an attacker. Did you have fun with somebody last night and he beat the hell out of me and told me you killed her before anything quietly in her almost gentle way, Detective Seabaugh pushed back. And that's when Officer Dean Stratton found and rescued her, still living massive injuries. E arlier this month, a British business coach named Amber Smith posted two images on Facebook: One of her made-up face and one of herself visibly shaken.. The one-on-one conversation between Guthrie and the embattled "Aquaman" actor delivered a 0.3 rating in the key demographic of viewers ages 18-49 and 2.3 million viewers, per Nielsen. I thought that was my last moment on Earth. Exceptionally sick. That is 10, followed by 18 zeroes. But was he still here in Fort Collins planning his next attack or long gone? Just looking at it. He's going to slip up. I woke up the next day to a voicemail from the detective explaining what had happened to Amber. Really. Confidential. Investigators just didn't look hard enough for that. Everybody called him Sam. He was just somebody really scary out there. And that's when it happened, when the judge reads count one attempt to commit first degree murder, we, the jury find the defendant not guilty and there's an audible gasp. It was Detective Seymour who told the story for the jury. I still questioned. It was covered and it was not so bloody. Unseen by the party crowd, a rookie cop named Dane Stratton prowled the streets around the Little City graveyard shift. And well, Amber still has her struggles ahead. After four years, they finally had a suspect actually woke up to an email from Siobhan. He will be eligible for parole in September 2114, which . Yes. The doctors assessed her head injury, patched up the rest of her as best they could. Well, that was easy, said Bryce on his ear, or to his trying to get revenge on me for getting in trouble in the first place. Yeah, definitely. But there was always that fear that he would hurt somebody else. Posted: Sep 24, 2020 / 02:27 PM EDT. Hey, Sam and Amber and Sam hadn't talked in a while. It wouldn't be just a question of I give up. That's for it. This is not accurate. What if you could gain in demand credentials online and get personalized career services from a respected state university with a global reach at University of Maryland global campus online learning is not an afterthought. Yeah. Yes. And soon after the phone call was done, police arrested Simon brought into the Fort Collins police station and then they shut him down here for one more conversation, except this time. And she said, yes, it was difficult to contain my joy that we had found him. Any area that we believe the suspect may have come in contact with was examined. I was beyond scared. There is also scratches on her nose that were swabbed. That's LifeLock dotcom slash scan and use promo code dateline for twenty five percent off. We did a search warrant for specific keywords that Stefan had used in his interview about what the ad had said. Maybe an hour or two when he comes through the door and I can hear he's with somebody else and it's female. So how would your DNA be in my vagina? Coming up, for investigators, the depths of despair, I felt helpless. But again and again, there was nothing to find. But did you feel any safer? She had to let it go. Honestly, if this is his opening act, where's he going to go from here? Sami Walton of Ascot, Berkshire, has traveled hundreds of miles to sleep with strangers and friends. She wasn't at all sure they got the right man harmless so that I would describe him as harmless. She had thoughts of who might have done it, but she wasn't sure she'd been with the guy they'd been drinking. They have had to have done something in the past. So from lation, you went right back down again. She asked if I would be willing to do the whole cop. During her 2008 and 2009 appearances on the reality television programs in which she sought treatment by Dr. Drew Pinsky for addiction, she stated that both her father and mother had long histories with addiction. Not only does he have the stamina to keep up with me, he's really supportive and doesn't judge me when I'm having a bad day,' told Walton to the Sunday People. It garnered 3.59 million TV viewers overall. And her emotions, her depression, her fear pulled her down for months. No one can prevent all identity theft or monitor all transactions at all businesses. He was disgusted and surprised that he didn't feel this. She has also contributed to the YA anthology, Our Stories, Our Voices, edited by Amy Reed. Yes. But you want an explanation. Frustrating. There's been an update in your duct tape case where at that moment were you thinking, like, we got it. Your friend needs this. Because I thought I was my friend. But his story did seem to explain how his DNA could be on Ambriz body consensually. So Colorado, you have to provide a DNA sample for all felony arrests. And I went to the home and I looked under the door to figure out what the vantage point was that Stephon had claimed he had. So who a crime like this one at all? I didn't see anything about her, nothing. Keates is Waltons lover as well as therapist, who understands her. But you can find out if your information is on the dark web. I said, yeah, let's do this. Did you get that? We don't have a suspect like how do we not have a suspect? I started crying before the judge even said anything. 43:49 . Despite the odds, Amber has risen stronger than ever, with a new passion for life and her future. How do we not know who this guy is? And I remember it was like a one, two or three. Yeah, but all somebody is. So it must have been cross contamination that spread Sam's DNA to her neck. Like I got to be a star out of Pulsers. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I was like the last thing I thought about. Something that would clear him and slime Amber, the detective, wasn't buying it. Yeah, you were the. An anxious detective, Seymour watched for news anywhere of sexual assaults. Roxburgh Park, right? I went through some of the things that he had Googled and which is gross, gross stuff. That's still fun. Seem to the detective like a good old fashioned frame job. It wasn't him. I had nightmares about this case. She visited her general practitioner (GP) who gave her anti-anxiety medication and the waiting list to consult a counselor was way too long. If you got nothing. He'd been on the job barely two months. And every time there was a violent sexual assault here in town, I was certain it was my guy until it wasn't. That's all I wanted. Dubois, who worked as an electrical engineer, and his longtime girlfriend Rebecca Smith moved to a fishing village - population 382 people in the last census - on the central Oregon coast. I thought I would come back for me, even in the safe houses. A 29-year-old woman developed a sex addiction issue in her early 20s after she went through a bad breakup. And Carol Boksburg said they didn't believe Sam's alibi for a minute. When we come back, the investigation begins, starting with a body of evidence she was processed forensically for DNA. This is interesting. But when they finally do, the victim is convinced they have the wrong man. Midnight past the usual rowdies, busy, but nothing special. Did you tell him what your situation was and what had happened to you? The show will highlight a 2007 case involving a woman framed for murder. No, not at first. Yes, absolutely. But who was a face in the crowd watching her coming for her? Yes, she'd need to find out a lot more about Simon. The first part of that conversation was exciting because we were able to develop a DNA profile, a full and complete genetic picture of the suspect, which they could use to I.D. The next day, Bryan Moon and his wife Susie came down to the police station to tell Detective Seymour about their son. That was probably the longest two or three seconds of my life from the first not guilty and then to the next one and then out it came one by one. 43:49. Right. Support group Sex Addicts Anonymous holds at least 70 meetings a week, helping thousands of sex addicts in Britain. It took the jury in the case against Amber Smith, 28, less than an hour to find her guilty on the first degree premeditated murder charge, which carries a penalty of mandatory life in prison . She became very isolated and she was very self-conscious about everything and everybody that she was around. Send help right to the people and causes you care about. So I would be talking to her Detective Seymour, one on one as tears rolled down his face. For more than 25 years, "Dateline" has brought viewers investigations into some of biggest mysteries in America. When detectives start pursuing multiple leads, it becomes clear that the investigation has just begun. Correct. I just try my best to be understanding,' James Keates told the People. She ended up getting pregnant with Gabriel and our relationship kind of grew from there. He can't sit idly by for the rest of his life, he's going to do something at some point we're going to catch him doing something. But who did this Detective Seymour wanted? She's like, I know him for a moment. But Sam wouldn't budge. Could she do it? I was terrified that he was going to strike again. Take you first step in becoming a part of something big. Through posters, life-size standees and Point-of-purchase promotional materials, Amber's image was plastered across the nation. As he bent down to help, a fellow officer snapped these pictures and then sitting there in the cold, concrete, naked, afraid and terrible pain, a young woman looked up and told him her name. It's all new. Woman's sex addiction leaves her boyfriend worn out, ruins her career. She swabbed the sticky side of the tape and those swabs had the defendant's DNA on them. Amber finds her home ransacked, and the police find her fianc dead in his bed. Detective Seymour also submitted a sample from her only person of interest, Aburish friend Eric Vanner. The gruesome murder is the subject of a two-hour Dateline special airing Friday evening. December 30, 2022. The next day. Let's get him. And so if they had stopped a car with a strange guy in it and he had red duct tape, they took his swabs, collected the duct tape. A few hours after the attack, Detective Seymour, under partners tracked down Amber, sister in law and it turned out best friend Kirsty Aguilar. In the end, it didn't take very long at all. And we didn't want to let her down. And then, nearly a week after the attack on Amber, DNA analyst Melissa Grass picked up the phone and called Detective Seymour with the news. I've always felt responsible or like it was my fault. I'm Lester Holt, thanks for joining us. MCM Kitchen. And there were so many problems. Oh my God, Amber, I, I, I don't know what to say. On Tuesday, Aug. 24, Amber, who recently welcomed a baby boy, wrote on her Instagram Story . We got some news about the duct tape case. Could she really accuse him? And I showed her a picture and she said, oh, my God. Where was she? Did you set yourself up? A bottle that up and just try to forget about it. Couldn't Sam. Someone who, with such force placed so much tape on her that sexually assaulted her, dragged her from the first park, took her to another location and deposited her in the middle of the second park, didn't leave any of their DNA. OK, and again, he offered up his Craigslist story that he had responded to a personal ad, a woman offering free sexual favors in the park. Life had moved on. We finally have an answer. Yeah. Abby's friend Eric had suggested maybe check some of Anvers other friends who lived in Fort Collins. So what the searches showed me was that he still had a propensity towards rape and hurting women. 21K views, 93 likes, 0 loves, 74 comments, 7 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Dateline NBC: More of the police interview with Sam Moon's parents What did you think about that? It's you. I was like, there a mistake. My parting words to Stephan Moon were, I want you to take a look at Amber Smith and remember her not as your victim, but as a victor. It's truly, at times feels like the weight of the world to know that I am responsible for figuring out all these parts and pieces, putting them together so that everyone's safe, including me not just solving the crime for her, but for the whole town. She was like, You need a call sehbai. And . Amber Smith is calling out the people who sent "hurtful" messages following the death of her son River. And I just got separated from my wife at home and went out there at Rossborough Park. Amber was still deeply conflicted. I received notice that we had a match for the DNA and it came back to your son, something no parent wants to hear from. We did a sex assault exam on her. But surely he couldn't be because of how brutal it was. You are the man that did this to her and I pleaded with him to be the hero that I believed he could be and allow my victim to move forward with her life by apologizing and taking accountability for the things you've done. And yes, no surprise, Amber, just 20 years old, had also been raped. It's a felony case. Wow. How do you wrap your mind around the fact that somebody you trusted is the one who did this? Of the ducted case. It was that DNA that matched the sample recovered from Amber. Sam Moon. I still questioned would she have it in her to testify? Pick the plan that's right for you and save up the 25 percent off your first year by using promo code dateline. I think that was very powerful to the jury because he added that human element to this case. That was the good news. But not quite for Officer Dane Stratton, the cop who found and rescued Amber in the park. It was crazy. I tapped Amber on the shoulder and I very quickly spoke with her because I wanted to hear her. I never, ever, ever, never heard or Detective Seymour does not bluster or threaten and she didn't hear. Yeah. And then detectives give her a job. My whole world is flipped upside down. It became very clear that whoever had done this to her was a stranger, a stranger who'd managed to avoid capture for whatever else she'd probably done, someone who had had the bad luck to encounter at a moment of vulnerability. Amber, after all, was slated to be their star witness and they needed her to help seal the case here for the first time since that night in the park, she would finally confront Simon face to face. Dane Stratton, the patrol cop still haunted by what happened to Amber by what he saw in the park, had been just as sure Amber wasn't her attacker, his first victim. The patrol officers knew the suspect had used red duct tape. . I went into complete panic mode right away. From the 2013 incident, the one I told you about, the one I wrote down to you and told you about multiple times. I wanted him to say I did this to you and I'm sorry. Amber, who refused to call herself a victim, even faced her attacker in . Little Bejar, mostly guys. Gradually, they and the other housemates helped Amber learn to smile again, but particularly Sam, a bright, gentle guy, good listener. The red that I was seeing was a red duct tape, her hands just bound and duct tape, her hair matted across her face bound and duct taped, her eyes covered. Stefan Moon: Where is the Rapist Now? Mr Donia looked pretty bad. Oh, I think I could tell you about Sam as day is a constant liar. $25. For how long? I'm Trymaine Lee, host of Into America, a podcast from MSNBC. And so I kept screaming and screaming, and then I remember getting hit in the face right here like a pretty good blow. Slow it down. Seymour dialed forensic DNA analyst Melissa Grass at the CBI. Get started today at UMG Dot Edu Slash podcast. Was the person who attacked Amber Smith still out here looking fishing? This is not real. One of only a few women to fly the Kiowa Warrior helicopterwhose mission, armed reconnaissance, required its pilots to stay low and fly fast, perilously close to the fightSmith deployed to. And then some words were said to me, words we are simply not going to repeat. Amber Smith had overcome her worst fears and confronted her friends and moon. I'm sorry for them and my heart breaks for them, but I just don't think that that's the right choice. Goodness, we thought it possibly could have been Eric, the person she was with the night before. Yet back at the police station, as she pressed for answers, he said something that caught her off guard. She was found naked and bound with red duct tape. What was truly astonishing to me was seeing this woman who had been so badly beaten, her face was so swollen. Sad, really, that a victim would blame herself for her own victimization. The holidays came to Fort Collins. But now I'm getting a bit older it can be exhausting and I know it gets Sami down. On the late summer evening she was assaulted, things were taken from Amber that she will never get back. I remember that vividly. The attacker had left his semen behind and maybe touch DNA. Amber was beaten so bad that she was unrecognizable. As I was screaming, trying to break free, I remember a rope or something being put across my neck. Drink too much. Because the voice in my memory was her screaming, terrified, I want her real voice to be my new memory. And I was due to rotate out. Sam. I just felt sick. We got a CODIS hit on this case. Like, I know. Hosted by Emmy-winning journalist Craig Melvin, the show explores the stories through firsthand accounts told by people who are . They came back something. I teared up. An advocate for increased awareness of mental health, gendered violence, and LGBTQIA+ equality . I did not I did not hurt you. There were other charges, other verdicts to come, but the concern is they'll make that same finding all the way through. When you see the photos, you can feel the terror. I think he was surprised that it had happened. We had no idea who could have done anything so horrible to her. And then in 2015, a whole group, in a way came to members rescue housemates who invited her to live here with them in this safe place among friends in a good neighborhood. He didn't have a face or a name. And she asked if I would be willing to do the phone call. Months later, they got the answer. But the heart of Sam's alibi was his claim that he had sex and only sex with Amber after reading a Craigslist ad offering free sex in the park. But if he couldn't find him, maybe he could at least prevent another attack. Each one provided a DNA sample for Melissa Grass. Officer Dane Stratton was stunned when he got the news. And then detectives interview the man Sam says attacked Amber. Can't hurt anybody else, can't hurt me. Amber Smith an American actress who suffered drug addiction, alcoholism, and prostitution, later on live TV also revealed that she was also a sex addict. Everything changed when she met Keates who was there to comfort her and was always ready to talk about her addiction. Have you always felt the things were your fault? Has he hadn't seen him handle it or make stuff with the. We were surprised that there were no other cases and no offenders within the database that this case matched to. I just can hear still to this day her screams of just agony, pain. Evening again, one day later, Fort Collins, Colorado, and once again restaurants and bars began to fill with young people eager to meet new friends. Officially, it wasn't even a case anymore, the Amber Smith investigation was closed two years after the attack. Yeah, we have sex. Stefan "Sam" Moon's DNA matched that of Amber's attacker, and the more chilling detail, Amber knew Sam as a friend.Love Killer Instincts but hate the ads? You can change this. I was. But not everyone was satisfied, Sam Moon's parents, the mortified by what their son had done and what it all meant for their family, were not so convinced that he was the one who beat and bound that in duct tape. 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