[tense music]
[sirens blaring]
- [Officer] Get the tape out of the trunk (indistinct).
- [Officer] They got cameras that come in
and out of this place?
- Yeah, they're checking on it right now.
- [Officer] Okay, I got a hold of a homicide detective.
He's waiting on the official call.
He was on our dead body.
He knows about it.
- Okay. You can call him back if--
- Yeah, he knows, we already told.
- I need you and your partner, if you will for me,
one up here.
So we want to cover that side,
keep people from flowing through.
- [Officer] Okay, just back over here?
- Yeah, do you want me to take her or do you need--
- [Officer] Let me go.
- I received a phone call that there was a female
that had been shot and killed in a parking garage
in the part of Dallas called Uptown.
It's a very affluent area.
During my tenure in homicide,
this is the only case that I've ever had in Uptown.
- [Officer] Watch where you step.
Stay back over there for me, okay?
- She was found with the door to her vehicle was open and
it was pretty clear she had been shot in the head.
[dramatic music]
- Next to her body was her cell phone
and also a magazine from a handgun.
The magazine laying next to the body
is not something that we typically see,
and so I believe that there was either a struggle,
or there was something that caused the shooter
to leave a little faster than what he wanted to leave,
which caused him to drop the magazine.
The first thing that stood out to me
was that there was no purse inside the vehicle.
- At the outset of looking into it,
it did appear to be a robbery, but again,
that was what made it so unusual,
'cause those types of things just have not taken place
in that part of town.
- We ran up the victim's license plate
and the vehicle came back registered to Kendra Hatcher,
a pediatric dentist in the Dallas area.
[tense music]
There was one camera that captured all the cars
as they came into the parking garage and as they left.
Reviewing the footage,
I saw the victim pull into the parking garage.
I don't think her car even made it
into the parking space yet before I see a dark figure
walking over to her vehicle immediately,
it was dead on that that was exactly
what he was looking for.
[suspenseful music]
There was a short timeframe
between when the victim parked her car
until the time that she was murdered,
so I knew that she was an intended target of the shooting.
Examining the suspect vehicle, was an older model Jeep.
There was paint flaking off of it
and it's not the typical car that you see in Uptown.
We weren't able to see a license plate,
but we took a still photo.
We examined it, zoomed in,
and we were able to determine that it was a female driver
and she had brown hair,
and I knew that the shooter
got out of the passenger side of the vehicle.
So there was at least two people in the vehicle.
- We knew we needed to
find the owner of that Jeep
and we felt that the public could help us with that.
- So we pushed out a still photo on the evening news.
If someone recognizes this Jeep,
we wanted to give them the opportunity to give us a call.
We're in a race against time,
so I wanted to track down any evidence possible
that we could use to put this murder together
and figure out what the murder was about.
- I got a message from one of Kendra's friends.
All of a sudden, in one telephone call, boom,
your world's upside down.
Yep.
I would describe Kendra as ambitious.
Anything that she was passionate about,
she did at 100%.
She went to dental school,
but she always had that passion for Spanish too.
For the church,
she would volunteer her dentistry time
for all the kids down in Ecuador.
After everything went down, I was very confused,
because Kendra was loved by everybody.
Nobody wanted to hurt her.
So it was just very odd.
[tense music]
- The staff at the apartment complex notified me
that Kendra Hatcher, she'd been living
at that apartment building for several months.
She never had any issues at the building
and she pretty much lived a very quiet life
up until this incident.
We learned Kendra had a significant other,
so I made my way inside the apartment complex office
and I spoke with an individual named Ricardo Paniagua.
- We found out Dr. Paniagua and Kendra had been dating
and pretty much were head over heels for each other.
They were making plans to get married
and eventually move to San Francisco.
- He had no answers
as to why someone would want to do this to Kendra.
I couldn't see that there was anything
that he was trying to mislead me on.
He was just more distraught, trying to wrap his brain
around the fact that the person he cared about was now dead.
So at that point, what I focused on,
was just trying to figure out who it was
that could have wanted the victim dead.
[tense music]
- Dallas Police Department posted the vehicle
over the local news stations,
and the actual owner of the vehicle contacted the police.
- I received a phone call from Jose Ortiz.
He believed that that was his Jeep on the news.
Jose, he's a mechanic and that's what he does by trade.
He said on September 2nd, the day of the murder,
his childhood friend, Brenda Delgado,
and one of her friends named Crystal, came to his shop
and needed a replacement vehicle
while he did some work for them on Brenda's car,
so he loaned his Jeep out to Brenda.
Jose provided a cell phone number for Brenda
and I was able to call her on the spot
and made arrangements with some of my coworkers
to pick her up and bring her to the station.
- There wasn't anything really remarkable
about her background.
She went to high school here.
She enrolled in dental hygienist school.
- She had never been arrested before.
But as I was doing sort of background work,
trying to pregame my conversation, Ricardo Paniagua,
Kendra's boyfriend, he called me in a panic.
He said that he saw the still photo on the news
and the female driving the vehicle
had a strong resemblance to his ex-girlfriend,
Brenda Delgado.
What he told me was that he was in a long,
drawn out relationship with Brenda.
They broke it off
and several times rekindled the relationship,
and then things just kind of fizzled out.
- He told us he just considered her a friend.
In fact, the day and night that this happened,
one of the first people he called
to describe this horrific event, or what happened,
was Brenda Delgado.
- And obviously her name came up twice at this point,
so talking to Brenda
was the most important thing in the case.
- Yeah, they do keep it cold.
You mind switching the chairs?
- Oh, of course. Sorry.
- Like I said, I appreciate you coming down and talking to me.
- Yes sir, of course.
Tell me what I can help with.
- Okay, well, I'm working,
of course I'm working a murder investigation.
Your name came up in the investigation,
so I wanted to sit down and talk with you.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Kind of figure out what's going on
and get your version of the events.
- How did my name come up at all?
- Okay, I'll explain all of that to you.
- Yes, yes, I wanna know.
- I decided to be very direct and upfront with Brenda
because I wanted her to know that the situation was serious
and I need to get straight to the facts on this case.
Kendra Hatcher was killed on Wednesday, September 2nd.
She was dating, I think, a guy that you used to date.
The way that your name came up in the investigation
was linked to the vehicle, okay?
- Mm-hmm. - The Jeep, black Jeep.
Do you recognize this vehicle?
- That vehicle,
I think that's my friend, Jose's vehicle.
- Okay.
I talked to him earlier today.
One of the things that he told me
was that you dropped your car off at his shop
and that you borrowed a vehicle of his.
- No, it wasn't me.
- Well, I definitely talked to Jose of some things
that he said are very different from what you're saying,
and my problem is that I believe
that that vehicle was used to commit this murder.
[suspenseful music]
- I didn't know what to do with myself.
I didn't know if I was supposed to be angry or sad, or...
It's disbelief, it's just that feeling
of that your life just completely changed,
is probably the hardest thing to process.
[tense music]
- I wanted to talk to you a little bit
specifically about Wednesday, what you were doing Wednesday.
- Wednesday, I was in Carrollton in school.
- In school? - I'm finishing school.
- Okay. - I got a ride to Carrollton.
And I studied from maybe 12:00, all the way to about 6:00.
- Who gave you a ride?
- Um, who gave me a ride...
My friend, Crystal.
- Crystal, okay.
- Then from Carrollton went to the Chili's
off of George Bush.
I have the receipt in my bag,
I can tell you exactly, it's on my clothes now.
- Okay, and you said you have the receipt in your bag?
- Yeah, yeah, I can show you.
- Let's get that. - Yep.
- The murder took place
at the same time Brenda was at the restaurant.
She immediately pulls out the receipt
and it's at the top of her wallet,
it's neatly folded.
- We closed out at 8:57. - Okay.
Do you mind if I hang onto to this?
- Yeah, keep it.
- It was just all too convenient
and for an experienced detective like Barnes,
that's what immediately caught his eye
that something's not right here.
- You recognize this guy?
- Yes. - Who is that?
- That's my friend, Jose.
- So Jose said that you dropped your car off
at his shop on Wednesday, specifically Wednesday.
- It was Crystal, my friend, Crystal.
- Okay, so did Crystal borrow a vehicle?
- Yes, Crystal.
Crystal borrowed a vehicle to take me to the library.
- Okay, So where did-- Crystal borrowed one of his cars?
- Yes, it was that car.
- Crystal borrowed his Jeep? - That car, uh-huh.
- Okay.
- She got it maybe like around 10, 10:30.
- You guys go to his shop on the way to Carollton
and you guys borrow the Jeep and she kept the Jeep?
- Yeah, and then she had to go do some errands with her son
and do some other things and that's all I know.
- Okay. What's Crystal's last name?
- Cortes. - Okay.
Because I got a very different story from Jose.
He told me that he was working on a vehicle for you.
- No, he didn't give me the car,
he gave Crystal the car.
I asked her, she said that she went to do errands
and she went to find parking space and that's it.
And she had her kid with her, that's all.
- In a parking garage or? - Yeah.
- Are you and Crystal related? - No.
- Okay, 'cause I haven't seen Crystal,
but I can tell you that that picture
of the young lady driving that Jeep looks a lot like you.
- No, she was driving, Crystal was driving that car.
- Well, there's more to this situation than that.
There really is, okay?
What I'd like to do is give Crystal a call
and see if she can come down here.
Does she have a car?
- No, it's still not working.
- Okay, we'll give her a call real quick
and I'll see if we can get her down here.
Brenda said that her friend Crystal
was inside the Jeep in the parking garage,
so I felt that getting Crystal in
at the same time I had Brenda there
would give me an advantage
of using them both against each other
to get the tough answers
that people don't normally like giving.
We reached out to Crystal
and then I had coworkers pick her up
and give her a ride to the office.
And I knew that I needed
to keep the conversation with Brenda going
while I was waiting for Crystal.
I didn't want her to ask to leave
or for her to shut the interview down.
The key thing in all this is you, okay?
And I'm gonna tell you why, the Jeep,
the way Crystal gets the Jeep is through you, okay?
The young lady that ends up dead, her boyfriend,
the relation is you, you to him, to her.
Crystal ends up in this parking garage.
Your friend, your friend's Jeep,
your ex-boyfriend's girlfriend,
all three of those things point back to you.
That is you, you're the common theme in all of these things,
so what I'm asking you is how has this happened?
There's more to this situation
than somebody looking for a parking spot.
Somebody looking for a parking spot
never got anybody killed.
- Yeah, I understand.
- She was very unbothered,
even by being at a police station talking about a murder.
And I just couldn't find that emotion,
that instantly is a red flag.
If you can find that point to bring emotion into it,
you can normally kind of break a person down
and get the truth from them at that moment.
When did you find out that his girlfriend
was the one that was killed?
- Oh, yesterday. - That's been in the news.
- Yesterday morning.
- And so did you say, "Well, maybe my friend,
who is in the news on this picture with this car,
maybe she knows what happened.
Maybe she saw something.
Maybe she should talk to police.
Maybe she can help you find out who killed your girlfriend."
Did you mention any of those things?
- I didn't, I mean, I just didn't really think about it.
I was just-- - You didn't think about it?
You didn't call her to try to confirm,
"Did you see anything, did you hear anything?"
- She said no, I mean, I said did--
- So you did ask her?
- Yeah, I asked Crystal, but she said no.
- Well, here's the thing.
I'm gonna find out what happened to this young lady.
I owe that to her family, I owe that to her mom,
just like I would do the same thing
if something happened to you, okay?
I'm gonna step out for a minute and I'll be right back.
- Okay. - All right.
- She was backpedaling
and pointing blame every other place except for herself.
It was only gonna go as far as Brenda wanted it to go.
And so at this point, I knew Crystal
was who I needed to talk to.
- Hello, how are you? - Good, Crystal, how are you?
- Good, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
Do me a favor and switch seats.
- Oh, no problem. - Okay.
Your name came up in this investigation.
- Understandable.
- It was my understanding that on Wednesday,
this past Wednesday, that's when the murder happened,
that you were with Brenda. - Mm-hmm.
- And that you guys were hanging out.
- Yep.
- This is where we're at with this investigation.
I know what happened.
- Okay. - Okay?
I'm fully aware of what happened and I know that you...
I know where you were parked at
when this incident happened.
[dramatic music]
[tense music]
- Yes, I was in Downtown at that timeframe.
I wasn't parked though.
- Okay, that is on video.
It is on video.
- Okay, I wasn't parked though.
- No, that's not gonna work.
This vehicle was parked on the first floor,
going down near the ramp, from going from P1 to P2.
- Because I went to P2, but I just came in and out
and honestly I had my son in there.
I did, I don't have anything to hide, honestly.
- No, that's not gonna work either.
I know that what you're telling me is not true.
What I'm telling you is, is that it is captured on video.
- Right. - Okay?
Here, I feel like I'm,
I don't like all this stuff in this room.
I moved the table out of the way because I wanted to get more
of a personal connection with her.
I can see your leg twitching,
or I can see when I ask certain questions,
this is what her physical response is
and I didn't want her to feel
like she could kind of hide behind the table any longer.
Okay, well, tell me what happened.
- Okay, I am pulling in the parking lot.
- Mm-hmm.
- Before I pull in,
there's a guy with a mask right in front of me.
The guy gets in my seat and he puts the gun right here.
My son's in the back.
My son is asleep the whole time. - The whole time.
- He's like, "Don't look at me, don't say anything to me,
nothing will happen to you or your kid."
So he tells me to go in, go park.
So then he gets off and he mugs the girl,
I don't know her name, I don't know anything about her.
And he comes out and he gets in the backseat
and he sits down and he's like, "Drive, just drive."
He says, "I know exactly what your tattoos look like,
I know if you say anything, I'm gonna come and get you."
I booked it and I dropped them off and that was it,
I called it a day, I don't want nothing to do with this.
- What did he look like?
- He has medium dreads, kind of tall build,
skinny, slim.
Honestly, I'm willing to take a polygraph.
I'm willing to take a polygraph.
- Well, there's no need for that
because you're not telling me the truth.
You're not telling me the truth.
You want me to believe that some guy hops in your truck
and you don't know what's going on.
Do you know who that young lady is that got killed?
- No, I don't.
That's Brenda's ex-boyfriend's girlfriend.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay?
And I've been talking to her today before you got down here.
You need to tell the truth.
- I'm telling you the truth. - No, you're not.
You were inside a vehicle that was used in a murder.
Why didn't you call 911 once you found out this happened?
- Because I didn't know it was on the news until yesterday
that I found out.
- I mean, you knew somebody got shot.
- I was scared for my life.
- I'm telling you right now,
I don't believe this, bull(bleep).
You're telling me that he pulled in...
You pulled in into the garage into a cage
and to sit here with a guy pointing a gun at you
and your baby and you think I'm gonna believe that?
Nobody will believe that,
me or anybody else that hears this.
Nobody is gonna believe that.
- I understand.
- Young lady, you don't understand.
Whoever you are protecting is not more important
than your son, that is not a decision I can make for you.
- Right.
- Then you need to tell me the truth.
- Brenda just wanted me to take her purse, that's it.
- She wanted you to take her purse?
- She wanted me to do it, 500 just to take her purse.
Since I don't have a job, I'm not employed right now,
I don't have money.
- And how does this conversation start?
Has she told you about this girl before?
- No. - Or about her Her boyfriend?
- No. It was like, "ex," that's how she refers to him.
"Ex has girlfriend."
And I was like, "Okay."
And she's like, "I just want to know more about girlfriend,
that's it."
She's like, "I'll pay 500 to take her purse and that's it."
I said okay.
And then I was like, well, I don't wanna do that,
'cause I have a kid.
She's like, "Well, we'll pay a guy to come in
and take her purse and then we'll go from there."
- Where do you find this guy at?
- Just right there at the BMB pawn shop,
there's a pawn shop right there.
He's walking, I pull up, "Hey, you wanna make some--"
- You pull up in the parking lot?
- No, just driving by.
"Do you wanna make some quick money?"
He said, "Yeah,"
- Murders just don't happen like that.
People don't pick up strangers
and two strangers hop in the car
to go and steal someone's purse
and someone ends up shot in the head.
I just didn't buy that.
There was more truth in that story
than what she had previously told me,
but I still wasn't where I needed to be with her.
So you're sitting inside this Jeep,
inside this parking garage.
Why did you park where you parked at?
- I wanted somebody to see me.
I purposely parked there.
- Okay, so--
- Because I didn't know he had a gun, I really didn't know.
- Show me right here.
Draw me a nice picture of what this looks like
from the inside of this place and where you parked at.
- Okay, there's the main gate, right?
There's two cars, I parked in between two cars.
So he made me park there first,
'cause he said there's no cameras.
Then I told him it was this and it's a white Toyota.
- You show up there a little after seven
and you park, you sit there for a while,
and this car drives in.
What do you hear?
- "No, no, no, no!" - Who's saying no?
- I think it's the girl, Kendra.
And I hear, "No, no, no, no, no!"
That was it.
I didn't see how, where, what, I didn't know.
I really didn't know he had a gun,
he was just supposed to go in, get her purse hopefully.
- Okay.
When you asked the guy why did he shoot her, what'd he say?
- What did you do after you left the garage with this guy?
- I drove down,
dropped him off where he told me to drop him off.
I go get Brenda and I go home.
- Did you tell anybody about this?
- Nobody knows nothing.
[tense music]
- At that point, she just owned up to everything
that had happened and her part in it.
They have her in the vehicle, you can clearly see her,
and that's enough probable cause for an arrest.
- The information Crystal was able to provide for me
basically gave me the foundation for the investigation
and that Brenda was the mastermind.
Now I want to take this information
and try to use it with Brenda
to see if she gives me who the shooter was
and what the motive was.
Just got done talking to Crystal.
Had a very interesting conversation.
And I know that you haven't been truthful with me.
- Okay. - Okay?
I understand what it's like
to want something that you can't have.
I also know what it feels like to want something so bad
that you're willing to do anything for it.
Sometimes people do that for money,
sometimes people do that for attention,
and sometimes people do that for love, okay?
And so what I'm asking you for is for the truth.
[tense music]
- I mean, that's the truth, I wasn't driving.
- Do you really expect for me,
or for anybody else to believe
that this girl is dating this guy
that you're still in love with,
that's probably gonna marry this guy
that you're still in love with,
do you expect the world to believe
that you had nothing to do with this?
That you didn't have anything at all,
even though you made an arrangement
for this young lady to get in this vehicle?
You set that up.
Crystal, she's got a very good description
of how she ended up in that car
and how she ended up in that garage
that belongs to this young lady
that's dating your ex-boyfriend
that you still talk to all the time,
that you still converse with and share moments with.
Yes.
And it's not gonna take people a whole lot,
this isn't rocket science.
People will put this together very fast.
That's why I'm asking you, why?
- Honestly, I'm telling you, there is no plan,
there's nothing.
There's no motive, I have no reason.
- Oh, there's plenty of motive, there's plenty of motive.
You cannot have him as long as she's alive.
Everybody has feelings
and everybody has a point where they break,
everybody has a wall, and that's what I think happened.
- No, I mean,
like I'm saying, it was just very casual.
- Casual doesn't end up with somebody dead.
- [Brenda] No, absolutely not.
- So why do you want his girlfriend dead?
- I don't, I don't even know who he was seeing,
I don't even know who he was dating.
- Okay.
You don't know? You don't know?
Give me a second.
- Can I just get my attorney at this time,
because I don't think we...
I mean, there's not...
I just need my attorney because you're not understanding me.
- You can have your attorney.
You can have your attorney, that's fine.
So you're terminating this interview?
- Yeah, I need my attorney, 'cause I'm done,
I'm tired and I just need my attorney too.
- Okay.
All right.
We were unable to charge her with murder at the time.
We didn't have enough solid evidence,
but Brenda had a couple of unpaid traffic tickets
that had turned into warrants,
and we decided to arrest her for her unpaid traffic tickets.
We decided that she needed to go to jail
and that that was all we could do at the time.
[tense music]
- She immediately left the United States
and headed to Mexico.
Lets you know that you're on the right track,
that this person is involved and in fact, in court,
flight can be introduced as evidence of guilt.
- Was one of those things that,
where it just kind of sucks the air out of you
for a second.
Once you step foot outside of the state of Texas,
my badge is no good anymore.
So at this moment, the focus of the case
was now identifying the shooter.
Crystal is our best witness.
If we are gonna get Brenda, if we are gonna get a shooter,
we're gonna have to use Crystal.
[tense music]
- Crystal did a sketch.
- What did he look like?
- He has medium dreads, kind of tall build,
skinny, slim.
- Crystal had also described the shooter having
a scar on his hand.
You want all the individuals
that are involved in the offense,
but almost certainly,
the person that had no qualms about getting out of a car
and just shooting someone in the head,
you're gonna want to get that person
and get that person off the street.
[tense music]
- We basically took Crystal's phone records,
Brenda's phone records,
and we were able to come up with a number
that was similar to both records
that they'd spoken with numerous times.
And we found that number was contacted
on the day of the murder.
- They identify who the phone number belongs to,
find out his name is Kristopher Love.
They're able to locate a actual photograph
of Kristopher Love and that he resembles the sketch
that Crystal had provided.
- One thing that I was able to learn about him
is that he'd been arrested numerous times in his life,
going all the way back to his juvenile years.
- He's got a criminal history for some violent offenses
and he had also done some time
for his involvement in those offenses.
- I feel pretty good about the possibility
that this is my shooter.
So we did a ping order on the phone,
which allowed for us every 15 minutes
to track a physical location of this phone.
[tense music]
The FBI noticed that the coordinates of the phone
started moving at the same time a blue Chrysler Sebring
was driving out of the parking lot.
FBI followed the blue Chrysler Sebring.
And once an individual got out of the car,
they made contact with him
and the individual was named Kristopher Love.
Outside of his physical appearance
and similarity to the sketch,
he also was in possession of this cell phone
that had been in contact with Brenda and Crystal
also on the day of the murder.
[sirens blaring]
The interview with Kristopher was very challenging.
He was pretty much unknown to the case
until a few minutes before
I'm sitting down with him in a room.
The surveillance video of the murder,
I couldn't 100% say that it's him,
'cause it's a grainy video,
but I'm gonna work him as long as I need to
to get him to tell me the truth.
My name's Detective Barnes.
I'm working a murder investigation.
Your name came up during the investigation, okay?
There was a dentist that was killed.
Have you heard anything about that?
[tense music]
- And so I need to speak with you in regards to this murder.
- All right.
- Lemme see your hands real quick, man.
I was looking at your hands earlier.
You got a scar right here on this hand.
What happened to your hand right here?
- Somebody shot me.
- You got shot? - Mm-hmm.
They tried to rob me in Memphis,
they tried to carjack me anyway,
bullet hit my hand right there.
- They noticed the scar on his hand
that Crystal had described the shooter having
and it's a match.
That by itself is enough of what we call probable cause,
but it wouldn't have been enough for a conviction.
- Okay.
Here's the thing, man,
me and my partner got called in on September 2nd
to work a murder over in Uptown.
You know where Uptown is in Dallas?
- No.
- Have you heard anything about that?
There was a dentist that was killed.
- A dentist? - A dentist, Kendra Hatcher,
was killed in the parking garage.
- Okay.
Do you know a female by the name of Crystal?
You don't know Crystal Cortes?
What about a Brenda Delgado?
- No.
- Have you ever seen this girl?
- I don't think so. - Okay.
What about this one?
- I don't know these people.
- Lemme ask you this,
have you ever rode in a black Jeep Cherokee?
- I ain't rode in no Jeep Cherokee.
- Okay. Your name came up in this investigation
as being friends with these two girls,
that you know these two girls.
- From where? Here?
- Well, I don't know how you met them,
that's why I'm talking to you today,
to figure out if you do know them,
and if you do know them,
maybe there's a reason why you know them.
- No.
- What I'm interested in is how your phone number
would end up in these girls' phones.
- Do you ever go to North Dallas?
No reason your phone records
would put you there either, is it?
- Why you say that?
- Because of this, this is crazy right here.
- What's crazy, what's crazy about it?
- This young lady right here,
who's able to very distinctly provide me details
about how you look and where she has been with you.
Now, for her not to know you,
she pulling a lot of damn details outta nowhere.
- I understand that.
And whatever you say is cool, but I didn't do this bro.
- I asked a yes or no question, sir.
- I just said she don't know me, no, she don't know me.
- Yeah, what you want to drink, man?
- I want some coffee, but I'll take anything.
- Why are these people talking like you are involved
in this situation, man?
- He's nonchalant, he doesn't know anything,
and he didn't do it.
This goes on for hours.
- So, we're rolling into the next morning.
At that point, we had been up all night
and we'd taken a break from the interrogation
to kind of refocus and reshift.
One of my coworkers went out to the auto pound
where Kristopher Love's car was at.
And the K9 began doing a sniff search on the blue Chrysler.
The canine alerted to gunpowder immediately
and they found a Smith & Wesson .40 caliber handgun
tucked behind the center console
on the passenger side of the vehicle.
The magazine laying next to the body
belonged to a .40 caliber, a Smith & Wesson handgun.
We did ballistic testing
and we knew it was the firearm for the murder.
It kind of gave me a second wind.
Everything kind of opened up for me again.
So I wanted to confront him with a picture of this firearm
and give him an opportunity to explain it.
[dramatic music]
[tense music]
- Detective Barnes confronted him with a murder weapon
and then, that's when you start seeing him being more willing
to share information.
- How did you get linked up with Brenda?
- So gimme a rundown of this day, man.
- How did you know what time to be there?
- Who else was in the car with y'all?
- And it was just you and Crystal in there?
- Yeah.
- What kind of conversation
did you have with Brenda about this?
- And she told you she was from the cartel?
- Yeah.
- And Kristopher is told that Brenda Delgado
is with the cartel and if he agrees to do this,
she'll make sure that he has enough cocaine
to sell for as long as he wants to sell cocaine.
So in his mind,
this is his way to go from being a small time drug dealer
to big time drug dealer, so he agrees to do it.
- Well, I mean, we gonna go get her.
You can promise that, you can be promised.
- Yeah, they ran some gang money.
The girl that got killed
was Brenda's ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend.
- Brenda's? - Yeah.
She ain't have nothing to do with any cartel,
she was just a dentist that go to work every day,
just a regular person.
- Okay, well, I'm gonna go knock this paperwork out.
- All right.
[handcuffs clicking]
It was a very quick
and shortlived round of high fives
going around the office, but I think the immediate thing
was what can we do now to get Brenda in custody?
[tense music]
- [Anchor] Brenda Delgado did not pull the trigger,
but police say she planned and paid for others
to carry out the heinous crime.
Now, she's become the ninth woman in history
to make the FBI's 10 most wanted lists
since it began in 1950.
- After placing her on this list,
we started receiving phone calls relaying intelligence
of where her whereabouts were at.
[pensive music]
- [Journalist] Did you kill that...
Did you kill the dentist?
- When I found out she was captured,
there was a lady that was sitting next to me,
complete random stranger.
I explained everything and I was like, "Can I have a hug?"
She's like, "Yeah," I gave a big hug.
So yeah, overwhelming feelings of joy.
[tense music]
- You've introduced me to new feelings
of absolute hatred and disgust,
things I've never thought I could feel before.
Your ability to destroy lives both emotionally
and physically is despicable and incomprehensible.
You are a shame of humanity
and you are a destroyer of lives.
May God have mercy on you.
- We tried Brenda's case eight months later.
The jury was only out 20 minutes
before they came back with a guilty verdict.
For capital murder, she received a life without parole.
- Brenda Delgado, justice has been served
for the people whose lives were touched in one way
or another by this incredible,
amazing woman,
who I was honored to be Kendra Hatcher's mother.
- There is no reason in the world
that that young lady should be dead, none.
She's completely innocent victim
that makes it even more ridiculous
for this to have taken place.
- After Brenda was found guilty,
me and my family were at the hotel
and there's this big rainbow
that's like, filling up the Dallas sky.
I can feel that she's kinda my guardian angel.
I want people to know that
when they do come across somebody like Kendra,
to really cherish it.
If it is true that the good die young,
then make every moment count.