josh daniels had to admit what he had done, provide what lawyers call a proffer. he was brought to a conference room at the prosecutor s office. when is the first time that this idea came about? when was the first time that this idea came about? i ve known sirius underwood for a while we were havin a conversation one day at at his apartment. and i was tellin him about, how hard this was on me me and brandy splittin up. how pissed off i was that that she was seein that guy, craig. and he made the comment, well, [ bleep ] that [ bleep ]. let s just off her. and, you know at the time, bein emotional and mad, you know, i i made the decision that maybe that wouldn t be a bad idea. reporter: josh helped him stalk his wife. sirius asked me where she lived. and i told him.
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 the homicide. reporter: interesting because earlier in the day he claimed he didn t know brandy was murdered. question was sirius the gunman in brandy s driveway? he seemed to be no more than a casual friend of josh s from the gym, but when the it guys cracked josh daniels phone use history it told a different story. what had he deleted? a lot of text messages. to whom? sirius underwood. sirius underwood was, by far, the one he was in contact the most. what s your thinking? when we first talked to josh he never mentioned sirius underwood. why would they be lyin to us about that? reporter: why indeed? the story told by the phones the concealed relationship fed a growing theory of the crime they were looking at a long distance killing between ohio and alaska. if that was their case, then technology was going to be as valuable to th
but he was thousands of m miles away that s correct. in alaska at the time of the killing. we knew he didn t pull the trigger. couldn t put the gun in his hand. when we came up with with sirius underwood. well, the most obvious is there s been some sort of a payment. we spent about a year lookin through bank accounts couldn t find any. reporter: almost two years went by and nothing. how do you put all that awful time together, molly? day by day. are you startin to lose faith in your police? the investigation. it was stressful. mike ryan, he would call. i said, have you heard anything? oh, we still have to get some more - more evidence, more evidence. reporter: but it s funny how things sometime work out, because the investgators were about to get another bolt out of 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.
when he wasn t working a job in the north slope oil fields, he was partying, pumping iron and chasing women. back in zanesville, meanwhile, the cops kept the pressure up on the person they did have in their zip code, sirius underwood. the detectives were all over his girlfriend wendy. every time that i had a little spat or whatever i was frustrated or disgusted with sirius/they would always show up, again, just wondered if maybe you remembered something. trying to find you at a vulnerable moment yes, yes and like, i ve already told you every single thing, and it s never going to change. if you don t lie, you don t have to cover a lie. reporter: brandy s mother was losing faith in cops ever making an arrest in the case of her daughter s brutal murder. 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. c
you re going to have multiple snitches who are all going to be testifying, who all have their own issues. reporter: the grand jury sat for three months and heard more than 100 witnesses. in march 2016, it returned indictments against josh daniels and sirius underwood. at the request of authorities in ohio, the alaska state troopers located josh at his mother s home in wasilla. once ohio gave the green light to the troopers move on their suspect, they did. the cuffs went on without incident. a bulked up josh was put in the backseat of a cruiser and driven downtown. detective michel confronted him you been charged with several counts, including the robberies that occurred at gabriel brothers, tumbleweed, the one that you were going to do at campbell s, and the murder of your soon-to-be ex-wife, brandy. reporter: josh was shown a graphic crime scene photo of poor brandy. this is what you are responsible for. this is what happened to your ex