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00:00The deadly Thanksgiving fire is classified as a homicide.
00:13The lighter fluid was placed into his mouth and he burned to death.
00:19I've never witnessed something so horrific before.
00:22I ain't got time for these lies, okay?
00:24You think I'm posting damn gas on the clock?
00:26Do you want to rule out everything before you charge a personal?
00:30You need to start getting your story straight and you need to be straight right now.
00:34You're just trying to get me out of here so you can move that bitch in here.
00:36If you could have told a cop to murder, they would have killed you.
00:39She is evil, hateful, and lowdown, all of your blood.
00:48Every suspect accused of a crime has the right to remain silent.
00:52Many agree to be interrogated anyway, but they can stop the interview at any moment, making it a race against time.
01:02Justice hangs in the balance.
01:04It was Thanksgiving Day.
01:23I remember Boakland and my son in his car seat, and next thing we know, that house right across the street from us is smoking a whole lot.
01:31So, I immediately called 911.
01:35Is it the Brownlee house?
01:36Yeah.
01:38We arrived at the fire scene within minutes of the 911 call.
01:43I witnessed two windows that had been breached, smoke coming out of them, smoke coming from the roof.
01:50The fire has got some air.
01:51It's really burning, and we got our work cut out for us.
01:54My family, they come outside, and I remember hearing that somebody was indeed in the house.
02:01So, at this point, a harsh drive.
02:04The most important thing is to get the victims out.
02:07We looked for a point of entry into the house, which on this house was going to obviously be the front door.
02:12They went in searching for the victim, trying to search thoroughly each room and bedroom for occupants.
02:18They searched the house until they made it to the bedroom.
02:22They found the victim in the bed.
02:24He was in the room with the fire was breaching out of the windows.
02:27He was within 10 feet of those windows.
02:30The bed was heavily consumed with fire.
02:33It was clear that he had passed away.
02:35Me being from West Point, I just knew William Brownlee to be a respectful person.
02:48He was a church-going guy who was 62 years of age.
02:52He had multiple sclerosis.
02:54William Brownlee Sr., he lived there with his daughter-in-law, Latoya, and his son, William Brownlee Jr.
03:01William Brownlee Sr. was bedridden, and they both were taking care of him because of some health issues he had going on at the time.
03:09I just hated that fact that, hey, there was somebody that was in the house.
03:14That was a very difficult moment, and it was horrific.
03:24I had never smelled someone burning.
03:27It is an indescribable smell, like you just couldn't even imagine.
03:33He was bedridden.
03:34He didn't even have a chance to get up or try to escape the room.
03:37He was just there to suffer.
03:41My gut was telling me something's really, really strange here.
03:44The fire was almost completely in William Sr.'s bedroom.
03:48The rest of the house was just heavily smoke-damaged.
03:50From the bed to where Mr. Brownlee laid and the wall right above his head, all of it was heavily burned, way worse from how it was on the other side of the room.
04:04And then I saw where the outlet, it was very heavily burned.
04:09That seems very suspicious because it was a very new house.
04:13It was built two years before prior.
04:16They're built with modern wiring.
04:19And to really cause the damage that it did, electrical fires just alone would not make this fire angry like it did.
04:27You definitely want to get down to the bottom of what went wrong for this fire to become fully engulfed in this one particular room.
04:34I remember going to the back porch of the home, there where I found a lot of fluid bottle, and I took it into evidence.
04:44I believe the fire chief, he was pretty much confident that something went wrong in that room.
04:50He believed something was started for that fire to get so hot in certain areas that he wanted to go ahead and call a state fire marshal.
04:57Latoya, she showed up in her vehicle, she gets out of her car, she's crying, she's hysterical.
05:10What we learned from the initial contact with Ms. Latoya Brownlee was she had been visiting family for Thanksgiving before this incident took place.
05:18Then she left and was shopping with her auntie, Ms. Virgie Gardner.
05:22And that's when she got the call that the house was on fire, so she came back to the home.
05:33With it being Thanksgiving Day, you would think that everybody would have been together.
05:38And that left me wondering in my mind, okay, something else is going on here.
05:44It was almost like you just knew, like something just wasn't right.
05:52Biggest question was, if this fire was actually intentionally set, and the next question was, if it was, why?
06:13If you give me a rundown yesterday and what all took place.
06:16All 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.
06:26So my wife left home first before I did.
06:29She went to dinner in Yuna over her family's house.
06:32So I got a call about 426 is when I actually got the call that my house was fully engulfed in flames.
06:41Who gave you the call?
06:42Tony Harris.
06:43He asked me where I was and told me I need to get to my house as soon as possible, and my house was on fire.
06:49But did your wife ever call you at any time?
06:52No.
06:52Can you state your wife's name for the record?
06:55Latoria Janae Brownway.
06:57Okay, how long y'all been married?
06:5818 years.
07:00Actually, I was filing for divorce next week.
07:03Did she know about this?
07:04Yes.
07:05I had an eviction notice for her.
07:07Right.
07:07Still on the same roof.
07:08Right.
07:09I moved on with my life and started, you know, seeing someone else.
07:12And she is pregnant.
07:13I said, now, by the time the child is born, yes, my child will be living on the same roof as me.
07:17The 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.
07:25Very important piece in this investigation.
07:27I learned before living with Mr. Brownlee Sr., Junior Brownlee, his wife, Latoria, they stayed in an old trailer.
07:56Junior Brownlee, claimed she tried to burn an outlet to start a fire.
08:01He said she used a plant to put it by an electrical outlet and light it up.
08:06But she said that she didn't.
08:08I didn't actually call the police.
08:10I would go in my grave believing that she done that.
08:14Mm-hmm.
08:16Did her and your dad get along pretty well?
08:18I mean, yes.
08:20If she used to, but, I mean, since we've been going through our problems, she'll do anything to hurt me.
08:25Mm-hmm.
08:25So, by hurting him, and she knows it hurts me.
08:28If she got that angry before to try to start a house fire, she could have possibly got angry again to do the same.
08:36Your dad was on in that house?
08:38Yes, my dad was on.
08:39Your dad was?
08:39My dad was on.
08:42Nine to my ten or something.
08:43What's that happened to your dad?
08:44You was going to get the house?
08:45I was going to get the house.
08:46We are going to go over here to the house.
08:50If I'm watching, you're going to be able to tell us where the fire started at?
08:53Do you know that today?
08:55Should, hopefully.
09:02The deputy fire marshal's ruled out that it was any kind of electrical problems with the home.
09:08He basically told me that the fire was started by someone.
09:13After going through the scene and examining like he did, he was also adamant that that fire started in that room.
09:20Now we have an intentional fire, and this is a murder investigation.
09:26So now we have a suspect that we need to find.
09:28We began to look into the insurance claim.
09:32It went even over the $20,000 policy.
09:35I didn't see enough there for that to be a motive coming from William Bradley Jr.
09:42But on Latoya's hand, I looked at the fact of, you got this divorce situation.
09:50Pretty sure she was very upset.
09:53At that moment, she most definitely was a suspect for me.
09:56I have Ms. Bargy.
10:11Garner?
10:12Garner, yes.
10:13You may run out of how you and Janice came in contact yesterday.
10:15We had Thanksgiving dinner, and after the dinner, we left coming to West Point to go to Wal-Warn.
10:26Right.
10:28But when we got in West Point, she said, take me by the house to drop off this food.
10:35We went to buy the house.
10:37This should have been like, what, round four?
10:40And she got out, went in, and she came back out less than five minutes, and we went to Wal-Mart.
10:51As soon as we got to Wal-Mart, she got a call saying, smoke coming out of your house.
10:58And I'm all upset now.
11:00I said, well, is your father-in-law in the house?
11:03She said, yes.
11:05So I really got nervous then.
11:06And then I could see smoke from Wal-Mart parking lot in the air.
11:09Right.
11:10We just left the house.
11:12The store that she went to was not even a mile, if that, from the actual home.
11:18She left it for a file of a cell phone video that shows the fire fully engulfed at 409.
11:24That definitely raises suspicion about what took place at that house.
11:28A house fire does not go from zero to that in that time frame, naturally.
11:33A gas leak would have more of an explosion-type situation.
11:37There's not a real natural cause that's going to allow it to burn that fast, that quick.
11:44Basically what you're telling me, y'all left from the residence around 405.
11:49Now, a person called 9-1 at 14, saying the house was in flames.
11:53And I got a video showing her the house in flames at that time.
11:57That room was burning before she left.
11:59Really?
11:59She had to sit there and find me.
12:05They're going through this divorce.
12:07And I told her just last week, I said, Tara, I said, don't do nothing stupid.
12:11She said, yeah, because I was going to, I thought about going there and putting a knife in her.
12:16So, if I was asked, do I think she capable of doing this, I would say yes.
12:26She is evil, hateful, and lowdowns, all of them bugs.
12:31The Brownlee family, they live directly across the street from my family.
12:46I've never witnessed something so horrific before.
12:53This is a small community, and the love of each other and the respect of each other pull us together.
13:01You hate to see your community hurt.
13:02You hate to see the families hurt.
13:05My heart just hit me because I just hated that fact that, hey, there was somebody that was in the house.
13:12Oh, I have mercy.
13:30So, after she went to the house and came back out to go to Walmart, what did she say?
13:35She was talking about him, and when you see him, you just go ahead and tell him he wrong for what he's doing.
13:42I said, you just do what's right.
13:44If an uncle or auntie say something about their niece or nephew, you can take it to the bank and cash it.
13:53The missing situations can cause people to do some crazy things because, you know, hurt people hurt people.
13:58At that point, I was pretty much sold on it being hurt, but I still had to prove it.
14:05I had to get more than just word of mouth.
14:07So, I received a video that was on Facebook Live at the time that the fire started, and this was at, like, 4.09.
14:23The 9-1-1 call came in around 4-10, 4-11.
14:29At 4-11, Latoya makes a post on Facebook about the Black Friday sale.
14:33You look at the time span, and it was very odd to me.
14:37I 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.
14:53You know, this house was set on fire.
15:23The situation going on between her and her husband, she's the only one that went in the house.
15:30Now is the time we got to get her to break and tell us the truth.
15:35As of right now, just tell me your thoughts.
15:37Just let me know what's going on.
15:39I hate it happening, and I love my father-in-law.
15:42I hate it happening, and I just want to know what this stemmed from.
15:47What started this fire.
15:50All right, you left you on Thursday around one time again.
15:53It's around 3-20, 3-30.
15:56You left around 3-20, 3-30.
15:59What time you make it to town?
16:043-5.
16:07All right, and when you got to town, would you, before you left the unit, would you head at home or would you head to Walmart?
16:13Head to Walmart.
16:14All right, what made you go by the house?
16:16They take my plate, and I had to use the bathroom.
16:19And then I got in the house, took my plate to the kitchen, went to the bedroom to see him.
16:24He was in the bedroom.
16:26Then I was headed out.
16:28Then he asked for a piece of candy, and I gave it to him.
16:30And he said, I smell some smoke.
16:32I said, I smell something, too.
16:34And I looked in the children's room, and I ain't seen nothing burning or no smoke.
16:38And I went to the kitchen, make sure that one on the eye, and I didn't see anything.
16:41And I came again, and I said, I don't know what it is.
16:43And that was it, and I left.
16:44You actually smell smoke in the home, and you still left?
16:52Common sense would have been like, I need to call somebody.
16:54I need to get somebody over here and see what's going on.
16:58It didn't sit well with me during that interview with her.
17:03How long was you at Walmart?
17:04We was there in no time.
17:08We pulled her in the parking lot, and we was in the park, and we pulled her back out.
17:13Mm-hmm.
17:15What was the reason for that?
17:16Somebody called.
17:18Did they call on Facebook or on your phone?
17:20Facebook.
17:21It should still be on Facebook.
17:22I ain't got time to take a look and see.
17:30She called you at 4-11.
17:32Okay.
17:34Y'all stayed on the phone about a minute and three seconds, right?
17:37I guess.
17:39Okay.
17:39Uh, was you on Facebook around that time?
17:45Was I on Facebook?
17:46Mm-hmm.
17:47I don't know.
17:47I don't know.
17:48I was at Walmart, so I'm not.
17:51You are aware that there's a Facebook post on your page that was made at 4-11.
17:55Said you was in Walmart parking lot.
17:57Okay.
17:59Yeah, mine is.
18:01You remember that?
18:04I can't remember the post, but...
18:08You don't remember making that post?
18:11I don't remember.
18:15You can remember what you did inside the house for the other five minutes.
18:17But all of a sudden, now you don't remember.
18:20I think she kind of felt like we was closing in on her.
18:24I had to go in a little harder.
18:28From what I'm looking at and from what the five marks report is saying,
18:33either you wasn't at home at 4 o'clock or you was there when the fire started.
18:38Well, I wasn't there when no fire started.
18:40Did you go in the room?
18:42I went in his bedroom.
18:43All right.
18:43Did you go in the bedroom when you first got to the house or was it right before you left?
18:47No, I went to the kitchen.
18:47Then I went to his bedroom.
18:48Then we talked and he wanted...
18:51Hadn't you used the bathroom yet, like you said?
18:53No, I hadn't used the bathroom.
18:55But you told me you went to the bathroom.
18:58That's the reason why I said you went to the bathroom.
18:59You never said you didn't use the bathroom.
19:01I didn't use it.
19:02I didn't use it.
19:04So you lied to me.
19:05You said you used the bathroom?
19:06Well, I went to the bathroom and I didn't have to go.
19:09So I didn't go.
19:10But I did.
19:11But I did.
19:12Listen.
19:13You need to start getting your store straight.
19:15You need to be straight right now.
19:16Okay, I'll be easy.
19:17Because I ain't got time for these lies, okay?
19:18I went to the bathroom.
19:29I didn't go.
19:31And I left out there.
19:33I went back to his room.
19:36About how long was you in the house?
19:38About five minutes.
19:39I did not see no fire, no smoke, no nothing.
19:44So you're not going to make me say that.
19:46I did not see that, but I smelled it.
19:48I smelled it in the utility room, right in the area of the utility room and the bedroom.
19:52I smelled it.
19:53Okay, we get that, we get that, we get that.
19:58The thing over there is, you still left.
20:00I did.
20:01I did.
20:02Even though you smelled smoke or whatever.
20:04I thought it wasn't nothing because I ain't seen nothing.
20:07I did, I left.
20:08She continued to stick with her story over and over again.
20:13I'm still seeing the crime scene.
20:15I'm still seeing the remains of Mr. Brownlee.
20:18I'm still seeing how hot this room got.
20:20I'm on confessions.
20:23You still want to see if you can get her to go ahead and break.
20:26Now I went to the kitchen, make sure they went on the stove.
20:29She's like, you was pretty upset with her.
20:31So you got a lot of lying going on.
20:33You better start being straight.
20:36You pretty, you pretty expert in them out there, aren't you?
20:39No, I'm not.
20:42You ever fooled around one bowl?
20:43No, I did not.
20:44You haven't?
20:45I haven't.
20:46Never.
20:47Never.
20:49Spoke with your husband.
20:52You told me three years ago.
20:54That in the trailer, when y'all got into it, you were going to tamper with it to start a fire on the trailer.
21:00It was right there.
21:01I didn't mess with the outlet itself per se.
21:04It was a plant right by the outlet, and I put the plant on fire.
21:08That's what I tamper with.
21:09So I had a plant on fire?
21:10The plant right there by the outlet.
21:11They would make everything right there, but I didn't.
21:14I'd be a fool to go in and mess with this outlet and get shot.
21:17It's crazy.
21:18That's how you say the plant on fire.
21:20It was a mattress.
21:26A plant?
21:27A real live plant?
21:27No, it was an artificial plant.
21:31And you said it was a fire with a mattress?
21:32Mm-hmm.
21:33We all had learned that LaToya Brownlee tried to set a previous house on fire because she got mad at Junior.
21:41And now, you know, the possibility of her doing this again after getting angry with her husband could be the very thing that started this fire.
21:49I did not mess with stuff.
21:51So not messing with the plant.
21:52I did not mess with no outlet at this new house.
21:56I did not do nothing.
21:57You ain't gonna make me say I did something.
21:58I did not do nothing.
21:59You did if I did with the outlet in the trailer, though.
22:02Is that what you're telling me?
22:03I started right there by the outlet.
22:05The outlet probably caught on fire, but I'm not gonna put no fire to this outlet like this.
22:11At that point, I was just like, all right, we're done.
22:14She didn't admit, yes, I set the house fire.
22:17But she attached herself to the timeline that we had.
22:24So after that interview, I could have arrested her, but I didn't want to do it just yet because I knew I needed more evidence for it to stick.
22:35It was just like a lemon.
22:36We was just trying to get all the juice as we, you know, we could get out of that lemon.
22:40And so that's why we opted to continue this investigation.
22:43We knew the fire was intentionally set, so you start looking for accelerants that may have been poured there.
22:58What he saw was something was poured on the glove seat, the flooring, and the bed.
23:05He had a hydrocarbon detector.
23:07The hydrocarbon detector is going to pick up a petroleum product of some type.
23:12That detected some type of petroleum product was poured.
23:16It could have been lighter fluid.
23:17It could have been gasoline.
23:19He added an interesting fact that there was also an accelerant on a outlet across the room from the bed.
23:27There was no accident at the electrical outlet.
23:31There was no faulty electrical outlet.
23:33There was an accelerant.
23:34Somebody poured liquid on the outlet, trying to make it look like the outlet had started the fire.
23:39But 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.
23:49It doesn't happen.
23:50Another 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.
23:59We determined that the door had been closed during the fire.
24:02And at some point in time, it was opened by my guys when they were fighting the fire.
24:06When I looked over the log, we found out there was entry at 4.02 p.m. of that day, and then there was an exit at 4.07 p.m.
24:23Lettoria had already told us she went in the house alone within that time span.
24:30You got a Facebook video at 4.09 p.m. of the fire already coming out of the home.
24:37It was on a two-minute window there.
24:40No one else could have went in this house but Ms. Brownlee to start this fire.
24:46Everything's pointing to her.
24:47Even 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.
25:09This is a murder investigation.
25:13Somebody lost their life.
25:14So 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.
25:26Fire Marshal Mike Ivey and Detective Johnson were interviewing her.
25:31Of course, Mike, he would take the lead.
25:33Fire Marshal Mike Ivey and Detective Johnson.
25:36This is a tragedy.
25:37It is.
25:38And it's up to us to figure out what happened.
25:42Mm-hmm.
25:43And 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.
26:00When did you fire it?
26:02where in the bedroom where he was the problem we've got is somebody set the
26:09fire and we can't find anybody that was in that house other than you
26:32i didn't sit on fire i wouldn't harm that man i seen him just like my daddy and i wouldn't harm him at all
26:42i ain't seen no smoke and no fire in this room at all okay did you keep any flammable liquids in the
26:50house like paint thinner gasoline light fluid and gasoline out there but i this this stuff he can
26:57care about it had you used any of it lately no well i don't know exactly what to tell you
27:08but this is not going to go away i don't want to go away i want to find out what happened because
27:17an innocent man lost his life that fire did not start because of me after i saw that she went
27:24i moved closer because i wanted to establish a report with her and i wanted to see her face
27:33why not just go ahead and lay it all out here it was worth a shot
27:37are you aware that they logged down whenever the door was open yeah are you aware that
27:52nobody else entered the house in between 12 30 and 4 o'clock and i wasn't aware of it
28:00and you're you're correct you got home around four you went in and matter of fact four two
28:07got the door closed behind you i guess they do it within like a minute time frame the door
28:11closed behind you at four three the door opens at four oh six they got you leaving out at four
28:18seven okay you leave the house at four seven
28:21mm-hmm got a video recorded at four oh nine four ten with the house laid still i'm talking about
28:32playing i already pushed through the window where the old man was playing it was two windows right
28:37there in your phone call that you got on facebook that was at 4 11 you showed it to me yesterday
28:43okay from four seven to four eleven ain't no way a fire is going to build up that much pressure
28:53and wait four minutes to blow one out and then fire it and shoot through the roof
28:59i'm getting fed up about it because it seems like y'all harassing me but you're not answering my
29:04question can you see if i started that fast from 407 to 4 11
29:10i don't know about fires how fast they started well i don't know i can't answer this i don't
29:15know how fast fires start over there but i know i did not start no fire i did not kill no innocent
29:20person a handicapped person i did not do that and i will say that to the end i did not do that
29:26well and i'm gonna be honest with you we think you did
29:33when i took him when i gave him that candy i was in the room with him
29:38i didn't see no smoke i didn't see no sound no smoke but i slept smoke i said well we'll get
29:43join you to check that when he get here he said okay right and you closed the door and walked out
29:49no no i'm close the door i don't close the door you don't close the door no all right now we got
29:57another problem what because i know he didn't get out the bed and going to close the door that door was
30:03not closed if i was the last one there i know i did not close that door and i know that he didn't
30:10get up to bed and walk away close to it so so you ought to feel like me there's a problem somewhere
30:15where someone closed that door and that ought to be something you're concerned about
30:20who closed the door you should also be concerned about who was in the house to set this fire
30:26and for it to go that fast it had to be some kind of accelerant or something
30:30poor to make it just blaze that face i've been doing this a long time he's been around this a long
30:37time these this doesn't happen in two minutes i just know i didn't do it what what i'm saying is
30:45forget about the fire being saved right there was a fire in that room at that time and you're putting
30:53yourself in the room you're saying i gave him the candy i stood by the bed there was i didn't see no
31:01fire there was there was i didn't see now there's no way you could i didn't see a fire in the room
31:07and there ain't no way i leave a person right there handicapped person see a fire and can't get out
31:14i mean that was her story i felt like she was gonna stick to it so i got to dealing with just her
31:20personal life as far as her and her husband i figured if i could play on that side of her emotions
31:27that she would maybe get upset and actually like tell me what it was as to the reason why she did it
31:36well listen to me i understand what you're going through i understand your husband made you mad
31:46past month or so i understand a lot going on it's a lot you're dealing with it's a lot on
31:52you got nothing to do with the situation at hand you knew this divorce was coming up you do all of
31:57this i understand that me and his situation ain't got nothing to do with this situation at hand i want
32:02to take no innocent life listen all my situation i understand that you wanted to hurt him before
32:21i understand all of that but why just tell me why i know they want to arrest me tell me why you get
32:27that trailer and he made you so mad that you want to burn the trailer down there why why did you do
32:33just tell me why that's all i want to know
32:41i know what i did and you did it with this side i know what i did and i ain't messing with you i know
33:07i know i know okay well arrest me i know what i did listen i know i didn't i didn't i didn't harm
33:14no innocent man crippled man they can't do nothing for themselves i will never do nothing like this
33:19young or old well the only thing i can say is what you're saying this is your last opportunity
33:29if you want to make this right and talk about i mean there was a fire forget about being
33:38i didn't see no fire no don't want to talk to this right here because i do not know
33:44let me and him go ahead and speak for a second we don't want that stuff
33:48we wanted an arrest but that would become risky because then she would probably lower you up
33:54we were still waiting on an autopsy and a lab report we wanted to make sure that when it was time to
33:58make that arrest we had everything set in stone to move forward
34:04hi victoria you ain't got nothing else to talk to us about and then that's you want to tell us
34:10bring it up okay
34:13i really want you to tear it up more that's the part of that is
34:16that is what it is that's what happened so there's nothing i can see about it all right
34:23at the end of that interview she looked back at us and it was like
34:27dang y'all still ain't gonna risk me and just walked on out like it was nothing i felt like
34:33it was just a waiting game like i knew next time i see you i'm gonna have you on handcuffs
34:47it was lighter fluid that was used on the bed the love seat and to the wall outlet in the house we
35:01also get the preliminary optopsy report from the medicare examiner's office mr brownley died of thermal
35:08injuries meaning he burned to death the manner of death was a homicide accelerant was poured all over his
35:16body as well as in his mouth and i thought back to my conversation with latoya about how i gave him a
35:26piece of candy and i gave it to him there's something about this piece of candy that she claims she gave
35:33him that's not registering and that left me wondering in my mind okay something else is going
35:39on here could it be a lot of fluid that she had put in his mouth and um he said i smell some smoke i
35:45said i smell something too it's one thing to burn but to burn from your mouth and your body like that was
35:53just what i would say just low down exactly what the words that her aunt said about her in that interview
36:01so she is evil hateful and low down all of the above she was just a low down individual that'll do
36:09anything she had to do to get back at her husband
36:19she didn't put up a fight didn't argue didn't fuss she just put the handcuffs on and got in the car
36:27capital murder is a very serious charge in the state of mississippi capital murder means that you
36:32know you can be sentenced to death and she was facing it she was facing those consequences for her actions
36:47we was working hand in hand with the district attorney's office oh this case was potentially
36:51going to trial but i still wanted her to go ahead and give the confession the family deserved it
36:57you know the family deserved the truth about what happened to their father
37:05so we do got the camera home okay your name is latoya brown yes it is all right do you understand
37:24the charges that you have yes what you charged with right capital capital murder
37:28i know i'm not your lawyer i told you if there's anything that might help you it's better for you
37:38to say it now than waiting on to go to court but if you get a child with a cop from murder and that's
37:44the only statute in the state of mississippi where they will kill you it might be five years after you
37:49go to jail it might be ten but they will kill you
38:05can i tell them no you freaking tell me what did i have to gain by killing him that's what i want to know
38:14i don't know you tell me that's the reason why my parents got a lawyer you want to know something
38:19about this about the lawyer they ain't give me just one they got me five paid lawyers you feel me
38:27put that on your recorder you can go and get ten different lawyers okay but it don't change facts
38:36of a case and i'm telling you toyota i'm telling you it ain't looking good on your hand and i would
38:44tell you something else regarding that situation but i'm gonna let it all be a surprise when that when i
38:49go to court okay the world don't know and i'm telling you you don't want to wait on court
38:57to decide to why because at that point it's gonna be pretty much too late no i'm not i'm telling you
39:04what do you think i'm just telling you toyota this you got a long road to travel you feel better getting
39:11off your chest you really really really really want to get this off your chest okay first of all
39:19first and foremost when i first entered that house i didn't smell no smoke that's the first thing
39:25i didn't smell no smoke until he told me to go and get his towel which was by the chair by the window
39:30that's when i noticed some smoke and then i went and checked the stove i came back it wasn't no smoke
39:35back there it was over by his window so whatever it started it was on the outside of that house it
39:40wasn't nothing in the house burning you never told us about a fire or smoke outside of the window but
39:47here we are now why are you just not telling me about this window i said that before well i thought i did
39:54it if i knew who did this i would say who did it i'm not gonna go down for somebody you know what
40:03i'm saying i don't have no idea i wouldn't check the kitchen my bedroom kids bedroom in the bathroom
40:10nothing you think i'd pour some damn gas on this man i'd be a crazy damn fool to do some stuff like
40:15that and furthermore this man ain't never did nothing to me for me to take his life
40:20joy i wish you the best outcome
40:31life itself is too short you might not tell me today you might not tell me when i come out of your
40:39court day and i might be old and great by the time you try to tell what really happened that day
40:45but like i told you whether you got one lord or five lords he don't change facts of the case okay
40:54like i said i didn't commit this crime so i already know i'm not gonna go down for something i didn't
40:59do one thing about it god didn't already show me i'm lining up with god he didn't already show me i'm
41:05gonna walk i'm gonna walk when i get through please my case i'm gonna walk believe that you said you're
41:11christian so i believe i can go there god always be but you can keep living in the night that's
41:21between the right but you and god but i can tell you on that day you go to court i hope god is with
41:29you that day because it's not gonna work out the way you think it's gonna work out
41:34we gave her so many chances to go ahead and present the facts but then she went back to the snoring
41:43and so after the final interview with her and we were prepared to go to court
41:47with her and the five lawyers that she had
42:09i remember when the judge he asked her why are you pleading guilty and she finally said
42:14because i did it it wasn't a confession we dreamed of but we got our confession
42:20and took going in front of the judge for her to finally admit what she had did and
42:28that was the confession that we were wanting
42:30i feel like her motive was to get back at her husband and she done that by taking his dad from him
42:48it was such a hard situation that affected so many different people so many different lives were
42:53changed behind this he was a great guy he was church going man and a great family man so that's how
43:03the city of west point you can remember mr william brownlee senior
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