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00:00Oh, have mercy.
00:07Ooh, wee, Lord.
00:09The deadly Thanksgiving fire is classified as a homicide.
00:13The lighter fluid was placed into his mouth, and he burned to death.
00:18I'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 this mic?
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.
00:33You're just trying to get me out of here so you can move that bitch in here.
00:35If you could have trouble with half the murder, they would have killed you.
00:38She is evil, hateful, and lowdown, all of the above.
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,
00:57making it a race against time.
01:02Justice hangs in the balance.
01:04Oh, I have mercy.
01:17Ooh, wee, Lord.
01:18It was Thanksgiving Day.
01:22I remember vocaling in my son in his car seat, and next thing we know, that house right across
01:28the street from us is smoking a whole lot.
01:31So I immediately called 911.
01:35Is it for Riley House?
01:36Yeah.
01:36We arrived at the fire scene within minutes of 911 call.
01:43I witnessed two windows that had been breached, smoke coming out of them, smoke coming from
01:48the roof.
01:49The fire has got some air.
01:51It's really burning, and we got our work cut out for us.
01:53My 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
02:11the front door.
02:12They went in searching for the victim, trying to search thoroughly each room and bedroom for
02:16occupants.
02:17They searched the house until they made it to a bedroom.
02:22They found the victim in the bed.
02:24He was in the room where the fire was breaching out of the windows.
02:26He was within 10 feet of those windows.
02:29The bed was heavily consumed with fire.
02:33It was clear that he had passed away.
02:34Me being from West Point, I just knew William Brownlee to be a respectful person.
02:48He was a church-going guy.
02:49He was 62 years of age.
02:51He had multiple sclerosis.
02:54William Brownlee Sr., he lived there with his daughter-in-law, Latoya, and his son, William
02:59Brownlee Jr.
03:00William Brownlee Sr. was bedridden, and they both were taking care of him because of some
03:06health 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.
03:17I had never smelled someone burning.
03:27It is an indescribable smell, like you just couldn't even imagine.
03:32He was bedridden.
03:33He didn't even have a chance to get up or try to escape the room.
03:37He was just there to suffer.
03:40My gut was telling me something's really, really strange here.
03:43The fire was almost completely in William Sr.'s bedroom.
03:47The rest of the house was just heavily smoke-damaged.
03:51From the bed to where Mr. Brownlee laid and the wall right above his head, all of it was
03:58heavily burned, way worse from how it was on the other side of the room.
04:03And 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 or prior.
04:16They're built with modern wiring.
04:18And to really cause the damage that it did, electrical fires just alone would not make
04:24this fire angry like it did.
04:27You definitely want to get down to the bottom of what went wrong for this fire to become
04:32fully engulfed in this one particular room.
04:34I remember going to the back porch of the home.
04:38There where I found a lot of fluid bottle.
04:42And I took it into evidence.
04:44I believe the fire chief, he was pretty much confident that something went wrong in that
04:49room.
04:49He believed something was started for that fire to get so hot in certain areas that he wanted
04:54to go ahead and call the state fire marshal.
05:02LaToya, she showed up in her vehicle.
05:05She gets out of her car.
05:06She's crying.
05:08She's hysterical.
05:09What we learned from the initial contact with Ms. LaToya Brownlee was she had been visiting
05:14family for Thanksgiving before this incident took place.
05:18Then she left and was shopping with her auntie, Ms. Virgie Gardner.
05:21And that's when she got the call that the house was on fire.
05:26So she came back to the home.
05:32With 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.
05:51Biggest question was if this fire was actually intentionally set.
06:09And the next question was if it was, why?
06:13He gave 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
06:23in order to have Thanksgiving dinner.
06:26So my wife left home first before I did.
06:28She 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
06:40in flames.
06:40Who gave you the call?
06:42Tony Harris.
06:42He asked me where I was and told me I need to get to my house as soon as possible.
06:47And my house was on fire.
06:49But did your wife ever call you at any time?
06:51No.
06:52Can you state your wife's name for the record?
06:54Latouria Janae Brownway.
06:56How long y'all been married?
06:5818 years.
06:59Actually, y'all 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 in the same room.
07:08Right.
07:08I moved on with my life and started, you know, seeing someone else.
07:11And she is pregnant.
07:13I said, now, by the time the child is born, yes, my child will be living on the same roof
07:16as me.
07:17The fact that now she was being evicted from the house by him and there would be an eviction
07:22hearing to have her removed from the house, very important piece in this investigation.
07:27I learned before living with Mr. Brownlee Senior, Junior Brownlee, his wife, Latouria, they stayed
07:54in an old trailer, Junior Brownlee, claimed she tried to burn an outlet to start a fire.
08:00He said she used a plant to put it by an electrical outlet and light it up.
08:06But she said that she didn't.
08:07I didn't actually call the police.
08:09But I would go in my grave believing that she done nothing.
08:14Mm-hmm.
08:16Her and your dad get along pretty well?
08:18I mean, yes.
08:19Yeah, she used to.
08:20But, 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, 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
08:33again to do the same.
08:34Your dad was owner of that house?
08:37Yes, my dad was owner.
08:38Your dad was?
08:39My dad was owner.
08:41Nine to my ten, if something was to happen to your dad, you 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.
08:49Fire Marshal's going to be able to tell us where the fire started at.
08:54You'll know that today.
08:55Hopefully.
08:55Should, hopefully.
08:56The deputy fire marshal's ruled out that it was any kind of electrical problems with
09:07the home.
09:08He basically told me that the fire was started by somewhere.
09:13After going through the scene and examining like he did, he was also adamant that that
09:18fire started in that room.
09:21Now we have an intentional fire, and this is a murder investigation.
09:24So now we have a suspect that we need to find.
09:29We 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 Brown Lee Jr.
09:42But on Latoya's hand, I looked at the fact of, you got this divorce situation.
09:49Pretty sure she was very upset.
09:51At that moment, she most definitely was a suspect for me.
09:56I have Ms. Bargey.
10:11Garner?
10:11Garner, yes.
10:13You may run out how you and your niece came and contacted yesterday.
10:15We had Thanksgiving dinner, and after the dinner, we left coming to West Point to go to Wal-Warn.
10:26Right.
10:26But when we got in West Point, she said, take me by the house to drop off this food.
10:34We went to buy the house.
10:36This should have been like, what, around four?
10:41And she got out, went in, and she came back out less than five minutes, and we went to Wal-Mart.
10:50As soon as we got to Wal-Mart, she got a call saying, smoke coming out of your house.
10:57And I'm all upset now.
11:00I said, well, is your father-in-law in the house?
11:03She said, yes.
11:04So I really got nervous then.
11:06And then I could see smoke from Wal-Mart parking lot in the air.
11:09Right.
11:09We 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 at 405, a cell phone video that shows the fire fully engulfed at 409.
11:23That 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.
11:36There's not a real natural cause that's going to allow it to burn that fast, that quick.
11:43Basically what you're telling me, y'all left from the residence around 405.
11:49Now, a person called 911 at 14 saying the house was in flames.
11:53And I got a video showing her the house in flames at that time.
11:56That room was burning before she left.
11:58Really?
12:01She had to sit down.
12:02They're going through this divorce.
12:06And I told her just last week, I said, Tora, I said, don't do nothing stupid.
12:11She said, yeah, because I was gone.
12:13I thought about going there and putting a knife in her.
12:16So, if I was asked, do I think she capable of doing this?
12:23I would say, yes.
12:25She is evil, hateful, and no doubt.
12:29All of them are good.
12:30The Brownlee family, they live directly across the street from my family.
12:45I've never witnessed something so horrific before.
12:49This is a small community, and the love of each other and the respect of each other pull us together.
12:59You hate to see a community hurt.
13:01You hate to see the families hurt.
13:03My heart just hit me because I just hated that fact that, hey, there was somebody that was in the house.
13:09Oh, I have mercy.
13:12So, after she went to the house and came back out to go to Walmart, what did she say?
13:34She was talking about him, and when you see him, you just go ahead and tell him he's wrong for what he's doing.
13:40I said, you just do what's right.
13:44If an uncle or auntie say something about their niece and nephew, you can take it to the bank and cash it.
13:51The 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.
14:02But I still had to prove it.
14:04I had to get more than just word of mouth.
14:13So, I received a video that was on Facebook Live at the time that the fire started.
14:19And this was at, like, 4.09.
14:22The 9-1-1 call came in around 4.10, 4.11.
14:28At 4.11, Latoya makes a post on Facebook about the Black Friday sale.
14:32You look at the time span, and it was very odd to me.
14:36I 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.
14:43What's up?
14:45HEY, DAG.
14:45FINE, AND YOU?
14:46All right, you do understand you're still up on a Miranda, so you're scared we're gonna
15:12speak yeah everything's pointing to her you know this house was set on fire the situation going on
15:23between her her husband she's the only one that went in the house now is the time we got to get
15:31her to break and tell us the truth as a right now what just just tell me your thoughts just let me
15:36know what's going on I hate it happened and I love my father-in-law I hate it happened and I just want
15:43to know what what this stem from mm-hmm what started this fire all right you left you on Thursday around
15:50what time again you left around 3 20 3 30 you left around 3 20 3 30 what time you make it to town
15:59all right what made you go by the house they take my plate and I had to use bathroom and then I got in
16:19the house took my plate to the kitchen went to the bedroom and see him he was in bedroom yeah I was
16:26headed out and then he asked for a piece of candy and I gave it to him and um he said I smell some
16:30smoke I said I smell something too and I looked into the room and I ain't seen nothing burning or no
16:36smoke and I went to the kitchen make sure that went on the eye and I didn't see anything and I came
16:40again I said I don't know what it is and that was it and I left
16:42you actually smell smoke in the home and you still left common sense would have been like I need to call
16:52somebody I need to get somebody over here and see what's going on it didn't sit well with me
16:59doing that interview with her how long was you at Walmart we was there in no time um we pulled
17:08her in the parking lot and was in the park and we pulled back out mm-hmm what was the reason for it
17:14somebody called did they call on Facebook or you call on Facebook it should still be on Facebook
17:21I ain't got time to take a look and see she called you at 4 11 yeah I stayed on the phone about a minute
17:34in three seconds right oh what's going on Facebook around that time mm-hmm I was at Walmart so I'm not
17:48you are aware that there's a Facebook post on your page that was made at 4 11
17:53you can remember what you did inside the house for over five minutes but all of a sudden now you
18:18don't remember I think she kind of felt like we was closing in on her I had to go in a little harder
18:24from what I'm looking at and from what the five marks reported saying either you wasn't at home at
18:33four o'clock or you was there when the fire started well I wasn't there when no fire started because
18:39did you go in the room I went in his bedroom all right did you go in the bedroom when you first got
18:43to the house or was it right before the kitchen you know I went to his bedroom then we talked and
18:49he wanted you know I hadn't used bathroom but you told me you went to the bathroom that's the reason
18:57what I said you went to the bathroom you never said you didn't use the bathroom I didn't use it I didn't
19:01use it so you lied to me like you used the bathroom well I went to the bathroom and I didn't have to go
19:07so I didn't go but I did listen you need to start getting your story straight and you need to be
19:14straight right now okay because I ain't got time for these lies okay
19:17I went to the bathroom and I didn't go and I left out there I went back to his room
19:31how about how long was you in the house about five minutes I did not see no no fire no smoke no
19:41nothing so I'm you're not gonna make me say that I did not see that but I smelled it I smelled it in
19:46the utility right in the area on the utility room in the bedroom I smelled it okay we get that we get that
19:54she continued to stick with her story over and over again I'm still seeing the crime scene I'm still
20:13seeing the remains of Mr. Brownlee I'm still seeing how hot this room got I'm on confessions
20:19you still want to see if you can get her to go ahead and break now I went to the kitchen make
20:25sure they went on the stove I feel like you was pretty upset with them you got a lot of line going
20:30on you better start being straight you pretty you pretty expert in them outlets ain't you no I'm not
20:38you ever fooled around one boy no I did not you haven't I haven't never never
20:45you spoke with the hood you told me three years ago that in the trailer when y'all got into it you
20:55wouldn't tank it with it it started fire on the trailer it was right I didn't mess with the outlet
21:00itself per se it was a it was a plant right by the outlet and I put the plant on fire that's what I
21:06can't the plant right there by the outlet they would make everything right there but I didn't I'd be a fool
21:12going to mess with this outlet and get shot it's crazy like that's how you said the plant on fire
21:17it was a mattress a plant a real live plant no it was an artificial plant and you said it was a fire with a
21:29mattress we all had learned that LaToya Brownlee tried to sit a previous house on
21:36fire because she got mad at Junior and now you know the possibility of her doing this again after
21:43getting angry with her husband could be the very thing that started this fire
21:47you did if I did with the outlet in the trailer though is that what you're telling me
22:01I started right there by the outlet the outlet probably caught on fire but I I'm not gonna put
22:05no no fire to this outlet like this at that point I was just like all right we're done she didn't admit
22:13yes I set the house fire but she attached herself to the timeline that we had so after this interview
22:23I could have arrested her but I didn't want to do it just yet because I knew I needed more evidence
22:31for it to stick it was just like a lemon we was just trying to get all the juice as we you know
22:36we could get out of that limit and so that's why we opted to continue this investigation
22:41when you fire was intentionally set so you start looking for accelerants that may have been poured
22:54there what he saw was something was poured on the glove seat the flooring and the bed he had a
23:03hydrocarbon detector the hydrocarbon detector is going to pick up a petroleum product of some type
23:09that detected some type of petroleum product was poured it could have been lighter fluid it could
23:15have been gasoline he added an interesting fact that there was also an accelerant on a outlet across
23:23the room from the bed there was no accident at the electrical outlet there was no faulty electrical
23:30outlet there was an accelerant somebody poured liquid on the outlet trying to make it look like the outlet
23:36had started the fire but it doesn't go from her being in the house at 407 closing door walking
23:41out to what you had two minutes later from a naturally occurring electrical fire in a wall
23:46it doesn't happen another specific detail that he gave us that was important that there was charring
23:53on the inside of the door of the room but there were none on the outside we determined that the door
23:58had been closed during the fire and at some point in time it was opened by my guys when they were fighting the fire
24:04when i looked over the log we found out there was entry at 402 p.m of that day and then there was an exit
24:18at 407 p.m letoria had already told us she went in the house alone within that time span you got a
24:28facebook video at 409 of the fire already coming out of the home it was on a two-minute window there
24:36no one else could have went in this house but miss brownlee to start this fire
24:41everything's pointing to her
24:44even though we had all the evidence that we had i still wanted to talk to her because i still
25:03wanted that confession from her as to why she done what she done
25:06this is a murder investigation somebody lost their life so as much as we possibly can get from her
25:15if she was willing to talk is what we were going to continue to get
25:19if i might show mike ivy and detective johnson were interviewing her of course mike he would take the lead
25:31this is a tragedy and it's up to us to figure out what happened and when the investigators looked
25:45at the scene yesterday they determined that somebody purposely set the fire
25:51so where we're at right now is to try to figure out what happened
25:57now where in the bedroom where he was the problem we've got is somebody set the fire
26:07and we can't find anybody that was in that house other than you
26:21i didn't sit no fire i wouldn't harm that man i see him just like my daddy
26:36and i wouldn't harm him at all i ain't see no smoke and no fire in this room at all
26:42okay did you keep any flammable liquids in the house like paint thinner gasoline
26:49he's light blue and gasoline out there but i this this stuff he can keep out there
26:54had you used any other glutton no well i don't know exactly what to tell you
27:05but this is not going to go away
27:08i don't want it to go away i want to find out what happened because an innocent man lost his life
27:15that fire did not start because of me after i saw that she went budging i moved closer
27:23because i wanted to establish a report with her and i wanted to see her face why not just go ahead
27:32and lay it all out here it was worth a shot are you aware the agency logged down the time that
27:39whenever somebody come in whenever they leave out they what are you aware that they log down whenever
27:46the door is open yeah are you aware that nobody else entered the house in between 12 30 and 4 o'clock
27:54and i wasn't aware that and you're you're correct you got home around four you went in and matter
28:02fact four two got the door closed behind you i guess they do it within like a many time frame the door
28:08closed behind you at four three the door opens at four oh six they got you leaving out at four seven
28:15okay you leave the house at four seven
28:20we got a video recorded at four oh nine four ten with the house laid still i'm talking about playing
28:29i already pushed through the window where the old man's playing there's two windows right there
28:34when your phone call that you got on facebook that was at 4 11. you showed it to me yesterday
28:40okay from four seven to four eleven ain't no way a fire is going to build up that much pressure
28:51and wait four minutes to blow one out and then fire it soon to the roof i'm getting fed up about it
28:57because it seems like y'all harassing me but you're not answering my question can you see if i start
29:03that fast from 407 to 4 11. i don't know how fast they started well i don't know i can't answer this
29:11i don't know how fast five started old up but i know i did not start no fire i did not kill no
29:16innocent person a handicapped person i did not do that and i will say that to the end i did not do this
29:24well and i won't be honest with you we think you did
29:29when i took him when i gave him that candy i was in the room with him i didn't see no smoke
29:36i didn't see no sound no smoke but i smoked smoked i said well we'll get junior to check
29:40in when he get here he said okay all right and you closed the door and walked out no no i'm close the
29:47door i don't close the door you don't close the door no all right now we got another problem what
29:55because i know he didn't get out to bed and going close the door that door was not closed
30:02if i was the last one there i know i did not close that door and i know that he didn't get out
30:06to be walking right so so you ought to feel like me there's a problem somewhere where someone closed
30:13that door and that ought to be something you're concerned about who closed the door you should also
30:19be concerned about who was in the house to set this fire and for it to go that fast there had
30:24been some kind of accelerant or something poor to make it just blaze that face i've been doing this
30:31a long time he's been around this a long time this this doesn't happen in two minutes i just know i
30:39didn't do what what i'm saying is forget about the fire being saved right there was a fire in that
30:47room at that time and you're putting yourself in the room you're saying i gave him the candy i stood
30:54by the bed i didn't want no fire in the room there was i didn't see no fire there was there was i
31:00didn't see now there's no way you could have i didn't see a fire in the room and there ain't no way
31:04i leave a person right there handicapped person see a fire and can't get out i mean that was her
31:11story i felt like she was gonna stick to it so i got to dealing with just her personal life as far
31:19as her and her husband i figured if i could play on that side of her emotions that she would maybe
31:25get upset and actually like tell me what it was as to the reason why she did it well listen to me i
31:35understand what you're going through i understand your husband made you mad past month or so i
31:45understand a lot going on it's a lot you're dealing with it's a lot on you got nothing to do with the
31:50situation at hand you knew this divorce was coming up you do all of this i understand that me and his
31:56situation ain't got nothing to do with this situation at hand i want to took no innocent life
32:00listen listen i understand that you wanted to hurt you i understand that i want to hurt him i hurt him not
32:12hurt his dad i understand that you already said you wanted to hurt him before i understand all of
32:18that but why just tell me why i don't know they want to arrest me tell me why you did that trailer
32:24and he made you so mad that you wanted to burn the trailer down there why why did you do it just tell me
32:30why that's all i want to know
32:40I didn't harm no innocent man.
32:48I had to say that he was at the table.
32:50I had to sit that back.
32:51It wasn't a plant.
32:52It wasn't a plant.
32:53It wasn't a socket at the wall.
32:54It was a plant right by the socket.
32:56On the wall.
32:57Exactly.
32:58Okay, don't tell me what I did.
32:59And you did it with this socket.
33:00I know what I did.
33:01And you did it with this socket.
33:02I know what I did.
33:03Now I ain't messing with you.
33:04I know.
33:05I know, I know, I know.
33:06Okay, well arrest me.
33:07I know what I did.
33:08Listen.
33:09innocent man, crippled man. They can't do nothing for themselves. I will never do nothing like this. Young or old.
33:16The only thing I can say is what you're saying. This is your last opportunity. If you want to make this right and talk about, I mean, there was a fire.
33:32Well, forget about being. We wanted to arrest her, but that would become risky because then she would probably lower you up. We were still waiting on an autopsy and a lab report. We wanted to make sure that when it was time to make that arrest, we had everything set in stone to move forward.
33:58Hi, Victoria. If you ain't got nothing else to talk to us about, and then I just want to tell her, bring it up.
34:05Okay. I really want you to tear it up more. That's the part of that issue.
34:11That is what it is. That's what happened. There ain't nothing I can say about it.
34:15All right. At the end of that interview, she looked back at us, and it was like, dang, y'all still ain't gonna arrest her, and just walked on out like it was nothing.
34:26I felt like it was just a waiting game. Like I knew next time I see you, I'm gonna have you on handcuffs.
34:35It was lighter fluid that was used on the bed, the love seat, and to the wall outlet in the house. We also get the preliminary optopsy report from the Medicare examiner's office.
35:00Mr. Brownlee died of thermal injuries, meaning he burned to death.
35:05The man of death was a homicide. Accelerant was poured all over his body, as well as in his mouth.
35:14And I thought back to my conversation with Latoya about how I gave him a piece of candy.
35:23Then he asked for a piece of candy, and I gave it to him.
35:25There's something about this piece of candy that she claims she gave him that's not registering.
35:30And that left me wondering in my mind, okay, something else is going on here.
35:35Could it be a lot of fluid that she had put in his mouth?
35:38And he said, I smell some smoke. I said, I smell something, too.
35:41It's one thing to burn, but to burn from your mouth and your body, like, that was just, what I would say, just low down.
35:51Exactly the words that her aunt said about her in that interview.
35:56So she is evil, hateful, and low down, all of the above.
36:00She was just a low down individual that'll do anything she had to do to get back at her husband.
36:13She didn't put up a fight, didn't argue, didn't fuss.
36:18She just put the handcuffs on and got in the car.
36:21Capital murder is a very serious charge in the state of Mississippi.
36:25Capital murder means that, you know, you can be sentenced to death.
36:29And she was facing that.
36:31She was facing those consequences for her actions.
36:42We was working hand-in-hand with the district attorney's office.
36:44This case was potentially going to trial.
36:46But I still wanted her to go ahead and give the confession.
36:50The family deserved it.
36:52You know, the family deserved the truth about what happened to their father.
36:55You know, the family deserved the truth about what happened to their father.
36:57So we do got the camera on.
37:14Okay.
37:15Your name is Latoya Brown.
37:17Yes, it is.
37:18All right.
37:19Do you understand the charge that you have right now?
37:20Yes.
37:21What you charged with right now?
37:22Capital.
37:23After murder.
37:24I know I'm not a lawyer.
37:27I told you, if there's anything that might help you, it's better for you to say it now
37:34than to wait home to go to court.
37:36But if you get charged with capital murder, and that's the only statute in the state of Mississippi,
37:41where they will kill you, it might be five years after you go to jail, it might be ten,
37:46but they will kill you.
37:47Can I tell him?
37:48No, you're free.
37:49Yeah.
37:50What did I have to gain by killing him?
37:52That's what I want to know.
37:53I don't know what you're telling me.
37:54That's the reason why my parents got a lawyer.
37:59You wanna know something about this?
38:06About the lawyer.
38:07They ain't giving me just one.
38:08They got me five paid lawyers.
38:09You feel me?
38:10Put that on your court order.
38:11You can go and get ten different lawyers.
38:14Okay.
38:15But the мной, then you got me five pay lawyers.
38:19You feel me?
38:20Put that on your court order.
38:22You can go and get 10 different lawyers, okay, but it don't change facts of a case.
38:32And I'm telling you, Tori, I'm telling you, it ain't looking good on your end.
38:38And I would tell you something else regarding that situation, but I'm going to let it all be a surprise.
38:43When I go to court, the world won't know.
38:47And I'm telling you, you don't want to wait on court to decide to.
38:54Why?
38:54Because at that point, it's going to be pretty much too late.
38:57No, I'm not.
38:58I'm telling you, what do you think will happen?
39:01I'm just telling you, Tori, you got a long road to travel.
39:05You feel better getting it off your chest.
39:07You really, really, really, really want to get this off your chest.
39:13Okay.
39:13Okay, first of all, first and foremost, when I first entered that house, I didn't smell no smoke.
39:18That's the first thing.
39:19I didn't smell no smoke until he told me to go and get his towel, which was by the chair, by the window.
39:25That's when I noticed some smoke.
39:26And then I went and checked the stove.
39:28I came back.
39:29It wasn't no smoke back there.
39:31It was over by his window.
39:32So whatever it started, it was on the outside of that house.
39:35It wasn't nothing in that house burning.
39:36You never told us about a fire or smoke outside of the window, but here we are now.
39:44Why are you just not telling me about this window?
39:46I said that before.
39:48Well, I thought I did.
39:49If I knew who did this, I would say who did it.
39:56I'm not going to go down for somebody.
39:58You know what I'm saying?
39:59I don't have no idea.
40:01I went and checked the kitchen, my bedroom, kids' bedroom, the bathroom, nothing.
40:05You think I'd pour some damn gas on this man?
40:08I'd be a crazy damn fool to do some stuff like that.
40:11And furthermore, this man ain't never did nothing to me for me to take his life.
40:14Toi, I wish you the best outcome.
40:25Life itself is too short.
40:29You might not tell me today.
40:31You might not tell me.
40:33I'm going to come down to your court today.
40:36And I might be old and great by the time you decide to tell what really happened that day.
40:40But like I told you, whether you got one noise
40:43or a fine noise,
40:45he don't change facts of a case.
40:48Like I said, I didn't commit this crime.
40:51So I already know I'm not going to go down for something I didn't do.
40:55One thing about it, God done already showed me.
40:57I'm lying over God.
40:58He done already showed me.
41:00I'm going to walk.
41:01I'm going to walk.
41:02When I get through, please my case.
41:03I'm going to walk.
41:04Believe that.
41:06You said you're a Christian, so I believe I can go there.
41:08God always gives you.
41:12But you can keep living in the night.
41:15That's between you and God.
41:19But I can tell you, on that day, you go to court.
41:23I hope God is with you that day.
41:26Because it ain't going to work out the way you think it's going to work out.
41:28We gave her so many chances to go ahead and present the facts.
41:34But then she went back to the snoring.
41:38And so after the final interview with her,
41:40we were prepared to go to court with her and the five lawyers that she had.
41:44I remember when the judge, he asked her,
42:06why are you pleading guilty?
42:07And she finally said, because I did it.
42:10It wasn't a confession we dreamed of, but we got our confession.
42:14And it took going in front of the judge for her to finally admit what she had did.
42:20And that was the confession that we were wanting.
42:33I feel like her motive was to get back at her husband.
42:37And she done that by taking his dad from him.
42:40It was such a hard situation that affected so many different people.
42:47So many different lives were changed behind this.
42:53He was a great guy.
42:54He was a church-going man and a great family man.
42:57So that's how the city of West Point can remember Mr. William Brownlee Sr.
43:01Chief- deixou-conseil, and I brought you.
43:08And we're going to give you.
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