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The First 48 - Season 28 - Episode 08: Deadly Connection
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00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced, and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:23What is the address for emergency?
00:27See the car in the apartment.
00:29Over there tell me exactly what happened.
00:31I am security.
00:32I just checked in that property,
00:35silent died laying down on the ground in the parking lot.
00:39The eyes rolled back, mouth open.
00:42I tried to get him to respond.
00:44He's not responding.
00:46I think he may be dead.
00:49Okay, we have him on the way over there.
00:52All right, thank you.
00:57Police at DMS respond to the apartment complex
01:01and find a man lying in the parking lot, shot dead.
01:14For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don't get a lead within
01:22the first 48 hours.
01:29Okay.
01:30Ah My mか lads.
01:33Cl Zigpy it .
01:42Morning.
01:44What are you?
01:45My guy?
01:46What's up?
01:47Security Guard discovered the body
01:49laying in the parking space.
01:50Think you didn't have the gates.
01:52He died in the Philadelphia保 schools.
01:52Okay.
01:53Good.
01:53You want to go take a look?
01:54All right, let's do that.
01:56Follow me.
02:07Both pockets are turned out.
02:09Both of them?
02:10Yeah.
02:12This guy's got no wallet or no phone on him,
02:14so we don't know who he is.
02:17Let's see if we can get him printed out here.
02:20The Tulsa Police Forensic Lab will try to identify
02:23the victim through his fingerprints.
02:24He was cold with his touch.
02:27The team believes the victim has been dead for several hours.
02:31Where is he shot?
02:33Right side.
02:35Other side?
02:35Nickel to the ground.
02:37The victim suffered a single gunshot wound to the torso.
02:41That looks like a close contact gunshot wound.
02:46No casings?
02:48No.
02:51His hands are dirty.
02:53I mean, like, he's homeless and been scavenging.
02:56Is the bottom of his sock dirty also?
03:01So he's been running without his shoes?
03:03Or he's just homeless?
03:06He's got one shoe down here, and we have another shoe.
03:13Those shoes go with his attire.
03:15There's several shoe print impressions into the mug.
03:19The K Danger side.
03:20CSI finds some footprints, a few feet from the victim's body.
03:24Right here.
03:26And then another matching shoe print design.
03:31You can see right up here where they're kind of hanging out.
03:35And more behind some nearby bushes.
03:39Somebody's been standing there and been walking back and forth from around near the body.
03:45Yeah, for sure.
03:47Through that round ball part?
03:50Those are fresh.
03:51Looks like an Air Force One, right?
03:53You mean as far as shoes?
03:54Yeah.
03:55I don't know, man. I'm not a shoe connoisseur.
03:58Doesn't match his shoe, does it?
03:59I don't know if it's a bit.
04:02Actually, I think those look kind of like Air Force Ones.
04:05Man, I must be a shoe moron.
04:08You know, there's a handprint in the car.
04:10Like, he's coming back this way.
04:12Really?
04:13It's like a partial palm.
04:15Yeah.
04:18Maybe it's a rifle.
04:19Yeah.
04:20It looks fresh.
04:21So we'll print that.
04:26Then.
04:27Here, let me holler at this young lady here.
04:30The apartment manager arrives.
04:32Hey, quick question.
04:33Yeah?
04:34You came out here and looked at this guy?
04:36Yeah.
04:37He doesn't look familiar to you whatsoever, or?
04:39No.
04:40How long have you been the manager?
04:41Three years.
04:42Three years?
04:42I never buy on this question.
04:43And he is not a tenant.
04:46Do you have any cameras in your complex?
04:48No.
04:53Two hours in.
04:54How are you, sir?
04:55The team canvases the complex, hoping to find a witness.
04:59Did you hear anything?
05:00I didn't hear anything.
05:01You would have heard something.
05:02My dog was a bomb.
05:05Did you hear anything?
05:07Any issues going on here?
05:08Complex?
05:09Homeless people?
05:10Burglaries?
05:11No.
05:12We don't make this.
05:13I've been here all night.
05:14I ain't heard nothing.
05:15Any problem apartments?
05:17No.
05:18That's why this is real crazy, because it's so quiet around here.
05:24What are your thoughts?
05:26I think he might be just peeking in some cards and picked the wrong one.
05:30He's not really dressed as a burglar, though.
05:33But he's not got a backpack.
05:35He's not got tools.
05:36I mean, he's a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.
05:43There's absolutely nothing other than a dead guy in a parking lot.
05:46That's all we have for what we have.
05:48We just need to figure out who he is.
05:50Once we figure out who he is, it'll probably come together.
06:04Brandon Watkins sent a picture.
06:07That may be our victim.
06:10The forensic lab has found a match for the victim's fingerprints in the police database.
06:15That looks good.
06:17Anthony Charles Welch.
06:2231-year-old Anthony Welch was born and raised in Tulsa and attended Broken Arrow High School.
06:29He was an avid soccer player and hoped to one day coach a team of his own.
06:35Anthony leaves behind his parents, brother, and a three-year-old daughter.
06:43We've got him identified.
06:45Our guy lives at Pheasant Rent Apartments, so we're going to go out there and talk to management
06:48and see if they'll let us in, see where else this thing takes us, because right now we don't have
06:55diddly.
06:56While Brown heads to Anthony's apartment.
07:02Hey, Carol.
07:03This is Detective Ryden, Tulsa Police Department.
07:05Detectives Max Ryden and Mark Kennedy will notify Anthony's mother.
07:12It's in reference to your son.
07:13I need to talk to you face-to-face.
07:16We're going to come to you.
07:18Thank you, ma'am.
07:21We really don't have a clue at this point what the motive is.
07:26Lots of possibilities have been floating around, so we've got to get Mom to tell us about him.
07:32And maybe that'll lead us on the right path to how to catch the guy who killed him.
07:51Hey, Carol.
07:52Detective Kennedy, this is Detective Ryden.
07:54We're at Tulsa Police Homicide.
07:57Oh, no!
08:07We're very sorry.
08:08What happened?
08:10We responded to a shooting at 3200 South Hudson Department Center, and he was found outside, shot.
08:25Do we have a suspect?
08:28No.
08:29That's the reason we need to talk to you?
08:31Yes.
08:39Thank you, ma'am.
08:52Horrible.
08:53Mother was very upset when she heard that we were Tulsa Police Homicide.
08:57She put two and two together.
09:00The mom got on the phone with the baby's mama, and she was flipping the hell out.
09:04I can't imagine if she's involved.
09:08Who were you and John?
09:09Yeah, I'm calling.
09:10Call John Brown.
09:14Mom says he is a drug dealer, and she said he Ubers a lot.
09:20According to Anthony's mother, he sold small amounts of weed to supplement his income.
09:26The phone should have been on him, and she said he works at First Watch, so we can go
09:32to First Watch and deal with his co-workers.
09:34I like it, huh?
09:36While Ryden and Kennedy head out to the restaurant where Anthony worked as a waiter.
09:40Hi.
09:41What, howdy, ma'am?
09:42Brown and Detective Ronnie Leatherman speak to the manager of Anthony's complex.
09:48Looking for a gentleman who were told that lived out here.
09:52Do you know Mr. Welch?
09:54Yes.
09:54He's dead.
09:56Oh.
09:58Can we take a look in his apartment?
10:00Absolutely.
10:16He's got a little bit of weed.
10:26Where is his customer listed at?
10:29There are his names and numbers in it, but nothing that's just screaming at me that-
10:33You'll meet Tommy at such and such hour?
10:34Yeah.
10:39Nothing that jumps out that says he wants to go meet somebody to sell a little dope.
10:48Mark Kennedy, what's up?
10:50Hey, we talked to the manager.
10:53The manager didn't know much about our victim, other than he worked there.
10:59He thought he sold drugs.
11:01We're in the apartment.
11:03There's nothing that jumps out.
11:04Are you guys clearing there or something?
11:06We probably will be in the next 10 to 15 minutes.
11:10I'll go.
11:10All right, see you.
11:11Okay, bye.
11:13Then-
11:15The guy upstairs, this guy had his car last night.
11:18A neighbor approaches detectives and says he let Anthony borrow his car last night.
11:24Here, this little white Ford here.
11:26Have a seat up front, baby.
11:32I'm so scared.
11:33All right, this can't be real because he's telling me this is not real.
11:50What do you think you know?
11:52All I know is he told me last night he had to go run an errand.
11:56Can he borrow my car?
11:57What time was this he needed to borrow your car?
11:59Oh, probably about 10, 30, 11 last night, and he never came back.
12:09I call up his work asking if Anthony was there, and his manager just straight told me,
12:14I'm sorry to tell you, but he was shot and killed last night.
12:17What kind of car do you get?
12:18It is a 2006 gray Impala.
12:22How well do you know Anthony?
12:24Not very.
12:25I mean, mostly we just game, or he's my neighbor.
12:27That's about it.
12:29Here's a question.
12:30I need you to be honest with me.
12:31Okay.
12:32You ever buy dope from him?
12:33No.
12:33You know he sells dope?
12:34I did not.
12:38He got a girlfriend or anything?
12:40He's got a baby and an ex.
12:43I don't know the full story, but as far as I know, he's not a bad guy.
12:49I wouldn't believe this would happen.
12:52Honestly, I'm in shock.
12:53He was a really nice guy to me.
12:58So in order to get my car back, how do I go about doing that?
13:02We've got to find it.
13:03All right.
13:04Okay.
13:08Michael Zanoni.
13:10Brown calls Detective Michael Zanoni back at the crime scene.
13:14Our guy was in a gray Impala last night, but don't know if that car is out there.
13:21Zanoni will search the crime scene for the gray Impala.
13:25Okay, bye.
13:28We have a car to at least look for now.
13:30Don't know if our suspects may have taken the car or if it's still there at the scene.
13:40Michael Zanoni.
13:42It's parked right at the entrance.
13:44Really?
13:44Yeah.
13:45It's kind of strange.
13:47It's like it's just parked.
13:47I feel like you want to be able to run to an apartment.
13:49Like it's just up here.
13:50You'll see.
13:51Thank you, sir.
13:52Bye.
13:56Okay.
13:57The gray Impala is right here up front.
14:01The car is parked 40 feet from where Anthony was found dead.
14:15Yeah, he's here making a delivery to somebody.
14:17Yeah.
14:19This could have been a drug deal gone bad.
14:21We need to search the car, see if we can find his phone and find out who he was over
14:25here to meet.
14:35The next day.
14:38A crime scene guy searched the Impala that Anthony was driving.
14:43Unfortunately, he did not locate a phone in it.
14:47Any new thoughts, John Brown?
14:49My only thought is, dude, unless he ran from where his car was parked to get away from these guys,
14:56I mean, why did he park there in that 77 parking spot?
15:01Yeah.
15:04Let's talk to Anthony's ex-girlfriend.
15:06They share a kid.
15:06They keep in touch.
15:07Maybe she'll know why he was out there and what he was up to.
15:13My name is Tector Brown, I'm the Tulsa Police Department.
15:15Brown reaches out to the mother of Anthony's child.
15:18Hey, can we meet with you?
15:22Okay, thank you, ma'am.
15:27Anthony's baby mama, she's at home.
15:30We're going to go pay her a visit.
15:32So we'll see what she's got to throw into the mix here and let's go from there.
15:49How are you guys?
15:50What's it doing?
16:04As the first 48 ticks away...
16:08As it turns out, Jamisha's baby mama, she doesn't know a lot.
16:13She was kind of shocked that Anthony was murdered.
16:17She had no idea who he may have been running with or who may have wanted to do harm to
16:23him.
16:24I think their relationship just revolved around the child they had.
16:29But nobody knows why he was there still.
16:32So we're back to square two.
16:4912 days go by without a new lead on the case.
16:56Then...
16:56Homicide, Brown.
16:58My name is...
16:59Brown gets a call from Anthony's uncle.
17:01I'm IT support.
17:02And you say you are an IT guy?
17:04Yes.
17:05He says while cleaning out Anthony's apartment, he found the password to Anthony's email account.
17:10So, Anthony had a Google account?
17:14Yes.
17:15And I have got access to that.
17:17Oh, you're the man I want to see then.
17:19Can I meet with you?
17:21Definitely.
17:22Anything I can do to help.
17:24I'll see you down here.
17:25Okay.
17:26Thank you, sir.
17:27Bye.
17:30An hour later, Anthony's uncle and aunt arrive.
17:35Okay.
17:37This is Corporal Showman.
17:40He is one of our IT guys.
17:42Okay.
17:43So you're in on the ground floor running and kind of have an idea of what was going on.
17:47Yeah.
17:48I got into Gmail.
17:50I logged into his account.
17:52He says he searched to Anthony's inbox.
17:54Well, all day before he was murdered, there was a back and forth with some girl.
18:01And she's saying she's pregnant with this kid and threatening to out him about his baby to his baby's mama.
18:21They're going back and forth.
18:22But then it's, she's pregnant.
18:24I can't tell if it's, you know, real.
18:28I don't even know if she has anything to do with it or not.
18:31It's just weird that she has a message since 12, something that morning.
18:35Six hours before Anthony was found dead, the messages between him and the girl suddenly stopped.
18:41Which is weird because they had been going on and on and on and then it ended.
18:47What else are you ever seeing when you're in there?
18:50Plenty of fish.
18:51Yeah.
18:52The one that came at one something in the morning.
18:54Five hours before he was found dead, Anthony got an email from the dating app.
18:59Plenty of fish.
19:01So in his Gmail, he received a message at 1.10 a.m. from Plenty of fish.
19:06And he received a message from this person.
19:08And there was a, the badass Latino.
19:12The message was from a woman with the username, thebaddestlatina.
19:16We were able to get into that account.
19:18They logged into Anthony's Plenty of Fish account.
19:22And there was nothing.
19:23Everything's gone.
19:26There's no messages.
19:28Everything's been cleared out.
19:30From that particular date or altogether?
19:33Altogether.
19:33It's just weird that there was nothing.
19:37And I looked through all the pictures.
19:40She says they searched Plenty of Fish for the baddest Latina, but her profile no longer exists.
19:50My thought.
19:51Grabbed your gun bad, maybe.
19:53And that's a possibility, or, you know, or he could have been over there and somebody robbed him.
19:59I know it's a difficult time.
20:02I would definitely appreciate you guys coming down.
20:11The victim's uncle.
20:13He was able to hack into his Google stuff.
20:16He found the chick.
20:19According to them, there was a lot of previous texting going on.
20:22And then the day of Anthony's death, it just flat out stopped.
20:27Who knows?
20:27Maybe she didn't like him, and maybe she had him set up and be killed.
20:31And he was using Plenty of Fish.
20:34Anthony was going to go meet up with a girl.
20:36With this, the baddest Latina.
20:38Wow.
20:39But not everything is deleted off of Plenty of Fish.
20:43Hell, we've got stuff around here.
20:45I need to type that warrant for Plenty of Fish.
20:48Brown will get a search warrant to try to recover Anthony's Plenty of Fish account.
20:52And we're going to go see if we can find her.
20:55The team will try to track down the girl Anthony was arguing with hours before he was found dead.
21:02It's a marathon, not a sprint.
21:04Well, we're jogging it, Z.
21:11The next morning...
21:12She's kind of curious about what we want to talk to her about.
21:16The team finds the girl Anthony was arguing with over email.
21:20And she agrees to meet.
21:27What's that turn?
21:29Hi.
21:30Hello.
21:30Hop in.
21:31My name is Jacob Brown, Tulsa Police Department.
21:33This is Detective Wright.
21:36You know Anthony Welch?
21:38Yes.
21:40How do you know Anthony?
21:42I met him with his freaking friends.
21:44You were kind of messing around with him, weren't you?
21:47Yes.
21:49When was the last time you talked to Anthony?
21:51The last time I met him, like, texted was, like, May.
21:57What's the gist of that conversation?
21:59I was mad at him because he did stuff behind my back.
22:04He didn't tell me that he was talking to other people.
22:07I had to find out myself.
22:10And telling him you were pregnant?
22:12Well, no.
22:13I told him that I was going to tell his baby mama
22:16that I was around his daughter.
22:19You're mad at him.
22:20And then no more text messages after that, right?
22:24No.
22:25You know Anthony's dead.
22:29Somebody shot and killed him.
22:32So do you know anything about that?
22:39You guys are definitely having a domestic.
22:41You're not getting along.
22:41Would that be a fair statement?
22:42Yeah.
22:44Did you have any of your friends go meet with Anthony that night?
22:48No.
22:49I mean, I know he went to a meetup with a girl.
22:55Where's he going to meet a girl?
22:57Yes.
22:57I was logged into his POS.
23:00And him and her were making plans.
23:01She says on the night of the murder,
23:04she logged into Anthony's Plenty of Fish account
23:06and saw that he'd made plans to meet up with a girl.
23:09Did you remember where they were going to go meet?
23:12I don't know.
23:14And then later that night, it logged me out.
23:16But when she tried to log in again a few hours later,
23:20his account had been deleted.
23:23Do you remember the name that she went by?
23:26I don't.
23:27I have a picture of her, though.
23:30On your phone?
23:31Yeah.
23:32She took a screenshot of the girl's Plenty of Fish profile photo.
23:35He had a Snapchat picture as a profile picture.
23:38So is that her name?
23:39That's her name on Snapchat.
23:41The photo shows the girl's Snapchat profile name.
23:46I do that?
23:47Yeah.
23:50Well, I definitely appreciate you taking your time to talk to us.
23:53Yeah.
23:58She has gone from a possible suspect
24:00to probably the egg number one witness that we have.
24:04She and Anthony were seeing each other.
24:06And I think she was kind of spying on his social media account.
24:11Last thing she knew was Anthony was going to go meet up with a girl.
24:15Gave us a picture of this girl.
24:17Gave us a username.
24:20See right there?
24:21That is her Snapchat ID.
24:25Okay.
24:27The team searches for the girl's profile name on Snapchat and Facebook.
24:32Right there.
24:33That one.
24:34That's her.
24:36John, her Snapchat's on her Facebook.
24:38They find the same Snapchat photo on the girl's Facebook account.
24:42Yeah, this thing picture's right there.
24:45Along with her real name.
24:47This is the girl that was the last person that he was trying to hook up with.
25:03That's her Facebook.
25:04This is the girl that he was trying to meet that night.
25:08That's awesome.
25:10Good work, Z.
25:11Z's the man.
25:15Crime analyst Margo Heen-Bell looks up the girl in the police database.
25:21There it is.
25:23She's 15 years old.
25:25Lists both her parents as incarcerated, it looks like.
25:31We believe that we have the person identified that he was going to meet.
25:37He is talking to her on Plenty of Fish.
25:40Next morning, his Plenty of Fish was deleted.
25:43We've got the records back.
25:47Plenty of Fish was unable to recover the deleted data from Anthony's account.
25:51So the Plenty of Fish stuff's a dead end.
25:55Before we bring her in for an interview, we probably need to get a warrant for her Facebook
25:59and see if there's any messages that might tie her to her's murder.
26:03That could take months for them to get that back to us.
26:15Anthony, he was very outgoing, very charismatic.
26:20You always wish for your kids the best, and you want everything for them.
26:26And sometimes they travel a rougher road.
26:31He was at the point where he was actually making a turn to get things on track.
26:38It's hard, because you want to see what he would have done.
26:42We're at a month, and it's just frustrating.
26:48Not knowing, not having any answers, or, you know, just the why.
26:53I mean, there's not going to be an answer that's going to be good enough.
26:57But I just don't understand.
27:01I get upset.
27:03I get angry.
27:05Last night, I was sitting in the parking lot where he was murdered until 10 o'clock last night.
27:14Wanting to know who killed my son.
27:19It's so hard with this is, you know, with all the digging, researching, trying to find any possible something.
27:28At the end of it all, you know, we're just, the end result that we want is for him to
27:34be back, and we won't have that.
27:38And it's just really hard.
27:40We won't get what we want.
27:44All we have left is Kalen.
27:48She reminds us of him.
27:50Yeah.
27:51She has his smile and his personality.
27:55That's all we have left.
28:02Three months after Anthony was shot and killed.
28:05I just got lab results back from a palm print that I took off of a hood of a car,
28:11came back to Elijah Rowe.
28:15Brown looks up Elijah Rowe in the police database.
28:20That's him.
28:21Elijah, who goes by the nickname Mute Mouth, is 16 years old.
28:27Wait, wait, pull up that.
28:29What, picture?
28:31That's from two weeks ago.
28:33What the hell?
28:35He's in custody.
28:36Two weeks ago, Elijah was arrested on unrelated charges and is currently being held at the Tulsa County Jail.
28:43And they listed the 3200 SNES' address.
28:46According to his arrest report, Elijah lives at the apartment complex where Anthony was murdered.
28:53His unit's going to be in the building that Anthony was found dead in front of.
28:56This just gets better and better.
28:58Yes, it does.
29:02That's her Facebook records.
29:04Just got those back yesterday.
29:07The team searches the Facebook records of the girl Anthony was going to meet to see if she has any
29:12connection to Elijah Rowe.
29:17What?
29:18Where is you?
29:19Here's a conversation she's having with Mute Mouth.
29:23Chilling discovers a Facebook message between Elijah and the girl on the night of the murder.
29:32So 211, missed a call.
29:35He's saying answer the phone.
29:39212.
29:43He's saying, be here.
29:45I need you for real.
29:47Stop playing.
29:48Baby, please.
29:49You need to hit that L.
29:51You need to hit that lick.
29:53Boom!
29:54He's talking about doing a robbery.
30:07He's saying, you weirded out on it, and then what's up?
30:12You can see him, like, almost in real time planning the robbery, and then her getting cold feet and leaving.
30:19Her POF account is what's used to lure him there.
30:23He lives there at those apartments.
30:26So she sets it up, and he finishes it.
30:30That's her and me about.
30:32Correct.
30:33If it was a robbery that went bad.
30:38So, Steve, you can put out a tip sheet to see if uniforms can find her.
30:43Okie dokie.
30:43Will do.
30:44Boom!
30:46Excellent placement.
30:49This girl's going to be the key, because I think she ended up getting cold feet and bailing, and then
30:55he'd just go ahead and pull the lick.
30:57So I think it's going to get her to roll and do the right thing and say, okay, this is
31:03what happened.
31:03This is what I know.
31:10The next day.
31:15Warrens is chasing one of our possible suspects.
31:25She ran, but we got arrested, so she's going to come on down here, and we'll see if she wants
31:29to give a statement to John.
31:3220 minutes later.
31:37I think we let her fill in the blanks as, okay, here's your opportunity to say, I want to help
31:45myself, or give us a big middle finger, and you guys do whatever.
31:50So, we'll see what happens.
31:58How are you?
31:59I need Detective Browning.
32:00This is Detective Schilling.
32:02Do you know why I want to talk to you?
32:04Yeah.
32:07Okay.
32:07Let me start with this question.
32:10Who's that?
32:13He locked up.
32:15Who is it?
32:15I know him.
32:16His name is Elijah.
32:17Me, Mom.
32:19I used to talk to him.
32:21Well, let's put Elijah over here to the side, because since I have that picture, you're probably sitting there thinking,
32:29what else does he know, right?
32:30Yeah.
32:31Well, that's, there you go.
32:33Okay.
32:33I'm going to tell you the truth.
32:35Okay.
32:35Because I feel like I know what's going on.
32:37Okay.
32:37I don't know what really is.
32:39Let's go with it then.
32:41He kept trying to force me to do this stuff.
32:43Force you to do what?
32:44Force me to go outside, and he put a gun to my head, and he was like, you've been a,
32:50uh, whoever was in the car, like, basically telling me he going to kill me if I don't do this.
32:57And so when I went out there, the dude handed me $20.
33:02I was like, so what am I supposed to do with this?
33:04And he was like, um, I want you to top me up.
33:06And I was like, okay, let me run back in the house, and I was talking to him and see
33:11what's going on.
33:12And so I ran upstairs looking for him.
33:14She says when she walked into Elijah's apartment, he came in behind her.
33:19He said he was outside in these bushes.
33:22I was like, he asking for not for me to come off.
33:25And he only gave me $20, and I handed him the $20.
33:27I was like, I'm not doing nothing for you for no $20.
33:30You need to go talk to him.
33:32She says Elijah went outside to speak to Anthony.
33:36I hurried up and, like, snuck out his back door.
33:39I, like, I ran.
33:41I still got the messages where he was, like, blowing me up from that night, actually.
33:45Where was this guy's car parked at?
33:48In front of his apartment.
33:50She says Anthony parked in front of Elijah's apartment.
33:54What did he say when he went out there to talk to the dude?
33:56I don't know.
33:57I was gone already.
33:59Did he tell you what he was going to say to the dude?
34:01No.
34:03Well, let me ask you this.
34:05How did he find this dude?
34:07He told me to send him some pictures.
34:10So you sent Elijah some pictures?
34:12Yeah.
34:14What did Mute Mouth do with these pictures?
34:18I don't know.
34:19I guess he sent them to the dude or whatever.
34:21I don't know.
34:26There's a little bit more to it than that, okay?
34:30I have all your Facebook records.
34:34All your messages in your Facebook would tell a completely different story than what you're
34:39trying to convince us of right now.
34:42Let me refresh your memory.
34:44Okay.
34:44I'm on it.
34:45I'm hitting MFs up right now.
34:47I'm low-key trying to hit this L real quick.
34:50You tell Elijah.
34:51You're lining dudes up for an L.
34:54What's an L?
34:55A lick?
34:56But now all of a sudden, oh, he's putting a gun in my head.
35:13When he says he's got your Facebook records, he's got your Facebook records.
35:24She admits that Elijah used her photo to create a Plenty of Phish account.
35:29And he asked me to help him get this money, and I agreed to him.
35:36But I didn't really rob nobody.
35:39I didn't shoot nobody.
35:40I didn't kill nobody.
35:42I left.
35:43I left after he tried to force me to go out there and do that.
35:46I left.
35:50Anything else you want to add?
35:54Hang tight.
36:02She tried to minimize her involvement, but ultimately she admitted that she set Anthony up to get robbed,
36:07so she's responsible for his death.
36:10She's only 15, so she's going to get charged as a juvenile.
36:16So it's the other guy here.
36:18Elijah Rowe here.
36:19Yeah.
36:21The team takes Elijah out of jail and brings him in for questioning.
36:27How are you, sir?
36:29I am doing well.
36:31This is your name here.
36:32Is it Tector Schoen?
36:33My name is Tector Bram.
36:38Mr. Rowe, do you have an idea of why you're down here talking to us?
36:46Okay.
36:47Here, I'll explain it to you.
36:49City Gardens apartment.
36:51There's an incident that happened out there at that apartment complex.
36:56Does your mama still live there?
36:58Okay.
36:58An individual shows up out there, and he gets shot, and he dies.
37:06Well, there's been a lot of research and a lot of investigating going on that leads us to you.
37:16How does it lead you to me?
37:20You know that, Gail?
37:23Mm-hmm.
37:26How do you know her?
37:28I used to talk to her.
37:31So we've talked to her also.
37:36Your friend tells us this crazy story about you and her at a social media app called Plenty of Fish.
37:46You got a Facebook account?
37:49Yeah.
37:49Under what name?
37:51It's MuteMail.
37:52Under MuteMail?
37:56Let me ask you this.
37:58Were you home the 28th of May?
38:00I don't know where you're going with this, because I don't know nothing about what you're talking about.
38:04I've got evidence that puts you at a murder scene.
38:08How's your evidence doing that?
38:11Well, it belongs to nobody else but you.
38:14They either have DNA or fingerprints.
38:17How does that stuff end up in a murder scene?
38:20I broke some cards.
38:21Like, if you got some fingerprints, it's probably only some cards.
38:26Your Facebook message shows that this was the two of you working in concert, the two of you together.
38:34That's why you're asking her, where are you?
38:37He's here.
38:39Where are you?
38:40He's leaving.
38:42What are you doing?
38:43What are you doing?
38:43You f***ing out on me?
38:45You know, somebody, it had my Facebook page.
38:48Somebody hacked your Facebook.
38:50I didn't ask her why she did take me.
38:53We did.
38:54We did ask her that.
39:01I remember someone said.
39:03I murdered nobody.
39:04She murdered me.
39:08Okay.
39:09Well, I said, if that's the story you don't stick to, dude, by all means, stick to that story.
39:14We're going to do what we need to do.
39:17Hug it up.
39:25I think the interview really hadn't helped us a lot.
39:28It was just a lot of freaking white noise.
39:33Unfortunately, we're still left with a lot of questions at the end of this that are probably going to remain
39:37unanswered.
39:39We don't know why his shoes were off.
39:41We don't know why the car was parked up at the front of the complex.
39:43It could be that they were just moving it to make it farther away from the actual crime scene.
39:48We never did find out why Anthony was shot.
39:51We just don't know the full story.
39:54Long story short, Anthony Welch, he got lured out there by a dating site.
40:01And he bit, showed up.
40:05The unfortunate part is these individuals were up to no good and killed him.
40:14This has been an exhausting few months.
40:20I'm sure the family's happy that there's been an arrest.
40:24I'm glad to kind of put this on the bed.
40:54This one I took.
40:59Five years after Anthony was killed, his daughter and her mother are still learning to cope with their loss.
41:06Sometimes I might have a dream about him.
41:13When I wake up the next morning, I start really wishing that he would be here.
41:19The day that we found out she was supposed to go to her dad's house, she was excited.
41:25His mom called me, and then she just broke down and told me that he was gone.
41:35And then I broke down.
41:38And everything else outside of that really felt like a blur.
41:45But I think what helped her was when she went to the service, she saw him because she had this
41:53big fear of like, oh, he's hurt, he's hurt.
41:55And so whenever she was able to see him, that gave her peace.
42:02Play a tag.
42:09I watch her struggle a lot.
42:12We talked through some memories for her.
42:16Because I do understand that at this point, she's, you know, been here longer than she got to spend with
42:23him.
42:25And that's hard for her, you know, trying to keep that memory alive.
42:30That way she doesn't forget him.
42:32And that's hard for her.
42:35And so what's wrong with me?
42:39We'll be like, I'm sorry.
42:42And that's good.
42:49We've got a lot of music.
42:50We'll be like, oh, my God.
42:50We're all like, oh, my God.
42:50You
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