The Most TWISTED Case You've Ever Heard | Documentary

do you give it that your baby is dying there's a baby in your face I need adult s a parent's worst nightmare has seemingly become a horrific reality when a young father finds his eight-month-old daughter unable to breathe but in the midst of what can only be described as a genuinely unimaginable crime lies an even more disturbing truth one that goes to show just how depraved Humanity can truly be I said it to him in your eyes like you look like a demon to me but I always wanted to fix that I always thought Strait was born to 17 year old Jaden Strait and 19 year old Rihanna Anderson on November 1st 2017 in Des Moines Iowa raja's family had always known her to be an outgoing baby full of laughter and smiles but this picture of childhood innocence would eventually be shattered in one of the most tragic cases that we have ever heard on July 13 2018 eight-month-old Raja spent the day with her father and grandmother Tony straight it was a hot summer's day as Jaden and Raja stayed at Tony's house while she ran a couple of errands that afternoon Jaden had supposedly been playing with his dog Nala and then set off fireworks outside while his daughter was sleeping in her car seat inside the house soon Jaden decided that it was time to wake Raja from her nap however Asia was completely unresponsive and her body had gone limp her eyes remained closed and Jaden was unable to see any movement indicating that she was breathing in an instant he frantically called his mother and asked that she rushed them to the hospital they soon arrived at Mercy Medical Center there Jaden handed Russia to a triage nurse where the fight for the infant's life was only just beginning he swiftly notified Rihanna of the situation who came sprinting through the hospital doors only a short time later she approached the front desk a wave of emotions written across her face the gravity of the heartbreaking ordeal became even more Amplified as details of the horrific injuries Russia had endured were brought to light one thing was for certain this was no accident the police were quickly notified by the hospital and given the severity of rage's injuries a full-blown investigation broke open that very day one person was placed at the top of the suspect list Jaden the following never before seen footage has been analyzed by a qualified team including a licensed attorney a licensed clinical psychologist a former licensed professional counselor and a licensed professional counselor detectives are eager to sit down with the young father in hopes to uncover just how the horrific events could have possibly taken place especially given the fact that Russia had been in Jaden's care all day looking extremely devastated Jaden is taken out of the hospital by multiple officers and driven to the local Des Moines Police Station since he's a minor Tony is also asked to meet with the detectives as she must give consent to the interviewing of her son a distraught Jaden is placed into the interrogation room within a short couple of minutes he notices the camera and begins to speak foreign [Music] enters the room appearing rather stoic despite the ensuing situation pay attention to her behavior as you may find it rather odd given that her granddaughter is in critical condition uh um well Gene I'll tell you what I appreciate you coming down yeah I know this is probably the last place you want to be like I told you over at the hospital is what I want to do is just set up a timeline okay kind of ask you what happened everything like that that won't get you back to the hospital okay because of your age we need to have your mother here okay and I'm going to let her know on the way up anytime that I have somebody here Jenna Station and talking to them about a case I read what's other Miranda warnings okay Jaden has read his Miranda rights before proceeding with the interview following this the detective begins to ask a string of personal questions relating to Jaden's living situation Jaden says that he has been residing with his mom although he travels to Rihanna's apartment every so often to see racism apparently Jaden and Rihanna had been living together in March of 2018 but over time their intensifying arguments were becoming too much to handle and Rihanna would eventually kick Jaden out of the house in May two months later however they still remained in contact and continued with their tumultuous relationship now that the detective his pertinent information relating to racist father he switches gears and asks about the day of July 13th is like just from the trans and I'm like oh my God and my heart just got my own I was scared and I called her she wasn't she wasn't therefore I called her and said Mom I don't know what what's wrong with my baby as soon as we came to the hospital when the doctor was talking to me at the top of the lake there were some visible injuries on her um where does all where those come from you know I think you guys were talking about something on the head yeah like her like there's like a like a blue like two girls and she smacked her head on the end of all day that's what my girl was saying she smacked her left her forehead on the not the bed but like [Music] literally for like almost like 15 seconds and when was that do you remember when she did that like two days ago supposedly Razia wasn't usually a fussy baby and it was uncommon for her to have a crying fit even when hurt okay have you ever done anything to her that might cause some of the injuries whether it's uh you know pick her up or have her fall out of your lap or anything like that that's all the time when I was he was younger but I want to go with that found that monster okay so it's nothing recent though or anything like that were there any injuries that you were able to observe from Gotham Christian yeah so when you went to go check on her today uh in the car seat did you notice anything wrong with her other than being left no I didn't think nothing was wrong with him like taking my deep breath so and then like when you're like like air will come out of mouth and they're like and then I'll pick them up that's when I picked her up she was like Rosie my baby so she's Frozen she said I said where are you ready I said come give me she's down the street okay I didn't know I was like my I was too pumped up for another reason like my baby and then what did you do from what did you do until your mom showed up I told him did she fall or hit her head on anything in that amount of time the only time that you took it from the time you took her out of the car seat from the to the time that you get to the hospital did anything happen to her that that could have caused an injury or anything like that okay Jaden apparently didn't make any attempt to revive his child he may have been in such a State of Shock that he didn't even consider it if any of the injuries were intentionally caused to her who would have done it I don't really know who do you think I I don't know like I don't know rooms like really I already know you know I know her mom I know her mom and her mom oh that's my baby that's my everything before going any further let's take a look at the 24 hours leading up to the mysterious circumstances on July 12th just one day before the incident Jaden and Raja had been staying with Rihanna at her apartment however what should have been a typical day for the family soon took an unexpected turn although it's unclear how Rihanna had supposedly caught Jaden in his alleged infidelity as she claimed he was seeing and speaking with other girls behind her back in an instant a heated argument had emerged however this was just one of many feuds between the pair it wasn't long before Jaden called his mom notifying her of the situation and pleaded for her to pick him up around 11AM Tony made her way to the residence where Jaden was ready to leave the mother and son ran a couple of errands but what they did following this has not been confirmed Tony wouldn't take Jaden back to Rihanna's apartment until midnight of that same day where the couple briefly spoke before heading off to sleep supposedly having reconciled their argument at nine in the morning on July 13th Rihanna woke up and got ready for work while Jaden and Raja were sound asleep that was until Rihanna's father arturio Anderson came to the apartment to give Rihanna a ride to her job before they left Jaden and Raja had woken up where arturio spent a short amount of time holding the child and carrying her around Raja had reportedly been very fussy during that morning but her parents chalked the unusual behavior up to her teething phase next Jaden gave Raja a bath before Tony made her way over Jaden and Tony claimed to have left the residence with the baby around 11 A.M and drove straight to Casey's General Store to pick up a pizza however as we can see over video footage Tony entered the establishment at 12 51 pm and retrieved the pizza while her son and granddaughter waited in the car from there they drove to Wesley Acres Senior Living where Rihanna had been working at the time she reportedly came out to the car to deliver food to Jaden but supposedly didn't say hi to Asia who was sitting in her car seat seems to be rather suspicious but then again she may have needed to return to work in a timely fashion regardless Tony Jaden and Raja made their way to another stop panchero's Mexican Grill where Tony spoke with a friend for approximately five minutes once again her passengers stayed in the car finally their errands were completed in their final destination was Tony's house although the date of the security footage says July 14th the video was actually taken on July 13th we can see Jaden bringing Raja into the house at 2 24 p.m and she's then left alone at 2 25 we see Jaden again this time without the child a couple minutes pass before Tony unleashes Nala from her cage so Jaden can play with her outside at 2 55 Jaden carries Raja out of the house and in less than a minute brings her back in only to take her out one more time at 2 56. he gives her a kiss on the cheek tragically as Jaden brings his daughter back inside it's the last time that we will see Raja before something unspeakable is carried out next we see another man come into view at 307. Tony's next door neighbor Benjamin Bolden apparently Benjamin was walking down the street when he spotted Tony in her car and asked for a quick ride to the corner store he and Tony are only gone for about five minutes before they return Benjamin makes his way to the front door while Tony leaves and heads to Blake's Auto Body and exhaust shop apparently Jaden and Benjamin talked for a little over a minute before the neighbor heads home leaving Razia alone with her father Jaden claimed to have been setting off fireworks in the front yard while Raja was still sleeping inside however we're unable to see this on the video footage he supposedly finished with the activity once he ran out of live explosives and went back inside to play on his phone thinking that he should wake reisha from her nap Jaden walked over to her car seat where she'd apparently been sleeping only to find that something was more than a little off he picked reja up and was horrified to learn that the young child was completely unresponsive in a panic Jaden called his mom and asked that she'd take them both to the hospital before it was too late Tony is notified of the situation while she's in the McDonald's drive-through and immediately rushes home at 3 46 Jaden runs out of the house with Raja in his arms he and Tony make a Mad Dash to the hospital Rihanna is made aware of her child's hospitalization soon enough as she and Jaden alike are at a loss for words as we already know during this time Jaden will eventually be taken in for questioning however another unexpected incident has arisen that also requires the attention of local authorities apparently a fight has broken out between the families of Rihanna and Jaden on the hospital's third floor devastated over rage's injuries Rihanna's family has a few words to get off their chests this doesn't make no sense I'm sorry but this is ridiculous and I need adult like adults there's a baby in your face like a reason that we're having an issues there are other people here as well they're babies here and we're here in MSN and costing and everything from all the way there are other families that's the main I know why you guys are having fun that's the main but I'm trying to I'm like wasn't me that it was after you guys were told this is private property the security systems was lumped in together because they were worn before maybe you filtered in afterwards everything and I took everybody in there and everybody there are other people here trying to I understand that and I was trying to help you guys I was trying to help them I was trying to but I wasn't in I wasn't cussing okay I wasn't fighting I didn't do anything so why there's so much stuff going on because everybody else because they were told they were asking me twice with other people because without the medical center got treated because I'm getting inside I'm getting penalized for nothing you can ask whatever whichever one that was that man that other security he said I could go back in there because he seen I wasn't doing anything well you guys are just some friends reportedly both physical and verbalists had occurred but this has not been confirmed regardless additional officers are called to escort family members off of the premises are you are you Mom for the child I'm a mom's a daughter okay all right because the problems we've had here is to leave wow all right so if anything happens we just gotta yeah go home Brianna expresses her concerns but the police have no choice but to comply with their original orders you guys are gonna everybody like Nico's either so long wow I don't have anything to do with what's going on I'm here to assist the hospital security which feels like they can't deal with everything that's been going on that's why you've been asked to leave during this time a few officers make their way to Tony's house in an attempt to locate anyone that may be at the property foreign although no one is there to answer the door Tony quickly returns from the hospital along with Jaden's sister Mackenzie strade apparently the mother and daughter had been involved in the fight with Rihanna's family which actually occurred before Jaden was taken in for questioning the woman driving the car is Molly McDonald MacKenzie's stepmom who supposedly picked them up from the hospital and drove them to Tony's house where police are already waiting so is there anybody in the house now no I didn't even we didn't even know nobody was here they just said we was totally but the people from the hospital the ones that are trying to fight they they said even in front of the police officer I will catch you down the street when you pull up okay who are these people my brother's baby Mom's family what's their what's their issue the baby stopped breathing I guess they're all up at the hospital and they and so they're up there going crazy talking about if anybody did anything to that baby that they're gonna put them Six Feet Under the officer is simultaneously on the phone likely speaking with the detective informing them that Tony is needed to interview Jaden from there Molly drives her to the police station and as we know an intense conversation awaits now the officers continue with their search around the property where they find various items along the backyard although as we will later see this is nothing compared to the messy contents found inside of the house fast forwarding to later in the day we continue on with Jaden's suspicious interrogation the injury has happened in the hours leading up to them showing up at the hospital is there anything there that you can think of that might have happened within the last couple of hours before you guys getting into the hospital that could have caused any sort of injury to her that would have changed the dynamic of her body when kids this age go to the hospital with injuries it has happened within the maybe an hour or two before you know her getting there can you think of anything that would have happened to her you know today that that would have caused injuries that would require her to all of a sudden basically lose consciousness it is undoubtedly clear that something isn't adding up one minute Razia was supposedly her normal self the next inexplicably unconscious or so that's what Jaden asserts next we're introduced to detective Laurie Kelly who wastes no time in asking for the most critical information and and severe injuries severe injuries several broken ribs what kind of rainbow yes of course she's only eight months right and so babies don't sustain injuries like that without another person being involved okay Jaden seems genuinely surprised at the severeness of rage's injuries perhaps he didn't realize the gravity of the situation until now so you may provide a different explanation if it's not for you it's not for me okay oh why would I be changing my bank account because and because people lose their cool and they do things that for a Split Second and if that was the kind of situation you're right now in a position where you maybe can provide some information that could still be helpful for her she's in surgery right now that's unknown I did that okay and so if there's something that you can tell us about what exactly Health has happened to her we can provide that information to the doctor so that they can perhaps apply that and and help her more because right now they're guessing the medical trauma team has already assessed raja's injuries and taken her into surgery so any information obtained by police from Jaden wouldn't necessarily be needed to treat the baby's wounds however this statement by authorities is a very creative lie as it's a common appeal to emotion that can possibly invoke a guilty confession that's what happened to her a coughing blow from her abdomen that's what causes the kinds of injuries that she has and the symptoms are immediate and you know what the symptoms are the onesness how you said she was like a sack potatoes that's a medium yeah so what I'm telling you is the information that you have provided is not matching up to what the doctors are saying okay so that's literally what happened to me that's not what happened today at this point the investigator is presenting Jaden with evidence that cannot be explained by a simple childhood injury okay if your Mom saw that your baby was in distress I have no doubt you have driven immediately to the hospital I wasn't there right there is no doubt about it you know more than what you have provided and I can understand that that you thought that perhaps she could be there close you know quicker I can understand that she wasn't that close though she's at the McDonald's on the east side you could have walked to the hospital before it took her the time to get there and I was like she stayed like I like when I tell my mom to come speak or anything Eastside McDonald's she's not that close I'm telling you she got there quick if there is no way that you walked inside and have no clue what happened to her that is not one of the possibilities and there is going to be a stream of medical professionals that will come in and say that these injuries are nothing but inflicted and so either you lost your cool and you did something you wish you could take back or you waited until you were alone and beat that baby those are the two options don't really saying I'll be my baby there is tell me what happened this is a direct accusation and we can see Jaden's immediate shift in demeanor as the story unfolds the investigator cuts off any Avenue for denials or refuting of the evidence in addition by not calling 9-1-1 investigators May infer that Jaden intended for the baby to die you told me that baby was fine in the morning a baby who injured the way that she has entered cannot drink one cannot eat I'm telling you right now I'm telling you to my baby to your heart and what I didn't do nothing I did I did it though you know exactly what happened to her and you may be sorry for it you may be ashamed of what you did but there is no doubt that you did something to her this is your opportunity there is a stream of medical professionals neurosurgeons uh take you specialist ER doctors they're all saying the same thing these injuries don't just oh I have no idea what happened and all of a sudden she has a lacerations or explain no way that doesn't just happen [Music] this is a defining moment for you this is when you either stand up and take responsibility for what occurred or let everybody just think that you playing with us it is from today there is no doubt about it something happened today there is no doubt about that and so people are either going to have your version of what occurred why not and they're just going to fill in the blanks and what kind of blanks do you think that they're going to put in there he was waiting for the moment to have that baby alone so he could kill him that's what people are going to say nothing happened I'm telling you you stick with this story where do you think that's going to land you know but like I know it's not like it's nothing happening like this is my story like like nothing happening like I didn't do nothing to my baby don't you think you at least owe people an explanation this beautiful little girl was fine it's fine speak alone with you for a little bit and now she's on the virginette [Music] hold it down three times not even a moment of the story you don't believe this story I don't know I didn't do nothing I didn't put my hands on that door that's my little baby girl yes it is to an angel different life do you give it that your baby is dying yeah what why wouldn't that I don't know because you're not providing the information that could potentially help the doctors I don't understand that that's just her saying about getting into you I'm just enough you said I don't know so that's that just made him move eventually detective Lancaster asked Tony to speak with them alone hoping to gain more information apart from what Jaden is providing well what do you think about what he's saying or and see what I think you know I like to think that sometimes these things are accidents or that people lose control and stuff like that which it's very possible that that's what we're running into the the roadblock that we have right now is that seemingly all day she's fine okay and then there's like an hour of time where you're not in the house where more than likely these injuries occurred uh I don't know if you pay any attention to his body language but you can tell at some point in time it's it's Weighing on him he tells a lie and he sits back up this is way of deflecting and we call it erasers and things like that that when you make a lie and it goes over you stand back up in your body language gets better he gives the justification that that nothing happened um which is is highly unlikely there there has to be some sort of trauma there um and I think is what hurts the perception on him is that the more times he says that he doesn't do anything that he doesn't do anything it makes it it makes it harder to believe that it could have been an accident or you know that that he had a tough minute or two and then he acted in you know yeah fit for whatever reason whether she was freaking out in a car seat or who knows what there's a million reasons I mean what you have seven kids or something I so it's it's hard right Tony is completely indecisive regarding the situation her behaviors can be attributed to shock but it's still unusual that she doesn't react to being told about raja's poor prognosis and although she cannot seem to give any useful information Tony complies with the detective's request to question Jaden without his mother in the room and you lift her up yeah and I've been down to my knees and then I got hurt like seeing on the bed and I just I'm just shaking her okay yeah and then is she doing anything is she making any noises did she throw up or anything like that that you remember no okay so it's not came out of the nose Okay like it's not bubble or like runny nose that's not bubbling like a runny nose okay we're like kind of like blood came down somebody was in a condom okay apparently looking and then I just uh I sat him down sat down on the daylight how long did that go on for um yeah you're not trying you're not trying to hurt her I'm not I'm saying like not like the whole thing is tripping okay how did all these anyways happen to her that's what I don't understand like I said I'm trying to find the source of the injury how do these things happen I don't know like well if you don't know then who the hell knows I don't know you know what I'm saying yeah and if you don't know but a doctor can say hey it happened in the last two hours and it's from blunt forced trauma and you're the only one that watched her in two hours then you see kind of the predicament we're in yeah I see which I see which option I get it but I'm saying I'm gonna do nothing to her the suspect maintains that he did not lay a hand on his beloved daughter following the heated interrogation the detective asks Tony and Jaden if he would be able to search their house that day for any possible evidence they agreed to meet one another at the home but then something unexpected happens as detective Lancaster reaches Tony's house he realizes that Jaden is no longer with her she goes on to state that she dropped him off at Mercy Medical Center so he could be with Raja but this would supposedly turn out to be a lie Jaden never checked into the hospital after his time at the station when Tony is confronted about where her son may be she suddenly changes her story stating that she had actually dropped him off on 6th Avenue near the hospital but is unsure whether he went to the establishment as the detective applies even more pressure to the topic Tony gives up the truth apparently she and Jaden had been a couple blocks away from her house when he requested to get out of the car still she's not able to decipher where he could have gone at least that's what she says when the detective is finally able to gain access to the home it's hard to ignore the absolute chaos that entrenches almost every inch within the mess they're able to locate rage's bottle and car seat a dirty mattress and a video security system in addition to several other items Tony is questioned about the video cameras that are placed on the outside of her home but she claims them to be inoperable insisting that she doesn't understand how the program works however seeing as we've already viewed the recordings from July 13th this too seems to be another lie they're also shocked to find a live firework on the front porch despite Jaden's claim that he didn't have any left after leaving the residence law enforcement was desperate to find the missing father believing that he might have gone on the Run they were also concerned with the possibility that he made contact his mother during this time police were becoming increasingly skeptical of both Tony and Jaden and when they finally sat down to speak with Rihanna their suspicions grew to new heights him um there's been times where I feel like Jaden you're being too rough I'm like we can't you know we can't be that lost with her it's unknown what Rihanna means by Jaden being too rough with the baby but this could have certainly been a red flag indicating that Jaden was showing signs of being impatient or toward Raja people were kind of like commenting like they're so rough on her but me I'm standing right here and it's not for us you know so the iPhone 5 I don't know how to like say it like me personally being her mom and seeing everything being right there middle life enough to okay so now we're talking what you're saying at work but we're talking from the time up until the time in March when you move in together there is never a time where you thought she's gonna lose his cool or he's too rough with her or he doesn't know what he's doing or concerned for her safety with him none of that kind of stuff okay um was there ever and I don't want to say was there every time where you guys got frustrated because there was absolutely all parents get frustrated I right without falling you know I've never got nine like I got probably four or five hours of sleep so I wasn't supposed to go like I'm ready to like you know but never to the point where I'm like I Wanna Hurt You question you is there any been a time where you saw something wrong with her that you're like that's a bruise where did it come from because babies that they just don't really bruise I mean they don't who instead of not walking and falling right so where are they getting what is it so I'm wondering if there was a time when we saw bruise on her mark on her that you thought where did that come from yeah okay tell me about that um she's had things on her neck gracious and like it looks like a heart like a you know like a neck of it um I have questions Rihanna could not seem to recall where the alleged bruises came from however what we are about to learn may have you drawing your own conclusions so that morning you see her then the next time you see her that at your workplace yeah and let me clarify that and also it's not getting misconstrued no I am not touch her feel her I've seen her head you know like she wasn't in the car yeah and you told me that was a queen straight from the food because I love you bye that's it okay but I have seen she was in there right when we saw her in the hospital tell me about the injuries you saw in the hospital that that were new and different than the last time you saw her um a lot of people started coming in my family and getting to see her um someone that pointed out it was like a night Mark um I don't know how true that is it but I also I had to think about behind all those on her chest sticking out if they were pulled off it could have because they stay off but because you left your right hand she was fine what conversations have you had with him what is the responsible you know like it was he's crying and he's really not he's just asking like please ask you know um when we got to pick them and we actually were in a conference room and stuff get back to a lot of my needs please if you did anything you know just come forward about it it's too late you know she's it's too late for me not to it's already been done you know the whole time apparently Jaden's sister had children living with another couple at the time when informed of the incident one of the children had supposedly asked the startling question did Jaden do it when asked why they would think that their response was even more unsettling although this has never been confirmed the child claims to have seen the young father physically strike Russia to quote hear her cry and this would not be the only chilling rumor to circulate within the community as reported in the Case Files A source told investigators that Rihanna and Jaden would allegedly put Russia in the basement if she began to cry along with placing dirty clothes on top of her so people could not hear from upstairs there's no evidence to prove these claims but the sheer possibility makes the thought all the more terrifying when I got there you know [Music] his family likes him like he's running out to people he's never even seen in my family and crying he's coming in their arms what I seen I felt like was not insincere and it couldn't be fake my mom has the biggest issue before and she even told me you know because I've talked to my mom like Mom what do you think you know and she's like I don't see if he did do it you know he's doing a good job at trading you and I don't and it's like what do you think I feel like deep down in my heart like it's like his mom's full-fledged has something to do with this and why do you say that just our history like she's she's always she's always been weird towards me like you know everything she says to me before I wasn't pregnant I feel like it's been divorced so I'm like she's forcing herself to talk to me her seeing how to sit there with no emotion whatsoever that was a little weird to me the whole time I just feel like she was just sitting like this you know just looking at our fitness thinking like what have we done or what have I done her whoever what did I let happen we whatever like this um when I go shopping and Jayden was outside to himself you know crying my dad was back then when you see him I asked her tell me what happened she looked on me but it has that done so there's no reason but I don't know and I just feel like to not even looking in my eyes and you're not going to say that you don't know what happened and you weren't there at all and people the doctors are coming out and telling you it's important to remember that Rihanna's comments and suggestions about Tony are unproven allegations and not factually stated your granddaughter is in a coma and you don't say that here or do anything I feel like that thing and I'm not putting this past Jaden at all because she was left in his care and at the end of the day I know he knows something because if he wasn't there to know who was there you know how long you were gone you know like I mean like he has something to do with this he's saying I was outside and I came in to check on her and this is how she was that's what he said where did he tell you that she was when he went outside where was she he told me she was on his bed in her living room and so and that is not what he's with us I put the baby in the car seat every bottle so that's I mean obviously that's concerning right he's giving you one story and feeding us another as far as where she was so um you know she does have um and I really I know about our injury and last year's parent I don't want to hear like about it anymore I said it to him 20 times I see a demon in you in your eyes like you look like a demon to me but I always wanted to face that I always thought I couldn't it appears that Rihanna is uneasy even when talking about Jaden's darker side supposedly the teenager did in fact have a short fuse temper and was allegedly involved in gang activity this would lead to a short period of time and a juvenile detention center where he remained during racist birth in addition he would reportedly take out his anger on Rihanna as the two supposedly engaged in violence and on one occasion he allegedly hit Rihanna during an argument but what caused the rift between their families was Jaden's alleged infidelity while the mother of his child had been pregnant not only this but he was apparently controlling of who Rihanna could have relationships with he's a part of it but I I don't want to believe that he was a part of it physically but now Jaden was nowhere to be found although that wouldn't last for long as July 14th rolled around the suspect wasn't completely in the shadows around 12 30 in the afternoon detective Lancaster received a call from Tony's phone although it wasn't her on the other end shockingly Jaden had used the phone to make contact telling the detective that he would call him again after his sister's dance practice and they could set up a time to meet that day it came as no surprise when Jaden never followed through at that point the hunt for the teenager was swiftly underway but it wouldn't be long before Jaden was contacted by another officer um I talked to your mom I talked to your dad I'll just kind of let them know what's going on here detectives there still wanting to talk to you and I don't know what happened yesterday they're saying that you took off running you guys are saying that you thought the meeting was over so there's some sort of miscommunication that happened here you want to get this thing over with or or do we need to go to the water out after the last day and a half of attempting to locate Jaden for another interview he's finally willing to show his face on July 15th we see him entering the interrogation room at two in the morning and Tony isn't too far behind all I want to do um if you guys in regards to some of the information that we learned today okay Tony calls Jayden's Father Ryan straight so he can overhear the interrogation Jaden has read his Miranda rights and given the opportunity to deny speaking without a lawyer present however he and his parents agree to talk all right Gina what can you tell me about what you learned today she told me a little bit info uh I I hope you said I ran or something somewhere yeah they said you said I ran or some I'm running a ramp out of the park I don't know when we were going back to the house yesterday yeah oh no I didn't tell anybody you ran I mean your mom told me that you got out of the car yeah but I don't see yeah why why yeah I was gonna go to the hospital but I had a ride I went to those smoke don't swim go relax and so you wanted to go smoke chill and relax and you didn't want to see your daughter you know I gave that I couldn't go up to you oh okay I couldn't Collective so I wanted I want to go up there but I can handle it oh okay what else did you guys talk about today today she's on the same the same um like she she's not doing enough she's doing the same stuff she uh see a couple of brain tests uh and she fell one have you heard of status update something oh God Tony have you heard anything yeah uh yeah at 7 51 today your daughter passed away there was no brain activity she she was alive because of electricity and they discontinued any forms of life support look smiley face [Music] can you go up there I don't understand I I know specifically I really only got a couple questions for you okay um it's not going to be like yesterday this isn't going to be a long drawn out thing I I essentially wanted to ask you is that obviously you know the way that this investigation goes takes a Time anytime that there's there's a death is there anything else that you can think of that we didn't cover you know yesterday that may have caused her to get these injuries that that ultimately cost her life is there anything at all that you can think of Okay so um what did you do to kill your daughter that's a specific question okay but she was in your care she goes to the hospital and dies so what happened to her when she was in your care that's what I want to know I want to know what happened to her what injuries she got in your care yesterday that resulted in her going to the hospital and dying foreign [Music] [Music] all day when I've been attempting to get a hold of you and and I haven't heard back from you or haven't gotten calls or text messages or anything or you haven't came to the station because what I've been doing is I've been talking to the Polk County Attorney's Office and judges that are in Polk County which is the county that we live in and they have approved charges against you for the death of your daughter okay today you are going to be charged with murder and the first degree and child endangerment resulting in death okay both of those are felonies and you will be charged as an adult okay is what's going to happen is I'm going to step out I'm going to do some paperwork and we're going to get you transported up to the Polk County Jail where you'll be processed and I'm being okay I don't know if you stay in Polk County or if they bring you to jci um okay or with it being so close to your 18th birthday I'm not really sure once I get done with the paperwork we'll get them transported up to the jail okay foreign [Music] [Music] no more Jaden is finally placed under arrest for one of the most shocking crimes that the nation has ever seen doctor soon revealed a final shocking Discovery Russia's brutal rib fractures were consistent with shaken baby syndrome Not only was Jaden definitely the reason his daughter died but this was no accident her death was the result of a deliberate attack it can be assumed that he never intended for his daughter to survive during the course of that fateful day when asked by medical staff what had happened to Raja Jaden simply told them that he didn't know in 2019 Jaden pleaded guilty to second-degree murder along with several other charges and was sentenced to a hundred years in prison however what Still Remains a mystery to this day is why a father would so viciously take the life of his own child it's a question that may never be answered

Channel: EWU Crime Storytime

Views: 4,761,616

Keywords: documentary, true crime documentary, bodycam

Id: Ywx0NW2baBU

Length: 54min 59sec (3299 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 04 2023