Killer Adjustment - Bonners Ferry, Idaho

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That said, let's do this everybody. I think it's time to sit back. What do you say here? Let's all clear the lungs and let's all shout. Shut up and give me murder. Let's do this everybody. Let's go on a trip, shall we? We are going to Idaho this week. We're going to Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Where the hell is that? Way up north and Bonner's with no apostrophe, by the way. Bonner's. Bonner's Ferry. All the Bonners. This is in far northern Idaho. Extreme Panhandle up on the top, the top county connected to Canada. It's about an hour 50 to Spokane, Washington. About two hours to Kellogg, Idaho, our last Idaho episode, number 597, the talkative serial killer. I remember that guy couldn't stop talking about what he did. This is in Boundary County here, boundary of, I guess, the country. Area code 208 and 986, both of them there. Population of this town, 2,495, not a big place. Pretty small. Median household income here, big difference between the income and the housing costs here. Median household income, $38,243, which is a little over half the national average. Median home cost, $418,200, which you have no chance of purchasing with $38,000 a year. The motto here, Idaho's most friendly town, exclamation point, that's their motto. A little bit of history here. Before the gold rush happened, only a few people had really come to this region outside of the natives that lived here. One was an explorer named David Thompson, who was a cartographer, map maker for the Northwest Company. He and four fellow fur traders, that's hard to say over and over again. She sells seashells by the sea shore. Can't even start it, fuck. Arrived in 1808 to trade with the lower Kutonies, I think it's how you say it, K-O-O-T-E-N-A-I-S, I looked it up. If I say it wrong, I intended to get it right. I actually looked it up. The local natives gave Thompson's party dried fish and moth spread. Delicious. Lovely. Then he returned the next year and established a trading post. 1863, gold was discovered, and then thousands of prospectors came all through here. Fish, turkey, and golden. The Kutonie east of there in British Columbia, people went. Edwin Bonner, who was a merchant from Washington, established a ferry where they crossed the river. That was, this became business, basically just for people passing through to go to the gold rush in other places. That's kind of how this worked out here. In the 20th century, it became a lumber place and a farming community. Valley land was drained, the levees were constructed, and farms were cleared on beaches. Here we go. Reviews of this town, five stars. We've never been here. We don't know anything about it. We didn't even know where it was. Reviews of this town, five stars. I've lived in Bonner's Ferry all my life, and I feel a very deep connection with the place. It's a quaint town surrounded by miles and miles of stunning mountain vistas, beautiful forests, and fertile farmland. You won't find a more beautiful and welcoming place than Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Really? Wow. Here's three stars. People are outgoing, and many people care for each other here and are willing to help their fellow neighbor. The only aspect that needs improvement is this town lacks opportunities for jobs. I think you're in the middle of nowhere. Grab a saw. I don't know what to tell you. And here's one star. Bonner's Ferry, Idaho is unlike any other town in America. I can't think of a positive adjective to describe this God-forsaken hellhole. Jesus. Positive adjective. The government is run by inbred hacks. The school ranks some of the lowest in the nation. Bullies abound. Cops are corrupt. The locals are at war with the newbies. Drug and alcoholism are rampant. Traffic is terrible. The religious groups run the town like a mafia. There is zero customer service. Okay? People walk around like zombies. Housing is expensive. Infrastructure outdated. Shops are expensive. Restaurants are filthy. You get the impression everyone has given up. Smart people run from here. And then given up. Given up. Finally, one star. I like the fact that everyone belongs to a religion up here and no one picks up hitchhikers. I also like the fact that free America doesn't exist. Bonner's Ferry is the only place where you can have your constitutional rights violated by immature social media fake detectives and then they claim it's Idaho. Idaho is not an excuse. I like it. Idaho is not an excuse. That's it. Okay. All right. Things to do here. I don't know what the hell is up with that. The harass evidently. Apparently, this is Idaho. That's not an excuse. Things to do. The Harvest Festival. Sure. Oh, yeah. Celebrate the season at the Harvest Festival at the Bonner's Ferry Farmers Market. As the last outdoor market of the year, this festive event features Harvest Photo Booth, live music by the Four Sacks Band. Number Four Sacks Band. SAX or like Sacks of Potatoes. No, no. Sacks. Four Sacks. I assume there's four saxophones there. And plenty of fall shopping from local vendors. The low-fishing game will also host an Apple Press. Oh, boy. Inviting guests to bring apples and containers to create fresh juice, helping reduce bear conflicts in the county. Hello. Is it? What? Are they Apple Eaters? Is the juice for the bears? What are we talking about? If we leave them like tubs of apple juice, they won't bother us. I don't remember Ylva and Luba looking for apple juice. Is that the deal we've made with the animals? All the apples you can drink. Wow, another one says music by Wynn Rosner. Stock up for winter on Apple's Pumpkins Honey Corn Stock Decor. Gotta have that. And any and all of the goods from our wonderful market vendors. Wow. Wow, interesting. That said, let's talk about some murder. Shall we? Let's do it. Let's get into this. Let's do it. Here we go. Let's go back to 2020. Not very far. Yeah, very soon. Five years here. Not too bad at all. Let's introduce ourselves to some chiropractors. All right. Yeah. First up, we have Dr. Brian Drake. Yeah. All right. He's a chiropractor. Just got all the work done, sure. Yeah, a lot. Heavy lifting there. His wife's name is Jennifer. They married in 1999 in Calispell, Montana. They've been married over 20 years now. She says it was love at first sight. She said it was love at first sight. We met at church. I remember telling my mom, I was on the treadmill. I said, this is the man I'm going to marry. Really? Absolutely. She picked him right out. He runs the same pace as me, yeah? No, she was telling her mom on the treadmill. Yeah. Yeah, they weren't. They met at church. Oh, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Telling her mom later. Through the years, they end up having four children together, three boys and a girl. Look at this. By 2020, they're all teenagers. Yeah. You know, you got this going on. She said she loved, just the life was great. She said very few people ever win the life lottery like I did, Jennifer said. That is the lottery, yeah. She's happy as can be. They spent about 10 years in Austin, Texas. Oh. Before deciding to get out of the big city and move closer to Jennifer's family and to the mountains in 2012. And that is up in this area here. In Idaho. In Idaho. So, three years after arriving here in 2014, her husband struck out on his own and he opened up an office in Bonner's Ferry where he initially worked just one day a week there. Nice. He's building that up. As business increased, he added a second day in Bonner's Ferry and also opened two more offices, one in Sandpoint, which is about an hour away, and one in Hayden where her family lives. Sure. Two office, two days a week in Bonner's Ferry, the other three between those two places. Pretty cool here. So Jennifer says he's just a gentle soul, which is funny while he's got his arm around somebody's fucking head cracking their neck. Gentle soul who taught their children guitar and coached their soccer teams. Says he's real into music. He loves music. Dr. Drake here. Dr. Brian, I believe. Dr. Drake. That's him. Dr. Drake. So she just says he's a very gentle guy. Now on this little area, it's South Main Street where he's got his office, there's other chiropractors there too. Oh. I don't know if that's chiropractor Allie or what here. Chiropractor Roe, babe. Yeah. There's another, there's a Dr. Daniel Lee Moore who's also a chiropractor there. He's older. He's 63 years old. Dr. Brian and his wife are in their 40s. She's an older guy. He's also a chiropractor. His office is on the same side of South Main Street. Is about 500 feet north of where Dr. Drake's office is here. So very, very close. And this guy, Daniel Lee Moore, he has been practicing in town for about 23 years cracking backs and that sort of shit. He's kind of the established ingrained guy here, entrenched guy. March 12th, 2020, 7.30 p.m. All right. Two 911 calls come in seconds apart from each other. Different phone numbers? Yeah, yeah, no, not from the same person. The first call is from a man who heard a gun go off and had seen a man dressed in a hood and dark clothing leaving the scene. Yeah. See, I heard a gun. I looked out, I saw this. The second call came from Jennifer Drake. Oh. Dr. Brian Drake's wife who told police she was on the phone with her husband when something really weird happened. She said on the phone with him and he said, he just said someone had just shot him through his window. He told her that someone just shot me through the window. And so she started, she kept talking and she said, he stopped responding. So she hung up and called 911. Good call. She was trying to get details. She said I was on the phone with him when it happened. It's a memory of sitting next to my daughter when it happened. We had to call 911. So anyway, the cops show up and the blinds are closed to this window. There's a hole in the window. Blinds are closed. The assistant chief of police, Marty Ryan, says that he's had a, still had a broken view through the blinds. You could sort of see in, but not really if you put your hand up to there. Responding officers had to kick down the locked door of the office where they found Dr. Brian Drake dead in there on the ground with a single bullet hole coming through the double paying glass of the closed blinds into his exam room and killing him. Apparently, after finishing with his last patients of the day, he sat down to talk to his wife on his cell phone and was shot in the back through the window, which is insane. They said that the blinds to his office were closed and the autopsy indicates that he was likely sitting when he was shot in the back. So think about the angle of that with a window. You have to angle it down to shoot the person there. You know what I mean? You have to stand on the neighbor roof. Something like that. So Jennifer Drake, the wife here, she is obviously very sad. She said he is a very kind and honorable man. God took his flaws and failures and turned it into a great story of grace. He was my children's hero. He's still my children's hero. I guess she called him. She said he was a wholesome man of God who loved music and family. She said he was amazing. We had it all. We really did. He was a great chiropractor. That's just the opinion of his wife. That's what she said. Right. Another patient said it's true. He was very compassionate. He helped me out a lot. So they investigate this obviously. Who the fuck wants to kill a chiropractor? What the hell? Yeah. I mean obviously they might mess somebody up a little bit. That could happen. Fuck somebody's neck forever. They don't know. They have a lot of leads at first. First of all they have that eyewitness report. The person who saw somebody running. The hood, yeah. Yeah. They said that he'd seen from his apartment across both South Main Street and US Highway 95 in Bonners Ferry. He said after hearing the gun go off he called out to the person who was running. Let's talk about nosy. Hey. Stop. You just shoot somebody? I'm not calling him. What's your fucking problem? Yeah, hey. Hold on. Wait for me. No. Hey you didn't shoot me yet. What the hell? I'm here too. Pussy. They called him names. He said the person looked back at him before running off down Main Street. So the person turned and looked. He later told Assistant Chief Ryan that the suspect appeared to be of quote Indian or Middle Eastern descent. Oh, we got that good a look at that. How you could see that from across a highway and a road. You could say darker complexion. To nail it down to a region. That's, wow. That's impressive. I guess it's Mexican first, right? Is that on me? Not in South Carolina probably. You're in Arizona. That's why. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They were talking about being a side of burrito before they'd assume it was a Mexican probably. All right. A Mexican person. So he said that that's, he called down the person, looked back, continued running down Main Street. He also told Assistant Chief Ryan that he, like I said, appeared to be of Middle Eastern or Indian descent. He also described a suspicious vehicle that looked like a 90s Chevy Malibu. An older Malibu that was seen in the area before and after the shooting occurred. Right after. Okay. Yeah. So this guy said, not only did he call out to the guy, which to me is above and beyond. Right. He then went and jumped in his car to try to follow the person. This guy's got a gun and he's clearly violent. Let me follow him. You know he's armed and willing to use it. What's wrong with it? No. But the person was on foot, he said, but he said that, that's what he told 9-1-1, but he said then he couldn't track the person down. So he returned home to report what he'd seen. Okay. So he was causing a delay in the whole thing. Now the witness here, his girlfriend told police she saw many of the same things. She didn't go for the car ride, but she saw a guy hoodie the whole deal. Okay. So police say, okay, a guy saw somebody out on the street going in this direction. Now we know what, which surveillance cameras to try to pull and see if we can get anything on this. Cause it's 2020. So there's plenty of cameras out there. So police, they scour the footage, man. They're looking for it. The assistant chief Ryan goes in search of this surveillance footage, just knocking on every door of anyone in the area. And what he found is a shitload of surveillance footage. Really? And it seemed to confirm what the witness had told police, which is good because they were suspicious of this guy until then. It's a suspicious person in a black hood in the vicinity of the crime scene at the time of the crime. The suspect could be seen leaving the Kootenai river in near downtown Bonners Ferry before appearing to intentionally avoid security cameras, walking along South Main Street and returning to the in all around the time of the killing. So you see him doing some walking and doing like a circle and going back to the end at the time of the killing with some stay in there, some parts cut out. We don't know. Some parts are cut out of it. That's where he ends up. So they look and they find that and that looks, that looks suspicious, obviously, right around the time that dressed in all black with his hood pulled up and everything. So they said the evidence was compelling here and police end up identifying the suspect, the person that they thought was that guy walking around. When the witness's girlfriend saw a photo of him, she said, that's the person I saw fleeing the crime scene. That's the guy. I thought you found him. So the evidence is a lot. I mean, they have two eyewitnesses saying they saw him going away from the crime scene and, you know, they were chasing him and everything else. So a judge signs off on a series of search warrants that allow the investigators to comb through his hotel room, truck, phone, everything. They complete the investigation on him and they determined this suspect coincidentally was walking around. He was just visiting. Banners Ferry was not involved with the shooting. There's nothing to do with this. Nothing to do with shit. Damn it. Nothing. You know, his hands were clean. He was fine. No guns. He didn't do it. He was just, I think he went back to the hotel room because he heard a gunshot and he wanted to get off the street. I'd get out. Yeah, I'd get out of there too. And then somebody yelled back at him and he's looked back. He might have thought that was the person shooting. So he kept going. Yeah. Especially if you've never been here before, you're visiting. Right. You're just going to death. Yeah. This is the first murder in Bonner's Ferry since the early 1960s. Really? Yeah. This is a safe little town. About 50 years. Now March 15th, 2020, three days later. 60 years. Yeah. Yeah, 60 years. Three days later, there are county coroner Mike Mellet. Okay. Yeah. He is passing by these chiropractor offices on South Main Street on his way to breakfast with a friend. Nice. And remember Dr. Moore, the guy who has an office 500 feet away, he noticed that Dr. Moore's truck is in the parking lot. When he returned home, he noticed the truck was still at the office. And since it was unusual for Dr. Moore to be there on a Sunday, he used his key that he had because he's his buddy. This is, they're like best friends to enter the office. Pop in and say hello. Pop in. When he gets there, he found Dr. Moore getting up from an exam table appearing woozy. He said, now Mellet took him outside the building and said, there's a gas leak in there. You didn't smell that. Get out. Yeah. You passed out from a fucking gas leak. I just saved your goddamn life. So he calls and reports the gas leak. Mellet does. And Moore says that he had gone to his office to change a furnace filter when he was overcome and passed out, became unconscious. He woke up from this guy coming in and he doesn't really know what happened. He claims that he has a nausea, which is the loss of a sense of smell. So he didn't notice the gas. Didn't know it. Yeah. He said that when he was a child, he lost his sense of smell because he had constant nose bleeds. So they cauterized his nose. You can do that. I did not know. You could cauterize a nose and it permanently made him lose his sense of smell. You can ruin somebody's smell forever? Forever. I mean, he said when he was a kid, so that was the 60s. So they probably would do weird shit like that in the 60s. Yeah. They probably did it with an ice pick. Yeah. They were like, it's either that or drill a hole in your head with a hand drill. Them power drills don't work. Need like an ice drill. Ice pick and a ball peen behind the eye will fix this for good. So the gas leak investigation here, is there like, is there someone trying to kill all the chiropractors? Right. What's going on? You know what I mean? What's happening? So the police interviewed the fire chief who responded to the gas leak. He stated that he discovered a gas fitting was just finger tight, noticing that this was odd and he'd never seen that before in his experience. They also interviewed an experienced rep for the regional natural gas company who had 30 years of experience and he said the gas fitting had to be intentionally loosened. Yeah. Because those are tight as shit. On purpose or else gas leaks out and shit explodes. So yeah. So March 24th, 2020, the police sit down with Dr. Daniel Lee Moore simply because he's a chiropractor who works 500 feet away and maybe he saw, heard or knows something about this. So he told police he didn't know anything about it. He said, I was at my friend Mike Melitz house the night of the murder of the coroner. I was with him. He said that, you know, by the way, Melit is listed as the responsible party on the autopsy report completed by the medical examiner on, you know, on Dr. Dr. So the guy he killed, Drake. Um, yeah. He says, um, uh, they, the detective asks him if he was at Melitz house around 7pm, about a half hour before the killing. And Dr. Moore said he didn't know because he later became ill with kidney stones and had diarrhea. Jesus. And left Melitz house to go to his office to look for medicine. The story. Dr. Moore's a mess. He's a disaster. Gas leak and he's shitting all over the place. Gas leak in his office and his pants everywhere. Everywhere. He said he couldn't find any medicine at his office. So he went back to Melitz house and just took some emotium. Okay. I don't know what, I don't know what stronger medicine a chiropractor would have for stomach issues. Unless it was just in his personal bathroom there or something. He stated that he was with Mike Melit when the call came in about the shooting that he had to go out there and, you know, look at the body and everything. So police, they're trying to, they crossed off that initial suspect, Mr. Hoodie, who was staying at the end. So they investigate. Now they're looking for more evidence. They get more surveillance footage. They got footage from 18 local businesses and conduct more than 200 interviews. Wow. Now at this time, time is going by. And they said several persons of interest have been looked at and alibis established. So they've had several different people. At this point, the only person they can't really clear is Dr. Moore. Right. They don't think he did it, but they can't clear him and they have to be able to clear him. He's got a bad belly and. Yeah. He's shitting everywhere. That's the way to hear where he's shitting. At the time of the shooting, Moore owned a white Toyota Tundra pickup. Now cops review security footage from multiple businesses recorded at the time of Dr. Drake's murder. And although the video recordings displayed inconsistent timestamps, because some of them are off and what their times are set, some off by several hours. When pieced together, you can determine what, yeah, if one camera he drives off and into another, you know that that timestamp is actually when it's here, not four hours from now. So they said when you piece it together, the police determined that the footage validates a conclusion that Moore's truck was near the scene of the murder at the time it occurred. Oh. So that's at least enough to talk to him. So Idaho State police detective Sergeant Michael van Luven, uh, said he said all the security footage and summarized it. Thusly, let's see here. We observe Moore's truck leaving Melitz house just prior to the shooting. The truck is then seen circling the area where the shirt shooting occurs two times, including driving down the area between the two buildings directly outside the window where the shooting occurs and stopping for several seconds. Dr. Moore's truck then drives north on Main Street from Dr. Drake's office and parks at Dr. Moore's office. After parking, the tail lights flash in a manner consistent with Dr. Moore locking his truck with a keyless remote. We all know what that looks like. A human figure is then seen walking from the direction of Dr. Moore's office toward Dr. Drake's office one and a half minutes before the shooting occurs. Oh, as previously established, the shooting occurs at 726 p.m. A human figure is then seen walking, then running back from that area of Dr. Drake's office toward Dr. Moore's office approximately a minute and a half after the shooting. The lights on the back of Dr. Dr. Moore's truck again flash in a manner consistent with him unlocking the truck using his keyless entry. By the way, if you're going to go, if there theory is he went and did this, if you're going to go murder someone, what are the odds that someone breaks into your truck and steals shit while you're murdering someone? That's right. Come on. That's not happening. Honestly, right? There's no odds for that. 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This town is really, really convenient when it comes to getting somewhere. After five minutes, Dr. Moore's truck is then seen leaving Melitz House and driving a circuitous route back toward Dr. Moore's house that conspicuously avoids the crime scene. Fascinating. The fastest route was that way. He went around it all, which is weird. Now there is a problem with the footage. They said all timestamps are not accurate and the police detective Van Lueven even, you know, he's, you know, acknowledges this. There's another complicating factor. The footage in some of the clips cannot be individually, cannot individually be used to identify Dr. Moore's truck. Some of them it's just a buzz by. You can't get the details. It's just a white blur. Yeah. Yeah. So they say that by linking one video to the next in sequence, each video validates the other with that sequence shows, according to Van Lueven is more leaving Melitz House just prior to the shooting circling the area, all that human figure, doing all that stuff. So now is it Dr. Moore? He sure looks suspicious, but I mean, so did that guy running away from the crime scene. He looked pretty suspicious too. I mean, you point out the blue bloop doesn't make it seem like a guy that's in a hurry to murder either. Yeah. That's exactly right. Seems like I'm going to make sure my, you know, something doesn't get my change doesn't get stolen out of my ashtray is not. It's weird. It's funny that he locks and locks it. Yeah. So the coroner Melit here told Detective Van Lueven he didn't think Moore was attempting suicide with the ghastly because they asked him, do you think he was trying to kill himself? Yeah, it doesn't look good. And he said he didn't think he was trying to commit suicide and he didn't think he had a damn thing to do with Drake's death and didn't think Dr. Moore had ever even met Dr. Drake. He said, I don't even think they've ever met. Hmm. So he's never talked about him before and never brought him up in any conversation. He's just some other, the only thing they have in common is they're both chiropractors. Other than that. What are we talking about? They said, no, they didn't know Van Lueven said a claim from an unknown, an unnamed police source who had been a patient of Dr. Drake's told investigators that about a year before Dr. Drake was murdered, Dr. Drake appeared upset. And when asked what was wrong, he had told this patient that quote, he doesn't want me up here or they don't want me up here. Something of that nature. Now that's not Dr. Moore from 500 feet away. He doesn't want me up here, but someone didn't want him up there, essentially. So, um, and also they said that, uh, Van Lueven also found patient files indicating more than 30 of Dr. Drake's patients had previously seen Dr. Moore. Oh, Drake has stolen 30 of his patients. That's stolen, but taken. Yeah. He's poached probably. Not on purpose, maybe Dr. Lueven's shit is not good. Dr. Moore, you mean? Dr. Lueven's the detective. Right. Yeah. The one that's dead. And that, yeah, maybe he's not a good doctor. I said, there was Drake. It sounds like there was one chiropractor in town and people went there. And then when another one came, they were like, Oh, this guy's much better. Yeah. That's all this guy had the town all to himself forever. So yeah, there he's been stealing some people. Um, so they talked to Mel it again. Mike, Mike, Mel it here, the coroner, Nick, Mel it, they call him. Nick, Nick, when he goes by Mike, too. So who knows? Um, he said he was certain that Dr. Moore was with him at the time of the shooting. So I know he was with me. He said in the affidavit that the van Lueven wrote up, said, Mel it said, Dr. Moore arrived at his house no later than six 15 p.m. and did not leave until after he heard about the shooting on his pager. Yeah. He said Mel it was very sure about the times. All right. Even when pressed about giving Dr. Moore an alibi, Mel it said he was absolutely positive. So he said that Mel it's demeanor throughout the interview was calm and relaxed. His answer seemed genuine and logical. All right. May 6th, 2020, they can't other than Mel it say in that, and that's like his best friend, can't confirm it. Otherwise, they can't clear him otherwise. So they try to talk to him again. Now, when questioning him, they said, listen, this is the first time they told him we have security footage of your truck in the vicinity of the shooting at the time it occurred. How do you explain that? Cause I mean, Dr. Mel it can say he was at his house, but we have footage showing him not at your house. So you're mistaken. He explained that he, this is amazing. They said, why were you in the alley behind your office? Oh, no, I went there to defecate. Ah, the embarrassment. I feel your body. He went to his office and didn't go inside and shit, you know, where he probably has a bathroom toilet paper and things like that. He said, I drove my car to shit in an alley. That was his excuse. You're not going to want to know the answer to this. You're going to want to go. You might want, you can go back and check. I don't know if a dog might have come by and eaten it. I don't know, but it could still be there. I'm more sympathetic, man. I could not be. I know, it's good to say. But if you've got a toilet at your expense, like, why would you do that? You have to shit all the time. And it's, we'll be on the road in the middle of nowhere. You never just say that alley's good. Pull over. Pull over. That never happens. You always find a toilet. So imagine a 63 year old doctor hunching behind his office in the alley shitting on the ground. It's just an Instagram account showing people doing it in public. I'm just like, oh, I know what that feels like. Oh, you poor bastard. That's right. But I could, I've never, I've only not made it once. But, uh, that was in your pants, though. That was shit in an alley. No, I just, I just stood in front of somebody and said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It's so terrible. But I would, I've never dropped in a, in an alley or in an, anywhere. Just in a corner. He drove his car to a place in the bathroom. That's what's great. On the other side of that door is a toilet. What are you doing? Um, so they said, we can't confirm or, you know, whatever this. So I guess. Where's the defecation? You, there's, there should be evidence of that. But it's like a month later, two months later. So it's long gone by now. So they let him leave. They go, I mean, we can't charge him with anything. Then August 27th, 2020 months of investigation have gone by. This happened in March. Um, they seek to interview Dr. More again, but they don't want to arouse his suspicion that he's the main suspect that they're looking at. So they ask him to bring his wife's gun, which is a smaller caliber than the one that shot the doctor. And they know that for a fact to the county sheriff's office. They said that, um, law enforcement knew the gun wasn't the one used in the shooting, but had requested he bring the gun simply to get him in the sheriff's office so they could talk. Ah, brilliant. So they, while he waited for the firearm specialist to inspect and photograph the gun, uh, the firearm specialist and the detective who asked him to bring the gun engaged in small talk with him. Van Lueven entered the room, then the detective who's been on this and asked more, Hey, would you answer a few more questions? And now that you're, oh, I saw you here. So just, if you could just a couple of quick ones here. So then several other officers entered the room and told more, they were taking him back to a quote secure area and that he would need to be checked for weapons before entering the secure part of the facility. Oh. So yeah, he now he's being searched and taken to an interrogation room. I'd, at that point, I'd be like, I'm not here to test a gun. Am I, I got a shit. Like, Hey, by the way, you guys got a bathroom. So they, um, anyway, the, the one person, the firearms expert there, uh, told him that he would hang on to his car keys for him. Now, more did not have his cell phone on him because he had left it in his car. Right. So Van Lueven and another detective, neither of them, neither of them are in uniform or anything like that. Plain clothes. They take him into an interrogation room, which requires a key code for entry. And they close the door. More is seen entering the room, holding a bottle of water interrogation. So he's got water there. Uh, interrogation begins at 2 49 PM. Immediately they accuse him of killing Dr. Drake. We think you did it. He denies it. He said, I don't know what you're talking about. Four and a half minutes into the investigation, Van Lueven said, or into the interrogation Van Lueven said, quote, I need to advise you of your Miranda rights too, just cause we're in a police station. Not, not so, why, but it's, yeah, you're talking to your suspect. That's why Van Lueven and Tullison then outlined the evidence, uh, that they had gathered placing his truck at the scene of the murder. Van Lueven explained the difference between a premeditated killing, which would result in a first degree murder charge and blindly shooting through a window, which would result in a lesser charge. He said, this is your opportunity to pick which one it is. Oh, so pin yourself down. More said, I don't, I didn't know Drake and I didn't shoot him. I don't know anything to do with this. Right. So Van Lueven said, if you don't explain to us your intent, then we infer your intent based on what you see, what we see, which is first degree murder, which. They don't tell you this, but in the homicide book, they talk about every single person who's charged in a police station is charged with first degree murder at first. That's, it's, yeah, so it's not a matter of, depending on the state. Yeah. Yeah. But that later on, they'll figure all that out. So he responded, well, I didn't shoot him and I'm sorry, but that's, that's what it is. So I guess if you're going to do that, then I need to get an attorney. Yes. Van Lueven said, okay. And they left me, they started picking up their shit to leave more than asked, what was the point in having him bring the gun down to which Van Lueven said, we needed an excuse to get you down here. That's why he told him. Yeah. So Van Lueven told more, we're in the middle, middle of interviewing your buddy, Mick again, Mel it there. Uh, and that mix house and business are being searched currently. And then they said, do you have a cell phone on you? And he said, no, it's in my car. And they said, okay, sit tight. We'll be right back with you. I'm going to terminate this interview at three oh five. They leave the room. Um, he's now Van Lueven later said he terminated the interrogation because it sounded to me like he asked for a lawyer, but he spent the next 45 minutes replaying the interview and consulting with officers about how to proceed. He didn't ask for a lawyer. He said that maybe I need a lawyer, which is not asking for a lawyer. He didn't say, I want a lawyer. So one of the officers was assistant chief Ryan, remember the guy looking through the window when the shooting first happened, then Lueven eventually decided to continue the interrogation and allowed Ryan. Who happens to know more from their many years in the community to come in there with them. So maybe you know him, you can help talk to him. So after more was left sitting in the room alone for 41 minutes, Ryan enters the room and starts talking 14 and a half minutes into his interrogation. Uh, here more said, I need to talk to an attorney then. Okay. That's, it's over at that point. That's over. And Ryan said, okay, I understand. Then, then we're done. I, I, I know a minute ago you said, I think, but now you're telling me you want to talk to an attorney. You don't want to talk to me anymore. And more replied, well, it just, no. And Ryan said, no, no, no, I want you to say that because it's important. Daniel. Right. Now he said, you can't think this. I think that brother, I, I don't want to do anything to violate anything here. You know why I'm here. Okay. So more than, um, you know, he, he's, that's some shitty. I don't like that. So Ryan continued to ask clarification here. And he said, I'm trying to do the best I can to fix this thing, the best I can. And more says, yeah. Ryan says, okay. So I've painted the best, best picture I can for you. And I've asked for your help on this, but you have to be clear. I can only talk to you if you want to talk to me. You understand, Daniel? You're like a vampire. You can't come in unless I invite you. That's how this works. More said, yeah. He said, okay. But if I walk out, that's it. You're not seeing me anymore. All right. So you, I, I'm going to leave then. Is this what you're saying? And more said, I, I'm just saying that there's a reason I went to Melitz to get the emotium because I had diarrhea. So he's now going back into a story. Yeah. So assistant chief Ryan says, okay. And then more said, and, and, and so I don't know why there's such a hard thing for people to understand. It's not a made up story. I had diarrhea. Yeah. Okay. We believe, listen, you're gastrointestinal workings are your own business, but you stop saying diarrhea. You saying you shit in an alley, 20 feet from a usable bathroom. Is incredible. Incredibly insane. Saying diarrhea over and over and over again. It's not going to help your case. Not going to help. I had diarrhea. Why is, I don't know why that's such a hard thing for people to understand. I had the shits. So the chief here, assistant chief Ryan says, okay, Dan, you and I both know why because of what you're thinking of, uh, what you're doing and how it makes you sick to your stomach because you have a good heart. Okay. You did something stupid, but again, I, I can't heal it. I can't make these phone calls. I can't talk to the paper with anything unless you want to talk to me. All right. Say, I can clear you publicly. If you tell me how to do it. He said, we, we want to talk, uh, we, we, you want to talk to me or not. Yes or no. He then says, I think I need to talk to an attorney. Okay. That's a no. Again, again, I think, I think. So chief Ryan here says, well, you're doing that again. You say, I think, all right, brother, I'm going to go. Okay. And more says, but I really do appreciate you and, and Ryan says it's done. And more says, yeah. And Brian says it's over. Okay. Just leave. What are you doing? Ryan then stood up to leave. But before he could exit the room, more reengaged him in conversation and said, so what do I do? And so this all happens now while the assistant chief, Ryan is standing by the door. He's got like a file thing in his hand by the door ready to leave. He says, well, I, they're going to, I, I'm pulling, I'm pulling myself out. Okay. I got healing to do. I, I have work I got to get. I got to go do. Okay. And more said, thank you. And he said, you're welcome at this point. And more said, yes, sir. He says, one more, I want the truth. And he says, I want the truth. And more says, you want me to admit that. And Ryan says, I want you to admit the truth, but geez, Dan, you're killing me, Dan. Okay, buddy. And more says, without an attorney, you want me to talk and say something. And chief Ryan says, well, again, no, I don't want you to do anything you don't want to do. All I want to do is go say, I want to go tell my community the truth. That's all I want to do. Okay. He says, I feel dirty. I feel like, you know, this is getting, I'm not trying to pull stuff from you, anything but the truth. I know you're a good man. And I, I, I asked these guys, please let me talk to them. Okay. Because you're, you're a good man. And I know that if you can fix this, you want to fix it. There's only one answer and that's the truth. There's only one right thing in the world and that's the truth. And more said, that's right. Right. And chief said, that's all that matters. Okay. And Metallica said, yes, nothing else matters. That's fine. And Daniel Moore said, that's right. So the chief then says, okay, our community deserves it. The family deserves it. And your lineage, your memory of yourself, what you pass on matters. Okay. And so what happens when I walk out that door then is you're going to be going to jail. All right, brother. And that's just the way it's going to go. And more says, even if I say what you want me to say, and Ryan said, I want you, I want you to say the truth. And more said, and even if I, and Ryan then says, explain it. Oh, no. And more says, even if I say the truth and chief says, yeah. And he said, and more said, I'm still going to jail. And Ryan said, yeah, but you're going to jail with a whole lot more explanation. Okay. You know that a whole lot more explanation. So that's where I'm at. Okay, brother. And I can get an attorney here and you can explain it to him if you want or however you want to do it. But, but you have to want to tell us because I want to know you got to be booked for something. You got to be held accountable. Right. And more says, right. Which is a weird answer. If you were innocent, you'd go, no, no, not at all. I didn't do anything. Yeah. And the, Ryan says, if you make a mistake, you have to be held accountable. Do you ever spank your kids? And he said, absolutely. We all beat our kids up here. Yeah, sure. Beat the shit out of him. Oh boy. I break him down. Uh, Ryan said, okay, that's how we teach accountability. Well, we're big boys now, right? So you have to be held accountable. The community owes that, but this is you stepping forward saying, I f'd up. Here's what I did wrong here. What I'm saying. And he says, all right, so this is Ryan still. So where it's really treacherous waters here talking you and me, but brother, I, I, I don't know what else to do. I don't know what else to do. I tried my best to help you see the light. Okay. More says, no, no, I see what you're saying. And he says, I just, and the chief says, do you want to say it? If you want to say it, just say it, get it off your chest and be done with it. Whatever happens, happens, but just get it off your chest. If that's what you want to do. He then said, but I promise you this, if you do, I promise you, I'll go talk to him about booking, about what booking we're looking at. I promise you that and it won't be for first degree murder. I can guarantee it. Yeah. And they have to get Karen damn tea. You know this guy. I can guarantee it. There's nothing I love more than damn being thrown into guarantee in the middle of a fucking multi-syllable word. I love that myself or fuck for that matter. Garen damn tea. Garen damn tea. Moore said, I see what you mean. More than asked if you use the, could use the bathroom and they said, okay, hold on one second, he's left in the room for like two minutes and then another officer takes him to the restroom. They return him to the interrogation room. The officer asks more if you would like a blanket. All these rooms are 12 degrees for everyone's freezing in this room. I don't get why they're so cold all the time. So, um, Moore asked for the blanket and another bottle of water. He was left alone for about 30 seconds and Ryan comes back in and he said, yes, someone's going to grab you water in a blanket. This is an hour and 26 minutes after the start of the initial interrogation. Moore then says, quote, I want to be able to talk to somebody using my legal rights. Okay. Which again, just say, I want the lawyer, lawyer, lawyer, lawyer, just say it. Ryan then responds. Okay, there it is. And Daniel Moore says, so that's, and Ryan said, yep, I understand buddy. I got under, I under damn stand. Don't you worry about that. Moore says, that doesn't mean I don't want to talk to you. And Ryan says, I know buddy, I understand. Okay, okay. And Moore said, and that's the only thing I'm saying because it's like, just because I circled the block doesn't mean I was casing some guy trying to kill him. Okay. Ryan, Ryan says, Daniel, wow, buddy. Okay. Uh, just, okay, we're done. You, you, you, you, you were done. There's like eight Y's in the transcript. I can't fuck, I can't fucking talk to you anymore, Daniel. Okay, buddy. Any fucking more. Yeah. Okay, buddy. So Ryan left the room and another cop enters with Moore's water and blanket. Moore asked this cop what would happen to his car and his stuff. They said, well, we're going to tow your vehicle and that search warrants are currently being served for his house, vehicle and office. Yeah. Um, he then asked, how listen, can I talk to Ryan one more time? And Ryan reenters the room again and he says, uh, the detective asked me to come in here. Please tell me I'm back here for the right reason. And Moore says, what, what should I do if I don't have an attorney and I, and I tell you something and I'm, and the chief says, right. And he says, I mean, and it just seems already like I still would like to talk to you, but it's like, and Ryan's, Ryan said, I'm sitting here with my favorite doctor, Moore, across the table for me, one of the nicest men I've ever known. And, and, and I know, I know what you did. Yeah. I know what you did. He repeatedly asked him for why, I just want to know the why, man. Just want to know the why. He said, you have a history in this town and you love this town and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he said, just explain it, get it out, be done with it. You know, just, just get it out. He said, he insisted he went to the alley quote because he really did have to take a crap really went. Oh boy. Chief says, I'm not going to do this anymore. You keep asking them to talk to me and asked me to come back in here and then you, you, I'm only going to talk to you, Dan. If you and I have a relationship of honesty, I've been honest with you. Yeah. He says, I'm only going to talk. You asked me to come back in here. Why'd you ask me to come back in here? Why did you, what did you call me back in here for, Daniel, Dr. Moore? Stop talking about dire, damn, Maria. So I just want to tell you about my poop a little more. He said, I guess just cause I wanted to talk to you, Moore says. I just, I just, you just, I just find the attractive. I don't know why. It's just, I don't get it. So Ryan explained that the police knew it was Moore who killed him again. And you know, he said, without your confession, it's first degree murder. He does that again. So then Ryan says, you called me in here for nothing again. And then he says, Moore says, and if I have an attorney, just, just hear me out, Marty, he said, how am I going to plead to anything? If I'm sitting here spilling my guts to you when I don't have attorney, an attorney that gives me my rights, gives me my rights. Ryan said, okay, that, see, again, see you, you understand. Daniel, you, you, you keep saying this. I can't answer that question. How do you do that? I don't know. Okay. I never, I never been charged with murder. What do I know? He said, I, I know what we have right now. And the only person who can change what we have right now is you. All right. And so you have to decide now if you want to change what we have, then change it. He says, but, but if you mention an attorney and you keep doing it, if you mention it, I'm just because, and it's your right. It's your right. He said, you ever write to an attorney? But when I leave, then you call me back in here, say, I want to talk to you again. Well, then we restart everything again. I come back up here. What do you want, Dan? Cause you know, I just want to heal my town. Yeah. I just want to hear you said, I want to call the wife and tell her this was just a bad mistake. I want to do something. Okay. And so I'm hurting here too, buddy. I'm hurting. Yeah. Help me heal. Um, then one hour and 43 minutes into the interrogation, after Ryan says that I want to heal my town, yeah, more says quote, I did not go there to murder him. Oh yeah. He said he inadvertently killed him while trying to scare him by firing a gun through his window. Oh, sweet Jesus. He described loading a revolver, though he couldn't recall its maker model. He described firing the gun from outside the window of the office, though he suggested he couldn't actually see him and did not actually know Drake was sitting on the other side of the window. Now remember when Ryan got there, he said, you could see broken. You could see inside. It wasn't totally closed. So he could see him in there. If you look in there when asked why he did it, he said, I just wanted to scare him. He said, he thought that having a shot fired at him would encourage him to close down his office and move away. But you, you've been stealing from him, hasn't he? No, no, Drake's been stealing. Oh, God. More than rambled a bit about how Drake had several offices and in a manner didn't need to be here in Bonnersville. He's got plenty. He's got franchises and he's stealing from me. Yeah. He said he practices in Sandpoint and Hayden the other three days of the week and he's been taking my patience. They found that over 30 of them who had seen him in the past had gone to Dr. Drake and who knows if some of them went back to him after that. They just were trying the new guy. Um, so the, it all continued total interrogation time from the time he walked in the room with the water bottle at 2 49 PM was approximately three hours. He then went with the cops to the banks of the nearby, uh, uh, Kootenay River and threw a rock in the water to show the spot where he supposedly threw the murder weapon away. Where his gun is. Yeah. Right there. He also said a few days later that he staged the gas leak with the intent of committing suicide and if Melot hadn't found him, he'd have died in there and exploded. Yeah. Now he has no criminal history, not even a speeding ticket in his entire life. This guy, nothing according to records. He's jailed. Yep. He's jailed on a million dollars bond and charged with, they didn't lie to him. Second degree murder. Oh, nice. They didn't charge him with first. He said, I guarantee it. Needed. Damn damn dear. Now in a report, Ryan filed the day after the interview, the assistant chief acknowledged that more was reluctant at first, but ultimately gave him a detailed, if not some, if what somewhat uncertain account of how and why he killed Drake. The two eyewitnesses interviewed by police couldn't, uh, they couldn't identify more conclusively. Uh, he said they were shown several photographic lineups, including one that contained a photo of suspect more, but did not identify any individual with certainty. Now the gun he said he threw in the river, they couldn't find it. Uh-oh. Now more has got a lawyer named Jill Bolton and she argued the investigation and prosecution of her client are badly flawed. He's, she called his confession an alleged confession, which she said was made after a prolonged custodial interrogation conducted in circumstances, which violated his constitutional rights, including questioning him after he, uh, invoked his right to counsel and subjecting him to custodial interrogation without having first read him Miranda rights. She's kind of got a point. She also requested more be temporarily released to receive an evaluation due to a head injury, which rendered him unconscious the night before his coerced and false confession. Oh, he had a head injury too. Yeah. Um, the request was granted, but two weeks later, uh, they said the state has failed to supply not only the most obvious material necessary to the preparation of the defense in this matter, but significant amounts of exculpatory material. The state knows exists, which implicates other suspects in the commission of the crime. Um, he said that, uh, they said that the, the case was remarkably deficient. Sharing evidence indicates at best complacency and at worst, an effort to obstruct the delivery of this important evidence. So they're not given discovery is essentially what it is. Um, also claims law enforcement perjury. She said an assortment of private security footage suggesting Dr. Moore's truck was near the murder scene was hardly noteworthy considering the clinic was also in the vicinity of the murder scene, the one he owns. Um, also the timing of the footage, they said that, um, it was uncertain as the time stamps on the various videos analyzed are mutually inconsistent. So she's saying they have no fucking evidence, basically. Right. Um, unconstitutionally procured confession. Um, all of this shit. Um, anyway, motion to suppress the statements they put in. Right. Okay. After hearing from the evidence from the interrogation, the magistrate court ruled that there were no grounds to grant the motion to suppress the confession because more had re-initiated the custodial interrogation. Okay. October 13th, 2020, he's released on a million dollars bail. He resumed operation of his chiropractic clinic posted to his Facebook page writing he appreciated all the love and support his family gave him and proclaimed his innocence. Yeah. He said, I am innocent of all charges. It's February 12th, 2021 district court here. Now a motion to dismiss the case. Bolton said the prosecution relied exclusively on now, because they now suppress the confession. So they have, they have nothing. They have video footage and him shitting in the, in an alley. Yeah. So they say the district court must dismiss a criminal confit, complain if it finds the defensive defendant was held to answer without probable cause. There's no admissible evidence in the record to establish more committed the crime for which he stands charged. Um, which kind of makes sense. Um, they said that all statements made by more from the start of the interrogation until his Miranda rights should be suppressed, not the rest of it. Right. Um, so yeah, they go over what happened and said, you know, it's kind of a, they said, she also faulted Ryan for feigning ignorance about Moore's repeated requests for an attorney. They said, I just want to, I just want to talk to you. Now the confession suppression was suppressed and a potential murder weapon still unidentified. So Moore is attorney saying he's innocent saying, I think the state had a very weak case and I was quite surprised they brought it in the first place. I can't imagine they would proceed on this evidence or lack thereof. And she called it ridiculous and preposterous. Yeah. Um, okay. So all sorts of legal wranglings, the Idaho Supreme court disagreed, the confession was coerced and involuntary. And if prosecutors refiled the case, Moore's testimony at trial contradict, basically, they can only use the confession. If they go to court, he testifies and what he says contradicts that, then they can use it. And they can bring it. Okay. Otherwise they can't use it. If he doesn't testify, you're fucked. Yes. So they drop the charges against him. What? Drop the fucking charges. Moore's attorney said insinuations and uncertainties about how the case had been handled and, you know, it's ridiculous. So Jennifer Drake sues Dr. Moore says, yeah, absolutely for wrongful death. Now he, the counterclaim says at the time of Brian Drake's death, as plaintiff Jennifer Drake well knew there were multiple people, including herself with a motive to kill Brian Drake. Oh. Because he has a life insurance policy. Yet the plaintiff persisted for her financial pecuniary and other selfish motives to create a publicly false persona of herself and late husband. Yeah. Holy shit. They said rather than a good Christian family man, Brian Drake was a philanderer addicted to pornography and had sexually abused Jennifer Blake, Drake and other women. Good lord. They claim that even his own patients he engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior with members of his professional staff whom he worked with and likely had extramarital affairs with. Jennifer Drake's attorneys called those allegations libelous, fabricated and malicious falsifications of the truth, saying that they're calling them cowardly and using them as an effort to humiliate and shame Jennifer Drake and her children and cause further emotional harm. Wow. That is wild. So they said they're going back and forth. Jennifer Drake here said she never heard her husband mention more. By the way, she said, I don't know what happened there. So the lawyer wants Jennifer to give more info. They keep going back and forth on this. They say that Dr. Drake's pornography addiction infidelity alcoholism or his proclivity for sexual battery. They talk about they say digging through Jennifer Drake's personal life to find a miniscule fraction of support for the baseless and defamatory who done it theory and to point the figure at Jennifer as well outside the bounds of what rule 17 allows. So the Idaho Supreme Court affirmed the district court's ruling that the confession's inadmissible except in those other cases charges dismissed. One resident said it was shocking. Yeah. Another one said it's a small town community closely knit. You've got a lot of family oriented people, a lot of local churches. He said it's a it's the towns always felt like a little family. Now it doesn't 2023. The family starts putting up billboards with reward for information on it. $10,000 reward for information. JusticeforBrianDrake.com site is up and they have a telephone tip line and an email and they said they will never give up. She said this is about standing up for my husband and if I don't know on else will my children in the Bonners Ferry community deserve to know the truth. I will not quit until the truth is known and there is justice. Okay. Now she said she's 100 percent certain that Moore killed her husband and like I said filed wrongful debt suit. She said and the reward she says I believe somebody knows something. This is just prompting a good person to do the right thing. No information is too small. So okay. They have kids between 13 and 19 at this point. They're talking about all this. They're saying that Brian will never walk his daughter down the aisle and all that stuff. February 2025 Bonner County judge finds Daniel Moore civilly liable for the wrongful death of Brian Drake. Court docs say that you know they think he did it. He did it without any just cause. The ruling alleged that the shooter acted willfully and maliciously. It also awards damages for emotional stress suffered by Jennifer who was on the phone with him at the time. Oh Jesus. The court awarded $4,881,218 in compensatory damages including a financial losses $500,000 for the emotional impact on Drake's family and 10 million in punitive damages. Oh boy. $15,381,218 is the ruling on her on him. They said that his they were warranted because of Moore's extreme deviation from reasonable standards of conduct that the act was performed by the defendant with an understanding or a disregard for its likely consequences. And that's where we stand. No more. Oh my God. The charges can be reintroduced. Yeah. They're dismissed but they civilly he's a murderer civilly. Yeah civilly he's a murder but we don't know otherwise. Yeah. Wow. They found him responsible. So there you go. Got to buzz through the end quickly. Hope you like that. Shut up and give me murder.com. 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