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Speaker 11 Introducing Elvis Music, that's what we do.

Speaker 12 You know, we're starting to really worry.

Speaker 11 We got about 10 minutes before the show, and Scott's still not there. One of my backup vocalists said, Hey, there's been some news about the finding of a body.

Speaker 11 You know, we're all thinking, well, it can't be Scott. It's not Scott.

Speaker 14 It broke my heart that he laid up there in the cold. To think of that, it hurts.
Who would murder Scott?

Speaker 16 Somebody in a rage.

Speaker 17 An immediate, we want to kill you. We want you dead.

Speaker 17 The day that he went missing, he had contacted a person, Heather Frank, who's made on Facebook.

Speaker 11 Heather, for us, was just a mystery woman.

Speaker 10 Did you think it remotely possible that Heather could have committed murder?

Speaker 21 No, not even for a second.

Speaker 11 She was fearing for her own life. What she must have lived through.
She had no idea.

Speaker 17 It was like I got hit by a wrecking ball.

Speaker 11 I said, please tell me she's still alive.

Speaker 23 Greeley Radio, 104.7, The Pirate.

Speaker 23 Good, I know that would be a surprise.

Speaker 27 It was a glorious winter Monday in Greeley, Colorado. A clean, thick quilt of new fallen snow was gleaming in the sun.
And morning man George Gray of 104.7 FM

Speaker 5 was in a fine mood indeed.

Speaker 11 Good morning. It is going to be a beautiful day here in northern Colorado.
And of course you're listening to Irick.

Speaker 30 George had been waking Greedy up for more than 20 years by the time February 10th, 2020 came along.

Speaker 24 No preparing for that day.

Speaker 24 Happy talk would not suffice after that Monday morning.

Speaker 27 Do you remember what you did that morning? Yeah.

Speaker 11 Yep. I try not to live it.
Sometimes you uh

Speaker 11 you don't want to think things are real.

Speaker 4 for many in the greedy area mornings revolve around breakfast at doug's diner on that monday bacon and eggs perfumed the air but a young woman named shelby cabong hardly noticed as she worried about her friend and fellow waitress the usually coffed and manicured heather frank It was the first time I think I'd ever seen her without makeup or with her hair all done up.

Speaker 17 She

Speaker 21 didn't seem herself that day at all.

Speaker 4 Two hours north and thousands of feet up Pooter Canyon, a county snowplow driver had already been up for hours that day, busy clearing some remote roads in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 36 He saw some smoke off-road, up a small hill, so he decided to pull over to see what it was.

Speaker 42 Of course, it was much later when Bill Mean took us up there

Speaker 6 to show us where he found

Speaker 25 what he found

Speaker 13 as I was coming up this way,

Speaker 13 I could see that this log was burning.

Speaker 13 I wondered

Speaker 13 why is the log on fire?

Speaker 13 As I took a few more steps, I could see what looked like branches. And then I realized the branches had shoes on or boots.
And at that point, I knew that this was a crime scene.

Speaker 13 So I backtracked and ran ran to my truck.

Speaker 43 I have a dead body.

Speaker 44 Okay, and do you believe he's found any help?

Speaker 13 Yeah, he's definitely passed away.

Speaker 13 I said, oh my God, probably a hundred times while I was waiting.

Speaker 45 Waited?

Speaker 42 Way up there in that remote place through 45 minutes that seemed an eternity.

Speaker 24 And then the first responders were there, and they moved the log and found a male body.

Speaker 41 His legs, torso, arms, badly burned.

Speaker 18 No ID to say who it was.

Speaker 24 None.

Speaker 17 I've never seen a body as

Speaker 17 damaged

Speaker 17 and hurt and destroyed.

Speaker 12 This was murder.

Speaker 10 No question, said Investigator Justin Atwood of the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 38 And the fire was clearly meant to destroy all evidence of it.

Speaker 3 Had he been wrapped up in anything or had they made an effort to conceal a body?

Speaker 17 They had wrapped him in a light blue blanket and plastic and then used duct tape to secure the plastic and the blanket around his body.

Speaker 30 And if Bill Mean, the snowplow guy, hadn't been up there, the charred remains might never have been found, let alone a cause of death.

Speaker 32 Instead, investigators could clearly see the victim's neck had been slashed deep, almost clear through.

Speaker 48 Somebody in a rage had taken a knife to him.

Speaker 17 Yeah, my initial thoughts was that this was not a fight. This was an immediate,

Speaker 17 we want to kill you.

Speaker 17 We want you dead.

Speaker 38 But who was the victim? And who killed him?

Speaker 33 Why? No idea.

Speaker 25 Not a clue.

Speaker 6 Later the same Monday, back in a town near Greeley,

Speaker 10 an eager crowd was about to enjoy a concert.

Speaker 6 Elvis was in the house.

Speaker 10 Or at least an impersonator was.

Speaker 46 And he's someone you've already met.

Speaker 35 George Gray,

Speaker 2 morning DJ.

Speaker 2 Nighttime Elvis.

Speaker 11 I tell people, I'm not Elvis. I'm just here to keep the music and spirit alive.

Speaker 41 Which he did, does,

Speaker 41 with the help of his 11-piece backup band.

Speaker 11 We're all supposed to meet there at a certain time for a sound check.

Speaker 11 So when it got to where it's about 30 minutes before showtime, everybody's there except for Scott.

Speaker 52 Scott.

Speaker 40 That would be Scott Sessions, the band's ace trumpet player.

Speaker 11 And then it got to about 15 minutes till, and now everybody's trying to call him, trying to text him, and he's not responding.

Speaker 41 Which was extra weird because Scott was entirely dependable.

Speaker 40 Always on time, always smiling, his infectious smile.

Speaker 28 And at 53, it earned a reputation as one of the best trumpeters around.

Speaker 35 Here he was in a concert the year before.

Speaker 6 He was, I think, last year,

Speaker 11 voted Northern Colorado's best trumpet player. How'd you do this year?

Speaker 54 Washed out this year.

Speaker 49 No, no, actually, they didn't hold it this year, George.

Speaker 11 Very good. Mr.
Scott Sessions, right here, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 5 But that Monday, no choice.

Speaker 2 They went on without Scott.

Speaker 30 Still, George Gray couldn't help but be distracted.

Speaker 11 Thinking in the back of my mind, you know, I wonder what's going on with Scott.

Speaker 6 Two mysteries now, equal and opposing, and strange events to come.

Speaker 24 A crucial new clue, Scott's car. But he's not the one driving.

Speaker 55 Did you see who brought that car there?

Speaker 17 Yeah, someone actually got out of the car, and we could see from the video that it looked like a statue of a man.

Speaker 12 So, where was Scott?

Speaker 14 It broke my heart that they did what they did. So, to think of that,

Speaker 15 it hurts.

Speaker 41 On Tuesday morning, George Gray was a worried man.

Speaker 3 He woke up Greeley just like he always did.

Speaker 10 But the unexplained absence of ace trumpeter Scott Sessions was all he could think about.

Speaker 41 So, right after his radio show, George called Scott's dad.

Speaker 11 I said, Hey, Stan,

Speaker 43 Scott didn't show up for the gig last night.

Speaker 11 He goes, Well, that's unusual. He loves that band.
And I said,

Speaker 11 I think I'm going to run over to his house and make sure he's okay.

Speaker 56 I was becoming a little worried.

Speaker 56 Wouldn't like him.

Speaker 30 So Stanley Sessions drove over to his son's house where he met George and used a key he had to get inside.

Speaker 11 So Stan walks through the living room to the back bedroom and I hear him say, hey.

Speaker 49 Hey, buddy.

Speaker 11 And my heart sunk. He's actually talking to the cat.

Speaker 8 Oh, my Lord.

Speaker 11 So Stan comes back and he goes,

Speaker 11 he's not here. I don't think he made it home.

Speaker 56 So I said, well, George, I'm going over to the police department.

Speaker 57 I'm going to report that he's missing.

Speaker 24 Stan told the police his son performed in multiple bands and painted houses on the side.

Speaker 27 He last heard from him on Saturday night, three days earlier, when Scott called from his car.

Speaker 56 Dad, I'm on my way to Fort Collins to visit with some friends.

Speaker 56 Then he said, oh, there's the address. He said, I'm here now.
I said,

Speaker 56 I'll see you in the morning.

Speaker 33 But Stan said he had no idea who his son went to visit.

Speaker 32 And so that was that.

Speaker 25 All he could do then was go home and wait and try to keep the awful thoughts at bay.

Speaker 40 He tried instead to think about good things.

Speaker 36 Stan and his wife tried for many years to have a child.

Speaker 33 Finally, they adopted Scott.

Speaker 40 But they weren't totally ready for his last-minute arrival.

Speaker 56 We were nervous because now

Speaker 56 we had a little person we had to take care of when we didn't have anything. So we used a laundry basket for a while until we got some baby stuff for him.

Speaker 51 Soon, another son made it a family of four.

Speaker 33 And when Scott turned 25, he tracked down his biological mother.

Speaker 10 And that's when he discovered he had a sister.

Speaker 14 I got a call from Scott, and he said, hey, sis, I guess I'm your brother.

Speaker 14 And

Speaker 14 we just automatically clicked.

Speaker 58 Alice in Weldon lives in Kansas, but distance didn't seem to matter.

Speaker 27 The bond was pretty much instant.

Speaker 14 We're in tune with each other.

Speaker 14 We liked the same things. We acted the same way, even down to our cat.

Speaker 38 And she she quickly learned what his world revolved around.

Speaker 14 His trumpet was his life.

Speaker 56 How do you describe passion?

Speaker 56 He says, Dad, the only time I'm really, really happy is when I'm on that stage playing my trumpet.

Speaker 14 He loved music. He loved people.
He loved his family.

Speaker 24 Now his family was desperately worried.

Speaker 35 A few hours after he reported his son missing, Scott's dad got a call to come back to the police station.

Speaker 27 Inside was investigator Justin Atwood, waiting to tell Stanley about a body they identified by fingerprints.

Speaker 51 The body of his son.

Speaker 56 He said, Stan, we found your son.

Speaker 18 They believed that he had been murdered.

Speaker 14 I thought, who would murder Scott? Who would murder him? Everybody loves Scott.

Speaker 50 Except, obviously, not everybody.

Speaker 39 At least one person, maybe more, wanted him dead.

Speaker 23 And now his family had to listen to the gruesome details.

Speaker 14 It broke my heart that he laid up there

Speaker 14 in the cold.

Speaker 14 And to burn him afterwards. You know, like it wasn't good enough that they did what they did.

Speaker 53 So

Speaker 14 to think of that,

Speaker 15 it hurts,

Speaker 15 but

Speaker 14 I know he's not hurting anymore.

Speaker 54 Who would do such a thing?

Speaker 10 Investigator Adwood assessed what was known.

Speaker 17 We didn't have a lot of information at that point about who had done this to him. We just had Scott's cell phone information.

Speaker 20 Which was not nothing, because the cell phone data told a story of sorts, just not one that made a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 58 On the Saturday before the Missed Monday concert, as they could clearly see, Scott's phone did not go to Fort Collins where he told his dad he was going.

Speaker 24 Instead, the phone and presumably Scott spent the entire night in Greeley, somewhere near this King Supers grocery store.

Speaker 40 Armed with that information, police swarmed the area

Speaker 25 and...

Speaker 17 We ended up locating his vehicle parked in the parking lot of the King Supers.

Speaker 17 And so when we found his vehicle in that area, one of the things that we wanted to do is start immediately pulling video security footage from the area businesses that were around there.

Speaker 33 And, well, it was winter and the quality wasn't too good, but they scanned it all, hours and hours of video, until they saw this.

Speaker 10 The curious thing that happened Tuesday morning, 6.48 a.m.

Speaker 4 This was the day after Scott's body was found.

Speaker 28 And here was somebody driving his car into the King Super's parking lot.

Speaker 55 Did you see who brought that car there?

Speaker 17 Yeah, someone actually got out of the car and then the person walked south away from the vehicle.

Speaker 10 Not walking to another car, just walking away.

Speaker 17 Just walking away.

Speaker 17 And we could see from the video that it looked like a statue of a man. It was not a woman.

Speaker 10 But that's about the best you could tell.

Speaker 16 Just a guy. The best you could do.

Speaker 17 It was very grainy.

Speaker 27 Who was that man?

Speaker 32 Maybe Scott's ex-girlfriend would have some answers for the police.

Speaker 3 Maybe.

Speaker 59 I fell in sick for two days, Tuesday and Wednesday. I can't tell you why.

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Speaker 26 It goes without saying, of course, in Greeley, Colorado, or anywhere else, nobody is perfect, not a single one of us, and not Scott Sessions.

Speaker 27 Probe those imperfections, figured the investigators, and they just might find a clue or two.

Speaker 24 They pulled the file and found trouble.

Speaker 23 Two years earlier, they discovered Scott's temper had gotten the better of him, and a then-girlfriend was given that order of protection.

Speaker 51 Her name?

Speaker 51 Loretta Bollock.

Speaker 17 We knew that she had a very up-and-down relationship with Scott Sessions. At one point, they had got into an argument at her apartment.

Speaker 20 Loretta said Scott threw a coffee cup toward her.

Speaker 41 She asked him to leave, and he did.

Speaker 17 He ended up getting arrested for a domestic violence charge involving Loretta Bollick.

Speaker 28 Was she injured?

Speaker 17 No, she was not.

Speaker 9 Still, that was certainly what's following up, especially when they looked up Loretta's address.

Speaker 10 It was right near the King's Super Shopping Center where Scott's car was found.

Speaker 42 And his phone last pinged that Saturday night.

Speaker 17 Loretta's house was approximately 200 to 300 feet north of where that tower was.

Speaker 16 What did you think when you saw that?

Speaker 17 I was extremely concerned. I started thinking that Loretta was involved in this.

Speaker 59 I appreciate you coming down

Speaker 59 and meeting with us.

Speaker 53 So they asked her to come in.

Speaker 59 How long did you guys date for?

Speaker 59 Well, we dated

Speaker 59 consistently until

Speaker 59 he

Speaker 59 got arrested on July 15th, 2018.

Speaker 38 And this was the odd thing.

Speaker 46 Even though they broke up then and there,

Speaker 31 they remained friends.

Speaker 24 Good friends.

Speaker 46 In fact, she had a voicemail from that Friday night, less than 24 hours before Scott vanished. Hey, how's it going? I'll tell you back as soon as I can.
So anyways, hope you're having a great day.

Speaker 46 I just see it.

Speaker 59 So you didn't talk to him at all on Saturday. And then on Sunday,

Speaker 59 did you hear anything from anybody?

Speaker 59 So you didn't hear anything until Monday. Till Wednesday.
Oh, till Wednesday. Till Wednesday.

Speaker 50 Why didn't she learn about Scott's death until that Wednesday?

Speaker 25 Because she said she was offline.

Speaker 59 I called in sick for two days, Tuesday and Wednesday. I can't tell you why, but I was emotional.
I couldn't get out of bed. And I had no

Speaker 59 idea why.

Speaker 36 What to make of Loretta?

Speaker 25 No.

Speaker 52 Never returning Scott's call, being out from work for no specific reason, seemed a little suspicious.

Speaker 27 But at the same time, as she answered their questions, they could see she was genuinely upset.

Speaker 59 There's a lot of people

Speaker 32 And then, as they sat there talking, Investigator Atwood's phone pinged.

Speaker 53 Urgent message.

Speaker 51 Important.

Speaker 7 New information.

Speaker 3 So he quickly ended the interview.

Speaker 59 All right, well, let's get out of here.

Speaker 45 What happened?

Speaker 12 The sheriff's office got a search warrant for Scott's home, and inside, they found a list of his passwords.

Speaker 27 He'd written them all down, left the paper on a countertop.

Speaker 27 So that let them log into his Facebook account, where they found some very private messages.

Speaker 4 Not to ex-girlfriend Loretta. Her, they realized, they could clear.
No, this was someone new.

Speaker 17 And we were able to see that Scott had a conversation with a young woman identified as Heather Frank.

Speaker 26 Heather Frank, a mom of three adult sons, who was a waitress over at Doug's Diner.

Speaker 41 Investigators could see that Heather and Scott had been sending messages to each other that Saturday night.

Speaker 39 So then they looked up Heather's address.

Speaker 5 And what do you know?

Speaker 17 She had also lived right near where the King Supers was.

Speaker 16 It sounds like maybe you want to go and talk to that woman, Heather Frank.

Speaker 17 There was a lot more work that we needed to do before we had that conversation.

Speaker 27 As in good research makes for a good interview, who was Heather Frank?

Speaker 38 Besides a warm and bubbly waitress who seemed quite beside herself after that strange last weekend of Scott Sessions' life.

Speaker 21 She just looked beautiful all the time, and she was just as beautiful inside as she was outside.

Speaker 41 Heather and Scott, a new romance?

Speaker 17 It looked as if it was a budding relationship.

Speaker 2 But someone else was about to enter the picture and turn it very, very dark.

Speaker 10 Remember the classic TV series Cheers?

Speaker 26 The bar was a gathering place where everybody knows your name.

Speaker 18 Doug's Diner was like that.

Speaker 2 Would this be like the iconic diner of the movies and the kind of Americana?

Speaker 21 It kind of is. Half of our customers, we know their orders, we know their drinks.

Speaker 41 Shelby Cabong is a waitress at Doug's, and she was at work that a police stopped by to ask about her co-worker, Heather Frank. Well, that was easy, said Shelby.

Speaker 40 Heather was her mentor, her friend, and she was friendly and sweet and kind and a very good person.

Speaker 17 She

Speaker 21 just looked beautiful all the time, and she was just as beautiful inside as she was outside.

Speaker 24 Shelby also knew Heather had recently broken up with a long-term boyfriend.

Speaker 16 Did she branch out, start seeing other people?

Speaker 21 She started going out to concerts in Greeley.

Speaker 29 she had met somebody and it was kind of exciting to hear that yeah it definitely was that she was moving on that somebody though shelby didn't know it was scott sessions heather had gone to one of his concerts they got to talking and then dating a couple of times it was scott's own social media traffic that picked up the story from there

Speaker 17 it looked as if it was a budding relationship until it got to a point on February 8th.

Speaker 41 February 8th was that Saturday.

Speaker 3 Last day anyone heard from Scott.

Speaker 7 And here was the chain of messages.

Speaker 32 At 5.13 p.m., a message from Heather to Scott.

Speaker 51 Want to come over?

Speaker 36 Then Scott to Heather, sure, I just need to hop in the shower.

Speaker 4 Sound groovy?

Speaker 20 Heather to Scott, hurry.

Speaker 62 There's a pause while Scott showers.

Speaker 32 Then this, Scott to Heather.

Speaker 51 I'm on my way over.

Speaker 10 Three smiley faces.

Speaker 27 Warning, I smell pretty amazing.

Speaker 44 And finally, at 7.59 p.m., this last message from Heather's phone.

Speaker 18 Hey, where are you at?

Speaker 6 Investigator Atwood compared those messages with ones Heather and Scott had previously sent and notice the difference.

Speaker 54 It was very cold.

Speaker 22 It was very dry.

Speaker 17 It was not a man and woman that had been engaged in the throes of romance with each other.

Speaker 10 Early the next morning, Sunday, 3.21 a.m., Heather texted her boss, said she was ill, wouldn't make her shift.

Speaker 21 I think she had said she had the flu, and so we didn't think much of it.

Speaker 24 And then Monday, the day Scott's body was found up in the mountains, a very un-Heather-like Heather showed up at the diner. On time, but...

Speaker 21 She wasn't as... quirky that day as she usually is.
There was no joking, and I don't remember her talking much that day either.

Speaker 48 Something was wrong.

Speaker 16 Something was off.

Speaker 16 Did you talk to her or ask her about that?

Speaker 21 No, because she had said she had the flu.

Speaker 8 Maybe?

Speaker 4 Maybe not.

Speaker 47 Investigator Atwood drove over to Heather's place and parked where he could keep an eye on things.

Speaker 33 He got more than he bargained for.

Speaker 17 I remember very vividly we pulled into the

Speaker 17 cul-de-sac where Heather Frank's apartment is, and I immediately looked at a Subaru crossover station wagon type vehicle and it had red dirt caked on the sides of it.

Speaker 10 Why did the red dirt matter?

Speaker 33 Well, it looked a lot like the dirt they'd seen on the mountain roads up near Scott's body.

Speaker 7 Anything else about that car?

Speaker 16 Seem unusual?

Speaker 17 There was some damage to the front of the vehicle.

Speaker 27 So they called in the plate number.

Speaker 4 The car, they were told, belonged to a guy named Kevin Eastman.

Speaker 35 And who was he?

Speaker 27 Heather Frank's ex-boyfriend, who'd worked in Colorado's oil fields for years.

Speaker 35 So five days after Scott's body was found, police got hold of the cell data for both Heather and Kevin Eastman's phones.

Speaker 17 And we were able to see that Heather Frank's cell phone, Kevin Eastman's cell phone, and Scott Sessions' cell phone were all within very close proximity of each other for about 12 hours.

Speaker 6 To begin with, in or near Heather's place that Saturday night, when Scott went to see her.

Speaker 17 And then very early in the morning on Sunday morning after Scott had disappeared, we saw Kevin Eastman's cell phone and Heather Frank's cell phone traveling along roadways in Greeley.

Speaker 36 The signals traveled for nearly two hours before losing reception as the phones approached Pouter Canyon, where Scott's body was found.

Speaker 39 Investigators found out along the same route, and that's when they found surveillance footage from a local business.

Speaker 10 Early Sunday morning, a Subaru crossover station wagon traveled the very same route as Kevin and Heather's cell phones toward Puder Canyon.

Speaker 46 Then they noticed something else.

Speaker 17 And we saw the damage to the front bumper, the same damage that was on the vehicle at Heather's apartment.

Speaker 16 Could you see who was in the car?

Speaker 30 No.

Speaker 10 But three hours later, there was the very same car going back the other way.

Speaker 27 They couldn't make out the plates, but they were convinced that was Kevin Eastman's car.

Speaker 12 So they both have to be involved in this somehow.

Speaker 17 Based on the cell phone data records, yes, we were starting to believe that both Heather Frank and Kevin Eastman were responsible for Scott's murder.

Speaker 10 So the sheriff's office decided to put Heather and Kevin under hidden video surveillance.

Speaker 5 Would they have done that had they known that wasn't over?

Speaker 54 It certainly, certainly wasn't.

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Speaker 10 In those first few days after Scott Sessions was killed, his father Stan carried an extra burden of grief. Stan's wife of 58 years, Scott's mom, was in a nursing home.

Speaker 5 And now with a heavy heart, he sat with her and gave her the news.

Speaker 16 I told her what had happened.

Speaker 56 And she just looked, kind of gazed into space and she said,

Speaker 56 who would want to murder my son? Who would want to kill my son?

Speaker 9 Police suspected they knew the answer, Heather Frank and her ex-boyfriend, Kevin Eastman.

Speaker 41 He, they discovered, had a rap sheet, including assault, weapon possession, and driving while impaired.

Speaker 27 Investigators, though, felt they needed more evidence before they called them in for interviews.

Speaker 27 So they installed hidden cameras across the street from Heather's house and secretly placed GPS trackers on their cars, his and hers.

Speaker 16 Could you have put somebody outside her place or a rotating batch of detectives?

Speaker 17 We could have. The problem with that is that we were using all of our detectives to work the case.

Speaker 47 Late the next day, Lieutenant Donnie Robbins was watching a live stream from that hidden camera.

Speaker 34 And there they were, Kevin Eastman and Heather.

Speaker 57 We had seen them leave her residence, get in his vehicle, and travel to a farm.

Speaker 57 in Weld County.

Speaker 30 Did you know who the farm belonged to or what might have been there?

Speaker 57 Not immediately and we didn't know what the connection was.

Speaker 38 Using the GPS coordinates of the hidden car tracker, Lieutenant Robbins drove out to that farm about 45 minutes into the country.

Speaker 57 When I drove by, it was dark enough. I could see his lights on in a house and an exterior garage, but I couldn't see Eastman's car, couldn't see anything.
It was too dark.

Speaker 30 No, Kevin, no Heather either.

Speaker 49 Discouraged and tired, he went home.

Speaker 34 The investigators had been full tilt for five days.

Speaker 27 They were all exhausted.

Speaker 32 And so, while GPS kept track of the suspect's cars, the investigators went home to bed.

Speaker 25 All of them.

Speaker 17 We're going to go get some sleep. We're going to go take showers.
We're going to go visit with our family, see our kids.

Speaker 36 The next morning, officers could see troubling movement on that GPS.

Speaker 16 Overnight, Kevin Eastman's car had left the farm, cruised around the countryside, stopping here and there along the way.

Speaker 17 There were key points that happened at 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the morning, and that's very unusual behavior.

Speaker 17 And the first thing that I thought was, we're losing evidence in our homicide that he is out dumping the knife. He's out getting rid of evidence that is going to help us prove this homicide.

Speaker 27 That got to be a sinking feeling.

Speaker 17 Leaves a very bad taste in your mouth.

Speaker 8 The knife.

Speaker 27 The one presumably used to kill Scott.

Speaker 27 So Lieutenant Robbins hopped in his unmarked police car and headed back toward the farm, where the GPS indicated Eastman's car had returned.

Speaker 57 And as I was driving out there, I saw a column of smoke coming from the property, and I observed Kevin Eastman standing out by what I would call referred to as a burn pile.

Speaker 42 You could see Eastman was tending to a fire at a large outdoor burn pit. Hadn't Scott Sessions' body been found burning? So, what was Eastman burning now?

Speaker 47 It was impossible to see.

Speaker 25 Then, a problem.

Speaker 30 Kevin Eastman's car was on the move again.

Speaker 57 My initial thought was crap. And I'll be honest with you, because I'm the only one out here, and I'm going to have to try to follow him by myself.

Speaker 38 Which he did to a gas station.

Speaker 57 He pulls into the gas pumps and exits his vehicle, and he's got a gas can

Speaker 57 that he's trying to pump gas into.

Speaker 16 When you saw him filling up a gas can, what did you think?

Speaker 57 My immediate thought was he was getting more gas to go back and destroy whatever remaining evidence there was at that burn pile.

Speaker 47 Decision time.

Speaker 40 There was no time to consult his bosses, so Lieutenant Robbins walked up to Kevin Eastman and arrested him.

Speaker 16 Probably the last person in the world he thought he'd see that day.

Speaker 17 He was pretty shocked.

Speaker 24 At the station, Eastman waived his rights and agreed to speak with Investigator Atwood and a colleague.

Speaker 66 Ryan, yep, nice to meet you. I just wanted your haircut.
Thank you.

Speaker 66 Yeah, I had my autistic nephew to mine.

Speaker 50 Eastman seemed timid, even gentle.

Speaker 18 And it soon became quite apparent this interview would be like no other.

Speaker 66 Please, sir,

Speaker 25 time to find out more about Kevin Eastman.

Speaker 66 Kevin,

Speaker 66 breathing.

Speaker 25 But where was Heather while all this was going on?

Speaker 32 Was she hiding?

Speaker 55 Had she fled?

Speaker 33 Oh, there would be an answer soon enough.

Speaker 62 Kevin Eastman wasn't acting like your average suspect, but he was adamant about one thing.

Speaker 3 He had nothing to do with the killing of Scott Sessions.

Speaker 66 I've never even seen this to these guys who called Scott.

Speaker 46 So Eastman agreed to talk to the detectives, who were then still looking for Eastman's suspected accomplice and ex-girlfriend, Heather Frank.

Speaker 66 Where's Heather? She's probably at work. She's not at work.
She thinks she's not home, and her car's home. We want to hear the truth from you.

Speaker 50 The truth?

Speaker 5 The truth was, said Kevin Eastman, that Heather, the woman he dated on and off for years, was the love of his life.

Speaker 66 I just asked her to marry me, you know what I mean? Again, how many times have you asked her? Um

Speaker 66 three or twenty yeah

Speaker 12 Heather's answer was always no.

Speaker 50 But they were together that Saturday night, and not just them, said the detectives.

Speaker 37 Scott was with them.

Speaker 23 Had to be.

Speaker 31 since Scott's phone was pinging in the very same place.

Speaker 66 The three of you

Speaker 66 were at Heather's house for an extended period of time. We know that as a fact.

Speaker 66 We know that you were there.

Speaker 9 So then they showed him the photos of his car going up to the mountains to the same area where Scott's body was found.

Speaker 66 Do you think all this is a coincidence?

Speaker 66 I don't know what to think about any of that.

Speaker 36 They wanted to show show him the messages between Heather and Scott.

Speaker 41 Eastman covered his ears.

Speaker 66 Oh, please. No, it's not detailed.
It's not detailed.

Speaker 66 No, I don't want to hear anything, Kevin.

Speaker 66 No, please.

Speaker 40 After that, Kevin Eastman said he felt sick.

Speaker 51 During a break, he withdrew to a corner and prayed to God to help

Speaker 3 the police.

Speaker 66 Let me help this man get to the bottom of this case.

Speaker 66 Please keep Heather safe.

Speaker 10 And then, in the middle of the interrogation,

Speaker 58 Atwood got a message

Speaker 8 about Heather.

Speaker 17 It was like I got hit by a wrecking ball that they had found Heather Frank's body.

Speaker 45 Heather was dead.

Speaker 24 Her body hidden under some lumber on that farm.

Speaker 25 Two fatal bullet wounds in her chest.

Speaker 17 We found her body wrapped in the same manner that Scott Sessions' body was found.

Speaker 31 Wrapped in plastic, perhaps waiting to be thrown on the fire pit at the farm, to be burned like Scott was burned.

Speaker 35 And so they confronted Kevin Eastman.

Speaker 66 All right, Kevin, Heather's dead. You know she's dead.

Speaker 66 Scott's dead.

Speaker 66 Heather can't be dead. You need to start talking to us.

Speaker 4 But Kevin Eastman was a wall of denial.

Speaker 56 Kevin,

Speaker 66 so you're under arrest.

Speaker 36 They charged him with two counts of first-degree murder for killing both Scott and Heather.

Speaker 66 To jail clothing. Okay, we're going to take some photographs of you.

Speaker 10 Word slowly got out to Heather's friends, including Kimberly Shearer.

Speaker 11 I didn't understand why she was with him ever.

Speaker 14 From the day I met her, I didn't understand it.

Speaker 2 Heather, the sad truth was, had been physically and emotionally abused by Kevin Eastman for years.

Speaker 2 This is the first time he's done this.

Speaker 60 It's not the first time.

Speaker 9 Here, as recorded by police, that a year before her death was Heather in a hospital, taken there after she said Eastman punched her.

Speaker 11 Punches to the left side of my ribs.

Speaker 11 And I had to get out of there because

Speaker 11 it was going to hurt me worse.

Speaker 9 Kimberly said Heather told her about other incidents.

Speaker 14 Kevin held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.

Speaker 14 And the really bad episodes would come when she would try to break up with him.

Speaker 7 But she just couldn't shake him off, said her fellow waitress Shelby Cabong, no matter how bad it gone.

Speaker 21 She really opened up to me about how he was treating her and what he had done to her.

Speaker 5 What had he done to her?

Speaker 21 He had beat her

Speaker 21 handful of times.

Speaker 51 Heather, almost everyone agreed, was a victim herself.

Speaker 6 Chief Deputy DA Steve Wren.

Speaker 16 Have you had opportunities in the past to talk to victims of domestic violence to kind of untangle the difficult strands of what those relationships are like and to understand them?

Speaker 43 I've had a lot of opportunities. And the common

Speaker 43 thread is

Speaker 43 they themselves find it hard to explain to somebody else their emotions and as a result, their actions.

Speaker 27 So what happened that Saturday night?

Speaker 51 Police think Kevin Eastman simply wouldn't allow Heather to move on without him.

Speaker 31 So he came up with a plan to eliminate his competition.

Speaker 16 Jealous rage? Is that what that was?

Speaker 43 Jealous rage. That was my take.

Speaker 5 Investigators believe Kevin Eastman and Heather were both at the house that night.

Speaker 35 But it was Kevin, not Heather, who sent those messages to Scott, inviting him over.

Speaker 16 Here's a man who is luring somebody to his death.

Speaker 43 Certainly it looked that way.

Speaker 33 Police found a large bloodstain on the carpet inside Heather's front door. They think Eastman hid behind that door, ambushed Scott, slashed his throat, and Scott never saw it coming.

Speaker 16 Would Heather have known what Kevin was going to do to Scott?

Speaker 17 I think that would have been a very good question to ask her if she was alive

Speaker 17 this day.

Speaker 51 Some of Heather's last moments alive were captured on that surveillance video, walking to her death without knowing it, under the control of Kevin Eastman.

Speaker 17 If she was not going to be with me,

Speaker 17 she's not going to be with anybody else. And also, I don't want her telling the cops what I did.

Speaker 35 It seems that Heather was most likely killed during the hours the detectives were taking arrest.

Speaker 48 If you look back on that and you think, damn, why did we just spend one more night at it?

Speaker 17 Yeah, Yeah, in hindsight 2020, we didn't make the decision to murder Heather Frank. That was a decision that Kevin Eastman made.
But it sits with me day in and day out.

Speaker 17 There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about that decision.

Speaker 17 And what could we have done differently?

Speaker 49 Please rise.

Speaker 46 Kevin Eastman pleaded not guilty and went on trial in June 2022.

Speaker 34 His defense?

Speaker 24 That Heather actually killed Scott and that the man who owned the farm killed Heather.

Speaker 47 As it relates to count number one,

Speaker 5 the jury would have none of it.

Speaker 19 We, the jury, find the defendant Kevin Dean Eastman guilty of murder in the first degree after deliberation.

Speaker 52 Guilty.

Speaker 10 Kevin Eastman was given two consecutive life sentences. He'll spend the rest of his life in prison.

Speaker 28 George Gray's band put on a memorial concert at Greeley's Union Colony Civic Center for Scott and for Heather.

Speaker 25 Oh me,

Speaker 45 Zin Graves.

Speaker 45 Oh, how sweet

Speaker 65 it does sound.

Speaker 62 On the stage, Scott's trumpet. In the audience, his dad and sister.

Speaker 45 Like me.

Speaker 14 I just miss them.

Speaker 62 Two months after Scott's death, Stan Sessions lost his wife, Linda.

Speaker 54 His last words to her were about their son.

Speaker 56 I said to her, honey, it's okay. You've lived a great life.
You've raised a good family. You can go now and go see our Scotty.

Speaker 65 See?

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