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over. and benjamin netanyahu was hustled from the stage during an election rally. he was in a city and the israeli military says the air defense system intercepted a rocket and no one was killed. now back to date line. welcome back to dateline extra. detectives were zeroing in on two men in their brandy daniel s murder investigation. they were looking at her ex-husband josh and his buddy. there wasn t enough evidence to make an arrest yet and then the information they were about to get from a long distance phone call would be a game changer. once again, here is 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 was. cops found a 911 call brandy had made six months before her murder.
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
he claimed he didn t know brandy was killed. just calm, cool, and collected. reporter: sirius came to the sheriff s office. we ll put it in airplane mode. reporter: while the squad s phone expert examined his cell, sirius explained how he knew brandy s husband josh. we went to zane state together. okay. i worked out with him and stuff like that. reporter: he said he hardly knew brandy. i didn t, like, meet her meet her, i seen her one time. reporter: as for his pal josh up in alaska? sirius said they hadn t been in contact for a while. when was the last time, he sent you a text, he called you? i ll say about two or three weeks ago. it was not this week? i didn t talk to him this week, no. reporter: sirius said he d been with his girlfriend around the time cops believe brandy died. and went to my girlfriend s house and i kind of stayed the night there. reporter: officers returned sirius s iphone and thanked him for coming in. wendy lemon, the girlfriend
the rest of that night? sittin in in the vehicle behind her car. just watchin it. and there s your girl, gone. there s my baby and i can t do nothin about it. it was 2:00. went to the house. 4:00, detectives came down to the house, said that they removed her and the car. reporter: who would benefit 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 josh daniels. said he was a perrsonal trainer at the gym and an obsessive weighlifter. when you ran him through the computer, what d you find out about him? did he have priors? he did not. he was not on law enforcement s radar. reporter: not on law enforcement s radar, but none the less, somebody they wanted to talk to right now. but, there was a problem, a big one. there was every reason to believe he wasn t in the driveway that night but 4,300 miles away in alaska. josh had moved up there to be near his mom