emergency vehicles, officers, and that s as far as i can go. there is my baby and i can t do nothing about it. she was a hardworking, young wife and mom. sweetest gurley can ever asked to meet. just minutes from home when she saw the headlights. somebody was telling her. my sister is in my driveway. and her heads bloody. so you bear your little girl and then it s a murder investigation? yes. there were two people brandi feared, one town. she thought she was being followed. one thousands of miles away. josh was still in alaska. then, there was the new man in her life. anybody close to brandi needed to take a hard serious look at. no fingerprints, no dna, and no arrests for years. you are grieving. how do you pull all of that together. day-by-day. the handsome urge of someone s dark past. you have robberies going on, a homicide. and one brave woman willing to talk. he called me, the same that happened to brandi will happen to me. the q
plea deal in exchange for their detailed confession. then, after seven months and present, josh daniels agreed to tell investigators what he knew. but would his story help them convict sirius underwood? here is dennis murphy with the conclusion of out there in the dark what. as part of pleading guilty to murdering his wife, brandy, josh daniels had to admit what he d done. provide what lawyers call a proffer. he was brought to a conference room in the prosecutors office. when was the first time that she this idea came about? i ve known sirius underwood for a while. we had a conversation one day, in his apartment, and i was telling him about how hard this was on me we me and brandy splitting up. well how pissed off i was that she was seeing that guy, craig, and he made the comment, we ll,
before we took the case a grand jury, that we had a motive. obviously in the case of josh daniels, the husband, we had a motive. marriage was breaking up, he had been violent with her in the past. but he was mild thousands of miles aware, in alaska? we knew he didn t pull the trigger. when we came up with sirius underwood, the most obvious is there s been some sort of a payment. we spent about a year looking through bank accounts, and couldn t find any. almost two years went by and nothing. how do you put all that awful time together? day by day. are you starting to lose faith in your police, the investigation? it was stressful. mike ryan would call, and i would say, have you heard anything? we still have to get some more evidence, more evidence. but it s funny how things sometimes work out, because the
revealed that josh and sirius where more than jim bugs, they were armed robbers together. look brandy, their victim, must have known about sirius and her husband s part in the holdups. for the homicide case had achieved critical mass. what was the final greenlight for investigators? when did they have it? when we found that these two guys where criminal conspirators, violent criminals in several robberies. there was our motive. once i felt that we had the motive for them sirius underwood to be involved in this murder, we would go. which is, josh s wife might be a risk for him? that s correct. she might snitch him? out she might s mission. that had a juan welch and john ladle would present the case. there would be a lot of convoluted storytelling and evidence for the jurors to follow. you have robberies going on, a homicide, the cell phone data,
1st, 2012, what might we have seen? you can see an individual come from the southwest side of the parking lot, he stopped the gun in josh s face a pistol? yes. he ended up falling, down being knocked down. the tipster claim that josh was in the victim of the robbery, but actually one of the participants. and that is powell, sirius, had been the mastermind, not only of the departments are job, the prime mover in the crime wave, responsible for multiple armed robberies. most of them were captured on surveillance video. the two bodybuilders secret sideline was ahead snapping revelation. sirius underwood was robbing tumbleweed restaurants, drug dealers, or hitting the gabriel brothers. during the day, he s the sweetest guy, loves the women, and they love him, we ll train with you, poster boy, just an all great american. the cops believe that linking serious and his partner in crime, josh daniels, to the