Death in the Dorms (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Yeardley Love - full transcript

College recruitment for lacrosse
is very competitive,

and she was incredible.

She was such a good
lacrosse player.

The UVA coach called her
and told her

that she'd been
recruited to the team.

That was like every holiday
you could think of

rolled into one for her.

Yeardley Love was 22

and just weeks
from graduating from UVA.

I woke up to a policeman
ringing my door.

Her body was discovered
in her bedroom.



It really was a mystery.

Her friends had just seen her.
Everything seemed fine.

They want to know what he knows.

I can remember, like,
the room spinning

and thinking,
"Was there some kind of, like,

crime walking home last night?"

I told you guys everything.

I'm not hiding
anything right now.

Literally everything.

She had just been at a bar
hanging out,

and she chose
to walk home alone.

The detectives found it
really strange

that a girl Yeardley's age
would be

without her cellphone
or her laptop.



In the back of my mind,
was thinking,

"This is a dream...
a nightmare."

♫ Remembered from a dream ♫

♫ You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou ♫

♫ We'll float out to the sea ♫

♫ When the rain comes ♫

Yeardley had a determination

from the beginning.

She had so much potential.

I was so proud of her.

This was Yeardley
when she was 3 years old,

and she was an angel
in the Christmas play.

And she's a real angel now.

I met my husband many moons ago.

We were married
and we had a child in 1984...

Lexie Love.

And then in 1987,
I had Yeardley Love.

They were extremely close,

and Lexie always looked out
for Yeardley,

and Yeardley always
looked up to Lexie.

Let's see if we can find...

um... maybe this one.

Okay. So this is a picture
with a little note

that Yeardley wrote me from
probably, honestly,

the year 1999 or maybe 2000.

It's the two of us.

We are dressed up on Halloween
as Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

So we thought we were twins,

even though we looked
nothing alike.

Anything I have from her
is, like, extremely special

and sacred to me
because I miss her.

And I feel so lucky that I had
such an amazing best friend.

Lexie and Yeardley

had two entirely
different personalities.

Lexie liked sports
like tennis and golf,

where it was dependent on her.

She didn't really like
someone coming at her

with a lacrosse stick
and hitting her arm,

where Yeardley loved it.

Yeardley loved to get in the mix
and fight for each goal.

♫ When you the goat,
they don't want no smoke ♫

♫ I'm Tiger Woods in the hood ♫

♫ Know I'm good ♫

I remember the first time

I saw Yeardley play lacrosse.

I probably had to pick my jaw up
off the field.

Or running a drill and she's
just out there owning it

and just a shining star
on the field.

And she was incredible.

She was such a good
lacrosse player.

She was actually very tiny.

But once she got the ball,

they say she could run
like the wind,

and she did.

Her mom and her sister,

they all were
a very tight-knit family,

but I think anyone can tell you

that she was definitely
a daddy's girl.

Her family always came first.

I think that most people
were caught off guard

by how, like, bubbly
and sweet she was,

because she was also stunning
and gorgeously beautiful.

Yeardley had a huge sense
of humor.

She, most of the time,
was laughing at herself

and just loved to be silly
and happy-go-lucky

and just had a smile
on her face all the time.

She was really easy-going.
She was really fun.

She was really funny.

When Yeardley
was in seventh grade,

my husband was diagnosed
with terminal cancer.

Even when he was sick,
he went to all of her games.

The coaches would let me drive
my car onto the field

because he couldn't
walk that far.

We knew it was inevitable.

When he died,

Yeardley was a freshman
in high school.

The girls vowed that
they would make them proud.

After my husband died, we were
practically tied at the hip

and the three of us became
even closer and more dependent

on one another
after that happened.

My husband was fond
of University of Virginia.

So Yeardley vowed that she would
go to University of Virginia

and play D1 lacrosse.

College recruitment for lacrosse

is very competitive,

and by junior year,
Yeardley had not heard

whether or not
the University of Virginia

wanted her to come
and play lacrosse there.

So she was starting to lose
a little bit of hope.

But then she got a phone call
from the coach,

and the UVA coach called her
and told her

that she'd been
recruited to the team.

That was like every holiday
you could think of

rolled into one for her.

My name is Michelle Davis.

From 2010 to 2014,

I was the news editor
of "The Cavalier Daily,"

the University of Virginia's
student-run newspaper.

UVA was a really magical place.

It has a lot of traditions
that, you know,

the students there
really pride themselves on.

At the football games,
it's guys in ties,

girls in pearls,
you know, sociable,

but also really smart.

In some ways,
was a bit of a bubble

because we were surrounded
by students mostly.

And so I never felt unsafe.

♫ Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ♫

♫ Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ♫

♫ Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ♫

♫ Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ♫

♫ Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ♫

Yeardley majored
in political science.

She wanted to be a lawyer.
She joined a sorority.

She joined Theta sorority
at Virginia.

When I visited Yeardley,

I could tell that
she just adored Charlottesville.

She made some amazing,
close friends.

She was really happy
and confident and dating.

Sophomore year, she started
going out with George Huguely.

George had a similar
dynamic in his upbringing

that, like, played sports,
went to a private school,

and was recruited
to play lacrosse

at the University of Virginia.

The women's and men's teams have
a very tight-knit relationship

because they're on
the same schedule.

So Yeardley and George
were good friends

long before they started dating,

and I think that George
always had an eye for Yeardley

and was basically
trying to woo her

and win her over
from the moment that they met.

You could just tell that she
absolutely loved her life there.

Yeardley played lacrosse
all four years,

which a lot of people
end up quitting

because, essentially,
playing a Division-1 sport

is a full-time job.

It's a lot of early
wake-up times,

a ton of practicing,
mandatory study hours.

She really took pride in being
a member of that team

and wanted to make sure
that she put her all into it,

whether that was on the field,
off the field.

Just in general,
she really gave it her all.

Spring 2010 was
an exciting time.

She was very focused
on finishing out

her lacrosse season strong.

Yeardley and George
had broken up,

but they would see
each other out all the time

because they were
in such a tight social circle.

And so in her mind,
she just thought,

"I just have to kind of
keep it together."

And she was looking forward
to graduation.

She was getting really
excited about that.

She just had
to grab her diploma,

finish up the year,
and she was headed to New York.

She had already set her sights
on her next step... law school.

And she wanted to have a family

and she wanted to always stay
close with her own family.

The sky was gonna be
the limit for Yeardley.

She would have ended up
getting a great job somewhere,

probably in a big city,

living out that next phase
of her life happily ever after.

She didn't know it at the time,

but those were the last
couple of days

that she would be with us.

♫ I should've known long ago ♫

♫ What you wanted from me ♫

♫ I should've known ♫

They had their last games,

which are always bittersweet.

You're so close with your team,

so they all go out together
one or two last times.

♫ You're saying you need a
little bit of time to deliver ♫

Yeardley had been out
with her roommate drinking,

but she didn't want to continue
going out, so she went home.

♫ I should have known long ago ♫

♫ What you wanted from me ♫

♫ I should have known long ago ♫

Her roommate came home
after having been out.

And she wanted to talk
to Yeardley.

So she went into her room
and she realized

that there was blood on the bed.

And so,
she tried to wake her up.

She shook her. She was
starting to get concerned.

And once she pushed
her hair aside,

there was blood everywhere.

Just after 2:00 a.m.,
Charlottesville police

responded to a 911 call
from a student's apartment.

The apartment is just blocks
from the campus.

Obvious signs
of physical trauma.

...battered and bruised body.

...notified investigators

and we began that investigation.

Her roommate tries to wake
Yeardley up and fails,

so she calls 911.

At the time,
the dispatcher understands

that this is a drunk college
student who's passed out.

My name is
Warner Davies Chapman.

I became Charlottesville's
prosecutor in 1994.

During the time period
of the call to 911,

Yeardley Love's roommate
could see

there was a hole in the door
to Yeardley's bedroom.

Her reaction was, of course,
one of horror.

The police came in
and immediately began

the administration of CPR,

but Yeardley Love
had passed away.

The officer can see obvious
injuries to her face,

principally the right side
of her face.

The officer
immediately recognized

that this was a crime scene.

This was not an accidental
death. It was murder.

It was clear to us
when we arrived on the scene,

the medics were already present.

The body was turned over and
there were injuries to her body,

which led the primary units
that responded to believe that,

in fact,
we had a crime scene to secure

and they immediately
notified investigators

and we began that investigation.

My name is Erica Kelley.

I have a podcast called
"Southern Fried True Crime."

I research and write

crimes basically focused
in the South.

The first time I ever heard
the name Yeardley Love,

I had gotten an e-mail
from a listener

who preferred
to remain anonymous.

She felt very strongly

that Yeardley's story
needed to be heard,

that people needed
to understand what happened.

As soon as the detectives
arrived on the scene,

at first glance
within the apartment,

it didn't seem like
anything was wrong.

Nothing appeared
to be disturbed.

There's no evidence that there
was any assaultive behavior

that took place outside
of Yeardley Love's bedroom.

One of the first things
she noticed

was that there was a hole in the
door to Yeardley's bedroom.

And in fact, on the floor
at the end of the bed

is a blood spot.

Things were knocked around.

It really looked as though
there had been a struggle.

It became apparent very quickly
that, you know,

someone had been
in this room with her.

One of the first things
the detectives on scene noticed

was that Yeardley's laptop
and her cellphone were missing.

The detectives found it
really strange

that a girl Yeardley's age

would be without her cellphone
or her laptop.

This looked like a burglary
that went wrong.

The detectives on scene
immediately call in CSI

for fingerprints, DNA tests.

They immediately start
questioning her roommate,

finding out a little bit
about Yeardley's life

and what could have happened
in the hours leading up to this.

Her friends had just seen her.

Everything seemed fine.

While it did appear
to be a struggle,

there was no murder weapon.

There was no obvious motive.

And they weren't even sure yet
exactly how Yeardley had died.

I woke up to a policeman
ringing my door.

I couldn't understand

why police would be at my house
at 6:00 a.m.

I thought maybe
they had the wrong house.

I didn't... I didn't know.

And I opened the door.

And the policeman asked me,

"Are you Yeardley Love's
mother?"

And, um...
And then I, um...

I don't know
what happened after that.

Your mind doesn't allow it
to sink in.

Yeardley was gone.

But in my mind, I was still
thinking she would be there,

so...

When police got to the scene,

they found that Yeardley Love
was dead

and there was obvious signs
of physical trauma.

Her battered and bruised body

was found early Monday morning.

Yeardley Love
was a well-liked student

and an accomplished athlete.

Very early this morning,

Charlottesville police
were called to her apartment

for what was reported
as a possible...

It was really early
in the morning,

and my phone rang.

And when I answered the phone,

it was Yeardley's roommate
at UVA.

I just can remember,
like, the room spinning

and thinking, like,
"How can this be?"

Like, something like this
could have never happened.

And I remember asking her, well,
like, you know, "What happened?

Like, was there a car accident
or, you know,

was there some kind of, like,
crime walking home last night?

Did someone, like, like,
break into your apartment?"

Detectives learned from
her roommate and her friends

that, you know,
she had just been at a bar,

hanging out, having
a couple of drinks,

and she chose
to walk home alone.

As police were canvassing
the area,

they talked to Yeardley's
downstairs neighbor.

She was awake, alert,
was sitting in her living room

on a couch using the computer
the night before.

She does recall a person
climbing the steps up

to the floor above

where Yeardley Love's
apartment was located.

A short time after hearing that,

she describes a great
crashing noise.

The most likely thing that
would have been a person

breaking through
Yeardley Love's door.

And also she was able
to hear the person exiting.

From a window
in her living area,

could see a male
leaving from the building.

She said that she didn't
see the young man's face,

but she did see that he was
a tall male figure

wearing blue shorts
and a white T-shirt.

The investigators needed
to find out

who may have been with Yeardley
Love the night she died.

It was inside this campus bar

at a post-exam party
where 22-year-old Yeardley Love

would spend
her final hour Sunday.

Students woke up
seeing blue lights.

They heard sirens, fire trucks
in their neighborhood.

But pretty quickly,
they were texting each other,

they were calling each other

and word was really spreading
like wildfire.

Yeardley Love was 22

and just weeks from graduating
from UVA

when she was found dead
in her apartment.

The death of
Yeardley Love rocked the campus,

rocked the community.

The close-knit
campus here is stunned.

Losing a member
our community is...

It's really hard just knowing

that someone from our family

isn't here anymore.

The fact of the matter was,

there was somebody responsible
for Yeardley's death,

and they were still out there.

Two investigators were involved.

They were able to talk
to the roommate

outside of the apartment
on the balcony.

The first question
as a detective is,

you know,
"Did she have any enemies?

Did she have any problems
with anybody,

you know, no matter
how big or small?"

As police are talking
to Yeardley's friends,

it becomes more
and more apparent

that Yeardley had
an ex-boyfriend named George.

Yeardley and George, you know,

had a serious relationship,

but a few months
before all of this,

they had broken up.

Almost immediately,
the people in your lives

are gonna be the first suspects.

And detectives,
while, of course,

they are going to be interested
in the ex-boyfriend,

you know, they still
have to explore every avenue.

As police are talking
to Yeardley's friends,

they're still looking
at security footage

from businesses that are nearby.

You know, they're really
canvassing the area

for any possibility.

Police found surveillance
footage from a bar.

You can clearly see
George there.

And Yeardley walks up and George
puts his arm around her,

and she turns around
and puts her arm around him

only for a few seconds
before she walks off.

They really needed to understand
the nature of their relationship

to find out if George
was a viable suspect.

Yeardley Love's roommate
was able to describe to police

who George Huguely was
to Yeardley Love.

George Huguely was a member
of the men's lacrosse team.

He was a fourth-year student
at the university.

George Huguely is
actually George Huguely V.

He came from a long line
of George's,

who hail from
Chevy Chase, Maryland.

At a very young age,
his parents divorce.

George's father
was a businessman

and he was successful with
handed-down generational wealth.

George went to a pretty elite,

all-boys private school

that was known for churning
out college athletes.

And he ended up, you know,
following that path

and becoming
a lacrosse player at UVA.

She met George Huguely
freshman year in Spanish class.

When Yeardley first told me
about George,

it was more in like a
"There's this really funny guy

that I've been hanging out with.

He's in our group of guy friends
and he's hilarious"

and, you know,
would tell funny stories

about things that they would do
when they were all out together.

When she started dating George,

we all went out to dinner

and talked about UVA
and lacrosse.

He seemed extremely
happy-go-lucky.

It seemed like nothing
really bothered him

and Yeardley seemed happy.

I did meet him
when I visited UVA.

I definitely understood why
Yeardley thought he was funny.

George had a very playful
and kind of loud personality,

and she, of course,
liked to laugh.

That was probably
what originally sort of

drew Yeardley to George.

And he could be really fun
to be around

and, you know,
get into a good conversation

and ask the right questions

and definitely have
that charismatic side to him.

You know,
when you look at George,

you know, smart kid that had
everything going for him.

But honestly,
if you peel back the curtain,

that's not exactly
what his life was like.

There was definitely
a pretty big difference

between sober George
and drunk George.

I 1,000% think that once
he would start drinking,

he had a side to him that I had
no interest in being around.

He could come off
as a little bit, like, obnoxious

and a little bit
full of himself.

Some people think

that UVA
is a big drinking school,

but according to his friends,

George seemed to take it
to another level

where he wouldn't remember
anything the next day,

but he would do things
that were regrettable.

If Yeardley wasn't answering
the phone when we were together

and he was out
somewhere else drinking,

he was very jealous

and he wanted to know
exactly where she was

and who she was with and would
get mad about silly things

like being out
to dinner with girls.

He would question
who she was really out with.

He would call her repeatedly
and repeatedly and repeatedly,

even though she wouldn't answer

or would text her and text her
and text her.

And she would usually
just kind of, like, laugh

and try to sort of say,

"That's just George
being George."

George had heard a rumor

that Yeardley had been
walked home

by one of George's
lacrosse teammates,

and after a night out,

he thought that something
had happened between them.

Maybe they'd kissed. We don't
know what really happened,

but this was enough
to infuriate George.

George Huguely
in the night time,

broke into
that teammate's apartment

and struck him repeatedly
while he was in his bed.

And the teammate was
significantly injured.

But that event
was never reported to police.

As investigators are
talking to her friends,

the only thing every person
kept talking about

was her ex-boyfriend, George,

because it had been
a very tumultuous relationship.

During those
early morning hours,

detectives were searching
Yeardley's room,

looking for any clue
as to what might have happened.

Among the things that were found
in Yeardley Love's apartment

was a handwritten letter
from George Huguely.

It was an apology.

"I'm horrified to think
that I was using physical force

to keep you in my room.
I'm so sorry."

The letter concludes,
"I'm so sorry again"

and hope to talk with you
when you feel you can.

I can assure you, though,

that I will never act
as I did that Saturday night.

"I'm sorry again!!
Love, George."

Police really needed
to get to the bottom of this.

As a result,
it was quickly learned

that George Huguely was a person

that investigators
needed to follow up with.

The investigators went
to the Huguely residence.

They knocked on the door.

He had just woke up.

George Huguely was told they
were investigating an assault,

but it wasn't given with any
greater description from that.

And George Huguely agreed
to accompany them

to the Charlottesville
Police Department.

He did so without asking
any questions

or at least seeking
any information.

As detectives
are questioning George,

they want to know what he knows

without ever telling him
that Yeardley is dead.

One of the aspects
of an investigation

in a case like this
is to look back in time

and try and discover events,
facts and circumstances

that might help explain
what happened.

Three months earlier, there was
a party at his residence

in which there were a number
of people in attendance.

George was under the influence
of alcohol and agitated.

He had physically restrained
Yeardley Love in his bedroom,

keeping her from leaving by
having his arm around her neck.

Someone heard someone
shouting for help,

and when they opened the door,

Huguely had her pinned
to the bed

and his hands were around her.

He was choking her.

It was seen by multiple people.

George did actually physically
harm her

and essentially had to be,
like, pulled off of her.

She had told her mom
and her sister

and all of her friends
and roommates at college

what had happened
and that she planned

to truly never speak to him
again.

So I went and picked her
up and brought her home.

And she... she just...
She wrote him a letter

and said, "It's over."

We discussed whether we ought to
call for a restraining order

or call the police.

In Virginia at the time,

you couldn't get
a restraining order

unless you were married
or live with the person.

And so she stayed with me
for a day or two,

and she had to be
at practice for lacrosse.

And so I drove her back down
to Charlottesville and said,

"Should we... should
I tell the coaches

about George Huguely
grabbing you?"

And she said, "No, no, it's
fine. It'll be fine."

So, um...

They soon learned that
this letter from George

was actually an apology

for that incident at the party
where he had strangled her.

When you're in college,
everyone's together all the time

in this tiny, little place, so
it's hard to separate yourself

from someone who's just been
in your inner circle.

On Tuesday of the week
preceding her death,

George was at home.

Yeardley had heard rumors
that George had hooked up

with one
of her sorority sisters,

and so she went to
confront him about it.

According to others,
while she was

under the influence of alcohol
and upset,

Yeardley Love entered
George Huguely's apartment

and ended up striking him
several times

with her purse.

The detectives learned
that, in fact,

George Huguely had been
to Yeardley Love's apartment

the night she was killed.

...that's me being emotional.
I wanted you to go talk to her.

George's version of this
was that they were wrestling,

but that it was nothing
more than that.

Many, if not most or nearly
all the contents,

were recovered
and given back to her.

And when she left there,
she had them.

Not found was her phone.

So from that point on,
Yeardley Love used her computer

to conduct her communications
with him and others

during the week
preceding her murder.

George Huguely
has implicated himself

in the physical events that
caused Yeardley Love's death.

The detectives haven't said
anything about her status.

He hasn't asked,
which itself is remarkable...

because of what
he's admitting to.

Is there some question
in the detective's mind

about does he know or not?

Is there some question
in George Huguely's mind

about how he left Yeardley Love?

At the police station,

detectives do finally tell
George that Yeardley is dead.

Huguely has been arrested

for first-degree murder.

His school lacrosse picture
replaced by a jail mugshot.

...at the
University of Virginia,

accused of murdering
Yeardley Love,

a star on
the school's women's team.

Her body was
discovered in her bedroom.

There is an autopsy
scheduled this morning.

We'll learn more about the
manner and cause of her death

and really what the extent
of the injuries are.

But by sight, were very severe.

Lexie and I got
to Charlottesville

and went
to Dave Chapman's office.

I knew George had been arrested.

The whole thing
was a shock to me.

The whole thing was surreal.

When I was talking
to Dave Chapman,

I did care about what
the consequences would be.

I asked him
what he would be charged for.

He methodically explained
the whole process to me.

He said they were
just collecting the evidence.

There wasn't a clear picture in
anybody's head at that moment.

I still wasn't believing
what happened.

I still, in the back of my mind,
was thinking,

"This is a dream, a nightmare."

Administrators say
the university community

is devastated and harder hit

because the accused
is one of their own.

Questions of disbelief.

How could this happen
to such a wonderful person,

a person that was described
as an angel

by teammates and friends?

In the days
following Yeardley's death,

everyone who loved her

was in constant communication
with one another,

just trying to process
and figure out what had happened

and what did we miss and how
could this have happened?

Once they brought George
into custody,

my mind started racing
and I was thinking to myself,

like, "You know, I know that I
don't necessarily like this guy

and I know he's done
a lot of terrible things,"

but in my mind, like, the fact
that Yeardley had been murdered

by someone that I knew,
like, just...

It didn't seem like
it could be real.

George had done a lot
to minimize this fight

between him and Yeardley,
you know, that they had,

you know, wrestled around,
whatever.

You know,
maybe her nose was bloodied,

you know, no big deal.

The autopsy told
a very different story.

The injuries observable
beginning at the head

and continuing
all the way down to both legs.

It took very considerable force

to produce the injuries
that were observable of her.

She died from
internal brain injuries.

It was learned that

there were respiratory
or cardiovascular events

occurring as long as two hours
after the assault.

The evidence is it wasn't long

after the cessation
of signs of life

that Yeardley's body
was discovered.

He had already admitted
to being in the room that night.

He had already admitted
to an altercation with Yeardley.

And now they wanted to know,
was it premeditated?

Was there intent?

Based on what George Huguely
told the investigators,

he had taken Yeardley Love's
computer and dumped it.

It was found in a Dumpster that
was nearby George's residence,

but definitely was not
in a straight-line direction

between Yeardley Love's
residence and George Huguely's.

You had to deviate a block
out of your way to the side

to reach the Dumpster
where the computer was found.

What immediately occurred
was that the computer

contained evidence that
there's something on the laptop

that he doesn't want
to be found.

Police found
a series of e-mails.

This story that George gave
the police about this incident

where "she attacked him,"
she started beating him

with her purse
and her cellphone fell out,

was actually corroborated
by the e-mails.

As a result of that incident,
there began a back and forth

between Yeardley Love
and George Huguely.

This was right
before she was killed.

She offered an apology
to him electronically.

He responded to her apology in
a manner that was not accepting.

George wrote to Yeardley...

To which Yeardley replied,
"You should have killed me?"

You're so up,
so the more I think about it,

I could care less
that I attacked you.

You deserved it.

"And we got a good laugh
about it the next morning."

He now knows that she's laughed
about him to her friends.

And I think this possibly really

could have been a trigger
for George.

"I should have killed you."

It was certainly perceived
by investigators

as sufficiently a threat to her.

Based on all that they knew,

George Huguely
was charged with murder

of Yeardley Love.

It took two years
for George Huguely

to come to trial.

All eyes are now on
this Charlottesville courthouse,

where a University of Virginia
coed's family waits for justice.

He was charged
with first-degree murder,

second-degree murder,

voluntary manslaughter,
and involuntary manslaughter,

including burglary with intent
to commit assault and battery.

And that first day of trial,

he stood up
and he pleaded not guilty.

The defense team has
been trying to prove that

while the University of Virginia
lacrosse player

may have been out of control,

he never meant or even thought
about killing Yeardley Love.

This was
an unfortunate accident.

One of the last
witnesses the prosecution called,

Huguely's friend Ken Clausen,

said Huguely came back
to his apartment after midnight

following the alleged incident
with Love and was unresponsive.

Clausen said he asked
Huguely repeatedly,

"What's wrong with you?"

And he said he got no response,
just blank stares.

This was not
an accidental death.

It was the result
of intentional actions

that had
unintended consequences.

University of Virginia
lacrosse star George Huguely V

was found guilty.

The jury found George guilty
of second-degree murder

and grand larceny.

The jury's view
that there was no premeditation.

That's why it became
a second-degree murder charge.

George ultimately ended up
getting sentenced to 23 years.

If he got 10 days or 100 years,

you're never satisfied
because Yeardley is gone.

There's no... no punishment for
taking something like that away

that... that justifies it.

The trial ending gave
closure to, you know,

the UVA community,
to Charlottesville.

It also was something
that I think UVA learned from.

There is a lot more talk,
you know,

on grounds around
not being a bystander

and speaking up if you saw
things that concerned you.

None of this was ever reported.

Not to the police, not to campus
police, not to his coaches.

So he didn't face
any consequences

for anything he had done.

And it could have been anything

from being kicked off
the lacrosse team.

And there was also
an honor code at UVA.

He could have been expelled.

In my mind, had that happened,

Yeardley Love
would be alive today.

I just can't think
of an instance over the years

where a family did a better job
of making the absolute best

out of what's the worst tragedy
you can possibly experience.

We decided we wanted to do
to domestic violence

what Mothers Against Drunk
Drivers did to drunk driving.

And we wanted to stop it
before it began.

So after research, we realized
that 16-to 24-year-olds

were the most vulnerable group.

And we picked
an educational program

to help prevent this
from happening to anybody else.

So that's how One Love
was formed.

♫ Take me to a war ♫

♫ With my head and my heart ♫

In Charlottesville,

there's a bridge
called the Beta Bridge.

For the past 12 years,
the lacrosse team

has painted the Beta Bridge
in memory of Yeardley.

♫ Everybody has something
to need ♫

I don't know whether they know

how much that means
to Lexie and I,

but we are so touched every year
that the coaches and the teams

continue to remember Yeardley
in such a wonderful way.

The fact that, you know,

students
at the University of Virginia

know exactly
who Yeardley Love was

is something that
I don't take for granted.

♫ Come back to me ♫

I want everyone to know
about Yeardley

and if they didn't have
the pleasure of meeting her,

to know her story and live
a better life because of her.

♫ You're the cause ♫

♫ Coming out alone ♫