Calculated and Cold Ellie Friar

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Despreshing mister. Early in the morning
of the second of October twenty seventeen,

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fifteen year old Aaron Fryar's youngest daughters
woke up and discovered that their father was

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gone. They was missing. There
were puls of blood on the family couch,

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and there was also no sign of
the girl's older sister, Ellie,

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who was fifteen years old. The
Friar daughters were terrified, and they called

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their father's girlfriend, Michelle Robinson,
who immediately called the police. When law

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enforcement arrived at the Friar house,
they spoke to the two girls, who

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were eleven and eight years old.
The eleven year old told the officers that

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about five a m. That morning, she had woken up to the sound

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of her father shouting, as well
as loud crashing sounds. She hadn't immediately

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gotten up to investigate, but when
she walked into the dark living room later

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that morning, she had touched the
couch and felt that the fabric was wet.

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When she turned the light on,
she saw that her hand was now

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covered with blood, and so was
the couch. The detectives asked the girls

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whether they'd heard or seen anybody in
the house that morning, and the older

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sister responded that she'd heard one additional
voice, nineteen year old Gavin McFarlane,

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who was dating Ellie. Ellie was
completely smitten with her older boyfriend, but

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her family didn't feel the same way
about In fact, they didn't like him

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at all. One of Aaron Fryar's
friends remembered Aarin describing Gavin as a bad

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seed who was a negative influence on
his daughter. Since the young couple had

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gotten together, Ellie's grades had reportedly
started to slip, and her loved once

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believed that Gavin was holding her back. Aaron's dislike of Gavin had been strong

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enough that he had recently told Ellie
that she was forbidden from continuing to date

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him. At around the same time, Gavin had made a nine to one

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one call reporting that his girlfriend's father
had showed up at his house and was

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threatening to kill him. As soon
as investigators learned about the history of the

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conflict between Gavin and their two missing
people, they became interested in locating him

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as soon as possible, but they
did not have to look for very long.

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Shortly afterwards, Gavin was seen on
the street with two people, a

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twenty two year old friend and none
other than his fifteen year old girlfriend,

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Ellie Fryar, who wasn't missing.
After all, the trio were apprehended and

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taken in for questioning. During Ellie's
first police interview, she claimed that her

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father was air quotes very controlling,
describing him as verbally, emotionally and physically

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abusive a few times. She told
the officers when I did something he didn't

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like, he would grab me by
the throat and he would pin me against

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the wall. Ellie stated that she
had tried to run away from home that

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morning due to Aaron's abuse, but
she had arranged for Gavin and his friend

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Russell Jones to pick her up.
However, when Gavin and Russell arrived,

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Russell had been armed with a machete, which he used to attack Arin while

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he was sleeping. Ellie insisted that
she hadn't known about any kind of plan

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to hurt her father, saying that
as soon as she heard Aaron screaming,

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she had to run away. However, the investigating officers didn't believe Ellie's story

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was entirely true. In their eyes, Ellie had a wrong motive for wanting

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her father gone. She wanted to
continue her relationship with Gavin without anybody else

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interfering, and it certainly didn't help
that Ellie had started her police interview with

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lies. She had confidently lied about
her own name, how old she was,

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and what grade she was at high
school. The detectives told Russell about

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Ellie's version of events, but although
Russell admitted that Aaron had been attacked that

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morning, he claimed that Gavin had
been the one to do it, and

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instead of a machete, he carried
out the attack with a baseball bat.

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Quote. Gavin goes into the living
room and he beats the crap out of

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the guy. I walked through the
front door, and I saw a dead

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body. Several of Gavin's friends agreed
that he was the type of guy who

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would be willing to kill someone for
someone he loved. One of his friends

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later described Gavin as loyal and kind
of a ride or die, saying he

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would absolutely go along with any sort
of crazy plan. Although Russell insisted that

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he had only arrived at the house
after Aaron Fryar was already dead, he

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admitted that he had assisted Gavin to
dispose of the body. The two men

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had wrapped Erin's body in a sheet
of tarp, then drove it to a

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remote location where they dumped it along
with the baseball bats that had been used

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to carry out the murder. Russell
alleged that Ellie helped with the disposal of

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her father's body, explaining that she
had been the one to throw the baseball

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bats to the grounds at the dump
site. Shortly afterwards, Russell proved that

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he was at least partially telling the
truth by agreeing to show detectives where the

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dump site was located, and sure
enough, they found Aaron Fryar's remains.

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Aaron's autopsy also supported Russell's story.
Instead of machete wounds, he had actually

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been killed by blunt force trauma,
as if he had been viciously beaten with

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a baseball bat. There was no
sign that a machette had been involved at

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all. Despite Russell's help with the
investigation, the detectives were disturbed by how

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little he seen to care about the
fact that he had played a role in

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a brutal murder. Quote it's just
like the strangest thing ever, Detective bill

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Ford later said. Russell is not
emotional, he's not upset. It's all

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just matter of fact, like it's
just another day, when Gavin MacFarlane learned

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that the body had been discovered and
that his friend had told detectives that he

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was the killer, he admitted that
he had been the one to murder Arin.

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However, he claimed that he had
only murdered Arin to protect Ellie from

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her father's abuse. Gavin alleged that
he had recently found out that Ellie was

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pregnant, and when she confided in
him about the abuse, he had been

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willing to do anything to help his
girlfriend. However, he claimed that he

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had not been the one to suggest
murdering Erin. In fact, that had

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been Ellie's idea, although she didn't
want to be in the room when it

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happened, She told Gavin go out
in the front room, take him out

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and then text me and let me
know when it's done. I was just

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trying to protect Ellie. That's what
set me off, Gavin said. I

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was just really angry at that moment. The anger had just been building up

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because of the things that Ellie had
been telling me. Despite Ellie's story about

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the machete, Gavin confirmed that Aaron
had been killed with the baseball bat.

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He even went as far as to
act out the murder, mining the way

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that he fatally beat erin. One
thing that all three stories had in common

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was that Aaron had been sleeping on
the couch in the living room when the

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attack began. He hadn't even had
a chance to fight back. Despite Gavin's

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belief that Ellie was pregnant, the
investigation quickly revealed that this was not true.

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Although it wasn't clear whether Gavin was
lying to the cops or whether Ellie

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had lied to her boyfriend, medical
testing showed that Ellie was not pregnant,

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and that she also had not recently
lost a pregnancy. A thorough investigation into

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the Friar children showed no signs that
Ellie had ever been physically abused, and

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neither of her younger sisters reported any
instances of emotional or physical abuse. Russell

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Jones was sentenced to fifteen years of
jail time after pleading guilty to conspiracy to

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commit murder for his role in helping
to dispose of Aaron's body. As the

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person physically responsible for Aaron Fryar's death, Gavin MacFarlane received a life sentence after

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pleading guilty to murder and is eligible
for parole as early as twenty forty three

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because of his romantic and sexual relationship
with Ellie, who was under age,

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he was also charged with statutory rape. Like Russell, Ellie Frar received a

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lighter sentence than Gavin. She was
only sentenced to conspiracy to commit murder.

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She pled guilty and received a twenty
five year sentence. In twenty forty one,

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she will be thirty nine years old
and she will be eligible for parole.

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In the meantime, her two little
sisters will be left with the knowledge

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that they were asleep in their bed
while their father was brutally murdered. That

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