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Canal Autor (Nome): MOVIES N STUFF
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00:01Her husband had been murdered right in front of her eyes
00:04And she barely escapes the same fate
00:07She's only alive because this gun was jamming on him
00:12And it was just her lucky date
00:14But will her luck hold out as detectives dig into the case?
00:18It all depends on what's tougher to dodge
00:21A bullet or a murder indictment
00:37June 9th, 1998
00:39It was just before midnight when Myrtle Beach patrolman Scott Brown
00:44Cruised a deserted stretch of beach just off the famed Grand Strand
00:49Ahead, illuminated in the moonlight
00:51He spotted a woman waving frantically
00:54She flagged him down
00:56And he came, drove over to her
00:59The woman's husband, 24-year-old Brent Poole, was dead
01:06What had started out as a romantic tryst on the beach
01:09Ended with a bizarre robbery and two gunshots
01:14An individual dressed in dark came over the sand dunes
01:17Had a gun, committed a robbery
01:19During that robbery, the gunman shot Brent in the head
01:24The killer had quickly vanished into the night
01:29Within minutes, a dragnet covered the entire area
01:32Forensic specialists scoured the beach for clues
01:36We found some shell casings
01:39Which indicate that an automatic or semi-automatic handgun was used
01:46Even the most senior officers on the scene
01:49Couldn't recall such a vicious crime
01:51A random robbery on the beach at all
01:54That's extremely unusual
01:56But to have a robbery and a murder on the beach is really unheard of
02:00But the crime did have an eyewitness
02:03The wife, she's very upset
02:06Pretty much in shock
02:07Renee Poole told police her husband had been gunned down
02:11While begging for his life
02:13He knelt down over my husband
02:15And my husband said, please don't shoot me
02:18But that's not all Renee remembered
02:21And the details she provided
02:23Would eventually lead investigators straight to the killer
02:32Growing up in suburban Winston-Salem, North Carolina
02:35Renee Summey always had a way with boys
02:39She was very talkative
02:41Sweet-natured, bubbly
02:43The boys really liked her
02:46Brent Poole certainly liked Renee
02:48When the pair met one afternoon in 1991
02:50In their high school parking lot
02:54Brent was going home one day
02:56And his friend asked him for a ride home
02:59And the friend also had Renee with him
03:01On that first trip home
03:03Brent actually asked Renee for a date
03:05Brent was a senior
03:08Renee, only a freshman
03:10Readily accepted
03:11He came from a good family
03:15Good Christian family
03:16And he was a good student
03:19At high grades
03:20He was just a good boy
03:23And when Brent got Renee pregnant
03:25In March of 1995
03:27Barely three months after she'd turned 17
03:30He asked her to marry him
03:33When he proposed
03:34He did it here in the house
03:36Got down on his knees
03:37The old-fashioned way
03:39Both sides of the family were wondering
03:40How it was going to work out
03:42Because life is tough enough
03:43As a young married couple
03:45And then when you start out already with a kid
03:47You know, it's even worse
03:49Luckily, at age 21
03:51Brent already had a promising career
03:55Brent was a diesel mechanic
03:57He worked for Mack Truck in Charlotte
04:00He was making quite a bit of money for a young man
04:02And was particularly good at it
04:04Brent and Renee even managed to buy a small house in Mocksville
04:08A bedroom community outside Winston-Salem
04:11They had bought a really nice home
04:14Kind of a starter home
04:15But in a nice neighborhood in North Carolina
04:17I mean, from the outside
04:18It really looked like they had it going on
04:21But after their daughter was born in 1996
04:24Renee and Brent started having money trouble
04:27They had refinanced their house
04:30And I think they had gotten in pretty deep
04:34So in the spring of 1997
04:37At Brent's suggestion
04:38Renee took a job at the Silver Fox Show Club
04:42A topless bar a few blocks from downtown Winston-Salem
04:45Brent was very proud that his wife was a dancer
04:48She enjoyed that sort of lifestyle
04:51And that fast-paced, you know, a lot of action
04:54And Renee's new job looked like it would put the couple's money problems behind them
04:59She can make, she's holding me, $200 to $400 a night
05:04As a stripper
05:06Cash wasn't all that Renee brought home from the club either
05:10She did have relationships with some of the girls that work there
05:13Sexual relationships
05:14And according to rumor around the club
05:17Brent encouraged it
05:20She seemed very eager to experiment within the marriage
05:25Renee, however, also experimented outside her marriage
05:29With men she met at the club
05:32There were various sexual escapades
05:35And Renee had multiple affairs
05:38Many of the men she would have relationships with
05:40Were sort of one-night stands
05:42One wasn't
05:45In the spring of 1998
05:47Renee started seeing a computer tech and part-time DJ from the Silver Fox
05:52Named John Boyd Frazier
05:55John was a really, really sweet guy
05:58John was like a big teddy bear
06:00He was also generous to the girls at the club
06:05John Frazier did take in several dancers to stay at his house
06:09And let them live there
06:10He thought he was helping these girls
06:12And that's just the way he was
06:14He just was a caring person
06:16And Frazier's generous nature, according to a co-worker
06:20May have been what attracted Renee
06:23She was thinking he had money
06:26And when I asked John about it
06:27He said, I think she thinks I'm going to buy her boobs
06:32In the spring of 1998
06:34Renee and Brent started having problems at home
06:37He liked to go four-wheeling with his buddies
06:40Renee thought he ought to be home helping with the baby more
06:42He wanted to be out with his buddies
06:44On May 7th, while Brent was at work
06:47She and her two-year-old daughter moved in with Frazier
06:51Renee grabs her stuff and takes off
06:54Brent comes home to an empty house
06:56Furniture's gone, child's gone, wife's gone
06:58He's completely distraught
07:01But would Renee follow up and leave Brent for good?
07:05Just days after moving in with Frazier, she met with an attorney
07:10Her force attorney advised her that you left the marriage
07:14You work at a strip club
07:17You're basically misguided and misinformed
07:20If you think there's any chance of you getting the high off of full custody of that child
07:24Renee, at that point, started rethinking her decision to leave Brent
07:30She was going to reconcile with Brent and try to make the marriage work
07:36John Frazier, after only a week of living with Renee, didn't try to stop her
07:41I think it was kind of a mutual thing
07:43They both decided that neither one of them was really into the other as much as they thought they were
07:49On May 12th, Renee packed up her things and went back home to her husband
07:55He took her back in with open arms
07:57He wanted to reconcile
07:59Renee appeared just as anxious to patch things up
08:04At the end of May, with the couple's anniversary approaching
08:08She even proposed they take a trip to celebrate their reconciliation
08:14Renee wanted to go down to Myrtle Beach and have kind of a new honeymoon on the third anniversary, a
08:18new start
08:19Brent didn't need much convincing
08:23This is just what Brent thinks they need
08:25He thinks this is a great idea
08:27He's just really trying to hold the marriage and the family together
08:29And, you know, it would stop at nothing
08:30Trying to cement their relationship, just trying to make it stronger
08:34Brent would do whatever it took to keep Renee
08:39Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one
08:42Anytime that you mix two or more men competing for one woman
08:45There's going to be a bad end to it
08:48The pool's trip to the beach started out well enough
08:52Checking into the Carolina Winds Resort
08:54The family spent several days in the sand and sun
09:00However, on the evening of June 9th
09:02Renee had arranged to spend the evening out with Brent, alone
09:07She contacts the hotel about arranging for a babysitter the night of their anniversary
09:13But once the sitter arrived, Renee's big plan nearly backfired
09:18Brent and Renee's child starts to cry
09:21And Brent's trying to console her, you know, and to just talk to her and tell her everything's going to
09:25be all right
09:26Renee eventually got him out of the motel room and the babysitter was able to calm down the child
09:31Crisis averted, Renee and Brent hit the bars along Kings Highway
09:36Myrtle Beach's main drag
09:38They proceeded to eat dinner, had a few drinks, and then played a few games of pool
09:47Then, a little after 11, Renee suggested something special to cap off the evening
09:53She suggested to Brent that they might have a sexual relationship in the dunes
10:00As luck would have it, the stretch of beach next to their hotel offered a secluded spot
10:07The hotel they stayed at, the Carolina Winds, north of there is nothing but residence in the woods
10:11This part of the beach is really, really quiet, secluded
10:15Brent immediately said yes to Renee's suggestion
10:19It's his anniversary, they've had a couple of drinks
10:22And they're going to go out under the stars and, you know, have a honeymoon
10:26So he's pretty motivated
10:30Brent's motivation was clear
10:32But what happened next would leave police wondering
10:35If Renee's motive on the beach that night was seduction or a setup
10:42At 11.45 on the evening of June 9th
10:45A patrolman from the Myrtle Beach PD was cruising the water's edge in his four-wheel drive
10:51Myrtle Beach Police Department has a beach patrol unit
10:54And they're driving up and down the beach to make sure everything is safe
10:57He'd just entered the deserted stretch of sand north of the Carolina Winds
11:02When he spotted something
11:03A young woman waving frantically
11:07It was Renee
11:09She flagged him down
11:11And he came, drove over to her
11:14Renee was hysterical
11:16She had reason to be, according to what she breathlessly told the patrolman
11:22This guy in black
11:23Shot Brent twice in the head
11:26It was shocking
11:27This beach patrol officer is usually dealing with a wallet stolen or something like that
11:32But a stolen wallet was only the beginning of Renee's story
11:37This figure dressed all in black wearing a ski mask
11:40Robs him
11:42Takes Brent's wallet, watch, and some other items
11:46Renee said she and Brent had cooperated with the robber
11:49Following his orders
11:52She had been forced to lay down in the sand
11:54Along with her husband
11:56Not that, according to Renee
11:58Their cooperation had done them any good
12:01She heard several gunshots
12:04And realized her husband had been shot
12:09Coming up
12:10To uncover why Brent was shot
12:12Investigators must first answer another question
12:16Why wasn't Renee?
12:20She wasn't even so much as
12:22Slapped, tied up, blindfolded, nothing
12:29June 9, 1998
12:31Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
12:33It was supposed to be a special date night for Renee Poole and her husband, Brent
12:39But at 11.45 that evening
12:41Minutes after a seaside tryst to celebrate their third anniversary
12:46Renee Poole was frantically flagging down an officer of the beach patrol
12:52Her husband had just been shot
12:55His first step is to secure the scene
12:58He gets Renee Poole into the truck
13:01He goes to Brent, checks his vital signs
13:04Sees that it's very obvious that he has already passed away
13:07One of the wounds was a contact wound under the chin
13:12The second wound was what we call a close-range wound
13:15Just below the entrance to the left ear
13:18Either of the wounds was a fatal wound
13:21Leaving Brent on the sand
13:23The beach patrolman returned to his truck and radioed for backup
13:28By the time Detective Bill Frantz arrived a few minutes later
13:31Law enforcement had already surrounded the beach
13:36The uniformed guys did have a perimeter
13:38They were securing the scene where the body was as best they could
13:42The scene, however, yielded few clues
13:45Other than Brent's blood and a handful of 9mm bullets
13:49We found some shell casings
13:52Which indicate that an automatic or semi-automatic handgun was used
13:58We found some live rounds back where the body was
14:01We were able to retrieve four bullets from the scene
14:05Some money, some pennies were found also at wedding band
14:08The button to Brent's shirt was found
14:11And of course the blood of Brent was found there on the scene also
14:17There was no gun, however
14:19The killer was still armed and dangerous
14:22And perhaps stalking another victim
14:24Somewhere on the resort community's famed Grand Strand
14:29It created a lot of, really, a lot of fear and concern
14:33That's our gem of our community
14:35I mean, that's our economic engine for Myrtle Beach
14:38It thrives on the tourist dollar
14:40I think there was a great deal of pressure on the police
14:44The police responded accordingly
14:47The search for Brent's killer quickly became a full-fledged manhunt
14:52We had bloodhounds called out to the scene
14:55To see if we could track down the suspect
14:57They had a scent which very possibly could have been the murder
15:00The dog followed that scent until the road
15:04And they reported back that they could not find the scent past the road
15:08But if the killer had stashed a getaway car
15:11No one had seen it
15:14The crime scene at the beach was growing cold
15:17But there was still one possibility the police hadn't yet addressed
15:23In cases where a spouse is murdered
15:27One of the first persons that the police always look at is the other spouse
15:30But in this case, the spouse appeared to be genuinely traumatized
15:36She was in shock, she was hysterical
15:39None of us had any reason to believe that Renee Poole was in any way involved in this
15:46To make sure, just before 1 a.m. on June 10th
15:50Investigators ushered a distraught Renee into the Myrtle Beach Police Department
15:55Where her hands were tested for gunpowder residue
15:59Even though she's in distress and that kind of thing
16:02Is that we had to treat her as a suspect
16:04The test came back negative
16:06So detectives led Renee into an interrogation room
16:11Inside, she gave an audio-taped account of her husband's death
16:16My husband said, please don't shoot me
16:18And the guy asked him, why shouldn't I?
16:22My husband said, because I have a daughter and I love her very much
16:27The police, as far as Renee knew, still considered her a witness
16:33But out of her earshot, the investigators were starting to wonder
16:38During the course of that interview, they had reason enough to believe
16:41That, you know, something was up and they didn't feel right about it
16:44And it wasn't just a few nagging details
16:48It was the entire scenario
16:51A random robbery on the beach at all
16:53That's extremely unusual
16:55But to have a robbery and a murder on the beach is really unheard of
16:59Thinking back in my memory upon the beach itself
17:02I couldn't remember a murder
17:05But the oddest thing about Renee's story
17:08From the police perspective
17:09Was that she was alive to tell it
17:13If you shoot somebody twice in the head
17:16That would be to eliminate them as a potential witness against you later
17:20And thinking that through
17:22Why does she not have two shots at the head?
17:24Because now, instead of being a witness to a robbery
17:27She would then be a witness to a robbery and a murder
17:30If Renee Poole had been shot, left for dead, and she had survived
17:32Then that would be one thing
17:34That happens occasionally
17:35But, I mean, she wasn't even so much as
17:38You know, slapped, tied up, blindfolded, nothing
17:41In the interrogation room
17:44Renee provided a possible answer
17:47I heard the gun click
17:49Like there was nothing in the chamber
17:51Okay
17:52Two to three times
17:53Maybe, yeah
17:55Which indicated the gun must have jammed several times
17:58At which time the person had to eject the round
18:02The live rounds found on the beach
18:05Seemed to confirm Renee's account
18:08It was just her lucky date, per se
18:10He realized that
18:11I've already shot twice
18:13I've got to go
18:13That could be the explanation in this case
18:17Around 2 a.m.
18:18During a break in Renee's interrogation
18:20Police contacted Brent's parents
18:23With the news that their son had been murdered
18:27First thing in their mouth was
18:28Oh my gosh, was Renee with them?
18:30Well, yes ma'am
18:31She was
18:32And the cop
18:33And one of the parents told our detectives
18:36You don't know the whole story
18:37The pools quickly filled the police in
18:41On Brent and Renee's unusual relationship
18:44The marriage had been rocky at times
18:47She had other boyfriends and girlfriends
18:50They told us that she was living with a man
18:55That she had met where she worked
18:57And that where she worked at was at a strip club
19:01That's when everybody started catching on
19:03That there was a lot more to the story
19:04Than a simple robbery and murder on the beach
19:07The pool family were definitely
19:10Immediately suspect of Renee being involved in the death
19:15Brent's parents also gave police
19:17The name of Renee's boyfriend
19:20John Frazier
19:22We called Winston-Salem Police Department
19:24And explained to them
19:25That we needed an officer to go
19:28In our mind, immediately
19:29To John Boyd Frazier's house
19:31To see if he could locate him
19:33While the police in Winston-Salem
19:35Tried to track down Frazier
19:37Detectives in Myrtle Beach
19:39Took Renee back into the interrogation room
19:41And confronted her about the affair
19:45My son and I did have problems
19:48A little while ago
19:51I moved out
19:52Moved out with a friend for about a week
19:55And it was a man
19:57Who was his friend?
19:59His name?
20:00Ron
20:00John Frazier
20:02She confirmed what Brent
20:04Poor husband's parents had told us
20:06Renee admitted she'd seen other men
20:09But she also said that the affairs
20:11Including the one with Frazier
20:13Were over
20:15When Renee moved back in with Brent
20:17She had told John
20:19She didn't want anything to do with him
20:21To leave her alone
20:23But had Frazier listened?
20:25As the detectives put pressure on her
20:28Renee wasn't so sure
20:31Was this John that did this?
20:33I don't know
20:34You don't know?
20:36No
20:36So it could have been John?
20:38Could have been
20:41Coming up
20:42Determining if Frazier is a suspect
20:45Comes down to how fast he can drive
20:49It appeared to the officer
20:50That Frazier had been asleep
20:52Indeed Frazier said he was asleep
20:57By 5 a.m. on the morning of June 10th, 1998
21:00Brent Poole had barely been dead for five hours
21:04But Myrtle Beach Police already had a promising suspect in the murder
21:09His name was John Frazier
21:11The man Brent's wife Renee
21:13Had briefly left him for a month earlier
21:17She was asked if John Frazier
21:18Was a person that had shot Brent
21:22Which at times she told us that it could have been him
21:25There was one way to find out
21:28Myrtle Beach investigators contacted police
21:31In Frazier's hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
21:35And asked them to send an officer out to his house
21:39We're kind of hoping that maybe he's not there
21:42We're kind of hoping he's down in Myrtle Beach area
21:45Unfortunately for the investigators
21:47When the Winston-Salem patrolman
21:49Knocked on John Frazier's front door
21:51He answered it
21:53It appeared to the officer that Frazier had been asleep
21:57Chances at that point
21:58Dwindled that John Boy Frazier was actually here in Myrtle Beach
22:02In Winston-Salem, the patrolman let Frazier go back to bed
22:09Later that same morning
22:10Renee's parents arrived in Myrtle Beach to pick up their daughter
22:15I told them if they found out anything to please let us know
22:20Detective Altman said
22:22Oh, we'll let you know
22:24And Detective Altman's demeanor made one thing clear
22:28The investigators sensed Renee was holding back
22:32Perhaps to protect her ex-boyfriend
22:34But why?
22:36It was at that point in the investigation
22:38A long shot he was behind Brent's murder
22:42For John to drive to Myrtle Beach
22:44Commit a murder
22:45Come back to Winston-Salem
22:47Park the car in the back
22:49Then answer his front door for a Winston-Salem police officer
22:51It's not impossible, but it's almost impossible
22:54It took like five hours to drive from Myrtle Beach to Winston-Salem
22:59Had Frazier somehow managed to commit the murder
23:02And make it home with just minutes to spare?
23:05The investigators were starting to wonder
23:08We found out from his workplace that he had been scheduled to work the night of the murder
23:13But had asked for the night off
23:17June 12th, detectives from Myrtle Beach drove to North Carolina
23:21To interview Renee a second time
23:25She arrived with an attorney who was an attorney for her sister during a divorce proceeding several years before
23:32At first, Renee told the same story she had before
23:36That a man in black had ambushed her and Brent
23:40Was John on the beach that night?
23:42No, nothing, but I never was, no
23:44The last time you answered that question, you said it could have been
23:48It could have been
23:51Moments later, Renee's attorney stopped the interview
23:56Her attorney told the detectives, please give us a few minutes alone
24:00Let me talk to my client alone
24:02But just as the investigators assumed the interrogation was over
24:06Renee and her attorney came back into the room
24:11And this time, when they sat down
24:13It was her attorney who asked the first question
24:17Do you have any further information?
24:20Or do you want to change that story as it makes you believe?
24:24Who was a traitor who killed him?
24:26Yes
24:28Her attorney, who wasn't a criminal attorney
24:31Told her to talk to the police
24:33They were excited as pigs in mud
24:35I mean, she just talked and talked
24:36Because her attorney said to talk
24:38And this time, there were no maybes
24:41When it came to the killer's identity
24:44There's no doubt in your mind that that was John Frey
24:48She knew it was him because of his voice
24:50And his build and his mannerisms
24:53When detectives asked why she hadn't implicated him sooner
24:57Renee said she'd first had to convince herself
25:00That Frazier had been the killer
25:03I wanted to make sure that I knew it was him
25:07In my home that it was him
25:09And my mom and I just didn't want to stick with that piece
25:13That I done that
25:14Renee said it shocked me that he would do such a thing
25:17I had no idea that John Boyd Frazier
25:20Was capable of anything like this
25:23After all, as she'd previously explained to the investigators
25:27She'd made it clear to John the affair was over
25:31They broke it off after she went back home to Brent
25:35Had Frazier killed Brent out of jealousy
25:38Or in hopes of getting Renee back?
25:42Renee's interrogation provided enough for a murder warrant against him
25:47Police arrested John Frazier on the evening of June 13th
25:51Inside the interrogation room, unlike Renee, he wasn't willing to talk
25:57He wanted an attorney and refused to make any statements
26:01That left investigators with a slew of unanswered questions
26:05For starters, how did Frazier end up on the beach that night?
26:10John Frazier just didn't look into a crystal ball and say
26:14You know, they're going to be a Myrtle Beach on June 9th
26:17Had Frazier followed the family down?
26:20Or was there another explanation?
26:23One Renee was reluctant to reveal
26:26A great stripper, you know
26:28You sort of give the image of what somebody wants
26:30But without really giving it to them
26:32There was no doubt in order to get anything out of Renee Poole
26:34She was going to have to be leaned on
26:36And unfortunately for Renee
26:38She tripped up the moment she recanted her first story
26:42About an unknown gunman
26:44She committed a crime by giving a false statement
26:47And by lying to the police
26:50So on the same night they picked up Frazier
26:53Deputies also drove to a Winston-Salem funeral home
26:57With a warrant for Renee's arrest on charges of obstructing justice
27:02She was actually attending a wake for her husband
27:05Her dead husband
27:06They arrested her outside of the funeral home
27:09Knowing that the funeral was the next day
27:12For the third time in four days
27:14Renee Poole was back in a police interrogation room
27:18This time without her attorney
27:21She initially stated that she had no knowledge
27:25That John Boy Frazier would come down and do such a dastardly act
27:29But as the clock ticked well past midnight
27:32Detective Terry Altman kept the pressure on
27:36You can almost hear Terry getting a little bit sterner with her
27:39And a little bit more demanding of her about the truth
27:42Even if he had to resort to a lie to get it
27:45Although Frazier had refused to talk
27:48Detective Altman hinted that he'd actually implicated Renee
27:52In a plot to kill her husband
27:54They had told Renee the whole time that Frazier did it
27:59That he said he did it
28:01And implicated her
28:02And was going to put it all off on her
28:06Gradually, after more than two hours in the interrogation room
28:10Renee's story began to change
28:14She kept sort of peeling back slowly
28:16Layers of the onion
28:17Renee claimed it was Frazier who'd approached her
28:21About killing Brent
28:35She didn't implicate herself very much
28:38A bit around the edges
28:41But she never really took direct responsibility
28:44Renee did admit that she'd known about the murder plot
28:47But she claimed she hadn't taken it seriously
29:07She did not go fully into detail
29:10She gave enough indication that she was involved
29:13And that she knew Brent was going to be killed that night
29:15Down on the beach
29:17It was, however, more than enough detail for a murder indictment
29:22To do her part, she had to get her husband
29:24Out on that isolated beach area
29:29And doing these things, yes, she was just as guilty of the murder
29:32As a person who pulled the trigger
29:38The next morning, June 14, 1998
29:40As her husband was being laid to rest in a Winston-Salem cemetery
29:45Renee was formally charged with his murder
29:49And as promised, the DA prepared to seek the death penalty
29:53To murder her husband on the day of their third anniversary
29:58I mean, my goodness, how reprehensible in that could this be?
30:02Renee, at her arraignment in South Carolina on June 18, pled not guilty
30:08She also, on the advice of her new criminal attorney
30:12Recanted her alleged confession
30:15She said her confession was some sort of horrible misunderstanding
30:18And had been twisted and sort of coerced out of her by the police
30:22They put improper psychological coercion on Renee
30:30Questions like, you knew this
30:32You knew it was going to happen
30:34You set him up, didn't you?
30:37You set him up
30:37You know, tell us the truth
30:39We know the truth
30:41The case against Renee was built around the premise
30:43That John Frazier had been the shooter
30:46But as they prepared for her November 1999 trial
30:50Prosecutors faced some serious problems
30:53There was no other evidence that implicated Renee or John Frazier
31:00Other than Renee's statements
31:02Coming up, two eyewitnesses hold the key to the case
31:06But will they confirm the prosecution's theory
31:10Or Renee's original account of a robbery?
31:14They were also staying at the Carolina Winds
31:17And had seen an individual dressed all in black
31:21In November of 1999, Renee Poole was back in South Carolina
31:27Only this time, she hadn't come for a romantic getaway
31:31Instead, the former stripper was on trial for murder
31:36Accused alongside boyfriend John Frazier
31:38Of conspiring to kill her husband, Brent
31:41Renee would stand trial first
31:44They were hoping that if they got a conviction on Renee
31:48That John Boyd Frazier would plead guilty
31:51In his opening statement to the jury on November 10th
31:55Prosecutor Greg Hembree recounted
31:57How Renee had allegedly lured her husband
32:00Into Frazier's line of fire
32:02A woman that will take her husband into the sand dunes
32:06To have sex with him
32:08Knowing that in a few minutes he's going to be killed
32:11You're talking about an evil, evil woman
32:13The jury didn't have to take Hembree's word for it either
32:18On November 11th, the DA called Detective Altman to the stand
32:22And walked the jury through each of Renee's interrogations
32:27Each interview was played for the jury
32:30So they could hear in her own works what she said
32:33He told me whoever was going to do it
32:36Would know what they were doing
32:39On cross, however, the defense shifted the jury's focus
32:42To what the detective said
32:44They told her that John Frazier had confessed
32:48To being the shooter
32:50And he put all of the blame on Renee
32:52It wasn't true
32:55John never admitted his involvement in the crime at all
32:59They lied to her
33:00I don't like to use the word lie
33:03But that's a good way to describe it here
33:05As he answered the defense's questions
33:08Detective Altman didn't deny lying to Renee
33:12In fact, he argued that lies were a necessary part of the job
33:16When we leaned on Renee, it was a proper thing to do
33:19It's okay for the police to lie during an investigation
33:22To get to the truth
33:23But had they gotten to the truth?
33:27On November 12th, the trial's third day
33:31Prosecutors started presenting evidence
33:33To confirm the plot Renee had supposedly confessed to
33:37Her plan was to lure him down to the beach
33:39In a dark, secluded area
33:41So John Frazier could kill him
33:42John Frazier was merely a tool
33:45As proof Renee had set up the hit
33:47The babysitter she had hired
33:49Testified that Renee had seemed awfully anxious
33:52To start her big night out with Brent
33:56According to the babysitter
33:57She's tapping her foot
33:58She's looking at her watch
33:59We've got to go
34:00We've got to go right now
34:01Was Renee simply anxious
34:04To spend her anniversary alone with Brent?
34:06Or was she trying to keep her murder plot on schedule?
34:11To strengthen their theory that Renee steered her husband out of the hotel
34:15And into Frazier's line of fire
34:17Prosecutors needed a witness
34:19That could place the boyfriend on that beach
34:22The night Brent was murdered
34:24But they didn't have one witness
34:27They had two
34:29An older couple from Virginia
34:31The witnesses had spent the weekend of Brent's murder
34:35At the same hotel as the Pools
34:38By coincidence they were there
34:39Celebrating one of their wedding anniversaries
34:41The couple had first contacted police
34:44The day after the murder
34:46To report something suspicious
34:48They'd seen the night before
34:50They had seen an individual dressed all in black
34:53And they said
34:54Well my wife and I were down on the beach
34:56And we saw this guy
34:57He kind of spooked us
34:58The sighting at first
35:00Appeared to confirm Renee's initial story
35:03The one about a mysterious robber
35:05Dressed all in black
35:07It's in the summertime
35:08He's walking around in a black
35:10Looks like a black sweatsuit
35:12Dark clothes
35:12He's got his hood pulled up over his head
35:15At certain points
35:17Sometimes he does
35:17Sometimes he doesn't
35:18It looked really strange
35:21But once the police had Frazier in custody
35:24They'd contacted the witnesses from Virginia
35:26For a follow-up
35:28We used a booking photo of John Boy Frazier
35:31To put together a photographic lineup
35:34They did each look at the picture separately
35:37And both picked John Frazier out
35:39As a person that they saw
35:41And in their testimony on November 12th
35:44Both husband and wife swore
35:46That without a doubt
35:47John Frazier had been in Myrtle Beach
35:50The night of the murder
35:52It just struck such a nerve in them
35:55That he was up to no good
35:57That it just became embedded
35:58In both of their minds
35:59But was the face embedded in their minds
36:03Actually that of John Frazier
36:05On cross, the defense did their best
36:08To raise doubt
36:09The leading cause of wrongful convictions
36:12Is eyewitness identification testimony
36:14The time of night that occurred
36:17The lighting on the beach
36:18That just didn't make logical sense
36:20That they could have seen
36:22The face of anyone that night
36:23Much less John Boyd Frazier
36:25And if it had been Frazier
36:27On the beach that night
36:28The defense claimed
36:30He'd been incredibly lucky
36:31To beat the cops to his door
36:33Less than six hours later
36:36You'd have to drive like a bed out of hell
36:37To make that drive
36:38By the time the police are knocked on the door
36:39At 5.30 in the morning
36:41And doubts about Frazier's ability
36:44To make that drive
36:45According to the defense
36:46Also raised some very reasonable ones
36:49About Renee's guilt
36:50If Renee's involved
36:53Solely because she's linked to a plan
36:56That John Frazier had
36:58To kill Brent Poole
37:00If Frazier wasn't the shooter
37:02Renee's not involved
37:03Of course, Renee had allegedly confessed
37:08So when the defense started presenting its case
37:11On the afternoon of November 12
37:12It was crucial to cast doubt
37:15On that confession
37:16To do it
37:17Her attorneys called a psychiatrist
37:20To the stand
37:21Who testified that Renee's confession
37:23Was the result of post-traumatic stress syndrome
37:26Her husband had been murdered
37:28Right in front of her eyes
37:29That's going to be
37:31That's going to put anybody in shock
37:33Renee's shock, the defense claimed
37:35Made it very easy
37:37For the detectives to manipulate her
37:40Worse, according to the defense
37:41They'd applied pressure
37:43To the brand new widow's
37:45Most vulnerable point
37:47The police detectives were telling her
37:49That she would never see her daughter again
37:51If she didn't cooperate with them
37:52And tell them the truth
37:53And again, the truth
37:55That they were telling Renee
37:57They wanted to hear
37:58Was that John Frazier was the shooter
38:02The detectives hadn't beaten
38:04A confession out of Renee
38:05But according to the defense
38:07They'd come awfully close
38:10Every parent in this country
38:12Would say something that's not true
38:15To save their relationship with their children
38:17Their biggest defense was that
38:19They think she was coerced
38:21Into confessing
38:23And the detectives, the defense claimed
38:25Were desperate for a confession
38:29It's not good for business
38:30For tourists to come down
38:31And then get killed
38:33It was, according to the defense
38:35In Myrtle Beach's best interest
38:37For Brent's death to be something
38:38Other than a random robbery
38:41The detectives had their own scenario
38:43They wanted her to say she did it
38:47The pieces have come together, Renee
38:49And what we knew
38:51Pretty much after that first night
38:53We knew that you had to be involved in it
38:56Renee Poole
38:58Again, was in an environment
39:01That I think she would have said
39:03Anything she needed to say
39:04At the time
39:05Just get out of there
39:08At 10 o'clock on the evening of November 12th
39:11The defense rested its case
39:13Without putting Renee on the stand
39:16After all, according to her attorney
39:18She'd already said enough
39:20The jury in Renee Poole's murder trial
39:23Spent most of Saturday, November 13th, 1999
39:27In deliberations
39:28It was, her attorney assumed
39:31A good sign for the defense
39:33We were pretty relaxed
39:35And we felt like the jury
39:37Was taking its time
39:40Renee spent the time
39:42Planning her victory celebration
39:44She's laughing
39:46She's happy
39:47She borrowed one of the lawyers
39:49One of her lawyers' cell phones
39:51And through the whole day
39:53Was making plans for a party
39:56Finally, after more than
39:58Eight hours of deliberation
39:59The jury announced
40:01It had reached a verdict
40:02They deliberated quite a long time
40:05Typically a murder jury
40:07Will take three, four hours
40:09We sent several questions
40:11Back out to the judge
40:12By the bailiff
40:13We probably took two or three ballots
40:15Before it was unanimous
40:17At 9 p.m.
40:19The court clerk read the jury's verdict
40:22My heart liked it dropped
40:23When I heard the verdict
40:25Renee Poole was guilty
40:28She completely fell apart
40:31Crying
40:32My investigator and I
40:33Had to just hold her up
40:35To keep her from
40:36Just collapsing
40:38The judge sentenced Renee
40:40To life in prison
40:41Without parole
40:43Her lawyers filed an immediate appeal
40:46There was very little
40:48Physical, direct evidence
40:50Just very little
40:51It was all built up
40:53On a lifestyle
40:53She worked at a strip joint
40:55So that hurt Renee
40:56Although, in the minds
40:58Of the police and prosecutors
40:59It ended up hurting Brent
41:02Even more
41:03Working in the strip club
41:04Having an illicit affair
41:06Divorce was just not
41:07Going to be an option
41:07Because she was going to lose
41:09Essentially
41:09Everything out of it
41:11It was more logical
41:12In her mind
41:13To kill him
41:14And Renee's reconciliation
41:16With Brent
41:17It was, according to the DA
41:19Simply the first step
41:21Of her deadly betrayal
41:24It's not going to be
41:25A very good cover-up
41:26If she's living
41:27With her boyfriend
41:28And all of a sudden
41:29Her husband drops dead
41:30She needs to get back in
41:31To carry out the plan
41:32To get back in
41:33To book favorite
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