They act out, they tell stories. If you got nothing. The story he believed would clear his name. Like, everything that was real is not real anymore, but it was certainly real to the two seasoned prosecutors. And get our conversation now for free wherever you download your podcasts. I thought about my son. Amber, after all, was slated to be their star witness and they needed her to help seal the case here for the first time since that night in the park, she would finally confront Simon face to face. The shooting was just the beginning of an investigation that would lead many to wonder if it could have been prevented. And you should never have to go through that and nobody should ever have to go through that. When Dateline continues, Detective Seymour had been so sure Amber Smith knew the man who raped her and nearly killed her. And then when you add health is a health injustice into what's at stake, people are going to be voting not for a person, but for stability and into what comes next into America, a podcast about who we are as Americans and who we want to become. Coming up, even on the eve of trial, Amber wasn't convinced Sam was her attacker. I was scared. Talk to kids in the middle and I would talk to people hanging out. Like how long? And there was a verdict. And then when you see the photos. 1:26. Join me as we go into the roots of inequality and economic injustice and racial injustice. Did you have anything to do with the incident that happened to Amber in 2013? I can't leave my son behind. I woke up the next day to a voicemail from the detective explaining what had happened to Amber. My parting words to Stephan Moon were, I want you to take a look at Amber Smith and remember her not as your victim, but as a victor. After four years, they finally had a suspect actually woke up to an email from Siobhan. But now she and her partner started all over again. The weight of it, as heavy as her first day in the hospital was like that sense of I'm not safe and I'm not going to be safe. He said he did not rape Amber. Sam answered. I thought it was rigged. You know that. He was disgusted and surprised that he didn't feel this. These types of perpetrators typically are first time offenders when you have a case that is so brutal. The body of 21-year-old Dianna Brice was found in a wooded lot in Southwest Philadelphia on Monday, April 5, 2021, nearly a week after she disappeared after leaving the K Laundry laundromat in . I would never be able to fully, you know, move on from it. Honestly, if this is his opening act, where's he going to go from here? SkyWest Airlines. I was like, there a mistake. Yeah. Eric echoed Amber story about drinking and Roxburgh Park having one too many in amber falling asleep. Yeah, I definitely thought I was still lurking, still trying to find me. I can just picture him smirking kind of a second. Melissa was like, we got him. So in my mind, a case of this gravity, we'll get an answer within days if we have the offender in CODIS, CODIS, the national DNA database that houses DNA profiles of people who have been arrested for or convicted of felonies. How did Bryce react to this? No, I don't even know Amber in 2013. Take a look back at the case in Dateline Crime Capsule. How important was it to your psychic health to learn who it was and to give some sort of justice? 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. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Can't die. A new Dateline 24/7 channel, where it's all Dateline, all the time. I remember I didn't look at myself very thank God, three days. So investigators watch the clock for the DNA results and speculated an attack like this is not somebody's first rodeo. Indiana Hoosiers . Someone who, with such force placed so much tape on her that sexually assaulted her, dragged her from the first park, took her to another location and deposited her in the middle of the second park, didn't leave any of their DNA. I did not hurt you, Amber, but that was a terrible thing to say. He insisted again and again that he was innocent, that this was all a mistake and it was not a rapist. I thought I would come back for me, even in the safe houses. Did you set yourself up? And so if they had stopped a car with a strange guy in it and he had red duct tape, they took his swabs, collected the duct tape. It had taken four long years to this moment in Amber Smith's little apartment, where Detective Chevon Seymour could finally tell her the news that the man who had raped and beaten and found her up, the red duct tape had been found. I had post-traumatic stress, not being able to sleep auditory, hearing her shouts. 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. And she said, yes, it was difficult to contain my joy that we had found him. . But not quite for Officer Dane Stratton, the cop who found and rescued Amber in the park. We could have asked the whole town. I thought they missed something but they did have one. We're not his. Why was she inside? I mean, he's been kind of a. But Sam wouldn't budge. Frantic Jesty rushed to the hospital, but the name on the room she was sent to wasn't dismissed because they didn't know who did it to her. I didn't hurt you. I don't know Amber. What was her condition when you got there? As he bent down to help, a fellow officer snapped these pictures and then sitting there in the cold, concrete, naked, afraid and terrible pain, a young woman looked up and told him her name. They all said they were shocked when they first set eyes on the baby-faced murder suspect. And then the judge asked if Dane Stratton had anything to say. So this one hit her hard, especially when she found out Amber had a son, too. Just a bunch of friends living together like the TV show, frankly, didn't feel a bit like that. Zero. The next day, Bryan Moon and his wife Susie came down to the police station to tell Detective Seymour about their son. Everyone's a suspect when you don't know who they are. As the call continues, Sam never wavered. What about in the O.J. About four o'clock in the morning, we get a call of a female's voice in a park screaming. Dude, how do you explain that. It's what they do. Yeah, we have sex. I'm Trymaine Lee, host of Into America, a podcast from MSNBC. OK. Oh, Sam kept talking. It was extremely emotional for me because it was so vivid when I was being asked about this crime scene. While in Salida, Colorado, working on an all-new Dateline, our producers asked some Coloradans what they love about Salida. Everybody called him Sam. I just can hear still to this day her screams of just agony, pain. Coming up, Sam Moon says he saw someone else attack Amber, he shot her at her home. It was like all the air had been sucked out of the room and she's like, no, you don't get it. The Bailey File Prepped at Castle (Ind.) Oh, my gosh. And this wound is never going to heal. The moon said they couldn't remember anything unusual. So we are just frantic trying to get any and all information that we can from her because is she going to be able to survive this? Apparently no idea what was coming. Even with this powerful spotlight, he could still see nothing. Victimization. I picked up the phone and I was really excited to say to her, You're not going to believe what happened today, Melissa. Like, who is this guy? Was it a stranger, a friend. And there were so many problems. Was it his buddy Eric or someone else altogether? | Reuters. Bryce S Bailey, 57. 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. That's how police got Sam's DNA and Bryce back and forth. Dateline sat down at the desk of assistant producer Linda Zhang to learn more about her. Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. That's still fun. No, I wasn't so interested in. Coming up, a call from the crime lab that was really excited to say to her, you're not going to believe what happened today. You can hear his wheels spinning as he's trying to create the story that is somehow plausible, given the evidence he's trying to figure out how to make what we have matched, something that could have happened. Like, I know. Oh, I think I could tell you about Sam as day is a constant liar. 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. At the Desk Of: Marissa Hoffman, Dateline During this game of "Fill in the Blank," learn more about Dateline associate producer, Marissa Hoffman. So she fought, struggled to breathe, and then the rope got tighter. So from lation, you went right back down again. My personal business thanasis out for everybody. Instead, her son and husband are shot when a gunman opens fire at their front door. I'm Lester Holt. I didn't see anything about her, nothing. I wanted him to say I did this to you and I'm sorry. So you can earn the credentials you need from wherever you are. Besides, people who know Stefan mentioned that he was considered to be a loner and kept . It's OK, no, it's OK. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. But what this job has taught me time and time again is people are not always who you think they are. The last person Amber remembered being with, her friend Eric Bana, Gunnis Detective Seymour got a warrant, tracked his name and address. She routinely asked us, are you guys sure? Your friend needs this. But they were in a different park, not the one where she was found. Get your free dark web scan at LifeLock dotcom slash scan. I love Sarah. Dateline Crime Capsule: The O.J. The doctors assessed her head injury, patched up the rest of her as best they could. I'm a nurse and I say all I hear is that Shamoon was an unlikely suspect for sure, and he'd offered alibis. Was it remotely possible he was telling the truth or what? 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. And afterwards he said he went home and told his roommate, Bryce Bailey, there's a girl in the park offering free sex. So I would drive my police car through the park. She had a hard time speaking because her jaw hurt so badly. He left her for dead. It doesn't define me anymore. The other part to keep in mind is if it wasn't Steffon Moon, there was no one else's DNA there. I don't know. Yeah. And though Amber survived, if only barely her trauma, the ugliness of the crime made their mission personal. I'm never going to find out, but I'm never going to find out. You just can't make up what happened next. Little Bejar, mostly guys. I think he was surprised that we were there. Yet back at the police station, as she pressed for answers, he said something that caught her off guard. Amber, Amber, I'm not I'm not going to stop you right there. I said, yeah, let's do this. She said we could catch him. And I called her. I was to be honest with each other, we have your DNA in her body. Midnight past the usual rowdies, busy, but nothing special. I just felt sick. Explore the latest . I was like the last thing I thought about. She had been strangled, strangled like somebody tried to kill her. Seem to the detective like a good old fashioned frame job. Goodness, you were drinking Quica. So why would he be so hard to find? What do you mean. We got some news about the duct tape case. At the Desk Of: Rebeccah Glaser, Dateline Out on the West Coast, Dateline sat down at the desk of Rebeccah Glaser to find out a little bit more about her! And then right after he threw out that disturbing story, Sam ended the call, the conversation with them. Yeah, you got the guy. Did you find his DNA anywhere else, either on her body or on the. Right in the center of downtown Fort Worth, Texas is a 5-acre park known as the Fort Worth Water Gardens. Oh, yes, he stole Bryce's bike, remember? So I was hopeful the case was the jury's now the verdict would be swift, but what came next? Just as striking was the testimony of Jason's parents . And Amber deserves every minute, every second he deserves in prison. Then they tracked down Bryce Bailey, told him what Sam said. I'm sorry I didn't hurt you. Join Facebook to connect with Bryce Bailey and others you may know. Or if she didn't, he'd be a predator who had committed other similar crimes. How curious life can be. And that's why his DNA showed up. Moon the maximum possible sentence. And her emotions, her depression, her fear pulled her down for months. I was involved. How do you wrap your mind around the fact that somebody you trusted is the one who did this? It was good to hear your girlfriend's health care and her whole head was covered and it was just so bloody. How is this guy not in the system? Four days after being rescued, Amber was released from the hospital and transferred to a local safe house, which Amber didn't really feel safe at all. Bryce Bailey is a 5-10, 163-pound Athlete from Cochran, GA. Access full episodes from the current season of Dateline on NBC. Yes. And the level of rage that was exercised on this woman was so scary. Oh, yeah, um. Learn more about Dateline assistant producer, Brittany Morris. So the detective offered some inconvenient facts. Had you ever encountered a thing like that before? I have no idea what I'm getting myself into or what's going to be at the end of this drive. And I was due to rotate out. Just one more DNA sample to drop into that massive CODIS system, which, of course, also contains the samples taken from Amber Smith and. Plus, if you become a victim of identity theft, a U.S. based identity restoration specialist dedicated to your case will work to fix it from start to finish. But not much you. Who was he anyway? But you can find out if your information is on the dark web. Don. We have seven years where we get to be a detective for you and then you get rotated back out to patrol. And if they could only find her attacker, arrest him, put it where he couldn't get at her anymore. She had to let it go. Just what Amber needed to find was real, real supportive. She got out his name, Eric Van. Watch popular content from the following creators: Brycen(@brycenbailey4), Bryce Bagley(@brycebagley4), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), Bryce Bailey(@brycebh04), bryce krispy(@_brycebailey) . But even if Amber doubted herself, the prosecutors never did, and when she took the stand, she was phenomenal and I think she really got to take back some of what Steffon Moon took from her when she sat there and confronted him. That was not an option. She was settled in and happy. That is 10, followed by 18 zeroes. . There was some around here a while ago. 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. You can change how the story ends. Yeah, huge. 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