave you to enjoy your thanksgiving for those that are

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in America and celebrating Thanksgiving this week or tomorrow by

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the time you listen to this and with that, I

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will see you in the next chapter of the Book

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of the Debt. Bye guys, thank you so much for

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and just remember, please be kind and don't forget to

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always stay safe, stay curious, and stay vigilant. Bye guys,

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Bye night.