06 SEP 96 0056 hours Gk re was November 4th, andr was giving a friend a ride hone late one night after returning fron & cross-country meet in Lubbock, Texas, Adrianne surprised me by asking me to take some turns that T knew were out of the way. After being dixected onto a dark path behind an old elementary scheol, I parked the car, The events that followed are not pleasing for me to relate, as they 9° completely against the moral background 1 have grown to appreciate, They were gexual activities, short-lived and hardly appreciated. aia willingly concede to the girl in these actions, but I knew they were wrong. Never before had T participated in anything $0 meaningless and painful. Painful, that is, because I was Letting down the one person T had awore to be faithful to. These actions were inmediately regretted. In an attempt to make them right, 1 confessed to TY goed friend coseph hours later. 1 simply asked for him to Listen, thea forget. If anyone ever tells Diane, 1 saidy it will be me. the month that followed was one of guilt and shame 1 was always being told by Diane that our relationship was 60 perfect and pure. The love we shared would never be broken and no one would never cone between us, No one, chat ie, except that one girl that had stolen from us our purity. could never hold anything from Diane, nor she from me. She knew in my eyes that something was wrong the moment 1 decide co confess. When I did tell hex, I thought the vexy life in her had been torn away, She was angry, she was violent, and ghe was broken. For at least an hour she screamed sobs that /}/7. Bt AA 96 56° ail / Le BLT ee 6 TT eoee 6a “94He wouldn't have thought posaible. tt wasn’t just jealousy. For Diane, she had been betrayed, deceived, and forgotten all in that one meaningless instant in November. The purity which she hald so dear had been tainted in that one unclean act, Diane had always held her virginity as one of her highest virtues. When we agreed to be married, she finally let her guard down long enough for our teenage hormones to kick in. When this pracious relationship we ‘had was damaged by my thoughtless actions, the only thing that could satiety her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place. Diatfe’s parents had similar She knew her father had problems in their relationsh: often cheated on her mother. Diane didn’t want Adrianne to be the same women for me that her father had in his affair. The request of Adrianne’s life was, net for a second, taken “lightly by me. I couldn’t even believe she would ask that of me. Well, Diane’s beautiful eyes have always played the strings of my heart effortlessly. 1 couldn’t imagine lige without her; not for a second did I want to lose her. 1 didn’t have any harsh feelings for Adrianne, but no one could stand between me and Diane. I was totally in love with her, and always will be, I regret it now, for never my school, my friends, Adrianne’s family, or even my community. 1 guess T just shut it all out of my mind in that instant when 2 did t imagine the heartache it would cau: convinced myself that Diane was even worth murder. After Diane gave me the ultimatum; I thought long and hard about how to carry out the crime, I was stupid, but 1 was in jeve. The plan was te call Adrianne and convince her to cone out to my car: that worked. The plan was to drive her Ay Det ke Db SEPIG Lt Yel 7Dash< Ed WOOP Saaz 6a “s24 5 CON xB a: Woeby near Jee Peol Lake: that worked. The plan was to (and this is not easy for me to confess) break her young neck and sink her to the bottom of the lake with the weights that ended up being hit into her head: chat didn’t work. Diane was hidden in the back of the car. tt was late, about 0030 hours on the morning of December 4th, 1998. 1 realized to late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies were just your usual Hollywood stunte. The quick and painless crime turned into something that basically scared the @#S% out of Diane and I. We realized that it was either her or us, and Diane struck her in the back of the head with one of the weights while I held her. 1 could see in Diane's eyes, that she was confused and scared. she was first acting out of passionate rage, but now she was fighting fron instinct. Adrianne somehow crawled through the window and, te our horror, ran off, I was panicky, and just grabbed the Makarov 9mm te follow. To our relief (at the time) she was Seo injured from the head wounds to go far. She ran inte a nearby field and collapsed. 1 wanted te just jump in and drive off.. We were both shaken and evan surprised by the ature of our actions, Neither Diane nor myself were ever violent people. In that short instant, I knew I coulda’t leave the key witness to our crime alive. 1 just pointed and shot. I was very confused and scared; I Probably looked like the perverbial headless chicken running around the erime scene. I fired again, and ran to the car. Diane and IT drove off. The girst things cut of our mouths were, *Z tove you,” followed by Diane’s “We shouldn’t have done that, David." Well, nice time to tell me. I just wanted it to he a dream. We took the quickest route to I-20, where wel Junk ( Gb SEP UG : Let Yash FF be 50f7 pages bd WYEPITT s2a2 6a “424 5 TON XUd 8: boatsLisacided to head'to a well-trusted friends hone, John Green Gid exactly as I suspected: allowed us through his window (the usual entrance place to his reom), allowed us to clean S, and even loaned me a pair of up and collect our shorts. ‘ My clething had blood stains on then, and we disposed of them in a dumpster near Diane’s house. We then went back to Diane’s house where we cleaned out the car and went co sleep by the fire. The next day, we returned the weights to my house, Diane was in shock. I was just scared.. Neither one of us knew why, anymore, we had just done that. The following days at school were so mentally tough, they make my sunmer at the Alr Force Academy look like a walk in the park. Never have I evan imagined so much guilt, They announced it on the intercom, my friends talked about it in the halls, everywhere 1 turned, someone was czying ox just staring in shock for reasons I alone was the cause of. I saw Adrianne’s mother in the grocery stores; f read articles of how her family was coping in the papers. One thing, in particular, hag haunted me constantly for the Past 8 months. I read a quote from Linda Jones, in which she said, “2 hope that her killer is out there, and he’s just being eaten up with guilt.” When T read thac, I just wanted it to all go away. f wanted te be able to drive Adrianne back home, to go to sleep, and to wake up back on December 3, free to make my decisions all over again. biane wanted to go back also. For weeks her infatuation was with just being able to go back before September 26, when che wrecked my truck and injured her hand. She wanted to change that, and she wanted to keep me from going to Lubbock. Diane was constantly depressed from the guilt. she was alscSy Land (Huber Gb SEP 16 BE bef Trages Sd WwEPITT Baae 6a “44 2 "ON XB4 a: weaDescared that I would be arrested. she used to worry herself sick in school ‘over me, and have to call me as soon as school was out’ to make gure I was OK. It didn’t really matter, however, what any police or detectives found. What happened was” over. Adrianne was gone, I was responsible, and it wasn’t going away. 7 “ON wud a: wea Sd WWEPITT eaae 6o “a4