Friends of a teenager mysteriously found dead on a lonely highway give wildly inconsistent stories about his last hours alive.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only shoes when his body was discovered on a desolate stretch of US-81 near Terral, Oklahoma, on September 4.
He was last seen alive about a mile away at a four-day 22nd birthday party with friends over the Labor Day weekend that was heavily documented on social media.
But what the wild videos and drunken photos leave out is how he suffered massive head and upper-body injuries that led him to die from internal bleeding.
Presgrove's cadre of close pals still raging well into that Sunday night consistently claimed they had no idea how he died, if they were even awake when he did.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was discovered on a desolate stretch of US-81 in Terral, Oklahoma , on September 4
But leaked texts and unearthed social media comments show chaotic and constantly shifting competing narratives that have fueled sinister rumors and turned the little town on the Texas border into a tinderbox.
The rough series of events that emerges is that after two nights or particularly heavy partying, Presgrove and several others took an ATV for a drunken spin and flipped it.
No one was hurt, but he was dirty enough that two of his friends gave him a shower and he changed into a different pair of shorts, and argued with the birthday girl about whether he could sleep in her bed.
After being told no, he wandered off to clear his head and wasn't seen again until a passing motorist spotted his body and called 911 at 5.53am.
Presgrove (center) with his father Victor (left) and mother Kasey (right)Presgrove's best friend Jack Newton, who insists he was asleep when the teenager died, summarized the basic chain of events to a friend weeks after the party
Presgrove's best friend Jack Newton, who insists he was asleep when the teenager died, summarized it to a friend weeks after the party.
'All of all close friends said that he wrecked my SXS I had there around 3,' he wrote.'And he was super dirty and super drunk so a couple of girls helped him in the shower.'When he got out [of the shower] he wanted to sleep in one of the girls' bed and she [said no and] that upset him and he walked off.'
But the details are very much in debate - as is whether Presgrove was killed where he was found or even left the party alive.
The lost weekendThe party was to celebrate the 22nd birthday of Avery Jo Combs, whose family are huge landowners in the area around Terral and beyond.
Advertised to friends on Snapchat, it was held at her house - one of three on small a dirt road off the highway 1.2 miles north of town and surrounded by fields.
The group lived in the various small towns dotted along US-81, including Ryan, Waurika, Duncan, and Comanche - where Presgrove lived.
About 40 people showed up, coming and going over the course of the weekend, and videos of the increasing of the increasingly drunk antics popped up online.
The party was to celebrate the 22nd birthday of Avery Jo Combs (pictured), whose family are huge landowners in the area around Terral and beyond
A photo of Presgrove with his friends late on the Saturday night of the party These videos, watched by many locals as they were posted, became the only record of the last hours of Presgrove's life.
One of the most crucial was from the Saturday night showing some of Presgrove's friends, including Avery, writing their names on his bare buttocks with marker.
At some point that the night, Presgrove got into an argument with Jack after the latter didn't like that he was huddled in a corner talking to his girlfriend Carter Combs - Avery's sister.
'We argued about girls for a second then ended up holding each other crying telling each other how much we meant to one another,' Jack told a friend in the weeks after Presgrove's death.
Presgrove drove home late that night and showered, but it was not clear how much of the stubborn marker he was able to get off in the shower.
One of the most crucial was from the Saturday night showing some of Presgrove's friends, including Avery, writing their names on his bare buttocks with marker
'We argued about girls for a second then ended up holding each other crying telling each other how much we meant to one another,' Jack told a friend in the weeks after Presgrove's death
Sunday night, identified in videos by the black shorts he was wearing, involved more drunken hijinks, including Presgrove daring friends to slap him across the face as they partied under an outside patio at the house.
Presgrove had to repeatedly insist that a male friend named Bryan Sweat hit him, eventually only giving him a light tap before sprinting away in fear of retaliation.
About the same time, a concerning video appeared to show a teenager holding a rifle with Presgrove visible in the foreground.
Presgrove fought at another point in the night after another friend, Mikey, accused him of hiding his phone.
Presgrove's family claimed Mikey 'fishhooked' him, and had his finger bitten in retaliation - but some friends insisted the argument was never physical.
The phone was found under another friend who was sleeping on a couch, and the two boys made up.The slap video was posted at 1.42am, according to those who watched it in real time, and was the last known post for about two hours.
Presgrove daring friends to slap him across the face as they partied under an outside patio at the house. This was posted at 1.42am and
SCapsules Beoordeling is the last known video of him alive
Another concerning photo appears to show a teenager holding a rifle with Presgrove visible in the foreground
The ATV accident The story of the ATV accident is so universally agreed upon that it made it into the autopsy report, along with Presgrove coming out of it unscathed.
'Earlier that night he [was riding in an ATV] and he flipped it but then after that he was just hanging out at the house,' Stephanie Milan, one of the girls who was there, wrote in a Snapchat message to an inquiring local.
'Like he turned it on its side but they flipped it back on its wheels.'But the details, and what happened afterwards, vary wildly depending on who you talk to - some saying it happened about midnight and others at 3am.
Jack, who owned the Polaris Ranger side-by-side, said it had to have happened after he went to bed about 1.50am.
'I took my keys out of the SxS and apparently Noah came in my room and grabbed them while I was asleep. A bunch of people went and drove the Ranger and wrecked it,' he told DailyMail.com in an interview.
'Earlier that night he [was riding in an ATV] and he flipped it but then after that he was just hanging out at the house,' Stephanie Milan, one of the girls who was there, wrote in a Snapchat message to an inquiring local
Presgrove argued with Avery (pictured) after he asked to sleep in her bed, but she refused and told him he had to sleep on the floor
Jack said he went to bed early because he was going fishing on Waurika Lake, about 30 miles north of Terral, with his father the next morning.
Presgrove is generally agreed to be the one driving the Ranger when it flipped, and though he wasn't injured, he was dirtied from when it hit the ground.
Carter and Jasmine Milan are said to have helped him shower to clean the dirt off as he was too drunk to do it himself.