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 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 i.t. 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 kil
zanesville police, and they were seeing some patterns. 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 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 ha
what the scene would tell them. here again is dennis murphy reporter: it was may 5th, 2014. the car was at the head of the driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the drivers seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. welcome back. mike and i arrived at about investigators were confident the same time. did the scene explain itself sirius underwood was who shot to you? brandy daniels, and despite living thousands of miles away we could see the basics of what had happened. in alaska, her estranged husband reporter: their victim brandy was involved in the plot to daniels had been shot three times at close range. crime scene techs would later kill. recover three shell casings and a clip for a semi-automatic pistol. brandy s purse and phone were it was a discovery of another beside her. series of crimes that gave them we eli
they were armed robbers in blank horror. what do you remember about together. detectives surmised that their the rest of that night? sittin in in the vehicle victim must have known about behind her car. just watchin it. sirius and her husband s parts and there s your girl, gone. there s my baby and i can t in the holdups. the kaes had achieved critical do nothin about it. it was 2:00. mass. so what was the final green light for your investigators? when did they have it? went to the house. when we found that these two guys were criminal conspirators, 4:00, detectives came down to the house, said that they violent criminals in several removed her and the car. reporter: who would benefit robberies, there was our motive, and once i felt that we had the from a single mom s death? of course, the questioning turned quickly to the soon-to-be-divorced husband, the father of the little girl. brandy s mom told them about motive for sirius underwood to josh daniels. said he wa
about as far away as you could get from ohio and still be in she didn t hurt nobody. she didn t bother nobody, why did they have to kill her? the same country. josh daniels was here starting 25-year-old brandy daniels had left work and driving when she his new chapter, living in wasilla about an hour outside of anchorage with his mother and got the eerie feeling that step-father. someone was following her or keeping tabs on him from thousands of miles away were the zanesville police, and they were seeing some patterns. when he wasn t working a job in could she have been imagining the north slope oil fields, he was partying, pumping iron and chasing women. things. sadly, brandy s hunch proved to 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 be right. girlfriend wendy. she was is found slumped over in her r car shot dead before she every time that i had a made it home. but