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The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00What is the most shocking discovery in the Byron Griffey case?
00:11Everything.
00:13Like if you wrote it on paper, nobody would believe it.
00:17This story, it's a whodunit.
00:23It involves sex and power.
00:28You've got wealth and intrigue and hiding one's identity.
00:34There's two types of funeral directors.
00:36Some want to help people and some are in this to take advantage of people.
00:41He's dead, he's dead, there's blood everywhere.
00:44Who could do something like that?
00:46This woman came up to me and said, I know who did it.
00:51So now we had another dead body on our hands.
00:55The things that came to light, I was just as shocked as everybody else.
01:00What the f*** is happening?
01:02You guys trying to pull the f*** around you?
01:04Did you ever think of getting even with someone?
01:07Scared me.
01:09I am trying to get to the truth.
01:13Did you kill Byron Griffey?
01:15That's right.
01:19Awkward supernatural Rent
01:20That novel and the share of persons,''
01:25today Diamond Give me PR.
01:27Don Lewis said both of you,
01:28There's nothing here.
01:29Don Lewis said diamonds away.
01:30I'm sorry, Дhart.
01:31We've never ever heard about them.
01:33So, do I didn't want to make any money coming.
01:34No worries.
01:35This month I was wondering.
01:36When you move to a small town, there's things that you learn really fast, like anything
01:48that you might want hidden, doesn't stay hidden.
01:581994 is when Charles and I moved to Colorado from Salt Lake City.
02:08We wanted to be in the funeral business.
02:15Charles and Tony were brothers.
02:17They shared a mother, and they were great funeral directors, just willing to help anybody
02:23with anything.
02:26I had a cat.
02:27He was dying.
02:28It was terrible.
02:29So they came and they got him for me, and they took him and they took care of him for me,
02:34and they cremated him for me.
02:36They're wonderful guys.
02:41If you talk to any mortician, death does not weigh heavy on their hearts.
02:48They're morticians, man.
02:49They deal with death all the time, and they have the means to deal with death.
02:55Morticians, that's kind of an unusual profession.
03:02Morticians make a lot of money, especially on coffins and caskets.
03:06It's very lucrative.
03:07It's very lucrative.
03:08Very lucrative.
03:09A lot of people see the money that you can make and that's their driving force.
03:15I wasn't like that.
03:18Becoming a funeral director is almost more of a calling.
03:52They helped us with some equipment when we first got started.
03:56And after that, we just became good friends.
04:00Charles and I went to Fowler to meet Byron for lunch.
04:13It's usually about an hour's drive from Florence to Fowler.
04:19We were meeting Byron at his farm.
04:25When we pulled up to the gate, it was locked.
04:31Charles tried calling him and didn't get an answer.
04:36That was a little strange.
04:40We finally just decided to leave.
04:52911, what's the emergency?
04:56I think my mother and mom's dead.
04:59I think he fell.
05:01Okay.
05:02Is he bleeding anywhere?
05:03Yeah, all over.
05:05He's dead.
05:06He's dead.
05:07He's cold.
05:08There's blood everywhere.
05:11Please hurry.
05:23My dad took care of everybody.
05:27When I moved back home with three kids, he bought a house for us, which had some land.
05:35And he said it would be fun for the kids to grow up on a farm.
05:40And then at that point, I met Gina, my wife.
05:47My dad was my biggest support system.
05:51When I told my dad I was gay, he said, well, you know, you're not alone.
05:58There's a lot of people that are.
06:02So when Lynette and I decided to get married, Byron was extremely supportive.
06:09He took my kids, all of my kids, just like they were his own grandkids.
06:17Whether I was his favorite or not, he was my favorite.
06:22He was my favorite person in the whole world.
06:26The morning of Byron's death, which was a day before his birthday, he was planning to meet Charles and Anthony out at the farm and go to lunch.
06:41We were sitting down for dinner and Byron never showed up.
06:51He wasn't answering his phone.
06:53My dad always answered the phone.
06:56Always.
06:58So I called Charles.
07:01I said, my dad's still with you.
07:05Charles told her we never even saw him.
07:08He never showed up.
07:10We started to get worried about him.
07:13So we drove out to the farm.
07:16Gina said, I'll check the house.
07:19Then I was yelling for him, you know.
07:23He didn't answer.
07:25And I heard Gina say, I found him.
07:30And I said, is he okay?
07:35She said, no.
07:45We received a call of a male that was down.
07:48The address I knew as Byron Griffey's farm.
07:52When I got on scene, EMS was there.
07:56We went in.
07:57We found Byron Griffey laid out on the floor in the middle of a bedroom that was empty.
08:02He was just off the wall, probably about two and a half feet.
08:06Crime scene was very clean.
08:09I mean, there was nothing there.
08:11The family had moved out of the farmhouse.
08:13So the farmhouse was empty.
08:15There was no forced entry or sign of struggle of any kind.
08:22No defensive marks on him.
08:25There was very little blood.
08:28I think my words were, it's weird.
08:34There was no weapon readily available.
08:39The blood splattering on the wall was not consistent with what I'm used to.
08:43This was very strange.
08:48Byron is laid out almost like body in a casket.
08:53And then he's laying flat on the floor, face up.
08:59He was staged.
09:02Byron Griffey was a pillar of the community.
09:05Pretty much everybody knew who Byron Griffey was.
09:10So at this point in the investigation, everybody's a suspect.
09:15And then as we began to dig deeper, we learned some of these people were hiding some deep, dark secrets.
09:23If one of them killed him, who was it?
09:40When we found out that Byron was dead.
09:56Of course my first reaction is, what the hell happened?
10:01I was shocked.
10:04Charles actually got pretty emotional about it.
10:08The thing that was going through my mind is, we were right there.
10:13After Byron died, Charles and I thought we could help.
10:17So we offered to go in to CBI the very next day.
10:25Mark.
10:26Anthony.
10:27Nice to meet you, Anthony.
10:28Likewise.
10:29I wanted you to kind of help me with a timeline that's going to be helpful to us with our investigation.
10:36Okay.
10:38Byron Griffey was a really good friend.
10:41He would help people in need.
10:43Kind of the same theory we had.
10:47Charles and Anthony were very intertwined with the community.
10:54Everybody knew them.
10:55Everybody has a story.
10:57Charles became mayor.
10:58He was president of the Chamber of Commerce.
11:01He even started a church down the street.
11:04Charles was a bishop.
11:08I actually became a deacon.
11:10We were there just about every Sunday for church.
11:13The sermons that Charles would give were very inclusive, very, you know, peace and love.
11:20And my son, Eric, worked for them.
11:25So they own several businesses in town.
11:28The funeral home.
11:29They own Smashing Good Guitars, which was the guitar shop that I worked at.
11:34They own the Main Street Grill.
11:36And they're huge collectors.
11:38They collect everything.
11:39I started collecting guitars, guns, dogs, cats, birds, horses.
11:46If I saw an animal that needed help, I took it.
11:50I even had a squirrel, but there were 37 vehicles.
11:57I had a big bowl of keys on the table.
11:59I would just walk by and pick something out and walk out front and go,
12:02oh, yeah, that's what I'm driving today.
12:05My brother, like, introduced them, got them super close into our family.
12:09But at first it was just like dinner with Charles and Anthony.
12:12Oh, you're going to a concert with Charles and Anthony.
12:14And then we're spending holidays together.
12:17Charles liked to talk about his kids.
12:19He would tell us how successful they were and then he was proud of them.
12:23But then that sadness because they weren't in his life.
12:26You know, something must have happened that made them estranged to him.
12:32Charles was the brains and kind of the mouth, the charismatic one.
12:37He's doing the business deals.
12:39But the person who, like, actually made the things happen, that was Tony.
12:46It appears that you and Charles were at his property right around the time that he dies.
12:56So that puts you in a position to help us with the investigation.
13:01When we were able to retrieve Byron's phone, we could see two calls.
13:07One was about 1243-ish.
13:09The other one was a little after that were made from Charles' phone to Byron's that were missed calls.
13:16So you and Byron were good friends?
13:18We were.
13:19Who was closer to Byron?
13:20Me.
13:21Well, we spoke more.
13:22Okay.
13:23We spoke more.
13:24And what time do you think you got to the farm?
13:26It had to be right about noon sometime.
13:30Had you ever been to the farm before?
13:32Yeah.
13:33A couple of times.
13:34Do you recall the last time?
13:37Probably, ooh, four or five months ago.
13:43Could you actually see the farmhouse from where you were?
13:46Could you tell if the door was open or closed?
13:47A little bit out of between the trees.
13:50It looked closed to me.
13:52If it would have been open, I would have probably figured he was there.
13:57How long would you say you stayed in Fowler?
14:01Oh, no more than 15, 20 minutes.
14:05Did you guys find that odd that you had plans to do this and now he's not answering the phone?
14:11Yeah, kinda, but we'd make plans for him to come up a few times and he just didn't.
14:18Didn't show?
14:19Yeah.
14:20Before we left town, we drove around Fowler because I knew that Byron had a little house that he had moved into downtown.
14:29But I couldn't remember where that was, so just kinda drove around looking for it.
14:34And then finally just decided to leave.
14:37I'm right now focused on Byron's state of mind.
14:41Would you say that he was capable of taking his own life?
14:46Yeah, I feel so.
14:48It was in September.
14:49He asked me if I could bring him a ham gun.
14:51And I actually have a gun collection.
14:53Anthony and I collect guitars, cars, and guns.
14:57And I told him no.
15:00No.
15:01So you never gave him a gun?
15:02No, sir.
15:03No.
15:04Anthony didn't give him a gun?
15:05No.
15:06Anthony would not.
15:07Okay, so I'm gonna give you my card and if anything comes to mind, please call me.
15:10You know what?
15:11I'm just hoping to help.
15:12The autopsy on Byron indicated that he was shot from the back.
15:27And it was just a single back-to-front gunshot wound to the neck.
15:34There was soot right on the entrance wound, which means it's basically a contact wound.
15:39So you couldn't really shoot yourself the way he was shot unless somebody was holding a gun at his neck on the backside.
15:52I was in shock.
15:55I thought, who could do something like that?
15:59I didn't view that people would want to hurt Byron at all.
16:04Definitely it was not a robbery.
16:07There was a watch on Byron.
16:09He had his wallet.
16:11His phone was with it.
16:12But obviously there had to be some kind of motive.
16:16When we talked to his family members, we began to realize what it was.
16:23Byron was a huge collector.
16:26He collected stamps, coins, old money, antiques.
16:33My dad had a secret room in the back of the garage.
16:38Only a few people knew that the room was there.
16:40And he had, I don't even know how many safes in there.
16:44Byron bought a lot of silver and gold coins.
16:49It was probably pretty close to a million dollars.
17:00Prior to Byron being murdered, there was multiple calls and somebody trying to break in to take his saves.
17:09They tried to rob him, but they didn't get nothing.
17:14They made it more of a mess than anything.
17:16I have no idea who did it.
17:19But then there was a noose that was hung in the barn.
17:25It was scary.
17:30After the noose was found in the barn, I just felt like my family wasn't safe out there at the farm where there wasn't really any neighbors.
17:44So we all just decided to just move back to Fowler.
17:51Byron was very scared.
17:53He was very adamant that somebody was trying to steal his money.
17:57When we found out my dad was shot, even before anybody said, do you know anybody who would want to hurt him?
18:09The first person I thought of was Corey Higgs.
18:12When we lived out at the farm, we called the cops many times on Corey.
18:19I was scared of Corey every day.
18:23It was hard to think that it could have been Corey because Corey is my son.
18:33Right after Byron's death, Gina and Lynette were very quick to point fingers that Corey Higgs was the one that had murdered Byron.
18:54Gina is my wife and Corey is her son.
18:59I really have trouble saying that.
19:03I love her other two kids to death.
19:06Saying Corey is my stepson makes me want to barf.
19:12There was a lot of things going on in the Griffey household before Byron's murder.
19:19When they were at the farm, they were all living there.
19:22Lynette and Gina and the kids with Corey and Byron and Gina's mom.
19:29I believed Corey to be very dangerous on multiple levels.
19:34Stories I heard from other people and his own family, in fact.
19:42Life with Corey was not easy from ever.
19:47He is extremely intelligent, but also violent and manipulating.
20:00Corey pulled a knife on his siblings.
20:02When he was younger, he grabbed me by the neck and choked me out.
20:11When he was 16, 17, Corey went into foster care and the court said least contact with us, the better.
20:20But for some reason, the foster system here decided that it was good for him to spend time with my dad.
20:31So Corey always seemed like he needed a father figure until Corey met Byron.
20:38Corey told my dad he wanted to be a funeral director.
20:44My dad always wanted somebody to take over his business.
20:48So Corey was this ray of hope for him.
20:52They were really inseparable.
20:55Byron would take him on funeral calls.
20:57So when they would do funeral business, Corey was dressed just like Byron.
21:05Things started going south between Corey and Byron.
21:09When Corey attacked me, he was in trouble for something.
21:14Got up, went running for a gun, which I stepped in front of him and stopped him.
21:19He turned violent, broke my shoulder.
21:25After that, Byron was very hard on him.
21:28I think Corey felt that Byron looked at him different, which he did.
21:32When Corey aged out of foster care, he moved right across the street from our farm.
21:39So Corey could have known that Byron was at the farm that day.
21:43I think Corey's motivation for Byron's murder would just be that that was just another way to hurt us.
21:58Okay, Corey, you have any idea why you're here today?
22:01I think I may have an idea, yeah.
22:03I heard that Byron Griffey died.
22:05Okay.
22:07I had known Corey from previous incidents where I'd been to the farm.
22:10And so I interviewed Corey.
22:15Where were you yesterday?
22:17I slept most of the day, actually.
22:20I was at my house in Fowler.
22:22Was there anybody else there?
22:24Not during the day.
22:26At about 3.45 or so, my friend went down for her play practice.
22:33So from Friday morning until 3.45 when you were there by yourself,
22:38did you talk to anybody on your cell phone?
22:42I talked on the phone.
22:43I texted, but there was nobody really there.
22:46With you to say?
22:47There was nobody with me, like physically.
22:49And I have my location settings on, on my cell phone.
22:52It doesn't really give an address, and that's where I'm kind of running into trouble here.
22:55But, um...
22:56At the time of the murder, Corey told me that he was watching TV at home.
23:05At that time, Corey was living about a mile and a half down the road.
23:11He could have walked to the farm and murdered Byron and walked back.
23:15You know, with you not being able to tell me that I was with this person from this time to this time,
23:24there's a window there.
23:25Okay?
23:26CBI is involved.
23:27They're probably going to want to talk to you.
23:29Would you be willing to submit to a polygraph test?
23:31Yeah.
23:32Yeah, I definitely would.
23:33Yeah.
23:34Alrighty.
23:35End of interview.
23:36Corey was sad.
23:39I think Corey truly loved Byron.
23:45Carol Coates, she's a good cop, but he's a master manipulator and controls every situation.
23:54He played her just like he does everybody else.
23:57I feel guilty being his mom and feeling the way that I feel.
24:01But I know he did it or had something to do with it.
24:10I 100% believe that.
24:20There were a lot of people at Byron's funeral.
24:24Pretty much the whole town.
24:27It was beautiful.
24:28We asked Charles to do the eulogy.
24:32He got up there and told how he met my dad and what a great guy he was to help him out when they were trying to get started.
24:42Charles and Anthony did a good job.
24:45Handling a service for another funeral director is the ultimate way of learning you did your job right.
24:53If another funeral director or their family would trust you to do it, that's a good sign in my opinion.
25:01CBI told us sometimes the killer shows up at the funeral.
25:06So keep your eyes and ears open as to what might be going on.
25:11After the funeral, we were all eating and socializing.
25:15And this woman came up to me and said, you know, Tommy did it.
25:26She said Tommy came home the other night and he was covered in blood.
25:30Tommy did it.
25:31Tommy did it.
25:34So Tommy Tomlin was Harry Tomlin's brother.
25:38They are complete polar opposites.
25:41I would trust Harry with my life.
25:44Tommy Tomlin is scary.
25:47My brother Tommy Tomlin did have a drug problem.
25:52Mavs, heroin, whatever drug was out there.
25:56Tommy was violent.
25:58He was capable of doing anything.
26:00Tommy had been doing odd jobs for Byron.
26:04So Tommy was obviously on the suspect list.
26:08We were able to call Tommy in.
26:12Colorado Bureau of Investigation did most of the interview.
26:16Thomas, what's your last name?
26:18Tomlin, Keelan, Elman.
26:20Having these rights in mind, do you wish to talk to me now?
26:35Byron was like family to me.
26:36Byron Griffey took care of a lot of funerals for my family.
26:42He was a good man.
26:46The day that Byron was murdered, I was the last person to see him alive.
26:51I met Byron at noon to get paid for the work I'd done for him.
26:56When I heard the news, there was a lot of stuff going through my life.
27:00And then stories are going around of who did it.
27:03One was my baby brother, Tommy Tomlin.
27:08Tommy Tomlin never had a steady job.
27:13So when my dad needed help doing anything at the farm, he just got Tommy.
27:20Tommy was around when he needed money, which was all the time.
27:25When you do drugs, you do things that you really shouldn't be doing.
27:32He went to a party and supposedly had blood all over him.
27:36And told everybody, did you know Byron Griffey got murdered?
27:39The rumors of Tommy Tomlin showing up to a party and being covered in blood were false.
27:49We had heard that the day after Byron's murder, Tommy was flashing around $100 bills that he normally didn't have.
27:56So we were questioning where Tommy had gotten this money.
27:59And so we did set Tommy up for a polygraph.
28:10So let me get introduce myself. I'm Jody.
28:12Sure. So, and it's Thomas. It's nice to meet you.
28:15Gorgeous. Thank you very much.
28:18I'm going to talk to you about the death of Byron Griffey.
28:21Byron Griffey, okay.
28:24Just tell me in your own words, why is it that you're being locked out as a suspect?
28:29Because I had all the money that I found in somebody else's house.
28:33And they think it's Byron's money?
28:36How good a friendship did you have with Byron?
28:39That one.
28:43When did you last see him?
28:457.30 that one.
28:46So you leave this house by 11, 11.30, the next hour, hour and a half that you're in one house?
28:52I guess.
28:53Okay.
28:54Hold on. Back up. What did you say?
28:56You leave Byron's by 11, 11.30?
28:59Yeah. Don't worry about that.
29:00Or else, you get home around 12 or 12.30.
29:03Right. Okay.
29:04When you answer the questions I answered truthfully, but this stuff goes wrong.
29:11Did you participate in any way in shooting Byron?
29:20This test is now complete.
29:21Mr. Tomlin, unfortunately, it's pretty evident to me that there's something you are telling me about life.
29:36Are you serious right now?
29:38Yeah, I'm serious.
29:39Don't you guys understand that life is already a bunch of hell?
29:44Are you guys trying to put a murder on you?
29:46I am not trying to put a murder on you.
29:48Yeah, you are.
29:49I am trying to get to the truth.
29:50That is all I want.
29:51You are in my mind because I didn't shoot Byron.
29:56You guys are .
29:57No, I'm not.
29:58Shut up.
29:59You already told me this.
30:00I am already, please.
30:01Look.
30:02Look, you look.
30:03I'm trying to make you understand I didn't shoot Byron.
30:05And I'm not going to go down for somebody else's bullshit.
30:07You're trying to get me to confess to something I didn't do.
30:10I'm not trying to get you to confess anything other than the truth.
30:12All right.
30:13I'm here to get the truth, whatever that is.
30:14You could cut my junk off if I lied to you.
30:19Leave me the alone.
30:21Please.
30:27At this point in the investigation, we did pull DNA from everybody involved.
30:33But the crime scene was very clean.
30:37Whomever killed Byron was very meticulous on making sure that there wasn't much left behind.
30:45So the results came in that there was no DNA matches for anybody.
30:51We didn't have a murder weapon.
30:53We didn't have any real DNA and it could tell us who was there with Byron.
30:58We were back at square one.
31:02So without physical evidence, you start looking at circumstantial.
31:06We start looking at timelines.
31:08The last person that saw Byron Griffey alive was Harry Tomlin.
31:16They met at the bank in downtown Fowler and that was about 12.10.
31:21Byron handed me my check and he goes, I'm going to go to lunch.
31:28He specifically told me he was going to meet up with Anthony and his brother.
31:32We believe that Byron probably arrived back at the farm approximately 12.15 to meet with Charles and Anthony.
31:41Byron's phone showed two missed calls from Charles' cell phone number.
31:46Since Byron had his cell phone on him, Byron probably didn't answer the call at 12.43 because he was probably dead.
31:58The body wasn't discovered until approximately 8 p.m. by Gina and Lynette.
32:04So from the time that Byron was last seen in Fowler and the first call being missed at 12.43, that's how long it would have taken to murder him.
32:19Tommy said that he was at an abandoned house with a friend during the time Byron was murdered.
32:26Corey Higgs, he was home alone, but he was living down the road from the farm.
32:32Everybody's a suspect until you can rule them out, but trying to definitively rule them out was very, very hard.
32:44It was something that we just continued to pursue.
32:48I think many people in town started to wonder, what happened to all of Byron's gold?
32:55Where did it all go?
32:57Now that's the million dollar question.
33:02So after my dad's murder, Gina and I were trying to find my dad's money.
33:13A year before my dad was murdered, he was really worried that whoever had broke in before was going to come back and take all of his coins.
33:22Or somehow Corey knew it was there and so Corey was going to take it.
33:29And there was no way that he could take that to a safety deposit box or something like that.
33:34And so my dad called Charles and Anthony.
33:37Byron asked if we could watch some coins for him.
33:46I had a gun room, as what everybody called it, in the basement of my house.
33:53My dad wanted to make sure that his money was in a secure place.
33:59They talked about a secret room in their house to where nobody would ever see it.
34:04And so Charles and Anthony agreed.
34:07They had a call at like 10 o'clock at night.
34:12Charles and Tony, they're like, hey, come over and give us a hand.
34:16It was just boxes on boxes of quarters.
34:20$500 boxes of quarters from each state.
34:23I mean, I'm talking a whole truck bed.
34:25I was like, why is this all in coins?
34:28Like, this is ridiculous.
34:29Charles explained to me, well, if you put all your money into quarters, then it's technically a coin collection, so it can't be taxed.
34:39Byron did not keep a full record of what he sent to Charles and Anthony.
34:44He called them several times after they took the coins and said, hey, can I come up?
34:50I need to document, you know, what I gave you.
34:54Charles and Anthony were always busy.
34:56They always had a funeral or something.
35:00It begins to paint the picture that Charles and Anthony might be hiding something.
35:07How long would you say you stayed in Fowler?
35:11Oh, no more than 15, 20 minutes.
35:15Charles and Anthony drove an hour to take Byron for a birthday lunch.
35:20The fact that they didn't even walk up to the house, it was a little strange.
35:26Charles and Anthony said, this is where we're going to meet.
35:31It's odd to me that that's where they met because we didn't live at the farm anymore.
35:35Charles and Anthony had been out to the farm at least three times.
35:49Three times the only entrance ever accessible was the back entrance.
35:58And that's the only entrance they used when they came to get the coins.
36:02That's the only entrance they used to leave.
36:05One of the tools that my agency uses is a polygraph.
36:13Sure.
36:14If at some point we got to that, would that be something you'd be willing to do?
36:18I want a definite reason as to why.
36:20I told him no, because of polygraph.
36:25It doesn't prove or disprove anything.
36:28And then he asked, would you give a DNA sample?
36:30I said, absolutely.
36:32That's not subjective.
36:34That's actual.
36:36So we did give DNA samples.
36:39And soon it became pretty clear that maybe I was considered a suspect.
36:44CBI had reached out to me a couple of times asking what did I know about Charles and Tony?
37:01I was shocked.
37:03I couldn't imagine that either one of those brothers would do anything to Byron.
37:09My family, they were always like, you know, we had nothing to do with the murder.
37:14Yeah, I don't know.
37:15Honestly, I'm kind of surprised we didn't talk about it more.
37:18We'd known these brothers for years.
37:22We were really close, Charles and Anthony.
37:25And Anthony was so kind.
37:28And he really inspired me to be kinder and more patient, not so jaded, because my job was a little dark.
37:37Laura was a probation officer.
37:40I was talking with her about how I can deal with being a suspect.
37:47We started talking more.
37:49I gave her my phone number, which I had never done before, so we could text.
37:55And we just began texting.
37:56And at some point I was starting to have feelings for her.
38:02But that's how it started.
38:03I was away at college and I could tell that something was up with my mom.
38:17She wasn't acting like herself anymore.
38:19The first week of the semester, I had missed a call from my mom's good friend Mandy.
38:28I remember checking the voicemail.
38:30I knew something horrible had happened.
38:33Paul, this is Andy.
38:35Please, please call me if you should get this.
38:37I need to talk to you.
38:39Here's drama.
38:41Please, please call me.
38:42I'm just getting information really slowly.
38:45And I'm trying to talk to my mom and she won't pick up my calls.
38:58I got a surprise phone call from one of my mom's friends.
39:12And my mom's friend, she's like, Eric, your mom is hysterical.
39:18She's just like screaming and crying.
39:20He's going to kill himself.
39:21Like, you know, I never meant for this to happen.
39:23And I'm like, what are you talking about?
39:25We're going down the street looking for my mother.
39:29She got like even more hysterical, crazy.
39:33To where like, they're trying to get her into an ambulance.
39:37They didn't take her to the hospital.
39:39They took her to the jail.
39:42To question her.
39:50I understand that.
39:51Do you know it?
39:53Yes.
39:54My oldest son, um, works for him and his brother.
40:00Okay.
40:01We had been talking a lot more and texting.
40:07On December 26, he told me that he loved me and he'd been in love with me for years.
40:14I had to trust that I'd been in love with him for the last three years as well.
40:20And so we immediately started to make plans for the future to get there.
40:25What was that?
40:26Charles and Tony are not brothers.
40:27They're together.
40:28They're lovers.
40:29They're together.
40:30They're lovers.
40:31Yeah.
40:32Yeah.
40:33They're not brothers, Chris.
40:35No.
40:36How long have you been in love with him?
40:37No.
40:38How long have you been in love with him?
40:39No.
40:40No.
40:41No.
40:42No.
40:43No.
40:44No.
40:45No.
40:46No.
40:47No.
40:48No.
40:50No.
40:51No.
40:52No.
41:05No.
41:07Oh, man.
41:10Ooh.
41:12Ooh.
41:17Oh.
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