Raymond Bush's Ex Recounts Chilling Phone Call

NEWPORT, Mich. - It was a tragic end to an Amber Alert. A teenage girl was found murdered, shot several times. The man suspected of kidnapping her was also found dead after taking his own life.

"He said, 'I did it.' And I said, 'What'd you do?' And he said, 'I shot Taylor,'" said Teri Nunn.

Raymond Bush's ex-girlfriend recounts the chilling phone call she got just before the 38-year-old ended up dead in a cemetery along North Dixie Highway. Also dead was 15-year-old Taylor Manley, who was the subject of an Amber Alert.

Bush was facing criminal sexual conduct charges, and the teen was to testify against him that day. Nunn says the two made a plan to die together instead.

"He told me that he was going to have Taylor shoot him first, and Taylor had told him that she couldn't do it because she was afraid that she would back out after that and not be able to do it to herself," Nunn said. "Then he said he shot her in the heart and it didn’t kill her, so he went back and shot her in the head."

The teen's death has been ruled a homicide, and the medical examiner says Bush died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

He actually stopped to leave belongings at Nunn's house for his young son, and as he was headed to the cemetery they passed on the road.

Nunn says she saw the teen's body in his van.

"Then I looked in the back, and I (saw) her feet sticking out of a blanket. He had her wrapped in a brown blanket," said Nunn.

Bush's family members spoke out late Thursday afternoon. They say the teen's mother allowed the relationship, and they do not believe she was kidnapped.

"He was a kind, compassionate and a humorous individual, not the monster everyone has made him out to be," one said.

"I did not see this coming. He was not that kind of person," said another. "It's just unbelievable, and I do feel for her family. I'm not trying to paint a bad picture about them, but the mother did know about the relationship."

The family says Bush and the teen were texting each other even while he was out on bond, which was a violation of his bond.

The teen's family says they do not believe that she would go willingly or agree to a suicide pact.