Chapter 114 Section 17

On Friday night, August 30, Diana Zamora was watching the first football game of the season in Midshipman Stadium.At that time, the school had already opened, and more than 4,000 military students gathered together.In the middle of the game, an instructor in military uniform came up to Diana through the cheering crowd and asked her to come with him immediately.The instructor led Diana all the way into an office in the school's administrative building, where a number of naval officers and several men and women in civilian clothes were sitting around a conference table. The plainclothes introduced themselves as Chuck Shache, Dennis Clay, Dennis Meyer of the Texas Grand Prairie Police Department and Julie Bain of the Mansfield Police Department, and they wanted to find Diana Check out what she has said to her roommates.The four task force members had spoken to Jay Gelder earlier that day.

Diana admitted that she had said those words, but insisted that all of them were not true, but she made up the words on a whim to win everyone's attention and sympathy.The conversation went on for several hours, but Diana refused to let go. The school and the police had to give up, but informed her that during the investigation of the case, she had to leave the military school and return to her hometown to stand by. The next day, Saturday, August 31, less than two months after Diana arrived in Annapolis, two instructors drove her to the nearby Baltimore-Washington International Airport.From there, Diane should fly directly back to Fort Worth.However, during a layover in Atlanta, Diana took it upon herself to board a plane to Colorado Springs.

"The police had already guessed that she was going to Air Force Academy," Maj. Patrick MacArthur later told reporters. "You could say they almost wanted her to, because innocent people would never do that. Only criminals would." She would think of discussing countermeasures with her friends as soon as possible and forming an offensive and defensive alliance. In fact, this is why the four detectives did not board the plane with her." Diana spent three days in Colorado Springs.According to her later account, on the way from the airport to the military academy, she and Devon couldn't wait to drive the car into the field beside the road and stop in a bush to have sex.They went to the photo studio to take a group photo together.Perhaps it was because they felt that this might indeed be their last days together. Both of them cherished it very much and rarely quarreled.There is only one exception.At that time, Devon said that Diana had been expelled from the naval academy, why not take all the charges to save another person who the police have not yet suspected?Diana said she was furious when she heard the words, and Devon never dared to mention it again.

Four detectives also returned to Texas on August 31, and they still have a lot to do.According to the information obtained from Janine Mokoni, Mandy Gertsch and Jay Gelder during the two days in Annapolis, the task force did not even rest on weekends, and worked continuously for 18 hours a day. The original physical evidence was re-identified, and all possible witnesses in this case were interviewed, including Jay Goring.It is said that Diana once talked about the murder of Artian Jones to her mother and friends, but in order to avoid alarming the enemy, the police did not find them for the time being.

On Wednesday, September 4, Diana left and the investigators stepped into the Air Force Academy.This time they came prepared, confident and confident.The three days of work were quite fruitful, and Devon Grammond had already become a turtle in the urn, and it was impossible for him to slip away as easily as Diana did last time. Unsurprisingly, Devon, like his fiancée, initially said that none of this was true, but he very graciously agreed to take a lie detector test — only to fail.Only then did the detectives show him evidence one by one.When Julie Bain finished reading Jay Gorlin's testimony, Devin raised his hand to stop, saying that there was no need to read any further.It was the evening of Thursday, September 5th.

Devon was brought to an open computer, and he expertly clicked the word processing software twice with the mouse, and began to type his confession on the blank screen.Dai's words were carefully considered, and he called from evening to night, and from night to late night.The officers and detectives waited patiently, and even walked over to give Devin some advice when he needed help. This is a confession of more than 400 pages.In the days since, its text has been repeatedly cited in police reports and court debates, and has been repeatedly adapted into news reports, magazine articles, as well as at least three books and a TV series.

In this confession, investigators learn for the first time the truth about the murder of Artian Jones: ………… Our plan was to call Artian, make up any excuse to trick her out, and get her in our car.This, we did.Our plan was to drive her around Joe Poole Lake, which we did.Our plan (I'm having a hard time writing this part of the plan) was to break her neck, tie some barbells around her, and sink to the bottom of the lake, which we didn't do.Diana hid in the back of the car, it was late, around 12:30 am on December 4, 1995.We wanted to imitate the quick and painless killing methods in Hollywood movies, but when we actually did it, Diana and I were scared out of our bodies.But we have no way out, either she dies or we die.I held Artian tight enough to immobilize her, and Diana threw a barbell on the back of her head.

I could see Diana's eyes, horrified and confused.She was initially full of anger and impulsiveness, but now she is struggling with her gradually awakening conscience.Somehow, when we didn't pay attention, Yatian climbed out of the car window and escaped outside.I panicked immediately, grabbed the 9mm Makarov and rushed out.Fortunately, she suffered a serious head injury and fell down after only running into a pasture not far away.I wanted to run back into the car and get away.We both flinched, as if petrified by our actions.Neither Diana nor I are violent people.But I realized right away that I couldn't keep alive, so I turned my gun on Artian.I think I was a little delirious, running around the pasture like the headless chicken in the fable.I fired another shot and got into the car quickly.When Diana and I made our hasty escape from the crime scene together, the first words that came out of our mouths were, "I love you." Diana added, "We shouldn't have done this, Devon." Shen, thought, thank you for not telling me until now.I also hope it was just a dream.We took the shortest route and drove onto I-20.We decided to go to a reliable friend's house first on our way.As we expected, Goering let us into his room through the window (which was the "normal entrance" to his room), told us to clean up and calm down, and lent me a pair of shorts.My clothes were covered in blood, and we ended up throwing them all in a bin near Diana's house.