yeah, sanchez said, why did you take the carpet? i said, because you released the place and we needed to save the flooring. what about the polygraph? why that inconclusive result? i can tell you why, instead of you ever been in the house, i said, yes. and she kind of raised her eyebrows because that was our rental house, of course i been in the house, multiple times. maybe they should have asked cassy s family who didn t for a minute suspect billy lee. they would have told the deputies it was long past time to focus on someone new. and who could that be? the person the family had suspected all along. he did it. he killed her. we know he did. coming up disturbing stories about one of the men in cassy s life. she would wake up and he would be in the dark watching over her. then a new theory of the case. he said a cop did this. that
he said a cop did this, that this had been done by someone who had been trained in police defensive tactics. what d you think when you heard that? well, i thought, we now have the evidence we need to charge bradley farrington. five weeks after sergeant watkins took over the case and a year and a half after cassy was killed, law enforcement tracked down brad farrington in tucson, arizona, where he had taken the children, and they arrested him and charged him with first degree murder. just one nagging worry. there was no evidence at all to put brad at the murder scene. and without that, odds of conviction weren t good. i was scared that he was gonna get off. coming up at trial the defense comes out swinging. it will be clear that other people had access, motive, and ability to complete this crime. what will the jury think?
sanchez was off the case. and this ranch owner and veteran detective stepped in. i came in one day and i was told, hey, we re going to assign you to the to the cassy farrington case. sergeant jess watkins. see what you can find, they told him. first thing i did was i sit down, read through all the interviews, read through all the reports. and then he listened as cassy s family told him about the city police officer who had never even been questioned about the murder. i knew it was farrington that did it. brad farrington, cassy s estranged husband. when cassy died, the two had been separated for more than a year but were going through a nasty custody battle. as soon as we found out she was dead, we all thought it was him. cassy s family told detective watkins that cassy had been living in fear of brad for years and wasn t shy about
months, all anyone could do was speculate. i thought it was over. i thought she was just dead and that was it and nothing was ever gonna be done about it. at the sheriff s office, investigative supervisor tavizon questioned his deputy, sanchez. why hadn t he even dusted for fingerprints? he said, no, he said, it s too clean. to him it wasn t anything that would ve been helpful to the investigation. kind of an assumption there, huh? well, i guess i would that s what you could call it. what s the old expression? to assume makes an ass of you it makes both and me. yeah, exactly. so, with zero physical evidence to point to anyone, the case of the murder in the bathtub went cold. until? until six months later, a particular friend, once suddenly gone, just as suddenly
clues would be hard to come by. i thought it was over. she was just dead and nothing was ever going to be done about it. not if this family could help it. we started looking and looking for what happened. there was still water in the tub. we pulled the drain and saw black scuff marks. a case that would see the suspect leave town. and unearthed dark deeds from the past. she would wake up and he was be standing over her. that s creepy. she told me that he was following her. yet justice was anything but certain. you want that smoking gun. uh-huh. and there s just not one. hello and welcome to dateline. cassy farrington was building a new life. the