He Needed To Wait 26 Days. He Didn't.

On Christmas Eve morning, 2014, a car was driving south on Interstate 85 in South Carolina with three people inside. Near mile marker 16, two of them were shot and pushed out of the moving car. Mary Fowler died. James Dobson survived and never walked again. Six days later the third person sat down with detectives at the Anderson County Sheriff's Office. He was twenty-two, worked at Walmart assembling bicycles, and had never been in trouble with the law. For ninety minutes he denied everything. Then he asked to be brought back, and told them what he had done — and why he had decided to tell the truth. This is the full interrogation, in order. 00:00 The one rule he kept his entire life 00:55 The case 01:34 Signing away his rights 05:34 The shirt he was not entitled to wear 06:39 The group he ran on Facebook 11:00 Version one 13:04 What was actually in the car 15:13 The fiancee he had never met 17:25 A question about a novelist 18:36 Eleven minutes 20:38 The one thing he admits 22:34 Twenty-six minutes later 23:44 What happened on the interstate 25:19 Don't think, don't feel 29:00 What he says about himself 31:06 Why he fired 32:43 Twenty-six days 34:16 The night that did not happen 40:11 Fifty-fifty Source: public record. Anderson County Sheriff's Office interview, December 30, 2014. No footage from third-party productions is used. The name of the seventeen-year-old involved is withheld.