Nov. 20, 2024

Betrayal: The Brian Davis Murder Case

Betrayal: The Brian Davis Murder Case

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In this episode of *Unspeakable*, KJ delves into a horrific case from Louisiana involving betrayal and murder, centered around Robin Davis and her best friend Sissy. Kelly explore the dynamics of Robin's troubled marriage to Brian, punctuated by their decision to remain legally married amid struggles stemming from Brian's health issues. As she recount the tragic events leading up to Brian's disappearance and subsequent discovery, Kelly analyzes the inconsistencies in Robin's narrative, her interactions with law enforcement, and the unraveling of her financial motives tied to significant life insurance policies. The chilling end to this one will leave you unspeakable.

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Timestamps
08:36 The Insurance Scandal
11:24 The Day of Disappearance
16:24 A Dead Body is Found
21:36 Investigating the Scene
38:09 Evidence of Deception
42:34 The Staged Crime Scene
50:27 The Life Insurance Bombshell

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning, Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's

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kJ You're back for anothers of unspeakable, and I'm bringing

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you straight to my state, the great state of Louisiana.

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Where are my people from Calcashue Parish? Where y'all at?

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I know I got some Calcashuians that listen to this.

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I know I do because they reach out to me

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and they talk to me. But and my stepsister lives

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there too, So shout out out in the Calcashue. But

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this parish, if you've never been here before, this parish

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is just one of the ones that you drive through

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and you feel like the people there are all just

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good folks. I'm dead serious too. It's like something out

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of the movies. It's one of those places where the

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bread and butter of that area is chemical and the

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refining industries. And one major component of that local economy

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there is they have an industrial airpark which does like

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aircraft refurbishment and maintenance, and so it's just like a

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bunch of hard working men and women that are earning

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their keep. You know, casinos too. Casinos are other large

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development of that area. And matter of fact, I posted

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some pictures on my Patreon recently of me at one

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of those casinos right there in Calcashue Parish, and most

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recently it was that Brett Young concert that I went to.

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So if you're on my Patreon and you saw me

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on there, that's where that was. And I also may

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or may not. I cannot confirm nor deny whether I

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attended a presidential event there in the past years, and

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I may or may not have been interviewed by the

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local news station there. Out of everyone in the area,

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they picked me. So you know, been there a time

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or two. And the port of Lake Charles is there.

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It's only thirty four miles from the Gulf of Mexico,

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and Lake Charles is also the proud home of McNeese

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State University. So I'm trying to give you some points

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here if you're not familiar that maybe you could hone

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in on where I'm talking about. And as as you

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can likely imagine, there there are endless miles of rivers

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and streams with boating and fishing everywhere. People enjoy hunting.

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Whether it's duck or dove, quail, rabbit, it doesn't matter.

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It's just another piece of sportsman's paradise. And this little

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piece of paradise was also the home of Robin Davis

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and her family. Now, Robin had been married to a

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man named Andrew Little, and the two of them produced

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two children, a son named Andrew and a daughter named Kelsey. Time, though,

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would take a toll on this marriage, and they decided

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to go their separate ways. Kind of. They kind of

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went their separate ways because Andrew had a horrible back

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and everyone who knew him knew how bad his back was,

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so Robin had carried the medical insurance for the family forever,

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and even with an impending divorce, they both recognized that

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this would have been a huge problem for him. Just

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because the marriage didn't work out didn't mean that they

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absolutely hated one another, and so his back troubles she

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recognized and he recognized as well, were so bad that

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there was no way he would be able to afford

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metal insurance on his own being unemployed. This is why,

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even though they went their separate ways sorta, they remained

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legally married, so Andrew would be able to keep quality insurance.

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Now this would last just eight years, because Andrew would

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be tragically killed in a car accident in two thousand

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and eight. Four years prior to Andrew's death, though, Robin

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met a new man and she was smitten with this

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new guy. His name was Brian, and from the time

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that they met, they were inseparable. Robin, if you're looking

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at her, looks like every middle aged woman you see

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shopping at Walmart. I'm not even playing with you. And

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if you go look at the pictures I post, you'll say, yup,

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she nailed it. I don't even have to say any

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more than that. She looks like every single woman shopping

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at Walmart. She's got an average build of a woman

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her age. She has this yellow blonde hair and it's

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in that really short, kind of stacked back haircut with

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a little bit of a longer bang in the front

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and she kind of pulls down those two little side

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pieces in front of her ears. She has these blue eyes,

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and her skin looks a bit weathered from the sun

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my opinion looking at her, which is just my opinion,

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but it's probably from time spent fishing and swimming and

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someone who's just been raised in the South and been

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outdoors a lot. And she also has kind of a

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little bit y'all, don't come after me when I say this.

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I'm just being honest, okay, But she has a little

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bit of a neck waddle that kind of dangles a

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little bit, and it's not huge, but it is pronounced

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enough for me to mention it so you can get

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the full picture of what Robin looks like now. Brian,

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Brian's a big dude, and when I first saw him,

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I almost thought that he was similar to Jerry Springer's

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bouncer back back in the day in his show. You

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remember Steve Wilcos, y'all remember him, He kind of made

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me think of him. Brian is completely bald and a

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solid dude. If you're looking at him. He too had

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blue eyes. He often sported a goat facial hair, and

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he had nice straight teeth, but he had a prominent

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gap between the top two on the top. Nothing wild,

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just noticeable when he smiled. And he was ten really

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tan actually, and you can just tell by looking at

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him that he is an absolute outdoorsman. They were both

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in their forties and that's not old. I'm learning that,

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you know why, because I just turned forty, and I'm like, man,

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looking back on this. When I was younger, looking forward,

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I thought it would take forever, and hell, I just

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popped right up at forty. But they were both in

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their forties two and definitely adults, but they had a

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whole lot of life left to live. They dated for

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four years when Brian finally popped the question to Robin

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and she happily said yes. So they got married in

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two thousand and eight, after the death of that first

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husband that she was still legally married to. Now this

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was Brian's third marriage, Robin's second. Both Robin and Brian

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were working class people. They both held which both actually

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were in the insurance business. Robin, though, had been fired

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a year after getting married because she got wrapped up

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in a situation that she didn't actually take part in

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per se. But hm, I'll tell you what happened, you

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decide what you think about it. So she worked for

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Union National Life Insurance where her best friend, also named Robin,

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but I will refer to as Cissy because that was

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her nickname. She worked there too. Now, if you've heard

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this story before, I want you to know that every

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other person in America apparently never looked at any of

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the actual documentation of this crime because both women in

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this In this case, both women were named Robin. A

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lot of times you'll hear Sissy referred to as Carol,

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but I'll let you know that they both were legally

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named Robin. But in this story, when I'm telling it

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to you, I'll call Robin as the wife and then Cissy,

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which was Robin's best friend, and they enjoyed working together,

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and everyone knew these two ladies were tied at the

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hip okay, best friends of life BFFs. It was discovered though,

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by the company that Cissy was believed to be embezzling funds,

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and after a thorough investigation, she was fired in March

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of two thousand and nine. Now, while Robin was never

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accused of embezzlement herself, Robin was terminated just one week

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after Cissy because the company believed that Robin knew about

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Cissy's embezzling but just failed to speak up. So you

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can say what you want about it, but considering how

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tight these two women were, I personally feel like she

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knew about it too and just wasn't saying anything, And

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I think that being fired for that is a reasonable,

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a reasonable, reasonable thing to do. After her firing, Brian

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was still working. He never quit working, and he was

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the one that was making ends meet for the couple. Now,

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Brian worked as an insurance premium collector from Union National

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Life in Lafayette and made a decent living there, but

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it wasn't anything extravagant. Basically, Brian's role was to physically

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go door to door or go to homes of the

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policyholders and collect their payments. So they would hand him

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cash or check or money orders, but he would physically

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go collect those premiums. And this did have him in

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sketchier parts of town, but he could handle himself. He

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was a bigger guy. He felt confident in what he did,

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and he was also known to carry a weapon with him,

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either on his person or in his car. He always

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had that weapon should some type of safety issue arise.

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Brian originally was born in New Orleans, but he grew

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up in Independence, Louisiana. And if you are kind of

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looking on a map, this is going to be near Hammond,

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Louisiana and the Tickfall area if you're not from here,

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but maybe you know those areas. And he turned out

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like damn near every man that I know. I'm not kidding.

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He was an age an avid fisherman. He loved the

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great outdoors and in his spare time, he liked to

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sing karaoke, He played golf, and he participated in competitive shooting.

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I mean shit, if I had not already told you

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this man's name, I'm telling you right now. The description

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sounds like my own dad. Okay, my dad's name is Chuck, though,

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so whew, he's not in my story. There's no Chuck

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in this story. So shout out, daddy if you're listening.

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But this story ain't about you. Now. Robin and Brian

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were living their days and living their lives day to day,

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yet they always made time to spend with one another

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when they could. When Brian wasn't working, they did like

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to go spend some time together. So where they were

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in life. When this story really takes place is that

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Brian was hoping in the really really near future to

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buy a boat of his own. He was already shopping

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around and he could not wait to make that jump

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into being an owner of a boat. So in the

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morning of Monday, June twenty ninth, two thousand and nine,

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Brian and Robin had big plans. He left for work

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early that morning, and he drove their Trailblazer to work

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because they also had a Honda, but the Honda was

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having wheel trouble, so he left early around or he

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went to work, I'm sorry, he went to work early,

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and then he left work early as well and came

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back home around eleven am to pick up his wife Robin,

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where they went boat shopping together in Lake Charles. And

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this was something Brian was ecstatic to be doing. I mean,

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that's why he played hooky and left work early to

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really go pick out this boat. Then they went to

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a second place called Jerry's Marine in Sulfur, Louisiana. The

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two of them got back home around two or three

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that afternoon, where Brian decided to switch back from the

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Trailblazer into the Honda before heading to Beaumont to keep

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boat shopping. So when they came back from boat shopping

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and switched the vehicles, Robin had a bunch of airin

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that she needed to run. So the plan was for

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him to go continue boat shopping, and she jumped in

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the Trailblazer to head off, you know, in the safer

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of the two vehicles, since that Honda was supposedly having

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that wheel trouble. So she went in the Trailblazer out

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to go do her thing, and he left in the

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other car to go to Beaumont. Her errands that she

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was running were very small, practical errands. She had to

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go grocery shopping. She said she was going to go

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get an oil change, and when she got home, she

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just waited for Brian to get back from his shopping trip.

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But that day turned into evening and Brian wasn't back

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at the house, so she got a little nervous, you know,

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where is he? She kind of was pacing back and forth,

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and then evening turned into night and Brian still was

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not back home, so she attempted to call Brian, but

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the call went straight to voicemail. Now he was talking

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boats and there was also some bad weather that had

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hit the area, So maybe he left for home and

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he had hit some bad weather and then that had

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him delayed. So in her mind, you know, maybe he

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was talking boats so he wasn't answering, and then when

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he got back in the car, like I said, bad weather,

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so it slowed him down a bit. When he never

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came home though, into the wee hours of that next morning,

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Robin got really upset and so she decided to call

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police and report him missing. Unfortunately, though we all know this,

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Brian's an adult, and because there were no suspicious circumstances

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following his disappearance or her thinking he was missing, she

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was going to have to wait until that twenty four

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hour mark to make the report. So up all night

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and stressed out. The first thing the next morning, which

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would have been a Monday, Robin jumped on the phone

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with Brian's work and was asking his coworker and district manager.

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His name was David Gizardo. She asked him, Hey, have

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you seen Brian? Last taw him going out to the

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boat shop. He never made it back home? Did he

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just drive into work? But no one had seen him

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and he hadn't called into work either. David was like,

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I haven't spoken to him, he didn't call in, which

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is weird, and really he was of no help to Robin.

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So that day came and went, and finally that twenty

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four hour mark hit. So Robin did as she was told.

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She called the police back again and they came out

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around four point thirty that afternoon, and that's when Officer Chatman,

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not to be confused with Chapmen like producer Jimothy, this

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is Officer Chatman. He took the report. Brian was not

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located and no one was able to get in touch

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with him. So, you know, at this point, it really

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did seem like there was a problem, and all Robin

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really could do was hope and pray. That's all that

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was left to do. Not many knew this next little

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tidbit of information though, and it was definitely something that

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was in the back of Robin's mind. Brian had made

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an indiscretion in their marriage. Previously, Robin had learned just

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a few months earlier, in about the month of March,

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that Brian was having an affair. The woman's name was

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Fanny Deets and she was a coworker of Brian's. Now,

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both Fanny and Brian were married, So you can imagine

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the total frickin' shit show that erupted whenever this little

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rendezvous came to light. Well, not someone just to take

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it on the chin. Robin, when she found out, was pissed,

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and she went up to the workplace and she confronted

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Fanny right then and there and told her you better

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stay away from my husband. Her words, though, were nothing

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compared to Fanny's husband's words, because when he found out,

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he was much more aggressive in his response. He not

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only showed up to the place of business, but he

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was threatening to beat Brian's ass in front of everybody.

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It got pretty heated. He also made it very clear

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that he had plans to do everything in his power,

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anything that he could to get Brian fired from his job.

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So Robin wasn't sure in the back of her mind

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if Brian had really run off with Fanny, and she

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wasn't sure should I be mad right now or should

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I be scared? Because if Brian is seriously missing, then

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I want to be sad. But if you ran off

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with this other woman, I'm fucking mad, you know. But

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she's kind of in this little midway of not quite

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knowing what to do and then another day and night

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would pass with no word from Brian. But on Tuesday,

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July first, a dead body would shake up the people.

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Near Big Lake Road. Someone was out testing the off

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road capabilities of a jeep and they were driving in

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this not so common area of this Big Lake Road

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where he came upon the body of a deceased white

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male next to a Honda Accord. So deputies were called

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out and when they responded to that scene, they sure

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enough found the victim deceased on the ground next to

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the vehicle. So at first glanced when they were looking

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at the scene, it looked like the man was in

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the midst of changing a tire when something happened. The

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car's trunk was popped open, the doors were all open,

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and the car was jacked up on a jack. So

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it was clear that this man was in no way

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dead by because of being hit by a car while

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he was changing the tire. Nor was this natural causes

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such as a heart attack. No, that wasn't the case either.

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This had to be the result of foul play because

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the victim had been shot four times. No one shoots

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themselves four times in a suicide, and certainly not in

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the middle of changing a tire. The man had been

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shot three times in the chest and one time in

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the head. His clothing was amiss too, and the detectives

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took note of this. His belt was unbuckled and his

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shoes were off, and then one sock was also off,

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So the question became, had he been getting undressed while

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he was killed? Investigators just weren't sure about it. So

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detectives looked around and they were able to locate one

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live round next to the vehicle. Live round meaning it

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had not actually been shot out of the gun, if

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you're unfamiliar with that terminology. So the bullet was on

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the ground, but it was not a fired bullet, and

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it wasn't a casing of a bullet. It was a

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live round. And this spoke to the investigators at the

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scene who were trying to reconstruct what happened. Detectives felt

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like this meant maybe the shooter wasn't very familiar with

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the firearm that they were using. Why did they think this?

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I want to explain this to you. If someone isn't

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familiar with all of the safety functions of a particular weapon,

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it's likely that a person might pull a trigger to

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shoot but it it clicked or you know, nothing happened.

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So the shooter then racked the weapon and then it

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ejected a live round. They realized the issue, then fixed

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it quickly, and then began actively shooting. Well, this is America,

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and I'm gonna tell you something, I don't care what's

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written in a report. I still think we as individuals

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have a right to look and scrutinize and think about

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a situation. And it just didn't sit right with me.

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I didn't like the thought process that the investigators had

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on why that live round was there, and it bothered

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me so much. Now, granted, I'm gonna tell you this,

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I'm not a crime scene expert, but I do know

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basic weapons function, okay, And I just the way they

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were explaining it in the report, I just didn't agree

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with it. And I think that we all have a

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right to disagree. And I wanted to think about it more.

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If if the gun was racked, okay, and the person

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who racked the gun was so unfamiliar with it that

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they had to figure out the issue, then Brian, who's

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known to shoot his own weapons and to always carry

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a weapon, he would have heard that. He would have

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heard the weapon rapped, and they're just to me, would

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not have been enough time to assess how to fix

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the weapon and then shoot him again before he turned

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around and noticed or heard what was happening. They just

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didn't make sense to me. So someone pointed a gun

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at him, maybe he was down changing the tire. They

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tried to pull the trigger, it didn't work, so they

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racked the gun. The live round came out. Then they

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were able to look and then fix the safety and

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then start shooting. I don't know, it just didn't play

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out to me like that. So I did what I

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would hope anyone who maybe had some questions did, and

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that is I'm just not going to be the podcaster

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who repeats what she reads. I refuse to do that.

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I try to think and really assess information about crimes.

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So I called a good friend of mine in law

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enforcement who has worked many homicides and is a firearms

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a really good firearms person, and we discussed it, and

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this is what we came up with, and we both

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agreed that this is what we think happened. We don't

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think a safety was on I think there was never

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a safety that was on on the weapon. The shooter

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thought the gun didn't have a round in the chamber.

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That's what I think happened. So the shooter grabbed the gun,

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wrapped it real quick, but that expelled the unspent round

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that was already in the chamber, and then started shooting

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upon the realization, before Brian could even realize what happened.

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That would just take seconds, and you wouldn't have to

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be familiar with the weapon, you know what I'm saying.

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You wouldn't have had to go think through this whole process, regardless,

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And I hope I've explained well what I'm trying to say,

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but regardless, that is my opinion based on the things

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that I saw and the things that I read. But

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it's up to you. You can believe what you want

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to believe. None of us were there, So regardless of

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whatever you or I think or believe, none of us

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were there. The consensus was that the shooter was standing

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over the victim that was over when the shooter shot

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him in the back, and then as a natural reaction,

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the man would have turned and faced the source of

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being shot, and then two more times in the chest

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he would get at boom boom, and then a kill

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shot directly into the head. This would have taken mere seconds,

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but seconds filled with brutality and murder on the mind.

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This was no accident for any reason, and an astute

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investigator also noted something else. The victim's hint of accord

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wasn't muddy. It was not muddy at all, matter of fact,

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and this was really important to investigators because that would

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mean the vehicle had to have arrived at the scene

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where the man was killed before it had begun raining

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on that Sunday, and this was important to investigators. The

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meteorology report from the Lake Charles Airport confirmed that the

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rain began around three forty five pm and it lasted

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until seven pm that night, so this helped to establish

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a relative timeline of the latest he could have arrived

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at the location before being shot. There was no way

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on this road where this car was parked that he

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would not have mud all over it if he had

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started driving it after the rain had started. So once

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the outside of the scene was processed, detectives then decided

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to move inside of the vehicle, so pulling the registration

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from the vehicle, the owner of the Honda was listed

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as none other than Robin Davis, who, after a brief

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check was found to have just reported her husband, William

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Brian Davis missing just a day prior. Police were also

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able to locate a driver's license in the car and

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it was in fact Brian's driver's license. Now, he couldn't

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be identified one hundred percent as her husband Brian exclusively

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until further testing was done, but for sure the IDs

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matched and it sure did look like it was Brian.

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But until then, the coroner was called and he would

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come to pick up the body, and eventually an autopsy

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was done by doctor Terry Welke, and he estimated that

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the body's time of death was sometime after twelve noon

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on Sunday, June twenty ninth. Reports would eventually come back

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and based on the dental records as well as some

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unique tattooing that were on the body, that this was

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in fact Brian Davis. Whoever did this meant business and

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never wanted Brian to walk or talk again, So doctor

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Welkee ruled it actually could be doctor Welk as well.

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But I've heard it both ways, So what do you

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all want me to say? I'm just gonna say welky

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and if I'm wrong, a Weelkie bad joke, all right,

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So doctor Welke ruled Brian's death was absolutely a homicide,

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and so this meant investigators had work to do. They

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had a lot cut out for them. But their next

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step was, unfortunately, to go break the news to his wife, Robin.

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So a detective Brent Young, not to be confused with

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the concert I attended. Brent Young was there when the

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sad news was broken to Her response was visceral, dry heaving,

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eventually vomiting, lost control. Basically, the love of her life

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was gone and she was never going to see him again,

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and police looked on with pity as she processed the

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gravity of what had just been told to her. They

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gave her some time, and once she was able to

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catch her breath and gather herself, police needed her to

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answer some questions as best she could, considering the circumstances

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that she was under. In the emotions that she was feeling,

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Robin was able to power through and she was able

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to be helpful to those investigators asking those questions, Starting

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with his plans for the last day that she had

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seen him, Robin said that he was supposed to go

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boat shopping in Beaumont. She said that he had been

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scrounging away little bits of money here and there, and

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he had saved up seven hundred dollars towards this new boat.

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Whenever she was asked does Brian have any enemies, she

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was very honest with them and she told them, Look,

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there had been an affair between Brian and Fanny at

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his work. Brian's husband was pissed. His name was Shane,

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and Shane was very much an enemy after the interaction

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that they had had. So now investigators wondered, is it

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possible that Brian's death was related to this affair? You

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00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:23.839
certainly wonder when cheating is involved and then someone ends

461
00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:25.599
up debt. We all know that that's one of the

462
00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:31.599
biggest motives of murder is sex. So police extended their condolences,

463
00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:33.720
They thanked Robin for her time, and then they left

464
00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.400
her there to grieve and to process everything. They had

465
00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:39.039
way more work to do. They had people that they

466
00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:41.680
wanted to go talk to as this dragnet seemed to

467
00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.559
widen in potential suspects and people they needed to speak to,

468
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.839
and the top of that list was obvious Fanny and

469
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:51.000
her husband Shane. So through the magic of the Internet,

470
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:54.279
I can tell you that I was interested in the

471
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:59.839
fact that Shane looks similar to Brian in his most

472
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:05.480
recent pictures. Shane is a man's man. He's a tall fella,

473
00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.920
clean shaven head, and he had a long go tee.

474
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:11.960
Fanny got a type, y'all. I hate to say that,

475
00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:17.359
but Fanny got a tight Fanny has short brown hair,

476
00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:20.400
she has really thin eyebrows, and she has a pretty smile.

477
00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:25.079
Both of them outward appearances, they seem to be nice people,

478
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:28.119
where Fanny may have been someone who had just got

479
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:30.680
caught up in a situation that should have never happened.

480
00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:35.160
But I guess they worked together and things had escalated. Regardless.

481
00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:40.880
Police had questions. As they questioned them, Fanny was completely upfront.

482
00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.359
She confirmed that she and Brian had had an affair

483
00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:45.519
for about a year and a half, but it had

484
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.519
ended back in March of two thousand and nine when

485
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:52.920
Robin confronted her. When asked about shame, she said, yes,

486
00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:57.079
he absolutely confronted Brian, but he never threatened him. That's

487
00:27:57.079 --> 00:27:59.359
a bit of a discrepancy from what others had said.

488
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.880
She was also willing to show detectives their quote unquote

489
00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:05.920
spot that they would often meet up when they were

490
00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:10.119
having their little rendezvous, which was Henry Pew Boulevard, which

491
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:16.400
coincidentally runs into Big Lake Road near Calcashue Point Landing,

492
00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:21.079
which is where Brian's body was found. Brian's body was

493
00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:25.079
found less than a mile from that Calcashu Point Landing.

494
00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.200
A look at Fanny's cell phone records showed that she

495
00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.000
was in the Iota and the Crowley area on June

496
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.640
twenty ninth, which would have been a few exits away

497
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:40.960
from where Brian's body was found. Interestingly, though her phone

498
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:46.359
records showed no activity between nine twenty eight am and

499
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:50.640
four fifty six pm, this would have given her time

500
00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:55.519
to possibly be involved in this murder. The exits, though,

501
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:58.599
were pretty far apart, and she would have definitely needed

502
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:01.480
help to get from point O point B in all

503
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:05.839
the time frames that were being set. Assumptions would be

504
00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:09.079
the man scorned would have been the one to help

505
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:10.599
her too. I think we could all agree that her

506
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:12.839
husband would likely be the one to help her because

507
00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:16.200
he's the one who's pissed. Her husband, Shane's phone records

508
00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:18.640
showed that he was not even in the Lake Charles

509
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.680
area at all on June twenty ninth, but again, there

510
00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:25.559
was a gap of several hours between any phone calls

511
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:30.200
by him, and that included text messages too. He had

512
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.880
to call at two point fifty pm and then there

513
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:37.200
was a nothing, zero, zilch on his phone until he

514
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.240
got a text message at ten point fifty four pm.

515
00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:45.480
So some large gaps in these phone records. So needing

516
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:50.039
more information to determine their actual locations established their alibis

517
00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:53.000
if they were true or not. The police went to

518
00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:55.359
Shane's work where he claimed to be the whole time,

519
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:59.480
and lo and behold, Shane was telling the truth. Shane's

520
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.519
boss even verified that Shane was at work the entire

521
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.160
day in question and was never Ever he would have

522
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.359
never had the opportunity to go and come back and

523
00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:12.839
to have committed this crime. So while this path to

524
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:16.839
Brian's murder started out looking like the typical affair turned murder,

525
00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:20.039
it simply wasn't the case. It couldn't have been because

526
00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:23.759
of their respective locations and the time frames and some

527
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.480
other things that were just really detailed down into the minutia.

528
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:28.480
It's boring and I didn't get into it, but they

529
00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:32.759
didn't do it. They couldn't have. On July ninth, about

530
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:36.759
a week later, police were no closer to solving this

531
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:39.240
case than they were when they started, and that has

532
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:41.000
to be a sick feeling. I mean, within the first

533
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:42.920
forty eight you want to have a really, really good lead.

534
00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:47.599
So detectives asked Robin for permission to search their home

535
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.960
as well as the vehicles, just to see what's going

536
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.160
on in there, and she said absolutely, you can check

537
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:57.559
whatever you want. Even her son Justin helped police and

538
00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:00.799
they were able to locate a box of brian ammunition

539
00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:05.359
in the Trailblazer. That wasn't strange though, because this was

540
00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.319
the car he usually used, and the ammo that was

541
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.440
in there was nine milimeters hydra shock rounds, and this

542
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:16.200
is one of the most popular self defense ammunitions on

543
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.359
the market, used by law enforcement and gun enthusiasts. I'm

544
00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:23.160
not saying it's popular amongst just the average joe, but

545
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:25.480
certainly people who like to shoot a lot and law

546
00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:29.599
enforcement they'll use those hydra shock rounds. So it made

547
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.519
sense because Brian was an average shooter that this he

548
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:35.839
would carry those rounds because a nine milimeter again is

549
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.400
also a popular weapon of choice for people who carry

550
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:40.640
I mean I personally carry a Compact nine, a little

551
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.759
small one. Her name's tiff By the way, if you're curious,

552
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.720
her name's Tiffany because she's that Tiffany blue. We call

553
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.720
her tiff. I name my weapons. I don't know if

554
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.400
you do, but it's personal. She's gonna save my life.

555
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:53.640
We might as well be friends. But nothing much else

556
00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.279
was found in terms of evidence or obvious red flags.

557
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:01.599
And Robin also gave her formal stay that same day,

558
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:04.559
and she basically repeated the same thing that she had

559
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:08.160
said days before. She mentioned that they went boat shopping together.

560
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:10.759
She said that they stopped at a Kroger to get

561
00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:13.000
Brian's daughter, her name was Bailey, to get her some

562
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.519
soup because she was sick, and that she needed to

563
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:20.519
get something to eat and drink. Now, Robin's best friend,

564
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.960
who I told you, was also named Robin, but people

565
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.960
call her Carol, but her nickname is Sissy. To be specific,

566
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:31.160
she went by the name Sissy. She was Robin Saltzman

567
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:36.480
versus Robin Davis. Now, she was there absolutely one hundred

568
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.200
percent supportive of her best friend who was clearly dealing

569
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.480
with a lot. A cheating spouse now a dead spouse,

570
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:47.000
murdered by God knows who, and Sissy herself. She felt

571
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:48.680
like she had lost a good friend and Brian. They

572
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:53.079
were all really, really close. Sissy had even previously lived

573
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:56.839
with the Davises for three years. That's how tight this.

574
00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:00.000
This group was very tight knit group, always helping you

575
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:03.759
each other out during good times and bad. She had

576
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:07.440
also been with Robin whenever she went to run errands.

577
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.640
That day of Brian's disappearance, they had ridden together. Robin

578
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:13.359
picked up Sissy and they chatted it up while they

579
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.160
were just running their errands, just trying to make it

580
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:18.640
more fun than it would be by yourself. The thing

581
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.319
about detectives, though, is that it's their job to not

582
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:23.839
only listen to what people tell them, but also to

583
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:28.759
challenge everything that people tell them, and not an accusatory way.

584
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:30.480
I don't want to seem like that, more like in

585
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:34.440
a confirmation type way. So they decided to follow up

586
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.680
with other family and friends about the knowledge of Brian

587
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:41.359
and his whereabouts on his last day. A lot everyone

588
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.359
they spoke to, for the most part, echoed the same

589
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:51.839
thing Robin said, except for one small, tiny detail. Catherine Davis,

590
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:56.240
this was Brian's sister. She said that Robin told her

591
00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:02.519
Brian never returned from Kroger. Robin told the detectives that

592
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.519
they went boat shopping after returning from Coger from Kroger,

593
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:12.079
So this definitely was nothing big per se, but it

594
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.679
was gonna be noted as a discrepancy between what had

595
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.840
been told. Detectives also spoke to a woman named Amy Davis.

596
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:24.199
This was Brian's sister in law, and she validated much

597
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:26.880
of what Robin said as well, and she even added

598
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.400
to the fact that she herself decided to call the

599
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:33.000
boat dealership in Beaumont where Brian was headed whenever he

600
00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:38.320
never returned back home, and the boat dealership remembered that

601
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:40.519
Brian called to say that he was on his way,

602
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:43.760
but they verified he never made it there. So the

603
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:49.719
timeline matched everything detectives knew up until this point. So,

604
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:53.800
deciding to take a different approach, a detective Young followed

605
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:56.559
up with phone records to see if cell phones matched

606
00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:59.360
the shopping trip of Robin and Cissy. They wanted to

607
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:03.880
really clarify this timeline. In the records, a call was

608
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:07.960
made by Robin at three point fifty PM. Now that

609
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:12.400
call pinged off of a tower on a road called

610
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:16.239
Elliott Road in Lake Charles, which was very curious to

611
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:20.880
this detective. It was curious and that that particular tower

612
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:24.239
that it was pinging off of was actually south of

613
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:29.079
the area where Robin claimed to be running errands. It

614
00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:32.440
just wasn't the tower that they would have expected her

615
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:38.360
cell phone to ping off of. Detectives. I mean, it

616
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:43.000
could have been just an issue in I guess you

617
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.199
could say, in the science of it all, but it

618
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.119
was something that they wanted to write down because it

619
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:50.239
just was a little too far south from where she

620
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:55.320
should have been pinging from. Detectives then decided, well, let's

621
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:57.480
look into their financial records. We got nothing else to

622
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.000
look at, and let's see if there's any obvious issue

623
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.480
was there. Robin had been already honest with detectives though,

624
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:08.400
and told them, look, our financial situation isn't very good. Specifically,

625
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:12.000
their account was overdrawn by almost eight hundred dollars. She

626
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:14.920
also told them we haven't paid our house notes since March,

627
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:18.199
and their financial stresses were so bad. She said, we

628
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:20.719
even canceled our car insurance because we couldn't afford it.

629
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:25.320
Robin said that she also had an inkling that Brian

630
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:28.559
was gambling more than he admitted and that he was

631
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:32.639
wasting more money than she actually knew about. But she said,

632
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:35.199
I don't have any proof of this. It just seems

633
00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:39.519
like that's what's going on. So now they're wondering could

634
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:41.960
Brian have been killed for a gambling debt or did

635
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.840
he owe the wrong person money and didn't pay up.

636
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.159
But then it begs the question, why would you go

637
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:52.960
boat shopping if you're that broke, knowing you can't afford it,

638
00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:56.280
why would you spend all this time looking at boats?

639
00:36:56.719 --> 00:37:00.079
Well this was answered in an interview with Daryl Pettif,

640
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:03.239
who worked at Jerry's Marine. That was the second place

641
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:06.239
where Robin and Brian had gone boat shopping the day's disappearance.

642
00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:10.519
According to him, Brian and Robin were looking at a

643
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:15.239
thirty thousand dollars boat, and Brian, in talking with the salesman,

644
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:17.840
explained that he planned to pay for the boat with

645
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:20.159
a lump sum of cash that he was getting in

646
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:24.480
the near future. Okay, well, you have to kind of

647
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:27.280
ask yourself, was this truth or was this just bs

648
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.559
of a man wanting, you know, to talk with the salesperson,

649
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.840
the salesperson taking seriously and given the time of day,

650
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:36.119
or was it just kind of bs. People lie all

651
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.400
the time about money, but it just doesn't seem necessary

652
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:41.880
if you were just looking and not planning to buy.

653
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:46.519
So more days would pass, and it was now July thirteenth,

654
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:49.280
which was twelve days since Brian was found dead. Again,

655
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:56.400
Robin's story didn't change, just some additional tidbits of little

656
00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:59.840
bits of information were added here and there in the information.

657
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:03.800
For example, detectives found that Cissy used the Honda Accord

658
00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:08.039
from time to time. That wasn't really mentioned before, but whatever,

659
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:10.639
they shared the car with her. Robin said, the morning

660
00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:14.239
of Brian's disappearance, the Honda wasn't even at the house

661
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:18.039
because she said Cissy had driven it home the night before.

662
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:21.320
Why was this? Detectives wanted to know, and I know

663
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:24.840
I wanted to know too. She explained that Cissy accidentally

664
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:27.719
had left her headlights on in her own car and

665
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.280
so her car wouldn't start when she tried to leave

666
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:35.119
the night before. So after Brian left for work that morning,

667
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:38.760
Robin said she jumped Cissy's car off so she could

668
00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:42.719
drive to the drug store. Robin then called Sissy and

669
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.639
told her, Hey, the Jetta's good and you can come

670
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:48.559
pick it up. So Cissy then went and picked up

671
00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:51.960
the Jetta, left the Honda back at the Davis's house

672
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:56.119
while Robin and Brian were still boat shopping. Then, as

673
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:59.599
Robin has already said multiple times, she and Brian split

674
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:02.800
ways between two thirty and three. She said she did

675
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.000
talk to Brian around three o'clock while driving to Cissy's house,

676
00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:08.039
where she had to wait for Sissy to get ready

677
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:09.880
a little bit, and the two of them went to

678
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:13.199
the cleaners, to Albertson's and then returned back to the

679
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:18.559
Davis's residence. So, after Robin has repeated the same story

680
00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:23.320
to the detectives three times, they posed a question to her.

681
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:27.960
They said, if you were shopping with Cissy, which you've

682
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.840
confirmed three separate times to us, why is your phone

683
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:36.159
pinging on a tower south of the area after you

684
00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:39.639
have been very clear as to the places that you went.

685
00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:44.679
So Robin is just staring at them, not knowing exactly

686
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:48.199
much about towers and all that, and she's shocked and

687
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:51.280
she's like, I have never been in that area. I

688
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:55.199
only went to that area after I found out that

689
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:58.800
Brian was murdered there. I went there after, but I

690
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:02.880
did not go there before. She just couldn't explain how

691
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:06.800
this could be. She was damn near dumbfounded. So police

692
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:10.320
still needed to figure out what had happened, and this

693
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.599
was proving really difficult, so they went back to the

694
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:18.000
physical evidence. The bullets recovered from Brian's body were found

695
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.440
to also be hydro shocks, and the cartridge casings found

696
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.800
at the scene were as well, So the evidence pointed

697
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:29.159
to the likelihood that Brian was killed with his own gun.

698
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:34.119
The chances of being shot with hydroshock AMMO, carrying it

699
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.639
in your vehicle, and being known to have it on

700
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.400
you isn't something that detectives were just going to chalk

701
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:44.400
up to chance. That seems pretty coincidental, and we don't

702
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:49.000
believe in coincidences. So police also we're starting to believe

703
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.199
that this whole crime scene was staged. It just stump

704
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:56.840
of something's not right. In order to protect the tire

705
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.840
from further damage during the towing process when they took

706
00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:03.760
the car into evidence, a deputy on scene had removed

707
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.639
the damaged tire and went ahead and put this spare

708
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:09.880
tire on. They didn't want to further damage the flat tire.

709
00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:13.760
They then took that flat tire to Southern Tire Mart

710
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.480
to determine exactly what was wrong with it. So the

711
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.519
store manager took over this process. He looked it over,

712
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:24.079
he assessed the tire, He looked over completely, and he

713
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:28.960
found a whole bunch of nothing wrong with it. He

714
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:33.840
made a point to say that if this tire had

715
00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:36.679
been driven in the area where you're saying this car

716
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.960
was found, there would certainly have been damaged to this tire.

717
00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:44.440
It would not look like this, he said. I also

718
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:48.440
refilled it with air and there's no flat, there's no hole.

719
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:52.079
It's not leaking either. So they're like, nothing's wrong with

720
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:54.280
the tire. He says, nothing is wrong with the tire.

721
00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:57.000
They even were able to pull up records that showed

722
00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:59.719
that very tire had been recently purchased. It was a

723
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:05.880
new tire. Someone had to have deflated that tire. There

724
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.079
was no other explanation for it to be flat on

725
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:11.320
the side of that desolate road. And there was another

726
00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.280
thing that stuck out sorely to them as well. Guess

727
00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:19.960
what Brian had in his trunk a compressor. So it

728
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.320
begs the question, why would you change a perfectly good

729
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:29.000
tire on the side of a rural road, You wouldn't. Okay. Also,

730
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.719
why wouldn't you just air it up with the compressor

731
00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:35.760
if it went flat instead of completely changing it? You

732
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:38.280
know what I'm saying, That's what you would do. This,

733
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:43.440
my friends, was a staged crime scene. So the Southwest

734
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:47.039
Louisiana Crime Lab examined the fingerprints that were lifted from

735
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.760
the scene. They looked at the carjack the windows, there

736
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.599
was an iPod in the car, a spare tire realm,

737
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:55.480
the mirror, and the sun visor. To be very specific

738
00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:58.199
at what they looked at, and the only fingerprint that

739
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.079
they were able to identify was Robin's. Now, I know

740
00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:04.000
what you're thinking, Well, they shared the car, of course

741
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:06.400
her fingerprints would be in there. To say, okay, I

742
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:11.400
agree with you. Makes sense. The issue that police now

743
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:16.880
had was what wasn't there? There was no other female

744
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.960
DNA recovered from the scene, meaning if the theory that

745
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:25.079
they now were going to have to go to was

746
00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:28.280
that maybe he had been seduced or had gone to

747
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.000
that secluded area to have a rendezvous with Fanny or

748
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:35.400
maybe some other woman. Hell we don't know, her DNA

749
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:39.320
would be there, but it wasn't. There was no one

750
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.320
else's DNA, So now you have to wonder why was

751
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:46.880
he there in the first place, why was his belt undone,

752
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:51.199
and why was he changing a perfectly good tire. So

753
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:55.360
detectives decided then to go back and question Robin's best

754
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:59.440
friend Sissy. This was on July thirteenth. Her statement was

755
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:02.440
that she spent all day Sunday at the Davis residence.

756
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.920
She then left around midnight. Her car wouldn't start at first,

757
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:09.159
so then she had to go take their Honda because

758
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:11.159
Brian was going to use the Trailblazer the next morning

759
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:14.320
for work. The next morning, which was that Monday, again,

760
00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:17.119
Robin called her saying Brian needed to use the car,

761
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:19.239
so she said, I went and put five to ten

762
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.559
bucks in gas in it and then drove it back

763
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.199
to their house. So detectives were able to actually pull

764
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:28.039
video from a shopwrite which did show her there shortly

765
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:32.880
after eleven. Once she got back, Robin then drove Sissy

766
00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:37.039
back home, where she stayed until later that afternoon, when

767
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:41.280
Robin picked her up to go run errands. When they left,

768
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.239
she said, we went straight to the dry cleaners, then

769
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:47.119
we went to Albertson's, and then we went right back

770
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:49.039
to the Davis residence. So we got back around five

771
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:51.559
or five thirty. So this was kind of looking like

772
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:54.559
the police were beating a dead horse. I'ma said, a

773
00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:57.679
dead hor Did y'all hear that? A dead horse? As

774
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:01.599
for the most part, because all the stories were aligning,

775
00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:07.360
Sissy also said that Tuesday she did go looking for Brian.

776
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:09.599
So they said, okay, well where did you go when

777
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:12.199
you went looking for him? And she said, well, Brian

778
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.559
had taken both me and Robin fishing one time at

779
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:18.159
a place called Calcushu Point, so I went to go

780
00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:21.480
check there. And so detectives kind of cocked their heads

781
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:25.480
to the side and said, wow, do you think it's

782
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:27.800
kind of odd that the place that you went driving

783
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.119
and looking for him was really close to the actual

784
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:34.320
murder scene? And she just kind of looked at him

785
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.920
and said, well, I'd never really thought about that about

786
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:40.719
the proximity of the two. For your knowledge, I want

787
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.360
to make sure you understand this. Where Sissy supposedly drove

788
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:48.000
was less than one mile from where Brian was found.

789
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:53.719
There was another friend that investigators chose to speak with

790
00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:56.440
as well, and she happened to be living with the

791
00:45:56.519 --> 00:46:01.039
Davises when Brian disappeared. Maybe she knew something. This woman's

792
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:03.960
name was Stephanie Wells, so it turns out that she

793
00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:07.159
was awake early in the morning that Brian was believed

794
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:09.400
to be killed because she happened to be scheduled for

795
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:13.639
an eye surgery, so she verified Cissy's car was parked

796
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.719
in the grass when I left to go to the doctor.

797
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:18.480
She said, my surgery was done and I was back

798
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:21.400
home by ten thirty, and she said that she didn't

799
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:25.280
remember the Jetta still being there. She said, shortly after

800
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:28.239
she got home, Brian returned back to the house. They

801
00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:31.159
spoke briefly, where Brian asked her, will you mind watching

802
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:34.480
Bailey my daughter? Would you mind watching Bailey while me

803
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:37.079
and Robin go Brooke Boat shopping, and Stephanie said, I

804
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.760
absolutely agreed, And she said I did try to check

805
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:44.639
in with Brian around three or three thirty, but he

806
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:48.679
didn't answer the phone. So a little while later, I

807
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:50.960
can tell you from the phone record, specifically, at three

808
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:55.039
forty two pm, miss Wells sent a text to him

809
00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:58.239
saying Bailey is complaining that she's really not feeling good,

810
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.239
but Brian never her back, nor did he answer that

811
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:07.719
text back. Robin did, though, Robin called her back about

812
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:11.400
nine minutes later. She said they spoke briefly and Robin said,

813
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:15.960
you know, I'm running errands with Sissy and when I

814
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:18.679
get back, we'll take care of it. She also said

815
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:24.039
that Robin returned back home around five pm. What were

816
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:28.280
the police missing. It had to be there somewhere, you know,

817
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.599
everyone's kind of echoing the same story, but something is

818
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:35.239
clearly being missed. So they're racking their brains. What are

819
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:37.760
we missing? So they decided to go back to the

820
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:42.599
finances and to go interview some more close relatives. This

821
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:48.119
included Robin's mother, Miss Babbette Bartholomew. During the interview with

822
00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:51.840
Miss Babbett, she said that she had given four thousand

823
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:55.199
dollars to Robin in a new bank account. So cops

824
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:57.320
were like, why why did you give her four thousand dollars?

825
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:00.800
She said, well, Robin told me that her bank account

826
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:04.480
was frozen due to the death investigation of Brian, and

827
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:08.320
so she was told not to use that account. There

828
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:11.239
was a big problem with what Miss Babbett just told them,

829
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:17.159
a big problem. The problem was that the money that

830
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:22.119
she deposited into the new bank account was deposited the

831
00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:29.000
same day that Brian was found dead, before anyone was notified.

832
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:33.599
Why would Robin ask for money to be deposited for

833
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:36.840
a death investigation before she even knew that her husband

834
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:42.679
was dead. Robin also had two life insurance policies, one

835
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:46.639
for ninety thousand dollars and one for forty thousand dollars,

836
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:49.360
both of them on Brian, so she stood to gain

837
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.119
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in the event of

838
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:56.400
his death. Now that's not necessarily a ton of money,

839
00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.280
considering you know, a million other cases that had been

840
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:04.360
covered and people getting millions and millions of dollars, but

841
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:09.039
it could give someone the motive to kill him. In

842
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:13.480
light of the gambling issues that were uncovered, Robin's son,

843
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:17.880
Justin said Brian would stop to play video video poker

844
00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:20.760
on the way to work in the mornings, as well

845
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:24.559
as sometimes on the way home in the afternoons. He

846
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:28.559
also said that Brian's gambling had escalated in the last

847
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:32.079
six months prior to his death, but Justin also had

848
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:34.559
a little bit more information. He added that his mother

849
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:38.119
was also a big time gambler. Robin never really mentioned

850
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:42.599
that much. She frequented a place called Kd's Diner in

851
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:47.400
Lake Charles, and she loved those video poker machines. Their

852
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:51.239
gambling debt caused a great deal of financial stress on

853
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:56.519
the both of them. Beginning in February, bank records showed

854
00:49:56.599 --> 00:50:02.280
overdraft charges and frequent withdrawals at game ambling establishments. In particular,

855
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:07.679
on July tenth, just days after Brian's death, they saw

856
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:11.039
where Robin withdrew one hundred and two dollars and seventy

857
00:50:11.079 --> 00:50:14.800
five cents at a casino. Then on July eleventh, she

858
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:19.320
wrote four separate checks to Kd's Diner, one for two

859
00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:22.639
O two seventy five, one for one O two seventy five,

860
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.639
another for one O two seventy five, and one for

861
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:28.360
sixty two seventy five. So you're kind of seeing a

862
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:31.039
pattern of her paying paying a two dollars seventy five

863
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:33.480
cent fee, running out of money, running right back up

864
00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:35.360
and doing it, and doing it and doing it again.

865
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:40.559
Some other evidence wasn't quite adding up either. For example,

866
00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:43.639
at eight fifty two in the morning of Brian going missing,

867
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:48.960
both Robin and Sissy entered a local Walgreens. Throughout every

868
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:52.320
single time that either of them were questioned about what

869
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:56.079
they were doing. Neither one said that they went to

870
00:50:56.119 --> 00:51:00.559
a Walgreens together, neither one as many many times as

871
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.079
they laid out what they did that day. That's odd,

872
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:06.519
especially when you know that you're being questioned about your

873
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:11.599
husband's murder. The cell phone records were also deeply looked

874
00:51:11.639 --> 00:51:16.320
at at this point and really scrutinized. Robin told the

875
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.280
detectives that when she made the three point fifty pm

876
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:23.239
call back to Miss Wells about Brian's daughter, she was

877
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:25.960
waiting on Sissy to dry her hair so they could

878
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:29.360
go run those errands. But according to the cell phone records,

879
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:33.400
this call pinged off of a sprint tower south of

880
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:37.440
Country Club Road. When the besties were claiming they only

881
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.000
went to Albertson's and Triple A Cleaner's, they're not in

882
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:46.079
the same area. That same tower was used in a

883
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:50.199
two second hang up call made by Brian's phone at

884
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:54.760
three point forty four pm the same day. During Robin's call,

885
00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:59.920
the phone switched towers, indicating that she was driving somewhere,

886
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.599
not sitting at Sissy's house. Your phone will not jump

887
00:52:03.639 --> 00:52:08.599
towers while you are a located stationary It wasn't making sense.

888
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:13.400
Robin also told police she called Brian a bunch of

889
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:15.840
times whenever he went missing. She said, I left him

890
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:18.960
a bunch of voicemails. He never returned my call, so

891
00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:22.480
police went and looked at Brian's voicemails. There were no

892
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:27.119
messages from Robin from June twenty ninth at two point

893
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:33.280
fifty eight pm until July fourth at nine to twenty am.

894
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:36.079
This was days later, and he had already been found

895
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.920
dead by that point. Why are you calling your dead

896
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:49.280
husband's phone leaving voicemails? So detectives really honed in on

897
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:52.000
these towers that were being used both by Robin and

898
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.440
Sissy's phones on the day of Brian's death, and wouldn't

899
00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:59.760
you know, they both were pinging off of a tower

900
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:06.840
called Centennial Tower, the only one right near Brian's murder scene.

901
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:11.239
So in a separate interview, Cissy told detectives she had

902
00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:13.920
no knowledge about Brian's death. She couldn't help them, she

903
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:17.920
didn't know anything about it. So detectives decided maybe they

904
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:20.800
would explain to her the difference between first and second

905
00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:25.280
degree murder, and Cissy sat back indignantly in her chair

906
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:29.519
and said, do you think I killed Brian, and the

907
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:33.000
detective bluntly said that he thought, I don't know if

908
00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:35.719
you killed him, but I know that you have either

909
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:39.800
direct or indirect knowledge about Brian's murder, and we would

910
00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:43.400
like some answers. And Sissy got up and stormed out

911
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:48.880
of the interview and left. So Robin's daughter, Kelsey, was

912
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:52.760
also questioned, but she wasn't questioned about Brian. She was

913
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:57.599
questioned about her own father, her biological father, Remember Andrew Little,

914
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:00.960
who died in the car wreck. She was about his death,

915
00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:03.320
and what she had to say about her own dad's

916
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:07.639
death was very interesting. Robin told Kelsey that there was

917
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:12.559
only twenty five thousand dollars in life insurance on her dad. However,

918
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:17.480
when cleaning her father's house out, she found a one

919
00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.320
hundred thousand dollars policy on her father, and Kelsey felt

920
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:26.159
like that whole situation was really shady because she lied

921
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:29.159
about seventy five thousand dollars worth of life insurance money.

922
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:33.280
She went and bought a Trailblazer with cash. She went

923
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:37.559
and bought Brian, her then fiance, a boat with cash.

924
00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:42.280
She remodeled her house, got new hardwood floors, bought new kitchen, appliances,

925
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:45.239
hired a painter to paint the entire house, and even

926
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.280
got all of her landscaping done so. When asked about

927
00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:54.960
her own mother, Kelsey told detectives that she would describe

928
00:54:54.960 --> 00:55:01.119
her mother as being unfair to other people. As for Sissy,

929
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:06.199
Kelsey described her as a second mom to her. She

930
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:08.480
said she even lived with us for four years that

931
00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:10.639
she was asked, well, what was that like? Oh, well,

932
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:13.320
she never paid rent. She never bought groceries though, but

933
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:15.639
she didn't have to if my mother was, you know,

934
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:18.199
if she's around my mom, My mom always pays for everything.

935
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.559
So when Kelsey was asked about her stepdad not returning home,

936
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.480
she told detectives that her mom told her Brian never

937
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:30.000
returned home from work the day that he went missing.

938
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:34.039
I mean, this is a complete inconsistency with what detectives

939
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:36.880
had been told previously by others. One he didn't come

940
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.079
home from the Kroger. One he didn't come home from

941
00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:41.840
boat shopping, one he didn't come home from work. Well,

942
00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:43.599
which one is it? I think I would remember the

943
00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:48.119
last moment I saw my beloved. So with this information

944
00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:51.119
in mind, detectives decided to look further into the life

945
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:55.519
insurance on Brian, and they were advised on a massive

946
00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:03.199
bombshell that Robin never mentioned. State Farm Insurance came forward

947
00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:08.039
and said that there were two additional policies on Brian.

948
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:12.519
Police had no clue about. She never mentioned this. They

949
00:56:12.559 --> 00:56:16.119
had another one worth one hundred thousand dollars as well

950
00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:21.280
as another one worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

951
00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:25.239
In total, there were four life insurance policies on Brian Brian,

952
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:31.039
totaling six hundred and forty five thousand dollars. Police had

953
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:35.199
enough and they knew what was up. Robin and Brian

954
00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:38.679
went boat shopping while Cissy was driving Brian's Honda the

955
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:41.559
day of the murder. Based on the cell phone records

956
00:56:41.559 --> 00:56:44.519
and the locations of the towers used, the women were

957
00:56:44.519 --> 00:56:49.239
calling each other, not about, you know, a dead vehicle

958
00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:51.800
or errands that they had to run. No, that's not

959
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:54.039
what they were calling each other about. They were trying

960
00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:57.599
to determine exactly when Robin and Brian would be leaving

961
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:03.159
Jerry's marine. Casis drove the Honda to that wagon wheel

962
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:07.079
road in plenty of time to sit and wait to

963
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:10.119
fake a flat tire, which it had to have been

964
00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:13.039
done before the rain, which means it was before three pm,

965
00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:17.840
and she faked that flat tire, so they never went

966
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:21.639
home and switched cars as Robin had claimed. Robin and

967
00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:28.039
Brian drove the Trailblazer straight from Jerry's marine to Wagon

968
00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:32.559
Wheel Road. Cissy lured Brian to the murder scene and

969
00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:36.360
the besties worked together to shoot him. Now who actually

970
00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:39.760
pulled the trigger nobody knows, but it doesn't matter. They

971
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:43.880
both were working in tandem to llure Brian to the scene.

972
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.119
The cell phone records proved the besties were lying all

973
00:57:47.159 --> 00:57:50.119
about the afternoon of the murder, and it placed them

974
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:54.400
both right at the murder scene. The bullets found at

975
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:58.000
the scene they matched the ammunition found at the Davis residence.

976
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:00.480
Along with the fact that the flat tire the crime

977
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:03.920
scene was completely staged, proven by the deflated tire with

978
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:07.880
zero defects. Neither woman mentioned to police that they went

979
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:10.880
together to that Walgreens the morning of the murder, which

980
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:13.719
also threw off their supposed timeline of when they were

981
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.119
supposed to be together. Robin lied to the police about

982
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.639
leaving numerous voicemails when Brian didn't return home. Combined with

983
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:23.559
the statements of Brian's sister, who was told Brian never

984
00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:26.760
returned from Kroger to go buy that sprite and that

985
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:32.400
soup for his daughter Bailey, and then Kelsey, the other daughter,

986
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:35.480
being told that he never returned home from work. Robin

987
00:58:35.519 --> 00:58:38.519
had lost her job. She was in financial distress with

988
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:42.000
an overdrawn bank account, a gambling problem, and a house

989
00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.320
note way past due. She also lied about how much

990
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:48.480
life insurance she had on Brian. Here's another fun fact

991
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.800
I forgot to tell you. She was also playing video

992
00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:55.559
poker instead of attending Brian's post funeral memorial. No, she

993
00:58:55.639 --> 00:59:00.320
was playing video poker machines, which were proven. Basically, Robin

994
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:06.159
and Sissy were codependent, nearly inseparable friends, both frequent gamblers,

995
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:12.519
and Sissy depended on Robin financially. Finally, Robin asked her

996
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:16.079
mother for four thousand dollars due to Brian's death investigation,

997
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:19.239
tying up their funds, but it's proven by their records

998
00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:21.719
that she was given them money the money before Brian

999
00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:25.400
was ever even found to be dead. The only alibi

1000
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:29.159
for either woman was the other one, and this stinks

1001
00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:33.960
of cold blooded murder. Five months after Brian Davis was murdered,

1002
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:37.559
his wife, Robin, and her best friend Sissy, were indicted

1003
00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:41.199
for his murder. And something funny to me that I

1004
00:59:41.199 --> 00:59:45.199
don't ever really see mentioned is that Justin visited his mother,

1005
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:50.079
Robin in jail while she was awaiting trial. And you know,

1006
00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:52.960
those conversations are all recorded. We all know that, right,

1007
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:56.239
hopefully you do by this day and age. Your conversations

1008
00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:59.400
are recorded. Not to mention the recording at the beginning

1009
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:02.760
that says you're receiving a call from a penal institution

1010
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:05.440
and your calls are monitored and recorded, maybe that would

1011
01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:09.679
be your hint. But at one point Justin asked his mom, well, mom,

1012
01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:13.000
what's what are other people's bonds like compared to yours?

1013
01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:16.519
And she said that they were high quote even for

1014
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:23.360
people who didn't kill anybody, end quote. Hmm. So, on

1015
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:27.119
August twenty sixth, twenty twelve, fifty year old Robin and

1016
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:29.960
forty five year old Sissy were both convicted of second

1017
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:33.920
degree murder, each given life in prison without the possibility

1018
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.679
of parole. And something else I read that really just

1019
01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:43.000
the women were asked about their relationship now that they

1020
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:46.559
both have life in prison, and Robin said, our relationship

1021
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:50.800
has never been better. And we're closer than ever sit

1022
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:54.679
on that one. I'm all about having a best friend,

1023
01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:57.800
but that's a role that should include telling each other

1024
01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:01.440
you're crazy when the idea of murder your spouse comes up.

1025
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:04.800
But this is what happens when two idiots become besties,

1026
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.679
and they create this echo chamber of bad ideas. But

1027
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:12.559
considering they both love to gamble so much, I think

1028
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:16.159
both women might be surprised to know that women's prisons

1029
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:19.880
and gambling are a lot alike, because whether they want

1030
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.639
it or not, they're still going to experience some liquor

1031
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.320
in the front and possibly some poker in the back.