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The First 48 S29E19 Unforgotten Rob H 264
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00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:23We have been screaming justice for Rob Cobain.
00:28Screaming it. I'm screaming it. Justice.
00:32He was an artist. He worked, supported his kids.
00:36No criminal history whatsoever.
00:39And he's found shot and killed in his own apartment
00:42for no reason that we have been able to find.
00:45It's not just a homicide case anymore.
00:48I take it personal that this is sitting unsolved on mining.
00:54Detective Schaefer, he was passionate about this case,
00:57but he got promoted to put back on the road.
01:00So, I'm gonna pick up where he left off.
01:05He was the people of life.
01:07No matter where you saw him, he was smiling.
01:09He was always encouraging.
01:11And his biggest aim was unity.
01:14He loved music and he loved his kids.
01:17That was his life.
01:18He was a fan of all music.
01:21Kurt Cobain, that was one of his idols.
01:24And he took that moniker and thus Rob Cobain was born.
01:29He was just a phenomenal artist.
01:31But as a father and an artist, this story got cut short.
01:36He definitely did not deserve this.
01:39And we're all just so heartbroken.
01:41I must be captain of the planet.
01:43I feel the earth's pain.
01:45My little heart is damaged.
01:46Heartbroken.
01:48Heartbroken.
01:48Woo!
01:49I'm heartbroken.
01:51Heartbroken.
01:51Woo!
02:10In North Charleston's Forest Hills neighborhood, the property manager of an apartment complex calls 9-1-1.
02:199-1-1, what's the address of the emergency?
02:22Lowell Drive.
02:23Somebody reported that the sliding door was shattered.
02:27And I'm right outside of the window, or the door.
02:31And I can see someone inside, sitting up on the couch.
02:36His head is back.
02:37And there's a part of holding his face.
02:40Okay, I'm getting help on the way.
02:52Is that your apartment?
02:53No, it's the apartment.
02:54Do we know whose apartment that is?
02:56I believe it's the person that's in the apartment.
03:021-15 dispatchers.
03:04Appears to be a shooting.
03:05I'm clearing the apartment.
03:07North Charleston Police Department!
03:14AEMS, you guys are clearing.
03:18Chief for your friend's dispatcher.
03:19No siren or uncoated.
03:21Check on him.
03:23Get out of pulse.
03:25Sorry.
03:26Okay.
03:271-15 dispatchers.
03:29It's going to be confirmed.
03:2910-7.
03:31All right, copy.
03:32Detectives are en route.
03:442-30.
03:452-30.
03:45All right.
03:462-32.
03:47Detectives are en route.
04:01This next door neighbor at 5 a.m. heard two bangs, two loud bangs.
04:07She thought it was a car accident or whatever.
04:09Around 10-ish, she noticed the glass was shattered.
04:13And then at that point, she called for the maintenance.
04:16When the maintenance man spotted the victim, he contacted the property manager, who called
04:209-1-1.
04:22Robert Brown.
04:23That's what the mail on the floor in there says.
04:26That looks like.
04:3140-year-old Robert Brown III, known by his stage name, Rob Cobain, was a local hip-hop
04:37artist who also worked at a jewelry store.
04:41Recently divorced, he had a 9-year-old son with his ex-wife and a 13-year-old daughter
04:46from a previous relationship.
04:54The front door was locked when I got here, deadbolted.
04:56I made entry through this hole right here.
04:58If the wares were open on the side, that was like that when we got here.
05:14Rob was shot four times in the back, legs, and ankle.
05:23He's using his underwear.
05:26What is this, PS4?
05:29They were maybe playing the game.
05:33Oh, there you go right there.
05:35So, one shell casing.
05:37The team finds a shell casing on the living room floor.
05:42Is there anyone back there, too?
05:43Shaker.
05:45Another one behind the couch.
05:47Facing.
05:49And one in the front hallway.
05:56Whoever it was, he was very close when they started shooting him.
06:00There's blood all over there.
06:02There clearly was a scuffle at the door.
06:05The guess is that him and someone else were fighting.
06:07And that's when the shot started going off.
06:09Maybe he's trying to flee.
06:11Could have been shooting him and put one through the glass.
06:15And then from there, he had collapsed right in front of the couch.
06:20There's a bag of weed.
06:24His phone is in his back bedroom.
06:29The original responding officer said he noticed that the front door was bolt locked.
06:34The window was open.
06:35I'm thinking that's how they went in.
06:37Could be.
06:38Not impossible.
06:40There's a possibility this was just a random burglary gone wrong.
06:45My personal opinion, somebody else was let in the house.
06:50Maybe possible girlfriend involved or something because he's in his underwear in there.
06:56And I don't think he would have been like hanging out with one of his buddies or another dude in
06:59there.
07:00Like half naked or whatever.
07:03Right now we have to canvas for video.
07:06Hopefully get lucky because right now we don't have a lot to go off of.
07:11It's gonna be a tough one.
07:19Can I ask you a question real quick?
07:21Did you hear anything earlier this morning?
07:22Any shouting, arguing or anything like that?
07:25Okay.
07:26Alright, well I appreciate you guys.
07:29Has anybody already talked to you?
07:32Okay.
07:36Everybody must be at work.
07:40Okay.
07:41Call him Rob.
07:43Okay.
07:44One of Rob's neighbors comes forward.
07:46His ex-wife know that they just got recently divorced.
07:50He has two kids from Jeremy and then he has an autistic son.
07:55Okay.
07:56Did they live there?
07:57Sometimes.
07:58Rob's car was broken down.
08:00So his daughter has been staying with his ex-wife so she could get a ride to school.
08:04Yeah.
08:05And you don't know him to have any drama or beef with anybody like that?
08:08Mm-mm.
08:09He did live with these two individuals.
08:11They live in his daughter's room.
08:13What did those two people name that he would live with before?
08:17Half no fear.
08:18But it's a girl and then a man.
08:20Black, both black.
08:21Okay.
08:22He did keep them up.
08:24When was that that he kicked them out?
08:26Two and a half months away.
08:28Okay.
08:38Two hours in.
08:40Avery's next door.
08:41Made a call to her.
08:43So she came over here to give us a little bit more information.
08:46Okay.
08:47Another friend of Rob's arrives on scene.
08:49Hello.
08:50I'm Detective Schaefer.
08:51My name is Aisha Guinness.
08:53So what's your relationship to Robert?
08:56We're friends.
08:57Okay.
08:58Has there been any drama recently in the house over there?
09:01Like arguments between people, fights, anything like that?
09:04No.
09:04That's why we were trying to figure out because he honestly, he's not that type of person.
09:08Right.
09:08He's really a happy-go-lucky guy.
09:10Mm-mm.
09:11So...
09:12How's the relationship with the ex-wife?
09:13Is everything good?
09:14Yeah, they're fine.
09:15They recently just signed their papers.
09:17Okay.
09:18But it wasn't a heated divorce.
09:19It wasn't bad.
09:20Do you know him to be involved in anything bad like drug dealing or anything like that?
09:24Narcotics?
09:25Anything to that extent?
09:26No.
09:27He smoked a little weed.
09:28Okay.
09:31What about friend-wise?
09:32Who else did Rob hang out with?
09:34He was a ladies' man.
09:35He hung out with different girls.
09:38He just had been going through some things, you know?
09:41Going through a new divorce.
09:42Yeah.
09:43Trying to figure it out.
09:44Okay.
09:45This summer, he allowed people to live with him.
09:48She gives to Schaefer the names of Rob's former roommates.
09:51Did everything work out when they got moved out or was it like a bad move out?
09:55It wasn't that good.
09:57It wasn't that good?
09:57No.
09:58Okay.
10:01This is wild.
10:02No.
10:03I know it's a lot for everybody.
10:05Thank you, man.
10:15As word of Rob's murder continues to spread, he's my watchmaker.
10:20He fixed his watches for me.
10:23The manager of the jewelry store where he worked shows up on scene.
10:28He's my watchmaker.
10:29I talked to Rob last night.
10:31Around 6 o'clock.
10:33In the parking lot.
10:35He was hitting in the car in the street.
10:37She says, last night, a woman picked Rob up from work.
10:41I don't know her.
10:43I don't know her.
10:45What kind of car are they left in?
10:46I don't know.
10:50He left in the car.
10:50So he left last night from work where they's gone.
10:55That's the last time she saw him.
10:59Then...
10:59You see that camera that's in the living room?
11:01Another possible break is a camera
11:05Rob's neighbors remember that he has a security camera in his living room
11:09Okay, let me go check that out. Give me one second
11:17And that ring camera was on during the whole incident and just recording things which would tell us exactly what
11:22happened and who did it
11:24That would be huge
11:35The camera is on because he's getting ring notifications on his phone
11:40So we have high hopes for that
11:48We're hoping it's been on since this morning, which means it just would have been activating whatever happened inside
12:04My name is George Robert Vantine jr. I've been with the North Charleston Police Department for 23 years
12:12I spend just shy of five years in the person's unit working violent crime and homicides
12:20I'm honored with working in cold cases now
12:23The department set up this unit to help bring justice to the victims and the families where the case agent
12:29has moved on
12:30They've either been transferred out or they retired and the case still isn't solved
12:36Detective Schaefer is transferred back to the road. So we're gonna continue looking into Lowell Drive and pick up where
12:42he left off
12:44Looks like in report
12:46When Schaefer left the crime scene that night his head was spinning
12:53Probably had half a dozen potential motives
12:56It could be a burglary gone bad
12:59Because there is a window partially opened
13:03There's been indication that he is a ladies man
13:06He's in his underwear
13:07So it could be something with a lover's quarrel
13:11The ex-roommate may have been involved
13:14There was some type of argument
13:18And then there is a female that picked him up from work and it was the last person to see
13:23him
13:25Once Schaefer's goes home the evening shift starts running with it
13:28Trying to get into the victim's phone
13:31Maybe there's some indication of who that female that picked him up from work may be
13:44Yeah
13:45Seven hours in
13:46Sam's got something
13:48Digital forensics examiner Sam Riedel was downloading Rob's phone
13:58And found a text conversation between Rob and the woman who picked him up from work last night
14:03Amanda
14:03Who picked him up?
14:05Get her in here see what she knows
14:18Two hours later
14:20Oh, thank you for coming in today
14:23Amanda agrees to talk
14:26So how did you hear about, uh, what happened to Robert?
14:29I actually was, uh, I looked on the news
14:32And I saw the shooting
14:34And I was like, oh, .
14:36I sent my husband over there after he cut off work
14:39Okay
14:41Alright, so you saw him yesterday, correct?
14:43Yeah, I picked him up from work yesterday
14:45It was about 10 till 6
14:47And we went to the Publix to get a sandwich
14:51And then where did y'all go after Publix?
14:54Right to his money, excuse me
14:55And once you guys were there, what happened?
15:00Uh, we smoked for a little bit
15:03And we watched the OMTV raps
15:05And we ate our sandwich
15:08And we smoked some more
15:10I don't know, like, why her husband would think it'd be cool
15:13If she goes to some other dude's house and smokes weed with him
15:16And is he, like, jealous of their relationship?
15:19It's weird
15:22And I took off at 9.30
15:24He walked me outside
15:27We didn't spend too much time outside because it was cold
15:31He said, I love you
15:34The last that I heard from him was last night when I told him I'm home
15:37And he responded to the little hard thing
15:39And roughly how long is the drive?
15:41About an hour
15:43Okay
15:44And did he mention having any plans afterwards?
15:48No, I think he was gonna go to bed
15:51He had to work today
15:53How did the two of you meet?
15:55And how long have you known him?
15:56Uh, since April of 2016 in Northwoods Mall
16:01She says she and Rob have been friends for eight years
16:04We had a conversation about Prince
16:07The singer
16:07And, uh, we've just been friends ever since
16:12Thank you
16:17Have you and Rob ever had, like, a sexual relationship?
16:22Nothing
16:23So it's just friends?
16:24Exactly
16:24Okay
16:26Is he, um, he's pretty cool with your husband?
16:28Oh, yeah
16:29Absolutely
16:36What was Rob wearing when you saw him last night?
16:40Um
16:41I think it was a black long sleeve, just shirt that he had on
16:47Jeans
17:06And do you know what his relationship was like with the guy that used to live with him?
17:12No
17:13But he was there for quite a while with his girlfriend
17:16So what happened?
17:18I don't know
17:18Honestly, Rob just referred to them as house guests
17:21And I didn't ask too many questions
17:25The only thing that Rob seemed to be stressed out about
17:28Is his neighbor smelling the weed
17:32And we did talk about that because he had his, uh, he propped his sliding glass door open a little
17:37bit
17:38So it would air out
17:39Do you know if Rob kept that door open after you left?
17:43Probably
17:43It made me nervous because he didn't lock things
17:47That being one of them
17:48Mm-hmm
17:51You tell me that this isn't true, right?
17:54I'm sorry for your loss
17:59One more second
18:05One more second
18:07Does sound like her and the victim had a good friendship
18:12And she says that her husband was cool with it
18:15Um, we do plan on following up with the husband
18:18Just to make sure that there wasn't any type of jealousy on his end
18:23Yeah
18:30From glancing at this, Schaefer did talk to Amanda's husband
18:34And it seemed like he was okay with his wife going over there
18:39That he knew the victim and he didn't have any issues with him
18:43He did not feel the husband was involved
18:46So after the shift ended, they were no closer to a motive behind this
18:51According to witnesses, Rob was a ladies' man
18:54So Schaefer's plan was to track down the women he was seeing
18:58And track down the couple that used to live with the victim
19:02And he also wanted access to the footage on the phone
19:07A ring camera that was inside the victim's home
19:09That may have the possible suspect
19:12Which would have been huge
19:13Huge
19:26The next morning, Detective Parker Bush and Schaefer
19:30Head out to try to find some of the women that Rob had been seeing
19:35Could still be a chick
19:36Sleeping around with different women, some chick could not like it
19:39Well, that and then one of their significant other finds out
19:43Yeah, and shows up there at the door going, hey, can I talk to you?
19:47And things go south
19:48Yep
19:53Then
19:54Hey, sir, how are you?
19:56The team gets a tip
20:02From Robert Brown's female ex-roommate
20:05From Robert Brown's female ex-roommate
20:10She says she suspects her ex-boyfriend, who was Rob's other ex-roommate, may be the killer
20:20Okay, all right, well, I appreciate it
20:22All right, take it easy
20:28This ain't a boyfriend, didn't
20:39Let's see what this chick has to say
20:50Hey, how are you?
20:52What happened?
20:54I was introduced to Rob in July of this year
20:57Me and my boyfriend were homeless together, and we stayed at his apartment
21:01We knew each other from being rappers
21:03Okay
21:04Um, while we were there
21:07She says while they were living with Rob, she and her boyfriend weren't getting along
21:12How did it end with y'all and Rob and staying at his apartment?
21:19Rob texted me and said, hey, y'all, journey will be back
21:23Rob asked them to leave, because his daughter was coming back to live with him
21:27I left him
21:28And shortly after they moved out, she and her boyfriend broke up
21:33What makes you think he would be the one involved?
21:35Was there bad things between him and Rob when they were living there?
21:37We were homeless, at the point that I left him, he had nowhere else to go
21:42So I'm assuming he did go to Rob's house at some point
21:45I can't confirm that
21:46Okay
21:48My woman's intuition is telling me if he didn't do this, he knows who did
21:53Right, right, okay
21:54What my intuition is telling me
21:56Okay
21:58He's been contacting me off of crazy different numbers
22:01The first number was 472
22:09Okay
22:10We're gonna continue investigating and go from there
22:13We have to go based off where the evidence takes us
22:15I know you said your intuition, but
22:16I know, I know
22:18Yeah
22:20Rob did not deserve that
22:22He was a sweet guy
22:24He did not deserve that
22:25Now, 100%
22:28Thank you for your time, ma'am
22:29No problem
22:38It was basically woman's intuition that the ex-roommate may have been involved
22:44But Detective Schaefer did a search warrant on the ex-roommate's phone
22:50And during the timeframe of the murder, that person's device was in Florence, South Carolina
22:57And I believe Schaefer spoke to that person on the phone, and he was very cooperative
23:00So I think he ruled him out
23:06Detective Schaefer, in his notes and what he told me
23:08Seems like everyone he talked to, whether it be girlfriends, anybody, spoke very highly of the victim
23:15And he got the sense that no one in the victim's social circle wanted to harm the victim
23:22And everyone was baffled as to who would do this
23:28Schaefer hit a dead end
23:29And so, they had the Hail Mary of the Ring camera that was inside the victim's home
23:35That would potentially give us some glimpse of who did it
23:47As the first 48 slips away
23:50Camera covers the living room
23:53Schaefer gets an update on the security camera in Rob's living room
23:57But the Ring camera that was in there, the plan is unactive
24:03Which means it'll give you notifications and alerts, but it doesn't record any of it
24:08It was live viewing
24:12So there's no video of the actual shooting?
24:14Nope
24:17Can't get frickin' lucky on none of it
24:20Back square one on that
24:22Felt too good to be true
24:26So yeah, things are going well
24:27Everything's coming together nicely
24:30And I mean that with the most sarcastic possibility
24:45Six days later
24:47Number one, I'm so sorry
24:49This is the worst way to meet someone, like I said, in such a situation
24:53Schaefer speaks to Rob's mother
24:55Yes
24:56He didn't deserve what he got
24:58Because the type of person that he was
25:00Before I leave South Carolina
25:02Yes
25:03I need to go home with some kind of closure
25:07Yes
25:07By just leaving my child
25:08I want to help and tell you as much as I can
25:11But it is ongoing, so there's a lot I can't tell you right now
25:14What I can tell you is this
25:16There's two possibilities
25:17It was either a random burglary gone wrong
25:20Or it was someone he knew
25:22Are you aware that he had been broken in before?
25:27When was that?
25:29Maybe like a couple of weeks ago
25:32Do you know the exact date?
25:33I know
25:34Okay
25:36Hello, how are you?
25:39I'm just at Chicago
25:40The team turns to Rob's ex-wife and daughter
25:45What's your name?
25:47Are you?
25:48In your
25:48In your
25:50Did your dad ever mention that his house got broken into previously?
25:55Mm-hmm
25:56So tell me about that
25:58He told me someone had taken his parking money
26:01Because he would keep like $50 in his pocket
26:04And he'd set it like on the TV stand
26:08Okay
26:08Okay
26:09And did he tell you how he thought the person was able to get inside?
26:14Then how he drove them off
26:27That shit
26:28Like what time of day did it happen?
26:31What did you just leave?
26:33So night time?
26:34Yeah, like close to like 3 or 4
26:36So it was like early in the morning
26:42Okay
26:42Thank you again for coming in
26:43I'm sorry for your loss
26:47Give you one second, okay?
26:51He did get his stuff broken into a couple weeks ago
26:56And then I don't really see
26:59There's no calls for service over there
27:01So if he did, he never reported it to us
27:04That's interesting
27:05We'll have to chase that down too
27:07They're just gonna keep talking to more and more people
27:10We're hoping to get a bunch of video from the surrounding streets
27:13And the surrounding areas
27:15Hoping that somebody's camera somewhere
27:17Caught someone running from the scene that we could track
27:20Or someone jumping in a car right afterwards
27:22Yeah
27:23We just need to get something
27:35Four days later
27:37That food line has left the parking lot
27:39The team watches surveillance video from the grocery store
27:42Next to Rob's apartment complex
27:46The victim's building is right here
27:47Okay
27:49And right there is like right by where the window's at
27:52We need like some video of somebody running from the scene or something
27:56Otherwise it's like a f***ing Dateline special
28:01So far
28:02Not a lot of luck
28:05Then
28:07Oh my God
28:09Where the green thing is at
28:11A thermal image of somebody
28:13Coming around from the backside of the victim's building
28:15At 4.15 in the morning
28:16Right before the shooting
28:19We think the murder time is around like 5 a.m.
28:23But this is about 55 minutes before that
28:25This figure is just wandering around
28:31Very suspicious to me
28:32Because he's not going into an apartment
28:34Man he's not walking a dog
28:38He's just wandering around behind buildings in the middle of the night
28:41I think the temperature that night was like
28:4440 degrees or less
28:45So it was cold as hell out
28:47And you're wandering around at 4 o'clock in the morning
28:50So my curiosity is why are you doing that?
28:55They're looking to break into somewhere
28:58That's what I was kind of getting a feel for
29:00Like are they looking for open windows and s***
29:02The homicide he did have his window left open
29:05And his mother said that he did get broken into a couple weeks ago
29:12Uh, let me see where he goes after that
29:20Then I don't see him again
29:29And then this video we're getting is from right about here
29:34Shaffer pulls up doorbell footage
29:36They got from a neighbor down the street from Rob's apartment
29:40This is at 5.12 a.m.
29:43Minutes after we believe the homicide occurred
29:45Of an individual walking down the street
29:53In Lowell Drive
29:54Which is where the homicide occurred
29:57This could potentially be the same person
29:59From the video walking behind the apartment building
30:03This guy is a potential suspect
30:08I wish we had a post-mortar shoot up at him
30:11But he's our best lead so far, you could say
30:18It's possible that it was a burglar gone wrong
30:20Just laying down someone was trying to break in
30:22Yep
30:30Three weeks later
30:31Hey, Kacen!
30:33Yes, sir
30:34Detectives Kacen Alex and Carlos Ochoaia
30:37Are working a case that they believe
30:39Could be connected to Rob's
30:43So, I have a rash of burglaries in the Forest Hills area
30:47And that's the same area where the homicide was
30:50The most recent burglary occurred around 10 o'clock last night
30:55He went into the window of their house
30:57While everybody was in the top house
30:58And just stole all their stuff
31:01The M.O. was exact the same for this kid
31:03I dealt with him before
31:04Where he likes to break into people's houses while people are home
31:08Alex realized the M.O. of last night's robbery
31:11Matched that of a juvenile burglar that he arrested three months ago
31:15He's a 15-year-old
31:17Unlocked doors and windows
31:18That's where he goes to
31:20The case I arrested him for back in September
31:23He broke in the house
31:24One of the roommates came home and confronted him
31:26And he pulled a gun out on them
31:28When me and other detectives wanted to go pick him up
31:30He tried to pull a gun out on us
31:31But we were able to stop him before he was able to do it
31:34Charges against the juvenile for the burglary three months ago
31:38Were dismissed
31:39So he may be connected into the homicide
31:42Because the M.O. is just the same
31:51The juvenile suspect was definitely on the street at the time Rob's murder happened
32:00So did she see the guy who broke in?
32:02No
32:02The victim of last night's burglary was in her bedroom when it happened
32:07She told that they're asked
32:08So she thought he was a lieutenant
32:09And a roommate walking in the kitchen and a living room
32:12In the common area
32:13He's missing and he's been telling the switch to us
32:16So then, this morning, a neighbor gives her a video footage
32:20You see two black males
32:22I'm pretty sure it's taken out where they can break in
32:25Out of that video that she sees, she identifies the juvenile
32:30The burglary victim recognized one of the suspects in the video from the neighborhood
32:34He's the same juvenile that Detective Alex arrested for the previous burglary
32:40So we think this may be our suspect from the homicide
32:44It's possible
32:46The fact that he was willing to pull a gun out on three officers in uniform
32:50The fact that he actually did pull a gun out on my other victim
32:53And threaten her
32:55I feel like he could, he could escalate that point
32:58Especially if he sees somebody's house breaking in there
33:00And they catch him
33:02I wouldn't be surprised if he would do something like that
33:06Unfortunately, we don't have enough to arrest him for this burglary
33:13So the goal right now is to work on building the burglary case for those two
33:17We're gonna follow up with the victim, we're gonna go out to her house
33:19We'll start going around the neighborhood canvassing for video
33:21And then when we can get enough to charge them with the burglary
33:25We can pick them up
33:26And while they're up here, talk to them about the homicide
33:33Detective Schaefer in his notes and what he told me
33:36He wasn't able to develop enough probable cause
33:40Or enough evidence for that one particular burglary to charge him
33:45And then Schaefer was beginning the process of being promoted out of the unit
33:50Six months after Schaefer left the unit
33:53The property detectives, Detective Kaysen ended up charging
33:58That juvenile suspect with yet another burglary
34:04When Detective Kaysen went to apprehend that juvenile suspect
34:08He had a backpack
34:11Just like the suspect that is on camera walking back
34:14Towards his residence
34:16Minutes after the homicide
34:19So that is a strong person of interest
34:23So we needed to somehow find some way to convince him to come to City Hall
34:28To put him in a room, then interview him
34:42Thirteen months after Rob's murder
34:45That juvenile suspect just came in today to pick up some items from another case
34:50So a phone, his backpack
34:53So I'm gonna try to interview him and see what he says
34:55See if we can get him to admit to this
34:59Hey, how's it going?
35:00I'm Detective Vantine
35:03So you're looking to get some items back
35:04You're talking about like a backpack, you're talking about a phone
35:07It's an iPhone 14
35:09Okay, Apple iPhone was seized and then you said you're
35:13It's a black backpack
35:15I got you
35:15How long you had that backpack for?
35:21We had some burglaries in the area
35:24And I'm wondering if, um, I'll show you a picture if you ever hit this place or remember it
35:37Yeah
35:39December 3rd, early in the morning, 2024
35:42This place
35:44Was broken into
35:47This window is open
35:48This was shattered
35:50No
35:56The thing is
35:58I think you do
36:01You would go into like different places, right?
36:04And so I'm asking about this particular one
36:07Get it off your chest
36:08What happened?
36:14Let me ask you this
36:15When you did these break-ins
36:17Did you have someone with you?
36:19Yeah
36:20What?
36:21We don't steal
36:22What do you do?
36:23We just go in and chill
36:24How do you get in usually though?
36:27From the bed door or the window
36:29You always go through like a window?
36:32Yeah, but you have me in lock or something like that
36:36This window is open
36:37You ever go through this window and chill?
36:49I don't know who the house this is?
36:53Have you ever gone to a place where somebody lives?
36:56No
36:56While they're in there?
36:57No
36:59That's dumb
37:00While they're in there?
37:02Yeah
37:02Well, not knowing they're in there
37:04No, I'm not that slow nor stupid
37:08When you go in to chill in these houses, you usually have a weapon on you?
37:11No, I don't carry weapons
37:13I don't have
37:14You were arrested with guns in the past?
37:16No, it was only because I found it
37:18And I just started to use it for protection
37:20Right
37:22I was doing it for the funny thing, for the looks
37:24I wasn't doing no with it
37:26Put my right hand on the barber right now
37:28On my right
37:30I don't know nothing about that
37:33I just came here to get my stuff
37:36The phone?
37:37Do you know the passcode to that phone?
37:39Yeah
37:41He gives Vantine the passcode
37:44I'm going to be honest with you
37:45I won't be able to release it today, that's for sure
37:47I just came here to get my stuff
37:48And I need to get my stuff
37:49And I don't like it
37:50Well, I got you, I feel you
37:55Yeah, you're good
38:05Just denying, denying
38:07He mentioned that he did usually go through the windows
38:09And this is entry through a window unsecured
38:13But I just don't have enough to say
38:15I don't have any DNA putting him there
38:17I don't have any video putting him there
38:19I got the passcode to his phone
38:21So we can do the phone dump
38:23So maybe there's something in the text message
38:24That will either rule him out or rule him in
38:32The burglary suspect that we just interviewed
38:34We didn't dump his phone
38:37Unfortunately, there's nothing to prove that he committed this crime
38:41But he is still a strong person of interest
38:44As far as the community
38:46Maybe somebody knows something
38:47He confided in somebody
38:49Maybe someone has some crucial information that will help solve it
38:53I know this suspect commits burglaries with other juveniles
38:57Maybe they will cooperate
39:00And they'll be able to come forward
39:02I think the thing is
39:04Trying to never giving up
39:05And just hoping that
39:07Something will break
39:17Unsolved cases are never close
39:23I'm gonna do everything in my power
39:25To figure out who did this
39:27Rob's life was taken
39:29Thank you
39:30And so I feel it's important to let the family know
39:34We are still actively trying to solve it
39:36I remember him, he was a nice guy to me
39:39Yeah
39:41If it's been over a year
39:43Or two years
39:44Or three or ten
39:45Or whatever the case is
39:46We're never gonna give up hope
39:48We're never gonna stop trying
39:49I'm never gonna quit on it
39:51Never
40:01He made people laugh just by stepping in the room
40:05He was just that silly
40:09Just proud of him, you know
40:11Never had nothing bad to say about my nephew
40:13I just can't wrap my mind around
40:16Why somebody do that to me?
40:20Whoever did it
40:21They took something away from me
40:23That could never be replaced
40:25They took a daddy away from his kids
40:30It's been a struggle
40:38With Kingston, he doesn't understand
40:42So he asked for him
40:44And I can't really explain
40:46Why he's not there?
40:50With Journey, it's a different type of difficulty
40:52Because she knows
40:54She's angry
40:55And upset
40:57Because somebody took something
40:58So valuable away from her
41:02From all of us
41:04And I wanna be able to look at the person in their eyes
41:08And ask them, why?
41:16Father God, we gather today
41:18In honor of Robert
41:20Hoping that this will bring justice
41:24Somebody knows exactly what happened
41:27And I pray that their conscience
41:30Will allow them to tell somebody
41:33So that we'll know
41:34Who did it and why
41:36Put yourself in our shoes
41:38What if it was your family member?
41:40And you know somebody know
41:42Wouldn't you want them to say it?
41:45It will help a lot
41:46Please and thank you
41:48Whoever you are, I know you know something
41:54In love and memories
41:56In love and memories
41:57Robert Linares Brown the third
42:03Justice for Rob Cobain
42:05Say it like
42:06Justice for Rob Cobain
42:09Justice for Rob Cobain
42:12Amen
42:14Amen
42:14Amen
42:15Amen
42:19Heartbroken
42:26Heartbroken
42:28Woo
42:28I'm Heartbroken
42:30Heartbroken
42:31Woo!
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