This case demonstrates how power imbalances in relationships, particularly when combined with financial control and isolation from support networks, can lead to severe consequences. Adriana Taylor, a 23-year-old woman, was in a secret relationship with her boss Anthony Kennedy, who controlled her finances, cut her off from her family, and ultimately murdered her. The case highlights how victims of domestic violence often lack the resources or support systems to escape dangerous situations, and how perpetrators may use their position of power to manipulate and control their victims.
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These cameras are recording Anthony Maurice Kennedy walking behind this unsuspecting home, trash bag in hand.
And what police find behind that very house would shake them to their core.
>> We literally cracked the case with the sledgehammer. You know, something liquid came out. Obviously, we know what that is.
>> Because buried under inches of concrete in the backyard is Anony's girlfriend, Adriana Taylor. For months, Anthony and Adriana were in a secret relationship.
One that would end Anony's life if anyone ever found out. But now, through a maze of disturbing clues and secrets, Anthony will be forced to face it once and for all. See that? That's her car.
>> Nobody has heard anything from her. We don't know where her car is at.
>> Right now is the time. If you have anything you want to tell me, cuz this is all going to come back here soon.
>> 23-year-old Adriana Kiri Taylor was the life of the party. known to her loved ones as Dre, she had a smile so bright that everyone around her couldn't help but smile back. But by October 8th, 2022, Adriana mysteriously disappeared.
Her family had already raised concerns with police, but their calls went nowhere. By November 13th, fed up with the lack of action, one of Adriana's cousins made another call to 911.
>> My cousin, she's been missing for over a month. Um, around October, what? October 8th. around October 8th, she made a phone call to um to us around 2, three in the morning and she was screaming and she was hysterical and she said that the man that she had been dealing with was shooting at her and that she had made it into the house and was trying to get she ran upstairs. That's all she said. And then she was like, "Okay, man." and hung up. That's it. And then after that, nobody has heard anything from her. We don't know where her car is at. We don't know where her phone is at. Did you report her missing?
>> Yes.
And we gave the police all the information about this house. We've been sitting here all day waiting for police to come. No police has showed up and even came to look at this house. And we've seen two police officers right past.
>> A month, an entire month of silence, and somehow nothing had been done about it.
Adriana's whereabouts were uncertain, and investigators in Cleveland, Ohio, finally launched a thorough investigation. They traced her last known address to an apartment on the west side of the city, where she'd been living with her boyfriend, 43-year-old Anthony Maurice Kennedy. By all accounts, her last known appearance was at his home sometime around early October, after which she vanished. But it was what investigators found 2 weeks later that cracked the case wide open.
They visited Kennedy's sister's home in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, about 150 mi from Cleveland, and discovered a hole dug in the backyard filled with concrete. However, they soon made a damning discovery. Ringbell cameras in the surrounding area showed a man driving up to the property on Thanksgiving Day, opening the trunk of a dark-colored sedan, and walking to the backyard multiple times.
That man was Anthony Maurice Kennedy.
The interview we're about to cover, however, takes place two weeks before that discovery. At this point, detectives don't have the surveillance footage yet. What they do have are rumors of his and Adriana's toxic relationship and her last known location being Anony's apartment. They're scrambling to figure out what he did to Adriana, whether she's even alive, and why nobody has heard from her in over 5 weeks. With Anthony walking into the police station, detectives immediately begin questioning him about the days leading up to her disappearance.
>> This missing person investigation.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. Um just to clarify some things from our conversation yesterday. Okay. I just want to make sure I got it right.
Um in regards to I'm trying to establish a timeline. Okay.
>> And it sounds like she's been bouncing around since she left your place. Okay.
Now, just so I I got everything straight in regards to that yesterday, you told me um that you guys were dating um she lived he lived with you for a couple months but left about a month ago, right? Somewhere in the well, we're at the 15th phase. So, somewhere the beginning >> about a month and a half, something like that.
>> So, by beginning of October, >> beginning of October, end of September.
>> Okay.
>> All right. We don't need an exact date, but it gives me a better timeline. So, end of September, uh, beginning of October. Okay. Um, but she was living with you about 2 months prior to that, right?
>> Mhm.
>> So, that would be roughly August and September. She lives with you.
>> Roughly, give or take. Give or take, right? Okay. All right.
>> Keep in mind, at the time of this interview, Anthony was already married to someone else and was dating Adriana in secret. To make it worse, he had Adriana staying in the same apartment that he and his wife Natasha shared, which is why you'll hear detectives bring up this secret relationship at several points and understandably question how he managed to keep a girlfriend in the place he lived with his wife.
>> Now, she uh How long have you been I know you're married like you told me.
Okay. Um how long were you dating her?
when she moved in maybe maybe a month previous because I think a month previous she got fired.
So uh or a few months into like 3 months or so >> before she uh including when she moved in she got I think she got fired in July sometime.
>> Yeah. So as to like 3 months.
>> Yeah. Okay. So, right, she got fired cuz I know you had mentioned that they were questioning you about your relationship with her and then you and you guys really weren't messing around at that point, but after she got fired, >> then you guys started to develop a relationship. Fair.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. All right, that's good. Um, now, how long have you lived?
>> Oh, [ __ ] Probably like three to four years. Three to four years. That long?
Okay.
>> But you're married. So, was your wife there? I was confused.
>> So, here's the thing. She's a traveling nurse. So everyone downtown like she was there. My wife was on an assignment.
So I had to stay. I think she was in Oregon.
>> I'm sorry.
>> Or your wife was in Oregon.
>> Yeah.
>> So she goes when you say traveling she goes away for like months at a time.
>> Not at a time. I think as long as she's been gone is maybe 2 months when she's gone.
>> So when she's in Cleveland, does she live with you? No, she lives in Uclid.
>> She lives in Uclid.
>> Yeah. Um, >> right. You said she was living with her mother or something, >> but you guys bought a house in Uclid.
>> Mhm.
>> And she is partially moved in.
>> We're both partially moved in.
>> You're both partially moved in, but neither one of you are actually staying at the house in UCL yet.
>> No.
>> Okay. But you said you're both moving in next month.
>> Yeah. The end of this month. This month is the end of her. And then I already got majority of my stuff on dinner. So, we're just going to live together there.
>> You going to live together there? out there.
>> But you said she was living with her mom. Is your mom Has her mom moved in with you guys?
>> She was supposed to move away.
>> So she >> I don't need a lawyer for that question.
But >> so she was she's supposed to be staying with her brother, but their house over there where her brother lives isn't finished yet. The room that she's moving into. So she's going to be staying with us for a little while until there.
>> All right. So initially she's going to move in.
>> Yes. Okay.
>> Well, you know, I love my course. She the right thing to say. No, she's awesome. She is awesome. So, all right.
So, um, how long have you been married, by the way? When you married a question?
Since July 15th. Oh, they sure. Oh, you guys freshly married? Why you messing around so quick?
>> The silence is loud, isn't it? Anthony married Natasha on July 15th, 2022.
Adriana moved in with him roughly a month later in August. Natasha was away on a travel nursing assignment in Oregon. So Anthony had the apartment to himself and that too for quite a while since Natasha lived in Uklid with her mother between assignments. She only stayed in the apartment whenever she was back in town. During the downtime, Anthony kept Adriana at West 98th while his wife was out of state and deleted every text and photo between them so Natasha would never find out. Sometime during this arrangement from hell, he also kicked Adriana out. The context behind which is something detectives are very interested in.
>> You said um you you you kicked Adriana out of the house essentially because she's been using Right. And how often would she use >> that? I'm not sure.
>> You're not sure?
>> Because she was she used it when she moved in?
>> That I'm not sure. I kind of like found out, you know what I mean? And when her cracker looking at it, I think like, oh, maybe she had to run a bad luck. But then I realized that, you know, there's all these rumors about, oh, she's doing this, you know, punch. I don't care. You know what I mean? Cuz unless I physically see it, I don't know. Right.
So she was living with her cousins. They jumped her and kicked her out. Then she was living with someone else. Then they kept And this is months at a time. The longest track I think she's been somewhere like maybe 6 months, maybe a year. And then she lived with I think another person they kicked out. Then she stay with her grandma and she kicked out. Then she was staying with her friend. Sean used to work with us and she kicked her out and then she was standing with me and then there had to be someone else she would stay with because again when she was stay with me she was there the longest four nights in a row and it would disappear for a few days stay two days disappear for a day stay three days disappear for a week and being I used to be married my first wife >> that was the same pattern and I know was and I would watch it's like but I didn't watch her carefully cuz I didn't think about nothing you know what I mean little details she oh I'm selling these and then it's like you know what I can't do no because the guy down street saying his name was cash or something like that the fans hit him I was at work when it happened and I can't do I can't I don't do no drug dealing all that I don't that's something I can't year, maybe two ago, he used to go downstairs. His name was Cat. His brother was uh I used to see his mail in a mailbox, but he would sit in the back of this is when I used to park my shoes. He was sitting in the back of the back of the park in the back at the very end of the driveway.
>> For the next several minutes, Anthony continues hammering in that he kicked Adriana out for her drug use, which brings him directly to the week leading up to her disappearance. Now, yesterday you said um when she moved out, let's say October 1st. Okay. October 1st.
>> And that is the last time you seen her talk to her?
That's the last time I seen her. Uh I told her I text her and I told her, you know, I think it's a few days later. Oh, your stuff's still here when you come get your stuff. No text back. Hey, your stuff's still here. When you want to come get your stuff, no text back. I said, look, I'm throwing stuff away. No text back. So, I'm throwing away. Then my last text I ever sent her was, I hope you do good in your endeavors, and I was the best for you.
>> So, you were texting her, but she wasn't responding, >> right?
>> Okay. What kind of stuff did she have there that you threw away?
>> Probably clothes. Um, clothes was a pink bag with her camera in it. Um trying to think just maybe like clothes that's it like a pink bag for >> just like um what kind of clothes like like pants and stuff >> like pants shirts like >> she some kind of like clothes for like maybe a bag full of clothes.
>> Yeah.
>> And she had a camera.
>> Yeah. I had bought her a digital camera.
It was like it was like a cat camera.
She said she wanted to be a photography.
>> Why' you throw that away? I feel a bad boy, but I kept all come get this. I'm going to sell it. Yeah. And every time I plan on bad.
>> When did you buy that for her?
>> I don't know. How about >> Month or two before she moved out?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, that you had You haven't seen her since she moved out.
That's the last Really? That's the last time you seen her talk when she moved out cuz she never responded to your text message. No, I got to do I'm not >> Yeah, I'm not sure what she must.
>> Yeah, >> that's how my wife was. My wife was uh staying on where is she staying? She's staying on central and somewhere. Central and somewhere cuz I remember when I tried to get stamps, food stamps. And this this is like 20 years ago. So I'm trying to remember. I remember trying to get food stamps, but they said I couldn't. I had a case a food stamp case or I was on somebody's case on central and I think 80th or something. I forget what it was. And I'm like I don't know. I had your wife's case. I'm like really?
>> Yeah.
>> So I think she kind of had her thing over here.
>> Well, yesterday you also you said that you paid her car payment and cell phone one time.
>> Yeah. I have a u cash for money to pay that whatever.
>> When did you do that?
>> If she moved out October 1st, I'm trying to figure out how much she would have.
How much was her car payment?
>> It was like six a month.
>> 600 bucks.
>> But it was behind. So the money I was giving her was just like enough to not let them take it. I >> have to repo it.
>> You know what I mean? So you >> remember when you gave her that money?
>> That had to be almost two months ago.
from today or from when you moved out >> from? No, not from today. So, be three months from today. This would last.
>> So, is it safe to assume maybe the first month she moved in you paid her car payment?
>> Uh, you could say that.
>> That would be roughly August if it's 3 months today.
>> And then I uh >> and and selling payment >> and a set.
>> Through his story, Anthony just loves to paint Adriana as a burden, some troubled woman who caused him nothing but headaches. But was that the case?
According to the very same cousin who made the 911 call, the power dynamic between them was completely lopsided.
Anthony had been Adriana's supervisor at their shared workplace, a giant Eagle distribution warehouse, which ultimately meant that their relationship didn't start on equal footing. Rather, it started as a boss dating his subordinate. And once Adriana moved in, she lost total control of her life.
Anthony paid her car note, her cell phone bill, everything, using finances to dictate every one of her choices. For the time she stayed with him, he also cut her off from her family. He described her mother as crazy and out of it and made sure Adriana never brought her around, which meant that for over 5 weeks, nobody had any way to reach her or check up on her before she even went missing. And if watching Slime Balls Like Anthony is your thing, drop us a subscription so we can keep bringing you cases just like this one.
>> She works or used to work with you guys.
>> She used to work there because she got injured with the uh so we got these um the stand up back there. Yeah.
>> And she was going to rap machine. They put her thing in there and she throttled it back and it like took off a whole chunk of like I think Jeez. Yeah. When did that happen? Oh [ __ ] Oh, this year.
>> Yes, this year.
>> Okay. So, sometime this year she injured and then left.
>> Yeah. Okay. I forgot. Um, now, do you know anybody in her family?
Adriana's family.
So, I know she I've never met them, but this is what she spoke of. She has a little brother. I think they got different dads and I believe they have different dads and her little brother is the closest thing to her, but I never met him or talked to him. And then she talked about talked to her dad, I think, who has cancer or whatever. and her mom cuz I wanted to meet her mom and she said she's going to bring mom over but she said that her mom's like I know she's crazy or something. She my mom's like she's not really the same. She's kind of out of it. She a little crazy.
I'm like okay. And then uh her grandma who kicked her out. I know her grandma had cancer and she had problems with her aunt cuz her aunt was like a her aunt's aunt but she's also a uncle. She's a man, woman, whatever you want to call her. And they got into real bad. And that's why I think they her grandma kicked her out. It was some mess or crap with that. And those are the only >> So you never met any of them?
>> I never met anyone. Oh, she has a cousin that she would hang around a lot, but then she said they fell out and she her and her other cousins jumped her and kicked her out of her one place and I don't know.
>> Yeah. Let me ask you this. I want to go back real quick to the last day that she was at the house.
>> Mhm.
>> How did that end? Did you say you got to leave and she left or did she leave was supposed to come back and never came back? What was the what was the the the circumstances on her last day at your place?
>> I told her I said you can't leave no more. You got to leave. You're you're causing too much problem. You're doing drugs. I don't know if you're selling out. You're not going to have me in that federal penitentiary for goddamn >> Yeah.
>> daily drug.
>> Not just they're not charging just for traffic and stuff. They charge for attempted murder. That's that [ __ ] right? You know what I mean?
>> It's killing people fast.
That's the worst >> time. You know what I mean?
>> So, she just agreed and basically took some things and left. Oh, whatever. Did that. And I was >> Yeah.
>> She took some She did take some some of her things at least.
>> Yeah. She took some of She took out a bag full of like bag one like white bag full of clothes. Wrapped it up. Was upset. make sure I got my key off her ring. You know, she was mad crying, took her phone, all this other just left.
>> And she to fill up, you say, a white bag, like a garbage bag, >> okay. And then she left.
>> And her phone was still working at that time, right?
>> I believe so. But when I tried to uh I think I tried to call her, she didn't answer. Just went straight to voicemail.
But she always keep it on do not disturb.
>> So typically goes right to voicemail.
>> Yeah.
>> So you got to kind of wait for her to call you back. She never call me back.
That's when I start the texting game. So I text her. No.
>> What kind? Now, uh, yesterday you also mentioned that you bought her a gun >> and then you gave her a gun.
>> Yes. Is that right? Okay. Why did you buy her a gun?
>> Because she said she's always down on 30 and all that.
>> Dangerous.
>> What kind of gun did you buy her?
>> A Hold on. It is a What's the name of it?
>> It look like saucy, but it's not. S Y >> Not six sour.
>> Not 6our. I'm not a gun guy. Are you >> a little bit? Yeah.
>> Go ahead.
>> That's what I was thinking. I was going to go >> I want to come back to that. I want to revisit that a little bit. Yeah. It's my own personal opinion, but Sccy is the gun company. S CC CC Y 9mm calibers.
>> To save you from having to stare at a white ceiling for 5 minutes, we'll quickly run through what Anthony tells detectives next. For the next 5 minutes, detectives press him on every firearm he owns. He admits to buying Adriana two 9mm pistols from Atlantic Gun and Tackle in August. A pink SECY and a gold, both supposedly sitting in a storage unit he can't locate, while selling off the rest, leaving almost nothing for investigators to test against the bullet pulled from Adriana. He does however admit to still having a Smith and Wesson M&P 9mm and confirms a 40 caliber Smith and Wesson is being held as evidence from a prior arrest, but he couldn't own those guns legally and the reasons behind that are something Anthony explains himself.
>> So I have to talk to I believe the following and maybe this is just me being naive. And I believe officers should know the following.
Weapons, drugs, if someone is on drugs or indifference and law.
That's that's a that was just my only opinion cuz I'm going through now I'll talk to I mean so I told this court at 1:00 >> I had a situation where I was going I had vertigo right and I had a very bad ver. So >> yeah, >> when I was in Philadelphia, he thought I was under, you know, stolen some drugs.
>> Oh, >> yes. Where at? What city?
>> Macedonia.
>> Macedonia. Okay.
>> And then when he took my gun, uh, cuz the gun I had, I don't know how it caliber, wasn't it?
>> He put it in there. This is a 9 mm. And I'm like, you didn't see those >> T45 on there. It's written on. And then pull out the clip to see how big the bolts were.
Look at your go.
>> When did that happen?
>> This happened last year.
>> Last year.
>> Yeah.
>> Everything's cool now in that regard.
And everything's not cool. I'm still fighting that with the zoom.
>> That's what the zoom is for.
>> Okay. Because I just released my one.
Okay. Let's move through where the heck she's at. Um, what guns do you still have that that 45 or is this still being held?
>> No, they have it.
>> They still have it. Okay. What uh what guns do you have? Um do you have any more guns?
>> The only one I have is my EDC and >> it's what?
>> My everyday carry.
>> Yeah. What's your what?
>> But I can't carry because of my gun.
>> Okay. What is it?
>> 9 mm Smith one.
>> Where's that gun at?
>> Oh, it's in my new house. It's a MMP 9mm Smith.
>> It's in your new house.
>> Okay. What color is that? I hope so.
MMP Smith 9 mm and the other 45 caliber is in Macedonia.
>> Yeah, they got the they got the 40.
>> Okay. And then what's your address? You do Anderson, you know, is that a single?
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. Um, well, let me ask you this. Um, you have any idea where she can be? This these are only places I can tell you. I remember going to go see her and I gave her like I think $40 and she was in Befford uh at this apartment complex.
>> When was this?
>> This was right before she moved in just kind of like talking whatever.
>> Okay.
>> And I went up there and we were talking for a sec and then I gave her the money.
She like, "Yeah, me and my uh cousin."
She said was our cousin. She like, "Yeah, my cousin about to go swimming."
All right, that's cool. You know, the only other place I've been to was their uh grandma's house.
>> And I know Chester or whatever it was.
Chester. And I know that she's always like and I told her it is dangerous. Oh, I grew up there. You know what? This whole I grew up there. That place is I don't go down. I don't go there. I either >> I don't really come on this side of town per especially on this street. This street scary.
>> Um All right. So, did she ever uh besides West Virginia, does she ever somebody else said something about Columbus? I don't know if that was you.
>> She might have been a Columbus. Uh she might have been in Columbus. It might have been a place in PA. I'm not sure.
>> Or who's in Columbus?
>> That her peeps.
>> Her peeps.
>> Her peeps.
>> And that's just Columbus in general.
Okay.
>> She never said who's in Columbus or what. So, >> what about you said PA?
>> Probably PA.
>> What's in PA? Dad, I'm not sure.
Probably more.
>> No. Who's in Pennsylvania now that way?
Um, >> my brother Manny.
>> Your brother?
>> Yeah.
>> What's his name?
>> Manny.
>> Manny. Same last name.
>> Yeah. All right. Um, my brother uh lived outside for a while.
She remember the name of the city about it.
Um, so she um So you have no idea where where she could be at, huh?
>> No idea.
>> And I wasn't early with more help. We could find her and I I can stop being goddamn Anthony.
>> I don't Well, let me ask you this, Anthony. Um, speaking of that, not that. But speaking of Did you talk to Sergeant Criminal, by the way?
>> Criminal?
>> Yeah, remember I gave you the name. I wanted to know who was the sergeant on scene when they >> Oh, yeah. Sergeant call. They put me on a They put me a whole long time then.
>> Yeah.
>> Um let me ask you this. Um when they were there um they had they found quite a few gun boxes.
>> Mhm.
>> Where are all those guns at that they found? A Mason gun box.
>> Mhm.
>> What's that for? Th those are all the guns I have bought, but I end up selling like a whole bunch of guns because I wasn't allowed to carry them more than just who' you sell them to.
>> Uh just random people cuz there's no reg.
>> Do you know who you know who you sell these people to?
>> It's like cheap people. I mean I too people you know you see gun.
>> Would that apply to the Jericho gun?
>> All those guns.
>> Every gun on here >> except the Smith and Wesson because you still have that. That's what I have.
Right. Okay.
>> Well, let me ask you, um, Anthony, what about um they found a rifle magazine?
>> Mhm. Where's the rifle?
>> No, I don't. That was one of those gun boxes. I just I had a lot of extra magazines, but that's my >> You sold the rifle. When did you sell all these guns?
>> Oh, [ __ ] After Well, after I caught my case.
>> Last last year.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay. time maybe I'll say 6 months when I caught my case. I was trying to do a lot of research and so on indictment I cannot where the judge said you can't be around firearms drugs or I'm like that's like >> so who's um when did you catch the case?
>> I want to say 112 November last year this time last year.
>> If it's not this time last year it's a year before. I've been dealing with this case for almost a little over a year.
>> Okay. So >> rough roughly this time last year. I I never let a writer check.
>> Yeah. So, it's about a little over a year. So, that's about that.
>> I checked to make sure you had no warrants cuz I wanted to make sure it wasn't murder.
>> Fortunately, not this guy, man.
>> While it wasn't murder, Anony's criminal past had all the makings of turning him into one who would commit it. In March 2019, he attacked a previous girlfriend at the same West 98th Street apartment.
It was flagged as high-risk domestic violence by authorities. Despite that, the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor and he served zero days in jail. Then came an OVI arrest in Macedonia in October 2021 where he was caught with a Smith and Wesson in his vehicle. That case resulted in a judge ordering him not to possess firearms, an order he was clearly violating. And if that didn't of suspicion enough, Anthony had also begun ripping the carpets out of his apartment right after Adriana went missing.
>> The only thing that's really kind of confused on is Uh, well, there's a couple of things. Um, the carpeting being removed from the apartment. Why' you do that?
>> Because they're bugs. I kind of went crazy when I had a vision that I was going to take up the car. I took up the carpet and I had it sitting in my house for like almost two weeks. When did you remove the carpet?
>> After she left.
>> After she left. I won't say week after she left. It might have been like a week or so. And I s Um, so first week of October or something. First week of October. Okay.
Did you tell the landlord you did that?
>> No.
>> Did you tell the landlord you have bed bugs?
>> No. Why not?
>> I took care of myself.
>> Yeah, but you left other carpeting in there. So that bugs don't hang carpeting, by the way.
We know that now, right? But this reason why. So a lot of stuff that I can take like my two and like I just do it by myself because she live all the way in strong I'm not going to bother moment if I can take care of myself whatever and when I pulled up so I had this vision that I was going to uh basically sand the floor and just try to make a horrible just right there but I just didn't finish it.
>> Yeah. Okay. Um, but why you just cuz there's carpeting in the dining room, I think they said, >> in the bedroom.
>> There's carpet all over the place. I was going to pull the carpeting in my room.
Hold on.
>> Where did you see the bed bugs at?
>> I saw it on the couch cuz it bit me and I was all in the lining of the couch.
Then I seen him u thought I seen them on the floor, but it's like moving floor like it's moving.
But I really have that vision. But when I y I see the couch I t the cushions uh and the burnos. I had to cut the couch apart. Another reason I destroyed the couch. I wasn't carrying it back downstairs right that couch was get in there and my window when you walking up the steps there's this window. Me and my friend broke that window to kind of get that couch in there.
>> So you cut the couch up?
>> I cut the couch up. I'm done.
>> And the fire pit.
>> What about the carpeting? Uh, no. The carpet I just wrapped up and just put on the side of the uh house. It sat in my It sat in the dining room for about two or three. You can't throw away both stuff until like the first and then I threw away with when it came and got the B garbage.
>> Yeah. All you threw away at that point.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, >> you haven't told the landlord yet that you cut the carpeting up?
>> No. Probably not going to go so well.
I'm a birthday char. I don't believe I'm get back at the deposit on one 600 bucks. When I moved in, the place only 600 a month. That's all dope.
>> Yeah.
>> But when the market seemed to Oh, the market went up to this guy like why 600 was good.
>> Yeah.
>> What are we doing here?
>> So, uh, so you did all this in the first week in October, right?
>> And then the carpeting got picked up by the garbage man eventually.
>> Mhm.
>> And then you burned you burned the whole the whole freaking couch.
No, I just like certain pieces of it like the uh wood parts like that and uh I cut the wood parts. There's like metal in there.
You can't burn the metal. So metal.
>> Yeah.
>> Like the cushions. I just took those away, threw those away. Uh the cushions are burned.
>> So anything you could burn off the couch you burn in the trash.
>> Yeah.
>> What day is garbage day for you guys?
>> Tuesday.
>> Tuesdays. You put it on Monday?
>> I put out No, I put out Tuesday. when it comes to Wednesday.
>> Okay. But that was all last month. All right. Um do you are you would you stay there? Are you sleeping there or what are you doing?
>> I was sleeping there but I've been sleeping with my wife her house >> in at her house with her mom >> in your life. Okay.
>> Cuz I would sometimes sleep at her house and I sleep in my house. You know what I mean?
>> When is the last time that you slept there?
>> You got a bed here?
>> There is.
>> Yeah. You got rid of the mattresses.
>> So, I sprayed the mattress like pure alcohol. I plan on getting rid of those.
Um, but I sprayed with pure alcohol. I got a air bed in the other room. That place was infected. So, I was sleeping there.
>> Yeah. Or I would left the room and stuff like that.
>> So, the rest of it you just sprayed in the front there, but you walk through the back door and you're in the kitchen.
>> Then you're in the dining room and then you're in the front front room. That's where you That's where the carpeting was gone.
>> Mhm.
>> Okay. And that's a bigger front room that you had a TV and couch and all that kind of junk in there at one time.
>> Okay. Um, >> and those other chairs I was going to cut those lazy boy chairs or something.
>> Yeah. I don't know.
>> I might still I'm not fairing down the steps. I'm telling that now. So they might on the chopping block.
>> Yeah. So how did you get that couch out?
Because couches are metal. So I mean you got old metal frame couch. Did you throw it on the back window or something to help you or what?
>> But when I got a bunch of stairs out No, I cut it in pieces.
>> Yeah, but it's metal. I'll cut it with the um So the way the couch is structured.
>> Yeah. So all wood the only metal is the springs.
>> Yeah.
>> And the metal the springs are metal and the one thing that's connected to metal cuz a saw a box can cut through metal and through boards.
got a little unc.
>> Yeah.
>> So, I used the the clipper things that I have clipped the metal things and it like open up the spring. I was able to cut it and then I took the metal for the metal piece I could take. I threw that in the bed and threw that away. But all the other parts I just burned.
>> Anybody help you do that?
>> Yes, ma'am. Just you carpeting by yourself, too?
>> Okay. All right. Um, one other thing I want to ask you. Um, is the holes in the wall? Did you Did you patch those holes in the wall?
>> I got to patch them. I have You seen when they came in, they seen a ton of paintings. Half of those paintings I painted myself.
>> Yeah.
>> There's a angel on the wall that's being disintegrated. I painted her. There's other stuck in the house. So, >> yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, I did like a lot of paintings. So, at this point, detectives are looking at a man who gutted his apartment the week his girlfriend vanished, who's blamed her for everything, and who owns guns he's legally barred from having. But they have one more card to play. Adriana's car was caught on a license plate reader in Pennsylvania on October 12th, just 4 days after her family last heard from her, and it showed Anthony was the one driving it. Detectives believe this was his trip to bury her body in the backyard of his sister's home in Wilkinsburg. The Ring doorbell footage from Thanksgiving, which came weeks later, would have been him returning to add more concrete or further conceal the grave. A revelation that isn't about to sit well with him.
>> Did you ever drive Adriana's car?
>> You have you?
>> Yeah. Okay. Because uh one time I don't know how this happened I had like a big like sore in my tire and I had to get to work and she let me use her car and then I would take her car sometimes to the gas station put gas in the for you know some [ __ ] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> So then I take her gas car gas in the type of deal you know. Uh and then >> yeah just like to go places while you got >> Yeah. And then she would use my truck.
You know what I'm saying?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, obviously you haven't driven that car then since you left, right?
>> She left with that car.
>> Um, yesterday I asked you about West Virginia. I do know she was in West Virginia in the first week of October there and you said she has peach there, but you don't know is what you eat the Yeah. But you don't know if they're family friends or you don't know anything about people.
>> The never the only person I met was I worked for her and that's supposed to be her best friend.
Desawn. Desa.
>> She's a female. That's the only one I knew. I knew cuz I I worked.
>> Is this a West Virginia girl?
>> No, she she lives. Oh.
>> Have you ever been to West Virginia with Adriana?
>> No.
>> Right now. Um, and I'm not saying you did anything wrong, but I'm telling you.
Um, just man, man. You know, right now is the time if you have anything that you want to tell me because this is all going to come to that here soon. And if you're holding back or if you know what happened, you know where a car's at or she's at anything, now is the time to say something.
>> Yeah, you need to do anything to hurt cuz I'm going to be honest with you.
It's a little suspicious.
>> That is a criminal question and it does look suspicious, but that question I will answer with a lawyer.
>> Okay. All right. Uh, fair enough. Um, >> I went there for a second and I'm just because I told you >> she is in good health. She's okay. I just don't know her whereabouts. I've been one fair before as the last.
>> How do you know she's in good health?
>> I believe she's in good health.
>> You believe she's in good health?
>> My father she's in good health. She everything knowed about it.
>> Well, I can tell you that we got the sheriff's firm and the FBI out there.
>> Sure. So, if you know where she's at, again, that would be the time to call me because this is going to get way worse.
>> And sir, if you could uh please hand over your cell phones. We have a search warrant for those.
>> One of our news.
>> What's that, sir?
>> How long is my phone?
>> Uh we have where we have a search warrant for them. So, you're going to have to provide them to us.
>> Well, how long did you collect my phone?
Um, I'll work for you.
>> Yeah, we could we could hook that up for you.
>> I'll try to hand I'll work for you.
Okay.
>> We don't want you get in trouble for that.
>> Um, and um, so we're going to take those FBI process these things.
I mean, if you if you have further force so we don't have to do all this stuff, that would be helpful for all of us.
All I noticed is it's something you hand out is a much better much better option for you. Um I think I think you know I've been fair with you.
I've been honest with you and everything right but there's there's a lot of and quite frankly I didn't even get into to everything. Um, I just wanted to show you that one last.
That's just one thing. And >> the image detectives showed him is the same one captured by the license plate reader in Pennsylvania. And clearly, it's enough to break the camel's back.
And Anthony immediately requests a lawyer. But moments later, after attending a Zoom court hearing for an unrelated case, he tells detectives he has something to add. And the story he's cooked up is almost too stupid to believe.
>> I'm going to put the camera back on. All right. I'm going to ask you uh tell you a few things. I want to make sure you understand um you know you're you're continuing this on but you'll just no setup question. I'm just going to explain to you you know what we've been doing because it's been two hours. You know what I mean?
>> What is it that you wanted to you wanted to add?
You don't want my life to be in danger.
>> You don't want what?
>> I don't want my life to be in danger.
>> You You don't want your life to be in danger? Okay. Um Well, I don't want your life to be in danger either, Anthony.
Okay.
>> They say that all the time.
>> I know. I don't like that.
>> I know. But >> there's a greater reason why I kicked her out.
>> There's a greater reason why you kicked her out.
>> I'm not driving across. I'm not trying to talk. She asked me about a big name, a PA.
>> A big name.
>> A big drug name.
>> Drug name. Okay. There's a there's a house.
>> Just hang tight. It's okay. All right.
>> I don't want my life to be in danger.
>> Okay. I don't want your life to be in danger either.
>> Was involved in a lot more. There's a house that they keep scamming. They do drugs like camera. They do a lot of things. And when the last time I saw her and she was leaving, the reason why I had 400 pills.
>> What kind of pills?
>> Okay. She had like four of them. Like a ton of them.
>> About 400 pills is what you're saying.
And this is back at the end of September, beginning of October. And that is uh another reason or the reason why you you kicked her out, right? Is what you're saying?
>> It's time just to to trust me and trust yourself. And let's just >> I don't want to end up dead.
>> No, I don't want you dead.
>> I have a name, but I don't >> In what city in Pennsylvania are you referring to?
Uh she was asking me about Westgate.
Westgate. Westgate. This Westgate they call the gates. It's about that project.
She was as about that. Then she as Philadelphia been in Philadelphia. And then uh I can't remember neighborhood she asked me about but the people that run this place, their guns, the killers, they don't play. They're They How does she know these people? These are people she g with. These are people she grow with. She be down. That's who she mess with. And I believe she's messing. I don't know if he's the kingpin or one of the bigger people there, but that's a gentleman. She's like uh I can't get his name. I know his street name, but I don't want to give his name cuz I don't want to. And it's the city is called Westgate or the neighborhood is called Westgate.
>> I guess it's a city >> or city.
>> So Psburg is in Bur, >> right? I know. So Westgate's the bur.
And you're saying that's what she was asking about like and I told her that's the gates of hell and she said, well, do you know who's big out there? I was like, I don't go over there.
>> But she didn't grow up in Pennsylvania.
>> She didn't grow up in Pennsylvania.
>> No. I don't know how she would know these people. because of the people they talking the people here in Cleveland.
That's know the people in Westgate.
That's what I'm saying is what you're saying >> before I don't want them. You know, they got people there. They got people there.
They got the state kind of.
>> So when you're referring to the big name, you're referring to a big name here in Cleveland.
>> Yeah. There's a big name here in Cleveland >> that deals with people in Westgate, >> right? She was asking me if I knew somebody a big name in West.
>> Yeah.
>> You know what I mean? Like he's big out there. I don't know.
>> You don't know anybody?
>> But you're saying that the gates of hell the people over here like I said a building they do scam. They sell drugs.
U like I've never been down there. This is stuff she told me in confidence, >> you know.
>> Well, in our earlier conversation, you had said that you you took the car to Pennsylvania. Okay.
>> I'm not driving that car.
>> You're not driving that car.
>> I'm trying I was trying to protect her.
>> So, when you said that you were taking it to to avoid the repo guy, that was not true.
>> That's not true. I just said this. I said ear when you buy truck. That's true. I'm trying to avoid the repo, man.
I just use that when I'm trying to protect her cuz these people are scary.
They're very scary. And like her cousins and stuff like, "Oh, we're going to get up, you know, stuff." I said, "They're not compared to the people that she's dealing with." And uh I was just scared cuz she wanted me to go where I said, "I'm not I'm not I'm not I don't do I'm not good with drug stuff. I don't do good with drug stuff.
That stuff make I don't do good with it, you know? Especially have the old boy downstairs." No. And >> well, the next obvious question is I need the name of who you're referring to so I can investigate.
>> I don't want to get that out cuz I don't want to be killed.
>> Okay. You're not going to get killed.
What I'm doing?
>> Detective. Listen, that say that. But then when it happens, then what?
I'm telling you that when I conduct an investigation for a missing person such as this, okay, words crossing state lines and everything else, okay? Um, it's it's a matter of I go to people and I talk to people and I don't sit there and say, "Oh, so and so told me this, so and so told me that." Okay.
>> Can we get that right? Can we get that right?
>> What's on camera right there?
>> No, no, no. What I'm saying is that if you approach this person that I didn't have nothing to do with telling him about what they're into.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I got we got the video camera. That's public information.
>> If requested.
>> Yeah.
>> It's just not open to anybody.
>> Yeah. You guys got to get a a public information request.
>> Officer allowed to you know >> I can't tell you anything that's false.
Anything. I can't promise you anything.
I can't promise you. you tell me this, then you're going to you're going to I can't do any of that. Okay? It's not going to change the outlook on what's going on with all the other stuff and all the other information we have.
>> No, I cuz as far as me, I'm know I'm innocent. I've done nothing wrong. But I just know his street name. I don't know his name.
>> What's the street name? That's fine.
Then you definitely didn't give me any information. That's something I would have to really investigate to find out whose street name is is is associated with the real name of the street name.
His name is Bear.
>> Bear like uh the animal.
>> Anony's story sounds like something ripped from a cheap thriller. His girlfriend was wrapped up in a drug operation called the gates of hell run by a man named Bear. She had 400 pills on her and was asking about kingpins in Pittsburgh. All while poor little Anthony was just the scared boyfriend caught up in a world he didn't understand. And the moment he's challenged on the story, Anthony will do what he does best. Curl up and run from it all.
>> You're going to stick with the or insist that you didn't take that car to Pennsylvania. Right. Is that Is that where you're Is that what you're saying?
>> I like you just want to talk to a lawyer.
>> Yeah. cuz I feel like my life will be in danger. The information I give you, I You're not I feel my life. Thank you. I really do.
I just gave you my life. Thank you.
>> Well, um you know, we're not going to do anything to put you purposely in danger.
That's for sure. Um that's just not anything anything consistent with all the other information we have in regards to this at all, quite quite frankly.
So, um, but yeah, if you want to speak to an attorney, then, uh, we'll go ahead and end that interview and then, uh, you can go about your business. We'll give you these phones back to you after that, search warrants executed.
>> With his second request for a lawyer, Anthony is free to leave. This is where we jump forward 2 weeks to when officers recovered the surveillance footage from Thanksgiving night, showing Anthony pulling up to a house in Wilkinsburg, opening his trunk, and walking to the backyard. That house belonged to Anony's sister, who was living on rent and did not own the home. By the time officers arrived to check the scene, the landlord had quite a lot to say.
>> Uh there was alert on the ring cam that my fiance showed me maybe I don't know about 5:46.
>> Okay.
>> So, it was some, you know, piece of [ __ ] back here underneath my lap or whatever.
>> Yeah.
>> So, I drove up here in about 90 seconds.
I'm like, "No, back at my house. Where are you?" Blah blah blah. and he was like, "Um, Kathy's brother."
So, I'm like, "Did he did he say his name?"
>> Uh, so no, I couldn't remember.
>> Okay. And I was just like, you know, like so, you know, I'm like whatever. He say, so then um uh so at that point I go back. Oh, so then uh so this encounter happened over there.
>> Correct. on the other side of my box truck.
>> All right.
>> So, so that happened or whatever and uh I made up with him and uh he had another shovel in a bag or whatever. Then he jumps in the car and they speed off.
>> What car?
>> The police got here and uh I let him know what was going on and everything.
>> And then uh you know and I told him like the one cop was unfathomably dismissive.
Officer Beers.
>> Okay.
>> Unfathomably condescending and dismissive you know. And uh and um so then he was about to leave. He just dismissed it. He said it like three or four times. I said, "Don't go to the trouble to do things of this nature."
Just took my ladder, you know, on a real estate company. I take losses all the time. I'm pretty good at it.
>> Yeah. So, uh, moving forward, uh, um, so the guy was about to leave and he told my fiance and I, um, when we found out what was in the in the thing to give him a call back. I mean, I don't know if you guys operate like that, but that was pretty.
>> So then at that, how did you find out what that it was about?
>> Oh, because uh, he made my fiance and I dig it out and beat on it with sledgehammers and [ __ ] until my cousin went as my cousin held the flashlight.
Yeah, we're >> they didn't do [ __ ] We literally cracked the case.
>> Okay.
>> With the sledgehammer [ __ ] you know.
>> So, uh, >> all these tools are your tools.
>> Absolutely. That is correct.
>> Okay. So, so when I'm just trying to get the timeline.
>> Okay. Sure. So, >> so, hang on. So, when they arrive, you you meet them here. You meet the cops here.
>> That is correct.
>> You show them this. You're like, "This [ __ ] isn't right."
>> Absolutely.
>> And they're like, "It's not a big deal.
Whatever."
>> Absolutely.
>> Did they then completely depart the scene?
>> The only way that we could keep them here is if you start breaking up.
>> Absolutely.
>> I got you. All right. you start breaking it up, >> right? So, I rolled back. I'm like, "Just stop. I I'll do it. I don't want her to swing with sledgehammer and all that and everything."
>> Um, so I I came back here, bust everything up.
>> I'm I'm hitting it, hitting it, hitting it. So, then the side cracks over here where the black plastic was >> and I hit it a little more. Some [ __ ] got my face. I spit it out, but it was dirt. And then the cop cut it and then something liquid came out. You smell this unfeatherly putrid odor. You know, obviously we know what that is. Then, oh man, it might be a dog. Like, who would go through the trouble to bury dog in this matter? It's It's absurd.
>> Yeah.
>> So, Officer Bears, man, he he deserves a medal, honestly. But uh you know, we're pretty about it.
>> Yeah.
>> And uh [ __ ] isn't cool, man.
>> No.
>> You know, and uh >> yeah, we're literally about to walk into the bowling alley before you guys called us.
>> Sorry for that. Yeah, we uh we gave him the number and everything. If you guys need to come again, you just give us a call.
>> Okay, we're I get it. I'll make myself available. I'm punable and easy to deal with. Okay.
>> Unlike Officer Bears.
>> With the landlord's very understandable hatred for Officer Bears, detectives eventually recovered the body buried in the backyard. Tragically, it was Adriana's. She had been shot and buried under layers of concrete. After the discovery, Anthony fled across the country. A nationwide manhunt involving several police departments and the FBI was launched. Six days later, on November 30th, Anthony surrendered at Alageney County Police Headquarters with a defense attorney at his side. He was indicted on 13 felony counts.
Ultimately, he plead guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, tampering with evidence, and other related offenses. He was sentenced to life in prison with first parole eligibility after 20 years. Our thoughts are with Adriana's mother, her father, her siblings, and everyone who loved her. Thanks for watching. 80% of everyone watching isn't subscribed. If this is the kind of content you stick around for, subscribing helps us keep making exactly this. It's free and it goes a long way.
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