Finishing What We Started: The Urick Trial Returns
The verdict broke records. The case deserves complete coverage.
When the verdict came down in the Uriah Urick trial, it broke records for this channel. More viewers tuned in to watch that moment than almost any other verdict we've covered. And I get it. This case had everything: two teenage lovers, a grandmother killed in her own home, a desperate flight to the border, and the kind of digital trail that prosecutors dream about.
But here's the thing. We never finished the coverage.
Life happens. Other trials demand attention. Breaking news pulls you in different directions. And sometimes a case you're deeply invested in gets pushed to the back burner while you chase the next verdict, the next bombshell, the next constitutional crisis playing out in real time.
The Urick case deserved better than that. So we're going back.
25 Videos. The Complete Story.
Over the coming days, I'm releasing the testimony we never got to. All of it. Twenty-five videos that walk you through exactly how prosecutors built their case against Uriah Urick and Tara King, step by step, witness by witness.
Today we're picking up with Day 2, and a witness named Rigoberto Gurrusquieta. Everyone calls him Rio. He was a 20-year-old college student who thought he was doing a favor for a friend of a friend. Two teenagers needed a ride. They said they were fleeing an abusive grandmother. Rio said sure, drove to the address, and backed into the driveway like they asked.
Then he watched them load gun-shaped bags into his trunk. Then Uriah pulled out a stack of cash he couldn't explain. Then, two days later, Rio saw a sheriff's Facebook post and realized the "abusive grandmother" was dead, and the two kids he'd driven away from that house were wanted for her murder.
That surveillance footage you're looking at? That's Rio's car. At the crime scene. The jury saw this. A neighbor's camera caught the escape in progress, and Rio had to sit on that witness stand and confirm it was him, his vehicle, backing into that driveway while two people accused of capital murder loaded stolen guns into his trunk.
He had no idea. He came forward the moment he realized what he'd been part of. And his testimony is one of the most fascinating pieces of this trial because it shows you exactly how Tara and Uriah operated in those hours after the murder. The lies they told. The manipulation. The desperate scramble to get as far away as possible.
This is the kind of case that reminds you why we do this work. Not because we're rooting for one side or the other. But because when you watch it unfold, witness by witness, you start to understand how the system actually functions. How evidence gets built. How testimony connects. How twelve people eventually decide someone's fate.
Uriah Urick was convicted of capital murder. He'll spend the rest of his life in prison. But that verdict didn't come out of nowhere. It came from testimony like Rio's. From surveillance footage like this. From the digital breadcrumbs these two teenagers left behind as they ran.
If you watched the verdict, you owe it to yourself to see how we got there.
▶️ WATCH NOW College Student Unknowingly Drove Murder Suspects From Crime SceneMore coming. We're finishing this one right.
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