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00:05Oklahoma City, November 2001.
00:08Devoted dad, Rob Andrew,
00:10is looking forward to Thanksgiving with his children.
00:14Thanksgiving was a big deal to him.
00:16Being thankful for what you have, that was who he was.
00:20But very quickly, tragedy strikes Rob and his wife, Brenda,
00:25in their own home.
00:27What monster killed during the holidays?
00:38Those two little kids had no clue that their world was changing
00:42right outside in their very own garage.
00:45Who wants this loving father dead?
00:48A month before he was killed, his brake lines had been cut.
00:52That sounds like a tented murder, don't you think?
00:55This was a planned attack.
00:58$800,000?
01:00That has to be considered as a possible motive for murder.
01:04You know, you can't control evil.
01:06Evil comes to you from out of nowhere.
01:09To be continued...
01:11To be continued...
01:12To be continued...
01:14To be continued...
01:16This has been a toddlerக
01:30Hello, I'm Nancy Grace.
01:47Oklahoma City at Thanksgiving, and the city celebrates in style.
01:53Parades in the streets, friends gather, everyone counting down until Christmas.
02:00For families in the midst of a breakup, it can be awkward and bittersweet.
02:07One month before Christmas, two days before Thanksgiving, Robert Andrew is alone.
02:13An advertising executive from Oklahoma, he's facing the holiday season without his wife, Brenda.
02:30Brenda had filed for divorce, but it was not something he wanted.
02:36He was heartbroken over that.
02:38I know that particular Thanksgiving was a big deal to him because he was picking up the
02:42kids and taking them to have Thanksgiving dinner with his family.
02:46It was going to be a normal Thanksgiving, except Brenda wasn't part of the equation this time.
02:53But he went over to pick up his kids that night.
03:04And didn't get past the garage.
03:11I've been shot, my husband's been shot.
03:14Okay, you and your husband have both been shot?
03:18Yeah.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Yeah.
03:21I don't know.
03:22You don't know?
03:23I don't know.
03:24They had on black masks.
03:25I don't know.
03:26Oh, my God.
03:27There's blood everywhere.
03:28Well, the incident happened.
03:29It's a quiet neighborhood.
03:30It's a suburban-type neighborhood.
03:31Large homes.
03:32Expensive.
03:33I'm thinking, you know, why is this happening over there?
03:50Roland Garrett is a retired detective from the Oklahoma City PD.
03:54When I drive up the scene, I see a dozen police cars, ambulance, and everybody's lights
04:02is flashing.
04:05And the lights of the home are on in the garage.
04:07The garage door is raised overhead.
04:09The garage door is up.
04:11I met my partner outside the crime scene.
04:15He said, when the officers arrived at the scene, Brenda Andrew was leaning over Rob Andrew,
04:22her husband.
04:27There had been two masked gunmen that had come into her garage.
04:35One had a shotgun and shot her husband.
04:41The other had a smaller pistol and shot her.
04:47She had a gunshot wound to the upper part of her left arm.
04:57Brenda is taken by EMS to the hospital to get treatment for her gunshot wound.
05:02In television news, Thanksgiving was an easy holiday to work because there wasn't a lot of news going on, this being the exception.
05:12It came over the scanners, and so we jumped in the car, showed up, and there were police cars everywhere.
05:18We heard someone was dead in the garage, and there was another victim.
05:25He shows up to pick up his kids, and he gets killed in the garage.
05:30On his way to celebrate a beautiful holiday, I'm sure with his family and his children.
05:37How could that happen?
05:39The kids were found inside the house watching television.
05:44Those two little kids had no clue that their world was changing right outside in their very own garage.
05:51So at the time, they were removed from the scene and taken to a neighbor's house.
05:57Based on the information we received, we knew it was two suspects, so we had patrolmen in the area, and we also had a helicopter checking the area.
06:14We spoke to the neighbors to find out if anybody saw anything or were there any security cameras.
06:20No cameras.
06:22We did have some neighbors that heard something they say sounded like a trash can banging or something, and that's about all they heard.
06:31The forensic investigators arrived at the scene, and they'd see what we got there.
06:39Rob was laying on his back in the garage.
06:43There were two wounds.
06:45He was shot in his neck and in the side of his abdomen.
06:49There was a bag of tin cans nearby.
06:54Rob was likely trying to shield himself from the second shot.
07:01The forensic investigators located a shotgun shell on top of a minivan that was parked in the garage.
07:12And a bullet fragment in the door, a door which leads from the garage to the interior of the house.
07:18No weapons were found at the scene.
07:24At the time, I still don't have much.
07:25No known reason why somebody would want to come kill this man in his garage.
07:29I got a phone call from a co-worker, and she said, did you hear?
07:48Rob is dead.
07:49And I just felt like it's indescribable, like your soul leaving your body or something.
08:06It's something I've never felt before and never have again and hope I never do.
08:09I knew it would be important to talk to Brenda Andrew, the wife of the deceased.
08:16I was hoping that she would be able to come up with something to help lead us to some suspects.
08:21I go to the hospital, and Brenda was still in the emergency room being treated.
08:31Her condition was going to be non-life-threatening.
08:34She was just stoic, just sitting there, basically answering my questions.
08:39She told me they were going through a divorce, and he had moved out a couple months prior.
08:44He got an apartment three miles away from their house.
08:48Husband and father, Rob Andrew, comes to the home to get the children.
08:53He's taking them to a Thanksgiving dinner at his parents' home.
08:57Before they leave, wife Brenda asks Rob to check the furnace.
09:02That night, her pilot light on her furnace had gone out, and she needed some help with that.
09:13As he crouched down to take a look, suddenly two masked men appeared in the garage.
09:20One fired a shot at Rob.
09:29She was shot, and she was exiting the garage to go back in the house.
09:35She went inside, called 911, and she went back out to check on Rob, and the guys were gone.
09:44Brenda was unable to offer any clues as to who the suspects could possibly be.
09:49She had no clue who would want to hurt Rob.
09:52You know, it could be a home invasion, or it could be Rob getting followed home.
09:56You kind of wonder, is this going to be solvable?
09:59It was all dependent on what we was going to find out about the victim and his wife.
10:04Brenda and Rob both grew up in Enid, Oklahoma.
10:21Rob grew up in a conservative Baptist household with his three brothers.
10:26Brenda had grown up in a very conservative household as well.
10:33Everyone knew the story about how Rob and Brenda met.
10:36It was in Enid, in the summer, at the public swimming pool.
10:43Brenda walked in. Rob had always said, I saw this cute girl in the swimsuit, and said, I'm going to marry her.
10:49And he did.
10:56Shortly after getting married, the couple moves to Oklahoma City, where Rob is offered the job of his dreams.
11:03Rob was an advertising executive for Jordan Advertising here in Oklahoma City, and he had done very well for himself.
11:09Had a great reputation in this town, and in the advertising world.
11:15In 1990, Rob and Brenda Andrews start a family of their own.
11:20First, the birth of their daughter, Tricity.
11:23Then, a few years later, they welcome a baby boy, Parker.
11:28He was the stereotypical family man. Loved his wife, loved his kids.
11:34Told us all the time how proud he was of all of them.
11:36I mean, he lived for his family.
11:40And I know it sounds like a stereotype or a cliché to say that he was the nicest guy, but he really was the nicest guy.
11:48He did things for people without asking, and he didn't expect anything in return.
11:53His positivity came from his faith.
11:57He was a very religious man.
12:00Rob went on mission trips with his church.
12:02They would go overseas and build houses for a village that didn't really have housing, and he loved it.
12:13Brenda was your typical stay-at-home mom.
12:17She taught Sunday school.
12:19She baked brownies with her kids, like the perfect wife and mother.
12:23Brenda would come up to the office with the kids every now and then.
12:28She seemed very happy and devoted to them, devoted to Rob.
12:32They absolutely seemed like a strong couple.
12:34Rob thought that this was his happily ever after.
12:37But just two months before Thanksgiving, Rob had left the house at Brenda's insistence.
12:48He was heartbroken and living in an apartment and just desperately praying that she would have a second thought.
12:59He wanted to stay married to her. He still loved her with all of his heart.
13:07He believed if he prayed hard enough and kept at it, that he could turn her around.
13:13That they could be in love again.
13:16Despite the problems in the relationship, you know, he was really trying to take care of his kids and stay a part of their life, despite what's going on with him and his wife.
13:25It seems no one has anything bad to say about Rob, but when it comes to wife Brenda, detectives hear a very different story.
13:38Brenda very much put on a June Cleaver sort of role, but that wasn't who she was.
13:46She looked like the perfect stay-at-home mom.
13:49Sunday school, innocent.
13:53It was quite the opposite.
14:02Brenda had a lot of skeletons in her closet.
14:04Thanksgiving is truly a time for gratitude and for families to gather and give thanks.
14:22Despite his troubled marriage, Rob Andrew wants his children to have a wonderful holiday.
14:28So who, who would want to gun down this dad?
14:34Gun down in cold blood when he's picking up his children for Thanksgiving dinner.
14:40Detectives speak to those closest to Rob Andrew to learn he is a star advertising executive.
14:47His success buys a beautiful home for his family and it all seems ideal, except his stay-at-home wife Brenda is not staying home.
15:01For all intents and purposes, she looked like the perfect stay-at-home mom.
15:05It was quite the opposite.
15:08She'd had multiple affairs with different men.
15:17And it starts almost immediately after their marriage.
15:21As part of the work I did with Rob, we were in the car for two hours at a time, at least once if not twice a week.
15:30Almost every time he would call Brenda and I noticed that they never said I love you.
15:37One time I asked him, why do you never say I love you on the phone?
15:41And he told me that she had said soon after they got married, that makes me feel uncomfortable.
15:48Do not ever tell me that again.
15:49I mean, at the time I was newly married and I couldn't even fathom the world in which I didn't end the conversation with my wife that way.
16:00Uh, it seemed bizarre.
16:03On subsequent trips, Rob would tell me about affairs he believed Brenda was having.
16:10I remember asking, what makes you think that?
16:18He told a story about coming home and seeing a box on the bed with, you know, fancy ribbon.
16:24And he opened it up to look and it was lingerie.
16:26And he thought, ooh, you know, uh, he was looking forward to that.
16:33But then he never got to see it.
16:38The biggest one was they had come back from a trip to Mexico with another couple.
16:44And Rob strongly believed that Brenda was having an affair with the other man.
16:52Just the way they interacted during the trip, the way they were always sneaking off together during the trip.
16:58And it turned out to be true.
17:01She was sinning, but yet he forgave her.
17:05He still wanted to be married to her.
17:08He was not about to break that vow.
17:09That was not something he ever wanted to even consider.
17:23We knew that she was carrying on with some other men.
17:26But just because of her doing whatever she was doing with the other gentlemen
17:31didn't necessarily mean that she was going to be a, uh, a killer.
17:36We got several men we need to speak to.
17:38We have to make sure that that man wouldn't have a reason to want Rob gone.
17:44Detectives managed to track down one of Brenda's lovers.
17:48He's a friend of her husband, Rob.
17:51And his name is Jim.
17:56From Jim, I found out that he had been involved in an affair with Brenda.
18:02Jim was going over to Andrew's home when Rob wasn't there.
18:05Once Rob knew or found out, Rob had actually told him, I don't want you at my house.
18:17And so he stopped going over there and stayed away from Brenda.
18:21He told me that it had ended after about three months.
18:25I thought he was believable.
18:29I don't think he had any reason to go over there and shoot Rob.
18:33This story continued to reveal different layers.
18:37Like an onion, you're peeling all of this back.
18:42And there are so many unknowns.
18:43People started thinking, who's this mystery person?
18:46Could this person have had anything to do with it?
18:52Three days after Thanksgiving, Oklahoma City PD gets a call from Brenda and Rob's next-door neighbors, Judy and Dean Gigstag.
19:01They've just returned from Thanksgiving out of town.
19:04They noticed there were some things in their home that weren't as they left them.
19:10She notices her shoe rack is no longer in her closet.
19:16It was broken and placed under her bed.
19:23They noticed that the attic trap door is slightly ajar, as if somebody has been recently in the attic.
19:33And that's when she made the realization that somebody was in her house, most likely the same person that killed her neighbor.
19:43They're thinking that he's still up there with the, you know, with the murder weapon and watching whatever you're doing.
19:51So they called 911.
20:03Police do not find an intruder in the house.
20:06However, the search of the Gigstag home reveals surprising evidence.
20:13We found a 16-gauge shotgun shell on the floor in one of the bedrooms.
20:23One of our forensic investigators went into the attic and he located several .22 caliber bullets.
20:33When the evidence is analyzed, the detectives are informed that the ammunition found in the neighbor's home matched the two guns that were used to commit the murder and the shooting of Brenda.
20:48Finding the shell casing in the home and the things disturbed would make us believe that the suspect possibly ran over to the Gigstag home and was actually in the home hiding out while we're at the crime scene investigating.
21:03This would explain why there was not much of a trail to follow.
21:10Nobody saw the gunmen running from the neighborhood.
21:16From the attic, there's a window with a clear view to the garage where this crime was committed.
21:23So it's very possible that the murderer had been stalking Brenda and Rob.
21:29It doesn't take long for police to discover Rob has been in the crosshairs of a determined killer.
21:38Oklahoma City Police Department.
21:40Hi there, I'd like to report a climb.
21:42My, uh, brake lines have been cut.
21:45That sounds like attempted murder, don't you think?
21:48Welcome back.
22:01Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel times of the whole year.
22:06So many people leave town to visit family, homes are often left empty.
22:11That's when police discover Rob Andrews' killer has hidden in the neighbor's home.
22:32Detectives knew that the killer had been in the neighbor's house, but there were no signs of forced entry.
22:40So the question was how did they get in?
22:43Who had access to this house?
22:46The Gigstats told the police that their son Jeff had a key to their home.
22:53It said that their son had came to the house before they came back from out of town.
22:58He came over to the house to grab something.
23:02So I knew it would be important to talk to him about why he went to the house and when he went.
23:09Jeff's alibi was his wife and it was rock solid.
23:14On the evening of November 20th, they attended a family Thanksgiving.
23:20He really didn't have any connection to Rob.
23:27Jeff informed the investigators that the day following the murder, he stopped by his parents' home.
23:36He was retrieving a playpen that he wanted for his little baby.
23:42When Jeff picks up the playpen, he just misses crossing paths with the killer who's hiding in his parents' home.
23:50It's a premeditated murder plan.
23:53Detective Roland Garrett soon finds out it's not the first attempt on Rob's life.
23:59One morning in October, Rob was backing out of his driveway and noticed that his brakes weren't working.
24:20That's when he realized there was brake fluid in his driveway.
24:31He took his car to a mechanic shop where they showed him that his brake lines had been cleanly cut.
24:39It really seemed as if someone had purposefully tampered with his car.
24:48Oklahoma City Police Department.
24:50That same day, Rob receives a call from an anonymous woman.
25:06And she tells him that he needs to go to the hospital because Brenda had been in a car accident.
25:13Rob Andrew has a friend drive him to the hospital, but when he arrives, wife Brenda is nowhere to be found.
25:27She's never been in an accident.
25:30It was just an attempt to get him to drive somewhere quickly and potentially have a wreck and either kill himself or seriously hurt himself.
25:37Rob didn't recognize the voice from the woman that called him.
25:45He would have recognized Brenda's voice and it wasn't Brenda.
25:48So now we got somebody else involved here.
25:51We got another player.
25:52We got to find out how deep they're involved in this.
25:55And what else did they do besides make that phone call?
25:58Who is this unknown female caller?
26:01Given Brenda's history of multiple affairs,
26:03perhaps she had upset the wife of one of her lovers.
26:08Police had to consider it was possibly a female killer.
26:20Is the mysterious caller someone in Brenda and Rob's circle of friends?
26:26Detectives interview members of their congregation and they uncover a critical new lead.
26:33We found that they had some problems at the church.
26:36Brenda had got in some hot water at the church by the way she was dressing.
26:42She was starting to wear low cut dresses and dress like, you know, sexy for church.
26:48That definitely made a lot of them suspicious.
26:51Brenda was a Sunday school teacher.
26:54And at one point she was teaching Sunday school with another gentleman.
26:57They were seen by fellow church members at lunch holding hands.
27:05His name was James Pavat.
27:09James Pavat was very involved in his church, was an insurance man by trade,
27:14and very close with a lot of the people in the church, including Rob.
27:22They even went hunting together.
27:26James Pavat even went to the Andrews house for dinner on occasion,
27:30and was very close with that family.
27:33It became very evident to the congregation that Brenda and James were having an affair.
27:39They were actually asked to step down as Sunday school teachers as a result of that.
27:55James was crazy about Brenda.
27:57Just felt very connected to her and loved Brenda dearly.
28:01Seems like he loved her so much he would have done anything to keep that love and that relationship going.
28:07James had left his wife earlier that year for Brenda,
28:13and so he had every motive to want Brenda and Rob not to be together.
28:23James Pavat was in the military prior to his insurance life.
28:29So highly skilled, highly trained.
28:32James had training in sniper shooting.
28:36He was very comfortable around guns.
28:39Something else about him is that he walked around, he bragged about being a commando and killing a bunch of people in the military.
28:51Based on the information that we had, James provided somebody that we needed to consider as a possible suspect.
28:57We made several attempts to reach Mr. Pavat, calling his home, going by, never located him.
29:06We eventually got a phone call from his lawyer who said he wouldn't be making himself available.
29:12He's not going to come in and talk.
29:14And then, out of the blue, detectives get another phone call from Rob and Brenda's next-door neighbor, Judy Gigstad.
29:24Suddenly, Judy remembered that they also had given a key to their neighbor, Brenda Andrew.
29:33Brenda and Rob were friends with them for years, and any time they would leave town, they would watch over what was going on.
29:42So they had a key.
29:43Knowing that Brenda Andrew had a key, that she had access to their house.
29:47And since she was carrying on with James Pavat, thinking she might be involved.
29:55Could she have been part of this?
29:57Did she help plan this attack?
29:59If Rob Andrew is truly giving his wife Brenda the divorce she wants, why would she and James Pavat want to kill him?
30:12Detectives focus on the details of Rob and Brenda's divorce, looking for a motive.
30:18Rob Andrew was kicked out of the house the end of September, a couple of months before he was murdered.
30:24They had a legal separation.
30:26They were providing support money for Brenda and the kids.
30:29But the Andrews were in dispute about an $800,000 life insurance policy.
30:35Rob and Brenda had taken an insurance policy out for Rob to take care of Brenda and the kids in case something were to happen to them, because they were his everything.
30:45But detectives discovered the insurance policy on Rob Andrew was written and prepared by James Pavat.
30:58And he was on the right side of the loan.
30:59That's how he went to prison.
31:00He was going to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay him to pay my rent.
31:01That has to be considered as a possible motive for murder.
31:05Especially because the very man that had sold him the policy was now having an affair with his wife.
31:13Thanksgiving marks the beginning
31:22of the Christmas holiday
31:23when people get to spend time with friends
31:26and family, people they
31:28hold dear.
31:29For Brenda Andrew, this
31:31holiday is different.
31:34For her, it's more of a nightmare.
31:37She's recovering from
31:38a gunshot wound, her husband
31:40has been murdered, and now
31:41she's a suspect in
31:43his murder.
31:45And what about Rob Andrew's family?
31:48They'll never have the opportunity
31:50to share a holiday
31:51with Rob. Instead,
31:54they've got to plan his
31:56funeral.
32:01It was just really sad
32:04to think that something this
32:05horrific happened right before
32:07the Thanksgiving holiday,
32:09where you get together around the
32:11table with your family,
32:12you get to spend time with your
32:14loved ones, and he shows up to pick
32:16up his kids, and he gets killed in
32:18the garage.
32:19By now, rumors are circulating
32:21about Brenda's possible involvement
32:24in her husband Rob's murder.
32:26The feeling going into any funeral is
32:29bad enough, but Rob's funeral was
32:31very strange because everyone was
32:34sort of wondering, is Brenda going
32:36to show up?
32:37We were outside of the church,
32:40and I just, I remember thinking
32:43Brenda and his children were not
32:46there.
32:51They actually held the service
32:53for about an hour, hoping they
32:56would show up.
32:56And they didn't.
33:07Who doesn't show up to their own
33:09spouse's funeral and doesn't let the
33:11kids come to their dad's funeral?
33:13How heartless do you have to be?
33:15At that point, when she didn't show up
33:16at the funeral, I knew she had fled.
33:19I was like, she is leaving town.
33:21We received a phone call, and we're
33:31advised that Brenda and the kids were
33:33not at the funeral.
33:34So we went by the house to see if
33:36they were there or they weren't
33:37there.
33:38Detectives go to James Puvot's home
33:41next.
33:41They discover he's also packed up
33:44and gone.
33:46Can't reach him on the phone, can't
33:47find him anywhere.
33:48They vanished.
33:56With Brenda's disappearance, it's
33:58looking more and more likely she is
34:00James Puvot's accomplice in Rob's
34:03murder.
34:04Investigators still don't know the
34:05identity of the woman who called Rob
34:08when his brake lines were cut.
34:10But can they go from just suspecting
34:13Brenda to proving she's actually
34:16involved in husband Rob's murder?
34:20Detective Roland Garrett comes up
34:22with a plan and the forensic science
34:25needed to make it work.
34:27When I spoke to Brenda down at the
34:28hospital, I collected her clothing
34:30for evidence.
34:33She had gunshot residue on her blouse,
34:36so we had it analyzed.
34:39Brenda sustained only a minor wound,
34:42which is a little odd considering that
34:45her husband had been shot twice with
34:46a shotgun and that she had only been
34:49shot by a smaller caliber weapon in
34:50the arm.
34:52The gunshot was found to be a close
34:55contact wound, which means it was two
34:59to four inches away from her skin when
35:01the gun was fired.
35:04What this meant to the investigators is
35:07that she was shot at close range,
35:09not from across the garage,
35:11as she had told them.
35:16Forensic evidence also showed that
35:18blood spatter found on Brenda's jeans
35:20belonged to Rob.
35:23It indicated that she had to have been
35:26close by within a foot or so of her
35:29husband when he was shot and killed.
35:31So that tells us that the second shotgun
35:34blast that he received came from her.
35:41And when she shot him, it splattered
35:43back onto her jeans.
35:52Just three weeks before Christmas,
35:55the last piece of the puzzle falls into
35:57place.
35:58We get a phone call from an attorney that
36:00wants to bring a witness in and talk to
36:02us.
36:03And that witness is James Pavott's
36:05daughter.
36:06And she has some information for us.
36:09Her name was Jana Larson.
36:12We found out that she was the woman that
36:14had made the phone call telling Rob to
36:17drive to the hospital.
36:26She said she was asked to do that by her
36:28father.
36:30Jana didn't know all the details of what was
36:33happening in that relationship between
36:35Brenda and Rob and her dad, James Pavott.
36:39She was coerced into doing it.
36:44That was probably the last piece of
36:46evidence that we needed at the time.
36:48We were able to get a warrant for both
36:51Brenda and James Pavott for murder one.
36:53Detectives contact the FBI, and very soon, an international manhunt is underway for wife Brenda
37:07Andrew and her lover, James Pavott.
37:11Daughter Jana Larson agrees to work with authorities.
37:14She tells them everything she knows.
37:18And the same day as Rob Andrew's funeral,
37:20James Pavott actually showed up at her house, and he had Brenda Andrew and the kids with him.
37:26They were outside in the van.
37:28He got on her computer, and he was looking up what countries wouldn't extradite back to the United States.
37:35It seems Brenda Andrew and James Pavott are planning to celebrate another holiday, Christmas, with the children south of the border.
37:44They left Jana Larson's house in vehicles, heading south.
37:49They were headed to Mexico, what she thought.
37:52And we also knew that they didn't have a lot of money.
37:55Most of the money had already been frozen in their accounts,
37:58and eventually the money may run out, and it might help us capture them.
38:03The detectives were doing everything they could to look for them, and it went on for months.
38:07It was a tough Thanksgiving, and a tougher Christmas in a way, because they were gone.
38:18Nobody knew where they were.
38:21Were they alive?
38:23We didn't know.
38:26Everyone was really concerned for the kids.
38:31But also just wanting justice for Rob.
38:37And every day they were gone, it was just more and more infuriating that they were going to get away with it.
38:50After the brutal murder of her husband, Rob,
38:54Brenda Andrew and her sex partner, James Pavott, take her two children.
38:59They flee to Mexico during the holidays.
39:03Rob Andrew's family and friends are forced to spend Christmas,
39:07not just without him, but without his children, too.
39:10Meanwhile, detectives are piecing together the details of Rob's murder.
39:17What happened on the night of November 20, 2001, was predetermined.
39:23Brenda had planned this.
39:25She knew that Rob was coming to pick up his children.
39:28She asked him to come into the garage and light the pilot light,
39:34knowing all along that she was luring him to his death.
39:38And Pavott was already in the garage.
39:45He came around probably from behind the minivan,
39:50shot him with the first shot.
39:52She took the shotgun, shot him with the second shot.
39:57And then Pavott took the .22 and shot her in the arm.
40:09He left the house, go next door.
40:12She went in the house, called 911.
40:14911?
40:15I've been shot.
40:17My husband's been shot.
40:18Okay, you and your husband have both been shot?
40:22Yes, yes.
40:23I don't know.
40:26I don't know.
40:28They had on black masks.
40:29I don't know.
40:30Oh, my God.
40:31There's blood everywhere.
40:33It was some evil, a lot of evil going on with Brenda.
40:36She was all about money.
40:38She wanted that insurance money.
40:39Weeks turn into months, hope, fading that Rob Andrews' killers will ever be brought to justice.
40:50The warrants were out for the arrest of Brenda and James, but they were no longer in the country.
40:57It's much harder to capture somebody when they're out of your jurisdiction.
41:03Once they crossed the border, that warrant wasn't going to be something that Mexican authorities could arrest them on.
41:09But then at some point, James Provide started calling Jana.
41:17She had a conversation with her father, who was in Mexico, with Brenda.
41:21They were running out of money and didn't know what to do.
41:26The FBI worked with Jana to lure James and Brenda back to the United States where they could be arrested.
41:35Jana promised her dad that she could get them money.
41:41James Pavott is out of options.
41:44The couple on the run, and they need money.
41:47He agrees to his daughter's plan, and he returns to the U.S.
41:52Police notified border officials to be on the lookout.
41:58Three months after the murder, they came back to the border,
42:03and one of the Border Patrol agents was familiar with the bulletin that was out.
42:10We got the phone call.
42:13They were captured.
42:14They were taken into custody and charged with the murder of Rob Andrew.
42:28The kids were found unharmed, and they were sent to be with Rob's family.
42:34It was such a relief to hear that, knowing that Brenda and James were caught,
42:43but knowing the kids were safe, that was even better.
42:51James Pavott's trial was first.
42:53It lasted a few weeks.
42:55The key witness at the trial was Pavott's daughter, Jana.
42:58You always wonder, like, you know, the jury doesn't know Rob.
43:04Like, I know Rob.
43:06Are they going to get it right?
43:09You always worry that they're going to get away with it, but luckily they didn't.
43:14James was convicted of the first-degree murder of Rob Andrew,
43:18and he was sentenced to death.
43:20August 2004, Brenda Andrews' trial begins.
43:30When I saw her again at trial,
43:33she didn't have any remorse in her face or her actions.
43:44I think the timing of Brenda's crime
43:47was purely opportunistic.
43:50She knew that Rob was going to come
43:53and get those children for the holiday,
43:55and he would probably have his guard down.
43:59Here is a father showing up to get his kids
44:04on his way to celebrate a beautiful holiday
44:08with his family and his children.
44:12And just, how could you do that?
44:17I mean, I do believe in evil,
44:20and I do believe she is evil.
44:22Within a month,
44:23Brenda Andrew is found guilty
44:25for the murder of husband Rob,
44:27and she is sentenced to the death penalty.
44:30Having hereto found the defendant,
44:32Brenda Evers Andrew, guilty of murder
44:34in the first degree,
44:36fixed her punishment at death.
44:39When I heard that
44:40first James was found guilty,
44:43and then especially when Brenda was found guilty,
44:46I was overjoyed.
44:49I was so happy
44:51that they didn't get away with it.
44:53As clever as she thought she was,
44:55all the steps they had taken,
44:57they underestimated the way things work.
45:01To orchestrate and commit a crime,
45:04killing the father of the children,
45:06Thanksgiving time.
45:07It would have to be an evil, vindictive person.
45:13You know, you reap what you sow.
45:15James Pavott is currently sitting
45:18on the Oklahoma death row,
45:20awaiting his execution date.
45:23Brenda Andrew waiting for her execution date
45:26in the Mabel Bassett CI Correctional Institution
45:29in McLeod, Oklahoma.
45:31She is currently the only woman on death row
45:34in the entire state of Oklahoma.
45:38I think about Rob every Thanksgiving.
45:41It's just impossible not to.
45:44He sort of embodied the idea of the holidays,
45:46the spirit of the holidays,
45:48you know, being with your family,
45:50being thankful for what you have,
45:51cherishing those times.
45:53That was who he was.
45:57So I always want to think about his life
46:00and not his death,
46:01and be thankful for the time
46:04that I did get with him.
46:05What should have been
46:14a wonderful and joyous holiday,
46:17shattered by cheating,
46:19infidelity, and murder.
46:22A horrible and tragic end
46:24to the marriage of a loving dad,
46:27an evil wife,
46:28and her ruthless sex partner.
46:31I'm Nancy Grace.
46:34Thank you for joining us here
46:35on The Christmas Killings.
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