She's never gonna abandon her son, so this is just very,
very unlike her.
That sent a wave through me.
How far is she going with no shoes and no car?
We have a single mom who's having a relationship
with a married man.
Investigators believe they are now on the hunt for a killer.
We're like, "Listen, you're fine, bro.
Tell us the truth."
I honestly think he believed he was gonna be able
to talk his way out of this.
Then the cadaver dog went to work,
and we knew this is a murder investigation.
[theme music playing]
[Nick] For us at People, this case is heartbreaking.
A loving mother brimming with hope for the year ahead.
She risks it all to chase a dream, and sometimes
that can lead you somewhere exciting and fulfilling.
But it can also introduce you to something dangerous
that you never would have expected.
[Tiffany] Jennifer and I met in high school.
I walked into our history civics class,
and she had on a sweater very similar to this one,
and she was just this bubbly, bright light.
And we just clicked as soon as we sat next to each other.
And I just remember us having a conversation that never ended
up until two years ago.
In 2022, 43-year-old Jennifer Brown is a single mom
living in the peaceful Philadelphia suburb
of Limerick, Pennsylvania.
She moved there two years earlier
after her eight-year-old son, Noah, was diagnosed
with a mild neurodivergence
and in need of a school that was equipped
to support his education.
[Tiffany] Jennifer was a well-grounded,
responsible, smart, intelligent,
loving helicopter-mother, if I could.
Jennifer was all about her career, her family,
and her son.
In the two years that Jennifer is living in Limerick Township,
she becomes a part of the community.
She builds a set of friends and a life for herself
and for her son, Noah.
[Tiffany] Jennifer and I spoke daily in 2022.
I hadn't met Brian, but I knew of Brian.
He was a neighbor,
and his son was very close friends with Noah.
And then she had met this guy, Blair, who owned
this food truck that had some really good Caribbean food,
and she was bragging about, "Oh, my gosh,
this Caribbean food, I have been looking for oxtail."
Happy Saturday.
I hope everyone is having a phenomenal Saturday.
He was a cook, so it became a thing where,
"Hey, me and Noah are gonna go over to Blair's house
for dinner with his wife and his son,"
and then vice versa.
They had a very, very good friendship.
I was so happy for her.
Despite life in Limerick going well, Jennifer is facing
the hardship of a sick parent.
Her mother had been diagnosed with cancer, and she started
having to make frequent trips back and forth to South Jersey.
From Limerick, was two hours away.
She was tired, she was exhausted, and that was
hard for Jennifer to deal with and see her mother go through.
She was very, very stressed out.
[Jillian] Jennifer was a sales representative
at a financial institution, and she's juggling a lot.
But Jennifer has all these hopes and dreams that she came
to town with.
[Tiffany] She went to vocational school for culinary arts,
and she always had a dream of becoming a restaurant owner.
Our favorite thing to do was to go to restaurants.
We would go to restaurants every week.
Jennifer was very big on flavor.
In June of 2022, I remember her telling me that she was
investing in a restaurant business with Blair.
She was excited.
With Blair, she met someone who she could learn from
and grow her business with.
As 2022 comes to a close, Blair has found a location
for the new restaurant, and Jennifer is excited to be
open for business in early 2023.
Reporting live from the new location,
I just wanna continue to say thank you
for the level of love and support.
I just did a little walk-through and things like that,
things are coming together. Thank you, guys.
Have a phenomenal rest of your day.
[Tiffany] New Year's Day.
Jennifer was heading with Blair to the Eagles game,
which is her favorite team. She's a die-hard Eagles fan.
And I remember saying, "OK, love muffins, call me
when you get home."
And she's laughing, and you could just hear
all the happiness in her voice.
Go Eagles, right?
Let's do it, come on, birds. We got this.
[Tiffany] I never thought it would be the last time I spoke with her.
I'm walking out of my job,
and I'm getting on the elevator.
I feel my phone vibrate, and I pull it up, and I see
all these missed calls from Jennifer's mom.
And so I call, and she says, "Hey, Tiff, have you talked
to Jen?" And I was like, "Um...
"yeah, I didn't talk to her today, but, you know,
I texted her yesterday. She texted me back."
And she's like, "She texted you back? When?"
And I said, "Oh, well, let me look."
And then I look at my phone, and I was like, "Oh, actually,
she didn't text me back."
[Ed] Jennifer wasn't there to pick Noah up off the bus.
And Noah's school had been calling
Jennifer's mother not being able to get in touch with
Jennifer and saying that -- that Noah had a bad day
in school because he didn't have his medication.
[phone ringing]
[Ed] Jennifer's family called her friend Brian,
who lived in the complex, because he was authorized
to get Noah off the bus.
You sent him to school with no medication.
That sent a wave through me.
Jennifer would never do that.
She was his everything, as he was hers.
And so I say, "Well, hey, I have Blair's number.
Do you want me to call him and see if he knows anything?"
Jennifer's mom tells Tiffany that she's already reached out
to Blair, and he's heading to her house to check on her.
On January 4th, 2023, about 4:30 pm, Blair Watts
reported that his friend was missing
from her home in Limerick Township.
I responded, and my officers are speaking with Blair
in the parking lot of the condominium complex.
[officer] Yeah.
Blair's telling the police that he had tried to get
in touch with her earlier that day, was not able to,
and her car was parked right in front of where she lived.
Her family thought there's no way that she's going to leave
this child by himself, so maybe she's in there hurt.
[Sgt. Tyler] So, as soon as my officers got in,
we began checking the condominium.
We checked everywhere.
She was not there.
There were no obvious signs of any sort of struggle
or any items that were broken and laying around.
[Jillian] There's no Jennifer, but her things are still
in the house -- her keys, her wallet, her purse.
The only thing that was missing was her personal cell phone
and her driver's license, which ended up being found
inside her car, which was parked outside.
[Kelly] Detectives also found Jennifer Brown's work cell phone
in her kitchen-living room area,
but they did not locate her personal phone.
[officer] Um...
So we thought, "OK, she's somewhere.
She has her phone."
That was kind of a glimmer of hope that maybe she was
somewhere of her own free will, just out, and this would --
this would pan out.
While police are still at the home, Brian,
the neighbor, shows up with Noah.
Then Blair drops a piece of information that takes
the investigation in an entirely
different direction.
We have a single mom who's having a relationship
with her neighbor Brian Bathey.
And Blair Watts indicated that Brian Bathey was a jealous
individual and had issues with her spending time with other
people, especially Blair Watts.
[Sgt. Tyler] Mr. Bathey had gone inside his house.
I can see him inside the house.
And so I kind of signaled through one of his kitchen
windows with my flashlight, and he exited the home.
Jennifer and I had a very close relationship,
and it was tricky because I was married, so
I knew things didn't look good.
The police were like, "How do you know Jennifer?"
And I was brutally honest.
When Jennifer and Noah moved into the neighborhood,
my marriage was -- was complicated.
Jennifer and I became intimate just about right away.
[Sgt. Tyler] He was forthcoming with that answer.
And when I asked Brian about the last communication
that he had, he did indicate that there was
a slight disagreement.
-We had plans to hang out on New Year's Eve... -[knocking]
...and kind of ring in the new year together.
So I went over, you know, knocked on the door,
and I was like, "Hey, I'm here."
And she said her and Noah were over at Blair's house
with his family.
I was upset.
[Sgt. Tyler] I asked some more questions about where he had been
over the last day or so, and we took note of that.
These were initial questions.
Obviously, I knew that this wouldn't be the last
conversation that law enforcement would have
with Brian Bathey.
As night starts to fall, Tiffany arrives on the scene.
[Tiffany] I remember seeing the police in front of her front door.
They escorted me into the house.
I remember her jacket was in the house.
Her purse was in the house.
All her shoes were there.
It just gave the impression that she wasn't far,
or if she stepped out, she was coming right back.
How far is she going with no shoes and no car?
This is not, like, an inner-city area.
This isn't like you walk a few blocks over to a bodega.
This is pretty much residential, rural area.
There's no stores to walk to.
At this point, I can't say that I have a crime scene here.
It was decided that we would lock it up and we would
reconvene tomorrow and contact our detectives and see
if they can come in and start working on this.
When Jennifer doesn't show up by the next day,
authorities are getting increasingly concerned.
In my 31 years of law enforcement, I've never had
a case like this. This was very strange.
Jennifer Brown is a single mother of an eight-year-old
special-needs child.
For her to disappear for any amount of time,
according to her friends and family and neighbors,
was completely out of character.
Knowing Jennifer Brown had a relationship
with Brian Bathey, Brian Bathey was a person we definitely
wanted to speak with.
They came by and asked me to come down
to the police station.
And that's -- that's when I knew that...
[inhales]
...things were serious.
[Kelly] Police interviewed Brian Bathey, and they had him
account for every single place that he went from January 3rd
into January 4th.
He's a language therapist for children, so he accounted for
the different families that he went to visit that day.
He was feeling sick after that, and then ultimately came home
that evening, and he said he was at his house
for the next 24 hours, sick in bed.
Brian allows detectives to look through his cell phone,
and they discover a heated exchange via text.
I told detectives we had a big fight on New Year's Eve,
and it was about Blair Watts.
[Mark] When we were interviewing Brian Bathey, he absolutely was
jealous of the time Jennifer Brown was spending
with Blair Watts. That was very alarming to us.
I definitely complained about Blair Watts a lot,
you know, because they spent so much time together that I did
ask if they were getting intimate or, you know,
having a...you know, a different kind
of relationship, and she always said no.
I kind of gave her an ultimatum to a degree that, you know,
it was either me or Blair Watts.
I wrote, "Fine, this next year, 2023, will be the year
of Jennifer and Blair."
[Mark] Brian was very angry.
This is a person he's had a romantic relationship with
for almost two years now.
So could Brian Bathey have done this?
Absolutely.
After talking to Bathey at length for hours on where
he was, teams went out to try and verify his alibi,
but that's not a quick process.
At this time, Jennifer Brown could be hurt
somewhere or worse.
So one of the tools that we will use is ask a person
who's being interviewed if they're willing
to take a polygraph.
Brian Bathey said he absolutely would.
[Nick] While Montgomery County sets up a polygraph examination,
a new team of investigators responds to Jennifer's house
for a more thorough search.
[Mark] We sent our forensics team, and they did
a secondary search. It was a very clean home.
It's during the search that the investigators
discover a clue.
Our forensics team was examining the rug in the living room area,
and these weird plastic pieces popped up.
They weren't just laying on top.
They were embedded. They collected them.
We looked at them, had no idea what they belonged to.
Those pieces seemed to be a sign
of some kind of struggle.
So we asked the Philadelphia Police Department
to take a cadaver dog through Jennifer's house.
There's a particular scent that decomposing flesh
gives off that is different from live flesh, and a cadaver dog is
trained to be able to detect that.
The Philadelphia Police Department's cadaver dog,
K-9 Patton, went to work.
He did a sniff search in Jennifer Brown's home.
K-9 Patton went in the kitchen, and he just started barking.
[barking]
Patton alerted right on a windowsill area
in the kitchen.
[Patton barking]
We knew right away that this is a murder investigation.
[Patton barking]
[Mark] With the cadaver dog alerting to the presence of a dead body,
we quickly realized that this
is not just a missing person case,
we knew that something bad happened to her.
[indistinct police radio chatter]
As authorities are understanding that this is
becoming a full-blown murder investigation,
they turn their attention to her neighbor Brian
and how he might have committed this crime.
[Mark] We put him on a lie detector test.
He was asked if he was ever physical with Jennifer Brown,
and it indicated deception, which was very alarming
to all of us.
That certainly elevated the concern
about him being involved.
Everything that surrounded their relationship
together indicated deception.
The detectives dug into me hard and let me know that
the cadaver dog hit in Jennifer's place and that
he knew that I did it and wanted to know where I had
hid the body.
He kept saying, "I didn't harm her,
there's no way I would ever harm her."
And just offering to do whatever he could do
to persuade them that he didn't do it because he wanted to see
whoever was responsible be held accountable.
And at that point...
[voice breaking] realizing that she wasn't missing but that she was dead,
I just [inhales deeply]
lost it and broke down and started crying.
[Nick] Since polygraph tests aren't admissible in court,
investigators have no hard evidence to tie Brian
to Jennifer's disappearance, and they have to let him go.
At this point, we know the last time
Jennifer Brown is seen is by Blair Watts.
So my lieutenant and I have a quick conversation,
and we're like...
"We have to dive into Blair Watts."
Blair Watts had a restaurant in Spring City called
Birdie's Kitchen.
It had been somewhat successful, but he had some
financial issues surrounding the pandemic, like a lot
of restaurants, and he had lost his lease.
We wanted more background about their relationship,
their business relationship.
So, we set up an interview and he came on January 6th
for the interview voluntarily.
He told us that they entered into a contract,
a business contract, to reopen Birdie's Kitchen.
We needed to drill down on it and confirm or corroborate
or not his story and his movements of January 3rd
and January 4th.
He claimed that he offered to take Noah away overnight
so that she could relax for the evening.
Apparently, they had planned sleepovers before.
Blair said Noah stayed over at Blair's house with his wife
and kid, and he said that he put Noah on the bus
the next morning at her complex.
We were surprised to hear that Blair literally said he spent
15 minutes with Noah,
went, stayed with his girlfriend overnight,
left Noah with his wife.
[Nick] Detectives plan to speak with both of the women
to confirm the story.
Meanwhile, news that Jennifer's disappearance is now being
investigated as a possible homicide spreads among
her friends and family.
[Tiffany] I found out that they had used cadaver dogs.
I just remember laying in the bed...
and my eyes were closed, and I just remember having
a vision of, like...
her leg,
and then, like, just feeling like, "Oh, my god, she's out
there and she's cold."
And here I am in my bed, snug with this new blanket,
and I just threw it off of me.
I remember thinking that and feeling guilty.
At this point, the community is still holding
out hope that Jennifer is alive, and they end up planning
a candlelight vigil to honor her.
The morning of the candlelight vigil, authorities wanna
speak to Noah about what he knows.
[Tiffany] I took him to his interview.
He didn't know anything about Jennifer being missing.
He thought Mom was sick.
Jennifer's son, when he was interviewed, said that he was
picked up by Mr. Watts from the bus stop
on January the 3rd
and noticed that Mr. Watts had Noah's mom's phone.
He knew that because of the background of the phone
was a picture of Noah.
So Noah asked Mr. Watts, "Why do you have my mom's phone?"
And Mr. Watts indicated to Noah
that he must have just grabbed it by accident.
Noah had a very vivid memory and could give explicit details
about what the phone looked like.
He was very clear about that.
At this point, we still hadn't received any cell phone records
belonging to Jennifer, but we're getting evidence that
Blair Watts was not being truthful.
So before the candlelight vigil, we interviewed
Blair Watts' girlfriend, Tatiyana.
She basically told us that Blair Watts did come over,
that they ended up going to Chili's.
But Tatiyana says something that doesn't line up
with Blair's version of events.
[Mark] She alluded that he was driving a red Jeep.
Blair Watts told us he drove his wife's car,
which is a gray Jeep Renegade.
She said, "Well, he told me not to tell you,"
meaning the police, "about the red Jeep."
Huge red flag.
If you did nothing wrong,
why are you switching cars up on us?
Why are you lying about a car?
That's a big lie to us.
So teams were sent out to any address he's ever associated
with to find this red Jeep.
But I knew in my heart, Blair Watts is gonna be
at the candlelight vigil.
I'm speaking to the camera, I'm speaking to the people,
you know, just really, really asking
for the public's help.
She's never gonna abandon her son, so this is just very,
very unlike her.
It was very warming to see everyone there coming together.
It was just like, I know my girl felt loved.
[Mark] When I went to the candlelight vigil, I was plain clothes,
my badge and weapon were hidden by my coat, and I just wanted
to observe and ultimately determine if Blair Watts drove
that red Jeep there or not.
I saw Tiffany and then Blair Watts walk by me.
Blair Watts and Tiffany started talking
and I kept my eye on that.
I couldn't hear, but I could see it was not going well.
[Tiffany] He asked my opinion on if he should dissolve the company
and give the money to the family.
And I said, "Oh, you know, slow down.
We don't know anything yet."
And he lost it.
[Mark] So I could see body language, facial expressions.
So I walked over, and he explained that
"I'm trying to give her an envelope."
I said, "This is a civil matter.
"We don't enforce civil law,
nor do I want to get involved in it."
I calmed him down, and at that point, he left.
So after leaving the vigil, I talked to my boss,
told him what happened there,
and he said, "Well, we have his red Jeep."
[Nick] Two officers had located the red Jeep Cherokee parked
near Blair Watts' mother-in-law's house,
and minutes after leaving
the vigil, Blair Watts himself pulls up behind the red Jeep.
They saw our detectives were right there at the red Jeep.
Blair Watts asked to speak with a detective.
He was asking for another interview.
So I came back here to interview Blair Watts.
[Ed] It's very rare for someone to actually get in contact
with the police and wanna talk to them again.
We wanted to know, could Blair Watts have transported
Jennifer's body in that red Jeep Cherokee?
[Mark] He said he did not want to tell us that 'cause he was
worried about "It's not properly registered."
And then we explained, "Well, yo, we're not
"traffic cops. We don't care about traffic.
You're fine, bro. Tell us the truth."
That's a lie.
We have the audio.
He was clearly trying to throw detectives off of his trail
as to where he was and what he was doing.
Detectives also confronted him
about having Jennifer Brown's cell phone.
"Oh, I forgot, I -- I picked up her phone by accident."
Jennifer's personal cell phone, which was missing.
That's -- that's odd.
We also asked him about the new restaurant
and Blair Watts just talked.
And that was our game plan in that interview.
Just let him talk.
I honestly think he believed he was just gonna be able
to talk his way out of this.
[Mark] It was lengthy, it was two and a half, three hours.
It was very important to our investigation.
[Nick] Detectives want to get to the bottom of what was truly
going on with the restaurant he was supposedly opening
with Jennifer, and very soon.
Our team at People met with the landlords to learn more
about the situation. -[Walter] Well, let me show you.
I met Blair, I guess, in the spring of 2022.
I showed him the place. I told him what we wanted.
And we had asked for $3,500.
And this is the kitchen.
I said, "When you're ready and you have some money,
I'll get you a contract."
[Nick] Even though Blair hasn't signed a lease,
the Zaremba brothers began renovating this space,
hoping that Blair will get the money together.
But months pass.
Blair wanted to paint everything black.
My brother talked him out of painting it black,
and they agreed on brown. He never showed up.
Blair promised a lot of things and did nothing.
And -- and -- and that, you know, that contributed
to the fact of, you know, is this guy -- can you believe him?
I called him up. "I said, Blair, we're done.
We don't wanna do this. We'll go with someone else."
Well, he got all upset.
He started calling me all kinds of names.
I said, "Blair, we're done."
Looking through all the instant messages between
Blair Watts and Jennifer Brown, he's telling her of how
he wants to paint -- a complete lie.
How he has keys to the restaurant.
They gotta come over and see it.
Lies upon lies. He has no contract.
He has no rental agreement, while all the while gathering
more money from Jennifer Brown.
I can't wait to see you guys in a few weeks.
I'm super excited.
It means the world to me to have massive love and support that I have.
[Jillian] Initially, in their written agreement, Blair and Jennifer
agree that she'll pay him about $14,000 total over the course
of the few months before the restaurant is set to open.
[Mark] Jennifer Brown entered a contract with Blair Watts
on August 28th, 2022.
She financially met the requirements under that
contract for $14,000.
But in subsequent months, Jennifer provided an additional
$2,600, and then $6,000,
and then $17,000.
After all that money that he took from her and all that
time and all that saying, "This place is gonna open
in two weeks," the place wasn't gonna open in two weeks.
I think he was getting desperate that this house of cards
is going to collapse.
With suspicions mounting against Blair,
detectives impound the red Jeep that he was driving
the night Jennifer disappeared.
We obtained consent to search that vehicle for traces
of evidence and a cadaver dog search.
[Kelly] We enlisted Patton, our cadaver dog, to come back,
and Patton did in fact indicate that the odor of human remains
was present in that Jeep. -[Patton barking]
Despite the cadaver dog alerting to the scent of a dead body,
investigators didn't find any blood in the red Jeep Cherokee.
But detectives found red soil in the back of the Jeep,
which was unusual.
So we contacted the FBI to see if they could do a soil sample
analysis for us.
The evidence is leading us directly to Blair Watts,
but it's circumstantial.
We are gathering search warrants for cell phone records
and praying that we get the results of the records back
quick, but we don't have enough to arrest Blair Watts
for murder without a body.
We had a crew doing a landfill search.
We were reviewing cameras from garbage trucks,
and we had other teams going to businesses,
private residences, anywhere they saw a camera
where Jennifer Brown lived.
We had dozens of detectives pulling footage.
[Jillian] On the morning of January 18th, warehouse workers
in Royersford, a nearby town, find something suspicious
buried under some pallets behind the warehouse.
[Kelly] People that worked at the AMT Pump Company
found a stack of pallets on top of some
freshly turned-over soil.
And when they moved one of the pallets, they saw what
they thought could be clothing and ultimately realized
it was human remains.
We got a call that human remains are believed to have
been found behind the AMT Pump Company.
Forensics units get there.
They removed everything painstakingly, took their time,
collected dirt, sifted it until we exposed the body.
Because this was in January, the body was relatively intact,
and they quickly identified her as Jennifer Brown.
Forensics also found pieces of a hair clip on the back
of her head.
One law-enforcement officer, upon seeing that hair clip,
immediately recognizes it as a match to the pieces
of plastic found in Jennifer's carpet.
[reporter] For days, family and friends handed out flyers,
they held vigils, and they prayed
for Jennifer Brown's safe return.
Late this afternoon, investigators found
Brown's body behind an industrial complex in Royersford.
[siren wailing]
[Tiffany] I got a phone call that they found Jennifer.
I just couldn't believe it, 'cause, like, now I gotta
tell my kids their godmother's gone.
And Noah was eight.
And it's devastating.
As an adult, a mature adult,
[sobbing] can you imagine what it's like for an eight-year-old boy?
[inhales sharply]
[exhales]
When they found Jennifer's body, I was pretty emotional
that day, and my mind definitely went to Blair Watts.
[Nick] While the medical examiner tries to determine
the cause of death, detectives analyzed data
from both Blair and Jennifer's phones
and discovered that there had been
two financial transactions on January 3rd
while Blair was with Jennifer's son Noah.
There is one transaction from Jennifer Brown's phone
for $9,000 at 4:23 pm.
Then a minute or two later, there is a transaction
for $8,000 again from Jennifer's phone.
Blair Watts told us that he picked up Noah after school
at the bus stop at right around 4 pm, and that little boy was
able to remember that Blair had Mommy's phone.
So clearly, somebody's manipulating
her cell phone to make these transactions, and that would
have been Blair Watts.
Detectives also get access to Blair's location data,
and they are able to track his movements in the days
following Jennifer's disappearance.
We see activity on January 5th during the early evening,
that's the day after she's reported missing.
That would put him in the general vicinity
of Jennifer Brown's grave.
So detectives pull all kinds of different
surveillance cameras, and we saw Blair Watts' vehicle
at the very same time where
Watts' cell phone records are registering.
So with that information, we realized that Blair Watts
had transported Jennifer's body
during the evening of January 5th
and placed it in that grave.
[shovel scraping]
[pallet thuds]
[Kelly] Based on that video surveillance and cell phone location data,
we were able to make an arrest in this case, and we charged
Blair Watts with first-degree murder.
[reporter] The Montgomery County district attorney announcing the arrest
of Blair Watts.
We believe Jennifer Brown was murdered in her own home,
that she was then moved and ultimately buried
in a shallow grave where she was found two weeks later.
We continue to work hard on this case to bring justice
to this family, to this little boy who doesn't have a mother
because of Blair Watts' actions.
[Brian] Up until Blair Watts was arrested, it was a very
stressful period.
And once he was arrested, it was just...
I -- I can't even describe the wave of relief.
I think Blair Watts' harebrained scheme was probably
assuming that I wouldn't cooperate and that I would
lawyer up and that I would deny having a relationship
with Jennifer. And I didn't do that.
I decided to help the police and the detectives and do
whatever it took.
[Tiffany] When they arrested Blair, I was thinking about,
in retrospect, all the different signs
that I should have picked up on.
Blair took advantage of Jennifer's friendship,
of her yearning for her dream,
and ultimately murdered her for money.
[Nick] As prosecutors prepare for trial, they know it'll be
an uphill battle to get a conviction because there
isn't any physical evidence connecting Blair Watts
to the murder.
But investigators believe analysis of the dirt found
in the red Jeep Cherokee can help shore up the evidence
in the case.
That dirt that's in this gravesite, it's a weird color
for Pennsylvania. It's more like clay, reddish.
The FBI analyzed the soil characteristics in the sample
that we sent from the shallow grave.
And one of the three samples matched the soil from the back
of Mr. Watts' vehicle.
This case is circumstantial, which is challenging
as a prosecutor, because you have to make sure
that you've got it right.
However, between the inconsistencies
in Blair's story, cell phone data,
security footage of him driving,
and the money sent from Jennifer's accounts to his,
police believe they have enough evidence to tie
Blair Watts to Jennifer's murder.
For the trial, the most difficult part
of the case was that we didn't know with particularity
how she died.
And as Jennifer and Blair were close, any genetic material
could have been there from before her death.
The forensic pathologist testified in the case
that we believe that he suffocated her.
Compressional asphyxia, meaning it could have been
a bear hug or somebody sat on her for too long,
you'll take a breath and never take a breath again.
The weight prevents your lungs from expanding
and you'll asphyxiate.
It takes minutes.
He could have decided not to do that at any time,
but he didn't.
[ominous music playing]
[Kelly] At trial, Mr. Watts tried to say that nothing ever happened
and he had nothing to do with it,
but when you're confronted with this level of evidence,
we felt pretty confident that they were gonna convict him.
They came back unanimously with that guilty verdict
for first-degree murder.
I didn't kill Jennifer Brown.
Well, he could say -- he's been saying that from the beginning,
but we just spent five days proving that he did.
The judge sentencing Blair Watts to life in prison.
[Tiffany] It was the biggest relief.
It was also a special date.
That verdict came down on Jennifer's mother's birthday.
So for us, we found some -- some solace in that.
Mr. Watts cares about one person and one person only,
and that's himself.
All he ever did in his life
was try to cover up who he truly was,
which is a broke narcissist.
I do come here and have some conversations with her.
I miss her.
I wish she was still here.
The saddest part about this tragedy is that Noah is now
without his mom.
His mom was his world, and Noah was his mom's world.
It's a great tragedy, but I want to tell Noah that
I'm proud of him, and he was so brave through all of this,
and that I think it's incredible that
he helped solve this case.
He is the most loving, innocent, sweet baby in the world.
And so for him to have to hurt
and feel a feeling that he'll probably never be able to grasp
and understand fully, that's -- that's really hard to watch.
You know, her family struggles every day to provide
a beautiful life for Noah.
I can't think of anything more heartbreaking than what
they're experiencing.
[somber music]
[caller speaking]
You can hear her say "He ran over me."
He's white, middle aged and with a large build.
Can someone ID this guy?
He told me that my mother had been abducted.
He is the one, it's like, "Damn, the shoe fits."