I’m Livye’s 1st cousin, Darci’s niece…. This has alot of information on it that we didn’t even get told during trial, so thank you for this video & sharing her story! Also, to the ppl in the comments, we wasn’t notified that Livye was killed till 6:45, i live in Louisiana and was the first to know in our family…. Also Livye was not moved from the side of the road till after 12 o’clock that evening!!! It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of Darci, how she is acting, her past or nothing, that was her child… we had no answers and CLEARLY no one wanted to give them to none of us!!! Matthew was treated better than she was!!! These small town police have no training in cases like this! They let a murder walk out of court on trail and not found till a year later which was only a mile from the crime scene!!! Not once was his mother even interviewed. Let’s not forget how they failed to indicted until after 90 days getting a 50k bond for murder!!! His bond got damaging a car and chocking someone was higher than actually killing someone… Let’s not lose our focus on how her mother acted, this was a 19 year old with her whole life ahead of her!! She was a freshman at sfa going to school to become a nurse! She loved helping people and didn’t deserve none of this at all!!
I'm so sorry for your loss. Livye never deserved this, and I hope Darci has the closure she needs after enduring this nightmare. You guys deserved way more justice way sooner than was done.
I’m 19 right now and can’t even imagine how my mom and family would react. I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope you and your family have many happy and healing years ahead.
I’m with Darci all the way! NO WAY I’d be leaving that scene until my child did and until I had some answers! She actually handled it better and more calm when she didn’t have to, that was her baby!
wtf is so hard to get that they dont give you information when they are doing investigation and they dont move the body until they are sure they dont mess any evidence.
LOL! A retired sheriff? We have good law enforcement and bad law enforcement, emotions do not have any place when investigating a crime. "I feel terrible for the mother?" only interferes with the investigation.
Because he is still a suspect, you want to try to coax stuff out of him. Don't go into a career where you need to use manipulative psychology you won't be good at it.
Because he is still a suspect, you want to try to coax stuff out of him. Don't go into a career where you need to use manipulative psychology you won't be good at it.
The ones at the scene and the 2 talking to him at the hospital obviously handle things differently. You can't lump them all in together and paint them all with the same brush strokes, so to speak. I also understand needing to keep even her mama away from the scene and little info told to her as possible. I say this being a mother myself, I would be out for blood and probably so distraught and angry that I could possibly let go of investigation details when it's best in the first 48 hours to give as little as possible so the actual suspect doesn't have time to collect themselves. Usually important details are hidden so that only the suspect would know details and that's how they get them. God knows I wish they would have been a little more sympathetic in how they told her mama that she was deceased 😢
But why didn’t they explain to her that, if she went to her daughter she could damage evidence that’s on the body, that might solve how she died, doesn’t she want to catch the murder.
@@sandrawestley4193They didn't explain anything to her at all. She was distraught and in shock. Any parent would try to see their child if they were dead. It's awful, I really hope she is doing as well as she can right now. My heart goes out to her and everyone who loved Livye
A simply hug. A kind gesture. Pull mom aside and say as gracefully as you can your daughter has past away. We don’t know the details yet. We have to get everyone away from the car so we can process it. To try and get her daughter the justice she deserves. Then ask her if she’s able to write a complete list of her daughter’s friends and their numbers. Offer her compassion and tell her you’ll update when you can. The way mom was treated was disgusting, disrespectful and rude. Love to her friends and family.
There was no talking with her- distressed or not she was messing up the scene- why must cops be ambassadors to people out of control? It’s an unfortunate situation but they were trying to find answers but mom’s escapades were stopping them from doing anything except deal with her.
Suspect there is some history there between the mother and the local police. Not an excuse, for sure. She lost her daughter. Basic human compassion. Too jaded and time for some on that department to retire?
As former EMS dealing with people who are rightfully upset/terrified/grieving: get one person to pull her to the side and build some rapport, move her out of the way of the crime scene, tell her honestly what's going on and be her friend. THEN give her a marginally useful but time-consuming task to 'help us out'. (make a list of all her friend's full names and phone numbers, write a full medical history, etc) It gives her a sense that she is doing something for her daughter, keeps her from disrupting the scene, and lets her have time to process very shocking news. You'll be down one person for a few minutes, but she'll remember that you were kind to her, trust me.
As a retired cop, you are correct. I didn’t hear the officers say, I am so sorry. No one tried to comfort her, they occasionally responded to her screaming. They just stood there like southern cold men. I put my arm around people, hugged people in their most tragic moments, offered support. Not every one of those cops was working the crime scene. Also, giving her a task helps. They were cold hearted.
I agree these cops were like robots not an ounce of compassion for the mother! Your police officers need some training in having a better human connection with people while grieving
They still use a polygraph test......lie detectors like the polygraph have been repeatedly disproven 157 times in peer reviewed academic science Journals world wide since the 1950s. That shows you all that you need to know about this police department
The sad thing is, when they know someone is a murderer they have to be very careful because anything could cause the case to be thrown out or charges dropped due to certain actions police may take. It's no excuse to treat family wrong but sometimes timing is important when telling someone their child is dead
"She's not alive." Like...have some tact, dude. I've been a LEO since 2013, pulled bodies out of rivers and I've NEVER seen someone be so callous telling a someone their loved one was deceased. Just that alone makes me worried about the rest of how they're gonna handle everything.
@@nsines95um they're police officers and none looked like rookies. You mean to tell me not a single one could de-escalate and at the very least tell her the daughters passed? And yet they guy in the hospital was told her name and possible cause of death. Cmon they failed the mother.
As someone who worked at the hospital for 5 years and always comforted the deceased loved ones, the police treated her horribly. I’m telling you now, if they showed an ounce of compassion, understanding and some professionalism. The situation with the poor mother would’ve de-escalated.
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with that. I can tell by the way the mother acts that she's always loud and obnoxious like that. That's not a mother dealing with the death of her child, that's someone who is clearly confrontational. I have people in my family just like her, right down to the accent.
@@Gerps regardless of how irrational the mother is acting. The cops/law enforcement’s didn’t do a good job with handling her. Any first responders,medical personnel it takes a lot of patience dealing with erratic people. But ignore her, not showing her compassion or any of that was unprofessional.
@@RaZhanBreonna She's interfering with an active crime scene, nothing she did helped the situation. She's demanding answers and claiming the cops are trying to protect the killer when they likely don't have a clue what happened yet.
I watch a lot of true crime and have since developed a thick skin but seeing the mother’s pain and the way they treated her brought me to tears. Absolutely heartbreaking
This was a fresh crime scene and Cops don't have to give speculations. For all they know SHE could have been in on it (she wasn't, but they don't know the facts at this point.) There's NO excuse for Darci's behavior.
Watched TV and got hardened to death boy your stupid beyond belief how ya gonna feel when someone tells you your sister or brother is dead hardened by a TV show no doubt ignorance definitely is bliss you prove it
When the told Darci she was “not alive” and she went “okay why wouldn’t you just” and broke down crying I felt so bad for her. That was her baby laying on the side of the road in a car and no one was telling her nothing of course she’s upset. Fly high Livye. ❤
The audacity to interrupt her and dump that instead if even attempting to calm her down and prime her for the horrific news, she didn’t even process what he said at first because of the nonchalance. That hurt my heart
Maybe when a death is being reported....a professional counselor should be at the scene to handle those emotions....so police can process the scene of the crime...imo
They should have told her mother IMMEDIATELY and then explained to her that they need to process the scene and have her later come identify. This seemed SO cold-hearted and if that was my daughter, I would have been raging until I got an answer to the one question she asked- Where’s my baby?!😢
Darci had EVERY RIGHT to be flabbergasted and angry and completely devastated. Her response is justified and understandable. I am so so sorry for her loss. 💜
my heart absolutely SHATTERED listening to Darci screaming “where’s my daughter”. How could any person be so cold to not comfort her in such a difficult time. My heart breaks for this family. RIP Livye, beautiful girl👼🏼
I’m just a little confused about the polygraph test they gave Montana. At one point she’s taking the test and she has on a t shirt and then it shows her wearing a sweater. I’m gonna assume that she failed also because the monitor couldn’t pick up through that thick fabric and because like the narrator said, he places everything in the wrong areas of her body that can’t transmit the data correctly. It just seemed odd to me.
Bullshit, in that small town everyone knew who was who. In their defense,i wouldn't want to be the one giving her that news either, and with Darci's boyfriend being there,who could become a suspect down the road therte was a need to keep some things on the DL.@@jsmall10671
Pretty wild how so many murderers were under the influence of alcohol when they committed their crimes, but this fact is just continually accepted and never questioned that maybe alcohol is a contributor to more destruction of life than any other substance. Murders, DUI's, unintentional homicides, relationship problems, domestic violence, the list goes on.
Should have seen the prohibition and how many more people were killed by organized crime (bootlegging). Because once you make something illegal like that it fuels the operation to go underground into organized crime because the value goes up dramatically. People on meth and other things do these kind of things even more…
I'm so disgusted by the way they treated Livye's mother at the scene. The situation was not only professionally mismanaged, the personal lack of compassion was astounding.
@lohi172 it is part of law enforcement's role that should be managed with compassion and an expectation as to how the family might respond. Police chose to delay informing the family, knowing full well they're in a small town where word of mouth spreads quickly. To stay silent in the face of this mother's pleas was abominable behaviour. To say the scene was poorly managed is an understatement.
@@lohi172they weren‘t doing their job. Their job is to notify the mother asap & send people in person there (you know like the relatives are notified in person when a cop dies on duty). They could have explained everything to her in her home. She had every reason to believe that they try to cover something up & that police is the villain here. She did the right thing & in her situation I would have already attacked the cops after smirking.
my brother was killed by a drunk driver a few years ago, and i cannot explain how heartless and cruel it is to leave a mother clueless about whether or not her child is alive. breaks my heart.
I'm so sorry for your loss. My mother was killed in an accident several years ago and we weren't notified weather she was dead or alive until we got there. The two hour drive felt like an agonizing eternity. The first part of this video was so hard to watch...
It's wild listening to it. Surely a law firm is going to contact this woman about filing a lawsuit to the police about how many house rules the police have broke and the lack of respect given to the grieving mother
Yup, I remember when my dad got back from crisis invertevtion training, he said that there are 3 things you don't say to people. "Calm down", "I understand", and "I'm from the goverment and here to help".
@@Tarenreaves3she was screaming bc they were just staring at her like she was crazy. It took nothing for them to tell her but yet they were so selfish bc their feelings were hurt, bc she was (rightfully) yelling. And I 100% believed that the officer might’ve chuckled, they legitimately thought she was the problem. Those officers are disgusting. They couldn’t even console her. They should’ve had a woman officer, who could relate to her and be sympathetic. I wouldn’t be surprised if they would act like that with their own children.
These videos always make me nervous when people analyze people to prove they're lying and are guilty for acting exactly how I act when any traumatic situation happens, lmao. Mixing up words, stuttering, being despondent and unattached to the situation emotionally, I'd be thrown in jail at that rate.
Same lol if you're the kind of person that metabolize tragic news alone later in time while being calm and put together on the moment you're screwed with these people. They analyze every movement you do as if there's a manual to "how to grieve like a good person would", some people just freeze and calm down without showing much of a response to the bad news (especially if you're not neurotypical) but they make it sounds as if that would be the weirdest reaction ever
Is it weird to assume that Cindy (Matthew's mother) was the one that took Montana's car to help cover up her son's murder? It was a woman, and clearly it wasn't Montana. The only other woman if could be who would have access to the keys at the house was the mother who was insistent on helping her son at all costs throughout the entire case.
I was thinking the same thing right from the moment they mentioned there was a woman on scene who waved the witness past. It makes complete sense that it was Cindi, and the investigation was absolutely terrible - they didn't seem to suspect her. She is the obvious woman who had access to Montana's car, and clearly Montana was not at the scene. There's simply no other woman who fits. Montana's nervousness was because she knew Cindi was there, not because Montana was there.
@@janebrown7231 yes! this was also my assumption. The police work, as we see in many cases sadly, was subpar. if they had actually focused on asking the right people questions instead of focusing all their energy on Montana, they prolly would have uncovered more pertinent information. Instead, they just made the victim's family feel like shit every chance they got.
@TheArtfulEnigma It really was sub-par, wasn't it? Very low standard, and patchy too. The officer in the hospital gave away sooooo much information to a suspected perp who was (probably, even then) feigning memory loss. The officers took individual approaches, there was clearly no investigation plan. They all looked like novices. They didn't seem to have training in any of the basics, such as handling the family of a victim - shocking! I've never seen so many officers out of their depth. They had every reason to think Cindi was shielding her son right from the beginning, and yet they didn't follow that thought through. They didn't monitor her texts to Darci, which were so telling. It was weeks before they started interviewing people properly, even though there was a lot of helpful knowledge available. There was background on the suspect's violent past that they didn't find out for ages. And the car being swapped on scene - there was only one person who could have done that, but they didn't seem to think it was important. It was pretty much proof in itself! The department should have handed it up the line to somebody competent to control an investigation, but they were too incompetent to know they were incompetent. I suppose there will never be an answer on why the killer curled up next to the car and went to sleep. I suppose having finished his adrenaline rush, the whiskey took over?
As a person who lost their son. I’m not going to lie I teared up. I know the feeling of finding out that your child is no longer here. My son was 8 years old. He was murdered 3 years ago. that empty helpless feeling never goes away. As a parent, not being able to protect your child and think about how scared he were will haunt you every day for the rest of your life. My baby boy would’ve been 11 years old.😔 R.I.P Kayden Phillips👼🏼 R.I.P to this young lady
My son is 10, I can’t imagine this happening… I don’t know how I’d go on. You’re one brave mama bear. You’ll both be in my prayers. Question: does he visit you? My mother-in-law died 3 years ago and I swear she visits my daughter (she’s 12) quite frequently. She was the only granddaughter and they had a close bond… it’s been a hard year for us as a family and that’s when she started visiting her a lot… ❤
This was a horrible tragedy for that young girl because it's very obvious he had problems abusing women and his family were just as guilty for covering for him instead of trying to get help for him ,so sad
Darci played Livye's graduation speech as her victim impact statement at his sentencing. I can only imagine how powerful that was. I hope Darci sees all the support and feels all the prayers. 🙏🏾💙
@@brianmcnellis5512 Really?! How selfish and cruel to say such a thing in this situation. Stop thinking with your little head that’s run by satan to keep you dumb down running after lust & never caring about others or living a life that helps others and gives glory to Creator. Makes a positive difference in life, relieves the pain or suffering of another life…. Everyone has been hypnotized by devices that have defiled our minds thinking, subtly lured society into darker ungodly perverted lifestyle, all about me me me pleasure now more money good is bad …bad is good. Look around!! We must each do all we can to fix our bad!!! Judgement is coming and America is in Trouble!!!
The way she reacted when she heard them say she was no longer here. 😔 i had to tell my boyfriend his brother was dead. I couldn’t even make it into the room when I dropped to my knees I had to wake him up with the worst news. The look on his face, the scream the begging. I’ll never forget it. Those cops showed 0 mercy for this women whose life was shattered.
She demanded that a murder investigation be concluded while standing in the middle of the crime scene during the middle of the initial investigation. What mercy did she deserve? The cops didn’t send their 19 year old to hang out with some older, divorced alcoholics. Darci did.
They should have removed her. She was interfering with an active investigation. I understand being kind and being sympathetic, but she was not helping them learn answers to what she wanted to know. They were trying to keep the situation calm. I never heard a laugh, but since I was not there and did not see what happened outside viewof the camera, that would be disrespectful.
@@brandym3cbut those guys were just tending the cordon - they were not paying an active role in any investigations. The way they treated her was horrendous - she rightly should’ve been removed with compassion and sympathy - and they let small bits of info go - so why not tell her those small bits at the beginning instead of treating her as an annoyance
While I have sympathy about Darcy losing her daughter... I wish the cops would have explained that they need to process the scene without interference so they can get the best justice they can for her daughter. I feel sometimes people don't understand or even think about that when lost in grief and the shock like this... There's nothing more they can do for her daughter at this point more than to process the scene in the best way they can so they can convict whoever did this crime.
They definitely could have handled this better. Yes, she was screaming but so would they if this were THEIR child. The man with her, I guess a husband or friend, could be doing a lot more to help her in her pain.
I get your point but the weight of losing a child is fucking brutal, especially when hearing about it from word of mouth. She just wanted answers that sadly no one could give her
When my dad passed away, they said I howled like a wolf. Family, friends, police, or EMS couldn’t console me. I awaken in the hospital and was told they stuck me with needles, psychiatry visited me and nothing got me to Stop! I was sedated. Told I was in shock! So don’t tell that mom how she should behave, SHE Lost HER CHILD!!!😢 💐
The fact that they told the suspect "flat out what's going on" but like didn't wanna tell the mother is kinda ridiculous. She had to pry info from them.
tbf i also hated that but i think it was just the cop himself that was weirdly giving out too much information and being overly kind, he probably would’ve done the same if at the actual crime scene with the mother. at least i believe
The cops just got there and had no information and she was stopping them from investigating to figure it out while acting volatile. For all they knew, she did it and was acting irate to appear innocent. Which is what guilty people do to throw cops off. Reminds me of several cases of parents who have killed their children doing this to cover their guilt in the child's "disappearance". I felt like her behavior was insincere and she needs anger management.
@stormy7318 Dude was at the hospital with the info at the same time the mother arrived at the scene so I would assume they had the same info to give her. I don't think she hindered to much of the investigation and she didn't seem like a person who needed anger management. More like a distraught mother to me. For the most part she was pretty chill. Imo
Thats drugs... Shes detached from reality and for a split moment she was brought back to that reality, but if you watch, she instantly went back to a drug induced/erratic state since it brought comfort which is why drugs are an issue in the 1st place. Like many drug addicts, they only care about their "baby" or loved one when its too late and they take an even higher amount of drugs afterward. I sympathize with her too but theres empathy and then theres exucusal. If you excuse her behavior, you only create more situations like this
Regardless of drugs or not, she is her mother and a parent’s feelings in a situation like this is unimaginable. That’s her child and she lost her, she can be in any state she wants in this moment. As a parent I could never comprehend this kind of lost. I’ve been on the scene of finding a love one murdered and there is no right state of being to be in when the moment involves you.
@@1utube01 yea ok. They have literally zero information yet because they haven't even been able to START, and the mom shows up and starts screaming at everybody. Not that she's not allowed to be upset of course, but she's more focused on being confrontational and demanding than grieving for her daughter. I would love to see you try and control a scene like that.
Holy shit and the investigator is being forward and straight with the murderer, and they couldn’t even tell a single truth to the mother. Im sickened by the way they handled this case. Holy cow
18:42 “I’m sorry for your loss” The fact that the officer extends this comfort to the murderer, and they can’t even spare a crumb of respect or decency for the mother who is grieving and in shock is so sad and disappointing. Do better. All law enforcement deals with people, therefore they should have proper training in how to deal with people in different circumstances. She was only 19. This is just heartbreaking.
I can even understand if they’re acting sympathetic to try to get him to talk, but it still doesn’t excuse being absolute POS to the grieving mother. She is inconsolable but all they see is “hysterical woman challenging my authority, better be an authoritarian shit to her and demand that she calm down and go away so the real men can do their jobs.”
@@didi012578 respectfully, but it doesn't matter. What matters is: they didn't give the mother a single piece of dignity, as they treated the criminal with all "due respect"? Come on, they should be better than that!
As a Texan who worked for a police department as a clerk, it pans out how they behaved. I was lost once, pulled over, I was crying and clearly distressed, a Plano, TX cop wrote 3 tickets that day. He searched for everything wrong with my car, even my tint on my windows. As a final gift, he gave me directions. They have zero sympathy. Those good ole' boys. They all just wanted the power, no empathy, no sympathy. Most places have a liason, an officer that can speak to people. She only wanted to be heard, she needed to know someone felt her pain. Those cops didn't, but we all did. I cried for her anxiety and anguish. I felt that watching this. I'm not shocked, but I am disappointed in humanity in their response to her pleas.
Honestly, kudos to that mother for being able to hold it together enough to ask all the questions and start fighting for justice for her daughter the instant she found out her daughter had passed, I don't know that I'd even be in an intelligible state in a situation like this, that's a mama bear that's sure. I hope she finds peace.
My thoughts exactly. They supposedly couldn't give the mother a single word of information about her child and yet they told that kid who murdered Darcy's child what they assumed happened to Livye...absolutely unprofessional and disappointing to see police officers and investigators acting that way.
@@senyuri7496Yeah because the mom showed up before they even finished investigating the crime scene. They didn't know how she died yet, by the time they went to the suspect in the hospital they had collected more evidence and had more information
The way that they notified that poor mother that he daughter was dead…. That was the most heart-wrenching thing I’ve ever seen in my life. That poor woman.
The fact she found out going to the scene and fighting for every scrap of information inc that her daughter had past. they didn't go to her before the news reached her by gossip.
I wanted to give Darci a hug and comfort her while she was at the crime scene. All they had to do was let her know her daughter was dead and how sorry they were. Tell her they need to get to work to gather evidence at the scene and ask if she would stand back. They could have had someone stay with her, get her to write a list of friends and enemiea names and numbers. It was handed so poorly
It’s an interesting dynamic to see the tension/yelling at the crime scene while everyone still tries to maintain six feet of social distance because it’s in the middle of the pandemic.
Notice how all his friends knew about his violent nature and were still friends with him. This is why people say you are the 5 closest people to you. Watching and doing nothing is just as bad as doing it yourself. People gotta stop excusing their friends disturbing and dangerous behaviors in the name of "loyalty".
Exactly why there is no such thing as a good cop or "not all men". When you witness, know of, excuse, and ignore abusive, violent, criminal behavior, you are just as culpable.
It's tough. Obviously, as an adult now, I would do the right thing. Thinking back at my teenage years, I'm not so sure. All my high school friends were from middle school and I actually lived with my one friend for part of my senior year in high school. My guess it would be more of a passive intervention.
I feel so bad for Darci. I understand that the investigators wanted to wait until their job was done to tell her everything, but clearly after she found out the news that tactic was useless? Keeping her in the dark and just letting her scream at them to no response made the situation worse than just informing her straight up. No one tried to comfort her or anything. You can't ignore a grieving mother desperate for information and expect her to be quiet. All they had to do was immediately say, "yes your daughter is deceased. We are sorry for your loss, but in order to find out more we need to finish our investigation of the crime scene. Please let us do this and we will inform you of what we know after." That would've prevented so much time from being wasted. I know they can't inform her of everything, but she deserved the bare minimum. I don't know why they took so long to say that.
Yes! That was infuriating! Yes she's acting crazy, but she also just found out her daughter is dead and no one is giving ANY info at all, or firm reassurance that they're investigating and she will be first to know as soon as they knew anything.
Thankfully he was given 99 years . He had escaped justice when a judge granted him bond in 2021 but was captured December 29th 2022 near his mother’s home . Justice will be served for Livye Lewis. Rest in paradise sweet girl . Sending healing energy, light and love to her mom and family.
About that bond...on $50K he would have had to pay 10% or $5k cash minimum. Who paid his bond? I doubt he had the money. It had to have been his mom, his grandparents or a friend. If no one had the cash but could sign their homes as collateral, wouldn't they have lost their homes when he went on the run?
More people need to be speaking about the fact that THIS many people knew about Matthew’s aggressive/assaulting behavior toward women and did absolutely NOTHING about it. I am sickened. This murder could have been prevented and Livye would have still been alive today if literally ANYBODY had spoken up and reported him to police long before this transpired. He needed to be behind bars during the marriage to his first wife.
You saw how the cops treated the mother. What makes you think these small town cops would’ve done anything but go out and scold him with no other repercussions.
@@hunter.5625ohhhhh you do not want to say that. That is a can of worms you don't understand so your comment is so unbelievably ignorant it doesn't even register.
@@hunter.5625 This is an ignorant statement. My 15yo daughter was sexually assaulted by a boy at school, standing directly under a video camera. She did manage to kick him in the groin and get away. She went to class and an hour later she was back at that spot when he approached her again and without warning punched her in the throat. Also caught on video. She had never even dated this boy and he had also been assaulting no less than 4 of her friends for months. I filed a police report, the school is denying any of the other girls reported abuse even though my daughter was with them when they did it, and we just received a letter saying the county attorney has decided not to pursue charges for either the sexual assault not the punch to the throat. We did thankfully get a restraining order, but it cost us $3,000 because his mom filed a frivolous restraining order against my daughter for protecting herself. She went through 9 months of drama and she had to repeat what happened to her over and over, watch the video of it happening to her, and as a result has started cutting and gained an eating disorder. All for this kid to get off basically Scot free. My only condolence is that if someone looks him up, the explanation of what he did will be found in the application for the restraining order and maybe, maybe it will help the next girl-because there will be others. He lied and tried to justify his behavior the best he could considering it was close up and both incidents were recorded. I am glad there will be a record, but my daughter was very upset that she had to go to court and talk about the incidents. She would not have filed had it been her choice, so don’t ever wonder why women don’t report it. Be glad you have no concept of how it feels to have to go through this process. Focus on why men abuse and murder these women and can’t accept when someone breaks up with them because of it.
@@davidturner1641both you and the poster underneath you should stop being idiots. As someone who studied psychology at the university level. You're both full of shit posturing on the internet. Says loads about the both of you...
I’m not sure how Montana can sit there and say that she didn’t think he actually would hurt Livye right after she said he tried to kill her repeatedly the same night. She helped cover for him and she knows it.
Exactly. All for a man that doesn't care about any of them obviously. She's even pretending she liked Livy... NO. SHE. DIDN'T . The only thing she's about to accomplish is orphaning her kids.
Montana was talking in past tense. She never thought he would do something like this. It’s not hard to understand that context at all. The whole “I will kill you” thing had only just happened and obviously she thinks he could now.
Those officers must not deal with homicides often because they had 0 clue how to handle that. The investigator was 80 years old. The way they actually couldn’t think of what to say to the mom was shocking.
Man Biden really is living in there rent free, huh buddy? Room for one more? The president before that fu cked our economy so bad I can’t afford my own apartment @@pattonpending7390
Yeah it was obvious those were small town cops who either never handled a murder case or knew the people involved which stopped them from acting appropriately
Their the most incompetent,disrespectful police force I've ever heard of...plus they didn't teach the desk cop how to give a polygraph test properly. That's Way dangerous and the horrible way they treated that Mom that just lost her baby girl. She asked if she was dead or alive and they just stared at her like they were touched mentally! These guys need to be let go
Her response to him saying “dead” is mind blowing. She knows he is abusive and shouldn’t have taken his words lightly. She was trying to protect him smh. Rest in peace baby 👼
They should have told her IMMEDIATELY that her daughter was unfortunately deceased and that they were still processing the scene and the investigation was ongoing. That’s it, that simple, they KNEW it was her, they had already made a positive ID, all she wanted was answers. Making her go through that was cruel.
I’ve seen just about all of EWUs videos and the video of Darci learning that fate of her daughter is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever watched. My condolences and RIP Libby.
I feel like screaming at how they treated Livye's mother. Of course she's upset, she has no idea what happened to her baby and no one would tell her anything. I would be screaming my head off, too. My heart is shattered for Darci, Livye, and their entire family.
It's understandable that the cops want to preserve the crime scene and collect as much evidence as possible. However, some of those people especially the coroner I think it was didn't need to talk to her in the manner in which they did. It almost came off as... Listen woman!
@@purvue you have no clue the amount of desperation that goes into protecting a child. They wouldn't even tell her if she was dead or not. They refused to give her that respect, and of course she was frantic.
At 1:07:10 Mathew’s mothers starts crying and says are you really going to take him from me. Doesn’t she realize that a woman already lost her daughter and she’ll never be able to see her again. Even if her son does go to jail she’ll be able to visit him in prison. The other woman would never ever ever be able to see her daughter again. Then she said that JP is a liar( referring to the victims mother)like have some sympathy/empathy. This Mathew’s mother is an enabler and a horrible person.
I partially agree with you. BUT, she is a mother also that is facing losing her child, just in a different way. Whether he gets a life sentence w/o parole, or receives a death sentence, it's unlikely that she will see her son again. Normally, a death sentence in Texas is a short time to live!
@@mandy244Matthews mother knew her son was abusive and aggressive and could have should have gotten him help. Livieys mother didn't have an opportunity to even ask are you really gonna take my daughter from me? She is showing selfishness and self-centeredness. She even tried to tarnish livieys mothers character.
@@mandy244PLEASE don't excuse it! 🥺 I survived 17 YEARS of captive domestic violence in extreme isolation. His Mom knew EVERYTHING. She spoiled & enabled her two boys until they did NOTHING for themselves. She's in her 80s and STILL handing over her SS payments. I was beyond generous despite my circumstances and stood as strong as I possibly could under the circumstances, being suppressed in EVERY WAY beneath the patriarchal rule of apostolic christianity. I sacrificed and sacrificed, she SAW IT! And yet, in the end when the damage became TOO GREAT for me to even pretend it was alright, (he put his hands on my child) and I made my 5th escape attempt (most DV victims arent successful until the 7th)she did everything in her power to sabotage me and degrade my good name around town.
The entire time I watched the poor mother panic and be in shock over her child had me so upset. If only they dedicated an officer to just talk to the mother, comfort her, and explain the process of why they have to do certain things. That would of probably helped de-escalate the situation and reassure the mother they want the best for the case
@@razztazz1982 I know this from first hand so I 100% agree. No matter how bad I would behave she was always justifying it somehow even if she said it's bad but it was "never my fault" ofcourse... I hate this so much cuz now I am f up in my head too and it's really hard to get rid of it. Hate my mom so much... She always thinks that if she's "helping others always" she is a good parent but she definitely never was and never helped me... Always helped others but left me in shi*ty environment because of it. I hope I can live my life peacefully sometimes without dealing with this it's so hard :'(.
@@dddddd211 I'm really sorry you didnt have the greatest childhood, or the best guidance growing up. In my opinion it's a parent's responsibility to teach their children at a young age to have self respect, respect for others, be held accountable & also receive positive reinforcements, all while raising them to be well adjusted adults in a healthy environment. Unfortunately parents aren't perfect, but some are just downright abusive on many levels. And sadly they do not see how their words & actions can have lifelong negative effects on their children, nor do they accept responsibility in their contributing parts to any of it. I was raised overly strict and was taught some valuable life lessons along the way, but it wasn't peaches & cream either with belt beatings for punishments in the mix. Although I will say, your experience was probably horrible compared to mine. I really hope you can find some healing & inner peace from all of the horrible things you've been through in the past. It's not an easy thing to work through & get to a better place immediately, but I have faith you'll get there. The first step in my humble opinion is to work on letting go of the past & know deep down that you can do this. You really need to believe in yourself & acknowledge that you are worthy of happiness now, and you will be the person who makes that happen moving forward. Don't allow others to bring you down & let the toxic people & memories be dust beneath your shoes. Be strong, you got this!
This is horrific! My heart goes out to this woman. Ya'll handled this terribly! That woman's world is destroyed and ya'll are acting like a bunch of good ole boys. Disgusting!
I can’t believe how cold the officers were towards that poor woman. I absolutely understand that they had to conduct an investigation and gain information before sharing anything but there was no compassion shown from them they all looked and sounded like they didn’t know how to handle the situation.
@justjenreacts you’re absolutely correct, she acted better than some mothers would. When they finally told her that her daughter wasn’t alive and she fell backwards it punched me in my gut, nobody should have to feel that.
they were all cruelly gaslighting her. looking at someone silently who screams questions in pain will only make them scream louder and become more distressed.. i’m so sorry for her
Well, not accordingly but understandably. You can give a grieving mother some leeway on misconduct in a crime scene of their dead kids because its understandable she's going to be upset.
@makingadjustments laughing would be gas lighting which I totally would not put past these officers with the way this video went...they could have de-escalated the situation by one officer answering a few questions...instead they chose not to and even lied about some things to get out of answering her questions....so yea gas lighting
Matthew's mother is likely a very big reason he is the way he is! She coddles him, believes his BS, and did nothing when he attacked his girlfriends. Until his trial, he has probably never been held accountable for any of his bad behaviors. May Livye rest in peace. 🙏🕊️
SHAME ON THE POLICE. The poor Mom, Darci was treated badly. As a Mom myself, I consider Darci’s behavior quite composed. Darci, I am sorry for the way those dimwitted cops treated you.
The police were cold towards her mother. There was zero communication and she had to get angry and loud before anyone took her seriously enough to tell her anything. It's not hard to explain protocol with empathy. Instead they brick walled her and watched her emotions escalate into anger. Poor woman. I can't even begin to imagine her pain.
@ImaRandomFemale No its not helpful when she is screaming wanting to know where her child is and Noone tells her. They were totally unkind, showed no compassion.
i do have to say, i thought she was acting very suspiciously. it was grief, but it came off weird, at first. and sadly, parents sometimes kill their kids. but i do agree they waited too long and i TOTALLY believe her when she thought that officer was smiling. some ppl are cold af.
This dude might have done the worst I've ever seen with an alibi. It's almost comedic how bad he did NOT leaving the worst trail back to himself. He legit just goes "I didn't remember anything and I had a lovely time and it was a very fun party and I got real drunk." Everyone else: "Yeah basically he started screaming he was gonna kill everyone and rain an unholy firestorm upon our family bloodline. Then he started speaking in tongues and listing off the serial numbers of every gun he owned and wrote 'I am the killer' on his underwear. I'm pretty sure he was up to no good."
She’s getting the mileage out of that trump shirt too. Cracked up when they said they brought her back for another interview 7 months later and she’s wearing the same shirt
Her mother was so devastated, confused, and shocked. The fact these officers refused to tell her until it accidentally slipped is so gross. I hope she got the closure she needed. This is heartbreaking 💔
The way that one officer just stood there in his dumb hat looking at her like she's crazy, with his mouth open, saying nothing as if he shouldn't know how to deal with family members of crimes is infuriating.
Idk if you realize this, but they can’t tell anyone anything in case they are the perpetrator or helping the perp. Plus they’re literally figuring out what’s happening they aren’t gonna know everything as soon as they get there.
How did they not show any care for the mom? How did they just stand around in silence watching her panic while they knew what had happened to her daughter?? How did they not tell her IMMEDIATELY??? The casual way that officer says "She's not alive" after witholding... And when the mom hears that and just falls backward broke my heart. The cold indifference of the officers is beyond me.
@@singleken77they treated her HORRIBLY!! What if it was their child??? How they treated this poor mother was simply disgraceful!!! They should be fired!!!
The way they ignored her then broke the news like that. Sickening. My heart broke for her. Nobody in law enforcement, the medical field, or in any other line of work dealing with death should treat the family that way.
This gave me flashbacks to losing my brother when I was a little kid. My mom was the same way to the small town LEOs, missing for 5 months. And they blame it on an accidental drowning when he had ligature marks.
Is it normal for police to respond to grieving parents like this? It must be very hard to tell parents such horrific news, but these officers seem to do SUCH a terrible job at it. They are cold and don't give her any information, clearly leaving her feeling completely lost.
Look there is a time and place for things, and the cops have their jobs to do. Their job is to investigate and seek proper justice, counseling is not their top priority. They need to first and foremost set things straight before they deal with it, and that's what they were doing. They've also probably experienced many things already, and that might contribute to their indifference - desensitization. That parent has the right to grieve, but just not there, when she's making things difficult for everyone when she doesnt have to. They still need to find out how she died, after all, and she'd probably not like it if they couldn't find out and catch who did it. With her making an emotional mess of things, they cant focus, and that runs the risk of missing certain aspects of the scene even after the situation.
@kosherre6243 suck that boot harder. Do you not understand empathy and compassion at all. Blindly defending them on every comment is as useless as those cops were. Ol boy that weighed 400lbs immediately saying leave or go to jail is the very definition of tyrant.
@@kosherre6243 If anything, since they’ve seen so much they should know exactly how to deal with her. Who’s job do you think it was to de-escalate that situation? The mother who just lost her young daughter, or the 5 officers standing in a circle giving Darci vague answer’s about her daughter? How you could say that there’s a time and a place to react to the news about your daughters death??? You’re about as cold as those useless officers. Also- desensitization means literally nothing in this context. They can still be emotionally unaffected by the situation while also emotionally supporting the victims. I don’t care if she was running up and down the street making the biggest scene in the world; her kid died- there’s no “acceptable” way to react to that news.
@@kosherre6243 is that how they handle things in your area? Im confused bc the police in my area literally have training in order to be able to deal appropriately with situations bc there is so many situations where it comes up.
So you literally just walked me through a murder from day one to end with narration, video & editing. Very well done. In the end, this was Livye's story.. and you told it well. I love this channel ❤️
yea its sad, but i mean I get it... she looks like shes been on drugs her whole life... And everyone will always judge you by your looks. that is just how most people are. I mean if a crack head started yelling at me I would be stand off-ish as well. tbh... I know this look from my personal friends and their aunts and/or mothers. who have done pills or crack or w/e their whole life. So I know first hand what a druggie looks like.
@@1694cgrnt it literally isn't, to get to know a suspects true emotional behavior, they say things like this anyway, to everyone😂. And even still, the women is causing more of a scene, not because she's emotional, but because she wants to know what happened. That's why they didn't say it to her, and had her move to a different location.
Well it was also two different people. The man who said sorry for your loss to the suspect was not the man handling the mother. I’m sure he would have shown more compassion than those who were handling the mother if that’s his character to do so.
@@patrickwalters2605 she is incredibly emotional. Yes, building rapport with suspects is important but they 100% should've said that to the mom. There are hundreds of ways to calm someone down and they used none of them. They antagonized her and treated her poorly as someone who had just lost her daughter. Everyone's reactions to emotions is different. They should've explained the news and asked her to "help" them with medical history, friends and other contacts her daughter had to help her process the news while feeling helpful to get to the bottom of what happened. They handled this horribly.
I’m only a couple minutes into the video right now but all I have to say is wow, the anger I would have if I was the parent and the lack of empathy and respect from the police is insane
the fact the cops sat there for like 20 minutes telling him why hes being arrested , but couldnt give the mom any kind of amswer amd stood in silence while she was crying and asking about her child
@@bobbyhenley2802i think a father, who wasn’t being told anything about what happened to his daughter, and didn’t even know if she was dead or alive, would react the exact same way. if not worse.
I don't disagree with you at all but absolutely no one wants to deal with an aggressive screeching hick. The cops on scene weren't prepared to deal with her and shouldn't have had to, this whole video was frustrating as hell to watch.
It's not like she was giving them much of a choice. It was only a matter of time she would get far enough but the police to see her daughter in the car dead.
It's horrible for a "mother" to stomp around an active murder investigation and accuse the cops of enjoying death. Are you serious? Her actions are not justified. Poor daughter probably got yelled at a lot for no reason.
@@HooLeePhucingSheet If your daughter had been killed and while your begging for information, they are staring at you saying nothing - you'd act like an ass too. They wouldn't let her in the crime scene, she was outside of it. Also, that's really nice of you to blame the victims family for things you know nothing of.
@@sky19801 sorry but that's the middle of the pandemic, she's not wearing a mask, she's walking all over an active investigation, she's harassing the police. And, turns out she was a suspect. I don't know why you would want your child to not get justice.
I’m Livye’s 1st cousin, Darci’s niece…. This has alot of information on it that we didn’t even get told during trial, so thank you for this video & sharing her story!
Also, to the ppl in the comments, we wasn’t notified that Livye was killed till 6:45, i live in Louisiana and was the first to know in our family…. Also Livye was not moved from the side of the road till after 12 o’clock that evening!!!
It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of Darci, how she is acting, her past or nothing, that was her child… we had no answers and CLEARLY no one wanted to give them to none of us!!!
Matthew was treated better than she was!!!
These small town police have no training in cases like this!
They let a murder walk out of court on trail and not found till a year later which was only a mile from the crime scene!!! Not once was his mother even interviewed.
Let’s not forget how they failed to indicted until after 90 days getting a 50k bond for murder!!!
His bond got damaging a car and chocking someone was higher than actually killing someone…
Let’s not lose our focus on how her mother acted, this was a 19 year old with her whole life ahead of her!! She was a freshman at sfa going to school to become a nurse! She loved helping people and didn’t deserve none of this at all!!
I'm so sorry for your loss. Livye never deserved this, and I hope Darci has the closure she needs after enduring this nightmare. You guys deserved way more justice way sooner than was done.
I’m 19 right now and can’t even imagine how my mom and family would react. I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope you and your family have many happy and healing years ahead.
So very sorry for your family's loss....
I’m with Darci all the way! NO WAY I’d be leaving that scene until my child did and until I had some answers! She actually handled it better and more calm when she didn’t have to, that was her baby!
wtf is so hard to get that they dont give you information when they are doing investigation and they dont move the body until they are sure they dont mess any evidence.
As a retired sheriff- The way these small town LEOs handle this homicide scene is unbelievable. I feel terrible for her mother.
I agree. No compassion whatsoever.
It's the U.S and is in the south especially, there's zero chance a single officer there is smart..
Terrible. Bothered me so much. Smh.
@@darianistead2239 But there are less IC-3 people there...
LOL! A retired sheriff? We have good law enforcement and bad law enforcement, emotions do not have any place when investigating a crime. "I feel terrible for the mother?" only interferes with the investigation.
How can the police say “I’m sorry for your loss” to the suspect of murdering someone but not the mother of the victim? what the hell!
Probably knew the family. That’s how small towns are.
Disgusting
Because he is still a suspect, you want to try to coax stuff out of him. Don't go into a career where you need to use manipulative psychology you won't be good at it.
Because he is still a suspect, you want to try to coax stuff out of him. Don't go into a career where you need to use manipulative psychology you won't be good at it.
The ones at the scene and the 2 talking to him at the hospital obviously handle things differently. You can't lump them all in together and paint them all with the same brush strokes, so to speak.
I also understand needing to keep even her mama away from the scene and little info told to her as possible. I say this being a mother myself, I would be out for blood and probably so distraught and angry that I could possibly let go of investigation details when it's best in the first 48 hours to give as little as possible so the actual suspect doesn't have time to collect themselves. Usually important details are hidden so that only the suspect would know details and that's how they get them. God knows I wish they would have been a little more sympathetic in how they told her mama that she was deceased 😢
Watching Darci broke my heart. She's just a mama who's missing her daughter and I cant imagine the amount of pain and turmoil she was going through.
And still going through
My heart goes out to her
But why didn’t they explain to her that, if she went to her daughter she could damage evidence that’s on the body, that might solve how she died, doesn’t she want to catch the murder.
@@sandrawestley4193They didn't explain anything to her at all. She was distraught and in shock. Any parent would try to see their child if they were dead. It's awful, I really hope she is doing as well as she can right now. My heart goes out to her and everyone who loved Livye
A simply hug. A kind gesture. Pull mom aside and say as gracefully as you can your daughter has past away. We don’t know the details yet. We have to get everyone away from the car so we can process it. To try and get her daughter the justice she deserves. Then ask her if she’s able to write a complete list of her daughter’s friends and their numbers. Offer her compassion and tell her you’ll update when you can. The way mom was treated was disgusting, disrespectful and rude. Love to her friends and family.
They don't think about that comfort. Why we need to fund social work better
It’s insanely disgusting how they treated her.
There was no talking with her- distressed or not she was messing up the scene- why must cops be ambassadors to people out of control? It’s an unfortunate situation but they were trying to find answers but mom’s escapades were stopping them from doing anything except deal with her.
Suspect there is some history there between the mother and the local police. Not an excuse, for sure. She lost her daughter. Basic human compassion. Too jaded and time for some on that department to retire?
As former EMS dealing with people who are rightfully upset/terrified/grieving:
get one person to pull her to the side and build some rapport, move her out of the way of the crime scene, tell her honestly what's going on and be her friend.
THEN give her a marginally useful but time-consuming task to 'help us out'. (make a list of all her friend's full names and phone numbers, write a full medical history, etc) It gives her a sense that she is doing something for her daughter, keeps her from disrupting the scene, and lets her have time to process very shocking news. You'll be down one person for a few minutes, but she'll remember that you were kind to her, trust me.
Damn, that’s thoughtful and probably really helps.
Exactly
As a retired cop, you are correct. I didn’t hear the officers say, I am so sorry. No one tried to comfort her, they occasionally responded to her screaming. They just stood there like southern cold men. I put my arm around people, hugged people in their most tragic moments, offered support. Not every one of those cops was working the crime scene.
Also, giving her a task helps. They were cold hearted.
Yeah they handled her poorly; granted she was caustic and confrontational but considering the circumstances that’s understandable.
I agree these cops were like robots not an ounce of compassion for the mother! Your police officers need some training in having a better human connection with people while grieving
The officers being more respectful and patient toward the murder suspect than towards the mother that just lost her child says so much
They still use a polygraph test......lie detectors like the polygraph have been repeatedly disproven 157 times in peer reviewed academic science Journals world wide since the 1950s. That shows you all that you need to know about this police department
Everyone is very respectful in this comment section. Ty .
The sad thing is, when they know someone is a murderer they have to be very careful because anything could cause the case to be thrown out or charges dropped due to certain actions police may take.
It's no excuse to treat family wrong but sometimes timing is important when telling someone their child is dead
@@angh2008they are 😊
@@mimimaddI agree and understand building rapport is so important but to even go as far as to say "I'm sorry for your loss" is crazy
"She's not alive." Like...have some tact, dude. I've been a LEO since 2013, pulled bodies out of rivers and I've NEVER seen someone be so callous telling a someone their loved one was deceased. Just that alone makes me worried about the rest of how they're gonna handle everything.
She asked for it
@JamesDean-jy7oh your mother asked for an abortion but what could she do
@@Marilyn8819 😂. Your mother doesn't even know who your father is.
@@JamesDean-jy7oh small pp
I’m a mom to a daughter and seeing this mom’s reaction broke me. This is heartbreaking 💔
The amount of people standing around the mother without one person knowing how to approach her with the news of her daughter’s death is appalling.
No
She didn't exactly make it easy lmfao
Right, who doesn't know what to do in this kind of situation? I sure know what I'd say
Nah for real though, nobody knew what to do smh
@@nsines95um they're police officers and none looked like rookies. You mean to tell me not a single one could de-escalate and at the very least tell her the daughters passed? And yet they guy in the hospital was told her name and possible cause of death. Cmon they failed the mother.
As someone who worked at the hospital for 5 years and always comforted the deceased loved ones, the police treated her horribly. I’m telling you now, if they showed an ounce of compassion, understanding and some professionalism. The situation with the poor mother would’ve de-escalated.
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with that. I can tell by the way the mother acts that she's always loud and obnoxious like that. That's not a mother dealing with the death of her child, that's someone who is clearly confrontational. I have people in my family just like her, right down to the accent.
@@Gerps regardless of how irrational the mother is acting. The cops/law enforcement’s didn’t do a good job with handling her. Any first responders,medical personnel it takes a lot of patience dealing with erratic people. But ignore her, not showing her compassion or any of that was unprofessional.
@@RaZhanBreonna She's interfering with an active crime scene, nothing she did helped the situation. She's demanding answers and claiming the cops are trying to protect the killer when they likely don't have a clue what happened yet.
@@Gerps Definitely why they wanted to wait before contacting anyone. They know these people.
@@Gerpswe get it, you hate your family but all you know about this woman is from a brief clip where she found out that her child is dead.
I watch a lot of true crime and have since developed a thick skin but seeing the mother’s pain and the way they treated her brought me to tears. Absolutely heartbreaking
Same
I know. I said it's a change from most these body cams, usually it's a cold hearted perp acting robotic and unbothered. This poor mother.
Ikr, it reminded me of my mom. Darci is so strong.
This was a fresh crime scene and Cops don't have to give speculations. For all they know SHE could have been in on it (she wasn't, but they don't know the facts at this point.) There's NO excuse for Darci's behavior.
Watched TV and got hardened to death boy your stupid beyond belief how ya gonna feel when someone tells you your sister or brother is dead hardened by a TV show no doubt ignorance definitely is bliss you prove it
When the told Darci she was “not alive” and she went “okay why wouldn’t you just” and broke down crying I felt so bad for her. That was her baby laying on the side of the road in a car and no one was telling her nothing of course she’s upset. Fly high Livye. ❤
The audacity to interrupt her and dump that instead if even attempting to calm her down and prime her for the horrific news, she didn’t even process what he said at first because of the nonchalance. That hurt my heart
I know. My heart shattered at that moment
That truly hurt my heart as well 😢❤❤❤❤
He was the only officer who tried. And he sucked. My heart breaks for mom and family
Maybe when a death is being reported....a professional counselor should be at the scene to handle those emotions....so police can process the scene of the crime...imo
They should have told her mother IMMEDIATELY and then explained to her that they need to process the scene and have her later come identify. This seemed SO cold-hearted and if that was my daughter, I would have been raging until I got an answer to the one question she asked- Where’s my baby?!😢
There is a specific protocol for these situations, and cops have to follow that.
@@laurenmunday9092Then the protocol sucks
@@laurenmunday9092 But they didn't.
@@laurenmunday9092when it comes to your child, I don’t care about a protocol. Just tell me where my child is
lol
The detective just opening random apps and closing them is wild lmao
😭🤣🤣🤣
Darci had EVERY RIGHT to be flabbergasted and angry and completely devastated. Her response is justified and understandable. I am so so sorry for her loss. 💜
my heart absolutely SHATTERED listening to Darci screaming “where’s my daughter”. How could any person be so cold to not comfort her in such a difficult time. My heart breaks for this family. RIP Livye, beautiful girl👼🏼
Because they didn't know who she was talking about. She might have been talking about some other girl, a passenger, who was not on the scene.
Cops so unprofessional with deceased mum.
a good mother would know🤷🏿♂️
I’m just a little confused about the polygraph test they gave Montana. At one point she’s taking the test and she has on a t shirt and then it shows her wearing a sweater. I’m gonna assume that she failed also because the monitor couldn’t pick up through that thick fabric and because like the narrator said, he places everything in the wrong areas of her body that can’t transmit the data correctly. It just seemed odd to me.
Bullshit, in that small town everyone knew who was who. In their defense,i wouldn't want to be the one giving her that news either, and with Darci's boyfriend being there,who could become a suspect down the road therte was a need to keep some things on the DL.@@jsmall10671
It amazes me how everyone thinks they're a mastermind that's going to get away with murder. Everyone ends up being stupid as a box of rocks.
To be fair, cold-blooded murder is a pretty stupid thing to do.
You just don't hear about the ones who do get away with it though..
I like that "stupid as a box of rocks" you don't mind if I use this saying do ya?
dunning kruger effect seems to be common among criminals, at least the ones who get caught
@@kimwalsh
It's a common saying in the south. It helps if you say it with a southern drawl.
Pretty wild how so many murderers were under the influence of alcohol when they committed their crimes, but this fact is just continually accepted and never questioned that maybe alcohol is a contributor to more destruction of life than any other substance. Murders, DUI's, unintentional homicides, relationship problems, domestic violence, the list goes on.
Muslim countries forbid alcohol use.
I agree, but all efforts to stop people from smoking a cigaret in Holland while others can keep drinking. It's ridiculous imho.
it should be illegal
Should have seen the prohibition and how many more people were killed by organized crime (bootlegging). Because once you make something illegal like that it fuels the operation to go underground into organized crime because the value goes up dramatically. People on meth and other things do these kind of things even more…
@@jonnybmk6212Two facts can exist at the same time.
I'm so disgusted by the way they treated Livye's mother at the scene. The situation was not only professionally mismanaged, the personal lack of compassion was astounding.
100%!!!! It’s extremely upsetting
They were doing their job, she was in shock and grieving. It’s unfortunate but it is what it is.
@lohi172 it is part of law enforcement's role that should be managed with compassion and an expectation as to how the family might respond. Police chose to delay informing the family, knowing full well they're in a small town where word of mouth spreads quickly.
To stay silent in the face of this mother's pleas was abominable behaviour. To say the scene was poorly managed is an understatement.
@@lohi172they weren‘t doing their job. Their job is to notify the mother asap & send people in person there (you know like the relatives are notified in person when a cop dies on duty). They could have explained everything to her in her home. She had every reason to believe that they try to cover something up & that police is the villain here. She did the right thing & in her situation I would have already attacked the cops after smirking.
@@lohi172 if they acted liked they gave a shit and showed some empathy. it would have calmed her down and she would have let them get to work faster
my brother was killed by a drunk driver a few years ago, and i cannot explain how heartless and cruel it is to leave a mother clueless about whether or not her child is alive. breaks my heart.
I'm so sorry for your loss. My mother was killed in an accident several years ago and we weren't notified weather she was dead or alive until we got there. The two hour drive felt like an agonizing eternity. The first part of this video was so hard to watch...
@@kaylagonzalez3465yeah I agree it was hard to watch the lack of care that the cops showed the grieving mother was so cringe.
My condolences to you both. That is not how any grieving family member should be treated.
Very sorry to hear that, I hope you are doing okay
@@ifeelbetterabouthis.louis3idk if I’d describe a heartbreaking scene as “cringe”…
WTF??? Listening to this cop TELLING the suspect what evidence they have??? Fricking UNBELIEVABLE!!!
It's wild listening to it. Surely a law firm is going to contact this woman about filing a lawsuit to the police about how many house rules the police have broke and the lack of respect given to the grieving mother
Real MVP is the person who transcribed this long video
For real ❤
AI did it
You guys know this is scripted... Right?
@@ethanrandall3005 how?
@@ethanrandall3005 get a life dd
Saying “calm down” or “relax” to someone upset and emotional will only provide opposite of the intended result.
not to mention it's patronizing and a stereotypical misogynist trope that emotionless men use against women
@@l-b284Calm down 🙄
Yup, I remember when my dad got back from crisis invertevtion training, he said that there are 3 things you don't say to people. "Calm down", "I understand", and "I'm from the goverment and here to help".
Especially if it's a woman.
Maybe they should calm down
These men lacked an ounce of empathy for this poor mother. Disgusting.
I think they were doing their job & it was getting too tense with her screaming.
@@Tarenreaves3she was screaming bc they were just staring at her like she was crazy. It took nothing for them to tell her but yet they were so selfish bc their feelings were hurt, bc she was (rightfully) yelling. And I 100% believed that the officer might’ve chuckled, they legitimately thought she was the problem. Those officers are disgusting. They couldn’t even console her. They should’ve had a woman officer, who could relate to her and be sympathetic. I wouldn’t be surprised if they would act like that with their own children.
@@qveensirah8242what do you know? Was it all on video? Was it all shown? Too many fools around here…
@@eclipsewrecker watch it, and use something called context clues. It’s free!
Bunch of poorly trained uneducated keystone cops
These videos always make me nervous when people analyze people to prove they're lying and are guilty for acting exactly how I act when any traumatic situation happens, lmao. Mixing up words, stuttering, being despondent and unattached to the situation emotionally, I'd be thrown in jail at that rate.
Same lol if you're the kind of person that metabolize tragic news alone later in time while being calm and put together on the moment you're screwed with these people. They analyze every movement you do as if there's a manual to "how to grieve like a good person would", some people just freeze and calm down without showing much of a response to the bad news (especially if you're not neurotypical) but they make it sounds as if that would be the weirdest reaction ever
It a good thing they can’t convict you off of these things then and need evidence
Is it weird to assume that Cindy (Matthew's mother) was the one that took Montana's car to help cover up her son's murder? It was a woman, and clearly it wasn't Montana. The only other woman if could be who would have access to the keys at the house was the mother who was insistent on helping her son at all costs throughout the entire case.
was thinking this too, esp bc Montana said she was given a nerve pill to calm down during her polygraph
Got a feeling she knew she took the car 😒
I was thinking the same thing right from the moment they mentioned there was a woman on scene who waved the witness past.
It makes complete sense that it was Cindi, and the investigation was absolutely terrible - they didn't seem to suspect her.
She is the obvious woman who had access to Montana's car, and clearly Montana was not at the scene.
There's simply no other woman who fits.
Montana's nervousness was because she knew Cindi was there, not because Montana was there.
@@janebrown7231 yes! this was also my assumption. The police work, as we see in many cases sadly, was subpar. if they had actually focused on asking the right people questions instead of focusing all their energy on Montana, they prolly would have uncovered more pertinent information. Instead, they just made the victim's family feel like shit every chance they got.
@TheArtfulEnigma It really was sub-par, wasn't it? Very low standard, and patchy too. The officer in the hospital gave away sooooo much information to a suspected perp who was (probably, even then) feigning memory loss. The officers took individual approaches, there was clearly no investigation plan. They all looked like novices. They didn't seem to have training in any of the basics, such as handling the family of a victim - shocking! I've never seen so many officers out of their depth.
They had every reason to think Cindi was shielding her son right from the beginning, and yet they didn't follow that thought through. They didn't monitor her texts to Darci, which were so telling. It was weeks before they started interviewing people properly, even though there was a lot of helpful knowledge available. There was background on the suspect's violent past that they didn't find out for ages.
And the car being swapped on scene - there was only one person who could have done that, but they didn't seem to think it was important. It was pretty much proof in itself!
The department should have handed it up the line to somebody competent to control an investigation, but they were too incompetent to know they were incompetent.
I suppose there will never be an answer on why the killer curled up next to the car and went to sleep. I suppose having finished his adrenaline rush, the whiskey took over?
As a person who lost their son. I’m not going to lie I teared up. I know the feeling of finding out that your child is no longer here. My son was 8 years old. He was murdered 3 years ago. that empty helpless feeling never goes away. As a parent, not being able to protect your child and think about how scared he were will haunt you every day for the rest of your life. My baby boy would’ve been 11 years old.😔
R.I.P Kayden Phillips👼🏼
R.I.P to this young lady
that is so unbelievably sad. my heart goes out to you. I hope you are able to still find happiness and love in this life. RIP Kayden Phllips xxx
So sorry for the loss of your precious Kayden❤sending love and prayers to you 🙏
I'm very sorry for your loss, sending prayers 🙏
My son is 10, I can’t imagine this happening… I don’t know how I’d go on. You’re one brave mama bear. You’ll both be in my prayers. Question: does he visit you? My mother-in-law died 3 years ago and I swear she visits my daughter (she’s 12) quite frequently. She was the only granddaughter and they had a close bond… it’s been a hard year for us as a family and that’s when she started visiting her a lot… ❤
This was a horrible tragedy for that young girl because it's very obvious he had problems abusing women and his family were just as guilty for covering for him instead of trying to get help for him ,so sad
Darci played Livye's graduation speech as her victim impact statement at his sentencing. I can only imagine how powerful that was. I hope Darci sees all the support and feels all the prayers. 🙏🏾💙
I thought Livye’s mom was Hott!!!
@@brianmcnellis5512 Really?! How selfish and cruel to say such a thing in this situation. Stop thinking with your little head that’s run by satan to keep you dumb down running after lust & never caring about others or living a life that helps others and gives glory to Creator. Makes a positive difference in life, relieves the pain or suffering of another life…. Everyone has been hypnotized by devices that have defiled our minds thinking, subtly lured society into darker ungodly perverted lifestyle, all about me me me pleasure now more money good is bad …bad is good. Look around!! We must each do all we can to fix our bad!!! Judgement is coming and America is in Trouble!!!
@@brianmcnellis5512That's a weird thing to respond to this comment with. The hell? Lol.
@@brianmcnellis5512wow, what a despicable thing to say when the womans daughter was just murdered. Classy guy 🙄💩🤡
@@brianmcnellis5512u ass !!! How rude
😭😭😭😭 that poor mom💔💔💔💔 I hope she can find calm and peace inside of her, even through all of the evil she had to experience. 🥺
"excuse me if I get emotional" - proceeds to have no emotion except fake crying.
The way she reacted when she heard them say she was no longer here. 😔 i had to tell my boyfriend his brother was dead. I couldn’t even make it into the room when I dropped to my knees I had to wake him up with the worst news. The look on his face, the scream the begging. I’ll never forget it. Those cops showed 0 mercy for this women whose life was shattered.
She demanded that a murder investigation be concluded while standing in the middle of the crime scene during the middle of the initial investigation. What mercy did she deserve? The cops didn’t send their 19 year old to hang out with some older, divorced alcoholics. Darci did.
I know what you mean, I had to tell my brother that our father passed in person, such an emotional time.
They should have removed her. She was interfering with an active investigation. I understand being kind and being sympathetic, but she was not helping them learn answers to what she wanted to know. They were trying to keep the situation calm. I never heard a laugh, but since I was not there and did not see what happened outside viewof the camera, that would be disrespectful.
@@brandym3cbut those guys were just tending the cordon - they were not paying an active role in any investigations. The way they treated her was horrendous - she rightly should’ve been removed with compassion and sympathy - and they let small bits of info go - so why not tell her those small bits at the beginning instead of treating her as an annoyance
While I have sympathy about Darcy losing her daughter... I wish the cops would have explained that they need to process the scene without interference so they can get the best justice they can for her daughter. I feel sometimes people don't understand or even think about that when lost in grief and the shock like this... There's nothing more they can do for her daughter at this point more than to process the scene in the best way they can so they can convict whoever did this crime.
They definitely could have handled this better. Yes, she was screaming but so would they if this were THEIR child. The man with her, I guess a husband or friend, could be doing a lot more to help her in her pain.
yea but shes the mother for fucks sake she has every right to know in that moment where her child is. Put yourself in her shoes.
I get your point but the weight of losing a child is fucking brutal, especially when hearing about it from word of mouth. She just wanted answers that sadly no one could give her
These cops are assholes
What do y'all expect they're cops 🤷🏻♂️
When my dad passed away, they said I howled like a wolf. Family, friends, police, or EMS couldn’t console me. I awaken in the hospital and was told they stuck me with needles, psychiatry visited me and nothing got me to Stop! I was sedated. Told I was in shock! So don’t tell that mom how she should behave, SHE Lost HER CHILD!!!😢 💐
He dont remember what happened after being on his porch but he sure remembers them drinks he had.
The fact that they told the suspect "flat out what's going on" but like didn't wanna tell the mother is kinda ridiculous. She had to pry info from them.
tbf i also hated that but i think it was just the cop himself that was weirdly giving out too much information and being overly kind, he probably would’ve done the same if at the actual crime scene with the mother. at least i believe
The cops just got there and had no information and she was stopping them from investigating to figure it out while acting volatile. For all they knew, she did it and was acting irate to appear innocent. Which is what guilty people do to throw cops off. Reminds me of several cases of parents who have killed their children doing this to cover their guilt in the child's "disappearance". I felt like her behavior was insincere and she needs anger management.
@stormy7318 Dude was at the hospital with the info at the same time the mother arrived at the scene so I would assume they had the same info to give her. I don't think she hindered to much of the investigation and she didn't seem like a person who needed anger management. More like a distraught mother to me. For the most part she was pretty chill. Imo
Hearing the mom yell “Where’s my baby?” Broke my heart, poor baby girl, many sympathies and condolences 💐 to the family
Mmmyeahhh generally the people at the scenes are 🎉
Yeah, those cops were incompetent at serving the public, like the poor victims' family here.
Thats drugs... Shes detached from reality and for a split moment she was brought back to that reality, but if you watch, she instantly went back to a drug induced/erratic state since it brought comfort which is why drugs are an issue in the 1st place. Like many drug addicts, they only care about their "baby" or loved one when its too late and they take an even higher amount of drugs afterward. I sympathize with her too but theres empathy and then theres exucusal. If you excuse her behavior, you only create more situations like this
Regardless of drugs or not, she is her mother and a parent’s feelings in a situation like this is unimaginable. That’s her child and she lost her, she can be in any state she wants in this moment. As a parent I could never comprehend this kind of lost. I’ve been on the scene of finding a love one murdered and there is no right state of being to be in when the moment involves you.
@@1utube01 yea ok. They have literally zero information yet because they haven't even been able to START, and the mom shows up and starts screaming at everybody. Not that she's not allowed to be upset of course, but she's more focused on being confrontational and demanding than grieving for her daughter. I would love to see you try and control a scene like that.
they thought the fire was revenge and not a clear attempt to hide and deestroy evidence? these barney fife ass cops.
Holy shit and the investigator is being forward and straight with the murderer, and they couldn’t even tell a single truth to the mother. Im sickened by the way they handled this case. Holy cow
18:42 “I’m sorry for your loss”
The fact that the officer extends this comfort to the murderer, and they can’t even spare a crumb of respect or decency for the mother who is grieving and in shock is so sad and disappointing.
Do better. All law enforcement deals with people, therefore they should have proper training in how to deal with people in different circumstances.
She was only 19. This is just heartbreaking.
"I'm sorry for your loss that you caused"
I seriously doubt that was sincere.
I can even understand if they’re acting sympathetic to try to get him to talk, but it still doesn’t excuse being absolute POS to the grieving mother. She is inconsolable but all they see is “hysterical woman challenging my authority, better be an authoritarian shit to her and demand that she calm down and go away so the real men can do their jobs.”
It’s not about sincerity it’s about doing what’s necessary to get the information they need.
@@didi012578 respectfully, but it doesn't matter. What matters is: they didn't give the mother a single piece of dignity, as they treated the criminal with all "due respect"? Come on, they should be better than that!
As a Texan who worked for a police department as a clerk, it pans out how they behaved. I was lost once, pulled over, I was crying and clearly distressed, a Plano, TX cop wrote 3 tickets that day. He searched for everything wrong with my car, even my tint on my windows. As a final gift, he gave me directions. They have zero sympathy. Those good ole' boys. They all just wanted the power, no empathy, no sympathy. Most places have a liason, an officer that can speak to people. She only wanted to be heard, she needed to know someone felt her pain. Those cops didn't, but we all did. I cried for her anxiety and anguish. I felt that watching this. I'm not shocked, but I am disappointed in humanity in their response to her pleas.
Oh, they certainly hear her. Everyone in a km radius must have heard her.
This is the most respectful response if ever heard.
@@MarvinHartmann452no they didnt. They didnt give a shit
All I heard was Fuck Texas LEO lol😮
@@arronbenit5660she didn’t deserve any respect.
Honestly, kudos to that mother for being able to hold it together enough to ask all the questions and start fighting for justice for her daughter the instant she found out her daughter had passed, I don't know that I'd even be in an intelligible state in a situation like this, that's a mama bear that's sure. I hope she finds peace.
That poor mama. And then these heartless people in the comments judging her for how she is acting after her CHILD was found murdered
The fact they told the suspect more info than the mother of the victim 🙄
Legit
My thoughts exactly. They supposedly couldn't give the mother a single word of information about her child and yet they told that kid who murdered Darcy's child what they assumed happened to Livye...absolutely unprofessional and disappointing to see police officers and investigators acting that way.
That part
Exactly
@@senyuri7496Yeah because the mom showed up before they even finished investigating the crime scene. They didn't know how she died yet, by the time they went to the suspect in the hospital they had collected more evidence and had more information
The way that they notified that poor mother that he daughter was dead…. That was the most heart-wrenching thing I’ve ever seen in my life. That poor woman.
Me too
The fact she found out going to the scene and fighting for every scrap of information inc that her daughter had past.
they didn't go to her before the news reached her by gossip.
I hated every second of that. How could they be so cold and callous? That’s her kid
I wanted to give Darci a hug and comfort her while she was at the crime scene. All they had to do was let her know her daughter was dead and how sorry they were. Tell her they need to get to work to gather evidence at the scene and ask if she would stand back. They could have had someone stay with her, get her to write a list of friends and enemiea names and numbers. It was handed so poorly
Darcey my heart truly goes out to you. The way you were treated was absolutely sociopathic and ice cold. So sorry to you 💚
It’s an interesting dynamic to see the tension/yelling at the crime scene while everyone still tries to maintain six feet of social distance because it’s in the middle of the pandemic.
I love you
Don't you find it even more interesting that the so called pandemic just packed its bags up and vanished into thin air? I do.
Keen observation sir.
I'm a big fan!!!!!!
Wait a minute, tf you doing in the comment section
Notice how all his friends knew about his violent nature and were still friends with him. This is why people say you are the 5 closest people to you. Watching and doing nothing is just as bad as doing it yourself. People gotta stop excusing their friends disturbing and dangerous behaviors in the name of "loyalty".
Exactly!!! Well said!!!
They are all like that out here. Every one of them identical… animals
Exactly why there is no such thing as a good cop or "not all men". When you witness, know of, excuse, and ignore abusive, violent, criminal behavior, you are just as culpable.
It's tough. Obviously, as an adult now, I would do the right thing. Thinking back at my teenage years, I'm not so sure. All my high school friends were from middle school and I actually lived with my one friend for part of my senior year in high school.
My guess it would be more of a passive intervention.
Exactly. Go to bed with dogs, wake up with fleas. You become who you associate with.
The detective said “put that thinkin cap on girl” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
them silently staring at her when she asks if her daughter is alive was just wrong
I feel so bad for Darci. I understand that the investigators wanted to wait until their job was done to tell her everything, but clearly after she found out the news that tactic was useless? Keeping her in the dark and just letting her scream at them to no response made the situation worse than just informing her straight up. No one tried to comfort her or anything. You can't ignore a grieving mother desperate for information and expect her to be quiet. All they had to do was immediately say, "yes your daughter is deceased. We are sorry for your loss, but in order to find out more we need to finish our investigation of the crime scene. Please let us do this and we will inform you of what we know after." That would've prevented so much time from being wasted. I know they can't inform her of everything, but she deserved the bare minimum. I don't know why they took so long to say that.
Right, instead of standing there ignoring her when she's begging for information.
@@sky19801ya where was their compassion at least!!!
Yes! That was infuriating!
Yes she's acting crazy, but she also just found out her daughter is dead and no one is giving ANY info at all, or firm reassurance that they're investigating and she will be first to know as soon as they knew anything.
She should have come back armed. By default cops respect no one, not even the grieving
It wouldn’t have mattered what they did
Thankfully he was given 99 years . He had escaped justice when a judge granted him bond in 2021 but was captured December 29th 2022 near his mother’s home . Justice will be served for Livye Lewis. Rest in paradise sweet girl . Sending healing energy, light and love to her mom and family.
About that bond...on $50K he would have had to pay 10% or $5k cash minimum. Who paid his bond? I doubt he had the money. It had to have been his mom, his grandparents or a friend. If no one had the cash but could sign their homes as collateral, wouldn't they have lost their homes when he went on the run?
@@PhoenixRising734he could have gone through a bondsman?
@@kathrineprescott - I'm an idiot. Of course, the bondsman would pay & would ask for some type of collateral to protect his 'investment'.
He was caught near his GRANDMOTHER'S home, NOT his mother's.
Did he ever say why he did it?
Thanks for your wonderful work and great voice. Keep going.
More people need to be speaking about the fact that THIS many people knew about Matthew’s aggressive/assaulting behavior toward women and did absolutely NOTHING about it. I am sickened. This murder could have been prevented and Livye would have still been alive today if literally ANYBODY had spoken up and reported him to police long before this transpired. He needed to be behind bars during the marriage to his first wife.
You saw how the cops treated the mother. What makes you think these small town cops would’ve done anything but go out and scold him with no other repercussions.
Not even the woman reported it so they are just as much to blame
@@hunter.5625ohhhhh you do not want to say that. That is a can of worms you don't understand so your comment is so unbelievably ignorant it doesn't even register.
@@hunter.5625clearly you've never been the victim of abuse. Fear of retaliation is the real thing
@@hunter.5625 This is an ignorant statement. My 15yo daughter was sexually assaulted by a boy at school, standing directly under a video camera. She did manage to kick him in the groin and get away. She went to class and an hour later she was back at that spot when he approached her again and without warning punched her in the throat. Also caught on video. She had never even dated this boy and he had also been assaulting no less than 4 of her friends for months. I filed a police report, the school is denying any of the other girls reported abuse even though my daughter was with them when they did it, and we just received a letter saying the county attorney has decided not to pursue charges for either the sexual assault not the punch to the throat. We did thankfully get a restraining order, but it cost us $3,000 because his mom filed a frivolous restraining order against my daughter for protecting herself. She went through 9 months of drama and she had to repeat what happened to her over and over, watch the video of it happening to her, and as a result has started cutting and gained an eating disorder. All for this kid to get off basically Scot free. My only condolence is that if someone looks him up, the explanation of what he did will be found in the application for the restraining order and maybe, maybe it will help the next girl-because there will be others. He lied and tried to justify his behavior the best he could considering it was close up and both incidents were recorded. I am glad there will be a record, but my daughter was very upset that she had to go to court and talk about the incidents. She would not have filed had it been her choice, so don’t ever wonder why women don’t report it. Be glad you have no concept of how it feels to have to go through this process. Focus on why men abuse and murder these women and can’t accept when someone breaks up with them because of it.
The number of people who knew Livye was fleeing for her life and called no one is horrifying..
Some people get so used to the behavior, they become blind to it. "Oh, they're fighting again..." It is a shame though.
Her mom was faking being upset
Later in the police interview she clearly doesn't care her daughter is dead and its her fault
@@davidturner1641🤡 🤡
@@davidturner1641yeah, the fact that she didn’t use her name once really doesn’t sit right with me. She’s just “her kid”
@@davidturner1641both you and the poster underneath you should stop being idiots. As someone who studied psychology at the university level. You're both full of shit posturing on the internet. Says loads about the both of you...
So glad you weren't hurt when the swing fell, Brooke. Tip too. Priceless video of Nugget turning his eggs! Mother Nature is so good.
What?! Wrong video....somehow.....
How would he know she failed? He didn't administer it properly.
Exactly, that’s how innocent people go to prison because unprofessional people
I’m not sure how Montana can sit there and say that she didn’t think he actually would hurt Livye right after she said he tried to kill her repeatedly the same night. She helped cover for him and she knows it.
Exactly. All for a man that doesn't care about any of them obviously. She's even pretending she liked Livy... NO. SHE. DIDN'T . The only thing she's about to accomplish is orphaning her kids.
Montana was talking in past tense. She never thought he would do something like this. It’s not hard to understand that context at all. The whole “I will kill you” thing had only just happened and obviously she thinks he could now.
I don't think she just covered for him. I think she encouraged and enabled him. There are too many bizarre facts in this case.
Right???
😊@@lisathesupergremlin7731
Those officers must not deal with homicides often because they had 0 clue how to handle that. The investigator was 80 years old. The way they actually couldn’t think of what to say to the mom was shocking.
Small town not many homicides
absolutely shocking to see that bloated old man being in charge.
And to think, that investigator is still younger than our current President. Awesome, huh?
Man Biden really is living in there rent free, huh buddy? Room for one more? The president before that fu cked our economy so bad I can’t afford my own apartment @@pattonpending7390
Yeah it was obvious those were small town cops who either never handled a murder case or knew the people involved which stopped them from acting appropriately
I'm shocked at the lack of response to her poor mum - they are so unprofessional and uncaring.
I can't believe how these officers handled speaking to her mother. I am so sorry for this family that's truly heartbreaking 😢
The fact that the police are just standing there, staring at her and just ignoring her pleas and questions is so disgusting
Their the most incompetent,disrespectful police force I've ever heard of...plus they didn't teach the desk cop how to give a polygraph test properly. That's Way dangerous and the horrible way they treated that Mom that just lost her baby girl. She asked if she was dead or alive and they just stared at her like they were touched mentally! These guys need to be let go
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and then people have the audacity to wonder why she’s “acting out” she’s acting like a grieving mother who’s being ignored and disrespected.
It was the mothers fault for interfering
@@h20dickless99Are you kidding me??? ITS HER CHILD !!! Wtf is wrong with this world.
Her response to him saying “dead” is mind blowing. She knows he is abusive and shouldn’t have taken his words lightly. She was trying to protect him smh. Rest in peace baby 👼
Trauma.
These videos and commentary are awesome 💯
They should have told her IMMEDIATELY that her daughter was unfortunately deceased and that they were still processing the scene and the investigation was ongoing. That’s it, that simple, they KNEW it was her, they had already made a positive ID, all she wanted was answers. Making her go through that was cruel.
I love how they say palms up is “being honest” or “being not confident”. Like okay, completely opposite meanings and not helpful
I’ve seen just about all of EWUs videos and the video of Darci learning that fate of her daughter is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever watched. My condolences and RIP Libby.
her name is *livye 💜
Probably auto corrected. Autocorrect is he'll.
It takes two seconds to see the correct name and use it.
@@cindykq8086 eye sea watch yew deed dare
And it takes one second to show some grace and leave the mistake alone
I feel like screaming at how they treated Livye's mother. Of course she's upset, she has no idea what happened to her baby and no one would tell her anything. I would be screaming my head off, too. My heart is shattered for Darci, Livye, and their entire family.
But she is making it worst. So much worst.
It's understandable that the cops want to preserve the crime scene and collect as much evidence as possible. However, some of those people especially the coroner I think it was didn't need to talk to her in the manner in which they did. It almost came off as... Listen woman!
You can't judge others on how they act. She lost her kid.
Until you lose someone you don't understand the grief, confusion and anger.
Nah the b**** needed a timeout acting like a child
@@purvue you have no clue the amount of desperation that goes into protecting a child. They wouldn't even tell her if she was dead or not. They refused to give her that respect, and of course she was frantic.
I’m obsessed with this content
Those cops handled the situation with the mom so horrible. How heartbreaking !!!
At 1:07:10 Mathew’s mothers starts crying and says are you really going to take him from me. Doesn’t she realize that a woman already lost her daughter and she’ll never be able to see her again. Even if her son does go to jail she’ll be able to visit him in prison. The other woman would never ever ever be able to see her daughter again. Then she said that JP is a liar( referring to the victims mother)like have some sympathy/empathy. This Mathew’s mother is an enabler and a horrible person.
I partially agree with you. BUT, she is a mother also that is facing losing her child, just in a different way. Whether he gets a life sentence w/o parole, or receives a death sentence, it's unlikely that she will see her son again. Normally, a death sentence in Texas is a short time to live!
@@mandy244Matthews mother knew her son was abusive and aggressive and could have should have gotten him help. Livieys mother didn't have an opportunity to even ask are you really gonna take my daughter from me? She is showing selfishness and self-centeredness. She even tried to tarnish livieys mothers character.
@@anisamargueritepalmer2132 yes, with mothers like that she is probably the reason why he is so violent. Always making excuses for his sons behaviours
@@mandy244PLEASE don't excuse it! 🥺 I survived 17 YEARS of captive domestic violence in extreme isolation. His Mom knew EVERYTHING. She spoiled & enabled her two boys until they did NOTHING for themselves. She's in her 80s and STILL handing over her SS payments. I was beyond generous despite my circumstances and stood as strong as I possibly could under the circumstances, being suppressed in EVERY WAY beneath the patriarchal rule of apostolic christianity. I sacrificed and sacrificed, she SAW IT! And yet, in the end when the damage became TOO GREAT for me to even pretend it was alright, (he put his hands on my child) and I made my 5th escape attempt (most DV victims arent successful until the 7th)she did everything in her power to sabotage me and degrade my good name around town.
@@rei09104she is 100% responsible for her sons sick behavior and issues
The entire time I watched the poor mother panic and be in shock over her child had me so upset. If only they dedicated an officer to just talk to the mother, comfort her, and explain the process of why they have to do certain things. That would of probably helped de-escalate the situation and reassure the mother they want the best for the case
Whoever trains these officers should be in prison. The woman has just found out her daughter is dead and the "officer" is threatening her..
His mother is ridiculous! No wonder her son is such a “F” UP!
I can’t believe she asked, “Are you really going to take my son away from me”? 🤦🏻♀️
She's a horrible enabling parent & needs many years behind bars for part in things.
@@razztazz1982 I know this from first hand so I 100% agree. No matter how bad I would behave she was always justifying it somehow even if she said it's bad but it was "never my fault" ofcourse... I hate this so much cuz now I am f up in my head too and it's really hard to get rid of it. Hate my mom so much... She always thinks that if she's "helping others always" she is a good parent but she definitely never was and never helped me... Always helped others but left me in shi*ty environment because of it. I hope I can live my life peacefully sometimes without dealing with this it's so hard :'(.
@@dddddd211 I'm really sorry you didnt have the greatest childhood, or the best guidance growing up. In my opinion it's a parent's responsibility to teach their children at a young age to have self respect, respect for others, be held accountable & also receive positive reinforcements, all while raising them to be well adjusted adults in a healthy environment.
Unfortunately parents aren't perfect, but some are just downright abusive on many levels. And sadly they do not see how their words & actions can have lifelong negative effects on their children, nor do they accept responsibility in their contributing parts to any of it.
I was raised overly strict and was taught some valuable life lessons along the way, but it wasn't peaches & cream either with belt beatings for punishments in the mix. Although I will say, your experience was probably horrible compared to mine.
I really hope you can find some healing & inner peace from all of the horrible things you've been through in the past. It's not an easy thing to work through & get to a better place immediately, but I have faith you'll get there.
The first step in my humble opinion is to work on letting go of the past & know deep down that you can do this. You really need to believe in yourself & acknowledge that you are worthy of happiness now, and you will be the person who makes that happen moving forward. Don't allow others to bring you down & let the toxic people & memories be dust beneath your shoes. Be strong, you got this!
My response would have been " yes just like he took someone's daughter away permanently you can still see and speak to your pos son"
He's probably the only man that hasn't left her...
Listening to that mother's desperation was utterly heart breaking. I hope she finds peace somewhere, anywhere.
This is horrific! My heart goes out to this woman. Ya'll handled this terribly! That woman's world is destroyed and ya'll are acting like a bunch of good ole boys. Disgusting!
I can’t believe how cold the officers were towards that poor woman. I absolutely understand that they had to conduct an investigation and gain information before sharing anything but there was no compassion shown from them they all looked and sounded like they didn’t know how to handle the situation.
That mother acted accordingly. I feel so bad for any parent who loses a child in such a horrific manner such as this.
@justjenreacts you’re absolutely correct, she acted better than some mothers would. When they finally told her that her daughter wasn’t alive and she fell backwards it punched me in my gut, nobody should have to feel that.
they were all cruelly gaslighting her. looking at someone silently who screams questions in pain will only make them scream louder and become more distressed.. i’m so sorry for her
@@zazu3006you have no clue what gaslighting is….
Well, not accordingly but understandably. You can give a grieving mother some leeway on misconduct in a crime scene of their dead kids because its understandable she's going to be upset.
@makingadjustments laughing would be gas lighting which I totally would not put past these officers with the way this video went...they could have de-escalated the situation by one officer answering a few questions...instead they chose not to and even lied about some things to get out of answering her questions....so yea gas lighting
Matthew's mother is likely a very big reason he is the way he is! She coddles him, believes his BS, and did nothing when he attacked his girlfriends. Until his trial, he has probably never been held accountable for any of his bad behaviors. May Livye rest in peace. 🙏🕊️
Why people dont hold parents accountable for clearly creating shitty people is a mystery to me
That’s exactly right
@@heatherem5690really? It’s a mystery to you? Don’t be so stupid!
Well it's up to the adult to become a better person in the end, regardless of your upbringing. Different story if you're talking about a minor.
Yup. Exactly why shitty parents should always be held liable in these kinds of situations. Disgusting excuse for parents.
My heart goes out to this mother. 💔
SHAME ON THE POLICE.
The poor Mom, Darci was treated badly.
As a Mom myself, I consider Darci’s behavior quite composed.
Darci, I am sorry for the way those dimwitted cops treated you.
The police were cold towards her mother. There was zero communication and she had to get angry and loud before anyone took her seriously enough to tell her anything. It's not hard to explain protocol with empathy. Instead they brick walled her and watched her emotions escalate into anger. Poor woman. I can't even begin to imagine her pain.
Really awful…really shameful. Not once ounce of compassion demonstrated.
Yes, very poorly handled by the police.
@ImaRandomFemale No its not helpful when she is screaming wanting to know where her child is and Noone tells her. They were totally unkind, showed no compassion.
i do have to say, i thought she was acting very suspiciously. it was grief, but it came off weird, at first. and sadly, parents sometimes kill their kids. but i do agree they waited too long and i TOTALLY believe her when she thought that officer was smiling. some ppl are cold af.
she came up on them screaming. They are trying to do their job its uncalled for to treat them like that
This dude might have done the worst I've ever seen with an alibi. It's almost comedic how bad he did NOT leaving the worst trail back to himself. He legit just goes "I didn't remember anything and I had a lovely time and it was a very fun party and I got real drunk." Everyone else: "Yeah basically he started screaming he was gonna kill everyone and rain an unholy firestorm upon our family bloodline. Then he started speaking in tongues and listing off the serial numbers of every gun he owned and wrote 'I am the killer' on his underwear. I'm pretty sure he was up to no good."
Yikes...
if only he'd wrote,
"i am not the killer ''on his underwear..🤷
🤣 this is the best synopsis of this video yet. I didn't think I'd ever leave a laughing emoji on a crime channel but this was so well written!
Well now I don’t even need to watch the rest of the video. 😂 10/10 Summary
Hahahahahaha you've got me rolling😭😂🤝🏽 10/10
28:35 😂😂😂 why is President Donald Trump in the back seat of that SUV? Lolol
Haha! I noticed that too!..maybe he was hitchhiking and they picked him up
😂😂
She’s getting the mileage out of that trump shirt too. Cracked up when they said they brought her back for another interview 7 months later and she’s wearing the same shirt
The cop playing on his phone during interview of Montana at 38:00 is sad. Stuff like this is what a good lawyer can use in court.
Her mother was so devastated, confused, and shocked. The fact these officers refused to tell her until it accidentally slipped is so gross. I hope she got the closure she needed. This is heartbreaking 💔
The way that one officer just stood there in his dumb hat looking at her like she's crazy, with his mouth open, saying nothing as if he shouldn't know how to deal with family members of crimes is infuriating.
Ok, but it was a murder and she was actually probably INVOLVED.
SO YES THEY WERE PLAYING GAMES WITH HER....
She wasn't d3vastated
She wss covering for the guy
Look at her interview with the police
She doesn't care
You guys didn't watch the whole video.
She already knew livye was dead.
So, she was FAKING IT
Idk if you realize this, but they can’t tell anyone anything in case they are the perpetrator or helping the perp. Plus they’re literally figuring out what’s happening they aren’t gonna know everything as soon as they get there.
How did they not show any care for the mom? How did they just stand around in silence watching her panic while they knew what had happened to her daughter?? How did they not tell her IMMEDIATELY??? The casual way that officer says "She's not alive" after witholding... And when the mom hears that and just falls backward broke my heart. The cold indifference of the officers is beyond me.
Real winners aren't they they are evil
it was a ongoing ivestigation and they didn't know what happened past she was dead and they told her that already
@@singleken77they treated her HORRIBLY!! What if it was their child??? How they treated this poor mother was simply disgraceful!!! They should be fired!!!
@@denisemccown7726nah she should’ve waited in the car and had her husband talk to the officers in a humane way. she doesnt even care she’s just angry
ur souless hahaha@@pancouvervenguins8573
The way they ignored her then broke the news like that. Sickening. My heart broke for her. Nobody in law enforcement, the medical field, or in any other line of work dealing with death should treat the family that way.
This gave me flashbacks to losing my brother when I was a little kid. My mom was the same way to the small town LEOs, missing for 5 months. And they blame it on an accidental drowning when he had ligature marks.
Is it normal for police to respond to grieving parents like this? It must be very hard to tell parents such horrific news, but these officers seem to do SUCH a terrible job at it. They are cold and don't give her any information, clearly leaving her feeling completely lost.
Agreed they were acting pretty heartless about it
Look there is a time and place for things, and the cops have their jobs to do. Their job is to investigate and seek proper justice, counseling is not their top priority.
They need to first and foremost set things straight before they deal with it, and that's what they were doing. They've also probably experienced many things already, and that might contribute to their indifference - desensitization.
That parent has the right to grieve, but just not there, when she's making things difficult for everyone when she doesnt have to.
They still need to find out how she died, after all, and she'd probably not like it if they couldn't find out and catch who did it. With her making an emotional mess of things, they cant focus, and that runs the risk of missing certain aspects of the scene even after the situation.
@kosherre6243 suck that boot harder.
Do you not understand empathy and compassion at all.
Blindly defending them on every comment is as useless as those cops were.
Ol boy that weighed 400lbs immediately saying leave or go to jail is the very definition of tyrant.
@@kosherre6243 If anything, since they’ve seen so much they should know exactly how to deal with her. Who’s job do you think it was to de-escalate that situation? The mother who just lost her young daughter, or the 5 officers standing in a circle giving Darci vague answer’s about her daughter?
How you could say that there’s a time and a place to react to the news about your daughters death??? You’re about as cold as those useless officers.
Also- desensitization means literally nothing in this context. They can still be emotionally unaffected by the situation while also emotionally supporting the victims.
I don’t care if she was running up and down the street making the biggest scene in the world; her kid died- there’s no “acceptable” way to react to that news.
@@kosherre6243 is that how they handle things in your area? Im confused bc the police in my area literally have training in order to be able to deal appropriately with situations bc there is so many situations where it comes up.
So you literally just walked me through a murder from day one to end with narration, video & editing. Very well done. In the end, this was Livye's story.. and you told it well. I love this channel ❤️
This is the best true crime channel.
Yes, it was Livye's story. May she rest in peqce.
👏 👏 👏 Beautifully Said!
Yes stay for awhile this channel is amazing!!
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The officers CREATED the tense scene the mother was begging to be told just standing being cold omg I’m so sorry to her family especially her mother
This mom just lost her baby. The lack of compassion here is astounding.
Wow They Literally Said Sorry For Your Loss To THE SUSPECT BUT NOT THE MOMMMMM 🤢 That’s Disgusting !!!!!!!!!!
yea its sad, but i mean I get it... she looks like shes been on drugs her whole life... And everyone will always judge you by your looks. that is just how most people are. I mean if a crack head started yelling at me I would be stand off-ish as well. tbh...
I know this look from my personal friends and their aunts and/or mothers. who have done pills or crack or w/e their whole life. So I know first hand what a druggie looks like.
It isn't
@@1694cgrnt it literally isn't, to get to know a suspects true emotional behavior, they say things like this anyway, to everyone😂. And even still, the women is causing more of a scene, not because she's emotional, but because she wants to know what happened. That's why they didn't say it to her, and had her move to a different location.
Well it was also two different people. The man who said sorry for your loss to the suspect was not the man handling the mother. I’m sure he would have shown more compassion than those who were handling the mother if that’s his character to do so.
@@patrickwalters2605 she is incredibly emotional. Yes, building rapport with suspects is important but they 100% should've said that to the mom. There are hundreds of ways to calm someone down and they used none of them. They antagonized her and treated her poorly as someone who had just lost her daughter. Everyone's reactions to emotions is different. They should've explained the news and asked her to "help" them with medical history, friends and other contacts her daughter had to help her process the news while feeling helpful to get to the bottom of what happened. They handled this horribly.
His family is absolutely trash for helping hide him.
“You’re not taking him away from me?” EW 🤮
I’m only a couple minutes into the video right now but all I have to say is wow, the anger I would have if I was the parent and the lack of empathy and respect from the police is insane
the fact the cops sat there for like 20 minutes telling him why hes being arrested , but couldnt give the mom any kind of amswer amd stood in silence while she was crying and asking about her child
No woman has ever calmed down after being told to do so, let alone a mother who has found out her child is dead.
@@bobbyhenley2802i think a father, who wasn’t being told anything about what happened to his daughter, and didn’t even know if she was dead or alive, would react the exact same way. if not worse.
@@bobbyhenley2802that’s just called being a human being who loves and cares for their family members. leave the sexism in the online incel forums.
Its called facts. @@yourmom1368
@abbie4395 nah, he is spot on... women are overly emotional.
@abbie4395 lol cope, most married men feel that way, not that you'd know I'm sure.
That was just a horrible way to tell a mother her child was dead.
I don't disagree with you at all but absolutely no one wants to deal with an aggressive screeching hick. The cops on scene weren't prepared to deal with her and shouldn't have had to, this whole video was frustrating as hell to watch.
It's not like she was giving them much of a choice. It was only a matter of time she would get far enough but the police to see her daughter in the car dead.
It's horrible for a "mother" to stomp around an active murder investigation and accuse the cops of enjoying death. Are you serious? Her actions are not justified. Poor daughter probably got yelled at a lot for no reason.
@@HooLeePhucingSheet If your daughter had been killed and while your begging for information, they are staring at you saying nothing - you'd act like an ass too. They wouldn't let her in the crime scene, she was outside of it. Also, that's really nice of you to blame the victims family for things you know nothing of.
@@sky19801 sorry but that's the middle of the pandemic, she's not wearing a mask, she's walking all over an active investigation, she's harassing the police. And, turns out she was a suspect. I don't know why you would want your child to not get justice.