Riley’s Dark Side
“The girl, she texted me,” Riley told investigators. “Which girl?” Merritt said. “The one that passed away,” Riley responded. “When I first met him (Riley), I thought he might have been a grieving boyfriend,” Detective James Hurts said.
“When we got into the interview room and sat down, I felt like there was a dark side. He didn’t have a whole lot of passion or concern.” Riley explained to detectives that he had been trying to speak to Emma that weekend, but she refused to engage with him. “But she said if I would help her write her paper, she would talk to me,” Riley revealed. “And (Sunday night) I used one of my friends’ phones on campus to call her.”