to try to get some kind of evidence on brenda. and there was then. there yeah. there was none there because he didn t do it. that alibi about having his helping his fiancée s appearance checked out. and his phone records revealed he was miles away from the store when amber was murdered. finally, brandon biel was cleared. did you at some point think, i m going to be charged with murder? yes, i did. the memory still fresh. had nightmares of going to jail. you know, it was hard for me to sleep. that terrible day my whole thought process was, let me get the store open because i think i screwed up. right. i screwed up. why didn t he notice they have been rocked? some stores are messier than others. maybe that meant that whoever was on the night before didn t put things away. right, that was my thought process. totally opposite of hey, there s somebody dead, or there was a robbery. brandon was 23 then. and terrified. i m just thinking, you know,
detective with the san antonio police department. it looks like a robbery gone bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office, she s dead. try to get some information, are there any witnesses? no, sir. you tell them, hold the scene down and get crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unc unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon, somebody dead in amber s store, but most people did not know who including amber s father as he headed over there. i jumped in my truck and i called a friend of mine who is a defense attorney, and i said, i need you to call anybody that you can and see what you can find out. and i was just about there and he called me and he said, well, how far are you from there. and that s when he realized, it wasn t that amber found someone dead. they found her. and my knees just buckled and