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00:00The investigation, the pursuit of justice,
00:02and the lasting impact on the loved ones left behind.
00:10How did you first hear about it?
00:13I woke up.
00:16My nephew pounded on the door to the house.
00:19My nephew's crying, who never cries.
00:22And he just puts the phone in my face.
00:26It's my mom on the phone.
00:28And she goes, your dad's dead.
00:39We just heard somebody beating on the windows,
00:41and it was my boss's brother, Bloody.
00:44He needs help.
00:48This guy didn't go very far.
00:50He dropped right there as soon as he got out of the car.
00:54If you follow from here, there's a perfect trail
00:57of bloody shoe prints right to where he collapsed.
01:00They're willing to shoot these two men in cold blood,
01:03kill them in a parking lot, and move on.
01:05You'd have to surmise that he would kill anyone else easily.
01:08He has said he's been itching to shoot somebody.
01:12It's not very often that you run across cases like this
01:16where it's a random act of violence.
01:19The girlfriend's testimony was critical.
01:22What's his name?
01:24Because she was an eyewitness.
01:26The girlfriend, we didn't know if we could find her.
01:29We also didn't have a murder.
01:31And then I open up the box.
01:34We're missing the murder weapon.
01:36Got to be kidding me.
01:38For those most affected by a homicide,
01:41the first 48 is just the beginning.
01:44The whole world is different now because he's gone.
01:47This is the story of the fight for justice
01:49in the weeks, months, and years after the first 48.
01:55The police, fire medical.
02:10I've got a caller on the line.
02:11It says she was inside cleaning the building,
02:13and somebody came and assaulted her boss outside.
02:20The assailant's left in the vehicle.
02:22We just heard somebody beating on the window.
02:27Then it was my boss's brother, bloody.
02:30Do you see which direction they took off in?
02:33No.
02:34It's a small SUV, though.
02:36I've never seen they face.
02:38Okay, we're gonna get off through there as quick as we can.
02:41They passed out. He needs help.
02:48Patrol finds a man lying on the sidewalk.
02:50And another next to an open car door.
02:54Both shot dead.
03:02We got two guys that are dead out there.
03:06So, looks like it's gonna be one of those up for 30 hour deals.
03:11I've worked more homicides than anybody in the history of the department.
03:1920 years now.
03:20I've always said that murders are kind of like putting puzzles together.
03:24This is where I should be.
03:25All right, what do we got here?
03:28What do we got here?
03:31Keith is this guy.
03:34I guess he's a cleaner.
03:38The first victim is 61-year-old Keith Williams.
03:42Keith was the owner of a nighttime cleaning service.
03:45He leaves behind his wife of 34 years, Mary, and was a loving father to her three children.
03:54This guy didn't go very far.
03:56He dropped right there as soon as he got out of the car.
03:59If you follow from here, there's a perfect trail of bloody shoe prints right to where he collapses.
04:07Okay.
04:08The second victim, over 50 yards from Keith's car, doesn't have ID.
04:12We got one, two, three, four, five, six.
04:20The team finds nine nine millimeter casings.
04:23We got show casings here.
04:24We got show casings over there.
04:27So, we're in the shooting scarf.
04:30You're trying to look at the evidence there, the show casings and where these gentlemen were laying,
04:34trying to come up with the theory.
04:36If it was premeditated or if this was just a heat of moment type incident, it was a bit challenging.
04:41We don't find that much at the scene to tell us what happened.
04:44So, yeah, you're thinking, man, this is going to be a difficult one to solve.
04:50The witnesses shook up.
04:51They're heading back to the division to talk to us.
04:54Well, I need to get downtown.
04:57We always want to get our witnesses, especially it's an eyewitness, to the interview room as quickly as possible
05:04to really start advancing this investigation.
05:08Then...
05:10What's that, what's that number real quick?
05:12840.
05:14Someone's trying to get a hold of these victims.
05:16At that hour, that's probably someone close to them that knows them.
05:20Hey, this is Detective Calhoun, Tulsa Police.
05:22You were just calling a gentleman's phone just now?
05:25Hello?
05:27It could have been someone who would confirm the identity of, you know, these men.
05:30So, there's no time to waste.
05:31Who is that gentleman to you?
05:33My husband.
05:35Calhoun speaks with Keith's wife, Mary.
05:39Who's the gentleman that he's with?
05:42His brother.
05:43Okay, his brother. What's his brother's name?
05:45Yeah, so we got a call out here that there was a shooting.
05:51I wanted to meet with her in person, but unfortunately, he couldn't meet right then.
05:56And so I did not want them to continue the lingering worry about, you know, what was going on.
06:01We have two men out here that were found deceased.
06:21Glenn's wife, Cecily, joins the call.
06:25Ms. Williams, I'm trying to figure out who these men are.
06:27Okay, tell me what the tattoos are.
06:39Okay.
06:41Well, listen, Ms. Williams, I hate to tell you this, but there is a gentleman out here that's deceased that has a tattoo on his right arm.
06:55We don't know.
06:56So I just want you to know that, you know, we're going to do our best.
07:00Anytime you tell someone that their loved one's gone, you're going to experience a wide range of emotions.
07:05It's difficult to hear, but it's also a reminder for us that this is an individual that's now deceased that is loved by someone.
07:11So the guy here on the sidewalk is going to be Glenn Williams.
07:2353-year-old Glenn Williams, Keith's younger brother, had recently moved to Oklahoma to help Keith with his cleaning business.
07:32He leaves behind his wife, Cecily, and six children.
07:37I'm going to head back down to the office.
07:41Okay.
07:43So we have the two brothers who are hard-working men, working late hours, gunned down.
07:48It was frustrating because we didn't have much to go on.
07:53Three hours into the investigation.
08:02You doing all right?
08:04Kennedy sits down with the woman who called 911.
08:07Jamil, I'm sorry we're meeting in these circumstances.
08:12Who do you work for?
08:14Keith Williams, janitorial.
08:18When you talk to a witness that's been through such a traumatic incident, you have to settle them down.
08:25Let them breathe a little bit.
08:27The other gentleman that's out there with him, who is that?
08:31His brother.
08:33What time did you get to work?
08:35At 1030, that was when I texted him and said, at Midtown, there's some people outside parked.
08:42She had seen a suspicious vehicle.
08:45She actually drove past it.
08:47Her and her mother, who was helping her clean the dialysis center, they were a little bit freaked out when they see a stranger in a car on the outside of a building.
08:55So it made sense that she called Glenn and Keith.
08:59And then he called and said he was just going to come and check on us.
09:06Okay, can you describe the car?
09:08It was an SUV.
09:12I want to say it was like an Equinox.
09:15So, I assume you started cleaning.
09:19Yes.
09:21What had called your attention? Did you hear gunshots?
09:23I think I heard him knocking at the window or something.
09:27So I went and looked out the window.
09:29I seen his brother walking towards the window.
09:33He was just smiling like .
09:36Okay.
09:38I didn't even know they were shot. I thought they were just beat up bad.
09:45Do you know of him having problems with anybody?
09:48I don't even.
09:51All right. Well, we'll see what we can find out about maybe figuring out who they are.
09:56Bear with me.
09:59We're going to do our best.
10:05I was hoping we would get more information out of that interview.
10:09I was a little bit disappointed.
10:12Oh, my God.
10:15This sucks.
10:22Four hours in.
10:24There wasn't a lot of information that Ms. Jamila had provided.
10:27So I reached back out to the family in hopes of them providing some information, some ideas, maybe some names.
10:35Hello?
10:36Hey, Ms. Williams.
10:38I know it's a shock right now, but is there anything else that you can think of?
10:41Any problems, any disputes with any individuals that may be mad at these guys?
10:44Jamila's getting ready to get fired, and her son had just been fired.
10:59And, you know, that was news to me, because Jamila sure didn't bring that up in her interview.
11:04Okay, fine.
11:07It piqued our interest.
11:09We wanted to do another interview with Jamila.
11:14This is how Dad did it.
11:24He said, nothing gets wasted.
11:27You know, things like this remind me of him.
11:32Still miss him every day.
11:37My mom and my dad got together when I was a young teenager.
11:40And he's the guy that raised me.
11:46It was always service.
11:48He was the type of man that gave, instead of taking or wanting or even asking.
11:53First time to cook out together as a family.
11:56We went to go help him prep his food.
11:59And he's like, no, no, no.
12:01I cook.
12:02Y'all sit down, relax.
12:03This is my job.
12:04So this is family for me.
12:07My dad and my Uncle Glenn were actually the closest out of all his siblings.
12:11Uncle was looking for a change, so he came down here.
12:14And my dad gave him a job helping him clean the sites and stuff.
12:19He talked about work, his volunteering, and his family.
12:23And his family.
12:24You help out those three things, your life's good.
12:26At the end of the day, we're going to look at the mode.
12:42Seventeen hours since brothers Glenn and Keith were killed.
12:46What's our motive here?
12:47As the team prepares for Jamila's second interview.
12:51The wives of Glenn and Keith, they had this theory that Jamila might be involved and her son could be involved.
12:59We get a lot of theories, and we have to take those seriously, follow up on some of those theories.
13:05That's how sometimes we solve cases.
13:07But we try not to get tunnel vision and just focus on one motive.
13:11Well, at this point, I think we've got to be looking at robbery.
13:14It's robbery.
13:15So why are you killed?
13:17We got robbery.
13:19We have that these guys have done something in their personal life that this is a hit.
13:22Because they're pissed off getting ready to fire you?
13:27Option number three, if it's not a hit and it's not a robbery, then it's a total, complete stranger-do, which I don't really know.
13:34That's scary.
13:36It's very scary, but I don't know if that's what this is.
13:38The worst case scenario is this perpetrator still out there, willing to shoot, attack, or kill anyone that gets in their way.
13:48The next day.
13:50Appreciate you coming down.
13:53All right.
13:54When Jamila came back, I was wondering why she went and retained an attorney.
14:01The first time we spoke with her, she was very cooperative.
14:04I'm just going to be blunt with you.
14:06The family members have come up and they've mentioned you as a problem.
14:11They said they were getting ready to release you.
14:19That's shocking to me because the few times I've talked to his wife, it was like we had a great connection.
14:26The goal was to see how she responded. We want to know the truth.
14:30Did you have anything to do with setting this thing up?
14:34I didn't expect nothing like that.
14:38No.
14:39No.
14:42So, your son, do they have any problems with Keith at all?
14:44Oh, no.
14:45No.
14:47It doesn't make any sense that somebody would want to hurt this man.
14:52All right.
14:55Jamila allowed us to go through her cell phone, and we didn't find anything.
15:00So, I had no reason not to believe anything that Jamila was telling me.
15:05We are done with the phone.
15:07Great.
15:08She was very sincere that she was not involved in this.
15:11And we were able to exclude her as being involved at that particular moment.
15:16We'll get you out of here.
15:18As the first 48 ticks away.
15:19The puzzle wasn't coming together very well.
15:26You know, we keep swinging.
15:28The following couple weeks or so, we were following up on leads.
15:39We were looking into any type of angle to try to identify somebody who may be involved.
15:43We were just needing that break.
15:44Well, that's amazing.
15:45All right, man.
15:46Appreciate it.
15:47There was a shooting at a restaurant called Incredible Pizza, and two people were shot.
15:58They survived.
15:59The pizza restaurant shooting happened six days after the double homicide of Keith and Glenn.
16:04They were able to ID the suspect.
16:06That suspect got picked up on a different crime and had a gun on him.
16:11The test came back on the gun, and it was the same gun that was used in the double homicide.
16:18There was a match.
16:19There was an Ivan hit from cartridge casings tied to the actual firearm that was used in our homicide.
16:24We were ecstatic.
16:25Me and Chase both were like, wow, this is what we need.
16:28We went from nothing to a solid suspect.
16:33Andriel Smith.
16:36Born and raised in Tulsa, 35-year-old Andriel Smith has prior felony convictions for burglary and assault and battery.
16:44He was pulled over and arrested out of a SUV.
16:48You're going to have to do hooks while everything, sir.
16:51Six days after the pizza shooting, Tulsa PD pulled over Andriel, driving an SUV that matched a vehicle on a tip sheet for unrelated crimes.
17:01Officer Twilliker doing great police work, just following up a lead that was put out at their squad table.
17:07He had a revolver and he had a semi-automatic handgun.
17:11Our lab, they get a lot of guns turned in all the time.
17:15And all of them get tested, you know, because you never know when a gun's going to connect to a crime to be solved.
17:20If he did the two brothers, then that's quite a body count.
17:25It's not a slam dunk, but it gives us a place to start.
17:29And he's already sitting down in Tulsa County Jail.
17:32Then, Detective John Brown is also familiar with the suspect, Andriel Smith.
17:38Andriel is a suspect in the shooting case I had back in April.
17:42My victim knows Andriel Smith from time they did together.
17:47My victim got out to go over to the suspect's car and he started getting shot.
17:52My guy survived and he IDs Andriel.
17:57Warrant was out and he just hadn't been picked up yet.
18:01And he's a suspect on Incredible Pizza?
18:03Yeah.
18:04And the show casings from Incredible Pizza match up to my crime scene.
18:10The gun checked the three different shootings.
18:13And in one of those shootings, Andriel Smith was named as a suspect in it.
18:17So we're like, hey, we're onto something here.
18:20So we have two victims from the homicide.
18:22We have one from the Incredible Pizza.
18:24We have one from John Brown's case that he was said to have been responsible for shooting just in the Tulsa area within a very short timeframe.
18:33He just likes to shoot people as they're approaching his car for no reason whatsoever.
18:37That's his M out.
18:39We're thinking this could possibly be our guy.
18:42We need to check into him a little bit closer.
18:45We need to put bookends on that gun.
18:47When this gun was purchased, up to the time to where he was caught with it.
18:52We need to make sure that nobody else has had that gun.
19:06You're going to need some kind of connection to put him at the scene or something, right?
19:10Yeah.
19:12More than just that knife it hit.
19:14Yeah.
19:15Yes, we have the murder weapon.
19:17We have the person who had the murder weapon.
19:20We have a person who has used that weapon at a couple of other shooting scenes where he's been listed as a suspect.
19:27But I don't have enough yet to arrest him for the murder.
19:30But we found out that he was booked in along with his girlfriend.
19:35Love you, baby.
19:37And she had bonded out.
19:40Kennedy looks up the woman's booking photo.
19:43It looks like she's had the holy beat out of her.
19:47The girlfriend had bruising on her face and some other indicators that she had been physically assaulted.
19:52Can you pass? I'll sit there.
19:54Sure. Go ahead.
19:55Okay.
19:56Because I have a messed up leg, don't you?
19:58Yeah.
19:59Man, something's, something's bad going on here.
20:04And so we needed to get some information out of her.
20:09Back at the crime scene.
20:14This is horrible. Horrific.
20:19Lynn Williams' family holds a vigil.
20:24We moved here so he can get a job with his brother and to earn a good income.
20:29And he was murdered in cold blood.
20:36Daddy, I love you.
20:39His children are hurting.
20:41It's too much, you know.
20:43My dad was too good of a person.
20:47It just hurts to know that this innocent man was shot.
20:51And I had to come to the reality that he's not coming back.
20:59One day after Andreo's girlfriend was released.
21:07We found out that his girlfriend lived in a small town south of Tulsa.
21:12Oh, we got a nice house here.
21:14Yeah.
21:15She agrees to meet.
21:19This was a very important interview.
21:21And we needed to address this with caution.
21:24We don't want to push her too hard.
21:26We don't want to scare her.
21:27They may be willing to talk to us about it.
21:29The other flip side is that they do not want to talk about it because they're scared.
21:35Detective Kennedy, Detective Calhoun.
21:37We're with Tulsa Police, okay?
21:41Andreo.
21:42Tell me how long you been knowing him?
21:44About five, six years.
21:47I noticed whenever you got booked in, I noticed you looked like you had two black eyes.
21:52Yeah.
21:54Had he been beaten on you?
21:57Yes.
21:58Let's see.
21:59We were kind of taken aback.
22:01She still had some of the black eyes that were viewable.
22:04Right.
22:05I was assigned a case back on September 5th.
22:09It was a double murder of two brothers.
22:12Were you there that night?
22:14Yes.
22:15Yes.
22:16I was laying in the back seat.
22:21We're there.
22:22We were there.
22:23There was almost a sigh of relief.
22:25So now we're getting somewhere.
22:26I was kind of groggy and still sleeping.
22:30When I heard him get out the car.
22:32And he was talking and he's like, we don't need no help.
22:35We're all right.
22:36And he's like, back up.
22:37Need to back up.
22:38Need to back up.
22:39And then the dude was like, I can be here if I want to be.
22:43We're here to check.
22:46And then I heard the gunshot.
22:48He shot the first guy.
22:50And then I heard the other guy trying to run off.
22:54And then I heard five gunshots.
22:58Andrino and he took that back in the car.
23:10OK.
23:11You had to be saying, what the hell?
23:13Yeah.
23:14But he told me to lie down and not to worry about it.
23:17Like, nothing ever happened.
23:20Is there a reason why you didn't call the police after that?
23:22Because they told me he'd kill me and my family.
23:24OK.
23:25And I believe him.
23:26when she was scared of this guy,
23:28and she believed there's a possibility he could kill her.
23:32We're just very fortunate, lucky,
23:33that we were able to talk to her on this day and time
23:35when Andrea was in custody.
23:52This is someone that had been abused,
23:54not just physically, but also mentally.
23:57It's just pure, it's evil, it's sick.
24:00We were just blown away at some of the stuff she told us,
24:03that some of the abuse that she went through.
24:06Did you not say, hey man,
24:07like what the heck was that about,
24:09or why did you shoot those guys?
24:11He has said he'd been itching to shoot somebody.
24:15He'd been itching?
24:16To shoot somebody, like his trigger finger is itching.
24:20I really think he just shot those people
24:21because he wanted to.
24:22The double homicide, the pizza shooting,
24:27with John Brown's case,
24:29and then with this young lady being shot in the leg,
24:31this is an individual who apparently has a desire
24:35to shoot people and kill people.
24:37It's very disturbing.
24:38We need to prevent any future attacks.
24:52I really think he's gone up there.
24:55She says his behavior toward her has changed
24:58over their years together.
25:00All over jealousy and paranoia.
25:04I appreciate your cooperation.
25:05I appreciate you being honest.
25:07You take care.
25:10At that point, we had enough to charge Andreo.
25:1420 days since the double homicide.
25:17Andreo was still in the Tulsa County Jail.
25:20So we get Andreo into the interview room.
25:23We were hoping that he would confess,
25:25especially when you have the evidence to back it up.
25:29Why did you do these things?
25:31We don't know what's going on in his head.
25:33And the only person that can explain that is Andreo himself.
25:35We were homicides.
25:36Two gentlemen were murdered around the Best Buy.
25:41Have you heard about the murder of those two guys?
25:43I don't know.
25:46All right.
25:47On the 17th, you got arrested.
25:49Mm-hmm.
25:50And when you were arrested, that gun
25:52that you got arrested with, the 9mm, was that your gun?
25:56I don't know.
25:58Whose gun is it?
26:00It was her gun. It's not her name.
26:07But we were able to find a time when she had pawned it
26:11and got it out of pawn, which was in pretty close proximity
26:14to where all these crimes occurred.
26:16And then, of course, he has it afterwards.
26:19They had had that gun the whole time.
26:21Well, we had the testing done on that gun,
26:24and that gun was used to kill those two gentlemen
26:28on September the 5th.
26:31I don't know about that.
26:33I haven't killed anybody.
26:35OK.
26:36And I know been there where she has,
26:37and I killed anybody.
26:39So did you give the gun to somebody?
26:43It's always been in your possession?
26:45Nope.
26:46Whose possession has it been in?
26:52I think I'm done talking now,
26:53because I think he's trying to trap me.
26:55He's pretty much locked himself in.
26:58We got him dead to rights with the murder weapon.
27:00It kind of defaults back to him.
27:02He knew that he was caught.
27:04OK.
27:05Well, I'm going to let you know that you're being arrested
27:08on two counts of first-degree murder.
27:10OK.
27:15Most people would be devastated.
27:17Most people would know, hey, I've been caught.
27:19He didn't have that demeanor.
27:20He just said, OK.
27:22He was not defensive.
27:23He didn't seem to be shocked or anything.
27:25That kind of just showed us how hardened he was,
27:29and he didn't have a care in the world.
27:31OK.
27:32Come on.
27:33All right.
27:34I'm going to go this way.
27:35This is my good angle.
27:36I don't know.
27:37Do you have a good angle?
27:38Every angle is good.
27:39Three years into the court proceedings.
27:48It's not very often that you run across cases like this,
27:52where it's a random act of violence.
27:55You want to make sure that you're doing justice by the victims.
27:59But then you're really focused on,
28:01here's a guy who is presenting a risk to my community.
28:05We better make sure we get this right.
28:09The district attorney's office, they were always in contact.
28:12Every couple of months, even while waiting for trial.
28:16It made things a lot more tolerable,
28:18knowing that they were trying on their end.
28:21We had a lot of evidence to work with.
28:24We knew we had a strong case.
28:26We had cases where he was alleged to have committed other shootings
28:30around the time of these homicides.
28:34You had people identifying the make and model of car
28:38in the same general area of Tulsa.
28:40And then you had the ballistics testing
28:43that matches the firearm that was used in the homicides.
28:49If we want to present cases to a jury,
28:52we have to present a motion to the district court judge
28:55to determine, is this legally appropriate?
28:58The prosecution files a notice of intent
29:01to introduce evidence from the other alleged shootings
29:04during trial of the double homicide.
29:07We received a ruling in which the judge was not going to allow
29:10what we felt was relevant evidence.
29:13The court denies the motion,
29:15holding that evidence from the other alleged shootings
29:18are unnecessary and risk causing unfair prejudice.
29:21And the criminal court of appeals unanimously affirmed the court's decision
29:29to deny our motion.
29:30That constrained our ability to tell what we felt
29:33was a much broader view of Mr. Smith.
29:36Our wings were clipped in how we could present our case to the jury.
29:41We need to make decisions based on changes in the case.
29:46Five years after Glenn and Keith's murder,
29:49a new trial date is finally set.
29:51Our first setback, obviously,
29:53was when we lost the ability to present the connected cases.
29:58Yeah, we can't show that he was using the same gun
30:03in the murder and the other shootings.
30:05Now, the only evidence that could be presented to the jury
30:08was the evidence from the actual homicide.
30:11And then our weakness is the girlfriend.
30:16We didn't know if we could find her.
30:18We also didn't have a motive.
30:20No motive is always a weakness in a murder case.
30:24He doesn't know these people.
30:26He wasn't looking to rob somebody.
30:29Because you want the case to make sense to a jury.
30:32You look for a motive.
30:34We knew we probably had Jamila,
30:36and she could give us the chain of events leading up to the homicides.
30:41At 10.30, that was when I texted and said,
30:44at Midtown, there's some people outside parties.
30:48Jamila was the first person at the crime scene
30:51that noticed something was off.
30:54And so we were really looking forward to her explaining
30:57how the event unfolded
30:59and gave a description of the vehicle that was involved.
31:03And so when Officer Terwilliger makes contact
31:06with Andriel and his girlfriend at the motel,
31:09they're in a Chevy Equinox.
31:12So that was an important tie-in.
31:15But then we found out that Jamila had passed away from natural causes.
31:22You never know what to expect when time passes.
31:25We were very surprised when we found out that Jamila had passed,
31:30and even sad by it.
31:32And unfortunately, this is not good for prosecution.
31:37When we lost Jamila, we lost kind of a key component of that background information.
31:51Yeah, well, I mean, she also is the one that described that it was an equinox.
31:56Losing her was, that was a hit for sure.
32:00So far, we were having some difficulties, but we had good contact with the girlfriend,
32:06and we'd met with her several months before the trial.
32:11I hoped that she remembered what had happened.
32:14I hoped that she'd be willing to testify truthfully.
32:17I got the sense that the girlfriend was motivated to participate in the case.
32:22The girlfriend became a strength, and no motive was appeased.
32:29She described him as the type of person that would commit these senseless killings.
32:35with no remorse, and really no provocation at all.
32:39With the domestic violence backdrop,
32:42lack of let it really isn't necessarily a weakness anymore.
32:46We had context for the type of person he was.
32:54But just one week before trial...
32:57We'd ordered all the property.
32:59One of our big pieces of evidence linking the defendant to the murder
33:02was we found the murder weapon in his underwear.
33:07We were looking through the boxes of evidence,
33:10just casually attaching exhibit stickers to exhibits.
33:15That's really the putting the bow on the case.
33:19There were two guns that were collected.
33:21There was a revolver, and then there was the murder weapon,
33:24which was a semi-automatic 9mm.
33:27I open up the box, and I see a revolver, but not a semi-auto 9mm.
33:34So we have a box that has the identifiers for the murder weapon.
33:39And he said, this box is empty.
33:41We're missing the murder weapon.
33:43We had a gun, but it just wasn't the right gun.
33:50Of course we had the gun that wasn't implicated in the murder.
33:54And so I called Detective Kennedy.
33:56I asked him to look into the missing murder weapon.
33:59Well, Detective Kennedy gives us a call and says,
34:02it was destroyed.
34:04Oh, okay. Who destroyed it? The government.
34:08They destroy the murder weapon in a brutal, senseless, double murder case.
34:15You've got to be kidding me.
34:16I was going to have to explain.
34:18Government destroyed its own murder weapon due to human error.
34:23Well, that's going to play really well to the jury.
34:26This definitely was a wrench in the gears for our preparation.
34:31So we structured our witness list around the murder weapon
34:37with every single hand that had ever touched it to be ready to testify.
34:41We planned to really show the jury that this murder weapon
34:46that was collected from the defendant is the same one that was tested
34:49and the same one that matched back to the casings at the murder scene.
34:54We don't always have this many witnesses for one piece of evidence,
34:58but we don't know how the girlfriend will present to a jury.
35:01Knowing that we didn't have the gun,
35:04I had a residual feeling of worry and a little bit of doubt.
35:16The courtroom atmosphere was definitely tense.
35:19There had been some allegations that this particular defendant
35:22might not always control himself.
35:25Normally, I keep multiple pens on my table.
35:30I haven't done that.
35:31I didn't want to have any sharp objects within reach.
35:34This was a scary guy.
35:37The whole, I just don't care disposition he had,
35:41it just made it hard to even look at him.
35:46My mother ended up passing away before the trial actually started,
35:51but my wife was there with me at the trials every day.
35:55Somebody had to be there for my dad and my uncle.
35:58I was, I was going to be there.
36:01As the prosecution calls Andreo's former girlfriend to the stand.
36:06The girlfriend's testimony was critical because she was an eyewitness,
36:10and because she's the one that had purchased the gun,
36:14that came back as a match to the murder scene.
36:17Andreo had some of the best attorneys in Tulsa,
36:20and she was one of the most important witnesses in our case.
36:24So we had every expectation that the defense would go after her.
36:28And if she got on the stand and presented in a way that was rough or suspect,
36:35then the defense literally could have pinned the murders on her.
36:55The girlfriend really makes or breaks the case.
36:58If she had inconsistent testimony,
37:01then our case could very well land itself into reasonable doubt territory.
37:06She had to testify to emotional abuse,
37:10physical abuse, threats of violence, threats against her family.
37:16And that was all just leading up to being shot and witnessing the murder.
37:25Even though we didn't have a motive,
37:28she was able to give the jury a snapshot of how Mr. Smith was living this summer of 2018.
37:37And what his mind state was.
37:40I would ask her about the abuse that she suffered from him.
37:44Multiple times she broke down and started crying.
37:48And we had to take a little pause for her to compose herself.
37:51And then she would describe it.
37:53She was not afraid to go into the details.
37:56It was just hard for her. It was emotional.
37:59But she was strong too.
38:01And it added a lot of credibility to what she testified to about the actual events in the homicide.
38:07She stuck to what she remembered and what she saw and what the truth was.
38:11She was so convincing.
38:15There was a tangible chemistry when she testified.
38:18And the jury felt it. You can feel it in the room.
38:25The woman that was in that video and the woman that was on the stand testifying were not the same person.
38:31Well, looking at the defendant, she wasn't scared anymore.
38:35The defense attorneys attacked the girlfriend's credibility by labeling the lack of charge after her arrest as a free pass.
38:44The girlfriend responded,
38:46I wouldn't call the PTSD following this relationship a free pass.
38:51I think only a survivor of domestic violence could match the energy that the defense attorneys were coming at her with.
38:59It really spoke to the changes that she'd made in her life.
39:02She was going to counseling and worked on dealing with the past trauma and the abuse that she'd been through.
39:10Knowing that my dad's murder technically helped a woman get her life back together, that would honor my dad to know that although he lost his life,
39:23knowing that his life helped would have made his day in a way my dad was able to help again.
39:33After three days of trial, closing arguments begin.
39:37The defense closing argument really highlighted the fact that the gun was missing.
39:42And how do you know the gun ever existed?
39:44The defense attorney had said,
39:46should you take the government's word for everything else they're saying?
39:50And insinuated that we, the state, were trying to say to the jury,
39:54just take our word for it when that wasn't the case at all.
39:57From the time that the judge dismissed the jury till court was back in session,
40:04that concession was literally an hour and 15 minutes.
40:10The jury returned the verdict, if guilty, on two counts of murder,
40:15and also for the assault and battery of a dangerous weapon where the girlfriend was the victim.
40:20The jury wanted to give him the max, the most punishment they possibly could on everything.
40:25My mom, I know she's happy with the outcome.
40:35He got justice for what he did to my dad and my uncle.
40:40And he's going to die in prison where he deserves to be.
40:44I think the system got it right.
40:45This is one of the most violent, dangerous people that was walking the streets in Tulsa.
40:49And the jury saw that.
40:50Seven years this September.
41:02i think the system got it right this is one of the most violent dangerous people
41:07that was walking the streets in tulsa and the jury saw that
41:17seven years this september wow seven years ago this september is when my father was
41:21taken it doesn't seem that long it really don't and then one year ago we heard the verdict yeah
41:31guilty yeah back in june this is nice nice to be able to tell him
41:41the man cared about everybody there was nothing on this planet that would stop him from taking
41:47care of his kids all three of us as a husband he bent over backwards for my mom he's a great man
41:56the whole world is different now because he's gone he was the nicest man i besides my dad i've known
42:04him yeah he had a big heart
42:10do miss him a lot you could hear my dad laugh across the park
42:18and you could never mistake it
42:19he turned my life around just by being there and i miss him every day
42:27hey part of me just wish i could have said goodbye
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