It's a story that at least in the United States you've heard a hundred times before two teenage boys.

It's a story that at least in the United States you've heard a hundred times before.

Two teenage boys are playing with a gun that's been stolen from a father's nightstand.

The gun goes off and one of the boys is killed.

A tragedy, but an all an all too common one. And at first, that's what

was believed to have happened to 15-year-old Brian Bowling. It was October of 1996. Brian and his best friend were hanging out in his bedroom when, as the friend would tell police later that night, the boys got the idea to play Russian roulette.

The police heard how Brian had loaded a single round into a 38 revolver,

spun the cylinder, held the gun to his head, and pulled the trigger. This particular revolver

had five chambers, which meant there would have been an 80% chance that Brian would win the game and nothing would happen.

But something did happen.

A bullet was fired, Brian was shot in the head, and he died the next day.

What seemed at first to have been a tragic self-inflicted accident soon became something

much more complicated though.

Within a few days, that accident had become instead a reckless homicide.

And then, within a few months, that reckless homicide

had become a murder conspiracy.

Two teenagers, Kane Joshua Story and Darrell Lee Clark,

were sentenced to life in prison for their role in the death of Brian Bowling.

They're still there today.

According to the investigators and prosecutors who brought the case to trial,

this is a story about a group of teenagers who plotted to murder their friend

and almost got away with it.

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