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00:00Oh, have mercy.
00:12Ooh, wee, Lord.
00:14The deadly Thanksgiving fire is classified as a homicide.
00:18The light of fluid was placed into his mouth, and he burned to death.
00:23I've never witnessed something so horrific before.
00:27I ain't got time for these lies, okay?
00:29You think I'm posting damn gas on this night?
00:31Do you want to rule out everything before you charge a personal?
00:35You need to start getting your story straight, and you need to be straight right now.
00:38You're just trying to get me out of here so you can move that bitch in here.
00:40If you get charged with half the murder, they would have killed you.
00:43She is evil, hateful, and lowdown, all of the above.
00:53Every suspect accused of a crime has the right to remain silent.
00:57Many agree to be interrogated anyway, but they can stop the interview at any moment, making
01:03it a race against time.
01:07Justice hangs in the balance.
01:09Oh, I have mercy.
01:21Ooh, wee, Lord.
01:25It was Thanksgiving Day.
01:27I remember vocaling in my son in his car seat, and next thing we know, that house right across
01:33the street from us is smoking a whole lot, so I would immediately call 9-1-1.
01:40Yeah.
01:42We arrived at the fire scene within minutes of 9-1-1 call.
01:47I witnessed two windows that had been breached, smoke coming out of them, smoke coming from
01:53the roof.
01:54The fire has got some air, it's really burning, and we got our work cut out for us.
01:59My family, they come outside, and I remember hearing that somebody was indeed in the house.
02:06So at this point, a harsh drive.
02:08The most important thing is to get the victims out.
02:12We looked for a point of entry into the house, which on this house was going to obviously
02:15be the front door.
02:17They went in searching for the victim, trying to search thoroughly each room and bedroom for
02:21occupants.
02:22They searched the house until they made it to a bedroom.
02:26They found the victim in the bed.
02:29He was in the room with the fire was breaching out of the windows.
02:31He was within 10 feet of those windows.
02:33The bed was heavily consumed with fire.
02:38It was clear that he had passed away.
02:47Me being from West Point, I just knew William Brownlee to be a respectful person.
02:53He was a church-going guy.
02:54He was 62 years of age.
02:56He had multiple sclerosis.
02:58William Brownlee Sr., he lived there with his daughter-in-law, Latoya.
03:03And his son, William Brownlee Jr.
03:06William Brownlee Sr. was bedridden and they both were taking care of him because of some
03:11health issues he had going on at the time.
03:14I just hated that fact that, hey, there was somebody that was in the house.
03:18That was a very difficult moment and it was horrific.
03:22I had never smelled someone burning.
03:32It is an indescribable smell.
03:34Like, you just couldn't even imagine.
03:37He was bedridden.
03:38He didn't even have a chance to get up or try to escape the room.
03:42He was just there to suffer.
03:44My gut was telling me something's really, really strange here.
03:48The fire was almost completely in William Sr.'s bedroom.
03:52The rest of the house was just heavily smoke-damaged.
03:54From the bed to where Mr. Brownlee lay and the wall right above his head, all of it was heavily
04:03burned, way worse from how it was on the other side of the room.
04:08And then I saw where the outlet, it was very heavily burned.
04:14That seems very suspicious because it was a very new house.
04:18It was built two years before prior.
04:20They're built with modern wiring.
04:23And it really caused the damage that it did.
04:25Electrical fire just alone would not make this fire angry like it did.
04:31You definitely want to get down to the bottom of what went wrong for this fire to become
04:37fully engulfed in this one particular room.
04:40I remember going to the back porch of the home.
04:43There where I found a lot of fluid bottle.
04:47And I took it into evidence.
04:49I believe the fire chief, he was pretty much confident that something went wrong in that
04:53room.
04:54He believed something was started for that fire to get so hot in certain areas that he
04:59wanted to go ahead and call the state fire marshal.
05:07Latoya, she showed up in her vehicle.
05:10She gets out of her car.
05:11She's crying.
05:12She's hysterical.
05:14What we learned from the initial contact with Ms. Latoya Brownlee was she had been visiting
05:19family for Thanksgiving before this incident took place.
05:23Then she left and went shopping with her auntie, Ms. Virgie Gardner.
05:27And that's when she got the call that the house was on fire.
05:30So she came back to the home.
05:37With it being Thanksgiving Day, you would think that everybody would have been together.
05:43And that left me wondering in my mind, okay, something else is going on here.
05:48It was almost like you just knew, like, something just wasn't right.
05:53Biggest question was if this fire was actually intentionally set.
06:13And the next question was, if it was, why?
06:16If you give me a run down yesterday and what all took place?
06:21All my brothers met at my house and after that, we was going to my mom's house in Pontotoc in order to have Thanksgiving dinner.
06:30So my wife left home first before I did.
06:33She went to dinner in Yuna over her family's house.
06:36So I got a call about 426 is when I actually got the call that my house was fully engulfed in flames.
06:45Who gave you the call?
06:47Tony Harris.
06:48He asked me where I was and told me I needed to get to my house as soon as possible.
06:52And my house was on fire.
06:54But did your wife ever call you at any time?
06:56No.
06:57Can you state your wife's name for the record?
06:59Latouria Jenea Brownway.
07:01How long y'all been married?
07:0318 years.
07:04Actually, y'all was filing for divorce next week.
07:07Did she know about this?
07:09Yes.
07:09I had an eviction notice for her.
07:12Right.
07:12Still in the same room.
07:13Right.
07:13I moved on with my life and started, you know, seeing someone else.
07:16And she is pregnant.
07:18I said now by the time the child is born, yes, my child will be living on the same roof as me.
07:22The fact that now she was being evicted from the house by him and there would be an eviction hearing to have her removed from the house.
07:30Very important piece in this investigation.
07:32So, uh, it went without a problem and stuff started occurring.
07:37It's been occurring for many, many, many years.
07:39She tried to actually burn the house down three years ago.
07:43And on one, I stayed in Laker Road.
07:46I had a trailer there.
07:47I found burn marks on the wall on the sheetrock.
07:50I learned before living with Mr. Brownlee Senior, Junior Brownlee, his wife, Latoya, they stayed in an old trailer.
08:01Junior Brownlee claims she tried to burn the outlet to start a fire.
08:05He said she used a plant to put it by an electrical outlet and light it up.
08:10But she said that she didn't.
08:12I didn't actually call the police.
08:14I would go in my grave believing that she done that.
08:18Mm-hmm.
08:20Did her and your dad get along pretty well?
08:23I mean, yes.
08:24Yeah, she used to.
08:25But, I mean, since we've been going through our problems, she'll do anything to hurt me.
08:30Mm-hmm.
08:30So, by hurting him, when she knows it hurts me.
08:33If she got that angry before to try to start a house fire, she could have possibly got angry again to do the same.
08:40Your dad was on in that house?
08:42Yes, my dad was on.
08:43Your dad was?
08:44My dad was on.
08:46Nine to ten or something, what's going to happen to your dad?
08:49You was going to get the house.
08:50I was going to get the house.
08:51We are going to go over here to the house.
08:54If I'm watching, you're going to be able to tell us where the fire started at?
08:58You're going to do that today?
08:59Hopefully.
09:00Should, hopefully.
09:07The deputy fire marshal's ruled out that it was any kind of electrical problems with the home.
09:12He basically told me that the fire was started by somewhere.
09:18After going through the scene and examining like he did, he was also adamant that that fire started in that room.
09:25Now we have an intentional fire, and this is a murder investigation.
09:29So now we have a suspect that we need to find.
09:32We began to look into the insurance claim.
09:37It went even over the $20,000 policy.
09:39I didn't see enough there for that to be a motive coming from William Brownlee Jr.
09:46But on Latoya's hand, I looked at the fact of, you got this divorce situation.
09:54Pretty sure she was very upset.
09:57At that moment, she most definitely was a suspect for me.
10:01I have Miss Burgi Garner.
10:16Garner, yes.
10:17You're going to run out of how you and Janine's came in contact yesterday.
10:20We had Thanksgiving dinner, and after the dinner, we left coming to West Point to go to Wal-Mart.
10:30Right.
10:32But when we got in West Point, she said, take me by the house to drop off this food.
10:39We went to buy the house.
10:41This should have been like, what, around four?
10:45And she got out, went in, and she came back out less than five minutes, and we went to Wal-Mart.
10:55As soon as we got to Wal-Mart, she got a call saying, smoke coming out of your house.
11:02And I'm all upset now.
11:05I said, well, is your father-in-law in the house?
11:08She said, yes.
11:09So I really got nervous then.
11:10And then I could see smoke from Wal-Mart parking lot in the air.
11:14Right.
11:14We just left the house.
11:16The store that she went to was not even a mile if that from the actual home.
11:22She left a 405 cell phone video that shows the fire fully engulfed at 409.
11:28That definitely raises suspicion about what took place at that house.
11:33A house fire does not go from zero to that in that time frame, naturally.
11:38A gas leak would have more of an explosion-type situation.
11:41There's not a real natural cause that's going to allow it to burn that fast, that quick.
11:47Based on what you're telling me, y'all left from the residence around 405.
11:53Now, a person called 9-1 at 14 saying the house was in flames.
11:58And I got a video showing her the house in flames at that time.
12:01That room was burning before she left.
12:03Really?
12:03She had to sit there and find them.
12:09They're going through this divorce.
12:11And I told her just last week, I said, Tara, I said, don't do nothing stupid.
12:15She said, yeah, because I was going.
12:17I thought about going there and putting a knife in them.
12:21So if I was asked, do I think she came forward doing this?
12:28I would say yes.
12:29She is evil, hateful, and lowdown.
12:34All of the above.
12:45The Brownlee family, they live directly across the street from my family.
12:50I've never witnessed something so horrific before.
12:54This is a small community, and the love of each other and the respect of each other pull us together.
13:04You hate to see a community hurt.
13:06You hate to see the families hurt.
13:09My heart just hit me because I just hated that fact that, hey, there was somebody that was in the house.
13:16Oh, I have mercy.
13:17So after she went to the house and came back out to go to Walmart, what did she say?
13:38She was talking about him, and when you see him, you just go ahead and tell him he's wrong for what he's doing.
13:45Leave that on you.
13:46I said, you just do what's right.
13:49If an uncle or auntie say something about their niece or nephew, you could take it to the bank and cash it.
13:56The missing situations can cause people to do some crazy things because, you know, hurt people hurt people.
14:02At that point, I was pretty much sold on it being hurt, but I still had to prove it.
14:09I had to get more than just word of mouth.
14:17So I received a video that was on Facebook Live at the time that the fire started.
14:23At 411, Latoya makes a post on Facebook about the Black Friday sale.
14:37You look at the time span, and it was very odd to me.
14:41I think she made that post to try to create an alibi or try to, you know, just say, hey, I didn't set a house on fire.
14:53Everything's pointing to her.
15:23You know, this house was set on fire.
15:27The situation going on between her and her husband, she's the only one that went in the house.
15:33Now is the time we've got to get her to break and tell us the truth.
15:38As of right now, just tell me your thoughts.
15:41Just let me know what's going on.
15:42I hate it happen, and I love my father-in-law.
15:45I hate it happen, and I just want to know what this stemmed from, what started this fire.
15:52All right, you left you on Thursday around what time again?
15:57Stay around 3.20, 3.30.
15:59You left around 3.20, 3.30.
16:02What time you make it to town?
16:073.55.
16:09All right, and when you got to town, would you, before you left you on it, would you head at home or would you head at the Walmart?
16:16Head at the Walmart.
16:18All right, what made you go by the house?
16:20They take my plate, and I had to use the bathroom.
16:22And then I got in the house, took my plate to the kitchen, went to the bedroom to see him.
16:28He was in the bedroom.
16:29Then I was headed out, and then he asked for a piece of candy, and I gave it to him.
16:34And he said, I smell some smoke.
16:35I said, I smell some, too.
16:37And I looked in the chitler room, and I ain't seen nothing burning or no smoke.
16:41And I went to the kitchen, make sure that went on the eye, and I didn't see anything.
16:44And I came again, and I said, I don't know what it is.
16:46And that was it, and I left.
16:47You actually smell smoke in the home, and you still left?
16:55Common sense would have been like, I need to call somebody.
16:58I need to get somebody over here and see what's going on.
17:02It didn't sit well with me during that interview with her.
17:06How long was you at Walmart?
17:08We was there in no time.
17:12We pulled her in the parking lot, and we was in the park, and we pulled her back out.
17:16Mm-hmm.
17:18What was the reason for it?
17:20Somebody called.
17:21Did they call on Facebook or on your phone?
17:23Facebook.
17:24It should still be on Facebook.
17:26I ain't got time to take a look and see.
17:34She called you at 4-11.
17:36Okay.
17:37Y'all stayed on the phone about a minute and three seconds, right?
17:40I guess.
17:42Okay.
17:43What was the reason for it?
17:43Uh, was you on Facebook around that time?
17:48Was it on Facebook?
17:49Mm-hmm.
17:50I don't know.
17:51I don't know.
17:51I was at Walmart, so I'm not.
17:54You are aware that there's a Facebook post on your page that was made at 4-11,
17:58instead of using Walmart parking lot.
18:01Okay.
18:02Yeah, I guess.
18:05You remember that?
18:06I can't remember the post, but...
18:11You don't remember making that post?
18:14I don't remember.
18:18You can remember what you did inside the house for over five minutes, but all of a sudden,
18:22now you don't remember.
18:23I think she kind of felt like we was closing in on her.
18:27I had to go in a little harder.
18:32From what I'm looking at, and from what the fire marshal report is saying,
18:37either you wasn't at home at 4 o'clock, or you was there when the fire started.
18:42Well, I wasn't there when the fire started, because I don't think I...
18:44Did you go in the room?
18:45I went in his bedroom.
18:46All right.
18:47Did you go in the bedroom when you first got to the house, or was it right before you left?
18:50I went in the kitchen, then I went to his bedroom.
18:52Mm-hmm.
18:53Then we talked, and he wanted...
18:54Hadn't you used the bathroom yet, like you said?
18:56No, I hadn't used the bathroom.
18:58But you told me you went to the bathroom.
19:01That's the reason why I said you went to the bathroom.
19:03You never said you didn't use the bathroom.
19:04I didn't use it.
19:05I didn't use it.
19:07So you lied to me, like you used the bathroom?
19:09Well, I went to the bathroom, and I didn't have to go.
19:13So I didn't go.
19:14But I did.
19:15But I did.
19:15Listen.
19:17You need to start getting your store straight, and you need to be straight right now.
19:19Okay, on this one.
19:20Because I ain't got time for these lies, okay?
19:30I went to the bathroom, and I didn't go.
19:34And I left out there.
19:35I went back to his room.
19:38About how long was you in the house?
19:40About five minutes.
19:41I did not see no fire, no smoke, no nothing.
19:46So you're not going to make me say that.
19:48I did not see that, but I smelled it.
19:51I smelled it in the utility room, right up in the area, or the utility room in the bedroom.
19:55I smelled it.
19:55I smelled it.
19:56Okay, we get that.
19:58We get that.
19:58We get that.
20:00The thing over there is, you still left.
20:02I did.
20:03I did.
20:04Even though you smell smoke, or whatever.
20:07I thought it wasn't nothing, because I ain't seen nothing.
20:09I did.
20:10I left.
20:13She continued to stick with her story over and over again.
20:16I'm still seeing the crime scene.
20:18I'm still seeing the remains of Mr. Brownlee.
20:20I'm still seeing how hot this room got.
20:23I'm on confessions.
20:25You still want to see if you can get her to go ahead and break.
20:28And I went to the kitchen to make sure they went on sold.
20:31I feel like you was pretty upset with her.
20:33She said, you got a lot of lying going on.
20:35You better start being straight.
20:39You pretty expert in them outlets, ain't she?
20:42No, I'm not.
20:44You ever fooled around one boy?
20:46No, I did not.
20:47You haven't?
20:47I haven't.
20:49Never?
20:49Never.
20:51Spoke with your hoodie.
20:55You told me three years ago.
20:56Back in the trailer, when y'all got into it, you were going to tamper with it.
21:01It started fire on the trailer.
21:02It was right there.
21:03I didn't mess with the outlet itself per se.
21:06It was a plant right by the outlet, and I put the plant on fire.
21:10That's what I tamper with.
21:11Oh, so I had a plant on fire.
21:12The plant right there by the outlet.
21:14That would make the thing right there, but I didn't.
21:16I'd be a fool to go in and mess with this outlet in his shop.
21:19It's crazy.
21:21That's how you said the plant on fire.
21:22It was a mattress.
21:28A plant?
21:29A real live plant?
21:30No, it was an artificial plant.
21:33And you said it was a fire with a mattress?
21:35Mm-hmm.
21:35We all had learned that Latoya Brownlee tried to set a previous house on fire because she
21:42got mad at Junior.
21:43And now, you know, the possibility of her doing this again after getting angry with her husband
21:49could be the very thing that started this fire.
21:52At that point, I was just like, all right, we're done.
22:16She didn't admit, yes, I set the house fire.
22:20But she attached herself to the timeline that we had.
22:27So after that interview, I could have arrested her, but I didn't want to do it just yet because
22:33I knew I needed more evidence for it to stick.
22:37It was just like a lemon.
22:38We was just trying to get all the juice as we, you know, we could get out of that lemon.
22:43And so that's why we opted to continue this investigation.
22:45When you, the fire was intentionally set.
22:56So you start looking for accelerants that may have been poured there.
23:00What he saw was something was poured on the glove seat, the flooring, and the bed.
23:07He had a hydrocarbon detector.
23:10The hydrocarbon detector is going to pick up a petroleum product of some type.
23:14That detected some type of petroleum product was poured.
23:18It could have been lighter fluid.
23:20It could have been gasoline.
23:21He added an interesting fact that there was also an accelerant on a outlet across the room from the bed.
23:29There was no accident at the electrical outlet.
23:33There was no faulty electrical outlet.
23:35There was an accelerant.
23:37Somebody poured liquid on the outlet, trying to make it look like the outlet had started the fire.
23:42But it doesn't go from her being in the house at 4.07, closing the door, walking out, to what you had two minutes later from a naturally occurring electrical fire in a wall.
23:52It doesn't happen.
23:53Another specific detail that he gave us that was important, that there was charring on the inside of the door of the room, but there were none on the outside.
24:02We determined that the door had been closed during the fire.
24:05And at some point in time, it was opened by my guys when they were fighting the fire.
24:12When I looked over the log, we found out there was entry at 4.02 p.m. of that day.
24:21And then there was an exit at 4.07 p.m.
24:26Latoya had already told us she went in the house alone within that time span.
24:33You got a Facebook video at 4.09 of the fire already coming out of the home.
24:39It was on a two-minute window there.
24:42No one else could have went in this house but Ms. Brownlee to start this fire.
24:48Everything's pointing to her.
24:49Even though we had all the evidence that we had, I still wanted to talk to her because I still wanted that confession from her as to why she done what she done.
25:11This is a murder investigation.
25:15Somebody lost their life.
25:17So as much as we possibly can get from her, if she was willing to talk, it's what we were going to continue to get.
25:24Fire Marshal Mike Ivey and Detective Johnson were interviewing her.
25:33Of course, Mike, he would take the lead.
25:36This is a tragedy and it's up to us to figure out what happened.
25:44And when the investigators looked at the scene yesterday, they determined that somebody purposely set the fire.
25:55So where we're at right now is to try to figure out what happened.
26:01Now, where in the bedroom where he was.
26:08The problem we've got is somebody set the fire.
26:11And we can't find anybody that was in that house other than you.
26:20I didn't set no fire.
26:38I wouldn't harm that man.
26:39I see him just like my daddy.
26:42And I wouldn't harm him at all.
26:44I ain't seen no smoke and no fire in this room.
26:47At all.
26:48Okay.
26:48Did you keep any flammable liquids in the house, like paint thinner, gasoline?
26:54He's lighted fluid and gasoline out there, but this stuff he can keep out there.
27:01Had you used any of it lately?
27:04No.
27:05Well, I don't know exactly what to tell you, but this is not going to go away.
27:15I don't want it to go away.
27:16I want her to find out what happened because an innocent man lost his life.
27:21That fire did not start because of me.
27:24After I saw that she wasn't budging, I moved closer because I wanted to establish a report with her.
27:31And I wanted to see her face.
27:35Why not?
27:36Just go ahead and lay it all out here.
27:38It was worth a shot.
27:39Are you aware that AT&T logged down the time that whenever somebody come in and whenever they leave out?
27:47They what?
27:48Are you aware that they logged down whenever the door was open?
27:52Yeah.
27:52Are you aware that nobody else entered the house in between 12, 30, and 4 o'clock?
28:00And I wasn't aware of it.
28:01And you're correct if you got home around 4.
28:05Mm-hmm.
28:06You went in and, matter of fact, 4 o'clock.
28:09Got the door closed behind you.
28:10I guess that door was in like a many-time frame.
28:13The door closed behind you at 4 o'clock.
28:14The door opens at 4 o'clock.
28:18They got you leaving out at 4 o'clock.
28:20Okay.
28:20You leave the house at 4 o'clock.
28:22Mm-hmm.
28:24You got a video recorder at 4 o'clock.
28:289 o'clock, 4 o'clock.
28:30With the house.
28:31Lays the...
28:33I'm talking about flames.
28:34I already bust through the window where the old man was laying.
28:38It was two windows right there.
28:39Your phone call that you got on Facebook, that was at 4 o'clock.
28:43You showed it to me yesterday.
28:45Mm-hmm.
28:46Okay.
28:47From 4 o'clock to 4 o'clock.
28:4911, ain't no way a fire is going to build up that much pressure
28:55in, what, four minutes to blow one out and then fire it as soon to the roof?
29:00I'm getting fed up about it because it seems like y'all harassing me.
29:04But you're not answering my question.
29:06Can you see a five-star net fast from 4 o'clock to 4 o'clock?
29:11I don't know if my fives have fives that started well.
29:14I don't know.
29:15I can't answer this.
29:16I don't know how fives five-star hold up.
29:18But I know I did not start no fire.
29:20I did not kill no innocent person, a handicapped person.
29:23I did not do that.
29:25And I will say that to the end.
29:26I did not do that.
29:28Well, and I'm going to be honest with you.
29:31Mm-hmm.
29:33We think you did.
29:34When I took him, when I gave him that candy, I was in the room with him.
29:40I didn't see no smoke.
29:41I didn't see no sign, no smoke.
29:42But I still smoked.
29:43Mm-hmm.
29:44I said, well, we'll get Junior to check in when he get here.
29:46He said, okay.
29:47All right.
29:49And you closed the door and walked out?
29:51No, I'm not close the door.
29:53I'm not close the door.
29:54You don't close the door?
29:55No.
29:56All right.
29:58Now, we got another problem.
29:59What?
30:00Because I know he didn't get out the bed and go and close the door.
30:04That door was not closed.
30:06If I was the last one there, I know I did not close that door.
30:10And I know that he did not get out the bed and walk out of that closed door.
30:13So, you ought to feel like me.
30:15There's a problem somewhere where someone closed that door.
30:18And that ought to be something you're concerned about.
30:21Who closed the door?
30:23You should also be concerned about who was in the house to set this fire.
30:27And for it to go that fast, there had to have been some kind of accelerant or something
30:31poured to make it just blaze that face.
30:35I've been doing this a long time.
30:37He's been around this a long time.
30:40This doesn't happen in two minutes.
30:43I just know I didn't do it.
30:45What I'm saying is forget about the fire being set.
30:49Right.
30:50There was a fire in that room at that time.
30:54And you're putting yourself in the room.
30:56You're saying I gave him the candy.
30:58I stood by the bed.
30:59I didn't want no fire in the room.
31:01There was.
31:02I didn't see no fire in the room.
31:03There was.
31:04There was.
31:05I didn't see now.
31:05There's no way you could have.
31:06I didn't see a fire in the room.
31:08And there ain't no way I'd leave a person right there, a handicapped person, see a fire
31:13and can't get out.
31:14I mean, that was her story.
31:17I felt like she was going to stick to it.
31:18So I got to dealing with just her personal life as far as her and her husband.
31:25I figured if I could play on that side of her emotions, that she would maybe get upset
31:30and actually, like, tell me what it was to ask to the reason why she did it.
31:36But listen to me, I understand what you're going through.
31:43I understand your husband, your man, your man, past month or so.
31:50I understand there's a lot going on.
31:52There's a lot you're dealing with.
31:53There's a lot on you.
31:54It's got nothing to do with the situation at hand.
31:56You knew this divorce was coming up.
31:58You knew all of this.
31:59I understand that.
32:00Me and his situation ain't got nothing to do with this situation at hand.
32:03I wouldn't have took no innocent life over my situation.
32:07Listen, I understand that you wanted to hurt your husband.
32:10I understand that.
32:11I ain't, I wouldn't need him to be dead.
32:13I understand.
32:14I want to hurt him.
32:15I hurt him, not hurt his dad.
32:17I understand that.
32:18I don't know him to put that down.
32:19You already said you wanted to hurt him before.
32:22I understand all of that.
32:24But why?
32:25Just tell me why.
32:26I know.
32:26Okay, he won't arrest me.
32:28Tell me why you give me that trailer and he made you so mad.
32:30He said you wanted to burn the trailer down there.
32:32Why?
32:33Why did you do it?
32:35Just tell me why.
32:36That's all I want to know.
32:51When we set the trailer, I had set that plank on.
32:53It wasn't a plank.
32:54It was a, it was a, it was a, it wasn't a socket at the wall.
32:57It was a plank right by the socket, on the wall.
32:59Exactly.
33:00Okay, don't tell me, don't tell me what I did.
33:03And you did it with that socket.
33:04No, I know what I did.
33:05And you did it with this socket.
33:06I know what I did.
33:07I ain't messing with you.
33:08I know, I know, I know.
33:09Okay, well, arrest me.
33:11I know what I did.
33:12Listen.
33:12And I know I didn't, I didn't harm no innocent man, crippled man.
33:17They can't do nothing for themselves.
33:18I will never do nothing like this.
33:19Young or old.
33:20The only thing I can say is what you're saying, this is your last opportunity.
33:30If you want to make this right and talk about, I mean, there was a fire.
33:37Well, forget about being.
33:39I didn't see no fire.
33:40I don't want to practice right here.
33:42Because I do not do it.
33:45Let me and him go ahead and speak for a second.
33:47We're going to let you tell you.
33:48We wanted to arrest her, but that would become risky.
33:51Because then she would probably lower you up.
33:55We were still waiting on an autopsy and a lab report.
33:57We wanted to make sure that when it was time to make that arrest, we had everything set
34:02in stone to move forward.
34:04Hi, Victoria.
34:06You ain't got nothing else to talk to us about.
34:08I'm going to ask you to want to tell us.
34:10Bring it up.
34:11Okay.
34:14I really want you to have changed up more.
34:16That's the part that is.
34:17That is what it is.
34:18That's what happened.
34:19So, there ain't nothing else I can say about it.
34:21All right.
34:23At the end of that interview, she looked back at us, and it was like, dang, y'all still
34:28ain't going to arrest me, and just walked on out like it was nothing.
34:32I felt like it was just a waiting game.
34:35Like, I knew next time I see you, I'm going to have you in handcuffs.
34:47It was lighter fluid that was used on the bed, the love seat, and to the wall outlet in the
35:00house.
35:01We also get the preliminary autopsy report from the Medicare examiner's office.
35:06Mr. Brownlee died of thermal injuries, meaning he burned to death.
35:12The man of death was a homicide.
35:15Accelerant was poured all over his body, as well as in his mouth.
35:19And I thought back to my conversation with Latoya about how I gave him a piece of candy.
35:28I'm going to ask for a piece of candy, and I gave it to him.
35:31There's something about this piece of candy that she claims she gave him that's not registering.
35:35And that left me wondering in my mind, okay, something else is going on here.
35:41Could it be a lot of fluid that she had put in his mouth?
35:43And he said, I smell some smoke.
35:45I said, I smell some too.
35:47It's one thing to burn, but to burn from your mouth and your body, like, that was just what
35:55I would say, just low down.
35:57Exactly the words that her aunt said about her in that interview.
36:01So she is evil, hateful, and low down, all of the above.
36:06She was just a low down individual that'll do anything she had to do to get back at her
36:13husband.
36:19She didn't put up a fight, didn't argue, didn't fuss.
36:24She just put the handcuffs on and got in the car.
36:27Captain Murder is a very serious charge in the state of Mississippi.
36:30Captain Murder means that, you know, you can be sentenced to death.
36:35And she was facing it.
36:36She was facing those consequences for her actions.
36:47We was working hand-in-hand with the district attorney's office.
36:50This case was potentially going to trial.
36:52But I still wanted her to go ahead and give the confession.
36:56The family deserved it.
36:57You know, the family deserved the truth about what happened to their father.
37:01So we do got the camera on.
37:19Okay.
37:20Your name is Latoya Browning.
37:22Yes, it is.
37:23All right.
37:24Do you understand the charges that you have right now?
37:25Yes.
37:26Mm-hmm.
37:26What's your charge with right now?
37:27Capital.
37:28Capital Murder.
37:31I know I'm not your lawyer.
37:33Latoya, if there's anything that might help you, it's better for you to say it now than
37:40you're going to wait on to go to court.
37:42But if you get told a cop for murder, and that's the only statute in the state of Mississippi
37:46where they will kill you, it might be five years after you go to jail, it might be ten,
37:52but they will kill you.
37:53What did I have to gain by killing him?
38:11That's what I want to know.
38:13I don't know what you tell me.
38:15That's the reason why my parents got a lawyer.
38:18You want to know something about this?
38:20About the lawyer?
38:21They ain't get me just one.
38:23They got me five paid lawyers.
38:26You feel me?
38:27Put that on your recorder.
38:29You can go and get ten different lawyers.
38:32Okay.
38:34But it don't change facts of a case.
38:37And I'm telling you, Toria, I'm telling you, it ain't looking good on your end.
38:43And I would tell you something else regarding that situation, but I'm going to let it all
38:47be a surprise.
38:48When I go to court.
38:49The world don't know.
38:53And I'm telling you, you don't want to wait on court to decide to.
38:58Why?
38:59Because at that point, it's going to be pretty much too late.
39:01No, I'm not.
39:03I'm telling you.
39:04What do you think will happen?
39:05I'm just telling you, Toria, you got a long road to travel.
39:09You feel better getting it off your chest.
39:12You really, really, really, really want to get this off your chest.
39:16Okay.
39:18First of all, first and foremost, when I first entered that house, I didn't smell no smoke.
39:23That's the first thing.
39:24I didn't smell no smoke until he told me to go and get his towel, which was by the chair
39:28by the window.
39:29That's when I noticed some smoke.
39:31And then I went and checked the stove.
39:33I came back.
39:34It wasn't no smoke back there.
39:35It was over by his window.
39:36So whatever it started, it was on the outside of that house.
39:39It wasn't nothing in that house burning.
39:43You never told us about a fire or smoke outside of the window, but here we are now.
39:48Why are you just not telling me about this window?
39:51I said that before.
39:53Well, I thought I did.
39:57If I knew who did this, I would say who did it.
40:01I'm not going to go down for somebody.
40:02You know what I'm saying?
40:03I don't have no idea.
40:05I wouldn't have checked the kitchen, my bedroom, kids' bedroom, the bathroom, nothing.
40:10You think I'd post some damn gas on this man?
40:13I'd be a crazy damn fool to do some stuff like that.
40:15And furthermore, this man ain't never did nothing to me for me to take his life.
40:23Tory, I wish you the best outcome.
40:30Life itself is too short.
40:32You might not tell me today, you might not tell me, I'm going to come down to your court today.
40:41And I might be old and great by the time you decide to tell what really happened that day.
40:45But like I told you, whether you got one lawyer or five lawyers, he don't change facts of a case.
40:52Like I said, I didn't commit this crime, so I already know I'm not going to go down for something I didn't do.
40:59One thing about it, God done already showed me, I'm lying up with God.
41:03He done already showed me, I'm going to walk.
41:06I'm going to walk.
41:06When I get through, please my case.
41:08I'm going to walk.
41:09Believe that.
41:10You said you're a Christian, so I believe I can go there.
41:13Mm-hmm.
41:13God always gives you.
41:17But you can keep living in the night.
41:20That's between the right, but you and God.
41:23But I can tell you, on that day, when you go to court, I hope God is with you that day.
41:31Because it's not going to work out the way you think it's going to work out.
41:33We gave her so many chances to go ahead and present the facts, but then she went back to the snoring.
41:42And so, after the final interview with her, we were prepared to go to court with her and the five lawyers that she had.
41:49I remember when the judge, he asked her, why are you pleading guilty?
42:12And she finally said, because I did it.
42:15It wasn't a confession we dreamed of, but we got our confession.
42:19And it took going in front of the judge for her to finally admit what she had did.
42:24And that was the confession that we were wanting.
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