A high school cheerleader is shot by an ex-boyfriend, who claims it was an accident, during an attempt to get her back Originally aired 9/14/18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of 'Shot in the Dark'?
Go to your car with your keys. Go alone. I've got someone you love.
If you don't comply, I will hurt them. Tonight on 2020, how did the bright lights of high school turn so dark for one of its golden couples?
This is a real gun.
Emma's the sparkling popular cheerleader. Riley's the possessive football player.
Chapter 2: Who were Emma and Riley?
When things would not go the way he wanted, he would sometimes claim he was going to kill himself. Together, they were a bad romance.
This wasn't a good relationship, so she broke up with him. Yes, finally.
But bizarrely, a mysterious man in black starts making things worse, much worse, for both of them.
Riley, he's like, I've been kidnapped. I don't know what's happening. Where am I? Holding his head like you got hit upside the head.
He basically told me that these people knocked him out, took his car, and threw him in a van.
Essentially kidnapped? She's being stalked by a man caught on video. Out of the blue, someone just starts banging on her door. She's home alone. She's scared. So are her friends when someone ends up dead.
Oh, like some Romeo and Juliet story.
In the middle of the night, you heard a noise. Tonight, we're taking you inside the investigation to catch the killer, the case in court, just hours ago. So you two now offer to help the police in a sting operation.
The camera is right on the tip of the key fob. I'm going to set it down, pointing right at the couch. I'm trusting you guys, like, with my life.
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Chapter 3: What led to the breakup between Emma and Riley?
I told her, and some of the other friends told her, just like... You could do better like we don't like him, but like she just kind of brush it off. She did her own thing.
Emma's friends say the football star becomes aggressive. Take a look at some of his Snapchats to his girlfriend.
I hate you. I hate everything about you. You're the biggest bitch I've ever come into contact with.
Riley didn't speak to her the way that a guy should talk to a girl. It was just disrespectful.
One message in particular alarms her mom, Jill.
We, on one occasion, saw one, I'll see your name in the obituary. He wrote that to her? He wrote that to her. And we questioned him about it. He said, I was just angry. That's when it started to get many more red flags.
Emma's parents ban Riley from the house and take away her cell phone, hoping to stop the obsessed teens from communicating. It doesn't work.
Riley gave Emma an iPod Touch, and she texted him through the Wi-Fi.
For every nasty gram he sends, there's a quick apology.
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