-[door creaks] -[Cole] It's a pretty bad scene.
We've had other homicides,
but not like this one.
It appeared that somebody had beat her in the head repeatedly.
Investigators have very viable suspects.
He said that he hears voices.
That really scared me.
He had an extensive history of violence towards women.
[Cole speaking]
[Stephanie] Could he have been mad enough
to actually do something to her?
[Paula] He's just a creep.
I don't wanna be around that violent animal.
[Chad speaking]
[Stephanie] In the fall of 2021,
when I stumbled across this case,
I approached my bosses at People and I said,
"Can we cover this case?
It's been 15 years and no one has done it."
From the moment I started working on it,
I took it personally.
Little did we know
that within a year of me going out to Texas,
there would be an arrest for capital murder.
But the most shocking thing was yet to come.
[Patricia] I am Patricia Tice,
I am Brittany McGlone's mom.
Here in Winnsboro, the population is only 3400.
So it was a very, very small town.
Not much to do.
But there are a lot of people that've been here forever
and know each other.
[Paula] I'm Paula and I'm Brittany's aunt.
Tricia's my sister.
I grew up here from like, 12 on.
I never had any problems,
never scared to run around at night, you know,
it was pretty safe.
The year I graduated from high school,
I met a local boy named Ronnie,
and we were married in '85,
and had two children together.
Our son, Ryan,
and then two years later, Brittany Danielle.
[Stephanie] Patricia and Ron eventually divorce,
go their separate ways,
but when Brittany was born in 1987,
it was just perfect.
[Patricia] I was over the moon.
She was just everything I could've dreamed of.
Brittany never gave me a moment's trouble.
Never.
It's like she was a-- born an old soul and sensible.
Patricia and Ron, both go on to re-marry other people,
giving Brittany a growing family of siblings.
My name is Hope McGlone.
Brittany is my older sister.
Because we have a mixed family and we have different mothers,
she's kind of the thing that connected all of us.
My grandfather lived right off of Lake Winnsboro.
So of course,
we spent a lot of the summers together, hanging out.
Staying up all night, playing video games,
running around, going to the lake.
During those summers,
she was pretty quiet and reserved.
But just super sweet.
Just the best person to be around.
[Patricia] Brittany graduated with honors
from Winnsboro High School in 2006.
Her plan was to start nursing school
in fall of 2007.
She was living at home with me,
and she had two jobs.
She worked at Alco,
and at a Lowe's distribution center in Mount Vernon,
where she worked overnights.
Her manager at Alco was a woman named Deveree.
She introduced her son Jeff to Brittany
and Jeff became Brittany's first real boyfriend.
[Patricia] Brittany started dating Jeff probably November of 2006,
right after she turned 19.
I did not like Jeff from the very beginning.
He looked and acted dirty and criminal,
and I just could not see the attraction.
[Paula] We expected Brittany to find a guy
that loved and laughed as much as she did.
And Jeff wasn't like that at all.
[Patricia] They had only been dating six months
before Jeff broke up with Brittany.
As hard as it was to see her heartbroken,
I was relieved.
[Paula] I wish she would've stayed away,
but she felt like she really loved him.
And Brittany and Jeff started talking and reconciling.
[Janine] While her family disapproves of Jeff,
Brittany continues to work hard at her two jobs
and sticks close to her daily routine.
But one day, she changes things up.
[Patricia] On May 3rd, 2007,
before she went to work,
Brittany told me she was going to Jeff's house
immediately after work the next morning.
She had never done that before.
Usually, Brittany comes home after her overnight job,
and showers before she takes a long nap,
and then heads to Jeff's house in the afternoon.
I wanted to say why are you doing this,
but this was a kid who made all good decisions.
And I didn't question her decision to go over there.
And she told me,
"I love you."
And she walked out of the door,
got in her truck, and...
and was gone.
[ominous music playing]
The next day, May 4th, 2007,
about 2:30 in the afternoon,
Jeff called me and said,
"Hey, have you talked to Brittany?"
And immediately,
the hair stood up on the back of my neck.
I said, "No.
She's supposed to be with you."
He just said, "She's not answering her phone."
Well, I hung up on him
and started calling Brittany's phone.
And it went to voicemail.
Brittany always picked up her phone.
I knew then something was horribly wrong.
[Janine] At 3:45 p.m.,
Deputy Mark Miller responds to a 911 call.
Someone has discovered a dead body.
On May 4th, 2007,
I was dispatched in reference to a possible homicide.
There wasn't much information given.
I-- I didn't know what I was responding to exactly.
So the house is no longer here,
but it was a [sighs] smaller house.
The door that faced the road here,
that room was used as a bedroom.
[door creaks open]
When you walked in,
the bed was just to the right of the door.
Brittany was on the bed face up,
her head was on a pillow, undressed,
and she was obviously deceased.
There was a lot of blood on her head, face area, pillow.
At that point, I notified the sheriff department,
told 'em that I needed investigators to respond asap.
[Tucker] By the time I got to the residence,
Jeff's stepfather and Jeff's mother Deveree,
were there at the house.
In fact, it was Deveree that had made the 911 call.
When I arrived on scene,
I could tell that Brittany had suffered severe head trauma.
It appeared that somebody had taken some sort of object
and beat her in the head repeatedly.
[Chilson] Brittany's clothes were found
on top of her boots that she was wearing,
and they were beside the bed.
It just looks like she got undressed that morning when she came in.
She had a pair of blue jeans, pair of socks,
a bra and a shirt.
But no panties.
The fact that she was nude and in the bed,
a sexual assault was probable.
Lieutenant Tucker and his team fan out
to investigate the rest of the house.
[Tucker] When we went into the bathroom,
it appeared that somebody had recently taken a shower.
I mean, there was still water in the drain.
Still smelt soap.
[Janine] Officers collect the shower curtain,
and swab the shower drain for potential DNA evidence.
And they are sure to collect all the blood evidence in the bedroom.
[Tucker] We collected samples from the concrete,
and the wall behind the bed.
Took the sheets, bedding,
clothing that we found in the room.
All of that was sent off for DNA processing
and for hair and trace evidence.
[Cole] Officers trying to locate the weapon used to kill Brittany.
But I believe whoever it was,
took that object with them when they left.
Didn't appear to be a burglary at the house,
because nothing was taken from the house.
There was no sign of any forced entry anywhere.
[Stephanie] At this point,
other Wood County Sheriff's officers
have the difficult task
of telling Brittany's family the horrible news.
[Patricia] I open the door,
and there were two Wood County deputies there.
They took me in the house by myself,
and said, "Your daughter is deceased."
And I jumped up and I said,
"That son of a bitch killed her, didn't he?"
[Patricia] I was hysterical,
and my first thought was that Jeff had killed Brittany.
I knew that they had broken up three weeks before,
and Brittany had had this
one night sexual encounter with a boy,
and that she told Jeff.
And I thought that could definitely be a motive.
And I told the Wood County deputies.
I was just shocked and...
furious.
And I was so heartbroken.
[Paula] On May 4th of 2007, my sister Tricia called me,
screaming, "Brittany's dead, Brittany's dead."
I really didn't know what had happened.
[Hope] When I found out that Brittany was killed,
I just kind of...
collapsed.
I was 16 and...
How do you process that at any age?
But I was just in disbelief.
[Janine] While the family grapples with the news,
the sheriff's investigators
bring Jeff in for an interview.
[Cole] Okay.
Jeff says Brittany arrived at his house
at about 5:00 a.m.
after working her overnight shift.
[Stephanie] Jeff says that Brittany went to sleep that morning
with a T-shirt and underwear on.
But she is found completely nude.
And her underwear was missing from the scene.
[Janine] Jeff claims that when he awoke at 7:00 a.m.,
Brittany was still asleep in bed.
He got up to take a shower,
and then headed out with his stepfather.
[Cole] Jeff and his stepfather were going to travel to Dallas
to pick up a grandmother.
So basically they left her there, asleep.
[Janine] Jeff mentions that before they headed to Dallas,
his sister's boyfriend, Chad Carr,
stopped by the house.
[Tucker] Chad is there to pick up a cheque.
They talk for a little bit.
Jeff and his stepfather tell Chad that
Brittany's in there asleep,
that they're about to go to Dallas.
Then Chad gets in his vehicle and leaves and, uh,
Jeff and his stepfather get in the vehicle and leave.
[engine starts]
[Janine] Jeff tells investigators that
when he returns to his home at 3:30 p.m...
[door creaks]
...Jeff says he discovers Brittany.
[Cole] Jeff was very tearful.
And he appeared to be someone that was in shock.
[Tucker] Even though Jeff was really upset,
he was confronted about the one night stand
to see if that might've been a--
a motive for him to do something.
He-- He said him and Brittany had talked about it,
he was okay with it.
Then they got back together.
[Cole] While we're interviewing Jeff,
he may-- mentioned that
someone else was supposed to come by the house that day.
[Tucker] Jeff had told us that he had ordered up
some marijuana from a guy named Cody.
Jeff would leave the money under a gnome near the front door.
Cody would come,
get the money and leave the marijuana
And then when Jeff got home,
then he would get the marijuana.
Jeff said when they got home,
he had walked over to the gnome.
[Tucker] At that point, his clothing was taken
to see if there was any kind of blood evidence on them.
They would be sent to the lab,
and Jeff was asked to take polygraph.
[Cole] Now Wood County's, uh, a rural county.
We're about a 100 miles east of Dallas.
So we kind of set Jeff aside for several days
until we could get the polygraph operator up here.
[Janine] As police try to move the investigation forward,
the family is shaken
by Brittany's sudden and just gruesome death.
[Patricia] That first night after Brittany was murdered,
I sat outside all night and just cried.
The absolute worst had happened.
My first girl, my only girl was dead,
and I was completely hysterical.
The next morning,
an autopsy reveals more about how Brittany was killed.
The coroner's report showed that it was blunt force trauma to the head.
It was initially thought
a sexual assault could've been a possibility.
But the coroner determined
that there had been no sexual assault take place.
So we have, there's no burglary,
she's not sexually assaulted,
but someone viciously kills her.
What was the purpose?
Only a handful of people knew she would be there.
So you have to start whittling that down.
One way for investigators to do so,
is to track down everyone
who was reported to be at the house that day.
Among them are Jeff's younger sister, Velva,
and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Chad Carr.
[Tucker] I would describe Chad's demeanor as standoffish.
You could tell he didn't wanna be there.
He does admit to being out there at the house.
But he denied any involvement
and said he couldn't have done it.
And he gave us a minute by minute account
pretty much of what he did that day.
Chad says he'd spent several hours running errands.
[Tucker] Going to talk to his boss,
going to the eye doctor, going to his aunt's house,
all these things that he was doing.
[Janine] After that, Chad says he picked up Velva from school.
And they spent the rest of the afternoon together.
[Tucker] When the interview was done,
Chad also agreed to go ahead and take a polygraph.
[Janine] While investigators continue to wait for a polygraph examiner,
Tucker and his team continue through their list of people
who had been at the house that day.
Next up is Cody.
[Cole] Investigators sit down
and did an interview with Cody,
who Jeff had made arrangements with
to buy some marijuana.
But Cody said he never went by there
even though Jeff had text him a couple times,
and he said, "Yeah, I'll get over there."
But he says he never did that.
He said, well, I'm just tired of him texting me,
you know, so I just said yeah.
[Janine] Without evidence to place Cody at the scene of the murder,
investigators have to let him go.
But they keep him as a person of interest.
Then on May 7th, 2007,
Detective Tucker looks into another man
with a connection to Brittany.
Justin, the man who Brittany had slept with
while she was split up from Jeff.
[Tucker] I interviewed Justin.
Found out that relationship
was pretty much just a one night stand thing.
There wasn't anything to it,
there wasn't even bad feelings there.
I followed up,
and his schedule was 6:00 in the morning
to 6:30 in the evening.
Detective Tucker easily verifies
that Justin indeed worked those hours.
Since detectives estimate
that Brittany was killed between 9:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m.
that gives Justin a solid alibi.
As investigators continue to work the case,
four days after her murder,
Brittany's loved ones gather to lay her to rest.
[Patricia] This is the very last thing
that I can do for her on Earth, you know,
and I wanted to make it really...
you know, what Brittany would want.
It's hard.
[sniffles] So hard.
[Paula] Brittany's funeral was the saddest day of my life.
I wanted to see her.
And they said, "No,
because you'll never be the same."
You know, they said you would not recognize her.
That broke my heart.
[Patricia] Brittany was buried at Lee Cemetery in Winnsboro.
It's an idyllic little spot.
It's near a corral with horses,
and horses were one of her passions.
It's always peaceful and shady,
and I can take care of her.
[Hope] I remember I honestly just wanted to
stay there with her.
I felt like I was leaving her
and I still vividly remember how hard that was for me to...
to-- to leave that day,
um, to leave her side.
At that point,
we didn't know who was responsible for this
we didn't know if this person was at the funeral.
While we were at the funeral,
our grandfather had come up to me
and put his arm around me,
and he made the comment,
"Have you gone to see the body yet?"
And I was just like...
And it just, it just rubbed me the wrong way.
It was just weird.
After that, I was just kind of remembering
what Brittany had told me about him.
I thought,
this could possibly be
someone that could've done this to her.
During our interview, Hope revealed something to me
that caught me very off-guard.
Hope says that the last time she saw Brittany,
Brittany decided to open up to her
about the secret she had kept very private and personal.
[Hope] Last time I saw Brittany was my 16th birthday
and she told me that our dad's adoptive father, James McGlone
had been sexually abusing her since she was young
and it had just recently stopped, is the way she put it.
I had not told anyone about this.
But, after Brittany had been killed,
I felt like I needed to tell someone, so I told my family.
[Patricia] When I heard that Brittany's grandfather James McGlone
had molested her, raped her on a continuing basis,
I was so devastated.
The last conversation I had of-- with Brittany
was about James McGlone,
following her around town, harassing her,
he would come to Alco, following her around the store.
Of course, none of us knew about what was going on,
what was going-- that was just a few weeks before she was murdered.
[Patricia] I immediately thought that if he was scared
she was fixing to reveal
what he had done to her as a child,
then there was a motive.
And also, you could see James McGlone's house
from Jeff's family's house.
So, he could have seen that she was there that morning,
and gone over there and murdered her
once everyone was gone.
I immediately notified law enforcement.
[Stephanie] Investigators look into where James McGlone had been
the day that Brittany was murdered.
They determine that he was actually at work from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at a local machine shop on May 4th, 2007.
[Janine] With a solid alibi,
police have to most past James McGlone.
After waiting a week, the polygraph examiner is finally in Winnsboro.
Investigators call in everyone who was at the house that day
and sit them down for a polygraph test.
[Cole] Jeff passed the polygraph with no issues whatsoever.
No signs of deception, nothing.
[Janine] Cody, the marijuana dealer,
passes the test with no signs of deception.
And when police bring in Chad Carr for a test,
detectives ask him very pointed questions.
[Tucker] He was asked, "Are you responsible for any of the injuries
sustained to Brittany McGlone?"
And, uh, the next was,
"Did you have anything to do with the cause of death with Brittany?"
Both those questions he answered "No" to,
both of those he showed 100% deception.
At that time, Chad was advised that he had failed the polygraph.
Chad just kept stating that he couldn't have done it
because he had already accounted for his whole day.
It gave me an-an odd feeling, it was kinda like, "Hmm,
I think the guy's, uh... I think he did it."
[Janine] Investigators now made Chad their primary suspect.
The Sheriff's Office researches Chad's criminal history
and what they find is shocking.
[Mike] There was a report where he had assaulted a woman
in a very similar fashion that Brittany was murdered.
That weapon that he used turned out to be a jack handle,
for like, a car jack.
She ends up filing a report with the Sheriff's Office
he gets prosecuted on it and he spends time in prison over it.
At this point, I'm not looking at any of this as coincidence.
[Janine] Investigators search Char's house, looking for anything
that can physically connect him to the crime scene.
[Cole] They searched around to locate a weapon that could've been used,
and nothing was found.
[Chilson] There was a pair of shorts that had suspected blood on them,
a T-shirt with suspected blood stains,
and a ski mask.
But, there's two more things that really get their attention.
[Cole] Two pair of female panties were found.
One was a size seven and one was a size five.
The size seven was identified as belonging to his girlfriend Velva.
The size five, he wouldn't even tell us where they came from.
[Patricia] Investigator Tucker asked me what size underwear Brittany wore,
and she wore a size five.
The fact that Brittany was in the bed, unclothed,
and there's no panties found at the scene,
and these were the same size as the victim's,
it's a big cloud of suspicion right there.
All the items collected at the house are sent for DNA testing.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Tucker puts Chad Carr's alibi to the test.
[Tucker] I was trying to establish a timeline.
I wanted to either confirm,
Chad's story, or try to knock holes in it.
Chad said he woke up at his aunt's house, where he lives.
He drove Velva to school,
and then he swung by his construction job.
Then, he went to Jeff's family's house to pick up something for Velva
between 8:00 and 8:30.
That can be verified by Jeff and his step-father.
Following there, he went to Alco.
[Tucker] Alco is not here anymore, it shut down,
but Chad said he came by approximately 9:20 or so,
and, uh, that was confirmed with video surveillance from the store.
Chad had...
said that he went to his eye appointment after going to Alco.
He'd originally tell me that he arrived 15 minutes early for his eye appointment.
But, I went inside and spoke with a couple of staff members.
Not only did he, uh, not arrive 15 minutes early,
but he had called and said that he was having car trouble and will be late.
So, basically he was at the Alco about 9:20,
he didn't make his eye appointment until 10:20.
That left an hour of time that was unaccounted for.
Um, doesn't take that long to get back to where the crime scene is
in Winnsboro.
Distances from Alco to the crime scene, approximately six minutes,
crime scene to eye doctor approximately five minutes,
crime scene to Chad's house 12 minutes.
So, he had plenty of time to commit the murder, get cleaned up
and be late for the eye doctor appointment.
Police feel that Chad lying about his timeline is pretty suspicious.
So, they call Chad back into the station for another interview.
He knew he was lying, he knew we could tell he was lying.
[Janine] As the interview continues,
police tell Chad that they are testing the crime scene
and items from his house for potential DNA evidence.
You're hoping that you can put enough pressure on somebody
where they're gonna admit to it.
At this point, I think that Chad did it
but he was very confident about the fact that
we weren't gonna find any of his DNA there.
But, without a confession or some sort of evidence,
we couldn't make an arrest.
So, we let him go.
If they match up any of his DNA to the evidence from the scene,
it would solidify their case.
But, when the results come back, they are disappointed.
[Chilson] All the DNA evidence that was taken from the scene
has either come back to one of the residents in the house,
you know, Jeff, or a family member, or it's come back to Brittany.
[Tucker] Nothing significant ever came out from any of the analysis
on the DNA or sexual assault kit, anything.
The size five female panties, I believe they had been laundered.
'Cause nothing was found on 'em.
[Janine] There is no match to Chad's DNA.
And without any DNA evidence to put Chad in the room with Brittany,
the police don't have enough to arrest him.
[Tucker] I think he, uh, knew what he was doing,
I think he made an effort to make sure that there wasn't any DNA evidence.
So, he doesn't get arrested.
[Stephanie] Months pass, and there's little else for investigators to go on
and this is pure hell for Brittany's family.
[Hope] It completely shifted my worldview,
the way I viewed people, the-- way I viewed myself.
I got a lot angrier,
like, I lost someone very close to me
and it tore my world apart.
[Patricia] After Brittany was murdered,
I did not feel safe in Wood County.
But, I had faith in the justice system.
I really thought they would get this person
and make them pay for it.
We were told that police suspect a guy named Chad Carr
but I had never heard of him.
[Janine] Eight months after Brittany's murder,
the Sheriff's Office is surprised
when Jeff's sister Velva reaches out to Lieutenant Tucker.
She wants to talk about her boyfriend, Chad Carr.
She was still in high school, so her mother came with her.
They both seemed to be upset about something.
What Velva reveals to Lieutenant Tucker is pretty incredible.
[Tucker] On January 8th, 2008,
uh, Velva was really wanting to have a conversation.
Velva and Chad were dating.
But, at this point, they had broken up.
[Chilson] Velva had typed out some things
that she's remembered since the murder,
which she presented to Lieutenant Tucker.
[Tucker] In the document, Velva stated
that when Chad picked her up from school that day
that he was extremely nervous, he was acting funny.
She smelled her particular soap and shampoo on him.
Uh, some kind of shea butter odor.
[Chilson] Velva asked him if he took a shower, he said, "Yeah."
And then when she asked him if he took a shower at her house,
he didn't say anything,
which was kinda weird.
[Tucker] At that time, I immediately remembered that
in processing the scene, when we went into the bathroom,
it appeared that somebody had recently taken a shower
and you could still smell soap
which was identified soft soap, ultra rich, shea butter.
Velva and her mother also believed
they may know why he would have attacked Brittany.
[Tucker] Velva and her mother stated that
while Brittany was allowed to stay at the house,
Chad was never allowed to stay overnight.
Apparently, Chad was getting more and more frustrated with this,
he was getting angrier and angrier and angrier about it.
You start putting all that together.
Our belief is that someone had to know she was in there
and went in there for a purpose, to attack her.
And we know that when Chad's car came up to the residence,
Jeff and Kelly told him, you know, "Brittany's asleep in the house."
[Tucker] At this point, we had Carr failing the polygraph,
his timeline was shot to hell,
and now, Velva's account from that day,
but yet, the District Attorney at the time refused to take it.
And it's like, "Why?"
"You-- well, you have no-- solid DNA."
And because of that, through the next weeks,
months, years of this investigation,
nothing ever took place.
[Janine] As time begins to pass,
so does the possibility of finding DNA evidence
to conclusively link Chad Carr, or any suspect for that matter,
to the murder of Brittany McGlone.
[Patricia] Brittany's paternal grandfather James McGlone
died in 2009.
He got ate up with cancer.
I never got to-- chance to confront him
for raping my daughter.
And Lieutenant Tucker's frustration continues to mount.
Especially after Chad Carr goes to prison in 2012
for a felony sexual assault.
He was sent to prison for eight years or more.
[Janine] After 2012, the house is demolished,
and with it goes any trace DNA evidence
to conclusively link any suspect to the murder.
[Tucker] For many years, this investigation
had been part of my duties, part of my job and-and part of my passion.
So, it was very frustrating to not be able to make an arrest,
because Brittany deserved justice.
Eventually, Miles Tucker leaves the Sheriff's Office,
and Brittany's family is left with no answers.
[Patricia] The communication was poor.
That has been true for every administration.
[Hope] We felt the Sheriff's Office have just blown us off.
So, after that, I wanted to be more effective and do more.
So, then that's when I got on Facebook
and-- saying, "Hey, Brittany's case still matters."
[Janine] While the family tries to raise awareness,
Chad Carr is released from prison.
And 14 years after the murder, the case gets new life in 2021
when a new Sheriff takes over.
Kelly Cole, who was an investigator
back when Brittany was murdered,
takes office as the new Wood County Sheriff.
[Cole] I'm the fifth Sheriff
that's had this case in front of 'em.
And that's way too many Sheriffs for it to go through.
So, in October of 2021, I was scrolling through Facebook
actually looking for a page just like this,
of a case that's not getting enough attention
to cover, because I feel these are the most important cases.
And, "Who killed Brittany McGlone" popped up.
Incredibly, no one had gone to Winnsboro to cover this story.
I've come to Wood County, Texas,
because the new Sheriff in town has vowed
to finally solve Brittany's case.
A case that the nation likely hasn't heard about,
but this small town can't forget.
[Cole] I took over in '21,
and we're going to look at every single thing.
And that's one of the things that Captain Chilson did.
[Chilson] It was best to start at the beginning,
go over everything that's been done over the last 15 years.
Just, fresh set of eyes on it.
Chad Carr stuck out as a suspect.
Everybody else had been ruled out
by some form or fashion.
But, I couldn't rule him out.
It's all circumstantial,
but there's enough probable cause, I believe,
for his arrest.
So, at that point,
I talked to Sheriff Cole.
[Cole] Captain Chilson sat down
and explained that we have an opportunity here,
I think this is the correct thing.
On August 31st, 2022,
arrest warrant was issued for capital murder of Brittany McGlone
for Chad Carr.
So, I immediately texted Hope and I immediately texted Patricia
and I just said, "I can-- I can't believe it.
Justice for Brittany."
But Hope actually immediately corrected me
and she said, "You know, this is not justice yet."
In 2021, Carr has recently been released from prison
and has relocated to Dallas.
[Cole] We knew Carr was in Dallas.
We'd kinda been keepin' an eye on things,
see where he was.
[Chilson] I traveled to Dallas,
Carr was at a business there.
I asked him if his name was Chad Carr,
he said yes.
I advised him to turn around,
put his hands behind his back,
that he was under arrest for capital murder of Brittany McGlone.
So, Chad Carr is arrested and it's all over the local news.
Chad Carr remains in the Wood County jail
after being arrested for the 2007 murder of Brittany McGlone.
And I'm feeling so thankful
that we decided to bring national attention
to this case that had been forgotten for so many years.
I was relieved that he was finally gonna, you know, be held accountable.
[Janine] It's now up to the District Attorney
to present the case to a grand jury
and it's the grand jury who will then decide
whether there's enough evidence to go to trial.
The prosecution has 90 days to present their case or release Carr.
We kept waiting for the grand jury.
And then it just kept getting postponed and postponed.
Thirty days came, 60 days came.
We were calling the DA, leaving messages,
no return call.
[Stephanie] And then 89 days of Chad sitting behind bars,
waiting to hear if he would be indicted and going to trial for this.
[reporter] Earlier this week, a grand jury determined there was not enough evidence
to indict Chad Carr for the 2007 murder of Brittany McGlone,
a crime Chad Carr was arrested for back in September.
The family was absolutely floored
when Chad was released.
Mike called and told us that he'd be getting out,
that he was sorry, he didn't understand how this happened,
there was enough evidence.
[Hope] Oh, the anger, I cursed, I was like,
what? [scoffs] Like, you've got to be kidding me.
Wh-- The-- It just doesn't make any sense.
It was... as hard
as hearing, "Brittany's dead."
That's how hard this has been on our family.
[Stephanie] So, people ask me what's next in this case.
Law enforcement still need that smoking gun,
DNA evidence, to solve this mystery.
[Cole] Still an open case and we're still gonna work on it.
We owe that to the family, we owe that to Brittany.
[Patricia] She was so cute and funny, you know, just...
and so genuine, you know.
When I was cleaning out Brittany's storage,
this fell out of one of her Bibles,
and it says, "I believe Jesus is my savior.
Thank you, God that I am now good in your sight
and that you will take me to heaven when I die. Brittany McGlone."
And she believed that and I think that's where she's at.
To me, it was a little-- a little message from her.
Probably at a time I really, really needed it.
[Paula] I watch my sister
everyday,
and I wonder how she even gets out of bed.
You know? I mean... [sniffles]
That was her daughter, that was my niece
and we protected her all we could.
And then...
one day, she was just taken.
[Hope] Brittany was my best friend.
She never judged me.
She never made me feel like I didn't matter
didn't make me feel like...
I was the outsider that I felt like.
I felt seen by her.
And I feel robbed of an opportunity
to grow with her and to see what she would've done in life.
I'm not gonna give up for as long as I'm here.
She deserved a chance to live, and...
she deserves a chance...
to...
have someone be held accountable for doing this to her.
She deserves that.
I miss her.
Just... [sniffles softly]
And, I won't rest until she gets justice.
Even though there was a significant age difference,
he was in love with her.
He wanted to be with her.
She was only 14 years old.
Her mother begged him to just leave them alone.
Police think he's obsessed and kidnapped her.
It's a race against the clock to find the teens,
but what they found seemed too crazy to be true.