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The Murder Tapes - Season 10 Episode 5 -
The Tipster
The Tipster
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00:00I think that's all I'm going in.
00:23I hear a shot fired over all of Becky.
00:26We have Riverside behind the gas station.
00:30I'm on my bike.
00:31How many?
00:32I don't know.
00:33Three of them.
00:34Three of them.
00:35Thank you, Riverside.
00:36It's deep behind the pantry.
00:40Pretty sorry, somebody might be here.
00:43I was just trying to go in the gas station.
00:45And some guy told me.
00:47No, some guy told me to come around.
00:49They ain't going to hurry up.
00:50They ain't going to tell me to do it.
00:53They should get away from over there.
00:56Uh-huh.
00:57Yeah.
00:57Call, call, call, call, call.
01:16The call came out that shots had been fired.
01:18I was a new boot.
01:19I was definitely a rookie.
01:21And for a rookie, you're kind of walking into the unknown.
01:24My body camera was already rolling.
01:25We know that that's all right.
01:27It's smaller than we've spoken to.
01:30So it's actually a gas station from the gas.
01:32They also just kind of drive south of the gas station.
01:37My adrenaline was definitely rushing.
01:39I was driving that night.
01:40We called him a field training officer.
01:42He was sitting on the passenger side,
01:43and basically was like, all right, it's your show.
01:46Let's go.
01:47We turned down the residential street, and we get out of the car.
01:55It was dead silent.
01:57I could hear the car that was revving.
01:59It was pretty eerie.
02:00It was pretty eerie.
02:05Turn the car off.
02:05Yeah.
02:10The car was still on.
02:11I could see a black male sitting in the driver's seat,
02:14and I could see him convulsing.
02:16And every time the male was convulsing,
02:18and the engine would rev.
02:24Have AMR step it up.
02:26Climbed in the passenger side seat.
02:28He looked anywhere from 17 to 24, maybe.
02:33I mean, he was young.
02:34Looks like he's been shot right there.
02:36Yeah.
02:39I could see that he had a bullet hole to his head.
02:42There was brain fragmentation coming out, blood coming out.
02:44And at that time, I was basically face to face with him
02:49and kind of saw his last breath.
02:52And I kind of stepped back from there
02:55and just kind of was like, oh, shit.
03:02A field training officer, I tried to feel for a pulse,
03:04and there wasn't one.
03:06This was clearly a murder.
03:12Andy.
03:13Hey, it's Uber.
03:14I don't know if you're the guy in charge
03:17since everybody's out of town,
03:19and Brad's on the funeral leave,
03:22but we had a murder.
03:24One third is this one to pass on.
03:26Yeah, we just got the call.
03:27The guy's dead in the car.
03:29He got shot.
03:31We're still actively working it.
03:32Black male in the car and Kentucky plates
03:34down on Prissy, Prissy and Becky.
03:37We're 10, 12, 15 minutes from Kentucky.
03:41It wasn't as odd that a Kentucky car was parked here.
03:44We run a plate in our car.
03:45We were able to pull up his driver's license,
03:49and on his driver's license, it had his face.
03:51So identified the driver of the vehicle as a 25-year-old,
03:56Delvin Mitchell.
03:57Delvin was my best friend.
04:07Technically, his name is Delvin,
04:10but he didn't really like it that much,
04:12so he would tell us to call him Delvin.
04:14People loved him.
04:15As soon as you walk in the room,
04:16like, you're just going to get that joy, that, that, that,
04:20like, it's like this wind that comes over you.
04:25Delvin did a lot of music.
04:28He never was really a rapper, but he was doing, like,
04:31the, the, like, the production of it.
04:34He used to hang out at the house with my son, like.
04:37My house used to be, like, a place where all the boys
04:42would come to chill out.
04:44So one day, Blake had come and sat down in my room
04:46and asked me if he could, if Delvin could stay with us,
04:49because he didn't have nowhere to live.
04:51First, I was kind of hesitant,
04:52because I always had people there.
04:54And then I told her, yeah, then, yeah, go ahead.
04:57We can.
04:57And then from there, me and Delvin, you know,
05:01got us a relationship as mom and son,
05:03and he used to call me mom.
05:04Oh, he ended up becoming, like, my actual brother.
05:07He went from a friend to a best friend,
05:10close friend to a brother.
05:11That's a whole different relationship dynamic, okay?
05:20That night, he got killed.
05:24And I was asleep.
05:26They woke me up.
05:28Blake called me and told me that Delvin was dead.
05:32I think I just shut down altogether.
05:35I just got numb.
05:37I got a text message, was like,
05:39there's, like, a Facebook status
05:42talking about there was gunshots last night.
05:44Y'all be careful, y'all.
05:45So, like, I don't know, my heart's, like, beating
05:47real, real fast, and I, like, my whole,
05:50I, like, fell to my knees, because I had a feeling
05:53that it was him.
05:57And then by the time I got to the crib,
05:59they told me that it was Delvin'.
06:02I don't really remember too much of the conversation,
06:05because I was, like, I was, all I seen was red.
06:08Like, like, who would hurt my brother?
06:10Like, I don't know, I lost it.
06:12For a long period of time, for real, I was,
06:14you know what I mean, I was lost.
06:19Just close out that noise complaint.
06:21It's X patrol.
06:21We're gonna be here a while.
06:23On scene, it was, you know, kind of that tunnel vision
06:26to what we had in the car.
06:28We crime scene off the entire area.
06:40That's when the brigade of detectives,
06:42uh, detective sergeants, the crime scene guys,
06:46um, started to, to pile in.
06:48When I arrived on scene, uh, and kind of processed
06:57that scene myself, uh, just looking at things,
06:59um, seeing where, you know, there's a round laying there
07:04on the street.
07:07There's one in the floorboard.
07:08The, the victim Delvin's been shot in the head.
07:11You're kind of wondering, did, was, is this a set-up?
07:14We, we don't know.
07:15There, there's all different kinds of scenarios
07:18as a detective that you run through your head
07:20to try to get it figured out as soon as you possibly can.
07:27The driver's side window also had what was consistent
07:30to be a, uh, projectile around through that.
07:34The door was open, so it could lead
07:36to a couple different things,
07:37but it looked like who'd shot him was in the vehicle
07:40or in close proximity to the vehicle
07:42when the shots were fired.
07:45The violence behind it was intentional,
07:47and you could tell that just from the amount of rounds
07:49that were sent through the car.
07:50It wasn't just to scare him, it was to kill him.
07:55There's two shell casings that we've seen,
07:57one in the car and one right outside the passenger side.
08:02Yeah.
08:03I was like, look through to the other side.
08:08There's a shell case on the other side, too.
08:09Because it out, out looks that way.
08:10Yeah.
08:11Do, uh...
08:13Your boys start a crime scene log.
08:15Okay.
08:17We don't have all the pieces to the puzzle yet.
08:19It was one of those eye-opening experiences of,
08:21hey, you know, we've got somebody, we know that's shot,
08:24but where's the shooter?
08:26As you're standing there, you're just, you're, you'll,
08:28you see this, you're, you're asking yourself why,
08:33and, you know, it's, it's just a mystery.
08:46Blackahoo, I'm red.
08:47Southbound on Quaker, Southbound on Quaker, from Joyce.
08:49Can't go southbound on Quaker, right?
08:51Here in my ear, uh, the dispatch had notified us
08:54that a car was fleeing the area,
08:56and other units were trying to get behind it,
08:59um, and as it was fleeing, they could see that the car
09:02had false plates on it, possibly involved with the scene.
09:05So, um, hearing that in my ear, I'm thinking,
09:09hopefully we can get this car stopped,
09:11figure out who's in the car,
09:12maybe they're involved with what happened here.
09:14Officers are, are initiating their, their lights and sirens,
09:21trying to get this guy to stop, won't stop.
09:23So now, in the back of everybody's mind,
09:26they're thinking, maybe he's our suspect.
09:28You know, he's definitely not going to stop.
09:30It's just a straight adrenaline dump,
09:35and it's, it's just a rush.
09:38Like, we have to get this car stopped at all costs,
09:41and knowing that there's a possible gunman in this car,
09:46the level of threat just goes through the roof.
09:49There was a vehicle pursuit.
10:01We were trying to get the vehicle stopped,
10:02and it wasn't stopping.
10:04So we thought, possibly could it be involved,
10:06because it's in the area, it's fleeing the area,
10:09it could be a piece of the puzzle.
10:11This sergeant or lieutenant at the time radios
10:14and said, other counties and state police
10:16are starting to pick up on this pursuit.
10:18So now, they're pursuing the guy.
10:21But they ended up stopping him and placed him in handcuffs.
10:28Where's he from?
10:31He had an Indiana ID park.
10:35I don't know if that's going on.
10:36Yeah, Jack Williams' phone number.
10:38Ah, baby.
10:39I want to keep on the phone.
10:41We're going to want to take this guy back to Vanderburg, so.
10:45Are we going to tell her, or are they going to tell her?
10:47We're thinking this might be our guy.
10:50He had false plates on his vehicle, and they look suspicious.
10:55I was planning, I mean, we got felony charges in our county.
11:01So there's no extradition there that we should be able to bring
11:05him back to Vanderburg.
11:06And you guys can try to top-swing, just him leaving the area.
11:12But that is awful coincidental.
11:15And talk with Peter and the prosecutor.
11:18I mean, if they just want us to impound this and talk back to Tri-State,
11:20and we'll get a search warrant for it.
11:24OK, thanks.
11:26I identified the guy as a subject named Simone.
11:29And Simone was placed in one of our patrol vehicles.
11:33And that patrol officer brought him to headquarters
11:35for an interview.
11:41Hey, what's going on, man?
11:44I'm Detective Lowe.
11:47This is my sergeant, Detective Hunt.
11:50What's up, man?
11:51How you doing?
11:52I'm doing good.
11:53I need to ask you some questions, OK?
11:55Sure.
11:56So I'm going to read you Miranda.
11:58Probably heard that before, right?
12:01But I still have to read it to you, all right?
12:03You can tell a lot by when interviewing subjects,
12:06by their disposition, how they act, how they talk.
12:11Are they looking you in the eye?
12:13Are they looking away?
12:15Simone had some of those.
12:16But you're thinking, well, this guy was right there.
12:19And this guy fled the scene from there.
12:23All right.
12:24Do you know why you're in here right now?
12:29Run me down what happened tonight.
12:31I don't even know, man.
12:33All I know is the police jumped behind me.
12:37And I was just thinking back into my mama, man.
12:41Because you know what I'm saying?
12:43I'm on probation and stuff.
12:46And they're like, the PO, you know what I'm saying?
12:50He said I got a warrant or whatever, so I don't know, man, I'm stupid.
13:00Simone basically told me that he had warrants.
13:05He was scared.
13:07He didn't want to go to jail.
13:09You think, well, maybe they did flee because they have warrants, maybe they have something
13:15else going on.
13:16Well, can you at least run me down?
13:20I'm trying to figure out something that happened tonight.
13:23And I'm trying to take you out of the equation.
13:26But I need you to tell me, like I asked you a while ago, the last couple of hours before
13:31cops got behind you and you took off, what all did you do?
13:35After we talked to him, we got a signed search warrant for his vehicle.
13:53We couldn't find anything that would tie him to it.
13:58So we released him from that crime.
14:03It is a little frustrating because you're thinking, well, this guy was right there and
14:10doesn't have anything to do with this murder.
14:16Now you're back to square one.
14:18You got to take a broad picture and just, you don't want to get hooked on one thing and
14:21this is the way this happened.
14:22You know, that's a good thing of a good investigation is you look, you know, broadly and see who all
14:27could be involved in this and what all possibly happened here.
14:30The suspect that's still out there didn't like this guy.
14:33I mean, who killed Delvin?
14:37Still don't know.
14:38Don't have anybody else to look at right now.
14:41So when you're going through these investigations, you want to know the victim's life.
14:54You want to build the victim, his own profile.
14:59The more information you gather, you're starting to build some sort of a lead to try to help
15:06solve this case.
15:09One thing we're going to do is look at his background.
15:12There's a couple of different ways we can do it on Facebook and interviewing witnesses
15:16and talking to people.
15:18So as we're investigating this murder, we start looking at Delvin's history.
15:25We don't have much to go off of.
15:27He has a report taken under his name for something criminal, which wasn't like something huge.
15:34There wasn't anything of interest that we would need or think that we would need to follow
15:41up with.
15:43A short time later, another detective in the office had answered a phone call, and it was
15:51a male subject.
15:52It was named Justin Brewer, saying he'd like to talk to Detective Lowe.
15:56Pretty much almost every homicide, we do always kind of get some type of tip or, hey, you might
16:02want to know this information.
16:04That's kind of typical of every case you have.
16:06My name is Justin Brewer.
16:07She said I could talk to you.
16:08Yes.
16:09Hi.
16:10How are you doing today, sir?
16:11Not doing too bad.
16:12Just in here trying to figure out an investigation I've got going on, trying to figure out what
16:20happened.
16:21Yes, sir.
16:22That's the reason why I called.
16:24I wanted to present myself to you properly and help as much as possible, but I did want
16:30to talk to you, sir.
16:31Okay.
16:32First, I wanted to tell you that Delvin, I know that's who you're talking about, right?
16:40Because that's the only one that I'm, you know.
16:42First of all, he wasn't a bad guy.
16:45You know, he wasn't an angel, we'll get it wrong, but he wasn't a bad guy, sir.
16:51He said that Delvin was a good guy.
16:53He's a great guy.
16:54He's known Delvin and his, and Delvin's family pretty much his entire life.
16:59I don't want to tell you what I think because I've heard so many different stories.
17:03I've heard so many different allegations coming from so many different situations.
17:07Okay.
17:08Okay.
17:09Okay.
17:10For example.
17:11Okay.
17:12He was having sex with a guy's wife that lived across the street from me and my wife.
17:18And he also mentioned a, uh, uh, uh, subject named Sean.
17:23And, uh, he, he has, uh, either a wife or a girlfriend that was named Chastity.
17:30And supposedly Delvin was messing around with this Chastity lady.
17:37And maybe we should turn our direction towards that.
17:40Maybe, maybe Sean's mad at Delvin and decided that he's had enough and he's going to take
17:48care of it.
17:49Okay.
17:50Okay.
17:51All right.
17:52Well, you have my number, Justin.
17:56When Mr. Brewer talked about Sean being involved, so that's something you have to take in consideration.
18:02Sometimes you have retaliation killings.
18:04We were very concerned of the situation.
18:06When the gentleman that's having an affair with your significant other does end up murdered,
18:10you're always suspicious when anything like that happens.
18:12Maybe that could be one potential motive for Mr. Mitchell's demise.
18:17We need to interview him to help us find out where's this going to lead us.
18:28Mr. Brewer did contact the police department, um, uh, on a recorded phone call.
18:33Uh, he brought up the information that Mr. Mitchell was, uh, having a relationship with Chastity,
18:38uh, and that her husband, Sean, was not happy about that.
18:43Sean's the one that I raised also.
18:45Everybody thought Sean done it.
18:47Everybody thought Sean done it.
18:49And they, everybody was calling me, talking about Sean, we're gonna kill Sean.
18:52Me knowing Sean, growing up with Sean, like, I knew that he, you know, he wouldn't do nothing like that.
18:56You know, but, you know, no, put nothing past nobody though.
18:59We don't know.
19:00We just know that he's a person of interest.
19:03Obviously you're gonna look at Sean's criminal history, and he did have a little criminal history with
19:07disorderly conduct and lying to law enforcement.
19:13Sean said, Mom, I didn't do it.
19:15So, I believe Sean.
19:17So, I went with Sean to the interrogation place.
19:26I wanna read you, Marina, just because your name's being brought up as a suspect.
19:30Yes, sir, I understand that.
19:31I had talked to Sean about the murder and that he's a possible suspect that his ex-wife, Chassidy, had been seeing Delvin.
19:43Well, you guys were divorced though, right?
19:45Yes, sir, yes.
19:46So, it was none of my business.
19:47Yeah.
19:48You know what I mean?
19:49But then, I guess...
19:50But still?
19:51Yes, sir.
19:52Because you and Delvin were friends.
19:54Well, as far as I knew, we was.
19:55And then, I didn't get all the traumatic and sad information until after that.
20:00He didn't even really like you.
20:02And obviously, you know, by the actions of what was going on, that I wasn't anything to him.
20:07Right.
20:08You know what I mean?
20:09But I didn't know all these hurtful things until after that.
20:11That night, he got killed.
20:12I had to tell Sean to Delvin was with Chassidy.
20:15He didn't know.
20:19So, he got mad and sad all at the same time.
20:22He said he was a little upset about that, but, you know, it wasn't something that he would go and take revenge out on somebody for.
20:31Yeah.
20:32Why do you think your name was brought up about this, though?
20:34I think my name was brought up because everybody needs a fallback and a scapegoat, and that's who I am.
20:41I'm not blaming them on anyone, but I even immediately, when I heard it, was like,
20:45Oh my goodness, what should I do?
20:47What do I need to do?
20:48Is there someone I need to speak with?
20:50Like, because, I mean, look, you know what I mean?
20:52Like, how it looks.
20:53You know what I'm saying?
20:54Like, your buddy is messing with your wife, blah, blah, blah.
20:56Yeah, it looked really bad.
20:57It looked real bad.
20:58You know what I'm saying?
20:59Yeah.
21:00I mean, it did further.
21:01Yeah.
21:02It really did.
21:03Yes, sir.
21:04And, you know, I mean, we've all watched, you've seen enough, you know, shows to know that.
21:09Sean said he went to sleep that night that that incident occurred, and he didn't know anything about it until the next morning when he woke up.
21:19You have a past conviction of lying to the police, you know, why, you know, why are we going to believe?
21:23You're going to have to show us, you know, why, why you're not involved in this.
21:27Would you mind us looking at your phone?
21:30I don't know.
21:31Okay.
21:32Whatever you need to do.
21:33Can I take it?
21:34I'm going to take it in there and look at it.
21:36Is that all right?
21:37Yeah, that doesn't matter.
21:38He said, I have an app that tracks my sleeping pattern, and it'll show you on my phone that at that particular time and day that I was sleeping.
21:48So we looked at his phone, looked at that app.
21:53He was just being very honest and truthful, which in our minds kind of eliminated him from this murder.
22:03Investigating something like this is hard sometimes because it's a little overwhelming, but we keep working our case.
22:10Delvin was my biggest fan, my biggest supporter.
22:20He was always pushing me to do great.
22:22I remember, like, preparing for the funeral.
22:25His birth mother did not want to show up.
22:28She did not.
22:30His sisters welcomed me in, you know, because they know that I took care of him.
22:35Then everybody got together and wanted a picture taken of all the guys together.
22:44That whole time, like, I changed to a whole different person.
22:47Like, I don't even remember who I was at that moment.
22:49And we were still trying to find a killer for Delvin.
22:52So it's just a lot going on at this moment, you know what I'm saying?
22:55Like, I can't grieve at all right now.
22:57Like, right now, it's just, like, my soul's gone.
23:01You know, I don't even want to live no more myself, you know what I mean?
23:04So it really hurt, for real.
23:07And I'm still suffering.
23:09His life was taken.
23:11He didn't deserve that.
23:13There's a lot of people out here that deserve it, but he didn't.
23:17He was having sex with a guy's wife that lived across the street from me and my wife.
23:30I did find that kind of odd that another call came in.
23:32guy from the earlier communication he was having sex with a guy's wife that lived across the street
23:39from me and my wife i did find that kind of odd that another call came in so i answered the phone
23:46he tries to tell me uh several different stories about what could possibly happen to delvin
23:52which in my mind thought was kind of far-fetched i said did you ever meet up with delvin he said
24:00he was supposed to meet delvin on the night that he was murdered and at that particular time i don't
24:07don't know that information he didn't want to give a whole lot of information before so you're kind of
24:13wondering why now that night i called him and he was supposed to meet up with me my wife is a cab
24:19driver i called my wife to bring me and he never showed up and i didn't charge him you know to my
24:26heart about that because it was something so small and petty you know honestly i just felt like well
24:30maybe he thought it wasn't worth his time so i asked him where they're going to meet at it's a little
24:35apartment complex block and a half away from where delvin got shot and killed where he could get uh
24:42a bag of weed for his wife his wife's name was amber brewer she worked for a uh a cab company
24:50uh driving a cab and he said no no i i met in that area and i waited all night long he never showed
24:59there was other detectives in the room with me we we kind of all just looked at each other in awe
25:07we just could admit of being there that night close to the area where delvin was murdered
25:13in my opinion you're being nosy because you know something happened and you're wanting to know what we
25:19know and i'm not giving that to you you heard the stuff on facebook like the police chase and the
25:25shooting all that you tried to call him or text him or what'd you do no sir no sir um after i left
25:32i tried to call him again and he didn't answer after we completed our conversation like i said did this
25:37guy really just call in here and give this story of
25:43his events that in his mind took place it didn't make any sense none none of his stories made any
25:53sense i believe then justin called back one or two more times just trying to kind of feel the detect
25:59about hey what do you have on me and then trying to throw shade on maybe other just to send an
26:05investigation to another area other than himself he kind of admitted that he was supposed to meet
26:11delvin's very close to where the incident occurred the night that he was murdered so we had enough
26:18probable cause to get a warrant for his phone number to get call detail records text messages
26:27and found out that on the night of the incident justin had called a female
26:33her name's scarlett for several uh phone calls and texts back and forth so we all were thinking is
26:40she's the side chick that got involved when you commit a crime such as murder you know the wheels
26:46are turning i'm sure he's looking out the window that anybody see us you know he called on somebody
26:50that he's had faith in and maybe that was scarlet we've got to talk to that person find out how she
26:56was involved
27:06we did some further follow-ups and found additional cell phone data cell phone data does not lie
27:14the phone data showed that scarlett was in recent contact with justin night of the murder
27:19there were several phone calls and texts back and forth that was suspicious
27:27we found out that scarlett was living with her mother
27:31so we went to the mother's house to try to interview her there but she wasn't home so we interviewed the
27:38mother at her house okay terry go ahead and have a seat terry you remember me i'm detective willer
27:48and this is detective hands she's a very nice lady and i believe she had some concerns about her
27:53daughter's safety since she was involved with justin brewer she said mama and um justin was going to know if
28:01she said justin ended up getting dropped off at scarlett's mother's house the night of the murder
28:27her and justin had come in kind of in a frantic type mood very wired very amped up
28:35really truly and honestly didn't even want in there
28:39mm-hmm
28:39but that's
28:41let's follow it
28:42yeah it's your daughter i understand
28:46this is unsettling but what i want to make sure is you're not doing something to your kid now
28:52no uh if you know something it's important the only time that he talked to me he come downstairs
28:58carl was gone and uh he just kept walking back and forth you know doing this i really want to tell
29:07you what's going on mom i think you should know but i really don't want to tell you you know more or less
29:17he was admitting to me but he didn't come out and say it
29:24according to scarlett's mother he said something bad had happened that night
29:31we were starting to get more and more information she did admit that justin was at the house
29:36that she's a potential not eyewitness to the murder but maybe a circumstantial witness to a murder
29:42do you ever get 100 of the information the only person that really knows that is the person you're
29:49interviewing did he expand on that what what he wanted you to know no not at all he did not come
29:57out and say he murdered that boy no he did not and i put my name on the bible to that he did not say
30:05that but in so many words i knew that something wasn't right and he done something
30:14i mean you could tell she was scared of him she would sit there and talk to us and smoke
30:18which i'm not a smoking fan but it was worth it what did scarlett tell you that he told her
30:25scarlett told me that he killed me when was this this was before he left yeah before that
30:36jason didn't tell you personally that he did no he did not i never heard that come out this
30:41time in a roundabout way though he said you know in a roundabout way
30:47afterwards we did some interviews with scarlett she was not willing to give up any information
30:58we tried to speak with justin but he refused to talk to law enforcement when confronted
31:05justin didn't want to speak with us so we put our attention more towards amber justin's wife
31:13in the interview phone calls before with justin brewer he did inform detectives that he had been
31:21picked up that night in amber's cab to meet mr mitchell and mr mitchell had never shown up
31:29we then go to ucabby they did confirm that yes amber was working that night
31:36and her cab it had gps tracker in it which is always good for us
31:43it shows exactly where the cab was going
31:48it could be that break moment where like oh this is it
31:53there is almost always information on those devices that will help us along in our case
31:59so you're hoping that happens
32:03i went into the office and they had come back from the taxi cab place with the gps information
32:08and it showed amber's cab going down to the southeast side and stopping a block or so from the murder
32:19so it was kind of nice to look at the data and go okay so it puts them at the scene of the crime at
32:22the time of the murder
32:24and then immediately after it shows her stopping on top of diamond avenue over pigeon creek
32:34that was the first thing we all thought holy she just threw that gun out in the creek
32:38the dive team showed up at the bridge and they did their process as far as searching for the gun
32:50are we going to find something there
32:54my thoughts are there's no way there's a young man from the local news and my first question that
32:59reporter is hey when is this going to be on tv and he said it'll be on an 11 o'clock news
33:03evansville is not a huge community but you look up and there's news media trucks lined across this
33:11bridge they were all over the story we then got the thumbs up that there was a discovery and the
33:21diver did a great job he found it in pitch dark water and he pulled that thing up and i'll never
33:26forget it and the next thing you know you're looking at a slide from the smith and wesson
33:29so this is more icing on the cake
33:37we had enough probable cause to get arrest warrants for justin and amber
33:47but we could not locate them here in the city of evansville
33:50it might have taken us a week or two but and we got a arm i was on a date night with my wife and got
34:03a confirmation from the fbi that amber and justin were in custody in chumlee georgia just outside alana
34:10she was stopped while texting and driving so at that point things were going good with them in custody
34:20you'd love to sit down face to face with them look them eye to eye and get a full confession
34:29justin brewer refused to speak to investigators but amber decided to speak with law enforcement
34:34it myself and detective low walked in there thinking okay what what are we going to hear
34:54a little bit on the date before everything happened are we going to hear some story that
34:59just not jive with any of the evidence we have going to take you back to rome january 25th of 2019
35:06or is she going to tell us the truth
35:20we're being recorded you understand that right
35:26amber brewer did decide to speak with law enforcement
35:29i fully intend not to tell a lie at home
35:34so if it's safe to say i'm 125 of 2019 that in january 25th of 19 you were working at ukabby
35:41sometime or another did you have a conversation with justin and did you go pick him up at the hotel
35:49you were staying yes okay i went and picked him up so i could get him back to leave okay
35:55amber basically told us that the night of the murder justin was wanting to get a little bag of weed
36:05who um who set up a deal to get the bag of weed he did okay and we're talking about and who did he set
36:12it up with um that young man right there his name was on that paper devin mitchell okay she said she
36:21picked justin up they drove to the southeast side of evansville to meet delvin that night
36:29we just enter into the parking lot okay and what happens there we get in um the car that he was
36:37driving delvin's car okay and what happens in there um he takes off out the parking lot and i
36:43can't i'm not going to tell you which direction we went in because at the point we get in the car
36:48i'll leave it up to the to them to figure out whatever they're doing because you know i'm just
36:52i'm with my husband i understand she gets in the back passenger seat of delvin's car
37:01and justin gets in the front seat they drive around a little while oh i'm in the back seat minding
37:09own business as he pulls over my husband pulls out a gun and i'm not used to those type of things
37:18so i just i got out the car and took off running okay and um that's that's when i heard um the gun
37:27go off um you couldn't remember how many times you heard it go off no justin's got a gun pointed at
37:34delvin and she says she jumps out of the car and takes off running
37:40and she gets a short distance and hears some gunshots
37:46people give false confessions we did not find anything deceitful in her interview with us
37:52everything was consistent with our investigation okay at some point do you stop your cab at the
37:58pigeon creek bridge there yes okay and do you get out yes and what do you do there well my my vehicle
38:04was smoking i didn't make a maintenance report about it and um i don't i don't know just if it
38:11was smoking so but um i drew the slide that he told me i had to get rid of so after she tells us
38:18this story you're pretty confident you you've had the right guy
38:24you've been hearing his name he's made calls to you it all matches up
38:32mr mitchell was a very young man and to be killed over a bag of marijuana
38:36it is tragic he's not going to get his life back and the family doesn't have him back
38:45i don't know if it's a lack of respect for a human person or it's just
38:50the disdain for not getting something you think you deserve i don't know what causes this
38:59amber testifies against her husband she was charged with obstruction
39:07she was released on time served
39:09justin was ultimately charged with murder they found him guilty he was sentenced and the judge
39:22recommended 85 years in prison scarlett was ultimately convicted of obstruction of justice
39:30for lying to law enforcement and she was sentenced to two years and 182 days
39:40we've done phone calls before where people have actually called in and talked to law
39:44enforcement knowing they're the suspect they want to know what the word on the street is
39:49but curiosity kills the cat sometimes and that's what happened in this case
39:56in my mind in my heart i hope the family knows that we did everything we could
40:00and that we did get justice for delvin
40:02dalvin he was a star
40:12i mean he was just great
40:15he didn't really get a chance to even live life
40:26i'm still having trouble with it
40:28i said at home all the time i really don't deal with anybody i don't deal with anybody
40:40i hope justin really thinks about what he done and how bad he impacted a lot of people
40:47dalvin was the joy of a lot of our lives
40:56and now we don't have that joy no more
40:59you stole that joy from us
41:00he took my bestest friend
41:10so i'm hurt still to this day
41:16he was the life of the party
41:21there ain't no more parties no more
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