she walks to the house and she confronts a monster. a young wife dead but it did not stop there. somebody came out from behind the trees and he shot me. what in the world was going on? that s what i wanted to know. this wife was brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just don t know. her husband had an alibi and something else, a lover. it was shocking. we would have never expected it. and as police got closer to the truth he says i think i know who did it. the truth got closer to home. he just told me, hold on, it s about to get a lot more crazy. you won t find grovetown on the map, but if close neighbors, good schools, and plain old civility is what you are looking for and a place called home, you can do worse than settle in grovetown, georgia. tamara has lived here for 14 years. you see the children outside, playing, having a good time. just a nice quiet place that you want to move and take your family to. the way we think america u
a fire chief murdered. his wife the only witness. this detective knew them both. she started telling me about a young man coming into their home, and shooting keith. her job now, solve this crime. clue number one was a doozy. she said ■çafter he shot keith, he turned to her and said i m sorry, ma am. i m sorry? a killer who apologized? that was just the start. a gun stashed in a dryer. a man s glove, but whose dna? a woman with a whole lot to reveal. she tossed her top to me. she just ripped it off? i was shocked. chief who spent his career helping those in trouble. hello and hello and welcome to dateline. keith bryan was a devoted fire chief who spent his ■çcareer helping those in trouble. then one night a gunshot shattered the life they had built and exposed scandalous secrets at the heart of a complicated crime. here s andrea canning with mystery in mustang. reporter: just about 20 miles of southwest downtown oklahoma city sits a town called mustang.
She said you know just trying to get through this. she s your friend your worried. yes i m worried about her. so it was first k knelt becky. i just did not make sense to me. what in the world was going on? that is what i wanted it. no sheriff deputies immediately canvassed neighborhood, looking for anyone watching beck s description of the shooter. so you have a government on the, ground on the loose, what are you doing on that? we had started sending units out to see if anybody had seen anything or heard any gunshots, see if they saw anybody matching the description of the suspect and we were not able to find anything. the only forensic evidence you could find in the parking lot was the 25 caliber slug that graced becky s her shoes were still laying there, we found a spent shell casing, we also found the actual projectile itself on the edge of the sidewalk. you did not find a tossed up in the vicinity? no, no weapons.
Question that to happen, he sits at the time, and now they re trying to hurt feelings for saint? this will affect me. , yes this is just one of the many things that they ve done to try and silence me. but, the law so i failed was because on the first day they did, the new york times and the use me as a whipping post and all of 2022 and discredit me, but the first story was on easter sunday, and i was within a very early in the morning becky s, and he said he d be young black story new york times has your congressional i.d. showing your social security number. we need to get account. it took a few hours and we got it down, and they did comply with taking it down. but it was very awful. so i did try file a lawsuit, a loss the judge ruled this in the public interest. to printed. i was then slapped with attorney fees from the new york times supports close to over $71,000.
The process. she s very analytical. in early may 2013, 19 long months after that awful night, becky s trial began. if half the town had rushed to pray for keith when he was shot, just as many flocked to court. it s been a tough year and a half. very tough. no cameras were allowed inside the courtroom. as the prosecution came armed with a simple, powerful narrative. becky bryan wanted out of her marriage. so she shot her husband and invented the tale of an intruder. he shot my husband in the head. the case against becky began with a slew of secrets from her personal life. they called to court two men who received explicit texts and pictures from becky days before the shooting. and this man, a former client of becky s, came to the stand and testified they d had sex the day of the crime.