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.
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what had occurred should not have occurred. i think that does make mr. bryans situation a little different. however he s been convicted of felony murder. reporter: before reading sentences, the judge paused for one minute. i want us to get a con sent of time. what i m going to do is sit silently for one minute. i kept coming back to the terror that must have been in the mind of the young man running through. reporter: the court heard powerful statements from the family. i laid you to rest. i told you i love you and some day, somehow, i would get you justice. reporter: his mother spoke directly to her son and the men responsibility for his death. these men have chose to lie and attack my son and his
she was crying and frantic. i said, settle down, it will be okay, who is with you? her son was there. gina hickman, a good friend of the family and wife of a fire chief herself, rushed over to the bryans. i went over and hugged her neck and told her how sorry i was, that god would get us through this. and she said, i m sorry, i know he was your friend too. keith s deputy chief terry hamilton reached becky on her cell. so i told her not to worry, they ll do a full investigation and they ll find they ll 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 open light around the patio and 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 happen before. tammy mcneil, a detective with the mustang police
jana hickman, who had rushed to the bryans home that night, was outside with becky and remembered hearing this not long after the crime. i heard her just say that something about it would be hard to sell the house because he had died in the house. did that sound really callous to you? being a realtor, i could see her thinking about that. it was a little odd, i thought. at the hospital some friends noticed that becky was agitated one minute, eerily calm the next. she wasn t emotional, she was pretty calm, talking to different people. whenever we met her, she was very calm. too calm? i anticipated her needing comfort, and i went to hug her, and she just kind of held her arms down straight and didn t seem to need that type of consoling. and instead of sticking close to keith s bedside in his last hours, they thought it was