yeah. there was none there because he didn t do it. that alibi about helping his 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 rocked? 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
bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office. she s dead. if i can get some information on her. any witnesses. so we hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in amber s store. but most people did not know who. including amber s father as he headed over there. i jumped in my truck and i called a friend of mine who was a defense attorney and i said, i need you to call anybody that you can. see what you can find out. i was just about there and he called me and he said, well how far are you from there? and that s when he realized, it wasn t that amber found someone dead. they found her. my knees just buckled and i just my whole world just died right there. it s a pretty dreadful
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
then a detective with the san antonio police department. it looks like a robbery gone bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office. she s dead. i try to get some information on her. any witnesses. so we hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in amber s store. but most people did not know who. including amber s father as he headed over there. i jumped in my truck and i called a friend of mine who was a defense attorney and i said, i need you to call anybody that you can. see what you can find out. i was just about there and he called me and he said, well how far are you from there? and that s when he realized, it wasn t that amber found someone dead. they found her.
mind a horrified confusion. he stared at assistant manager brandon beal. i was horrified, i was upset. i m looking at brandon, how did this happen? i don t want to blame anybody but your first thought is, who is around, who can you look at and say, maybe he had something to do with it. it s got to be a pretty shocking thing to discover. i mean, it s hard to describe. you just have a million emotions just running through and you don t know what to make of them. the police came, took one look, and called raymond roberts, then a detective with the san antonio police department. it looks like a robbery gone bad. store s in disarray, the clerk is found in the back office, she s dead. try to get some information, are there any witnesses, no, sir. hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in amber s store. most people did not know who.