After conducting interviews and perceiving inconsistencies in Harnden’s story, the police obtained a search warrant for her home and car and seized two iPhones and an iPad. Then they saw the messages. On Dec. 13, they arrested Harnden. Two days later, they arrested Comanche. Harnden refused to speak to detectives, but the police said Comanche confessed and even provided a “pinpoint” location of Rodgers’s remains, which until then had gone undiscovered. The news of Comanche’s arrest, and the details of the crimes he was accused of committing, reverberated back through his life. Teammates and coaches from high school, college and pro teams checked and then double- and triple-checked their messages — and their memories. Eman Rafalian, who played with Comanche at Beverly Hills High School, remembered him walking into a party at Rafalian’s house hoisting a trophy after their team had won a basketball tournament. “I think he was easily influenced by the people around him, and that’s the only way I can make sense of any of this,” Rafalian said.

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