Witness,11, points to father's suspected killer: Sister's forbidden boyfriend

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Sneak peek: First Love, Then Murder

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Sierra Friar, 18 years aged astatine the clip of her exclusive interrogation with "48 Hours," talks astir the greeting of Oct. 2, 2017, erstwhile her father, Aaron, and 15-year-old sister, Ellie, vanished.

Sierra Friar wakes up to yelling

11-year-old Sierra Friar wakes up to her begetter Aaron Friar yelling and the dependable of solid breaking astir 5:30 a.m. Terrified, she stayed successful her country until she felt harmless capable to travel out.

Family gone; humor everywhere

Around 6:15 a.m., erstwhile the location is quiet, Sierra exits her country to find her begetter and her older sister Ellie person disappeared. She sees the surviving country walls covered successful humor and shattered solid from an overhead airy fixture connected the floor. She past calls for help.

Sierra is brought to her parent Maggie Friar's location a mates of blocks away.

A mother's frantic 911 call

Maggie Friar calls 911 astatine 6:42 a.m. "Something happened and cipher tin find my ex-husband oregon my oldest girl … there's humor everywhere."

The hunt is connected for Aaron and Ellie Friar

At 6:43 a.m., Medford, Oregon, constabulary officers are dispatched to Aaron Friar's location for a payment cheque and a missing persons lawsuit is declared.

A way of humor to nowhere

Officer Logan Boyd approaches Aaron Friar's location and sees a disposable humor way from the beforehand doorway to a backmost gross that leads to an alley. The humor way continues for a fewer feet past disappears. There are caller tyre tracks adjacent wherever the humor way ended.

Aaron Friar's car is past reported missing, too.

A large decease probe begins

Based connected the totality of the country and suspicious circumstances relating to the missing persons, a MADIU — Major Assault and Death Investigation Unit —callout is initiated.

All-hands-on-deck

At 7:40 a.m., a petition goes retired to each Medford Police detectives to respond to the Friar home.

Sierra Friar tips disconnected investigators

Around 9 a.m., Det. Shannon Reynolds interviews Sierra who says she was hiding successful her chamber but past looked done her model and saw Ellie's fellow Gavin MacFarlane extracurricular the house. She mentions MacFarlane is not allowed astatine the location and that Aaron Friar had forbidden Ellie from seeing Gavin aft learning helium was 19 years old.

A interruption successful the case

This is the interruption the constabulary were looking for. Detectives statesman tracking MacFarlane's cellphone.

Aaron Friar's bloody car is located

At 9:52 a.m., Aaron Friar's missing conveyance is recovered astir 5 miles eastbound of his home.

Officers announcement dried humor connected the rear bumper and find much humor soaked into the carpet of the trunk.

Ellie Friar recovered alive, but not alone

At 10:48 a.m. — 4 hours aft constabulary are dispatched to the transgression country astatine the Friar location — Ellie is recovered unharmed walking alongside a engaged thoroughfare conscionable a fewer miles from her dad's home.

Ellie is with 2 men: her 19-year-old fellow Gavin MacFarlane and his friend, 22-year-old Russell Jones.

Three detainees

Gavin MacFarlane, Russell Jones and Ellie Friar

At 10:51 a.m. the 3 are separated, handcuffed, and taken into custody for questioning.

Russell Jones reveals wherever Aaron Friar is

Detective Bill Ford, left, with Russell Jones

Lead detective Bill Ford decides to interrogation Jones earlier MacFarlane, arsenic Ford had had a erstwhile brushwood with Jones and knows "he's a talker."

Ford decides to effort what helium calls "smokin' and jokin.'" He takes Russell extracurricular for a cigaret break.

Just somewhat implicit an hr aft being detained, Jones tells Ford that helium tin instrumentality him to the determination wherever Aaron Friar's remains were dumped

Aaron Friar's assemblage found

At 12:50 p.m., astatine Jones's direction, Aaron Friar's remains are recovered wrapped successful a greenish tarp and Tinkerbell fleece broad disconnected of a distant road conscionable 20 miles northbound of Friar's home. With that discovery, the lawsuit officially went from a missing idiosyncratic to a homicide investigation

Murder limb found

At 12:50 p.m., the execution limb – a shot bat – is recovered lodged successful a adjacent histrion astir 8 feet disconnected the ground. Aaron Friar's origin of decease would aboriginal beryllium determined to beryllium from blunt unit trauma to the head.

Three suspects, 3 stories

Knowing that Aaron Friar was murdered, the constabulary zero successful connected their 3 suspects. Complicating matters, each 3 commencement pointing a digit astatine each other.

Jones told investigators that MacFarlane killed Aaron Friar successful self-defense.

Ellie said that she believed that Jones was her father's killer.

MacFarlane said Ellie was the 1 who wanted Aaron Friar dead.

Three suspects, 3 pleas

In October 2018, Gavin MacFarlane pleads blameworthy to execution and execution conspiracy charges. He was sentenced to 25 years to life.

In January 2019, Ellie pleaded blameworthy to an big complaint of conspiring to execution her father, Aaron. She was aboriginal sentenced to 25 years.

In August 2021, Russell Jones entered a no-contest plea to conspiracy to perpetrate murder. He was sentenced to 15 years.

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