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the kids loved him. uh-huh. tristan actually started calling him daddy david, which cassy would be like, you can t call him that. your dad s gonna get mad. and sure enough, said cassy s sister, he did. he expressed to cassy that he didn t like it. that the kids better not call him that. he blamed cassy for it. yeah. and a few weeks before cassy s death, she told her parents, son tristan came home from a visit with brad utterly terrified. they ask him, what s wrong, tristan? he says, daddy said he s gonna kill mommy and david. he was 5 years old. i don t think a 5-year-old makes that up. by then brad was no longer on the police force. and things weren t going so well for him. when sergeant watkins finished reviewing it all, police reports, his own interviews, what he felt was something like amazement. wow. nobody in this world is pointed out as having any reason to want to harm her other than brad. as long as she was alive, cassy had the kids and a new man ....
my name is billy lee, or william actually. and sergeant sanchez had his chance to question him. how long did you know cassy? i knew her when she was a tech in the emergency room. curiously sanchez did not ask why billy removed the carpet or why he suddenly doing off for alaska but he did ask about the nature of billy s relationship to cassy. we were real good friends. we didn t go to bars together and we didn t go fishing together. we didn t do that kind of stuff but we had a working relationship that was pretty close. really? back at the crime scene day of the murder, he claimed he barely knew her. now they were pretty close. too close? billy told the detective he had an alibi. he and a buddy were out in the country working on his cabin. ....
Into a house owned by one of her nursing professors. this woman, charnelle lee. was she a good tenant? oh, yes. like, the best. spit spot all the time. always. yeah, she was awesome. just around that time, charnelle was heading toward a breakup with her husband, billy. billy was also a nurse, maybe a mentor of sorts to cassy, and he seemed to be very fond of her. saw her a lot, at work, around the house. then, pretty soon, a serious boyfriend came along for cassy, david berry. he was wonderful with the children, and that was something that she really liked about him. cassy s friend and co-worker, mary flores. they had a relationship that was fun. they were just building a life together. especially on the morning of march 24th, 2014. something billy lee had been trying to ....
Going nowhere. the family found things out like how boyfriend, david, had a solid alibi. so why wasn t he officially cleared. why did darlene seem to be a more active investigator than the deputy. she drove me nuts. too hard, maybe? detective sanchez said i m tired of mrs. brooks calling me all hours of the night. i said did you get billy lee down from alaska? he said, yes. now, remember, he lived on the same property as cassy and was married to her landlord and hours after the murder he ripped out her bedroom carpet and then went to alaska. the question was, why? months after he left, billy returned. ....
billy also found any suggestion he was too close to cassy particularly offensive. absolutely never even thought in my mind to have a where with cassy. not even a little bit. treated her like a daughter. why take off for alaska after the murder. got a lucrative job offer up there so i took it. not even thinking of that it would look bad. yeah, why would it look bad? he felt the same about the carpet he ripped number cassy s bedroom. there were some people thought billy took it out because billy didn t want evidence to be found. what would have been there more than somewhere else. you knew that question was being asked about you. after the fact. yeah. yeah, sanchez said, why did you take the carpet? i said, because you released the place and we needed to save the flooring. ....