scene to help their case. the prosecution didn t even call the now-retired detective, jose sanchez, as a witness. what we were rather brief on was the scene. that was a weakness, actually. well, i don t know if i would call it a weakness, but it wasn t a strength. you should be in the diplomatic corps. well, there just wasn t anything there that was terribly useful, so we showed the scene so the jury could see, you know, this is where it happened. it was unilluminating, and that was a problem, until the prosecutor argued for the right to present hearsay evidence, normally disallowed, and he won. brad was being verbally and physically abusive toward her. so, one by one, cassy s friends repeated stories cassy told them about her fear of brad. there would be times where she felt like he was following her.
kids from school, we could all they could come by, we d go get ice cream or something. the afternoon came. no cassy. i understand. you have kids, and who knows? i mean, a million things could have come up. and when cassy s parents got a call from their grandson s school to say she didn t show to pick him up, they weren t really worried. i was hoping that she d just slept through her phone because she d worked graveyards the night before at the hospital. but eventually a request to charnelle, the landlord. could she check on cassy, please? and so i drove down from my house up at the hill. up there. down yeah. down this way and up here uh-huh. to go in and check on her through the back door. which is where she noticed the strangest thing. i looked through the door, and there was water. you could see through the door, there was just water rolling out. and i knocked. was it coming out under the no, it was door? just over there. rolling
he said on the stand? oh, my. mr. farrington a suspect in your investigation? no, he was not. not my suspect, no. now that was shocking, because sanchez had told cassy s parents that brad was a suspect. he believed there was an altercation, a fight, and that he killed her and then took her and put her in the other tote. he told us that the day after her death? this is sanchez? this is what sanchez said. but now in court, sanchez told a different story altogether, which, if the jury believed it, would undermine the prosecution s entire case. i was focused already on mr. lee? mr. lee. mr. billy lee. why did you choose to focus on mr. lee? there was just too many discrepancies. remember, billy was cleared, had a solid alibi. but now the defense was using sanchez to raise doubt about who the real killer was. there s a lot of smoke here but no fire. mudles it up.
don t think a 5-year-old makes that up. by then brad was no longer on the police force. and things weren t going so well for him. when sergeant watkins finished reviewing it all, police reports, his own interviews, what he felt was something like amazement. wow. nobody in this world is pointed out as having any reason to want to harm her other than brad. as long as she was alive, cassy had the kids and a new man and a great job. and he was losing everything. he no longer was working at the police department. you know, they hadn t reached any agreements on these kids. i think that was his way to take what he could from her. just say, hey, look. those kids are gonna they re not gonna have you. was watkins right? we asked to hear the farrington side of the story from brad or his family or both. we asked multiple times, but they told us they didn t want to be interviewed. anyway, for sergeant watkins, the evidence was too compelling to ignore, especially what came right out
what will face multiple charges in the u.s. for the fraud and mondale are drying. now back to dateline! ck to dateline welcome back to dateline. in the hours and days after cassy s death, her landlord s husband. was acting suspicious. detectives wondered if billy had something to hide, but failed to call him back for questioning. cassy s family felt the investigation was being botched. here again is keith morrison with more on silver city. cassy s parents were in pain, deep endless, about her murder and the long wait for justice.