THIS IS DET BRYN RIDGE OF THE WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPT. CURRENTLY IN THE WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPT. WITH GARRETT SCHWARTING OF 1024 LEHR BIRTH DATE XX/XX/78 TODAY'S DATE IS 6/11/93 AND THE TIME IS 11:30 A.M. GARRETT THIS STATEMENT IN FRONT OF ME SAYS THE NIGHT OF THE MURDERS YOU STAYED THE NIGHT WITH KEVIN YOU WENT TO JASON'S HOUSE THREE TIMES, AND YOU HAVE SOME TIMES HERE WHEN YOU WENT AND WHAT YOU DID. LETS STRAIGHT EARLIER IN THAT DAY DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL THAT DAY?
GARRETT - YES SIR
RIDGE - YOU DID GO TO SCHOOL
GARRETT - YES SIR
RIDGE - AND WHAT TIME DID YOU GET OUT OF SCHOOL?
GARRETT - 3:15 P.M.
RIDGE - 3:15 P.M., OKAY WHERE DID YOU GO WHEN YOU GOT OUT OF SCHOOL?
GARRETT - I WENT HOME
RIDGE - YOU WENT HOME, OKAY, WHO WAS AT HOME WHEN YOU GOT THERE?
GARRETT - JUST ME, THEN MY SISTERS BUS GOT THERE
RIDGE - YEAH
GARRETT - ALRIGHT, WHERE DOES SHE GO TO SCHOOL?
GARRETT - MARION
RIDGE - YOU LIVE ON LEHR, HOW ARE YOU IN THE MARION SCHOOL DISTRICT BY LIVING ON LEHR?
GARRETT - WE ARE FINISHING UP THE YEAR
RIDGE - YOU JUST MOVED THERE?
GARRETT - YES SIR
RIDGE - OKAY, NOW WHEN YOU GOT HOME WHERE DID YOU GO FROM THERE?
GARRETT - I STAYED THERE UNTIL MAYBE ABOUT 5 OR 5:30 THEN KEVIN HE COMES OVER EVERY DAY JUST TO MESS AROUND A MINUTE. KEVIN PLAYED NINTENDO AND THEN WE WENT BACK TO HIS HOUSE I CALLED MY MOM FROM THERE, AND ASK HER IF I COULD SPEND TEH NIGHT?
RIDGE - WHAT IS KEVIN'S LAST NAME?
GARRETT - LAWRENCE
RIDGE - KEVIN LAWRENCE, AND WHERE DOES HE LIVE?
GARRETT - LAKESHORE
RIDGE - AND WHERE DOES HE LIVE IN LAKESHORE?
GARRETT - I'M NOT FOR SURE, SOMEWHERE CLOSE (INAUDIBLE)
RIDGE - IS IT CLOSE TO THE STORE?
GARRETT - IT'S THE SECOND HOUSE ON THE LEFT ACROSS FROM THE STORE
RIDGE - OKAY, YOU AND HE ARE AT HIS HOUSE WHO ELSE IS AT HIS HOUSE?
GARRETT - LETS SEE HIS BROTHER WAS THERE
RIDGE - HOW OLD IS HIS BROTHER?
GARRETT - 18, AND HIS MOM WAS THERE AND HIS DAD WAS THERE
RIDGE - WHAT'S HIS MOM'S NAME?
GARRETT - CINDY LAWRENCE
RIDGE - AND HIS DAD?
GARRETT - BILLY LAWRENCE
RIDGE - BILLY, OKAY, WHAT TIME WAS IT WHEN YOU EXACTLY GOT TO IS HOUSE?
GARRETT - PROBABLY AROUND 6 6:30
RIDGE - WERE YOU IN SCHOOL WITH KEVIN THAT DAY?
GARRETT - NO, HE'S IN 7TH GRADE AND I'M IN 9TH
RIDGE - HE'S IN 7TH
GARRETT - HE'S IN DIFFERENT BUILDINGS
RIDGE - OKAY, WAS HE IN SCHOOL THAT DAY OR DO YOU KNOW?
GARRETT - I'M NOT FOR SURE BUT I THINK HE WAS
RIDGE - OKAY, WOULD HE AND YOUR SISTER HAVE RIDDEN THE SAME BUS?
GARRETT - YEAH
RIDGE - DO YOU RIDE THE BUS WITH HIM THAT MORNING?
GARRETT - WE DON'T RIDE TEH SAME BUS THAT HE DOES, HE GETS TO RIDE WITH HIS MOM
RIDGE - OKAY
GARRETT - HE RIDES TO AND FROM SCHOOL WITH HIS MOM
RIDGE - OKAY, ALRIGHT, NOW WHEN YOU GOT TO HIS HOUSE WHAT TIME WAS IT?
GARRETT - ABOUT 6:00
RIDGE - ABOUT 6:00, AND WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU GOT THERE?
GARRETT - WE SIT OVER THERE PLAYING MARIO AND SUPER NINTENDO TILL WE GOT BORED WHICH IS ABOUT 6:45 AND I ASK HIM IF WE COULD GO TO JASON'S HOUSE TO GET MY SHIRT
RIDGE - WHAT KIND OF SHIRT IS IT?
GARRETT - IT IS A WHITE LONG SLEEVE (INAUDIBLE) SHIRT. HE SAID HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO, SO I WENT OVER THERE AND ASK JASON IF HE KNEW WHERE IT WAS, HE SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW, HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO FIND IT SINCE I ASK HIM AT SCHOOL TO GO HOME AND FIND IT FOR ME HE SAID DIDN'T REALLY LOOK FOR IT TO COME BACK IN A LITTLE BIT. SO I CAME BACK IN 30 MINUTES I ASK HIM IF YOU HAD FOUND IT YET HE SAID NO JUST COME BACK IN 30 MINUTES SO I CAME BACK ME AND KEVIN BOTH CAME BACK THEN, AND HE SAID HE COULDN'T FOUND IT, BUT WE COULD SIT THERE AND PLAY NINTENDO WHILE HE WAS LOOKING FOR IT SO ME, KEVIN, JASON'S FRIEND KEN, AND HIS TWO LITTLE BROTHERS SAT AND PLAYED SUPER NINTENDO.
RIDGE - WHO IS THIS FRIEND KEN?
GARRETT - I DON'T KNOW HIM TO WILL HE WAS IN HEALTH CLASS HE LIVES IN MEMPHIS NOW
RIDGE - HOW OLD IS HE?
GARRETT - 15,16
RIDGE - OKAY, DO YOU KNOW HIS LAST NAME?
GARRETT - NO
RIDGE - HOW TALL IS HE? HE'S SHORT ON YOU WHERE YOUR ABOUT 6-1, 6-2
GARRETT - I'M 5-11
RIDGE - YOUR 5-11, AND HE WOULD BE?
GARRETT - HE WASN'T MUCH MORE THAN 5 FOOT
RIDGE - OKAY, AND HE WAS AT A GYM CLASS WITH YOU?
GARRETT - HE WAS IN HEALTH
RIDGE - IN HEALTH CLASS, OKAY, WHAT TIME DID HE LEAVE?
GARRETT - 7:30 TO 8:30, 8:30, AT 8:00 WE STARTED PLAYING NINTENDO AND HE WAS THERE AND SO WE PLAYED A FEW GAMES OF STREET FIGHTER AND HE WENT HOME. SEE THAT DAY JASON'S WAS AT HIS UNCLE'S HOUSE MOWING LAWNS AS IT SAID IN THE PAPER AND THEN HE WENT
RIDGE - WHAT'S IT SAY IN THE PAPER?
GARRETT - AS IT SAID IN THE PAPER
RIDGE - OKAY, DID HE TELL YOU THAT?
GARRETT - I DON'T REALLY KNOW IF HE WAS THERE OR NOT, I DIDN'T SEE HIM SINCE (INAUDIBLE) I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM ABOUT 2 WEEKS, ANYWAY HE WENT UP TO WALMART AND WAS PLAYING STREET FIGHTER 2 ON THE VIDEO MACHINE AND THERE WAS A BOY UP THERE NAMED DON NAM I CAN TELL YOU THAT AT ABOUT 7:00 JASON LEFT WALMART AND GOT HOME
RIDGE - DON WHO?
GARRETT - DON NAM
RIDGE - DON NAM, NAM
GARRETT - ITS KIND OF JAPANESE WORD
RIDGE - OKAY, SO YOU READ IT IN THE PAPER THAT JASON HAD BEEN MOWING A YARD?
GARRETT - YEAH, I WAS UP AT WALMART TO, NOT THAT SAME NIGHT IT WAS AFTER HE GOT ARRESTED I WAS TALKING TO DON NAM AND HE SAID HE SEEN HIM UP THERE SAID HE LEFT TO GET HOME BEACUSE HE SAID HE HAD TO GET HOME BY 7:00 AND SO
RIDGE - SO DID HE, DID JASON LEAVE HIS HOUSE AND GO SEE SOME BODY ABOUT YOU SHIRT?
GARRETT - NO. BEACUSE HE COULDN'T LEAVE HIS HOUSE BECAUSE HE HAD TO WATCH HIS TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS HE HAS TO COOK THEM DINNER AND STAY THERE WITH THEM AND ALL THAT, CAUSE HIS MOM AND DAD ARE WORKING
RIDGE - OKAY, I CAME TO YOUR HOUSE ON THE 19TH OF MAY AND TALKED WITH YOU AND YOU TOLD US AT THAT TIME THAT YOU HADN'T SEEN JASON IN OVER THREE WEEKS OVER THREE WEEKS, WAS THAT TRUE?
GARRETT - LETS SEE, I'M NOT REALLY BECAUSE I DID SEE HIM THAT ONE TIME IN THAT 3 WEEK PERIOD AND THAT WAS THE ONLY TIME I DID SEE HIM
RIDGE - AND WHEN DID YOU SEE HIM?
GARRETT - THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT THE KIDS CAME UP MISSING
RIDGE - ALRIGHT, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT'S THE NIGHT THAT OCCURRED?
GARRETT - IT SAID IN THE PAPER THAT THEY CAME UP MISSING MAY 5TH
RIDGE - OKAY, WHEN YOU WENT TO KEVIN'S HOUSE THAT EVENING WHAT ELSE DID YOU DO?
GARRETT - SHOT POOL ACROSS THE STREET AT THE STORE
RIDGE - YOU TOLD ME APPROXIMATELY 15 MINUTES AGO BEFORE WROTE THIS STATEMENT OUT THAT YOU WENT TO A PICNIC
GARRETT - YEAH, BUT WE DID GO TO THE PICNIC THIS YOUR TALKING ABOUT BEFORE OR AFTER I GOT TO KEVIN'S RIGHT?
RIDGE - WELL THAT IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT?
GARRETT - BEFORE WE WENT TO KEVIN'S I GOT HOME, I GOT HOME FROM SCHOOL HE CAME OVER WE WENT TO A LITTLE PICNIC AT HERNANDO LAKE AND THEN WE GOT TO HIS HOUSE AND PLAYED SUPER NINTENDO THEN WE, I WENT TO JASON'S TWO TIMES CAME BACK AND GOT HIM, AND WE ALL THREE OVER THERE
RIDGE - WHERE'S HERNANDO'S LAKE AT?
GARRETT - SOMEWHERE IN TENNESSEE I THINK. (INAUDIBLE) IT WAS ME, KEVIN, MY PROFITT
RIDGE - YOUR FRIEND PROFITT?
GARRETT - PROFITT
RIDGE - PROFITT WHO?
GARRETT - DRIVES A BLUE SANOMA
RIDGE - CHEVROLET SANOMA
GARRETT - GMC SANOMA
RIDGE - AND DID YOU GO IN HIS VEHICLE?
GARRETT - YES SIR
RIDGE - WHO ELSE WAS THERE AT THAT PICNIC
GARRETT - JUST US THREE THAT I KNOW OF
RIDGE - OKAY, WHERE CAN I LOCATE PROFITT
GARRETT - PROBABLY DOWN AT DELTA ICE HOUSE
RIDGE - IS THAT WHERE HE WORKS OR?
GARRETT - SOMETIMES, HE USUALLY GOES UP THERE BECAUSE HIS DAD OWNS THE PLACE, USUALLY GOES THERE TO DROP THE TRUCKS TO DELIVERY ICE
RIDGE - I UNDERSTAND YOUR IN SOME TROUBLE BECAUSE YOU SKIPPED SOME SCHOOL?
GARRETT - YES SIR
RIDGE - ALRIGHT, WHAT KIND OF TIME PERIOD, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SKIPPING SCHOOL?
GARRETT - MAY 15TH, 16TH, I HAVEN'T BEEN IN MORE THAN A MONTH
RIDGE - WHY HAVE YOU BEEN SKIPPING SCHOOL?
GARRETT - I'M NOT REALLY SURE, I JUST GOT TRIED TO THE PRINCIPAL AND THEM GIVING ME LOTS OF TROUBLE GIVING ME
RIDGE - WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE WERE THEY GIVING YOU?
GARRETT - I WAS GETTING ACCUSED FOR OF KIND OF STUFF I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON
RIDGE - WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE?
GARRETT - SEE, I HUNG, HANG AROUND AT SCHOOL, I HANG AROUND WITH KEITH CHARACTER AND BO SOUTHERN THEIR ALWAYS SMOKING AT SCHOOL AND THEY HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT A FEW TIMES AND I JUST BECAUSE LIKE NEXT SOME OF MY FRIENDS THAT HUNG AROUND WITH THEM TO, I GOT ACCUSED OF SMOKING WITH THEM, I'VE ALWAYS GOTTEN IN TROUBLE FOR STUFF LIKE THAT AND THEY ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO BLAME STUFF ON ME, THEY ACCUSED ME OF EVERYTHING
RIDGE - DID YOU KNOW JESSIE MISSKELLEY?
GARRETT - I KNOW (INAUDIBLE)
RIDGE - WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM?
GARRETT - I KNOW HIM FROM SCHOOL. I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HIM ABOUT 2 MONTHS LAST YEAR, BUT THATS ALL HE DID GO TO SCHOOL ABOUT THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF SCHOOL I THINK IT WAS, BUT ANY WAY HE WAS
RIDGE - FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 92
GARRETT - NO THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF LAST SCHOOL YEAR
RIDGE - OKAY
GARRETT - AND HE WAS GOING WITH MY SISTER'S BEST FRIEND TIFFANY ALLEN AND SHE WOULD COME TO SCHOOL TELLING ME STORIES LIKE HE BEAT HER AND ALL KIND OF STUFF LIKE THAT SHE HAD BLACKS EYES, BUSTED LIP.
RIDGE - WHAT ABOUT THESE CULTS?
GARRETT - I DON;T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM, BUT I KNOW COUPLE PEOPLE THAT SAY THEY ARE IN THEM, I KNOW ONE THAT REALLY IS IN ONE
RIDGE - WHO IS THAT?
GARRETT - LUSSERFUR.... I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO FIND HIS LAST NAME OR HIS REAL NAME
RIDGE - DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE LIVES?
GARRETT - IN MARION
RIDGE - YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IN MARION?
GARRETT - NO
RIDGE - DOES HE HAVE A VEHICLE?
GARRETT - I'M NOT SURE OF THAT EITHER
RIDGE - HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HIM IN A VEHICLE?
GARRETT - I HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM AT ALL
RIDGE - NEVER SEEN HIM
GARRETT - NEVER SEEN HIM
RIDGE - OKAY, IS JASON PART OF THAT GROUP?
GARRETT - NO HE'S NOT
RIDGE - HE'S NOT.
GARRETT - NO SIR
RIDGE - HOW ABOUT JESSIE?
GARRETT - I'M NOT FOR SURE ABOUT JESSIE WE WEREN'T FRIENDS AT THAT TIME
RIDGE - HOW ABOUT DAMIEN?
GARRETT - DAMIEN I'VE HEARD FROM ALOT OF PEOPLE THAT HE HAS BEEN POSSESSED SO I HAVE NO IDEAL, AND FROM WHEN I DID KNOW HIM THE (INAUDIBLE) YEARS HE HAS CHANGED A LITTLE.
RIDGE - LIKE I SAID AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I INTERVIEW YOU WAS AT YOUR RESIDENCE YOUR MON WAS THERE, MIKE ALLEN WAS THERE, I WAS THERE, MURRAY FARRIS WAS THERE YOU TOLD US THAT YOU HADN;T EVEN SEE JASON IN 3 WEEKS
GARRETT - YES SIR BUT I FORGOT
RIDGE - WHY DID YOU LIE?
GARRETT - I DIDN;T LIE I FORGOT ABOUT THE ONE TIME
RIDGE - OKAY, BUT ITS CONVENIENT FOR YOU TO REMEMBER NOW THAT, THAT IS THE EXACTLY DATE, BUT YOU DIDN'T REMEMBER THEN EVEN REMEMBER BEING THERE
GARRETT - LISTEN AT TIME, WHEN I WAS OVER THERE I DIDN'T KNOW
RIDGE - WHAT I'M IS THAT TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MURDERS OCCURRED YOU DIDN'T REMEMBER BEING AT JASON'S HOUSE, NOW HERE IT'S A MONTH AND A HALF LATER AND YOU REMEMBER THAT IS THE EZACT DATE AND THE EXACT TIMES AND EERYTHING EXACT ABOUT IT?
GARRETT - SIR HOW DOES THAT HAPPENED, I HAVE TALKED TO MATTHEW BALDWIN COUPLE OF TIMES SINCE THEN
RIDGE - OKAY
GARRETT - AND I KNOW HE SAID THAT I WAS OVER THERE THAT ONE NIGHT THEN IT STARTED COMING TO ME SLOWER AND SLOWER
RIDGE - BUT 2 WEEKS AFTER IT HAPPENED YOU DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER BEING AROUND JASON AND NOW HERE IT IS A MONTH AND A HALF LATER AND YOU REMEMBER ALL ABOUT IT?
GARRETT - YES SIR, BECAUSE I HAVE TALKED TO MATTHEW
RIDGE - AND YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHAT DAYS YOU SKIPPED SCHOOL?
GARRETT - I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT DAYS I SKIPPED SCHOOL
RIDGE - OKAY, DID YOU SKIP SCHOOL ON THAT 5TH?
GARRETT - NO SIR
RIDGE - OKAY,
GARRETT - I WAS AT SCHOOL
RIDGE - ALRRIGHT, WHAT TIME DID YOU GET OUT OF SCHOOL?
GARRETT - 3:15
RIDGE - THEN YOU WENT TO YOUR HOME?
GARRETT - YES SIR, GOT THERE ABOUT 3:45 BECAUSE OF THE BUSES
RIDGE - OKAY, DID YOU WALK TO KEVIN'S HOUSE?
GARRETT - NO, HE CAME OVER AND THEN PROFITT CAME OVER WE WENT AND HAD A LITTLE PICNIC CAME BACK AND THEN WENT TO KEVIN'S HOUSE
RIDGE - WHAT DID YOU HAVE AT THIS PICNIC?
GARRETT - NOTHING REALLY, WE JUST WENT TO (INAUDIBLE)
RIDGE - PICNIC YOU HAVE FOOD, I MEAN EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DEFINITION OF A PICNIC, IS WHEN YOU GO HAVE FOOD
GARRETT - NO REALLY, PICNIC SEE, IN OUR FAMILY WHEN WE GO ON A PICNIC WE USUALLY JUST GO TO A BIG PARK OR SOMETHING (INAUDIBLE) AND THEN ON THE WAY BACK WE STOP SOMEWHERE AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
RIDGE - OKAY, AND WHAT WAS THAT DATE?
GARRETT - MAY, I'M NOT SURE THE DAY OF THE PICNIC
RIDGE - YOUR NOT FOR SURE PICNIC, THE DATE OF THE PICNIC
GARRETT - IT WAS THE 5TH
RIDGE - YOU JUST GOT THROUGH SAYING YOUR NOT FOR SURE?
GARRETT - IT WAS 5TH, I KNOW 5TH, 4TH I WAS AT SCHOOL AND I REMEMBER THE 5TH I WAS AT SCHOOL, AND THEN WE WENT TO THE PICNIC ON THE 5TH
RIDGE - WELL I'M CONFUSED SITTING HERE RIGHT STRAIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU TALKING TO YOU
GARRETT - I'M GETTING, I'M JUST A LITTLE NERVOUS I DON'T REALLY, I'M NOT USE TO TALKING TO COPS
RIDGE - OKAY YOUR STORY AND KEVIN'S STORY FOR THAT DAY ARE NO WHERE NEAR ALIKE
GARRETT - I KNOW MY STORY IS RIGHT
RIDGE - OKAY, AFTER PROFITT DROPPED YOU OFF, AFTER GOING TO THE PICNIC WHERE DID HE DROP YOU OFF AT?
GARRETT - MY HOUSE
RIDGE - ALRIGHT, HOW DID YOU GO OUT TO LAKESHORE FROM YOUR HOUSE?
GARRETT - KEVIN'S DAD CAME OVER AND PICKED US UP
RIDGE - OKAY, AND ABOUT WHAT TIME WAS THAT?
GARRETT - 6:00
RIDGE - 6:00, HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS 6:00
GARRETT - IT WAS AROUND 6:00
RIDGE - IT WAS AROUND 6:00?
GARRETT - YEAH
RIDGE - WA THERE SOMETHING ON TV THAT YOU WERE WATCHING TO KNOW
GARRETT - NO, MY WATCH SAID 6:00
RIDGE - OKAY, SO YOUR TALKING WITH MATT BALDWIN AND HES REMINDER YOU OF HOW THINGS HAPPENED AND WHERE YOU WERE THAT DAY AND NOW IT IS A MONTH LATER AND YOU'VE DECIDED THATS EXACTLY THE WAY EVERYTHING WAS?
GARRETT - YEAH, ITS COME TO ME SLOWLY SINCE I HAVE TALKED TO HIM
RIDGE - OKAY, YOU MADE A STATEMENT A LITTLE WHILE AGO THAT JASON DIDN'T DO THIS AND THAT YOUR GOING TO DO ANYTHING YOU CAN TO GET HIM OUT OF IT
GARRETT - I AIN'T DOING EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET HIM OUT
RIDGE - WELL THAT IS WHAT YOU SAID LITTLE WHILE AGO?
GARRETT - I'LL TRY MY BEST TO GET HIM OUT BUT AIN'T DOING ANYTHING I CAN TO GET HIM OUT
RIDGE - YOU TRY YOU BEST TO GET HIM OUT? OKAY
GARRETT - YES SIR, I DON'T CARE HOW MANY WITNESS THAT I KNOW THAT WERE AROUND THAT NIGHT I FIND THEM IF I HAVE TO GO TO MEMPHIS AND LOOK FOR KEN
RIDGE - UM UH (YES) WHAT TIME WAS IT THE FIRST TIME YOU WENT TO JASON'S?
GARRETT - 7:00
RIDGE - WAS IT DARK?
GARRETT - PRETTY DARK, NOT REAL DARK, BUT GETTING REAL DARK, WELL ITS NOT DARK DARK, BUT ITS NOT REALLY LIGHT
RIDGE - THE SUN WAS DOWN?
GARRETT - YEAH, IT WAS GOING DOWN
RIDGE - OKAY,
GARRETT - IT WASN'T VERY LIGHT OUTSIDE
RIDGE - OKAY, AND THE LAST TIME THAT YOU WENT AND STAYED WAS IT DARK?
GARRETT - NIGHT DARK, IT WAS DARK
RIDGE - AND HOW LONG DID YOU STAY THERE?
GARRETT - ABOUT A HOUR, I STAYED THERE 8:45 OR 9:00, BECAUSE WE HAD TO GET TO KEVIN'S HOUSE BY 9:00
RIDGE - KEVIN LAWRENCE SAYS YOU DIDN'T SPEND THE NIGHT WITH HIM?
GARRETT - I DID SPEND STAY ALL NIGHT WITH HIM, HE MAY NOT REMEMBER BUT I DID
RIDGE - OKAY,
GARRETT - YOU CAN ASK HIS MOM ABOUT THAT
RIDGE - ALRIGHT, I INTEND TO, ALRIGHT ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD?
GARRETT - NOT REALLY
RIDGE - WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF MURRAY FARRIS?
GARRETT - DO I KNOW THE GUY?
RIDGE - UM UH (YES)
GARRETT - NOT A WHOLE LOT
RIDGE - HAVE YOU GONE TO HIS HOUSE?
GARRETT - YEAH, I'VE BEEN HELPING HIM CLEAN HIS POOL
RIDGE - WERE YOU AT HIS HOUSE WHEN YOU HAD A CONVERSATION WITH DAMIEN?
GARRETT - YEAH,
RIDGE - WHEN WAS THAT?
GARRETT - THAT WAS ABOUT 2 WEEKS AFTER THE MURDER
RIDGE - OKAY
GARRETT - WE WERE TRYING TO TRICK HIM, NOT REALLY TRICKING BUT TRYING TO GET HIM TO CONFESS, JUST SAY HE DID IT CAUSE ME AND MURRAY FARRIS BOTH WERE TIRED OF BEING QUESTION AND WE WANTED TO FIND OUT WHO HAD DONE IT, SO WE QUESTION
RIDGE - WHAT WAS THAT DATE?
GARRETT - I'M NOT FOR SURE
RIDGE - YOU SAID TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MURDER?
GARRETT - I DON'T KEEP UP WITH DATES
RIDGE - OKAY, BUT YOU SAID TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MURDER
GARRETT - IF YOU WANT THE DATE YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO ASK MURRAY BECAUSE I DON'T KEEP UP WITH DATES
RIDGE - WELL YOU KEPT UP WITH THE 5TH?
GARRETT - OF COURSE,
RIDGE - OKAY, 2 WEEKS AFTER THE 5TH WOULD'VE BEEN THE 19TH
GARRETT - 19TH
RIDGE - YEAH, OKAY THAT IS THE DAY I WAS THERE SPEAKING WITH YOU?
GARRETT - THEN IT WAS LITTLE BIT BEFORE THAT
RIDGE - A WEEK BEFORE, 2 WEEKS BEFORE
GARRETT - NO, A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THAT
RIDGE - YOUR VERY CONFUSED
GARRETT - NO, A LITTLE BIT BEFORE YOU GOT THERE
RIDGE - MAYBE A HOUR
GARRETT - MAYBE ABOUT A HOUR OR TWO, 3 HOURS
RIDGE - I HAVE MY NOTES FROM THAT DAY AND ITS A CONVERSATION THAT YOU HAD A WEEK BEFORE THAT?
GARRETT - I'M NOT EXACTLY FOR SURE, YOU CAN ASK MURRAY ABOUT IT. ALL I KNOW IS THAT I WAS THERE WITH HIM ASKING DAMIEN ALL THIS STUFF.
RIDGE - OKAY,
GARRETT - I DON'T REMEMBER DATES, TIMES
RIDGE - WHY ARE YOU SO NERVOUS?
GARRETT - I'M NOT USE TO TALKING TO COPS, IT MAKES ME THINK I'M IN GET TROUBLE OR SOMETHING
RIDGE - ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH TO THIS THING? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?
GARRETT - LIE DETECTOR TEST
RIDGE - UM UH (YES)
GARRETT - MY NERVES WON'T MESS IT UP OR ANYTHING WILL IT?
RIDGE - NO
GARRETT - ALRIGHT THEN I WILL TAKE IT
RIDGE - OKAY, I CONCLUDE THIS INTERVIEW AT 11:52 A.M.
