[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I got woke up.
♪ ♪
My nephew pounded on the door to the house.
[voice breaking] My nephew was crying, who never cries.
He just puts a phone in my face.
It's my mom on the phone.
And she goes, your dad's dead.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
[sniffles]
[siren wailing]
He dropped right there soon as he got out of the car.
- If you follow from here,
there's a perfect trail of bloody shoe prints
right to where he collapsed.
They're willing to shoot these two men in cold blood.
Kill them in a parking lot and move on.
You'd have to surmise that he would kill anyone else easily.
- It's not very often that you run across cases like this...
♪ ♪
Where it's a random act of violence.
- The girlfriend's testimony was critical...
- What's his name?
- Because she was an eyewitness.
- The girlfriend, we didn't know if we could find her.
We also didn't have a motive.
- And then I open up the box.
- We're missing the murder weapon.
- Got to be kidding me.
[narrator] For those most affected by homicide,
the first 48 is just the beginning.
- The whole world is different now because he's gone.
[narrator] This is the story of the fight for justice
in the weeks, months, and years
after the first 48.
♪ ♪
[line trilling]
♪ ♪
[siren wailing]
[narrator] Patrol finds a man lying on the sidewalk
and another next to an open car door,
both shot dead.
♪ ♪
- We got two guys that are dead out there.
So looks like it's going to be one of those...
"up for 30 hour" deals.
♪ ♪
I've worked more homicides
than anybody in the history of the department--
20 years now.
I've always said
that murders are kind of like putting puzzles together.
This is where I should be.
All right, what have we got here?
♪ ♪
[narrator] The first victim is 61-year-old Keith Williams.
Keith was the owner of a nighttime cleaning service.
He leaves behind his wife of 34 years, Mary,
and was a loving father to her 3 children.
♪ ♪
He dropped right there soon as he got out of the car.
♪ ♪
- If you follow from here,
there's a perfect trail of bloody shoe prints
right to where he collapsed. [officer] OK.
[narrator] The second victim,
over 50 yards from Keith's car, doesn't have ID.
♪ ♪
[Mark] We got one, two, three,
four, five, six.
[narrator] The team finds nine 9-millimeter casings.
- We got shell casings here.
We got shell casings over there.
[Chase] You're trying to look at the evidence there--
the shell casings and where these gentlemen were laying,
trying to come up with a theory,
if it was premeditated
or if this was just a heat-of-moment-type incident.
It was a bit challenging.
[Mark] We don't find that much at the scene
to tell us what happened.
So, yeah, you're thinking,
man, this is going to be a difficult one to solve.
[officer] The witness is shook up.
They're headed back to the division to talk to us.
♪ ♪
[Mark] Well, I need to get downtown.
We always want to get our witnesses,
especially if it's an eyewitness,
to the interview room as quickly as possible
to really start advancing this investigation.
[cell phone rings]
[narrator] Then...
[ringing continues]
- What's that number real quick?
- 840...
[Chase] Someone's trying to get ahold of these victims.
At that hour,
that's probably someone close to them that knows them.
Hey, this is Detective Calhoun, Tulsa Police.
You were just calling a gentleman's phone just now.
- It could have been someone who would confirm the identity
of, you know, these men, so there's no time to waste.
Who is that gentleman to you?
[narrator] Calhoun speaks with Keith's wife, Mary.
- Who's the gentleman that he's with?
- OK, his brother. What's his brother's name?
[Chase] Yeah, so we got a call out here
that there was a shooting.
- I wanted to meet with her in person
but, unfortunately, couldn't meet right then.
And so I did not want them to continue
the lingering worry about, you know, what was going on.
We have two men out here that were found deceased.
[narrator] Glynn's wife, Cecily, joins the call.
[Chase] Ms. Williams, I'm trying to figure out
who these men are.
- OK, tell me what the tattoos are.
♪ ♪
- OK.
Well, listen, Ms. Williams, I hate to tell you this,
but there is a gentleman out here that's deceased
that has a tattoo on his right arm.
♪ ♪
[Chase] We don't know.
I just want you to know that, you know,
we're going to do our best.
Anytime you tell someone that their loved one's gone,
you're going to experience a wide range of emotions.
It's difficult to hear, but it's also a reminder for us
that this is an individual that's now deceased,
that is loved by someone.
♪ ♪
So the guy here on the sidewalk...
[officer] Mm-hmm.
[Chase] Is going to be Glynn Williams.
[narrator] 53-year-old Glynn Williams,
Keith's younger brother, had recently move to Oklahoma
to help Keith with his cleaning business.
He leaves behind his wife, Cecily,
and six children.
[Chase sighs]
I'm going to head back down to the office.
[officer] OK.
- So we have the two brothers, who are hardworking men,
working late hours, gunned down.
♪ ♪
It was frustrating because we didn't have much to go on.
♪ ♪
[narrator] Three hours into the investigation...
[Mark] You doing all right?
[narrator] Kennedy sits down with the woman who called 911.
[Mark] Jamila, I'm sorry we're meeting
under these circumstances.
Who do you work for?
- Keith Williams Janitorial.
♪ ♪
[Mark] When you talk to a witness
that's been through such a traumatic incident,
you have to settle them down, let them breathe a little bit.
The other gentleman that's out there with him, who is that?
- His brother.
♪ ♪
- What time did you get to work?
[Mark] She had seen a suspicious vehicle.
She actually drove past it.
Her and her mother,
who was helping her clean the dialysis center,
they're a little bit freaked out when they see a stranger
in a car on the outside of a building.
So it made sense that she called Glynn and Keith.
- And then he called
and said he was just going to come and check on us.
- OK, can you describe the car? - [crying] It was an SUV.
♪ ♪
[sniffles] I want to say it was, like, an Equinox.
- So I assume you start cleaning.
- Yes.
♪ ♪
- What called your attention? Did you hear gunshots?
- I think I heard them knocking at the window or something.
So I went and looked out the window.
Seen his brother walking towards the window.
He was just moaning, like... [imitates moaning]
[Mark] OK.
- I didn't even know they were shot.
I thought they were just beat up bad.
♪ ♪
- Do you know of him having problems with anybody?
- No.
- All right, well, we'll see what we can find out
about maybe figuring out who they are.
Bear with me. - Thank you.
Please find them.
[Mark] We're going to do our best.
♪ ♪
I was hoping we would get more information
out of that interview.
I was a little bit disappointed.
Oh, my God.
♪ ♪
This sucks.
♪ ♪
[narrator] Four hours in...
- There wasn't a lot of information
that Ms. Jamila had provided.
So I reached back out to the family
in hopes of them providing some information,
some ideas, maybe some names.
[line trilling]
- Hey, Ms. Williams.
I know it's a shock right now,
but is there anything else that you can think of,
any problems, any disputes
with any individuals that may be mad at these guys?
[Mark] Jamila's getting ready to get fired,
and her son had just been fired.
And, you know, that was news to me
because Jamila sure didn't bring that up in her interview.
[Chase] OK, bye. [Mary] Bye-bye.
- It piqued our interest.
We wanted to do another interview with Jamila.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- This is how Dad did it. He said, nothing gets wasted.
Yeah, things like this remind me of him.
♪ ♪
Still miss him every day.
♪ ♪
My mom and my dad got together when I was a young teenager.
♪ ♪
And he's the guy that raised me.
♪ ♪
He was always service.
He was the type of man that gave
instead of taking or wanting or even asking.
First time with a cookout together as a family,
we went to go help him prep his food.
And he's like, no, no, no, I cook.
Y'all sit down, relax. This is my job.
So this is family for me.
♪ ♪
My dad and my uncle Glynn were actually the closest
out of all his siblings.
Uncle Glynn was looking for change, so he came down here.
And my dad gave him a job,
helping him clean these sites and stuff.
He talked about work,
his volunteering, and his family.
You help out those three things, your life's good.
♪ ♪
[narrator] 17 hours since brothers Glynn and Keith
were killed...
[narrator] As the team prepares for Jamila's
second interview...
[Mark] The wives of Glynn and Keith,
they had this theory that Jamila might be involved
and her son could be involved.
We get a lot of theories.
And we have to take those seriously,
follow up on some of those theories.
- That's how sometimes we solve cases.
But we try not to get tunnel vision
and just focus on one motive.
[Mark] Well, at this point,
I think we got to be looking at robbery.
- It's robbery.
- So why do you kill 'em?
- We got robbery.
We have that these guys have done something
in their personal life that this is a hit.
- Because they're pissed off, getting ready to fire you?
♪ ♪
- Option number three--
if it's not a hit and it's not a robbery,
then it's a total complete-stranger deal,
which I don't really-- - That's scary.
- It's very scary, but I don't know if that's what this is.
♪ ♪
The worst-case scenario is this perpetrator's still
out there willing to shoot, attack, or kill anyone
that gets in their way.
♪ ♪
[narrator] The next day...
[Mark] Appreciate you coming down.
[Jamila] Mm-hmm.
[Mark] All right.
♪ ♪
[Chase] When Jamila came back,
I was wondering why she went and retained an attorney.
The first time we spoke with her, she was very cooperative.
[Mark] I'm just going to be blunt with you.
The family members have come up,
and they've mentioned you as a problem.
♪ ♪
They said they were getting ready to release you.
♪ ♪
- That's shocking to me... [Mark] Yeah.
- Because the few times I've talked to his wife,
it was like we had a great connection.
- Right.
- The goal was to see how she responded.
We want to know the truth.
[Mark] Did you have anything to do with setting this thing up?
- Oh, no. [Mark] No?
It doesn't make any sense
that somebody would want to hurt this man.
♪ ♪
All right.
♪ ♪
Jamila allowed us to go through her cell phone.
And we didn't find anything.
So I had no reason not to believe
anything that Jamila was telling me.
We are done with the phone. - [chuckles] Thank you.
- She was very sincere that she was not involved in this.
- Then we were able to exclude her
as being involved at that particular moment.
[Jamila] Thank you.
[Mark] We'll get you out of here.
[Jamila] Thank you.
[narrator] As the first 48 ticks away...
- The puzzle wasn't coming together very well.
♪ ♪
You know, we keep swinging.
♪ ♪
[Chase] The following couple weeks or so,
we were following up on leads.
[cell phone beeping]
We were looking into any type of angle
to try to identify somebody who may be involved.
♪ ♪
- We were just needing that break.
♪ ♪
- That's amazing.
All right, man, appreciate it.
♪ ♪
There was a shooting
at a restaurant called Incredible Pizza,
and two people were shot.
They survived.
[narrator] The pizza restaurant shooting
happened six days after the double homicide
of Keith and Glynn.
- They were able to ID the suspect.
That suspect got picked up on a different crime
and had a gun on him.
The test came back on the gun,
and it was the same gun that was used
in the double homicide.
[Chase] There was a match.
There was a NIBIN hit from cartridge casings
tied to the actual firearm that was used in our homicide.
We were ecstatic.
- Me and Chase both were like, wow, this is what we need.
- We went from nothing to a solid suspect...
Ondriel Smith.
[narrator] Born and raised in Tulsa,
35-year-old Ondriel Smith has prior felony convictions
for burglary and assault and battery.
- He was pulled over and arrested out of a SUV.
- What did I do, though?
[officer] We'll explain everything, sir.
[narrator] Six days after the pizza shooting,
Tulsa PD pulled over Ondriel
driving an SUV that matched a vehicle
on a tip sheet for unrelated crimes.
- Officer Terwilliger doing great police work,
just following up a lead that was put out
at their squad table.
He had a revolver, and he had a semiautomatic handgun.
Our lab, they get a lot of guns turned in all the time.
And all of them get tested, you know,
because you never know when a gun's going to connect
to a crime to be solved.
[Brandon] If he did the two brothers,
then that's quite a body count.
It's not a slam dunk, but it gives us a place to start.
And he's already sitting down in Tulsa County Jail.
[narrator] Then Detective John Brown
is also familiar with the suspect,
Ondriel Smith.
[Brown] Ondriel was a suspect in a shooting case
I had back in April.
♪ ♪
My victim knows Ondriel Smith from time they did together.
Victim got out to go over to the suspect's car...
[officer] Right. - And he started getting shot.
My guy survived, and he IDs Ondriel.
Warrant was out, and he just hadn't been picked up yet.
♪ ♪
- And he's a suspect on Incredible Pizza?
[Mark] Yeah.
And then the shell casings from Incredible Pizza
match up to my crime scene.
The gun checked to three different shootings.
And one of those shootings,
Ondriel Smith was named as a suspect in it.
So we're like, hey, we're onto something here.
[Chase] So we have two victims from the homicide.
We have one from the Incredible Pizza.
We have one from John Brown's case
that he was said to have been responsible for shooting
just in the Tulsa area within a very short time frame.
♪ ♪
- We're thinking, this could possibly be our guy.
We need to check into him a little bit closer.
We need to put bookends on that gun--
when this gun was purchased
up to the time to where he was caught with it.
We need to make sure that nobody else has had that gun.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[officer] You're going to need some kind of connection
to put him at the scene or something, right?
[Mark] Yeah...
♪ ♪
[Nathan] Yeah.
- Yes, we have the murder weapon.
We have the person who had the murder weapon.
We have a person who has used that weapon
at a couple other shooting scenes
where he's been listed as a suspect.
But I don't have enough yet to arrest him for the murder.
But we found out that he was booked in
along with his girlfriend.
- Love you, baby.
♪ ♪
- And she had bonded out.
[narrator] Kennedy looks up the woman's booking photo.
- It looks like she's had the holy [bleep] beat out of her.
- The girlfriend had bruising on her face
and some other indicators
that she had been physically assaulted.
- Do you care if I sit there? [officer] Sure, go ahead.
- OK, because I have a--
[officer] Got a messed-up leg, don't you?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Man, something's bad going on here.
And so we needed to get some information out of her.
♪ ♪
[narrator] Back at the crime scene...
[person sobbing]
- This is horrible, horrific.
[narrator] Glynn Williams' family holds a vigil.
♪ ♪
- We move here so he can get a job with his brother
and earn a good income.
And he was murdered in cold blood.
[person sobbing]
- [exhales sharply] Daddy, I love you.
♪ ♪
[Cecily] And his children are hurting.
[Brenae] It's too much, you know.
My dad was too good of a person.
♪ ♪
- It just hurts to know that this innocent man was shot.
And I had to come to the reality...
[voice breaking] That he's not coming back.
♪ ♪
[narrator] One day after Ondriel's girlfriend
was released...
[Mark] We found out that his girlfriend
lived in a small town south of Tulsa.
[Chase] Oh, we got a nice house here.
- Yeah.
[narrator] She agrees to meet.
[dog barks, car door closes]
[Mark] This was a very important interview.
And we needed to address this with caution.
We don't want to push her too hard.
We don't want to scare her.
- They may be willing to talk to us about it.
But the other flip side is that they do not want
to talk about it because they're scared.
♪ ♪
- We were kind of taken back.
She still had some of the black eyes that were viewable.
♪ ♪
- We're there. We were there.
- There was almost a sigh of relief.
So now we're getting somewhere.
♪ ♪
- She lived in fear, you know, and she was scared of this guy.
And she believed there's a possibility
he could kill her.
- We're just very fortunate and lucky that we were able
to talk to her on this day and time
when Ondriel was in custody.
- This is someone that had been abused,
not just physically but also mentally.
It's just pure--it's evil. It's sick.
- We were just blown away
at some of the stuff she told us,
some of the abuse that she went through.
♪ ♪
- The double homicide, the pizza shooting,
with John Brown's case,
and then with this young lady being shot in the leg,
this is an individual who apparently has a desire
to shoot people and kill people.
It's very disturbing.
We need to prevent any future attacks.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[narrator] She says his behavior toward her
has changed over their years together.
[door closes]
- At that point, we had enough to charge Ondriel.
♪ ♪
[narrator] 20 days since the double homicide...
- Ondriel was still in the Tulsa County Jail.
So we get Ondriel into the interview room.
We were hoping that he would confess,
especially when you have the evidence to back it up.
♪ ♪
- Why did you do these things?
We don't know what's going on in his head.
And the only person that can explain that
is Ondriel himself.
[Mark] We work homicides.
Two gentlemen were murdered around the Best Buy.
Have you heard about the murder of those two guys?
- All right.
On the 17th, you got arrested.
And when you're arrested,
that gun that you got arrested with, where--
the 9-millimeter, was that your gun?
[Mark] Whose gun is it?
♪ ♪
- But we were able to find a time when she had pawned it
and got it out of pawn,
which was in pretty close proximity
to when all these crimes occurred.
And then, of course, he has it afterwards.
They had had that gun the whole time.
Well, we had the testing done on that gun,
and that gun was used to kill those two gentlemen
on September the 5th.
[Mark] OK.
♪ ♪
- So did you give the gun to somebody?
♪ ♪
It's always been in your possession?
- Whose possession has it been in?
♪ ♪
[Mark] He's pretty much locked himself in.
We got him dead to rights with the murder weapon.
- Kind of defaults back to him. He knew that he was caught.
♪ ♪
- OK, well, I'm going to let you know
that you're being arrested
on two counts of first-degree murder.
♪ ♪
[Mark] Most people would be devastated.
Most people would know, hey, I've been caught.
He didn't have that demeanor.
[Chase] He just said, OK. He was not defensive.
He didn't seem to be shocked or anything.
[handcuffs click]
- It kind of just showed us how hardened he was.
And he didn't have a care in the world.
- OK. - Come on.
All right, we're going to go this way.
- I don't know. You have a good angle?
♪ ♪
[narrator] Three years into the court proceedings...
- It's not very often that you run across cases like this,
where it's a random act of violence.
You want to make sure that you're doing justice
by the victims.
But then you're really focused on,
here's a guy who is presenting a risk to my community.
We'd better make sure we get this right.
♪ ♪
- The district attorney's office,
they were always in contact--
every couple of months, even while waiting for trial.
♪ ♪
It made things a lot more tolerable
knowing that they were trying on their end.
[Kevin] We had a lot of evidence to work with.
We knew we had a strong case.
We had cases where he was alleged
to have committed other shootings
around the time of these homicides.
You had people identifying the make and model of car
in the same general area of Tulsa.
And then you had the ballistics testing...
that matches the firearm that was used in the homicides.
♪ ♪
If we want to present cases to a jury,
we have to present a motion to the district court judge
to determine, is this legally appropriate?
[narrator] The prosecution files a notice of intent
to introduce evidence from the other alleged shootings
during trial of the double homicide.
[Steve] We received a ruling
in which the judge was not going to allow
what we felt was relevant evidence.
[narrator] The court denies the motion,
holding that evidence from the other alleged shootings
are unnecessary and risk causing unfair prejudice.
♪ ♪
[Kevin] And the Criminal Court of Appeals
unanimously affirmed
the court's decision to deny our motion.
- That constrained our ability to tell what we felt was
a much broader view of Mr. Smith.
[Kevin] Our wings were clipped
in how we could present our case to the jury.
We need to make decisions based on changes in the case.
♪ ♪
[narrator] Five years after Glynn and Keith's murder,
a new trial date is finally set.
- Our first setback, obviously,
was when we lost the ability to present the connected cases.
- Yeah, we can't show that he was using the same gun
in the murder and the other shootings.
- Now the only evidence that could be presented to the jury
was the evidence from the actual homicide.
And then our weakness is...
the girlfriend.
We didn't know if we could find her.
We also didn't have a motive.
No motive is always a weakness in a murder case.
He doesn't know these people.
He wasn't looking to rob somebody.
Because you want the case to make sense to a jury,
you look for a motive.
We knew we probably had Jamila,
and she could give us the chain of events
leading up to the homicides.
♪ ♪
[Kevin] Jamila was the first person
at the crime scene that noticed something was off.
And so we were really looking forward
to her explaining how the event unfolded.
- And give a description of the vehicle that was involved.
[Kevin] And so, when Officer Terwilliger
makes contact with
Ondriel and his girlfriend at the motel,
they're in a Chevy Equinox.
So that was an important tie-in.
♪ ♪
- But then we found out that Jamila
had passed away from natural causes.
You never know what to expect when time passes.
- We were very surprised when we found out
that Jamila had passed and even sad by it.
And, unfortunately, this is not good for prosecution.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- When we lost Jamila, we lost kind of a key component
of that background information.
- Yeah, well, I mean, she also is the one that described
that it was an Equinox.
Losing her, that was a hit, for sure.
♪ ♪
So far, we were having some difficulties.
But we had good contact with the girlfriend,
and we'd met with her several months before the trial.
♪ ♪
I hoped that she remembered what had happened,
hoped that she'd be willing to testify truthfully.
- I got the sense that the girlfriend was motivated
to participate in the case.
So girlfriend became a strength,
and no motive was diffused.
♪ ♪
[John] She described him as the type of person
that would commit these senseless killings
with no remorse and really no provocation at all.
[Kevin] With the domestic-violence backdrop,
lack of motive really isn't necessarily a weakness anymore.
- We had context for the type of person he was.
♪ ♪
[narrator] But just one week before trial...
[John] We'd ordered all the property.
One of our big pieces of evidence
linking the defendant to the murder was,
we found the murder weapon in his underwear.
[Kevin] We were looking through the boxes of evidence,
just casually attaching exhibit stickers to exhibits.
It's really the putting the bow on the case.
[John] There were two guns that were collected.
There was a revolver,
and then there was the murder weapon,
which was a semiautomatic 9-millimeter.
I open up the box,
and I see a revolver
but not a semiauto 9-millimeter.
- So we have a box that has the identifiers
for the murder weapon.
And he said, this box is empty.
We're missing the murder weapon.
♪ ♪
[John] We had a gun, but it just wasn't the right gun.
[Kevin] Of course we had the gun that wasn't implicated
in the murder.
- And so I called Detective Kennedy.
I asked him to look into the missing murder weapon.
[Kevin] Well, Detective Kennedy
gives us a call and says, it was destroyed.
♪ ♪
Oh, OK. Who destroyed it?
The government.
- They destroy the murder weapon
in a brutal, senseless double-murder case.
Got to be kidding me.
[Kevin] I was going to have to explain,
government destroyed its own murder weapon
due to human error.
Well, that's going to play really well to the jury.
- This definitely was a wrench in the gears
for our preparation.
[Kevin] So we structured our witness list
around the murder weapon,
with every single hand that had ever touched it
to be ready to testify.
[John] We planned to really show the jury that...
this murder weapon that was collected from the defendant
is the same one that was tested
and the same one that matched back to the casings
at the murder scene.
- We don't always have this many witnesses
for one piece of evidence,
but we don't know how the girlfriend
will present to a jury.
Knowing that we didn't have the gun,
I had a residual feeling of worry
and a little bit of doubt.
♪ ♪
The courtroom atmosphere was definitely tense.
There had been some allegations that this particular defendant
might not always control himself.
♪ ♪
- Normally, I keep multiple pens on my table.
I haven't done that.
I didn't want to have any sharp objects within reach.
This was a scary guy.
- The whole "I just don't care" disposition he had...
♪ ♪
It just...
made it hard to even look at him.
♪ ♪
My mother ended up passing away
before the trial actually started,
but my wife was there with me at the trials every day.
Somebody had to be there for my dad and my uncle.
I was. I was going to be there.
[narrator] As the prosecution calls
Ondriel's former girlfriend to the stand...
- The girlfriend's testimony was critical,
because she was an eyewitness and because she's the one
that had purchased the gun that came back as a match
to the murder scene.
Ondriel had some of the best attorneys in Tulsa,
and she was one of the most important witnesses
in our case, so we had every expectation
that the defense would go after her.
- And if she got on the stand
and presented in a way that was rough or suspect,
then the defense literally could have pinned
the murders on her.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- The girlfriend really makes or breaks the case.
If she had inconsistent testimony,
then our case could very well end itself
into reasonable-doubt territory.
- She had to testify to emotional abuse...
♪ ♪
Physical abuse, threats of violence,
threats against her family.
♪ ♪
And that was all just leading up to being shot
and witnessing the murder.
♪ ♪
[Kevin] Even though we didn't have a motive,
she was able to give the jury a snapshot
of how Mr. Smith was living
this summer of 2018
and what his mind state was.
♪ ♪
[John] I would ask her about the abuse
that she suffered from him.
Multiple times, she broke down and started crying,
and we had to take a little pause
for her to compose herself, and then she would describe it.
She was not afraid to go into the details.
It was just hard for her. It's emotional.
But she was strong too.
[Kevin] It added a lot of credibility
to what she testified to about the actual events
in the homicide.
She stuck to what she remembered
and what she saw and what the truth was.
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She was so convincing,
there was a tangible chemistry when she testified,
and the jury felt it.
You can feel it in the room.
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[Greg] The woman that was in that video
and the woman that was on the stand testifying
were not the same person.
While looking at the defendant, she wasn't scared anymore.
[Kevin] The defense attorneys attacked
the girlfriend's credibility by labeling the lack of charge
after her arrest as a free pass.
The girlfriend responded,
"I wouldn't call the PTSD following this relationship
a free pass."
I think only a survivor of domestic violence
could match the energy that the defense attorneys
were coming at her with.
- It really spoke
to the changes that she'd made in her life.
She was going to counseling
and worked on dealing with the past trauma
and the abuse that she'd been through.
- Knowing that my dad's murder...
technically helped a woman get her life back together,
that would honor my dad
to know that-- although he lost his life,
knowing that his life helped would have made his day.
In a way, my dad was able to help again.
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[narrator] After three days of trial,
closing arguments begin.
- The defense closing argument really highlighted the fact
that the gun was missing
and, how do you know the gun ever existed?
- The defense attorney said, should you take
the government's word for everything else they're saying?
[John] And insinuated that we, the state,
were trying to say to the jury,
just take our word for it,
when that wasn't the case at all.
[Greg] From the time that the judge dismissed the jury
till court was back in session
was literally an hour and 15 minutes.
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[Kevin] The jury returned a verdict
of guilty on two counts of murder
and also for the assault and battery
with a dangerous weapon,
where the girlfriend was the victim.
- The jury wanted to give him the max,
the most punishment they possibly could on everything.
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[Greg] My mom, I know she's happy with the outcome.
He got justice for what he did to my dad and my uncle.
And he's going to die in prison,
where he deserves to be.
- I think the system got it right.
This is one of the most violent, dangerous people
that was walking the streets in Tulsa.
And the jury saw that.
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- Seven years this September.
Wow, seven years ago this September
is when my father was taken.
Doesn't seem that long.
It really don't.
- And then one year ago, we heard the verdict.
[Greg] Yeah.
- Guilty.
- Yeah, back in June.
This is nice. Nice to be able to tell them.
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The man cared about everybody.
There was nothing on this planet
that would stop him from taking care of his kids,
all three of us.
And as a husband, he bent over backwards for my mom.
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He's a great man.
The whole world is different now because he's gone.
- He was the nicest man,
besides my dad, I've known.
- Yeah, he had a big heart.
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Do miss him a lot.
[voice breaking] You could hear my dad laugh across the park.
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And you could never mistake it.
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He turned my life around just by being there.
I miss him every day.
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Part of me just wishes I could have said goodbye.
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[sighs]
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