-[whistle blowing] -[crowd cheering]
[Coach Flint Reissen] Lakeview Centennial High School
is a breeding ground for really good football players.
[commentator] Touchdown Lakeview Patriots!
They're gonna win this ball game!
[Coach Reissen] If you wanted to pick one guy that was just doing it right,
that would be George Moss.
George was a special type of player.
He knew he could be a great coach.
But being a coach in the state of Texas, it's a lifestyle.
You live it 24/7, 365.
Coaches are on the firing line.
[whistle blowing]
But I couldn't believe anybody would want to murder George.
[camera shutter clicks]
Did George Moss cross paths with someone at a football game
and they followed him home?
[man on phone]
Friday Night Lights bring you forward as a celebrity,
but it also could put a target on your back.
[opening theme music playing]
[siren blaring]
[dispatcher speaking indistinctly over radio]
Kaufman County Sheriff's office received a call from a neighbor
in the community called Windmill Farms.
They saw a male laying on his front porch
and requested officers to go out
and conduct a welfare concern.
[siren wailing]
[indistinct chatter on radio]
Once the officers arrived,
it was discovered that the male on the front porch,
he had a laceration above his eye
and then a bullet wound to the back of his neck.
EMS arrived and tried initially
to render first aid,
but it was shortly discovered that he had passed.
We were able to speak with one neighbor
who was able to identify the male as George Moss.
George was 30 at the time of his death.
[Marc Moffitt] The first thing, of course, you're looking at,
okay, what kind of crime do you have there?
Is there some kind of accident that happened?
It looked like he was in a fight.
Scraped up his hand like he had hit somebody.
Our Kaufman County Crime Scene Unit came out.
And one of the things that they observed
is the door had been kicked in.
[Moffitt] Now, what kind of evidence do we have in the house?
Well, there's a busted doorframe.
So somebody kicked in the door.
What was their intent?
Did they bust in to steal something?
[dispatcher on radio] 4-82.
Yeah, the crime scene was pretty clean.
The officers went inside the residence.
They didn't find anything that stood out of order.
His wallet was inside the residence.
A wad of cash was laying next to it.
We located a gun inside of one of the drawers inside the house
that belonged to Mr. Moss.
There was absolutely nothing that we could tell
that was stolen.
[Moffitt] It goes back to that busted doorframe.
Somebody who was not supposed to be in this house
busted this doorframe
and this is how this started.
Kinda tells you somebody was mad at George.
[Chief Frierson] This says one of two things.
Either it was personal,
or it was a robbery gone bad.
[Andrea Moss] I get to work and I'm there for a couple of hours...
[cell phone ringing]
...and my cousin finally called and told me
that he was killed.
And I didn't get, like, eased into it.
I was basically told.
George was dead.
Was like, "What are-- What are you talking about?"
[tearfully] It was... It's a feeling you cannot describe,
your son laying on the front porch, dead.
[Andrea] I'll say it was and still is the worst day of my life.
I had to just suspend my own grief because...
I just... [sobs]
I needed to... I just had to figure out what was happening.
[Charles Moss] I didn't know what to think.
I was just processing that my cousin's dead.
My cousin just got murdered.
So, "What happened? Like, what's-- what's going on?
Do you know 'em?"
Those things are running through my brain consistently.
I named George... nickname "Buggy",
because when he came out, he looked like a little bug.
[laughs] So then, we called him Buggy the whole time.
[Andrea] My brother, he always was a sports lover.
We recognized early that he was very athletic,
but he really excelled in football.
[McCuin] Once George got into middle school,
like, he was able to start playing
a little flag football.
He loved it. I loved it.
And that was joy,
'cause if he run for a touchdown,
I'm running with him, running on the side,
hollering, "Run, Buggy! Run, Buggy!" You know,
people would look at us.
But it was all fun.
[Andrea] He played Little League football,
middle school football, high school football.
Even if he wasn't playing, he was watching football.
[Coach Reissen] And you could see right from the beginning
that George was a leader.
His whole character, his charisma was just...
different than everybody else.
You could tell he was his own guy.
[crowd cheering]
[commentator 1] See Coach Reissen talking to the troops over there.
When I became the Head Football Coach
at Lakeview Centennial High School,
the varsity was not very good.
George was a kid that we quickly recognized
was gonna help us rebuild the program.
George was just great as a football player.
I mean, very athletic, fast, and he just loved the sport.
George was the three-year starter as a defensive back.
He had to come up and be the first line of defense
in many situations.
[commentator 2] Beautiful night for football.
Lakeview Patriots and the Rowlett Eagles coming up.
[Coach Reissen] Rowlett High School was a big rivalry.
[commentator 2] There's the kick.
They called it, uh, the Battle of the Lake
because we were on either sides of the lake.
And so, it was George's senior year...
[commentator 2] The Lakeview Centennial High cheerleaders
are cheering on their team.
[McCuin] It was just very exciting
because you had mothers and daddies hollering
and screaming and running like me.
[Coach Reissen] George made some big plays defensively for us
late in the game.
[commentator 2] It's at the ten! It's at the five!
And he is across the goal line.
-[commentator 1] That's it. -[commentator 2] Touchdown! The Patriots have scored!
We were able to-- to get the victory,
the huge victory for us.
He thought he was Randy Moss doing all that. [laughs]
But it was exciting. It really was.
[Coach Reissen] If you wanted to pick one guy and point to
that stood out as a role model,
uh, and you wanted to say,
"Do what they guy does. Follow him,"
that would be George.
He had great respect for his peers,
uh, for teachers, for coaches.
He was a young man of very high character.
[indistinct chatter]
[Jackson] After high school,
George played semi-pro while he was in college
down at Prairie View A&M.
[drumming]
He played for the Rattlers, the semi-pro team here in Texas.
[McCuin] And even at the age of 30,
he was still trying to play semi-pro until he hurt himself,
and it was time to give that up.
But George wanted to give back to the kids.
He took the path that he had been shown growing up
from his family, from his football coaches,
to say that, "I wanna give back."
George made that transition
from Friday Night Lights
to then coaching PeeWee football.
He was just a great guy
on the field and off the field.
That's why people were shocked by George's murder.
[Andrea] The first question that comes to your head,
"Why? Why? Why? Why did this happen?"
He did not ask for this. He didn't deserve this.
He didn't do anything to warrant it.
[Chief Frierson] We found out that George Moss had been married
for two-and-a-half years.
And one of the neighbors was able to contact,
uh, George's wife, Mimi.
[indistinct radio chatter]
She was out shopping at the time of George's death.
Mimi came home, and officers at that time was able to
speak to her in person.
She was upset.
She said that they woke up in the morning.
She wanted to fix George a-- a big breakfast.
So she wanted to go to Walmart
to buy things to make the breakfast.
She called her friend
and asked if she wanted to go with her.
George's wife told deputies
she had left the house at approximately ten a.m.
So George's wife was at Walmart
when she received the call from the neighbor
stating that she needed to get home.
Mimi said that she could not name one person
that George had a disagreement with or didn't like.
Couldn't name one enemy of George.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Moffitt] When you find a person like George who's been killed,
horrible, violent crime,
the investigators have to look at everything.
They have to look at all parts of his life.
We found out George was a great football star,
and was coaching Little League,
and he actually was a referee.
I mean, that hit home with me.
Uh, being, football's a big part of my life.
[crowd cheering]
[Chief Frierson] Referees get a lot of heat.
And coaches sometimes get heat from their players' parents
for not playing 'em or not winning.
So we had to explore all avenues of connection.
Did George Moss cross paths with someone at a football game
and they followed him home?
[Andrea] Being a coach, being a referee can be dangerous.
Because this is Texas.
This is football. And people are crazy.
[newsreader] He was a well-liked Dallas County employee,
husband, youth football coach as well.
So why would anyone want to murder George Moss?
[Thompson] When I saw it on the news,
I couldn't believe it
because I couldn't believe anybody would want to murder George.
[Coach Reissen] Hearing what happened to George
and not knowing whether it was a random thing or targeted,
it was a gut punch, uh, there's no doubt.
He was just well-liked and respected by everybody.
[Andrea] After college,
George started working for the Dallas County Housing authority
and he absolutely loved it.
Like, he loved that job.
He moved up quickly, you know, becoming a manager,
and I think it was just intrinsic in him,
like, an innate desire to just help people, right?
That's what he wanted to do, give back.
[McCuin] George loved being a social worker.
He was gonna make sure that everyone had a place to lay their head every night.
[Thompson] George had to multitask.
He was not only working for Dallas County Health and Human Services,
George was involved with the PeeWee football team
and, of course, doing refereeing.
[Coach Reissen] I had heard that George was refereeing games.
And, uh, that really tickled me
because he would be excellent at it.
His demeanor would be such that, you know,
he could stay steady in the boat, even-keeled.
But, yeah, he was a strong enough personality
to be able to call the game.
-[whistle blows] -[crowd cheering]
[Thompson] Referees are on the firing line.
People are gonna be upset about a decision they made
or they did not make.
[crowd cheering]
As part of the investigation,
they had to look at refereeing--
the games that he refereed
that another coach or parent could have been upset.
[Andrea] A lot of families, you know, if you have a child
that's good in a sport, that's a meal ticket.
People will do anything to protect, you know,
their children, their investment.
[newsreader] Check this out.
It's a high school football game in Edinburgh, Texas.
A player who had just been ejected from the game
blindsides the referee.
It's just getting to the point where they're hurting the referees.
That's not football, because football is fun.
[newsreader] The referee was treated for
a shoulder injury and possible concussion.
School administrators are hoping this is an isolated incident
and not part of an ugly new trend in high school football.
Could this have been a game he had refereed
and someone retaliated against him?
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Moffitt] That point there, canvassing the neighborhood.
They talked to so many different neighbors about,
"Did you hear anything? Did you see anything?"
And, you know, a lot of the different neighbors
didn't hear anything, didn't hear the gunshot, didn't see anything.
A neighbor reported seeing George Moss arguing
with a shorter Hispanic male in a truck earlier that week.
There was a guy that was talking to George and arguing.
So investigators had to wonder...
Is there some kind of connection?
[Chief Frierson] Officers found a cigarette butt,
and being neither George or his wife smoked,
we felt that was a crucial piece of evidence.
They're testing for DNA, but in the end,
when the DNA came back,
we didn't have any DNA or fingerprints that linked to anybody.
[Chief Frierson] We weren't ever able to identify
the Hispanic male with the truck
that George Moss was in an argument with.
So, at this point in time of the investigation, we don't know...
Why anybody would hurt George.
But when somebody's murdered,
one of the first people we look at
as being a suspect is a spouse or a close relative.
[Andrea] Everyone was just on edge, right?
I mean, all of us were struggling to make sense of what happened.
Struggling to understand, like, the gravity of it.
So, immediately, the first question I'm asking is,
"Where's Mimi? Did she get hurt?"
Ultimately, I found out that she was out shopping
while the incident happened.
[McCuin] I kept asking Mimi what happened.
"Well, I went to the store. He told me to go get this.
Told me to do this."
And I'm going, "Okay."
Something's just not adding up.
[Jackson] Him being at home alone
and her leaving, and that happening,
and it was like, was that a coincidence? Was that intentional?
And so you do start thinking like,
"Hey, was this something that she did?"
[Moffitt] Could it have been the spouse?
Did the wife do it and then run off and try to have an alibi?
[newsreader] There were 30 balloons rising into the night sky
for every one of George Moss's 30 years on Earth.
[Andrea] He was such a football star.
And we had a lot of people that wanted to honor him.
They wanted to come together,
talk about what he meant to them,
and just do something.
So they did.
[Charles] There was a bunch of people that showed up.
It was in the parking lot of his high school.
He touched a lot of people.
We'd get a chance to see, like, this is the impact that he had
in his 30 years.
[newsreader] But there were countless tears falling...
[woman sobbing] I love you!
[newsreader] ...from his wife and other loved ones
who gathered in a parking lot to remember him.
George touched a lot of lives,
starting from babies all the way up to elderly people.
[Jackson] I think that visual at the high school
was great, that just speaks volumes on the type of person he was.
We were overwhelmed by the amount of people that wanted to celebrate his life.
In the town people were mad still. George is not here.
And people are hurt. It's a tragic deal, violent murder.
[reporter] Moss was such a standout running back here at Lakeview Centennial,
he even had his jersey retired.
Tonight, this framed jersey was presented to his family.
[McCuin] I have it in the room
with his stamp on it, and it was a humble...
Loveable, but...
A hurting experience,
because to see the...
Young people, his class,
his other classes show up...
It-- It-- It, um...
It was really special to see that.
[crowd cheering]
[Jackson] George met Mimi in college.
[Andrea] He's dating around,
and then, all of a sudden, he found the right one.
[McCuin] He decides it's time to get married and start a family.
When he told me he was getting ready to propose to her,
he showed me the ring and everything.
He was really excited.
They went to a restaurant, and, uh, he proposed to her.
In September 2012, George married Mimi.
[Jackson] George and Mimi had a pretty solid relationship,
like most newlyweds.
You know, really just wanted to see where life was gonna take 'em.
Kinda do life together.
She was trying to go back to school to further her education
and they was gonna start focusing on
gonna have children and grow their family.
[Andrea] After they got married,
they moved into a custom home that they built in Forney.
They had been living there for about two-and-a-half years.
[Andrea] We celebrated Thanksgiving with them.
So we were close.
But I know that, you know,
they looked at everyone, right?
Everyone is a suspect.
Um, I know that they took, you know, his wife's cellphone.
They did a thorough job
of trying to figure out exactly what happened.
We had employees who had some opinions
that George, there may not be a happy scenario at home
because he had talked to some employees about changing his beneficiary.
[Chief Frierson] We received two different tips,
one being that Mimi and George was having
difficulties in their marriage.
Then another tip was that
he had a conversation with somebody at work
about changing beneficiaries on his insurance.
[Chief Frierson] So we interviewed Mimi
to establish what was George's life in the last couple of days
before George's murder.
And then, on Friday,
they went to her family's house
to have their Thanksgiving holiday,
and then after, George and her brother
went to a high school football playoff game.
[crowd cheering]
[Chief Frierson] After the football game,
George picked her back up and they went home,
and everything was normal.
[Chief Frierson] She wanted to fix him breakfast.
She just told us that she had left the house
at approximately ten a.m.
to go shopping at Walmart with one of her friends.
And so, they had gone shopping.
And then, she said one of the neighbors actually called and told her,
"There's been something that's happened here.
You need to get home right now."
If there's an emergency at your house,
then why take the time to drop a friend off?
So her statement was a little strange.
[Chief Frierson] We decided to meet with Mimi's friend
who was shopping with her at Walmart.
She added that she and Mimi went to Chick-fil-A for breakfast
prior to going to Walmart.
It's kind of strange that you go to breakfast
and one of the reasons why you were going to Walmart
was to buy breakfast.
It was all kind of strange.
We had to check where he worked.
We found no evidence
that he's making statements in conversation to anybody
about divorce or about problems with his relationship.
And he didn't change beneficiaries on his insurance.
[Jackson] You look at the spouse
'cause it's just the way things transpire, right?
If it wasn't her, then who was it?
A week went by and they weren't coming up with anything.
For them to not have any leads,
it just felt, like, bleak.
But then, they got a break.
One of the neighbors reported that he saw a suspicious vehicle
that was parked between George Moss's house
and between his house the day of George's murder.
It didn't seem to fit that area.
And he thought it seemed weird.
He described the car as a black passenger car
with a plastic bag over the window.
So we immediately started looking at video.
Pulled video from different businesses, different houses
trying to identify this black car.
There was a new home construction down the street
from George Moss's house,
and the builder of that home had a camera out on a pole in front of the house.
[Moffitt] They had a video that showed this car
that had a garbage bag over the window
in that area.
[Chief Frierson] It was frustrating that it was raining that day
and the wipers obscured our view of the driver.
But we had a strong feeling that the black car was somehow involved.
Did George run into someone the night before at the football game?
Did he have any enemies?
Could there have been somebody that was just really angry with him?
Our family is a football family.
Like, we love sports.
And we are Dallas Cowboy fans.
Like, that's a part of who we are.
And you know who George jumped on the train with?
Philadelphia Eagles.
I don't know what happened. All of a sudden, he switched his alliance
to the Philadelphia Eagles.
So that was, like, a big thing.
And we were going, "Really, George? Are you gonna do that?" "Yes."
[Andrea] We had family gatherings,
like, we always would watch the Cowboy games
and it would be super fun because, of course,
everyone's talking smack, and he just was just,
you know, loud and boisterous and, you know...
He was just an awesome person.
[Chief Frierson] The investigation did move slow at the beginning,
until we got the video from the security camera
located at the construction site.
The video, even though we couldn't show us a good view of the people inside,
it gave us a view of the license plate.
We were able to run that license plate
and we had discovered that it was a stolen car out of Dallas.
It was involved in a hit-and-run in Dallas
a few days after the murder.
And they had a small pursuit
where the occupants got out of the vehicle and ran
into an apartment complex in South Dallas.
Unfortunately, DPD wasn't able to, uh, apprehend the suspects at that time.
We had recovered this car
and we were having it processed at the FBI crime lab.
[Moffitt] It takes a long time for DNA, things like that, to come back,
but when they were looking through the car,
they found a Jack in the Box receipt.
[Chief Frierson] Sergeant Stuart and I went to the Jack in the Box
to try to obtain any video
trying to identify the occupants of the car
and ran into another roadblock with the camera
that was in the drive-through was broke.
Then, they paid in cash, so was no record of who made the purchase.
Jack in the Box was a dead end.
Since the car was abandoned in an apartment complex,
we created a Crime Stoppers flyer,
in which we posted a picture of the suspect car
and offered a cash reward for any information
leading to the arrest of individuals
that were involved in George Moss's murder.
They start putting up flyers all around,
try to get somebody-- anybody see anything.
[Chief Frierson] We nearly knocked on every door in the apartment complex
and talked to anybody that would answer the door or was home.
No one wanted to talk to us while we were there.
No one gave us any information.
But within the first 30 minutes of leaving the apartment complex,
we started getting tips in.
[Moffitt] There's an individual that went to tell the police,
"I know who was in the car."
And that right there started breaking the case.
Because the police talked to him
and he says, "Look, I promise I wasn't in the car during this,
but I can tell you who was in it."
He's stating his cousin was involved in George Moss's murder.
[Moffitt] His cousin was a juvenile.
There was actually a 16-year-old that was in the car.
We ended up setting up an interview with the juvenile,
his mother, and his attorney at the time.
That juvenile started telling who was actually in the car
during this capital murder.
Juvenile claimed that he was picked up in the morning
that George Moss's murder happened.
He said there were three other individuals in the car.
Henre Davis, Deion Young, and he called the fourth guy "Big Bro",
which, his real name was Jarvis Kimble.
[Moffitt] When the defendant started talking about what they did that morning,
he tells the investigators they went to Buc-ee's to get gas,
get some things inside.
[Chief Frierson] He claimed that,
says they left Buc-ee's, he went to sleep and didn't wake up
until he was back home.
He denied being awake during the time of George Moss's murder.
But did admit that he was in the vehicle.
As an investigator, you get kind of gut feelings when you're talking to people,
and I had a pretty good gut feeling he wasn't being entirely true.
That leads me to Buc-ee's to obtain their security video.
[Moffitt] And sure enough,
you can identify them
on the surveillance getting out of the car,
going into Buc-ee's.
We observed them inside the store.
They got the tape and the plastic bag,
and you can see 'em on video out in the parking lot
making some repairs to the window.
[Moffitt] When you look at the surveillance,
you can kinda see where different people are sitting
and who's actually getting in the car driving.
[Chief Frierson] And it appeared that the juvenile is the one
that got into the driver's seat.
[Moffitt] You were actually driving the car.
You weren't asleep in the car.
It's an approximately ten-minute drive
to George Moss's house from Buc-ee's.
Everything's matching up.
We're placing our suspects in the car
ten minutes before the incident happened,
and so, it's pretty compelling evidence.
[Moffitt] We wanna keep looking at these four boys.
Is there any connection to George anywhere in his life?
Why did these four boys choose that house?
Did they know the wife?
You know, was there any connection to her?
Based on the video evidence from the security camera
located at the construction site and Buc-ee's,
we can have probably cause to arrest
Henre Davis, Deion Young,
Jarvis Kimble, and the juvenile.
[Moffitt] When people get in jail,
the jail calls are recorded.
I mean, you never know.
It can all of a sudden just make a case wide open.
[Chief Frierson] At this point in the investigation,
we have Henre Davis, Deion Young, Jarvis Kimble,
and the juvenile in custody.
You gotta find out, is there a reason, a motive
why they did this to George Moss?
And then, obviously, you're looking at, did they know the wife?
[door opens]
Deion Young confirmed that he was there.
He was with the juvenile.
He was with Henre Davis. And he was with Jarvis Kimble,
or Big Bro.
Jarvis Kimble wanted to burglarize the house.
They went and busted in that door.
George met 'em and he fought.
[gunshot]
[Moffitt] They didn't think anybody was home at George's house.
And when they went and busted in that door,
they did not think George was gonna be in there.
You look at the door, it's kicked in.
All those things being consistent with what happened,
you know who did this kill.
And certainly, at that point,
there is ample amount of evidence in the world
that Jarvis Kimble had killed George Moss
during a botched burglary
or a burglary that they surprised him
and he met 'em at the door.
There was zero connection between the suspects
and coaching,
refereeing, or football.
Is there some connection between the wife and them?
We had to look at that.
And we had to download the phones
and actually look to see,
is there any text, any phone call that connects them?
And we found out, no.
She had nothing to do with this. This was random.
[Chief Frierson] After examining the data from her phone,
and the data from George Moss's phone,
I was able to clear Mimi of any wrongdoing.
But why was George's door kicked in? Why?
And people just wanna know that answer.
And the family wants to know that answer.
Because it touches 'em forever.
Every person that George touched,
every kid that he actually coached in that Little League,
it touches 'em, you know? And they'll never be the same.
Mr. Kimble did not talk to the police.
He was the only one out of the four
that did not talk to the police.
He hadn't pled guilty.
We have not proved his case that he has done it.
[Chief Frierson] But one of the things that I did on a daily basis
was listen to all the offenders' calls
between family members.
I think he thought, uh,
"Uh-oh," his fingerprints, his DNA are gonna be in this car.
We swabbed for DNA, did fingerprints,
but in the end,
when the DNA came back,
we didn't have any DNA or fingerprints
that linked him back to the house or the car.
We conducted a search warrant at Jarvis Kimble's residence in Dallas.
But we still weren't able to locate any kind of firearm
that would be used in the murder.
If you didn't commit a murder,
and you can answer the question with a no,
then why didn't you just say no?
So that was a big clue,
and she wasn't satisfied with the answer.
"Blue", which rhymes with true.
Essentially, he is confessing to his mother
that he murdered George Moss.
What is any person gonna say?
"Mom, I would never do that.
I would never go and kill somebody.
I did not have anything to do with this."
You're not gonna go, "Blue."
Each defendant pled guilty to first degree murder.
Jarvis Kimble, he received 33 years.
Deion Young received 25 years.
Henre Davis received 20 years.
And the juvenile involved in the case received 15 years.
[cell door clangs]
[Andrea] One selfish act, it has such consequences.
I feel the loss for us all.
You know, not just me.
I feel it for everyone.
Because he touched everyone.
You murdered a great guy.
You murdered a son who had all the potential
in the world that you did not have.
You took away someone we loved.
And we will have to live with this
every day of our lives.
The same way you're gonna have to live with being incarcerated
the majority of your life.
[Andrea] If George was alive today,
we would probably be talking about if he was gonna
be a Cowboys fan this year,
or if he was gonna stay a traitor as an Eagles fan.
[chuckles]
[Jackson] Every time the Cowboys play the Eagles,
I think about him. Win or lose, you know.
So, you know, I'm always thinking about him,
just throughout life, you know.
[Thompson] It was the Friday Night Lights
that made George the man he was.
And the Friday Night Lights
is still on,
because they're carrying the memory of George.
[McCuin] Even when the Eagles won the Superbowl,
I went out there and decorated his grave so he could--
I could show him and represent the Philadelphia Eagles,
even though I'm a Cowboy fan. [laughs]
I want everyone to know the type of person
and the type of man my son was.
He was a kind, sweet,
lovable person.