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 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 gonna tell, you weren t gonna hear it? there was nothing left on that phone. pretty clever. we knew at that time we had a
enormous. 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 happened to brandy? he kill her. he kill her. he said, i killed her yes. yes. do you remember what his exact words were? he said that
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. reporter: sirius came to the sheriff s office. we ll put it in airplane mode. reporter: while the squad s phone expert examined his cell, sirius explained how
they retrieved something josh thought he d deleted. a voicemail that was left on 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 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 gonna tell, you weren t gonna hear it? there was nothing left on that phone. pretty c
are they saying, trust us ? yeah. every time we d hear somethin , we d contact em. still need to get more evidence. still need to get more evidence. reporter: but something was about to happen and it was enormous. 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