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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.
12:31after speaking with Kamithia Coleman's friends
12:34about the events leading up to the fatal stabbing
12:37of brian spanks investigators turn their attention to the crime scene police are not able to talk to
12:45kim her wounds are being tended to and they're hoping that the scene could give them the answers
12:54to this puzzle this crime scene was one of the bloodiest that i've ever seen
13:00they observed what they thought to be at least 30 wounds to brian the cut from his neck which almost
13:09had decapitated brian was what the lethal blow was the amount of blood in the apartments and the
13:18amount of injuries that brian sustained is indicative of a person with a lot of rage or anger they have
13:28some reason to be mad enough to do that kind of damage and that much damage to another individual
13:40the murder weapons a pair of knives found near brian's body seemed to confirm their assessment
13:48there was a knife that was intact there was also another knife that was close by that was a handle
13:55and the blade was located in another part of the living room the fact that the knife was broken
14:01is indicative of a very powerful or angry strike this trail of blood led to the kitchen and they
14:11notice that on the kitchen counter is this knife block there was two knives missing from the knife block
14:20that also match the knives that were laying next to bronze sphinx's body and now they are able to kind
14:30of put
14:31the pieces together that these two knives came off the kitchen counter
14:41we did search the the front door to see any type of jarring or kick marks or pry marks or
14:50anything and
14:50none were located they start wondering how did he get in did someone leave a door unlocked
15:01police canvass the apartment complex but none of the neighbors they speak to saw what happened that
15:08leaves one person who might be able to identify the killer and she's in the hospital police now find
15:16that komethea's wounds are not life-threatening so they are able to talk with her
15:23komethea was brought to the violent crimes office there at the shreveport police department roughly
15:29around 7 a.m obviously we all know why we're here um we're investigating the uh stabbing of
15:41ron komethea tells police that she was out on the town it was a girl's night out
16:09they went to a couple of different establishments had a few drinks and then they ended up at gg's
16:16gg's is one of the larger clubs in downtown shreveport not long after they got to gg's they
16:23saw brian tell me about that we talked then we were he he got upset and he left
16:32komethea advised us that whenever her and brian went out separately uh that they weren't supposed
16:38to meet up at the same club or go to the same places they had an agreement that if one
16:44comes to
16:45the club the other one has to leave so brian leaves she said that she decided to go back to
16:53brian's
16:54apartment to make sure that everything was cool komethea advised us that her and brian were back
17:00in his apartment and they were kind of talking all of a sudden
17:20she said she tried to jump on him and he pushed her back after he finished stabbing brian he just
17:28gets up
17:28and runs off you keep saying ass who is that
17:37komethea explains that john was a man she dated casually in the past and he seemed to have gotten
17:43the wrong idea i mean i told him there would never be anything because i was with him i was
17:50crying and i
17:52i mean after a couple of months he got the picture but then he showed back up he would pop
17:58up like in
17:59crazy places
18:04komethea stated she saw him at the library she also saw him near her apartment
18:09and later saw him at the club with her friends
18:15despite the alarming run-ins with this man over the past month komethea seems strangely unable to
18:21provide investigators with any details she could never tell us a phone number or she couldn't even
18:29tell us his last name she stated that he drives different cars and he will call her from different pay
18:36phones and the fact that she can't give us specific information about this john had us starting to
18:44question exactly 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
19:01they asked komethea for permission to go through her cell phone there are three voicemails on her
19:08phone two of them are from friends talking about going out that night and making plans for the night
19:12and then that third voicemail is from brian he left the voicemail in between the time he left the club
19:18and the time that she arrived at his apartments
19:23he advised that he was done he was breaking up with her
19:30prior to us hearing that it appeared that her and brian's relationship was was fine
19:39as the detectives confront her with this voicemail she changes
19:49her demeanor changes
19:51thank you why did he break up with you
19:55he didn't break up with you tonight
19:59we always go through this it's not a big deal
20:02officer just left him at the board
20:06so yeah it's a big deal it's a very big deal
20:23it's not a big deal
20:26four 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 kimithia coleman
20:43the new information has them questioning if her story of a violent home invasion by a jealous stalker
20:50is true
20:53at that point she asks to speak to detective farquhar alone they had developed a bit of a rapport and
21:00she 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
21:12kimithia and detective farquhar in their interview but kimithia can't see us
21:18i was hoping that she would finally confide to me exactly what happened
21:28don't be embarrassed okay
21:33it's just me they're out of here
21:38at that point she started telling me that brian had in the past as well as that night has hit
21:45her
21:45and abused her and abused her but she felt that she deserved it and so she didn't say anything to
21:51anyone kimithia stated that they argued in brian's apartment that he'd been drinking he was drunk and
22:01she stated that he grabbed her by the hand causing a minor bruise and then brian grabbed her throat
22:08strangling her she said she pushed him off and that's when he went into the kitchen
22:14and got a knife
22:15i don't know if it's harder you gotta tell me that he comes back in 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
22:40in that moment so she at that point got up went into the kitchen got her own knife
22:48and i just i was like i thought i was going to tell things i'm feeling
23:00so you just kept standing when did the stroke be cut
23:25she's changing the story now
23:30it has now gone from john breaking into the apartment and attacking brian to john walking into
23:39the apartment as she and brian were fighting it kind of confused her story the fact that she brought
23:47john back in did not make sense to me so he showed up in the middle of y'all fighting
23:53what all did he do he's got to not just the way of jamming with i guess he was trying
23:59to think of what
23:59i did it made no sense to anyone in that room like the math just was not mathing
24:07at this point detectives are starting to believe that john really didn't exist
24:18question that the detectives asked was why didn't you just leave
24:21you're being attacked you get you you're able to get away but instead of leaving you grab a weapon
24:27and you come back to the fight
24:30i was trying to talk to him tell him to calm down i'm like okay are you really gonna do
24:36this right now
24:38at that point i advised detective holmes and agent dunkel to come back in
24:44i asked kamethia to repeat what she had told me to them
24:49at that point she advised for an attorney so the interview was concluded
24:58since it appears the stabbing was a crime of passion police charge kamethia coleman with manslaughter
25:05under louisiana state law they have 72 hours to gather any additional evidence within the 72 hour period
25:14a detective would gather all the pertinent information to corroborate the charge or
25:22upgraded to second degree murder and with that being said they would gather more evidence talk to more
25:28witnesses talking 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 to beat his ass there at the club and medical analysis casts doubt on kamethia's story
25:56the coroner identified 64 stab wounds it's hard for me to fathom this incident being self-defense
26:20it's been nearly 12 hours since brian spinks murder and loved ones have started to learn the tragic news
26:30i just had uh randomly come in to my mom's house and she hung up the phone and she screamed
26:38my name
26:39and it was just something about the the way she screamed it
26:44and she told me the news that ryan was killed just in shock
26:54with kamethia coleman in custody detectives turn their attention to locating the alleged stalker she
27:01continues to claim murdered her boyfriend now that kamethia's story is not making much sense
27:09evidence it'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 kamethia and he didn't know brian
27:31they weren't able to find any type of evidence on him no blood no knife wounds
27:41with the suspect having to be so close to the victim it would have been nearly impossible for
27:46the person to not have some kind of evidence transfer from the victim to their person
27:53blood is very slippery and when someone is stabbing someone generally the knife
28:00will slip and they will cut themselves during the events this gentleman that was stopped had no
28:06injuries whatsoever on him it was very clear this is not john
28:14not only are investigators unable to find john there is no evidence he exists at all
28:23the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence of the evidence
28:26there was no blackmail with dreadlocks with a red shirt that was walking around
28:32gg's stalking her we were unable to locate any witnesses that saw this guy john
28:40or any video to corroborate kamethia's statement that she saw him at the club or that she saw him at
28:48the
28:48library it became apparent to police that kamethia had literally sent them on a goose chase to find
28:57another suspect that was non-existent
29:04the discovery means there were only two people in the apartment when the stabbing occurred brian
29:11and kamethia she stabbed him in a rage there was no john in the picture whatsoever but it
29:22is better for detectives to still go a little bit further to get more evidence talk to her family talk
29:31to
29:31friends i did receive a phone call from brian's father and he advised that brian within the past couple
29:40weeks was getting ready to part ways with kamethia his description to me was dad i'm being smothered
29:49he told me wasn't seeing any other girls just her but she was smothering him and uh he needed some
29:58time away
30:03she had been pressuring him about marriage and he didn't feel like he was ready for that
30:09she was getting up at night going in his phone going in his emails searching the house going
30:15through the drawers looking for some type of incriminating evidence that he's dating another girl
30:19it progressively got worse the jealousness and the insecurities
30:29brian's loved ones say the tension between him and kamethia finally reached a breaking point on the
30:36night of january 17th air force osi detectives interviewed the brian spinks friends who went out
30:45with him that night they state that brian was at gg's dancing with a friend but not intimately or anything
30:54of that nature just a friendly dance with another female kamethia sees brian dancing with this female
31:02she gets enraged
31:06and figures this must be a side piece and they argue
31:15she threatened to to beat his ass there at the club for dancing with someone else
31:21that night i saw a different side of kim that i had never seen before i had never seen her
31:28react this way
31:31eventually cooler heads prevailed and we sat down with kim she said to me she was like you know shane
31:38you know i'm sorry you know i love him and you know i overreacted and so and in my mind
31:45the night
31:45was over and everything was fine i had no idea what happened after that until the next morning
31:57cameethia cameethia was jealous and that when brian tried to break it off with her that it just made her
32:05lose her mind and that if she couldn't have him no one could
32:26it's a very good thing to do
32:27police in shreveport louisiana have arrested kimethia coleman for stabbing her boyfriend brian spinks to
32:34death but kimethia insists she was acting in self-defense being that there was accusation of abuse we
32:43pulled up any type of police records but there were no records between brian spinks or kimethia
32:52investigators looked to brian's autopsy to provide definitive answers once the coroner got him down
33:00to the morgue and they conducted the autopsy they identified 64 stab wounds when somebody's trying to
33:09defend themselves from an attacker they are trying to de-escalate the situation trying to put a little
33:16distance between them and their attacker just to stop the uh the incident from occurring it's hard for
33:23me to fathom this incidents being self-defense detectives are left with how is it that this 100
33:33pound female was able to overtake this 5 11 muscle-bound male who's in the military
33:45when we got the autopsy report back it showed that his blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit
33:54and that he probably would not have been able to fight back
34:01her entire defense on the self-defense side was he attacked me there was no way that brian with the
34:100.174
34:12blood alcohol content attacked her walked to the kitchen came back and stabbed her
34:19she first claimed that john had stabbed her and then she claimed that brian had stabbed her
34:36during their fight and which she was defending herself but the caddo parish corner said that they were not
34:45penetrating uh that they were superficial wounds which would leave him to believe that they were
34:51self-inflicted maybe the murder was not premeditated but she went to extreme lengths to create evidence
35:01to create the optics that would support her story she was desperate to stay out of trouble so much so
35:08that she harmed herself on january 19th 2010 less than 72 hours after brian's murder prosecutors upgrade
35:23camethia's charges from manslaughter to second degree murder second degree murder is the intentional
35:31killing of another person whereas manslaughter is killing someone in the heat of the moment
35:39the fact that she did 64 stab wounds to him as well as a severe laceration to his throat was
35:48more
35:49indicative that she meant to kill him the behavior they said she displayed wasn't the kim i know
35:57wasn't the kim i've talked to i couldn't believe the viciousness
36:05a trial date is set but as her day in court approaches camethia's attorneys introduce a new
36:12strategy for her defense she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity there were motions filed there's
36:21a mental evaluation conducted and she was deemed incompetent to stand trial she was transferred to a
36:30mental health facility for 90 days at the end of that 90 days she had a second evaluation
36:37november 2011 it was determined that camethia coleman was able to stand trial and testify
36:48on april 23rd 2012 camethia coleman's murder trial begins despite the results of her psychiatric
36:57evaluation her defense remains the same battered wife syndrome was one of the elements of her insanity
37:06defense um that she was beaten enough and that she was abused and endured so much abuse that one day
37:15she just couldn't take anymore and she fought back the defense tried to paint brian as an abusive person
37:22and tried to claim that he had ptsd because he had served in the middle east and that he came
37:29back
37:29and took all of that out on camethia for prosecutors the question is whether the jury will believe it
37:39only two people know what really occurred during the relationship and one of them is no longer here to
37:43tell their story
38:05at her murder trial camethia coleman claims the abuse she suffered at the hands of her boyfriend brian
38:12spinks drove her to commit a desperate act of self-preservation police and prosecutors say otherwise
38:21throughout the investigation and throughout the preparation for the trial there was just no evidence
38:27that pointed to brian being an abusive person she was saying that he beat on women and he beat on
38:37me
38:37brian would hit the fly
38:41camethia coleman is a disturbed female who could not take no from her boyfriend who did not want to be
38:52with
38:52her anymore that's what made her snap
39:01prosecutors present komethia's 911 call as definitive proof her actions were premeditated
39:09i went back and listened to that phone call you can hear brian in the background
39:19she gets real loud and kind of screams and if you listen closely you can hear brian start to gurgle
39:31okay what's going on there
39:36i think that is when she delivered the final blow while she was on the phone with another one
39:49hearing his voice uh one last time crying for help
39:55uh was uh truly uh gun rich man
40:04i can't imagine a human being doing what she did to somebody
40:10what she did was
40:27who would have thought a sweet young lady with a future a loving family who would believe she
40:35would do such a horrendous crime i just couldn't believe it and she turned into another person
40:42that night as if she was possessed
40:49the jury in this trial deliberated two hours and they came back with a unanimous
40:55guilty as charged verdict of second-degree murder
41:02komethia coleman is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
41:09she will not spend another day in freedom she'll be locked up but that still doesn't help
41:16his friends and family
41:24we was trying to plan amante a big surprise birthday party because it was going to be the first time
41:29brian was in the u.s when his birthday hit she took that from me man that was supposed to
41:36be my guide
41:37through life you know like she took that but i can't i can't get that back
41:44i believe brian would be extremely proud of his son of the man that he has become
41:50i wasn't completely stripped because i got a grandson that reminds me every time i look at him
41:56and talk to him his same voice brian still is
42:03i respect what he did in the service the sacrifice that he made great father willing to do anything
42:09for the kids even though it's from afar i still feel his spirit around me he was a good person
42:16you know
42:18no matter what happened you know even how he died they ain't who he was my father was an abuser
42:26he took
42:26care of his kids i just want people to know that my father was a good man
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