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started experimenting with
smoking and pot and stuff.
we tried to warn her this is not
the type of friends you want to
have.
>> the virks wondered what
happened to the lively little
girl they nurtured so carefully
she was not ever left with a
babysitter.
but her actions soon went beyond
teen rebellion.
reena went to child welfare
authorities and reported her
father had sexually molested
her.
the virks say reena was lured by
making the false accusations by
her friends who had convinced
her being put into foster care
would catapult her into teen
paradise?
foster care?
>> yeah.
that's what they told her.
>> they were holding that out as
a good thing?
>> yes.
she doesn't have to live by our
rules.
she can be out all hours of the
night with no supervision and
they'll even give you spending
started experimenting with
smoking and pot and stuff.
we tried to warn her this is not
the type of friends you want to
have.
>> the virks wondered what
happened to the lively little
girl they nurtured so carefully
she was not ever left with a
babysitter.
but her actions soon went beyond
teen rebellion.
reena went to child welfare
authorities and reported her
father had sexually molested
her.
the virks say reena was lured by
making the false accusations by
her friends who had convinced
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and then by that time the
adrenaline level is up and
things are in motion.
people engage in tunnel vision,
they become focused, their
adrenaline is high.
they're now out of control.
>> but what made six of the
eight people involved in reena's
beating stop while two others
continued?
>> people make internal
decisions even when they're in a
very, very heightened state.
those decisions are guided by
how they understand the
situation in the moment.
in that case, six people had
enough of a moral compass to
stop.
two of the eight did not have
that kind of moral compass.
>> and without a moral compass,
even something as savage as the
murder of an innocent girl can
be seen as something to be proud
of.
>> we are being able to display
power over others and dominance,
gives them a sense of value and
importance.
and then by that time the
adrenaline level is up and
things are in motion.
people engage in tunnel vision,
they become focused, their
adrenaline is high.
they're now out of control.
>> but what made six of the
eight people involved in reena's
beating stop while two others
continued?
>> people make internal
decisions even when they're in a
very, very heightened state.
those decisions are guided by
how they understand the
situation in the moment.
in that case, six people had
enough of...
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>> trying to survive all the
difficult treatment from other
people.
>> yeah.
>> did she want to be part of
the crowd?
>> mm-hmm.
everybody did.
i did.
>> pretty important at that age?
>> yeah, it is, very important.
we hung out all the time and
then i moved away.
>> missy ran away from home a
lot.
she was too much to handle, so
her mom put her in foster care
and that's where missy and reena
ran into each other again.
when they stayed occasionally
both of them at temporary youth
homes.
they were still friendly but now
there were other issues.
>> she slept with my boyfriend.
i was pissed off about it and i
was mad.
>> you confronted her?
>> i sure did.
i probably said some nasty
things.
she was mad and said some nasty
things back.
>> there was yet another girl
who had reason to be angry with
reena virk at shoreline school
the night of november 19th.
her name was nicole cook.
>> trying to survive all the
difficult treatment from other
people.
>> yeah.
>> did she want to be part of
the crowd?
>> mm-hmm.
everybody did.
i did.
>> pretty important at that age?
>> yeah, it is, very important.
we hung out all the time and
then i moved away.
>> missy ran away from home a
lot.
she was too much to handle, so
her mom put her in foster care
and that's where missy and reena
ran into each other again.
when they stayed occasionally
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importance.
>> she says sometimes girls do
engage in serious use of
aggression and violence, and
when it happens, it gets a lot
of attention because it happens
so rarely.
>> i think it's a reason to be
concerned, but it's certainly
not an indicator of a vast and
overwhelming trend.
>> and as the wheel of justice
grinds on and on, the virks wake
up each day to a kind of hell
only they understand.
i see the two of you sitting
here, and you speak so
eloquently of what happened, but
there's a big layer of scar
tissue, isn't there?
>> yes.
once somebody asked me when i
was really sick and down they
said, oh, you look good.
i said, well, it's not my face
that is sick.
it's my heart that's sick.
>> manjit started putting his
importance.
>> she says sometimes girls do
engage in serious use of
aggression and violence, and
when it happens, it gets a lot
of attention because it happens
so rarely.
>> i think it's a reason to be
concerned, but it's certainly
not an indicator of a vast and
overwhelming trend.
>> and as the wheel of justice
grinds on and on, the virks wake
up each day to a kind of hell
only they understand.
i see the two of you sitting
here, and you speak so
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go and kelly took her into the
gorge up to about her waist and
she karate chopped reena's
throat and then she held her
under water until she stopped
moving.
>> warren never tried to stop
her?
>> no.
>> the horror of it is almost
diminished by the telling.
a trusty, needy 14-year-old girl
was brutally beaten and then
murdered by other teens who
really didn't even know her for
reasons that were utterly
trivial.
>> i'm satisfied the eight
participants, none of them
intended to go out that night
and kill reena virk.
>> at home reena's parents
watched the door for their
daughter.
>> i had this uneasy feeling
that there was something wrong.
i didn't sleep all night.
i was worried where she was
going.
>> in the morning when she
hadn't come home her mother
called around frantically.
>> i actually found nicole and
missy at the group home.
they said that they didn't know
where she was.
they hadn't seen her.
go and kelly took her into the
gorge up to about her waist and
she karate chopped reena's
throat and then she held her
under water until she stopped
moving.
>> warren never tried to stop
her?
>> no.
>> the horror of it is almost
diminished by the telling.
a trusty, needy 14-year-old girl
was brutally beaten and then
murdered by other teens who
really didn't even know her for
reasons that were utterly
trivial.
>> i'm satisfied the eight
participants, none of them
intended...
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>> yeah.
>> what happened next would rock
a town.
who did it and why.
what really happened?
in this hour "bloodlust under
the bridge."
♪
victoria, british columbia, is a
confection of a town, double
decker buses, the storied
empress hotel gracing its
harbor.
and everywhere you turn,
flowers, music and kodak
moments.
>> it's considered one of the
most peaceful, beautiful places
to live in canada, you know,
idyllic and crime free.
>> rebecca godfrey should know.
she grew up here.
but has come to know a harsher
reality.
a memory that lurks behind
victoria's picture perfect
facade.
>> yeah.
>> what happened next would rock
a town.
who did it and why.
what really happened?
in this hour "bloodlust under
the bridge."
♪
victoria, british columbia, is a
confection of a town, double
decker buses, the storied
empress hotel gracing its
harbor.
and everywhere you turn,
flowers, music and kodak
moments.
>> it's considered one of the
most peaceful, beautiful places
to live in canada, you know,
idyllic and crime free.
>> rebecca godfrey should...
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that's it.
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>> coming up --
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>> i'm not responsible for her
death in any way, shape or form.
>> did you start it all?
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at&t.
>>> 14-year-old reena virk was
miserable.
growing up in victoria, canada,
she was caught between the
traditional culture of her
family, their strict religious
mentality, and her own desperate
need to be accepted by her
free-wheeling, hard-partying
newfound friends.
it's in foster care that reena
reunited with missy pleech and
where she met nicole cook.
often the girls would be in and
out of foster care.
if they weren't here, they went
back home.
but two of these new friends got
angry when reena defied them and
at&t.
>>> 14-year-old reena virk was
miserable.
growing up in victoria, canada,
she was caught between the
traditional culture of her
family, their strict religious
mentality, and her own desperate
need to be accepted by her
free-wheeling, hard-partying
newfound friends.
it's in foster care that reena
reunited with missy pleech and
where she met nicole cook.
often the girls would be in and
out of foster care.
if they weren't here, they went
back home.
but two of these new friends...
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shouldn't have made it rain.
>>> reena virk was a typical
teenager trying to be accepted
and liked by her peers growing
up in victoria, canada.
she joined a group of teenage
girls who were wild er and more
rebellious than she was.
reena's parents say these girls
convinced her to tell child
welfare her father sexually
molested her so reena would be
put in a foster home and be free
shouldn't have made it rain.
>>> reena virk was a typical
teenager trying to be accepted
and liked by her peers growing
up in victoria, canada.
she joined a group of teenage
girls who were wild er and more
rebellious than she was.
reena's parents say these girls
convinced her to tell child
welfare her father sexually
molested her so reena would be
put in a foster home and be free
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>>> i'm stone phillips.
and for all of us at nbc news,
good night.
>>> 911 emergency.
>> has the jury reached a
verdict?
>> we, the jury, find the
defendant --
>>> a desperate outsider, a fair
weather friend and the cool girl
who called the shots.
they ended up here one night
with some others.
>> we were like, oh, we can go
under the bridge.
>> the physical beating was
planned, a calculated act of
revenge.
>> i put my cigarette on her
forehead.
>> you what?
>> i put my cigarette out on her
forehead.
>> then a frenzy of violence.
>> everybody just went crazy and
started hitting her.
>> everybody?
>> yeah.
>> you too?
>> yeah.
>>> i'm stone phillips.
and for all of us at nbc news,
good night.
>>> 911 emergency.
>> has the jury reached a
verdict?
>> we, the jury, find the
defendant --
>>> a desperate outsider, a fair
weather friend and the cool girl
who called the shots.
they ended up here one night
with some others.
>> we were like, oh, we can go
under the bridge.
>> the physical beating was
planned, a calculated act of
revenge.
>> i put my cigarette on...
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the bridge, he and nicole cook's
best friend, kelly ellard,
followed her.
>> ellard confronts her, if
reena virk going to rat her out.
>> no one can really say why
kelly followed reena.
was it to impress her friend
nicole?
was it a taste for violence that
the fight had awakened?
her background made what
happened next hard to believe.
>> she wasn't a troublemaker.
she has a good family.
her family always looked out for
her.
>> catherine murray the
prosecutor in the trials that
followed said warren testified
that he and kelly continued to
beat reena.
>> and then they started
kicking, stomping on her,
jumping up and down on her until
she was unconscious.
then they each took a foot and
they dragged her to the water's
edge.
warren said at that time he let
go and kelly took her into the
gorge up to about her waist and
the bridge, he and nicole cook's
best friend, kelly ellard,
followed her.
>> ellard confronts her, if
reena virk going to rat her out.
>> no one can really say why
kelly followed reena.
was it to impress her friend
nicole?
was it a taste for violence that
the fight had awakened?
her background made what
happened next hard to believe.
>> she wasn't a troublemaker.
she has a good family.
her family always looked out for
her.
>> catherine murray the
prosecutor in the trials...
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but first a little information
about the people who were there.
this is missy pleech, she came
from a very large family.
she has 12 siblings.
>> some of us have the same dad,
but most of us have different
dads.
yeah.
>> what was it like growing up
in that kind of family?
>> i was the baby.
so i didn't have anybody at
home.
>> you were lucky 13.
>> you could call it lucky,
maybe.
>> or not?
>> or not.
by the time i was born she was
just so worn out she was just
too tired from all the other
kids.
>> it must have been tough for
you.
>> at the time it was the
greatest thing ever because i
could just go do whatever i
wanted and she never said
anything about it.
>> and that is just missy did.
>> i drank a lot and i beat
people up and i stole things.
>> reena virk's world was not
tough and she did not usually
hang out with the kids from
shoreline.
she had been invited there that
night for a reason.
but first a little information
about the people who were there.
this is missy pleech, she came
from a very large family.
she has 12 siblings.
>> some of us have the same dad,
but most of us have different
dads.
yeah.
>> what was it like growing up
in that kind of family?
>> i was the baby.
so i didn't have anybody at
home.
>> you were lucky 13.
>> you could call it lucky,
maybe.
>> or not?
>> or not.
by the time i was born she was
just so worn out she...
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parents' supervision.
trying to act tough reena spread
rumors about a popular girl in
her group, nicole cook.
she also betrayed another member
of the group, missy pleech, who
accused reena of sleeping with
her boyfriend.
the angry friends plotted to get
revenge against reena.
on friday, november 14, 1997,
missy pleech phoned reena,
invited her out.
reena's instincts told her
something was wrong but she met
with the group of teens anyway.
it was then under a bridge that
reena was kicked, attacked and
punched and badly beaten.
no one called 911.
missy remembers seeing reena
after she left the bridge.
>> she was walking very slow.
and she came up and she went
back down.
>> she saw you there.
>> she saw everybody.
i don't think she saw me.
i was quite far away.
>> she saw the crowd?
>> mm-hmm.
>> what do you think was going
parents' supervision.
trying to act tough reena spread
rumors about a popular girl in
her group, nicole cook.
she also betrayed another member
of the group, missy pleech, who
accused reena of sleeping with
her boyfriend.
the angry friends plotted to get
revenge against reena.
on friday, november 14, 1997,
missy pleech phoned reena,
invited her out.
reena's instincts told her
something was wrong but she met
with the group of teens anyway.
it was then under a bridge that
reena was kicked,...
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i'm going to have dinner with
you and i will spend the night.
i said good.
good for you.
>> she brought her pajamas.
>> that's right.
so she was very happy and i
think that was her genuine
plans.
she was planning to have a nice
bath and stuff and just have a
nice evening with the family.
and we didn't have a problem
with that.
and just around 6:30, 7:00, the
phone rings.
>> missy called reena and told
her to come out.
>> why did she call reena?
>> because she wanted her to get
beat up because she screwed
around with her boyfriend.
>> reena's parents begged her to
stay home.
>> i told her don't go.
at that point, i told
her, i said, no, you can't
change your plans just like
that.
it's late.
leave your friends alone.
it is winter time.
it's cold out.
just have your shower and
continue with us and you can see
them tomorrow.
>> reena told her parents she
had heard rumors that a girl was
going to be beaten up that night
and while she was on the phone
i'm going to have dinner with
you and i will spend the night.
i said good.
good for you.
>> she brought her pajamas.
>> that's right.
so she was very happy and i
think that was her genuine
plans.
she was planning to have a nice
bath and stuff and just have a
nice evening with the family.
and we didn't have a problem
with that.
and just around 6:30, 7:00, the
phone rings.
>> missy called reena and told
her to come out.
>> why did she call reena?
>> because she...
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if anybody said anything bad
about me she would always be
there to say something.
>> nicole said she and kelly
decided to get even with reena
by beating her up.
>> fighting was really common.
>> what would cause fights?
>> it could have been anything.
>> but was fighting all they had
in mind?
>> nicole's mother told police
she heard nicole discussing with
a friend ways to kill reena.
they were saying, we will invite
her out, dig a hole, bury her
alive.
>> to which nicole replies.
>> there was jokes like that.
but i never, ever said i was
going to kill someone.
ever.
>> still, a plot was hatched.
on november 14, missy pleech and
nicole cook were staying at a
group home called seven oaks.
reena was still in foster care
but spending more time at home.
>> when i came from work, she
was here.
it was friday.
she seemed happy.
she said i'm visiting dad.
i'm going to have dinner with
you and i will spend the night.
if anybody said anything bad
about me she would always be
there to say something.
>> nicole said she and kelly
decided to get even with reena
by beating her up.
>> fighting was really common.
>> what would cause fights?
>> it could have been anything.
>> but was fighting all they had
in mind?
>> nicole's mother told police
she heard nicole discussing with
a friend ways to kill reena.
they were saying, we will invite
her out, dig a hole, bury...
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here at victoria's youth custody
center.
>> it was a very unique
situation.
unique because it was almost all
girls.
>> gordon cruz, now retired, was
a corrections officer at the
time.
he said the youth center tried
to maintain the routine of a
maximum security facility
despite the enormous publicity.
this kind of thing had never
occurred or had very seldom ever
occurred in victoria.
very high profile in the
community.
there were articles in the
media, newspaper, radio,
television.
unique, high-profile, quite
exceptional.
and obviously very tragic.
>> by the year 2000, the case
was closed.
19-year-old warren glowatski and
17-year-old kelly ellard were
both tried and convicted of
second degree murder.
here at victoria's youth custody
center.
>> it was a very unique
situation.
unique because it was almost all
girls.
>> gordon cruz, now retired, was
a corrections officer at the
time.
he said the youth center tried
to maintain the routine of a
maximum security facility
despite the enormous publicity.
this kind of thing had never
occurred or had very seldom ever
occurred in victoria.
very high profile in the
community.
there were articles in the
media, newspaper,...
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what started as a couple of
silly tiffs, an awkward, not so
popular girl
acting cool to fit in ended in a
way no one dreamed was even
possible in lovely, peaceful
victoria.
coming up, the trap is set.
the trusted friend makes a
fateful phone call.
>> missy called reena and told
her to come out.
>> but the real plan would soon
become clear.
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>> missy called reena and told
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>> but the real plan would soon
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>> manjit started putting his
thoughts of pain and grief onto
paper.
they were published in a book
called "reena, a father's
story."
my hope is it might help some
families, some children and
everybody who reads it and hope
it serves some good purpose in
community.
>> the lives of every one of the
young people there that friday
night in november of 1997 have
been changed forever.
affected by the violence in
which they participated.
but reena's life was not changed
forever.
it was taken.
leaving for her parents an
eternal emptiness.
>> some people say forgive and
forget.
i have learned that forgiving
can be done.
but something like that is
really hard to forget.
we'll never forget.
but we have forgiven.
>> manjit started putting his
thoughts of pain and grief onto
paper.
they were published in a book
called "reena, a father's
story."
my hope is it might help some
families, some children and
everybody who reads it and hope
it serves some good purpose in
community.
>> the lives of every one of the
young people there that friday
night in november of 1997 have
been changed forever.
affected by the violence in
which they participated.
but reena's life was not...
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>> she pushed me and kelly
jumped up and she turned to run
away and she got halfway up.
i don't know who it was but
somebody pulled her down.
>> and then i think kelly hit
her.
then missy hit her.
>> everybody just went crazy
just started hitting her.
>> everybody?
>> yeah.
>> you, too?
>> yeah.
>> she's your friend.
>> yeah.
>> maybe one of the best friends
you ever had?
>> yeah.
>> and you kicked her?
>> yeah.
>> punched her?
>> yeah.
>> and felt what as you were
doing this?
>> nothing.
i didn't think.
>> how long did this pack of
14-year-olds beat at reena
virk's face and body?
in such a hyped up atmosphere
nobody was timing it that's for
sure.
later on some remembered it
seemed to have lasted a minute
or less.
then one of the attackers
shouted enough and as quickly as
it started, it ceased.
reena virk lay bleeding, crying,
crumpled in the mud at the
water's edge.
>> she pushed me and kelly
jumped up and she turned to run
away and she got halfway up.
i don't know who it was but
somebody pulled her down.
>> and then i think kelly hit
her.
then missy hit her.
>> everybody just went crazy
just started hitting her.
>> everybody?
>> yeah.
>> you, too?
>> yeah.
>> she's your friend.
>> yeah.
>> maybe one of the best friends
you ever had?
>> yeah.
>> and you kicked her?
>>...
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we have to look around and see
if we can find any of her stuff.
so we were walking and we found
her shoes.
nicole put them in her bag.
we just kept walking.
>> i mean, that's possible.
but i don't remember a lot about
that day.
>> the police treated reena virk
as a missing person.
when rumors finally surfaced
that there was a murder
involved, victoria's finest
scarcely knew what to believe.
>> it was bizarre.
these kids came home for several
days where they had been
involved in a significant
assault where a girl has been
murdered and life carried on as
normal.
>> still, there was no body and
there were many unanswered
questions.
>> so like 3:00 in the morning
is when they came.
the police officer said that
there was a fight.
there were two fights and reena
went in the water and is
presumed dead.
that's all they told us.
that's it.
we have to look around and see
if we can find any of her stuff.
so we were walking and we found
her shoes.
nicole put them in her bag.
we just kept walking.
>> i mean, that's possible.
but i don't remember a lot about
that day.
>> the police treated reena virk
as a missing person.
when rumors finally surfaced
that there was a murder
involved, victoria's finest
scarcely knew what to believe.
>> it was bizarre.
these kids came home for several
days where they had been
involved...
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>> rebecca godfrey who spent
eight years researching what
happened says reena virk died
because of a spontaneous
combustion.
>> some of the girls were
incredibly violent before this
and were really caught up in the
notion of violence as a
romantic, kind of powerful
thing.
>> violence, romantic.
how could that be?
what causes teens to act out
like this?
>> i've often been told by young
people who have been engaged in
these altercations that they
can't believe that it actually
happened.
>> dr. cybil arts is at the
university of victoria.
although she's never spoken to
the teens involved in reen
reena virk's death, she has been
studying violence in youth and
particularly girls.
she is the author of several
books including "sex, power and
the violent schoolgirl."
someone throws a punch and it
becomes real.
and then by that time the
>> rebecca godfrey who spent
eight years researching what
happened says reena virk died
because of a spontaneous
combustion.
>> some of the girls were
incredibly violent before this
and were really caught up in the
notion of violence as a
romantic, kind of powerful
thing.
>> violence, romantic.
how could that be?
what causes teens to act out
like this?
>> i've often been told by young
people who have been engaged in
these altercations that they
can't believe that it...
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two people came back.
>> now police knew where to
look.
and saturday morning a dive team
inched along through the black
water at the bottom of the
gorge, pushing aside the slimy
eel grass catching momentarily
on the rocks, skirting the
discarded junk lying on the
bottom.
>> we put police up in a
helicopter and early afternoon
we located the body of reena
virk.
>> i wanted to die with her.
i wanted to be dead, too.
>> the whole city, much of the
country went into something like
shock over the murder of reena
virk.
how could this happen in such a
peaceful town?
what would make ordinary kids,
little girls, really, do such a
thing?
>> reena's immediate family
quickly pass a hoard of
reporters and cameras.
>> but anyone hoping for a quick
and easy answer would be
disappointed.
missy pleech, reena's friend who
two people came back.
>> now police knew where to
look.
and saturday morning a dive team
inched along through the black
water at the bottom of the
gorge, pushing aside the slimy
eel grass catching momentarily
on the rocks, skirting the
discarded junk lying on the
bottom.
>> we put police up in a
helicopter and early afternoon
we located the body of reena
virk.
>> i wanted to die with her.
i wanted to be dead, too.
>> the whole city, much of the
country went into...
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reena virk lay bleeding, crying,
crumpled in the mud at the
water's edge.
>> we just left.
we left her there.
>> left her there.
spent the whole evening with her
and invited her to the party and
helped beat her up.
>> and we left her there.
>> no one called 911.
no one seemed to care whether
reena virk was hurt badly or
needed help.
this is how nicole cook
rationalizes it.
>> she walked away.
she got up and left.
i saw her walk away.
i saw her leave.
>> what sort of shape did she
seem to be in?
>> i don't know.
she didn't seem -- i can't
really remember.
i only saw her for a second.
>> coming up, lots of witnesses,
but not many answers in what is
soon to be a case of murder.
>> 3:00 in the morning when they
came, the police officers said
there were two fights and reena
went in the water and is
presumed dead.
that is all they told us.
>> when "bloodlust under the
bridge" continues.
reena virk lay bleeding, crying,
crumpled in the mud at the
water's edge.
>> we just left.
we left her there.
>> left her there.
spent the whole evening with her
and invited her to the party and
helped beat her up.
>> and we left her there.
>> no one called 911.
no one seemed to care whether
reena virk was hurt badly or
needed help.
this is how nicole cook
rationalizes it.
>> she walked away.
she got up and left.
i saw her walk away.
i saw her leave.
>> what...
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you had to have thought about
it.
>> i didn't.
at that point i was really easy
at shutting everything down.
>> missy and nicole were checked
in at the group home a few
minutes after 11:00.
reena virk struggled across the
bridge, hurting, bleeding,
bruised from the severe beating
she had just received.
the crowd of teens dispersed.
almost.
in addition to the girls, there
was one boy, warren glowatski.
>> warren didn't know reena
virk.
had no reason to be angry with
her.
>> although, says rebecca
godfrey, warren did have reason
to be angry at somebody.
>> his life was about as
unstable as a life could be.
his mother was an alcoholic and
his father had moved to
california so he was on his own.
>> glowatski, he's 5'5", 130
pounds.
>> john bond is an investigator
with the victoria police
department.
bond says warren told him as
reena virk was staggering across
the bridge, he and nicole cook's
best friend, kelly ellard,
you had to have thought about
it.
>> i didn't.
at that point i was really easy
at shutting everything down.
>> missy and nicole were checked
in at the group home a few
minutes after 11:00.
reena virk struggled across the
bridge, hurting, bleeding,
bruised from the severe beating
she had just received.
the crowd of teens dispersed.
almost.
in addition to the girls, there
was one boy, warren glowatski.
>> warren didn't know reena
virk.
had no reason to be angry...
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>> mm-hmm.
>> what do you think was going
on in her mind right then?
>> i think she was going to go
and wait until everybody left.
>> that may have been her
decision, but what do you think
she was thinking?
>> i don't know.
>> feeling?
>> pain.
>> was she afraid?
>> i would imagine.
i would have been.
>> nicole and missy had a bus to
catch to make curfew.
>> we had to be back at like
11:00 at that group home.
>> so you and nicole left?
>> yeah.
>> what did you talk about it on
the way home?
>> nothing.
it was like it never even
happened.
>> you didn't talk about the
beating?
you didn't talk about her at
all?
>> unh-unh had.
>> were you afraid?
>> no.
>> were you shocked about what
had happened?
>> i just didn't think about it.
>> how is that possible?
come on.
you had to have thought about
it.
>> i didn't.
>> mm-hmm.
>> what do you think was going
on in her mind right then?
>> i think she was going to go
and wait until everybody left.
>> that may have been her
decision, but what do you think
she was thinking?
>> i don't know.
>> feeling?
>> pain.
>> was she afraid?
>> i would imagine.
i would have been.
>> nicole and missy had a bus to
catch to make curfew.
>> we had to be back at like
11:00 at that group home.
>> so you and...
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>>> i'm stone phillips.
and for all of us at nbc news,
good night.
>>> 911 emergency.
>> has the jury reached a
verdict?
>> we, the jury, find the
defendant --
>>> a desperate outsider, a fair
weather friend and the cool girl
who called the shots.
they ended up here one night
with some others.
>> we were like, oh, we can go
under the bridge.
>> the physical beating was
planned, a calculated act of
revenge.
>> i put my cigarette on her
forehead.
>> you what?
>> i put my cigarette out on her
forehead.
>> then a frenzy of violence.
>> everybody just went crazy and
started hitting her.
>> everybody?
>> yeah.
>> you too?
>> yeah.
>> what happened next would rock
a town.
who did it and why.
what really happened?
in this hour "bloodlust under
the bridge."
♪
victoria, british columbia, is a
confection of a town, double
decker buses, the storied
empress hotel gracing its
harbor.
and everywhere you turn,
flowers, music and kodak
moments.
>> it's considered one of the
most peaceful, beautiful...
>>> i'm stone phillips.
and for all of us at nbc news,
good night.
>>> 911 emergency.
>> has the jury reached a
verdict?
>> we, the jury, find the
defendant --
>>> a desperate outsider, a fair
weather friend and the cool girl
who called the shots.
they ended up here one night
with some others.
>> we were like, oh, we can go
under the bridge.
>> the physical beating was
planned, a calculated act of
revenge.
>> i put my cigarette on...
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where she was.
they hadn't seen her.
it's like panic.
panic.
total panic.
all the time.
it's like, okay, i've got to
find her.
i need to know where she is.
>> to me it was like any other
saturday morning.
>> nicole, kelly and missy went
back to the bridge grounds the
next morning, back to the little
beach where reena virk had been
dragged and drowned.
to hear nicole cook tell it,
kelly didn't act like she had
killed anyone the night before?
typical.
>> sure.
to my knowledge kelly never took
part in a murder.
it wasn't like a morning after a
murder and we are all hanging
out and acting like nothing
happened.
because to me, nothing did
happen.
>> missy pleech, however,
remembers a very different
scene.
she says kelly called her and
nicole at the group home the
next morning.
>> she said i killed her and
warren just sat there and
watched and he didn't help me.
>> then the three of them met at
the murder scene.
>> we walked along and she said,
i finished her off.
i dragged her into the...
where she was.
they hadn't seen her.
it's like panic.
panic.
total panic.
all the time.
it's like, okay, i've got to
find her.
i need to know where she is.
>> to me it was like any other
saturday morning.
>> nicole, kelly and missy went
back to the bridge grounds the
next morning, back to the little
beach where reena virk had been
dragged and drowned.
to hear nicole cook tell it,
kelly didn't act like she had
killed anyone the night before?
typical.
>> sure.
to my knowledge...
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going to be beaten up that night
and while she was on the phone
reena asked her friends if she
was that girl.
they said no, it was someone
else but come out anyway.
>> the invitation was too
tempting for her.
but i could see on her face that
she really didn't want to go,
but she was forced to go for
some reason.
>> so reena left the house
saying she would be back in a
couple of hours.
reena met with missy and nicole.
they went to the field at
shoreline school where a crowd
of kids was drinking and
chatting, some smoking pot.
>> we were only there about 15
minutes and the window got
broken.
so the police came and said, you
guys got to leave.
so we left.
>> we all started walking away
>> and reena called her parents
and said she was going to come
home in an hour.
>> and they wouldn't let her
leave.
>> why not?
how did they prevent her from
leaving?
>> they linked arms with her,
held on to her so she couldn't
walk away.
ripped up her bus pass.
>> we were like, where are we
going to go?
going to be beaten up that night
and while she was on the phone
reena asked her friends if she
was that girl.
they said no, it was someone
else but come out anyway.
>> the invitation was too
tempting for her.
but i could see on her face that
she really didn't want to go,
but she was forced to go for
some reason.
>> so reena left the house
saying she would be back in a
couple of hours.
reena met with missy and nicole.
they went to the field at
shoreline school where a crowd
of kids...
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second degree murder.
they were sentenced to life in
prison but with the possibility
of parole in seven years.
officer cruz remembers being
surprised when he first met
warren.
>> my first reaction in shaking
his hand and meeting him was
this kid was involved in that?
he is so timid, so quiet, so
shy.
wow.
>> according to cruz, warren
took advantage of counseling and
participated in self-help
programs, and that help changed
his outlook on life.
>> he didn't join the gangs or
toughen up or harden himself to
survive in prison.
he found people that would kind
of allow him to become a better
person.
>> but what became of kelly
ellard?
the girl accused of holding
reena virk under the water until
she was drowned?
in 2004 her guilty verdict was
overturned on appeal.
kelly was getting a second
trial.
second degree murder.
they were sentenced to life in
prison but with the possibility
of parole in seven years.
officer cruz remembers being
surprised when he first met
warren.
>> my first reaction in shaking
his hand and meeting him was
this kid was involved in that?
he is so timid, so quiet, so
shy.
wow.
>> according to cruz, warren
took advantage of counseling and
participated in self-help
programs, and that help changed
his outlook on life.
>> he didn't join the gangs...
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drowned in victoria, canada, one
of the teens accused, warren,
owned up to his part of the
murder and asked forgiveness
from reena's parents.
>> we were apprehensive.
my reaction was i really don't
want to shake hands with my
daughter's killer.
>> i have been able to realize
the hurt that i have done to
people, the hurt that i've done
to myself.
that alone has helped me and
made me want to change.
>> we were able to tell him how
he had utterly completely
destroyed our lives and the
effect his part in the murder
had on us.
>> if he wants to change his
life from his former course of
actions or former course of bad
lifestyle and he wants to reform
himself, i think we should
totally support him.
>> in 2007 with the support of
drowned in victoria, canada, one
of the teens accused, warren,
owned up to his part of the
murder and asked forgiveness
from reena's parents.
>> we were apprehensive.
my reaction was i really don't
want to shake hands with my
daughter's killer.
>> i have been able to realize
the hurt that i have done to
people, the hurt that i've done
to myself.
that alone has helped me and
made me want to change.
>> we were able to tell him how
he had utterly completely
destroyed our lives...
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>> she didn't have a lot of
friends.
she got picked on a lot.
>> why was that, do you suppose?
>> the main thing people said
about her when we were in school
was she was too fat.
they made fun of that.
she was very quiet.
she didn't talk much.
and she kind of kept to herself
unless she knew you.
>> but the tough girl and the
shy girl became friends.
>> how did you feel when you saw
people pick on her after she
became your friend?
>> it made me sad but i never
said anything about it.
i didn't stick up for her.
i didn't say anything, i just
let it happen.
>> did she come to you for
comfort?
>> never.
>> she just hid it?
>> mm-hmm.
>> she went home and never said
anything?
>> she never mentioned it ever.
>> do you think she was trying
to be like you and the other
girls, a little tougher --
>> i don't think she was trying
to be like anybody.
i think she was just trying to
be -- she was trying to fit in.
>> trying to survive all the
difficult treatment from other
>> she didn't have a lot of
friends.
she got picked on a lot.
>> why was that, do you suppose?
>> the main thing people said
about her when we were in school
was she was too fat.
they made fun of that.
she was very quiet.
she didn't talk much.
and she kind of kept to herself
unless she knew you.
>> but the tough girl and the
shy girl became friends.
>> how did you feel when you saw
people pick on her after she
became your friend?
>> it made me sad but i...
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victoria's picture perfect
facade.
>> it was like a bunch of
flammable kids and someone lit a
match and it just went off.
>> the match, if that is the
right word to use, was struck on
the night of november 14th,
1997, a clear and beautiful
night by all accounts.
a full moon shone on the wide
waterway that meanders through
town.
an ocean inlet called the gorge.
a group of teenagers also
incandescent in the way only
14-year-olds can be gathered on
the grounds of shoreline
community school to party.
missy pleech was there.
what would usually happen at
parties like that outside at
night?
>> we'd drink and be loud and
cause trouble and go home.
>> but that particular night did
not turn out like all the
others.
what happened then changed
everything.
but first a little information
about the people who were there.
victoria's picture perfect
facade.
>> it was like a bunch of
flammable kids and someone lit a
match and it just went off.
>> the match, if that is the
right word to use, was struck on
the night of november 14th,
1997, a clear and beautiful
night by all accounts.
a full moon shone on the wide
waterway that meanders through
town.
an ocean inlet called the gorge.
a group of teenagers also
incandescent in the way only
14-year-olds can be gathered on
the grounds of shoreline
community...
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and easy answer would be
disappointed.
missy pleech, reena's friend who
convinced her to come out that
night, is haunted by what she
did.
>> it was my fault.
>> why?
>> because she trusted me.
and if i didn't ask her, she
wouldn't have gone.
>> missy told us she had never
gone back under the bridge.
now she agreed to come with us
and show us exactly how it
happened.
might help her deal with the
guilt, she said.
but the moment she arrived,
horror tore at her unbearably.
>> i can't be here.
>> what comes back?
>> everything.
guilt.
it shouldn't have happened.
it was dark.
it was just like this.
exactly like this.
i'm terrified.
i don't want to be down here at
all.
and easy answer would be
disappointed.
missy pleech, reena's friend who
convinced her to come out that
night, is haunted by what she
did.
>> it was my fault.
>> why?
>> because she trusted me.
and if i didn't ask her, she
wouldn't have gone.
>> missy told us she had never
gone back under the bridge.
now she agreed to come with us
and show us exactly how it
happened.
might help her deal with the
guilt, she said.
but the moment she arrived,
horror tore at her...
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>> coming up, tensions flare as
reena tries desperately to fit
in by being bad.
>> she slept with my boyfriend
and i was pissed off about it.
i was mad.
>> and you confronted her?
>> yes.
probably said some nasty things
and she was mad and said some
nasty things back.
>> missy pleech wasn't the only
girl she crossed.
her actions would come back to
torment her, when "bloodlust
under the bridge" continues.
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>> coming up, tensions flare as
reena tries desperately to fit
in by being bad.
>> she slept with my boyfriend
and i was pissed off about it.
i was mad.
>> and you confronted her?
>> yes.
probably said some nasty things
and she was mad and said some
nasty things back.
>> missy pleech wasn't the only
girl she crossed.
her actions would come back to
torment her, when "bloodlust
under the...
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>> we have evidence from people
who saw kelly coming over the
bridge and then going back
again.
we called probably eight, nine,
ten people that she confessed
to.
>> kelly ellard's defense has
always been that her schoolmates
repeated gossip and rumor and
conspired against her.
but the jury did not agree.
they found kelly ellard guilty
of second degree murder.
she was again sentenced to life
in prison with the possibility
of parole after seven years.
coming up --
a decade after reena's murder,
warren glowatski asks her
parents for forgiveness.
>> i really don't want to shake
hands with my daughter's killer.
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>> we have evidence from people
who saw kelly coming over the
bridge and then going back
again.
we called probably eight, nine,
ten people that she confessed
to.
>> kelly ellard's defense has
always been that her schoolmates
repeated gossip and rumor and
conspired against her.
but the jury did not agree.
they found kelly ellard guilty
of second degree murder.
she was again sentenced to life
in prison with the possibility
of parole after seven years.
coming up --
a decade after...
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but two of these new friends got
angry when reena defied them and
they conspired an evil scheme
against her.
>> she couldn't fit in.
>> rebecca godfrey wrote a book
about the events of november 14,
1997 called "under the bridge"
published in 2005.
>> i think she had a certain
naive quality and really, really
adored these -- worshipped these
girls, just so much wanted to
fit in with them and when she
saw them being mean and tough
she tried to be mean and tough.
probably thinking that would
impress them in a way.
and it ended up angering them.
>> making nicole cook angry
was a big mistake for reena
virk.
nicole was furious she had
stolen her address book and
called her friends.
she consulted her best friend
kelly ellard on how to
retaliate.
>> me and kelly were talking.
i don't understand.
this girl wants to ruin your
life.
they had been best friends since
elementary school.
>> kelly was kind of protective
over me, i guess you could say.
if anybody said anything bad
about me she would...
but two of these new friends got
angry when reena defied them and
they conspired an evil scheme
against her.
>> she couldn't fit in.
>> rebecca godfrey wrote a book
about the events of november 14,
1997 called "under the bridge"
published in 2005.
>> i think she had a certain
naive quality and really, really
adored these -- worshipped these
girls, just so much wanted to
fit in with them and when she
saw them being mean and tough
she tried to be mean and...
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trial.
warren would be faced with the
difficult decision of whether or
not to testify against kelly.
>> in prison, the culture at the
prison is you do not testify.
and if you do, you're threatened
that you'll be killed either
inside or outside and it's just
not done.
>> but in spite of the fear of
having his name exposed again in
the media, warren decided to
testify for the virks.
kelly ellard admitted taking
part in the initial beating.
but she said it was only in self
defense.
and then warren told his story
in court.
>> he was crying and it was
so -- the whole courtroom was
deadly silent.
kelly actually started crying,
just sobbing and weeping and she
had never shown any emotion.
i think it became real for the
first time how horrible it was.
>> emotions ran high inside the
courtroom.
and outside as well.
where the anguished parents of
trial.
warren would be faced with the
difficult decision of whether or
not to testify against kelly.
>> in prison, the culture at the
prison is you do not testify.
and if you do, you're threatened
that you'll be killed either
inside or outside and it's just
not done.
>> but in spite of the fear of
having his name exposed again in
the media, warren decided to
testify for the virks.
kelly ellard admitted taking
part in the initial beating.
but she said it was only in self
defense.
and...
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because she's going to see
life is not the same outside.
nobody will care for her deep
down as we did.
she has made a very serious
allegation.
but i think at that time i knew
that the hurt was so big and she
knew it.
she was sensitive to how i felt,
i was taken in by the bullies.
she did not know these things
were going to happen to me.
she was so naive.
>> after a few months in foster
care they say reena experienced
the reality of that expected
paradise.
feelings she shared with her
parents on a visit home.
>> she had come back home in the
middle of october and said that
she was tired of the foster
home.
>> the sexual abuse charge
against her father was dropped
but damage had been done.
reena had been drawn into a
tougher world and missy pleech
was part of it.
the two had first met in sixth
grade.
back then being outsiders was
what they had in common.
what are your first memories of
reena?
>> she didn't have a lot of
friends.
because she's going to see
life is not the same outside.
nobody will care for her deep
down as we did.
she has made a very serious
allegation.
but i think at that time i knew
that the hurt was so big and she
knew it.
she was sensitive to how i felt,
i was taken in by the bullies.
she did not know these things
were going to happen to me.
she was so naive.
>> after a few months in foster
care they say reena experienced
the reality of that expected
paradise.
feelings she shared with...
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>> in 2007 with the support of
the virks warren glowatski was
released on supervised parole.
warren now works in welding and
construction.
he lives in a supervised
facility.
he goes out to make speeches,
though, to kids in schools and
in prisons.
he has to be home every evening,
and he is re-evaluated every six
months.
>> he can't drink.
he can't leave the province.
he has to meet with a parole
officer every week.
>> but the ordeal still wasn't
over for the virks.
in 2008 the british columbia
court of appeals ruled kelly
ellard did not receive a fair
trial because of what it called
unfair questioning by the
prosecution.
kelly's latest conviction was
overturned allowing the now
25-year-old a fourth trial.
her case stands before the
supreme court of canada to
determine whether another trial
is warranted.
>> the system is granting her
all these options where it's
been dragged through the courts
>> in 2007 with the support of
the virks warren glowatski was
released on supervised parole.
warren now works in welding and
construction.
he lives in a supervised
facility.
he goes out to make speeches,
though, to kids in schools and
in prisons.
he has to be home every evening,
and he is re-evaluated every six
months.
>> he can't drink.
he can't leave the province.
he has to meet with a parole
officer every week.
>> but the ordeal still wasn't
over for the virks.
in 2008 the...
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i don't want to be down here at
all.
i don't want to be here.
>> in 1998 kelly ellard and
warren glowatski were charged
with second degree murder.
they would go on trial.
but six girls who kicked and
punched and pounded reena were
convicted of assault and they
received sentences of up to a
year in juvenile detention.
nicole cook, the girl who
started the fight by stubbing
out her cigarette on reena's
forehead still feels that was a
little too much.
>> i'm not responsible for her
death in any way, shape or form.
i wasn't there.
i didn't kill her.
>> do you think she would have
been murdered if the fight had
never occurred?
>> i don't know.
maybe not.
maybe.
>> you have no responsibility
for it?
>> she didn't die as a result of
that beating.
>> did you start it all?
>> some people would say that.
yeah.
>> all eight teens involved in
that terrible night served time
here at victoria's youth custody
center.
i don't want to be down here at
all.
i don't want to be here.
>> in 1998 kelly ellard and
warren glowatski were charged
with second degree murder.
they would go on trial.
but six girls who kicked and
punched and pounded reena were
convicted of assault and they
received sentences of up to a
year in juvenile detention.
nicole cook, the girl who
started the fight by stubbing
out her cigarette on reena's
forehead still feels that was a
little too much.
>> i'm not responsible for...
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redeem your lids today
>>> i'm milissa rehberger.
here's what's happening.
the historic october snowstorm
that blasted the northeast this
weekend has left more than a
million people without power.
the governor of connecticut says
it's the largest number of
outages the state has ever had.
at least three deaths are blamed
on this storm.
and a shoot-out in cabo san
lucas, mexico, left hundreds of
shoppers stranded for hours.
security forces exchanged
gunfire with armed men in the
parking lot.
no injuries were reported.
now back to our program.
she schemes to be taken from her
family and placed in a foster
home because like her friends
she thinks it would mean more
freedom and escape from her
parents' supervision.
redeem your lids today
>>> i'm milissa rehberger.
here's what's happening.
the historic october snowstorm
that blasted the northeast this
weekend has left more than a
million people without power.
the governor of connecticut says
it's the largest number of
outages the state has ever had.
at least three deaths are blamed
on this storm.
and a shoot-out in cabo san
lucas, mexico, left hundreds of
shoppers stranded for hours.
security forces exchanged
gunfire with armed men in the
parking...
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molested her so reena would be
put in a foster home and be free
of her parents and all their
rules.
and that's just what happened.
in the fall of 1996, according
to the virks, reena left home
and went into the care of the
canadian ministry of families
and children.
a couple of months later, the
young teen made the sexual abuse
allegation against her father,
the virks say the canadian
ministry didn't conduct an
investigation or even question
them.
>> it made me feel like you are
living in nazi germany, they
come in and take whoever they
want and do whatever they want
and you have no say.
>> when we asked the ministry of
families and children, they
declined to comment saying
canadian law prevents them from
talking about privacy issues.
though hurt by reena's
allegations, the virks thought
this was a phase reena was going
through so they always left the
door to their home open for her.
>> she is going to come back.
because she's going to see
molested her so reena would be
put in a foster home and be free
of her parents and all their
rules.
and that's just what happened.
in the fall of 1996, according
to the virks, reena left home
and went into the care of the
canadian ministry of families
and children.
a couple of months later, the
young teen made the sexual abuse
allegation against her father,
the virks say the canadian
ministry didn't conduct an
investigation or even question
them.
>> it made me feel like you are
living in...
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the night of november 19th.
her name was nicole cook.
like missy pleech, she rebelled
early and often.
>> yeah.
i ran away a lot.
>> then one time you went to
this place, this group home?
>> yeah.
i think that is where i met
missy and reena.
>> nicole cook was everything
reena virk envied, slim, pretty,
popular and cocky.
it doomed their friendship from
the start.
>> she was very insecure.
and i didn't really want to hang
out with her anymore because it
seemed like she was jealous of
me.
>> which may be why reena did
something that wound up sealing
her fate.
>> i left my phone book at her
house and she called a bunch of
people.
>> what kind of things did she
say?
>> stupid stuff.
like my eyes were contacts or my
boobs were fake.
i couldn't understand why she
would do that.
i was angry.
>> nicole cook began to plot her
revenge on reena virk with her
friend kelly ellard.
what started as a couple of
the night of november 19th.
her name was nicole cook.
like missy pleech, she rebelled
early and often.
>> yeah.
i ran away a lot.
>> then one time you went to
this place, this group home?
>> yeah.
i think that is where i met
missy and reena.
>> nicole cook was everything
reena virk envied, slim, pretty,
popular and cocky.
it doomed their friendship from
the start.
>> she was very insecure.
and i didn't really want to hang
out with her anymore because it
seemed like...
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ripped up her bus pass.
>> we were like, where are we
going to go?
we can go under the bridge.
so we went under the bridge.
>> under the bridge, a dank
cramped cave-like space,
stinking of stagnant water,
decaying weeds, urine, discarded
food wrappers.
there were more than a dozen
teens crowded there.
some on the bank, some on the
staircase nearby.
even the light of the full moon
couldn't penetrate the shadows.
reena virk sat on an old tree
stump.
it's not there anymore.
standing around her, nicole,
missy, nicole's best friend
kelly and five other teens.
>> i asked her, i was like, why
are you saying stuff about me?
she called me a bitch.
>> it just started.
>> i put my cigarette on her
forehead.
>> you what?
>> i put my cigarette on her
forehead.
>> it was so quick.
>> she pushed me and kelly
ripped up her bus pass.
>> we were like, where are we
going to go?
we can go under the bridge.
so we went under the bridge.
>> under the bridge, a dank
cramped cave-like space,
stinking of stagnant water,
decaying weeds, urine, discarded
food wrappers.
there were more than a dozen
teens crowded there.
some on the bank, some on the
staircase nearby.
even the light of the full moon
couldn't penetrate the shadows.
reena virk sat on an old tree
stump.
it's not there anymore.
standing...
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school on monday and all talking
about a girl being killed.
none of the kids seemed that
troubled or disturbed by this
and life just went on.
>> it was a full seven days
after reena virk's murder when
victoria police swooped down on
the friday evening crowd at
shoreline school and arrested
all eight teens.
according to nicole, she and
kelly made a pact.
when police asked them questions
neither one of them would talk.
>> nicole refused to give a
statement.
the only thing she asked if she
could get john gotti's lawyer.
kelly immediately did start
talking to the police.
>> it wasn't until after her
interview with us that nicole
finally reckoned with what kelly
had done and did not feel quite
as loyal to her as she once did.
reena was still missing.
there was no body.
but by then the police had
learned one important fact.
>> three people went across the
bridge.
two people came back.
school on monday and all talking
about a girl being killed.
none of the kids seemed that
troubled or disturbed by this
and life just went on.
>> it was a full seven days
after reena virk's murder when
victoria police swooped down on
the friday evening crowd at
shoreline school and arrested
all eight teens.
according to nicole, she and
kelly made a pact.
when police asked them questions
neither one of them would talk.
>> nicole refused to give a
statement.
the only thing she asked if...
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where the anguished parents of
reena virk and kelly ellard
lashed out at each other.
>> i still think you are a
gentleman.
>> you have not experienced the
pain of a dead child.
>> i realize that.
i said that.
>> it does not compare.
>> seven years of not saying
anything.
i've had it.
i have to say something.
why would kelly kill reena virk?
she didn't know reena virk.
she had no criminal record.
she didn't even know half of
those people there.
so you tell me why all of a
sudden she's going to get that
anger and she's going to go
across a bridge and kill
someone?
i don't think so.
could be down between warren
glowatski and kelly ellard and
the jury is going to decide.
>> but the jury did not decide.
it was a mistrial after a hung
jury.
and in 2005 kelly ellard went
back to court for a third time.
catherine murray was the
prosecutor for both the second
and third trial.
>> we have evidence from people
where the anguished parents of
reena virk and kelly ellard
lashed out at each other.
>> i still think you are a
gentleman.
>> you have not experienced the
pain of a dead child.
>> i realize that.
i said that.
>> it does not compare.
>> seven years of not saying
anything.
i've had it.
i have to say something.
why would kelly kill reena virk?
she didn't know reena virk.
she had no criminal record.
she didn't even know half of
those people there.
so you tell me why...