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Adrianne didn't have a lot of friends

here in the Quad Cities.

There seemed to be some love and a lot of hate there.

She desperately wanted to fit in.

I didn't know what was up, but I thought something was up.

And then we learned that they went to McDonald's

after they did it.

They went to McDonald's and ate.

[narrator] On January 21st, 2005,

16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds hasn't come home from school.

@ I get home about 4 o'clock,

and there was nobody in the house,

@ and I started thinking.

Adrianne was supposed to be to work at 5.

@And so I started looking around.

@ And I looked in her bedroom.

And her work uniform was laid right there on her bed.

So we started calling friends,

there's no answers.

We called her work

and they said she didn't show up.

So where was Adrianne?

I don't want to say I immediately thought

something was wrong.

Maybe I thought she's doing something wrong.

We just kept on calling and getting scared.

And about 8 o'clock at night, we called the police.

@ My name is Victor Mereno,

and I was the chief of police

for the East Molineú Police Department in 2005.

The city of East Moline has 20,000 residents,

and the police department has 40 officers

and everything from barking dogs to homicides.

Adrianne's parents came to report her as missing.

They always ask who are friends that she hangs around with,

and from there, normally what happens

is that the officers will contact those friends.

One of the police officers called to give me an update

and kind of briefed me on the circumstances

and just the general information.

And that's when I learned that she was not someone

who grew up here or was originally from here.

They kind of gave me the background.

[narrator] Adrianne has only been in the Quad Cities,

East Moline, for two months.

At the time, WQAD Executive Producer Barb Ickes

is working as a reporter for the local paper.

From the early years of Adrianne's life,

@she had a fairly tough go of it.

@ And actually Tony Reynolds was her adoptive dad.

[Tony] I remember all kinds of things we did.

She used to love riding around in a Mustang I had.

We used to have a lake close by where we lived,

and we'd get us a Happy Meal and go down

to eat on the picnic table at Carillon Lake.

And just normal stuff, I guess.

[narrator] When Tony and Adrianne's adoptive mom split,

he eventually moves from Arkansas to Illinois,

where he'd grown up,

whilst Adrianne lives with her birth mother.

Her mom and her was having problems,

and her mom contacted me and said, "I need your help."

[Barb] She was having problems in school.

I think she was using a little bit of alcohol

and maybe drugs as well.

But they decided that she might have a better chance here.

When she got here, it was like she was never gone anyway.

She was kind of noisy, either playing her music

or she was in the room singing.

And we had bought her a karaoke machine

that you hook up to the big screen TV.

And they were down there blaring and blasting that.

She loved to sing.

She was that good. She could make you cry.

We had decided to put Adrianne in alternative school

where she could get her GED

because she was behind in credits.

And when she was in public school,

we had a hard time getting her to do her homework.

It was a battle.

Once she got into the GED program, she loved it.

She didn't complain about getting up

and going to school or nothing,

so she liked it a lot better.

And I did too.

[Joanna] It was going pretty good.

She was fitting in.

She was fitting in with my boys.

I have twin boys.

And they all-they got along.

And then she did get a job in a hamburger place

where we live in East Moline.

And she fit right in there.

And she was going to save up money to buy a car.

She was making friends, and she actually came home one day

and said, "Oh, Mom, I met this cool girl,

her name's Sarah Kolb.

She takes me, and she'll buy me lunch."

And she was all excited about their friendship.

@ [narrator] Adrianne's new friendship group

includes 16-year-old Sarah Kolbú and 17-year-old Cory Gregory.

The trio of Adrianne, Cory, and Sarah

met at the alternative high school.

They were all roughly the same age,

obviously had some classes together,

and I think that's how they struck up their friendship.

They started hanging out outside of school.

There were several times

when Sarah picked Adrianne up at her house or dropped her off.

@[narrator] Well into the evening of January 21st, 2005,

and there's still no sign of Adrianne.

I can just remember Tony coming up to my work

and saying, "I can't find her,"

and I can remember just bursting out in tears,

and I was scared to death.

We tried calling Sarah, and there's no answers.

So I went up there knocking on doors

@and went to Cory's dad's house.

@Actually talked to Cory's dad.

Cory's brother came downstairs.

And his dad, he didn't know anything

about what was going on.

And he said, have you seen Cory with Adrianne?

He said no.

And the police started asking, well,

how do you know she didn't run away?

I said, she didn't go pick up her cheque.

Today's payday, who runs away from home

and leaves her paycheque behind.

And all of her CDs, you know, back then it was CDs

and Walkmans.

She never went anywhere without her CDs.

And they were all there.

@[Barb] I think pretty early on,

they weren't buying the teenage runaway.

People took it pretty seriously.

There were, you know, posters made.

The kids from the high school were looking for her.

We were doing more stories, talking to police.

@[news] Our coverage continuesú on the News 8 Plus app

@ right after News 8 at 10,

@ including extended interviewsúwith Tony and Joanna Reynolds.

We had the local news come into our house

and had it on on TV.

@ [news] Tony Reynolds can't stop replaying

@ the night before his daughter, Adrianne, disappeared.

I just told her that I wanted a kiss

and she gave me a kiss.

Said she loved me and I told her I loved her.

[Joanna] I think the police were taking us seriously.

They had called Sarah

and they did get in contact with Sarah.

[narrator]ú Adrianne's friend, Sarah Kolb,

@ gives police their first lead.

She, Adrianne, and Cory Gregorymet in the Taco Bell parking lot

just before she disappeared.

Adrianne, Sarah Kolb, and Cory Gregory,

they'd all left the alternative high school

to just go grab lunch.

[Tony] They said they dropped her off at McDonald's.

And well, McDonald's is only like, just say,

a block from my house.

What's going on?

On Saturday evening, I received a call

from Officer Johnson,

who was working on the case,

doing some follow up.

In other words, he was making some phone calls and that

to friends of hers to see if they could locate her.

But there was something in the phone call that he had

where he was speaking to Sarah Kolb over the phone,

where he said he got a bad feeling

about that conversation.

@[narrator] Adrianne Reynolds hasú been missing for two days.

The police are growing increasingly uneasy

about the 16-year-old.

@ We've got a problem hereú because we cannot find her.

It had become basically a full-blown investigation.

Nobody had seen her after the time

that she was allegedly dropped off at McDonald's.

Officer Johnson believed that there was--

there was reason to be concerned.

[Joanna] We were just-we were frantic.

We just drove around,úyou know, known spots, you know,

@ like where Sarah worked and the school.

Tony had actually booby trapped her door.

If she did come home in the middle of the night,

he put cans on top of her door.

@[narrator] But three days later, Monday, January 24th,

and Adrianne is still nowhere to be seen.

The investigators were doing interviews

on Monday and into Tuesday,

and they had interviewed during that time

Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory.

[narrator] Sarah and Cory repeat their story

of going for lunch with Adrianne

on the day she's reported missing.

She left the school, they ended up behind

Taco Bell in Moline, Illinois,

and that she was allegedly dropped off at McDonald's

and gets out of the vehicle and walks away.

When the police show up to this school

@ to actually talk to people and interview people,

@ they're very quick to talk.

And not only are they quick to talk,

they are very quick to point fingers and say,

if she's missing,

@ that's who I'd go talk to, is Sarah Kolb.

They just had someú problems over some boys,

@and Sarah was a little upset.

I knew that Adrianne didn't have a lot of friends

here in the Quad Cities, and she wanted friends.

And that did mean a lot to her,

and she really did like Sarah as a friend.

Sarah was somebody whoú was a strong individual,

and I think she also almost recruited kids

who would follow her,ú that she could control,

@ that she could influence,ú that she could dominate.

[Barb] I think Cory was kind of her follower,

her right-hand man.

@ You know, I never thought

they were really regarded as equals,

more like Sarah was the leader,

and Cory was there to do as instructed.

When we first met Sarah Kolb, she was all in black,

you know, like goth.

[Tony]úBlack makeup, black lipstick.

I didn't think much of her.

I had a dog then that didn't like her either.

@ They say if your dog don'tú like her, something's wrong.

[Joanna] We only seen Cory one time.

He was sitting in Sarah's car.

Adrianne worked in a hamburger joint.

And one of the guys that she worked with, a supervisor,

wanted to come and pick up Adrianne.

They went riding around.

And Cory and Adrianne were in the back seat of the car,

and they were making out

while that co-worker was driving around.

Sarah found out.

[narrator] Adrianne and Cory's growing connection

marks a change between the friends.

Sarah had always been the top dog.

And now all of a sudden,

Adrianne is starting to get her own footing.

I think over time, she really saw

Adrianne as a personal threat to her status

and her popularity at this school.

Sarah Kolb was going through some sexual changes.

She was attracted to women.

She was attracted to Adrianne.

Adrianne did tell me that Sarah wanted to date her.

And Adrianne talked to me about it.

And I did tell Adrianne, well, you know, if that's your life,

you know, we're not going to make fun of you,

or we're not going to be mad at you.

Adrianne, she was boy crazy.

[narrator] Sarah Kolb appears increasingly conflicted

in her relationship with Adrianne.

There's some power dynamics that I think are very strong here

and are kind of scary in some respects.

Sarah is kind of turning on her.

She wrote out in her own diary

how she wanted to kill Adrianne.

She wrote it down.

I don't like her. I hate her.

I don't like that she's not willing to be with me.

She had been very vocal

with the fact that she hated Adrianne

and that she wanted her dead.

She wrote out multiple places and multiple times

her desire to end her life.

[Joni] She had made direct threats to her.

Sarah had pulled a knife on Adrianne before.

Sarah has gone from being somebody that Adrianne admires

and looks up to, to feeling afraid of her.

Adrianne was telling me her concerns

about Sarah, being afraid.

And at first, you know,

I thought it was just girl stuff.

Adrianne had concerns about going to school

that Sarah would jump her.

And that day she went missing, I was at work,

so I was gonna have my son

go up and pick her up from school.

But I got busy at work, and I never made that phone call.

@ [narrator] On day four of the investigation

@ into Adrianne's disappearance,

@ defectives receive a call that nobody expects.

I got a call after hours at work

and told me Cory Gregory and his attorney

were coming in to be interviewed again.

@[Tony] I think his dad told him,ú"You need to call the police."

[Tom] Cory Gregory told the entire story of what happened.

@He, I think, claimed absolutelyú everything on Sarah Kolb.

@[narrator] Cory Gregory tellsúpolice a new version of events

@ of what he claims reallyú happened on January 21st,

when he and Sarah took Adrianne out to lunch.

@He indicated that a fight hadú occurred in the front seat

between the two women.

@They're fighting, and Adrianneúpunches Sarah Kolb in the face

@and evidently broke her nose.

That was more than she could take.

[narrator] Cory Gregory tells police

that Kolb's reaction was brutal.

The car's described as violently shaking,

@ and they choke her to death.

They strangle her

until she could no longer breathe.

Adrianne was murdered.

[narrator] Cory Gregory's story

does not end with Adrianne's death.

What he says happens next shocks even hardened detectives.

[Victor] I think what I remember was the shock.

I just can't believe what happened.

They drove toú Sarah Kolb's residence,

got a gas can out of the garage,

@and them from there, drove outú to the grandparents' farm.

They had taken her body,

tried to burn it, to dispose of it,

and they found out that that doesn't work.

They dismembered the body,

took parts of the body,

put it in a trash bag,

and then went and put it at Black Hawk State Park.

When they completed the interview,

in order to verify what Cory has told us,

we needed, obviously, to go see if the body could be recovered.

My co-worker and I met the team at approximately 11 PM

on, I think it was Tuesday night,

out at Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island.

And I remember standing in the parking lot with flashlights,

and they reread Cory Gregory's Miranda rights to him

and his attorney standing right next to him.

He led us down the path almost like a tour guide.

I didn't see any emotion from him at all.

He led us almost to the river and then showed us

the area where a manhole was at, an abandoned sewer

that they had covered with debris.

We took the debris off the top of the manhole.

[Victor] I was there when they removed the manhole cover.

There was a black plastic bag at the bottom of this dry sewer.

And inside of that plastic bag,

we found a head and two arms.

It was a very good indication that it was Adrianne

based on the story that Cory gave.

@ That night, we went to bed,úand we sleep in the basement,

and we have-we had a cordless phone.

And I had left the handset upstairs.

And my phone was ringing at 2 in the morning.

And I ran upstairs.

And I answered the phone.

And they said, this is the police,

and we're at your front door.

I let him down my basement steps,

and I started yelling for Tony.

And then he comes out, and they start saying the words

that you don't want to hear.

I just thought it took forever for them

@to get that out of their mouth.

And Tony, he's crying,

and I'm trying to, you know, talk to him,

and part of me just didn't want to believe it.

All they told us was they found her body in a park.

They had made an arrest.

They didn't tell us who,

but there was a lot of things that we weren't told about.

[narrator] Adrianne's family don't know that police

are still actively recovering Adrianne's body.

The next morning,

we met

out at the Mercer County Sheriff's Department.

From there, we went out to

Sarah Kolb's grandparents' farm,

which was just outside of an unincorporated town

called Millersburg,

where Cory Gregory had said the other body parts were at.

Cory Gregory and his attorney took us directly to the route

that they took.

I started out with photographs from long distance

and then worked my way in.

@There's an area that no doubtúthere was a fire built there.

And there was some-a little bit of evidence

there that we could see.

There was a piece of a burnt blue tarp,

which from the body parts already recovered

at Black Hawk State Historic Site,

we could see that there was-- apparently, the body had

been wrapped in a blue tarp and burnt.

@ There was a dry creek bedú and a little bit of a slope

right below where they burnt this--

the body at.

And there was a whole bunch of dead trees

piled into this creek bed.

And looking through the cracks of the trees and stuff

and through the holes,

you could see that there were body parts down there.

From inside there, we recovered the torso

and one leg.

There was a press conference held the morning

that the remains were found out at the farm in Mercer County.

@ The body was located inú Black Hawk State Park,

is believed to be that of Adrianne Reynolds.

The memory of that press conference

and the announcement that she'd been discovered and all of that

is really clear to me.

I remember getting out of the car.

@I remember seeing Jeff Terronezú crossing the parking lot.

Jeff was the prosecutor.

And he looked at me and he shook his head

and he said, it's bad, Barb.

It was at that point that they disclosed, of course,

that they'd found the remains

and that they had suspects in mind.

A 16-year-old female from East Moline

has been arrested for first-degree murder.

@ [Joanna] There was a press conference on TV.

That's when we seen Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory,

just them two coming through the police station in handcuffs.

And, you know, naturally, all the reporters

were asking questions, and then this one reporter says,

"Is it true that her body was dismembered?"

That's how we found out.

That was the worst ever, the...

the dismemberment part, and then, you know,

even going further, when they say they took part of her

out to Mercer County and part over into Rock Island County.

Thinking you're laying out there in the cold

in a garbage bag somewhere.

Bad thought.

How does a 16 year old girl kill?

How did they have it in them?

[news] It's a story so disturbing

it now has national attention.

@ The gruesome murder ofú16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds

hit newsstands across the country today.

@ [narrator] Watching the news is grandmother of

15-year-old Black Hawk Outreach schoolboy,

Nate Gaudet .

The grandmother saw this on the news

@and knew that Nate had been withú Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory

@ both Saturday and Sunday the previous weekend.

She remembered Nate coming home on Sunday carrying a backpack

and just got her curiosity up enough.

She went down the basement and found the backpack

and looked inside, and here was a saw

that was Grandpa's saw at one time from the workbench.

And looking at the saw,

there were still blood stains on the saw blade.

@ [narrator] In late January, Nate Gaudet ,

who is a friend ofú Adrianne, Sarah, and Cory,

is questioned aboutú Adrianne's dismemberment.

[Tom] I met with two state police special agents

at the house

at the grandparents' house.

Nate Gaudet had a part-time job.

He was working out there.

And the agent went out there and picked him up

and brought him back down home.

And both special agents in the basement of Grandma's house,

where Nate Gaudet lived,

interviewed him in that basement.

And it was very, very eye-opening

to what Nate had to say.

There was some description in one of the trials

about Nate getting on the ground with his grandfather's handsaw

and dismembering Adrianne's body.

From the time that they located

her remains out at Black Hawk State Park

to the time that Nathan was interviewed as well,

I think they had really put the case together well

in terms of that we had a very good idea of what happened.

@ [narrator] As police prepare their case for court,

family and friends lay Adrianne to rest.

[news] An angel looks down on her in the winter months.

The Christmas blanket they made keeps her warm.

Engraved on the bottom of her headstone,

"Daddy's little girl".

[Tony] Everybody came to the funeral.

The line, I mean itú was all the way outside

and this was in January, it was cold.

[news] It's a goodbye Tony Reynolds

never thought he'd have to say.

@I always worried if anybody was going to be around

@to put the flowers on my grave, not hers.

Yeah, it was definitely a long, long, hard day.

You can say that at least she's in one place now, you know.

[narrator] On October 31, 2005,

at Rock Island County Courthouse...

@[news] Since 17-year-old Sarahú Kolb is charged with murder,

@ prosecutors will try to proveú that she devised a plan

@ to kill Adrianne Reynolds andúthen methodically carried out

@ that premeditated plan.

[narrator] Sarah Kolb enters a plea of not guilty.

Her defence, she is not the one who killed Adrianne.

She placed reallyú the blame on Cory Gregory

@ as to being the one that actually killed her.

Prosecution had a tonú of evidence in this case.

[narrator] They begin by laying out the background

to the friends falling out.

There was a point that was important in the trial

where they talked about a party at the Rock Island

where young people hung out.

And Adrianne, during one of those parties,

had sex basically with a man, a young man.

And that enraged Sarah Kolb.

Sarah knew or understood or believed

@ that Cory and Adrianne mayú be having a relationship.

I think she felt a certain sense of ownership of Cory.

And then she had this probably crush on Adrianne.

And so that was more than she could take.

@ [Verona] There were lettersú between the two of them.

You saw Adrianne say things like,

I don't want you to be mad at me anymore.

@ I don't want you to hate me.

That diary that Sarah kept in, I don't know,

English composition or whatever class it was at the outreach,

was really important evidence.

@ [narrator] Nate Gaudet'sú testimony forms the basis

@ of the prosecution's case.

[news] Today on the stand,

he calmly and methodically told the jury

that Sarah Kolb was the ringleader, the boss,

and said both she and Cory Gregory confessed

that they killed Adrianne Reynolds.

[Tom] Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory

told him the entire story, of what happened.

@ He tied in a lot of blanksú that the investigation had,

including the totalú involvement of Cory Gregory.

There was Adrianne, of course, and Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory.

And then there was a fourth teenager

@by the name of Sean McKittrick.

And they'd all leftú the alternative high school

to just go grab lunch.

[narrator] School friend Sean McKittrick

has no idea of the tension between the other three.

He thinks they are just going for lunch,

as does Adrianne.

That Sarah asked Adrianne out to lunch,

@ I think there was a lotú of hope in that moment,

@ a lot of hope that theyú were gonna resolve things.

So they pull into the Taco Bell in Moline

when this fight started,

but Sean McKittrick didn't like what he was seeing

and he got out of the car and walked back to school.

At some point after Sean McKittrick left,

the fight got worse.

[news] Sean McKittrick came to court

@ to hear the evidence today.

I wish I would have took her with me.

If I knew that something like this was going to happen,

I would have pulled her out of the car with me.

There was an older couple who testified,

who said that they actually got to the Taco Bell

while this was happening.

My wife told me, said, look over there.

@ I think there's somebody fighting in that car.

[news] Prosecutors say Adrianne Reynolds

was in the throes of being beaten and strangled

in the back seat.

Today for the jury, the Bennetts identified

Sarah Kolb as the girl they saw in the front passenger seat,

but couldn't see the back seat

and never saw Kolb fighting with anyone.

Staring straight ahead and looking afraid.

You thought she looked afraid?

Yeah, I thought she had a afraid look on her face.

[narrator] Nate Gaudet tells the court

that Sarah Kolb cannot overcome Adrianne by herself,

so Cory Gregory gets involved.

Kolb is grabbing her and hitting her repeatedly,

punching her in the face.

And Gregory is holding her arms, keeping her from moving.

[Barb] Cory was in the back.

At some point, he grabbed a belt.

I don't believe he was wearing it.

I believe it was something that was already in the car.

And he put it around her neck,

and he pulled her toward the back seat.

@ How can any human do that?

It was bad enough they killed her,

@ but everything they did after that was worse.

@ And then they drug the bodyúin the back seat on the floor

covered with a coat,

@ and that's when they drove to Sarah Kolb's house

and got the gas can,

and then to Big Island to transfer the body

from the back seat to the trunk

and then out to the grandparents' farm.

They got out to the farm and burnt that.

They got ahold of Nate Gaudet

and said that they needed his help.

So they picked him up at his grandmother's house in Moline.

@[news] Sickening testimony asú Gaudet calmly detailed

@ how he alone did the sawing,

first cutting off Adrianne's head

@ with his grandpa's saw, then her arms, legs,

and cutting her torso in half.

At some point, they had a black garbage bag

and they put Adrianne's head and her hands in the bag

and took it with them.

I don't know who thought of, you know,

dental records and fingerprints, but evidently somebody did.

They put the garbage bag in the trunk of the car

and those sawed up burnt body parts

were in the trunk of the car.

@ And then we learned that

@ they went to McDonald's after they did it.

They went to McDonald's and ate.

[narrator] After two weeks of harrowing evidence

and two days of deliberation,

the jury deliver their verdict.

@ [news] Judge Jim Terrace declared the mistrial.

A juror says 11 members of the jury

@ wanted to find Kolb guiltyú of first degree murder,

but one lone holdout,

@ the jury foreman himself, would not.

So how could we have one juror that wouldn't commit?

His choice was not popular.

He didn't believe this young girl was capable of it.

Of course, my heart breaks for the family

who's lost a child, and I certainly hope

that they can find peace in their hearts

at some point in theú resolution of this case,

this, it's beyond a reasonable doubt.

They pursued it further and set a second trial

that was held in Lee County in Dixon, Illinois.

@ Sarah Kolb arrived hereú at the Lee County Jail

over the weekend.

She'll be housed with the general female adult population.

When the trial's in session, she'll be brought up

from the jail over this sky bridge into the courthouse

into courtroom number 410.

There was absolutely no doubt in my mind that,

that Sarah Kolb was guilty, and she, in my mind,

was the ringleader of this whole incident.

[narrator]ú On February 22nd, 2006,

@ Sarah Kolb is found guilty of first-degree murder.

[Joanna] When she was found guilty,

and they have to speak, you know, they have to speak.

You know, they're supposed to apologize, I guess, somewhat.

And she said, "When Adrianne died,

I felt nothing."

How cold-blooded is that?

[narrator] Sarah Kolb issentenced to a total of 53 years

for the murder and concealment of schoolgirl,

Adrianne Reynolds.

Two months later, Cory Gregory takes a plea.

@ When he pled guilty, I said,

@"Part of that plea ought to beú that he's got to talk to me.

He accepted it, and I actually went to the jail.

I just kept asking him questions

through that Plexiglas, you know,

and he wouldn't answer.

And I always kept a picture of Adrianne in my pocket.

And finally, I just took the picture out

and slammed it up against the window and said,

you think about this for 40 years.

And he still hadn't looked up.

He jumped a little bit when I hit the window,

but his lawyer finally told him,

"You need to tell this man something.

Tell him something."

[Joanna] He goes, "I put the belt around Adrianne's neck."

@ [narrator] Nate Gaudet isúsentenced to 5 years in prison

for his part inú Adrianne's dismemberment.

During court one time, I told him,

"I hope you burn in hell."

And, well, this years later, that happened.

[Joanna] He had a pickup truck, and he got his two friends,

and they went drinking.

And Nate smashed into a tree and killed all three of them,

and the truck actually caught on fire.

So how do we find pleasure out of another family hurting?

We're all hurting.

[Barb] Since their incarceration,

both Sarah and Cory have been through a big change.

They're in hormone replacement therapy.

@ Sarah now goes by Shane.

He has a full beard.

He looks every bit male.

Cory Gregory has changed his name to Harley Quinn.

@ Harley Quinn, if you knowú much about the character,

you're talking about someone who was known

for being a murderous, violent individual

@who was extremely sexualized,

who was extremelyú mentally ill and unstable.

So her crimes were always vicious and violent.

For Cory's, he got a re-sentence hearing

a couple years ago.

@ [narrator] Following changes to Illinois law

on lengthy sentencesú for juvenile offenders,

@ Gregory seeks re-sentencing,

addressing Tony and Joanna directly at the hearing.

If I could give my life, I would.

I'm sorry. I know it doesn't make a difference.

I know you will never forgive me,

and I would never ask for it,

because I do not deserve your forgiveness.

And every single day, I wish I could bring her back.

[Joanna] And the judge upheld her sentence.

Cory Gregory did not get the death penalty

because of his age.

Cory Gregory gave Adrianne the death penalty

but didn't give any consideration of her age.

[narrator] Gregory, informally known as Harley Quinn,

remains in a male prison, while Sarah,

and formerly known as Shane,

is held in a female facility.

More than two decades on, the impact of their actions

and Adrianne's memory

remains ever present for her family.

Her name's probably mentioned every day

because she still has her own room there

and everything she had is still in there.

We decided that Adrianne was going to get her GED.

So we decided we wereú going to have car washes.

@ And we donated the money to Adrianne's school

@ so that other kids could goú to school and get their GED.

And maybe they'll makeú something of their life.

@ 'Cause they can go throughúthe GED program and it's free,

but they have to pay for the state test.

So we still do that to this day.

@[Barb] It's fairly poetic thatú they're helping these kids

@ get out of that environment.

They wanted Adrianne to get out too and make her way,

and she didn't get a chance.

[Tony] I wrote a lot of things for Adrianne.

Life is like a poker game,

God does the dealing.

Some people play the hand they get,

some try cheating.

You played the hand you were dealt,

even though it wasn't that good.

You held on to it, and you did the best you could.

You were dealt to be my daughter,

I was dealt to be your dad,

and no matter how the game turned out,

you're the best hand I ever had.