canning with mystery in mustang. in the tight-knit community of mustang folks who knew each other so well for so long began to swap stories. memories of their friend keith, the hero the dad, the loyal husband and friend. but also stories about his wife and then night keith was killed. gianna hickman who had rushed to the bryant s home that night was outside with becky and remembered hearing this not long after the crime. i heard her just say something about it would be hard to sell the house because he had died in the house. did that sound callous to you? being a realtor i can see her thinking about that, it was a little odd, i thought. at the hospitals some friends noticed that becky was agitated one minute, eerily calm the next. she wasn t emotional, she
where it went out that a brazen intruder had shot fire chief keith bryan in his own home and within minutes first responders swarmed the house, securing it as a crime scene. as keith was rushed to the hospital, his wife becky stayed behind. detectives were on their way as she spoke to her brother david on the phone. she was crying and frantic i set settle down it will be okay who is with you? her son was there. janet hickman a good friend of the family and wife of a fire chief herself rushed over to the brian s. i went over hugged her neck and told around sorry i was god would get us through this. keith s deputy chief hamilton reached becky on her cell phone. i told her not to worry, he will do a full investigation and they will figure out who did it. at the house, becky was on the rear patio on the phone with friends and family repeating the story of the armed intruder.
we were sitting in an open lot around the patio, i was fearful that they might come back. you thought right at that moment that this person she described could come back? yes, i did. we hadn t had anything like that happened before. kim mcneill a detective with the mustang police department was dispatched to the brine house that night. mustang be mustang the victim and his wife were no strangers to the detective. what is your reaction when you hear it is key? it was concerning to me because i knew this family. becky seem to really get to see a familiar face. she called out my name and asked me to come sit by her on the back porch and then she started telling me about a young man, possibly 25 years old coming into their home and shooting keefe in the head.
affair. when it ended, 19 months before the shooting, he apologized to kyiv and promised never to see becky again. but he wanted cops to know she had been in touch with him recently and a lot. she still loved him and that she would be moving so she could be near him, whether he wanted to be with her or not. the affair had been a reason behind beckoned keeps breathe split. now investigators and the ex lover hatched a plan, recorded conversation between becky and her so-called prodigy, maybe becky would give something up to him. three days after keith was shot, becky s ex dialed her up. becky, how are you doing? thank you for calling me. becky seem concerned about covering up the affair. if you could say that you knew that you knew a realtor by that name that you want to broker school with it. while she stuck to her story
this case. it was like tunnel vision, i think that dictated this case from the night that it happened. they did no other fingerprinting on any other door and they did not fingerprint the drier. they did not fingerprints the gun. i mean, how do you not fingerprint began? the defense had an explanation for how an intruder could ve easily used becky s gun to commit a crime. becky usually left it in her purse. which investigators found in her car, in the garage. do you believe that the perpetrator that she spoke of came to the garage, found the gun in the car, and went in and charged in? that s really what i thought happened. perpetrator came in, got the gun out of the vehicle. what s more? that glove with becky s dna on it also had someone else s dna. but the csi s could not narrow it down. not to keith, or to anyone else. it was actually a very large