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November 30, 2020 19 mins

With the clock ticking before Flaherty is thrown off the case, the detectives look into whether an explosive revelation about a secret relationship could hold the key to catching Kiera’s killer.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Solve Presents The Happy Girl Part three. Mike, Mike, it
had nothing to do with Kira. Don't give me that ship.
They're completely unrelated. I swear Abby's your daughter's age, Tom,
she's legal, she's eighteen, you're almost fifty, and she's your

(00:26):
daughter's best friend. No it it sounds gummy? Are you
fucking kidding me? Sounds does Abbey? No? You know? No?
I came right over here. I'm gonna go talk to
her next. What other secrets are you keeping? Tom? None?
I swear we knew how it looks like. We just
weren't ready to tell anybody about our relationship yet. Your relationship.

(00:49):
You've known this girl since she was eight, Tom, you're
basically a predator. You think this is an actual relationship.
Yeah it is. We're in love. See. I knew you
wouldn't understand. Nobody would. That's why we had to keep
it a secret. Did Kira No? I don't think so, Tom,
This is important? Did Kira? No? No? Okay, ask Abby

(01:16):
if you have to. Hey, Hey, Abby's waiting for us inside.
What Tom say? You were right? Watkins? I barely even
know the guy. Come on, we're running out of time.

(01:39):
We are how long was this relationship with Kira's father
going on for Abby? Just a couple of months. If
there's anything else you're not telling us, now is the
time to let us know. Abby, Tom is who I

(02:03):
got the drugs from, but he didn't know I was
going to do them with Kira. This is your best
friend's father, Abby, a man who you know tormented her.
Don't you think I know that? Do you have any
idea how guilty I feel? Look, I get it. I've
been there eighteen and an older man wants you. It
makes you feel desired, attractive. It's just I don't take

(02:30):
a lot, Okay, I don't. I don't really get a
lot of attention. So yeah, it's a lot to process.
Our Our question is did Kira find out about you too?
M About a week before she died, she told me
she heard him on the phone with me. I copped
to it. I told her how sorry I was, so

(02:52):
she did now Was she angry? No? More like concerned
for me. She warned me to stay away from him,
and I have been. That's why I haven't been answering
his calls. Did she tell Tom she knew? Maybe told
him to back off? Shouldn't sigh, Abbey, Now you have

(03:13):
to listen to me because it's very important. Do you
have any reason to believe Tom felt Kira was interfering
with your relationship? I I don't know. Why do you

(03:37):
keep doing that checking your watch? You've been doing it
all day, nervous habit. I guess you're starting to like
your friend as our killer. I'm starting to think we
should stop calling him my friend. But yeah, some things
are starting to add up, except the manner in which
she was killed. Yeah, we know that this is how
Kira wanted her death scripted, So how did he know that?

(04:00):
That's why I've stayed on top of Garrett. I think
I've got something. Come have a look. We've been wondering
where that thousand dollars Kira took out before she died.
Went monitoring Garrett's bank activity, no sign of it. So
it got me thinking, Garrett's a big tech guy, probably
has a cryptocurrency account, and sure enough he does, but

(04:21):
Kira withdrew actual physical cash. Yeah. A lot of these
cryptocurrencies have a t m s where you can make deposits.
Garrett made a deposit at one of them in Bend
the day after Kira was killed. How much one dollars?
Mm hm, m hmm. These cookies are amazing, Garrett homemade.

(04:47):
My mom made him. M hmm. Now I respect a
good cookie. You know what, I've never been able to
respect cryptocurrency. I don't know, I'd guess. I just don't
get it. Seems like internet geek play money to me. Well,
you could argue that actual money doesn't have any real

(05:08):
value either. We all just kind of agree it does. Hm.
I do get that part. I get that if you
trade magic coins with other people who agree magic coins
are worth something, it's a great investment. It's also a
great place to stash money. Now walkins here. She's a
geek too. She figured it out. We tracked your crypto

(05:32):
account and saw the A t M deposit you made
thousand dollars, same amount you were promised when you replied
to Kira's ad. So Kira got her hit man after all? No.
I mean, yes, she gave me the money, but that's
not what it was for. I know, it sounds crazy.
It sounds more than crazy. We have enough to formally
charge you with Kira's murder this time, Garris, don't please look,

(05:56):
the money was for my mom. She's a diabetic. She
hasn't samny. She needs all of these meds. I try
to help, but it just keeps adding up. So Kira
gave you the money for your mom. Yes, she told
me that since she decided not to go through with
the assassination, that she wanted the money to go to
something good, just like that, just out of the goodness

(06:18):
of her own heart. Yes, Kira was that kind of person.
She'd give you the shirt off her back if she
gave you this money, Like you say, did it not
set off alarm bells? Like maybe she was planning on
taking her life some other way? I guess it did.
She seemed better. I don't know what changed, all right,

(06:38):
they've heard enough. I him telling you the truth. I
didn't do it, you replied to Kira's ad offering a
thousand dollars for someone to kill her. Kara gives you
that money, and it's found murdered in the exact manner
she wanted. No, it wasn't exactly what she wanted. What
do you mean they said on the news. She was
found in the woods. The way Kire explained it to me.
She wanted to be shot in the woods, but have

(06:59):
her body discovered someplace else? Why is that it increases
the mystery? You know, Cura wanted her murder to seem
really fucked up and confusing. So where did she want
her body found? When we first started talking and she
asked if i'd be able to carry her body over
to the river, the current would take her and she'd
wash up like two towns over. If you're gonna restume again,

(07:24):
we just get it over with. Thank your mom for
the cookies. We'll be in touch right now. Hey, Watkins,

(07:45):
come on, stay focused. We gotta crack this. Sorry, it's
just sad. This girl clearly needed help. It sounds like
Garrett tried, if you actually believe him, not particularly. The
problem is everyone's been lying to us. I think I
get why Kira would stage her own murder like this.
She wanted to be remembered. But who stood the benefit

(08:07):
the most from pulling the trigger? We got the boyfriend, Jason.
It was his gun that shot. Kira claims it was stolen,
which he only bothered to mention after we found it.
I thought Kira was cheating on him. Rich coming from
the guy who was cheating on her, But then we
saw him explode on Garrett, and Garrett said Jason had
access to Kire's email. He could have seen what we did,
the Craigslist post detelling how she wanted to be killed.

(08:28):
He could have mimicked the murder to make it look
like Kira set it up. Or Kira did set it up.
She hired Garrett, just like she originally planned Occam's Razor.
But then there's Abby lied to us about seeing Kira
that night, didn't tell us about her secret relationship with
Kira's dad. For all we know, Kira asked her to
help her ender life. What are friends for? Right? Then

(08:50):
there's the other half of that equation, Tom, Yeah, yeah, no,
I alive by it for the night of the murder.
Shitty dad at best, abusive at worst. Flaherty, Mike, it's Susanne. Hi,
did you Yes? I just sent my report to the
police board. I see sature Superintendent. I'm sorry, Mike, Yeah?

(09:19):
Who was that? Uh? I'm about to be thrown off
the case. What why I got into a bar fight
the other night? Super is gonna be on his way
over any minute now, cases yours, Watkins, Not until he
walks in here. It's not You're still the lead. What

(09:41):
do you want to do. Let's take it back to
the beginning the map of the crime scene. Kira was
found here, but the bullet casing was a few yards away,
so we know that she was moved. It looks like
they were on their way to the river, like Garrett said,
but didn't make it all the way. That's assuming that
Garrett's telling the truth that this was some sort of
assistant suicide. If Kira was killed that of malice, it
could be irrelevant. And the the only thing we found at

(10:02):
the scene where her gloves here on the trail, Now,
what were they doing there? She purposely dropped them on
the way in. This is a part of the puzzle,
or the killer dropped them on the way out. Did
we ever get those gloves analyzed? I don't think so.
What would we be looking for? Come on, we gotta
get over to the lab. So we didn't lock at

(10:27):
five o'clock. Stop. They should have the analysis back soon.
If you're right about this, I'm not sure it's enough

(10:47):
of a smoking gun. No, only a confession which you'll
be doing what No, you should insist. It's it's your case,
it's our case. It's your friend. He's not my friend.
Come on. It'll be good for your career. You need this,
so do you? Is that the report s CM testing

(11:12):
of the fleece gloves found traces of Holy shit, You
were right flat out. Now give me a minute to explain.
You're off the case. We can talk back at the station.
I know who did it. Just let me get the
confession and PTS taken over. You get the confession respectfully, Sir.

(11:32):
Detective Flatty figured this one out. He should conduct the interrogation.
Just let me bring her suspect in. Come on, give
me one shot to bring this home. One shot, let's go. Kay,

(12:08):
do you know why you're here? No? I don't. You
were Kira's best friend, right, Yeah, you would have done
anything for her, of course, even kill her if she
asked what watkins he has gloves? We did a forensic

(12:35):
analysis on them and found gunshot residue, meaning the killer
was wearing these when they shot Kira, then ditched him
on the way out of the forest. I don't see
any of our other suspects fitting into these girls gloves. Mabbe.
At this point, lying will only make things worse. It's

(12:59):
time to tell the truth. Yeah, okay, let's start with
Kira's plan. How did you get involved? M that day? Um,
that was the first time she told me about it.
All she said was that she wanted to get high.

(13:19):
She asked if I knew someone who could hook us up.
So I asked Tom and he gave me the molly.
So you were never going to a party like you said? Well,
I thought we were. We got in her car. I
told her she shouldn't be driving, but she insisted. She
took us to the woods and that's what she told
me about her plan. Abby, will you help me with this?

(13:49):
M hm, come on, you're messing with me right No? Look,
yeah she is. Where did you get it done? It's
Strayson's Come on, this will be big for both of us.
You're going to get to do the podcast about the
mysterious Benham Falls murder. You'll be the next Sara kaneg Yeah,

(14:11):
but we're just really fucked up right now. Abby, Please,
after everything that you did with my dad, cure, don't
throw that in my face. I said, how sorry I am,
and you've said you would make it up to me.
This is how Look put my gloves on. You won't
leave any prints on the gun here. I don't want

(14:36):
you any Toby. It's always about what other people want,
and someone just her second give a ship about what
I want? Please? Abby, will you do this for me?

(14:58):
And after you shot her, you were supposed to move
her body to the river, right, she was too heavy.
You started to panic and you ran. You ditched the gun,
the gloves. You had to leave Curi's car there. So
I'm guessing if we were to look at your phone,
check your rideshare apps, we'd find you got picked up

(15:18):
somewhere around Benham Falls that night. It's what she wanted.
Everybody in this life hurt Kira, including me. Mhm. I
was just helping my friend. I know, Happy, I know, Mikey. Tom,

(16:00):
we've charged someone with Kira's murder. Abby, what That's impossible.
Shekra was suicidal, She talked Abby into it. I can't
believe this. How could she do that to Kira? How
could she do that to me? You're talking as if
Abby is the only one culpable here. Tom. You're not
saying I had something to do with this. Come on,

(16:22):
Abby may have pulled the trigger, but you're just as
responsible for Kira's death. You made her life hell and
then you took away one of her last safe spaces
by starting a relationship with her best friend. What kind
of a father does that? Are you going to hit me? Mike,

(16:44):
You're gonna have to come in and answer some questions.
They'll want to ask you about the drugs. I'd get
a lawyer. Come on, Mikey, Are you serious? We're friends, Mikey?
Well what you got it? All? Yeah? I think so.

(17:10):
If I forgotten anything, I know where to find you. Oh,
I'll be right here, desk duty for eternity. You guys survive.
Oh yeah, I've got lots of paperwork to keep me company.
All right, Well, I'm sure we'll talk before the trial.
Bring it home, Watkins, see if flirty Welcome to this

(17:43):
calming meditation. To start, take a deep breath in and
long breath out. The Happy Girl. Detective Michael Flaherty was

(18:17):
played by Michael Trayner. Detective Lisa Watkins by the law batter,
Tom Matthews by Jason Huber, Kira Matthews by Gina Vittori,
Abby Goodwin by Lexi di Benedetto, Gret Craig by Scott Cooper, Ryan,
Jason Kemp by Eric Lopez, Suzanne by Aaron Coker, Superintendent

(18:40):
Brian Locke by Darren Cooper. This episode of Solve was
written and directed by Corey Serge Executive produced by Corey Serge,
Executive produced by Walt Palmer and Sterling Barnett. Casting by
Daisy Laura. Audio production and post production by Salt Audio
Production manager Liz LeMay, Recording engineer Zack Jurich, Hope Brush,

(19:05):
and John Schmidt. Original music and score by Nathan Turchion,
edited and mixed by Zach Jurich, Assistant editor Shay han Zu.
Sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor Marilyn Miller
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