9-1-1. what are you reporting? i just heard three gunshots. there is a female victim that was shot in the car, slumped over. i can t believe she s gone. melvin found with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment . stop, screaming i can t understand you. my husband has been shot. most people never know anybody that s been murdered. but to know too, and be stuck right in the middle of the. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. i had a lot of fears for peoples safety. this guy marshall this whole family is part of this criminal enterprise. right. there s a moment where he stares at you and goes like this? like he s ringing your neck. yes, he didn t like me. he s an evil man. worse than charles manchin. sometimes it looks as if houston texas goes on forever, sprawling all the way to the horizon. this was also the setting of a sprawling crime. when they began on a quiet sunday night, with the young woman, named gelareh bagherza
what did your mother say? she just said, somebody killed coty. and then i don t really remember a whole lot. just ten months of do the murder of his girlfriend, cory beavers, was confronted with the death of his twin brother. somebody who had been as constant as his own shadow for 28 years. we were really good growing up . kind of like he was my best friend, he always had my back, but then we kind of started to drift as we got older. but we were always close. now, two members of that happy for some, had died violently. you know, most people never know anyone that s been murdered. yes, usually. it s one thing that two people are murdered at one point, but there s another thing that one person is murdered, then two months later, somebody else s murder. it began as a hot november day slowly gave way to a balmy houston night.
like, what color your shirt was? and that was the baseline question. and then they would ask me, did you shoot that girl? and then i remember i would get really upset because they were just calling her, that girl. but cory wasn t just upset about how they were questioning him. they were upset because they weren t going harder on him. you were upset because you weren t under enough suspicion? right, because in my mind, if you weren t looking at me, what are you going to do with the guy who actually did it? do you think he s actually gonna tell you that they did? so you felt like they weren t working very hard? yes exactly. okay, maybe they got an honest uninvolved bylaw here? right. and even though cory thought he should ve faced more scrutiny, he passed the polygraph. and this records backed up his alibi. cory was nowhere around the area by the time of her death. this time, the boyfriend didn t do it. so where did that lead detectives? maybe a whole other theory wou
cody beaver s wife. i love him please. lay him flat on his back. i can t, he s stiff. he s stiff? he stiff. i hate my life. there was no point to cpr. coty was that. why god why did god do this to me? god was not the one that did it. he had been shot to death in his own apartment. sergeant james of the harris county sheriff s office was on the scene of the murder. can you tell what kind of weapon killed coty? i cannot. i cannot tell you what kind of weapon that was. it was later determined to be a small caliber. cartridge casings at the scene? there were not. one thing was instantly clear, cody beavers never had a chance. somebody had put several bullet holes in him before he could