fiancée s parents checked out. and his phone records revealed he was miles away from the store when amber was murdered. finally, brandon biel was cleared. did you at some point think, i m going to be charged with murder? yes, i did. the memory still fresh. had nightmares of going to jail. you know, it was hard for me to sleep. that terrible day my whole thought process was, let me get the store open because i think i screwed up. right. i screwed up. why didn t he notice they have been robbed? some stores are messier than others. maybe that meant that whoever was on the night before didn t put things away. right, that was my thought process. totally opposite of hey, there s somebody dead, or there was a robbery. brandon was 23 then. and terrified. i m just thinking, you know, the really just trying to put this on this young black man. you know? when they questioned his fiancée, now wife it was trying to convince
brandon. they had never learn to work together yet. when you have a guy like that who is not really the same type of attitude or mentality that the rest of us were, it causes some problems. did she trust him? you know, i don t know. i think it in some instances, no. even amber s parents said they knew she was dissatisfied with brandon. because she had written him up. she had prepared a negative work review. she was going to turn it in that day. it s just his last chance, mom. she said, i can t allow him to continue to make these mistakes. so, motive? opportunity? behavior that didn t seem innocent? i mean, he had the classic motive. he didn t want her to write him up. didn t want to get fired. this seemed like a personal crime. could ve been? most people that going to
once seen can never be unseen. amber belkin sprawled in death in the back office of the video games store. her head wrapped in a plastic bag. mariano dialed 9-1-1. his mind a horrified confusion. he stared at amber s assistant manager, brandon. i was upset. and then i m looking at brandon like, i don t understand how this happened. you know, i don t want to blame anybody but your first thought is, who was around. who can you look and see? maybe he had something to do with it? it s got to be a pretty shocking thing to discover. i mean, it is hard to describe. you just have 1 million emotions running through. you don t know what to do. the police came. took one look and called raymond ray bob roberts.
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rob a store don t go with the intention of killing anybody. they just go in there, with a robbery, and leave. putting a plastic bag on her head squeezing it tight, holding it. squeezing it tight, takes four or five minutes probably. takes a good minute. yeah, no kidding. and she s struggling. she s not just laying there. that takes a while. so, it takes it does seem personal. they had brandon in the back seat of a patrol car. the detective went to talk to him. he tells me the story is not making any sense. so he had brandon taken downtown and questioned by a colleague known for her special interviewing skills. she s a real good detective. she has a way with getting stuff out of people. an hour later, i m still at the scene, she calls me back and says, something is up with this guy. coming up amber s parents were convinced it was brandon. everything pointed to him. would that explain what amber s mom says he saw at the funeral?