home to her daughter waiting to it was three months to the day after brandy s murder when the be tucked in at brandy s mom s ohio investigators got a phone house out in the country where call from up here in wasilla. she d been living lately. brandy had been through a rough it was a woman on the line saying that she had been seeing few months, years really. but one of the big reason things josh daniels, and she had a story to tell the police, were finally turning around for something he had told her. her was that soothing voice on well, when detectives ryan and the cellphone this night, her hittle heard that, they were on fiance, talking her home. the plane to alaska within hours. the young woman explained she i m just talkin to her as and josh had been engaged at the she s driving home. trying to drive a stick shift, time of brandy s death. which she d just learned, talkin on the phone. but he had commitment issues. he lied all the time. he was dating multiple people at report
reporter: brandy, the young mom, found shot to death in the front seat of her car in the family driveway. detectives put her fiance craig thru the wringer. but his story including about his last text to brandy checked out . within two or three days we were sure that he was cleared. reporter: but craig wasn t a total dead end. the fiance did have a tip for the detectives. he told them they should check out a fellow gym rat of josh daniels, a guy who gave brandy welcome back. the creeps, someone with an more than two years after brandy unusual first name, sirius. sirius e. underwood when they daniel was shot dead in her car, ran the name, investigators found a son of a local preacher, her estranged husband josh took a plea deal in exchange for a who d had some juvenile offenses detailed confession. but what about the person who but in the years since had was the actual shooter, joshua s redeemed himself. he graduated from zane state, friend? prosecutors r were concerned. got a go
call it a good luck bolt from the land of the midnight sun. alaska was calling. it was three months to the day after brandy s murder when the ohio investigators got a phone call from up here in wasilla. it was a woman on the line saying that she had been seeing josh daniels, and she had a story to tell the police, something he had told her. well, when detectives ryan and hittle heard that, they were on the plane to alaska within hours. the young woman explained she and josh had been engaged at the time of brandy s death. but he had commitment issues. he lied all the time. he was dating multiple people at the same time. reporter: she had the detectives undivided attention as she related what an intoxicated josh told her on the fourth of july. and he told me the same that happened to brandy would happen to me. did he say what happened to brandy? he kill her. he kill her. he said, i killed her yes. yes.
josh daniels cell phone from this california area code. hey, what s up, man? it s me. hey, hit me up on this phone right here whenever you need to talk about something. hear me? holla at me later. bye. reporter: detective hittle s ears perked right up when he heard it. i listened it to and now i know that that phone, 310, is sirius underwood s. that is his voice. reporter: the detectives wanted another, technically deeper dive into sirius i-phone, which they d returned to him. sirius came downtown again, as requested, but while the cops were preoccupied chasing down a search warrant for his device, he outfoxed them. sirius found a computer and remotely wiped his phone clean. when i reached in i got sirius phone, i could see that it had been reset, factory restored from the icloud. so whatever story he was going to tell, you mccartney going to hear it? there was nothing left on that phone. pretty clever. it was like a whole evidence locker going up in smoke.
but his story, including about his last text to brandy checked out . within two or three days, we were sure that he was cleared. reporter: but craig wasn t a total dead end. the fiance did have a tip for the detectives. he told them they should check out a fellow gym rat of josh daniels, a guy who gave brandy the creeps, someone with an unusual first name, sirius. sirius e. underwood. when they ran the name, investigators found a son of a local preacher, who d had some juvenile offenses but, in the years, since had redeemed himself. he graduated from zane state, got a good job with a local manufacturer and seemed to charm every woman he met. four days into their investigation, detective brady hittle found sirius at a girlfriend s place. i asked him if i could look at his cell phone, if i could take it back to the office and download it. he agreed to let me do that. how d he present himself? calm. he claimed he didn t know brandy was killed. just calm, cool, and collected.