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True Crime Vault: Shot in the Dark

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

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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

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of 'Shot in the Dark'?

00:09 - 00:10 Mysterious Text Sender

Go to your car with your keys.

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00:10 - 00:10 Mysterious Text Sender

Go alone.

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00:10 - 00:18 Mysterious Text Sender

I've got someone you love.

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00:18 - 00:26 Advertisement Narrator

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?

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00:00 - 00:00 Riley Gall

This is a real gun.

00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

Emma's the sparkling popular cheerleader. Riley's the possessive football player.

Chapter 2: Who were Emma and Riley?

00:42 - 00:48 Advertisement Narrator

When things would not go the way he wanted, he would sometimes claim he was going to kill himself.

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00:49 - 00:51 Advertisement Narrator

Together, they were a bad romance.

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00:51 - 00:55 Friend of Luigi

This wasn't a good relationship, so she broke up with him. Yes, finally.

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00:55 - 01:03 Advertisement Narrator

But bizarrely, a mysterious man in black starts making things worse, much worse, for both of them.

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00:00 - 00:00 Friend of Luigi

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.

00:00 - 00:00 Noah

He basically told me that these people knocked him out, took his car, and threw him in a van.

00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

Essentially kidnapped?

00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

She's being stalked by a man caught on video.

00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

Out of the blue, someone just starts banging on her door. She's home alone. She's scared.

Chapter 3: What led to the breakup between Emma and Riley?

07:06 - 07:14 Friend of Luigi

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.

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07:15 - 07:21 Advertisement Narrator

Emma's friends say the football star becomes aggressive. Take a look at some of his Snapchats to his girlfriend.

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07:21 - 07:27 Riley Gall

I hate you. I hate everything about you. You're the biggest bitch I've ever come into contact with.

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07:27 - 07:34 Friend of Luigi

Riley didn't speak to her the way that a guy should talk to a girl. It was just disrespectful.

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00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

One message in particular alarms her mom, Jill.

00:00 - 00:00 Emma's Parent

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.

00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

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.

00:00 - 00:00 Friend of Luigi

Riley gave Emma an iPod Touch, and she texted him through the Wi-Fi.

00:00 - 00:00 Advertisement Narrator

For every nasty gram he sends, there's a quick apology.

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