i just want to let you know, you re not under arrest, okay? reporter: detective ryan asked about the night of the murder. he used wendy s texts with sirius to refresh her memory. could you put it here so we both could see? oh, yeah. may 5th. reporter: did wendy s texts that night fit in the timeline they were building of brandy s murder? and did they speak to sirius whereabouts? at 11 o clock, when you type these, you were sure he was not in the house at 11:00? at 11:00, he was not at your how? he was not in my house then. reporter: sirius arrived, wendy said, after that 11:00 text. sirius had given the cops wendy as his alibi and she d inadvertently only made him someone detectives needed to take a closer look it. there s a window of opportunity in there in which he could easily have done this crime? yes. reporter: and there was another thing. the squad s phone expert filled them in about some internet searches he d found on sirius s device. sirius had opened
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.
furniture. he kicked in my car. somebody saw him at starbucks spit in my face on my way to work. but things clearly changed after that. remember, they were all lovey-dovey and paul was even talking marriage the night before the fire. and now here he was not more than a year later on trial for her murder, listening to the prosecutor take the jury inside the last days of paul s relationship with jennifer. how did gillingham do that? jennifer s cell phone. detectives discovered and this was rather curious that most of her text message history had been deleted. but law enforcement has changed a lot. it s had to, to keep up with high tech. the palo alto cops managed to find a phone expert all the way across the country in new hampshire who had a very deep look into that cell phone and was able to pull up thousands, literally thousands of deleted text messages between jennifer and paul in the last few months of her life. and, oh, boy.
reporter: detective ryan asked about the night of the murder. he used wendy s texts with sirius to refresh her memory. could you put it here so we both could see? oh, yeah. may 5th. reporter: did wendy s texts that night fit in the timeline they were building of brandy s murder? and did they speak to sirius whereabouts? at 11 o clock, when you type these you were sure he was not in the house at 11:00? at eleven o clock, he was not at your house. he was not in my house then. reporter: sirius arrived, wendy said, after that eleven o clock text. sirius had given the cops wendy as his alibi and she d inadvertently only made him someone detectives needed to take a closer look it. there s a window of opportunity in there in which he could easily have done this crime. yes. reporter: and there was another thing, the squad s phone expert filled them in about some internet searches he d found on sirius s device. sirius had opened every news article that had to do with th
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