Chapter 6 - EVAN TURNED ON THEM

Evan Pike broke first.
Not morally.
Strategically.
His attorney negotiated cooperation.
He turned over the original recording.
Full length.
Three minutes and forty-eight seconds.
I never watched the entire thing.
I watched enough with my attorney to confirm what happened.
Then I stopped.
The recording captured Tyler speaking.
Grant laughing.
Evan filming.
Me saying no repeatedly.
The threats.
The restraint.
The clippers.
Everything.
No ambiguity.
Evan also disclosed a group chat.
Tyler had written before entering the storeroom:
Bet I can make waitress girl cry in under five.
Grant:
Do it.
Evan:
Film or it doesn’t count.
That sentence traveled through the case like a knife.
Film or it doesn’t count.
Their cruelty needed an audience.
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Ironically, the audience became evidence.
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