Darrell and Stephanie were soulmates.
I was very thankful for him to find someone
that was like him in so many ways.
In a decades-long marriage
filled with highs and lows,
this would be a day to remember.
It sounded like she planned a grand day
that any husband would be looking forward to.
But when a romantic rendezvous turns
into a tragic nightmare.
I answer the phone and she starts hollering
and screaming, "He's dead, he's dead, he's dead!"
We weren't sure if it was a home invasion
or maybe a robbery.
Detectives uncover a complicated history
that turned this couple.
They had been having issues with their marriage,
so she was trying to prove and show Darrell
that she loved him.
He definitely had motive,
wanting Stephanie Blagg for himself.
It seems to me like he was willing to do anything
to be with her.
Into a killer relationship.
That's always the biggest question,
who pulled the trigger
and then who was the mastermind behind it all?
In all my years as an attorney
and now judge on "Divorce Court",
I've come across marriages that have lasted days
and some that have lasted decades.
Truth is, there's no one right way
to make a marriage successful,
but typically, the ones that endure,
are those that live by the maxim,
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Sometimes though, life throws a curve ball
that can knock you off your feet
and how you choose to recover from that
can totally change the course of your life
and the lives of those around you forever,
leaving everyone to wonder,
how did it all go wrong?
When young Darrell Blagg meets Stephanie Morris,
the girl next door,
in the small town of Hugo, Oklahoma,
he could not predict that life would never end up
being as sweet as the early days promised.
Stephanie's mom would come to my aunt's house
and Darrell and Stephanie, they just played together.
We were like eight or 10 years old.
Darrell and Stephanie, if you were around one,
you were usually around the other.
Same friends, same school,
same everything just about.
Darrell and Stephanie remained close friends
even after high school graduation
when both Darrell and Stephanie's brother, Glenn,
joined the Marines and moved to San Diego
for basic training.
They got stationed at the same place
and both being Oklahoma boys,
they hung around together
and then Stephanie went to California to visit her brother
and her and Darrell, they got together.
It was kind of like fate, I guess.
They both liked George Strait.
He would always give her a hard time over,
she's gonna leave me for George Strait.
I believe Darrell and Stephanie were soulmates.
You could tell she loved him and he loved her.
Darrell is discharged from the Marines in 1987
and comes back home to Stephanie in Oklahoma.
Soon enough, the couple is thrilled
when they find out they're having a baby.
He was right there with her the whole time
and then after the baby was born,
they decided to get married.
Their first son, Andrew is joined by brothers,
John and Dally over the next few years
and the young family moves to New Mexico
where Darrell finds work in the booming oil industry.
He told Stephanie, "You take care of the kids.
"That's your main responsibility.
I'll make the money and I'll support us."
And she was fine with that.
If he was working late,
she'd bring him supper out to his workplace.
In 1996, seven years after they moved to New Mexico,
Stephanie's brother Glenn moves in with them in Eunice
when Darrell gets Glenn a job
working alongside him in the oil field.
They were at work together
for probably three or four hours.
It's just like they were all family
and Glenn was Darrell's best friend.
It's a nice situation for Darrell and Stephanie,
raising a family with their closest relatives nearby.
The loving marriage and the Blagg boys thrive.
We were all at a ball game
watching Andrew and John play baseball.
And we all heard the sirens going off
and a friend of ours asked me
if I knew where Darrell and Stephanie was
and I said, "Well, they're on their way home, what's wrong?"
He said,
"Glenn got shot."
Glenn had been at his girlfriend's house
when he suffered a rifle shot to the head.
He dies on the way to the hospital.
Glenn accidentally shot himself.
He was playing with the 22 and accidentally shot himself.
Stephanie was in shock.
She was just basically
heartbroken to lose Glenn.
Glenn was her only brother,
so they kind of babied him, you know,
Stephanie was real close with him.
She got cold and distanced
and I think it put a strain
on her relationship with Darrell.
For him to watch her just lay around and be depressed,
he didn't know what to do.
He tried babying her,
doing whatever he could for her
and you know, nothing really worked.
So it just seemed like they were kinda
going their separate ways in dealing with the loss.
Both Darrell and Stephanie
are suffering from Glenn's death,
but rather than coming together to support each other
through the grief,
they begin drifting apart
and Stephanie finds unhealthy ways to cope on her own.
I thought by the way she was acting
that she was doing drugs,
but I couldn't prove it.
Before Glenn's death, no,
she was totally against them.
I don't even know if I ever seen Stephanie drink,
to be honest with you.
But I think that's where the drugs started
and stuff like that.
Desperate to pull Stephanie
out of her downward spiral,
Darrell makes a drastic decision.
Glenn had only died about three blocks
from where Darrell and Stephanie lived in Eunice.
So Darrell loving Stephanie the way that he did,
they decided them and the children move to Oklahoma
to get her away from that.
They packed up and they moved to Oklahoma.
Close to our dad and close to her mom and sister
and see if that would help.
That's when she decided she wanted to work.
He thought, "Well, okay, maybe it will help
if she keeps busy."
So she gets a job and she's working.
She's working at a convenience store.
That's when things really got bad.
Everything started going even crazier.
He was trying to remain calm,
but I could tell that things weren't right.
He called and he told me, he said,
"We're divorced."
And I'm like, "You're what?"
He obviously entered in through the back door
and at some point he bled out to a large pool of blood.
Darrell Blagg thought that moving his family
back home to Oklahoma
would help his wife, Stephanie overcome the deep depression
she feels after her brother's suicide.
He could never have predicted the decision
would backfire so dramatically.
Just one month after being back,
Stephanie Blagg began sleeping with another man.
His name is Billy Kelley.
She knew him growing up.
They started seeing one another on the side.
He was crazy for her.
After almost 20 years as soulmates,
Darrell is shocked and devastated by
Stephanie's betrayal.
He was trying to remain calm,
but I could tell in his voice
that things weren't right.
He just didn't want to face it.
And while all affairs
are destructive and heartbreaking,
this one is particularly brazen and cruel.
Billy was nonstop involved
in Darrell and Stephanie's life.
He would come in, she would leave
and then Darrell would go get her and bring Stephanie back.
It was a long affair.
It caused a lot of grief and misery.
By now, the boys didn't know what their mom
was gonna do, if she was gonna be home when they came home
or if she was gonna be gone with Billy.
She was torn between two men basically.
I feel for Darrell, I really do.
For four years, Stephanie and Billy make no effort
to hide their affair.
Day in, day out,
it's right in Darrell's face.
As someone who's seen my fair share of messy divorces,
I can understand why Darrell feels a need to stick around.
He had 20 loving years with his wife
and they have three great kids together.
But in early 2004, it's actually Stephanie
who ends the marriage when she files for a divorce.
He called and he told me, he said,
"We're divorced."
And I'm like, "You're what?"
He said, "Yeah, she's got her boyfriend
and she divorced me."
She signed the divorce papers
and gave Darrell full custody of all three boys.
And he decided that him and the boys
would move back to New Mexico
so they didn't have to deal with her and Billy.
He got a house just a couple of blocks from us
and you know, he was trying to make a life for the boys.
It was going good for a while.
He started dating another girl,
probably about six months, I would say.
Her name was Laronda.
And he started doing pretty good,
I mean, I thought he was gonna break it,
you know, kind of break through the Stephanie.
But in late 2004,
nine months after their divorce,
Darrell receives a surprising call from Stephanie
who tells him she's in Eunice and wants him to consider
welcoming her back into the family.
Stephanie was a good mom when she was there.
But with Darrell, I think there was so much hurt
of watching the kids get hurt,
I think that's really what kind of pushed him away from her.
Of course, he took her back,
'cause he loved her and the kids.
The kids was, I think a big factor in Darrell's,
you know, he thought of others
as well as he thought of himself.
Moving cautiously,
Darrell doesn't allow Stephanie to live with the family,
but he supports her by putting her up
in an apartment nearby.
He told her, "I'll help you get on your feet,
"but I don't want you back at my house.
"You could see the boys every day after school.
"You can see them anytime you want,
but they're not living with you."
By the winter of 2004,
Stephanie's reengaged as a mother,
driving the boys to school nearly every day.
She makes another emotional plea to her ex-husband.
She lived there for probably a month or two
and she told him, she says,
"Darrell, I wanna make it work.
I promise I won't do this again."
So he said, "Okay."
You know, so he let her move in with him
and everything seemed like it was going good for a while.
They had talked about they were gonna get remarried
and she's all giddy and we're gonna have a big wedding,
we're gonna have a big reception.
The Blaggs don't have another wedding,
but for the next year and a half,
they do get their marriage and their lives on track.
Stephanie moves home and she seems to be staying clean.
Darrell is making good money in the oil fields
and the kids are in school and doing well.
By the fall of 2006,
everything seems back to normal.
Normal, that is, until August 11th.
August 11th, 2006,
it was raining.
We had monsoon rain
and it was flooding.
I went to work,
come home.
I just get sit down on my phone had rang.
I didn't get to it in time,
so I sit down and it starts ringing again.
I answer the phone, I say, "Hello?"
And it's Stephanie.
And she starts hollering and screaming.
She says, "Rose, Darrell's dead,
"I found him in the back hall dead,
he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!"
August 11th, 2006, Eunice, New Mexico.
At approximately 4:00 p.m.,
Rose Doshier receives an awful phone call.
On the other end is her sister-in-law, Stephanie Blagg,
crying and screaming.
She said Darrell's in the back hall
and he's dead, somebody shot him.
I jumped in the car.
I get to the house.
I just run in there where Darrell's at.
And he's laying there up against the wall,
And I'm hollering, "Darrell, Darrell!"
There's no breath,
no movement.
Stephanie says, "Did you call the cops?"
I said, "No," I said, "You call them."
Stephanie calls Eunice police at 4:08 p.m.
and then dials 911 at 04:10.
We were told to respond to a subject
that was possibly shot.
Standing out in the front yard was Stephanie Blagg,
Rose Doshier, Dally Blagg and John Blagg.
With so few homicides in Eunice,
law enforcement calls in the state police.
Veteran detectives, Timothy Argo
and Monica Martinez-Jones
are assigned as the lead investigators.
First glance,
it looked like he had been shot multiple times
as soon as he walked in the back door.
There was actually no signs of struggle at all.
His lunch pail was still next to him.
There was blood spatter all over the walls,
on the floor.
It was a lot of blood.
We all noticed that in Stephanie's bedroom,
there was some guns laying out on the bed.
We weren't sure if it was a home invasion
or maybe a robbery.
But there's two pieces of evidence
that don't support the idea of a burglary gone bad.
There was a barefoot impression in the blood.
It was a bit odd.
Your burglars or your robbers
are going to be wearing some kind of footwear
and not be barefooted.
Stephanie Blagg said she did find Darrell's body,
but she said she didn't step in any blood
and so now we have an unknown.
Who's footprint is it?
We also noticed, which was kind of odd,
that the screen in the kitchen window,
it looked like somebody had kicked the screen out.
It looked like somebody basically went
through the window like Superman
and just, you know, kind of like jetted out there
and flew out as quick as they could.
But the window wasn't open, so, you know,
you kind of piece multiple things together there and go,
okay, if someone just broke into this house
and burglarized it and killed the owner when they got home,
that window would still be open.
The police bring Stephanie and her sons
down to the station to be interviewed.
Detective Argo questions Stephanie in one room
while detective Martinez-Jones talks to the boys in another.
Andrew at the time was 18 years old
and then you have John who was 15 years old
and Dally who's 12.
I was actually trained to do child forensic interviews.
So Dally was the first one that I decided
to conduct an interview with.
I asked him who he was with that day
and he told me it was just he and John and his mother
and that they had come home and found his dad in the back,
but his mom wouldn't allow him to go near the back area,
because his dad was back there.
He was very closed with me.
It seemed to me like he was trying
to hide something from me,
but I didn't really know what it was.
With Stephanie, she told me
she woke up early that morning, somewhere around 4:00 a.m.
and her goal was to ensure that Darrell went to work
with some brownies and cookies that she had made him.
She told me that they had been having some issues
with their marriage, so she was trying to work hard
to prove and show Darrell that she cared and she loved him
and she really wanted to know what time
he was gonna come home
because she was gonna ensure the kids weren't at home.
She had set it as a date night.
It sounded like she planned a grand day
that any husband would be looking forward to.
She said she had to leave the house
to make certain that John and Dally,
her youngest two sons, were not gonna be at the house
and she went to the park where John and Dally,
that's where they were gonna stay.
And then when she came back,
that's when she found Darrell there
dead.
In my interview with Stephanie Blagg,
I thought there was some sincerity
to what she was trying to do.
The account from Stephanie of her actions
that day yields few leads,
except for one.
So I did ask Stephanie what she saw.
Did she see anything when she got home?
Did she see anything before she left?
Did she see anything unusual?
And there was information about a red truck
that she didn't know who the red truck was.
As night falls in Eunice,
the detectives interview additional family members
and scour the neighborhood,
searching for anyone who might know something
related to the homicide
or to the red truck Stephanie mentioned in her interview.
There was a grocery store located behind the house
and then across the street was a church
and there was an Allsup's convenience store
that was a block away from the residence.
At the convenience store,
detectives meet a woman named Charlotte King.
She was actually the clerk that worked at Allsup's,
but she was also Andrew Blagg's girlfriend
and she told me that the boys were with
Billy Kelley that day.
So at the time, we had no idea who Billy Kelley was.
I had to bring them back in and re-interview them.
I asked Dally, I said, "Can you tell me who Billy is?"
He said that Billy was his mom's boyfriend.
New Mexico state police detectives
investigating the death of Darrell Blagg,
have just learned something important
about the day of the murder.
Something Darrell's wife, Stephanie and his three children
didn't think was important to share
in their initial interviews with police.
Not only does Stephanie have a boyfriend named Billy Kelley,
but it's possible she and her three boys
were with him the day her husband was shot and killed.
I asked Dally, I said,
"You know, why didn't you tell me
that you were with Billy today?
Why didn't you tell me that?"
And they fessed up right away and they were just saying,
"I don't know, I just forgot that."
And I said, "Did your mom tell you not to say
that Billy was there?"
And you know, of course they were like,
"Well, no, she didn't say that."
So he said that Billy would come from Lubbock
to New Mexico to Eunice
and he would actually come to their house
in the middle of the night.
Once Mr. Blagg was in bed,
he would go to the boys' bedroom and knock on the window
and the boys would actually let him in the window.
And he would sleep at the Blagg residence at night
in the boys' room
while Mr. Blagg was at the residence.
When you see those types of things,
those start to raise all kinds of red flags
and a lot of bells and whistles start to go off
in your head.
They sure do.
After years in family court, I can tell you, thankfully,
that I don't see this very often.
A parent using their children to lie
and cover up their own secrets.
The detectives now realize that the devoted wife
who claimed to be preparing for a romantic evening
with her ex-husband,
is a far more complex character
than she initially led on.
We confronted her with the information
that was revealed in the interviews
and I asked her who Billy Kelley was
and if Billy Kelley had been at her house that day.
Yeah at that point, she stopped the interview,
got very belligerent with us, started cussing at us
and she decided she wanted an attorney.
So we're thinking, "This is probably our suspect.
This lady has something to do with her husband's death."
The investigators conduct a gun residue test
on Stephanie's hands to determine if she
shot her husband.
Stephanie was on the scene
and has plenty of motive,
but it comes up negative.
They do find something however
when they execute a search warrant on her car.
Kevin Massis, who was the agent with our crime scene team,
he was actually processing her vehicle
and says, "I just found a lot of meth
in the back of this vehicle."
So she wasn't able to leave the police department.
We got the warrant for possession of methamphetamines
and she was put in jail based on that charge.
With Stephanie detained for the moment,
detectives turn their attention
to their other prime suspect,
her boyfriend, Billy Kelley.
Someone that would go and sneak into another man's house
while he's there to spend time
with Stephanie and her children,
seems to me like he's willing to do anything to be with her.
So we're thinking that Billy Kelley
killed Mr. Blagg.
He definitely had motive,
wanting Stephanie Blagg for himself.
As law enforcement in New Mexico and Oklahoma
frantically searched for Billy,
investigators follow up on another piece of information
Charlotte King gave them.
Charlotte is the Allsup's clerk managing the gas pumps
and also happens to be Andrew Blagg's girlfriend.
In her interview with detectives,
Charlotte says she saw Billy at the Allsup's gas pumps
with John and Dally around 4:00 p.m.,
about 10 minutes before the time police think
the murder occurred.
It's an alibi that the Blagg boys confirm.
John and Dally were supposed to go to the park that day
and stay at the park with Billy Kelley.
Billy Kelley picked them up at the park.
They went to the Allsup's
and Billy Kelley was filling up his vehicle with gas.
But it was raining and because of the weather,
it had actually knocked the pumps out of service.
So that would've been around four o'clock.
Billy Kelley paid for the gas,
so they were waiting for the pumps to come back on
so that he could get the gas.
Right at that time, the three of them are outside,
Mr. Blagg drives by in his work truck
and he sees John and Dally with Billy Kelley.
So I asked John, I said,
"Did you make eye contact with your dad?"
And he says, "Yeah, he definitely saw
that we were with Billy Kelley."
Based on Stephanie's 911 call at 4:10 p.m.
and the pump's going down at around 4:00 p.m.,
detectives Argo and Martinez-Jones
know that if Darrell was on his way home
when he passed by Billy at the gas station,
it would be impossible for Billy to finish gassing up
and then get to the Blagg house in time
to kill Darrell Blagg when he walked through the door.
It's a key revelation
as law enforcement builds out their timeline
and considers their suspects.
I knew that we would be able to get video
from Allsup's to corroborate
or disprove the story of Billy Kelley
being at the Allsup's with John and Dally Blagg
at the time Darrell Blagg drove by.
As they wait for the surveillance video,
the detectives realize that their two lead suspects,
Stephanie Blagg, who had no gun residue found on her hands,
and Billy Kelley, might not be the killers after all.
So detective Martinez-Jones sits the youngest Blagg boy,
12-year-old Dally,
down one more time
and presses hard.
I said, "Do you know
who would have done this to your dad?"
And Dally says, "I don't know,
"maybe it was the people
that were driving the red pickup."
We went to interview them
and when Tim and I drive up to the residence,
there was a red pickup in the driveway.
It was actually quite amazing.
As Stephanie Blagg sits in a holding cell
in Eunice, New Mexico for drug possession,
homicide detectives investigating the murder
of her husband, Darrell Blagg
are still trying to track down Stephanie's boyfriend,
Billy Kelley.
They wanna question him on what he may know
about Darrell's death.
Detectives have also learned that Darrell's son,
12-year-old Dally, remembers seeing a red pickup truck
lingering outside the Blagg house.
A vehicle description
his mother also mentioned to investigators.
When the boys returned from the park,
their mom discovered Darrell in the back room
and during this time, Stephanie has told Dally,
"Don't come to the back room
and you know, your dad's back here."
So Dally's actually looking out the window
and he sees this red pickup driving by.
And he said, you know, he couldn't make out,
you know, any type of truck
other than it was just a red pickup.
There was a million red pickups, I mean, we had no idea
'cause he didn't have a license plate.
Did this red pickup have anything to do with it?
As law enforcement canvases every red truck
in and around Eunice,
the Blaggs and their extended family say goodbye
to the small town dad with a big heart.
We had a memorial service in Eunice
for all of his friends to come in
and there was a lot of people there.
It was a lot of hurt
because he never, he never done really bad to anybody.
He was such a good hearted person.
I was standing there, I was in a daze.
I was standing by his coffin
and the next thing I know,
people's picking me up off the floor.
Over the following days,
the detectives are successful
in tracking down two of their other leads.
The first is the surveillance video
from the convenience store,
which could corroborate an alibi for Billy Kelley.
Once I got that Allsup video
and I was able to see John Blagg on there,
Dally Blagg on there
and then see Billy Kelley.
Billy would've been probably the prime suspect
if we didn't have him on video at Allsup's.
And then another crucial piece of the puzzle
falls into place.
We learned that Mr. Blagg
had two people riding with him, two other workers
and he had actually dropped them off at home
before he went home.
So we went to interview them
and when Tim and I drive up to the residence,
there was a red pickup in the driveway.
Once we start interviewing the gentlemen,
we find out that one of them actually
had left his wallet in Mr. Blagg's work truck.
So unbeknownst to them,
Stephanie was inside making her discovery
of Mr. Blagg and they drove by,
opened the truck door because Mr. Blagg left it unlocked
and the one guy retrieved his wallet
and so we were able to rule out the red pickup at that time.
What a wild coincidence.
To be a Darrell's house,
practically at the same moment he is murdered.
With the red truck resolved,
the detectives turn their attention back
to the Blagg boys.
Knowing they covered up for their mother's lies before,
the detectives go right back to the well
and dig deeper into the early afternoon of the murder.
John and Dally said their mother had told them
that they were supposed to stay at the park.
They were at the park
and they did get rained on,
so they actually had to come back to the house
to get a change of clothing.
When they came back to the house during the day,
that's when they saw their mother and Billy
talking with a Mexican guy.
Stephanie told them,
"Stay away from here,
don't come over to the house."
So she made the boys leave and go back to the park.
Investigators know the mention of Billy's presence
in the Blagg house earlier in the day,
along with a Hispanic male is new and important information.
We didn't have a name.
We didn't have a whole lot of descriptors,
so I knew it was gonna take some work
to try to figure out who this Hispanic male was.
Then on August 14th,
three days after Darrell's murder,
the Texas Rangers tracked down Billy Kelley in Lubbock
and bring him in for an interview.
Billy denies any involvement in Darrell's murder.
But when detective Argo drills Billy on the Hispanic male
who John and Dally had seen with him at the house early
on the day of their father's murder.
They sense he knows more than he's letting on.
If the investigators believe Billy
or Stephanie killed Mr. Blagg,
the evidence is holding them back.
Remember, Stephanie's hands were tested for gun residue
and turned up negative
and surveillance video proved Billy's whereabouts
at the time of the murder.
So what possible motive could a mysterious man named Juan,
have had in killing Darrell Blagg?
I'll be honest with you, initially I thought,
oh, this guy was probably her drug dealer,
but in the back of our mind,
we know that Juan is probably the one that shot Mr. Blagg.
Again, we're not sure,
we know that there's someone that was at the residence
that we can't account for what he did or why he was there.
Investigators from the New Mexico state police
have a seemingly impossible task:
Find a guy named Juan
whom they believe pulled the trigger
in the shooting death of 40-year-old father,
Darrell Blagg.
As you can imagine,
they don't get very far.
We've tracked down every lead,
we've interviewed as many people,
nobody knew who Juan was.
That's extremely frustrating,
because we still got an unknown individual there.
We know Stephanie's involved.
We know Billy Kelley's involved,
but that's always the biggest question,
who pulled the trigger
and then who was the mastermind behind it all?
Stephanie still wasn't talking.
We had her in jail this whole time
because of the narcotics that was found in her vehicle,
but she wasn't gonna give us any more information.
The boys at that point had stopped talking to us.
The only one that was still in contact with us
and, you know, giving us information here and there
whenever she would hear something was Rose.
Rose explains to investigators
why she believes Stephanie had a motive to kill Darrell.
Because she wanted the boys
and he would not give up custody.
He told her as long as you're with Billy
and as long as you're doing drugs,
I will not let you have custody of the boys.
I understand why the investigators are exasperated,
but sometimes it's just serendipity that saves the day
and that is exactly what happens
seven months after Darrell Blagg's murder.
I received a call from Lee County Sheriff's Department,
they told me there was an informant in jail
that had some information
in reference to the Darrell Blagg murder.
I sat down with this informant identified as Stacy Meredith.
Stephanie Blagg had kind of befriended her
and Stephanie told Stacy Meredith
that she was involved in the killing
of her husband, Darrell
and also told her she knew where the murder weapon was
and that she would've liked to go get it.
The detectives then set up an operation
where they hope to catch Stephanie red-handed
as she retrieves the murder weapon,
but first they need to orchestrate a way
to get her out of jail
and so they make a deal with their informant.
Stacy tells her, "Well, hey,
"I'm gonna be getting out of jail pretty soon
"and if you want, I can get money together
"and I can bond you out of jail
and I'll help you go look for the guns."
And so we were able to arrange for Stephanie Blagg
to be able to bond out of jail
and for Stacy Meredith to get out of jail
and we surveyed them through the entire operation.
Stephanie and Stacy drive to Eunice
and park near the church across the street
from the Blagg's house.
Stephanie Blagg got out and she walked around the church
and looked at several places.
The agents are across the street at the church
and they're watching them looking for this gun
and they actually end up not finding it.
But that made a big difference in proving her involvement,
so we can tie her as an accessory
or conspiracy to commit murder
based on her overt act of going to look for the murder weapon
that killed Darrell Blagg.
We were able to arrest her on homicide charges.
So at least one person was gonna be held accountable.
It was a great feeling
and now we have to figure out what Billy's involvement was
and we knew that Juan, the Mexican guy,
was probably involved too.
Four months later,
the police once again get incredibly lucky
when a woman from 1,400 miles away
cold calls the Eunice police department.
The lady's name was Jennifer Hawkins.
She lived in North Dakota.
Out of fear, she moved out of state
and she has some information
in reference to the murder of Darrell Blagg.
Jennifer tells us that her boyfriend
is the one that killed Mr. Blagg.
Her boyfriend was
Juan Muro.
This is the big break in the case that we were waiting on.
We learned from Jennifer Hawkins
that there had been several meetings
at Jennifer Hawkins mother's house,
her name was Kim Motes.
Billy Kelley was involved in these meetings.
Stephanie Blagg was involved in these meetings
and Jennifer Hawkins' boyfriend
was involved in these meetings.
And the whole purpose of these meetings
was to plan to kill Darrell Blagg.
Stephanie tells Kim that she's tired of Darrell
and she wants to be with Billy.
There was discussion of payment to Juan Muro.
This now makes it a murder for hire.
We finally got the arrest warrant for Billy.
He actually agreed to turn himself in.
We figured that the motive was
he wanted to be with Stephanie.
If Darrell was out of the picture,
then Billy could have Stephanie all to himself.
And then Juan Muro was charged with murder
and conspiracy to commit murder
and tampering with evidence and was arrested.
And he said he participated
because he was gonna get some guns, drugs
and money out of it.
It was strictly financial for him.
And Stephanie Blagg was the mastermind behind this killing.
She wanted Darrell Blagg dead.
And we learned that the footprint in the blood
ended up being her footprint.
She went to look over his body to make sure he was dead.
With full confessions, the trial is speedy.
Stephanie Blagg pleads guilty to solicitation
to commit first degree murder
and is sentenced to nine years.
Billy Kelley is also sentenced to nine years.
Juan Muro gets 16 years after being convicted at trial.
I lost my brother.
I lost one of the most important people in my life.
I personally think that every one of them had a part in it,
so I think they should've all gotten life.
Darrell Blagg was very clearly a loving brother,
a great friend and a wonderful father
who only wanted to provide for and protect his three boys.
Despite being hurt repeatedly,
he felt the same about Stephanie,
practically to the very end.
He never could have imagined that the love of his life,
a woman he knew since childhood
could've taken their 20-year marriage
and turned it
into a killer relationship.