"RADIO CHATTER" "For several hours, we had gone back and forth with Josh not knowing anything about where Heather was or if anything had happened to Heather." "But when he finally broke and told us that he could take us to where the body was, this was a big break in the case." "TO RADIO:" "Have a marked unit meet us at the following address 65..." "Five, five, zero, zero," "Northwest 219th Street." "RADIO CHATTER" "It was roughly 2:30, 3:00 in the morning when we actually made it here to this site." "RADIO CHATTER" "And Josh brought us down this trail." "It was almost like he was trying to find different spots." "As you can see, there's a trash pile here, and he was just saying," ""This was what Emilia told me, she told me that she was here" ""on the property, she was with, inside of a..." ""or in amongst of a trash pile."" "So, I think we kind of looked at this for a second, and we came up here to the rear of the trailer." "We eased around the side of the trailer, and he took me down the back, this back little pathway." "And it was here, in this area here." "Where you can see where the ground has a small, little indention." "I remember grabbing a twig, like this, breaking it off, and I kind of, like, grabbed it and poked around underneath that area, and the ground was real soft, and it kind of went all the way down to my knuckle." "It just gave you an eerie feeling that, I mean, you were just..." "There was a body laying there, underneath the ground." "Knowing now that Heather might be buried in her back yard raised our suspicions about Emilia once again so as we went back to the office to talk to Josh again, we also knocked on the door and woke up Emilia" "and asked her to come back to the office as well." "The cops said that there was a body in our yard, and as soon as the cops said that, Emilia started crying." "I knew, then and there, that Emilia was in trouble because a body was found in her yard, so it makes it look like she had something to do with it." "We noticed she had more knowledge than what she was telling us, and I think at that point, that's when Emilia started directing us in a different direction." "She than began to say things that would lead us to believe Josh was the one responsible." "Why didn't you tell me all this in the beginning?" "People who have nothing to hide hide nothing so why would she not have told us that from the beginning?" "Now, she is dating Josh, she is pregnant with his child, so I guess I can understand why she would not want to fill us in on Josh's responsibility." "I remember the sun coming out the next morning." "Really wasn't much conversation at all." "It was just getting back to the house, getting a job done, to have confirmation that she was there." "I remember being with the evidence techs, and we slowly documenting debris, the mattress, the remnants of a TV, the chair." "We photographed the pile from all angles, and tried to capture images of everything that was placed on top." "And we have little metal poles with an orange flag on it, and then you make what you believe is the outline of the area that has been disturbed before." "When I started digging the surface back," "I hit a piece of ply board." "At that point, we knew there was something there, an object." "I kind of put the tip of the shovel underneath the ply board and kind of pried it up a little bit, and when I'm digging, you can smell the odour of death." "And that's when we knew or we were pretty sure that we found Heather Strong." "And, at that time, I was able to physically see Heather's face." "The rest of her body appeared to be submerged in a black duffel bag but I could see her face." "We just stood there for a moment, and it was just like... ..just silent." "Part of you wants to say, "It's not her, she's not there," ""she's somewhere else."" "You're hoping, and wishing that she's alive somewhere else, and at the same time, the other part of you knows that she's deceased, she's dead." "So you kind of try to... hold back your feelings." "But it's hard." "We're human." "Somebody had buried her underneath the trash." "They'd folded her and put her in a suitcase, and they put her in a hole and there was nobody to... feel bad, nobody to miss her, and to come grieve for her, and show that she" "was a person, that she was a mother, and that she was going to be missed." "When, um, Buie called me and told me that they had found Heather, we were actually out in the yard and getting in the car and Jacob and Tyler were both here." "And, um... he told me that they'd found her." "She said, "Oh, no, not my baby girl", and I remember her falling to the porch." "She was screaming, she held the phone down on the ground, and I just remember realising what was going on, and realising that she was talking about Heather, and I guess my blood pressure got to the point where it was so high that my nose started" "pouring out blood, and my brother, he fell to the ground." "He was on his hands and knees crying." "Tyler and Jacob didn't handle it very well, either." "We just kind of all fell apart." "It was bad." "You know, and I'm standing out there, watching everything, and they're carrying what they said was her, but..." "And, I was just like, "Mom, it can't be her..." ""It can't be her."" "And so, um..." "It wasn't confirmed until a few days later that it was her, but, um..." "You don't believe it." "Like, part of you just does not want to accept that that's... really somebody you care about, you know?" "We knew, number one" " Josh took us to the body." "Josh knew where the body was." "And, number two - it's on Emilia's property." "Known, or should have known, that there was a body buried on your property." "That's a lot to explain."