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00:00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent
00:00:09and must proven guilty.
00:00:20So we are going up to this area,
00:00:22which is very secluded, very wooded.
00:00:25You don't go out there to go hiking.
00:00:29You go out there to get rid of things.
00:00:32Common sense tells me he's dumping our body.
00:00:36Man, if you'd have told me three weeks ago
00:00:38that we'd be looking for another body after Mark's case,
00:00:40I wouldn't have believed you.
00:00:42This is super rare.
00:00:44This is one of those kind of cases that she'll never forget.
00:00:52All right, let's go see what we got.
00:00:54I hope we find her.
00:00:57911, what's the address of the emergency?
00:00:59In West, 63rd page north, across the street from my house.
00:01:04There's a body that's laying on the porch.
00:01:08Do you know if that person has been shot?
00:01:09I don't know.
00:01:10I don't know.
00:01:11I don't know.
00:01:12I don't know.
00:01:13I don't know.
00:01:14I don't know.
00:01:15I don't know.
00:01:16I don't know.
00:01:17I don't know.
00:01:18I don't know.
00:01:19I don't know.
00:01:20I don't know.
00:01:21I don't know.
00:01:22But if they're falling, there's a body that's laying on the porch.
00:01:25Do you know if that person has been shot?
00:01:28I don't know.
00:01:29All right, we'll go ahead and do a call in, okay?
00:01:35First responders arrive at the home and find a young woman on the front porch.
00:01:42porch, shot dead. For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in
00:01:57half if they don't get a lead within the first 48 hours.
00:02:12Hey Brandon. Detective Mark Kennedy will lead the investigation. Victims shot and killed her on our front step. What's her name?
00:02:3127-year-old Elizabeth Dillard grew up in Redding, California and recently moved to Tulsa with her
00:02:36eight and nine-year-old sons. She also has a five-year-old daughter who lives in California
00:02:42with her ex-partner. Elizabeth is survived by her parents and two younger sisters.
00:02:52This neighbor and this people said they heard gunshots 330 to 345. No one called it in.
00:02:59Elizabeth was lying dead on her doorstep for almost four hours before a neighbor saw her and called
00:03:05911. She shot three times. Okay. She was struck three times in the chest.
00:03:12Casings right in the front yard.
00:03:1540 caliber hornedays. CSI recovered three 40 caliber shell casings.
00:03:26She's not robbed.
00:03:27She's got her car keys out. Her purse is still intact. Her door keys are laying on her way. So she's trying to get in the house.
00:03:40Her kids were at the house being watched by her sister.
00:03:44When first responders arrived, they found Elizabeth's sons and her sister inside.
00:03:51Who seemed to know the most about her sister?
00:03:53Elizabeth's sister will be taken to homicide for questioning while her kids stay with her sister's husband.
00:04:02She's got a phone on. Grab that. We'll take it with us.
00:04:09Not with the scene, is it?
00:04:10No.
00:04:12Well, we got some work to do.
00:04:13Yeah, I think so.
00:04:14One hour in.
00:04:22You are.
00:04:23Yep.
00:04:25Reggie said they've got cameras pointing that direction.
00:04:28The team finds security cameras on the house next door to Elizabeth's.
00:04:32Nathan and Reggie are working on it.
00:04:34They're looking at it.
00:04:36Maybe Nathan can explain it to you.
00:04:38Yeah, listen, here we go.
00:04:39It's not. It shows her coming home at like 3.46.
00:04:49It's dark. I mean, you can't really see the porch.
00:04:53The video shows Elizabeth pulling into her driveway around the same time neighbors her gunshots.
00:04:59They're not sure are getting out of the car?
00:05:01No, it's out of view.
00:05:04But the cameras didn't capture the shooting.
00:05:06We don't see any cars following her into the driveway.
00:05:11She says,
00:05:11According to the neighbor,
00:05:17Elizabeth recently broke up with a man whose parents live two doors down.
00:05:21I'll talk to her.
00:05:26I'll go to the table.
00:05:29Is that her?
00:05:30Yes.
00:05:31The neighbor says she thinks they broke up about three months ago.
00:05:35She gives detectives the ex-boyfriend's contact information.
00:05:42I wonder if she has something else.
00:05:45Well, somebody was just cutting up right in English here.
00:05:49Let's go talk to her sister.
00:05:51Yeah, let's go.
00:05:52All right, guys.
00:05:53All right.
00:05:53I'm sorry we're meeting under these circumstances.
00:06:08Kennedy and Detective Max Ryden speak to Elizabeth's sister.
00:06:12I know this is a tough time for you,
00:06:15and I'm really sorry to have to put you through this,
00:06:17but we need as much information as we can get right now.
00:06:21So, you know, first of all,
00:06:25do you live there with your sister?
00:06:27Um, yeah, I just, uh, well, I just came to visit to help out with things and...
00:06:32Okay.
00:06:33...help clean up her house and take care of kids.
00:06:37She goes to work.
00:06:38Right.
00:06:38She goes, like, they're going to hold on.
00:06:39Right.
00:06:40Where does she work at?
00:06:42Lipsticks, cabaret.
00:06:43She says Elizabeth worked at an adult entertainment club on the east side of Tulsa.
00:06:48And what does she do at the club?
00:06:51Um, dance.
00:06:53And what time does she normally get off work?
00:06:56I think at, like, 2.30.
00:06:58She gets home maybe 3 o'clock.
00:07:01So did you just assume she was already inside the house whenever you woke up this morning?
00:07:07Um, I woke up to banging.
00:07:11Banging on the door?
00:07:12Was it a neighbor?
00:07:13Um, officers, nurses.
00:07:16Officers, okay.
00:07:17She says she didn't know anything had happened to Elizabeth until the police arrived.
00:07:22I don't think you've told the kids yet about this, have you?
00:07:25No.
00:07:26Do they know something's happened to their mom?
00:07:28I don't believe so.
00:07:31But they're going to never see her again, and they're going to watch her to wear a sheet.
00:07:38I know, I'm sorry.
00:07:39They would kill her.
00:07:41Yeah, I know.
00:07:43It was almost like she was ambushed.
00:07:45That's what it looks like.
00:07:47And so that, to me, is somebody that we feel has a beef with her, and we start looking at people close to her.
00:07:56Um, she did have one boyfriend, Terrell.
00:08:00Okay.
00:08:01She says Elizabeth recently dated a man named Terrell.
00:08:04Do you know Terrell's last name?
00:08:07I don't.
00:08:08Terrell's a black male?
00:08:10Yes.
00:08:10A black male?
00:08:12He had, like, a dreaded hair, and he's kind of tall.
00:08:18How long ago did they date?
00:08:20Like, two weeks ago.
00:08:22Did he live there with her?
00:08:24Stay there?
00:08:24He stayed in his truck.
00:08:25He stayed in his truck?
00:08:27I was to help her.
00:08:28Okay.
00:08:30Do you know what kind of truck he had?
00:08:32I don't know.
00:08:33It had a bed, but, like, no shell on it or anything.
00:08:37He had, like, a dog that would save me back.
00:08:40How come he didn't come in the house?
00:08:42Um, because he would have the dog.
00:08:44Okay.
00:08:45She didn't want the dog to get sick.
00:08:47How was their relationship?
00:08:49Was it turbulent?
00:08:50It was all right.
00:08:52He would do dishes and come in sometimes.
00:08:55Okay.
00:08:57You know his number?
00:08:58Mm-hmm.
00:09:00Okay.
00:09:01I want to ask you, there's a house, just about two houses down from where you live.
00:09:07Do you know individuals in there that...
00:09:09I know a little bit about them, of what she told me.
00:09:13It's an ex-boyfriend.
00:09:16How did they know each other?
00:09:18Facebook, and then she moved in with him.
00:09:23She moved into the house where she's at now?
00:09:25Uh-huh.
00:09:26She says about a year ago, Elizabeth moved in with a man she met online.
00:09:31Their relationship didn't work, and he moved out.
00:09:34Really?
00:09:35Okay.
00:09:35She said her moved out, yeah.
00:09:36And you know how long ago that was, that the breakup occurred?
00:09:41I want to say longer than three months ago.
00:09:44She talked to him recently on Facebook Messenger, and he was trying to get her to go hang out with him.
00:09:54Recently?
00:09:54Like in the last week?
00:09:56Uh-huh.
00:09:56Yeah.
00:09:57And I was telling her, you know, he's an ex for a reason.
00:10:00He still owed her money or something, because he broke her phones when they were in a relationship, and never bought her a new phone.
00:10:11Okay.
00:10:12Did you say anything about how that happened?
00:10:15Um, she had apps that he didn't want, like dating apps.
00:10:20Jealous?
00:10:21Times that things that made him jealous?
00:10:22Yeah.
00:10:23Uh-huh.
00:10:23Okay.
00:10:24And he broke her iPhone and the new one, and then she broke up with him.
00:10:30She broke up, and then he had to move out of his own house?
00:10:34Uh-huh.
00:10:36Okay.
00:10:38Um, give us a second.
00:10:40I mean, this is obviously a revenge.
00:10:54I mean, they don't take her car.
00:10:56They don't take her keys.
00:10:57They don't take her purse.
00:10:59I got his phone number.
00:11:01We'll see.
00:11:01Call him.
00:11:02Yeah.
00:11:02Get him down here next.
00:11:07Kennedy reaches out to Elizabeth's ex-boyfriend.
00:11:11Hello?
00:11:12Detective Kennedy with Tulsa Police.
00:11:14Yes, sir.
00:11:15Hey, um, man, I don't know if you've heard, but, uh, Elizabeth...
00:11:20My mom already turned in.
00:11:22And I'm like, hell, like, what happened?
00:11:25I'm like, that don't make no sense.
00:11:28And the people next door got a camera facing towards the house.
00:11:34You know what I'm saying?
00:11:34I used to stay in the house, sir.
00:11:37Yeah.
00:11:37And I ain't been over there ever since.
00:11:41Well, hey, listen.
00:11:43Is there any way you could come downtown and we could talk to you real quick and give us
00:11:46as much information about her as you know?
00:11:50Um, not right now, but I can probably, like, a little later.
00:11:54Yeah.
00:11:55Yeah, that's fine.
00:11:57I was nowhere in sight, don't know.
00:11:59Well, I'm not saying you were.
00:12:00I'm not saying you were.
00:12:02Okay.
00:12:03All right, appreciate it.
00:12:06No problem.
00:12:06Bye.
00:12:09He knows about the camera, so he knows exactly how to freaking avoid it.
00:12:13Right, he knows the camera.
00:12:14And did you ever ask him if he was there?
00:12:16You didn't ask him, but he volunteered.
00:12:18I wasn't there, like, eight times in that conversation.
00:12:20Two hours later.
00:12:31All right.
00:12:32I'm Detective Kennedy.
00:12:33This is Detective Ryden.
00:12:35Elizabeth's ex-boyfriend shows up at homicide.
00:12:38Appreciate you coming down.
00:12:41Well, hey, man, tell me about you and Elizabeth.
00:12:43I know that you two have, at one point, had a relationship,
00:12:49and I understood that it was kind of an Internet relationship at first.
00:12:54Yeah, we was chilling.
00:12:57We talked, and after we talked, she moved down here.
00:13:02So she moves to Tulsa?
00:13:04She moved to Tulsa with me again.
00:13:07It was, like, a year ago, or...?
00:13:09Probably so.
00:13:11Okay.
00:13:11When did you move out of the house?
00:13:14Like, October.
00:13:16He says he moved out five months ago,
00:13:18after he and Elizabeth broke up.
00:13:23Can I describe your relationship?
00:13:24I mean, was it physical?
00:13:26I mean, did you guys get domestic violence-type stuff,
00:13:29anything like that?
00:13:32I heard, basically, that at some point,
00:13:34there was a disagreement, and her phone got broken.
00:13:38Yeah, I accidentally broke her phone.
00:13:41I learned that the disagreement might have had to do with stuff that was on her phone.
00:13:47Yeah, and that's why I don't want all that, you know, and that ain't none of my business.
00:13:52Why did you move out?
00:13:53I moved out because it just, like, it just kept getting too toxic.
00:13:58All right.
00:14:01So, I mean, what kind of relationship have you had since you guys broke up?
00:14:05You ain't been talking.
00:14:08All right.
00:14:09Let's do this.
00:14:09Let's start off yesterday, and let's talk about your day.
00:14:13What were you doing?
00:14:15I wasn't at their house yesterday.
00:14:17I didn't say that.
00:14:18I said, where were you at?
00:14:19Where'd you go out of town to?
00:14:47I was, like, out in Kansas.
00:14:50Where at in Kansas?
00:14:56I forgot the name of it.
00:15:01Okay.
00:15:02When did you get back from Kansas?
00:15:04Today.
00:15:05Like, seven.
00:15:09He claims he arrived back in town about three hours after Elizabeth's murder.
00:15:15So, you got back in town from Kansas, and you don't know what the name of the town is?
00:15:21No.
00:15:22How'd you even know how to get there?
00:15:25GPS.
00:15:26Did you use your phone for the GPS?
00:15:29Yeah, I used the office that you put in your phone?
00:15:31No, I don't have it.
00:15:34Like, I don't know what else to say.
00:15:37Like, I didn't do nothing wrong.
00:15:40So, your phone will show you were in Kansas?
00:15:43Yeah.
00:15:44Okay, well, let's just make this simple.
00:15:46I have a guy here right now that can download your phone, and if you can show you're in Kansas,
00:15:51hell, we'll end this right now.
00:15:54Makes sense?
00:15:55All right.
00:15:56You can do that.
00:15:57Okay.
00:15:57All right.
00:16:01Nathan, can you dump this?
00:16:09We're hoping the GPS in there will show what's going on here.
00:16:12This story sucks.
00:16:20A half hour later.
00:16:22Well, we'll see if he's telling the truth.
00:16:25Detectives get a look at the ex-boyfriend's GPS records.
00:16:28There's a GPS here, right there.
00:16:35He's freaking in.
00:16:36Is it like Blackwell?
00:16:37Yeah.
00:16:39At 4.40 in the morning.
00:16:40No way he got from 4 o'clock in the morning from a shooting to Blackwell at 4.40.
00:16:45It takes too long to get there.
00:16:47That's an hour and a half drive.
00:16:48Elizabeth's ex-boyfriend was over 100 miles from Tulsa at the time of the murder.
00:16:54I think he's not your guy.
00:16:56I think you're right.
00:17:00We may need to start looking in another direction.
00:17:09Phone back.
00:17:10We're going to give you a ride home.
00:17:11We're out of here.
00:17:14I'm going to go call the lipstick cabaret and try to just get whatever they've got.
00:17:18All right.
00:17:1812 hours in.
00:17:28She was at Lipstick Cabaret at work last night.
00:17:32Elizabeth's manager said she left the club about an hour before she was murdered.
00:17:37She did say that she gave a ride to another girl last night when they left.
00:17:45The video at the strip club shows her and the girl both leaving, getting in the car.
00:17:51Nobody follows them out.
00:17:52Nobody follows the car.
00:17:54They're by themselves.
00:17:56Her phone number is...
00:17:59Kennedy calls Elizabeth's co-worker.
00:18:01This is Detective Mark Kennedy.
00:18:07I work for the Tulsa Police Department.
00:18:09If you could give me a call back, I'd appreciate it.
00:18:14She's not answering.
00:18:17We'll find her and talk to her.
00:18:19See what she knows.
00:18:20The next afternoon.
00:18:34We're going to go talk to a young lady that was given a ride by our victim as they left work at the Lipstick Cabaret.
00:18:44Elizabeth's co-worker gets back to Kennedy and agrees to meet.
00:18:47I have more questions I want to ask you.
00:18:53So you left the club and then you came straight here?
00:18:56Yes, exactly.
00:18:57She confirms Elizabeth gave her a ride home after work.
00:19:01And you didn't see her pick up anybody else?
00:19:04No.
00:19:06When you are working at the club, is there one particular guy that always would hang out with Elizabeth?
00:19:12There was the only guy that she was talking to.
00:19:15There was a guy named T-Real, but I don't know his name.
00:19:18T-Real?
00:19:21How long ago did you last see Terrell?
00:19:23Probably about a month ago.
00:19:26I do have a number, though, because he tried to talk to me before, too.
00:19:31Can I get that number?
00:19:32Yes.
00:19:32She gives them Terrell's phone number.
00:19:35And you haven't seen him for a month?
00:19:37No.
00:19:39Maybe a mother, too, honestly.
00:19:42Okay.
00:19:43Well, if you hear anything in the club, you got to remember it.
00:19:46All right.
00:19:47Thanks for your...
00:19:47You'll be safe.
00:19:4836 hours in.
00:19:57I'm going to try to get a hold of Terrell.
00:19:59The text now subscriber you are trying to reach is not available.
00:20:11Please leave your meds.
00:20:12Does that mean I have to text him?
00:20:14I don't know how a text now works.
00:20:16He's calling from an app on his phone.
00:20:19Okay.
00:20:19Which is generating that phone number, which is a fake number, which is hard to get who that is.
00:20:26They're all texting.
00:20:28Kennedy sends a message to the text now number, asking Terrell to get in touch.
00:20:33At this point, I think it's a little bit thin to get a search warrant for that number.
00:20:39So we'll continue to try to figure out who he is.
00:20:42Hopefully he'll give me a call back.
00:20:49In the first 48, Tulsa Homicide responded to the murder of 27-year-old Elizabeth Dillard,
00:21:09gunned down on her doorstep.
00:21:11Talked to her sister, who said Elizabeth recently broke up with two men.
00:21:15Interviewed one of the men, but cleared him when his GPS showed he was 100 miles from Tulsa
00:21:21at the time of the murder.
00:21:23And got a phone number for the other man, known only as Terrell.
00:21:28But had been unable to reach him.
00:21:32Eight days later.
00:21:35Right now, we don't have a lot to go on.
00:21:38Kennedy still hasn't heard back from Terrell.
00:21:40I've taken Elizabeth's phone to our Special Investigations Division, and we're hoping that
00:21:47maybe there's something in that phone somewhere that will list Terrell, and we can figure out
00:21:52who he is.
00:21:55I'm going to have to go shake the idol over here a little bit on this one.
00:21:59It's just kind of an ongoing joke that when we're up for a murder, we shake the skull and
00:22:03hope for the best on our investigation.
00:22:06We need a little bit of luck here.
00:22:09She was ambushed, and she was murdered in cold blood.
00:22:13And it's something that we've got to solve.
00:22:16Ten days in, as the investigation into Elizabeth's murder threatens to go cold.
00:22:36Calls, police?
00:22:37Yes, I need somebody to come do a welfare check at 30th and Sheridan.
00:22:41A woman asks police to check on her neighbor.
00:22:44Her keys were left to her door, her purse was left outside.
00:22:49And when was the last time you saw her?
00:22:50Days ago.
00:22:52And have you knocked on her door?
00:22:53We have beat on her door.
00:22:56We will get officers out there as soon as we can.
00:23:04Officers arrive.
00:23:06What's going on?
00:23:07Man, I don't know if she's in there or not in there.
00:23:09You know what I'm saying?
00:23:10She's usually out on the bat all the time, but I haven't seen her good legs.
00:23:23Hey, guys.
00:23:25All right, here we go.
00:23:32Ms. Danza, the social police department, we're coming in to check on you.
00:23:34Ms. Danza, the social police department, we're coming in to check on you.
00:23:39I'm going to check on you.
00:23:40She's in the bed.
00:23:42Ms. Danza?
00:23:46They find the woman in her bedroom.
00:23:48Ms. Danza?
00:23:50Where's she going?
00:23:51Shot dead.
00:23:52How long has she been dead?
00:24:07She is starting to decomp, so it's probably been a day or two.
00:24:09Okay.
00:24:11Detective Lacey Lansdowne joined homicide eight months ago.
00:24:14She will leave the investigation.
00:24:18Odd thing was her keys were still on the door.
00:24:21Okay.
00:24:21So there's no forced entry.
00:24:23Okay.
00:24:25The neighbors next door found the victim's purse outside the front door, right about here.
00:24:34The victim's name is Rainbow Dancer.
00:24:3869-year-old Rainbow Star Dancer was born Rhonda Ruth Harbolt, but changed her name soon after she left the U.S. Army.
00:24:46She supported local unhoused people by hiring them for small jobs around her apartment.
00:24:53Rainbow leaves behind her brother and a cousin in her home state of Minnesota.
00:24:57She was on her back.
00:25:13She was covered with the doctor.
00:25:16Somebody covered her up.
00:25:18Yes.
00:25:18And then when I rolled her over, she's got the bullets still in her hand.
00:25:23Okay.
00:25:28She's probably been shot four or five times.
00:25:30Yeah, at least.
00:25:31Rainbow was shot four times in the head and once in her back in hand.
00:25:36You don't need a casing.
00:25:42CSI collects six casings from a .40 caliber.
00:25:45Damn.
00:25:46Yeah.
00:25:47Andy was using expensive rounds of a Hornaday.
00:25:49Really?
00:25:50Wow.
00:25:52They're like $2 a round.
00:25:54I don't know if this is screaming domestic.
00:25:58To cover somebody up like that.
00:25:59This is personal, yeah.
00:26:03Don't turn her phone in.
00:26:04Just give that directly to me.
00:26:06Swab it, though, first.
00:26:16Hey, Lacey.
00:26:17Yep.
00:26:18One hour in.
00:26:20He says he probably saw her the last time on Thursday.
00:26:23Okay.
00:26:24Didn't really talk to her very much that day.
00:26:27A neighbor says he saw Rainbow hanging out with a new man about four days ago.
00:26:32Okay.
00:26:33Hang on just a minute, sir.
00:26:36We need to bring him down and formally interview him.
00:26:39Yeah.
00:26:39The neighbor agrees to talk back at Homicide.
00:26:44I'm really hoping he's going to be able to shed some light on who she was friends with,
00:26:48who she was hanging out with.
00:26:49Doesn't look like anything's stolen.
00:27:02There's no force entry.
00:27:05Somebody killed her, but then covered her up.
00:27:07That's personal.
00:27:08Now, this is a horrible way to go.
00:27:14It's just a straight up execution.
00:27:17Before speaking to the neighbor.
00:27:30We're going to call, try to get a hold of a family member and, unfortunately, tell him some really bad news.
00:27:37Lansdowne makes the call to Rainbow's next of kin.
00:27:40Hello?
00:27:44Hi.
00:27:44This is Detective Lacey Lansdowne with the Tulsa Police Department.
00:27:48Okay.
00:27:49Um, ma'am, are you related to a rainbow dancer or star dancer?
00:27:54Rainbow's third answer, yes.
00:27:56I think so then.
00:27:58Okay.
00:27:58Ma'am, I'm so sorry to tell you this, but she was murdered here in Tulsa within the last couple of days.
00:28:08Oh, okay.
00:28:12Do we know how?
00:28:14Um, she was shot.
00:28:17Okay.
00:28:19Okay.
00:28:19But I will tell you that I'm going to do everything I can to solve this and get justice for you guys.
00:28:28All right, I appreciate your calling.
00:28:30Yes, I'm so sorry.
00:28:32Okay, bye-bye.
00:28:34Bye-bye.
00:28:36Hopefully we can get some answers for her, because Star didn't deserve this.
00:28:49Five hours in.
00:28:53Okay.
00:28:54So I'm Lacey.
00:28:56I'm the lead detective on this.
00:28:59So how do you know Rainbow?
00:29:02Um, she lives in the complex.
00:29:04She's very extroverted, so she just speaks there.
00:29:06Okay.
00:29:08Tuesday, I noticed that there was a gentleman there with her.
00:29:13He was dressed in red.
00:29:14He kind of looked younger.
00:29:15He had dreads.
00:29:15Okay.
00:29:16You know, so I just walked up.
00:29:18I'm a nosy person.
00:29:19How are you doing?
00:29:20How are things going?
00:29:21And he didn't give me any eye contact, which, you know, that was kind of different.
00:29:25Uh-huh.
00:29:26Did you ask who he was?
00:29:27No, I didn't.
00:29:29What was his race?
00:29:30Black.
00:29:32I think he's in his early 30s.
00:29:34Did she say anything about him?
00:29:36That day, no.
00:29:38Um, so the following day, I noticed that his truck was parked there overnight.
00:29:43I thought that was strange.
00:29:46So I went upstairs, and I heard her voice yelling at someone.
00:29:54I couldn't tell what she was yelling.
00:29:56I didn't think too much about it.
00:29:59But the following day, Thursday, she was very upset.
00:30:02She told me that he shoved her into a wall, and he took her phone.
00:30:11She said, I slashed his tires because he stole money from me and my phone.
00:30:19I was like, he stole money?
00:30:20She's like, $200.
00:30:21So we're talking Wednesday.
00:30:26Should you talk to her Thursday?
00:30:27Yes.
00:30:28Did you have any conversations with her after Thursday?
00:30:32I can't recall talking to her Friday, but I think I saw his truck there.
00:30:39Describe what his truck looked like.
00:30:41So his truck is gray.
00:30:43It's a primer gray, so there's no shine.
00:30:45Was it like a Chevy, a Dodge?
00:30:49I don't remember if it's a Chevy or Dodge, or it's not a Ford.
00:30:53Did she ever tell you what his name was, or nickname, or anything like that?
00:30:56No.
00:30:57Or what did she tell you?
00:30:59Everything you can remember that she's told you about him?
00:31:02She said that his dog had some issue.
00:31:05I don't remember what the issue was.
00:31:07I didn't need to ask.
00:31:10Okay.
00:31:11You've been very, very helpful.
00:31:15We've got to figure out who this Dreads guy is.
00:31:21He had motives.
00:31:21She slashed his tie as they got into it.
00:31:24He'd stolen a phone from her.
00:31:25He'd stolen money from her.
00:31:27We've, at the very least, need to identify him and talk to him.
00:31:30Ten days after Elizabeth was found murdered on her front steps.
00:31:46For those of you who don't know, Lacey got a murder.
00:31:50Lieutenant Brandon Watkins briefs the rest of the team on Rainbow's murder.
00:31:55She was found shot multiple times in her bed.
00:31:58A man had been staying with her.
00:32:01It was a black male with Dreads, drives, a pickup that's got, like, primered and beat up.
00:32:09Captain, hold on.
00:32:10Hold on.
00:32:11My victim, Elizabeth Dillard, had a boyfriend, black male with Dreads, drives, a pickup.
00:32:19A guy by the name of Terrell.
00:32:20I mean, look at everything that's matching up here.
00:32:29She had her keys still in the door, and her purse was left outside, which is a very similar M.O.
00:32:38He had a dog.
00:32:40Okay.
00:32:40My guy has a dog.
00:32:42And then, the biggest thing is, your casings are 40 Harnaday's, so are mine.
00:32:48What are the dogs here, dude?
00:32:50It's weird.
00:32:51Wow.
00:32:53It's saved up.
00:32:56Mark, this dude wants to end up.
00:33:00We need to have those compared, like, ASAP.
00:33:17Hey, Mark.
00:33:19Hi, Joy.
00:33:19So, I've got a scene where we recovered casings.
00:33:24Kennedy asks the ballistics lab to compare the casings found at Elizabeth and Rainbow's crime scenes.
00:33:30Okay.
00:33:30Sounds good.
00:33:32All right.
00:33:34The lab is working on it.
00:33:36Okay.
00:33:36We'll see if they're the same gun.
00:33:37We'll see if they're the same gun.
00:33:38If they are, we probably got the same suspect on both murders.
00:33:42Hold on.
00:33:52Two hours later.
00:33:53So, Joy, you're telling me the ones from my scene and the ones from the other scene all match?
00:33:59Correct.
00:34:00Correct.
00:34:00All right.
00:34:03You're awesome.
00:34:05Appreciate it.
00:34:07No problem.
00:34:08Bye.
00:34:08Did I hear this?
00:34:09I think I heard.
00:34:11Brandon, did you hear that?
00:34:12I heard all the casings match.
00:34:16It's the same guy.
00:34:17This is not good.
00:34:22Two murders, very same M.O. in a week.
00:34:26The question about now is do we get him before you get someone else?
00:34:32The hell now we know pretty much probably who it is.
00:34:34It's probably going to be Terrell.
00:34:35Now we know why he didn't answer my text.
00:34:39Do we have a last name?
00:34:40No last name, but I do have a text now number for him.
00:34:43The team will submit a warrant for Terrell's text now phone records.
00:34:48I'll see if that phone number pops up in her phone at all.
00:34:52Jeremy took it to cybercrimes.
00:34:54And the Special Investigation Division will search Rainbow and Elizabeth's phones
00:34:57to see if they share a contact number for Terrell.
00:35:01I think everything just needs to go towards figuring out who the hell Terrell is.
00:35:0521 hours since Rainbow was found murdered.
00:35:16I just got some new info.
00:35:18Your victim had that text now phone number in her phone under Brooks Terrell, T-E-R-R-Y-L.
00:35:26So maybe Terrell Brooks.
00:35:28The Special Investigation Division finds a lead in Elizabeth Dillard's phone.
00:35:32Well, somebody got traces up?
00:35:34I've got traces up.
00:35:35I'll pull it up.
00:35:36Okay.
00:35:39I got him.
00:35:42Got him?
00:35:43Yep.
00:35:47Terrell Rayshon Brooks.
00:35:5122-year-old Terrell Brooks has two convictions for robbery in North Carolina.
00:35:57Damn.
00:35:57He had a ticket in 2019.
00:36:03He got stopped in a silver Chevy 1989 pickup truck.
00:36:08Boom.
00:36:11He had a .40 caliber gun on him.
00:36:14And they gave it to him?
00:36:16Yep.
00:36:16Says they gave it back to him.
00:36:18Doesn't look like he had any reason to keep it.
00:36:20Detective Jason White pulls up body cam stills from the traffic stop.
00:36:27That's the vehicle right there.
00:36:29Yeah, that's it right there.
00:36:31That's really good.
00:36:33Post that on there.
00:36:34The team puts out a bolo for Terrell's truck.
00:36:37Find the truck.
00:36:39Find that truck.
00:36:40While patrol searches for Terrell's Chevy pickup.
00:36:51The casings, that's the only thing we got connected, other than the similarities.
00:36:56I mean, is he PCable yet?
00:36:59PCable?
00:37:00I think if that photo's picked, yes.
00:37:03Detectives will reach out to witnesses, hoping to secure a positive ID on Terrell.
00:37:08I'm going to send you a picture real quick, and you kind of let me know what you think.
00:37:13Kennedy reaches out to Elizabeth's sister.
00:37:16Okay, thank you very much.
00:37:18All right, sister just confirmed that is Terrell.
00:37:21All right.
00:37:25Back at Rainbow's apartment complex, Lansdowne meets with her neighbor.
00:37:30Did you say that one of these guys looks familiar?
00:37:34Okay.
00:37:35Can you sign and date that, please?
00:37:38So we have a positive ID.
00:37:43That means we have two IDs.
00:37:46The team now has enough probable cause to get an arrest warrant for Terrell Brooks.
00:37:52It's coming together quickly, which I'm really happy about, because this guy's dangerous.
00:37:58Hopefully a few of the warrants can find him sometime soon.
00:38:00We got everybody in our unit and the warrants units I was looking.
00:38:09If he's killed two people, there wouldn't be any reason why he wouldn't try to kill a third.
00:38:18So hopefully we'll come up with something rather quickly.
00:38:23If this was a baseball field, first base is what you think, second base is what you know,
00:38:27and third base is what you can prove.
00:38:29Right now we're on second base.
00:38:31We know it's probably going to be him.
00:38:33It's just trying to get enough proof it's him, which is how you get to home.
00:38:36Six hours later.
00:38:46Highway patrol spotted this vehicle pulling out of a quick trip, I believe.
00:38:52Our units got him in custody, and now he's down here.
00:38:58Terrell Brooks is brought into homicide for questioning.
00:39:01Probable cause allows us to arrest him without a warrant.
00:39:06I think he's our guy, definitely.
00:39:08He is connected to both of the victims.
00:39:12The gun matches at both scenes.
00:39:15The danger with a probable cause arrest is that he could go before a judge,
00:39:19and the judge decide that we don't have enough probable cause,
00:39:22and then he's back out on the streets.
00:39:25Of course, if he talks and he confesses, that just helps our case out,
00:39:28and, you know, it takes away any argument that we don't have the right man.
00:39:32How's he acting?
00:39:34Pretty relaxed.
00:39:36Did you guys search the car any whatsoever, or just tow it?
00:39:39We did a no-touch hold.
00:39:41Terrell's truck will be towed to the crime lab and processed for evidence.
00:39:46Didn't happen to see a gun or anything, did you?
00:39:48No.
00:39:50There's one phone in the floorboard of the driver's seat,
00:39:53and there's one phone in the passenger seat.
00:39:55Okay, we'll get those later.
00:39:56How's this dog?
00:39:59Sweet and friendly.
00:40:00Dad came to pick the dog up.
00:40:02Terrell's father, who lives in Tulsa,
00:40:05took custody of his dog before the truck was towed.
00:40:08Okay, well, I'm hoping he talks to us and we get a confession.
00:40:12We'll see what happens.
00:40:13Yeah.
00:40:14All right.
00:40:15All right, buddy.
00:40:26Terrell, I'm Detective Kennedy.
00:40:28This is Detective Lansdowne, okay?
00:40:29We'll toss the police.
00:40:31Probably got a lot of questions right now.
00:40:33Yeah, I do.
00:40:34Okay.
00:40:36I just want to know why y'all have me here.
00:40:39You're under arrest, okay, for a first-degree murder.
00:40:43This lady right here, okay?
00:40:48And this young lady right here.
00:40:51That's what you're in here for.
00:40:52Do you want to explain this?
00:40:56Why it happened?
00:40:57How it happened?
00:40:57I don't talk to those ladies anymore.
00:41:20I was with her for a couple days, like, for a week.
00:41:24She let me come stay at her house,
00:41:26and she didn't want me there no more.
00:41:27I left her house, and her, I had work for her,
00:41:33and she took me up to the vet and tried to take my dog
00:41:36and say that my dog was her dog.
00:41:40Okay, well, this one, so you know her.
00:41:44What do you know her by?
00:41:45What's her name?
00:41:47Elizabeth.
00:41:49I was with her for a little while.
00:41:51Where'd you meet her at?
00:41:53I met her at the strip club.
00:41:55Lipstick Cabaret?
00:41:56So how did you end up staying with her for a while?
00:42:00Because I'm homeless.
00:42:02She was like, it's cold outside.
00:42:04Stay with her.
00:42:06And she ended up being my girlfriend.
00:42:09Right.
00:42:10What ended up happening with that arrangement?
00:42:12She said, she said she didn't want to be in a relationship.
00:42:16It's like dancing and being free.
00:42:19Yeah.
00:42:20Did she kind of kick you out?
00:42:22Yeah, she kicked me out.
00:42:23She said she didn't want me living with her anymore.
00:42:26She said we can be friends and everything,
00:42:28and that she still likes me and everything,
00:42:31but she never contacted me.
00:42:33She never talked to me or nothing.
00:42:35Right.
00:42:36Okay.
00:42:38This lady right here, what do you know her by?
00:42:40What's her name?
00:42:42I don't even know her name.
00:42:44How'd you meet her?
00:42:45I just ride through the apartments.
00:42:48I sleep at apartments.
00:42:49Right.
00:42:50I sleep in a parking spot, and I just pull up.
00:42:54But I asked her if she wanted to buy my dog.
00:42:57If she wanted to buy your dog?
00:42:59Look, my dog just ran away from me,
00:43:01not wanting to come to me.
00:43:02Mm-hmm.
00:43:03He learned that from being around females.
00:43:07Then kind of sweet-talk him, stuff like that.
00:43:12Right before she was about to buy him, he barked.
00:43:15So it brought back to my senses, like,
00:43:18hey, you know, that dog might be a good protective dog.
00:43:22Mm-hmm.
00:43:22So I decided I wanted to keep him.
00:43:26And she was like, you can come in.
00:43:28You can stay with me, you know.
00:43:30And I went over there.
00:43:31I stayed over there and cleaned her house.
00:43:34She started paying me.
00:43:35Okay.
00:43:37So when's the last time you saw her?
00:43:40It was probably like a week ago.
00:43:43Okay.
00:43:44Anything happen there?
00:43:46No, I just told her that she wasn't going to keep my dog.
00:43:48She was like, I got half the ownership of the dog
00:43:52since I paid at the vet.
00:43:54Mm-hmm.
00:43:55I just said, uh, don't, you're not taking my dog.
00:43:58And she said, I'm not going to deal with a malady-ass bitch
00:44:00and put me out.
00:44:03Right.
00:44:05Here's the thing.
00:44:07Some bad things happen to these women, okay?
00:44:10They have families.
00:44:11They deserve closure, okay?
00:44:13What's going on?
00:44:15She's dead and she's dead.
00:44:18And I think you know that already.
00:44:21These women don't know each other.
00:44:23The only connection between these women are you, okay?
00:44:27You seem like a pretty good guy, all right?
00:44:33I think there's some stuff weighing really heavy
00:44:35on your heart right now that I think can tell
00:44:37you're a little bit scared to get it out there.
00:44:40But I promise you, you're going to feel better
00:44:43by telling the truth, okay?
00:44:46The truth is already, though.
00:44:47I don't, I'm not with them anymore.
00:44:50I know you're not with them.
00:44:52I'm not going to argue that.
00:44:53But I do know that you know what happened, okay?
00:44:58This is your opportunity, Terrell,
00:45:01to tell us what happened.
00:45:04I think maybe your emotions got a hold of you.
00:45:06I know she cut your tire.
00:45:08I know she probably broke your heart.
00:45:12Okay.
00:45:13Okay.
00:45:14Well, we'll get that lawyer for you, all right?
00:45:17You're being arrested on two counts
00:45:19of first-degree murder
00:45:20for the murder of Elizabeth Dillard
00:45:22and Star Rainbow Dancery.
00:45:26You'll be booked in the Tulsa County Jail, okay?
00:45:29And you'll have your day in court.
00:45:31Sound good?
00:45:33All right.
00:45:34We'll talk to you later.
00:45:42We got a little out of him.
00:45:44We got him connected with both victims.
00:45:46So, better than nothing.
00:45:51I mean, he puts himself at both scenes,
00:45:53and the odds of him randomly knowing
00:45:55both of these women, that's...
00:45:57Certainly not.
00:46:00Obviously, he's got some issues with women and anger.
00:46:04Elizabeth was ambushed at her front door.
00:46:06So was Rainbow Star.
00:46:09So that seems to be his motive
00:46:10on how he gets back at the women he doesn't like.
00:46:1332 hours after Rainbow was found dead
00:46:16and 10 days after Elizabeth was shot on her doorstep,
00:46:20Terrell Brooks is charged with their murders.
00:46:31He's in custody,
00:46:33but we've got a lot more investigation to do.
00:46:36We've seized his truck.
00:46:37We hope we find some more evidence than that.
00:46:39We've met the threshold of probable cause,
00:46:42but as far as proving it beyond a reasonable doubt,
00:46:45that's an ongoing effort.
00:46:48There's still a lot of work to do.
00:46:50Mark and I have a lot of follow-up that we have to do
00:46:53to make sure that he gets convicted and put away
00:46:56because he does not need to be on the streets.
00:46:57It was only a matter of time
00:47:01before he found another vulnerable woman
00:47:03that he could do the same thing to.
00:47:05To kill two women senselessly
00:47:07within a week of each other,
00:47:10there's no telling how this would have escalated
00:47:12or how this would have ended.
00:47:14I don't even have a year in the unit,
00:47:16and I have someone who could potentially
00:47:18have turned into a serial killer.
00:47:20The next morning,
00:47:36while Kennedy and Lansdowne
00:47:38continue to build their keeses against Terrell,
00:47:41Is that the last time you saw her?
00:47:43Ryden fields a call from a woman
00:47:45who reported her daughter missing two months ago.
00:47:47And what kind of vehicle did she leave in with him?
00:47:51The woman says she saw a news report
00:47:53about Terrell's arrest
00:47:55and recognized him as the last person
00:47:57seen with her daughter.
00:48:00How about we talk in person?
00:48:03Thank you. Bye-bye.
00:48:07She said the last person,
00:48:09she's 100% positive,
00:48:10that saw her daughter alive
00:48:11was driving an older Chevy primary gray truck
00:48:13and she's never been seen from since.
00:48:17She said, that's the boys
00:48:18I picked my daughter up.
00:48:21Do it, please.
00:48:23Wow.
00:48:24That's not good.
00:48:27We got a possible third victim.
00:48:28We got a possible third victim.
00:48:28The last person
00:48:43that she's ever seen alive with
00:48:44was Mr. Brooks.
00:48:46My son's mom says,
00:48:47I went to the family dollar
00:48:48to pick her up from work
00:48:49and she had a choice to get in my car
00:48:51or her boyfriend's truck
00:48:52and she chose the truck.
00:48:54What was Terrell's name?
00:48:56Tyra Whitaker.
00:48:5724-year-old Tyra Whitaker
00:49:02was reported missing
00:49:03by her family two months ago.
00:49:06She was born and raised in Tulsa
00:49:08and had been working several jobs
00:49:10to support her four-year-old son.
00:49:14This is a really good investigation.
00:49:16To check out the hospitals,
00:49:17I mean, no one's ever seen her alive since then.
00:49:20The missing persons unit
00:49:22investigated Tyra's disappearance
00:49:23for over a month
00:49:25but were unable to find any leads.
00:49:28There's a decent chance
00:49:29she's been killed.
00:49:33Without a body,
00:49:34we're not going to be able
00:49:34to prove a whole bunch.
00:49:36The team will start working Tyra's case
00:49:38as a possible homicide.
00:49:41We really need a good workup on that drug.
00:49:44Crime scene detectives
00:49:45are processing Terrell Brooks' truck
00:49:47for evidence.
00:49:49We're going to search it.
00:49:50I think there's two phones in the truck.
00:49:52So we'll have to get left.
00:49:54The team will get phone records
00:49:55for the cell phones
00:49:56in Terrell's truck.
00:50:00This is starting out
00:50:02not very promising.
00:50:03I'm finding her alive.
00:50:03It's hard to do
00:50:06a no-body conviction
00:50:08in Oklahoma.
00:50:09So she'll be a missing person
00:50:11until we can find a body.
00:50:13Me and Sergeant Stiles
00:50:14are going to go talk to
00:50:15the victim's family,
00:50:16get a little more intel.
00:50:18We'll go from there.
00:50:22I'm going to shake the glove.
00:50:25Take that sucker up.
00:50:33Two hours in.
00:50:38Hi.
00:50:39Is LaDonna home?
00:50:40Detective Ryden
00:50:41and Sergeant Jeremy Stiles
00:50:43speak with Tyra's family
00:50:45at her mother's house.
00:50:46So the last time you saw her
00:50:48was on the 19th?
00:50:49Is that right?
00:50:50Yeah.
00:50:51She had called
00:50:52and asked me to pick her up
00:50:54for work.
00:50:55She comes out
00:50:56and she gets in the car
00:50:58and she calls
00:50:59this guy on the telephone
00:51:01to tell him
00:51:02don't come and get her.
00:51:03Okay.
00:51:04I'm there.
00:51:05So he was like,
00:51:06oh, I'm just around the corner.
00:51:08Did he arrive in a vehicle?
00:51:10Yes.
00:51:11It's an older model truck.
00:51:15And when you prime in a car
00:51:16to paint it,
00:51:17it's that gray.
00:51:22Tyra hits her stuff
00:51:24and they leave.
00:51:25Okay.
00:51:26On the original report,
00:51:28you listed this
00:51:28as her phone number.
00:51:29Was that the phone number
00:51:30you had for her at that time?
00:51:32Yes.
00:51:32Okay.
00:51:33Here's the deal.
00:51:35We're going to see
00:51:35if we can figure out
00:51:36a lead to follow
00:51:37and if we find her,
00:51:38we'll definitely give you
00:51:38a shot right away.
00:51:39Okay?
00:51:40Thanks, guys.
00:51:41We're going to see you next time.
00:51:48We're going to see you next time.
00:51:48We're going to see you next time.
00:51:49We're going to see you next time.
00:51:50We're going to see you next time.
00:51:52We're going to see you next time.
00:51:53We're going to see you next time.
00:51:53We're going to see you next time.
00:51:55We're going to see you next time.
00:51:57We're going to see you next time.
00:51:58We're going to see you next time.
00:52:00We're going to see you next time.
00:52:01So we just got done processing the truck.
00:52:03No gun, no ammo,
00:52:05no ammo boxes,
00:52:06no gun boxes,
00:52:07no nothing like that.
00:52:09We blue started
00:52:10and there was a reaction
00:52:12in the passenger seat
00:52:13and where his shoulder would be
00:52:16if he's driving,
00:52:17all right up in there.
00:52:19It's going to get sent over to the lab.
00:52:21The swabs will be sent
00:52:22to the crime lab
00:52:23to see if the substance
00:52:24found on the seats
00:52:25in Terrell's truck
00:52:26is blood.
00:52:27If it actually is blood,
00:52:30then we're going to start
00:52:31comparing it to our victim's blood
00:52:32to see if it's theirs.
00:52:35We'll just have to
00:52:35send this stuff off
00:52:36and time will tell.
00:52:37Yep.
00:52:48The next day,
00:52:50detectives turn back to Terrell.
00:52:54Me and Ronnie went to jail
00:52:55and picked up Mr. Brooks
00:52:56and we brought him down here
00:52:58and we're going to see
00:52:58if he wants to have a conversation
00:52:59about Tyrell.
00:53:01Legally, we can still do that.
00:53:03We won't ask him any questions
00:53:04about Mark or Dixie's case.
00:53:07This is a brand new case
00:53:08we just learned about,
00:53:09so we'll see what he has to say.
00:53:18Okay, Tyrell.
00:53:20I'm Detective Ryden,
00:53:20this is Detective Lezman.
00:53:22You're in jail for other things
00:53:23and I'm not going to ask you
00:53:24questions about those at all.
00:53:26I'm investigating a missing person.
00:53:31Who is that?
00:53:35Tyrell.
00:53:37And how do you know Tyrell?
00:53:39We met at the bus stop.
00:53:40I kind of took her in
00:53:43under my wing
00:53:43and anytime she needed
00:53:46a ride to work
00:53:47or a ride home,
00:53:49she knew who to call.
00:53:51And where was she working?
00:53:52She worked at Dollar General
00:53:54for probably like two weeks
00:53:57before she died.
00:53:59Okay.
00:54:00Um,
00:54:01was she her girlfriend?
00:54:02Just a, I mean...
00:54:03Or wherever she's at.
00:54:06I understand.
00:54:06So,
00:54:07was she her girlfriend?
00:54:09No.
00:54:11Okay.
00:54:12And mom says that
00:54:13she was at the store
00:54:14going to pick her up
00:54:15and that Tyra called you
00:54:17and that you arrived
00:54:19and,
00:54:20well, I understand it,
00:54:20Tyra got in your truck.
00:54:22Yes, sir.
00:54:23Okay.
00:54:23So where did you guys
00:54:24go that night?
00:54:26She stayed with me
00:54:27and my truck.
00:54:28Okay.
00:54:29Whenever we split,
00:54:31she couldn't stay with me.
00:54:32How many days,
00:54:33weeks, or months
00:54:34did you guys split up
00:54:35after you talked to the mom
00:54:36at the family dollar?
00:54:38It was probably like a week.
00:54:40We split up because
00:54:42I woke up one day
00:54:43and I was sleeping on my back
00:54:44and she had slid her leg
00:54:46up under my leg.
00:54:47Uh-huh.
00:54:47And, uh,
00:54:48it was like right close
00:54:49to my butt.
00:54:51And I was like,
00:54:52don't I ever do that again,
00:54:53you know?
00:54:54You know,
00:54:54that's uncomfortable.
00:54:55I've already been molested
00:54:56while I'm asleep.
00:54:58Terrell says that
00:54:59three years ago,
00:55:00he was sexually abused
00:55:01while he was sleeping.
00:55:04So then you said
00:55:05you confronted her?
00:55:06Yeah, I told her
00:55:06never not to do that again.
00:55:08After that,
00:55:09she was just like,
00:55:10oh, uh,
00:55:11I was just getting
00:55:12comfortable with you.
00:55:12I said, no,
00:55:13that's not how it goes.
00:55:14Don't, don't do that.
00:55:18So after that,
00:55:19me or her relationship
00:55:20was not cool at all.
00:55:22I told her,
00:55:23me and you,
00:55:23we can't be together.
00:55:25So she had a friend
00:55:27come and pick her up.
00:55:28Did you see the friend?
00:55:30No.
00:55:31Okay.
00:55:32Have you had any contact
00:55:33with her since that day?
00:55:36No.
00:55:38You said something
00:55:39in this interview
00:55:39that I know
00:55:40Detective Leatherman caught
00:55:41and I caught too.
00:55:43You said she was dead.
00:55:46I said I'm investigating
00:55:47a missing person,
00:55:48but you said she's dead.
00:55:50I agree with you,
00:55:51she is dead.
00:55:52but I think you know
00:55:53exactly what happened.
00:56:09Terrell, look at me.
00:56:11I think you have some issues
00:56:12and I think she did something
00:56:14to set you off.
00:56:16And I think when you get set off,
00:56:17you do some stuff
00:56:17that you regret.
00:56:18did you and her
00:56:24get in a fire
00:56:25at any point
00:56:25and something happened?
00:56:29Sure?
00:56:30Yes, sir.
00:56:33I just don't like betrayal.
00:56:37I understand that.
00:56:40What she did,
00:56:41I mean,
00:56:41yeah,
00:56:41it made me mad
00:56:42and everything,
00:56:43but I wouldn't,
00:56:44I wouldn't hurt her.
00:56:44One of the issues
00:56:48I see, Terrell,
00:56:49is that
00:56:50the last person
00:56:51we can confirm
00:56:52that she's been seen with
00:56:53was you.
00:56:55The thing that makes sense
00:56:56to me
00:56:57is that
00:56:58all the stuff
00:56:59you've talked about
00:57:00that bothers you
00:57:02and then she starts
00:57:03doing some of those things
00:57:04and that you did something.
00:57:08Where,
00:57:08where is she at?
00:57:09I told you,
00:57:09I told you everything
00:57:10that I wanted to talk about.
00:57:11coming with me
00:57:16with some evidence
00:57:17to just hearsay,
00:57:19like,
00:57:20just like the other two women,
00:57:22just because I knew them,
00:57:24just because I know her
00:57:25don't mean that
00:57:26I'm responsible for that.
00:57:29For what?
00:57:30For her death.
00:57:31I know these people
00:57:34betrayed me
00:57:35and we've split up
00:57:36and everything.
00:57:37Did y'all can't just tell me,
00:57:38oh yeah,
00:57:39you were the last person
00:57:40seen with her,
00:57:41so you did it.
00:57:43It makes no sense
00:57:45that it's anyone else.
00:57:47You're the last one
00:57:47that she's been seen with.
00:57:49She hasn't went to work
00:57:49since then.
00:57:51She hasn't talked
00:57:51to family and friends
00:57:52since then.
00:57:55She left.
00:57:56That's the last time
00:57:57I've seen her.
00:57:58That's the end of it.
00:58:03Okay.
00:58:04Okay.
00:58:06What's the take?
00:58:08Did he do it?
00:58:10Definitely think he did it.
00:58:11Yeah.
00:58:14She said all three
00:58:15have betrayed me.
00:58:15Right.
00:58:16Yeah.
00:58:17That's his whole thing.
00:58:18Just betrayed.
00:58:20And the first thing
00:58:21he said when they sat down
00:58:22was,
00:58:22she's dead.
00:58:24Did her heart rate
00:58:26go up a little like mine?
00:58:27Yeah.
00:58:27The first five minutes
00:58:28he said,
00:58:28yeah,
00:58:28she's dead.
00:58:29And I was like,
00:58:29oh crap,
00:58:30he doesn't mean it.
00:58:30She's dead.
00:58:31He's going to confess.
00:58:31And he got close,
00:58:33but he said she's dead.
00:58:38What's next,
00:58:38Dad?
00:58:38Do we get her
00:58:39his phone records
00:58:40and see where
00:58:41her phone might have gone?
00:58:42Yes.
00:58:43The team will get
00:58:44a warrant for Tyra's
00:58:45cell phone records,
00:58:47hoping to get location data
00:58:48from the day she disappeared.
00:58:50Hopefully some phone stuff
00:58:51will help out,
00:58:52but the problem is
00:58:53we don't have anybody
00:58:53saying he did it.
00:58:55There's no gun.
00:58:57There's a lot of
00:58:58common denominators,
00:58:59same casings.
00:59:00That's the best thing.
00:59:03Yeah.
00:59:04I've got a lot of work to do.
00:59:05We all got a lot of work.
00:59:07Yeah.
00:59:08There's a lot of work
00:59:09to do on all three
00:59:10of these cases.
00:59:12We find a body,
00:59:14find physical evidence,
00:59:15a witness.
00:59:16There's lots of things
00:59:16that can go right,
00:59:17and just patience
00:59:18is on our side.
00:59:19So we'll see.
00:59:23Two weeks later.
00:59:35This data
00:59:36is super accurate.
00:59:39Detective Lansdowne
00:59:40takes over the case
00:59:41and gets the location data
00:59:42from Tyra's phone.
00:59:44It's basically showing
00:59:46which towers
00:59:47the device was connected to.
00:59:49Where these two arcs overlap
00:59:52is a pretty good indication
00:59:55that that device
00:59:56was in that area
00:59:57at that time.
00:59:59We know where her phone
01:00:00was at January 19th,
01:00:02which is in North Nogales.
01:00:04Tyra's phone
01:00:04was tracked to a house
01:00:06in West Tulsa
01:00:06the night before
01:00:08she disappeared.
01:00:086.33 a.m.
01:00:12on December 20th,
01:00:14her phone
01:00:15goes all the way
01:00:16out east.
01:00:17Early the next morning,
01:00:19her phone moves
01:00:20to a wooded area
01:00:2120 miles east.
01:00:25And then after this,
01:00:26it goes off.
01:00:30There's a very good possibility
01:00:31maybe she could be there.
01:00:33We need a check.
01:00:34So we are going up
01:00:42to this area
01:00:43which is very secluded,
01:00:44very wooded.
01:00:46Detectives head out
01:00:47to the last location
01:00:48where Tyra's phone hit
01:00:49to search for her body.
01:00:51You don't go out there
01:00:52to go hiking.
01:00:54You go out there
01:00:55to get rid of things.
01:00:57Common sense tells me
01:00:59he's dumping her body.
01:01:00Right.
01:01:04So you think
01:01:15he drove back
01:01:16in here then?
01:01:17Check it out.
01:01:18I think it's worth a shot.
01:01:19All right.
01:01:21I hope we find her.
01:01:22After searching
01:01:44for two hours...
01:01:45It's just so wooded
01:01:47back here.
01:01:50You think a dog
01:01:51would help?
01:01:52They decide to come back
01:01:53in the morning
01:01:54with the canine team.
01:01:58It's just such a big area
01:01:59that she could be anywhere.
01:02:02Tomorrow we'll be out there
01:02:03with the cadaver dogs.
01:02:06I know she's dead
01:02:07and so now
01:02:08the next best thing
01:02:09is to be able to find her.
01:02:11These two cases
01:02:12we have right now
01:02:13are circumstantial
01:02:14and we have to get
01:02:15something solid
01:02:16for this third case.
01:02:18The more we can do
01:02:19on any one of these cases
01:02:20is to strengthen it
01:02:21is to strengthen it.
01:02:21It's going to strengthen
01:02:22all three of them.
01:02:35The next afternoon...
01:02:37What's up, girl?
01:02:39...canine officer
01:02:40Robin Mendenhall
01:02:41makes a discovery.
01:02:42It's right in the arcs
01:02:45where Lance showed me.
01:02:47Okay.
01:02:48I have to go down here
01:02:49and climb down
01:02:50and go on this creek
01:02:51and it's kind of like
01:02:52ponds.
01:02:53Okay.
01:02:54I mean,
01:02:54all we can do
01:02:55is look.
01:02:55Look.
01:02:55Look.
01:02:59I came up here
01:03:08just to get a layout
01:03:10of the area
01:03:10and when I was
01:03:12walking through
01:03:12I saw the red
01:03:13and I just came down
01:03:15and checked it out.
01:03:17Looks like a female's
01:03:18jacket to me.
01:03:19It does look like
01:03:19a female's jacket.
01:03:22That looks like tissue.
01:03:25That definitely smells
01:03:26like a body.
01:03:27Yes, it stinks.
01:03:30You might have found her.
01:03:30Those are for sure genes.
01:03:46Oh, undoubtable.
01:03:47Yeah, no doubt.
01:03:48Those are genes.
01:03:52You've got the anthropologist
01:03:54coming out.
01:03:54We'll be here in 10 minutes.
01:03:5510 minutes, okay.
01:03:57Think he tried to bury her?
01:03:59Yeah.
01:03:59And when you look
01:04:00at this specific area
01:04:01all of this
01:04:02is freshly overturned
01:04:03and it is right
01:04:04where her bone was.
01:04:16Hello.
01:04:16Hi.
01:04:17Howdy, howdy.
01:04:18How are you all?
01:04:19Forensic anthropologist
01:04:20Dr. Angela Berg
01:04:22will determine
01:04:23if the remains
01:04:24are human.
01:04:27I'm trying to figure out
01:04:28what this thing
01:04:29is right here.
01:04:30I feel.
01:04:32It's like part
01:04:33of the pelvis.
01:04:34This is the ischium.
01:04:37This is the greater
01:04:38trochanor of a femur.
01:04:40So you've got pelvis.
01:04:41That's what I was thinking.
01:04:41And you've got a femur.
01:04:45This is definitely human.
01:04:51You didn't expose this,
01:04:53did you?
01:04:53No, it was like that.
01:04:53I think an animal
01:04:54has probably just
01:04:55kind of wrapped around
01:04:56in here.
01:04:59We have a storm coming
01:05:01so I don't think
01:05:01we should address
01:05:02this right now
01:05:03if we can wait.
01:05:04We can put a tarp on it
01:05:06and put an officer here.
01:05:07Yeah, let's do that.
01:05:08We've got a storm coming
01:05:12in this evening.
01:05:13Heavy hail, heavy rain.
01:05:15And so what we're going
01:05:16to do is we're going
01:05:16to tarp this over
01:05:17and then we'll have to
01:05:18have an officer sit here
01:05:19all night.
01:05:20And then we'll start
01:05:21an excavation tomorrow.
01:05:30One hour later.
01:05:32We're going to go talk
01:05:33to LaDonna Whittaker
01:05:34and just tell her
01:05:35that we have found
01:05:37a body.
01:05:38Lansdowne and White
01:05:39head out to meet
01:05:40with Tyra's mother.
01:05:42We don't know
01:05:42that it's Tyra yet.
01:05:44But we wanted
01:05:45to let her know
01:05:45just so that they can
01:05:47start preparing
01:05:47for the possibility.
01:05:48Hello.
01:06:08Hi, are you LaDonna?
01:06:09Yes.
01:06:09LaDonna, hi.
01:06:10I'm Detective Lansdowne.
01:06:11That's Detective White.
01:06:13I want to tell you
01:06:14something, and I can't
01:06:15say this with a definitive
01:06:16100% positive,
01:06:18but we have found
01:06:19remains of someone.
01:06:22And I want to prepare
01:06:28you.
01:06:32Before this hits
01:06:33the news and everything,
01:06:34I just want to let you
01:06:35know.
01:06:36I will tell you
01:06:37that there's a very
01:06:38good chance of it.
01:06:42Want to sit down, baby?
01:06:43Yeah, yeah.
01:06:44Have a seat, sweetie.
01:06:45We don't like to do,
01:06:48you know, notifications
01:06:50and stuff until we're
01:06:51positive, but I feel
01:06:53strongly enough that
01:06:55this is Tyra that we
01:06:56came to talk to you
01:06:56guys.
01:06:57I'm glad, y'all.
01:06:59I'm glad.
01:07:00I was just, you know,
01:07:02I wanted to.
01:07:06She was a good person.
01:07:08She had a good heart.
01:07:11Believe me, we're
01:07:12feeling for you.
01:07:13We will let you know
01:07:14in the moment, you know,
01:07:15with 100% certainty.
01:07:18Do you just want a phone
01:07:19call from me, or do you
01:07:21want me to come in person?
01:07:23Call my answer, yeah.
01:07:24Call Renee?
01:07:25Okay.
01:07:26We'll be in touch very
01:07:27soon.
01:07:28All right, guys.
01:07:29You're welcome.
01:07:43The next morning.
01:07:44And now we're going to
01:07:44get out there and recover
01:07:45the body.
01:07:45I'd like to get, like, a
01:07:50circle of people around
01:07:52lifting the soil out.
01:07:54Once we have that soil out,
01:07:55then we'll start actually
01:07:56on the recovery.
01:07:58So we'll be working around
01:07:59where we think the body is
01:08:00buried and working our way
01:08:02down to her.
01:08:04Anything else?
01:08:05Feel good.
01:08:06After an hour of digging.
01:08:26Is that plastic?
01:08:31It feels like a trash bag
01:08:32plastic.
01:08:34I think he might have put
01:08:35her in a trash bag.
01:08:37Yeah, that's sad, man.
01:08:41This poor girl threw away
01:08:44like a piece of trash.
01:08:47Trying to keep it intact
01:08:48as much as we can.
01:08:49Just pull it back and then
01:09:00we've got her out.
01:09:10Good job, guys.
01:09:15She's going to get taken
01:09:16down to the medical
01:09:17examiner's office.
01:09:18Hopefully we'll, you know,
01:09:21get her positively
01:09:21identified.
01:09:31The next day...
01:09:33Hi, Lacey.
01:09:36Hey, Angela.
01:09:38Lansdowne reaches out
01:09:39to Dr. Burke.
01:09:40Just calling to see about
01:09:42an update on the body
01:09:43that we found.
01:09:48Okay, so we have
01:09:59positive ID.
01:10:01We have fingerprints.
01:10:03It has Tyra Whitaker.
01:10:05Okay.
01:10:10She has sharp force trauma
01:10:12onto her head and neck
01:10:14onto her head and neck
01:10:14with cut marks into the bone
01:10:17also.
01:10:18Wow.
01:10:19The autopsy revealed
01:10:20that Tyra was stamped
01:10:2220 to 30 times
01:10:23in the head, face, and neck.
01:10:27She also has what appears
01:10:28to be maybe blood force trauma
01:10:30to her mouth.
01:10:31And she has three chipped teeth.
01:10:34Okay.
01:10:36Okay.
01:10:37Thank you so much, Angela.
01:10:38All right.
01:10:39Take care.
01:10:39You too.
01:10:40Bye.
01:10:41This girl suffered
01:10:43a very painful death.
01:10:46I'm going to call Renee,
01:10:48which is Tyra's aunt,
01:10:50and let her know
01:10:51the really bad news.
01:10:56Hello?
01:10:57Renee?
01:10:58Yes?
01:10:59Hey, it's Detective Lansdowne.
01:11:01Well, I have some bad news.
01:11:03We did get a positive ID,
01:11:04and the body that we found
01:11:05was Tyra.
01:11:05Yeah, I'm sorry, Renee.
01:11:12I really am.
01:11:14You know, it's okay.
01:11:15We found her,
01:11:17and we really wanted
01:11:18her return to us.
01:11:20And that happened.
01:11:23Now we just have to
01:11:24give justice for her.
01:11:27Well, I can promise you
01:11:28that everybody here
01:11:29in the office
01:11:30is doing everything
01:11:30to make sure
01:11:31that there is justice for her.
01:11:34Yeah, you're welcome.
01:11:35You're welcome.
01:11:37Bye-bye.
01:11:38Okay, bye.
01:11:44Later that day,
01:11:46the team decides
01:11:50to confront Tyrell
01:11:51with the new evidence.
01:11:53All right, buddy.
01:11:53That far chair,
01:11:54I'll be right back with you.
01:11:55Ronnie and I went over to the jail
01:11:59to bring him over here
01:11:59before he had wanted
01:12:01to see some evidence.
01:12:02And before we transported him over,
01:12:04Ronnie showed him
01:12:05the picture of the coat,
01:12:06and he acknowledged the picture.
01:12:10And I'm sure that he's sitting
01:12:11over there,
01:12:11and it's driving him crazy.
01:12:14There's a possibility
01:12:15we may get something here,
01:12:17but we'll see.
01:12:17Okay.
01:12:17Here, if you stand up,
01:12:26it's funny.
01:12:29First off,
01:12:31I wanted to say that
01:12:32I want to get some help.
01:12:33I know that I've got trauma
01:12:38from not being able
01:12:40to wake up
01:12:40when something's happened
01:12:41to me in my sleep.
01:12:42I should have woke up.
01:12:44Okay.
01:12:45I'm found guilty.
01:12:46I want to know
01:12:47that y'all understand
01:12:48the trauma I have
01:12:49and present the trauma.
01:12:51I can't imagine that, man.
01:12:54I really can't.
01:12:55That's got to be tough
01:12:56that you went through that.
01:12:58It's definitely stuff
01:12:59that we will document
01:13:00and that will be presented
01:13:02to attorneys,
01:13:04the counselors,
01:13:05and all that stuff, okay?
01:13:07So, that being said,
01:13:10as we came to the jail
01:13:11earlier today,
01:13:12I showed you that picture.
01:13:13Do you remember that?
01:13:13What was that picture of?
01:13:16That picture was
01:13:17of Tyra Jackie.
01:13:19Okay.
01:13:19So, we've found that jacket.
01:13:24Okay?
01:13:25Where do you think
01:13:26we found it at?
01:13:27Wherever she was buried.
01:13:30Okay.
01:13:31Where was she buried at?
01:13:35I don't want to answer
01:13:36that question.
01:13:41It just feels like
01:13:43I'm traumatized
01:13:44for what happened
01:13:45to me before.
01:13:47If I found guilty,
01:13:48I want to know
01:13:50I want to help.
01:13:51I understand.
01:13:51I really do.
01:13:52I understand that
01:13:53and I promise you
01:13:54that's stuff that is
01:13:55going to be documented
01:13:55without a doubt.
01:13:57But I think you're
01:13:58going to feel
01:13:58a little bit better
01:13:59if you're honest
01:14:00and tell me
01:14:00some more of these details.
01:14:03I'm not
01:14:04because I know
01:14:05I got a problem.
01:14:06I know that.
01:14:08Everybody in my corner
01:14:09is telling me,
01:14:10you need help.
01:14:11You need help.
01:14:12You need help.
01:14:12You do.
01:14:13I think you do.
01:14:14I really do.
01:14:16And you're saying
01:14:16you want to get help.
01:14:17Which is good.
01:14:19But in order to do that,
01:14:20in my opinion,
01:14:21you've got to
01:14:22take responsibility
01:14:23for stuff you've done
01:14:24in the past also.
01:14:26I want you to be
01:14:27straight up with me
01:14:28and tell me more
01:14:29of these details
01:14:30about Tyra.
01:14:32What happened to her?
01:14:33What you did to her?
01:14:35Where you buried her?
01:14:36Let's start right here.
01:14:40Take the first step.
01:14:42But I can't do that.
01:14:44Why?
01:14:45Why is that?
01:14:46Why?
01:14:46Why can't?
01:14:48Because
01:14:48you haven't came to me
01:14:49with evidence.
01:14:52Show me, like,
01:14:53Tyra,
01:14:54this is what we have.
01:14:55We know what you did.
01:14:57You know what I'm saying?
01:14:58I can't tell you
01:14:59everything we know.
01:15:01I showed you the code.
01:15:03You already said
01:15:03she was buried.
01:15:04And I've confirmed for you,
01:15:05yeah, she was buried.
01:15:07I know how she was killed.
01:15:10Okay?
01:15:11You're right.
01:15:13Tyra deserves justice.
01:15:14Her family deserves
01:15:15some answers.
01:15:16And you're the one
01:15:17holding those.
01:15:19I told you everything.
01:15:22No, you didn't.
01:15:24I told you the problems
01:15:25I had.
01:15:26I know that.
01:15:27But you didn't tell me
01:15:28how you killed her.
01:15:30You didn't tell me
01:15:30where you buried her.
01:15:32How did you kill Tyra?
01:15:36I can't answer that question.
01:15:52I can't answer that question.
01:15:52Do you not remember?
01:15:56Or do you just not
01:15:58want to tell me?
01:16:00I don't know
01:16:01anybody that killed someone.
01:16:04You know what I'm saying?
01:16:06They don't tell anybody
01:16:07how they did anything.
01:16:08They don't tell anybody.
01:16:09I need the evidence.
01:16:12I've told you the evidence
01:16:14that I can tell you
01:16:14up to this point.
01:16:16If you answer my questions
01:16:18and are truthful,
01:16:19I will give you more.
01:16:20But you're not giving me anything.
01:16:22Well, I'm going to wait
01:16:24until I talk to my lawyer.
01:16:30My lawyer,
01:16:30he's going to be the one
01:16:31to tell me what y'all have.
01:16:34All right.
01:16:34Well, then we're done.
01:16:35I have no doubt
01:16:48he killed all three
01:16:49of those women.
01:16:50But I just,
01:16:52I don't think
01:16:52he's ever going to tell us.
01:16:54He's admitting to things.
01:16:56He's not giving the details,
01:16:57but he's admitting.
01:16:59Something bad happened,
01:17:00I just don't want
01:17:01to talk about it.
01:17:02because he knows
01:17:03that if he tells us,
01:17:04he's going to end up
01:17:05going to prison forever.
01:17:17Two days later.
01:17:19Terrell has made some comments
01:17:21on his jail calls
01:17:22about people snitching on him,
01:17:24people knowing what's up.
01:17:26On a recorded jail call,
01:17:28Terrell mentioned
01:17:29the name of a friend
01:17:30who he thinks
01:17:30may have talked to police
01:17:32about Tyra's murder.
01:17:34He was like,
01:17:34I know he's talking
01:17:35because of the questions
01:17:36they were asking me.
01:17:40They were at his house
01:17:41the night before Tyra
01:17:43was murdered.
01:17:45We know that her phone
01:17:46was over at his house
01:17:47because we looked
01:17:48at her phone records.
01:17:49Detectives discovered
01:17:50the friend lives
01:17:51at the house
01:17:51where Tyra's phone hit
01:17:53on the night
01:17:54she disappeared.
01:17:56He got arrested
01:17:57this weekend.
01:17:58Just some traffic tickets,
01:18:00and he's in city jail.
01:18:02So we'll go grab him
01:18:03and see what he has to say.
01:18:07Yeah.
01:18:1030 minutes later.
01:18:13I got you a prize.
01:18:16I don't know that you'd like
01:18:16to stick to the pencil.
01:18:17That's all we had.
01:18:19We are scraping the bottom
01:18:20for candy.
01:18:20All right.
01:18:24You already know
01:18:25where we're here.
01:18:26So I'm going to let you
01:18:27take the floor, okay?
01:18:28This is about Tyra.
01:18:30Just tell me everything
01:18:31that you know.
01:18:32I really can't tell you
01:18:34too much about him.
01:18:36I will stop calling him,
01:18:37stop talking to him,
01:18:39because I really don't like
01:18:40the type of s***
01:18:41that he does.
01:18:43He's weird s***.
01:18:44So what would be weird
01:18:46s*** in your world?
01:18:51Okay.
01:18:54He had a girlfriend, right?
01:18:55Uh-huh.
01:18:56And then,
01:18:58he would just say weird s***.
01:18:59Like,
01:19:01the girl be doing something
01:19:02to him when he sleep,
01:19:03something like that.
01:19:05And I'd be like, bro,
01:19:06like,
01:19:06nah, bro.
01:19:09He really just made me
01:19:10distance myself,
01:19:11like, away from me.
01:19:13Let me ask you this.
01:19:13Who was his girlfriend
01:19:15at the time?
01:19:16I don't even remember
01:19:17her name.
01:19:19We showed you a picture.
01:19:20You'd know her.
01:19:21Hell yeah.
01:19:24Lansdowne shows him
01:19:25a photo of Tyra.
01:19:27That's her.
01:19:28Okay.
01:19:31What do you know about her?
01:19:32Nice person?
01:19:33Wonderful woman, man.
01:19:35Wonderful.
01:19:37I'm going to be real with you.
01:19:40We found her in a hole
01:19:41in the ground,
01:19:43buried her.
01:19:43Yeah.
01:19:48It's a lot.
01:19:51Tyra
01:19:52deserved better.
01:19:56Yeah, that she did.
01:19:59Did he ever tell you
01:20:00that he did anything to her?
01:20:04He said he dumped the bodies.
01:20:07Did he give you
01:20:08a clue as to where?
01:20:10No.
01:20:11No.
01:20:12Can you say that?
01:20:13But he did hear
01:20:14he dumped it somewhere.
01:20:18When did he tell you
01:20:18all this stuff?
01:20:19Like, two months ago.
01:20:22How did he know
01:20:22that he met Tyra?
01:20:25Do you really want to know?
01:20:26Yeah.
01:20:27He told me he was going to do it
01:20:28before it happened.
01:20:28Okay.
01:20:33Tell him, share with me that.
01:20:34What did he say
01:20:35he was going to do?
01:20:36He said he was going to kill her.
01:20:39Did he tell you
01:20:40why he wanted to kill her?
01:20:42Tell me about some
01:20:43when I'm sleeping
01:20:44or some
01:20:44So when he tells you
01:20:53that he did do it
01:20:55what did he say
01:20:56exactly, you know?
01:20:56All right, sit tight.
01:21:15We do appreciate it.
01:21:16Yeah, thank you.
01:21:17This is huge.
01:21:28This puts this case
01:21:29over the top now.
01:21:31It's went from circumstantial
01:21:32to actual witness
01:21:34who's talked to Terrell
01:21:35that said this.
01:21:36I'm super stoked about it.
01:21:39This is our strongest case now.
01:21:42I think it's pushed it
01:21:43to the point that
01:21:44without question
01:21:45we could go ahead
01:21:45and do an add-on charge
01:21:46for Tyra's murder.
01:21:50I think he killed
01:21:51these three women
01:21:51and didn't give it
01:21:52a second thought.
01:21:54We're extremely lucky
01:21:55that we got him
01:21:56when we did.
01:21:57I have no question
01:21:58that there would have been more.
01:22:00Yeah.
01:22:15This whole case is really sad
01:22:37from Tyra to Elizabeth
01:22:38to Rainbow.
01:22:40I used to work
01:22:41in domestic violence
01:22:42before I came over
01:22:43to homicide.
01:22:45And I know
01:22:46that the most dangerous
01:22:47time for a victim
01:22:47is when they're trying
01:22:49to leave the relationship.
01:22:51Elizabeth tried to leave.
01:22:52She did leave
01:22:53and he killed her
01:22:54a short time later.
01:22:56He knew Rainbow
01:22:56all of three days.
01:22:58She was nice enough
01:22:59to give him a place
01:23:00to stay.
01:23:01And the day
01:23:01that she had kicked him out,
01:23:03I believe he came back
01:23:05and killed her that night.
01:23:06I don't know
01:23:07what happened with Tyra.
01:23:08She very well could have
01:23:09tried to leave him as well.
01:23:10If anyone, male or female,
01:23:13is in a domestic violence situation,
01:23:17there's things that you can do
01:23:18to protect yourself
01:23:19to get out of this situation.
01:23:22There's 24-hour hotlines
01:23:23that you can call.
01:23:25You can get a protective order.
01:23:27There is help available.
01:23:29Domestic violence is very common
01:23:30and it affects everyone.
01:23:32It doesn't matter who you are,
01:23:34it can affect you.
01:23:3416 months
01:23:44after Tyra's body
01:23:45was discovered.
01:23:47Her big old smile.
01:23:51You couldn't be around Tyra
01:23:53without being happy.
01:23:55She was a very happy person.
01:24:03She enjoyed life
01:24:05while she was living.
01:24:07Yeah.
01:24:09It was very difficult to hear
01:24:11that my child was deceased.
01:24:15Having to tell her child
01:24:20that he won't be able to see
01:24:23or hear from his mother again
01:24:26is difficult.
01:24:29She won't be at her son's graduation.
01:24:33She won't have a first dance with him
01:24:36at his wedding.
01:24:38People have to still live with
01:24:41what somebody else did.
01:24:46Yeah, he's going to have to answer
01:24:48to the things that he did,
01:24:50but we all have to suffer.
01:24:53And so do the other victims,
01:24:55families and friends,
01:24:58their children.
01:25:00He can be sentenced
01:25:01to the maximum sentence
01:25:04and it wouldn't be good enough for me.
01:25:06He took away something
01:25:10that never can be given back.
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