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Snapped - Season 36 - Episode 06: Kimethia Coleman
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00:10A young couple become the victims of a terrifying assault.
00:17This crime scene was one of the bloodiest that I've ever seen.
00:22I could see a slash across his throat.
00:26She had several lacerations to her hands as well as to her abdomen.
00:32For law enforcement, one of their biggest priorities was to figure out who would want to do this to either
00:39of them.
00:40The evidence seems to point to a jealous stalker.
00:44She had mentioned that a guy named John with dreads had followed her.
00:49He would pop up like in crazy places.
00:55But as the investigation unfolds, detectives begin to question everything about the case.
01:02This troll of blood led to the kitchen.
01:06There was two knives missing.
01:08How did the suspect know exactly where to go to get the knife?
01:15Didn't it not make sense to me?
01:16The math just was not math.
01:20Detectives are starting to believe that John really didn't exist.
01:40January 17th, 2010.
01:43It's 3.30 a.m. in Shreveport, Louisiana,
01:46when police receive an emergency call from 24-year-old Kimethea Coleman.
02:04She's saying that her boyfriend, Ryan Spinks, they both have been attacked.
02:09This person ran out of the apartment, and she doesn't know where he is.
02:29Minutes later, officers arrive at the address,
02:32where they find 29-year-old Brian Spinks lying motionless by the door.
02:37I could see stab wounds about the head.
02:41I could see a slash across his throat.
02:45There was a great amount of blood to where when you step into the living room,
02:50you could hear the sound of liquid in the carpet.
02:55They were able to quickly establish that Brian was dead.
03:00Kim is screaming hysterically, and she's yelling,
03:04why would he do this?
03:09The officers secure the scene and escort Kimethea out of the apartment.
03:14They try to calm her down so she can explain what happened.
03:20Kimethea appeared to be in a state of shock.
03:23She was covered head to toe in blood, and she was very distraught.
03:29When they asked her who did this, she described a man with dreadlocks in a red shirt.
03:36She said he left. She didn't know which direction he went.
03:41It's normal for a victim or someone who sees a traumatic event
03:46not to be able to divulge what occurred right then.
03:51She was also injured, so we had to get her treatment and take her to the hospital.
03:56She had several lacerations to her hands, as well as to her abdomen and her leg.
04:07As Kimethea is transported to a hospital,
04:10homicide detectives arrive to take over the investigation.
04:15Before entering the apartment, they speak with two potential witnesses.
04:21The initial responding officers had located a vehicle at the apartment complex.
04:27The vehicle was stopped, and the individuals were contacted
04:31and found out to be friends of Ms. Kimethea Coleman.
04:36They were with her earlier in the day.
04:39They had arrived at the apartment to check on her when she didn't answer her phone.
04:46Whenever we interview witnesses, we want to find out anything we can, whatever they know.
04:52What type of relationship they have with the victim,
04:55what knowledge they have prior to the events that occurred.
05:00For law enforcement, one of their biggest priorities was to figure out
05:04who was Brian Spinks, who was Kimethea Coleman,
05:07and who would want to hurt them,
05:11who would want to do this to either of them.
05:19Brian Dennis Spinks was born December 15, 1980, in St. Louis, Missouri.
05:26He grew up in a family with a proud history of military service.
05:31Brian was the second child, but the first boy.
05:34And subsequently, he had two younger brothers.
05:37His father was in the military.
05:39Our mother, she was a DOD, Department of Defense employee, for security assistance.
05:45It goes all the way back to his great-grandfather being in the Korean War.
05:51My father and my grandfather were both in the World War II.
05:55And then, of course, me in the Marine Corps.
06:01After high school in 1999,
06:04Brian followed the family tradition and enlisted in the Air Force.
06:07But before he deployed, his life changed.
06:12I met Brian Spinks, I want to say, back in the summer of 2000.
06:17It was my senior year of high school.
06:19Brian had just joined the Air Force.
06:21And he had swung by the high school to help with all the recruiters.
06:26Brian was very attractive, and his smile was remarkable.
06:31We dated for about six months,
06:33and I thought that I was pregnant with Amani.
06:39In January 2001, Brian became a father.
06:43But the romance didn't last.
06:46He, of course, had military obligations,
06:49and I felt alone because the military had number one priority.
06:54He was going to do the full ride.
06:56Wouldn't have had a problem getting a job after the Air Force.
07:04Shortly after Amani was born, Brian was going to Iraq.
07:07He took long tours.
07:10He, you know, did with it the best he could
07:12and spoke to his son when he could,
07:15had the relationship with his son's mom.
07:17They co-parented.
07:20It was very difficult, especially as Amani started getting older.
07:25When we did spend time together in person,
07:29we had a good time.
07:30He made me feel loved.
07:32And, you know, I cried when he left.
07:34But I understand what he was doing.
07:36He had to serve his country.
07:43While stationed in Montgomery,
07:45he had a daughter with another woman in the Air Force.
07:48Once she became pregnant,
07:50she got discharged from the Air Force
07:52and went home to, I think, Buffalo, New York.
07:55So that was difficult in itself.
07:57And Brian only got to see her a few times.
08:00He did the best he could from a distance.
08:03But while on deployment,
08:05Brian's focus was on the men in his unit.
08:08Brian and I met when I was in the Air Force back in 2002.
08:13He and I were both stationed at
08:15Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
08:17He was kind of the organizer between all of us.
08:21We all just kind of meshed
08:23because it was the only family that we had.
08:24You know, our families were in different countries,
08:26different places.
08:27And he made sure that we had a place
08:31to come and congregate.
08:35By the time he returned home in 2008,
08:39Brian was ready to focus on his family.
08:42When he came home,
08:43it was always about Imani.
08:45It was good, you know.
08:47He talked, he checked on me.
08:50I ain't want for nothing.
08:54At a friend's get-together later that year,
08:57Brian met someone new.
08:58A young woman named Kamithia Coleman.
09:03Kamithia Coleman was from a small town,
09:06about 30 minutes outside of Shreveport.
09:09Just about everyone who knew her,
09:10loved her and liked her.
09:12She was very popular.
09:14Prom queen, homecoming queen, you name it.
09:18Kamithia was a very sweet girl.
09:20I talked to her almost every Sunday,
09:22and she would always be in church.
09:24Kamithia went on to go to Grambling State University.
09:27She chose a life of service as a social worker.
09:30She dedicated her life to serving and helping other people.
09:35She was just, seemed like almost the perfect girl
09:40to introduce to your family and to settle down with.
09:43Brian had never been this serious about someone
09:46until Kamithia came along.
09:53But little more than a year after they began dating,
09:57Brian has been killed by an unknown assailant.
10:00And investigators are now questioning two women
10:03outside the couple's apartment.
10:05One was a long-time friend, the Kamithia Coleman's,
10:09and then the second individual was her sister.
10:12The friend advises that she had been at the club
10:15with her sister and Miss Coleman downtown in Shreveport.
10:20The women say Kamithia seemed upset that evening,
10:24and it had something to do with another man.
10:27She had mentioned to the sisters
10:30that a guy named John with dreads had followed her.
10:34One of the sisters said that she did see
10:37someone at the club with dreads,
10:39but a lot of black males at that time wore dreads,
10:43and so nothing stood out to her.
10:45They say Brian was also at the club,
10:48but neither he nor Kamithia stayed for long.
10:52There's a brief conversation between the two,
10:55and Brian leaves.
10:57Then the friends notice.
11:00Minutes later, Kamithia leaves.
11:04And within a few minutes of Kamithia leaving,
11:07they left to see if Kamithia's car was still there,
11:11and they didn't see it.
11:12So they went to Brian's to make sure
11:15she got where she was going.
11:17When they got there, they heard the screaming,
11:19and they saw the police coming,
11:21and they knew something was terribly wrong.
11:24To detectives, the women appeared genuine
11:27in their account of the evening.
11:29So the investigation is just beginning.
11:33We didn't have enough to go on,
11:35so we needed to speak with Kamithia
11:38to find out who is John
11:40and get more information on why
11:42he followed her to Brian's apartment.
11:49coming up.
11:51Evidence reveals the brutality of the attack.
11:54The fact that the knife was broken
11:57is indicative of a very powerful or angry strike.
12:03and detectives speak with Kamithia.
12:07I don't know, of course.
12:09You've got to tell me
12:10to come back from the kitchen.
12:11I don't know.
12:13I'm not sure.
12:14I'm not sure.
12:19I'm not sure.
12:22I am not sure.
12:30You're not sure.
12:32I'm not sure.
12:35leading up to the fatal stabbing of Brian Spinks,
12:40investigators turn their attention to the crime scene.
12:43Police are not able to talk to Kim.
12:46Her wounds are being tended to,
12:49and they're hoping that the scene
12:51could give them the answers to this puzzle.
12:56This crime scene was one of the bloodiest that I've ever seen.
13:01They observed what they thought to be at least 30 wounds to Brian.
13:06The cut from his neck, which almost had decapitated Brian,
13:11was what the lethal blow was.
13:16The amount of blood in the apartments
13:18and the amount of injuries that Brian sustained
13:22is indicative of a person with a lot of rage or anger.
13:27They have some reason to be mad enough
13:30to do that kind of damage
13:33and that much damage to another individual.
13:40The murder weapons,
13:41a pair of knives found near Brian's body,
13:45seem to confirm their assessment.
13:47There was a knife that was intact.
13:51There was also another knife that was close by
13:54that was a handle,
13:55and the blade was located in another part of the living room.
13:58The fact that the knife was broken
14:01is indicative of a very powerful or angry strike.
14:07This trail of blood led to the kitchen,
14:10and they noticed that on the kitchen counter
14:14is this knife block.
14:17There was two knives missing from the knife block
14:20that also match the knives
14:23that were laying next to Brian Sphinx's body.
14:27And now they are able to kind of put the pieces together
14:33that these two knives came off the kitchen counter.
14:41We did search the front door
14:44to see any type of jarring or kick marks
14:48or pry marks or anything,
14:50and none were located.
14:52They start wondering,
14:54how did he get in?
14:56Did someone leave a door unlocked?
15:01Police canvassed the apartment complex,
15:03but none of the neighbors they speak to
15:05saw what happened.
15:07That leaves one person
15:09who might be able to identify the killer,
15:12and she's in the hospital.
15:15Police now find that Komethea's wounds
15:18are not life-threatening,
15:19so they are able to talk with her.
15:23Komethea was brought to the violent crimes office
15:27there at the Shreveport Police Department
15:28roughly around 7 a.m.
15:33Obviously, we all know why we're here.
15:37We're investigating the stabbing of crime.
16:02Komethea tells police
16:04that she was out on the town.
16:07It was a girl's night out.
16:09They went to a couple of different establishments,
16:12had a few drinks,
16:13and then they ended up at Gigi's.
16:16Gigi's is one of the larger clubs
16:18in downtown Shreveport.
16:21Not long after they got to Gigi's,
16:23they saw Brian.
16:25Tell me about that.
16:26We talked, and we were,
16:28he got upset and he left.
16:32Komethea advised us that
16:34whenever her and Brian went out separately,
16:37that they weren't supposed to meet up
16:39at the same club or go to the same places.
16:42They had an agreement
16:43that if one comes to the club,
16:45the other one has to leave.
16:47So Brian leaves.
16:49She said that she decided
16:52to go back to Brian's apartment
16:54to make sure that everything was cool.
16:58Komethea advised us that her and Brian
17:00were back at his apartment.
17:02They were kind of talking.
17:20She said she tried to jump on him,
17:22and he pushed her back.
17:25After he finished stabbing Brian,
17:27he just gets up and runs off.
17:37Komethea explains that John was a man
17:40she dated casually in the past,
17:42and he seemed to have gotten the wrong idea.
18:03Komethea stated she saw him at the library.
18:06She also saw him near her apartment
18:08and later saw him at the club with her friends.
18:15Despite the alarming run-ins
18:17with this man over the past month,
18:19Komethea seems strangely unable
18:21to provide investigators with any details.
18:25She could never tell us a phone number,
18:28or she couldn't even tell us his last name.
18:31She stated that he drives different cars,
18:33and he will call her from different pay phones.
18:37The fact that she can't give us
18:40specific information about this,
18:42John, had us starting to question
18:45exactly what she was telling us.
18:51Police realized that she could still be in shock.
18:56So they decide to go to the cell phones.
19:00They asked Komethea for permission
19:03to go through her cell phone.
19:06There are three voicemails on her phone.
19:08Two of them are from friends
19:09talking about going out that night
19:11and making plans for the night.
19:12And then that third voicemail is from Brian.
19:15He left the voicemail in between the time
19:17he left the club
19:18and the time that she arrived at his apartment.
19:23He advised that he was done.
19:26He was breaking up with her.
19:30Prior to us hearing that,
19:33it appeared that her and Brian's relationship
19:36was fine.
19:40As the detectives confront her
19:42with this voicemail,
19:45she changes.
19:49Her demeanor changes.
19:53Why did he break up with you, Tom?
19:56He didn't break up with you tonight.
19:59We always go through this.
20:01It's not a big deal.
20:03Officer just left him at the board.
20:06So yeah, it's a big deal.
20:09It's a very big deal.
20:27Four hours after Brian Spinks was found stabbed to death in his apartment.
20:33Investigators have just heard a voicemail from that same night
20:37in which he broke up with his girlfriend,
20:40Kimithia Coleman.
20:42The new information has them questioning
20:45if her story of a violent home invasion
20:48by a jealous stalker is true.
20:53At that point, she asks to speak to Detective Farquhar alone.
20:58They had developed a bit of a rapport,
21:00and she trusted him in a way that she hadn't developed trust with the other detectives.
21:07We step outside into a little room to where we could still watch Kimithia and Detective Farquhar
21:14in their interview, but Kimithia can't see us.
21:18I was hoping that she would finally confide in me exactly what happened.
21:38At that point, she started telling me that
21:40Brian had, in the past as well as that night,
21:45has hit her and abused her,
21:47but she felt that she deserved it,
21:50and so she didn't say anything to anyone.
21:53Kimithia stated that they argued in Brian's apartment
21:57that he'd been drinking, he was drunk,
22:01and she stated that he grabbed her by the hand,
22:04causing a minor bruise,
22:05and then Brian grabbed her throat, strangling her.
22:10She said she pushed him off,
22:12and that's when he went into the kitchen and got a knife.
22:17I know if it's harder.
22:20You gotta tell me if he comes back from the kitchen.
22:25According to Kimithia, he begins to stab her about the legs and stomach area.
22:36She said she had to do something in order to defend herself in that moment.
22:42So she, at that point, got up,
22:44went into the kitchen, got her own knife.
22:48And I just, I was like, I thought I was going to tell things how cute.
23:00So he just kept standing.
23:03When did the stroke get cut?
23:07Because it was kind of bad.
23:09I was trying to come home.
23:10I was like, I think he didn't follow me here.
23:13Sean did?
23:14Mm-hmm.
23:15Was he in the apartment where all this happened?
23:18He didn't come in.
23:20I was like, I'll be, I'll be, what the are you doing here?
23:25She's changing the story now.
23:30It has now gone from John breaking into the apartment and attacking Brian to John walking
23:39into the apartment as she and Brian were fighting.
23:43It kind of confused her story.
23:45The fact that she brought John back in did not make sense to me.
23:50So he showed up in the middle of y'all fighting?
23:52Mm-hmm.
23:53And what all did he do?
23:55He got the not-and-just-the-way jammed him with.
23:58I guess he was trying to think of what I did.
24:01It made no sense to anyone in that room.
24:04Like, the math just was not mathing.
24:07At this point, detectives are starting to believe that John really didn't exist.
24:18The question that the detectives asked was, why didn't you just leave?
24:21You're being attacked.
24:22You get, you're able to get away.
24:25But instead of leaving, you grab a weapon and you come back to the fight.
24:30I was trying to talk to him, tell him to calm down.
24:34I'm like, okay, are you really going to do this right now?
24:38At that point, I advised Detective Holmes and Agent Dunkel to come back in.
24:43I asked Komethea to repeat what she had told me to them.
24:48At that point, she advised for an attorney.
24:51So the interview was concluded.
24:57Since it appears the stabbing was a crime of passion, police charge Komethea Coleman with manslaughter.
25:05Under Louisiana state law, they have 72 hours to gather any additional evidence.
25:12Within the 72-hour period, a detective would gather all the pertinent information
25:18to corroborate the charge or upgrade it to second-degree murder.
25:25And with that being said, they would gather more evidence, talk to more witnesses,
25:29talking to anybody that knew her or Brian Spinks and their relationship.
25:40Coming up, witnesses provide troubling new details about events leading up to the murder.
25:47She threatened to beat his ass there at the club.
25:51And medical analysis casts doubt on Komethea's story.
25:56The coroner identified 64 stab wounds.
26:01It's hard for me to fathom this incident being self-defense.
26:20It's been nearly 12 hours since Brian Spinks' murder,
26:24and loved ones have started to learn the tragic news.
26:30I just had, uh, randomly come in to my mom's house.
26:36And she hung up the phone and she screamed my name.
26:39And it was just something about the way she screamed it.
26:44And she told me the news that Brian was killed.
26:49Just in the shot.
26:54With Komethea Coleman in custody, detectives turn their attention to locating the alleged stalker
27:01she continues to claim murdered her boyfriend.
27:05Now that Komethea's story is not making much sense,
27:09it's very important for police to rule out the John theory.
27:19Police did locate a person that fit John's description.
27:26He said he didn't know Komethea and he didn't know Brian.
27:31They weren't able to find any type of, um, evidence on him.
27:37No blood, no knife wounds.
27:41With the suspect having to be so close to the victim,
27:44it would have been nearly impossible for the person to not
27:48have some kind of evidence transfer from the victim to their person.
27:53Blood is very slippery.
27:55And when someone is stabbing someone, generally the knife, uh, will slip
28:01and they will cut themselves during the events.
28:04This gentleman that was stopped had no injuries whatsoever on him.
28:08It was very clear, this is not John.
28:14Not only are investigators unable to find John,
28:18there is no evidence he exists at all.
28:23Surveillance cameras were captured from Gigi's.
28:27There was no black male with dreadlocks with a red shirt that was walking around Gigi's,
28:33stalking her.
28:35We were unable to locate any witnesses that saw this guy, John,
28:40uh, or any video to corroborate Komethea's statement that she saw him at the club
28:46or that she saw him at the library.
28:49It became apparent to police that Komethea had literally sent them
28:54on a goose chase to find another suspect that was nonexistent.
29:04The discovery means there were only two people in the apartment when the stabbing occurred,
29:10Brian and Komethea.
29:13She stabbed him in a rage.
29:17There was no John in the picture whatsoever.
29:21But it is better for detectives to still go a little bit further to get more evidence,
29:30talk to her family, talk to friends.
29:32I did receive a phone call from Brian's father,
29:36and he advised that Brian, within the past couple of weeks,
29:40was getting ready to part ways with Komethea.
29:45His description to me was,
29:47Dad, I'm being smothered.
29:49He told me,
29:50wasn't seeing any other girls,
29:52just her,
29:53but she was smothering him.
29:55And, uh,
29:58he needed some time to wait.
30:03She had been pressuring him about marriage,
30:06and he didn't feel like he was ready for that.
30:09She was getting up at night,
30:10going in his phone,
30:12going in his emails,
30:14searching the house,
30:15going through the drawers,
30:16looking for some type of incriminating evidence
30:18that he's dating another girl.
30:29Brian's loved ones say
30:31the tension between him and Komethea
30:34finally reached a breaking point
30:36on the night of January 17th.
30:38Air Force OSI detectives
30:41interviewed the Brian Spinks friends
30:44who went out with him that night.
30:46They state that
30:48Brian was at Gigi's
30:49dancing with a friend,
30:51but not intimately
30:53or anything of that nature,
30:54just a friendly dance
30:56with another female.
30:59Komethea sees Brian
31:00dancing with this female.
31:02She gets enraged
31:06and figures
31:07this must be a side piece,
31:10and they argue.
31:14She threatened to
31:16beat his ass
31:17there at the club
31:19for dancing with someone else.
31:21That night,
31:23I saw a different side
31:25of Kim
31:25that I had never seen before.
31:27I had never seen her
31:28react this way.
31:31Eventually,
31:31cooler heads prevailed,
31:33and we sat down with Kim.
31:36She said to me,
31:37she was like,
31:37you know, Shane,
31:38you know,
31:38I'm sorry.
31:40You know,
31:40I love him,
31:41and, you know,
31:42I overreacted.
31:43So,
31:44in my mind,
31:45the night was over,
31:46and everything was fine.
31:48I had no idea
31:50what happened after that
31:51until the next morning.
31:54Through all the interviews
31:56that we did,
31:57we feel that
31:58Komethea was jealous,
31:59and that when Brian
32:01tried to break it off
32:02with her,
32:04that it just made her
32:05lose her mind,
32:06and that if
32:08she couldn't have him,
32:10no one could.
32:26Police in Shreveport, Louisiana
32:28have arrested
32:30Komethea Coleman
32:31for stabbing her boyfriend,
32:33Brian Spinks,
32:34to death.
32:35But Komethea insists
32:37she was acting
32:38in self-defense.
32:40Being that there was
32:41accusation of abuse,
32:43we pulled up
32:44any type of police records,
32:45but there were no records
32:47between Brian Spinks
32:48or Komethea.
32:52Investigators look
32:53to Brian's autopsy
32:55to provide
32:56definitive answers.
32:58Once the coroner
32:59got him
33:00down to the morgue
33:01and they conducted
33:01the autopsy,
33:02they identified
33:0464 stab wounds.
33:07When somebody's
33:08trying to defend themselves
33:09from an attacker,
33:11they are trying
33:12to de-escalate
33:13the situation,
33:15trying to put
33:15a little distance
33:16between them
33:17and their attacker
33:17just to stop
33:18the incident
33:20from occurring.
33:22It's hard for me
33:23to fathom
33:24this incident
33:25being self-defense.
33:28detectives are left
33:30with how is it
33:32that this 100-pound
33:33female was able
33:35to overtake
33:36this 5'11",
33:38muscle-bound male
33:40who's in the military.
33:45When we got
33:46the autopsy report back,
33:48it showed that
33:49his blood alcohol level
33:50was over twice
33:52the legal limit
33:54and that he probably
33:56would not have been able
33:57to fight back.
34:01Her entire defense
34:02on the self-defense
34:05side was,
34:06he attacked me.
34:07There was no way
34:08that Brian,
34:09with the 0.174
34:11blood alcohol content,
34:14attacked her,
34:15walked to the kitchen,
34:16came back,
34:17and stabbed her.
34:24Chimidia's own injuries
34:26also seemed
34:27to contradict
34:27her story.
34:29She first claimed
34:30that John
34:32had stabbed her
34:32and then she claimed
34:34that Brian
34:35had stabbed her
34:36during their fight
34:38in which she was
34:39defending herself.
34:41but the Caddo Parish
34:43coroner said
34:44that they were
34:44not penetrating,
34:46that they were
34:47superficial wounds,
34:49which would leave him
34:50to believe
34:51that they were
34:51self-inflicted.
34:54Maybe the murder
34:55was not premeditated,
34:56but she went
34:57to extreme lengths
34:58to create evidence,
35:01to create the optics
35:02that would support
35:03her story.
35:05She was desperate
35:06to stay out of trouble,
35:07so much so
35:08that she harmed herself.
35:14On January 19th, 2010,
35:18less than 72 hours
35:19after Brian's murder,
35:21prosecutors upgrade
35:23Chimidia's charges
35:24from manslaughter
35:25to second-degree murder.
35:28Second-degree murder
35:29is the intentional
35:31killing of another person,
35:33whereas manslaughter
35:35is killing someone
35:37in the heat of the moment.
35:40The fact that she did
35:4164 stab wounds
35:44to him
35:44as well as
35:45a severe laceration
35:47to his throat
35:48was more indicative
35:49that she meant
35:50to kill him.
35:52The behavior they said
35:53she displayed
35:55wasn't the Kim I know,
35:57wasn't the Kim
35:58I've talked to.
36:00I couldn't believe
36:01the viciousness.
36:05A trial date is set,
36:07but as her day
36:08in court approaches,
36:10Chimidia's attorneys
36:11introduce a new strategy
36:13for her defense.
36:14She pleaded not guilty
36:16by reason of insanity.
36:18There were motions filed.
36:21There was a mental evaluation
36:22conducted,
36:23and she was deemed
36:24incompetent
36:25to stand trial.
36:27She was transferred
36:29to a mental health facility
36:31for 90 days.
36:32At the end of that 90 days,
36:34she had a second evaluation.
36:37November 2011,
36:38it was determined
36:39that Chimidia Coleman
36:40was able to stand trial
36:43and testify.
36:48On April 23, 2012,
36:51Chimidia Coleman's
36:52murder trial begins.
36:54Despite the results
36:56of her psychiatric evaluation,
36:58her defense remains the same.
37:01Battered wife syndrome
37:03was one of the elements
37:06of her insanity defense.
37:08that she was beaten enough
37:11and that she was abused
37:12and endured so much abuse
37:14that one day
37:15she just couldn't take anymore
37:16and she fought back.
37:18The defense tried
37:19to paint Brian
37:20as an abusive person
37:22and tried to claim
37:23that he had PTSD
37:25because he had served
37:26in the Middle East
37:27and that he came back
37:29and took all of that
37:30out on Chimidia.
37:33For prosecutors,
37:34the question is
37:36whether the jury
37:37will believe it.
37:38Only two people know
37:40what really occurred
37:41during the relationship
37:42and one of them
37:42is no longer here
37:43to tell their story.
38:05At her murder trial,
38:07Chimidia Coleman claims
38:09the abuse she suffered
38:10at the hands of her boyfriend
38:12Brian Spinks
38:13drove her to commit
38:14a desperate act
38:15of self-preservation.
38:17Police and prosecutors
38:19say otherwise.
38:21Throughout the investigation
38:23and throughout the preparation
38:24for the trial,
38:25there was just no evidence
38:27that pointed to
38:29Brian being an abusive person.
38:33She was saying that
38:34he beat on women
38:36and he beat on me.
38:38Brian would hit the fly.
38:41Chimidia Coleman
38:43is a disturbed female
38:46who could not take no
38:49from her boyfriend
38:50who did not want
38:52to be with her anymore.
38:53That's what made her snap.
39:01Prosecutors present
39:02Chimidia's 911 call
39:04as definitive proof
39:06her actions
39:07were premeditated.
39:09I went back
39:10and listened
39:11to that phone call.
39:12You can hear Brian
39:13in the background.
39:19She gets real loud
39:20and kind of screams.
39:21And if you listen closely,
39:23you can hear Brian
39:24start to gurgle.
39:35I think that is when
39:37she delivered
39:38the final blow
39:40while she was on the phone
39:41with another woman.
39:50Hearing his voice
39:51one last time
39:52crying for help.
39:55was
39:59truly
40:00a
40:00gun rich man.
40:04I can't imagine
40:06a human being
40:06doing what she did
40:07to somebody.
40:10What she did was
40:16Amanda
40:16deserved to leave
40:17like that.
40:27who would have thought
40:29a sweet
40:30young lady
40:31with a future
40:32a loving family
40:33who would believe
40:34she would do
40:35such a horrendous
40:36crime.
40:37I just couldn't
40:38believe it.
40:39And she turned
40:40into another person
40:41that night
40:43as if she was
40:44possessed.
40:49The jury
40:50in this trial
40:51deliberated
40:51two hours
40:52and they came
40:53back
40:54with a
40:54unanimous
40:55guilty as charged
40:57verdict
40:57of second
40:58degree murder.
41:02Komethia Coleman
41:03is sentenced
41:04to life
41:05in prison
41:06without the
41:07possibility
41:07of parole.
41:09She will not
41:10spend another day
41:11in freedom.
41:12She'll be locked up
41:14but that still
41:15doesn't help
41:16his friends
41:17and family.
41:24We was trying
41:25to plan Imani
41:25a big surprise
41:26birthday party
41:27because it was
41:28going to be
41:28the first time
41:29Brian was
41:29in the U.S.
41:31when his birthday
41:32hit.
41:33She took that
41:33from me.
41:35Man,
41:35that was supposed
41:36to be my guide
41:37through life.
41:37You know,
41:38like,
41:39she took that
41:40and I can't
41:42get that back.
41:44I believe
41:45Brian would be
41:45extremely proud
41:46of his son.
41:47of the man
41:48that he has
41:48become.
41:50I wasn't
41:51completely stripped
41:52because I got
41:53a grandson
41:53that reminds me
41:55of every time
41:55I look at him
41:56and talk to him.
41:57His same voice
41:59Brian still is.
42:03I respect
42:04what he did
42:04in the service,
42:05the sacrifice
42:05that he made.
42:06Great father
42:07willing to do
42:08anything for the kids
42:09even though
42:10it was from afar.
42:12I still feel
42:14his spirit around me.
42:15He was a good
42:16person,
42:17you know.
42:18No matter
42:18what happened,
42:19you know,
42:20even how he died,
42:22that ain't
42:22who he was.
42:24My father
42:25was an abuser.
42:26He took care
42:26of his kids.
42:28I just want people
42:29to know
42:29that my father
42:30was a good man.
42:32mother
42:33that he died.
42:42He took care of his kids.
42:42He took care of his kids.
42:43He took care of his kids.
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