- Female narrator: A father's life is cut short
On a desolate highway.
- You've got a dark horse running at you,
You're not going to see anything until it is
Right in front of you.
- He was killed instantly.
- Narrator: What seemed like just a tragic accident
Would open the door for jealousy, greed,
And a twisted attempt at murder.
- It's human nature to say "wait a minute,
This person has a criminal record,
Is he really trustworthy?"
- She wants this done, and she wants it done now.
- Narrator: To avoid further bloodshed,
Detectives must fight a potent thirst for vengeance.
- Thomas: The motive was this woman
Is about to take everything from me,
Wants to take everything from me,
And I'm going to kill her.
- Margie: So I don't think that you can hire someone
To commit murder in a small town
And not become notorious for it.
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- Narrator: November 18, 2011. Ashtabula county, ohio.
It's just after 10 p.M. And 45-year-old
Daniel posey-brown is traveling down
Remote state route 193 in northern ohio.
- Thomas: Route 193 runs pretty much the full length
Of the county, which means it runs about 35 miles or so.
It's a two lane road.
- Margie: On either side you would have pastures
And cornfields, barns with silos and farmhouses,
And the occasional convenience store.
- It's not unusual to be the only car on the road.
- Margie: Daniel brown is driving home.
He's on his way home from work
Through rural ashtabula county.
- Narrator: In the seat beside daniel is a present
For his 7-year-old son, dartanian.
- Margie: His son had just gotten an a on a spelling test
And he was excited to go home and give dartanian this gift.
- Narrator: As daniel continues his drive,
His wife angel calls him.
They speak briefly before she hands the phone off
To their young son.
Moments later, the quiet, dark highway erupts in chaos.
- Out of nowhere, a chestnut-colored horse
Runs out into the middle of the road.
Daniel's car hits the horse, and the horse
Is killed instantly.
Daniel's car drives off the side of the road,
Flips, and hits a guardrail.
- [crash]
- [sirens wail]
- Narrator: Within minutes, ohio state troopers
Are notified of the accident and race to the scene
Hoping to save daniel brown.
- Margie: Bystanders dialed 911,
Got the ohio state highway patrol,
And troopers were immediately dispatched to the crash.
The scene would be chaos-- absolute chaos.
- Narrator: Several miles away, daniel's young son
Has no way of knowing what just happened.
- The phone just went blank.
As soon as I said the phone went blank,
My mom took the phone back from me
And said, "he probably just hung up."
I went to start crying, and she told me not to cry,
That it's fine and not to worry about it.
- Narrator: As the rescuers scramble to save daniel's life,
No one could know a series of dark events
Would begin to develop in the distance.
- Thomas: It all just took off from there.
There's many, many questions, and the job now
Is to get them answered.
- Narrator: Born in 1965, daniel posey grew up
In northern ohio.
- Colleen: We just really always had
A very close relationship.
Danny could always talk to me,
And he always did.
- Dan and his mom, colleen, were always close.
He was a mama's boy, for sure.
- Colleen: He loved the dirt bikes and motorcycles.
He played the drums through school.
He was a character.
- He just had a charisma about him, you know?
He just had this way.
- Narrator: For 17-year-old lisa guthrie,
21-year-old daniel seemed like the total package
And they began dating.
Two years later, daniel learned lisa was pregnant
With their first son.
- Colleen: They ended up getting married.
And then he got a job and worked for his dad
At madison muffler.
His dad was an excellent mechanic,
And he picked that up from his dad.
- Lisa: Then later on, in roughly 1994,
Him and I started up our own business,
Which was a tanning salon.
And we started that from scratch and built that
Into a nice business.
- Narrator: In the years that followed,
The couple welcomed two more children into the world.
- Lisa: I have three children.
Two boys and a girl.
And they are the love of my life.
Dan was an amazing father.
In the whole time that we were married,
Never once did he not put his kids first above everything.
- Narrator: Juggling a full-time job as a mechanic
And running the tanning salon,
Their growing family proved to be too stressful for the couple.
By 1996, after a decade together,
Daniel and lisa had drifted apart.
- I told him that I wanted a divorce.
That time in my life was somewhat of a blur
Because of the stress that I was under.
- Narrator: Later that year, at a venue called
The queen of hearts, daniel found a new queen
Of his own, bathed in neon.
- Angel brown was a dancer at a local club,
And she and daniel met while she was performing.
- Van: She was 19 years old at the time,
And it was at that point that she met daniel,
Who was 12 years her senior.
- She's got a good personality,
She's real bubbly and outgoing.
- Narrator: Over the next few months,
Daniel started spending more hours at the club
And less time with his kids.
Angel quickly had a hold on daniel's heart.
Born in 1977, angel's relationship with her family
Didn't exactly mirror daniel's.
- She told me that when she was little,
That her mother would get mad at her often.
- She had kind of a rough upbringing.
- Narrator: Angel wanted a better life.
With little money or education to propel her forward,
Angel made the most of what she did have:
A ferocious fighting spirit.
- Thomas: She had this desire to become a boxer,
So she took some boxing lessons.
- She had a couple of bouts trying to turn professional.
- Narrator: After a year in the ring and a losing record,
Her boxing career was down for the count.
At 19, angel was at a crossroads.
Until she met 31-year-old daniel posey
And everything changed in a heartbeat.
- Colleen: He loved her dearly.
He would write her letters and tell her how much
He loved her. She just had a hold on him.
- Narrator: Daniel put his divorce from lisa
On the fast track.
Just a few months after the papers were finalized,
He and angel drove off into the sunset.
- They just took off.
They got in her car and left for las vegas
And never looked back.
- Narrator: After three years,
The glittering lights of vegas grew dim.
The couple moved back to ohio,
Where they married in 2003, and just a year later,
Angel gave birth to their son, dartanian.
- Dan and angel, when dar was born,
Were wonderful parents.
Their goal was just to love him,
Take care of him, and be excellent parents.
- Narrator: With their family complete, angel asked daniel
For a unique show of his devotion.
- Angel wanted dan to change his last name to her last name.
That's what dan had did.
- Narrator: With her days in the ring
And nights at the club behind her,
Angel worked to reinvent her image.
- Angel was very much into caring and taking care of
Her son, dartanian.
She enjoyed being a mother.
- She belonged to the pta and did things like that
For her son.
She was a stay-at-home mom.
- Linda: Angel and dan seemed to be very happy
Planning their life and their future.
- Dartanian: I knew my dad as a guy that would do anything
He could for his family.
And any time he could get, he would like spend it with me.
I know he was trying to give me the best life he could.
- Narrator: But on the night of November 18, 2011,
7-year-old dartanian's last memory of his father
Is a phone call that falls silent.
- Margie: Daniel's driving home when a horse
Runs out into the middle of the road,
And he hits it dead-on.
- Narrator: When highway patrolmen peer
Into the wreckage of the vehicle,
It's obvious there's nothing they can do.
- He was killed instantly.
- Margie: Hitting a horse head-on in a car
Is like hitting a wall.
Daniel probably never saw it coming.
He died of trauma to the head, neck, and trunk.
- Narrator: While the scene appears
To simply be a tragic accident,
It would create a chain reaction that would rip
Two families apart.
- Margie: A man crashes into a horse and dies,
End of story, right?
If you look at all of this, it's all about daniel.
But it's never really about daniel,
It's really all about angel brown.
- Narrator: Coming up,
The aftermath of the accident contains a blueprint for murder.
- Cecilia: This is unique.
This isn't something that somebody
Walks into a sheriff's department,
Tells people every day.
- I didn't know how far she was gonna take it
Or what she was going to do.
- Narrator: And an unexpected phone call
Reveals a hatred that had been brewing for years.
- He had been contacted by a acquaintance of his
And had asked to kill an individual.
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- Narrator: On November 18, 2011,
After colliding with a horse in the middle of a dark highway,
45-year-old daniel brown is pronounced dead on the scene.
- Margie: They try to help daniel, but there's nothing
That can be done.
They start recovering, you know, the body,
Trying to help, and getting people off the roadways.
- Narrator: Police get word that the horse belongs
To a member of an amish community just up the road.
- A amish party is happening at the dorset community center,
And the horses are generally tied up
Outside the community center as the party is happening inside.
A horse--a chestnut-colored horse breaks loose.
- The horse broke loose and started galloping down the road.
- Alexis: So the people that owned the horse
Were trying to chase it, follow it,
Try and corral it back to where it was supposed to go
Or corral it off the road.
- Narrator: Sadly, the horse made its way onto the highway
Just as daniel brown was approaching.
- Lisa: This all probably happened
Within 30 to 60 seconds.
He's probably going 65 miles an hour down 193, it's pitch black.
If you've got a dark horse running at you,
I mean, you're not going to see anything
Until it is right in front of you.
- It was a complete freak accident.
- Narrator: As state patrolmen wrap up their investigation,
They face the grim task of notifying the victim's families.
They find daniel's wife, angel, at the couple's home
With their 7-year-old son, dartanian.
- Dartanian: A cop pulled in, and when she went
And answered the door, and I was standing right there,
He said that my dad had died.
And she told me that and I start crying.
- Narrator: Angel notifies daniel's mother.
- I was in bed.
It was 11 o'clock at night, and I had to work the next morning.
And she called, and angel said, "dan's dead."
And I said, "what?"
I was shaking. I was shaking and I was crying.
It just hurt.
I just loved danny dearly. I had a special love for him.
- Narrator: In the days that follow,
News of the horrific crash grips ashtabula county.
Reporter margie netzel interviews angel
For a story in the "ashtabula star beacon."
- Angel talks about her grief,
She talks about losing her husband,
She talks about their relationship,
And how devoted they are to each other,
How devoted daniel is to dartanian.
- Narrator: Weeks pass, and eventually
The headlines fade as angel and dartanian try to move on.
- Tried talking to her to see if angel needed anything.
She said she was fine, she was just trying
To piece things together and figure out things on her own.
- Margie: What's really interesting about this story,
We thought it was over, that should be the end
Of the story, but the angel brown story
Never seemed to end.
- Narrator: On January 11, 2012,
2 months after daniel brown's death,
A man arrives at the ashtabula county sheriff's office
Claiming to have information
About a potential murder for hire.
- Taylor: An individual named james holley
Came into the ashtabula county sheriff's office
And asked to speak with investigators
About a situation that he had become involved in.
- Narrator: Detectives know james all too well.
- Mr. Holly also goes by the name "hawk."
That was his name when he was a boxer.
He was a professional boxer for a period of time.
Had several pro fights, and then after he stopped fighting,
He ran a gym, a boxing gym in ashtabula,
Where he taught boxing to people for a period of time.
- Narrator: For local law enforcement,
James "hawk" holley had a reputation and a rap sheet.
- Mr. Holley has a conviction for arson.
Several years prior to this, he was convicted
For setting a fireworks factory on fire.
- James holley did go to prison for about 15 years.
- Taylor: When mr. Holley plead guilty to this charge
Of arson for setting this fireworks factory on fire,
He was not cooperative with authorities.
He would not detail why he set this building on fire,
Or at whose request he set this building on fire.
- Narrator: While detectives are well aware
Of james' nefarious past, he tells detectives
He has information he wants to share about a different crime.
- Mr. Holly said that he had been contacted
By a acquaintance of his that he had a relationship with
A long time ago in his life,
And that that acquaintance of his had asked him
To kill an individual.
James holley said that the individual had asked
Him to kill lisa luke.
- Cecilia: This is unique.
This isn't something that somebody walks into
A sheriff's department or a police department
And tells people every day.
- Narrator: James says the woman offered him $4,000 to kill lisa,
And he admits to accepting the money.
- James holley took his $4,000 and went to a casino
In erie, pennsylvania,
And basically had spent the four grand.
He had no problem taking $4,000 from somebody
And being on his way, but at no time
Did he want to get involved in a homicide.
- Thomas: She supposedly hired him to commit a murder,
And he was afraid that if he didn't do it
That she would find somebody else to do it,
And there would in fact be a murder and a death,
And had he not said anything.
So, he felt, "I know, I better come in
And at least blow the whistle on this supposed plot."
- Van: It was a girl that he used to have
As an amateur boxer, and he stated that
He hadn't talked to her probably in over 15 years.
- Narrator: Investigators ask james
The identity of his former pupil.
- Taylor: The person that had approached mr. Holley
Was angel brown.
- Narrator: Investigators know the name angel brown,
But in their eyes, angel is a grieving widow,
Not a cold-blooded killer.
Is this new information somehow connected
To daniel brown's tragic death?
- Taylor: Mr. Holley said that angel brown told him
That she was having some problems
With her deceased husband's ex-wife.
There was an issue with his estate.
In order to remedy this, she wanted lisa luke gone.
She wanted lisa luke killed.
- Narrator: Coming up,
Detectives reach out to angel brown's alleged target.
- Lisa: I started shaking uncontrollably.
I was just in serious shock.
- Narrator: And authorities launch a covert operation
To uncover the strange truth.
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- Narrator: On January 11, 2012,
The ashtabula county sheriff's office
Receives a visit from a man claiming local widow angel brown
Tried to hire him as a hitman.
- Van: James was claiming that he had been hired
To kill her husband's ex-wife, lisa luke.
- Narrator: Investigators consider the possibility
The ex-con may have ulterior motives.
- Thomas: It's human nature to say,
"wait a minute, this person has a criminal record,
"he obviously committed a crime in the past,
Is he really trustworthy with what he's telling you now?"
- Narrator: James admits he took the money,
But says he never intended to murder anyone.
But ultimately, a guilty conscience led him
Into the sheriff's office.
- Narrator: As they continue the interview,
James tells investigators he's just received a text from angel.
- Thomas: James holley gets a text saying,
"forget about that thing, keep a thousand for your trouble."
- Narrator: Investigators try to make sense of angel's text.
- Maybe she wanted to end her association
With james holley and she wanted
To find somebody else to kill lisa luke.
Or did she even want to kill lisa luke herself?
- Narrator: In an effort to find out
What angel is really thinking,
Investigators ask james to call her.
- Cecilia: A conversation is arranged between james holley
And angel brown, where james says,
"I already spent the money, you're not gonna get
The money back. Are you sure?"
- Eventually during the course of that, angel brown says,
"go ahead and do it. Go ahead and finish out."
- Taylor: After this first phone call ends,
We know that angel brown actually wants lisa luke dead.
- Narrator: While the question
Of why angel wants lisa dead remains elusive,
Detectives' more pressing concern
Is capturing angel on camera.
- Thomas: If it was possible to get angel brown
On video agreeing that james holley should go forth
With the murder, and indicating that she
In fact had paid him some money,
This would be sort of the icing on the cake
With regard to the evidence.
Picture's worth a thousand words.
- Narrator: Two hours later, james is outfitted
With a camera and microphone.
With an undercover officer by his side,
He drives to angel's home.
- There was a detective in the car with james holley.
He just slumped down where she couldn't see him.
- [knocking on door]
- James meets with angel brown
At the front door of her residence.
Angel comes out, she's got concern
About being caught for this crime.
- She says she had watched a crime show,
And it made her really scared about getting caught.
- Van: We weren't too concerned,
Because it was pretty good equipment,
So we weren't worried about her finding anything.
Once she did that,
She became a little bit more confident
In having conversation with her.
- Cecilia: In order to ensure that angel brown
Wanted to go forward, there were a couple
Different times where james holly said to her,
"are you sure about this?
Are you sure this is what you want done?"
And each time, angel brown said yes.
- She wants this done, and she wants it done now.
You can see it all over her face and her body language.
She was not kidding around.
- Narrator: With that, james gets back in the car and leaves.
Investigators are certain that angel is determined
To see lisa luke dead.
But why she wants her husband's ex-wife murdered
Remains a complete mystery.
- Van: I wanted to have a meeting with lisa luke.
We had to let lisa know that she was in fact
The target of a homicide.
- Narrator: Detectives bring lisa in for an interview
Where they fill her in on angel's plot.
- I started shaking uncontrollably.
Um, I--I was just in serious shock.
And I'm just trying to get myself, like, you know,
Under control and calmed down.
- Narrator: Lisa explains that during her eight-year marriage
To daniel, he was devoted to their family,
Until angel drove a wedge between them
While their child was fighting a life-threatening illness.
- Then we found out that my son had leukemia,
And that's when everything changed in our relationship.
That was, to me, the start of it.
He came to the hospital one night and he was all dressed up,
Like the dressed up when him and I are going out somewhere nice.
And so I decided to follow him from the hospital,
And I followed him to the strip club
Where angel brown worked.
And that was the first that I truly knew
That anything was going on.
- Narrator: By November 1996, daniel and lisa were divorced.
For the first few months,
Daniel attempted to stay in contact with his kids.
- Alexis: We would talk on the phone,
But after that, after those phone calls ended,
He really just kind of disappeared.
- Thomas: Lisa luke certainly wanted,
And rightfully so, daniel to pay child support
For the kids, which apparently he didn't.
- Narrator: From then on, whenever lisa contacted daniel
About his child support obligations,
She was only allowed to talk to angel.
- Lisa: She literally told me on the phone,
"you are not going to take one bite of food
Out of my child's mouth for your children."
That's how she viewed it.
I was taking money from her child,
By dan paying child support.
- There was some contention between the two families.
Before daniel's death, he was over $30,000 behind
In child support.
- Narrator: According to lisa luke,
Angel's behavior was becoming more dangerous.
- Lisa: Angel would periodically throughout the years,
Call me and harass me, threaten me,
Tell me to drop the child support.
That's what led to me deciding to drop everything
That had to do with child support,
Because I felt that she was becoming more of a danger.
I didn't know how far she was gonna take it
Or what she was going to do.
- Narrator: When daniel died, lisa learned that her kids,
Now in their late teens and early twenties,
Might have a chance to recoup some of the money
That was owed to them.
- Dan had a life insurance policy through his work
For $15,000 that was given to angel after his death.
And then she had taken out a life insurance policy
Of her own for $240,000.
- Narrator: Those benefits were payable to daniel's estate
Upon his death.
But when lisa checked on the status of daniel's probate case
To execute his will, she discovered angel
Had made a bold and unexpected move.
- Lisa: As the executor of the estate,
She legally has to list all of his next of kin,
And she chose not to.
She left two of my kids off of it,
So it only leaves one motive, and that motive is money.
- Narrator: Coming up,
Angel and lisa's feud goes one more round.
- I believe that that's what put her over the edge.
That was the same day-- literally the same dates
Are on the documents, that she contacted james.
- Narrator: And angel has her say.
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- Narrator: On January 11, 2012,
Ashtabula sheriff's department investigators
Capture 34-year-old widow, angel brown,
Appearing to sign off on the murder
Of her deceased husband's ex-wife.
- Narrator: According to angel's intended victim,
Lisa luke, angel was trying to prevent
Two of lisa's children from inheriting their share
Of daniel's estate.
- Lisa: That's when I hired my attorney,
Took in birth certificates, everything that was required.
He then contacted her attorney and said,
"you gotta change the estate, these kids gotta be on there."
- Narrator: Lisa's attorney also discovered
That daniel's life insurance wasn't the only money
Her kids were missing out on.
- After daniel's death, there was a wrongful death
Civil lawsuit filed against the owner of the horse
That had caused the crash.
There was a settlement in that lawsuit,
For which daniel's estate received around $200,000.
- Narrator: According to lisa, on January 9,
Her attorney contacted angel and told her
That she was going to have to share both the insurance
And the settlement money.
- Lisa: I believe that that's what put her over the edge.
That was the same day-- literally the same dates
Are on the documents, that she contacted james.
- Narrator: Investigators believe
They have just zeroed in on angel's motive.
- Maybe she felt that if she killed lisa,
That there would be nobody there to further the fight
For the children to get any part of the settlement.
- Greediness. She hated me and my kids enough
That she didn't want us to have one dime.
- Narrator: Detectives have enough to place
Angel under arrest, but before they do,
They make one final move to tighten up their case.
- Van: We want to make one more phone call,
And have james holley tell angel brown,
"hey, lisa luke's dead," and we want to see
What kind of response that she has,
And basically what she wants done at that point.
So james holley makes the phone call.
- Narrator: Mere hours after james holley first showed up
At the sheriff's office, investigators head
To angel's home armed with an arrest warrant.
- Dartanian: Me and my mom were sitting in the living room.
The cops pulled in, knocked on our door and said,
"angel brown, you're under arrest."
- Taylor: When we placed angel brown in the handcuffs,
She was surprised, to say the least.
She started crying uncontrollably
And at one point in time she started screaming,
"she was going to take everything from me!
She was going to take everything from me!"
- Narrator: Investigators transport angel
To the ashtabula sheriff's department.
- Van: When angel brown was being booked,
Detectives recovered a receipt in her back pocket
For a withdrawal of $20,000.
The date was more important,
And that date was January 10.
And January 10 was the same day that she went
And met with james holley and paid him $4,000.
- Narrator: When investigators sit down with angel,
She explains that in the months after the death of her husband,
James holley had become her rock.
Angel claims that when she talked to james about lisa,
She was just unloading on a friend.
- Taylor: She started to say that she was joking,
That this was all fun and games,
That her and james joked around like this all the time,
Like, "wouldn't it be funny if somebody killed lisa luke?"
This was all just a big joke.
- Narrator: Realizing that a confession isn't coming,
Investigators confront angel
With her final phone call with james.
- Narrator: In a last-ditch effort to get angel
To come clean, investigators ask about
The large sum of cash she withdrew from the bank
The day before,
The same day james holley claims she gave him $4,000.
- She had told us that she made a $10,000 withdrawal
From her bank account,
But that was for christmas presents and to pay some bills.
- That withdrawal receipt of $20,000 didn't match the fact
That she had, during the whole interrogation,
Kept telling us it was $10,000 that she withdrew,
When in fact it was double that.
- Narrator: Angel admits
That the evidence looks incriminating,
But continues to maintain her innocence.
- Narrator: The only thing angel doesn't deny
Is the bad blood between her and lisa luke.
- Narrator: Following the interview,
Angel is charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.
News of her arrest provides relief to lisa,
But her sense of security is only temporary.
- Angel brown was given the opportunity to make bail,
And with our constitution,
You do have a right to make bail.
- Lisa: I find out that they let her out on bail,
And I'm like, "wait, what?"
Okay, how was she out on bail?
I couldn't believe it.
She hires a hitman to kill me.
I was absolutely livid at this point,
Because I'm helpless,
There's nothing I can do about it.
- Narrator: Coming up, lisa's fears come to fruition
When detectives make an ominous discovery.
- Van: It has a newspaper article
With lisa luke's picture, has written above it, "dead."
- Narrator: And a family still searches for answers.
- What did I do you to make you hate me that bad
That you want me dead?
- ♪
- Narrator: After being arrested
In a foiled murder-for-hire plot that targeted
The first wife of her deceased husband,
34-year-old angel brown is out on bond awaiting trial.
For would-be-victim lisa luke,
It's like living in a nightmare.
- Lisa: We lived in fear all the time,
Because we never knew who was outside our house,
Who was still watching, nothing like that.
There was just no sense of security whatsoever.
I just was constantly watching what I was doing.
- Narrator: As lisa and her family remain on edge,
Authorities in ashtabula, ohio, prepare for trial.
Among the items in their possession is a box
That angel's son grabbed at the time of her arrest.
- They said, "go grab a couple of things."
That's when I went in and grabbed her box of stuff,
Because I remember angel always saying
That if anything happened, that was the one thing
That was most important, we had to make sure we got.
So I went and grabbed it, and when they looked inside,
They immediately took it away.
- It includes some drug paraphernalia and some drugs.
- Narrator: But there's more.
- It has a newspaper article and with lisa luke's picture
That has written above it, "dead."
That obviously shows a huge, huge amount of hatred
That angel brown has towards lisa luke,
And obviously shows some motive, that she wanted her dead.
- Narrator: In August of 2013,
36-year-old angel's trial gets underway.
- Van: During the trial, james stated that angel brown
Had a long history of dealing with lisa luke.
She hated lisa luke to the core.
She did not care for the fact that lisa luke
Was always involved in her life because of the fact
That daniel was behind on child support.
She felt that lisa luke was harassing her at times,
And she had gotten to the point where she just wanted
Her out of her life.
- Narrator: James holley isn't the only powerful witness
To take the stand.
- Lisa: I went up on the stand and I told my story
And she made sure to keep--
Angel made sure to keep her head down.
She never tried to look me in the eye.
- Thomas: She laid the foundation.
The motive was greed. The motive was hatred.
The motive was, "this woman is about to take everything
"from me, wants to take everything from me,
And I'm gonna kill her."
- Narrator: When it comes time for the defense,
Angel takes the stand.
Her testimony hits a familiar note.
- Thomas: She's trying to convince the jury
That this was all a joke.
"I didn't mean it, you know, it was all a joke."
- Narrator: The jury convenes.
Just two hours later, they announce
They have reached a verdict.
- When they came back guilty on both counts,
It was a huge relief.
Not just for us, but for lisa.
- Lisa: When the verdict was read,
I was so happy.
- The judge at sentencing, gave angel brown nine years.
It wasn't the maximum, but under ohio law,
It was probably as close as he could get to the maximum.
- Narrator: Following angel's conviction,
Dartanian goes to live with his cousin linda and her husband.
- We are so proud of dar, and who he is,
And the man that he's become.
We tell him he can be anything and achieve anything
He wants in life.
- Dartanian: My life now with linda and lee is really good.
When mom sends cards and stuff,
I write, "refused, return to sender," on them.
And I'd written a letter to the magistrate.
I have written a letter to the prison
For her to stop writing me, but she still keeps writing me.
I'm not afraid of her,
I don't care that when she gets released,
As long as she stays away from me.
- Narrator: As for james holley,
Lisa luke believes she owes him a debt of gratitude.
- My thoughts about james holley are that,
Essentially, he quite possibly saved my life.
He did the right thing.
- There's always a passion at the bottom of a murder,
And in this case, that passion was hate.
- Lisa: What did I do to you to make you hate me that bad
That you want me dead?
I didn't steal your husband.
You rode along, come on in and took mine,
And that comes from her place of insecurity.
That--that comes from her own mind.
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