His Strange Behavior
Riley’s friends started getting a little worried about him. After Emma’s death, they told detectives a secret that Riley had told his friend, Alex McCarty, the day after his alleged kidnapping. “He ended up telling me… that he was so fearful for his life that he had stolen his grandfather’s gun, and he showed it to me,” McCarty said.
“I was very worried… he reassured me over and over again that he was the farthest thing from suicidal. He was just so scared of these people who were out to get him, were out to get Emma.” But Walton, another one of his friends, told detectives that Riley asked him how to get fingerprints off a gun.