emergency vehicles, officers, and that s as far as i can go. there is my baby and i can t do nothing about it. she was a hardworking, young wife and mom. sweetest gurley can ever asked to meet. just minutes from home when she saw the headlights. somebody was telling her. my sister is in my driveway. and her heads bloody. so you bear your little girl and then it s a murder investigation? yes. there were two people brandi feared, one town. she thought she was being followed. one thousands of miles away. josh was still in alaska. then, there was the new man in her life. anybody close to brandi needed to take a hard serious look at. no fingerprints, no dna, and no arrests for years. you are grieving. how do you pull all of that together. day-by-day. the handsome urge of someone s dark past. you have robberies going on, a homicide. and one brave woman willing to talk. he called me, the same that happened to brandi will happen to me. the q
what is the next thing we have to do? investigators were pretty sure they have the right guys for brandi daniels murder. they learned a lot about just how awful her marriage to josh was. cops found a 9-1-1 call brandi had made six months before her murder. i m in a abusive relationship, and i m afraid to go home. i tell my husband that i want to leave but he won t let me. it gets physical. brandi didn t request but she did follow restraining order against josh, when she left him. cops knew josh s body from the gym, serious, was likely involved in the murder. they just couldn t tie the two of them together, despite some suspicious phone traffic between the pair. an additional difficulty in the investigation was the fact that josh was still living in alaska, about as far away as you can get from ohio, and still be in the same country.
violent robberies would help nail the two for brandi daniels murder. we re on the right track for the robberies. we re gonna try and confront josh. back to alaska. when josh landed at anchorage international on his way from north slope, airport police with him into the office. detective michael show josh photographs of the department store robbery suspects. have you ever seen him before? around the store, or anything like that? no. detective michael then handed josh another photo. you ever seen sirius underwood? yeah. i used to work with him. would you have talked to serious that day not at all. really? the cop accused josh of lying, of being up to his eyeballs in the robberies. so if you guys came up with some scheme to take some money, then would you be honest? no. josh up to his story and then lawyer it up. the detectives flying home to ohio knew they had more work to
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