and i m walkin up to the car. and i see her in the driver s seat. and i said, what s wrong? he goes, i think she s been shot. reporter: nothing can prepare you for that, huh? no. she was dead. that s what he told me. reporter: he told you that at the scene? yeah, and stay away. you don t wanna contaminate the crime scene. reporter: no bridge ahead. into the abyss. yeah. blew me outta the water. reporter: brandy s mom was tt just leaving the bottle factory where she worked. 11:05, i got a phone call. and i went runnin out to the truck., tess said, somethin is wrong with brandy.tr we get home. b reporter: see emergency vehicles, officers. we go right off into the driveway. and that s as far as i could go. reporter: the car with the driver side window down, the vehicle stalled in first gear, and brandy inside looking rag doll, shot three times execution style. the detectives were arriving.
we ll put it in airplane mode. reporter: while the squad s phone expert examined his cell, sirius explained how he knew brandy s husband josh. we went to zane state together. okay. i worked out with him and stuff like that. reporter: he said he hardly knew brandy. i didn t, like, meet her meet her, i seen her one time. reporter: as for his pal josh up in alaska? sirius said they hadn t been in contact for a while. when was the last time, he sent you a text, he called you? i ll say about two or three weeks ago. it was not this week? i didn t talk to him this week, no. reporter: sirius said he d been with his girlfriend around the time cops believe brandy died. and went to my girlfriend s house and i kind of stayed the night there. reporter: officers returned sirius iphone and thanked him for coming in. wendy lemon, the girlfriend in sirius alibi, was next up on the detective s list of people to talk to. wendy, a mother of five, said she met sirius a coupl
that was my baby. reporter: brandy, husband josh, and the baby daughter were living nearby. you couldn t ask for a better mother. if it was somethin that she needed or the little girl s needed, the baby got it first. reporter: and how did th grandmother like her new baby?te the baby got everything. yes, yes. reporter: the marriage, after seven years of trying, foundered. she filed for divorce. reporter: she seemed to be on the other side, molly, of a d.d really rough patch in her life? yes. reporter: but on this may night as she was driving home from work, with fiance craig in her ear, he heard brandy starting to sound edgy. she says somebody was h tailin her.ay you know, these people need to get off my butt. and the phone just went dead. reporter: went dead? i text her, you know? what s up? r: so about ten minutes passed by, and i called her sister. and said, is brandy home yet? she goes, no. i and i said, well her call dropped on me and she shoul
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 dating multiple people at the same time. reporter: she had the detectives undivided attention as she related what an intoxicated josh told her on the fourth of july. and he told me the same that happened to brandy would happen to me. did he say happened to brandy? he kill her. he kill her. he said, i killed her yes. yes. do you remember what his exact words were?
driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the driver s 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 three shell casings and a clip for a semi-automatic pistol. brandy s purse and phone were beside her. we eliminated robbery almost immediately. there was an amount of money there that somebody would of took if it would ve been a robbery. reporter: as the csi s took their photos and estimated bullet trajectories, gathered blood, dna, brandy s mom, sister, and fiancee watched on in blank horror. what do you remember about the rest of that night? sittin in in the vehicle behind her car