the shooting and what tower near the murder scene had the phone pinged off >> we had tons of -- and i'm not exaggerating, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of phone calls that hit all these various towers >> in that electronic hay stack a sharp eye found a call around the time they believe brandy was killed it was from a number with a 310 area code. that's southern california the county lawman traced the number back to an anonymous phone, a burner purchased in vai zanesville a week before brandy died >> he only called two people a second burner phone and josh daniels. those were the only two. >> was this their break through? that burner phone at the right time, right place had called josh's phone in alaska then the phone texted another ex- traction of josh's phone and