- NARRATOR: Tragedy strikes a close-knit southern town...
- You see these types of killings a lot of times
with the Cartel or Mafia.
- This is probably one of the most complex homicides
that I had been a part of.
- NARRATOR: Family and friends are left wondering
who could target such a beloved member of his community.
- He treated us like each of us were part of his family
and he was just simply taking care of us.
- That was my only son.
It hit hard that somebody had taken my baby from me.
- NARRATOR: In search of justice,
investigators unearth a disturbing plot.
- NARRATOR: One born both out of greed and deadly romance
fueled by a macabre obsession.
- He described dancing around in a ritualistic manner.
He told me, "I think she just wanted to play with a dead body.
She's crazy."
- It was kinda like a Bonnie and Clyde situation.
We can do whatever, ride-or-die.
- I don't believe they could've done it without the other
because they both had, had sinister intentions
and they relied on each other.
- It's a cautionary tale about the dangers
of meeting people online because you don't know what
their true intentions may be.
- It's hard to imagine that kind of evil can live in the world.
- *
- [muffled scream] [gasp]
- *
- NARRATOR: In the heart of the deep South,
Metro Atlanta is a mix of vibrant city life
and pastoral settings.
- The further out you move from the Metro Atlanta area,
um, such as into Cobb and even up in Paulding,
the more rural things get, so you expect that there's
gonna be a lesser crime rate.
- NARRATOR: But on the evening of June 3rd, 2016,
the Paulding County Sheriff's Office
receives an alarming phone call.
- A man was walking his dog when he came across, uh,
what he suspected to be a decomposing body.
- He became alarmed and he went to a neighboring business
and called 911.
- The body was found off of a major sort of
four-lane roadway in Paulding County.
- The first responders arrived, and they discovered that it was
in fact human remains.
- The deceased victim had been wrapped in a tarp
and lit on fire.
- NARRATOR: Despite extensive injuries,
police determine their victim is an African American male
approximately five feet three inches tall.
- Even though the remains had been burned and charred,
you could tell that there was a bullet hole
in the left-temple area of the head.
- It was apparent that they were dealing with a homicide.
- NARRATOR: Police search the area around the body
and find no obvious signs of a struggle.
- You can imagine that if somebody was alive
in that situation, they would be flailing
and there would be a tremendous amount of turmoil in that area
and there was none of that.
- Paulding County quickly realized that this body had
been dumped at this site and had been lit on fire postmortem.
Probably because the perpetrators were trying
to cover up the crime and distance themselves
from what they had done.
- You see these types of killings,
or these types of body dumps a lot of times
with the Cartel or Mafia,
where people aren't just killed, they're they're killed
and then they're burned.
So I thought he had to be linked
to something that would be so bad to where these people
had killed him and mutilated his body.
They searched the area around the remains,
and they searched the actual remains themselves
and they did not find any identification or anything
that could help identify that person at the scene.
- Our coroner did contact the GBI and requested an autopsy
for this decedent to give us more information to proceed
with the investigation.
- NARRATOR: In the meantime, authorities turn to reports
of missing persons in search of a match for their John Doe.
- The GBI agent who was assisting us with this case
was viewing the local news and saw a family
on the local news making a broadcast
about a missing person.
It was a very short male matching the description
of the human remains that were discovered in Paulding County.
The missing person was a Howard Sewell.
- We kind of put it together that this could very well be
in fact our person.
- NARRATOR: Howard Lewis Sewell, Jr.
was born on May 29th, 1981 in Vicenza, Italy.
- My parents both were in the Army.
And they were stationed in Italy,
and that is how Howard came about.
- Faith and Howard were close.
They played together all the time when they were younger.
And he was a protector, too. So he looked out for her.
- Howard Sewell was in-between Faith and I,
so he was like our little watchman,
watched over us at all times.
And he was always comforting for us.
- NARRATOR: Howard remained close to his sisters
throughout his life.
In his 30s, he and his sister, Faith shared an apartment
in Smyrna, about 10 miles from downtown Atlanta.
They also found jobs together at a beauty salon.
- He was the housekeeper, but he was the best.
It goes more beyond..the task. It was just the--
the amount of effort and pride he put into his work.
It was inspiring.
- Howard was the MVP.
And that was because he treated us like each of us were part
of his family and he was just simply taking care of us.
- He loved working around the people that he was with.
He had a lot of good people, positive people.
I could say that his second family
were the people on his job.
- NARRATOR: On the eve of his 35th birthday,
Howard Sewell's future looked bright.
- When I saw him on that Thursday,
he asked if we could move his birthday party
from Sunday to Monday.
He said that he had plans.
I said, "Oh, Howard, that sounds like a lady."
And he's, you know, he just smiled
and kinda grins.
- NARRATOR: But that was the last time
any of Howard's friends or family heard from him.
- On Tuesday, mid-morning, the location that he worked at
actually called me and said, hey, we've tried calling Howard.
He was a no call, no show. And that's very unusual for him.
So I tried calling him multiple times
and I didn't get an answer.
I know my brother.
And I know he wouldn't ignore my calls
unless something was going on, something was wrong.
And it just didn't feel right with me.
- Faith called me. She said, "Mama,
"I don't want to worry you or scare you,
"but um, Junior didn't show up for work today.
"He's not at his apartment.
She said, I've been calling him all day;
I can't reach him.
Me being a mother... immediately I know my son
and at that particular time I have to say
that my heart dropped.
My heart actually dropped because I know him,
and I knew something was wrong.
That's when we dropped everything
and went to the police
to file a missing person's report.
- A local agency, Cobb County Police Department
documented the last time that they saw and spoke with him
and began their investigation.
Uh, they also wanted to get some stats on him,
how much he weighed, how tall he was,
so that, uh, they could circulate that
around the Metro Atlanta area in the hopes that we could
discover where Howard had gone.
- NARRATOR: Days pass with no news or leads
on Howard's whereabouts.
Then one week after his family reported him missing,
police in nearby Paulding County, Georgia
find the remains of an unidentified male
matching Howard's description.
Detectives contact Howard's family.
- They said they found a body.
And I was very hopeful that it wasn't him.
I was just like, you know, I hope it'd, just hope
it's not him. It just can't be him.
- They asked us a lot of questions about Howard,
about his job, about where he lived
and all the things that he did.
- The family made it very clear to us
that this is not like Howard.
And that he would not go a length of time
without speaking to his family.
Whether it be by phone or in person
he was very involved with his family.
- NARRATOR: On June 6th, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
conducts an autopsy on their victim.
- The autopsy was, uh, rather revealing.
We learned very quickly that he had died
from multiple gunshot wounds.
At least four gunshot wounds.
- They could also tell from the recovery
of the projectiles that this was done
with a 9-millimeter handgun.
- NARRATOR: The autopsy also confirms
the family's worst fears.
- Looking at dental records, the GBI was able to confirm
for us that indeed this was Howard's body.
- The police called and they gave us the information
and, um, that was probably the moment I remember
probably the most.
- He said, "Mrs. Inman, are you all together?"
I said, "Yes, we're all together."
And he said, "The coroner just came back into the room
"and he has informed us that the body that we found
is your son's body."
- At that point, I lost my breath.
Like, I almost began hyperventilating.
I remember it just vividly getting out of the car
and screaming.
Literally screaming at the top of my lungs.
- We stood at the truck screaming and crying,
and hurting because that was my only son.
It hit hard that somebody had taken my baby from me.
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
an anonymous tipster comes forward.
- NARRATOR: And the investigation
uncovers a sordid romance with sinister intentions.
- He kinda had a bad boy thing going on that she liked,
and she really started spending all of her time with him.
- *
County, Georgia
have identified the remains of 35-year-old Howard Sewell
and both law enforcement and Howard's family
are desperately searching for answers
on why someone would do this.
- We were torn into pieces.
Because of the way he was done, more than anything.
The way he was abandoned, you know you and left there to die.
- When we learned that this is Howard,
we have to go back and look at his victimology even closer.
We have to look at his last footprint,
if you will.
Where he was seen. Who he was talking to.
- NARRATOR: Just hours after Howard has been identified,
his family meets with detectives at headquarters.
- They indicated to us that the last day that they talked to him
was his birthday, May 29th.
- I called my brother that morning, kind of early,
and wished him a happy birthday.
And he hadn't really woke up yet, so I was like, you know,
I'm sorry, I just wanted to tell you happy birthday.
I told him, you know, I'll let you sleep,
and you just call me when you wake up.
- It was on Sunday, as a matter of fact.
After church, I gave him a call.
I said, "What are you going to do today?"
He said, "Uh, I'm going to rest for a while
"and then I'm going to get up
"and I'm going to clean up my apartment
and then I have, uh, a date."
- He planned on meeting up with a young lady
that he had met online who was from Virginia.
But that's about as much information that investigators
were able to ascertain.
- I didn't question him about the young lady
that he was going out with.
- NARRATOR: That's when the family reveals they had
received a disturbing phone call from an anonymous woman
earlier that morning.
- She told us that she had overheard some guys
talking about my brother.
And one of them was her boyfriend.
I put her on speakerphone for my Mom and my sister to hear
because we were all sitting together.
And my sister took her phone out
and she was like, "Let's record."
- She explained to us that she had a son
and that she was expecting at that moment.
And if it was her child, she would want someone
to come forth with information to help her find her child.
- NARRATOR: The family tells detectives that the caller said
Howard had planned to meet a woman for a date
the night of his birthday.
- She was like, "He's been shot."
And...I asked her, and--and I by then was just
tears were flowing, and I said, you know,
"Did they kill my brother?"
- I actually got on the phone with her, and I said,
sweetheart this is Sonya, I'm Howard's mother,
and I said I really need to know all that you know
as to what happened that night.
- NARRATOR: As detectives listen to the recording,
they learn Howard's death might be connected to a man
in the neighboring Cobb County.
- Our homicide team learned that Howard Sewell had went
to an apartment in the Marietta area and the apartment belonged
to a person that this source identified as Chris Hanna's.
- NARRATOR: While the informant never reveals her name,
she indicates she's a friend of Chris Hanna.
- We immediately contacted the Marietta Police Department
and give them this information.
And they were able to research
and locate Mr. Hannah's apartment
and learned of several calls to that apartment.
- NARRATOR: Detectives discover that in the early morning hours
of May 30th--the same night that Howard went missing -
a 911 call had summoned Marietta police
to Chris Hanna's apartment building.
- The law enforcement had not only been called
to that apartment complex but actually called
to Christopher Hanna's apartment on the night in question
due to a fireworks or shots fired complaint.
Officers investigated the exterior area
of the apartment complex
but was unable to determine if shots were fired
or if they were fireworks.
- The police went back into service.
Nothing came of it.
- NARRATOR: But detectives learn later that same night,
Marietta police became involved in another incident
involving Chris Hanna.
- They received a second call from an officer that was working
a part-time job at the local hospital.
The officer had a car drive up
into the emergency room ramp.
Three people got out of that car.
One of them had been shot.
- NARRATOR: Less than a week after police
in Paulding County, Georgia
found the body of 35-year-old Howard Sewell,
his family struggles to cope with the tragic loss.
- We weren't able to have a proper funeral for my brother
you know, there was no body there for us to
even glance at one last time.
- We decided as a family not to even buy a casket
to put any charred remains in because that wasn't my boy.
That was not him.
So we ended up cremating his body.
We, we weren't able to really say goodbye.
- NARRATOR: Thanks to a tip from an anonymous informant,
detectives believe they have connected Howard's death
to a man named Chris Hanna.
Police have also just learned that Chris Hanna was involved
in a second shooting the same night Howard disappeared.
And that the victim had been treated at a local hospital.
- He had sustained gunshot wounds to his arm and his leg,
however, they were non-life threatening.
- The gentleman that was shot, he was identified
as Omar Savior.
The female was identified as Thadeshia Clark.
The male who had driven the car was Chris Hanna.
- NARRATOR: Detectives learn that an officer working on duty
at the hospital that evening had attempted to question the group,
but they were unwilling to provide many details.
- The Marietta detectives told us that they
did not buy the story that they were given.
However, there were not many leads to pursue at that time.
- When the uniform officer went out to the car
to look inside the car, right dead center
in-between the two front seats, he saw the butt
of a nine-millimeter handgun sticking out.
- Marietta detectives contacted Chris and said,
"You have a handgun in plain view in your car."
And his words to them was, "It's not mine.
Go ahead and take it."
- At that point in time, it was abandoned property.
- The firearm and the vehicle were seized by police
that night on May the 30th.
- Police had no reason to hold Chris or Thadeshia,
so they left the hospital, and Omar Savior was treated
and released the next day.
- NARRATOR: But police still had very little information
about the shooting. And now authorities
from Paulding County, Marietta and the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation theorize that the incident
may be related to the murder of Howard Sewell.
- It was apparent to the police that Chris Hanna
was somehow involved.
We now had two additional names
of people that might be involved as well,
Omar Savior and Thadeshia Clark.
- We created BOLOs or look out forms for those people.
And then they were sent out to various agencies
in the metro Atlanta area.
- We were now gathering all the information and intelligence
that we could pertaining to Chris, Omar and Thadeshia.
We searched all of the social media
that each of the three may have.
- What we learned about Chris Hanna is
that he lived at an apartment complex here in Marietta.
His profession was working as a personal trainer at a local gym.
- Chris Hanna met Thadeshia through the gym.
- NARRATOR: Detectives learn that 20-year-old Thadeshia Clark
had moved to Atlanta from Hampton, Virginia
five years earlier.
- I looked into Thadeshia Clark quite extensively.
She was living with Chris Hanna.
She was actually, at the time of this investigation,
was taking classes at a local community college
in how to become a mortician.
- NARRATOR: Detectives also connect Thadeshia
to 21-year-old Omar Savior.
- Omar and Thadeshia were involved
in a romantic relationship.
- What we knew about Omar, he wasn't from around here.
We knew he was from the Pennsylvania area.
- We believe that due to the arrest or some criminal activity
that he had there, he actually left Pittsburgh,
fleeing from that area and coming to Georgia
to try to start a new life.
- It seemed like he had actually only been in this area
for a very short period of time. He was basically homeless.
- Omar didn't really seem to have a steady job or a home.
He did have family in the area, but they couldn't really
tell police much.
He seemed to honestly be drifting through
when he met Thadeshia.
- NARRATOR: Authorities run a background check on Thadeshia
and discover her record is clean.
When detectives reach out to her friends and family,
they're surprised to learn police are searching
for the 20-year-old college student.
- Thadeshia, she was, like, the smart person,
then there was like everybody else.
She never really been the type of person
to follow anybody, you know.
- She had a lot of energy. She was open to a lot of people.
I mean, she stayed to herself at the same time,
but never really had problems.
- NARRATOR: But what did Thadeshia, Omar and Chris
have to do with Howard Sewell's murder?
Detectives scour Howard Sewell's phone records
in the hopes they'll find a connection to the trio.
- We knew from Howard's sister, he intended to meet up
with a young lady from Virginia.
Once we were able to get those records
from the provider, uh, we were able
to see that he was indeed
in communication with Thadeshia Clark.
- NARRATOR: According to messages exchanged
through a personal ads website,
Howard planned to meet Thadeshia for a date.
- We know that he also contacted a taxicab company
in the early morning hours of May the 30th,
he had gone to the area of Roswell Road
near this apartment complex
where Chris Hanna and Thadeshia lived.
- That was the last time Howard Sewell placed
a telephone call.
- We were very concerned at this point
that this was going to be our homicide location.
- NARRATOR: On June 10th, investigators serve
a search warrant at Chris Hanna and Thadeshia Clark's apartment.
- We gathered the city of Marietta's SWAT team
together because we did not know what was potentially there
or who was potentially there.
- We knew that the people responsible for Howard's death
had a strong propensity for violence.
So, uh, dynamic entry was made into the residence.
- I could remember the SWAT team exiting the apartment
with a dumbfounded look on their face.
And I said, "What's going on?"
And then one of the SWAT team members looked at me and said,
"There's nobody here and there's nothing in the house."
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
A forensic search leads investigators to discover
a key piece of evidence left behind by the suspects.
- I can remember the crime scene technician
walking over to the bench and opening the bench up.
And I looked inside and it was full of blood.
- NARRATOR: And the manhunt for the missing suspects
leads to a shocking, tell-all confession.
- The next thing he recalled was hearing gunshots,
waking up to the sound of these gunshots.
- *
- NARRATOR: In Marietta, Georgia,
homicide detectives are searching the apartment
of Chris Hanna and Thadeshia Clark...
where they believe 35-year-old Howard Sewell
was shot and killed on May 30th, 2016.
- The apartment was abnormally clean.
There was no furniture.
Each room had a very strong odor of bleach
or cleaning solution in it,
which raised a huge red flag in my investigation.
- Police were able to recover projectiles,
bullets from the wall.
They also found some shell casings that had been missed
during the clean-up process.
- Those projectiles were then linked back
to a 9-millimeter handgun.
- Which was very significant because we know that Mr. Sewell
was killed with a 9mm and that a 9mm firearm
had been found in the car that Chris Hannah had drove
to the hospital with Omar Savior and Thadeshia Clark.
- NARRATOR: As detectives continue
processing the apartment, they make a crucial discovery
in one of the few remaining pieces of furniture.
- It appeared to be a piano bench.
I can remember the crime scene technician
walking over to the bench and opening the bench up
and I looked inside and it was full of blood.
There was blood that had leaked down, like the lid was open
and then the blood was leaking down into or leaching
into the middle of the piano bench.
We took swabs from the blood located in the bench
and that blood was later matched to Howard Sewell.
- Now you have DNA, shell casings and projectiles
from the back room of this apartment.
We all but confirmed that the shooting happened
at this apartment, and this is where
Howard was actually killed.
- NARRATOR: Unfortunately, there are no signs in the apartment
of where the suspects had fled.
Then, five days later on June 15th,
detectives receive word that one of the three suspects
has been taken into custody... but on unrelated charges.
- As it happens, Omar was arrested
for an unrelated assault charge in a neighboring city.
- We were contacted by another agency stating that Omar Savior
was actually in custody in our local jail.
And I decided that we were gonna go interview Mr. Savior.
- NARRATOR: When detectives sit down with Omar
for a formal interview,
the 21-year-old is less than cooperative.
- Police did bring up Howard Sewell by name to Omar
and asked if this was somehow related
to this missing person's report and the discovery
of Howard's body in a neighboring county.
He denied any involvement in it whatsoever.
- You could tell that he was getting mad,
he was getting frustrated with us asking these questions.
Until the point to where he just said, "I don't want to talk
"to you guys anymore.
"I want to go back to my jail cell.
I need to talk to an attorney."
And we ended the interview right after that.
- Omar essentially shut down but police let him know
in no uncertain terms that they believed he was involved
in this fatal shooting and that charges could be forthcoming.
- NARRATOR: Two days later,
investigators catch another big break.
- Chris Hanna got picked up on a pandering charge.
We found that he was in jail, so we attempted to interview
Mr. Hanna about our investigation.
- Chris volunteered to speak with us.
When we met with him, we went through essentially
his life history, and we went all the way up
to the point of this case.
- Chris is giving background into his relationship
with Thadeshia.
They had actually been friends and roommates for several years,
but Omar had just recently come into the picture
a few weeks ago.
- Thadeshia Clark met Omar Savior at a park.
They had run into each other and had an interest in each other.
- She found out that Omar was homeless.
She then in turn went to Chris Hanna,
who she was living with, and requested that he allow
Omar Savior to either stay on the couch
or in this back sunroom.
- NARRATOR: Chris tells detectives that while
the relationship between Thadeshia and Omar was new,
the couple had already formed an unbreakable bond.
- I think what she was trying to do is,
she was trying to help Omar feel like
he had a family, like he had some self-worth
'cause she saw good in him.
And in turn, he took care of her.
He protected her.
They fell in love with each other.
- NARRATOR: When detectives press Chris for information
about what happened in his apartment
the morning of May 30th, he doesn't mention anything
about the murder of Howard Sewell,
but he does go into detail about how Omar Savior was shot.
According to Chris, he was asleep
when the shooting occurred.
- Chris Hanna articulated to detectives that he had
gotten so drunk the night of the shooting
that he actually went and passed out in his room.
The next thing he recalled was hearing gunshots,
waking up to the sound of these gunshots and seeing
Omar run in the room, where he said, "She shot me."
She being Thadeshia Clark.
- Christopher stated to me in the interview
that it took him a second to gather his thoughts.
He didn't really know what was going on,
but he knew that Omar was hurt. He was shot and he needed help.
So he stated that he had gotten up out of bed
and they drove to the hospital.
- NARRATOR: Chris explains that after dropping Omar off
at the ER, he and Thadeshia returned home.
- Once Chris and Thadeshia got back to the apartment,
this is when Chris said that he first realized
that Howard had been shot in the back room.
- NARRATOR: Chris tells police
he had no idea who Howard Sewell was,
but he assumed Thadeshia had killed him
after she made several bizarre comments.
- He told me, "I think she just wanted
to play with a dead body." And "She's crazy."
He became afraid of her,
however, he wanted this body out of his house.
And so, he assisted her in wrapping the body, packaging it,
and they worked together to load this body
under the cover of night, and they removed the body
from the apartment complex.
- It's at that point that Thadeshia had actually
lit the tarp with Howard's body inside on fire.
- He described her activity as very bizarre.
Dancing around Howard's body while it was burning
in a ritualistic manner.
He decided to get back in the car and just wait on her.
- Once Chris and Thadeshia Clark had abandoned Howard's body
in the field, they quickly went back
to Chris' apartment, so that they could continue the cleanup.
- NARRATOR: Chris claims that the next morning,
Thadeshia left.
- Thadeshia had packed up her things and left the apartment.
Chris left the apartment, and Chris said
he hadn't seen Omar since they left the hospital.
So at this point, he couldn't say where anyone had gone.
- NARRATOR: Following his confession,
police charge Chris with concealing a death.
They also continue their search for Thadeshia Clark,
putting pressure on her known associates
to help bring her to justice.
- Undoubtedly, word got back to Thadeshia
that police were quickly honing in on her.
- Lt. Mike Hill and I were in my office
at the City of Marietta Police Department
when we received a telephone call.
And I just so happened to answer the phone,
and it was Thadeshia Clark.
- She said, hey, I know you guys are looking for me,
it's time for us to meet and talk.
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
detectives finally hear Thadeshia's side of the story,
but what she reveals changes everything police thought
they knew about the case.
- Howard was kind of in a fight for his life.
And he managed to get the upper hand on Omar.
- *
the murder of Howard Sewell, Jr.,
20-year-old Thadeshia Clark surrenders to law enforcement.
- We met with her at a place of business in a parking lot
and we conducted an interview with her.
- NARRATOR: Thadeshia starts her story by admitting to police
that late in the night on May 29th,
she had lured Howard Sewell to her apartment
under false pretenses.
He was intended to be the first of several victims
that Omar and Thadeshia had planned to target.
- What was revealed through the interview with Thadeshia
was that this was a scam.
That their whole intent was to lure people to this apartment
so that they could rob them of their money
and that Thadeshia had met Howard online.
She had made some promises to him.
Howard showed up at this apartment
and thought that he was gonna celebrate his birthday,
thought that he was going to maybe have
a hookup with Thadeshia,
so initially it was amicable,
they were kinda flirty with each other.
And then all of a sudden Thadeshia and Omar
pulled a gun on him and started trying to rob him.
- Omar starts demanding money from Howard Sewell.
I believe Howard Sewell
felt that he didn't have any other recourse.
He attacked Omar Savior.
- Omar was significantly bigger than Howard.
Howard was kinda in a fight for his life.
And he managed to get the upper hand on Omar,
such that Omar actually lost the gun during this physical fight.
Thadeshia picked up the gun at Omar's request.
- She said that Omar instructed her to shoot Howard.
She picked up the gun and began shooting.
- She mistakenly struck Omar, but she also struck Howard
a couple of times as well.
And it's at that point that Howard was incapacitated enough
that Omar could retrieve the firearm.
He fired the fatal shot into Howard's head.
- In interviewing Thadeshia, she discloses to us that once
Howard is killed and that he is lifeless there on the bench
that we had found during the first search warrant, that uh,
Omar essentially removes all of Howard's personal effects,
part of which is $400 in cash, and when asked about her
receiving any of those funds, she explains to us
that she didn't get any of the money.
- He never gave Thadeshia Clark any money.
He took all the money, kept it for himself.
- It was at the conclusion of the interview
that we did take Thadeshia into custody
and she was ultimately charged with felony murder.
- NARRATOR: Based on her confession,
authorities charge Thadeshia Clark and Omar Savior
with malice murder, felony murder
and concealing a death.
- We felt grateful that they had now been arrested.
But we also were angry. We were upset.
We wanted justice to be served.
- NARRATOR: In April 2018,
nearly two years after the murder of Howard Sewell Jr.,
Thadeshia Clark appears in court for a pre-trial hearing.
- Ultimately, she pled guilty to murder.
She also agreed that she would testify against Omar.
- NARRATOR: Three months later, on the eve of his trial,
Omar Savior also pleads guilty.
- To our surprise, he said, "I'm gonna get convicted anyway.
"It's time for me to just plead guilty
to the murder counts too."
Chris Hanna was also convicted.
For his lesser offenses,
he received a total sentence of 15 years with eight years
to serve the balance on probation.
- Omar and Thadeshia were sentenced to life in prison
with the possibility of parole.
- I think they were equally responsible in this case.
I don't believe they could've done it without the other,
because, uh, they utilized Thadeshia to lure Howard Sewell,
and Omar handled the robbery aspect, but I think that, that
they both had, had sinister intentions in this case
and they relied on each other to carry it out.
- I felt like she got into a relationship and was probably
so deep in love with this person that she would do whatever.
Kinda like a Bonnie and Clyde situation.
Maybe she had a certain type of feelin' for this guy
that I'm gonna stick with you, through thick and thin.
We can do whatever, ride-or-die type of situation.
- It's heartbreaking...
to know that you have someone out here that can be so cruel.
- Howard was always the person that was the calm in the storm.
And so, they robbed the earth of someone that was the calm
in the storm. I want this message to get out.
I want people to hear about this.
I want to-
I want them to learn you know to be cautious in situations,
you know if you're doing online dating, be very cautious.
Just understand that your life is precious, you know
and that you need to be careful.
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