21, 2016, Jill Walker went into her daughter’s room but she couldn’t wake her up. Emma texted with her friend Keegan Lyle about a homework assignment, then went to bed a little after midnight.Ī little after 6:00 a.m. “ Sunday, we followed her to work, followed her back home… to watch and make sure she was safe.”īy Sunday night, things seemed back to normal at the Walker household. “I was worried and we were watching her,” Jill Walker said. And going way overboard to do that," she added. "He's trying to get her attention to talk to him. She said, no it wasn't him Mom, it wasn't him," Jill told "20/20." "I said to Emma, don't you find it odd that Riley was involved, or appeared at both events. Her daughter was visibly shaken, and thought it could have been a burglar or maybe even a stalker. I'm making sure Emma is OK,’ and he's trying to talk to me, and I just said, ‘You know you're not allowed, you need to leave.’ And he did leave.” “So I just get out and ask him to leave politely, and he says ‘no, I'm here to help. He knows he's not allowed here,’” Jill Walker said. When Walker failed to meet up with her mother that morning as planned, Jill Walker returned to home and found her daughter and Gaul in the front yard. “I’m coming… I’m speeding just give me a minute,” Gaul texted her back. She also texted Gaul, saying, “I hate you but I need you right now." “I’m home alone and somebody in all black walked down my street and came to my door and rang the doorbell over and over again,” Walker texted, adding “I thought I was going to die.” But then she texted her friends, saying a stranger was at her doorstep. No cops,'" said Walton.Īdditionally, none of Walker's friends contacted the authorities about the alleged kidnapping that night. He said Gaul told him not to call 911 to report the alleged incident. "He sounded like he'd been crying or he was sounding fatigued, I guess," Walton told "20/20." "He basically told me that these people knocked him out, took his car and threw him in a van and he didn't know where he was." He called his friend Noah Walton and told him he had been kidnapped that night, but Walton didn’t believe a word of it. Seemingly dejected, Gaul walked off down the street, alone. Walker was immediately uneasy, Greene said, and she didn't really know what to think. Someone dropped me off here' I don't know what's happening' Where am I? How'd I get here?' Holding his head like he got hit upside the head kind of. "Emma's like, 'Why are you here?' He's like, 'I don't know what happened' I don't know how I got here. "We finally get to him and he's pulling up his head, kind of, has this confused face on," Greene said. Under the glow from the streetlight, he said, they could see that it was Gaul. He and Walker went outside and sure enough, he said, they found "a body lying face down" in a ditch near the house. Greene said Walker started begging him for help, until he said, "Eventually she comes out and says, 'Zach, listen. "If you'd like to hear his crying and screams give him a call," said one message. The text messages, however, became more menacing, Greene said. Greene said that Walker thought it was one of Gaul's friends playing a prank on her, but that she texted back, threatening to call the police. Then, "Go alone," said another, and another said, "I've got someone you love. "Go to your car with your keys," said one text message. “She's like, ‘Zach, I'm getting these really weird text messages Come outside alone if you don't want to see a loved one get hurt,’” Greene said. She told him she had been receiving strange text messages from a number she didn’t recognize. that night, her friend and classmate Zach Greene arrived at the house where they were hanging out and Walker pulled him aside. 18, 2016, Walker was allowed to attend a gathering at a friend’s house. "Just things that he would just say a lot as a cry for help, I guess, in a way." I want to hurt myself.' Blah, blah, blah, blah,” said Gaul's friend Alex McCarty. (and) saying things like, 'Oh, I just feel so depressed. While in his college dorm room, he swallowed a bunch of Vicodin pills and washed them down with alcohol in an attempt to commit suicide. But Gaul didn't seem to take the breakup well.
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