emergency vehicles, officers, and that s as far as i can go. there is my baby and i can t do nothing about it. she was a hardworking, young wife and mom. sweetest gurley can ever asked to meet. just minutes from home when she saw the headlights. somebody was telling her. my sister is in my driveway. and her heads bloody. so you bear your little girl and then it s a murder investigation? yes. there were two people brandi feared, one town. she thought she was being followed. one thousands of miles away. josh was still in alaska. then, there was the new man in her life. anybody close to brandi needed to take a hard serious look at. no fingerprints, no dna, and no arrests for years. you are grieving. how do you pull all of that together. day-by-day. the handsome urge of someone s dark past. you have robberies going on, a homicide. and one brave woman willing to talk. he called me, the same that happened to brandi will happen to me. the q
hello, and welcome to dateline . imagine driving on the dark isolated road, then suddenly, there s a car behind you. it gets closer, and closer, to close for comfort. it s someone tailing you, or is your imagination in overdrive? for brandy daniels, her mind was not playing tricks. someone was stalking her. and then, the single mother was found slumped over in her passenger seat, shot dead. investigators would spend years navigating the twists and turns, searching for her killer. here is dennis murphy with out there in the dark . it was a chillier than usual mckee night in may 2014, as brandi daniels drove home from her shift at kolh s. zanesville, ohio is the kind of not to be, not a small city where you can be off the downtown grid and the wooded rolling hills in just a few minutes. out there in the dark, that s
he s a person of interest until he s not, i m guessing? at that point, anybody close to brandy, we need to take a hard, serious look at. within hours of brandy s death, craig got the third degree. they re asking you hard questions? where where have you been, where what were you doing? they thought you were a suspect. oh yes. until you are in, it and they re grilling you. they asked for myself, and i handed. their holiday? last i got home at 5:30 that morning. then the legwork of the investigation began in earnest. starting with where she was last seen alive. so you re talking to your victims coworkers. what s the picture coming together there? they all described brandy as a very good young lady. devoted mother, in a marriage that she really wanted to get out of. patrol officers traced the route from kolh s to the murder scene, hoping they find these security camera. there s a guy right on her bumper, but the image doesn t show up anywhere, right?