investigators contact bila and he agrees to an informal meeting on the way home from work. and detective wignasski s car in a wendy s parking lot. he was jovial, no issues or nothing like that. it s really not interrogation of i mean, the guy, he s free to leave, he could tell me to f.o. he doesn t have to answer anything. it s basically just a chitchat question and answer session. then i said, i m investigating the murder of breanna denison. he automatically, instead of having the eye to eye contact, he would look out that window. it was pretty chilly out, and you could see sweat beads forming on him. everything just changed, and this was the reaction we were looking for. he goes, you can call my girlfriend. she ll be my alibi. and that struck me as, what would you need an alibi for if
manipulate her emotions. what is your problem? i don t know what my problem is. when he made that comment, it was almost like an admission and he s acknowledging to her that there s just fund amount iamentg with him. how does the dna match? whose? the killer. she s pretty much asking him some of the questions that we were going to ask him during the interrogation. and he s giving her probably the same response he would give us, i don t know. they re listening right now. i don t care. huh? i don t care. let them listen. why can t you tell me you didn t do it? i ve said for a long time what i ve needed to say, and it doesn t matter. it does matter to me.
bin that for some reason catches his attention and he goes and pulls it forward and looks. the burly pipefitter already said he wants an attorney and has no interest in cooperating in their investigation. still detectives continue monitoring the suspect s unusual behavior. everything okay? when biela asks to speak to his girlfriend, police keep the cameras rolling as she joins him inside the box and begins conducting her own interrogation. it s a creative and completely legal antidote to biela s refusal to tell his story to authorities. it is a very good tool to allow a loved one in there and see how that plays out. maybe they will not, quote unquote, confess to the crime, but the totality of that entire contact could be your entire case. you get their feelings. you get the emotions. you can t get that in a
sleep. according to tyler, they accomplished the task by holding a .22-caliber bolt-action rifle at the same time. i had the right hand right here at my stomach and we did it. narrator: tyler would later contend the story is false and kristi is the real killer. he concocted the story because he believes there will be leniency for his sister if he shares the blame. we ll get your mom. narrator: as the interrogation ends, tyler expects to return home with his mother. instead, he s taken to a jail cell, his mind racing. why are they doing this to me? my sister said nothing would happen to me. surely she didn t do this on purpose, you know. and then finally coming to the realization that she had, in fact, done it on purpose. narrator: in order to remedy his mistake, tyler says he sends a letter to sheriff dolph bryan. four days after the confession,
investigators contact biela and he agrees to an informal meeting on the way home from work. in detective wygnanski s car in a wendy s parking lot. he was jovial, no issues or nothing like that. it s really not interrogation of i mean, the guy, he s free to leave, he could tell me to f.o. he doesn t have to answer anything. it s basically just a chitchat question and answer session. then i said, i m investigating the murder of brianna denison. he automatically, instead of having the eye to eye contact, he would look out that window. it was pretty chilly out, and you could see sweat beads forming on him. everything just changed, and this was the reaction we were looking for. he goes, you can call my girlfriend. she ll be my alibi.