from the north slope, airport police whisked him into their office. detective michel showed josh photographs of the department story robbery suspects. have you ever seen him before, around the store, or anything like that? no. reporter: detective michel then handed josh another photo. you ever seen sirius underwood? yeah. i used to work with him. would you have talked to sirius that day would he have called you or texted you or anything like that? nh-uh. not at all? no. reporter: really? the cop accused josh of lying. of being up to his eyeballs in the robberies. so if you guys came up with some dumbass scheme to take some money, then be honest with me. no. reporter: josh stuck to his story. then lawyered up. the detectives flying home to ohio knew they had more work to do but in any conspiracy there s a weak link. they just had to pick their man and break him. reporter: coming up: who would crack first? we get the the phone call saying, hey let s
and i said what s wrong? he said i think shoes been shot. nothing can prepare you for that. no. she was dead. that s what he told me. he told you that at the scene? yeah. and stay away. you know, you don t want to contaminate the crime scene. no briblg ahead. into the abyss. yeah. blew me out of the water. brand s yom was just leaving the bottle factory where she worked. and 11:05 i got a phone call. and i went running out to the truck. they said something is wrong with brandy. we get home. the emergency vehicles, officers? we go off into the driveway and that s as far as i could go. the car with the driver s side window down, the vehicle stalled in first gear and brandy inside looking rag doll, shot three times execution style. the detectives were arriving. who would want brandy dead? it s always the husband, right?
reps, they were armed robbers together. detectives surmised that brandy, their victim, must have know about sirius, and her husband s part in the hold ups. for state s attorney mike haddox the homicide case had achieved critical mass. so what was the final green light for your investigators? when did they have it? when we found that these two guys were criminal conspirators, violent criminals in several robberies, there was our motive, and once i felt that we had the motive for sirius underwood to be involved in this murder, we were a go. which is, josh s wife might be a risk for him. that s correct. she might snitch him out. she might snitch him out. reporter: haddox convened a grand jury. assistant state s attorneys ron welch and john litel would present the case. there would be a lot of convoluted storytelling and evidence for the jurors to follow. you ve got robberies going on, the homicide, the cell phone data, how you link all these people up.
here again is dennis murphy. reporter: it was may 5th, 2014. the car was at the head of the driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the drivers seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. mike and i arrived at about the same time. did the scene explain itself to you? we could see the basics of what had happened. reporter: their victim brandy daniels had been shot three times at close range. crime scene techs would later recover three shell casings and a clip for a semi-automatic pistol. brandy s purse and phone were beside her. we eliminated robbery almost immediately. there was an amount of money there that somebody woulda took if it would ve been a robbery. reporter: as the csi s took their photos and estimated bullet trajectories, gathered blood, dna, brandy s mom, sister, and fiancee watched on in blank horror. w
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?