An 11-year-old witness points a finger at her father’s suspected killer: Her sister’s forbidden boyfriend

Sierra Friar, 18 years outdated on the time of her unique interview with “48 Hours,” talks concerning the morning of Oct. 2, 2017, when her father, Aaron, and 15-year-old sister, Ellie, vanished.

Sierra Friar wakes as much as yelling

11-year-old Sierra Friar wakes as much as her father Aaron Friar yelling and the sound of glass breaking round 5:30 a.m. Terrified, she stayed in her room till she felt protected sufficient to come back out. 

Circle of relatives long gone; blood in every single place

Round 6:15 a.m., when the home is quiet, Sierra exits her room to seek out her father and her older sister Ellie have disappeared. She sees the lounge partitions lined in blood and shattered glass from an overhead gentle fixture at the flooring. She then requires lend a hand.

Sierra is dropped at her mom Maggie Friar’s house a few blocks away. 

A mom’s frantic 911 name

Maggie Friar calls 911 at 6:42 a.m. “One thing took place and no one can in finding my ex-husband or my oldest daughter … there is blood in every single place.”

The quest is on for Aaron and Ellie Friar

At 6:43 a.m., Medford, Oregon, law enforcement officials are dispatched to Aaron Friar’s house for a welfare test and a lacking individuals case is asserted. 

A path of blood to nowhere

Officer Logan Boyd approaches Aaron Friar’s house and sees a visual blood path from the entrance door to a again gate that results in an alley. The blood path continues for a couple of toes then disappears. There are contemporary tire tracks close to the place the blood path ended.

Aaron Friar’s automotive is then reported lacking, too. 

A big loss of life investigation starts

In keeping with the totality of the scene and suspicious instances in the case of the lacking individuals, a MADIU — Primary Attack and Loss of life Investigation Unit —callout is initiated.

All-hands-on-deck

At 7:40 a.m., a request is going out to all Medford Police detectives to reply to the Friar house. 

Sierra Friar pointers off investigators

Round 9 a.m., Det. Shannon Reynolds interviews Sierra who says she was once hiding in her bed room however then appeared via her window and noticed Ellie’s boyfriend Gavin MacFarlane out of doors the home. She mentions MacFarlane isn’t allowed on the space and that Aaron Friar had forbidden Ellie from seeing Gavin after studying he was once 19 years outdated.

A smash within the case

That is the smash the police have been in search of. Detectives start monitoring MacFarlane’s mobile phone.

Aaron Friar’s bloody automotive is situated

At 9:52 a.m., Aaron Friar’s lacking automobile is located about 5 miles east of his house.  

Officials understand dried blood at the rear bumper and in finding extra blood soaked into the carpet of the trunk. 

Ellie Friar discovered alive, however now not on my own

At 10:48 a.m. — 4 hours after police are dispatched to the crime scene on the Friar space — Ellie  is located unhurt strolling along a hectic side road only a few miles from her dad’s house.

Ellie is with two males: her 19-year-old boyfriend Gavin MacFarlane and his buddy, 22-year-old Russell Jones.   

3 detainees  

At 10:51 a.m. the 3 are separated, handcuffed, and brought into custody for wondering.     

Russell Jones finds the place Aaron Friar is

Lead detective Invoice Ford makes a decision to interview Jones sooner than MacFarlane, as Ford had had a prior come upon with Jones and is aware of “he is a talker.”

Ford makes a decision to check out what he calls “smokin’ and jokin.'” He’s taking Russell out of doors for a cigarette smash.

Simply rather over an hour after being detained, Jones tells Ford that he can take him to the site the place Aaron Friar’s stays have been dumped    

Aaron Friar’s frame discovered

At 12:50 p.m., at Jones’s path, Aaron Friar’s stays are discovered wrapped in a inexperienced tarp and Tinkerbell fleece blanket off of a far off freeway simply 20 miles north of Friar’s house. With that discovery, the case formally went from a lacking particular person to a murder investigation    

Homicide weapon discovered

At 12:50 p.m., the homicide weapon – a baseball bat – is located lodged in a close-by tree about 8 toes off the bottom. Aaron Friar’s explanation for loss of life would later be made up our minds to be from blunt power trauma to the top. 

3 suspects, 3 tales

Figuring out that Aaron Friar was once murdered, the police 0 in on their 3 suspects. Complicating issues, all 3 get started pointing a finger at every different.

Jones informed investigators that MacFarlane killed Aaron Friar in self-defense.

Ellie mentioned that she believed that Jones was once her father’s killer.

MacFarlane mentioned Ellie was once the person who sought after Aaron Friar lifeless. 

3 suspects, 3 pleas  

In October 2018, Gavin MacFarlane pleads responsible to homicide and homicide conspiracy fees. He was once sentenced to twenty-five years to existence. 

In January 2019, Ellie pleaded responsible to an grownup price of conspiring to homicide her father, Aaron. She was once later sentenced to twenty-five years. 

In August 2021, Russell Jones entered a no-contest plea to conspiracy to dedicate homicide. He was once sentenced to fifteen years.