detectives put her fiance craig thru the wringer. 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.
trial judge accepted sirius underwood s alford plea. sirius was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 38 years. a sentence he s appealing. josh daniels got life with the possibility of parole after 28 years. not enough time for some of brandy s loved ones. reporter: so where do we stand now? they ve they ve both been dealt with? yeah, i guess. reporter: your opinion, do you think they both got off easy? yes, they did. they re still breathin , she s not. reporter: josh and sirius are serving their sentences in separate maximum security prisons. wendy writes and sometimes visits sirius. brandy s parents are raising her daughter. the family is left with a snapshot album itself getting older but the young woman pictured in the pages inside staying the same, never to have her own album of her daughter graduating, getting married. time ran out for brandy on a dark hilltop before she could kiss her daughter goodnight. reporter: that s all for this edition of dat
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
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i m willing to talk to you to get your side of the story if you re willing to talk to me. i think you re a good investigator but i m going to have an attorney. okay. we re gonna do that. that s fine, josh. reporter: meanwhile, back in zanesville, police surrounded sirius underwood s car and arrested him. his interrogation didn t last long. you know why you re here? tell me. okay, we ve had a grand jury, and you ve been indicted. for what? aggravated murder, aggravated robberies, attempted robberies, weapon under disability, tampering with evidence, josh daniels was also arrested, and if josh is up there talking, i think it s the proper thing to tell you that you have the opportunity to tell me too. would you like to talk to me about this? no, i want a lawyer. you want a lawyer? yeah. okay. reporter: josh waved extradition, and was brought back to ohio. brandy s mother got word at the end of her shift. i get a phone call, you need to get down here now.