the tipster had volunteered that her husband was part of a stick-up gang. we came in and spoke with her and obtained a lot of valuable information for this investigation. reporter: detective phil michel of the zanesville p.d. had been working for two years on a string of armed robberies. when got the facebook tipster in for an interview, guess who she identified as two members of the robbery crew? none other than sirius underwood and josh daniels! if the tipster could be believed: they d been bandits together two years before brandy would be found shot to death. the woman confirmed something detective michel had long suspected, but been unable to prove: that the robbery of a local department store had been an inside job. josh daniels had been working at the store at the time and handed over seven thousand dollars to a masked gunman. if we had been here on january 1st, 2012, what might we have seen? you can an individual come from the southwest side of the parking lot he stuck
the blue lead like the one from alaska. it began with, of all things, a message to the facebook page of the zanesville p.d. the tipster had volunteered that her husband was part of a stick-up gang. we came in and spoke with her and obtained a lot of valuable information for this investigation. reporter: detective phil michel of the zanesville p.d. had been working for two years on a string of armed robberies. when got the facebook tipster in for an interview, guess who she identified as two members of the robbery crew? none other than sirius underwood and josh daniels! if the tipster could be believed, they d been bandits together two years before brandy would be found shot to death. the woman confirmed something detective michel had long suspected, but been unable to prove, that the robbery of a local department store had been an inside job. josh daniels had been working at the store at the time and handed over $7,000 to a masked gunman. if we had been here on january 1st, 2012, w
oh, yeah. yeah. reporter: count brandy s mom, molly edwards, among the many people thrilled at the arrival of craig in her life just when you needed something nice to happen. craig, what did you think of him? he was really nice. he put her first. he put her first. reporter: growing up, brandy wasn t much for barbie dolls but give her a sketch pad and a pencil and she was lost for hours. she loved to draw. she had a deft eye for realistic wildlife portraits. she took every kinda art class there was. if it had anything to do with art, she took it. reporter: brandy enrolled at her local college, zane state, but before her freshman year was up she left school to marry josh daniels, a part-time student she d met. not too long after, she had news for mom. she called me up said that she was pregnant. reporter: you must have been so torn up. i was. that was my baby.
extraction of josh s phone, and 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 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
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 he knew brandy s husband josh. we went to zane state together. okay. i worked out with him and stuff like that. reporter: he said he hardly knew brandy. i didn t, like, meet her meet her, i seen her one time. reporter: as for his pal josh up in alaska? sirius said they hadn t been in contact for a while. when was the last time, he sent you a text, he called you? i ll say about two or three weeks ago. it was not this week? i didn t talk to him this week, no. reporter: sirius said he d been with his girlfriend around the time cops believe brandy died. and went to my girlfriend s house and i kind of stayed the night there. reporter: officers returned sirius s iphone and thanked him for coming in. wendy lemon, the girlfriend