attack. north korea says it has carried out what it calls an important test at its long-range rocket launch site but south korea says nothing has been fired from the site. now back to dateline. welcome back to dlt datelin it had been nearly three months since brandy daniels was scott execution-style in front seat of her car. brandy s estranged husband and his friend sirius underwood were suspects but underwood released his cell phone of evidence to tie him to the shooting and josh had an ironclad alibi. soon the detectives would get
ex, i m willing to talk to you to get your side of the story if you re willing to talk to me. i think you re a good investigator but i m going to have an attorney. okay. we re gonna do that. that s fine, josh. reporter: meanwhile, back in zanesville, police surrounded sirius underwood s car and arrested him. his interrogation didn t last long. you know why you re here? tell me. okay, we ve had a grand jury, and you ve been indicted. for what? aggravated murder, aggravated robberies, attempted robberies, weapon under disability, tampering with evidence. josh daniels was also arrested, and if josh is up there talking, i think it s the proper thing to tell you that you have the opportunity to tell me too. would you like to talk to me about this? no. i want a lawyer. you want a lawyer? yeah. okay. reporter: josh waved extradition, and was brought back to ohio. brandy s mother got word at the end of her shift. i get a phone call, you need to get down here now
and then they go over details that we weren t aware of. so it s got to bring all the pain right back again? yeah. how did he look to you in that courtroom? not a care in the world. reporter: wendy was in the courtroom as well. this is big news. sirius is charged. he s in jail. do you believe that he killed brandy daniels, that he shot her to death on that road? no, no, i don t. sirius had just so much going for him and he had worked so hard and i would just say why? what did he have to gain from doing something like that? reporter: over the next few months welch and litle prepared their cases. josh would be tried first, then sirius. they laid out their case on index cards. motive was looking more complicated than ever. in opening arguments, they would have to explain to jurors just who these defendants are, sirius the over-achieving charmer and bad husband josh who d been abusing anabolic steroids for years. josh was roided out.
and it just kept gettin bigger and bigger every time wee talked. we were lookin at houses. reporter: you guys were lo fixin to marry?te oh, yeah. yeah. reporter: count brandy s mom, molly edwards, among the many te people thrilled at the arrival of craig in her life just il when you needed something nice to happen. craig, what did you think of him?ha he was really nice. he put her first. he put her first.er reporter: growing up, brandy wasn t much for barbie dolls but give her a sketch pad and a pencil and she was lost for hours. a she loved to draw. she had a deft eye for realistic wildlife portraits. she took every kinda art class there was.oo if it had anything to do with art, she took it.d reporter: brandy enrolled at her local college, zane state, but before her freshman year wao up, she left school to marry josh daniels, a part-time student she d met. not too long after, she had news for mom.lo she called me up, said that she was pregnant. reporter: you m
anything wrong. reporter: and i say, huh? right. reporter: and then i turn to ron and say, how does this go again? so, he s gonna take responsibility without saying he did it. reporter: the state s attorney signed off, and the trial judge accepted sirius underwood s alford plea. sirius was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 38 years. josh daniels got life with the possibility of parole after 28 years. not enough time for some of brandy s loved ones. so where do we stand now? they ve both been dealt with? yeah, i guess. reporter: your opinion, do you think they both got off easy? yes, they did. they re still breathin , she s not. reporter: josh and sirius are serving their sentences in separate maximum security prisons. brandy s parents are raising her daughter. the family is left with a snapshot album itself getting older, but the young woman pictured in the pages inside staying the same, never to have her own album of her daughter graduating,