'Andrea looked at me and said, 'Do you think we can scale the wall?' And instantly I thought, 'Hey, that would be cool,' because Andrea and I never did anything exciting or rebellious,' Rachel recalls. Leaving through the front door would be too easier, they thought, so they decided to climb down the balconies from the sixth-floor condo to the ground.
Although they said good night to Andrea's mother, Kathy, and pretended to go to bed, they secretly had other plans: they wanted to meet up with some boys they had met earlier that night for a final late night beach party. After an evening of socializing, they returned to the Jones family condominium shortly before their midnight curfew. On April 10, 1992, sixteen-year-old Andrea Jones and her best friend, Rachel Koets, were enjoying their last night of spring vacation in the beach town of Gulf Shores, Alabama.
It airs in syndication on Episode 208S: Balcony Fall 911 Bank Capture. 208S Balcony Fall is the fourth story from the seventeenth episode of Season 4, which aired on Februon CBS.