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Reps, they were armed robbers together. detectives surmised that brandy, their victim, must have know about sirius, and her husband's part in the hold ups. for state's attorney mike haddox the homicide case had achieved critical mass. >> so what was the final green light for your investigators? when did they have it? >> when we found that these two guys were criminal conspirators, violent criminals in several robberies, there was our motive, and once i felt that we had the motive for sirius underwood to be involved in this murder, we were a go. >> which is, josh's wife might be a risk for him....

Here again is dennis murphy. >> reporter: it was may 5th, 2014. the car was at the head of the driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the drivers seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. >> mike and i arrived at about the same time. >> did the scene explain itself to you? >> we could see the basics of what had happened. >> reporter: their victim brandy daniels had been shot three times at close range. crime scene techs would later recover...

Enormous. call it a good luck bolt from the land of the midnight sun, alaska was calling. it was three months to the day after brandy's murder when the ohio investigators got a phone call from up here in wasilla. it was a woman on the line saying that she had been seeing josh daniels, and she had a story to tell the police, something he had told her. well, when detectives ryan and hittle heard that, they were on the plane to alaska within hours. the young woman explained she and josh had been engaged at the time of brandy's death. but he had commitment issues. >> he lied all the time. he was d...

That phone. >> pretty clever. . >> it was like a whole evidence locker going up in smoke. detectives knew they were behind brandy's murder, but could they prove it? >> >> we knew at that time we had a serious problem with our evidence. we were not dead in the water, but we were definitely struggling. >> announcer: coming up, a stalled case. >> are you startin' to lose faith in your police? the investigation. >> it was stressful. >> announcer: and then a threat convinces a woman to talk. >> he told me the same that happened to brandy would happen to me. >> what did he say happened to brandy? >>...

Scene could tell them. here again is dennis murphy. s d. . >> >> reporter: it was may 5th, 2014. the car was at the head of the driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the drivers seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. >> mike and i arrived at about the same time. >> did the scene explain itself to you? >> we could see the basics of what had happened. >> reporter: their victim brandy daniels had been shot three times at close range. crim...