Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik are still in Idaho prisons, both serving life without the possibility of parole for the 2006 murder of their 16-year-old classmate Cassie Jo Stoddart. As of mid-2026, Draper is housed at the Idaho State Correctional Institution and Adamcik at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, both in the Boise area.1Idaho Department of Correction. IDOC Resident Search – Brian Lee Draper2Idaho Department of Correction. IDOC Resident Search – Torey Michael Adamcik Every appeal either man has filed, including challenges tied to their ages at the time of the killing, has been denied.
Where Each Man Is Held
Brian Draper carries IDOC number 85763 and is at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise.1Idaho Department of Correction. IDOC Resident Search – Brian Lee Draper Torey Adamcik carries IDOC number 86328 and is at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, also in Boise.2Idaho Department of Correction. IDOC Resident Search – Torey Michael Adamcik They are kept apart within the state system and reportedly do not speak, though they see each other in passing.3People. Where Are Cassie Jo Stoddart’s Murderers Now
Each is serving life without parole for first-degree murder, along with 30 years to life for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Judge Peter D. McDermott imposed those sentences in August 2007, after separate Bannock County trials the same year.4Idaho State Journal. Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Conviction and Sentence of Torey Adamcik
What They’ve Said From Prison
Both men have spoken publicly in recent years and said they accept responsibility for the killing. Draper told an interviewer, “I would give my life if I could change it.”3People. Where Are Cassie Jo Stoddart’s Murderers Now
A February 2024 Dateline episode titled “The Secret in Black Rock Canyon” included a phone interview with Draper from prison. In February 2026, Hulu premiered a three-part docuseries called The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story, featuring new prison interviews with both Draper and Adamcik and drawing on the perspectives of Stoddart’s family and the killers’ parents.5People. Cassie Jo Stoddart Killing Hulu Docuseries
Why They’re Still Serving Life
Both men were 16 at the time of the crime, and their ages have driven most of the litigation. Adamcik’s appeals stretched across more than a decade in state and federal court, and none succeeded.
On direct appeal, defense attorney Dennis Benjamin raised eight issues, including claims of prosecutorial error, challenges to Adamcik’s custodial statements, jury instruction problems, and the argument that a life-without-parole sentence for a 16-year-old was cruel and unusual punishment.4Idaho State Journal. Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Conviction and Sentence of Torey Adamcik In 2012, the Idaho Supreme Court affirmed both the conviction and the sentence. The court rejected the argument that prosecutors had to prove Adamcik personally inflicted the fatal wound, holding that Idaho law draws no distinction between a principal and an accomplice.6GovInfo. Adamcik v. State, Case No. 1:18-cv-00015-CWD
After the U.S. Supreme Court held in Miller v. Alabama (2012) that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment, and later ruled in Montgomery v. Louisiana (2016) that Miller applied retroactively, Adamcik sought resentencing. The Idaho Supreme Court denied relief in 2017. It found that the sentencing judge, though he had not used the exact language Miller called for, had considered whether Adamcik was “irreparably corrupt” and concluded that his crimes “were not the product of youth’s transient immaturity.”6GovInfo. Adamcik v. State, Case No. 1:18-cv-00015-CWD
Adamcik then filed a federal habeas corpus petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, raising three claims: that the evidence was insufficient to convict him of first-degree murder; that his due process rights were violated when the Idaho Supreme Court affirmed on an accomplice liability theory not presented at trial; and that his life sentence violated the Eighth Amendment under Miller and Montgomery. On November 25, 2019, the federal court denied habeas relief, finding parts of the claims non-cognizable because federal courts are bound by a state court’s interpretation of its own criminal law, and concluding that the state courts had properly applied the juvenile sentencing framework.6GovInfo. Adamcik v. State, Case No. 1:18-cv-00015-CWD
The Crime That Put Them There
On the evening of September 22, 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart, a junior at Pocatello High School, was house-sitting for her aunt and uncle, Frank and Allison Contreras, at their home on Whispering Cliffs Drive in Tyhee, in Bannock County.7Idaho State Journal. House Where Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart Took Place Proving Hard to Sell Draper and Adamcik, classmates of Stoddart, came over that evening, pretended to leave, and slipped back in through a basement door. They cut the power at the fuse box. After Stoddart’s boyfriend Matt Beckham left around 11:30 p.m., the two attacked her with knives.3People. Where Are Cassie Jo Stoddart’s Murderers Now
The medical examiner, Dr. Steve Skoumal, found 30 knife-related wounds on Stoddart, 12 of them potentially fatal. Forensic evidence pointed to two different knives, one serrated and one non-serrated, indicating both attackers stabbed her.6GovInfo. Adamcik v. State, Case No. 1:18-cv-00015-CWD Her body was found two days later when the Contreras family returned home.
The case became known for what the two teenagers had recorded on a homemade videotape, which police recovered after it had been burned and buried at Black Rock Canyon. On the footage, they planned the killing over about 24 hours, named Stoddart as their target, and after the attack recorded Draper saying, “I just killed Cassie! I stabbed her in the throat, and I saw her lifeless body.” They compared themselves to the film Scream and to serial killers including Ted Bundy, the Hillside Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and Ed Gein.6GovInfo. Adamcik v. State, Case No. 1:18-cv-00015-CWD The tape was central to the prosecution’s proof of premeditation at both trials, led by Bannock County Prosecutor Mark Hiedeman and Chief Deputy Prosecutor Vic Pearson.8The Spokesman-Review. Teens Seek Reduced Sentences in Girl’s Murder
With the federal habeas ruling in 2019, the legal avenues that had kept Draper and Adamcik’s ages in play appear closed. Both remain in Boise-area prisons, still separated, still serving the sentences imposed in 2007.