And I was driving about as fast as I could. That was probably the longest two or three seconds of my life from the first not guilty and then to the next one and then out it came one by one. Have you always felt the things were your fault? When Dateline continues, Detective Seymour had been so sure Amber Smith knew the man who raped her and nearly killed her. Where does fiction end and reality begin? And would you like a hug? And for a minute it was like old times. And though Amber survived, if only barely her trauma, the ugliness of the crime made their mission personal. This is not accurate. How could this be? Yeah, I was scared everywhere. We did a search warrant for specific keywords that Stefan had used in his interview about what the ad had said. Amber passed out at an outdoor picnic table. Also known as Bryec S Bailey. 0:00. A sentence that would last more than a lifetime moon won't be eligible for parole until the year 21 15, when he'd be more than 130 years old. Sam. I started crying before the judge even said anything. Detective Seymour pushed ahead, had to, but medicated, exhausted, traumatized. Staks Pancake Kitchen. And she asked if I would be willing to do the phone call. Bryce Bailey is on Facebook. When Dateline continues. I remember that vividly. The university is pushing the administration to look for room in the Tuscaloosa area to develop. I needed to figure out who did this before. Like we need to figure out who this guy is. I have fought for my life because of my son. Just as striking was the testimony of Jason's parents . So I would be talking to her Detective Seymour, one on one as tears rolled down his face. And if she did, would she be right or wrong? But not quite for Officer Dane Stratton, the cop who found and rescued Amber in the park. But surely he couldn't be because of how brutal it was. We got a CODIS hit on this case. And if all that wasn't bad enough, no, Amber had to deal with something far more difficult, something Detective Seymour asked her to do, call him confront Sam Moon on the phone. In the rush to market, to license to third parties or to create new software-as-a-service (SaaS), companies . Victimization. What? And every time there was a violent sexual assault here in town, I was certain it was my guy until it wasn't. Or if she didn't, he'd be a predator who had committed other similar crimes. Her voice steady, calming as she gently lowered the boom. It's inspiring. Dateline - Watch episodes on NBC.com and the NBC App. Thank goodness I became intoxicated. Who was that man on top of her? Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Well, no one saw that coming. Coming up, a bone chilling tale of terror as I was screaming, trying to break free. Sam answered. He didn't have a face or a name. And new crimes were demanding attention. I'm Lester Holt, thanks for joining us. But did you feel any safer? Yes. The thing was, it wasn't just the call she dreaded. And now time was running out. No, not at first. Um, yeah. From the 2013 incident, the one I told you about, the one I wrote down to you and told you about multiple times. The answer? She had a hard time speaking because her jaw hurt so badly. And the defense said, although even Sam's attorney acknowledged there was no evidence to show Amber posted anything on Craigslist anyway, the defense told the jury Amber was found in a puddle of fluid. Because I thought I was my friend. Not once. The suspect was arrested and booked and swabbed all routine. I can't leave my son behind. Yeah. And then hurried back to the hospital to try one more time to probe Amber for anything else, anything at all she could remember, and remarkably, despite injuries that could have killed her, she was somehow getting better, well enough to begin to relate a real life nightmare. So that tells us that the same individual that sexually assaulted her left DNA on the duct tape that was wrapped around her body. Evening again, one day later, Fort Collins, Colorado, and once again restaurants and bars began to fill with young people eager to meet new friends. So what the searches showed me was that he still had a propensity towards rape and hurting women. Mind you, Saddam himself tried to do that, too. I don't know how this is happening. A one hit wonder, is he? That one took a while. The hot bike thing is, Colorado frowns heavily on people who sell hot goods to pawnbroker's, which in the state of Colorado is a felony to lie. Between 1986 and 1989, at least eight people were murdered near or along Virginias Colonial Parkway by an apparent serial killer. The evening air was warm and thick with anticipation, college students returning a new mixed and drank and laugh with young locals and darkness fell on Fort Collins, Colorado. I mean, we were chasing down everything we could. It wasn't him. Dateline Crime Capsule: The O.J. I was overjoyed. Have a seat on the couch, though, because they were the two people who might know him best and for whom the news was a blow. But give up. Yeah, I wanted to know. OK, and again, he offered up his Craigslist story that he had responded to a personal ad, a woman offering free sexual favors in the park. Wayne told our producers a little more about the history of A Postcard from the Field: Meet Mr. Gresham, While on our travels in Gresham, Oregon, our producers met Todd Kirnan, a man also known as Mr. Gresham. We finally have an answer. I'm sorry I didn't hurt you. Discover short videos related to brycenbailey4 on TikTok. Yeah, and he was eager to provide me with a sample of his DNA to exonerate him. I was. And there was screaming and yelling and excited us on the other side of the phone. Yeah, definitely. Slow it down. We got some news about the duct tape case. I never, ever, ever, never heard or Detective Seymour does not bluster or threaten and she didn't hear. My personal business thanasis out for everybody. She ended up getting pregnant with Gabriel and our relationship kind of grew from there. While in Salida, Colorado, working on an all-new Dateline, our producers asked some Coloradans what they love about Salida. So she went on Facebook and found this picture. You just can't make up what happened next. Couldn't be true. But he also knew, I believe at that point in time that something had happened to Amber because he was in connection with other people that she knew. Good situation. The DNA was huge, of course, but if Amber could somehow elicit a confession from Sam, the case would be ironclad. Investigators just didn't look hard enough for that. A community is on edge after a 27-year-old Egypt Covington is shot to death in her Michigan home. Usually have somebody you can look at. Join me as we go into the roots of inequality and economic injustice and racial injustice. Everybody called him Sam. If somebody looked at me for longer than, you know, a few seconds, I would get suspicious. But not everyone was satisfied, Sam Moon's parents, the mortified by what their son had done and what it all meant for their family, were not so convinced that he was the one who beat and bound that in duct tape. No, I wasn't so interested in. Six chances for you to help bring somebody home. That's all I wanted. He insisted again and again that he was innocent, that this was all a mistake and it was not a rapist. Her hands were processed, her face was her neck. And what do you remember next? A New Jersey federal judge is the intended target during an attack at her home. And I've seen my share of a pretty horrible things. So they're from a part in her history that she was involved in some more risky type behavior, wasn't always making the best choices. My heart's in my throat. Of course, it wasn't Ember's fault, but she couldn't see it then. It was that DNA that matched the sample recovered from Amber. And when I saw that picture of him, he didn't really look like a bogeyman, not quite the monster she expected raped Amber, beat her within an inch of her life and left her to die, trussed up and helpless in red duct tape. Bailey, was living in the basement and . Had you ever encountered a thing like that before? She swabbed all areas of the tape. Sam insisted he'd responded to a personal ad on Craigslist, and that must be how she picked up his DNA. What did you think about that? No, she felt guilty. Did they give you a script to read or anything like that? My whole world is flipped upside down. But not much you. Unless that is, unless he was telling the truth, Detective Seymour wasn't finished investigating. Right in the center of downtown Fort Worth, Texas is a 5-acre park known as the Fort Worth Water Gardens. And yet Amber could not believe that the man in the picture was him. Explore the latest . Dana Stratton, the first responder, tried to be businesslike on the stand, he couldn't do it. OK. Oh, Sam kept talking. She answered the door and I said, we got a hit. A resident of Fort Collins, Colorado, Stefan Moon, resided with his housemate, Bryce Bailey, at the time of the attack. My recollection is it all got used up. Not really. And then, nearly a week after the attack on Amber, DNA analyst Melissa Grass picked up the phone and called Detective Seymour with the news. Lost consciousness, and then she woke up in a cold piece of pavement in a different part, now naked, but for the red duct tape that bound her. And still, Detective Seymour hadn't been able to decipher from Amber exactly what happened to her, and so 13 hours into her investigation, she returned to the hospital. Coming up, why Amber couldn't believe what she'd been told, there's no way this is the wrong guy. The next day, Bryan Moon and his wife Susie came down to the police station to tell Detective Seymour about their son. It's a new kind of family dynamic, isn't it? And should he be able to walk around in our community that it's just a matter of time before he goes off again? This was the person who did that. So when I performed my statistical analysis in this case, the statistic was one in 10 quintillion. Would I have like an anxiety attack, just like the overwhelming sense of like of doom? We found it really on her injuries and then on the tape, all of it matching only the man arrested for that small time bike theft. It's my world. And we didn't want to let her down. That's how police got Sam's DNA and Bryce back and forth. Sam, her former housemate. The next day. And, you know, certainly on Craigslist, there are some seedy stuff that happens. And then right after he threw out that disturbing story, Sam ended the call, the conversation with them. This is not right. I was shaking. Dane Stratton, the patrol cop still haunted by what happened to Amber by what he saw in the park, had been just as sure Amber wasn't her attacker, his first victim. And then suddenly it dawned on her what this picture could mean. Did you tell him what your situation was and what had happened to you? Last year, there was a victim of identity theft every three seconds, which means a criminal could be spending your money, applying for loans in your name, damaging your credit, or even selling your personal info on the dark web. Yeah, that's a place I'd never want to go. I was terrified that he was going to strike again. Bryce joined Baker McKenzie's IP Practice Group following his graduation from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2020. Well, Detective Chaban Seemore raced against an awful possibility, maybe a probability that a serial kidnapper, rapist killer had moved into her town. EXPAND ALL. Did you find his DNA anywhere else, either on her body or on the. Select this result to . A murder plot. She wasn't at all sure they got the right man harmless so that I would describe him as harmless. And then the fact that I was alive and the fact that they gave me an alias for the hospital live so that nobody could find you. And I remember jumping out of bed and calling her and she told me that we had a DNA hit and I was so happy I was over the moon took forever. She's naked, she's bound, there's just red all over her face. Detective Seymour hope the moons might offer some insight into Sam and the odd habits of fetishes, even sexual deviances of their 30 something year old couch surfing son. Oh my God, Amber, I, I, I don't know what to say. Zero. Get the latest news, stats, videos, highlights and more about offensive lineman Bryce Bailey on ESPN. I was involved. It was Detective Seymour who told the story for the jury. I went through some of the things that he had Googled and which is gross, gross stuff. So there are ads that. Join Facebook to connect with Bryce Bailey and others you may know. I mean, we could have I mean, it's not realistic. Looking for Bryce Bailey? She sentenced him to twenty eight years to the remainder of his natural life. And then I said there was a bicycle, the pawn shop and a small domestic drama. A romantic early morning cruise on Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ends in tragedy. You're afraid you failed. That's my baby. Coming up, for investigators, the depths of despair, I felt helpless. Frustrating. They said they heard screams coming from the park. You have something to offer her. Did you have fun with somebody last night and he beat the hell out of me and told me you killed her before anything quietly in her almost gentle way, Detective Seabaugh pushed back. If you got nothing. I was scared. And then it was. Dateline Crime Capsule: The Golden State Joseph James DeAngelo has pleaded guilty to 13 murders ascribed to the Californias Golden State Killer. The serial killer attacked women and couples throughout the 1970s through 1980s. Yeah, a huge and just mind screw, if you will, just that this person that you developed a relationship with and trusted not only betrayed you, attacked you, assaulted you, and may have tried to kill you. We expected that it would either hit to other cases or to an offender in the database or of course, to the last person I remember being with Eric Vannak. I feel like I can finally move on with my life. It was four years since the attack on Amber Smith. Amber, who refused to call herself a victim, even faced her attacker in . I remember I didn't look at myself very thank God, three days. I was choked up. Yeah, it's a lot. None of this stuff makes sense to me. So why wasn't his DNA in the massive CODIS system? Goodness, we thought it possibly could have been Eric, the person she was with the night before. So I remember how I told you about that stuff that happened to me in 2013 about that guy that broke my jaw and stuff. Little Bejar, mostly guys. Yeah. Exceptionally sick. You just kept stammering and kept denying and denying. As she ran her tests, the crime labs, Melissa Grass was optimistic that a solid DNA profile would emerge and solve the mystery quickly. What's the next thing here? A new Dateline 24/7 channel, where it's all Dateline, all the time. Yeah, but all somebody is. This is not real. And afterwards he said he went home and told his roommate, Bryce Bailey, there's a girl in the park offering free sex. 1:26. Join Facebook to connect with Bryce Bailey and others you may know. Actress Lana Clarkson was dead, and thus began a six year legal process to convict a killer. Apparently no idea what was coming. It's broken down again, a smart and kind kid who did not always make the most intelligent choices, they said. Even with this powerful spotlight, he could still see nothing. Includes Address (11) Phone (4) See Results. We're going to get him. Siobhan Seymour had been steeped in crime fighting most all her life. A young woman survives a brutal attack and detectives work tirelessly to find a suspect. Unseen by the party crowd, a rookie cop named Dane Stratton prowled the streets around the Little City graveyard shift. But she was a mother, now two young boys. They have more than 20 years of experience providing online education to the military and working adults and offer low tuition, no cost digital materials and scholarships for those who qualify. No one can prevent all identity theft or monitor all transactions at all businesses. He was famous for doing stupid things, but nothing aggressive, nothing violent. So a significant match. And this tape on her forehead and face was just cutting into her skin. I was like, yes, the start of a new beginning. I picked up the phone and I was really excited to say to her, You're not going to believe what happened today, Melissa. In 1978, the bodies hundreds of followers of the Reverend Jim Jones were found, poisoned, in Jonestown, a jungle compound established in Guyana, a small South American country. And it was incredible to see red duct tape finding a woman alive enough to scream, but only just. She was wearing only a sock on one foot. It was one of those picture perfect days, the kind that draw people to life in Colorado. I know I'm going to do that. So often late at night in his patrol car, he prowled through city parks looking for what, a villain, a rapist, because if he'd done it once. And then when I saw my face, I was like, Who am I? What was truly astonishing to me was seeing this woman who had been so badly beaten, her face was so swollen. After Sam's arrest, Detective Seymour and her colleagues went to his parents house and, well, the others searched for evidence. She had to let it go. No, I don't even know Amber in 2013. Indiana Hoosiers . Did you have anything to do with the incident that happened to Amber in 2013? Almost exactly six years after a then 20-year-old Fort Collins woman woke up naked and bound with duct tape in a . Was there a point at which it came crashing down on you, it was him had to be him during the trial, wasn't it, till then? He drove in, guided now by the wailing sounds of the woman stranded somewhere in the dark. She didn't just swab the outside, which if you buy what the defense was trying to sell to that jury, the contamination would only be on the outside areas. He had to be out there, was he watching? So you can earn the credentials you need from wherever you are. We could have asked the whole town. Remember how he said he looked under his bedroom door and watched his friend Bryce Bailey commit the crime? Yeah, we have sex, I didn't hurt you, we had sex, we had sex, that Rossborough Park, Rossborough Park, remember, that was the place Amber had been drinking with a different friend. 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