Raised in foster care, Kristin and her brother only had each other. At first, he was a good brother, but as he grew, he turned into a violent criminal. After he committed the brutal murders, Kristin still struggles to understand who her brother truly is.
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00:00Why?
00:01Why?
00:02Why?
00:03Why kill Dylan?
00:04Because I don't want to leave no witnesses.
00:07I'm going to carry it out all the way that I could.
00:10And by carry it out all the way, do you mean kill them?
00:13Kill them all.
00:15It's difficult because, you know, I thought I knew who my brother was.
00:23He was my protector.
00:28He was also my friend, my best friend in my eyes.
00:36He was the best brother.
00:38Never in a million years would I have thought he would be capable of such a thing.
00:47It makes me sick to my stomach.
00:49I don't know if I should love him or if I should hate him.
00:55But it's hard, dude.
00:58He loved those kids.
01:12He loved Stephanie.
01:14Why would he do something like this?
01:19I don't know what's the truth.
01:21I would like answers.
01:23I might get the answers and I don't like what I hear.
01:30But I just want the truth.
01:33All I heard was Dylan yell and already had the knife in my hand.
01:53I just seen a shadow take off and Dylan was in the way and that's when I ended up stabbing him.
01:58As soon as I stabbed him, my dribbling went all the way up.
02:02I felt like I was being attacked and I just couldn't stop.
02:09You've been eating my head and I'm so happy.
02:11I've maintained a window to a Municipality and I just wanted to come back out.
02:13I can't stop.
02:14I can't stop.
02:16You can't stop.
02:17You can't stop.
02:18You can't stop.
02:19You can't stop.
02:20You can't stop.
02:21I just want to stop.
02:22I'm getting that kind of зан up.
02:23I can't stop.
02:24You can't stop.
02:25I don't know.
02:26I'm so stupid.
02:27How are you look at the anymore?
02:28And you can't stop.
02:30You can't stop.
02:31You can't stop.
02:32You can't stop.
02:34You can't stop.
02:35You can't stop.
02:36This is a picture of me and my brother.
02:53I would say I was probably around 11 years old.
03:01And my brother, probably around 13.
03:08We lived out in the country.
03:11We were constantly around the animals on the farm.
03:17They had llamas and stuff out in the pasture.
03:21And one of them tried to spit at me when I walked up to him.
03:26So that was fun.
03:28That was probably the happiest I saw my brother.
03:39Kristen, these are happy times, and you're crying.
03:46Yeah, because I know I'm never going to be able to feel that ever again.
03:51Brandon and I, we share the same mom, but we have different dads.
04:16We were stuck like glue to each other for a lot of the time we were in foster care.
04:27We played outdoors a lot.
04:30We would play cops and robbers, and we'd build forts and stuff.
04:36He protected me.
04:37We took care of each other.
04:39If I needed something, he was there, just to make me laugh.
04:45You know, he'd play with me and play Barbies.
04:52He's probably going to be upset I said that, but he did.
04:58He was the best brother.
04:59It only lasted for a short time.
05:09And then the rest of the memories, you know, they're not good.
05:18It was one afternoon.
05:37It was after school.
05:40My adopted family sat me down and told me they asked him to leave the house.
05:46You know, your brother's gotten into a lot of trouble.
05:50They found drugs in his bedroom.
05:54He started getting in trouble at school, getting into fights.
05:59He got kicked out of school.
06:05I don't want you to go.
06:07I was definitely surprised because it's like this is all we ever wanted was to be together,
06:23have a family, you know, that loves us.
06:27Like, why was he doing all that to ruin it for him and for me?
06:35At the house, the family who adopted me, we would always have our newspaper delivered.
06:54One morning, I walked outside the house to go grab it from the driveway just to read the cartoons on the Sunday paper.
07:06Before I could even get to the cartoons, I see my brother's name.
07:12He had been arrested for gang-related activities.
07:23Him and some people who he was with went to a guy's house and beat him up in his front yard for a day life.
07:33My brother attacking somebody, like, to the point where this person's, like, not able to get up, like, he's bloody all over.
07:49It was such a surprise to me.
07:51I've never seen my brother hurt anybody.
07:56I never saw him lay his hands on anybody.
07:59Just angry, just not knowing what was going on.
08:05I just didn't know how much and how far he was changing.
08:29He said he did not want to beat this guy up.
08:37And he said he was made to.
08:40His father forced him into a van, drove up to this guy's house.
08:47His father told him that if he wasn't going to do it, then he himself would get beat up.
08:53And, uh, he would make his father look bad.
08:59I didn't have a choice.
09:04I was real upset.
09:05I was livid, to be honest.
09:09Like, everything I knew about his father, everything that we both knew growing up about his father,
09:17it was, like, why, why would you want that kind of person around?
09:23Why, like, we're supposed to want better.
09:28I was just so disappointed.
09:32I'm sorry.
09:34He pleaded guilty.
09:36He did it.
09:37You know, he needs to take responsibility.
09:39But I really believe that there was some influence from his father or other people.
09:48And he'd always tell me, I'm so sorry.
10:10I'm so sorry I'm not the brother that you wanted.
10:18And he did.
10:21To me, those sorries, those apologies, didn't mean ****.
10:33Because he'd say sorry.
10:36And then he'd do something, get in trouble, get locked up again.
10:48This call is from a correctional facility and may be monitored and recorded.
10:52Do you remember actually any part of committing the crime?
11:00I mean, I could see the whole scene playing out, stabbing everything.
11:06All three girls and Dylan, I remember stabbing all of them.
11:11This is a photo of Brandon and Stephanie.
11:31You know, I know they loved each other a lot.
11:36Brandon and Stephanie met before he went to jail.
11:39And he told me he wrote to her.
11:41They had plans to, you know, get married once he got out and, like, have a family and all that.
11:48Brandon took her kids under, you know, under his wing.
11:58I think he just really wanted to be, you know, a father figure to those kids.
12:05Seeing how happy they are.
12:06Yeah, it definitely confuses me even more as to, you know, why it happened.
12:33Brandon was, you know, trying to get back on his feet.
12:36By, you know, getting a job.
12:39He's going to his meetings.
12:41He's doing his parole work.
12:44Like, he's doing good.
12:45Let me know when you need me to come back.
12:48I will.
12:50One day, I, you know, got a call from Brandon.
12:54And he needed a ride downtown to meet his parole officer.
13:01I picked him up.
13:02I dropped him off.
13:03And that was that.
13:08A couple days later, Brandon calls me.
13:12And he tells me, I lied to you.
13:16I didn't see my parole officer.
13:18I instead met up with my father.
13:21Of course, I was upset.
13:46For one, he lied to me.
13:47For two, he saw his father.
13:49And for three, someone had pulled a weapon out on my brother, you know.
13:55I did believe my brother, what he was telling me.
13:58Because to me, that seems possible.
14:00I told him, look, you need to go and file a report.
14:09So, we, you know, go to the police station.
14:12And I decide at that time to start filming.
14:17If you want to tell me the truth that, yes, I did try and cash these checks because I was told I was going to get some cash out of it.
14:24That you all were just trying to score some cash.
14:27And that you're on camera at all these banks trying to cash these checks.
14:30So, the logical thing was to say that you were forced to do it so you won't catch a charge.
14:35We were forced to do it.
14:37You're just pinpointing at my brother here.
14:40And he's trying to do the right thing and report the crime to you.
14:43Your mother's trying not to get a charge.
14:44No.
14:45It was so confusing what happened that day.
14:48I was like, is he guilty or what?
14:50Okay, so, come around, put your hand on your back.
14:52He's my brother.
14:56I, you know, I needed to believe him.
15:01But, you know, if my brother is anything like his father, then I guess he would be a really good liar, I guess.
15:10Just, he learned that, I would say.
15:15So, I know he's not telling us the whole truth.
15:22I take him back over to his house roughly around 9.20, 9.30 in the morning.
15:49You'll let me know if you need anything?
15:51I will.
15:53I made sure he got in safely, closed the door, and I backed up and I left.
16:00Nothing seemed out of the unordinary with him.
16:05I didn't feel any kind of shift in emotions or body language from him.
16:13Everything just seemed normal.
16:15I get a call from my friend, and she said, turn on the news.
16:31It's your brother.
16:32Okay, I'm turning it on now.
16:36The devastating sight to drive up to.
16:38All I see is my brother sitting on a gurney in the back of an ambulance.
16:45I don't remember any information being said.
16:49I just zoned out the audio.
16:52I just saw the picture in front of me, and I remember seeing blood on his clothing and his hands wrapped in bandages.
17:03I just panicked.
17:05I thought my brother got hurt.
17:07I didn't know maybe someone had attacked him.
17:10Me and my family were left in the dark.
17:15I drive all the way to the police station to talk to a detective, put a statement, whatever.
17:31And I remember exiting out of the room that they had me in, and I looked down the hallway, and I see, like, three, maybe four cops standing outside a door.
17:45Another interrogation room.
17:48And I just think to myself, okay, like, that's got to be my brother.
17:5213-year-old Dylan Moore and his mother, Stephanie Plum, were killed.
18:03Two of her other children, two girls, were also attacked and seriously wounded.
18:07Even with her throat cut and covered with blood, a 14-year-old girl was able to run next door and get help.
18:14Officers say King ran from the home, but was arrested just a few blocks away after he tried to steal a neighbor's car.
18:20According to court records, King told detectives, quote, I'm guilty.
18:34It doesn't make sense what happened, why he did what he did.
18:39But after, you know, going back and watching the news clip again of my brother being put on the gurney and in the ambulance,
18:54I really just looked at him and his facial expression at that time, and it was nothing.
19:06I mean, my brother lost himself when he killed Stephanie, when he killed Dylan.
19:17He lost his soul.
19:20That's, like, one of the biggest sins of all, you know?
19:29There's...
19:31There's no coming back from that.
19:38You can't bring him back.
19:40Even though Brandon confessed to it, I think there is something missing.
19:55I don't know what it is.
19:57I'm just going based off of, you know, what I feel.
20:02What I know is, you know, he loved Stephanie.
20:07He loved those kids.
20:08He's only ever wanted to be a dad, you know, and have a family of his own.
20:14One of my uncles, I was told, it was, um, supposed to be a burglary, but it ended up being, you know, a murder.
20:27I never asked my brother his side.
20:31I'd like to know answers.
20:34There has to be reasoning, right?
20:37Like, what is it that drove him to the state of mind he was in?
20:49To, you know, commit such a crime.
20:53You know, taking two lives.
21:00I just want the truth.
21:01What have you talked to your sister about in regards to the night of December 31st?
21:32We really ain't even really 100% talked about it.
21:35From my sister's point of view, I can see how she looks at that because she's seen how much I love the kids and also love Steph.
21:43And for the event and the stuff that happened on that day, it's a shock to everybody.
21:48I do love her because she is my sister.
21:53She is my family.
21:56It's hard to even be a big brother in this situation, but if I can give her feedback if she ever needs help, then I will.
22:04Can you tell me how you came to meet Stephanie Plum?
22:08Through my dad back in, I believe it was 2011, he just basically introduced us at a gas station and just started connecting from there, getting to know each other.
22:21She had a couple kids already.
22:23We started dating and stuff like that.
22:27We talked about maybe down the road, maybe getting married and stuff.
22:30When he woke up, we started talking about breakfast and what we're going to do for the day.
22:50I went to the back with Dylan because that's where we keep the freezers back there.
22:55There's a knife that we use to chisel the food and stuff off the ice because it freezes pretty good.
23:00So when we were in there, there's a shadow.
23:05I can't remember.
23:06I'm going to be honest.
23:07I still don't remember who it was.
23:09It happened so fast.
23:11And all I hear is a yell.
23:13I grabbed a knife.
23:14All I heard was Dylan yell.
23:16And when I heard Dylan yell, I'm wondering in my head why he yelled.
23:19And I already had the knife in my hand.
23:22And I just seen the shadow.
23:23So I went towards the shadow.
23:25And Dylan got in the way.
23:27And that's when the knife went inside Dylan.
23:30And as soon as that did, it was like, in my head, it was like, holy crap.
23:35But at the same time, I started feeling like I was being attacked.
23:37My adrenaline just went all the way up.
23:40Can you tell me who are you being attacked by?
23:43No.
23:49All I remember is seeing her move into the living room.
24:05I know she kept saying, Brandon, stop.
24:08Brandon, stop.
24:08And when she said that, it registered within my head.
24:15But at the same time, it really didn't register because I still felt like I was being attacked.
24:20And that's when I started going after her.
24:23Where did you stab Stephanie?
24:26Multiple places, just like I said, in my discovery.
24:29I remember it said face, arms, chest, and stuff like that.
24:35Did she know that the person that she loved the most was stabbing her and her children?
24:41I don't remember seeing any emotion or anything.
24:44She's wondering probably in her head, why is this happening?
24:48I mean, I feel like that's the main question.
24:50Everyone's trying to understand why.
24:52I've asked myself that question.
24:54I'm still asking myself that question.
24:59So a couple of days before this happened on December 31st, you had a fight.
25:13Yeah, a nice little argument that ended up making where her mom wanted me to go leave the house for that night.
25:21And I basically just slept outside and they had me come back the next day.
25:29Let me ask you a question about the fight that you and Stephanie had.
25:32Was there something that happened that we don't know about that made you angry?
25:39That set any of this in motion?
25:42Nothing set this in motion.
25:44But when I came back, they basically welcomed me back and just, we talked about everything, the situation that happened that night and just moved on because it was Christmas coming up.
25:54Was there an issue in the relationship?
25:58Was she going to break up with you?
26:03There was nothing like that.
26:04We were doing good.
26:08Why did this whole thing need to happen?
26:10I don't know.
26:10It just felt like I was being attacked.
26:12But I wasn't physically being attacked by anybody.
26:15So you acknowledged that nobody was actually attacking you?
26:18Yes.
26:18Tell me about the shadow, Brandon.
26:21Who did you see?
26:22I honestly still don't remember.
26:24As soon as I heard Dylan yell, I just seen a shadow take off and I seen basically the back of the person run out the side door.
26:33I was there, but I wasn't there.
26:35I was seeing black, but I was also seeing people around me.
26:38It was like everything was happening so fast.
26:42Closure is very important to me.
26:56That is why I'm doing this.
26:59You don't know what you're going to find out.
27:05It's a scary thought.
27:06Are you ready?
27:14Yeah.
27:16Not really, but I need to answer, so.
27:24All I heard was Dylan yell.
27:27And when I heard Dylan yell, I'm wondering in my head why he yell.
27:31And I already had the knife in my hand.
27:33And I just seen the shadow.
27:34So I went towards the shadow and Dylan got in the way.
27:37And that's when the knife went inside Dylan.
27:43I just seen the shadow take off.
27:45And I seen basically the back of the person run out the side door.
27:49I started feeling like I was being attacked.
27:50My adrenaline just went all the way up.
27:52I just started going through the house looking for people.
27:54Now he stated that he saw a shadow figure run out the back door.
28:05And Dylan screamed.
28:11And he, what, brushed into him with a knife and hurt him.
28:17And then his adrenaline took over.
28:21And then, what, he just started attacking Dylan because of a shadow.
28:26I don't, I don't, it, it, it, it doesn't make sense to me.
28:34I know it's hard to think about, um, but what did you do to Dylan?
28:52Pulled a knife on him and just started stabbing him.
28:57Okay.
28:58Where'd you stab him at?
28:59I don't know, everywhere.
29:00And then I heard a noise.
29:07I remember doing something to a...
29:10And then where'd you go after a living room?
29:18The living room.
29:19Okay.
29:20And who was in the living room?
29:21She died with an...
29:22She looked at me and told me to stop.
29:27How'd you react to her telling you to stop?
29:29I went after her.
29:30Okay.
29:31And what'd you do to her?
29:33That's what you do, multiple times.
29:46You don't bring up a shadow to the detectives.
29:49I mean, that information would seem pretty important to include.
29:56But I never mentioned anybody else.
29:58That wasn't in my mindset at the time being that, oh, here's a shadow here.
30:02I didn't, I wanted the interview to end.
30:04And, you know, I physically took lives.
30:08You're willing to sacrifice your freedom just to end the interview?
30:12No.
30:13Well, essentially, by not mentioning the key, you know, the shadow and the noise, and that's
30:20what happened.
30:20It goes back to the fact that I did see a shadow that day.
30:26Maybe that was my dad that I seen.
30:30But I never physically seen him, like, face in the house.
30:33Are you really telling us that there was somebody that caused this, that put this in motion, and
30:43it wasn't you?
30:43I would basically say that, yes.
30:56So now there's, um, so now he's saying that his dad was there?
31:04But that, that still, that still doesn't make any sense.
31:08Like, that doesn't make any sense.
31:25You know, I wanted so badly to believe that.
31:33Yeah.
31:33That he, you know, wasn't the only one, or that he didn't do it, or, you know, he blacked
31:45out.
31:45I don't know, you know.
31:55Detective Sweet interviewed Brandon's father.
32:01Mm-hmm.
32:01There was not enough evidence to prove that he was involved in this crime.
32:08My brother committed the crime.
32:13They caught him.
32:15You know, blood on his clothing.
32:19Murder weapon with his prints on it.
32:23He pleaded guilty.
32:25He did it.
32:25So, can you tell me what happened today?
32:37I'm facing a new case.
32:40I'm not already thinking I'm going to get there.
32:42We're trying to persist until I was going to go to prison.
32:45What was the new charge you were facing?
32:48Ordering.
32:48So, I did have a forgery charge at that time being that was pending.
32:59My uncle was having some problems, and my uncle was on the run.
33:03I told him that Steph's mom was in the hospital.
33:07There's $800 inside the dresser drawer, and that there's a van here.
33:12I told the detectives that I planned on running and just going ahead with my dad and my uncle and taking the van and the money.
33:19I don't think anybody wants to hear that, you know, their sibling, you know, did such a heinous crime.
33:38I don't think anybody would, you know, want that to become their reality.
33:43Why would, why would you commit such a heinous crime?
33:53Because you're looking at a forgery charge that is, like, so small and equivalent to, you know, a murder.
34:06Like, why?
34:13The crime that started that was going to be planned was the car and the money to make it look like there was a burglary.
34:24There was no intent on taking anybody's life.
34:28You had told police that your intention was to kill everybody.
34:35Yeah.
34:36Explain that to me, and why.
34:37I just felt like at that time when I was having the interview that I just lost everything, that I just gave up.
34:48I just basically said, hey, I planned, I just wanted to kill everybody.
34:52I don't know, it was just a comment that I made out of the blue.
34:57Because I've emotionally just lost people that I loved and cared about and not knowing what's going on with them and stuff like that.
35:06But obviously, you know, you didn't lose them to somebody else, right?
35:12You took their lives.
35:13Yeah.
35:14I know it's hard to think about, but what did you do to Dylan?
35:34How did you react to her telling you to stop?
36:00I went after her.
36:01Okay.
36:02And what did you do to her?
36:03Same thing, multiple times.
36:06What happened?
36:06I don't know what things you got in the way, and I just started swinging at her.
36:11I don't know.
36:12Do you remember hitting her?
36:14I might have.
36:15Okay.
36:23It makes me sick to my stomach.
36:25I've never thought I would ever hear those words come out of his mouth.
36:34When he said that, it kind of opened my eyes to seeing exactly and how evil he really is.
36:53And I feel stupid for not seeing it, for wanting to have hope that it wasn't true.
37:08He was being told to stop, you know, by Stephanie, by the girls, and he wouldn't stop.
37:21He had to have known.
37:22If he's comprehending, you know, people telling him to stop, which I've never heard that until today, in my honest opinion, he knew what he was doing.
37:40He just didn't care to stop, didn't, didn't stop.
37:52Everything may not be exactly the answers I was looking for, hoping for.
37:59I at least got more insight than I had before.
38:05It doesn't make it any easier.
38:07But it does, uh, give a sense of relief.
38:22They say the eyes are the, you know, window to the soul.
38:27His eyes are not the same.
38:33Figuratively, that's my brother.
38:35But looking at that person, that's, that's not my brother.
38:50I lost my brother a long time ago.
38:53I lost my brother.
39:16I lost my grandmother.
39:17I lost my brother a long time ago.
39:19I know my brother did it he's you know he's guilty it was easier for me to
39:29believe the version that involved my brother and his father then you know
39:36then the other version that I thought it was just my brother thank you Brandon
39:43you're welcome
39:49the punishment that my brother received is is definitely punishment um and uh
40:00how are you feeling I'm good seem a little emotional a little bit I'll
40:07probably end up going back to this thing thinking about this thing how he
40:10run it down why crying it's emotional oh thank you
40:19he's never gonna get out of prison he's gonna live each and every day remembering what he did
40:34to Stephanie and those kids and that's punishment enough the death penalty would
40:44have been too easy he has to live with this and it's really hard to say but
40:51that's justice for that family
40:58that's what they need
41:03kind of shocking to hear that my papa killed somebody
41:17I was like a jack-o-and-hide I went into another mind frame from breaking somebody's leg to
41:23shooting somebody killing somebody how many times have you done that
41:28you