What happened to Cassie Jo Stoddart?
CASSIE JO STODDART was a high school student in the United States murdered back in 2006.
This is all about her tragic story and where her killers find themselves now.
Who was Cassie Jo Stoddart?
Cassie Jo Stoddart was a 16-year-old student that attended Pocatello High School in Bannock County, Idaho in the United States.
She used to house sit for her aunt and uncle.
Cassie also had a boyfriend called Matt Beckham and was described to be a beautiful and smart girl.
What happened to Cassie Jo Stoddart?
On the night of September 22, 2006, Stoddart was house sitting on Whispering Cliffs Drive in Bannock County.
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She was looking after her aunt’s and uncle’s three cats and two dogs for the weekend.
Her boyfriend Matt visited her at around 6pm and later Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik also paid a visit which took her life away.
They were all 16-year-old students at that point and the two boys went to “hang out” with Stoddart who gave them a tour of the house.
The teens then watched Kill Bill, Volume II, however Draper and Adamcik left early, claiming that they want to watch a movie at the local cinema.
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But what they’ve done instead is make sure to unlock the basement door, so that they’ll re-enter the house.
After some time, they returned to the house wearing dark clothing, gloves and white-painted masks.
They re-entered the basement while making loud noises to try and catch Stoddart’s and Beckham’s attention before they turned off the power through a circuit breaker.
But the couple wasn’t bothered and when the boys saw that, they turned the power back on.
The couple were uncomfortable after this occurrence though, and Beckham noticed that one of the dogs kept growling and looking at the basement.
Stoddart’s boyfriend wanted to stay the night with her so that she’ll feel safer, however, his mother didn’t let him and picked him up at around 10.30pm.
She offered for Cassie to sleep at their house and take her back to the house in the morning, but Cassie thought that she was responsible to remain at the house and take care of it.
Beckham did call the other boys to probably meet them, however, they were whispering and the boyfriend just assumed that they were in a cinema so they couldn’t speak.
When they were sure that Beckham left, they turned off the lights again, with the hopes that Stoddart finally goes downstairs.
However, she didn’t, so the boys went upstairs instead with Draper armed with a dagger-type weapon and Adamcik with a hunting knife.
Draper slammed a closet door to open it to scare Scoddart and stabbed her around 30 times with 12 of the wounds being potentially fatal.
At the trial, it was found that the pair videotaped the plan to murder Stoddart with Adamcik later admitting that he was inspired by the horror film Scream.
Where are Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik now?
Draper was convicted on April 18, 2007, while Adamcik was convicted on June 8, later that year.
They were convicted of first-degree murders and received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without any possibility of parole and 30 years to life for being convicted of conspiracy to murder.
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They are now still serving time at the Idaho State Correctional Institutional.
Adamcik tried to appeal his sentence in November 2019, but it was denied.