The Murder Of April Jones: The Interrogation Tapes Of Mark Bridger - Full Documentary
Full documentary exploring the heinous murder of five-year-old April Jones in 2012, focusing on previously unheard tapes of the 18 hours of interviews the police conducted with child-killer Mark Bridger, who was arrested within 24 hours of April being reported missing and was charged four days later. Featuring contributions from forensic psychologist Dr Joe Sullivan and April's family, who share their distress at her body remaining undiscovered.
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00:00:00This interview has been tape recorded and I'm DC Louise Thomas of CID in Aberystwyth
00:00:11Police Station.
00:00:12April!
00:00:13April!
00:00:14Also present is DC Noel Blakeman.
00:00:24It's the biggest missing person search in British Police history.
00:00:30In October 2012, April Jones disappeared close to her home in the town of Machynlleth, Wales.
00:00:36Can you give me a full name and date of birth please?
00:00:39It's Mark Leonard Bridger, 6th of the 11th, 1965.
00:00:44Within 24 hours, local man Mark Bridger was arrested on suspicion of her abduction.
00:00:50The date is the 2nd of October 2012 and we're in Aberystwyth Police Station.
00:00:55Desperate to bring April home alive, police spent five days face to face with their prime
00:01:00suspect.
00:01:01Mark, we don't want her to suffer anymore.
00:01:06If he was going to conceal her body, because April's size, she'd be quite easy to conceal.
00:01:12But Bridger refused to give up April, even as a nation prayed for her safe return.
00:01:18If you saw anything, heard anything, help this family find their lovely child.
00:01:23Now using police recordings never before heard.
00:01:27We need to bring her home.
00:01:29I know.
00:01:31Interviews with April's family and, for the first time, with the two detectives who led
00:01:36Bridger's questioning.
00:01:39You could see the pure venom in his face.
00:01:43He did not like to be depicted as a paedophile.
00:01:47With unprecedented access to police evidence and those who pieced it together.
00:01:53I'm being told that there is no forensic evidence, nothing.
00:01:58And the forensic psychologist brought in, who's never spoken before about the case.
00:02:03He probably was someone who had fantasized about abducting and murdering a child.
00:02:09This is the hour by hour story of how police tried to extract the truth from the man they
00:02:15believed had murdered April.
00:02:17We needed Mark Bridger to talk and that is down to me and Lou.
00:02:23All of the evidence suggests that you have abducted April.
00:02:26It happened exactly the way I tell you.
00:02:29I did not abduct April.
00:02:46Little deowl, little devil, that's what we used to call her, because she was into mischief.
00:02:56Not naughty, but mischief.
00:02:57That was part of her personality.
00:03:00She had to have a bicycle because of her disabilities.
00:03:12The bike gave April massive independence.
00:03:15She wouldn't have to rely on us to walk, she wouldn't have to wait for us if she got tired
00:03:20to pick her up and carry her or anything like that.
00:03:25The bike was her leg, so she'd go everywhere on this bike, she was never ever without it.
00:03:33She just loved it.
00:03:54I can remember everything about that day.
00:04:01She had swimming lessons.
00:04:04Took her to the pool, I took her in, got her changed, after she'd finished her lesson,
00:04:10changed her and everything like that, she was just skipping out of the changing room.
00:04:14She was very happy.
00:04:15We then drove home.
00:04:21I was going to the local youth club, so I gave her a cuddle and a kiss, said I'll take
00:04:25you in tonight, love you, and she said it back and off she went.
00:04:29I'd tea at her house, went over to her friend's house.
00:04:33That was three of them all together.
00:04:36And then I thought, this is strange, April's not back.
00:04:41Is this an emergency?
00:04:42I just got kidnapped.
00:04:43Can you speak to somebody?
00:04:44She's gone off in a car with somebody.
00:04:45Somebody picked her up in a car or something.
00:04:46OK, what's the name of the child that's gone missing?
00:04:47April Jones.
00:04:48How old is she?
00:04:49Five.
00:04:50When the first call came in, I went to April's house.
00:05:05Obviously there's distress, there's confusion.
00:05:08What we were getting was that April had gone into a car, so time was crucial.
00:05:13A seven-year-old girl tells police she saw what happened.
00:05:17The one witness that we have, April's friend, who was out playing with her at the time,
00:05:23says that April got into the car, happy and smiley, on her own accord.
00:05:33It's possible April knows the driver and the 999 call has been a false alarm, but with
00:05:39no more to go on, police must treat the incident as a potential crime in action.
00:05:46Obviously there was roadblocks put in, the dog handlers were sent out, scenes were trying
00:05:50to be identified.
00:05:54More and more people were being pulled in from all over the force area.
00:05:57You've got people everywhere, walking the pavements, the roads, into the hills, trying
00:06:02to find her.
00:06:03There were police cars everywhere, the search teams were arriving, family, friends.
00:06:10I've never seen so many people, to be honest.
00:06:12People I didn't even know were coming out.
00:06:15An hour passes, and then two hours, but April's still not been found.
00:06:20And I knew then what a massive, massive job this was going to be.
00:06:35By dawn, there's still no news.
00:06:40This morning, they queued around the block, many having had no sleep, waiting to be told
00:06:45where to search.
00:06:47April!
00:06:48April!
00:06:49One of Dovid Powys Police's most senior detectives, Andy John, is brought in to lead the inquiry.
00:07:03From the outset, the priority for myself and the overriding objective was to find April
00:07:08John safe and well, and that is about preserving life.
00:07:15We had a brief description of the vehicle provided by the seven-year-old friend of April,
00:07:20who was a witness at that time.
00:07:22They described it as a small van, small on the front and large at the back.
00:07:28So that could be interpreted as something similar to a Ford Connect van, something like
00:07:33a Land Rover, and also that April got into the driver's side.
00:07:40The significant part of it was that she said that April got into the driver's side.
00:07:45Of course, at the time, that really didn't make a lot of sense.
00:07:49But then, as time wore on, it became apparent that, in actual fact, what she was describing
00:07:55was a left-hand drive vehicle.
00:08:00It's the first clue to the driver's identity.
00:08:06During the morning of the 2nd of October, at about 8 a.m., I had information passed
00:08:11to me through our intelligence cell, to the effect that there was an individual named
00:08:16Mark Bridger who actually had access and owned a vehicle, a Land Rover, which was a left-hand
00:08:21drive.
00:08:22That was a significant step forward in terms of that vehicle potentially being the vehicle
00:08:28that was used to abduct April.
00:08:38Handyman Mark Bridger lives a few miles north of Machynlleth.
00:08:42Immediately, he's designated as a person of interest.
00:08:47He was a 46-year-old man.
00:08:49He lived alone.
00:08:50He had a number of children living within the same community.
00:08:54He knew her.
00:08:55He was a local person.
00:08:57He saw her when we picked her up from school when he was with his girlfriend, picking her
00:09:02kids up.
00:09:04If April knew the driver, this could explain why her friend said she got into the car happy
00:09:09and smiley.
00:09:11And now, other witnesses say they saw Bridger at the estate on Monday evening.
00:09:16As we firmed up on some of the main lines of inquiry, I made a decision to declare Mark
00:09:22Bridger as a suspect in the investigation.
00:09:26Police are immediately sent to arrest him.
00:09:30It was huge.
00:09:33There was a lot of activity going on over in Machynlleth.
00:09:36They find Bridger's house empty, though officers notice something strange.
00:09:41It feels very warm.
00:09:43There is what is described as a roaring fire, the wood burner.
00:09:47There was a distinct smell of detergent, cleaning fluid.
00:09:52The officers from that information felt that something had certainly gone on in that premises.
00:09:58Two hours later, a patrol car spots Bridger walking beside a main road.
00:10:03I started hearing on the radio the coordination of the arrest and the helicopter and everything.
00:10:10He is a local man, they said, who has a vehicle similar to the one apparently involved in
00:10:15the five-year-old's abduction.
00:10:16I remember thinking to myself, wow, that was quick, you know, that was quick.
00:10:21On high alert, a police convoy speeds Bridger to Aberystwyth, 20 miles away.
00:10:29When we had the call that someone had been arrested, we had about a 30-minute notice
00:10:33before he came into custody.
00:10:35When he came in, he was calm, he wasn't shouting or screaming or nothing like that.
00:10:44As I stood at the custody desk, Mark Bridger was brought in and that was quite an unusual moment.
00:10:56I was expecting someone with a bit more emotion, but he was very calm.
00:11:02He was in control, I would say.
00:11:07As Bridger's body is swabbed and his clothes seized, newly found CCTV arrives at the incident room.
00:11:16Filmed by a search helicopter, it shows, by pure chance, Mark Bridger five hours before his arrest.
00:11:25What was interesting, he seemed to be very controlled, very calm in terms of the way he walked.
00:11:30Most people would probably have looked up and taken an interest in seeing a helicopter.
00:11:34That wasn't the case with Mark Bridger.
00:11:36It was just something which did raise alarm bells and supported some of the other information
00:11:41that we were getting to know about the individual.
00:11:44Time is now critical.
00:11:48It's almost 24 hours now from the time that April's gone missing.
00:11:53DC's Louise Thomas and Noel Blakeman are assigned to conduct what's known as an urgent interview.
00:12:01You've got all sorts of thoughts running through your mind.
00:12:04Noel Jones' family were desperate to try and find what has happened.
00:12:08The world's media were outside.
00:12:11I felt immense amount of pressure.
00:12:14These interviews are ultimately fraught with danger.
00:12:18They're conducted without the presence of a solicitor for a very specific purpose.
00:12:24In this case, to find out where April was.
00:12:28Is she still alive? And if she is, where is she?
00:12:31You do not have to say anything and anything you do say may be given in evidence.
00:12:36Yes.
00:12:36Okay.
00:12:37Okay then, Mark.
00:12:39Can you explain to us where April is?
00:12:46I don't know where she is.
00:12:56Suspected of kidnapping five-year-old April Jones,
00:13:00police have arrested a local man, Mark Bridger.
00:13:05The first question is preservation of life.
00:13:07So I said to Mark Bridger, where is she?
00:13:10Where is April Jones?
00:13:13I don't know where she is.
00:13:16Yesterday, I came down to see my daughter's teacher.
00:13:21She had her parents' evening.
00:13:23And I then parked up opposite my girlfriend's house,
00:13:28which I believe is not far away from April's mother and father's house.
00:13:41Stupid.
00:13:42I'd had a few to drink and there was two girls on their bikes.
00:13:47I remember the dark-headed girl came behind the car.
00:13:50I looked to see where the other girl was and I couldn't see this other little girl.
00:13:54And the next minute, the bike was there.
00:14:09Just coming into the Brenegog estate here now on the left-hand side.
00:14:16It's kind of surreal being back here again, especially at night like this.
00:14:21But being back in these circumstances and in these conditions where it's dark, it's night-time.
00:14:33I'd started the car up.
00:14:36As I went to pull away, the car...
00:14:39There wasn't a thud. I can't understand.
00:14:42The car rose up.
00:14:45As I opened the car, I walked round.
00:14:48And underneath the front of the car is now I know to be April.
00:14:57She was only little.
00:14:59So I picked her up and put her across my seat and put her in what is the offside seat, the passenger seat.
00:15:07Tried to take a pulse.
00:15:10And there was nothing.
00:15:11I put my mouth over her mouth and went to blow, put my hand back on the chest.
00:15:15And that's when I realised.
00:15:18The one side of her chest wasn't there.
00:15:20I'd obviously crushed...
00:15:24I'd obviously crushed her little body.
00:15:30So I then drove out of Brenegog.
00:15:33He admits to being present at the time that April is taken.
00:15:38However, his version of events were along the lines of that he has collided with April while she's on her bike.
00:15:45As a result of that collision, April is injured.
00:15:48He tries to administer CPR and drives from the area with April in his vehicle.
00:15:54That was certainly something that I didn't expect to hear.
00:15:57By placing himself at the scene with April,
00:16:00Bridger is making it hard for detectives to tell truth from lies.
00:16:05It's just coming up on my right-hand side here now,
00:16:09the set of garages which is right opposite the row of houses.
00:16:15So that's the abduction site of April Jones,
00:16:20where Mark Bridger said that he'd had his road traffic accident and he'd run her over.
00:16:29Nothing has changed.
00:16:31It's that one street lamp in the corner.
00:16:34It's somewhere that children were playing innocently.
00:16:44So I then drove out of Brenegog.
00:17:05I remember driving down the back road.
00:17:07My intention was to get her medical help.
00:17:10This is the back road that Mark Bridger says that he's driven,
00:17:14which is called Tannerath Road.
00:17:16It's the road leading from the Brenegog estate onto the monument.
00:17:21I ended up at the monument in Lech.
00:17:25So what have you done there then, Mark?
00:17:28I've then gone down by the railway station.
00:17:33I've turned round, I've ended up, I'm at the clock.
00:17:36I've turned round, I've ended up, I'm at the clock.
00:17:39I remember her still being in the car.
00:17:44And that's when I realised...
00:17:49It's OK, Mark.
00:17:50The colour had gone out of her.
00:17:52Her lips were purple.
00:17:55Paul and Coral are friends of mine.
00:17:58And I...
00:18:02I've killed their daughter.
00:18:06It's an appalling admission.
00:18:09He basically said that April had died as a result of this accident.
00:18:13Although he's given a detailed account of April's death,
00:18:17Bridger now appears vague about what happened to her next.
00:18:21We were trying to narrow down exactly when was the last point
00:18:25he remembers seeing April.
00:18:27That was the specific agenda that we needed to cover with him
00:18:31in that urgent interview.
00:18:33So when you've got to the monument...
00:18:35Yes.
00:18:36..is she in the car?
00:18:37I'm trying to jog my memory to know what I've done.
00:18:39It's OK, Mark.
00:18:42The next minute, I'm in my house and she's not there.
00:18:48I've been upstairs and I can't find her.
00:18:54I wouldn't have ditched her.
00:18:57I know that. I wouldn't have... I'd have put her somewhere.
00:19:01Despite the outburst,
00:19:03detectives are beginning to doubt Bridger's sincerity.
00:19:07He would visibly cry.
00:19:11I can't remember what I've done.
00:19:13There was these teardrops that were dropping onto the paper,
00:19:16almost the size of a 10p piece.
00:19:19We need to find her.
00:19:21I don't know where I've put her.
00:19:23And then he'd look up at you and there was nothing,
00:19:26there was no indication that he had been crying at all.
00:19:31I'm going to stop the tape now. It's 18.45.
00:19:34OK.
00:19:37After 27 minutes, the urgent interview ends.
00:19:43As we came out of that interview, we just thought,
00:19:46is Mark Bridger telling the truth?
00:19:48Is April Jones really dead?
00:19:51In reality, at that time, we only had his word for that.
00:19:55We had this version of events with these haphazard locations.
00:20:00And then thereafter, nothing.
00:20:03You have to view that with some suspicion.
00:20:06One thing is known.
00:20:08CCTV from a local petrol station shows Bridger's car leaving town
00:20:13just minutes after April was last seen.
00:20:18It's vital police discover what he did next.
00:20:30MUSIC
00:20:35Desperate to find missing child April Jones,
00:20:39police scale up their media strategy.
00:20:42Thank you very much for coming along to this press conference.
00:20:48With me is Coral Jones, April's mother,
00:20:54and Di Smith, who's April's step-grandad.
00:20:58They're accompanied by their family liaison officer, Hayley Hood.
00:21:04On Wednesday morning, we asked Coral if she'd do a press statement.
00:21:09Coral's been told that Bridger is saying he killed April,
00:21:13but he doesn't know where she is.
00:21:15She'd had some information, life-changing information,
00:21:18shared with her the night before,
00:21:20but, of course, the press weren't aware of that at that time.
00:21:24It's been 36 hours since April was taken from us.
00:21:30There must be someone out there who knows where she is
00:21:35and can help the police find her.
00:21:39We are desperate for any news.
00:21:43April is only five years old.
00:21:46Please, please help find her.
00:21:50It was her little girl, and Coral was still trying to portray some hope.
00:21:56The emotion was horrendous.
00:21:59I did find that extremely emotional, to see her so upset.
00:22:04As I said earlier, we're pursuing a number of lines of inquiry,
00:22:08and Mark Bridger is one of them.
00:22:10As I said earlier, we're pursuing a number of lines of inquiry,
00:22:14and Mark Bridger is one of them.
00:22:21Around Machynlleth, the search for April continues.
00:22:26In Aberystwyth, DC's Louise Thomas and Noel Blakeman
00:22:30prepare to interview Mark Bridger again.
00:22:40He was obviously always sat there.
00:22:42The propriate adult would be sat next to him
00:22:45to facilitate communication,
00:22:47and then you'd have the solicitor in the corner.
00:22:52Obviously, we needed to speak to him again.
00:22:56Tuesday was very much his agenda, his account about what happened.
00:23:01By Wednesday, it was now our agenda.
00:23:04It was our topic areas that we wanted to discuss.
00:23:08Today, detectives want to probe Bridger about his claim
00:23:12that he accidentally ran April over.
00:23:15Can you tell me that when you get out of your vehicle,
00:23:19that you look underneath the vehicle,
00:23:22and you see April?
00:23:25Yes.
00:23:27But a key witness, April's seven-year-old friend,
00:23:30has a different story.
00:23:33She was able to tell us that, in fact,
00:23:36she was able to tell us that April had gone into the car
00:23:39happy and smiling,
00:23:41not the running over and killing her in a car accident
00:23:45how he described.
00:23:48We have a witness that was present.
00:23:52This person says...
00:23:55..April got into the Land Rover
00:24:00via the driver's door,
00:24:03which, on a normal car, would be the right-hand side,
00:24:07but that's really the passenger's side door on your car.
00:24:10That is complete fabrication and lies.
00:24:14It can't have happened.
00:24:17He is getting angry, but also trying not to show that anger physically,
00:24:22but it's in his voice, he's getting angry.
00:24:25That was the time for me that I realised
00:24:28how large and how big Mark Bridger was,
00:24:33and how dominating he would have been with April.
00:24:38Mark, is it a case that what you're telling us
00:24:43didn't quite happen?
00:24:45It happened exactly the way I tell you.
00:24:48That person is lying.
00:24:53I did not abduct April.
00:24:57I'd like you to go away and do the tests from the car.
00:25:03That's just around you. Oh, thank you.
00:25:07Police turn to forensics to see if the evidence can decide.
00:25:13Did Mark Bridger run April over with the front of his car?
00:25:19Or did she climb into the passenger seat, happy and smiling,
00:25:23as the child witness claims?
00:25:25This is Mark Bridger's Land Rover.
00:25:28I first saw it the day after he was arrested,
00:25:32and I haven't seen it since then.
00:25:35There was two girls on the bikes.
00:25:38There was no thud, there was no knock,
00:25:41and the vehicle then rose up.
00:25:44I removed the bumper because I was concerned
00:25:47about the damage to the car,
00:25:49and I didn't want to get into trouble.
00:25:52I removed the bumper because I was concerned
00:25:55about the damage here.
00:25:57It appeared to be broken, but that was not recent damage.
00:26:02She was limp and felt lifeless.
00:26:07I'd obviously crushed her little body.
00:26:14If a small child had been hit by one of these vehicles,
00:26:18it would have caused a lot of injuries.
00:26:22Skin, DNA, even transfer of fibres from April's clothing.
00:26:29And there was absolutely nothing.
00:26:32Basically, his story wasn't true.
00:26:34He'd made it up.
00:26:36If he'd made that up, what else did he make up?
00:26:40With no obvious evidence of April's death,
00:26:43police can't discount the possibility that she may still be alive.
00:26:47I still was keeping an open mind at that point,
00:26:50in terms of, are we still hopefully going to be finding April,
00:26:54safe and well, in a hideout or at some location?
00:26:59The inquiry team's lead search adviser is Gareth Thomas.
00:27:03He's now told to step up the search.
00:27:07Whilst there was a chance that April was alive,
00:27:10all the stops were pulled out.
00:27:13It has been quoted as the largest search in British police history.
00:27:18Mountain Rescue have reported that it was their largest search since Lockerbie.
00:27:23Our colleagues from Urban Search and Rescue and the cave rescue teams,
00:27:27Coast Guard are in the line.
00:27:30And when you put all those together with the public,
00:27:33it was massive, absolutely massive.
00:27:37The area close to Mark Bridger's house is given special attention.
00:27:43This is the river just behind Bridger's house.
00:27:46Rivers are really notoriously difficult to search
00:27:49because everything's moving, very, very dynamic.
00:27:52And on three separate occasions,
00:27:55this river was finger-tipped by police divers,
00:27:58also by the police.
00:28:00It's a very, very dangerous river.
00:28:03This river was finger-tipped by police divers,
00:28:06also professional volunteers such as Mountain Rescue, fire service.
00:28:10About 5km downstream turns into a tidal estuary.
00:28:14So there are many, many difficult areas
00:28:17to have any sort of a high level of confidence
00:28:20in knowing that April wasn't there.
00:28:23It was very, very difficult.
00:28:28With search teams desperate for a lead,
00:28:32our viewers try a new strategy to unlock Bridger's memory.
00:28:37During the interview, we gave him maps,
00:28:40even placed on the walls all around him,
00:28:43to try and get him to sort of visualise certain areas.
00:28:46We were encouraging him to look at them,
00:28:49getting him to focus on where possibly that he may have put April.
00:28:54You mentioned earlier about hiding her from the rain.
00:28:58I wouldn't have buried her.
00:29:00I would have covered her or put her somewhere under shelter.
00:29:03Are there locations that are personal and private to you
00:29:07that you would have laid April?
00:29:10There's a cycle track just above my house.
00:29:14But I most certainly don't recollect being up there.
00:29:21Despite the new strategy,
00:29:23Bridger still can't or won't reveal April's whereabouts.
00:29:28It was hugely frustrating.
00:29:30We were desperately trying to work with each other
00:29:33and trying to find ways of,
00:29:35how are we going to get this information from Mark Bridger?
00:29:38There was pressure on us.
00:29:40We're not getting past that block about what happened after
00:29:44she had died in the car.
00:29:46Andy John needs answers.
00:29:48He calls in one of Britain's leading experts on the criminal mind.
00:29:53This is the first time he's spoken about the case.
00:29:56I first became aware of April Jones's disappearance
00:30:00on the day after the abduction had taken place.
00:30:05I'd heard about Joe Sylvan.
00:30:07I knew he'd worked with Madeleine McCann,
00:30:09but in particular the Sowa murders.
00:30:12My role is to give officers insight
00:30:15into how offenders of this nature think
00:30:18and how they process information
00:30:21and how they respond to certain types of questions.
00:30:26Using his expertise,
00:30:28Dr Sullivan now creates a psychological profile of Bridger.
00:30:33One of the first things that I wanted to do
00:30:36was to see where Mark Bridger lived.
00:30:38As you walked into the front room,
00:30:41there was a shotgun above the fireplace.
00:30:44There were replica handguns
00:30:46and two pairs of handcuffs that were very openly displayed.
00:30:51He had a background in working in an abattoir.
00:30:56He had a number of knives that were in the property.
00:31:01He also had quite a number of books about SAS survival techniques
00:31:05and living in the wild,
00:31:07creating this impression of himself as some sort of Rambo-type character
00:31:11that suggested that perhaps he was a fantasist,
00:31:14someone living in a world that he'd created in his own mind.
00:31:19Back at the station, Dr Sullivan briefs the team on his early findings.
00:31:24Just as they prepare for the last interview of the day.
00:31:28So, Joe Sullivan was already piecing together
00:31:31the psychological profile of Mark Bridger.
00:31:34He told us appealing to his paternal side
00:31:37possibly wasn't a good idea,
00:31:40but we decided to go against that, really, and just give it a go.
00:31:45We had nothing to lose.
00:31:54The time on my watch is 2200 hours.
00:31:58This is going to be the final interview for tonight.
00:32:01Yes.
00:32:03It's been a tough day.
00:32:05OK?
00:32:08Obviously, she hasn't been found yet.
00:32:13No, she hasn't been found.
00:32:15We need to bring her home.
00:32:18I know.
00:32:20I know.
00:32:21If I really, honestly knew where she was,
00:32:25I would tell you.
00:32:28We've only got your version of events.
00:32:31We've only got your word to say that you run her over
00:32:35and that you've killed her.
00:32:37I can promise you that she's not alive.
00:32:40I can't change my story. It's what happened that night.
00:32:43Mark, we don't want her to suffer any more.
00:32:49He's a father. He's got six children.
00:32:52You know, he wouldn't want this to happen to his child.
00:32:55I was trying to plead with him, really.
00:32:57You're a parent. Yes.
00:33:01You've got a daughter. Yes.
00:33:04Let's think about April's mum and dad.
00:33:07Put yourself in their shoes.
00:33:10I'd have done. OK?
00:33:12For hours and hours sat in the cell.
00:33:14I really, really thought perhaps, yes,
00:33:17this would be the turning point.
00:33:19It doesn't matter what time of the night it is, Mark.
00:33:22I will ring the bell. Ring the bell.
00:33:24We'll speak to you and we will sort it.
00:33:27I want it sorted.
00:33:29Mark Bridger has a story and he's sticking to it.
00:33:33If police are to find April, they need a breakthrough.
00:33:37I promise I will do everything.
00:33:44We moved into Brinigog in the March of 2007.
00:33:49April was born, I think, maybe a week or two later.
00:33:54She was premature, seven weeks.
00:33:57She wanted to come out in this world at a young age.
00:34:01April had mild cerebral palsy.
00:34:04She was in a wheelchair.
00:34:06She was in a wheelchair.
00:34:08She was in a wheelchair.
00:34:10She was in a wheelchair.
00:34:12She had mild cerebral palsy.
00:34:14She was so, so tiny.
00:34:17We didn't know if she'd make it.
00:34:19It was a really, really rough start to her life.
00:34:22By 2012, April was living a happy life with Mum Coral,
00:34:27Dad Paul and her siblings, Harley and Jasmine.
00:34:31The happy memories will always be there.
00:34:35Aberderby, we used to go to a lot.
00:34:38We used to go there for days out.
00:34:42She loved going to the beach and swimming in the sea.
00:34:45She was just outgoing, bubbly, like her brothers and sisters were.
00:34:49But she ruled the roost.
00:35:03Two and a half days since going missing,
00:35:0644 police forces are now desperately trying to find April.
00:35:12We turned on the TV and we saw David Cameron doing a speech.
00:35:17Well, my heart just goes out to April's family.
00:35:20And this is every family's nightmare, clearly, having this happen to you.
00:35:24And the fact that she suffers cerebral palsy,
00:35:27something I know a little about from my own children, only makes this worse.
00:35:31I'd never thought I'd hear a Prime Minister told about me and my family at all.
00:35:36My appeal would be, if you know anything,
00:35:39if you saw anything, heard anything,
00:35:41have any ideas you can bring forward, talk to the police,
00:35:44help this family find their lovely child.
00:35:47I was so shocked.
00:35:49But so pleased that he had said something about her.
00:35:57Five miles north of where the abduction happened,
00:36:00forensic teams are examining Bridger's house.
00:36:04The focus for the house was to look for anything
00:36:08that could indicate April had been present.
00:36:12I asked for things like drinking vessels to be looked at.
00:36:16Had he provided April with any food?
00:36:20And then to also look for any bloodstaining, any items of clothing.
00:36:30When they did this in the bathroom,
00:36:33they did locate some tiny spots of blood on the bathroom wall.
00:36:38This was fed back to me.
00:36:41We don't know the source of those spots.
00:36:44They could be anybody's.
00:36:46And we just need to see if it matches April or not.
00:36:50Samples are rushed to the lab.
00:36:53The results won't be in for 24 hours.
00:36:58Meanwhile, in Aberystwyth,
00:37:00the questioning of Mark Bridger enters its third day.
00:37:04The investigation team will be interviewing Mark Bridger again today.
00:37:11And we will continue to piece together his movements
00:37:16during the relevant times
00:37:19and looking to overlay his account with that that we've gleaned from witnesses.
00:37:26One witness reports seeing Bridger the morning after the abduction,
00:37:31close to the river near his home.
00:37:33That witness will say that they saw Bridger walking to his car.
00:37:37Describes what appeared to be carrying a plastic black bag, like a bin liner.
00:37:42What was he doing there, you know, just a mile away from his home address?
00:37:46Coming out of the undergrowth.
00:37:48So the theory is that he's either gone to recover something
00:37:52or he'd gone to place something there.
00:37:54The lay-by is excavated, but nothing is found.
00:37:59With no body and Bridger sticking firmly to his story,
00:38:03it's a frustrating time for the detectives.
00:38:06Just have a look at that. Yes.
00:38:08And think, where is April?
00:38:11I really don't know.
00:38:13I can remember going into the canteen and overhearing conversations
00:38:16about, why can't they get him to tell us where she was?
00:38:19And, you know, in my mind, I'm trying, I'm really trying
00:38:22to get this information out, but it's just not happening.
00:38:25Just to remind you, Mark, that the red light is on.
00:38:28Obviously, as we explained, this interview is being monitored.
00:38:31Yes. OK?
00:38:32Bridger's refusal to give up April
00:38:35now hints at a new and ominous side to his personality.
00:38:40Joe Sullivan sat us down.
00:38:42He gave a PowerPoint presentation for about 20 minutes
00:38:46of how to identify and understand a psychopath.
00:38:50I told him that I believed that Mark Bridger
00:38:53probably had quite a number of psychopathic traits.
00:38:56He was unlikely to experience an enormous amount of empathy
00:39:00or have any major sense of guilt about what he had done.
00:39:04Of course, he will inevitably try to present himself
00:39:07as someone who does have those characteristics,
00:39:10but the sense that I had from the information
00:39:13we had gathered even at that time was that
00:39:16this is a man who is not going to respond
00:39:20to an appeal to his better nature.
00:39:25The profile suggests Bridger won't confess,
00:39:28so police must instead find inconsistencies in his story.
00:39:34The main focus, I think, for Joe Sullivan
00:39:36and the main focus for everybody in the investigation
00:39:39was to keep Mark Bridger talking.
00:39:41The moment that Mark Bridger stops talking,
00:39:44we will not be able to go any further with the investigation.
00:39:47We will not get any more information out of him.
00:39:51April went missing on Monday evening.
00:39:54Now, on Thursday, Andy John instructs the interviewing team.
00:40:01Before we start this part of the interview,
00:40:04I do need to further arrest you, Mark, OK?
00:40:07All right.
00:40:08On suspicion of murder of April Jones
00:40:11on 1st October 2012.
00:40:14The shock, the physical shock of his body.
00:40:17He was now white, he was pale,
00:40:20simply because he thought we had found her.
00:40:23I can remember him turning to his solicitor,
00:40:26looking at, like, hey, is this something you haven't told me yet?
00:40:29There's another significant development.
00:40:32Detectives have found indecent images on Mark Bridger's laptop.
00:40:38And I do have to further arrest you
00:40:42on suspicion of child pornography.
00:40:45You're under caution, OK?
00:40:47Yes.
00:40:49There's now a possible sexual motive for the abduction.
00:40:53But crucially, after three days,
00:40:56police have also given up hope of finding April alive.
00:41:01It's a turning point in the investigation,
00:41:04and the family need to be told.
00:41:07We had an agreement with Coral and her husband, Paul,
00:41:10that we would always tell them the truth.
00:41:19They've got a place for us to go away from the press,
00:41:22so we didn't have to have the press around us all the time.
00:41:25And there's little offices just up the road from where we live,
00:41:29and we called it our sanctuary place.
00:41:32Here you are, then, Coral.
00:41:34Where are you?
00:41:38The day that the status of the arrest of Mark Bridger changed,
00:41:43we went to pick up Paul and Coral to bring them to the sanctuary
00:41:47and shared the information, and it was just life-changing.
00:41:52It was dreadful.
00:41:56To get told...
00:41:59To get told.
00:42:03It's not an abduction case any more, it's a murder.
00:42:08And...
00:42:13And you've got to tell your children.
00:42:18They've lost a baby sister.
00:42:29You're getting told that your daughter's dead,
00:42:33but they don't know where she is.
00:42:35And that was the hardest thing.
00:42:59I briefly remember the volunteers
00:43:02have been called back from searching.
00:43:06It was just to be left to the professionals.
00:43:09It is no longer appropriate for us to expect untrained members
00:43:13of the public to continue the search.
00:43:16They didn't want them to come across the body.
00:43:19And I sort of remember...
00:43:21..people crying and...
00:43:24..complete strangers, just in tears.
00:43:28I think the fact that that status had been changed,
00:43:31that there was no hope, really, that April was going to be found alive,
00:43:35which was life-changing for Paul and Coral
00:43:38and for Jasmine and Harley as well.
00:43:41Police are now sure that Mark Bridger has murdered April.
00:43:46But after two days of intense interviews,
00:43:49there's still not enough evidence.
00:43:53There was this façade that he was actually trying to help us out,
00:43:57but in reality wasn't actually giving us an awful lot.
00:44:02It was an evening or a night shift
00:44:05when he asked for a water and survey map of the area,
00:44:08so he could jog his memory.
00:44:11We'd be checking on him every 15, 30 minutes in his cell,
00:44:14and he'd be lying on the floor just studying the map.
00:44:17But he never came up with anything to say,
00:44:20I've no doubt that while he's pawing over the maps
00:44:23and making it look like he is trying to remember
00:44:26the location of April's body,
00:44:29what he's actually doing in his head
00:44:32is trying to second-guess where the interviews are going next,
00:44:35of what are the sorts of things that he needs to address
00:44:38and how he needs to go about it.
00:44:41He's trying to figure out what's going on,
00:44:44what's going on in his head,
00:44:47what is it that he needs to address
00:44:50and how he needs to present himself.
00:44:53This is an individual who's very much in survival mode.
00:44:59Nothing. It was just another game he was playing with us.
00:45:04It was all one big game to him.
00:45:08As days went by, we had less and less hope from the interview,
00:45:11so we expanded the search.
00:45:15By Friday, police have identified over 600 search areas.
00:45:30Everything that we've found so far,
00:45:33we've been able to trace it.
00:45:36Everything you can see here is part of the search area.
00:45:39This was a real, real key area for us.
00:45:42And as you can see, it's heavily sided,
00:45:45steep, wooded valleys, very, very difficult terrain.
00:45:51A lot of these areas are only accessible
00:45:54by officers on ropes,
00:45:57working really, really carefully.
00:46:00And it's not just what you can see above the ground.
00:46:03There's the subterranean element as well.
00:46:06A lot of caves, heavily mined.
00:46:09But you can just see from this high point here,
00:46:12a massive, massive search effort.
00:46:16April was a five-year-old, but she was a very, very small five-year-old.
00:46:19So one thing we had to consider,
00:46:22if he was going to conceal a body,
00:46:25that because of April's size,
00:46:28she'd be quite easy to conceal, quite easy to carry,
00:46:32at a significant distance from a parked vehicle.
00:46:35He always told everybody he was in the special services,
00:46:38which has proved not to be the case.
00:46:41But he was certainly comfortable in the outdoors.
00:46:44We were told that he worked for the Forestry Commission,
00:46:47he'd worked as a lifeguard, he worked in an abattoir.
00:46:50So when we were looking for deposition sites or areas
00:46:53that he may have got rid of April's body,
00:46:56there was a lot of factors to consider.
00:46:59Forensics have found no evidence to support Bridger's story
00:47:02that he ran April over.
00:47:05She was laid there, on the seat.
00:47:08And that's when I realised one side of her chest wasn't there.
00:47:13Forensics have also examined the car's interior.
00:47:16Now, police will confront Bridger with the findings.
00:47:22Our forensics guys have examined the vehicle.
00:47:25Agreed.
00:47:28There is no trace of any blood, there is no trace of any hair,
00:47:31no trace of any skin.
00:47:34Mark Bridger was relying on the fact that he'd run over April.
00:47:38There's this accident, he's done this,
00:47:41he then picks her up,
00:47:44puts her into the car and then drives away.
00:47:47You'd expect to find blood from the injury.
00:47:52Yet the scientists are turning around saying,
00:47:56we haven't found anything.
00:47:59There is no indication whatsoever
00:48:02of anybody underneath that vehicle.
00:48:05That is obviously very, very strange
00:48:08because if I ever abducted her,
00:48:11there would be some sort of hair and fingerprints and things.
00:48:14There's nothing there, forensically,
00:48:17to corroborate your account.
00:48:20And this is an opportunity for you to try and help us.
00:48:23Let's move to the inside then, the interior.
00:48:26And again, I'm being told that there is no forensic evidence.
00:48:29No hair?
00:48:32No hair, no blood, no nothing.
00:48:35There's no blood?
00:48:38I didn't feel any blood at that time anyway.
00:48:41There was nothing visible?
00:48:44There was nothing visible, there was no traces of blood on me or her at that time.
00:48:47There we are, that's fine, thank you very much.
00:48:51Nobody has seen this accident happen
00:48:54and the only person that's saying that there was an accident was him.
00:49:06Interviewed on suspicion of murdering April Jones,
00:49:09Mark Bridger claims he tried to save the five-year-old
00:49:12after injuring her in a car accident.
00:49:15He also insists there was no blood on either him or her.
00:49:21Yet blood has now been found,
00:49:24not in Bridger's car, but in his house.
00:49:27So around about quarter past six on the Friday evening,
00:49:30I received an email from the lab
00:49:33with the results of the blood spots from the bathroom wall.
00:49:39These two areas of apparent blood spatter
00:49:42on the bathroom wall
00:49:45we compared to the DNA that we'd obtained
00:49:48from April Jones's toothbrush
00:49:51and it gave a match.
00:49:54Something obviously has happened at the home address of Mark Bridger.
00:49:59And there's more fresh evidence.
00:50:04They found a tiny bit of blood
00:50:07on the inside collar of Bridger's fleece
00:50:10and there was also DNA present
00:50:13from April on the inside of his jogging bottoms.
00:50:18This is definitely a significant point
00:50:21in the investigation.
00:50:24We've now got a definite link between April
00:50:27and the scene of Mark Bridger's home address.
00:50:35On the second day of having the sanctuary,
00:50:38Andy John came up and had to tell the parents
00:50:41that April's blood had been identified in Bridger's house.
00:50:44I can't begin to imagine what it is like
00:50:47to have lost a child in such horrific circumstances
00:50:50and the pain that the family would have suffered at the time.
00:50:56I do find the hardest time was telling Harley
00:50:59that he was on my bed.
00:51:04Like we normally are.
00:51:07Because he wouldn't go to bed until midnight at the time.
00:51:11And I had to tell him...
00:51:17..that his sister's not coming home.
00:51:22She's murdered.
00:51:25The scream...
00:51:28..still to date haunts me.
00:51:33Somebody comes along like him
00:51:36and takes their little sister away.
00:51:39It's, well...
00:51:42There's nothing to say about that, can you, really?
00:51:45Apart from what I want to do to him.
00:52:00I remember wanting to go home and hug my two kids closely
00:52:04and be very thankful for what I had at home.
00:52:07I think it makes you put things into perspective
00:52:10and realise what is important and what isn't important.
00:52:19The discovery of April's blood is a major breakthrough.
00:52:22But the case is about to enter still darker territory.
00:52:28Bridger's laptop has now been fully examined.
00:52:32Police hope its contents will find a way
00:52:36to force Bridger to reveal the truth.
00:52:40Friday was the main day that we had to challenge him
00:52:43on all the sexually explicit material
00:52:46that was recovered from his computer.
00:52:49It was a tough day. Myself and other experienced officers,
00:52:52we'd seen, you know, child images before.
00:52:55We've had to interview child sex offenders before.
00:52:58What I want to do is just start going through
00:53:01some of the images that we've recovered.
00:53:04Right, OK.
00:53:06They're difficult interviews to conduct
00:53:09because we're going to talk about graphic,
00:53:12pornographic images of children.
00:53:16It's not a nice subject at all, on any level.
00:53:20Tell me what you see there.
00:53:23It looks like the four stages of development of breasts.
00:53:26How does that make you feel?
00:53:28It doesn't make me feel sexual at all.
00:53:31Right, the next image. What do you see there?
00:53:34Right, obviously this is a young girl,
00:53:37could be between eight and 12.
00:53:40There's nothing sexual about that to me at all.
00:53:44He had a very clear strategy to distance himself
00:53:47from any form of sexual arousal
00:53:50to the images that he had on his computer.
00:53:53Because, of course, in his fantasy world,
00:53:56the Rambo-esque character that he sees himself as,
00:54:00there's no room for him being sexually interested in children.
00:54:04Bridger has shown more images found on his laptop,
00:54:07some depicting violence and the sexual assault of children.
00:54:12What I'm going to do now is turn over to the next image.
00:54:15It's image three, brackets 15, JPEG.
00:54:18What's going on there?
00:54:20There was also material within the computer of Mark Bridger
00:54:23having searched websites relating to child murders
00:54:26and other most horrific incidents.
00:54:29Do you remember searching for that? No.
00:54:32That had been typed into the Google search engine.
00:54:35I don't remember typing that in, no. I don't.
00:54:38This was somebody who was sexually interested in children.
00:54:41This was somebody who probably had a long-standing
00:54:44sexual interest in children.
00:54:46I will conclude this interview now.
00:54:48After almost four hours, the interview ends.
00:54:52The case itself is starting to look like
00:54:55a sexually motivated child murder.
00:54:59Police believe they have a motive, but still there's no body.
00:55:04And there's now only a few hours before Bridger's custody clock runs out.
00:55:09I was very aware of the fact that we had potentially
00:55:12a maximum of 96 hours in which we could investigate
00:55:15the matters whilst Mark Bridger was in custody.
00:55:18The significance of the custody clock is that when it reaches zero,
00:55:24you have to either have charged the suspect
00:55:28or he walks out of the police station.
00:55:32We're on day four, five now.
00:55:35We need to either get him charged or he's going to be released.
00:55:50Mark Bridger has now been in custody
00:55:53for three and a half days.
00:55:55If he's not charged within the next few hours,
00:55:58he could walk free.
00:56:01I can vividly remember how anxious Coral was.
00:56:05She was frightened that he wasn't going to be charged,
00:56:08because if he wasn't charged, as we kept telling her,
00:56:11the law said he had to be released.
00:56:13The decision whether or not to charge Mark Bridger
00:56:16will be made by the Crown Prosecution Service.
00:56:19But first, they must wait for one last interview.
00:56:23Hoping that DC's Louise Thomas and Noel Blakeman
00:56:26can finally crack their suspect.
00:56:30You can tell me where she is, but you won't.
00:56:35You know where the body is. You know where she is.
00:56:40Did you intend to murder her? No.
00:56:43This last interview really is the last throw at the dice.
00:56:46It's what we call the challenge, and it's a summary, really,
00:56:49of everything that we've gone through for that week.
00:56:52And it's a challenge of all the inconsistencies
00:56:54that we were able to put to him.
00:56:56I mean, ultimately, our case stood on
00:56:59Mark Bridger's word against a child witness.
00:57:02And she was able to tell us that April Jones
00:57:05got into that car willingly.
00:57:07There was no evidence of a road traffic accident.
00:57:11There was no blood or anything of that of April Jones
00:57:14in the vehicle or outside the vehicle.
00:57:17And we had April Jones' DNA on certain garments
00:57:20he'd been wearing.
00:57:22Forensic tests have also proved
00:57:24the blood found in the house is April's.
00:57:27It's gold dust.
00:57:29We've got blood in his bathroom from April.
00:57:36Blood has been found on the wall of the bathroom at your house.
00:57:39Right.
00:57:40And this blood gives a full DNA profile of April Jones.
00:57:46The only explanation I've got is obviously
00:57:50I've got blood on my hands.
00:57:52If I haven't dried my hands, you flick your hands,
00:57:54I've gone for a wee.
00:57:56Within seconds, he goes,
00:57:58that must have been when I was drying my hands.
00:58:02I just dried my hands like this.
00:58:05He was quite animated in how he was recreating
00:58:09the washing of the hands and the possibility of flicking.
00:58:14So it's possibly a transfer of blood from
00:58:17having some sort of blood on my hands.
00:58:21But there was no blood in the car.
00:58:25You said you didn't find any visible blood on you or anything.
00:58:29I must have been mistaken.
00:58:31Clearly there was, was his response.
00:58:33Faced with damning evidence, still Bridger refuses to flinch.
00:58:38Obviously there was only a very minute amount of blood,
00:58:41which I've said from the beginning,
00:58:43but I never ever recalled having blood from the injury
00:58:47or from April's body on me.
00:58:49May I stop you there?
00:58:51Yes, sorry, yes.
00:58:53The question I have to ask, is that blood there
00:58:55because April was assaulted in the bathroom?
00:58:58Not at all. Not that I recollect at all, no.
00:59:02DC Blakeman now moves on to the evidence
00:59:05found on Mark Bridger's laptop.
00:59:08We were obviously concerned that you have
00:59:12a sexual interest in children.
00:59:15I haven't got an interest in children.
00:59:19We knew that we had found child pornography on his computers
00:59:22and we knew that he'd been viewing them moments and days
00:59:26leading up to what had happened to April Jones.
00:59:29And you viewed all these photos within minutes of each other.
00:59:33Were you masturbating to these photographs?
00:59:35No.
00:59:36Is this a build-up? Is this what was happening that morning?
00:59:39A build-up of sexual frustration, maybe?
00:59:41Why hasn't it built up before then?
00:59:43Maybe the opportunity hasn't arisen.
00:59:46Or maybe it's just shit.
00:59:49He did not like to be depicted as a paedophile
00:59:53and somebody that was looking at images
00:59:55for sexual gratification of children.
00:59:57That's when it became argumentative.
00:59:59That's when we saw the real Mark Bridger.
01:00:02Explain to me how and why you sexually assaulted April.
01:00:07I did not sexually assault April.
01:00:10There was no sexual assault on April.
01:00:13Did you suffocate her?
01:00:14No.
01:00:15Did you use a sharp weapon?
01:00:17No.
01:00:18All my knives can be checked.
01:00:20All of the evidence we have suggests that you have abducted
01:00:24and murdered April with a sexual motive.
01:00:28Therefore, the reason that you're not telling us where her body is
01:00:32is because the discovery of her body
01:00:35would provide the evidence of this.
01:00:38Is this not the case?
01:00:40This is not the case, Tom.
01:00:42I have stuck by my story and I still stick by my story
01:00:45that April's body was crushed under my wheel of my car.
01:00:49Unless there's anything else that you want to say,
01:00:52I'm going to conclude this interview now.
01:00:54All I want to say to Paul and Carl
01:00:58that I'm sorry for what happened
01:01:02and that if I in my heart of hearts knew
01:01:06where she was, I would tell you.
01:01:09As the interview ends, police are already in final negotiations
01:01:14with the Crown Prosecution Service.
01:01:19And just over an hour after that,
01:01:21we were charging him with the murder of April Jones.
01:01:33I charged him with three counts,
01:01:35one for murder, one for child abduction
01:01:38and one for perverting the course of justice.
01:01:44There was no emotion.
01:01:46No emotion whatsoever coming from Mark Ruger.
01:01:54He was charged with the murder and abduction of April Jones.
01:02:02I was just pleased. I was so happy I cried.
01:02:08He presented himself to the next available court,
01:02:10which was on the following Monday.
01:02:14It's seven days since April went missing.
01:02:19People were throwing cans and all sorts up the van at him.
01:02:28And people were going mad.
01:02:31And that's people I didn't even know
01:02:34were outraged by him for what he's done.
01:03:08HE SIGHS
01:03:31I don't think anybody could have prepared us really
01:03:34for the reaction that we had
01:03:36when the guilty verdict came in.
01:03:40It was the best news I ever had.
01:03:43It was so overwhelming
01:03:46that he's never coming out.
01:03:48You can't hurt no more children.
01:03:50In court, Bridger again claimed
01:03:53that April had died in a terrible accident.
01:03:57Instead, the evidence showed him to be a premeditated killer
01:04:01and paedophile who'd been on the prowl for a young girl.
01:04:06There may be sadistic elements to his personality
01:04:09whereby he enjoys the distress that he causes to others.
01:04:14He probably was someone who had fantasised
01:04:17about abducting and murdering a child.
01:04:19He certainly was primed and ready for that opportunity
01:04:22and that was something he visualised in his head
01:04:25and something that he wanted to happen.
01:04:32I believe that April was taken by Mark Bridger
01:04:35to his home address and there April
01:04:38may well have been subjected to sexual acts
01:04:41and then subsequently suffered significant harm
01:04:44which led to her death.
01:04:46I believe that parts of April may have been disposed of
01:04:49in the wood burner and elsewhere within the Machynlleth area.
01:05:00I don't know where April is.
01:05:02I wish I did.
01:05:05I know they had a funeral for her
01:05:08with the fragments from the fire
01:05:11but they didn't have her and for me
01:05:14I just wish that he would come forward
01:05:17and give that information
01:05:20because it must be heartbreaking for them
01:05:23not knowing what's happened to their little girl.
01:05:28You think about April every day.
01:05:31It's never thought that she's gone.
01:05:35You never not think about her.
01:05:39You could just be doing the most simplest of things.
01:05:42You sat watching TV and you'd be like, oh yeah, she's like this
01:05:45or you see kids playing out and like, oh yeah, April, she'll be that age.
01:05:49She's always on your mind. She's just there.
01:05:55For us, I suppose there's unfinished business, isn't there?
01:06:00There was no body, despite searching.
01:06:04We had not located her.
01:06:07We didn't, as interviewers.
01:06:10We haven't got him to say where she was.
01:06:14I have been told that a lot feel guilty
01:06:17because they've never found April.
01:06:20They've got nothing to feel guilty about.
01:06:23We've got him behind bars and I'm thankful for what they've done.
01:06:26We haven't got April. That is sad.
01:06:29I don't remember the sad days.
01:06:32I just want to remember the happy-go-lucky little April she was.
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