he d been violent with her in the past. 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 investigators 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
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tuesday. while the president will not be represented by wednesday, the white house did not rule out participating in future hearings. in the northeast, the first snowfall, the winter storm moved into the region. some areas of upstate new york, new england, expect more than a foot of snow overnight into monday. now book to dateline. [ music playing ] welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. detectives were zeroing in on two men in the brandy daniels murder investigation. her ex-husband and sirius underwood. there was not enough evidence just yet then a long distance phone call came in and the investigation they were about to get would be a game changer. once again, here s dennis murphy. reporter: investigators were pretty sure they had the right guys for brandy daniels murder. they d learned a lot about just how awful her marriage to josh
did it. reporter: the state s attorney signed off, and the 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 . grande 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
dollop of luck had revealed that josh and sirius were more than gym buds spotting each other reps, they were armed robbers together. detectives surmised that brandy, their victim, must have known about sirius, and her husband s part in the holdups. 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.