1 00:00:03,211 --> 00:00:04,212 [Female narrator] On All Hallow's Eve, 2 00:00:05,338 --> 00:00:06,631 a single mother becomes the target 3 00:00:06,673 --> 00:00:08,967 of a terrifying attack. 4 00:00:09,009 --> 00:00:10,135 [gunshot] 5 00:00:10,176 --> 00:00:11,344 There's a woman on the ground 6 00:00:11,386 --> 00:00:13,096 and somebody in a full Halloween costume, 7 00:00:13,138 --> 00:00:15,432 holding a shotgun, aiming it down at her. 8 00:00:16,391 --> 00:00:20,103 This isn't a Halloween prank. This is a real murder. 9 00:00:20,145 --> 00:00:22,147 [Narrator] And two of the only witnesses 10 00:00:22,188 --> 00:00:25,275 are the victim's twin daughters. 11 00:00:25,316 --> 00:00:27,986 They both had blood all over their costume and in their hair, 12 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:29,404 and on their face. 13 00:00:29,446 --> 00:00:32,365 It put me in a place of resolve. I'm gonna make sure 14 00:00:32,407 --> 00:00:34,784 that we find out who did this. 15 00:00:34,826 --> 00:00:37,037 [Narrator] The investigation uncovers evidence 16 00:00:37,078 --> 00:00:39,581 of a dangerous love triangle. 17 00:00:40,665 --> 00:00:43,668 There is a history of violent behaviors 18 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:47,505 that's often a trigger for an escalation. 19 00:00:47,756 --> 00:00:49,257 I knew it wasn't her that did the killing, 20 00:00:49,299 --> 00:00:50,842 but I knew she's involved somehow. 21 00:00:58,933 --> 00:01:00,060 We walked away going, 22 00:01:00,101 --> 00:01:01,770 "She's not telling us the truth." 23 00:01:02,771 --> 00:01:05,607 [Narrator] But the monster demands control. 24 00:01:07,275 --> 00:01:09,819 As sick and twisted as it is, I think that was 25 00:01:09,861 --> 00:01:11,863 his ultimate vengeance. 26 00:01:11,905 --> 00:01:15,116 They face a real-life bogeyman. 27 00:01:18,661 --> 00:01:24,584 [theme music] 28 00:01:29,589 --> 00:01:32,342 [music] 29 00:01:32,384 --> 00:01:35,804 [Narrator] October 31, 2015. 30 00:01:35,845 --> 00:01:40,850 It's a typical hectic Halloween in the town of Brandon, Florida, 31 00:01:40,892 --> 00:01:44,521 a suburb just east of Tampa. 32 00:01:45,814 --> 00:01:48,441 There's a lot of families, so Halloween is a time that 33 00:01:48,483 --> 00:01:51,152 would be very busy in the Brandon area. 34 00:01:51,653 --> 00:01:55,907 You usually see groups of parents with their kids 35 00:01:55,949 --> 00:01:59,661 walking the neighborhood, going door-to-door, trick-or-treating. 36 00:02:05,208 --> 00:02:07,627 [Narrator] After handing out candy at her apartment complex 37 00:02:07,669 --> 00:02:11,423 all evening, a young woman is relaxing on her couch 38 00:02:11,464 --> 00:02:14,801 with a horror movie marathon. 39 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,098 But around 11:00 PM, she gets a different kind of scare. 40 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:21,474 [door banging open] 41 00:02:21,516 --> 00:02:24,602 She said that she'd heard a loud bang or a boom. 42 00:02:24,644 --> 00:02:27,856 And she said her front door flew open. 43 00:02:29,566 --> 00:02:33,778 And she jumps up startled. She gets over to look. 44 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:35,989 There's a woman on the ground who she recognizes as 45 00:02:36,031 --> 00:02:38,158 her neighbor, Tiffany James, 46 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:40,118 and somebody in a full Halloween costume, 47 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,704 holding a shotgun, aiming it down at her. 48 00:02:43,413 --> 00:02:45,540 [Gloria] She realizes, this is real. 49 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:48,043 This isn't a Halloween prank. 50 00:02:48,376 --> 00:02:51,338 [Narrator] Terrified, she immediately shuts the door. 51 00:02:51,379 --> 00:02:55,550 Seconds later, she hears three gunshots. 52 00:02:55,592 --> 00:02:59,846 [gunshots] 53 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:03,600 [Gloria] She's horrified. She can't believe this is 54 00:03:03,641 --> 00:03:08,229 happening right at her front door. 55 00:03:10,231 --> 00:03:13,318 [Narrator] But the terror isn't over yet. 56 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,528 [knocking on door] 57 00:03:15,570 --> 00:03:18,573 She hears a knock at the door. 58 00:03:18,948 --> 00:03:21,993 Well, she's reluctant to open it, but when she does, 59 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:27,082 she sees a terrified little girl covered in blood. 60 00:03:28,083 --> 00:03:30,085 [Narrator] The woman recognizes the little girl 61 00:03:30,126 --> 00:03:34,798 as Tiffany's daughter, who lives a couple buildings down. 62 00:03:34,839 --> 00:03:36,675 They bring her in, and a short time after that, 63 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:39,969 a second knock, and it's the little girl's twin sister. 64 00:03:43,014 --> 00:03:45,350 [Narrator] The neighbor keeps the seven-year-old girls safe 65 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:48,228 while she calls 911. 66 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:51,815 By that time, she isn't the only one. 67 00:03:52,732 --> 00:03:56,736 The callers are clearly distressed and terrified, 68 00:03:56,778 --> 00:03:58,947 saying that there has been a shooting. 69 00:03:58,988 --> 00:04:00,740 [sirens wailing] 70 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:03,493 When the deputies arrived, there was an individual there, 71 00:04:03,535 --> 00:04:06,287 a Black female who had significant trauma 72 00:04:06,329 --> 00:04:08,748 and what appeared to be gunshot injuries. 73 00:04:12,377 --> 00:04:13,878 [Narrator] Paramedics immediately rush 74 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,549 35-year-old Tiffany to Tampa General Hospital. 75 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:21,261 [Moises] You can only imagine what the horror would be like 76 00:04:21,302 --> 00:04:23,013 just to have that happen on any night. 77 00:04:23,054 --> 00:04:25,432 The idea that it would have happened on Halloween night 78 00:04:25,473 --> 00:04:27,642 and somebody's in a full Halloween costume 79 00:04:27,684 --> 00:04:29,728 was definitely unusual as well. 80 00:04:30,645 --> 00:04:33,773 [Gloria] They face a real-life bogeyman, 81 00:04:33,815 --> 00:04:36,401 and they don't know what is going on. 82 00:04:36,443 --> 00:04:39,195 Who could have shot and killed this mother? 83 00:04:39,237 --> 00:04:43,742 And done it in front of her two children on Halloween night? 84 00:04:48,705 --> 00:04:53,501 [Narrator] Tiffany James was born on August 18, 1980. 85 00:04:53,543 --> 00:04:57,839 From the beginning, her life was defined by adversity. 86 00:04:57,881 --> 00:05:02,469 Tiffany was my go-to, my sister. She's my dad's oldest child. 87 00:05:02,510 --> 00:05:06,639 Um, and that was from a previous relationship. 88 00:05:06,681 --> 00:05:08,933 She grew up in Tampa. My dad wasn't physically there 89 00:05:08,975 --> 00:05:11,770 because he was, you know, in Gainesville with us. 90 00:05:11,811 --> 00:05:13,980 [Narrator] In her teens, Tiffany went to live 91 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,399 with family members. 92 00:05:16,441 --> 00:05:18,026 She ended up living with her aunt. 93 00:05:18,068 --> 00:05:19,611 I think there were other family members involved 94 00:05:19,652 --> 00:05:22,739 that was kinda helping her, you know, kinda raise her. 95 00:05:27,452 --> 00:05:31,247 [Narrator] It wasn't long before Tiffany started her own family. 96 00:05:31,289 --> 00:05:32,749 The year she graduated high school, 97 00:05:32,791 --> 00:05:36,503 she welcomed her first son. 98 00:05:36,544 --> 00:05:38,713 A few years later, she and her boyfriend 99 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:42,342 welcomed another baby boy, but soon after, 100 00:05:42,384 --> 00:05:45,720 she found herself a single mother. 101 00:05:45,762 --> 00:05:47,555 [Dorell] They just grew up and grew apart. 102 00:05:47,597 --> 00:05:49,974 Whatever issues they may have had, 103 00:05:50,016 --> 00:05:52,811 if they even had any issues at all, they were set aside, 104 00:05:52,852 --> 00:05:54,896 and they were there for the boys. 105 00:05:54,938 --> 00:05:57,232 I could definitely see how having your parents not so 106 00:05:57,273 --> 00:06:00,568 present in your upbringing, I felt like it made Tiffany, 107 00:06:00,610 --> 00:06:05,031 like, embed herself there and to let the kids know 108 00:06:05,073 --> 00:06:06,282 that she was there. 109 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:08,660 She was working in some medical office. 110 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:11,955 She had her family and she was-- she was gonna take care of 'em. 111 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:17,627 [Narrator] As she worked to establish a life 112 00:06:17,669 --> 00:06:19,546 with her two young boys, 113 00:06:19,587 --> 00:06:22,966 Tiffany still dreamed of having a complete family. 114 00:06:23,675 --> 00:06:26,886 Around 2008, she met Darryl Williams. 115 00:06:26,928 --> 00:06:30,557 14 years her senior, Darryl also had older children 116 00:06:30,598 --> 00:06:33,393 from previous relationships. 117 00:06:33,435 --> 00:06:35,061 [Gloria] She fell in love with Darryl. 118 00:06:35,103 --> 00:06:38,606 Right after, they ended up having children together. 119 00:06:38,648 --> 00:06:41,192 They had two twin girls. 120 00:06:41,776 --> 00:06:44,988 A few years after the girls were born, 121 00:06:45,030 --> 00:06:47,741 they decided, you know what, let's get married. 122 00:06:47,782 --> 00:06:51,202 They connected in a deeper level, 123 00:06:51,244 --> 00:06:54,539 and so things were moving along in their relationship. 124 00:06:57,917 --> 00:06:59,586 [Narrator] By the late 2000s, 125 00:06:59,627 --> 00:07:02,756 Tiffany's family had grown even larger. 126 00:07:02,797 --> 00:07:05,633 After more than two decades, she finally met her 127 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:09,429 half-siblings for the first time. 128 00:07:09,471 --> 00:07:12,515 [Dorell] It wasn't until right as I was turning a teenager, 129 00:07:12,557 --> 00:07:14,934 you know, my dad was like, you know, you know, 130 00:07:14,976 --> 00:07:17,854 y'all got a sister, you know, type of thing. 131 00:07:17,896 --> 00:07:19,314 I remember her coming up for something. 132 00:07:19,356 --> 00:07:21,524 I don't know if it was one of my nephews' birthday 133 00:07:21,566 --> 00:07:24,110 or something like that. Tiffany was a light. 134 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:26,946 She was a light. She had this big ol' beautiful smile. 135 00:07:26,988 --> 00:07:29,824 She had all four of her kids at that point. My younger sisters, 136 00:07:29,866 --> 00:07:31,910 they didn't grow up in the house with an older sister. 137 00:07:31,951 --> 00:07:33,828 I think they clicked the quickest. 138 00:07:36,039 --> 00:07:37,999 [Narrator] While Tiffany's newfound connection with her 139 00:07:38,041 --> 00:07:43,838 family thrived, her relationship with Darryl wasn't as strong. 140 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:49,010 I remember she called me, and that's when I knew it wasn't 141 00:07:49,052 --> 00:07:52,639 what it was cracked up to be or what it appeared to be. 142 00:07:52,681 --> 00:07:54,641 She just said that, ever since they got engaged, 143 00:07:54,683 --> 00:07:57,435 I guess things started... 144 00:07:57,477 --> 00:08:01,272 I don't know, for lack of a better term, deteriorating. 145 00:08:03,191 --> 00:08:05,860 [Narrator] After five years, they'd split up. 146 00:08:05,902 --> 00:08:09,322 And Tiffany was once again a single mother to her boys 147 00:08:09,364 --> 00:08:11,700 and seven-year-old twins. 148 00:08:11,741 --> 00:08:13,993 I felt like she embraced it all. Hell or high water, 149 00:08:14,035 --> 00:08:16,538 she was gonna be--she was gonna provide for her kids. 150 00:08:16,579 --> 00:08:20,417 Tiffany was--she was ambitious. She was in school for, I think, 151 00:08:20,458 --> 00:08:23,712 aesthetician or cosmetology. She had that entrepreneur spirit 152 00:08:23,753 --> 00:08:26,006 where she wanted to own her own salon. 153 00:08:26,047 --> 00:08:27,966 Tiffany found her strength, you know, kicking the dirt 154 00:08:28,008 --> 00:08:31,219 off her boots and moving forward. 155 00:08:33,638 --> 00:08:35,890 [Narrator] In the summer of 2015, 156 00:08:35,932 --> 00:08:38,852 Tiffany unexpectedly bumped into an old friend 157 00:08:38,893 --> 00:08:42,105 she'd met at a party years before. 158 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,524 [Gloria] He's a single dad with kids of his own. 159 00:08:44,566 --> 00:08:46,609 And they strike up a friendship, 160 00:08:46,651 --> 00:08:50,196 but things continue to grow between the two. 161 00:08:50,238 --> 00:08:52,490 [Michael] He and Tiffany had never been romantic 162 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:54,701 until after she ended it with Darryl. 163 00:08:54,743 --> 00:08:56,870 And then just in the last few months, 164 00:08:56,911 --> 00:09:00,415 their friendship had developed into a relationship. 165 00:09:00,457 --> 00:09:03,209 He thought she was a wonderful mom. 166 00:09:03,251 --> 00:09:06,129 [Dorell] I felt like Tiffany was, um, like, she was relieved. 167 00:09:06,171 --> 00:09:08,173 She was trying, you know, she was trying to find 168 00:09:08,214 --> 00:09:09,674 a path forward. 169 00:09:09,716 --> 00:09:11,885 They were friends for a while before they even 170 00:09:11,926 --> 00:09:15,597 took it that route, so, um, yeah. 171 00:09:15,638 --> 00:09:19,726 I just felt like she was, she wasn't looking back. 172 00:09:19,768 --> 00:09:22,896 Her friend was the path forward for her. 173 00:09:25,940 --> 00:09:30,111 [Narrator] Now her bright future has been cut short. 174 00:09:30,153 --> 00:09:32,906 Doctors are trying to save Tiffany's life 175 00:09:32,947 --> 00:09:35,784 after she was shot by a masked gunman 176 00:09:35,825 --> 00:09:39,287 outside of a neighbor's apartment on Halloween. 177 00:09:39,621 --> 00:09:40,914 [Michael] Her injuries were significant. 178 00:09:40,955 --> 00:09:43,208 She had significant head trauma. 179 00:09:43,249 --> 00:09:46,920 We knew that with the type of injury that Miss James had, 180 00:09:46,961 --> 00:09:49,798 that it was not just a handgun that had caused that injury. 181 00:09:49,839 --> 00:09:53,176 She had to have been shot with a devastating weapon. 182 00:09:54,219 --> 00:09:58,056 [Narrator] Tragically, her wounds are too severe. 183 00:09:58,098 --> 00:10:00,809 They pronounced Tiffany James deceased at the hospital. 184 00:10:04,354 --> 00:10:05,689 [Moises] To my recollection, it's the only Halloween murder 185 00:10:05,730 --> 00:10:07,023 I've ever had, 186 00:10:07,065 --> 00:10:10,110 and I was in homicide for almost 14 years. 187 00:10:10,151 --> 00:10:11,903 [Narrator] Homicide detectives are immediately 188 00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:14,072 called to the scene. 189 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:16,366 I personally had been out that night with my wife 190 00:10:16,408 --> 00:10:19,119 and my children. We had gone trick-or-treating, 191 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,623 like we always do, and when we were getting settled 192 00:10:23,665 --> 00:10:26,960 was when I got the phone call. While I was on the way there 193 00:10:27,002 --> 00:10:30,338 is when I learned that there were actually kids involved. 194 00:10:32,716 --> 00:10:34,467 [Narrator] Inside the neighbor's apartment, 195 00:10:34,509 --> 00:10:38,972 they find Tiffany's twin girls sheltering with the neighbor. 196 00:10:39,014 --> 00:10:40,807 [Moises] They both had blood all over their costume 197 00:10:40,849 --> 00:10:43,935 and in their hair, and on their face. 198 00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:46,771 One of them, I can't remember which one, couldn't even talk. 199 00:10:46,813 --> 00:10:49,733 She would try, and there was no voice coming out. 200 00:10:49,774 --> 00:10:51,317 It's heartbreaking. 201 00:10:51,359 --> 00:10:54,863 [Michael] It put me in a place of resolve. 202 00:10:54,904 --> 00:10:57,824 I'm gonna make sure that we find out who did this. 203 00:11:00,785 --> 00:11:03,329 [Narrator] But other than shotgun shells outside, 204 00:11:03,371 --> 00:11:08,293 investigators find little evidence to work with. 205 00:11:08,335 --> 00:11:09,836 [Michael] The deputies immediately began to think that 206 00:11:09,878 --> 00:11:11,838 this is probably not a robbery. 207 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,466 Nothing was gone through the purse. 208 00:11:14,507 --> 00:11:17,510 This is not somebody who was, just showed up and wanted to 209 00:11:17,552 --> 00:11:22,223 take money from Miss James. It was something personal. 210 00:11:24,225 --> 00:11:26,770 [Narrator] Coming up. The list of suspects 211 00:11:26,811 --> 00:11:30,732 includes Tiffany's most trusted loved ones. 212 00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:33,360 He's got a firearm with him inside the garage. 213 00:11:33,401 --> 00:11:36,363 [Narrator] But one name rises to the top. 214 00:11:36,404 --> 00:11:39,157 She said, "If something's happened to Tiffany, 215 00:11:39,199 --> 00:11:41,242 then my father is your prime suspect." 216 00:11:56,132 --> 00:11:58,927 [Narrator] Just before midnight on Halloween, 217 00:11:58,968 --> 00:12:01,763 Tampa detectives are investigating the murder 218 00:12:01,805 --> 00:12:05,975 of 35-year-old Tiffany James. 219 00:12:06,017 --> 00:12:09,312 All they knew is they had someone dressed as Jason 220 00:12:09,354 --> 00:12:12,941 with a mask on who shot and killed a woman 221 00:12:12,982 --> 00:12:16,444 in front of her children on Halloween night. 222 00:12:17,362 --> 00:12:19,072 When you have a scene that doesn't have a lot 223 00:12:19,114 --> 00:12:20,949 of physical evidence, you begin to have to 224 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:23,284 rely on what people tell you. 225 00:12:26,496 --> 00:12:29,332 [Narrator] While officers track down Tiffany's family, 226 00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:31,626 one of the first people detectives talk to 227 00:12:31,668 --> 00:12:36,131 is Tiffany's neighbor, who witnessed the shooting. 228 00:13:00,030 --> 00:13:02,073 You realize the magnitude and the difficulties 229 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:03,658 that you're about to deal with 230 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:08,079 because they're in a complete costume from head to toe. 231 00:13:08,121 --> 00:13:11,041 Race, you know, hair, anything like that is really 232 00:13:11,082 --> 00:13:13,835 out the window because they're completely covered up. 233 00:13:13,877 --> 00:13:16,004 Maybe the individual picked Halloween 234 00:13:16,046 --> 00:13:18,173 because he thought he could get away with it. 235 00:13:18,673 --> 00:13:22,177 Somebody had to have planned this, to conceal themself, 236 00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:24,471 so that they could carry out this attack. 237 00:13:24,512 --> 00:13:28,224 He wouldn't stand out walking around in a Halloween mask. 238 00:13:49,496 --> 00:13:51,915 [Narrator] While detectives interview the neighbor, 239 00:13:51,956 --> 00:13:54,125 additional deputies are canvassing the area 240 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:56,252 for more information. 241 00:14:09,432 --> 00:14:11,559 There was a couple neighbors that did see an individual 242 00:14:11,601 --> 00:14:17,107 who was dressed in all black running from the area. 243 00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:19,567 They both described the same person. 244 00:14:20,527 --> 00:14:25,824 Stature about 5'7" to 6'0", 200, 220 pounds. 245 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:28,576 They said definitely a male, but they could not see race. 246 00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:31,788 They could not see anything, other than his full outfit 247 00:14:31,830 --> 00:14:33,540 and his body type. 248 00:14:33,581 --> 00:14:36,292 [Michael] As terrible as this may sound, the community itself 249 00:14:36,334 --> 00:14:39,212 was glad it had kind of happened later in the evening 250 00:14:39,254 --> 00:14:42,424 because just two hours before that, the complex had been 251 00:14:42,465 --> 00:14:45,093 filled with kids walking around, going door-to-door, 252 00:14:45,135 --> 00:14:47,595 collecting candy and trick-or-treating. 253 00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:53,601 [Narrator] Neighbors say they also noticed a strange car 254 00:14:53,643 --> 00:14:57,939 outside the building around the time of the shooting. 255 00:14:57,981 --> 00:15:00,066 It was a silver sedan. They said that the car 256 00:15:00,108 --> 00:15:03,319 had left very quickly after the first gunshot. 257 00:15:03,361 --> 00:15:05,613 They didn't know if that was somebody that may be related 258 00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:09,159 or involved in this, but what we could tell 259 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,203 in talking to those neighbors about when the car left 260 00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:13,788 and in communicating with the other neighbors 261 00:15:13,830 --> 00:15:17,208 who saw someone running, that the car had definitely left 262 00:15:17,250 --> 00:15:19,627 after the individual was seen running away. 263 00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:28,261 [Narrator] Unfortunately, no one saw a license plate 264 00:15:28,303 --> 00:15:31,723 for the silver car. And there are no security cameras 265 00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:34,017 at the apartment complex. 266 00:15:34,476 --> 00:15:36,686 We got back together as detectives and we kinda decided, 267 00:15:36,728 --> 00:15:40,690 what do we need to do next? In a case like this, 268 00:15:40,732 --> 00:15:45,153 it's what can we do for these two girls now? 269 00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:46,654 Part of the job of law enforcement is 270 00:15:46,696 --> 00:15:48,656 to wear many hats. 271 00:15:48,698 --> 00:15:50,992 Any time that you have children involved, I think, 272 00:15:51,034 --> 00:15:55,663 most law enforcement officers take on that hat of protector. 273 00:15:56,498 --> 00:16:00,293 The daughters had given phone numbers to the neighbor 274 00:16:00,335 --> 00:16:02,379 where the incident happened, and they called family members. 275 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:05,173 So family members had showed up at the scene. 276 00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:06,341 [Michael] We needed to get the girls out 277 00:16:06,383 --> 00:16:07,842 of the neighbor's apartment. 278 00:16:07,884 --> 00:16:10,387 We didn't want to expose them to the crime scene, 279 00:16:10,428 --> 00:16:12,514 other than what they already had seen. 280 00:16:12,555 --> 00:16:15,350 And so what we did was, we put blankets over their heads, 281 00:16:15,392 --> 00:16:17,227 and we brought them out with blankets covering, 282 00:16:17,268 --> 00:16:19,854 so they couldn't see any of the blood. 283 00:16:19,896 --> 00:16:23,108 We went ahead and got them safe and secure with the grandmother. 284 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:25,694 And we began to talk to Tiffany's sister. 285 00:16:29,447 --> 00:16:31,616 [Narrator] Tiffany's sister tells investigators 286 00:16:31,658 --> 00:16:35,203 there are two prominent men in Tiffany's life, 287 00:16:35,245 --> 00:16:38,206 her current boyfriend and the father of her twins, 288 00:16:38,248 --> 00:16:40,834 Darryl Williams. 289 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,253 We learned that Tiffany and Darryl had been together 290 00:16:43,294 --> 00:16:47,132 for seven or eight years, and throughout the relationship, 291 00:16:47,173 --> 00:16:50,301 there had been issues, 292 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:52,137 and finally Tiffany called it quits with him 293 00:16:52,178 --> 00:16:55,223 because Darryl was known to have other girlfriends. 294 00:16:55,265 --> 00:16:57,392 Now, we have a couple of different options. 295 00:16:57,434 --> 00:16:59,811 Two most important people that we decided we wanted to talk to 296 00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:03,398 was the current boyfriend that Tiffany was seeing, 297 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,609 as well as we wanna speak to Darryl, the ex. 298 00:17:07,027 --> 00:17:08,903 With that, it was determined 299 00:17:08,945 --> 00:17:11,197 that we would divide and conquer. 300 00:17:12,782 --> 00:17:18,621 [music] 301 00:17:18,663 --> 00:17:20,123 [Moises] Myself and Detective Blair, 302 00:17:20,165 --> 00:17:22,208 we get to the boyfriend's residence. 303 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:25,503 It's about 4:00 in the morning at this point. 304 00:17:25,545 --> 00:17:27,839 When I got there, I was immediately met 305 00:17:27,881 --> 00:17:31,343 with something that was a little bit shocking to me. 306 00:17:32,093 --> 00:17:34,095 [Moises] His garage door is open. 307 00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:36,348 He's got a truck sitting in the driveway. 308 00:17:36,389 --> 00:17:39,642 And he's pacing back and forth inside the garage. 309 00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:41,978 He tells us he's been waiting for us. He knew we were coming 310 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:44,439 'cause the family had called him to tell him what happened. 311 00:17:44,481 --> 00:17:47,150 He's got a firearm with him inside the garage. 312 00:17:47,192 --> 00:17:50,779 He's in a state of serious stress, 313 00:17:50,820 --> 00:17:52,572 but defense mode as well. 314 00:17:52,614 --> 00:17:54,616 He doesn't feel safe sitting at home. 315 00:17:54,657 --> 00:17:56,117 So we just pulled out a digital recorder where 316 00:17:56,159 --> 00:17:57,786 we could record everything that was said, 317 00:17:57,827 --> 00:18:00,163 and we conducted the interview right there in the garage. 318 00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:17,472 Tiffany's boyfriend was likely experiencing extreme, um, regret 319 00:18:17,514 --> 00:18:19,849 and wondering what he could have or should have done to 320 00:18:19,891 --> 00:18:22,310 protect her, possibly. 321 00:18:22,352 --> 00:18:24,896 I've dealt with lots of people throughout my career. 322 00:18:24,938 --> 00:18:27,607 And I could tell that he was just flat scared. 323 00:18:27,649 --> 00:18:30,151 He was trying to get his kids away from his house 324 00:18:30,193 --> 00:18:32,362 because he didn't know if he was gonna be next. 325 00:18:36,032 --> 00:18:38,535 [Narrator] Tiffany's boyfriend tells investigators 326 00:18:38,576 --> 00:18:41,538 he went trick-or-treating with her and the twins. 327 00:18:41,579 --> 00:18:43,915 They planned on meeting at his apartment after 328 00:18:43,957 --> 00:18:48,420 changing out of their costumes, but Tiffany never showed up. 329 00:19:04,936 --> 00:19:07,022 [Moises] He believed that Darryl had been following 'em 330 00:19:07,063 --> 00:19:08,565 throughout the night. 331 00:19:08,606 --> 00:19:10,483 I think he really kinda just tried to stay away from him. 332 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:25,665 After talking to Tiffany's boyfriend, 333 00:19:25,707 --> 00:19:28,209 we felt that he had no involvement in the case. 334 00:19:28,251 --> 00:19:29,961 What had become very apparent was 335 00:19:30,003 --> 00:19:32,255 we needed to speak to Darryl. 336 00:19:32,630 --> 00:19:34,215 [Moises] He believed that Darryl had been following 'em. 337 00:19:34,257 --> 00:19:39,137 And he believed that based on the vehicle and the white mask 338 00:19:39,179 --> 00:19:41,598 that Darryl had hanging from his mirror, 339 00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:44,684 which we believed it was the mask that the suspect had on 340 00:19:44,726 --> 00:19:47,145 that night of the incident. 341 00:19:47,562 --> 00:19:49,356 [Michael] We didn't have enough information 342 00:19:49,397 --> 00:19:50,815 to call him the suspect, 343 00:19:50,857 --> 00:19:53,735 but what we did have enough for was to 344 00:19:53,777 --> 00:19:56,696 absolutely have a very hard conversation with him. 345 00:20:12,253 --> 00:20:14,464 [Narrator] The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department 346 00:20:14,506 --> 00:20:17,425 has ruled out Tiffany James's current boyfriend 347 00:20:17,467 --> 00:20:20,762 as a suspect in her murder. 348 00:20:20,804 --> 00:20:25,016 They quickly move down the list to her ex, Darryl Williams. 349 00:20:26,893 --> 00:20:29,646 On November 1st, investigators stop by 350 00:20:29,688 --> 00:20:34,442 Darryl's home to interview him, but he is not there. 351 00:20:34,484 --> 00:20:36,236 We break up into teams. Detectives made contact 352 00:20:36,277 --> 00:20:38,363 with the neighbors, who give us a description of the vehicles 353 00:20:38,405 --> 00:20:40,907 that are routinely at the house. 354 00:20:40,949 --> 00:20:43,868 One of the things that we observed was 355 00:20:43,910 --> 00:20:45,537 a dark in color SUV. 356 00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:48,581 It was similar to the one that Tiffany's boyfriend 357 00:20:48,623 --> 00:20:51,835 had described to us that he had seen following him. 358 00:20:51,876 --> 00:20:54,337 Darryl also had a couple of other vehicles. 359 00:20:54,379 --> 00:20:56,840 He had a green sedan and a gold sedan. 360 00:20:57,382 --> 00:21:00,385 [Narrator] No one mentions the silver car that witnesses saw 361 00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:03,888 fleeing the murder scene. 362 00:21:04,848 --> 00:21:06,307 [Moises] As we're sitting on the house waiting for Darryl, 363 00:21:06,349 --> 00:21:09,644 his daughter comes home. And we interview the daughter. 364 00:21:09,686 --> 00:21:11,021 We let her know why we're there 365 00:21:11,062 --> 00:21:13,356 and that we're looking for her father. 366 00:21:13,398 --> 00:21:15,066 And that Tiffany James had been murdered. 367 00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:18,194 She was upset. 368 00:21:18,236 --> 00:21:19,738 One of her first questions was about the daughters, 369 00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:21,364 'cause those are her sisters, 370 00:21:21,406 --> 00:21:23,408 and she wanted to know if they were okay. 371 00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:24,826 [Michael] One of the things that she told us 372 00:21:24,868 --> 00:21:26,703 that really caught our attention... 373 00:21:26,745 --> 00:21:29,998 She said, "I know what my father is capable of." 374 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,043 She said, "If something's happened to Tiffany, 375 00:21:33,084 --> 00:21:35,420 then my father is your prime suspect." 376 00:21:38,006 --> 00:21:39,424 [Moises] And I'm like, "Well, why would you say-- 377 00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:40,717 explain to me why you said that." 378 00:21:40,759 --> 00:21:43,595 And she tells us a story about how her father, 379 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:46,723 it's his way or no way. And that she remembers when 380 00:21:46,765 --> 00:21:49,934 her father pulled out a gun and aimed it at her mother's face. 381 00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:54,564 [Narrator] It seems Darryl's relationship with Tiffany 382 00:21:54,606 --> 00:21:59,027 had become equally volatile after their breakup. 383 00:21:59,069 --> 00:22:02,489 Darryl's daughter explains her father as a very controlling man 384 00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:05,617 that has a history of violent behaviors. 385 00:22:07,077 --> 00:22:10,413 When Tiffany ended her relationship with him, 386 00:22:10,455 --> 00:22:15,168 that's often a trigger for an escalation of these behaviors. 387 00:22:16,127 --> 00:22:19,547 He had come and harassed her at work. There was some ammonia 388 00:22:19,589 --> 00:22:21,591 poured in a gas tank of one of her cars. 389 00:22:21,633 --> 00:22:24,260 She believed it was Darryl that did that. 390 00:22:24,302 --> 00:22:26,179 They had been in court several times. 391 00:22:26,221 --> 00:22:28,640 It was just a constant tension and stress 392 00:22:28,682 --> 00:22:31,101 between the two of them. 393 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:34,270 [Narrator] The day before the murder, 394 00:22:34,312 --> 00:22:39,109 Darryl and Tiffany's legal conflict reached a crescendo. 395 00:22:39,150 --> 00:22:42,195 The twin girls, there was a custody battle going on 396 00:22:42,237 --> 00:22:46,241 between the two, and they were in and out of court. 397 00:22:46,282 --> 00:22:49,119 The outcome was, you know, they awarded custody to Tiffany, 398 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,622 and I'm pretty sure he was pissed about it. 399 00:22:55,417 --> 00:22:57,836 [Michael] The courts had sided with her for him to help 400 00:22:57,877 --> 00:23:01,381 financially, and now we have an individual that may be upset 401 00:23:01,423 --> 00:23:04,426 with Tiffany about the fact that he's gonna have to pay 402 00:23:04,467 --> 00:23:07,303 her for next 15 or 16 years. 403 00:23:08,013 --> 00:23:11,182 This was just creating more and more issues for him. 404 00:23:12,183 --> 00:23:14,644 [Moises] The daughter, she had not heard from him since 405 00:23:14,686 --> 00:23:18,356 earlier on Halloween. She found that to be a bit unusual 406 00:23:18,398 --> 00:23:20,650 because she said they were very close, 407 00:23:20,692 --> 00:23:22,569 and they always keep in contact. 408 00:23:22,610 --> 00:23:23,820 And she always knows where he is 409 00:23:23,862 --> 00:23:25,822 and he always knows where she is. 410 00:23:28,491 --> 00:23:30,452 [Narrator] While officers watch the house, 411 00:23:30,493 --> 00:23:32,829 detectives have Darryl's records pulled 412 00:23:32,871 --> 00:23:34,497 and go to speak with the manager 413 00:23:34,539 --> 00:23:37,334 at the chemical plant where he works. 414 00:23:37,375 --> 00:23:40,628 The records were telling us he owed over a $100,000 415 00:23:40,670 --> 00:23:42,672 in back child support. 416 00:23:42,714 --> 00:23:44,674 Child support for all these children that he had 417 00:23:44,716 --> 00:23:46,134 from the different women. 418 00:23:46,176 --> 00:23:48,011 [Michael] When we went and talked to his 419 00:23:48,053 --> 00:23:50,847 place of employment, the first thing they told us, 420 00:23:50,889 --> 00:23:53,558 which was most important for this case, was the fact that 421 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,603 he was not at work on Halloween. 422 00:23:57,145 --> 00:24:00,065 In fact, he was known to work day and night shifts. 423 00:24:00,106 --> 00:24:02,233 They described him as a hard worker 424 00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:03,985 always willing to work overtime. 425 00:24:04,027 --> 00:24:06,404 When they called late to ask for somebody, 426 00:24:06,905 --> 00:24:09,324 he hadn't been available for that night. 427 00:24:10,784 --> 00:24:14,204 [Narrator] It's another red flag for investigators. 428 00:24:14,245 --> 00:24:16,706 As is the fact that Darryl's employers 429 00:24:16,748 --> 00:24:20,585 aren't surprised he's a potential murder suspect. 430 00:24:21,878 --> 00:24:24,589 [Michael] One of the individuals indicated flat out, 431 00:24:24,631 --> 00:24:29,427 he found, uh, Darryl to be explosive at times. 432 00:24:29,469 --> 00:24:30,887 [Moises] He threatened people. 433 00:24:30,929 --> 00:24:32,138 There were people that were scared of him. 434 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:34,307 He was very combative with people, 435 00:24:34,349 --> 00:24:37,060 very combative with management. 436 00:24:37,102 --> 00:24:39,229 [Michael] He didn't have a very good relationship with 437 00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:40,980 any of his female bosses. 438 00:24:41,022 --> 00:24:43,566 He felt that he was better than them. 439 00:24:43,608 --> 00:24:46,236 He felt like he needed to control them. 440 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,909 [Narrator] Based on the information gathered so far, 441 00:24:52,951 --> 00:24:54,577 the Hillsborough Sheriff's Department 442 00:24:54,619 --> 00:25:00,083 puts out an APB on Darryl's primary vehicle, a gold Camry. 443 00:25:00,125 --> 00:25:02,085 A couple of days after the alert is issued, 444 00:25:02,127 --> 00:25:05,046 a neighbor reports the vehicle is at a residence in the 445 00:25:05,088 --> 00:25:08,383 Clair-Mel area, which is just east of Tampa, 446 00:25:08,425 --> 00:25:11,761 just a few miles away from Tiffany James's house. 447 00:25:15,598 --> 00:25:17,225 [Narrator] Arriving at the location, 448 00:25:17,267 --> 00:25:19,769 detectives find out that the house is owned by 449 00:25:19,811 --> 00:25:23,148 Darryl's latest girlfriend, Rosalind. 450 00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:27,652 Parked outside, they find a gold Camry and a silver sedan 451 00:25:27,694 --> 00:25:31,948 matching the description of the one witnessed at the scene. 452 00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:34,784 She said that the relationship was fairly new. 453 00:25:34,826 --> 00:25:37,078 They were still in that dating stage. 454 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,497 When we asked her if she knew where Darryl was, 455 00:25:39,539 --> 00:25:43,585 she indicated that he had gone to get himself a lawyer. 456 00:25:43,626 --> 00:25:46,838 When we heard this, we thought that that was very interesting. 457 00:25:48,006 --> 00:25:50,342 Although getting a lawyer doesn't indicate one's guilt 458 00:25:50,383 --> 00:25:53,303 or innocence--we're all afforded the right to counsel 459 00:25:53,345 --> 00:25:54,971 here in the United States-- 460 00:25:55,013 --> 00:25:58,016 but we hadn't notified him that he was a suspect. 461 00:26:00,435 --> 00:26:03,396 [Narrator] Twenty minutes later, investigators get a call 462 00:26:03,438 --> 00:26:05,482 from Darryl's attorney. 463 00:26:05,523 --> 00:26:07,233 When I learned that the 464 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:09,402 Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office 465 00:26:09,444 --> 00:26:10,904 would be involved, 466 00:26:10,945 --> 00:26:14,949 I placed a call to the detective and told him, 467 00:26:14,991 --> 00:26:19,662 I, at that point in time, was in contact with Mr. Williams 468 00:26:19,704 --> 00:26:23,833 and that they were not to talk to him under any circumstances. 469 00:26:27,170 --> 00:26:28,838 [Narrator] However, those instructions 470 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,050 don't seem to apply to Rosalind. 471 00:26:32,550 --> 00:26:35,178 [Moises] She called one of our other detectives the next day 472 00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:38,014 and said that she was ready to talk to them. 473 00:26:38,056 --> 00:26:40,225 And they went and did a formal interview with her. 474 00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:42,435 Everything that she told us about Darryl 475 00:26:42,477 --> 00:26:45,855 was one hundred percent different than we had been told 476 00:26:45,897 --> 00:26:48,191 by everybody else at that point. 477 00:26:48,233 --> 00:26:50,944 She told us that he was not controlling, that he was loving, 478 00:26:50,985 --> 00:26:52,904 that he was caring. 479 00:26:52,946 --> 00:26:55,156 She specifically told us that Darryl had no issues 480 00:26:55,198 --> 00:26:57,701 with the twins' mother, Tiffany. 481 00:26:57,742 --> 00:26:59,953 When we asked her where she had been, 482 00:26:59,994 --> 00:27:02,455 where she and Darryl had been on Halloween, 483 00:27:02,497 --> 00:27:04,374 she told us very clearly-- 484 00:27:04,416 --> 00:27:08,336 she said that she and Darryl had been together. 485 00:27:11,506 --> 00:27:16,928 She says that Darryl came to her house around 7:00 after work. 486 00:27:17,345 --> 00:27:20,306 They sat on the porch, watched trick-or-treaters. 487 00:27:20,348 --> 00:27:23,143 They had a couple beers. She sat on his lap. 488 00:27:23,601 --> 00:27:26,062 [Michael] She said that at some point early in the evening, 489 00:27:26,104 --> 00:27:28,815 Darryl decided he was tired and he wanted to go to bed. 490 00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:31,818 She said that he went inside and laid down. 491 00:27:34,362 --> 00:27:37,657 [Narrator] Rosalind says she left for a few hours to get food 492 00:27:37,699 --> 00:27:42,996 and run errands. When she got back, Darryl was still there. 493 00:27:43,038 --> 00:27:45,415 She said that when she left earlier in the evening, 494 00:27:45,457 --> 00:27:49,294 sometime around 7:30 or 8:00, Darryl was asleep on the couch. 495 00:27:49,336 --> 00:27:53,465 She said when she came back, sometime around 9:30, 10:00, 496 00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:55,550 Darryl was asleep on the couch. 497 00:27:55,592 --> 00:27:58,970 When she returned at 1:00, Darryl was still asleep 498 00:27:59,012 --> 00:28:01,056 inside the house. 499 00:28:01,097 --> 00:28:04,434 [Moises] During none of that travel was she ever alleged 500 00:28:04,476 --> 00:28:06,853 in the story to have gone to Tiffany James's residence 501 00:28:06,895 --> 00:28:09,439 or anywhere near Tiffany James's residence. 502 00:28:09,481 --> 00:28:12,108 [Michael] After she told us this story and we began to 503 00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:16,404 think about, well, how can we prove or disprove this story? 504 00:28:16,446 --> 00:28:17,947 It didn't make sense. 505 00:28:17,989 --> 00:28:19,324 We walked away going, 506 00:28:19,366 --> 00:28:21,493 "She's not telling us the truth." 507 00:28:23,787 --> 00:28:25,163 [Narrator] Coming up. 508 00:28:25,205 --> 00:28:28,166 Two brave young girls describe the horror 509 00:28:28,208 --> 00:28:30,502 they witnessed on Halloween. 510 00:28:30,543 --> 00:28:33,672 As much as it was a good statement for our case, 511 00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:35,548 I almost dreaded it. 512 00:28:35,590 --> 00:28:39,844 [Narrator] And detectives grow tired of one woman's tricks. 513 00:29:00,573 --> 00:29:03,076 [Narrator] It's been two days since Tiffany James 514 00:29:03,118 --> 00:29:07,247 was murdered in front of her seven-year-old twins. 515 00:29:07,288 --> 00:29:10,125 Now, with the help of a forensic interviewer, 516 00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:13,586 detectives are hoping the girls might be able to confirm 517 00:29:13,628 --> 00:29:15,880 the identity of the killer. 518 00:29:16,923 --> 00:29:20,093 [Allison] Hillsborough County has a Child Advocacy Center 519 00:29:20,135 --> 00:29:23,388 where they can take children who have been victims 520 00:29:23,430 --> 00:29:28,059 or witnesses to situations, and it is an environment 521 00:29:28,101 --> 00:29:31,062 in which is a much more kid friendly-- 522 00:29:31,104 --> 00:29:33,982 especially compared to a police station. 523 00:29:34,024 --> 00:29:36,276 [Michael] The first twin that was interviewed, 524 00:29:36,317 --> 00:29:38,319 she started off real strong. 525 00:29:38,361 --> 00:29:41,197 When the interviewer was talking to her about generic things 526 00:29:41,239 --> 00:29:44,075 not specific to the incident or anything like that, 527 00:29:44,117 --> 00:29:46,411 she was fine. She was talkative. 528 00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:48,329 [Moises] But as soon as it, it started to get a little bit 529 00:29:48,371 --> 00:29:50,290 into the what happened that night, 530 00:29:50,331 --> 00:29:52,751 she really broke down and just started crying 531 00:29:52,792 --> 00:29:55,879 and wanted to leave. 532 00:29:56,379 --> 00:29:59,132 Having to discuss something so soon after something 533 00:29:59,174 --> 00:30:01,468 traumatic has happened can be very difficult 534 00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:04,971 and lead to just shutting down and not being able to 535 00:30:05,013 --> 00:30:07,140 discuss any kind of details. 536 00:30:09,267 --> 00:30:10,935 The second twin, the forensic interviewer 537 00:30:10,977 --> 00:30:14,356 started talking to her. She opened up. 538 00:30:14,397 --> 00:30:17,359 She talked very clearly about what had happened that night. 539 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,277 She gave us a couple of little pieces of information 540 00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:21,780 that became very important. 541 00:30:21,821 --> 00:30:26,201 She was articulate, and she spoke about what she saw. 542 00:30:26,242 --> 00:30:28,745 She believed that it was her father based on his body type 543 00:30:28,787 --> 00:30:31,414 and the fact that he's always fussing with her mother. 544 00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:37,295 The twins also reported that, uh, they saw their father having 545 00:30:37,337 --> 00:30:40,632 pictures of the inside of their apartment, 546 00:30:40,674 --> 00:30:43,718 as well as Tiffany's boyfriend's apartment. 547 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,763 The second daughter explained that he had said 548 00:30:46,805 --> 00:30:51,184 that was obtained by a private investigator hired by Darryl, 549 00:30:51,226 --> 00:30:54,187 an attempt to further stalk Tiffany and the family. 550 00:30:54,854 --> 00:30:58,316 As much as it was a good statement for our case, 551 00:30:58,358 --> 00:31:00,276 I almost dreaded it because I didn't want to 552 00:31:00,318 --> 00:31:03,697 have to have those little girls get up on a stand later on 553 00:31:03,738 --> 00:31:06,616 and have to testify against their own father. 554 00:31:10,537 --> 00:31:12,747 [Narrator] With the information from Tiffany's daughters 555 00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:16,501 and Darryl's older daughter, investigators know 556 00:31:16,543 --> 00:31:20,046 Rosalind has to be covering for her new boyfriend. 557 00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:24,342 On November 6th, investigators subpoena her phone records 558 00:31:24,384 --> 00:31:26,678 to find out if she's lying. 559 00:31:28,304 --> 00:31:31,641 Three days later, they get the answer. 560 00:31:32,726 --> 00:31:36,312 [Michael] After we got the records, what we knew definitely 561 00:31:36,354 --> 00:31:40,358 was the story that Rosalind had given us was not the truth. 562 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,445 Her cellphone was nowhere near where she said she had been 563 00:31:43,486 --> 00:31:45,613 on the night of Halloween. 564 00:31:46,281 --> 00:31:49,200 More importantly, what we noticed was that cellphone 565 00:31:49,242 --> 00:31:52,078 was inside of Tiffany's apartment complex. 566 00:31:53,288 --> 00:31:55,832 [Moises] His girlfriend's body stature did not match, 567 00:31:55,874 --> 00:31:58,626 not even remotely close to what the witnesses were describing. 568 00:31:58,668 --> 00:32:01,046 So I knew it wasn't her that did the killing, 569 00:32:01,087 --> 00:32:03,631 but I knew she's involved somehow. 570 00:32:05,717 --> 00:32:08,970 So now the task on our hand is to try and break her down 571 00:32:09,012 --> 00:32:11,222 and get her to tell us what the truth is. 572 00:32:12,515 --> 00:32:15,810 [Narrator] On November 21st, they make their move. 573 00:32:17,103 --> 00:32:19,689 At that point, we made contact with Rosalind. 574 00:32:19,731 --> 00:32:22,776 This time we didn't go to her house to interview her. 575 00:32:22,817 --> 00:32:24,694 This time we brought her to our house. 576 00:32:24,736 --> 00:32:27,447 And we interviewed her in our interview room. 577 00:32:37,457 --> 00:32:39,125 I laid out the evidence. I think I even may have 578 00:32:39,167 --> 00:32:42,462 shown her a map that we had, plotting 579 00:32:42,504 --> 00:32:45,799 where her cell phone was. 580 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,426 She's not where she says she was all night. 581 00:33:04,693 --> 00:33:07,028 And at that point, she starts crying. 582 00:33:07,070 --> 00:33:10,240 Literally drops out of the seat and rolls into a corner, 583 00:33:10,281 --> 00:33:13,660 and just balls up into a ball and starts crying. 584 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,690 [Narrator] But Rosalind still refuses to talk. 585 00:33:52,782 --> 00:33:54,826 [Michael] At that point, she indicated she wanted to leave, 586 00:33:54,868 --> 00:33:57,579 and we let her leave. But we told her when she left, 587 00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:00,248 "Hey, we're keeping your car this time because we have 588 00:34:00,290 --> 00:34:03,209 reason to believe that your car was involved." 589 00:34:03,710 --> 00:34:06,588 We were looking for maybe a mask, some dark clothing, 590 00:34:06,629 --> 00:34:09,758 possibly ammunition, possibly a shotgun, 591 00:34:09,799 --> 00:34:13,303 maybe shotgun shells. What we found was nothing. 592 00:34:16,514 --> 00:34:19,934 [Narrator] On November 24th, investigators give Rosalind 593 00:34:19,976 --> 00:34:22,896 one last chance to come clean. 594 00:34:23,980 --> 00:34:26,483 [Moises] She was nervous, but she was trying to hide it. 595 00:34:26,524 --> 00:34:30,236 And she was trying to act like it was not that big of a deal 596 00:34:30,278 --> 00:34:32,197 to talk to us. 597 00:34:33,198 --> 00:34:35,075 When we got to the office and started the interview, 598 00:34:35,116 --> 00:34:36,326 that's where it all broke open. 599 00:34:36,368 --> 00:34:39,996 And she just broke down and started crying. 600 00:34:40,038 --> 00:34:42,832 [Michael] Rosalind tells us on that night of Halloween, 601 00:34:42,874 --> 00:34:46,503 that she did, in fact, drive Darryl to Tiffany's complex. 602 00:34:49,756 --> 00:34:51,716 [Moises] She said that they were at the house. He asked her 603 00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:54,094 to take him to do something real quick. 604 00:34:54,135 --> 00:34:56,221 She says that she didn't really know what he was going to do. 605 00:34:56,262 --> 00:34:57,472 They drove over to the apartment complex, 606 00:34:57,514 --> 00:34:59,432 and they sat there waiting. 607 00:34:59,474 --> 00:35:04,062 And she was playing video games on her phone. 608 00:35:04,104 --> 00:35:06,564 When Tiffany pulled up, 609 00:35:06,606 --> 00:35:08,900 Darryl Williams got out of her car, 610 00:35:08,942 --> 00:35:11,069 put a mask on, and pulled 611 00:35:11,111 --> 00:35:13,697 what she described as a firearm from his waistband. 612 00:35:15,448 --> 00:35:17,033 At that point, she said she panicked 613 00:35:17,075 --> 00:35:18,785 and just drove off and left. 614 00:35:18,827 --> 00:35:20,578 She said she didn't know what to do. 615 00:35:20,620 --> 00:35:22,414 When she got home, Darryl was there. 616 00:35:22,455 --> 00:35:24,541 She doesn't know how he got there. 617 00:35:25,959 --> 00:35:27,627 [Michael] Based on our experience already 618 00:35:27,669 --> 00:35:30,255 with Rosalind, we still weren't a hundred percent confident 619 00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:32,924 that she was telling us the complete truth. 620 00:35:32,966 --> 00:35:36,678 She's telling us that she left before there was any shooting, 621 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:38,847 but our witness said that the vehicle left 622 00:35:38,888 --> 00:35:40,974 after the first shot. 623 00:35:44,227 --> 00:35:47,939 [Narrator] Rosalind might not be completely trustworthy, 624 00:35:47,981 --> 00:35:50,942 but prosecutors know she's the best chance they have 625 00:35:50,984 --> 00:35:54,738 of bringing Tiffany's killer to justice. 626 00:35:54,779 --> 00:35:57,699 They decide to offer Rosalind limited immunity 627 00:35:57,741 --> 00:36:00,410 in exchange for her testimony. 628 00:36:01,244 --> 00:36:03,079 [Michael] It gave her immunity for her involvement 629 00:36:03,121 --> 00:36:06,875 in that incident, as long as she was honest about it. 630 00:36:07,959 --> 00:36:09,502 At that point, the state attorney went ahead 631 00:36:09,544 --> 00:36:10,920 and authorized us 632 00:36:10,962 --> 00:36:13,965 to obtain an arrest warrant for Darryl Williams, 633 00:36:14,007 --> 00:36:16,634 charging him with first-degree, premeditated murder. 634 00:36:21,514 --> 00:36:23,767 We felt that probably the safest place 635 00:36:23,808 --> 00:36:27,145 for both Darryl and us was to arrest him at work. 636 00:36:27,187 --> 00:36:30,273 Due to the nature of his work and it being in a port facility, 637 00:36:30,315 --> 00:36:31,649 whenever he gets to work, 638 00:36:31,691 --> 00:36:34,319 he has to go through a security checkpoint. 639 00:36:34,361 --> 00:36:35,653 They check for weapons. 640 00:36:35,695 --> 00:36:38,656 They check for any type of firearms. 641 00:36:41,409 --> 00:36:42,994 [Narrator] When Darryl shows up, 642 00:36:43,036 --> 00:36:48,541 this time, investigators are the ones wearing disguises. 643 00:36:48,583 --> 00:36:51,586 [Michael] A couple of us even dressed as workers there 644 00:36:51,628 --> 00:36:54,130 and waited for Darryl to arrive. 645 00:36:55,006 --> 00:36:56,925 And we surprised him. 646 00:37:12,315 --> 00:37:14,734 [Narrator] Nearly four weeks into the investigation 647 00:37:14,776 --> 00:37:16,986 of Tiffany James's murder, 648 00:37:17,028 --> 00:37:19,447 officers surprise her ex-fiancé, 649 00:37:19,489 --> 00:37:21,491 Darryl Williams, at work, 650 00:37:21,533 --> 00:37:24,911 placing him under arrest for her murder. 651 00:37:24,953 --> 00:37:28,832 Darryl didn't resist arrest. He didn't fight with us. 652 00:37:28,873 --> 00:37:30,125 He tried to pull away a little bit, 653 00:37:30,166 --> 00:37:32,252 but I think because he was shocked because 654 00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:36,715 someone dressed as a maintenance worker was arresting him. 655 00:37:36,756 --> 00:37:38,258 He didn't say anything. 656 00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:40,802 He just indicated he would talk to his attorney. 657 00:37:48,268 --> 00:37:50,228 [Narrator] As prosecutors prepare theircase 658 00:37:50,270 --> 00:37:54,065 against Darryl, they bring in Rosalind one more time 659 00:37:54,107 --> 00:37:59,154 to make sure their star witness has her story straight. 660 00:38:08,038 --> 00:38:09,539 [Michael] By this time she indicated 661 00:38:09,581 --> 00:38:12,292 that not only had she driven Darryl there, 662 00:38:12,334 --> 00:38:15,003 she had also seen the gunshot. And he had actually-- 663 00:38:15,045 --> 00:38:18,506 She had actually witnessed Darryl shoot and kill Tiffany. 664 00:38:18,757 --> 00:38:20,425 [Narrator] Rosalind claims she lied 665 00:38:20,467 --> 00:38:24,512 because she was afraid of Darryl and what he was capable of. 666 00:38:51,164 --> 00:38:54,000 I believe that Rosalind went to great extremes 667 00:38:54,042 --> 00:38:57,379 to continue to lie to us for a couple of reasons. 668 00:38:57,420 --> 00:38:59,798 I don't think that she could accept the fact that she may 669 00:38:59,839 --> 00:39:04,052 have inadvertently participated in the murder of Tiffany. 670 00:39:04,094 --> 00:39:06,805 And Rosalind wanted to believe that Darryl was a great guy. 671 00:39:06,846 --> 00:39:10,016 She wanted to believe that this was gonna be her future. 672 00:39:10,058 --> 00:39:13,061 This was gonna be somebody that she was going to always be with. 673 00:39:15,897 --> 00:39:17,816 [Narrator] But Rosalind's changing story 674 00:39:17,857 --> 00:39:20,735 causes further problems. 675 00:39:20,777 --> 00:39:23,363 She had lied the first time, and we could understand why, 676 00:39:23,405 --> 00:39:25,365 to a certain degree. 677 00:39:25,407 --> 00:39:28,410 It wasn't somebody that the prosecution was very excited 678 00:39:28,451 --> 00:39:32,163 about putting up on the stand because we were proving the fact 679 00:39:32,205 --> 00:39:35,125 that she was-- she was willing to lie. 680 00:39:38,753 --> 00:39:41,256 [Narrator] Ultimately, prosecutors decide 681 00:39:41,297 --> 00:39:43,717 not to take the case to trial. 682 00:39:43,758 --> 00:39:45,719 Those two girls having to sit up and testify 683 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,929 and go through the trial process, 684 00:39:47,971 --> 00:39:50,557 that's hard. It's hard on any children. 685 00:39:50,598 --> 00:39:52,559 It's hard on adults to do that. 686 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,396 So in this case, a plea deal was negotiated. 687 00:39:56,438 --> 00:40:01,151 Darryl Williams accepted a plea deal for 20 years in prison 688 00:40:01,192 --> 00:40:03,111 in lieu of life. 689 00:40:06,865 --> 00:40:10,827 It is an appropriate sentence, if indeed the state 690 00:40:10,869 --> 00:40:15,040 couldn't go forth with a first-degree murder. 691 00:40:15,081 --> 00:40:19,002 Twenty years, it seems pretty light. 692 00:40:19,044 --> 00:40:22,297 But again, that sentence is based upon 693 00:40:22,339 --> 00:40:24,382 the facts of the case. 694 00:40:26,843 --> 00:40:29,179 [Dorell] I mean, we were disappointed. 695 00:40:29,220 --> 00:40:31,639 It's just unfathomable, man. It's like, you know-- 696 00:40:31,681 --> 00:40:34,934 And you shot my-- You shot my sister in the face 697 00:40:34,976 --> 00:40:37,937 with a shotgun while she's on the ground. 698 00:40:38,313 --> 00:40:40,357 The girls were right there with her. 699 00:40:43,526 --> 00:40:45,653 "Coward" is too good of a word. 700 00:40:46,321 --> 00:40:49,032 It didn't feel like justice, but to avoid any more damage 701 00:40:49,074 --> 00:40:53,912 to the girls, man, I think that avoiding 702 00:40:53,953 --> 00:40:55,705 placing them on the stand 703 00:40:55,747 --> 00:40:57,499 and putting them back in that situation 704 00:40:57,540 --> 00:41:00,043 was the better alternative. 705 00:41:02,462 --> 00:41:05,382 [Narrator] Darryl isn't required to explain his motives 706 00:41:05,423 --> 00:41:09,219 for killing Tiffany as part of his plea agreement, 707 00:41:09,260 --> 00:41:13,264 but a fellow inmate says he knows why Darryl did it. 708 00:41:13,932 --> 00:41:16,184 I drove up to the prison and I did an interview 709 00:41:16,226 --> 00:41:20,188 with the inmate, and he tells me that Darryl Williams 710 00:41:20,230 --> 00:41:21,564 confessed to him that he killed her 711 00:41:21,606 --> 00:41:22,899 because she wouldn't take him back, 712 00:41:22,941 --> 00:41:25,985 and that if he can't have her, nobody else will. 713 00:41:28,697 --> 00:41:30,448 [Michael] He was a monster. 714 00:41:30,490 --> 00:41:35,203 Darryl had absolutely no regard for his children. 715 00:41:35,245 --> 00:41:38,498 The firearm that he used, the shotgun, 716 00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:42,127 very easily his daughters could have been struck by that shell, 717 00:41:43,420 --> 00:41:46,256 by one of the multiple shells that he shot into Tiffany. 718 00:41:46,297 --> 00:41:48,883 He didn't care if he traumatized them. 719 00:41:48,925 --> 00:41:51,344 No father would ever put their daughters 720 00:41:51,386 --> 00:41:54,139 or ever put their children through witnessing that. 721 00:41:54,180 --> 00:41:56,349 [gunshot] 722 00:41:58,018 --> 00:42:01,938 [Dorell] I felt like Darryl snapped 'cause he lost control. 723 00:42:01,980 --> 00:42:05,275 He was more comfortable with her being gone 724 00:42:05,316 --> 00:42:06,776 and out of the picture. 725 00:42:06,818 --> 00:42:08,319 And not in the manner she wanted to 726 00:42:08,361 --> 00:42:10,697 by just moving forward with her life. 727 00:42:10,739 --> 00:42:13,199 As sick and twisted as it is, 728 00:42:13,241 --> 00:42:16,036 I think that was his ultimate vengeance. 729 00:42:19,372 --> 00:42:22,375 [Narrator] Years after Tiffany's death, 730 00:42:22,417 --> 00:42:27,297 October 31st serves as a grim reminder for her community 731 00:42:27,339 --> 00:42:30,050 and her loved ones. 732 00:42:30,091 --> 00:42:33,470 Halloween can be scary for a lot of people in general. 733 00:42:33,511 --> 00:42:37,390 When cases like this happen, it puts those things 734 00:42:37,432 --> 00:42:42,103 and makes those things real. A real threat, a real concern. 735 00:42:43,188 --> 00:42:47,233 I dreaded Halloween. I even would take PTO days 736 00:42:47,275 --> 00:42:50,570 before or after, because I knew I was going to have some sort of 737 00:42:50,612 --> 00:42:52,822 emotional response. 738 00:42:54,199 --> 00:42:58,286 For the twins, this is a life-changing, traumatic event. 739 00:42:58,328 --> 00:43:02,415 They lost their mother, and they also lost their father. 740 00:43:02,457 --> 00:43:06,836 You know, he will be in prison for the next 20 years. 741 00:43:08,421 --> 00:43:12,008 Some of us are, you know, have better coping mechanisms 742 00:43:12,050 --> 00:43:15,512 than the other, but it's still one, you know, 743 00:43:15,553 --> 00:43:17,305 one big gaping hole. 744 00:43:20,392 --> 00:43:23,812 It's heartbreaking, man. It's heartbreaking. 745 00:43:28,483 --> 00:43:34,447 [music]