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.
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.
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
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?!😢
Five minutes in and it's clear to see how poorly the police dealt with Darci. No empathy, no information, there's so much they could have done to make this situation better for Darci and they need to undergo better training for this type of situation. Shocking to see the lack of care and empathy. I would be yelling and argumentative too, knowing my child was there and nobody was showing me any care or respect. Kindness is free and we should spread it everywhere.
It's because cops have fragile egos and they probably (despite the circumstances) took it to their feelings when she originally approached screaming and cursing. Instead of understanding her stress and what she's probably going through, they took it personally and tried to have control.
@@jackkawf4449 What are you talking about? She could've been the killer for all they knew at that moment in time. They aren't there to answer her questions, asking about the gun, asking about his injuries. Then moaning about them not doing anything while she's the one holding them up. She shouldn't have been there, simple. Her family and friends, whoever that is with her, they should took her away from the scene.
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
@@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.
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 😢
@@CandyKG28 I completely agree with that but at the same time they police were just staring at the distort mother of the victim and not telling her that they have to do this or that, they were just over all completely wrong with the way they handled this in counter
ridiculous. Were you not watching? There's obviously history there, but even putting that aside, she immediately started blaming the cops that they were covering up for someone and that's why they wouldn't let her go to the car.
@@tylerfb1 She just wanted to know... telling her if her kid is alive doesnt change much toward the investigation. These cops are a joke I would blame them to. Most of them of scum bags, power hungry, or completely unqualified to be cops. You think I would trust someone that only needed 16-20 weeks or training and no college education to carry a gun and under my rights. Countless cases of them being fired for jus cause and rehired because they protect their own get real you peon
@@tylerfb1 dude she just found out her daughter died, of course she wasn't in her right mind in that moment. Ppl take news like that in a variety of different ways. Have just a tad of sympathy for why she would maybe respond with anger. Especially how smug the police were...
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?
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!
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...
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!!!😢 💐
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
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
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!!!
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.
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.
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
They are police officers investigating a case, not therapists there to help Darci through trauma. Would you rather they give condolences and pick roses for her or figure out WHO murdered her daughter? Damn, people love to let their emotions run their lives and it shows.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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".
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?
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
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
@@stormy7318ur weird af for judging a grieving mother who literally had nothing to do with her daughters murder…calling her insincere ? What’s wrong with you ?
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.
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.
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. 💜
@@Maggi-lm6rfunfortunately when your body is going through a massive shock and trauma it doesn't always make logical choices. she deserved compassion, understanding, and to have someone be patient with her rather than stand there callous, cold and silent. they escalated the situation when they could've done the opposite.
Well unless you have been through something like that you cannot talk about how she reacted,plus everyone reacts diffrent,the police should know how to calm a situation down,they could have spoke to her,pulled her aside.. I have had the police knock at my door with the same news,belive me your world is ripped away,everyone else carries on around you while your world comes to a stop.. My heart truly goes out to her 🙏🏻☮🌻💜🙏🏻☮🌻💜
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 is such an incredibly difficult video to watch. To see her mother just begging the officers for any kind of information and they all just ignore her… heartbreaking. Plus, my daughter’s name is Olivia and we exclusively call her Livi. 😭
Reminded me of when my sister called the doctor a liar when he told us our other sister had passed. It is an understandable reaction, but it doesn't make life easier for professionals who have to deal with tragedy everyday. Plus, any leaked information could have jeopardized finding and convicting her killer. They were on the mother's side. The mother wouldn't realize it until she calmed down...or burned down Matthew's house. After the experience losing my sister, I could not imagine being a doctor or first responder who sees that all the time. They all must get nightmares and have ptsd.
That was horrible. Even without training, you can be more sensitive to a stressed out mother when you know she is about to receive the worst news of her life (and she had probably heard the rumours already)
@@MANGONPRAWN Her reaction would've been tough to watch if she was five miles away from the crime scene surround by loved ones. Mental health concerns of small southern towns come far behind the calling for more tax cuts.
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!!!
Matthew is nothing but a coward! I’m glad he’s finally behind bars. And for his mother to not make him man up, and hold himself accountable, is a huge part of why he is who he is! She did her son no favors in life! I hope she’s prosecuted and serves time for her bs!
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’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.
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.
I have all the time and sympathy for Darcy. Just remembering the outburst of grief i had when my sister called to say my Mum had died, which was bad enough, I cannot fathom how I'd react in Darcy's position, bein told my daughter had died. I don't think i could hold it together at all, and I'm actually pretty good at dealing with difficult situations and emergencies. My deepest sympathy to her and her family for the loss of her daughter.
When I got the call that my mom had passed (I was only 21yo), I unwillingly hit the floor to my knees and screamed. It was uncontrollable, too. Couldn't breathe, and it just didn't feel real. She passed from liver sarcoma - cancer. I am so sorry for your loss!! ❤
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.
@@bigl9478 Um that’s because comments like mine are the ones that are gaining more popularity. If you actually read through them you’d see that. But go off 😂🤣😂🤣
@@HailDanielleI think you're mistaking comments against Mathews Mom as being against Darci. I have read hundreds of comments and not one is against Darci but tons are against Mathews mother.
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 ❤️
I'm with Darci 100%. When my son was shot, and the only info I had was a paramedic telling me that he had been shot in the head, getting to the hospital, and then having to wait for someone to give me any kind of info. I ended up watching the cop and seeing what room he went in and following him in there.. I was going to see my child one way or another. Thank God it was only a graze(trust me, I appreciate those 2cm so much!!) I understand that they had a job to do, but until you're a parent in that moment, you have no idea just what you'll do to get to your child. It's an ache and urge that you can't fight.. as a Mother, I applaud her, I'd have done the same.
My heart goes out to you and all the mom's who had to go thru this loss of losing their baby(ies) Believe me it's hard and also feel helpless when we got the news my brother was murdered and hearing my mom upon given the news. Also to the dad's but for a mom it's deeper cuz they carried us for 9 months. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
So you would possibly contaminate and obstruct the officers while they’re trying to investigate the crime scene? Makes 0 sense to do that and not allow them to do their job! I have no sympathy for those that try to obstruct a CLEAR crime scene!
@@jocolli I wouldn't touch anything, I'm not stupid..but I'm going to find out what's going on. It's one thing to secure a scene.. it's a whole nother level, letting that woman just spin. That's cruel.. it's not like they didn't know that she was deceased.
Too bad men are mentally damaged until they can’t feel anything anymore so they have no idea right from wrong… & they hate women in this region. That’s why they treated Darcie that way.
I can't tell if you're actually serious @@jocolli. That woman just lost her child in one of the most horrific ways imaginable, and you're telling me that you would not be there with your child, possibly for the last time. I have no sympathy for those who have no compassion for others like yourself.
@@Caitlin-bd9ypI watched the entire video. How do you take away that the mother covered up her daughters death? Unless they all used the same drug dealer mob??? I’m lost🤦♀️
This is terrifying. I had a boyfriend like this. He became an absolute monster when he was drunk and he didn’t care about who he hurt or the consequences of his actions. It’s sickening to see how much compassion they lend to this killer meanwhile none to the grieving mother
What is it with Whisky? I’ve seen a few videos that for some reason it seems to work so poorly with some. Not saying other booze is any different or that it’s an excuse. Just something I noticed 💔 Glad your boyfriend is an ex!!! ❤
@@trishah2145Jim beam with a chaser of Gatorade or Powerade was my drink of choice. Brought out the WORST in me. I’m 3 years free from alcohol 🎉 now. I prolly coulda hurt someone in my drunken stupor. If the devil’s real, booze is his elixir!
Liquor in itself is a “Spirit” Hence some of the stores are “Wine and Spirits”. And everyone handles liquor and beer and different liquor and beer differently.
I've lost a child and I was surprised Darcie held it together so well. Unless you've been through it, you have no idea. When she laid back on the street, for just a moment, she started to let herself feel it. Then she got right back to trying to figure out what has just happened to her life.
I was a howling banshee when I got the news of my 18 year old sister had been killed. One the other students carried me out off the classroom after I collapsed. My teacher and close friend stayed with me in the parking lot while my cousin went and got her car.
So sorry for your loss. Our children, unfortunately, like everything, are only lent to us for a limited time. It sucks. I hope you find inner peace and strength. However unnatural and horrible, I'm certain your child would wish for your happiness 😢
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 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."
darci's reaction to 'she is not alive' has me sobbing. she was so mad at not knowing that she already had her angry words formed, and it seemed like shed assumed livye was alive ("okay well you could've!...) which and then she ig processes it and just. im sobbing
I was appalled by the coldness of the police towards Darcy, she lost her baby daughter and worse the girl was still after three hours laying in that car. Yes, she was loud and foul-mouthed but I honestly believe there is a part as a parent you would lose half your sanity. They didn't talk to her just watched her like she was the main entertainment source of the day. Never have I seen such brutal distancing and coldness from amgroup of people who should have known more than a bloody trolly collector in how to approach a parent that walks in on the murder scene of their child. Shocking and devastating to watch. My heart hurts for this woman. My god the sheer horror of it all.
@@Andrea-ym9jjwell clearly they are trailer trash but that doesn’t negate their feelings. The trash guys they have around them in their lives is more proof of this
@@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!
I am really glad you covered this case. I worked heavily on bringing justice to Livye when Matthew went on the run. We made flyers for his apprehension and distributed them on the regular when Twitter was still Twitter. A small group of us worked tiresly on leads from the community & socials trying to track down Matthew & shared those leads with law enforcement when we had something viable. I appreciated seeing this side of the case.
Thank you for all you and others did to help. Being from a big city I have seen that police departments have a chaplain that responds to crime/accident scenes. Maybe continued efforts can be a push towards getting the local police to put a support team in place to help families.
They should have told the mother ASAP. That made the entire situation so much more traumatic than it should have been. I’m surprised that she kept it together so well. Bless her and the families that this touched.
I believe she was in shock, she had not seen her daughter so that glimmer of hope that Livye was alive was still there, she hoped the police were wrong.
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
I feel so sorry for this mother. The police did not handle this well, they were just ignoring her when she’s asking what happened. Just awful. There has to be some sort of training to handle these types of situations because this was very disgusting.
No, it’s folks that have no idea what they are talking about. First, the mother shoukd have never gotten close to the scene. Second, outside people can contaminate your crime scene. Third, release information that can hinder the case and a murderer walks free. Allow the mother to run around the crime scene. Guarantee the Ldefense can raise reasonable doubt easily. A jury might feel the suspect is guilty, but the crime scene evidence was contaminated. Killer walks free. A proper term used fir this is : FRUITS OF THE POISONOUS TREE! One piece of evidence gets tainted, ALL gathered evidence there after is assumed to be tainted! A killer walks. Educate yourself before assuming things that are not true or the reasons why big cases are kept quiet. It’s not always personal. Besides, how many run-in with law enforcement. Has the family had overall 😮gh the years? Police can only give very little info. Why do you folks not understand that?? In this case. A smaller department Woukd request The Louisiana State Bureau of Investigation. To come to the scene and collect evidence. Some chemicals used are so expensive to use and dispose of. By calling in the state, the state pays for the investigation. With expert crime scene evidence technician detectives. Saves taxpayers and ensures a conviction. Any of that make sense actually
@@jamesarcher1289thank you for being sensible the amount of idiots in the comment section defending this crackhead moms actions is crazy to me. Her daughter was murdered and all she can think about is “ME ME ME” “MY DAUGHTER THIS MY DAUGHTER THAT” instead of letting the cops do their damn job she gotta be the center of attention…embarrassing
@@imking100neither one of you have children nor have ever pictured your children literally being murdered and you receiving a call saying there’s an accident with unknown details lol have self awareness or sympathy she reacted perfectly normal
@@imking100it’s literally the police’s fault that she was all up in there like that to begin with. They waited until she was already getting confrontational to tell her about her daughter, and then didn’t go on to explain they need to process the crime scene Not everyone just knows these things, and thus the POLICE have to inform All they had to do is tell her about her child’s condition and what was happening. Leaving a grieving person confused and scared is bound to lead to problems, which as police, they should know better, not the mother. Sorry not everyone can keep a calm head when faced with literal death, let alone murder of their child, but it doesn’t make them “a crackhead.” or selfish for wanting to find out what happened lol
@@jamesarcher1289No one assumed it was personal. See you're just a hypocrite, automatically assuming that you know the situation because if your personal experience. Then going on a tangent about government paying for crime scenes and how "she shouldn't have been on the crime scene." That's the problem dude, The cops let her get that close to the crime scene and weren't able to DE-ESCELATE. You sure mentioned protocol a lot but didn't seem to mention that it's a police officer's job to de-escalate tough situations. They are not properly trained to handle the situation like this. Literally just typed the paragraph to contradict yourself.
Damn, when they FINALLY told Darci she was dead and she just fell backward in anguish I almost couldn't watch anymore, I just wanted to cry. You can see how distraught she is, and it's like absolutely no one there is trying to do anything about it. I can't even imagine being at a scene like that and just wanting an ANSWER and getting nothing, not knowing if you're loved one is in the ambulance, if they're dead, or what happened. And then you just have people staring at you. Like, dude, TALK TO HER. Tell her you're sorry. Ask if she needs to sit, if she needs some water, take her off to the side somewhere to get some air, ask her if she knows or can write down any details that might help with the investigation... Them just staring at her is driving ME nuts, I can only imagine how insane she felt she was going.
I think they were waiting for her or the guys she was with to attack them. They were watching them like they were wary of them. That's what it seemed like.
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.
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
Someone says it every time, but it is truly astonishing how these videos are free. The effort, research, analysis, and videography put into each video are amazing. And two videos in one week?! Feels like Xmas already. Thank you so much for the amazing content!!!
This is heartbreaking. I understand the mothers rage. Someone just finding out their child is deceased and no one is telling her anything would piss me off too. You dont make assumptions but you can definitely make an educated guess and tell her that information will be confirmed once the scene is processed. I can’t imagine how she felt seeing her child in that car
A lack of experience and training for these situations is clearly obvious, I'm confused as to why there was not one shred of basic human empathy. Surely many of the officers on the scene were parents themselves. Why did they have to be cagey? And the one officer never said she was "dead." He told her, "she is not alive." Why word it like that?????? An empathetic adult should've put their arm around and said, 'I'm going to telling you something that's going to be hard for you to hear....." and then stayed with her. But no....they seem more interested in protecting the crime scene and annoyed they have the mom there. Just horrible police work.
@@mindeloman I’m not saying they were right in how this was handled but I think this is a small community with a lot of drama surrounding certain people and the police didn’t want to deal with the drama especially at that location and moment. One even mentioned in the beginning that they knew who the victim and her mother were and they decided to process the scene before letting her know. (Unless I misunderstood something).
You absolutely are not allowed to make educated guesses when telling moms their kids are dead. I have a feeling the issue was knowing WHO the victim. She was obviously deceased but had head/neck trauma (shotgun and being beaten) so they may not have been certain it was actually her daughter. I think they finally just told her that to calm her down, but they probably weren't supposed to until the ME had made the ID. Maybe?
@@krisg71they DID have her id. they knew exactly who she was and that it was her kid. stop giving these dumbass cops benefit of the doubt, theyre just shit people.
Poor Livye. 😢 She was so young and beautiful. Those officers on the scene did not handle Darci with compassion. there was a lot of tension which leads me to believe that they all knew each other, whether that be from past issues, or just over the years of small town stuff, everyone knowing everyone, gossip, etc. Either way, if someone had just pulled that mama aside and hugged her and told her the sad news and what they're doing to investigate and that they would tell her as soon as they knew anything, she might not have become so helpless and upset on the scene. Broke my heart when she went from angry to sobbing, lying on the ground. Glad that they got some justice--though it definitely feels like others were involved in trying to help him switch vehicles and whatever else...
Right? Like I get the idea behind not notifying immediately, I understand what they were trying to do regardless as to whether or not I believe it was morally correct- but the second she showed up on scene she deserved to know right then and there. The second Darci showed up, their plan was out the window and she should have been told.
I am sorry, but she should have been removed from the scene immediately. At that moment, their job was to find out what happened to her daughter. She was preventing them from doing that and then getting on to them because they were not doing anything. You can tell there is some history there. It also looks to me that she is used to being handled with kid gloves. She seemed to think she had the right to demand answers. She has every right to understand what happened, but she is interfering with them being able to gather the information she wanted.
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 👼
It’s the cops demeanor that’s causing her to act like that. I understand they are investigating but at least tell her how you found her, that the other man was taken to the hospital and she was shot. Maybe it would calm her down a little. That’s her child in that car. Dead. Any normal mother would want answers. The cops are standing there like statues not saying a word. Have some empathy.
For all they know the mom could have been involved somehow and hypothetically if she was they could have gotten in trouble for releasing that information. They are just trying to keep their job!
The way these officers handled this was egregious. I am sure they wanted to investigate the scene without disruption, but once they knew everyone in town was being told about the scene, and especially when Darci showed up, they should have taken her aside, with the dignity and seriousness she deserved, and told her her daughter was dead, and they were working hard to figure out how she got that way, and how SORRY they are about her terrible loss. Instead, they allowed her to carry on, in agony, not getting any answers while they stared and blinked. They acted disgustingly
well maybe if she showed up with some damn sense instead of cursing and yelling at everyone she would have gotten answers sooner. we get it this is your daughter but thats not an excuse to act however you want
Just as fucking heartless, disrespectful, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, unprofessional as you can get. They treated her horribly.. she shoulda sue those police or something. What happened to that baby was so sad. In the neck with that gun. I can't imagine the pain of her mother
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. 🙏🕊️
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.
@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
@@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...
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
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 understand mom's reaction completely.. when my mom was murdered almost 5 years ago, I arrived on scene and they had my entire street blocked off. I ran up to the house and an officer stopped me and yelled at me to go straight to the police station. We argued for a few minutes but ultimately I went. The next morning at the hospital, one of the victims advocate representatives asked me why I didn't go see her first as I could have said good bye. I think about that to this day, it wrecked me. Just give us the information so we can process it. I promise we want to help you and your investigation on our loved ones. Just give us something, anything. We'll be your biggest help. So sorry to this beautiful woman Liyvie and her family. May she rest in peace and may her family find strength and love ❤
She was already gone; saying goodbye then or later doesn’t matter. How you say goodbye doesn’t matter, either. What matters is that you did. That’s it. That’s what matters. That representative had no right to say that to someone whose mother has just been murdered.
As someone who grew up with a father who was LEO 30 years, and then myself working in LE for 8 years, these cops handled this scene with the mother about as bad as I’ve ever seen.
Oh they were absolutely terrible. They should have had an ambulance on scene for the mother aswell. And the way the M.E. spoke to her was appalling. Idc if you do deal with dead bodies everyday if you can't understand the situation remove yourself.
How? She's acted like an unstable meth head. The scene is a murder scene. The scene must be contained and preserved. Everyone not wearing a badge should be as far away from the scene as possible. How are they to know that the family isn't involved? The LEOs can't reveal anything that could compromise the investigation. Exactly why everyone is silent.
The fact they treated the murdering pos with more compassion than they treated Darci just blows my mind. As Livyes mother she should have been the first person told. Are you telling me they couldnt send 2 officers to her home? Her whole world just crumbled all it would have taken was 1 officer to take her to the side tell her how sorry they were for her loss and explain it ess a crime scene and it needed to be preseved so they could get justice for her daughter.
1. They need him to feel comfortable so he incriminates himself. 2. They were going to wait until they processed the crime scene to specifically avoid hysterical family members on scene. 3. Once she is there, I get she is grieving, but that doesn't mean she gets to have free access to the scene or elicit speculation from the officers. They calmly told her multiple times they couldn't speak to it or let her through.
@@crispybatman480thank you! Society expects everything immediately now days, unfortunately in the real world it doesn’t work that way. Allowing her that close to the scene was not a good idea
This brought me to tears. This poor mother, my heart breaks for her. I understand this happened a few years ago but still I’d imagine this is still fresh to a mama. Rest in peace beautiful soul.
This case is sickening… the fact that Darci had zero sympathy given to her when the suspect is treated quite well. Unbelievable… seems like a case of “the gold ‘ol boys”. RIP to Livy and may her family have peace…
If you all could take a second to think… they need to act nicely to get information. It’s a strategy, are you really this dense that you don’t understand this? If they act aggressively towards the suspect, they’ll shut down and lawyer up. Y’all don’t think istg
Everything about this case was handled wrong. Does not look good for these small town police forces.this whole thing is just crazy. My heart goes out to Darcy. She got a raw deal!
Those officers did not handle that with ANY degree of compassion or humanity AT ALL.. not answering her questions, coldly telling her infront of literally everyone she’s not alive?! That was cruel beyond words.
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.
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
Delivering the news to next of kin is the least of the worries in that entire investigation, i swear you dudes act more chilidsh than anybody else
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
the pain on her face when the officer said he's not alive.. my heart breaks for her
She didn't look to upset to me. She was more interested in talking down to the cops.
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
Five minutes in and it's clear to see how poorly the police dealt with Darci. No empathy, no information, there's so much they could have done to make this situation better for Darci and they need to undergo better training for this type of situation. Shocking to see the lack of care and empathy. I would be yelling and argumentative too, knowing my child was there and nobody was showing me any care or respect. Kindness is free and we should spread it everywhere.
It's because cops have fragile egos and they probably (despite the circumstances) took it to their feelings when she originally approached screaming and cursing.
Instead of understanding her stress and what she's probably going through, they took it personally and tried to have control.
Even if they didn’t feel empathy. Cognitive empathy would’ve still helped a lot.
Why does the world revolve around you in that case? Would you not want the cops to find who did it?
Jesus, the entitlement is absolutely insane.
@@jackkawf4449 What are you talking about? She could've been the killer for all they knew at that moment in time. They aren't there to answer her questions, asking about the gun, asking about his injuries. Then moaning about them not doing anything while she's the one holding them up. She shouldn't have been there, simple. Her family and friends, whoever that is with her, they should took her away from the scene.
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
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.
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.
It’s the south what do you expect. You can see that on ALL SIDES there’s not a whole lot of IQ points to go around ya know? 😂🤡
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
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 😢
@@CandyKG28 I completely agree with that but at the same time they police were just staring at the distort mother of the victim and not telling her that they have to do this or that, they were just over all completely wrong with the way they handled this in counter
@@whatabouttheearth that was a little rude dude
How would you expect her to trust your investigation when you wouldn’t even tell her that she was dead. Ridiculous.
ridiculous. Were you not watching? There's obviously history there, but even putting that aside, she immediately started blaming the cops that they were covering up for someone and that's why they wouldn't let her go to the car.
@@tylerfb1 She just wanted to know... telling her if her kid is alive doesnt change much toward the investigation. These cops are a joke I would blame them to. Most of them of scum bags, power hungry, or completely unqualified to be cops. You think I would trust someone that only needed 16-20 weeks or training and no college education to carry a gun and under my rights. Countless cases of them being fired for jus cause and rehired because they protect their own get real you peon
@@tylerfb1 dude she just found out her daughter died, of course she wasn't in her right mind in that moment. Ppl take news like that in a variety of different ways. Have just a tad of sympathy for why she would maybe respond with anger. Especially how smug the police were...
@@ShinobiDrip999 I do. She shouldn’t have been there. The police should have moved her and talked to her somewhere else.
Typical swine. What do you expect from them?
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?
@@Yorokobi224in order to be a cop it should be a 4 year degree in law enforcement with a minor in social work
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!
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”…
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!!!😢 💐
Exactly!! We all
Grieve and process things differently.
She's behaving like a lunatic trying to contaminate evidence on a crime scene lol.
@@secondpath5148cause she lost… her daughter!? ofc she would be acting like that 💀
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 🤷🏻♂️
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
she wasn't helping BECAUSE of their actions. USA police create bad situations then complain about the consequences of their own actions
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
I’m a mom to a daughter and seeing this mom’s reaction broke me. This is heartbreaking 💔
I couldn’t even face it. I just know couldn’t go on. She was insanely strong.
I wouldn’t leave my baby either
@@georginablackwell7122 I’d be an absolute mess.
Same
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
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.
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
They are police officers investigating a case, not therapists there to help Darci through trauma. Would you rather they give condolences and pick roses for her or figure out WHO murdered her daughter?
Damn, people love to let their emotions run their lives and it shows.
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 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 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.
You know right away he's lying because he isn't asking "What happened to me? Was I in a car accident?"
I'm sure someone has already told him off camera.
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
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.
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
😭😭😭😭 that poor mom💔💔💔💔 I hope she can find calm and peace inside of her, even through all of the evil she had to experience. 🥺
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?
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
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
@@stormy7318ur weird af for judging a grieving mother who literally had nothing to do with her daughters murder…calling her insincere ? What’s wrong with you ?
They told him the same thing they told her.
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.
Oh my god I’m so sorry
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.
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. 💜
No she didn’t. Her loss doesn’t excuse ignorance
You are ignorant@@Maggi-lm6rf
@@Maggi-lm6rfunfortunately when your body is going through a massive shock and trauma it doesn't always make logical choices. she deserved compassion, understanding, and to have someone be patient with her rather than stand there callous, cold and silent. they escalated the situation when they could've done the opposite.
@@Maggi-lm6rfget out of here Maggie, in every comment hating on this grieving mother. Nobody wants you here!
Well unless you have been through something like that you cannot talk about how she reacted,plus everyone reacts diffrent,the police should know how to calm a situation down,they could have spoke to her,pulled her aside..
I have had the police knock at my door with the same news,belive me your world is ripped away,everyone else carries on around you while your world comes to a stop..
My heart truly goes out to her 🙏🏻☮🌻💜🙏🏻☮🌻💜
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
Darcey my heart truly goes out to you. The way you were treated was absolutely sociopathic and ice cold. So sorry to you 💚
This is such an incredibly difficult video to watch. To see her mother just begging the officers for any kind of information and they all just ignore her… heartbreaking.
Plus, my daughter’s name is Olivia and we exclusively call her Livi. 😭
Reminded me of when my sister called the doctor a liar when he told us our other sister had passed. It is an understandable reaction, but it doesn't make life easier for professionals who have to deal with tragedy everyday.
Plus, any leaked information could have jeopardized finding and convicting her killer. They were on the mother's side. The mother wouldn't realize it until she calmed down...or burned down Matthew's house.
After the experience losing my sister, I could not imagine being a doctor or first responder who sees that all the time. They all must get nightmares and have ptsd.
I understand they don't all know what's going on either or are doctors but they could've said something and tried to calm her down
Their job is to get the case finished and closed not pm motionly involved
That was horrible. Even without training, you can be more sensitive to a stressed out mother when you know she is about to receive the worst news of her life (and she had probably heard the rumours already)
@@MANGONPRAWN Her reaction would've been tough to watch if she was five miles away from the crime scene surround by loved ones.
Mental health concerns of small southern towns come far behind the calling for more tax cuts.
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
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.
Matthew is nothing but a coward! I’m glad he’s finally behind bars. And for his mother to not make him man up, and hold himself accountable, is a huge part of why he is who he is! She did her son no favors in life! I hope she’s prosecuted and serves time for her bs!
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'm glad y'all are sharing this story and have all the receipts. she was my distant cousin and her story needs to be told.
Sorry for your loss
My condolences 💐 to you and your family
I’m so sorry this happened to your family.
I’m sending you all so much love and healing
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
This mom just lost her baby. The lack of compassion here is astounding.
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.
I have all the time and sympathy for Darcy. Just remembering the outburst of grief i had when my sister called to say my Mum had died, which was bad enough, I cannot fathom how I'd react in Darcy's position, bein told my daughter had died. I don't think i could hold it together at all, and I'm actually pretty good at dealing with difficult situations and emergencies.
My deepest sympathy to her and her family for the loss of her daughter.
When I got the call that my mom had passed (I was only 21yo), I unwillingly hit the floor to my knees and screamed. It was uncontrollable, too. Couldn't breathe, and it just didn't feel real. She passed from liver sarcoma - cancer. I am so sorry for your loss!! ❤
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.
That poor mama. And then these heartless people in the comments judging her for how she is acting after her CHILD was found murdered
What are you talking about?! There isn’t a single comment like that 😂
@@bigl9478 Um that’s because comments like mine are the ones that are gaining more popularity. If you actually read through them you’d see that. But go off 😂🤣😂🤣
@@HailDanielleI think you're mistaking comments against Mathews Mom as being against Darci. I have read hundreds of comments and not one is against Darci but tons are against Mathews mother.
@@JeffreySmith-m3y I watched the video when it first came out. I saw some against Darci but I have scrolled and they’re hard to find now.
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!!
@shirajai OH I'm subscribed and checking before they can post another video. 😆
It's nice to hear from you all. Any ear catching clips yall know of, I may or have seen feel free to share or let me know. I'ma true Crime Finatic. 👍
I'm with Darci 100%. When my son was shot, and the only info I had was a paramedic telling me that he had been shot in the head, getting to the hospital, and then having to wait for someone to give me any kind of info. I ended up watching the cop and seeing what room he went in and following him in there.. I was going to see my child one way or another. Thank God it was only a graze(trust me, I appreciate those 2cm so much!!) I understand that they had a job to do, but until you're a parent in that moment, you have no idea just what you'll do to get to your child. It's an ache and urge that you can't fight.. as a Mother, I applaud her, I'd have done the same.
My heart goes out to you and all the mom's who had to go thru this loss of losing their baby(ies)
Believe me it's hard and also feel helpless when we got the news my brother was murdered and hearing my mom upon given the news.
Also to the dad's but for a mom it's deeper cuz they carried us for 9 months. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
So you would possibly contaminate and obstruct the officers while they’re trying to investigate the crime scene? Makes 0 sense to do that and not allow them to do their job! I have no sympathy for those that try to obstruct a CLEAR crime scene!
@@jocolli I wouldn't touch anything, I'm not stupid..but I'm going to find out what's going on. It's one thing to secure a scene.. it's a whole nother level, letting that woman just spin. That's cruel.. it's not like they didn't know that she was deceased.
Too bad men are mentally damaged until they can’t feel anything anymore so they have no idea right from wrong… & they hate women in this region. That’s why they treated Darcie that way.
I can't tell if you're actually serious @@jocolli. That woman just lost her child in one of the most horrific ways imaginable, and you're telling me that you would not be there with your child, possibly for the last time. I have no sympathy for those who have no compassion for others like yourself.
My heart goes out to Darci and the rest of Livye’s family. Such a senseless tragedy!❤️💓
Did you even watch the whole thing? The mother covered up her goddamn daughter's death and you feel bad for her?
@@Caitlin-bd9yp huh 💀
@@Caitlin-bd9ypI watched the entire video. How do you take away that the mother covered up her daughters death? Unless they all used the same drug dealer mob??? I’m lost🤦♀️
@@Caitlin-bd9ypwhat?!
@@Caitlin-bd9ypI don’t understand. What do you mean the mother covered up the daughter’s death?
I can't believe how these officers handled speaking to her mother. I am so sorry for this family that's truly heartbreaking 😢
This woman was obviously going through a beginning stage of grief. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for her.
This is terrifying. I had a boyfriend like this. He became an absolute monster when he was drunk and he didn’t care about who he hurt or the consequences of his actions. It’s sickening to see how much compassion they lend to this killer meanwhile none to the grieving mother
What is it with Whisky? I’ve seen a few videos that for some reason it seems to work so poorly with some. Not saying other booze is any different or that it’s an excuse. Just something I noticed 💔
Glad your boyfriend is an ex!!! ❤
@@trishah2145 yeah its crazy how it absolutely ruins some people! Thank you I’m so glad too❤️:)
@@trishah2145it's weird because Budweiser has the same affect with people.
@@trishah2145Jim beam with a chaser of Gatorade or Powerade was my drink of choice. Brought out the WORST in me. I’m 3 years free from alcohol 🎉 now. I prolly coulda hurt someone in my drunken stupor. If the devil’s real, booze is his elixir!
Liquor in itself is a “Spirit”
Hence some of the stores are “Wine and Spirits”. And everyone handles liquor and beer and different liquor and beer differently.
I've lost a child and I was surprised Darcie held it together so well.
Unless you've been through it, you have no idea.
When she laid back on the street, for just a moment, she started to let herself feel it.
Then she got right back to trying to figure out what has just happened to her life.
I was a howling banshee when I got the news of my 18 year old sister had been killed. One the other students carried me out off the classroom after I collapsed. My teacher and close friend stayed with me in the parking lot while my cousin went and got her car.
So sorry for your loss. Our children, unfortunately, like everything, are only lent to us for a limited time. It sucks. I hope you find inner peace and strength. However unnatural and horrible, I'm certain your child would wish for your happiness 😢
Held it together?
I’m sorry for your loss too.
We aren't meant to outlive our children, unfortunately, this is happening more and more often and it's frankly heartbreaking very sorry for your loss
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 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
darci's reaction to 'she is not alive' has me sobbing. she was so mad at not knowing that she already had her angry words formed, and it seemed like shed assumed livye was alive ("okay well you could've!...) which and then she ig processes it and just. im sobbing
It hurts to watch that😪
What’s the time stamp
I was appalled by the coldness of the police towards Darcy, she lost her baby daughter and worse the girl was still after three hours laying in that car. Yes, she was loud and foul-mouthed but I honestly believe there is a part as a parent you would lose half your sanity. They didn't talk to her just watched her like she was the main entertainment source of the day. Never have I seen such brutal distancing and coldness from amgroup of people who should have known more than a bloody trolly collector in how to approach a parent that walks in on the murder scene of their child. Shocking and devastating to watch. My heart hurts for this woman. My god the sheer horror of it all.
It’s because they think Darci is trailer trash
@@Andrea-ym9jjwell clearly they are trailer trash but that doesn’t negate their feelings. The trash guys they have around them in their lives is more proof of this
She's yelling and screaming. They are doing their best to not escalate. If they respond in like, shit gets worse.
They have to be, giving out any details could fuck up the case… even saying she was dead
@@Andrea-ym9jjthink?
I love how months go by between Montana's interviews, they point out the physical differences, yet she's wearing the exact same shirt.
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...
I am really glad you covered this case. I worked heavily on bringing justice to Livye when Matthew went on the run. We made flyers for his apprehension and distributed them on the regular when Twitter was still Twitter. A small group of us worked tiresly on leads from the community & socials trying to track down Matthew & shared those leads with law enforcement when we had something viable. I appreciated seeing this side of the case.
Blessings on you for this. ❤
Thank you for all you and others did to help. Being from a big city I have seen that police departments have a chaplain that responds to crime/accident scenes. Maybe continued efforts can be a push towards getting the local police to put a support team in place to help families.
When Twitter was still twitter? What does that mean?
@@themightycrixus1131I wondered the same thing. It Implies you wouldn’t be able to post it on Twitter/X
@@adelaidemarie all Elon did was crack down on CP and misinformation. Twitter has been improved. 😂
It still should burn though
They should have told the mother ASAP. That made the entire situation so much more traumatic than it should have been. I’m surprised that she kept it together so well. Bless her and the families that this touched.
Seriously, the jig was up! Thats the thing about small towns... and with social media, people in radio free Siberia probably knew what happened.
Why tell the mother straight away? I mean she wasn’t with the child in the vee-hickle?
Trailer park people.
@@chrishendricks4613...are still people
I believe she was in shock, she had not seen her daughter so that glimmer of hope that Livye was alive was still there, she hoped the police were wrong.
Those cops should be ashamed of themselves. Disgusting people.
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
I feel so sorry for this mother. The police did not handle this well, they were just ignoring her when she’s asking what happened. Just awful. There has to be some sort of training to handle these types of situations because this was very disgusting.
No, it’s folks that have no idea what they are talking about. First, the mother shoukd have never gotten close to the scene. Second, outside people can contaminate your crime scene. Third, release information that can hinder the case and a murderer walks free.
Allow the mother to run around the crime scene. Guarantee the Ldefense can raise reasonable doubt easily. A jury might feel the suspect is guilty, but the crime scene evidence was contaminated. Killer walks free. A proper term used fir this is : FRUITS OF THE POISONOUS TREE!
One piece of evidence gets tainted, ALL gathered evidence there after is assumed to be tainted! A killer walks.
Educate yourself before assuming things that are not true or the reasons why big cases are kept quiet. It’s not always personal.
Besides, how many run-in with law enforcement. Has the family had overall 😮gh the years?
Police can only give very little info.
Why do you folks not understand that??
In this case. A smaller department Woukd request The Louisiana State Bureau of Investigation. To come to the scene and collect evidence. Some chemicals used are so expensive to use and dispose of.
By calling in the state, the state pays for the investigation. With expert crime scene evidence technician detectives. Saves taxpayers and ensures a conviction.
Any of that make sense actually
@@jamesarcher1289thank you for being sensible the amount of idiots in the comment section defending this crackhead moms actions is crazy to me. Her daughter was murdered and all she can think about is “ME ME ME” “MY DAUGHTER THIS MY DAUGHTER THAT” instead of letting the cops do their damn job she gotta be the center of attention…embarrassing
@@imking100neither one of you have children nor have ever pictured your children literally being murdered and you receiving a call saying there’s an accident with unknown details lol have self awareness or sympathy she reacted perfectly normal
@@imking100it’s literally the police’s fault that she was all up in there like that to begin with. They waited until she was already getting confrontational to tell her about her daughter, and then didn’t go on to explain they need to process the crime scene
Not everyone just knows these things, and thus the POLICE have to inform
All they had to do is tell her about her child’s condition and what was happening. Leaving a grieving person confused and scared is bound to lead to problems, which as police, they should know better, not the mother.
Sorry not everyone can keep a calm head when faced with literal death, let alone murder of their child, but it doesn’t make them “a crackhead.” or selfish for wanting to find out what happened lol
@@jamesarcher1289No one assumed it was personal. See you're just a hypocrite, automatically assuming that you know the situation because if your personal experience. Then going on a tangent about government paying for crime scenes and how "she shouldn't have been on the crime scene." That's the problem dude, The cops let her get that close to the crime scene and weren't able to DE-ESCELATE. You sure mentioned protocol a lot but didn't seem to mention that it's a police officer's job to de-escalate tough situations. They are not properly trained to handle the situation like this. Literally just typed the paragraph to contradict yourself.
Listening to that mother's desperation was utterly heart breaking. I hope she finds peace somewhere, anywhere.
This country has gone so backwards an obvious murderer is treated with kid gloves and the mother is threatened with arrest. I have lost all hope.
Damn, when they FINALLY told Darci she was dead and she just fell backward in anguish I almost couldn't watch anymore, I just wanted to cry. You can see how distraught she is, and it's like absolutely no one there is trying to do anything about it. I can't even imagine being at a scene like that and just wanting an ANSWER and getting nothing, not knowing if you're loved one is in the ambulance, if they're dead, or what happened. And then you just have people staring at you.
Like, dude, TALK TO HER. Tell her you're sorry. Ask if she needs to sit, if she needs some water, take her off to the side somewhere to get some air, ask her if she knows or can write down any details that might help with the investigation... Them just staring at her is driving ME nuts, I can only imagine how insane she felt she was going.
I think they were waiting for her or the guys she was with to attack them. They were watching them like they were wary of them. That's what it seemed like.
Yeah that was my stopping point as well. it was unnecessary to sit there and let that woman be in anguish like that
That's not their job to console cry babies. They solve crimes
Actually it IS their job and they take great care to give loved ones the news with appropriate sensitivity.
Yes, it cut me up to see that, I can't imagine it being one of my daughters how the heck do you deal with that?!
Darci’s reaction when she’s finally told her daughter was dead - where she starts a sentence and then falls back on the ground - heartbreaking.
Very hard watch indeed
I just choked up on that. So freaking sad
Are you kidding??
I actually thought she took it rather well.
@@pipermccoolexactly. Definitely seems forced/fake
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.
This channel is good enough to be on any major network, seriously impressed by these guys they are good 👍 👏 👌 😊
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
Someone says it every time, but it is truly astonishing how these videos are free. The effort, research, analysis, and videography put into each video are amazing. And two videos in one week?! Feels like Xmas already. Thank you so much for the amazing content!!!
@@DaddysBathTime How??
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@pipermccoo hahaha I hope you're kidding. l
@Jeremy_Watson no actually lmao 😅
@@DaddysBathTime Guess I should’ve asked if you’re outside the US, now I’m realizing you probably are?
This is heartbreaking. I understand the mothers rage. Someone just finding out their child is deceased and no one is telling her anything would piss me off too. You dont make assumptions but you can definitely make an educated guess and tell her that information will be confirmed once the scene is processed. I can’t imagine how she felt seeing her child in that car
A lack of experience and training for these situations is clearly obvious, I'm confused as to why there was not one shred of basic human empathy. Surely many of the officers on the scene were parents themselves. Why did they have to be cagey? And the one officer never said she was "dead." He told her, "she is not alive." Why word it like that?????? An empathetic adult should've put their arm around and said, 'I'm going to telling you something that's going to be hard for you to hear....." and then stayed with her. But no....they seem more interested in protecting the crime scene and annoyed they have the mom there. Just horrible police work.
@@mindeloman
I’m not saying they were right in how this was handled but I think this is a small community with a lot of drama surrounding certain people and the police didn’t want to deal with the drama especially at that location and moment. One even mentioned in the beginning that they knew who the victim and her mother were and they decided to process the scene before letting her know. (Unless I misunderstood something).
You absolutely are not allowed to make educated guesses when telling moms their kids are dead. I have a feeling the issue was knowing WHO the victim. She was obviously deceased but had head/neck trauma (shotgun and being beaten) so they may not have been certain it was actually her daughter. I think they finally just told her that to calm her down, but they probably weren't supposed to until the ME had made the ID. Maybe?
@@krisg71they DID have her id. they knew exactly who she was and that it was her kid. stop giving these dumbass cops benefit of the doubt, theyre just shit people.
@@christinem2511drama???? her fucking 19 year old kid was murdered. theyre fucking POLICE. THEIR FUCKING JOB IS DEALING WITH DRAMA HOLY SHIT
Poor Livye. 😢 She was so young and beautiful. Those officers on the scene did not handle Darci with compassion. there was a lot of tension which leads me to believe that they all knew each other, whether that be from past issues, or just over the years of small town stuff, everyone knowing everyone, gossip, etc. Either way, if someone had just pulled that mama aside and hugged her and told her the sad news and what they're doing to investigate and that they would tell her as soon as they knew anything, she might not have become so helpless and upset on the scene. Broke my heart when she went from angry to sobbing, lying on the ground. Glad that they got some justice--though it definitely feels like others were involved in trying to help him switch vehicles and whatever else...
Right? Like I get the idea behind not notifying immediately, I understand what they were trying to do regardless as to whether or not I believe it was morally correct- but the second she showed up on scene she deserved to know right then and there. The second Darci showed up, their plan was out the window and she should have been told.
@@dormantlime215she should’ve been told to go to the hospital and not disturb the scene. They had no answers for her
Bs!! Always blame the police then who actually did the crime and the people involved!!!
I am sorry, but she should have been removed from the scene immediately. At that moment, their job was to find out what happened to her daughter. She was preventing them from doing that and then getting on to them because they were not doing anything. You can tell there is some history there. It also looks to me that she is used to being handled with kid gloves. She seemed to think she had the right to demand answers. She has every right to understand what happened, but she is interfering with them being able to gather the information she wanted.
@@pamelawalker859 💯 % agree
Montana got the same glittery Trump shirt on in both interviews? 😂
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.
It’s the cops demeanor that’s causing her to act like that. I understand they are investigating but at least tell her how you found her, that the other man was taken to the hospital and she was shot. Maybe it would calm her down a little. That’s her child in that car. Dead. Any normal mother would want answers. The cops are standing there like statues not saying a word. Have some empathy.
For all they know the mom could have been involved somehow and hypothetically if she was they could have gotten in trouble for releasing that information. They are just trying to keep their job!
@@Kllyklly122innocent until proven guilty dude . It’s training for situations like this and they did terrible. Ego over sympathy for those cops
You don't release that information to anyone because everyone's a suspect at this point
@@ashleyhaynes5323That might be the dumbest comment I've read so far
Would you be a cop? Why not? Dont answer to me, answer to yourself. Think on who does want to be a cop and why. Or not. Whatever.
The way these officers handled this was egregious. I am sure they wanted to investigate the scene without disruption, but once they knew everyone in town was being told about the scene, and especially when Darci showed up, they should have taken her aside, with the dignity and seriousness she deserved, and told her her daughter was dead, and they were working hard to figure out how she got that way, and how SORRY they are about her terrible loss. Instead, they allowed her to carry on, in agony, not getting any answers while they stared and blinked. They acted disgustingly
yeah they sucked.
They knew the murderer and showed him more respect then the girls mother. Just plain awful !!!
well maybe if she showed up with some damn sense instead of cursing and yelling at everyone she would have gotten answers sooner. we get it this is your daughter but thats not an excuse to act however you want
Just as fucking heartless, disrespectful, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, unprofessional as you can get. They treated her horribly.. she shoulda sue those police or something. What happened to that baby was so sad. In the neck with that gun. I can't imagine the pain of her mother
@@romansbottom her daughter died and all they did the entire time was stare at her and threaten to arrest her
them silently staring at her when she asks if her daughter is alive was just wrong
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.
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.
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
I'm shocked at the lack of response to her poor mum - they are so unprofessional and uncaring.
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...
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
@@h20dicklessAre you kidding me??? ITS HER CHILD !!! Wtf is wrong with this world.
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
I CANT get over how Montana had the exact same shirt on in both of her interviews that were 7mos apart.
Pink trump shirt 🤣🙄🤣🙄
Threw me off for a second. Good for her lol
She owns a shirt and wore it twice.
Then you're a moron...what do you do, wear a shirt once then throw it away?🙄
@@sandrawilliams367it’s just the irony that she wore it on both interviews.
I understand mom's reaction completely.. when my mom was murdered almost 5 years ago, I arrived on scene and they had my entire street blocked off. I ran up to the house and an officer stopped me and yelled at me to go straight to the police station. We argued for a few minutes but ultimately I went. The next morning at the hospital, one of the victims advocate representatives asked me why I didn't go see her first as I could have said good bye. I think about that to this day, it wrecked me. Just give us the information so we can process it. I promise we want to help you and your investigation on our loved ones. Just give us something, anything. We'll be your biggest help. So sorry to this beautiful woman Liyvie and her family. May she rest in peace and may her family find strength and love ❤
She was already gone; saying goodbye then or later doesn’t matter. How you say goodbye doesn’t matter, either. What matters is that you did. That’s it.
That’s what matters.
That representative had no right to say that to someone whose mother has just been murdered.
Stay strong❤️
Sorry about your mom🌹
@@PallasAndDoveyou really can’t tell ppl how to feel.
@@PallasAndDoveIt matters to the living.
As someone who grew up with a father who was LEO 30 years, and then myself working in LE for 8 years, these cops handled this scene with the mother about as bad as I’ve ever seen.
These fkn yokels..... so unprofessional. Should be fired or placed on several weeks leave WITHOUT pay.
Thank you.
I completely agree
Oh they were absolutely terrible. They should have had an ambulance on scene for the mother aswell. And the way the M.E. spoke to her was appalling. Idc if you do deal with dead bodies everyday if you can't understand the situation remove yourself.
How? She's acted like an unstable meth head. The scene is a murder scene. The scene must be contained and preserved. Everyone not wearing a badge should be as far away from the scene as possible. How are they to know that the family isn't involved? The LEOs can't reveal anything that could compromise the investigation. Exactly why everyone is silent.
The fact they treated the murdering pos with more compassion than they treated Darci just blows my mind. As Livyes mother she should have been the first person told. Are you telling me they couldnt send 2 officers to her home? Her whole world just crumbled all it would have taken was 1 officer to take her to the side tell her how sorry they were for her loss and explain it ess a crime scene and it needed to be preseved so they could get justice for her daughter.
1. They need him to feel comfortable so he incriminates himself.
2. They were going to wait until they processed the crime scene to specifically avoid hysterical family members on scene.
3. Once she is there, I get she is grieving, but that doesn't mean she gets to have free access to the scene or elicit speculation from the officers. They calmly told her multiple times they couldn't speak to it or let her through.
The Mom was cracked out of her mind man
@@crispybatman480thank you! Society expects everything immediately now days, unfortunately in the real world it doesn’t work that way. Allowing her that close to the scene was not a good idea
@@gliderider7077 There were so many ways to get her away from the crime scene while still treating her respectfuly
@@gliderider7077 they failed at their job
that poor mother
This brought me to tears. This poor mother, my heart breaks for her. I understand this happened a few years ago but still I’d imagine this is still fresh to a mama. Rest in peace beautiful soul.
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@damiencass8156 you still living here?
@damiencass8156 on the peninsula, Kasilof.
This case is sickening… the fact that Darci had zero sympathy given to her when the suspect is treated quite well. Unbelievable… seems like a case of “the gold ‘ol boys”. RIP to Livy and may her family have peace…
Cause all I seen was a bunch of men around..they must feel some type of because he's a guy ..they treated him way better than the mother it's nut
Gotta be nice to get info…
If you all could take a second to think… they need to act nicely to get information. It’s a strategy, are you really this dense that you don’t understand this? If they act aggressively towards the suspect, they’ll shut down and lawyer up. Y’all don’t think istg
@@lillylilly5415chill out. The mom was given NO sympathy. Even the "fake" sympathy they gave the murderer would've been better than what they did
Everything about this case was handled wrong. Does not look good for these small town police forces.this whole thing is just crazy. My heart goes out to Darcy. She got a raw deal!
Those officers did not handle that with ANY degree of compassion or humanity AT ALL.. not answering her questions, coldly telling her infront of literally everyone she’s not alive?! That was cruel beyond words.
Then reading text and on their Instagram during the interview. Wild to me
they have a job to do and have to follow protocol....very difficult job they have...stop making them sound like the bad guy
@@lilpoohbear653they are the bad guys. No protocol makes them act like assholes, they just had no compassion
@@lilpoohbear653They do, but they did it POORLY.
They don't care. Smh
Why tf did they treat that poor mother like that!!!?? So fucking infuriating!!