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00:00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:00:20So we are going up to this area which is very secluded, very wooded.
00:00:25You don't go out there to go hiking.
00:00:29You go out there to get rid of things.
00:00:32Common sense tells me he's dumping our body.
00:00:36Man, if you'd have told me three weeks ago
00:00:38that we'd be looking for another body after Mark's case,
00:00:40I wouldn't have believed you.
00:00:42This is super rare.
00:00:44This is one of those kind of cases that she'll never forget.
00:00:52All right, let's go see what we got.
00:00:57I hope we find her.
00:01:139-1-1, what's the address of the emergency?
00:01:16I think we're 63rd place north across the street from my house.
00:01:21There's a body laying on the porch.
00:01:25Do you know if that person has been shot?
00:01:28I don't know.
00:01:30I will go ahead and put a call in for them, okay?
00:01:38First responders arrive at the home and find a young woman on the front porch.
00:01:44shot dead.
00:01:53For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half
00:01:58if they don't get a lead within the first 48 hours.
00:02:15Hey, Brandon.
00:02:17Detective Mark Kennedy will lead the investigation.
00:02:21Victims shot and killed her on her front step.
00:02:25What's her name?
00:02:27Elizabeth.
00:02:3127-year-old Elizabeth Dillard grew up in Redding, California,
00:02:35and recently moved to Tulsa with her 8- and 9-year-old sons.
00:02:39She also has a 5-year-old daughter who lives in California with her ex-partner.
00:02:45Elizabeth is survived by her parents and two younger sisters.
00:02:53This neighbor and these people said they heard gunshots 330 to 345.
00:02:58No one called them.
00:02:59Elizabeth was lying dead on her doorstep for almost four hours
00:03:03before a neighbor saw her and called 911.
00:03:06She shot three times.
00:03:08Okay.
00:03:09She was struck three times in the chest.
00:03:13Cason's right in the front yard.
00:03:1580-caliber hornies.
00:03:1740-caliber hornies.
00:03:17C-SI recovered three 40-caliber shell casings.
00:03:27She's not robbed her.
00:03:29She's got her car keys out.
00:03:32Her car is still intact.
00:03:34Her door keys are laying on her way.
00:03:36So, she's trying to get in the house.
00:03:40our kids were at the house being watched by her sister when first responders arrived
00:03:46they found elizabeth's sons and her sister inside who seemed to know the most about her sister yeah
00:03:54okay elizabeth's sister will be taken to homicide for questioning
00:03:57while her kids stay with her sister's husband
00:04:03she's got a phone on grab that we'll take it with us
00:04:09not much to see is it no well we got some work to do yeah i think so
00:04:21one hour in you are yep ready set and they've got a camera's pointing that direction
00:04:28the team finds security cameras on the house next door to elizabeth's nathan and reggie are
00:04:34working on it they're looking at it maybe nathan can explain it to you yeah let's move here we go
00:04:43it's not it shows her coming home at like 3 46. it's dark i mean you can't really see the
00:04:52porch
00:04:53the video shows elizabeth pulling into her driveway around the same time neighbors her gunshots
00:05:00they're not sure getting out of the car no it's it's out of view but the cameras didn't capture
00:05:06the shooting we don't see any cars following her into the driveway she says ex-boyfriend's parents
00:05:13live in this yellow house right here according to the neighbor elizabeth recently broke up with a
00:05:18man whose parents live two doors down the neighbor says she thinks they broke up about three months
00:05:35ago she gives detectives the ex-boyfriend's contact information
00:05:49let's go talk to uh sister yeah let's go do that all right
00:06:06i'm sorry we're meeting under these circumstances kennedy and detective max ryden speak to elizabeth's
00:06:12sister i know this is a tough time for you and i'm really sorry to have to put you through
00:06:17this
00:06:17but we need as much information as we can get right now so you know first of all do you
00:06:26live
00:06:26there with her with your sister um yeah i just uh well i just came to visit to help out
00:06:32with things
00:06:32and okay help clean up her house and take their kids she goes to work right sure that they're not
00:06:39home alone right where does she work at lipsticks cabaret she says elizabeth worked at an adult
00:06:46entertainment club on the east side of tulsa and what does she do at the club um dance and what
00:06:54time
00:06:54does she normally get off work i think at like 2 30 she gets home maybe 3 o'clock so
00:07:02did you just
00:07:03assume she was already inside the house whenever you woke up this morning um i woke up to banging
00:07:11banging on the door was it a neighbor um officers officers okay she says she didn't know anything
00:07:19had happened to elizabeth until the police arrived i don't think you've told the kids yet about this
00:07:24have you no do they know something's happened to their mom i don't believe so but they're gonna
00:07:32never see her again and they're gonna watch it aware of the shape
00:07:38i know i'm sorry yeah i know it's almost like she was ambushed that's what it looks like
00:07:47and so that to me is somebody that we feel has a beef with her and we start looking at
00:07:55people close
00:07:55to her um she did have one boyfriend terrell okay she says elizabeth recently dated a man named
00:08:04terrell you know terrell's last name i don't terrell is a black male or white black male he had like
00:08:12a dreaded hair and he's kind of tall
00:08:19how long ago did they date like two weeks ago did he live there with her stay there he stayed
00:08:25in his truck
00:08:25he stayed in his truck just to help her okay do you know what kind of truck he had i
00:08:33don't know it had
00:08:34a bed but like no shell on it and he had like a dog that would sit in the back
00:08:39how come he didn't come
00:08:41in the house um because he would have the dog and okay she didn't want the dog against him how
00:08:48was
00:08:48their relationship was it turbulent was it it was all right he would do dishes and come in
00:08:55sometimes okay you know his number okay i want to ask you there's a house just about two houses down
00:09:05from where you live do you know even individuals in there that i know a little bit about them
00:09:11of what she told me it's um an ex-boyfriend how did they know each other facebook and then she
00:09:21moved
00:09:22in with him she moved into the house where she's at now she says about a year ago elizabeth moved
00:09:29in with the man she met online their relationship didn't work and he moved out really okay yeah
00:09:37and you know how long ago that was that the breakup occurred i want to say longer than three months
00:09:44ago
00:09:45she talked to him recently on facebook messenger and he was trying to get her to go hang out with
00:09:52him
00:09:54recently like in the last week yeah and i was telling her you know he's an extra reason
00:10:01he still owed her money or something because he broke her phones when they were in a relationship and
00:10:07never bought her a new phone okay did you say anything about how that happened um she had apps
00:10:17that he didn't want like dating apps jealous times that things that made him jealous yeah okay and he
00:10:25broke her iphone and the new one and then and then she broke up with him she broke up and
00:10:31then he had to
00:10:32move out of his own house all right okay um give us a second
00:10:50he should only leave you out i mean this is obviously a revenge i mean they don't take her car
00:10:56they
00:10:56don't take her keys they don't take her purse i got his phone number we'll see call him get him
00:11:03down
00:11:03there next
00:11:07kennedy reaches out to elizabeth's ex-boyfriend
00:11:12hello detective kennedy with tulsa police yes sir hey um man i don't know if you've heard but uh
00:11:19elizabeth my mom already told me and i'm like hell like what happened like that don't make no sense
00:11:29then the people next door got a camera facing towards the house you know what i'm saying i used to
00:11:35stay in the house sir yeah and i ain't been over there since well hey listen is there any way
00:11:44you
00:11:44could come downtown and we could talk to you real quick and give us as much information about her as
00:11:48you
00:11:48know um not right now but i can probably like a little later yeah yeah that's fine i was nowhere
00:11:58inside don't know well i'm not saying you were i'm not saying you were okay i appreciate it no problem
00:12:07bye
00:12:10he knows about the camera so he knows exactly how to freaking avoid it right he knows the camera and
00:12:15did
00:12:15you ever ask me if he was there you didn't ask him but he volunteered i wasn't there like eight
00:12:19times in that conversation
00:12:28two hours later all right well i'm detective kennedy this is detective ryden elizabeth's ex-boyfriend
00:12:37shows up at homicide appreciate you coming down well hey man tell me tell me about you and elizabeth
00:12:45i know that you two have at one point had a relationship and i understood it that it was kind
00:12:52of an internet relationship at first yeah we was chilling you know we talked after we talked she moved
00:13:00down here so she moves to tulsa she moved to tulsa way we didn't get it was like a year
00:13:08ago or probably
00:13:10so okay when did you move out of the house like october he says he moved out five months ago
00:13:18after he and elizabeth
00:13:20broke up can i describe your relationship i mean was it physical i mean did you guys get domestic violence
00:13:29type stuff anything like that i heard basically that at some point there was a disagreement and her phone
00:13:37got broken yeah i actually then we broke her phone i heard that the disagreement might have had to do
00:13:44with
00:13:44stuff that stuff that was on her phone yeah and and that's why i don't want all that you know
00:13:50and that ain't
00:13:50none of my business why did you move out i moved out because it's just like it just kept it
00:13:57kept getting too toxic
00:14:00all right so i mean what kind of relationship have you had since you guys broke up
00:14:05anybody talking all right let's do this let's start off yesterday and let's talk about your day what
00:14:13were you doing i wasn't at that house yesterday i didn't say that i said where were you at
00:14:37where were you at out of town where'd you go out of town to i was like out in kansas
00:14:51where at in kansas
00:14:56uh um um i forgot the name of it okay when did you get back from kansas today like seven
00:15:11he claims he arrived back in town about three hours after elizabeth's murder so you got back
00:15:18in town from kansas and you don't know what the name of the town is how'd you even know how
00:15:25to get
00:15:25there gps did you use your phone for the gps that you put in your phone no i don't have
00:15:34it
00:15:36like i don't know what else to say like i didn't do nothing wrong so your phone will show you
00:15:43were in
00:15:43kansas yeah okay well let's just make this simple i have a guy here right now that can download your
00:15:50phone and if you can show you're in kansas hell we'll end this right now
00:15:55makes sense all right okay all right thank you
00:16:08nathan can you dump this we're hoping the gps in there will show what's going on here this story sucks
00:16:22a half hour later well we'll see if he's telling the truth detectives get a look at the ex-boyfriend's
00:16:29gps records there's a gps here right there
00:16:36he's freaking in is it blackwell yeah at 4 40 in the morning no way he got from four o
00:16:43'clock in the
00:16:44morning from if that's right well 4 40 it takes too long to get there that's an hour and a
00:16:49half drive
00:16:51elizabeth's ex-boyfriend was over 100 miles from tulsa at the time of the murder
00:16:56i think he's not a guy i think you're right
00:17:01we may need to start looking another direction
00:17:10phone back we're gonna give you a ride home we're out of here
00:17:15i'm gonna go call the lipstick cabaret and try to just get whatever they've got all right
00:17:25so
00:17:2712 hours in she was at lipstick cabaret at work last night elizabeth's manager said she left the club
00:17:36about an hour before she was murdered she did say that she gave a ride to another girl last night
00:17:44when they left the video at the strip club shows her and the girl both leaving getting in the car
00:17:52nobody
00:17:53follows them out nobody follows the the car they're by themselves her phone number is
00:18:00kennedy calls elizabeth's co-worker
00:18:06this is detective mark kennedy i work for the tulsa police department if you could give me a call
00:18:11back i'd appreciate it thank you she's not answering we'll buy her and talk to her see what she knows
00:18:33the next afternoon we're gonna go talk to a young lady that was
00:18:39given a ride by our victim as they left work at the lipstick cabaret elizabeth's co-worker
00:18:46gets back to kennedy and agrees to meet
00:18:52a couple questions i want to ask you so you left the club and then you came straight here yes
00:18:58exactly
00:18:59she confirms elizabeth gave her a ride home after work you didn't see her pick up anybody else no
00:19:07when you are working at the club is there one particular guy that always would hang out with
00:19:13elizabeth there was the only guy that she was talking to there was a guy named t-real but i
00:19:19don't
00:19:19know how long ago did you see you last seen terrell um probably about a month ago i do have
00:19:28the number
00:19:29though because he tried to talk to me before too can i get that number yes she gives them
00:19:35terrell's phone number and you haven't seen him for a month no maybe a month or two honestly
00:19:44well if you're anything in the club you gotta remember all right thank you you'll be safe
00:19:5636 hours in i'm going to try to get a hold of terrell
00:20:08the text now subscriber you are trying to reach is not available please leave your meds
00:20:13i mean after texting i don't know how text now works he's calling from an app on his phone
00:20:21which is generating that phone number which is a fake number which is hard to get who that is
00:20:29kennedy sends a message to the text now number asking terrell to get in touch at this point i think
00:20:36it's a little bit thin to get a search warrant for that number so we'll continue to try to figure
00:20:42out
00:20:42who he is hopefully he'll give me a call back
00:21:04in the first 48 tulsa homicide responded to the murder of 27 year old elizabeth dillard
00:21:10gunned down on her doorstep talked to her sister who said elizabeth recently broke up with two men
00:21:17interviewed one of the men but cleared him when his gps showed he was 100 miles from tulsa
00:21:23at the time of the murder and got a phone number for the other man known only as terrell but
00:21:30had been
00:21:30unable to reach him eight days later right now we don't have a lot to go on kennedy still
00:21:40hasn't heard back from terrell i've taken elizabeth's phone to our special investigations division and
00:21:47we're hoping that maybe there's something in that phone somewhere that will list terrell and we can
00:21:53figure out who he is i'm gonna have to go shake the idol over here a little bit on this
00:21:59one it's just
00:22:01kind of an ongoing joke that when we get up for a murder we shake the skull and hope for
00:22:05the best on
00:22:06our investigation we need a little bit of luck here she was ambushed and she was murdered in cold blood
00:22:13and and um it's it's something we've got to solve
00:22:3110 days in as the investigation into elizabeth's murder threatens to go cold
00:22:38toll police yes i need somebody to come do a welfare check at 30th and sheridan
00:22:44a woman asks police to check on her neighbor her keys were left to her to where her purse was
00:22:49left outside and when was the last time you saw her days ago and have you knocked on her door
00:22:56we have beat on her door we will get officers out there as soon as we can
00:23:06officers arrive what's going on man i don't know if she's in there or not in here you know what
00:23:12i'm saying she's usually out in the battle all the time i haven't seen her in a few legs
00:23:25hey guys all right here we go
00:23:34miss dancer this is the police department we're coming to check on you
00:23:44miss dancer
00:23:48they find the woman in her bedroom miss dancer
00:23:53shot dead
00:24:07how long has she been dead she is starting to decomp so it's probably been a day or two
00:24:12okay detective lacy lansdowne joined homicide eight months ago she will leave the investigation
00:24:20odd thing was her keys were still on the door okay so there's no forced entry okay
00:24:27the neighbors next door found nippin's purse outside the front door right about here
00:24:36the victim's name is rainbow dancer
00:24:4169 year old rainbow star dancer was born rhonda ruth harbolt but changed her name soon after she left
00:24:48the u.s army she supported local unhoused people by hiring them for small jobs around her apartment
00:24:55main bullies behind her brother and a cousin in her home state of minnesota
00:25:21and then when i rolled her over she's got the bullets still in her hair
00:25:30okay
00:25:30she's probably been shot four or five times at least rainbow was shot four times in the head
00:25:36and once in her back and once in her back in hand
00:26:06just give that directly to me um swab it though first
00:26:20yeah one hour in he says he probably saw her the last time on thursday okay
00:26:26didn't really talk to her very much that day but a neighbor says he saw rainbow hanging out with a
00:26:32new
00:26:32man about four days ago okay hang on just a minute sir we need to bring him down yeah
00:26:42the neighbor agrees to talk back at homicide
00:26:46i'm really hoping he's going to be able to shed some light on
00:26:49who she was friends with who she was hanging out with
00:27:02doesn't look like anything's stolen there's no force entry
00:27:07somebody killed her but then covered her up that's personal
00:27:12this is a horrible way to to go it's just a straight up execution
00:27:30before speaking to the neighbor we're going to call try to get a hold of a family member and
00:27:37unfortunately tell him some really bad news lansdowne makes the call to rainbows next of kin
00:27:59okay okay ma'am i'm so sorry to tell you this um but she was murdered here in tulsa within
00:28:07the last couple of days
00:28:09oh okay do we know how um she she was shot okay okay but i will tell you that i'm
00:28:25going to do everything i can to solve this and get get justice for you guys
00:28:29all right all right i appreciate you calling yes i'm so sorry thank you okay bye-bye
00:28:38hopefully we can get some answers for
00:28:40because star didn't deserve this
00:28:50five hours in
00:28:55okay
00:28:56okay so i'm lacy i'm the lead detective on this
00:29:02so how do you know rainbow um she lives in the complex she's very extroverted so she just speaks
00:29:08to the next day of the room okay
00:29:11tuesday i noticed that there was a gentleman there with her
00:29:15he was dressed in red he kind of looked younger he had dreads okay
00:29:19you know so i just walked up with a nosy person how are you doing how are things going
00:29:24and he didn't give me any eye contact which you know that was kind of different uh-huh
00:29:28did you ask who he was no i didn't what was his race black i think he's in his early
00:29:3530s
00:29:36did she say anything about him that day no um so the following day i noticed that his truck
00:29:44was parked there overnight i thought that was strange so i i went upstairs and i heard her voice
00:29:53yelling at someone i couldn't tell what she was yelling i didn't think too much about it
00:30:01but on day thursday she was very upset she told me that he shoved her into a wall
00:30:10and he took her phone
00:30:14she said i slashed his tires because he stole money from me and my phone
00:30:21i was like he sold money she's like two hundred dollars
00:30:26so we're talking wednesday should you talk to her thursday did you have any conversations with her
00:30:33after thursday i can't recall talking to her brother but i think i saw his truck there
00:30:41describe what his truck looked like so his truck is gray it's a primer gray so there's no shine
00:30:49was it like a chevy a dodge i don't remember if it's a chevy or dodge it's not a four
00:30:55did she ever tell you what his name was or nickname or anything like that
00:30:59no or what did she everything you can remember that she told you about him
00:31:05she said that his dog had some issue i don't know what the issue was i didn't need to ask
00:31:12okay you've been very very helpful thank you
00:31:20we've got to figure out who this dress guy is he had motives she slashed his tires they got into
00:31:25it
00:31:26he'd stolen a phone from her he'd stolen money from her we've at the very least need to identify him
00:31:32and talk to him
00:31:4410 days after elizabeth was found murdered on her front steps for those of you who don't know lacy got
00:31:52the murder lieutenant brandon watkins briefs the rest of the team on rainbow's murder she was found
00:31:59shot multiple times in her bed a man had been staying with her it was a black male with dreads
00:32:06drives a pickup that's got like primered and beat up captain hold on hold on
00:32:13my victim elizabeth dillard had a boyfriend black male with dreads
00:32:19drives they pick up a guy by the name of terrell
00:32:25i mean look at everything that's matching up here
00:32:31she had her keys still in the door and her purse was left outside which is which is a very
00:32:37similar mo
00:32:40he had a dog okay my guy has a dog
00:32:44and then the biggest thing is your casings are 40 harnaday's so are mine
00:32:50what are the logs here dude it's weird wow it's the same guy
00:32:59mark just too coincidental
00:33:02we need to have those compared yeah like asap
00:33:21hey mark hi joy so i've got a scene where we recovered casings kennedy asks the ballistics lab
00:33:29to compare the casings found at elizabeth and rainbow's crime scenes okay sounds good
00:33:35all right thank you the lab is working on it okay we'll see if they're the same gun
00:33:42if they are we probably got the same suspect on both murders
00:33:54hold on two hours later so joy you're telling me the ones from my scene and the ones from
00:34:01the other scene all match correct all right you're awesome appreciate it thank you no problem bye
00:34:11did i hear this i think i heard brana did you hear that i heard all the casings match
00:34:19it's the same guy
00:34:23this is not good two murders very same mo in a week
00:34:30the question about now is do we get him before you get someone else
00:34:35hell now we know pretty much probably who it is probably gonna be terrell now we know why i didn't
00:34:40answer my text do we have a last name no no last name but i do have a text now
00:34:46number for him
00:34:47the team will submit a warrant for terrell's text now phone records i'll see if that phone number pops
00:34:53up in her phone at all jeremy took it to cyber crimes and the special investigation division will
00:34:59search rainbow and elizabeth's phones to see if they share a contact number for terrell i think
00:35:05everything just needs to go towards figuring out who the hell terrell is
00:35:08i just got some new info your victim had that text now phone number in her phone under brooks
00:35:25terrell t-e-r-r-y-l so maybe terrell brooks the special investigation division finds a lead
00:35:34in elizabeth dillard's phone well somebody got traces up i've got traces up i'll pull it up
00:35:44i got him you got it yep
00:35:50terrell rayshon brooks
00:35:5422 year old terrell brooks has two convictions for robbery in north carolina damn
00:36:01him he had a ticket in 2019. he got stopped in a silver chevy 1989 pickup truck boom
00:36:14he had a 40 caliber gun on him and they gave it to him yep says they gave it back
00:36:21to him
00:36:21doesn't look like he had any reason to keep it
00:36:25okay detective jason white pulls up body cam stills from the traffic stop
00:36:30that's the vehicle right there yeah that's it right there
00:36:34that's really good
00:36:36post that on there the team puts out a bolo for terrell's truck find the truck find that truck
00:36:50while patrol searches for terrell's chevy pickup
00:36:55the casings that's the only thing we got connected other than the similarities
00:36:59i mean is he pcable yet he seeable i think if that photo's picked yes detectives will reach out to
00:37:08witnesses hoping to secure a positive id on terrell i want to send you a picture real quick and you
00:37:14kind of let me know what you think kennedy reaches out to elizabeth's sister okay thank you very much
00:37:21all right sister just confirmed that is true all right
00:37:28back at rainbow's apartment complex lansdowne meets with her neighbor did you say that one of
00:37:34these guys looks familiar okay can you sign and date that please
00:37:45so we have a positive id that means we have two ids
00:37:49the team now has enough probable cause to get an arrest warrant for terrell brooks
00:37:55it's coming together quickly which i'm really happy about because this guy's dangerous
00:38:01and hopefully a few warrants can find him sometime soon
00:38:09we got everybody in our unit and the warrants units i was looking
00:38:16if he's killed two people there wouldn't be any reason why he wouldn't try to kill a third so hopefully
00:38:22we'll come up with something rather quickly if this was a baseball field first base is what you think
00:38:29second base is what you know and third base is what you can prove right now we're on second base
00:38:34we know it's probably going to be him it's just trying to get enough proof of him which is how
00:38:39you get to home
00:38:40the police
00:38:48six hours later highway patrol spotted this vehicle uh pulling out of a quick trip i believe
00:38:55our units got him in custody and now he's down here
00:39:01torell brooks is brought into homicide for questioning probable cause allows us to arrest him
00:39:08without a warrant i think he's our guy definitely he is connected to both of the victims the gun
00:39:16matches at both scenes the danger with the probable cause arrest is that he could go before a judge and
00:39:23the judge decide that we don't have enough probable cause and then he's back out on the streets
00:39:28of course if he talks and he confesses that just helps our case out and you know it takes away
00:39:32any
00:39:33argument that we don't have the right man how's he acting pretty relaxed did you guys search the car
00:39:40any whatsoever just tell it we we did a no-touch hold terrell's truck will be towed to the crime
00:39:46lab
00:39:46and processed for evidence didn't happen to see a gun or anything did you no there's one phone in the
00:39:55floorboard of the driver's seat and then phone in the passenger seat okay we'll get those later
00:40:01how's this dog sweet and friendly uh dad came to pick the dog up
00:40:05terrell's father who lives in tulsa took custody of his dog before the truck was towed
00:40:12okay well i'm hoping he talks to us and we get a confession let's see what happens yeah all right
00:40:28all right buddy trill i'm detective kennedy this is detective lansdowne okay we'll toss the police
00:40:35probably got a lot of questions right now yeah okay i just want to know why y'all have me
00:40:41here
00:40:42you're under arrest okay for from a first degree murder for this lady right here
00:40:51okay and this young lady right here that's what you're in here for do you want to explain this
00:40:59why it happened how it happened
00:41:14i don't talk to those ladies anymore
00:41:24i was with her for a couple days like for a week she let me come stay at her house
00:41:30and she didn't
00:41:31want me there no more i left her house and her i had work for her and she took me
00:41:38up to the vet and
00:41:39try to take my dog and say that my dog was her dog okay well this one so you you
00:41:47know her what do you
00:41:49know her by what's her name elizabeth i was with her for a little while where'd you meet her at
00:41:57i met at the strip club lipstick cabaret so how did you end up staying with her for a while
00:42:04because i'm
00:42:05homeless she was like it's cold outside stay with her and she ended up being my girlfriend right
00:42:15what ended up happening with that arrangement she said she said she didn't want to be in a
00:42:20relationship you like dancing and being free yeah did she kind of kick you out yeah she kicked me out
00:42:27she said she didn't want to be living with her anymore she said we can be friends and everything and
00:42:33that that she still likes me and everything but she never she never contacted me she never talked
00:42:38to me or nothing right okay this lady right here what do you know her by what's her name i
00:42:46don't even
00:42:46know her name how'd you meet her i just ride through the apartments i sleep at apartments right
00:42:54i sleep in the parking spot and i just pull up but i asked her if she wanted to buy
00:43:00my dog
00:43:01if she wanted to buy your dog look my dog just ran away from me not want to come to
00:43:06me
00:43:07mm-hmm he learned that from being around females and then kind of sweet talk him stuff like that
00:43:17right before she was about the bottom he barked so it brought back back to my senses like hey you
00:43:24know that dog might be a good protective dog so you said you wanted to keep i wanted to keep
00:43:29him
00:43:29and she was like uh you can come in you can stay with me you know and i went over
00:43:35there i stayed over
00:43:36there and cleaned her house she started paying me okay so when's the last time you saw her it was
00:43:45probably like a week ago okay anything happened there no i just told her that she wasn't going to
00:43:52keep my dog she was like i got half the ownership of the dog since i paid at the vet
00:43:58i just said uh
00:44:01don't you're not taking my dog and she said i'm not going to deal with a mousy ass and put
00:44:05me out
00:44:09right here's the thing some bad things happen to these women okay they have families they deserve
00:44:16closure okay what's going on she's dead and she's dead and i think you know that already
00:44:25these women don't know each other the only connection between these women are you okay
00:44:33you seem like a pretty good guy all right i think there's some stuff weighing really heavy
00:44:39on your heart right now that i think can tell you're a little bit scared to get it out there
00:44:45but i promise you you're gonna feel better by telling the truth okay the truth already know i don't i'm
00:44:53not
00:44:53with them anymore i know you're not with them i'm not gonna argue that but i do know that you
00:44:59know what
00:45:00happened okay this is your opportunity trail to tell us what happened i think maybe your emotions got
00:45:10a hold of you i know she cut your tire i know she probably got broke your heart
00:45:14lawyer from here okay okay well we'll get that lawyer for you all right you're being arrested
00:45:23are two counts of first degree murder for the murder of elizabeth dillard
00:45:27and star we're able to answer you'll be booked in the tulsa county jail okay and you'll have your day
00:45:35in court
00:45:36sound good all right we'll talk to you later
00:45:46we got a little out of him we got him connected with both victims so better than nothing
00:45:55i mean he puts himself at both scenes and the odds of him randomly knowing both of these women
00:46:01that's certainly no obviously he's got some issues with women and anger elizabeth was ambushed at her
00:46:10front door so was a rainbow star so that seems to be his motive on how he he gets back
00:46:16at the women
00:46:16he doesn't like 32 hours after rainbow was found dead and 10 days after elizabeth was shot on her
00:46:23doorstep terrell brooks is charged with their murders
00:46:36he's in custody but we've got a lot more investigation to do we've seized his truck we hope
00:46:42we find some more evidence than that we've met the threshold of probable cause but as far as proving it
00:46:48beyond a reasonable doubt that's an ongoing effort there's still a lot of work to do mark and i have
00:46:55a lot of follow-up that we have to do and to make sure that he gets convicted and put
00:47:00away because he
00:47:01does not need to be on the streets it was only a matter of time before he found another vulnerable
00:47:07woman that he could do the same thing to to kill two women senselessly within a week of each other
00:47:14there's
00:47:15no telling how this would have escalated or how this would have ended i don't even have a year in
00:47:20the unit and i have someone who could potentially have turned into a serial killer
00:47:39the next morning while kennedy and lansdowne continued to build their cases against terrell
00:47:45is that the last time you saw her ryden fields a call from a woman who reported her daughter missing
00:47:50two months ago and what kind of vehicle did she leave in with him the woman says she saw a
00:47:57news
00:47:57report about terrell's arrest and recognized him as the last person seen with her daughter
00:48:04how about we talk in person thank you bye
00:48:08she said the last person she's 100 positive that saw her daughter alive was driving an older chevy
00:48:17primary gray truck and she's never been seen from since she said that's the boy that picked my daughter
00:48:25do it please wow that's not good we got a possible third victim
00:48:47the last person that she was ever seen alive with was mr brooks basically mom says i went to the
00:48:53family dollar to pick her up from work and she had a choice to get in my car or her
00:48:57boyfriend's truck
00:48:58and she chose the truck so what was that girl's name tyra whitaker
00:49:0624 year old tyra whitaker was reported missing by her family two months ago
00:49:11she was born and raised in tulsa and had been working several jobs to support her four-year-old son
00:49:19this is a really good investigation to check out the hospitals i mean no one's ever seen her
00:49:24she's alive since then the missing persons unit investigated tyra's disappearance for over a month
00:49:30but were unable to find any leads there's a decent chance she's been killed
00:49:38without a body we're not able to prove a whole bunch the team will start working tyra's case
00:49:44as a possible homicide we really need a good workup on that drug crime scene detectives
00:49:50are processing terrell brooks's truck for evidence we're going to search it i think there's two
00:49:56phones in the drug so we'll have to get worse the team will get phone records for the cell phones
00:50:02in terrell's truck
00:50:06this is starting out not very promising i'm finding her alive
00:50:10it's hard to do a nobody conviction in oklahoma so she'll be a missing person until we can find a
00:50:17body
00:50:18me and sergeant styles are going to go talk to the victims family get a little more intel
00:50:38two hours in
00:50:44hi is la donna home detective ryden and sergeant jeremy styles speak with tyra's family at her
00:50:50mother's house so the last time you saw her was on the 19th is that right yeah she had called
00:50:58and
00:50:58asked me to pick her up from work she comes out and she gets in the car and she calls
00:51:05this guy on
00:51:06the telephone to tell him don't come and get her i'm there so he was like oh i'm just around
00:51:12the
00:51:12corner did he arrive in a vehicle yes it's an older model truck and when you priming a car to
00:51:22paint
00:51:22it it's that gray
00:51:27tyra gets her stuff and they leave okay on the original report you listed this as her phone number
00:51:35was that the phone number you're you had for it at that time yes okay here's the deal we're gonna
00:51:40see if we can figure out it lead to follow and if we find her we'll definitely give you a
00:51:44shout out
00:51:44away okay thanks guys
00:51:49okay
00:52:04later that afternoon so we just got done processing the truck no gun no ammo no ammo boxes no gun
00:52:12boxes no
00:52:13nothing like that we blew started and there was a reaction in the passenger seat and and the where
00:52:21his shoulder would be if he's driving all right up in there it's gonna get sent over to the lab
00:52:26the swabs will be sent to the crime lab to see if the substance found on the seats in terrell's
00:52:31truck
00:52:31is blood if it actually is blood then we're going to start comparing it to our victim's blood
00:52:37to see if it's theirs we'll just have to send this stuff off and time will tell yep
00:52:53the next day detectives turn back to terrell me and ronnie went to jail and picked up mr brooks and
00:53:02we brought him down here and we're going to see if he wants to have a conversation about tyra
00:53:06legally we can still do that we won't ask him any questions about mark or dixie's case
00:53:13this is a brand new case we just learned about so we'll see what he has to say
00:53:24okay tyrell i'm detective rodent detect 11. you're in jail for other things and i'm not going to ask you
00:53:29questions about those at all i'm investigating a missing person
00:53:37who is that
00:53:40tyra
00:53:43and how do you know tyra we met at the bus stop i kind of took her in under my
00:53:48wing
00:53:50and anytime she needed to ride to work or a ride home she she knew who to call
00:53:56and where was she working she worked at dollar general for
00:54:01probably like two weeks before she died okay um was she your girlfriend just a i mean wherever
00:54:09she's at i understand so was she your girlfriend no okay and mom says that she was at the store
00:54:20going to pick her up and that tyra called you and that you arrived and the way i understand that
00:54:26tyra
00:54:26got in your truck yes sir okay so where did you guys go that night she stayed with me in
00:54:33my truck
00:54:34okay whenever we split she couldn't stay with me how many days weeks or months did you guys split up
00:54:41after you talked to the mom at the family dollar it's probably like a week we split up because i
00:54:47woke up one day and i was sleeping on my back and she had slid her leg up under my
00:54:52leg uh-huh
00:54:52and uh it was like right close to my butt and i was like don't ever do that again you
00:54:58know
00:54:59you know that's uncomfortable i've already been molested while i'm asleep
00:55:03terrell says that three years ago he was sexually abused while he was sleeping
00:55:09so then you said you confronted her yeah i told her never not to do that again after that she
00:55:15was
00:55:15just like oh uh i was just getting comfortable with you i said no that's not how it goes don't
00:55:20don't do
00:55:20that so after that me and her relationship was not cool at all i told her me and you we
00:55:29can't be
00:55:29together so she had her friend come and pick her up did you see the friend no okay
00:55:38have you had any contact with her since that day no if you said something's interview that i know
00:55:45detective ledgan caught and i caught too you said she was dead i said i'm investigating a missing
00:55:53person but you said she's dead i agree with you she is dead i think you know exactly what happened
00:56:17i think she did something to set you off and i think when you get set off you do some
00:56:24stuff that
00:56:30you regret did you regret did you and her get in a fire at any point and something happened
00:56:36sure yes sir
00:56:40i just don't like betrayal
00:56:44i understand that what she did i mean yeah it made me mad and everything but i wouldn't i wouldn't
00:56:51hurt her
00:56:54one of the issues i see trail is that the last person we can confirm that she's been seen with
00:57:00was you the thing that makes sense to me is that all the stuff you've talked about that that bothers
00:57:08you and then she starts doing some of those things and that that you did something where i told you
00:57:16i
00:57:16told you everything that i wanted to talk about
00:57:22come over with some evidence it's just hearsay like just like the other two women
00:57:29just because i knew them just because i know her don't mean that i'm responsible for that
00:57:35for what for her death
00:57:39i know these people betrayed me and we've split up and everything did y'all can't just tell me oh
00:57:45yeah
00:57:45you were the last person seen with her so you did it it makes no sense that it's anyone else
00:57:53you're the last one that she's been seen with she hasn't went to work since then she hasn't talked
00:57:58to family and friends since then she left that's the last time i seen her that's that's the end of
00:58:07it
00:58:10okay okay what's it like did he do it definitely think he did it yeah
00:58:20she said all three of them betrayed me right yeah that's his whole thing it's betrayal
00:58:26and the first thing he said when they sat down was she's dead your heart rate going up a little
00:58:33like mine yeah first five minutes yeah she's dead and i was like oh crap he just admitted she's dead
00:58:37he's going to confess and he got close but he said she's dead
00:58:44what's the next dad do we get her his phone records and see where her phone might have gone yes
00:58:50the team will get a warrant for tyra's cell phone records hoping to get location data
00:58:54from the day she disappeared hopefully some phone stuff will help out but the problem is we don't
00:58:59have anybody saying he did it there's no gun there's a lot of common denominators same casings
00:59:07that's the best thing yeah i've got a lot of work to do we all got a lot of work
00:59:14there's a lot of work to do on all three of these cases we find a body to find physical
00:59:20evidence a
00:59:21witness um there's lots of things that can go right and just patience is on our side so we'll uh
00:59:27see
00:59:41this data is super accurate detective lansdowne takes over the case and gets the location data
00:59:49from tyra's phone it's basically showing which towers the device was connected to
00:59:56where these two arcs overlap is a pretty good indication that that device was in that area at
01:00:03time we know where her phone was at january 19th which is in north new gallus tyra's phone
01:00:11was tracked to a house in west tulsa the night before she disappeared
01:00:176 33 a.m on december 20th her phone goes all the way out east
01:00:24early the next morning her phone moves to a wooded area 20 miles east
01:00:31and then after this it goes off
01:00:36there's a very good possibility maybe she could be there we need a check
01:00:47so we are going up to this area which is very secluded very wooded detectives head out to the
01:00:53last location where tyra's phone hit to search for her body you don't go out there to
01:00:59go hiking you go out there to get rid of things common sense tells me he's dumping her body all
01:01:06right
01:01:21so you think he drove back in here then check it out i think it's worth a shot all right
01:01:27i hope we find her
01:01:49after searching for two hours it's just so wooded back here
01:01:56you think a dog would help they decide to come back in the morning with the canine team
01:02:04it's just such a big area that she could be anywhere
01:02:08tomorrow we'll be out there with the cadaver dogs i know she's dead and so now the next best thing
01:02:15is
01:02:16to be able to find her these two cases we have right now are circumstantial and we have to get
01:02:21something solid for this third case the more we can do on any one of these cases to strengthen it
01:02:27it's
01:02:28going to strengthen all three of them
01:02:42the next afternoon what's up girl
01:02:45canine officer robin mendenhall makes a discovery it's right in the arcs where land showed me okay
01:03:00i mean all we can do is look
01:03:14i came up here just to get a layout of the area and when i was walking through i saw
01:03:19the red
01:03:20and i just came down and checked it out looks like a female jacket to me it does look like
01:03:26a female jacket
01:03:28that looks like tissue that definitely smells like a body yes it stinks you might have found her
01:03:41so
01:03:52those are for sure genes oh undoubtedly yeah no doubt those are genes
01:03:59you've got uh the anthropologist coming here in ten minutes ten minutes okay
01:04:04I think you tried to bury her?
01:04:06Yeah, and when you look at this specific area, all of this is freshly overturned, and it is right where
01:04:12her phone was.
01:04:23Hello.
01:04:24Hi.
01:04:24Howdy, howdy.
01:04:25How are you all?
01:04:27Forensic anthropologist Dr. Angela Berg will determine if the remains are human.
01:04:35I'm trying to figure out what this thing is right here, how I feel.
01:04:39Is that part of the pelvis?
01:04:42This is the ischium.
01:04:44This is the greater trochanter of a femur, so you've got pelvis.
01:04:48That's what I was thinking.
01:04:49And you've got a femur.
01:04:53This is definitely human.
01:04:59You didn't expose this, did you?
01:05:00No, it was like that.
01:05:01I think an animal has probably just kind of rucked around in here.
01:05:07We have a storm coming, so I don't think we should address this right now.
01:05:10If we can wait, we can put a tarp on it and put an officer here.
01:05:14Yeah, let's do that.
01:05:18We've got a storm coming in this evening, heavy hail, heavy rain, and so what we're going to do is
01:05:23we're going to tarp this over, and then we'll have to have an officer sit here all night.
01:05:27And then we'll start an excavation tomorrow.
01:05:39We're going to go talk to LaDonna Whitaker and just tell her that we have found a body.
01:05:45Lansdowne and White head out to meet with Tyra's mother.
01:05:49We don't know that it's Tyra yet, but we wanted to let her know just so that they can start
01:05:54preparing for the possibility.
01:06:14Hello.
01:06:15Hi, are you LaDonna?
01:06:16Yes.
01:06:17LaDonna, hi.
01:06:17I'm Detective Lansdowne.
01:06:18That's Detective White.
01:06:20I want to tell you something, and I can't say this with a definitive 100% positive, but we have
01:06:26found remains of someone.
01:06:34And I want to prepare you before this hits the news and everything, I just want to let you know.
01:06:44I will tell you that there's a very good chance of it.
01:06:50Come on, sit down, baby.
01:06:51Yeah, yeah.
01:06:52Have a seat, sweetie.
01:06:54We don't like to do, you know, notifications and stuff until we're positive, but I feel strongly enough that this
01:07:02is Tyra that we came to talk to you guys.
01:07:06I'm glad, y'all.
01:07:07I'm glad.
01:07:07I was just, we were just talking about, I want, I wanted to find somebody.
01:07:13She was a good person.
01:07:16She, she had a good heart.
01:07:18Believe me, we're feeling for you.
01:07:21We will let you know in the moment we know with 100% certainty.
01:07:26Do you just want a phone call from me, or do you want me to come in person?
01:07:30Call mine.
01:07:31Yeah.
01:07:31Call Renee?
01:07:32Okay.
01:07:33We'll be in touch very soon.
01:07:36All right.
01:07:36All right, guys.
01:07:36You're welcome.
01:07:50The next morning.
01:07:51And now we're going to get out there and recover the body.
01:07:57I'd like to get like a circle of people around, lifting the soil out.
01:08:01Once we have that soil out, then we'll start actually on the recovery.
01:08:04So we'll be working around where we think the body is buried, and working our way down
01:08:09to her.
01:08:11Anything else?
01:08:13That's all good.
01:08:13We don't need that, what's all the time.
01:08:26We don't need that.
01:08:29We don't need that.
01:08:29We don't need that.
01:08:29We don't need that.
01:08:31We don't need that.
01:08:32After an hour of digging.
01:08:34Is that plastic?
01:08:38It feels like a trash bag of plastic.
01:08:42I think he might have put her in a trash bag.
01:08:45Yeah, that's sad, man.
01:08:48This poor girl threw away like a piece of trash.
01:08:54Trying to keep it intact as much as we can.
01:09:06Just pull it back and then...
01:09:11We've got her out.
01:09:17Good job, guys.
01:09:23She's going to get taken down to the medical examiner's office.
01:09:26Hopefully we'll get her positively identified.
01:09:29Fine.
01:09:38The next day...
01:09:43Hi, Lacey.
01:09:44Hey, Angela.
01:09:45Lansdowne reaches out to Dr. Burr.
01:09:48Just calling to see about an update on the body that we found.
01:10:05Okay, so we have positive ID.
01:10:10We have fingerprints as Tyra Whittaker.
01:10:13Okay.
01:10:18She has sharp force trauma to her head and neck.
01:10:23With cut marks into the bone also.
01:10:26Wow.
01:10:28The autopsy revealed that Tyra was stabbed 20 to 30 times in the head, face, and neck.
01:10:35She also has what appears to be maybe blood force trauma to her mouth.
01:10:40And she has three chipped teeth.
01:10:42Okay.
01:10:44Okay.
01:10:45Thank you so much, Angela.
01:10:47All right.
01:10:47Take care.
01:10:48Bye-bye.
01:10:48You too.
01:10:48Bye.
01:10:50This girl suffered a very painful death.
01:10:54I'm going to call Renee, which is Tyra's aunt, and let her know the really bad news.
01:11:04Hello?
01:11:05Renee?
01:11:06Yes?
01:11:07Hey, it's Detective Lansdowne.
01:11:09Well, I have some bad news.
01:11:11We did get a positive ID, and the body that we found was Tyra.
01:11:18Yeah, I'm sorry, Renee.
01:11:20I really am.
01:11:22You know, it's okay.
01:11:24We found her, and we really wanted her to return to us.
01:11:29And that happened.
01:11:32Now we just have to give justice for her.
01:11:35Well, I can promise you that everybody here in the office is doing everything to make sure
01:11:39that there is justice for her.
01:11:42Yeah, you're welcome.
01:11:43You're welcome.
01:11:45Bye-bye.
01:11:46Okay, bye.
01:11:52Later that day, the team decides to confront Tyra with the new evidence.
01:12:01All right, buddy.
01:12:02That far chair, I'll be right back with you.
01:12:06Ronnie and I went over to the jail to bring him over here before he had wanted to see some
01:12:10evidence, and before we transported him over, Ronnie showed him the picture of the coat,
01:12:15and he acknowledged the picture, and I'm sure that he's sitting over there, and it's driving
01:12:21him crazy.
01:12:23There's a possibility we may get something here, but we'll see.
01:12:33Here, if you stand up.
01:12:38First off, I wanted to say that I want to get some help.
01:12:44I know that I've got trauma from not being able to wake up.
01:12:49As long as something's happened to me in my sleep, I should have woke up.
01:12:53Okay.
01:12:53I'm found guilty.
01:12:55I want to know that y'all understand the trauma I have and present the trauma.
01:12:59Okay.
01:13:01I can't imagine that, man.
01:13:02I really can't.
01:13:03That's got to be tough that you went through that.
01:13:06It's definitely stuff that we will document, and that will be presented to attorneys, to
01:13:12counselors, and all that stuff, okay?
01:13:16So, that being said, as we came to the jail earlier today, I showed you that picture.
01:13:21Do you remember that?
01:13:22What was that picture of?
01:13:24That picture was of Tyra Jackie.
01:13:28Okay.
01:13:29So, we've found that jacket, okay?
01:13:33Where do you think we found it at?
01:13:36Wherever she was buried.
01:13:38Okay.
01:13:39Where was she buried at?
01:13:43I don't want to answer that question.
01:13:50It just feels like I'm traumatized for what happened to me before.
01:13:56If I found guilty, I want to know I want some help.
01:13:59I understand.
01:14:00You know what I'm saying?
01:14:00I really do.
01:14:00I understand that.
01:14:01And I promise you that's stuff that is going to be documented, without a doubt.
01:14:05But I think you're going to feel a little bit better if you're honest and tell me some more
01:14:09of these details.
01:14:12I'm not, because I know I got a problem.
01:14:14I know that.
01:14:17Everybody in my corner is telling me, you need help, you need help, you need help.
01:14:20Mm-hmm.
01:14:21You do.
01:14:22I think you do.
01:14:23I really do.
01:14:24And you're saying you want to get help.
01:14:26Which is good.
01:14:27But in order to do that, in my opinion, you've got to take responsibility for stuff you've
01:14:32done in the past also.
01:14:34I want you to be straight up with me and tell me more of these details about Tyra.
01:14:40What happened to her?
01:14:41What you did to her?
01:14:43Where you buried her?
01:14:46Let's start right here.
01:14:48Take the first step.
01:14:50But I can't do that.
01:14:53Why?
01:14:54Why is that?
01:14:54Why?
01:14:55Why can't?
01:14:55Because you haven't came to me with evidence.
01:15:00Showed me, like, Tyrell, this is what we have.
01:15:04We know what you did.
01:15:05You know what I'm saying?
01:15:07I can't tell you everything we know.
01:15:09I showed you the code.
01:15:11You already said she was buried, and I've confirmed for you, yeah, she was buried.
01:15:15I know how she was killed.
01:15:18Okay?
01:15:19All right.
01:15:21Tyra deserves justice.
01:15:22Her family deserves some answers.
01:15:24And you're the one holding those.
01:15:28I told you everything.
01:15:30No, you didn't.
01:15:32I told you the problems I had.
01:15:34I know that.
01:15:35But you didn't tell me how you killed her.
01:15:38You didn't tell me where you buried her.
01:15:41How did you kill Tyra?
01:16:00I can't answer that question.
01:16:05I can't answer that question.
01:16:14You know what I'm saying?
01:16:15They don't tell anybody how they did anything.
01:16:17They don't tell anybody.
01:16:21I need the evidence.
01:16:22I've told you the evidence.
01:16:23That I can tell you up to this point.
01:16:25If you answer my questions and are truthful, I will give you more.
01:16:30But you're not giving me anything.
01:16:33Well, I'm going to wait until Tyra talks to my lawyer.
01:16:39My lawyer, he's going to be the one to tell me what y'all have.
01:16:43All right.
01:16:44Well, then we're done.
01:16:57I have no doubt he killed all three of those women.
01:17:00But I just, I don't think he's ever going to tell us.
01:17:04He's admitting to things.
01:17:05He's not giving the details, but he's admitting.
01:17:08Something bad happened.
01:17:09I just don't want to talk about it.
01:17:12Because he knows that if he tells us,
01:17:13he's going to end up going to prison forever.
01:17:26Two days later.
01:17:29Tyrell has made some comments on his jail calls
01:17:32about people snitching on him, people knowing what's up.
01:17:35On a recorded jail call,
01:17:37Tyrell mentioned the name of a friend
01:17:39who he thinks may have talked to police about Tyra's murder.
01:17:43He was like, I know he's talking
01:17:45because of the questions they were asking me.
01:17:49They were at his house the night before Tyra was murdered.
01:17:54We know that her phone was over at his house
01:17:56because we looked at her phone records.
01:17:59Detectives discovered the friend lives at the house
01:18:01where Tyra's phone hit on the night she disappeared.
01:18:05He got arrested this weekend.
01:18:07Just some traffic tickets.
01:18:10And he's in city jail.
01:18:11So we'll go grab him and see what he has to say.
01:18:16Yeah.
01:18:1930 minutes later.
01:18:22I got you a prize.
01:18:26That's all we had.
01:18:28We are scraping the bottom for candy.
01:18:33All right.
01:18:33You already know why we're here.
01:18:35So I'm going to let you take the floor, OK?
01:18:37This is about Tyrell.
01:18:40Just tell me everything that you know.
01:18:43I really can't tell you too much about him.
01:18:45I would stop calling him.
01:18:47Stop talking to him.
01:18:48Because I really don't like the type of that he does.
01:18:52Just weird as s***.
01:18:54So what would be weird as s*** in your world?
01:19:00OK.
01:19:03He had a girlfriend, right?
01:19:05Uh-huh.
01:19:05And then he would just say weird as s***.
01:19:09Like, the girl would be doing something to him when he sleep or something like that.
01:19:14And I'd be like, bro, like, man, I'm like, nah, bro.
01:19:19He really just made me distance myself, like, away from me.
01:19:22Let me ask you this.
01:19:23Who was his girlfriend at the time?
01:19:25I don't even remember her name.
01:19:28We showed you a picture.
01:19:29You'd know her.
01:19:30Hell yeah.
01:19:33Lansdowne shows him a photo of Tyra.
01:19:37That's her.
01:19:37OK.
01:19:40What do you know about her?
01:19:41Nice person?
01:19:43Wonderful woman, man.
01:19:44Wonderful.
01:19:47I'm going to be real with you.
01:19:49We found her in a hole in the ground.
01:19:52Buried.
01:19:52Buried.
01:19:57This s*** died too much.
01:19:59It's a lot.
01:20:01Tyra deserved better.
01:20:05Yeah, that she did.
01:20:08Did he ever tell you that he did anything to her?
01:20:13Said he dumped the bodies.
01:20:17Did he give you a clue as to where?
01:20:20Uh-huh.
01:20:21Didn't say that.
01:20:23But he did say he dumped it somewhere.
01:20:27When did he tell you all this stuff?
01:20:29Like, two months ago.
01:20:31How did he tell you that he met Tyra?
01:20:35You really want to know?
01:20:36Yeah.
01:20:36He told me he was going to do it before it happened.
01:20:42OK.
01:20:42Tell him, share with me that.
01:20:44What did he say he was going to do?
01:20:46He said he was going to kill her.
01:20:48Did he tell you why he wanted to kill her?
01:20:51He told me about some s*** when I'm sleeping or some s***.
01:20:56I told him to leave that girl alone.
01:20:57All right.
01:20:58Don't do nothing to that girl.
01:20:59Let that girl be.
01:21:02So when he tells you that he did do it,
01:21:04what did he say exactly?
01:21:06Yeah.
01:21:09All right.
01:21:10What did he do?
01:21:11I brought you somewhere.
01:21:16Wow.
01:21:19That's crazy.
01:21:22All right.
01:21:23Sit tight.
01:21:24We do appreciate it.
01:21:26Yeah.
01:21:37this is huge just puts this case over the top now it's went from circumstantial to actual
01:21:43witness who's talked to terrell that said this i'm super stoked about it this is our strongest case
01:21:50now i think it's pushed it to the point that without question we could go ahead and do an
01:21:55add-on charge for uh for tyra's murder i think he killed these three women and didn't give it a
01:22:02second thought we're extremely lucky that we got him when we did i have no question that there would
01:22:08have been more yeah
01:22:44this whole case is really sad from tyra to elizabeth to rainbow
01:22:49i used to work in domestic violence before i came over to homicide and i know that the most
01:22:56dangerous time for victim is when they're trying to leave the relationship elizabeth tried to leave
01:23:02she did leave and he killed her a short time later he knew rainbow all of three days she was
01:23:08nice
01:23:08enough to give him a place to stay and the day that she had kicked him out i believe he
01:23:14came back and
01:23:14killed her that night i don't know what happened with tyra she very well could have tried to leave
01:23:19him as well if anyone male or female is in a domestic violence situation there's things that you can do
01:23:27to protect yourself to get out of this situation there's 24-hour hotlines that you can call you can get
01:23:34a protective order there is help available domestic violence is very common and it affects everyone it
01:23:42doesn't matter who you are it can affect you
01:23:52sixteen months after tyra's body was discovered
01:23:57her big old smile you couldn't be around her without being happy
01:24:07she was a very happy person
01:24:13she enjoyed life while she was sleeping yeah
01:24:19it was very difficult to hear that my child was deceased
01:24:27having to tell her child that he won't be able to see or hear from his mother of the
01:24:35her child who was sleeping she won't be at her son's graduation she won't have a first dance with him
01:24:45at his wedding people have to still live with what somebody else did yeah he's gonna have to answer to
01:24:57the things that he did but we all have to suffer and so do the other victims families and friends
01:25:06their children
01:25:10he can be sentenced to the maximum sentence and it wouldn't be good enough for me
01:25:16he took away something that never can
01:25:22you be given back
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