402: Group of 5 Friends Charged in Death of 16-Year-Old Teen Girl | Justice for Kayla Huff

We came out here, we were just flying, but it's so heavily putted.

This case has deeply impacted our community. This particular facts pattern is not one thing that I have typically seen in my career. We mourn alongside this family as they face an unimaginable loss. Hey Drew Crane Besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serial Asleep. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serial Asleep.

With me, you're host Annie Elise, also tapping in on duty to be your true crime bestie today and break down this case for you. Now, I hope you're having a great start to your week, happy Monday. Whether you're listening to this on your commute into work, maybe you're, I don't know, working out, you're at home.

“Maybe you're not even at work because it's a holiday weekend, right?”

Maybe you're on the beach right now, we're on a freaking boat, which like, hello, I love that for you. But wherever you are, I hope that you had a great weekend, are still like maybe enjoying the break and that you're ready to listen up, crank that volume up because we have a lot to talk about. And also, I bet some of you won't even listen to this until Tuesday because of the long holiday, which no judgment. If you're on a boat doing fun things around the beach, you're just like chilling at home, like more power to you, like I love that self-care man.

So, I hope you all had a great weekend, but here is what's going down today.

“This is a case that is happening right now in real time, okay?”

And normally, we don't always cover cases that are adjudicated, obviously not.

We do talk about a lot of current event style cases, but this one is happening right now in real time with updates coming in frequently. So, part of me was hesitant, I was like, "Uh, maybe I want to weigh a little bit, maybe I want to weigh until there's more information." But I first heard about the case last week, and since then, I have been inundated with headlines. A rest after a rest, after a rest, so much going on, we're now five people have been charged in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old girl.

Now, these five people, they're young themselves, young adults, spanning from 17 years old to their mid-20s.

“And when I tell you this murder plot is so twisted, so sick, so diabolical, it's making my head explode, and that's why I knew that I didn't want to weigh any longer.”

And I wanted to just jump on here, I wanted to share with you everything that we know. I will, I imagine that within the next few days or weeks you will start seeing this case pop up on your feed, because there's no way. There's no world in which people are not going to, the people aren't going to want to talk about this, but also that people aren't going to demand justice for this girl, Kayla Huff. This is one of the most twisted and sickening cases that I have heard in a long time, especially because there's alleged incest going on that potentially caused this murder to happen.

Which I think about it, I feel like we've been talking about incest a lot lately, unfortunately. We talked about Michaela settles, which is horrifying. We talked about this love triangle, potentially going on with the cousin, and that's why he committed murder. So I mean, I don't know, I don't know what's in the water right now, but anyway, like I said, it's a wild one, you need to buckle up, turn your volume up, get ready, because we have a lot to go over.

Now, like I said, when I first came across this case that we're going to talk about, I could not even believe what I was reading.

It is so full of insanity, and it truly sounds like it's the plot of a horror movie, but unfortunately, it's reality. So for today's case, I'm going to take you to the very small town of Moberley. Moberley is located in Randolph County, Missouri, and when I say small town, I truly mean it. Okay, the population is less than 14,000 people, and as you can imagine, in a small town like that, with a case that is this big, this diabolical, it has completely torn this town apart with grief, and it has left many people demanding answers from law enforcement.

Now, with all of these people who are an uproar, family members, friends, community members, not only do they want to know how something so horrific happened in their small town, but they also have one thing in common, they all know each other.

I just want to make one more disclaimer before we get into the nuts and bolts of this, guys. This is a developing case. More details are going to be released, because the investigation is still ongoing. So, more than likely, I will be back with an update in the coming weeks letting you know where things stand as it continues to propel forward, but also, more importantly, everything at this point is alleged, do your own research, form your own opinions, everything that I am sharing is either from police reports directly, or when it is speculation, I will identify it as such.

“So, while I have scoured the internet, the case files, everything I possibly could have, or fine, I should say, because there are also two miners involved, it's difficult to get a lot of that information.”

So, I pulled a lot, but I also went down the rabbit hole, you know, I like to do it, and I dug way deep into the corners of social media so that I could get you everything that I possibly can, and again, I will update you as more information breaks.

So, let's start with the timeline. It was very recent, back on May 6, the 2026.

So, on the morning of May 6, the 16-year-old Kayla Huff spoke with her sister Christina before Christina left for work around 7am. Then, shortly after, Kayla left her family's home, leaving behind her electronics, her ID, and her debit card. However, not long after that, just a couple of hours later, around 10-18am, her car broke down across the street from a smile dental office. And, employee from the dental office spotted Kayla walking out of this car, leaving it abandoned, and then walking with a juvenile male toward highway route EE. Now, this highway apparently goes toward her house. So, by appearances, it seemed like, okay, her car broke down.

She left it on the side of the road. She has this juvenile male with her now, and they're walking back toward Kayla's house in that direction. This was around 10-30am. Then, around 3pm, that same day. So, five hours later, Kayla's father, Mike, received a phone call from Kayla's mom. And she stated that Kayla's car was, in fact, abandoned near the, on the side of the road, near the assembly church of God on Roland Street.

But more than that, she said she couldn't get a hold of Kayla. And that was odd. That was on light Kayla. She was always in communication with family.

“She wouldn't just go, also seeing your 16-year-old daughter's car on the side of the road abandoned, and then not being able to get a hold of them. That's obviously caused for concern, right?”

You don't know if there was an accident, you don't know if the car broke down, and she was stranded or isolated. It's, it's worrisome. So, her family immediately went to social media, saying, you know, posting all these things, asking if anybody had heard from Kayla, if they had seen Kayla, what's going on? And they knew, in their gut, something just was not right here, and so they immediately reported it to the police.

According to the missing persons report, Kayla had last been seen wearing a Nirvana T-shirt, and they said that she could be located in the Columbia Missouri area.

So, police, of course, immediately began searching that area. They also started checking local surveillance cameras, because they wanted to know,

“okay, the car was abandoned outside of that smile, dental office, there's businesses nearby, there's traffic cameras, maybe we can start building a timeline here.”

They also had received a lead during all of this, that she may have gone to a Nirvana McDonald's. However, I will say that Kayla was not seen on surveillance footage entering or exiting McDonald's any time on May 5th or May 6th. Smile, dental, unfortunately also did not have any front facing surveillance cameras. Now, the church, it did have a camera in front of it, and that camera confirmed that Kayla was in fact with a juvenile male at the time that she went missing. And police didn't take them very long, they identified the juvenile male as Kayla's boyfriend.

17-year-old Chris, now there has been some confusion out there, I will say, on whether or not the two of them had recently broken up, or if they were like just on a slide break, but we're getting back together, but for the most part, people and reports are referring to him as her boyfriend rather than her ex-boyfriend. So, they're all piecing this together within literally one day of her being reported missing and disappearing. The next day, on Thursday, May 7th, now having identified this juvenile male that Kayla was last seen with the police head over to Kayla's boyfriend's house, so that they could question him.

You know, hey, when's the last time you saw her? What was she saying? Where was she going? Where did you drop her off? What's going on?

Now, at some point, and again, a lot of this is underlocking key because not only is Kayla a minor, but her boyfriend is also 17-years-old he's a minor, but at some point, the sheriff detained and placed both of them into custody.

“And I can't even believe I'm saying this, it is like a page torn out of the Latisha-style can book, but Elena, at 20-years-old, she allegedly stole the police vehicle and escaped after she was placed in custody.”

Which, how you even do that? I have no idea, how you have the balls to do that, I have no idea.

But according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Office, Elena had been handcuffed behind her back with department issued handcuffs, then she was placed in the front passenger seats of this fully marked patrol vehicle. But while in custody, I don't know how she did this, how you even maneuver, she stole his department issued patrol vehicle, and she fled from law enforcement. Now, what's very problematic and worrisome in that aside from just like, "Hello, her going on the run and stealing this cop car," is they were multiple department issued and personally owned firearms still inside that vehicle when it was stolen.

So now, not only has she taken off, and, you know, she's evading police, she's on the run, she has a cop car, but she also has access to quite a few weapons, and that is obviously alarming.

It didn't take very long, though, and approximately at 9.05 pm, Elena ultimately was located inside a residence in Moberly.

She was actively hiding, she was refusing to comply with the demands from law enforcement, and she was just, I mean, kind of not like a negotiation, but like refusing to come out. She was still wearing the department issued handcuffs on each wrist, they had been damaged, they had been cut, like the chain connecting them, you know, detached, severed. So she's not cooperating, they eventually figure, you know, get a hold of her, reprimand her, and so she's taken back into custody.

Now, at that point, she spontaneously, and I love this because there's so much more of this that we're going to get to.

“She spontaneously admits to stealing the cop car, as though she's proud of it, that she's gloating, she thinks she's tough, right?”

So the following morning, on May 8th, meanwhile Kayla is still missing, Elena complains to the jail staff that she has poisoned IV and a bad rash. Now, I want you to remember this because it's going to come into play later, and it's going to tie back a little bit too to how she just admitted, stealing the cop car, and kind of tells on herself a little bit. So that same day, as she's complaining about this rash while she's in jail, 19-year-old Hunter Ames, who also lived at the residence where Elena and apparently her half-brother, 17-year-old Chris lived, he also was questioned by the sheriff's.

This is at the around the same time that they were now executing a search warrant at the house. Around this same time, investigators also received information from the public that Kayla may be in the Rudolph Bennett State Wildlife Area. Now, just to give you a little bit of context about this area, this area features a heavily forested conservation area. It stretches more than 3,500 acres. It also has a lake and about 12 and a half miles of extensive trail systems. So, I mean, a very large area. We're talking dense woods, rough terrain.

Yeah, carved out trails, but still a pretty, I don't want to say, rural, I hate that word, but like a pretty dense area where it would be difficult to search and find things easily, maybe that's the way to say.

“Now, the conservation area also included, you guessed it, poison ivy. Remember Elena was complaining about poison ivy? So, by the end of the day, hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement and service members helped search this area on foot.”

They also were searching on horseback, they used drones, they were doing anything they could possibly do to try and locate Kayla. But unfortunately, they had no luck. Over the weekend, crews continued searching and continuing to hold out hope that they would either hear from Kayla, find Kayla, find some sort of trail or clue or something. And on Sunday, May 10th, as the searches were continuing, there was a prayer vigil held for Kayla at the local church. So then, fast forward just a couple of days to Wednesday, May 13th. She's now been missing for a week. All while the crews are continuing their search efforts.

Now, at this same time, two more suspects, well, one new one, but two suspects in total, 23-year-old Christopher Hall and 19-year-old Hunter Ames, who remember he was the roommate, the friends who lived at the house and was previously questioned around the time of the search warrant.

No one knew where Kayla was, nobody knew what happened, I mean, kidnapping, what are you talking about tampering with physical evidence like nobody knew where these charges were coming from. However, at this same time, the sister Elena, her charges were also upgraded to include first-degree kidnapping.

“So this now brings the total number of people involved to four. You have the brother, the sister, the roommate, friend, and another alleged connection friend, Christopher.”

Then, unfortunately, at around 8pm that evening, a civilian resident of Randolph County found Kayla's body. Her body was inside a patch of tall brush inside that conservation area, that highly dense, you know, forested brush and terrain area. So now, the pieces are starting to slowly come together. 16-year-old Kayla, unfortunately, is found deceased, and you have these four people who have been arrested, charged with kidnapping, in connection with this, people who knew her, her own boyfriend, his sister, friends, it's starting to paint a pretty dark picture.

Well, unclear why, at this point in the case, which we'll get there, but it's starting to seem like this was a coordinated effort.

And sure enough, the very next day, on Thursday, May 14, a fifth suspect was arrested in connection to Kayla's disappearance and now murder.

“This was 26-year-old Julian Mason. Now, I have seen some reports that Julian and Elena are step siblings, which I mean, it would check out based on their shared last name and their address.”

So, it's not confirmed officially, but it looks like one of those things where, okay, the writings on the wall, it looks like there's the connection and it makes sense that, you know, they live at the same place. They have the same last name, like there is a connection, so with that, it's like, "Oh, okay, this whole family was in on it." The step sister, she was a step sister, a half sister, the boyfriend, I mean, it's so scary when you think about that. Not only that it's this group of now five people who coordinated and planned and scheme, but that three of them are family, it's freaky.

So, after his arrest, prosecutors upgraded the charges on all five suspects, and I want to read these charges to you.

“And keep in mind that they're age when I tell you their ages, because that I think is also what makes so much of this unnerving.”

Elena Mason, 20 years old, is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. Also facilitating a felony, inflicting injury, terrorizing, plus two-class defelinies for stealing a motor vehicle and stealing a firearm. Then, one-class e-felany for escaping custody while under arrest. So, I mean, this girl, she is going to get locked up through on a way to key, even if nothing comes or, I don't want to say nothing comes, even if there are these alleged allegations of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping are somehow fought or, you know, reduced or whatever.

She still has the other felony as for stealing the cop car, stealing the firearm, and escaping custody while under arrest. It's 20 years old. The next suspect, Hunter Ames, the one who lived at the house as well, and was there during the search warrant, had just 19 years old.

Hunter was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, facilitating a felony, inflicting injury, terrorizing, and tampering with physical evidence, and a felony prosecution.

Christopher Hull, 23 years old, also charged with first-degree kidnapping, and facilitating a felony, inflicting injury, terrorizing, and tampering with physical evidence, and a felony prosecution. Julian Mason, 26 years old, the reported step sibling here. He was charged with first-degree kidnapping, facilitating a felony, inflicting injury, terrorizing, and tampering with physical evidence, and a felony prosecution. Additionally, and here's where it gets a little murky.

Kayla's boyfriend slash ex-boyfriend, 17-year-old Chris. He had his charges upgraded as well to first-degree murder and kidnapping.

A 17-year-old, which we've been talking a lot about teenage violence and teenage killers and disturbing teens and all of that, but a 17-year-old being charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping of his own 16-year-old girlfriend. Now, before we get into what happened to Kayla and why her boyfriend, his sister, the step brother, their friends all seemingly targeted her and plotted her murder and why.

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“Three days after Kayla's body was found, family, friends, and the community members all gathered at a Baptist Church to remember Kayla to pray and really pay their respects not only for Kayla, but also for her family.”

So they had a remembrance vigil. And I want to read you her obituary because I think sometimes the victims in these stories and cases get lost a little bit. We are so focused on the crime and the perpetrators and what happened that we know a little bit about the victim, but I think that it's important to highlight them, especially Kayla who again was just 16 years old.

Born on October 22nd, 2009 in Columbia, Missouri, Kaylee's journey was a brief but profoundly meaningful one, ending on May 6th, 2026 when she was tragically taken from us.

“Kayla was a beacon of joy known for her ever present smile and a hug ready for anyone in need of comfort. Her kindness was a constant and her encouragement inspired those around her to be their best selves.”

Outgoing with the unique sense of humor, Kayla's personality was a vibrant tapestry of warmth and laughter that will be dearly missed. Her love for life was evident in the activities that she cherished. She attended Moberly High School where she loved playing basketball and running track. Kayla's passion extended beyond sports. She delighted in video games, enjoying moments spent playing roblox with her brother Joe. Active in her church's youth group, she found great joy in participating in church activities and working with children,

embodying a nurturing spirit that resonated deeply with everyone she encountered. Her tender affection extended to animals with whom she loved spending quiet joyful hours.

Family was at the core of Kayla's happiness. She cherished time with her sister Christina finding companionship in laughter and shared secrets.

“Her special bond with cousin Zoe was filled with playful care and genuine affection.”

The warmth she shared with her brother Joe in their gaming adventures created memories that will forever be treasured. I mean, truly a beautiful way to remember her and a beautiful obituary, highlighting her relationship with her siblings, who she was, the kind soul she was church, helping friends, helping children, loving sports, being always wanting to hug people and be affectionate like that's what you think of when you think of an innocent 16 year old girl.

Someone who is just innocent pure loves life loves her friends and just finds joy in the quiet small activities.

It doesn't anywhere say, you know, she loved social media. She loved posting. She loved TikTok. She was glued to her phone. She wanted to be an influence. It wasn't the any of that.

“It was she loved being with her siblings sharing secrets playing games. She loved going to church. I mean, it just shows you who Kayla was at her core.”

The type of innocence, the type of just gentleness about her. So over the weekend is when the remembrance visual happened and then on Monday, May 18th, prosecutors announced the arrest of a sixth suspect. This suspect, Skyler W. Powell. Skyler is 24 years old and he was charged with a felony count of hindering prosecution of a felony. This was after he allegedly hid Elena in his basement after escaping custody or evading custody. Now, this is awful because it's like all of these friends or family members are connected and like seemingly helping one another with the crime, the cover up, the planning and I'm going to get to those details in just a moment.

Because that same day, a court hearing was held and the detail shared or absolutely horrific. The following information was read in court and it was taken directly from the probable cause affidavits. So within hours of Kayla being reported missing, investigators quickly determined that she had been targeted in a calculated plot involving multiple individuals, including her boyfriend. Investigators said that they conducted several interviews with Hunter, the 19 year old friend, who allegedly admitted to eating in the kidnapping and discarding of evidence. The document also notes that each time Hunter was interviewed, it was after police had received a tip about his involvement in Kayla's disappearance.

And when confronted, Hunter would reportedly provide further information that he had either lied or he had omitted in his previous interviews. Getting scared, buckling under pressure, feeling back into a corner and so they would get tips and then they would confront him and he would start, you know, tripping over his story and admit to lying. Now let's talk about the murder itself because this is really like the crux of the case and why so many people are outraged demanding answers. The affidavit alleges that on May 5th, so the day before Kayla vanished, Hunter and the other suspects intentionally took motor oil from the bed of an acquaintances truck and then poured that motor oil into the fuel tank of Kayla's car.

This was done in an effort to make it stop working, which if you remember, her car was seen broken down on the side of the road, mission accomplished.

They then sneak over to Kayla's house at 3 in the morning. They start dumping this motor oil into her gas tank, knowing that once she leaves in the morning to go wherever she needed to go, her car was going to break down and she was going to be stranded and more than likely call her boyfriend for help.

“Hunter also told investigators that in the late morning hours of May 6th, the suspects woke him up and they started asking him for his pistol.”

They told him that they had someone in the trunk of a white Chevy Impala and they needed his pistol to take care of it.

He allegedly allowed them to take his pistol and then they left in that same Chevy Impala. So this is let me just kind of break down the timeline for you. I mentioned how they go there at 3 in the morning, pour the oil into the car. Kayla leaves that morning and then her car breaks down. We know that she's seen on surveillance cameras walking away with her 17 year old boyfriend and then at some point off camera. I think you can read between the lines she's abducted and placed into the Chevy Impala into the trunk or maybe they in the backseat, they tied her up who knows. They drive then over to Hunter's house and say, hey, we have someone in the back of the car in the trunk of the vehicle, specifically it was the trunk sorry not the backseat.

“We have someone in the trunk of the vehicle and we need to take care of them, give us your gun and he does.”

So then Kayla was allegedly driven to the root off Bennett conservation area where the suspects reportedly dragged her from the trunk of the vehicle, physically assaulted her, beat her with a tactical telescoping baton, which is one of those batons that's like condensed down and you pull it and it becomes long almost like what sometimes what they use in different law enforcement arenas, beat her with that severely and then they shot her 16 years old. surveillance video from the east side of the Mason residence reportedly also corroborated Hunter's account of the group leaving once they grabbed his pistol and then later returning in that same Chevy Impala.

Following the search warrant Hunter allegedly admitted to helping hide the weapons that were used in the attack specifically the telescoping baton and he said that he had the help of another co-dependent and he hid these weapons on May 8.

“So just a couple of days after the disappearance and murder.”

Now this hearing where all of this information came to light, it was jam-packed about 50 people starting to themselves into the courtroom to support Kayla's family and there were also several members of the Mason family present. As you can imagine, emotions were running extremely high and according to the local news, one woman was so distraught during all of this that she actually confronted the sister of the 20 year old sister Elena during this hearing yelling, "Tell the truth, tell the truth."

And it got so heated that she later had to be escorted out of the courtroom.

Now unfortunately cameras are not allowed in the courtroom, so there's no footage of this that I can show you. But after hearing that, you know me, you know, I'm not a detective, but I am nosy and it sent me down the rabbit hole because I knew that I needed to know like, "What is the truth? Why is this person demanding? Tell them the truth, tell them the truth." It kind of reminds me almost of that movie, if you've ever seen it, my sister is keeper, where it's a horrifically sad movie. Actually, don't watch it if you haven't seen it, but the brother stands up in the courtroom and he's like, "Just say the truth, say what this is really about."

Where it's like, normally if you hear an outburst in a courtroom, it's something about like, "You fucking asshole, you prick like, how could you do this to my daughter?" or something like that. Very rarely do hear someone demanding, "Tell the truth, tell the truth." Over and over again, so much so that they have to be escorted out. So that sent me down the rabbit hole. I was like, "I need to know what this truth is, what are they talking about?" Because to be honest, after all of this, there still was not a publicly shared motive.

However, there is a motive out there that is floating around that many people believe is the truth in all of this.

And that the reason it has not been publicly shared is again because this is a case involving minors, also the sensitivity of it. But what I will say is this, and this is where we kind of get into form your own opinions, do your own research. As I was looking on social media saying, "Okay, what are people sharing about this case? What are the theories?" When this motive came up, time and time again, there were people in the comment sections, identifying themselves as family members or extended family members of Cales, confirming it to be true.

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But I just want to be say everything that I'm about to tell you is alleged and it has not been proven to be true, just speculation.

So this first potential motive. I came across this comment and it said, sadly, I was working with these people.

This is a horrible situation with the worst outcome. The kids supposedly had a breakup and he went crying to his older sister. She then quote "delt" with the problem. It's all just wild. Which that's unnerving. Okay, yes, on the surface like, okay, so what you this 17 year old kid says he and his 16 year old girlfriend broke up to his older sister and she's like, oh, deal with it. Like, who's that? I can't believe she broke up with you or who knows if he broke up with her. But like, I'm going to go take care of this. Like, that would be kind of like, okay, take it easy. Like relax a little bit. They're 16 and 17 years old breakups happen.

But that's not what the disturbing motive is because this is the one that is circulating the most. And I want to read this to you again because it is a direct post. Elena is the older half sibling of Chris, the 17 year old boyfriend of Kayla. Kayla caught the two siblings sleeping together. So they made a plan to silence her and put oil in her gas tank, then they kidnapped her and killed her.

Investigators need to talk to Megan Elizabeth because she is Christopher's wife and she lives with all of them in the same house. She was also Elena's best friend.

So Chris and Elena killed Kayla, because they got caught having sex with each other, which this is where it kind of gets even more diabolical because we know that this whole group is closely connected either through familial connections or friendships. But it sounds and it seems I should say like the majority of them also lived together. So what Kayla had 16 years old catches her boyfriend having sex with his sister half sister but still sister not step half catches him having sex with her sister breaks up with him threatens to tell people.

And so because of that, the boyfriend and the sister scheme and plot together to silence her maybe out of embarrassment because they don't want this secret being shared, which I could wrap my head around that not not not justify it. Obviously, like I could see where the fear kicks in and they feel like, oh my god, we have to get rid of her. But then to loop in everyone else living in that house, all of your friends, your other step sibling, all of these people and to help you without any fear that they would throw you under the bus and go to the cops and instead all of these people being like, yeah sure. Yeah, we're in here here's my weapon. Yeah, I'll dispose of evidence. Yeah, you want me to drive the car. Hey, yeah, what want me to go steal the oil and put in in her gas tank, what should the plan be like, we talk a lot about and I know I butcher this expression every single time.

“I'm so sorry, but like, fully do or fully do or whatever it is, where it's like two people come together and it's like insanity and diabolical and they like, you know it's like what's this face Harley Quinn and the Joker.”

And so we talk about that with true crime cases, like the Skyler niece case, for example, the teenage girl who was targeted by her two friends classmates, the two friends met each other and like plotted to murder Skyler.

What's like, how rare is it that someone be friends another person and then the both of you have these shared fantasies and dark deep desires.

Like what's the likelihood of meeting another person like that and then carrying it out, but in this case, six different people sharing not the darkness necessarily because it's not like they all just like plan to murder from date one when they got out of the womb. We're willing to go along with it, like writer-dive friends, it's so crazy to me. If I had a friend or a family member come up to me tomorrow and I got caught doing something and I really need your help.

I'm going to kill this person and I need your help planning it, covering it up, disposing of it.

Like, I want you to drive there with me participate in the beating, we're going to shoot her, let's go get in the car. I'd be like, you and your goddamn mind, like, what are you talking about and then I would either go to that person and tell them like, look, my friend is planning to come after you go to the police, file a restraining word or I'd go directly to the police.

“So it kind of also, when I guess reminds me, I know I keep making drawbacks to move or callbacks to movies, but it kind of reminds me of, what's that movie?”

What is that movie with Ben Affleck and the horrible Blakely acting, the town, the town, where he like goes in and he tells us from like, I'm not going to tell you any more details, but like, we're going to crack some skulls, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he's all, are you driving or me? And where it's like, it's this blind loyalty, but to get six people on board with that blind loyalty, especially when it's not like Kayla wrong, anyone, it's not like she did anything, it's not like she hurts someone.

She just caught allegedly her boyfriend having sex with his sister, like she's not in the wrong, you're in the wrong, you freak, you know, like, what are you even talking about? So, which maybe they didn't tell the friends the whole truth, maybe they said they were getting back at Kayla because she broke Chris's heart, and they were like, yeah, we love Chris, like fuck her fuck that bitch, like, maybe, maybe now if they're learning, if again, if this motive is in fact the truth, if they're learning that, maybe they're like, holy shit, like, wow, we really read the room wrong.

But, disturbing, right?

“Now, remember how I had mentioned early on in the episode that Elena, after being arrested, was complaining while she was in jail, that she had a rash, and it was from Poison Ivy.”

Well, sure enough, after her arrest, and I'm going to say this exactly how it is in all of the documents, she reportedly did develop a Poison Ivy rash, and she told the jail staff that she, quote, got it from being in the woods. Which obviously the investigators noted this was incredibly significant, because the crime scene was a densely wooded area, which we love when people tell on themselves.

I don't even know. When she was taking into custody the second time, we know that she told on herself and said that she stole the cop car, which is like, girl, I know it's obvious, but like, at least played on, like, why are you telling on yourself?

“And then now, being like, yeah, I have, like, this rash really hurts, it's from Poison Ivy, I was in the woods, it's like, we love when criminals are this done.”

Like, you think you're smart enough to carry out a calculated murder plot and a cover up, but you're telling on yourself without even realizing it, idiot, but love to see it.

Now, I told you how I mentioned in one of these comments when they were talking about that potential incest motive, how they said investigators need to talk to Megan Elizabeth, because she's Chris's Christopher's wife. She lives with all of them in the same house, and she's also Elena's best friend. Well, Megan Elizabeth, she hasn't been arrested at this point, or at the time of this recording.

And I don't believe, at this point, it's been publicly confirmed if she has any sort of knowledge of anything, but she apparently posted a go fund me so that she could bond out her cousin or her.

I was just, I can't talk, so that she could bond out her husband, Christopher, whole. But as you can imagine, she was met with a lot of backlash so much so that she did that deactivated her Facebook.

“Now, I think it might go a little bit deeper than that, because the probable cause affidavit, it did mention another female in the residence.”

And people also say that there is no way that she didn't know what was going on inside that house. She was Elena's best friend, the one who are youably orchestrated this entire thing.

Prosecutors also have said that they do believe that more people could be involved, and that the investigation is still active and still ongoing. So they're encouraging anybody to come forward with any information. And it's not uncommon for law enforcement to preserve social media accounts with a search warrant during an active investigation.

“So could that be why things have been deactivated, could that be why things are kind of like difficult to find, I don't know, possibly.”

But what we do know is at the time of this recording, in total, there are six people already in custody in connection to Kayla's murder. Now, let's go through how they were all connected, because I know that they were, I said that they like lived together, some of them were friends, but authorities do believe that they were all part of the broader social circle, that was going on in Moverly, Missouri, that they had overlap between local friendships, social circles, romantic relationships and like overlapping hangouts within the area.

And they believe that they all knew each other personally before Kayla disappeared. And again, as I had mentioned, some people say that they all lived in that same house together. So investigators alleged that Elena Mason, the half-sister, 20 years old, that she orchestrated much of the crime, that Hunter Ames provided the gun. That Christopher Hol helped sabotage Kayla's car and then dispose of evidence after the murder. The Julian Mason allegedly assisted after the fact, which this was that allegation of him helping hide Kayla in the basement.

Then Chris Woods, the 17-year-old boyfriend, they alleged that he had some level of involvement, but the exact level and scheming and colluding is still unclear publicly because he is a minor. But I think that we can all kind of, you know, understand if this motive is true, what his involvement would be. Also, I would imagine that he did, I would imagine that he did. Sorry, I was going to try to like, I would imagine that he obviously did have a level of involvement considering Kayla's car was abandoned and broke down on the side of the road.

And then he was the one seen on footage with her alluring her to whatever the destination was that she was abducted, which is what the where the kidnapping charges are coming into play. So I'm sure he helped facilitate. So Elena is currently being held without bail or bond and the other five defendants will not appear in court until June 1st, 2026, which I will certainly give you an update as soon as we know more in this case if more arrests are made. Like I said, these have all kind of happened just within the last week, back to back, and they do, as the investigator said, they do believe that their more people could be involved and they said the investigation is still active and ongoing.

So who knows if there will be more arrests, maybe at the time this episode being published, we will learn the wife is arrested or that somebody else. I mean, it's just such a heartbreaking case because, and I wanted to just put yourself in Kayla's families shoes for a moment here. This beautiful 16 year old little girl who had a boyfriend was living life loved family loved activities, then is so deliberately betrayed and sabotaged with motor oil put in her car in the middle of the night to where imagine that to when she's driving down the road the next day and her car starts making the noise thudding, stopping stalling and she's panicking at 16 years old.

Like, I don't know what happened to my car, I like panicked or like being like this is so annoying, I wonder how much it's going to be to repair, like I'm scared to tell my parents maybe who knows.

“Then your boyfriend who you maybe think is your night in shining armor who knows comes to help you you start walking off with him only to then what walk into a trap.”

A trap and get abducted into a car and then driven to this like deeply forested area where you're terrified because it's like multiple people on one you're getting beat with this baton and then shot and just left for dead.

Imagine Kayla's family trying to reconcile that in their brain how you can go from one thing from one morning that's so normal she was talking with her sister.

Fast forward where everything just changed in an instant and for what? Because allegedly two freaks decided to have sex with each other at which is disgusting and they should have done that and they got so pissed off that they got caught and weren't careful enough that they had to go attack the 16 year old girl.

“I don't know it infuriates me but like I said that's why I wanted to jump on here today and share everything we know Kayla Huff deserves justice her family deserves justice and they deserve answers.”

So as more information comes out I will let you know I imagine not only will we get updates as this case continues but I imagine things will also start dripping through and not be as concealed even though there are minors involved because that's usually how it works it's like you get little. Drops of information as it goes so I will certainly keep you updated but in the meantime, please keep Kayla's family and actual friends her real friends in your thoughts and prayers and just let's hope that these monsters face the you know accountability that they have accountability they have remorse and they share the truth they can give her family some sort of peace and like.

Throw the book at them throw the book at them because to be capable of such barbaric actions at such young ages who's to say what your you know what you're going to be capable of in the future as you grow into adulthood as you get smarter as you get more calculated right. So I know I know I'm kind of going off on a tangent here I apologize but thank you for listening to Kayla story today. Let me know if you've heard about this case too and what you've heard and if you are a family member or a friend and you want to share a memory of Kayla or what you know about this case something that won't jeopardize the case of course but feel free to reach out we would love to chat with you and you can reach me directly through the email in the.

“Show notes below or of course on social media but my thoughts and prayers are with you if you are watching or listening.”

Alright guys thank you so much and until the next one be nice don't kill people.

And don't plot and scheme and if you ever hear of someone wanting to do something to somebody else and they enlist you to help go to the police. [Music]